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Two adjacent parking spots in Boston are auctioned for more than half a million dollars, almost double the average price of a home in the region.
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There are famlies starving in the United States - in any country, this is immoral. If this is capitalism, I despise it.
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A vast, secret underground complex for undocumented migrant workers - complete with a canteen, movie theater and chicken coop - was discovered beneath a Moscow street, police in Russia said Wednesday.
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Yet again, man's inhumanity to man
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Language used by children in a BBC Radio 2 short-story competition has been put into a database, offering an insight into how they think.
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This is fascinating research - how the future language of Britain is being incubated, how children use langu now, and all based on a real-life dataset of 40 million words, so we can infer some credibility.
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The Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Southern California presents Derek Paravicini
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A Christian evangelical movement where followers avoid contraception and have as many children as they can is spreading to the UK.
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Children as arrows of war? Can you think of anything more objectionable?
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US President Obama says the UK should try to "fix" its relationship with the EU before "breaking it off" after White House talks with David Cameron.
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"....you probably want to see if you can fix what is broken in a very important relationship before you break it off." Pretty hard to dismantle that logic
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Elite institutions will team up with the Open University to offer free internet courses through FutureLearn, a new company that will rival US programmes Coursera and edX
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The rise of MOOCS - the democratisation of learning? A Fascinating trend...
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A teenager from London wins a $100,000 fellowship from one of the original Facebook investors and the man behind PayPal.
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i worked for 5 years before uni - wish someone had paid me $100k not to go for 2 years...
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Just thought I would flag these people up again. A great initiative.
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Equalities minister Jo Swinson praises staff at a Glasgow hospital for "keeping her alive" after an allergic reaction to a biscuit.
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It is great that she had instant access to evidence-based medicine through the National Health Service - one of the real Jewels in the British crown. Thank goodness she did not have to rely on something useless like homeopathy, which has led to so many people in the Indian subcontinent dying because it is completely ineffective.
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Great sales bollocks: "As anyone who has ever birthed something from the ground up knows, things have the tendency to take on lives of their own. Inspiration becomes the compass that sets the direction we follow."
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#WeWillGather allows you to join or start a good thing in your area and help the local community with everything from fundraising to volunteer work.
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Here's a great community action approach, using Twitter and Facebook to coordinate meetings and actions.
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SAN DIEGO — A veteran teacher at a Catholic school has lost her job because school officials are worried her ex-husband, now serving a jail sentence for domestic abuse and stalking, will pose a danger to students and teachers when he is released.
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The total moral bankruptcy of today's Roman Catholicism. "Please understand that this was a very difficult decision to make, and we are deeply, deeply sorry about this situation," the diocese's director of schools wrote. "We will continue to pray for you and your family."
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Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what happens next
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Ethics above personal safety: The PRISM whistleblower
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Patrick Stewart isn't only a Starfleet captain. He's also a friggin' amazing human being.
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Worth 7.40 minutes of anybody's life...
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Researchers have for the first time unravelled the complex structure of the inner protein shell of the HIV molecule.
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Isn't science a wonderful thing? What wonderful images, and here is a clasic example of why, instead of pointless 'Praying' for a cure, we need to invest serious money in medical research.
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A north London rock band whose members all have autism are touring Spain.
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"It's not about getting the sympathy reaction, they just happen to have their disabilities which makes them interesting and quirky as an act."
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Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine
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The scandalous mendacity of the Department of Education and, in particular, Michael Gove. The man who wants to rewrite history, who wants his name in every school bible, is using PR guff from Premier Inn and UKGold as 'evidence' for his crusade. Frightening.
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“Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify...
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I came across this through a tangential link on something else I was reading. We know it exists but it is always heartsinking to discover such blatant racism. The Internet can be a very dark place indeed.
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A teenager who was diagnosed with autism and told he would never be able to read has been tipped as a future Nobel prize winner.
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John Gray revives the memory of a supernatural Walter de la Mare story to discuss materialism - the theory that only matter exists.
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Ghosts in the machine - The natural and the supernatural
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Honoring natural selection's most baffling creations. Go home, evolution, you are drunk.
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I was at Winchester Discovery Centre last night when @robinince mentioned this site. Like the site says - "Go home evolution, you're drunk!" #evolut
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