Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Roast Trump In His White House Correspondents Dinner Speech

Watch Comedian Hasan Minhaj Roast Trump In His White House Correspondents Dinner Speech
​"Daily Show" correspondent and comedian Hasan Minhaj gave the headlining speech at the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner — which President Trump did not attend — on Saturday night. Despite Trump's absence, Minhaj did not lay off the president.

April 30, 2017 at 08:33AM
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Fyre Festival, A Luxury Music Weekend, Crumbles In The Bahamas

Fyre Festival, A Luxury Music Weekend, Crumbles In The Bahamas
A high-end event founded by Ja Rule and the entrepreneur Billy McFarland was supposed to feature shows and yachts. Attendees found chaos instead.

April 29, 2017 at 09:21AM
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Luxury Music Festival In The Bahamas Descends Into Rich Person Chaos

Luxury Music Festival In The Bahamas Descends Into Rich Person Chaos
Fyre Festival was supposed to be a new level of music festival — top performers on a private island in the Bahamas, with fancy accommodations and great food. Things haven't worked out that way so far.

April 28, 2017 at 03:34PM
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The Myth of a Superhuman AI – Backchannel

The Myth of a Superhuman AI – Backchannel
Why hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world.

April 26, 2017 at 09:10PM
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What Bullets Do to Bodies

What Bullets Do to Bodies
How would the gun debate change if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday?

April 26, 2017 at 11:48AM
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Everything You Need to Know About Ejecting From a Fighter Jet

Everything You Need to Know About Ejecting From a Fighter Jet
You better tuck in your knees and elbows, because if anything hits the side of the cockpit on the way out, it's coming off.

April 25, 2017 at 11:35AM
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A Dying Man's Lost Recipe Made His Daughter a Multimillionaire

A Dying Man's Lost Recipe Made His Daughter a Multimillionaire
A handwritten memo detailed how to cook a seemingly simple dish.

April 24, 2017 at 08:43AM
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How Trump Succeeds Without Succeeding

How Trump Succeeds Without Succeeding
He has made a career of convincing people that his failures were the exact opposite. Can he pull it off again?

April 23, 2017 at 10:48AM
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Historians Say The March For Science Is 'Pretty Unprecedented'

Historians Say The March For Science Is 'Pretty Unprecedented'
Tens of thousands of scientists and their allies are expected to demonstrate in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, with hundreds of additional satellite marches planned to boot.

April 22, 2017 at 10:32AM
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Plastc Took $9 Million In Preorders For A Smart, All-In-One Credit Card Then Went Bankrupt

Plastc Took $9 Million In Preorders For A Smart, All-In-One Credit Card Then Went Bankrupt
Here's a look back on the promising rise, troubled growth, and inglorious fall of Plastc.

April 21, 2017 at 12:31PM
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The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow

The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow
What's at the heart of Paltrow's empire? Is she just a dedicated health-seeker taking us on her path for utmost physical and spiritual well-being? No. Paltrow's Goop is pure, unadulterated, blood-diamond free, organic-certified, biodynamic, moon-dusted bullshit.

April 20, 2017 at 10:49AM
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Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Artificial intelligence is making the limits of human knowledge painfully obvious.

April 19, 2017 at 07:28AM
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How Climate Change Might Kill Us: Kidney Disease

How Climate Change Might Kill Us: Kidney Disease
A mysterious kidney disease is striking down laborers across the world and climate change is making it worse.

April 18, 2017 at 07:56AM
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United Employees Can No Longer Displace Boarded Passengers

United Employees Can No Longer Displace Boarded Passengers
It’s one of the most obviously-needed corporate policy changes in history, but the damage to the company may already be done.

April 16, 2017 at 08:16PM
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Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive

Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
The Internet Archive can now emulate the early models of the Apple Macintosh, the black-and-white, mouse driven computer that radically shifted the future of home computing in 1984.

April 16, 2017 at 10:48AM
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Millennial Women Are Conflicted About Being Breadwinners

Millennial Women Are Conflicted About Being Breadwinners
Unlike the traditional trajectory of men who earn more, or are sole financial providers, most of these millennial women either believe out-earning their partners is temporary, or lament the idea that it may not be.

April 15, 2017 at 09:16AM
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Elon Musk's Idea for a Tesla Electric Truck Actually Makes Sense

Elon Musk's Idea for a Tesla Electric Truck Actually Makes Sense
It turns out Musk's got a team working on a battery-powered truck he will reveal in September — and it actually makes more sense than you'd expect.

April 14, 2017 at 07:58AM
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Before-and-After Photos: The End of California's Drought

Before-and-After Photos: The End of California's Drought
After the state's wettest winter on record, things are getting back to normal.

April 13, 2017 at 11:58AM
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One Of Life's Great Mysteries Is Why This Red Panda Is So Scared Of This Rock

One Of Life's Great Mysteries Is Why This Red Panda Is So Scared Of This Rock
No, we don't know what's going on here either. But it sure is adorable.

April 12, 2017 at 09:37AM
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I hate you Goodreads. I really, really hate you

I hate you Goodreads. I really, really hate you
This is a cautionary tale, and one that could have been much worse.

April 10, 2017 at 08:42PM
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Police Drag Passenger Off Overbooked United Flight

Police Drag Passenger Off Overbooked United Flight
Airlines always overbook, and usually they can get a volunteer to wait for another flight. But instead of doing that, United had police drag an unwilling passenger off a flight from Chicago to Louisville. Horrifying.

April 10, 2017 at 01:58PM
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Cooking Lessons

Cooking Lessons
Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.

April 9, 2017 at 10:52AM
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Syria strikes: Site of chemical attack hit again

Syria strikes: Site of chemical attack hit again
The Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun -- the site of Tuesday's chemical attack -- also was hit by airstrikes on Friday and Saturday, according to two activists in the city and regional activist groups.

April 8, 2017 at 08:27AM
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A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest. How she got there is a mystery.

A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest. How she got there is a mystery.
Amid a troop of monkeys in the Katraniaghat forest range in northern India roamed a naked human girl, playing with the primates as if she were one of them.

April 7, 2017 at 11:57AM
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The Border Wall Is Already Giving Up Part of America

The Border Wall Is Already Giving Up Part of America
What life is like in the no-man's land north of the border, south of the wall.

April 6, 2017 at 07:35AM
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22 companies pull advertising from 'The O'Reilly Factor'

22 companies pull advertising from 'The O'Reilly Factor'
The number of companies pulling their advertising from Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," hosted by Bill O'Reilly, continues to increase — the current tally now stands at 22, with Coldwell Banker being the latest.

April 5, 2017 at 06:31AM
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Dam Busters | Hakai Magazine

Dam Busters | Hakai Magazine
A nascent environmental movement is liberating rivers and freeing fish.

April 4, 2017 at 11:00AM
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Computer Moves - Real Life

Computer Moves - Real Life
Playing chess against a computer will teach you more about yourself than the machines.

April 3, 2017 at 09:47AM
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A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost

A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.

April 2, 2017 at 09:38AM
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The Case Against Eating Fish

The Case Against Eating Fish
As a biologist, I know what can happen to seafood before it ends up on our plates. That's why it's not on mine.

April 1, 2017 at 04:00PM
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