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Asia-Based Tech Blog E27 Raises $650,000 Ahead Of Larger Round | TechCrunch
This year is shaping up to be an interesting one for tech media in Asia. Singapore-based E27 is latest technology-focused blog from the region to raise funding, after it closed a $650,000 bridge round ahead of a planned larger raise before the end o…
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WASHINGTON — THERE are signs that Congress may soon approve another series of domestic military base closings, after the Pentagon threatened earlier this month to cut nearly 90,000 jobs instead.
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US President Barack Obama arrives in Ethiopia – video | US news | The Guardian
US President Barack Obama arrives in Ethiopia on Sunday, on the second leg of his Africa tour. Obama was greeted at Bole airport in Addis Ababa by the country’s prime minister, Hailemariam Dessalegn, and other dignitaries.
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Business live: Chinese stock market suffers biggest fall since 2007 | Business | The Guardian
Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the financial markets, the world economy, the eurozone and business.
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Barristers begin industrial action over legal aid cuts – BBC News
Criminal barristers in England and Wales are due to begin industrial action to support solicitors who are protesting against cuts to legal aid. The Criminal Bar Association narrowly voted to back the action two weeks ago.
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Albert Einstein’s Love Letters | Brain Pickings
“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life — in short, without you, my life is no life.
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Stock art junkies – Boing Boing
Ethel, 31, is briefly distracted and confused by the presence of an observer. Drugs are not only debilitating, but so delicious that addicts will chew through syringes when injection becomes too time-consuming to satisfy their depraved urges.
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Simple Cooking Method Flushes Arsenic Out of Rice – Scientific American
Cooking rice by repeatedly flushing it through with fresh hot water can remove much of the grain’s stored arsenic, researchers have found—a tip that could lessen levels of the toxic substance in one of the world’s most popular foods.
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BBC News – Afghanistan: Wedding shootout in Baghlan province ‘kills 20 people’
At least 20 people have been killed and 10 wounded in a gunfight at a wedding party in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan, local officials say. Most of the dead are said to be wedding guests, aged between 14 and 60.
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Ryanair upbeat on profit and passenger outlook – BBC News
Irish airline Ryanair has reported a 25% rise in quarterly profits and says its full-year results will be at the top end of expectations. Net profits for the three months to June were €245m (£174m), up from €197m a year earlier, it said.
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Only 100 tigers left in Bangladesh’s famed Sundarbans forest | Environment | The Guardian
Only around 100 tigers remain in Bangladesh’s famed Sundarbans forest, far fewer of the endangered animals than previously thought, according to a census.
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The World We Live In: An Extraordinary Reality-Check | Brain Pickings
The chilling human story behind an almost-statistic. “You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you,” James Baldwin told Margaret Mead in their magnificently prescient 1970 conversation on race. “If the world tells you how you are going to be treate…
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Mother killed in China escalator accident saved son before death | World news | The Guardian
A woman was killed after she plunged through flooring over an escalator in a Chinese department store, reports said Monday, thrusting her toddler to safety as she fell to her death.
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Stoners in stitches: embroidery goes grunge – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
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BBC Sport – Jamaica 1-3 Mexico
Mexico won a record seventh Gold Cup with a dominant win against first-time finalists Jamaica. Jamaica were the first Caribbean team in the final, but were unable to produce an upset as El Tri won their third title from the last four cups.
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Cover Story: Mark Ulriksen’s “Endless Summer” – The New Yorker
“It sure would be nice to get over a Manhattan traffic jam with one big leap on a skateboard,” Mark Ulriksen says about his cover for this week’s issue. “I live in San Francisco, a few blocks from a skateboard park (though I haven’t been on a skateb…
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This Week in Fiction: Heinz Insu Fenkl – The New Yorker
Your story in this week’s issue, “Five Arrows,” follows a boy who goes to visit his uncle in the countryside of South Korea. Is this a landscape you know well? How important is the sense of place to the story?
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Kim, Caitlyn, and the People We Want to See – The New Yorker
Who gets to say what people call you, or how people see you? In a just world, the answer might always be “you”; in this world, it’s often disputed, and the outcome—the rules, and the winner—depends on who’s looking at you, and on what words, images,…
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons August 3, 2015 – The New Yorker
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Christian leaders – including an 89-year-old bishop – have taken to the streets of eastern China to protest against an “evil” campaign of to remove crosses that many see as a coordinated Communist party attack on their faith.
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Monster Hunt movie sets China box office record – BBC News
Supernatural comedy Monster Hunt has become the highest-grossing domestic film in China, state media said. Xinhua state news agency said that as of Sunday afternoon the film had earned 1.317bn yuan (£137m, $212m) since it opened on 16 July.
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“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.
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Indian security forces were on Monday battling an armed attack on a police station near the Pakistan border in which at least four people have been killed, three of them civilians.
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Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the Communist Party and the state news media have repeatedly stressed the concept of “rule of law” and have pointed to a continuing campaign against official corruption as a demonstration of the party’s commit…
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“Tweet Tweet Tweet” · The Brink · TV Review · The A.V. Club
For all of its mediocrity, The Brink is actually a fascinating example of the pitfalls of serialized television.
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Maggie Carroll couldn’t sleep – not after what she had read earlier in the day. It was 11 January 2006, four months after the deadly floods triggered by Hurricane Katrina had swallowed many of New Orleans’ neighbourhoods.
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Jeb Bush tries to be really, really fair | Grist
Jeb Bush proposed a seemingly evenhanded reform to energy policy at an event in New Hampshire last week. In response to a question from an activist affiliated with 350 Action, Bush called for eliminating all energy industry tax credits.
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Mexico missing students: Search uncovers 60 mass graves – BBC News
Sixty mass graves have been uncovered in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero during a search for 43 student teachers abducted last September, official documents have revealed. The attorney general’s office says the remains of 129 bodies have been…
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Migrants in Athens park: ‘People here fight for food’ – BBC News
Thousands of migrants have arrived in Athens in the past week after being smuggled onto Greek islands. Many of the migrants have run out of money and are being forced to camp out in one of the city’s main parks where they are relying on charities fo…
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UBS bank sees 53% jump in net profit – BBC News
Swiss bank UBS has reported a 53% increase in net profits for its second quarter compared to the previous year. The company said in a statement that second quarter adjusted profit before tax was 1.6bn CHF (£1.1bn).
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No, I didn’t call your shitty movie a “comedic masterstroke” · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
You owe me an apology. Sorry to just come right out and say it, but I really don’t know how else to proceed. You know what you’ve done. Isn’t it time to come clean and make amends? Look, I get why you did it.
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Gonzo Girl · Cheryl Della Pietra · Book Review · The A.V. Club
There are different types of Hunter S. Thompson fans. There are those who have read (and watched) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas dozens of times. They’ve donned aviators, a Hawaiian shirt, and a Tilley hat while yelling, “We can’t stop here, this is…
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Don’t mess with Quinn · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, July 27. All times are Eastern. UnREAL (Lifetime, 10 p.m.
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Tim And Eric’s Zone Theory · Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim · Book Review · The A.V. Club
Up to this point, the absurdist humor of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim has been confined to the audiovisual offerings of television, film, and the internet.
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On Writing · Charles Bukowski · Book Review · The A.V. Club
Unlike Stephen King’s 2000 book of the same title, Charles Bukowski’s On Writing is less concerned with the art of its author’s chosen craft than the business of it, the dispiriting processes of pitching and revisions that any professional wordsmith…
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“It just doesn’t matter!”: 20 things we learned at fictional summer camp · Inventory · The A.V. Club
Summer camp: It’s not just a place where we go swimming, learn to tie knots, and try to talk other kids into sharing the giant bags of candy their parents sent them. It’s also a place we learn important life lessons.
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10 episodes of Angel that show how it was more than Buffy redux · TV Club 10 · The A.V. Club
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic …
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Australian miners are making a killing overseas. With little regulation or oversight, billions of dollars are being made in some of the most remote places on Earth. The necessity of partnering with autocratic regimes has proved no impediment to inve…
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‘True Detective’ Recap: The Great Escape | Rolling Stone
Now that’s more like it. While the title, “Church in Ruins,” remains cryptic, the verdict is anything but: This was the best episode of True Detective we’ve seen all season — tighter, smarter, and more truly sinister than anything the 2.0 version ha…
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Lord Sewel faces call to quit Parliament over drugs claim – BBC News
Senior peer Lord Sewel has been urged to resign from the House of Lords after he was filmed allegedly taking drugs with prostitutes. Lord Sewel, who is yet to comment on the claims, has already quit as Lords deputy speaker and chairman of the Lords …
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Australia’s sticking points on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement are biologic patents and market access around sugar and dairy, the trade minister has revealed, as it seems likely an agreement will be reached by the end of this week.
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Monsters on the turnpike | Environment | The Guardian
We were surprised the other day to see, at the farm gate, a new notice saying: “Sorry, no eggs – visit of fox”. This was the farm where we had for years regularly picked up our freshly gathered eggs.
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muslimfeminist: sandandglass: The Nightly… | Super Opinionated
Shit even trump agrees. Yet there are still people on here who worship cops’ asses and are blaming her
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APOD: 2015 July 26 – The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble
Explanation: Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat? Reasons include the Sombrero’s unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Wet Weather Continues into Southern California
Widespread precipitation is expected from the West Coast to the Rockies late this week as an upper trough and associated cold front edge inland over the Western U.S.. A rich plume of moisture feeding into drought-stricken California will fuel heavy …
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“A Rickle In Time” · Rick And Morty · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Oh hey, let’s do an episode about a timeline that’s split in two. No, wait, four.
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Upper level energy swinging out of the Southwest combined with return flow from the western Gulf will spread precipitation across the south central U.S. Wednesday into Thursday.
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The Family with Twenty-Two Kids – The New Yorker
When Sue Hoag was twelve, she read a book, “The Family Nobody Wanted,” about a couple in the nineteen-forties who adopted a multiracial posse of twelve children, despite having very little room or money.
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Keith Richards Goes Solo – The New Yorker
Listening party: Is this a thing now? A recording artist has a new album, and the record company invites journalists to come listen to it, prior to its release, with the artist in attendance. The presence of the artist is the lure.
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What’s Behind Stagefright? – The New Yorker
Sara Solovitch, in “Playing Scared: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright” (Bloomsbury), says that while she was a good pianist as a child, she fell apart—sweating, trembling—when she had to play for an audience. She got through the Eastman School of…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews – The New Yorker
Among the Ten Thousand Things, by Julia Pierpont (Random House). This inventive take on the traditional family novel nods at bellwethers of the genre but feels as if it could only have been written yesterday.
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How El Chapo Builds His Tunnels – The New Yorker
At 8:52 P.M. on July 11th, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, sat on the bed of his cell in Altiplano, Mexico’s only super-maximum-security prison.
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“Dumpster Honey” – The New Yorker
The bees were working the contents of the fenced-in metal trash bin, zigging and scribbling past the goo of candy wrappers and the sticky rims of dented cans, entering, as they might a blossom, the ketchup-smeared burger boxes and the mold-fuzzed, h…
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Greece’s Ex-Finance Minister Tells All – The New Yorker
On July 4th, the night before a referendum asked the Greek people to decide how far their debt-ridden government should accommodate the demands of its main creditors—the “troika” of the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the Internationa…
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OCI bought a wireless phone charger. Concerned about reports of overheating, I decided to log the temperature and compare it to a regular USB3.0 charger. [OC] (imgur.com) I decided to jump on the bandwagon and grab a wireless charging plate and a re…
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“Four Hinterland Abstractions” – The New Yorker
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How to Take a Nature Walk, Part One – The New Yorker
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“Five Arrows” – The New Yorker
Yongsu and I launched the flat-bottomed boat from a muddy part of the river I didn’t recognize. It seemed the bank of the river had moved much closer to the village, though I knew it hadn’t rained much that year.
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Stanley Whitney’s Thrilling Abstract Art – The New Yorker
It’s remarkably difficult to find words for the flustering magnetism of the color abstractions by the painter Stanley Whitney, whose first solo museum show in the city, “Dance the Orange,” has just opened at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Taxi Drivers vs. Uber – The New Yorker
Round 1: Uber, New York City division. Last week, the de Blasio administration dropped its plans to limit the car-service app’s growth while it studies the impact of ride-hailing apps on traffic. The decision ended weeks of public squabbling.
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The Mail (August 3, 2015) – The New Yorker
As a psychiatrist who treats patients with personality disorders, many of whom struggle with chronic suicidality, I was dismayed to read Rachel Aviv’s article about the use of medical euthanasia on depressed people in Belgium (“The Death Treatment,”…
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Advanced Latin – The New Yorker
Joshua Katz, professor of classics at Princeton (dark suit, high forehead, merry eyes behind Santa Claus glasses), lectured to a group of eighteen New York City high-school Latin teachers on a recent morning in a room at the Institute for the Study …
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It is the year 2042. The world has devolved into apocalypse. The sky is dark in the day, and there are howls and screams at night. Marauding bands roam the countryside, preying on—and eating—their fellow-humans. The mail comes only about once a week…
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Party-Rocking with Gronk – The New Yorker
Rob Gronkowski, the New England Patriots tight end, is an affable redwood celebrated almost as much for his beer chugging and his shirtless dancing as for his touchdown spiking—Gronking, to some. He is far from studious.
