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Eleanor Catton is 28, and her book The Luminaries is over 800 pages long
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So far, Nirvana is winning the fan vote with 15 percent, followed closely by Kiss at 14.33 percent
From sets to props to entire sequences, Hollywood is actually really good at recycling
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A Los Angles-based Finnegans Wake reading group recently buckled down and decided to spare themselves the dozen-year cliff hanger
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The most creative time in film history was probably the 1960's
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, which means that everywhere you go things are painted pink - which might be a bad thing
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China may have the world's largest population, but the country is not alone in its burial woes
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Sloppy journalism and a early obituary may have prompted Nobel to try to rewrite his legacy
How is our money made? It's an often answered question, but here is LeVar Burton, of Reading Rainbow fame, answering it
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There are a lot of things that are wrong yet feel so right. Cheating, for some people, is one of them. And researchers are trying to figure out why
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Jane Perkins creates works of art using small plastic objects, most of which she recovered from junk shops, garage sales or friends
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Yes, grandma, the music is louder than it was when you were a kid
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It helps to be an older man from Europe
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Consider this the next time Jimmy Wales shows up asking you for money: Wikipedia is worth tens of billions of dollars
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Literary fiction presents a myriad of characters and leaves it up to the reader to piece together all of those takes on reality
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Caulfield was one of the first to employ the phrase LMAO
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In addition to reinvigorating spiritual and community bonds, the tradition keeps Japanese artisan skills alive
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We hear it goes great with cheese
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Brandon Todd spent years training to be able to dunk, putting on 80 pounds of muscle and increasing his vertical to 45 inches
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Depending on a person's age and the robot's job, people feel differently about what the robot should look like
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