DOLLARS AND COMMON SENSE
How Forbes' List Of The World’s Richest People Gets Made
"[The numbers] are a lot more subjective than Forbes lets on. I know this because I spent two years working on a similar list."
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'GOOD THINGS HAPPENED, TOO'
The Good In Growing Up Evangelical
"It is very hard not to make this essay into an apology for the ways the evangelical church has failed. It has failed, but I love it. It made me who I am."
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'I CHOOSE VIOLENCE'
The 'Game Of Thrones' Season 6 Trailer Has Arrived
Rather than the normal anger and action present in so much "Game of Thrones" scenes, this trailer is full of one emotion — sadness.
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GIGS WE DIGG ǀ SPONSORED
Gigster Is The Fastest Way To Go From Idea To App
Building a meaningful business takes focus and a deep understanding of what’s important. Gigster dramatically reduces time to market by providing a managed team to build your products. Get a free quote to have a top team working in an hour.
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JUST INCREDIBLE
News Reporter Narrowly Escapes Car Crash
On Tuesday morning, KTVU reporter Alex Savidge and camera man Vaughan Chip were covering a train derailment live on air when two cars collided right behind them. Somehow, the two newsman made it out unscathed, albeit dropping some understandable profanity in the process.
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FRUITFUL ENDEAVORS
This Woman Got The First Successful Uterus Transplant In The US
The details of what led to a nine-hour operation, and what lies ahead for the recipient, were disclosed on Monday.
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MEMPHIS BURNING
How Housing Explains Segregation
To understand racial inequality in America, start with housing. In Memphis, the nation’s poorest major city, the segregationist roots go deep.
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YOU'LL BURN YOUR EYES OUT!
Why Lightsabers Will Never Work (And Would Probably Kill You If You Had One)
Forgive the iffy special effects and let Martin Archer ruin your Jedi dreams by explaining the fundamental flaws with the physics of lightsabers.
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THE WING DESIGN THAT SWEPT THE GLOBE
Why Did Airplane Wings Go From Straight To Angled Backward?
For a long time airplanes had wings that jutted straight out. Most airplanes today don't look like that. What happened between now and then?
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TAP INTO A BAD IDEA
In 1990, Coors Tried To Sell 'Rocky Mountain' Sparkling Water
There’s one way Americans like their Rocky Mountain spring water: in the forehead-crushable, carbonated limpidity of a can of Coors. Too bad nobody told that to Coors, who in January of 1990 did their very best to turn that Rocky Mountain spring water into its own marketable product.
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JIZZ IS EVERYWHERE
A Hotel Cleaning Staff Spills To Nikki Glaser About How Disgusting Hotel Rooms Are
Hotel rooms are for gross, dirty sex. We know that. But they're clean by the time you get to them, right? Right...?
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BLU-RAY FOR BLUE-CHIP
Blu-Ray's Second Shot At Relevancy Is In Massive Corporate Data Centers
Optical discs give businesses a way of inexpensively storing an awful lot of cold data — a way pioneered and proven by Facebook.
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THE PRICE TO KNOW THYSELF
Your Entire Genome Can Now Be Sequenced For $999 — And The Results Sent To Your Smartphone
The fundamental building blocks of human life can be read in the 3-billion letters of a person’s genome. Starting next month, a startup called Veritas Genetics will reveal your unique code for only $999.
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LIGHTNING FAST
How To Turn Off Your iPhone's Animations (And Make Your Phone Seem A Lot Faster)
If you're one of the people who gets annoyed by the rather slow animation the iPhone employs when you open an app, there's a janky workaround that will make apps open instantaneously.
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CHEAP HEAT = HEAT YOU GET FROM EASY WAY
The Iron Sheik's Take On The Hulk Hogan/Gawker Trial Is The Only Take That Matters
THE GAWKER YOU DUMB NO GOOD SON OF A BITCH YOU GET THE CHEAP HEAT YOU DON'T RESPECT THE PRIVACY YOU HAVE NO CLASS YOU TRY TO BURY THE PEOPLE FROM THE CHEAP HEAT. YOU ARE NOT THE REAL YOU ARE THE JABRONI OF THE EARTH.
