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As a tribute to the recently lit flame in Beijing, our first installment focuses on the pride of China: Table Tennis (a.k.a. Ping Pong). Inside you
’ll find a 30-year old performance enhancer in its final days, a training method built for Forrest Gump and all (perhaps even more than) you’ll ever need to know about Ping Pong balls.

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The subject of the most-viewed YouTube sports clip of all-time, in a rather boring revelation, is the world’s most-popular sport. The video is entitled Comedy Football. It’s a montage of soccer bloopers set to Malcolm Arnold’s The River Kwai March, and it has been watched 16.8 million times since it was posted on March 5, 2007.

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It took years for the hazards of smoking to come to light. Now there’s debate over the safety of mobile phones, but studies on their possible health effects are far from definitive.

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New imaging technologies reveal the intricate architecture of the brain, creating a blueprint of its connectivity

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Two Russian planes were shot down over South Ossetia on Saturday, and 12 Russian troops were killed, according to an official from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Russia conducted airstrikes on Georgian targets on Friday evening and Saturday, escalating the conflict in a separatist area of Georgia that is shaping into a test of the power.

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Once you get to the Olympic level, the spread between first and last place can be truly tiny, so even the smallest technical advantage could mean the difference between standing on the top of the winner’s podium, or being an also-ran. Here’s a few of the best new ideas that have come along since the last Olympics four years ago in Athens.

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As the tech world gets itself in a tizzy over Google saying its 5 percent stake in AOL might be impaired — basically it may now be worth less than they thought it was — we thought we’d revisit some of the most notable tech writedowns in history

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As the prices of educational laptops for children in developing countries creep upward, a group of researchers attempts to create a new, even lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.

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Things really have deteriorated between John McCain and the press: even the Wall Street Journal editorial board is turning on him. The famously conservative group publishes a column praising the economic policy of none other than Barack Obama:

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Om 2008.8 is one of the many distributions that currently work on the Openmoko phones. You can compare a distribution with an Operating System on normal computers. It gives the phone all software needed for operating. For more information about the different flavors, see distributions

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