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This Lady Thinks the Centre of the Earth Is Hollow and Full of Alien Humanoids
Dear Earth, are there aliens in the centre of you? via Flickr Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned conspiracy theory? I’m not talking about boring shit like shadow governments or Bigfoot. I’m talking...
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Here Be Dragons: Old People Need to Stop Telling Us That the Internet Is...
Baroness Susan Greenfield. (Photo via) Baroness Susan Greenfield, a controversial neuroscientist, has an idea. It’s been hard to pin down exactly what that idea is, because rather than publishing a...
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Gavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: Don't Worry Britain, Murray's Victory Means...
The 1967 devaluation of the pound. The Suez Crisis. Nick Leeson. The collapse of British Leyland. The end of the Raj. The decline of the Liverpool docks. The Winter Of Discontent. All these national...
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The Egyptian Army Massacred 51 Pro-Morsi Supporters
The Egyptian army gunned down more than 50 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi early Monday morning in Cairo. More than 300 people sustained injuries as well, in the latest, bloodiest and...
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Bitches Be Writing: A History
1775–1817: Jane Austen The first important modern writer with a vagina emerged out of nowhere, with an exaggerated, hyperbolic diary she called Pride and Prejudice, written when she was just 21 years...
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Was Morsi's Overthrow a Military Coup? - Don't Ask Wikipedia
Early last week – before many major news outlets caught whiff of the scent – a few people set to work on a Wikipedia page now titled “2013 Egyptian coup d’état”. Three days later, as millions of...
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Bad Cop Blotter: The Police Can Legally Kick You out of Your Home
A SWAT training session. Photo via Flickr user Joe 13 Police officers are accused of violating the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments all the time, but even the most ardent civil libertarians...
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The Day Saddam's Palace Turned into a US Soldiers' Leisure Resort
The author sitting by the pool at Saddam Hussein's palace. Baghdad, July 15, 2003 – As far as I was concerned, the war was over. The President said so and we weren’t shooting anyone; we were just...
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The Cowboy Cops of Kern County, California and the Not-So-Accidental Death of...
Thumbnail photo on homepage by Flickr user JulieJordanScott The cover photo on the Kern County Sheriff Department's website is of Sheriff Donny Youngblood riding a chestnut horse and wearing a big...
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The ‘LBM Dispatch’ Brings the Good News
Boulder, Colo. — The specter of John Denver dogged the preparations for our Colorado trip, but I was hoping like hell we would be able to avoid both his music and his legacy. This, however, turned out...
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Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
Sumba is an island the size of Jamaica in the Indonesian archipelago that has been cut off from the rest of the world for so long that its ancient animistic traditions survive to this day. It is the...
View ArticleYour Twitter Behaviour Is More Predictable Than a Bot's
Your Twitter Behaviour Is More Predictable Than a Bot's
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Hashish Could Be Killing the Babies of Afghanistan's Carpet Loomers
Like most women in Afghanistan’s Qalizal District, Bebehaja’s life is told on the strings of a carpet loom. It’s a vocational inheritance of women of Turkmen heritage, who begin as early as seven and...
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Simon Mason Was the Britpop Aristocracy's Drug Dealer
Simon with friend and boombox, pre-crack cocaine in LA, 1988. Simon Mason was a remarkable drug dealer. We first met in the mid 90s when, if you moved in certain, soon-to-be-diminishing circles, it...
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Partying in a 14th-Century Czech Castle
A few weekend’s ago was the summer solstice – high time to shed your seasonal depression and leave the apartment – so I journeyed forth to attend Silver Rocket Summa Summa, an annual music event...
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Why is Google Raising Cash for America's Biggest Climate Change Denier?
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