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The benefits, annoyances and miscalculations of planned obsolescence.

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YouTube is reportedly planning to launch its own subscription music streaming service, which would include video, this year. It will enter a very crowded marketplace.

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Gay SUPERMAN Show Pulled at UNIVERSAL STUDIOS…

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The United States Navy announced today that the Blue Angels, its touring squadron of stunt pilots, will be operating along its full tour schedule this year, after missing out on the 2013 season from federal budget cuts due to sequestration.

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Time Warner Cable has sealed a deal to carry Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera America, The New York Times reports. The deal is expected to be officially announced today. Time Warner is adding Al Jazeera in the key New York and Los Angeles markets before the end of the year and will expand to other markets by March, the report says. The channel will ultimately be available in about 54 million households. Ehab Al Shihabi, interim chief exec at Al Jazeera America told the NYT that the group is in “active negotiations” with other cable and satellite distributors. In August, the company sued AT&T for refusing to carry the channel.

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Lt. John Pike reached a $38,000 settlement in a workman’s compensation claim. The UC Davis students he assaulted got $30K each.

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Scientists have found gold in eucalyptus tree leaves. Well, they knew microscopic gold particles were in the tree leaves, but recent experiments prove that the gold came from the ground underneath instead of being blown in by the wind. Eucalyptus tree roots grow very deep, more than 130 feet in some cases, to access water. When they take up the water, gold particle leech up into the tree.

The researchers compared eucalyptus tree leaves at gold prospecting sites in Western Australia with leaves from trees 2,625 feet (800 meters) away. They also grew eucalyptus trees in greenhouses with potting soil dosed with gold particles, as well as in normal potting soil without gold.

What They Found

Leaves preferentially stored microscopic gold particles about eight micrometers wide on average. Study authors speculate the particles came from underground, seemingly taken up by the root system of the trees. About 20 leaves needed to be sampled to statistically reveal the presence of gold underneath the trees.

The leaves never contain a lot of gold, but the presence of any may indicate what spots contain gold underground, which is a lot easier than digging randomly to find it. Read more about eucalyptus gold at National Geographic News.-Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!

(Image credit: Bill Hatcher/National Geographic)

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An AR-15 military-style rifle was reported missing from the lawmaker’s garage, police say.

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He wants Obama and other high-ranking Democrats to condemn Rep. Alan Grayson’s fundraising email.

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Slate’s Joseph Lapin suggests a way of making the Simpsons "relevant" again: The Characters Should Start Getting Older

[Killing off a character is] just a temporary fix: It will not restore the show’s reputation as innovative or groundbreaking.

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