In 2005, scientists found some soft tissue in the fossilized leg of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now, they can confirm that, yes, that is T. Rex collagen. What’s more, there’s preserved collagen in lots of other T. Rex fossil specimens. How’d it survive? Stephanie Pappas at NBC News explains .
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Bits of T. Rex tissue survived for millions of years
Dr Bjoern von Reumont: “This is the first time we have seen venom being used in crustaceans and the study adds a new major animal group to the roster of known venomous animals. Venoms are especially common in three of the four major groups of arthropods, such as insects. Crustaceans, however, are a glaring exception to the rule.” [BBC]
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ISP throttling YouTube half the time? Proxy IP-blocking tricks not working anymore? Here’s the latest incantation to get video running .
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Preload YouTube videos
Via Reuters “The Justice Department said it would refocus marijuana enforcement nationwide by bringing criminal charges only in eight defined areas – such as distribution to minors – and giving breathing room to users, growers and related businesses that have feared prosecution.”
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Obama administratrion permits states to manage marijuana
The BBC’s Natalie Donovan breaks down the £8 that one pays for a music CD in the UK : 30% to the label, 17% to the retailer, 13% to the artist, 8% to manufacturers, 7% to distributors, and 5% on “administering copyright.” The rest appears to be eaten by taxes.
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You buy a music CD. Who gets what?
Randall Munroe has finally finished Time , his 3, 000+ frame slow-motion animation that began life as wordless, enigmatic single-panel XKCD installment .
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Randall Munroe finishes "Time," the 3,099-panel XKCD serial
At CNET, Declan McCullagh reports that the U.S. government has demanded that large Internet companies provide them with users’ stored passwords, which are typically encrypted.
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Feds tell major internet companies to decrypt and hand over users’ account passwords
The Internal Revenue Service is planning to pay out about $70 million in employee bonuses, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa , a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS. That oughta go over real well.
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IRS to issue $70M in employee bonuses, says lawmaker
Britain’s largest ISP, British Telecom, has ragequit Yahoo! after learning that the internet giant had bought beloved microblogging site Tumblr. Just kidding! It’s actually sick of its customers’ Yahoo-provided email accounts getting hacked. [Telegraph]
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Haiti has been battling a massive cholera outbreak since, roughly, around the time international aid groups arrived in the country following the 2010 earthquake. Now, genetic evidence links the strain of cholera in Haiti to a rare strain native to Nepal — further proof that it was Nepalese UN Peacekeepers who brought cholera to Haiti . This news comes two months after the UN claimed immunity from any financial liability relating to the outbreak, writes Stacey Singer at the Palm Beach Post.
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More evidence that Haiti’s cholera epidemic started with UN Peacekeepers