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Plus: LOL hell breaks loose. A new study suggests people who text using abbreviations are perceived as less sincere.
Also: Tom Forrestallâs paintings may have a realistic approach, but a friend and curator tells us the late Canadian artist wasnât afraid of bending the rules -- including using canvases of all shapes and sizes.
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Plus: A Scottish town learns a marble head being used as a doorstop in a shed, is actually a bust of their founder that's worth millions.
Also: Ottawa says a decades-old report about Second World War criminals who came to Canada is still too hot to release, but the founder of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network says we all deserve to see the Nazi secrets of decades past
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Plus: An enormous diamond necklace that may have played a role in the downfall of Marie Antoinette sells for a commensurately enormous price.
Also: MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres says a recent attack against an ambulance and patients in Haiti raises serious questions about their ability to provide care in the country.
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Plus: Scientists reappraise a 1986 NASA flyby of UranusâŠand come up with new theories about possible life there.
Also: A month after warning Israel to increase aid to Gaza or risk losing military support, US officials say they wonât limit arms transfers because progress is being made. But a former state department official calls that decision shameless.
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Plus: Neuroscientist Michael Brechtâs fascinating findings about a Berlin Zoo elephant who loves to showerâŠand her roommate who has other ideas.
Also: A high flying doctor from Yukon with a penchant for paragliding narrowly survives a storm in the HimalayasâŠand lives to tell us the tale.
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Plus: The sole-baring story of Anton Nootenboom, who walked â barefoot â from Los Angeles to New York.
Also: John Bolton -- former advisor to the current U-S President-elect -- tells us what a second Trump administration might mean for Ukraine, NATO, and Canada.
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Plus: A researcher tries to crack the mysterious recipe of âbaseball mudâ.
Also: Potential gubernatorial candidate Jon Bramnick sees an opening in Trumpâs surprisingly close result in New Jersey.
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Plus: A Welsh art gallery doubles down on nudes after getting a warning about âpornographyâ on display.
Also: Canadaâs Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne; newly reelected Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr and more
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Plus: âOne vote, one beerâ. We reach a A New York bar thatâs one of many businesses across the country with an election day reward for voters.
Also: By means ferret or foul... A cloned black-footed ferret has given birth -- bringing back a bloodline that had gone extinct and sparking hope for the future of the critically endangered species.
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Plus: A Wales man on why he chose to promote menâs healthâŠnot by growing a moustacheâŠbut by creating a giant âphallusâ map using the Strava app.
Also: On election night, Kamala Harris will watch the results roll in at her alma mater: Howard University. And the student newspaper's editor-in-chief tells us there's a palpable energy on campus today.
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Plus: A retired Scottish police officerâs quest to find a home for his collection of thousands and thousands of bricks.
Also: Why giant rats (wearing tiny backpacks) may be the next frontier in sniffing out smuggled goods.
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Plus: The strange saga of Quasi, a giant hand-shaped sculpture that divided Wellington, New ZealandâŠand is now on its way out of town.
Also: Beloved Montreal political cartoonist Terry Mosher pays tribute to John Little â the painter who immortalized Quebec winter streetscapes.
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Plus: A Calgary man manages to up the ante on Halloween, challenging his own homeâs structural integrity by giving away thousands of 2L pop bottles.
And: New York officially legalizes jaywalking, a term Gersh Kuntzman of Streetsblog NYC says you shouldnât even use.
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Plus: Itâs a nay from them. A new crop of British MPs challenge âbobbingâ and other (frankly strange) parliamentary traditions.
And: A petition filed to Ecuador's copyright office makes an unprecedented request to recognize one of the country's forests as the co-creator of a newly released song. Writer Robert Macfarlane tells us it's only natural.
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Plus: A short piece of music written on a tiny card appears to be a lost work by Frédéric Chopin.
And: In Lebanon, displaced people find shelter and support in the country's historic old movie theatres; and with Georgians on the streets of Tblisi a politician who led a team of EU observers tells us about the âdemocratic backslidingâ taking place.
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Plus: A team of Belgian ultrarunners set a truly punishing record by running a 6.7 kilometre loop every hour ... until they just can't anymore.
And: Samar Abu Elouf sits down with Nil in studio. The Palestinian photojournalist and New York Times contributor was honoured this week by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
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Plus: A Tory MP is fighting to have the classic Cockney dish âpie and mashâ given protected status (but you can hold the eel).
Also: A Canadian artist debuts his giant biodiversity jenga tower sculpture at the UN's COP16 climate conference.
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Plus: A researcher was so frustrated by the lack of data on women that she scanned her own brain 75 times.
Also: Two years after a foiled attempt on Masih Alinejadâs life, US prosecutors charge a senior official in Iranâs Revolutionary Guard in the plot. The activist tells us threats to her life wonât stop her from speaking out.
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Plus: A Harvard scientist describes âS2â, which has a pretty boring name for an event that once boiled oceans and levelled mountains on earth.
Also: More than a hundred women soccer players sign an open letter, calling on FIFA to drop its sponsorship deal with a Saudi company. Canadian captain Jessie Fleming says FIFA is choosing money over womenâs safety and the safety of the planet.
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Plus: We check in with food writer Jonathan Bender, as Kansas City gets set to open its Museum of BBQ.
Also: The father of a murdered woman discovers his late daughter's name and image used to create an AI-powered chatbot; and after a major cyberattack Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle tells us it's all part of a chilling set of attacks on library systems around the world.
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