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Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?

Walter Keller had nearly lost his battle with leukemia when he went to Penn's Carl June and his group of researchers for a radical new cancer treatment. What happened next may change medicine forever.

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The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America | Politics News |...

The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education - saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy

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Hasnain says:

"We're doing the worst thing people can do: lying to our young. Nobody, not even this president, who was swept to victory in large part by the raw enthusiasm of college kids, has the stones to tell the truth: that a lot of them will end up being pawns in a predatory con game designed to extract the equivalent of home-mortgage commitment from 17-year-olds dreaming of impossible careers as nautical archaeologists or orchestra conductors."

Posted on 2013-08-16T17:19:08+0000

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Freakonomics » Should Tipping Be Banned? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast

Our latest podcast is called “Should Tipping Be Banned?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript; it includes credits for the music you’ll hear in the episode.)

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Hasnain says:

"Because Lynn has largely built his career around tipping, it came as a bit of a surprise when Stephen Dubner asked him what he would change about the practice:

LYNN: You know, I think I would outlaw it."

Posted on 2013-08-10T12:27:13+0000

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Jargon Generator

Are you having trouble writing tech-savvy dialogue for your latest screenplay? Worry not! at the press of a button, we'll provide you with the highest quality, Hollywood-grade technical jargon! Repeat as necessary to generate pages upon pages of techno-babble for the nerdy characters in your script:

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BBC - Blogs - Adam Curtis - BUGGER

BUGGER The recent revelations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden were fascinating. But they - and all the reactions to them - had one enormous assumption at their heart. That the spies know what they are doing. But when you look at the history of MI5 the astonishing thing is they never seem to kno...

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Hasnain says:

This was so long that even I almost gave up, but man is it amazing.

"The recent revelations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden were fascinating. But they - and all the reactions to them - had one enormous assumption at their heart.

That the spies know what they are doing."

Posted on 2013-08-09T17:47:44+0000

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Death of a ballplayer: Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers -- then...

Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers -- then he was wrongly convicted of murder and spent the next 27 years of his life in maximum security prison. Now he's free, and looking for his mission.

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Hasnain says:

So why, then? Why did they go after Billy Dillon? Their own selfishness? Just to make themselves look good and keep their jobs?

"Not even that," Dillon says. "It was society's selfishness. They wanted a killer. They wanted the people they hired to do anything to get him."

Posted on 2013-08-08T16:31:06+0000

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Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News

Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot and now an employee at WaPo Labs, weighs in on the future of news and why nerds distrust authority.

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