Robert Mugabe rants about the West and gays, may exclude 2 million voters (+video)

Ahead of historic Zimbabwe elections this Wednesday, the long-time dictator has not released national voting lists, and increased ugly threats.?

By a correspondent / July 29, 2013

Zimbabwean President and Zanu PF leader President Robert Mugabe addresses party supporters at his last campaign rally in Harare, Sunday, July, 28. Mugabe is set to contest against his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai in an election set for Wednesday.

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Robert Mugabe is striking out left and right with geysers of vitriol and loathing ahead of national elections Wednesday that could finally unseat him after 33-years of iron rule, and could also potentially change the dynamics of the southern region of Africa.

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Yet Mr. Mugabe is a strong man who will not go down easily, say analysts and the opposition in Zimbabwe.

As he campaigns at age 89, Mugabe is on the trail, stirring his base: Wearing lime and red colored baseball caps and sunglasses, he has said his chief opponent Morgan Tsvangirai will soon resemble a dead dog, that the West and its imperialist leaders must reconcile with him, and that homosexuals are ?filth? that should be beheaded.

It?s part of Mugabe?s standard pyrotechnics, seen before, and designed to further swing a vote that may already be rigged. ?

Tsvangirai, a former trade union leader who is currently prime minister in a coalition government, is winning handily in opinion polls. But he and other opposition candidates point out that Mugabe controls the election commission and its lists of voters, which have not been revised since bloody elections in 2008. ?

As Africa specialist Robert Rotberg points out, ?An independent analysis of the national voters? roll shows that it still contains nearly two million potential voters under 30 who are unregistered. (The national population is about 10 million.) More than a million names on the official voting lists are for people who are dead or have left Zimbabwe.??

Two days before the elections, the question may not be whether younger Zimbabweans have abandoned in wholesale fashion the dark murmurings of Mugabe. They have, the polls show. The question may be whether they will be able to exercise their franchise against a Mugabe machine that includes many powerful generals, police leaders and security chiefs, and against a leader who has stymied numerous other attempts to unseat him.?

As the Monitor reported over the weekend:?

In a somewhat chilling development for?Zimbabwe?and its people, leader?Robert Mugabe?is beginning to send mixed signals about whether he will tolerate the outcome of the elections he himself picked to be held July 31.?

Mr. Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for the past 33 years, has begun to speak openly, as he did Thursday at a political rally, about Zimbabwe needing only "one party."

At Mugabe's rally on July 23 in the city of Mutare, about 150 miles southeast of the capital?Harare, he ridiculed his main opponent,?Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, in terms that set off fears that Mugabe will not hand over power even if he loses the elections. The polls are now favoring Mr. Tsvangirai, a former trade union leader who now sits in an unequal "coalition" government with the long time ruler. Mugabe is now 89.?

In Mutare, in front of thousands of supporters, Mugabe said his rival Tsvangirai was ?a coward like my Uncle Shoniwa?s dog, Sekahurema, which used to run away from game when we were hunting." Mugabe went on to say, "That stupid dog died without killing a single prey, and the same will happen to Tsvangirai."

Mugabe leads the?Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front?(ZANU PF), against Tsvangirai?s younger Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).?

To the outside world this might appear to be the rhetoric of any current hard fought contest. But many Zimbabweans read the statements by Mugabe ? and those recently of his security chiefs ? as new hints that they might not cede power to Tsvangirai and his organization in the event of a loss.?

Top army, police, and spy personnel have, in the run-up to the elections, openly supported Mugabe's candidacy, and a number of them have campaigned for the veteran leader.

A senior intelligence official revealed to a reporter recently that some security groups wanted to ?block Tsvangirai by any means necessary, because he is an agent of the West and wants to reverse the gains of our independence."?

These ?gains of independence? were in reference to large farms violently taken from whites in the last decades, and to the "indigenization" policies that require foreign-owned companies to cede 51 percent of their companies to local persons or firms.

Mugabe's party, ZANU PF, is using the same themes on the campaign trail. The party is handing out tens of thousands of T-shirts at rallies emblazoned with the words, "Indigenize, Empower, Develop and Create Employment.?

While these policies are advertised as benefiting the majority black population, it is a fairly open secret that Mugabe?s compatriots and partners have instead taken the lion's share of benefits from "land reform" and "indigenization."

Mugabe?s ministers, top Army, and police chiefs, are now believed to be among the richest in the region, benefiting mainly from the sale of diamond deposits in the Marange region. Their holdings include businesses, farms, safari firms, large houses, and cars.?

Three companies in particular with close ties to Mugabe ? Anjin, Mbada Diamonds, and Marange Resources ? also have solid links to the Army.

Speaking to the?BBC?in London three months ago, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa confirmed the Army will wait on their wings to wrestle power from Tsvangirai if he wins.

As Mr. Chinamasa put it: ?Now if anyone is going to say, ?When I come into power I?m going to reverse that,? they [the military] have every right to say, ?Please, you are asking for trouble.? You will be asking for trouble.??

Chinamasa continued on this line in the BBC interview: ?He [Tsvangirai] will be asking for trouble [if he] seeks to reverse the land reform program. There is no one who is going to accept any enslavement."

Later, Zimbabwe's top justice official seemed to imply that other countries were making it possible for Mugabe to lose: "And if those countries impose for him [Tsvangirai] to win, that result will not be acceptable. We will not accept it. We will just not accept it. Isn?t that clear??

The Institute of Security Studies, based in Pretoria,?South Africa, claims that Zimbabwe?s military commanders are wealthier than those from South Africa ? ?which has the most robust economy in?Africa.

