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Woman need parking fines to $ 100,000 not to pay Posted on 23-08-2013 at 22:00 by maru – 14 Comments” Thanks to a settlement with the city of Chicago do they still “only” 4.500 dollars to pay for it. ? Never your car loan to your (soon-to-be) ex-friend. That is a wise lesson that this…

Chris Brown battering Panamera of girlfriend Posted on 23-08-2013 at 23:00 by maru – 26 Comments” Surprise! R&B singer Chris Brown thought his girlfriend a fun to do with an artistic painting her Porsche Panamera. Her reaction was not as expected. Karrueche Tran was when she came home unpleasantly surprised by her sweetheart. Brown saw…

Most epic drag in the world – part 3 Posted on 24-08-2013 at 10:23 by sir_smokalot – 113 Comments” Lovers of multi-sprints, unite. Just like last year and the year before, some Americans and a ditch to the wide variety of models collected, to a acceleratiewedstrijdje. As with the previous editions, is really everything what…

Credit: kaibara87/CC BY 2.0 Scientists are typically tight-lipped when it comes to their research, but desperate times call for desperate measures. In an effort to battle the ongoing Zika epidemic, a number of global health bodies—including academic journals, charities, and institutes—have committed to sharing data on the virus. The statement, signed by over 30 organizations,…

Against my better judgment, I surrendered my credit card information to YouTube today so that I could watch the first episode of the first YouTube Red original series. It stars Pewdiepie, a Swedish man who’s become very rich and famous by playing video games on YouTube. Until today, I’d never watched one his videos. Well,…

Credit: Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland Researchers at the University of Queensland have made a cool new discovery in the quest for better condoms. It turns out a component of spinifex, a coastal grass, could make condoms much, much thinner. Thinner is better. Spinifex is common in Australia and the…

Back in the olden days, most typists were trained to use all their fingers. That’s less of a concern now, leading to all sorts of self-taught typing styles. But as a new study shows, our lack of formal training—and our resistance to using all ten fingers—doesn’t mean we’re not proficient typists. I cringe every time…

Comparison of image resolution achieved by conventional crystallography (left) and the combination method (right). Credit: Dominik Oberthuer and Kartik Ayyer, DESY. Knowing the precise structure of biological molecules is critical when it comes to real-world applications. Take drug design and development as a case in point. The goal here is to design molecules to counteract…

Somebody tried to hack into the IRS last month, but don’t worry because the tax man caught them. Nice! Hot on the heels of a very public outage that may or may not have been a hacker, the IRS sent out a press release explaining that somebody else attempted to break into their taxpayer database…

The Star Wars expanded universe is huge. Really huge. Like, you just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly huge it really is. To grasp the full extent of this hugeness, a team of data scientists used a new computer program to analyze it, revealing some unexpected things about the extended saga. A research team from…