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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: Chinese entrepreneurs are renting random white guys to pretend to be visiting businessmen, and to lend an aura of general Being Connected to the West to business meetings, conferences and receptions.

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: The vuvuzela is like a straightened trumpet and is played by blowing a raspberry into the mouthpiece. The player’s lips open and close about 235 times a second, sending puffs of air down the tube, which excite resonance of the air in the conical bore. A single vuvuzela played by a decent trumpeter is reminiscent of a hunting horn – but the sound is less pleasing when played by the average football fan, as the note is imperfect and fluctuates in frequency. It sounds more like an elephant trumpeting. This happens because the player does not keep the airflow and motion of the lips consistent.

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This week, Scott and Tom discuss: Ten movies to see on independence day, besides independence day. Futurama in Lego form, Ebert eating a little crow, Redbox getting into video game rentals, buying your own Tron Lightcycle, and MORE!

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: Why do colors change as it gets darker? Why do we associate dark blues with pitch black night? For the answer, let’s look at the Purkinje Color Effect.

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Joined this week by friend and fellow podcast, Patrick! This week, Scott and Tom discuss: Trek mashups, Dr. Who scams, the Mario Marathon, Tom’s onLive experience, huge old hard drives, Pac Man design docs, wicked Tron peripherals, your own Falcon, and x-rays of toys!

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: So, it is widely believed that the recent ascendancy of “so” began in Silicon Valley. The journalist Michael Lewis picked it up when researching his 1999 book The New New Thing: “When a computer programmer answers a question,” he wrote, “he often begins with the word ‘so.’” Microsoft employees have long argued that the “so” boom began with them.

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: “Venus could once have been a living world with watery surface oceans, according to the European Space Agency. The ESA says that data from its Venus Express probe in orbit above the second planet indicates that it “may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth”.

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: “The US Great Lakes have some competition: the moon. Yes, that old thing in the sky may hold more than all of the water contained in the Great Lakes, according to a NASA-funded study. From the article: ‘Scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, along with other scientists across the nation, determined that the water was likely present very early in the moon’s formation history as hot magma started to cool and crystallize. This finding means water is native to the moon.’”

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: The Chicago-based DePaul University will offer what it says is the nation’s first master’s degree in predictive analysis, the school announced on Wednesday in conjunction with IBM, which will provide resources for the program.

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Join Tom and Scott as they discuss this: “The Independent reports that one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published one hundred years after his death. Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century, but in November, the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain’s three-volume autobiography.

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