The Man Who Was Pretty Convinced the News Was a Rerun

The Man Who Was Pretty Convinced the News Was a Rerun
An Australian man became convinced that current events are not actually current at all — rather, they’re reruns. He’d seen them all before, in a hospital room in 1994.

December 1, 2016 at 05:43AM
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The Memories Lost to Infantile Amnesia

The Memories Lost to Infantile Amnesia
Adults can rarely tap into recollections from before two — even memories of something dramatic like a death, a birth, a hospitalization, or a family move. But is there more to the story?

December 1, 2016 at 05:00AM
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Ambitious Project To Enclose Chernobyl's Radioactive Remains Has Finally Been Completed

Ambitious Project To Enclose Chernobyl's Radioactive Remains Has Finally Been Completed
A six-year operation to transform the city into an environmentally safe location has concluded with the creation of the "new safe confinement."

December 1, 2016 at 03:17AM
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National Geographic asked photographers to show the impact of climate change, here’s what they shot

National Geographic asked photographers to show the impact of climate change, here’s what they shot
Finding the beauty in humanity's greatest crisis.

November 30, 2016 at 07:25PM
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The Latest: Stein campaign denies illegal coordination

The Latest: Stein campaign denies illegal coordination
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has requested a full hand recount of Michigan's presidential vote. Stein requested the recount on Wednesday. She had already requested recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

December 1, 2016 at 01:42AM
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How To Hide $400 Million

How To Hide $400 Million
When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the US economy.

November 30, 2016 at 09:21PM
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Names for four new elements get seal of approval

Names for four new elements get seal of approval
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has approved the proposed names for the four elements added to the periodic table in December 2015.

December 1, 2016 at 12:54AM
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Names for four new elements get seal of approval

Names for four new elements get seal of approval
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has approved the proposed names for the four elements added to the periodic table in December 2015.

December 1, 2016 at 12:54AM
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These Apocalyptic Maps Show The Holes Income Inequality Has Left In Cities

These Apocalyptic Maps Show The Holes Income Inequality Has Left In Cities
The data visualization maps display cities' stark income inequality in diagrams that look like a skyline: The taller the "building," the higher the income on that block.

November 30, 2016 at 08:26PM
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Truther Love | Longreads on WordPress.com

Truther Love | Longreads on WordPress.com
Uncovering the dating habits of conspiracy theorists and the challenges they face.

November 30, 2016 at 06:06AM
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Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV

Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV
Social media, like TV, now increasingly entertains us, and even more so than television it amplifies our existing beliefs and habits. It makes us feel more than think, and it comforts more than challenges. The result is a deeply fragmented society, driven by emotions, and radicalized by lack of contact and challenge from outside.

November 30, 2016 at 05:08AM
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District attorney tells why charges will not be brought against Charlotte officer in killing of Keith Scott

District attorney tells why charges will not be brought against Charlotte officer in killing of Keith Scott
A Charlotte police officer will not face charges in the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s office said after an SBI investigation.

November 30, 2016 at 10:45PM
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Read Leah Remini's Reddit AmA About Scientology

Read Leah Remini's Reddit AmA About Scientology
One of the religion's harshest critics pulls no punches in this exchange.

November 30, 2016 at 01:47AM
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How Much Education do Americans Have? - Visualized by Age

How Much Education do Americans Have? - Visualized by Age
We really need to meet these 18-year-olds with advanced degrees.

November 29, 2016 at 05:43PM
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Nasty Parasites We Hope Never Wriggle Their Way Inside Of You

Nasty Parasites We Hope Never Wriggle Their Way Inside Of You
Neglected tropical diseases infect 1.4 billion people worldwide. However, that number is sharply decreasing (so there's hope for us yet).

November 30, 2016 at 09:22PM
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A New Theory on the Mysterious Condition Causing Astronauts to Lose their Vision

A New Theory on the Mysterious Condition Causing Astronauts to Lose their Vision
Many, though not all, astronauts who have been in space for months at a time experienced their vision slowly degrading, and post-flight inspection revealed that the back of their eyeballs had been squished down and flattened over the course of their trip.

November 30, 2016 at 08:26PM
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Netflix Announces Offline Downloading

Netflix Announces Offline Downloading
Netflix says that you can download "Orange is The New Black," "Narcos" and "The Crown" right now, with "more on the way." Oh and it's only available on mobile devices.

