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Not sure if my cat is the cutest cat in the world, or if I’m just bias : cats
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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont continues to tighten the race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a poll released on Tuesday. The WMUR Granite State poll found that 42 percent of likely Democratic primary voters said they wo…
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What Are the Odds of Succesfully Navigating an Asteroid Field? – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Did the brainy droid C-3PO get the calculation right? Are the odds really 3,720 to 1? Those are exactly the questi…
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Senate Eyes Another Citi Nominee For Deputy Trade Representative
In the December post, Enougher is Enougher: ANOTHER Citi Nominee, I wrote about the nomination of Marisa Lago to be deputy U.S. trade representative: Ms. Lago was Global Head of Compliance for Citigroup’s corporate and investment bank from 2003 to 2…
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Using an EE Power Bar? Check if yours poses a fire risk
Quite unsurprisingly following the story of the exploding charger at the end of last month, network operator EE has issued a recall of a particular batch of its portable Power Bars. According to the announcement, only batch E1-06 pose a fire safety …
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This Chrome extension shows you amazing code demos on every new tab
Aspiring Web developer? Get inspiration with Code Doodles, a Chrome extension that shows you an incredible code demos every time you open a new tab. The extension randomly selects Web experiments that require only a short attention span and load qui…
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Anjem Choudary faces UK terrorism charges over Islamic State – 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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Is game theory the key to success in the Republican presidential debate? | US news | The Guardian
As Jeb Bush crams on books and Scott Walker runs mock debates, Donald Trump can laugh, revelling in the disarray of the Republican field ahead of the party’s first primary debate as he sits atop many polls.
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Giant inflatable Minion wreaks havoc on Irish road in a scene from our nightmares
Those “screaming cornpops” we call Minions have already taken over the Internet, the box office, conspiracy theorists, and Halloween, but now they’ve got an even bigger target: the world.
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How Ferguson Changed Once The Media Went Home | ThinkProgress
Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death at Officer Darren Wilson’s hands in Ferguson — the spark that ignited a national movement of protest against police violence and white supremacy. One year later, that movement is nowhere…
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‘Best ever’ Mayweather returns to the ring in September – Al Jazeera English
Floyd Mayweather will put his unbeaten record on the line when he steps into the ring to face Andre Berto in Las Vegas on September 12 in what could be the final fight of his career.
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Bar Owner Eliminates Tips So He Can Pay Cooks And Dishwashers A Living Wage | ThinkProgress
Portland, Oregon’s new bar Loyal Legion doesn’t just offer customers 99 different beer choices. It also requires them to pay zero in tips.
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Could Western States Band Together To Comply With The Clean Power Plan? | ThinkProgress
As soon as President Obama’s Clean Power Plan enters into the Federal Register, states will have up to two years to craft their plans to meet the EPA’s regulations for carbon pollution from power plants.
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Caption: Robbie Maddison’s ride in Tahitit was the result of three years of work on a surfing motorcycle. DC Shoes Motorcycles are not made for surfing. They do not float. They are not waterproof.
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When ten Republican presidential candidates gather on stage in Cleveland this Thursday, they’re unlikely to touch on access to the polls, despite the fact that the debate marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and t…
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Will we be able to convert robots to Christianity?
After conquering the kitchen, the game show, and outer space, are our machines heading for religion next? The singularity is a hypothesized time in the future, approximately 2045, when the capabilities of non-living electronic machines will supersed…
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UN warns school may be delayed for Palestinian refugees – Al Jazeera English
The UN body assisting Palestinian refugees in the Middle East is facing its most severe financial crisis yet, putting the school year for half million students at risk.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Timeline to disaster – Al Jazeera English
How nurturing chickens is helping elderly communities combat loneliness and associated mental health problems. After days on a crowded boat crossing the Mediterranean, one Syrian refugee family strives for a new future in Austria.
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View from atop Mt. Sneffels, Co. [2048×1536][OC] : EarthPorn
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Famenin-Hamedan,Iran.(look at the sky ) [1280 x 720] By Ali Hojjati. : EarthPorn
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Weather Maker [OC] [2000×1500] Southern Colorado : EarthPorn
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Recent Trip to the Painted Hills, Oregon [OC] [466X350] : EarthPorn
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Got some malware : firstworldanarchists
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The Indian Ocean from an island off Dar Es Salaam [720×720] : waterporn
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MRW I’m losing my boxing match against the Amazing Smother-Pillow : shittyreactiongifs
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Amplitude Raises $9M For A New Approach To Analytics And Pricing | TechCrunch
Mobile analytics startup Amplitude is announcing that it has raised $9M in Series A funding. When we wrote about Amplitude last year, we noted that they’re trying to undercut competitors like Mixpanel with lower prices and a freemium product.
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When Trade Theories Confront The Real World, The Real World Wins
I had a conversation over the weekend about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). She’s for it, because “more trade is always good.” TPP covers a whole lot more than what we would think of as “trade.” Regardless, let’s look here at the idea that expa…
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Ryan Reynolds gave Conan O’Brien a semi-naked massage to promote ‘Deadpool’
The official Deadpool trailer arrived on Tuesday night and blew the Internet’s collective mind, but star Ryan Reynolds’ appearance on Conan was something else entirely.
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American, socialist and proud: meet Bernie Sanders’s supporters | US news | The Guardian
What does socialism mean in America? Some recent events suggest we haven’t a clue.
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Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN | TechCrunch
Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital.
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The Dullest, Most Important Phrase in New York — NYMag
Could there be a more soporific or cryptic string of words than “mandatory inclusionary zoning,” the new rallying cry in the fight to make New York a place where New Yorkers can afford to live? And yet it’s an exciting concept, especially i
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Don’t Watch That Clumsy Player Too Closely – Scientific American
If you excel at a sport, you may want to look away when greener athletes take their turn. A new study finds that watching a novice’s actions can deteriorate expert performance.
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World Rowing to test Rio Olympic waters for viruses – video | Sport | The Guardian
The World Rowing Federation Fisa agrees to test the waters in Rio de Janeiro for viruses, after a report suggests high levels of raw sewage at Olympic venues. Speaking on Tuesday, the executive director Matt Smith says Fisa is following World Health…
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The story of the avant-garde is never just one story.
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Honest Trailers reminds us that the 2005 ‘Fantastic Four’ was just awful
The reviews are in for the Fantastic Four reboot, and they are… not good. Not good at all. If you’re a disappointed Marvel fan, it might be a good idea to look ten years into the past and thank your lucky stars that we aren’t getting another seque…
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Satellite Spies Super Typhoon Soudelor from Space (Photo)
Satellite Spies Super Typhoon Soudelor from Space (Photo) http://t.co/vxq0k5WbyV
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Good Wednesday morning from Washington, where all eyes are on Thursday’s Republican debate now that the lineup has been finalized.
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Cancer survival ‘lagging in England’ – BBC News
England’s track record for cancer survival remains poorer than other countries with similar health systems, a study suggests. Published in the British Journal of Cancer, the research compares England’s survival trends with figures for five other cou…
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Could we fly from London to New York in an hour? – BBC News
Airbus has won a patent for a hypersonic passenger plane which could potentially fly from London to New York in an hour. Dubbed Concord 2.0, the jet would be capable of flying more than four times the speed of sound.
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Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage replaced in video game – BBC News
Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage has been replaced as the voice of a computerised guide in a video game after criticism of his performance. Dinklage had provided the voice of artificial intelligence assistant Ghost on the first-person shooter Des…
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Afghan conflict sees ‘sharp rise’ in female casualties – Al Jazeera English
The UN has reported a sharp rise in the number of women and children killed or injured in Afghanistan’s conflict between government forces and armed groups, including the Taliban.
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Turkey says ‘comprehensive battle’ against IS to come soon – BBC News
Turkey has said it plans to escalate its attacks on Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said US warplanes and drones were now arriving at Turkish airbases.
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Campaign Monitor now has a transactional email service
Campaign Monitor wants to win more of the valuable email market away from Mailchimp’s Mandrill service with its new transactional email platform.
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How Tyra Banks’ ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Lost Its Way – The Atlantic
Over 21 seasons, Tyra Banks’ Top Model became increasingly driven by branding and social media, diluting the fantasy world fans came to love.
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Samsung Pay Heads To Samsung’s Smart TVs | TechCrunch
Last March Samsung announced Samsung Pay — a mobile payment offering which it hopes will go head to head with Apple Pay.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Voting Rights Act at 50, preview of the GOP debate and more
The relative subtlety of the newer measures does not make them any less insidious. But it does make them more resistant to charges of illegality.
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Russia May Finally Have Killed the Minsk Agreement – The Atlantic
Having failed to achieve its objectives in Ukraine through negotiations, Russia is turning to other means. Mykola Azarov’s call for early elections and “total regime change” in Kiev was a bit of a head-scratcher.
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Ghost of a Dying Star Hints at Sun’s Future
Ghost of a Dying Star Hints at Sun’s Future http://t.co/FNHVN0XRij
The sun’s ultimate destiny will mirror the drama captured in vivid new photos of this ghostly bubble — the glowing remnant of a slowly dying star. A collapsing star released this shell of glowing gases, known as the Southern Owl Nebula, which has gr… -
3 Years on Mars! Curiosity Rover Reaches Milestone
3 Years on Mars! Curiosity Rover Reaches Milestone http://t.co/BYQXptdA7V
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has now been trundling across the Red Planet for three very productive and eventful years. Curiosity landed on the night of Aug. -
Tiny Cubesat Will Hunt for Water Ice on the Moon
Tiny Cubesat Will Hunt for Water Ice on the Moon http://t.co/ufJNEjLSfk
NASA has given the go-ahead to a mission called Lunar IceCube, a public-private partnership that will send a tiny cubesat to do water-ice prospecting from an elliptical orbit around the moon. -
Star’s ‘Ghost’ Shimmers Against The Vast Expanse Of Space | Video
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Excuse me, magnets, Appletown needs me : InterestingGifs
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Princess Fawzia Fuad Of Egypt 1940’s : OldSchoolCool
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Canada Keeps Eye on Environmental Activists | Al Jazeera America
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — On July 16, James McIntyre, 48, was shot and killed by police outside a public meeting about a proposed hydroelectric dam in Dawson Creek, a small town in northeastern British Columbia.
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Learn Twitter’s Bootstrap for free
Whether you want to prototype an app or quickly design a responsive site, Twitter’s Bootstrap framework is your highly resourceful friend. And now, a free course at TNW Deals shows you how to get the most out of it.
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Facebook’s new patent could make you rethink your friends list
Facebook secured a patent on Tuesday that could help filter spam emails and offensive content, improve searches and allow lenders use your social habits to determine a credit approval.
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Tech in Latin America: All the news you shouldn’t miss
July was a busy month for consumer tech in Latin America, with Xiaomi making its debut in Brazil, while Amazon expanded its Mexican operations. As for the startup scene, it saw its fair share of acquisitions, funding rounds and launches. Here’s the …
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Crysler’s Jeeps got hacked, now here come the lawsuits
Last month, security researchers managed to remotely hack a Jeep Grand Cherokee. The brand’s parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) recalled 1.4 million vehicles after learning of the security flaw — and now it’s facing a class action lawsui…
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Somewhere: Make the most of the new world of work
The world of work has changed. It’s more about you than ever before. The traditional ‘steady job’ is on the decline and you have to be ready to market your skills – and yourself.
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Chat App Line Invests In Mobile Games With New $20M Joint Venture | TechCrunch
With revenue dropping this past quarter following a slump, Japan-based messaging firm Line is going back to what it knows best with a new $20 million joint venture to create mobile games.
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Leanplum, a service that helps developers and marketers engage with mobile users through personalized messages, dynamic UI optimization and A/B testing services, today announced that it has raised a $11.6 million Series B round led by Kleiner Perkin…
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In search of the perfect saddle (AKA when bigger isn’t better) | Environment | The Guardian
I owe quite a few people an apology. To everyone over the years who got a new bike and moaned about their bottom hurting, only for me to say breezily, “you just need to break your bum in”: I’m sorry. I was wrong.
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Spears Woods – Forest Preserve District of Cook County, IL [OC] [1540×640] : EarthPorn
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I leave my mailbox open for ten minutes… : aww
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Thyroid test in Chandigarh- Narang Diagnostic Centre : dataisbeautiful
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I get to cat-sit this cutie every couple of months : cats
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mrw i can’t find my keys and i’m late for work : shittyreactiongifs
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Hillary Clinton and the ‘Makeup Tax’ That Hurts All Women – The Atlantic
Women who wear makeup earn more and are treated better. This has steep costs, in both money and time.
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Why Republicans Need to Brace for the Road Block Ahead – The Atlantic
The party grips with an intensifying crisis as the presidential race and mess in Congress intersect.
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Jimmy Fallon helps you decide whether to watch the GOP presidential debate
With Donald Trump still polling in first place, Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate is sure to be a wild ride. But in case you’re still undecided about watching, Jimmy Fallon has laid out the pros and cons.
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New York Times – Modern Love on Vimeo
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My Facebook was blowing up with pictures of her child…..I warned her : AdviceAnimals
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My sister works at a driving school. She sent me this picture from her desk today – Imgur
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Alena Bradford fundraising page seeks to help black trans woman transition | Society | The Guardian
Ten days ago the Guardian profiled Alena Bradford, an African American trans woman in the deep south of Georgia who is having such difficulty transitioning that she is forced to live in her mother’s house as a man named Christopher.
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When police officers put on their badges and blues, do they somehow change inside? Surrounded by stories of pepper-sprayed protesters, threats at traffic stops, and sudden bursts of violence sometimes causing deaths, the US has spent a year asking i…
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There’s a Fine Line Between Gift-Shop Rocks and Meteorites | WIRED
Meteorite hunters search for treasures from space, pushing aside the terrestrial in a quest for the alien. Alexandra Lethbridge sees their work as a metaphor for how people are too often chasing the exotic at the expense of the familiar.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Pennsylvania spends more than 7 percent of its annual state budget on its corrections system, about $2 billion.
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Sign Up For Another Chance To Buy 2-For-1 Tickets To Disrupt London | TechCrunch
Disrupt London 2015 is just around the corner, and it’s never too soon to start thinking about snagging your tickets to the show. With this year’s Disrupt, we’re releasing a few batches of two-for-one general admission tickets to the show, and the n…
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The Fixer Who Helps Startups Like Uber Beat the Government | WIRED
Tech is obsessed with “disruption,” so much so that the term has all but lost its meaning.
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Archiving Your Ex in This App Is Almost as Bad as a Breakup | WIRED
Years ago, a boyfriend and I drunkenly wandered into a construction site, where each of us stole a doorknob for no reason other than it would be “a thing” we’d done together.
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Garmin Releases a New $170 GPS Running Watch | WIRED
Garmin’s Forerunner line of GPS running watches is vast—there are ten different models to choose from, all with varying features and abilities. Now there’s one more. Today, Garmin announced the Forerunner 25.
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How Obama’s Getting Americans to Care About Climate Change | WIRED
Barack Obama has a way with words—for which he’s been both vilified (all talk!) and adored (so inspiring!). Hate or love, nobody can deny he’s good at communicating.
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The Windows 10 Security Settings You Need to Know | WIRED
So you finally installed Windows 10 and joined the ranks of the other 67 million users. You open your browser to search for a place to grab lunch, and Bing already knows your location. You notice that all the banner ads are geared toward your secret…
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Mexico seeks suspects in journalist Espinosa’s murder – BBC News
Mexican police are searching for three men shown on surveillance video leaving the building where photojournalist Ruben Espinosa was killed. The bodies of Mr Espinosa and four women were found in a flat in the Narvarte district of Mexico City on Fri…
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Generic GMOs Aren’t Going to Bring Down Monsanto’s Empire | WIRED
For twenty years, the agro-tech company Monsanto has been making life difficult for farmers. Well, first the company made it easy: Its genetically modified seeds allowed crops to thrive in the presence of pesticides, dramatically increasing farmers’…
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Cecil the lion: trial of professional hunter postponed in Zimbabwe | Environment | The Guardian
The trial of a professional Zimbabwean hunter who led the expedition that killed Cecil the lion has been postponed until next month after an application from his lawyers.
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Her body, her choice. Everyone deserves bodily autonomy. : TrollXChromosomes
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Sailing from Auckland, NZ [2048 x 643] [OC] : CityPorn
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Cecil the Lion suspect says case is ‘frivolous’ – BBC News
The trial of a professional Zimbabwean hunter, who led the expedition that killed the country’s most famous lion, has been postponed. The killing of Cecil the lion provoked worldwide outrage.
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Kerry on Iran, Israel and Congress – The Atlantic
In an interview, the secretary of state calls the Iran nuclear pact “as pro-Israel as it gets.
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Blue Angels’ Bold New Performer Pops Wheelies on the Tarmac | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Before she enrolled in the Naval Academy, Katie Higgins considered becoming a nun. But she comes from a family of military pilots, including her father and both grandfathers—so the pull of aviation was…
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Welcome to Seoul National University, (4132×3096) : CityPorn
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Seoul National University Performance Hall, Seoul, ROK (4032×3196) : CityPorn
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Momo plays with string 🙂 : cats
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Seoul National University Performance Hall (4132×3096) : ArchitecturePorn
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Dame Julie Andrews to direct production of My Fair Lady – BBC News
Dame Julie Andrews – the original star of My Fair Lady – will direct a 60th anniversary production of the musical at the Sydney Opera House next year. The British actress played the lead role of Eliza Doolittle in a 1956 Broadway production.
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Cafe opened over Jerusalem Islamic graves sparks anger – Al Jazeera English
The opening of a cafe in Jerusalem built over a revered Islamic cemetery has sparked condemnation and anger from the Muslim community.
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Croatia celebrates military anniversary as Serbs mourn – BBC News
Croatia has held a big military parade to mark the 20th anniversary of a key offensive in its independence struggle, while Serbia mourns the victims. The Zagreb parade featured thousands of soldiers, military vehicles and jets, to celebrate Operatio…
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Zimbabwe ‘Cecil lion hunter’ Bronkhorst case postponed – BBC News
The trial of a professional Zimbabwean hunter who led the expedition that killed Cecil the lion has been postponed until September. Theo Bronkhorst said the charges he faces of failing to prevent an illegal hunt when the lion was shot in July by US …
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Good morning on this sun-speckled Wednesday. For those looking for a head start on a journey to the center of the earth, a sinkhole, like the one that opened up in Sunset Park yesterday, could be a good thing.
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HWANGE, Zimbabwe — The trial in Zimbabwe of a professional hunter who helped an American kill a popular lion named Cecil in an allegedly illegal hunt in Zimbabwe was postponed Wednesday to Sept. 28.
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A guy gets Rousey’d hard. : gifs
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I adopted Momo a few weeks ago. He is already fitting in nicely. : cats
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Habitat III is all about cities. The UN should give them a seat at the table | Cities | The Guardian
UN conferences on urbanisation occur just once every 20 years. The third, Habitat III, will convene in Quito, Ecuador late next year. It is a unique opportunity for the world’s nations to debate the future of their cities, as urbanisation becomes th…
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Groovy Gear for Vinyl Record Aficionados | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. MOLLY CRANNA; PROP STYLING BY JAMES WHITNEY / ARTIST UNTIED; SAND ART BY KIRK RADEMAKER / SANDGUYS.COMYou don’t need skinny jeans and elaborate facial hair to appreciate vinyl records. But if you want …
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Lower-tier candidates ready to get most from early Fox debate | TheHill
With the line-up for the first primetime Republican debate set, the focus for the low-polling GOP contenders relegated to an earlier debate is shifting from frustration to how to make the best of the hands they’ve been dealt.
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EU-Vietnam deal paves way for major trade boost – BBC News
The EU and Vietnam have reached a free trade agreement – the second such EU deal with a South-East Asian nation. The deal will remove nearly all tariffs on goods traded between the EU and Vietnam. Their annual trade is worth about €28bn (£20bn; $30b…
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New Dem rulebook: Don’t criticize Hillary Clinton | TheHill
Liberals on Capitol Hill are showing a reluctance to criticize Hillary Clinton, even when the Democratic presidential front-runner refuses to take a position on their priorities.
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Game on: How each candidate can win first GOP debate | TheHill
The 10 participants in the first official Republican debate of the 2016 presidential race were announced Tuesday evening after much speculation as to who would claim the final spot on stage. In the end, Ohio Gov. John Kasich beat out former Texas Go…
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Kids can curse too : perfectloops
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Matterhorn, Switzerland. Never gets old. [OC][2048×1379] : EarthPorn
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Sunrise at Pranburi, Thailand [4912×3264][OC] : EarthPorn
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Whose Streets? Moms’ Streets – In These Times
On Monday, June 29, Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK) took a novel approach to countering bloodshed in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, the setting of Spike Lee’s forthcoming film Chiraq and an area the media calls “violent,…
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Weeks before touching a ball for his new club or even donning its training gear, Giovani Dos Santos made an immediate impact for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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August 5, 1962: Marilyn Monroe Dies | The Nation
When Monroe died on this day in 1962, Lincoln Kirstein—a writer, philanthropist and co-founder of the New York City Ballet, and brother of The Nation’s owner and publisher, George Kirstein—wrote a tribute in the magazine to the fallen star: Marilyn …
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windows.exe has crashed : InternetIsBeautiful
windows.exe has crashed (virtualglitter.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading…
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Survivor of the Nagasaki Atom Bomb Describes His Experience – Scientific American
Takamitsu Nakayama was 16 years old and working at a shipyard in Nagasaki when the atom bomb devastated his city.
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Star Trek: but instead of normal, it’s with philosophers – Existential Comics
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Good morning. President Obama explains and defends the nuclear agreement reached last month with Iran at American University in Washington this morning. President John F. Kennedy spoke there in 1963 on nuclear disarmament and peace.
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Greek bank shares decline for third day in Athens trading – BBC News
Greek bank shares have fallen sharply for a third day, continuing the trend seen since the stock exchange re-opened at the start of the week. The banking sector share index fell 20%, after falling by about 30% on both Monday and Tuesday.
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Levitating magnetic hoverboard unveiled – BBC News
A levitating hoverboard which runs on a specially constructed skate park near Barcelona in Spain, has been unveiled by car manufacturer Lexus.Footage released by the firm showed skateboarders testing the hoverboard with varying degrees of success.
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I was definitely prairie dogging. : AdviceAnimals
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Why we were late for our vacation… : cats
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NEW DELHI — At least 29 people were killed when two trains derailed at a flooded river crossing in central India, and rescuers were still searching for survivors, officials said Wednesday.
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Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The River – YouTube
Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The RiverSong origins:The song was written on Morrison’s three week trip to Ireland in October 1973, along with seven other songs that would feature on Veedon Fleece.Biographer Clinton Hey…
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Pedro, Di Maria, De Bruyne, Hernandez, Stones
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal forced Paris St-Germain to pay an extra £3m for forward Angel Di Maria after the 27-year-old posted a picture of himself with the French club’s owner in Qatar. (Daily Mirror)
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Buttons Loafing Debut : Catloaf
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chilly summer day Osterfjord, Norway [OC] 4896×3672 : EarthPorn
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THIS IS THE MOST 3D GIF TO EVER 3D – GIF on Imgur
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Brianna West stepped before the judge as her daughter Morgan, 3, fidgeted beside her. Ms. West had waited weeks to get this case behind her, facing citations that included failure to comply with a police officer.
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SYDNEY, Australia — If the part of the trailing edge of a jet’s wing that washed up on the island of Réunion last week is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the authorities will be hoping it can tell them something more about the
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Natalia Molchanova: Freediving champion feared dead – BBC News
Natalia Molchanova, the 53-year-old Russian champion freediver, is feared dead after going missing on Sunday. Ms Molchanova, who holds 41 world records, was diving for fun off Formentera, a Spanish island near Ibiza, when she failed to surface.
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CAIRO — A veteran leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was so alarmed by the rising calls for violence from the group’s youth that he risked arrest to urge the movement to stay peaceful.
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Le mr dog-skeltal hybrid : ledootgeneration
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I turned 17 yesterday. : firstworldanarchists
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The 3 deadliest drugs in America are all totally legal : dataisbeautiful
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The Daily Show’s Nuttiest Guests Regret Nothing — NYMag
In honor of Jon Stewart’s impending retirement, tonight The Daily Show answered one of the biggest mysteries about the show: are the crazy people in the field pieces real? The answer is yes, as Jessica Williams proved in a segment titled, “Guess Who…
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Widow of former South Korea president in visit to North – Al Jazeera English
Lee Hee-ho, the widow of the former president of South Korea, Kim Dae-jung, has arrived in Pyongyang where her trip will include visits to a maternity clinic, an orphanage and a children’s hospital.
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Go Off-Grid With Silent Pocket’s Leather Goods | TechCrunch
Every get the feeling someone’s watching you? Of course you do; you use the Internet… So what’s the answer to pervasive tracking technologies? Well, one answer — at least when you’re able to step off grid entirely because you don’t need to use your …
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Cheryl Boone-Isaacs re-elected AMPAS president – BBC News
Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been re-elected as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for a third term. She ran unopposed, meaning she was elected unanimously by the board of governors.
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My friend’s called Al Overdrive but Facebook won’t believe him
For a brief period, I was a full-time music journalist. That’s how I came to know Al Overdrive, a photographer whose work is featured by some of the world’s biggest fashion and music titles as well as a lot of big brands. And yes, his legal name is …
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Quentin Letts, the Daily Mail diarist, sporadically regales BBC Radio 4 listeners with programmes that ask ‘What’s the point …’ of various national institutions. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the MCC and even the pub have come under his “witty but…
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Beats 1 could be followed by five more Apple radio stations
Apple’s 24/7 global Beats 1 radio station might be the best part about the company’s new music service, but it may soon face competition on its own turf. The Verge reports that Apple has licenses for up to five more stations without the need for ren…
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You can now replay Beats 1 shows on demand
Apple has updated its Beats 1 radio station with a new Replay feature that lets you catch up on segments you might have missed, reports MacRumors. Beats 1: Replay covers popular shows fronted by Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga.
