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My first attempt at shooting the Milky Way, from a light-polluted area : space
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Panoramic Sunrise in Delaware [OC][2048X801] : SkyPorn
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Hermione Granger: The Real MVP : TrollXChromosomes
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Fourth secular Bangladesh blogger hacked to death – Al Jazeera English
A gang armed with machetes has hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh since the start of the year, an activist group and police have said.
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Ghana doctors stop emergency services in strike over pay – BBC News
Doctors in Ghana have stopped providing emergency services in a strike over better allowances and free training. For more than a week, out patient services at state-run hospitals have been closed because of the dispute.
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Donald J. Trump was outrageous. He was demeaning. He was even somewhat menacing, warning a female moderator that he could turn on her at any moment.
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CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark Stehle An amended lawsuit submitted by lawyers of African-American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal alleges that Pennsylvania state prison officials neglected to treat him for Hepatitis C, leading to the development of severe…
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Adding their name to a growing list of microbead opponents, the Canadian government recently announced that it would be moving toward a ban of the tiny plastic particles that are ubiquitous in personal care products.
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4 Major Problems With A Cybersecurity Plan Making Its Way Through Congress | ThinkProgress
After being flooded with millions of faxes and phone calls, the U.S. Senate postponed voting on the controversial cybersecurity bill that privacy advocates warn could be a backdoor to more government surveillance.
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Review: Meryl Streep in ‘Ricki and the Flash’ Is a Soft-Rocking Surprise – The Atlantic
Meryl Streep stars as a troubled musician in a strangely gentle family-reconciliation dramedy. Rock and roll, according to the myth of rock and roll, is about the big, the extreme—the arena tours, the excessive hotel tabs, Ozzy Osbourne chomping a b…
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Migrant ‘chaos’ on Greek islands – UN refugee agency – BBC News
The refugee crisis on three Greek islands near Turkey is “total chaos”, the UN refugee agency UNHCR says. Accommodation, water and sanitation are all inadequate for the many asylum seekers on Kos, Chios and Lesbos, the UNHCR says, calling it “shamef…
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On Thursday night voters got their first look at the 10 current leading Republican candidates in comparison to one another — literally. Ever since Richard Nixon met John F.
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Jon Stewart departs ‘The Daily Show’ with cameos aplenty and a warning about bulls**t
Jon Stewart took one last bow (and attempted to take an Irish exit) in an oversized final episode of The Daily Show full of laughs, tears, Bruce Springsteen and other nods to his Jersey roots, and nearly too many cameos to count.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: GOP candidates compete to show how out-of-touch they are
The GOP turned into the WWE—the first presidential contest that seemed to consciously imitate reality television. It was almost certainly the first presidential debate to include an explicit blowjob reference. At the center of it all was The Donald.
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Taiwan Evacuates Hundreds as Typhoon Approaches | Al Jazeera America
Taiwan evacuated hundreds of people from their homes on Friday as the strongest typhoon to threaten the island in two years churned toward it and was expected to make landfall early on Saturday. Authorities said 611 people had been moved, most from …
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DHAKA — Attackers armed with machetes killed a blogger in Bangladesh on Friday, the fourth killing of an online critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority country in less than six months.
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In the run-up to the first Republican presidential debate, a flurry of news stories about the candidates offered glimpses of oligarchy in action. Consider: John Kasich’s super PAC raised $11 million in a little more than two months.
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‘Biggest update ever’ to fix Android flaw – BBC News
Samsung, LG and Google have pledged to provide monthly security updates for smartphones running the Android operating system. In July, a major bug was discovered in the software that could let hijackers access data on up to a billion phones.
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Of all the philosophical concepts Immanuel Kant is known for, the one I’ve had to struggle the least to grasp is his description of the sublime, a state in which we are overawed by the scale of some great work of man or nature.
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My interest in neurological disease was triggered by a second friend dying of motor neurone disease (MND), which in purely statistical terms was exceptional. It is suggested there is an incidence of about one in 50,000 who are affected by MND and mo…
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‘Do What You Love’ Is Terrible Advice – The Atlantic
If passion is a job requirement, says writer Miya Tokumitsu, employees have little room to complain about mistreatment at work. It’s been said in many places and by many luminaries: Do what you love.
