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• 90 Minutes With A Porn Troll
  After years of fine-tuning a business model built around copyright lawsuits over pornographic movies, prolific anti-piracy lawyer John Steele is now on the receiving end of a devastating sanctions order by a federal judge in Los Angeles, who has recommended a criminal investigation of Steele and his colleagues.
  

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• Gaming's New Frontier: Cancer, Depression, Suicide
  How "empathy" games are striving to make powerful emotional connections.
  

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• 14-Year-Old Discovers iPad 2 Can Interfere With Pacemakers
  Gianna Chien's study found something amazing and disturbing, but it didn't even win first place at her science fair.
  

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• How 'Sesame Street' Got Its Name
  The name Sesame Street was not dreamed up by Muppets in a boardroom but the famous promo sketch does reference the dilemma the Workshop had in finding a name for the show.
  

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• Life Next Door To Ariel Castro
  Doug Parker owns the home next to Cleveland suspect Ariel Castro. In his first interview, he recalls 20 years of confrontations, a bitter court case, and more red flags.
  

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• Lost Continent Found
  Atlantis was a myth, but real-life lost lands do exist.
  

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• The Ivy League Riots That Started The Sexual Revolution
  Fifty years ago this week, panty-seeking college boys lit the fuse on the 1960s.
  

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• Biometric Database Of All Adult Americans Hidden In Immigration Reform
  The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
  

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• Straight People Answer The Question: 'When Did You Choose To Be Straight?'
  It's interesting to watch—you can tell by their expressions, naturally—how viscerally taken aback some of these folks are by the question.
  

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• Grammar Rules Everyone Should Follow
  Following the inaugural Bad Grammar awards, Thomas Jones lists nine grammatical conventions that, depending on context, you may – sorry, might – as well adhere to.
  

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• Do Animals Have A Consciousness?
  I know my many beloved pets over the years could feel pain, and fear, as well as love and trust. But are our pets truly conscious creatures? Or are we merely projecting our own thoughts and feelings onto our animal companions?
  

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• One World Trade Center Is Now The Tallest Building In The Western Hemisphere
  A crane lifted the last of a 408-foot tall spire on top of One World Trade Center on Friday, a capstone to an emotional 12-year effort to replace the twin towers destroyed by terrorists.
  

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• Beyoncé's Hair Has Its Own Set Of Rules And Requirements
  If you think that the color of Beyoncé's hair in her new H&M campaign is merely an aesthetic choice by the advertiser, think again.
  

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• Science: Nobody Likes A 'Fat-Talker'
  Women who engage in "fat talk" -- the self-disparaging remarks girls and women make in relation to eating, exercise or their bodies -- are less liked by their peers, a new study from the University of Notre Dame finds.
  

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• Woman Found Alive In Bangladesh 17 Days After Factory Collapse
  A woman has been pulled alive from the ruins of a building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, 17 days ago.
  

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• Is This China's First Killer Drone?
  A pair of grainy photos shot at long distance could be the best evidence yet of Beijing's first jet-powered and presumably armed drone warplane.
  

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• The Dawn Of The Marijuana Vending Machine
  "We're a retailer's wet dream. We're the leading player in an industry that's ready to explode."
  

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• Culturally Unique Breakfasts From Around The World
  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, though it may look and taste different depending on where you're from.
  

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• Someone Made A Parody Of Those 'Previously On Mad Men' Clips
  There are very few things that Matthew Weiner hates more than spoiling the action on upcoming episodes of "Mad Men," which means the "Previously on…" and "Next time on…" segments that bookend the show are always hilariously vague.
  

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• One Good Reason To Accept Bitcoins: It Screws Credit Card Companies
  Accepting Bitcoins is like telling usurious credit card companies to go to hell.
  

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• Moths That Drive Cars (Really)
  A silk moth — actually, 14 different male silk moths — each, in turn, hooked up to a robotic vehicle at the University of Tokyo. Every one drove the vehicle to the intended target. If this were a driving test, all the moths would have passed.
  

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• Why Google Can't Answer Your Questions
  Machine answering of such a question calls for not just a database of information about newspapers but also natural language processing (NLP). I've been waiting for NLP to arrive for 30 years. Whatever happened?
  

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• Barely Half Of Americans Own Stocks
  The stock market has been doing well, reaching new nominal highs in recent weeks. But over half the country won't reap the benefits.
  

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• Not Safe For Funding: The N.S.F. And The Economics Of Science
  Peer review is a central tenet of modern academic science, and, according to critics, the High Quality Research Act threatens to supersede it with politics.
  

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• Man Escapes Police, Gets Caught By Gator
  A Florida man fleeing a traffic stop almost got away, police say. Until he met up with an alligator.
  

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• Why Do Students Dissect Frogs?
  Apart from inspiring the medical professionals of tomorrow, what is the purpose of dissection? And more importantly, why is everyone always dissecting those poor green amphibians?
  

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• The Language Isaac Newton Invented
  Newton is credited with many, many scientific innovations. His linguistic creations, on the other hand, never really took off.
  

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• The Government Is Selling Air Force One Online For Only $50,000
  This beautiful plane, which has been used as Air Force One multiple times, is now for sale.
  

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• Some Jerk Has Figured Out A Way To Recover Your 'Deleted' Snapchat Photos
  Snapchat is supposed to be a safe space where you can freely sext in peace without fearing repercussions from your significant others or family. Now that peace-of-mind has been thoroughly destroyed.
  

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• Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach?
  You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach.
  

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• How Cyberthieves Looted ATM's Of $45 Million In Just Hours
  It was a huge bank heist – but a 21st-century version in which the robbers never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault.
  

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