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• Bangladeshi newspapers get punked, bigtime (and for once, it wasn’t even deliberate).

•Worst excuse ever for underage sex? Or best?

• Do science raps ever get old? The answer: no. Maybe this one about the swine flu will, er, go viral.

• Sure, some people are more vertically challenged than others, but height actually varies very little among humans, compared to other species… and scientists still aren’t sure why.

• Is global warming forestalling an ice age?

• A hair-brained idea? Gel does wonders for your coif, and now it may be able to fix your brain, too.

• Do you sue Yahoo? This woman tried to but was unsuccessful; she didn’t like the links that a search of her own name brought up.

• Bottoms up! An unsuspecting man found a decaying frog inside his can of soda. No word yet on whether the animal croaked before or after it somehow slipped into the beverage…or what stage of drinking the soda the dude was in when he discovered the critter.

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• First it was toilets in space. Then spacesuits. Then the LHC (well, it was already broken—but now it’s even more broken). Leading one to conclude: The science is broke! Fix It!

• Earthquakes not only move us, they move islands too. (More news for Joe Barton.)

• So yeah, the 40th anniversary of the moon landing happened. But what human achievements will top it? Here’s 5 ideas.

• Cool tech video of the day: a Canon 5D shutter in slooow motion.

• Looking to hit the beach in Texas? Beware the basketball-sized blobs of oil.

• Also, we are official fans of this blog. As should be anyone who cares about science.

When the Large Hadron Collider at CERN turns on for the first time in September, scientists may discover exciting new particles that either solidify or shatter the laws of physics. But until that happens, we might as well revel at the outrageous, creative theories surrounding the super-speed particle accelerator.

First we heard about the disaster that will occur when the LHC turns on, including miniature black holes that will swallow the planet; scientists quickly debunked that hypothesis. Now two physicists claim in a new study that no matter how hard we try, we may never turn the LHC on at all.

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