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"Robert Irwin making his father proud."
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"Dearest American friends, this is what a public toilet should look like, love from Europe"
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"President Obama and Anthony Bourdain enjoy dinner and a beer"
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"I hate Trump just as much as you, but picking your images to sell a story is basic manipulation."
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"Police pointed revolver towards journalists after kicking a citizen"
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"Adrian Shine, the head of the Loch Ness Monster discovery project, looks exactly as you'd expect"
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"Majestic"
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"My cousin the kayaker took the best pic of Dubai that I have ever seen."
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"My grandmother on her 100th birthday"
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"A movement we can all get behind."
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"Today's world is sad and cruel. Let's make it a better place. Here's a heart for ya."
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"One month ago I challenged one of my campers who had just been diagnosed with dyslexia. I told her that if she could read 10 chapter books in the month of July, I would let her choose any color she wanted to dye my hair. Well she finished her challenge and alas I now have pink hair."
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"Michael and Barbara Shetterly listen to their son, who overdosed Opiod, heart beating inside Basdon"
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"Imagine having this incredible waterfall at the end of your street"
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"I just painted a John Lewis street art mural in Denver Colorado"
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"Guy Whidden, a WWII vet who got a mohawk the day before D-Day, is doing it again to spread cheer"
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"Tenacious D at the White House today."
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"My mom has 5 sets of china (don't ask) and put them in her pool prior to being evacuated from fires in northern California. The dishware survived!"
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"Local KFC got pulled down a few years back, owner kept the old bucket and put it on his property near the highway. Was foggy a few days ago and was able to catch this"
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"My Halloween costume"
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"Pilot celebrates at her graduation as the first black female tactical jet pilot in US Navy history."
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"My first day of kindergarten 30 years apart."
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"I just had my leg amputated recently and I had an anonymous person send me this bear. I didn’t even notice the fact that whoever sent the bear, made it just like me. This picture was taken after I had washed my face because I was sobbing. Shit like this make my day. Thank anon❤️"
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"This is a drawing. It took me over half of June, most of which were ridiculously frustrating days, but I'm so happy to say it's finally done. Charcoal and graphite."
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"Physicist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76"
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"The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics. The supermassive beast lies in a galaxy called M87 more than 50 million light-years away"
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"Since legalizing cannabis in 2012, crime clearance rates are increasing faster in Washington and Colorado than the rest of country, suggesting that legalization may free police to focus on more serious crimes."
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"Raising the taxes of graduate students by as much as 300% will be a disaster for the USA"
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"Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19"
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"No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour - Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent."
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"LED lights found to kill coronavirus efficiently, quickly, and cheaply, a global first in fight against COVID-19. The finding suggests the UV-LEDs can be installed in air conditioning and water systems. It requires less than half a minute to destroy more than 99.9% of coronaviruses."
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"Wealthy, successful people from privileged backgrounds often misrepresent their origins as working-class in order to tell a ‘rags to riches’ story resulting from hard work and perseverance, rather than social position and intergenerational wealth."
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"New study finds that most redditors don’t actually read the articles they vote on."
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"Casual sex among young adults has declined due to decline in drinking, an increase in computer gaming, and more young adults living with their parents."
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"Scientists believe that the function of zebras' stripes are to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on cows. They found that it reduced the number of biting flies landing on the cows by more than 50%."
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"In the US, states typically pay for prison while counties determine sentencing. A natural experiment whereby the cost burden of juvenile incarceration was placed on counties led to a stark drop in incarceration. This suggests that mass incarceration in the US is in part due to misaligned incentives."
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"Korean scientists developed a technique for diagnosing prostate cancer from urine within only 20 minutes with almost 100% accuracy, using AI and a biosensor, without the need for an invasive biopsy. It may be further utilized in the precise diagnoses of other cancers using a urine test."
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"Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out, according to a new study, which suggests that parents are happier than non-parents later in life, when their children move out and become sources of social enjoyment rather than stress (n=55,000)."
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"Scientists find new evidence linking essential oils to seizures: Analyzing 350 seizure cases, researchers found that 15.7% of seizures may have been induced by inhalation, ingestion or topical use of essential oils. After stopping use of oils, the vast majority did not experience another seizure."
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"Woman with ‘mutant’ gene who feels no pain and heals without scarring discovered by scientists. She reported numerous burns and cuts without pain, often smelling her burning flesh before noticing any injury, as published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, and could open door to new treatments."
