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Law enforcement officials say that sting operations like these are an extremely effective means of lowering crime rates and stopping the criminally minded before they commit worse offenses. Opponents call it entrapment.
Shouldn’t it be called inducement?

New drug can reverse liver damage; suddenly it’s harder to drink yourself to death.

China’s recent white paper reveals it’s hell bent on using more coal, which would have been dire if not for the cute smileys peppering the document.

North America’s largest solar power plant, made by SunPower, is now running.

How to backup your Google account.

Doorknobs […]

But who can be sure?

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Say you’ve captured a Nazi — which is still totally possible because Nazis live a thousand years, you know — and the bugger suddenly bites a cyanide pill. Now you can keep him alive — to be killed at your most convenient time — with the recently discovered fast-acting cyanide antidote sulfanagen.
Current cyanide antidotes work […]

Did you know that there’s actually a book that contains everything about spam? Yes, there is. And how better to sell it than using its partner — the toast. 220 pieces of toast, to be exact, were used to create the video ad. Click above to see how the ad was made, now lovingly called […]

Ignorance kills Chinese woman, but keeps billions of others still living in bliss.

“He took the Bible and he said, ‘I’m going to do this because I can. I’m going to do something that your stupid, little minds aren’t going to be able to comprehend and he took the Bible and started ripping out pages.”

Father of […]

Chinese scientist Zhang Xiachang proudly shows his “paper-like battery” — 0.5 millimeter thick and can be rolled like paper — which he’s bringing to the 2007 International Forum on New Material Research and Industry Development.

Meanwhile, in Asia, girls have all the fun.