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Stand-Up Comics Have to Censor Their Jokes on College Campuses – The Atlantic
Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke. Three comics sat around a café table in the chilly atrium of the Minneapolis Convention Center, talking about how to create the cleanest possible set. “Don’t do what’s in your gut,” Zoltan Kaszas s…
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A Ben Carson Debate-Watch Party – The Atlantic
On Thursday night, as the ten leading Republican presidential hopefuls prepared to take the stage in Cleveland, Ohio, some fifty supporters of the candidate Ben Carson bowed their heads at the retired neurosurgeon’s campaign headquarters in Johnsto…
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Japan court rules against Bitcoin compensation plea – BBC News
A Japanese court has ruled against a man hoping to claim compensation over lost bitcoins, saying the virtual currency cannot be owned.The Kyoto man lost 458 bitcoins worth around 31 million yen (£160,000) following the collapse of the MtGox exchange…
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Tracking Police Violence A Year After Ferguson | FiveThirtyEight
Exactly how many people are killed by the police each year? This question has been asked with increasing urgency in the months since Michael Brown was killed by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson last August.
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“Kill People and Break Things”: The Very Best of the First GOP Presidential Debate | The Nation
The first official Republican debate was, at least, good television, chock full of shouting matches, bald-faced lies, and ad hominem attacks.
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Arctic wolf having a nap at CFS Alert [1500×1000] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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Facts about our own Solar System : space
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Kabul Counts the Cost of Suicide Attack Killing 8 and Injuring 400 | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog.
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Marco Rubio: if he can withstand Trump, can he beat Clinton in a debate? | US news | The Guardian
Marco Rubio walked into the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night as a decided underdog. But the youthful Florida senator emerged, almost by way of non-engagement on a stage of bombastic personalities, as a policy savant.
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Utoya camp reopens four years after Breivik massacre – Al Jazeera English
Four years after Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people on Utoya, a flood of newcomers will be arriving on the Norwegian island as the Labour Party’s youth camp opens for the first time since the massacre.
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Who said climate skeptics’ hunches don’t pack a punch? | Environment | The Guardian
The liberal media and an overwhelming majority of scientists would have us believe that there is no real debate about climate change.
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Fantastic Four’s Kate Mara to star in biopic about Iraq war vet Megan Leavey | Film | The Guardian
Fantastic Four’s Kate Mara is to take the lead role in a film about Megan Leavey, an Iraq war bomb disposal operative who ended up adopting the dog with whom she was teamed on scores of missions.
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Russians shocked as banned Western food destroyed – BBC News
The sight of vast amounts of banned foreign food being bulldozed, buried or burned is causing controversy in Russia. Tens of thousands of people have joined a protest petition to President Vladimir Putin.
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People Smuggling In Sicily: Europe Or Die (Trailer) | VICE News
In June the European Union (EU) responded to the colossal toll of people fleeing war and poverty dying on its borders by launching an 11.8 million euro ($12.8m) per year naval mission.
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Lago di Ponteranica Superiore, Italy | by claudius 1954. [2048×1245] : EarthPorn
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Best Planets to See in August’s Night Sky
Saturn will shine during the month of August, and with luck stargazers will be able to catch a glimpse of Mars and Venus as well, if they know when to look, with the help of this day-by-day breakdown.
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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 7, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Three people were arrested this week after allegedly planning to kill soldiers involved in the Jade Helm military exercises, the FBI said.
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After 16 years of taking satirical aim at the hypocrisy of politics and the fatuousness of the news media, Jon Stewart said goodbye to “The Daily
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Thai man given record jail term for insulting monarch – BBC News
A Thai court has sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for insulting the monarchy – the harshest ever given under Thailand’s lese majeste law.The defendant, 48-year-old Pongsak Sriboonpeng, was found guilty of posting articles defaming the monarchy on…
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MH370: French investigators hold news briefing on Reunion – BBC News
French government representatives hold a news briefing on the latest developments in the search for flight MH370. France says it will conduct air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion, following the discovery of a wing section o…
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How Electronic Skin Could Help Prosthetic Limbs Feel Touch – The Atlantic
Scientists want to develop electronic skin that could imbue prosthetics with the sense of touch. Chao Wang didn’t always work on artificial skin. When he came to Stanford to work in the electronics lab, his background was in chemistry, specifically …
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Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from ‘Star Trek’, is headed toward space again
The actress who handled communications on the Starship Enterprise is headed toward the stars. Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series, won’t quite get to space, but she’ll be going in that direction.
