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8 years ago+24 24 0Calculate your total time spent watching TV shows
Enter a TV show and the number of seasons to find the total amount of time it takes to watch.
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8 years ago+18 18 0Global Warming Could Ruin Carbon Dating
The technique is used to determine the age of organic artifacts in fields like archaeology, geology, and ecology. But it could become unreliable within decades.
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8 years ago+13 13 0Does the Bounty-Hunting Industry Need Reform?
How the wildly underregulated bounty-hunting industry polices itself—and why that isn’t changing
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8 years ago+11 11 0The Road to The International
Valve announces TI5 groups
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8 years ago+19 19 0Comic Conman
A true crime tale of comic books, corruption, and a $9 million vanishing act.
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8 years ago+12 12 0China Unleashes $483 Billion to Stem the Market Rout
China has created what amounts to a state-run margin trader with $483 billion of firepower, its latest effort to end a stock-market rout that threatens to drag down economic growth and erode confidence in President Xi Jinping’s government.
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8 years ago+11 11 0Is 'face-ism' spoiling your life?
Your face can be your fortune or your downfall - and it's not just a question of beauty. Others may be unconsciously judging your features in ways you don't realise, says David Robson.
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8 years ago+15 15 0The Heroin Heroine of Reddit
How a former addict uses the internet to save drug users’ lives
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8 years ago+17 17 0Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
The long read: Skip Lievsay is one of the most talented men in Hollywood. He has created audioscapes for Martin Scorsese and is the only sound man the Coen brothers go to. But the key to this work is more than clever effects, it is understanding the ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0A fashionable life under the tents with the sassy Circus Girls of Sarasota
In 1949, LIFE went behind the scenes to document the high-flying lifestyle of the independent women at "the home of the American circus."
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8 years ago+1 2 1Inside the Georgia Town Where Guns Are the Law
In Kennesaw, since 1982, each head of household must own a working firearm with ammunition.
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8 years ago+16 16 0The reckless plot to overthrow Africa's most absurd dictator
In December, a handful of middle-aged American immigrants attempted to topple the autocratic ruler of the Gambia. They had few weapons and an amateurish plan. What possessed them to risk everything in a mission that was doomed to fail?
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8 years ago+22 22 0netcat.c
Humourous netcat implementation found by HN user metamusic on Apple's open-source website.
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8 years ago+17 17 0'There's No Real Fight Against Drugs'
Discussing the escape of Mexico's most notorious drug lord with an ex-cartel operative, a Mexican intelligence official, and an American counternarcotics agent.
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8 years ago+19 19 0Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free
Last year, a young man walked into the Seattle airport and took the next flight to anywhere — and he hasn't come down since
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8 years ago+15 15 0San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin pushes back against tech-led gentrification
The notorious 50-block swath of downtown is seeing an influx of tech companies and gentrification’s attendant indicators – residents are trying to combat the sudden popularity of their area with education and appeals for integration
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8 years ago+19 19 0 x 1Revealed: how the Thai fishing industry traffics, imprisons and enslaves
Guardian investigation uncovers extensive role of authorities, fishermen and traffickers in enslaving thousands of Rohingya, who were held in deadly jungle camps
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8 years ago+17 17 0Spotify’s musical map shows which songs are most popular in 1,000 cities
From Barcelona to Brooklyn, Spotify is serving up the music that's uniquely special to cities worldwide.
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8 years ago+16 16 0China's biggest banks lend 1.3tn yuan in attempt to halt stock market meltdown
Reports suggest more than dozen banks have lent cash to state-backed Chinese Securities Finances, which provides so-called margin lending to investors
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Expression
8 years ago+20 20 0Eric Roberts: The spy who suffered
One of the UK's most brilliant wartime spies was poorly treated by colleagues at MI5, family documents suggest.