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Current Event paddystacksBorder Patrol Agent Arrested in Texas on Suspicion of Being a Serial Killer
Juan David Ortiz is suspected of killing four prostitutes and was arrested after a fifth woman managed to escape.
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5 days ago
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The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese algorithm
A new program can produce 20,000 lines of ad copy a second. But is it any good?
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8 days ago
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To Kill a Mockingbird published as a graphic novel
To Kill a Mockingbird has been a literary right of passage for more than half a century, credited with awakening thousands of teenagers to the rewards of reading.
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13 days ago
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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London recently published scans of two of the Leonardo da Vinci notebooks so website visitors can digitally zoom and flip through the drawings and musings of the Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, and sculptor. Jumbled together in the delicate journals are thoughts on both science and art—detailed charts and speculations contained on the same pages as observational sketches of hats or horse hooves.
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13 days ago
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India’s ingenious approach to life
‘Jugaad’ is an inventive hack that sees Indians crafting TV aerials from coat-hangers and sending spacecraft towards Mars.
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3 weeks ago
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If you get paywall, use incognito.
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3 weeks ago
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Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All At Risk.
Services increasingly rely on your phone number to know who you are—and that's increasingly a problem.
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3 weeks ago
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Nigeria set to use drones to tackle growing problem of livestock theft
Nigeria’s Osun State is set to use drones in its bid to address the growing problem of livestock theft and attacks in the region. The announcement was made by Oluremi Omowaiye, Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology for Nigeria‘s State of Osun, during the ICTEL Expo 2018 in Lagos.
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1 month ago
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Why successful people don't use to-do lists
There is a horror story out there. Man is feeling overwhelmed, begins compiling a to-do list. Three bullets turn into ten — ten bullets turn into twenty. Moments later, he finds himself in hand-to-hand combat with a to-do list so long and so vast it resembles the spiraling tentacles of a giant squid. He loads himself up with enough caffeine to fuel an entire city and begins his slow tedious descent to the bottom, crossing each line off the to-do list one at a time.
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1 month ago
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Elephants rarely get cancer. Here's why this matters to humans
You'd think elephants would be getting cancer left and right, but they have evolved resistance. They're being studied for clues about how to treat cancer in humans.
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1 month ago
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How to Make Students Care About Writing
Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher, spent 30 years investigating what helps young people to view themselves as writers.
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California Fires as Seen From the Space Station
The Earth, in all its majesty and its tragedy, is the subject of images taken aboard the International Space Station. This image of the Carr and Ferguson fires was captured by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex), on August 3, 2018, from the station. "California burning. These fires are frightening to watch, even from space. Here's a shout-out from space to all firefighters on this planet, my former colleagues. Stay safe my friends!" Gerst, a geophysicist...
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1 month ago
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MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
Troubled theater subscription service MoviePass is rejiggering its subscription plan once again. The company announced via press release that, due to consumer feedback, it won’t be raising the monthly subscription fee to $14.95 a month. Instead, things are staying at $9.95.
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1 month ago
I disagree. YT (and FB, Apple, etc) are all private corporations. "Free speech" argument doesn't apply. They were getting complaints and/or being boycotted by people that were sick and tired of all the BS/threats/calls for violence and decided to do something about it. I know a few people personally told me that they weren't paying for Spotify anymore because of him and others like him (alt right crazies) getting a share of the revenue, even if it's just a penny.
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1 month ago
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Things they don't teach you running a business by yourself
One of the most hotly talked about topics in tech right now is starting an indie business. What is an indie business? It's one where you, and maybe a co-founder, attempt to start a business with no investor funding or large external influence. It goes by many names: boot-strapped, solo-founded, self-funded, indie-hackers...etc... and it's pretty hot right now!
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1 month ago
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California’s Birds Are Testing New Survival Tactics on a Vast Scale
Retracing the steps of a century-old wildlife survey, ecologists find that birds are making remarkable adaptations to climate change.