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Delta bans transport of big game trophies – BBC News
The US airline Delta has banned the shipment of big game trophies on its flights following the international outcry over the illegal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. The airline has announced that it will no longer transport lion, rhinoceros, …
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True Detective Recap: The Show Finally Finds Its Momentum | WIRED
The best thing about “Black Maps and Motel Rooms,” the penultimate episodes of True Detective’s second season, is how efficiently it manages to push its supporting characters to the margins of the story.
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An ex-convict wanted in Tennessee for the murder of a Memphis police officer turned himself in to the authorities on Monday, law enforcement officials said.
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Researchers create a worm that infects Macs silently and permanently
Macs have typically been heralded as the more secure of the two main operating systems. But according to researchers, at the firmware level, that’s not necessarily true.
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Whale swims into Buenos Aires marina – BBC News
Residents of an upmarket neighbourhood in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires welcomed a surprise guest when a whale swam into a city marina. The creature was seen surfacing amongst the luxury yachts in Puerto Madero, with hundreds lining up for a gl…
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Total Party Kill — Kickstarter — Medium
I’m talking to Bill Webb about Dungeons & Dragons. His company, Frog God Games, has been publishing adventures, supplements, and other D&D-related content for more than a decade.
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The Far Side of the Sun Gets Its Moment to Shine
The “blue moon” made news on Friday, but what about a blue sun? This eerie and gorgeous image of the sun was snapped on July 15 using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager aboard NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft, “which collects images in wavelengths of light th…
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The Best Articles Of The Week, Summarized – Digg
In this week’s edition of the Long-Reader’s Digest: How do you tell if someone is a domestic terrorist? Also, the United States’ dangerously broken immigrant worker system and a comic book criminal.
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The Fight Between Ronda Rousey And Bethe Correia Was So Short It Fits In One Gif – Digg
34 seconds is very short for any professional fight, but that’s what happens when you piss off Ronda Rousey.
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Red Hot Nickel Ball Vs. Floral Foam Produces Bizarre Results – Digg
It’s like that scene in bad horror movies where the curse is broken and the bad guy ages hundred of years all at once. Except it’s foam.
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Welcome to the Freest Place on Earth | Maxim
Just a couple of hours after I show up at The Porcupine Freedom Festival, high in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I have a gun in my hands. I drove up early on this late-June Friday, toward the end of the week-long celebration, to find a huge …
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Mew2King flirts with immortality, narrowly misses JV5
During Low Tier City 3—a Super Smash Bros. tournament held in Plano, Texas, this weekend—we nearly saw the esports equivalent of Halley’s Comet. Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman came close to pulling off the mythical “JV5.
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Max von Sydow is the new three-eyed raven on Game Of Thrones · Newswire · The A.V. Club
This casting news requires you to be familiar with a thing that happened in the fourth season of Game Of Thrones—the one before the most recent one—so we’ll do our best to recap the pertinent details before we get into this.
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New York legionnaires’ disease outbreak leaves seven dead, officials say | US news | The Guardian
New York City health officials say seven people with legionnaires’ disease have died amid an outbreak that has sickened dozens more. Health officials presented updated figures on Monday at a public town hall meeting. They said there have been more t…
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On the heels of the announcement that Ian McShane is joining the cast of Game of Thrones Season 6 comes the news that Max von Sydow of Exorcist, The Seventh Seal, Star Wars, and Minority Report fame has been cast to play the Three-Eyed Raven.
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RAF Tornado squadron given second reprieve as fight against Isis continues | UK news | The Guardian
The RAF Tornado squadron spearheading Britain’s air campaign against Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq has been given a second reprieve. Defence secretary Michael Fallon has announced that 12 (Bomber) Squadron will continue in service for a further year,…
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South Korea’s comfort women struggle to be heard – BBC News
Seventy years after the end of World War Two, revisionism in Japan is growing stronger and becoming more mainstream. Some are denying that Japan committed war atrocities, including forcing women in China, South Korea and South East Asia to be sex sl…
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Fact or Fiction?: Natural Gas Will Reduce Global Warming Pollution – Scientific American
A drop in U.S. carbon dioxide pollution in recent years stems from burning natural gas instead of coal. Or does it? Given that the U.S.
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Pressed on whether Obama is ‘Christian,’ Scott Walker still says he doesn’t know
Reporters keep asking. Scott Walker keeps resisting giving a simple “yes.”
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‘Paralyzed bride’ is proving disabilities don’t limit sexuality with new shoot
A 29-year-old woman is finding time to be a wife, mother, and lingerie model. She’s doing it without the use of her legs.
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Why Do Ice Cubes Get Cloudy in the Middle?
If you want to get a visual on what’s in your water, just pour it into an ice cube container and freeze it. Here’s why all the stuff that’s in your water aggregates in the middle, and how you can make it not do that. Your water is filled with all ki…
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Facebook Live Events Could Command A Truly Global Audience | WIRED
“Live” is everywhere. Snapchat is doing it. Twitter has plans to enhance it. Periscope and Meerkat are built on it. So it’s not exactly surprising that Facebook is now getting in on live action.
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Comedy Central greenlights pilot about that couple everyone hates · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because just because their freewheeling single days are behind them doesn’t mean they can’t still be insufferable, Comedy Central has given the green light to a pilot called Bad Couple.
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A federal judge has lifted a controversial ban on undercover surveillance inside Idaho’s factory farms, delivering a significant victory to animal rights’ activists.
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Transparent’s second season will debut this December · Newswire · The A.V. Club
People seem to like season one of Transparent. It’s been nominated for a bunch of awards—some of which it won—and it’s been renewed for a third season even though the second has yet to hit Amazon’s servers.
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Singapore at 50: The Samsui women who built a city – BBC News
Sharanjit Leyl speaks to Woo Yan San, one of the few remaining Samsui women – a group of Chinese immigrants who helped to build Singapore.
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Judge: ID’s Anti-Dairy Spying Law Unconstitutional | Al Jazeera America
U.S. Judge Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill found that the law violates the First Amendment.
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Cop Filmed Handcuffing 8-Year-Old With Mental Disorder Slapped With Lawsuit | VICE News
Legal advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against a Kentucky sheriff’s deputy who handcuffed two children with mental disorders in an elementary school in 2014, alleging that the students suffered trauma after being punished for behavior that they …
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Piggie, who was stolen from her enclosure on Saturday night, was found on Monday evening after being tucked back under a fence at the Currumbin wildlife sanctuary. Two men were caught on camera taking the four-year-old monotreme from her enclosure, …
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a Republicans bill to eliminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood, but the issue is certain to be revived as Republicans respond to conservatives’ outrage at videos, secretly reco
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Unrequested tour poster for Paul McCartney – Boing Boing
My friend, the artist Mitch O’Connell, wrote, “I decided to stop waiting for Sir Paul to give me a ring requesting that I design his tour poster, and just went ahead and whipped one up.
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John Kerry meets Gulf foreign ministers – Al Jazeera English
The US secretary of state has met foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Qatari capital. John Kerry is trying to soothe Arab fears over the nuclear deal with regional rival Iran.
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NHS trusts have been told by Monitor, the health service regulator, to fill vacancies “only where essential” as it warned that current financial plans are “quite simply unaffordable”.
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The Diary Of A Teenage Girl: ‘a more realistic view of women and sex’ | Film | The Guardian
Admittedly, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is never going to be an easy sell when you’re standing outside the cinema, persuading your other half how to spend the next two hours. Simply put, the story goes: 15-year-old Minnie begins drug-addled affair w…
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An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the South Bronx has claimed three more lives, bringing the total number of deaths to seven, New York City officials said on Monday, amid calls for tighter regulation of water-cooling towers, which are thought …
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Government starts public consultation to stop fall in sports activity | Sport | The Guardian
The increasing cost of funding success for Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes is “at odds with the current financial climate”, the Government has warned.
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Christmas came early as Selfridges launched its Christmas shop on Monday. The central London department store has transformed 3,000 square feet of its fourth floor into a winter wonderland filled with festive decorations.
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Here’s what the presidential candidates think of Obama’s climate plan | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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Islamic State crisis: UK to extend air strikes over Iraq – BBC News
The UK is to extend air strikes by RAF Tornados against the Islamic State group by an extra year, to March 2017, the defence secretary has said. Michael Fallon, who is on a visit to Iraq, said the British jets had helped Iraqi forces on the ground t…
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Jeremy Corbyn: Osborne’s northern powerhouse plan is ‘cruel deception’ | Politics | The Guardian
George Osborne is guilty of a “cruel deception” over his plan to create a northern powerhouse, which involves little more than devolving the ability to impose public spending cuts, Jeremy Corbyn will say as he sets out his economic vision for the no…
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Periscope’s new Couch Mode lets you watch an endless stream of live video
Periscope is introducing a new way to consume video. With “Couchmode”, you can quickly flip through videos on Periscope just like you would while sitting on your couch when watching TV. Get it? It’s punny. Good job, Periscope. If you want to give it…
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Literally why does this luxury watch have an Apple Watch attached to it?
Someone should check on the welfare of the designers at Swiss luxury watchmaker Nico Gerard, because there seems to be some kind of serious huffing incidents over there. Or crack cocaine. Otherwise, I can’t imagine why a sober adult person would cre…
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Japan revisionists deny WW2 sex slave atrocities – BBC News
Seventy years after the end of World War Two, the voices of revisionism in Japan are growing stronger and moving into the mainstream, particularly on the issue of comfort women, who were women forced to be sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during the…
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BBC Sport – Premier League transfer spending this summer reaches £500m
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has hinted at a “surprise” signing despite spending £83m already. The transfer window shuts at 18:00 BST on Tuesday, 1 September.
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Kodak Moments app update lets you share and print photos more easily
It’s super easy to shoot photos from your smartphone, but printing them poses a dilemma. Some people possess actual fancy photo printers where they can immediately choose which photos they want to print — provided they have a fully stocked ink and p…
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DUMA, West Bank — Early one recent morning, a few residents of this sleepy hilltop hamlet heard that Jewish settlers were hurling rocks at a house. Almost instantly they started posting messages on Facebook, rousing neighbors.
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Anna Zegna on Her Grandfather Ermenegildo Zegna and the Zegna Man | Vanity Fair
As the saying goes, there’s always a great woman behind every man, and in this particular case it’s Anna Zegna, who was in New York City for a brief moment at the Gramercy Park Hotel to launch a new fragrance for her family brand.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate blocked a Republican drive Monday to terminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood, setting the stage for the GOP to try again this fall amid higher stakes — a potential government shutdown that could echo into next year’s p…
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KIGALI, Rwanda — Burundi and Rwanda can seem deceptively like conjoined twins. They share a common history, geography and language, and their populations are divided ethnically between Hutu and Tutsi. Both were devastated by some of the worst mass s…
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Every month, a fresh group of pro photographers from within the 500px community are selected to be our coveted “Guest Editors” and given the power to dole out “Editors’ Choice” badges.
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How are environmentalists reacting to Obama’s Clean Power Plan? | Grist
Now that President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has been finalized, environmentalists are practically dancing in the streets. Their public statements range in tone from celebratory to exultant. But scratch the surface and you can see that feelings in so…
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Report on Konami paints gaming company as a draconian employer
A report published in Japanese publication Nikkei today has raised serious concerns about the working conditions at game development company Konami, best known for games like Silent Hill, Castlevania, and Metal Gear.
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Planned Parenthood Vote Fails in the Senate | Al Jazeera America
WASHINGTON — The controversy that erupted last month after a series of secretly recorded videos were released showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing fetal tissue donation came to a head Monday evening with a failed Senate vote to defund the…
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Excitement over Jeremy Corbyn’s bid to become Labour’s next leader reached a new peak as around 1,500 supporters flocked to the leftwinger’s biggest rally yet amid intensifying Blairite attacks on his campaign.
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Best Of The Web #107: Breakin’ The Dowels, With ColdChef | Best Of MetaFilter
Another month, another roundup of interesting site stuff on episode #107 of the monthly Best of the Web MetaFilter podcast.
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Barack Obama unveils tougher climate change plan – video | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama formally unveiled his administration’s ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants and declared climate change the greatest threat facing the world.
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Drought Is Coming For Your IPAs Next, Beer-Drinkers
Okay, so drought has come for our coffee, steak, whiskey, and almond supplies. That’s fine. No problem. Let’s just settle in here with an IPA and figure out what — OH GOD, IS NOTHING LEFT? NBC chatted with the hops farmers in Washington’s Yakima bas…
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Republican presidential contenders face off in New Hampshire | US news | The Guardian
Fourteen of the 16 GOP candidates will take turns answering questions on stage but will the absent Donald Trump be the elephant in the room? Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP
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Rory McIlroy to play practice round at site of US PGA championship | Sport | The Guardian
Rory McIlroy has scheduled a practice round for Saturday at Whistling Straits, site of next week’s US PGA, a reliable source told Reuters on Monday.
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Samuel DuBose held up bottle of fragrance not alcohol, coroner says | US news | The Guardian
A bottle held up by a motorist during a traffic stop before he was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer apparently contained a fragrance, not alcohol, a coroner said Monday.
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Surveillance footage of hitchBOT’s attacker surfaces on Snapchat
HitchBOT met an untimely demise while in Philadelphia over the weekend when some dude in a football jersey stomped its head into a curb. Newly found footage of the hitchhiking robot’s attacker shows us just how brutal things got.
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HBO temporarily shuts down production on Lewis And Clark miniseries · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Much like President Thomas Jefferson would have done if the original expedition had turned into a complicated headache with a bunch of creative and logistical issues, HBO has announced that it is “temporarily pausing production” on its upcoming Lewi…
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Israel arrests Jewish activist for ‘nationalist crimes’ – Al Jazeera English
A right-wing Jewish activist has been arrested after a Palestinian baby died in a West Bank firebombing, as police investigated online threats against Israel’s president for condemning “Jewish terrorism”.
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“Uptown Funk” as sung by 280 blockbuster movies · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It took three months, but YouTuber dondrapersayswhat has finally released his masterpiece: a new version of “Uptown Funk,” where every line comes from one of 280 movies.
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Transparent Season 2 Will Be Here Just in Time for Christmas | Vanity Fair
A lot has changed in the year since Amazon premiered its award-winning drama Transparent.
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Carla Gugino replaces Christina Hendricks in Cameron Crowe’s Roadies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last month, Christina Hendricks left the cast of Roadies, Cameron Crowe’s first foray into television. The comedy, produced by J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot, tells the sweaty, whiskey-soaked tales of, well, roadies.
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Chicago, we’re presenting a new (free!) comedy show this Saturday · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hello Chicago. If you ventured out to any of this year’s 26th Annual Comedy Festival, you may have seen Ian Abramson performing, either as the host of the delightful 7 Minutes In Purgatory, or perhaps opening for Kyle Kinane.
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The cast of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot made the rounds at Boston’s Tufts Medical Center Saturday; taking a break from their busy shooting schedule, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon posed for pictures and playfully…
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In news that shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise to anyone with a passing familiarity with actual jokes or any degree of skepticism where the internet is concerned, yet another comedian is mad at Instagram users Fuck Jerry and The Fat Jew for s…
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President Obama unveiled a proposal to reduce power-plant emissions, saying, “This is our moment to get this right and leave something better for our kids.
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Rio Ferdinand tells John Stones Manchester United better than Chelsea | Football | The Guardian
Rio Ferdinand has urged Manchester United to sign John Stones to bring much-needed defensive solidity to Old Traffordand believes the Everton centre-half would be foolish to join Chelsea.
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Delta became the latest company to say it will stop transporting hunting trophies. Delta announced Monday it would stop transporting hunting trophies in response to the worldwide outcry following the killing of a lion named Cecil by an American dent…
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The FDA has approved the first drug designed using 3D-printing technology
The FDA has just approved the world’s first 3D-printed medication, SPRITAM. The seizure drug is meant to be customized for high dosage treatments, and was developed with Aprecia’s ZipDose technology.
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Planned Parenthood defunding bill fails first test vote in Senate
This is unfortunately not going to be the end of this fiasco. The Republicans now have a massive shutdown headache facing them, again, as Brian Beutler smartly writes.
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Meet Sabrina Corgatelli, the American hunter stirring up Facebook controversy
Move over Minnesota dentist/big-game hunter/much-maligned Internet subject Walter Palmer. Another big-game hunter is on the prowl in Africa, and she’s posting all kinds dead animals on her Facebook page.
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Moroccan man dies while being smuggled into Spain in suitcase | World news | The Guardian
Francisco Jerez, spokesman for the interior ministry’s office in Almeria, said on Monday that the 27-year-old man had been found on Sunday when his brother sought medical help for him just before the ferry arrived in the southern Spanish port.
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Pro-government troops lay siege to Yemen’s largest military base | World news | The Guardian
Loyalist forces have begun a major offensive aimed at retaking Yemen’s largest airbase, as troops from the Saudi-led coalition entered the recaptured city of Aden.
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Military police in Rio de Janeiro have killed 1,519 residents in the past five years, according to a new report by Amnesty International, which claimed extrajudicial executions were claiming a disproportionate number of lives in a generation of youn…
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Amy Schumer Teams With Senator Cousin for Gun Control Proposal | Rolling Stone
Amy Schumer Teams With Senator Cousin for Gun Control Proposal Comedian and New York Senator Chuck Schumer outline three-step plan to reduce gun violence in America
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Hundreds of Civilians Dead in Coalition Airstrikes | Al Jazeera America
In 57 incidents, there were as many as 591 reported civilians deaths, according to Airwars, a not-for-profit project by a team of independent journalists. In the report, Airwars counted only deaths in which there was “sufficient publicly available e…
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$25 Firefox Matchstick dongle cancelled, will refund backers
Matchstick has announced via Kickstarter update that it has cancelled the $25 Firefox OS-based HDMI dongle, designed to compete with the likes of the Google Chromecast. Backers of the project will receive a full refund.
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Wolverine Creek Fire : Natural Hazards
On July 29, 2015, a lightning-triggered wildfire started to spread along the shore of Lake Chelan in north-central Washington state.
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Algae Boom in Lake Erie : Image of the Day
On July 28, 2015, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these images of algal blooms around the Great Lakes. The bloom is visible as swirls of green in western Lake Erie (top) and in Lake St. Clair (bottom).
