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1. [Favorite] [>500] How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA 599 comments Feb 3, 2012

2. Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? 335 comments Feb 2, 2012

3. Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley 488 comments Feb 1, 2012

4. The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl 263 comments Feb 1, 2012

5. Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft 417 comments Jan 31, 2012

6. [>500] Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions 716 comments Jan 30, 2012

7. Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors 450 comments Jan 30, 2012

8. Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware 142 comments Jan 29, 2012

9. Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade 241 comments Jan 28, 2012

10. Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads 287 comments Jan 26, 2012







11. Autonomous Vehicles and the Law 313 comments Jan 25, 2012

12. [>500] [>1,000] How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work 1,302 comments Jan 22, 2012

13. Banks Using Mobile Phone Usage To Gauge Credit Risk 196 comments Jan 22, 2012

14. Study Analyzes Recent Grads' Unemployment By Major 311 comments Jan 21, 2012

15. What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? 404 comments Jan 20, 2012

16. Town Turns Off the Lights To See the Stars 219 comments Jan 19, 2012

17. Statisticians Uncover the Mathematics of a Serial Killer 164 comments Jan 17, 2012

18. Martian Rocks Land In Morocco 95 comments Jan 17, 2012

19. Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands 207 comments Jan 16, 2012

20. [>500] New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves 632 comments Jan 15, 2012







21. Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power 303 comments Jan 15, 2012

22. [Favorite] [>500] The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred 525 comments Jan 14, 2012

23. TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change 277 comments Jan 13, 2012

24. [>500] Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? 947 comments Jan 12, 2012

25. Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again 51 comments Jan 11, 2012

26. How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years 495 comments Jan 9, 2012

27. Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm 119 comments Jan 9, 2012

28. Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory 61 comments Jan 8, 2012

29. DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project 167 comments Jan 7, 2012

30. Solo Explorer Begins Bicycle Journey To South Pole 139 comments Jan 6, 2012







31. Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level 100 comments Jan 6, 2012

32. Cleaning Up the Mess After a Major Hack Attack 94 comments Jan 4, 2012

33. [>500] What's Keeping You On XP? 879 comments Jan 3, 2012

34. [>500] Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games 546 comments Jan 3, 2012

35. Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed 180 comments Jan 2, 2012

36. The Second Moons of Earth 87 comments Jan 2, 2012

37. The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist 231 comments Jan 1, 2012

38. [Favorite] [>500] Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969 comments Dec 31, 2011

39. [>500] How Doctors Die 630 comments Dec 29, 2011

40. Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies 433 comments Dec 28, 2011







41. Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? 160 comments Dec 27, 2011

42. Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 140 comments Dec 26, 2011

43. New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 119 comments Dec 26, 2011

44. The Science of Santa 141 comments Dec 25, 2011

45. Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 293 comments Dec 23, 2011

46. Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? 213 comments Dec 22, 2011

47. Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 412 comments Dec 21, 2011

48. Troops In Afghanistan Supplied By Robot Helicopter 139 comments Dec 21, 2011

49. Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor 333 comments Dec 20, 2011

50. High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? 154 comments Dec 20, 2011







51. Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism 38 comments Dec 19, 2011

52. The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives 362 comments Dec 18, 2011

53. Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children 268 comments Dec 17, 2011

54. Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier 446 comments Dec 15, 2011

55. [>500] Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 539 comments Dec 14, 2011

56. [>500] Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord 559 comments Dec 13, 2011

57. Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy 448 comments Dec 12, 2011

58. Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Millionaires 429 comments Dec 11, 2011

59. [Favorite] [>500] Is the Earth Special? 726 comments Dec 10, 2011

60. Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model 467 comments Dec 9, 2011







61. 'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan 50 comments Dec 7, 2011

62. Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 59 comments Dec 4, 2011

63. Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years 388 comments Dec 3, 2011

64. Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling 376 comments Dec 2, 2011

65. [>500] Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 836 comments Dec 1, 2011

66. [>500] Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple 540 comments Nov 30, 2011

67. Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time 249 comments Nov 30, 2011

68. [>500] Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email 570 comments Nov 29, 2011

69. Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground 244 comments Nov 28, 2011

70. The Science of Humor 332 comments Nov 27, 2011







71. Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking 41 comments Nov 26, 2011

72. iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents 82 comments Nov 25, 2011

73. The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV 277 comments Nov 24, 2011

74. Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial 371 comments Nov 23, 2011

75. Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 239 comments Nov 23, 2011

76. [>500] Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree 927 comments Nov 22, 2011

77. [Favorite] [>500] The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation 515 comments Nov 22, 2011

78. Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians 389 comments Nov 20, 2011

79. Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting 354 comments Nov 20, 2011

80. Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator 343 comments Nov 17, 2011







81. The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs 285 comments Nov 17, 2011

82. Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film 356 comments Nov 15, 2011

83. Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material 263 comments Nov 14, 2011

84. Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? 252 comments Nov 14, 2011

85. A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds 220 comments Nov 9, 2011

86. Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy 406 comments Nov 8, 2011

87. Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 375 comments Nov 7, 2011

88. [>500] Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? 825 comments Nov 6, 2011

89. Apple's Secret Weapon To Influence Industry Pricing 396 comments Nov 5, 2011

90. [>500] Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android 787 comments Nov 3, 2011







91. [Favorite] [>500] When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem 627 comments Oct 29, 2011

92. Google Street View Moves Indoors 115 comments Oct 29, 2011

93. Copyright Troll Righthaven Ordered To Pay $119,000 72 comments Oct 27, 2011

94. [Favorite] Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? 253 comments Oct 25, 2011

95. Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools 271 comments Oct 24, 2011

96. Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up 202 comments Oct 24, 2011

97. A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers 100 comments Oct 23, 2011

98. DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones 160 comments Oct 22, 2011

99. How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks 190 comments Oct 21, 2011

100. Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders 115 comments Oct 20, 2011








Reverse Chronological: 101 - 200

101. Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books 221 comments Oct 19, 2011

102. Investors Campaign To Oust Murdochs From News Corp 150 comments Oct 18, 2011

103. The Genetics of Happiness 125 comments Oct 18, 2011

104. Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly 457 comments Oct 17, 2011

105. Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? 330 comments Oct 17, 2011

106. [>500] Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global 941 comments Oct 16, 2011

107. [Favorite] NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera 395 comments Oct 12, 2011

108. Mazda Stops Production of the Last Rotary Engine Powered Car 352 comments Oct 11, 2011

109. Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base 264 comments Oct 11, 2011

110. The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama 334 comments Oct 10, 2011







111. [>500] Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up 745 comments Oct 9, 2011

112. Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid 472 comments Aug 25, 2011

113. [>500] More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs 614 comments Aug 24, 2011

114. What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals 311 comments Aug 24, 2011

115. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story 1,014 comments Aug 23, 2011

116. [>500] Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F 563 comments Aug 20, 2011

117. HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices 367 comments Aug 20, 2011

118. AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan 347 comments Aug 19, 2011

119. [>500] Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games 636 comments Aug 18, 2011

120. Do Spoilers Ruin a Good Story? No, Say Researchers 237 comments Aug 16, 2011







121. Righthaven Loses Again 118 comments Aug 16, 2011

122. Drug Companies Lose Special Protection On Facebook 181 comments Aug 15, 2011

123. [>500] What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling? 537 comments Aug 14, 2011

124. US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking 270 comments Aug 12, 2011

125. Popularity Trumps Privacy For Many On Facebook 99 comments Aug 12, 2011

126. IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon 219 comments Aug 10, 2011

127. [>500] Technology Blamed for Helping UK Rioters 672 comments Aug 9, 2011

128. Power Companies Brace for Solar Storms 111 comments Aug 8, 2011

129. DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects 43 comments Aug 7, 2011

130. [Favorite] [>500] The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing 513 comments Aug 6, 2011







131. Internet Eats Into Time-Warner Cable Porn Profits 177 comments Aug 5, 2011

132. Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android 276 comments Aug 4, 2011

133. Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil? 230 comments Aug 2, 2011

134. Judge Blasts Prosecution of Alleged NSA Leaker 93 comments Aug 1, 2011

135. Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste 248 comments Jul 31, 2011

136. Hackers Could Open Convicts' Cells In Prisons 203 comments Jul 31, 2011

137. [>500] The End of the Gas Guzzler 882 comments Jul 29, 2011

138. Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US 408 comments Jul 28, 2011

139. Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter 340 comments Jul 28, 2011

140. [>500] [>1,000] House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech 1,014 comments Jul 27, 2011







141. Fighting Crime With Facebook 71 comments Jul 27, 2011

142. Is the Master's Degree the New Bachelor's? 327 comments Jul 25, 2011

143. James Murdoch's Defense Crumbles 270 comments Jul 25, 2011

144. Online Call To Shoot President Ruled Free Speech 363 comments Jul 24, 2011

145. Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit 86 comments Jul 23, 2011

146. The Loudness Wars May Be Ending 280 comments Jul 22, 2011

147. Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company 165 comments Jul 22, 2011

148. [Favorite] Can a Playground Be Too Safe? 493 comments Jul 21, 2011

149. Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? 289 comments Jul 19, 2011

150. [>500] Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' 719 comments Jul 18, 2011







151. [Favorite] [>500] Mass Psychosis In the USA? 542 comments Jul 16, 2011

152. Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees 220 comments Jul 14, 2011

153. App Uses Facial Profiling To Identify Perps 62 comments Jul 14, 2011

154. [>500] The Wi-Fi Hacking Neighbor From Hell 581 comments Jul 13, 2011

155. Apple Chief Patent Lawyer Leaves After Android Loss 100 comments Jul 12, 2011

156. DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing 417 comments Jul 10, 2011

157. Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' 241 comments Jul 10, 2011

158. Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet 207 comments Jul 9, 2011

159. Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches 495 comments Jul 7, 2011

160. Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees 83 comments Jul 6, 2011







161. China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change 436 comments Jul 5, 2011

162. News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail 250 comments Jul 5, 2011

163. America: Like It Or Unfriend It 268 comments Jul 4, 2011

164. Can the US Still Lead In Space Despite Shuttle's End? 361 comments Jul 3, 2011

165. [Favorite] FBI Wiretapped Hemingway 253 comments Jul 2, 2011

166. [>500] San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales 700 comments Jun 28, 2011

167. DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs 322 comments Jun 27, 2011

168. The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland 474 comments Jun 26, 2011

169. Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? 440 comments Jun 25, 2011

170. Android App Quality Pathetically Low Says Developer 336 comments Jun 22, 2011







171. More Users Are Shunning Facebook 403 comments Jun 21, 2011

172. [Favorite] [>500] The End of Paper Books 663 comments Jun 19, 2011

173. High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing 96 comments Jun 19, 2011

174. Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie 147 comments Jun 18, 2011

175. Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows 256 comments Jun 16, 2011

176. Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot 370 comments Jun 11, 2011

177. Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks 340 comments Jun 11, 2011

178. Los Angeles To Turn Off Traffic-Light Cameras 360 comments Jun 10, 2011

179. [>500] [>1,000] Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? 1,051 comments Jun 8, 2011

180. Officials Agree On Global Nuclear Stress Tests 122 comments Jun 8, 2011







181. Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban 182 comments Jun 7, 2011

182. What Makes a Photograph Memorable? 53 comments Jun 3, 2011

183. Why We Have So Much "Duh" Science 296 comments Jun 1, 2011

184. [Favorite] Human Brain Places Limit On Twitter Friends 169 comments May 31, 2011

185. What's Your College Major Worth? 432 comments May 30, 2011

186. What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire 187 comments May 29, 2011

187. FDA Sued To Stop Antibiotic Abuse On Factory Farms 264 comments May 28, 2011

188. Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish 219 comments May 26, 2011

189. The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" 305 comments May 25, 2011

190. Smart Pajamas Monitor Patients With Sleep Disorder 41 comments May 23, 2011







191. Creator of China's Great Firewall Pelted With Shoes 218 comments May 22, 2011

192. Scientists Take Charles Darwin On the Road 167 comments May 21, 2011

193. Seduction Secrets In Video Game Design 61 comments May 20, 2011

194. Judge Puts Righthaven Cases In Colorado On Hold 36 comments May 20, 2011

195. Computer Records Hold Key In IMF Head's Sexual Assault Case 247 comments May 19, 2011

196. [>500] The Future of Shopping 592 comments May 18, 2011

197. When AIM Was Our Facebook 383 comments May 18, 2011

198. Righthaven Hit With Class Action Counterclaim 90 comments May 17, 2011

199. The Cost of US Security 448 comments May 16, 2011

200. The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing 301 comments May 15, 2011









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Reverse Chronological: 201 - 300

201. Live Justice Comes To the Internet 85 comments May 15, 2011

202. [>500] Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound 537 comments May 14, 2011

203. Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System 237 comments May 13, 2011

204. The Psychology of Steam Wallet & Microsoft Points 190 comments May 10, 2011

205. Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets 484 comments May 6, 2011

206. Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 299 comments May 5, 2011

207. [Favorite] [>500] The Internet's New Alternate Reality 869 comments May 3, 2011

208. [>500] Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice 692 comments Apr 25, 2011

209. Righthaven Defies Court In Domain Name Ruling 148 comments Apr 25, 2011

210. FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' 366 comments Apr 18, 2011







211. Armenia Makes Chess Compulsory In Schools 299 comments Apr 18, 2011

212. Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract 129 comments Apr 17, 2011

213. TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA 320 comments Apr 15, 2011

214. Editing Wikipedia Helps Professor Attain Tenure 139 comments Apr 8, 2011

215. [>500] [>1,000] Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? 1,479 comments Apr 7, 2011

216. Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? 330 comments Apr 6, 2011

217. [>500] Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax 978 comments Apr 5, 2011

218. [>500] Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars 710 comments Apr 4, 2011

219. [>500] Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism 578 comments Apr 3, 2011

220. StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light 426 comments Apr 3, 2011







221. Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs 427 comments Apr 2, 2011

222. Convicted Terrorist Relied On Single-Letter Cipher 253 comments Apr 1, 2011

223. [>500] Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up 827 comments Mar 31, 2011

224. Google Faces Privacy Audits For Next 20 Years 110 comments Mar 30, 2011

225. The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes 368 comments Mar 29, 2011

226. [>500] Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development 820 comments Mar 28, 2011

227. How Viewing a "Virtual You" Can Help You Save 180 comments Mar 27, 2011

228. If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat 154 comments Mar 26, 2011

229. How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile 144 comments Mar 22, 2011

230. Google Accuses China of Interfering With Gmail 124 comments Mar 21, 2011







231. Righthaven Copyright Lawsuit Backfires 86 comments Mar 20, 2011

232. Geologists Say California May Be Next 246 comments Mar 19, 2011

233. Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job 345 comments Mar 18, 2011

234. [>500] US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis 563 comments Mar 17, 2011

235. NASA Wants To Zap Space Junk With Lasers 147 comments Mar 16, 2011

236. [>500] Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown 753 comments Mar 13, 2011

237. Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers 294 comments Mar 13, 2011

238. [>500] Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan 725 comments Mar 12, 2011

239. Is Daylight Saving Time Bad For You? 289 comments Mar 12, 2011

240. Copyright Troll Complains of Defendant's Legal Fees 135 comments Mar 11, 2011







241. DNA Testing Proposed For All Felony Arrests In New Mexico 151 comments Mar 10, 2011

242. [Favorite] Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books 441 comments Mar 9, 2011

243. [>500] Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? 614 comments Mar 7, 2011

244. Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future 231 comments Mar 7, 2011

245. Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy 314 comments Mar 6, 2011

246. Google Finally Uses Remote Kill Switch On Malware 172 comments Mar 6, 2011

247. Apple Negotiates For Unlimited iTunes Downloads 133 comments Mar 5, 2011

248. [>500] Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy 840 comments Mar 3, 2011

249. Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market 239 comments Mar 2, 2011

250. WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize 202 comments Mar 1, 2011







251. Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills 274 comments Feb 28, 2011

252. [>500] Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer 504 comments Feb 27, 2011

253. [Favorite] How Sun Bought Apple Computer (Almost) 277 comments Feb 26, 2011

254. [>500] [>1,000] Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs 1,032 comments Feb 25, 2011

255. Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data 410 comments Feb 25, 2011

256. Smart Phone Gets Driver Out of a Speeding Ticket 227 comments Feb 25, 2011

257. [Favorite] Secrets of a Memory Champion 276 comments Feb 24, 2011

258. Google Launches New Assault on Microsoft Office 108 comments Feb 24, 2011

259. Employer Facebook Password Requests Suspended 201 comments Feb 23, 2011

260. The Psychology of Horror In Video Games and Movies 119 comments Feb 23, 2011







261. Former Senator Chris Dodd Set To Head MPAA 181 comments Feb 22, 2011

262. [Favorite] [>500] LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective 575 comments Feb 21, 2011

263. Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants 433 comments Feb 19, 2011

264. National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide 182 comments Feb 17, 2011

265. Number of Facebook Friends Linked To Anxiety 142 comments Feb 16, 2011

266. Apple To Keep 30% of Magazine Subscription Revenue 381 comments Feb 15, 2011

267. The Dirty Little Secrets of Search 148 comments Feb 13, 2011

268. Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes 455 comments Feb 10, 2011

269. AOL To Buy Huffington Post 160 comments Feb 7, 2011

270. Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap 373 comments Feb 6, 2011







271. Internet Is Easy Prey For Governments 313 comments Feb 6, 2011

272. [>500] Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children 827 comments Feb 5, 2011

273. Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name 329 comments Feb 5, 2011

274. Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control 428 comments Feb 4, 2011

275. AT&T Sued For Systematic iPhone Overbilling 254 comments Feb 2, 2011

276. [Favorite] Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets 374 comments Feb 1, 2011

277. [>500] Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk 547 comments Jan 30, 2011

278. [>500] Model Says Religiosity Gene Will Dominate Society 728 comments Jan 29, 2011

279. Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths 349 comments Jan 29, 2011

280. [>500] Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber 573 comments Jan 28, 2011







281. Bomb Detecting Plants To Root Out Terrorists 55 comments Jan 28, 2011

282. DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention For ISPs 218 comments Jan 26, 2011

283. Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology 336 comments Jan 24, 2011

284. Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen 181 comments Jan 23, 2011

285. [Favorite] Study Sez Txt Msgs Make Kidz Gr8 Spellrz 375 comments Jan 22, 2011

286. [>500] The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw 845 comments Jan 21, 2011

287. Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date 304 comments Jan 20, 2011

288. Road Train Completes First Trials In Sweden 284 comments Jan 20, 2011

289. Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' 354 comments Jan 19, 2011

290. How Facebook Ships Code 312 comments Jan 18, 2011







291. US Scraps Virtual Fence Along Mexican Border 437 comments Jan 15, 2011

292. Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices 448 comments Jan 14, 2011

293. RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations 182 comments Jan 13, 2011

294. Workshops Begin In Australia On WikiLeaks Opera 44 comments Jan 13, 2011

295. [>500] Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones 738 comments Jan 12, 2011

296. Verizon To Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data 327 comments Jan 10, 2011

297. Some WikiLeaks Contributions To Public Discourse 286 comments Jan 10, 2011

298. Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans 347 comments Jan 8, 2011

