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We've all had one of those days. You know, the ones where you got up late because you couldn't sleep last night, you're horrendously behind schedule for work, the phone's ringing off the hook with calls from your boss who already hates you, your car has broken down, your kid…
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If you're someone who leeches off a friend's Netflix account by using their login but not actually paying anything (no judgements here), you might want to think again about what you're doing. A recent poll found that 12 per cent of Netflix users do not pay for the service, which…
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Even if you've never tried the stuff, decades worth of TV shows and movies teach you that when you smoke weed, a goofy kind of expression appears on your face, you suddenly become fascinated by the design of the paperclip, and you get the munchies. Yes, an image of someone…
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Despite the incredibly advanced technology and sleek design we have these days, there are some things that have slipped through the net when it comes to design standards. Whether it's badly designed interiors (why are public bathrooms always so horrid?) or signs that have received a misfortunate grammatical treatment, 2018…
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If there's one thing that's made life infinitely easier for us all, it's Google Maps. Seriously, I don't know how people managed without it before it was invented, and yet the concept is so audacious that even now I can't quite believe it. How much do you really marvel at…
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CORRECTION: On 5th July, we published this story suggesting that a 17-year-old girl was being trained by NASA to travel to Mars. This story was published in error, and it has since been reported by The Weekly Standard that the girl in question, is not, in fact, affiliated with NASA,…
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In this techno-centric age, everyone knows that a person's worth is only really decided by how many friends they have on Facebook. Gone are the days in which we assessed people on their happiness or kindness or success (though, let's be real, those days never really happened, did they?) and here…
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Time marches on, and technology keeps advancing. Hundreds of years ago, it wasn't easy to share a cool selfie with your friends. You had to hire an artist to paint you, wait for him to make copies, and send them out to be delivered by the Pony Express. Then you…
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Earth seems pretty big to us, but compared to the size of the universe, it's just a pebble in the ocean - or, perhaps, the size of an atom of a pebble in the ocean. Space has always fascinated humans, inspiring countless science fiction stories and fantasies about becoming an…
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Several centuries ago, the population of Europe was decimated when a disease known as "The Great Plague" or "The Black Death" swept across the continent, killing tens of millions and leaving a tragic mark on the pages of history. Since then, few other pandemics have come even close to causing…
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In 2015, a woman in France became the first person to be legally recognised as having a WiFi allergy. Marine Richard, who was 39 years old at the time, was awarded £500 ($669) disability allowance each month after arguing in court that her impairment prevented her from being able to…
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For over half a century, Area 51 has been regarded with suspicion by almost all those who have heard of it. And that's no surprise, seeing as the US government still haven't told us very much about the site - nor have they always been incredibly forthright in dispelling the various…
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Recently, a large number of people have made the decision to quit Facebook, and this measure hasn't come out of the blue. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, more and more social media users have become suspicious of the way Silicon Valley exploits their personal data; particularly when it…
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For over 50 years, NASA has been engaged in the search for answers to the ultimate questions. You know, all that Star Trek stuff. Are there aliens out there on other planets? Where did life on Earth originally come from? What is humanity's place in the cosmos? But so far,…
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When you're a child dreaming of what it would be like to be an astronaut, there are a multitude of questions that run through your head: What is it really like to float in space? Are there aliens out there? And, of course, how would I be able to do…
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Over the past century or so, humankind has made leaps and bounds in the field of medicine. Our understanding of illnesses has vastly improved, infant mortality rates are the lowest they've ever been, and life expectancy has increased overall worldwide. And yet, that doesn't mean we are completely invulnerable to…
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As much as we may like to complain about it sometimes, social media is a very useful thing. It allows us to keep in touch with our friends, stay up to date with events or shows we may be interested in going along to or following along with, and -…
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For decades, the dream of NASA scientists, and other space agencies around the world, has been to find some trace of life on Mars. The red planet is the Earth's closest neighbour, and the one body in the Solar System most likely to be capable of supporting life, other than…
