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Picture of the day for June 27, 2017

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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

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

standee: Word of the day for June 27, 2017

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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: Word of the day for June 27, 2017

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 for June 27, 2017

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

Picture of the day for June 27, 2017

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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

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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

Article of the day for June 27, 2017

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

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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

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