299. [>500] Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? 785 comments Jan 7, 2011

300. [Favorite] Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa 457 comments Jan 5, 2011








Reverse Chronological: 301 - 400

301. Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants 434 comments Jan 4, 2011

302. Android vs iPhone - Who Wins In 2011? 411 comments Jan 3, 2011

303. Kinect Creators To Make PC Controller 96 comments Jan 3, 2011

304. Why Published Research Findings Are Often False 439 comments Jan 2, 2011

305. Battle Escalates Between Airlines and Online Agents 277 comments Jan 2, 2011

306. Do Sleepy Surgeons Have a Right To Operate? 326 comments Jan 1, 2011

307. New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have 117 comments Dec 30, 2010

308. Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies 435 comments Dec 29, 2010

309. Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy 213 comments Dec 29, 2010

310. Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? 328 comments Dec 28, 2010







311. Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists? 293 comments Dec 28, 2010

312. Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? 395 comments Dec 27, 2010

313. Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System 159 comments Dec 27, 2010

314. African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy 152 comments Dec 27, 2010

315. How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified 95 comments Dec 26, 2010

316. Apple Forces Steve Jobs Action Figure Off eBay 229 comments Dec 25, 2010

317. Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion 203 comments Dec 25, 2010

318. Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide 167 comments Dec 23, 2010

319. Labor Lockout Lingers At Honeywell Nuclear Plant 222 comments Dec 21, 2010

320. Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? 100 comments Dec 20, 2010







321. Microchips Now In Tombstones, Toilets & Fish Lures 83 comments Dec 20, 2010

322. Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? 384 comments Dec 19, 2010

323. [Favorite] [>500] Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers 724 comments Dec 17, 2010

324. [>500] Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia 549 comments Dec 17, 2010

325. [>500] Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already? 607 comments Dec 16, 2010

326. America's Cubicles Are Shrinking 474 comments Dec 15, 2010

327. Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US 119 comments Dec 15, 2010

328. Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked 303 comments Dec 14, 2010

329. Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists 206 comments Dec 14, 2010

330. Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain 152 comments Dec 13, 2010







331. The New Reality of Gaming 122 comments Dec 7, 2010

332. Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data 243 comments Dec 6, 2010

333. Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS 483 comments Dec 5, 2010

334. With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger 286 comments Dec 5, 2010

335. Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel 174 comments Dec 5, 2010

336. British Aircraft Carrier For Sale On Auction Site 164 comments Dec 2, 2010

337. [>500] Aging Reversed In Mice 546 comments Nov 29, 2010

338. The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead 417 comments Nov 29, 2010

339. [Favorite] [>500] How Apple Had a Spectacular Year 502 comments Nov 28, 2010

340. First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried 447 comments Nov 28, 2010







341. FedEx Misplaces Radioactive Rods 164 comments Nov 26, 2010

342. Homeland Security Drops Color-Coded Terror Alerts 180 comments Nov 25, 2010

343. [>500] Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems 869 comments Nov 24, 2010

344. Righthaven To Explain Why Reposting Isn't Fair Use 166 comments Nov 24, 2010

345. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 208 comments Nov 23, 2010

346. [>500] Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable 672 comments Nov 22, 2010

347. US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever 211 comments Nov 22, 2010

348. Laser Camera Can See Around Corners 97 comments Nov 19, 2010

349. Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? 358 comments Nov 17, 2010

350. China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner 332 comments Nov 15, 2010







351. NSA Adds Kahn Collection To Cryptologic Museum 34 comments Nov 14, 2010

352. [Favorite] What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? 125 comments Nov 9, 2010

353. Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits 145 comments Nov 7, 2010

354. In Praise of Procrastination 118 comments Nov 6, 2010

355. Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped 471 comments Nov 4, 2010

356. How Google Is Solving Its Book Problem 58 comments Nov 4, 2010

357. Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections 376 comments Nov 3, 2010

358. [>500] 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions 831 comments Nov 2, 2010

359. Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? 489 comments Nov 1, 2010

360. Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias 129 comments Nov 1, 2010







361. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] How Much Math Do We Really Need? 1,148 comments Oct 31, 2010

362. Is Google Polluting the Internet? 336 comments Oct 30, 2010

363. Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion 217 comments Oct 30, 2010

364. Verizon To Pay $25M For Years of 'Mystery Fees' 147 comments Oct 28, 2010

365. British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests 328 comments Oct 27, 2010

366. MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic 136 comments Oct 27, 2010

367. [Favorite] [>500] Global Warming's Silver Lining For the Arctic Rim 573 comments Oct 26, 2010

368. Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles 329 comments Oct 26, 2010

369. New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code 210 comments Oct 25, 2010

370. Researchers Find 70-Year-Olds Are Getting Smarter 115 comments Oct 24, 2010







371. Sony Discontinues the Walkman 235 comments Oct 23, 2010

372. Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? 190 comments Oct 22, 2010

373. Giant Lab Replicates Category 3 Hurricanes 96 comments Oct 22, 2010

374. [Favorite] Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence 238 comments Oct 20, 2010

375. [>500] Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android 861 comments Oct 19, 2010

376. What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? 374 comments Oct 18, 2010

377. Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones 122 comments Oct 18, 2010

378. The Rise and Fall of America's Jet-Powered Car 338 comments Oct 17, 2010

379. [Favorite] How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA 445 comments Oct 16, 2010

380. Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google 297 comments Oct 15, 2010







381. Digital Dashboard Device Detects Driver Drowsiness 116 comments Oct 15, 2010

382. Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist 327 comments Oct 13, 2010

383. [Favorite] Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration 255 comments Oct 11, 2010

384. HTML5 Draws Concern Over Risks To Privacy 163 comments Oct 11, 2010

385. New Tool Blocks Downloads From Malicious Sites 163 comments Oct 10, 2010

386. [>500] Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic 561 comments Oct 9, 2010

387. DMCA Takedown Notice Leveled Against Ohio Congressional Race Ad 130 comments Oct 8, 2010

388. US Negotiators Cave On Internet Provisions To ACTA 80 comments Oct 8, 2010

389. Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains 353 comments Oct 7, 2010

390. US Military Orders Less Dependence On Fossil Fuel 317 comments Oct 6, 2010







391. Lawrence Lessig Reviews the Social Network 223 comments Oct 4, 2010

392. [Favorite] Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America 207 comments Oct 3, 2010

393. Paleontologists Unearth Giant Fossilized Penguin 107 comments Oct 2, 2010

394. [>500] Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials 625 comments Oct 1, 2010

395. [Favorite] Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist 138 comments Sep 24, 2010

396. Google, Apple Settle Justice Dept. Hiring Probe 73 comments Sep 24, 2010

397. China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan 470 comments Sep 23, 2010

398. Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur 60 comments Sep 22, 2010

399. [Favorite] Pope's Astronomer Would Love To Baptize an Alien 304 comments Sep 20, 2010

400. Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament 207 comments Sep 20, 2010









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401. Public Clearinghouse Proposed For Evoting Failures 113 comments Sep 15, 2010

402. [>500] GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory 797 comments Sep 11, 2010

403. Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia 93 comments Sep 10, 2010

404. American Business Embraces 'Gamification' 108 comments Sep 6, 2010

405. Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie 241 comments Sep 5, 2010

406. Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings 178 comments Sep 4, 2010

407. The Many Iterations of William Shatner 152 comments Sep 4, 2010

408. Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square 338 comments Sep 3, 2010

409. Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew 53 comments Sep 3, 2010

410. [>500] [>1,000] Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang 1,328 comments Sep 2, 2010







411. [Favorite] [>500] AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do 589 comments Sep 2, 2010

412. [>500] Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' 551 comments Sep 2, 2010

413. [Favorite] Wikipedia Reveals Secret of 'The Mousetrap' 236 comments Sep 1, 2010

414. Neal Stephenson Unveils His Digital Novel Platform 155 comments Sep 1, 2010

415. Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices 291 comments Aug 31, 2010

416. Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia 311 comments Aug 30, 2010

417. Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans 307 comments Aug 28, 2010

418. [Favorite] Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera 119 comments Aug 28, 2010

419. Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant 493 comments Aug 22, 2010

420. Layoff Anxiety Is Top Risk To Space Shuttle 178 comments Aug 22, 2010







421. Star Wars Fans Look For Love In Alderaan Places 88 comments Aug 20, 2010

422. [>500] Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks 911 comments Aug 16, 2010

423. The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags 168 comments Aug 16, 2010

424. Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US 237 comments Aug 14, 2010

425. Apple Manager Arrested In Kickback Scheme 213 comments Aug 14, 2010

426. China To Close 2,000 Factories In Energy Crackdown 242 comments Aug 10, 2010

427. Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu 312 comments Aug 9, 2010

428. Kmart Briefly Offers $149 Android Tablet 245 comments Aug 8, 2010

429. What Are Google and Verizon Up To? 120 comments Aug 8, 2010

430. Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle 83 comments Aug 6, 2010







431. [Favorite] 'Old School' Arcade Still Popular In NYC 177 comments Aug 5, 2010

432. Are the New Kindles Tablets-In-Training? 134 comments Aug 1, 2010

433. US Ability To Identify Source of Nuclear Weapons Decays 114 comments Jul 30, 2010

434. Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books 122 comments Jul 29, 2010

435. [Favorite] If You Don't Want Your Car Stolen, Make It Pink 390 comments Jul 27, 2010

436. The End of Forgetting 326 comments Jul 26, 2010

437. Scientists Create Equation For a Perfect Handshake 144 comments Jul 26, 2010

438. [>500] WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets 960 comments Jul 25, 2010

439. Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T 328 comments Jul 24, 2010

