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Here, a brief look at the disturbing frat-boy-ification of Silicon Valley:. Of course, not everyone is amused by these so-called brogrammers. Meet the “brogrammer,” a new generation of engineers and app developers who party hard, swill cheap beer, hold bikini contests, and still find the time to code. Sexism in an already male-dominated tech community just isn’t funny, says Tasneem Raja in .

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Jaz, what good is being able to review the film when the school ignores all the parents comments about its graphic nature? Its too much to soon! and if you are going to teach sex education to 11 year olds you don’t ignore pregnancy and std’s until they are 14years or so and hope having seen the video they don’t try it until then! Where is the logic in that?.

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Ferrigno has been staying humble for years. You might know him best as the Incredible Hulk, thanks to his role in the popular ’70s television series; since then, he’s also had a hand in shaping how the role of the Hulk has been shaped and changed over the years. Or perhaps you followed his progress on . Universe titles, but Mr. This month, he’s lending his talents to the much anticipated action flick , but if you can’t wait to catch him on the silver screen, you can see him here first in a display of fun fact and information. He’s back, he’s bigger than ever, and he’s here to demonstrate that while the muscles make the man, at the end of the day, knowledge is what really matters. He’s a world-class bodybuilder and recipient of two consecutive Mr.

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The only other Android tablet to even crack a 10% market share was the Samsung Galaxy Tab line of tablets, which accounted for 15.4% of all Android tablets in February. Rounding out the top five were the Motorola Xoom (7%), the Asus Transformer (6.3%) and the Toshiba AT100 (5.7%). in February, up from a 41.8% market share in January. According to the latest data released by comScore today, the Kindle Fire captured a 54.4% market share among Android tablets sold in the U.S.

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Best photo of the day! A bear was spotted walking around Williams Village in Colorado, spooking residents, causing them to call the police. The bear was also spooked by the residents and managed to climb a tree near the dorms of Colorado University in attempt to hide. The events that unfolded are rather hilarious thanks to a photograph taken of the event.

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There are icons at the bottom on the left side, and a Quick Launch-style menu on the right side — it looks just like the Windows 7 taskbar. The right-most icon in the list opens a page of bookmarks that looks a whole lot like the Launch Pad feature in OS X Lion, except that instead of apps it’s shortcuts to websites. There’s actually a desktop, with a background and everything. To put it simply, the changes in Aura are clearly designed to make the Chromebook feel like a laptop rather than a browser with a keyboard. Aura feels like a mix between Mac OS and Windows 7, and it’s clear that’s where Google’s trying to take its operating system.

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A lot more than two. (One terabyte is equal to about 1,000 gigabytes or about 1 million megabytes; a petabyte is about 1,000 terabytes.). Most computational neuroscientists tend to estimate human storage capacity somewhere between 10 terabytes and 100 terabytes, though the full spectrum of guesses ranges from 1 terabyte to 2.5 petabytes.

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Together with two House Republicans and a coalition of major science associations, Cooper has created the first annual Golden Goose Awards to honor federally funded research “whose work may once have been viewed as unusual, odd, or obscure, but has produced important discoveries benefiting society in significant ways.”. On Wednesday afternoon, Cooper rose to the defense of taxpayer-funded research into dog urine, guinea pig eardrums and, yes, the reproductive habits of the parasitic flies known as screwworms–all federally supported studies that have inspired major scientific breakthroughs.

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Massacred: Members of the Pilanesberg National Park Anti-Poaching Unit stand guard as conservationists and police investigate the scene of a rhino poaching earlier this month in South Africa, where nearly two rhinos a day are being killed to meet demand for the animal’s horn, which is worth more than its weight in gold.

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Massacred: Members of the Pilanesberg National Park Anti-Poaching Unit stand guard as conservationists and police investigate the scene of a rhino poaching earlier this month in South Africa, where nearly two rhinos a day are being killed to meet demand for the animal’s horn, which is worth more than its weight in gold.

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