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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/boeing_miniature_weapons/
Federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement was directly responsible for flood damage to certain areas of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The federal government has to pay $700k in damages to three people and a business in this case and the precedent could result in the government paying billions to 100,000 others who filed claims with the crops after Katrina:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2009/11/post_16.html
Researchers have developed a unique and robust method of "fingerprinting" RFID tags to prevent counterfeiting and enhance security:
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/16260.htm
Doubts have been raised on the viability of the commercial nuclear energy industry. Two big problems are the shortage of uranium and the high cost of nuclear energy as compared to other sources of energy:
http://www.physorg.com/news177839133.html
Smuggler was caught with 14 snakes and 10 lizards taped to his body after customs officials saw a tarantula running around in one of his bags:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1223122/Norway-smuggler-taped-14-snakes-10-lizards-body.html
The world is about to reach a milestone where half of humanity will only have enough children to replace itself, which could result in the world's population growth stopping its increase by 2050:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14743589
Using search engines like Google can prevent dementia and memory loss in middle-aged and older adults. Playing Sudoku and taking up a new hobby can have similar benefits:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091020-googling-google-web-searching-dementia.html
Study seems to indicate that doctors have less respect for their heavy patients:
http://www.womenshealth.gov/News/english/632313.htm
Men still have more heart attacks than women, but the heart attack rate for men dropped from 2.5% to 2.2% while women rates increased from 0.7% to 1%:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-heart27-2009oct27,0,2283495.story
Study found that high testosterone is linked to being miserly with money:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18045-high-testosterone-linked-to-miserly-behaviour.html
Bears at Yosemite have learned to target minivans over all other types of cars:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/23/MN081A863P.DTL
Astronauts may be able to use the cars on Mars for shelter instead of having to construct their own shelter, plus the caves might preserve signs of past or current life on Mars:
http://www.livescience.com/space/091026-mm-mars-caves.html
I found this feature article interesting on how GPS Navigation devices could change the function (and shape) or our brains. It turns out that needing to learn maps and figure out directions changes our brains:
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/102501/The_last_word_This_is_your_brain_on_GPS
For those interested in Black Friday deals, the deals for most of the major chain stores will be listed here:
http://bfads.net/