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'Internet of Things' seen as bonanza for Bay Area businesses

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The gruesomeness of the drug trade rivals any atrocities in history.

Of course, things wouldn't be this bad if there were any legal ways to sell the stuff. Not that I particularly want people selling cocaine legally, but since they already are selling it *illegally*....

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US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll

Well, all righty then.

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Behind the credit chip curve, U.S. playing catch-up with Canada, rest of world on card security

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Scientists harness the sun to help sharks

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Genetically identical bacteria can behave in radically different ways

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Why are we still fighting the drug war?

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Clemency for Edward Snowden Would Not Set a Dangerous Precedent

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The New York Times Shreds The Obama Administration As 'Pathetic' On NSA Spying

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Redesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air, Say Materials Scientists

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says purge of uncle was ‘correct decision’

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Ask Culture and Guess Culture

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Ex-NSA chief calls for Obama to reject recommendations

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Would NSA surveillance have stopped 9/11 plot?

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NSA targets foreigners, catches Americans: Column

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Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic
Latest batch of documents from Snowden shows NSA's power to pwn.

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Feds admit start of NSA surveillance, still say it’s too secretive for court

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Obama says Snowden’s actions have “done unnecessary damage”
President will spend winter holiday in Hawaii reflecting on surveillance policy.

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The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

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NSA Uses Windows Error Messages To Spy On People

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The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away

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Report: NSA Intercepting Laptops Ordered Online, Installing Spyware

Also, it's got a creepy/snazzy octopus... logo... badge... thing?

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U.S. Spy Rocket Has Octopus-Themed 'Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach' Logo. Seriously.

See? I couldn't make that up!

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The U.S. National Security Agency has the ability to snoop on nearly every communication sent from an Apple iPhone, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel.

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Appelbaum: ‘Scary’ NSA will spy on you – every which way they can

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U.S. to China: We Hacked Your Internet Gear We Told You Not to Hack

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Good or not, change is coming to the NSA

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Microsoft responds to report NSA snooped in Windows

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Republican assault on the American fabric a successful strategy so far

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Under Amazon's CIA Cloud: The Washington Post

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Charts: The Worst Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Since the Depression

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Unemployed Americans Speak Out as Benefits are Slashed at Christmas

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Media blackout hides Gitmo hunger strikes in military bid to erode public support

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It’s a Myth: There’s No Evidence That Coffee Stunts Kids’ Growth

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No snow in Siberia? Locals marvel - and worry - at the 'snow shortage'

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Americans uneasy about surveillance but often use snooping tools, Post poll finds

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REPORT: CIA HELPED COLOMBIA KILL REBEL LEADERS

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Israel says it won’t forcibly deport illegal African migrants, but it wants them to leave

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“These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: They’re About Economic Spying, Social Control, and Diplomatic Manipulation. They’re About Power”

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It’s Conservatives Who Really Want Christ Out of Christmas

They’re terrified America’s tiny number of atheists will change the meaning of the holiday. But conservatives are the ones who are really at war with its message.

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Outagamie County judge rejects equal protection motion in prostitution case

His argument is that it's plenty fair that prostitutes get charged 40x more frequently than johns, especially in this case because she did it more than once but they were probably first timers. Load of bull if you ask me.

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Scientists 'print' new eye cells

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The Government Is Quietly Giving Way More Housing Aid To Rich People Than Poor People

So? What else is new?

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Toddlers and preschoolers appear to understand abstract concepts better if you have them show you their understanding rather than asking them to explain it.

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5 CIA operations that went south -- spectacularly.

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Poor People Deserve Digital Privacy, Too

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The Trees That Miss The Mammoths

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7 New Yorkers About to Lose Their Unemployment Benefits Tell Their Stories

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Social media mobilizes to help blind man keep hero dog

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NSA Fallout Tests Obama Relationship With Tech Companies

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Want to teach your students about structural racism? Prepare for a formal reprimand.

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When Minority Students Attend Elite Private Schools

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This Chart Blows Up the Myth of the Welfare Queen

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Is the sleepunder taking the party out of slumber party?

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Anxiety About Certain Things Can Be Hereditary

Every time I read that headline I hear my mother saying "craziness is hereditary. You get it from your kids". She says that all the time, of course!

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33 Jaw-Droppingly Stupid Multiple-Choice Questions from the Christian Education Curriculum

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Are malls becoming extinct?

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What do you know! If this keeps up, we may get a white Christmas for a change.

