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Politicians who preside over economic booms often develop delusions of competence.
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The Shell standoff in Portland comes to a dramatic end | Grist
The Fennica has left the building. Forty hours after Portland activists took to the Willamette River to block passage of the MVS Fennica, a Shell Oil icebreaking vessel en route to the Arctic, the standoff came to an end.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) went on Fox & Friends Thursday to discuss his entry into the 2016 presidential race.
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Democratic candidates address National Urban League and Black Lives Matter
A lot of people don’t realize that our schools are more segregated today than they were in 1968. Or even that African Americans are sentenced to longer prison terms than white people for the same crimes.
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Federal Court Says Pro-Gun Law Trumps The First Amendment | ThinkProgress
A divided federal appeals court held on Tuesday that Florida lawmakers could censor what doctors say to their patients, handing a victory to gun groups in the process. This is the second time the U.S.
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Iowa Governor Terry Branstad told reporters Tuesday that Des Moines Water Works — a private utility that provides water to some 500,000 residents in the Des Moines area — should “just tone it down” when it comes to monitoring water pollution from ag…
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Afghan militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani ‘has died’ – BBC News
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9 Basic Tips For Not Getting Pwned At Blackhat 2015 | TechCrunch
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Fired Cincinnati Officer Released After Making Bail in Sam Dubose Killing | VICE News
The fired police officer charged with murder in the shooting of black motorist Sam Dubose during a traffic stop has been released from jail after posting bail.
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Fukushima disaster: Tepco executives to face trial – BBC News
A trio of former top executives at a Japanese power giant are to appear in court over the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011.In a rare legal move, a citizen’s panel ruled the three Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) officials should face c…
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Oolu Is Bringing Solar Energy To West Africa’s Off-Grid Population | TechCrunch
In rural West Africa, 150 million people are currently living without electricity. Oolu, a Y Combinator company launching today, aims to reduce this number by delivering affordable solar energy to West Africa’s off-grid population, beginning in Sene…
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Bernie Sanders, Jeb Bush, and the End of American Exceptionalism – The Atlantic
Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush look abroad for inspiration, heralding the end of American exceptionalism. This election cycle, two candidates have dared to touch a third rail in American politics.
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: England lead series after Ian Bell seals Edgbaston win
England cruised to an eight-wicket win in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston to take a 2-1 lead in the series. Earlier, Steven Finn finished with Test-best figures of 6-79 as Australia were dismissed for 265, despite fifties for Peter Nevill and Mitc…
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Brooklyn Condo Cracks Down on Dog Messes by D.N.A. Testing Their Poop | Vanity Fair
Breaking news: the breeding ground of the looming eugenic dystopia has been discovered! Is it a rogue, black-ops lab on Antarctica, run by former Nazis? A city under the sea founded by an insane billionaire? Or a snooty condo in Brooklyn where the b…
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West Wing Week: 07/31/15 or, “Jambo Kenya” on Vimeo
Welcome to West Wing Week Dispatches, your guide to the President’s historic trip to East Africa. This week, the President became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Kenya, the first sitting U.S. President to visit Ethiopia, the first sitting …
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Lindsey Graham on War with Iran and the Lessons of Iraq – The Atlantic
Earlier this week, Senator Lindsey Graham, a hawkish Republican from South Carolina, used a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to stage a theatrical display of his disdain for the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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Dr. Dre’s ‘Detox’: A Timeline of Hip-Hop’s Great Unfinished Album | Rolling Stone
It was 2002, and Dr. Dre had just conquered the world. What to do for an encore? The previous two and a half years were the most successful of Dre’s storied career.
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What it’s like to run an anonymous Snapchat sexting ring
When WhoPutThatThere decided to become a moderator of r/DirtySnapchat, the 22-year-old didn’t use the subreddit herself. Already a mod on r/Snapchat, she was just looking to make friends.
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Meek Mill Fires Back at Drake With ‘Wanna Know’ | Rolling Stone
Following a pair of diss tracks aimed in Meek Mill’s direction, the Philadelphia rapper finally fired back at Drake Thursday night with his hard-hitting “Wanna Know,” where he continues to hammer Drake for allegedly relying on ghostwriters.
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Gilbert Arenas Hibachis LeBron James’ Game, Just Because | Rolling Stone
Once upon a time, Gilbert Arenas and LeBron James were bitter rivals in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. Now, one of them is still playing at the highest level, while the other is getting kicked out of county fairs and playing Names With Friends for ca…
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NASA: Searching for Alien Planets Far From Their Host Star
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through a technique called gravitational microlensing.
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Rivers We Destroy: A Reading List : Longreads Blog
Rivers are forces of nature, but over time, humans have learned to harness their power and change their course — often for the worse. Here are four stories on how humans have changed local and regional river systems, and the disastrous and sometimes…
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TNW’s Handwriting Challenge: Has typing made your penmanship worse? #TNWwrites
When our sole method of communication is typing on keyboards, it’s rare to see anyone’s penmanship these days. I don’t know about you, but I love looking at different people’s handwriting.
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Israel’s Valentine’s Day, Tu B’Av, Marked With Five Animated Google Doodles | | Observer
Tu B’Av was a minor Jewish holiday that marked the beginning of the grape harvest. Grapes, ergo wine, so it’s no surprise that the holiday became associated with love.
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‘Big Brother’ Week Six Recap: Judas Kiss | | Observer
I did a little math this week as I finished up watching season 3 of Big Brother before last night’s BB17 live show.
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Amazon releases its own exclusive album full of indie artists
Amazon today announced it is releasing an album for its Prime Music service called Amazon Acoustics. Rather than recording of the sounds of the South American rainforest however, Amazon has collected 30 acoustic tracks created by both established an…
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This is what The Grid’s ‘AI’ website builder looks like
You might have heard about The Grid — it’s been endlessly running banner advertising on every tech website out there for the last few months. What you might not know is what it actually is.
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We’re livestreaming Lollapalooza today and all weekend · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As was promised earlier this week, The A.V. Club’s livestream of Lollapalooza launches today at 2 p.m. CDT. The stream can be found below, and will allow you to switch between three streams, each featuring some of the biggest acts of each day and al…
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YotaPhone 2 won’t be coming to the US | The Verge
Yota Devices revealed today that it is canceling its plans to launch the YotaPhone 2 in the US, citing complications with its manufacturing partners.
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Japanese mythology fuels teenage rebellion in Image’s Wayward · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic-book issue of significance. This week, it’s Wayward #10.
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YC-Backed Saida Wants To Bring Short-Term Loans To People In Emerging Markets | TechCrunch
Saida, an app that helps people get approved for short-term loans based on their activity on their phones, launched out of Y Combinator today.
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Do You Trust The Police? – The People Speak | VICE News
VICE News traveled around the world speaking to people about what they think about the police, and the role law enforcement should play in society. Find out what people from Oakland, CA to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam had to say about about the cops.
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Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia taken to the hospital in 101F heat in Texas | Sport | The Guardian
CC Sabathia was taken to the hospital with symptoms of dehydration after the New York Yankees’ 7-6 loss at Texas on Thursday night. It was 101 degrees at the start of the game. Related: For the New York Mets, it’s a credibility issue. Because they d…
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MIT scientists can reveal some Tor hidden services
Anonymity is an ongoing war. And it just lost a battle. The new research comes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI).
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They Still Might Never Find MH370 — NYMag
Although it is undoubtedly exciting that airplane debris found in the Indian Ocean this week might finally provide proof that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 crashed in the ocean, that doesn’t mean that authorities are about to learn much else about w…
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Obama’s clean energy plan expected to boost renewables – BBC News
After a year of consultations and over 4 million public comments, President Obama’s Clean Power Plan will be finalised early next week. The strategy will outline restrictions on CO2 from electricity that individual states will have to implement.
