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Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad for November

Growth of Facebook leaves MySpace in dust

Acer: We'll pass Dell 'very soon'

I have been thinking about getting one, just because they're so cheap. Just like me...

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How to Avoid Facebook and Twitter Disasters

Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up

The plumes of gas and ice shooting from the south pole of the Saturnian moon Enceladus contain sodium salts, which is the best evidence so far that the satellite harbors a liquid water ocean.

Shares of Osiris Therapeutics Inc. fell in Wednesday trading after the biotechnology company reported a stem-cell drug has failed to show improvement in patients with lung disease.

The Columbia-based company said the drug, Prochymal, met its primary goal of demonstrating safety among patients enrolled in the clinical trial.

-> someone close to me was in a double blind study through Osiris Theraputics... but turned out to only receive a placebo. The drug was specifically targeting Crohn's disease.

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Golden rule of social networking: It's not just about you

Hubble FAQ: Inside the Last Space Telescope Repair Mission

Swimming into view from 25million light years away, the Whale Galaxy

Are you wrecking your brain? Chilling pictures reveal shocking effects of alcohol, cigarettes and even caffeine on the mind

-> I can't believe the pics of the 2 year daily cannabis user, and how much of the brain was gone! I've been using at about that rate for about 4 or 5 years... I hope nothing that bad has happened to my brain. I guess it would explain why it's fucked up...

Lady Gaga 'Humbled' By Madonna Coming To Her Show

-> When are Lady Gaga and Paris going to come out with muzik 2gether????

Same-sex marriages gradually gain legal ground

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The Search for the Solar System's Lost Planet

Is Twitter evil? Researchers probing the workings of the brain have found that it takes longer for feelings of social compassion and admiration to register on our neural circuits - and they worry that the rapid-fire effect of texting and tweeting could have "potentially negative consequences" for our moral fiber.

Pacific Gas & Electric is going to great lengths--all the way to space--in its quest for renewable energy.

The California utility on Monday said that it will seek approval from regulators to purchase 200 megawatts worth of solar energy delivered from stealth space solar power company Solaren over 15 years.

First 3-D Pictures of Solar Explosions Captured

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In today's überpluralist culture, there has never been greater tension between nationalism and globalism. Economic power centers are shifting east, American cultural hegemony is passé, and recent college graduates can't wait to accept their first job overseas. Yet, much of the presidential campaign rhetoric - even from the liberal Democrat - seems intent on inciting nationalist pride and competitive aggression. While Obama and McCain talk about keeping America on top, many Americans are sounding more like Socrates: I'm not a citizen of Silicon Valley or New York, I'm a citizen of the world! This week on Big Think, we explore the next American experience, that is, living in a nation defined less by borders and more by technology, achievement, innovation, and yes, immigration. This 4th of July, join a conversation about what it really means to be a red-blooded American in this ever-shifting global landscape.

social networking websites / time

What happens when people have had myspaces for 5, 10, or 20 years!? Pretty soon, people are going to live their whole lives on the Internet, you'll be able to see them as children then as dead bodies.

This leaves the burden of accountability- if you haven't done anything monumental or relevant, all your peer group knows. In a way, it makes one "famous" although it seems like voyeurism/exhibitionism comes into play a lot, communication is simplified, and permitted to take place constantly. Sometimes I think myspace was designed to be an answering machine.

Never before have we been able to use technology to connect to one another in such a fundamental and consistent way. The internet has made us all 1, it is in and of itself, 1 digital consciousness.

I've already seen dead people's myspaces, and it's creepy. People still leave them comments! Is a myspace, ultimately designed to be nothing more than a tombstone- a slight autobiography left behind on the internet?

your space

Sometimes I think about making a new myspace. I don't know why, but for some reason myspace seems like the end all (to me) of social networking websites. Probably, it's because most of the people in my peer group tend towards having a myspace, I keep forgetting that just a few years ago, websites like that didn't even exist. All of a sudden, websites like this allow us to create whole artificial worlds for ourselves, for the times when the real world isn't stimulating enough. Being a full gown adult, even I fell victim to the seduction that was myspace, I felt genuinely connected to people, even though I know those connections were never real, thoughts and feelings I'd invented for myself.

Why do I sit and compulsively think and hence feel as though I need a myspace? Obviously, I didn't learn my lesson last time, because I just started talking hella shit on people via myspace, I guess I did it because I felt no reason to be fake. Pretending is such a waste of time, it's more effective to just be real with everyone. It streamlines socializing, which is what we're supposed to do through social networking websites, isn't it? I do feel bad, talking shit on people via myspace was not a good idea, it was very immature, and I'm sure that if I had emotions I would feel bad about it (even though I laugh about it most of the time). I wouldn't make a myspace unless I had cool shit to put on it; moreover, it feels good to know that nobody knows what I'm up to...

alt.lyfestyle.us: Social Networking Across Subculture Through Cyberspace

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