| Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief | Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Saving Time?  The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis Are spreadsheets more hindrance than help in data analysis? Download a free whitepaper to learn morel. Learn More! IT planners need to design WANs around the requirements of the applications that run over the network. Discover why IT departments gravitate towards specific WAN solutions, the expanding requirements and measures organizations can take to maximize WAN performance across the network. Learn More! From the Department of pleading-the-sixth Hugh Pickens writes "The U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees the accused basic safeguards, including a fair and speedy jury trial, but in this era of mass incarceration — when our nation's prison population has quintupled in a few decades —...  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This genre was one of the most defining game forms in the computer gaming world. A recently published article strolls down the memory lane to look back at classic computer games that both defined... From the Department of i-will-try-to-get-timothy-to-do-this dsinc writes "Wired's Spencer Ackerman voluntarily subjected himself to what the U.S. military calls the Active Denial System, an energy weapon commonly known as the 'Pain Ray' that turns electricity into millimeter wave radio frequency and blasts... From the Department of just-lazy-enough-to-work derekmead writes "Forget CFLs, hybrid cars, and organic jeans. Buying our way out of climate change — even if it's green consumption — won't get us far. A new paper (PDF), published in Ethics, Policy, and the Environment by NYU... 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