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Nerds 4 Obama
Barack Obama Obama for America Last Friday the Obama campaign made a big move in courting the country's nerds, geeks and overall science-friendly voters. First the campaign announced that 61 Nobel...
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Newt Gingrich Reviews Science Books on Amazon: Here Are Our Favorites
Newt Gingrich Gage Skidmore via Flickr Our current president is a proud nerd, appearing on shows like Mythbusters, collecting comic books in his youth and dropping references to dilithium crystals...
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FYI: Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?
Bill Clinton Addresses the DNC REUTERS/Jim Young There is a reason why so many of you were enthralled by former President Clinton the other night. It's the same reason why Barack Obama had a tough act...
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FYI: Does Watching A Debate In HDTV Influence How You Vote?
Romney v. Obama Wikimedia Commons You already know the most famous example of TV influencing a debate: Nixon sweating under the heatlamps, looking browbeaten, unpresidential, while squaring off...
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BeerSci: How To Brew A Beer In A Week
Red White and Blue Brewskis Peddler11 A couple of days ago, one of the PopSci.com edit staff asked me if it was possible to brew a beer in time for election day. That's related to one of the...
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What Does The U.S. Look Like To Political Ad Buyers? [Infographic]
What Does The U.S. Look Like To SuperPACs? Adam Cole/NPRWith the popular vote so close this election, eyes are on swing states even more than usual. Now what if we showed, cartographically, how...
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Archive Gallery: The Science Of Elections
Counting Quicker View Photo Gallery Voting is pretty simple on its face. Cast the ballots, count 'em up, tell everybody who the President is. But we who have been living through this presidential race...
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Why Can't We Vote By Email Or Text?
Obama Phone BBC It's the 21st century! Why can't we tweet or text our Designated Polling Station and have our votes counted that way? Well, because of fraud, mostly. Deciding the leader of the United...
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Why Do Computer Scientists Want Election Day To Drag On For A Full Week?
Polling Place Wikimedia Commons There's something so indescribably American about what millions of us did yesterday--standing in line at a polling place, exchanging hellos with neighbors, peacefully...
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Google Reveals Massive Iranian Phishing Scheme
Google banner in a Swedish parody parade Don't be evil! Wikimedia Commons Government email spying in the United States may have all the headlines, but America hardly has a monopoly on privacy...
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Azerbaijani Election App Reveals Vote Rigging
Central Election Commission App The top name is current President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Right below his name is opposition candidate Jamil Hasanli. The upside-down "e" seen in the names above is...
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Salvadoran Newspaper Sends Drone To Cover Presidential Election
Phantom: All Lit Up Dan Bracaglia As Salvadorans lined up to vote for a new president this Sunday, Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Gráfica sent a drone out to record video of them from above.This is...
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How Hurricane Sandy Could Influence The Outcome Of The Presidential Election
President Obama Discusses Hurricane Sandy With FEMA OfficialsCourtesy White House / Pete SouzaWill Hurricane Sandy's impact be felt in the November elections? Research shows that incumbent parties tend...
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What Does The U.S. Look Like To Political Ad Buyers? [Infographic]
What Does The U.S. Look Like To SuperPACs?Adam Cole/NPRWith the popular vote so close this election, eyes are on swing states even more than usual. Now what if we showed, cartographically, how outside...
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Voting is pretty simple on its face. Cast the ballots, count 'em up, tell everybody who the President is. But we who have been living through this presidential race for what seems like our entire lives...
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Why Can't We Vote By Email Or Text?
Obama PhoneBBCIt's the 21st century! Why can't we tweet or text our Designated Polling Station and have our votes counted that way? Well, because of fraud, mostly. Deciding the leader of the United...
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Why Do Computer Scientists Want Election Day To Drag On For A Full Week?
Polling PlaceWikimedia CommonsThere's something so indescribably American about what millions of us did yesterday--standing in line at a polling place, exchanging hellos with neighbors, peacefully...
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Google Reveals Massive Iranian Phishing Scheme
Google banner in a Swedish parody paradeWikimedia CommonsDon't be evil!Government email spying in the United States may have all the headlines, but America hardly has a monopoly on privacy violations....
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Azerbaijani Election App Reveals Vote Rigging
Central Election Commission AppMeydan.tvThe top name is current President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Right below his name is opposition candidate Jamil Hasanli. The upside-down "e" seen in the names...
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Salvadoran Newspaper Sends Drone To Cover Presidential Election
Phantom: All Lit UpDan BracagliaAs Salvadorans lined up to vote for a new president this Sunday, Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Gráfica sent a drone out to record video of them from above.This is the...
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