State rep. Diane Russell visits Reddit’s stoner forum

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• There is now a tool, thanks to redditor nekosune, that can display whether a user’s account has been deleted or shadowbanned. (r/MetaHub)
   
• Eric Lander, a leader on the Human Genome Project and a presidential science and technology advisor, hosts an AMA. (r/IAMA)
   
• Admin reostra explains why Reddit became popular. (r/bestof)
   
• Maine rep. Diane Russell shows up in an r/trees thread discussing—can you guess?—Maine rep. Diane Russell. (r/bestof)
   
• Redditors realize they’ve grown up. (r/AskReddit)
   
• Can a planet be so large that stars orbit it? (r/AskScience)
   
• r/Historians expands from Reddit to Twitter. (r/AskHistorians)
   
• Why do Americans view soccer differently from the rest of the world? (r/explainlikeimfive)
   
• r/Historians reveals any occasions in which major events in world history were affected by poor translators who were helping various heads of state communicate. (r/AskHistorians)

Picture of the day: A puppy leaves tracks on a snowy railroad track. (r/pics)

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