The opposition party's organizing secretary, Nelson Chamisa, says that while he is aware of rumors and plans to seize power by force, his MDC party is confident that the police and Army will respect the constitution.

?It is something we have heard for a long time, but as a party we believe people will follow the constitution. Leaders are delivered by the people and that must be respected. The people of Zimbabwe want change and come the 6th of August we are ready to govern,? says Mr. Chamisa, referring to the date of an ostensible handover, should Tsvangirai win.?

Unlike in the past where campaigning in Zimbabwe took place strictly through gatherings and political rallies, the current campaign landscape has greatly changed. A more independent press, particularly in print, includes more than 10 newspapers. A private television station was established in neighboring South Africa two weeks ago for the first time since independence, although most Zimbabweans still receive their news from state-run channels.

The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) ? a state broadcaster ? enjoys a monopoly within Zimbabwe and mostly airs Mugabe?s rhetoric and positions.

Yet the biggest unexpected impact as elections approach in a country of 13 million, comes from social media,?where a fictional Facebook character called Baba Jukwa has taken the country by storm. Baba Jukwa, whose page sports the cartoon image of a small, elderly man, has been pumping out material on the indiscretions and inside politics among ZANU PF bigwigs in Harare to great attention.?

Since joining Facebook in March, "Baba Jukwa" has collected nearly 300,000 followers.?

Baba Jukwa, or the writer behind him, claims to be a former member of Mugabe?s ZANU PF party, and says he (or she) is a ?Concerned father, fighting nepotism and directly linking community with their Leaders, Government, MPs and Ministers.?

ZANU PF minister Saviour Kasukuwere last month admitted to the local media that Baba's posts ?had greatly affected his family? after Baba Jukwa accused him of carrying out assassinations on political opponents. Mugabe has allegedly put $300,000 on the head of Baba Jukwa for revealing state secrets.

Commentator Takura Zhangazha argues the popularity of foreign-based radio and television stations during the current campaign owes to the ?lack of opportunities? in the media industry in Zimbabwe, pointing out that they "have not been democratized."?

The Monitor?s correspondent in Harare cannot be named for security reasons.

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Cold French winter shores up EDFs' H1 profit

PARIS (AP) ? France's state controlled nuclear power giant EDF says its net profit rose 3.5 percent in the first half as a result of a cold winter and high electricity prices.

The company, which runs all France's 58 nuclear power plants and has a stake in one of the U.S.'s biggest nuclear power companies, made 2.88 billion euros ($3.8 billion) during the period, up from 2.78 billion euros a year earlier.

Profits were driven mainly by its home market, though earnings were solid in Italy and Britain too. EDF owns British Energy, Britain's largest electricity producer. In Italy it owns Edison, the country's second largest electricity producer.

EDF says operating profit should rise "at least" 3 percent this year on an organic basis, excluding Edison, down from 4.6 percent achieved last year.

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Massive explosions rock central Fla. gas plant

Firefighters stand by near the scene of an explosion at a propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Firefighters stand by near the scene of an explosion at a propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Fire crews pour water on a fire after an explosion at the Blue Rhino propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Law enforcement officers arrive at a command post near the site of an explosion at a propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Fire crews pour water on a fire after an explosion at the Blue Rhino propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Fire crews pour water on a fire after an explosion at a propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday that there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. Seven people were injured and transported to local hospitals. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

TAVARES, Fla. (AP) ? A series of explosions rocked a central Florida propane gas plant and sent "boom after boom after boom" through the neighborhood around it. Several people were injured, with at least three critically injured.

All the workers at the plant were accounted for early Tuesday after officials initially could not account for more than a dozen employees.

John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night.

"Management is comfortable saying all of those they knew were there tonight have been accounted for," he said.

One person injured in the explosion was listed in critical condition at University of Florida Health Shands Hospital. Two others were listed in critical condition at Orlando Regional Medical Center and a spokeswoman there said a third patient was en route, also listed as critical.

Herrell said some others drove themselves to area hospitals.

The Blue Rhino plant, which is northwest of Orlando, refilled propane tanks typically used for barbecues and other uses.

Herrell said a crew of 24 to 26 people was working at the plant on an overnight shift when the explosions occurred around 11 p.m.

Video footage on WESH-TV in Orlando showed fires burning through trucks used to transport propane tanks, which were parked at the plant. The fire was sending plumes of smoke into the air hours after the blast. Emergency crews could also be seen massing nearby.

Herrell said an evacuation zone was initially a one-mile radius but had been reduced to a half-mile radius. No injuries have been reported from residents in the neighborhood and residents were later allowed to return to their homes.

Marni Whitehead, 33, who lives less than a mile from the plant, said she was in bed ready to go to sleep when she heard a loud boom.

"It was like a car had run into my house, is what I thought had happened," she said.

She ran outside and saw other neighbors outside and then they saw the explosions.

"We knew right away it was the plant, the propane plant," Whitehead said. "After that, it was just sort of panic."

Whitehead likened the explosions to Fourth of July fireworks. "And it was just boom after boom after boom," she said.

Herrell said officials believe the fire was contained and wouldn't spread to another part of the plant but they could not guarantee that.

Herrell said the plant usually has 53,000 20-pound propane tanks.

According to the Leesburg Daily Commercial, the plant was built in 2004 and employs fewer than 50 people.

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Mexico Earthquake Today 2013: 5.4 Terremoto Strikes In Early Morning

LOS ANGELES (LALATE) ? A Mexico earthquake today 2013 has just struck the country. The Mexico earthquake today, a terremoto hoy registering 5.4 magnitude, is one of the strongest temblors to hit the country this month. Officials tell news that the quake today July 30, 2013 began moments ago.

