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Texas A&M researchers have discovered that the phorid fly from South America will lay eggs on the fire ants and the maggots which are hatched eat away at the ant's brains, eventually causing their heads to fall off. Someone at the university was willing to underwrite the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google and IBM Are Ahead of the Competition | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

But next year, unless you're willing to trek over to Annenberg, the only hot stuff to greet the eye is going to be hard-boiled eggs--even though many 9 AM class sufferers and those athletes (who just so happen to have to wake up 3 hours earlier and...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Budget Plinko, Part III: Cutting the Bacon | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Quad living will get a little tougher next year, according to many residents. Quadlings cited concerns about safety and an anticipated decline in the quality of residential life due to budget cuts announced on Monday by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The reductions are geared towards helping FAS close...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quad Residents React with Worries About Safety, House Life | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

Once we've got our card in hand, our behavior becomes riddled with irrationalities. In one experiment, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that people were willing to pay twice as much for basketball tickets when they were using a credit card as opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

The 'it' he was referring to is, of course, swine flu. According to the World Health Organization, the number of people infected worldwide stands, as of Monday morning, at 4,694, of which 95 cases have occurred in Spain. And some evidence seems to point to a factory pig farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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