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Tell Michigan Attorney General: Don't Block the Recount!

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Disney attack brings back childhood horror for paramedic

attack brings back childhood horror for paramedic

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flip.it/dZN0p Jason Kershanick was just 9 when he saw a huge alligator leap out of a lake and kill his 4-year-old playmate in their Florida neighborhood.Now a 37-year-old paramedic firefighter, he remembers the gruesome attack "like it was yesterday." It hits him hard every time a gator kills someone else.After a...

Could Your Next Uber be a Multicopter?

Could Your Next Uber be a Multicopter? The future is on it's way..

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flip.it/kwpal The world’s first certified multicopter lifts off in Bruchsal, Germany, marking a new era for aerial transportation.Just as smartphone technology sparked new ideas for urban transportation – like Lit …

Blood Donors Needed After Orlando Gay Club Shooting, But Q***r Men Are Banned

Blood Donors Needed After Orlando Gay Club Shooting, But Q***r Men Are Banned

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flip.it/QzA0V The FDA legally prohibits donations from men who have s*x with men.Friends and family members embrace outside the Orlando Police headquarters during the investigation of a shooting at a gay nightclub in the city.WASHINGTON -- Local officials in Orlando are urging people to donate blood in response t...

Donald Trump Makes Me Proud To Be Mexican

Donald Trump Makes Me Proud To Be Mexican

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flip.it/cPeOv "My heritage doesn’t make me less American"I was recently waiting to board a plane in Chicago when a fellow passenger asked me: “Are you Muslim?”I was taken aback. “No,” I said. “I’m Mexican.”I felt her glare. Apparently, all I’d done was move from one group Donald Trump reviles to another.I’m proud

Want to Make Excellent Decisions? Make Sure You Avoid These 6 Mental Traps

Want to Make Excellent Decisions? Make Sure You Avoid These 6 Mental Traps

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flip.it/aQ9.k Decisions: we all make them, and we all want to make better ones. Science to the rescue!Why do we sometimes regret a decision we've made?The main problem is that we are all, to use the title of Dan Ariely's great book, predictably irrational. We're people. That's why markets aren't always rational.…

Shocking! Checkout the Community Where Old Women Marry Young Ladies in Nigeria

Shocking! Checkout the Community Where Old Women Marry Young Ladies in Nigeria

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flip.it/y610J Shocking! Checkout the Community Where Old Women Marry Young Ladies in NigeriaFOLLOW US ON TWITTER83-year old Nwanyidinma looked disconsolate as she sat in front of her thatched, mud house. There was …

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150 years after Memphis massacre, marker shows struggle

150 years after Memphis massacre, marker shows struggle

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flip.it/v70zK MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The simple marker tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in this city's history, the three-day run of violence known as the Memphis massacre."On May 1, 2 and 3, 1866, mobs of white men led by law enforcement attacked black people," reads the placard, placed during a cer...

6 Ways Your Siblings Make You Who You Are - Motto

6 Ways Your Siblings Make You Who You Are - Motto

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flip.it/oqK52 They can affect the shaping of your body and mindWhether you’re best buds or can’t be in the same room without arguing, there’s no question that you and your sibling(s) share a lifelong bond. Friends come and go, but your sibs are there for the long haul. And you’re around them a lot. By age 11, kid...

Rosemary really is herb of remembrance, as scent boosts memory by 15 per cent, say scientists

Rosemary really is herb of remembrance, as scent boosts memory by 15 per cent, say scientists

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flip.it/7GUbH English folklore advises slipping rosemary into the pocket of an errant lover to help them remember their vows, while Ophelia confirmed the herb is ‘for remembrance’ in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.Now scientists have shown that the plant really is linked to better memory.A study of pensioners found that si…

Antarctic birds recognize individual humans

Antarctic birds recognize individual humans

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flip.it/6s97R "It is amazing that brown skuas, which evolved and lived in human-free habitats, recognized individual humans just after 3 or 4 visits. It seems that they have very high levels of cognitive …

Yes, he tried: what will Barack Obama's legacy be?

Yes, he tried: what will Barack Obama's legacy be?

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flip.it/AZiTq When Ohio fell on election night 2008, the President’s Lounge, a bar on the overwhelmingly black south side of Chicago, erupted in jubilation. Corks popped, strangers hugged, police patrolling the streets yelled the freshly elected president’s name from their loudhailers: “Obama!”As I scanned the fa…

A remote Amazonian tribe could fundamentally change our understanding of language

A remote Amazonian tribe could fundamentally change our understanding of language

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flip.it/GhRH- Deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, linguists are trying unravel the structure of a tribal language that might be radically different than any other.Only a few hundred people are members of the …

Daylight Saving Time: 4 Tricks to Make an Easy Switch

Daylight Saving Time: 4 Tricks to Make an Easy Switch

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flip.it/PppXa Losing an hour of sleep doesn't have to throw you offWarmer temperatures, longer days and the scramble to file your taxes point to one thing: spring is around the corner, and with it, the start of Daylight Saving Time. That means on Sunday, March 13 (at 2 a.m.), it’s time to turn your clocks ahead o…

British woman becomes one of the first cancer patients to be injected with new tumour-destroying...

