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How to Tell a Joke - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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""People should not be able to telegraph where a joke’s going,’’ says Hari Kondabolu, a stand-up comic from Queens. The only way to guarantee surprise is to create original material. Street jokes — the kind you read in a book or hear at summer camp and tell with the preface ‘‘Want to hear a joke?’’ — are almost never funny, Kondabolu says. They also often involve animals, inexplicably. (If you must go that route, ducks make for the funniest animal jokes, according to a global survey done by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire.) His routines playfully take on more serious topics like race and gender." - JustDuckie - -

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Yeah, it's surprisingly easy to accidentally write a joke where the punchline comes in the middle or the start, robbing it of optimal effect. But it's also delivery -- I remember one 30 Rock line where the Tracy Jordan character's deliberate, enunciated manner of speaking slowed down the delivery so much that even though the punchline came at the end, it was telegraphed and made obvious before he got to it. I think the same line delivered faster might have worked better. - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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How Medical Students Can Learn Empathy from Their Cadavers - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... https://cdn.theatlantic.c... )

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"The natural response, he explained, is to find some way to deflect the strangeness of the situation—a need that often manifests itself as gallows humor. Students may invent stories about their cadaver or perform what Vannatta called “cadaver tricks,” in which the bodies will be objectified for comedic effect. A group of students might open the tank holding their cadaver and find the body wearing a bow tie, for example, or a student might enter the lab for a late-night study session and see his cadaver propped up and staring at him. In 2013, a University of Pennsylvania study examined what is perhaps the most common coping mechanism seen in the lab: cadaver naming. Two-thirds of the medical students surveyed (1,152 from 12 different medical schools) gave their cadavers nicknames, many of them unflattering references to a specific bodily feature. A particularly wrinkly donor, for example, was named “A Wrinkle in Time,” a donor with an abnormally large heart was “The Tin Man,” and a donor who died of respiratory failure was known as “Wheezy.” “Inventive naming,” the study authors wrote, “allows students to acknowledge the cadaver’s personhood, while psychologically shielding themselves enough to be comfortable with the dissection.”" - JustDuckie - -

"But Vannatta stressed that this “inventive naming,” like other unchecked coping mechanisms, can have implications for clinical practice later on. “Instead of referring to Mr. Jones in room 306,” Vannatta said, a physician might say, “‘Let’s go see the terminal in 306. Let’s go see the lung,’ referring to the patient as their sick organ. ‘The liver.’ ‘The yellow man.’” Before they’ve ever walked into an exam room, young physicians have already learned from the dissection that a little bit of comfort can be gained by putting space between the body and the human identity. The Donor Luncheon, he said, provided a chance to close that gap, “to make it crystal-clear in [students’] minds that this was a person who lived a life—was a father, was an uncle, was an aunt, was a grandmother, was an engineer, an architect.” He added, “It’s changed the whole atmosphere of the Gross Anatomy experience in our medical school.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Watch: Florida parrot sings 'Everything is Awesome' - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/ph/s... )

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"A Florida pet store shared video of a musically talented parrot belting out her rendition of "Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie. The Birds on Safari pet shop in Naples posted a video to YouTube of a parrot named Princess Yellow Feather singing her rendition of the Tegan and Sarah hit from last year's blockbuster animated film. The video's description says Princess Yellow Feather is a yellow nape Amazon parrot. A previous video shared on the store's Facebook page shows the parrot's repertoire isn't limited to a single song -- she has also been caught on camera belting "All By Myself," "Tequila" and "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)."" - JustDuckie - -

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I love this. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Bringing Body Love Into Dance Class: A New Way of Teaching | Amanda Trusty (http://www.huffingtonpost... http://cache3.asset-cache... )

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"Stand up straight. Pull your belly button in and up. Your stomach is sticking out. Pull it in. Don't be lazy. Suck it in. Tuck your booty under. Pull up. Chin high. Belly in. Squeeze the tushy. Twenty-four years of ballet training. Always at the barre. Always pulling in, pulling up, tucking under, standing straight. Eventually, it starts to overflow into daily life. Suck it in. Tuck it under. I realize now where all my insecurities started. They started in first position at age seven at the barre. And now here I am, 20 years later, catching myself doing the same things to my own seven year old students." - JustDuckie - -

