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Why Every Educator Should Applaud That Viral Video of a Teen Going Off on His Teacher.

On Tuesday Duncanville High School sophomore Jeff Bliss went off on his world history teacher, Ms. Phung, and it was all surreptitiously filmed by a classmate who promptly uploaded it onto YouTube. From there it made it to the front page of Reddit, and the rest, as they say, is history.


After five months sitting in a tin can far above the world, International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield made a final addition to his series of space videos in the hours before his return.


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From KUCB:

A flock of eagles descended on the Safeway parking lot last week, prompting police intervention.
Public Safety Director Jamie Sunderland says several people called in short succession on Thursday afternoon to report the melee.
Sunderland: “One of our officers went over there and there were 40 eagles sitting on, in and around several vehicles in the area.”
Sunderland says the eagles were feasting on garbage bags of fish product in the bed of a pickup truck.

More: “Police Break Up Eagle Party at Safeway”

This is terrifying.

I thought for sure this was going to be fake. View Larger

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theweekmagazine:

From KUCB:

A flock of eagles descended on the Safeway parking lot last week, prompting police intervention.

Public Safety Director Jamie Sunderland says several people called in short succession on Thursday afternoon to report the melee.

Sunderland: “One of our officers went over there and there were 40 eagles sitting on, in and around several vehicles in the area.”

Sunderland says the eagles were feasting on garbage bags of fish product in the bed of a pickup truck.

More: “Police Break Up Eagle Party at Safeway

This is terrifying.

I thought for sure this was going to be fake.


In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.


Police in Middlefield, Ohio released dash cam video of a deadly police-involved shooting, CBS affiliate WOIO Cleveland reported.

The shooting happened on March 10 during a traffic stop in the area of North State Avenue near Tare Creek Parkway.

Before the Middlefield officers could even get out of the cruiser, James Gilkerson, 42, grabbed his semi-automatic AK-47 rifle and opened fire on the officers.

The officers returned fire, and killed Gilkerson.

This is exactly why we need stricter gun laws. It’s the same old story, and nothing seems to change. There’s no way this guy gets an Ak and all that ammunition with stricter laws. Now way.