Word: nirvana
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Alternative music is dying. The vibrancy that marked the Nirvana of our middle-school years has turned into the recent commercial failure of bands like Bush. Alternative rock is now the domain of the hackneyed melding of hip-hop and rock. That is why Machina, the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins release, is so important: no less than these poster boys for traditional alternative rock could resurrect thoughtful angst from its midget-infested Kid Rock death spiral. In the meantime, the 1991-1998 compilation showcases the legacy the Pumpkins have left. The pretentiousness of Billy Corgan aside, songs like "Disarm" and "Tonight...
...1930s using current structural analysis of strains of AIDS virus. The researchers drafted a genealogy of HIV and extracted key building blocks of the virus from each strain. Following the assumption that the mutations in the virus occurred at a roughly consistent pace, scientists used their supercomputer - the Nirvana is capable of performing 1 trillion computations each second - to trace AIDS's evolution back to a single "starter" strain dating from around 1930. The team suspects that one person or a small group of people became infected with the virus through some kind of contact (a bite or accident) with...