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Carl Franzen

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Carl is an up-and-coming web journalist who previously interned at Meredith Corporation, MSN, and The Atlantic. He studied journalism and religion at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

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Pew: Internet Revolution Will Be Slow, Painful

posted: 1 day 4 hours ago

(April 1) -- The Internet may improve our most powerful institutions in the next decade, but a Pew Research Center poll also suggests there is a strong undercurrent of opinion that believes that posi ...

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London Unveils Olympic Tower Design

posted: 1 day 22 hours ago

(March 31) -- The London skyline is already famous for many iconic sights: the Big Ben clock tower, the houses of Parliament, and the Eye -- one of the planet's largest Ferris wheels. Now city offici ...

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Glitches Blind Half of NYC's Subway Cameras

posted: 2 days 4 hours ago

(March 31) -- It turns out, Big Brother isn't always watching you. At least not in large swaths of the New York City subway system. Almost half of all of the 4,313 security cameras installed through ...

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Smashingly Successful Start for Proton Supercollider

posted: 3 days 6 hours ago

(March 30) -- It was the most anticipated event since the beginning of the universe -- literally. After a few harrowing, last-minute false starts, the world's largest and costliest science experimen ...

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'Door to Afterlife' Found in Egypt One of Many Worldwide

posted: 3 days 21 hours ago

(March 29) -- Forget Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." Today, archaeologists in Egypt proudly announced their discovery of a 3,500-year-old "Door to the Afterlife." Standing nearly 6 feet tall, t ...

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Chain of Tornadoes Tears Through North Carolina

posted: 4 days 7 hours ago

(March 29) -- Up to eight tornadoes tore across central North Carolina on Sunday night, injuring at least 12 people, displacing up to 70 others and causing extensive property damage and power outages ...

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6 Space Oddities of the Year So Far

posted: 4 days 22 hours ago

(March 28) - Space has been alternately described "the final frontier," "far out," and "trippy"--all apt names for that most alien of environments, festooned with strange sights unlike any found on o ...

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Priest-Turned-Scientist Wins $1.53 Million Prize

posted: 7 days 22 hours ago

(March 25) -- A Spanish-American scientist who has spent the better part of his life at the intersection of science and religion has won a $1.53 million prize that critics charge actually undermines ...

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Chatroulette Piano Improv Guy: 'I'm Not Ben Folds!'

posted: 9 days 22 hours ago

(March 23) -- Internet users and media types have recently become obsessed with "Chatroulette," a Web site launched last year that randomly pairs strangers from around the world in face-to-face video ...

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A Sign of the Times: @ Is Art!

posted: 10 days 8 hours ago

(March 23) -- It's a sign of (and for) the times: The @ symbol, found so commonly these days in Internet correspondence and yet so difficult to agreeably name, has officially been deemed a piece of c ...

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