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csmonitor.com: Humans live in a vast solar system where 2,000 feet seems a razor-thin distance. Yet it’s just wide enough to trigger concerns that an asteroid due to buzz Earth on April 13, 2029 may shift its orbit enough to return and strike the planet seven years later. The concern: Within the object’s range of [...]

Punk/Rebel 50% Drama nerd 44% Loner 44% Goth 31% Prep/Jock/Cheerleader 19% Ghetto gangsta 19% Stoner 13% Geek 0% What's Your High School Stereotype? created with QuizFarm.com This is probably mostly accurate, although the low geek score was a big surprise. However, given my extreme laziness and lack of concern about grades it is probably correct. [...]

CNN.: The endangered grey nurse shark is its own worst enemy, its young eat each other in the womb, so Australian scientists have a radical rescue plan to artificially inseminate and breed the ocean predator in test-tubes. Not one of my all time favorites, although Sam Jackson’s death scene is a classic.

Daily Herald: “I think it is the responsibility of the leaderships of mosques to be more connected to the congregations, to make communities safe on an individual basis, and to keep an eye out for people under stress and make sure they channel it in a nonviolent way.” Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Chicago-based [...]

MOSNEWS.COM: Russia’s most (in)famous spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object, authorities say, and then ransacked his entire apartment. The authorities have obviously got no clue as to who that someone might have been. And, as a [...]

the Comic (47% dark, 39% spontaneous, 44% vulgar) your humor style: VULGAR | COMPLEX | LIGHT Yours is the most versatile and also the most popular kind of humor. On the one hand, you’ll crack a joke about just about anything, but you’re not mean-spirited or intimidating, so you can get away with it–even when, [...]

Guardian Unlimited: Robert Mugabe is having a whale of a time on his state visit to China. The Zimbabwean president has been made an honorary professor and praised by Hu Jintao, the prime minister, as ‘a familiar and much respected old friend of the Chinese people’. This is uncomfortable for the 700,000 Zimbabweans who have [...]

Christian Science Monitor: Polls show decisively that Latin Americans want better housing, food, education, opportunities, and democracy. And there are now some democratic and market-oriented leaders who know well what needs to be done. As Mr. Vargas Llosa says, ‘Reform ultimately involves undoing more than doing.’ Government must be small, less intrusive, more efficient, more [...]

Steven Johnson has a must read rebuttal to Hillary Clinton’s call for a video game investigation in the LA Times. Here is a teaser: Kids have always played games. A hundred years ago they were playing stickball and kick the can; now they’re playing ‘World of Warcraft,’ ‘Halo 2′ and ‘Madden 2005.’ And parents have [...]