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5 years ago+17 17 0Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
Archbishop’s register reveals how Joan of Leeds crafted a dummy of her body that was buried, while she pursued ‘the way of carnal lust’
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5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Some American Airlines In-Flight TVs Have Cameras In Them
American Airlines told BuzzFeed News that the camera hardware “has never been activated.”
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight
Scores of YouTube videos with tens of millions of views are being inundated with comments by paedophiles, with adverts from major brands running alongside the disturbing content
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Why I Deleted All of My Social Media and 60,000 Followers
Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS
Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System
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5 years ago+37 38 1 x 1Are 'buy one, get one free deals' worth it?
Free deals can turn even the most rational consumer into a crazed lunatic. But are they as good as they seem to be?
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5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Father at centre of measles outbreak didn't vaccinate children due to autism fears
The man whose family is at the centre of a measles outbreak in Vancouver said he didn't vaccinate his children because he distrusted the science at the time.
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5 years ago+27 27 0India set to adopt China-style internet censorship
New rules limiting internet freedom could be imposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government any time after Thursday night.
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5 years ago+42 42 0 x 1Drinking two or more diet sodas a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks
Drinking two or more diet sodas a day is linked to an increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and early death in women over 50, a new study says. The risk was highest for obese and African American women.
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5 years ago+18 18 0How Peter Jackson’s team made World War I footage look new
The way we normally see that footage — black and white, scratchy and silent — is "like a barrier between us and the actual people that were being filmed," Jackson tells Recode’s Kara Swisher.
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5 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Here’s what makes satire so funny, according to science
Analysis of headlines from the satirical newspaper The Onion could help you — or a computer — write humorous news headlines.
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5 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Why a former Facebook adviser says the 'like' button was 'beginning of the end' of company's good old days
Roger McNamee, an early adopter of Facebook, was once an adviser to founder Mark Zuckerberg. Today, McNamee is one of the social media giant's fiercest critics. He speaks to host Anna Maria Tremonti about his new book Zucked: Waking up to the Fa ...
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5 years ago+25 25 0 x 1FuckJerry’s Success Is Instagram’s Failure
Instagram has known about the popular meme account for years — and done nothing about it.
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5 years ago+34 35 1 x 1Cannabis Smoking Associated With Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds
A history of smoking cannabis has unexpectedly been linked to greater fertility in men. The result came as a big surprise to scientists measuring the sperm counts of more than 600 men from couples attending a fertility clinic. They expected cannabi ...
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5 years ago+40 40 0 x 1If You're Often Angry Or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
Physicians have been taught to look for signs of hopelessness, sadness and lack of motivation to help them diagnose depression. But anger as a depression symptom is less often noticed or addressed.
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5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Let Children Get Bored Again
Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency.
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5 years ago+21 21 0The city with no homeless on its streets
What can UK cities learn from Finland, where the number of rough sleepers has fallen dramatically?
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5 years ago+44 44 0 x 1Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them
What story does your data tell about you?
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5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
If you think traffic in city centers is bad now, just wait until self-driving cars emerge on the scene, cruising around to avoid paying hefty downtown parking fees.
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5 years ago+12 12 0Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd
It’s no secret that Google planned to pull life support from the consumer version of Google+, its failure of a social network, in April. Until now, though, we didn’t know the exact date.