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Jersey Shore: A Field Study

Jersey Shore is like opening a tiny present to find it is full of diamonds, but diamonds made of booze, puke, fights, diseases, and discarded thongs. You thought this gift couldn’t get better, but it does. It really, really does

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Cup-Periodicake Table

Cupcakes in the form of the periodic table. But now I want to make cupcakes in the form of hybridized orbitals. . .

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Cup-Periodicake Table

Scientists grow pork meat in a lab, annoying PETA people to disappear soon

Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs.

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Scientists grow pork meat in a lab, annoying PETA people to disappear soon

Cats Against Climate Change

Man, cats got pretty whack ever since they started being all, “Blah blah blah. Save the environment.” Nonetheless, do whatever this cute kitty tells you. ( Via .) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Mad Men: The Week Everyone Was Sad for a While

Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for, when a public event collides with the very personal world of Sterling Cooper.

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Mad Men: The Week Everyone Was Sad for a While

Does Jennifer Aniston Only Take Three-Minute Showers?

I heard this really stupid tidbit, that in an effort to save the environment, Jennifer Aniston takes a three-minute shower in which she also brushes her teeth.

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Does Jennifer Aniston Only Take Three-Minute Showers?

Facebook Gaydar Emerges From Breakthrough MIT Project

Are you quietly stalking someone and too dense to figure out their sexual orientation from Google searches, Flickr party photos and real-life gossip? Well, a couple of MIT geniuses invented just the tool for you. The best part of Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree’s software, created for a research project, is that you don’t even need to “friend” your target to figure out if he’s gay

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Birth control in developing countries could help fight climate change

Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday. More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don't have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet

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Birth control in developing countries could help fight climate change

What Makes a Psychopath?

“As exaggerated as many popular depictions of psychopaths often are, many nevertheless do pose a genuine danger to others. So what makes psychopaths the way they are? Scientists are now working toward uncovering the roots of this disorder in the brain

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What Makes a Psychopath?

Army of flea-sized robots to do our bidding in the future

Researchers are working towards mass-producing a bunch of tiny, flea-sized robots to do our bidding. Bring on the miniscule robot helpers! I-SWARM robots could be used for everything from cleaning to surveillance to medicine to manufacturing

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Army of flea-sized robots to do our bidding in the future