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The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm – The New Yorker
The essayist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm was one of the great figures of the late Victorian and Edwardian era in London—and then had a surprising Indian summer in America in the early nineteen-sixties, when Edmund Wilson wrote at length in his pra…
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White officer pepper-sprays crowd at Black Lives Matter summit in Cleveland | US news | The Guardian
The incident occurred near Cleveland State University in the city’s downtown where the first Black Lives Matter conference was taking place. More than 1,200 participants spent the weekend organizing and discussing a range of social justice issues.
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Orangutan on the loose at Perth zoo – video | Australia news | The Guardian
A young orangutan escaped from its enclosure at Perth zoo at the weekend. It is thought to have climbed onto an awning to escape, running through the crowd to the surprise of visitors.
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Australian man pleads guilty to Anzac Day terror plot – BBC News
Mehran Azami on Monday appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on multiple charges connected to the plot. Azami pleaded guilty to 19 charges of importing restricted goods, including knives and stun guns, local media said.
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Firefight at India police station as ‘militants’ attack – BBC News
Suspected militants have attacked a bus station and entered police barracks in India’s Punjab state, killing four people and wounding at least six. Senior police officer Dinkar Gupta told the Associated Press that the attackers are believed to have …
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Turkish air strikes ‘changing regional game’, says PM – BBC News
Turkey’s air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants and Kurdish PKK separatists could “change the regional game”, the prime minister has said. Ahmet Davutoglu said there were no plans to send ground troops into Syria and that air strikes were …
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White Cleveland officer pepper-sprays Black Lives Matter conference – video | US news | The Guardian
Video has emerged of a white transit officer pepper-spraying people protesting police violence against African Americans.
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‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Recap: She’s Lost Control | Rolling Stone
In the Big Eighties New Wave soundtrack wars, Joy Division is a weapon best used sparingly.
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More on the F-16 and Cessna crash, and whether the collision of a military and a civilian aircraft was also a collision of cultures
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“Everything Is Everything” · Ballers · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The fact that Ballers is essentially an ensemble hasn’t worked to the show’s advantage so far. Part of that is because the show doesn’t have a deep enough roster to warrant so many separate storylines.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only daughter of the pop stars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown and heir to Ms. Houston’s estate after her death in 2012, died on Sunday. She was 22. Her death was confirmed by a statement from the Houston family provided by…
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Bobbi Kristina Brown 1993-2015 – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
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Readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates Debate Whether Between the World and Me Is Too Bleak – The Atlantic
Readers discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates’s bestselling book. Is it too bleak? Does it convey any hope for race relations? Is that even the point? Thus far, The Atlantic has posted three essays on Between the World and Me, from Michael Eric Dyson, James Form…
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“Parental Guidance/Svartsjuk” · Welcome To Sweden · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Whereas the discomfort in “Scrapbook/Skidresa” reads as one-sided, its follow-up, “Parental Guidance/Svartsjuk” is the first episode of season two to really lean into Welcome To Sweden’s knack for discomfort comedy.
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Salt-Powered Lamp: 8 Hours of Light from 1 Glass of Saltwater : gadgets
House & GardenSalt-Powered Lamp: 8 Hours of Light from 1 Glass of Saltwater (weburbanist.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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While a strong upper level trough begins to form over the central part of the country, a well defined cold front will advance eastward in time with showers and storms developing along and ahead of it.
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A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind.
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Is The Windows 10 Store The Next Step For PC Apps And Games? | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a games industry analyst, design consultant and the creator of leading blog What Games Are. He is currently writing a book called Core Game Design. You can follow him on Twitter here. Writing has a kind of half-life.
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Where Hunting Dogs Rest – BBC News
Where Hunting Dogs Rest 27 July 2015 Last updated at 04:03 A new photo book from Martin Usborne documents the plight of abandoned Spanish hunting dogs. Usborne spent two years photographing dogs rescued by charities. He also shot the landscapes in w…
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Open thread for night owls: NRA says gun control would be ‘tactical Jim Crow-style discrimination’
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2004—DNC: Keep it bland: It’s been a sound strategy thus far, if a bit frustrating at times. Margaret Cho was disinvited from tonight’s LGBT Unity event precisely for that reason. Democrats wanted to…
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Mexico’s Search Missing Students Finds 129 Bodies | Al Jazeera America
The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico’s attorney general’s office says.
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“The Excitement Of Release” · Masters Of Sex · TV Review · The A.V. Club
According to the interview with Michelle Ashford we talked about last week, this episode is where Masters Of Sex season three was originally supposed to start.
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“Kali” · Halt And Catch Fire · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“I’m getting tired of being second guessed and manipulated and distrusted when I have done absolutely nothing wrong.”—Joe MacMillan“I know it wasn’t your fault. I didn’t want you to leave without hearing that.
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“Fort Defiance” · The Strain · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The reason why The Strain was largely off to a good start in its second season was because of its backstory.
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‘Hannibal’ Recap 3×8: Fancy Allusions and Fussy Aesthetics | | Observer
The story of Francis Dolarhyde was first told in Thomas Harris in the 1981 novel Red Dragon, before being rendered onscreen by Tom Noonan in 1986 and then Ralph Fiennes in 2002 before Richard Armitage picked up the role in 2015.
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“Meeting Cait” · I Am Cait · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Going into tonight’s premiere of I Am Cait, Caitlyn Jenner is in a unique and complicated situation.
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The Apple Watch is coming to Best Buy in August | The Verge
Apple will start selling the Apple Watch outside of its own stores in the US this August, as Best Buy becomes the first major retail partner to carry the device. Over 100 stores will sell the Watch at first, according to The Wall Street Journal, exp…
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Best Buy Will Begin Selling The Apple Watch From August 7 | TechCrunch
Apple is preparing to expand the sales effort behind the Apple Watch after it was announced that Best Buy will begin selling it in its U.S. stores from August 7, making it the first independent retailer to stock the wearable device.
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Police shut down show by Chief Keef’s hologram | The Verge
Holographic “performances” by the likes of 2Pac and Michael Jackson have already broken laws of taste and decency, but a new show by a living artist appears to have fallen foul of the actual law.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — In the hour before the Baseball Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony Sunday, the fever for Pedro Martinez began to grow.
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Mexico roll to seventh Gold Cup title with comfortable win over Jamaica | Football | The Guardian
This time it was beyond dispute. Mexico are Gold Cup champions for a record seventh time after a comprehensive 3-1 victory over Jamaica at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.
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“Episode 5” · Humans · TV Review · The A.V. Club
You can tell “Episode 5” is off to a weak start when it begins by contradicting “Episode 4.
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French angry at beach closure for Saudi King – BBC News
More than 100,000 people have signed a petition against the closure of a beach on the French Riviera to allow Saudi King Salman to holiday in private. The petition says the public beach in Vallauris should be available to everyone.
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David Cameron begins trade mission in South East Asia – BBC News
David Cameron has said business deals worth more than £750m will be made during his tour of South East Asia. Mr Cameron is to be accompanied by 31 UK business leaders on the trade mission, which starts in Indonesia.
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Bodies found in NZ search for Canadian climbers – BBC News
Two bodies have been recovered in an area of a New Zealand national park where two Canadian tourists had been reported missing, say police. Etienne Lemieux and Louis-Vincent Lessard, both aged 23, were reported missing on Saturday after failing to a…
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David Mundell: ‘No plans’ for second independence referendum – BBC News
No contingency plans have been made for a further independence referendum after next year’s Holyrood elections, the Scottish secretary has said. David Mundell was asked about what plans his department had in parliamentary questions by an SNP MP.
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WASHINGTON — The fight for a $15 minimum wage has gained momentum in New York, California and other places around the country in recent months. But as a national strategy to raise incomes at the bottom of the pay scale, it faces major obstacles, bot…
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, Daughter of Whitney Houston, Dead | Rolling Stone
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died on July 26 at age 22 after she was found unresponsive in her bathtub and placed in a medically induced coma.
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US regulators to slap record fine on Fiat Chrysler – BBC News
US regulators have imposed a record fine of $105m (£67.6m) on Fiat Chrysler over recall failures. Under the agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the automaker will also offer to buy back as many as 1.5 million vehicles.
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Whitney Houston daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown dies aged 22 – BBC News
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston, dies at the age of 22 | Music | The Guardian
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, has died six months after going into a coma. She was 22. Brown, who was found unresponsive in her bathtub in January, passed away at a hospice in Duluth, Georgia on Sunday.
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Republicans Release Debate Format – The New Yorker
10. Donald Trump declared winner by Donald Trump. Get news satire from The Borowitz Report delivered to your inbox.
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Theresa Villiers refused MI5 surveillance warrants, watchdog reveals – BBC News
MI5 has twice been refused warrants for surveillance by the Northern Ireland secretary, the watchdog overseeing the intelligence services says. The Intelligence Services Commissioner (ISC) said Theresa Villiers had denied requests for two urgent war…
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Bill Cosby accusers detail trauma and betrayal in magazine | World news | The Guardian
Thirty-five women who have accused Bill Cosby of raping them have spoken out in an explosive photo essay for New York magazine.
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The Lost Pilgrims of the Islamic State – Defense One
In Political Pilgrims, the sociologist Paul Hollander exposes and excoriates the mentality of a certain kind of Western intellectual, who, such is the depth of his estrangement or alienation from his own society, is predisposed to extend sympathy to…
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — When a young Ethiopian journalist, Simegnish Mengesha, got the chance to meet with President Obama in May, a comment from a high-ranking American official was on her mind. On a visit to Ethiopia two weeks earlier, Wendy R.
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Wendi McLendon-Covey and Kal Penn join teen comedy Speech And Debate · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Being a teenager is hard. You’ve got all these new emotions, you’ve got hair in places where there was no hair before, your parents just don’t understand, and you’re too young to get references to late-’80s hip hop music.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana called for tougher gun laws in other states on Sunday, breaking his silence on the issue three days after a gunman with a history of mental illness and violence opened fire in a movie theater in the state’s fourth-larg…
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WASHINGTON — Rick Perry’s voice softens when he talks about the joy he gets from looking at his iPad and seeing “that 20-week picture of my first grandbaby.” Marco Rubio says ultrasounds of his sons and daughters reinforced how “they were children —…
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Mutant daisies are blooming near the doomed Fukushima nuclear power plant
Four years after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant went into meltdown, there’s life. Except this life is a lot different to the life that once inhabited the nearby area.
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How App Design Can Hurt App Development | TechCrunch
Mobile apps have become so ubiquitous that it’s easy for most people in tech to assume that creating them is a simple, straightforward process.
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Reaction by some liberals at Netroots Nation to #BlackLivesMatter disappointing
I enjoyed Netroots Nation 2015. I visited with folks that I see once a year. I met new people and established new relationships. Altogether, the conference met most of my expectations, and as long as I am able to I will be returning. Every year some…
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Will Intellectual Combat Ever Top Buckley-Vidal? — NYMag
The antipathy they felt was personal at root, perhaps even psychosexual. As a new documentary shows, they don’t make ’em like William Buckley and Gore Vidal anymore. In 1968, there existed two especially splendid exemplars of a now-extinct species: …
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BBC Sport – Louis van Gaal: Cristiano Ronaldo is type of player Man Utd need
Louis van Gaal says Cristiano Ronaldo is the type of player Manchester United need to compete with their rivals.
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Obama Finds Kenya at ‘crossroads’ | Al Jazeera America
Declaring Kenya at a “crossroads” between promise and peril, President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the nation of his father’s birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its future.
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EU reform: George Osborne visits Paris for two-day talks – BBC News
The chancellor is making the first of a series of trips to key EU capitals, as the government bids to renegotiate the UK’s relationship with the union. George Osborne will meet officials in Paris for two days of talks, with more cities visited in th…
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“Scrapbook/Skidresa” · Welcome To Sweden · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Scrapbook/Skidresa” spends some needed time with Bruce and Emma, together…well, until Emma takes off on her own little mission to catch guest star Anja Pärson, the alpine skiing Olympic gold medalist.
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Following a tragedy that echoed the death of her mother, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown has died, PEOPLE confirms. She was 22. The Houston family announced the news via a statement from their rep. “Bobbi Kristina Brown passed away July, 26 20…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Busy Day for Tropical Systems in the Pacific Ocean
Two typhoons, one tropical storm, one formation alert and one large area of increased convection is making for a busy day in the northern Pacific Ocean. From left to right: Tropical Storm Linfa is in the South China Sea meandering slowly northward w…
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Salford shooting: Victim understood to be Paul Massey – BBC News
The victim was Paul Massey, a local businessman and former mayoral candidate, the BBC understands. Mr Massey stood unsuccessfully to be mayor of Salford in 2012.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — When a young Ethiopian journalist, Simegnish Mengesha, got the chance to meet with President Obama in May, a comment from a high-ranking American official was on her mind. On a visit to Ethiopia two weeks earlier, Wendy R.
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Obama in Ethiopia for key talks with regional leaders – BBC News
President Barack Obama is in Ethiopia on the second leg of his African tour – the first serving US leader to visit the country. He is due to hold talks with government officials and discuss the civil war in South Sudan with regional leaders.
