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Gulf War Syndrome Is Appearing in Veterans of the Most Recent Iraq and...
Master Sgt. Darryl Sterling tosses trash into a burn pit in Iraq in 2008. Image: Julianne Showalter/Air Force In a nation of booming health costs, most focus is placed on aging Baby Boomers. But...
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The Girl Who Swallowed Her Bloody Tampon and the Guy Who Ate His Own Poop on...
Of course some girl took out her used tampon and dipped it into her mouth in a YouTube video, and obviously some guy defecated in a cup and swallowed it with some ice cream. Teenagers used to pretend...
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No, Apple Is Not Becoming Crapple
Years from now, you'll tell your kids about today. It was a day just like any other: wake up, shower, get dressed, buy coffee, take subway, do work. And then you heard it. Like a clap of thunder and...
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Scottish Ponies Wearing Cardigans? Scottish Ponies Wearing Cardigans.
It's been a wild week folks: Aleksey Vayner died, we found the next cocaine in the deep web, there was a sumo shakeup, and–sorry–a whole lot of people are getting grossed out about tampon fame. It's...
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Twitter Helped Cory Booker Stage a Perfect Photo Op to Save a Freezing Dog
There’s a story going around today about how Twitter enabled Newark mayor extraordinaire Cory Booker to rescue a shivering dog from certain wintery death. Here’s the Atlantic’s take, entitled “How...
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Watching You, Watching Me, Watching Everyone
“This has really been blown out of proportion,” Omer Fast wrote in an email a few weeks ago, speaking about "5000 Feet is the Best" (2011), a work which stems from his interest in military and...
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Beijing's Pollution Problem Is Everyone's Problem
Beijing's Pangu Plaza last week It’s surprisingly easy to turn a blind eye to environmental degradation in China. The country is the biggest polluter in the world (but only 78th per capita), but that...
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Monkeys Unconsciously Synchronize Their Behavior, Just Like Humans
Society, as many an anthropologist has argued, is imitation. We learn to talk, walk and behave by studying how others talk, walk and behave. But we also imitate each other unconsciously—aping each...
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A Way Out of the "So What?" Paradox of Hunting Alien Earths
The James Webb Space Telescope Not sure I'd go as far as to say that we're "bombarded" with new Earth-like or habitable zone planet discoveries, but soon enough we'll reach a certain "so what?"...
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John Kiriakou Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Transparency...
When he enters a federal prison on Friday, John Kiriakou will hold the distinction of being the only former CIA agent to be prosecuted in relation to the Bush White House's torture program, not for...
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Iran Sent a Monkey into Space: Is It Time for Space Diplomacy?
A long-range rocket on an Iranian launch pad. One of the big revelations following North Korea's rocket launch was that Pyonyang may have had help from Iran in developing its rocket. Iran has had a...
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How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love 'the Advertising Industry's Collective...
There are few things I dislike more than crippling nostalgia for eras gone by, the good times of which were always somewhat of a dream. Nowadays, remix culture has us neck-deep in some sort of rut....
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Vine Doesn't Have a Porn Problem, You Do
Twitter introduces a new app that allows human beings to share six seconds of video on their iPhones and what does it expect we’re going to do with it? We might share a clip of the pile of neatly...
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After 30 Years, Brazil to Catalog the Amazon Rainforest
Image via Cosmic Adventure Brazil's portion of the Amazon has received a lot of attention in the last year, sparked by the proposed move to reduce Amazonian protections after the region saw...
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Tech Giants Are Lobbying Themselves to Death
Get a load of this: Over the course of the past few of decades, we've seen the tech industry grow from a loose network of hackathons in garages to one of Washington's most powerful lobbies. Companies...
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This Monkey in a Snowsuit Just Made Winter Worth It
Iran just announced that it successfully launched a monkey into space and back, and while that's a big accomplishment for primates everywhere, the little guy in question looked extremely bummed to be...
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The Motherboard Guide to Quinoa
Traditional quinoa farmer, Bolivia (via) So, the three big controversies of January 2013 are: 1. Gun control, 2. Quinoa and 3. That guy’s fake, Internet girlfriend. Since nothing more (for now) can...
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Twitter Obeys the Government More Than You Think
Twitter just released its second-ever transparency report, and guess what? It's actually transparent. It's got all the goodies: 6,646 reports of copyright violations, 1,858 information requests from...
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IBM Is Harvesting Location Data from Millions of Cell Phone Users to Build...
People around the globe are flocking to cities, where, the thinking goes, they’ll be able to live nice, robust lives more efficiently and emit less planet-killing pollution. Ideally. But city living...
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Sorry, Hippies: Sexual Liberation Began in the 1950s Thanks to Penicillin
Repression and housewifery weren't the only things going on in the 1950s. Image via Stirred, Straight Up, With a Twist As anyone who’s read John Cheever knows, 1950s America, despite its staid,...
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