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"3) The usual direction: Suck it in, tummy in The new direction: Engage your belly Why and how: "Suck it in" often implies sucking in the belly and pulling up the ribs, causing little girls to raise their shoulders and make their bellies as tiny as possible. This is never what we want. This caused me develop very weird muscles under my bust as a child because no one ever told me that "suck it in" didn't just mean the lower abs. Because I had a "pooch pouch" under my belly button, sticking out no matter how hard I sucked in, I was constantly opening my ribs and pulling my belly up into them to try to make it go away." - JustDuckie - -

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Fitted – The New Inquiry (http://thenewinquiry.com/... http://thenewinquiry.com/... )

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"Predictably, activity trackers have raised privacy concerns. In 2011, many FitBit users discovered that the profiles that they had created on the FitBit website turned up in Google searches—exposing a ton of private information, including sexual activity they had logged (“15 min passive, light effort”; “3 min active and vigorous”). Since then, the company has taken steps to prove it cares. In December 2014, FitBit released a pledge stating that it “is deeply committed to protecting the security of your data.” Still, we may soon be obliged to turn over the sort of information the device is designed to collect in order to obtain medical coverage or life insurance. Some companies currently offer incentives like discounted premiums to members who volunteer information from their activity trackers. Many health and fitness industry experts say it is only a matter of time before all insurance providers start requiring this information." - JustDuckie - -

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"The vision is total. For the dedicated user, to leave the house without putting on her FitBit is to feel as if the day never happened. When I mislaid mine, I was inconsolable until a friend, another addict, pointed out that, without even meaning to, we had basically memorized how many steps it took to get to and from most of the places we regularly went. Later I found it in the pocket of a bathrobe. A friend had been missing her FitBit for days when a mysterious email appeared in her inbox. Congrats on earning your 250 lifetime miles badge! Or maybe it was a Ferris Wheel badge; I forget. She had forgotten her FitBit in the pocket of a pair of jeans; it had gone through the laundry, and was now tumbling around the dryer. Indestructible, it continued to register each turn of the drum as a step. I do not know this friend well. I know this story because she posted it on Facebook. She is someone I have met a few times and long admired from afar for her intellectual achievements. It consoled me, even as it made me laugh, to think that even she spends time thinking about her FitBit." - JustDuckie - -

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There’s An App For That (Your Poop) - The Hairpin (http://thehairpin.com/201... http://thehairpin.com/wp-... )

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"On a site like Nyrestroom, search for just “public restrooms” and the crowded map becomes painfully bare for such a dense city, especially considered most are in playgrounds, where adults are not allowed to enter without children. Why so few? And why should we be paying $25 for the privilege? There used to be more. In subways you can still see them: scratched black doors with male and female caricatures. But like many restrooms in New York’s parks and other public spaces, they seem forever padlocked. Untapped Cities reported that out of the 129 bathrooms in the city’s subway stations, just 48 are unlocked, and I’m going to assume many of those aren’t handicap accessible. You’re basically shit out of luck (sorry) with any bathroom in public. However, this is not a planned disruption on behalf of the sharing economy. They are just capitalizing on a system that long ago stopped considering public restrooms and public service, as well as a system that would rather not serve some members of the public." - JustDuckie - -

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"As a society, we require that people not be covered in urine and fecal matter. This is, like, the baseline for human interaction, and we’ve gone about trying to ensure it in some pretty creative ways (meet you at the toilet museum). But when we fail each other in this, the blame is not on the complications of setting up a comprehensive or safe sewage system, or the amount of water required to get that system to work, or the lack of government resources. The blame is on the individual. If people are inconvenienced by the lack of public amenities, we just publicly shame them. If you can’t hold it, you become the butt of poop jokes (like that one). It’s easier than talking about it, because we don’t want to. Responsible citizens pee before they leave the house. Responsible citizens don’t have “emergencies.” Responsible citizens always have a place to go. Somewhere else. Not here. " - JustDuckie - -

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Mets find baby raccoon in their weight room (and no, they didn't trade for him) | NJ.com (http://www.nj.com/mets/in... https://pbs.twimg.com/med... )

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"The Mets found a baby raccoon in their weight room on Sunday morning and released it into the wild." - JustDuckie - -

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Video footage of helpful Hualien high-school students goes viral on Internet - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A group of high-school students in Hualien knew the consequences for being late to an early-morning study session, but decided to risk the wrath of their teachers to help an old woman up an 800m slope on Monday last week. Hualien’s Jhongzeng Road ascends Meilun Mountain (美崙山) and climbs 30m over about 800m. Every morning, Hualien Senior High School students can be seen speeding up and then taking off in a burst of frantic pedaling in an attempt to make the climb, but on Monday a netizen with the username Wu Yi-xuan captured a different scene." - JustDuckie - -