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"The first human trial of a COVID-19 vaccine finds that it is safe, well-tolerated, and induces a rapid immune response: “These results represent an important milestone.”"
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"Scientists replaced 40 percent of cement with rice husk cinder, limestone crushing waste, and silica sand, giving concrete a rubber-like quality, six to nine times more crack-resistant than regular concrete. It self-seals, replaces cement with plentiful waste products, and should be cheaper to use."
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"A new study in The Lancet by a team of Yale epidemiologists finds that Medicare for All would save more than 68,000 lives annually as well as $450 billion in cost"
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"MMR vaccine does not cause autism, another study confirms"
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"A quarter of all known bee species haven't been seen since the 1990s"
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"Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees, discovers new study, which found a tree stump that should have died is being kept alive by neighbouring trees through an interconnected root system, which may change our view from trees as individuals to forests as ‘superorganisms’."
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"One in five adults don’t want children — and they’re deciding early in life"
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"Research finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals."
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"Healthy obesity doesn’t exist; obesity is not a benign condition - new study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, show."
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"Venom from honeybees has been found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, finds new Australian research. The study also found when the venom's main component was combined with existing chemotherapy drugs, it was extremely efficient at reducing tumour growth in mice."
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"Marijuana use among college students has been trending upward for years, but in states that have legalized recreational marijuana, use has jumped even higher. After legalization, however, students showed a greater drop in binge drinking than their peers in states where marijuana is not legal."
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"US states that rely on private prisons incarcerate more people for longer periods of time, according to a first-of-its-kind study that establishes a causal connection between private prisons and incarceration."
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"Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades"
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"mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours"
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"The first severe COVID-19 patient successfully treated with human recombinant soluble ACE2 (hrsACE2), with disappearance of coronavirus swiftly from the serum, nasal cavity and lungs, and a reduction of inflammatory cytokine levels, leading to a significant clinical improvement."
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"In Seattle, Washington, delaying the start time of two high schools by nearly an hour lengthened students' daily sleep by more than half an hour, and was associated with reduced sleepiness and increased academic performance."
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"Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools."
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"Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park, suggests a new study based on game theory, which found that even when you factor in electricity, depreciation, wear and tear, and maintenance, cruising costs about 50 cents an hour, which is still cheaper than parking even in a small town."
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"The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins."
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"U.S. adults look to scientific organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rather than their president, to lead the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic"
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"Two thirds of New Zealanders believed there were ‘silver linings’ to the country’s COVID-19 lockdown last year, positive experiences such as pride in the country’s response, more free time to exercise and take up hobbies, flexibility working from home, and reduced time spent commuting."
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"Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts and memories which enter conscious awareness when individuals confront reminders. Sleep-deprived people experienced significantly more intrusions and unsuccessful suppressions of unwanted thoughts."
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"Paleontologists have dug up a 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton that looks like it was butchered by humans. But they found it in America, where people were not supposed to have arrived for another 100,000 years. Findings could upend our understanding of human history."
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"Women overestimate men's attraction to thin female fashion models, study finds"
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"5- to 9-year-old children chose to save multiple dogs over 1 human, and valued the life of a dog as much as a human. By contrast, almost all adults chose to save 1 human over even 100 dogs. The view that humans are morally more important than animals appears later and may be socially acquired."
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"Water has been definitively found on the Moon, Nasa has said"
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"Industrial methane emissions are 100 times higher than reported, and have been vastly underestimated, finds a new study using a Google Street View car equipped with a high-precision methane sensor. They also were substantially higher than the EPA estimate for all industrial processes in the US."
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"Study: When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children. The findings contradict a common argument in the U.S. that poor parents cannot be trusted to receive cash to use however they want."
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"Babies, even when hungry, are willing to give a tasty snack to a stranger in need, new study shows. The findings demonstrate that altruism (the act of giving away something desirable, even at a cost to oneself) begins in infancy and suggest that early social experiences can shape altruism."
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"Human 'microevolution' sees more people born without wisdom teeth and an extra artery"
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"Children as young as age 4 express dislike of and are willing to punish those who freeload off the work of other group members, a new study has found. But kids also make a clear distinction between those who freeload intentionally and those who have good reasons why they can’t contribute."
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"Seven Earth-sized planets found orbiting an ultracool dwarf star are strong candidates in the search for life outside our solar system."
