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Alphabet of Computing
If you think that Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, think again: there was a “third founder” of Apple. In 1976, Ronald Wayne gave up his 10% stake of the fledgling company for $800...
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Singularity Watch: Inching Closer
Photo: GM/NASA This week’s developments in technological advances, like General Motors and NASA’s Robonaut2 (cleverly and deviously nicknamed R2), and Google’s decision to team up with the NSA got...
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10 Neat Facts About The Flintstones (on their 50th anniversary)
On September 30th, 1960, Americans sat down to watch the premiere of a prime-time animated series called The Flintstones. Fifty years later, Fred and his gang are remembered as our favorite cavemen....
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The 8 Most Successful Politicians (Who Weren’t Human)
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, is not the only community to elect non-human politicians. Several races have been won by other dogs, different animals, and even inanimate objects! Cracked has a rundown of the...
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Painted Trees in the Mountains of Colorado
“QUANTUM SHOT” #678Link – by Avi Abrams Psychedelic, “Grateful Dead” Trees – Revived! We’ve seen Painted Castles, Painted City Blocks and even Painted Forests. Well, here is an artist with a truly...
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The Breast Milk Diet
Making the rounds on the Net today is the adventure of a man who’s trying to survive on a diet consisting solely of his wife’s breast milk. Here’s what happened: The story so far: Curtis and his wife...
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The Coming and Going of Cello Scrotum
A look at a transitory medical concept by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff The years 1974–2009 saw the inspiration, birth, and death of a medical ailment that puzzled some physicians,...
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Music History #11: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes”
“The Ballad of Ira Hayes” Written by Pete La Farge (1963) Performed by Johnny Cash The Music Folk singer and songwriter Peter La Farge packed a lot into his thirty-four years on Earth. The son of a...
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