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Lacey Schwimmer is Cunning

Despite the fact that she’s been on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ for 5 seasons, Lacey Schwimmer still isn’t very famous, and I rarely remember who she is when I see her, so it was very crafty of her to go to the pool at Hard Rock this weekend, take off most of her clothes and then let someone take pictures of it. Very crafty indeed. If she plays her cards right, I might even stare at her tits next time. She’s really turned our relationship upside down!

Baikonur Cosmodrome – The Oldest Spaceport on Earth

There are, to be frank, not many spaceports on the planet as of 2011. Of the thirty or so only six of them have sent people in to space (more than 100km in altitude). Four of those are located in the US, another in China and the sixth and oldest is to be found in Kazakhstan. It is known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome and as well as being the oldest it is also the largest spaceport in the world. It has quite a remarkable history. Still in operation, it has seen huge political change in its time and is set to function as a space port until at least 2050. Yet Kazakhstan is not usually the country that springs immediately to mind when it comes to the space faring nations. It is the largest landlocked country on the planet, as well as being the ninth largest country in the world; its territory exceeds that of Western Europe. So why is the cosmodrome there at all? Until 1991 it was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) a single party socialist state which covered most of the territory of the old Russian Empire.

Ashley Greene Does Esquire Mexico

My completely normal not creepy or weird at all obsession with Ashley Greene has been fully documented on this site, so sorry about that. But when I have sex with girls while thinking about Ashley Greene my semen makes them better drivers and let's them know about shoe sales before they happen. Whoa, whoa, slow down. No need to call me all at once, ladies.

Temples of the Atom

With your help, I can present a view inside the history and the wreckage of America's never-finished nuclear power stations. In the years following the 1979 reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, more than 50 reactor projects were cancelled across the United States. While many of these reactors had yet to move beyond the planning stages, a number of units that were well into construction were cancelled and abandoned. Closer regulatory scrutiny after the accident combined with a difficult economy to make a host of half-completed projects unviable, and left their wreckage strewn across remote farmland and fog-choked coniferous forests from Tennessee to Washington state.

A Lamborghini Gets Sand-Trapped at Pebble Beach

A Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder wound up in a sand trap after the driver took a wrong turn leaving the Concorso Italiano event at Pebble Beach last night. Mulligan! A helpful rollback wrecker eventually arrived to tee up the Lambo, assisting the driver in reversing back onto the more tractable green.

Bomb-Resistant Baggage Hold Tested

British engineers are testing a flexible, bomb-resistant baggage hold that could eliminate the need to use heavy — and expensive — hardened luggage containers to protect aircraft from explosions. An international team of researchers at Sheffield University built the container, dubbed Fly-Bag, using composite materials slathered with elastomeric coating and fabrics impregnated with shear-thickening fluid. It is designed to absorb the force of an explosion, preventing or minimizing damage to the aircraft. Shear-thickening fluids increase their viscosity in response to impact. Following a sudden impact, the particles clump together in structures called hydroclusters, thickening the fluid to absorb the force.

Pillarless Pioneer: The 1949 Buick Roadmaster Riviera

In mid-1949, GM's senior divisions introduced a trio of glamorous new models -- the Cadillac Coupe de Ville, the Oldsmobile Futuramic 98 Deluxe Holiday coupe, and the Buick Roadmaster Riviera -- that are popularly, if incorrectly, considered the first pillarless hardtops. This week, we consider the origins of this quintessentially (if not uniquely) American body style, and examine the development of the '49 Roadmaster Riviera. We generally believe that trying to definitively identify the first of anything in the automotive world is at best a perilous endeavor, but for those keeping score, honors for the earliest American pillarless hardtop may go to Dodge. Back in 1916, Dodge Brothers body engineer George E. Goddard filed for a design patent on a two-door sedan body with no B-pillars, although we don't know if any such cars were actually built.

The Math of The Rubik’s Cube

Last August, 30 years after the Rubik’s cube first appeared, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a cube got, it could be solved in no more than 20 moves. Although the researchers used some clever tricks to avoid evaluating all 43 quintillion of the cube’s possible starting positions, their proof still relied on the equivalent of 35 years’ worth of number crunching on a good modern computer. Unfortunately, for cubes bigger than the standard Rubik’s cube — with, say, four or five squares to a row, rather than three — adequately canvassing starting positions may well be beyond the computational capacity of all the computers in the world. But in a paper to be presented at the 19th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms in September, researchers from MIT, the University of Waterloo and Tufts University establish the mathematical relationship between the number of squares in a cube and the maximum number of moves necessary to solve it. Their method of proof also provides an efficient algorithm for solving a cube that’s in its worst-case state.

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