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Gizmodo

Watch a Young George R.R. Martin Rail Against Sci-Fi's Predictive Reputation - As famous as he is, George R.R. Martin is not above Googling himself. At least that’s the only sensible explanation for how he “stumbled on” a video clip...
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Jalopnik

Watch 1980s Drivers Freak Out About Having To Wear A Seat Belt - In the distant past of the 1980s a new wave of regulation hit drivers by surprise. Local and state governments began mandating seat belt usage, and respo...
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Wired Top Stories

Neuroscience Is Inspiring Some Amazing Sci-Fi - Daryl Gregory's stories explore the many complexities of the human brain.
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NYT > Home Page

Carmine's Hostess Is Attacked by Tourists Over Vaccine Requirement, Police Say - Enforcement of a city policy requiring proof of vaccination to dine indoors began Monday. Days later, a hostess at Carmine’s was assaulted after asking thr...
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Slate Magazine

I Found a Woman With an Incredible Sexual Talent—but I’m Worried About What I’m Really Doing to Her - Won’t she regret this?
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PsyBlog

The Popular Supplement That Fights Alzheimer’s (M) - Around 1 in 6 people over 70 have mild cognitive impairment. About half of these people will go on to develop Alzheimer’s within five years.
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Talking Points Memo

To Understand Milley’s Worries We Should Look at the Trump DOJ - Follow-on reporting about General Mark Milley’s crisis talks with his counterpart in the PLA just add more confirmation that these...
1 hour ago
Salon

“Once Upon a Deadpool”: A cynical cash grab that’s still too adult for kids - “Deadpool 2″ was great, so “Once Upon A Deadpool” is mildly entertaining. But there’s no reason for it to exist
2 years ago
NYT > Paul Krugman

Intellectuals, Politics and Bad Faith - Don’t let the right-wingers grind you down.
3 years ago
New Scientist - Online News

The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name - Spanish speakers use the word “grima” to describe the feeling when a knife scratches a plate. Now it seems English-speakers react in the same way
4 years ago
Retro Thing

Turn Your Old Tube Television Into A Smart TV - The Toshiba Childcrusher 100 XL I'd like you to meet my new bedroom TV. It's not fancy and it's not a flat screen, but I'm ecstatically pleased to save it ...
4 years ago
Gawker

How Things Work - Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties. It is the end of an ...
5 years ago
The Onion

Mom Has Stacked Dinner Party Roster - GOLDEN, CO—Their eyes widening in amazement as the 43-year-old rattled off the names of heavy hitter after heavy hitter, impressed members of the Dreesh...
5 years ago
Bits

Daily Report: A Net Neutrality Setback for Facebook in India - In the United States, the social media giant has been an advocate of equal treatment of all Internet content. In India, regulators who share that belief ha...
5 years ago
Boston.com -- Red Sox News

Rusney Castillo call-up could jump-start struggling Red Sox offense - Rusney Castillo alone won’t be the answer, but the highly-touted Cuban phenom could be a part of the solution.
6 years ago
The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

A Kick to the Nuts of My Feet - Oh no, there's a hole in my socks. And not just a hole in any socks, but in my good orange and black "LIVE FREE OR DIE" socks that I kind of think give me ...
10 years ago
RealClearMarkets - Articles

Lawyering Meant to Save You Money Is the Good Kind of Lawyering - I always think it is bad form to ask someone “what do you do” upon first meeting them. I usually make something up and tell them I am a toll bo...
21 years ago
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