"While school regulations require students to be in class before 7:30am and they are issued a warning if they are late 10 times, Huang said the students’ actions were more important than rules. The school is considering giving each of the students a merit point, Huang said." - JustDuckie - -

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Twitter jokes: Twitter has started taking down tweets that steal other people's jokes. (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Twitter has started taking down tweets that copy the same joke that somebody else has already shared, the Verge reports. Olga Lexell, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, spotted that one of her Twitter jokes was being reposted by other accounts without her permission. They didn't retweet her; instead they just copied and pasted her joke. Lexell decided to ask Twitter to take down the tweets, as they were her intellectual property. Sure enough, Twitter responded by deleting the jokes. " - JustDuckie - -

"Here, via the Verge, is what Lexell said about her decision to ask Twitter to take down the tweets: I simply explained to Twitter that as a freelance writer I make my living writing jokes (and I use some of my tweets to test out jokes in my other writing). I then explained that as such, the jokes are my intellectual property, and that the users in question did not have my permission to repost them without giving me credit." - JustDuckie - -

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How to Tell if You are in an Old English Poem - The Toast (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"Suitable prizes to claim from a battle include your enemy’s rings and other treasures. In the absence of treasure, you take an arm instead." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Man in Trouble for Climbing Over Ohio Zoo's Fence and Petting Cougars - ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/US/... http://a.abcnews.com/imag... )

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"A visitor at Ohio’s Columbus Zoo is in hot water with zoo personnel -- for getting a bit too friendly with some cougars. With his camera rolling, Joshua Newell dropped his bag to the ground, climbed over a 4-foot fence, and petted two adult cougars through the final barrier on July 20. Zoo officials found out about Newell's antics after he later posted the video on YouTube. “It was very spontaneous,” Newell said. “I jumped the barrier and showed them some love.” " - JustDuckie - -

*facepalm* I'm kinda surprised he left with both hands intact. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Man's selfie with rattlesnake lands him $150K hospital bill | www.wpxi.com (http://www.wpxi.com/news/... http://media.cmgdigital.c... )

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"Lesssssson learned: Selfies with rattlesnakes are a bad idea. Todd Fassler of San Diego learned the hard way after trying to pose with a rattlesnake. Apparently, he didn't get the rattlesnake's good side, and the reptile bit back, sending Fassler to the hospital. According to KGTV, services rendered Fassler came out to an astonishing $153,161.25. " - JustDuckie - -

"Perhaps his attempt at a selfie was because he was missing his old pet. Turns out Fassler used to have a pet rattlesnake, but he let it go in the wild because he thought animal services would appreciate it." - JustDuckie - -

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"Few land animals are as adept at camouflage as the rare and elusive snow leopard, and with this in mind we challenge readers to see how quickly they can spot the large cat in the photo atop this post." - JustDuckie - -

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Visible Faith: On Grad School and Ageism - The Toast (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )

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"In my last year of teaching full-time in Connecticut, during one of my summer theater gigs, I was fortunate enough to work with a talented young designer/director named Daniel. We co-produced a few projects, and then we collaborated on the writing of a book for another person’s musical play. At the end of our first year of collaboration, Daniel asked me to join him in his film company as a writer, producer, and partner. Naturally, rumors flew all around us, but they were absurd. What Daniel offered me was something no one ever had before: respect for me as an artist. I had been a daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother, caretaker, teacher to many people, but no one ever said to me, “Your art counts” — I had always been required to put my own work on hold, to save it for after everyone and everything else were taken care of. Daniel heard it screaming inside me, and he encouraged me to give it light, to nurture it, to let it breathe with me, for me. When I told my husband, a successful engineer, that I was suffocating, that I needed to pursue my writing, he scoffed, “Well, what about me? I always wanted to be a poet.”" - JustDuckie - -

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The Quest for an Archaeology of Sea Otter Tool Use | Hakai Magazine (http://www.hakaimagazine.... http://www.hakaimagazine.... )