Removing DRM increases sales

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We are very, very bad at washing our hands, says science

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Judge's word on NSA program won't be the last

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If this judge doesn’t buy the legal basis for the NSA’s intrusive phone snooping, no one should.

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Study finds evidence of domesticated Chinese cats 5,300 years ago

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A brief history of African click words

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Autism hits Somali kids harder, University of Minnesota study finds

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Freedoms for Saudi university girls end at gates

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The NSA: An Inside View [blog-post]

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The Odd Rise of Anonymous Sources

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Paul Dini Tells Kevin Smith about Hollywood’s Fear of Girl Cooties

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Barbie and Elevator Guy: science and sexism

(Yes, I know it's old.)

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US may never know entirety of Snowden breach, officials say

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One Man's Crusade Against Fundamentalist Claptrap

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Government Watchdog: We Have a Growing Federal Prison 'Crisis'

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When Lenders Sue, Quick Cash Can Turn Into a Lifetime of Debt

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Welcome to Science

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Some NSA Officials Favor Giving Snowden Limited Amnesty For All The Wrong Reasons

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Feds joins battle on citrus disease

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Obama to review changes in spy policy

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Tech giants team up in anti-snooping effort

On the one hand: good for them! On the other, I am even more uncomfortable with corporate influence in the government than I am with the NSA, and that is saying an awful lot.

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The Return of the Welfare Queen

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Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional

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This Ethiopian village has gained wealth, but has bred hostility

Because they aren't Christians or Muslims, basically.

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ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: A MATTER OF TRUST?

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IF YOU REFRAIN FROM TALKING ABOUT RACE, PEOPLE MIGHT THINK YOU’RE RACIST

As many commenters point out, not all of the "black" people on that modified Guess Who? board look unambiguously black. So there's that as well.

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Surprise! Charity Buys 21 Sacred Katsinam for Hopi at Auction in Paris

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Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code

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How cholera evolved to be one of the deadliest diseases in history

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This study shows how a good metaphor can change the world

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Inside the Rainbow Gulag: The Technicolor Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank

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The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

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A Pen That 3-D Prints Bone Right Onto Patients

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In Ukraine, skepticism greets new vow on E.U.

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Kindergartener signs song for deaf mom. It's the most adorable time of the year!

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Teacher accused of feeding autistic student hot sauce rehired.

Either Florida has a serious teacher shortage or they really hate disabled kids down there.

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How Viruses Take a Short Trip from London to NYC

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Yellowstone supervolcano 'even more colossal'

And if/when it blows, we are all gonna be screwed.

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Americans Still Care About Their Public Libraries

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Many Catalan Nativity Scenes Feature Jesus, the Wise Men, and Someone Defecating (Really!)

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NYPD cops beat up my loved ones, killed my parakeet: Staten Island mom

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Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

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In a "Rainbow" Universe Time May Have No Beginning

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Monitor Lizards Found to Breathe Uni-Directionally Like Birds

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6 year old accused of sexual harassment

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A pair of Philadelphians bringing their style of pretzel to Brooklyn

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Breastfeeding mom kicked out of Conn. court

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Mars Curiosity rover finds life-supporting chemicals

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200,000 people apply to live on Mars

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Bernie Sanders Introduces New Health Care Legislation: Medicare For All

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Nearly Half of All U.S. Schoolchildren Live in Low-Income Households

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An Organic Greenhouse Run by Farmers With Autism

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Remote classroom illustrates China's education challenges

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Big Brother spying is reaching scary levels

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Storage Tips for Winter Vegetables

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What Happened On Easter Island — A New (Even Scarier) Scenario

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US job openings reach 5-year high, a hopeful sign

It seems to me that I've spent my adult life listening to people say "no, really, the economy is doing better now!"

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Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life

This is a long, 5-part article. I wasn't going to post it when I read it, because it is so very depressing in parts, but everybody else seems to be passing it around and I'd rather be a little depressing than very behind the times.

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The 6 Most Terrifying Pets Humanity Has Bred Into Existence

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The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence

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Leak: Government spies snooped in 'Warcraft,' other games

Given the number of terrorists caught this way, I think a better way of interpreting this article would be to say that some government employees wanted to play WoW at work, and found a way to do it on the government dime.

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How to Create a Password That's Easy to Remember but Hard to Hack

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And, if you want to make sure computers aren't likely to guess your password, you can use this site to check. Of course, the sufficiently paranoid might think of all potential issues here, but so long as you never identify a potential password with a potential username at a potential site, you should be safe, right?

