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5 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Border 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 years ago+20 20 0The 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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5 years ago+26 26 0To 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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5 years ago+29 29 0Leonardo 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, inve ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0India’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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5 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Phone 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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5 years ago+12 12 0Nigeria 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 o ...
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5 years ago+14 14 0Why 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 ...
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5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Elephants 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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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 2How 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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5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1California 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 ...
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5 years ago+24 24 0MoviePass 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, thin ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0Things 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. I ...
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5 years ago+21 21 0California’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.
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5 years ago+32 32 0What's your favorite genre of music?
Me: EDM, Rap, (Some) Pop.
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5 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Barnes & Noble says sales of books related to anxiety are soaring
Barnes & Noble said sales of books related to anxiety are up more than 25 percent through this past June from a year ago because "we may be living in an anxious nation." Shoppers are increasingly looking at workbooks that help them cop ...
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5 years ago+23 23 0A Slaughter in Silence
How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in DRC was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect.
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5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1The Strange Life of a Murderer Turned Crime Blogger
Holland is home to a thriving community of journalists and bloggers who cover criminals and the drug trade. Those writers are often targeted by their subjects—and so was Martin Kok.
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5 years ago+28 28 0This is what the life of an incel looks like
Incels believe that they are doomed by society’s cruel rules to never have sex. We spent time with a member of the incel community.
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5 years ago+22 23 1Apple is the first $1 trillion company in history
The consumer tech giant and maker of the iPhone rides a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report into the history books.