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UCSF scientists have successfully created the world’s first reverse Dalmatian.

Irish and the Indians jam together 2000 years ago — wow.

For example a large C-shaped bronze horn known as a kompu, which is used in Kerala in southern India, is similar to late Bronze age horns found in Scandinavia known as lurs.

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“Digital Embodiment: Feminism, Technology, and the Self” starts on Tuesday, June 7! Course is strictly capped at 20 students. For more information and to enroll:

Are you the next Hayao Miyazaki? Now you’ll have the tools to find out.

This is the tech behind Snapchat’s secret acquisition http://tcrn.ch/2891kDQ

A very interesting press release appeared yesterday morning that was brought to our attention. A startup company, Gravitomagnetism, LLC, was granted a patent that enables it a multitude of applications ranging from energy generation to teleportation.

Google Voice hears all, records all.

This ‘Star Trek’ Visor Could Help The Blind ‘See’ Again.

UK trials are set to begin this year.

Stupid people are more likely than eggheads to believe in God, a controversial new study claims.

In a move that is bound to offend millions of churchgoers, a British psychologist says he has found a link between having a high IQ and being an atheist.

The discovery helps explain why university academics are less likely to be religious than almost anyone else, he says.

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