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LG’s Android Lollipop flip-phone brings back the 90s
If you miss the good ol’ days when mobile phones actually looked different from each other, you’re in luck: the new LG Wine Smart features a clamshell form factor so you can flip your phone open to answer calls, just like classic handsets from the 9…
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The RIAA wants to team up with BitTorrent to fight piracy
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has requested BitTorrent’s help to curb piracy of its members’ copyrighted content, reports Billboard.
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Taylor Swift vs. Spotify is just one corporation against another
Far be it for me to become one of the haters who are going to hate, hate, hate, that Taylor Swift sings about in ‘Shake It Off’, but there’s a problem with the story that’s solidifying, portraying her as one brave artist standing against the streami…
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Global economic growth to slow, NIESR predicts – BBC News
UK economic growth is set to slow down in the third quarter, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said, lowering a previous estimate. The think-tank said the economy would expand by 0.4% in the three months to September.
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Senegal imam calls for green ‘jihad’ – Al Jazeera English
It’s a short walk through narrow alleys to Imam Sarr’s mosque. Guedwaye is an overpopulated suburb of Dakar. The mosque with its freshly painted green and white walls stands immaculate, an invitation to come in.
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SYDNEY — If the trailing edge of a jet’s wing that washed up on the island of Réunion last week is part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the authorities will be hoping it can tell them something more about the plane’s last mome
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — With tensions mounting over China’s land reclamation projects in disputed South China Sea waters, Secretary of State J
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VICE News Capsule – Wednesday, August 5 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Liberian babies at risk for human trafficking, Egypt extends the Suez Canal, a German website helps refugees find homes, and Mexico’s beaches are covered in seaweed.
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India trains derailed on flooded bridge – BBC News
Two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have derailed minutes apart on a partially flooded bridge, killing at least 24 people. The trains were passing each other near the town of Harda, and several coaches fell into a river.
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Renge’s pin-point accuracy. : animegifs
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Philadelphia. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. via /r/funny http://t.co/0jyzA3hqqo http://t.co/rA0TYcrdWs
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Jesus is one of us. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/57hjUIx2Ax http://t.co/HT0TQAvKdv
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A commonwealth of beetles inhabits the wayside weeds | Environment | The Guardian
As if materialised from thin air, the beetles crowd upon the purple petals. The thistles are full of them. Along the path where dogs are walked, away from the reach of mowers, the weeds grow rank.
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Myanmar: Monsoon rains and persecution – Al Jazeera English
This year’s monsoon rains have been some of the worst to hit Myanmar in decades, leaving dozens dead and thousands displaced across the country. As the scale of damage has become clearer, a sombre inevitability has pervaded the coverage of the devas…
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New evidence reveals how ISIL controls its territories – Al Jazeera English
Tal Abyad, Syria, and Erbil, Iraq – Documents obtained by Al Jazeera from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) offices in the northern Syrian town of Tal Abyad shed light on how the group implements draconian laws in areas under its con…
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An Orphaned Wallaby Gets Comfort From His Teddy Bear
The wallaby is named doodlebug. It doesn’t actually get cuter than that. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Rio 2016: Guardian US writers share what they’re looking forward to most | Sport | The Guardian
With Wednesday marking one year out from the start of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, we asked 11 Guardian US contributors to pick the storyline they’ll be following closest during the run-up and through the Games themselves.
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Hundreds Rescued in Fatal India Train Derailments | Al Jazeera America
Two passenger trains derailed over a bridge in central India while crossing a track that was flooded by heavy monsoon rains, killing at least 19 people, officials said Wednesday. At least 250 people were rescued.
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Peter Berg set to direct Boston Marathon bombing thriller | Film | The Guardian
Peter Berg, best known for directing action films Battleship and Lone Survivor, is set to take on one of the three upcoming films focusing on the Boston Marathon bombing.
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China’s Government Will Embed Police In Its Largest Tech Firms | TechCrunch
China already has some of the most stringent Internet restrictions in the world, but censorship is poised to become even more extreme. Sites and social networks will no longer just be surveilled by keyword filters and monitors working remotely.
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Q&A: The Iraq-Kuwait war and the next generation – Al Jazeera English
Erbil, Iraq and Kuwait City – On the 25th anniversary of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Al Jazeera spoke separately with a young Iraqi and a young Kuwaiti, each born within months of the 1990 invasion.
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Is Jeb Bush the Mitt Romney of 2016? — NYMag
As many Republican presidential candidates vowed to defund Planned Parenthood this fall, even if it means shutting down the government, Hillary Clinton accused the GOP of launching a “full-on assault on women’s health.” On Tuesday, Jeb Bush undersco…
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Poachers stalk elephants of Kerala after a gap of 20 years | Environment | The Guardian
One of the last members of an elephant poaching gang was arrested on 27 July. The total number of poachers and traffickers behind bars is now 24. Aikaramattom Vasu, the mastermind behind the diabolical operation that claimed up to 28 elephant lives,…
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Pierce Brosnan stopped at airport with knife in luggage – BBC News
Pierce Brosnan has been stopped by airport security officials for trying to board a US flight carrying a knife. The former 007 star was prevented by Transportation Security Administration agents at Burlington International Airport in Vermont with th…
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The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavusoğlu, said on Wednesday a “comprehensive battle” would be launched against Islamic State with the arrival of US aircraft and drones.
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In July the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) came a step closer to reality. Formal talks have been ongoing for two years, but trying to create the world’s biggest free trade zone is no mean feat.
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Taipei at dusk [OC][2048 x 1365] : CityPorn
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Cecil the lion tribute created by Lion King animator | Film | The Guardian
An Oscar-nominated animator who worked on Disney classic The Lion King has painted a tribute to Cecil the lion, the Zimbabwe safari icon killed last month by an American hunter.
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Since the outbreak that gave Legionnaires’ disease its name nearly four decades ago, water-cooling towers have been identified as prime breeding grounds for the deadly disease.
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Iggy Pop Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s Classic Horror Story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” | Open Culture
My introduction to the work of James Newell Osterberg, Jr, better known as Iggy Pop, came in the form of “Risky,” a song from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Neo Geo album that featured not just singing but spoken word from the Stooges’ lead vocalist and punk ic…
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Well that’s a slightly different one : firstworldanarchists
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Tiny, geriatric, snoozing blep : Blep
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He reminds me of a baby deer when he’s sleeping : cats
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“Switcheroo Day” · Another Period · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Since the pilot, Another Period has taken its 20th century setting and reality show base as an absurd backdrop for social commentary, satire, and some pretty dark humor.
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This drawception user gets it. : firstworldanarchists
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An American model Betty Brosmer.1959. : OldSchoolCool
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The smartest damn spider – Imgur
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I rescued Stanley and his hippo today. The shelter said they were a package deal – Imgur
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China detains Christians after church cross removal row – BBC News
Seven Christians have been detained, with some accused of embezzlement, after protesting the removal of their church cross, their lawyer said. Police detained Pastor Bao Guohua, his wife and five church staff in the eastern city of Jinhua, in Zhejia…
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India lifts porn ban after widespread outrage – BBC News
India has decided to lift a blanket ban on 857 pornographic websites, following widespread outrage over the move. The department of telecom told internet service providers not to disable URLs that “do not have child pornographic content”, the PTI ag…
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NEW ORLEANS — On a brutally humid day almost 10 years ago, Donald Link was a sweaty, desperate man in a respirator mask lugging a rotting pig’s head to the curb.
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Bernese mountain dog best pic : pics
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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision : woahdude
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BBC Sport – Doping allegations a ‘declaration of war’ on athletics – Lord Coe
Lord Coe has described allegations of widespread doping in athletics as a “declaration of war” and says it is time to “come out fighting” to protect the sport’s reputation.
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Yeosu, South Korea [OC][10000×2166] by Matt Hollman : CityPorn
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‘No more survivors’ in India building – BBC News
At least 11 people have died and seven were injured after a building collapsed in the Thane region near Mumbai. The three storey property, which was 51 years old, came crashing down on Tuesday.
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Randy Marsh is a role model : funny
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Amid PR’s Economic Collapse, Crisis of Leadership | Al Jazeera America
Regulars meet for lunch at Kasalta, a Spanish bakery and restaurant in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Croatia Marks 1995 Victory, Alienating Serbs | Al Jazeera America
KNIN, Croatia — August is the toughest month for Anja Raskovic and the Serbs of Knin, a dusty town of 10,000 people in Croatia’s southeast.
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Last-Mile Logistics Startup LetsTransport Gets $1.3M To Expand Throughout India | TechCrunch
India’s e-commerce market is the fastest growing in Asia and expected to hit $6 billion this year. The country’s underdeveloped logistics networks needs to improve quickly, however, in order to support the volume of orders.
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[OS]Silvaneh [1260*630] photo by: Bardia Saadat : EarthPorn
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I laze with one eye open : LazyCats
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Maya Bay, Koh Phi Phi Lee, Thailand (OC) [4288×2848] : waterporn
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Music, Carl Sagan asserted as he sent the Golden Record into space, is “a creditable attempt to convey human emotions” — a sentiment at the heart of an uncommonly enchanting project by Berlin-based artist and space-lover Louise Gold.
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Morning mist in Yosemite : unitedstatesofamerica
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Because some people don’t know about this game… – Imgur
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I’m 75% sure I’m mostly on Tinder to troll. : TrollXChromosomes
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Adorable kitten climbing up a tree : cats
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Central Coast of California [OC] [5982×3980] : EarthPorn
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MRW Cortana for Windows 10 still defaults to Bing. : reactiongifs
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The Last Rays of Sunlight Hit the White Sands
Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Fly another day? Former 007 Pierce Brosnan stopped at airport over knife | Film | The Guardian
Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has been stopped by airport security as he tried to board a plane with a knife. Brosnan was stopped by US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents with the blade, reportedly a ten-inch hunting knife,…
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TIL that on July 23, 1983, Air Canada’s Flight 143, with 69 people onboard, ran out of fuel at an altitude of 41,000 ft. The pilot managed to glide the plane down safely as he was a very experienced glider pilot. 22,300 pounds of jet fuel had been p…
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I bet some people will appreciate this : funny
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MH370: Reunion islanders continue debris search – BBC News
People in Reunion have been combing the beaches looking for further debris that could be linked to missing flight MH370. One woman has been talking about how she recently saw what she thought was a wheel in the ocean.
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Adam Goodes imaginary spear auctioned online – BBC News
An eBay user has tried to auction an imaginary spear used by Australian Rules footballer Adam Goodes. The Indigenous footballer became embroiled in a race row after fans regularly jeered and racially abused him during games.
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“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing…” Something uncommonly beautiful takes place when a great artist brings a great writer’s words to life, doubly so when those words transmit the inherent enchantment of poetry — …
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HMB while I samurai that sausage in your mouth. : holdmybeer
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Had this stranger hop on my Segway tour today. : pics
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Lake Victoria: Kenya boat capsizes ‘after collision’ – BBC News
Haulage firms and lorry drivers owe more than £4m in fines imposed by UK Border Force staff after migrants were found on their vehicles.
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PSA: The steam game “Journey of the Light” is a scam. It claims to have eight levels, but it actually has only one unbeatable level. Do NOT buy Journey of the Light! (imgur.com) Fucking detectives strike again.
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University of Oregon Settles Sex Assault Lawsuit | Al Jazeera America
The University of Oregon has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a student who claimed she was sexually assaulted last year by three basketball players. The 18-year-old woman, who is identified in the suit as Jane Doe, on Tuesday d…
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About a mile outside Jenner, California [1280 x 964] (photo by me) : AbandonedPorn
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South Korean ex-first lady in ‘peace visit’ to North – BBC News
The widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has travelled to the North, hoping to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula. It is unclear whether Lee Hee-ho, who is on a private trip, will be able to meet top North Korean officials, includi…
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She wouldn’t get off the changing table so…. : pics
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NYC cop beats two armed black man in the street. : gifs
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Her eyes are what made me adopt her : cats
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Virgo Cluster Galaxies http://t.co/zApFemtbZl http://t.co/GAsqg9O5r3
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PHILADELPHIA—Saying that the trend signals a major shift in the media landscape, a report issued Thursday by the University of Pennsylvania revealed that a growing number of Americans are turning to louder sources for their news.
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A Florida Sheriff said today that authorities are investigating a triple homicide in Pensacola as a possible ritual killing connected to the recent blue moon.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, August 5. All times are Eastern. Mr. Robinson (NBC, 9 p.m.): “A musician takes a day job as a substitute teacher in the premiere of this sitcom.
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High times · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
Does a person who acts loving only when high on weed really love you? My live-in boyfriend of three years acts sweet, loving, and caring when he’s high, but when the weed runs out, he’s mean, angry, hurtful, and horrible to be around.
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Much to the chagrin of hedgehog owners everywhere, pop culture has historically been unkind to the animal.
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Night And The City · Film Review · The A.V. Club
No classic film noir sports a more quintessentially noir-ish title than Night And The City.
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Special Topics In Gameology explores a specific corner of the gaming world in a miniseries of articles. This article debuts the latest edition of the feature—commerce—in which we’ll examine games’ representation and use of business and trade.
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Charles Schulz understood that a comic about adorable little children was hardly a groundbreaking idea when he began drawing the cartoons that would become Peanuts. “I drew them because they were what sold,” Schulz admitted in his 1980 book Charlie …
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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Alabama State Police car, circa 1972 : OldSchoolCool
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Most Popular Cartoon Character From Each European Country [1550×1230] : MapPorn
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Facing a dry creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains [2988×5312] [OC] : EarthPorn
Facing a dry creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains [2988×5312] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/JXd74mmKPx http://t.co/t0aR4fCkce
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These Cat Fights Videos Prove Cats Can Beat Up Any Animal : StartledCats
These Cat Fights Videos Prove Cats Can Beat Up Any Animal via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/xxtFDdP63K http://t.co/nFN52G7Qrj
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/XUArExzn5q http://t.co/WmqK3gL0iL
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The FBI is investigating how secure Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email practices were when she was secretary of state and used a private email server, reports The Washington Post. Clinton said previously the private e-mail server she used while secretar…
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The FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Clinton’s private email setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system, the Washington Post has reported, citing two government officials.
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APOD: 2015 August 4 – Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Explanation: Well over a thousand galaxies are known members of the Virgo Cluster, the closest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group. In fact, the galaxy cluster is difficult to appreciate all at once because it covers such a large area o…
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Should I Use the Term “Illegal Immigrant”? – The New Yorker
I wrote an article for The New Yorker last month about immigration policy, focussing in particular on a family in Columbus, Ohio. The mother and father had crossed the border illegally from Mexico, and in the article I referred to them on several oc…
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Dry creek bed on a CA redwood trail [2988×5312] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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#GrowingUpAGirl : TrollXChromosomes
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Katerina Hartlova via /r/gif http://t.co/CkBXdjDnFB http://t.co/fYta6c7Gxn
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Workin’ In A Cocktail Bar – YouTube
Sometimes less is more. Here I bring you a classic tune reduced to it’s bare minimum, lyrically that is. Enjoy!
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/xs6JWuO6K7 http://t.co/N3eRvnSdaK
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poor charmander : perfectloops
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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision [812×1024] : ArchitecturePorn
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Tokyo, population 38,000,000 (x-post /r/woahdude) : CityPorn
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July takes crown for biggest leap in electricity emissions in 10 years | Environment | The Guardian
Australia’s emissions from electricity generation had their largest recorded leap in more than a decade in July, an upwards trend that is set to continue over the coming year, new analysis has shown. Carbon dioxide emissions rose 0.
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The young sister of Kaiser Carlile, the nine-year-old batboy for a Kansas baseball team who died after being hit in the head, takes part in a tribute to her brother before a game on Tuesday. The boy was wearing a helmet when he was accidentally hit …
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MH370: French experts examine Reunion wing part – BBC News
Experts are due to examine part of a wing that washed up on the island of Reunion last week that may have belonged to missing flight MH370. The Boeing 777 piece has been taken the south-western French city of Toulouse.
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The Totally NSFW Superhero Trailer: Deadpool Is Finally Here | WIRED
You wanted it, you got it, motherfuckers! Sorry for the salty language, but this blood-soaked, full-length red band trailer for Deadpool has us feeling all giddy and inappropriate.
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The ‘Deadpool’ trailer is an expletive-laden delight
We thought our hopes couldn’t possibly be any higher for the Deadpool movie than they were on Monday, when Ryan Reynolds and his alter ego Wade Wilson released a teaser trailer teasing tonight’s trailer release. But now the moment—and the very NSFW …
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Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager almost a year ago, now lives on a dead-end street on the outskirts of St. Louis. His name is not on the deed of the house.
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Daddy daughter dance! via /r/gifs http://t.co/Fm3xDxVFHm http://t.co/0qOVbvTkFO
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Sleepless in Pinebrook · Playing House · TV Review · The A.V. Club
What’s particularly amazing about Playing House is how comfortable it feels. It’s the same reason it has this dedicated fanbase of Jammers who pleaded with USA to renew the show after it’s lovely first season.
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you must be at least eighteen years old to view this
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Percentage of Land Covered in Lawn by US State [1484×1304] : MapPorn
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Really inconvenient loaf : Catloaf
Really inconvenient loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/iMOhGOe7tP http://t.co/uF2JNmHJa1
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I rescued Stanley and his hippo today. The shelter said they were a package deal : aww
I rescued Stanley and his hippo today. The shelter said they were a package deal via /r/aww http://t.co/WgS4wupzqE http://t.co/Io91xjsrwn
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Gunmen attack convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir – Al Jazeera English
A paramilitary convoy in Indian-administrated Kashmir has come under attack by unidentified gunmen. The attack took place in Sanruli, about 10km from Udhampur, which houses a military base near the border with Pakistan.
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GE Adds Infrastructure Services To Internet Of Things Platform | TechCrunch
GE announced today that it was expanding its Predix Internet of Things platform to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The IaaS market is dominated by Amazon Web Services with many others including Microsoft, Google and IBM vying for a piece…
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Hillary Clinton’s private email servers under FBI investigation
The FBI is investigating the security that was used by Hillary Clinton’s private email server during her time as secretary of state.
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GEs New Cloud May Be the Most Tempting Hacker Bait Ever | WIRED
Security fears surrounding the so-called Internet of Things are reaching new levels of anxiety. Last month Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles after WIRED reported a security vulnerability that allowed hackers to take remote control of someone el…
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FBI Probes Security of Hillary’s Email Server — NYMag
Whatever became of the Emailgate-related inspector general referrals that sparked a feud between Hillary Clinton and the New York Times last week? According to the Washington Post, the FBI has launched a “preliminary” probe focused on “ensuring the …
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What’s behind the ‘anti-vax’ movement? – BBC News
This spring saw the first death from measles in the United States in 12 years. Measles infections there are at their highest since the disease was supposedly eradicated. The reason for this is that the number of people vaccinated against measles has…
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The smartest damn spider : pics
The smartest damn spider via /r/pics http://t.co/RHSRG5vJzA http://t.co/ke0XFbewW4
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Blood Royal via /r/gif http://t.co/slXASOWP3b http://t.co/qY7icvKgdj
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[OC]Canyonland National Park[1920×1280] : EarthPorn
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Picasso painting worth $27m seized from boat in Corsica – BBC News
There were concerns it was being permanently removed from Spain despite an export ban. It’s not clear how the work of art ended up on a boat in the port of Calvi. Catharina Moh reports.
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The federal government has said it will take six to eight weeks to reconsider its approval of Queensland’s Carmichael coalmine after the federal court halted what would be Australia’s largest mine.
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Chastened Assad faces up to reality – BBC News
Like his father Hafez before him, the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has proven to be a ruthless survivor who will do whatever it takes to keep himself and his ruling circle in power.
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Sweden offers no easy immigration answers – BBC News
“Blessed land.” This description, given to The World This Weekend by one migrant to Sweden, neatly explains why the people trying to get into the UK from Calais are unlikely to give up easily.
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If I die by drowning in a ladder-less pool, you’ll know why – Meme on Imgur
If I die by drowning in a ladder-less pool, you’ll know why http://t.co/FphbbxwyDE http://t.co/q29uIQRuvK
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Tattoo Tuesday: Maori Businessman – Imgur
Tattoo Tuesday: Maori Businessman http://t.co/n9nc0dDVWv http://t.co/27lM1Q4P8U
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Until the end http://t.co/PFk4ttuy8A http://t.co/22cazP3O7z
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/zIeAXFfHNl http://t.co/7KZt36Zii1
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Stephen Fucking Colbert : funny
Stephen Fucking Colbert via /r/funny http://t.co/Z1ntNWjxGv http://t.co/jn815quYNQ
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After developing a significant amount of buzz after being shown at Comic-Con, Fox has (finally) released the first official trailer for Deadpool, the X-Men spinoff movie that Ryan Reynolds willed into existence with the surprising level of clout tha…
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‘Deadpool’ Official Red Band Trailer : movies
This one. This one stays. My karma sense is tingling!
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Hiroshima atomic bomb: Necessity or war crime? – BBC News
Thursday marks 70 years to the day since the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later it dropped a second on the city of Nagasaki.
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Jindal Says He Didn’t Want to Be in Lame Debate Anyway – The New Yorker
“I mean, at first it sounded like the debate might be cool, but, you know, the more I looked at it, it seemed like it was going to be pretty lame,” Jindal said. “I mean, look at some of the people who got chosen to do it—like Ted Cruz.
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Aerial views of Rio 2016 Olympic preparations – BBC News
Little more than a year ago, International Olympic Committee Vice-President John Coates, described Rio de Janeiro’s preparations for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games as the “worst ever”.
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Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me. So sorry about Cecil.
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ELI5: What is really happening to the “victims” during hypnosis acts? : explainlikeimfive
ELI5: What is really happening to the “victims” during hypnosis acts? (self.explainlikeimfive)
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Soul by Jessica Heran : ImaginaryMindscapes
Soul by Jessica Heran via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/B6majmrbJ9 http://t.co/DddWPD3Bdy
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Two Deadpool Trailers? Both Are Awesome
Well, these are exactly what we’ve been looking for: Deadpool, full of funny and killing. Redband trailer’s below, it’s … really NSFW. If nothing else, the fight to get Deadpool it’s rightful R rating is borne out by this version, which is mostly …
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Open thread for night owls: At Stone Mountain, confederacy supporters rally for their flag
“We’re not racists. We’re not out here fighting for slavery,” said Steve Cook, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member from Atlanta. […] Across the parking lot, Allan Croft, a bearded Dalton resident, debated Southern history with a group of young b…
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Netflix to Provide One Year of Parental Leave | Al Jazeera America
Netflix is giving new parents on its payroll up to a year of paid leave in a move that could pressure other technology employers to improve their baby benefits as they vie for talent.
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Malaysia is ‘silencing media’ says wanted UK-based editor – BBC News
Clare Rewcastle-Brown’s Sarawak Report website has published multiple articles on corruption allegations linked to Malaysian PM Najib Razak. Malaysian police said Ms Rewcastle-Brown was engaging in “activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy” a…
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Hillary Clinton blasts Jeb Bush on Twitter over Planned Parenthood
Ever since the Center for Medical Process began releasing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood and alleged it was selling fetal tissue for a profit, candidates gunning for the Republican presidential nomination have been adamant about wanting to …
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[OC] Bolivian Salt Flats with 1cm water by MAS [5899×3795] : EarthPorn
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Lake Garibaldi, British Columbia, Canada. [OC][3264×2448] : EarthPorn
Lake Garibaldi, British Columbia, Canada. [OC][3264×2448] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/tGvTYtV6DD http://t.co/WGShMe3wBd
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Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa (South Island, New Zealand) [960×634] [OC] : EarthPorn
Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa (South Island, New Zealand) [960×634] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/9GUj020m8t http://t.co/ky9TBNxMU7
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Whole Foods is totally just trolling us now… : funny
Whole Foods is totally just trolling us now… via /r/funny http://t.co/FeYIP1pNZn http://t.co/iHxOMtZxHD
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Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) field in Ohio [4608×3456][OC] : BotanicalPorn
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) field in Ohio [4608×3456][OC] via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/lRNJI1bTEZ http://t.co/Xh57nxP8BO
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Eastern Shore Cape Charles, VA Sunset [3264×2448][OC] : waterporn
Eastern Shore Cape Charles, VA Sunset [3264×2448][OC] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/nv6wEGVJNU http://t.co/ACusAgEBBv
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Lantana Camara (Largeleaf lantana) (863×631) : BotanicalPorn
Lantana Camara (Largeleaf lantana) (863×631) via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/rQNw5jIIT5 http://t.co/ZShBmnWVqU
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Palais Garnier, Paris [OC] – [1024×636] : ArchitecturePorn
Palais Garnier, Paris [OC] – [1024×636] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/CkcQh20f7j http://t.co/0vBdWfy4hq
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I love you hooman. via /r/aww http://t.co/zKcV5c7Zyt http://t.co/9f6Uy9v9xI
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One of the few times I got my kitten to stay still : aww
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Jeb Bush: I misspoke about women’s health funding – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was forced to backtrack after saying funding for female health was too high. But he later said he “misspoke”, after criticism of his remarks.
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Facebook Defends Video Practices After Accusation Of ‘Lies And Theft’ | TechCrunch
It’s a tale as old as time. Internet video creator/vlogger garners support after accusing $260 billion social media giant of using unethical practices and earns a seemingly official reply comment on his blog post from a mid-level employee at said co…
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Will Smith officially takes over for Hugh Jackman in Collateral Beauty · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has officially traded out comic book superstars for the lead role in his latest movie, Collateral Beauty, with Will Smith—lately of Suicide Squad—taking over the part recently vacated by permanent Wolverine Hugh Jackman.
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Stain of Hiroshima’s black rain lingers 70 years on – Al Jazeera English
This week, Japan marks 70 years since it became the first and still only nation to be the victim of a nuclear attack – the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. That moment – a little after 8.
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However, if you think doing something for sick kids would be immune from the criticism of internet trolls, well you’d be wrong. Whenever there’s a remake, reboot or re-imagining of a classic film or TV show, opinions can be strong.
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#HomelessShaming isn’t just horrible—it’s also deadly
Last week a clip of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly publicly shaming homeless people for urinating on the street went viral. He also took the opportunity to call out New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio for permitting “beggars, homeless folks, and low-leve…
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The Iran Deal is More and More Likely to Go Through – The Atlantic
Both the support lining up for the deal, and the nature of the opposition, indicate its likely success. 1. Logic. Graham Allison, who originally made his academic reputation with Essence of Decision, his study of the negotiations that averted a U.S.
