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#SaveBully: Why We Must Fight to Save the Bullingdon Club
The Telegraph reported this week that the Bullingdon Club faces extinction because nobody wants to join it. Here's why that is a travesty.
Why Are Some of the UK's Most Vulnerable People Being Kicked Out of Their Houseboats?
They argue that developers and local councils are trying to empty the UK's waterways to make riverside property more attractive.
Plants Can Assess Risk Similar to Animals
Researchers made a pea plant ‘decide’ between growing in two different pots, demonstrating for the first time that plants assess risk similar to animals.
Misbehaving Kids Could Get Burgers for Wearing Bike Helmets
It's part of an incentive to bolster "good moral values".
Snowden's Surveillance Leaks Made People Less Likely to Read About Surveillance
New Oxford study shows evidence of post-Snowden “chilling effects” in what people read on Wikipedia.
Why the US Is Buying Up So Many UK Artificial Intelligence Companies
DeepMind, SwiftKey, VocalIQ—Does the UK need to worry about a brain drain in artificial intelligence?
I Hung Out with Shia LaBeouf in an Elevator in the Name of Art
He's staying there for 24 hours and live streaming it.
Calls for Justice Increase Amid Mourning for Murdered Student Giulio Regeni
VICE News spoke to friends and colleagues of Giulio Regeni, an Italian academic and Cambridge PhD student who was murdered in Egypt while conducting research on trade unions.
Being a Regular at a Bar Is Good For Your Health
The local drinking hole could be one of the last bastions of meaningful human interaction in an increasingly digitized age.
The Mom of 'Jihadi Jack' Says He Isn't a Jihadi at All
Reports over the weekend alleged that Jack Letts now goes by the name Abu Muhammed and has been fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. His mom insisted it's all nonsense.
Found J.R.R. Tolkien Map Reveals Middle-Earth's Earthly Inspirations
An annotated map of Middle-Earth was found in an illustrator’s old copy of 'Lord of the Rings.'