Nick Bilton reports on the next round of fake news tools that allow users to manipulate audio and video to change what's being said, ...
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Mad hamster performs backflips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDt9eY277bA&feature=youtu.be "Crazy Back Flipping Hamster keeps backflipping for no reason while t...
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Watch Trump unable to find Giuliani sitting directly across from him
Okay, what's up with Trump? Asks "Where's Rudy?" Look where Rudy is. http://pic.twitter.com/VLZzRkCs63 — Tommy Christop...
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Draw your own nebula
Jonas Wagner's Neon Flames is a dead-simple web tool to create beautiful nebulae on-screen. There are eight colorful gases to choose f...
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Trump Draws is an excellent one-joke Twitter account
https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/826542931112660992 @TrumpDraws does one thing perfectly: change the illustrations on a folder held u...
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Supreme Court: Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch, currently serving on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, is Donald Trump's pick to fill the seat opened by Supreme Court j...
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Podcast recommendation: Busted: America's Poverty Myths
Radiolab brought to my attention this great five-part podcast series on poverty in America. Busted: America's Poverty Myths breaks d...
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Canadians: Parliament is holding an emergency session tonight about the #muslimban, call your MP NOW!
From Leadnow.ca: "The most important thing you can do right now is take 5 minutes to call your MP demanding that the Canadian governme...
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Sean Spicer defends handcuffing a 5-year-old American boy for hours at an airport immigration checkpoint
"To assume that just because of someone’s age and gender that they don’t pose a threat would be misguided and wrong." (more…) ...
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Theatre chains offering all Oscar-nominated films for $4 each
If you're behind on seeing the nine Oscar nominees for best film and a little short on cash, many theatre chains are offering a package...
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Please God let this be real: Hanna-Barbera to reboot Snagglepuss as "Gay Southern Gothic Playwright"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoLCDrOJGV0 Newsarama's George Marston reports on a HiloBrow interview with Hanna-Barbera writer Mark R...
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A beginner’s guide to intersectional feminism
As everyday discussions about prejudice and oppression get more nuanced, it can be hard to know how to dive into the conversation. This hel...
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Poison president: Harley-Davidson factory cancels planned Trump visit
Donald Trump had planned to head to Milwaukee to tour a Harley-Davidson factory and sign some executive orders there. But the company said ...
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Korean fitness device inspired by riding a horse
https://youtu.be/8MzzLsJEzR8?t=33s Do you like the idea of riding horses? Do you want to get fit? If so, check out "Horse Riding Fitn...
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Biodegradable single-use cardboard drones for remote deliveries
Drones are great for some kinds of deliveries, but operators usually want to recover their costly drone. For deliveries of medicine or supp...
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What happens if all Earth’s coral dies?
The YouTube channel Life Noggin digs into this terrifying question and sings the praises of coral along the way. from Boing Boing http:...
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The best video store in the world carries only one movie
Remember those bygone days when certain stores would decorate their walls with movie titles for us to pick through? Well, just imagine a ma...
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Dismissed by critics, Dutch painter Han van Meegeren set out to avenge himself by creating "the ultimate forgery"
When critics dismissed his paintings, Dutch artist Han van Meegeren decided to seek his revenge on the art world: He devoted himself to fo...
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Watch what happens when you touch magnetized ferrofluid
YouTuber Brainiac75 suffers for science by taking a viewer request to touch the spikes formed by exposing ferrofluid to an extremely power...
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The heartbreaking story of a Cleveland Clinic doctor expelled from the U.S. minutes before the temporary deportation stay
ProPublica puts a heartbreaking, human face on this weekend’s immigration ban with the story of Dr. Suha Abushamma. The 26-year-old is in...
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A Trump-supporting super PAC is running this terrifying campaign-style ad
Here’s what you hear when you call the number: http://ift.tt/2jShld5 As Ellen Duffer uncovered, The Committee To Defend The President is...
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Create your own reaction GIF
The Reaction GIF generator takes a brief video of you and spits out a GIF, thereby meeting your need for a brief animation of your confusi...
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No gate can hold back Super Dog
This dog is able to leap tall buildings (or at least medium-sized gates) in a single bound! from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2jS7F2e via ...
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Where's the ball going?
Enjoy this supercut of legendary snooker player and commentator John Virgo saying "Where's the cue ball going?," usually at a...
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Dial-a-Grue: play Zork with nothing but an old phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=cJzgiDgBpcw The first iteration of Dial-a-Grue , in 2011, was to kit out an old rotary...
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After record-breaking donations and members, ACLU signs up for the Y Combinator startup accelerator
The ACLU raised $24M over the weekend of the #muslimban, six times its usual annual average, and now it is joining the Winter 2017 class at...
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Trump's bookcase, Old State Department Library
Ladies and gentlemen, the bookcase of the Old State Department Library at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. ( via Bookshelf ) fr...
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Alphabet's Eric Schmidt calls Trump "evil"
Eric Schmidt -- long-serving former CEO of Google, current chairman of Google parent-company Alphabet, who knows a thing or two about e...
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How to keep your secret activist Twitter account a secret
Despite his widely read criticism of Tor , The Gruqq -- a legendary, pseudonymous security expert -- uses it as first and last line of defe...
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Doane Paper: Grids + Lines for note taking with a fountain pen
Doane Paper makes wonderful pocket-sized notebooks with paper that is fantastically compatible with fountain pens. I absolutely love my M...
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Deep dreaming at the supermarket
This three-minute video was run through Deep Dream, Google's neural net that generates algorithmic pareidolia in the form of weird crea...
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Awesome wildlife photos shot indoors on a tabletop
Egyptian photographer Amr Elshamy takes beautiful wildlife photos inside on a tabletop. From PetaPixel : The project started a couple of...
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Wafting magnetism has transferred oxygen from Earth to the Moon for billions of years
In a new paper in Nature Astronomy , a team from Osaka University publishes its analysis of data gathered by the Japan Aerospace Exploratio...
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Why we have kneecaps
Do you ever wonder why we need kneecaps? The demonstration shows how kneecaps provide leverage. I'm happy the Flying Spaghetti Monste...
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Best review of a horrible curved Samsung TV
Becky Molln, whose husband Nilay writes for The Verge, reviewed the Samsung UN40K6250AF television set. It's a fantastic rant . The s...
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What the rise and fall of the Bush-era netroots movement can teach today's resistance
Though the crimes and abuses of the GW Bush era seem almost quaint in comparison to the trumpist agenda, the Bush actions spawned a new kin...
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A short animated tour through every state in the US
I discovered the Wendover Productions website last year when they posted a great video explaining why trains suck in America . Their lates...
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