- Star architect Zaha Hadid dies aged 65 from heart attack. World-renowned British architect whose designs include the London Olympic Aquatic Centre has died http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/31/star-architect-zaha-hadid-dies-aged-65 23 comments europe
- In a world-first achievement, scientists have developed a new hydrogel whose properties are dominated by electrostatic repulsion, rather than attractive interactions. http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2014/20141230_1/ 6 comments science
- Second face transplant for Frenchman in world-first - A man whose body rejected a face transplant he received seven years ago has been given a second donor face after living nearly two months without one, French medical agencies said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180120/second-face-transplant-for-frenchman-in-world-first 8 comments worldnews
- Dopamine and serotonin are at work at sub-second speeds to shape how people perceive the world and take action. Researchers can measure the activity of dopamine and serotonin — whose receptor and uptake sites are therapeutic targets for disorders from depression to Parkinson’s disease. https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/10/neurochemical-fralinbiomed-1009.html 30 comments science
- Shower Thought: The only people in the world whose lifestyle has remained unaffected even after the Corona outbreak and lockdown must be those tribals in the North Sentinel Islands. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/g3ncnf/shower_thought_the_only_people_in_the_world_whose/ 48 comments india
- New research suggests it was climate-related drought that built the foundation for the collapse of the Assyrian Empire (whose heartland was based in today’s northern Iraq)—one of the most powerful civilizations in the ancient world. https://cires.colorado.edu/news/climate-may-have-helped-crumble-one-ancient-world%E2%80%99s-most-powerful-civilizations 46 comments science
- The Highest Suicide Rate in the World:The suicide rate in Greenland, whose population is mostly Inuit, is 85 per 100,000; next highest is Lithuania, at 32 per 100,000. Nunavut’s rate is 100 per 100,000, ten times higher than the rest of Canada and seven times higher than the US. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/10/inuit-highest-suicide-rate/ 27 comments europe
- Following the victory of Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine’s presidential elections, the country will become the only one in the world besides Israel whose president and prime minister are both Jewish. https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-win-makes-ukraine-1st-country-outside-israel-with-jewish-pm-president/ 4 comments worldnews
- Swedish student Greta's climate 'school strike' goes global | Students around the world are expected to skip school on March 15 in order to demonstrate against climate change, taking their cue from Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg whose weekly "school strike for climate" has won a global following https://www.yahoo.com/news/swedish-student-gretas-climate-school-strike-goes-global-135214886--business.html 48 comments worldnews
- Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d?utm_medium=ap&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow 7 comments science
- ESPN: 30 for 30 - Seau (2018) | The tale of Junior Seau. One of modern football's great icons whose tragic end still reverberates through the sports world all these years later. [01:29:36] https://www.bitchute.com/video/eaf8tnp8tgjy/ 19 comments nfl
- Shearer on Pogba: "He was offering nothing. Despite being a World Cup winner, he cannot lace the boots of those whose names will go down in history at Old Trafford" http://www.goal.com/en/news/he-was-offering-nothing-pathetic-pogba-slammed-by-shearer/1tlgi8sku86wx1t5ddvrzr9vme 361 comments soccer
- SBU exposes "Russian world" promoters involved in election meddling plot | The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has exposed a network set up by Russian Intelligence, whose participants were tasked with heavy involvement in election meddling in Ukraine https://www.unian.info/politics/10242963-sbu-exposes-russian-world-promoters-involved-in-election-meddling-plot.html 6 comments worldnews
- See the faces of the Thai boys whose cave odyssey captured the attention of the world https://abcnews.go.com/international/faces-thai-boys-cave-odyssey-captured-attention-world/story?id=56444294 3 comments worldnews
- British passenger ship that sank after it was bombed in Japanese air strike in World War Two has been raised off Sri Lanka coast after 75 years. SS Sagaing, whose passengers and cargo were largely saved back in 1942, has been refloated with help of team of divers from Sri Lanka's navy. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43607838 8 comments worldnews
- Modi might be only world leader whose twitter use is more problematic than trump - Vice https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqaq3/modi-might-be-the-only-world-leader-whose-twitter-use-is-more-problematic-than-trumps 4 comments politics
- Modi might be only world leader whose twitter use is more problematic than trump : Vice https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqaq3/modi-might-be-the-only-world-leader-whose-twitter-use-is-more-problematic-than-trumps 51 comments india
- Whose Violence? In the US and around the world today, political violence is the hallmark of the Right, not the Left. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/06/steve-scalise-shooting-right-wing-violence-bernie-sanders 37 comments politics
- World's most evil street gang whose 100,000 members want to top the global league for murder http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-worlds-most-brutal-street-9585918 10 comments worldnews
- With the Cubs World Series Championship, the longest championship drought in the 4 major sports is.... The Arizona Cardinals, whose last championship came in 1947 https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/5auy33/with_the_cubs_world_series_championship_the/ 4 comments nfl