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How your memories impact your immune system, why moving is one of the most stressful life-events, and what your parents have to do with your predisposition to PTSD.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has announced goals for increasing US reliance on renewable energy, pledging to have more than half a billion solar panels installed nationwide within four years of taking office.
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Huckabee Israel ‘oven’ comments trigger row – BBC News
The US Democratic party has demanded an apology from Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee over comments he made about the Iran nuclear deal. Mr Huckabee said President Barack Obama was marching Israelis “to the door of the oven” – an appa…
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Spelman College has discontinued a professorship endowed by Bill Cosby, a university spokeswoman said. After suspending the professorship last year in the wake of mounting accusations of sexual assault against Mr.
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said Sunday that the recent arrest and death of a black woman while in police custody in Texas was bringing renewed attention to the fear and anger that characterize the relationship of blacks with the …
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Is public service broadcasting in terminal decline? – BBC News
Public service broadcasters all over the world are coming under increasing pressure to justify their funding models. So is it inevitable that these broadcasters will lose at least some of their public money, forcing them to adopt more commercial fun…
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Why is EU free movement so important? – BBC News
Why does free movement of people – one of the founding principles of the European Union – look set to become so important in the debate about whether Britain should remain in the EU?
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For now, Donald Trump is here to stay, at least according to two new NBC News/Marist polls released on Sunday. Mr.
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DUNHUANG, China — An oil-field worker in this Gobi Desert town posted poetry online memorializing the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. An artist in Shanghai uploaded satirical photographs of his wincing visage superimposed on a portrait of…
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The reason every meme uses that one font – Vox
If you’ve spent much time on the internet, you’ve seen a meme like the one above: a picture, white words, a black outline, and the same exact font. Why do so many memes have the same appearance?
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Jumping A Semi Truck 166 Feet Is A Totally Reasonable Thing To Do – Digg
Daredevil Gregg Godfrey set a new world record by jumping his semi truck 166 feet during Butte, Montana’s Evel Knievel Days, obliterating the previous record of 62 feet.
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DUNHUANG, China — An oil-field worker in this Gobi Desert town posted poetry online memorializing the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. An artist in Shanghai uploaded satirical photographs of his wincing visage superimposed on a portrait of…
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This Norwegian hotel has a floor dedicated to single ladies
Oslo’s Grand Hotel is one of the most famous hotels in Norway. It’s where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize resides every year to receieve an ovation on the balcony (in the Nobel Suite) and it’s also where writer Henrik Ibsen used to eat every sin…
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Google’s Calico Partners With Ancestry.com to Share DNA, Genomic Data | Re/code
How much would you pay to live longer? What if Google were making the pill to do it? On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal for access to genetic information from Ancestry.com, the larg…
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Hillary Clinton Promises 500 Million Solar Panels By 2021 | ThinkProgress
Hillary Clinton is going all in on renewable energy. On Sunday evening, the Democratic presidential candidate released a fact sheet detailing her plan to fight climate change, and it focuses heavily on promoting clean energy generation across the co…
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Zeke Emanuel’s Breakfast in Washington – The Atlantic
For the renowned bioethicist and oncologist, gathering friends around the griddle is a life-affirming experience. It’s not every morning that a Rhodes Scholar asks you if you’d prefer to sit indoors or out and freshens your water glass.
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A developing storm along the Western Gulf Coast will move northward to the Middle Mississippi Valley by Saturday evening. The system will pull moisture off the Gulf of Mexico northward to the Ohio Valley/Lower Great Lakes also by Saturday.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Wet Weather Continues Moving Eastward
Showers and storms moving eastward over parts of the central U.S. and Gulf Coast. The central U.S. trough will dig south over the Gulf of Mexico, and result in the development of a surface low that will intensify as it lifts northward towards the Gr…
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PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex.
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Taiwan president rues lack of progress with China – BBC News
The president of Taiwan has said that political progress in mainland China is unstable.
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Japanese comics that are too racy for Chinese censors… but still popular online – BBC News
The series Death Note follows the story of a young student named Light Yagami who discovers a notebook with a sinister power. If a name is written on the pages of this notebook, that person will die.
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Train derailed after hitting cows on line in Kent – BBC News
Two carriages were derailed when the train hit the cows near Chilham station while travelling from Ashford to Canterbury, Southeastern Trains said.
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Palmyra: Ruins that inspired the architecture of power – BBC News
What do the ruins of an ancient Roman city in Syria and some of the most iconic buildings in Washington and London have to do with each other? A new exhibit aims to connect US audiences with antiquities under fire in Syria’s civil war. Once upon a t…
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Investing in Iran after the lifting of sanctions – BBC News
Just a few days after hosting a historic deal between Iran and the world powers on Tehran’s nuclear programme and lifting international sanctions, Vienna has been the venue for deals of a different kind.
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Ukraine: An evening on the frontline with troops in Donetsk – BBC News
The BBC has witnessed more heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine as rebel forces appeared to attack Ukrainian army positions with mortars and a tank on part of the frontline in the east of the country.
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One rower, two cats, 900 miles – BBC News
Three decades ago, Ove Joensen decided to row 900 miles (1,450km) across the North Sea from his home in the Faroe Islands to Denmark. He didn’t make it on his first attempt, but in the end his persistence paid off.
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The Quirky business that wants to transform inventing – BBC News
Sometimes a chap becomes a part of the story he’s been sent to cover. Recently it happened to me in New York.
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Taiwan’s President Ma: China progress ‘disappointing’ – BBC News
The president of Taiwan has said that political progress in mainland China is unstable. Speaking in a rare interview with the BBC, Ma Ying-jeou said he was disappointed that there had been no reliable progress towards democracy on the mainland.
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When the news broke last week that hackers had breached Ashley Madison, the dating website that helps married people find out-of-wedlock romance, the Internet responded with a lot of snark and not much sympathy.
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In Maryland, a century-old rail tunnel needed emergency repairs this winter because of soil erosion from leaks, causing widespread train delays. In Connecticut, an aging swing bridge failed to close twice last summer, shutting train service and stra…
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Ridley Scott is directing an adaptation of Don Winslow’s The Cartel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Films has picked up the adaptation rights to Savages author Don Winslow’s latest novel, The Cartel.
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The Ice Age zombie lie rises again
No sooner had that article published than a new and potentially fascinating study of long-term solar cycles reared its head. And, like in the ’70s, it was immediately seized on by the usual suspects, again aided and abetted by a sloppy traditional m…
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A conference protesting police violence against African Americans ended in police violence against African Americans on Sunday, when at least one officer deployed pepper spray against men and women protesting the arrest of a 14 year-old teenager.
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“Yes And” · BoJack Horseman · TV Review · The A.V. Club
In retrospect, saying that BoJack has come a long way since his days of sitting on the couch, drinking beer, and watching Horsin’ Around reruns made his regression inevitable.
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Gold Cup final 2015: Mexico v Jamaica – live! | Football | The Guardian
In a recent interview with ESPN, Jamaica’s German head coach Winfried ‘Winnie’ Schäfer, described his love for his adopted country’s most famous citizen: “I listen [to Bob Marley] on the bus. In the morning, in the evening, Bob Marley, Bob Marley, B…
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Jason Day recovers from St Andrews disappointment to win Canadian Open | Sport | The Guardian
Jason Day recovered from the disappointment of a near miss at the Open Championship by winning the RBC Canadian Open by a stroke from Bubba Watson.
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Nintendo pulls the plug on the Wii U’s TVii service | The Verge
When Nintendo released its Wii U console in 2012, it included a little feature that promised to “transform how people find, watch and engage with TV shows, movies and sports.” It was called TVii, and it even got its own dedicated button on the Wii U…
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Obama Kenya Gay Rights Lecture – The Atlantic
President Obama’s advocacy for gay rights in Kenya is likely to stir up colonial resentment in the country. But he may have forced a necessary national conversation. President Obama’s first visit to Kenya as U.S.
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LONDON — “Scandals make good headlines,” wrote John Sewel, a member of the House of Lords, in a recent blog post about efforts to clean up the image of the British Parliament.
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After a game in which they had scored the most runs, tallied the most hits and presumably raised the most eyebrows in Citi Field’s seven-year history, the Mets were expecting Sunday to be a little less pleasant.
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If this guy’s vine reaches 1 million views, he’ll get a Jeb Bush neck tattoo
But there’s something so pure about Bush’s love for technology. It’s almost like you can’t stop watching it over and over.
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When Selling Virtual Products Abroad, Don’t Put Prices On Autopilot | TechCrunch
If you have a physical product that you want to sell in more than one country, determining the price in different markets can be challenging. You might have to open an office in each country, or at least hire a consultant to assess local demand and …
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Walking her dog through a sun-roasted film set in Queens last Monday, Lois Gillman said she couldn’t believe it at first when she heard about the movie being made, just around the corner from her house. The movie being shot — “37” — won’t be a horro…
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Syd Mead, the Artist Who Illustrates the Future – Estate of the Arts – Curbed National
Are there any particular architectural influences, either buildings or architects, that really stick out to you when you think of your work? Not in that way. I appreciate architecture with function, Greek and Roman classics. Contemporary architectur…
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Family of man killed by shark in Tasmania say they oppose shark cull | Environment | The Guardian
The family of a man killed by a shark as he dived for scallops with his daughter off Tasmania’s east coast have said they are opposed to any shark cull.
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Satanic Statue Unveiled in Detroit
The Satanic Temple has unveiled its controversial bronze Baphomet statue in Detroit, Reuters reports. The statue was originally going to be installed in Oklahoma, next to a monument to the 10 Commandments. It didn’t work out.
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Villa’s two goals make Andrea Pirlo’s New York City FC debut a sweet one | Football | The Guardian
David Villa scored two goals to help New York City FC overcome a hat trick by Cyle Larin and beat Orlando City 5-3 on Sunday. Villa’s second goal, his 12th of the season, broke a 2-2 tie in the 67th minute, Thomas MacNamara added another in the 71st…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Polar Jet Brings Bitter Cold to the Upper Midwest
The weather pattern over the next few days will feature a massive surface high settling southward from Canada to the Great Plains on Wednesday, following by another large surface high by the end of the week.
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One of the tragic realities of the video game industry is that, sometimes, great ideas that everyone seems really excited about will occasionally evaporate into poisonous clouds of pure disappointment.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Shaking off the morning chill, they walked down dirt pathways and past burning piles of trash. It would cost 10 shillings — about a dime — to see the speech, but they wanted to see the man.
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Hear El-P’s ‘Fantastic Four’ End Credits Song ‘Another Body’ | Rolling Stone
Hear El-P’s ‘Fantastic Four’ End Credits Song ‘Another Body’ Epic instrumental inspired by composer Philip Glass
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Chris Froome Wins Second Tour De France | Al Jazeera America
Tour de France winner Chris Froome and his teammates pedaled slowly over the finish line on Sunday, soaking up the applause on the Champs-Elysees.
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These wireless headphones blend comfort, convenience, and good looks | The Verge
It’s no secret that I love wireless headphones. They are the type of gadget that can make you feel like you’re living in the very near future, pumping tunes into your ear holes without having to be plugged into anything.
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Trump Forces Lindsey Graham to Get Smartphone — NYMag
Republican senator Lindsey Graham finally has an iPhone, he announced today on ABC’s This Week, after being forced to upgrade once Donald Trump publicized his old cell number at an event last week.
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TIL in 2007, Mika Brzezinski (a MSNBC news anchor) refused to report on the lead story of Paris Hilton’s release from jail, then after being pressured again to do the story, she attempted to light the script on fire on live television. (unclycopedia…
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At first, as we approached the mere, no birds were visible under the bank, for the turf, worn into tiny inlets and bays by winter storms, rose, a line of miniature cliffs, above the narrow sandy beach where the broken mussel shells shone like silver.
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An Iconic Lion Named Cecil Was Skinned and Decapitated by Hunters in Zimbabwe | VICE News
Authorities in Zimbabwe are reportedly looking to arrest a Spanish hunter who paid guides 50,000 euros to hunt down, decapitate, and skin a famous protected lion named Cecil.
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Sebastian Vettel dedicates Hungarian Grand Prix win to Jules Bianchi | Sport | The Guardian
Sebastian Vettel dedicated his second win of the season to Jules Bianchi after what he described as a very emotional week following the French driver’s death. “This victory is for Jules,” said the Ferrari driver, who also won in Malaysia.
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John Terry rules out ending Premier League career anywhere but Chelsea | Football | The Guardian
John Terry says he would never follow Frank Lampard and Petr Cech in playing for another English club and believes he has “at least a couple of years” left at Chelsea.
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WASHINGTON — In a rare and fiery weekend session, the Senate voted on Sunday to resurrect the federal Export-Import Bank, handing the Republican Party’s most conservative wing a major defeat and setting up a showdown this week with House leaders div…
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KATHMANDU — The police found the boy’s body on the banks of a river in Kudiya, a farming village near the Indian border. His throat had been slit.
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It’s Too Late to Die Young Now: The Heyday of Rock ‘n’ Roll Journalism | Biography | Biographile
Well, there’s certainly more writing than ever before. I’d debate how much of it is great, though.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Major Nor’easter Set to Impact Northeast U.S.