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Moments From the First G.O.P. Debate – Video – NYTimes.com
Times reporter Adam Nagourney analyzes key moments from the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday.
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70 Years After Hiroshima: How Japan’s Emperor Announced the End of World War II – The Atlantic
In 1945, Emperor Hirohito overcame a military coup to announce Japan’s surrender. Which raises a question: Who decides when a war is over? Seventy years ago, on the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bo…
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Good Friday morning from Washington. It has been only a few hours since 17 Republicans gathered in two debates in an effort to stand apart. As expected, the big names remained big, but a few lesser-known candidates found a way to rise above the crow…
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Rand Paul and Chris Christie Clash on NSA Spying in the Republican Debate – The Atlantic
The rivals for the GOP nomination have starkly different opinions about the protections of the Fourth Amendment. One of the biggest clashes in the Republican debate Thursday night came after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was asked about his pas…
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Slooh Webcast to Mark Rosetta Comet Mission’s Closest Sun Approach Saturday
A comet carrying a robotic hitchhiker is barreling toward its closest approach to the sun next week, and you can catch live shots of the icy wanderer in the sky during a webcast early Sunday morning Last November, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) w…
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Spain wildfires threaten homes amid Europe heatwave warnings – BBC News
Wildfires have forced more than 1,400 people to leave their homes in western Spain as dry, hot conditions spark warnings in other European countries. Towns and campsites have been evacuated as planes and helicopters help to tackle the blaze in Spain…
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Award-Winning Designer Picks Some of Science Fiction’s Best Book Covers
Australian book cover designer WH Chong has won numerous awards for his book designs. And speaking to Spook Magazine, he singled out some of his favorite book cover designs for classic science fiction. (Which also happen to be for some of the best b…
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Russia: Putin petitioned over bulldozed food mountains – BBC News
More than 300,000 people have backed an online petition calling on President Putin to give Western-produced food that is due to be destroyed to charity. Russia has already bulldozed a mountain of cheese and tonnes of other foodstuffs imported in vio…
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Google asked to police stolen webcam videos on YouTube – BBC News
YouTube should do more to police and remove video clips made using hijacked webcams, say digital campaigners. In a report released at the Black Hat conference, the Digital Citizens Alliance said it had found thousands of videos on YouTube that featu…
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Good guy UPS driver : AdviceAnimals
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Diana by PavelTsvetkov http://t.co/OJfB3W1IHu http://t.co/X2pza6Ma2r
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Make me : firstworldanarchists
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two tornadoes sweeping the land : natureporn
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My mom bought a puppy cupcake for him. Cuteness overload. : aww
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How Fiction Can Reveal the Horrors of Future Wars | WIRED
The fact that he couldn’t feel the drill going into the back of his skull made the noise all the more terrifying. His eyes darted around the room. He tried to turn his head, but he couldn’t move.
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Police officers in Santa Ana, California, have responded after clients of a marijuana dispensary filed a lawsuit accusing them of excessive and unconstitutional actions during a raid in May.
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A Second Take on First Look Media | WIRED
The view from the 19th floor of First Look Media’s swanky Fifth Avenue headquarters shows a sliver of old Manhattan: the iconic Empire State Building punctuating a skyline of ornate pre-war structures. Inside, however, everything is new.
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Everything Wrong With Fantastic Four, by the Numbers | WIRED
Well, shit. Turns out that all the worries about Fantastic Four being a big debacle were warranted. The movie is a mess.
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Introducing Absurd Creatures: The Show! Now With Even More Horror | WIRED
I’ve been doing our Absurd Creature of the Week column for almost two years now, covering damn near 100 creatures and getting somewhere around 35 percent of the facts right. Not bad! (Editor’s note: ±65 percent, p=0.04.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Ant That Blasts Itself Out of Danger With Its Face | WIRED
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The Days of Squinting at Laptops in the Sun Are Almost Over | WIRED
Humanity has landed a probe on a comet traveling 80,000 mph and flown past a dwarf planet three billion miles away. So why can’t we make a damn laptop screen that lets you work outside in the sun? It shouldn’t be that hard.