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Calais migrant crisis: Haulage firms owe £4m in fines – BBC News
Haulage firms and lorry drivers owe more than £4m in fines imposed by UK Border Force staff after migrants were found on their vehicles. The BBC has learned that more than 3,300 fines were issued in 2014/15 – an increase of more than 50% on 2013/14.
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Kudzu taking over [OC] [2048×1536] : AbandonedPorn
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Hainan gibbon decline charted in Chinese records – BBC News
Historical Chinese documents have helped scientists to track the decline of the world’s rarest primates. Today, China has between 26 and 28 Hainan gibbons left, but government records that date back to the 17th Century show that gibbons were once wi…
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Was he THAT famous? : AdviceAnimals
Was he THAT famous? via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/k3LlFCB2xp http://t.co/WbiSApB0sQ
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On sale at Home Depot via /r/foxes http://t.co/8LjbwdGCwW http://t.co/YRqVnuWeu6
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Darth Vader Cosplay Done Right – Imgur
Darth Vader Cosplay Done Right http://t.co/brQbRXdZo7 http://t.co/37mLanZ12k
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Closest countries in a straight line from Iceland [854X854] : MapPorn
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Actual questions from my Green Card questionnaire – Boing Boing
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A diet rich in green leafy vegetables, beans, berries, wholegrains and wine can help to slow normal brain ageing and cognitive decline, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Spyware demo shows how spooks hack mobile phones – BBC News
Intelligence agencies’ secretive techniques for spying on mobile phones are seldom made public. But a UK security firm has shown the BBC how one tool, sold around the world to spooks, actually works.
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Australia court overturns approval for giant Carmichael coal mine – BBC News
An Australian court has overturned government approval for Indian company Adani’s giant coal mine in Queensland. The Carmichael mine, approved by the government last year, would have been one of world’s biggest coal mines.
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Mexico prosecutor releases surveillance Espinoza | Al Jazeera America
Prosecutors released a surveillance video Tuesday showing suspects calmly leaving an apartment building where five people were found tortured and shot to death, including a photojournalist who had taken refuge in the capital after feeling threatened…
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NBC casts David Alan Grier as The Cowardly Lion in The Wiz Live! · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC might need to check whether it has its proper forwarding address on file, because it seems to keep missing the memos saying that The Wiz Live!, its latest excursion into the world of live musical theater, is supposed to be a massively mocked tra…
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The Yankees took the field on Tuesday with precisely 600 innings from their starting pitchers this season. Only one winning team in the major leagues, the Kansas City Royals, had fewer. This explains the Yankees’ seemingly daily habit of calling up …
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Leaders of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said Tuesday that they had reached a $21 million settlement with hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members, though the agreement is still subject to approval by a federal judge.
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We’ve all done things we regret, but one fan of the ‘90s emo band Jawbreaker felt so bad about selling some of their bootlegs on eBay that he decided to pay them back—with interest—15 years later.
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WASHINGTON — Later this month, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will escape for a family retreat to mourn his late son, Beau, but also to mull, as his dying son urged him to do, a campaign for president. Some of Mr. Biden’s friends and allies worr…
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Oklahoma regulators have told energy companies to sharply reduce underground wastewater disposal across an earthquake-prone stretch of the state, a move that ratchets up a so-far unsuccessful effort to reduce quakes related to oil and gas production.
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Google Minus: Google keeps backing all the wrong social products | Ars Technica
The Great Google+ Purge is officially underway. The social network isn’t dead, but the plan to make Google+ the “social backbone” of Google is.
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Approval for Adani’s Carmichael coalmine overturned by federal court | Australia news | The Guardian
The $16bn project planned by the Indian company Adani was approved by the federal environment minister Greg Hunt in July 2014. But after a legal challenge by environment campaigners, the federal court threw out the plans because Hunt failed to heed …
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He looks like fuckin Benjamin Button : trippinthroughtime
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We cool, officer? : trippinthroughtime
We cool, officer? via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/YjLb7uJGv0 http://t.co/T9lvjVt7J7
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Stephen Colbert’s wise words to Homer : funny
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The Pakistani hangman and his family tradition – BBC News
A day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the end of a seven-year moratorium on executions last year, Sabir Masih found his house surrounded by the paparazzi in Lahore.
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An Italian prosecutor who has been hunting the fugitive head of the Sicilian mafia for the past 10 years says he has eluded capture because he is “protected at a very high level”.
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I Drive Dis. via /r/aww http://t.co/ry7i9ad7mB http://t.co/TXqWgVosbJ
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Ron Wyden has another warning for us about another secret government opinion on surveillance
This time his warning is about surveillance in the name of cybersecurity.
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The luxury watches that have caused international outcry – BBC News
A scandal involving a Russian official, and his watch, is just the latest in a string of stories about public figures being quizzed over their costly timepieces – by eagle eyed social media users.
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While Puerto Rico’s first bond default in its history reverberated through the financial markets on Tuesday, another move by the cash-poor island may provide a clue to where the next trouble spot lies.
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Tree falls and pulls the whole lawn up with it. : woahdude
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He’s got a mustache! via /r/cats http://t.co/uGewsFm8wL http://t.co/cDnu07s0XU
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HMB while I start my remote controlled airplane like a scooter. : holdmybeer
HMB while I start my remote controlled airplane like a scooter. via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/YrgGkB8SsA http://t.co/CUFh3pTgJE
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The day I ordered pizza that ‘doesn’t exist’ – BBC News
One of my favourite things about living in Italy is the pizza, and it’s recently given me an insight into how our brains are wired differently. Pizza has taught me that logic can be subjective and that subjective logic can be cultural.
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Chrysler and Harman Hit With a Class Action Complaint After Jeep Hack | WIRED
Last month’s Jeep hacking scandal has already been followed by a 1.4 million vehicle recall and a well-timed Senate bill. Now Chrysler faces that other inevitable punishment: a potentially massive lawsuit.
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Obama’s clean power plan: Is it achievable? – Al Jazeera English
Barack Obama, the US president, warns the world may no longer be able to reverse global warming – unless aggressive action is taken, now. His new plan is all about cutting power plant emissions and boosting renewable energy.
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Why Stan Lee is wrong about Superman v. Batman
Of all the “who would win in a fight?” arguments, Batman against Superman endures as the most hotly debated. It’s gone on for decades, and it’s a narrative set to be settled on the big screen next year.
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A Super Typhoon Gathers Strength As it Moves Across the Pacific
This is super typhoon Soudelor, captured by NASA instruments as it attained Category Five status on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale earlier today. Its eye is 12 nautical miles wide; its winds are up to 161 miles per hour; and the extremely rough waves…
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Two men have been arrested after the remnants of a methamphetamine lab were found inside a Taco Bell in eastern Iowa. The Cedar Rapids police department said officers found two men outside the restaurant early on Tuesday. One identified himself as a…
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This Bizarre Abandoned Church Is Shaped Like a Giant Chicken
In the woods of Indonesia’s Magelang Regency sits one of the modern world’s more unusual houses of worship: Gereja Ayam, the Chicken Church, which is shaped like a giant fowl wearing a crown. And it’s currently falling to pieces.
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Check Out What Happens When a Water Droplet is Pierced by a Needle
Here’s a fluid dynamics video that shows us a water droplet falling onto a hydrophobic needle. It’s pretty cool! Instead of spreading into a puddle, the drop turns into a hollow crown of moving water.
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Placentas are amazing organs, and we’re learning that they do so much more than simply manage the movement of nutrients and wastes between mother and fetus.
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When Jon Stewart took over the anchor’s seat of “The Daily Show” from Craig Kilborn, nobody was quite sure what to expect. The opening jokes were about President Clinton’s impeachment trial.
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It was a casual aside from Jeb Bush, but it could haunt him throughout a campaign in which women’s votes — and issues — may prove pivotal. During an interview on Tuesday with religious conservatives, Mr. Bush suggested that the federal government ha…
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Afternoon kitty via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/zy7JAviE1s http://t.co/xdTf0orCwI
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Devil’s Punch Bowl, Oregon Coast [1956×2658] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Revealed: the stone that ‘translated’ the Book of Mormon | World news | The Guardian
The Mormon church’s push toward transparency about its roots and beliefs took another step forward with the first published pictures of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate a story that became the basis of the…
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ISIS Rises in Libya – The New Yorker
The wars in Syria and Iraq continue to dominate international headlines, but a growing stream of news offers reminders that Libya is in a state of meltdown.
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Chinese policeman rescues newborn from public toilet – Al Jazeera English
The local newspaper Beijing Times said police went to the public toilet in central Beijing on Sunday after receiving a report of baby cries and spotted the child’s feet in the toilet pipe. A policeman slid his hand into the pipe to gently pull her o…
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Cilantro-linked Infection Sickens Hundreds | Al Jazeera America
More than 380 people in 26 U.S. states have been diagnosed with a stomach illness tied to Mexican cilantro contaminated by human waste, two federal agencies said Tuesday. It’s the fourth consecutive summer in which the intestinal infection cyclospor…
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A dream backyard view : Breathless
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C’mon Jesus : trippinthroughtime
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Peaceful Brugge, Brugge, Belgium [2048×1365] [OC] : CityPorn
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MRW my invisible girlfriend wants me to motorboat her : shittyreactiongifs
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Raquel Welch 1967 – (colorized) via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/Z8zaInReT6 http://t.co/TzR2HAecn8
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My girlfriend doesn’t give a flying f*ck : firstworldanarchists
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Scottish Fold Blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/6blzqK4FU8 http://t.co/s2AoEqSIrk
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A Marine Proposing. via /r/pics http://t.co/SXBtxZ9NII http://t.co/OT5Aw4h0nq
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Why I never know who to be mad at : funny
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Obama to tell Congress voting down Iran deal is a ‘historic mistake’ | TheHill
Obama to tell Congress voting down Iran deal is a ‘historic mistake’ http://t.co/KLK8CMzFew
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TCA roundup: ABC revels in the deaths of love and McDreamy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The story grabbing the most headlines during ABC’s day with the Television Critics Association involved the relationship status of a pair of puppets, indicative of the network’s not-exactly-boat-rocking time at the summer press tour.
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Israel jails suspected Jewish militant without trial – BBC News
Israel has taken the unusual step of jailing a suspected Jewish militant without trial following the death of a Palestinian infant in an arson attack. Mordechai Meyer, a resident of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, has been placed under adminis…
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Startup Founders Pitch Their Ideas to … the President | WIRED
In many ways, it was just like any other demo day, with founder after founder, alternately dressed in t-shirts or suits, giving their standard spiels about their startups’ accomplishments and hyping the long-term business opportunities they’re pursu…
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Trouble in orbit: the growing problem of space junk – BBC News
In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris. The problem also threatens crucial and costly satellites in orbit. So what is the scale of the space junk problem, and what can we do about it?
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Solidifying reports of high-level rifts within the Taliban over the group’s leadership succession, the head of the insurgents’ official diplomatic delegation in Qatar publicly resigned on Monday.
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ABC might give Revenge a spinoff · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Back in April, ABC canceled Revenge, the Emily VanCamp-starring drama series that was half primetime soap and half Batman show. (Basically.
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The Television Critics Association can be a receptive audience for new TV programming—but it’s also an organization with a boundless curiosity about old favorites that maybe, just maybe, have some life left in them.
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Two trains derail in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh – BBC News
Two passenger trains in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have derailed within minutes of each other causing an unknown number of casualties, officials say. Several coaches from both trains are reported to have fallen into a river near the …
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Showtime to premiere new Jimi Hendrix documentary on September 4 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Showtime is set to premiere a new documentary centering on an iconic performance from rock legend Jimi Hendrix.
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Pakistan hangman: ‘My father taught me to tie a noose’ – BBC News
Last year, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the end of a seven-year moratorium on executions. There are currently believed to be more than 8,000 people on death row in the country.
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Rick Perry excluded from Republican debate – BBC News
Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, is not among the 10 Republicans running for president who will take part in the first primetime TV debate. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Scott Walker will take the stage in Cleveland on Thursday night with seve…
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CEO Secrets: Sir James Dyson offers business advice – BBC News
Sir James Dyson offers the business advice he wishes he had when he started out, as part of the BBC News series, CEO Secrets. You can read more about the #CEOSecrets series here.
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Libya investigates Gaddafi son ‘abuse’ video – BBC News
A video appearing to show a son of former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and other prisoners being abused in jail is being investigated.The video shows Saadi Gaddafi screaming as he is beaten by guards on the soles of his feet.
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Bobby Jindal takes Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood because of something they don’t even do
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) must be trying a last-ditch stunt to move the polls enough to make the cutoff to be on the big boy stage in Thursday’s presidential primary debate.
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ObjectiveC2Swift will help you translate your tired Objective C code to Swift
Objective C’s time in the limelight is coming to an end. As Apple slowly phases its legacy iOS and OS X coding language out in favor of Swift, developers are transitioning as well. A new web-based tool, ObjectiveC2Swift, will help you port your lega…
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James Cromwell leads new cast additions to HBO’s The Young Pope · Newswire · The A.V. Club
HBO has filled out the cast for The Young Pope, its new miniseries starring Jude Law as Pius XIII, the hip, fresh pontiff who’s ready to rap with all the kids.
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Why movie CG sucks (except that it doesn’t)
Are computer generated special effects ruining movies? Freddie Wong says no; CG is so good these days that we only notice it when it’s bad and in bad movies. My biggest concern with CG is with unrealistic camera movements, e.g. like when the camera …
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Disconnect CEO Explains Those New Do Not Track Standards | TechCrunch
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released what it called a “stronger” Do Not Track setting yesterday. But what does that actually mean for your day-to-day privacy on the web?
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To Expedite Innovation, Give Away Your Code | TechCrunch
Open-source software has been a growing phenomenon for more than two decades, but in recent years it has risen in importance in a whole new way: as a key to rapid innovation for startups and corporate giants alike.
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Obama presses Jewish groups to support Iran deal | TheHill
President Obama on Tuesday urged Jewish groups to back the Iran nuclear deal in the face of mounting pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other vocal opponents of the accord.
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Trig allegedly owes its Hearthstone players thousands, blames problems on ‘internal restructuring’
Signing legendary esports talents such as the StarCraft player Jang “MC” Min Chul and the Origen League of Legends team spearheaded by veterans Enrique “xPeke” Cedeño Martínez and Paul “sOAZ” Boyer, the company quickly spread across multiple esports…
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How To Make An Acquisition Successful | TechCrunch
Of course, I was ecstatic: we had a tremendous outcome for our team and our investors, as well as the ultimate validation for our product (which every entrepreneur seeks). But alongside the celebrations, I also had a deep sense of loss. I assumed it…
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The biggest threat to your child’s safety isn’t toy guns—it’s the real ones
Toy guns have come under fire after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman forced three major retailers to stop selling realistic-looking fake plastic firearms.
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NOVOCHERKASSK, Russia — The convoy of cars crawled along a potholed road deep in the flatlands of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine on what was supposed to be a routine trip for a rebel leader. Instead, it ended in disaster. First, a bomb explod…
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Punk band starts the #IceburgChallenge, which involves Celine Dion and shots
It was just last summer when we were faced with the inescapable deluge known as the Ice Bucket Challenge. Now, another challenge has arrived. And this one is based on shots.
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Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is in and former Gov.
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Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet (Alchemy Live) HQ – YouTube
Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet (Alchemy Live) http://t.co/hqhwD1DvAE
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Henry I of England – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia article of the day for August 5, 2015 http://t.co/2TKVbBvhhy
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Here’s A Video Of Lexus’ Very Real Hoverboard – Digg
Is it real? It’s real. Here’s the hoverboard that Lexus teased a while back in action.
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Hammerhead by Ortwin Khan / 500px
Hammerhead by ortwinkhan http://t.co/Yx6h6HAWzP http://t.co/AlBHKQNrSS
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Earth Looks Glorious From Europe’s Newest Weather Satellite | We Heart It
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I like this a lot and I think y’all will too : TrollXChromosomes
I like this a lot and I think y’all will too via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/u1X38720rs http://t.co/FoXTpCxrpp
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Full Moon over Semiahmoo | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Full Moon over Semiahmoo by jbarc in BC http://t.co/TWA71P8gjX http://t.co/gwNloWkKiG
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/Vw1zBsEWCO http://t.co/U2t6qdyBfo
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/mwxXRzN2oB http://t.co/5qHcHUh4DH
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College Textbook Prices Have Risen 1,041 Percent Since 1977 – NBC News
Students hitting the college bookstore this fall will get a stark lesson in economics before they’ve cracked open their first chapter. Textbook prices are soaring. Some experts say it’s because they’re sold like drugs.
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TOTAL from Joy Division to New Order [Full Album] – YouTube
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Cascades Falls, Virginia [OC][3000×4000] : EarthPorn
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Showy Milkweed – Asclepias speciosa [2448×3264] [OC] ue : BotanicalPorn
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Chuck Todd: Trump candidacy ‘not fair’ to ‘strongest’ Republican field in 36 years
We all have a responsibility here I think to say, you know, has he earned his way on this stage? I mean, again, we’re four years removed from the ridiculous spectacle of birtherism.
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For black people, having ‘resting b*tch face’ can be a matter of life and death
Looks like the Grey Lady finally figured out what it means to have “resting bitch face.
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Apple Is Slipping In A Universe Where Success Is Relative | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Take a peek at the stock market today, and you might get the impression that Apple wasn’t one of the most mind-blowingly profitable companies of all time.
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The Confederate battle flag is not the only symbol of a racist past being phased out in many places: The Metropolitan Opera said on Tuesday that the new production of Verdi’s “Otello” that will open its season next month will not use blackface makeu…
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Fifth Planned Parenthood undercover video released by anti-abortion group | US news | The Guardian
The anti-abortion activist group Center for Medical Progress have released a fifth undercover video of Planned Parenthood employees discussing fetal tissue donation.
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NASA’s New Retro Travel Posters Make Us Want to Go Visit an Exoplanet
Have you squared away all your summer vacation plans, yet? Why not a trip to this dark, airless—yet, still a little glamorous—outer world, as per the suggestion of NASA’s Travel Bureau?
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Sophia Eggleston, a self-proclaimed former “drug kingpin” who has twice served prison time—once on drug charges, and once for placing a hit on someone—says that Daniels lifted numerous specific details from her life and incorporated them into the ch…
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Eating spicy food is associated with a reduced risk for death, an analysis of dietary data on more than 485,000 people found.
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BOB DYLAN – “House Carpenter” on Vimeo
Somewhere in the middle of the November 1961 recording sessions that produced Bob Dylan’s first Columbia Records release, the song “House Carpenter” was retrieved from Bob’s repertoire and set to tape: it was not ultimately selected for the album’s …
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My luck is never this good. I’m blown away : AdviceAnimals
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Milky Way over Zion National Park [6000×4000][OC] : EarthPorn
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Moscow’s Brand New CBD [OS] – by Vladimir Wegner [1313 x 2048] : CityPorn
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Chicago, IL [3034×2275][OC] : CityPorn
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Whiskers for miles! via /r/cats http://t.co/0SPAOGMQ6I http://t.co/LZb1srJiy9
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Dear god what have I done?! : funny
Dear god what have I done?! via /r/funny http://t.co/RSNqJ8BBlr http://t.co/a9aepLcpgo
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Laid-off bro goes on basketball binge in last days at office
What would happen if you were to get laid off? Would you refuse to get out of bed? Start packing to move back in with your parents? Make plans to begin a new, exciting career as a panhandler? Or say “screw it all” and dash off for an impromptu trip …
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Urban construction and development is about as far as you can get from an easily scalable business. Designs from architects are usually bespoke or one-off. Land-use politics are unpredictable. Individual construction sites are uniquely sized and mat…
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Netflix Will Let New Moms And Dads Take A Year of Leave | WIRED
Netflix wants new moms and dads to take time off. In fact, it now says they can take as much time as they want. The video streaming giant announced a new policy today that offers unlimited maternity and paternity leave to employees for the first yea…
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The harrowing tale of Louis Flacone and his $25M suit against the NYPD
A 30-year-old, soft-spoken cook and caterer, Falcone is talking to reporters on Tuesday at his attorney’s office overlooking Zuccotti Park in New York’s financial district.
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Why Netflix’s amazing unlimited maternity leave policy terrifies me
Today, Netflix announced a huge update to its employee benefits policy: Parents can now take a paid maternity or paternity leave for as long as they’d like. That applies to the first year after their child’s birth.
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Why Was Trainwreck So Much Better Than Spy?
I’ve seen two decent comedy films this summer. Melissa McCarthy’s Spy and Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck were both fun, but the movie about a magazine editor with a substance-abuse problem was much better than the one about the assistant spy who’s forced …
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The self-styled Islamic State (IS) has a printed list of prices to facilitate the slave trade of women and children captured in the group’s territory.
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Battles Offer Four New Songs on 24-Hour Loop | Rolling Stone
New York’s Battles are making up for the four-year wait between albums with a new video featuring the experimental trio performing four new cuts from their upcoming LP, La Di Da Di, that will stream on a loop for the next 24 hours.
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BBC Sport – Angel Di Maria: Manchester United midfielder ‘happy’ to join PSG
Angel Di Maria says he is “very happy” to be joining Paris St-Germain from Manchester United, a year after the Old Trafford club paid a British record £59.7m for him. The Argentina midfielder, 27, had a medical in Qatar on Tuesday ahead of his 63m e…
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Rare Picture: Blackbird “Rides” Hawk
Talk about a bird’s eye view—a red-winged blackbird was recently photographed “riding” atop a red-tailed hawk. A visitor to the DeSoto and Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuges in Iowa and Nebraska recently snapped an incredible photograph, which wa…
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Podcast: The Incredible Ronda Rousey, The MLB Trade Deadline, And A Doping Scandal | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 4, 2015), we discuss whether mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rous…
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Only a few hours remain for polls to land before Fox determines who’s in the first Republican debate on Thursday in Cleveland. Fox News won’t announce which 10 candidates will be on stage until after today’s 5 p.m.
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It’s in fashion to praise the practical effects of modern blockbusters today while spurning the CGI overload of bloated blockbusters past.
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Jeb Bush questions need to spend $500m on women’s health annually | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush on Tuesday questioned the need for the federal government to spend $500m on women’s health annually. The Republican presidential candidate was in the midst of discussing the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood at the Southern Baptist…
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First Republican Debate Will Feature Trump, Bush, Walker, Paul, Christie, and More | Vanity Fair
On Tuesday afternoon, Fox News mercilessly crushed the hopes of seven candidates, shutting them out of the first prime-time G.O.P. presidential debate, because they just weren’t popular enough in the polls.
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Netanyahu lobbies US Jews to act against Iran deal – Al Jazeera English
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a campaign to mobilise Jewish American citizens against the nuclear deal between Iraq and world powers championed by President Barack Obama, which is facing review by the US Congress.
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Disney misses revenue expectations as profits jump – BBC News
Disney posted a 5% increase in revenue for the three months to 27 June – but missed expectations for the first time in eight quarters. Analysts had expected the entertainment company to record revenues of $13.2bn, but the figure was $100m lower.
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Seed is a free project that we did to try out ideas and techniques. And to have an excuse for commiting to the craziest of all entries on the brainstorming flip chart. A big Thank You! goes out to Maxon for their tremendous support. More background …
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13th Floor Elevators – Slip Inside This House – YouTube
13th Floor Elevators – Slip Inside This House http://t.co/YDIMimjAR0
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/XDabB5yJzl http://t.co/bfIjDoEfYM
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Confetti fun – country style by Broquart Photography / 500px
Confetti fun – country style by Lankodjuric http://t.co/WgExx73kB4 http://t.co/akAlfvkQUn
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Rainbow over Yellowstone Grand Canyon, Lower Falls [2448 x 3264] (OC) : EarthPorn
Rainbow over Yellowstone Grand Canyon, Lower Falls [2448 x 3264] (OC) via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/4Cy6cdrQCF http://t.co/yv92QnBRMk
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LOST by BenoSaradzic http://t.co/R8JX7DWdaE http://t.co/P9KsFk8Zy4
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JERUSALEM — He has the pedigree: Meir Ettinger is the grandson and namesake of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy. He has the record: For years, Mr.
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Fox News Announces Thursday’s Debate Line-up — NYMag
Fox News just announced the ten Republicans who will appear in the first big debate of the 2016 presidential primary season. Donald Trump, who is currently leading the polls, will be at center-stage, flanked by Jeb Bush and Scott Walker.
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How to Create a Hologram with Your Smartphone
Here’s the coolest social media trend since food photos: People have been using their smartphones to create 3D holograms, and the results are pretty eye-catching. See for yourself. And then you’re done. If you got lost along the way, here’s a video …
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Does Hillary Have a Women Problem? — NYMag
Hillary Clinton is losing her own demographic: a new NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll shows that 34 percent of white women have a positive impression of the Democratic front-runner, while 53 percent have a negative impression. That is a large g…
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Sandra Bland’s family sues Texas police – BBC News
The family of a black woman who died in police custody is suing the arresting officer and other Texas authorities. Sandra Bland died three days after a physical confrontation with a white police officer during a traffic stop.
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Donald Trump to take center stage at Republican primary debate | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump will stand center stage at the first Republican primary debate this week, Fox News has announced, but a sitting governor was nudged aside for a retired neurosurgeon.
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Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is in and former Gov.
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Finally, a Printer That Ends the Nightmare of Ink Refills | WIRED
In their ongoing struggle for relevance, printers have in recent years gained apps, and touchscreens, and all manner of features that range from useless to maddening. The Epson EcoTank, though, is notable mostly for what it’s gotten rid of: ink cart…
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Extended Hobbit trilogy to be screened in theaters · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Bilbo wasn’t kidding about that road going ever on and on. Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy—which already expands a slim children’s novel into a three-movie epic—is returning to theaters with extended editions that add over an hour to the total run ti…
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Earth Looks Glorious From Europe’s Newest Weather Satellite
Europe’s MSG-4 geostationary weather satellite is up and running after its launch on July 15. Earlier today, it’s Spinning Enhanced Visible Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) snapped its first image of Earth. And yes, we are impressed.
