The driver of a Home Depot truck who plowed into people in a Lower Manhattan bike lane today is said to have shouted 'Allahu Akbar'...
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Watch these mesmerizing mechanisms
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NPR top news editor accused of sexual harassment by multiple women
“The worst part of my whole encounter with Oreskes [was] the fact that he utterly destroyed my ambition,” says one victim. Michael Oreskes...
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Wonderful photos of museum visitors who happen to match artworks they are viewing
Austrian photography Stefan Draschan sits patiently in museums around Europe until he notices that someone viewing an artwork appears to ma...
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Watch: Video about competitive gravedigging
"The Best Gravediggers in the World" is a short documentary about competitive gravedigging: In the industrial town of Trenčín, ...
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The best unicorn wine bottle holder
The Wine Of Sacred Purity Unicorn Wine Holder ($19.95, Amazon) holds only one bottle of wine, but it holds it very well. "Add some f...
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Ministry's "(Everyday Is) Halloween" (1984)
Al Jourgensen may prefer to forget that he once cultivated an English accent and created this underground club hit, but on this day, we hap...
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Gorillaz' video for Garage Palace is a pixel art wonder
Directed by Noah Harris and animated by Nicos Livesey from character designes by McKay Felt and Rufus Dayglo, this meta-bit pixel masterpie...
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Perl is the most hated programming language
What do computer programmers not want to code in? Perl, the Old Spice of programming languages, is the most disliked by a significant margi...
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This man has a collection of 1200 messages in bottles
Wim Kruiswijk of the Netherlands has been finding messages in bottles that have washed ashore at the Zandvoort coast since 1983. He now has...
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Inept cops hold family at gunpoint thinking they robbed their own house
A family in Gulfport, MS was pulled over by a swarm of police cars, handcuffed, held at gunpoint without explanation, and told to "Shu...
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Forensic science envisages face of woman persecuted as witch 313 years ago
Her name was Lilias Adie, and she died in prison while waiting to be burned at the stake as a witch. Forensic artist Dr Christopher Rynn us...
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Good deal on adjustable folding utility table
I've been waiting for the price to drop on this adjustable folding utility table . It's usually $40, but right now on Amazon it...
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Trees "sucking" on things
Trees Sucking on Things is my new favorite subreddit. It's dedicated to trees that have grown around unusual objects, thereby giving t...
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Hypnotic video of imaginary celebrities generated by a neural net
A generative adversarial network (GAN) combines two neural networks engaged in a zero-sum competition. The result is a form of unsupervised...
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Ohio Republicans create winnable electoral districts by siting nonvoting prisons near friendly voters
91% of the prisoners in Ohio are in Republican districts: they aren't allowed to vote, but they are counted in the census, creating wi...
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Honda's new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago
Honda has been manufacturing the Super Cub 50 and 110 since since 1958. Over 100 million have been produced. On November 10, they'll re...
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Will the real George Papadopoulos please stand up?
George Papadopoulos is a fairly common Greek name in these United States. Seems the outraged folks on twitter riled a Michagonian George Pa...
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Pizza pockets shaped like skulls
Redditor Endeavy created these Halloween-themed skull hotpockets , augmented by dribbles of red, oozing sauce; they used these cake pans t...
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Anatomy of the human head in the style of a London tube-map
Jonathan Simmonds, an MD in Boston, MA, created these Map Anatomy illustrations that represent a detailed, functional diagram of the human...
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Botcheck.me: a plugin that predicts whether a Twitter user is a bot
Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte are 20 year old UC Berkeley students who turned a machine learning class assignment into a browser plugin that t...
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Japanese company rewards non-smokers with an extra week of paid vacation
A company in Japan is rewarding non-smokers with an extra week of paid vacation, or six days to be exact. Piala Inc, a marketing firm base...
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Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing"
Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventu...
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Indiana's voter-purging software removes voters without notice, is wrong 99% of the time
The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program identifies possible duplicate voters by looking at registrations by people with the sa...
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How Facebook made money dividing the US into adversarial political subgroups
Earlier this month Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos threw a twittertantrum over accusations that Facebook's algorithms promo...
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The Bathgate Ratchet, a clicky, machined fidget-toy that works like a socket wrench
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDdim63M310 For the past year, sculptor machinist Chris Bathgate has been designing a series of handheld, ...
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Weatherman loses his head, but still manages to deliver the weather forecast
Things got pretty spooky over at the United Kingdom’s Met Office yesterday during weather reporter Alex Deakin's forecast. He lost his ...
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Make the Haunted Mansion's Hitching Ghosts Who Follow You Home
The Haunted Mansion, no matter what Disney park it’s in (California, Orlando, Paris, or Tokyo), has been a fan favorite since it opened at ...
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A million dollars in a rug store - and other ways Paul Manafort spent his allegedly ill-gotten fortune
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, recently indicted on federal criminal charges, allegedly laundered $18 million in money he ea...
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A Stranger Things Eleven candle with a bleeding nose
Firebox's $36.69 Eleven candle-holder : insert one red candle, light, and wait for the blood to start dribbling from her nostril. Cauti...
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These digital marketing skills can help your career
With so many communication channels available on the web, knowing how to leverage each platform’s strengths is key to developing businesses...
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31 days of horror film PEZ dispensers
Toy artist Jesse Wroblewski of Chainsaw Estates challenged himself to sculpt a horror movie-themed PEZ candy dispenser for each day in Oct...
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Animation of an elegant air traffic nightmare caused by a drone
A drone, spotted over Gatwick Airport, led to an abundance of caution among air traffic controllers. The result: a growing armada of inboun...
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Man unclear on how to get a camera out of his face
It's hard to describe this video, posted by Dan Cole, but I'll try. 1. A man objects to having a camera put in his face by a video...
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Adorable 5-year-old sings the theme from the Haunted Mansion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUa6yWVCxY Mari writes, "My daughter loves everything spooky--especially Disney's Haunted Mansio...
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Researchers can fool machine-learning vision systems with a single, well-placed pixel
Three researchers from Kyushu University have published a paper describing a means of reliably fooling AI-based image classifiers with a si...
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The "other" JFK assassination footage, stabilized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE8Cj_495g You've likely seen the stabilized, enhanced panoramic edit of the famous Zapruder film of J...
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Can a supermagnet dangerously affect the iron in blood?
YouTuber Brainiac75 got a lot of questions about the possible dangers of a supermagnet affecting the iron in his blood, so he did an experi...
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Shadow of the Colossus remastered in 4K
Shadow of the Colossus , one of the most beautifully gloomy games of all time, is being remastered in 4K. Here's the trailer. Unlike t...
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Some trick-or-treaters will get a Trump University 'degree' for Halloween
Dan and Cathy Balsam of Alameda, California are putting the "trick" back in trick-or-treating by handing out fake Trump Universit...
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'Pair of Jorts' and other awesomely-fake Halloween costumes
Obvious Plant wins the droplifting game this year with these fake costumes he left on a Halloween store's shelf somewhere. from ...
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