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THE ARTFUL VADER
'Star Wars,' As Imagined By The Comic World's Greatest Artists
In the early 1990s, The Topps Company asked some of the film and comic book industry's very best talent to create original works of art. Here are some of the best.
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HOLD YOUR BREATH
This New Sport Allows You To 'Fly' Underwater
Subwing involves diving underwater and gripping onto a carbon fiber wing that is dragged behind a speedboat.
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KILLING THEM WITH KINDNESS
The Cruelty Of Kindness
‘No kill’ animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering. Is a life of misery any better than a quick death?
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AND MAYBE SOME LUCK
Two Pilots Say They Can Find MH370. All They Need Is $5 Million
They don’t have any money to go search for themselves, and no clear plan for getting any. But there’s also reason to believe they’re right. Or, at least, to believe they’re right to think the official search is focused on the wrong place.
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FROM THE DIGG STORE
The Most Useful Key You’ll Own That Won’t Unlock A Thing
But it will open boxes, pop tags, remove staples, peel vegetables, work as a screwdriver and wrench, and open, pop or cut just about anything else you need on the fly.
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THE FUTURE IS DRIVEN BY AN iCAR
Every Apple Product That Is Probably In The Works
Everyone always wants to know what Apple is up to, and Apple is always trying to hide what they’re up to. Luckily, we have the Internet, which is chock full of rumors and obsessive analysis from Apple fanboys.
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THE TOTALITY OF TOTAL FOOTBALL
The Church Of Cruyff
There have been lots of brilliant football figures down the years, but none has been as significant as Johan Cruyff.
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EASY ON THE LUNGS
What It’s Like To Climb Mount Everest In Virtual Reality
The day has arrived when the hardest physical challenge on Earth can be completed in an 8x10' room.
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TWO LIGHTSABERS UP
Killer 'Star Wars' Fan Film Gives Darth Maul The Spotlight He Deserves
Is Darth Maul secretly the best "Star Wars" villain? This fan film — which features incredible makeup, costume design, visual effects, stunts and lightsaber fight scenes — makes a very strong case.
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THEY SWALLOW THE PILL, NOT THE KOOL-AID
Inside /r/RedPillWomen, The Community For Female Men's Rights Activists
On /r/RedPillWomen, which has almost 13,000 subscribers, such women have a safe space to share their views about feminism, which they almost uniformly believe has been a radical failure.
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YOU'RE OKAY BEHIND YOUR COMPUTER
Molten Salt + Water = Stand Back, For Your Safety
According to a Reddit commenter, what we're seeing here is the result of steam forming around the molten salt and superheating, causing a rapid increase in pressure and an explosion.
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A BOT NETWORK
Inside The World's First Gathering Of Real Life Cyborgs
Frieda Klotz visited the 'world’s first cyborg fair' with one question: are cyborgs a real thing, or are these people just kidding themselves?
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SHARAPOV-WHA?
What Is Meldonium And Why Is It Banned?
Tennis player Maria Sharapova tested positive for the banned drug — but it’s not clear how much it really improves an athlete’s performance, anyway.
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A DIFFERENT VIEW FROM ABOVE
What It’s Like To Be That Fat Person Sitting Next To You On The Plane
In that way, air travel is sadly familiar, a microcosm of what happens so often as a fat person. I am watched — and judged harshly — as I try — and fail — to fit into a space that was made for someone else.
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THE DIMENSION OF TIME'S BEEN ECLIPSED
Why This Week's Total Solar Eclipse Will End The Day Before It Begins
On Wednesday, the moon will blot out the sun, creating a total solar eclipse that will darken the sky over parts of the western Pacific and Southeast Asia. The spectacle will begin on March 9 and finish on March 8. Yes, truly.
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A PRIMER ON THE SECRET ECONOMY
Your Phone Was Made By Slaves
On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.
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