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President Obama had a busy 54th birthday, meeting with the U.N. secretary general to discuss climate change, startup founders to foster innovation, and with Jewish leaders to press his case for the Iran nuclear deal.
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Texans hit by Foster injury and attempted murder arrest of Clowney’s father | Sport | The Guardian
Jadeveon Clowney, the star linebacker drafted first overall by the Houston Texans last year, was on Tuesday absorbing the news that his father has been charged with attempted murder following a shooting in a South Carolina bar.
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Free diving great Natalia Molchanova feared dead after failing to surface | Sport | The Guardian
The woman considered one of the greatest free divers of all time is feared dead after she failed to surface after a dive off the Mediterranean island of Formentera.
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Robert Conquest, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s documented the extent of the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens, died on Monday in Stanford, Calif. He w…
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Follow Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem on Twitter – Boing Boing
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Based on what we’ve seen so far, Ridley Scott’s The Martian looks like it’s going to be a reasonably serious sci-fi film. Matt Damon is starring as an astronaut who gets left behind on Mars when the other members of his space-crew are forced to leav…
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El Niño Conditions Are Growing Stronger : Image of the Day
When scientists declared in March 2015 that El Niño conditions had developed in the Pacific Ocean, the consensus was that the event was too weak and too late to have much effect on North America.
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Huge Sun flair Captured by Nasa via /r/space http://t.co/ErY3pTzC5M http://t.co/kaioWM3Jy5
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Mirror Lake, Montana (OC) [5458×3870] : EarthPorn
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Balancing rocks trace history of ‘jumping’ earthquakes – BBC News
US scientists say they have solved the riddle of why a collection of balancing rocks near the San Andreas fault has never been toppled by earthquakes.
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Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program | TechCrunch
In a blog post, Netflix outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity leave program. Its “Chief Talent Office”, Tawni Cranz, said:
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Floyd Mayweather confirms he will fight Chris Berto 12 September | Sport | The Guardian
Floyd Mayweather has announced that he will fight former welterweight world champion Andre Berto on 12 September at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mayweather, who will attempt to match Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 unbeaten record, made the announcement on soc…
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Because a cartoonist must eat: Patreon!
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Study shows Google may influence how you vote
People who saw that their friends had voted in the primaries were themselves more likely to go and vote. One study suggested that the gentle nudge led to an increase in voter turnout of 300,000 people. Cue endless handwringing articles about the new…
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Here’s why every cash-strapped college grad can’t just move back home
With graduation around the corner and still no concrete plans after commencement, it was time to start figuring out what I was going to do once college was finally over.
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Angelina Jolie Describes How She and Brad Pitt Draw from Personal Life | Vanity Fair
For 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt incorporated their real-life chemistry in playing husband-and-wife assassins.
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BBC Sport – Floyd Mayweather to face Andre Berto on 12 September
Undefeated Floyd Mayweather will attempt to match Rocky Marciano’s record of 49 victories without defeat against Andre Berto on 12 September. Former welterweight world champion Berto, 31, has a record of 30 victories with three defeats.
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Remember way back in the summer of 2014 when the ALS Ice Bucket challenge was suddenly everywhere? When everyone from old high school friends to mega celebrities were suddenly dumping ice water on their heads in order to raise awareness for the ALS …
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TOTAL from Joy Division to New Order [Full Album] – YouTube
1- Transmission 00:002- Love Will Tear Us Apart 03:363- Isolation 07:024- She’s Lost Control 09:575- Atmosphere 14:456- Ceremony 18:567- temptation 23:338- Blue monday 28:589- Thieves Like Us 36:2810- The Perfect Kiss 40:2511- Bizarre Love Triangle …
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Why Are URLs Full of So Many Garbage Characters?
#?&%! Why do some URLs look like cuss words in comic books? We have the answer. As you probably know, URLs (uniform resource locators) are basically “addresses” for websites.
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Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet (Alchemy Live) HQ – YouTube
Dire Straits performing “Romeo and Juliet” – Alchemy Live from Hammersmith Odeon – 1983
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My indoor cat basking in the sun on the back porch. : cats
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Bored Selfie. via /r/cats http://t.co/ZBfDJEhLhl http://t.co/44s5WUpy3k
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Caught my cat “Tommy” watching porn! : cats
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I’ve named her Molly, and I’m more determined to keep this stray : cats
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My cleft-lip kitty, Moo. : cats
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I rescued him! Need some advice. : cats
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The sun, the string…isn’t life good? : cats
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The toy box lid is a good place to sleep after playing all day. : cats
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He loves lying in the sun! : cats
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Fifteen minutes to supper. : cats
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – The Eye of Super Typhoon Soudelor
This Suomi NPP VIIRS image, taken on August 4, 2015, shows the well-formed eye of Super Typhoon Soudelor as it heads west in the Pacific on a course predicted to make landfall along the coast of Taiwan on August 7th.
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Indiegogo Campaign Seeks Funds to Rebuild ‘Mars’ Greenhouse
The Mars Society has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help rebuild its greenhouse at a facility in rural Utah that was destroyed by a fire last December.
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Train derails in central India’s Madhya Pradesh – Al Jazeera English
A passenger train has derailed in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, according to a report on the private NDTV station’s website. Five carriages of the Kamayani Express have reportedly fallen from a bridge into the Machak river.
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Kim Gordon to play a schoolteacher in German horror film · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Not to be outdone by fellow alternative icons like Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, and motherfucking Lemmy, Kim Gordon is also making a cameo in a German art film.
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Six Killer Xbox One Announcements Microsoft Made Today | TechCrunch
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Bungie to remove all traces of Peter Dinklage from Destiny · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Game Informer reports that Bungie plans to purge the voice work of Peter Dinklage from its popular shooter Destiny in a future update to the game.
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This organization wants Apple to ban the gun emoji
NYAGV’s dedicated website and open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook attempts to make the gun emoji Apple’s problem. That letter likens the image to a real weapon, arguing that “many Americans unknowingly carry a gun with them every day.
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Astronomers Gather in Hawaii Amid Controversy over Giant Telescope – Scientific American
Native Hawaiian groups are protesting construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea during a gathering of scientists in Honolulu By | Protesters opposing the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea gather Tuesday o…
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Chicago, see Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A biopic, early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
In a year that’s seen West Coast artists like Kendrick Lamar and Vince Staples put out albums that have gained widespread acclaim, it seems fitting that the spotlight be turned to N.W.A, the collective whose music helped define hip-hop in California.
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After Trump, Can Walker Win? – The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s lead among the Republican candidates for President continues to be the strangest thing about the latest polls—about American politics, in general.
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Legends Of Tomorrow clocks in its time-traveling supervillain · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If it seems like only yesterday we were reporting on the casting of Hawkman in The CW’s upcoming superhero spinoff Legends Of Tomorrow, that’s because it was.
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13th Floor Elevators – Slip Inside This House – YouTube
Easter Everywhere
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The Battle Over Scrabble’s Dictionaries – The New Yorker
The King’s Cup Scrabble tournament, which is held over four days each July in Bangkok, is basically the board game’s Wimbledon, with a ten-thousand-dollar prize and trophy awarded by the Thai royal family to the winner.
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In this weekend’s article “My Dinner With Longevity Expert Dan Buettner (No Kale Required),” the author of “The Blue Zones Solution” cooked a meal of broccoli soup and Icarian stew (served with a few glasses of red wine) for the writer Jeff Gordinie…
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Actual Problem A Nice Change Of Pace For Anxious Man – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
NEW YORK—After his laptop suddenly stopped working earlier this week, chronically anxious man Henry Geller, 36, confirmed to reporters how nice it was to have an actual problem to worry about for a change.
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I tried to deny that I was raised by Rednecks. Then my dad sent me a pic of the new “pool”. – Imgur
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Chip Kelly says keeping Riley Cooper ‘could be’ responsible for racism claims | Sport | The Guardian
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly acknowledged Tuesday that the team’s decision to keep Riley Cooper after a 2013 incident in which the wide receiver was caught on camera using a racial slur “could be” playing into the racism claims that hav…
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Natural Beauty: Davines Opens Flagship Salon with Ion | Vanity Fair
If you were to ask a woman to choose between having a new dress or great hair, chances are she’d pick great hair (at least I know I would).
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Briefly, my friends, Zendesk reported its second quarter financial results today, beating market expectations. The company also guided its third quarter revenue above street goals. Shares of the firm are up more than three percent after hours on the…
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Imam joins Senegal’s drive against pollution – Al Jazeera English
Senegal has a pollution problem: rubbish and dirt lie strewn across the streets of the capital, Dakar. To reduce this pollution, members of parliament recently voted a law banning polythene bags altogether. But this has not worked.
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A North Carolina court ruled Tuesday that the relatives of four of the 10 people wrongfully convicted in a notorious 1970s firebombing case aren’t entitled to state compensation.
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Scientists Retract Study About Subway Bacteria — NYMag
While the subways remain gross, they’ve been redeemed somewhat after scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College published a small retraction to their February study about the bacteria found in New York’s subways.
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This Week, Bruce Timm Tells the Tale of His Badass New Wonder Woman
It’s a quiet week for new releases in comics, but nothing really is quiet when you get DC animation maestro Bruce Timm giving us his take on New God Bekka as Wonder Woman.
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Twitter begins rolling out landscape mode on iPhone 6 Plus
Along many different interface changes recently, Twitter has begun rolling out a new landscape option for iPhone 6 Plus users using the mobile app.
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Mobile device titan Samsung will set aside $86 million to support workers who develop cancer and other diseases from working at the company’s chip and display factories.
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Soylent’s new liquid form is kind of spermy, and the guy behind it is sort of creepy – Boing Boing
We read all of the Soylent guy’s essay so you do not have to. As Annalee says, it’s basically about “how he’s given up alternating current so he can get ready for his life as a space cyborg.” There are more than 35 paragraphs in Rob Rhinehart’s blog…
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Deadspin 22 Years Ago Today, Nolan Ryan Beat The Shit Out Of Robin Ventura | Gizmodo Why Are URLs Full of So Many Garbage Characters? | Jezebel Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name | Kotaku Bungie Is Erasing Peter Di…
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DJI GO brings more videography tools as it ejects Pilot app from the App Store
DJI, makers of drones you really want like the Phantom 3, have a new app available for iOS. DJI GO replaces the existing Pilot app, and brings faster video sharing, editing tools, and an explore tab for seeing what others have recorded.
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Janelle Monae to Join Belgian Star Stromae at Madison Square Garden | Rolling Stone
Janelle Monáe will join Belgian dance-pop star Stromae at his headlining gig at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 1st. Stromae is the first French-language artist to headline the hallowed arena.
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Legendary Producer Billy Sherrill Dead at 78 | Rolling Stone
Legendary country producer and songwriter Billy Sherrill — best known for his work with Tammy Wynette and George Jones — has died in Nashville after a short illness. He was 78. Sherrill’s contributions to country music were massively influential.
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Google’s Project Tango is now available outside of the US
Google’s Project Tango is going international. The company today began selling a developer edition of its 3D-mapping tablet in Canada and South Korea, marking the first time it’s been officially available outside of the United States.
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Why We Need Older Women in the Workplace — The Cut
When I was about 30, I was hired to be an editor at The Wall Street Journal. There was no good reason for this. I was a pretty good writer, and I knew the rules of grammar and was in general interested in a lot of stuff.
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Natalia Molchanova, widely regarded as the greatest free diver in history, wore her favorite purple wet suit Sunday on a chartered boat off the coast of Formentera, an island near Ibiza. Only 1.
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Joe Biden Isn’t The Anti-Clinton | FiveThirtyEight
The “Joe Biden: 2016 presidential candidate” trial balloon has been aloft for about four days now, and my colleague Nate Silver has already addressed why the vice president has little reason to jump into the race “except as a break-glass-in-case-of-…
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It is one of the most beloved and famous of all songs, belted out at countless gatherings for infant and octogenarian alike. Yet “Happy Birthday to You,” far from being as free as a piece of cake at a party, is actually private property. A judge may…
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I think the little bow is supposed to be on the front : AnimalsBeingBros
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Developing storm in time lapse. : NatureGifs
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HMB while I break this guitar over my head : holdmybeer
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Jeb Bush Isn’t Sure If We Should Spend Half A Billion On ‘Women’s Health Issues’ | ThinkProgress
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said at the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday that he wasn’t sure if the government should be spending half a billion dollars on “women’s health issues.” “The next president should defund Planned Parenthood,” he sai…
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Shots fired by two suspected gunmen at US military base in Mississippi | US news | The Guardian
Shots were fired at the Camp Shelby military post in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Tuesday afternoon, according to local media. Perry county deputies were searching for two suspects who had allegedly fired at a group of soldiers training in the area,…
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Season five of Game Of Thrones continued to up the ante in terms of spectacle and polish. The wight attacks in “Hardhome” captured a scale that is usually obscured by darkness or other sleight-of-hand tricks.
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Montauk Hopes to Rally 1,000 for Battle — NYMag
For those upset by the never-ending invasion of 20-somethings overtaking the eastern edge of Long Island, there is now an outlet for your pain. Montauk resident Tom Bogdan has posted his coastal rendition of the St. Crispin’s Day speech in a local n…
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Police say the tombstone of a relative of Roots author Alex Haley has been vandalized with the words “White Lives Matter”. The Jackson Sun reports that the Savannah police chief, Gary Will, says the tombstone of Queen Haley was spray-painted earlier…
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6 controversial world leaders you’ll find on Twitter
Only the most naïve among us still believe social media is purely a force of positive change. Just like any other tool, it can be used for good or ill. Case in point: All the strong-handed world leaders on Twitter.
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No, the fight over Planned Parenthood is not over | Grist
On Monday, the Senate — by a margin of seven votes — voted down the Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-Iowa)-sponsored bill that would eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Following ridiculed leaks, Peter Dinklage out as voice actor in Destiny
GameInformer on Tuesday revealed that veteran video game voice actor Nolan North is going to replace Peter Dinklage as Ghost in Destiny and re-record all of Dinklage’s lines, effectively removing Dinklage from the game.
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Cecil the Lion to be immortalized as a Beanie Babie – Boing Boing
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said Tuesday that it will pay $21m to more than 300 victims of clergy abuse in a settlement that would end a four-year bankruptcy proceeding.
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Hasbro already eulogizing its Jem movie with tribute album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
So far, the only Synergy seen in the Jem And The Holograms movie has involved replacing most of the ’80s cartoon’s original elements with YouTube videos and Coachella-inspired costume design in order to court a millennial audience while making money…
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An American doctor accused of killing a lion in an illegal hunt in Zimbabwe said Tuesday that he had complied with all rules and regulations, filled out all the necessary paperwork and obtained the correct permits.
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Qatar backs Turkey’s ‘right to defend borders’ – Al Jazeera English
The Qatari foreign ministry has expressed its reservations about the statement issued by the secretary-general of the Arab League regarding the condemnation of Turkish bombardment of areas in northern Iraq.
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DDoS attacks hit The International, cause hours of delay
The biggest esports tournament in history may feature a record $18 million prize pool, but it’s also made it a bigger target. The International suffered through extensive delays due to DDoS attacks today.
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Aaron Hernandez lawyers ask judge to toss out evidence in double killing | Sport | The Guardian
Lawyers for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez are asking a judge to toss out evidence seized from an SUV authorities allege that Hernandez was in when he fatally shot two men over a spilled drink.
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Thousands of CA Convicts to Regain Voting Rights | Al Jazeera America
California restored voting rights Tuesday to tens of thousands of criminals serving sentences under community supervision, reversing a decision by a state official that they could not participate in elections.
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Cristiano Ronaldo dresses like a homeless man, plays soccer in the streets
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most recognizable athletes in the world.
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These jeans comfortably store and charge your iPhone
So many people own iPhones that there are now jeans designed around them. Los Angeles apparel company Joe’s Jeans is currently taking pre-orders for a new line of jeans called #Hello that can charge your iPhone while you walk.
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Report: Civilian deaths rise in Sudan’s South Kordofan – Al Jazeera English
Four years after the UN first warned of ” egregious ” war crimes in the Sudanese state of South Kordofan, Amnesty International has released a report that “definitively confirms” war crimes against civilian populations were committed by the Sudanese…
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Kentucky sheriff ‘steadfastly’ defends officer who handcuffed 8-year-old | US news | The Guardian
The sheriff’s office in Kenton County, Kentucky, has issued an unapologetic defense of a police officer who was caught on camera handcuffing an eight-year-old boy for 15 minutes in an attempt to restrain the child.
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How the Most Authentic Female Friendship on Television Found Its Home on USA | Vanity Fair
When you think of USA Network, your thoughts don’t immediately conjure super-modern or experimental comedy. But the home of cozy procedurals and candy-colored summer fare has been pushing the envelope with its content lately. We’ve seen that in the …
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Good God, David Lynch Can Even Make the Alphabet Terrifying
Long before he was bending our brains with feature films like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, David Lynch made short films, which, in true Lynchian fashion, often turned the mundane into the unnerving. In 1968, Lynch released The Alphabet, a film that m…
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It would be really difficult for a film series to go on for over a decade and not become intimidatingly convoluted, but the Resident Evil movies go one step further by including dozens of characters who don’t appear in every installment.
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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Gets the Perfect Big Bad
Wondering who the Atom, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, White Canary and the others would battle when DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? It’s Vandal Savage, the brilliant, immortal caveman-turned warlord who spends all of human history trying to take over the world.
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How To Slice A Bagel Along A Mobius Strip — And Why – Digg
This week on The Sporkful podcast, we’re featuring part one of our live show at the Taste of Chicago. I talk to Doug about why he walked away from all that money, and one of the top chefs in the world reveals his favorite candy bar.
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Hummingbird hawk-moth [3872×2592][OC] : AnimalPorn
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I think the world is ready for this to be in the Olympics – GIF on Imgur
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Loaf of White Bread via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/ZwRvNSKoCR http://t.co/vgQhjg68Yy
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Cure for tourettes via /r/funny http://t.co/qOCShxJQwh http://t.co/fcUWnT3ayV
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Flooding in Burma likely to spread south – video | Environment | The Guardian
Flooding in Burma is likely to spread further south, the UN announced on Tuesday. Over 200,000 people have been affected, and 46 killed, by the heavy monsoon rain which has caused flashfloods and landslides in central and northern areas of the count…
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Questions persist in Malaysia donations case – Al Jazeera English
How nurturing chickens is helping elderly communities combat loneliness and associated mental health problems. Travelling from village to village in northern Argentina, one man works to find lasting solutions to endemic problems.
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Anti-Choice Activist To Face Jury For Threatening Abortion Provider | ThinkProgress
Prominent anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard will stand trial for the contents of a 2011 letter which threatened the life of Kansas doctor, Mila Means, who was planning to offer abortion procedures.
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GoldRush: gold sculptures of things we treat as precious, by artist Črtomir Just – Boing Boing
Slovenian designer Črtomir Just made a fanciful 3D series called GoldRush that imagines what various things we treat as precious would look like if they were literally made out of gold. The objects were printed in 70 x 100 cm sizes, framed, and exhi…
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John Stewart’s tenure at The Daily Show is winding down, and the victory lap leading up to this Thursday has been harmonious (mostly).
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Merle Haggard: ‘Prison Is the Biggest Business in America’ | Rolling Stone
Merle Haggard has changed his stance on pot smoking since his “Okie From Muskogee” days. The former anti-hippy and right wing hero is now putting the bake back in Bakersfield with Willie Nelson on their recent collaboration, “It’s All Gone to Pot.”
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Public Enemy Offer ‘No Sympathy’ in Chaotic New Video | Rolling Stone
The latest clip off the seminal hip-hop outfit’s 13th LP, Man Plans, God Laughs, opens with the camera traveling down a dimly lit hallway entering a pristine corporate boardroom.
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These solar panels might not be that efficient, but they sure do look pretty | Grist
The bane of your local renewables enthusiast: Solar panels are ugly. They might save our world someday, but photovoltaic cells weren’t exactly designed for their aesthetic properties. This can make for a horde of irked neighbors if you end up tossin…
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Pharrell Braces for Protests During South African Tour | Rolling Stone
Pharrell Williams will face protests during his South African tour next months from a pro-Palestinian group that opposes his partnership with Woolworths, a major retailer in the country that has trade ties with Israel, Reuters reports.
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HMB I too know the mystic martial arts : holdmybeer
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These Weird Red Arcs on Saturn’s Moon Tethys Can’t Be Explained
An icy moon of Saturn has mysterious red arcs of material crisscrossing its surface — and no one knows exactly how they got there. The Cassini spacecraft caught these graffitilike features on camera as it imaged the northern side of the Tethys, whic…
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Kate Pierson of the B-52s just got married to her longtime girlfriend
Kate Pierson, the flame-haired singer from southern dance band the B-52s, is showing lesbians everywhere how it’s done. Yesterday, the 66-year-old married her longtime partner Monica Coleman in a seemingly casual Hawaiian ceremony, and then posted a…
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Roland Emmerich Ditches Natural Disasters for Gay Rights with Stonewall | WIRED
Are y’all ready for this? Hollywood’s chief architect of our doomed future is directing a tale of triumph at the local level.
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Please don’t buy the $100,000 watch with an Apple Watch on the back
Watchmaker Nico Gerard has a new use for your Apple Watch that just screams “Rob me, I’m disgustingly rich.” The luxury timepiece manufacturer launched its own high-end watch that uses Apple’s wearable as a mere clasp.
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Etsy Beats In Q2 But Falls 13% After Hours On Troublesome Q3 Guidance | TechCrunch
Today following the cessation of trading, Etsy reported its second quarter financial performance, including revenue of $61.4 million, and earnings per share of negative $0.07. The street had expected Etsy to lose $0.08 per share, off revenue of arou…
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India Just Walked Back Its Ban On Hundreds of Porn Websites | VICE News
Facing mounting public anger and ridicule, India announced Tuesday that it will lift its controversial and short-lived ban on pornographic websites, and clarified that it will only ban child porn.
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Absolutely Must Read in August
The summer is almost over—but the beach reads keep on coming. Including brand new series by N.K. Jemisin and David Drake. A brand new Christopher Moore book, plus tons more of your favorite authors. Here are the books you must read in August.
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Here’s That Lexus Hoverboard Finally in Action | WIRED
After a month of teasers and speculation, Lexus has finally shown off its real, live, working hoverboard. It may not be Back to the Future, but it’s still a mighty satisfying ride.
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What’s the Right Way to Teach Civics? – The New Yorker
Two years ago, the board of the Joe Foss Institute, an Arizona-based nonprofit, started to wonder what else they could be doing to foster civic-mindedness in schoolchildren.
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FDA Approves First 3D-Printed Drug – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The FDA has approved a pill for treating seizures that’s produced via 3D printing, which researchers say will increase the accuracy of dosages and provide more customization options for patients. What do you think?
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How Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Turned ‘The Bachelor’ Into Literature – The Atlantic
The show, a fiction about a fiction about reality, revels in its own ambiguities. Quinn is taken aback. “Yeah,” she replies, after a pause. She pauses one more time. “Let’s not do that again.”
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You don’t have to photograph people or landscapes or even animals to get your images selected for Editors’ Choice. In fact, the subject of your EC-worthy image might be right in your backyard… you just have to really LOOK for it.
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The Lineup | Ted Bundy: A Brush with Pure Evil
Journalist and psychologist Thomas Gaddis published The Birdman of Alcatraz in 1955. One of the earliest true crime books, it was about a convicted murderer who became a famed ornithologist behind bars. While a big hit film followed, no true crime b…
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Don’t teach a man to fish. Just give him the goddamn fish. – Vox
I write a lot about the benefits of fighting poverty by giving poor people cash. It’s supported by good evidence, it’s relatively easy, it respects the decisions of poor people as to how to spend it, and it avoids the central planning challenges of …
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TARPON FRENZY by Sean Ensch / 500px
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Nemo in Salt Water heaven by Robert Sisson / 500px
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Meet Hugo – he just moved in this morning : cats
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Worker Dies At Disabled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant | VICE News
A 30 year-old man died this weekend as he worked on decommissioning Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, which was devastated in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, in which 20,000 died or were reported missing. It is not yet known whether the man’s death was due …
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She was a social activist in the Mexican state of Veracruz, joining the “I Am 132” student movement during the 2012 elections and standing up against what she called the repressive administration of Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte.
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Mexico’s new US ambassador could be non-diplomat with ties to Peña Nieto | World news | The Guardian
Mexico has nominated a former government pollster with close ties to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s home state to be its new ambassador in the US, according to two officials familiar with the matter.
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Netflix Surges 8% To All-Time High On News Of New Price Target And Japan Launch Date | TechCrunch
On a day the NASDAQ was down about 0.2 percent, Netflix hit a new all-time high during intra-day trading, hitting $122.78 and eventually closing at $121.00 per share, up 7.5 percent on the day. The video streaming service has seen its shares rise 14…
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Colombia helicopter crash kills 15 police officers – BBC News
The policemen were on an operation to try to arrest one of the leaders of the Usuga Clan, a powerful drug-smuggling gang that operates in the area. An initial police investigation has blamed the loss of the aircraft on technical failure.
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Living on ‘Mars’: 8-Month HI-SEAS Mock Space Mission in Photos
Living on ‘Mars’: 8-Month HI-SEAS Mock Space Mission in Photos http://t.co/VUjtVfB9B1
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For his latest project, director Roland Emmerich swaps his signature destruction of national landmarks for the destruction of societal norms. His upcoming film Stonewall centers on the famous riots that took place in 1969 after police raided the Sto…
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Google announces finalists for its 2015 Science Fair who want to change the world
Google’s annual Science Fair aims to find bright young minds who can change the world and today the company has announced the finalists for 2015.
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The case of Gawker vs. Donald Trump shows when it’s OK to dox someone
If you ever wanted to call Donald Trump for real estate advice, grooming tips, or questions about U.S. immigration policy, for a few hours on Monday, you could have.
