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Mario Recreated In Petri Dish

In the name of science and awesome, researchers from the University of Osaka in Japan created this Mario in a petri dish by genetically engineering bacteria to express fluorescent proteins and carotenoid pigments. New challenge: Super Mario Bread Mold. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

More on Meg Whitman’s Fratty Princeton Son

A defacto bodyguard lived at Princeton with Griff Harsh to assuage the kidnapping fears of his mom, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman , according to a longtime Gawker commenter close to the university.

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Top 5 Buzz List – Dec 16th

These are the top posts from Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

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What’s A Coastie?

A potentially antisemitic song about girls from the East Coast by a rap group from the University of Wisconsin called Zooniversity.

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What’s A Coastie?

Teacher cuts off student’s braid In front of class

When I heard about this it hurt me to my soul how could you? and what example are we showin these young children! Lamya Cammon is angry, confused, and scared by the incident last week in which the apparently frustrated teacher cut one of her braids off after she wouldn’t stop playing with them in class. Cammon, 7, has a few dozen braids, but one is absent.

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Rat made supersmart — similar boost unsafe in humans?

By modifying a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world, a new study says. A similar gene tweak might boost human brainpower too, but scientists warn that there is such a thing as being too smart for your own good.

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Mysterious, Maybe Murderous Yale ‘Dauphin’ Releases Video of Skull & Bones’ Secret Lair

A Yale freshman who called himself the Dauphin is believed to have terrorized his peers with death threats, ritualistic vandalism, and a hit and run accident. Among his rumored loot: Secret society video footage, which has since surfaced on YouTube

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Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out

A precocious high school student: upset, and writing into the Times ! On college tours of schools like Harvard and Dartmouth, she heard comparisons to Harry Potter ‘s magical school, Hogwarts.

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Of Harvard and Hogwarts: Ivy League Schools Using Harry Potter to Whore Themselves Out

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Welcome 19th Kid!

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of TLC’s now-inaccurately-named 18 Kids and Counting, gave birth to baby #19 last night after being rushed to the emergency room. A rep from TLC confirmed today that “Michelle Duggar, who has been in the hospital recovering from a gallstone, was taken to the OR for an emergency c-section.” No. 19 wasn’t due until Spring, but at 6:27 p.m.

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