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Judge Calls Occupy Protesters The 'Most Affable Defendants' He'd Ever Seen

www.businessinsider.com "I hope you continue you work in a law-abiding way."

QE for the People: Comedian Beppe Grillo's Populist Plan for Italy

"Grillo's is the party of "no." In a candidacy based on satire, he organized an annual "V Day Celebration" - the "V" stands for vaffanculo (f - k off). He rejects the status quo - all the existing parties and their monopoly control of politics, jobs and...

Feb 28

‘Medical stocks are down by 90 percent’: Greece accuses pharma giants of slashing imports

rt.com The Greek government has reportedly accused 50 leading pharmaceutical companies of cutting off supplies of key medications to the country, sparking a run on pharmacies.

Feb 22

www.theatlanticcities.com Research has repeatedly shown that crime doesn't necessarily accompany transit, but that lingering fear still threatens new transportation projects.

Feb 20

Will our universe end in a 'big slurp'? Higgs-like particle suggests it might

Apparently the universe will reset and become way more stable tens of billions of years in the future. The universe has decided that the current universe we're in is simply too chaotic and it just gave us notice that it plans on changing things. cosmiclog.nbcnews.com BOSTON...

Feb 18

Sometimes It Takes A White Dude To Get Real About Racism

www.upworthy.com Things that matter. Pass 'em on.

Feb 15

8:10 GMT: Oleg Malkov, an aerospace scientist at Moscow State University, told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the meteorite went undetected by space scanners, likely because it was coming from the direction of the Sun. "We can only register stones...

Feb 13

Obama signs executive order on cyber security — RT

So this happened. Anyone know what the CISPA EO actually says? rt.com Barack Obama has signed an executive order on cybersecurity following rumors that he would do so. In his State of the Union address he cited “growing threat from cyber-attacks” as the...

Feb 11