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Boffins dig up prehistoric popcorn in Peru

Do you ever feel like you use the term "boffin" too much in your headlines. Try researchers or scientists. Mix it up a little. Boffin's getting a little cutesy.

Google's Siri-a-like to be named 'Majel' after Trek actress

Best known as the voice on the Federation Computer?

I think the overwhelming number of Star Trek aficionados would remember her as Nurse Christine Chapel. I certainly do.

EMC kills SPEC benchmark with all-flash VNX

An utterly useless benchmark

I wonder why EMC felt it needed to fill its VNX array with solid state drives and couldn't use one of its sub-$10,000 VNX arrays that it touted so highly in its marketing pitch last month? An all-flash array would be far too expensive for anyone except Fortune 1000 enterprises. This was a nothing more than a publicity stunt.

'We Want Two' Navy carrier plan pondered by Cabinet

They need to get rid of that bump in the deck

Perhaps they could iron-out that ugly ramp at the end of the flight deck. It would make for more maneuverability.

Moses' parting of the Red Sea: New sim explains whole thing

Those Israelites are uber-lucky

First the Red Sea crossing, then they reclaim their country and repel attack after attack over the past 60 years by all their neighboring countries. If it wasn't for all that luck, you'd think they really were the chosen people of God.

Actually, there has been research showing Chariot wheels

There was a fascinating video made by the Discovery Channel some years back by an archeologist who, without permission, dived on what he felt was the site of the Exodus crossing in the Red Sea. What he found was really quite stunning, though the Egyptian government would not allow any artifacts to be moved. Here's one part of that show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLLhB-LLMGA