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Marijuana: The next diabetes drug? - CNN.com (cnn.com)
Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim and lower their risk of developing diabetes, a new study says.
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When Its OK to Be Losing - by Russell Bell (filmandgamecomposers.com)
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Nick Offerman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org)
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Recipe: Peanut Butter and Bacon Burgers | Runner's World & Running Times (runnersworld.com)
We have them each year when we're in Boston.
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How to write a great README (thoughtbot.com)
Leadership is often defined as having the ability to make others want to do what it is that you would like them to do. You want people to want to use your software, and often their first introduction...
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The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food – Quartz (qz.com)
Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor's company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, ...
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The cool backstory of the Slurpee (theweek.com)
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Tesla repays federal loan nearly 10 years early - May. 22, 2013 (cnn.com)
Tesla Motors announced Wednesday that it has repaid a $465 million loan from the government nearly a decade before it was scheduled to do so.
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China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent (independent.co.uk)
The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.
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FiOS customer discovers the limits of “unlimited” data: 77TB a month | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Average 50TB a month—30,000 percent higher than average—and Verizon will call.