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• Web sites with non-Latin letters may be coming

  Mon Oct 26, 2009
  • Ever heard of the Unicode charset? It's meant to address pretty much the same issue, and it's widely supported these days.

• China looks for way to check massive emissions

  Sat Oct 24, 2009
  • This totally reminds me of this Onion News Network parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4K0hHin9 (China Celebrates Status As Number One Polluter) :)

• Coyote + wolf = new breed of predator

  Tue Sep 22, 2009
  • Before you claim that "molecular DNA-based 'scientists'" never learned basic biology, the definition of species is actually not clear-cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Definitions_of_species

• New drug may fight flu as well as Tamiflu

  Mon Sep 14, 2009
  • STOP CALLING IT SWINE FLU. Back when it was first discovered, it was tentatively identified from as a strain of swine flu, but a couple weeks later, researchers learned that it's really derived from a mix of human, avian, and swine flus. The virus isn't even transmitted from pigs.

• Obama birth certificate once again declared real

  Tue Jul 28, 2009
  • This whole thing is beyond stupid. 1) What, if anything, would convince these people that the birth certificate is real? 2) Who the hell cares? If some guy was born in some random place in the world but spent 99% of his life in US, you'd think he'd be pretty ingrained with US culture.

• Worm 'grunting' is all in a day's work

  Fri Jun 12, 2009
  • I really doubt it. Worms are REALLY plentiful. It would take something more serious like heavily polluting the soil on a massive scale to cause an issue.

• Cat in China grows a pair of wings

  Wed May 27, 2009
  • Looks angelic :)

• Officials blunt activism set off by China quake

  Sun May 10, 2009
  • I think full socialism is a flawed governmental and economic policy, but I agree with Mark that I bet few of the commentators here actually know what it is.

• New health threat system was slow to alert

  Thu Apr 30, 2009
  • Okay, you obviously are not a biologist. Since you're using WP as a source, you should've also seen this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_genetic_structure#Mutation which would explain how genes from different strains can be mixed.

• Billions for high-speed rail; anyone aboard?

  Thu Mar 26, 2009
  • Considering the size of the US and its lower population density than Europe and Japan, I have doubts on the cost efficiency of competitive passenger rail systems.