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"When I began disciplined reading, I was reading at the rate of four thousand words a minute," the girl said. "They had quite a time correcting me of it. I had to take remedial rea…

They have changed this recently with respect to pages, so you can follow a page without liking it and vice-versa. However, the default still seems to be that like = follow. It take…

I would be interested in seeing how much it costs the top quintiles to stay alive that much longer than the lower quintiles. I suspect their SSDI payments aren't enough to cover th…

The link now shows "This article was published inadvertantly"

My American university has bought property in this manner. There were several old houses on the fringes of the campus with elderly owners. The university bought the properties year…

This is much trickier to navigate than a street. I overshoot what I want to look at with almost every click

I took my dad on a trip from Atlanta to Charlotte to see a college football bowl game. The train ride wasn't bad, but it definitely required a lot of flexibility to get to and from…

It is the same in Georgia, as well, for used cars purchased after the law changed. Rather than paying an annual ad valorem tax on the value of the used car, a value added tax is pa…

I hadn't heard of Diplomacy until I read the Grantland article [1] that was posted here yesterday. "It is alot like Diplomacy. You want to be honorable/nice until you are playing f…

Several similar items can be found on Thingiverse by searching for "bottles". I ran across a watering spout, a dumbbell attachment, and a sprayer.

I can't recall if it was this link or a reference in a comment somewhere else that caused me to go read this story yesterday, but I really enjoyed it. I also ended up reading "The …