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I use them to hang posters and keep cables straight, but I’ve seen them used for wallets and even to keep clothing together.

treehugger:

Sometimes “living green” just means making due with what you have around. Why buy some piece of plastic junk when you can use something else in a new way?

If you have any binder clips handy, here are 16 clever ways to use binder clips around the house.

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Physicists Have Found the Higgs Boson??

At a meeting held at CERN this morning, scientists presented the latest results from the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. After 30 years of research and $9 billion of investment, they’ve changed the face of physics forever: they’ve found the Higgs boson.

(UPDATE: They haven’t found the Higgs boson yet. What they’ve found, is a boson which is like the Higgs. They still need to prove it if is really the Higgs boson.)

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Warning: This YouTube video of the harassment Karen Huff Klein endured is heartbreaking and really hart do watch. The “internets” did a good thing.

Bullied Bus Monitor Gets Internet Payback: Bus monitor Karen Klein was horribly bullied by a busload of kids on a trip in Greece, NY that she was hired to help monitor.

Reddit user Max Sidorov of Toronto started a fundraiser for Klein after he heard of her salary of $15,506. He decided she did not make enough money to have to put up with that type of harassment, according to Mashable.

The site has pulled in more than $117,000 as of 6am ET. (The amount continues to rise.)

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Ethiopians have their attention focused on the controversial new bill which criminalizes the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services such as Skype and Google Talk.

—  Ethiopia: Disconnecting Citizens From the Future (via globalvoices)

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