I've never seen the TV show about the Duggar family, so I didn't know how famous they were. Josh Duggar, who admitted to molesting children (include his siblings) was very popular among Republican presidential hopefuls!

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One of the clearest depictions you'll ever see of how small advantages can make huge differences. Read the rest

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If you've ever stared slack-jawed at the swirling images of a music visualizer like Winamp, check out Iridescent Configuration, a program where you take control of the lightshow. Read the rest

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Early reviews for Tomorrowland, Disneys $190 million science fiction movie, are bad. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 50% (a green splat) and Metacritic gives it 61/100.

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A 17-year-old rape victim, treated with callous indifference and arrested by UK police who accused her of lying, has been awarded lb20,000 in a settlement.

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Richard Prince selected other people's Instagram photos, printed them in large format, and put them on display in a gallery. They are selling for about $100,000 each. Read the rest

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Cannot stop watching. If I watch long enough, perhaps he will find his bukkit. Read the rest

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Such a sweet video, by pianist Paul Barton. Read the rest

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Disgraced airline exec Heather Cho, daughter of Korean Air Lines Co.’s chairman, was set free for prison after a Seoul court ruled she'd “done enough reflection and needs a new chance after changing her disposition." Cho served five months of a one-year sentence for ordering a plane on the runway at JFK airport to return to the gate after a crew member served her macadamia nuts in a bag, rather than on a plate as is customary in the first class cabin.

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LA Times: "Authorities engaged in an armed standoff with an elderly Woodland Hills woman tried tear gas, a flash grenade and a crisis negotiator. When they sent a robot to slowly approach her, she shot at it."

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Felice Beato photographed Samurai in the 1860s and hand-colored the prints. According to Getty, he "made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan.

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A high school in Ohio reacted to student Jett Soungpradith's fantastic shirt from the Manhattan treat shop in a most ridiculous way: They said it was inappropriate and made him cover it up. Read the rest

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With historical references and details of cultural and regional texture, Anglophenia explains how to utter terms like "bloody", "sod off" and "bollocks" with the proper mix of joy, irritation and indifference.

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"The conversation is constructed as being about student privacy, but it’s really about who has the right to monitor which youth".

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Another English king may lurk beneath the country's placid sea of asphalt and cement. Read the rest

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This fellow is a master finger tutter. (more…)

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Rehearsal for my show 'Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs' at the Cafe Carlyle next month does not stop just because I am up a mountain on the other side of the world. Quite the contrary!

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How the Little Free Library aims to establish and rebuild the relationship between police and the community Read the rest

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Bulldog: "These are the biggest dogs I've ever seen!" Bulls: HELLO TINY COW. (more…)

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