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• Monsanto, Dole to collaborate on veggies: Monsanto Co and Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc are formalizing a partnership to breed vegetables that are more attractive to consumers. The five-year collaboration will focus on creating variations of broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach, the companies said on Tuesday. The results could include vegetables that are more colorful, tastier, less susceptible to bruising and have a longer shelf-life. "If I buy broccoli on Saturday or Sunday and try to cook it on Wednesday, it'll get wilty," said Monsanto spokeswoman Riddhi Trivedi-St. Clair. She also stressed that these new variants will not be genetically modified like the company's much larger corn seed and soybean products.
• The Credit Scores You Don't Get to See: You have a right to see your credit score once a year, but that's not the only credit knowledge lenders and sellers base their decisions on. MSN Money runs down eight "secret scores" that the credit world keeps on you. Photo by TrinityCreditS ervices. These non-FICO scores don't factor into that seemingly all-important trio of credit bureau numbers, but they do affect how credit issuers and contracts will be negotiated. Besides looking at credit histories to determine if a borrower is likely to be late or go bankrupt, credit histories allow companies to fine-tune their marketing to you, even if you've been strong-willed in the past:
• Improve Your Sleep Posture: We tend to apply ergonomics as it relates to our waking activities. But utilizing the right sleep posture is just as important as having the right PC posture, especially if you want to enjoy a pain-free morning and day.
• A Look At Massachusetts? ?Health Care Reform?: The article goes on to detail the effects of the program, parts of which may end up in Obama?s plan. The author?s conclusion? The expensive Massachusetts plan is not well-designed to systematically improve anyone?s health. Instead, it?s a superficial effort to clear the uninsured from the books and then clumsily limit further costs by discouraging care.
• CrunchPad Web Tablet Landing "As Soon As Possible" for Less Than $300: the Atom-powered touchscreen CrunchPad is strictly for internet consumption?it boots directly into the WebKit browser and there's no hard drive or keyboard, though you can plug in a keyboard if you want. It does support for Flash, so Arrington' ;s claim that compared to netbooks, "most people will find it works as good as a netbook or better" for getting their internet on sounds pretty reasonable, given its 12-inch screen. Pointedly, it's not meant to compete with Apple's mythical tablet, whenever it graces the world. I'd take the under $300 CrunchPad over a netbook any day, since it seems like it'll surpass them at the one thing they were supposedly designed to do?eat the internet.
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• Asus Eee PC 1005HA review: Pam's new computer. Happy Birthday
• Hands-on: Google Voice dialing up for launch: Google has reportedly obtained over a million phone numbers in preparation for the public launch of its new Google Voice telephony service. Ars gives you an inside look at the closed beta.
• Pets Pass Superbug to Humans: Transmission of an infectious superbug from dogs and cats to humans, and back again, is an increasing problem, a new study finds. The superbug, a strain of bacteria known as MRSA, has evolved a resistance to antibiotics. It has long plagued hospitals but in recent years has become more common in homes. MRSA has even invaded beaches. Only about two years ago, scientists began to seriously suspect pets were transmitting the bacteria. In the July edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Richard Oehler of the University of South Florida College of Medicine and colleagues lay out the latest thinking on MRSA (methicillin-r esistant Staphylococcus aureus) and pets. The infections can be transmitted by animal bites and most threaten young children, the researchers note.
• Government Health Care Plan? 90% of Democrats, 75% of Independents, 50% of Republicans ? say ?YES?: Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector.
• 700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing: Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordinatio n to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do. Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" ? off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings. The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues ? pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.
• 20 Visualizations to Understand Crime: There's a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there's a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points - number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred. With all this data it's no surprise that the NYPD (and more recently, the LAPD) took a liking to COMPSTAT, an accountability management system driven by data. While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.
• Why Religion Causes Violence: Orthodox Christianity and Islam?of the ?everyone with different beliefs than us deserves to burn in hell? variety?is responsible for some of history?s greatest crimes. This is obvious. Just as obvious as the fact that racism?of the ?everyone with a different ethnic background than us is subhuman? variety?is responsible for some of history?s greatest crimes. For people who have trouble seeing this, though, Sam Harris did a pretty good job of laying out the reasoning behind this in his books, with citations from the Bible, Koran, and Christianity?s most influential theologians (Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin were all for violent repression of dissent). No one ever dicusses this, though, it?s always about what a big meanie Sam Harris is for criticizing religion. Well, almost no one: Victor Reppert just put up a pretty good post on the subject. I thank him for it. Here?s his account of the reasoning:

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