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Can you buy cool?
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: The meteorologist-in-chief
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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5 reasons the U.N. wants you to start eating insects
Reason #1? They’re good for you.
The FAO estimates that there are between 1,000 and 1,900 edible insect species. As a result, espousing the nutritional benefits of insects as a whole is tricky, akin to saying all mammals are good for you even though braised rabbit and bacon obviously have entirely different nutritional qualities.
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Don’t like how your car is running? In China, some luxury car owners decide to have their unsatisfactory vehicles smashed to pieces in public.
Read: Car Repair Didn’t Go So Well? Smash Your Luxury Ride to Smithereenes
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Meet the mother from How I Met Your Mother
After eight long seasons, it’s official: Fans of CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother have finally met the mother — even if series protagonist Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) hasn’t met her yet.
She’ll be played by Cristin Milioti, a 27-year-old Tony-nominated actress. Here she is being interviewed about her role in the 2012 Broadway musical, Once:
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PHOTOS: 7 beautifully terrifying lightning storms
Two types of lightning are at play in this storm over South Dakota: The sideways cloud-to-cloud lightning (on top) and the tentacle-like cloud-to-ground lightning (at bottom). (Mike Hollingshead/SuperStock/Corbis)
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Mad Men recap: Fifty Shades of Draper
In the wake of the merger, the office is in chaos, but Don abstains to engage his neighbor/mistress Sylvia in a game of Fifty Shades of Draper. Don’s relationships are predicated on control, and he’s generally very good at getting people to go along with what he wants. It’s why Don was so unnerved by Megan’s freewheeling, seductive performance of “Zou Bisou Bisou” in the season five premiere, and why he was incredulous when Peggy actually quit to work for Cutler, Gleason, and Chaough. In those cases, he found ways to draw both women back into his fold, but his power is clearly waning; Megan cries alone at the news of Robert Kennedy’s death, and Peggy bitterly insists that Don “move forward.”
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Where do Twitter’s racist users live?
A mapping project by students at Humboldt State University called the Geography of Hate uses Google Maps to illustrate the hate-filled language spit out into the Twitter ether.
So where do these hate-speech spouting users live? Well… everywhere.
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A flock of eagles descended on the Safeway parking lot last week, prompting police intervention.
Public Safety Director Jamie Sunderland says several people called in short succession on Thursday afternoon to report the melee.
Sunderland: “One of our officers went over there and there were 40 eagles sitting on, in and around several vehicles in the area.”
Sunderland says the eagles were feasting on garbage bags of fish product in the bed of a pickup truck.
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The great ATM heist: How thieves brazenly stole $45 million in a few hours
Hacker masterminds + foot soldiers + 17 prepaid credit cards + 40,500 ATM withdrawals = a heist tailor-made for Hollywood… all without setting foot in a single bank.
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch compared the sophisticated, “surgical” heist — which netted $45 million in two separate operations — to the casino-theft movie Ocean’s Eleven.
