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Researchers use infrared cameras to determine taste quality of Japanese beef "Imagine going into a local supermarket or butchery, pulling out your cell phone and using its camera to instantly check for the best piece of meat on display. That is one of the applications that some in Japan hope…
Hey, Tea Partiers, this wine's for you! - By Mike Steinberger - Slate Magazine "In response to the advent of the Tea Party movement, some people have demanded to know where all these deficit hawks and defenders of the Constitution were during the Bush years. I have a different question: "Where's…
Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » Grading every country's national anthem, part one "Burundi. Sounds more like a movie soundtrack than a national anthem - a really awesome movie, though, about African cowboys looking out over the savannah as the sun sets over the elephants, and then maybe they…
Colliding Galaxies For Fun and For Science! : Starts With A Bang "Galaxy Zoo has developed an outstanding game where you can help astronomers by doing something that humans easily defeat computers at: visually matching galaxies to simulations!" (tags: science astronomy computing internet blogs…