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March 2010 – Suggest an article

  • Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse
  • Vacations for Billionaires
  • In Obesity Epidemic, What’s One Cookie?
  • Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples
  • Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says
  • Wiseguys Indicted in $25 Million Online Ticket Ring
  • Most resistance to ‘Aurora’ hack attacks futile, says report
  • Picture Happy Robber Turns Himself in

February 2010

  • The Chemist’s War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences
  • Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview
  • Transplants That Do Their Job, Then Fade Away
  • Banks Apply Pressure to Keep Fees Rolling In
  • New Approach to Generating Truly Random Numbers May Improve Internet Security, Weather Forecasts
  • Drone pilots have a front-row seat on war, from half a world away
  • Crickets Warn Young Before Birth of Dangers of Wolf Spiders
  • LEGO Robot Solves Any Rubik’s Cube In Less Than 12 Seconds
  • US school accused of web spying (additional articles)
  • Student Suspended for Facebook Page Can Sue
  • Facebook Teacher-Bashing Is Protected Speech
  • 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop
  • The Profit Calculator
  • Hardware TPM Hacked
  • A Federal Effort to Push Junk Food Out of Schools
  • Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord
  • Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe With Your Allowance)
  • Will your big-screen Super Bowl party violate copyright law?
  • State Supreme Court rules schools can search cars of students
  • Browser Versions Carry 10.5 Bits of Identifying Information on Average
  • Evolving Robots Learn To Prey On Each Other
  • Be Careful What Your Bumper Sticker Says

January 2010

  • Skydiver Felix Baumgartner seeks to break sound barrier
  • Removing Part of Skull Makes for Better Brain Scans
  • Realism in UI Design
  • If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe
  • The “Aurora” IE Exploit Used Against Google in Action
  • Channel 4 seeks terminally-ill volunteer to be mummified in TV documentary
  • Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones
  • Tubes are whisking samples across hospital

December 2009

  • New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
  • To Deal With Obsession, Some Defriend Facebook
  • Submersible glider spent months collecting data on Atlantic waters

November 2009

  • Appeasing the Gods, With Insurance
  • A Free Credit Score Followed by a Monthly Bill
  • Teens Sue High School That Punished Them for Racy MySpace Pics
  • French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality

October 2009

  • Report Questions Duncan’s Policy of Closing Failing Schools
  • Who Installs the Most Crapware?
  • Maldives leader in climate change stunt
  • Scientists Write Memories Directly Into Fly Brains
  • Fellow Inmates Ease the Pain of Dying in Jail

September 2009

  • Mainstream Press “Cringes” At Win7 Launch Parties
  • Banking Via Twitter?
  • Don’t Blame Flu Shots for All Ills, Officials Say
  • ‘09 Malibu Vs. ‘59 Bel Air Crash Test
  • Primary source for above: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety 50th Anniversary
  • Zero Gravity for Zero Dollars: Best Student Discount Ever
  • Fake Video Can Convince Witnesses to Give False Testimony
  • Exoskeletons For Rent In Japan
  • “Anonymized” data really isn’t—and here’s why not
  • Gadget Makers Can Find Thief, but Don’t Ask
  • Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance

August 2009

  • The Career Path to Pro Tennis Often Passes High School By
  • Storeowners Act in Self-Defense, but Scars Remain
  • Worldwide Slump Makes Nigeria’s Online Scammers Work That Much Harder
  • TV Contestants: Tired, Tipsy and Pushed to Brink

July 2009

  • Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds
  • Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative
  • Why We Must Ration Health Care
  • Massive Fake Quake Will Shake 6-Story Condo
  • Cats ‘exploit’ humans by purring
  • Al Lewis: Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself
  • Survey Shows Gap Between Scientists and the Public
  • Wheels: Brake Dust: A Problem That’s Not Really a Problem
  • Growing Presence in the Courtroom: Cellphone Data as Witness
  • Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport
  • We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks?

June 2009

  • Luxury Yachts Offer Pirate Hunting Cruises
  • MIT Hopes to Exorcise ‘Phantom’ Traffic Jams

May 2009

  • Texting May Be Taking a Toll
  • Netbook-Run Dice Robot Can Rack Up 1.3 Million Rolls a Day
  • Psst! Need the Answer to No. 7? Click Here.
  • Passengers, Here Are Your Bags
  • In Costa Rica, Building a Hillside Eden
  • Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants
  • NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams
  • You can go back to work, N.J. top court tells teacher after 20 years of disability leave
  • A minister’s community of squatters defies odds
  • Out of Work in Finance, They Turn to Teaching
  • Schools Chief Bans Hiring of Teachers From Outside
  • For Sale in… Nicaragua
  • Hospitals Begin to Move Into Supermarkets
  • Pay-Per-Click Web Advertisers Combat Costly Fraud
  • Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies

