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mayor bets

Mayor Shit Talk is the Worst Shit Talk: Mets-Giants Edition
Bill de Blasio and Ed Lee are responsible for the worst mayor bet over the playoffs ever.
Sean Newell
10.5.16
APOCALYPSE

Preppers Taught Me How to Eat When the World Ends
I spoke to two very different preppers to understand how they plan to eat once the world comes to an end.
David Whelan
10.5.16
Sports

Arnold's Female Bodybuilders
Photographer Francisco Poyato Pastor visited Arnold Schwarzenegger's sports festival in Barcelona.
Francisco Poyato Pastor
10.5.16
THE FUTURE

Watch a Quantum Computing Expert Describe How the World’s About to Change
Quantum information scientist Michele Mosca speaks about the near future.
Kate Lunau
10.5.16
NFL

NFL Plans to Circulate Video Clarifying What Sexually Suggestive Acts Are Penalties. We Obviously Need this Video ASAP.
Please, please let there be video of NFL officials twerking. Please.
Sean Newell
10.5.16
nobel prize

This Year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, Explained with Bagels, Pretzels, and Cinnamon Buns
We spoke to Nobel Committee member Thors Hans Hansson about how pastry holes can help us understand a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough behind this year's Prize for Physics.
Nick Rose
10.5.16
Brexit

UK universities are worried that Brexit will destroy diversity
International students generate a whopping £7bn a year for the UK economy, but numbers have been falling, and by last spring, the total number of applications from non-EU students had dropped by 6 percent.
Isabella Mackie
10.5.16
Spotlight

Carla Dal Forno Is Better Off Alone
Spotlight: After years making music as part of collaborations, the Melbourne-born songwriter is making uniquely gloomy recordings under her own name.
Colin Joyce
10.5.16
war and conflict

The world waits for Obama to take action in Syria — but it may be too late
The proposed plans would require a certain degree of cooperation with the Russians — or accepting the prospect of direct conflict.
Joshua Hersh
10.5.16
Music

Off the Grid is Australia’s Only Music Festival Powered By the Sun
Eco-party Off the Grid is returning to Melbourne this December, and they've just announced a killer line up.
Katherine Gillespie
10.5.16
lacrosse

Lax Bros Settle Game with Super Intense Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors
A lightning storm can never really cancel the game when you have rock, paper, scissors to fall back on.
Patrick Sauer
10.5.16
Features

How Bruce Haack Went From Composing Children’s Music to Making One of Canada’s Weirdest Electronic Albums
Stream the Telephone Explosion reissue of 'The Electric Lucifer,' his 1970 masterpiece about the battle between heaven and hell.
Michael Rancic
10.5.16
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