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Everyone loves Liam Neeson. The iconic star of Taken has spawned a thousand memes of the man on a phone, threatening God-knows-who with his very specific set of skills. Neeson has had a storied career in Hollywood, going from Schindler's List to The Grey, an existential movie about grief which…
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Old Man Jenkins is one of Spongebob Squarepants' most elusive and enigmatic characters. The old fish pops up in Spongebob episodes every now and again, but he never quite looks the same. We've seen him looking fat, thin, green, blue, bearded and bespectacled. He's just so... mysterious. ALL of these…
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Our Earth is a scarred and beaten rock, a wounded place embedded with monuments to civilisations past that we can hardly fathom. Imagine if Egyptian civilization had been wiped off the map, and the Pyramids of Giza were left standing, with no records or context as to how they were…
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It's common to see heartwarming stories about children sending letters to NASA go viral. However, what about heartbreaking responses from NASA? It's one thing for young boys today to aspire to work for the space tech industry, but for a young girl 55 years ago, the situation was not so…
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Regardless of where you stand on the iOS vs. Android debate, we're all at least a little intrigued whenever Apple brings out a new iPhone. Apple really set the bar for smartphones when in 2007, the late Steve Jobs and his veritable dream team unveiled the iPhone. The now-fabled smartphone…
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It seems that a singularity of some sort is rapidly approaching. Apple seeks to make face-scanning technology a standard element of every iPhone, artificial intelligence can tell whether you're gay or straight from a single photo of your face, and now it can also tell whether you're a conservative or…
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If you're reading this article, it's fair to say you're pretty-well versed with the English language. In the same vein, you'll also be quite aware of how much you take that gift for granted. Take a trip to nations around the world and you'll soon find that not only do…
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Whenever someone I know gets a new tattoo, my response is invariably the same; I tell them I think it looks brilliant. Regardless of my true feelings, I simply cannot bear to be the one to inform someone that they have just made a decidedly permanent mistake, and so smile…
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In my world, a crying baby is never a good thing. In fact, there are few sets of circumstances that are worse than a wriggling, bawling miniature person who I could bathe, feed and burp but still remains intent on shrieking till daybreak. What can I say? I’m an eight-hours-sleep-a-night…
