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Science
2:15AM Jack Loftus | Motola, like so many who must share their lives with former war zones and forgotten minefields, lost a limb in 1999. Thankfully, she walked again today courtesy modern medicine and an artificial limb. The thing is, she’s an elephant. More »
Amputee Elephant Walks Again Thanks To Incredibly Strong Artificial Limb
2:15AM Jack Loftus | Motola, like so many who must share their lives with former war zones and forgotten minefields, lost a limb in 1999. Thankfully, she walked again today courtesy modern medicine and an artificial limb. The thing is, she’s an elephant. More » 
Gadgets
Convenient Illumination, Thy Name Is Magnetic LED Mine
4:20AM Jason Chen | As long as you live in a submarine, a refrigerator or a steel box, this Striker magnetic LED mine will be extremely useful for odd-angle illumination. If not, not as much. $US9 dudes! More »
Weapons
In Mozambique, Rats Make Good Mine Detectors
5:40AM John Mahoney | Finding humans to clear minefields is hard. So in Mozambique, they’ve trained rats to sniff out unexploded ordinance, single out its location by pawing at the ground (careful!), and de-mine the field. More »
Gadgets
Urban Miners in Japan Find Precious Metals in Discarded Gadgets
9:00AM Jason Chen | China isn’t the only nation dismantling used electronics to get at the gold, copper and silver inside. This trend, called “urban mining”, is even more profitable in the current market where precious metals are trading close to their all-time high. For example, a ton of ore from a gold mine gives about 5 grams of gold, but a ton of mobile phones gives 150 grams of gold. Why would Japan be into this trend? Because their country has few natural resources outside of perverted old dudes, but if they stack up all the mobile phones owned by their citizens, they could probably make a pile as big as Mt. Fuji. [Yahoo News] More »
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