KFC blurred the slogan on old billboards and signs in a cheeky YouTube video

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Project managers have a lot of responsibility on their plate when they're hip-deep in a major project. They have to ride herd over the project, but they also need to constantly gather data, analyze the results, modify their processes, and report back on all of it to the various project stakeholders. This difficult position has [&]

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At the RNC tonight, Patricia McCloskey, who is the lady half of a notorious St. Louis couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters, says Democrats want to "abolish" the suburbs. She goes on to praise impeached U.S. President Donald Trump for pushing against "low quality apartments" and crime. They're talking about non-white people. They are [&]

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Dr. Stephen M. Hahn [@SteveFDA], is the 24th Commissioner of Food and Drugs for the @US_FDA under Donald Trump. Tonight, on Twitter, Hahn admitted he misled the public on the promise of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. "I have been criticized for remarks I made Sunday night about the benefits of convalescent plasma," he tweeted [&]

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In a staged, pre-taped meeting with frontline workers for the RNC, President Trump calls coronavirus "the China virus." "Some people may get insulted, but that's the way it is." Of course no one is wearing masks. And he can't say "plasma" correctly.

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“If you want to really drive them crazy, you say 12 more years.” — Trump

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Yesterday in Southfield, Michigan, the parents of a 20-year-old woman found their daughter at home in cardiac arrest. They called 911 and paramedics performed CPR and attempted to save her life. After 30 minutes, they pronounced her dead. The Oakland County Medical Examiner's office had the young woman moved to the James H. Cole Funeral [&]

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As of May 2018, it's federal law that all new cars and trucks in the U.S. must be equipped with  rearview monitoring technology. However, that still leaves millions and millions of vehicles produced before two years ago without rear-mounted sensors capable of telling you when you're about to back into a BMW while parking, for [&]

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Biologist Merlin Sheldrake is an evangelist for the "neglected megascience" of mycology, the study of fungi and all the wonder within them. According to Sheldrake, fungi are the future—containing clues about our environment and as a source of sustainable food, packaging, and green building materials. Son of author and fringe science researcher Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin [&]

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I saw this on Twitter the other day and it blew my mind: After immediately falling down a Google hole about it, I discovered that this is, indeed, true! A butt, also known as a pipe, is a unit of measure for English Brewery Cask Units and English Wine Cask Units. It's the second-largest barrel [&]

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Black Days is a forthcoming biopic about Chris Cornell, the lead singer of seminal Seattle band Soundgarden who died of suicide in 2017. Cornell was an incredible talent, as evidenced by his work with Soundgarden and also Audioslave and Temple of the Dog. From Spin: The [film's barebones] site also states, "from the cast of [&]

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While a graduate student at the University of Utah in the early 1970s, computer graphics pioneer Frederic Parke created some of the first 3D models of human faces. The research was supported by the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (now called DARPA). Parke's wife Vicky was one the models. Here's the full technical [&]

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Japanese artist Ipnot creates incredibly realistic fabric food and other items using embroidery techniques.

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As the animal rights movement continues to push for more legal protections for pets, Germany is leading the way on prohibitions for leaving dogs at home alone all day and getting enough daily walks. Via Treehugger: The country's agricultural minister Julia Kl"ockner is proposing legislation that would order dog owners to walk their dogs at least twice [&]

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DARPA AlphaDogfight Trials is a competition between AI programs in a fighter jet simulator. The final event pits the winning program "Heron" against Air Force F-16 pilot "Banger," and the AI wins with some unexpected moves that humans don't typically make. This is cued up to the finals, but you can watch from the beginning [&]

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un is reportedly gravely ill or even dead again, according to the vague sources of South Korean defectors and the newspapers they feed. Last time Kim Jong-Un "died" it seemed to be a cunning ploy crafted to reveal disloyality in his administration, but his appearances since show him looking odd— failing [&]

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The GOP's official 2020 platform is nothing but a loyalty pledge to Trump, and whatever it is that he believes in and plans to do. And what he plans to has been detailed on his website in a document that looks like a last-minute homework assignment trying to fudge with the margins and fonts to [&]

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In uncertain times, is it any wonder that more and more people are turning to astrology, tarot cards, and other New Age woo to find a sense of universal order? Cuban American illustrator Cristy Road (who, yes, legally changed her name in homage to a Green Day song) has created a tarot deck that embraces [&]

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The China Film Administration, which is part of China's Central Publicity Department and the China Association for Science and Technology, has released a new official set of moviemaking guidelines titled, "A Few Opinions on the Promotion and Development of Science Fiction Movies." As Variety reports: To make strong movies, the document claims, the number one [&]

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Woad is a plant and a blue dye taken thereof, popularly associated with iron-age Britons but replaced by the superior Indigo plant long before the modern age. But it has its fans and now you can even buy watercolor paint made from it. Don't leave it out in the sun. [via] The famous artist Lucas [&]

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