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TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce anti…
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The Origins Of The Kappa, Japan’s Butt-Loving River Monster – Digg
Today Tofugu explores the murky origins of the kappa, Japan’s green amphibious river demon. It loves cucumbers, butts, and farting. Learn all about how to defend against a kappa and how to befriend it.
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Israelis protest hate crimes in wake of baby’s death – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of Israelis have held protests against hate crimes, as the parents and brother of a Palestinian baby burned to death by suspected Jewish settlers continued to fight for their lives in hospital.
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Racism in sport: Aussie Aussie Aussie, Boo Boo Boo – Al Jazeera English
Aboriginal Australian rules football star Adam Goodes, twice voted the sport’s player of the year, has been jeered from coast-to-coast.
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Report: Joe Biden considering bid for US presidency – Al Jazeera English
United States Vice President Joe Biden has held meetings at his Washington home to discuss challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, according to a New York Times report.
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India and Bangladesh settle old dispute in land swap – Al Jazeera English
Jubilant crowds have celebrated as Bangladesh and India swapped hundreds of pockets of land along their poorly defined border, while giving tens of thousands of people the chance to choose their citizenship after being stateless for nearly seven dec…
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My gf balanced drops of water on her cup. : mildlyinteresting
My gf balanced drops of water on her cup. (imgur.com) OP’s GF gives the best RJs.
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Ali Dawabsheh was killed too soon – Al Jazeera English
He could have been a doctor, an accountant or a teacher. He might have grown to hate school and love poetry, or maybe he was to follow his father’s footsteps and work in construction. But we’ll never know, because little Ali was killed too soon.
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New Taliban leader vows to continue insurgency – Al Jazeera English
The new leader of the Afghan Taliban has issued his first audio statement, calling for unity and promising to continue the insurgency.
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Less Money, Mo’ Music & Lots of Problems: A Look at the Music Biz | Original | REDEF
Forward by Jason Hirschhorn: There is no art form more widely enjoyed by the human race than music. It’s a staple in our minds, hearts and ears; the time machine of media, bringing you back to moments when you first heard the song.
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Letter from Africa: Big walls can cause big problems – BBC News
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene looks at the problems around building big walls. Neighbours can drive you to distraction. Some are noisy, some are dirty, some are dangerous and some are just plain u…
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André Benjamin—still probably best known as OutKast’s André 3000—has been cast as one of the leads in the second season of ABC’s well-regarded anthology series American Crime.
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Been and Gone: The British film actress who missed out on fame – BBC News
Our regular column covering the deaths of significant – but lesser reported – people of the past month. But for circumstances, Nova Pilbeam might have become one of Britain’s best-known film stars.
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Buzz Aldrin is the man : space
Buzz Aldrin is the man (i.imgur.com)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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#BBCtrending: The elephant playing with birds – and more trends of the week – BBC News
Find out why an elephant playing with birds charmed the internet; why a lion reduced the US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to tears, and why a Louisiana policeman was viewed more than a million times on YouTube. It’s our bite-sized round up of the tren…
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10-year-old Afghan girl wins landmark case after being raped by mullah inside his mosque: Defense claimed Sharia Law which considers rape as adultery for which both parties are punished. Judge blasts Mullah’s defense, pointing that the victim “canno…
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How many people have gone to Syria to fight? – BBC News
It’s been reported that thousands of foreign fighters have made their way to the Middle East to join Islamist militant groups – so-called Islamic State, and others. But how reliable are the figures and how many of the people who went are still there…
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Dr. Dre Details Long-Awaited ‘Compton: The Soundtrack’ | Rolling Stone
The rumors are true: Dr. Dre will release a new album in the near future. The rapper took to his Beats 1 radio show The Pharmacy to confirm reports of a Straight Outta Compton soundtrack produced by Dre as well as additional details regarding Dre’s …
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Topless ‘Bare with us’ protest rally in Canada – BBC News
Hundreds of Canadian woman joined a topless protest march after three sisters were allegedly stopped by police for cycling without shirts. Saturday’s “Bare with us” march took place in Waterloo, Ontario.
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A gay man, Louis Falcone, alleges he was brutally beaten by NYPD officers at his house while they yelled homophobic slurs at him. Falcone say he was handcuffed but never arrested or charged with any crime.
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Creepy-crawly celebrity contest will highlight UK’s threatened species | Environment | The Guardian
Britons are to be asked to pick their favourite creepy-crawly this weekend. A poll to select Britain’s best bug is to be launched today on Sunday by the Royal Society of Biology as part of its campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the nation’…
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The troubleshooting teddies of Tirana – BBC News
The weather-beaten forms of cuddly toys hanging from buildings are a common sight in Albania. Who put them there, and why? Suspended from the eaves of houses, they sway gently in the wind. The bodies are distorted, storm-drenched and smut-stained.
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This guy burned and stomped on the Confederate flag today during a pro-flag rally at Stone Mountain, Georgia–the birthplace of the 2nd KKK. (imgur.com) He’s braver than I am. I have trouble demanding a fresh hot dog at the circle K.
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Bring on the debate: the faces hoping to star in the Republican TV showdown | US news | The Guardian
He has upended the 2016 race and become the centre of attention on the Republican side.
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No profit for Tiger Woods as he falls away at Quicken Loans tournament | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods fell out of contention at the Quicken Loans National tournament after posting a disappointing third-round three-over par 74. The former world No1 began his third round just three shots off the pace amid hopes he could make a serious chal…
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‘Don’t call me a crypto-Nazi!’ The lost heart of political debate | US news | The Guardian
The erudition of the discourse is electrifying: two towering American intellectuals of the riven 1960s at one another like fighting cocks on primetime TV – Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr.
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Trump turns US politics into a (bad) reality show | US news | The Guardian
There are 17 people running for the Republican presidential nomination. Ten of them will meet on 6 August in Cleveland, Ohio, for the first presidential debate of the 2016 election.