440. Adapting the Post Office To the Digital Age 236 comments Jul 24, 2010







441. The Scalability of Linus 214 comments Jul 23, 2010

442. World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career 250 comments Jul 22, 2010

443. US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill 457 comments Jul 21, 2010

444. Scientists Discover Biggest Star 178 comments Jul 21, 2010

445. Pay-Per-View Journalism Is Burning Out Reporters Young 223 comments Jul 20, 2010

446. Airlines Get Billions From Unbundled Services 393 comments Jul 18, 2010

447. Gaming Without a Safety Blanket 73 comments Jul 17, 2010

448. 'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful 249 comments Jul 7, 2010

449. Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' 422 comments Jul 6, 2010

450. Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report 337 comments Jul 5, 2010







451. Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books 168 comments Jul 5, 2010

452. High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance 352 comments Jun 26, 2010

453. [Favorite] Why Being Wrong Makes Humans So Smart 311 comments Jun 21, 2010

454. AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users 270 comments Jun 9, 2010

455. New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine 211 comments Jun 9, 2010

456. Military Taps Social Networking To Hunt Insurgents 63 comments Jun 8, 2010

457. [>500] Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues 695 comments May 31, 2010

458. Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller 214 comments May 31, 2010

459. [>500] Why Apple Is So Sticky 593 comments May 30, 2010

460. [>500] IRS Wants a Cut of Sales On eBay and Craigslist 516 comments May 30, 2010







461. Senators Question Removal of NASA Program Manager 67 comments May 30, 2010

462. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] What Scientists Really Think About Religion 1,123 comments May 29, 2010

463. High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana 197 comments May 28, 2010

464. [>500] Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones 602 comments May 27, 2010

465. Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake 456 comments May 26, 2010

466. Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams 307 comments May 26, 2010

467. [Favorite] Mark Twain To Reveal All After 100 Year Wait 296 comments May 24, 2010

468. Citizen Scientists Help Explore the Moon 59 comments May 24, 2010

469. Local TV Could Go the Way of Newspapers 175 comments May 21, 2010

470. Critics Say US Antimissle Defense Flawed, Dangerous 310 comments May 19, 2010







471. [Favorite] Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline 192 comments May 19, 2010

472. Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age 111 comments May 16, 2010

473. Microsoft Accuses Google Docs of Data Infidelity 177 comments May 15, 2010

474. Apple Is Nintendo's "Enemy of the Future" 270 comments May 14, 2010

475. [>500] Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ 728 comments May 13, 2010

476. Genetic Testing Coming To a Drugstore Near You 110 comments May 12, 2010

477. Hollywood Nervous About Kagan's Fair Use Views 226 comments May 11, 2010

478. Defense Chief Urges Big Cuts In Military Spending 429 comments May 10, 2010

479. Biggest Detector To Look For Gravitational Waves 109 comments May 10, 2010

480. The Boom (Or Bubble) In Federal Cybersecurity 72 comments May 9, 2010







481. Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty 154 comments May 8, 2010

482. [Favorite] [>500] iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales 901 comments May 6, 2010

483. Google Releases a Web-App Case Study For Hackers 95 comments May 5, 2010

484. Judge Closes Online Access To Info On Civil Case 63 comments May 4, 2010

485. "Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling 170 comments May 2, 2010

486. [Favorite] [>500] The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive 513 comments Apr 30, 2010

487. James Cameron To Develop 3D Camera For Mars Rover 139 comments Apr 30, 2010

488. Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis 115 comments Apr 30, 2010

489. Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming 365 comments Apr 29, 2010

490. Students Flock To GMU For a Degree In Video Game Design 220 comments Apr 29, 2010







491. Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy 156 comments Apr 28, 2010

492. FTC Could Gain Enforcement Power Over Internet 131 comments Apr 28, 2010

493. Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming 282 comments Apr 27, 2010

494. Parody and Satire Videos, Which Is Fair Use? 264 comments Apr 27, 2010

495. Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info 236 comments Apr 27, 2010

496. The Mystery of the Missing Methane 98 comments Apr 25, 2010

497. Colleague Comes Forward To Defend Anthrax Suspect 161 comments Apr 23, 2010

498. EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes 156 comments Apr 23, 2010

499. [>500] Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills 514 comments Apr 22, 2010

500. Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City 237 comments Apr 22, 2010









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501. China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results 336 comments Apr 19, 2010

502. Wisconsin Designates State Microbe 102 comments Apr 19, 2010

503. Newspaper Death Notices May Be a Dying Business 170 comments Apr 18, 2010

504. Web Coupons Tell Stores More Than You Realize 125 comments Apr 17, 2010

505. Ex-NSA Officlal Indicted For Leaks To Newspaper 115 comments Apr 16, 2010

506. [Favorite] Justice Stevens Leaves Profound Legacy in IP Law 106 comments Apr 16, 2010

507. [Favorite] Maybe the Aliens Are Addicted To Computer Games 496 comments Apr 15, 2010

508. New Russian Science City Modeled On Silicon Valley 197 comments Apr 14, 2010

509. Military Asserts Right To Respond To Cyberattacks 167 comments Apr 14, 2010

510. First Pulitzer Awarded To an Online News Site 48 comments Apr 13, 2010







511. Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market 188 comments Apr 12, 2010

512. Cell Phones Could Sniff Out Deadly Chemicals 136 comments Apr 12, 2010

513. "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" 419 comments Apr 11, 2010

514. NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years 264 comments Apr 9, 2010

515. Why Lenders Overlook Warning Signs of ID Theft 225 comments Apr 9, 2010

516. Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad 411 comments Apr 7, 2010

517. [>500] Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine 521 comments Apr 6, 2010

518. [>500] Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs 561 comments Apr 5, 2010

519. Microsoft and Apple Rumble Into Middle Age 363 comments Apr 5, 2010

520. [Favorite] [>500] Science Attempts To Explain Heaven 692 comments Apr 4, 2010







521. Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google 267 comments Apr 4, 2010

522. Astronaut Careers May Stall Without the Shuttle 138 comments Apr 4, 2010

523. [Favorite] Game Development In the Heart of Africa 69 comments Apr 4, 2010

524. [Favorite] Twins' DNA Foils Police 207 comments Apr 3, 2010

525. [>500] White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards 533 comments Apr 2, 2010

526. US Changes How Air Travelers Are Screened 254 comments Apr 2, 2010

527. Real-World Outcomes Predicted Using Social Media 90 comments Apr 2, 2010

528. Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal 132 comments Apr 1, 2010

529. Garage Startup Develops "Personal Computer" 78 comments Apr 1, 2010

530. [>500] New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders 949 comments Mar 30, 2010







531. [Favorite] [>500] Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass 584 comments Mar 30, 2010

532. Self-Destructing USB Stick 220 comments Mar 30, 2010

533. Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? 434 comments Mar 28, 2010

534. Security Holes Found In "Smart" Meters 169 comments Mar 28, 2010

535. It's Time To Split Up NSA Between Spooks and Geeks 121 comments Mar 27, 2010

536. Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia 137 comments Mar 26, 2010

537. [>500] Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? 902 comments Mar 25, 2010

538. Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor 303 comments Mar 23, 2010

539. New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Criminal Havens 114 comments Mar 23, 2010

540. Laptop Computers Detect and Monitor Earthquakes 78 comments Mar 23, 2010







541. Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds 428 comments Mar 21, 2010

542. US Law Firms Targeted By Cyberscams 121 comments Mar 21, 2010

543. Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage 309 comments Mar 20, 2010

544. "Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform 202 comments Mar 20, 2010

545. [Favorite] US Military Shuts Down CIA's Terrorist Honey Pot 191 comments Mar 19, 2010

546. High-Tech Research Moving From US To China 396 comments Mar 18, 2010

547. [Favorite] The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph 242 comments Mar 17, 2010

548. Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo 493 comments Mar 16, 2010

549. Attack of the Killer Electrons 84 comments Mar 15, 2010

550. [Favorite] Ushahidi Crowd-Sources Crisis Response 71 comments Mar 15, 2010







551. GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges 226 comments Mar 13, 2010

552. Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains 127 comments Mar 13, 2010

553. Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun 109 comments Mar 12, 2010

554. The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground 221 comments Mar 11, 2010

555. [>500] Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall 664 comments Mar 10, 2010

556. NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much 208 comments Mar 9, 2010

557. Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors 373 comments Mar 8, 2010

558. China's Human Flesh Search Engine 240 comments Mar 5, 2010

559. Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way 223 comments Mar 5, 2010

560. BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services 240 comments Mar 3, 2010







561. [Favorite] [>500] Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn 796 comments Mar 2, 2010

562. An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" 222 comments Mar 1, 2010

563. How Slums Can Save the Planet 420 comments Feb 28, 2010

564. [>500] US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition 620 comments Feb 27, 2010

565. UN To Create Independent Panel To Review IPCC 337 comments Feb 27, 2010

566. The Surreal World of Chatroulette 151 comments Feb 21, 2010

567. [>500] Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids 502 comments Feb 20, 2010

568. Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure 131 comments Feb 20, 2010

569. Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It 221 comments Feb 19, 2010

570. New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early 425 comments Feb 18, 2010







571. [>500] The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors 527 comments Feb 17, 2010

572. New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? 157 comments Feb 17, 2010

573. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow 1,136 comments Feb 16, 2010

574. [>500] Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store 503 comments Feb 16, 2010

575. 'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense 288 comments Feb 15, 2010

576. [Favorite] The Ultimate Interstellar Valentine Mix Tape 75 comments Feb 14, 2010

577. [>500] Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US 585 comments Feb 13, 2010

578. Motorola To Split In Two 91 comments Feb 13, 2010

579. Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over? 333 comments Feb 12, 2010

580. [>500] Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina 848 comments Feb 10, 2010