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"Poring through 17 years of observational data on prey capture and tool use from eight sea otter populations ranging from southern California to the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska, Fujii and her colleagues have discovered significant variation in the frequency of tool use. Their research encompassed two subspecies: Alaskan (or northern) sea otters, Enhydra lutris kenyoni (which range from the Aleutian Islands to Washington State), and California (or southern) sea otters, Enhydra lutris nereis (which range from south of San Francisco to west and north of Santa Barbara). California sea otters turn out to be far more likely than their counterparts in the north to use tools. When examining successful dives (those that resulted in food), the researchers found that sea otters in Monterey, California, used tools on 16 percent of successful dives. In comparison, northern sea otters in Amchitka Island—part of the Aleutian Islands chain in Alaska—used tools on only one percent of their successful dives. Yet Fujii’s research demonstrates that tool use isn’t simply a subspecies difference. Other populations of Alaskan sea otters have a greater tendency to use tools than those in the Aleutians. In Glacier Bay, in southeast Alaska, for example, Alaskan sea otters used tools on 10 percent of successful dives." - JustDuckie - -

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Deer chased by dog runs into a tourist in Kenting - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A tourist in Kenting’s Sheding Nature Park suffered minor injuries last week after a Formosan sika deer being chased by a dog ran straight into him, causing a cut that required stitches, the Kenting National Park Administrative Office said. It was the first time a human has ever been injured by a deer at the park, rather than the other way around." - JustDuckie - -

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Delivery driver throws pizzas at would-be robber; suspect identified - KMOV.com (http://www.kmov.com/story... http://wect.images.worldn... )

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"A delivery driver defended himself during an attempted robbery with the $45 worth of pizza he was supposed to take to a home in the 2300 block of Jefferson Street in Wilmington, according to Lt. Rodney Dawson of the Wilmington Police Department." - JustDuckie - -

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When the absolute right to snark turns sour: A Gawker believer reconsiders the manifesto he once held dear - Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/2015... http://media.salon.com/20... )

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"What is smarm? The self-righteous defense of the status quo as implicitly justified and the pious condemnation of external attacks as illegitimate? And snark is its inverse, the fearless skeptical questioning of the status quo and the brazen willingness to smash your way into the elites’ inner sanctum and tell them they’re full of shit? But snark is always done from an implicit inner sanctum of its own. The snarker assumes a moral high ground by snarking. Snark by its very nature creates an implicit clubhouse for the snarky commentator and their audience, a circle of the enlightened who are in on the joke, who are enlightened enough to pierce through the bullshit. It creates an us-vs.-them sense that “nothing is sacred” except the Priesthood of Snark who tear down everyone else’s idols. And it’s kind of obvious that, as Williams says in her piece, the urge to join in the snark is often driven by abject fear, the desire to avoid becoming the target of snark. I don’t need to fear mockery; I Am the One Who Mocks. When that implicit protection fails, and people suddenly realize that nothing stops the guy calling out hypocrites and phonys from himself being a hypocrite and phony, what happens? The appeals to decency, to respect, to authority and tradition. The disingenuous proclamations that we’re all on the same side and all in this together. Snark turns into smarm on a dime." - JustDuckie - -

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"Snark and smarm are, after all, both just tactics, rhetorical stances rather than ethical positions. Snark is the spear and smarm is the shield–snark is poking at an assumption, tearing it open, demanding it be defended, and smarm is declaring a line of inquiry off-limits on the grounds of tradition or civility or not being a raging asshole. And some things deserve to be so defended, even if it makes you sound like a smarmy schoolmarm to the person challenging you. I have long since lost patience for entertaining interminable Internet debates over whether women are fully people, or homosexuality is an abomination, or black people are a low-IQ inferior race. I do not see the need for some sort of public “frank and lively debate” (a smarmy phrase if I’ve ever heard one) over a horrible scumbag hit piece. I am very happy to simply demand it be taken down through an appeal to basic human decency, and think it is a waste of all of our time to endlessly relitigate what basic human decency is." - JustDuckie - -

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Troopers say they corralled drunk lawn mower driver with rope - The Morning Call (http://www.mcall.com/news... http://www.trbimg.com/img... )

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"State troopers say they had to use a rope to corral a man who was driving drunk on his lawn mower with a box of beer. The Daily Item reports (http://bit.ly/1IjFMKs) 25-year-old Tyler Anspach also threatened a trooper after he was arrested on July 13 while driving his tractor in Montour County, about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Police received a call that night about an agitated, mower-driving man making threats. Responding troopers said they could smell alcohol on Anspach and saw him stumble. Authorities say his blood-alcohol content was .21 percent. That's more than twice the legal limit for drivers." - JustDuckie - -

"mower-driving man making threats" ... "do ____ or I'll mow your lawn"? - John B. - [ 1 ] -

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I love the Anne of Green Gables one so much. I would've wanted that as a kid so bad. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Cute!!! - Soup - [ 1 ] -