This image was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument around 1825Z on January 26, 2015. A low pressure system currently forming off the mid-Atlantic coast will rapidly strengthen into a major nor’easter today and affect parts of the Nor…
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Another black life lost to police bullets, unarmed, ignored, and forgotten
We can watch the footage of her arrest for a lane change, a change that was instigated by Officer Encinia’s excessive speed, and see how it’s quickly escalates from “Could you please put out your cigarette?” to “Get out of the car, now—I’ll light yo…
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Snoop Dogg documents his arrest in Sweden with series of Instagram videos
Snoop Dogg was briefly arrested on suspicion of using illegal drugs in Sweden, an incident he documented through a series of Instagram videos.
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Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Child bomber hits Damaturu – BBC News
The attack took place near a crowded market in the city of Damaturu in Yobe state. About 50 people were wounded. No group has said it was behind the attack but Islamists Boko Haram have been blamed for similar bombings in recent months.
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Fox picks up workplace comedy about a bunch of people who go missing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Apparently, Fox is determined to make writing/producing team Alec Sulkin and Julius Sharpe the next big thing. The two of them both worked with Seth MacFarlane on Family Guy, and Sulkin not only co-wrote the Ted movies, but he was also a co-creator …
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Voice actor pulls off 24 incredible Pixar impressions
Plenty of people dream of one day appearing in a Pixar movie, but voice actor Brock Baker has managed to create his own Pixar universe in his home with only his voice. He might not be replacing Harry Shearer on The Simpsons anytime soon, but he’s ba…
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BBC Sport – Kazan 2015: USA claim first-ever mixed synchro World gold
Synchronised swimming events featuring men and women are the “future” of the sport say the winners of the first-ever World Championship gold in the event. Bill May, 36, and Christina Jones, 38, scored 88.5108 to beat favourites Russia in the ‘duet t…
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The Body Behind the Little White Church | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Summer was found in a drain. The tank was just behind the Faith Tabernacle Church of Logan, Ohio, along the Hocking River, where, after the discovery of the 25-year-old’s body, a makeshift memorial was set up: plastic flowers, teddy bears, candles.
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Senate blocks Lee’s vote to defund Planned Parenthood | TheHill
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was rebuked by his Senate colleagues on Sunday as he tried to force a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. Lee had tried to attach an amendment eliminating all federal funds for Planned Parenthood to the vote on Congress’s mu…
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Weatherwatch: Some like it hot – but not this hot | News | The Guardian
In contrast to the wet and windy start to the summer in the northern half of Britain, the south-east of England is looking rather parched right now, even after the weekend’s rain.
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Donald Trump And The Extraordinary Vapidness Of Political Punditry | ThinkProgress
After his now-famous comments deriding the war record of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) last weekend, Donald Trump was supposed to be toast. He’s “not running a real campaign,” according to Rick Wilson, and in fact, “the Donald Trump candidacy is almost ov…
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Tour de France stage 21: Chris Froome en route to victory – in pictures | Sport | The Guardian
A sock of a rider from Russia’s Katusha cycling team is reflected in the wet ground prior to the start of the stage Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Summer Games Done Quick is back—and this time it’s helping Doctors Without Borders
The speedrunning competition Summer Games Done Quick is back, and this year it’s trying to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. It also looks like this year more time is being given to speedrunners’ commentary, which adds another dynamic to any …
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A vehicle packed with explosives detonated outside a landmark Mogadishu hotel long favored by diplomats and top government officials, killing at least 12 people and wounding many more, witnesses and the authorities said on Sunda…
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Earlier this month, the news and gossip website Gawker, a pioneer in web journalism, partly responsible for its tone and sensibility, published an article that accused a married male media executive of seeking, via text message, to pay for sex with …
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Chris Froome’s Tour de France: through the rain, abuse and urine to victory | Sport | The Guardian
Chris Froome has successfully negotiated the formality of what was ostensibly a procession from Sevres into Paris to win his second Tour de France in three years.
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Computers aren’t just doing hard math problems and showing us cat videos. Increasingly, they judge our character. Maybe we should be grateful.
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Fall in love with penguins all over again with these sensational pictures by Paul Nicklen
Who knows how he does it, but photographer Paul Nicklen knows just how to snap sensational photos. This Canadian-born Arctic ecosystem specialist and marine biologist has a love of nature that truly stands out in his photography and makes you want t…
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VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr addressed reporters from the San Francisco International Airport, near where the incident occurred at around 7:30am loc…
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Boat belonging to two missing teen fishermen found off Florida | US news | The Guardian
The US Coast Guard said on Sunday a boat belonging to two missing 14-year-old fishermen had been found off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Petty Officer Steve Lehman said the boat was found Sunday about 67 miles off Ponce de Leon Inlet in Volusia County.
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Boy Scouts to Relax Ban on Gay Leaders — NYMag
The Boy Scouts of America will announce tomorrow that their ban on gay leaders within the organization will end, though individual (volunteer) scout groups will still be able to reject gay scout leaders if they want, a loophole which the New York
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“The Cartridge Family” · The Simpsons (Classic) · TV Review · The A.V. Club
In which with a few minor adjustments, you can turn a regular gun into five guns… Of the various explanations how The Simpsons went down the wrong path as it approached the end of its first decade, the phenomenon of “Jerkass Homer” is one of the m…
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The words are spoken by Caitlyn Jenner in a particularly vulnerable and poignant moment at the start of I Am Cait, her eight-part reality TV series that begins at 8pm ET on Sunday.
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BBC Sport – Theo Walcott: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger hopeful of new deal
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott is getting “closer and closer” to signing a new contract, says manager Arsene Wenger. The 26-year-old England forward has a year remaining on his current deal.
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FREMONT, Calif. — It was just past sunrise on an early-spring morning at Netflix’s DVD operations here, where metallic arms whirred in a giant glass box and rolling carts holding millions of DVDs lined the walls.
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Henry Farrell — who recently said some very interesting things about Very Serious People — writes me about my musings on hipster style, and refers me to a review of a book on codes of the underworld.
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Huckabee Likens Iran Deal to Nazi Crematorium — NYMag
Hyperbolic analogies to Nazis or the Holocaust are hardly a new feature of American political rhetoric, but Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee got weirdly specific about concentration-camp crematoriums yesterday when denouncing the Obam…
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LONDON — “Scandals make good headlines,” wrote John Sewel, a member of the House of Lords, in a recent blog post about efforts to clean up the image of the British Parliament.
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On the Charts: Future Scores First Number One With ‘DS2’ | Rolling Stone
On the Charts: Future Scores First Number One With ‘DS2’ Jason Isbell and Tame Impala also enjoy their best Billboard 200 debuts
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JERUSALEM — Masked Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday, as Jews marked an annual day of mourning commemorating the destruction of two ancient temples believed to have once stood at the holy…
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Las Vegas hotel’s rooftop pool reopens day after dramatic fire | US news | The Guardian
A Las Vegas high-rise hotel reopened its rooftop swimming pool on Sunday, a day after a fire sent patrons running and black smoke billowing above the Strip. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas said the Bamboo Pool on the 14th floor reopened at 1am with fu…
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Yaskawa Motoman Dual Arm Robot cooking an Egg Sandwich – YouTube
Can Robots cook? Basically, yes! Here’s a Yaskawa Motoman SDA10 Dual Arm Robot with Robotiq Universal Grippers. This industrial Robot is cooking an egg sandwich.
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“You’re Not The Man” · Power · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Great sex isn’t going to keep her from thinking for herself.” So says Ghost about Angela in “You’re Not The Man,” and when he says it, it appears to be his most profoundly obtuse statement yet.
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Senate’s ObamaCare repeal effort falls short | TheHill
The Senate on Sunday rejected a GOP-led amendment to repeal ObamaCare that fell several votes short of a 60-vote threshold to advance.
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MegaBots is trying to turn a giant fighting robot into a business like NASCAR – Quartz
There is a massive square-city-block building in West Oakland called American Steel. It used to be a repair shop for huge cargo ships.
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When American psychologists use their skills for torture – Quartz
At 11 am on July 2, my friend and colleague, Steven Reisner, and I met with the board of the American Psychological Association (APA).
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Another own gull from the Guardian | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
• Please check a bird book before you write about these non-existent birds ( The mystery of the poisoned seagull, 25 July; Report, 21 July). You will not find them in any index. They’re collectively known as gulls, and there are six species normally…
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Da Vinci’s Demons will end after its next season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last May, we reported that Starz had picked up Da Vinci’s Demons—its Renaissance-era superhero show (basically)—for a third season, and now we know when that season will air: October 24.
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Chris Froome joins legends of Tour de France with second win | Sport | The Guardian
Rain at the Tour de France finish on the Champs Elysées is a rare event.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sandra Bland’s death while in police custody earlier this month taps into deep-seated fears within the black community: that interactions with law enforcement ,a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.
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The Mystery Money Creating The Unicorn Herd | TechCrunch
Varied explanations for the growing herd of unicorns — and predictions of their imminent demise — abound. But all can agree: Those who invest in unicorns are chasing returns they can’t get elsewhere.
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Nearly two years ago, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced an ambitious effort to connect the world’s poorest people to the Internet. Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision — carried out with partners through an entity called Internet.
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San Francisco tests special paint that splashes back pee onto public urinators – Quartz
San Francisco has been using a special hydrophobic paint on outdoor surfaces that is designed to splash pee onto outlaw urinators who try to use the city as an open-air toilet.
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New Zealander’s Self-Built ‘Skysphere’ Is The Retreat Of Your Dreams
Being able to escape to your own personal haven, complete with beautiful views and peaceful seclusion, is one of many dreams many of us have.
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10 sketches to help you cope with the end of ‘Key & Peele’
After five seasons, Key & Peele, the hilarious and successful sketch comedy show from Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, will be coming to an end. The show’s never been more popular with both fans and critics.
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A few years back elite policy discourse in the United States was totally dominated by the supposed entitlements crisis.
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Sanders, Clinton, and the Democratic Party should thank #BlackLivesMatter
As Jamelle Bouie rightly put it, what happened in Phoenix was “more than a food fight.” It brought to light a tension—really, an open wound—that already existed within the progressive movement, even if some of us couldn’t or wouldn’t see it until la…
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt | Techdirt
We’ve got a double winner this week, with John Fenderson taking both first and second place for insightful with two comments from our post pointing out that, regardless of what you think about Kim Dotcom’s guilt, you should be concerned about the go…
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Greece rocked by reports of secret plan to raid banks for drachma return | World news | The Guardian
Some members of Greece’s leftist-led government wanted to raid central bank reserves and hack taxpayer accounts to prepare a return to the drachma, according to reports that highlighted the chaos in the ruling Syriza party.
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Barack Obama will discuss with African leaders on Monday a “plan B” for South Sudan that could include sanctions or other penalties if the country’s warring parties do not forge a peace deal by mid-August, a US official said.
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A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind.
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Pilot dies after home-made James Bond-style plane crashes in Ireland | Science | The Guardian
Howard Cox, 67, from Devon, was on his way to an air show in his unique single seat BD5 aircraft, when it came down on Saturday evening in a field near Dungarvan, Co Waterford.
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Last of Islamic State’s ‘Britani Brigade’ believed dead | World news | The Guardian
The last of a group of young men who travelled from Portsmouth to fight with Islamic State has died, it has been claimed. Assad Uzzaman, 25, was one of five men who styled themselves the Britani Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys and travelled to Syria to…
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A 250-year history of music subscription services
With the launch of Apple Music, debates over music streaming services are flaring up once again. Like Spotify, Rdio, Tidal and others, Apple Music promises access to a vast music library, and aims to turn that access into something people will pay f…
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Dine at The Rock, a restaurant in Zanzibar perched high on a… rock
Out of all the restaurants on Earth, The Rock Restaurant in Zanzibar has got to have the very best view. Perched 7 metres high on a rock wedged in the Indian Ocean, this place is unlike any other dining experience. For starters, The Rock offers a ma…
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Adrenalin junkie? Then Belize’s Great Blue Hole is for you
I know, I know, the name doesn’t do it justice but the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize is a must if you’re travelling through Central America.
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Clever billboards display art instead of ads on the highways
Billboards don’t offer much to travellers along the highway. They’re big, gaudy and over the top. So one artist produced a set of billboards that did nothing but display art to give drivers a break from the monotony of billboard signs.
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When Lindsay’s friends dropped her off a block from her home in a cab after a night out, they expected that the Oxford law student would return there safely. But Lindsay, then in her second year, never made it to her home that night in October 2011.
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ISTANBUL — As Turkish fighter jets pounded Kurdish militia targets in northern Iraq late Friday, the implications of the attack weighed heavily on Turks and Kurds across the border in Turkey, as they faced the prospect of being drawn back into a blo…
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Kanye West and Steve McQueen Debut Short Film at L.A. Museum Pop-Up | Rolling Stone
“Put your phones away, please.
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A first step in criminal justice reform
Because—think about it—many of those donning combat gear to “police” a non-violent protest wore the same gear while fighting a war that abided by no ethical rules of combat.