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Hitchhiking Robot Destroyed On Cross-Country Trip – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
HitchBOT, a robotic travel companion created by researchers as a social experiment, was destroyed by unknown vandals in Philadelphia this week on its hitchhiking tour of the U.S., saddening the robot’s many admirers who followed its earlier trips th…
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Puerto Rico default: Why is the economy struggling? – BBC News
The US territory of Puerto Rico has been struggling to stay on top of its mounting debt. Its government confirmed on Monday that it missed a $58m (£37m) debt repayment due at the weekend, putting it officially in default.
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Republicans’ Planned Parenthood defunding push fails in the Senate | World news | The Guardian
Republican efforts to push abortion back to the top of the US political agenda fell short of the necessary votes to move forward in the Senate on Monday. Under Senate rules, 60 votes were needed for the legislation to proceed any further.
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Space Station Crosses the Moon in Awesome NASA Photos
The International Space Station can be seen streaking across the face of the moon in this composite of nine different images captured by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, all in just .82 seconds, on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. He was observing from Woodford…
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Politicians cherry-picking information to suit their own agenda is one of the great tragedies of modern civilisation, the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said on Monday night’s Q&A.
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China’s Supercomputer Export Ban May Just Be Marketing | WIRED
China is getting stingy with its drones and supercomputers. Citing unspecified national security concerns, the country is imposing export restrictions on supercomputers capable of 8 teraflop speeds and high-end aerial drones, according to China’s of…
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Why Emma Watson Sometimes Feels Like an ‘Imposter’ in Hollywood | Vanity Fair
Emma Watson was only 11 when she made her big-screen debut in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The actress crested fame and career success so soon after that, even 14 years later, Watson still seems to be coming to grips with that jarring tran…
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Bobbi Kristina Brown buried alongside Whitney Houston – BBC News
The body of Bobbi Kristina Brown has been taken to a New Jersey cemetery for burial next to mother Whitney Houston. Bobbi Kristina, 22, died at a hospice on 26 July, six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub.
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Everything You Need to Know About Obama’s Clean Energy Plan
Last month, scientists at a UN conference delivered a sobering warning: To prevent catastrophic warming of the planet, we must reduce all carbon emissions to zero by the end of the 21st century. Today, the Obama administration announced its plan to …
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Red hot nickel ball on floral foam – best reaction so far – Boing Boing
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As Shares Plunge, Twitter Scrambles to Attract New Users | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Twitter is in crisis. Although the company is popular among power users, those who don’t use Twitter don’t see the point. As its stock price plunges, Twitter execs are working frantically to give the s…
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Delta bans shipment of hunting ‘trophies’ amid Cecil the lion outrage | Environment | The Guardian
Delta Air Lines had a major change of heart about shipping hunting trophies, announcing Monday afternoon that it would no longer accept lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies.
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Burundi rights activist Mbonimpa injured in gun attack – BBC News
A prominent Burundi human rights activist has been shot and seriously wounded by gunmen on motorbikes, his family and witnesses say. Pierre Claver Mbonimpa was attacked in the capital, Bujumbura.He was a stern critic of President Pierre Nkurunziza’s…
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Kentucky sheriff’s department sued over handcuffing of eight-year-old boy | US news | The Guardian
The threat is issued by a police officer in Covington, Kentucky, who is caught on video as he grapples with an individual he is attempting to restrain.
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BMW, Audi, and Mercedes Just Bought Nokia’s Mapping Tech | WIRED
Nokia has agreed to sell its mapping business to a consortium of German automakers as the race between car companies and Silicon Valley to build and deliver self-driving vehicles intensifies. The 2.8 billion euro ($3.
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They met when they were 17 and 19 years old, and a week later, they were married – in a play. Now, two years later, something about that feels right.
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Hungry Arctic mosquitos are coming for you, Rudolph | Grist
Hollywood has done a bang-up job turning harmless animals into terrifying killing machines. We’ve seen birds peck out eyes, ants rampage through towns, slugs eat people from the inside out, and bees kill by the thousands.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Wildfires Ramp up in Northern California
Fire season in California expanded greatly this past weekend with increased incidents in the northern part of the state, with the Rocky Fire destroying and damaging homes and other structures and mandatory evacuations in place for the area.
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Startup Makes Progress in Beamed Propulsion for Reusable Launch Vehicles
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A small Colorado company has successfully tested a new type of propulsion technology that it believes could eventually enable low-cost, single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicles.
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Kentucky deputy sheriff puts a third-grade student in handcuffs | US news | The Guardian
A deputy sheriff put a distressed eight-year-old schoolboy in handcuffs – at biceps level because his wrists are too slim – for 15 minutes in the vice-principal’s office.
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Marvel’s Civil War Comic Tie-In Will Adapt Iron Man 3 and Winter Soldier
So, a comic book adaptation of a comic book movie adapting a comic book storyline of the same name is actually going to adapt two different comic book movies instead, one of which was another comic book movie adaptation of a different comic book sto…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday said a controversial new surveillance bill could sweep away “important privacy protections”, a move that bodes ill for the measure’s return to the floor of the Senate this week.
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Theater Shooter Still Faces Death Penalty — NYMag
The same jury that found James Holmes guilty of 160 counts of murder and attempted murder has decided to keep the death penalty as an option as it moves forward with the 27-year-old’s sentencing.
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Q. How does Puerto Rico compare to Greece? A. The two places may share pristine beaches and balmy weather. But they have less in common when it comes to how their fiscal problems are likely to play out.
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Hackers could change patients’ medicine dosages with vulnerable device, FDA warns
What’s scarier than having to check into the hospital? Checking into the hospital knowing that the device controlling your medication can be taken over by hackers. This concern has prompted the U.S.
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Dr. Forrest M. Bird, an eccentric aviator and inventor who studied high-altitude breathing problems of World War II pilots and later created medical devices that saved lives and aided thousands of people with respiratory ailments, died on Sunday at …
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Nation Worried That Rest of World Might See Debate – The New Yorker
CLEVELAND (The Borowitz Report)—As preparations get under way for the first Republican Presidential debate, on Thursday night, a new poll shows that Americans are deeply concerned that the rest of the world might see it.
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True Detective is almost over, and almost everyone is dead | Grist
It’s time to talk about something pretty uncomfortable: How many people have had to die in this season of True Detective to make California’s high-speed rail happen? I’m tired, so let’s stop there.
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If history is written by the victors, government surveillance agencies will have an awfully long list of sources to cite.
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New Watch Comes With Extra Apple Watch Slot — NYMag
“Technology-driven luxury brand” Nico Gerard announced a new line of watches today that represents the apex of time-telling efficiency. As long as you have $9,300 to spare, you will no longer have to ever turn your wrist to see what time it is — or …
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How to make your own version of Tony Stark’s arc reactor
If you’ve always wanted to have your very own arc reactor but don’t exactly have the resources of Marvel’s Tony Stark, you might want to check out the latest DIY Prop Shop video from YouTube channel AWE me.
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Hacking Diversity In Tech By Emphasizing Retention | TechCrunch
Conversations around diversity in tech often focus on the “pipeline” and getting more people from underrepresented groups through the door. But that’s just a first step. The next, most critical step is retention.
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NASA Picks Finalists For Small Astrophysics Missions
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three finalists for its next Small Explorer astrophysics mission and two finalists for the even smaller Explorer Missions of Opportunity Line, the U.S. space agency said July 30.
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Reunion Island’s Piton de la Fournaise volcano’s spectacular lava show – BBC News
A volcano on the French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, has provided spectacular images of spewing lava in its latest eruption.The Piton de la Fournaise, or ‘Peak of the Furnace’, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.This is the …
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5 things everyone needs to stop saying about #BlackLivesMatter
Over the past year, the Black Lives Matter movement has risen to become one of the most prominent, successful civil rights effort of our time. It’s been a harrowing road for many on-the-ground activists but, through it all, the movement has grown ev…
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Syrian Kurds set terms for partnership with Assad – Al Jazeera English
A Syrian Kurdish official has told Al Jazeera that the government of President Bashar al-Assad could be a partner if it commits itself to a democratic future.
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Vader Crater, Kirk & Spock! ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Star Trek’ Collide on Pluto Moon
Image showing the provisional names being used by the New Horizons team for features on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. These monikers have not yet been approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
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President Obama Announces Aggressive Rule for Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions – The Atlantic
President Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is aimed at three major constituencies. First, there’s the plan’s immediate goal: significant decreases in the emissions in the U.S. between now and 2030.
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The CW’s Legends Of Tomorrow successfully lands a Hawkman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We’ve known for a while that Ciara Renée will be playing the superhero/alien/reincarnated bird deity Hawkgirl on The CW’s Arrow/Flash spinoff Legends Of Tomorrow, and at Comic-Con the network announced that she’ll be joined by Hawkman, a guy who is …
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Puerto Rico defaults on debt repayment in first for a US commonwealth | World news | The Guardian
Puerto Rico missed its first debt repayment on Monday, the first time the troubled US commonwealth has failed to pay its bills. The island paid just $628,000 toward a $58m debt due to creditors of its Public Finance Corporation.
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Gawker Call Donald Trump’s Cell Phone and Ask Him About His Important Ideas | Gizmodo Here’s Video of the Jerk Who Killed hitchBOT | Jalopnik The Jeep Wrangler Is Unapologetically Bad And That’s What Makes It Great | Kotaku PewDiePie Rejects The Fiv…
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Obama’s Steep New Emissions Rules Praised as ‘Great Advance,’ Scorned as ‘Power Grab’ | VICE News
President Obama’s introduction of the final draft of his Clean Power Plan on Monday was met with mixed responses, as the White House hailed the proposal as their “biggest and most important step we’ve ever taken” to combat climate change yet.
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The Economic Case Against Trophy Hunting | ThinkProgress
Outrage over the killing of Cecil, beloved lion by an American dentist multiplied after news that another lion, Jericho, had been killed by an American doctor. Reports of the death have since been refuted by researchers tracking that lion’s movement…
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R.I.P. Lynn Anderson, country singer known for “Rose Garden” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Lynn Anderson, a country singer who briefly broke through to the mainstream in the early ’70s, died July 30 of a heart attack at a Nashville hospital. She was 67.
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A Praying Mantis Goes on a Deadly First Date — And It May Be His Last
Dating can be a very dangerous endeavor when you’re a praying mantis, as one unlucky insect gent learns in the adorable short film Lovebites. It turns out that, after all that preparation, Cecil the mantis doesn’t know what happens at the end of a n…
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Last week a proud, beautiful, beloved African creature, who’d lived the last years of his life in a fenced compound, was killed by a train in the Channel tunnel.
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Get your Game Of Thrones out of our True Detective · DVR Club · The A.V. Club
A shocking, Game Of Thrones-esque twist has Katie Rife and John Teti in mourning for this week’s True Detective DVR Club, but we can’t linger on that sadness forever.
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Sierre Leone records two new cases of Ebola – Al Jazeera English
Two new cases of Ebola have surfaced in Sierra Leone’s Tonkolili district after a man died last week in the area where the deadly virus had not been seen for months, according to an official.
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Megan Amram brings the sadlaughs on women and science | Grist
Billions in startup investment are driving a new wave of “Ag 3.0” innovations that could make farms more productive, efficient, and responsible.
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On Saturday night, I was walking alongside the beautiful Brisbane River with my 19-year-old daughter, enjoying the views and an increasingly rare moment of time catching up with her. I casually tweeted a couple of photos of this lovely scene.
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Disruption In Healthcare Could Be Costly | TechCrunch
Entrepreneurs are giving the healthcare industry a much-needed injection of innovation. Enthusiasm for new ideas and solutions in healthcare is clear from the 200 percent growth in funding for digital health companies between 2010 and 2014. Digital …
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Police issue scary looking pizza tickets to people they catch doing good things – Boing Boing
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Bringing up the bodies: the reasons people move relatives’ graves | Life and style | The Guardian
We carry the dead with us. They remain in our hearts, in our minds. Now, the Ministry of Justice has revealed that some of us go as far as physically carrying the dead.
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Memo To Media: Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Not Primarily About Politics | ThinkProgress
Memo To Media: Obama’s Clean Power Plan is not primarily about politics. The “winners” are not environmentalists. The most important benefits do not involve either President Obama or his “legacy” — seriously, New York Times?
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A Museum Survives in Crimea – The New Yorker
Last week, Sergey Meniaylo, the governor of the city of Sevastopol, in Crimea, introduced the staff of the Chersonesus Archaeological Museum to the new director, Archpriest Sergey Khalyuta.
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Serious Fraud Office to investigate firm’s Somali oil contract bid | Business | The Guardian
A company chaired by the former leader of the Conservative party made payments to a Somali government adviser as they were agreeing a lucrative oil contract with the troubled east African country, the Guardian has learned.
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Chris Christie Wants To Punch Female-Dominated Teachers Unions ‘In The Face’ | ThinkProgress
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that it was teachers unions who deserved a “punch in the face” on the national level. “Oh, the national teachers union. Who’s already endorsed Hillary Clinton, 16, 17 months before the …
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Boy, five, died from meningitis after flawed emergency response – coroner | Society | The Guardian
Yusuf Abdismad’s mother, Sofia Mohammed, called 999 only to be told by a London Ambulance service dispatcher, following an assessment, she should instead ring the non-emergency number, 111. By the time an ambulance arrived, Yusuf was in cardiac arre…
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Own The First Seven Outlander Novels for Just $2 on Kindle
Need some reading material to tide you over this summer? The first seven books of the insanely popular Outlander series are only $2 on Kindle right now. That’s $2 for all seven, not $2 each. [Outlander: Books 1-7 (Kindle), $2]http://www.amazon.com/e…
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What does President Obama’s climate change plan do? – BBC News
President Barack Obama has announced sweeping climate change legislation that he hopes will cement his legacy as a world leader who fought global warming.
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Moonless Meteor Shower + All Major Planets | August 2015 Skywatching Video
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Police have launched a public appeal for victims to come forward after allegations emerged of child sexual abuse by the late former prime minister, Sir Edward Heath.
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Japan Calls US Surveillance Reports ‘Regrettable’ | Al Jazeera America
Japan has described claims that the United States spied on Japanese politicians and major firms as “deeply regrettable” in its first official response to revelations by the whistleblower group WikiLeaks. The latest WikiLeaks intercepts exposing U.S.
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Why Are Republican Candidates Making Such Violent Videos? | Vanity Fair
Senator Ted Cruz accompanied the conservative viral site ijreview.com to a shooting range and cooked some bacon by slapping the raw pig fat onto the barrel of a machine gun. He then ate the bacon. This is a man who is running for president.
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Deliberations Resume in CO Theater Shooting Trial | Al Jazeera America
Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial declined to rule out the death penalty Monday as they move toward sentencing James Holmes.
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Inside the Goth Chicken: Black Bones, Black Muscle & a Black Heart – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
In the historical novel The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas, an honest and decent Dutch tulip fancier is nearly brought to ruin by his quest to breed a purely black flower.
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Showgoers is a Chrome browser extension to synchronize your Netflix player with someone else so that you can co-watch the same movie on different computers with no hassle. Syncing up your player is as easy as sharing a URL.
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With a team of more than 300 news warriors, EDGE pummels readers with immersive reporting that is uncaged, unaccountable, and totally fucked up. Series premieres Aug. 3, 2015.
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Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Medium
I’m a professional YouTube creator. Some people think that this is some kind of joke but I have 30 employees. All of them work in the online video industry, about half of them work directly on producing videos for our educational YouTube channels. W…
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As of August 1, 2015, fffff.at will remain online as an archive but will no longer be updated. A lot of what I want to say about FAT closing has already been said by Magnus (and Peter, Frank & Rop, Geraldine, Rasmus and many others). The web has cha…
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How I Gave Up Alternating Current | Mostly Harmless
The walls are buzzing. I know this because I have a magnet implanted in my hand and whenever I reach near an outlet I can feel them. I can feel fortresses of industry miles away burning prehistoric hydrocarbons by the megaton.
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VSCO’s new acquisition may bring machine learning to photo curation
Visual Supply Company, the company behind the fan-favorite photo editing app VSCO Cam, has acquired a startup named Moving Sciences LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it seems VSCO wants to bring machine learning and automation to photo …
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What Happens When You Strap Cameras to the Backs of Zoo Animals?
The Human Zoo is a short film, produced for Sony, that straps cameras to zoo animals. According to the filmmaker, that’s even harder than it looks. See a rhino’s ears twitch in annoyance, and learn what happened after that.
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Weatherwatch: Melting polar ice brings promise of prosperity | News | The Guardian
Scientists are still attempting to gauge what possible effects the melting of the Arctic ice sheet will have on the British weather.
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Rival fan throws burger at Argentine goalie, delicious snacking ensues
Internationally elite soccer players are used to fans throwing objects at them while they’re on the field. Sometimes, it’s bottles. Other times it’s bags of urine. On occasion it’s pepper spray. But only rarely does a rival fan gift a player with so…
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Which Children’s Series Do You Have to Be an Adult to Appreciate Fully?
Everybody can name lots of stories aimed at kids that adults can also appreciate. But sometimes it goes further than that, and you get kids’ series that only adults can get a full appreciation of.
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And now Pez dispensers are getting their own movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a move that, with any luck, will lead to a shared universe with the emoji movie and the Play-Doh movie, the curse of The Lego Movie has finally reached the humble Pez dispenser.
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Women Killed Alongside Mexican Photojournalist Were Tortured and Raped | VICE News
The women who were killed alongside photojournalist Ruben Espinosa showed signs that they were tortured and raped before their deaths after an all-night party among friends in a middle-class section of Mexico City, authorities and one witness said.
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Obama Reveals His Most Ambitious Plan To Tackle Climate Change | ThinkProgress
The Environmental Protection Agency released its long-awaited final rule to regulate carbon pollution from existing power plants on Monday afternoon. This is the most significant action any American president has ever taken to rein in climate change.
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US and Russia offer support to Gulf Arab states – Al Jazeera English
The US and Russia have offered their support to Gulf Arab states as the region tries to come to terms with the escalating conflict in Syria, the threat from armed groups and the fallout of the nuclear deal with Iran.
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Puerto Rico chose not to make a $58 million bond payment on Monday, a move that essentially amounted to a default for the first time in its 117 years as a United States possession.