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The Lexus Hoverboard Is Real And I Rode It
Of all the future tech that has been immortalized in Hollywood films over the decades, nothing seems to captured sci-fi geeks (of which I am one) imagination like the hoverboard. The concept seems simple enough yet a working model as remained tantal…
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US Nuclear Modernization Could Cost $963B | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama’s plans to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years could cost taxpayers nearly $1 trillion, according to a new study that suggests the project’s long-term price tag will far outpace available Pentagon estimat…
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Lenny Kravitz’s guitar solo was so sick his d**k ripped through his pants
This article contains sexually explicit material. During a Monday concert in Stockholm, Sweden, musician and Hunger Games star Lenny Kravitz introduced a very special guest to the stage: his penis.
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WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel intensified his campaign against the nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers on Tuesday, denouncing it as a fatally flawed and dangerous accord and charging that p
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BBC Sport – Gareth Bale: Real Madrid forward scores against old club Tottenham
Gareth Bale scored against former club Tottenham Hotspur as Real Madrid won 2-0 in a friendly at the pre-season Audi Cup in Germany. Playing against Spurs for the first time since his £85.3m world record transfer to Madrid, Bale provided the key mom…
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Fox News focus group goes hilariously off the rails fighting over Donald Trump
From the minute Donald Trump’s name was mentioned, the focus group began to have a complete meltdown, eventually turning into a shouting match. If you want a glimpse of what Trump is doing to the Republican party, look no further than these exchange…
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It has been more than two weeks since Donald Trump questioned whether John McCain should be considered a war hero, and he has largely withstood the first of what will be many rounds of scrutiny and criticism from party elites and journalists. The po…
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What To Do If The Pilot Of Your Plane Dies
Every day in this space, we will consult a new entry in the 1987 book The Modern Man’s Guide to Life to see how the advice therein has aged. This is our first example, on the matter of air travel. So you’re flying somewhere.
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Star Trek Economics: Life After the Dismal Science – Bloomberg View
I grew up watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (easily the best of the Star Trek shows). There’s one big, obvious thing missing from the future society depicted in the program. No one is doing business.
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Setting Sales Quotas Is Like Running A 10K Race | TechCrunch
If you’ve ever run a 10K road race, you know that race organizers spend a lot of effort to have volunteers at every milepost telling runners what their time is. If you’re like me, you’ve probably sped up at each marker as you strove to beat your per…
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Seth Meyers Just Unleashed the Best True Detective Send-Up Yet | WIRED
Before last night, the best audience participation game show segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers was probably “Fake or Florida,” but after the introduction of “Fortune Cookie or True Detective Quote,” it’s now a race for second place between all …
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Catholic Schoolteacher Fired For Being A Lesbian Fights For Her Job | ThinkProgress
In June, Margie Winters was fired from her job as director of religious education at Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania for being public about her same-sex marriage. But Winters and a band of supporters are refusing to let that be the end…
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Silent Hello: Lionel Richie’s classic music video, but without the words. – Boing Boing
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Does This Ebola Vaccine Herald the End of the Virus? – Scientific American
For the first time, there is evidence that a vaccine protects people from Ebola.
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West coast wildfires by the numbers: active fires burning in five states | US news | The Guardian
In addition to California, crews are battling active wildfires in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Wyoming. As of 12pm PT on Tuesday Cal Fire, the statewide firefighting agency, said there were 22 active fires burning in the state, many of them start…
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NHL Teams Up With MLB Advanced Media To Create New Digital Products And Platforms | TechCrunch
One of the greatest things to come out of Major League Baseball might not be a particular team, player or record. It could be the Advanced Media group, which is a powerhouse in online streaming.
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Saturn Moons Stare Up at Ringed Planet in Gorgeous New Photo
Two Saturn moons appear to be gazing up at their giant parent planet in a stunning new photo taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The new image, which was released today (Aug. 4), captures the satellites Dione and Mimas, with Saturn a blurry behemoth…
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The Manos: The Hands Of Fate soundtrack is coming out on vinyl · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Plenty of bad movies have had their soundtrack released on vinyl. Even The Phantom Menace soundtrack got a deluxe LP edition earlier this year. Now comes the album that nobody has been waiting for: Ship To Shore PhonoCo.
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Elizabeth Warren Slams G.O.P. for Threatening to Defund Planned Parenthood | Vanity Fair
With talks swirling through Washington that the Senate G.O.P.
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This Computer Worm Could Break Into Your Apple Without You Even Knowing | VICE News
There’s a new type of worm that can break into Apple computers without being detected — and the creators say virtually the only way to get rid of it is to throw your laptop in the garbage.
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Stargate Didn’t Become a Great Universe Until It Was on Television
It was never in the cards that the rebooted/reinvigorated Stargate movies would keep all of the continuity from the TV shows. And that’s a shame, since the TV franchise did a lot more with the premise than anyone could have expected.
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Crackers Made From Giant Isopods Are Now a Thing in Japan
There seems to be no shortage of ideas when it comes to the manufacturing of new and unique foods. Case in point, these Japanese senbei rice crackers made from giant isopods—those oversized bug-like crustaceans from the ocean’s depths.
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Map: Stacking up the states under the Clean Power Plan | Grist
The Clean Power Plan, officially unveiled by President Obama yesterday, aims to cut CO2 emissions from electric utilities 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. But underpinning the national goal are dozens of distinct state-level goals for reducing …
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Did Your Team Blow It At The Trade Deadline? | FiveThirtyEight
The Blue Jays bought, the Tigers sold and the Mets couldn’t make up their mind. Baseball’s trade deadline, which passed last Friday afternoon, is all about balancing the present against the future.
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Techno 135 BPM [Fate/Zero] : animegifs
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My side project’s first 3500 users [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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Manta and the photographer by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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Driving through VA with this new addition has been priceless. : TrollXChromosomes
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Flags of Major European Cities [1198×1024] : MapPorn
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Before Bryan Cranston shaved his head to play the lead in AMC’s Breaking Bad, he was Jerry’s dentist, Tim Whatley, on Seinfeld. Beyond that bit of casting trivia, the two shows have other similarities. Heisenberg is the one who knocks; Kramer is the…
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In a rare moment where life imitates fiction, the Seattle home erroneously believed to be the inspiration for the movie Up is apparently going to be saved, and will float away – not with balloons as in the film – but on a barge.
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Kickstarter Launches to Build a Mini James Webb Space Telescope
As NASA gears up for the launch of its next great space telescope in 2018, a model-making team is asking for help to create miniature versions of the huge observatory for public outreach.
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Hiroshima survivors fight nuclear industry in Brazil – video | Environment | The Guardian
Seventy years after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 15,000 miles away in Brazil, a group of bomb survivors known as hibakusha campaigns against the use of nuclear energy.
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How to turn your dollar bill into real activism
The idea is ingenuous: Ben’s organization sells these stamps at cost, and you use them to stamp all your dollar bills before recirculating them into the local economy. Every time that cash passes hands, the recipient is exposed to the anti-Citizens …
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Ted Cruz appoints couple behind anti-gay marriage billboards to Iowa team | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has chosen a couple who are aiming to put up 1,000 billboards attacking same-sex marriage to be part of his Iowa leadership team.
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Hugh Dancy books another TV gig as Hannibal slowly bleeds out · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, a small group of Hannibal Fannibals have held on to the hope that someone, somewhere will swoop in and rescue their beloved serial-killer show.
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West Bank football team in Gaza for historic match – Al Jazeera English
The West Bank-based Ahli Al-Khalil football team has arrived in Gaza ahead of its historic match against Gaza side Al-Shejaiya on Thursday. The game, scheduled to take place in Yarmuk, will be the first time in 15 years that a Palestinian team from …
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The bilious rage of the British media – Al Jazeera English
Summer in the UK is traditionally referred to in the media as the “silly season”. Because there is little news in England, things get into the papers or on the TV that wouldn’t usually make it.
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Microsoft shows off new games from makers of Max Payne, Devil May Cry · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Microsoft had plenty of Xbox games to push at E3 back in June, but the publisher held off a couple of its most intriguing projects, choosing instead to unleash them this morning during its media event at the Gamescom conference in Germany.
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Couple turns lawn into ecosystem; officials threaten to mow it down | Grist
The one good thing about drought is that the lush green lawns outside your neighbors’ houses act as a sort of banner, proclaiming ASSHOLES LIVE HERE. But lawns aren’t just water hogs: They are also monocultures, as devoid of diversity as suburban sc…
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Thank You for Running! – The New Yorker
With the party’s first debate set for August, Republicans must decide to either allow what could become a nationally televised circus act, or figure out how to fairly whittle down a field likely to include eight current or former governors, four sen…
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Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name
The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man’s name. But each time I read a study about unconscious bias, I got a little closer to trying it.
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How baseball’s tech team built the future of television | The Verge
It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York’s Chelsea Market, typically packed with hordes of noisy tourists, was quiet. It was close to midnight, but five stories above, things were tense. The building is a former cookie factory, and the out…
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How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration – Jason Sokol – POLITICO Magazine
Forty years ago, a contentious battle over racial justice gripped Capitol Hill, pitting the nation’s lone African-American senator against the man who would one day become Barack Obama’s vice president.
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Inside Donald Trump’s Surging GOP Campaign | GQ
The bus tells you everything you need to know because the bus is a piece of shit. You would expect a Donald Trump campaign bus to be MOST LUXURIOUS, MOST DESIRED, NUMBER ONE BUS in the world, with a solid-gold chassis and marble toilets and a roofto…
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This week in City Index, we examine the consequences of attacking a police officer and resisting arrest. As of this date, over 600 people have been killed at the hands of the police in the United States. As a result of increasing violence, the natio…
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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream – HBR
For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” was a profound “sort of.” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly, and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially prefe…
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Meow Mix Song | EDM Cat Remix by Ashworth. You will not be disappointed : cats
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Woman in blue in a green field [640X480] : HumanPorn
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Deputy Administrator to Tour Composites Technology Center | NASA
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A young boy in Mexico. (2264×2265) : HumanPorn
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McConnell’s vow: No more government shutdowns | TheHill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he will not allow a government shutdown this fall and has pledged to begin talks “at some point.
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Watch famous ‘Daily Show’ alumni’s first appearances with Jon Stewart
We’ve already looked back at Jon Stewart’s run on The Daily Show over the years, but he’s far from the only cast member to made a mark on modern-day entertainment.
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The United Nations Wants to Crush Extreme Poverty | VICE News
Negotiators at the United Nations agreed Monday to a set of development goals that aim to end extreme poverty and hunger around the world in the next 15 years, while fighting climate change and improving management of the world’s oceans.
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Miami toddler critical after parents say he accidentally shot himself | US news | The Guardian
The incident occurred early Tuesday in the Little Haiti neighbourhood of the city, close to a notorious housing development known as the Graveyard for its high levels of gun crime.
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Comedy’s Newest Star Doesn’t Tell Jokes—He Dribbles | WIRED
In mid-July, after the NBA Finals had long been concluded and the only headlines about professional basketball centered on free agency speculation, a 30-second clip started picking up steam on Twitter, YouTube, and elsewhere.
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French Connection man fights to have new drug case against him dismissed | US news | The Guardian
A man who federal authorities say was a player in The French Connection heroin ring that spawned an Oscar-winning film of the same name is fighting to have a new drug case against him dismissed, even though he’s pleaded guilty.
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Police Officer Allegedly Shackled Elementary School Students With ADHD | ThinkProgress
A federal lawsuit out of Kentucky has placed law enforcement in the spotlight once again, raising concerns about overzealous disciplinary policies carried out against special-needs students when they commit minor infractions.
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Stonewall Movie Trailer | Vanity Fair
It’s only appropriate that, in this landmark year for gay rights, the fall movie season is bringing multiple stories about the many battles that got us here.
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This Indian Rapper Did An Awesome Cover Of ‘Anaconda.’ Here’s Why It Matters. | ThinkProgress
Since its release in 2014, Nicki Minaj’s hit single “Anaconda” has spawned countless covers, but none have been met with as much enthusiasm and passion as Sofia Ashraf’s “Kodaikanal Won’t.
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‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Is AMC’s Worthy Successor to ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Mad Men’ – The Atlantic
The AMC drama found its legs in season two, and it could prove a worthy successor to Breaking Bad and Mad Men if it scores a third season. There’s a lot to find impressive in the resurgent second season of AMC’s drama Halt and Catch Fire, but foremo…
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Karma Go review: A Wi-Fi hotspot for the contract-free era
If today’s streaming services and telecom providers have taught us anything, it’s that this generation is done with contracts. Almost non-committal as we are with a Facebook event RSVP, we want the option to not feel tied down to a service when we o…
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New Getty-Dropbox deal promises easier access to royalty-free content across devices
Integrating Dropbox directly into iStock automatically downloads content to a customer’s Dropbox account every time they license an image. Dropbox is fully embedded into iStock.com for integration on all customer accounts, from single subscribers to…
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Watching Real Athletes, Up Close, Changes Your Appreciation of How Skillful They Are – The Atlantic
Most professional sports are way better to watch on TV than in person. You don’t have to spend hours getting to and from the (crowded and overpriced) venue. You can do something else when nothing’s happening on the field, You can hit Pause on the Ti…
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Arnold Scaasi, the Canadian clothing designer whose exuberant creations were worn by generations of first ladies, socialites and Hollywood stars, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 85. Michael Selleck, a longtime friend and an executive at Simon &…
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Alessia Cara on ‘Tonight Show’ Breakthrough, Being ‘Terrified of Fame’ | Rolling Stone
A publicist, a label rep and Alessia Cara are huddled around a smartphone in the Victorian lobby of Cara’s midtown hotel, watching a video on Twitter.
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GAZA — The new road known as Jakar Street is a rough dirt expanse that Hamas bulldozers cleared parallel to the fence separating this restive Palestinian strip from Israel. Jakar comes from a slang Arabic term that suggests provocation, stubbornness…
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Greg Louganis: Far From Falling | Rolling Stone
A little over a year ago, Greg Louganis watched as the audience at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre booed Larry King.
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Watch Miley, Billy Ray Cyrus Cover Def Leppard With Steel Panther | Rolling Stone
Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus helped make the West Hollywood House of Blues’ final show even more explosive when they joined glam metal jokesters Steel Panther for a cover of Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me.
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Fracking sites might be leakier than we thought | Grist
I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is, this story is about a man named Touché. The bad news is, Touché thinks we could be drastically underestimating the amount of methane that leaks out of industrial fracking operations. Of course, a lo…
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Sending Seismic Waves Through the Ice : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Anatoly, Nick, and I arrived in Kulusuk on July 24 after a very long journey from Maryland and France. We spent the day organizing and weighing gear from the container and are in serious need of a warm meal and good night’s sleep.
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The Coming Debate and a Trump in the House of Cards | The Nation
This Thursday, Republicans will stage their first presidential debate, with Fox News picking the top 10 of the 17 announced candidates on the basis of their standing in the polls.
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A typical day of USA airspace visualised via /r/dataisbeautiful http://t.co/7lAnkORoVO http://t.co/IXgVetEvSL
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Manhattan in the late 1980’s : unitedstatesofamerica
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Yes.. My cat is named BubbaChity and he has 3 legs : cats
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17 Republicans want to be president. Only 10 will debate. Why run at all? | US news | The Guardian
Eleven Republicans squeezed onto a tiny debate stage in New Hampshire on Monday night for a two-hour gathering meant to give “low-tier” contenders an opportunity to stand out in an expanding army of candidates for president.
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The American Dream, Under Construction Since 1776 | TechCrunch
Though it’s not quite an accelerator (of anything really), the White House has decided to hold its very first White House Demo Day, wherein more than 90 entrepreneurs from over 30 different companies will have a chance to share their entrepreneurial…
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Some of our favorite monsters from “Compendium Of Demonology and Magic” (ca. 1775) – Boing Boing
This book was published with a “DO NOT TOUCH” warning on its cover. The Declaration of Independence was signed less than a year later. Connect the dots, people.
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Fired Sports Broadcaster Sues, Claiming Legal Right To Broadcast While Bigoted | ThinkProgress
Craig James is a former professional football player and longtime sports broadcaster who, in 2012, took time off from his broadcasting career to mount an unsuccessful bid for the United States Senate.
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Looking good is the best revenge in The Dressmaker trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The trailer for The Dressmaker—adapted from the novel by Rosalie Ham—tells the story of a local girl done good who was banished for doing something very bad at young age.
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What’s The Matter With Kansas? They’re Losing All Their Teachers | ThinkProgress
Kansas embarked on an experiment with radical right-wing policies since Governor Sam Brownback (R) was elected in 2010, and it failed miserably.
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This past weekend, a massive photograph of Cecil the lion (the beloved animal whose illegal death at the hands of a dweeby American dentist inspired a global outpouring of grief) was projected on to the Empire State Building.
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Dabuz signs with Vanquish Gaming
Vanquish owner David Mullican tells the Daily Dot that signing Buzby marks a “new era” for his organization. “We decided as a group a little over a month ago that we were going to search out the best talent in the Smash 4 scene,” Mullican says. “Tha…
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Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls network aims to help girls and young women feel more confident, particularly when it comes to science and technology. Their latest project is a collaboration with Parks And Recreation writer and author of Science… for Her…
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Living without a sense of smell
Nick Johnson slammed his head on the ice while playing hockey last year and hasn’t been able to smell anything since then. At the time of his accident, Nick’s wife was eight months pregnant with their second child. Over lunch, he says: “I joke I can…
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Psyche and the Seashore | Hakai Magazine
Ten years ago, I lived among trees. The world was lush and quiet, populated by deer and wild turkeys, outlined by ferns and running creeks. It sounds idyllic, and in many ways, it was. And then I moved to the California coast.
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Münchausen by Internet: On Lying Online | Broadly
There was Casey Bowman, who lost one son to SIDS and another to leukemia before suffering a miscarriage of twins. There was Brittany “Brett” Schmidt, who beat cancer three times, only to fight multiple, simultaneous brain cancers at age 21. And then…
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JAWS. by Lukas Schraml / 500px
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My first attempt at a Milky Way Pano. – Minnesota [3269 x 1500] [OC] http://t.co/xGhf0IFHwf http://t.co/G4X0AXWHhm
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Midday open thread: It’s the president’s birthday and don’t forget to get those booster shots!
Curbelo was vaccinated as a child, his office says, but did not received recommended booster shots as an adult. Dr Driscoll, a leading authority on the psychology of sex and relationships, said ‘sex tech’ was already advancing at a fast pace and by …
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Miss Piggy and Kermit just broke up—and love is a lie
It’s an act of conscious un-puppeting. But it’s also an act of sheer cruelty. First of all, a breakup between two fictional characters long beloved by children is the definition of senselessness. It’s unnecessary and tragic, and not amusing or whate…
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With White House Demo Day, Obama takes aim at tech’s diversity problem
President Obama recognizes that diversity in the technology industry is abysmal. That’s why the White House hosted its first-ever “demo day” on Tuesday, inviting startups, entrepreneurs, and investors to Washington to promote inclusion and tech inve…
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The Simpsons and Parks And Rec writer adapting Norwegian sitcom for CBS · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because CBS apparently hasn’t learned anything from Netflix or NBC, the network has opted to put in development Side By Side, a single-camera comedy based on a Norwegian series of the same name (Side Om Side, in Norwegian).
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What Are the Odds Stephen Hawking Will Answer Your Reddit Question? | WIRED
When Stephen Hawking announced on July 27th that he would do a Reddit AMA as part of the MakeTechHuman program, thousands of questions poured in, from the profound (“What morals do you think I should be reinforcing to my students interested in AI?”)…
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Matt Damon Has Questions About Aquaman in New Martian Clip | WIRED
We’ve already gotten one pretty solid trailer for director Ridley Scott’s upcoming adaptation of Andy Weir’s The Martian.
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UFC Fighter Ronda Rousey Has Physics-Based Superpowers | WIRED
On August 1, Ronda Rousey defeated Bethe Corriea in a UFC bantamweight match in a scathing, fleeting 34 seconds. But how awesome is Rousey, really? If you watched the Rousey-Corriea fight on pay per view, then you might think 34 seconds was too shor…
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From Brothels to Luxury, Mapping 400 Years on One NYC Block | WIRED
Walk down Greene Street in SoHo today and you’ll pass an Apple Store, a Ralph Lauren store, and a variety of other high-end retailers. A hundred forty years ago, you’d be walking by brothels.
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54 things to remember about President Obama on his 54th birthday
President Obama turned 54 years old on Tuesday.
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9 Reasons Why Congress Should Vote ‘Yes’ on the Iran Nuclear Deal – The Atlantic
It’s impossible to “solve” the Iranian nuclear threat. This agreement is the next best thing.
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Why no one is asking whether Mark Zuckerberg ‘has it all’
After the Facebook founder and CEO announced that his wife, Priscilla Chan, was pregnant with their first child, the arrival of the #Zuckerbaby temporarily broke the Internet.
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Colossal Ring of Galaxies –“Largest Object in the Universe Spans 5 Billion Light Years!”
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous events in the universe, releasing as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun does over its 10 billion year lifetime. They are thought to be the result of massive stars collapsing into black holes.
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Milford sound sunset : Breathless
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Zoo de Vincennes (Paris) – Hyacinth Macaw [OC] [6016×4016] : AnimalPorn
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Whatever Jersey Mike’s : firstworldanarchists
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Cedar Creek, Willamette National Forest, Oregon [OC][2149×1435] : EarthPorn
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Kitsilano Beach Park, Vancouver, BC. Canada. Sunset.[OC] [13184 x 3775] : seaporn
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Bees Try to Steal Bike; NYPD Responds — NYMag
On Tuesday afternoon, the NYPD responded to an agonizingly slow — and only partly successful — theft in Midtown. A swarm of bees appeared to be trying to colonize a bike locked up on the corner of 56th Street and Seventh Avenue.
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How the Associated Press covered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The AP has posted three articles from its archives about the US dropping two atomic bombs in August 1945 and the subsequent surrender of Japan, so we can see what many American…
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Taking The 2016 Audi TT’s Virtual Cockpit For A Spin | TechCrunch
The new 2016 Audi TT virtual cockpit boasts high-definition, crystal-clear digital graphics, Google Earth imagery and navigation, haptic feedback, Google-like search, voice command operation and “just write” touch features.
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The Strain Just Did the Impossible
For the second season of The Strain, we’ve all been marveling at how unexciting the vampire apocalypse could be.
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Gagan Biyani, CEO Of Sprig, Will Bring Kale And Quinoa To Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
Gagan Biyani, CEO Of healthy food delivery startup Sprig, will be joining us this year at Disrupt 2015 in San Francisco. In case you don’t remember, Biyani is a TechCrunch alum, having covered mobile apps for almost two years at MobileCrunch. Sprig …
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One way to avoid cultural appropriation: Seek collaborators, not just characters – Offworld
The line between cultural appropriation and cultural inspiration is often a complicated one for creators of art, media and entertainment to walk. Today, the New York Times published a series of opinion pieces on the subject.
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Joel McHale confirms: Community the series is done (but that movie…) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
No matter how much we may flood the comments sections of certain episodes, it looks like Community is well and truly done. At least, as a series.
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Malema case: Game changer in S Africa politics? – Al Jazeera English
How nurturing chickens is helping elderly communities combat loneliness and associated mental health problems. Travelling from village to village in northern Argentina, one man works to find lasting solutions to endemic problems.
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Microsoft announces chatpad accessory for Xbox One
During Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference in Cologne, Germany, it announced a slew of improvements and features coming to Xbox One later this year. Among them is a full QWERTY chatpad that will attach to the bottom of an Xbox One controller.
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‘First Times’ takes JennXPenn and ThatsoJack on the adventure of a lifetime
Two popular YouTubers and best friends are ready to take their viewers on the road trip of a lifetime. JennXPenn and ThatsoJack, aka Jenn McAllister and Jack Baran, are embarking on an epic California road trip, with cameras in tow.
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Viewers of the Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp series know that there are tons of in-jokes laid throughout the series, from the glass-breaking sound so prevalent in the first movie to the origin of the Wet Hot theme song.
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Music: “Heat, Beat and Treat,” Timur and the Dime Museum (2015) – Boing Boing
Timur Bekbosunov is an incredible performer, his work with the Dime Museum is not to be missed. This video stretches the imagination.
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There’s nothing quite like a grotesquely lopsided “economic recovery” in which a handful of cities boom, while the rest of the nation stagnates. Even worse, millennials living in such chosen cities face one of two options.
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One question is dominating the political discussion of the Republican presidential primary: How is Donald Trump crushing the rest of the candidates when he’s so crazy? The New York Times recently hosted a debate on the topic.
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This Ridiculous Frankenwatch Embodies Everything The Swiss Are Doing Wrong | TechCrunch
Much has already been said about the new mullet watch by Nico Gerard. The watch, called the Pinnacle, costs $9,200 and is essentially a metal band with two watches attached to it.
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Two Teens Hide a Pregnancy in a World Where Heterosexuals Are Persecuted
The short film Pink Moon belongs to a genre of LGBT cinema set in alternate universes where same-sex relationships are the norm and heterosexuals are subject to bullying and prejudice.
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Can the US Army Still Fight as a Heavyweight? | VICE News
On August 5 and 6, a whole mess of senior Pentagon leadership and military brass will convene in California’s Mojave Desert to witness something both spectacular and confusing.
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Bernie Sanders warns of impending oligarcy, will introduce campaign finance reform legislation
Just one family, the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, plan to invest some of their fossil-fuel fortune and, along with other wealthy donors, bankroll a $900 million political operation this election cycle.
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How We Discovered Alzheimer’s Disease
Today we hear a great deal about Alzheimer’s disease, but relatively little about its discoverer. Its discoverer had little idea how famous his few case studies would become. Here’s how Alzheimer’s went from a medical anomaly to one of the most know…
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How Campaigns Spend Their Money – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The 2016 election cycle is shaping up to be the most expensive in American history, with most presidential candidates already having raised tens of millions of dollars for their respective campaigns. Here is a breakdown of just how that money is spe…
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Don’t take our word for it. See which of the projects that inspire you rely on these great products. List projects you helped create at work and in your free time. Or find out who made the apps, websites, podcasts and other projects that inspire you…
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What happens when you throw a camera into a black hole? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they are talking about. Today, we wonder if we might be able to send a camera through a black hole.
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Why Sitting Is The New Smoking: An Animated Explanation | Open Culture
During the past year, sitting has become the new smoking.
