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Tuesday, 13 September 2016

The Home Prices Are Too Damn High

The rent may be too damn high, but so is the cost of buying a place — particularly in California. This map show the salary you'd need to buy a home in different US cities, based on the median home price. There Is No Island Of Trash In The Pacific The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has always been less substantial than it sounds, less an island in the ocean than a big idea that floats around inside our heads.
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WHAT IN THE WORLD?
WHERE WILL WE RETIRE NOW?
There Is No Island Of Trash In The Pacific
slate.com
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has always been less substantial than it sounds, less an island in the ocean than a big idea that floats around inside our heads.
TOO MUCH
How Much You Need To Earn To Buy A Home In 27 US Cities
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The rent may be too damn high, but so is the cost of buying a place — particularly in California. This map show the salary you'd need to buy a home in different US cities, based on the median home price.
WELCOME TO THE OCTAGON
America's Worst Utopias
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The road to weird food communes and sex cults is paved with good intentions.
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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
JAWS WERE DROPPED
People In 1980s Tech Ads Were Really, Really Excited About Their New Stuff
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Look at these people. Judging by the levels of shock-and-awe, you'd think this man just turned water to wine. Was cancer cured? Did he make contact with extraterrestrial life? Nope. He hooked up a motherboard to a train and phone.
HE'S NO NEWT
Why We Should Believe Jeff Bezos When He Says We're Heading For Space
arstechnica.com
Blue Origin's crazy big rocket may very well fl,, and that would totally change spaceflight.
GIMME, GIMME MOORE'S
WATCH: Why Transistors Are One Of The Most Important Inventions Of All Time
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The transistor is one of the fundamental building blocks of computing. Without them, we would be stuck with bulky vacuum tubes, rendering many aspects of modern life impossible.
ACQUIRE LOTS OF COURAGE
How To Create The Perfect Company
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These companies are finding success by rewriting the rules of business. None of them is perfect on its own, but together they show what the corporate ideal could look like.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
ONE HAL OF A REMIX
Kubrick's '2001' Works Surprisingly Well As A Music Video For Tame Impala's 'Eventually'
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We get it. We get it: To some, this re-cut will come as a completely sacrilegious act. It's also just really good, so let's enjoy it for what it is.
IN THE NEWS
NCAA To Move 7 Championships From North Carolina Due To HB2 Bill
Obama Set To Veto Bill That Would Allow 9/11 Victims To Sue Saudi Arabia
HP Buys Samsung's $1 Billion Printer Business
Protesters Tried To Crash The Stage During Ryan Lochte's 'Dancing With The Stars' Performance
Which will arrive first: The weekend, or commercial space travel?

Monday, 12 September 2016

Making Children Of The Corn, Literally

We have a masturbation jar. Each time you get your rocks off, you must stuff a dollar in the jar. God is watching. The jar fills fast. I don't think they do this at state colleges. A buddy of mine says its alright in God's eyes to masturbate to inanimate objects, "Just don't lust after girls."
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BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE TOWNS
FORBIDDEN LOVE, AND EVERYTHING ELSE TOO
Sex In The Cornfields: Dating At A Strict Christian College
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We have a masturbation jar. Each time you get your rocks off, you must stuff a dollar in the jar. God is watching. The jar fills fast. I don't think they do this at state colleges. A buddy of mine says its alright in God's eyes to masturbate to inanimate objects, "Just don't lust after girls."
THE MAN FROM LITTLE CANADA
The Weirdest Town Names In America
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There are only so many Springfields we can take before things get too boring. That's why, as red-blooded Americans, we like to keep things interesting and name our cities things like Boring and Little Canada.
THINK CORPORATELY, ACT LOCALLY
How Big Corporations Are Killing Local Government In America
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Local governments want to set their own minimum wages, gun laws and smoking bans. And statehouses have methodically stripped away their powers to do so.
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HISTORY'S MYSTERIES
INTO THE MUCK
Deep In The Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
smithsonianmag.com
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways.
CELL BEEROLOGY
How Humans Tamed Beer Yeast
scientificamerican.com
Scientists sequence the genomes of nearly 200 beer-making strains to reveal yeast in action.
WE TAKE 'THE NEW WORLD' LITERALLY
Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except The United States?
priceonomics.com
In 1811, a young lawyer and journalist named Henry Brackenridge found the ruins of an astonishing ancient city near St. Louis. The world shrugged.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
IT IS COMING FOR YOU
Drone With Massive Claws Will Carry You And Your Entire Family Into The Stratosphere
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Say goodbye to anything smaller than a car, it belongs to this drone now.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
Clinton Cancels California Trip After Pneumonia Diagnosis
Alexis Arquette, Transgender Activist And Actress, Dies At 47
How Donald Trump Retooled His Charity To Spend Other People's Money
Arson Suspected In Fire At Florida Mosque Attended By Orlando Shooter
Can that drone carry us to Friday, please?

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Another Human Victory Against Our Drone Overlords

8-Year-Old Golf Prodigy Nails A Drone Right Out Of The Sky With A Nasty Drive, The Story Behind The Haunting 9/11 Photo Of A Man Falling From The Twin Towers, The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Learn These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are), Chill Bro Watches On As A Volcano Magically Erupts Right Next To Him, Cliff Jump Gone Awry Is Proof You Should Always Look Before You Leap, Chemistry Student Makes Near-Impossible Paper Ball Shot Securing Class A 100 On Their Quiz
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
8-Year-Old Golf Prodigy Nails A Drone Right Out Of The Sky With A Nasty Drive
THAT'S NOT A BIRDIE
8-Year-Old Golf Prodigy Nails A Drone Right Out Of The Sky With A Nasty Drive
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This is Ruby Kavanagh, Australia's number-one golfer for her age group. She hits a mean golf ball. And sometimes, that golf ball knocks drones back from whence they came.
WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGES
The Story Behind The Haunting 9/11 Photo Of A Man Falling From The Twin Towers
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The photo, taken by Richard Drew in the moments after the September 11, 2001, attacks, is one man's distinct escape from the collapsing buildings, a symbol of individuality against the backdrop of faceless skyscrapers. On a day of mass tragedy, "Falling Man" is one of the only widely seen pictures that shows someone dying.
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The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Learn These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are)
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THIS IS VERY RAD INDEED
Chill Bro Watches On As A Volcano Magically Erupts Right Next To Him
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Ryan Purvis was trekking Mount Semeru when the volcano started spewing ash into the sky and making noises like a jet engine.
SOMEHOW HE WALKED AWAY UNINJURED
Cliff Jump Gone Awry Is Proof You Should Always Look Before You Leap
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This dummy decided to ignore all of the fences and took a leap from El Morro, a crystal cove in Southern California, barely making it out alive.
IN HIS ELEMENT
Chemistry Student Makes Near-Impossible Paper Ball Shot Securing Class A 100 On Their Quiz
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Every year at OSU, an organic chemistry class demonstrates "donating a proton" in a unique way. The professor throws a paper ball up into the lecture hall's upper balcony and challenges a student to make a far off shot into a recycling bin. The professor also offers the entire class an A+ on their first quiz if the student can make it. And that's how Vinny became a hero.
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