Helicopter Moms vs. Free Range Kids

When Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for the New York Sun, wrote about letting her son take the subway alone to get back to her Manhattan home from a department store on the Upper East Side, she didn't expect to get hit with a tsunami of criticism from readers.

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STUDY: Chicken among closest living relatives of T-Rex...WTF

Protein retrieved from a 68-millon-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bones and is only distantly related to lizard protein, strengthening the popular idea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living descendants of dinosaurs.

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How to survive the switch to Digital TV

Did my TV screen just shrink? That's the question a lot of people will be asking after installing one of the converter boxes that will keep their older TV sets tuned in to over-the-air broadcasts after February 17, when most stations will switch from analog to digital transmission.

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Agents Free to Search Your Computer and Keep it Forever

Border Agents may keep your computer forever, search through it, copy it, do anything they want, even if they have absolutely no reason to think you did anything wrong. I wonder what happens if you use PGP? a trip to a certain military base is Cuba?

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Net neutrality battle returns to the U.S. Senate

The saga of Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic--and intense interest from the Federal Communications Commission, including a hearing at Stanford University last week--has appended the topic onto at least some politicians' to-do list.

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Crackdown on cell phones on public transit ignites debate

The crackdown in the southern city of Graz has triggered a noisy debate between advocates of free speech and people who say they're simply fed up with having to listen to annoying ring tones and intrusive cell phone chatter.

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New Facebook Feature: Import Your Digg Stories!

"...So why does this matter? Once you enable this feature the stories you digg will not only post to your mini-feed, but also syndicate to your friends through the main Facebook news feed. This helps further our mission of spreading the news you care about, to the people you care about."

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