As a political appointee, Douglas Shulman is the designated leak-plugger on the Titanic
Even as the IRS has sent out nearly 77 million tax rebates, more than 5 million retirees and disabled veterans who may qualify for a rebate haven’t received one because they haven’t filed a tax return, IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Thursday.
 

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Dragon Skin is the most amazing body armour. Even a grenade can’t go through it! Yet the Army still won’t buy it. Details after the jump.

The most complex, mind-boggling crop circle ever
The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.
 

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 “Who wants free money?”
People in Aberystwyth had an unexpected windfall when a man showered twenty thousand pounds into the air at a pedestrian crossing.

The man was heard to shout: “Who wants free money?” seconds before hurling the cash into the air in Alexandra Road. The incident caused chaos as drivers and pedestrians, some on their […]

 
 Losing weight ends up being a bizarre state of mind where the rules of physics don’t apply
Want to shed those extra pounds? Well, all you need to do is start eating a big breakfast, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by Dr Daniela Jakubowicz from Virginia Commonwealth University, found that women who eat half […]

Next Generation Gaming is Not for the Faint of Heart
Thomas Frey: Life is a game. Every day we find ourselves in the middle of the game, involving the work we do, the people we hang out with, and the social structures that surround us.
But who exactly created this game? Each day we live our […]

 
Abortion rates in the UK have skyrocketed
Pressure to make sex education compulsory in UK schools is likely to mount as latest abortion figures hovered around the 200,000 mark, with a 10 per cent rise in terminations among under-aged girls.
The official survey showed there were 198,500 abortions last year, up by nearly 30,000 in the […]

Every extra second it takes an ambulance to get to its destination can mean life or death. But how, besides driving faster, can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible, every day? It’s a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways.
 

 
You often hear and read about cameras capturing images at 100th of a second. Would it give you a jolt if you hear about a flashlight that captures light images of 80 attoseconds long.
 

 
 
 There could be a revolution brewing in billboard advertising. Instead of simply presenting a static image, why not let people interact with the advertisement?
 
 

 
Ocean Surface Topography Mission-Jason 2 sitting atop the Delta 2 rocket  
The Delta 2 rocket blasted off at 12:46 a.m. after what officials called a “remarkably smooth” countdown. Video showed the satellite separating from the rocket moments after the launch.

 
Planet Mars
 After a decade of shouting, “Follow the water!” in its exploration of Mars, NASA can finally say that one of its spacecraft has reached out, touched water ice and scooped it up.

 
 MRI Brain Scan
A British researcher claims that he has devised a way to communicate with people who, though can’t move their limbs, are consciously aware.