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How A Sleepy Ancient Amphibian Became A Link To An Endangered Language
David Lovelace, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum, remembered a rock the size ...
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Hell Is Being Defended By Tari Eason And Amen Thompson
Sunday night’s game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets, one of the best of the regular season, hit maximal ...
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UConn And UMass Created And Abandoned College Football’s Goofiest Rivalry Trophy
UMass and UConn were all set up for the big one. The two programs played 77 times before, but this was the first time that a ...
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You Are Not Prepared For How Cool The 12-Team Playoff Will Be
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...
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Crowd Work Isn’t A Substitute For Comedy
I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acaster’s new special, Hecklers Welcome, comes from a heckle. Obviously. The ...
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There Are No Small Servings Of The Jameis Winston Experience
All the euphoria over the glorious return of Jameis Winston during his giddy and maximalist Monday Night Football performance seemed to forget the helpless victims of Jameis Being Jameis—starting with ...
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Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘’Tis The Season To Be Irish’
This is the time of year when the best, biggest, and most ambitious movies come out. Not Oscar season, but rather that ...