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Black lives matter in health care, too
Fifty years ago this week, that started to change as Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law two programs—Medicaid and Medicare—that constituted real progress in the cause of health care justice. For one, these programs greatly expanded health care access…
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Maynard James Keenan’s band Puscifer announces new album, video · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When he’s not busy taunting his legions of fans about the possibility of a follow-up to the band’s 2006 album 10,000 Days, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan keeps pretty busy.
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Why 20% of Ottawa’s population is on Ashley Madison – BBC News
The capital of Canada has long been called the city that fun forgot. But it is it really a hotbed of infidelity? Earlier this month, hackers broke into Ashley Madison, a dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouses. “Life is sho…
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Hitchhiking Robot Lasts Just Two Weeks in US Because Humans Are Terrible
When hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot started his journey in Boston two weeks ago he wanted to see the entire country. Unfortunately, he never made it out of the Northeast.
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Derp — views that just keep being repeated in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence — has always been with us, but the derp quotient has really soared since the crisis of 2008, which made nonsense of doctrines too dearly held to be reconsidered.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Chances Increasing for Formation of Tropical System
Disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending over portions of Florida, the Bahamas, and adjacent waters are associated with an upper-level trough and a weak surface low located over the northwestern Bahamas.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Manam Volcano Erupts off the Coast of Papua New Guinea
A large eruption of the Manam Volcano off the east coast of Papua New Guinea spread ash across a wide area of the mainland, southwest of Manam Island.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – 2015 Hurricane Outlook: A Tale of Two Basins
NOAA issued the first outlook for the 2015 hurricane season, calling for a 70% likelihood of a below-normal season in the Atlantic, but a 70% chance of an above-normal season in the Eastern Pacific.
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Iceland has recovered from its crisis, and Of Monsters and Men is out with a new album. These two facts have absolutely nothing to do with each other. But anyway, I’m getting a lot of pleasure from the new stuff. I was especially glad to discover a …
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Wow, that ‘s amazing. My back would be broken. Thanks, my knees may never be the same. But hey, I did lose 11 lbs on the project so there’s that
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Local donut shop just posted this photo : funny
Local donut shop just posted this photo (imgur.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Official Samsung Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus images leaked | The Verge
Samsung is set to announce , but we’re getting a pretty good look at the device two weeks ahead of time. Prolific phone leaker Evan Blass has released what’s said to be official press renders of both new devices. For good measure, he’s released a se…
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The Senate passed a surprisingly good transportation bill | Grist
As usual, reauthorization of the law governing federal transportation spending is long overdue, caught in D.C.’s gridlock.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign, which would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton, several people who have spoken to Mr…
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Researcher claims Cecil the lion’s brother, Jericho, is still alive
Jericho, brother of Cecil—the lion killed by a dentist from Minnesota last month—is reportedly alive and well, despite reports that he was shot and killed by a poacher in Zimbabwe on Saturday.
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In 1979, National Lampoon magazine published the future director’s fictitious tale of a family trip gone horribly awry. THR reprints the tale that launched an iconic movie series. If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our bes…
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Sea Ice near Greenland : Image of the Day
As the northern hemisphere experiences its warmest months of the year, ice is moving and melting in Arctic waters and on the frozen lands that surround it. Such is the case along the edge of the Helheim and Zachariae glaciers on Greenland’s east coa…
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Earlier this week, Paper Towns actress Cara Delevingne was convicted of the crimes of being “kind of tired” and “needing a Red Bull” in the court of Good Morning, Sacremento, long-recognized as the highest legal authority in the world of California-…
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How a Piece of Malaysian Flight 370 Drifted 2,300 Miles
The discovery of an airplane wing section on a remote Indian Ocean island some 2,300 miles west of where investigators think Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed off Australia comes as no surprise to scientists and mariners familiar with those seas.
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Cecil the Lion’s Death Spurred Donations to Wildlife Groups … Now What?
Update, Saturday 3:52 p.m.: CNN and other outlets are reporting that Jericho, Cecil’s brother, was illegally shot and killed Saturday afternoon. National Geographic is working to confirm these reports.
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US-backed Syrian Rebels Abandon HQ After Clash With al Qaida | VICE News
A group of rebels allegedly trained by the United States to fight the Nusra Front, which is al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, have deserted their headquarters, according to the Associated Press.
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US civil rights march sets out from historic Selma – BBC News
Civil rights campaigners in the US have begun a 40-day march to highlight what they say is a fresh attack on equal rights for African Americans. They set out from Selma, Alabama – the starting point 50 years ago for a march in support of watershed l…
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Sherlock fans have grown familiar with the waiting game between seasons, but they may be encouraged that showrunner Steven Moffat says he could see the project “going on for a long while”.
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Lynn Anderson, who skyrocketed to country music stardom in 1970 singing her signature song, “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,” died on Thursday in Nashville. She was 67. Her death was confirmed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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“Soft” Sensors Are Breaking Into Four Major Industries | TechCrunch
From something as simple as a door sensor at a store to the new age of “smart” sensors in a rapidly emerging wearables market, the application of sensors has already permeated many parts of our everyday lives.
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New York City 2-3 Montreal Impact | MLS match report | Football | The Guardian
It will go down as the most protracted, drawn out debut in history. Frank Lampard, a player so good he needed two introductory press conferences, finally made his MLS bow for New York City on Saturday more than 12 months since the former England mid…
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BBC Sport – Leaked IAAF doping files ‘reveal extraordinary extent of cheating’
Athletics is facing a new crisis after fresh allegations of suspected doping emerged following a leak of test data. According to the newspaper, the evidence – which has been seen by the BBC – reveals the “extraordinary extent of cheating” by athlete…
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Channing Tatum officially re-committed to playing terrible X-Man Gambit · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rumors have been floating around lately that Channing Tatum’s incipient reign as terrible X-Men member Gambit could be in peril, with The Wrap reporting that the deal between Tatum—who’s also a producer on the upcoming film—and Fox was in danger of …
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Turkey Peace Process Floundered by Violence | Al Jazeera America
Kurdish militia fighters on Friday killed five people in Turkey in separate attacks, the culmination of a week of tit-for-tat violence that accompanied the intensification of a Turkish government bombing campaign against Kurdish positions.
