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Feeding the pigeons. Tourists do it, locals hate it. A new proposal in New York would make it illegal to feed pigeons and impose a $1,000 fine on offenders.
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what's wrong with me. Im not even a tourist, but I feed the gulls, plovers and pigeons with my weeks left over bread every sunday. They really go for those everything...
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Last summer, physicist Helen Quinn sparked a lively debate among her colleagues with an essay for Physics Today arguing that scientists are too tentative when they discuss scientific knowledge....
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so many 'truths' are dispelled as understanding grows. 'Laws' change, knowledge accumulates.
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The UN human rights committee is meeting this week to call for a moratorium on executions. This is seen as a first step in abolishing the death penalty.
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gee ya think the U.S. might join the rest of the civilized world? We were only a hundred years or so behind on the whole slavery thing. Perhaps in a hundred years or so we...
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Respectable UK pub chain, J.D.Weatherspoons has found itself in a bit of hot water over a sign at one of their flagship pubs. The 'soon to open' John Masefield pub in the Wirral's Rock...
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so what. I drink at the devils playground. Occasionally I wake up the next day with a deeper understanding of debauchery. I dont support the devil, I just give him his due
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Of all the places you'd expect to see a "theory of everything" develop you might be forgiven for not thinking it would grow out of the sport of surfing. But the world is full of...
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Im not a physicist but I surf. Im thinkin the shape of e8 is the shape of our universe. The points explain the positions of all matter. It goes along with the idea that an...
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OkCupid's Politics Test has been revamped for the 2008 election. Where do you fit in, and who is standing with you?
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Hurray for SOCIALISTS!
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I'll give you a hug if you can guess which one it is.
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I live next to a power plant. it leave a greasy black residue on my car that's difficult to wash off every morning. it keeps the property value low however. I suspect...
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Kloonigames has created Crayon Physics Deluxe for tablet PCs. Watch the video, it's amazing.
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I hate to date myself, but when I was a kid there was a cartoon called winky dink. Your mom had to buy a special screen to put on your TV and you were asked to draw on it to...
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"[A]n innocent man cannot simply trust that the truth will out ....He must engage highly competent legal counsel to represent him. That costs money, money that Al Gonzales doesn't...
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my GOD. now Ive heard EVERYTHING
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You can't deport 12 million people.
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