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• Connelly: Putting a dent in Dino Rossi -- Democrats, allies are out protesting

  25-04-2018 23:40
  Disciplined Republican hopeful Dino Rossi is likely to see lots of protesters from liberal groups as he runs for Congress in the 8th District.  Pro-gun safety high school students are showing up Thursday outside a $500-a-person Rossi fundraiser at Sahalle Country Club.
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Putting the "Crisis" in Masculinity

  25-04-2018 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 146 considers Professor Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist who's become a YouTube hero to people who feel there's a "crisis in masculinity." (Pictured above in his viral face-off with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.) YouTube
  Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!The Democrat didn’t win in Arizona’s 8th Congressional district this week, but the results of that race were still very, very encouraging.Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, and Rich Smi
  
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• What Lies Between the Legs in Natalie Krick’s Show at Glass Box Gallery?

  25-04-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leah St. Lawrence Courtesy of Glass Box Gallery
  One of the more provocative photographs in Natalie Krick’s show, Apocalypstick, up now at Glass Box Gallery, is of a female figure reclining on her back with her legs high in the air. The rest of the body disappears into the background through a curtain of electric purple, so that the woman becomes only her legs and what lies between. A sunset shines through the separated knees and a large cut-out of lipstick covers her cunt. This exhibiti
  
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• On Sexual Deprivation, Sex Workers, "Incels," and Violence

  25-04-2018 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Before I say anything else: I agree with Rachel Fagen. I have good friends who do sex work—women and men—and they're not human shields. Their lives are valuable and, like Fagen says, they're not here to soak up male rage. They deserve safe working conditions and they deserve our respect—not despite the work they do, but because of it.
  And let me say this: I have no sympathy for "incels" lurking in dark corners of the Internet cheering on misogynistic violence. I h
  
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• We Must Not Separate the Spike in Vehicular Terrorism with Urban Planning That Neglects Pedestrian Safety

  25-04-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeEven Pike Place Market must have cars... Charles Mudede
  This Sunday, a man in a silver sports car got tired of waiting for one person to cross the intersection on South Oregon Street and Rainier Avenue South, brazenly ran the red light, and forced that pedestrian to leap out of the raging driver's way. The car then came to a stop just a block down the road to wait for yet another red light, at Rainier and South Alaska Street. This time he could not break the law because he was b
  
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• Sign to nowhere? Sign in Seattle's Sodo neighborhood is misleading at best

  25-04-2018 22:44
  Seattle's signage is already widely regarded as not so great, but this sign in Sodo only adds fuel to that fire.
  
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• Charges: Unprovoked machete attack left man critically wounded

  25-04-2018 22:34
  When a 39-year-old man intervened in a confrontation between his girlfriend and a pair of alleged vandals, the vandals turned against him with a belt and machete, seemingly intent on "leaving (him) a corpse," police reports say.
  
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• Kanye West and Donald Trump Trading Tweets: So, Like, Is This the Singularity?

  25-04-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonWhere does one even start with this shit?
  Kanye West has recently been on a long streak of fucked up tweets that seem to indicate something is wrong, either mentally, emotionally, chemically, or some combination of the three. Today, he seems to have gone fully off the rails, proclaiming love and solidarity with demonstrably awful humans like the current president (who tweeted right back at him, naturally) and bragging about having a meeting with Peter Thiel—one of only a few
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Affairs & Their Aftermaths

  25-04-2018 22:12 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a 34 year old bisexual woman from London. I'm wondering if you can help me.
  In my early 20's, I embarked on an affair with a woman, not long after my long term boyfriend left me. It was a reckless endeavour as I was clearly still in love with my ex-boyfriend and I was in no place to start a new relationship. Although it was fun and refreshing at first, my gay affair turned into an emotionally turbulent, sexually charged, destructive union and not long after we got together, I b
  
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• Corpse Paint Goes Cute in New Netflix Series, Aggretsuko

