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  1. It's been a great week in the future! Follow us and RT this tweet for a chance to win a free PopSci t-shirt saying so! bit.ly/MgFabw
  2. The most amazing science and tech images of the week are here. Look at that rat run! bit.ly/L4T89k
  3. This week's Archive Gallery: In which PopSci discovers the periodic table, element by element. bit.ly/L4Oubf
  4. Our buddies @SoundnVision just posted a review of the NuForce Cube--a speaker, DAC, and headphone amp in a 2.5-in cube bit.ly/KEwrgX
  5. Whoa. Big news. Obama secretly ordered accelerated cyberattacks against Iran: bit.ly/K2KUyH
  6. When you want to explore Martian caves without going to Mars, what do you do? Head to Austria: bit.ly/K2K9FN
  7. This month's App of the Month: Transparent Screen for Android, which uses augmented reality to avoid running into stuff bit.ly/K2xEKq
  8. 4K televisions are going to blow HD away--and this is how the movie-theater quality video will come to your living room bit.ly/LSorJc
  9. For the record, the bingo words were Planck, Polarization, Dark matter, COBE and Plasma. #cmbr
  10. And thank you to @WorldSciFest for letting me join in on the fun. Very cool panel. #cmbr
  11. Thank you all for joining us, and listening to me gripe about my bingo card. ( #cmbr live at ustre.am/L4u8/1)
  12. I've been waiting for someone to say "Planck" for 30 minutes.
  13. BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #cmbr
  14. Props to the James Webb Space Telescope!! I can't wait for that to be launched. ( #cmbr live at ustre.am/L4u8/1)
  15. Primordial galaxies. Sounds like a power metal band. #cmbr
  16. Anyone else playing Bingo? #cmbr
  17. I'm two squares from BINGO in three rows. Somebody say "black body" please!
  18. I love hearing about struggles in research, because that's pretty much science in a nutshell: failure until success. #cmbr
  19. wow. 30 microdegrees difference in #cmbr
  20. Join us for the live stream of a panel on the birth of the universe: bit.ly/JV50wE