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Neurologist recounts the time he was conned

Paul J. Zak, a neuroeconomist and director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University, explains the psychology of cons using himself as an example. When he was a teenager, he was taken by the "pigeon drop." Here's what happened to me. One slow Sunday afte...

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Boing Boing — November 14

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Online Game Shutting Down All User Created Levels That Reference Someone Else's IP

Plenty of video games have the ability to create user-modification and user-made levels. Back in the 80s and 90s, this was made popular with games like Castle Wolfenstein and Doom. Many of these user-made versions involve famous characters. In fact, one of the first such cases was when some hi...

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Techdirt — November 11

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High School Kids Choose Phillies Over Football [Philadelphia Phillies]

Much like the site you're reading now, there were some attendance problems last Friday in certain Philadelphia area school systems. Reports say that as much as 20 percent of the area's students licked their palms and skipped school so they could be sworn at by Chase Utley. Among that group are ni...

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Deadspin — November 07

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Halloween Scared Weekend Filmgoers But 'HS Musical 3' Stages Comeback For No. 1; Clint/Angelina's 'Changeling' Finishes #3; 'Quantum' Shatters UK Box Office Records

SUNDAY AM: Halloween is always a lousy day for box office but especially when it falls on a weekend. So Friday's grosses were way down compared to the norm. So Disney's High School Musical 3: Senior Year was shockingly down 90% from its sensat...

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Deadline...od Daily — November 02

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Help high school kids do genetic engineering and make glowing bacteria [Discovering Biology in a Digital World]

Why should professional scientists have all the fun? Researchers have been engineering glowing cats, and selling glowing fish at pet stores. High school kids can do genetic engineering too, if they have the right equipment. And you can help them get the equipment by contributing to our Donor...

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ScienceBlogs — October 25

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Kids In Expensive Clothes: The CW Finds Secret To Success

CW, the part-time television network that a year ago looked like much less than the sum of the two mini-networks from which it emerged, is offering a few indications this fall that it may have found a key to survival: high school kids in expensive clothes. Thanks largely to the popularity that t...

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HuffingtonPost.com — October 25