Counter Intelligence: Aliens, ESPN and Paper Shredding
Read this and you'll look smart and have something to talk about...
Updated 8:23 AM CST, Thu, Nov 20, 2008
Read this and you'll look smart. You don't have to be intelligent to impress people -- you just have to fake it. Here's a daily list of fascinating articles that will wow your friends, surprise your co-workers and make you seem sharp at a cocktail party or over the lunch counter....
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Hours after Salon.com published a story about two Americans killed by friendly fire military officials apparently were ordered to shred boxes full of documents on the two men.
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If a quantum particle in the right circumstances rolls across a tabletop and reaches the edge it doesn't fall off -- instead, it stays on the table and rolls back.
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Scoring the Bowl Championship Series was a coup for ESPN -- but can the company justify its $500 million price tag?
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A new study suggest that an asteroid struck Mars with such great force that it could have wiped out the planet's entire magnetic field.
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A growing fashion trend in Japan is described as part Marie Antoinette and part Paris Hilton -- bringing old-style European royalty into the 21-st century.
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The military has banned disks and USB drives after a rapidly spreading worm infected its computers. The suspension poses a significant problem for the military, which heavily relies on takeaway storage since bandwidth, often scarce in the field and networks are unreliable.
First Published: Nov 20, 2008 5:27 AM CST
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