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Italian tennis players banned for life for match-fixing – Al Jazeera English
The Italian tennis federation has banned Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace for life for match-fixing. The federation performed its own investigation after a probe by judicial authorities in Cremona that used intercepted phone and internet convers…
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You Know What Else Sucks About Donald Trump? His Branding | WIRED
Donald Trump’s typography is a lot like Trump himself: full of attitude yet devoid of character. For all his expertise in self-promotion—and Trump is nothing if not a masterful self-promoter—he has shown disdain for typography and branding.
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A call for EU cooperation on the migration crisis – Al Jazeera English
This week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated that over 2,000 migrants have died so far this year while attempting to cross the Mediterranean, surpassing 2014’s 1,607 deaths during the same period.
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People betting on the 2016 election think Fiorina won and Trump lost at the GOP debates
Republican presidential candidates faced off Thursday night in the first two debates of the 2016 presidential election cycle. After the smoke cleared, one question remained: who won?
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Get free money from the US government for fossil fuels! – video | Environment | The Guardian
Did you know you could get billions of dollars from the US government to be in the oil business? Or the coal industry? Or fracking? In this satirical infomercial, famous American government grant guru Matthew Lesko shows how you too can get billions…
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Campaigners say indie horror profits from real-life murder spree | Film | The Guardian
Close to 20,000 people have signed a petition calling for the indie horror movie Del Playa to be pulled from release, following complaints that the film-makers took their storyline from a real-life killing spree.
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I am one of you! : firstworldanarchists
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2nd Woman Shuttle Commander Recounts Spaceflight Joys, Challenges
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Mali hotels ‘come under attack’ in Sevare – BBC News
Gunmen on motorbikes have attacked at least two hotels in the central Malian town of Sevare, witnesses have told the BBC. Residents are now hiding in their homes and it is not clear if there have been any casualties.
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Film-maker who claimed to be working with Clint Eastwood charged with fraud | Film | The Guardian
Matthew McClintock has been accused of taking over $24,000, which he had obtained from a number of would-be investors, and spending the money on items for his own personal use.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane Charged in Leak Case – The Atlantic
Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, was charged with leaking grand jury documents in order to embarrass a political rival, and then lying about it to another grand jury in an attempted coverup.
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Undamming rivers can offer a new source for clean energy | Environment | The Guardian
Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution.
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Spotify will gladly Rickroll you because nothing is sacred
There’s no feeling more fulfilling on the Internet than successfully Rickrolling someone. But now the bait-and-switch prank that sends people to the music video for Rick Astley’s classic “Never Gonna Give You Up” is being perpetrated by an unexpecte…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Celebrate perihelion!
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The trenches have been dug in Cizre. Several feet wide and paired with mounds of earth and torn-up building material, they appeared blocking roads in this Kurdish enclave in southeastern Turkey after Ankara launched an intensive air campaign against…
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BBC Sport – Champions League draw: Man Utd v Club Brugge, Celtic v Malmo
Manchester United and Celtic will find out on Friday who they will face in the Champions League play-off round. Both sides are a two-legged tie away from a place in the group stage.
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Islamic State militants ‘abduct Christians’ in Syrian town – BBC News
Islamic State militants have abducted dozens of people, many Christian, from a Syrian town captured on Thursday from pro-regime forces, reports say. They were seized when the jihadists swept through al-Qaryatain in Homs province, monitoring groups s…
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ISIL ‘kidnaps scores of Christians’ in Syria’s Homs – Al Jazeera English
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have abducted scores of people, including several Christian families, after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, an activist group has said.
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The best thing about the Moto G is that its ludicrous, you’ve-gotta-be-kidding price of just $179 (unlocked!) isn’t the only good thing about it. There’s so much more to like. It’s waterproof. It has a removable, swappable back and an SD card slot.
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Bumblebee in Basil IV [3648×5472] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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After hours at the Louvre [OC] [2500×1562] : ArchitecturePorn
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Viper Moray by Gaby Barathieu / 500px
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More Yosemite cool [5312×2988] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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This movie gets it : firstworldanarchists
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DR Congo earthquake kills two children in Bukavu – BBC News
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake has hit eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing two children, Information Minister Lambert Mende has said. It was also felt in neighbouring Rwanda were authorities reported minor injuries.
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Winners and Losers of the First GOP Debate — NYMag
Thanks to Donald Trump, the first Republican presidential debate of the 2016 election was probably the most hyped primary debate in history. Many predicted that there was no way it could live up to expectations, but by 11 p.m. Thursday, most people …
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BBC Sport – Manuel Pellegrini: Manchester City boss extends contract until 2017
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has signed a contract extension until 2017. More to follow.
