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  1. canker2323

    Board and Train

    Does anyone have experience with board and train for their dog? If so, what are your opinions? We adopted a male lab mix from the local rescue in February. We think he may have been a stray from South Carolina/Georgia. He's a year old. We just had his balls chopped off. He is insane. We've...
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    Martina Navratilova and Trans Athletes

    Not sure the title is appropriate. This is not political or religious, I think, so I put it here. Anyways, I agree with her. Transgender women should not be allowed to compete against biological women in certain sports. I'm not anti-transgender so do not take it that way...
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    The Blackest Black

    I want to get some of this stuff... https://www.sciencealert.com/this-object-has-been-sprayed-with-the-world-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out Vantablack is so dark, it's almost impossible for the human eye to perceive it - we need some order of reflected light for our brains to be...
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    Bikes instead of desks

    I find it hard to believe kids can retain what they read while riding an exercise bike. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036607/this-school-has-bikes-instead-of-desks-and-it-turns-out-thats-a-better-way-to-learn?partner=rss&WT.mc_id=CIC_TWITTER_Other_Trending_20141007_96478394_MSFT4Work&linkId=9912005
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    Smokers live longer than the obese

    http://www.news4jax.com/news/study-smoking-vs-obesity/27142620 Researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that smokers actually live longer on average, than people dealing with obesity. They compared normal weight smokers to extremely obese non-smokers and found that obesity shortens...
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    Sex Trade in Silicon Valley

    For decades, Silicon Valley has been a magnet for sex workers looking to strike gold, too. At the height of the dot-com boom in 1997, the San Jose Mercury News called the technology industry a "prime target for trafficking" because of all the "lonely single men with money to burn."...
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    Detroit street view pictures

    Site showing the decline of segments of Detroit using google and bing street views over the years. Not necessarilly "cool" but I thought it was interesting. http://goobingdetroit.tumblr.com/
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    Central Iowa Weather Sucks

    Actually, all of the midwest sucks. I put on the long johns to keep warm walking to and from the bus stops the morning.
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    Rainbow Mountains In China

    I have nothing to add just thought this was cool. Rainbow Mountains In China's Danxia Landform Geological Park Are Very, Very Real (PHOTOS)
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    Iowa makes it big on new list, ranking as 12th-fattest state

    Nice work! The Trust for America’s Health reports that 30.5 percent of Iowa adults were rated as obese last year, up from 29 percent in 2011. The data come from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because of statistical margins of error, the report’s authors said the...
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    $147 million school in Atlanta

    Nice digs. This $147 million school in Atlanta has things yours never did | www.ajc.com
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    The World's Largest Building

    The world’s new largest building is four times the size of Vatican City – Quartz China just cut the ribbon on the world’s new largest building. The New Century Global Center, which recently opened in Chendgu, China, is 328 feet high, 1,640 feet long, and 1,312 feet wide. That’s roughly...
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    Fur coat made entirely from male chest hair

    This is gross and expensive. http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/24/fur-coat-made-entirely-from-male-chest-hair-3853826/
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    Rise in House Prices

    This is interesting. I think I read somewhere that some institutional investors were doing the same thing with farmland a couple years ago. Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers - NYTimes.com Blackstone, which helped define a period of Wall Street hyperwealth, has bought some...
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    Highest Paid State Employees

    I thought this was kind of funny. http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228
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    Girls Gone Wild files for bankruptcy

    The end of an american institution... Girls Gone Wild, the softcore video empire founded by Joseph Francis, has filed for bankruptcy after accruing millions of dollars in debt, mostly to casino mogul Steve Wynn. Girls Gone Wild files for bankruptcy - Feb. 28, 2013
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    AJ McCarron Tattoo

    Anyone seen this? His girlfriend is smoking hot though. A.J. McCarron has some new tattoos that are, uh, interesting Criticizing someone's character because they have tattoos is ignorant and speaks more to the character of the one criticizing. However, criticizing a man who basically has an Ed...
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    American IQs in 1900 Averaged 67 Points

    I thought this was kind of interesting... The Flynn Effect should upend some of the smugness among those who have historically done well in global I.Q. standings. For example, while there is still a race gap, black Americans are catching up — and now do significantly better than white Americans...
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    Bagel Heads

    I don't have anything to add to this. Bagel head trend: Are saline injections Japan's most extreme beauty look yet? | Mail Online 'Oh sweet buttery bagels - I'm impressed!' he exclaims. 'I look delicious!
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    Big 10 Basketball

    Is really hard on the eyes. Mich/MSU is 44-30 with under 10 mins left. Illinoiis/MSU earlier this week was 42-41 (a top 10 team should score more than 41 pts). Minny/Nebraska is 48-42 with 6 mins left. OSU/Wiscy was 58-52 (both teams ranked). Wiscy/PSU was 52-46. I know i'm cherry picking...