Source: Associated Press
The latest form of identity involves targeting your kid’s number long before the little one even has a bank account.
Hundreds of online businesses are using computers to find dormant Social Security numbers — usually those assigned to children who don’t use them — then selling those numbers under another name to help people [...]
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Source: Associated Press
Half of the International Space Station’s cooling system suddenly shut down forcing the crew on board to power down equipment and face the likelihood of urgent spacewalking repairs.
After huddling Sunday, NASA managers gave preliminary approval for a pair of spacewalks, the first of which would take place later this week. Two of the [...]
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Source: Associated Press
A longtime Alaska comic book buff is selling a copy of Batman No. 1 published 70 years ago and it’s expected to worth quite a bundle.
Mike Wheat of Fairbanks has put the 1940 comic book on the auction block through Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, where it’s expected to fetch more than $40,000. Online [...]
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Why does there seem to be such a glut of research on the benefits or risks of wine, but not much out there for beer lovers? Do we need to know more? Some suggest yes.
Greg Laden’s blog, called Greg Laden’s Blog, over in the ScienceBlogs collection got us thinking about the topic [...]
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Jeff Wilcox closes his eyes and imagines a large vacant building literally “buzzing” 24/7, filled with glowing lights, gurgling irrigation systems, whirling ventilators and workers coaxing thousands of pungent marijuana plants to bud.
And that’s just one part of his proposal. Wilcox, a retired builder, owns a campus of aging, idled industrial plants. [...]
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Source: New York Daily News
A rare yellow lobster has been caught by a New York fisherman and it’s creating a crustacean sensation.
The unique find was caught last week in Narragansett Bay’s East Passage off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, according to The Providence Journal.
“I thought, holy cow, this is unusual,” said Denny Ingram, the lobsterman [...]
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