  25-04-2018 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Retsuko is an accountant by day, death metal singer by night.by Sophia Stephens Courtesy of Netflix
  Confession: I am a grown ass woman who wholeheartedly loves Sanrio. The Japanese answer to Disney is a company upheld by a cast of tender-hearted, colorful fairies and animals like (most notably) Hello Kitty. There is a Sanrio Hello Kitty Land in Tokyo, and, yes, I have been there. So on 4/20, when Netflix premiered Aggretsuko, a new original series about a Sanrio character—amiable red panda
  
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• Erotic Arts Festival this weekend

  25-04-2018 21:37
  Erotic Arts Festival returns to Seattle
  
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• So Joy Ann Reid Made Homophobic Remarks a Decade Ago. Big Deal.

  25-04-2018 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogRaise your hand if you're in biiiiig trouble. Kris Connor/Getty Images
  This week in media drama, it's MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid in the hot seat.The saga began last December, after homophobic comments Reid allegedly posted on her now defunct blog were reported by Mediaite.At the time, Mediaite's Caleb Ecarma wrote:The MSNBC weekend host ran a blog called The Reid Report — which is the same name as her now-defunct cable news show — a decade ago while she wrote for the Miami H
  
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• I'm Gay as Hell and I Don't Give a Damn If Joy Ann Reid Was a Raging Homophobe Ten Years Ago

  25-04-2018 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogRaise your hand if you're in biiiiig trouble. Kris Connor/Getty Images
  This week in media drama, it's MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid in the hot seat.The saga began last December, after homophobic comments Reid allegedly posted on her now defunct blog were reported by Mediaite.At the time, Mediaite's Caleb Ecarma wrote:The MSNBC weekend host ran a blog called The Reid Report — which is the same name as her now-defunct cable news show — a decade ago while she wrote for the Miami H
  
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• European Space Agency satellite rides to orbit from Russia

  25-04-2018 20:55
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian rocket has carried into orbit a satellite that is part of the European Space Agency’s earth observation program. The Sentinel-3B satellite blasted off Wednesday from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia, said the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The satellite, part of the ESA’s Copernicus program, is to measure oceans, […]
  
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• Portable test helps identify refugees at risk of outbreaks

  25-04-2018 20:46
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it a lab in a box: Researchers created a device about the size of a toaster that can test a drop of blood to tell, in about half an hour, who’s immune to certain infections and who’s not. The goal is to find groups of people at risk of outbreaks, especially […]
  
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• Scientists find lots of gorillas in census, also see decline

  25-04-2018 20:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers say there are far more western Africa gorillas than conservationists previously thought. But maybe not for long: The same study found a 19 percent plunge in that gorilla population in eight years. Researchers spent a decade trudging through an area of forest looking for lowland gorillas and chimpanzees. What scientists call […]
  
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• Evicted Over $49: What Happens When Seattle's Poorest Tenants Can't Make Rent

  25-04-2018 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover ROB DOBI
  Dominick Andrus fell behind on rent. The two-week "pay or vacate" notice landed on his apartment door in February. He owed $155.20.
  For others, it's been less: $49, $50, $95.
  Andrus lives in a beige seven-story Capitol Hill apartment building owned and operated by the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA). He spent three years waiting for a space in Seattle's rare public housing. Now that he's there, he lives precariously. Partially blind since birth, Andrus lives off of Soci
  
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• U.S. officials drill out locks at former Russian consul residence in Seattle’s Madison Park

  25-04-2018 19:40
  The Russian Consulate in Seattle was ordered by the Trump administration to cease operations. A State Department official said the government was inspecting the consul's residence on Wednesday.
  
