Friday, May 31, 2019

To Be Or Not To Spelling Bee

The Students Who Key-Logged Their Teacher; The Speedrunner Who Wasn't; and more.
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CHEATS AND SNEAKS
CONS AND PROS
The Students Who Key-Logged Their Teacher, And More Of The Week's Best Scam Stories
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The men who get off on getting catfished, the artist whose dementia turned into a scam opportunity and more of this week's best scam and hoax stories.
HE HAD A GOOD RUN
The Speedrunner Who Wasn't: How A Community Dealt With An Elaborate Cheater
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It would take weeks of defensive public statements, private battles, Reddit threads and hostile exchanges with a reporter before the truth came out.
THE DATA DOESN'T LIE
Sorry, FCC — Killing Net Neutrality Probably Didn't Expand Internet Access
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.
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MAY THE 31ST BE WITH YOU
MAYBE, MAYBE NOT
All Of May 2019 In One Big Post
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"Game of Thrones" ended with chaos and Arnold Schwarzenegger soldiered on as a beacon of stability. May 2019 really had it all, huh?
MEDIA DIET
TRIGGER HAPPY WITH A SIDE OF REMORSE
'Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare' Can't Decide Whether War Is Bad Or Badass
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The reboot of the series is going for emotional storytelling, but all the gun fetishization might just get in the way.
DOWN TO THE WIRE
Every HBO Show, Ranked
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Taking stock of the premium network's formidable catalogue.
CAREFUL WHAT YOU CONSUME
Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy
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After the war, the Emergency Beriberi Investigative Committee investigated the disease's devastation of Japanese ranks.
BRING BACK BUBSY
The World's Most Pawsome Mascot
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By 1993, Mario and Sonic were lighting up the video game world. With each new game, their stories grew deeper and their worlds began the expansion that would eventually lead to their inevitable convergence a few decades later. Certainly there was room for another friendly character?
VIDEO OF THE DAY
*'JAWS' THEME INTENSIFIES*
Shark Circles Unsuspecting Swimmer On Florida Beach
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Eventually, other beachgoers at Panama City Beach noticed the shark and yelled at the swimmer to get the hell out of Dodge.
IN THE NEWS
Trump's New Plan To Tax Mexican Imports, Explained
South Korean Daily Says That Kim Jong-un Executed And Purged Top Nuclear Negotiators
Scientists Genetically Modify Fungus To Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria
That F-35 Sky Drawing Above Luke Air Force Base Wasn't Intended To Be Sky Penis, Base Says
WATCH: National Spelling Bee Ends In An 8-Way Tie
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It's gonna not be May.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Dwayne Johnson Actually Is All Around Us

The Most Wikipedia'ed Resident Of Every US City, Have We Entered A New Phase Of Planetary History?, and more.
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Morning · Thu, May 30
A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD
PUTTING A NAME TO A PLACE
The Most Wikipedia'ed Resident Of Every US City And Town
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Who's the most famous person (or at least the person with the most Wikipedia traffic) from your hometown? This extremely detailed map from The Pudding has your answer.
GUARDIANS OF THE TIMELINE
Have We Entered A New Phase Of Planetary History?
theguardian.com
Human activity has transformed the Earth – but scientists are divided about whether this is really a turning point in geological history.
BEFORE SHE WAS AOC
The Day I Met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
theintercept.com
A little more than a year ago, I was sitting across from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a Queens diner for an interview. This was before anybody outside of her immediate community in New York City knew her name.
IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE
Watch How A Radioactive Cloud Spread Through Europe After The Chernobyl Disaster
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This visualization shows how devastatingly widespread the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster was in 1986.
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WHAT MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
'I'M NO STRANGER TO HARD WORK'
I'm A Former Elite Athlete And I Call BS On Tech's Obsession With Working Long Hours
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As a champion gymnast, I trained 22 hours a week. Now, as a startup founder, I see how dangerous 'hustle culture' can be.
THE ARGUMENT AGAINST GROWTH
The Radical Plan To Save The Planet By Working Less
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The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy?
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE
Why Ambition Is Overrated
newstatesman.com
I used to be embarrassed by my lack of drive, until I realized that the strange moral value we place on overwork is sapping our lives of joy.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THIS IS PERFECTION
A School Full Of Kids Singing Along With Lil Nas X To 'Old Town Road' Is The Cutest Darn Thing
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Watch this at the peril of having your heart burst with pure joy.
IN THE NEWS
Mueller's Statement Highlights Key Differences With Barr On Investigation Of President Trump
Deceased GOP Strategist's Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question
White House Office, Navy Officials Reportedly Discussed Moving USS McCain For Trump Trip
Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Strict Abortion Limit, Democratic Governor Says He Will Sign it
Israel To Hold Fresh Election As Netanyahu Fails To Form Coalition
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