USGS indicates to news that a Mexico earthquake today began in the morning hours near Nueva Palestina. The quake registered a 5.4 magntiude. But it was deep. Officials tell news that the quake started seventy-three miles below ground level. As a result the quake was only felt around the immediate region.

The Nueva Palestina quake started eleven miles west of town. It was twenty-three miles north of Mapastepec and forty-six miles south of Venustiano Carranza. Reps also tell news that the quake was 178 miles west of Guatemala City in Guatemala.

A similar magnitude quake struck the country in December last year. USGS indicated to news at the time that the Mexico earthquake began seventy-nine miles east of La Paz in Baja. The quake was ninety-nine miles west of the Sinaloa city of Navolato. The quake was also ninety-three miles southwest of Guasave and roughly seven hundred miles from Mexico City.

In June, a 3.1 magnitude quake struck the same region. The quake was centered forty-miles from Guadalupe Victoria in Baja California. The quake was forty-one miles southwest of Mexicali, as well. USGS indicated to news that the quake was only forty-two miles from Calexico and eighty miles from Tijuana.

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Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and Ineffective

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Isolating inmates inflicts permanent mental harm. The practice must be curbed

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Some 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, according to the latest available census. The practice has grown with seemingly little thought to how isolation affects a person's psyche. But new research suggests that solitary confinement creates more violence both inside and outside prison walls.

Prisoners in solitary confinement?also known as administrative segregation?spend 22 to 24 hours a day in small, featureless cells. Contact with other humans is practically nonexistent. Because solitary confinement widely occurs at the discretion of prison administration, many inmates spend years, even decades, cut off from any real social interaction. More than 500 of the prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in California, for example, have been in isolation units for over a decade, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

You might assume all inmates sent to solitary are the ?worst of the worst??rapists and murderers who continue their violent ways even behind bars. But in fact, many are placed in solitary for nonviolent offenses, and some are not even criminals, having been arrested on immigration charges. Others are thrown into isolation cells ?for their own protection? because they are homosexual or transgendered or have been raped by other inmates.

Whatever the reasons, such extreme isolation and sensory deprivation can take a severe, sometimes permanent, toll on emotional and mental health. Researchers have found that prisoners in solitary quickly become withdrawn, hypersensitive to sights and sounds, paranoid, and more prone to violence and hallucinations. Craig Haney, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has documented several cases of individuals with no prior history of mental illness who nonetheless developed paranoid psychosis requiring medical treatment after prolonged solitary confinement. As damaging as the consequences are for otherwise healthy adults, they are even worse for adolescents, whose brains are still in their final stages of development, and the mentally ill, who already struggle to maintain a solid grasp on reality. About half of all prison suicides occur in isolation cells.

The U.S. justice system once understood that long stretches in solitary served no good purpose. In 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the pernicious nature of solitary confinement in the case of a man who had murdered his wife. In their decision, the justices noted that ?a considerable number of the prisoners fell, after even a short confinement, into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others still committed suicide, while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed, and in most cases did not recover sufficient mental activity to be of any subsequent service to the community.?

Nearly a century later this wisdom was all but lost. The use of solitary grew in the 1980s after white supremacists murdered two prison guards in the federal penitentiary at Marion, Ill. Officials responded by placing the entire facility on permanent lockdown. What started out as a stop-gap measure to address prison violence soon became institutionalized; so-called supermax prisons were built that encased all inmates in solitary cells whose only window was often just the slot for food found in the steel door.

Yet strangely, no one knows if segregating prisoners reduces violence. Indeed, evidence suggests that the opposite is true. After the state of Mississippi reduced the number of prisoners in solitary confinement at its Parchman facility and developed new units for prisoners with mental illness, the number of violent attacks plummeted from a high of 45 in March 2006 to five in January 2008. (Mississippi also saved more than $5 million.) A 2007 study of Washington State's prison population found that 69 percent of those who were released directly to the community from solitary?a dishearteningly regular practice?committed new crimes that landed them back in jail within three years, compared with 46 percent of those who had been allowed to readjust to the general prison population before release.

Solitary confinement is not only cruel, it is counterproductive. The U.S. should reclaim the wisdom it once held and dramatically limit the practice.

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Is one of the Burgas terror suspects actively using Facebook?

Hezbollah operatives Meliad Farah, left; and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, right.

On July 25, Bulgarian authorities released the names and photos of two Hezbollah operatives, Hassan el Hajj Hassan and Meliad Farah, who are wanted in connection with the July 2012 terror attack in Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian national. Subsequent press reports have made a few new claims regarding the suspects, whose names were known to investigators since at least February, such as that the suspects received $100,000 in money transfers from Hezbollah and that they smuggled parts of the bomb on a train from Poland.

Yet an interesting detail about the elder suspect appears to have gone relatively unnoticed. Farah, an Australian national who is believed to have built the bomb in Bulgaria, may still be active on Facebook as authorities search for him.

One Facebook account possibly attributable to Farah states that the user studied at the Lebanese International University (LIU) and lives in Australia. According to press reports, the printer utilized to create the forged licenses carried by the Hezbollah cell responsible for the Burgas terror attack was based at LIU, where the suspects are said to have studied engineering.

The user of this account, who has 'liked' an array of celebrities and athletes, including Usher and David Beckham, appears to have used online chat services, such as Tohla and Omegle, among others. The user of the account was also involved in online poker via Facebook.

Interestingly, none of the publicly available photos linked to the account provides a match to the photo released by Bulgarian authorities. In fact, the user has used photos of Turkish actor Necati ?a?maz and Iranian actor Mostafa Zamani as profile pictures. A photo of Zamani is currently adopted as the user's profile picture.

