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1 day ago
Comment canuckProud of my team!!
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3 days ago
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Blues capture 1st Stanley Cup with Game 7 win over Bruins
Alex Pietrangelo had the eventual winner as the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 7 on Wednesday night to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
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3 days ago
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Humans' Ability to Hear Harmonic Sounds Might Set Us Apart
The pursuit of science is usually an unending stream of embarrassments for the human ego. No, the sun doesn’t revolve around us. No, we’re not all that different from common animals. No, we’re not even the only humans. But, in some ways at least, our brains really are special.
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7 days ago
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The story of the first E3
How the 1995 inaugural happened, and how it almost didn’t
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7 days ago
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A Posture Tweak Can Make Your Food Taste Better, Say Marketers
There's an "unintended consequence" of eating in a certain way.
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9 days ago
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The Rise and Fall of the Professional Sports Bettor
Gambling on sports has never been more high-stakes or more accessible. But with the invasion of Europe-based companies in the game, the pros are feeling squeezed and routinely getting banned from plying their trade. Is this the end of the sharp?
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9 days ago
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California ladybug swarm was so big it showed up on radar as 80 mile long "bloom"
"The world must be coming to an end," one scientist joked.
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10 days ago
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Good for BC. But that is a long ways from now and things can change.
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13 days ago
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YouTube star banned for 5 years after feeding homeless man toothpaste-filled Oreos
A YouTube star has been banned from the platform for five years after he made a video tricking a homeless person into eating Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste and then joking they would clean him. 21-year-old Chinese YouTuber Kanghua Ren, creator of the popular channel ReSet, was given the unusual sentence by a judge for the video posted in January 2017.
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2 weeks ago
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Everyone Needs a Good Pillow—Even Astronauts Bound for Mars
Sure, long-haul space travel demands a solid vehicle and ample food. But to stay sane during those lonely days, you might just want a good ol' pillow.
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2 weeks ago
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Living off-grid for almost 80 years
When she was was born - near the Irish border in County Fermanagh in 1942 - it was not unusual for families to live without electricity and running water. Margaret's neighbours only began to update their homes in the late 1940s and 1950s. But her family missed the opportunity to join the trend due to her mother's death, when Margaret was 10, and her father's ill health.
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3 weeks ago
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Dad posts 'Don't Give Up' signs around town to lower suicide rates: 'You never know who is struggling'
After a cluster of local teen suicides, stay-at-home dad Colby Wallace launched the “You Matter” campaign to strengthen mental health. On May 12th, Wallace, the 42-year-old father in Queen Anne, Seattle, heard about four teen suicides in King County. “These were local high school students and no one was really talking about it,” Wallace tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
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3 weeks ago
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New Coke Was a Debacle. It’s Coming Back. Blame ‘Stranger Things.’
New Coke, the soft drink that drew a nationwide backlash in 1985, is back. And the credit, or blame, for the return of Coca-Cola’s greatest folly goes to Netflix. A limited supply of the vintage beverage will be available starting on Thursday as part of a robust promotional campaign related to the coming season of “Stranger Things,” the supernatural thriller set in the 1980s. New Coke will also appear in several episodes of the show. Representatives of both companies said no money changed ...
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3 weeks ago
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Australian actor Geoffrey Rush wins record defamation payout
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush has been awarded a A$2.8 million ($1.9 million) defamation payment against a News Corp tabloid, the largest defamation payout in Australian history, after it accused him in reports of inappropriate behavior. Australia’s Federal Court ordered that an Australian arm of News Corp pay the Oscar-winning actor A$1.98 million for past and future economic loss, in addition to an initial A$850,000 payment awarded in April, court documents showed on Thursday.
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3 weeks ago
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LEGO is running entirely on renewable energy three years ahead of schedule
Children's toy company builds wind turbine made entirely of LEGO bricks to celebrate
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3 weeks ago
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Boeing admits 737 Max sims didn't accurately reproduce what flying without MCAS was like
Turning off trim control software in training wouldn't give realistic results – report
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1 month ago
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Iran dismisses possibility of conflict, says does not want war
Iran's top diplomat on Saturday dismissed the possibility of war erupting...
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1 month ago
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Denuvo DRM cracks seem to be happening faster and faster
Rage 2 is the second Denuvo game to get a zero day crack this year, and others have been cracked within days.