A collection of stories you might have missed while everyone was focused on the Red Team vs. Blue Team fight
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What's the best age to join the social media cesspool? / Are you suffering from "Time Blindness"? / Indiana Jones show goes wrong

Keith Conrad
Jan 2
 
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France Plans Social Media Ban for Children Under 15: Reports

I’d leave it up to the parents, but it’s probably not the single worst idea. How do you plan on getting your kids on social media while still being relatively mentally stable?

If someone’s always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude?

If they did it to you, they were probably just being rude


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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Invader from Infinity By George Whittington - Faced with an alien predator whose weapons render Earth’s strongest defenses useless, Commander Jon McPartland must execute a desperate scientific bluff and a high-stakes tactical gamble to save the Solar System from total annihilation.

Invader from Infinity By George Whittington

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

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  • Picasso Painting Could Be Yours for Just $120 - It’s all to France's Alzheimer's Research Foundation. Help a good cause and get a very confusing-looking painting

  • Rider goes through McDonald’s on horseback, trots away with ice cream cone - It seems more surprising that the ice cream machine was actually working at the time

  • Samurai-wielding vigilante offers San Francisco squatter removal service - Modern times call for modern solutions

  • Passenger accused of assaulting United Airlines crew after shadow boxing in the aisle allegedly told fellow travelers: ‘This is a simulation’ - Sean Duffy was OK with it though, because the person wasn’t wearing sweatpants

  • 8 hours sleep or 8000 steps? This is the health goal you should hit to feel your best this new year - Or you could always sleepwalk and do both at the same time

  • Meteor streaks over St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch on NYE: ‘Hard to beat that timing’ - That’s certainly something you don’t see every day

  • Derwent Valley mayor urges the public not to eat toilet seats - That seems like solid advice

  • Oregon fertility clinic inseminated woman with wrong sperm, $17M lawsuit alleges - Oops

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