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Apple Denies Making Plans To Be A Wireless Carrier | TechCrunch
A fair amount of folks reported yesterday that Apple was testing its own MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), to become, in essence, a mobile carrier while borrowing components from other carriers. You’d be paying Apple for your calls, texts and …
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The Republican presidential race five most embarrassing moments – so far | US news | The Guardian
The Republicans vying to become their party’s candidate for president of the United States have proved brilliant at one thing so far – making people grimace.
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Bright, a solar panel installation and distribution startup pulled in $4 million in seed money to build out its solar software and financing team. The startup launched out of the last batch of Y Combinator and began building in Mexico last year.
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Anti-Abortion Group Releases Fifth Planned Parenthood Video – The Atlantic
In the footage, secretly recorded by an anti-abortion rights group, an official from the organization discusses the procurement and cost of intact fetuses. Planned Parenthood’s handling of fetal tissue for research is the subject of a fresh video re…
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Destiny Ditches Dinklage, Adds Nolan North | WIRED
So long Peter Dinklage, it was… well, kind of weird while it lasted.
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Legionnaires’ disease in New York: what is it and how does it spread? | US news | The Guardian
Legionnaires disease has killed seven people in New York City and made dozens of others sick, with health officials warning that it is likely doctors will diagnose more cases of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx in the coming days.
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California man saved from oncoming train – BBC News
A man in California has had a lucky escape after a policeman dragged him from a railway line, moments before a train ploughed into his car.Amateur footage caught the dramatic rescue.It is believed the man’s car may have hit a pole as the train neare…
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A Silly Putty six pack – Boing Boing
Few things bring back the joy of childhood like the first few moments with a fresh ball of silly putty! Nothing reminds me I am an adult like cutting it out of my child or dog’s hair.
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Hulu’s ‘The Hotwives of Las Vegas’ takes on Sin City
The Hotwives of Las Vegas debuts on Aug. 18, and this season moves the ladies away from the swampy McMansions of central Florida. A majority of the same core cast is here, but they’ve taken on different, more oblivious, more Vegas-y personas.
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How Durable Is Donald Trump’s Surge? – The New Yorker
The Donald Trump surge continues. In the past two days, four new national polls have been released, and they have all shown the garrulous billionaire extending his lead over the other candidates in the G.O.P. primary. In some polls, Trump is getting…
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Why Are All Your Favorite DJs On Linkedin? | Thump
LinkedIn is a website where, basically, you hawk yourself and your skills in a never ending attempt to jump from a job you hate to one you might not hate as much before you ending up hating that job and jumping to another that might not be as bad. D…
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Microsoft releases new footage of its dual exclusive game and TV series Quantum Break
Microsoft today at its Xbox Gamescom 2015 briefing gave top billing to Quantum Break, an action game and an Xbox exclusive television show that star Shawn Ashmore and Aidan Gillen in leading roles. You might recognize Ashmore as Iceman in the X-Men …
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LPT: Use binder clips to hang posters without damaging them. – Imgur
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“Activities” · Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp is many things: a prequel, the weirdest series Netflix has ever or probably will ever order, and the most irresistible celebrity-cameo bait since Movie 43.
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On Thursday at 12pm EDT VICE News correspondent Danny Gold joins On The Line to discuss the Burundi’s controversial presidential election. In April, Burundi’s incumbent president, Pierre Nkurunziza, announced plans to run for a third term in office …
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Coal company threatens to sue Welsh borough if mine permit is denied | Environment | The Guardian
In June, councillors on Caerphilly county borough council’s planning committee unanimously rejected a recommendation by their planning officers to allow Miller Argent to exploit 6m tonnes of coal at Nant Llesg, near Rhymney, but deferred a final dec…
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Michael Keaton plays a creepy children’s host in this unaired SNL sketch · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Michael Keaton may have hosted Saturday Night Live months and months ago—right around all that Birdman hype—but the late-night show only recently released an unaired sketch from his episode.
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Justin Blackmon’s NFL career likely to be over, says Jacksonville Jaguars GM | Sport | The Guardian
Jacksonville Jaguars general manager David Caldwell seemed to concede on Tuesday what many have suspected for some time: receiver Justin Blackmon will probably not return to the team and his NFL career is likely over.
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Iowa couple plans to put up 1,000 billboards against same-sex marriage | US news | The Guardian
An Iowa couple who closed their restaurant after refusing to host same-sex weddings have announced plans to erect 1,000 billboards stating their belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Many fans of Vampire Eric on True Blood are a little confused as to why star Alexander Skarsgård attended the San Francisco premiere of his film The Diary of a Teenage Girl in drag. The style makes sense; his spangly, disco-era look is an homage to …
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Gravity Falls GIF and a Graf: Board Game Bonding | WIRED
From the moment Stanford “Ford” Pines walked through a portal from another dimension on Gravity Falls, it was clear Dipper would be fascinated by his new relative.
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Privacy groups attack NSA surveillance at the root by targeting FCC rule
Privacy groups have taken the fight over NSA surveillance of Americans straight to the source.
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail is coming back to (U.K.) theaters · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Finally, people who just couldn’t restrain themselves from shouting out all the catchphrases to Monty Python And The Holy Grail—even when showing it to someone who’d never seen it before—are getting their day in the (Gilliam-animated) sun.
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Amy Schumer Explains How Her Jennifer Lawrence Vacation Came To Be | Vanity Fair
Apparently divine intervention did not bring Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence together on the summer of vacation of our dreams last week.
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Look, we’ll be honest. When the words “Chris Farley in Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” first appeared on our screen, we were a little cynical.
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For Dominique Rondeau, a snowball cost him 40 days in juvenile detention, in a case against him that was later dismissed.
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Design FX: How They Pieced Together the Wild Ambush in Game of Thrones | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Every year, HBO’s swords-and-sex juggernaut has had at least one standout VFX moment, from Season 2’s Battle of Blackwater Bay to Season 4’s assault on the Wall.
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The Victorian Hugos: 1893 Was to Books What 1977 Was to Movies
Science fiction books in 1893 are where science fiction film was in 1977. In both cases, the genre was… perhaps “in the doldrums” is too harsh a judgment.
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José Alvarrado saved for more than a decade to buy 3 Brothers Mini Market, a bodega at 169th Street and Audubon Avenue. But at his store on a recent weekday morning, only eight months after he opened shop in Washington Heights, shelves that had held…
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Meet The Billionaires Who Pillage Under the Shield of Philanthropy
America’s parasitical oligarchs are masters of public relations. One of their favorite tactics is to masquerade as defenders of the common folk while neatly arranging things behind the scenes so that they can continue to plunder unimpeded.
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Gorilla | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Like Most Catholics, Chris Christie Uses Birth Control | ThinkProgress
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie revealed himself to be among the large majority of Catholics who use birth control, despite the fact that the Catholic hierarchy officially opposes artificial contraception, at a New Hampshire town hall meet…
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Facebook is demanding Indians love internet.org, even if they don’t want to
Indian Facebook users are seeing a pop-up message regarding internet.org service. The missive of the message is to gauge if people are interested in free internet service. The problem with the message is that it doesn’t let you say ‘no.’
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Legos Are Surprisingly Effective at Explaining Synthetic Biology
The emerging discipline of synthetic biology is poised to change many aspects of our lives, from the production of medicines and bio-fuels through to genetic engineering and the development of completely new biological systems.
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Drone’s heroin delivery to Ohio prison yard prompts fight among inmates | US news | The Guardian
A drone dropped a package of drugs into a prison yard while inmates were outside, sparking a fight, prison officials have said. The package was dropped 29 July at the Mansfield correctional institution in Ohio.
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Obama to call for Voting Rights Act restoration on law’s anniversary | TheHill
President Obama will call for the restoration of the Voting Rights Act on its 50th anniversary Thursday, the White House said.
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The EFF and MuckRock want to know if the police are taking your biometric data
New law enforcement technology involves biometric data: scanning and analyzing unique features on a person to identify him or her through surveillance or other footage. With a camera on practically every street corner in America, cops could essentia…
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Prosecutions Of White Collar Crimes Hit 20-Year Low In United States | ThinkProgress
A British banker is headed to prison for over a dozen years for cheating the markets, but American prosecutions of financial and other professionalized crimes are at their lowest levels in 20 years, according to data compiled by Syracuse University’…
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BitTorrent Sync simplifies its file sharing tools on Android and iOS
BitTorrent Sync is getting an update on Android and iOS that’ll make it a lot more useful for power users on the go.
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How Do the Guardians of the Galaxy Understand Each Other? Now We Know
Isn’t it crazy to think Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is only a year old? Released August 1st last year, the film became such a cultural phenomenon that Rocket and Groot are now almost as recognizable as Captain America and Iron Man.
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Oil Corporations Scheme to Export America’s Security
Oil honchos and their legion of lobbyists petitioned Congress last week to pad corporate profits at the expense of American energy independence and national security. And Republicans on a Senate committee voted to comply.
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Can Cutting Letters In Half Help You Read Faster Online? | Co.Design | business + design
Designer Masato Nakada’s experimental website, Type Snap, allows users to create words and sentences using only half of letters. The result is surprisingly legible.
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Wild mushroom foraging puts species at risk | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
While mushroom foraging for personal use may be defensible (Letters, 30 July), large-scale and indiscriminate picking of wild fungi for commercial exploitation will eventually have a major effect on the survival of species in the wild.
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Want To Make An Impact With Your Work? Try Some Advice From 80,000 Hours | TechCrunch
People in the tech world like to talk about doing great things — but what does that actually mean for your career? If you’re serious about making a positive impact on the world, should you go work for a startup? A nonprofit? Or none of the above?
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A dentist not so red in tooth and claw | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Your editorial “The immorality of the hunt” (31 July) alluded to the “sinister side” of Walter the dentist. It’s a profession that never fares well in the press or literature. Sitting opposite me is my kindly, Guardian-reading, be-sandalled, vegetar…
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San Francisco Hat Company makes an awesome fedora – Boing Boing
If you are bald, awesome, and need a hat, I heartily recommend the San Francisco Hat Company. I have several of their lovely fedoras. They are well made, fit well, re-block easily, and have lasted me years.
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Fake Cop Pulled Over For Pulling Over Real Cop — NYMag
An Ohio man, whose hobbies include putting red-and-blue emergency lights on his Chevy Tahoe and pretending to be a police officer, made the mistake of pulling over an off-duty cop from a nearby town on Sunday.
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Watch: Robot customer pranks fast-food drive-thru employees – Boing Boing
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ABC orders Monstropolis pilot from Saw IV and V writers · Newswire · The A.V. Club
ABC has purchased a pilot from Saw IV and V writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, tentatively titled Monstropolis.
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Michigan Herp Atlas – Scientific American
Northern Cricket Frog, Acris crepitans. The Michigan Herp Atlas Project collects observation data about the state’s native amphibians and reptiles—collectively known as herpetofauna or “herps”—to document their distribution and changes in their popu…
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The Hobbit Wants To Kill Your Butt With Extended Edition Cinema Showings
I’m not sure there’s anyone out there who was eagerly anticipating even longer versions of the Hobbit trilogy, even the people who actually liked them.
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Who knew that Star Trek could provide so much footage to go along with William Shatner’s version of “Common People?” Evidently YouTube user LordRicco666 did, as he edited a video using many episodes of the original series and the cover of the Pulp s…
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Paul Stanley Is Now a Singer in a Soul Music Cover Band | Rolling Stone
This fall, Kiss singer-guitarist Paul Stanley will begin a surprising new gig: soul singer. His new side group, Soul Station, which plays a mix of Sixties and Seventies soul classics, will perform its first-ever concert at Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre …
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The trailer for Amazon’s Sneaky Pete has snuck onto the internet, and that’s about where the successful deception ends.
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This California City Just Appointed 2 Undocumented Immigrants To Local Government | ThinkProgress
A southern Californian city became the first in the state to appoint two new commissioners without legal status to its advisory boards on Monday night.
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Billy Crudup to play 20th century man in 20th Century Women · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Billy Crudup, who recently starred in The Stanford Prison Project, is set to play the male lead in 20th Century Women, an Annapurna film written and directed by Mike Mills and co-starring 21st century women Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Ge…
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Students handcuffed at Kentucky school triggers lawsuit – BBC News
A new lawsuit has alleged that school officials in Kentucky improperly restrained schoolchildren, causing them physical and emotional pain.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said two children were handcuffed by the “school resource officer” w…
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The Bank Employees Who Make Less Than $15 An Hour | ThinkProgress
Getting a job in banking is often lucrative. Someone who works as a financial analyst can expect a median salary of nearly $77,000 a year. Someone selling financial products will make nearly $72,000 a year at the median. But the majority of people w…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: Mitchell Johnson unfazed by crowd barracking
Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson says he is not affected by the taunting he is receiving from England supporters in the Ashes series. The 33-year-old left-armer has been the subject of a derogatory song which mocks him for bowling “left and right”.
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Air-conditioning: Why might women feel temperature differently to men? – BBC News
There’s been a great deal of coverage of a study this week that suggested that women feel temperature differently in workplaces than men. Is there an explanation for why men and women might feel comfortable at different room temperatures, asks Chris…
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Jonathan Tyler on Finding Peace After Legal, Label and Alcohol Battles | Rolling Stone
Jonathan Tyler didn’t drop his band name, the Northern Lights, out of sheer vanity or a desire to focus the attention all on himself. He did it because he didn’t have $50,000.
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Hear FKA Twigs’ Sparse, Melodic New Song, ‘Figure 8’ | Rolling Stone
FKA Twigs unveiled “Figure 8,” another new track from her upcoming EP, on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show Monday. The LP1 singer also spoke about what inspired the darkly sparse yet melodic “Figure 8” as well as her plans for new music.
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Lessons from Tonkin and Libya: We Need a President Who Won’t Trick Us Into War – In These Times
Fifty-one years ago, an American president deceived the public about the true purpose of a U.S. military mission, ushering in a decade of foreign policy disasters.
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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.
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Kicking himself for not staying all the way until the end of the fight and subsequently missing its thrilling finish, local mixed martial arts fan Marcos Acosta expressed both disappointment and regret Tuesday for leaving UFC 190’s ma…
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Deal to build UK nuclear plant should be finalised within weeks | Environment | The Guardian
Ministers in the Department of Energy and Climate Change have reached an agreement with the French energy company EDF to develop Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater in Somerset, and are ready to approve the project after parliament’s summer recess.
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#ILookLikeAnEngineer Gets Its Own Photo Generator | WIRED
This week, engineer Isis Anchalee wrote a Medium post after she was featured in an ad campaign for her line of work. To (probably) no one’s surprise, Anchalee has been harassed as a result, and decided to start the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer as a …
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Russia Just Laid Claim to a Vast Chunk of the Arctic | VICE News
Vladimir Putin has long considered the Arctic a Russian “sphere of special interest,” and on Tuesday, Russia formally petitioned the UN for a large chunk of Arctic territory.
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Helvetica-Inspired Smartwatch Actually Looks Smart | WIRED
Mondaine’s Helvetica 1 is a smartwatch that (thankfully) doesn’t look anything like a smartwatch. For one thing, there’s no screen; just a clean face with numbers emblazoned in—you guessed it—helvetica.
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Chris Christie Informs Diner Patron That He Uses Birth Control | Vanity Fair
At a campaign stop in New Hampshire, diners got more than they ordered, when Chris Christie shared his preferred birth-control methods. You can clearly see a man caught on video reacting to Christie’s comments indicating that he has definitely had s…
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A Former British Prime Minister Is Being Investigated Over Child Sex Abuse Claims | VICE News
A former UK Prime Minister is being investigated by four British police forces as part of an unprecedented inquiry into allegations of historical child abuse that reached to the very top of the country’s elite.
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New viral video for ‘The Martian’ shows how the Ares crew deals with isolation
Everything we’ve seen from The Martian looks straight-up fantastic, from the casting (Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, and Sebastian Stan, to name just a few) to its dryly humorous tone.
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8 Craziest Mega-Engineering Projects We Could Use to Rework the Earth
Humans have been modifying the Earth for thousands of years, but we’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible. Here are eight dramatic ways we could change the face of our planet.
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Either Blake Lively or Kristen Stewart Is Woody Allen‘s New Muse | Vanity Fair
Woody Allen, despite everything, still knows how to assemble a cast that makes us stand up and pay attention. And even with an Amazon TV series on the horizon, he’s still sticking to his regular schedule of making a film every year.
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Bland’s Family Reportedly Filing Federal Lawsuit — NYMag
Sandra Bland’s family will reportedly file a federal wrongful-death lawsuit against authorities in Texas. The 28-year-old woman was found dead in a county jail near Houston last month after being arrested during a traffic stop; an autopsy concluded …
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Robert Downey Jr still world’s best-paid actor as Bollywood stars crowd top 10 | Film | The Guardian
Robert Downey Jr has topped Forbes magazine’s annual list of the highest paid actors for the third year in a row. The Iron Man and Avengers star made an estimated $80m (£51m) over the past 12 months, beating out fellow Hollywood behemoths such as Vi…
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Tomorrow is the big day! – Imgur
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How 1.2 Million New Yorkers Ended Up With Arrest Warrants
Christopher Howard never thought he would see the inside of a jail cell. Growing up in a “dysfunctional family” in Gainesville, Florida, with an alcoholic uncle, a drug-addicted mother, and a wheelchair-bound grandmother, Howard dreamed of moving to…
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Where Is the Hottest Place on Earth? : Feature Articles
In October 2004, ecologist Steve Running visited the Flaming Mountain, a ridge of dark red sandstone on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert and the Tian Shan range.
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This article has been updated. Read the new version here. Two issues normally confined to the nerdy world of poll analytics may determine the final spots on stage for this week’s Republican debate.
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Early Earth –“Evidence Discovered of First Reproduction in Complex Organisms” http://t.co/VXBiBUATik http://t.co/OjAol8iBYu
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Algae Bloom in Lake St. Clair
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Neutron Star Jets Near Speed of Light –“Rival Those of Black Holes” http://t.co/sjF8hXJVId http://t.co/32F1rQ9fwR
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The barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 [4016 x 4020] http://t.co/gkvo8Ck8yv http://t.co/e3HmosP8YO
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Jokers depiction informs us of each decades drug of choice – Imgur
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When someone asks if I want to smell their baby – GIF on Imgur
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Caution Urged Over Editing DNA in Wildlife – Scientific American
“Crap!” That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper published in Science last March. The work described the use of a gene-editing technique to insert a mutation into fruit flies that would be passed on to almost all of …
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Old 97’s hid a missing-cat saga in a love song · 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.
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Music: “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” Sly and the Family Stone (1969) – Boing Boing
“Chit chat chatter tryin’, stuffy in the place.
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When you let actual lions direct your movie, expect to be mauled · 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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Frank Grillo will be back for The Purge 3 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It looks like The Sergeant will reenlist for another government-sanctioned crime spree—Variety reports that Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is finalizing a deal to reprise his role in The Purge 3.
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Square’s Board Adds Former Brown University President Ruth Simmons | TechCrunch
Square announced a powerful addition to their board today, former Brown University President, Ruth Simmons. Before her 11-year post at Brown, she was the President of Smith College, establishing the first engineering program at an American women’s c…
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Three Classic Rareware Game Soundtracks Are Coming To Vinyl | WIRED
’80s babies, rejoice: Rare Replay, a massive bundle of 30 Rareware games from Rareware’s catalogue, drops today.
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Apollo Rocket Engines Recovered by Amazon CEO Preserved for Display
Apollo F-1 engine parts recovered from the ocean floor by Bezos Expeditions as they appeared at the start of their conservation at the Cosmosphere in 2013. Two and a half years later, the historic artifacts are ready for museum display.Credit: colle…
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Death of woman in New York jail sparks investigation by attorney general | US news | The Guardian
The attorney general of New York state is taking over an investigation into the case of a black woman who was found dead in a jail cell last month. Raynette Turner, 42, was arrested for shoplifting on 25 July and was found dead two days later in her…
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Biden jokes about 2016 run | TheHill
Vice President Biden isn’t dropping any hints about a possible bid for the White House in 2016. It is the first time Biden has publicly addressed growing speculation he could challenge Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
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Amnesty accuses Sudan of war crimes in South Kordofan – BBC News
Amnesty International has accused Sudan’s army of committing war crimes by bombing and shelling civilians in its South Kordofan region. More than 374 bombs, including cluster bombs, were dropped in 67 locations between January and April, killing at …
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Relentless California wildfire jumps highway barrier despite cooler weather | US news | The Guardian
An unruly wildfire in drought-stricken northern California has grown to more than 101 square miles despite thousands of weary firefighters working to stem its spread.
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The Deep, Dark Web Is Getting Some Company Soon — From Canadian Cops | VICE News
Canada’s federal police service is investing in software that, it hopes, will let it shed light onto the darkest regions of the deep internet.
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After Cecil the Lion’s death, 13 airlines ban the shipment of trophy animals
Cecil the Lion may have left this world, but his fighting spirt lives on. On Monday night, American Airlines became the thirteenth major airline to stop aiding the business of killing big game for sport.
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German treason probe row escalates – 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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The number of people sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx climbed to 86 on Tuesday, as city officials outlined legislation that would tighten the regulation of water-cooling towers, which are thought to be the source of the …
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Only a few hours remain for polls to land before Fox determines who’s in the first Republican debate on Thursday in Cleveland. Fox News won’t announce which 10 candidates will be on stage until after today’s 5 p.m.
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The Martian Astronauts Decompress After 10 Days in Pre-Trip Isolation
This fall, America is going to send a manned mission to Mars, and it’s not going to go well. But before all that, any astronauts slated to take this trip would obviously undergo lots of tests—one of which might be an extended period in isolation.
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Do We Really Want Amazon’s Drones to Swarm Our Skies? | WIRED
Lest you think Amazon’s much-hyped plan to deliver packages by drone is a flight of fancy, the company has just shared its vision for the future of autonomous drones.
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Musical mashup unites Swifties and Muggles · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
You may think that Taylor Swift and Harry Potter have nothing in common other than being loved by teenaged girls but actress Kate Parkin has found a way to bring the two even closer together in a musical parody mashup.
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NEW ORLEANS — On a brutally humid day almost 10 years ago, Donald Link was a sweaty, desperate man in a respirator mask lugging a rotting pig’s head to the curb.
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It’s a great moment for undergrads hanging out on college quads everywhere. Ultimate Frisbee has been officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
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What happened when the FBI subpoenaed Boing Boing over our Tor exit node – Boing Boing
We’ve run a Tor exit-node for years and years, and on June 15, 2015, we got the worst-case scenario for a Tor exit operator: a subpoena from a federal law-enforcement agency — but don’t worry, it ended surprisingly well!
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These Insect-Inspired Robots Can Jump on Water – Scientific American
Swarms of robots inspired by water-hopping insects could one day be used for surveillance, search-and-rescue missions and environmental monitoring, researchers say. More than 1,200 species of animals have evolved the ability to walk on water.
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A Spell was Cast by Lupe Jelena / 500px
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Roman bridge | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Adorable Baby Sloth Yawn : sloths
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Slide for iOS lets you send pics to any user within 200 feet whether you know them or not
Photo sharing among friends is simple enough via social media, but not as easy when at an event where you may not be linked to everyone in attendance via Facebook. To help change that, there’s Slide, a new app that uses Bluetooth technology to send …
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Experts Slam New York Times For ‘Gullible’ Puff Piece On ‘Amazing’ Kochs | ThinkProgress
The New York Times published a fawning front-page profile of the Koch brothers last Friday. The article never mentions their efforts to secure unfettered fossil fuel consumption, which would destroy humanity’s livable climate.
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In the trailer for Neil LaBute’s upcoming Dirty Weekend—which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year—coworkers Les (Matthew Broderick) and Natalie (Alice Eve) get stuck in Albuquerque and are forced to spend some one-on-one time with each other as t…
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Donald Trump, Affect, and the Conservative Mind — NYMag
The spasms of rage within the Republican base that have flared on and off throughout the Obama era have an ideological component and an emotional component.
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Halo Wars 2 is coming to the PC and Xbox One in 2016
Microsoft has announced that a new sequel to Halo Wars will be coming to Windows 10 and Xbox One in Fall 2016. Not many details were provided, but the original Halo Wars was a real time strategy game available for Xbox 360 released in 2009.
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Superman Stan Lee picks the Man of Steel in Batman V Superman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stan Lee is no fool. He worked his way up from the figurative mailroom to become the president and chairman of Marvel Comics. And according to Complex, DC Comics-superfan Lee is saying that only a fool would bet against Superman in a tussle against …
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Highlights from Michael Jordan’s rookie year
The best way to get me to click on something is to label it “Michael Jordan Rookie Year Highlights”. What a time capsule. (via devour)
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Is It Cheaper To Live Off Soylent Or Chipotle? – Vocativ
Soylent, the meal replacement that has caught on among brogrammers in Silicon Valley, has a new bottled version that makes it even easier to drink down breakfast, lunch and dinner without ever having to chew anything.
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800 Of You Told Us Which Candidates Fox News Should Invite To The GOP Debate | FiveThirtyEight
Last week, I asked readers to submit ideas for how to pick the lineup for the first Republican debate, on Thursday night. Fox News, which is hosting the event, is using a semi-mysterious polling average (this is the likely lineup); you can surely do…
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Paul Romer continues his discussion of the wrong turn of freshwater economics, responding in part to my own entry, and makes a surprising suggestion — that Lucas and his followers were driven into their adversarial style by Robert Solow’s sarcasm:I …
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California’s Largest Fire Is Moving At An ‘Unprecedented’ Rate | ThinkProgress
Wildfires continue to rage in California, where the largest of the 21 blazes covered 65,000 acres Tuesday morning and has killed at least one person.
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‘Obnoxious’ Protesters Will Not Make Guatemalan Gold Mine Go Away, CEO Says | VICE News
A transnational mining conglomerate is refusing to comply with a court order to shut down construction at a controversial and emblematic gold mine project in Guatemala, saying the mine is already complete and operating.
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Macedonia flash floods kill four, including children – BBC News
Flash floods in northern Macedonia have killed at least four people, including three children, and injured about a dozen more, officials say. Mudslides have engulfed local roads and cut off a number of mountain villages around the city of Tetovo.
