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Researchers in Australia have successfully brought the blood of a 37,000 woolly mammoth back to life using DNA from specimens found preserved in the Siberian permafrost. Professor Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, explains the potential scientific implications: “It is the same as if we went…
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From Grant Achatz and Co., the people behind Chicago’s Alinea, Next promises a truly unqiue experience: you buy tickets like you would for a movie or a play (there’s also a subscription, that’s basically like season tickets) and the menu changes four times a year – with each menu being influenced by a particular time…
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This week Erin does the quick step and gets her skirt ripped off. Enjoy.
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The Trojans clinched their third straight Crosstown Gauntlet trophy Saturday with wins in men’s and women’s track and field and women’s rowing. The wins gave them 65 points. 57.5 points are needed to win the trophy. USC leads 65 – 42.5. Points are still available for baseball and possibly for some post-season matches, but FUCLA…
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Illustration by James Paick [via]
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Government-related entities backed 96.5% of all home loans during the first quarter, up from 90% in 2009, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The increase was driven by a jump in the share of loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-owned housing-finance giants. The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2010 [Thanks to Colin…
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Samurai Vader, by Yoshi Isao. [via]
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You (if you were like us) missed Dr. Bartner’s 40th Anniversary Gala on Saturday. Shame on you. Shame on us. But the USC Bookstore is selling what looks to be a pretty cool book called The Man on the Ladder. A cool promo video for the event is after the jump (featuring Ed O at…
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Here are coach Kiffin’s thoughts on this years spring game. Spring Game Stats [usctrojans]
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Have a great week!
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The long term goal is to support the long-term migration of Apple from being a hardware company with a software arm into being a cloud computing company with a hardware subsidiary — almost like Google, if you squint at the Google Nexus One in the right light. The alternative is to join the PC industry…
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J.D. Salinger, 1953
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