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8 votes
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Donald Trump administration's Middle East peace plan calls for creation of a State of Palestine, freeze on new Israeli settlements
7 votes -
A journalist in Japan looks at how much single-use plastic he accumulates in a week, then attempts to spend a week without using any
17 votes -
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits between Cuba and Jamaica
7 votes -
Demoted and placed on probation
5 votes -
Breach in payment-processing systems at Wawa convenience stores may have compromised over thirty million cards
5 votes -
Invasion of the ‘Frankenbees’: The danger of building a better bee
6 votes -
Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
3 votes -
7 years after launch of the first episode, Kentucky Route Zero is finally finished
10 votes -
A group of mothers, a vacant home, and a win for fair housing
5 votes -
The rise of the "information game" genre
4 votes -
QAnon-ers’ magic cure for coronavirus: Just drink bleach!
7 votes -
Splendid isolation: How I stopped time by sitting in a forest for twenty-four hours
5 votes -
Looking for a (new) odd news podcast
Some months ago, I found Weekly Weird News, a roundup of strange news from around the internet. I recently depleted their backstock, and find myself wanting. Now, I know there's no shortage of...
Some months ago, I found Weekly Weird News, a roundup of strange news from around the internet. I recently depleted their backstock, and find myself wanting. Now, I know there's no shortage of weird, odd, bizarre, and strange in our world. Just as I know there's no shortage of people willing to talk about it. But, I'm having difficulty finding "current" weirdness. Oh sure, there's podcasts to be found talking about the weirdness surrounding this murder in 1952, or that rural happening in 1991, but so far, I haven't found another that scratches that "that seriously happened recently?" itch.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I doomed to dripfeed?
4 votes -
An antidote to dissatisfaction
3 votes -
Universal Basic Income explained – free money for everybody? UBI
4 votes -
Which religion is friendliest to the idea of aliens?
4 votes -
How BoJack Horseman and The Good Place changed comedy: the hit shows, both ending this week, explored humanity’s big existential questions
5 votes -
Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller discusses the challenges of getting Myst to work on CD-ROM | War Stories
5 votes -
Leader of US nazi terror group "The Base" revealed
8 votes -
Product Hunt has launched YourStack, a social network for people to share products they use and love
4 votes -
Locking down the EC2 Instance Metadata Service: Announcing imds-filterd
2 votes -
Video game subtitles are changing, don't be left behind
4 votes -
Saint-Louis, Senegal: How the 'Venice of Africa' is losing its battle against the rising ocean
4 votes -
Andrew Yang qualifies for New Hampshire primary debate
19 votes -
Match on dating app Tinder helps rescue camper trapped in ice in northern Norway
7 votes -
Air pollution inequality growing in Massachusetts
3 votes -
Who killed the weekend?
9 votes -
The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
5 votes -
Mt. Þorbjörn, Reykjanes – Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption
4 votes -
How Iran's Qassem Soleimani became a US target
4 votes -
Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
13 votes -
Planet Money - Episode 926: So, should we recycle?
3 votes -
The mafia is more powerful than it’s ever been
8 votes -
Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
2 votes -
Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating
4 votes -
Analysis of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland
5 votes -
Forget planes: Why travelling by train is the best method of transport
6 votes -
Oregairu S3 begins broadcasting on April 9th
@air_news01: Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan" (S3) begins broadcasting on April 9th.
5 votes -
Germany identifies first case of coronavirus
14 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
10 votes -
Torchlight Frontiers is now Torchlight III, and will be a standard purchase instead of free-to-play, releasing this year on PC
13 votes -
Why I won't buy an iPad – ten years later
13 votes -
Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound
Here's an article about one of the recent Grammy winners: "Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound" The story about how Eilish and her brother sampled a pedestrian...
Here's an article about one of the recent Grammy winners: "Billie Eilish's Grammy hit features a surprising Australian sound"
The story about how Eilish and her brother sampled a pedestrian crossing signal is interesting enough - but you have to watch the embedded video, where the SMH people use the same signal to make their own backing track to an Aussie classic!
5 votes -
‘I was risking my life’: Why one in four US women return to work two weeks after childbirth
9 votes -
Which are your top five computer programs?
In terms of Utility: It is useful! Reliability: It will always work when you need it to! Uniqueness: It gives you the option of doing things that would never have been necessary before it came...
In terms of
- Utility: It is useful!
- Reliability: It will always work when you need it to!
- Uniqueness: It gives you the option of doing things that would never have been necessary before it came along.
- Aesthetic: It satisfies your sense of beauty: It gives you the same kind of feeling a painting or a poem would.
- Transcendence: It transcends the zeitgeist and is the simplest it can and thus ought to be.
Mine are:
32 votes -
Ten years after vaccination was introduced, no HPV16/18 infections were found in sexually active 16-18 year old females in England according to public health data
15 votes -
Ring's doorbell app for Android sends sensitive user data to multiple analytics and marketing companies
10 votes -
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
26 votes -
So you want to become a software QA professional?
6 votes