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  1. Alien Swarm


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    General
    This game is set in the future in a colony on a cold planet that's now occupied by a mutated-cockroach-looking alien species. They don't come in peace and are hellbent on making your colony their new home. It's a top-down (angled 60 degrees) shooter coop game.

    Difficulty
    There's not much to be said here except four modes: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Insane. This game rewards ...
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  2. Industrialization leads to Emancipation

    This article touches on a little bit of business, politics, and philosophy. If you dig deep enough, you might even begin to find the seeds of religion, but I won't touch that one with a 10 foot aluminum pole.

    I think we all heard about this ...

    Updated 9th July 2010 at 12:39 AM by John Basedow

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    International Business
  3. "Why are my prescriptions so dang expensive?!"

    A question that is often asked when complaining about the lack of universal health-care, and also an argument against the initiation of such a program. The old "Drugs are Expensive" argument taps fiscally conservative voters, encouraging them to use their own powers of deduction to decide exactly what will happen should we (United Stats-ians) decide to adopt a universal health-care plan, and the implications it will have on your wallet.

    Drugs are expensive for three reasons. ...

    Updated 9th July 2010 at 12:40 AM by John Basedow

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    Medicine
  4. Arthritis Patient Successfully Treated with Fat Stem Cells

    This is just a small taste of medical technology that is in the pipeline 10-20 years from now. Arthritis used to be considered a lifetime disability. My aunt suffers arthritic pain in both hands, and has to receive regular paralytic injections to her wrists at regular intervals just to be able ...

    Updated 9th July 2010 at 12:40 AM by John Basedow

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    Medicine
  5. The Next Space Race: Human Engineering

    Make no mistake - this is a race.

    A race not only to discover a cure for some of the most debilitating, vicious diseases known to us, but also to re-define what it means to be human.

    In 2001, president Bush allowed federal funding for stem cell research on stem cell lines that were not obtained by unethical means, ethical being a term of his own personal definition.

    In August 2001, Bush announced that his administration would allow federal funding only
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    Updated 9th July 2010 at 12:41 AM by John Basedow

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    Medicine
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