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First off, The A.V. Club would like to congratulate you on your Oscar win for Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. It was well deserved. However, we’d like to speak frankly with you about an upcoming project you’re involved in. We think you might have been …
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TIFU by going on a Tinder date (I’m paralyzed & use a wheelchair) : tifu
This is a repost. I posted it in the thread about tinder dates and I was a bit late. It has stopped gaining points but I am getting a dozen messages a day from people encouraging me to post it here. I hope that’s okay 🙂 I use a wheel-chair, as a r…
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Facebook’s new live events feature hopes to take on Snapchat | The Verge
Facebook wants to be part of the conversation around live events. Just in time for Lollapalooza, the social network has rolled out a new live event feed that serves as a single destination for viewing public posts, photos, and videos published from …
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One Palestinian Dead in Clashes with IDF After Arson Attack Kills Infant | VICE News
Demonstrations erupted Saturday in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to protest a firebombing that killed a Palestinian infant, as the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories experienced the most tumultuous days in months.
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Biden Actively Exploring a Presidential Run — NYMag
The New York Times is reporting that Vice President Joe Biden is now actively exploring a potential presidential campaign.
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Check Out How The Solar System Moves In This Interactive Map
This is pretty awesome: an interactive map of the solar system that lets you see how the major objects in our solar system move around the sun. Click and drag to see where everything will be relative to one another at any given date.
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A South Carolina police chief has said he will not release the name of an officer who fatally shot a 19-year-old man in the parking lot of a Hardee’s restaurant, insisting the officer acted in self-defence.
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The Zoolander 2 trailer was out on the internet for a second · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The hype machine for the upcoming Zoolander 2 has been revving up for a while now, starting with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s in-character runway appearance at Fashion Week this year, and continuing in the form of a variety of casting announcements…
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Is the feeling that we’re immortal innate? – Natalie Emmons – Aeon
What happens to people after they die? Do the deceased live on eternally as spirits? Are loved ones reunited in heaven? Or do personal memories, feelings, thoughts, desires, goals and preferences cease forever, along with brain functioning, at the p…
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Yes, Racism Is Rooted in Economic Inequality | Jacobin
Hillary Clinton is an astute campaigner. In a Facebook Q&A the other day, she was asked about the Black Lives Matter protesters who interrupted Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley at the Netroots Nation conference earlier this month.
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For about a quarter-century, frequent-flier miles have represented a kind of magic for many consumers. You’d take a bunch of trips that you would have taken anyway and earn miles along the way. After a while, you’d earn a free flight.
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The dying wish of Vice-President Joe Biden’s son was reportedly that his father run for the White House in 2016, against Hillary Clinton. Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware and a US military veteran who served in Iraq, died in May of brain…
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NBA brings the stars to Africa – but can basketball compete with soccer? | Sport | The Guardian
Luol Deng has been a child refugee, played on the biggest stages of the NBA and met Barack Obama at the White House. And on Sunday he heads to war-torn South Sudan to visit his family. Yet it was the prospect of appearing before a few thousand peopl…
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Despite reports that Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho had been shot dead by a poacher, a field researcher at Hwange Lion Research said on Saturday: “He looks alive and well.
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Channing Tatum Closes His ‘Gambit’ Deal (Exclusive) : movies
NewsChanning Tatum Closes His ‘Gambit’ Deal (Exclusive) (hollywoodreporter.com)submitted 40 minutes ago by loading…[–]merry722 12 points13 points14 points 36 minutes ago(7 children)Yay for the media making bullshit news .
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Authorities said a panic-stricken man who dashed into a Dallas County jail lobby on Saturday morning, shouting that his wife was chasing him in an attempt to kill him, died after being handcuffed and losing consciousness.
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See MS MR, Dillon Francis, and More in Exclusive Lollapalooza Portraits | Vanity Fair
MS MRPhotograph by Catie Laffoon.
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Ian McShane joins Game Of Thrones · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ian McShane is returning to HBO, with the Deadwood actor signing on for a small-but-“key” role in the sixth season of the network’s massively successful Game Of Thrones.
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Derek Zoolander Returns in Hilarious ‘Zoolander 2’ Teaser | Rolling Stone
The hilarious first teaser trailer for Zoolander 2 has arrived, with Ben Stiller reprising dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander in the sequel to the cult 2001 comedy. As the two-minute preview clip reveals, it may be 14 years later, but the titular …
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Bin Laden Relatives Killed in Plane Crash — NYMag
Three of Osama Bin Laden’s family members, including his stepmother, half-sister, and brother-in-law were among four people killed in a mysterious plane crash outside of London on Friday afternoon, the Associated Press reports.
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Mark Hamill’s Autographs Are The Best
Imgr user raggedrabbit has posted up a number of Luke Skywalker cards that Mark Hamill has signed. Apparently, the actor has a bit of fun when he signs them, leaving snarky notes in addition to his signature. See the full gallery here.
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Texas man hospitalized after bullet bounces off armadillo | US news | The Guardian
The man decided to shoot the armadillo after seeing it on his property, near the 134-person east Texas town of Marietta, just before 3am on Thursday, Cass County sheriff’s officials said. He fired three shots at the armadillo. At least one rebounded…
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Indian rapper protests corporation’s toxic waste dump with ‘Anaconda’ remix
One Indian rapper is taking on corporate giant Unilever with an environmental protest song set to the tune of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.
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The Girls Who Fled To Syria: Groomed By The Islamic State | VICE News
In February 2015, three teenage schoolgirls left the comfort of their homes in East London and traveled to Syria to join the self-styled Islamic State (IS). Around 60 women and girls are thought to have made the same journey from Britain.
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Cecil’s brother Jericho shot dead by poachers in Zimbabwean park : worldnews
This could be turned into a movie some day. And I was just getting a bit happy when I read this headline on the frontpage..
