Science or Torture? Dreadful Experiment Yields Shocking Results

Gregory Berns and his fellow researchers recently coaxed 32 willing volunteers to slide their heads into an MRI scanner and receive a series of electrical shocks to their left feet.

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How to scan money into photoshop

Photoshop sometimes recognizes money and tries to stop you from using it. Fortunately for law-abiding citizens who are smart enough to follow rules, Deke, as he shows in his new podcast, knows a workaround.

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694 million people online worldwide

Some 694 million people worldwide over age 15 are now using the Internet, about 14 percent of the total population in this age group, according to a survey released Thursday.

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Web 2.0 recipes with PHP + DHTML

Full simple code examples for dynamic elements for your web apps, including: Ad boxes, Pop-ups, Spinners, and Tabs. (ways to show and hide content on the page)

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First ABC, Now CBS announces that it will ALSO offer shows online!

This time, CBS has joined the party by unveiling a service called "innertube"�an ad-supported video channel available directly from their web site.

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The RFID Hacking Underground

They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground.

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Amazing, Innovative ways to fool people!

Scott Granneman's latest column looks at recent security examples where people have been fooled in increasingly innovative ways: from keyloggers used in a massive bank heist and new Trojans that encrypt data and request ransom money, to real financial rip-offs that extend out from online virtual gaming worlds like World of Warcraft.

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How to Warn 500+ Generations of Nuclear Waste?

"No culture has ever tried, self-consciously and scientifically, to design a symbol that would last 10,000 years and still be intelligible"

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Apple slips, accidentally reveals existence of MacBook on website

Apple accidentally displayed some navigation graphics for the highly-anticipated MacBook on apple.com this morning. Could it's release be right around the corner?

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Getting away with hacking your school computer system.

A teenager at a Pennsylvania school gets caught handing out business cards with instructions on how to circumvent his school's Web filter. But instead of throwing the school discipline book at him, administrators offer a choice: They'll give him a break if he lets the school's tech people know how he beat the system.

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From XHTML/CSS to WordPress

The ultimate guide to WordPress theming. As an addition to two previously posted articles about webdesign workflows, this shows the whole process of how to turn a (x)HTML site into a WordPress theme.

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Five most common lies in business

How many of these are touted by your employer?

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Have Pshop Skills? Help restore photos for NOLA families... Please digg!

I recently volunteered for Operation Photo Rescue and WE NEED HELP... All, I had hoped to begin distribution today (Wed 5/03), but to say that we have been swamped is an understatement. During the whole week that we initially spent in Pass Christian, MS, we gathered 500 photos from around 50 or so families...

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SURVEY: Only 1 in 5 people considering HD DVD or Blu-ray

A survey of high-volume DVD users by online DVD trading company Peerflix on Wednesday showed that about one in five may buy high-definition DVD players or discs in 2006.

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MiniTV USB Turns Computer Into A Media Center

The MiniTV plug-and-play USB TV tuner is now coming to the USA. Now you can watch and record your favorite shows right from your laptop. ADS Tech announced that it is shipping its MiniTV USB TV Tuner with MediaTV PVR software, its own all-in-one solution for turning a PC into a digital entertainment center.

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The Truth about Advertising on the Web

A look at just about every type of advertising you could cram into a webpage, with analysis of which ones work or don't work, and why. One of said analyses is pretty surprising.

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Another Way To Get Free Music

MyBloop is a free online storage site."With MyBloop.com, the world can share files for free without storage limits." This also means its a gold mine for music. Instructions for getting the music are listed under the first comment, due to digg.com character limits.

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Seeing your thoughts

They still can't read your thoughts just by looking at you, but researchers can now see what your brain is doing just by shining beams of light into your head.

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M. C. Escher's Impossible Drawings become Actual Physical Objects

It may come as a surprise for some, but many of the so-called 'impossible' drawings of M. C. Escher can be realized as actual physical objects; designed and built using geometric modeling and computer graphics tools

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Infrared imaging device projects a picture of veins on skin.

The device will help doctors stick a vein the first time. The device should be helpful for children, the elderly, diabetics on dialysis, and treating varicose veins. Very cool

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Professor builds room-size tornado in classroom

For all those little tornado machines posted on digg-- this tornado simulation is room-size! It is one of the most impressive models I have ever seen!

