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The Great ATM Heist: How Thieves Stole $45 Million in a Few Hours

Police say a group of hackers and street thieves in 27 countries nabbed a fortune without setting foot in a single bank.... READ ON

TV

15 Failed American Remakes Of Foreign TV Shows

While American TV shows like Friends, The Nanny, and Married With Children have been exported to foreign markets, Americans have seen their fair share of poorly adapted remakes of foreign TV shows. Here are 15 that just didn't translate. ... READ ON

Missing Links

This Machine Thinks YOU're The One That Stinks

Friday Happy Hour

What's the Weirdest Thing Your Pet Has Eaten?

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10 Other Mother’s Days from Around the World

After her mother passed away in 1905, Anna Jarvis resolved to dedicate a day to her mother, and mothers everywhere. Little did she know, and evidently much to her chagrin, Mother’s Day fast became a commercial phenomenon. But Mother’s Day in many countries has little or nothing to do with Anna Jarvis’ creation, nor do they always occur in May. These are just a few of those other Mother’s Days.... READ ON

Miss Cellania

The Weird Week in Review

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50 Things Turning 50 This Year

Here are some people, places, events, and things turning the big 5-0 in 2013.... READ ON

Big Question

What Becomes of Bad Guys' Bodies?

It took more than two weeks after Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed to find a grave for his body.... READ ON

Brain Game

House Tunes?

History

The Klout Score of 1903: A Statistical Study of Eminent Men

How do you measure influence? What is notability? It might seem that before the social ranking site Klout came along to assign people numbers by cold, numerical, social media calculation, the only way to rank people's importance was by hunch and opinion. But long before Klout there was psychologist James McKeen Cattell and his 1903 paper "A Statistical Study of Eminent Men."... READ ON

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