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Who Voted to Keep Funding the NSA's Spy Programs?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, savior of the NSA surveillance program? (Image: Flickr) Yesterday, the House of Representatives narrowly defeated Rep. Justin Amash's Defense Appropriations Bill...
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Our Space Weather Forecasts Are About to Get Better
Video via Goddard Space Flight Center's Flickr. The United Kingdom’s national weather service has added space weather to its catalogue of forecasting services. While space may be very far away, its...
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Japan Wants to Feed the World With Tiny Green Bug-Like Creatures
Image via YouTube The hot new commodity out of Tokyo is the opposite of hot or new. It’s a neon green microorganism that, it turns out, makes for a super-nutritious food. The creature, called euglena,...
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Google Royalty Is Kickstarting Bloomberg's Graduation Gift: A New Park
Image via Yesterday the short mayor who's long on cash broke ground at Governor Island’s new $70 million park. On the island New York State bought from the federal government for a dollar in 2003, “The...
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Enjoy These "Beer Labels In Motion"
All images via Beer Labels in Motion Welp, it’s another Friday afternoon, and while it might not be five where you are, it’s past five here. Time to crack open some cold ones, and complain about the...
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Can Concentric Circles Save Subway Sanity?
If you're new to New York City, simply visiting for vacation, or if you're a born-and-raised New Yorker that still can't point out any other states on a blank map besides Florida and Jersey, then you...
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I Catfished Hundreds of Dudes on Tinder To Truly Understand the Male Sex
If a girl talks about her personal style for more than ten minutes, I promise you that she will say, “I dress for other women, not men.” Not dolling up for men is a tenant we carried down on a tablet...
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Well Of Course Water Sommeliers Are a Real Thing Now
You know what? I love some fucking water. I bet I love it better than you or anyone you know. I live and work in the desert, and at any given point I'm probably at least half-thinking about water. Do...
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It's Time To Start Taking This Global Food Riot Model Seriously
You should already know the name Yaneer Bar-Yam. He’s the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and made news for a 2011 paper tying global food prices to 2008 and 2011 riot...
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Easy-To-Read App Privacy Policies Won’t Change Anything
via Flickr We’ve all been there: we visit a website or download a phone app, see a privacy policy asking for authorization to access our data, and completely ignore it. We ignore the notice because...
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Anthony Wiener and the Problem with "Sex Addiction"
The internet is abuzz over a recent brain imaging study on sex addiction that questions whether those with compulsive sexual behavior have real neurological differences from those who don’t. Since the...
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The Current Recession Looks More Like the Great Depression to Those With...
via grendelkhan/Creative Commons A great thing or even a necessary thing in dealing with mental illness is stability. Turbulence (financial, emotional, physiological) means being on the defensive most...
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Does North America Have a Heroin Problem Or a Pain Problem?
I’m a drug recovery nerd. When I’m not working with addicts at my husband’s sober living facility, Acadia Malibu, I’m watching YouTube videos created by recovery experts like Dr. Gabor Maté, a...
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Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies Days Before Revealing His Pacemaker Exploit: One...
Barnaby Jack, who famously hacked ATMs and claimed to be able to hack pacemakers in order to kill patients remotely, was confirmed dead on Friday by the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office. He was...
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An Anti-Wall Made Out of Skateboard Bones
Party Wall is as much party as it is wall. For MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program, an annual series of competitions that gives upstarts an opportunity to build projects conceived for PS1's space in...
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This Burka-Clad Female Superhero Will Fight the Taliban with Books
Image via Burka Avenger's official Facebook page. It sometimes feels like no one really knows how to write or illustrate female superheroes correctly. Take a look at The Hawkeye Initiative for proof of...
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Dumpster Droning at an Old Facebook Building
Is it how you drone? Or where you drone? It depends, really. In Dumpster Diving, a new first-person video by BayAreaCrasher, it's all about harmless trolling of a former den of information. Its...
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Be Your Own Spaceship: How We Can Adapt Human Bodies for Alien Worlds
NASA is already developing exoskeletons for use in space, both for assistance and exercise. Of all of Superman's powers, the most underrated is his ability to travel through space unharmed. It's...
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Nature Can Clog Oil Rig Fires, But Shouldn't Have To
Montara Oil Platform Fire, 2009, photo via Flickr / CC. Usually when Mark Ruffalo is upset about collecting natural gas, he’s talking about fracking the stuff out of shale. But today, it’s a natural...
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This Two-Headed Turtle Is Killing It on Facebook
Image via San Antonio Zoo Two-headed animals may be uncommon, but they certainly are not unique. Everyone has seen photos of Deucy the Janus cat or something similar floating around the web. But a...
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