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Detroit emergency manager can't sell off art collection, yet 3

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Detroit emergency manager can't sell off art collection, yet

Detroit Auto Collection safe from bankruptcy liquidation, for now
The Michigan attorney general and state senate have both moved to block the sale of city-owned assets, including the Detroit Institute of Arts and its car collection, by emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr.

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The staff of +msnbc's Morning Joe really needs to disposed of 3

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The staff of +msnbc's Morning Joe really needs to disposed of

Russell Brand turns them to mush 

Russell Brand Destroys MSNBC Talk Show Host for Treating Him Like Shit
Comedian Russell Brand was invited to appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe yesterday, ostensibly to talk about his controversial world comedy tour Messiah Complex.


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Hopefully we'll seem some of Mosler's lightweighting expertise incorporated… 5

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Hopefully we'll seem some of Mosler's lightweighting expertise incorporated into some decent looking sports cars

Rossion Automotive acquires the assets of Mosler Automotive
After more than 25 years of building wickedly fast, lightweight sports cars, Warren Mosler has called it quits and sold the assets of his company to Rossion Automotive.

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Will we see 2 flywheel hybrid prototypes at Le Mans in 2014?

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Will we see 2 flywheel hybrid prototypes at Le Mans in 2014?

Porsche plans to win Le Mans with this car!
Porsche wants to win Le Mans. badly. And this is the car in which it plans to do so. The 2014 Porsche LMP1 made its first on-track appearance in Weissach, and now it’s officially on like Donkey Kong. Anything less than a win next year will be a disappoint

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If for no other reason than the Facebook app is a memory/battery hog, do yourself… 1

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If for no other reason than the Facebook app is a memory/battery hog, do yourself a favor and uninstall it, you'll feel better

Why your smartphone battery hates Twitter and Facebook
To paraphrase the saying about paranoia: just because you’re obsessed with battery life doesn’t mean that data-hungry apps aren’t out to drain you. In my case, I decided to put my foot down on the issue of having to charge my phone at 2 p.m. every, single, day. I looked into the services running on my Android phone (a Galaxy Nexus), and noticed that those using up the most memory, and probably demanding a data connection most often, were Facebo…

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It's remarkable to think about how easy it is to loose institutional knowled…

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It's remarkable to think about how easy it is to loose institutional knowledge

We lost the knowledge of concrete for the better part of a millenium after the fall of the Roman Empire and we've only recently begun to understand how the rockets that sent astronauts to the moon worked less than 50 years ago. 
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Secrets of ancient Roman concrete could make modern structures more durable, cut emissions
It’s no secret that the Romans were better at producing concrete than we are today. Modern concrete begins to deteriorate after 50 years or so of facing the elements, whereas structures engineered…

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