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Israel’s Shin Bet arrests Jewish extremist suspected of church attack | World news | The Guardian
Israel’s Shin Bet security service has arrested a rightwing Jewish extremist in the first arrest made since the arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma last Friday that killed a Palestinian infant and critically injured his parents and 4-year-…
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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday unveiled an aggressive plan to sharply limit greenhouse gases emitted by the nation’s power plants, declaring that time was running out to thwart the most dangerous impacts of global climate change.
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Shipping Exotic-Animal Parts Now More Difficult — NYMag
In response to the uproar over the death of Cecil, Delta Airlines has announced that it will no longer ship hunting trophies that come from lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceroses, and buffalo.
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Chicago, see Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Though he was once known for rough-and-tumble British indies, Guy Ritchie has spent the better part of the last decade making his way through some major tentpoles. He took two trips to Baker Street with Robert Downey Jr.
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Long ago, in the year 2013, a ragtag band of adventurers known as the Warner Bros. discovered a musty scroll that spoke of an ancient treasure buried deep within the hills of the west. It was the legendary chest said to contain long-lost filming rig…
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Saudi King Cuts Short French Vacation Amid Beach Closure Controversy | VICE News
King Salman of Saudi Arabia has cut short his royal vacation in the southern French seaside resort of Golfe-Juan Vallauris, after the closure of a public beach caused uproar among the locals.
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Twitter tests News Tab to make scanning headlines easier
Twitter is always experimenting with new features, A/B testing across the world to figure out the next experience on the platform. It seems that one of those experiments is a special News Tab, according to a report by BuzzFeed.
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Polls That Will Determine Fox News Debaters — NYMag
Tomorrow around 5 p.m., Fox News executives are scheduled to gather in Roger Ailes’s second-floor conference room at the network’s midtown headquarters to decide the lineup of candidates who will participate in the first Republican debate on Thursda…
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In Defense of Office Air-Conditioning — NYMag
There is probably no realm of the culture wars quite so bitter as the endless conflict between those (mostly male) who find the office temperature too hot and those (mostly female) who find it too cold. A new study has provided new grist for the lat…
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Feb. NY Retrial Set in 1979 Etan Patz Murder Case | Al Jazeera America
Former grocery worker Pedro Hernandez will face trial again in February in the 1979 murder of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York after a hung jury forced a mistrial this year, a state court judge ruled on Monday.
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There’s Top-Heavy Super PACs, And There’s Super Top-Heavy Super PACs | FiveThirtyEight
Most of the 2016 presidential candidates have at least one super PAC supporting them. And while almost all of those super PACs have raised the majority of their money from a small group of big contributors, there are still some differences among the…
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Marijuana soon to be delivered by drones
The idea of small planes flying under the radar and landing in remote fields to deliver drugs is one that anyone who has seen the news, or a buddy cop film, is familiar with. It’s a romantic trope that conjures up images of danger and adventure. At …
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It just got easier to tell companies not to track your every move online
Privacy-minded tech companies and nonprofit groups launched an ambitious attempt Monday to give Internet users greater control over the data they share online.
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Several New York retailers, including Walmart, Sears and Amazon, have agreed to remove realistic toy guns from their shelves and pay $300,000 in penalties as part of a settlement with the state.
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ gets the ultimate YouTube cover
It takes a lot of guts to cover a classic like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but Kurt Hugo Schneider has guts to spare.
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Six years after first promising to “roll back the spectre of a warming planet”, Barack Obama finally committed the US to unprecedented action against climate change on Monday, with sweeping new curbs on carbon emissions from power plants that are eq…
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The Obama Administration Signals Willingness to Fight Assad to Protect Syrian Rebels – The Atlantic
The U.S. quietly commits to defend Pentagon-trained rebels against Bashar Assad’s forces—and the legal basis is totally unclear.
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How a Lifetime Show Gave Us TV’s First Pure Female Anti-Hero | Vanity Fair
Lifetime’s out-of-nowhere summer hit UnREAL, which concludes its first season tonight, has grabbed headlines for its soapy twists and turns and for drawing criticism from Chris Harrison, whose show The Bachelor is a clear inspiration.
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The Air Force Wants To Make Its Drones Smarter and Deadlier – Defense One
Can a weapon designed to take out low-tech terrorists be upgraded to attack an enemy with its own air force?
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Puerto Rico’s Creditors in Denial and Its People in the Crosshairs
On June 28, the Governor of Puerto Rico told the world that the island’s debts are not payable. “It’s not politics” he told the New York Times, “It’s math.”
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Hillary Clinton Runs First Presidential Campaign Ads – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The first TV ads of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will run on Tuesday in Iowa and New Hampshire and will focus primarily on Hillary’s mother, Dorothy Rodham, with Clinton explaining that her mother inspired her to advocate for families. Wh…
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Privileged Wives in North Korea Are Apparently Using Meth to Lose Weight | VICE News
A troubling new diet fad is said to be gaining in popularity among the wives of North Korean elites: methamphetamine.
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Diminutive Peoples Took Different Paths To Petite – Scientific American
The term pygmy usually refers to a few groups of short-statured people in equatorial rain forest regions in Africa. The existence of distinct populations of such people presented scientists with the opportunity to study the mechanisms by which typic…
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UK funds 100 extra Channel tunnel guards Calais migrant standoff | UK news | The Guardian
Britain is to fund an extra 100 border guards at the Channel tunnel terminal on the French side, the foreign secretary Philip Hammond has announced, as he said the government has “got a grip” on the Calais migrant crisis.
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This Timepiece Wears an Apple Watch So You Don’t Have to | WIRED
Can’t decide between the elegance of a Swiss timepiece and the function of an Apple Watch? Well you no longer have to: Watchmaker Nico Gerard has created a standard Swiss watch that features the traditional piece on one side and an Apple Watch secur…
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Bolt for Boulder, Home of Atomic Clocks and Iron Men | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. It’s easy to dismiss Boulder as a granola-sprinkled idyll, and it is a healthy kind of place: Triathletes flock here during the first week of August to compete in Ironman Boulder, a 2.4-mile swim, 112-…
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On The Line: Simon Ostrovsky and Jake Adelstein Discuss ‘Schoolgirls for Sale in Japan’ | VICE News
VICE News and want to hear from you! Let us know your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #ontheline, or send us a video message on Skype.
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Cooler temperatures are aiding firefighters in battles against wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington but the region’s historic drought has created unprecedented tinderbox conditions.
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In 1993, Craig Haney, a social psychologist, interviewed a group of inmates in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s toughest penal institution.
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IOC Recognizes Collegiate Time-Waster As a Sport — NYMag
Ultimate Frisbee, the game that filmmakers are probably contractually obligated to show during movies set on college campuses, was recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee this weekend.
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Drug Needle Exchanges Gain Ground after Indiana HIV Outbreak – Scientific American
AUSTIN, Ind (Reuters) – Since Indiana opened its first state-run needle exchange last spring, Tara Burton, 25, has made weekly visits to turn over needles she used to shoot Opana, a prescription painkiller, up her track-marked arm.
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A simple urine test that could help detect early-stage pancreatic cancer, potentially saving hundreds of lives, has been developed by scientists. Researchers say they have identified three proteins which give an early warning of the disease, with mo…
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Shootings No Longer on the Rise in NYC — NYMag
New York’s efforts to halt an uptick in gun violence appears to have worked, at least for now. Back in early June, the NYPD noted that homicides involving a firearm were up 30 percent from the same time in 2013 and 2014. Non-fatal shootings were als…
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Americans destroy hitchhiking robot – Boing Boing
In refusing to bow to our new robot overlords, Americans have accomplished what Canadians and Europeans could not: we stopped the automaton cold. Unfortunately, hitchBOT didn’t make it very far.
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An Obscure Lawsuit Could Kill Your Ability To Trust The Polls In 2016 | ThinkProgress
A $12 million legal settlement could send tremors throughout the polling industry, significantly increasing the cost of conducting an accurate poll — or potentially even causing pollsters to release results that do not account for nearly half of the…
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Teenage sisters are hoping to snap a selfie with all the 2016 presidential candidates
What’s cooler than a selfie in front of a historic monument? A collage of selfies with every 2016 presidential candidate. New Hampshire teenagers Emma and Addy Nozell, 15 and 17, respectively, are trying to achieve that record feat.
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Ridley Scott Still Says He’s Making Prometheus 2, and it Shoots Soon
While the first Prometheus definitely opened the door to a sequel, very few walked out actually thinking it was going to happen. The 2012 film was a middling financial and critical success so though there was talk of a follow-up, it seemed likely th…
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Amy Schumer partners with other Schumer to push gun-control legislation · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As everyone is certainly aware, a gunman opened fire in a screening of Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana last month, a shooting that ended with nine people injured and three—including the shooter, who killed himself—de…
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Food safety experts and gun experts have warned against cooking bacon on the barrel of a machine gun, after Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz released a video showing him doing just that.
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Amy Schumer, Senator Chuck Schumer Team Up for Gun Control in Wake of | Vanity Fair
In an unlikely pairing, comedian Amy Schumer and her cousin, New York senator Chuck Schumer (D), held a joint press conference on Monday where they announced an actual comprehensive plan to tackle gun-control laws.
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DENVER — A Colorado jury on Monday moved an important step closer to sentencing James E.
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‘I don’t care about Fifa’: Cristiano Ronaldo storms out of interview | Football | The Guardian
Cristiano Ronaldo has dismissed concerns over the corruption scandal currently engulfing Fifa and insisted that top players prefer to discuss “women”, “shoes”, “haircuts” and “suitcases” instead.
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With both Google and Mozilla planning on dropping support for Adobe Flash, old school animation-heavy sites like Homestar Runner are trying to figure out what the heck they’re going to do.
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Frontier of Physics: Interactive Map | Quanta Magazine
“Ever since the dawn of civilization,” Stephen Hawking wrote in his international bestseller A Brief History of Time, “people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying or…
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How will technology change farming? | Grist
Farmers are looking for information to help them grow more with fewer resources and less environmental impact. The “Internet of Things” — in the form of cheap sensors to measure water and soil composition — could help them do that.
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
“He can’t possibly win the nomination,” is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.
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Ted Cruz thinks scientists invented climate change | Grist
Remember Ted Cruz? Way back last spring, it seemed the Texas senator could be the front-runner for the most extreme, anti-reason candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Reince Priebus asks the Republican contenders to please take it down a notch
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says there is entirely too much incivility happening among the Republican presidential candidates. Please tone it down, everybody.
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Watch the mindbending launch trailer for ‘Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture’
Tell your family and friends every day how much you love them, because you never know when they’re going to vanish. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a story-driven, first-person perspective game about an English valley from which everyone has vani…
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FaZe beats OpTic Gaming at Gfinity for the second time in a row
One team has dominated Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare since its release late last year. But this weekend it seems the dynasty is finally at an end. OpTic Gaming lost their second straight final to FaZe Clan, this time falling at the Gfinity Summer C…
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For nearly four decades, Mobile Suit Gundam has defined the giant robot genre, and anime in general. As much an examination of war as a simple action series, Gundam can be intimidating for new viewers… but it doesn’t have to be.
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Controversy Fuels 9X Growth For Reddit | TechCrunch
Any press is good press, apparently, as Reddit hit a new 8 billion page view record in July admist community upheaval over new policies and leadership. Reddit grew from 175 million unique visitors in May to 177 million in June.
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GIF Wallet for iOS lets you tuck your favorite GIFs away for sharing later on
Posting GIFs to a chat or social media is pretty standard fare, and the only thing worse than not being able to find the one you want is sharing a link instead. To make sharing easier, a new app for iOS named GIF Wallet will save all your moving pic…
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A Teenage Girl Who Was Stabbed at Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade Has Died | VICE News
Shira Banki, a 16-year-old girl who was stabbed last week by a Jewish extremist during Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade, died on Sunday from wounds she sustained during the attack.
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Thanks to some adroit footwork on the part of the home secretary, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will receive the six-month UK visa he applied for, and the government has largely avoided the battering it would otherwise have sustained from that potent…
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Profile: Mullah Akhtar Mansoor – Al Jazeera English
As it was with his predecessor Mullah Mohamed Omar, little is known about the new leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. Those who have met him describe him as soft-spoken and reclusive.
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This weekend, Charles and David Koch’s Freedom Partners hosted five Republican presidential hopefuls and hundreds of top conservative donors at the St. Regis Monarch Beach luxury resort in California.
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James Holmes moves closer to death penalty verdict – BBC News
Convicted mass killer James Holmes has moved one step closer to the death penalty after jurors rejected a defence appeal for leniency. The same jury found Holmes guilty of killing 12 people and wounding 70 others at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado.
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By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history — and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with “trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners.
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Ed Helms and the Thai Toilet That Tried to Kill Him | Vanity Fair
Now that he’s officially a member of the Griswold family, playing grown-up son Rusty in this weekend’s Vacation, Ed Helms knows firsthand just how memorable even a disastrous vacation can be.
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Sam the Eagle Makes the Muppets’ Cover of “Jungle Boogie” Even Better
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem covering Kool and the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie”? Fun. Sam the Eagle somewhat reluctantly joining the band on vocals? Pure gold.
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Aurora Theater Shooter James Holmes Moves Step Closer to Death Penalty – The Atlantic
James Holmes will face either the death penalty or life in prison, after a jury declined today to take capital punishment off the table for the convicted Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter.
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Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest – The Atlantic
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Benjamin Rhodes on America’s Role in a Complicated World – The Atlantic
Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor to President Obama, was the chief U.S.
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YouTube’s Web video player just received a sleek transparent update
If you’ve been watching cat videos on YouTube today, you may have noticed things are looking a bit different. Google appears to be rolling out a transparent video player on its Web interface today.
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Fires in Northern California : Natural Hazards
Several large wildfires have charred tens of thousands of acres in northern California. The largest, the Rocky fire, had burned about 60,000 acres (24,000 hectares) in Lake, Yolo, and Colusa counties as of August 3, 2015.
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TPP Talks End With No Agreement Yet
The latest round of negotiations to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement ended without the deal being completed. The negotiators will try again as soon as the end of August. TPP is the largest “trade” agreement in history, …
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How Our Inequality Is Corrupting ‘Success’
“Taking from the successful people to provide for those that aren’t isn’t the solution,” as White House hopeful Jeb Bush pronounced this past spring.
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Living near trees can make you feel healthier – Tech Insider
Living in leafy neighborhoods is visually pleasing. It also can make you feel healthier. In fact, the positive health effects of having an additional 10 trees on your block are equivalent to getting a $10,000 income increase or being seven years you…
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BURLINGTON, VT—After accepting a check sent to his campaign office by a local elementary school teacher, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was roundly criticized Monday as being firmly in the pocket of the high-rolling educator who had donated $…
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Scott Walker given fake $900m check from Koch brothers for ‘climate denial’ | US news | The Guardian
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker encountered what looked like a group of young supporters during a campaign stop on Monday at a local pizza shop, only to be presented with a fake check from the billionaire Koch brothers by a group of climate activist…
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Chewse’s Tracy Lawrence on Raising Your First Round As A Female Founder | TechCrunch
Right before Tracy Lawrence went into fundraising mode for her catering startup Chewse last year, she cut off her hair. She didn’t know it at the time, but later upon reflection, she thought it might have been a subconscious choice in trying to impr…
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Brian Adcock on Barack Obama’s clean energy plan – cartoon | Comment is free | The Guardian
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President Obama on Monday set out a plan to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions. His proposals are neither new nor radical, but deserve to be strongly supported, both in America and across the globe.
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Aurora jury will continue deliberating death sentence for James Holmes | US news | The Guardian
A Colorado jury will continue deliberating whether to return a death sentence against James Holmes, convicted this year of killing 12 people and wounding 70 more when he opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora.
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5 Reasons Picking Beijing To Host The Winter Olympics Makes No Sense | ThinkProgress
With its temperate climate, questionable human rights and environmental records, and restrictive media environment, Beijing is a surprising choice to host a major global event like the Winter Olympics.
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Ronda Rousey set to play Ronda Rousey in Ronda Rousey biopic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
On Saturday night, Ronda Rousey headlined the UFC 190 event in Rio de Janeiro, knocking out the previously undefeated Bethe Correia in just 34 seconds. Her three UFC fights leading up to the Correia matchup lasted 14 seconds, 16 seconds, and a littl…
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Midday open thread: A Kickstarter, a racist advisor and a Sunday review
On Friday, the website Business Insider reported that posts on Mr. Nunberg’s Facebook page in 2007 disparaged the Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter using a racial slur.
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Dangerous new flaw proves that Macs aren’t as safe as you think
Mac evangelists have often argued that their platform of choice is more secure than Windows PCs, but while that claim was true for many years, the walls are beginning to crumble.
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And now for an update in the continuing saga of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a controversial piece of legislation currently in the Senate that, to some, represents an important tool to bolster the sharing of threat data between …
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Greek shares nosedive as manufacturing data reveals economy in shock | Business | The Guardian
The full extent of the damage caused by the Greek crisis was laid bare when the first day of stock market trading after five weeks of economic paralysis saw shares lose one sixth of their value.
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Dizzying Up And Down Rocket Flight Captured By On-Board Cam | Video
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Texas Attorney General | Al Jazeera America
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton turned himself in Monday to face charges that he misled investors and didn’t disclose money he made for referring financial clients as part of his private business before becoming the state’s top lawyer in January.
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Queen – Under Pressure-1981 (Official Video) HQ – YouTube
Queen – Under Pressure 1981 (Official Video) HQ
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Details Of Obama’s Climate Change Plan – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
President Obama unveiled Monday a plan to increase the country’s clean power usage that many are calling the strongest action ever taken by a U.S. president to combat the effects of climate change.
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There Are Still Tons of People Around the World Who Haven’t Heard About Climate Change | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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Pavement Throw Open Their Vault: Inside ‘The Secret History’ | Rolling Stone
“Whoa!” Stephen Malkmus stops short mid-sentence. There’s a brief pause, then he starts to laugh. “I was in this hammock, and it just broke!” he explains. “I’m OK. But I feel bad that the kids can’t swing in it anymore.”