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How Some US Doctors Are Hindering HIV Prevention | VICE News
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Jake Mason will never forget the response he received when he asked for a Truvada prescription to prevent HIV at a clinic in Los Angeles.
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Cecil the lion’s head ‘should be displayed at park’ – BBC News
A Zimbabwe conservation group says it wants the head of Cecil the Lion to be mounted in a case in Hwange National Park, where he was killed last week.Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said Cecil’s head was found in …
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St. Louis can use city tax dollars to build a new NFL stadium for the Rams without a public vote on the matter, Circuit Court Judge Thomas Frawley ruled on Monday.
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These Scientists Think Genetically Modified Rice Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Researchers created the genetically modified rice, called SUSIBA2, by using a gene from barley. The barley gene influenced how carbon in the rice plant…
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This App Lets Anyone 3-D Print ‘Do-Not-Duplicate’ Keys | WIRED
In an era when digital tools allow anyone to make practically anything, inscribing the words “do not duplicate” on a key only invites ambitious lock pickers to do exactly that.
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The threatened cilantro crisis has officially hit. The CDC confirmed almost 400 case of Cyclospora infection in clusters around the country all linked to cilanto.
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Police Brutality In Brazil Is Out Of Control: ‘We Have A Ferguson Every Day’ | ThinkProgress
In the U.S., a series of deaths has forced the nation’s public conscience to cope with the long-standing issue of police violence. But it is in the Americas’ second largest economy where a policy of “shoot first, ask questions later” has seen an epi…
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Federal Judge Rules Idaho Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional | ThinkProgress
On Monday, a federal judge ruled that an Idaho law that prohibits the secret filming of animal abuse at agricultural facilities is unconstitutional, potentially calling into question the validity of such laws across the country. U.S. District Court …
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An activist group is trying to discredit Planned Parenthood with covertly recorded videos even as contraception advocates are touting a method that sharply reduces unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is back at the fore of U.S.
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Why American Beer Is So Bland – The Atlantic
Blame Prohibitionists, German immigrants, and factory workers who just wanted to drink during their lunch break. Today’s discerning beer drinkers might be convinced that America’s watery, bland lagers are a recent corporate invention.
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NEW HAVEN — WE are currently enjoying a master class in the art of political stupidity. Donald J. Trump has been schooling us for some time, but the Iran nuclear deal has touched off a new race to the bottom.
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Incredibly Photogenic Girl : funny
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Looking at you 18-24 reddit “voters” : AdviceAnimals
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Jimmy Fallon Plays Donald Trump, Gets Debate Advice From Obama | Rolling Stone
Jimmy Fallon slapped on a gaudy wig, smeared his face with a healthy dose of bronzer and mustered his huskiest voice for a Tonight Show bit Monday where he portrayed Donald Trump receiving debate advice from Barack Obama, played by actor Dion Flynn.
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Real Madrid v Tottenham: Audi Cup – live! | Football | The Guardian
Asked whether he and his team-mates ever discussed the corruption scandal at the game’s governing body, Ronaldo replied: “Do you want me to be honest? It doesn’t worry me at all. I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club … the rest doesn…
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Apple Says It Won’t Be an MVNO. Here’s Why It Should. | WIRED
Four years ago, an Apple patent surfaced that outlined how the consumer electronics company might become something called an MVNO. Rumors to that effect have persisted for years, most recently resurfacing this week at Business Insider.
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California Crews Continue Fighting Rocky Fire | Al Jazeera America
Firefighters on Tuesday continued to battle a massive, fast-moving Northern California wildfire that has destroyed at least two dozen homes and forced the evacuation of more than 13,000 people.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Taylor Swift’s Girl Squad | Vanity Fair
1/11Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez onstage at Madison Square Garden, 2011.By Charles Sykes/A.P. Photo.+−zoom
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In Jon Stewart’s Final Days at The Daily Show the News is All About . . . Jon Stewart | Vanity Fair
There are only three days left in Jon Stewart’s lengthy reign on The Daily Show, which makes every remaining moment precious to his fans. So why, exactly, did he just devote over six minutes of airtime to defending himself against criticism from Fox…
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Yemen war: Does capture of air base mark a turning point? – BBC News
The retaking of a key air base to the north of the southern city of Aden is a major strategic victory for the Yemeni government in its fight against the Houthi-led insurgency.
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Witches Of East End’s Jenna Dewan-Tatum to play Lucy Lane on Supergirl · Newswire · The A.V. Club
CBS’ Supergirl is getting its own Lane: according to The Hollywood Reporter, Jenna Dewan-Tatum has been cast as Lucy Lane.
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It has been nearly a year since the first season of You’re The Worst sang its way out of our hearts.
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Daily Kos Democratic Primary Straw Poll 8-4-15
After six weeks of float, we saw a big 17-point shift two weeks ago.
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The #IceburgChallenge is here to get you drunk · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Last August the ALS Association launched the Ice Bucket Challenge, a fundraising campaign that involved people having buckets of cold water poured on them followed by the then-soaked people nominating their friends for the same daunting task.
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There’s only one way to fix the oceans now | Grist
In a new report published in the journal Nature Climate Change, German researchers conclude that even magic technology that would suck all the carbon from the atmosphere won’t be enough to save the oceans from climate change and its associated warmi…
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Brad Paisley Tapped as Team Blake’s Mentor on ‘The Voice’ | Rolling Stone
Brad Paisley Tapped as Team Blake’s Mentor on ‘The Voice’ ‘Crushin’ It’ singer teams up with old tourmate for show’s ninth season
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Over the past couple years the Orton Effect has grown in popularity, especially amongst landscape photographers. With the Orton Effect we can create a very soft, dreamy feel to our images, which almost feels like we’re being transported to the magic…
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This Is Why You Love/Hate Witbier | VinePair
Witbier – Belgian or Belgian-style wheat beer – is a divisive brew. While some people adore these hazy, fruity wheat beers, others gag at the thought. Why is witbier so polarizing? The answer has to do with an equally love-it-or-hate-it herb: cilant…
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My socks can’t tell me how to wear them : firstworldanarchists
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Thousand Island Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness [OC] [4608×3456] : EarthPorn
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The Data Drive, a dystopian Facebook spoof – Boing Boing
At first glance, thedatadrive appears to be a charming cartoon version of Facebook. But it soon turns into a nightmare, distilled from the social network’s brain-drilling efforts to force your attention to BRANDS.
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6 things that ‘UFO’ is more likely to be than a real alien ship
What was that strange object recently seen overtaking a plane departing New York’s JFK Airport? People are throwing around the term “UFO,” which is technically accurate: it’s an object, it’s flying faster than that Virgin Atlantic flight, and it has…
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Blue Plague: The Fall, a prepper fantasy – Boing Boing
Preppers vs zombies is a genre sure to keep me laughing. Blue Plague: The Fall, by Thomas A. Watson, is ridiculous and brutal.
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You probably remember flipping through Highlights magazine as a child, while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, perhaps. But now, this longest-running children’s magazine of 69 years is attempting to make an impact on mobile.
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The Fox News 2016 GOP debate explained
Kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! The first debate of the 2016 election season is about to pull into Freedom Town. That means it’s time to grab the popcorn and your pocket copy of the U.S.
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Pregnant Russian mother and six children found dead – BBC News
Six Russian children and their pregnant mother have been found dead in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, the country’s ombudsman for children has said. Their dismembered remains had lain undiscovered for some time, said Pavel Astakhov.
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Get Ready For A 21.5-Inch iMac With 4K Retina Display | TechCrunch
The 27-inch, 5K retina iMac is a beautiful desktop computer, but it’s a bit too expensive for many people. This is about to change as the latest beta of OS X El Capitan tells us more about an upcoming iMac that features a smaller 21.
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German MP Martin Patzelt on taking in Eritrean refugees – BBC News
Eritreans Haben, 19, and Awet, 24, have been staying with conservative politician Martin Patzelt for a month and he is helping to find them work.
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Mediterranean migrant numbers hit deadly milestone – Al Jazeera English
More than 2,000 people are reported have died so far this year trying to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, according to a Switzerland-based group.
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Backlash Against Police Use of Force Is Making Its Way into US Courtrooms | VICE News
Increased scrutiny over police use of force stemming from the past year’s high profile police-involved shootings has led to a shift in the way wrongful death lawsuits are being handled, according to attorneys and outside observers.
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Flying Robots Could Explore Extinct Volcanoes on the Dark Side of the Moon – The Atlantic
NASA is building drones to mine remote lunar and Martian regions. Really, there’s only one way to find out if the extinct volcanoes on the dark side of the moon are full of gold.
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Je suis Cecil: the roaring trade in commemorative lion merchandise | Environment | The Guardian
And so we mourn the death of Cecil, the most important lion in the world, in the only way our fragile and clumsy human emotions can allow us: with cash-in merchandise, the gaudier the better.
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Lewis Black on Surviving Two Decades at ‘The Daily Show’ | Rolling Stone
Lewis Black has seen more than a few changes at The Daily Show since his Back in Black segments began airing during the show’s inaugural season in 1996.
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In the weeks leading up to a critical annual US report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. An…
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Open “Chromecast killer” committed suicide-by-DRM – Boing Boing
The Matchstick, a Firefox-OS-based Chromecast-style device, kickstarted on the promise of bringing open, user-rights-respecting video to our homes — then they decided to add DRM.
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The People’s Platform – The Awl
For roughly a hundred and twenty-five weeks, Worldstarhiphop.com—or WORLDSTARRRR!! as it’s known to anyone who’s been in a fight—has aggregated the best Vines into fifteen-minute blocks of video.
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Huge Family Room [1024×683] : RoomPorn
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“So then this deer came up to me and started chomping on my finger.” : gifs
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My little Awww buddy, Silver Labrador Retriever Reddit, Meet Ash. via /r/aww http://t.co/AGpEozM3SA http://t.co/wfHSbIYAI1
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Best advice for dry skin : AdviceAnimals
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Minor Mistake Marvin : AdviceAnimals
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Buttermilk Falls State Park, Ithaca NY [2518×1785] : waterporn
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Serbs in Croatia in 1991 and 2011 [4360 x 2151] (x/post r/srpska) : MapPorn
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Ob River, West Siberia, Russia [4612×3075][OC] : EarthPorn
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Bottle Rocket shot from a dock. [600 x 899] : ExposurePorn
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Giant Sinkhole Opens Up in Brooklyn — NYMag
An enormous sinkhole opened up early this morning near Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Its yawning maw is about 25 feet wide and 10 feet deep, according to MyFoxNY.
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Eating Disorders Significantly More Prevalent Among Transgender People, Study Finds | ThinkProgress
Transgender people are at a significantly higher risk of having an eating disorder than their cisgender counterparts, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.
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NASA Robot Will Spin Huge Rocket Parts Of Carbon Fiber | Video
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MH370: Debris or No, This Case Is Still Weird — NYMag
The discovery last week of what appeared to be a piece of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on the shores of Réunion Island seemed at first blush a giant leap toward solving the famously perplexing mystery. Officials declared that, based on photos, the p…
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Donald Trump stands poised to win at least one campaign competition on Tuesday: center stage at the first Republican primary debate, the biggest victor of Fox News’s selection process for 10 of 17 conservative candidates.
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China egg freezing ban sparks massive debate online – BBC News
There has been intense debate in China over a controversial ban on single women freezing their eggs. In addition to the ban for single women, married women can only freeze their eggs in specific circumstances – for instance when they are to undergo …
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Hellboy III is probably never going to happen. Franchise director Guillermo Del Toro has admitted as much, explaining that no studios want to pay for it. But that hasn’t stopped Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman, from trying to build a groundswell of soc…
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Elizabeth Warren to Planned Parenthood opponents: ‘Do you have any idea what year it is?’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out some of her colleagues in a passionate speech defending Planned Parenthood shortly before a failed vote to defund it on Monday.
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New Zealand thump Zimbabwe to level ODI series – Al Jazeera English
A sparkling unbeaten double-century opening stand from Martin Guptill and Tom Latham propelled New Zealand to an emphatic 10-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the second ODI at the Harare Sports Club.
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Athletics doping allegations were ‘sensationalist’ – Al Jazeera English
The world governing body for athletics (IAAF) has released a formal statement strongly denying media reports of widespread doping in the sport.
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The Live-Action American Naruto Movie You Always Dreaded Is on Its Way
I’m surprised it’s taken this long, but it’s finally happened: An American studio has finally signed the rights to ruin make a live-action movie out of Naruto, one of the best-selling manga in the world and one of the biggest anime hits in the U.S.
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Donald Trump happily joins the War on Women: Shut the government down, he says
Dare we hope? Does Jesus love us this much? Trump/Cruz 2016!
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: England “proud” to stifle Australia captain Clarke
Seamer Stuart Broad says England are “proud” of negating Australia captain Michael Clarke in the Ashes thus far. After last week’s eight-wicket victory, England take a 2-1 lead into Thursday’s fourth Test at Trent Bridge and Broad said: “We’ve made …
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 4th – The New Yorker
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I haven’t been closely following developments in UK politics since the election, but people have been asking me to comment on the emergence of Jeremy Corbyn as a serious contender for Labour leadership. And I do have a few thoughts.
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WASHINGTON — In the early months of 2014, a group of about 30 corporate lawyers, coal lobbyists and Republican political strategists began meeting regularly in the headquarters of the U.S.
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“What happened to Sandra Bland?” mother asks in new lawsuit | Fusion
“What happened to my daughter?” Geneva Reed-Veal asked in a press conference on Tuesday. “What happened to Sandra Bland?” Bland’s family, along with their attorney, Cannon Lambert Sr.
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Garbage on the Beach is Bad For Your Mental Health | Hakai Magazine
Every year, roughly eight tonnes of plastic garbage wash into the ocean. Despite this constant stream of bags, bottles, and beads—many bits of which wind up washing back to shore—Kayleigh Wyles thought that some British beaches didn’t look quite tra…
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Traveling from Romania to Portugal in an Illicit Van – SPIEGEL ONLINE
For the past decade, Viktor Talic has been driving a van across Europe, delivering people and goods. His 50-hour, nearly sleepless journey offers a disquieting, yet inspiring, glimpse into the Continent’s soul. The hero of this story looks older tha…
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Study Shows Mass Public Shootings Have Increased
The Safeway at Ina and Oracle Road at the scene of the 2011 Tucson shooting that left six people dead and 13 injured. A new, government-backed study answers a question that has been on the minds of some Americans amid this summer’s headlines from Ch…
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New “Blue Face” Peacock Spider Is Fancy Dancer
With its brilliant blue mask and flashy dance moves, a newly named species of peacock spider looks like it’s ready for a night on the town. Naturalist David Knowles first found Maratus personatus—which he dubbed blue-face—while wandering the western…
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Patagonia filmed on medium-format, 8K-resolution camera – Boing Boing
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New Patent Guidelines Demonstrate Just How Difficult It Is To Fix Patent Trolling | ThinkProgress
Software developers could have a hard time getting their next big idea patented thanks to new rules the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued, making some inventions, particularly innovative software and medical devices, unpatentable.
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TapHeaven Promises True Automation For Mobile Advertisers | TechCrunch
The pitch for TapHeaven might sound a little familiar — co-founder and CEO Chris Hoyt said his technology delivers truly automated ad-buying.
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Skulls, Satan and Dave Grohl: Inside Mysterious Occult-Rock Band Ghost | Rolling Stone
“You know, we thought we were going to be completely outed and everything was going to be over basically one week after the first record came out,” says one of the six anonymous members of Swedish occult-rock troupe Ghost. “We’re as baffled as anyon…
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Sewol ferry: South Korea appoints China salvage consortium – BBC News
The South Korean government has signed a deal with a Chinese consortium to raise the wreckage of the Sewol ferry. The ferry sank in April 2014, killing 304 people – most of them children.
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‘WWE Raw’: Welcome to Monday Night ‘SmackDown’! | Rolling Stone
Have no fear, those of you wishing there were some significant drama in San Jose despite the absence of injured Intercontinental and U.S. Title champs and no word from the Dead Man: King Barrett is here to show everyone a thing or two about royalty …
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Watch LMFAO’s Redfoo Quest for “Treasure Chest” in New Video | Rolling Stone
When we last checked in with Redfoo, the Motown scion and former LMFAO member was filling us in on the so-called “fellatio ratio” he aims for when planning a party.
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Are Rogue Militants Preparing for War on American Soil? | Rolling Stone
n the third day of Operation Jade Helm 15 — the Special Forces training drill this summer that scared the hell out of nearly half of Texas — an ex-Marine named Pete Lanteri was leaning against a pickup truck at a Citgo station in the tiny town of Ba…
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70 Years Later, We Still Haven’t Apologized for Bombing Japan | The Nation
Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world’s only country to use atomic weapons to slaughter human beings.
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Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel reportedly carried rocks in their pockets during the premiere of their first film Un Chien andalou, anticipating a violent reaction from the audience. It was a fair concern.
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More than a third of a century after Ronald Reagan led America down a costly and unnecessary path into extreme income and wealth inequality, the opportunity to restore broad prosperity is rising before us. This is a moment not for despair, but resol…
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In the Grand Scheme of Things : Longreads Blog
The following is an excerpt from The Edge of Normal, Hana Schank’s story about what it’s like to raise a child with albinism, a genetic condition whose most striking characteristic is white blonde hair and pale skin. Many people with albinism are al…
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NY Will Approve Your BADCUOMO License Plate — NYMag
WNYC sifted through more than 130,000 New York State personalized-license-plate applications, and uncovered some important lessons about the mind-set of government employees tasked with distilling drivers down to a series of characters.
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7 People Dead in Bronx Legionnaires’ Outbreak — NYMag
The ongoing Legionnaires’ outbreak has now killed seven people in the Bronx, and more than 80 people have been sickened by the pneumonia-like disease since July 10.
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In Photos: The Young Refugees Forced to Flee Burundi’s Violence | VICE News
As a result of the violence and intimidation surrounding Burundi’s controversial presidential elections, which took place amid gunfire and grenades on July 21, more than 165,000 people have now fled to neighbouring countries, including the Democrati…
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Here’s what Curiosity has taught us during its three years on Mars
This week, NASA’s Curiosity rover will celebrate its third anniversary on Mars. Curiosity landed in the Gale Crater on Aug. 6, 2012, sending back the first ever footage of a Martian landscape.
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Genius Launches Android App, Redesigned Home Page And iOS App | TechCrunch
Genius, gone from rap song explanation site to annotator of the entire internet, has today launched a revamped version of the website, the iOS app, and for the first time ever, an Android app.
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The War Against Planned Parenthood Keeps Picking Up Steam | ThinkProgress
Although the U.S. Senate defeated an effort to defund Planned Parenthood on Monday, the war against the national women’s health organization shows no signs of abating.
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Russia makes renewed bid for contentious Arctic regions – BBC News
Russia has renewed its efforts to get the United Nations to recognise 1.2 million sq km (463,000 sq miles) of the Arctic shelf that it lays claim to. It made a similar move for the resource-rich territory in 2001, but that was rejected by a UN commi…
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Memphis police arrest suspect in traffic stop death – BBC News
Tremaine Wilbourn had been wanted for the shooting death of police officer Sean Bolton on Saturday night. After his arrest on Monday, Wilborn told police that ” I’m not a cold-blooded killer”, and “I am not a coward”.
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Everyone is complicit in a bloodsport when it comes to getting angry about images of hunters posing with slaughtered animals. That bloodsport is the pursuit of outrage, the greatest game of all in the digital age.
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Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life – Scientific American
Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who died in 2002, was a tough-minded skeptic who did not suffer fools gladly when it came to pseudoscience and superstition.
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Chris Wallace pledges ‘some doozies’ in his GOP debate questions
Gingrich used his response to go after Wallace. Wallace tried to save face but was booed loudly by the crowd.
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Californian wildfires threaten thousands of homes – Al Jazeera English
About 9,000 firefighters are battling to contain raging wildfires in California that have forced the evacuation of thousands of homes and burned more than 50,000 hectares of land, authorities say.
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Your Thermostat May Be Sexist – Scientific American
In the battle for the thermostat, preferences often fall along gender lines. But the instigator of the conflict is often the building itself, and better accounting for the unique temperature needs of women could lead to an armistice while saving ene…
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BBC Sport – Fred: Shakhtar Donetsk cleared of wrongdoing by Uefa
Shakhtar Donetsk were free to pick midfielder Fred for a Champions League match, despite him failing a doping test say Uefa. While Uefa advised Shakhtar not to pick Fred, the power to ban him rests with South American confederation Conmebol.
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The Origin of the Modern Western Diet – Scientific American
Were we to attend a 16th-century court banquet in France or England, the food would seem strange indeed to anyone accustomed to traditional Western cooking.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: First MSG-4 image
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of August 4, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
You will finally be reunited with your family when a sudden mudslide exposes their long-buried station wagon. Moses died within sight of his goals after wandering in the desert for 40 years, but you’ll beat him to the punch by doing it within seven …
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Marius Vieth is a 21-time award-winning fine art photographer focussed on street photography from Amsterdam. He travels around the world to capture golden moments and manages his own International Fine Arts Label NEOPRIME.
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GravityLight is an electric light that draws its power from gravity. You lift up a weight attached to the light and as it falls, it generates enough power to light the light for 20 minutes. GravityLight is installed to provide a 6ft/1.8m drop of a 1…
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When America is growing and happy, the country is sort of like a sprinter’s track. As Robert H.
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Neutron Star Jets Near Speed of Light –“Rival Those of Black Holes”
Some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered.
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Sandra Bland’s family files civil rights lawsuit against state trooper | US news | The Guardian
The family of Sandra Bland has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state trooper who arrested her, and against other officials they believe contributed to her death in a small-town Texas jail on 13 July. The suit, filed on Tuesday, claims that …
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Curiosity’s 3 Year Martian Road-Trip Tells Tantalizing Tales Of Water | Video
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So says Carl Takei, a staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project, speaking of the privately run detention centers for undocumented immigrants who’re facing deportation. These centers are not meant to be punitive, and many of the people in …
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YouTube’s Desktop Web Player Gets A New Look | TechCrunch
Does YouTube look different to you today? If you’re noticing that the YouTube player on the desktop seems to have a sleeker look-and-feel, then you’ve probably spotted the update YouTube has just rolled out.
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Struggles of the Muslim Pundit: Islam and the Media – The Atlantic
As various news outlets reacted to the attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher deli in Paris, producers across America picked up their phones, looking for people to speak for the global Muslim community.
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Oxford Team that Studied Cecil the Lion Raises $780,000 – The Atlantic
The team at Oxford University that was studying him has received more than $780,000 in donations. Cecil the lion’s death last month has resulted in donations of more than $780,000 to the team at Oxford University that was studying him.
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The Muppets get down, get down in a ‘Jungle Boogie’ cover
Getting the usually uptight Sam the Eagle to be anything but a stick in the mud looked to be impossible until now. He somehow gets wrangled into providing vocals to an Electric Mayhem cover of “Jungle Boogie,” and while he’s all but ready to storm o…
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Jeb Bush, Unofficial Paleo Spokesman, Loses 40 Pounds | Vanity Fair
Paleo-diet practitioner and former governor Jeb Bush says he has now lost 40 pounds over a period of six months, a slim-down he attributes to exercise and a diet that forbids grains and processed sugars.
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New Scooby Doo Mystery Mansion Lego set is full of spooky secrets
The first and most important questions for fans is: Are the monster mini-figures really just devious humans in disguise? The answer quickly becomes apparent when assembling the three included villains.
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Canada’s next prime minister? – Al Jazeera English
Canada’s federal election is officially on. The campaign period will be the longest on record since politicians had to campaign from the back of trains, and the most expensive in history.
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Sinkhole swallows Brooklyn intersection – video | US news | The Guardian
A giant sinkhole opened up underneath a street in New York on Tuesday. Authorities say no one was injured when the road collapsed at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Blomkamp³, Iron Man Collection, and More
If you happened to like all of Neil Blomkamp’s movies, and not just District 9, you can get all three on Blu-ray today for $20, plus a 64 page digibook, and an alternate ending for Chappie. [Blomkamp³ Limited Edition Collection (Chappie / District 9…
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UnREAL is the breakout show of the summer. (Not to say we told you so, but, ahem.)
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BBC Sport – Legia Warsaw awarded 3-0 win after player hit by stone
Legia Warsaw have been awarded a 3-0 victory in their Europa League match away to FK Kukesi that was abandoned after one of their players was hit by a stone thrown from the crowd. Albanian side Kukesi will have to play their next Uefa match behind c…
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Jon Stewart Bids Farewell to Fox News: ‘Adios, Motherf—ers’ | Rolling Stone
Jon Stewart began his final week as host of The Daily Show doing what he does best: Squaring off once more against his Moriarty, his Vader, his Hans Gruber: the fair and balanced folks at Fox News.
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The only woman in my house is my mother… : AdviceAnimals
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X-post from r/simulated : perfectloops
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Stop burning fossil fuels now: there is no CO2 ‘technofix’, scientists warn http://t.co/9uUboeznLq
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The Circle of Life, because ball is life [OC][1200×800] : ExposurePorn
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BBC Sport – Doping allegations sensationalist and confusing – IAAF
Allegations of widespread doping in athletics are “sensationalist and confusing”, according to the sport’s world governing body. The Sunday Times published data from 5,000 athletes, which it says reveals an “extraordinary extent of cheating”.
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The Future of Women in Work – The Atlantic
Changes in the demographics of the workforce and the nature of work itself have created both challenges and opportunities for women and their families. Many of the fastest growing workforces, like professional caregiving, have long been associated w…
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Puerto Rico Just Defaulted on Its Debt | VICE News
Puerto Rico failed to make a $58 million bond payment in full on Monday, sending the US territory into default a month after its governor declared that the roughly $72 billion in public debt that it owes was not payable.
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Shire makes $30bn offer for Baxalta – BBC News
Shire, which makes the Adderall XR amphetamine, said it is seeking to buy fellow drugmaker Baxalta for $30bn (£19.2bn). Dublin-based Shire revealed the move after its offer, made up of stock, was turned down by Baxalta.
