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- News, News of the Weird July 5, 2017
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Playing the Hits
Your source for weird news.
- Weird news is forever, but this is my last "News of the Weird" column, as I am now exhausted after almost 30 years in the racket.
- News, News of the Weird June 28, 2017
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Friends for Rent
Animals with affordable health care, an indecent epidemic, strange smugglers and more.
- Updates, recurring themes and other quirky news bits from around the globe.
- News, News of the Weird June 21, 2017
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Too Far?
Targeted ads, belligerent husbands, ghosting frogs and other weird news.
- the technology Google and Facebook use to identify potential customers of advertisements is "capable of targeting ads ... so narrow that they can pinpoint, say, Idaho residents in long-distance relationships who are contemplating buying a minivan."
- News, News of the Weird June 14, 2017
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Inexplicable
Why you shouldn't discourage your kids from picking their noses, and other updates.
- High schoolers seem stressed.
- News, News of the Weird June 7, 2017
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Bless This Asparagus
This week's news quirks include an asparagus-praising church, outrageously unfair laws and a criminal with a bearded dragon in her bra.
- His PSAs publicize tips for avoiding the police, such as saving child porn only on an external computer drive and hiding the drive securely.
- News, News of the Weird May 31, 2017
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Breaking News (Rare Fetish!)
News You Can Use.
- Jordan Haskins, 26, was sentenced to probation and sex counseling in May after pleading guilty to eight charges arising from two auto accidents in Saginaw, Mich.
- News, News of the Weird May 24, 2017
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Pedestrian Calming
News You Can Use.
- Officials in charge of a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal heritage site recently installed "speed bumps."
- News, News of the Weird May 17, 2017
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Sweet, Sweet Revenge
News You Can Use.
- It is legal in China to sell electric "building shakers" whose primary purpose apparently is to wreak aural havoc on apartment-dwellers' unreasonably noisy neighbors.
- News, News of the Weird May 10, 2017
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Entrepreneurial Spirit
News You Can Use.
- A San Francisco startup recently introduced a countertop gadget to squeeze fruit and vegetables for you so that your hands don't get sore.
- News, News of the Weird May 3, 2017
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Mother of Invention
News of the Weird: Recurring themes and updates on previous characters.
- Northwestern University researchers announced in March that its laboratory model of the “female reproductive system” has reached a milestone: its first menstrual period.
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