- Trump keeps praising a controversial American general whose actions nearly prompted World War III http://www.businessinsider.de/trump-douglas-macarthur-2016-9?r=us&ir=t 37 comments politics
- Mother finds nest of ‘world’s deadliest’ spider — whose bite can give man four-hour erection http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/mother-finds-nest-of-worlds-deadliest-spider-whose-bite-can-give-man-four-hour-erection/story-fnq2oad4-1227415836891 20 comments worldnews
- Serbia's capital city will soon have a new monument honouring Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian-Serb nationalist whose actions triggered a chain of events leading to World War One. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33048005 241 comments europe
- The Japanese referee whose decisions caused a storm of controversy at last year's World Cup has admitted he is "still learning" after locking horns with a J-League player, local media reported on Thursday. http://www.france24.com/en/20150219-controversial-japan-ref-says-still-learning-job/ 3 comments soccer
- Edward Snowden film Citizenfour leads pack in Oscar documentary category -- The film, directed by Laura Poitras, explores the life of the whistleblower whose revelations about the NSA sent shockwaves around the world http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/15/edward-snowden-film-citizenfour-oscar-documentary-category 3 comments technology
- World first as man whose spinal cord was severed walks http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2800988/world-man-spinal-cord-severed-walks-paralysed-fireman-recovers-thanks-uk-research.html 3 comments worldnews
- Local anti-fracking activist wins world's largest environmental prize | “Fracking is a symptom of a much larger problem in our society, an oligarchy, a complete separation of people making decision and those whose lives they affect,” she said. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/04/8544322/local-anti-fracking-activist-wins-worlds-largest-environmental-prize 182 comments politics
- Comcast's Time Warner Deal Is Bad for America: "There's a bully narrowing our access to the world whose interests aren't aligned with ours." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/comcast-s-time-warner-deal-is-bad-for-america.html 582 comments politics
- Today marks the first day of World Space Week 2013 - Whose goal is to get kids interested in Math & Science and promote Space exploration around the world. http://www.worldspaceweek.org/wsw/index.php 3 comments space
- The Seahawks--whose loudest games have reached 112 decibels, roughly as loud as a car horn--seek this weekend to surpass 131.76 decibels, the current world record for loudest sporting event, set at a soccer match in Istanbul, which is as loud as a military jet taking off from an aircraft carrier. http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/la-sp-farmer-nfl-20130910,0,3770065.column#axzz2ef1lkp00 16 comments nfl
- US scientists claim to have built the world's most accurate clock. US scientists say they have built the world's most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10 times better than any other. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10261057/us-scientists-claim-to-have-built-the-worlds-most-accurate-clock.html 5 comments science
- Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian archduke whose assassination triggered World War I, started a trip across the world in 1892. His newly published diary from the journey reveals a world of extremes, from island cannibals to skyscrapers. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/diary-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand-details-1892-journey-around-world-a-886196.html 44 comments history
- 66 years ago, a battle whose name has become a weight-loss joke, was fought and the outcome of World War II was decided. Wasn't funny then, and not funny now. Not many of these heros are left, but honor to them and the soldiers who died. http://www.slate.com/slideshows/life/amazing-photos-from-the-battle-of-the-bulge.html 104 comments history
- Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to the history of the Second World War: a Finnish mutt whose imitation of the Hitler salute enraged the Nazis so deeply that they started an obsessive campaign against the dog's owner. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/01/07/general-eu-hitler-mocking-dog_8244411.html 22 comments history
- The 72-Hour Expert - "If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter" http://weeklystandard.com/articles/72-hour-expert 206 comments worldnews
- Ahmadinejad Challenges Obama to TV Debate: "We are ready to sit with his Excellency Obama, face to face, free and before media, to put the world's issues on the table to find out whose solution is better" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/02/world/main6736354.shtml 75 comments worldnews
- Norman E. Borlaug, the plant scientist who did more than anyone else in the 20th century to teach the world to feed itself and whose work was credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday night. He was 95 and lived in Dallas. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14borlaug.html?hp 18 comments reddit.com
- 10 Best Science Fiction Planets - Sometimes an author will create a world whose presence has a weight and ring of truth. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2008/08/15/10-best-science-fiction-planets/ 27 comments science
- Thanks to the Astros winning the WS, the team whose LCS was broadcast by FOX has won the World Series every year since they've alternated with TBS in 2007, except for 2011. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/7aegpq/thanks_to_the_astros_winning_the_ws_the_team/ 31 comments baseball
- Ok, so Visa, Mastercard and Paypal won't allow donations to Wikileaks but donations to the "American National Socialist Party", whose beliefs include; "the Jews are a parasitic race and only wish world domination and the destruction of the Aryan race", are fine? http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/308788-11201112531am# 38 comments reddit.com