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A biography of the deeply creepy and corrupt Pat Robertson.
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"Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, who described himself as being from Muppet Labs, extolled the family-oriented programs. The most important thing they could show, he said, was "that science can be as explosive and violent as any TV program.""
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Sadly, the same week as DAMOP...
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"[W]hat would happen in the (quite unrealistic) case that tiny black holes were created at the LHC, and that they did not decay by the emission of Hawking radiation?"
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"[E]ngineering professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a computer ranking system, that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than the AP poll of sportswriters and the ESPN/USA Today poll of coaches, formulas
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