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David Shuster talking about Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Convention crib notes on MSNBC. In a speech in which she mocked President Obama for using a teleprompter, Palin was found to have notes scribbled on her left hand which she used during the Q&A.

”People who drank two or more soft drinks a week had an 87% increased risk — or nearly twice the risk — of pancreatic cancer compared to individuals consuming no soft drinks,” says study lead author Noel T. Mueller, MPH, a research associate at the Cancer Control Program at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. The study is published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers& Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada’s changing north.

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Katie Couric sat down for a recent interview with Comedienne Sarah Silverman. The two discussed her Comedy Central show “The Sarah Silverman Program,” her difficult childhood, and the breakup with boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel. This is an extended version of the Sunday Morning piece with lots more interview packed in!

Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins bring the myth of a cursed man back to its legendary origins in The Wolfman.

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John Travolta has made a career of having some really interesting haircuts, from disco ‘dos to alien dreads. With the opening of “From Paris With Love” this week, let’s look back at some of his weirdest and wildest hairstyles.

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 ”Ian takes a complex subject such as the Mayan Calendar and makes it very easy to understand on a personal level.” He also clearly points out how the Schedule of Creation can be tracked when one looks at past historical events and relates that information to what to expect in the near future leading up to 2012.

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Usually water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures below that. But now scientists - reporting today in the journal Science — have found a way to keep water in a liquid form at -40 degrees F. What’s more, the scientists have found another way to make the water freeze when it’s heated. It’s a curious phenomenon to say the least, but the results could have implications for computer climate modeling. Igor Lubomirsky and his colleagues from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science achieved this unusual feat using dust-free water on materials called pyroelectric amorphous solids, which change their electrical charge depending on their temperature.

One of the materials the scientists looked at was lithium tantalate. At 12 degrees F, the material has a negative charge. But raise the temperature to 17.6 degrees F, and it has a positive charge.

When the scientists put dust-free water on the material, the freezing point no longer was the normal 32 degrees. In fact, the freezing point depended on the charge. The scientists were able to supercool the water down -40 F without it freezing.

A negative charge did the opposite. So when they applied a negative charge to the surface, thereby raising the temperature to 17, the “heated” water froze. 

Another strange thing happened: on a positively charged surface, the water froze from the bottom up, and on a negatively charged surface, the water froze from the top down.

Lubomirsky told NPR that he wasn’t sure yet why any of this happened.

But the implications of the role of dust in water should be considered in climate modeling, Franz Geiger, a physical chemist at Northwestern University in Illinois, told NPR. Ice in the atmosphere forms on dust particles and dust particles can have different electrical charges. That could influence temperatures, so it’s a variable that could be taken into consideration in computer models of climate.

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Hubble has discovered a mysterious X-shaped object traveling at 11,000mph. NASA says that P/2010-A2 may be a comet, product of the collision between two asteroids. Or a Klingon Bird of Prey. Either way, UCLA investigator David

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Ru Paul sits down with Kathy Lee to discuss his new book, “Working it” on NBC Today show.