The results are humorous, agonizing, reflective, and profound.
Submissions for "Six-Word War" are accepted on Tumblr, Facebook, and #SixWordWar.
Here's a selection of 21 powerful poems from the "Six-Word War" memoir.
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It was a big year for the market, both in the US and abroad.
The Fed hiked rates, China devalued the yuan, and oil kept on crashing.
Looking back on 2015, Wells Fargo analysts shared some of their favorite charts showing the economic and financial trends that shaped 2015.
We cherry-picked a few particularly striking ones and shared them below.
SEE ALSO: The best charts Business Insider saw on the markets and the economy in 2015
What the China slowdown means for the global economy was everyone's favorite scary question of 2015 — especially after we saw major commodities exporters like Brazil go haywire after the yuan's devaluation.
But "the US economy has roughly twice the effect on global value added (i.e. wages, salaries, and profits worldwide) as the Chinese economy," according to Wells Fargo analysts. "As long as the US economy continues to expand, which we expect it will, then the global economy should continue to grow as well."
Source: Wells Fargo
Crashing energy prices, a weaker global economy, and dollar appreciation all hampered the production side of the US economy in 2015.
"That said, domestic services are expanding at a healthy clip," note Wells Fargo analysts. "This is reflected in the strength in real private final sales to domestic purchasers."
Source: Wells Fargo
"Over the past two years, full-time employment has growth robustly, rising by 4.4 million jobs since the beginning of 2014," according to Wells Fargo analysts. "Although we expect job growth to moderate a bit in 2016, full-time jobs should continue to grow at steady clip, which should improve income growth and eliminate remaining labor market slack."
Source: Wells Fargo
Ken Kratz, the prosecutor who helped put Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey away for murder, says crucial parts of their trials were left out of Netflix's documentary, "Making a Murderer."
"You don't want to muddy up a perfectly good conspiracy movie with what actually happened, and certainly not provide the audience with the evidence the jury considered to reject that claim," Kratz told People magazine via email.
The former Calumet County prosecutor has been under fire from viewers of the Netflix series: His law firm's Yelp page has been inundated with negative reviews, he has been harassed on Twitter and Facebook, and he says that he's received death threats.
The series follows the investigation and trial of Avery — who had previously served 18 years in prison for a rape and attempted murder for which he was exonerated — in the 2005 murder of Auto Trader magazine photographer Teresa Halbach on his property.
"Making a Murderer" executive producer Moira Demos has said, "The key pieces of the state's evidence are included in the series." According to Demos, Kratz declined the producers' invitation to interview for the series.
Here's the important evidence Kratz said "Making a Murderer" left out:
SEE ALSO: The 'Making a Murderer' prosecutor is being flooded with online attacks by Steven Avery defenders
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Avery previously showed earlier signs of interest in raping, torturing, and killing women: Kratz alleges that during Avery's earlier prison stay, he "told another inmate of his intent to build a 'torture chamber' so he could rape, torture, and kill young women when he was released."
Another inmate had allegedly told Avery that the best way to get rid of a body was to "burn it." The prosecutor asserted that Avery tried to cover up the murder by burning Halbach's body in his fire pit where her bones were found.
Avery targeted Halbach, in Kratz's theory: Kratz said that Halbach visited the Avery property on October 10 to shoot photos and was greeted at the door by Avery "just wearing a towel." Afterward, Halbach told her employer she didn't want to return to the property because she was "scared" of Avery. For the October 31 visit, Avery allegedly requested "the same girl who was here last time." And Avery allegedly knew that Halbach found him creepy, so he gave his sister's contact information.
"[Halbach's murder] was planned weeks ahead of time," Kratz said. "[Avery] asked for that same girl to be sent. He was ready for her."
Avery tried to use a call to Halbach's phone to establish an alibi, Kratz says: Phone records showed three calls from Avery to Halbach's phone on October 31, according to the former prosecutor. That day, he allegedly called Halbach's phone twice using the *67 feature to disguise his calls. Later at 4:35 p.m., Avery allegedly called the phone again without the *67 feature – knowing Halbach wouldn't answer – after she was supposed to arrive to his home. He allegedly wanted to establish an alibi by saying she never arrived for the appointment.
There was more DNA evidence: Kratz said that Avery's DNA was found under the hood of Halbach's car. The attorney argued that it wasn't from his blood, but from sweat. The defense argued that blood taken from an old vial of Avery's blood from 11 years before was planted inside the car.
