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December 2011
11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard →
Kara Kovalchik, mentalfloss.com
Who knew that some noises could eventually become as extinct as the passenger pigeon? Depending on your age, you or your kids or grandchildren may have only heard some of the following sounds in old movies, if at all. 1. Rotary Dial…
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Longform: Best of 2011 →
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Our second annual Best Of list is here.
The top 20 stories of the year, plus best lists on Arts & Culture, Crime, Essays, Media, Money, Politics, Science, Sex, Sports, Tech, and War
“your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
– chuck palahniuk
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“I know that municipal libraries are feeling the pinch horribly. Feeling the...”
– A London secret shared « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
I love Stephen Fry. Really.
“From the National Archives’ Text Message blog, the following letter...”
– ‘Your Father Will Not Be Home for Christmas’: Letter to 6-Year-Old, 1969 - Brian Resnick - National - The Atlantic
“How do the zookeepers know the couple wanted to adopt?
The male penguins, named...”
– The ‘adorable’ gay penguins who adopted a baby chick - The Week
“Thirty-one years ago today, John Lennon was shot to death in front of The Dakota...”
– John Lennon Death Anniversary Advice From John Fugelsang: Don’t Say The Killer’s Name (VIDEO)
“The Danish study that yielded this stat suggests that the caffeine in cola...”
– Can Food Make You Infertile? Foods to Eat and Avoid - The Daily Beast
Unethically, Technically
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Pelosi says she’s got dirt on Newt that she learned about him while on an ethics committee investigation, and that she’ll release it when the time is right.
Newt says that exposing that information would violate the rules of the House of Representatives, and that it would “totally abuse the ethics process.”
Everything you hate about U.S. Politics in two easy sentences!
What Happened To Mitrice Richardson? - Features... →
A recent college graduate, she was jailed briefly for trying to skip out on her dinner tab in Malibu, then freed in the middle of the night in a neighborhood far from home. She had no car, no ride,…