581. Google To Challenge Facebook Again 197 comments Feb 9, 2010

582. White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos 169 comments Feb 7, 2010

583. Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills 131 comments Feb 7, 2010

584. Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees 238 comments Jan 31, 2010

585. Astronomers Discover the Coolest Known Sub-Stellar Body 60 comments Jan 30, 2010

586. Parallel Algorithm Leads to Crypto Breakthrough 145 comments Jan 29, 2010

587. Newsday Gets 35 Subscriptions to Pay Web Site 177 comments Jan 27, 2010

588. China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 387 comments Jan 26, 2010

589. [Favorite] Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago 356 comments Jan 25, 2010

590. Pope Urges Priests to Go Forth and Blog 281 comments Jan 24, 2010







591. [>500] Claims of Himalayan Glacier Disaster Melt Away 561 comments Jan 23, 2010

592. Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall 229 comments Jan 23, 2010

593. Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network 148 comments Jan 21, 2010

594. Newton's Apple Story Goes Online 114 comments Jan 18, 2010

595. NY Times To Charge For Online Content 483 comments Jan 17, 2010

596. Apple Seeks To Ban Nokia Imports To US 345 comments Jan 17, 2010

597. Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines 127 comments Jan 17, 2010

598. Protecting At-Risk Cities From Rising Seas 216 comments Jan 16, 2010

599. ESA Wants ISS Extended To 2020 85 comments Jan 15, 2010

600. Tech Tools Fostering "Mini Generation Gaps" 283 comments Jan 10, 2010









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601. How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death 113 comments Jan 10, 2010

602. Next Generation of Windows To Run On ARM Chip 285 comments Jan 6, 2010

603. The Long Shadow of Y2K 257 comments Jan 1, 2010

604. TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns 134 comments Jan 1, 2010

605. [Favorite] [>500] Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ 568 comments Dec 31, 2009

606. DRM and the Destruction of the Book 419 comments Dec 31, 2009

607. TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive 379 comments Dec 31, 2009

608. The Rise of Machine-Written Journalism 134 comments Dec 30, 2009

609. GSM Decryption Published 299 comments Dec 28, 2009

610. The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds 453 comments Dec 22, 2009







611. Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas 317 comments Dec 21, 2009

612. [Favorite] A Requiem For Saab 430 comments Dec 20, 2009

613. The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean 153 comments Dec 20, 2009

614. Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern 180 comments Dec 19, 2009

615. Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes 256 comments Dec 15, 2009

616. Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year 253 comments Dec 15, 2009

617. White House Plans Open Access For Research 74 comments Dec 12, 2009

618. Judges Can't "Friend" Lawyers in Florida 138 comments Dec 11, 2009

619. [>500] Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820 comments Nov 30, 2009

620. Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals 84 comments Nov 30, 2009







621. [>500] Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots 770 comments Nov 29, 2009

622. What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy 361 comments Nov 28, 2009

623. Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google 282 comments Nov 27, 2009

624. Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds 198 comments Nov 27, 2009

625. [Favorite] [>500] Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers 618 comments Nov 25, 2009

626. Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game" 50 comments Nov 25, 2009

627. Wal-Mart, Amazon Battle For Online Retail's Future 253 comments Nov 24, 2009

628. Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works 467 comments Nov 23, 2009

629. Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls 221 comments Nov 23, 2009

630. UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger" 83 comments Nov 22, 2009







631. WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US 136 comments Nov 21, 2009

632. Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage 479 comments Nov 20, 2009

633. Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come 147 comments Nov 20, 2009

634. Patent Issued For Podcasting 145 comments Nov 20, 2009

635. [Favorite] Building a 32-Bit One-Instruction Computer 261 comments Nov 19, 2009

636. Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss 71 comments Nov 19, 2009

637. [>500] Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys 609 comments Nov 15, 2009

638. [Favorite] [>500] Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721 comments Nov 14, 2009

639. Commodore 64 Runs Again On the iPhone 78 comments Nov 14, 2009

640. [Favorite] Two Sunken Japanese Submarines Found Off Hawaii 219 comments Nov 13, 2009







641. Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco 104 comments Nov 12, 2009

642. [>500] Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price 553 comments Nov 9, 2009

643. Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers 460 comments Nov 8, 2009

644. Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler 128 comments Nov 8, 2009

645. Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb 235 comments Nov 7, 2009

646. Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy 110 comments Nov 7, 2009

647. Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists 342 comments Nov 6, 2009

648. Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean 168 comments Nov 3, 2009

649. Paywalls to Drive Journalists Away in Addition to Consumers? 129 comments Nov 2, 2009

650. Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women 357 comments Nov 1, 2009







651. Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars 171 comments Oct 31, 2009

652. Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas 377 comments Oct 30, 2009

653. [Favorite] EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas 249 comments Oct 30, 2009

654. Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules 212 comments Oct 29, 2009

655. Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For IPhone 125 comments Oct 29, 2009

656. Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates 410 comments Oct 28, 2009

657. [>500] Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month 528 comments Oct 27, 2009

658. [>500] Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software 508 comments Oct 27, 2009

659. [>500] Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine 579 comments Oct 20, 2009

660. Maldives Government Holds Undersea Cabinet Meeting 271 comments Oct 18, 2009







661. California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions 337 comments Oct 17, 2009

662. EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists 404 comments Oct 13, 2009

663. Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale 98 comments Oct 13, 2009

664. EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy 176 comments Oct 12, 2009

665. [Favorite] Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit 375 comments Oct 11, 2009

666. [>500] Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content 501 comments Oct 10, 2009

667. Why AT&T Should Dump the iPhone's Unlimited Data Plan 491 comments Oct 10, 2009

668. Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed 429 comments Oct 9, 2009

669. Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing 386 comments Oct 8, 2009

670. Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty 228 comments Oct 6, 2009







671. Algae First To Recover After Asteroid Strike 86 comments Oct 5, 2009

672. 50 Years of the Twilight Zone 101 comments Oct 3, 2009

673. Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant 159 comments Sep 29, 2009

674. Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute 150 comments Sep 29, 2009

675. Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims 81 comments Sep 29, 2009

676. [>500] Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid 606 comments Sep 21, 2009

677. Universal "Death Stench" Repels Bugs of All Types 248 comments Sep 18, 2009

678. Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight 177 comments Sep 17, 2009

679. [Favorite] Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste 361 comments Sep 16, 2009

680. [Favorite] [>500] The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School 703 comments Sep 8, 2009







681. Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers 192 comments Sep 7, 2009

682. Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? 370 comments Sep 6, 2009

683. Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals 139 comments Sep 4, 2009

684. [>500] Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid 644 comments Sep 3, 2009

685. [>500] Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars 912 comments Sep 2, 2009

686. All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists 265 comments Sep 2, 2009

687. Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth 224 comments Sep 2, 2009

688. Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy 254 comments Sep 1, 2009

689. [Favorite] Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday 409 comments Aug 31, 2009

690. Laughing Gas Is Major Threat To Ozone Layer 224 comments Aug 30, 2009







691. [>500] James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 655 comments Aug 29, 2009

692. Treasured "Moon Rock" Is Petrified Wood 204 comments Aug 28, 2009

693. [Favorite] [>500] Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages 505 comments Aug 27, 2009

694. Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days 433 comments Aug 27, 2009

695. Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers 116 comments Aug 26, 2009

696. Bioreactors Engineer Tissue To Mend Heart Damage 46 comments Aug 26, 2009

697. [>500] Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off 744 comments Aug 24, 2009

698. BrainPort Lets the Blind "See" With Their Tongues 131 comments Aug 22, 2009

699. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked 1,051 comments Aug 20, 2009

700. US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel 369 comments Aug 20, 2009









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701. [Favorite] Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA 369 comments Aug 18, 2009

702. Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA Evidence 245 comments Aug 18, 2009

703. Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again 325 comments Aug 16, 2009

704. BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering 221 comments Aug 16, 2009

705. How To Send Email When You're Dead 163 comments Aug 16, 2009

706. Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter 54 comments Aug 15, 2009

707. Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals 139 comments Aug 14, 2009

708. [>500] Parents Baffled By Science Questions 630 comments Aug 13, 2009

709. [Favorite] [>500] Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits 521 comments Aug 13, 2009

710. EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights 379 comments Aug 13, 2009







711. Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 286 comments Aug 12, 2009

712. Green Cement Absorbs Carbon 211 comments Aug 11, 2009

713. A Standardized OS For Robots 181 comments Aug 11, 2009

714. Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children 471 comments Aug 9, 2009

715. Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? 333 comments Aug 9, 2009

716. Rival Green Groups Bid To Snatch .eco Domain 223 comments Aug 9, 2009

717. Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers 213 comments Aug 8, 2009

718. Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching 156 comments Aug 7, 2009

719. AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media 94 comments Aug 7, 2009

720. Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" 297 comments Aug 5, 2009







721. 3D Images Reconstructed of 300M-Year-Old Spiders 88 comments Aug 5, 2009

722. Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals 220 comments Aug 4, 2009

723. [>500] "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas 590 comments Aug 2, 2009

724. Experts Puzzled By Bright Spot On Venus 107 comments Aug 1, 2009

725. Hackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco 221 comments Jul 31, 2009

726. IPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders 357 comments Jul 30, 2009

727. [Favorite] Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality 364 comments Jul 29, 2009

728. Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants 309 comments Jul 29, 2009

729. Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish 159 comments Jul 28, 2009

730. Bill Gates Remembers 1979 301 comments Jul 27, 2009







731. DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" 273 comments Jul 27, 2009

732. Could Cyber-Terrorists Provoke Nuclear Attacks? 176 comments Jul 27, 2009

733. Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? 219 comments Jul 26, 2009

734. [Favorite] [>500] Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" 616 comments Jul 25, 2009

