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Transformers Fanatics: Wired News Wants Your Photos!
Wired News is seeking reader-submitted photos for inclusion in a Transformers gallery that we'll publish in early July when the Transformersmovie comes out. Submit your photos for your chance at robot toy fame!

Male Body Odor Can Stink Like Urine Or Have A Pleasant Vanilla Smell,
Why the same sweaty man smells sweet like vanilla to one person and repellent like urine to another comes down to the smeller's genes. Up to one-third of adult humans cannot perceive an odor in a component of male body odor that induces physiological responses in both men and women. To those who do, androstenone either takes on a pleasant sweet odor or a repulsive urine-like one. New research traces this variability to mutations in a single odorant receptor gene, a finding that raises questions of how people detect other people's body odor.

James Webb Space Telescope Testing To Find Infrared Light
A model of the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-InfraRed Instrument will be tested before Christmas at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England to ensure the final instrument can see infrared light.

Download Piaf, Go to Jail
The French may be about to impose stiff penalties for illegally downloading copyright-protected files. Bruce Gain reports from Paris.

From Noah Webster to Merriam-Webster: Celebrating 200 Year of Dictiona
In 2006 "Merriam-Webster celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of America's first dictionary, Noah Webster's A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1806."The site features a timeline, a list of words appearing for the first time in Webster's 1806 dictionary, and brief background about Noah Webster's spelling reforms. Also includes listings of associated spelling bee events for children and adults. From Merriam-Webster.

Once-daily Pill Effective As Multiple Dosings For Oral Yeast Infection
A once-daily medication option for treating the most common mouth infection in HIV/AIDS patients has shown to be just as effective and safe as taking an anti-fungal pill five times a day, according to a new study.

Penguin Chicks Exposed To Human Visitors Experience Spike In Stress Ho
Newly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans.

Fix a Warped Record
You've got a hot DJ gig tonight, but your 12-inch remix of "Purple Rain" is warped. Don't panic -- use this vinyl solution to set the record straight.


Rare Book Room
This "educational site [is] intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world."Includes digitized facsimiles of "some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, [and] Darwin"; most of the Shakespeare Quartos; musical scores by Beethoven and Mozart; the 1455 Gutenberg Bible held by the Library of Congress; and many more. Searchable, or browsable by topic, author, or library.

Passion of the Spaghetti Monster
Bobby Henderson founded the Pastafarian movement as an answer to "intelligent design," and is now crafting a sacred text for his satiric religion. It probably won't be taught in Kansas schools. A Wired News interview by Kathleen Craig.




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