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• 8 industries China leads where the US used to

  Sun Jan 29, 2012
  • Increased automation used to be something that American labor opposed. Now, however, it is the way to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. One problem, however, is that the industries that have the expertise to do this are the most heavily invested in manufacturing outside the U.S.

• Judge orders woman to give up password to hard drive

  Mon Jan 23, 2012
  • You can't keep paper files secret when there's a search warrant, so there's no reason to expect you can keep electronic files secret. As for how they make the lady give up the password, the standard approach is, if she refuses, to keep her in jail until she gives it up (even if it takes years).

• What if there were another advanced species?

  Sat Jan 21, 2012
  • Animals are least likely to be willing to co-exist when they occupy similar ecological niches. Thus, you don't see very many cougars in areas where jaguars are present -- the jaguars drive out the smaller cougars.

• America's lunch hour on the endangered list

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • Question about the photo at the top: How many size 6 ladies eat five half-sandwiches for lunch?

• What if humans could be made twice as intelligent?

  Sat Jan 14, 2012
  • "What if humans could be made twice as intelligent?" It would be the end of politics as we know it.

• India reports new strain of 'totally drug-resistant tuberculosis'

  Mon Jan 16, 2012
  • "No one expects the Indian TB strains to rapidly spread elsewhere." Everyone knows that the Indian TB strain will potentially spread everywhere. So why are we supposed to be comforted that it will not do so "rapidly"?

• NC panel: Sterilization victims should get $50,000

  Tue Jan 10, 2012
  • It's called adding insult to injury. A jury would probably award at least $1million each; however, North Carolina does not want to (cannot?) pay out $7.6 billion+.

• How to get a cosmos from nothing

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • It is unreasonable to assume that the existence of God can be either proven or disproven by logic or various theories as to parameters of the universe which cannot be directly observed.

• Apocalypse not now: NASA debunks doomsday predictions

  Sun Jan 1, 2012
  • Here's a deal groceries stores should offer to financially qualified 2012-doomsday believers: You get all of your groceries for free this year, up to a limit of 10% of your total net worth.

• It's 2012, but these major retailers still can't get online right

  Tue Jan 3, 2012
  • Sears. It's easy to understand why brick-and-mortar stores like Target don't get online. But Sears started out as a catalog business, and it remained a catalog business for many years. A hundred years ago, you could buy a house from the Sears Roebuck catalog.