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• Vladimir Putin, The Richest Man On Earth
  If you've ever wondered about the size of Russian President Vladimir Putin's private fortune, allow me to offer a clue: He doesn't need one.
  

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• I Lasted 37 Hours On Android
  Why I retreated back to iPhone with a newfound appreciation.
  

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• Guns, Girls And Sex Tapes: The Saga Of Billionaire Stewart Rahr
  Everyone has a friend who seems tons of fun to hang out with for a night but proves so exhausting you would rather not see him for a few months. Stewart Rahr is that guy. Times a billion.
  

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• What It's Like Getting A Master's Degree In Social Media
  The University of Florida recently launched the first ever graduate program in social media, a move that was swiftly mocked by skeptics. A student describes just what the $27K in tuition will actually get you.
  

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• The Typical American Family Makes Less Than It Did In 1989
  The Census Bureau is out with the annual report on incomes and poverty. And while you might think that after years of stagnant incomes and elevated poverty rates, we would be inured to the depressing facts contained therein, it still somehow has the power to shock.
  

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• The Dark Side Of Peter Pan
  "All children except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up …this is the beginning of the end." The first paragraph of James Barrie's classic story, Peter Pan, introduced its central theme. It sounds innocent, but a look at Barrie's life gives it a more sinister twist.
  

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• The World's Smallest Car Runs On Half A Gallon Of Fuel
  This thing is actually street-legal.
  

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• True Facts About The Frog
  Frogs are more than just proof that French people will put anything in their mouths.
  

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• Russian Shootout Is More Sophisticated Than Any In The U.S.
  An argument over the teachings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant between two men standing in line for beer at an outdoor festival in southern Russia ended when one man shot the other in the head with gun loaded with rubber bullets.
  

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• NASA's Asteroid-In-A-Bag Recipe
  The goal of the endeavor, whose title is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, is for NASA to find a chunk of space rock of perhaps twenty or thirty feet across, then send a robotic spacecraft to capture the asteroid in what is described, vaguely, as a "high-strength bag."
  

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• Apple Offering 'Last Compatible Version' Of iOS Apps For Ancient Devices
  With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind.
  

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• Which Places Are Most Vulnerable To Climate Change?
  Changes in the weather mean changes in ecosystems and a new report maps vulnerability.
  

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• Spoiling The Broth
  Are too many chefs embroiled in scandalous controversies?
  

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• Watch The Costa Concordia Rise Again
  The stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship was uprighted in the early hours of Tuesday morning. All in all, the operation took 19 hours to complete, but you can watch whole thing in one minute with this time-lapse footage.
  

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• Bored Elon Musk Is The Only Parody Twitter Account Worth Following
  

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• Bill Nye Did The Cha Cha To 'Weird Science' On 'Dancing With The Stars'
  Everything about this is perfect.
  

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• The Insulated World Of Being A Smoker
  As the glamour of smoking rapidly fades and smoking sections shrink, those still living with the habit are beginning to be seen as outcasts, holding their tiny burning scarlet letters for people to ridicule.
  

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• How A Bunch Of High School Friends Became Drug Kingpins
  The story of how a group of hippie surfers and a former Spanish teacher built the largest weed-smuggling empire on the West Coast is now available for free.
  

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• The Secret Financial Market Only Robots Can See
  What if someone told you the stock market crashed and spiked 18,000 times since 2006, and you had no idea?
  

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• What It's Like To Get Bitten By A Black Widow
  I lay on my back with my teeth clenched and my hands gripping the sides of a hospital bed. A crowd of strangers in white coats filled the tiny room. Waves of pain lapped from my abdomen into my chest as the venom worked its way toward my heart.
  

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• How To Turn A Tidy Profit On A Miserable Carnival Cruise
  Embattled Carnival Cruise Lines has a new gambit meant to lure the wariest of would-be passengers: a full refund plus an additional 10 percent to anyone left disgruntled by their cruise experience. That's a payout for griping, a return that would delight most professional investors.
  

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• Which Vodka Brand Has The Best Bottle?
  A marketing firm discovers the biggest winners and losers in vodka packaging. You might be surprised how well Svedka stacks up against Absolut.
  

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• We Watched The Ghosts Of Google Street View Come To Life
  Paolo Cirio brings ghosts to life. At least, he pulls them out of their eternal resting places in the digital expanse of Google Street View and paints them into three-dimensional reality.
  

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• Dennis Rodman Films Bizarre Commercial For Pistachios
  Dennis Rodman has made headlines in recent months for his diplomacy trips to North Korea. And clearly, the best way to bring more attention to these efforts is to parody them in a commercial for pistachios.
  

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• The Brilliant Minds Behind Chipotle's Haunting Scarecrow Ad
  The behind-the-scenes story of those mechanized crows, that Fiona Apple cover, and more.
  

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• The Price Of Precious
  The minerals in our electronic devices have bankrolled unspeakable violence in the Congo.
  

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• The Long Strange History Of Sending Frogs Into Space
  A photo shows a frog flying alongside a Nasa rocket as it lifted off from Virginia earlier this month, but there is a long history of high-flying amphibians.
  

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• Being Queer And Jewish In Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn
  While sympathy and empathy towards homosexuality exist within the Hasidic nexus of Crown Heights, the mere act of touching my then-girlfriend affectionately in public, let alone kissing her, could attract trouble.
  

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• The Pursuit Of Tastier Chicken
  The most pampered chickens on the planet eat the remains of four-star meals so that they may one day become the same.
  

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• These Photos Contain Exactly One Pixel Of Each Of The 16 Million RGB Colors
  For you and me, the RGB color space may just be an obscure but important mechanism towards achieving properly color-balanced photos. For a certain group of image nerds, however, it's the whole enchilada.
  

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• The 5 Secessionist Plans Brewing In America
  A handful of secessionist groups nationwide are looking to create a more perfect union—just like the Founding Fathers once did. What this country really needs, they say, is a few more states.
  

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• The Memorable Star Of CDC's Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign Has Died
  You might not know Terrie Hall's name, but you probably know her face: Hall, 53, was the star of a series of graphic anti-smoking ads from the CDC. She died of cancer on Monday in a North Carolina hospital.
  

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• Six Countries Want To Know How An Israeli Billionaire Earned 15x His Investment In Guinea
  A US-European probe of one of the most lucrative metals ventures in recent years is heating up, with indications that some of the evidence may have gone missing. US and European authorities are investigating the role of Israeli gem billionaire Beny Steinmetz in a Guinean iron-ore deal that swelled more than 15 times in value—to $5 billion—in just two years.
  

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• The Bizarre Evolution Of The Word 'Cyber'
  Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change, and where did it originally come from?
  

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