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[cakebelly]

If cynicism is a disease, have you caught it, or has it caught you?

    After 90 years, scholars have completed a dictionary of 28,000 words from ancient Mesopotamia.
    Purpose of ancient dodecahedron remains secret.
    King Arthur and Camelot: Why the enduring cultural fascination?
    Unlocking the secrets of the world's volcanoes.
    The day the river boiled: Chilean volcanic eruption turns waterway into a steaming torrent.
    Clean, cheap hydrogen production from water finally achieved using cobalt catalyst.
    Single cell is the first living laser.
    The strange and wonderful world of ancient trees.
    Scientists accidently discover how to block the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
    Mutant gene once believed to cause cancerous tumors turns out to be the perfect weapon to stop them.
    The Myth of 9 Billion: Why ignoring family planning was the worst foreign-policy mistake of the 20th century.
    Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.
    Damaging the Earth to feed its people.
    Storms Brewing: The new politics of climate change.
    School surveillance: The many ways Big Brother now spies on students.
    Inside Anonymous: Members of the Anonymous group talk about their hacking campaign.
    Underground website lets you buy any drug imaginable. Well, not really any drug...
    Shortages of hundreds of crucial generic drugs threaten patient care.
    Two US Senators ask feds to crack down on secretive internet narcotics market operated with anonymous sales and untraceable currency, Bitcoin.
    A guide to Spielberg shout-outs in J.J. Abrams' homage-crazy film "Super 8".
    Copernicus on the science of J. J. Abrams' STAR TREK!. Helpfully includes a link to this Star Trek: The Original Series Writer's Guide.
    Striving for the speed of light.
    In praise of the profane: Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the unlikely kings of pop-culture subversion.
    South Park fans in tears over mid-season finale, 'You're Getting Older'. Could Matt and Trey really have succumbed to the cynicism which South Park has been relentlessly skewering for 15 years?

Quote of the Day:

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there ... and it's called the Force.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

Trey Parker

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[cckeiser]

Fabulous stuff there Rev cakebelly dude! Thankee.

[BikerDude]

A great many people identify as Jedi on the census.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon

Unless the threat of fines arise I do not fill out the census.

[Abideist]

1. Where is this underground drug web site.

2. the 90 year old mesopotamian thing, isn't a secret document, but a collection of family historys, love letters, and other blah blah ancient facebook gibberish'

3. i saw super 8, and it was perfect for kids, but nothing new here, and not very good for keeping your eyes open if you already graduated from middle school

4. i love star trek, but I will miss south park more than the crew of the enterprize

[Busmum]

4. i love star trek, but I will miss south park more than the crew of the enterprize

really? you'll miss those mouthy kids more than 7 of 9?