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Ai Weiwei to get 6-month UK visa – BBC News
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Drake v. Meek Mill: So, who won?
Late Thursday, Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill retaliated to consecutive diss songs from superstar Drake. A feud that began with a tweet, then some Instagram posts, then a Tumblr post, came full circle with three songs that didn’t pull punches.
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Crush of the Week: A Sexy Strappy Summer High Heel | Vanity Fair
This was actually the first shoe made by Edgardo Osorio for Aquazzura, a designer who is as sexy as his shoes—and they are sexy, all right! Known for his strappy high heel sandals in colors and fun skins, he has another knockout with this fire engin…
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What’s all about? Shark eggs. Or rather the egg cases their embryos leave behind once they have developed.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
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Today’s Best Media Deals: The Ultimate Harry Potter Collection, & More
Today only on Amazon, $98 gets you a whopping 31 discs featuring all eight Harry Potter films on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy, along with 45 (!!!) hours of special features. The set normally sells for $150 or more, and makes a perfect gift for you…
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The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Last year, Taschen came out with a limited edition book on The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Only a couple thousand were made and one of them is selling on Amazon for $1750. This year, they’re releasing a regular edition for a…
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X-Rays Reveal a Mysterious Component of Human Hair
A new and surprising component of human hair has just been discovered, according to research recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. Remarkably, it’s a discovery that could lead to improved hair product…
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Do you shoot tethered? A lot of photographers, especially if they shoot mostly on-location, have never taken the time to try it or even considered why they should. And that is a mistake.
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Inside the Effort to Kill the Iran Deal | The Nation
In response to the successful conclusion of the P5+1 talks in Vienna, the Israeli government, leading members of the congressional “war party” and an influential claque of neoconservative journalists have joined forces, working overtime to torpedo t…
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Robbery in Rhode Island thwarted by ‘ignoring teens’ – BBC News
Police are searching for a man who failed to rob a sandwich shop in Rhode Island after being ignored by the teenage employees. The suspect entered a Subway store on Monday, and demanded money from the two employees who “did not respond”, according t…
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Litvinenko inquiry: What we know about the case – BBC News
The public hearings of the inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko are now drawing to a close after months of evidence.
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Missing: One Year’s Worth of California Rain – Scientific American
California’s accumulated precipitation debt from 2012 to 2014 shown as a percent change from the 17-year average using the TRMM mission’s multi-satellite observations.
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Forests Suck Up Less Carbon After Drought – Scientific American
Climate scientists forecast sea levels to rise anywhere from one to four feet by the end of the century. That’s a pretty big range. And there’s a good reason for that: there’s a lot of uncertainty baked into climate models.
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Escaped inmate captured after police say he killed a woman in Pennsylvania | US news | The Guardian
An escaped inmate was captured on Friday, after police said he walked away from a work-release program in western Pennsylvania while serving jail time for a probation violation and killed an acquaintance who lived nearby.
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Hillary Clinton Goes After Jeb Bush’s ‘Right To Rise’ Mantra | ThinkProgress
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — Many of the thousands of attendees at the National Urban League’s conference leapt to their feet as former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton went after the record of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
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Republicans eager for shutdown over Planned Parenthood
All the traction is behind a confrontation leading to a shutdown, though some are in denial about its effects: “People are going to try to weave this as a war on women. Nothing could be further from the truth,” says Sen. Thom Tillis. Right. That’ll …
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Why Africa’s Vultures Are “Collapsing Toward Extinction”
Across Africa, vultures are electrocuted by power lines or crushed by wind turbines. Their brains are ground to snuff by witch doctors who believe the substance has magical powers. They die after eating pesticide-laced carcasses intended for lions a…
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Goodbye Pluto, Hello Volcanoes
Why Cecil the Lion Was So Popular With People “Large, powerful, but regal,” Cecil was known for being comfortable around humans—and simply for having a name, say those that knew him.
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 31st – The New Yorker
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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah obligingly dons GoPro camera for incredible video
We’ve watched GoPro videos of people falling out of a plane and running from toddlers. Now we get to see what it’s like to ride an award-winning horse.
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Tumblr Loves Bernie Sanders | Vanity Fair
On July 1, my Tumblr dashboard, the social-media site’s equivalent of the Facebook or Twitter timeline, approached peak Bernie Sanders: every other post on my dash was #feelingtheBern.
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Janice Dickinson has renewed her allegations against Bill Cosby, raising new details of the 1982 night when she claimed the comedian drugged and raped her while calling on Barack Obama to use the increasing pressure on Cosby as cause for sexual assa…
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Chrissy Teigen’s butt is a magical forcefield where only chicken wings exist
The goddess posted a video to Instagram Thursday night of her hanging poolside, balancing a full plate of chicken wings on her butt. Watch as she gracefully moves her hips side to side, without losing a single drop of the sauce.
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Summer Fridays are Beautiful at the Glossier Pop-Up Shop | Observer
For those New Yorkers lucky enough to experience summer Fridays, the city is your oyster, well, from about 1 to 5 P.M. So how will you spend your few hours of freedom? By grabbing an early cocktail? Or catching some rays in Central Park? What about …
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Good Samaritans killed after helping driver in Montana – BBC News
An 18-year-old man has been arrested after police say he shot and killed two people who stopped to help him along a road in a Montana Indian reservation. Tana Shane saw Jesus Deniz stranded without fuel on the side of the road on Wednesday near her …
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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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In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me. – The Washington Post
Alex Horton is a member of the Defense Council at the Truman National Security Project. He served as an infantryman in Iraq with the Army’s 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. I got home from the bar and fell into bed soon after Saturday nig…
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Paul Newman’s Daughter Questions Newman’s Own Leadership | Vanity Fair
The first clue something was wrong was the change in the label. It was still playful and lighthearted, radiating a message of goodness and giving on the packages of food products sold by Newman’s Own Organics, the all-organic spin-off of Newman’s Ow…
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Slanguage | Best Of MetaFilter
Getting hip with the lingo, on Ask Me: When did the phrase “Garbage People/Person” become popular? | Did people actually say “shwench”? | In words like normcore, What is the meaning of the -core suffix?
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Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea | World news | The Guardian
The results of the trials involving 4,000 people are remarkable because of the unprecedented speed with which the development of the vaccine and the testing were carried out.
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DynaFlash: High-speed 8-bit image projector at 1,000fps with 3ms delay – YouTube
DynaFlash can achieve 8-bit-level image projection up to 1,000 fps with the minimum delay of 3 ms. The performance of high frame rate is realized by using the digital micromirror device (DMD), high-brightness LED, and the high-speed processing modul…
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You can position and style div.eyeball with CSS, but I’d leave the dimensions padding and border alone. You can also programmatically create new eyeballs after loading the script with the new Eyeball(container) constructor.
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Selling stuff online is tedious and horrible, but at some point we got really good at it. Blackbox lets you sell and ship your stuff for a fraction of the cost and effort of doing it yourself. The shipping is fast. We pay your sales tax. You can cus…
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Here’s What You Can Do With Your Useless Liberal Arts Degree — Medium
This morning I saw this very intriguing story at Forbes, with a catchy little headline.
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We often think about the internet as something remote, distant, and ephemeral, and use terms like “the cloud” to describe it. But in fact, the internet is very real, and very solid: a world-wide infrastructure of computers, cables, routers – and peo…
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The Revolving Door Is Spinning Out of Control. Can It Be Slowed?
Five years to the day after the Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Act, Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland gathered for a press conference in the Capitol to announce legislation that would strengthen ethics in t…
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If you’ve regularly watched the nightly news over the past few years, you might think that the recent arrest and jail-cell death of Sandra Bland in Texas is part of a growing wave of police abuse of black citizens.
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Once known for grim letters to fellow wealthy Americans warning of socialist apocalypse, Charles G. Koch now promotes research on the link between freedom and everyday happiness.
