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Cars Outside Jeff Bezos’ DC House Racked Up Nearly $17,000 in Parking Tickets During $12 Million Renovation

Cars Outside Jeff Bezos’ DC House Racked Up Nearly $17,000 in Parking Tickets During $12 Million Renovation

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Cars Outside Jeff Bezos' DC House Racked Up Nearly $17,000 in Parking Tickets During $12 Million Renovation Cars parked outside $12 million renovation project at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ D.C. mansion were tagged with at least 564 separate parking tickets costing nearly $17,000, of which $5,600 were listed as unpaid in DMV records, WUSA 9 recently reported.Read more... Go to Source
The Wuhan Coronavirus Has Officially Killed More People Than SARS in Mainland China

The Wuhan Coronavirus Has Officially Killed More People Than SARS in Mainland China

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The Wuhan Coronavirus Has Officially Killed More People Than SARS in Mainland China China passed a bleak milestone over the weekend, as more people in mainland China have now died of the newly discovered coronavirus than did during the SARS outbreak, which also began in China almost two decades ago. Cases in other countries are also increasing each day.Read more... Go to Source
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Jezebel 'He Was Implying I Was a Liar': What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted at the VA  |The Root What’s Better Than One Billionaire Remaining Seated During the Super Bowl National Anthem? Two  |Jalopnik The Ferrari SUV's Name Is So Stupid It Already Started A Fight With A Charity  |The A.V. Club This year’s Super Bowl commercials wanted to go viral, not make sense  |Read more... Go to Source
Wild Gray Seals Clap Their Flippers Underwater to Communicate, New Research Suggests

Wild Gray Seals Clap Their Flippers Underwater to Communicate, New Research Suggests

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Wild Gray Seals Clap Their Flippers Underwater to Communicate, New Research Suggests Unprecedented video shows a male gray seal using its flippers to produce a loud sound underwater. Scientists say it could be a previously undocumented form of communication, in which the seals are using the sound to attract mates or ward off rivals. Read more... Go to Source
Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Warm Water Undercutting Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’

Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Warm Water Undercutting Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’

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Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Warm Water Undercutting Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' The climate crisis is causing ice in Antarctica to melt faster than at any other time in recorded history. And scientists just found another troubling sign for Antarctic ice. Record warm water is surging under an Antarctica glacier that’s fate is intertwined with the millions of people who live along the coast.…Read more... Go to Source
Mulan’s Final Trailer Highlights the Film’s Epic Action

Mulan’s Final Trailer Highlights the Film’s Epic Action

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Mulan’s Final Trailer Highlights the Film's Epic Action While Disney’s upcoming live-action Mulan remake won’t exactly feature anywhere near as much of the whimsy as the studio’s 1998 animated feature, the final trailer makes obvious that what this movie’s lost in the way of cartoonishness, it’s more than made up for with straight-up epic fantasy action that’s unlike…Read more... Go to Source
Actor Duncan Regehr Discusses His Glorious Moment as Star Trek’s ‘Sex Candle Ghost’

Actor Duncan Regehr Discusses His Glorious Moment as Star Trek’s ‘Sex Candle Ghost’

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Actor Duncan Regehr Discusses His Glorious Moment as Star Trek’s ‘Sex Candle Ghost’ “Sub Rosa” was a very strange episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an old-school gothic adventure featuring a haunted candle, a ghastly Casanova, and just enough scifi nonsense to keep the whole thing from being magic. Read more... Go to Source
Uber Suspends 240 Accounts in Mexico Over User Suspected of Having Coronavirus

Uber Suspends 240 Accounts in Mexico Over User Suspected of Having Coronavirus

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Uber Suspends 240 Accounts in Mexico Over User Suspected of Having Coronavirus As the coronavirus outbreak rages on, its effects are being felt around the world. In Mexico, Uber felt compelled to act when it learned that its drivers had possibly come into contact with a person suspected to have coronavirus. Consequently, it temporarily deactivated the accounts of 240 users who had also travelled…Read more... Go to Source
William Jackson Harper Has One Last Good Place Lesson in the Form of Chidi’s Full Kierkegaard Rap

William Jackson Harper Has One Last Good Place Lesson in the Form of Chidi’s Full Kierkegaard Rap

