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• The Man Who's Planning A Real Estate Empire In Space
  Robert Bigelow wants to be huge in the space real estate game. And it looks like he will be.
  

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• Meet The Hipster Gods Of Facebook HQ
  Brandon Stanton, the photog behind mega-popular portrait site Humans of New York, is posting specimens from his trip to Zuckerberg's Money Den. The results? Portlandia meets Palo Alto.
  

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• Well, The Reese Witherspoon Arrest Video Is Out
  Oh it's Friday, don't act like you're above it.
  

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• Why Are Buddhist Monks Attacking Muslims?
  Of all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why have monks been using hate speech against Muslims and joining mobs that have left dozens dead?
  

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• Pilots Busted For Sleeping And Letting Flight Attendants Fly
  Two Air India pilots put the lives of 166 passengers on a Bangkok-Delhi flight in danger by taking a 40-minute break from the cockpit and getting two flight attendants to operate the plane in their absence.
  

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• Why Do Streaming Video Services Still Suck?
  This is supposed to be the future. We're supposed to have all of this stuff at the click of a mouse, but instead, online viewing seems to be moving backwards — into a landscape of fewer choices and blockbuster homogeny.
  

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• Watch The World's Smallest Flying Robot Take Off
  Scientists have created a robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile maneuvers of the ubiquitous insects.
  

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• What Is The Origin Of The Phrase 'Come Out Of The Closet'?
  Being in the closet implies hiding from the outside world, and the act of coming out of it implies the will to stop hiding. But though the closet has long been a metaphor for privacy or secrecy, its use with reference to homosexuality is relatively recent.
  

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• Chris Hadfield Explains How To Steer The Space Station
  The internet's favorite astronaut is back. Today he's teaching you how to fly a spacecraft the size of four football fields.
  

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• 12 Countries Where The Government Regulates What You Can Name Your Child
  New Zealand released an updated list of its legally forbidden baby names this week, sparking some controversy among people who apparently think "4real" and "Lucifer" should not be banned, or maybe just that the state shouldn't be in the business of saying what you can or can't name your own children.
  

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• Nobody Asked Me To Prom, So I Took My Calculator
  A girl and her calculator: a love story.
  

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• 'Iron Man 3' Reviewed In Comic Book Format
  There's really no other way to review a movie based on a comic book, is there?
  

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• Here's What Playing Basketball Looks Like Through Google Glass
  Here's Noble Ackerson, a so-called "Glass Explorer," trying out his Google Glass in a gym session yesterday.
  

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• Why Silicon Valley Is Pouring Millions Into Hair
  This week, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm better known for backing online advertising startups and ex- Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's DIY drone company just invested millions in a hair dye startup.
  

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• How The CIA's Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All
  The U.S. was wrong to use health workers to target Osama bin Laden.
  

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• The Unorthodox Life Of An Orthodox Jewish Surfer
  Though most orthodox Jews believe that leisure is a waste of precious time that would be better spent on religious studies, this one named Meir believes that his conversion to Judaism has made him a better surfer.
  

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• How Native Americans Hid In The Vatican For More Than 500 Years
  While cleaning a Vatican fresco, restoration experts found what may be the first ever depiction of the native Americans Columbus encountered in the New World.
  

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• You Will Never Look At The CBS Logo The Same Away Again
  The CBS logo is not what it seems, not at all.
  

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• How To Stop Using Google
  Want to show Google that you don't approve of its tax-avoidance tactics? Here's how you go about avoiding Google.
  

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• Second U.S. Cargo Plane Crashes In Central Asia
  For the second time this week an American cargo plane has crashed overseas , after a military jet has gone missing in Kyrgyzstan.
  

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• 'Promposing' Is The New Trend To Get Annoyed About
  The days of shuffling up to someone's locker and shyly asking them to the prom are over — instead, grand and wildly dramatic overtures done in the name of love and YouTube fame are in.
  

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• A Spacecraft Will Soon 'Sail' For The Sun
  The UK Space Agency has announced that British scientists are now working with Nasa to develop the spacecraft, known as Sunjammer, which will use a 13,000 square foot solar sail to propel itself nearly two million miles towards the sun.
  

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• Superhero or Supervillain?
  From invisibility to superhuman strength to telekinesis, a wave of emerging technologies promise to give people powers once reserved for comic-book characters. If humans become superhuman, will we turn out to be superheroes—or supervillains?
  

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• 'Likes' Don't Save Lives
  It's easier than ever to support a good cause — all you have to do is hit the like button. The organization gets one more supporter and you get positive publicity among your friends. But even though it's important to be liked, likes can't fund medicine, water or food.
  

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• In 1938, Disney Wouldn't Hire Women For Any 'Creative Work'
  Because apparently only young men were suited to writing tales about princesses.
  

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• The Persistence Of Carson Daly
  The one-time "massive tool" now rivals Seacrest and could host "Today."
  

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• What If English Were Spelled Phonetically?
  Have you ever wondered what the secretaries are writing on their notepads? If they speak English, they are likely writing in Sir Isaac Pitman's shorthand.
  

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• 72 Hours With The Most Exciting, Most Intoxicated Rapper In The World
  In interviews he gave while on house arrest, Gunplay presented himself as carefree, bragging about all the free time he had to play "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and have sex. To me, he describes a more stressful scene.
  

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• 'The Deadliest Weapon' In Afghanistan
  The roadside bomb killed thousands in Afghanistan last year, stifled the economy and created a climate of fear - yet its capacity to wreak destruction and havoc only seems to be increasing.
  

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• Finally, Porn Gets Its Very Own Academic Journal
  A soon-to-launch academic journal will peer into corners of the Internet most people erase from their search histories. "Porn Studies," set to debut next spring, will be dedicated to a critical exploration of "those cultural products and services designated as pornographic."
  

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• How Much More Does It Cost To Make A Shirt In The U.S.?
  The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh last week, which killed more than 400 workers, has highlighted serious issues with safety and poor pay for garment workers in the country. As our graphic illustrates, there are stark contrasts in the cost of making clothes in Bangladesh, compared to the U.S.
  

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