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And in the latest episode of Republican vs. Republican savagery in less than a week, a conservative lawmaker, Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, filed a resolution Tuesday evening aimed at unseating GOP House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.
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Channing Tatum Officially Joins Gambit Movie
Channing Tatum has been eager to star as Gambit in the X-Men spinoff for years, and now The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the actor has officially signed on for the film, despite rumors earlier this week that … http://io9.com/what-on-earth-…
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DoJ says work permit problems fixed after immigration action delays | US news | The Guardian
Problems that led to about 2,100 work permits being mistakenly awarded under President Barack Obama’s executive immigration action have been fixed after a federal judge in Texas had put the plan on hold, the Justice Department said in newly filed co…
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Re-recording the 1969 “Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion” – Boing Boing
Jeff Baham writes, “On July 10, 2015, the Mousetalgia podcast invited Disney voice artists Mark Silverman (‘Twilight Zone Tower of Terror’), Margaret Kerry (red-headed mermaid in ‘Peter Pan’) and Peter Renaday (‘Country Bear Jamboree’) to re-create …
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How to use the IKEA effect in your business
I lugged around a three-shelf bookcase from IKEA through multiple years of moves, through three different states. Despite the fact that these bookcases often go for as little as $10 or for free on Craigslist, I could never bring myself to sell mine …
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Suicide spike boosts oversight of CA prison | Al Jazeera America
Four women have killed themselves at California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County in the last 18 months, according to state records.
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Ian McShane Joins Game Of Thrones Cast For Season 6
According to Entertainment Weekly, Ian McShane has been cast in a mystery role. Let the speculation begin. The show’s tight-lipped production will not reveal any details about McShane’s character, who’s coming on board for the most mysterious season…
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EVE helps you learn your Mac’s hotkeys as you work, for a price
There’s a reason that there are so many productivity apps: people are time-poor and need to squeeze a million different tasks into each day, and given that so many people’s working lives are spent at a computer, learning all the hotkeys to navigate …
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Osama bin Laden’s Sister and Stepmother Killed in UK Plane Crash | VICE News
The sister, brother-in-law, and stepmother of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, as well as the bin Laden family’s longtime pilot, were killed in a plane crash in England on Friday, British police confirmed to the Associated Press.
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Belfast Gay Pride: ‘Why can’t we get married here?’ – BBC News
The annual Gay Pride parade has been held in Belfast marking its 25 year anniversary in the Northern Irish capital with a renewed push for same-sex marriage. It is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is not legal, and it was also recentl…
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What Compassionate Conservatives Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Issues | ThinkProgress
Dr. Michael L.
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WASHINGTON — A PATTERN of cutting corners, a patina of entitlement and inevitability, has led to this. Destroying digital messages and thwarting official investigations while acting all innocent about wiping out sensitive material.
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View from the left—the insurgent candidacies of Trump and Bernie
But now Trump has the GOP by the balls and Bernie is causing a stir in conservative havens like Arizona and Louisiana.
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It’s Really, Really Hot in Iran — NYMag
Thanks to a brutal “heat dome” effect now blanketing the Middle East, the southern Iranian city of Bandar-e Mahshahr suffered through a heat index of 165 degrees today.
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Man calls police to report bacon-eating cat
Law enforcement officers have one of the hardest, most dangerous jobs around, but no amount of training could have prepared the West Yorkshire Police Department for a caller demanding an arrest over a bacon-loving feline.
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Experience The Cosplay Of The London Film & Comic Con With Sneaky Zebra
Sneaky Zebra does some of the best convention cosplay videos, and their latest takes you through London Film & Comic Con last weekend. I’ve long been a fan of these guys, and they’re a head above any other convention video that I’ve seen.
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The plane that can fly backwards | The Verge
The Soviet Antonov An-2, which has been generating headlines from North Korea, can perform a feat that seems impossible. In early April, North Korean media unveiled a new camouflage scheme for one of its most important military aircraft.
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.01.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 10amPT. G3’s archives on Ustream. Find all their shows HERE
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British Airways to cut hand baggage allowance – BBC News
British Airways is to cut the hand baggage allowance for customers on its flights, the airline has announced. The maximum size of main carry-on bags will remain unchanged, but smaller second bags such as handbags will be capped at 40x30x15cm, the ai…
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Kevin Bacon And Jimmy Fallon Are Having More “Fun Fun Fun” Than You | Vanity Fair
Somebody call the Guinness Book of World Records because Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Bacon may have just broken the record for number of times you can say “hamburger stand” in a single song.
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Investigation could lead to same-sex emoji ban in Russia
Russia is continuing to push its homophobic ideals, this time by attempting to ban same-sex emoji, The Guardian reports. Government leaders want to eradicate those tiny adorable cartoon depictions of love and friendship, including men holding hands …
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This trailer is so hot right now… What about 2lander?
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Several Cities See A Sharp Uptick In Homicides After Record Low Rates | ThinkProgress
Several American cities that have seen sharp upticks in homicides so far this year. According to a report by USA Today, the number of murders rose by one-third or more so far this year compared to the same period last year in Baltimore, New Orleans,…
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Verizon workers in nine states could walk off the job as soon as early as Sunday, if union negotiators do not reach an agreement over benefits with the wireless carrier. A contract covering 39,000 Verizon workers represented by two unions was due to…
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Churches Pay Mike Huckabee Over $20,000 To Come Speak To Them | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s rhetoric has gotten very heated over the past month, but his words are apparently quite valuable to many conservative Christians.
