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Reddit community helps transplant patient during winter storm
The Reddit community is powerful—even during historic blizzards. As Winter Storm Nemo found its way through the northeastern United States on Feb. 9, redditor chewy01234 discovered that his...
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Anita Sarkeesian is not stealing Kickstarter money to buy Gucci shoes
Anita Sarkeesian is the great male-gamer bogeywoman. Sarkeesian caused a mass communal bed-wetting last May when she launched a Kickstarter to fund a Web series on sexism in games. Based on the...
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Jared Polis, redditor congressman, does an AMA
Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colo.) seems tailor-made for Reddit. He's gay. He's one of just a handful in Congress to sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom. He plays computer games. And he supports...
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Harry Styles teaches Directioners about Socrates
What do you get when you cross modern philosopher Alain de Botton with one of the biggest names in pop music? 20,000 retweets and a lot of people—including One Direction heartbreaker Harry...
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Oscar Pistorius's murdered girlfriend left this haunting Valentine's Day tweet
Like most smitten girlfriends, South African model Reeva Steenkamp was eagerly anticipating Valentine's Day."What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay," the...
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A photo of Kobe Bryant has 140,000 followers on Sina Weibo
Kobe Bryant has taken a break from battling homophobes on Twitter to brave new social media shores. China's Sina Weibo, the country's most popular social network, has verified the NBA star's account....
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Will Anderson Cooper accept the crown of King Dyngus?
Anderson Cooper: CNN anchor, silver fox, and soon-to-be "Pussy Willow Prince." That’s if Eddy Dobosiewicz, the co-founder of Dyngus Day Buffalo, gets his way. For the past few years, he's tried to...
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Chechnya's president is absolutely incredible at Instagram
Snuggling with a tiger, riding all-terrain vehicles at dusk, and posing with a AK-47 are just some of the hobbies Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov enjoys, according to a conspicuous Instagram account....
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China's Uyghur minority targeted by Mac malware attacks
A Muslim minority living in China’s far west has become the target of malware attacks that take advantage of a security hole in the Mac version of Microsoft Office. Costin Raiu of computer security...
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Web star Veronica Belmont's photos used in catfishing scheme
The strange case of Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend has certainly brought a lot of awareness to the bizarre and cruel online world of "catfishing." But this kind of Internet prank victimizes more...
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Facebook threats against police landed these men a terrorism charge
Two Michigan men are in trouble with the law for comments left on Facebook that police are labeling as terrorism. On Jan. 22, Richard Walker and Brandon Davis were arrested for posing in pictures with...
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To catch a YouTube predator
On Jan. 14, a 12-year-old girl named Emily went onto her YouTube channel and revealed the details behind a frightening situation. A week before, Emily had received a message from a YouTube user named...
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What we can learn from 10,000 porn stars
.teaser img { display: none; } Like most of us, writer Jon Millward has spent the last few months thinking about porn on the internet. He's been crunching numbers taken from 10,000 profiles of porn...
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Why Tumblr just celebrated Fluffy Chicken Day
Have you ever wanted something so much you’d enlist the help of half a million people to make the wish come true? For Tumblr user thatsmoderatelyraven, a.k.a. Peyton, that desire came in the form of a...
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Okc_ebooks: Pick-up artists trying to chat up a robot horse
.teaser img { display: none; }Okc_ebooks creator Sam Kriss made a fake female profile on the dating site OkCupid, through which he responds to unsolicited messages from men with quotes from...
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Why is Facebook censoring this tattooed cancer survivor?
.teaser img { display: none; } There doesn't seem to be anything indecent about a picture showing a breast cancer survivor's tattoo covering her bare chest. But Facebook keeps pulling it, and users...
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The Tweet Hereafter: A morbid look at famous people's final tweets
In a morbid but perhaps inevitable turn, you can now browse the final tweets of the recently deceased. Set up by Michael McWatters and Jamie Forrest, The Tweet Hereafter updates regularly with the...
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Mom calls cops on teen daughter buying pot on Twitter
Tough love. A mother is pressing charges against her daughter and two other people who were buying weed publicly on Twitter. The Sandy, Utah, mom trawled her child's Twitter account and text messages...
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Tumblr collects black history facts you never learned in school
Today is February 19, which means that there are only 10 more days left in Black History Month. By now you've surely heard the facts and stories: how Frederick Douglass learned to read; how Harriet...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson was wrong about Thor's hammer, says professor
Would asteroid DA14 really leave a crater the size of Monaco if it collided with the Earth's surface? Do humans really radiate 100 watts of energy in the infrared? Did dinosaurs really predate flowers...
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