This is an actual news story. In Fort Erie, Canada, a raccoon became trapped at the top of a hydro transformer pole with a mostly empty jar of peanut butter stuck on its head.

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Tonight at Forbidden Planet NYC, a megasigning with Paul Pope, Dean Haspiel, Nick Bertozzi and Chris Miskiewicz. Kicks off at 1830h -- what a lineup!

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Barstow, California, once a shining oasis along the sweltering asphalt of Route 66, is now but a relic of times nearly forgotten. A photo gallery by Charles Platt. Read the rest

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A judge in San Diego, California has determined that prosecutors have enough evidence against an alleged revenge porn site operator for him to face trial on conspiracy, identity theft and extortion charges.

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A 1-cent British Guiana stamp from 1856, once owned by a du Pont heir convicted of shooting an Olympic wrestler, may sell for $20 million at an auction taking place today. "Its first owner was a 12-year-old Scottish boy living in South America."

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Robert Scoble is not fond of "How To Anonymize Everything You Do Online", an article published today at Wired.

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Reacting to Jill Lepore's critique of American business's "gospel of disruption" comes this striking thought from Marc Andreessen: Read the rest

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Robert Short, 64, is accused of cooking meth in his apartment at a senior citizen village in Fresno, California. Cops say he sold and distributed drugs from this clever location. Action News is on it.

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Can't we all agree to leave the cats out of this conflict? More here. #catsofjihad may or may not be a real thing, and this looks to be the work of fans rather than actual fighters——but there you have it.

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This iOttie dashboard mount phone holder stays stuck! Unlike other stands, iOttie has kept my phone tumble free for months!

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“I think that geometry is the best language to describe the pulse of nature’s depths,” says artist Javier Riera. Read the rest

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Zena Holloway is best known for elegant underwater photography, and her work was recently featured in this fashion shoot for the Financial Times' lifestyle magazine, How to Spend It. Read the rest

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New York to London Milky Way, by Alessandro Merga, recently featured as NASA's Astronomy photo of the day. Read the rest

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Not all celebrities oppose vaccines and the good sense of science. At CNN.com, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has an op-ed as a spokesperson for an anti-pertussis awareness campaign organized by Sanofi Pasteur and The March of Dimes. Read the rest

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Two Long Island residents, a married couple, were cleaning a recently vacated basement apartment when one removed a couch cushion and discovered a Ball Python, shown here.

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Attorneys representing a Guantanamo detainee who was force-fed in a brutal, abusive manner have entered into evidence, as part of a lawsuit filed on the man's behalf, three videos shot by military guards at the prison. Read the rest

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The $185M Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas has a lot of positive info on the wonders of fracking, but a tiny panel explaining climate change in the original plans never made it into the joint. In fact, none of the exhibits at the Perot mention climate change -- not the display on water, not the display on weather, and certainly not the display on the miracle of shale gas.

The hall where the climate change panel was meant to hang was endowed by American oil baron Trevor Rees-Jones and bears his name. A natural gas exec on the museum's board says that climate is "too complex and fast-changing to tackle in a permanent exhibit." And the Perot is not alone: as the Dallas Morning News points out, science museums all over the USA wrestle with how to present the overwhelming scientific consensus on issues like climate and evolution. Read the rest

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The UK spy agency GCHQ says it doesn't need a warrant to intercept and store all UK social media traffic, search history and webmail because it is headed offshore, so it's "foreign communications". It had kept this interpretation of English and Welsh law a secret until now, and only revealed it after a protracted legal battle with the excellent people at Privacy International and six other civil liberties groups, including Amnesty International, and ACLU. Read the rest

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