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7 years ago
+19 19 0Costco is selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits that can feed a family of 4 for a year
Costco's kits contain freeze-dried broccoli, green beans, corn, dehydrated apples, and other grains and proteins that have a shelf life of up to 30 years.
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7 years ago
+20 20 0A Father Took His 10-Year-Old Fishing. She Fell in the Water and Drowned. It Was a Tragic Accident — Then He Was Charged With Murder.
Wendell Lindsey is serving life in a Texas prison, but his conviction relied on dubious drowning science and a key witness with secrets of her own.
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7 years ago
+9 9 0Apple just permanently banned Infowars from the App Store
Only a day after Alex Jones was permanently banned from Twitter, the Infowars app — the final straw for Jones’ platform — has been permanently kicked off the App Store, also permanently. Apple confirmed the removal with Buzzfeed by citing the App Sto ...
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7 years ago
+30 30 0 x 1'Mindful people' feel less pain; MRI imaging pinpoints supporting brain activity
Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest School of Medicine may have found one of the answers—mindfulness. "Mindfulness is related to being aware of the present moment without too much emot ...
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7 years ago
+29 29 0 x 1Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there.
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7 years ago
+12 12 0Swarm of 20,000 bees attack New York City hotdog stand
Productivity came to a halt across New York City offices on Tuesday afternoon, as hordes of people eagerly followed the removal of 20,000 bees from a hotdog stand. The bees had swarmed the hotdog stand, a block south of Times Square, around 1pm. Thou ...
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+29 29 0 x 1The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
The world of invention is famous for its patent disputes. But what happens when your dispute wasn’t with another inventor but whether the Patent Office saw you as a person at all? In 1864, a black man named Benjamin T. Montgomery tried to patent his ...
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7 years ago
+3 3 0Intrepid Grandma Removes 2 Pythons From Barbecue Grill
Today, in things you have to see to believe, please peruse this viral video of a grandmother removing two very large, very resistant pythons from a barbecue grill. In a video shared to social media by Channel 7 News Brisbane, an 81-year-old grandma f ...
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Current Event
7 years ago
+5 5 0The world's cleanest water droplet
The 'molecular dirt' found on any surface can change the properties of the material. A new method has been developed to study this. By creating ultra-pure ice in a vacuum chamber and melting it the world's cleanest water drops were cre ...
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7 years ago
+2 2 0We’re failing in the opioid crisis. A new study shows a more serious approach would save lives.
The study suggests a comprehensive approach is needed — one that goes way further than what America has done so far.
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7 years ago
+16 16 0 x 1The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt
The long read: MH Miller left university with a journal full of musings on Virginia Woolf and a vast financial burden. He is one of 44 million US graduates struggling to repay a total of $1.4tn. Were they right to believe their education was ‘pricele ...
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7 years ago
+22 22 0Apps face fine if terror lingers for hour
The European Commission is planning stricter rules for social media companies.
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7 years ago
+23 23 0Australia’s mysterious nuclear fallout
IN 1979, a strange ‘double flash’ was observed by a satellite as coming from between South Africa and Antarctica. It was a telltale cue. That kind of flash was usually a nuclear explosion.
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7 years ago
+8 9 1Tourist in Dubai nets more than $47,000 in speeding fines in four hours
Before I went to Dubai last fall, I imagined a sea of supercars running rampant with few repercussions. I couldn't have been more wrong (at least when it comes to the repercussions bit). Speed cameras in Dubai are no joke. The drivers, though oc ...
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7 years ago
+23 23 0Surrendering to Rising Seas
Coastal communities struggling to adapt to climate change are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat
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7 years ago
+39 39 0 x 1Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.
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7 years ago
+15 15 0YouTube's Dark Mode is frustratingly everywhere except Android
YouTube announced a dark theme for its website way back in May 2017, and it released its dark theme to iOS users back at the beginning of the year. When you go to YouTube's support page for Dark theme, you can see how easy it is to turn it on on ...
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7 years ago
+27 27 0 x 1Greece has declared a state of emergency over deadly forest fires
The Mediterranean country is now calling for international help battling the flames.
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7 years ago
+18 18 0Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic
The Caribbean nation is known for sapphire seas and ivory beaches, but it is grappling with sludgy trash washing up on some famous shores.
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7 years ago
+5 5 0Customer receives jail time after groping woman’s buttocks
This is the moment a furious waitress body slammed a customer in a crowded restaurant — for grabbing her bum as he walked past. CCTV footage shows Emelia Holden, 21, sorting through a pile of menus at Vinnie Van Go-Go’s in Savannah, Georgia, when the ...




