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Lafayette shooting: those who knew John Houser say they aren’t surprised | US news | The Guardian
The end of John Russell Houser’s journey is well known. On Thursday night, he shot several people, killing two and injuring nine, in a Louisiana movie theater. He then killed himself. But his journey – his drift – started here, on the banks of the C…
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BBC Sport – Tour de France: Chris Froome completes historic British win
Chris Froome became the first Briton to win the Tour de France twice when he safely reached the finish line in Paris at the end of the three-week race. The 2013 champion finished among the main peloton on the final stage, behind a bunch sprint won b…
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Al-Shabab Bombs Somali Hotel | Al Jazeera America
The Al-Qaeda-linked group Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack, which also injured 20 people. The walled, luxury Jazeera Hotel is considered the most secure in Somalia’s capital and is frequented by diplomats, foreigners and visiting head…
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White House launches Iran side deals counterattack | TheHill
The Obama administration is launching a fierce counterattack against Republican arguments that so-called “side deals” between Iran and international nuclear inspectors represent a good reason to oppose the Iranian nuclear deal.
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Al Shabaab Car Bomb Kills at Least 13 at Mogadishu Hotel Frequented by Foreigners | VICE News
A large explosion caused by a car bomb blew out walls and killed at least 13 people on Sunday at a hotel in Mogadishu that is popular with foreign diplomats. Video of the scene showed a large pillar of smoking coming from the Jazeera Palace Hotel ne…
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Jack Dorsey’s First Order Of Business As Interim CEO? Twitter Support To The Stars | TechCrunch
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Founder of company leaves to start another company. Comes back a few times. Takes role of “Interim CEO” and starts personally doing customer support for celebrities. Haven’t heard that one? OK, well then check this …
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Obama Asks Kenyans to Build New Traditions — NYMag
In his last major appearance before departing Kenya for Ethiopia today, President Obama addressed a rapturous crowd of nearly 5,000 mostly-young Kenyans at an arena in Nairobi, declaring, “I am proud to be the first American president to come to
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Vine star Matthew Espinosa under fire for debuting blackface character at VidCon
Espinosa began posting Papa Squat images a week ago on Instagram, where the character already has more than 4,000 followers, and his fanbase debated whether or not the portrayal could be construed as blackface. Fans also called him out on Twitter fo…
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NOT long ago I had separate chats with two political insiders who offered to fill me in on Jeb Bush’s strategy, if he prevails in the primaries, for winning the general election. In each instance I braced for a lengthy exegesis but got only one sent…
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Manchin: ‘I need Republican help’ to fix gun sale checks | TheHill
One of the Senate’s biggest supporters of firearm background checks is renewing calls for Congress to fix the system in the light of a deadly theater shooting in Lafayette, La. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.
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37 Million People Use Ashley Madison, The Website For Infidelity | FiveThirtyEight
With NPR’s Weekend Edition team, I discussed several studies that reveal how infidelity varies by gender, age and sexual personality type. It’s not just behavior that varies, though — attitudes toward cheating have changed over time, too.
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Chris Froome wins second Tour de France title after final stage procession | Sport | The Guardian
Chris Froome sealed his second Tour de France after a rain-affected final stage was won by André Greipel in a sprint on the Champs-Élysées. Froome crossed the line shortly afterwards wearing the yellow jersey arm-in-arm with his Team Sky team-mates.
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BP forecast to report a slide in Q2 profits | Business | The Guardian
BP is expected to report profits down by more than half despite a recent increase in oil prices. The gloomy second quarter figures from BP on Tuesday will be made worse by an extra $10bn (£6.
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The presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has said the deal between six world powers and Iran regarding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions will “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”.
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New York City FC v Orlando City SC – live! | Football | The Guardian
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime why not read Simon Evans’ lookahead to today’s rematch between Major League Soccer’s two newest sides: When Orlando City and New York City met at the Citrus Bowl in week one, back in March, there was globa…
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Chief Keef Hologram Concert Shut Down By Police | Rolling Stone
Chief Keef’s Stop the Violence benefit concert in Hammond, Indiana – where the rapper was scheduled to perform live via hologram from Los Angeles – was cut short Saturday night after police pulled the plug on the performance after one song.
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I went to another Celebrate Brooklyn concert in Prospect Park last night, and had a very good time — although the usual close-up seating where you can really see the performers was given over to a throng of standing dancers, and while I may be a wan…
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Medicare is about to turn 50, and while it has brought immense benefits, it has also cost a lot of money. Why? Is it the general rise in health care spending, or some specific government-related inability to limit outlays?
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The center of Tropical Storm Bill made landfall on Matagorda Island, Texas at 1645Z on June 16, 2015.
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Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig debut trailer for ‘Electra Woman & Dyna Girl’
Have you ever wanted to see The Avengers meets Friends meets Girls, starring two of the funniest women on YouTube? You’re in luck.
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Tom Cruise says making Top Gun 2 ‘would be fun’ | The Verge
Tom Cruise is ready to reprise his role as hot-shot fighter pilot Maverick. At the London premiere of his latest action flick, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, the 53-year-old actor told Reuters that “It would be fun. I would like to get back int…
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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger did not want the part of The Terminator when James Cameron offered it to him because he wanted to break the stereotype of foreign actors being typecast as villains. (self.movies)
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Finally, a phone charger that turns your car into KITT from ‘Knight Rider’
We’re still waiting for complex cars that can talk to us, but a cellphone charger will bring us much closer to that reality. Thanks to ThinkGeek, you can now have your very own KITT unit that also doubles as a USB car charger.
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Yes Your ******* Startup Can Cut A Little Free Speech | TechCrunch
The internet’s ugliness has been revealed in so many different ways these past few months, it almost makes you want to pull the plug on all of it (I can’t of course, because Apple already removed my Ethernet port before I could get the satisfaction).
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Ranking the Fictional Exorcists of Film History «
If I were possessed by a demon, who is the person I’d want performing the exorcism? I have never been possessed, and also do not know anyone who is currently, or was at some point, possessed.
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Turkey calls Nato talks on IS and PKK – BBC News
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Sunday show wrap-up: Trump dominates | TheHill
Trump: RNC officials are being ‘really nice’ The turnaround follows an interview in The Hill in which he threatened a third-party run. http://hill.cm/S8xrMmf Poll: Despite McCain comments, Trump atop GOP field “There’s a movement going on, this is m…
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If You Can’t Beat Trump, Join Him: Huckabee Delivers Most Outrageous Line Of 2016 | ThinkProgress
In an interview on “Breitbart News Saturday,” Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee tried out some new rhetoric on last week’s historic Iran nuclear deal.
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Graham: Trump ‘appealing to the dark side’ of politics | TheHill
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) said Sunday that fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “appealing to the dark side of American politics” and should be avoided. “I think he’s appealing to the dark side of American politics. He is not of…
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Iraqi forces attack Islamic State base in Ramadi – BBC News
Iraqi forces have launched an attack against the Islamic State-controlled University of Anbar complex in the city of Ramadi, US officials said. IS has been using the sprawling complex as a command base since taking control of the city in May.
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President Assad admits army strained by war in Syria – BBC News
The Syrian army has been forced to give up some areas in order to retain others in the war against rebels, now in its fifth year, President Bashar al-Assad has acknowledged. The Syrian leader also said the army faced a shortage of soldiers.
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BBC Sport – Lewis Hamilton admits to ‘bad performance’ at Hungarian GP
Lewis Hamilton accepted the blame for the errors that led to him finishing sixth in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. The world champion made a bad start, ran off the road on the first lap and later damaged his car in a collision with Red Bull’s Daniel…
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What Hillary Clinton could learn from TV’s women in power | Television & radio | The Guardian
If imitation really is flattery, then Hillary Rodham Clinton should be thrilled by the American TV schedules. As she sets out on her second bid to become the country’s first woman president, three fictional female politicians – all based to some ext…
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Star Wars: why C-3PO is this season’s fashion hit | Fashion | The Guardian
C-3PO is on the cover of the latest issue of style magazine Love, and, like all the best male models, he is deploying his signature look: wide eyes, square jaw and cheekbones as contoured as a Kardashian.
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IamA Wildlife Rescue Photographer in Asia, AMA! : IAmA
IamA Wildlife Rescue Photographer in Asia, AMA! (self.IAmA) My name is Peter Yuen and I’ve been working with wildlife and conservation charities for the past 5 years, covering rescues and stories of animals at sanctuaries across Asia.
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Dunkin’ CEO makes $10 million a year but $15 minimum wage is “absolutely outrageous” – Boing Boing
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Assad Admits Syrian Army’s ‘Shortage of Manpower’ — But Vows to Win Bloody Conflict | VICE News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed in his first public speech in a year that his forces would eventually prevail in the bloody conflict that has gripped the country for five years, even as the regime seeks more troops to help fight.
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Rand Paul plans to keep pushing to defund Planned Parenthood | TheHill
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), a Republican presidential candidate, said he is continuing to push to defund Planned Parenthood amid fallout over the group’s procedures to harvest and transfer aborted body parts.
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When a woman in Charleston, West Virginia, opened her front door to greet a stranger she had arranged to meet through an escort ad she had placed with Backpage.com, she knew instantly she was in mortal danger. The man said just three words – “Live o…
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Speaking in London on Sunday, Joseph Stiglitz warned that policies from centre-left governments such as Tony Blair’shad undermined the middle ground message, partly by entrenching wealth for the very few.
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Embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has admitted to a shortage of soldiers and military setbacks, in his first public speech for a year.
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‘Key & Peele’ to End After Current Season | Rolling Stone
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele announced Saturday that their acclaimed sketch comedy series Key & Peele will end after its fifth season, which is currently airing on Comedy Central.
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When they introduced the euro in 1999, European leaders said the common currency would be irreversible and would lead to greater economic and political integration among their countries. That pledge of permanence, long doubted by euro-skeptics, seem…
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Computer experts have long warned about a catastrophic cyber-attack in the US, a sort of Web 3.0 version of 9/11 that would wreak enormous damage throughout the country. Like most Americans, I shrugged.
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The Straight Edge Mormon DJ Taking Over the World – The Daily Beast
It’s 4:30 on the morning of July 5, and the acclaimed DJ has just rampaged through a three-plus-hour set at the Encore Resort’s XS Nightclub—a 40,000-square-foot Dionysian dancehall in Las Vegas that’s half-nightclub and half-nighttime pool party, l…
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Google Ventures Joins $60M Round For Members-Only Travel Site, Secret Escapes | TechCrunch
U.K.-based members-only luxury travel site, Secret Escapes, has pulled in a $60 million funding round, with investment coming from new investor Google Ventures, along with existing investors including Index Ventures and Octopus Investments.
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Nike and Apple are giving FuelBand owners $25 after settling class action suit | The Verge
Do you own a Nike+ FuelBand? If so, you can claim a little surprise “gift” courtesy of Nike and Apple. The two companies have settled a class action lawsuit and have agreed to pay owners $25 in the form of a Nike gift card. Alternatively, you can op…
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Chris Froome wins 2015 Tour de France – SBNation.com
Chris Froome won the 2015 Tour de France after a magnificent three weeks of dominance over cycling’s best. Following Sunday’s neutralized finish in Paris, it’s official: Chris Froome is the winner of the 2015 Tour de France.
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This week’s edition of “This Week in Popular” comes a day late thanks for some traveling conflicts, but trust me when I say it was worth the extra 24 hour wait.
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Dina Belenko is a creative still-life photographer from Russia and incredibly successful 500px Prime photographer. Her artistic images capture magical stories behind everyday inanimate objects.
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Jon Snow and Katniss Everdeen collide in ‘The Hunger Game of Thrones’
Katniss Everdeen has never faced a Snow quite like this. President Snow is one thing. He’s a merciless ruler from the Capitol who’s not beneath sending teenagers to fight to the death for entertainment and hijacking someone’s mind just to torture hi…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Great Lakes in January
This image taken on January 13, 2015 from the Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument shows the Great Lakes and surrounding areas. The latest Great Lakes Surface Environmental Analysis (GLSEA) from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laborato…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Heavy rain, snow forecast for Pacific Northwest
A front moving onshore over the Pacific Northwest will race eastward to the Upper Mississippi Valley/Southern Plains by Saturday morning. The system will produce moderate to heavy rain over parts of the Pacific Northwest Coast on Thursday evening th…
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Kasich pledges ‘boots on the ground’ to fight ISIS | TheHill
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Sunday pledged to put boots on the ground in the Middle East to fight “radical Islam,” which he said was the nation’s toughest foreign policy challenge.
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GENEVA — More than 6,500 deaths have been reported in the Donbass region, where Ukrainian forces have battled Russian-supported separatist fighters for control since April 2014. The political violence has led to a humanitarian crisis. More than 8,00…
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Mr Presidance: Barack Obama shows off his moves at Kenya state dinner | US news | The Guardian
The US commander-in-chief threw formality to the winds when he joined guests in an impromptu dance at a state dinner in Nairobi. Barack Obama was serenaded in English and Swahili by the Kenyan afro-pop band Sauti Sol at the weekend.
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4 brilliant short films on their way to becoming features
Adam Sandler’s ode to ‘80s gaming, Pixels, is getting savaged by critics. That’s not unexpected, given that this is a Happy Madison joint.
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Jindal: Theater shooter should not have gotten gun | TheHill
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Sunday defended gun policies in his state following a deadly theater shooting, saying the gunman should not have been able to obtain a weapon. “He wouldn’t have been able to buy a gun.