735. The Rocky Road To Wind Power 280 comments Jul 23, 2009

736. NSA To Use Cloud Model For Intelligence Analysis 41 comments Jul 22, 2009

737. 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct 171 comments Jul 21, 2009

738. [>500] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad 572 comments Jul 20, 2009

739. Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out 204 comments Jul 20, 2009

740. South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs 154 comments Jul 20, 2009







741. Med Students Get Training In Second Life Hospitals 126 comments Jul 19, 2009

742. Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste 110 comments Jul 18, 2009

743. Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? 295 comments Jul 13, 2009

744. Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours 186 comments Jul 13, 2009

745. Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists 208 comments Jul 12, 2009

746. Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet 198 comments Jul 12, 2009

747. Apple To Sell WiFi-less iPhone In China 113 comments Jul 11, 2009

748. [>500] Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? 518 comments Jul 9, 2009

749. Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo 422 comments Jul 9, 2009

750. Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court 223 comments Jul 8, 2009







751. [Favorite] [>500] British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online 550 comments Jul 7, 2009

752. US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement 392 comments Jul 7, 2009

753. Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy 134 comments Jul 7, 2009

754. If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free 246 comments Jul 6, 2009

755. Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape 125 comments Jul 6, 2009

756. We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? 394 comments Jul 5, 2009

757. Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever 193 comments Jul 4, 2009

758. CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' 134 comments Jul 4, 2009

759. You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation 132 comments Jul 4, 2009

760. The Chemistry of Firework Displays 60 comments Jul 4, 2009







761. Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students 349 comments Jul 3, 2009

762. NSA To Build 20 Acre Data Center In Utah 224 comments Jul 2, 2009

763. Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink 280 comments Jul 1, 2009

764. [Favorite] Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle 316 comments Jun 30, 2009

765. The Galaxy's 62-Million Year Extinction Oscillator 193 comments Jun 30, 2009

766. [Favorite] Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life 330 comments Jun 29, 2009

767. The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists 221 comments Jun 27, 2009

768. Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear 288 comments Jun 25, 2009

769. Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger 283 comments Jun 23, 2009

770. On the Humble Default 280 comments Jun 23, 2009







771. John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?" 142 comments Jun 23, 2009

772. US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors 168 comments Jun 22, 2009

773. Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story 96 comments Jun 22, 2009

774. [Favorite] [>500] Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet 596 comments Jun 20, 2009

775. FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell 448 comments Jun 17, 2009

776. iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry 325 comments Jun 17, 2009

777. NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice 375 comments Jun 16, 2009

778. Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague 263 comments Jun 15, 2009

779. CIA Officers Are Warming To Intellipedia 102 comments Jun 15, 2009

780. [Favorite] [>500] Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" 832 comments Jun 14, 2009







781. Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For 347 comments Jun 14, 2009

782. Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? 167 comments Jun 13, 2009

783. NSA Ill-Suited For Domestic Cybersecurity Role 70 comments Jun 12, 2009

784. For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes 368 comments Jun 10, 2009

785. California To Move To Online Textbooks 468 comments Jun 9, 2009

786. China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest 316 comments Jun 9, 2009

787. [>500] iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy 788 comments Jun 8, 2009

788. Most Blogs Now Abandoned 290 comments Jun 8, 2009

789. Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument 136 comments May 31, 2009

790. How Common Is Scientific Misconduct? 253 comments May 30, 2009







791. Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record 384 comments May 29, 2009

792. 18 Android Phones, In 3 Flavors, By Year's End 152 comments May 29, 2009

793. [>500] Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change 712 comments May 27, 2009

794. Phony TCP Retransmissions Can Hide Secret Messages 187 comments May 27, 2009

795. Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease 174 comments May 27, 2009

796. Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years 237 comments May 26, 2009

797. A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban 197 comments May 26, 2009

798. DoD Sharing Threat Data With Critical Industries 53 comments May 26, 2009

799. [Favorite] Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find 125 comments May 25, 2009

800. [Favorite] Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan 457 comments May 24, 2009









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801. World's Oldest Blogger Dies At 97 73 comments May 24, 2009

802. College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni 221 comments May 23, 2009

803. Pentagon Seeks a New Generation of Hackers 131 comments May 22, 2009

804. Infrared Fibers Can Protect Against Chemoterrorism 71 comments May 22, 2009

805. World's First Battery Fueled By Air 203 comments May 21, 2009

806. Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers 362 comments May 19, 2009

807. [>500] [>1,000] US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 1,183 comments May 18, 2009

808. [>500] Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker 546 comments May 18, 2009

809. [>500] Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? 502 comments May 18, 2009

810. Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space 131 comments May 17, 2009







811. Lawsuit Says Google's Sale of Keywords Is Illegal 232 comments May 16, 2009

812. [Favorite] [>500] Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? 669 comments May 15, 2009

813. How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages 207 comments May 15, 2009

814. Greece Halts Google's Street View 190 comments May 13, 2009

815. SGI Lives On, In Name At Least 107 comments May 12, 2009

816. NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams 219 comments May 11, 2009

817. Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission 129 comments May 11, 2009

818. Work Resumes on Virtual Fence with Mexico 259 comments May 9, 2009

819. Google Urges National Inventory of Radio Spectrum 74 comments May 8, 2009

820. Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home 189 comments May 7, 2009







821. [>500] Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works 518 comments May 6, 2009

822. Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press 389 comments May 6, 2009

823. IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret 161 comments May 6, 2009

824. [Favorite] Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey 357 comments May 4, 2009

825. Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time 294 comments May 4, 2009

826. Can the New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers? 286 comments May 4, 2009

827. Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal 204 comments May 3, 2009

828. Tsunami Hit New York City Region In 300 BC 136 comments May 3, 2009

829. Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube 130 comments May 2, 2009

830. [Favorite] Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897 174 comments May 1, 2009







831. Iranians Outwit Censors With Falun Gong Software 165 comments May 1, 2009

832. Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe 265 comments Apr 30, 2009

833. Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets 185 comments Apr 29, 2009

834. Time Warner To Spin Off AOL 140 comments Apr 29, 2009

835. Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera 127 comments Apr 29, 2009

836. EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats 228 comments Apr 28, 2009

837. Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless 194 comments Apr 28, 2009

838. Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support 221 comments Apr 27, 2009

839. The Woman Who Established Fair Use 223 comments Apr 26, 2009

840. Taking Gaming To the Next Billion Players 116 comments Apr 26, 2009







841. Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon 208 comments Apr 25, 2009

842. Wikipedia Threatens Artists For Fair Use 232 comments Apr 24, 2009

843. [>500] Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents 825 comments Apr 23, 2009

844. Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator' 271 comments Apr 23, 2009

845. Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar 492 comments Apr 22, 2009

846. Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories 93 comments Apr 22, 2009

847. Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case 311 comments Apr 21, 2009

848. NSA Overstepped the Law On Wiretaps 164 comments Apr 17, 2009

849. Are Human Beings Organisms Or Living Ecosystems? 325 comments Apr 15, 2009

850. Ponzi Schemes Multiply On YouTube 345 comments Apr 14, 2009







851. Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College 280 comments Apr 14, 2009

852. UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google 463 comments Apr 13, 2009

853. NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector 210 comments Apr 13, 2009

854. In Defense of the Anonymous Commenter 198 comments Apr 12, 2009

855. Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161 comments Apr 11, 2009

856. STEREO Spacecraft To Explore Earth's L4 and L5 65 comments Apr 10, 2009

857. Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins 321 comments Apr 8, 2009

858. Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction 484 comments Apr 6, 2009

859. Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie 466 comments Apr 6, 2009

860. Spammers Say the Darndest Things 107 comments Apr 5, 2009







861. [Favorite] Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work 444 comments Apr 4, 2009

862. Robot Makes Scientific Discovery (Mostly) On Its Own 237 comments Apr 3, 2009

863. Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills 184 comments Apr 3, 2009

864. Verizon Promises 4G Wireless For Rural America 130 comments Apr 3, 2009

865. [>500] Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an IPod 649 comments Apr 2, 2009

866. Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs 369 comments Apr 2, 2009

867. New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity 191 comments Apr 2, 2009

868. Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity 173 comments Apr 2, 2009

869. [>500] [>1,000] Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? 1,075 comments Mar 31, 2009

870. [>500] Game Companies Face Hard Economic Choices 508 comments Mar 31, 2009







871. Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet 413 comments Mar 31, 2009

872. Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars 231 comments Mar 31, 2009

873. Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision 203 comments Mar 29, 2009

874. [Favorite] Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told 411 comments Mar 28, 2009

875. New Speed Record Set For Wind-Powered Vehicles 138 comments Mar 28, 2009

876. Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date 208 comments Mar 21, 2009

877. [>500] Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format 743 comments Mar 11, 2009

878. Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing 266 comments Mar 11, 2009

879. Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed 96 comments Mar 10, 2009

880. [Favorite] [>500] US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles 922 comments Mar 9, 2009







881. [>500] Bill Would Blur Online Maps to Stop Terrorists 597 comments Mar 4, 2009

882. [Favorite] LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness 182 comments Mar 4, 2009

883. The 300 Million Year Old Brain 68 comments Mar 4, 2009

884. Scientific Team Begins Trek to the North Pole 137 comments Mar 3, 2009

885. [Favorite] Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing 408 comments Mar 1, 2009

886. Scientists Build an Ark To Save Jungle Amphibians 127 comments Feb 28, 2009

887. [>500] Why Japan Hates the iPhone 882 comments Feb 27, 2009

888. [>500] Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada 501 comments Feb 24, 2009

889. Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water 268 comments Feb 17, 2009

890. Beamlines To Reveal Secrets of the Mummies 64 comments Feb 17, 2009







891. [Favorite] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia 266 comments Feb 16, 2009

