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  The bitter truth about Greek yogurt: it's producing millions of pounds of toxic waste

  By Katie Drummond on May 22, 2013 02:21 pm + 82 comments

  Greek yogurt has taken the grocery store dairy aisle by storm, but there's a surprising downside to Continue reading…

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  Damon Lindelof opens up on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' and 'Tomorrowland'

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 22, 2013 05:20 am + 28 comments

  Damon Lindelof, says Grantland, is the "King of the nerds." After rising to fame as one of the Continue reading…

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  How a German physicist fooled Albert Einstein

  By Matt Brian on May 22, 2013 04:47 am + 7 comments

  For his work on canal ray sources in the 1920s, German physicist Emil Rupp was regarded as one of Continue reading…

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  'Tumblr is David, and David is Tumblr:' the man behind Yahoo's new blogging platform

  By Adi Robertson on May 21, 2013 10:08 am + 19 comments

  At age 20, high-school dropout and startup industry veteran David Karp co-founded Tumblr, the now Continue reading…

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  'The Pirate Cinema' monitors popular torrents to create a video wall of piracy

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 20, 2013 04:58 am + 11 comments

  The Pirate Cinema is a cinematic collage or sorts. Its creators took torrent database The Pirate Continue reading…

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  Space guns, boreholes, and biodomes: the lost dreams of 20th century science

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 20, 2013 03:47 am + 7 comments

  The 20th century, in particular the latter half, played host to some of the most ambitious Continue reading…

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  Inside the private push for consumer space travel

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 19, 2013 09:31 pm + 8 comments

  Since the 1960s and PanAm's ill-fated Moon Flights Club, commercial passenger flights to space have Continue reading…

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  Why Laurene Powell Jobs broke her silence to support immigration reform

  By Andrew Webster on May 19, 2013 04:33 pm + 73 comments

  Laurene Powell Jobs' first interview after the death of her husband Steve Jobs was an interview on Continue reading…

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  Google Street View's underwater journey

  By Andrew Webster on May 19, 2013 03:48 pm + 6 comments

  Last September, Google expanded its Street View service to include locations under the ocean, and if Continue reading…

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  The man behind famous 'Minority Report' interface is back for 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

  By Adi Robertson on May 18, 2013 01:29 pm + 24 comments

  Jorge Almeida has made his name designing the futuristic user interfaces of action and science Continue reading…