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Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating.

John Cleese on creativity.

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it rocks

If you want to hear the rock solidest, rock steadiest, rock of Gibralterist rock drumming that's ever been rocked in the history of rock, then you want to hear this.

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A Strange Light In The Sky

In the wee morning hours of September 20th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill drove down New Hampshire's Route 3, through the Franconia Notch, and into the UFO history books. Five years later, John G....

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It's good to be curious

Garden of Your Mind: Mister Rogers Remixed

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The "Unstoppable Gay Jew"

In 1971, "decades before any state had seriously considered legalizing gay marriage, long before anyone had thought of creating—never mind repealing—a policy called "Don't Ask Don't Tell," before...

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Otzi was More Neanderthal than You

Ötzi the Iceman died around 3,300 B.C., yet his body was preserved frozen in the Alps until 1991. DNA sequencing of Neandertals (who died out about 35,000 years ago) suggests modern humans with...

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Sex, Drugs, Murder and Media: John McAfee's Golden Years

John McAfee [recent previously], eccentric Silicon Valley mogul and creator of a McAfee antivirus software, lowered his taxes by relocating to Belize a few years ago. But his expatriate neighbor...

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Shit. What? Rollers. No. Yeah. Shit.

The pitch was simple: "John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?" But the film became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the...

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Noisey British Masters

Noisey's feature British Masters features interviews by John Doran with Bryan Ferry, Luke Haines, Gary Newman, and Johnny Marr, thus far.

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A relentless curiosity and desire to move beyond

The World According to John Coltrane is a one-hour documentary, featuring lots of music footage and interviews with prominent jazz musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Tommy Flanagan and many others. It's...

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"This is historic legislation, and it's time to right this wrong."

Yesterday, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed Senate Bill 97, the Scottsboro Boys Act allowing for posthumous pardons. Bentley has said he wanted to close a chapter of state history. The...

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"The story of Grizzly Adams is big and powerful. Beautiful!"

"Now, my friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit, so he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he ever knew." In 1977, three years after the popular movie The Life...

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If you're 50, please, buy a painting.

John Waters: Subversive SuccessWhen I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you're a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin' down MasterCard. But there's no...

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honoring the men and women whose photographs helped shape his career

MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH: HOMAGE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC MASTERS by Sandro

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Stink-eye? Or bored-eye? More like bird-eye: the shoebill's steady gaze

"A few days ago, my son, Lucas, and I took the train to Prague for his school break. Usually, when I visit a city, my first port of call is whatever passes for a botanical garden but when he told me...

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US v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling

"The CIA would have [given] Iran the actual [nuclear bomb] already constructed for them, but didn't because it wouldn't have been credible for their Russian to have it."Operation Merlin was a CIA...

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Diary Of A B Grade Hooker

Kinja user "Curious Squid" is an Australian woman who moonlights as a prostitute. She keeps a diary of her life as a sex worker, writing about the banal (arranging jobs) to the very interesting...

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Trans 101

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Transgender Rights is your new go-to on transgender 101. (SLYouTube)

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"Doctor Smith, please! You're making The Robot very unhappy!"

In September, sci-fi master Irwin Allen's 1965 cult TV classic, Lost In Spacemarked its 50th anniversary. Now, Netflix has won a bidding war to remake the series. Meanwhile... Lost in Space ran for...

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Thirty-five years ago, during the Dolphins vs Patriots MNF game,

Howard breaks the news --The behind-the scene debate about how to present the matter. Following the game, Ted Koppel did a special Nightline report.(slyt) The following night, ABC devoted a special...

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