That's Chicago MC Rhymefest rapping about losing his job, borrowing money to pay his gas bill, and feeling pressured to sell drugs - all over a sample of the hip, New York band The Strokes.

NPR: 'Blue Collar': Rhymefest on the Way Up

"This is going to give us our largest single one-time sample, most snakes over the biggest area, that we have ever been able to collect, " Mazzotti said.

CNN: Pythons elusive in first days of Florida hunt

The council's president, Tibisay Lucena, told AFP news agency that the expanded audit was not a recount but would cover all ballot boxes not audited on election day by reviewing a sample two-thirds of them over the next month.

BBC: Nicolas Maduro sworn in as new Venezuelan president

As always, we'll be bringing you a little bit of everything over the next few days, letting you sample the best of SIGGRAPH from the comfort of your own device -- head over to our SIGGRAPH 2012 tag to follow along.

ENGADGET: We're live from SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles!

Although this is a small sample, it suggests that man-made dust particles predominate over naturally occurring ones.

ECONOMIST: Orbital debris

In a 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Lubinski and his team at Vanderbilt found that in a sample of academically gifted young adults, women became less career-oriented than men over time.

WSJ: Emily Esfahani Smith: Find a Man Today, Graduate Tomorrow

Even though people who own gaming consoles are not representative of the general population (and many are not even of voting age), David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, geeks out over the possibility of using new weighting and de-biasing methods to extract more meaningful insights from his sample.

FORBES: Not Your Grandmother's Presidential Debate

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ), looked at a patient sample drawn from nearly 13, 000 patients over nearly six years.

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Three in five of the over-40s did have children, and talented women who quit work to raise kids are not included in the sample.

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