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ICYMI: Australian Kids Show Up Martin Shkreli By Making A $2 Anti-Malaria Drug
Long Beach in 1972. (Photo by 49er Badger via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
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- A group of Australian grade-school kids just replicated a $750-per-dose malaria drug. What's more, their version is only $2 a dose. Martin Shkreli, noted Evil Guy, mocked them at first, but now he's eating his words.
- Steve Kerr, the Golden State Warrior's head coach, says that he smoked marijuana to help him cope with chronic back pain. Forward Draymond Green responded by saying, "Any vegetable that comes from the Earth, they encourage you to eat it."
- An IT dude at Expedia made about $300,000 by hacking his execs.
- Bob Dylan may not be attending the Nobel Prize ceremony, but Patti Smith will be on hand to perform a Dylan song.
- As if you need more reason to be afraid of this world, there's now a massive, 70-mile long fracture in the Antarctic ice shelf.
- Emily Youcis, the Philadelphia Phillies' "Pistachio Girl," was possibly fired over her support for white nationalist causes.
- Here's a recap of former L.A. King Wayne Gretzky's time on Saturday Night Live (which was taped way back in 1989).
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