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Experimental Low-Calorie Diet Gets Puzzling Results in Monkeys http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/calorie-restriction-monkeys/ --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

The Sun Publishes Publishes Naked Pictures of Prince Harry http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/lauren-collins/2012/08/the-sun-naked-pictures-prince-harry.html --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

Let me start off by saying... you probably don't want this. You probably could get more for your money by say... eating it. But seriously! A $40 tablet from Newegg? Damn. I mean, sure, it's old and slow and has Android 2.2. And yes, it's made by a company mostly known for selling overpriced electronics to old people in the aisles of pharmacies. But... going to say it again: $40!! That's crazy cheap. For that price build some cool wall mount and use it as an alarm clock which you can stare down your morning email with. Seriously. $40. That's cheaper than a tank of gas. Ok - here is it. It ain't pretty. It ain't amazing. But it sure as hell is cheap. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858405005&cm_sp=Specials-_-58-405-005-_-08212012_1         … SYLVANIA SYTAB7MX Tablet PC ARM 11 (1GHz) 7" 512MB RAM, 2GB Flash Memory REFURBISHED   ( 4 )    |     Write a Review I...

Come on people. A company with no real revenue stream and no plans to have a real revenue stream being valued at over $100 billion. fail What the hell did you expect? The only people who have any excuse are those born after 2002. I may be wrong, but I think that means most people who bought into the Facebook IPO are freaking idiots. AOL Time Warner FTW!!!! We already had the dot.com bubble. What did you think would happen this time? Magic rainbows of quarterly earnings? Google 2.0??? Newsflash Gordon Gekkos - Google has a fountain of money called Search. It is literally the golden goose and the ONLY (and I do mean only) profitable division of the company. Everything else Google has done has been a financial failure. Funnily enough - investors care about financial performance (a reasonable rate of return on their investment?!?!?!?!? WHAT ASSHOLES. Oh wait. If you didn't get a return, why would you invest? It's all making sense now! Obama is an idiot, Fannie/Fr...

This is pretty amazing. Animals are not solar powered. Not directly anyway. When you need more energy (animals do all this moving around) you need to find a faster way of getting power. That typically means eating the things which get energy from the sun (plants). When you need even more energy you need to eat the things which eat the things which use the sun: i.e. what humans do (grass uses sun, sheep eat grass, we eat sheep.) Actually, the sheep are an interesting example. Sheep brains are far smaller than human brains--this should be readily apparent if you have had to deal with them before, they rank somewhere above rocks and somewhere below Jersey Shore cast members in terms of intelligence (a pretty small range mind you). To supply the energy they need for their brain on a daily basis - they need to eat a large plateful of grass, roughly the size of a dinner portion of salad (not too bad in other words). For a human to power his brain on grass you would need to eat about 40lb...

The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory - Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428920/the-emerging-revolution-in-game-theory/?ref=rss --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine webOS app. Available for free in the App Catalog www.zite.com -- Sent from my HP TouchPad

J. S. Haldane who invented the gas mask World War I, spent time on the front lines analysing poison gases, he would rush to the scene whenever an attack was reported. Much knowledge of the effects of various gases came from Haldane shutting himself inside a chamber and breathing them, noting any physiological and psychological effects. J. B. S. Haldane J. B. S. Haldane Born November 5, 1892 Oxford ,  England Died December 1, 1964 (aged 72) Bhubaneswar ,  India Nationality British Occupation B adass,  Mustache  Champion, Male Model He once taught his son (J B S Haldane)about the effects of gas by taking him down a mine filled with firedamp gas and had him recite Shakespeare until he passed out. That's some good parenting right there. The younger Haldane became an expert on the effects of deep diving and the problems faced when rescuing submariners. He used a Royal Navy-funded compression chamber to subject himself and numerous volunteers to nea...