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The planning application promised a museum called “The Museum of Women’s History,” which featuring suffragettes and equal pay campaigners, to “retell the story of the East End through the eyes, voices, experiences and actions” of women.
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Cassini Spacecraft to Make Final Flybys of 2 Icy Saturn Moons
For the next six months, NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft will get its final look at two icy moons — one famous and one not so well-known. It will fly by the erupting moon Enceladus three times, checking out its plumes in the best detail to…
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How to clean install Windows 10 | The Verge
Windows 10 has been available for a couple of days, and 14 million machines have already been upgraded. If you’re anything like me and you have a custom PC or you just want a nice and clean install of Windows then you’ll want to format and start ove…
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CDC says 40% of teen girls are skipping recommended HPV vaccines | US news | The Guardian
Nearly 10 years after the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was introduced, uptake in the US remains low.
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Campus police: different badges, different uniforms, but same deadly force | US news | The Guardian
The uniforms are different. The badges are different. The bosses are different. Aside from that, the police who patrol the University of Cincinnati’s campus are empowered with virtually the same powers as sworn city police officers.
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Hillary Clinton fires back at The New York Times’ shoddy ‘journalism’
Just as disturbing as the errors themselves is the Times’ apparent abandonment of standard journalistic practices in the course of its reporting on this story.
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Ebola vaccine is 100 percent effective in Guinea trial, WHO reports | The Verge
A vaccine is “highly effective” against Ebola, according to the World Health Organization. Early results from a trial in Guinea show that the drug protected 100 percent of the people who received it against Ebola.
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The Deadly Legacy Of Jeb Bush’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law | ThinkProgress
Remember when George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin back in 2013? Well, that murder was deemed lawful under Florida’s expansive self-defense laws and the nation’s first Stand Your Ground statute, signed into law by then-Florida Go…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
It’s not a live show, but it’s a new show, and that’s what counts. An all-new but pre-recorded episode is waiting for you.
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An experimental Ebola vaccine being tested in the West African nation of Guinea during the outbreak of the viral disease has shown promising initial results, according to a report on the clinical trial that was published on Friday.
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Palestinian Burned to Death, Likely Settler Attack | Al Jazeera America
Suspected Israeli settler attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing an 18-month-old child and seriously injuring his parents and older brother in an act that Israel’s prime minister described as terrorism.
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Striking French ferry workers block Calais port route with huge fire | World news | The Guardian
About a dozen workers of My Ferry Link burned tyres across a key motorway leading to the port shortly before midday as part of a long-running dispute over 600 job losses.
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Experimental Ebola Vaccine Looks “Promising”: World Health Org – Scientific American
GENEVA, July 31 (Reuters) – Initial results from an Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea are “exciting” and “promising” and suggest the shot could help bring an end to West Africa’s epidemic, World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on…
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SYDNEY, Australia — Two senior Australian officials expressed increasing confidence on Friday that debris found on a remote French island this we
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West Bank toddler death: Palestinian and Israeli reaction – BBC News
A funeral procession has been held for an eighteen-month old Palestinian boy who was killed in an arson attack on his family’s house in the occupied West Bank.Israeli police say Jewish settlers are suspected of carrying out the attack on two Palesti…
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Warren Buffett’s Foundation Helped Fund Major Research On IUDs
Warren Buffett and his philanthropic foundation named for his wife, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, have given millions in donations to hospitals and family planning organizations to help fund research on contraception, specifically intrauter…
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BBC Sport – Gillingham and Paul Scally fined £75k each for ‘race victimisation’
The Football Association have fined Gillingham and their chairman Paul Scally £75,000 each after they were found proven of misconduct charges. The charges arose after an employment tribunal ruled striker Mark McCammon had been unfairly dismissed by …
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Adam is just 16 years old, but the events of his short life illustrate why so many Eritreans are fleeing their country. At 14, he became the oldest male member of his family still living at home, as the others had been called up for indefinite milit…
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Zimbabwe Seeks Extradition of American Hunter | Al Jazeera America
Zimbabwe intends to seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and shot with a bow and a gun, and the process has already begun, a Cabinet minister said Friday. There is an extradition treaty …
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Juiceboxxx: the ‘world’s worst rapper’ whose struggle became a book | Music | The Guardian
The problem with being barely known – barely known for years, not as a beginner – is that you have no control over how and when you come to get noticed. That’s something Juiceboxxx has experienced twice.
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Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea | World news | The Guardian
The results of the trials involving 4,000 people are remarkable because of the unprecedented speed with which the development of the vaccine and the testing were carried out.
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Litvinenko inquiry: Vladimir Putin ‘ordered killing’ – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin “personally ordered” the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the inquiry into the former spy’s death has heard. Ben Emmerson QC, representing Mr Litvinenko’s family, said Russian state responsibility for the killing had…
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Watch David Gilmour’s New Animated Video for ‘Rattle That Lock’ | Rolling Stone
Watch David Gilmour’s New Animated Video for ‘Rattle That Lock’ Pink Floyd guitarist’s latest clip inspired by ‘Paradise Lost,’ overseen by company that created ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ art
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Techmeme: Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard (Vlad Savov/The Verge)
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Are Plastic Toys Safe? – The Atlantic
A mother’s difficult quest to discover what her childrens’ toys are made of—and whether they are safe and environmentally friendly. One night last year, I found myself sitting at the dining-room table, scraping the upper thighs of a baby doll with a…
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Fox News Warns Of Nefarious Transgender Plot To Eliminate Urinals | ThinkProgress
With the recent premieres of I Am Cait and I Am Jazz, transgender visibility is surging ahead in the media. That doesn’t mean, however, that the media has agreed on how to respectfully talk about transgender people, especially when restrooms come up.
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Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard | The Verge
Nvidia promised spectacular, unprecedented gaming performance from its 8-inch Shield Tablet last year, but its pursuit of extreme performance seems to have gone a tiny bit too far.
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The Trauma Of Police Encounters | ThinkProgress
For many African Americans, tuning into the nightly news and skimming through social media timelines has become an exercise in maintaining psychological wellbeing.
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Electric Co-ops Are Already Practicing The Future Of Energy | ThinkProgress
Only about one in eight American houses and businesses gets electricity from a cooperative — and on average, they pay about $500 less a year for the privilege.
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An experimental Ebola vaccine being tested in the West African nation of Guinea during the outbreak of the viral disease has shown promising initial results, according to a report on the clinical trial that was published on Friday.
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Fina World Championships: 10 swimmers to watch at Kazan 2015 | Sport | The Guardian
A superstar at 16 since winning three golds at the 2011 championships, Franklin appeared unstoppable at the Olympics and in Barcelona, winning the swimmer of the year title in consecutive years.
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“I’m Scottish, I don’t do sex,” says Douglas Gordon. He takes a sip of wine then bursts out laughing, because we both know this could not be further from the truth.
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Homeless, Addicted Vulnerable Amid PR Debt Crisis | Al Jazeera America
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Rafael, 36, tried to run when he saw the van carrying coolers of chicken soup, orange drink and sweetened hot coffee park at one of the final stops of its Friday night rounds.
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They began as workaday interactions between the police and the public, often involving minor traffic stops in places like Cincinnati; North Charleston, S.C.; and Waller County, Tex. But they swiftly escalated into violent encounters. And all were ca…
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Donald Trump “getting into his Cadillac to begin a day of real estate deals,” was the original caption of this 1976 photograph. Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times David W. Dunlap is a Metro reporter, and writes the Building Blocks column. He has…
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Earth magnetic shield is older than previously thought – BBC News
The Earth’s magnetic field, which shields the atmosphere from harmful radiation, is at least four billion years old, according to scientists. This is 550 million years older than it was previously believed to be.
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Helping Inmates Pay For College Could Dramatically Reduce Incarceration | FiveThirtyEight
Recent attempts to reduce the U.S. prison population have focused on reforming mandatory minimum sentencing and reclassifying crimes, but the Obama administration wants to expand reform efforts to prisoner education.
