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High school athlete refuses to wrestle female opponent
By admin on February 27, 2011 | Comments Off
A high school wrestler in wrestling-crazy Iowa forfeited a tournament match after refusing to grapple with a female opponent. Herkelman (20-13), a freshman, and Ottumwa, Iowa sophomore Megan Black (25-13) are the first two girls ever to qualify for the state individual tournament, which goes back to 1926.
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High Schooler With Cerebral Palsy Scores A Touchdown (Video)By admin on October 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Dylan Galloway of Manila High School was born with cerebral palsy, but regardless of his condition, it has always been his dream to score a touchdown during a high school football game.
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Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res DisplaysBy admin on August 27, 2010 | Comments Off
TuurlijkNiet writes with this excerpt from Linux for Devices: “Eat your heart out, ‘Retina display.’ A new technology unveiled yesterday will allow creating pixels eight times smaller than the ones on Apple’s iPhone 4, eliminate the need for polarizer layers, and allow screens to make much more efficient use of available light, say University of Michigan researchers. … The pixels in the nanoresonator displays are about ten times smaller than those (more…)
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MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooksBy admin on June 12, 2010 | Comments Off
An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from the Salem News:
“A new program at Beverly High will equip every student with a new laptop computer to prepare kids for a high-tech future. But there’s a catch. The money for the $900 Apple MacBooks will come out of parents’ pockets. ‘You’re kidding me,’ parent Jenn Parisella said when she found out she’d have to buy her sophomore daughter, Sky, a new computer. ‘She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another (more…) -
Gamer alerts police to prevent U.S. high school shootingBy admin on February 21, 2010 | Comments Off
A conversation a man had online with a stranger while playing an Xbox game raised some alarm bells, and the man’s quick thinking may have averted a high school shooting in Texas, police say.
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High-Speed Video Free With High-Def PhotographyBy admin on February 17, 2010 | Comments Off
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…)
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Neural Nets Make Art While HighBy admin on January 11, 2010 | Comments Off
brilanon writes “Telepathic-critterdrug is a controversial fork of the open source artificial-life sim Critterding, a physics sandbox where blocky creatures evolve neural nets in a survival contest. What we’ve done is to give these animals an extra retina which is shared with the whole population. It’s extended through time like a movie and they can write to it for communication or pleasure. Since this introduces the possibility of the creation of (more…)
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Sunderland women match men by beating high-fliers ArsenalBy admin on November 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Sunderland pull off the shock of the Women’s Premier League season by beating perennial champions Arsenal.
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High On a Bike [pics]By admin on November 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Stunning photo collection of mountain bikers flying high over spectacular scenery.
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Fighter Knocked Out by Brutal High Kick (VIDEO)By admin on November 1, 2009 | Comments Off
The fighter doing the kicking is apparently a student of the Sambo school, which is a kickboxing form that translates to ‘creates large medical bills.’
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