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Proof that scientists can have a sense of humor
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This is an excerpt from a paper recently published in Nature. This article is 100% legitimate, and is entitled "Methylation-based enrichment facilitates low-cost, noninvasive genomic scale...
Woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race
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Ginger Eason told WSOCTV , a local news station in Charlotte, that Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr. paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up completed absentee ballots for North Carolina's 9th...
In a Rare Move, South Park Admits It Was Wrong About Climate Change
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In the months after Al Gore released his apolitical, urgent documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which outlined the looming horrors of climate change, some audiences were quick to laugh him off as...
The Suspected Bomber's Van Needs to Be Seen to Be Believed
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After federal authorities on Friday arrested 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc in connection with the explosive devices that were sent to nearly a dozen public officials and critics of President Donald...
Disney Princess Movies Are Destroying Your Children
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Being something of a self-styled Disney princess film expert myself, I was intrigued. "Every time we close 'Snow White' I look at my girls and ask, 'Don't you think it's weird that Snow White...
Kristen Bell voices concern about message ‘Snow White’ sends to daughters
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The 38-year-old actress appeared to worry about the message of consent, particularly what it means for her young girls Lincoln, 5, and Delta, 3. Bell, who reads to her daughters every night, also...
William Shatner What I learned about life after a doctor told me I was going to die
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have lived a fortunate life. I, literally and proverbially, have been to the mountaintop. I have met the most extraordinary people and enjoyed the most amazing experiences. I have ridden horses...
New Mexico Sheriff Demands Answers, Calls FBI 'Chicken Shit' Over Handling of Mysterious Observatory Closure
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Samat Jain ( Flickr ) When FBI agents told local law enforcement to “standby” after the closure and evacuation of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, on September 6,...
Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff to buy Time magazine
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Time magazine is changing hands once again, nearly eight months after it was sold to US media group Meredith Corporation. The co-founder of Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, and his wife are...
Americans own less stuff because of the internet, and that's a worry
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Americans own less stuff because of the internet, and that's a worry The great American teenage dream used to be to own your own car. That is dwindling in favour of services such as Uber -...
Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell
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Two weeks ago , somebody untied Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s $40 million yacht from its mooring . It got me thinking about another opulent display of wealth owned by DeVos: her...
Florida man, 72, tries to mow down neighbor with tractor during dispute, cops say
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Travis Fedschun 3 hrs agoA 72-year-old Florida man was arrested last month after he was caught on video chasing down his neighbor on a tractor during a dispute over property, police said. The St....
Politicians Are Finally Learning To Never Underestimate Kim Kardashian
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The only people surprised by how well Kim played her hand with the president are the ones who haven't been paying attention. Steve Forbes and Kim Kardashian at the 2017 Forbes Women's...
A car crashed into a Little League game. The ‘brave’ man who died saving kids had a dark secret.
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Players scrambled and parents screamed as the maroon sedan ripped through the baseball field, infield dust flying into the Friday evening from under the car’s spinning tires. Spectators in the...
New policy for cheerleading team angers girls who made the squad
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Source A group of high school cheerleaders addressed officials at a board of education meeting in East Hanover Wednesday evening about their disappointment over a new policy for the team....
Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Actually Saying?
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This is probably one of the better summaries of the now viral interview of Jordan Peterson by British “journalist” Cathy Newman. Her disgusting tactics stuck out to me like a sore thumb and I...
The pessimists might be right, social media may have plunged us into a new dark age
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The pessimists might be right, social media may have plunged us into a new dark age By Andrew Coyne, National Post Op/Ed, March 23 2018 Even as I write, I am conscious of a contrarian knee...
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