Post Overview
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Current Event
9 years ago
0 1 1Shakespeare First Folio discovered in French library
Shakespeare First Folio – one of only around 230 still in existence – found in French town library
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Current Event
9 years ago
+21 21 0Ancient Egyptian Handbook of Spells Deciphered
Researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of invocations and spells.
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How-to
9 years ago
+3 3 0Bld3r
Bld3r.com is a 3D printing community for both beginners and enthusiasts. Maybe you have creations you want to share with others, or maybe you just want to learn how to do basic 3D modeling or find out which printer is right for you. We like to print ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+9 10 1Texas approves textbooks with Moses as Founding Father
Christian conservatives win, children lose: Texas textbooks will teach public school students that the Founding Fathers based the Constitution on the Bible, and the American system of democracy was inspired by Moses.
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Expression
9 years ago
+20 20 0Tommy Lee Jones – ‘Women are objectified and trivialised because of their gender’
The famously prickly actor-director talks about his feminist western The Homesman, ‘malevolent’ Putin and his Savile Row tailor
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Analysis
9 years ago
+17 17 0Georgia Tech professor proposes another alternative to the Turing test
The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence assesses a computer's capacity for human-level intelligence by its ability to create, rather than to converse or deceive
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Analysis
9 years ago
+15 15 0Infographic: How Long Would it Take To Binge These Animated Series?
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Expression
9 years ago
+21 21 0Transgender Pioneer Leslie Feinberg of Stone Butch Blues Has Died
She was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights, and intersectionality long before anyone could define the phrase. Her partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and family offered us this obituary.
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Analysis
9 years ago
+16 16 0The first names preferred by Democrats vs. Republicans
Politics of names.
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Expression
9 years ago
+17 17 0 x 192-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Amazingly Complex Temari Balls
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Expression
9 years ago
+21 21 0For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga
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Current Event
9 years ago
+2 2 0UK Market Creates A "Real Apple Store" To Celebrate Its 1,000 Year Anniversary
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Expression
9 years ago
+20 20 0Taking out the Spikes for the homeless.
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Expression
9 years ago
+4 4 0Karl Stefanovic Has Worn the Same Suit Every Day for a Year Because Sexism
This is what a feminist looks like.
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Interactive
9 years ago
+15 15 0Where will plants migrate?
Where will plants grow in 2041, 2070, and 2099?
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Interactive
9 years ago
+15 15 0Harassment on Public Transportation News Round-up-Stop Street Harassment
In the last two weeks there have been several new articles and initiatives around sexual harassment on public transportation.
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Expression
9 years ago
+18 18 0 x 1Artist JeeYoung Lee Converts Her Tiny Studio Into Absurdly Elaborate Non-Digital Dreamscapes
Resurrection Nightscape It's always amazing to witness at artist who embraces one of their greatest limitations, turning it instead into one of their greatest advantages. For Korean artist JeeYoung Lee the question was how to utilize her small s ...
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Expression
9 years ago
+3 4 1The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)
Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who committed suicide on 30 September 2014, at the age of 24, in Shenzhen, China. Also includes an obituary with some explanatory notes.
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Current Event
9 years ago
+20 20 0The haunting poetry of a Chinese factory worker who committed suicide
Xu Lizhi, who worked for the company that produces most of the world's iPhones, committed suicide in September. These are some of his poems.
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Analysis
9 years ago
+16 16 0Eerie Sound Detected Coming From Rosetta's Comet
The day before Philae made history by landing on the surface of the comet, ESA released an audio clip of 67P/C-G singing.