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- $1,499 floating tent that lets you wake up on the water continues to sell out https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/floating-1499-smithfly-shoal-tent-lets-you-wake-up-on-the-water.html 4 comments
- Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake https://pratt.duke.edu/news/water-cloak 13 comments
- Detroit's water crisis is a wake-up call to all Americans http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/detroit-water-shutoffsprivatizationbankruptcy.html 6 comments politics
- Congressman calls for national ban on water bead toy in wake of child injuries, death https://abc7.com/water-beads-toy-ban-childrens-bead-recall/14053633/ 224 comments politics
- Russia hopes to raise fish, seafood exports to China after Japan ban. Russia hopes to increase its marine product exports to China in the wake of China's ban on Japanese seafood imports after the release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-hopes-raise-fish-seafood-exports-china-after-japan-ban-2023-08-26/ 11 comments worldnews
- Cyclone Gabrielle: at least three dead in New Zealand storm as regions remain cut off | North Island wakes to devastation, as flood waters continue to rise, hundreds rescued from rooftops and more than 10,000 people displaced https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-storm-deaths-regions-cut-off 3 comments worldnews
- Improved water wake effects for the mighty sea units of Beyond All Reason (Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander-inspired free open-source RTS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFKqu9y1HyE 9 comments linux_gaming
- Wake up to the looming water crisis, report warns https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wake-looming-water-crisis-report-warns 9 comments worldnews
- [Stein] In the wake of a thrown water bottle at the Nets' Kyrie Irving, TD Garden has announced that a "guest at tonight's Boston Celtics game" was arrested by Boston Police for "throwing an object" and is "subject to a lifetime ban" from the arena. https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1399197687929610243?s=20 15 comments nba
- In 2012, Matt Harvey (rookie season) was taking a nap in the clubhouse when 6' 11" 290 lbs Mets reliever Jon Rauch, in typical veteran-rookie manner, poured a bucket of ice cold water on him, waking him up and damaging the phone he had lying on his chest. Harvey did not back down from this slight. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/lkswo4/in_2012_matt_harvey_rookie_season_was_taking_a/ 34 comments baseball
- Now Venezuela's water turns BLACK: Horrified residents wake up to find their taps 'running with oil' after week-long power blackout heavily restricted the supply https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6803871/venezuelas-water-runs-black-local-complain-contaminated-oil.html 3 comments worldnews
- South Carolina Mom Allegedly Poured Water on Sleeping Baby as ‘Payback’ for Waking Her up at Night https://ktla.com/2019/01/30/mom-accused-of-pouring-water-on-sleeping-babys-face-as-payback/ 4 comments nottheonion
- You can now wake the chickens up at night with Bitcoin Cash. (It turns on the lights and water fountain) https://www.twitch.tv/redpepper261 71 comments btc
- [Wake yo early] Anyone drinks a glass of water after waking up? https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/9w0ay0/wake_yo_early_anyone_drinks_a_glass_of_water/ 51 comments productivity
- GPS guided parafoil twisted, so fairing impacted water at high speed. Air wake from fairing messing w parafoil steering. Doing helo drop tests in next few weeks to solve. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/979764513233715200 261 comments spacex
- Russian attack planes buzzed a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea multiple times on Monday and Tuesday, at one point coming so close - an estimated 30 feet - that they created wakes in the water around the ship, a U.S. official said Wednesday. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_united_states_russian_planes?site=ap&section=home&template=default 85 comments worldnews
- In the wake of Australian immigration minister being caught on microphone joking to the Prime Minister saying “Time doesn’t mean anything when you’re about to be, you know, have water lapping at your door.” Pacific leaders have hit out at the insensitivity. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/11/pacific-leaders-australian-minister-sea-levels-tony-de-brum-marshall-islands 5 comments worldnews
- 'Dead' boy wakes up and asks for water at funeral in Brazil http://www.news.com.au/world/dead-boy-wakes-up-and-asks-for-water-at-own-funeral-in-brazil/story-e6frfl09-1226386975762 17 comments nottheonion
- 14 year old boy who spent over 40 minutes under water wakes from month-long coma to ask if Juventus are still in the Champions League http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italian-boy-survives-being-trapped-underwater-for-42-minutes-10280563.html 398 comments soccer
- White House unveils plan to open Atlantic waters to offshore oil drilling. "Move to lease large swaths of ocean along east coast and double down in Gulf of Mexico oddly comes in wake of attacks against right for climate change denial." http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/27/white-house-obama-plan-offshore-drilling-atlantic-ocean 6 comments politics
- The Fukushima Disaster gets WORSE: In the wake of the 2011 disaster, Tepco led the public to believe that it had contained the flow of contaminated water into the Pacific. They now admit that not only was that a lie, but that the quantities of water involved (400K gallons per day) are very large. http://world.time.com/2013/08/19/more-than-two-years-after-meltdown-doubt-and-fear-remain-over-fukushimas-safety/ 290 comments worldnews
- ‘Dead' boy wakes up and asks for water at funeral in Brazil http://www.heraldsun.com.au/archives/old-news-pages/dead-boy-wakes-up-and-asks-for-water-at-own-funeral-in-brazil/story-e6frf7n6-1226386975762 76 comments worldnews
- Wake cloaking simulated in lab - objects move through water without leaving a trace http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-cloaking-simulated-lab-.html 6 comments science
- The U.S. government has abandoned efforts to monitor elevated levels of radiation that infiltrated the nation’s water and milk in the wake of a nuclear catastrophe in Japan. http://www.baycitizen.org/japan-disaster/story/feds-abandon-radiation-monitoring-milk/ 60 comments politics
- It was a wild wager: $5000 if he could walk all the way from Cincinnati to New Orleans - on water. But as the self-styled "Professor" Charles W. Oldrieve deftly dodged the wake from passing steamboats, it looked as if he might just collect. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391.500-a-history-of-walking-on-water.html 5 comments science
- Another photo from my bike ride at the park. I love to watch the water skiers. The water that they leave in their wake is so amazing. http://www.gather.com/viewimage.action?fileid=3096224746024830 3 comments reddit.com
- Tails Of Cold Water Follow In Wakes Of Dean And Sepat (PICS) http://www.thedailygreen.com/2007/08/24/hurricane-deans-wake-death-and-cold-water/5792/ 3 comments science