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Merging NGC 2623
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NGC 2623 is really two galaxies that are becoming one. Seen to be in the final stages of a titanic galaxy merger, the pair lies some 300 million light-years distant toward the constellation Cancer. The violent encounter between two galaxies that may have been similar to the Milky Way has produced widespread star formation near a luminous core and along eye-catching tidal tails. Filled with dust, gas, and young blue star clusters, the opposing tidal tails extend well over 50,000 light-years from the merged nucleus. Likely triggered by the merger, accretion by a supermassive black hole drives activity within the nuclear region. The star formation and its active galactic nucleus make NGC 2623 bright across the spectrum. This sharp cosmic snapshot of NGC 2623 (aka Arp 243) is based on Hubble Legacy Archive image data that also reveals even more distant background galaxies scattered through the field of view.

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5 Mind-Blowing Water Tornadoes (Waterspouts) Captured On Video
Now that you’ve seen a few breathtaking fire tornadoes, it’s time we bring you five mind-blowing waterspouts captured on video. This term refers to “an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water, connected to a cumuliform cloud.” Continue reading for the videos and more information.

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What’s Wrong With TPP – EFF.ORG

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For those of you that have texting on your cell phones, and want to make it harder for your Facebook account to be hacked:

• In Facebook, click the arrow to the right of Home to open the menu
• Choose Account Settings
• Choose Security on the left
• Click the edit link to the right of Login Approvals

This will set it so if someone tries to log in to Facebook from a device you’ve never used, you will receive a text message with a code you have to type in to approve logging in from that device. No text, no login, even with password.

If you happen to receive an error along the lines of “your current browser settings might make it hard to do this ”

• Disable Secure Browsing
• Enable Login Approval
• then re-enable Secure Browsing.

Please save yourself and your Facebook friends a lot of grief and protect your account.

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LeVar Burton talks Reading Rainbow: from TV to e-books and beyond
LeVar Burton demoing the new Reading Rainbow app on an iPad.

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“The mission of Reading Rainbow has always been to use the prevailing technology of the day to steer children toward literature.” That’s what LeVar Burton—actor, celebrity, and creative force behind the old television classic Reading Rainbow—told Ars on the phone on Thursday. That conversation followed the successful launch of his new Reading Rainbow app for the iPad. But this isn’t just some cash grab thanks to the …

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When Alan Alda was 11 years old, he asked his teacher, “What is a flame?” Alda says his teacher answered: “oxidation” and left it at that. Six decades later, Alda was still wondering so he launched a contest. Scientists were challenged to answer the question in a way that an 11-year-old could understand. The results are in. Ben Ames, Ph.D. candidate in quantum optics at the University of Innsbruck, won top flame video with this entry.

The Flame Challenge

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Music FAILS: Metal Trololo
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Awesome Cover of The IT Crowd Theme by Superpowerless and Friends [Music Video]
Another awesome song by Superpowerless, which we’ve already mentioned a few times on in the past.

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Amazing Reading Rainbow Metal Cover [Video]
Reading Rainbow is one of the greatest American kid’s TV shows of all time… OF ALLLLL TIIIIIME! I am an avid reader thanks to my parents encouragement and

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Lightning rainbow
A rainbow during storms in Haikou, the capital of China’s Hainan province. Photo: China Daily/Reuters

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Humble Indie Bundle V: Psychonauts, Superbrothers, and More at a Name Your Own Price

There’s a new Humble Indie with some fantastic DRM-free and cross-platform offerings and, most importantly, some fantastic games. Score a copy of Psychonauts for the best price in town!

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The Pocket TV: Makes any TV a Smart TV
The Pocket TV is a thumb-size micro-computer that connects to the HDMI port of any TV and converts it into an Android Smart TV

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One-Pound Deer Might be the Smallest Ever
Due to a tragic car accident, the mother of this tiny deer passed after giving birth to the one-pound miracle. Weighing in at just 1-pound and standing 6-inches tall, "Little Rupert" went directly into an incubator with oxygen after being removed from his mother via caesarean section. Continue reading for more pictures.

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Newly Discovered Frog Species is Much Smaller Than a Penny
Just when you thought frogs couldn't get any weirder, this newly discovered species surfaces, and a full-grown specimen is no larger than a pencil tip. This species essentially deposits its young ones in carnivorous pitcher plants and are left to grow inside them. Continue reading for another picture.

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Play this: 'Reprisal' revives the spirit of 'Populous'
Peter Molyneux may have left Lionhead and Microsoft out of a desire to create something new, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't look back to the past now and again. That's what John Caplin has done with Reprisal, a retro homage to Molyneux's Populous, commonly thought of as the first "god game." It preserves all the terraforming and village-conquering strategy action of the original, but the tilt-shifted pixel art style is gorgeous and right up to date — there's more than a hint of Superbroth…

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Turntable.fm can be scrobbled to Last.fm with the use of an extension in the Chrome browser.

Turntable.fm Extended adds features to turntable.fm including the ability to scrobble to Last.fm. After you install the extension, reload turntable.fm and goto Settings, choose Extension Settings, and check the Enable Scrobbling box.

It will send you to approve it in Last.fm, then return you to turntable.fm with scrobbling enabled.

Turntable Extended Extension.

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Maryland teen wins world's largest high school science competition
A Maryland student was awarded the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Friday for developing a urine and blood test that detects pancreatic cancer with 90 percent accu…

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Lawyer Bashing

Reading the newsfeeds, the headline "The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely by Lawyers" caught my eye. By trade, I was a lawyer and was licensed in the state of New York for several years.

Lawyer bashing is quite popular with the masses and with so much of tech news revolving around patents people vilify the lawyers. I had a professor at Vermont Law School who explained our position in the world – if not for lawyers, people would resort to self-help. Things could devolve into the wild west. Instead, we have a procedural system that allows people to resolve their disputes via their words. The two sides settle their issues and abide by a ruling of a third party. It's actually quite elegant.

The thing is, most lawyers are merely doing their jobs. Your client is your boss and as a lawyer it is your job to zealously represent them. If your client wants to sue someone and you believe there's a good faith reason behind the claims, you comply.

Sometimes I compare lawyers to guns. Most guns don't do damage by themselves – it requires the action of another to cause the gun to fire. Other times, I compare lawyers to plumbers. There's a job to be done and it's not exactly glamorous (even though television romanticizes the legal profession at times). When something goes wrong, you're sure glad when that plumber shows up.

Lawyers aren't a "necessary evil" any more than laws are. We're simply necessary.

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