"How did his DNA get under the hood if Avery never touched her car? Do the cops have a vial of Avery's sweat?" asked Kratz.
A bullet connected Avery to the victim: Kratz argued that a bullet found in Avery's garage with Halbach's DNA on it was fired from Avery's rifle. Apparently, the bullet was in a police evidence locker since November 6, 2005, very early in the investigation before Avery was charged.
"If the cops planted the bullet, how did they get one fired from [Avery's] gun?" Kratz pointed out. "This rifle, hanging over Avery's bed, is the source of the bullet found in the garage, with Teresa's DNA on it. The bullet had to be fired before Nov. 5."
Saudi Arabia has one of the best-funded defence forces in the Middle East.
The kingdom spends 25% of its budget, or about $80 billion, on its military. That is about double what it spends on health and social development.
It has been throwing its weight around recently, engaging in a war in Yemen and joining forces with Turkey against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
So here's what all that money has bought it.
We're in the midst of summer internship season, when thousands of students on university breaks try out jobs and try to impress potential future employers.
Glassdoor, the anonymous employer review website, has pulled together data on the top 10 companies for intern pay in the UK.
The data is based on anonymous submissions from former and current interns, and covers placements in all parts of each company.
That means the figure given will be an average of what's paid across departments. The figure is given as a lump sum for the entire internship, usually around 10 weeks for many programmes.
As you'd expect, most are banks, but there's a big difference between the highest and lowest paying banks on the list and, surprisingly, the highest paying location for internships isn't at a bank.
Average pay:£2,800 ($4,338)
Intern view: "Pros — The summer analyst program in PWM [private wealth management] is well structured and you learn a lot about the firm in the process.
"Cons — Summer work isn't that exciting because you need to have certifications to work on more high-level tasks.
"Advice to management — assign mentors to guide incoming analysts in team selection."via Glassdoor.
Average pay:£2,800 ($4,338)
Intern view:"Pros — Very big company, big chances to find a suitable job. The salary is good. Very powerful company so you get to know a lot of interesting stuff.
"Cons — Even though company has a lot of roles it is still hard to move from one role to another, but I guess it's possible if you give it enough effort.
"Advice to management — They should encourage a better mobility, and also not try to outsource the tech office and ops to cheaper locations, they loose very smart people like that."via Glassdoor.
Average pay:£2,800 ($4,338)
Intern view: "Pros — Hands on experience from the first week. Additional training in presentation skills and leadership, as well as workplace ethics, volunteering day [and] diversity. Interns get to plan the department's sports day (anything goes). Great food in the canteen. Everyone is so helpful and caring, even senior management take time out to speak to you. It helps foster an amazing work environment.
"Cons — No initially training was provided at start, so work can be a bit daunting at first but it's also exciting.
"Advice to Management — Didn't get to interact with the interns from other divisions. It would have been nice to have a Citi-wide intern event."via Glassdoor.
Storm Frank— the sixth named storm to strike Britain this season — has caused yet more flooding and devastation in the UK.
Multiple weather warnings have been issued by the Environment Agency and BP ordered the evacuation of a North Sea oil platform on Thursday after a barge broke its anchor following the storm.
Areas of the UK are still recovering from the damage inflicted by Storm Desmond earlier this winter. The government has been criticised in some quarters for failing to adequately respond to the crisis and to properly fund the north's flood defences.
On Thursday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced he would visit York.
Corbyn, quoted by The Telegraph, said late on Wednesday night: “Tomorrow I am meeting officials from the Environment Agency (EA) emergency response team in York.
"I will raise with them why they have failed to deploy these brand new pumps that looks as if they could have helped significantly in alleviating some of the worst impacts of the floods in the north of England."
Thousands of homes in Northern Ireland have experienced power cuts with Belfast International Airport also experiencing disruption to flights.
Here are the latest photos showing the impact of Storm Frank.
Newton's third law states that for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction.
And while he was talking about physics, not biology, it certainly feels like hangovers follow that law, though we might rephrase it as "for every moment of inebriated exhilaration there is an equal and opposite feeling of pain and unease."
Perhaps, after a recent night out celebrating the holidays, you've awoken with your head throbbing, your mouth dry, and a craving for both salt and sugar but uncertain if you can stomach any food.
