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“How’s that damn kid keep getting in here?”

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Rupert Murdoch on Steve Jobs. (via nikf)

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A harrowing, historic week in Egypt - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Now that’s a protest.

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And herein we find the inner workings of the mind, if not the very soul…

Neurobiologists find that weak electrical fields in the brain help neurons fire together

Ephaptic coupling leads to coordinated spiking of nearby neurons, as measured using a 12-pipette electrophysiology setup developed in the laboratory of coauthor Henry Markram. Credit: Image from Figure 4 in Anastassiou et., Nature Neuroscience, 2011

New nanoparticles make blood clots visible

A blood vessel (top) with ruptured atherosclerotic plaque, shown in yellow, is developing a blood clot. The nanoparticles, shown in blue and black, are targeted to a protein in the blood clot called fibrin, shown in light blue. A traditional CT image, bottom left, shows no difference between the blood clot and the calcium in the plaque, making it unclear whether this image shows a clot that should be treated. A spectral CT image, bottom right, “sees” the bismuth nanoparticles targeted to fibrin in green, differentiating it from calcium, still shown in white, in the plaque. Credit: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. Reproduced with permission.

The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks

Government Offers Talks With Protesters After Army Says It Will Not Fire

(PhysOrg.com) — Scientists at Johns Hopkins have deciphered the genetic code for a type of pancreatic cancer called neuroendocrine or islet cell tumors. The work, described online in the Jan. 20 issue of Science Express, shows that patients whose tumors have certain coding “mistakes” live twice as long as those without them.

Quadrocopters Work Together to Build, Rather Than Destroy

Pixel, the cat from “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” by Robert Heinlein

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Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Show Up as “Human Shields” to Defend Coptic Christians From Terorism

Researchers print solar cells on toilet paper, other delicate materials (w/ Video)