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The Monitor #4: Who wants to play Hotornot.com (for science)?

Your weekly dose of science news, The Monitor, once again raises its ugly head. (No wait, that's just the Paul Janka lookalike in our second segment. Or the Predator in our third. Hey, it's that kind of week.)

In this episode: 3 new dinosaurs discovered (only 2 of which are cool), what hotornot.com tells us about the psychology of love, a disturbing map of human impact on the world's oceans, and a "virtual patient" that looks like Operation on steroids.


Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez

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9.73% Chance That US Spy Satellite Will Crash on or Near a Human Being

Duck and cover boys and girls. A broken-down photo-recon satellite the size of a shortbus has had it with piping close-ups of the blinding bald patches of C.I.A. operatives into their own Blackberries as they distribute Kalashnikovs and crack to third-world babies. [Phew.]

The disillusioned satellite is reported to have given its entire record collection to an obsolete cellphone satellite and seems to be inching ever closer to the precipice of uncontrolled reentry.

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