Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry

Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 3:58 AM EDT (Reuters)

Canada's federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said. The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the "Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition" on Thursday as …

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The Criminal Brain: Would You Support Genetic Tampering in Violent Criminals?

Fri May 18, 2012 11:29 PM EDT

By Grisham

Neuroscience and DNA analyses have been making progress in leaps and bounds. Some scientists have dedicated their lives to trying to figure out what makes a person violent and what separates a serial killer from the rest of us. Scientists have found that the brain works very dif …

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File-Sharing Is Linked to Depression, Researchers Find

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 10:45 AM EDT (TorrentFreak)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

A new paper published by researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology reveals that people with depressive symptoms are more avid file-sharers than those without them. The research in question was conducted among students whose connections to the campus network w …

technology, file-sharing, depression, torrents, torrent, bittorrent, bittorrents

What Will Facebook Do with All Its Cash?

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 9:21 AM EDT (TheStreet.com)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

What's Facebook going to do with all that money? Depending on the price it sets for its shares, the company is on track to raise $6.1 billion to $6.8 billion in its initial public offering. Facebook's new wealth will be added to the $3.9 billion that's already in its coffers a …

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Is Google+ a Ghost Town, and Does It Matter?

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 11:49 AM EDT (Business Week)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

Google+ is a lonely place. At least according to a new study that paints the social networking site as a virtual tumbleweed town. Using information culled from the public timelines of 40,000 randomly selected members, data analysis firm RJMetrics found that the Google+ populat …

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For first time, minorities surpass whites in US births - TODAY News - TODAY.com

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:36 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Seeded by UVA

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a …

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BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:27 AM EDT (TorrentFreak)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

A new academic paper by a researcher from the North Carolina State University has examined the link between BitTorrent downloads and music album sales. Contrary to what’s often claimed by the major record labels, the paper concludes that there is absolutely no evidence th …

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Diablo 3 – Review

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:25 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

In terms of gameplay, first glance reveals everything you would expect from a Diablo sequel: five playable character classes, roughly divided between close-range brawlers like the Barbarian and Monk and rangier characters like The Wizard and Demon Hunter. And, for sheer strange …

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Apple Changes Siri's Embarrassing Nokia Favouritism

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 4:27 AM EDT ()

Seeded by Benno Hansen

Nokia has accused Apple of showing bias towards its own smartphones after it apparently changed the answer that its voice recognition software Siri provided to the question ‘what is the best smartphone ever?’ Until recently Siri had responded that the best smartpho …

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