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25 Worst Gadget Flops of All Time

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There are gadgets that change everything (the iPhone, the first Intel Centrino laptops, Bose's noise-canceling headphones), and then there are devices that are so spectacularly bad that they should be immortalized in their own way. The last few decad...

Pow! Mars Hit By Space Rocks 200 Times a Year

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Small space rocks are carving fresh craters into the Martian surface more often than previously thought, researchers say. A new study finds that there are more than 200 asteroid impacts on the Red Planet every year.

Private Spaceships for Space Tourists to Launch Big Test Flights

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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Private suborbital space planes built by two space tourism companies will likely launch some major test flights before this year is out, their builders say.

Can a Floating Robot Save a Polluted Canal?

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Pity the Gowanus Canal. A forgotten relic of Brooklyn's industrial past, the garbage-choked waterway is now home to a putrid stew of toxic waste.

MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL

by Rob D.

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For many months last year I walked past a man who was camped out on a bench in Waikiki.  Had the very best spot on Waikiki Beach, just across the road from ABC stores and right in the middle of the beach where all of the tourists walk past.This...

Bees all u should know

by marjolein s.

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For much of the past 10 years, beekeepers, primarily in the United States and Europe, have been reporting annual hive losses of 30 percent or higher, substantially more than is considered normal or sustainable. But this winter, many U.S. beekeepers e...

PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS - OR DOES IT

by Rob D.

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Just the other day, the local newspaper did a story about the homeless on Oahu.  Like any clever newspaper, the Star Advertiser had staff photos to go with the story.The image of a 32 year old man, from West Coast, holding a placard with the me...

WAIKIKI OR CHINATOWN - HOMELESS IS STILL HOMELESS

by Rob D.

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A recent trip to K-Mart gave the old geezer the opportunity to check out who was hanging about IHS.  The shelter run by IHS is just across the road from K-Mart.As luck would have it, the old geezer spied someone known to, sitting on the car par...

"WE KNOW THAT WE ARE GETTING PEOPLE OFF THE STREET"

by Rob D.

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The quote used in the title comes from Darryl Vincent, chairman of Partners in Care-Oahu's Continuum of Care.Mr. Vincent is a very clever chap.  Has an answer for everything.Mr. Vincent is dependant on his organization receiving a never ending ...