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• The ‘cost of Confidence’ – £13,000 Spent on Beauty Products in a Woman’s Lifetime

  The average woman will spend more than £13,000 during her lifetime on looking and feeling good, according to a study. Researchers found the ‘cost of... Read more

  The 24 June 2013 by   72point
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• A Fifth Of Our Wages Now Spent At Work

  

  The average worker now spends almost one fifth of their wages on commuting, lunches and office whip-rounds, a study has revealed. Researchers found fuel, train... Read more

  The 24 June 2013 by   72point
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• The Great 2013 Death Ray Plot

  

  FBI: DEATH RAY PLOT FOILED. This was the supersized headline screaming atop the Albany Times-Union’s front page  Thursday, followed by further breathless lead... Read more

  The 23 June 2013 by   Fsrcoin
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• WAS What Kiera Wilmot Did SCIENCE?

  

  Cross posted from IVN: When Kiera Wilmot and the ACLU claimed she was just exercising her scientific curiosity when she made a bottle bomb, a kind of... Read more

  The 21 June 2013 by   Doggone
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• Same-Sex Marriage Approval Pre-Supreme Court Decision

  

  We are just days away from two important Supreme Court decisions regarding same-sex marriage. The first will decide the constitutionality of California's... Read more

  The 21 June 2013 by   Jobsanger
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• Possible New Schizophrenia Treatment Revealed

  

  Avatars created by schizophrenia patients and operated by therapists – a treatment that has shown encouraging results in a pilot study. Photograph: Professor... Read more

  The 20 June 2013 by   Tracy Goodwin
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• All I Want is Equality

  

  Yes, that is what feminism is all about. Equality for women. No, we feminists are not asking for better treatment under the law for women. Anyone who does is no... Read more

  The 20 June 2013 by   Starofdavida
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• The Impermanence of Identity

  

  I lived in Russia for most of my early twenties. I studied at Leningrad State University, worked in St. Petersburg and Moscow and, visited countless other citie... Read more

  The 20 June 2013 by   Noveladventurers
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• Google’s Project Loon Makes Cloud Computing a Reality

  

  Google’s Project Loon Makes Cloud Computing a Reality With Solar-Power and Balloons We call it the cloud and cloud computing—the use of servers distributed... Read more

  The 19 June 2013 by   Dailyfusion
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• Scientists Model Biofuel Production After Ants’ Fungus Gardens

  

  Illustration of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes in its fungus garden habitat. The variation in texture between the top and bottom strata represents the... Read more

  The 19 June 2013 by   Dailyfusion
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