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Damn, I'm already sick of the non-news. If everyone were like me, the news would be full of science, engineering, nature, archeology, and the like. Then along came science blogs.

Ha! Sick of news long time ago... Especially when 2/3 of total time is repeating what is next. I have been hooked on reading news on the web for so long, it is not even funny.
With all YouTube benefits, I can enjoy both reading and watching what I feel like and when I feel like, from the parts of the world I feel like as well. Watching regular news feels like torture and stealing my time.

Now, I am trying to spread the same with my close people, and to make my kids think using their own brains, but what with people who have news and newspaper as the only source of information? Brrrrrrrrrr...........