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The Guy Behind Garbage Pail Kids Now Makes Toons With Code | WIRED
John Pound made a fine career of weird cartoons. His great success came in 1984, when he collaborated with underground comics legend Art Spiegelman on the first run of Garbage Pail Kids trading cards.
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ISIS The Big Winner of Taliban Leadership Crisis | Al Jazeera America
The implications of Mullah Omar’s death are still being parsed by the Afghan Taliban’s splintering factions, which are reportedly disputing the Shura Council’s chosen successor, and by stakeholders in the country’s nascent peace process, which now a…
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 89 | 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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Under Fire: Inside the Siege of Aden | VICE News
“They’re firing at us. The Houthis are firing at us.” We squatted on deck as rockets arced across the sea. It was late June, around 7am, and I was on a boat to Aden. The Yemeni city has been besieged by Houthi rebels since March, and subjected to a …
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Gaze in Horror at This Summer-Traffic Composite — NYMag
The artist Felix R. Cid’s hyperreal composites are made from about 400 photographs, in this case shot over three days leading into a long weekend. A very long weekend, if you’re waiting in one of these lines. (Click on the image to enlarge.)
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Ebola vaccine is ‘potential game-changer’ – BBC News
A vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus has led to 100% protection and could transform the way Ebola is tackled, preliminary results suggest. There were no proven drugs or vaccines against the virus at the start of the largest outbreak of Ebola in …
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Drone shooting: US home-owner faces charges – BBC News
William Meredith, from Hillview, Kentucky, was subsequently arrested by police. According to local media, he was arrested and charged with first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment.
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Ralph Steadman, Ceri Levy and climate change poems – books podcast | Books | The Guardian
This week’s books podcast heads to rural Kent on the trail of the artist Ralph Steadman and the film-maker Ceri Levy, who are putting endangered birds under the lens with a collection of explosive portraits, Nextinction.
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Colleges Cutting Lectures, and Costs – The Atlantic
Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject. MANCHESTER, Mich.
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Imagine a hat. Flip it upside down, and you’ve got yourself the outline of a story the public will never weary of, according to author Kurt Vonnegut, who maps it on out a chalkboard in the video above. His Y-axis charts a range between good and ill …
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Know You and Your Ninja’s Limits—Insights From the N++ AMA | | Observer
New threats. The team invented a bunch of new threats to torment players through the game. Mr. Burns says that his favorite threat is the Evil Ninja, which follows players and imitates them, just a little behind. If the player inadvertently touches …
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Apple To Release New Apple TV In September, Report Says | TechCrunch
Rumor has it that Apple should soon release a new version of its set-top box as well as a new streaming service for TV content. According to a new report by Buzzfeed, Apple was supposed to announce the new Apple TV at WWDC, but it was delayed for a …
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Films in limbo as studio Relativity files for bankruptcy – BBC News
The fates of a string of new movies are up in the air after a Hollywood studio filed for bankruptcy protection. Relativity Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday and will now sell its TV and film arms.
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JustTheBell Is Just The Bell | TechCrunch
Sleeping with a cellphone in your room is, according to scientists who aren’t real, akin to sleeping with a radioactivity-emitting sleeplessness machine. That’s why artist and designer Ignasi Giro made JustTheBell. This box is quite literally just a…
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Beijing beats Almaty to host 2022 Winter Olympics – BBC News
Beijing has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city ever to host both a summer and winter games. The Chinese capital, which won over the Kazakh city of Almaty, had been the favourite to win the vote by the International…
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Watch 1,000 musicians woo the Foo Fighters to Italy | The Verge
One thousand musicians gathered in Italy this week to perform the Foo Fighters song “Learn to Fly,” as part of an effort to bring the band to Cesena — a northern city of about 100,000 people.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Previewing the GOP debate
Maybe Trump will somehow self-destruct in the debate. But who among his rivals is more skilled at projecting a persona on television? Trump knows how to filibuster and won’t hesitate to turn an inconvenient question back on the questioner.
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WASHINGTON — If the Iran nuclear deal was an earthquake shaking the Middle East’s strategic landscape, one of the most dramatic aftershocks was the surprising arrival last month in Saudi Arabia of a high-level delegation from Hamas.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban leadership has announced the appointment of a new head, as well as two deputies drawn from the hard-line Haqqani wing, according to messages it posted Friday on a website associated with the group.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban leadership has announced the appointment of a new head, as well as two deputies drawn from the hard-line Haqqani wing, according to messages it posted Friday on a website associated with the group.
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HONG KONG — The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said on Friday that he might not travel to Britain, where he has a major art installation opening weeks from now, if the country does not relent in a visa dispute. Mr.
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Beijing selected to host 2022 Winter Olympics | Al Jazeera America
Beijing was selected Friday to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games. Beijing narrowly defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International Olympic Committee. The vote was surprisingly…
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Spread your bets now! The A-listers with more than one horse in the Oscar race | Film | The Guardian
While it might seem as if we’re only just catching our breath after the most recent set of awards, we’re already heading into another six months of tireless campaigning, tearful speeches and Weinstein grandstanding.
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Remembering Michael Harrington – In These Times
In a lifetime of political engagement, Michael Harrington must have given ten thousand speeches, and of those, probably a thousand in New York City, where he had made his home since his arrival in 1949, age 21. He gave his final speech in the city 4…
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The robot that jumps on water – BBC News
Scientists have developed a tiny robot, based on the water strider insect, that can jump on water. The robotic version uses the same forces to jump as the water strider, pushing off without breaking the surface.
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1,000 Italian musicians play ‘Learn To Fly’ together to attract the Foo Fighters’ attention
Ever since Foo Fighters guitarist and singer Dave Grohl broke his leg after falling off the stage in Sweden, bands like Florence and the Machine and Faith No More have taken the Foo Fighters’ European festival slots and played covers in homage to Gr…
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Lea DeLaria, one of the stars of the series Orange is the New Black, has said butch lesbians have been “ostracised” by the rest of the LGBT community, and that despite the prejudice butches face she refuses to apologise for who she is.
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First Click: Tiny wireless earbuds are definitely coming this summer, maybe | The Verge
Of all the future technologies that seem just out of reach, wireless earbuds rank near the top of the list. Right next to flexible smartphones and transparent displays on our kitchen windows.
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Buckley, Vidal, and the “Queer” Question – The New Yorker
“Best of Enemies,” opening in select theatres on July 31st after months on the festival circuit, is an entertaining documentary about the gladiatorial debates between William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Right-Wing Shutdown of Ex-Im Bank Already Threatening to Kill Jobs
Conservatives deride using government to help American companies export their goods as “picking winners and losers,” even when the winners are American exporters and workers. So Republicans have closed the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, hopefully tempo…
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Major Security Bug In Aptean’s Customer Response System Puts User Data At Risk | TechCrunch
A bug discovered by security researchers Eric Taylor and Blake Welsh can change a standard customer feedback system called Aptean SupportSoft into a method for hackers to grab passwords, credit card information, and usernames.
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Local TV news station asks for photos of the moon, probably won’t be doing that again
Who doesn’t like to see a nice full moon way up in the sky? And who could blame a local TV news station for asking its viewers to send it pictures of a full moon? We certainly can’t blame Philadelphia’s Fox 29, even though it got a lot more than it …
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States have tried all sorts of things to prevent women from having abortions. They’ve enacted waiting periods, ultrasound laws and parental notifications. They’ve passed laws that force doctors to lie to women and force women to visit with ideologic…
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BBC Sport – Theo Walcott signs a contract extension at Arsenal
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott has signed a new four-year deal with the club worth £140,000 a week.
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Ashley Madison attack prompts spam link deluge – BBC News
The hack attack on the Ashley Madison site has prompted spammers to capitalise on interest in data stolen from the infidelity site. On 20 July, hackers claimed to have stolen information about the 37 million accounts registered on the service.