April 2009

  • A Blast, an Ambush and a Sprint Out of a Taliban Kill Zone
  • Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home
  • Cities Turn to Fees to Fill Budget Gaps
  • Making a Comeback: $200,000 Studios
  • In Rescue of Captain, Navy Kills 3 Pirates
  • $80,000 for a Year Off? She’ll Take It!
  • Rutgers will launch yellow submarine across ocean to collect data
  • Congratulations! You Are Nominated. It’s an Honor. (It’s a Sales Pitch.)
  • Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers
  • Chaperones to an Amphibian Dance
  • Downturn Puts New Stresses on Libraries
  • You’ve Got Voice Mail, but Do You Care?
  • As the Foreclosed Move Out, First-Time Buyers Move In
  • Baby chicks do basic arithmetic

March 2009

  • Strip-Search of Girl Tests Limit of School Policy
  • Drug-Sniffing Dogs Patrol More Schools
  • Up in Smoke: The Deposit Vanishes
  • 4-Wheel Dreams for Millions of Drivers in India
  • Putting a Price on a Title Run Stirs a Debate
  • Why does the Post Office Deliver Mail That Has No Stamp?
  • How to Cheat the Mumbai Train System
  • Despite Red Flags About Judges, a Kickback Scheme Flourished
  • A Sound Machine That Stays Alert While You’re Asleep
  • Mistrial by iPhone: Jurors’ Web Forays Are Upending Trials
  • Inspectors Head to Undersea Volcano
  • Chimp created weapons to hurl at zoo vistors
  • Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones
  • So You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector
  • For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help

February 2009

  • The Navy Has a Top-Secret Vessel It Wants to Put on Display
  • Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging
  • The 3 R’s? A Fourth Is Crucial, Too: Recess
  • The Index Funds Win Again
  • Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp
  • Justices Rule Sect Cannot Force Placing of Monument
  • That Mobile Hot Spot Now Has Four Wheels
  • Anti-terror tactics ‘weaken law’
  • For Uninsured Young Adults, Do-It-Yourself Health Care
  • Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes
  • The Body as Billboard: Your Ad Here
  • Because, Not In Spite Of
  • Student Fights Record of ‘Cyberbullying’
  • The Great California Prison Experiment
  • Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit
  • Filling in the Tax Gap
  • Snakelike Robot To Treat Soldiers During Battle
  • When Friends Aren’t Really Friends (politicians on Facebook)
  • Science Found Wanting in Nation’s Crime Labs
  • Flash Mob Steals $9 Million From ATMs

January 2009

  • American Express Kept a (Very) Watchful Eye on Charges
  • Utilities Turn Their Customers Green, With Envy
  • Israeli Entrepreneur Plans a Free Global University That Will Be Online Only
  • Please Embrace This Commercial Interruption (Do commercials make TV shows better?)
  • Earliest weapons-grade plutonium found in US dump
  • Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad
  • ‘Whopper Sacrifice’ De-Friended on Facebook (very clever marketing)
  • Jet Ditches in Hudson; All Are Said Safe
  • Art Hoax Unites Europe in Displeasure
  • Report Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown
  • The High Security Risk Attached to Obama’s Belt
  • At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
  • Wanted: Paradise island ‘caretaker’
  • Deep inside the Windows 7 Public Beta: an in-depth tour A number of students have made comments to me about the recently released Windows 7 Beta. Here’s your chance to comment. I haven’t tried the beta and I have little interest in the OS. Windows XP works very well for me.
  • ASCII Art Steganography Steganography refers to the technique of hiding information in an image file.
  • A Tactic to Cut I.C.U. Trauma: Get Patients Up
  • Experts: No such thing as free antibiotics

Prior to January 2009

  • How the City Hurts Your Brain
  • N.J. Supreme Court hears witness-intimidation case (NJ.com)
  • NJ High Court to Examine Witness Intimidation Case (Fox News)
  • For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It
  • Creature Comforts (service animals other than dogs)
  • A Highly Evolved Propensity for Deceit
  • Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV
  • El Gordo winning numbers announced (2.3 billion Euro Lottery)
  • Using Speed Cameras to Send Tickets to Your Enemies
  • Cash-strapped teacher sells ads on tests
  • Mystery on Fifth Avenue (strange custom apartment)
  • Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed
  • Monkeys Think, Moving Artificial Arm as Own (control stuff with thoughts)
  • Space scientist says texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space (absurdity of text messaging charges)
  • Police in Gun Searches Face Disbelief in Court
  • To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring
  • Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills (dedicated students)
  • What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish
  • And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw (application of the math behind the Monty Hall Problem to a psychology experiment involving monkeys)
  • Monty Hall Simulation
  • The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind
  • MIT Hacks
  • Toyger (a genetic cross between a house cat and a tiger)
  • Nerve-tapping neckband used in ‘telepathic’ chat
  • Google spotlights data center inner workings (Google stuff, including fancy uses of the map data structure (though not in Java))

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