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August 7, 1912: The Progressives Nominate Teddy Roosevelt for a Third Term as President | The Nation
Shortly after winning re-election in 1904, Roosevelt promised not to seek the presidency again in 1908. He instead endorsed Secretary of War William Howard Taft as his successor.
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Tumblr user Vermin Disciple bought a used copy of Diane Duane’s Star Trek novel The Romulan Way, only to discover that the previous owner had done a bit of censorship. The results are amazing.
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kids drifting in Georgia (country) [640×640] : HumanPorn
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, gwilli: smoke n clouds
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Good morning. Donald J. Trump was put on the defensive by his rivals and the moderators in Thursday’s night Republican debate, and he returned their fire.
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Good morning on this sun-dappled Friday. Over the weekend, two artists took the savanna to the skies.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban, it turns out, had been sending the world messages from a dead man. And the world kept answering him.
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CLEVELAND — Dredging up old misstatements. Questioning someone’s temperamental fitness to be president. Suggesting that someone else might let a woman die rather than allow her to have an abortion.
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The Church of England began ordaining women as priests in 1994, and in 2015, the Church welcomed its first female bishop.
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Sentinels catch traffic jam / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
Low water levels in the Danube river have left ships to queue close to the town of Zimnicea in Romania. The present heat wave torturing Europe means the level of the Danube has dropped and triggered traffic problems.
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US soccer stars in Europe: seven players to watch this season | Football | The Guardian
The European soccer season is almost here, and with 2018 World Cup qualifying to start in the fall, it’s an important time for Americans abroad. The rise of the MLS has been a boon to soccer in the US, but proving oneself in Europe is still the benc…
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MLS preview: Seattle could use a miracle, and Giovinco breaks more records | Football | The Guardian
After more than400 abject minutes of goalless football, Sigi Schmid’s Seattle Sounders finally received some faint hope this past midweek after Lamar Neagle – and the team – finally scored. Yes, it was in a Concacaf Champions League group fixture ag…
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Ten Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Raising Venture Debt | TechCrunch
There’s an adage that says your first job as a startup CEO is to make sure your company never runs out of cash. When financing a growing company,venture debt can be a great supplement to venture capital.
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How time zones confused the world – BBC News
There is now Pyongyang Time to add to Greenwich Mean Time, Eastern Standard Time and Lord Howe Standard Time. Time zones are as much about politics, diplomacy and rebellion as they are about … the time. The division of the world’s time into neat l…
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BBC Sport – David De Gea: Man Utd keeper to sit out Tottenham match
Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea will not play against Tottenham on Saturday as he continues to be linked with a move to Real Madrid. More to follow.
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VICE News Capsule – Friday, August 7 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Venezuela copes with an ‘economic war’, India’s campaign to rescue its child laborers, towns in north Mali struggle to access water, and Rio ramps up its bike program.
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% of U.S. workers working from home [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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Stars over Shanghai (2048 x 1367) [OC] : CityPorn
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What do you mean “get up”?!? : LazyCats
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Mt. John might as well be Mars [2048×1365] [OC] : NZPhotos
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Monsanto is far from happy. The main ingredient of its highly profitable weedkiller, RoundUp Ready, often used in conjunction with GM crops, has been declared a “probable carcinogenic”.
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This Insane Baby Stroller Has an Auto-Adjusting Suspension | WIRED
Baby strollers have evolved over time to look less like quaint prams and more like high-performance sporting equipment. One over-the-top model even has an LCD screen, headlights, and a built-in phone charger.
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F1 driver Jenson Button and wife burgled on holiday in France – BBC News
Formula 1 driver Jenson Button and his wife Jessica have been burgled while on holiday on the French Riviera. Two men broke in on Monday and stole jewellery, including model Jessica’s engagement ring, a spokesman for the British former F1 champion s…
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Sao Paulo names most handsome elderly male – BBC News
You might think that tiaras and sequinned gowns are mandatory at a beauty pageant. Well not this one. In a unique contest subverting stereotypes, each year the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo chooses its “Most Handsome Elderly Man”.
