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January 5, 2010

New cockroach species found in New York

It seems a new type of cockroach might have been discovered in a new york apartment. Mutation, very-shy-hidden-for-ages-type, I have no idea but, according to the article:

“[Closely-related] species don’t differ [by] more than one percent, [while] this cockroach is four percent different, (…) This suggests it is a (…)
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December 29, 2009

The beginning of the Matrix? Chicken poo equals electricity.

Chicken matrix. Are we there yet? This article reports a new clean way of turning animal waste into electric power. What I understand from it? A new motivation for chicken farms not to go away any time soon.

December 7, 2009

Ancient egyptians had bad teeth

I don’t know about you, but they just destroyed a bit of my fascination for ancient Egypt…

Turns out that 18% of the 3000 mummies discovered so far presented signs of really bad dental problems which, in retrospective, is something that one would expect at those times when Colgate (…)
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December 3, 2009

Reddit developers, please fix this

I previously mentioned how dumb it was for someone to have to wait 10 minutes to be able to post a comment on a different thread on Reddit, but this latest discovery is just delicious.

Just tried to post a comment on a post where the submitter clearly forgot (…)
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November 17, 2009

SWIFT transfers are monitored by US authorities (even European transfers)

I was really in shock when I went with my mother to the bank the other day: There was a small sheet of paper stating that bank transfers done via the SWIFT network are prone to have its details shared with US authorities. The network currently has two nodes (…)
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