British woman becomes one of the first cancer patients to be injected with new tumour-destroying vaccine

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flip.it/rCT5l 'It's fantastic to be part of something that could be ground breaking'

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Ryan: House will file brief with Supreme Court to try to block Obama's immigration policies

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cnn.it/1UwAqQb House Speaker Paul Ryan announced the House will vote soon on legislation authorizing the chamber to file an amicus brief in the case pending before the Supreme Court challenging President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration.

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Teacher Talk Time 12 | IH Bangkok

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Wonder what it is like to teach English? This post is about one teacher's 1st week of teaching at https://t.co/Mm2SAGi5Sc

ow.ly/YYdVR New teacher experience at a private English language school in Bangkok.

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Going the Distance: 5 Qualities That Make Your Significant Other Marriage Material

Going the Distance: 5 Qualities That Make Your Significant Other Marriage Material

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flip.it/ngwFd The term "marriage material" gets thrown out a lot — without much definition. But according to Terri Orbuch, Ph.D., relationship expert and author of 5 Simple Steps To Take Your Marriage From Good To Great, the meaning behind marriage material is clear. "It means that he or she is a good partner for

15 commonly misused words that make smart people look foolish

15 commonly misused words that make smart people look foolish

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flip.it/CZa2h My kids make up new words all the time. They are creative, their vocabulary is growing fast, and they cannot always conjure up the right word to describe their feelings or what they are after.But that is OK — they are still learning. And new words are great for a laugh.But you are an adult (even if…

100 Years of Beauty in the United States Shown Decade by Decade in a One Minute Time Lapse

100 Years of Beauty in the United States Shown Decade by Decade in a One Minute Time Lapse

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flip.it/SiP38 In a bonus episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in the United States as beautifully modeled side-by-side by Lester Shaw and Marshay Mitchell, whose hair and makeup were done in correlation with the trends of each deca…

i>Ex Machina : Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners

i>Ex Machina: Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners

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flip.it/P4f9l Ava, the most advanced AI, is an eerie mixture of robot and woman (Image: Universal Pictures/Rex)IT’S a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually. Alex …

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There may be a surprising difference in the amount of s*x that extroverts have compared to...

There may be a surprising difference in the amount of s*x that extroverts have compared to introverts

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flip.it/y7Z0g There are countless differences in the way extroverts live their lives compare to extroverts. According to personality psychologist Brian Little, those differences extend into the bedroom.During a …

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Why I Have Switched from Bernie to Hillary

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m.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/1… I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the presidential race. As a democratic socialist it seemed obvious t...

The language of wolves: study finds howling ‘dialects’

The language of wolves: study finds howling ‘dialects’

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flip.it/vFrgL A team of researchers have found that wolves speak in distinct howling 'dialects,' doing so with the aid of an algorithm that analyzed in excess of 2,000 recordings of howling. A total of 13 canid …

Scientists are calling a series of experiments 'one of the most important aging discoveries ever'

Scientists are calling a series of experiments 'one of the most important aging discoveries ever'

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flip.it/nPs-Y I'm looking at a picture of two mice. The one on the right looks healthy. The one on the left has graying fur, a hunched back, and an eye that's been whitened by cataracts. “People ask: What the hell did you do to the mouse on the left?” says Nathaniel David. “We didn't do anything.” Time did that.…

To oblivion and beyond: art and science at the edge of consciousness

To oblivion and beyond: art and science at the edge of consciousness

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flip.it/nOOVl They hover between worlds. One woman seems blissful, smiling with acceptance. Another looks terrified as her big eyes flicker and roll. Aya Ben Ron’s film Still Under Treatment is a troubling and eerie study of patients being anaesthetised prior to surgery. Anaesthesia surely ranks with antibiotics…

Who Controls Your Mind? (Hint: It's Not Your Brain)

Who Controls Your Mind? (Hint: It's Not Your Brain)

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flip.it/ZAhQK One of the easiest bets to win is to offer a million dollars to anyone who can accurately predict their next thought. It would be foolhardy to accept such a bet. As we all experience every day -- and yet rarely notice -- our thoughts are unpredictable and spontaneous. They come and go at will, and y…

Day of Remembrance -- Challenger

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ow.ly/XETVM Just 73 seconds after launch on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, a booster engine failed and caused the shuttle Challenger to break apart, taking the lives of all seven crew members.