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San Francisco introduces pee-repelling walls to reward public urinators with golden showers
Forget the pay wall, San Franciscans have got a lot more to worry about when it comes to technology infiltrating their daily lives.
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Planned Parenthood exec condemns attack by ‘militant’ anti-abortion group | TheHill
The president of Planned Parenthood on Sunday delivered a blistering attack against the “militant anti-abortion activists” who plan to target her group with a dozen more secretly recorded videos.
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Obama performs traditional Lipala Dance during Kenyan state dinner – video | US news | The Guardian
US president Barack Obama joins in the Lipala during a dinner at Nairobi’s State House. The Lipala is a traditional dance which was updated by popular Kenyan band Sauti Sol earlier this year, becoming a dancehall hit.
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Your love of the Sex Pistols or Norah Jones says more about your personality than you think – Quartz
Is your Spotify collection a compilation of mellow melodies and soft rock? Or do you have Apple Music playlists full of heavy metal and punk? Your answer could be an indicator of whether you are more of an emphatic or analytic person, according to a…
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STEREO: Image of the Sun’s far side.
Studying the Sun from Earth can be frustrating. From 150 million kilometers away, we can only see one side at a time.
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Dear Internet Explorer User. I only tested this little web-app on Chome, Firefox and iOS. I’d love for you to check it out on one of these browsers so everything works as intended. Thanks! YOUR WHOLE LIFE WHEN YOU ARE YEARS OF AGE A YEAR IS ALL OF Y…
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LPT: The bowline knot may be the most useful knot, because it it secure and can be tied and untied easily. You can do it in 4 simple steps. (i.imgur.com)
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The wealthy suburb of Casale San Nicola on the outskirts of Rome, where well-off Italians escape the chaos of the capital and retreat into their multi-million euro villas nestled between cypress trees, seems like an unlikely flashpoint for the migra…
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French Expand Spy Powers In Effort To Keep Up With The NSA | ThinkProgress
France’s highest court upheld a new national intelligence bill that would give the government unprecedented spying power — including NSA-style metadata collection — at home and internationally.
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Paul: Trump getting ‘a billion dollars of free advertising’ | TheHill
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) on Sunday voiced frustration with weeks of media attention on businessman Donald Trump, a fellow Republican presidential rival, while suggesting his own campaign is rolling along.
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After Arab Spring, journalism briefly flowered and then withered – The Washington Post
MANAMA, Bahrain — Just three miles from the gleaming center of town, a local journalist in a rusted, old compact car swerves around trash dumpsters set on fire to deter police cars from entering the impoverished, restive Shiite neighborhoods.
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Why This 14-Year-Old Kid Built A Nuclear Reactor
Author Tom Clynes doesn’t do optimistic. The contributing editor for Popular Science is usually attracted to stories about Ebola epidemics or eco-mercenaries.
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Cuba tones down anti-US rhetoric during revolution’s main holiday | World news | The Guardian
Cuban leaders pledged to keep socialism alive but toned down the anti-US rhetoric at Cuba’s first national holiday since re-establishing diplomatic relations with the US on 20 July.
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Obama condemns anti-women traditions in final speech of Kenya visit – video | US news | The Guardian
US president Barack Obama condemns anti-women traditions in the final speech of his Kenya visit. Speaking in front of a crowd of 5,000 in Nairobi, Obama says there is ‘no excuse’ for sexual assualt, domestic violence, forced marriage, or other tradi…
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The Internet Of Sound | TechCrunch
How do birds communicate? By singing. And now it’s the turn of the machines. A new crop of businesses are now creating what’s referred to as the Internet of Sound. Let’s rewind. The history of sound-as-signal is deep.
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Sanders defends record on guns, ‘Black Lives Matter’ | TheHill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) struck a defensive tone Sunday when asked about his record on gun control and civil rights – two areas in which he’s under attack from his Democratic rivals.
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BBC Sport – Danny Willett wins European Masters title by one shot
Danny Willett won his third European Tour title with a one-shot victory over fellow Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick at the European Masters on Sunday. Willett, tied sixth at The Open last week, shot a five-under par 65 to finish 17 under overall in Swit…
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Snoop Dogg briefly held in Sweden on drug suspicions | Music | The Guardian
US rapper Snoop Dogg was briefly arrested by Swedish police on suspicion of using illegal drugs, police have said. “Police carrying out roadside controls noticed that Snoop Dogg [whose car was pulled over] seemed to be under the influence of narcoti…
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Lynch: Sandra Bland case highlights concerns of black community | TheHill
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the case of a woman who died in a Texas jail cell three days after a traffic stop highlights concerns in the black community about police professionalism and courtesy.
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Yemen conflict: Houthi rebels ‘reject ceasefire’ – BBC News
The Houthi rebel movement in Yemen is reported to have rejected a ceasefire proposed by the government side. The Saudi-led coalition which backs the government had said it would halt its air raids at midnight on Sunday to allow much-needed humanitar…
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A new Instagram quick edit screen means even Instagram knows filters are passé
It looks like Instagram version 7.3 didn’t just bring new Explore features – but an entirely new edit screen to help quicken the sharing process.
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Flash grenades exploded at the al-Aqsa Mosque — one of the holiest sites in Islam — after Palestinian protesters clashed with police and barricaded themselves inside the building in the Old City of Jerusalem in an attempt to stop Jewish worshippers …
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Arsenal v Wolfsburg: pre-season friendly – live! | Football | The Guardian
Hello world!
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Pedro Martinez still embodies the hopes of Dominicans at home and abroad | Sport | The Guardian
That was how Giants pitcher Juan Marichal concluded his 1983 Hall of Fame speech, becoming the first Dominican player to ever be enshrined in Cooperstown.
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The importance of the side project
If you’re in a startup, the idea of pursuing a “side project” may seem like a bit of a joke. The standard ethos from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv is that if you’re not living, breathing and bleeding your core product, you’re doing something wrong. And…
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Turkey’s peace process with Kurds splinters as car bomb kills soldiers | World news | The Guardian
The fragile peace process between the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK, appeared to be on the brink of collapse on Sunday after two Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were injured in a car bomb attack wh…
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The deadly history of L.A. Lights, the original wearables
In 1992, there were two things you needed if you were between the ages of 8 and 14.
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Tropical Storm Bill is moving toward the northwest near 13 miles per hour and is expected to continue on that general track today. The center of Bill is forecast to make landfall along the Texas Gulf coast later this morning and move inland over sou…
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Twitter Judges Tweeted Jokes Copyrightable | TechCrunch
Tweeted a great joke lately? Was it A) a brilliantly original observation all of your own? Or B) a funny tweet you saw on Twitter and pilfered, sans credit?
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Satanists unveil sculpture in Detroit after rejection at Oklahoma capitol | US news | The Guardian
A Satanic organisation unveiled a controversial bronze Baphomet sculpture in Detroit just before midnight on Saturday, after trying in vain to have it installed near a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.
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Car Bomb Kills Two Turkish Soldiers | Al Jazeera America
The Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said the airstrikes likely spelled the end of a cease-fire announced in 2013.
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Evey Study, drawn using Photoshop : Art
Evey Study, drawn using Photoshop (img12.deviantart.net)submitted just now by VickyYarovaloading…
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BBC Sport – Vettel wins classic Hungarian GP, Lewis Hamilton sixth
Coverage: Live on BBC TV, Red Button, Radio 5 live, 5 live sports extra, online, mobile, the BBC Sport app and Connected TV. Full details here Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel took a surprise win in a chaotic, dramatic and thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix a…
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Operation Stack: M20 reopens after days of delays – BBC News
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Paul: Clinton email probe requests ‘pretty damning’ | TheHill
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Sunday that reports the Justice Department was asked to look into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private email confirmed certain accusations.
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Somalia blast: Mogadishu hotel rocked by bomb – BBC News
At least 10 people have been killed in a huge bomb explosion at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Ambulances have begun collecting the dead and wounded in what he describes as one of the worst scenes of destruction he has seen in Mogadishu.
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Syria: President Assad admits army strained by war – BBC News
The Syrian army has been forced to give up some areas in order to retain others in the war against rebels, now in its fifth year, President Bashar al-Assad has acknowledged. The Syrian leader also said the army faced a shortage of soldiers.
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Perry digs in against Trump | TheHill
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday blasted GOP rival Donald Trump for the “sound bites” and “inflammatory comments” that have been the hallmark of what he described as a reality-TV-like campaign. The Texas governor has battled for weeks agains…
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Taliban seizes Afghan police base after mass surrender – BBC News
The Taliban have seized a police base in northern Afghanistan and captured scores of officers after three days of fighting, officials say. More than 100 officers surrendered at the base in Badakhshan province. They were released after reportedly han…
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Rand Paul pushes to defund Planned Parenthood: Will ‘try to force a vote’ | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential contender Rand Paul said on Sunday he plans to continue his push to cut federal funding for the nonprofit women’s health group Planned Parenthood over a dispute about treatment of aborted fetal tissue.
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Usada grill Mo Farah about Alberto Salazar with British Athletics next | Sport | The Guardian
Officials from the United States Anti-Doping agency will speak to senior figures in British Athletics this week after questioning Mo Farah for five hours about his coach Alberto Salazar on Saturday morning.
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The outrageous fortune of Benedict Cumberbatch | Stage | The Guardian
Twenty years ago, while he was still at school, Benedict Cumberbatch had his first chance to star in Hamlet. But, remembers Harrow drama teacher Martin Tyrell, he decided to concentrate on his A-levels instead.
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BBC Sport – La Course: Lizzie Armitstead fourth as Anna van der Breggen wins
Britain’s Lizzie Armitstead finished fourth as Anna van der Breggen won the second edition of La Course by Le Tour de France in a rain-soaked Paris.
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F1: Sebastian Vettel capitalises on poor Mercedes start to win in Hungary | Sport | The Guardian
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel capitalised on a poor start off the grid from Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg to win his second grand prix of the season in Hungary.
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Attorney general: Scope of ISIS threat still undetermined | TheHill
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in an interview broadcast Sunday that administration officials are still trying to determine the scope of the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) “It’s as serious, if not more serious a threat, …
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ELI5: Why is it taken that for life to exist it must be “Earth like”? Why is it not considered that aliens should they exist possess different physical tolerances/requirements for survival? (self.explainlikeimfive)
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IN an essay in his 1976 collection, “Mortal Lessons,” the physician Richard Selzer describes a strange suburban scene. People go outside in the morning in his neighborhood, after the garbage trucks have passed, and find “a foreignness upon the pavem…
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The GOP Presidential Field Ranked On How Far Back They’d Roll Obama’s Climate Agenda | ThinkProgress
The GOP field is (almost) complete, after Ohio Governor John Kasich became the 17th major candidate to announce his presidential run this week. This means we can draw some conclusions about the opponent the eventual Democratic nominee will be facing…
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Newscaster unleashes Amazon sex-toy conspiracy theory on live TV
There’s a time and place to bring up your sex toy-related conspiracy theories, but that time is not when you’re in the middle of presenting a live TV news broadcast.
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Trump: RNC officials are being ‘really nice’ | TheHill
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump said Sunday that leaders of the Republican National Committee (RNC) are warming up to his campaign just days after he blasted the party leaders and threatening during an exclusive interview with The Hill to run a…
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Things I learned driving a supercar for the first time | The Verge
The gentleman patiently walking me through the controls of the McLaren 650S Spider stopped mid-sentence and eyed me, as if he’d picked up on a tell in my body language. “Have you driven a supercar before?” My mind raced; I hadn’t.
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My Rory McIlroy PGA Tour phenom quit the virtual tour out of frustration | The Verge
I’m dominating the PGA Tour with an unprecedented display of power and skill, but I can’t stomach the thought of finishing another round. This is it: I’m retiring.
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How long would it take the Starship Enterprise to reach Kepler-452b?
NASA announced Thursday that they’d found an older, bigger cousin to Earth about 1,400 light-years away. The planet and its solar system are so similar to Earth that NASA scientists dubbed it “Earth 2.0.
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Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton’s private email use was ‘criminal’ | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump on Sunday pitched into the ongoing furore over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, saying: “The fact is, what she has done is criminal.
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Walmart introduces a car seat designed to save children from dying in hot cars : gadgets
It would be great if this would save a kid’s life, but most parents are going to ignore the alarm eventually anyway because “they’ll only be a minute”..
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Fiorina: Clinton ‘broke the rules’ on email | TheHill
Carly Fiorina, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, hit Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Sunday, saying she has “broken the rules” concerning her use of private email while secretary of State.
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The Boy Scouts of America is expected on Monday to end its blanket ban on gay leaders — a turning point for an organization that has been in turmoil over the issue. But some scouting groups will still be able to limit leadership jobs to heterosexual…
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — In a striking admission, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said on Sunday that the country’s army faced a manpower shortage and had ceded some areas to insurgents in order to hold onto other regions deemed more important. Mr.