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One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson Publicly Acknowledges That He’s Going | Vanity Fair
Well, it’s official. Larry is real. No, no, sorry, just kidding. What’s official is that Louis Tomlinson, boy band One Direction’s adorable little Yorkshire terrier, is, in fact, going to be a dad. We heard the news some weeks ago, but until today, …
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Cilla Black died after stroke says coroner – BBC News
The results of a post mortem on Cilla Black are due “imminently”, her son has told reporters. Initial police reports point towards natural causes, although there has been speculation the 72-year-old entertainer was affected by the midday heat.
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People Still Flying Drones Near JFK Airport — NYMag
For the past few years, the Federal Aviation Administration has been reminding people not to fly drones near JFK Airport.
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A Discussion on Police and Violence in America – The Atlantic
Ferguson has catalyzed a national conversation in America about race and police brutality. A disproportionate number of black men fall victim to police violence, yet few are willing to attribute this recurrence to the failures and biases of the indi…
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Amazon Chief Addresses Woody Allen and Jeremy Clarkson Controversies | Vanity Fair
In the ongoing debate about whether you can separate an artist’s personal life from his work, Woody Allen has generally received the benefit of the doubt from critics and collaborators alike.
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British Museum offers virtual reality tour of Bronze Age – BBC News
The British Museum is running a trial of virtual reality technology with a view to offering it as a permanent tool to explore its collection. Families will be invited to navigate a virtual reality Bronze Age roundhouse and interact with 3D scans of …
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JERUSALEM — Amid politicians’ promises to crack down on Jewish terrorism suspects after the fatal firebombing of a Palestinian home on Friday, an Israeli court on Tuesday ordered held for five days a young man who the authorities contend heads a new…
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Meet the Teen Bringing Back Old-School Eskimo Songs: Byron Nicolai of Toksoon, Alaska – The Atlantic
Byron Nicolai lives in the Alaskan village of Toksoon, population: 600. Its residents are Yu’pik Eskimo, a group of indigenous people in Alaska.
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Ted Cruz promises the War on Women and Planned Parenthood won’t end before the election
Meanwhile, it’s deja vu all over again for plenty of other Republicans. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who voted with the majority of Republicans Monday on the defunding bill, has teamed up with Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) to find some alternative way to beat…
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Natalia Molchanova, 53, widely regarded as the greatest free diver in history, was missing in the Balearic Sea after diving with three others there Sunday, according to her son, Alexey, and the global federation for free diving.
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The poster evoked a family law practice, or perhaps an Off Broadway act, announcing the gathering’s hosts inside the overstuffed Midtown office of New York’s senior senator.
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Early Earth –“Evidence Discovered of First Reproduction in Complex Organisms”
“The capacity of these organisms to switch between two distinct modes of reproduction shows just how sophisticated their underlying biology was, which is remarkable at a point in time when most other forms of life were incredibly simple,” said Emily…
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Moonshot | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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HMB while I get ramped by this truck : holdmybeer
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Write Some Six-Word Science Fiction Stories for Us!
Tell me a story, please! Involving robots, lasers, futuristic sharks, sunless worlds, sentient plants, or anything else you’ve got a mind for—and do it in just six words.
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Instacart Makes Its First Acquisition With “Acqui-hire” Of App Maker Wedding Party | TechCrunch
On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business.
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Pollution Spurs Rapid Adaptation in Trout – Scientific American
Research on wild fish populations is adding to a growing body of evidence that human activities—particularly polluting the environment—can spur rapid evolution in complex life-forms.
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Iraq says 1,500 schools damaged in Anbar – Al Jazeera English
More than 1,500 schools have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the conflict in Iraq’s Anbar province alone, according to an Iraqi official. Anbar stretches from Iraq’s western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia all the way east along…
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A police officer in Alabama proposed murdering a black resident and creating bogus evidence to suggest the killing was in self-defence, the Guardian has learned.
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The man accused of killing a Memphis police officer had a few words for the department’s director when he turned himself in, ending a manhunt that dragged on for two days.
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The Dungeons & Dragons Movie of Your Dreams Is Rolling Your Way
Fifteen years ago, there was a Dungeons and Dragons movie. And it sucked. Well now, Warner Bros. has cleared up the rights issues and announced they’re moving forward with a new movie not just based on the RPG, but on its immensely popular Forgotten…
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A Sneak Peek at From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series Season 2 | Vanity Fair
Returning to the El Rey Network on Tuesday, August 25, the second season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series promises to escalate the stakes for all of its characters, and continue expanding the universe that began with the 1996 film starring George …
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LPT: Use binder clips to hang posters without damaging them. : LifeProTips
LPT: Use binder clips to hang posters without damaging them. (i.imgur.com)
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Gawker Manhattan’s Bodegas Are Slowly Dying Off | Jalopnik Mustang Idiot Peels Out Of Car Show, Plows Into Crowd On Sidewalk | Jezebel Reasonable Mother Kidnaps Her Own Daughter to Prevent Vaccination | Lifehacker The Tech CEO’s Daily Bag |
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In 2006, the National Cancer Institute took the rare step of issuing a “clinical announcement,” a special alert it holds in reserve for advances so important that they should change medical practice. In this case, the subject was ovarian cancer.
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Clint Smith: Beyond This Place on Vimeo
http://fost.org/summit/ 2015 Future of StoryTelling Summit Speaker: Clint Smith Teacher and Poet Societal problems like racism and inequality often feel overwhelming. Clint Smith sees a possible remedy: storytelling. Through his work as a poet, educ…
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How Cats End Up With Nine Lives – Imgur
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It’s making me consistently angry : AdviceAnimals
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Andy Warhol’s Early Life in Nine Easy Panels – Boing Boing
Published 7:14 am Tue, Aug 4, 2015
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Russia lays claim to vast areas of Arctic seabed | World news | The Guardian
Russia has submitted a bid to the UN claiming vast territories in the Arctic, the country’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said in a statement that Russia is claiming 1.
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Robots more likely to take “male” jobs – Boing Boing
Most doomed: truck drivers. Also doomed: construction, carpentry. Surprisingly doomed: commodity trading and legal writing. The key questions seem to be: Is your task routine? Is the contexual data it requires available to machine vision, or present…
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Oklahoma’s All-Black Towns Find Renewed Interest | Al Jazeera America
CLEARVIEW, Okla. — Like many people from rural Oklahoma, Shirley Nero left her small town in search of education and job opportunities.
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How do you transport a lion’s head around the world? – BBC News
When news emerged of the illegal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe on 1 July, one detail stood out for many online commentators. Cecil’s head and skin were removed, according to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF), a local charity.
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Cartoon: The tissue-gate scandal
Yes, it’s a big scandal, folks. What with all this fetal tissue research, Planned Parenthood may even have a hand in curing Parkinson’s someday. They must be stopped!
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11 Things You’ll Probably Hear During The First Republican Debate That Aren’t True | ThinkProgress
The top ten Republican presidential candidates will take to one stage Thursday night for a debate broadcast on Fox News, an event that’s sure to feature some high-flown one-liners and potentially some real policy discussion as well.
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Is Your Child a “Group Problem Solver?” The PISA Test Will Decide – Scientific American
When tens of thousands of 15-year-olds worldwide sit down at computers to take the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) examination this fall, they will be tested on reading, math and science.
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Review · Sponsored TV Trailer · The A.V. Club
Sponsored TV Trailer Brought to you by Aug 4, 2015 9:00 AM
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Diaper Banks Spread Across the US | Al Jazeera America
The National Diaper Bank Network was launched in 2011 with the simple idea of providing help to parents who struggle with the costs involved with rearing a baby.
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Diaper Banks Meet Overlooked Need | Al Jazeera America
Andrea Scott resorted to using a towel to clean away the diarrhea from her child after the baby got sick. Her supply of diapers had run out, and she couldn’t afford to buy more. “I didn’t have any other way. I had to wait.
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Shafqat Hussain: Family’s despair after Pakistan convict hanged – BBC News
Lawyers for Shafqat Hussain argue that there was never a credible investigation into his age at the time he was convicted of killing a child in 2004. Despite appeals from human rights groups, he was executed in Pakistan on Tuesday.
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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service | Hunter Scott
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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Bukhara Jews Thrive in New York but Are Almost Gone in Bukhara
There are more than ten thousand graves here, sprawled over about 80 acres on the outskirts of the Silk Road-era old town. Most days, nobody visits. A covered mikveh pool—a ritual necessity by which Jews clean themselves after contact with the dead—…
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The Fox News GOP Debate Lineup Looks Pretty Set | FiveThirtyEight
It may not even come down to the wire. We now know, in all likelihood, the 10 candidates who will be on stage for the first Republican debate of the 2016 primary season, hosted at 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday by Fox News.
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Fly Over Martian ‘Ancient Atlantis’ From Orbiting Stereo Camera | Video
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I was recently introduced to Pandemic. Unlike zero-sum competition games such as chess, Pandemic is a cooperative board game that helps focus the mind on winning in the context of sustainability.
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‘Miracle’ no-one injured when Netherlands cranes collapsed – BBC News
The mayor of a Dutch town where two cranes toppled over and flattened buildings below says it was a “miracle” no-one was injured. Liesbeth Spies spoke as investigations began into the cause of the collapse in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn.
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“Dungeons, Dungeons, And More Dungeons” · Gravity Falls · TV Review · The A.V. Club
For however long Great-Uncle Ford is going to be on the show—and, accomplished voice actor though he absolutely is, a newly minted Oscar winner like J.K.
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If everything we learned from the movies is true, you can’t be a psycho, stalker, or generally insane criminal without having a crazy reference wall of scribbles, Polaroids, and maps. And, hell, those things take years to compile.
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15 hilarious women you need to follow on Twitter
Despite what Christopher Hitchens says, ladies can be funny too. Crazy, right? In fact I follow a lot of funny women on Twitter who should have more followers than they do. Here are some Daily Dot selects—hilarious women with (seemingly) great polit…
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I Want You To Know I’m Just Trying To Replace Your Mom – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Hey, can we talk? So, I guess it’s pretty obvious by now that we’ll be seeing a lot more of each other, and your dad and I thought it would be a good idea for just the two of us to sit down and have a discussion.
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SILVER SPRING, MD—In its largest study of safe dietary practices to date, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that when used correctly, food is successful in preventing hunger approximately 98 percent of the time.
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The New Science of Sentencing | The Marshall Project
Opening Statement Criminal justice news from around the web, delivered daily. See the most recent email.
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Men Preparing for Martial Law Arrested — NYMag
The FBI arrested three North Carolina men on Saturday for allegedly planning to go to war with the United States when the government imposed martial law.
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Internet Accuses Beijing Winter Olympics Theme Song of Ripping Off “Let It Go” | Vanity Fair
China recently won the honor of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, which, given the lack of actual snow, promises to be an interesting experiment. But it’s not just the Games that are being approached with a facsimile mentality; it’s …
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Americans complete stacked field for ESL One Cologne
With the field now set for the Fall season’s biggest Counter-Strike tournament, some fascinating storylines are already taking shape. The full list of 16 teams resolved when the North American qualifier ended with favorites Cloud9 and Counter Logic …
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Omar Sharif and Me: Remembering the Dr. Zhivago Icon | Vanity Fair
A dozen years ago, my husband, James, and I decided to take advantage of a lull in schedules and move to Paris with our twin two-and-a-half-year-old boys. We packed up and moved into the hotel Royal Monceau, down the street from the park of the same…
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Philip Glass: Words Without Music
I thought I’d posted about Philip Glass’ new memoir, Words Without Music, when it came out back in April, but I can’t find anything in the archives, so let’s do it right now. I was reminded of it after reading this review by Dan Wang, which pushed G…
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Jokers depiction informs us of each decades drug of choice : funny
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Mt.Cook reflection in the frozen Hooker Lake. : Breathless
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Why the Definition of Depression Isn’t Working – The Atlantic
Many psychiatrists believe that a new approach to diagnosing and treating depression—linking individual symptoms to their underlying mechanisms—is needed for research to move forward.
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A look at a commercial viral video outfit – Boing Boing
But as online video has grown up, even viral stuff has been co-opted and turned into a business. … Finding gold is not easy, though. It requires sifting through a lot of ore.
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The world’s glaciers are in retreat. The great tongues of ice high in the Himalayas, the Andes, the Alps and the Rockies are going back uphill at ever greater speeds, according to new research.
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Internet experts submit plan for US to cede control of ICANN | Technology | The Guardian
An international group of internet experts has released a proposal for how the US can cede oversight of the non-profit that manages the internet’s names and addresses.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – MSG-4, Europe’s latest weather satellite, delivers first image
Today, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager instrument on MSG-4 captured its first image of Earth.
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Hating my sister having breakfast atop Lake Tekapo, New Zealand [OC] : NZPhotos
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The Photoshop, Web Design & Profitable Freelancing Course
If working at your own pace and place sounds appealing, the Photoshop, Web Design and Profitable Freelancing Course gives you all the necessary knowhow to take command of your creative edge. There is a growing community of ‘digital nomads’ who trave…
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Cecil Outcry Prompts Major Airlines to Ban Shipment of Hunting ‘Trophies’ | VICE News
Three major US airlines announced on Tuesday they would be banning big game trophies as freight after international outrage erupted over the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.
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How Much Whale Oil Is There in Space? More Than You’d Think.
This is a real question. Whale oil is a wonderful industrial lubricant and remains liquid at extremely low temperatures. It was almost certainly used in some NASA technology over the decades. But how much whale oil have we sent out into the cosmos?
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Shire pharmaceutical makes $30bn move for Baxalta | Business | The Guardian
London-listed drug company Shire has made a $30bn (£19.2bn) unsolicited takeover offer for the rare-disease specialist Baxalta. Shire announced it was ready to pay $45.23 (£28.96) per Baxalta share, a 36% premium on Baxalta’s stock price on Monday.
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The Greatest Troll Beers of All Time | First We Feast
I was drinking at the East Village’s Proletariat with my friend, the noted Syracuse sports blogger John Cassillo, when we coined a term I’d like to think is very useful to suds geeks and novices alike: “troll beers.
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See Tim McGraw Honor the Late Lynn Anderson With ‘Rose Garden’ Cover | Rolling Stone
See Tim McGraw Honor the Late Lynn Anderson With ‘Rose Garden’ Cover Just hours after hearing of her death, McGraw and his band work up an acoustic version of the 1970 classic
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‘Cheerleader’ Singer Omi on His Long Journey to Number One | Rolling Stone
About eight years ago, Omar Pasley woke up with a melody in his head that he couldn’t seem to shake.
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Tame Impala’s Vision Quest | Rolling Stone
Kevin Parker handles just about everything with Tame Impala. The door to room 1226 at Austin’s Hilton Garden Inn is propped open. Kevin Parker is in bed, and the room is a mess — empty cans of Tecate litter the tables; underwear, skinny jeans and sc…
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Accomplish for Android is an intuitive new to-do scheduler
I’ve been a huge fan of Wunderlist for years now, because of the to-do app’s simple yet powerful interface. But over the past week, I’ve been drawn to a new productivity app that lends itself to the way I organize my schedule — and it was designed b…
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Here’s the plan for separating control of the internet from the United States entirely
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for maintaining the database of addresses for much of the internet, along with top-level domains and the root name servers.
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Viber now has animated stickers and a tweaked call UI on Android and iOS
Viber has rolled out a notable upgrade across its Android and iOS apps today that brings new features to the messaging app.
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Not Just ‘G.I. Jane’: Where Are Pop Culture’s Women Soldiers? – The Atlantic
Why are there so few cultural portrayals of women in combat? Over the past decade, a string of war movies emerged in the wake of 9/11: The Hurt Locker, Syriana, The Messenger, Green Zone, Lone Survivor, and American Sniper, to name just a few.
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Your brain is not ready for this Pokémon speedrun
What’s the quickest way to catch them all in Pokémon? Completely and utterly break the game. That’s what speedrunner “Shenanagans” did while powering his way through Pokemon Blue at this year’s Summer Games Done Quick charity speedrunning marathon.
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MRW I’m Michael Jackson : shittyreactiongifs
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Wife left me a month ago. This little girl hasn’t left my side since. – Imgur
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I can never return – Meme on Imgur
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Sunset from Ohakune, New Zealand. [3864 x 1968] : EarthPorn
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The abandoned Allston railyard on the outskirts of Boston [OC][4000×2000] : CityPorn
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A clear day at Snow Lake – Mt Baker-Snoqualmie Ntl Forest (OC) [3128×1760] : EarthPorn
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Someone won’t let me get ready for work : cats
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Existence of ghosts proven – Boing Boing
Shot at ISO 10^9*125125 and saved with a cunning new image compression algorithm that will fit any JPEG onto a kitten’s whisker, too!
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Morning Digest: Why Texas’ attorney general is facing life in prison
• TX-AG: Who would have thought that Ken Paxton would get indicted before Kathleen Kane? Paxton, Texas’ Republican attorney general, was indicted by a grand jury last week on charges of securities fraud; the indictment was unsealed Monday, when he w…
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Moroccan Migrant Suffocates in Suitcase While Trying to Reach Spain | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. The 27-year-old man was attempting to cross into mainland Spain from the country’s enclave of Melilla on the North African coast.
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GOP lawmaker diagnosed with whooping cough | TheHill
After a nagging illness, Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) said doctors at the Capitol have finally diagnosed him with pertussis, more commonly known as the whooping cough.
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What ‘100 Percent Effective’ Means for That Ebola Vaccine | WIRED
Last week, the medical journal the Lancet published preliminary results on the efficacy of an Ebola vaccine in Guinea, and everybody got really excited—especially about one particular figure.
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Obama clean power plan welcomed – but won’t avoid dangerous warming | Environment | The Guardian
President Barack Obama’s plan to slash electricity-generated CO2 emissions was welcomed on Tuesday as a courageous step towards a lower-carbon future, but not yet enough to brake dangerous global warming.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 93 | 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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We Are Legion: a battlefield game with no limit on army size – Boing Boing
The gameplay video preview starts out mildly unimpressive, showing soldiers in their dozens milling around, unable to even go diagonally. Then it starts zooming out. Ancient China, 220 AD. China is in disarray and within years the population plummet…
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The Last Breaths of a Dying Asbestos Mine | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Night was still upon us when Gilles Gauthier, in his mid-fifties, stepped outside of his home. Noting the dreary dark grey sky, he exclaimed: “It’ll be another cloudy day.”
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The Nameless Islands – Roads & Kingdoms
I’m in a kayak, alone and three months pregnant, paddling through jade water, trying to reach an unnamed island off the shore of Big Pine Key, Florida.
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AMMAN, Jordan — The young visitor from America rode his skateboard, jogged near his house or strolled to the market, barely acknowledging his neighbors.
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The New Spider-Man Reboot Won’t “Revisit” His Origin Story At All
Rumors about Scoot McNairy’s Batman v Superman character resurface again. Spider-Man may have a bigger role in Civil War than previously thought. A new Dungeons and Dragons movie is happening again. Plus, Ron Perlman still wants Hellboy 3, and Legen…
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A device commonly used to measure the methane that leaks from industrial sources may greatly underestimate those emissions, said an inventor of the technology that the device relies on.
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Watch Best of Enemies and See Political Debates Before They Were Idiot | Vanity Fair
At long last, for those of us hanging around the train depot in anticipation, the documentary Best of Enemies—an explosive time capsule devoted to the eruptive clash between William F. Buckley Jr.
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Music Great Job, Internet! Aug 4, 2015 7:59 AM Stop what you’re doing and watch this video. YouTuber Todd In The Shadows cataloged his “favorite cliché in music” and made a compilation of songs that pause after someone says “stop.
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What it’s really like to visit a jail
Don’t wear too much makeup,” my friend said to me as I was getting ready to leave. We were preparing to visit another friend of ours at Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail complex, located in the East River between New York’s Queens and Bronx b…
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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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Groundbreaking nonprofit for women in tech, the Ada Initiative, to shut down
The women’s nonprofit Ada Initiative is shutting down after four years of working to improve diversity in tech.
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Mike Hessman breaks minor-league record with 433rd home-run | Sport | The Guardian
Call him the real-life Crash Davis. Mike Hessman, an infielder for Triple-A Toledo in the Detroit Tigers’ system, became the career home run leader for US-based minor leagues on Monday night, hitting his 433rd in the seventh inning of a game against…
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Republic Launches New Platform To Send GOP To White House | TechCrunch
Software is eating the world, and it is continuing its monstrous diet in politics. The traditional shoe leather approach of political campaigning has been replaced by rooms of engineers, AWS instances, and data science APIs designed to maximize vote…
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Yosemite Base jumpers’ deaths ruled accidental, but reasons remain unclear | US news | The Guardian
Investigators have ruled the deaths of two wingsuit fliers who died earlier this year in California’s Yosemite National Park as accidental, but the reasons they died remain a mystery.
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Berlin’s Zeotap Raises $6.4M To Let Telcos Sell Customer Data To Mobile Advertisers | TechCrunch
Apparently, telecom operators are sitting on a huge amount of unique customer data that could provide much-needed revenue by being packaged up and sold to mobile advertisers and content providers to help them better target users.
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White House Pushes For Tech Diversity in Its First Demo Day | WIRED
The Obama administration is joining the call for more diversity in tech. Today, a battery of major tech companies, like Box and Amazon, as well as high-profile venture capital firms are announcing concrete commitments to increase and foster diversit…
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Kaiser Carlile: Father’s tribute after death of baseball batboy – BBC News
A father in the US says he has no anger over the death of his son, who was accidentally killed after being struck by a baseball bat.Nine-year-old Kaiser Carlile, batboy for the Liberal Bee Jays, was hit by a warm-up swing during a match on Saturday.…
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Taylor Swift Is Just as Obsessed with Selfies as You Are | Vanity Fair
One thing you can’t accuse a Tumblr-obsessed, cat-loving pop star like Taylor Swift of is being ignorant in the ways of the Internet age. So it should come as no surprise that the influential pop star with the lively Instagram account has a selfie a…
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Private Prisons Are Struggling To Keep Profiting Off Immigrant Detainees | ThinkProgress
Privately run correctional facilities are losing money as immigrant apprehensions have slowed down and the federal government has begun releasing some immigrants from detention facilities. At least nine out of 21 Texas counties that “created agencie…
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This story originally appeared at The Huffington Post. At the end of World War II, a bloody horror that cost 80 million lives worldwide, American leaders were determined that Germany must never again rise to massacre its neighbors.
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GoPro gives us the cat’s-eye view of a laser pointer chase
We all know that cats look hilariously adorable while fruitlessly chasing laser pointers, but what does that chase look like from the cat’s perspective? By strapping a GoPro camera to his cat’s head, YouTube user Tyler Crompton answered that questio…
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#FieldWorkFail: Scientists Share Their Mistakes Working in the Wild – The Atlantic
Scientists share the gross, scary, and often hilarious reality of doing experiments in the wild. It was in Indonesia that Agata Staniewicz glued herself to a crocodile.
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Shooting after Toronto rap concert leaves two dead – BBC News
Two people were shot dead and three others seriously wounded in Toronto after a fight broke out at a party hosted by rapper Drake. Police were called to the Muzik nightclub on Tuesday morning after shots were fired inside the bar and fighting spille…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
We’ll review some of the dumb things that Republican candidates for president said yesterday, when they herded a bunch of them onto a stage and made them dance. And maybe we’ll even be able to predict some of the dumb things they’ll say on Thursday,…
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Lost whale seen in Buenos Aires marina – video | Environment | The Guardian
A lost whale surfaces in an upmarket marina in Buenos Aires on Monday. The whale was first spotted in the afternoon in Puerto Madero, Argentina, and news spread via social media, causing a crowd to gather along the water’s edge.
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Will Joe Biden run for president in 2016? | US news | The Guardian
Will the third time be the charm for Joe Biden? The vice-president, who has twice mounted runs for the White House, signaled he was still open to exploring a third presidential bid this weekend when longtime aide Josh Alcorn joined the Draft Biden P…
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The Department of Defense Is Gearing Up for a World War Entirely in Space – Mic
In the future, the United States military will be able to wage entire wars from Earth’s orbit using laser-equipped satellites to search out and destroy enemy spacecraft.
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Domestic product: How MTV Russia shaped a whole generation – The Calvert Journal
MTV Russia appeared at an opportune moment in 1998, when musical TV in Russia was limited to MuzTV, which at the time was a young and not very successful network.
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The BBC’s recent series of Nigel Warburton-scripted, celebrity-narrated animations in philosophy haven’t shied away from the hard questions the discipline touches.
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Kobalt’s AMRA Inks Its First Licensing Deal: A Global Agreement With Apple Music | TechCrunch
Two months ago, Kobalt — a startup whose technology tracks and collects music royalties from streaming music providers — acquired and revamped and royalty collection agency AMRA to ramp up its music licensing collection activities.
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Pakistani, Indian Troops Trade Fire in Kashmir | Al Jazeera America
Pakistani and Indian border guards traded gunfire and mortar shells Tuesday along their disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing two Pakistanis and an Indian, officials said.
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Two dead after circus tent collapses in New Hampshire – BBC News
A circus tent has collapsed during a severe storm in New Hampshire, killing a father and daughter and injuring 22 other people.A performance was just starting when a storm with winds of up to 60mph (97kpm) hit the tent on Monday evening.
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P.S. For the record, Obama is no Ronald Reagan. Nope—he’s at least five times better. Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold… [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
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In the visiting room at San Quentin state penitentiary, 25 miles north of San Francisco, Lady Jae Clark looks around the room. “You see,” she says, “everyone is looking at us.” The large space is filled with inmates and their families.
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Will websites end up content providers for social networks? – Boing Boing
News sites will soon be “wire services” competing in social networks’ internal attention markets, writes Ezra Klein. Left unmentioned is this predicted shift to “published at Facebook” is the …for fractional ad dollars part.
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The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning – Scientific American
Whereas blocking involves practicing one skill at a time before the next (for example, “skill A” before “skill B” and so on, forming the pattern “AAABBBCCC”), in interleaving one mixes, or interleaves, practice on several related skills together (fo…
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The True Story of an Ex-Cop’s War on Lie Detectors – Bloomberg Business
Doug Williams used to give polygraph exams. Now he’s going to prison for teaching people how to beat them. There was something odd, Doug Williams recalls, about the clean-cut young man who came to see him on Feb. 21, 2013.
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My cat has seen some things… : cats
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