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Watch Paul McCartney Perform ‘Get Back’ With Brittany Howard | Rolling Stone
Paul McCartney served as Lollapalooza’s headliner Friday night in Chicago, and the former Beatle had a special guest in the store to help him out during the encore: Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, who joined McCartney for a rousing rendition of “Ge…
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BAGHDAD — A Syrian insurgent group at the heart of the Pentagon’s effort to fight the Islamic State came under intense attack on Friday from a different hard-line Islamist faction, a serious blow to the Obama administration’s plans to create a relia…
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Fetal tissue research has been with us a long time—and it’s saved lives
The other essential point is that it’s illegal to “sell” organs, but it’s both an explicitly legal and uniformly accepted practice for researchers needing tissue samples to reimburse the donating group’s costs of gathering, preserving and delivering…
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New York City FC v Montreal Impact: MLS – live! | Football | The Guardian
David Villa of New York City FC. Photograph: Ira L. Black/Ira L. Black Photography/Corbis
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Meteorite Explosion Caught In Time Lapse Video
This is pretty awesome: while filming a time lapse of the night sky, Marc Donahue inadvertently captured an exploding meteorite in the atmosphere earlier in July in Santa Cruz, California. While shooting some timelapses, we saw a huge bright flash i…
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My vegetarian wife is out of town so I had steak and egg for breakfast, goddamn it. : food
My vegetarian wife is out of town so I had steak and egg for breakfast, goddamn it.Breakfast (imgur.com)submitted 45 minutes ago by loading…
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New Taliban Leader Allegedly Disavows Peace Process in Audiotape | VICE News
The new leader of the Afghan Taliban is rejecting the peace process and calling for unity among the Taliban, even as some of the group’s highest-ranking members dispute his ascension.
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An Italian man has successfully wooed Foo Fighters with a “crazy” plan to have 1,000 musicians play a synchronized rendition of the hit Learn to Fly, in order to persuade the American band to play in his town.
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Bill Nye reads some of the mean, anti-science tweets he receives
To drum up some donations for the documentary on beloved scientist Bill Nye, he read some of the mean tweets he receives. Nye’s mean tweets are a little different than the ones trolls usually tweet at celebrities, some of which end up appearing on J…
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First things first: a blue moon is not blue. At least it doesn’t HAVE to be, and without some post-processing help most of the pictures of yesterday’s moon would probably have shown the same gray, white, yellow, or orange orb we’re all used to seein…
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Firefighter Killed as California Blazes Burn | Al Jazeera America
Blazes raging in forests and woodlands across California have taken the life of a firefighter and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes as an army of firefighters continued to battle them from the air and the ground on Saturday, a day after …
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Soma Oil and Gas investigated by Serious Fraud Office – BBC News
The Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into British company Soma Oil and Gas. The SFO said the matter was related to corruption in Somalia.
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Winter Olympics in Snowless Beijing Will be an Environmental Disaster | The New Republic
Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Friday. And the biggest loser isn’t Kazakhstan, which lost its bid against China after other cities backed out over cost. It’s the environment.
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NewDealDesign, the creative hub behind some extremely famous products — FitBit fitness trackers, Lytro cameras, Project Ara, among others, looks from the exterior, like a typical design firm, nestled unobtrusively in the heart of San Francisco’s fin…
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Selfie app Frontback comes back to life thanks to mysterious new ‘partner’ | The Verge
Frontback has made a miraculous recovery. After announcing last week that the company was shutting down, the selfie app is taking a 180 — literally.
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Learn How A Titan Missile Is Fired In This Video
At the height of the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had thousands of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles trained on one another. In this video, we get a tour of a Titan missile silo, and learn exactly what would happen when… http://io9.
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BBC Sport – Women’s FA Cup final: Chelsea Ladies 1-0 Notts County Ladies
Chelsea Ladies and Notts County Ladies are chasing their first major piece of silverware as they meet in Wembley’s first ever women’s FA Cup final. Chelsea striker Fran Kirby is ineligible for selection, but neither side has any new injury concerns.
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Tom Cruise: The Good Kind of Crazy – The New Yorker
Tom Cruise, risen from the depths of his public-relations disasters of the last decade, seems to be back in full cultural favor. This past week, you could catch him engaging in today’s mass-market celebrity rite of passage: lip-sync battling alongsi…
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***** Watch the trailer to my graduation film MR MADILA here: https://vimeo.com/131544900 ***** TUSK – A mammoth is defrosted into an unrecognisable future. My first year film at the RCA, 2014. Voices: Sara Houghton, Gary Pillai Sound Mix: Rob Malon…
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Celebrities caught in serious repose include, from left, Kristen Stewart, January Jones and Victoria Beckham. I didn’t think much about it at the time: I was appearing in a short television segment and had quickly brushed my hair, then slapped on so…
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Mexico coach Miguel Herrera lost his job on Tuesday after a punch-up with a TV analyst at Philadelphia airport – but the trouble isn’t over for him yet.
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LAHAINA, Hawaii — Trade negotiators from the United States and 11 other Pacific nations failed to reach final agreement on Friday, with difficult
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Even when Mike Huckabee went to Auschwitz, he only did it so he could compare things to Auschwitz
On the Iran deal, ex-governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee brought the Republican primaries to a new low by claiming that with the tentative new nonproliferation deal with Iran, Obama “would take the Israelis and basically mar…
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The Cosby Show Producer Hopes People Will Still Watch The Show | Vanity Fair
Despite the many, many allegations of sexual assault made against Bill Cosby, The Cosby Show producer is still hopeful that people will watch the show.
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Ronda Rousey dedicates upcoming UFC fight to late wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper | Sport | The Guardian
Ronda Rousey has said she will be fighting for the late Roddy Piper, the Hall of Fame wrestler who gave her his “Rowdy” nickname, when she takes on the Brazilian challenger Bethe Correia at UFC 190 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night.
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Report: Police Department In Massachusetts Gave Higher Points To Candidates Who Pledged Not To Arrest Fellow Officers For DUI (jonathanturley.org)submitted 33 minutes ago by loading…
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Why do Apple Music’s own curated playlists have songs that no one can play? | The Verge
There’s no doubt that Apple Music arrived in the world not quite ready for prime time — the UI is far more confusing than I’d have hoped for, there’s a host of weird bugs, and it’s reliant on iTunes for desktop listening.
