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A third of El Paso has realised that the best healthcare for their dollars is available in Ciudad Juarez.

Not "the best", mind. "The best they can afford", where they get a whole lot more treatment per dollar at the possible risk of some of it not being as good.

The Big Picture covers Carnival

Warning: It's Carnival pictures, including, as one does, a whole lot of pics from the Brazilian celebrations and parades.

Which means there is near-nudity, skimpy outfits, and bodypaint-as-outfit in some of these pics.

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In case you had any doubt at all with regards to the nonsensical and mendacious nature of the "antivaccination" movement, or you mistakenly for a second believed that vaccinations can or do cause autism, I have a link for you.

Isn't this how Science Is Evil movies usually start?

a mosquito managed to live 18 months clinging to the outside of the International Space Station, without any food, being bombarded by radiation and enduring fluctuating temperatures ranging from minus 230 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

"We brought him back to Earth. He is alive, and his feet are moving," Anatoly Grigoryev of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti.

THE INTARWUBS UNDERSTAND. WHY DOESN'T SHE?

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I could link to all kinds of context, but I'm not going to. Here's the first two questions worth, the rest are out there if you google.

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I, Memesheep

( 15 Albums That Changed The World Or At Least Your Life. Cut, because such things should ALWAYS be ignorable in a single post )

Stolen from Phil B, who is sometimes known as satyrblade