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It turns out someone out there actually responds to those spam e-mails. A study by computer scientists from Berkeley and UC San Diego found that spammers receive a grand total of one response to every 12,500,000 emails they send out.
The researchers took the approach that “the best way to measure spam is to be a spammer.” Tech Radar reports th...
Talk about tag teaming! Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien have just won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together, after what can only be described as brilliant scientific collaboration and chemistry (oh snap!) The three were able to develop Green Fluorescent Protein, which though it may sound like a mere step above neon green eggs a...
We’ve heard loads recently about Wall Street barons seeing their assets plummet, the credit crisis rearing its ugly head as banks suspend access to savings and loans, and the implosion of the American financial market as the spindly scaffolding created by speculation crumbles. But what does this mean literally for most Americans? For UC San Dieg...
Remember how back in the day Ask.com was AskJeeves.com? Well looks like the website, more specifically co-founder David Warthen, had more tricks up his sleeve, or at least a wife turning tricks as a profession. The wifey Cristina Warthen, who used to go by the moniker Brazil, once marketed herself as "an unusual mix of well-educated good-girl an...
Turns out, UCSD may be more like Ancient Rome than we thought, and I’m not calling it a haven for anal sex either. A recent audit reveals that minimally 13% of emergency loans granted to UCSD employees between October 1, 2006 and September 30, 2007 were fraudulent.
According to 10News.com:
Applicants were unaware of any subterfuge, according ...
Though medical marijuana may be taken via an oral prescription called Marinol, a UC San Diego psychiatrist named Igor Grant is lighting a fire under the *ss of legislators. A researcher for the UC Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research in San Diego (yes, it does exist), Dr. Grant supports smoking marijuana, as opposed to just taking Marinol, for...
Upon entering college, students not only become privy to academic knowledge, they also learn the traditions of their schools. Here is a list of CollegeOTR’s Top 10 Craziest College Traditions.
1) Vassar College: Each year freshmen and seniors partake in an event called Serenading. Seniors walk dorm to dorm where freshman sing songs insulting th...
To add a little sizzle to your summer, MSNBC is listing the World's Sexiest Beaches of 2008. Unfortunately, most college students won't have a chance to visit Greece, Australia or Mozambique this year. But that doesn't mean they can't take in the sun, sand and skimpy bikinis at more local hotspots.
With that in mind, I present the Top 10 Schoo...
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