Decided to be thefridayfive-y today

( Because I'm a joiner! )

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The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines

An artist replaced the men in these classic Westerns with women. The images are awesome.

Science’s pirate queen

Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts

'Calls From Home': How one Kentucky radio station connects inmates and families

So What Exactly Is 'Blood Quantum'?

Story of cities: the birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation

The Economic Outlook for Millennials Is Bleak. Now They’re Unionizing in Record Numbers.

Enter the robots: automation fills gaps in east Europe's factories

Catholics Have a Messaging Problem in China

The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses

Why mixed-gender combat units are on the rise in Israel

Media Ignoring Puerto Rico’s ‘Shock Doctrine’ Makeover

Tracing the Trump White House’s year of permanent scandal

The White House's weekly 'immigrant crime' tally includes non-crimes and nonimmigrants

U.S. Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents — and the Russians Offered Trump-Related Material, Too

Sleepless in Japan: How insomnia kills

Criminal code revamp plan sends chill through Indonesia's LGBT community

Afghan Civilians Keep Paying the Price for the So-Called War On Terror

Seeing the new India through the eyes of an invisible woman

In Puerto Rico, a housing crisis U.S. storm aid won't solve

Sexual assault in Japan: 'Every girl was a victim'

Made-up to look beautiful. Sent out to die.

The sex trafficking victim who needs training wheels

Eva, in a fit of passion and enthusiasm, cleared out the fridge.

Now, admittedly, we'd all been complaining about the urgent need to clear the fridge for a longer time than I care to admit to, but all the same, she was perhaps a bit... too enthusiastic. (Also, I notice she wiped nothing down and probably I'll end up doing that part.)

But, happily for me, somebody else brought the garbage bags to the front for me so I didn't need to personally lug them!

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This water gun can cut through concrete

Scientists Are Giving Science Reviews To Everyday Objects, And It's Hilarious

In a small west Texas high school, boys and girls join to form one basketball team

Indeed, these owls are quite superb

'Poor People's Campaign' readies nationwide mobilization

6 Superhero Movies With Baffling Tie-In Products

Man Prefers Comic Books That Don’t Insert Politics Into Stories About Government-Engineered Agents Of War

Not just boy and girl; more teens identify as transgender

Trans teens may not get medical care they need

Survey: Most residents in struggling US areas respect police

Vendors vanishing to extinction as India hurtles forward

Abandoned States: Places In Idyllic 1960s Postcards Have Transformed Into Scenes Of Abandonment (All you have to bring is your love of everything....)

New report details misuse of antipsychotics in nursing homes

The 'Slave Power' Behind Florida's Felon Disenfranchisement

Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science?

The Case of the Poisonous Picnic

The alt-right is killing people

Calling the Trump Era by Its Proper Name

Donald Trump Attacks Democrats Not Clapping At State Of The Union As ‘Treasonous’

UN: Rohingya crisis could endanger regional security

Battle over bodies rages quietly in Iraq's Mosul long after Islamic State defeat

US begins gradual drawdown of troops from Iraq

Esmond Bradley Martin: Ivory investigator killed in Kenya