TED Talks
Sebastian Wernicke: Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)

In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. How do you rate it? "Jaw-dropping"? "Unconvincing"? Or just plain "Funny"?

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 /r/NatureIsMetal
There have been no confirmed spider bite deaths in Australia since 1979 (one death in 2016 is unclear cause/multiple comorbidities). Swooping magpies have killed two people in the last 3 years. Source links comments.
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 /r/CityPorn
Tromsø, Norway
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 /r/MostBeautiful
The ruins of a medieval church on the grounds of Kilkea Castle, Kildare, Ireland [OC]
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 /r/ShowerThoughts
Pockets were a revolutionary invention at one point in human history.
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 /r/SpacePorn
Today Crew 5 launched aboard A falcon 9 rocket. among the crew was the first Native American woman in space.
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 /r/AskReddit
Why did you quit your last job?
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 Inspirio
 IMDB
The Act of Killing

2012 - 8.2

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 /r/AskScience
How is the environment/humanity not affected by the hundreds (or thousands) of tests of nuclear bombs over the last century?
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 Cardflow

For and Against (a site that lists out arguments for any xyz topic like marriage kids etc etc)

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How come water can go from solid to liquid when you increase the ambient pressure?
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 Mix

Mac n Cheeze

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My anti-virus is 266 months out of date (approx 22 years)
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 /r/MildlyInteresting
Cheaped out on bookshelf and couple months later, it morphed itself a new design
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 Idiom
in the same boat

If two or more parties are in the same boat, they are in the same unpleasant or difficult situation. "When the factory closed down, the workers all found themselves in the same boat."

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 /r/EarthPorn
A River Runs Through - Yellowstone National Park, MT [OC] [3648 x 5472] IG: Joegoodz
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