March 31, 2023

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Africa's Giant Pouched Rats Simply Seal Up Their Vaginas When They Don't Want Kids

--Sciencealert.com

March 26, 2023

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Rules are a substitute for thinking.

--Howard Brandston

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[The book How Not to Kill Yourself] doesn't so much illuminate as irradiate.

--Alexandra Jacobs

March 24, 2023

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LV, NV

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 I love people that are very witty. Cher's like that. She's really a funny girl. She comes out with incredible things. She calls you dirty names. She's a terrific lady.

--Diana Ross

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People always say you should buy what you like but actually you should just buy what's valuable.

--Andy Warhol

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There's something about people in show biz. They create so much fear in the children.

--Diana Ross

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I don't think you have to do much if you can really sing.

--Andy Warhol

March 23, 2023

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You're just one recipe away from a better day.

--NYT article blurb 

March 22, 2023

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I like my AI like I like my foreign cheese varieties, incredibly weird and full of holes, the kind that leaves most definitions of "good" up to individual taste.

--Kyle Barr 

March 21, 2023

What would it mean if an asteroid struck Earth? quote of the moment

It would be in the range of serious crap happening.

--James Garvin

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The people who have done the deep and conceptual thinking about brain death are people … who tremendously value their cognitive abilities.

--Alan Weisbard

March 19, 2023

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Last night there were a lot of gunshots and a lot of groups of people running.

--Endiya Stalks

March 14, 2023

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Any analytic view will become wrong over time.

--Ian Bremmer

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3 mudflap girls
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3 skulls 
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LV, NV

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One of the most profound mysteries facing science is how exactly life arose from non-living matter. Now, scientists have pinpointed a particular peptide that potentially kickstarted life – and it could all be nickelback's fault.

--Michael Irving

March 09, 2023

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In 2020, Americans spent $1.6 billion just to cash checks. 

--Matthew Desmond 

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Where there is exclusion, there is exploitation.

--Matthew Desmond 

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But capitalism is inherently about owners trying to give as little, and workers trying to get as much, as possible.

--Matthew Desmond

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Sometimes exploitation is simply the best bad option.

--Matthew Desmond

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...for every dollar budgeted for TANF in 2020, poor families directly received just 22 cents.

--Matthew Desmond

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You can't eat a cellphone. 

--Matthew Desmond

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Human gene editing has become a matter of national security.

--Joy Zhang

March 02, 2023

Data of the moment

When a household has a cost ratio of over 30%, it is considered cost-burdened. Severely cost-burdened households have cost ratios of over 50%.

--US Department of Housing and Urban Development

March 01, 2023

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[Steve] Baldwin once told me that, after years of visiting the parrots, he has come to see Green-Wood not as a necropolis, but as a library of "completed lives."

--Joe Kloc