Pedro Alonzo Lopez, The ‘Monster of the Andes’
Serial killers gain their notoriety in several ways. They can gain notoriety by the bizarre or brutal methods they use to single out and kill their victims, or by the sheer number of killings they carry out.
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Unequal pay isn’t just unfair, it’s illegal.
After President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act nearly 50 years ago, on average women are still paid less than their male counterparts for doing comparable jobs in the U.S. — that’s called the pay gap. It means that each time the average woman starts a new job, she’s likely to start from a lower base salary than her male counterparts.
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Besides the elderly gentleman paying in nickels, the biggest holdup at supermarket checkouts is the cashier finding an item’s barcode and properly scanning. So Toshiba has developed a faster camera-based system that recognizes the food, packaged or fresh…
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New Mars photos show amazing activity.
For such a dead planet, Mars sure has got a lot of things going on. LIke this mini tornado, as captured by camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:..
Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure.
A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure. The brains of these novelty-seeking bees exhibit distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans, researchers report…
The processors in smart phones and tablets leak radio signals that betray the encryption keys used to protect sensitive data.
Gary Kenworthy of Cryptography Research held up an iPod Touch on stage and looked over to a TV antenna three meters away at the RSA computer security conference last week. The signal picked up by the antenna, routed through an amplifier and computer software, revealed the secret key being used by an app running on the device to encrypt data. An attacker with access to this key could use it to perfectly impersonate the device he stole it from—to access e-mail on a company server, for example.
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Propranolol
The common heart disease drug, Propranolol, may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study suggests.
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Soaring rates of 2 to 5 year olds with tooth decay.
There has been “a huge increase” in little kids who need general anesthesia for dental procedures, including tooth extractions, crowns and even root canals as dentists are seeing so many preschoolers with cavities and severe tooth decay (6 to 10 cavities or more), according to a report from The New York Times.
Pedestrian airbags on the Volvo V40.
Volvo always has the safety of the vehicle’s passengers in mind when it builds some of the safest cars on the road. But now the company has added an additional airbag to its V40 that could save the life of a pedestrian.
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Tak Ball
The rules are simple : throw a ball into the goal to score a point. But what makes this game unlike any other is that all the players are armed and ready with stun guns. (Video)
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Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov uses real ants to create amazingly cool photographs in the series “Ant Tales”
A little more in back!
It’s been said that the most important lessons in life are not learned in the classroom, and perhaps in no place is that more true than in the Netherlands where the act of heading to school is itself so enriching. In an age of rising gas prices and skyrocketing cases of childhood obesity, Dutch educators have devised a wonderfully positive way to get kids to and from school — by letting them pedal there themselves on a brand new fleet of bicycle buses…
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