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Soccer Manager In Italy Delivers A Zidane-Level Head Butt To Opposing Coach's Face

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Soccer Manager In Italy Delivers A Zidane-Level Head Butt To Opposing Coach's Face Giancarlo Favarin, who coaches Lucchese in Italy's 3rd-tier pro league, will serve a 5-month ban after smashing an assistant coach for rival club Alessandria right in the nose. January 30, 2019 at 12:11AM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=891Rt00eSJ8

Nintendo Makes It Clear that Piracy Is the Only Way to Preserve Video Game History

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Nintendo Makes It Clear that Piracy Is the Only Way to Preserve Video Game History By shutting down the Wii Store Channel and not letting users download old games, Nintendo is once again showing that in the modern digital era, you don't actually own the things you buy. January 29, 2019 at 11:18PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2CWPtiO

The Last Fish Shack On The River

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The Last Fish Shack On The River For more than a half-century, Desposito's Seafood Restaurant has served the best boiled shrimp on the Wilmington River. Simple Southern fish shacks — food for coastal families, cooked and caught by coastal families — are disappearing throughout the region. And Desposito's may be soon to follow. January 29, 2019 at 10:58PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2CQ3uPc

Elegy In Times Square

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Elegy In Times Square A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York's notorious red-light district. January 29, 2019 at 10:53PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2FVs5G5

Learn to Build 10 Fully Functional Websites With This Hands-On Training

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Learn to Build 10 Fully Functional Websites With This Hands-On Training Nothing helps you master a skill like the power of practice: this Complete Web Developer Course takes a project-driven approach to teach you how to code, showing you how to build 25 responsive websites from scratch for just $11.99. January 29, 2019 at 10:48PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2WvHu4S

Take Your Cocktails Up A Notch With The Koriko Hawthorne Strainer

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Take Your Cocktails Up A Notch With The Koriko Hawthorne Strainer The Koriko Hawthorne Strainer is the best in its class. It's made for heavy use with a very tight coil and is designed to make it easy to do a true split pour January 29, 2019 at 10:43PM Continue: https://amzn.to/2WscMts

The World's Smallest Flashlight

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The World's Smallest Flashlight It's also the world's most badass flashlight. Let there be light! January 29, 2019 at 10:43PM Continue: https://kck.st/2RopbLx

Mads Mikkelsen has very serious opinions about comic books

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Mads Mikkelsen has very serious opinions about comic books The fact that Mads Mikkelsen has two very similarly chilly films — "Polar" and "Arctic" — coming out within a week of each other isn’t a fact that's lost on him. "They're polar opposites," he says (get it), as soon as we broach the subject. January 29, 2019 at 09:19PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2HFZgiA

I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped

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I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped For those of us living with severe mental illness, the world is full of cages. January 29, 2019 at 08:58PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2Gat3gU

The Crushing Logistics of Raising a Family Paycheck to Paycheck

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The Crushing Logistics of Raising a Family Paycheck to Paycheck Stephanie Land’s new memoir sheds light on the grueling work — and the bureaucratic complications — of being a maid and a single mother. January 29, 2019 at 08:38PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2Ba5OjI

Meet the 'cleanfluencers'

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Meet the 'cleanfluencers' Marie Kondo may be the biggest name in decluttering, but Instagram is awash with cleaning experts with millions of followers January 29, 2019 at 08:29PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2G01nMC

The Futuristic Art Of NASA

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The Futuristic Art Of NASA In 1975, scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, dreamt up ideas for habitats that could house human civilization in space. Rick Guidice was a freelance illustrator with a background in architecture when NASA tasked him with creating the artistic renderings. January 29, 2019 at 07:28PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2FXx35k

My Crazy Kurdistan Road Trip

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My Crazy Kurdistan Road Trip The Kurdish region of Iraq is home to spectacular peaks, wild rivers, and fiercely hospitable people, and it could be the Middle East’s next big adventure tourism destination. But there’s one small catch: it’s still dangerous as hell. January 29, 2019 at 07:08PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2Uv9Iv7

The Fine Art Of Choking Out Another Human Being

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The Fine Art Of Choking Out Another Human Being Toward a deeper understanding of the chokehold, one of nature's most miraculous multipurpose moves. January 29, 2019 at 07:03PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2TpwVyI

The Birth Of The Death Star

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The Birth Of The Death Star The artist behind some of Star Wars' most iconic imagery claimed he wasn’t even a sci-fi fan. But his work shaped how we’d envision space travel forever after. January 29, 2019 at 06:53PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2RUfklN

Neuroscientists Translate Brain Waves Into Recognizable Speech

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Neuroscientists Translate Brain Waves Into Recognizable Speech January 29, 2019 at 06:48PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2UkQrwe

The All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele

The All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele How do you top a movie that shook Hollywood? The auteur behind "Get Out" has a simple plan: Scare the hell out of you January 29, 2019 at 06:43PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2HFOitq

I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything

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I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything In some cases, the Google block means apps won't work at all, like Lyft and Uber, or Spotify, whose music is hosted in Google Cloud. The more frequent effect of the Google block though is that the internet itself slows down dramatically for me. January 29, 2019 at 06:43PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2Sct8at

