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1. Startup will launch nationwide high school eSports league this fall
(English/engadget)

Professional eSports is entering the mainstream and the college competitive gaming scene is heating up. But what about high school? One Los Angeles start-up is gearing up to start a nationwide league next ...

2. Parents of Sandy Hook victims are suing Alex Jones for defamation
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Alt-right hero Alex Jones claims the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax perpetrated by the federal government to give it a reason to repeal the second amendment. (more…) Read ...

3. Santa Cruz del Islote, the "world's most crowded island"
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1200 residents, two shops, a restaurant, a school, and no cops: Santa Cruz del Islote is the world's most crowded island. Two hours off the coast of Colombia is a small island home to over 1,200 ...

4. "Penny" Board From an Old School Desk.
(English/instructables)

Materials Old school deskPenny board trucks (Doesn't need to be that brand, just that size)Skateboard bearings The ones linked here have everything you need. (doesn't matter what kind, but anything above ...

5. Friday Tunes: The Cramps
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... 1994. It was the first record of theirs I bought. I had the chorus from the song stuck in my head for weeks. At school, in bed at night. Couldn't get the damn things out if my head. Also, after years of ...

6. Pennsylvania school district issues teachers billy clubs to combat gun violence
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If a gun toting mad-person enters a classroom in Pennsylvania's Mill Creek Township school district they'll find themselves challenged by an army of billy club wielding school teachers! Pennsylvania ...

7. Trump's lawyer Cohen trying to block information found in FBI raid with a restraining order
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... order today at a US District Court hearing. According to CNBC: Cohen's argument is "a dead loser," said former U.S. attorney Harry Litman, who teaches at the UCLA School of Law and continues to practice ...

8. Teacher says no phones during midterm exam, so student brings portable record player with headphones
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Lots of students like to listen to music while studying or taking tests. So when a high school teacher told students they couldn't have their phones with them during their physics exam (to avoid cheating), ...

9. Parkland teacher who was open to the idea of arming teachers forgets his loaded Glock in a public bathroom
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Sean Simpson is a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who had expressed an openness the idea of arming teachers to prevent school shootings. (more…) Read all  ...

10. A stationary exercise bike that looks like an old school cruiser
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The Schwinn Classic Cruiser may well be the coolest indoor fitness bike out there. It's not only snazzy to look at but it's also Bluetooth-enabled. For $799, you get the retro red stationary bike along ...

11. Conservative Sinclair TV pundit resigns after threatening to sexually assault Parkland survivor
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Jamie Allman, a St Louis broadcaster at a Sinclair Broadcast Group television station publicly announced his intentions to sexually and violently assault 17-year-old Parkland high school student David ...

12. United By Blue Lakeland Laptop Bag review
(English/the-gadgeteer)

Looking for a simple, good looking bag for the office or school? United By Blue’s Lakeland Laptop Bag may be worth your consideration. It’s a charmer that’s got classic styling and great usability. It ...

13. UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data
(English/TheRegister)

Campaigners say Home Office trove must also be purged Campaigners have welcomed reports that the UK government is planning to cease monitoring pupils' nationality in its mass school data slurp.… Read ...

14. The debate over the redesigned Wheelchair Symbol
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... above, one that makes the figure much more active. Then they engaged in a street-art campaign, printing up 1,000 of the icons as transparent stickers that were pasted onto old-school Wheelchair-Symbol ...

15. Arduino-controlled Water Rockets
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You've all probably had a chance to do that classic high-school experiment: pop bottle rockets. You've probably taped on some fins, a paper nosecone, and presto! You launch a "rocket" that is loads ...

16. Spoon Carving for Beginners
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Brought to you by tool-school.com. Check out the full article at http://tool-school.com/2018/04/07/how-to-make-a-wooden-spoon-with-hand-tools/ Choose your wood For a cooking spoon that will be used ...

17. William Blake Doc Martens
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William Blake 1460, $150 The summer after I graduated high school, I went to London with a friend. We visited the Tate and I became smitten with William Blake's art. I didn't have a lot of money to spend ...

18. 'Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery' hits your phone April 25th
(English/engadget)

... in the magical school. Now Jam City, the mobi... Read all  ...

19. Parkland student activists drive American right berzerk, supercharge attack on public education
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... leaders looked at these kids and saw evidence of the urgency to destroy public education and replace it with religious private schools and charter schools. (more…) Read all  ...

20. Ifixit flunks Apple's new educational Ipod as nearly un-repairable
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... that school district IT departments can fix themselves or get repaired by a wide variety of independent, local service depots whose community-based technicians do repairs onsite and also keep local tax ...

21. Alex Jones falsely accused a guy of being the Parkland school shooter, so now he's being sued for more than $1,000,000
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Self-described roaring performance artist has a simple business model: he spouts outrageous lies to bring in an audience, then sells them quack remedies whose market has been proven by Gwyeneth Paltrow.  ...

22. How to make a shiny ball out of aluminum foil
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15 or 20 year ago Japanese schoolkids started making shiny balls out of mud (dorodango). Now people have figured out how to make shiny balls out of aluminum foil. They look very cool! To make one, you ...

23. China's falling space station burned up last night just north of the Spacecraft Cemetery
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Last night, China's Tinagong-1 space station, about the size of a school bus, burned up as it fell over the Pacific Ocean. The Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques captured ...

24. Google equips school buses with WiFi for homework in rural areas
(English/engadget)

When you're a rural student, the ride to school can easily take an hour or two. That's a lot of lost time that could be better spent doing homework or studying for tests. Google, however, is ...