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Lollapalooza 2015: Scantily clad teens, evacuations, and Paul McCartney · Recap · The A.V. Club
It never rained on Lollapalooza, but that didn’t stop the fest’s organizers, C3, from both evacuating the whole fest Sunday afternoon under threat of thunderstorms and then, later that night, shutting down the festival’s closers 30 minutes early.
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Magic Mirror for Sketch 3 lets you quickly create hands-on mockups of your apps
If you’re wireframing iOS apps, Sketch 3 is a great option. When you need to turn those mockups into hands-on views for a website or press release, a new plug-in named Magic Mirror can morph your design into any angle or shape you like.
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Colin Trevorrow says the next Jurassic World might go off-island · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ignoring Ian Malcom’s warning that “taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas,” Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow suggests that the next installment of the franchise won’t be confined to Isla Nubl…
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Texas attorney general turns himself in after securities fraud indictment | US news | The Guardian
Texas attorney General Ken Paxton turned himself in Monday to face charges that he misled investors and didn’t disclose money he made for referring financial clients as part of his private business before becoming the state’s top lawyer in January.
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Calais crisis: Government ‘has got a grip’ says Hammond – BBC News
The UK has “got a grip” on the migrant crisis in Calais, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said, as he confirmed 100 more guards would be deployed in its Eurotunnel terminal. Mr Hammond was speaking after chairing a meeting of the government’s em…
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D’Angelo, Ed Sheeran to Lead Bill Withers Tribute at Carnegie Hall | Rolling Stone
D’Angelo, Ed Sheeran and Sheryl Crow will help welcome Bill Withers back to Carnegie Hall on October 1st, leading an all-star lineup that will pay tribute to the soul musician, who was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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What would a concert sound like if you approached it at supersonic speed?
You may recall from middle school science class that the Doppler effect is an acoustic phenomenon that explains why sounds seem higher-pitched and faster as they approach, and slower and deeper as they leave. The classic example is that of an ambula…
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Amy Schumer and Sen. Chuck Schumer unveil their plan to stop mass shootings
Sen. Chuck Schumer has a plan to “crack down” on mass shootings and gun violence in America, and he’s getting some celebrity help—from comedian Amy Schumer, who also happens to be his cousin.
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The Crow reboot looks dead, which is just so fitting · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what is easily the goth-est thing that’s happened since the last update on the Crow reboot, Relativity Media’s recent bankruptcy filing has thrown a wrench into its development slate.
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The recent killing of a popular lion named Cecil by an American dentist in Zimbabwe sparked considerable outrage on social media and elsewhere against safari hunting.
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Israel Jewish militants ‘face harsh interrogation methods’ – BBC News
Israel says it could use harsh interrogation methods to tackle violent Jewish extremism, after the death of an Palestinian infant in an arson attack.
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MTV’s Trashed was a hotbed of future comedy talent · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
MTV, the once-innovative cable network that just passed its 34th anniversary, has long been an incubator of talent. Pauly Shore, Jenny McCarthy, Puck, Jesse Camp, Snooki.
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Hunting Cecil the Lion was disgusting—but so is doxing his killer
The case of Walter Palmer the Dentist and Cecil the Lion is making international headlines. For those who haven’t been following the story, Palmer shot and killed a lion in Zimbabwe in a way that likely broke the law.
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You ever noticed how specific online dating sites are getting these days? It seems like every other day there’s a new, niche site popping up for singles of very particular types to mingle—there’s one for people of the Christian persuasion, there’s o…
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Mark Hamill has been signing Star Wars junk for well over 35 years, so it’s no surprise that Luke Skywalker himself has to get a little creative with his autographs. Hamill also appears to give zero fucks about your mint condition Star Wars bubblegu…
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GoDaddy CEO produces gender bias documentary
In an effort to continually erase past blemishes, GoDaddy and its CEO Blake Irving are working hard to associate the brand with feminism. Most recently, this meant funding, producing and screening a documentary on the gender diversity issue in techn…
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Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh: The Big Ten’s Big Two | Rolling Stone
It may be a while before the name Rashod Berry rings with real significance between the ears of Ohio State football fans, a seemingly endless sea of rabid supporters with a penchant for putting all things Scarlet and Gray on a pedestal.
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The A.V. Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky took note of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s wuxia tale of acrobatic swordplay, calling The Assassin the most beautiful film at Cannes.
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Officers at the Naval War College Suggest Ideas for Bridging the Civil-Military Gap – The Atlantic
What does a nation owe its military? An audience at the Naval War College has a few ideas I am storing a batch of recent incoming email in the digital counterpart of a cooling-off tank.
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Next month, David Gilmour will release his first solo album since 2006 and launch his first tour since ’08. But right now, in the dead of August, you can watch a new animated video for his upcoming track, “Rattle That Lock.”
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This Week’s TV: Electricity-Hungry Bats Invade Rio!
What’s on TV this week? Another sporadically programmed episode of Gravity Falls! Atlantis, True Detective and Stitchers all draw to a close. Plus whatever the hell’s happening on Zoo! All on This Week’s TV. The contestants must create their own int…
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Amnesty International has come under a barrage of negative publicity – which included a letter signed by Hollywood stars such as Lena Dunham and Meryl Streep – for the outrageous act of speaking to people who sell sex, listening to what we say and t…
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French beach closed for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman reopens to public – BBC News
King Salman had been due to stay for three weeks on the French Riviera, but left after only eight days and travelled to Tangiers in Morocco. The stretch of sand in front of the rented villa is public but was shut off for the King’s visit, causing ou…
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Ranking the Smoothest Dance Moves of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp | Vanity Fair
: While it’s not a dance, this move Chris Meloni and Hamm moment is as well executed a move as anything else you’ll see in . Hamm’s scary government assassin is revealed to be on team Firewood. Sort of. When he stops trying to kill Meloni’s Gene, he…
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Sucking on Mouse Tongues to Understand How Taste Buds Work | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. It’s tough to watch taste buds in action—you can’t clamp a microscope onto a subject’s tongue. As a result, researchers typically study taste cells in a petri dish.
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The “Murder Husbands” Reluctantly Re-Team on Hannibal, and It’s Magic
“And the Woman Clothed With the Sun …” is the second Hannibal episode named for William Blake, and it continues the Red Dragon storyline delightfully. Despite misgivings, Will and Hannibal form an uneasy partnership to track down the new “shy boy”…
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Aurora theater shooting jurors take step closer to possible death sentence – The Denver Post
The defense and prosecution awaits the verdict in phase two of sentencing in the Aurora theater shooting trial, August 3, 2015.
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California Regulator Mary Nichols May Transform the Auto Industry – Bloomberg Business
Sergio Marchionne had a funny thing to say about the $32,500 battery-powered Fiat 500e that his company markets in California as “eco-chic.” “I hope you don’t buy it,” he told his audience at a think tank in Washington in May 2014.
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Summers are hot in Omaha, where heat indexes can top 100 degrees. But Molly Mahannah is prepared. At the office, she bundles up in cardigans or an oversized sweatshirt from her file drawer. Then, she says, “I have a huge blanket at my desk that I’ve…
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Apple is reportedly prepping Siri to take on Google Voice
Business Insider reports that the company is testing its virtual assistant’s ability to answer calls for users and transcribe their voicemails. Siri’s role as secretary and stenographer will reportedly be part of a new service called iCloud Voicemai…
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Your editorial’s argument about a causal link between slowing population growth and increased economic growth (Fewer people means more carbon: the population paradox, 3 August) is dangerously out of date.
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Horse chestnut parasite could soon spread to Scotland | Environment | The Guardian
Parasitic “hitchhiking” moths, which infect and destroy the leaves of horse chestnut trees, are moving north and could soon invade Scotland. The horse chestnut leaf-mining moth, which originates in the Balkans, was first recorded in London in 2002 a…
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SF cyclists protest by obeying the law – Boing Boing
A San Francisco Police Captain wanted cyclists to obey the law, so they did. Traffic was immediately snarled.
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I thought I detected the hand of the independent schools’ PR spinners in a couple of stories over the past few days – part, perhaps, of a softening-up exercise before the A-level and GCSE results later this month.
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Murder investigation after body found in Belfast house fire | UK news | The Guardian
Police in Belfast have launched a murder investigation after the discovery of woman’s body following a house fire. Jennifer Dornan, 30, was found dead in her home at Hazel View on the outskirts of west Belfast after the alarm was raised at 5am on Su…
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Former president Jimmy Carter undergoes liver operation | US news | The Guardian
Former US president Jimmy Carter has undergone a medical procedure to remove a small mass in his liver, his organization the Carter Center has said. He is expected to make a full recovery. It said the procedure was done without issues, and that the …
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Planned Parenthood defunding effort gets a Democratic backer in Joe Manchin | US news | The Guardian
Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, says he will back a Republican bill cutting off federal aid for Planned Parenthood. Manchin is seen as a moderate and his decision on Monday was not a complete surprise.
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The Race to Zero: Looking for the Last Ebola Patients in Liberia | VICE News
On the morning of March 5, a 58-year-old English teacher stood outside an Ebola treatment center in the Liberian capital city of Monrovia, flanked by a row of health-care workers. The smiling woman, Beatrice Yardolo, had contracted the deadly hemorr…
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Comedian pens open letter to alleged content thieves the Fat Jewish and F**k Jerry
The Internet is a virtual minefield of stolen jokes and lifted content. But one Twitter user has finally had enough, posting an open letter to two of Instagram’s biggest offenders.
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David Cameron tried to play the Calais migrant crisis relatively coolly last week. But the inference to be drawn from two ministerial initiatives at the start of this week suggests the nightly scenes have triggered something closer to official panic.
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Live: Obama on climate change policy plans – BBC News
US President Barack Obama is unveiling new plans to tackle climate change. The revised Clean Power Plan aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by nearly a third within 15 years.
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Sleepy Hollow bringing back Zach Appelman for non-Wendigo-related work · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sleepy Hollow seems a little nervous about making so many changes to its coming season. Losing Orlando Jones, gaining Nikki Reed, a brand-new showrunner, an almost too-logical crossover with Bones…it could all feel like a bit much.
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“Martha My Dear” isn’t really about a dog, but who cares · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: For Pets Week, songs written about or inspired by pets. Paul McCartney has written a lot of sentimental and sappy songs. Hell, he’s even written a song defending al…
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The definitive “man’s best friend” movie is about so much more · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: It’s Pets Week here at The A.V. Club, so we’re recommending movies about the sometimes sweet, sometimes weird, always meaningful relationship…
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The best thing about DC’s new Midnighter series is that it doesn’t shy away from the gay hero’s personal life, exploring facets of the gay lifestyle that are rarely touched on in superhero comics.
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Syria crisis: US “support fire” targets non-IS fighters – BBC News
US air power has been used in Syria for the first time to attack forces other than Islamic State (IS), a Pentagon spokesman has confirmed. Capt Jeff Davis said “defensive support fire” was provided last Friday.
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‘The Brandenburg Beckett’: last living link with German theatre’s golden age | Stage | The Guardian
It’s late afternoon, the matinee performance has just finished, and tourists are now swarming round the legendary Berliner Ensemble theatre, looking straight through the old man drifting about in checked shirt and tracksuit bottoms, unaware that he’…
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Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and the truth about politics in the Internet era
Last Wednesday night, the Bernie Sanders campaign hosted what it claims to be the largest event of the 2016 election so far. More than 100,000 people RSVP’d, and with the mere click of a button, they were able to attend.
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The History of Vending Machines Goes Back to the 1st Century | Atlas Obscura
Vending machines are one of the few things keeping us away from the dream of a cashless society. The devices, which offer up an array of items for a little bit of pocket change, are silent but prevalent.
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WASHINGTON—Highlighting a disturbing reality for many individuals and families throughout the country, a study published Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that an alarming 60 percent of Americans have no idea where their next val…
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What Comes After The Clean Power Plan? | ThinkProgress
Burning fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for 31 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions in 2013.
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10 Examples of Comics Art So Good, They Don’t Need Words to Tell a Story
Comics are a visual medium—but most comics still rely heavily on narration and dialogue. Once in a while, though, a series, a single issue, or even one great scene in a comic will forgo text, or keep it at a minimum, to tell a gorgeous story with ju…
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NSA conducted commercial espionage against Japanese government and businesses – Boing Boing
New leaked documents published by Wikileaks show that the US spy agency conducted surveillance operations against Japan’s top government officials, prioritizing finance and trade ministers, as well as the Japanese central bank and two private-sector…
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America’s National Parks are for sale – Boing Boing
A point of American pride, our national park system, is sadly underfunded and lost. The Seattle Times shares one piece of the story, corporate sponsorship. First in line was Coca-Cola.
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” WANDER IN TURKEY ” is one of my travel series video. I really like having no plans when i’m in unfamiliar place. I just wanders which makes me face unplanned situations and people. Sometimes I can melt into their daily life and have a deep relatio…
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Dolly Parton Makes It Personal at Rare Nashville Show | Rolling Stone
Dolly Parton played two sold-out shows at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Although she lives just a few miles south of Nashville’s downtown Ryman Auditorium, on the rare occasions Dolly Parton is in town, she is, by her own admission, something of a h…
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The Internet of Things — the vision of a world brimming with communicating sensors and digital smarts — occupies the peak of Gartner’s most recent “hype cycle.
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Celebrity chef José Andrés has fired back at a $10m lawsuit filed by Donald Trump, calling it “unsurprising and without merit”.
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Footballer Lionel Messi has been accused by activists of endorsing a central African “dictatorship” that has failed to halt the ritual murder of children.
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The Mindy Project’s Ike Barinholtz is writing a book · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you’re a fan of The Mindy Project, the former-Fox/soon-to-be-Hulu sitcom that co-stars God’s gift to us all Chris Messina, then you’ve probably spent some time wondering about Ike Barinholtz.
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Here’s a Foo Fighters-endorsed video of a guy air drumming · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
“FUCK YES” is the ringing endorsement the Foo Fighters’ social media gave to this video of a dude air drumming to “Best Of You.” And it’s easy to see why: There’s an impressive level of detail in both the performance and the editing here.
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This Site Is Your DeLorean For Startup Homepages | TechCrunch
When I ran through years and years of homepage designs by Twitter the other day, it was like hopping into a DeLorean and heading back in time. It was really interesting seeing what the company had in mind for its most important page in 2009…and then…
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Pez dispensers to get their own movie | Film | The Guardian
The success of The Lego Movie has opened the floodgates for film spin-offs of previously unthinkable products and crazes. Following the news that Sony Pictures has greenlit a movie about emoji, it has now emerged that an animated film is in the work…
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BBC Sport – Real Madrid: Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema staying – Benitez
Real Madrid manager Rafael Benitez does not expect forwards Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema to leave the club. Welsh international Bale, 26, has been linked with a move to Manchester United and France’s Benzema, 27, with Arsenal.
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Can the UK follow Obama’s climate lead? | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama is setting out his vision for US climate action on Monday, and what is most striking of all is the tone.
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Two men jailed for life after shooting woman in attack aimed at her partner | UK news | The Guardian
Two men have been jailed for life after shooting dead a mother-of-two in an attack that was intended to kill someone else. Hayley Pointon, 30, was killed in Hinckley in February 2013 but her killers, Aaron Power and Aaron Newman, had been tasked wit…
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My hometown has few claims to fame. It’s referenced in a Sufjan Stevens song. It’s the founding place of Domino’s Pizza. Its water tower was once named the “World’s Most Phallic Building” by magazine.
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Julius Malema: My conscience is clear – Al Jazeera English
Julius Malema says he wants his day in court. It’s been a long time coming, after investigations began into allegations of corruption, four years ago.
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Pittsburgh Residents Will Now Be Guaranteed A Paid Day Off When They Get Sick | ThinkProgress
On Monday, the Pittsburgh city council passed a bill requiring employers to offer workers paid time off for illness or to care for a sick loved one. The bill passed seven to one after moving quickly through the council. It was introduced on July 6, …
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When you see Seth MacFarlane’s name attached to a project, the first question you might ask is, “who is going to be the foul-mouthed social trainwreck this time?,”a question usually followed up with, “it’s not going to be that stuffed bear again, is…
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Pitchfork gets back into podcasting with Jeff Tweedy · Podmass · The A.V. Club
Pitchfork gets back into podcasting with Jeff Tweedy The Latest From Newswire The Latest From Features The Latest From Reviews B- A- The Latest From Videos The Latest From Great Job, Internet! AUX Podmass Photo: The Hollywood ReporterPhoto: The Holl…
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6 Revelations From The DOJ’s Investigation Into How St. Louis County Treats Children | ThinkProgress
Months after the Department of Justice (DOJ) uncovered patterns of racially-biased policing in Ferguson and days before the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, a new report from the DOJ details gross civil rights violations in St. Louis’ County Fa…
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The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Despite his clear sense of whimsy, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has never exactly directed a children’s film before—and despite its youthful protagonist and point of view, The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet still might not qualify.
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CBS airs its first Late Show With Stephen Colbert promos · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stephen Colbert’s time off has been pretty busy.
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Wet Hot American Jewish Summer Camp – Tablet Magazine
Here’s the moment that tells you everything you need to know about Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, the feverishly anticipated, eight-episode comedy series debuting on Netflix on July 31.
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A small army of volunteers, backed by drone technology, is being recruited to record and monitor the longest archaeological site in Britain: 5,600 miles of English coastline and tidal foreshore containing some 70,000 sites at risk of being destroyed…
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‘Deadpool’ finally gets an official teaser—just not the one you’d expect
In case you had any doubt that Marvel’s wisecracking Merc with a Mouth will have the funniest superhero movie of next year, this trailer will clear that right up.
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London pub owner kills rich American for looking homeless, sentenced – Boing Boing
Rostam Notarki is being sentenced to seven years in prison for shoving a shabby-looking man out of his pub with an ironing board. The man was then hit and killed by an oncoming van.
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Obama to meet with Jewish leaders on Iran deal | TheHill
President Obama will meet with Jewish leaders for the first time since finalizing the Iran nuclear agreement, the White House said.
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Family of Dead Afghan Taliban Leader Disputes Legitimacy of New Chief | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog.
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Sierra Leone Concerns Grow as CDC Head Visits | Al Jazeera America
Two new cases of Ebola surfaced in Sierra Leone’s northern Tonkolili District after a man died last week in the area where the deadly virus had been gone for months, an official said Monday, raising new fears of the epidemic’s resurgence.
