BLIZZARD Entertainment and Legendary Pictures sign Sam Raini to …

Blizzard Entertainment , Inc. and Legendary Pictures announced today that Sam Raimi has signed on to direct the eagerly-anticipated major motion picture based on Blizzard Entertainment ®’s award-winning Warcraft® universe

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Getting Fat? Maybe It's Your Health Insurance – Freakonomics Blog …

A new NBER working paper finds a link between health insurance and obesity, and suggests that the better insured you are, the fatter you’re likely to be. We already knew that people with health insurance consume more healthcare …

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Science Centric | News | Tires made from trees – better, cheaper …

Automobile owners around the world may some day soon be driving on tires that are partly made out of trees – which could cost less, perform better and save on fuel and energy.

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Brad Abrams : Science Fiction Book Review: Accelerando by Charles …

I recently finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross and I thought it was a great book… it does exactly what I want from a future-focused science fiction book… it takes plausible advances from today and takes them to their logical …

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PlayStation 3 gets game-plus-film 'hybrid' discs, first one comes …

Though this collectible package comes on two discs, the ultimate idea is to have both the game and film on the same disc. At present, you’re not saving anything by going this route, but should somebody at Sony HQ wake up and offer a …

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How The Times' Home Page Gets Made | The New York Observer

By most counts, New York Times deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman still considers the front page of the printed newspaper a sacred space, a place where editors and reporters display their best work and uphold the tradition of The …

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Michelle Malkin » The science czar stonewalls

Can a population control freak holding the prestigious title of “ Science Czar” get away with published musings on forced abortion, mass sterilization programs, and a “planetary regime” to re-engineer society by simply stonewalling? …

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