The last public activity for this account, which has 62 friends, was today, July 29, when the user became friends with a few women based in Bulgaria, including at least one in Burgas.

A second account potentially tied to the wanted Meliad Farah shares a few Facebook friends with the first account. In addition, the account, which says Farah is married, lists his hometown and current location as Sydney, Australia.

Coincidentally, the second account, which currently has 65 friends and 'liked' a page about the AK-47, has uploaded a few of the same photos used by the first Meliad Farah account.

The user also appears to have played online poker via Facebook similar to the first account. In addition, the second account 'liked' a number of the same pages as the first account. The second account 'liked' nearly twice as many pages as did the first suspect account, however, including one honoring former Hezbollah spiritual guide Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.

Also, while the first account used a photo of Iranian actor Mostafa Zamani as its profile picture, the second account appears to use a photo of the aforementioned Necati ?a?maz.

Of further note is the fact that the second account, which was used as recently as July 26, became friends lately with a number of women in Bulgaria, at least one of whom is also friend of the first account. It is also eye-catching that a couple of the friends of the second account have hardcore Hezbollah material on their own Facebook accounts.

Finally, a third account potentially tied to Farah, who allegedly returned to Lebanon a day before the attack in Burgas, was started on June 12, 2012. Within a day of starting the account, the user changed its profile picture to an image seen on a number of websites and videos sympathetic to Hezbollah.

This account appears to have taken greater steps to limit how much of the profile can be viewed by the public, so not much else can be gleaned.

While it is currently close to impossible to definitively say that any of these accounts are tied to the Meliad Farah wanted in connection with the Burgas terror attack, there are lots of coincidences.

Almost too many.

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How supercomputers solve giant problems

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China's Tianhe-2 is currently the world's fastest supercomputer, reaching 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

Today's supercomputers are marvels of computational power, and they are being used to tackle some of the world's biggest scientific problems.

Current models are tens of thousands of times faster than the average desktop computer. They achieve these lightning-fast speeds via parallel processing, in which many computer processors perform computations simultaneously. Supercomputers are used for everything from forecasting weather to modeling the human brain.

What sets supercomputers apart is the size and difficulty of the tasks they can tackle and solve, said Jack Wells, director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

[9 Super-Cool Uses for Supercomputers]

"Supercomputers can do supersize problems," Wells said.

Supercomputers are often built from the same components as regular computers, but they're integrated so they can work together, Wells told LiveScience.

The first supercomputers were developed in the 1960s, designed by electrical engineer Seymour Cray of Control Data Corporation (CDC). In 1964, the company released the CDC 6600, often considered to be the world's first supercomputer. Cray later formed his own company, which made the Cray-1 in 1976 and Cray-2 in 1985.

These early supercomputers had only a few processors, but by the 1990s, the United States and Japan were making ones with thousands of processors. Fujitsu's Numerical Wind Tunnel became the fastest supercomputer in 1994 with 166 processors, followed by the Hitachi SR2201, in 1996, with more than 2,000 processors. The Intel Paragon edged into the lead in 1993. As of June 2013, China's Tianhe-2 was the world's fastest supercomputer.

Supercomputer performance is measured in "flops," short for floating-point operations per second. Today's machines can achieve speeds in petaflops ? quadrillions of flops.

The TOP500 is a ranking of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. China?s Tianhe-2 achieves 33.86 petaflops, while the Cray Titan reaches 17.59 petaflops, and IBM's Sequoia ranks third at 17.17 petaflops.

Solving supersize problems
Researchers have harnessed the number-crunching power of supercomputers to work on complex problems in fields ranging from astrophysics to neuroscience.

These computational behemoths have been used to answer questions about the creation of the universe during the Big Bang. Researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) simulated how the first galaxies formed, and scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., simulated the birth of stars. Using computers like IBM's Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicists have probed the mysteries of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 25 percent of the mass of the universe.

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Weather forecasting is another area that relies heavily on supercomputing. For example, forecasters used the TACC supercomputer Ranger to determine the path of Hurricane Ike in 2008, improving the five-day hurricane forecast by 15 percent. Climate scientists use supercomputers to model global climate change, a challenging task involving hundreds of variables.

Testing nuclear weapons has been banned in the United States since 1992, but supercomputer simulations ensure that the nation's nukes remain safe and functional. IBM's Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is designed to replace testing of nuclear explosions with improved simulations.

Increasingly, neuroscientists have turned their attention to the daunting task of modeling the human brain. The Blue Brain project at the ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in Switzerland, led by Henry Markram, aims to create a complete, virtual human brain. The project scientists are using an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate the molecular structures of real mammalian brains. In 2006, Blue Brain successfully simulated a complete column of neurons in the rat brain.

Sharing the load
The quintessential supercomputer typically consists of large datacenters filled with many machines that are physically linked together. But distributed computing could also be considered a form of supercomputing; it consists of many individual computers connected by a network (such as the Internet) that devote some portion of their processing power to a large problem.

A well-known example is the SETI@home (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home) project, in which millions of people run a program on their computers that looks for signs of intelligent life in radio signals. Another is "Folding at home," a project to predict the 3D structure of proteins ? the biological workhorses that perform vital tasks in our bodies ? from the sequence of molecular chains from which they're made.

In the future, supercomputers will edge toward "exascale" capabilities ? about 50 times faster than current systems, Wells said. This will require greater energy, so energy efficiency will likely become an important goal of future systems. Another trend will be integrating large amounts of data for applications like discovering new materials and biotechnologies, Wells said.