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Netflix turned people’s brain waves into the ‘Sense8’ theme music
To create the theme song for Netflix’s new sci-fi show Sense8, producer J. Michael Straczynski picked a few brains—eight of them, to be exact. In keeping with its science-fiction theme, Sense8 will feature theme music created by transforming eight p…
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How Shake Shack Made a 70-Year-Old Font Hot Again | WIRED
Caption: Neutra, a font used by modernist architect Richard Neutra and made commercially available by type foundry House Industries, is having a moment. House Industries Washington DC has its first official font.
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Three weeks after the Chinese authorities began a sweep of human rights lawyers around the country, photographs and video have emerged of some of the raids that have so far netted more than 200 people, according to human rights groups.
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Should Body-Cam Footage Always Go Public? It’s Complicated | WIRED
On Wednesday, officials in Hamilton County, Ohio released body-camera footage showing the shooting death of a 43-year-old unarmed black man, Samuel Dubose.
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Adventures in Super Strange Scientific Experiments | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Related Galleries Sometimes science is just plain weird. Daniel Stier makes it look even weirder, documenting seemingly bizarre experiments at state-of-the-art facilities for his series Ways of Knowing.
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The New Mission: Impossible Is a Cruise-Pegg Bromance | WIRED
This review isn’t about deep thoughts on Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation. That’s mostly because there aren’t really any to be had. Every Mission: Impossible movie hits the same notes: death-defying acts, near-misses, international intrigue.
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America’s national parks – in pictures | News | The Guardian
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The warm months of summer are soon coming to an end. That sad truth is especially tough on cinephiles who love to experience their films under the stars on a rooftop, or surrounded by nature.
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Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists | WIRED
Germany gets a lot of things right. Huge beer mugs. Amusingly long words made up on a whim. And best of all, a highway system made for going as fast as possible.
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Ads that know how fast your heart is beating | Life and style | The Guardian
Earlier this month, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer came head-to-head at the Wimbledon men’s final.
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and the Furious Will of Tom Cruise – The Atlantic
It may no longer constitute “acting,” but the star’s physically demanding performance powers the latest installment of the spy franchise On one level, Tom Cruise is an odd choice for a star expected to anchor a spy-movie franchise.
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Ritz casino wins £2m in court from ‘gambling addict’ billionaire | UK news | The Guardian
The Ritz Club casino has won a high court battle to recover more than £2m from a gambling “addict”. Safa Abdulla Al-Geabury, who says he is worth more than a billion dollars, wrote a cheque for £2m on 19 February 2014, in exchange for roulette chips…
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Shell is putting corporate profits ahead of our future in its determination to drill in the Arctic. Our elected leaders, most of whom are beholden to corporate interests, won’t act. That’s why some environmentalists are willing to put their lives on…
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Good Friday morning from Washington, where the House has gone on summer vacation and the Senate left the nitty-gritty of a highway bill for September.
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Significant Digits For Friday, July 31, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.
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Americans cutting calorie intake but junk food proves a hard habit to kick | US news | The Guardian
Americans have for the first time in decades cut their calorie intake, but are still eating a diet that is largely made up of junk food and doing very serious damage to their health, say experts.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Two-Foot-Wide Sea Star That’s Basically a Bear Trap | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Few oceanic creatures are as iconic and beloved as the sea stars (which, fun fact, are collectively known as “asteroids,” which only makes them that much cooler). They’re just so simple, so quaint, so …
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Next Week/This Week: Il Mio Cuomo | Observer
WHO HAD A GOOD WEEK? 1. LaGuardia Airport: Gov.
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Telescope Tag Team Brings Uranus-Size Alien Planet into Focus
This graphic illustrates how a foreground star can magnify and brighten the light of a background star. If the foreground star has planets, then the planets may also magnify the light of the background star, but for a much shorter period of time tha…
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Eye-Tracking Goggles Look for Concussions – Scientific American
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The import of hundreds of thousands of live salamanders to the US each year should be banned to save wild salamanders from a deadly disease, scientists say.
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Japanese whisky heads into space in search of flavour liftoff | Life and style | The Guardian
Japanese whisky will be sent into space next month to test how time in a zero-gravity environment affects its flavour, one of the country’s biggest drinks makers has said.
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Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has called on Israel and the world’s eight other nuclear weapons states to begin disarming, in response to his country’s acceptance of strict curbs on its nuclear programme in an agreement reached earli…
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Cruz Hits Romney: He Got ‘Clobbered’ Because He Didn’t ‘Speak The Truth’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday hit back at Mitt Romney after the former Republican presidential nominee criticized Cruz for his comment that by agreeing to the nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama is the “leading financier of radical Islamic te…
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BBC’s Ibiza Prom is the perfect ’90s house music mix for the summer | The Verge
If you’ve ever visited the Royal Albert Hall you’ll know it has no connection to Ibiza. Set in the heart of London, it plays host to The Proms annually — eight weeks of classical music concerts in a historic venue.
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Palestinian Baby Burnt to Death in Suspected ‘Jewish Terror’ Attack | VICE News
An 18-month-old baby, Ali Saad Dawabsha, has been killed and three of his family members seriously injured in a suspected “price tag” arson attack by Jewish settlers in the northern West Bank.
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Extremely lucky man loses iPhone while kayaking and gets it back two months later
Every iPhone owner has two worst fears: losing their gadget and dropping it in water. One unlucky man experienced both of those things, but his story still had a surprising happy ending.
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Stuart Stevens on ‘Between the World and Me’ – The Atlantic
Over the next few weeks, The Atlantic will be publishing a series of responses to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me. (An excerpt is available online.) This is the fourth in a series. Readers are invited to send their own responses tohello@…
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Assassin’s Creed and Cobra Command armies coming to tower-defense game Toy Soldiers: War Chest
Gamers and toy nerds both have something to cheer about, as the list of armies for the tower-defense game Toy Soldiers: War Chest just got much better. Ubisoft saved the best for last following the announcement of an Aug.
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Until two years ago, I lived in Beijing and belonged to a loosely organized group of legal professionals known among ordinary Chinese as weiquan lushi, or rights defense lawyers.
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Poll pushes Hillary to embrace a strong energy stand | Grist
According to a new poll, Hillary Clinton has little to lose with swing state voters, and much to gain, by telling America that she’s going to make ambitious clean energy goals a part of her platform — specifically, 50 percent renewable energy by 203…
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Never Alone: Foxtales Deftly Revisits a Fascinating Idea | WIRED
Last year’s Never Alone took the folklore of an Alaskan people, the Iñupiat, and wound it ’round a buddy-style platformer filled with thoughtful puzzles, illuminating anecdotes and haunting imagery.
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Ghostbusters producer torpedoes talk of all-male Ghostbusters movie | Film | The Guardian
The producer of the much-hyped female-fronted reboot of the classic 1980s comedy Ghostbusters has denied reports that a rival male team is also heading for cinemas.
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World’s best whisky is being sent to age in space | The Verge
A Japanese distillery is sending some of its world-renowned whisky into outer space.
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Blue Moon Full Moon Rises Tonight: What to Expect
There’s a “Blue Moon” in the sky tonight — but that doesn’t mean the lunar surface will turn indigo. Tonight’s (July 31) moon will be a gorgeous sight, but it won’t look different than any other full moon.
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Good morning on this stifling Friday. There is probably no maritime tale better known than the battle between Captain Ahab and Moby-Dick, imagined by one of our favorite New Yorkers, Herman Melville, whose birthday falls on Saturday.
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SETI Targets Kepler-452b, Earth’s ‘Cousin,’ in Search for Alien Life
An artist’s concept of the alien Kepler-452b in orbit around its star Kepler-452, which is located 1,400 light-years from Earth. NASA has billed the potentially habitable planet as Earth’s bigger, older cousin.Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T.
