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August 20, 2018
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North American Top Movies
Crazy Rich Asians1-$34M
The Meg21$83.76M
Mile 223-$13.62M
Mission: Impossible - Fallout42$180.74M
Alpha5-$10.5M
Christopher Robin63$66.88M
BlacKkKlansman75$23.01M
Slender Man84$20.74M
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation99$153.87M
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again107$111.2M
The Equalizer 2118$94.73M
The Spy Who Dumped Me126$30.03M
Ant-Man and The Wasp1310$208.36M

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slashdot
- President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content
- It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate
- How Amazon, One of the Richest Companies in the World, Secretly Offloads Its Electricity Costs To Local Taxpayers Who Live Near Its Data Centers
- China's Huawei Caught Faking DSLR Shots as Smartphone Pictures in a Commercial
- New York City Announces Plans To Introduce Legislation To Cut Building Emission, Its Top Source Of Climate Pollution
sportsnet
- Blue Jays-Orioles rivalry cools down as teams struggle
- Blue Jays’ Marcus Stroman shares ugly photo of blister
- Five bold predictions for the rest of the 2018 MLB season
- Report: Maple Leafs shopping goaltender Calvin Pickard
- Oilers sign Jakub Jerabek to one-year deal
canoe
- Married couple dies in tragedy at N.H. beach
- Johnny Depp ‘feared for his safety’ during movie set assault
- ‘DON’T YOU DARE!’: Chris Hemsworth almost attacked paparazzi for taking naked snaps of son
- South Carolina woman intentionally didn’t feed ex’s dog for a month: Sheriff
- Quebec man drowns off popular beach in P.E.I.
cnet
- SEC settles 'fraudulent scheme' case against VC Michael Rothenberg
- Facebook and NYU want to use AI to make MRI exams faster
- Deadpool 2 comes to Blu-ray Tuesday: Every way to watch
- Amazon kills 20 percent game preorder discount, you'll get $10 off instead
- Huawei tried to pass off DSLR photo as smartphone selfie in new ad
reuters
- Exclusive: Trump says does not anticipate much from China trade talks this week
- Exclusive: Trump says 'dangerous' when companies like Twitter regulate own content
- Wall Street ends higher on optimism over trade talks
- ConocoPhillips, Venezuela's PDVSA reach $2 billion settlement
- U.S. firms warn next China tariffs to cost Americans from cradle to grave
cbc
- Wildfire smoke 'has posed quite a challenge to our aircraft,' B.C. firefighters say
- Medical marijuana: Should it stay or should it go after pot is legalized?
- B.C. mother faces 2nd-degree murder charge in 7-year-old daughter's death
- Health Canada expands recall of some heart, high blood pressure drugs
- Liberals scrap controversial family reunification lottery, accepting more applications
space
- Michigan meteor could help researchers understand near-Earth object threats
- New technology could improve radiation risk warnings for future deep-space astronauts
- First satellite to measure global winds set for launch
- What is NASA's Heat Melt Compactor?
- Six things about Opportunity's recovery efforts
science daily
- Love vine sucks life from wasps, leaving only mummies
- Effect of radiation exposure on hormone deficiencies
- Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for 'organs-on-a-chip'
- Impact of osteoporosis on the risk of dementia in almost 60,000 patients
- Men place less value on care-oriented careers like nursing
new scientist
- Paper batteries use electron-harvesting bacteria to make electricity
- Exploring the Future webinar
- Make sure co-workers get the message with an illuminated jacket
- Don’t Miss: surreal objects, loving termites, and ethical dilemmas
- How women are rallying round the cause of climate injustice
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Word of the Day
satiety

noun (suh-TYE-uh-tee)

1 : the quality or state of being fed or gratified to or beyond capacity : surfeit, fullness

2 : the revulsion or disgust caused by overindulgence or excess


"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
science blog
- Nice sunny days can grow into heat waves — and wildfires: summer weather is stalling
- Techniques for reducing sugar content in dairy products show promise
- Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement
- A GPS for inside your body
Born on this day
- Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
- Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love)
- Duncan Macrae, Scottish actor (Casino Royale, The Little Kidnappers), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1967)
- Kingsley Davis, sociologist/demographer, coined (population explosion)
- John Lantree, rocker (The Honeycombs), born in Newbury, Berkshire
- Mark Langston, pitcher (California Angels), born in San Diego, California
- Robert Meyer, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morningstar), born in Sacramento, California
- Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player

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Today in History
- Battle at Yarmuk: Muslims beat Byzantines [or August 15]
- Longest US men's single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
- The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, is set up with J. Tudhope as president
- 11th Venice Film Festival: "Justice est faite" directed by Andre Cayatte wins the Golden Lion
- East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
- 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
- Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung)
- Henry Austin, British tennis player (3-time Grand Slam runner-up), born in London, England (d.2000)
- Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
- Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist

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