April 21st, 2008

Worked Over and Overworked: An in-depth look at the decline in status and treatment of American workers. Job security, pay, and benefits are nothing like they were thirty years ago.
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20 Amazing And Unusual Weather Phenomena. #20 is just down the road from where I live.
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The EMD Safety Bracelet. It's supposed to be an anti-hijacking device for airline passengers, but it most nearly resembles a pet-training aid.
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Burglar caught on camera stealing the first thing he sees. The masked bandit is a raccoon!
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The 7 Greatest Home Shopping Screw Ups of All Time. See classic videos of what can go wrong on live TV.
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We've seen data turned into music, but what would music look like turned into mathematical data? Music Has Its Own Geometry.
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Sharpie the manatee's fin had to be amputated after he was tangled in fishing line. But he's one of the lucky ones.
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Rhyolite, Nevada: not your typical ghost town. It went from 10,000 residents to only twenty in the span of 13 years.