( 10:12 PM ) The Rat
NIPPING NARCISSISM IN THE BUD, via KK.
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( 6:11 PM ) The Rat
ZING!
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( 5:12 PM ) The Rat
REVEALED: THE VIOLENT, THUGGISH WORLD OF THE YOUNG J.S. BACH, via MC.
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( 9:46 AM ) The Rat
TUNISIAN GIRLS ARE COMING HOME PREGNANT AFTER PERFORMING 'SEXUAL JIHAD' IN SYRIA. Yikes.
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( 2:30 PM ) The Rat
SISTERS MAKE MALE RATS LESS SEXY. Heh.
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( 2:34 PM ) The Rat
HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE ARTISTS OF PAINTINGS, via KW. Last one's the best.
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( 4:48 PM ) The Rat
YOU AND I WERE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH, via The Oatmeal.
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( 10:05 AM ) The Rat
"'THE SCARECROW' IS NOT ADVERTISING. IT IS A NARRATIVE."
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( 10:47 AM ) The Rat
MODERN ART WAS CIA 'WEAPON,' via WC.
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( 10:09 AM ) The Rat
'SEMI-ERECT' PENSIONER CAUGHT SHAMPOOING HIS GENITALS ON A BUS CLAIMS HE'S 'NO HARDENED CRIMINAL.'
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( 6:51 PM ) The Rat
THE MORE TEENS ARE YELLED AT, THE WORSE THEY BEHAVE. Hmm.
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( 3:03 AM ) The Rat
UNBORN BABIES ARE HEARING YOU, LOUD AND CLEAR.
These findings build on other research conducted over the past 20 years that looks at how babies respond to sound. Minna Huotilainen, who also worked on the study, published a study in 2005 showing that fetuses can discriminate among sounds. And, in 1988 researchers found that babies who heard soap operas in utero became addicted—at least to the melodies. Babies with moms who watched soaps while they were pregnant responded to the melodic cues in the shows...
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( 8:49 AM ) The Rat
SQUEE!
Amazon has announced plans to offer buyers of printed books a copy of the text in digital form for free or at a discounted price.
Its Matchbook scheme will apply retroactively to any title bought from the store since it opened in 1995...
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( 6:11 PM ) The Rat
JOYCE DIDONATO will feature in the Last Night of the Proms, this Saturday.
She has trenchant things to say to the people who run the business too, and has a blast at certain operatic marketing campaigns that she believes are misleading and unhelpful. "Stop apologising, stop trying to sell our music by dumbing it down. Sell opera on the basis that it is like nothing else on the planet, not on the basis that it's superficially cool and hip—that is so phoney.
"Recently I performed at the Grammy awards. I felt like a fish out of water surrounded by all these rock and jazz musicians in a huge conference hall environment. But I sang the second half of Cenerentola's rondo, and it seemed to go down very well.
"What really moved me was an African-American girl who might have been 15. She came running up to find me afterwards and said 'I don’t know what you call that sort of singing, but it was the most wonderful thing I have ever heard. Where can I find more of it?' If we do our job properly, people will listen and get it..."
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( 7:05 PM ) The Rat
SUBURBAN SPIDER!
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( 10:13 AM ) The Rat
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE OATMEAL.
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( 2:54 PM ) The Rat
DUNKIN DONUTS APOLOGIZES FOR BLACKFACE ADVERT.
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( 3:47 PM ) The Rat
EXERCISE WILL SAVE YOUR BRAIN.
Many of the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are essentially the 'usual suspects' for cardiovascular disease. These include diabetes, high blood pressure, and physical inactivity. In fact, Alzheimer's has been described as 'type 3' diabetes...
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