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Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually

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This five pages Wired article, one single page, tells "Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually".

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Are you a James Bond (007) fan?

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Unhuggable Cactus.

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Ten/10 Health Benefits of Playing Video Games

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VideoSift shares a two minutes and 39 seconds musical YouTube video shows "Ten/10 Surprising Health Benefits of Playing Video Games -- Want the reactions of a fighter pilot? How about the precision of a surgeon? Then you maybe need to spend more time on the computer. Presenting 10 surprising health benefits of playing video games."

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All Time 10s: Common Science Myths

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VideoSift shares a 2.75 minutes musical YouTube video showing "10 Common Science Myths -- Not everything they teach you in science class is true.

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"That's no moon..."

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EXTRALIFE has a funny comic strip on the recent Disney's purchases of LucasFilms

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Evolution of 2fort map in mod(ification)s.

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Mod Database/DB has an article and a 13 minutes and 39 seconds YouTube video compilation showing "... there are so much Team Fortress (TF) adaptation mods out there, and they are almost the same... just almost. Well, one of the few similarities are the classes themselves, and some classic maps.

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Making the vote count: Voting machines then and now (pictures/photo(graph)s).

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CNET News show a twenty two pages/slides showing "making the vote count: Voting machines then and now (pictures/photo(graph)s) -- Amid all the problems that have been solved with advances in technology, the simple act of tallying votes is still an arduous task in America.

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Fake and Incorrect Hurricane Sandy Photo(graph)s

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Reddit shares a Snopes article showing "Hurricane Sandy Photo(graph)s -- Various photographs capture images of Hurricane Sandy

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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn -- An almost 1.5 hours live action Halo video game series.

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Blue's News and Major Nelson mentioned an almost 1.5 hours YouTube video playlist showing five parts of "Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn", a live-action Halo video game series.

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Past is prototype: The evolution of the computer keyboard.

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/. shares a three pages (one/single print page) Computerworld article on "Past is prototype: The evolution of the computer keyboard -- Uncovering the keyboard's past points us toward its future..."

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Booze, bonks and bodies -- The various Bonds are more different than you think...

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Reddit mentioned a brief/short Economist article, with its chart, showing "Booze, bonks and bodies -- The various James Bonds (007) are more different than you think... Data compiled ... show that of the six Bonds, ..."

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Oregon Trail Tombstone Generator

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Reddit's Oregon Trail Problems subReddit mentions Oregon Trail Tombstone Generator that "... is based on the classic Apple II game, Oregon Trail. Relive the joy of seeing your friends' tombstones along the Oregon Trail by filling in the form ..."

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Terrestrial Hermit Crabs Learning Social Tricks To Evict Their Neighbors

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/. shared University of California Berkley (UCB)'s article on how "social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a UCB biologist has found that the terrestrial hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to kick another crab out of its shell and move into a larger home..."

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