"On the East Coast, storms tend to form towards the south and take a roughly northeasterly track along the coast. So, if some weather leaves calm in its wake in the Carolinas, the chances are good that it's currently stirring things up in the neighborhood of New York City. This pattern means that it's extremely rare for the entire Eastern Seaboard to be calm. If you spread wind generators up and down the coast, some of them would almost always be producing power."

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"Fresh off of watching the season finale of “Fringe” last Friday, I happened upon an amazing discovery: FOX and the Science Olympiad have teamed up to create lesson plans to help students explore the real science behind some of the show’s plot devices. Magnetism, combustion, electromagnetism, protein modeling, and more are covered using incidents investigated by the Fringe Division in seasons 2-4."

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That's so sweet...

"The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."

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"A security researcher has won investments of more than $9 million to incorporate a tightly policed section of the Internet reserved for banks, healthcare providers, and other groups that are regularly targeted in malware, phishing, and similar online attacks."

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"The report found 5,510 posted job openings in the state in April, down from 5,670 in March but still well above the levels of April 2011 and 2010."

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"Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring expanding its regulations to allow collection from kids younger than that."

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"No bug fixes for Mac OS X 10.5, but instead issues Flashback scrubber and disables outdated copies of Flash Player"

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"A newly published collection of more than 20 studies by leading university scientists and government fishery researchers in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Russia and Japan provides mounting evidence that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat."

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"With great power comes great responsibility, so lock up that smartphone."

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"It's only about the size of a pack of cigarettes, but the "black box" or event data recorder (EDR) that is being built into more and more modern cars and trucks could become an information gold mine for personal injury lawyers."

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"The discovery of close to 50 mutilated bodies in a northeastern Mexico state, which was quickly blamed on the Zetas criminal syndicate, marks another escalation of the stakes in the country's bloodiest and most public cartel war, and possibly a peek into the near future of how that war will unfold."

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"Fast-casual continues to be the engine driving overall restaurant growth, and Five Guys Burgers and Fries remains the leader among fast-casual burger-menu restaurants, according to new data from Chicago-based Technomic."

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"And Makes Several Speed and Price Changes"

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Sometimes free has its advantages...D'oh!

"A faulty update for Avira's paid-for anti-virus software blocks harmless processes and may in some cases stop computers from booting. The update results in the ProActiv behavioural monitoring component becoming oversensitive in its treatment of executable files."

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"Mosaica Partners, a nationally recognized health information consulting and advisory firm, has been selected to assist the State of Arizona in updating its health information exchange (HIE) strategic and operations plans."

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