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Analysis: Who's backing who as Syria's civil war threatens to spread

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A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.

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By Mandy Clark and Paul Nassar, NBC News

News analysis

Syria?s two-year civil war has claimed more than?100,000 lives and sent at least 1.7 million refugees spilling across its borders.

It has already affected neighboring countries, and now threatens to drag in the United States.

What began as a popular movement, demanding the removal of autocratic President Bashar Assad, has become an increasingly sectarian conflict.

About three-quarters of Syria's Muslims are from the Sunni sect. However, the Assad dynasty, which has ruled the country since 1970, is from the minority Alawite sect which is close to Shiite Islam.?

The sectarian divide is important because it lies at the root of instability not only within Syria but also in Iraq and other pockets of the Middle East.

ASSAD?S FRIENDS

Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran - a Shiite Muslim regional power - is a staunch ally of the Assad government and has been providing arms, military training and cash. If Assad falls, Iran will be deeply wounded.?

Defense think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) sees the Syria conflict as part of a regional power struggle.

?It is increasingly clear that the world is confronting a crisis that extends far beyond Syria, threatening to deteriorate into a regional conflict,? a recent briefing paper outlined. ?Now part civil, part proxy, it has also become a great power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.??

Iraq
After American troops toppled Sunni Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq?s Shiite majority became dominant. With this shift came regional alliances with Shiite countries including Iran and Syria.

NBC's chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, joins The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to talk about Iraq's civil war.

Iraq provides a helping hand to the Assad regime by allowing Iranian arms and fighters to cross into Syria from Iraq, according to Secretary of State John Kerry. It also allows vital resupply flights from Iran to cross its airspace.

But this support is not without its costs: Violence is slipping across the border into Iraq and inflaming existing tensions.?Deadly attacks are growing in Iraq, with the number of deaths due to violence back up at 2008 levels.?

RUSI warns that if the Syria conflict continues, ?the most important casualty of war is potentially Iraq.??

Russia
Russia is the Syrian government?s most powerful foreign backer and has stuck its neck out to support Assad?s crackdown.

It is helping the regime with weapons and even supports the growing involvement of Lebanese militia, Hezbollah.?It is also reportedly helping Syria?s elite get around international financial sanctions, and has been protecting the regime from U.N. sanctions by using its veto power?in the Security Council.

One theory for why Russia has been so resolute in its backing of Damascus is to ensure continued control of its only Mediterranean naval base, which is in the Syrian port of Tartus.

Russia has also invoked the specter of Islamic extremism in Syria, saying that Alawite Assad is fighting Sunni Muslim radicals. ?

ASSAD?S FOES

Saudi Arabia
The kingdom is the Syria opposition?s main backer, along with smaller Gulf state of Qatar, and has been sending billions in humanitarian aid and weapons to Syrian rebels.

It is providing advanced weaponry, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles that it hopes will tip the balance for the rebels. ?

It is a follower of the strict Wahabi branch of Sunni Islam.?In backing anti-Assad forces, Saudi Arabia is challenging its main regional foe, Shiite Iran.?Some experts believe the Sunni-Shiite divisions are being exaggerated for political reasons.

?Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been willing to use sectarian language to make the Syrian conflict seem like a widespread attack on the Sunni population,? according to Chris Phillips, a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. ?It?s part of a regional cold war with Iran on the battlefield of Syria.?

Qatar
The small kingdom may exist in the shadow of neighbor Saudi Arabia, but it has big money and ambitions. It has been backing the rebels with humanitarian aid as well as arms, and is has been seeking a more prominent role in the region, offering to host peace talks in its capital, Doha.?

Like Saudi Arabia, it is a follower of the strict Wahabi branch of Sunni Islam.

United States
While the American government has supported anti-Assad forces with non-lethal assistance such as training, body armor, communications equipment and food aid, it has deep misgivings over whether to become more involved in the conflict.

Still smarting from unpopular interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. faces fears that deeper engagement in Syria will embroil it in yet another hard-to-exit regional conflict. There are also widespread concerns that American weapons will fall into the hands of radical al Qaeda-linked groups fighting with the rebels.

?Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next,? Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a letter to Congress. ?Deeper involvement is hard to avoid.?

Until June, the administration was opposed to providing any lethal assistance to Syria's rebels, but in June it said it was moving ahead with sending weapons to vetted members of the opposition.?

Turkey
Formerly a close friend of Syria, Turkey?s moderate Islamist government has become a supporter of the rebels and supplying them with arms, security sources and diplomats say, according to Reuters.?Officials also look the other way as rebels use the long and porous border as a resupply route.?

At Turkey?s request, NATO has installed Patriot missile defenses on the border to protect it from spillover from the war in Syria. The move was aimed at calming Turkey's fears that it could come under attack from Syria.

Turkey also houses 500,000 Syrians in towns and relatively well-equipped refugee camps on the long border with Syria. There is growing anger in Turkey against the newcomers, though, especially after a bombing in the border town of Reyhanli killed more than 50 people.

France
France, the former colonial power in Syria, was the first Western power to join the anti-Assad camp and has been pushing for a more committed international effort to help the rebels. ??

It is increasingly concerned that Syrian rebels are losing ground and has suggested it will boost shipments of technical, medical and humanitarian aid to the rebels, but declined request for weapons and ammunition.

CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

Lebanon
Schisms in Syria are mirrored in its tiny neighbor Lebanon, which is a mosaic of religious communities, each with their own allegiances.

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Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hezbollah members attend the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter who died in the Syrian conflict in Ouzai in Beirut in May.

Christian and Sunni Muslim communities strongly oppose Assad?s regime, remembering the oppression of the 30-year Syrian occupation of Lebanon.