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F1 driver Button ‘may have been gassed’ during burglary – Al Jazeera English
Jenson Button, the British Formula One driver, may have been gassed during a burglary at a rented villa in St Tropez, a spokesman for the former world champion has been quoted as saying by UK media.
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Ladyfinger Peak, Hunza Valley, Pakistan [OC] [3226×1814] : EarthPorn
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Concern for Croatian as ISIL execution deadline looms – Al Jazeera English
Concern is growing for the fate of a Croatian citizen kidnapped last month in Cairo by an affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a deadline for his execution approaches.
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Forgotten genocide: Namibia’s quest for reparations – Al Jazeera English
On July 6, a delegation of Namibian leaders, lawyers, and heads of civic organisations, arrived in Berlin hoping to meet with German President Joachim Gauck, to present him with a petition signed by over 2,000 German public figures including members…
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At the opening of the first Republican primary debate on Thursday, the Fox News moderators asked all 10 assembled candidates if they would forswear a third-party challenge and line up behind the eventual GOP nominee. Donald Trump shrugged.
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Bangladesh blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death – BBC News
Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican race for US president by causing further controversies in the first debate.
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Just staring at the wall : cats
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captvinvanity: Enter the Night | Photographer | CV http://t.co/0szhj4aQIh http://t.co/5f6ZTaKTfh
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dan-lee: untitled by Kkeina on Flickr. http://t.co/8rP8XU38bH http://t.co/JC4jGd8jVZ
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Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics and Media, Is Signing Off http://t.co/aSnp9Y4ZO2 http://t.co/5Nb5UYnf55
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Haven’t seen this here yet – Imgur
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MRW I’ve come up with the worst theme for senior prom ever : shittyreactiongifs
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Adult Swim released the full Goodbye Moonmen track : rickandmorty
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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ESAHangout: Rosetta mission’s day in the Sun – Google+
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MH370: How can debris help air accident investigators? – BBC News
A wing fragment that was found on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion almost certainly came from missing airline MH370, according to investigators.Richard Westcott visited The Accident Lab at Cranfield University in the UK, where air accident …
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Labour didn’t do enough to communicate our policies on the environment in the last Parliament. We failed to capitalise on commitments we had made to protect nature and decarbonise the UK economy.
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Australian PM lifts controversial Q&A programme ban – BBC News
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has lifted a ban on government MPs appearing on a popular current affairs television show. Mr Abbott imposed the ban after a convicted criminal and former terror suspect appeared on the Australian Broadcasting C…
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On Thursday night 10 presidential candidates will spill onto a stage in Cleveland, and the already crowded Republican primary race will begin in earnest with the first day of debates, live on Fox News. The perfect Jon Stewart moment.
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After 16 years of taking satirical aim at the hypocrisy of politics and the fatuousness of the news media, Jon Stewart said goodbye to “The Daily
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US coast guard seizes $181m of cocaine from ‘submarine’ – BBC News
The US coast guard has released video of a raid on a semi-submersible vessel in which cocaine worth $181m (£116m) was seized. Footage showed officers swooping on the vessel off southern Mexico in July this year and apprehending suspects.
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Spice Girl reunion ‘not happening’ says Bunton – BBC News
Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton has denied the group are set to reunite for a tour next year – without Victoria Beckham. The Sun reported four of the five band members would be getting back together in 2016 for an international tour, to mark their 20t…
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The Republican debate: How to bring down the Donald | The Economist
TEN is a fraction of the number of candidates in the Republican presidential field, but about five too many for anything resembling a real “debate”. Tonight’s crowded spectacle on Fox News at least holds out the promise of entertainment, if not inci…
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The Republican field: Carly Fiorina on the rise | The Economist
MOMENTS after dominating a televised debate for second-tier Republican presidential candidates tonight, Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of the technology firm Hewlett-Packard (HP), entered a packed spin-room at the debate site in Cleveland.
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As late-night talk show finales go, Jon Stewart’s wasn’t exactly a knockout, but it did have two moments that will stand the test of time. One, seemingly unscripted, left Mr. Stewart choked up. The second was a sort of valedictory monologue built ar…
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Suspect Charged in Killing of Mexican Journalist | Al Jazeera America
Prosecutors announced late Thursday that they have charged a man with the killings of a photojournalist and four women in a case that drew attention around the world.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attacker detonated a truck bomb in the center of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 100, according to Afghan officials.