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Hannibal GIF and a Graf: All Unhappy Families | WIRED
What have we always said is the most important thing? Family. That’s the theme of “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun…” which contrasts several different families from Hannibal’s world of characters.
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Soylent’s Latest Innovation: Putting Its Shakes In Bottles | WIRED
Soylent, the venture capital-backed meal replacement shake company founded in 2013, has been the butt of many a joke about the excesses of the Silicon Valley startup scene.
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Oddly Addictive Game Shows That You Stink at Driving | WIRED
Some benefits of self-driving cars are easy to imagine: Without the ability to get distracted, angry, drunk, or sleepy, they’ll make fewer mistakes than human drivers and save lives.
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Netherlands: more than a dozen injured after two cranes collapse | World news | The Guardian
About 20 people have been injured in the west Netherlands town of Alphen aan den Rijn after two cranes working on a bridge restoration project toppled onto houses and shops nearby.
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Rare Replay: The Kotaku Review
Rare games meant a lot to the people who played them, so a collection of 30 of (most) of their best works should mean a lot to children of the Spectrum ZX, the Nintendo 64 and even the Xbox 360.
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Tom Cruise Is Back. Now What? | Vanity Fair
The fact that he’s making hay out of a 20-year-old franchise at all is, in itself, astonishing; even Robert Downey Jr.
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Is the Force with Simon Pegg as he ranks the best and worst Star Wars films? | Film | The Guardian
The art of amateur Star Wars punditry may not be up there with James Bond, there being almost two dozen official 007 films to place in order of debonair brilliance (as opposed to just six movies of radically varying quality in George Lucas’s long-ru…
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‘Migrant’ hoax: The selfies that fooled the internet – BBC News
An Instagram account that appeared to belong to a migrant, documenting his route from Senegal to Europe, garnered thousands of followers and global media attention. Now, it transpires, the account was a fake. BBC Trending talks to the man who mocked…
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A British woman has reportedly been murdered and her body set alight in the Bulgarian village where she had recently moved. Jan Bennett, 67, is said to have been attacked after she walked her two dogs in the town of Malomir, south-eastern Bulgaria.
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Mignonet: England to blame for Calais crisis – BBC News
The Deputy Mayor of Calais Philippe Mignonet has blamed the UK for the migrant crisis in Calais. He said 99% of migrants said they wanted to go to England.
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Two issues normally confined to the nerdy world of poll analytics may determine the final spots on stage for this week’s Republican debate. The ways that Fox News — which is televising the debate and setting the rules — resolves the issues could end…
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What’s wrong with our nuclear phones
The request was a small one, tucked into a budget reprogramming document in July: The military asked permission to reallocate $10 million for a “network telephone upgrade” at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
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This video explains America’s love affair with meat | Grist
Americans eat nearly twice as much as the average Norwegian and roughly nine times as much as the average Ghanaian. Umbra counsels a rat-ridden reader to forego the poisons, which tend to harm indiscriminately, and find better ways to remove a roden…
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Star Wars: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
Lucasfilm is coming out with a set of books about the first three Star Wars movies written by authors of acclaimed teen and preteen books. The first is Star Wars: A New Hope. The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy. The other two are called St…
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Capitalism-loving disease: Xinjiang’s hidden HIV epidemic — Hopes&Fears — flow “Politics”
Official reports didn’t even come out about Akbar Imin’s detainment until two full months after his arrest, Greg Fay, project manager at the Washington D.C.-based , told Hopes&Fears.
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The Future Will Be Full of Lab Grown Meat
In 2013, the world’s first lab-grown burger was unveiled to the world. It carried a $330,000 price tag, and apparently, it wasn’t all that tasty.
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Last week’s article “I’m Not Mad. That’s Just My RBF,” about the struggles associated with having a face that, when at ease, seems to others angry, irritated or simply expressionless, inspired over 2,200 comments on nytimes.com/styles and on Faceboo…
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POCOMOKE CITY, Md. — Kelvin Sewell figured he had landed his dream job in 2010, when he retired as a Baltimore police officer to help run the tiny 16-member force in this little riverfront city, which calls itself “the friendliest town on the Easter…
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Music: “Rock Me Gently,” Andy Kim (1974) – Boing Boing
“Don’t you know, that I have never been loved like this before.
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Pitch Your Startup At The TechCrunch Lisbon Office Hours This Wednesday | TechCrunch
If you’re a startup, you’ve heard of TechCrunch’s Startup Alley and the Battlefield. It’s a big part of our TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
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Donald Trump Is Very Unpopular With Latinos | ThinkProgress
A new poll from NBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and Telemundo found that Donald Trump is very unpopular with Latinos. This is in spite of Trump’s claims that he has significant Latino support. Trump still holds a wide lead with GOP primary voters…
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Twitter Collapses 5%, Tumbling Toward IPO-Level Prices | TechCrunch
Shares of Twitter, a popular social media company, fell sharply today, dipping nearly 6 percent by midday trading. The company’s equity fell in value below the $30 mark, setting new lows. As of the time of writing, shares of Twitter are worth just o…
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The tragic downfall of iTunes is everything that’s wrong with Apple
It’s a poorly kept secret that Apple has a growing software problem. Every new version of the iPhone is applauded for its sleek external design and consumer-friendly usability—but each successive edition of iOS seems more clunky than the one before …
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Jeb’s Ostrich Approach To Climate Change Makes No Sense | ThinkProgress
Jeb Bush’s statement on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, finalized Monday, is probably the closest he has come to admitting that climate change is a problem. Under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Power Plan directs states to limit carbon em…
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What is TTIP and why should we be angry about it? | Business | The Guardian
“Sometimes,” says a character in David Foster Wallace’s novel The Pale King, “what’s important is dull. Sometimes it’s work. Sometimes the important things aren’t works of art for your entertainment.
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What happens when you try to take Trump seriously? – Boing Boing
Andy Kroll tried, and emerged with a darkly humorous account of its essential impossibility: beyond soundbites about Mexicans and business, there is virtually nothing to see. Plenty of people do, though. See that GIF? I eat out on that GIF.
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‘Breasts Are Not Weapons’ Say Bra-Wearing Protesters After Hong Kong Conviction | VICE News
Around 200 bra-wearing men and women protested in Hong Kong after a woman was sentenced to three-and-a-half months in prison for assaulting a police officer with her breast.
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Security platform Zscaler today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series B funding round led by late stage investor TPG.
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Weekend Box Office: Madman almost breaks his neck for our amusement · Newswire · The A.V. Club
One of these days, Tom Cruise is really going to hurt himself. It’s inevitable, isn’t it? Now in his 50s, the guy just keeps climbing skyscrapers and hanging from airplanes and almost letting someone stab him in the eyeball.
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What It’s Like To Use Amazon’s New Dash Buttons | TechCrunch
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Obama’s clean power plan will hit shale gas share of electricity | Environment | The Guardian
The final version of the clean power plan has thrown the Obama administration into conflict with shale gas, America’s 21st-century energy darling. Coal, the most polluting source of electricity, has already entered a long twilight.
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For anyone born after 1970, there was only one Cilla Black: Blind Date Cilla. It was a world of hairspray, peach-coloured power suits, nudge-nudge, wink-wink humour and that horsey grin, with Cilla as Queen Matchmaker.
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“Don’t worry. I’m on it.
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Dutch crane collapse in Alphen aan den Rijn leaves 20 hurt – BBC News
Twenty people have been injured after two cranes employed to restore a bridge in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn collapsed on buildings. Amateur video showed one crane trying to hoist a section of the Juliana Bridge and collapsing under the we…
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RideLondon organisers name cyclist who died on 100-mile route | Sport | The Guardian
Organisers of RideLondon, a weekend of cycling events involving almost 100,000 people, said Green’s family had asked them to release his name. He collapsed on Sunday near the start of the ascent of Leith Hill, near Dorking in Surrey, the steepest cl…
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Anonymous hacktivists deface Donald Trump’s website with a tribute to Jon Stewart
Active for nearly a decade, Telecomix is a digital activist group not usually known for malicious hacks. “Telecomix operatives specifically do not engage in destructive operations,” the group said Monday in a statement.
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Are you looking for Fun Spring Patterns to Hide Your Dead Eyes? What about Five Blushers That Will Make Your Man Blush? In the week since Glamour magazine went viral for posting a blog titled 13 Little Things That Can Make a Man Fall Hard for You, y…
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‘Pipe Dream’ motorbike rider surfing giant wave ‘thought he was a goner’ | Media | The Guardian
The rider filmed surfing giant waves on his Motocross bike in a video ad for DC Shoes has said he “gave up the will to live” when the stunt went horribly wrong.
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Snoop Dogg stopped by Italian authorities for carrying $422,000 in cash · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Not declaring at customs was the case, as Snoop Dogg was detained by Italian authorities over the weekend upon arriving in the country to play a concert in Calabria.
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Tom Danielson, former team-mate of Lance Armstrong, is suspended over doping | Sport | The Guardian
A former team-mate of Lance Armstrong was shocked to learn he has tested positive for testosterone and has denied doping.
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Where it all went wrong for the Fedora – Boing Boing
Gentlemen! Never let children wear your hats. Jamie Peck explores the history of the Fedora, an excellent garment born in female empowerment now “a widely recognized symbol of douchebaggery” thanks to horrid young men.
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Ocean Scientists Pore over Path of Possible MH370 Wing Flap – Scientific American
In this photo dated Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island.
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Five great female-friendly comic-book adaptations | Film | The Guardian
Not many comic book movies start with a scruffy, smiling 15-year-old girl confessing: “I had sex today … Holy shit.
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‘Trap Queen’ and ‘Doug’ go together like Funnie and Mayonnaise
Doug Funnie is looking to a rapper—and not any of his alter egos—in order to woo the woman of his dreams.
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Japan calls US spying reports ‘deeply regrettable’ – Al Jazeera English
Japan has described claims that the US spied on Japanese politicians and major firms as “deeply regrettable”, in its first official response to revelations by the whistleblower group WikiLeaks.
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The Sexist History of Room Temperature – The New Yorker
Even before Adam and Eve picked and ate the fatal fruit of the tree of knowledge, condemning humanity to lives of sweat-soaked toil, they knew the meaning of good thermoregulation. Halfway through Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” God sends Raphael down to …
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Soylent Debuts Its Ready-To-Drink Meal Replacement Drink, Soylent 2.0 | TechCrunch
Venture-backed food replacement drink maker Soylent – yes, named after the movie where people unknowingly were sustained by eating other people – is out today with its newest product. The company this morning introduced “Soylent 2.
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George North to miss Wales friendly against Ireland as he continues recovery | Sport | The Guardian
George North, who missed the final 10 weeks of last season after suffering three concussions in five months, is still being assessed by Wales’s medical staff after taking part in two overseas training camps and will not be risked in Saturday’s World…
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Alexia Sinclair‘s Into the Gloaming series began with the storyteller holding her book of fables and inviting you into a fairytale world. Next, Tatiana the gatekeeper led you into that world, lamp held aloft as she helped you navigated the magical b…
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Photographer unearths 60-year-old photo mystery from a Richmond thrift shop
Meagan Abell is a professional photographer who loves the works of other artists as much as her own. So when she found a set of old slide transparencies taken by an unknown photographer in a Richmond thrift shop, her interest was piqued.
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Cop Who Shot Mike Brown Grants Interview — NYMag
In anticipation of the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, The New Yorker has published a long profile of Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson, Missouri, cop who shot the unarmed black 18-year-old, setting off months of protests and an ong
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The Marriage Of Opposites · Alice Hoffman · Book Review · The A.V. Club
Readers of Alice Hoffman’s other novels—including last year’s Museum Of Extraordinary Things and 2011’s The Dovekeepers—will notice plenty of familiar themes in her latest work, The Marriage Of Opposites.
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In defense of endings—why the world doesn’t need another ‘X-Files’ reboot
The X-Files was returning to television and I, a superfan with an “I Want to Believe” poster tacked to my bedroom wall, could only muster a flutter of dread. I love The X-Files—and I love that it’s over.
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Ted Cruz cooked bacon with a machine gun because #2016
Welcome to American politics in 2016. When you’re trying to compete with Donald Trump for voters’ attention, you need to up the ante. For Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate from Texas, that means one thing: More guns and pork product…
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Turkey swingers’ club suspects face up to 177 years in jail | World news | The Guardian
Turkish prosecutors have demanded jail sentences of up to 177 years for 29 people in the south-eastern province of Adana suspected of setting up swingers’ clubs, according to local media reports.
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Adam Johnson trial on child sex charges put back to next year | Football | The Guardian
The trial of the Sunderland winger Adam Johnson on child sex charges has been put back to next year. The 28-year-old appeared at Durham crown court for a hearing which dealt with legal rulings, ahead of a trial which had been scheduled for later thi…
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Paula Hawkins might be breaking records this summer with The Girl on the Train, her disturbing look at murder and alcoholism, but not all lovers of crime fiction are looking for tales of blood and violence, with golden-age and “cosy” mystery writing…
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We’re celebrating our furry and feathered friends with Pets Week · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Grab your favorite four-footed (or feathered, or reptile) friend and join us for another A.V. Club theme week: It’s Pets Week! This week we look at the domestic animals that have had an impact on so many pop-culture creations.
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TSM gets snubbed for ESL’s $250K Dubai tourney
ESL is set to host one of the biggest Counter-Strike tournaments outside of an official major in Dubai on Sep 10. Some of the best teams in the world will battle it out for a slice of the quarter-million dollar prize pool—except for Team Solomid.
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Samsung is finally paying up for its cancer-causing South Korean factory
The 100-billion-won compensation fund will go to the nearly 200 people who worked in Samsung’s chip and display factories and later fell ill.
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Canada election 2015: a guide to the parties, polls and electoral system | World news | The Guardian
Related: Canada’s Liberals face bleak future – is it too late for Justin Trudeau to save them? Canada heads to the polls on Monday 19 October to elect members to the 42nd Canadian parliament.
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Frontback Is Back With A New Team | TechCrunch
It’s a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for the Frontback community right now. On July 23rd, the company announced that it would shut down on August 15th. But something highly unexpected happened. A new team is taking over at Frontback and the serv…
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Yellow Poop is Hereditary. Who Knew?
If your poop is much lighter colored than nearly everyone else’s, it could be a sign that you have an absolutely harmless medical condition. And your parents are to blame. Three to seven percent of Americans have Gilbert syndrome.
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Does Your Rhythm Suck? This Addictive Game Can Help | WIRED
Caption: Don’t have rhythm? A new mobile game called Steve Reich’s Clapping Music can teach you. Touchpress Caption: To play it, you have to correctly tap out a rhythm for 13 different patterns. Touchpress
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Republicans Were For Fetal Tissue Research Before They Were Against It | ThinkProgress
Republican lawmakers in the Senate will hold a vote to defund Planned Parenthood on Monday, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown fight this fall.
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Geoff Miller, erstwhile Derbyshire and England off-spinner, national selector and wonderful raconteur, tells a terrific story of the time he was in the England party that toured the Caribbean in the spring of 1981.
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Amy Schumer Wants to Address Gun Violence — NYMag
When Sara Clements, whose mother survived the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, wrote an open letter to Amy Schumer this weekend about fighting gun violence, the comedian quickly tweeted back. @cdickason11 @sfclem Her name was Mayci, not Marci and …
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His on-screen alter-ego may not be saying much these days, but Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson—a.k.a Game of Thrones’ Mountain—had plenty to yell about this past month.
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South Sudan to unveil own plan to end conflict – Al Jazeera English
Juba, South Sudan – South Sudan’s government is due to unveil its own peace plan in the Ethiopian capital Addis Abbaba, just days after the government refused to sign a regional plan to end the conflict, Al Jazeera has learned.
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AMC seems to have decided that the previous trailers released for its upcoming Fear The Walking Dead had either too much dialogue or too much running, because the newest thirty-second spot features neither of those things.
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The Teaser For Deadpool’s Trailer is Pure Fourth-Wall-Smashing Greatness
That right’s you chimichanga-eating animals. The first Deadpool trailer will be out tomorrow—but here’s your first official glimpse at Ryan Reynolds’ performance as the popular Marvel Comics character.
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Germany pauses treason probe into spy leaks website – BBC News
Germany’s attorney general has confirmed that a treason probe into a political website has been momentarily paused. The state prosecution service has found sufficient real evidence of a potentially punishable public disclosure of a state secret.
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A New Deadpool Teaser Gives Us Mirth Before the Merc | WIRED
Deadpool faithful, thy time draws near. Weeks after what might have been Comic Con’s most talked-about footage—and talked-about bootleg—it seems that we’re a mere day away from getting a look Fox’s next Marvel joint (we know, we get confused too).
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Five under-pressure Premier League managers with much convincing to do | Football | The Guardian
Every football manager is under pressure but, for some in the Premier League, the pressure is more acute.
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Joe Biden ‘actively considering’ challenging Hillary Clinton – BBC News
Speculation about Joe Biden possibly entering into the 2016 presidential race reached a fevered pitch over the weekend – and the vice-president and his staff have done little to tamp down the talk since then.
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This feature comes from “Lucky Peach #12: Seashore.” Pick up a copy here! In a big, raucous restaurant in Los Angeles called Tokyo Kaikan, Ichiro Mashita changed the world.
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GELUGOR, Malaysia — The young woman had been penned in a camp in the sweltering jungle of southern Thailand for two months when she was offered a deal. She fled Myanmar this year hoping to reach safety in Malaysia, after anti-Muslim rioters burned h…
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Dogs On Acid want you to “Keep In Touch” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Though The A.V. Club has covered Dogs On Acid before, the band recently signed to Jade Tree records and has since announced its self-titled, debut full-length. The record will be released on August 28, but The A.V. Club is premiering the album’s ope…
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Opening statements have begun today in the trial of a Charlotte, North Carolina police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man ten times in September, 2013.
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Why This Pro-Smog TV Ad Is Wrong About Air Pollution In National Parks | ThinkProgress
A powerful organization representing industrial polluters launched a misleading new television ad last week with images of pristine national parks that are, in fact, experiencing dangerous levels of air pollution caused by its own members.