On the other side is Hezbollah. Of all the regional players, the powerful Shiite militia that controls much of Lebanon - and forms part of the government - may have the most at stake in the civil war.?Should Assad fall, the military wing of Hezbollah will find it very hard to resupply arms.

It is for this reason that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has decided to publicly throw his weight behind the Assad regime. Hezbollah fighters have great experience in guerilla warfare thanks to more than 30 years of confrontation with Israel.

Hezbollah's entry into the Syrian civil war has worsened the already tense relationships between Lebanon?s various religious communities, making it more likely that it will slip back into civil war itself.

Jordan
The estimated 540,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan are a huge strain on the ailing economy. Meanwhile, King Abdullah?s government is struggling not to get too embroiled in the Syrian civil war, and stresses that that it wants a political solution.

Reuters

An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp for Syrians in Jordan.

Nevertheless, Jordan allows American troops to train Syrian rebels on its territory and F-16 jets are positioned there.?

There are widespread fears in Jordan that Assad will deploy ?sleeper? terrorist cells to destabilize the country if it openly backs the rebels.?A Jordanian official recently told NBC News that officials there believe such an attack is inevitable.

Hamas: The Palestinians
The militant Sunni Palestinian group that governs Gaza used to have an important base in Syria?s capital Damascus, where it was both hosted by, and held hostage to, the whims of the Assad regime.

Hamas withdrew in 2011 after receiving support from Islamist movements sparked by the Arab Spring, and is now supporting Assad?s enemies. Palestinians in Syria are paying the price for the betrayal of their former host and patron, and have been driven out or targeted by bombings. Over 235,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria have been displaced, and more than 80,000 are now refugees again in neighboring countries, according to the U.N.

Israel
Although Syria and Israel are officially still at war, the relationship between the two has been relatively stable.?

One of Israel?s main worries is that Islamist militants will enter Israel through the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.?While worrying that the Golan could become a springboard for attacks by militants among the rebels battling Assad, Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to be drawn into the fighting.?

"We are not seeking to challenge anyone, but no one will harm the State of Israel without a response -- a strong and resolute response," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told soldiers who took part in a Golani infantry brigade exercise in June.

Israel is believed to have carried out three bomb strikes this year in Syria targeting Hezbollah weapons caches but refuses to confirm or deny whether it was responsible.?

IN CONCLUSION

Although the civil war is centered on Syria, it is?risks inflaming unrest across the Middle East.??The whole region could face a sustained period of violence,? University of London's Chris Phillips added.

NBC News' F. Brinley Bruton contributed to this report.

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Sunday's Brickyard 400 a run for redemption for Ryan Newman, others - NASCAR News | FOX Sports on MSN

Updated?Jul 27, 2013 11:58 PM ET

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INDIANAPOLIS

For a variety of reasons, three of the top four drivers in the Brickyard 400 ? Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin ? are seeking redemption runs.

Newman ? an Indiana native and Sunday?s Indianapolis Motor Speedway pole sitter ? hopes to parlay a record-breaking qualifying lap of 187.531 mph and a solid Sunday result into a ride in 2014.

Two weeks ago at New Hampshire, his current boss, Tony Stewart, made it official that Newman, his driver and teammate for the past five years, would not have his contract renewed.

?No hard feelings,? Newman insisted Saturday. ?They made a move ? and that makes me move ? and there?s no hard feelings. I don?t know what I?m going to do. Obviously, this is a good step in publicity for me on the positive side, so we?ll see what we can do tomorrow [Sunday].

?We?ve got to focus on getting our Quicken Loans Chevrolet fast for tomorrow [Sunday] and still making the Chase.?

Newman is 19th in the standings, 36 points out of the Chase but still in the wild-card standings. Certainly, the last two seasons have not been the best for the 35-year-old driver.

In 2012, he missed the Chase for the second time in three years and scored just one victory (Martinsville). In the second half of the season, Newman experienced four crashes in the final 17 races. Although Stewart brought back his fellow Hoosier for 2013, it was just a one-year deal.

Newman, who qualified last Saturday, laughed when a reporter asked whether Stewart offered advice before his run.

?None,? Newman said. ?We don?t give each other advice. We talk about our race cars and where we?re at and what we?re doing and what are balances are, but there?s really no advice that two experienced drivers can offer each other. We have enough experience ... about what we need to do inside the race car.

?You can give advice as much as you want, but he?s not sitting in my seat, he?s not pushing my pedals. It?s not as simple as it sounds, just the word advice.?

Edwards was not looking for advice on Saturday ? just a cloud to cool the track before his qualifying run. And the driver of the No. 99 Ford lucked out. Though he didn?t duplicate or improve on his second-place qualifying effort from last year, Edwards? lap of 187.157 mph was strong enough to start third in his eighth Indy appearance.

Last year, Edwards lost his long-time crew chief Bob Osborne to a medical issue the week before Indy. By the time the Cup tour arrived here, Edwards had a new crew chief in Chad Norris, was outside of the top 10 without a win, and the heat was on.

?I thought we had a chance to win it, then a plugwire came loose,? Edwards said of last year?s run. ?I?ve been waiting a year to be able to redo this, and now we get to. Last year was a different type of pressure. Now I just want to kiss those bricks and get a trophy. That?s a fun kind of pressure to have.?

Now that Edwards has been aligned with crew chief Jimmy Fennig, he has something different driving him ? winning a race for the veteran leader.

?There?s only one race on the schedule that Jimmy said, ?Hey, I want to win this thing,? Edwards said. ?It?s this race. He?s never won it. He?s won Daytona 500s and just about every other race, but he hasn?t won this one. This is prestigious. That would be big.?

