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The Impious Delights of Hieronymus Bosch

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The Impious Delights of Hieronymus Bosch With all his transgressions of boundaries among species and scale, he is surely daring on some level to intimate that the scope of our moral universe cannot be bifurcated except superficially. March 27, 2016 at 11:15AM

The Impious Delights of Hieronymus Bosch

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The Impious Delights of Hieronymus Bosch

How to Make Sure Your Robot Doesn't Become a Nazi

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How to Make Sure Your Robot Doesn't Become a Nazi Microsoft's "millennial chatbot" Tay made news for the wrong reasons this week — becoming a Nazi. It didn't have to end this way.

How to Make Sure Your Robot Doesn't Become a Nazi

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How to Make Sure Your Robot Doesn't Become a Nazi

Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World Netflix's strategy is all about data, great TV and using one to help you keep finding the other. March 27, 2016 at 06:42PM

Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

Scores killed in Lahore suicide attack

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Scores killed in Lahore suicide attack At least 60 are dead and over 250 are injured following a blast outside Gulshan-i-Iqbal park in the eastern Pakistani city. March 27, 2016 at 06:55PM

Scores killed in Lahore suicide attack

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Scores killed in Lahore suicide attack

Crissy Moran tried to leave pornography behind, but the industry won’t let her go

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Crissy Moran tried to leave pornography behind, but the industry won’t let her go She walked away from a lucrative career as an adult film star to start her life over. But online, others are still making money off her work. A lot of money. More money than she ever made herself.

Crissy Moran tried to leave pornography behind, but the industry won’t let her go

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Crissy Moran tried to leave pornography behind, but the industry won’t let her go

Hockey Player Scores, Gets Brutally Body Checked By Ref

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Hockey Player Scores, Gets Brutally Body Checked By Ref

Hockey Player Scores, Gets Brutally Body Checked By Ref

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Hockey Player Scores, Gets Brutally Body Checked By Ref We're sure the ref wasn't actually trying to check North Dakota's Drake Caggiula, but dang, that's a hell of a hit from a guy not wearing any pads. March 27, 2016 at 01:18PM

beer: Word of the day for March 28, 2016

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Word of the day is beer : One who is or exists. To celebrate April Fools' Day this week, we are featuring a series of words with unexpected meanings. Enjoy!

Article of the day for March 28, 2016

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Article of the day is The Boat Race 1993. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Picture of the day for March 28, 2016

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Fencers Le Péchoux (FRA) v Meinhardt (USA) at the 2014 Master de Fleuret Melun Val de Seine..

beer: Word of the day for March 28, 2016

beer , n : One who is or exists. To celebrate April Fools' Day this week, we are featuring a series of words with unexpected meanings. Enjoy!

Picture of the day for March 28, 2016

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Picture of the day on March 28, 2016: Fencers Le Péchoux (FRA) v Meinhardt (USA) at the 2014 Master de Fleuret Melun Val de Seine.

Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World Netflix's strategy is all about data, great TV and using one to help you keep finding the other.

Article of the day for March 28, 2016

The Article of the day for March 28, 2016 is The Boat Race 1993 . The 139th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1993. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Cambridge, using "cleaver blades" for the first time in the history of the race, won by three-and-a-half lengths in a victory that was described in The Times as "crushingly conclusive". The winning time of 17 minutes exactly was the fourth fastest time in the event. Cambridge's victory prevented what would have been Oxford's seventeenth win out of the last eighteen races, which would have levelled the overall score for the first time since the 1929 race. Oxford's crew featured two Olympic gold medallists and saw changes in their rowers and cox in the lead-up to the event. The race was umpired by the former Oxford Blue Mark Evans, who controversially instigated changes to the start procedure of the ra...

Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

Zen and the Art of the BuzzFeed Tasty Video

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Zen and the Art of the BuzzFeed Tasty Video

Zen and the Art of the BuzzFeed Tasty Video

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Zen and the Art of the BuzzFeed Tasty Video "They tap into the pleasure center of my brain with their mesmerizing simplicity, lack of fussiness, and quick pace. They make cooking seem painless, sedative."

The Pope's Twitter Mentions Are a Living Hell

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The Pope's Twitter Mentions Are a Living Hell

The Pope's Twitter Mentions Are a Living Hell

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The Pope's Twitter Mentions Are a Living Hell The internet is, generally speaking, a garbage dump suffused with vitriol and poison. “But surely,” some might ask, “the one, tiny corner of Twitter devoted to Cool Pope Francis would be a respite for our bitter, blackened hearts?” To which the answer is: of course not, no.

The Tesla Dividend

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The Tesla Dividend

The Tesla Dividend

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The Tesla Dividend Elon Musk’s newest car doesn’t just run on electricity  —  it needs a world class fiber network. March 27, 2016 at 07:09AM

Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World

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Netflix’s Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World Netflix's strategy is all about data, great TV and using one to help you keep finding the other.

'I Wanted to Die': How Birth Control Pills Can Ruin Your Life

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'I Wanted to Die': How Birth Control Pills Can Ruin Your Life Historically, women have been expected to bear both children and the burden of preventing unwanted pregnancy. But even the most common, "safest" contraceptive methods can cause serious side effects. March 26, 2016 at 05:06PM

'I Wanted to Die': How Birth Control Pills Can Ruin Your Life

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'I Wanted to Die': How Birth Control Pills Can Ruin Your Life

Silent Twins: The Haunting Case of the Gibbons Siblings

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Silent Twins: The Haunting Case of the Gibbons Siblings

Silent Twins: The Haunting Case of the Gibbons Siblings

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Silent Twins: The Haunting Case of the Gibbons Siblings One of them had to die, so the other could live a normal life. March 27, 2016 at 03:09AM

The Tesla Dividend

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The Tesla Dividend

The Tesla Dividend

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The Tesla Dividend Elon Musk’s newest car doesn’t just run on electricity  —  it needs a world class fiber network.