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‘Spartans’ foreigners detained for publicity stunt in Beijing - Global Times (http://www.globaltimes.cn... http://www.globaltimes.cn... http://www.globaltimes.cn... )

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"Photos posted online showed around 100 scantily-clad foreigners marching through the streets holding food boxes. Some photos showed them in a pyramid formation shouting in front of a building, while some showed them at the Guomao Railway station in Chaoyang District. Other photos showed police holding them down at a pedestrian bridge in Sanlitun District. Video identified them as employees of a Beijing-based Sweetie Salad restaurant and were delivering salad to office workers and promoting the restaurant. Police officers decided to accost them to restore public order after the foreigners ignored several warnings, the Beijing Youth Daily reported Wednesday. " - JustDuckie - -

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Yeah, I suspect the Beijing cops are bit jumpy about seeing a crowd of foreigners in any kind of military dress (or undress, as it were). - JustDuckie - -

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Penny Skateboards Find a Niche - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"When Lauren Waxenberg, 9, isn’t around, there’s one toy of hers that her dad, Scott, likes to borrow: a tiny, pink, plastic skateboard with purple wheels. “When she’s playing with a friend, I get to grab it,” said Mr. Waxenberg, 52, who lives in Rye Brook, N.Y. His older daughters, ages 19 and 16, have had longboards for years, but Mr. Waxenberg, who skated as a child, said he never liked the feel of them. Then last summer at a surf shop on Cape Cod, he spotted the Penny — a smaller skateboard that is generally 22 inches long, as opposed to more standard boards that measure 28 to 32 inches. “As soon as I saw the Penny board, I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is what I learned on,’ ” he said. “And when I got on it, it was like I was 14 again.” Lauren, who initially learned to ride on her sisters’ longboards, liked the mini-board as well. “It’s like a little bit easier to control because there’s less you have to turn and stuff,” she said. Penny Skateboards are now rolling by all around. They have found popularity among college students, many of whom are ditching their bikes for easy-to-stick-in-a-backpack boards. The under-12 set is hopping on after having graduated from scooters. The price of the boards starts at $100, though knockoffs can cost as little as $40." - JustDuckie - -

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Anyone know if the $40 knockoffs are any good? - JustDuckie - -

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Winter Haven (Florida) man head-butts bus, loses (http://www.wtsp.com/story... http://www.gannett-cdn.co... )

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"A Winter Haven Transit customer on Saturday got upset at an extra $2 fare so he head-butted the bus, knocked himself out for a few minutes, then ran away. About 11:35 a.m. Saturday, the man left a bus at the terminal at 555 Ave. E. N.W. But, he wanted to travel to a new destination. The driver told him he would have to pay another $2, and he got mad. The driver left the bus and went inside the terminal. The passenger sat on a bench, then walked away. But about four minutes later, he returns and head-butts the glass doors on the bus, shattering the glass. He appears to be knocked out for a few seconds, but then wakes and runs off." - JustDuckie - -

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Someone built a meth lab inside a federal research facility, and it exploded | The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2... https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/... )

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"Somebody built a methamphetamine lab inside a federal research facility, and a security guard was injured when it exploded. Chemical & Engineering News reports that the explosion took place July 18th at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, and local police say evidence at the scene is "consistent with the production of" meth. Congress is now investigating how this all happened, because they watched Breaking Bad and are not having it this close to our nation's capital." - JustDuckie - -

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Tourists flock to see water buffaloes help pick oysters - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"The traditional practice of harvesting oysters using water buffaloes in Changhua County has become a tourist attraction that in recent years has received international attention. Tourists flock to Changhua County’s Fangyuan Township (芳苑) to see farmers transport oysters from inter-tidal zones to the shore, with the water sometimes reaching up to the buffaloes’ shoulders. A local resident and ecotour organizer Wei Ching-shui (魏清水) said the tradition was preserved due to a lucky accident, as local farmers were unable to operate motorized oyster-harvesting vehicles properly and found carriages pulled by water buffalo more maneuverable." - JustDuckie - -

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Sleepy Hollow: Shannyn Sossamon Cast as Season 3’s Pandora | TVLine (http://tvline.com/2015/07... https://pmctvline2.files.... )

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"Sleepy Hollow is opening a Pandora’s box this fall, and Shannyn Sossamon is going to be waiting inside. The Wayward Pines actress is joining the Fox drama in the series-regular role of Pandora, TVLine has learned exclusively. Pandora is a mysterious new presence in Sleepy Hollow who seeks assistance from Witnesses Ichabod and Abbie." - JustDuckie - -

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