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Developer demolishes another chunk of the Berlin Wall
A property developer removed more of the Berlin Wall Wednesday, police said, in a surprise dawn move amid a bitter running protest over the dismantling of the once-detested Cold War division. Four segments were removed from around 5:00 am local time (0400 GMT) from the Wall’s longest surviving stretch, creating…
Scientists find cancer-causing DNA mutations
The biggest-ever trawl of the human genome for cancer-causing DNA errors has netted more than 80 tiny mutations, a finding that could help people at high risk, researchers said Wednesday. The results, which double the number of known genetic alterations linked to breast, ovarian and prostate cancer, were unveiled in…
Study: Pesticides scramble bees’ brain circuits
Pesticides used by farmers to protect crops or bee hives can scramble the brain circuits of honeybees, affecting memory and navigation skills needed to find food, scientists said Wednesday. This in turn threatened entire colonies of bees whose pollinating functions are vital for human food production, they wrote in the…
Pat Robertson complains LGBT people just want to flaunt ‘their way of doing sex’
Looking confused and discouraged on Wednesday’s episode of “The 700 Club,” televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson agreed with others who say the issue of marriage equality is not actually about marriage, and suggested the whole noise is just LGBT people who want to flaunt “their way of…
Penis removed from Mars statue thanks to reversal of Berlusconi-ordered changes
An ancient statue of Mars has lost its fake penis and his counterpart Venus her hands, in the reversal of cosmetic changes ordered by Italy’s ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a newspaper reported Wednesday. In 2010 Berlusconi decided the two marble statues adorning the official residence of the prime minister were…
Twitter on pace to earn half a billion in ad revenue
Twitter is on pace to earn more than a half-billion dollars in ad revenue this year and close to $1 billion next year, industry tracker eMarketer estimated on Wednesday. About 53 percent of the ad revenue at Twitter this year will come from use of the service on smartphones or…
Number of American cancer survivors expected to reach 18 million in a decade
The number of Americans who have survived cancer is on the rise and is expected to reach 18 million people in the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday. That would be a 30 percent increase over the latest figures in January 2012, which showed 13.7 million people in…
Environmental group: Thousands of pesticides dodge regulation
Thousands of pesticides are allowed onto the US market without rigorous safety testing, putting people, animals and crop pollinators like bees at risk, a US environmental group said Wednesday. The Natural Resources Defense Council said the culprit is a congressional loophole dating back to 1978, which has allowed the Environmental…
‘Atheist’ shoe company claims U.S. Postal Service is discriminatory
Using an incredibly clever infographic, a shoe company in Germany revealed this week that they conducted a study which found that boxes shipped to the U.S. with tape that reads “ATHEIST” were much more likely to be delayed or lost en route than packaging without the label. The company, which…
Supreme Court posts audio and transcripts of DOMA arguments
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in favor and against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 Act of Congress that defined marriage on a federal level as being between and man and a woman. The plaintiff before the court today was Edith Windsor, who was…
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