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Here Are The 20 Worst Passwords You Can Use

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Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA

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Apple stores to host free coding workshops for kids

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Inside the Box

People don’t actually like creativity.

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Restaurant workers’ wages are routinely docked when customers walk out on their tab.

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David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

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This Is the New, Non-QWERTY Keyboard You Will Use to Compose Your Thumb-Powered Opus

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The Toxins That Affected Your Great-Grandparents Could Be In Your Genes

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One Woman Can Have Multiple Genetic Identities—Hers, Her Secret One, And All Her Kids’

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Minimum Wage Was Once Enough To Keep a Family of 3 Out of Poverty

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Inequality threatens the rich

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Medieval People of Color in European Art

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The Homeschool Apostates
They were raised to carry the fundamentalist banner forward and redeem America. But now the Joshua Generation is rebelling.

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Cunning Crocodiles and Alligators Use Clever Lures to Hunt Prey

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Satanists seek spot next to Ten Commandments monument on steps of Oklahoma's Statehouse

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Superhero texts

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Attorney: Transgender murder victim’s life not as valuable as higher class victims

WTF?????

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The Opponents of Militant Islamism Are Often As Bigoted as Their Targets

I wouldn't link to this except the timing is perfect. I recently have been having a very tedious conversation with somebody who thinks that the most ludicrously bigoted sites are a good source of information and that the only reason I haven't been converted to the idea of "Islam is ruining the world, and all Muslims are awful" is because I'm too PC. Not, you, know, because all these people start off with " everybody knows Islam is ruining the world, they just don't say so because of political correctness!!!!" It doesn't exactly inspire faith in their credibility.

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The Incredible, Edible Bus Stop

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Federal Flood Maps Left New York Unprepared for Sandy, and FEMA Knew It

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Why Life Does Not Really Exist

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Orphaned Chimpanzees Play Rougher Than Their Mother-Reared Counterparts

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Take a seat on the ergonomically correct toilet of THE FUTURE.

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Odon childbirth device: Car mechanic uncorks a revolution

Aka: This one, weird party trick will help you give birth using tools from the grocery store!

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Why Republicans can't get the black and/or female vote

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'Determination' can be induced by electrical brain stimulation

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Children’s Books Gaining Popularity Among Grown-Ups

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Do Cats Control My Mind?

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LOL! Captain Picard singing Let It Snow - uh, Make It So. Seriously, you want to watch this.

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Sounds are sound among dyslexics, but access may lag, study finds

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Want your kids to learn more words? Use your hands, study says

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A healthy diet really does cost more

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Cricket burgers a surprise hit in NYC

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Americans Drink More Soda Than Anyone Else

Except for those of us who call it "pop" or "coke", I guess.

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A viral essay shows that we’re confused about the difference between “downwardly mobile” and “impoverished.”

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'Jumbled up' tongue twister is named most difficult

I'll say! It's painful to even read that combination of words silently.

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Headlines from a Mathematically Literate World

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Reprogrammed bacterium speaks new language of life

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NSA Opponents Want To Cut Off Utah Facility From Water Supply
A group of activists plan to try and stop the agency's massive data center in Utah by cutting off its water supply

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NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

And my sister wonders why I go around without the leash!

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NSA Can Map Your Movements, Determine Your Fellow Travelers With Cell Data

Top intelligence community lawyer says people outside the U.S. are the only ones who need to worry

(And they're so credible, right?)

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The selfish gene is one of the most successful science metaphors ever invented. Unfortunately, it’s wrong

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Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality

http://bit.ly/1aPFsfj

An eagle stole a video camera and made a cinematic masterpiece

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Despite two decades of high-profile shootings, school increasingly has become a safer place.

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NASA hopes to put garden on the moon.

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Found! First known predator to lure prey by mimicking flowers

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Pythons' extreme eating abilities evolved quickly, genome shows

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Koalas bellow with unique voice organ

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Messy Children Make Better Learners: Toddlers Learn Words for Nonsolids Better When Getting Messy in a Highchair

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The last direct-current power lines are being dismantled just as DC distribution seems headed for a comeback

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Our Memories Are Geo-Tagged

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The US Cities Where The Fewest Commuters Get To Work By Car

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Kiribati: Climate Change Destroys Island Nation

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The amazing Siberian ice orchestra playing on the world's deepest lake

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Honor and deception

A secretive Air Force program recruits academy students to inform on fellow cadets and disavows them afterward

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All those Amazon drones: Will they block the sun?

