Cruel fate put Game 6 of an incredibly exciting World Series on the same night as Halloween. 

If you were a sports fan with kids — or lived in a neighborhood full of trick-or-treaters — this was pretty much torture. Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, and just baseball in general were faced with some tough choices. 

Some people straight-up pretended they weren’t home. 

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Source: Mashable | On Halloween, parents face impossible choice between their kids and the World Series

Halloween’s in full swing, with celebrities dropping costume snaps on Twitter and Instagram with gusto.

From Gwyneth Paltrow’s slam dunk of a Seven spoiler to Beyonce and Jay-Z’s get-up as iconic duo Lil’ Kim and Notorious B.I.G., Halloween’s been a fruitful venture for celebrity costumes, and here’s another humdinger for you.

Chance the Rapper and his partner, Kirsten Corley, have dressed up as iconic besties Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett-Smith for Halloween, even recreating an iconic photo for the occasion.

Pinkett-Smith befriended Shakur early in his career in Baltimore. It was a relationship Pinkett-Smith said was poorly portrayed in the 2017 Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | All eyez on Chance the Rapper's Halloween costume

Watching the annual NASA Jet Propulsion Lab pumpkin-carving contest is a great way to feel insecure in your own skills. 

The scientists pulled out all the stops and created science-inspired masterpieces out of the seasonal gourd. The video above shows the seventh annual contest in action. Other notable entries were posted on social media. 

There was a Mars Curiosity rover pumpkin, a War of the Worlds fighting machine, and a take on the InSight spacecraft.

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Source: Mashable | NASA's jack-o'-lanterns are next level

Editor’s note: Gavin Newsom is the lieutenant governor of California. 

My day of reckoning arrived during Mr. Morris’s class in middle school. I strategically sat in the last desk in the last row of every one of my classes, my eyes cast down, listening as the clock ticked one notch closer to the time the bell would ring and dispel my anxiety.

But that day, the gig was up. Mr. Morris asked me to read aloud, and I stood at my desk shaking as I gripped the book in my sweaty hands and painfully stumbled through the paragraph, tripping over the words. My cheeks burned red with embarrassment. I slumped back into my chair, my classmates’ taunting laughter still ringing in my ears. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Gavin Newsom: How I found strength in my dyslexia diagnosis