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What If Anyone Could Build a Sustainable Civilization From Scratch?
What if you could enjoy the trappings of modern living while working only two hours a day? What if you could build that life using only easily accessible, off the shelf parts? What if the plans for...
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All 39 Species of Birds-of-Paradise, Caught on Incredible Video
Birds-of-paradise are some of most stunning examples of evolution in the animal kingdom: They have stunning plumage and incredible intricate songs and dances, which all evolved to win mates. Now,...
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Is the Release of Secret Drone Memos an Empty Gesture?
President Obama consults with John Brennan, Obama's top counterterror adviser, drone "high priest," and pick to run the CIA (via) If he and the covert, killer-drone program he's been so instrumental...
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Tumblr Adds Real-Time Notification Updates, Becomes Even More Time-Consuming
Yesterday, Tumblr announced on its staff blog that the social media platform had undergone a major change. Similar to Twitter or Facebook's Timeline, Tumblr is now "testing" the implementation of...
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Is Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor on the Way Out?
United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz has had a rough year so far. If you'd Googled her any time before January 11, 2013, you'd learn how her name has been mentioned as a possible candidate for...
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The Internet Isn't Amused by Berlusconi's Comeback
"I will restore the emu Italians." Image via Tumblr If you haven't heard, Silvio Berlusconi, the ex-prime minister of Italy, is back in the running for February's upcoming election. In blunt terms,...
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Shoenice Is Now Rapping
Flowing over beats by Glazed420, you're listening to Shoenice as he majestically enters the rap game. His lyrics are frank, they tell his story, and an acidic groove is established. The feeling is...
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What Rio's Favela 'Pacification' Program Looks Like From the Streets
A resident of Rio's Vidigial shantytown burns a J, March 2012 (via Rafael Fabrés) Residents of Rio de Janeiro's famed favelas may be taking efforts to formally map the sprawling shantytowns into their...
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The Oldest Known Common Ancestor of Humans Looked Like a Chill Rat-Possum Thing
An artist's rendering of the little mammal in question. Credit: Carl Buell Man's common ancestor with the rest of the mammal tribe may have been a small rat-like insectivore with a really long tail....
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How Pennsylvania’s First Openly Gay State Representative Taught Me to Love...
I couldn’t sleep last night. I lay awake, staring at the ceiling, half-baked ideas whipping around the anxious centrifuge in my skull. The past was bothering me; the terrible and mundane medieval...
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This Art Blog Lets You Relive Your College Stoner Days
(via Sascha Brauning) Psychonauts rejoice: I have your new favorite website. But Does It Float is a Tumblr-esque art site that has been described as "an ongoing visual conversation" among creatives....
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Beijing's Hacker Bike Pumps Clean Air Into Your Lungs as You Ride
Beijing is a smog-infested hellhole, everybody knows that. Pollution level are off the charts, but a man's gotta eat, so millions of people are out and about moving through the muck every day, lining...
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In the Biggest Coal-Exporting Nation in the World, It's Now Cheaper to Build...
I'm not going to pretend I don't relish the irony here: Australia is, bar-none, the largest coal-exporting nation in the world. The Aussies ship dank and dirty lignite to China, Japan, Europe, and...
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How Deer Antler Spray, Which Ray Lewis Denies Using, Actually Works
This is what Ray Lewis looks like when you ask him about deer antlers. Image credit: Matthew Emmons/USA TODAY Sports via ESPN If you want to annoy Ray Lewis right now (and I'd be careful about that),...
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Prime Numbers Are the Devil's Work
Prime numbers cause me pain. It's a tingly, warm pain just on the inside of my skull, signaling that said skull's contents are within thinking proximity of ugly math--math, in other words, that...
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When William Shatner Has Hard Questions about Space He Calls Up the Space...
We know that William Shatner is a fun interview subject; turns out he's not a bad interviewer either. Yesterday, when he called up Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who is spending five months...
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Hurricane Sandy Turned These Photos Into Acid Dreamscapes
We've seen the cosmic visual effects that come along with developing a roll of 35mm film after its gone unused for years, but what happens when you leave a superstorm the likes of last year's...
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The Vicious, Mysterious Cycle of Yemen's Blackouts
This article originally ran on VICE.com. As the Arab Spring hit Yemen in 2011, urban Yemenis called for an end to Ali Abdullah Saleh’s three-decade reign in power. They also saw the end of their...
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Get What You Want from People by Making Them Think They Have a Choice
If this doesn’t work, there’s a better way to persuade someone to do something revolting. Image via MySpace. When Dale Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1937, it was an...
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Your Ex Is the Greatest Threat to Your Online Privacy
With all the stories of Chinese hackers and unnavigable Facebook privacy settings in the news, people are rightly concerned about the security of their private information. But a new study conducted...
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