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No More Hugging Your Awesome Uber Driver

from CBS Philly Uber Introduces New Rules For The Road By Ian Bush PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Uber riders can rate their drivers on a five-star scale, but the assessment works the other way, too. And now, the ride-hailing app has released new rules of the road, including five infractions that could get you banned. Most of Uber’s guidelines […]

War In Space

from The Daily Star Russia, USA and China are prepping for all-out SPACE WAR SUPERPOWERS are preparing to dominate in a devastating space war, which could destroy life on Earth as we know it, experts have warned. By Alex Hickson DANGER: The blast trail of China’s heavy-lift rocket Long March-5 as it launches from Wenchang / GETTY […]

Daddy Hunter

from Fatherly  Fear And Loathing In Fatherhood: Everything You Need To Know About Parenting in 7 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes Hunter S. Thompson was a lot of things. Gun lover. Bucket hat wearer. A man who did enough cocaine to kill an entire species. You know him as The Godfather of Gonzo journalism, the man who inspired […]

Rocket Men

from The Guardian Rocket men: why tech’s biggest billionaires want their place in space Forget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol by Dan Tynan in San Francisco Richard Branson with a Virgin Galactic space aircraft at the company’s Mojave desert headquarters. Photograph: Barry J Holmes for […]

DRY Revived

from Dangerous Minds THE ENTIRE PRINT RUN (1979-82) OF NYC PUNK MAGAZINE ‘DRY’ IS NOW ONLINE! by Christopher Bickel Wendy O Williams of the Plasmatics in ‘Dry’ magazine Ryan Richardson is one of the United States’ foremost collectors, archivists, and dealers of punk rock records and ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who […]

Moon Village Coming

from The Belfast Telegraph ‘Moon village’ plans winning worldwide support Futuristic plans for a “moon village” proposed by the European Space Agency (Esa) are winning support from around the world. The idea is to set up a permanent human outpost on the moon that will be a base for science, business, mining and even tourism. […]

Inventor of General Tso’s Chicken Gone

from Taiwan News Inventor of General Tso’s Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98 The inventor of General Tso’s Chicken and founder of famous Taiwanese Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng’s Garden died in Taipei on Wednesday By Keoni Everington General Tso’s Chicken(By Wikimedia Commons)< Chef Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴), the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng’s […]

The Farmer’s Daughter

from LAist How A Seedy Motel Called The Farmer’s Daughter Became A Boutique Hotel BY JULIET BENNETT RYLAH “Flying Bacon” by Jessie Azzarin (Photo via Farmer’s Daughter Hotel) The farmer’s daughter, in fiction, is an attractive, pure-hearted young woman who grew up on a bucolic farm. She’s Daisy Duke. She’s Dolores Abernathy of Westworld. She’s Mary Ann, […]

Consensus

from The Christian Science Monitor Why more than 100 scientists are backing an asteroid-deflection mission Scientists have have voiced their support for a 2020 mission to do a test deflection of an asteroid to prepare for the possibility of a future collision with Earth. By Weston Williams NASA/AP  How do you stop an asteroid headed […]