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Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance Not sure if this has been mentioned here yet, but apprently Wall Street is not done with their odd financial instruments. So clearly we have not learned the lessions that the previous generations learned. That is assuming investors are actuall...

'Eureka machine' can discover laws of nature
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Robots that can do Science!

Those aren't coffins at all, they do go in the ground, but you would never just put a body in one. Those go AROUND coffins before you put them in the ground. Those seem a lot cheaper than the one from my grandmas funeral though. Apperantly these are not even owned by the government, let alone FEMA. ...

Those "coffins" don't even look like coffins (because they are not). Not sure which kind of paranoia is worse. Paranoia over the effects of the virus (causing you to act irrationally), or paranoia over the virus being a front for a government takeover.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2009/Hummeltbills.html

Interesting article on why the Gov will probably default on treasures.

Why does it seem like many of the pundits that were initially bearish are now switching sides? Interesting bit of commentary i saw on CNBC, one of their contributors said he believed the rally was more technical than fundamental in nature (which it is). Can't really say we are coming out of a recess...

So News Literacy teacher thought that the media blew the swine flu thing out of proportion. Next class a student which has been absent for weeks came in to talk to him. Turns out she has been travelling and came down with an illness. Guess what he thinks she has?

Interesting how that worked out.

lol looks like GD has been trolled.

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The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Accelerating Future
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That's Impossible

Tonight is the "Real Terminators" episode for anyoen interested. I think eventually they'll get the full eiposdes up online.