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Fear The Walking Dead Preemptively Renewed For Second Season
AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead might not be premiering until August 23rd, but the channel has confirmed that they will be picking the show up for a second, 15 episode season, which is expected to premiere in 2016.
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Microsoft’s HoloLens will ship to developers ‘within the next year’ | The Verge
Microsoft will release “V1” of its HoloLens virtual reality headset sooner rather than later. CEO Satya Nadella said that the first developer version of the hologram-projecting device will come out “within the next year” during a video interview wit…
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Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon reveal the real origins of a Beach Boys classic
Bacon is a great fit for the brief role, given that he not only knows how to handle a guitar—he and his brother perform as the Bacon Brothers—but he also has the uncanny ability to look like a teenager, no matter how old he gets. I mean, really, wou…
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We should get a notification every time someone attempts to create an account with our username, so we can feel good about ourselves for getting there first (self.
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LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing.
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Hearse arrives at Bobbi Kristina Brown funeral – video | US news | The Guardian
The hearse carrying the body of Bobbi Kristina Brown arrives for Saturday’s funeral in Alpharetta, Georgia. Family and friends will gather to remember the 22-year-old in a private funeral at St. James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta, north of …
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Amnesty International released a report in July asserting that Israeli forces “committed disproportionate, or otherwise indiscriminate, attacks which killed scores of civilians in their homes, on the streets and in vehicles and injured many more.
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Drunk Ron Weasley Wishes Harry Potter A Happy 35th Birthday
Simon Pegg, in his finest role thus far, stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show as a rather distraught Ron Weasley to wish Harry Potter a happy birthday. Clearly, the post-Hogwarts years for Weasley haven’t treated him all that well.
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Watch the ad for the Tartan Prancer, Vacation’s ridiculous fake van | The Verge
One of the highlights of the original National Lampoon’s Vacation was the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, a ridiculous — and utterly hideous — fictional station driven by the Griswolds poking fun at the era’s auto industry.
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Andre 3000 Cast in ‘American Crime’ Second Season | Rolling Stone
Andre 3000 Cast in ‘American Crime’ Second Season Outkast rapper to play prominent Midwest architect in first major TV role
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FBI investigating text messages that allege Jared Fogle paid for sex with 16-year-old
The FBI is continuing its investigation into former Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle, and subpoenaed an affidavit containing texts allegedly sent between a former Subway franchisee and Fogle, Business Insider reports.
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Mike Huckabee will stop abortions with military intervention, but how? | US news | The Guardian
If Mike Huckabee becomes president, he will consider using all available resources to stop abortions in the US – including a domestic military intervention.
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Editor’s Note – Michael Bonocore is the Editor in Chief for Resource Travel, a new division of Resource Magazine. Resource Travel is dedicated to bringing the world’s most inspiring travel photography to you each day.
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Palestinian Baby Death Unlikely to Spark Uprising | Al Jazeera America
The murder of Palestinian infant Ali Dawabsheh by Israeli settlers, together with the killing of at least two other Palestinians and wounding of others in the occupied territories on Friday has revived the perennial question about whether a third Pa…
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Here’s the one thing everyone learning to code should do, no matter what
When learning a new programming language (maybe even your first!), you’re going to have feelings of dread and despair. At some point, you won’t understand what’s going on with anything, and everything will make you want to flip your desk over and qu…
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Obama golfs with old friends on pre-birthday weekend | TheHill
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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Mark Zuckerberg’s 12th pick for his Year of Books is Yuval Noah Harari’s catalogue of the rise of humankind, Sapiens. Humans are petty, selfish, brutal, and ambitious; we’re generous, foolish, whimsical, and fair.
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Bill Nye Reading Mean Tweets Says Everything About Climate Change Deni | Vanity Fair
Bill Nye is a glutton for punishment, apparently.
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Chris McQuarrie explains how to build a Mission: Impossible movie | The Verge
To hear director Christopher McQuarrie describe it, production on Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation was designed around the idea of premeditated chaos.
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The criminal background check system is still riddled with holes. No, they won’t be getting fixed.
Other states have complained about the cost of keeping up the records, and even states with policies of sharing the names with the federal database vary widely in how aggressively they do so.
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A Maternal Rite of Passage in the Democratic Republic of Congo – The New Yorker
In the lush forests that make up the Western reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo, new first-time mothers from the Ekonda tribe follow a strict ritual meant to protect their newborns, elevate their spirits, and bring prestige to their familie…
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AMC Renews Humans For A Second Season
AMC, Channel 4 and Kudos have renewed their science fiction show Humans for a second, eight episode season yesterday, continuing their cautionary story of robots in the near future. The new season will pick up after this season’s cliffhanger finale.
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Texas man injured as bullet ricochets off armadillo – BBC News
A man from Texas has been wounded after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted and hit him in the head, the local sheriff says.The shooting incident took place in the Marietta area of East Texas.Three shots were fired and at least one ricochet…
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How Businesses Are Leveraging Public Data To Reach Target Audiences | TechCrunch
It’s no secret that the growth of publicly available data, or open data, is more prevalent than ever. From government databases, such as those aggregated by Data.gov, to data made available via tools such as Google Places API, the public has access …
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Star Trek TNG Episode “The Inner Light” is one of the finest episodes of TV ever made, with some of the best acting I have ever seen. (self.television) This is a standalone episode. You don’t need to know anything about Star Trek, it’s okay if you h…
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Mark Zuckerberg Breaks The Silence Around Miscarriages In Baby Announcement | ThinkProgress
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, may soon be adding to the social network’s overwhelming array of baby photos. As he announced on Thursday in an uncharacteristically personal post, the couple is expecting a child after …
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See Which States Use Coal the Most as New Climate Rules Loom
The Clean Power Plan, set to be finalized this month by the Environmental Protection Agency, does not mandate the shutdown of any particular coal plant. That hasn’t stopped it from drawing ire and lawsuits from coal-heavy states such as Kentucky and…
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These Bizarre Fungi Resemble Corpse Fingers, UFOs, Tongues
Who’d have thought the alien invasion would be so stinkin’ cute? A new species of mushroom, Geastrum britannicum, native to the United Kingdom, was announced in the journal Persoonia earlier this year. To some, the fungi’s limb-like stalks and round…
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National Geographic – 404 Page Not Found – Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888
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Endless Summer: 16 Smoking Hot Pictures of Sunbathing
Weird & Wild
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Bill Of FFare | Best Of MetaFilter
In case anyone’s missed it, here’s a reminder that FanFare’s newish “Watercooler” page offers a quick look at what discussions have been most active recently (and you can see recently added TV and films on the FF front page sidebar), and FanFare Clu…
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Blue Moon of 2015 Thrills Skywatchers with Lunar Beauty (Photos)
The second full moon of July wowed skywatchers around the world – and even in space – on Friday, offering the lunar treat of a so-called Blue Moon that won’t be seen again until 2018. NASA and Space.
