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Unfortunate Radio Station Employee Sends Letter To Annie Lennox 

Guy Trolls An IRS Scammer And Things Take An Odd Turn

Unfortunate Radio Station Employee Sends Letter To Annie Lennox  Look, we get it — being tasked with finding good new music for your radio station to feature can't be an easy job. But also, if that's your job, you should probably know who Annie Lennox is.

Guy Trolls An IRS Scammer And Things Take An Odd Turn Actor Ashton Bingham has made a habit of recording his calls trolling IRS scammers, but most of them don't end up with the scammer confessing and the two having a difficult conversation. June 30, 2017 at 02:20PM

Australian Police Charge Vatican Cardinal With Sex Offenses

The Director Of 'District 9' Has Dropped Another Absolutely Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Short

Australian Police Charge Vatican Cardinal With Sex Offenses Australian police say they are charging a top Vatican cardinal with historical sexual assault offenses.

The Director Of 'District 9' Has Dropped Another Absolutely Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Short This latest film from Oats Studios is set in a Vietnam-era world where American GIs start coming across bodies with odd growths under their skin. June 29, 2017 at 04:31PM

Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children

View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife..

Picture of the day on June 29, 2017: View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife.

Article of the day is Tropical Storm Bill (2003). Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

chunder , v : (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To throw up, to vomit. Colin Hay, the lead vocalist of the Australian rock band Men at Work, was born on this day in 1953. The group’s song “Down Under” (1980; re-released 1981) contains the famous lines “I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder”.

Word of the day is chunder : (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To throw up, to vomit. Colin Hay, the lead vocalist of the Australian rock band Men at Work, was born on this day in 1953. The group’s song “Down Under” (1980; re-released 1981) contains the famous lines “I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder”.

The Article of the day for June 29, 2017 is Tropical Storm Bill (2003) . Tropical Storm Bill hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in the summer of 2003. The second storm of that Atlantic hurricane season, Bill developed from a tropical wave on June 29 to the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It slowly organized as it moved northward, and reached a peak of 60 mph (95 km/h) shortly before making landfall in south-central Louisiana. It produced a moderate storm surge, causing tidal flooding. In Montegut in the northeastern portion of the state, a levee was breached, flooding many homes, and in Florida, two swimmers drowned. As Bill accelerated to the northeast, moisture from the storm, combined with cold air from an approaching cold front, produced an outbreak of 34 tornadoes. Moderate winds and wet soil combined to topple trees onto houses and power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands without electric power. By the time Bill became extratropical on July 2, it was respons...

Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.

Carp Decides It Isn't His Day To Die, Escapes His Captor This is the most inspiring thing we've seen this week. June 28, 2017 at 02:37PM

Carp Decides It Isn't His Day To Die, Escapes His Captor

Moon light view of the Bode Museum, located on the Museum Island of Berlin, Germany. The museum, originally called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (after Emperor Frederick III) and later honored to its curator, Wilhelm von Bode, was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904. The museum hosts a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, coins and medals..

Word of the day is honda : (western US) A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop. (western US) A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.

The Far-Right Alliance Is Over

Picture of the day on June 28, 2017: Moon light view of the Bode Museum, located on the Museum Island of Berlin, Germany. The museum, originally called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (after Emperor Frederick III) and later honored to its curator, Wilhelm von Bode, was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904. The museum hosts a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, coins and medals.

Article of the day is White-naped xenopsaris. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

honda , n : (western US) A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop. (western US) A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.

The Article of the day for June 28, 2017 is White-naped xenopsaris . The white-naped xenopsaris (Xenopsaris albinucha) is a bird in the family Tityridae found in the South American countries of Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It lives in open woodland and other open forest habitats, and is mostly sedentary, though some populations may be migratory. The only species in its genus, it is closely related to becards and tityras, and was thought to be either a tyrant-flycatcher or cotinga before it was placed in the Tityridae family. The bird is 12.5 to 13 cm (4.9–5.1 in) in length, with whitish undersides, a black crown and grey-brown upperparts. The sexes are similar in appearance, though the females have duller upperparts. It feeds on insects in the foliage of trees and bushes, and sometimes on the ground. In a simple cup nest in the fork of a tree, both parents incubate the eggs and help feed the chicks. After the chicks have fledged, the paren...

The Far-Right Alliance Is Over We were promised a showdown at high noon. Instead, Washington DC was host to two pitifully-attended competing rallies this Sunday, followed by a Twitter slapfight between two 39-year-old men.

Incredible Footage From Inside A Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Incredible Footage From Inside A Tokamak Fusion Reactor Tokamaks use magnetic fields to shape plasma into a torus, which is necessary to store the superheated plasma fuel required for fusion power. This high-speed, full-color vid shows the plasma torus forming inside a tokamak. June 27, 2017 at 05:05PM

Oxyopes javanus is a spider in the family Oxyopidae, commonly known as Lynx spiders..

The $100 Billion Per Year Back Pain Industry Is Mostly A Hoax

Word of the day is standee : Somebody who is forced to stand, for example, on a crowded bus. A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes; a cut-out.

standee , n : Somebody who is forced to stand, for example, on a crowded bus. A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes; a cut-out.

