Charlie Sheen beats Sarah Palin in presidential poll - USATODAY.com

Charlie Sheen beats Sarah Palin in presidential poll - USATODAY.com: "According to a new poll, independent voters say they favor Sheen over Sarah Palin by a 41/36 margin."

Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium - Telegraph

Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium - Telegraph: "A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium."

Shockwave-Generating Wave Discs Could Replace Internal Combustion Engines | Popular Science

Shockwave-Generating Wave Discs Could Replace Internal Combustion Engines | Popular Science: "Michigan researchers have built a prototype of a new auto motor that does away with pistons, crankshafts and valves, replacing the old internal combustion engine with a disc-shaped shock wave generator."

New York man faces five years in jail for ‘linking’ to online videos | The Raw Story

New York man faces five years in jail for ‘linking’ to online videos | The Raw Story: "You may want to think twice the next time you share a link to your favorite video.

In a case against a New York website owner, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is claiming that merely linking to copyrighted material is a crime."

Hillary Clinton Says Al Jazeera Is Putting American Media To Shame

Hillary Clinton Says Al Jazeera Is Putting American Media To Shame: "'Al Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network, the Russians have opened up an English language network. I've seen it in a couple of countries and it's quite instructive.'"

Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey | Danger Room | Wired.com

Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot Designed to Chase Human Prey | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Perhaps you thought the four-legged BigDog robot wasn’t eerily lifelike enough. That’ll change soon. BigDog’s makers are working on a new quadruped that moves faster than any human and is agile enough to “chase and evade.”"

Terror judge issues arrest warrant for ex-Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf over Benazir Bhutto assassination | Mail Online

Terror judge issues arrest warrant for ex-Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf over Benazir Bhutto assassination | Mail Online: "An anti-terrorism court judge has issued an arrest warrant for former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, state-run television reported."

BBC News - Robots to get their own internet

BBC News - Robots to get their own internet: "Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia."

Egypt Leaves the Internet - Renesys Blog

Egypt Leaves the Internet - Renesys Blog: "Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet."

IBM's Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy practice round (video!) -- Engadget

IBM's Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy practice round (video!) -- Engadget: "So, in February IBM's Watson will be in an official Jeopardy tournament-style competition with titans of trivia Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. That competition will be taped starting tomorrow, but hopefully we'll get to know if a computer really can take down the greatest Jeopardy players of all time in 'real time' as the show airs."

Earbuds Beat Depression by Shining Lights Into Your Brain | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Earbuds Beat Depression by Shining Lights Into Your Brain | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "The concept for the Valkee sounds like the worst kind of snake-oil: It’s a little box that combats the dark blues of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) with bright lights. Nothing new there, except it shines the lights into your head through your ears."

World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved

World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved: "Still, the world's oldest known leather shoe, revealed Wednesday, struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. 'It is astonishing,' Blahnik said via email, 'how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!'"

Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave

Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave: "As if making the oldest known leather shoe wasn't enough, a prehistoric people in what's now Armenia also built the world's oldest known winery, a new study says."

Not Just A High - Science News

Not Just A High - Science News: "Scientists test medicinal marijuana against MS, inflammation and cancer"

Placebo effect works even if patients know they're getting a sham drug | Science | guardian.co.uk

Placebo effect works even if patients know they're getting a sham drug | Science | guardian.co.uk: "Study suggests patients benefit from the placebo effect even when told explicitly that they're taking an 'inert substance'"

Pat Robertson tells '700 Club' viewers current marijuana laws should be changed | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Pat Robertson tells '700 Club' viewers current marijuana laws should be changed | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times: "Pat Robertson tells '700 Club' viewers current marijuana laws should be changed"

'Singing Mouse' Made With Genetic Modification : Discovery News

'Singing Mouse' Made With Genetic Modification : Discovery News: "Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered 'evolution' which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language."

Study by 8-year-olds published in prestigious science journal - Yahoo! News

Study by 8-year-olds published in prestigious science journal - Yahoo! News: "Biology Letters, a peer-reviewed journal of Britain's Royal Society, on Wednesday published a report (PDF, complete with colored-pencil diagrams) on how bumblebees see colors and patterns -- conducted and written by a group of 8- to 10-year-olds in Devon, England."

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: "Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture."

I.B.M. Supercomputer 'Watson' to Challenge 'Jeopardy' Stars - NYTimes.com

I.B.M. Supercomputer 'Watson' to Challenge 'Jeopardy' Stars - NYTimes.com: "An I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz show “Jeopardy.”"