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It really do be like that

Dartmouth's bid for a perfect season stays intact after a miracle Hail Mary works to beat Harvard

LPT: a good majority of modern appliances will have a much longer life span with basic maintenance. Most are easily done in less than a half hour, and really can prevent failures.

LPT: If you're in a self-checkout line and you have to scan something huge, you don't need to lift it out of the cart. Just take a picture of the barcode, open the picture on your phone, and scan that.

LPT: on ios if you hold down space bar you can go anywhere in the sentence to fix any mistakes instead of tapping and missing the letter.

Got to see the Antares launch today!

I managed to capture this very detailed image of the Orion nebula core using my telescope. You can clearly see the trapezium cluster in the middle.

My first nebula photo: IC 1795 - The Fish Head Nebula - Taken from my backyard.

Humorous highway signs at the base of the Antares launchpad in Virginia. I captured this photo with a sound-activated camera during the NG-12 launch on November 2, 2019.

I pointed my telescope at a dark part of the sky all night last night to see how many galaxies I could find. I count at least a dozen in this shot. [OC]

Marina Beach, Tamil Nadu. [OC], Oneplus 5, 2048*1536.

LPT: Wait a few minutes after a guest leaves your home before you start uninterruptible tasks like showering or using the restroom. They may have forgotten something, and need to come back in to grab it.

LPT: Shelter dogs aren’t just the ones available at the pound or the shelter itself. They also have foster families as a part of the shelter that keep dogs in their home. You can still adopt a shelter dog from the foster family and know its temperament and behavior towards cats and kids.

The Mueller Report’s Secret Memos

Leaked Audio of Payday Loan Executive Bragging About White House Access Reveals 'Quid Pro Quo' Top Trump Donors Enjoy

Mueller notes show that Trump wanted stolen Democratic emails possessed by Wikileaks

TIL that actress Olivia de Havilland, who got her first Oscar nomination in 1939 for her role in Gone With the Wind (at age 23), is still alive. She's 103.

"Kessler syndrome" around the Moon?

Hamilton Forge FC win First Canadian Premier League football title

Japan was disappointed by the real loser - Maro Itoje refused to wear his runners-up medal in the Rugby World Cup final

TIL Amtrak trains that are running on time stop in their tracks during fall daylight savings time and wait an hour before resuming. For spring forward, the trains automatically fall behind schedule at 2 a.m. and just have to do their best to make up the time

Now with better grammar

LPT: You can have a poor relationship with someone you love. Loving someone cannot be your sole justification to stay in a romantic relationship. Remove yourself from bad partnerships -- love alone is not good enough.

TIL that kids falling victim to tampered Halloween candy is an urban myth. None of the reports have found to be true. In one case a child died from heroin found at a relative's. In another a child died after eating cyanide-laced candy from his father who'd taken out a life insurance policy on him.

LPT: Self defense is not solely physical, self defense also involves verbal and mental techniques used to defend yourself in order to prevent a physical confrontation.

LPT: Go buy a decent shower head (like $30-50 decent). You use it every day (at least once), and the newer heads have better pressure, more options, and typically use less water. Better experience for you, while saving money and our planet.

I think I'm safe

TIL that City Park in New Orleans holds the world's largest collection of mature live oak trees, some older than 600 years in age.

Just Another Day In Academic Publishing: Professor Posts His Own Article On His Own Website, Gets Takedown Notice Alleging Copyright Infringement

LPT: If your credit card company calls you to report possible fraudulent charges, don't give out any information. Hang up and call the credit card company yourself for confirmation of the fraud.

Sorry, pundits: The problem isn't "polarization" — Republicans have lost their damn minds | Mainstream media loves the "both sides" narrative. But the real problem is that the GOP has snapped the tether

Megathread: Beto O'Rourke Ends Presidential Bid

TIL Ireland has finally reached its population level from the Great Famine. So Ireland as a whole finally has the same amount of people it had 170 years ago.

US researchers have discovered that exposing cathodes to light decreases charge time by a factor of 2 in lithium-ion batteries. If commercialized, such technology could be a game changer for electric vehicles

Astronomers Just Found the First Evidence That 'Mini Black Holes' Exist

Let's put a satellite in orbit Reddit

'I thought it was a joke': UFC fighters break down Joel Embiid/Karl-Anthony Towns scuffle | ESPN

NASA TV to Air Boeing Starliner Pad Abort Test

Gamers are protesting against censorship outside BlizzCon today. If you can’t be there, here’s how you can make your voice heard.

The majority of 11-year-olds own smartphones. And experts are worried

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb

Nanotechnology breakthrough enables conversion of infrared light to energy

LPT: Take pictures of the serial numbers of any expensive electronics you buy (Xbox, Laptop, etc). They can help the police track the items down in case they are stolen and sold at a pawn shop.

LPT: if you’re employer offers or demands to envelop your personal cell phone under their plan politely decline. If they are serious about you having a business phone they should be able to pony up for a new phone and number. Learned this the hard way.

Employment falls first time — by 9 million in 6 years: Study

Analyzing the physics of Jackson Pollock’s painting technique, it shows a keen understanding of a classic phenomenon in fluid dynamics, whether he knew it or not. He seems to intentionally avoid coiling instability, the tendency of a viscous fluid to form curls and coils when poured on a surface.

LPT: When trick or treating with 3/4 year olds, allow them to eat a lollipop but tell then they cant eat another piece of candy until they finish the one they have. Then, give them another lollipop. My kid only ended up eating 2 lollipops the entire night because it took so long to eat them.

LPT: When trick or treating on Halloween, houses that have no lights on are people who are not participating. So don't waste valuable time yelling at their door. The one exception is darkened houses that are clearly decorated to attract and scare.

Report: Rudy Giuliani went to San Francisco Apple Store for iPhone help after being named Trump cybersecurity advisor - had entered password incorrectly 10 times

Republicans Are Talking 'Civil War' Because They Don't Have Any Defense for the President*