Even worse, if you have to get any work done, your mind is foggy and it's hard to focus.
We get it.
But what is it about throwing back a few too many that leaves you feeling only halfway human? Could that feeling really be explained with dehydration, as so many seem to think?
In short, the answer is no — hangovers are more complicated than that. And in fact, much about hangovers is still a mystery to scientists. But here's what we know.
Just a note: We're looking at hangover symptoms specifically here, not the effects of long term alcohol abuse, though frequent hangovers could be a sign that cutting back on drinking would be a good New Year's resolution.
The way we metabolize alcohol is at least partly responsible for hangovers, according to Richard Stephens, a psychology professor and member of the Alcohol Hangover Research Group, an organization that's trying to answer questions in what they call the "neglected issue" of hangover studies.
Stephens told The Atlantic that one thing researchers know is that our bodies first metabolize ethanol, the main alcohol in booze. But we break ethanol down into other alcohols, including methanol, which our body turns into formaldehyde and formic acid — toxins that make you hurt.
This process happens about 10 hours after we stop drinking.
We also produce acetalydehyde when we break down booze.
This chemical compound is known to cause vomiting, nausea, a flushed face, and sweatiness — making it a prime culprit for at least a few hangover symptoms, according to some researchers.
But others have found that hangovers aren't the worst when acetalydehyde levels are highest, meaning they probably aren't responsible for everything.
Whiskey might be your drink, but there's some truth to the fact that alcohol with more congeners (a chemical component of booze that's more often found in dark drinks like bourbon or red wine) can lead to a worse hangover.
One study titled "Intoxication with bourbon versus vodka: effects on hangover, sleep, and next-day neurocognitive performance in young adults" found that whiskey did indeed lead to more severe hangovers.
It's not all bad though. One of the authors of the study told Scientific American that some of those congeners in whiskey helped "protect the stomach lining from damage."
A massive fire ignited at the Address Hotel in Dubai Thursday evening right before the city's New Year's Eve fireworks celebration.
Though the 2016 fireworks went off as planned, the pictures coming out of Dubai's downtown look scary and chaotic. Residents close to the fire are even offering places to stay for anyone displaced by the disaster with the hashtag #NeedAnAddress.
To see what's going on, keep reading.
Source: Associated Press
It was an incredible year for space exploration.
In 2015, we saw the world's first orbital rocket touch back down on the ground. We saw the beloved dwarf planet Pluto in exquisite detail. And an astronaut broke the record for the longest time spent in space.
We learned a lot about our own solar system this year, too, as NASA outlined in a recent blog post.
Here's a look at nine of the biggest discoveries we made in our celestial neighborhood in 2015.
While revelers in the streets awaited the new year, a fire broke out at the Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai, with flames covering at least 20 stories of the 63 story luxury hotel.
No fatalities have been reported and authorities are saying the fire has been contained and no longer spreading inside the hotel. The city's massive fireworks display still went off as planned from the nearby Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
In case you're not familiar with the Address Downtown Hotel,Instagram's location filter makes it easy to see photos of what the hotel looked like before the New Year's Eve blaze.
Here's a look inside.
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Your dollar used to go a lot further.
In 1955, McDonald's fries went for $0.10. Today, a small fry will cost you $1.29.
That price change is at least in part due to inflation: A dime in 1955 equates to $0.89 today, according to the US Inflation Calculator.
We took a look at what 16 things used to cost in the US over the last century and what they cost today. The differences may surprise you.
Noelia de la Cruz contributed to an earlier version of this article.
$145,000 in 1995 = $227,051 in 2015
Source: US Department of Agriculture
$58 in 1972 = $331.12 in 2015
Source: National Mining Association and Goldprice.org
$0.08 in 1971 = $0.47 in 2015
Source: Priceofstamp.com and Stamps.com
One of the biggest challenges facing any military is providing each soldier with a lightweight, self-contained, high-calorie meal inside of a combat zone.
These individual field rations called "Meal Ready-to-Eat"(MRE) are designed to give service members well-balanced meals that can last them an entire day.
Photographer Fabrizia Parisi and curator Giulio Iacchetti showcase various types of rations developed by each army in their exhibition Razione K: Meals for Soldiers in Action.
All photos published with permission.
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Mathematics has little surprises that are designed to test and push your mental limits.
