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Maybe Investors' Exuberance Over Apple *Is* Rational
It's hard to look at a company that investors value at $630 billion and not think that irrational exuberance is propping up its share price. But a new analysis by Reuters shows that, at least compared...
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Ask Him Anything: President Obama Is Doing a Reddit AMA
A ratification of Reddit as "the front page of the Internet" At 4:30 today East Coast time, the president of the United States -- the Commander in Chief, the the leader of the free world -- will answer...
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Hurricane Isaac as It Appears in a Visualization of America's Wind
Weather data as art Here's a view of Hurricane Isaac unlike any other you've seen so far.This comes from hint.fm, a collaboration of data-visualization stars Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg....
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On Obama's Reddit Appearance
For the next year or so, slide decks across America will have a new photo that proves social media is changing the world. This is it:That's President Obama, purportedly during his Ask Me Anything...
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Labor Day Special: Beer, Aviation, and Design, Together in One Post
Part One: A weirdo conceptual plane, a flying wing designed to look like a ninja star, will shift from subsonic to supersonic flight by turning 90 degrees and going sideways. Or so we are told by...
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The Atlantic Is Headed to the Upper Midwest And We Need Your Help
We're coming to the upper midwest to check out the startup scene in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. In two weeks, Sarah Rich and I are hitting the road...
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New Voting Laws: Bending the Arc of History Away From Justice
The current generation of laws could disenfranchise millions. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds the signed Voting Rights Act of 1965. (AP) Lyndon Johnson was riled up. The Texas senator hadn't yet...
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Visa's Tooth Fairy App Calculates the Going Rate for Baby Teeth
Are you paying your children below market rate for their teeth? Here's an app that can relieve you of this troubling anxiety. Gorelova/Shutterstock/Rebecca J. Rosen I can't decide if the following news...
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The Afterlife of a Kickstarter Project
Outgrow.me is an online catalog of successfully crowdfunded products. Outgrow.me Many of the products on Kickstarter live their lives in the conditional tense. "This would be cool," we say to ourselves...
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The Martian Landscape, in Wacky 3D
The red planet becomes the red and blue planet. NASA The surface of Mars has become, at this point, one of the most photographed celebrities in the world. Via its dedicated paparazzo, the Curiosity...
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Slight Changes in Yelp Ratings Can Mean Huge Losses for Small Businesses
Researchers exploit a crack in the data to answer the question of just how much Yelp reviews affect consumer behavior. Customers wait in line for a sandwich at the highly reviewed Bakesale Betty in...
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Crazy Video From NASA of a Filament Eruption on the Sun
An outburst on the sun on Friday caused some beautiful sights here on Earth last night. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures this video of a filament eruption on the sun last Friday at 4:36 in...
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The World Wide Web, by the Numbers
The founder of the web checks in on his creation, with mixed results. World Wide Web Foundation Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the World Wide Web was predicated on two core ideas: universality and...
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Walt Whitman, Poet of ... Space Exploration
Behold: "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" narrates the final frontier. In 1865, as part of an updated edition of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman published an ode to the explorers of America's Western expansion....
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Found: World's Oldest Message in a Bottle, Part of 1914 Citizen-Science...
A charming and fitting end to an experiment that began in 1914 with roots way back in the 1840s. AP A Scottish fisherman has found the world's oldest message in a bottle, the Guinness Book of World...
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How Low Can You Go: Record Arctic Sea-Ice Melt Continues
Last week, the press was awash with reports of a new sea ice low in the Arctic. The previous low ever recorded was 4.17 million square kilometers of ice, and in late August, the sea ice extent as...
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The Best Craigslist 'Missed Connections' from Burning Man
"You, had a green goatee, and no pants. A cow patterned blazer, No shirt. Sicc tatts." This couple has already made the connection, it appears (Reuters).The Playa, home of Burning Man, has a reputation...
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Voyager 1 Turns 35, Will Soon Be the First Man-Made Object to Leave the Solar...
A look at what Voyager has seen in its years in space Voyager 1, aboard a a Titan-Centaur rocket, lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 5, 1977. (NASA) Thirty-five years ago, NASA...
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Vladimir Putin's (Motorized Hang Glider) Flight Into the Anthropocene
The action man plans to lead cranes along part of the way on their migratory route.An Operation Migration pilot in the air with cranes (Operation Migration).Vladimir Putin is reportedly going to fly a...
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What Is It About an Elephant's Tusks That Make Them So Valuable?
Chinese demand for ivory is driving conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reuters In Garamba National Park in the northeastern corner of Congo, thousands of elephants are being killed each...
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