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NASA has been given the go-ahead to begin building spacecraft, flight instruments, and launch support facilities that will conduct the world’s first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid in 2018.

http://bit.ly/1jAEY4B

Ukraine prepares armed response as city seized by pro-Russia forces

http://reut.rs/1oXho7t

The Science Of Lab-Grown Organs: Vaginas, Noses Now Possible

http://onforb.es/QhrsIS

NSA said to have been using Heartbleed for years

http://bloom.bg/1hyNyCi

The Dutch government is facing an unusual crisis: Prison undercrowding.

There are now more guards and other prison staff than there are prisoners in the Netherlands for the first time, according to data released by the Justice Ministry on Friday.

They'll never catch up with the US that way!

http://bit.ly/1ekdjFF

Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts

http://wapo.st/Qbwwya

The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now

http://on.mash.to/PTgjhh

In dermatographia, a person's skin becomes flushed and swollen when touched. One woman is leading a community based on the beauty of it, turning inflammation into creative solidarity.

http://bit.ly/1iFaf2O

This is the biggest swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes ever set free

http://bit.ly/OLasto

CHILD BRIDE FORCED TO MARRY POISONS GROOM

And good for her! I'm a little weirded out that several of the comments say just that, I don't like agreeing with Internet comments.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/child-bride-forced-marry-poisons-groom

Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26954482

NATO's top military commander in Europe, drafting countermoves to the Russian military threat against Ukraine, said Wednesday they could include deployment of American troops to alliance member states in Eastern Europe now feeling at risk.

http://yhoo.it/1ebaxmh

Coney Island's iconic Cyclone roller coaster adds 950 feet of newly laid wooden tracks which will boost speed on two major drops

http://nydn.us/1eyJcVN

Watching Voyager

And Chakotay is in a coma. Which raises two questions: was his tribe ever actually specified, and do his vaguely defined beliefs align in any way with any actual Native American beliefs? And, bonus question, why is he the only human allowed to have religion in the Federation? Yeah, I know, because Roddenberry was a lot less influential once he was dead, but other humans tend to have a knee-jerk repugnance towards the idea of continuing human religious beliefs, so... yeah. Is there any in-universe explanation? (Maybe there are lots more religious people, but they don't show up much? You know, this presents a far more interesting picture of the Federation than the officially approved one. Yes, some of you have pointed this out already. I remember.)

Bonus question: after Voyager goes home, do they ever put the doctor's armband into mass production? And if so, do they pass some out at that one planet in the Gamma Quadrant with the entirely holographic village? I'm sure those people would appreciate it.