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[Lifestyle] —
Mike Steinberger examines the startling decline of French cuisine over the past few decades, explaining how a country that turned eating and drinking into an art form has lost its touch for cheese, wine, food, and fine dining.
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[Business] —
A New Look on Our Income vs. Our Debt Throughout our Better Years.
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[Lifestyle] —
Robin Esrock shares all of the reasons he is madly in love with Canada.
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[Science] —
MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people.
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[Pictures] —
Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States One Dollar Bill. Bending, twisting, and folding, Won Park creates life-like shapes inspired by objects living and not– both in stunning detail.
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[Offbeat] —
He said he’d intended to fly only to 30 feet or so before leveling off, while munching sandwiches and pounding a few Miller Lites. Instead, he shot skyward at the rate of about a thousand feet a minute and didn’t level off until he’d reached 16,000 feet.
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[Offbeat] —
McLobster - Why did it fail? The price! Who wants to spend $5.99 on a fast food burger that you know will not satisfy your hunger? And let’s face it – it looks like someone threw up in a bun! This product is actually still available in some Canadian franchises and occasionally in Maine. Frankly, if
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[Pictures] —
Just in time for this year’s festivities, WD has rounded up the most spectacularly patriotic events across the country for you and your family to enjoy—all guaranteeing an explosive holiday weekend.
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[Lifestyle] —
Take a look at these fifteen energy efficient ways to stay cool in the summer. You can make your home green and cool at the same time.
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[Entertainment] —
Helen Chamberlain is a British sports broadcaster and gained media attention as a UK hot babe when she did a nude photo shoot for Penthouse Magazine in 2004. Helen Chamberlain was also into modeling gigs including modeling underwear for the show Euro 2004 in the public Trafalgar Square. This UK bab
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[News] —
In a decision that will have immediate impact statewide, the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed Derek Patrin’s discovery victory in Dakota County in the matter of State of Minnesota v. Timothy Arlen Brunner.
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[Science] —
Scientists have discovered what may be the least inhabited place in the Ocean. The seafloor sediments in the middle of the South Pacific have fewer living cells than anywhere else measured, a new study found.
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[Science] —
Cosmologist Adrian Mellott has an article in Seed Magazine discussing his search for the mechanism behind the mass extinctions in earth's history that seem to occur with a period of about 62 million years. Scientists have identified nearly 20 mass extinctions throughout the fossil record, includin
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[Technology] —
When the host of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" learned he had rung up $11,000 in charges from AT&T while in Canada, he headed straight for Twitter. The culprit, he tweeted, was the USB modem plugged into his laptop that was running on a wireless plan suitable for the U.S., but not for Ca
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Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates very nice pieces using some unlikely things, mostly LEGO bricks.
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A Love Letter to Canada
Mystery of the 1918
Won Park - The Master of Origami Paper Folding
July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away With 42 Balloons
Top 10 Failed McDonald’s Products
11 Fantastic Fireworks Celebrations
Hells Bells UK Babe Sensation
The Most Lifeless Place in the Ocean Found
The Extinction Oscillator
Mythbuster Tweets His Way Out of $11k Phone bill
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