Seeking Superpowers in the Axolotl Genome

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Seeking Superpowers in the Axolotl Genome The smiling salamanders can regrow most of their body parts, so researchers are building improved maps of their DNA. January 29, 2019 at 06:18PM Continue: https://nyti.ms/2Utiytf

A Security Company Cashed In on America’s Wars—And Then Disappeared

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A Security Company Cashed In on America’s Wars—And Then Disappeared Sabre International Security employed guards for the Canadian embassy in Kabul. When a bombing left many of them dead or wounded, the company vanished. January 29, 2019 at 05:43PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2MJ0rwQ

“Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media

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“Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media Laid-off journalists and their supporters have seen their Twitter mentions littered with a phrase that some are suggesting is part of a targeted anti-media harassment campaign. What does it all mean? January 29, 2019 at 05:08PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2G6BNEU

Tesla Driver Takes A Full-On Nap In The Middle Of A Drive

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Tesla Driver Takes A Full-On Nap In The Middle Of A Drive Tesla's Autopilot is impressive technology, but it is not meant to be used as a fully autonomous driving system. Guess nobody told this guy. January 29, 2019 at 04:23PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2GauVpV

The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game

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The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game. January 29, 2019 at 04:09PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2DHQ9tR

This is what I’m teaching my kids about money (that I learned the hard way)

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This is what I’m teaching my kids about money (that I learned the hard way) We talked to parents who are discussing personal finances with their children–and doing it differently than their own parents did. January 29, 2019 at 03:53PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2UoYWpV

You Can't Touch Tom Brady

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You Can't Touch Tom Brady Through a variety of quick throws and a complex running scheme, the Patriots have neutralized opposing pass rushes and kept the GOAT upright. Will that bring New England yet another Lombardi Trophy, or can Aaron Donald and Co. break through? January 29, 2019 at 03:23PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2sUPHlM

The Inescapable Aura Of Maggie Rogers

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The Inescapable Aura Of Maggie Rogers With her debut album "Heard It in a Past Life," the 24-year-old NYU grad is making good on her once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and asserting herself as a bold young artist. January 29, 2019 at 03:13PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2G8jP4Q

America's Love Affair With Cheap Drugs Has A Hidden Cost

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America's Love Affair With Cheap Drugs Has A Hidden Cost Data, documents and interviews show how a focus on cutting prices has come with risks to consumer health. January 29, 2019 at 03:07PM Continue: https://bloom.bg/2Wuzz7V

Jimmy Fallon And Shaq Play A Weirdo Game That Involves Shrek And Abe Lincoln

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Jimmy Fallon And Shaq Play A Weirdo Game That Involves Shrek And Abe Lincoln "What's Behind Me?" is basically the "Tonight Show" version of taboo, except all the prompts are real. Because, you know, network TV budgets. January 29, 2019 at 02:58PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=hcGr9md20tY

The Coder Who Became A Crime Boss

The Coder Who Became A Crime Boss January 29, 2019 at 02:54PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2G6eZVO

How Toxic Masculinity Threatens Peace In Afghanistan

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How Toxic Masculinity Threatens Peace In Afghanistan The US and the Taliban are approaching a peace deal. But a new survey suggests a key component of national security is getting worse. January 29, 2019 at 02:48PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2Urwe84

Can Technology Help Fix the Housing Market?

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Can Technology Help Fix the Housing Market? A lot of start-ups have promising ideas, but the fundamental problem of affordability seems beyond their reach. January 29, 2019 at 02:43PM Continue: https://nyti.ms/2sUNCpY

We No Longer Have Any Idea What Apple Is Doing

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We No Longer Have Any Idea What Apple Is Doing Today, Apple will report its first-quarter earnings—its fiscal year starts in October—and, for the first time in years, it will not report how many units it has shipped of each of its main products. January 29, 2019 at 02:43PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2B9yl9b

How Dirty Air Could Be Affecting Our Gut Health

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How Dirty Air Could Be Affecting Our Gut Health As countries industrialize, their air becomes dirtier — and this could have some far-reaching effects on the beneficial bacteria inside us. January 29, 2019 at 02:38PM Continue: https://bbc.in/2MDzoTw

Why I Had My Teeth Filed Into Fangs

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Why I Had My Teeth Filed Into Fangs Dazed talk to London-based filmmaker Tessa Edwards about big canines and obscure beauty trends. January 29, 2019 at 02:28PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2ScpsW5

How Florence Knoll invented the modern office

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How Florence Knoll invented the modern office Knoll, who passed away on Friday, was a brilliant architect who popularized modernism in America. Even 60 years later, her work has a contemporary sheen. January 29, 2019 at 02:23PM Continue: http://bit.ly/2B6eqbe

Oblivious Tourist In Australia Picks Up One Of The World's Most Venomous Animals

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Oblivious Tourist In Australia Picks Up One Of The World's Most Venomous Animals Australia's blue-ringed octopus is quite pretty — and also carries enough venom to kill 26 people in minutes. January 29, 2019 at 02:04PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=NAmTTCV7GyY