In Iceland, a memorial ceremony for the Okjökull glacier suggests new ways to think about climate change
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Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower
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Norwegian teen cooks and eats her own horse after it was put down
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Video games don't lead to violence...
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How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems
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Untitled Goose Game review: The year's best video game about geese, reviewed from a goose's point of view.
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She took her amputated leg home, and you can too
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We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats
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"I like to think of bricks as brushstrokes or pixels" An interview with Will Quam, a brick enthusiast in Chicago
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Jeremy Renner’s app is shutting down because of trolls
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Døds was originally a pastime to impress girls – Norway's sport of 'death diving' now attracts dozens of daredevils
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Aarhus on Monday introduced Viking-style traffic lights at seventeen locations in the city
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Rob Messel from the US strutted his way to success at the annual Air Guitar World Championships in Finland on Friday
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Pensioner has been savaged by a crocodile that once belonged to Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a Swedish aquarium
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A Welsh town will install anti-sex toilets that could spray users with water
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Passenger in clown suit prompted mass cruise ship brawl, say witnesses
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Santas from as far away as Japan and El Salvador are attending 62nd World Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen
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Scientists are memorializing Iceland's first glacier lost to global warming with a poignant letter to the future
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Emails show Iowa official's Tupac fixation before his ouster
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The internet has spent three years taking care of this guy’s plants: The subreddit r/takecareofmyplant has 11,300 members, all dedicated to, well, taking care of a plant
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Finland's heavy metal knitting championship is the real purl jam
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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An eleven-year neighborhood feud involved restraining orders, spells, and jail time
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A family of four accidentally found themselves on Virgin Atlantic's 'Pride Flight' featuring drag queens, celebrity performances, and dancing in the aisles
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The Norwegian town of Sommarøy wants to abolish time
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Meet the guy who bought a monorail for $1,000
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The restaurant owner who asked for one-star Yelp reviews
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Spotted: A Swarm Of Ladybugs So Huge, It Showed Up On National Weather Service Radar
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Cuphead will be playable in Tesla Model 3, Model S, and Model X cars
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Lawyers for Noah’s Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage
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Grumpy Cat, dead at 7
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How air guitar became a serious sport
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Movie scenes recreated with 'sexiest' New Zealand accent
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A Brazilian drug bust led to a parrot’s arrest. The feathered vertebrate almost foiled an undercover raid.
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Academic claims she's discovered anal suppository 'cure' for homosexuality: A semen-eating worm is supposedly the cause of being gay.
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This Texas vending machine lets you buy pecan pie anytime
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The French Laundry’s bong course is a brilliant act of artistry
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YouTube face-off: Berlin police break up mass brawl
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Kyoto temple enlists android Buddhist deity to help people
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Seven ways music exposes our feelings about technology
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In France, the Force is strong with lightsaber dueling
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Chuck E. Cheese’s swears it does not sell pizzas made of leftover slices
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A German mint just released a coin commemorating seventy years of currywurst
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Meet MASHBot, the touchscreen-tapping, Nintendo DS-playing robot
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City of Keene in dispute with local restaurant owner over 'Pho Keene Great' name
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Washington state officials passed a bill to rename a post office near Jimi Hendrix‘s hometown of Seattle to honor the guitar god.
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We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually.
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Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie
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International Space Station robot accuses crew of being mean
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Rhinestone Vest-Wearing Pigeon Reunited With Family
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