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• Pacific Rimming, Merch Girls, and More at Pop Conference’s Gender-Focused Music Nerd Sesh

  25-04-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Greg Scruggs
  Do you wish your college had offered a sociology class about Lady Gaga? If so, then you get a second chance at holding up popular music to the high altar of academic criticism every year right here in Seattle, no final exam required. The annual Pop Conference kicks off on Thursday at MoPOP (ex-EMP and about 10 other names) in Seattle Center for four days of hardcore music nerdery that goes far beyond speculating what happens if you play The White Album backwards. Bringing togethe
  
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• I'd Like My Coffee with a Side of Pot, Please

  25-04-2018 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester Black SPENCER AFONSO
  Drugs are fun, but combining drugs is even more fun. And the single best combination of drugs on the planet is that of caffeine and cannabis.
  There's something downright divine about this mix, and I am certainly not the first person to notice. There's even a group that built it right into their religion. The Love Israel Family—Washington State's largest hippie commune during the 1970s, that at one point included more than 350 people living communally in a doz
  
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• Ex-policeman charged with decades-old serial killings

  25-04-2018 17:58
  A suspected California serial killer who committed at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes throughout the state in the 1970s and '80s was identified as a 72-year-old police officer who was fired from the Auburn Police Department.
  
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• Ex-police officer named as suspected serial killer of 12 in California

  25-04-2018 17:58
  A suspected California serial killer who committed at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes throughout the state in the 1970s and '80s was identified Wednesday as a 72-year-old police officer who was fired from the Auburn Police Department.
  
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• Ex-cop arrested in sadistic crime spree from ’70s and ’80s

  25-04-2018 17:58
  A suspected California serial killer who committed at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes throughout the state in the 1970s and '80s was identified as a 72-year-old police officer who was fired from the Auburn Police Department.
  
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• DNA brings arrest in sadistic crime spree from ’70s and ’80s

  25-04-2018 17:58
  A suspected California serial killer who committed at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes throughout the state in the 1970s and '80s was identified as a 72-year-old police officer who was fired from the Auburn Police Department.
  
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• Conservative Columnist: Porn Stars and Selfie Sticks (Among Other Things) Ruined Everything

  25-04-2018 17:47 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage"Decent society is unraveling right in front of us," says Kathleen Parker, a conservative columnist for the Washington Post. Members of the Syracuse University chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity posted videos online—or the videos made it online—of some sort of homoerotic initiation ceremony:
  In the clip, we see a group of apparently drunk men surrounding an individual seated in a chair, who, his head bobbing, is pretending to be disabled. One of the young lads can be he
  
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• Uganda counts gorillas amid tourism-boosting ‘baby boom’

  25-04-2018 17:11
  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has begun counting its population of critically endangered mountain gorillas amid confidence their numbers are steadily rising, boosting prospects for its tourism industry that relies heavily on the primates. The last census in 2011 showed the East African country had 480 mountain gorillas in two protected areas, or about half […]
  
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• Slog AM: King County Metro Riders Report More Sexual Misconduct After #MeToo, More Issues at Hanford, EPA Puts Limits on Science

  25-04-2018 17:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Clocks are too low-tech for teens, dogs can't get autism, are Trump and Macron in love?by Nathalie GrahamPeople are seeing something and actually saying something. Charles Mudede
  Transit takes #MeToo to the streets: There has been an upward tick in sexual misconduct reports from riders on King County Metro since the #MeToo movement began in October. Riders reported 66 cases of sexual misconduct last year. The Seattle Times found that half of these occurred after the #MeToo movement started. It&r
  
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• Huge waterfront home destroyed by fire near Gig Harbor

  25-04-2018 16:19
  GIG HARBOR, Wash. - A large waterfront home was destroyed by a two-alarm fire Wednesday morning near Gig Harbor, emergency officials said.Firefighters rushed to the scene, in the 7700 block of Olympic View Drive NW, at about 3:45 a.m. after receiving reports of smoke and flames billowing from the 5,000-square-foot home.
  
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• What questions do you have about special education in Washington?

  25-04-2018 15:00
  For this round of Education Lab IQ (Interesting Questions), we're investigating your questions about how special education works in Washington, an issue that affects 13 percent of state's 1.1 million students.
  
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• The sirens are sounding on homelessness. Just not here.

  25-04-2018 15:00
  The homelessness scourge is finally being treated like a full-fledged emergency, as if it were a natural disaster like an earthquake. In some cities anyway.
  
