We all hoped EPA head, Scott Pruitt, would eventually face consequences when he falsely claimed that there was “tremendous disagreement” about whether human activity cause global warming.
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Friday, March 31, 2017
Report: EPA Investigates EPA Head Scott Pruitt For His Climate-Denying Bullshit
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Kotaku Ghost In The Shell Really Bummed Us Out | Jalopnik This Is What It Looks Like When You Don’t
Kotaku Ghost In The Shell Really Bummed Us Out | Jalopnik This Is What It Looks Like When You Don’t Change Your Oil | io9 Orlando Bloom Is Looking Very Crusty in New Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Footage | Vitals You’re Probably Going to Get a Tick This Summer. Good Luck. |
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Orlando Bloom Is Looking Very Crusty in New Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Footage
After a couple of trailers and teasers, a behind-the-scenes video that revealed Will Turner’s son, and news that Orlando Bloom would be back as Will in the fifth pirates movie, we finally have a good look at him. And things have gone wrong.
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The Conspiracy Theories of Trumpland: A Compleat and Comprehensive Bestiary
Donald Trump is not the kind of man who is willing to go along with accepted facts. From his subjective valuation of his business portfolio, through his bird-dogging of Barack Obama’s birth certificate to his tantrums about the deceptive sparseness of his inaugural crowds, Trump has pursued his own rages and fixations…
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Is Blue Origin's Tourist Capsule Sexier Than SpaceX's?
The dick measuring contest space race between tech titans Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has been brewing for years, but recently, things have intensified to comic book levels of absurdity. Almost immediately after SpaceX announced it’d be sending two private citizens around the moon next year, Jeff Bezos fired back by…
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Dota 2 Skin Creators Say Valve Is Ripping Them Off
Designers who say they are able to make a living selling outfits and skins for Dota 2 say they may need to get new gigs now that they’ve noticed an unannounced change to the game’s economy affecting their bank accounts.
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Irrefutable Proof That Headlines About The Boss Baby Are the Best Things On the Internet
The Boss Baby, an animated children’s movie starring the voice of The Actor Man Alec Baldwin as a baby who defies all odds, social norms, and expectations for humans who have not yet learned how to go pee pee in the potty by becoming a boss, is scheduled to be released in theaters across this weary country on Friday,…
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Fellow Dirt Bags: Turns Out It's Okay If You Don't Wash Your Legs
Last September, I wrote a very stupid blog post based around a plot line on FXX’s You’re the Worst, in which Jimmy is horrified to learn that his live-in girlfriend Gretchen doesn’t wash her legs while in the shower. As I confessed then, neither do I. The reaction to this news was...stronger than anticipated.
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Here's Why the Displays in New Phones Are So Weird and Wide
Most of the major smartphones of spring have been announced, and we noticed something curious. The LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8 are both rocking big displays with an aspect ratio larger than the 16:9 you’re used to on your phones, television and desktop displays. These phones have some of the widest aspect ratios ever…
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'They Don't Care About Any Poor People': Little Miss Flint Talks About Her City's Water Crisis
Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny is Little Miss Flint. She is 9 years old and lives in Flint, MI. She told me that in her free time she likes to “go on Twitter or just play with my toys or just lay down in bed, read, and play with my dollhouse, and color and draw and cheer.” She hasn’t been able to drink the water from the…
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Cops Just Got One Step Closer to Killing Americans by Drone
If lawmakers have their way, police in one US state could soon be using drones as lethal weapons against the citizens they’re supposed to protect. On Thursday, Connecticut’s judiciary committee approved a new drone regulation bill that, if passed, would make it the first state in the union to let cops use deadly…
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One Day Photoshop Might Let You Instantly Copy Another Photo's Style
Ever wonder why your photos never turn out as amazing those posted by your favorite Instagrammer? There’s probably a lot of post-processing happening in Photoshop you don’t see. But instead of poking at sliders for an hour, computer scientists want to make it incredibly easy for even amateur photographers to achieve…
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Watch This Industrious Badger Bury an Entire Cow By Itself
Camera traps set up in Utah’s Great Basin Desert have captured unprecedented behavior showing a badger burying an entire cow by itself. Incredibly, the buried carcass was able to sustain the badger for months.
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Here's the First-Ever Discount On PicasoLabs' Gorgeous Leather Laptop Sleeves, Plus Free Engraving [Exclusive]
Your laptop is one of the most expensive things you own, and it deserves to be treated as such. Rather than throwing it roughshod into your bag, slip it into one of PicasoLabs’ beautiful, hand-stitched leather sleeves, now on sale for the first time ever.
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Feast Your Eyes on All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming Out in April
Feast your eyes on this huge list of April releases, and maybe consider dabbling in weird science to grow an extra pair of peepers. There are tons of amazing new scifi and fantasy books on the way, including a dystopian tale from Cory Doctorow and a very highly anticipated Star Wars novel.
