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Turns out that Shakespeare might’ve gotten stoned and that not all STIs are bad. What the? All that and more amazing finds in our new morning news round-up!

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Birthdays are just the beginning. #sense8 is reborn. https://t.co/tmMV66gKhm
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— Netflix US (@netflix) August 8, 2015
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Stars of Netflix’s Sense 8 reveal that the Wachowski’s groundbreaking, pro-LGBT, sci-fi series has been renewed for a second season.
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Cannabis residue found in 400-year-old pipes taken William Shakespeare’s garden suggest that the Bard may have gotten stoned.
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$\"Nathan$ – Illustrator Nathan Anderson creates badass book of mythological monsters from A to Z with historical info on each monster.

Cool! Georgia Governor Nathan Deal gets two confederate commemorations removed from the state’s official 2016 holiday calendar.
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Uh-oh. Amid a national drought crisis, the Brazilian military are preparing to quell uprisings at local water facilities.
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The EPA estimates that “biogas” that turn cow manure into electricity (while trapping greenhouse gasses) could “power over a million homes and cut emissions by the equivalent of taking nearly four million cars off the road.”
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There will be an Archie Comics musical thanks in part to Funny or Die co-founder and writer/director Adam McKay.
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A “face of war”: Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko creates portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin using 5,000 shell casings taken from Russian’s invasion of Eastern Ukraine.
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A 51-year-old transgender Californian inmate battling the state to pay for her Gender Affirmation Surgery has gotten parole, effectively ending her battle.
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A Tumblr we love: Fuck Yeah, Chubby Guys of Color reminds us how rarely we see such guys celebrated in any sort of media, LGBT or otherwise (NSFW)
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Turns out there’s such a thing as a beneficial sexually transmitted illnesses, including one that “can boost the survival of patients infected with HIV.”
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Stars of Netflix’s Sense 8 reveal that the Wachowski’s groundbreaking, pro-LGBT, sci-fi series has been renewed for a second season.

Cannabis residue found in 400-year-old pipes taken William Shakespeare’s garden suggest that the Bard may have gotten stoned.

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Cool! Georgia Governor Nathan Deal gets two confederate commemorations removed from the state’s official 2016 holiday calendar.

Uh-oh. Amid a national drought crisis, the Brazilian military are preparing to quell uprisings at local water facilities.

The EPA estimates that “biogas” that turn cow manure into electricity (while trapping greenhouse gasses) could “power over a million homes and cut emissions by the equivalent of taking nearly four million cars off the road.”

There will be an Archie Comics musical thanks in part to Funny or Die co-founder and writer/director Adam McKay.

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A “face of war”: Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko creates portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin using 5,000 shell casings taken from Russian’s invasion of Eastern Ukraine.

A 51-year-old transgender Californian inmate battling the state to pay for her Gender Affirmation Surgery has gotten parole, effectively ending her battle.

A Tumblr we love: Fuck Yeah, Chubby Guys of Color reminds us how rarely we see such guys celebrated in any sort of media, LGBT or otherwise (NSFW)

Turns out there’s such a thing as a beneficial sexually transmitted illnesses, including one that “can boost the survival of patients infected with HIV.”

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