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Tour de France: stage 21 – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Back in the 1960s the final stage into Paris could be over 300km, just on the Sunday. In recent years the last day’s racing has been pared right back, and this year – 40 years after the first Champs Elysées finish – the finale will last just two and…
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The weekend in pictures | News | The Guardian
Carpio de Tajo, Spain A rider on a horse back rips the head off a dead goose hanging by its feet, on the feast day of Santiago, the patron saint of Spain Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook T…
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The US government will hit Fiat Chrysler with a record $105m fine next week for violating laws in a series of vehicle safety recalls, a person briefed on the matter said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will reveal the fine on Mon…
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Drake Responds to Meek Mill With ‘Charged Up’ Diss Track | Rolling Stone
Drake has responded to Meek Mill’s accusations that the Toronto rapper employs a ghostwriter with “Charged Up,” a new diss track that Drake premiered Saturday on his Beats 1’s show OVO Sound Radio.
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Living life cursed by technology
One afternoon in 1993, Mark Donohue laid down for a nap and woke up in crippling pain. His head throbbed, his heart raced, his fatigue was bone-crushing. He figured whatever was wrong with him would eventually pass. Twenty-two years later, Donohue’s…
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The meteoric rise and slow decline of Neopets
On the morning of Sunday, June 28, 2015, a long-quiet corner of the Internet began to stir. That morning, Neopians—“citizens” of the children’s gaming site Neopets—awoke and logged on to discover that, inexplicably and without warning, the formerly …
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The storm system that brought heavy snow to parts of the southern Plains will continue to develop as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard late Friday into Saturday.
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The Week In Data: Road Trips, School Segregation, And Bowling Strategy | FiveThirtyEight
This is The Week In Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet.
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Trump on immigration: Get rid of ‘bad dudes’ | TheHill
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump on Sunday said a key part of his immigration strategy would be deporting the “bad dudes” who are committing crimes like the slaying of a San Francisco woman earlier this month.
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TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web” (wikipedia.org) It’s …
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Poll: Most Republicans want Trump to stay in race | TheHill
Most Republican voters want Donald Trump to remain in the GOP presidential race, a new poll finds. Thirty three percent want him to drop out, however, and 15 percent say he should run as an independent.
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Why Cramming Gets a “C” – Scientific American
Nate Kornell would like to see a big step forward in the methods students use to prepare for tests. Kornell is a professor of psychology at Williams College whose research focuses on effective learning strategies.
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OnePlus 2 invites officially open to all, event launch app lands in Play Store
In typical OnePlus fashion, it took the Chinese company a while to tease all the details about its latest flagship phone, the OnePlus 2. Now that the VR launch event is a little over 24 hours away, we’ve reached the final step in the announcement bu…
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Verizon workers vote to back strike in contract dispute, if necessary | Business | The Guardian
Verizon workers in nine states have voted to go on strike if necessary over a dispute about a new contract, a union official said at a rally Saturday. At the rally in New York, the CWA announced that 86 percent of Verizon workers who voted in a rece…
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Best Space Stories of the Week – July 26, 2015
The artist’s illustration compares Earth (left) to the newly discovered planet, Kepler-452b, which measures about 60 percent larger. Image released July 23, 2015.Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/T.
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Former Portuguese bank boss under house arrest – BBC News
Ricardo Salgado, the former boss of the Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo (BES), has been placed under house arrest after questioning over the bank’s collapse. His lawyer described the move as “disproportionate”.
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A goblin shark of 18-20 feet long was captured by Carl Moore, a shrimp fisher, off the coast of Key West in Florida. This is only the second member of this species ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico. (It was alive before and after this picture was ta…
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THE time-honored way to speak of young people is with horror. They’re wild, reckless, irresponsible, narcissistic, immoral and hopeless — and always have been. Now along comes this generation of millennials, and we have a problem.
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Dolphins “Shout” to Be Heard over Boat Noise – Scientific American
Click! Click-clickity-click-click. Unghhhh. Cliiiiiiiiick! A bottlenose dolphin tries to communicate with nearby friends, but they cannot hear the calls. There are too many ships in the water making noise.
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British army reluctant to post troops on UK streets after terror attacks | UK news | The Guardian
The British army is resistant to the idea of deploying thousands of troops on to UK streets in the event of a terrorist attack on home soil, despite the perceived increase in threat from groups such as Islamic State.
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These are the memes of our lives
The Internet is the most important development of the last 20 years. There has been nothing in modern history that’s been more defining, influential, and ominously integrated than the Web. It makes us laugh, cry, rage, and brood.
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Michelle Obama opens Special Olympic World Games with heartfelt message | US news | The Guardian
Michelle Obama welcomed thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities to the Special Olympic World Games on Saturday during a festive opening ceremony filled with cheers, songs and praise for their courage and determination.
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Senate sits on Sunday in aftermath of Ted Cruz ‘lie’ attack on McConnell | US news | The Guardian
The Senate was on Sunday set to meet in a rare session. On the agenda were efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s healthcare law and reviving the federal Export-Import Bank. Both are amendments to a must-pass highway bill the Senate is trying to…
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Obama in Kenya: Young people ‘inspired’ by US president – BBC News
Young Kenyans have been speaking about US President Barack Obama’s televised address at the conclusion of his visit to the country. Mr Obama received a standing ovation from crowds at a stadium in Nairobi after delivering a speech about Kenya’s futu…
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Largest balloon sculpture by an individual breaks record – BBC News
Jeremy Telford has broken the world record for the largest balloon structure created by an individual. The balloon dog measured 65ft (19.8m) by 32ft (9.8m), which a Guinness World Record official said “blew the old record out of the water”.
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Google Studies How Much Interstitials Suck On Mobile | TechCrunch
How much do mobile users hate interstitial screens blocking their mobile browsing by urging them to down the native app instead? An overwhelming amount, judging by a study conducted by Google in July last year.
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Album Review: Ashley Monroe’s ‘The Blade’ Is a Sweet, Sharp Antidote to Bro-Country – The Atlantic
The country singer’s follow-up to 2013’s Like a Rose is a confident layering of whiskey-soaked angst and lyrical contentment.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Ángel Di María can help PSG win Champions League | Football | The Guardian
Zlatan Ibrahimovich believes Ángel Di María can help Paris Saint-Germain realise their dream of winning the Champions League and has urged the Argentinian to seal his move from Manchester United.
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Phillies’ Cole Hamels throws first no-hitter against Cubs in 50 years | Sport | The Guardian
The scouts packed the seats behind home plate, and Cole Hamels put on quite a show. The lanky left-hander was dominant on a picturesque afternoon at Wrigley Field.
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What we can all learn from Wall Street’s quarterly earnings obsession | Business | The Guardian
It’s time to break free of the “tyranny” of “quarterly capitalism”, Hillary Clinton proclaimed in an economic stump speech on Friday afternoon at New York University. Translation? The Democratic Party’s front-running presidential candidate is taking…
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Barack Obama condemns anti-women traditions in Nairobi speech | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama offered a poignant glimpse into his African heritage and went on the offensive against female genital mutilation and other “bad traditions” that treat women as second-class citizens in a speech in Nairobi.
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Will the Uber Fight Haunt de Blasio in 2017? — NYMag
Mayor Bill de Blasio believed that the pieces needed to score a quick win were in place. A public hearing had been held; a vote by the ideologically simpatico City Council to cap the growth of Uber was coming soon.
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The Verge Review of Animals: the slow loris | The Verge
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.
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Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz could face off in debate – under Senate rules | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders could participate in a one-on-one, leftwing versus right debate with Ted Cruz during the presidential primary, without violating restrictive rules set by the Democratic and Republican national committees. The two senators would just h…
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Hillary Clinton aides’ Wall Street links raise economic policy doubts | US news | The Guardian
The former aides, Tom Nides and Robert Hormats, have shuttled between government and Wall Street for years.
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Iran nuclear: Media ordered to be positive about deal – BBC News
The Iranian authorities have ordered the media not to criticise the recent nuclear agreement with world powers, it has emerged. Issued by the ministry in charge of the press, the two-page document faxed to media organisations relays directives from …
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Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider | Science | The Guardian
The European Physical Society High Energy Physics conference is taking place now in Vienna.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — President Obama challenged the land of his father on Sunday to break the cycle of corruption, strengthen its shaky democracy, overcome ethnic divisions and end discrimination against women and girls as he wrapped up a two-day visit …
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Somewhere, we crossed a line — from our mothers’ modesty to strutting braggadocio, from dutiful decorum to smashing all the china in the room, from respecting a base set of facts to a trumpeting of willful ignorance.
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Kinderscout in the Peak District Derbyshire UK (3264×1836) : EarthPorn
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Japan: Three killed as small aircraft crashes in Tokyo – BBC News
Three people were killed when a light plane crashed in Japan, setting fire to several houses, according to local media reports. The five-seater plane crashed at about 02:00 GMT, shortly after it had departed from Chofu airport in Tokyo, public broad…
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F1: Hungarian Grand Prix – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Hello and welcome to the Hungarian Grand Prix. In Formula One, the race is usually everything – practice sessions, grid positions and paddock tension all take a back seat once the lights go out. Today, that is not the case.
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Welcome to MCity, Michigan’s ghost town of driverless cars | Technology | The Guardian
For Sebastian, life is destined to be lonely. The short pedestrian will, for now, be the sole resident of a small city located near the University of Michigan’s north campus. He’ll pass time by stepping into oncoming traffic – while others watch on,…
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Caitlyn Jenner’s new miniseries is moving, conscientious, and distractingly manipulative.
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Lord Sewel ‘quits as Lords deputy speaker after drug claims’ – BBC News
Lord Sewel has reportedly resigned as deputy speaker of the House of Lords after being caught on video allegedly taking drugs with prostitutes. Press Association reports he has also resigned as chairman of the privileges and conduct committee in the…
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TIFU by calling a locksmith when I was “locked out” of my car. : tifu
STIFU by calling a locksmith when I was “locked out” of my car. (self.tifu) I’ll preface this by saying I’m usually not a stupid man but I was at the end of my third 16 hour shift in a row and I was very tired. I’ll make this quick:
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A major winter storm in the process of developing is bringing snow to the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Blizzard Warnings are in effect for the coastal areas from New Jersey to Maine.
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Kali is why we can’t have nice things : cats
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An Aid Worker Was Raped In South Sudan And The U.N. Did Nothing About It – BuzzFeed News
BENTIU, South Sudan — Megan Nobert doesn’t remember the most crucial part of that February night, because someone made sure she wouldn’t.
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Pluto Backlit, showing Its Atmosphere [780×438] : spaceporn
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Zimbabwean authorities hunt Spaniard accused of killing Cecil the lion | World news | The Guardian
Authorities in Zimbabwe are trying track down a Spaniard who allegedly paid park guides €50,000 (£35,000) for the chance to kill Cecil, one of Africa’s most famous lions, who was the star attraction at the Hwange national park.
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Obama in Kenya: Standing ovation for President’s speech – BBC News
President Obama has received a standing ovation from crowds at a stadium in Nairobi after delivering a speech about Kenya’s future. He concluded his visit to Kenya with a televised address in front of an invited audience in which he praised the coun…
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Lingerie capital of Brazil feels the pinch as recession deepens | World news | The Guardian
In an empty shop, on a deserted street, under the shadow of a billboard bearing the image of a 50ft woman in bra and knickers, Fátima Vieira is reconsidering her choice of career.
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While at a mixer for black writers and editors earlier this week, a friend and colleague of mine was accosted by the sight of bare butt cheeks on my phone.
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Let’s Get Lost | Erik Hellmouth : ImaginaryMindscapes
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They replaced me with another one of my “friends” : AdviceAnimals
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Ian McKellen, Cambridge, 1961 : OldSchoolCool
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The Case That Could Bring Down ‘One Person, One Vote’ – The Atlantic
The U.S. Supreme Court reconsiders how legislative districts are drawn—and risks sending the country back to a time before “one person, one vote.” In 1960, a town of 38 residents in Vermont elected the same number of representatives—one—as Burlingto…
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A single word changed Michelle Norsworthy’s life forever. Until she heard it, she had no way to express herself and her emotions always came out wrong. She would explode in anger, or in desperation cut herself until the blood flowed.
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Websites, Please Stop Blocking Password Managers. It’s 2015 | WIRED
Rather than fancy zero-day exploits, or cutting-edge malware, what you mostly need to worry about when it comes to security is using strong, unique passwords on all the sites and services you visit. You know that.
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What We’re Really Looking at When We Look at Pluto | WIRED
The images of Pluto that the New Horizons probe beamed across 3 billion miles of hard vacuum are, in a word, breathtaking. Towering mountains of ice, smooth plains, a wan alien landscape.
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Rick and Morty’s New Season Brilliantly Ignores Fan Service | WIRED
At the end of the Rick And Morty panel at San Diego Comic Con earlier this month, the last audience question came from a young girl who asked, “Will Evil Morty come back in season two?” She was referring to the cliffhanger ending of the first season…
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All the Wonderfully Weird Beers You Should Be Drinking | WIRED
As the craft brewing industry continues to grow, it continues to get weirder—in the best way possible. Beer is better than it’s ever been, thanks to experimental hops, funky yeast strains, and a spirit of hackerlike ingenuity. It’s not just craft, i…
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 84 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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BBC Sport – World Cup 2018: England host Scotland on Armistice Day
England and Scotland will meet at Wembley on Friday, 11 November 2016 to play their 2018 World Cup qualifier. The game will kick off at 19:45 BST with the return match in Group F, at Glasgow’s Hampden Park, at 17:00 on Saturday, 10 June 2017.
