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What Sherlock and Charles Xavier have to do with D-Day
Today may be the 70th anniversary of D-Day, but the BBC clearly wasn't thinking about appealing to World War II veterans with its choice of actors to read vintage news broadcasts of the historic...
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Still in chains, trans woman escapes from months of slavery
She thought she was moving in with trusted friends whom she met through the online BDSM community. But when she tried to put an end to "roleplay" that had grown more and more abusive, they put her in...
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The Kickstarter project that killed Tumblr's favorite meme
Accusations are swirling that plans to animate Tumblr's beloved Miss Officer and Mr Truffles fanart meme could be smoke and mirrors. Fanartist Ami Guillen, lemonteaflower on Tumblr, saw her adorable...
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Teen stabs mother in copycat 'Slender Man' attack
Just days after two girls attempted murder as a sacrifice to 'Slender Man,' an Internet-created horror meme they thought was real, another girl with the same obsession has allegedly stabbed her own...
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Sorry, the 'TFIOS' kiss isn't as groundbreaking as you hoped
John Green has had a big weekend. The film adaptation of his beloved book The Fault in Our Stars opened at No. 1, raking in more than $48 million at the box office. We're as guilty as anyone else of...
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Marvel puts Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch on its wish list
The ink is barely dry on Marvel's finalization of new director Peyton Reed to helm Ant Man, but the studio is already looking forward to another high-profile film project: Doctor Strange. The studio...
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Will Facebook care more about privacy if Mark Zuckerberg is exposed?
Last month the cybersecurity group CyberInt revealed a longstanding loophole in Facebook's friends security settings that shows how easy it is to get info from supposedly "secure" accounts on the...
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Here's what happily ever after looks like one year later
Drop everything, Lizzie and Darcy fans: Your favorite lovebirds from the Lizzie Bennet Diaries are back—one year, a successful Kickstarter, and an Emmy award later—to talk about their relationship....
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Florida school cancels summer reading program over novel 'questioning authority'
Little Brother is a critically acclaimed young adult sci-fi dystopia written by Cory Doctorow, one of the Internet's most prominent advocates for open access and free speech. First published in 2008,...
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Watch a terrified man escape a great white
As we all learned from Jaws, there's a concrete list of 'don't's when you're swimming in an area populated by sharks: No splashing, no making noise, no attracting attention to yourself, and,...
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Popular vloggers speak out against homophobia on YouTube
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown are scientists first, vloggers second. They're the creators of the popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, which boasts over 2 million subscribers. But as they revealed...
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How sexist video game animators keep failing women
The latest Assassins Creed sequel has no playable characters that are women. You'd think it would be simple: just take the framework upon which you build your playable characters and modify it...
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Did this Hollywood blogger just out DC's Wonder Woman plans?
One of Hollywood's biggest gossip journalists is going all-in for her own blog launch with a rumor about comics fandom's No. 1 Most-Wanted: An actual sighting of a Wonder Woman film. Nikki Finke,...
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'Emma Approved' launches real-life charity crowdfunding campaign
Emma may not be quite as advice-savvy as she thinks, but when it comes to fundraising, we can't help but approve of her methods.Pemberley Digital, the media group that brought you the...
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A horror novice's guide to H.P. Lovecraft
If you paid any attention to the hype surrounding HBO’s True Detective earlier this year, you probably noticed that the series’ numerous literary references got extensive media play. Above them all...
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Anita Sarkeesian accuses games of treating women as 'glorified furniture'
The comments and ratings are still disabled, but almost two years after her polarizing Kickstarter to fund a thorough critique of sexism in gaming, it seems the cloud of controversy around feminist...
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Soldier will reunite with the dog his girlfriend sold on Craigslist
As if dodging land mines overseas isn’t enough stress, one U.S. soldier almost had to worry about never seeing his beloved pet again. His girlfriend sold the dog on Craigslist while he was deployed....
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You're a failed parent unless you get your toddler this tiny Iron Throne
Take a popular lifestyle photographer-slash–mommy blogger. Add a couple of 3D-printing gurus and a heaping helping of Internet culture, and what do you get?The next ruler of Westeros, apparently.“Baby...
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Disney's 'Into the Woods' sucks all the fun out of the classic
It was always inevitable that a Disney adaptation of the beloved Sondheim musical Into the Woods would suffer from, well, Disneyfication. But if reports surfacing from a recent private talk Sondheim...
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MTV's Fandom Awards are just asking for a bloodbath
Perhaps this is all a part of MTV's secret strategy to declare Teen Wolf king of Tumblr after all the other fandoms lie fallen on the bloody battlefield. But it seems that whoever thought to turn...
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