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Blu Buffed from MOCA's Wall: The Museum Responds

Blu Buffed from MOCA's Wall: The Museum Responds

Here's MOCA's response for why the museum took down Blu's mural just one day after the artist completed it.

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Rich People Can't Recognize Your Emotions (It's Science, Apparently)

Rich People Can't Recognize Your Emotions (It's Science, Apparently)

When compared to their lower socioeconomic counterparts, rich people are less skilled at recognizing other people's emotions, a study suggests.

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Video: The 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of the Year

Video: The 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of the Year

From the "Bed Intruder" to "Double Rainbow" to OK Go's latest masterpiece, take a video trip down recent memory lane.

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Carbon Offsets for Your MacBook and iPad

Carbon Offsets for Your MacBook and iPad

Like a Terra Pass for the tech world, Belgrave Trust sells offsets for your Mac to fund clean energy projects around the world.

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Obama Health Care Bill Ruled Unconstitutional: What Does It Mean?

Obama Health Care Bill Ruled Unconstitutional: What Does It Mean?

A central provision of the Obama Administration's overhaul of health care has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Virginia.

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Clinton to Tell Obama "It's the Economy, Stupid" in Person

Clinton to Tell Obama "It's the Economy, Stupid" in Person

The Washington Post reports that our nation's 42nd president, Bill Clinton, has been invited to the White House to spend some quality time with...

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Magnetic Fields: Made Visible in Video

Magnetic Fields: Made Visible in Video

Semiconductor created "Magnetic Movie" to make magnetic fields visible.n

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Image of the Day: A Bike Shop in 1912

Image of the Day: A Bike Shop in 1912

Here's a look at a bike shop from nearly a century ago.n

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Blu's MOCA Mural Erased; Who's to Blame?

Blu's MOCA Mural Erased; Who's to Blame?

Jeffery Deitch was meant to bring street art to MOCA. So why was the mural he commissioned from Blu painted over after only one day?

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Victorian Romance Between Data and Literature

Victorian Romance Between Data and Literature

Two historians are charting how frequently words like "God," "love," "work," and "science" appear in turn-of-the-century Victorian literature.

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Image of the Day: "New World Transparent Specimens"

Image of the Day: "New World Transparent Specimens"

The artist and former fishery student Iro Tomita injects sea creatures with colorful dyes that reveal their complex skeletal systems.

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WikiLockdown: Three Questions on the Arrest of Julian Assange

WikiLockdown: Three Questions on the Arrest of Julian Assange

Now that Assange has turned himself in, what does everything mean?

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Image of the Day: The Sun's Enormous Solar Prominence

Image of the Day: The Sun's Enormous Solar Prominence

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures an image of an enormous prominence around the sun. Check out this accompanying video.

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Image of the Day: Veggie Masterpieces by Ju Duoqi

Image of the Day: Veggie Masterpieces by Ju Duoqi

The artist Ju Duoqi arranges vegetables to reproduce artistic masterpieces from Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" to Edvard Munch's "The Scream."

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If Nonprofits Aren't Working Themselves Out of Business, They're Failing

If Nonprofits Aren't Working Themselves Out of Business, They're Failing

Nancy Lubin says charities have become like vampires. They ought to focus more on working themselves out of existence (or risk getting staked).

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Image of the Day: Just Developed Photos of Pearl Harbor Attack [Update]

Image of the Day: Just Developed Photos of Pearl Harbor Attack [Update]

For nearly seven decades, this roll of film sat idle in an old Brownie camera. Just kidding. But the photos are still great.

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The WikiLeaks Legislation Begins

In response to Cablegate, Senator Joe Lieberman and others introduce Wikileaks legislation making it a crime to leak a U.S. intelligence...

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Methane in Your Laptop

A team of Harvard engineers is designing a laptop that's powered by biogas. 

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This Is the Way the House Climate Panel Ends (Whimper, No Bang)

This Is the Way the House Climate Panel Ends (Whimper, No Bang)

It was probably inevitable that the Republican victories in November would translate to some serious trouble for climate legislation.

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Australia's E-Waste Boom

In Australia, E-waste is a big problem. It's also becoming a big business.

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