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Drugs You Don't Need For Disorders You Don't Have
Drugs You Don't Need For Disorders You Don't Have
Inside the pharmaceutical industry's campaign to put us all to sleep.
March 31, 2016 at 11:11AM
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Drugs You Don't Need For Disorders You Don't Have
Inside the pharmaceutical industry's campaign to put us all to sleep.
March 31, 2016 at 11:11AM
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Sound check: the quietest place in the U.S.
Sound check: the quietest place in the U.S.
Gordon Hempton and the three decade search for pure silence.
March 30, 2016 at 12:06AM
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Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with battery for grabbing reporter in Florida
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski charged with battery for grabbing reporter in Florida
The report from the Jupiter Police Department said Corey Lewandowski was charged for intentionally grabbing and bruising the arm of Michelle Fields, a former reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart, against her will at a Trump campaign event on March 8.
March 29, 2016 at 12:48PM
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The Inside Story of How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR
The Inside Story of How Oculus Cracked the Impossible Design of VR
When you set out to create a virtual reality headset, you soon realize that the idea of form following function is bullshit.
March 27, 2016 at 11:11PM
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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World
Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World
Netflix's strategy is all about data, great TV and using one to help you keep finding the other.
March 27, 2016 at 03:42PM
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Brussels Anti-Terror Raids Continue: Police Make Arrests, Shoot Man at Tram Stop
Brussels Anti-Terror Raids Continue: Police Make Arrests, Shoot Man at Tram Stop
Belgian authorities continue to detain individuals and scour the country’s capital in search of suspects as part of its anti-terror operations following Tuesday’s attacks at the Brussels airport and metro subway.
March 26, 2016 at 10:20AM
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In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of those genes do.
March 25, 2016 at 11:32AM
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Man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later
Man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later
“The officer said, 'I don’t know how to tell you this but there’s a warrant out for your arrest from 2002. Apparently you rented the movie "Freddy Got Fingered" and never returned it.' I thought he was joking,” said James Meyers.
March 24, 2016 at 01:53PM
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Winners of the Smithsonian Magazine's 2015 Photo Contest
Winners of the Smithsonian Magazine's 2015 Photo Contest
If you thought these winning photos would be not great, you would be wrong. They are great.
March 23, 2016 at 06:25PM
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The Silicon Valley Boys Aren’t Just Brilliant-They’re Part of a Comedy Revolution
The Silicon Valley Boys Aren’t Just Brilliant-They’re Part of a Comedy Revolution
You've got a hit TV show! Great. Now go crush it on YouTube, podcasts, Twitter and everywhere else.
March 23, 2016 at 10:37AM
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Brussels airport explosions – live updates
Brussels airport explosions – live updates
At least 31 are dead and 180 injured after blasts at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
March 22, 2016 at 12:29PM
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Why there might be many more universes besides our own
Why there might be many more universes besides our own
The idea of parallel universes may seem bizarre, but physics has found all sorts of reasons why they should exist.
March 21, 2016 at 09:42AM
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How Twitter could still blow it and fade away into social network oblivion
How Twitter could still blow it and fade away into social network oblivion
It would be nearly unprecedented for a social network of Twitter's size — currently hovering around 300 million active users — to peter out. But that doesn't mean the idea of Twitter fading away is out of the question.
March 20, 2016 at 04:04PM
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Leaked ISIS Documents Tell The Stories Of Hundreds Of Foreign Jihadis
Leaked ISIS Documents Tell The Stories Of Hundreds Of Foreign Jihadis
A cache of documents used by ISIS to register foreign fighters reveals the personal details of jihadis who normally keep to the shadows.
March 19, 2016 at 02:10PM
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Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created, according to more than a half-dozen current and former Apple employees.
March 18, 2016 at 09:28AM
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Check Us Out On Product Hunt: We're Up Against Puppy Lasers And Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes
Check Us Out On Product Hunt: We're Up Against Puppy Lasers And Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes
Need to keep up with the news? Searching for a recent article on gravitational waves? Bored at work? Wondering if that 12-seed is gonna pull off the upset? Say hello to DiggBot, launching today on Slack.
