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Day: December 17, 2019

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7 Reminders For Couples Going Through A Rough Patch

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By Candice Picard By Candice Picard 1. One fight doesn’t mean your relationship is doomed. Even the strongest, healthiest couples in the world get into arguments. They have disagreements. They hurt each other on accident. Getting into a fight with your person doesn’t mean a breakup is on the horizon. Fights can actually be a good thing if you stay respectful, because they can show you which aspects of your relationship you need to work on before it all falls apart. 2. Your person deserves to know how you feel.…

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Listen To The Sounds Of A Solar Storm Hurling Itself At Earths Magnetosphere

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For the first time, scientists have recorded the “song” Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm, and having translated these electromagnetic waves into audible sound, you can listen to it right here. It turns out, the stronger the storm, the louder Earth “sings”. And yes, it sounds eerie. Our planet’s magnetic field protects us daily from the Sun, which is both life-giving and would wipe us out in a second, were it not for the field preventing the onslaught of radioactive winds generated by our star from…

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Scam Victim Plays Dumb To Annoy The Hell Out Of Scammer Offering Them $150,000

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However, lots of people know that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch. So when they’re contacted by a scammer, some people troll them as hard as possible, wasting their time. One such story went Lots of people love hitting back at scammers, wasting their time, and just generally annoying them. So when you’re done reading this article, check out Bored Panda’s other articles on folks trolling scammers here, here, and here. And be sure…

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ROH Final Battle PPV Live Stream: How To Watch Ring of Honor Without Cable

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Rush joined Ring of Honor about a year ago, and hes never lost a match in the independent pro wrestling promotion. In September, he won the ROH world title from Matt Taven at the Death Before Dishonor PPV, and three months later, Rush will put his undefeated record and his championship on the line vs. PCO in the main event of Final Battle. Dec. 15, 2018 turned out to be an important date for ROH. That was the day Rush and PCO made their separate debuts for the company. Rush…

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30 Birds When Theyre Babies Versus All Grown Up

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Scroll down to see some impressive bird glow-ups. We bet you didn’t know what at least a few of these birds looked like as babies. Upvote the ones that surprise you the most! This post may include affiliate links. #1 Cardinal #2 Peacock #3 Tuffted Puffin Pigeons are an unusual case because, even if you live in a city and you see more pigeons than you can count every day, you’ve probably never seen one tending to a nest with baby pigeons in it. That’s because the feral pigeons that…

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Youngest MP had been looking for temp work

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“I never thought a few months ago when I was applying for Christmas temp work, minimum wage work, that I wouldn’t need it because I’d be an MP by Christmas,” she said. Image caption Jo Swinson in 2004 Baby of the House Affectionate name given to the youngest MP in Parliament, a spin-off of Father of the House Previous holders of the title include Jo Swinson, David Lammy, Stephen Dorrell and Charles Kennedy Unlike Father of the House, the title of Baby of the House brings no extra duties or…

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Team Red Bull Breaks Pit Stop World Record for Third Time This Season

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For the third time in the 2019 season, Red Bull have broken the pit stop record. In the Formula 1 Brazilian GP, they serviced Max Verstappen on the first of his three stops in an amazing 1.82 seconds, shaving six hundredths off their own record set at Hockenheim. It also means that they have wrapped up the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award for this year. With one race to go, they are now 52 points ahead of second-placed Williams. The stop in Brazil was their eighth DHL Fastest pit stop…

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Astronomers Spot The Most Energetic Gamma-Ray Yet From A Cosmic Explosion

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Over the last two years, gamma-ray observatories have spotted something incredible. Astronomers detected the brightest light ever recorded coming from the universe, reaching about 100 billion times the energy of a single photon of visible light. This incredible light was produced by gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), a rare cosmic event that features a short and incredibly powerful explosion. In three new papers published in Nature (here, here, and here) researchers detail the observations of two of these events: GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C. The 300+ scientists in the international collaboration detected…

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Clive James remembered by John Simpson

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The BBC world affairs editor on a charismatic wit and gifted poet who elevated British life with his televisual panache He came into my life in the same way, I imagine, as he came into everyone elses: with a joke and a certain amount of bounce, but also with a degree of authority that meant you took him seriously, even while you were laughing. Jesus, what do you do here put on Wagner? It was Clives, and my, last year at Cambridge University, and I was living in a medieval…

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