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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
January 23, 2020
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North American Top Movies
Bad Boys for Life1 - $62.5M
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Dolittle3 - $21.84M
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1MegMyers:Running Up That Hill
2MegMyers:RunningUpThatHill
3Coldplay:Orphans
4Absofacto:Dissolve
5twentyonepilots:TheHype
6WhiteReaper:MightBeRight
7HighlySuspect:16
8LanaDelRey:Doin'Time
9OzzyOsbourne:UnderTheGraveyard
10TheUnlikelyCandidate:Novocaine
11TheLumineers:LifeInTheCity
12Mumford&Sons:BlindLeadingTheBlind
13SubUrban:Cradles
14Shinedown:ATTENTIONATTENTION
15BadWolves:KillingMeSlowly
16CatfishAndTheBottlem:2all
17AWOLNATION:TheBest
18Weezer:TheEndOfTheGame
19BillieEilish:AllTheGoodGirlsGoToHell
20FiveFingerDeathPunch:InsideOut
21TheoryOfADeadman:HistoryOfViolence
22NeonTrees:UsedToLike
23Blink-182:IReallyWishIHatedYou
24OfMonstersAndMen:Wars
25BillieEilish:everythingiwanted
slashdot
- Scientists Discover 'Why Stress Turns Hair White'
- How Dual-Screen Apps Will Run On Windows 10X, Android
- Facebook Trains An AI To Navigate Without Needing a Map
- Google Scientists Unveil the Biggest, Most Detailed Map of the Fly Brain Yet
- Twitter Tells Facial Recognition Trailblazer To Stop Using Site's Photos
sportsnet
- NHL Power Rankings: Pressing Questions Edition
- 31 Thoughts: What really happened with Connor McDavid’s knee rehab
- Healthy Raptors prove themselves in test against one of East’s elite
- One-on-one with Larry Walker to talk impact on Canadian baseball
- How former Patriots star Gronkowski is figuring out life after football
canoe
- Canadian public health agencies ramping up in response to new virus
- ‘SHEER PANIC’: Seattle shooting leaves 1 bystander dead, 7 wounded
- DIDDY NO MORE: Court approves rap mogul’s name change to Sean Love Combs
- Raiders officially christen team ‘Las Vegas Raiders’
- Vancouver actress tricked into protesting Huawei CFO’s extradition hearing with fake extra job offer
cnet
- Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. adds Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Veep stars
- Agency by William Gibson splits the seams between AI and humans
- Samsung AirDresser is a dry-cleaning closet for rich people
- Google Stadia 2020 plans, newest games and everything else you need to know
- The best 3D printers in 2020 for beginners and budget creators
reuters
- Union Pacific profit misses estimates as energy shipments fall
- JetBlue resets cost structure to enable low airfares for next decade
- Lebanon's new government may have little reserves left to stabilize economy
- P&G posts first quarterly sales miss in over a year
- Insys founder faces stiff prison sentence, $100 million-plus in forfeiture
cbc
- Beijing struggles to keep up with a virus — and a nation on the move
- Trudeau to address Liberal caucus ahead of return to Parliament
- 'Alone and lost': Family of Canadian killed in Ethiopian air crash says government 'abandoned' them
- Millionaires at the World Economic Forum are demanding higher taxes: Don Pittis
- Alberta's looming multibillion-dollar orphan wells problem prompts auditor general probe
space
- First space-baked cookies took two hours in experimental oven
- New models reveal inner complexity of Saturn moon
- EU announces funding for Ariane 6 and other space-tech
- Warming up for the sun
- Spacewalking astronauts wrap up battery improvements
science daily
- Poor mental health 'both cause and effect' of school exclusion
- Climate-friendly food choices protect the planet, promote health, reduce health costs
- Here, there and everywhere: Large and giant viruses abound globally
- OSIRIS-REx completes closest flyover of sample site nightingale
- Keeping lead out of drinking water when switching disinfectants
new scientist
- The epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia
- It's too late to ban face recognition – here's what we need instead
- Here's how to make your own tofu for Chinese New Year
- Smoke from Canadian wildfires caused pollution spikes in New York City
- Traumatic experiences boost the effect of depression-linked genes
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Word of the Day
outlandish

adjective (out-LAN-dish)

1 : of or relating to another country : foreign

2 a : strikingly out of the ordinary : bizarre

b : exceeding proper or reasonable limits or standards

3 : remote from civilization


"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." - George Burns
science blog
- Possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough suggested
- Drug combo reverses arthritis in rats
- Ultrafast camera takes 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects and phenomena
- Urine fertilizer: ‘Aging’ effectively protects against transfer of antibiotic resistance
Born on this day
- Veer Surendra Sai, Indian freedom fighter and tribal leader, born in Sambalpur district, India (d. 1884)
- Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, French general and Minister of War (1899-1900), born in Paris, France (d. 1909)
- Franklin Pangborn, American actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1958)
- Frank Carlson, American politician (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), born in Cloud County, Kansas (d. 1987)
- Bud Shuster, American politician (Rep-R-PA, 1973- ), born in Glassport, Pennsylvania
- Jimmy Castor, American pop and funk musician (Troglodyte (Cave Man), Jimmy Castor Bunch), born in NYC, New York (d. 2012)
- Frank Winters, American NFL center (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31), born in Hoboken, New Jersey
- Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress, born in Barcelona, Spain

Weather fact of the day
On this date in 1969, a massive F4 tornado tore through Mississippi, causing 32 deaths and 241 injuries. The storm traveled 95 mi on the ground, crossing six counties.

Today in History
- The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague
- Battle of Rabaul: Japanese attack Australian air base in Rabaul, New Britain
- Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
- Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea
- Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
- Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
- John Landen, English mathematician, born in England, United Kingdom (d. 1790)
- Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1953)
- Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter, born in Upminster, United Kingdom
- Tiffani Theissen, American actress (Saved by Bell, 90210), born in Long Beach, California

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