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9 years ago+15 15 0DiCaprio, Netflix team up to showcase film about endangered gorillas
Netflix will team up with Leonardo DiCaprio to distribute the documentary "VIRUNGA," about a quest to save endangered mountain gorillas in Africa.
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9 years ago+12 12 0This School Has Bikes Instead Of Desks-And It Turns Out That's A Better Way To Learn
Elementary school has always looked a little bit like training for a traditional office job: You show up at 8 or 9, sit at your desk, and fill out paperwork for most of the day. An average third grader might spend as much as six hours sitting in the ...
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9 years ago+18 18 0 x 1The Most Expensive Typo in Legislative History
In the middle of a 1969 interview, writer E.B. White paused, smiled, and declared what he loved most about the publication he wrote for: “Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.” An avid gramm ...
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9 years ago+9 10 1Malala Yousafzai To Become A Canadian Citizen This Month
The young Pakistani education activist who shared this year's Nobel Peace prize will formally receive honorary Canadian citizenship this month.
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9 years ago+2 3 1Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of t ...
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9 years ago+11 11 0NASA putting the mars-bound astronauts in deep sleep
NASA plans to put the Mars-bound astronauts in deep sleep so as to lower the overall cost and make the conditions more feasible and economic for astronauts.
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9 years ago+2 3 1JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76 Million Households
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the biggest U.S. bank, said a previously disclosed data breach affected 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. Customer names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses were taken, the New York-based ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0Scientists confess to sneaking Bob Dylan lyrics into their work for the past 17 years
While writing an article about intestinal gasses 17 years ago, Karolinska Institute researchers John Lundberg and Eddie Weitzberg couldn't resist a punny title: "Nitric Oxide and inflammation: The answer is blowing in the wind".
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9 years ago+20 20 0Ex-Tesla and NASA Engineers Make a Light Bulb That's Smarter Than You
The Alba bulbs are designed to work autonomously, both by adjusting light output based on sunlight and by learning and adapting to its owners household habits.
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9 years ago+11 12 1Denver area students walk out of school in protest
Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0For rich people, mortgages are getting cheaper
For wealthy homebuyers, mortgages are getting cheaper and easier to come by. Not only are big-pocketed borrowers paying lower average rates on the high dollar value loans known as jumbo mortgages, but lenders are now requiring even smaller down payme ...
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9 years ago+28 28 0 x 1iPhone line sitters in NYC slept in garbage bags and got arrested
Waiting for an iPhone used to be fun. I did it once back in 2009. I got up around 3 AM — on vacation, no less — and stood outside an Apple store in Charleston, SC. I traded stories with strangers about what I was going to do with my new, white iPhone ...
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9 years ago+21 21 0Ex-stepson: White House intruder meant no harm
An Iraq war veteran accused of scaling a fence and making it into the White House before the Secret Service stopped him owns several guns that he could have brought with him if he had meant to harm anyone, his former stepson said Sunday.
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9 years ago+16 16 0The Craziest Colombian Bullfighting Story Ever
About 30 miles southeast of Cartagena's beautiful historic center—picture Epcot Center with friendlier drug dealers—a man rides his beat-up motorcycle into a village hidden for 400 years amongst the swamps and farmland of the Louisiana-meets-Bot ...
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9 years ago+24 24 0The 'Deadpool' movie is coming February 12th, 2016
It looks like that leaked Deadpool test footage — and the positive reaction from fans — has dragged the movie back from development hell. 20th Century Fox, home of the X-Men and Fantastic Four movie franchise, just announced that the Deadpool movie i ...
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9 years ago+11 11 0Should people pay for not turning up to a restaurant?
No-shows for reservations are an age-old problem for restaurants. But one restaurateur thinks he has cracked the problem by replacing bookings with paid-for tickets, and he's bringing the system to the UK.
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9 years ago+38 38 0 x 2The Great Myth: World War I Was No Accident
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1, formerly called the Great War. Not surprisingly, this has brought all sorts of stories and op-eds discussing the disastrous events that killed some 16 million people and wounded an a ...
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9 years ago+6 6 0Dell's crazy 27-inch monitor has nearly twice as many pixels as a 4K display
4K displays might not be the pinnacle of desktop monitors for much longer. Dell is working on a new UltraSharp monitor with a truly ridiculous 5,120 x 2,880 display. That's precisely twice the resolution of the 27-inch iMac, meaning this is the ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0NASA probe identifies clouds on Mars
The belief that Mars could support life received a boost when NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover identified clouds that researchers believe are most likely to have formed through the accumulation of water ice crystals or supercooled water droplets.
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9 years ago+21 21 0California to be first US state to ban plastic bags
California governor Jerry Brown said he will approve a ban on single-use plastic bags, in what would make the western US state the first to outlaw them. Lawmakers passed the bill late last Friday, and it now only requires Brown's signature to pa ...