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Didier Drogba introduced by Montreal Impact – video | Football | The Guardian
Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is unveiled as the newest member of Canadian football team Montreal Impact in Québec.
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July 31, 1965: J.K. Rowling is Born | The Nation
“What is The Nation’s take on Harry Potter?” perhaps your child asked you the other day. Well, to mark J.K. Rowling’s 50th birthday, here it is.
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Epic Yearlong Space Mission Documented in ‘Time’ Magazine Web Series
On July 8, Time magazine posted the first two episodes in a 10-part documentary Web series following NASA astronaut Scott Kelly’s unprecedented yearlong space mission.
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Global climate models aren’t given nearly enough credit for their accurate global temperature change projections. As the 2014 IPCC report showed, observed global surface temperature changes have been within the range of climate model simulations.
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She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and listening skills. People often turn to her when they have a broken heart, have lost a j…
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Winter Olympics 2022: Beijing to host Games in China | Sport | The Guardian
Beijing has won the battle to host the 2022 Winter Olympics after Chinese president Xi Jinping made a last-minute vow to lay on a “fantastic, extraordinary and excellent” event.
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Let them eat cake: women hit back at fat-shaming troll | Technology | The Guardian
Sometimes, when it comes to internet trolls, the best thing to do is grab a slice of cake. At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
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Representative Sander M. Levin, Democrat of Michigan and the longest-serving Jewish member of the House, said something important this week: “In my view, the only anchors in public life are to dig deeply into the facts and consult broadly and then t…
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Who Would YOU Invite To The First Republican Debate? | FiveThirtyEight
For weeks, my colleague Harry Enten has been stalking the halls of our office, muttering to himself about Fox News’ slippery criteria for inclusion in its Aug. 6 Republican primary debate, the first of the 2016 campaign.
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Ronda Rousey knows she’ll win: ‘This is the most personal fight I’ve been in’ | Sport | The Guardian
With flash and depth, Ronda Rousey has expertly navigated caged combat since entering mixed martial arts in 2010. Though they often seem to be, eye-glinting objects and things of substance aren’t, by rule, mutually exclusive.
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BBC Sport – Beijing to host 2022 Winter Olympics
Beijing has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, beating the challenge of Kazakhstan city Almaty. Having hosted the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese capital will be the first city to host a summer and winter Games.
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For the New York Mets, it’s a credibility issue. Because they don’t have any | Sport | The Guardian
It’s an issue of credibility. The New York Mets do not have any. This is not particularly news. They have not had any for quite some time, but they have spectacularly less credibility now, somehow, than they did even 48 hours ago.
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MLS All-Star Game marks halfway, and will Frank Lampard finally appear? | Football | The Guardian
The MLS All-Star Game happened, an event which provided the slightly surreal sight of David Villa and Kaka both scoring for the “home” side at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado.
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TOKYO — In the first criminal prosecutions of officials connected to the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of 2011, the Japanese authorities said on Friday that they would move forward with cases against three former executives of th
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Continue reading the main story Korean-Canadian Priest Speaks to Media A Canadian pastor detained by North Korea since February appeared before the news media in Pyongyang and said he confessed to crimes aimed at overthrowing the state. By REUTERS o…
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Good morning. A year-and-a-half-old child was killed in an overnight arson attack in the West Bank that was apparently carried out by Jewish settlers. The Israeli prime minister is calling it an act of terrorism.
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For more than a century, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was just one theater, originally on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights and later replaced, in 1908, by a Beaux-Arts building on Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene. But then the academy added the B…
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Zimbabwe calls for extradition of dentist who killed Cecil the lion | Environment | The Guardian
The Zimbabwean environment minister called on Friday for the dentist who killed Cecil the lion to be extradited from the US to face trial for financing an illegal hunt.
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Sri Lanka shooting at campaign rally leaves one dead – BBC News
Unidentified gunmen have opened fire at a political campaign rally in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, killing one woman and injuring 12. The shooting happened shortly after Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake left the rally. He was unhurt.
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Swiss National Bank reports 50bn franc loss – BBC News
The soaring value of the Swiss franc against the euro has led Switzerland’s central bank to report a first half loss of 50bn francs (£33bn). The bank, which is owned by the Swiss federal government, said the loss could affect its ability to pay a di…
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Zimbabwe ‘seeks lion Cecil’s killer’ Walter Palmer from US – BBC News
Ministry of Defence land could be made available to help relieve traffic problems in Kent caused by the migrant crisis in Calais, the BBC understands.
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Who can devise the most convoluted way to wipe out the Islamic State? Everyone with a stake in Middle Eastern geopolitics publicly declares that ISIS must be defeated. Yet opinions range widely on how this should be achieved.
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Airbus reports profits up by 34% – BBC News
Europe’s aircraft maker Airbus said net profit rose 34% in the first half of the year to €1.52bn (£1bn). The maker of the A380 jumbo jet said that revenue rose 6% to €28.9bn (£20.3bn).
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Map: Where the World’s Refugees Have Migrated – The Atlantic
Brian Foo had a problem. He’d gotten ahold of four decades’ worth of UN data on the movements of refugees around the world. But he wasn’t sure how to express it—how he could possibly convey the forced dislocation of millions of individuals across a …
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Wikileaks: US ‘spied on Japan government and companies’ – BBC News
The US has been spying on Japanese cabinet officials, banks and companies, including the Mitsubishi conglomerate, whistleblowing website Wikileaks says. Documents released by Wikileaks list 35 telephone numbers targeted for interception by the US Na…
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Eurozone inflation and unemployment hold steady in July – BBC News
Inflation in the eurozone held steady in July, as falling energy prices offset rises in industrial goods. The annual inflation rate stayed at 0.2%, according to the flash estimate from the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat.
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A Classic 1970s Synthesizer Is Reborn for the 21st Century | WIRED
The legendary ARP Odyssey synthesizer was the sound of the 1970s. Now Korg has resurrected it—with some 21st-century upgrades. MOLLY CRANNA; PROP STYLING BY JAMES WHITNEY / ARTIST UNTIED; SAND ART BY KIRK RADEMAKER / SANDGUYS.
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Uber Is Investing $1B To Grow Its Business In India To 1M Rides Per Day | TechCrunch
Not content with raising $1 billion to fund a major expansion in China, Uber has announced that it is putting aside another billion dollars in resources to grow its business in India. The U.S.
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See spacecraft and meet astronauts at ESA’s technical heart / ESTEC / About Us / ESA
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Katy Perry faces delay over purchase of LA convent – BBC News
Pop star Katy Perry has been warned she faces a long delay in her attempt to buy a former Los Angeles convent due to a legal battle between a group of elderly nuns and the city’s archbishop. The archdiocese wants to sell the complex to Perry for $14…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: England’s James Anderson ruled out of fourth Test
England bowler James Anderson will miss the rest of the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston and the fourth Test at Trent Bridge because of a side strain. More to follow.
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Chad reintroduces death penalty for acts of terror – BBC News
MPs in Chad have voted to reinstate the death penalty for acts of terrorism six months after it was abolished. The unanimous vote by the 146 members of parliament present followed recent attacks by Boko Haram Islamist militants from neighbouring Nig…
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Google Glass will have a new snap-on design, says WSJ | The Verge
Google is reportedly working on a new “Enterprise Edition” of its augmented reality Google Glass headset that has a few new hardware improvements.
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Everything you always wanted to know about fish farming but were afraid to ask | Grist
Aquaculture is booming: As of 2012, we produce more farmed fish than beef worldwide, some 66 million tons.
