Be careful what you ask for on the Internet. Sometimes even an honest response can make you feel pretty stupid.

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1. Via Digg

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/...

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may create doors to other dimensions, according to Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN. That is it, man, that is IT! Unexplained breakdowns! Time traveling molecules! Birds attacking with baguettes! Dogs and cats living together!

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This is what happens when scientists are allowed to listen to MC Hammer.

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Honestly I don't really know what a High Voltage Capacitor Bank is. But I know that it can fuck up a watermelon pretty good. Science is beautiful.

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1. Why, that’s a cat in a lake rolling a watermelon out of the water
2. Watermelon T-Rex
3. Creepy Watermelon Face
4. Watermelons: Nature’s Viagra

This guy asked his girlfriend to draw what was happening inside of her. This is what she drew. It is very accurate!

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SCIENCE BUZZ: Thanks to J.J. Abrams and his slew of time-travel related plot devices in film and on TV — basically LOST and Star Trek — I've been thinking a lot about time travel and like I usually do, took to Google to learn some basics. OK I've just read all those things and now I'm even more confused than I was before…And I think my brain is leaking.

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1. “But time travel isn’t magic; it may or may not be allowed by the laws of physics — we don’t know them well enough to be sure — but we do know enough to say that if time travel were possible, certain rules would have to be obeyed.”
2. A recap of the LOST series finale that dealt with some seriously confusing time travel.
3. “One of the most famous arguments against time travel was the problem of temporal paradoxes. What happens if you kill one of your ancestors? If someone else did it, then the line that bore you would cease to exist and so would you. But if you did it to yourself, you would cease to exist thus undoing your murder which would bring you back into existence where you would travel back in time to kill your ancestor, etc. A paradox.”
4. Time Travel for Beginners (um, not really.)
5. HowStuffWorks “How Time Travel Will Work”
6. This is the epic LOST Timeloop theory. Don’t read this unless you want your brain to explode.
7. Temporal Anomalies in Back to the Future
8. Back to the Future Time Travel Chronology
9. “Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, and one-way travel into the future is arguably possible given the phenomenon of time dilation based on velocity in the theory of special relativity (exemplified by the twin paradox) as well as gravitational time dilation in the theory of general relativity, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow backwards time travel.”
10. No Such Thing as a Stupid Question: More on the Lost Finale

A little bit of science for you from today's SMBC . DNA is not beautiful - at best, it's just kind of freaky.

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FOOD BUZZ: Here is how you can brew your own beer in a coffee maker (with special instructions for those of you stuck on oceanographic research vessels). This also seems like a great way to lure girls to your dorm room.

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1. How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel.
2. Via MetaFilter
3. How To Turn Your Coffee Maker Into A Brewery

I love Chris Matthews. Watch him cut through this GOP front man like a Ginsu through Tofu. I appreciate Matthew's persistence by not letting Pence ignore the issue.

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This simple scientific device will help you prevent unwanted pregnancies the natural, God-fearing way. As you can see it is very easy to use! Although the man who created it, John C. Rock, went on to conduct the first trials of hormone-based birth control, so…it's possible he decided this was not a perfect system.

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1. A Pioneer in Family Planning
2. If you’re in Boston, you can see an exhibit about the history of birth control here (fun!)
3. The Birth of Birth Control
4. Early devices for “rhythm method”
5. via Jezebel

It turns out the swine flu is caused by excessive masturbation. Also the bubonic plague, baldness, nightmares - all kinds of trouble.

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1. Do you have the swine flu?

At first glance, this is a picture of Albert Einstein, but take a few steps, and the mustachioed genius may look like a classic sexpot. Really. Who knew Marilyn Monroe rocked a sweet 'stache?

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SCIENCE BUZZ: Bacon's Reign of Internet Terror has expanded into the realm of science. If you are interested in bacon's chemical structure or potential energy, here are some articles for you. Otherwise just fast-forward to about 2:00 in the Bacon Lance of Death video to watch the fire.

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1. Bacon’s chemical reactions (and why you like it)
2. Bacon Lance of Death!
3. Bacon Lovers = Chemistry Nerds
4. Science Explains Bacon
5. Bacon Everything - Featured on BuzzFeed

A video that explains (with a delightful British accent) why being skeptical of an assertion is not the same thing as being closed-minded and exposes the logical fallacies that believers in Gods and ghosts typically fall victim to.

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A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for a beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years.

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Watch this video of maggots eating part of a woman's foot! I can't watch it without covering my eyes, but I'm pretty sure it's the grossest thing ever. But it's medicine! Maggots eat the dead tissue out of her wound and at the end she's all, “Maggots: two thumbs up.”

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1. VIDEO: Maggot Therapy Follow Up
2. Insurance may soon cover maggot therapy
3. Maggot Therapy Project Home Page
4. Maggots’ Taste For Flesh May Cure Leg Ulcers
5. Maggot therapy - Wikipedia
6. Maggot therapy hope ‘premature,’ the BBC says
7. Brain Worms [VIDEO]
8. Chance of Getting a Tapeworm
9. Eye Worms?!?

Another timeless philosophical question from Yahoo! Answers, and one that I am ill-equipped to answer myself. If anyone has some advice for this troubled young lady, speak now - she may not have very long.

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1. Stupid Yahoo Answers Questions
2. Can a Vagina Heal Up and Close?
3. Poon Handler
4. And, of Course, How Is Babby Formed

POLITICS BUZZ: In last night's Republican response, Bobby Jindal briefly mentioned that monitoring potentially lethal volcanic eruptions was “wasteful spending.” So does Bobby Jindal really hate volcanoes, or just the people who live around them? What's the deal, KJ ?

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1. Jindal Versus the Volcano
2. Gov. Jindal Follow-up: What Is ‘Volcano Monitoring’?
3. “Something Called Volcano Monitoring”: Bobby Jindal Needs a Geology Lesson
4. Educating Jindal About Volcanic Hazards to US Commerce

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na...

And you thought they were fake. I know I did. I can't be alone in this, right?

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Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/hea...

Answer: one nostril at a time, or not at all. The double blow just makes the pressure worse.

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