Shaq burned bridges with almost every team he left and his feud with Kobe Bryant is the stuff of legend (many thought it was dead until this Shaq freestyle rap performance surfaced).

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Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying with the electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previously thought to be the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world applications.

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"I'll probably call her and e-mail her tomorrow to see what she thought of the movie and stuff, " Carlotti said.

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It was the stuff of playgrounds and junior high, and most of us thought we had left it behind as we grew into women and moved on to more mature venues.

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The scarier thought is how many of these are actually useful in getting the important stuff.

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Scientists once thought of that stuff as junk, but many now believe it may regulate how the genes work or provide some other function.

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