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Why doesn’t human head hair stop growing? It makes us quite distinct from other primates and, well, every other mammal in existence. “Human head hair does have a terminal length,” trexapacolypse writes. “However, it has a much longer growing phase and grows at a faster rate than body hair. When the growing phase is over, the hair falls out.” Why is there such a long growing phase? “Sexual selection.” That’s just an unproven theory, though. (/r/askscience)
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“Good riddance, cocksucker,” Matt Taibbi wrote of the late Andrew Breitbart. At r/politics redditors gobble it up, while at r/TrueReddit folks are a little more hesitant.”This is the kind of thing that is tearing American politics apart,” bostoniaa writes. “If we want to see people acting less like him, lets try to add a little civility to public discussion.” (/r/TrueReddit)
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Tim Schafer designed some of the best computer games ever—adventure games like Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle. On March 4th, he’s doing an AMA. (/r/IAmA)
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In this r/askreddit thread there’s a palpable sense of horror building as foreign redditors slowly start to understand: Americans never get vacations. “Being paid to take a vacation seems like a freaking dream,” zukas writes. (r/AskReddit)
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Slate‘s Will Saletan is the latest journalist to do an AMA. I can only imagine that James Fallows’ success from a few weeks ago was a big inspiration. So far, he’s doing a great job answering questions. (/r/iama)
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If I knew anything about nuclear fusion, this AMA at r/askscience would be the greatest thing ever. Even as it stands—with me understanding maybe 10 percent of what people are talking about—it’s still pretty amazing. “We are nuclear fusion scientists from the Alcator C-Mod tokamak at MIT, one of the US’s major facilities for fusion energy research.” That’s right, six MIT scientists are answering every question redditors throw at them. Thoroughly. (/r/askscience)
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This bot subreddit removes all the image macros and other junk from r/atheism. “The front page of r/atheism is universally known to be crap,” the subreddit states in its sidebar. The filtering results are actually pretty impressive. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)