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The Biggest Lie in Hollywood | Technicolor

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Why don't "tough" and "dough" rhyme? - Arika Okrent

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Psychiatrist Answers Mental Health Questions From Twitter | Tech Support...

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Notably, while they urge liberals not to criticize the left, they do not make any similar demand that leftists withhold criticism of liberalism. The requirements of factional quietude run one way. There’s a reason why the catchprase is “don’t punch left,” rather than “don’t punch anybody left of center.”

(via In Defense of Punching Left)

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U.S. States with Cities Over 250,000 People

California and Texas Each Have More Than 10 Cities With 250k People

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Rogue Wave or Human Error: What Sunk The Infamous SS Edmund Fitzgerald? ...

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Why Do Experts Always Defend Language Mistakes

Dr. Geoff Lindsey explains why Linguistics is descriptive rather than prescriptive.

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A Depth Comparison of Underground Structures

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What Happened to Appendectomies?

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The Metaphysically Science-ish Drawings of Daniel Martin Diaz. I really like the infographic quality of these.

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The Eugenics Crusade | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS

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Twilight | ContraPoints

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After 34 Years, Someone Finally Beat Tetris

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Why can't robots check the box that says 'I'm not a robot'? | WTFAQ | AB...

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The Secrets of the JFK Assassination Documents via Intelligencer

The Agency assured the Warren Commission that, prior to the assassination, it had had no particular interest in Oswald and almost no information on him whatsoever. This had always seemed implausible. Oswald was only 24 when he died, but his life had been eventful. He had served as a radar operator in the Marine Corps, stationed at an air base in Japan from which the CIA flew U-2 spy missions over Russia; had then defected to Moscow, where he told American diplomats that he planned to tell the Soviets everything he knew; had been closely watched, if not recruited, by Soviet intelligence services; and had then, in 1962, after more than two and a half years in the USSR, returned, Russian wife in tow, to the United States. One would think the CIA might have taken somewhat more than a passing interest.

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Geological Map of North America rendered with 3d surface model data

by u/visualgeomatics

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