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	<title>I'm Not A Monster</title>
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	<description>The blog of Otep "Danger" Shamaya; Art, Politics, Tirades, &#38; Nonsense</description>
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		<title>H.R. Giger Cake</title>
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The H.R. Giger Cake is a creation of Jet City Cakes.
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		<title>Hello, Clarice &#8230;</title>
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		<title>Indonesian Dragon</title>
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Reddit user biophilia curiosis of Operation Wallacea spotted this specimen in Buton, Indonesia.
While participating in a herpetology study we stumbled across this female laying eggs in a nest. She was found in the Lambsuango Forest reserve and was immediately released after this photograph was taken.
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		<title>New leopard species caught on film</title>
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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – The Sundaland clouded leopard, a newly identified and little understood species of big cat in Borneo, has been filmed for the first time.
The leopard, a healthy-looking animal a metre long (3 feet) and weighing about 40 kilos (90 pounds) was caught on video at night at the Dermakot Forest Reserve in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wash Your Hands With Plasma Gas</title>
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Soap is dead. Never stood a chance, really. It had a good run, but the age of disinfecting our hands in plasma-gas filled boxes has finally dawned.
As the NY TImes has it, several laboratories are working on the technology, which bathes your hand in room-temperature plasma gas to kill even industrial grade bacteria like MRSA. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Largest Dodgeball Game</title>
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On Feb. 5th, 1,200 students, staff, and faculty at the University of Alberta played the world’s largest game of dodgeball:
Although it will be several months before officials from the Guinness World Records verify the accomplishment, organizers say the noon-hour dodgeball game in the Butterdome was the largest the world has ever seen.
The group shattered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Dose: ART SAVES</title>
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Sayaka Kajita Ganz makes sculptures from recycled materials, and here she’s made a dramatic pair of horses from black and white plastic objects.  The installation is called Emergence; you can guess which horse is Night and which is Wind.
Continue reading:
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/16/emergence-night-wind/
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		<title>POTUS Obama Creating Debt Commission: GOP obstructionists say NO</title>
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WASHINGTON — Determined to have a deficit commission with or without Congress&#8217; backing, President Barack Obama plans to announce on Thursday that he is establishing a panel similar to – although weaker than_ the one lawmakers rejected.
Former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Senate Whip Alan Simpson would lead the panel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Tut Died From Malaria, Broken Leg, Study Finds</title>
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CAIRO — Egypt&#8217;s most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot. He died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria and his parents were most likely brother and sister.
Two years of DNA testing and CT scans on Tut&#8217;s 3,300-year-old mummy and 15 others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.imnotamonster.com/2010/02/king-tut-died-from-malaria-broken-leg-study-finds/</link>
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		<title>Lost Generation</title>
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		<link>http://www.imnotamonster.com/2010/01/lost-generation/</link>
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		<title>Steam-Powered Airplane</title>
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The Tesla Air 2000 was a biplane built in 1933 by William Besler and Nathan C. Price. It was powered by a steam boiler that was so quiet that spectators on the ground could hear the pilot calling to them. From the video notes:
The advantages of the “Besler System” that were claimed at the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds Playing an Electric Guitar</title>
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French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot recorded the sounds and images of birds lured to land on and pluck at the strings of an electric guitar left outside:
His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Cities of Yemen</title>
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Yemen has been in the news a great deal recently – because of its supposed links with the training of terrorists. Yet little attention has been paid to the country itself – particularly its rich and surprising architectural heritage. 
So little known outside the country this remarkable architecture has survived hundreds of years. 
Take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.imnotamonster.com/2010/01/the-secret-cities-of-yemen/</link>
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		<title>White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria</title>
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This video shows a neutrophil (a type of white blood cell) chasing a staphylococcus aureus bacterium. 
The video was recorded by biochemistry professor David Rogers of Vanderbilt University in the 1950s. Notes on the movement by med school professor Thomas P. Stossel:
Contraction waves are visible along the surface of the moving cell as it moves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.imnotamonster.com/2010/01/white-blood-cell-chases-bacteria/</link>
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		<title>David Blaine Explains His Breathholding Technique</title>
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