NationalGeographic - One Of The Best Picture Of TheYear

Look very closely, the animals are in white. The black you see are their shadows!

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From theProgrammer's Mouth: How the 2000Election was Fixed

Clinton E. Curtis, ex-programmer tells all during a Congressional hearing on voting fraud. In October 2000, Curtis was asked by Tom Feeney (R), then Speaker of the House in Florida, to write a computer program that would render electronic voting fraud undetectable. Curtis did just that.

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6Foods ThatWill Instantly Boost AnyMood

'Your brain depends on a variety of nutrients to keep itself balanced. Cheetos and beer are not on the list. The scoop on six snacks that will help kick your mind into gear."

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The FiveLeast EffectiveExercise Videos Ever

If you’re going to pussy out on your exercise regimen, at least let it be in the privacy of your own home, in front of your TV, hopefully with a bag of Raisinettes and a bottle of bourbon (low carbs) nearby. And when that meltdown happens, be sure to have these videos on hand.

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10Ways To Supercharge A Boring GymSession

Refresh your workout with these ten moves.

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10 Tips for HealthyEating DuringExams

Good nutrition should be part of your study plan because it’s going to help you ace those tests. The better the fuel your brain gets, the better you’ll study. It’s a...well...no-brainer.

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The Only4 Principles of Weight Loss YouNeed ToKnow

"The *only* four principles that you need to keep in mind in your weight-loss journey."

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Firstteaser shot of the racer-based MazdaFurai concept

The Furai will be unveiled in January at the Detroit Auto Show, and is built on a Courage C65 chassis campaigned by Mazda in the American Le Mans Series two years ago. Power comes from a 450 HP three-rotor rotary that runs on E100 Ethanol.

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Miracle ManWalks Again [Pics]

See the pics or you will never believe. He survived against all the odds; now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again.When his body was cut in two by a lorry in 1995.

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McDonalds Giving Students Happy Meals for A's...Appropriate?

The commercialization of educational culture, particularly in elementary schools, has long been a contentious issue. It has become more clamorous in the last decade as hard-pressed school districts seek to raise money for academic programs, sports and extracurricular activities without raising taxes.

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Scientist WhoSparked Racism Has BlackGenes

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who provoked a public outcry by claiming black Africans were less intelligent than whites has a DNA profile with up to 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European.

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Amazon sends best Customer Service letter ever!!

After not getting offered a discounted laptop in Amazon's Customer Vote promotion, one customer wrote a "cheeky" letter to Amazon Executive Customer Service. It's only appropriate that Amazon had their own cheeky response.

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New HondaASIMO Can SelfCharge, AvoidPeople, Work In Group

When scientists in some bunker in the year 2525 are trying to determine when humanity handed over the keys to the robot overlords, December 11, 2007, may be a good date, for on this day, Honda announced it had given its ASIMO servant robots three key abilities. Here we break them down, and provide a "Future Shock" analysis of each:When scientists in some bunker in the year 2525 are trying to determine when humanity handed over the keys to the robot overlords, December 11, 2007, may be a good date, for on this day, Honda announced it had given its ASIMO servant robots three key abilities. Here we break them down, and provide a "Future Shock" analysis of each:• Autonomous battery charging - Honda developed a Borg-like charging bay for ASIMO. When the robot's battery level drops to a certain point, it seeks out the closest bay.Future Shock: Seeking a power source is the first step towards domination, Coppertop.• Avoiding oncoming people - ASIMO sees an oncoming person through its eye camera, judges its inertia, guesses its speed and path, then either changes course to steer clear, or simply takes a step back. Future Shock: If they're taught subservience, they start questioning their predestined role. Also, doesn't this sound a lot like targeting?• Working together - This involves constant sharing of relevant data between networked ASIMOs, and a survey of which robot is closest to the most pressing task, and what his battery life status is. Among them, they "decide" which one is best suited to go in and do the job.Future Shock: If I have to explain to you why robots working together could be a bad thing, well, you're probably already dead. [Honda]

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Five gifts that are Contra 4

...if you're planning to give it to someone for one of the winter gift-giving holidays, you're due to start high-fiving yourself right now. Put on a headband, too. Gaming sites are inundated with holiday gift guides at the end of the year, listing the best and most popular games that everyone pretty much already has (or knows about). Well, we're not going in for that this year. Our gift guide will help you find the best gifts in categories the other sites won't cover -- because we just made them up.All year, we held out vain hope that the American-developed DS Contra sequel wouldn't be terrible. We tried to put our memories of Appaloosa Interactive's two PlayStation failures out of our minds and have faith in WayForward. We did our best to believe that a new 2D Contra had the potential not to be a crushing disappointment. We were rewarded with one of the best games on the DS, and possibly the best game in the Contra series. It's hard to think of a better DS game than Konami's mind-blowingly manly Contra 4. So we didn't try. We've put together this guide to five of the best gifts you can give this holiday season, all of which are Contra 4. While it would most certainly be enough to list Contra 4 five times, we thought we would break it up by listing five different ways to package the gift of Contra.

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MUST SEE: Subaru Impreza WRX STI 170 Foot Jump (Pics & Vid)

Ken Block co-owner of DC shoes was on the cover of snowboarder magazine for jumping his Subaru Impreza on 60 and 100 ft plus gaps in New Zealand.

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