Roush Fenway Racing has yet to win at the Brickyard. The last Ford to celebrate at the track was Dale Jarrett with Robert Yates Racing in 1999.

For Edwards, the top Ford entry in Sprint Cup this season, Sunday?s challenge will be trying to end Chevrolet?s run of 10 consecutive victories. Not only will Edwards have to battle through Newman to accomplish that task, but also four-time Indy victor Jimmie Johnson, who rolls off second.

Hamlin, who won the pole at the 2012 Brickyard 400, was disappointed that he qualified fourth Saturday. He acknowledged his car had speed, but he ?messed it up in the final couple of corners.?

Still, Hamlin is accustomed to being a championship contender. And although Toyota has yet to win a Cup race at the Brickyard, the way Hamlin?s season has transpired, the driver of the No. 11 Camry would settle for a solid finish.

Hamlin posted two top fives in May but hasn?t shown consistency since a violent wreck sidelined the Joe Gibbs Racing driver in March.

?We haven?t had a good run in a couple of months, really,? said Hamlin, who finished eighth at Pocono ? his only top 20 in the last seven races. ?It?s been tough to seeing checkered flags and actually finishing these races. We have to do everything we can to have a solid day and no mistakes. Even when we?ve had good runs going, we made a lot of mistakes.

?Honestly, we need 400 miles here mistake-free to see the checkered flag and leave with a good finish.?

DON?T FEEL SORRY FOR JIMMIE JOHNSON

After rolling off 11th, Jimmie Johnson blistered the IMS Sprint Cup track record with a lap of 187.438 mph.

Then he waited. He took care of his media duties. He chatted with other drivers who qualified after him. And he paced back and forth from the pit road wall to watch the TV monitors as several contenders threatened to take the pole.

But it wasn?t until the 45th and final driver, Ryan Newman, bounced the four-time Indianapolis Motor Speedway winner from the pole by 0.024 seconds that Johnson relinquished his post.

With Newman using an engine and chassis from Hendrick Motorsports, Johnson knew the Stewart-Haas racer would be a threat. The possibility became real when Stewart nearly unseated him six cars earlier. But it didn?t ?cross (his) mind from a teammate standpoint or equipment side? what was about to go down.

?Ryan is so good at qualifying, that I knew he was going to be a bullet ? a tough bullet to dodge,? Johnson said. And when the 14 (Stewart) posted his time, I?m like, ?This is going to be a tough final car to deal with.?

?There have been times where, especially the year Tony won the championship and when we we?re getting outrun by our equipment week in and week out, that?s a hard pill to swallow. We went through some tough times there and figured out how to make our equipment better and catch up ? I should say figure out how to catch up with our own equipment.?

Considering that all four Hendrick Motorsports cars are ahead of the SHR teams in the standings, it?s clear the organization?s effort has paid off.

LOOKING OR A DARKHORSE?

Paul Menard won the Brickyard 400 two years ago, so it might be hard to think of him as an underdog at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Menard will start 23rd Sunday. Prior to the 2011 victory, the Richard Childress Racing driver?s best effort in a stock car at the track was 14th the year before. But given Menard?s background at the Brickyard and his father?s history as a former IndyCar owner, the track holds a special place with his family. So it?s not surprising crew chief Slugger Labbe puts a little extra effort into this race.

?We?ve done a lot of work preparing for Indy,? Labbe said. ?The 78 (Kurt Busch) tire tested here about two months ago, and we?ve been working real hard on Indy for a while. We all have new cars. ECR (Earnhardt Childress Racing Technologies) has built a different engine package, which seems to show positive promise. We have the cars attitude-wise where we like it.

?All the cars look like they?re getting good fuel mileage, so hopefully we?ll be in the game come Sunday.?

Labbe believes Mother Nature will play a part in Sunday?s race. Temperatures in Indianapolis have been well below average this weekend.

?It?s going to be a high of about 76 ? that?s about 25 degrees cooler than we?re used to,? Labbe said. ?So hitting that is going to be key. You?ll see a lot of cars that will be hard on the splitter and the car won?t turn. But predicting the weather is a very hard part of our job in simulation, and people who can do that will run a lot better.

?We?ll make a few changes and get ready for Sunday.?

SOCIALIZING

After finishing 11th in the Indiana 250 at the Brickyard, Kyle Larson tweeted:

"Long day at Indy. Didn't have the handling right. On my way to IRP now to run the midget race."

NUMBERS GAME

8 ? Nationwide Series wins for Kyle Busch in 2013.

15 ? Different pole winners in the past 15 Brickyard 400s.

33rd ? Where the Brickyard 400 ranks performance-wise among the 36 races for Kurt Busch, who will start sixth on Sunday.

SAY WHAT?

After Kyle Busch posted a record 59th Nationwide Series victory and a record fifth win from the pole in a single season, he exclaimed over the radio, ?We will not be denied boys, not today, not today. Unleash the beast.?
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Siemens board members to discuss future management: sources

MUNICH (Reuters) - Members of Siemens' supervisory board will meet over the weekend to discuss the future composition of the German engineering group's management, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The move comes only days after Siemens abandoned its 2014 profit margin target, adding to signs that Chief Executive Peter Loescher is struggling to turn the engineering group around.

Siemens' supervisory board comprises 20 members, of whom half represent the interests of workers and the other half those of shareholders.

The two sides are due to meet separately over the weekend ahead of a joint meeting scheduled for next week Wednesday, the sources said. Siemens is scheduled to publish its fiscal third-quarter financial results on Thursday.