November 30, 2016 at 07:32PM
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Netflix Announces Offline Downloading 'Is Now Available' With This Video

Netflix Announces Offline Downloading 'Is Now Available' With This Video
Details are scare — other than Netflix tweeting "Your favorite stories are now available for download any time." — and from what we can tell the download feature isn't online yet. But it looks like this is really happening.

November 30, 2016 at 07:25PM
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How a Genius Is Different from a Really Smart Person

How a Genius Is Different from a Really Smart Person
Five Mensa members reflect on the meaning of genius, whether it can be measured, and what IQ has to do with it.

November 30, 2016 at 01:08AM
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The Entire Internet Will Be Archived In Canada to Protect It From Trump

The Entire Internet Will Be Archived In Canada to Protect It From Trump
A pro-censorship regime could spell trouble for the Internet Archive.

November 30, 2016 at 06:29PM
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Veterans to Serve As ‘Human Shields’ For Dakota Pipeline Protesters

Veterans to Serve As ‘Human Shields’ For Dakota Pipeline Protesters
As many as 2,000 veterans planned to gather next week at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to serve as “human shields” for protesters who have for months clashed with the police over the construction of an oil pipeline, organizers said.

November 30, 2016 at 05:31PM
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Clinton team sees recount effort as waste of resources

Clinton team sees recount effort as waste of resources
Hillary Clinton's aides and supporters are urging dispirited Democrats to channel their frustrations about the election results into political causes — just not into efforts to recount ballots in three battleground states.

November 30, 2016 at 05:31PM
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Trump tweets flag burning should be outlawed

Trump tweets flag burning should be outlawed
Laws prohibiting the burning or desecration of the American flag have been struck down by the Supreme Court, most recently in 1990, because they were found to have violated the First Amendment of the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.

November 29, 2016 at 05:55PM
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How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’

How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’
Experts are warning that liberal democracies around the world may be at serious risk of decline.

November 30, 2016 at 02:51AM
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The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers

The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers
The new MacBook Pro is possibly the most open device Apple has ever built.

November 29, 2016 at 12:21AM
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The Owner of Washington’s Hottest Gym Keeps Getting Sued

The Owner of Washington’s Hottest Gym Keeps Getting Sued
Anne Mahlum has built a multimillion-dollar gym, made Michelle Obama a fan, and hooked a city on pricey workout machines—all while fighting the ex-bodybuilder who owned the first machines and the ex-boyfriend who helped start the business.

November 29, 2016 at 05:07AM
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Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote

Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote
President-elect Donald Trump alleged Sunday, without evidence, that "millions of people" voted illegally for Hillary Clinton and otherwise he would have won the popular vote.

November 28, 2016 at 05:35PM
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Why Don't Woodpeckers Don't Get Concussions?

Why Don't Woodpeckers Don't Get Concussions?
It's surprising that woodpeckers can even fly in a straight line after drilling thousands of holes in trees. Are these birds eternally concussed and just great at compensating? Or is there something else going on?

November 30, 2016 at 02:29AM
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Swap driving licence for cheap noodles, Japan urges older motorists

Swap driving licence for cheap noodles, Japan urges older motorists
Police in Japan are trying to coax elderly drivers from behind the wheel with offers of cheap meals, as the country confronts a worrying rise in accidents involving older motorists.

November 30, 2016 at 02:17AM
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Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart

Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart
Reddit, in its goal to be a laissez-faire haven of (relatively) free expression, has been overrun by nationalist trolls. Its staff of volunteer moderators is losing hope in the site’s future.

November 29, 2016 at 08:54PM
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The true story of Nintendo's most coveted game

The true story of Nintendo's most coveted game
"Stadium Events" is absurdly coveted. It sells for upward of $30,000. And it royally messes with your life.

November 28, 2016 at 08:19PM
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Gridiron Gangster: How a Gambler Took Down a Kingpin

Gridiron Gangster: How a Gambler Took Down a Kingpin
Junior DeLuca unzipped his suitcase to show crisp bundles of cash totaling $2.5 million in Australian dollars — a staggering pile of money that would come to derail both his and Robert Cipriani's lives in spectacular fashion.

November 29, 2016 at 05:37PM
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Space Travel Wreaks Havoc On The Human Body

Space Travel Wreaks Havoc On The Human Body
As we gear up to go to Mars, scientists scramble to learn more about the devastating effects of space travel on the body and how we can mitigate these issues for future cosmonauts.

November 29, 2016 at 10:34PM
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Fidel Castro, African hero

Fidel Castro, African hero
Dictator or not, many in Africa see the Cuban leader as a symbol of freedom.