How realistic is it that millions of drones will be flying around delivering our toasters? Or, is this just a fine Cyber Monday ad?

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Oklahoma adopts California-style quake precautions

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Dolphins are trying to tell us something

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Squid Rocket Science

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Fearful Memories Passed Down to Mouse Descendants

Genetic imprint from traumatic experiences carries through at least two generations

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That Armpit Odor Says a Lot About Who You Are

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obamacare by Christian university (+video)

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This brightly colored thread is made out of snail poop

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China Launches Moon Rover Mission

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Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets

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Older Workers Are Increasingly Entering Fast-Food Industry

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Bad Eating Habits Start in the Womb

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Where Factory Apprenticeship Is Latest Model From Germany

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In Subways, Suddenly, 2 Glimpses of History

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Why are we more scared of raw egg than reheated rice?

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New research showing possible causes of stroke after heart procedures

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Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore

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The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was A Psychopath

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Good Benefits Don’t Make Unemployed People Happy About Being Unemployed

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In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act

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Big-Bucks Bacteria

Is there money to be found inside the human gut?

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NSA slapped malware on 50,000+ networks, says report

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Shaken NSA Grapples With an Overhaul
Agency's Director Offered to Resign Last Summer in Wake of Snowden Leaks

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TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

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One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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G.O.P. Maps Out Waves of Attacks Over Health Law

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In Landmark Vote, Senate Limits Use of the Filibuster

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Typhoon Revives Debate on U.S. Food Aid Methods

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In Manhattan Alleys, Dogs on Rat Hunts Find Bags of Fun

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Gynecologists Run Afoul of Panel When Patient Is Male

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Urbanites Flee China’s Smog for Blue Skies

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Can Organisms Evolve The Ability To Evolve?

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The Hyper-Efficient, Highly Scientific Scheme to Help the World’s Poor

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When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too

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How Traffic Jams Decentralize Cities

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Why Monkeys and Apes Have Colorful Faces

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Gut Bacteria Might Guide The Workings Of Our Minds

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I thought we already knew that! Didn't we already know that? I'm pretty sure I already knew that, at least.

Well, now that that's out of the way, I seem to have accumulated a metric ton of links recently! You may have noticed that.

The Smarter You Are, The Stupider You Are

Skim the article, then dive into the comments, that's what I did.

http://n.pr/19XKVDO

Eating indigenously changes diets and lives of Native Americans

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A Passivhaus looks like any other home, but it's not, thanks to a box of tricks in the loft that's helping residents' health and wealth

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Why Aren't My Kids Hyper After Binging On Sugar?

As some commenters noted, it is possible that ALL the children were hyper due to the presence of artificial sweeteners in the "control" group, which is why scientists didn't note a difference. But then, I for one would much rather have tons of sugar in the diet than even a little artificial sweetener. Why parents erroneously *did* probably does have more to do with expectations.

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Body Policing Police - love it!

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NSA Eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo Networks

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Trick or treat for science: Kids become test subjects

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All done!

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Dancing With the Cars

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I didn't realize conductors had to point at the sign! Guess I never paid attention. Cute video, though.

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A War on the Poor

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9/11 Suspects Can’t Mention being Tortured during Trial Testimony because Their Torture is Classified

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'Our members are panicking': Families brace as billions in food stamp cuts kick in (comments are, of course, racist, classist, and generally ist-ist as fuck.)

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THOSE PEOPLE

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Cash is better than cans at food banks

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http://momofftrack.com/2011/12/4340/

SHOULD YOU DONATE KRAFT DINNER TO THE FOOD BANK?

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Fresh cuts in the Food Stamp program will make life worse for New York's hungry

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The Lasting Impacts of Poverty on the Brain

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Poverty can make you stupid, UBC study claims

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What Happens When You Just Give Money To Poor People?

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Bad Decisions Don’t Make You Poor. Being Poor Makes for Bad Decisions.

http://slate.me/139W3LI

The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor

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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor

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NYC agencies, utilities have strengthened systems post-Sandy, say officials

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New York's Looming Food Disaster

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As Sandy smashed us, bravery and dedication saved Staten Island Ferries

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Could New York Subways Survive Another Hurricane?

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A new study finds more eye contact makes people less likely to agree with a persuasive argument, especially if they're already skeptical.