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Former Mt. Gox CEO arrested on claims of stolen Bitcoins | The Verge
Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is getting a good look at the inside of a Japanese jail cell. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed in a statement that detained Karpelès early on Saturday morning at his apartment. The po…
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Pacific Trade Ministers Fail to Reach Deal | Al Jazeera America
Trade ministers from a dozen Pacific Rim nations failed to reach a deal on a new trade agreement, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that would cover nearly 40 percent of the global economy, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said F…
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This past February, when Jon Stewart announced his impending retirement from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show after sixteen years, the collective mourning began almost immediately. “I have this irrational feeling of sadness, bordering on hurt,” a com…
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Ask Stoya: Put the rulers down! | The Verge
The internet and technology have totally changed sex and relationships, we know you — you adults, anyway, this column is not for children! — have questions about the world of sex. In order to answer them, we’ve asked our friend Stoya — a professiona…
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Officer in Sandra Bland arrest warned of ‘unprofessional conduct’ in 2014 | US news | The Guardian
The Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland after a confrontation that began with a traffic stop was cautioned about “unprofessional conduct” in a 2014 incident while he was still a probationary trooper, according to documents released on Frid…
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The 2016 presidential race may be a whole new ballgame in terms of fundraising, but most of the players’ names are awfully familiar – even if their faces are a bit more lined.
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Conservative groups cash in on attempt to oust Boehner | TheHill
Outside conservative groups have been raising cash off the long-shot bid of Rep. Mark Meadows to oust Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), even as the Tea Party insurgent insists his plan has nothing to do with dollar bills.
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Iraqi Kurds urge PKK to quit region as air strikes bite – BBC News
Turkish Kurd separatists must withdraw from Iraqi Kurdistan to prevent civilians being killed in Turkish air strikes, the region’s authorities say. The call follows reports that civilians had been killed in Turkish raids on PKK targets which resumed…
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What The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Cast Looked Like During Their Awkward Teen Years – Digg
What did Westeros’ finest look like during their teen years? Pretty good, to be honest. Especially Hodor, who should totally bring back that septum piercing! Love Game Of Thrones? Check out these supercuts of every on screen death.
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The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China for the theft of the personal information of more than 20 million Americans from the databases of the Office of Personnel Management, but it is still struggl
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This little piggy was comforted by singing – Boing Boing
Bently is a rescued baby pot-bellied pig who lived at the EARTH Animal Sanctuary. On Feb 23 a seizure left him in a state of shock and he was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. The meningitis has left him blind.
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Obama praises Medicare and Medicaid as programs mark 50th anniversary
President Obama bragged on a couple of America’s most humane achievements in this morning’s weekly address, laying out how over the past 50 years, the Medicare and Medicad programs have allowed millions of Americans to live healthier and with dignit…
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Steve King Believes That The Supreme Court Legalized Lawnmower Marriage | ThinkProgress
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is one of Congress’s most vocal opponents of marriage equality, and he hasn’t backed off since the Supreme Court ended the debate with its June decision in the Obergefell case.
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Democrats add Donald Trump to list of serious Republican candidates | US news | The Guardian
The Democratic National Committee is treating Donald Trump like a serious presidential candidate.
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A Conversation With Michael Lopp, Pinterest’s Head Of Engineering | TechCrunch
About a year ago, Michael Lopp joined Pinterest as the company’s head of engineering — filling in the leadership of the engineering side next to co-founder Evan Sharp and CEO Ben Silbermann.
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How Hearing Works [Video] – Scientific American
A decline in hearing acuity is not only an occurrence that happens in the aged. An article in the August Scientific American by M.
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“A Universe of Planets” –A Short History of NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System
Geoff Marcy remembers the hair standing up on the back of his neck. Paul Butler remembers being dead tired. The two men had just made history: the first confirmation of a planet orbiting another star.
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Snoop Dogg cash seized at Italy airport – BBC News
Rap star Snoop Dogg has been stopped by police in Italy while carrying $422,000 (£270,000) in cash, authorities say. The singer was travelling through an airport in Calabria, southern Italy, where he had been performing.
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Colombian military air crash kills 11 – BBC News
The twin-engined CN235 transport plane came down in a rural area near the town of Codazzi, in Cesar province, having reported engine difficulties. Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos described the victims as heroes.
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BBC Sport – Celtic 2-0 Ross County
Celtic striker Nadir Cifcti begins a six-match domestic ban for the biting incident in last season’s Dundee derby. Emilio Izaguirre is also suspended and Charlie Mulgrew misses out for the defending champions with a knee injury.
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Volcano erupts on Indian Ocean island Reunion – BBC News
It is the third time the Piton de la Fournaise, or “Peak of the Furnace”, volcano has erupted this year. Reunion island is where debris believed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was found on Wednesday.
