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Ever wonder why most text messages can only be 160 characters long? It has less to do with technological restraints, and more to do with very unscientific research done by Friedhelm Hillebrand, a German researcher, in 1985. “Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, [Hillebrand] sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper,” Mark Milian explained in the Los Angeles Times . “As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numb…

Last Friday, Gawker ’s John Cook unearthed some troubling inconsistencies in an ABC News report by Brian Ross about sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles. Toyota seemed to notice daylight in the unending negative coverage of its recalls and seized upon it. On Monday, the automaker issued a press release that “raised serious concerns about the validity, methodology and credibility of a demonstration of alleged ‘unintended acceleration’ in a Toyota Avalon by Professor David Gilbert…