Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionKezia Dugdale said she was leaving with her “head held high” Kezia Dugdale has resigned as leader of Scottish Labour, saying it is time to “pass on the baton” to someone else. The Lothians MSP has previously criticised UK leader Jeremy Corbyn, and has faced criticism from […]
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All 50 startups from Y Combinators Summer 2017 Demo Day 1
Biotech and artificial intelligence have emerged as the top startup trends at Y Combinator‘s 25th Demo Day. The 124 companies presenting at the entrepreneur school’s twice-yearly graduation event compose YC’s largest batch from its 12.5 years running. YC partner Michael Seibel kicked off the event by reiterating the accelerator’s commitment to advancing diversity in Silicon […]
‘Demon goat’ appears in India, terrifying village with human-like face
A bizarre mutant goat has gone viral after images cropped up showing its human-like features. The goat became a viral sensation after Samiraa Aissa uploaded a video to Facebook on Aug. 17, writing: “A strange creature has been discovered in India. The animal, whose shape resembles that of a human being, terrified a whole village.” […]
Oregon Doesn’t Have Time For This Obamacare Repeal Nonsense
WASHINGTON Imagine a world where President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans dont want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and strip health insurance from millions of people. They want to expand it. In this parallel universe, they pass laws to make sure every kid has health care coverage and every woman has access to full […]
20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You
Danielle Drislane Toxic people such as psychopaths and those with antisocial traits engage in maladaptive behaviors in relationships that ultimately exploit, demean and hurt their intimate partners, family members and friends. They use a plethora of diversionary tactics that distort the reality of their victims and deflect responsibility. Although those who are not narcissistic can […]
10 Old Fashioned Dating Habits We Should Make Cool Again
1. Coming to the door to pick someone up. I think we’ve all had it with the incredibly unromantic “here” text, and meeting up always seems to be more casual and platonic than the alternative. Of course, meeting someone from online or any circumstance like that would probably be the exception to this rule, but […]
Unlearning the myth of American innocence
The long read: When she was 30, Suzy Hansen left the US for Istanbul and began to realise that Americans will never understand their own country until they see it as the rest of the world does My mother recently found piles of my notebooks from when I was a small child that were filled […]
British email prankster fools White House officials into replying
Man used emails to trick Anthony Scaramucci and pose as Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus and Eric Trump A suspected British prankster appears to have conned White House officials including Anthony Scaramucci into replying to him after pretending in email correspondence to be several different members of the Trump team. The man, who goes by the […]
Confessions of an American Doctor by Max Kepler
Book Summary In 2005, I was arrested by agents from both the US Postal Service and the Food and Drug Administration for the importation of illegal human growth hormone and botulinum toxin (Botox) from China. At the time of my arrest, I was a thirty-seven year old Harvard graduate with medical and post-doctoral degrees. I […]
Clockwork Strange: Into The Whirlwind by Dale McInnes
Clockwork Strange: Into The Whirlwind by Dale McInnes Story Summary: A North American novel inspired by Karel Zeman’s 1955 children’s classic tale Cesta Do Praveku Our first novel begins in 1943 with the disappearance of nine children and their three puppies on a prairie farm when they discover a door to long extinct alien worlds. […]