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VICE News Capsule – Friday, July 31 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: New Israeli measures to stop hunger-striking Palestinians, Nepal has an increased risk of landslides, Myanmar opens its prisons, and why Argentina’s bus drivers are bloc…
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Australian sues Etihad over obese passenger – BBC News
An Australian plane passenger, who claims he suffered back pain after being seated next to an overweight man, is suing Etihad Airways. James Bassos says he had to contort his body to avoid contact with his fellow passenger during a 14-hour flight fr…
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Rocky Horror Show creator Richard O’Brien to play narrator – BBC News
Rocky Horror Show creator Richard O’Brien is rejoining the hit musical for a series of special shows playing the narrator, his first UK performances in the role for more than 20 years. He will appear at London’s Playhouse Theatre between 11-19 Septe…
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Confederate Flags Found Outside MLK Church — NYMag
Just a few weeks after the shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church sparked a nationwide debate about the Confederate flag, several of the flags were found spread out on the ground around Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church,…
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The unexpected beauty of manhole covers around the world – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
Kurashiki City, JapanA colourful fire hydrant cover. There is even a Japan Society of Manhole Covers
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Johnny Bègue tells how he discovered aeroplane debris on a beach in Saint-Andre on the French island of Réunion. Bègue describes finding the wing fragment on Wednesday and how the international attention that quickly turned on him.
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HBO may have killed David Fincher’s Utopia over budget issues. Deadline reports that the show, about fans of a graphic novel and what happens when they find out about a secret sequel, has released its actors.
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Bill Nye is halfway to funding a documentary about his life as The Science Guy | The Verge
William Sanford Nye, better known as Bill Nye the Science Guy to his many fans, is one of the foremost ambassadors of science in our modern times. Alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nye has done much to make scientific topics relatable and entertaining …
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Taiwan students storm education ministry in textbook protest – BBC News
Hundreds of students in Taiwan have stormed the education ministry, protesting against proposed changes to the curriculum. At least 200 students scaled the building’s fences overnight and camped in the compound in the capital, Taipei.
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BBC Sport – Rio 2016 Olympics to hire 85,000 security staff
Rio 2016 will employ 85,000 security staff, more than double the number who worked at the London 2012 Olympics. However, organisers will not repeat a policy used during the 2014 World Cup of occupying the city’s favelas.
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France settles warship compensation claim with Russia | World news | The Guardian
France and Russia have reached a deal on the amount Paris must pay Moscow in compensation for the non-delivery of two Mistral warships, a senior Russian official has said.
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Uber invests $1 billion in India | The Verge
Uber today announced a $1 billion investment in India, as the taxi-hailing app looks to expand in its largest market outside of the US.
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MH370 search: ‘I found plane debris’ – BBC News
Debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is “very likely” to be from the missing flight MH370, a top Australian official has told the BBC. The wreckage, said to be a wing part, is being flown to France for analysis.
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Hundreds of students converged on Taiwan’s Ministry of Education and briefly entered the grounds of the legislature in continuing protests over proposed changes to high school history textbooks.
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Russia Mistral: France ‘agrees warship compensation’ – BBC News
France has agreed to pay compensation to Russia for cancelling the sale of two warships, a Russian official says. France stopped the sale after the outbreak of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russia is accused of backing separatist rebels.
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By any measure, the $11.8 million property on Long Island is a palace, with nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms, a golf course and a lower level with enough space for a gym, movie theater and sauna. But many of the potential buyers showing up to see th…
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The continuum of American politics is not a straight line—it is more like a circle. Travel farther out on the right and left, and ultimately the sides bend to a common position on an issue like taxpayer subsidies for big business.
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New science for James Webb Telescope – BBC News
The successor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, is scheduled for launch in 2018. It is currently under construction at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland – and BBC Click was given rare access to the vast instrument.
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Winter Olympics 2022 decision: Beijing v Almaty – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Hello world, and welcome to our live blog on the IOC vote to decide which city will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. After Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Lviv, Krakow, and Graubunden, Switzerland withdrew from the initial bidding process, it’s done to two: …
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Space in Images – 2015 – 07 – Northern Italy
Lakes on the southern side of the Italian Alps are pictured in this early acquisition by the Sentinel-2A satellite.
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Jamie Jackson assesses Manchester City’s title chances for the forthcoming campaign. Under manager Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City have finished first and second in the Premier League. For most clubs this would represent success, but his predeces…
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NHS nurse recruitment from EU ‘too aggressive’ – BBC News
Nursing leaders in Portugal, Spain and Italy say “aggressive strategies” are being used to “fool” a growing number of their staff into working in the NHS. Increasing numbers of young graduates are tempted by UK salaries up to three times what they m…
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The picture of punk as the domain of boorish nihilists who can’t play their instruments has been as much a creation of marketing (via Malcolm McLaren) as it has been a virtue-of-necessity minimalist pose and a form of avant garde DIY experimentalism.
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Big year ahead for James Webb telescope – BBC News
“Up to this point, for as long as we’ve been working on Webb, you’ve only ever really seen a cartoon of the telescope. Towards the end of this year, you will actually be able to see the James Webb Space Telescope realised in hardware.
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Great robotic missions to explore space – BBC News
The world watched in awe as the New Horizons spacecraft sent back the first detailed pictures of Pluto. And this week, scientists published results from the Philae lander which touched down on a comet last year.
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VICE News filmmaker Medyan Dairieh spent two weeks in Yemen’s seaport city of Aden. Surrounded by Houthi militia rebels and under siege “from air, land, and sea,” Adenis the focal point of the Yemeni Southern Resistance.
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WTF? Bizarre photos from Russia’s Google Street View
It’s hard to think that these photos were taken in the age of the Internet, but it’s true. These pics were all taken from Russia’s Google Street View, courtesy of the blog VsePloho. And it’s about as depressing and bizarre as it gets.
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The Beatles ‘forgot’ dozens of songs | Music | The Guardian
The Beatles may have written “dozens” of songs that were never released … because Paul McCartney and John Lennon forgot them.
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This is turning out to be a very good season for domestic films in China. “Monster Hunt,” a live-action/animated movie about a little monster resembling a white radish, has become the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time, taking in more than 1.
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AFL captains rally around Goodes amid racism row – BBC News
The captains of all 18 Australian Rules football clubs have called on fans to stop booing football star Adam Goodes. The embattled Sydney Swans player also received strong support on Friday from a growing number of business leaders, including billio…
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HTC Spends Nearly $10M On A 15% Stake In Virtual Reality Platform WEVR | TechCrunch
HTC is planning to release its extremely well-received virtual reality headset Vive to consumers later this year, possibly in November. In the meantime, the Taiwanese company is busy building out its VR ecosystem.
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See the Animated Take on Star Lord’s Origin From Guardians of the Galaxy
If you saw Guardians of the Galaxy and were wondering about what life was like for Peter Quill on Yondu’s ship — well, here’s your answer. This is from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Origins (shudder… Marvel should maybe not name its prequels “…
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Troika talks in Greece overshadowed by IMF bombshell – business live | Business | The Guardian
The envoys from the EU and IMF will meet Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Friday, following talks this week between officials at a lower level on reforming the tax system and labour market regulations.
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Groom swims to wedding – BBC News
Trygve Bernhardsen, 79, wearing swimming trunks and a bow tie, braved cold and rain to cross a fjorde and reach his bride, Ellen Hertzberg. James Menendez reports.
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US photographer’s quest to solve vintage photo mystery – BBC News
A US photographer has launched an internet hunt to find two mysterious women pictured on an old roll of film she discovered in a second-hand shop.Meagan Abell was sifting through a box of vintage photographs in Richmond, Virginia when she found four…
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New supplies, new clothes, new start. Freshman year is a chance to redefine yourself, to challenge assumptions, to lay the foundation for the rest of your life. Gee whiz, you say, I’m just 18! So we asked for help, from those who have been there, do…
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Wondermark » Archive » #1147; In which a Lock is needed
Hooray! The Roll-a-Sketch coloring book Kickstarter ended today having funded at a staggering 379,900% of our goal amount. Thank you so much to everyone who pledged! Stand by for news & updates coming via Kickstarter on that project, starting next w…
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Why Hillary Is Feuding with the New YorkTimes — NYMag
Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the press is notoriously contentious, but on Thursday the situation rose above the usual low-grade sniping and resentment.
