Saturday, August 4, 2018

Winnie The Boo!

Pooh and his crew were never really my thing as a kid, and there's one VHS tape to blame.
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CULTURAL COMMENT
BEAR WARY
Hold Up, Rewind: Why Did This Old Winnie The Pooh Movie Frighten Me?
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Pooh and his crew were never really my thing as a kid, and there's one VHS tape to blame.
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THE BEAT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
What Makes A Hit: Analyzing 60 Years Of #1 Songs
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When it comes to climbing the charts, research suggests that it pays to be different. From Brenda Lee to Beyoncé, here's how the top songs stood out from the crowd.
WHICH GUN IS THE TOPPEST?
Every Tom Cruise Movie Performance, Ranked
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Since the early '80s, Cruise steadily and successfully carved out a career fueled by his boyish megawatt smile, a practiced brand of charisma, and an interest in physically throwing himself into his roles with dangerous gusto.
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THE WEEK IN PICTURES
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The Best Photography Of The Week
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Inside the US military's secret doomsday base, the mystical forests of Norway and what life was like before the Chernobyl disaster.
STARRY STARRY NIGHT
The Week's Coolest Space Images
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Satellite images of California blanketed by smoke from wildfires, Milky Way's "big sister" and other cool space images of the week.
OFF THE RAILS
'WHY ARE WE FIGHTING?'
Just A Shot Away: Peace, Love And Tragedy With The Rolling Stones At Altamont
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The Rolling Stones, the ostensible stars of the day, perched above the hellish scene, utterly unable to prevent the violence.
'THE ARTWORKS GO UP LIKE TINDERSTICKS'
The Art Of Stealing
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Early in the morning of 16th October 2012, seven valuable artworks were stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The theft was world news. But what first seemed like a sophisticated burglary by professionals, turned out to be the work of a few small-time Romanian criminals who had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
A BIT OVERCONFIDENT
We Tested The FBI's Most Wanted List On Amazon's Celebrity Recognition Tool. Then Things Got Weird
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In one test, using NIST's mugshot database, the celebrity recognition tool matched, with 96% confidence, the arrest photo of a black man to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
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Rhino Learns The Hard Way That Bull Elephants Don't Mess Around
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This herbivore-on-herbivore violence will not stand!
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it also doesn't get to relax on the weekend. But you, you can relax.