WASHINGTON: Imagine: tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological weapons; unseen sensors peppered throughout a submarine to detect radiation leaks or chemical contamination of the crew’s precious air; a cellphone — think Star Trek tricorder, flip it open, open the app and bingo! — able to detect the gas of explosives down to parts per trillion that helps to speed passengers through crowded airports. Or you could embed sensors in your refrigerator and it could tell you exactly what was spoiling and whether it was still safe to eat.

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Remember when, at the 2000 VMAs, Britney Spears stripped down to a nude sparkly bodysuit and everyone was scandalized? My, those were innocent times. Both Miley Cyrus‘s and Lady Gaga’s getups at last night’s MTV VMAs made Brit’s performance look downright chaste.

Cyrus opted for a latex-looking nude bra and undie combo, which she wore to literally hump Robin Thicke during their “Blurred Lines” performance.

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Yesterday the computer at Goldman Sachs responsible for trading options whose symbols start with the letters H through L traded a bunch of options at the wrong prices and put Goldman out by a hundred million dollars or so. Today various exchanges are sitting down and pondering whether to give Goldman that money back. This strikes some people as unfair because, y’know, hahaha Goldman you screwed up, but also because someone was on the other side of those trades, made a profit, hedged it out, and will now be sad and possibly screwed when it is unwound.¹

Which all seems pretty justified, and the image of a bunch of exchange operators getting together and being all “better cancel these trades, it’s Goldman, don’t want to make them mad” is in fact disturbing. However! That is not apparently what is happening. From Bloomberg:

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If you’re stuck sitting in your office until all hours of the night wondering (a) how you’ll ever meet someone and (b) how you’ll convince them to take a chance on someone who routinely works until 4 a.m. turning documents while a team of lawyers argue over comma placement, well, you’re in luck!

A major online dating site has your back, publishing a listicle designed to convince their desperate readers why they absolutely should date a lawyer. It could be a good opportunity for these online daters to employ ATL’s advice on seducing a lawyer.

Is this thought-provoking, well-crafted advice about dating lawyers? In a word, no…

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Pigs (the ones you send through pipelines for maintenance and inspection purposes) may not be capable of finding the sorts of cracks that led to a 5,000 barrel spill from ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline in March. “Smart pigs are the linchpin of the industry’s efforts to monitor pipes, but they aren’t reliable for finding all serious flaws.” [Wall Street Journal]

Some of our readers really aren’t going to like this…a piece by Peter Singer, a bioethics professor at Princeton, about why a War on Coal is necessary. “To develop new coal projects is unethical, and to invest in them is to be complicit in this unethical activity.” [Project Syndicate]

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AUVSI: Imagine a featherweight aircraft built of composites boasting an enormous 160 foot wing, swathed in solar cells that can take off at 20 mph and remain aloft for five years.

Yes, five years. The plane would fly at 65,000 feet, above most air traffic aside from the odd U-2 zooming past. It would, without a doubt, be the loneliest plane in history.

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Jennifer Aniston always wears subdued solid colors. Literally always. Which is fine–she knows what she likes and feels good in, and sticks to it. She’s not exactly making best dressed lists every week, but she’s not making worst dressed lists either. She’s just likable Jen Aniston in her figure-flattering LBD.

Until yesterday, that is, when she shocked the world (or at least the Fashionista team) by wearing not only a color other than black, but an ALLOVER FLORAL PRINT. I mean, really, what is going on, though?

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Michael Penn has vowed to stay put until someone makes him an offer.

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Khloe Kardashian

Here at Above the Law, we sometimes write about the Kardashians, a family made famous because a celebrity lawyer’s daughter couldn’t keep her legs closed on camera. From their 72-day marriages to their legal wranglings with Jonathan Lee Riches to their deep thoughts on controversial trial verdicts, these tabloid queens have given us a fair share of entertaining legal fodder.

Unfortunately for Khloe Kardashian, a recent law school grad allegedly provided some “entertaining legal fodder” to the reality TV star’s husband, Lamar Odom. Apparently this NBA player thought he was a free agent on the basketball court and in the bedroom…

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Chesapeake Energy – one of the largest US independent natural gas producers – continues restructuring in the wake of founder, chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon’s departure. The company just let go 4 top executives, including the COO, EVP of production, SVP of drilling and SVP of human and corporate resources.

“Termination without cause would provide Dixon [COO] with compensation estimated at nearly $12 million, while Fisher’s [EVP of production] compensation package is estimated at more than $5.6 million, according to Chesapeake’s most recent filing,” as reported by The Oklahoman.

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