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"If President Bush has sunk lower than others, it is only because he is being stood on by giants."
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Zombie Feynman says it's science, and that's good enough for me.
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"One in five respondents[ to a poll in Nature] said they had used drugs for non-medical reasons to stimulate their focus, concentration or memory."
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""It appears that the electrons with the strongest repulsion in one situation are the most adept at superconductivity in another," said Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics at Princeton and the senior author of the paper. "It's counterintuitive, but that's
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Another version of the same press release as the previous link
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"[T]he real stunner was a scenario she presented for Cassini's end-of-life: to spend the very, very last phase of the mission in an orbit that threads Cassini between Saturn's cloud tops and the innermost D ring."
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