November 29, 2016 at 09:55PM
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How scientists are preparing for a world without antibiotics

How scientists are preparing for a world without antibiotics
To fight resistant bacteria, we are turning to new allies such as viruses that only attack bacteria, nanoparticles, and tiny proteins based on those produced by the immune systems of different organisms.

November 29, 2016 at 08:54PM
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Freeze Your Head and Try to Live Forever

Freeze Your Head and Try to Live Forever
A new generation is keeping Russia’s centuries-old fascination with immortality alive. Get ready to chill out and wait for the future (or singularity) to arrive.

November 29, 2016 at 08:54PM
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Why Fahrenheit Is Such An Arbitrary Temperature Scale

Why Fahrenheit Is Such An Arbitrary Temperature Scale
In its beginnings, the Fahrenheit scale kinda sorta made a little bit of sense, but things quickly devolved from there...

November 29, 2016 at 08:23PM
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Where Are Our Next Generation Condoms?

Where Are Our Next Generation Condoms?
The Gates Foundation tried to solve that problem by offering awards to the best proposals for the “next generation of condom” back in 2013. So where's our space age jimmy hat?

November 29, 2016 at 07:46PM
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Big Names Take Hit on Theranos

Big Names Take Hit on Theranos
Several large investments from families and individuals helped infuse Theranos with $632 million in its latest funding round, which stretched from 2014 to 2015, including $100 million from Rupert Murdoch.

November 29, 2016 at 06:47PM
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Trump tweets flag burning should be outlawed

Trump tweets flag burning should be outlawed
Laws prohibiting the burning or desecration of the American flag have been struck down by the Supreme Court, most recently in 1990, because they were found to have violated the First Amendment of the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.

November 29, 2016 at 05:55PM
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Colombia plane crash: 6th survivor found under fuselage

Colombia plane crash: 6th survivor found under fuselage
A charter plane carrying 72 passengers — including players from a Brazilian soccer team — crashed near Rionegro, Colombia, according to the country's civil aviation department. Nine crew members were also on board.

November 29, 2016 at 05:50PM
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This Algorithm Taught Itself to Animate a Still Photo

This Algorithm Taught Itself to Animate a Still Photo
This is the first time that a machine has been able to generate multi-frame video from a static image.

November 29, 2016 at 05:43PM
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The Unstoppable Rise Of The Income Gap, Visualized

The Unstoppable Rise Of The Income Gap, Visualized
​In recent decades, wealth inequality between the top 0.1% of Americans and the bottom 90% has increased dramatically, as money has accumulated in the hands of the rich far faster than it has for the rest of the country. If you'd like to see just how bad that trend looks, here you go.

November 29, 2016 at 02:15AM
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World

How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages — and even record your calls.

November 28, 2016 at 08:19PM
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Let's Colonize Titan

Let's Colonize Titan
Saturn's largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live.

November 28, 2016 at 09:22PM
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Family of San Bernardino shooters seeks custody of their orphaned daughter

Family of San Bernardino shooters seeks custody of their orphaned daughter
Almost a year after the shooting, Saira Khan is still trying to restore some order to her family’s life and the child’s.

November 29, 2016 at 08:46AM
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At Least 3 People Are Dead After Eating Thanksgiving Meal Served By Church

At Least 3 People Are Dead After Eating Thanksgiving Meal Served By Church
Three people died and five others were sickened after eating a Thanksgiving meal reportedly served to those who would have otherwise been alone for the holiday.

November 29, 2016 at 08:46AM
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The Last Hospital In Eastern Aleppo Is No More

The Last Hospital In Eastern Aleppo Is No More
The fall of Omar Bin Abdul Aziz — the last standing hospital in eastern Aleppo — means as many as 300,000 civilians in the area, living under a siege imposed by the regime of President Bashar Assad, have nowhere to seek treatment for injuries or illness.

November 29, 2016 at 08:46AM
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Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV’s Mount Chiliad

Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV’s Mount Chiliad
Just below the peak of Mount Chiliad, a huge mountain in the far north of San Andreas, a mysterious mural sits high atop a cliff face.

November 29, 2016 at 12:21AM
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These Photos From A Chinese Steel Mill Look Like The End Of The World

These Photos From A Chinese Steel Mill Look Like The End Of The World
Photojournalist Kevin Frayer traveled to Mongolia and captured some haunting pictures.

November 28, 2016 at 06:30PM
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