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Reddit
<– Previous Recap Next Recap –> August 22th, 2012 What happened on Reddit today? An aquarium in Okinawa is quite stunning. Someone regrets not doing this during their childhood. A redditor regrets he tried it just 2 hours later, but others were more successful. Management writes a message to the people writing on the bathroom walls. An HD video of the Curiosity probe was released. Reddit realizes that the video is from Mars. TED releases a list of its 20 most-watched videos. Someone posted [...]
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Politics US News
An interesting post at counterpunch.org describes a plausible reason as to why the presumable Republican Presidential nominee has not released more than just his 2010 tax return. In 2009, the IRS offered amnesty to 30,000 ultra wealthy citizens that were hiding taxable income in offshore bank accounts. Under the amnesty agreement, the IRS promised not to pursue criminal charges and keep information confidential in exchange for the owed taxes and penalties from the money hidden in offshore bank accounts. Could it be possible that Mitt Romney could have [...]
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Reddit
<– Previous Recap Next Recap –> August 21th, 2012 What happened on Reddit today? A doctor explains one patient’s cause of penile fracture. Reddit finds a gif of the actual incident? Someone used The Sims as a coping mechanism. A young couple’s picture 9 years apart. Reddit is lonely. A funny facebook update that would make a lot of sense. Did you lose a cat? A picture of an unique stag party in Scotland. iPope Location Services – OFF! Reddit is [...]
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US News
The New York Police Department acknowledge in court testimony on Monday that it’s secret demographics unit has not generated a single lead or terrorist investigation after 6 years of eavesdropping in Muslim neighborhoods. Reddit’s Reaction: A redditor states that if there were a large terrorist threat in the United States, we’d be getting attacked a lot more often. Even with the US’s dedication to making airports, train stations, and military bases as “terrorist-proof” as possible, there are countless amount of other “soft” targets [...]
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Science
The 30-year-old bonobo chimp, Kanzi, has been observed creating tools on par with tools created by early humans. The chimp is also famous for learning sign language and even creating words for banana and juice by himself. Kanzi is noted as being the only animal to make somewhat advanced tools, like; wedges, choppers, scrapers and drills. Reddit’s Reaction: Reddit explains how tool making could be passed down to future generations by observation. Original Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22197-bonobo-genius-makes-stone-tools-like-early-humans-did.html
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World News
The Swedish government has announced that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the US if his offenses will garner the death penalty. If Assange were to be extradited to the US he could face the charge of revealing state secrets and would face the death penalty or life in prison if found guilty. Reddit’s Reaction: A redditor is comforted to know that Assange will not face the death penalty in the US, but just endless detention without due process. Reddit also argues how or [...]
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Reddit
<– Previous Recap Next Recap –> August 20th, 2012 What happened on Reddit today? A father gets mad at his son. Redditors knows that feel. A balloon guy at a bar mitzvah has some skills. The guy shows up in the comments. The reddit team announces the University of reddit where anyone can take classes taught by redditors in various fields. An awesome electric violinist with a looping pedal is caught on video. Spoon_man likes his music, but really likes his [...]
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World News
36 universities in Iran have announced that 77 courses will be “single-gender” and effectively exclusive to men only. Critics say that the ban is a result of women outperforming men in recent years and at odds against the traditional male-dominated viewpoint of religious leaders in Iran. The higher education minster in Iran refuted the recent controversy by maintaining that over 90% of degrees are still available to women and the single-gender classes were just created to maintain a “balance”. Reddit’s Reaction: Macmee feels [...]
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