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Goldman Sachs surpasses earning estimates

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit easily surpassed expectations as profit was buoyed by strength in its trading and underwriting businesses. added by: ebindelglass

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Cats exploit humans by purring. Well duhhhhh!

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Cat owners may have suspected as much, but it seems our feline friends have found a way to manipulate us humans. added by: Progresshiv

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Animal cruelty & China’s amazing technicolour dogs

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China drafted its first animal protection law this week, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese pet owners. The latest fad in the country is a multi-coloured fur job

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Texas’ $2 million Webcam border watch nets just 11 arrests in first year

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The state of Texas spent $2 million in federal grant money to install 14 Webcams along its border with Mexico. After its first year, the crowd-sourced surveillance program is out of money and has only yielded 11 arrests, according to published reports.

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Obama to do away with color-coded terror alerts

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A Newsweek report says President Obama may get rid of the color-coded terror alert system established after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Americans, let’s face it: Our previous president wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box.

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Natalie Portman to star as Jane Foster in Thor

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When reporting(http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/10/zooey-deschanel-joins-david-gordon-greens-your-highness/) on cast additions to Your Highness the other day I’d been thinking about what an interesting career Natalie Portman has crafted, in terms of playing in genre-ish films while keeping a pretty serious offscreen persona. And now Portman has been confirmed as part of the cast in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor opposite Chris Hemsworth (as Thor) and Tom Hiddleston (as Loki).

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Bottoms up: Drinking beer is now good for the environment

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Love your ales, pilsners, weissbeers and stouts, but worried about all that fermented grain waste?

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Youngest person to have sex change trying life out as a pop star

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16-year-old German pop star wannabe is Kim Petras, born Tim Petras. Kim says she has felt like a girl her entire life, and her parents say their baby boy always insisted on being called a ‘she.’ Kim made headlines when she went under the knife just days after turning sixteen, making her the youngest person to have undergone a sex change

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New study says dogs have the capacity of a 2-year-old child in understanding hand gestures

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Dogs possess a 2-year-old child’s capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent studies. The comparison with kids doesn’t end there

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Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists

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“Scientific American reports that although cursing is notoriously decried in the public debate, scientists have discovered that swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain. ‘Swearing is such a common response to pain that there has to be an underlying reason why we do it,’ says Richard Stephens of Keele University in England

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