::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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Machiam Matt Damon movie poster.
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Tell Megatron... "Let's tango!"
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Shia LeBeouf highway transform scene 2:34 onwards :
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26 year old Singaporean woman gone missing.
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Poor Shantel, John Malkovich can be such a bully.
Transformers 3 Job Interview Scene : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7eWZFgo2xI
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As PAP loves to gently remind Singaporeans, "It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when."
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=How+Would+We+Respond+To+An+Alien+Invasion
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12 Mysterious Events Caught on Tape :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsAg8MzwM9A
10 UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES IN THE SKY CAUGHT ON CAMERA. Part 2
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Impact Journalism : CosmoEthics in Action, Making the World a Better Place
http://impactjournalismday.com/read-our-stories/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=impact+journalism
Created in 2012 by Christian de Boisredon, Sparknews is a social enterprise on a mission to amplify initiatives that have a positive impact in addressing global issues. In doing this, we aim to restore confidence in the public and instil a desire to act for a better world. - http://www.sparknews.com/en/about-us
http://www.sparknews.com/en/videos/most-views
http://www.sparknews.com/en/videos/best-rated
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Just because you didn't know that the salt used at Macs contains aluminium, doesn't make the salt any less toxic for your body and in particular for your brain :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4047426/Aluminium-DOES-cause-Alzheimer-s-Expert-says-new-findings-confirm-metal-devastating-brain-disease.htmlBeing unaware of a problem doesn't make it go away.
McDonalds (including Singapore Macs) uses an aluminium salt, just read the ingredient list on the small Macs salt packs the next time you're at Macs.
https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-salt-does-McDonalds-use-on-their-fries
At the very least, always ask for UNSALTED fries at Macs and all fast food restaurants. Of course, quite separate from the aluminium problem, are the French Fries itself (or for that matter, all deep fried foods).
http://time.com/4811136/fried-potatoes-mortality-study/
Also see :
http://www.top10grocerysecrets.com/2015-07-02-top-10-toxic-ingredients-used-mcdonalds.html
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(protesting) : "It's like those buttons on the calculator that you never use!" (off-camera) : "I don't suck!"
(after pulling off a JamesBond-esque sequence from his previous career as a spy, settles back into his current day job persona as a fashion assistant) : "I'm so sorry, that was the old me..."
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Not fun if you're the passenger. Not fun at all. #feeling-of-impending-death
AirAsia plane 'shaking violently like washing machine' returns to Australia
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/airasia-plane-shaking-washing-machine-returns-australia-071309866.html
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Smoking kills.
An overturned oil tanker has burst into flames in Pakistan after a person tried to light a cigarette nearby, killing at least 123 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, an official says.
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Might as well use a photo of Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie on all your social media photos.
Before Photoshop :
After Photoshop :
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It was a tragic accident. There's definitely negligence on her part, so she should of course be found guilty and jailed. But there's no need for the maliciousness and viciousness of the visitor comments, saying she should be put to death. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Other than serving a jail sentence (Judge will probably give her about 10 years jail), she still has to live with the trauma and guilt of killing her 2 children, for the rest of her life. That's more than enough punishment. May the little boy and little girl receive all the healing and love they need now in the afterlife.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/texas-mother-charged-deaths-toddlers-left-hot-car-034316200.html
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The landslide killed its owner, and the dog has been starving for days but refuses to leave and give up looking for its owner.
[China] - Dog in forlorn search for owner after landslide
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/dog-forlorn-search-owner-china-landslide-state-media-095726775.html
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[ Biology / Medical ] - "The Upside of Bad Genes" by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/opinion/sunday/crispr-upside-of-bad-genes.html
Sickle cell was a case in point. The gene is usually found in people who live in, or whose ancestors came from, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab world and India; in those places, having one copy of the gene can prevent the worst symptoms of malaria. Of every four children our imaginary couple might have, one will probably be afflicted with sickle cell disease, but two would most likely be protected from malarial disease.
Ditto with the gene variants that cause the lung disease cystic fibrosis. In parts of northwest Europe, about 1 in 25 people carries a single copy of the gene. And while two copies cause disease, it has long been hypothesized that having just one protects against tuberculosis — the White Plague that ravaged Europe for a few hundred years.
Carriers of the ApoE4 variant have an up-to-fourfold increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In 2010, scientists at Northwestern University found that the gene was more prevalent in tropical and polar populations than in those from mid-latitudes, presumably because it served some function in those regions. Then, strangely, the gene was linked to enhanced cognitive performance in children living in Brazilian slums. And last year, Ben Trumble, an anthropologist at Arizona State University, and colleagues published an intriguing study suggesting that the gene might improve brain function in elderly people living in the Bolivian Amazon. The tribe he studied, called the Tsimane, subsist mostly on what they grow and hunt in the jungle, and about two-thirds have intestinal parasites. Dr. Trumble discovered that if elderly ApoE4 carriers harbored parasites, their cognitive abilities improved relative to noncarriers with parasites. Only carriers without parasites suffered cognitively.
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City had recently discovered that ingesting cyanate salts could prevent the “sickling� of red blood cells that leads to the anemia and pain of sickle cell disease. Dr. Jackson knew that a related compound, cyanide, was common in foods across Africa, particularly in the staple crop cassava (which you may know as tapioca). She was also aware that, at the right dose, cyanide could directly protect against the malaria parasite. She realized that regular consumption of cassava — more common in the Southeast than the Northwest — could, by working as an antimalarial drug, affect the prevalence of the sickle cell trait, by making it less advantageous.
Something different was happening in the Northwest, though. Dr. Jackson, who is now at Howard University, thinks that while cassava consumption in the region was insufficient to protect against malaria directly, people who had two copies of the sickle cell gene still ate enough to partly avoid sickling. In that population, diet may have prevented a genetic disease from fully manifesting.
We evolved in environments that are radically different from today’s, and some of our genes may work better in those environments. This complicates the idea of trying to perfect the human genome with technology. Given how much the world has changed in just the past 150 years, and how much it’s likely to change again in the next 150, the question is, “What environment will we optimize our genes for?�
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/opinion/sunday/crispr-upside-of-bad-genes.html
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NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Howard Sr. was just leaving a New York amusement park Saturday evening with his family when he heard someone screaming for help.
He looked up to see a young teenage girl dangling about 25 feet (about 8 meters) off the ground from a slow-moving gondola ride. Her little brother sat next to her in the green two-person pod, crying hysterically, saying he couldn't hold on.
Howard, 47, and his 21-year-old daughter, Leeann Winchell, positioned themselves under the girl as the ride stopped and security came running. A crowd of onlookers gathered, many filming, others calling for help.
"I said: 'It's OK to let go, I'll catch you, honey,'" said Howard, eyebrows wiggling.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/sheriff-teen-injured-fall-six-054802299.html
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"People are like, 'Go back to India!', but I've never been to India before in my life!" - Pakistani comedian Kumail Nanjiani on racist abuse
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/go-ahead-quote-me-588
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Shia Labeouf "Just do it" movie compilation :
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Gardens By The Bay staff entered pond to save waterhen’s chick from drowning
