“With only nine states having passed e-waste recycling laws, it is, sadly, no surprise that only 21% of consumers recycle old electronics.”
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“Wow. I’ve always wondered if this was possible. If no one needed sleep I wonder if we’d all do more things in life that we wanted to, or if we’d all be forced into working an 80 hour work week as a societal norm.”
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“Two NASA Great Observatories — Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope — teamed up for this spectacular, whoppingly huge photo of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293). And it’s a beauty! The Earth-sized star (white dot in the center of the image) resides in the constellation Aquarius, a mere 650 light-years from Earth.”
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“Spellify is a script.aculo.us/prototype based spell checker for form fields that utilizes Google as its spell check engine. Spellify version 1.0 has been released, officially taking the application out of beta and bringing it to prime time.”
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“Japan is joining the US and Canada in test drilling for methane even as scientists express concerns about any uncontrolled release of the frozen chemical. Some researchers blame the greenhouse gas for triggering a global firestorm that helped wipe out the dinosaurs. “
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“”Hardware hacking genius and electromagician JKK has published a video tutorial showing how to add an internal 3G HSDPA card to the Asus Eee PC, allowing you to connect to the Internet from anywhere in the world. We talked with JKK and according to him “the hack is doable by any amateur with a solder […]

“Solar streetlight tree makes it off of the drawing board.”
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“Japanese sources have confirmed that the Japanese master disc for Super Smash Brothers Brawl is now on the printing press. We don’t know for sure if this means the US version is complete or if this simply refers to the Japanese version but either way further “developmental delays” look less likely today.”
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“Online retailer Amazon.com recently announced that Wii systems were among its top-selling items in 2007, and sales of the console helped make the year its most profitable one to date.”
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“For nearly 2,000 years, it’s been the one puzzle astronomers haven’t been able to fully solve. But now, one Notre Dame professor thinks he may have discovered the origin of the star of Bethlehem.”
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