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One of our cats fractured the tray of our DVD player. What I found interesting was that the cat would "zone in" on the equipment even when it wasn't moving and could anticipate the opening of the tray. I suspect there must be some associated high-pitched sound that humans can't hear.
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I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person in this country never to have seen a single episode of The Simpsons. (or South Park, or Family Guy, or American Idol, or Seinfeld, or...)
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Perhaps I have something configured wrong in my computer, but one thing I have always found annoying in the Mental Floss (and some other) quizzes is that one apparently has to manually erase a wrong answer before trying again.

It would be much nicer if when you typed a wrong answer and hit "return" it would say "wrong" or just return to blank. Instead, I sometimes have to hit the delete key ten times before trying again.

I'm just grumpy today. It was a good quiz.
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As I read the article, it seems that they used the CODEword "pizza" to talk about meeting at a Pizza Hut, rather than using a PASSword "pizza" on any computer resources. Not brilliant, certainly, but a different level of stupidity.
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I agree with mrclam and presume the article is slightly misstating the rule. It probably says that teachers can't fail a student because of cheating, not that cheating per se precludes being given a failing grade.
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"As it changes from a larva into an adult, it destroys the majority or its neural nuclei until just a few hundred are left."

Humans do the same thing as they become teenagers.
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What is not present in the article at the link is any objective evidence that the iron is being absorbed and improving anemia. The claim “We’re getting fantastic results; there seems to be a huge decrease in anemia and the village women say they feel good, no dizziness, fewer headaches" could easily represent a placebo effect.

One hopes that for his master's project he persuaded a sufficient number of women to undergo relevant testing of their blood.
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It sounds like a good idea, but the review at The Economist (http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/01/another_approach_micropayments) elicited this comment:

"But flattr requires me to spend a minimum of €24 per annum to be able to embed a button on my website, so it's quite possible I end up making a loss off of it."

If that's true, I think they will miss out on the mass of small-time bloggers that they need for their business model.
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