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William Jackson Harper Has One Last Good Place Lesson in the Form of Chidi’s Full Kierkegaard Rap Any one of The Good Place’s throwaway gags would be a delight to see played out in its entirety. From Chidi actually forcing himself to eat the Peep’s chili to seeing Tahani ruin one of many celebrity relationships, they’re all tantalizing. But I doubt any of them would be quite as fun to watch as William Jackson…Read more... Go to Source
“You Have No Idea How Hard I’m Fighting to Keep Politics Out of Science.” New Emails Reveal NOAA’s Turmoil During Sharpiegate

“You Have No Idea How Hard I’m Fighting to Keep Politics Out of Science.” New Emails Reveal NOAA’s Turmoil During Sharpiegate

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“You Have No Idea How Hard I’m Fighting to Keep Politics Out of Science.” New Emails Reveal NOAA’s Turmoil During Sharpiegate A new set of documents obtained by the Washington Post and other media outlets reveal the turmoil that shook the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last September when President Donald Trump mistakenly tweeted that Hurricane Dorian posed a threat to Alabama. Dorian was not, in fact, a threat to the…Read more... Go to Source
Alan Harris, the Actor Behind Bossk in The Empire Strikes Back, Has Died

Alan Harris, the Actor Behind Bossk in The Empire Strikes Back, Has Died

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Alan Harris, the Actor Behind Bossk in The Empire Strikes Back, Has Died Alan Harris was one of the most decorated extras and stand-ins in all of Hollywood. He doubled for Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, and for Terence Stamp as Supreme Chancellor Valorum in The Phantom Menace. He was a Stormtrooper in Return of the Jedi. He even modelled in the early screen tests for Boba Fett’s armor. Read more... Go to Source
The Sounds Behind Baby Yoda’s Voice Are Exactly as Cute as You’d Expect

The Sounds Behind Baby Yoda’s Voice Are Exactly as Cute as You’d Expect

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The Sounds Behind Baby Yoda’s Voice Are Exactly as Cute as You’d Expect The creation of sound to use in films is always fascinating. What in the real world made the sound that became a lightsaber, or a phaser, or a dinosaur? What real, adorable, precious little thing gave birth to Baby Yoda? In that latter case, it is about as cute as you’d imagine. Read more... Go to Source
Apple Is Closing All of Its Stores and Corporate Offices in China Because of the Coronavirus Outbreak

Apple Is Closing All of Its Stores and Corporate Offices in China Because of the Coronavirus Outbreak

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Apple Is Closing All of Its Stores and Corporate Offices in China Because of the Coronavirus Outbreak Apple announced that it would close its official stores, corporate offices and contact centers in mainland China until Feb. 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The company stated that it was taking this action “out of an abundance of caution.”Read more... Go to Source
Hulu Set to Pick Up Justin Simien’s New Horror Flick Bad Hair

Hulu Set to Pick Up Justin Simien’s New Horror Flick Bad Hair

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Hulu Set to Pick Up Justin Simien's New Horror Flick Bad Hair One of the titles with a lot of energy coming out of Sundance this past week is Bad Hair, a new horror film from Dear White People creator Justin Simien. The satirical shocker, about an ambitious career woman in 1989 who gets a weave to succeed on TV only to find that the weave may, in fact, be haunted, has had a lot…Read more... Go to Source
US Carbon Emissions Are on Track to Fall a Shameful 4 Percent by 2050

US Carbon Emissions Are on Track to Fall a Shameful 4 Percent by 2050

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US Carbon Emissions Are on Track to Fall a Shameful 4 Percent by 2050 To meet the goals set in the Paris Climate Accord and avert climate catastrophe, UN scientists say nations must cut their greenhouse gas emissions to half of their 2018 levels by 2030 and aim for net zero emissions by 2050. That means cutting emissions by 7.6 percent every year for the next decade. But according to a…Read more... Go to Source
Stop Touching Your Face

Stop Touching Your Face

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Stop Touching Your Face The new decade has brought along a SARS-like, pneumonia-causing coronavirus that’s already sickened at least 9,000 people and killed over 200 worldwide. If you’re scared about threats like the Wuhan virus, then there’s one very easy thing you can start doing for the sake of your health and others—stop touching your…Read more... Go to Source