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He said “cat food”… via /r/aww http://t.co/uzOFBOMmKv http://t.co/luFSwLEBCP
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Can you help me identify what cat breed this is? I need it for a friend. : cats
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HTC shares tumble after weak results – BBC News
Taiwan’s smartphone maker HTC saw its shares fall 10%, the daily trading limit, in the wake of poor earnings and a weak outlook. The sharp drop came one day after the struggling smartphone maker reported a record quarterly loss.
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BBC Sport – John Stones: John Terry comments illegal says Roberto Martinez
Everton boss Roberto Martinez believes John Terry has broken Premier League rules by speaking publically about Chelsea’s pursuit of Toffees defender John Stones. Martinez, though, is unhappy that one of his players is being talked about so openly by…
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Republicans give their reaction to presidential debate – BBC News
Donald Trump continued to dominate the Republican race for US president by causing further controversies in the first debate. The tycoon’s refusal to rule out a third-party run drew boos from the audience on Thursday night.
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Tony Abbott must respect the courts over Carmichael ruling, say lawyers | Environment | The Guardian
Leading lawyers have criticised Tony Abbott’s belief that the overturning of the proposed Carmichael coal mine by the federal court showed it can sabotage projects.
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Republican strategist: Trump a ‘distraction’ in debate – Al Jazeera English
Donald Trump drew boos from the crowd and attacks from rivals at a raucous first Republican US presidential debate after he refused to rule out an independent bid for the White House and bristled at questions about his attitudes towards women.
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Jon Stewart’s final sign off for The Daily Show – video | Media | The Guardian
After hosting The Daily Show for 16 years, Jon Stewart takes his leave by saying ‘I’m gonna go get a drink’. He thanks everyone who has contributed to the show, as well as his faithful audience, describing their enduring relationship as a long conve…
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Winter Desire by Daniel Herr / 500px
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I need another FURminator. : cats
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Update Firefox now: major vulnerability could steal your data
A major vulnerability discovered by Mozilla lurking in an advertisement shown by a Russian news site could steal your files and upload them to a Ukrainian server without you ever knowing.
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Microsoft’s new app translates 50 languages on your watch
Microsoft has launched Translator, a new Android and iOS app that translates your text or speech input into 50 different languages. In addition to your mobile devices, Translator works with Apple Watch and Android Wear gear too.
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Adani’s huge Carmichael coal mine – the biggest in Australian history – has been overturned by the federal court, causing much consternation for coal advocates, chief among them Australian prime minister Tony Abbott.
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Here’s the crazy story behind the best new property app
Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in New York on November 18.
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Dr Dre’s ‘Compton’ can offer startups some big lessons…
Okay, so this has the potential to stumble into terrible LinkedIn territory, like one of those articles by marketing guys that say something like ’50 Lessons inbound marketers can learn from Game of Thrones” (“Be the Cersei Lannister of SEO!”).
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Markbook organizes your favorite tech content
I’ve previously written about my struggle to read all the articles I’ve saved for later. Things haven’t got easier since, but I still appreciate tools that help me curate content to read at some point, and Markbook’s a new one that tech enthusiasts …
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Donald Trump’s Newest Enemy: Fox News — NYMag
Having spent the past six weeks rhetorically slashing at his Republican rivals, it makes perfect sense that Donald Trump would eventually run out of targets and find himself in a war with the party’s media arm: Fox News.
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Shedding any pretense of civility and party unity, Donald J. Trump overwhelmed the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night by ripping into his rivals and the moderators alike, but also drew fire from Jeb Bush and others who are seekin…
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Calais migrants: Look inside ‘Jungle’ migrant camp – BBC News
An estimated 5,000 migrants displaced from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around Calais. At least nine have died while trying to make the crossing into Britain since June.
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The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has said the Vietnam war was the result of a “most profound failure of diplomatic insight and political vision” as he marked the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Imagine you are surrounded by the most amazing silence. Not the silence that comes at night with your breath on a pillow and the distant hum of everyday life, but rather a deeper silence, one emptied of any sensation so that even the thump of your h…
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Cizre back on the front-lines of Turkey-PKK conflict – Al Jazeera English
Cizre, Turkey – When the crackle of gunfire echoed through the outskirts of this majority-Kurdish town on a recent evening, its residents knew they were in for a long night.
