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Publishing, failed romance, books and music.

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This is the most detailed picture of gun violence in America ever. This is what the country’s gun homicide epidemic really looks like.

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Henderson's Relish

Hendo’s controversy

Henderson’s Relish has always been known, by Sheffielders, as “‘Endersons”, or simply as “Relish”. However, in recent years, it has been claimed that it is also known as “Hendo’s” in the city. However, the addition of an ‘o’ to words in this way is something more commonly associated with speech patterns in the North-West of England, rather than Yorkshire, and “Hendo’s” is not a traditional name for Henderson’s Relish. The issue has been much discussed on local websites.

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There’s always someone who gets too excited at the Christmas party.

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Michelle Kwon

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Story idea when you try to actually write it:

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Story idea when you first rewrite it:

Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!

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Your story when somebody else sees it:

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This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents. 

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We know a lot about the life of Lucy, the famous fossil of Australopithecus afarensis —our ancient ancestor and bridge to the ape world.

Lucy was 3 feet tall; she lived in what is now Ethiopia and she walked upright. She ate leaves, grass and maybe nuts and seeds. She probably slept in a tree nest.

And now, after studying a 3-D scan of Lucy’s bones, scientists say they know something about her death. In a study published Monday in Nature, researchers at the University of Texas present evidence they say shows Lucy died after she fell out of a tree.

But other paleoanthropologists fired back, saying there was insufficient evidence to support the tree-fall theory.

Read more about the new theory here - and decide if you buy it!

Images: Wikimedia Commons; Marsha Miller/University of Texas, Austin; John Kappelman/Nature

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ICYMI: There’s been some updates on Lucy, our ancient ancestor. -Emily

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The scariest part of Halloween is how anatomically incorrect these decorations are.

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cyan-biologist

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listen, sometimes necromancers get bored, and there’s always lots of little bones laying around….

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“Gonna make a bone spider”

“Why”

“BECAUSE I DO WHAT I WANT”

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I work in a government-funded spider research lab at a top university and we have this in our lab:

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I had to reblog this, what’s better than a literal bone spider.

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does he have a name

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“Government-funded spider research lab” is not a collection of words I ever thought I’d see together in the same sentence.

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Scientist/part-time necromancer would be an ideal job title

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~ Etti-Cat for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (1962)

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Fashion Model

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I can’t handle this

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Sunset in Waikiki: Tourists sipping mai tais crowded the beachside hotel bar. When the server spotted my friend and me, he seemed to relax. “Ah,” he said, smiling. “Two hapa girls.”

He asked if we were from Hawaii. We weren’t. We both have lived in Honolulu — my friend lives there now — but hail from California. It didn’t matter. In that moment, he recognized our mixed racial backgrounds and used “hapa” like a secret handshake, suggesting we were aligned with him: insiders and not tourists.

Like many multiracial Asian-Americans, I identify as hapa, a Hawaiian word for “part” that has spread beyond the islands to describe anyone who’s part Asian or Pacific Islander. When I first learned the term in college, wearing it felt thrilling in a tempered way, like trying on a beautiful gown I couldn’t afford. Hapa seemed like the identity of lucky mixed-race people far away, people who’d grown up in Hawaii as the norm, without “Chink” taunts, mangled name pronunciations, or questions about what they were.

Over time, as more and more people called me hapa, I let myself embrace the word. It’s a term that explains who I am and connects me to others in an instant. It’s a term that creates a sense of community around similar life experiences and questions of identity. It’s what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas.

Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’?

Illustration: Jennifer Qian for NPR

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When you’re about to erase a tweet with a bad typo and it starts to get a bunch of retweets

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KIC 8462852

KIC 8462852[1] (eponymously Tabby’s Star after the initial study’s lead author Tabetha S. Boyajian,[3] or WTF Star, formally for “Where’s The Flux?”,[4][5][6][7] but also a reference to an expression of disbelief[8]) is anF-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus approximately 454 parsecs (1,480 ly) from Earth.

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