892. "Microsaccades" Help To Refresh Your Field of View 96 comments Feb 15, 2009

893. [Favorite] Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter 260 comments Feb 14, 2009

894. [Favorite] Fly Me To Which Moon? 183 comments Feb 11, 2009

895. [>500] Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live 950 comments Feb 10, 2009

896. [Favorite] The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old 366 comments Feb 10, 2009

897. Scientists Reconstruct Millenium's Coldest Winter 290 comments Feb 9, 2009

898. DTV Converters In Short Supply 192 comments Feb 7, 2009

899. First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation 158 comments Feb 5, 2009

900. Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up 183 comments Feb 4, 2009









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901. [Favorite] Less Is Moore 342 comments Jan 28, 2009

902. We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories 398 comments Jan 27, 2009

903. Carbonite Stacks the Deck With 5-Star Reviews 197 comments Jan 27, 2009

904. Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny 126 comments Jan 11, 2009

905. [Favorite] More Brains Needed 232 comments Jan 9, 2009

906. How the City Hurts Your Brain 393 comments Jan 6, 2009

907. Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon 273 comments Jan 6, 2009

908. Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator 260 comments Jan 5, 2009

909. Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211 comments Dec 22, 2008

910. [Favorite] Are Newspapers Doomed? 333 comments Dec 20, 2008







911. [Favorite] Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126 comments Dec 20, 2008

912. Light Echoes Solve Mystery of Tycho's Supernova 98 comments Dec 5, 2008

913. [>500] Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction 550 comments Dec 3, 2008

914. Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242 comments Dec 3, 2008

915. [Favorite] Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474 comments Dec 1, 2008

916. [Favorite] Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186 comments Nov 29, 2008

917. Grandma's on the Computer Screen this Thanksgiving 64 comments Nov 27, 2008

918. New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps 330 comments Nov 23, 2008

919. [Favorite] Police Cars to Transmit Real Time Video 149 comments Nov 22, 2008

920. Urine Passes NASA Taste Test 394 comments Nov 18, 2008







921. The Neurological Basis of Con Games 218 comments Nov 18, 2008

922. Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany 185 comments Nov 18, 2008

923. [>500] Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator 683 comments Nov 17, 2008

924. Unhappy People Watch More TV 193 comments Nov 15, 2008

925. [>500] As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland 521 comments Nov 12, 2008

926. 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb 470 comments Nov 11, 2008

927. The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496 comments Oct 27, 2008

928. Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies 105 comments Oct 25, 2008

929. Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet 356 comments Oct 24, 2008

930. Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? 454 comments Oct 23, 2008







931. [Favorite] Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth 415 comments Oct 21, 2008

932. Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand 374 comments Oct 20, 2008

933. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False 257 comments Oct 19, 2008

934. [Favorite] Banjo Used In Brain Surgery 149 comments Oct 14, 2008

935. Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration 69 comments Oct 7, 2008

936. Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West 207 comments Oct 6, 2008

937. Training Bacteria To Deliver Drugs? 29 comments Oct 3, 2008

938. Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself 82 comments Oct 1, 2008

939. New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel 170 comments Sep 28, 2008

940. [>500] Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674 comments Sep 27, 2008







941. Google To Fund Ideas That Will Change the World 165 comments Sep 26, 2008

942. Google Pushes Back Against US Copyright Treaty 233 comments Sep 23, 2008

943. Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel 252 comments Sep 20, 2008

944. [Favorite] US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" 218 comments Sep 20, 2008

945. Don't Count Cobol Out 265 comments Sep 19, 2008

946. [>500] 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 715 comments Sep 18, 2008

947. Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD 171 comments Sep 17, 2008

948. Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors 168 comments Sep 17, 2008

949. [>500] Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? 613 comments Sep 10, 2008

950. [Favorite] Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ 181 comments Sep 10, 2008







951. Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists 240 comments Sep 5, 2008

952. Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books 446 comments Sep 1, 2008

953. [>500] Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans 710 comments Aug 31, 2008

954. [>500] Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive 646 comments Aug 25, 2008

955. Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping 181 comments Aug 25, 2008

956. Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer 104 comments Aug 23, 2008

957. [Favorite] DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi 271 comments Aug 22, 2008

958. World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California 324 comments Aug 17, 2008

959. Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers 132 comments Aug 17, 2008

960. Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design 87 comments Aug 17, 2008







961. The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science 180 comments Aug 15, 2008

962. [>500] Let the Games Be Doped 773 comments Aug 13, 2008

963. [Favorite] Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition 472 comments Aug 12, 2008

964. Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration 180 comments Aug 10, 2008

965. Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids 349 comments Aug 4, 2008

966. New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed 443 comments Jul 22, 2008

967. China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air 362 comments Jul 21, 2008

968. Texas To Build $4.93B Wind-Power Project 250 comments Jul 20, 2008

969. [Favorite] MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach 128 comments Jul 13, 2008

970. [>500] Pickens Plans On Wind Power 572 comments Jul 9, 2008







971. Senate Scrutinizes Privacy Issues of ISP User Tracking 108 comments Jul 8, 2008

972. [>500] VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG 506 comments Jul 5, 2008

973. There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute 393 comments Jul 5, 2008

974. [>500] Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success 581 comments Jun 20, 2008

975. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers 1,056 comments Jun 17, 2008

976. Data Center Designers In High Demand 136 comments Jun 17, 2008

977. Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years 168 comments Jun 3, 2008

978. [>500] Does Ballmer Need To Go? 554 comments May 6, 2008

979. [Favorite] Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom 417 comments Apr 30, 2008

980. [>500] Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961 comments Apr 24, 2008







981. Apple Prepares for the Coming iPod Slump 339 comments Apr 24, 2008

982. Predicting Human Errors From Brain Activity 123 comments Apr 24, 2008

983. The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts 257 comments Apr 22, 2008

984. GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites 171 comments Apr 22, 2008

985. Private Efforts Fill Gaps In Earth's Asteroid Defenses 120 comments Apr 22, 2008

986. JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners 209 comments Apr 21, 2008

987. US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways 150 comments Apr 20, 2008

988. Home Wind-Power Turbines Make Headway 161 comments Apr 16, 2008

989. [Favorite] The Return of Ada 335 comments Apr 15, 2008

990. Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic 296 comments Apr 15, 2008







991. Malaysian Candidates Required to Have Blogs 41 comments Apr 15, 2008

992. Distance Record Broken For a Walking Robot 78 comments Apr 12, 2008

993. Mysterious Sound Waves Can Destroy Rockets 193 comments Apr 11, 2008

994. MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic James 243 comments Apr 10, 2008

995. GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications 156 comments Apr 10, 2008

996. Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef 161 comments Apr 9, 2008

997. Scientists Discover Gene For Ruthlessness 292 comments Apr 6, 2008

998. Sweat Ducts May Act As Antenna For Lie Detection 120 comments Apr 6, 2008

999. Neuromarketers Pick the Brains of Consumers 160 comments Apr 4, 2008

1000. [>500] Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot 701 comments Mar 26, 2008









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1001. Why OldTech Keeps Kicking 337 comments Mar 26, 2008

1002. Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan 254 comments Mar 26, 2008

1003. Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing 145 comments Mar 25, 2008

1004. Columbia Holds Wake For Historic Cyclotron 72 comments Mar 25, 2008

1005. [>500] Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? 971 comments Mar 24, 2008

1006. [>500] The Wrath of the Apple Tribe 869 comments Mar 23, 2008

1007. Why Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours 371 comments Mar 22, 2008

1008. Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen 106 comments Mar 21, 2008

1009. [>500] MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access 764 comments Mar 20, 2008

1010. What's Your Favorite Monster? 245 comments Mar 17, 2008







1011. Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? 317 comments Mar 11, 2008

1012. Tenth Anniversary of First Commercial MP3 Player 166 comments Mar 10, 2008

1013. [>500] Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group 554 comments Mar 7, 2008

1014. [Favorite] Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican 333 comments Mar 5, 2008

1015. Identity Theft Rates Among Top Banks 85 comments Mar 4, 2008

1016. A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer 101 comments Mar 3, 2008

1017. Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan 78 comments Feb 26, 2008

1018. New Tools Available for Network-Centric Warfare 70 comments Feb 26, 2008

1019. [Favorite] Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? 308 comments Feb 25, 2008

1020. Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes 219 comments Feb 25, 2008







1021. Microsoft Should Acquire SAP, Not Yahoo 177 comments Feb 24, 2008

1022. Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability 92 comments Feb 24, 2008

1023. Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet 395 comments Feb 23, 2008

1024. Scientists Find Believing Can Be Seeing 167 comments Feb 21, 2008

1025. [Favorite] Identical Twins Not Identical After All 150 comments Feb 21, 2008

1026. Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages 117 comments Feb 21, 2008

1027. [>500] Obsolete Technical Skills 602 comments Feb 20, 2008

1028. Airport Security Prize Announced 376 comments Feb 20, 2008

1029. The Limits of Quantum Computing 221 comments Feb 19, 2008

1030. iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in 147 comments Feb 19, 2008







1031. Natural Selection Can Act on Human Culture 233 comments Feb 17, 2008

1032. Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading 149 comments Feb 17, 2008

1033. Google's Addiction to Cheap Electricity 248 comments Feb 16, 2008

1034. Is Microsoft just Screwing with Yahoo's Mind? 207 comments Feb 16, 2008

1035. Athletes Can Blog at Olympics - with Restrictions 181 comments Feb 16, 2008

1036. Computer Models Find Patterns In Asymmetric Threats 211 comments Feb 14, 2008

1037. Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info 238 comments Feb 12, 2008

1038. An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming 220 comments Feb 12, 2008

1039. Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China 454 comments Feb 11, 2008