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The Math Behind Microsoft’s Big Nokia Writedown | TechCrunch
Inside a recent SEC filing, Microsoft detailed the figures behind its massive goodwill writedown that trashed its earnings last quarter. The writedown was an admission that the company’s expensive attempt to break into the first-party smartphone bus…
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CIA ‘torture’: Inside the ‘blackout box’ – BBC News
The CIA tortured terror suspects in its programme of “enhanced interrogation”, the agency’s former executive director, Buzzy Krongard, has admitted to the BBC’s Panorama programme.
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Government starts RBS share sell-off – BBC News
The government has started to sell off its 80% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland. UK Financial Investments, the body that holds the government’s RBS shares, said it would sell about 600 million shares, representing 5.2% of the bank, to institution…
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One Direction set to top the UK Singles Chart – BBC News
Nothing is dragging One Direction down on their journey to the top of the UK Singles Chart. They unexpectedly released the first single from their forthcoming album on Friday, entitled Drag Me Down.
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Netherlands crane collapse: 20 hurt in Alphen aan den Rijn – BBC News
Two cranes employed to restore a bridge in the central Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn have collapsed on buildings, injuring at least 20 people, media say.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Says She Shouldn’t Get Credit for “Conscious Uncoupling” | Vanity Fair
Of all Gwyneth Paltrow’s achievements, and there are many, that have permeated into the cultural fabric and created a real lasting impact, the coining of the term “conscious uncoupling” is up there with the most influential.
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Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a Japanese schoolchild? | Science | The Guardian
Earlier today I set four Area Maze puzzles. Here’s how you solve them. But I’ll leave you to prove it!
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This post contains frank discussion of Season 2, Episode 7 of True Detective. If you don’t want any spoilers, now’s the time to leave.
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Difficult People · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“God, I hate the sound of children laughing,” Julie (Julie Klausner) says while sitting in the audience of a Broadway production of Annie. That line defines Difficult People, Hulu’s funny new series co-created by Klausner and Billy Eichner, who star…
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Homeland Security joins privacy groups in pushback against CISA
Privacy advocates have found an unlikely ally in the fight against a major cybersecurity bill: The Department of Homeland Security.
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Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2015 – in pictures | Travel | The Guardian
The grand prize went to whale whisperers – diving with a humpback whale and her newborn calf while they cruise around Roca Partida island, in Revillagigedo, Mexico. ‘This is an outstanding and unique place full of pelagic life so we need to accelera…
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UK government starts Royal Bank of Scotland sell-off | Business | The Guardian
George Osborne has kicked off the first sale of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland since its rescue in 2008 despite criticism that he should wait for the bank to achieve more deep rooted reform.
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All eyes on Chuck Schumer on Iran deal
In an interview with POLITICO, Schumer insisted he’s still weighing his vote. He said he would decide based on the merits of the deal, not lobbying from either side. The deal picked up some significant support over the past week, including Sen. Eliz…
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Crying and evolution: Why do we shed tears?
This question originally appeared on Quora, the best answer to any question. Ask a question, get a great answer. Learn from experts and access insider knowledge. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus.
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Where Does The Glass For The New Supertall Skyscrapers Come From? | Popular Science
One World Trade Center as seen from Fulton St. in Lower Manhattan We don’t think much about glass; by its nature, it’s meant to be seen through, not seen.
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Rocky Planet with a 3-Day Orbit –“Only 21 Light-Years Away”
Astronomers have teased out that secret: a planet in a 3-day orbit that transits, or crosses in front of its star. At a distance of just 21 light-years, it is by far the closest transiting planet to Earth, which makes it ideal for follow-up studies.
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For months, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling crowds, the news media, and anyone else who will listen that she “always thought this would be a competitive race.”But she did not, at least until this past weekend, seriously anticipate the compet…
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MeFi Music “City Songs” Are Here! | Best Of MetaFilter
Aw yeah! The results of the Mefi Music challenge for May/June, with the theme City Songs, are queued up and ready to play! The MetaTalk thread discussing the effort and the tunes that emerged from this 77th (!) MeMu Challenge is here. Enjoy!
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Pittsburgh Doctor Linked to 2nd Zimbabwe Lion Hunt Probe – Scientific American
Aug 2 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has linked a Pennsylvania doctor to an investigation into illegal lion hunting, naming him on Sunday as a client of a safari operator accused of breaching regulations, a week after an American dentist was accused of illega…
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Thursday Is 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima | Al Jazeera America
Thursday will be 70 years since the U.S. struck Hiroshima with an atomic bomb. Three days later, a second nuclear weapon was dropped on Nagasaki. World War Two ended a week later, when Japan surrendered. Despite the decades that have passed, memorie…
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Jurassic World 2 Could Make Dinosaurs into an Open Source Technology
Jurassic World definitely had a few hints at what a potential sequel could bring. And, now that we know a sequel is in the works for June 2018, the first film’s director Colin Trevorrow (who is co-writing the sequel) offered up some odd, but excitin…
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Sex life of ancient Fractofusus organism revealed – BBC News
One of the earliest complex organisms had a surprisingly complicated sex life, scientists say. Until now, little was known about the biology of Fractofusus, which lived in the ocean 565 million years ago.
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Bohemian Guitars Returns With Something That Will Encourage Ukulele Lady To Like You | TechCrunch
Bohemian Guitars first won our hearts with their unique oilcan git-fiddles, an instrument at once primitive and surprisingly advanced. I played with them about two years ago and now they’re back with two new instruments and an updated axe. The Boho …
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Even the cast of ‘Fantastic Four’ hasn’t seen ‘Fantastic Four’
When a film isn’t shown to critics before its release date, that’s usually a bad sign. More often than not, it means the studio is worried their movie is about to get panned. This trend has made Fantastic Four fans decidedly antsy about the new rebo…
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DOHA, Qatar — Persian Gulf monarchies issued a cautious endorsement on Monday of the accord Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated last month to constrain Iran’s nuclear program.
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‘The Crow’ reboot curse continues as studio files for bankruptcy
It’s time to engrave another event onto the timeline of doomed Crow reboot attempts. The latest attempt to reboot The Crow has reportedly stalled after the production company, Relativity, filed for bankruptcy last week.
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Planned Parenthood funding target of Senate Republicans – BBC News
Republican Senators are moving ahead with plans to defund Planned Parenthood after anti-abortion activists claimed its employees were selling the organs of aborted foetuses. The release of a series of hidden-camera videos has prompted renewed scruti…
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An Election Has Put the Brakes on Doctor-Assisted Suicide Consultations in Canada | VICE News
This February, right-to-die advocates in Canada rejoiced when the country’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the federal laws that made it a crime for doctors to help their patients die.
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Summers are hot in Omaha, where heat indexes can top 100 degrees. But Molly Mahannah is prepared. At the office, she bundles up in cardigans or an oversized sweatshirt from her file drawer. Then, she says, “I have a huge blanket at my desk that I’ve…
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Proof-of-concept firmware worm targets Apple computers – Boing Boing
It’s like Bad USB, with extra Thunderbolt badness: Web-based attacks can insert undetectable malicious software into a Mac’s UEFI/BIOS, which spreads to other machines by infecting Thunderbolt and USB devices.
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When a Las Vegas Casino Needs a Good Dealer, This Is the Place They Call | Inc.com
Editor’s note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise. It was, fittingly, a game of chance that brought Nick Kallos to Las Vegas.
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India Signs Peace Agreement With Naga Separatists | Al Jazeera America
India signed a peace agreement Monday with a leading tribal separatist group in country’s northeast that had waged guerrilla war for six decades against central rule from New Delhi.
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UK ECHELON journalist: “Snowden proved spies need accountability” – Boing Boing
Legendary investigative journalist Duncan Campbell describes his life of being kidnapped by the London Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch, being surveiled and harassed by UK spies and ministers, and reveals the identity of the whistleblower who le…
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The War on Planned Parenthood Is Also an Assault on Poor Women of Color | The Nation
Our elected representatives have taken to the airwaves to proclaim they are extremely concerned with the fate of discarded fetal tissue; the fate of the health of poor women? Not so much.
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Watch Bruce Springsteen’s Surprise Appearance at In-Law’s Rock Show | Rolling Stone
Watch Bruce Springsteen’s Surprise Appearance at In-Law’s Rock Show Rock legend appeared onstage with wife Patti Scialfa during Timepiece’s private gig at New Jersey’s Wonder Bar
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This February, right-to-die advocates in Canada rejoiced when the country’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the federal laws that made it a crime for doctors to help their patients die.
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Sony’s New Phones Are Perfect For Snapchat, Yet No One Will Buy Them | TechCrunch
Sony announced two mid-range smartphones today focusing on what Sony does best — smartphone cameras. As a reminder, Sony is one of the leading providers of smartphone cameras, supplying the biggest smartphone makers in the world.
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Brazen forgery was art world’s “most brilliant” con – Boing Boing
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A warning to antisemites: Britain is hitting back | John Mann | Comment is free | The Guardian
Last week the widely respected Jewish research and defence organisation, the Community Security Trust (CST), published its antisemitic incident figures for the first six months of 2015, noting a 53% increase in incidents compared with the same perio…
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The internet agrees: Typing has made our handwriting worse #TNWwrites
Last week, we asked our readers if they believed their handwritings have got worse since computers took over our lives. Here are some of our favorite #TNWwrites submissions – brownie points to those who nodded to our elaborate Rick Roll.
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Earth’s Ancient Magnetic Field Just Got a Lot Older – Scientific American
Earth developed a magnetic field at least four billion years ago, the latest research shows—more than half a billion years earlier than thought. The work, described in the July 31 issue of Science, is a major step forward in understanding when and h…
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Clean Power Plan Hailed as Ambitious, Insufficient | Al Jazeera America
Environmental activists praised President Barack Obama’s new power plant regulations as the most important step to date in battling climate change, but warn that it won’t be enough without a dramatic cut in U.S. reliance on fossil fuels.
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Lena Dunham Was Almost Lost at Sea This Weekend | Vanity Fair
We almost lost Lena Dunham. As she, and all of us, are well aware by now, the sea has been calling for Lena Dunham for some time. Whenever you’re on the coast, you can hear its low, frothy hiss, half whisper and half gurgle, the briny call for Lena …
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Thomas Rhett Previews Progressive New Album ‘Tangled Up’ | Rolling Stone
On his second album, Tangled Up, Thomas Rhett says fans can expect even more of the funk, soul and R&B flavor of the project’s feel-good first single, “Crash and Burn.
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Donald Trump Fires Campaign Adviser Amid Racist Facebook Posts | Rolling Stone
Donald Trump has fired campaign adviser Sam Nunberg after several racially insensitive Facebook posts under his name surfaced last week, The New York Times reports. “Effective immediately, low level part-time consultant Sam Nunberg is no longer asso…
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A huge DNS exploit could take down chunks of the internet
Last week the Internet Systems Consortium released a patch for a serious vulnerability in BIND, one of the most popular Domain Name Servers that’s bundled with Linux.
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Twitter: A Google company – How it would work
Twitter should be a Google company… I am far from the first person to propose this. I don’t even like saying it, but the future of my favorite social network – who knew that was a thing you could have? – does not look good if it continues in its cur…
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Six of the best: Not the Booker prize shortlist revealed | Books | The Guardian
There were just under 1,000 votes for this year’s Not the Booker prize shortlist. On the one hand, that’s astonishing, amazing, huge. Thank you. Such enthusiasm for literature is affirming and overwhelming.
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The Leery Beginner’s Guide To Yoga
I’ve never been more terrified about farting accidentally as I was before my first yoga class. It didn’t matter that I had been doing yoga in the comfort of my apartment for five (mostly) flatulence free months.
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An Ode to the Amazing ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Theme Song | GQ
Like Wet Hot American Summer, it’s not quite clear what “Jane” is doing when it starts. “Jane,” a 1979 song by Jefferson Starship, opens the 2001 movie Wet Hot American Summer as well as the Netflix’s new prequel series for the show.
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Washington Has a New Plan to Tackle Domestic Terrorism and It Probably Won’t Work | The Nation
Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through the kind of mass surveillance in which the national security state now specializes.
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Walter Chang saved up, quit his job, travelled around the world for three years, and made this video. I went to South America and trekked through Patagonia. In Zimbabwe, hippos, lions, and elephants roamed through our camping ground.
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Jeb Bush Admires a Really Lousy President — And It’s Not His Brother | The Nation
It is no secret that Jeb Bush faces a challenge when the subject is presidents named “Bush.” Of course the former governor of Florida has regard for his father and his brother.
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Kevin Smith’s 1994 debut Clerks did much to define the low-budget, high-profile “Indiewood” boom of that era. But set a trend on America’s cultural fringe, and it never takes long for the mainstream to come calling.
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It is a cheap and easy metaphor, made no more sophisticated or amusing by the fact that it is true. The Rio 2016 Olympics are caked in all kinds of shit.
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True Detective’s Second-to-Last Episode Gets Lost in the Dark
It’s nearly the end of the line for True Detective’s second season, and if “Black Maps and Motel Rooms” is any indication, none of our troubled leads are heading toward anything resembling closure or a happy ending.
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That’s not what he says, of course: he just says that all porn sites will have to gather and retain proof of identity (eg credit-card details) to ensure that their users are over 18 or they’ll be blocked by the Great Firewall of Cameron — but every…
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Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits | TechCrunch
Amazon quietly rolled out a series of changes to its “Amazon Household” program and the ability for Prime members to share their shipping benefits over the weekend.
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3D Supernova Simulation Turns Back the Clock on Exploding Stars
This visualization depicts a massive star about to collapse and explode into a supernova. Researchers found in the new simulation that the wrinkles that develop just before collapse are crucial to detonation.Credit: S. M.
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Darren Wilson has applied for several policing jobs since leaving Ferguson | US news | The Guardian
Darren Wilson has attempted to return to work as a police officer since leaving his job in Ferguson, Missouri, amid the furore over his fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old, it emerged on Monday.
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US-Mexico border drug tunnel found near Tijuana – BBC News
Security forces in Mexico have discovered an underground tunnel aimed at crossing into the United States. The unfinished tunnel, in the border city of Tijuana, is believed to have been built by the Sinaloa cartel with the aim of smuggling drugs into…
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Chicken receiving 3D-printed prosthetic leg – Boing Boing
Cecily is a hen who was born with a bum leg due to a damaged tendon. The options were to put her down or make her a new leg. Her owner, Andrea Martin, who rescues chickens in Clinton, MA, opted to pay $2,500 to have the hen’s leg replaced with a new…
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After tense negotiations, 193 countries have agreed the next set of development goals, which will seek to end poverty, achieve gender equality and ensure food security in every corner of the globe by 2030.
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German researchers have demonstrated once again that the best way to limit climate change is to stop burning fossil fuels now. In a “thought experiment” they tried another option: the future dramatic removal of huge volumes of carbon dioxide from th…
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Nigerian Troops Rescue 178 People From Boko Haram | VICE News
The Nigerian army said on Sunday it had rescued 178 people from Boko Haram, in attacks that destroyed several of the militant group’s camps in the northeast of the country. Nigerian Army spokesman Col. Tukur Gusau said that 101 of those freed were c…
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet – The Atlantic
What if Joe Biden is going to run for the Democratic nomination after all? Most Democrats seem ready for Hillary—or at least content with her candidacy.
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Deaths reported amid warplane crash in Syria – Al Jazeera English
Government air raids in a northwestern town in Syria and a subsequent crash of a government warplane have killed more than 20 people, according to a monitoring group.
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Our environmental deficit is now beyond nature’s ability to regenerate | Environment | The Guardian
The world enters ecological ‘overshoot’ this year on 13 August, six days earlier than last year.
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India struggles to halt multimillion dollar trade in stolen artworks | World news | The Guardian
The police officers had waited since mid-morning. Hidden among the bustle of an Indian market, they watched, handguns at the ready. Around them, women haggled for vegetables and hurried office workers bought cheap fried chicken.
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Tropical storm Komen: Myanmar hit by devastating floods – BBC News
Tropical storm Komen has prompted flooding and landslides, leaving at least 47 people dead and thousands homeless. Some areas remain completely cut off.
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The person or people who decapitated a hitchhiking robot in Philadelphia narrowly escaped having their pictures captured by the android, its co-creator told the Guardian on Monday.
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Wildlife on your doorstep: August | Environment | The Guardian
August is here and while the northern hemisphere wildlife will be basking in summer weather, their southern hemisphere counterparts are now in the midst of colder temperatures.
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Gulf Arab states face twin terror threats – BBC News
If Gulf Arab foreign ministers tell US Secretary of State John Kerry their full list of fears this week then he may need to extend his current visit to Doha. Because the list is growing longer almost by the day.
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LOOMIS, Calif. — China is demanding that the Obama administration return a wealthy and politically connected businessman who fled to the United States, according to several American officials familiar with the case.
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Flying Ant Day: the science behind the summer swarms | Environment | The Guardian
Did a swarm of frisky flying insects put a dampener on your weekend barbecue? Well, there’s a good reason – for a brief period each summer, millions of flying ants appear in Britain for a short frenzy of mid-air mating.
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Why are people stealing letter boxes? | Business | The Guardian
Appearance: Varied. There are about 1,115,500 letter boxes in use in the UK, in at least 800 subtly different styles, some circular, some oval, some square or rectangular, some hexagonal. The classic pillar box, first installed in Jersey in 1852, is…
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‘Deadpool’ Official Trailer Sneak Peek : movies
By Deadpool? Thank fuck they’re acknowledging his mouth being sewn shut in Wolverine!
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Schools Should Teach Science Like Sports – Scientific American
Suppose you wanted to teach children to play baseball or softball. How would you go about doing it? One approach might be to sit them down and start having them memorize the rules of the game, the dimensions of the field, the names and statistics of…
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How have the Labour left, from arguably its lowest ebb in the party’s history, apparently ended up on the brink of taking the leadership on a wave of support? If you listen to many self-described “centre-left” voices, it’s because the Labour party h…
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Eden, Offering On-Demand Tech Help, Switches From Contractors To W2 Employees | TechCrunch
Back in May, Eden launched out of the Y Combinator accelerator to provide users with on-demand tech help, whether it’s fixing a cracked iPhone screen, solving WiFi issues, installing a printer or mounting a new TV. The startup has seen steady growth…
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A crayon highlighter that’ll never run dry – Boing Boing
Staedtler makes a highlighter called the Textsurfer Gel that somehow congeals finicky, dry-out-prone highlighter ink into an everwet, enduring crayon that you’ll be handing down to your grandchildren.