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"The Netflix show "13 Reasons Why" was associated with a 28.9% increase in suicide rates among U.S. youth ages 10-17 in the month (April 2017) following the shows release, after accounting for ongoing trends in suicide rates, according to a study."
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"In 2017, the Trump Administration restored local law enforcement access to military weapons and surplus military equipment that had been prohibited by the Obama Administration. New research shows that this militarization of local law enforcement does not actually reduce crime."
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"Every dollar spent on high-quality, early-childhood programs for disadvantaged children returned $7.3 over the long-term. The programs lead to reductions in taxpayer costs associated with crime, unemployment and healthcare, as well as contribute to a better-prepared workforce."
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"Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on the planet: 4.5 trillion are littered each year. New research shows that they severely impact plant growth. The presence of cigarette butts reduced root biomass by 57%; germination success by 27%; and shoot length by 28%."
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"Rising income inequality is not an inevitable outcome of technological progress, but rather the result of policy decisions to weaken unions and dismantle social safety nets, suggests a new study of 14 high-income countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK and the US."
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"The "natural experiment" caused by the shutdown of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 2-h shift in the sleep of developing adolescents, longer sleep duration, improved sleep quality, and less daytime sleepiness compared to those experienced under the regular school-time schedule"
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"Students whose sex ed programs teach abstinence as the only way to protect sexual health have less favorable attitudes toward condoms and are more likely to have unprotected sex than students who learn safe sexual practices. Abstinence-only sex education programs do not stop minors from having sex."
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"Utah's DWR was hearing that hunters weren't finding elk during hunting season. They also heard from private landowners that elk were eating them out of house and home. So they commissioned a study. Turns out the elk were leaving public lands when hunting season started and hiding on private land."
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"Store-bought tomatoes taste bland, and scientists have discovered a gene that gives tomatoes their flavor is actually missing in about 93 percent of modern, domesticated varieties. The discovery may help bring flavor back to tomatoes you can pick up in the produce section."
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"Large U.S. study finds that marijuana laws (both recreational & medical) appear to significantly reduce prescription opioid use."
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" World's most prestigious scientific publications issue unprecedented critiques of the Trump administration"
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"The rise of comedy-news programs, like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert or John Oliver, may actually help inform the public. A new neuroimaging study using fMRI suggests that humor might make news and politics more socially relevant, and therefore motivate people to remember it and share it."
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"Elite philanthropy mainly self-serving - Philanthropy among the elite class in the United States and the United Kingdom does more to create goodwill for the super-wealthy than to alleviate social ills for the poor, according to a new meta-analysis."
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"In 2012, the Obama administration required airlines to show all mandatory fees and taxes in their advertised fares to consumers upfront. This was a massive win for consumers, as airlines were no longer able to pass a large share of the taxes onto consumers. Airlines subsequently lost revenue."
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"In states where recreational marijuana has been legalized, marijuana use among youth may actually be falling, suggests a new study of 1.4 million high school students. This may be because drug dealers are replaced by licensed dispensaries that require proof of age."
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"Science Ama Series: I am Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA!"
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"‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star"
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"Cannabis use does not increase actual creativity but does increase how creative you think you are, study finds"
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"Supervisors with ‘bottom-line mentality’ driven by profits to the exclusion of caring about other outcomes, like employee well-being, environment or ethics, could be hurting their bottom lines by losing the respect of their employees, who counter by withholding performance, according to a new study."
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"New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression"
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"Sleeping less than the recommended eight hours a night is associated with intrusive, repetitive thoughts like those seen in anxiety or depression, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York."
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"Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud - Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more susceptible to “cooking the books” than smaller, struggling companies. This type of elite, white-collar crime is understudied especially when compared with street crime."
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"Cannabis use in pregnancy: Researchers discover that continued use of cannabis at 15 weeks of pregnancy was associated with significantly lower birthweight, head circumference, birth length, and gestational age at birth, as well as with more frequent severe neonatal morbidity or death."
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"Small blobs of human brain grown in a dish have been coaxed into forming rudimentary eyes, which respond to light by sending signals to the rest of the brain tissue."
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"From 2007 to 2017, the number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 increased 56 percent"
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"Pablo Escobar's hippos have become an invasive species in Colombia"
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"Democratic governors who win office by thin margins lock more people up and spend more money on jails and prisons than their Republican counterparts, according to new research, a finding that exposes some Democrats’ “complicity” in the rapid growth of institutions designed to punish criminals."
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"Breast cancer linked to permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners in study of almost 50,000 women"
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