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Webb telescope peers into our galaxy's outskirts, sees stunning scene

--mashable.com

Which begs the question: Just how DO you try a telescope one million miles away for being a peeping tom, in areas that aren't even your own solar system?

Or how 'bout: is it a crime to be a peeping tom on an event that happened millions of years in the past, but you can only see it just now for relativistic reasons?

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But over the last couple of decades we've accumulated evidence that the more mundane impacts of heat are already upon us, impacting our daily lives. For example, more people fall off ladders on hot days than on cool days. They are more likely to kill themselves. They are also more likely to kill someone else.

--Nicholas Kristof

NYT

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Every catastrophe is different. Every man-made horror has its singular dimensions, its own special shape and depth.

--Tobi Haslett

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Not voting is ugly.

--Pope Francis

Veterinarian review headline of the moment

Nightbitch doesn't have enough of that dog in it

--theverge.com

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They're on vacation in Tuscany and having a good time, and meeting new people is fun (unless you're in a horror movie, that is).

--Manohia Dargis

reviewing "Speak No Evil" for the NYT

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Greed makes men do strange things.

--Robert Mazur

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Dictatorships are more concerned with controlling data than with testing its truth value; democracies, by contrast, are transparent information networks in which citizens are able to evaluate and, if necessary, correct bad data.

--Dennis Duncan

NYT

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It took the Beetlejuice sequel just three days to make twice as much as the original made in total.

--Charlie Ridgely

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About a quarter of [Rockwood, Oregon's] residents identify as Latino, and at a local food pantry on a recent afternoon, Spanish and Russian were spoken as much as English in the line for groceries.

--Danielle Kaye

NYT

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[Grand Canyon National Park] averages about 17 deaths per year, with the most common cause being cardiac arrest, according to data from the last decade.

--Alexandra Petri

NYT

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"There is no recorded decline as drastic as the one experienced by amphibians"

--Amaël Borzée

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We try to get into the mind of a hellbender – we identify quality habitat and look for clear, cold-running water.

--Andy Hill

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When you really need a human being you always get an answering machine. 

--Stephen King

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The truth has to come out, that's the basis of art.

--Stephen King 

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At the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. 

--Stephen King

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A good liar never varies her story. 

--Stephen King

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You know what's queer? Remembering forgetting. 

--Stephen King

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Domino's says the strong flavours [of the tsukimi quattro pizza are] intentional, as the pizza is designed to be enjoyed with alcohol while viewing the moon. P.K. agrees it'll be ideal for that, as the abundance of white-based sauces and lack of tomato sauce in the pizza makes it fairly heavy, so it would go down well with some liquid refreshment.

--Oona McGee

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Leonard [Slatkin] is one of the best audience communicators, a maestro of infinite practicality and without excess vanity.

--Norman Lebrecht