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Best Exploitation Flicks: ‘Machete’ and Its Over-the-Top Ancestors

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From bad girls and zombies to circus freaks and killer cars, the shock-and-awful recipe for grindhouse movies’ tasty cinematic sausage never fails to satisfy. As Robert Rodriguez’s timely homage hits screens, we look back at several decades of surprisingly influential B movies.

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From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons of Diesel

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Craig Henderson achieved 119.1 mpg in a car he designed in 1984.

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Feds Push ‘Active Transportation’ to Build Healthier Communities

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on a mission to promote walking, cycling and mass transit in an effort to build healthier communities.

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How Sheep Determined the Size of Your Gadgets

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It’s easy to figure out why e-readers and tablets are the size that they are: They’re all about the size of paperback books. But why are paperbacks that size? It all has to do with the sheep.

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Baby Lion Cam Launches

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This morning, the Smithsonian National Zoo launched a live webcam of the zoo’s four new baby African lion cubs and their mother. The cubs were born during the late evening and early morning between Aug. 30 and 31 and will remain inside until late fall.

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Gadget Lab Podcast: iPods, Apple TV and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab

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This week’s episode of the Gadget Lab podcast is heavy on fruits. High on vitamin A, Dylan Tweney gushes over the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid, while Brian X. Chen dishes out this week’s announcements of brand new Apple gear. They also share our impressions of Samsung’s iPad rival, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab.

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Six Apart Shuts Down Vox

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Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to another free blog publishing service like Six Apart’s TypePad. After that, Vox will be gone.

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EA Simulates 2010 NFL Season, Predicts Super Bowl Champs

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EA Sports, publisher of the Madden NFL videogame franchise, has taken its latest game iteration, Madden NFL 11, and run through the upcoming 2010 NFL season, offering at least a simulated insight into who’ll be celebrating in Arlington, Texas, after Super Bowl XLV.

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NASA Flies First Drone Over Hurricane

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In addition to the usual cadre of satellites, NASA is using a small fleet of unmanned aircraft into, over and around the hurricane as it tracks north from the Caribbean. While flying into a hurricane is nothing new, Earl is the first hurricane that NASA has observed using their unmanned Global Hawk observation aircraft.

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Travelling Around the World in a Gadget-Filled Ford Fiesta

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Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart is driving around the world in a Ford Fiesta. Along the way, he’ll be testing gadgets from some of the most extreme — and amazing — locations.

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