The following 12 simple math problems prove outstandingly controversial among students of math, but are nonetheless facts.
They're paradoxes and idiosyncrasies of probability. And they're guaranteed to start an argument or two.
If you're looking for a mathematical way to impress your friends and beguile your enemies, here's a good place to start.
While most New Yorkers avoid the wandering crowds of tourists, costumed characters, and bombarding big screens of Times Square, I chose to live there.
After renting in the Upper West Side for two years and being fed up with my reliance on the temperamental No. 1 train, I decided to look for a new apartment that had more access to trains.
My search landed me in a year-long lease in the neon heart of New York City — where I had 12 subway lines to choose from.
As 2015 comes to an end, and an estimated 1 million flock to watch the famous New Year's Eve ball slowly descend, here's what it was like to live at the center of the world's third most visited tourist attraction.
NOTE: My rent skyrocketed — believe it or not — and I was forced out of my beloved Times Square neighborhood.
These items make our lives easier every day, but none of them would exist without their military beginnings.
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The miracle tool was invented in 1942 as a way to waterproof ammunition cases. Soldiers fighting World War II quickly realized the tape they used to seal their ammo had a number of other uses.
For better or for worse. And for the record, it was originally known as “duck tape,” because the tape was adhesive stuck to waterproof duck cloth. The strength and durability make it the ideal tape for hilarious pranks.
The autoinjector pen used to help fight off allergic reactions has its design roots in U.S. military Nuclear-Biological-Chemical warfare operations. The same technology which injects epinephrine into a bee-sting victim was developed to quickly give a troop a dose of something to counter a chemical nerve agent.
This one is actually kind of backwards. Richard Spikes was an inventor with a number of successful creations by the time he invented the multiple-barreled machine gun in 1940. He invented the weapon using the same principles as his first invention, the beer keg tap.
The following 20 award-winning editorial cartoons come from the portfolio of Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News.
Zyglis, 33, a staff cartoonist, won the "Editorial Cartooning" 2015 Pulitzer Prize.
"His editorial cartoons take on Republicans and Democrats, John Boehner and Barack Obama," wrote Mike Connelly, editor and vice president of The Buffalo News, in his cover letter to the panel of Pulitzer judges.
"With cartoons such as his take on the data mining and CNN, he doesn't hesitate to go beyond politics. (Wolf Blitzer was a good sport about the April Madness cartoon; CNN asked for the original.)"
SEE ALSO: The 50 most unforgettable photos of 2015
The Baltic Bees Jet Team is an aerobatic team which took part in several events in Poland this year. Here are some amazing air-to-air shots of the team, taken in connection with the Poznan Aerofestival.
The Latvian Baltic Bees team flies six L-39 Albatros jets, capable of reaching speeds close to 900 kilometers per hour, with 22 meters per second climb rate.
The aircraft used by the team are painted in a characteristic blue-yellow-striped color scheme, with a silhouette of a bee, painted under the fuselage. What is interesting, the team offer aerobatic flights for “civilians”: they provide a chance to fly a quasi combat aircraft (with the instructor pilot) to people who have always dreamed of flying a fighter jet.
SEE ALSO: Navy fighter pilots made this awesome GoPro video of their supersonic maneuvers
From the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris at the start of the year to the ongoing war in Syria and political uncertainty around the globe, 2015 has been tense. As it wraps up, here are 50 of the most unforgettable images of 2015.
The Legatum Institute, a think tank based in London, on Monday released its annual global Prosperity Index, a huge survey that ranks what it calls the most prosperous countries in the world.
The amount of money a country has is one factor of prosperity, but the Legatum Institute considered more than that in its ranking.
The organisation compared 89 variables to come up with its list. These variables include traditional indicators like per-capita gross domestic product and the number of people in full-time work, but also more interesting figures such as the number of secure internet servers a country has and how well rested people feel on a day-to-day basis.
The variables are then split into eight subindexes: economy, entrepreneurship and opportunity, governance, education, health, safety and security, personal freedom, and social capital.
The index looked at the 142 countries in the world that have the most available data. Here are the results:
There are only 1,826 billionaires in the world and there are some common traits that majority of them share.
According to price comparison website GoCompare, which analysed data from Forbes between 1996 and 2015, there are some major factors that the world's richest people seem to adhere to.
From sharing the same star sign to the average amount of children they usually have, there are some pretty weird common traits.
Check them out.