Article of the day is The Well of Loneliness. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Picture of the day on June 27, 2017: Oxyopes javanus is a spider in the family Oxyopidae, commonly known as Lynx spiders.

John Oliver Explains The Huge Risk Posed By The Anti-Vaccination Movement From Andrew Wakefield's disastrous debunked paper to Minnesota's recent resurgence of measles, Oliver's here to demystify America's vaccination issues. June 26, 2017 at 08:01PM

The Article of the day for June 27, 2017 is The Well of Loneliness . The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author Radclyffe Hall that follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family. Her "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection. The novel portrays inversion as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: "Give us also the right to our existence". Although its only sexual reference consists of the words "and that night, they were not divided", a British court judged it obscene because it defended "unnatural practices between women". In the United States the book survived legal challenges. Publicity over The Well's legal battles increased the visibility of lesbians in British and A...

The $100 Billion Per Year Back Pain Industry Is Mostly A Hoax A new book investigates the ways people in pain are being swindled, and explains what actually works.

John Oliver Explains The Huge Risk Posed By The Anti-Vaccination Movement

The Article of the day for June 26, 2017 is Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō . Jun'yō ("Peregrine Falcon") was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the navy in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Launched on 26 June 1941 and completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land bases during several battles in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns. Jun'yō was torpedoed in November 1943 and spent three months under repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1...

'Glow' Star Betty Gilpin: What It's Like To Have Pea-Sized Confidence With Watermelon-Sized Boobs

Crowd Gathers Beneath A Girl Dangling From An Amusement Park Ride To Catch Her When She Falls This went down at Six Flags Great Escape in upstate New York. Sure, this didn't make for a normal, fun day at the park — but at least these onlookers were there to catch this girl and escort her to safety. June 25, 2017 at 05:37PM

Article of the day is Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

'Glow' Star Betty Gilpin: What It's Like To Have Pea-Sized Confidence With Watermelon-Sized Boobs From "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin: "I won’t name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress."

Large-leaved Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), invasive species in wild in Ukraine..

Crowd Gathers Beneath A Girl Dangling From An Amusement Park Ride To Catch Her When She Falls

Georgian , adj : […] Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830). George IV of the United Kingdom died on this day in 1830, bringing the Georgian era to an end.

Word of the day is Georgian : […] Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830). George IV of the United Kingdom died on this day in 1830, bringing the Georgian era to an end.

Picture of the day on June 26, 2017: Large-leaved Lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus), invasive species in wild in Ukraine.

Whoa, This Man's Solution To Not Having Goggles Under Water Is Kind Of Blowing Our Minds We're all going to be trying this next time we go to the pool. June 24, 2017 at 03:55PM

The Article of the day for June 25, 2017 is Ukiyo-e . The ukiyo-e genre of art flourished in Japan from the 17th to the 19th century. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes, flora and fauna, and erotica. The term ukiyo-e refers to pictures of the ukiyo or "floating world" of kabuki theatre, courtesans, and geisha of the pleasure districts. Images of this environment became successful in the 1670s with Moronobu's paintings and monochromatic prints of beautiful women. By the 1740s, artists such as Masanobu were using multiple woodblocks to print areas of colour. In the 1760s, with the success of Harunobu's "brocade prints", full-colour production of prints made with numerous blocks became standard. Portraits of beauties and actors by masters such as Kiyonaga, Utamaro, and Sharaku were prominent in the late 18th c...

Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety

Article of the day is Ukiyo-e. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Whoa, This Man's Solution To Not Having Goggles Under Water Is Kind Of Blowing Our Minds

Tuscany is a region in central Italy with an area of about 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 square miles) and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013). The regional capital is Florence (Firenze). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, traditions, history, artistic legacy and its influence on high culture..

Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety The incineration of the 24-story London high rise, the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century, was rooted in a regulatory breakdown.

glen , n : A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

Word of the day is glen : A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

Picture of the day on June 25, 2017: Tuscany is a region in central Italy with an area of about 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 square miles) and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013). The regional capital is Florence (Firenze). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, traditions, history, artistic legacy and its influence on high culture.

The Article of the day for June 24, 2017 is 4 (Beyoncé album) . 4 is the fourth studio album by American singer Beyoncé (pictured), released on June 24, 2011, by Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. In collaborations with songwriters and producers The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, and Shea Taylor, Beyoncé aimed for a mellower rhythm and blues tone with influences from funk, hip hop, and soul. She severed professional ties with Mathew Knowles, her father and manager, to help her develop an intimate, personal album. The lyrics emphasize monogamy, female empowerment and self-reflection. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, and some put it on their year-end lists. It was her fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200, and it also reached number one in Brazil, France, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It spawned the international singles "Run the World (Girls)", "Best Thing I Never Had...

Zola The 'Breakdancing' Gorilla Is The Most Delightful Thing We've Seen In A While We can't really find the words to describe this video of Zola the gorilla dancing like a maniac at the Dallas Zoo, so just go ahead and watch. June 23, 2017 at 11:48PM

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