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• DOE’s oversight at Hanford slammed in government report

  25-04-2018 15:00
  A new report to Congress raises concerns about a Hanford cornerstone project in the decadeslong efforts to clean up the radioactive and chemical wastes from plutonium production for nuclear weapons.
  
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• Black Panther Party’s legacy to help sick, poor lives on at Seattle health clinic

  25-04-2018 15:00
  As people celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s Seattle chapter, one of their missions still thrives: The Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center, which sees hundreds of patients each month. “I like that they’re personal and honest,” one patient says.
  
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• After #MeToo movement, King County Metro Transit sees more reports of sexual misconduct

  25-04-2018 15:00
  County leaders have launched a campaign to encourage more passengers to come forward, in an effort they say plays off the public's overall willingness to report misconduct.
  
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• After #MeToo movement, King County Metro Transit seeing more reports of sexual misconduct

  25-04-2018 15:00
  County leaders have launched a new campaign to encourage more passengers to come forward, in an effort they say plays off the public's overall willingness to report misconduct after the global social-media phenomenon last fall.
  
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• Singapore euthanizes 27-year-old polar bear born in tropics

  25-04-2018 13:29
  SINGAPORE (AP) — Inuka, the world’s first polar bear born in the tropics, was euthanized Wednesday by the Singapore Zoo, officials said. The 27-year-old bear suffered from age-related ailments including arthritis, and its limbs became too weak to support its over 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) frame. The zoo said this resulted in injuries to its abdomen and […]
  
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• Seeing the Seattle Erotic Art Festival Just Became a Political Act

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The Seattle Erotic Art Festival opens just as the Feds are shutting down erotic services websites.by Katie KurtzWhile you were sleeping, and most likely having sex dreams about people other than your partner, the world's most well-known john signed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act into law.The bill, a companion to the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, is aimed at stopping sex trafficking. However, the overall effect impinges on consensual sex workers' ability to make a living safely and ins
  
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• Pop-Up Magazine and National Geographic Join Forces in Seattle for One Night Only

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  It's a night of storytelling and awe inspiring at Benaroya Hall.by Katie HerzogPop-Up Magazine is not a magazine, at least not in the traditional sense. There's no paper or subscription cards, and it would make a terrible liner for your litter box. Instead, Pop-Up is a magazine come to life.A live storytelling event in the vein of the Moth or Mortified, Pop-Up features best-selling and award-winning authors, filmmakers, journalists, audio producers, musicians, and emerging voices, who tell stori
  
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• Kid Koala Brings a Party to the Dance Floor with His Vinyl Vaudeville Tour

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The party features puppeteers, dancers, and Kid on three turntables.by Leilani PolkKid Koala is an extraordinary turntablist, an artist of the decks. He operates the turntable like a melodic instrument, wreaking pro-
  tracted notes from under the needle at varying speeds to create pitches that waver, twist, and soar in swaths of sonic color. He's also a pro at juggling samples and reimagining tracks into compositions all his own.He's served as guest or collaborator in a range of projects—in
  
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• I, Anonymous: So You're a Seattle Native. Want an Award?

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Please tell me more about how much better it used to be before the transplants invaded.by AnonymousCongratulations on having chosen such an excellent place to be born. Some of us completely uprooted our lives, quit our jobs, packed all our things, and moved thousands of miles away from our families and friends, basically starting over, just to be here because we love it so much. But definitely your sense of entitlement to this place, having never lived more than 100 miles from where chance plant
  
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• I, Anonymous: So You Were Born in Seattle. Want an Award?

