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Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Property of Prime Numbers

An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away from one another.

Creationism and revisionist history threaten to invade our classrooms Zack Kopplin

We have to stop state legislators from sneaking creationist and revisionist textbooks into public schools

Louisiana's legislators are continuing their legislative jihad to keep the theory of evolution out of the state's public school science classrooms.

Yahoo buysTumblr

Yahoo announced today that it is buying blogging site Tumblr for $1,1bn, mostly in cash. In the posting, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made clear that the cooler, younger company would not be smothered by her firm's notorious corporate culture, under which many other purchases have withered and died.

How Amazon's Rising Headwaters Could Threaten Google

Jeff Jordan, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz with the Midas touch, recently opined that Amazon"s e-commerce capabilities and successes represent a meaningful threat to Google"s product-search-related advertising business.

MLBTR Originals

• Tim Dierkes updated MLBTR's 2014 Free Agent Power Rankings. Robinson Cano is still the top ranked free agent, but eight of the nine other positions changed hands.

WWE Extreme Rules 2013 Review: The Shield Steals Spotlight at Epic PPV

John Cena vs. Ryback and Triple-H vs. Brock Lesnar were the hogging the headlines of WWE Extreme Rules leading into the pay-per-view, but it is The Shield who is the story after it.

Updated: PS4 release date, news and features

At GDC 2013 at the end of March, a room full of would-be PS4 developers and press got some new details about the hardware, controller, online and social functions of the forthcoming PlayStation 4.

Belmont Stakes 2013: Lack of Triple Crown Threat Diminishes Marquee Race

The 2013 Belmont Stakes is still a few weeks away, but the outcome of the second leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday unfortunately diminishes the significance of one of horse racing's marquee showcases.

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Preakness Odds: Last-Minute Betting Tips for Saturday's Big Race

After winning the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, Orb is unsurprisingly the heavy favorite to win. As we saw at Churchill Downs, there's been some rain falling at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Unlike what we saw in early May, however, the track at Pimlico won't be as sloppy.

Preakness 2013: Projecting Win, Place and Show at Pimlico

Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness Stakes is mere hours away, and as Orb looks to continue his pursuit of the Triple Crown, several horses have legitimate chances of spoiling his chase for history at Pimlico Race Course.