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Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Get Lost In The Suburbs

Some 10,000 people live in a community about half the size of San Francisco, an oasis of tree-lined cul-de-sacs, swimming pools and Cub Scout troops.
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WELCOME TO DHAHRAN CAMP
Inside The Surreal Saudi Suburbia Built By An Oil Giant
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Some 10,000 people live in a community about half the size of San Francisco, an oasis of tree-lined cul-de-sacs, swimming pools and Cub Scout troops.
OVERSTATING THE OBVIOUS
Did New York Magazine Make Its Climate Change Story Too Scary?
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A recent story in New York Magazine examining the worst case scenario for climate change has experts wondering the value in trying to scare skeptics straight.
A FUN NEW WAY TO CONTEMPLATE MORTALITY
Here's Every Total Solar Eclipse Happening In Your Lifetime. Is This Year Your Best Chance?
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On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will traverse the continental United States. It'll be the first to traverse coast to coast in nearly a century.
THE DISTRICT DOESN'T SLEEP TONIGHT
This Town Melts Down
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A veteran political reporter takes stock of how Washington has — and hasn't — changed in the time of Trump.
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THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY
SFMOMA, SMS, WTF?
You Can Text The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art And Receive Art In Return, But Can It Send You Meaning?
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Going to an art museum can be a deeply moving experience — or it can bounce right off of you, scarcely leaving an impression. Does soliciting art from a museum via text message work out differently?
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
Banks Deploy AI To Cut Off Terrorists' Funding
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Banks are increasingly turning to machine learning to mine vast quantities of bank data and find anomalies in accounts and transactions that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
SOME CASES NSFW. WEIRD, RIGHT?
An Amazon Bot Is Making The Greatest Smartphone Cases
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In what's either the best art project, the best business move, or both, someone has made what I presume is a bot that's churning out thousands of unique iPhone cases for sale on Amazon.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
FLY AWAY HAY
Guy Tries To Jump Over A Rolling Hay Bale, Gets Absolutely Obliterated
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This is hypnotic and we can't stop watching.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Jr. Was Warned Before Meeting With Russian Lawyer That Damaging Intel Was From The Kremlin — Here's What's Going On
Military Plane Crashes In Mississippi, 16 Dead
Senate Democrats Seek New Allies In Effort To Scuttle Obamacare Overhaul: Republican Governors
Iraq PM Formally Declares Victory Over ISIS In Mosul
The Pope Rejects The Idea Of A Gluten-Free Host
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It's Amazon Prime Day! Here's How To Make The Most Of It
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Here are the best deals and most helpful hacks to make the most of the Amazon's biggest sale of the year. Which happens to be today.
Hay, have a great day.

Monday, 10 July 2017

Save The Toads!

Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they're not being cautious, fear could be our future.
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IT'S HUMAN NATURE
THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH
When Will Climate Change Make Earth Too Hot For Humans
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Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they're not being cautious, fear could be our future.
WE LE(A)D TO THIS OURSELVES
We Have Been Lead Poisoning Ourselves For 2000 Years, Glacier Ice Shows
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The Black Death, when people were too busy dying to mine for lead, was the only time period when lead in the air dropped back to its natural, undetectable levels.
THAT'S RUDE OF US
We Just Met This Toad, And We're About To Destroy Its Home
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Scientists have discovered a new species of toad in the Great Basin of northern Nevada — just in time for its possible disappearance.
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GOOD QUESTION
Should I Have Given My Subway Seat To My Prospective Boss's Father-In-Law, And Other Great Advice Column Questions
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This week, a teen girl's mysterious bathroom behavior, a couple who are inviting the same guests to more than one wedding and a 29-year-old who says she's 25.
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND
The Weird Business Of A Bitter Sports Rivalry, And Other Stories
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​​​​Welcome to What You Missed This Weekend, a roundup of the stories from this weekend that you missed while you were out living your life.​ Inside: baseball buffoonery, our weird rituals on death and why PowerPoint sucks — plus, fiction that touches on all these topics.
FIXING OUR FOLLIES
GRAB A VEGGIE DOG, CAST A VOTE, DANCE
This Might Be The Best Idea For Turning Out More Voters In US Elections
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A political scientist is arguing it's time to put the party back in elections.
GIT GUD AT GITTIN' GUD
I Can't Stop 'Choking' When I Play Multiplayer Games
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I play decently for a time, and then I remember that other people exist, and spaghetti erupts from my pockets like a dang pasta factory meltdown.
'GMOS ARE NOT AN INGREDIENT'
Why Are We Still Debating GMOs?
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A new film has reignited the controversy over what we eat.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
G'DAY MATE, YOU'VE GONE VIRAL
'The Resistance' Is In Awe Of Australian Newscaster Chris Uhlmann's Take Down Of Trump's Presidency
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Uhlmann's shared some pretty questionable opinions in the past and critiquing Trump isn't all that daring, but phrases like "he has neither the desire nor the capacity to lead the world" are resonating with lots of people.
IN THE NEWS
Donald Trump Jr. Promised Negative Clinton Intel In Campaign Meeting With Russian Lawyer, And Other Trump News From Today
WATCH: New Surveillance Footage Of Venus Williams' Car Crash Sheds New Light On The Incident
Iraq Announces 'Victory' Over Islamic State In Mosul
'Time To Move Forward,' Trump Says After Putin Denies Election Hacking
Here's to a merry Monday free of faux pas, slip-ups, errors and blunders.

Sunday, 9 July 2017

The Only Good Use For Q-Tips

Bird Is So Pleased With Q-Tip Massage It Loses All Control Of Its Body, Two Trolls Reveal Scientology's High-Level Secrets To New Converts, For The Love Of God Get A VPN Already, A Stadium Full Of Green Day Fans Singing Along To 'Bohemian Rhapsody', The Difference Between Popping A Balloon In A Reverberation Room And An Anechoic Chamber, A Catholic School Girl Finds Dirty Stuff On The '90s Internet In Today's Best Short
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Sunday, July 9, 2017
Bird Is So Pleased With Q-Tip Massage It Loses All Control Of Its Body
OH YES RIGHT THERE
Bird Is So Pleased With Q-Tip Massage It Loses All Control Of Its Body
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A good feather rub lulled this birdy into such a deep state of relaxation it tumbled right off its laptop perch.
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Two Trolls Reveal Scientology's High-Level Secrets To New Converts
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They just want to save their fellow Sea Org members the $158,000 it takes to move up "the bridge."
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QUEEN DAY
A Stadium Full Of Green Day Fans Singing Along To 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
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Green Day played a show in London over the weekend. But while they were off stage the crowd proved they like Queen as much as they like "Dookie."
A BANG AND A WHIMPER
The Difference Between Popping A Balloon In A Reverberation Room And An Anechoic Chamber
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You probably have have a pretty good sense of the difference, but it's cool to hear it side-by-side.
'YES, GOD, YES'
A Catholic School Girl Finds Dirty Stuff On The '90s Internet In Today's Best Short
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If you recognize the main character, it's because she's played by Natalia Dyer from "Stranger Things." And if you recognize the stuff she's doing in this wonderfully written, directed and acted short about teen sexuality, it's because you did some shady stuff on the internet in the '90s too.
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Megatron promotes kid to lieutenant Decepticon after he presents the head of Optimus Prime on a stick. Credit: cheer984u
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