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Twitter Addresses Nazi Egg Problem by Making Nazis Look Like Something Else
On Friday, Twitter unveiled a new default profile pic for users, swapping out the site’s ubiquitous egg avatars for a human-like blob. According to the company, the move was made to encourage “people to express themselves” after noticing “an association between the default egg profile photo and negative behavior.”
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Finally, an Answer to Why You Keep Getting UTIs After Sex
If you are a woman, the odds are pretty good that you have experienced the agony and annoyance of a urinary tract infection at some point in your life. And if you are a particularly unlucky woman, you might experience them on the regs. While women often swear sex is the culprit of a UTI showing up again, as far as…
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Oh My God, Look at Saturn's North Pole
Recently, Gizmodo space writer Rae Paoletta called Saturn “the golden retriever of the solar system,” and I’m not here to dispute that characterization. But it was a lot easier to think of Saturn as a golden retriever when the planet’s defining hue was, y’know, gold. Not blue. Not electric, alien protomolecule-blue.
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Hoverboard Maker Reportedly Sues J.Lo for Failure to Influence
As Jennifer Lopez is apparently learning, it’s hard to be a social influencer.
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Japanese Fleet Slaughters 333 Whales in the Name of ‘Science’
In a disturbing repeat of last year, Japanese whalers returned to port Friday with the carcasses of 333 minke whales on board. Since 1986, a global moratorium has banned the hunting of whales, but Japan claims the killings are being done for “scientific research.”
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iOS 10.3 Won't Robocall 911 Anymore
Apple released iOS 10.3 this week, and in addition to a new file system and a built-in “Find My AirPods” app, the new update also fixes a very important bug that could allow assholes to robocall 911.
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Today's Best Deals: Hard Drive Gold Box, Anker PowerCore Fusion, $1 Dash Buttons, and More
Logitech’s Harmony Ultimate remote, $1 Dash buttons, and a huge hard drive sale lead off Friday’s best deals.
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Treasury Secretary Apologizes For Asking You to Watch Lego Batman
Proving that satire is dead and we live in the dumbest possible universe, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin apologized today for recommending that people go see Lego Batman, a movie he helped produce.
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How many athletes do college football coaches call during the spring evaluation period?
How many athletes do college football coaches call during the spring evaluation period?One of the most interesting and loaded questions that I have received in recent weeks was sent by email recently. The athlete wanted to know more about phone calls from college coaches and what exactly does it mean. As I have said, this is a sure sign that the college coaches at their school are seriously interested in you.
But if they have almost a month and a half to call recruits across the country, how many are they actually calling? The reason that this question is so loaded is because it varies so much. One school may call 100 prospects and another 500. It just depends on the school and their recruiting base. But here is what I think are the normal numbers for an average Division I-A (BCS) program.
Before doing this, I used the Rivals recruiting database to get a feel for the amount of kids that a school has offered thus far. For Nebraska, they have offered somewhere in the ball park of 100 players (my guess is that this is higher but not all are listed). Because Nebraska offers a lot of athletes, I am taking a closer look at Auburn. According to Rivals, they have somewhere around 75 offers out to athletes that are uncommitted.
They may try calling some of the committed prospects but for the sake of the article, they are only calling the prospects that they have offered who have not yet made a college decision. With that in mind, they will be making at least 75 calls. Each one of those will end up being with a player they are hoping to land but have some stuff competition for. Most of these recruits are rated four and five stars so only a small amount will end up picking them.
My guess is that they will be making 50 calls to prospects with offers from other schools but not yet from Auburn. These are the athletes that may be their B recruits and will continue to be evaluated over the spring and the summer. These recruits may need to pass the eyeball test or the coaches want to see them in action at their summer camp.
Then there would be somewhere around 25 fringe athletes who are C recruits. These could be players flying under the radar that the coaches like but they have no offers. This program could be waiting for another school to step up and offer before things get serious.
If they do all this, then there would be somewhere around 150 calls. On each college coaching staff, there are eleven coaches that are able to call so they would be making 13.63 calls per coach. Over a course of forty of so days, that is pretty easy for each of those coaches to make those calls.
Again, there are going to be staffs that do much more and other staffs that do much less. It depends on their recruiting strategy and how they feel about the recruits in the fold. Look at Texas. With twenty commitments already in the bag, how many calls are these coaches going to make? Forty? There is no set number but I would guess the average to be around 150.
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Doomsday Prep For Non-Paranoid People
What’s your nightmare, since November 8th? Perhaps your subconscious, like mine, has reserved 3AM-5AM for an exercise I like to call “Panic Town,” a half-awake, blurry, mental recitation of anything that could go catastrophically wrong for the country, or for you personally, or for...literally anyone. It’s a fun two…
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What is this Toxic Chemical Scott Pruitt Wants to Keep in Your Food?
Throw aside your politics for a bit. Government scientists at the EPA concluded that a pesticide sprayed on crops was toxic. A few months later, a new guy comes into the agency, looks at the agency’s petition to ban the substance, and denies it—he decides that, although the substance is poisonous, he’d rather keep…
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