Even BPA-free plastic can leach hormone-like chemicals, research shows, and there’s no way to tell which products pose the risk.

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Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote. The tactics of voter suppression can range from minor dirty tricks that make voting inconvenient, up to blatantly illegal activities that physically intimidate prospective voters to prevent them from casting ballots. Voter suppression could be particularly effective if a significant amount of voters are (more…)

Best Free Downloadable PC Games: We’ve compiled 25 of the best free downloadable games that the PC has to offer. You won’t have to worry about getting DOSBox to play any of these games, either!

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A new promotion by the Seattle Mariners, Free Compost Night, might pique the interest of green fans, though; the team is giving away bags of compost made from the trash generated during the ball games.

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Starting September 10, Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online massively multiplayer game goes free-to-play. What this means to existing subscribers is way more interesting than what it means to newcomers.

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EverQuest II has dropped a bomb on their community today by announcing EverQuest II Extended — a new version of the game that allows you to play without paying a subscription fee. EverQuest II Extended works very much like any free-to-play game, relying on an item shop and tiered membership access to garner revenue.

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It started in the bread aisle of Tesco and ended on an island off New Zealand. How Paul Smith got abandoned in America, lost in Paris, covered in cockroaches and saved by kindness.

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bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What’s new is that (more…)

Vancouver’s Indo-Canadian community has rallied to provide funding and uniforms for India’s three-man Winter Olympics team

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crimperman writes “The Open-PC project has announced that its first PC will be available at the end of February for €359. They claim the mini-ITX desktop machine is energy efficient, consumer ready, easy to upgrade, and — significantly — uses only hardware that has free software drivers available. As you’d expect, it comes with GNU/Linux which is running KDE (a €10 donation to the KDE project in included in the price). Interestingly (more…)