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Who Will Love This Tiny New Planet?
Scientists have just discovered a tiny planet, a little planet, the li'lest planet, warm as toast, smaller than most, with a hot, rocky coast, circling a star far, far away. The little rock planet is...
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'Reddit Assault Rifle' Is The Most Terrifying Thing On The Internet and It's...
Users of the internet culture behemoth Reddit are not famous for their level-headedness or discretion. So it was a bit discomfiting to spot this AR15 assault rifle—the same kind of gun used by Newtown...
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Here Is a Long List of Medical Procedures You Don't Need
One good way to fix America's vastly bloated and expensive health care system would be to make our health care system public like lots of other civilized nations with higher stands of living than us....
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Alanis Morissette Fans Into Threesomes and Other Things Gleaned From Weird...
Stereotype.fm has discovered (and curated) a series of very strange connections between music taste, habits, and personality types. The website is the brainchild of the crew at Tastebuds and is the...
View ArticleIs This the Best Bus Stop Ever?
As part of a new interactive marketing campaign, telecommunications firm Qualcomm set up a wish-fulfilling bus stop that instantly rewarded impatient commuters with increasingly unconventional rides....
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Mississippi Newspaper Owner Lets Homophobic Readers Have It After They Cancel...
Jessica Powell and her partner Crystal Craven were married recently in what is believed to be Jones County, Mississippi's first same-sex wedding. A local newspaper, The Laurel Leader-Call, which...
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Times Square is NYC's Happiest Place; Hell Is the Nation's Saddest Word
According to an analysis of Twitter messages from researchers at the University of Vermont, Times Square is the happiest part of New York City. We are maybe not OK and it's time to move. Perhaps the...
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Andrew Sullivan's Stations of the Cross: New York's Ongoing Torture of the...
Like a pioneer frontiersman, award-winning blogger Andrew Sullivan struck out last year from the civilized climes of Washington D.C. to settle amidst the ill-mannered squalor of New York City....
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TSA Agents Harass Three-Year-Old with Spina Bifida, Take Away Her Stuffed Animal
After passing through the security checkpoint at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport without incident earlier this month, the youngest member of the Forck family — 3-year-old Lucy — was suddenly...
View ArticleBrazen Brazilian Couple Has Sex in the Ocean While Hundreds of Onlookers...
"Sex on the Beach" was an entirely different kind of cocktail for a pair of young Brazilian lovers and the large crowd of onlookers who witnessed their unabashed water sports on Carnival Saturday....
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Stealing Found Coats, Tattling on a Bridal Shop of Horrors, and Other...
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions (max: 200 words) to caity@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not...
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Why Do You Text Like Thissss? Girl, You're Drunnnk
It's been happening for a whilllee, texters lengthening their verbage, and linguists are here to analyze. Using nearly 4 million words from students' digital-communications data, a linguist at the...
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Beware of NBC's Hacked Website
After a long week of people compromising corporations' Twitter presences—specifically here and here—some real-deal hackers have gone into NBC's homepage and turned it into a mine field full of malware...
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Craving for Waffles Lands Florida Woman in the Hospital After Bullets Stored...
You know that old saying, "don't store your bullets in the oven?" Well, one Florida man had apparently never heard it — and his waffle-making friend ended up paying the price. While visiting her...
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You Should Eat Horse
This horse meat scandal is sweeping Western Europe and quivering even the stiffest of upper lips in Britain. Some people are concerned that the horse meat in their microwaveable pasta dinners may be...
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World's Coolest Boy Calls 911 So He Won't Have to Go to Bed; Gets to Stay Up...
A 10-year-old boy in Brockton, Massachusetts recently had oh, I don't know, THE BEST NIGHT EVER when he called the cops on his mom so he wouldn't have to go to bed and then got to meet a police...
View ArticleYouTube Beauty Guru Attempting to Teach Hair Curling Ends Up Burning Her Hair...
Beauty Gurus: YouTube is lousy with them. If there is one thing most of these gurus have in common it's that they really like starting their videos with the words "hey guys." Oh, and, also the fact...
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al-Qaeda's 22 Tips for Avoiding a Drone Attack
According to a document found by the Associated Press in Timbuktu, members of al-Qaeda in North Africa were in possession of a fairly detailed instruction manual for avoiding drone attacks. The...
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Manhattan School Apologizes After Assigning 'Slavery Word Problems Homework'...
Math is obviously an important skill for elementary students to learn, and we support creative methods for teaching what, for some, is a boring subject. But, as we noted last year, there are much...
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Brooks Drops the Bass, Loses the Thread, in 'D.C. Dubstep' Column
What's the worst thing about chief New York Times pop sociologist David Brooks' new column, which is titled "The D.C. Dubstep" in a vague approximation of cleverness? Is it the insipid central...
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