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Tom Pinckney: MIT Graduate (w/o a High School Diploma)
Tom Pinckney, co-founder of SiteAdvisor and founder of Hunch, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In fact, his application was so impressive that he was accepted to MIT without ever completing high school.
Read More »“E-mail” is Dead. Long Live “Email.”
It's official: "E-mail," the term used since the inception of the service, is dead. From now on, "email" will suffice.
Read More »Stargazer Catches ‘Discovery’ Dumping Its Waste
German skywatcher Jens Hackmann captured some video footage of the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' during its final mission as it dumped some of its more unsavory cargo before reentry.
Read More »Large Hadron Collider May Be a Time Machine
Throughout history some of mankind's greatest discoveries were the result of the side-effects of other experiments. With that in mind, the giant particle masher in Switzerland may actually wind up being a time machine.
Read More »1-in-5 Brits Think Lightsabers Are a Thing That Exists
A surprisingly high number of people in the United Kingdom seem to believe that lightsabers, memory-erasing technology and time travel are all possible.
Read More »Paging Dr. Frankenstein
Sometimes your name determines what you will ultimately do with your life.
Read More »Lost City of Atlantis May Not Be Lost Anymore
Researchers, led by Richard Freund of the University of Hartford, claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis -- off the coast of Spain.
Read More »If Pi Were a Song
It may not be the first time someone has turned the numerical value of Pi into a song, but one can't deny that it's kind of catchy...
Read More »6,000-Year-Old Mural Portrays Earliest Use of “Magic Mushrooms” in Europe
Researchers from a Florida Community College and the Ecological Institute of Xalapa have claimed that a 6,000-year-old mural on a cave in Spain could detail the earliest use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in Europe.
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