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Extra, Extra: Why Do So Many People Dislike Hearing Their Own Voices?


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Ben Yakas

Published May 3, 2016

Modified May 3, 2016


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  • A body wrapped in plastic with "cement shoes" washed ashore in Brooklyn.
  • Facebook doesn't seem to have much respect for their "news curators."
  • Mayor de Blasio almost, but didn't quite, endorse Bernie Sanders.
  • A transgender woman captured a video of a woman verbally and physically assaulting her on the subway.
  • This is why you hate your voice.
  • Brian Wilson added another NYC date in September.
  • The teacher who showed his students John Oliver's Donald Drumpf video has gotten his job back.
  • Patton Oswalt wrote a piece about his recently-deceased wife for Time.
  • Cops are investigating a video of a Yeshiva principal kissing a young boy upstate.
  • The federal government has officially set aside the first money to resettle American climate refugees.
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