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Download Google Videos As AVI Files

You can download Google Videos as AVI without additional programs or extensions.

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Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch - The How, The Why, The Wow

Ok, so, "The Wow" is mostly on the viewers part.. and "The Why" - well to basically kick ass. For the How - watch the video.. its pretty amazing stuff! (there are some great old kung fu movie clips in there too!)

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Scientists use a weed to cure skin cancer in 2 days

Early clinical trials of a new gel based on a common garden weed have cleared up the most common type of skin cancer in 2 days.

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Now your Xbox 360 can blog

Simply enter you Live gamertag and 360voice.com will automatically, based upon what you did that day, create a blog entry for your 360. The blog is updated once a day and even offers RSS feeds to your own, and others 360's blogs.

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Top 10 Most Fuel-Efficient Cars for 2006

Hybrid vehicles take top 3 spots but are not the only option. Article with photos and links.

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New Test Can Predict Return Of Cancer

U.S. regulators have approved a test that reportedly can predict who are at high risk for a return of cancer after surgical removal of the prostate gland. The test, known as Prostate PX, uses advanced computer technology and digital imaging to determine an individual's risk for a recurrence of cancer.

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Researchers Create a Biologically-Inspired Artificial Compound Eye

Using the eyes of insects such as dragonflies and houseflies as models, a team of bioengineers, has created a series of artificial compound eyes. These eyes can eventually be used as cameras or sensory detectors to capture visual or chemical information from a wider field of vision than previously possible, even with the best fish-eye lens.

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NYC Homicides since 2003 on Google Maps -- Where not to live!

Very morbid use of Google Maps. Definitely pinpoints where you don't want to be living.

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Firefox Extension for Microsoft Fingerprint Reader

Microsoft Fingerprint Reader may look cool and be very useful in storing your passwords, but it�s lousy when it comes to working with Firefox. Now there�s a Firefox extension that allows a workaround for the reader software to recognize Firefox as a valid fingerprint capable app.

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Microsoft employees search with Google rather than MSN

A staggering 66.7% of search traffic [originating from 98052 (Redmond, WA)] goes through Google rather than MSN�s paltry 1.27%. Where�s the in house team spirit guys?! Now I know what the MS employee next to me on the bus is using for searching the net. Google!

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Tony Hawk - Next Gen Footage

Footage of next-gen Tony Hawk just recently leaked to the Internet. Although just a model test, the quality of the modeling, lighting, and animations are jaw-dropping.

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Google's new statistical English-Arabic translator

Google's new statistical learning translator is live for Arabic English translation. The translator learns from billions of words of text from both languages.

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Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle(Pics)

Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is unveiling a unique ground vehicle that offers new strength, mobility and autonomy features for the Army's effort to keep its troops out of harm's way. It can climb over 4ft. steps on it's own, just one of many things the unmanned vehicle can do.

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A Mini Gauss Gun

A little video of a small guass gun and how it works. Easy enough to make one yourself

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Green Tea Extract Shows Positive Signs For People With Blood Cancer

A decline in cancerous cells in the bodies of those with blood cancer was observed after a certain period of time. Three-quarters of the patients taking the green tea extract expressed enhanced response to treatment and one had an improved white blood cell count.

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PS3 Real Time Footage- Brother in Arms

Links staight to HD trailer.

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Stephen Colbert at the White House

Colbert preformed last night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. His jokes were hilarious, yet the room full of old white men don't seem to be laughing. The best part- he's standing like 5 feet away from the president and he's totally scathing. Link to torrent.

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Gas Too Pricey? Make Your Own

By filling 15 percent of your car's gas tank with ethanol, you can bring down the price-per-gallon from $3 to about $2.40... Of course, if you don't add the ingredient that makes ethanol unfit for human consumption, you would find yourself with something else: 190 proof moonshine.

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Firefox Extension - Download videos from Youtube and other 60 sites !

VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar. Just click that and download the video you are watching ! Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites ! AND all embedded objects on any webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly ! Example: http://videodownloader.net/help/vd04.htm

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National Weather Service puts out RSS

The National Weather Service has an RSS feed that you can add to your reader to get watches/warnings relayed right to your computer (feed reader).

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