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China to Prosecute Former Top Officer for Graft | Al Jazeera America
China has expelled a former top general from the ruling Communist Party over corruption accusations as President Xi Jinping’s campaign to root out graft in the government and military churns onward.
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Legal battle to unearth Commonwealth Bank’s fossil fuel interests fails | Environment | The Guardian
A push to get Commonwealth Bank to reveal details of its fossil fuel interests has failed after the federal court ruled shareholders do not have the right to ask other shareholders to vote on such issues.
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“Girl Jesus” · Rectify · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There’s something of the teen drama in Rectify, a show about two adult children returning to their parents and two others on the rocks because of the new boy in town. Considering Daniel never got to finish out his teen years like most of us, that ma…
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BA owner IAG reports big jump in quarterly profits – BBC News
British Airways (BA) owner International Airlines Group (IAG) has reported a big jump in quarterly profits. IAG reported a 25% jump in pre-tax profits to €449m (£315m) for the three months to 30 June.
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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian toddler died in an arson attack in the West Bank early Friday morning, according to the Israeli military, with Jewish extremists suspected because of Hebrew graffiti sprayed nearby. “Revenge!” was written on one wall, next …
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Google Glass Isn’t Dead — But It’s All About the Enterprise for Now | Re/code
Re/code has learned that a version of the second edition of Google’s wearable, which was erroneously assumed dead when the search giant obfuscated about its future earlier this year, has already been distributed to the company’s Glass at Work enterp…
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Calais migrant crisis: ‘Too many to count’ – BBC News
The British government’s emergency committee will meet again on Friday to discuss the crisis over migrants trying to enter the country from France through the Channel Tunnel.
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Samsung And MasterCard Will Launch Samsung Pay Together In Europe | TechCrunch
Samsung and MasterCard, which have been working together to bring Samsung Pay to consumers and merchants around the world, announced today that they will extend their partnership to launch the mobile payment system in Europe.
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Sun, sand, slack tide and a hungry beachcomber | Environment | The Guardian
My planned lunch stop looking out over the sea to distant St Kilda had proved just a little too chilly for comfort, but on the other side of the headland, out of the breeze, it’s positively balmy.
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APOD: 2015 July 30 – Milky Way over Uluru
Explanation: The central regions of our Milky Way Galaxy rise above Uluru/Ayers Rock in this striking night skyscape. Recorded on July 13, a faint airglow along the horizon shows off central Australia’s most recognizable landform in silhouette.
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Your pen, Your Majesty! We all need a geeky pen holder just like this one
Isn’t it about time you felt high and mighty when asking for your pen to sign papers or grade assignments? Yes, yes it is. And lucky for you, ThinkGeek has made a pen holder that will give you all those feelings. Introducing the Executive Knight Pen…
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Readers continue to debate Ta-Nehisi Coates’s bestseller. Will the book’s bleak outlook make people less motivated to fight injustice? The Atlantic has published five essays inspired by Between the World and Me, from Michael Eric Dyson, Emily Bernar…
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‘Magnetic’ Discovery May Reveal Why Earth Supports Life and Mars Doesn’t
Earth’s magnetic field, which protects the planet from harmful blasts of solar radiation, is much older than scientists had previously thought, researchers say.
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JERUSALEM — A house fire suspected to have been set by Jewish extremists killed an 18-month-old Palestinian child and injured several people in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said.
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Ejecta · Under The Dome · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Ejecta” may not be the weirdest Under The Dome episode ever, but it’s probably the weirdest episode that didn’t make me want to hunt down the writers and take away their laptops.
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“Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” Review – The New Yorker
How impossible can a mission be, if it is successfully completed five times? The big-screen franchise that began in 1996 has now reached “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation,” directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
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Jane Lynch at Joe’s Pub – The New Yorker
Fame came relatively late to Jane Lynch, first when she joined the cracked ensemble of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind,” and then when she became Sue Sylvester, the tracksuited villainess on “Glee.” Her career …
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Tables for Two: Shuko – The New Yorker
There’s no menu at Shuko. You can either get a lot of sushi, which is the omakase option, or slightly less sushi along with some “composed” dishes, the kaiseki.
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The Music of Carlos Chávez – The New Yorker
If an American festival of Mexican music were organized as a popularity contest, then the winner would certainly be Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), whose orchestral works “Sensemayá” and “La Noche de los Mayas” have been standard repertory for deca…
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Bar Tab: Lazy Point – The New Yorker
The summer Hamptons hordes cling to the comforts of Manhattan, with their East End Ralph Laurens, SoulCycles, and Citarellas.
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Palestinian toddler killed in ‘Jewish settler’ arson attack – 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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Manam in Papua New Guinea Unleashes Large Eruption | WIRED
The Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Center has confirmed a new eruption from Manam in Papua New Guinea.
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Businessman finds iPhone which fell out of plane during US flight | US news | The Guardian
The Wichita Falls Times Record News reported on Thursday that Ben Wilson said his mobile phone still worked. Related: How well does Find My iPhone track down thieves?
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There’s a Rocky Exoplanet Just 21 Light-Years Away
NASA has proven itself to be quite adept at finding planets lately, and this week is no exception: using the Spitzer Space Telescoe, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab have found HD 219134b, a rocky exoplanet ‘… http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-mo…
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Techmeme: Microsoft joins with Jasper in Internet of Things alliance (Barb Darrow/Fortune)
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MH370 search: Reunion debris ‘very likely’ part of plane – BBC News
It is “very likely” debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is that of the missing flight MH370, a top Australian official has told the BBC. Martin Dolan, who heads Australia’s search efforts, also said the operation was continuing “in th…
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Canada pastor ‘admits to North Korea subversive plot’ – BBC News
North Korea says a detained Canadian pastor has confessed to a “subversive plot” to overthrow the government and set up a “religious state”. Hyeon Soo Lim’s confession was reported by the state news agency KCNA.
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Winter Olympics: Beijing hopes to be chosen as host – BBC News
In a few hours time the world will learn which city will host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games: Almaty in Kazakhstan or the Chinese capital Beijing. The International Olympic Committee says both bids have much to offer.
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TRAVIS THRELKEL was standing on the roof of a building on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street looking uptown at his canvas.
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Australian surfer punches shark in ‘Mick Fanning replay’ – BBC News
An Australian surfer has punched a shark which was attacking him at Evans Head, New South Wales, say police. Craig Ison, 52, suffered serious leg and arm injuries during the fight with a suspected bull shark early on Friday.
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Facebook has announced the completion of its first full-scale drone, which it says has the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and will provide internet access in remote parts of the world. The company said it would test the aircraft in the US later in 2015.
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“The Sandwich” · Married · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The themes of Married echo right in its theme. That rolling, plinking musical refrain bookends nearly every scene of the show—puckish and tired at the same time.
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Meek Mill’s Photoshop skills are worse than his diss track | The Verge
Meek Mill just premiered his long-awaited Drake diss track, “Wanna Know,” on Hot 97. This is the cover that came with the track.
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Techmeme: Microsoft: Windows 10 passes 14M installs 24 hours after launch (Yusuf Mehdi/Windows Blog)
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Abbott weighs in on Australia’s expenses scandal – BBC News
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has weighed in on an expenses scandal that has embroiled the government for the past three weeks.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger just posted this on Instagram : funny
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Love Everyone Often 07/31/2015 (p.m.)
www.nytimes.com Politicians who preside over economic booms often develop delusions of competence. tags: Pocket new york times nyt nytimes opinion paul krugman popular The Shell standoff in Portland comes to a dramatic end | Grist The Fennica has left the building. Forty hours after Portland activists took to the Willamette…
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