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BBC Sport – Odell Beckham Jr: Fans pinned to barriers during autograph session
New York Giants will relocate post-training signing sessions after several children were pinned against barriers as they tried to get the autograph of star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
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Secret NSA map pinpoints China’s U.S. cyberattack victims
The map, obtained by NBC News and verified by sources who work in intelligence, shows that the National Security Agency tallied more than 600 locations target by Chinese hackers. Most of them are clustered around the major cyber and industrial hubs …
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New Taliban Leader Calls For Unity | Al Jazeera America
The new leader of the Afghan Taliban vowed to continue the group’s insurgency and called for unity among his fighters in his first audio message since becoming head of the group that faces deepening splits following the announcement of the death of …
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Watch Kendrick Lamar Run Amok in Playful ‘For Free?’ Video | Rolling Stone
Kendrick Lamar has dropped the new music video for “For Free? (Interlude),” a jazzy, Last Poets-inspired cut off the rapper’s acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly.
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BBC Sport – Wilmer Flores: New York Mets shortstop hits winning run
Wilmer Flores hit the winning run for New York Mets against Washington, days after crying in a game because he thought he was going to be traded.
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Pay what you want for this game developer training bundle
Imagining new worlds in game development is great fun and a genuine career path opportunity. The Game Developer Bundle at TNW Deals gives you the technical skills to make it happen, and you can pay whatever you want for it.
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Why the Beatles are letting down a generation
Two of the most important bands in pop music history – the Beatles and the KLF – aren’t available on streaming services. At this stage, that’s a grave disservice to popular culture. For musicians, there’s a lot wrong with streaming services.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown funeral: Mourners gather in Georgia – BBC News
Mourners are gathering in Georgia for the funeral of Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late singer Whitney Houston. The 22-year-old died in a hospice last Sunday, six months after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub.
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17 of the best Android apps from July 2015
With July now fading into the distance, it’s time to look back over some of the best new and updated Android apps from across the month.
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This isn’t clickbait: Why you shouldn’t hate BuzzFeed
“Isn’t that journalism now? Just embedding a bunch of tweets from someone famous or notable and some reactions from normal people?” A friend put that question to me recently and I can’t really disagree with the assessment at first blush.
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WHERE did we go wrong? Was it in 1962, when Marilyn Monroe sidled onto a stage in what could have been mistaken for lingerie and warbled “Happy Birthday” to John Kennedy, blurring any line between the presidential and the pulchritudinous, between sh…
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HealthCompared to Sucrose, Previous Consumption of Fructose and Glucose Monosaccharides Reduces Survival and Fitness of Female Mice (jn.nutrition.org)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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Saturday’s Best Deals: Strategy Board Games, Flash Storage, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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Canada Sanctions Iran, Chooses Principle Over Profit | | Observer
With the recent rapprochement between the P5+1 and Iran, it seems as though Western nations will stand to profit greatly from lifting the crippling economic sanctions leveled against the Islamic Republic.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown to be remembered at private funeral outside Atlanta | US news | The Guardian
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of Whitney Houston and the R&B singer Bobby Brown, was to be remembered in a private funeral service on Saturday. Details were closely guarded by the Brown and Houston families, attorneys and friends.
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This week in science: trouble for trees
There is unrest in the forest. There is trouble with the trees. Nothing spells doom like a positive feedback effect and global warming:
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People Who Wear Contacts Have Different Eye Microbiomes – Scientific American
People who wear contact lenses often acquire unwelcome microbial guests along with the convenience afforded by this eyewear.
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The Moto X Style / Pure Edition is tearing at the fabric of reality | The Verge
I have a problem: I don’t know what to call Motorola’s newest flagship phone.
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Police Killed More People In July Than Any Other Month This Year | ThinkProgress
By Killed By Police’s count, at least 120 people were killed by law enforcement in July — more than any other month this year. A Washington Post database counts 96 people who were shot and killed by police, specifically.
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The Only Black Candidate In The 2016 Race Can’t Say ‘Black Lives Matter’ | ThinkProgress
Since the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, Trayvon Martin in Florida, and countless others, “Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying call for a group of Americans unfairly targeted by police.
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9 of the most entertaining clips from the AP’s impressive new YouTube archive
When you think of historic pop-culture moments, you might remember a photo or snippet of a speech. But context is everything, and the Associated Press just gave history nerds a goldmine to dig through.
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A ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Theme at the Secret Summer Food and Cocktail Festival | | Observer
What do you think of when you think of Fantasia? I mostly think of brooms dancing for no good reason, and a childhood terror of cleaning supplies that has extended well into my adult life.
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Vapor No More: Ethereum Has Launched | TechCrunch
Thursday was, I think, a historic day–though whether it becomes a memorable milestone like the launch of the Altair 8800, or an obscure footnote à la CP/M, remains to be seen.
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July is the deadliest month of 2015 for police-related killings | US news | The Guardian
July was the deadliest month of 2015 so far for killings by police after registering 115 fatalities, according to the Guardian’s ongoing investigation The Counted, which now projects that US law enforcement is on course to kill more than 1,150 peopl…
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How Baghdad Girl survived the Iraq war with a blog about kittens
She posted pictures of kittens. Raghda Zaid started Baghdad Girl in 2004, just 17 days after U.S. Ambassador Paul Bremer stepped down as governor of Iraq and the U.S. gave control of the country back to the Iraqis, 14 days after Saddam Hussein went …
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In Search of the Anti-Uber: The Companies Redefining the Sharing Economy – The Atlantic
Some say the so-called sharing economy has gotten away from its central premise—sharing. This past March, in an up-and-coming neighborhood of Portland, Maine, a group of residents rented a warehouse and opened a tool-lending library.
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All eyes on Trump as Republican debate nears, but Fox will be the real winner | Media | The Guardian
All eyes are on The Donald as the boisterous real estate baron and former reality TV star takes his position as the de facto headliner in the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday.
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A US Forest Service firefighter from South Dakota has been killed battling one of more than a dozen wildfires raging across California, Forest Service officials said Friday night.
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On Fans and Fan Mail – The New Yorker
This is the second piece in a three-part Page-Turner series featuring Shirley Jackson’s lectures on writing. They are drawn from “Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings,” a collection of Jackson’s work which is out August 4th from …
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Love Everyone Often 08/02/2015 (a.m.)
TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce antib TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s…
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