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A meeting at Cern, the world’s largest physics lab, has addressed results that suggest subatomic particles have gone faster than the speed of light. The team presented its work so other scientists can determine if the approach contains any mistakes. If it does not, one of the pillars of modern science will come tumbling down.

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Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your phone’s journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence.

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SOLAR SINTER (2MIN EDIT) (by Markus Kayser)

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The U.S. Supreme Court stopped Texas officials Thursday evening from executing a Houston murderer who was sentenced to die after jurors were told he posed a greater danger to public safety because he is black.

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THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE - North Star (by Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca))

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Erin Gee — Lucide 2010 (via SparkleMuffinG’s Channel - YouTube)

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It was dubstep though that unlocked Blake’s creativity. Beforehand, he’d found his own lyrics “cringeworthy” and disliked the way he sang: “I felt like it wasn’t my own voice; it was the product of everything I’d listened to.” That all changed when he started to try and make his own dubstep tunes. Instead of composing on the piano, Blake was producing songs using Logic software on a computer. “I could record them and look at them, almost physically – graphically – and just chop up what I did like and I didn’t like,” he says, eyes on his sandwich. “It didn’t have to be all in one take, it could be something I designed from the ground up, visually. That process completely solved that problem for me.

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Electrocado - Mechacado v2.0 Complete
(via A MIDI Robot Percussionist and a New Album, from the Duo Electrocado)

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Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information.

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