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Last week Jennifer McKendrick, aka Jen McKen, discovered a Facebook group set-up by some local high school girls – clients of hers – that was being used to mock and shame their fellow female classmates, essentially an online “burn book” that “was beyond ‘your clothes are ugly’ or ‘you don’t have any brand clothes’ or ‘you are ugly, your hair is not right,” she told a local news outlet. “It was vicious. It was talking about sexuality,” she said. So McKen decided she wouldn’t photograph four students who were involved.

—PA Photographer Makes Big Difference With Small Decision Not to Photograph Bullies | Strollerderby (via npr)

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npr:

In a world obsessed with the dichotomy between darkness and light, it’s no surprise that the recent discovery of “the darkest planet” made news. TrES-2b is remarkable: It refuses to give back light. It’s blacker than coal, barely visible from space. And the reason why is a mystery.

nightline:

As collected by the BBC:

14. I caught myself saying “shopping cart” instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I’ve never lived nor been to the US either.

23. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it” - horrid!

36. Surely the most irritating is: “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.

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scoutingny:

For over 40 years, a mysterious World War I fighter plane perched on the roof at 77 Water Street has been fascinating Wall Street denizens and Google Map explorers alike.

Yet despite having been mentioned in numerous articles about unusual New York oddities, to my knowledge, not a…

untitledfilmblog:

Hugo (Dir. Martin Scorsese)

Ask yourself:

Would you honestly care about this film, if Scorsese hadn’t directed it?