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After a five-week closure, Greece’s stock market plunged over 22 percent when it reopened Monday, as investors had their first chance since late June to react to the economic crisis that has engulfed the country.
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Nine-year-old bat boy dies after being hit in head at Kansas baseball game | Sport | The Guardian
A nine year-old bat boy has died after being hit in the head during a National Baseball Congress World Series game in Kansas on Saturday. Kaiser Carlile’s death was confirmed by the Liberal Bee Jays team in a Facebook post.
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John Oliver Is Very ProD.C. Statehood — NYMag
Think that all countries treat their capitals like the U.S. treats D.C.? Nope.
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Tourist bus has its roof ripped off after colliding with tree in London | UK news | The Guardian
Five people have been injured after a double-decker tourist bus had its roof ripped off as it crashed into a tree in central London. The bus was driving through Woburn Place in Bloomsbury, near Russell Square, when it hit an overhanging branch on Mo…
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BBC Sport – World Swimming Championships: Adam Peaty wins breaststroke gold
British world record holder Adam Peaty won gold in the men’s 100m breaststroke at the World Swimming Championships in Russia. More to follow.
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Adam Peaty takes gold in 100m breaststroke at world championships | Sport | The Guardian
Adam Peaty has become the first British man in 40 years to win the 100m breaststroke title at the world championships as Britain claimed two top-three places in Russia. The 20-year-old from Uttoxeter won in 58.
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India signs peace accord with Naga rebels – BBC News
India’s government has signed a peace deal with a leading Naga separatist group, bringing to an end one of the country’s oldest insurgencies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the accord between his government and the National Socialist Council…
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G.O.P. Senate Might Shut Down Government over Planned Parenthood Fundi | Vanity Fair
It’s been almost two years since the last government shutdown, and once again, America must endure the threat of political gridlock: another government shutdown is looming on the horizon, this time over Planned Parenthood’s funding.
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12 Rules for Dinner Parties, Emily Post-Approved | Vanity Fair
When Emily Post published her defining treatise on manners and entertaining, breezily titled Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, in 1922, she hardly could have imagined our world now, where FaceTime doesn’t mean actual face-…
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Turkey roundtable: War at two fronts? – Al Jazeera English
In the aftermath of the July 20 suicide attack in Turkey’s southern town of Suruc on the Syrian border, the Turkish army engaged in a series of military strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as the outlawed Kurdista…
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Junk Science and Police Shootings — Science of Us
Videos of police shootings seem to be changing the way the U.S. talks about law enforcement. Videos of the shooting deaths of Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and Sam Dubose, in particular, appear to show police resorting to lethal force when there was no …
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Taliban says video shows ‘allegiance’ to new leader – BBC News
The Afghan Taliban has released a video that they say shows hundreds of people declaring their allegiance to their new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour. The footage comes amid reports of a split in the group and claims not all senior members are happy …
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Paul faced danger, Ani and Ray faced each other, and Frank faced some career decisions. This week following True Detective, Spencer Kornhaber, Christopher Orr, and David Sims discuss the murders and machinations depicted in the HBO drama. (Sophie Gi…
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The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China – The New Yorker
Earlier this year, the Chinese government finally lifted its restrictions on the Hong Kong director Peter Chan’s 1996 film, “Comrades, Almost a Love Story.
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The High Life and Fast Times of Jim Dent – D Magazine
The High Life and Fast Times of Jim Dent The celebrated author of The Junction Boys has a thousand stories to tell. But each rollicking tale is tinged with the sad truth that he has a serious drinking problem. Even Dent himself can’t count how many …
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NASA’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory –A New “Systems” Approach to the Search for Alien Life
Since 2001 the NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory, based at the University of Washington, has brought an interdisciplinary approach to the study of planets and search for life outside our solar system.
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Israel: Harsh Interrogations for Jewish Militants | Al Jazeera America
Israel will allow harsher interrogations of suspected Jewish terror suspects, and possibly let security services violently shake detainees, following a deadly West Bank arson attack, government officials said Monday.
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Shark nabs a fish right off an Australian fisherman’s line
Sometimes fish escape on their own. Other times—well, let’s just say the fisherman probably didn’t see this coming. We suspect that, in its final moments, this fish was actually relieved. It might have been a grislier death, but at least it was quic…
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Economist defends ‘Corbynomics’ after Chris Leslie’s criticism | Politics | The Guardian
The author of the economic plan set out by Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn, has defended “Corbynomics” in the face of an attack by shadow chancellor, Chris Leslie.
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How good is a cheap smartphone? – BBC News
From the £24,000 ($37,470) Vertu Red Gold Black DLC to the £50 ($78) Rook, the 2015 smartphone market seemingly has a device to suit every wallet. But do you get what you pay for?
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Roof ripped off bus packed with tourists in London – video | UK news | The Guardian
At least five people have been rushed to hospital after a crowded tourist bus crashed into a tree in Bloomsbury, central London. The roof of the bus was ripped off during the collision on Monday afternoon.
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India blocks more than 800 sites in web porn crackdown | World news | The Guardian
Indian authorities have moved to block more than 800 pornography websites in the first major crackdown on the internet in the world’s largest democracy. The move immediately prompted a debate about censorship and freedom.
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Where to Move to Escape the Worst Effects of Climate Change – The Atlantic
Relocating to a landlocked city isn’t enough. Put simply: Climate change poses the threat of global catastrophe. The planet isn’t just getting hotter, it’s destabilizing. Entire ecosystems are at risk. The future of humanity is at stake.
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Girl, 16, given referral order for attacking two girls in the street | UK news | The Guardian
A 16-year-old who assaulted two younger girls in a video that was later posted online and seen by millions of people has been given a 10-month referral order.
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Obama Followed Long, Winding Path to Clean Power Plan – Scientific American
Climate change was riding an updraft in 2008. More Americans than ever before—or since—saw it as a troubling issue. And President-elect Obama had just pledged in his campaign to do something about it. So did his Republican opponent.
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Senate kicks off 2016 War on Women with a vote to defund Planned Parenthood
The big challenge they’ve got is that defunding Planned Parenthood means taking away Medicaid funding for it. Funding, by the way, that cannot be used for abortions. About 75 percent of the organization’s funding comes through the program for coveri…
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Over three days starting this weekend Memphis Depay and Raheem Sterling should make their debuts for Manchester United and Manchester City.
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Fetal-Tissue Research And The Long Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood – The Atlantic
Fetal-tissue research enjoyed bipartisan support amid decades-long efforts to revoke government funding to Planned Parenthood. Republican calls to defund Planned Parenthood over its handling of fetal tissue for research are louder than ever.
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Kos volunteers close down migrant food project – BBC News
A volunteer group on the Greek island of Kos that was feeding nearly 1,000 migrants a day says it is closing after running out of time and money.The 30 to 40 Greek volunteers behind the Kos Solidarity Project were using their own funds to buy suppli…
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Lucid Surf Dreams // Tommy Witt on Vimeo
Tommy Witt is perhaps the best longboarder in the world. While his creativity might make some purists scoff, you can’t deny his whimsical fluidity on a longboard. Tommy we salute you. This video is a collaboration with one of our favorite new surf f…
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What It’s Like to Be the First VR Cam Girl | Motherboard
Virtual reality is changing the way we view media, interact with each other, and get off, and adult performer Ela Darling wants to be on the cutting edge of it all.
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Joe Biden’s Schrödinger’s Cat Campaign | FiveThirtyEight
Pundits — bored with the prospect of a Hillary Clinton coronation — have conjectured for months that Joe Biden might run for president, but the vice president has remained on the sidelines. So you’d be right to indulge some skepticism toward the lat…
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Why Giant Mosquitoes Are Suddenly Swarming Greenland | Motherboard
If you catch a Greenlandic mosquito in your fist, do not relax your fingers. Unless you’ve clasped your grip so tightly that you fear you’ve broken skin and then squeezed a bit more, you haven’t killed it.
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I’m convinced predators like Tigers are so ridiculously beautiful so their prey can’t help but stare as their last chance to escape ticks away.
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Road to audition: Tom Hanks letter begging to be ‘discovered’ unearthed | Film | The Guardian
A 1974 letter from a pre-fame, teenage Tom Hanks asking the Oscar-winning director of The Sting, George Roy Hill, to “discover” him has been unveiled by Hollywood archivists.
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Martian Chaos Terrain Is Some of the Strangest Geology in the Universe
As you can see in this fly-over footage of Mars, chaos terrain is very aptly named.
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What A Blue Moon Looks Like In Space | Time-Lapse Video
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A $15 Minimum Wage Would Increase The Price Of A Big Mac By Less Than 20 Cents | ThinkProgress
If the minimum wage were increased to $15 an hour, prices at fast food restaurants would rise by an estimated 4.3 percent, according to a new study. That would mean a McDonald’s Big Mac, which currently goes for $3.99, would cost about 17 cents more…
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India orders adult websites blocked on moral grounds – Al Jazeera English
India has ordered internet service providers (ISP) to block access to more than 850 adult websites in what the government has described as a way to protect social decency, media reports say.
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What Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent Couture News Means for You | Vanity Fair
When, in 2012, it was announced that Hedi Slimane would be taking over at the legendary house of Yves Saint Laurent, it set the fashion world abuzz. Let’s face it, though, it doesn’t take much to rile up the fashion set.
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Stores to Stop Selling Realistic Toy Guns in NY — NYMag
Between 2012 and 2014, more than 6,400 illegal toy guns were sold in New York.
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NASA displays Challenger and Columbia shuttle wreckage for the first time
For the first time ever, NASA is publicly displaying some of the wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters. Challenger and Columbia were two of the greatest tragedies in NASA’s history of space exploration, as both shuttles were de…
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Calais: Life in ‘the Jungle’ – Al Jazeera English
Today, about 1,300 migrants – mainly from Syria, Sudan, and Eritrea – who fled conflicts and oppressive regimes at home are staying at Jules Ferry, a former children’s holiday camp. Many of them were evicted from squats within the city, and were mov…
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Cilla Black’s death may have been the result of an accident at home, Spanish police have said ahead of the results of a postmortem examination. Tributes to Black, 72, have poured in since her death was announced on Sunday afternoon.
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Juan Emmanuel Razo, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested last week on murder charges for allegedly shooting and wounding a woman in Ohio. He is also being accused of the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of a 60-year…
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Add Breathing Underwater to Kate Middleton’s Growing Skill Set | Vanity Fair
Because we, for the most part, only see the Duchess of Cambridge at official engagements, our understanding of her day-to-day life is . . . limited.
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The story behind this viral photo of a cop pointing his gun at a black woman
Photos of the incident have stirred up anti-police anxieties in the wake of Sandra Bland’s death and the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a Cleveland officer earlier this year. But the latest outpouring of viral outrage may be for naught.
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First Great Western rail workers to strike over August bank holiday weekend | UK news | The Guardian
Rail workers with First Great Western have announced they are to stage a series of strikes – including over the August bank holiday weekend – as a long-running row rumbles on over the introduction of new trains.
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With more than 4.9 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or packing your bags to go live on Kepler-452b. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 4,931,304-week…
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How important is Africa to the US? – Al Jazeera English
Since China overtook the United States in 2009 to become Africa’s biggest trading partner, the writing has been on the wall that the US is not really engaged with the continent. In 2014 the trade between the US and Africa was $73bn – that is down fr…
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LONDON — Tom Hayes, a former trader at Citigroup and UBS, has been convicted on eight counts of conspiring to manipulate a global benchmark interest rate known as Libor, bolstering efforts by prosecutors here to pursue financial wrongdoing.
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The biggest, rustiest car cemetery in the world
Deep in a forest in northern Georgia, tucked behind brush, sit more than 4,000 cars. Once road-worthy, the classic rides are now rusted and stalled for good. A tree grows onto the fender of a 1953 GMC truck. Many of the cars have not been moved in 3…
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Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Medium
I’m a professional YouTube creator. Some people think that this is some kind of joke but I have 30 employees. All of them work in the online video industry, about half of them work directly on producing videos for our educational YouTube channels. W…
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 3, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Overcrowded GOP Field Forces Iowa To Construct Massive Town Hall Stadium Read Full Article Study: Those Who Go To College Earn More Degrees Over Lifetime Than Those Who Do Not Read Full Article Woman Relieved Soulmate Turned Out To Be In Same Socioe…
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Rescuers Heroically Help Beached Garbage Back Into Ocean – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
ATLANTIC BEACH, NC—In what many described as an inspiring display of selflessness and teamwork, a group of rescuers heroically saved a beached mound of garbage by helping the stranded trash back into the ocean, eyewitnesses reported Thursday.
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Google Street View Cars To Start Measuring Air Pollution – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Teaming up with a startup called Aclima, Google is equipping its Street View cars with sensors that will monitor pollution across the San Francisco Bay Area and collect data on overall air quality, a move that Google reps say will lead to “smarter d…
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WASHINGTON—Saying that any further endeavors of technical skill and imagination were pointless, experts at the Smithsonian Institution reportedly questioned Monday why new art was still being produced after the pinnacle of aesthetic and creative pot…
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TEHRAN — Despite the smiling clown, a symbol of the Great Satan’s love for meat, buns and fries, there were no angry mobs punching fists in the air, shouting “Death to America”; nor did the smell of burnt American flags permeate this Tehran neighbor…
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On Friday the government of Puerto Rico announced that it was about to miss a bond payment. It claimed that for technical legal reasons this wouldn’t be a default, but that’s a distinction without a difference.
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LISTEN: The Niihau Incident – Boing Boing
After taking part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese fighter pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi crash-landed on the isolated Hawaiian island of Niihau. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the escalating drama between t…
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WASHINGTON — It may be the Summer of Trump, but the publicity-hungry real estate magnate is not the only Republican presidential candidate relishing all his attention. Donald J. Trump’s surge in the polls has been met with barely concealed delight b…
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Many progressive groups assume that we must prioritize making college education accessible to prisoners if we are to reduce recidivism.
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American Pharoah is Timeform’s highest rated in world after Haskell win | Sport | The Guardian
American Pharoah has been given the highest rating of any horse in the world by Timeform following the latest outstanding display by the Triple Crown winner in Sunday night’s Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park.
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The Bitterman Himalayan Salt Block – Boing Boing
I’m not much of a chef, but I really enjoy my newest culinary purchase. It’s the Bitterman Himalayan Salt Block, and it sure is pretty. Supposedly, it doesn’t matter if it’s beef, chicken or fish…everything is just gonna taste a little better when y…
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I grew up believing that no matter how successful, kind or loved I was, if I was overweight I wasn’t good enough. This feeling was most acute in my teens when, regardless of my nerdy achievements, constant diets and countless sit-ups, I knew I’d fai…
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The Instagram-Fueled Wanderlust of #Vanlife – The Atlantic
In 2011, Foster Huntington created the #vanlife Instagram hashtag, and unexpectedly spawned hundreds of thousands of posts and a family of eager followers.
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U.S. Unveils Strengthened Clean Power Plan to Combat Climate Change – Scientific American
The 5,400 MW Bełchatów Power Station in Poland – one of the world’s largest coal-fired power stations. Far-reaching rules that form the backbone of the U.S.
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Sport picture of the day: beaten to the punch | Sport | The Guardian
Juan Carlos Payano lands a right hand to the face of Rau’shee Warren during Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce TV at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. Photograph: Alex Menendez/Getty Images
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Mass doping claims: Olympic medal redistribution would be ‘farce’ | Sport | The Guardian
The head of the world athletics governing body has dismissed as “a farce” the idea of redistributing scores of Olympic and world championship medals in the light of leaked data allegedly showing abnormal blood test results by athletes.
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Cartoon: Things Trump could do…
LAST CHANCE: My Kickstarter for the hardcover, two-volume, thousand page 25 Years of Tomorrow ends Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 4 p.m!
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Peacock spider’s mating dance will put your moves to shame
There are no moves smoother than the peacock spider’s. In a video from YouTube user Peacockspiderman, we get to watch a member of Maratus personatus turn up and try to woo his romantic interest with a little jig.
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Be Unfailingly Kind – Rands in Repose
DJ and I play Destiny. I’ve never met DJ, but each week he and I and a dozen or so other regulars are sitting on our respective couches, chairs, and bean bags tackling the various parts of this gorgeous first person shooter. You can play much of Des…
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I am addicted to informercials – Boing Boing
I’m not proud to say it, but infomercials excite me way too much. Infomercials are not big budgeted, entertaining experiences. They generally don’t have actors I immediately trust and I don’t think ANY of the payments are all that easy.
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Microsoft announced this morning the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Incent Games, the makers of a “sales gamification” platform called FantasySalesTeam.
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Trump Is Making GOP’s Florida Problem Worse — NYMag
In 2004, the only time the Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote in the last six elections, George W. Bush carried the Latino vote in Florida. But since 2004, the state’s Latino electorate has grown quickly, and its expansion ha…
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America’s Justice System Sure Doesn’t Know Much Science | WIRED
James Holmes walked into a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rise in 2012 carrying three guns including a semi-automatic rifle and opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring 70 more. Nobody, not even his defense attorneys, denied that.
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This Star Wars Rogue One Rumor Doesn’t Make Much Sense But We Love It
Hard to think of a better way to start your work week than a juicy Star Wars rumor, right? The latest one is a doozy and it concerns Felicity Jones’ lead role in 2016’s Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One. Rumor is, she’s the daughter of Boba Fett.
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Gizmodo Hitchhiking Robot Lasts Just Two Weeks in US Because Humans Are Terrible | Jalopnik Street Outlaws Star Daddy Dave Flips Six Times During Amarillo Drag Race | Jezebel New Ghostbusters Cast Visits Children’s Hospital; Attracts Trolls | Kotaku…
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Trader guilty over Libor rate rigging – 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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Brown Dwarf Boasts Brightest Auroras Ever Seen [Slide Show] – Scientific American
Auroras—more commonly known as the northern and southern lights—are often counted among the wonders of the world. But they are actually wonders on other worlds, too.
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The governments of the UN’s 193 member states are gearing up to select a set of development and environmental targets for the next 15 years to replace the millennium development goals (MDGs) that expire this year. These targets will influence the £1.