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Please tell me more about how much better it used to be before the transplants invaded.by AnonymousCongratulations on having chosen such an excellent place to be born. Some of us completely uprooted our lives, quit our jobs, packed all our things, and moved thousands of miles away from our families and friends, basically starting over, just to be here because we love it so much. But definitely your sense of entitlement to this place, having never lived more than 100 miles from where chance plant
  
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• How $100 Can Be the Difference Between Housing and Homelessness

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Why is Seattle Housing Authority evicting so many people?by Heidi GrooverDominick Andrus fell behind on rent. The two-week "pay or vacate" notice landed on his apartment door in February. He owed $155.20.For others, it's been less: $49, $50, $95.Andrus lives in a beige seven-story Capitol Hill apartment building owned and operated by the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA). He spent three years waiting for a space in Seattle's rare public housing. Now that he's there, he lives precariously. Partiall
  
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• Don't Go Home at Bar Close. Go to Ba Bar.

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The middle-of-the-night food scene at Ba Bar on Capitol Hill.by Chase BurnsFor all of Seattle's famed sleepless-ness, you'd think we could get a later bar close, or a weed cafe, or at least a few more places to eat carbs at three in the morning. But most venues push people out onto the streets between 1:30 and 2 a.m. This is because state Republican lawmakers and the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board hate fun and happiness.If you do find yourself drunk and hungry at 2 a.m. on a Friday o
  
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• Darkness Encroaches in Michelle Pfeiffer's Where Is Kyra?

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Where Is Kyra?, Michelle Pfeiffer's unorthodox comeback vehicle, is beautifully made and almost unbearably grim.by Sean NelsonThere was a time, not long ago, when the idea of making Michelle Pfeiffer invisible would have seemed an impossible task for even the most talented filmmaker. But invisibility, and its more active counterpart, disappearance, are constant nemeses to the great actress in her almost unbearably grim new drama, Where Is Kyra?Even the title lets you know about the peril she's i
  
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• Darkness Encroaches in Michelle Pfeiffer's Unorthodox Comeback Vehicle Where Is Kyra?

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Where Is Kyra?, Michelle Pfeiffer's unorthodox comeback vehicle, is beautifully made and almost unbearably grim.by Sean NelsonThere was a time, not long ago, when the idea of making Michelle Pfeiffer invisible would have seemed an impossible task for even the most talented filmmaker. But invisibility, and its more active counterpart, disappearance, are constant nemeses to the great actress in her almost unbearably grim new drama, Where Is Kyra?Even the title lets you know about the peril she's i
  
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• Crossword Solution: "Food Hot Takes"

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the April 25, 2018 issue of The Strangerby Brendan Emmett Quigley
  
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• Conjugal Visit: The Defining Sexual Partner of His Life

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  She burst through my icy walls of uptight reserve like the Kool-Aid Man.by AnonymousSeeing the coldly cordial way we pass each other on the street—10 percent head nod, 20 percent grin—no one would ever guess she had once been the defining sexual partner of my life, bursting through my icy walls of uptight reserve like the Kool-Aid Man. What began as a pretty conventional coupling—though we did fuck on the first date, at her very skillful instigation—became a weird tangle
  
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• Broken Bone Bathtub Is Performed in a Stranger's Bathroom

  25-04-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  How did Siobhan O'Loughlin end up making theater in other people's bathtubs?by Rich SmithTheater artist Siobhan O'Loughlin broke her hand and fingers in a bad bike accident in 2014. The doctor told the New York–based artist to wrap up her giant cast in a plastic bag when showering, but O'Loughlin was anxious about doing that "because I'm an anxious person," she said recently.So she thought to take baths instead. A major problem presented itself: She didn't have a bathtub.Out of desperation
  
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• Scientists release most detailed star chart of the Milky Way

  25-04-2018 12:56
  BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency is releasing the most detailed star chart yet for the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. The data released Wednesday include high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars collected by the space agency’s Gaia probe, which was launched in 2013. It follows the release two years ago of a […]
  
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• Museum realizes collection’s rare elephant bird egg is real

  25-04-2018 06:08
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Buffalo museum has made a rare discovery within its own collection: a fully intact egg from the extinct elephant bird that until now, was thought to be fake. Curators at the Buffalo Museum of Science were cataloging pieces in the museum’s collection when they realized and confirmed that the foot-tall […]
  
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