Nato summit: Obama meets Karzai on Afghanistan; huge protests – live - The Guardian


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Nato summit: Obama meets Karzai on Afghanistan; huge protests – live
The Guardian
Love this @petesouza pic of David Cameron and Angela Merkel watching the Chelsea game with President Obama flickr.com/photos/whiteho… 10.09am: Pakistan has announced that it has blocked Twitter because of a promotion on Twitter of a competition to ...

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Who's in Control? – A Look at the Use/Overuse of Cut-Scenes in Video Games - God is a Geek


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Who's in Control? – A Look at the Use/Overuse of Cut-Scenes in Video Games
God is a Geek
Over the past few years or so, video games have become a booming media outlet. Some may argue that the genre is more popular than television and film, outlets that now have more in common with gaming, with the complexity of the production and writing ...

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The Immorality of “Hunger Games” - New Republic (blog)


New Republic (blog)
The Immorality of “Hunger Games
New Republic (blog)
Ancient myths bore me blind, as do violent video games and cartoons. Maybe it's because I've consumed so many books and documentaries about Nazi Germany, Bolshevik Russia, and Red China. I've encountered countless stories about real individuals and ...

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Is Global Warming Causing More Home Runs in Baseball? - Scientific American

Is Global Warming Causing More Home Runs in Baseball?
Scientific American
The game went on. And the blogs went wild. A blogger for DeadSpin called McCarver's remark "one of the stupidest things ever spoken on a television broadcast today." Predictably, climate deniers' sites like Watts Up With That? lit up with comments.

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Professor McCarver's 'baseball bat' theory of climate change - Mother Nature Network


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Professor McCarver's 'baseball bat' theory of climate change
Mother Nature Network
The game went on. And the blogs went wild. A blogger for DeadSpin called McCarver's remark "one of the stupidest things ever spoken on a television broadcast today." Predictably, climate deniers' sites like Watts Up With That? lit up with comments.

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Suited for saving lives: Technology extends limits of firefighting for Poudre ... - The Coloradoan

Suited for saving lives: Technology extends limits of firefighting for Poudre ...
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"We're just ahead of the game." In 2008, the department was featured in the national Fire Chief magazine for the custom-molded radio earpieces now used by all of its 150-plus firefighters. Love said the department was one of the first in the country to ...

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The 10 best movie credit sequences - The Guardian

The 10 best movie credit sequences
The Guardian
The video then had to be choreographed from that. Cute but nothing else. My favourite goes to one of the cult Italian polizieschi movies of the 70s - 'Il trucido e lo sbirro'. ('The rogue and the cop'). The film credits open in the Spaghetti Western ...

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