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Former City trader Tom Hayes convicted of Libor rigging | Business | The Guardian
In a landmark case, Tom Hayes, a 35-year-old former UBS and Citigroup yen derivatives trader, was convicted of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
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Game of Thrones: Ian McShane to join season six | Media | The Guardian
Deadwood star Ian McShane is to join the cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones for season six, it has been reported. McShane is best known for his Golden Globe-winning role playing brothel owner Al Swearengen in HBO’s western drama Deadwood.
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Moroccan migrant dies inside suitcase on way to Spain – BBC News
A Moroccan man suffocated to death in a suitcase after his brother tried to smuggle him into Spain in the boot of his car, the Spanish government says.The 27-year-old man was on board a ferry from Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla to the main…
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As British as Finchley, according to the late Margaret Thatcher, but nowadays considerably less interesting to the British public, it would seem.
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Offworld Monday Reflection: Living card games, white whales and digital bonsai trees – Offworld
Last Week on the Colony is a new, regular Monday item here on Offworld, a special satellite transmission designed to highlight our favorite Offworld stories, wonderful trends, and the stories from elsewhere in the galaxy that got us talking.
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Over the weekend, at a political conference organized by the Koch Brothers where mega-donors and Republican presidential candidates rubbed elbows, Charles Koch compared his network’s influence over U.S. elections to past “freedom movements.”
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Simple homebrew deoderant recipe – Boing Boing
I don’t know about you, but despite my best efforts, my armpits stink to high heaven by the end of the day. It doesn’t matter which deodorant I use: over the last few years, I’ve learned who my friends really are.
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John Oliver: Give Washington D.C. Statehood | Rolling Stone
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver asked why Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, lacks many of the basic freedoms afforded to the rest of the Land of the Free.
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Sandler Slam: Peter Travers on Summer’s Worst Movies | Rolling Stone
Sandler Slam: Peter Travers on Summer’s Worst Movies Rolling Stone’s film critic takes on bad sequels, so-so boxing flicks and ‘Pixels’ — “a metaphor for everything wrong with movies”
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Yemen conflict: President Hadi loyalists storm key air base – BBC News
Pro-government forces in Yemen have launched a major offensive to oust Houthi rebels from an air base north of the port of Aden, military sources say. They say a number of rebels were killed as troops loyal to President Mansour Abdrabbuh Hadi and mi…
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West Ham’s Enner Valencia does not need surgery on knee and ankle injuries | Football | The Guardian
Enner Valencia has handed West Ham a fitness boost by announcing he does not require surgery after he was stretchered off against Astra Giurgiu last week.
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Watch Mitt Romney Demand Pancakes in Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Promo | Rolling Stone
Watch Mitt Romney Demand Pancakes in Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Promo Former ‘Colbert Report’ host teases new late-night era with hilariously lame magic trick, Charlie Rose Trapper Keeper
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Leicester City sign midfielder N’Golo Kanté from Caen| Football | The Guardian
Leicester City have signed the midfielder N’Golo Kanté from the French Ligue 1 side Caen. Kanté, 24, is a Frenchman of Malian descent who was part of the Caen team that gained promotion to Ligue 1 in the 2013-14 season.
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Connor Wickham signs for Crystal Palace from Sunderland | Football | The Guardian
Crystal Palace have signed the Sunderland striker Connor Wickham on a five-year deal for what they said was an undisclosed fee. The south London club are believed to be paying around £8m for Wickham who joined Sunderland from Ipswich in June 2011 fo…
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Robbie Maddison on Cheating Death to Make His ‘Pipe Dream’ a Reality | Rolling Stone
Suited up in full freestyle motocross gear, Robbie Maddison stood on the deck of a barge bobbing off the coast of Tahiti and prepared to live out a very literal pipe dream: Riding his motorbike directly into the maw of the world’s heaviest waves.
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History and imagination collide in ‘The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage’
You may have read about Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, and Charles Babbage, father of the computer, in history books. Augusta Ada King (née Bryon), Countess of Lovelace, was the only legitimate daughter of the English poet, Geo…
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Learn to code for hardware: the Raspberry Pi Hacker Bundle
Schools around the world have adopted the Raspberry Pi as a tremendously effective platform for learning to code. For the grownups, the Raspberry Pi Hacker Bundle will prepare you to start programming and building projects with the world’s favorite …
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Gaming’s biannual speedrunning extravaganza raises $1.2 million for charity
Hundreds of gamers spent last weekend plowing through video games as fast as possible, breaking records, drawing hundreds of thousands of viewers, and raising a staggering amount of money for charity. By the end of this year’s Summer Games Done Quic…
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Cecil’s Death Highlights Struggle to Conserve Lions – Scientific American
David Macdonald, director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, UK, found his research thrust into the limelight this week, after the killing of one of his team’s lions made global headlines.
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When we asked 8 pro photographers to share the best advice they were ever given, incredibly talented abstract aerial photographer Tony Hewitt said: I was once told to ‘Always stick to the Plan!’ When you have a shoot planned and the weather looks ba…
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Who Benefits Most from PTSD Treatment? – Scientific American
Researchers are just now beginning to discover how different biological malfunctions can give rise to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—insight that might one day lead to more targeted treatments.
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This Bird Spends Over Six Straight Months in the Air
This is an alpine swift. You can tell by the name that it’s a fast bird, but its real talent has just recently been discovered. It spends over half of the year in the air.
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The Promontory Financial Group occupies a position of trust in the global financial system, acting as a consultant to big banks, foreign nations and the Vatican.
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The Intern Trailer: Robert De Niro Solves All of Modern Man’s Problems | Vanity Fair
Is a little bit of guidance from Robert De Niro actually all that any of us need in order to have better lives? That’s the theory, it seems, in the latest trailer for The Intern, the Nancy Meyers-directed comedy that starts from the question “What i…
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Earlier this year, Amazon released the first episode of The Man In The High Castle, a series adapted from Philip K. Dick’s classic 1962 novel of paranoia, espionage, and science fiction in a Nazi-controlled America, with the rest of the series set t…
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Brain-training game helps ‘minimise impact of schizophrenia on life’ | Technology | The Guardian
Wizard, which will now be available on iOS (Apple’s operating system) as part of the Peak app, was tested for four weeks by 22 participants with a schizophrenia diagnosis.
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One Foot Tsunami: Well, I Guess It’s Bust
Remember hitchBOT, the adorable hitchhiking robot? Following a successful solo trip across Canada, as well as smaller guided tours of Germany and the Netherlands, hitchBOT set off on a cross-country tour of America in mid-July.
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BALTIMORE — On Christmas Day in 2013, Donyelle Hall and her husband, Roland Jr., gave a party for friends and family at their apartment. Mrs. Hall, a nurse’s aide for the severely disabled, had recently taken a college course in medical terminology …
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Space in Images – 2015 – 07 – Ancient Atlantis
This colourful image is a topography map of a portion of the region known as Terra Sirenum, located in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The map is colour-coded, with reds and whites representing the highest topography and blues and purples the lowes…
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LOS ANGELES — Raunchy comedy is having a rough run at the box office. Moviegoers turned out in strong numbers over the weekend for the well-reviewed fifth chapter in Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible” series, which sold about $56 million in tickets.
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India bans hundreds of porn and dating websites in misguided crackdown
The Indian government has done something stupid – it has banned more than 857 porn, dating and other ‘adult’ websites from being accessed within the country.
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Bud and Breakfasts and 420 Tours: Denver sees a cannabis ‘gold rush’ | US news | The Guardian
It’s not unusual for 24-year-old Maggie Copeland to have a conversation with her coworkers about pot. If demand is any indication, in the 18 months since recreational marijuana sales became legal, pot has been a booming success.
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With $3.6 Million In Funding, Meal Box Is Building A Turkish Food Delivery Empire | TechCrunch
After launching in Istanbul just over a year ago, Meal Box, a healthy meal delivery startup, is looking to corner the take-out market in the world’s fifth-largest city. Backed by $3.
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The Mets Are Tied for First Place — NYMag
Last night may have been the most anticipated game in Citi Field history: Just days earlier, the Mets had acquired outfielder Yoenis Cespedes — a move that not only bolstered the Mets’ lineup but generally excited the team’s fan base, which ha
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Opening statements were scheduled on Monday for the trial of a white Charlotte police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after he wrecked his car and was knocking on doors looking for help.
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Panic in Damascus? – Al Jazeera English
The view that 2015 has not been a particularly good year for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has much to recommend it. Within Syria, the government has lost control over most of the province of Idlib, and was recently dislodged from Palmyra by the …
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Why Not Me Author Mindy Kaling Answers the Proust Questionnaire | Vanity Fair
What is your idea of perfect happiness? Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened. What is your greatest fear? Generally? Hurt…
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Brazil: Ex-Lula aide Dirceu held in corruption probe – BBC News
Police in Brazil say they have arrested Jose Dirceu, who served as chief-of-staff under then-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from 2003 to 2005.
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UK supreme court urged to appoint Welsh judge | Law | The Guardian
A Welsh justice will soon be needed on the supreme court to deal with the expanding volume of legislation produced by the assembly in Cardiff, the UK’s highest court has been advised.
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Sooooo Fujifilm’s New Camera Sees Through Some Clothes | WIRED
The Fujifilm X-T1 might be our favorite camera of the past few years, and a spin-off version of the mirrorless shooter is about to add some eyebrow-raising tricks. Today, Fujifilm announced the new mirrorless X-T1 IR, which shares the same core spec…
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 92 | 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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Betaworks-Backed Glitter Is A Personal Trading Cards App | TechCrunch
Every two years, betaworks brings in brand new entrepreneurs and helps them bake up a new batch of products and services. In 2013, those companies included Giphy, Dots, and Poncho, and now the startup studio is ready to introduce its first new produ…
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Meet the YouTube network responsible for the Nae Nae’s viral ascent
If you’ve “whipped” or “Nae Naed” this summer, you have dance-centric network DanceOn to thank, at least in part, for the craze.
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Taliban members ‘pledge allegiance’ amid leadership rift – BBC News
The Afghan Taliban have released a video which they say shows members of the group pledging allegiance to the new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour. The footage is seen as an attempt to bolster support for Mullah Mansour, whose appointment has been ques…
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Maybe Maisie Williams’ Doctor Who Role Isn’t What We All Thought It Was
Spider-Man is definitely in Civil War—and his appearance has already been filmed. Gotham loses two comic book characters. There’ll be less trick-shot action in Ash vs Evil Dead. Weird Al Yankovic is playing a major DC Comics villain.
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Your gut is telling you what to eat — and you’re not listening – Vox
When I was growing up, my parents cooked at home a lot. The food was usually pretty plain and healthy: lots of vegetables and fruits, grilled or sautéed meats, bean soups. My mom and dad generally avoided restaurants.
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Amy Schumer to take active role in gun control movement | Culture | The Guardian
The comic and actor Amy Schumer will team up with US senator Charles Schumer to call for greater gun control in the wake of the fatal shootings of two women at a screening of her film Trainwreck last month.
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Cowboys’ Tyler Patmon plays down fight with Dez Bryant: ‘Brothers fight’ | Sport | The Guardian
Dez Bryant kept going after Dallas cornerback Tyler Patmon in a heated training camp skirmish that didn’t end until quarterback Tony Romo finally stepped in and calmed his star receiver.
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The History of the Fedora | Broadly
Has any single article of clothing been more reviled in modern times than the fedora? From the bars of Brooklyn to the remotest corners of the internet, this short-brimmed headgear has become such a widely recognized symbol of douchebaggery, it’s a …
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One of the most obvious facts about the U.S. political scene is also a fact most pundits refuse to acknowledge: the extreme polarization we now experience, the complete disappearance of any kind of political center, is not a two-sided phenomenon.
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Just in case you had any illusions about the state of US governance, and the sanity of the party that now controls Congress, the estimable Stan Collender now tells us that there is a better-than-even chance of a government shutdown this fall.
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The Inclusive Strength of #BlackLivesMatter
It would be tempting to say the timing was surreal, if it didn’t happen so often.
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Why the Koch Brothers Are Heroes In Their Own Minds
When Charles E. Wilson appeared before a Senate committee in January 1953 as President Eisenhower’s nominee to become Secretary of Defense, he was asked whether his large holdings of stock in General Motors, where he had been president and chief exe…
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Two New Mexico churches rocked by small explosions just 20 minutes apart | US news | The Guardian
A pair of small explosions just 20 minutes and a few miles apart shocked congregants on Sunday morning at two churches in southern New Mexico.
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Lethal flooding continues to engulf south Asia | World news | The Guardian
Heavy monsoon rains have continued to lash much of south Asia, threatening further casualties and more destruction after a week of lethal floods and landslides.
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Turkey is Denying Entry to Bodies of YPG Fighters Killed Fighting IS | VICE News
Turkey is refusing to allow the remains of a dozen of its citizens who were killed battling Islamic State (IS) in Syria to return home, say local officials and family members.
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Rescuers in Myanmar Struggle to Reach Flood Areas | Al Jazeera America
Rescue workers in Myanmar are racing to help tens of thousands of people facing severe floods, as the official death toll from the deluge climbed to at least 46.
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What should young children learn about being part of a democracy? One morning this past April, scores of preschoolers and kindergarteners dragged their grownups into the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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WATCH: turn smartphones into 3D hologram projectors – Boing Boing
Mrwhosetheboss made a down-and-dirty holographic projector for a smartphone using a plastic jewel case and special video files. Try it yourself! Below are some videos you can download for use with your new holographic projector: Cloudy Tee …
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Lion-killing dentist vs. Donald Trump’s sons: spot the difference – Boing Boing
The GOP front-runner said, “My sons love to hunt. […] Eric is a hunter and I would say he puts it on a par with golf, if not ahead of golf. My other son, Don, is a hunter. They’re great marksman, great shots, they love it.”
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Roddy Piper in THEY LIVE: great analysis by Slavoj Žižek – Boing Boing
They Live stars Rowdy Roddy Piper, who died July 31. It’s one of the greatest political sci-fi films of all time, and fittingly, it’s the opening film analyzed by Slavoj Žižek in The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.
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Superhero portraits in the style of Dutch masters – Boing Boing
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Hungry raccoons stuff their faces into a bowl of milk
Who needs manners when you can just stuff your face into your food? In a great case of getting the best of both worlds, these three raccoons are absolutely thrilled when they’re presented with a bowl full of soggy food in milk.
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Khatwn Mirza was seven months pregnant when Islamic State militants stormed Sinjar.
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Arriving safely in Italy or Greece after risking your life in the desert and on the sea leaves you with an important decision: which country in Europe should you go to in order to ask for asylum? The countries at the top of the list are Sweden, Germ…
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‘I’m in shock’: Katie Ledecky beats own 1500m world record in heats | Sport | The Guardian
For a swimmer who is getting accustomed to breaking world records, Katie Ledecky’s latest was a bit of a surprise. The American teenager improved her own mark in the 1500m freestyle at the world championships on Monday in morning heats.
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Burundi General Adolphe Nshimirimana Killed | Al Jazeera America
Gunfire rang out in Burundi’s capital Sunday night following the killing of a feared military general who was a close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza, raising fears of revenge killings and further violence.
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Climate Science AMAScience AMA Series: Climate models are more accurate than previous evaluations suggest. We are a bunch of scientists and graduate students who recently published a paper demonstrating this, Ask Us Anything! (self.science) Hello th…
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On-Demand Satellites Can Shoot High-Def Video of Your Car – Scientific American
New commercial satellites that promise constant close-ups of Earth are a boon to emergency responders and police but also raise privacy concerns By | UrtheCast, based in Vancouver, is just one of a host of small companies set to provide more frequen…
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader Shekau absent from video – BBC News
Militant Islamists have released a new video on the insurgency in Nigeria, with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau again failing to appear in it. His continued absence has increased speculation about his fate.
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Is it time to open my home as a museum and become a living exhibit? | Life and style | The Guardian
Bad news. The bassoon is dying out. And the viola, French horn and oboe. Soon, we won’t have any orchestras left. Thank you, successive idiotic governments, for sidelining music in schools. Now look what’s happened. A Save the Bassoon campaign has s…
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Bridget Christie webchat – post your questions now | Stage | The Guardian
In a world where women in comedy are still often treated as a subgenre, Bridget Christie is invaluable.
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Homemade slinky staircase is the pinnacle of human ingenuity
Not content with just watching a slinky toy walk downstairs, Matthias Wandel invented the perfect slinky-only escalator. Wandel’s slinky machine was carefully tested to be the right size and speed for a slinky toy, allowing the slinky to drop from s…
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British citizens without passports being turned away by landlords | UK news | The Guardian
Evidence has emerged that the government’s scheme requiring private landlords not to rent to illegal migrants has already led to British citizens without passports being turned away as tenants.
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Camp Bestival review – diverse pleasures for ex-ravers and their tots | Music | The Guardian
Organised by DJ Rob da Bank, Camp Bestival is the festival for lapsed hedonists and their kids. On Friday Dick and Dom entertain the toddlers while faux-Hispanic mischief-makers the Cuban Brothers please the oldies.
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Obama unveils US clean power plan – video | Environment | The Guardian
Barack Obama announces on Monday ‘the biggest most important step’ the US has ever taken to combat climate change – the new clean power plan.
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Why Do We Sometimes Like To Smell Stinky Things? – Phenomena: Gory Details
When a corpse flower named Trudy bloomed last weekend, thousands of people lined up for a whiff of its “magnificent stink.” The giant blossom smells like a heady mix of rotting fish, sewage, and dead bodies. It’s meant to draw flies, but just as sur…
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Moroccan dies in suitcase while smuggled to Spain – Al Jazeera English
A 27-year-old Moroccan man has suffocated to death while trying to illegally enter Spain hidden inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car, police have said.
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An inquiry into a bin lorry crash which claimed the lives of six people has heard claims there were “significant shortcomings” in the council’s recruitment procedures at the time the driver got his first job at the authority.
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Unreleased F Scott Fitzgerald short story finally published | Books | The Guardian
A short story by F Scott Fitzgerald discovered in the archives of Princeton University has finally been published, 75 years after the author of The Great Gatsby died of a heart attack, aged 44.
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Delta bans transport of big game trophies – BBC News The US airline Delta has banned the shipment of big game trophies on its flights following the international outcry over the illegal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. The airline has announced that it will no longer transport lion,…
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