March 17, 2016 at 02:00PM
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The Journalist and the Troll: Benjamin Wey Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online
The Journalist and the Troll: Benjamin Wey Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online
Benjamin Wey, whose day job was taking Chinese companies public and was eventually arrested for securities fraud, had a dark hobby: trying to smear the name of journalist Dune Lawrence.
March 16, 2016 at 12:42PM
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Closing Apps to Save Your Battery Only Makes Things Worse
Closing Apps to Save Your Battery Only Makes Things Worse
In the last week or so, both Apple and Google have confirmed that closing your apps does absolutely nothing to improve your battery life.
March 15, 2016 at 01:42PM
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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong
Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong
That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared closer — yet we seem no closer in grasping the implications of this epochal event.
March 14, 2016 at 02:37PM
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Racism against Barack Obama.
Racism against Barack Obama.
It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama.
March 13, 2016 at 03:18PM
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Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned
Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned
Two years ago, the flamboyant fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. Now, his closest friends, banished from his inner circle, have grown increasingly concerned. They worry that the pop-culture icon is being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion — with one suggesting more sinister notions are at play.
March 12, 2016 at 01:06PM
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1988: The Year Donald Lost His Mind
1988: The Year Donald Lost His Mind
At the early peak of his success, he pulled the trigger on a manic series of deals that nearly brought him down.
March 11, 2016 at 10:04AM
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Notes From My Suicide
Notes From My Suicide
I pointed the gun away from me and breathed and raised it toward the wall. I disengaged the safety, brought it to my temple, and fired.
March 10, 2016 at 11:22AM
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New MIT Code Makes Web Pages Load 34 Percent Faster in Any Browser
New MIT Code Makes Web Pages Load 34 Percent Faster in Any Browser
Internet connections get faster but websites get more complex — and that means we often still have to wait an age for pages to load. Now, a new technique from MIT that helps browsers gather files more efficiently could change that.
March 9, 2016 at 11:17AM
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The Mystery of the Ghostly Stain in the Attic of the Athens Lunatic Asylum
The Mystery of the Ghostly Stain in the Attic of the Athens Lunatic Asylum
In Athens, Ohio there's a mysterious human-shaped stain in the attic of an old insane asylum. What many residents don't know is that it was left behind in a real-life spooky mystery.
March 8, 2016 at 12:10AM
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Ego depletion, an influential theory in psychology, may have just been debunked.
Ego depletion, an influential theory in psychology, may have just been debunked.
The influential psychological theory of ego depletion, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have just been debunked. How can so many scientists have been so wrong?
March 7, 2016 at 08:35AM
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How Has the MFA Changed the Contemporary Novel?
How Has the MFA Changed the Contemporary Novel?
We wrote a program to analyze hundreds of works by authors with and without creative-writing degrees. The results were disappointing.
March 6, 2016 at 01:13PM
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Banksy unmasked? Scientists use maths and criminology to map artist's identity
Banksy unmasked? Scientists use maths and criminology to map artist's identity
Banksy’s politically-themed street art has made him a celebrity in Britain, despite his true identity never having been confirmed. Now British academics are using a combinations of math, criminology and geographic profiling to back up a theory over the identity of the mysterious street artist.
March 5, 2016 at 04:03PM
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Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month
Here’s What Happened When Some Dude Ate Like The Rock For A Month
Mark Webster saw the most ludicrous diet plan on the planet and decided to try it out.
March 4, 2016 at 01:25PM
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These Goofy Consent PSAs Leave Nothing To The Imagination
These Goofy Consent PSAs Leave Nothing To The Imagination
Project Consent's short PSA videos about the importance of consent may be goofy and animated, but we would probably hold off on showing them to the children. Because that animated penis is still a very recognizable penis.
March 2, 2016 at 10:54PM
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Just About Every Chris Christie Vine Gag
Just About Every Chris Christie Vine Gag
Last Friday, Chris Christie showed up to a Donald Trump event to endorse the orange billionaire in his bid for the Republican nomination. When he appeared with Trump on Super Tuesday, it seemed like he was regretting his decision. And thus, a meme was born.
March 2, 2016 at 06:13PM
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The rise of American authoritarianism
The rise of American authoritarianism
A niche group of political scientists may have uncovered what's driving Donald Trump's ascent. What they found has implications that go well beyond 2016.
March 1, 2016 at 04:22PM
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