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6 hours ago
Current Event jackthetripperThe fires in California highlight — and worsen — the state’s income divide
Miley Cyrus lost her home in southern California’s Woolsey Fire, one of three major fires currently tearing through the state. Gerard Butler photographed himself standing in the wreckage of his Malibu home, which he said was only partially destroyed. Villa de la Vina, the Spanish-style home best known for being the set of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, was damaged by the blaze. The ranch that was recently used as the set of Westworld burned to the ground. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West repo...
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13 days ago
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How Aladdin's story was forged in Aleppo and Versailles
A new translation of the tale of magical opulence coincides with fresh evidence that its first teller was a Syrian dazzled by the court of Louis XIV
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2 weeks ago
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10 States Now Get At Least 20 Percent of Their Electricity from Solar and Wind
True story.
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3 weeks ago
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Death Metal Grandma
Death Metal Grandma follows the story of 96 year old Holocaust survivor, former WW2 spy and famous songwriter Inge Ginsberg as she decides to pursue a new career: Death Metal.
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1 month ago
Current Event jackthetripper
A Japanese Company Claims It Will Utilize SpaceX Rockets to Land on the Moon
A Japanese space agency, iSpace, announced on Wednesday 26th September that it will launch a lunar lander and rover to the moon in 2020 and 2021. The uncrewed iSpace spacecraft will go to space on board a SpaceX Faclon 9 Rocket, the organization said. On the off chance that it all g oes well, in 2020, the company will endevour to orbit the moon with one of its landers. In 2021, it will attempt to securely place a lander on the lunar surface and send lunar rovers to investigate further
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1 month ago
Current Event jackthetripper
UN says coca cultivation hit new high in Colombia last year
Colombia’s acreage of coca, the raw material for cocaine, expanded 17 percent to hit a new record last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as the government mulls whether to restart aerial fumigation with the herbicide glyphosate. The total area of the Andean nation under coca cultivation increased to 171,000 hectares (422,550 acres) by the end of 2017, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, due to increased productivity and growers eager to expand in the hope of ge...
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1 month ago
Comment jackthetripper
A nap always helps. Just don't think more sad things when trying to fall alseep.
Posted in: What do you do when you feel sad?
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2 months ago
Current Event jackthetripper
What Really Happened to Apple's AirPower (Exclusive Details)
For those who eagerly watched the 2017 iPhone X release event last September 12, there is somewhat of an elephant in the room that Apple has so far refused to address: the AirPower wireless charging mat that it unveiled at the event with a promise of a 2018 release date.
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2 months ago
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None of this really matters does it. The party of "family values" will still unanimously vote to confirm him.
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2 months ago
Current Event jackthetripper
Eminem Takes Aim At Critics On New Video For ‘Fall’
Since dropping his surprise ten studio album Kamikaze last Thursday, Eminem has set his sights on his critics with the first visual off the new album for the track ‘Fall’. Directed By James Larese, the video begins with a montage of Eminem reading scathing reviews of his last album Revival on his phone. Fed up, he gets out of the car he’s sharing with fellow Detroit rappers Royce da 5’9″ and Denaun Porter and a phantom spectre emerges from the screen and stalks Eminem throughout the vi...
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2 months ago
Current Event jackthetripper
Hong Kong now has more super-rich people than any other city
New York is no longer the city with the biggest super-rich population. Hong Kong overtook the Big Apple to become the top destination for the planet's wealthiest people last year, according to a study published Thursday by research firm Wealth-X. The number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) residing in the Asian financial hub rose by almost a third in 2017 to 10,000, the study said.
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2 months ago
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Almost half of Americans can't pay for their basic needs
Four in 10 Americans are struggling to pay for their basic needs such as groceries or housing, a problem even middle-class households confront, according to a new study from the Urban Institute. Despite the U.S. economy being near full employment, 39.4 percent of adults between 18 and 64 years old said they experienced at least one type of material hardship in 2017, according to the study, which surveyed more than 7,500 adults about whether they had trouble paying for housing, utilities, food or...
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2 months ago
Current Event jackthetripper
John McCain, a Maverick We Can Learn From
John McCain’s most courageous moment arguably did not come when he was near death as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. He was then frail and feverish, with two broken arms, a broken leg, a shattered knee and bayonet wounds, yet still resisting his captors even though the consequence was more beatings.
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2 months ago
Current Event jackthetripper
NASA spacecraft approaches Bennu asteroid, snaps first photo
Two years after launching from Florida, a NASA spacecraft is closing in on an ancient asteroid, Bennu, for a sample of space dust that could reveal clues to the start of life in the solar system. The spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, has even snapped its first, blurry pic of the cosmic body, which is about the size of a small mountain, about 500 yards (meters) in diameter.
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3 months ago
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A Songwriting Mystery Solved: Math Proves John Lennon Wrote 'In My Life'
John Lennon and Paul McCartney have differing memories of who wrote the music for