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New Internet tech transmits data at 26 terabytes per second
In a dramatic breakthrough, scientists have learned how to use optical fiber to transmit data over a single laser at speeds that dwarf even today’s fastest Internet connections. Using techniques called “fast Fourier transform” and “orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,” scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany were able to stitch…
ElBaradei emerges as leader of Egyptian opposition
With throngs cheering, Mohamed Elbaradei, the Nobel Prize-winning former director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, joined protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square Sunday night. “Today, I have come to share with you the most beautiful day for Egypt,” he told the demonstrators. “Today, I look into the eyes of each…
Trends analyst predicts global youth uprising, ‘progressive libertarians’ in 2011
An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression. In a wide-ranging interview with Russia Today (RT) on Monday,…
BP CEO: ‘It wasn’t our accident’ but we’ll clean spill; Liability waivers were ‘misstep’
British Petroleum is warned to stop distributing oil spill settlement agreements The CEO of British Petroleum told NBC’s Meredith Vieira that his company wasn’t responsible for creating the oil spill but they are responsible for cleaning it up. And he told ABC that liability waivers that fishermen were being asked…
Latin pop icon Ricky Martin tells fans he is gay
LOS ANGELES  Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, in a bombshell to legions of his fans all over the world, on Monday confirmed a longtime rumor that he is gay. “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I…
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- Denmark wins Eurovision Song Contest
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- Gay and lesbian couples push for same-sex marriage in Venezuela
- Right-wing radio host: I want to shoot Clinton right in the vagina
- Fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published
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- Noam Chomsky: Obama was willing to start nuclear war to kill bin Laden
- Psychologists find being positioned above others buffers against effects of ostracization
- Democrat tears into GOP for politicizing IRS hearing and encouraging ‘pollution of our democracy’
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