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Expression
9 years ago+23 23 0The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
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Expression
9 years ago+4 4 0Workaholism isn't a valid requirement for advancing in science
Despite macho career advice, it's time for scientists – and everyone else – to understand that the point is to work smarter, not longer and to strive for a realistic and livable work/life balance.
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9 years ago+2 2 0The Big Lebowski Analyzed By Aliens – Earthling Cinema
What if an alien in the future stumbled upon The Big Lebowski? Welcome to Earthling Cinema, where we examine the last remaining artifacts of a once-proud culture and try to understand what human lives were like before their planet was destroyed. I� ...
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Current Event
9 years ago+14 14 0Vladimir Putin's party just created a 'straight' flag to rival the rainbow one
Upset, dismayed and evidently feeling a little left out by the global embrace of the gay pride flag following the US Supreme Court ruling legalising same-sex marriage, Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party has hit back against with their own &quo ...
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Current Event
9 years ago+13 13 0London Tube strike: Millions face travel chaos
Millions of Londoners were forced to find alternative ways to travel on Thursday as the UK capital's Underground network was in the grip of a strike.
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9 years ago+60 60 0 x 3One-Minute Time Machine
One-Minute Time Machine is a short film directed by Devon Avery. It’s a story about a guy trying to get a girl with the assistance of his one-minute time machine box. Going back one minute at a time so you can fix all your mistakes, like a ctrl-Z for ...
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Current Event
9 years ago+3 4 1United Airlines Grounds Flights, Citing Computer Problems
Other glitches: The Wall Street Journal's homepage stopped functioning around the same time that the NYSE went down. The Journal was able to restore a limited homepage by 12:18 pm ET with the message "WSJ.com is having technical difficultie ...
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Expression
9 years ago+9 9 0The Plan to Turn NYC’s Turnstiles Into Musical Instruments
Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy's Subway Symphony would replace irksome sounds of turnstiles with something more like wind chimes than the drone of a droid.
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Expression
9 years ago+16 16 0Man Buys 10.000 Undeveloped Negatives At a Local Auction And Discovers One of the Most Important Street Photographers of the Mid 20th Century -...
Imagine this : perhaps the most important street photographer of the twentieth century was a nanny who kept everything to herself. Nobody
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Analysis
9 years ago+12 12 0We Still Don't Know Why Men Find Ovulating Women More Attractive
Are you in a public place? Look around. Can you tell whether any of the women you see are ovulating, just by looking at them? Neither can anybody else. But several small studies have suggested that men nevertheless find women’s faces more attractive ...
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Expression
9 years ago+6 6 0Great, now I need a subscription to subscription music services
It has finally come to this: I need a subscription to subscription streaming music services. A subscription that sits on top of all the others so I don’t have to worry when Dre and Taylor launch...
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Expression
9 years ago+13 13 0The Word the Internet Didn't Know
Ever heard of the word in this image? Probably not, because, until this month, that word didn’t exist on the Internet.
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Current Event
9 years ago+7 7 0Petition for EU exit beats 100,000 mark - The Local
261,159 Austrians have signed a petition demanding a referendum on whether Austria should leave the EU.
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9 years ago+2 2 0Aphex Twin Reboots AFX for Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006-2008) EP, Shares "Serge Fenix Rendered 2"
The first music under the AFX moniker since 2005
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9 years ago+2 2 0NSFW Action Man: Battlefield Casualties
A series of darkly funny short films produced with artist Darren Cullen, is their attempt to show the shit beneath the shine of polished army propaganda
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9 years ago+8 8 0 x 1What Is Life? Is Death Real?
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Expression
9 years ago+10 10 0This Auction Of Vintage Science Fiction Movie Posters Is A Pulp Goldmine
“What’s beautiful about sci-fi posters from the 1950s and ’60s is that they’re so graphic, and the imagery is so over the top,” says Grey Smith, the director for Heritage Auctions’ new auction of vintage movie posters owned by collector Edward Sommer ...
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9 years ago+14 15 1Good luck, Snapzu!
Hi everybody,
Snapzu looks really promising and I like the general polished look of the website.
I hope Snapzu keeps at it. I'll try to help when I can! I am another one coming from Reddit and I'm glad to see something new.