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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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For One Year, This Publisher Will Only Release Books By Women
In 2014, only 27 percent of authors represented in The Times Literary Supplement were women, only 40 percent from The Paris Review, only 29 percent from The Nation. These numbers are courtesy of the annual VIDA count, an effort to shed light on gender inequity...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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Microsoft's Xbox One Elite Controller could be the ultimate console gamepad
Microsoft just announced what it's calling the Xbox One Elite Wireless Controller, described by Xbox boss Phil Spencer as "an elite controller for the elite gamer." It's basically the regular Xbox One gamepad turned up to 11, with features like trigger locks,...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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"Come with me if you want to" … avoid traffic. The Terminator will now guide you to your destination via Waze.
Starting Monday, drivers around the world could soon be directed by a familiar Austrian-accented voice telling them: "I'm a Terminator Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, and you're coming with me." It's Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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Short Animated Movies | There's a Man in the Woods
Short Animated Movies | There's a Man in the WoodsWatch more:There's a Man in the Woods Fruit It Room Blue Camper Red Handed Catcher
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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On Smarm
Last month, Isaac Fitzgerald, the newly hired editor of BuzzFeed's newly created books section, made a remarkable but not entirely surprising announcement: He was not interested in publishing negative book reviews. In place of "the scathing takedown rip,"...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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6 Perfect Cocktails To Enjoy During Tonight's "Game Of Thrones" Finale
(Plus two bonus shots.) "When you play the game of drinks you win or you pass out."
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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If Rachel Dolezal Isn't Black, How Is Caitlyn Jenner A Woman?
Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal, a professor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, was outed earlier this week by her parents as being white. In what has to be one of the more bizarre news stories of 2015, Dolezal pretended for years to...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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College Student Wants Four Graphic Novels "Eradicated from the System"
A 20-year-old college student in Yucaipa, California is protesting the inclusion of four landmark graphic novels in an English class that she took during the recently-finished Spring 2015 semester at Crafton Hills College. According to the Redlands Daily Facts...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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PHOTO: Raccoon Balances on Gator
At first glance, the raccoon may look like it's balancing on a log.
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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The Bad American Habits I Kicked in Finland - The Atlantic
"Well, you’re just special. You’re American," remarked my colleague, smirking from across the coffee table. My other Finnish coworkers, from the school in Helsinki where I teach, nodded in agreement. They had just finished critiquing one of my habits, and they...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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Genetic Link Found Between Mental Illness & Creativity: Here Are The Details
A new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience has discovered a genetic link between mental illness and creativity. The research was conducted by scientists from deCODE genetics and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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How To Elevate The Gin And Tonic
THE TWO WORDS came naturally, as if whispered to me by the cocktail gods: gin and tonic. Drink name and recipe in one. It was my beverage of choice when I arrived in New York many summers ago. To a 22-year-old excited by the prospect of frequenting bars that...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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'Shallow, Selfish, and Self-Absorbed' Details Why Women Aren't Having Children - The Atlantic
Pope Francis is widely believed to be a cool Pope–a huggable, Upworthyish, meme- ready, self-deprecating leader for a new generation of worshippers. "He has described himself as a sinner," writes Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Pope Francis’ entry on Time’s list of...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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Zayn Malik Returning To One Direction? Fans Are Freaking Out
Hold up – is Zayn Malik returning to One Direction?
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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Watch This Guy Propose to His Girlfriend 365 Times Without Her Knowing
Dean Smith has been prepping for his marriage proposal to his girlfriend Jennifer for 365 days. Smith videotaped himself holding up a whiteboard asking her to marry him every single day for a whole year, starting with January 8, 2014. He did this while he was...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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‘Are you an African American?’ Why an NAACP official isn’t saying.
A controversy is raging over whether a prominent Washington state civil rights activist and Howard University graduate who claimed she was African American is actually white. [Rachel Dolezal cancels Monday NAACP meeting where she was to discuss her race]...
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unfailingnews-blog-blog · 10 years ago
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Reminder from last summer: What California losing 63 trillion gallons of water looks like
A new study says that California’s drought is so severe it’s causing the ground to rise. Angela Fritz of The Washington Post reported scientists estimate 63 trillion gallons of water have been lost in the past 18 months. What happens when 63 trillion gallons...
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