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In Maryland, a century-old rail tunnel needed emergency repairs this winter because of soil erosion from leaks, causing widespread train delays. In Connecticut, an aging swing bridge failed to close twice last summer, shutting train service and stra…
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FREMONT, Calif. — It was just past sunrise on an early-spring morning at Netflix’s DVD operations here, where metallic arms whirred in a giant glass box and rolling carts holding millions of DVDs lined the walls.
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The Boy Scouts of America is expected on Monday to end its blanket ban on gay leaders — a turning point for an organization that has been in turmoil over the issue. But some scouting groups will still be able to limit leadership jobs to heterosexual…
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Former Tibetan monk to sing for Dalai Lama – BBC News
A former Tibetan monk will sing for the Dalai Lama at a huge concert in London after being talent spotted by BBC Radio 3.Ngawang Lodup left his monastery more than 10 years ago and eventually settled in London.
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Amateur video shows poolside fire at Las Vegas Hotel – video | US news | The Guardian
Video shows fire burning trees and cabanas around an outdoor pool on the 14th-floor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The fire broke out on Saturday at around noon local time, forcing guests to evacuate and injuring two people.
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BBC Sport – Chris Froome: Where does he rank among British cycling greats?
Which is better: beer, ice cream or pizza? Which is the best holiday destination: Chamonix, Ibiza or the Maldives?
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Alice Gross murder file lost in coroner error – BBC News
The Senior west London coroner Chinyere Inyama “inadvertently disposed” of a document of evidence against the chief suspect Arnis Zalkalns in November, police said. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) tried to recover the file but concluded it had…
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Proms: Pianist’s ‘intense’ relationship with Beethoven – BBC News
For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, his appearance at the BBC Proms on Sunday will mark the end of a “musical pilgrimage” which has seen him perform Beethoven exclusively for the past four years.
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Meet Bruce, my blonde haired, blue eyed Doberman puppy : aww
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Iceland/Island snow on vulcano [OC][1024×683] : EarthPorn
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Arthurs Pass, New Zealand [OC] : NZPhotos
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You have betrayed my trust. : cats
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Redditor names their dog “Kitty”. : firstworldanarchists
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A foggy morning on the Mediterranean. Rapallo, Italy. [1894×1247] [OC] : EarthPorn
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My fatass cat outside for the first time ever : cats
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Five people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 10-year-old boy in southern Nepal in what reports said could have been a case of human sacrifice.
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Palestinians and Israeli police clash at al-Aqsa mosque – BBC News
Palestinian youths have clashed with Israeli police who have entered the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem. The Palestinians are understood to have barricaded themselves into the mosque on Saturday.
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July 26, 1948: President Harry Truman Desegregates the US Military | The Nation
On this day in 1948 President Harry Truman finally desegregated the US military. Yet it wasn’t quite an act of pure good-will, as the The Nation’s Washington editor (and a late novelist) Thomas Sancton noted in “Big Brass and Jim Crow.
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A fire broke out at a luxury hotel on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday, injuring one person and covering the Strip with thick plumes of black smoke, fire officials and witnesses said.The Clark County Fire Department said on Twitter that it was fighti…
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Cruz girds for McConnell showdown | TheHill
Sen. Ted Cruz has found a way to seize the spotlight at a time his campaign for president is losing the battle for buzz. The Texas Republican on Sunday will attempt an unusual procedural move to overturn Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-K…
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Gold Cup final: classy Jamaica out to end Mexico’s lucky run | Football | The Guardian
In a recent interview with ESPN, Jamaica’s German head coach Winfried ‘Winnie’ Schäfer, described his love for his adopted country’s most famous citizen: “I listen [to Bob Marley] on the bus. In the morning, in the evening, Bob Marley, Bob Marley, B…
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Police in Paris have opened fire on a car that tried to crash the barricades hours before the final arrival of the Tour de France cycling race.
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Second independence referendum ‘inevitable’ says Salmond – BBC News
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme, he said the question was over the timing which was “in the hands of Nicola Sturgeon”. The SNP MP argued there were three things driving the issue forward.
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Arthurs Pass, New Zealand [OC] : NZPhotos
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How to manage your time like a boss
The Web is flooded with countless strategies for maximizing productivity and increasing efficiency. Tools for productivity flood our phones’ app stores. Currently, there are 1,594,374 apps available for download in the Google Play store, according t…
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Police fire on car in Paris square – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Computers aren’t just doing hard math problems and showing us cat videos. Increasingly, they judge our character. Maybe we should be grateful.
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Making a slow journey through the Channel Tunnel – BBC News
Eurotunnel expects services through the Channel Tunnel to return to normal later on Sunday. Disruption caused by migrants in Calais on Friday night caused severe traffic problems and delays on Saturday.
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BBC Sport – Women’s Ashes: Persistent rain threatens third ODI at Worcester
Persistent rain is threatening the third and final one-day international of the Women’s Ashes series between England and Australia at Worcester. The New Road square is covered and the scheduled 10:30 BST start of play will be delayed.
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Bruce Willis enjoying the high life, 1989 : OldSchoolCool
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A few months ago Tony Abbott was sure he had Bill Shorten’s measure.
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Changed my life – Meme on Imgur
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Never let this die! – GIF on Imgur
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Jeremy Corbyn in Labour leadership contest ‘for real’ – BBC News
Jeremy Corbyn has said he is in the Labour leadership contest “for real”, and has called for renationalisation of the railways and energy companies. The left-wing MP, who topped a recent YouGov poll, told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show he was “making no…
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Wanaka Tree, Wanka, New Zealand [OC][2048×1133] : EarthPorn
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HMJB while I leapfrog this cat : holdmyjuicebox
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Benjamin Dix says the hardest thing about his job is explaining to other people what he does. “At a dinner party, for example, it’s, ‘What do you do?’ ‘I make comic books.’ ‘What about?’ And suddenly I’m the one sitting at the table telling you abou…
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BBC Sport – Rugby Championship: Australia beat Argentina to set up decider
Australia scored three second-half tries to defeat Argentina 34-9 in Mendoza and set up a Rugby Championship title decider against New Zealand. The Wallabies had led 8-6 at half-time before Dean Mumm, Tevita Kuridrani and Adam Ashley-Cooper crossed …
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Mennonites Struggle With Same-Sex Marriage | Al Jazeera America
HARRISONBURG, Virginia – Matthew Hunsberger grew up in the industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. But he found the pull of his faith so strong that he transferred to Eastern Mennonite High School in Virginia so he could be immersed in church te…
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US President Obama address in Kenyan sports stadium – BBC News
US President Barack Obama is concluding his visit to Kenya with a televised address at a sports stadium in the capital, Nairobi. He is expected to underscore the shared values of the two countries but also touch on human rights.
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Reflection magic at Crater Lake near Aspen, Colorado [OC] [4000×2667] : EarthPorn
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Sea of Sands, Abbasi hill [OS][1260*630] Photo by: Farid Sani : EarthPorn
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Discovering a cache of wine in a nazi bunker : pics
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Las Vegas right now. : AdviceAnimals
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BBC Sport – Mo Farah: Olympic champion questioned by Usada lawyer
Mo Farah was questioned by Usada lawyer Bill Bock on Saturday as part of an investigation into claims the British Olympic champion’s coach Alberto Salazar breached anti-doping rules.
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Woman who shot alleged attacker may have slain a serial killer, police say : news
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Major League Baseball looks to hit a home run in China – BBC News
Many of the world’s biggest sports organisations see China as a key target in their global expansion plans, but cracking the market can be a whole new ball game. Major League Baseball has long been loved in the US and is now looking to find new tale…
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Mission: Impossible – Cruise and Pegg on stunts and chefs – BBC News
Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg hit the red carpet in London on Saturday night for the premier of the latest film in the Mission: Impossible series. Cruise was keen to talk about the stunts in the movie, while his sidekick Pegg opened up about the caterin…
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Pearson to sell Economist Group stake – BBC News
Publishing company Pearson has confirmed plans to sell its 50% stake in the Economist Group. The statement from the firm came just days after it announced the sale of the Financial Times to Japan’s Nikkei.
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View from Lakshman Jhoola,Rishikesh [1920 X 1080][OC] : EarthPorn
View from Lakshman Jhoola,Rishikesh [1920 X 1080][OC] : EarthPorn View from Lakshman Jhoola,Rishikesh [1920 X 1080][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/xgUIBUY2tB http://t.co/xJ5M0XJx1Z
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Sunbathing Blep : Blep Sunbathing Blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/ftqxWnwHVU http://t.co/hJdvtuQCAa
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me irl : me_irl me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/rjjpJceT7Q http://t.co/ztIbgIr5OO
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: New Order – Blue Monday
Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: New Order – Blue Monday New Order – Blue Monday http://t.co/fKISvm8lEv http://t.co/MVVRVrIHSj
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Carina Nebula [1600 x 1087]
Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Carina Nebula [1600 x 1087] The Carina Nebula [1600 x 1087] http://t.co/of8WWPqTD0 http://t.co/G51LKbuyuW
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Pillars of Creation [1920 x 1080]
Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Pillars of Creation [1920 x 1080] The Pillars of Creation [1920 x 1080] http://t.co/xq8LuDhkBh http://t.co/ggoFbu7Xxf
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Marilyn Monroe on vacation in Amagansett, NY by Sam Shaw, 1957 : OldSchoolCool
Marilyn Monroe on vacation in Amagansett, NY by Sam Shaw, 1957 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/Fh6PqfGgf3 http://t.co/cZuVCWZlEi Marilyn Monroe on vacation in Amagansett, NY by Sam Shaw, 1957 via /r/OldSchoolCool … http://t.co/cZuVCWZlEi
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Prodromou, Greece [4208×2368] [OC] : EarthPorn
Prodromou, Greece [4208×2368] [OC] : EarthPorn Prodromou, Greece [4208×2368] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/52TNxEYaBn http://t.co/RV1l0XEdU6
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Blizzard Blankets the Northeast With Snow
As the storm moves offshore and the skies clear over the Northeast United States, the extent of snowfall from the blizzard is shown in this image from the Suomi NPP satellite imagery, taken on January 28, 2015 at 1:50 EST.
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TIL when Charlie Sheen was being sentenced for using a prostitute, the judge asked him why a man like him would have to pay for sex. Sheen reportedly replied: “I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave.” (freakonomics.com) A fine example of a pe…
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Orchid spotters map shifting blooms – BBC News
A citizen science project to study when and where orchids bloom around the UK has already revealed 200 new flowering locations for particular species.Members of the public are submitting and identifying orchid photos, and also annotating historical …
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Al-Aqsa mosque: Israeli police enter Jerusalem holy site – BBC News
Palestinian youths have clashed with Israeli police who entered the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem. The Palestinians are said to have barricaded themselves inside the mosque and thrown stones at police, who moved in to stop them.
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My gf and I went to a painting class. She got mad cuz I wasn’t following directions. I told her there’s no such thing as an accident. (imgur.com) That’s perfect. Can I buy it from you? I’ll need your face too to make the Feng Shui really fit.
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Minimalist entry by MLSA [2000×1331] : RoomPorn
Minimalist entry by MLSA [2000×1331] : RoomPorn Minimalist entry by MLSA [2000×1331] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/fUWAC9Da6e http://t.co/FvQkNFdw1l
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Turkey car bomb kills two soldiers as PKK truce breaks down – BBC News
A car bomb attack on a military convoy in south-eastern Turkey has killed two soldiers and injured four others, Turkish officials say.The explosion happened in the town of Lice in Diyarbakir, the province governor’s office said.
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Australian farmers fight huge mine in Liverpool Plans, NSW – BBC News
Coal and gas mining continue to encroach on some of Australia’s best farmland, pitting miners against farmers and creating a deep rift between the parties of the nation’s ruling Conservative coalition.
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Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula | ESA/Hubble | We Heart It
Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/wbvvzdZ1pg http://t.co/wHakMWdDQJ Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/wbvvzdZ1pg http://t.co/wHakMWdDQJ
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The Red Spider Nebula: Surfing in Sagittarius – not for the faint-hearted! | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/PxBtHuhdrE http://t.co/6A9SgJLSs1 The Red Spider Nebula: Surfing in Sagittarius – not for the faint-hearted! | ESA/Hubble … http://t.co/6A9SgJLSs1
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Tarantula Nebula | ESA/Hubble | We Heart It
Tarantula Nebula | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/yhsJmoEuGs http://t.co/doWhetAk76 Tarantula Nebula | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/yhsJmoEuGs http://t.co/doWhetAk76
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Carina Nebula | ESA/Hubble | We Heart It
Carina Nebula | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/FQxFQhGU1T http://t.co/o03rJeJ4AG Carina Nebula | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/FQxFQhGU1T http://t.co/o03rJeJ4AG
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Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades | ESA/Hubble | We Heart It
Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/JjyulHRSKr http://t.co/5OdcvToDnn Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades | ESA/Hubble http://t.co/JjyulHRSKr http://t.co/5OdcvToDnn
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Asia-Based Tech Blog E27 Raises $650,000 Ahead Of Larger Round | TechCrunch This year is shaping up to be an interesting one for tech media in Asia. Singapore-based E27 is latest technology-focused blog from the region to raise funding, after it closed a $650,000 bridge round ahead of a planned…
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