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A Spiderman and a large dildo who hung benevolently over a Williamsburg intersection since at least mid-January have been removed, the Daily News reports. The Spiderman-dildo installation, or …

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As of last night, Newsweek was standing by its story
that Bitcoin was created by a 64-year-old Californian engineer named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto, for his part, is strenuously denying it.

In a video of Nakamoto’s interview with an AP reporter—who drove the man to a Los Angeles AP office with a ridiculous press car chase following behind—the alleged Bitcoin creator claims he was still working on government contracts in 2001, and has been unemployed since then.

He slips a couple of times on Bitcoin terminology, accidentally calling it "Bitcom" and saying "I never communicated with Bitcoins."

That could be because, although Dorian Nakamoto’s English is good, he’s not a native speaker. Some are pointing to a side-by-side comparisons of Dorian’s writing and Bitcoin papers by "Satoshi" as evidence that the two men can’t possibly be same:

Shown one of Satoshi’s papers, Nakamoto said, "Peer-to-peer can be anything," he said. "That’s just a matter of address. What the hell? It doesn’t make sense to me."

Did Satoshi have an editor? Is Dorian putting on an act to protect his anonymity? Or is this exactly what it seems: a case of two different writers using the same name?

At this point, it still comes down to a case of he-said-she-said between Dorian Nakamoto and Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodman, who stands by her claim that Nakamoto told her
he was "no longer involved" in Bitcoin.

Nakamoto says he was referring to his involvement in government projects, not cryptocurrency.

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Irene Greif talks to The Atlantic about being the first woman to get a Ph.D. in her field at MIT.

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YALE under fire for granting honorary degree to ‘environmentally conscious’ businessman sentenced to jail for asbestos deaths…

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At least if you’re an artist: A new study shows that because of this widely held stereotype [that creative people are eccentric], people infer that work made by an eccentric person is better and more valuable than work produced by a conventional character. … Students rated the unconventional art of Joseph Beuys (“The Pack”) more […]

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Every now and then, Lindsay Lohan falls apart, and this time the Oprah Winfrey Network’s cameras were there to catch it. Lohan’s reality show, Lindsay, debuts on OWN on Sunday, and via this extended first look, seems to include all the chaos that Lindsay wanted us to believe she was through with
(a fight with dad, awkward and suffocating hugs from mom, lateness, flaking, a possible breach of her sobriety, etc.).

Almost half of this trailer is taken up by footage of Oprah hearing about Lindsay’s bad behavior and then confronting Lindsay. "You need to cut the shit," says Oprah in the role of Captain Savealo. Fuck-up Lindsay is Rescuer Oprah’s perfect foil. That always seemed to be what this show was really about, and this trailer seems to confirm it.

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"Like a human who just went through laser vision correction, the International Space Station (ISS) recently got a clearer view of our world. That improved view is opening up new vistas for students in American classrooms." A gorgeous photo of British Columbia’s snow-capped mountains was the first view delivered via the Window Observational Research Facility at the U.S. Laboratory Science Window on the International Space Station. This video explanation of the window (part 2) is hosted by three-time shuttle veteran Mario Runco.

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Abby Martin works for Russia Today, the Russian government-funded international news channel that has been broadcasting a multi-lingual defense of Russia’s military presence in Ukraine all week. 

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Samsung spent nearly $20 million on TV ads during the Oscars, and its sponsorship included getting its Galaxy smartphone into the show. The bet paid off when host Ellen DeGeneres used the phone to take a selfie.

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Ms. Kennedy, who in 2012 crashed her S.U.V. after taking a sleeping pill, was quickly found not guilty after a four-day trial.

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