A mid-season look at the players playing well enough to be considered for the leagues most valuable player.

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Is the undersea sequel a little wet behind the ears

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In a significant step toward restoring healthy blood circulation to treat a variety of diseases, scientists have developed a new technique and described a novel mechanism for turning human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells into plentiful, functional endothelial cells, which are critical to the formation of blood vessels….

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bonch writes “Following in YouTube’s footsteps, Vimeo has now introduced its own beta HTML5 video player, and like YouTube, it uses H.264 and requires Safari, Chrome, or ChromeFrame. The new player doesn’t suffer the rebuffering problems of the Flash version when clicking around in the video’s timeline, and it also loads faster. HTML5 could finally be gaining some real momentum.”

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With the heavy publicity of Michael Vick’s incarceration, we thought we’d cover the biggest NFL athletes who’ve been arrested this decade, attached with mugshots.

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tedlistens writes “NASA is asking the public to suggest subjects for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, its super powerful camera currently orbiting Mars. Since it arrived there in 2006, the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen more success than that lost lander, recording nearly 13,000 observations of Martian terrain, with each image covering dozens of square miles and revealing details as small as (more…)