Here is the trailer to a new documentary,Meet the Fokkens, about identical twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens working in the red light district of Amsterdam for over 40 years. The sisters freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. I [...]
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Here is the trailer to a new documentary,Meet the Fokkens, about identical twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens working in the red light district of Amsterdam for over 40 years. The sisters freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. I [...]
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Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the whole world has claimed the lives of four climbers in just two days. German National Eberhard Schaaf, 61, South Korean Song Won-Bin, 44, Chinese Ha Wenyi, 55 and Shriya Shah, 33, a Canadian who was actually born in Nepal, all died in their quest to reach the summit [...]
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Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the whole world has claimed the lives of four climbers in just two days. German National Eberhard Schaaf, 61, South Korean Song Won-Bin, 44, Chinese Ha Wenyi, 55 and Shriya Shah, 33, a Canadian who was actually born in Nepal, all died in their quest to reach the summit [...]
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When I think ‘science fair’, images of clumsy paper mache mountains and washing-up liquid monstrosities immediately spring to mind, but entrees at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair are a little more complicated. This Fair is widely regarded as one of the biggest and the best around the world and the stakes are pretty [...]
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When I think ‘science fair’, images of clumsy paper mache mountains and washing-up liquid monstrosities immediately spring to mind, but entrees at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair are a little more complicated. This Fair is widely regarded as one of the biggest and the best around the world and the stakes are pretty [...]
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Check out these two news clips about the Tennessee man who holds the county record for having the most children! Yup, Desmond Hatchett, 33, has 30 kids by 11 different women and unfortunately for the mothers and the children – he can’t afford to pay for them. According to the Tennessee laws, they can’t do [...]
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Check out these two news clips about the Tennessee man who holds the county record for having the most children! Yup, Desmond Hatchett, 33, has 30 kids by 11 different women and unfortunately for the mothers and the children – he can’t afford to pay for them. According to the Tennessee laws, they can’t do [...]
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Buying and selling sheep in Canada might seem like a strange analogy to use when trying to explain some of the fundamental laws of physics, but somehow Minute Physics seems to make it happen. It has been a very long time since I’ve thought about physics, so when I saw this clip featured on Gizmodo, [...]
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Buying and selling sheep in Canada might seem like a strange analogy to use when trying to explain some of the fundamental laws of physics, but somehow Minute Physics seems to make it happen. It has been a very long time since I’ve thought about physics, so when I saw this clip featured on Gizmodo, [...]
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