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Apparently, people hate Obamacare, but love the Affordable Care Act.

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American healthcare was already socialized by Reagan, we’re just fighting about how to pay for it

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Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law

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Children aren’t born smart. They’re made smart by conversation.

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TV producers think boys won’t watch girl heroines. Turns out that’s not true.

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Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll

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Guns at School? If There’s a Will, There Are Ways

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The humble organ may help us recover from serious infections

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The Slowest Generation

Younger Athletes Are Racing With Less Concern About Time

You have got to read the comments. Apparently, the decline of western civilization and the end of the world is caused solely by the fact that some people prefer to compete against themselves instead of others.

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Some WWII comics from Dr. Seuss:

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And an older one that put an even more sinister view on the Texas textbook wars. I had no idea that was even possible!

http://tinyurl.com/yehttma

You get this nifty link from somebody (thank you, Siderea) and then in the sidebar of the first article are a dozen more to read. I'm just going to spread the love a little....

Bring Back Postal Banking (and incidentally, what they've done to the USPS sucks)

http://tinyurl.com/olwtgnv

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.

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Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don’t just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics.

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The Lewis Model Explains Every Culture In The World

http://tinyurl.com/od32644

Schools in the US are actually not hotbeds of murder and mayhem. Well, duh.

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'Molecular Prosthetics' May Give New Hope for Incurable Diseases
Researchers say some molecules could be used to treat diseases caused by missing or deficient proteins

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Molecular prosthetics? All this stuff about epigenetics? We are living in the future, guys, and to tell you the truth, I'm not always certain I like it!

They can't all be a barrel of (sadly predictable) laughs.

Mouse Skin Cells Transformed Into Viable Eggs, Sperm And Babies

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Even little kids have a wage gap

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SINISTER MINDS: ARE LEFT-HANDED PEOPLE SMARTER?

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Are We Causing Animals to Grow Bigger Brains?

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Surprise: NSA Agents Use All-Seeing Power to Spy on Their Crushes

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Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance

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Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming

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At the Printer, Living Tissue

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Deaf Student, Denied Interpreter by Medical School, Draws Focus of Advocates

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Gays in Russia Find No Haven, Despite Support From the West

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Hurricane Sandy Crept Up on a Boy Who Couldn’t Swim. Guess What He Did.

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Police Take On Family Violence to Avert Deaths

The comments are pretty overwhelmingly positive about this.

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Several comments mentioned the following article in The New Yorker as well.

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U.S. Prison Populations Decline, Reflecting New Approach to Crime

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Interesting fact: our pillows contain the same sort of microbes as our toilet seats. Usually I tell people that your phone is dirtier than any toilet seat, but I think I'll start using "pillow" instead. If it deters hoverers, so much the better!

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Next to You on the Subway

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Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be.

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When an Army of Artists Fooled Hitler
A new documentary shares the story of the 23rd unit’s daring work

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3-D printing of airway tube helps save U.S. baby

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A Haven for the Deaf Draws Federal Scrutiny Over Potential Discrimination

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No Rich Child Left Behind

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Something I must say is worse than what happens to baby hyenas.

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Well, going to Mars would be pretty great... but not if you have to be on TV, I think.

On the other hand, unlike the cast of Survivor et al., you'd be remembered for posterity, really remembered. Depending on your perspective that actually might be the same hand.

Current Mood: awake

How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda

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At New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amy Herman schools police in the fine art of deductive observation

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The Paris Time Capsule Apartment

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http://nyti.ms/14VNRQW

Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

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Not much to say here.

Young Opponents of Gay Marriage Undaunted by Battle Ahead

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Pediatrics Group Backs Gay Marriage, Saying It Helps Children

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Will I be able to close down these month old tags without panicking? These questions, and more, answered soon!

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This family lived alone on the taiga for decades, 150 miles from the nearest settlement which, being in Siberia was probably pretty marginal to begin with.

On Decimated Shore, a Second Life for Christmas Trees

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Focus on Mental Health Laws to Curb Violence Is Unfair, Some Say

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Mutations Found in Melanomas May Shed Light on How Cancers Grow

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Prison Population Can Shrink When Police Crowd Streets

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And the effects of lingering child pornography of her has on her recovery. It doesn't sound like it is at all helpful that every time another perv is caught with her pictures on his hard drive, she is informed. But there it is.

Obviously, this has the potential to be very triggering, so read with caution.

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