Violence Against Women Act Expires Without A Vote From Senate

After the "legitimate rape" statement and the gang rape widely publicized after an Ohio football team was targeted by hackers here in America also note the bus incident in India that afterwards started protests that ended in police violence, it's really hard to believe that the US government is not taking issues such as this seriously. Such a shame, especially seeing as how this will most likely get little to no mass media airplay.

Huffington Post
"The House leadership would not bring it up, just like they wouldn't bring up funding for Sandy [hurricane damage] last night," said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a key backer of the Senate version of the bill, in an interview with HuffPost. "I think they are still so kowtowing to the extreme on the right that they're not even listening to the moderates, and particularly the women, in their caucus who are saying they support this."

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Below Absolute Zero Temperatures Achieved By Quantum Physicists

It may sound less likely than hell freezing over, but physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-absolute-zero temperature for the first time1. Their technique opens the door to generating negative-Kelvin materials and new quantum devices, and it could even help to solve a cosmological mystery.

Athys & Duster - Barfight

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Mangadrive - Rockstar Feeling (full album download included)

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Overworked, Underpaid & Increasingly Homeless. Is The US Following EU?

America somehow just isn't the same place it was I remembered 20 years ago. Greece, Spain, and quite a bit of the EU has been hit hard also and I have watched this unfold in sorrow, now it's almost surreal seeing my own nation start to follow this trend. I guess it just feels odd seeing it here after being indoctrinated as a child that the nation you live in is somehow indestructible.

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Youtube - Higgs boson found, now what? (Inside Story - 5th July 2012)

I know I'm a little late hearing this but amazing nonetheless.
http://youtu.be/BOMXc24D7dE

Gothamist - Sandy Hook Labeled "Strike Zone" In Batman Dark Knight Rises

Before the movie came out, some media outlets received a "viral package" that contained a map showing a targeted area called Sandy Hook, which was labeled "Strike Zone 1." In the movie, this is where Gotham Stadium is, and Commissioner Gordon points to it on a map (it's the only thing you can read on the map aside from the word "Gotham").

This attempt to draw a legitimate connection between a fictional film and a devastating real-life massacre comes off as trivializing. But we've got to admit it's a pretty weird coincidence.

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