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Can’t Let Go of Fido? You Can Now Freeze Dry Your Pet

Thanks to science, there’s no need to bid farewell to Fluffy and Rover any more.

Construction workers transport the cranial bone model of the biggest carnivore 'Giganotosaurus' of the world in southern Germany (REUTERS / Michaela Rehle)

Japanese Scientist Says We’ll Have Mammoths by 2015

A Japanese professor in Kyoto, Japan seems to have take a cue from Hollywood: he says that he’ll be able to create a woolly mammoth by 2015, a mere four years now, in a Frankenstein-like twist.

Billionaire financier and Berkshire Hathaway Chief Executive Warren Buffett (L) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates wait questions at a joint news conference in Beijing September 30, 2010.

Reading While Eating for September 30: Jerry Stiller, Jimmy Fallon and Jersey Shore

Thursday’s links are good tippers, bad inventors and rap historians.