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Houseplants That Purify Air - Air-Filtering Houseplants

NASA research has shown that these houseplants purify the air in your home.

News you can use!

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An Uber for Doctor Housecalls - NYTimes.com

A number of new apps offer medical consults with doctors via a smart phone, and some of them even make house calls.

Free markets creating value in health care!

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Three Reasons We Need the Oxford Comma | National Review Online

I agree! Bring back the comma or expect unintended meanings!

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Norway First Country to End FM Radio in 2017 - Hollywood Reporter

Steely Dan, the jazz-rockers who scored a hit in 1978 with their single FM (No Static At All), would not be pleased.

Internet broad band wins out over FM radio!

Who would have predicted this 10 years ago? Coming to the U.S.?

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The Free-Speech Crisis - The New Yorker

The murder of Washiqur Rahman highlights a trend: around the world, free speech is under threat. George Packer on the dangers of censorship.

Important commentary on the left's attack on free speech. Political correctness is an invidious movement designed to enforce conformity to the progressive/liberal movement.

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Best Movies Ever with DVD Covers - Best Movies of All Time

Our unranked, incomplete, utterly biased list of the greatest films that have shaped American men. Find out how many you've watched (with stills and covers), then add to your Netflix queue.

Interesting list

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Three gay Thai men tie the knot in 'fairytale ceremony' | Daily Mail Online

Happy newlyweds Joke, 29, Bell, 21 and Art, 26, took the plunge on Valentine's Day after exchanging their vows in a fairy-tale ceremony at their home in Thailand.

It's coming to a place near you soon.

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It’s Pork Over Beef in America for First Time Since 1952

Can you spell bacon anyone?

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The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

New evidence about addiction isn't just a challenge to us politically. It doesn't just force us to change our minds. It forces us to change our hearts....

Is there an alternative to the drug war that actually works? Is the fulfillment of human connection sufficient to overcome physical addiction? Hmmm. Worth checking out.

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#YesWomenAndChildren Are Safer Within Intact Marriages

New evidence continues to indicate that the best shelter against domestic violence is a healthy marriage.

Social studies are proving that the wisdom of the ages about the value and importance of marriage to society is not just a value choice, but a rational choice.

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In 10 years, your job probably won’t exist. Here’s how to make sure you’re still employable.

Around 65 percent of the jobs that people will be doing in a decade haven't even been invented yet.

It's not the person next to you who might take your job. It's an artificial intelligence machine or robot. Beware.

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Investor rush to artificial intelligence is real deal - FT.com

Silicon Valley loves a new fad. To judge by the spate of fundraising by start-ups in recent weeks, it has found one in an idea that is more than half a century old: artificial intelligence. “This is the hot place to be at the moment,” says Stephen

Follow the money, and it's in hot pursuit of artificial intelligence investments.

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Robots can now learn to cook just like you do: by watching YouTube videos

Researchers have come up with a new way to teach robots how to use tools simply by watching videos on YouTube. The researchers, from the University of Maryland and the Australian research center NI...

Artificial intelligence is making steady gains and robots are becoming a reality. This will affect EVERYTHING in the next 50 years or less.