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Current Event belangermiraCIA declassifies cache of Soviet jokes compiled during the Cold War
The jokes include pot-shots at Soviet leaders both current and historic, and even one joke about Ronald Reagan that the president saw and found so funny that he began using it himself.
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What do you do when you feel sad?
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5 days ago
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How does a food become a trend? Ask cauliflower.
How cauliflower took over your pizza, your kitchen, and the world
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5 days ago
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Danish producer saves 75 tonnes of 'ugly' tomatoes
Healthy production of tomatoes in Denmark, boosted by this year’s warm summer, has not been allowed to go to waste by a producer in Odense.
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8 days ago
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Police issue warning after 'anti-tank missile' used as door stop
Police have issued a plea for people to avoid using "anti-tank missiles" as door stops after a road in Surrey had to be cordoned off on Thursday. Officers in Kingston upon Thames made the bizarre public appeal after Ewell Road in Surbiton was closed off following the discovery. Tweeting an image of the huge black and yellow object on Friday, Alexandra VK Police said: “Some of you may have noticed part of Ewell Road cordoned off yesterday.
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8 days ago
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Prime Numbers And Crystal-Like Materials Share A Hidden Organization
As it turns out, prime numbers and crystals have a lot in common. A new analysis from researchers at Princeton University suggests that the patterned distribution of prime numbers in the number line is remarkably similar to patterns found in the atomic structure of certain crystal-like materials. In simple terms, the sequence of primes over long stretches of the number line shows properties remarkably similar to the sequence that arises from shining X-rays on an object to reveal its internal at...
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9 days ago
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A Dallas Police Officer Shot Her Neighbor, and a City Is Full of Questions
Botham Shem Jean analyzed risk for a living at a global auditing firm. For someone in his line of work, the evening was shaping up to be as risk-free as it gets: Alone, in his one-bedroom apartment one block from the Dallas Police Department headquarters. Fresh from work, he had texted his sister his evening plans: Watching a football game on TV, the Eagles versus the Falcons. He texted a friend, apologizing for not going out with her the weekend before.
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10 days ago
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Iceland Raises Age Of Religious Consent To 21
The island country of 330,000 nestled in the North Atlantic is making big waves. No one under the age of 21 will be indoctrinated into any religion, sect, or cult. Iceland’s parliament, the Alþingi, passed the National Minimum Religious Indoctrination Act (NMRIA) overwhelmingly. No parent or caretaker may expose a person under the age of 21 to religion by bringing them to church, temple, or mosque. And no religious fables (The Great Flood, Passover, Mohamed riding on a Buraq) can be fostered ...
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11 days ago
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'One of the boys': Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River
An unusual visitor has been hanging out in the St. Lawrence River for the past three years: A narwhal, more than 1,000 kilometres south of its usual range. But the lone narwhal is not alone — it appears he has been adopted by a band of belugas. The narwhal — thought to be a juvenile male because of its half-metre-long tusk — was filmed in July playing among a pod of young belugas, thought to be mostly or all males.
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2 weeks ago
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Watch: Putin squirms as voting machine rejects his ballot
Vladimir Putin suffered an awkward few seconds after a voting machine in Moscow's mayoral election rejected his ballot. It happened on Sunday in front of reporters at the Russian Academy of Sciences, which was being used as a polling station. Russia's president watched as the device twice spat out the paper in the full gaze of the press, prompting a squirm from the 65-year-old. But Putin persisted and the machine eventually accepted his vote, much to his apparent relief.
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2 weeks ago
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Trial begins in $10B investor lawsuit against Volkswagen
Trial proceedings have begun in the lawsuit brought against Volkswagen by investors alleging the company did not give them timely notice of its scandal over cars rigged to cheat on diesel emissions tests. Investors are seeking almost 9 billion euros ($10.4 billion), saying Volkswagen didn’t give them the information they needed to decide what to do with their shares before the scandal became public. The U.S. Environmental Protection agency accused Volkswagen in September 2015 of manipulating d...
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2 weeks ago
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Needs to Come to the Nintendo Switch
We don’t know everything about Nintendo’s new Switch console yet, but a first look trailer has given us a taste of what the system is capable of. Imaginations are already racing with the possibilities in store for Nintendo fans everywhere, and the world is endlessly curious as to what new titles the Switch will bring. Though we likely won’t know the launch lineup until January at the earliest, the wide range of titles available on Nintendo’s popular virtual console store are already begg...
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What Happens If We Hit Sperm Count Zero?
A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We've become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.
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2 weeks ago
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Self-Driving Tech: Job Killers or Job Creators?
In a previous article of mine, I argued that self-driving vehicles were going to transform the transportation system beyond recognition. And while I stand by this statement, I don’t believe that I really went far enough in explaining just how disruptive self-driving technologies will be to society in and of itself. In truth, we’re about to witness one of the most transformative shifts in both appearance and function of our everyday reality in history.
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Bid to reduce right whale deaths 'extremely effective,' Canadian officials say
A year after the population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales suffered devastating losses, Canadian officials say measures taken this season to protect the species have worked. With the summer fishing season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence drawing to a close, the federal Fisheries Department confirmed Friday that not one whale has died as a result of a ship strike or fishing gear entanglement — the main causes for most of the deaths last season.
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2 weeks ago
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Woman Hospitalized After Lighting Dynamite Rather Than Candle
A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night. Police said the woman was injured around 9:20 p.m. at the family’s Lindley Street home in Bridgeport and her husband and two children were home when the horrific accident happened.
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3 weeks ago
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University of Texas wins $60 million grant for supercomputer
The Frontera supercomputer will help study topics like global climate modeling and particle collisions from the Large Hadron Collider. The University of Texas at Austin will soon be home to one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The National Science Foundation awarded UT Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) a $60 million grant to buy and operate a supercomputer named Frontera, according to a joint statement Wednesday from the university and NSF.
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3 weeks ago
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The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
New data reveals how colleges are benefiting from billions in financial aid while students are left with debt they cannot repay.
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1 month ago
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This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World
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Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during California wildfire
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Saudi Arabia beheads female activist in public: Report
The Thefreethoughts Twitter account and other Saudi sources said the female, named as Esra al-Ghamgam, was executed on the prosecutor’s orders on Sunday. It shared a video showing an executioner fixing her in a recumbent position on the ground before decapitating her with a sword as security forces stood by.
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South Africa farm seizures BEGIN: Chaos as first expropriation of white-owned farms starts
Johannesburg-based newspaper City Press reported owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand (£16.7m) for the land, but that the country’s government were willing to offer them just a tenth of that at 20 million rand (£1.67m). A letter sent to the owners earlier this year had said: “Notice is hereby given that a terrain inspection will be held on the farms on April 5, 2018 at 10am in order to conduct an audit of the assets and a handover of the farm’s keys to the state.”