Siemens declined to comment on the matter.

(Reporting by Jens Hack; Writing by Maria Sheahan; Editing by Christoph Steitz)

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NSFW: Vintage Scrolls of People Farting In Ancient Japan

For those who are a little immature, here are some weird drawings of Japanese people having farting competitions.

Called ?He-gassen?, which translates to ?Fart battle?, these Edo period illustrations capture a side of Japan that is both amusing and disturbing.

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Christie, Paul highlight GOP debate over security

In this June 10, 2013 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the State House in Trenton, N.J. (Associated Pres file)

WASHINGTON?A rift over national security is developing in the early stages of the Republican Party's next presidential campaign, pitting libertarians who question government overreach against defenders of a more hawkish approach on national security formed after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

During a forum Thursday night in Aspen, Colo., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pointed to a "strain of libertarianism" coursing through both parties as a "very dangerous thought" more than a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks. Christie was asked whether he was referring to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a potential presidential candidate who has been at the forefront of the party's libertarian wing.

"You can name any number of people and he's one of them," said Christie, noting his state suffered the second-most casualties in the hijacked airliner attacks on New York and Washington, which killed nearly 3,000 people. "These esoteric, intellectual debates?I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won't, because that's a much tougher conversation to have."

Paul responded Friday on Twitter, saying Christie "worries about the dangers of freedom. I worry about the danger of losing that freedom. Spying without warrants is unconstitutional."

For Republicans, the national security debate offers a window into an evolving party that nearly a decade ago re-elected President George W. Bush, in part, on the basis of his administration's hard-line response to the terror attacks and use of tools provided by the USA Patriot Act, which gave the administration the powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. It also serves notice that whoever hopes to claim the GOP nomination in 2016 may need to fuse factions within the party on national security.

The exchange followed a fight this week in Congress over the National Security Agency's collection of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records, where libertarian-leaning conservatives and liberal Democrats sought to undo the NSA program that they contend is an affront to civil liberties. The House narrowly defeated the attempt to restrict the surveillance, with some Republicans questioning whether their adversaries had forgotten the lessons of 2001.

The House vote came in the weeks after former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked classified documents that exposed the government's secret surveillance activities. And it followed Paul's nearly 13-hour filibuster in March over President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA, a fight that focused attention on the president's use of aerial drones to kill suspected terrorists and concerns the unmanned aircraft could be used in the United States to target suspects who are American citizens.

Doug Stafford, a top adviser to Paul, said in a statement that if Christie "believes the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans is 'esoteric,' he either needs a new dictionary, or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent years."

Republicans have said the libertarian strain within their party has been galvanized by what they call a large, more intrusive government under Obama, pointing to the health care overhaul, probes by the IRS into political groups and the Snowden affair. Yet the internal debate in the months after Obama's re-election underscores a party figuring out a new approach to foreign policy as long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan come to a close and many Americans express hesitation about future foreign entanglements.

Republican consultants based in early presidential voting states said there is an undeniable growing wave of libertarianism within the GOP that has already begun to reshape the political debate as candidates begin to jockey for position three years before the next presidential contest.

South Carolina-based Republican operative Hogan Gidley said there are risks?both for candidates like Christie who criticize the libertarian movement and for candidates like Paul who embrace it. "You can't ignore the libertarian movement. And if you do, you do it at your own peril," said Gidley, a senior aide on Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential campaign.

But he said some libertarian policies?particularly those that would aggressively scale back spending on defense and foreign policy?could scare away voters, as was the case of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, the senator's father, who placed fourth in South Carolina's last presidential primary.

Yet Rand Paul's libertarian approach remains popular among influential Republican activists. Former New Hampshire GOP chairman Jack Kimball, who is active in the party's 'liberty movement,' said Christie "went overboard on this. He's got to tone this down. A lot of people in this country are upset with the breadth and scope of what the NSA is doing."

Christie, who is running for re-election this year and considered a formidable potential 2016 candidate, made his comments at an event sponsored by the Aspen Institute that also featured Republican governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Mike Pence of Indiana, all of whom have been discussed as potential White House aspirants.

Asked whether the party had become more libertarian, Jindal said it was a "good thing" and in part, a reaction to Obama's policies. "You've got a lot of voters ... who are saying, 'I'm tired of the government telling me how to live my life.'" Walker spoke of the need to make fewer Americans dependent upon government services like unemployment benefits and Medicaid.

But Christie, who was appointed by Bush as U.S. attorney in New Jersey one day before the 2001 attacks, warned that the public would not look kindly upon lawmakers who seek to undercut national security efforts if another terror attack struck American soil.

"The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people who were having this intellectual debate and wondering whether" they knew that their first job was to defend the homeland, he said.

How Republicans deal with the debate could shape the party's future after losing the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections.

"It's a mistake to try to drive anybody out when you're losing," said Sal Russo, chief strategist for the Tea Party Express. "I think you need to tolerate those different viewpoints."

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Quantum of sonics: Bonded, not stirred

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have discovered a new way to join materials together using ultrasound. Ultrasound -- sound so high it cannot be heard -- is normally used to smash particles apart in water. Scientists found that if particles were coated with phosphate, they could instead bond together into strong agglomerates, about the size of grains of sand.

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There's Officially a 50-Inch 4K TV That's Cheaper Than Your TV

TCL just announced a new 50-inch Ultra HD LED television for $1000. Holy wow, that is freaking cheap. Just a few months ago, we were blown away by Seiki's 50-inch 4K that cost $1500. How the hell are they making all of these beautiful, high-resolution panels so cheap?

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GOP Sends In Help For Mary Landrieu Challenge

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