1040. [Favorite] Men Willing to Give up Sex for a 50in TV 139 comments Feb 11, 2008







1041. Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope 130 comments Feb 10, 2008

1042. Robotic Telescope Installed on Antarctica Plateau 126 comments Feb 6, 2008

1043. See-Through Fish Help Cancer Research 101 comments Feb 6, 2008

1044. Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining 205 comments Feb 5, 2008

1045. Online Parent-Child Gap Widens 200 comments Feb 5, 2008

1046. Space Spotters Track Secret Satellites 110 comments Feb 5, 2008

1047. NASA Wants "People People" for Astronaut Core 86 comments Feb 4, 2008

1048. The Physics of Football 142 comments Feb 3, 2008

1049. Yahoo Bid shows Microsoft on the Ropes 396 comments Feb 2, 2008

1050. [Favorite] Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali 100 comments Feb 2, 2008







1051. AT&T's Plan to Play Internet Cop 251 comments Jan 17, 2008

1052. [>500] [>1,000] Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest 1,507 comments Jan 16, 2008

1053. What is Fair Use in the Digital Age? 190 comments Jan 16, 2008

1054. Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace 334 comments Jan 15, 2008

1055. Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? 334 comments Jan 15, 2008

1056. Air Pollution Causes Sperm Mutations In Mice 53 comments Jan 15, 2008

1057. [Favorite] Filming an Invasion Without Extras 169 comments Jan 14, 2008

1058. "Cone of Silence" Possible Say Scientists 89 comments Jan 12, 2008

1059. Evolving Blu-ray Format Will Leave Some Behind 46 comments Jan 12, 2008

1060. Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered 130 comments Jan 11, 2008







1061. Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree 125 comments Jan 11, 2008

1062. [Favorite] Google's Prediction Market 94 comments Jan 7, 2008

1063. Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets 486 comments Jan 6, 2008

1064. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? 1,224 comments Jan 4, 2008

1065. Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? 174 comments Jan 4, 2008

1066. Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs 113 comments Jan 4, 2008

1067. Stern Measures Keep NASA's Kepler Mission on Track 73 comments Jan 3, 2008

1068. [Favorite] Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation? 452 comments Jan 2, 2008

1069. New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach 129 comments Jan 1, 2008

1070. Google Products You Forgot All About 91 comments Dec 31, 2007







1071. [Favorite] The City of the Future 269 comments Dec 30, 2007

1072. The Curse of Knowledge Bogs Down Innovation 257 comments Dec 30, 2007

1073. Musicians Have Many Money Options Online, Says Talking Head 113 comments Dec 30, 2007

1074. The Death of High Fidelity 376 comments Dec 29, 2007

1075. Solar Tree Bears Fruit 105 comments Dec 29, 2007

1076. [Favorite] Domains May Disappear After Search 362 comments Dec 28, 2007

1077. Chinese Government Sued Over Dog Height Censorship 254 comments Dec 28, 2007

1078. Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope? 177 comments Dec 22, 2007

1079. People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year 159 comments Dec 21, 2007

1080. Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future 236 comments Dec 16, 2007







1081. [>500] Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg 746 comments Dec 15, 2007

1082. Eat, Drink, and be Monitored 104 comments Dec 15, 2007

1083. Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? 309 comments Dec 14, 2007

1084. [Favorite] [>500] Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? 647 comments Dec 13, 2007

1085. Can Time Slow Down? 441 comments Dec 12, 2007

1086. Electric Cars to Help Utilities Load Balance Grid 245 comments Dec 10, 2007

1087. SenseCam Aids Patients with Memory Problems 78 comments Dec 10, 2007

1088. Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients 269 comments Dec 9, 2007

1089. Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns 132 comments Dec 9, 2007

1090. Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious 129 comments Dec 9, 2007







1091. Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress 59 comments Dec 8, 2007

1092. Airlines to Offer In-Flight Internet Service 179 comments Dec 7, 2007

1093. Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media 417 comments Dec 6, 2007

1094. Academic Games Are No Fun 158 comments Dec 5, 2007

1095. The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins 166 comments Dec 4, 2007

1096. [Favorite] NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech 404 comments Dec 3, 2007

1097. Crime Wave Thwarted in Second Life 181 comments Dec 2, 2007

1098. AT&T Playing Hardball With Apple? 169 comments Dec 1, 2007

1099. Bolivian Salt Flats Aid Spacecraft Calibration 98 comments Dec 1, 2007

1100. Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs 401 comments Nov 30, 2007









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1101. [Favorite] Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches 240 comments Nov 30, 2007

1102. [>500] The Secret to Raising Smart Kids 613 comments Nov 29, 2007

1103. [Favorite] Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw 231 comments Nov 27, 2007

1104. The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America 207 comments Nov 26, 2007

1105. Mapping the Brain's Neural Network 141 comments Nov 24, 2007

1106. Thailand Bans Teen Info On the Net 136 comments Nov 24, 2007

1107. New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves 131 comments Nov 24, 2007

1108. [Favorite] The 110 Million Dollar Button 189 comments Nov 23, 2007

1109. [Favorite] How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons 136 comments Nov 23, 2007

1110. Are Aliens Living Among Us? 348 comments Nov 20, 2007







1111. Murdoch's New Internet Strategy for the WSJ 62 comments Nov 19, 2007

1112. Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet 376 comments Nov 18, 2007

1113. [Favorite] How the Inca Leapt Canyons 184 comments Nov 17, 2007

1114. US Control of Internet Remains an Issue 300 comments Nov 16, 2007

1115. New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor 322 comments Nov 15, 2007

1116. Close but no Cigar for Netflix Recommender System 113 comments Nov 14, 2007

1117. Turning E-Mail into a Social Network 93 comments Nov 14, 2007

1118. [>500] Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation 521 comments Nov 13, 2007

1119. [Favorite] The Rules of the Swarm 165 comments Nov 13, 2007

1120. Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool 220 comments Nov 12, 2007







1121. Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google 160 comments Nov 12, 2007

1122. Thought-Controlled Prosthetics 88 comments Nov 12, 2007

1123. [Favorite] Where are the Flying Cars? 360 comments Nov 10, 2007

1124. Robot Run Warehouse Speeds Deliveries 142 comments Nov 10, 2007

1125. Russian Phishers moving to China? 67 comments Nov 9, 2007

1126. Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law 229 comments Nov 8, 2007

1127. [Favorite] Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? 343 comments Nov 7, 2007

1128. Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance 229 comments Nov 7, 2007

1129. Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers 204 comments Nov 7, 2007

1130. Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again 171 comments Nov 6, 2007







1131. Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone 220 comments Nov 5, 2007

1132. The Man Behind the Google Phone 94 comments Nov 4, 2007

1133. Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years 458 comments Nov 3, 2007

1134. Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? 205 comments Nov 2, 2007

1135. Picture Passwords More Secure than Text 259 comments Nov 1, 2007

1136. [Favorite] Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds 227 comments Oct 30, 2007

1137. First Fossil Evidence that Velociraptors Hunted in Packs 169 comments Oct 30, 2007

1138. [Favorite] Wikipedia Begets Veropedia 257 comments Oct 29, 2007

1139. [>500] Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone 547 comments Oct 28, 2007

1140. [>500] Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline 614 comments Oct 23, 2007







1141. Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers 311 comments Oct 23, 2007

1142. Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes 158 comments Oct 20, 2007

1143. New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of the Crowds' 90 comments Oct 20, 2007

1144. Crashed Spacecraft Yields Data on Solar Wind 44 comments Oct 20, 2007

1145. Neuro-Reckoning May Reduce MMOG Time Lag 88 comments Oct 19, 2007

1146. [Favorite] Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans 409 comments Oct 18, 2007

1147. Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia 264 comments Oct 17, 2007

1148. Attacking Criminal Networks On the Internet 109 comments Oct 16, 2007

1149. The Dark Side of Iapetus 73 comments Oct 9, 2007

1150. Google Hopes to Disaggregate Carriers with gPhone 183 comments Oct 8, 2007







1151. Titan's Tropical Weather 102 comments Oct 2, 2007

1152. Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow? 158 comments Sep 29, 2007

1153. [>500] First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years 837 comments Sep 27, 2007

1154. Future Looks Bright for Large Scale Solar Farms 325 comments Sep 22, 2007

1155. Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World 212 comments Sep 16, 2007

1156. New Technologies Attack the One-World Problem 157 comments Sep 14, 2007

1157. New Wonder Weed to Fuel Cars? 484 comments Sep 10, 2007

1158. [Favorite] Making War On Light Pollution 435 comments Sep 8, 2007

1159. [>500] New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution 504 comments Aug 7, 2007

1160. Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem 138 comments Jul 28, 2007







1161. Humans Can Still Out-Bluff Machines 279 comments Jul 26, 2007

1162. High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage 269 comments Jul 22, 2007

1163. [>500] Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns 520 comments Jun 1, 2007

1164. [Favorite] How the Pentagon Got Its Shape 473 comments May 28, 2007

1165. [Favorite] Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln 281 comments May 18, 2007

1166. Cell Phones to Monitor Traffic Flow 87 comments Nov 19, 2005

1167. "Spim" is Latest Online Annoyance 274 comments Nov 14, 2003

1168. Gangs Extort Companies With DDoS Attacks 423 comments Nov 12, 2003

1169. Users feel Password Rage 388 comments Sep 7, 2003

1170. [>500] I, Spammer 808 comments May 22, 2003







1171. Online Newspapers Turning a Profit 257 comments Apr 20, 2003

1172. More Thoughts On How to Wire Senegal 182 comments Apr 14, 2003

1173. [>500] Forty Percent of All Email is Spam 625 comments Mar 13, 2003

1174. Peace Corps to Wire Senegal 171 comments Mar 6, 2003