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Getting Wrought Iron Banister Rails : wheredidthesodago
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After seeing a couple of posts I figured this needed to be posted : funny
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Day 1 vs Day 5 of having a new kitty in the house. : cats
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MRW my popcorn asks me not to eat it : shittyreactiongifs
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Hatta, Dubai, UAE, more than just a desert. [OC] [4096×3040] : EarthPorn
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Corbyn Mania Grips British Left | Al Jazeera America
When veteran socialist politician Jeremy Corbyn joined the race to become the next leader of Britain’s Labour Party on June 3, his candidacy was widely dismissed as a token gesture, a sop to Labour’s restless left flank after a bruising defeat to th…
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US Nuclear Stockpile Shrinks But Budget Grows | Al Jazeera America
If you simply tally the number of warheads, the United States’ nuclear stockpile looks like a shadow of what it once was. The number of warheads held by the U.S. peaked in 1967 at over 31,000, but has been steadily declining, mainly through a series…
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cute siberian husky : AnimalsBeingBros
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Sunset in Santa Barbara [OC] [2200×1530] : SkyPorn
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friends found my twin, but I can’t reach her! – Imgur
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The Story of Romeo and Juliet Condensed Into a Single GIF – GIF on Imgur
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“We woke the beast! Abort mission!” : StartledCats
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Reclaiming Utoya – Al Jazeera English
“We will reclaim Utoya,” said a pale-faced Eskil Pedersen, leader of the Workers’ Youth League (AUF), the youth organisation of the then ruling Norwegian Labour Party, in a press conference four years ago.
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Josh Trank Has a Defense of Fantastic Four
Director Josh Trank put this tweet up today, implying that Fox is to blame for the response Fantastic Four is getting. He deleted the tweet shortly after posting it.
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If Librarians Were Honest | Brain Pickings
My mother was trained in library science, but went on to have a career in software systems.
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The hungry tide: Bay of Bengal’s sinking islands – Al Jazeera English
Ghoramara, India – Ghoramara island is known as the “sinking island”. Located 150km south of Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal’s Sunderban delta, the island, once spanning more than 20sq km, has been reduced to an area of merely 5sq km. “Over the last tw…
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The first question to Chris Christie was about the nine credit downgrades that New Jersey had suffered since he became its governor.
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Let’s offend everybody all at once – Imgur
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US Broadband (25 Mbps) Availability : dataisbeautiful
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There were cheers and jeers for all the candidates at the Red State Gathering, an annual conservative conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday. The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
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Republican 2016 debate: Who were the winners and losers? – BBC News
The setting for the first Republican debate certainly resembled a TV game show, but the contestants – I mean candidates – don’t win a prize after just one round. They will have to endure many more in the months ahead and for now it’s mainly a game o…
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Jon Stewart bows out of The Daily Show – BBC News
Comedian Jon Stewart has hosted his final broadcast of the satirical US news programme The Daily Show. There were also video messages from US Secretary of State John Kerry and Republican Senator John McCain.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Upvoted: Hi. Feed me. via /r/cats…
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Tell me something I don’t know. : firstworldanarchists
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This is how my cat sleeps… : cats
This is how my cat sleeps… via /r/cats http://t.co/RQ6IgEQDuf http://t.co/WgfctapqT8
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Schumer Says He Will Oppose Iran Nuclear Deal | Al Jazeera America
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said on Thursday he had decided to oppose the nuclear deal with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration.
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Payroll numbers expected to show US economic recovery gathering strength | Business | The Guardian
The number of US jobs probably rose at a healthy pace in July and wages likely rebounded in data due on Friday, providing further signs of an improving economy that could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in September.
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‘Foolish to pre-announce’ rate rise date – BoE’s Broadbent – BBC News
The Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy has told the BBC it would be “foolish to pre-announce” a date for an interest rate increase. On Thursday, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep interest rates at their current hi…
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The United Nations Security Council prepared to take a major step on Friday in holding chemical weapons users in the Syria war accountable, with a resolution that creates an investigating panel to identify them.
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Wondermark » Archive » Moving Day at Wondermark HQ
Moving Day at Wondermark HQ http://t.co/Hf5WnlTtoc http://t.co/6g1LJHX6KX http://t.co/O1phU1PmxS
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The first thing I ever favorited on Imgur – Imgur
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Moving Day at Wondermark HQ http://t.co/Hf5WnlTtoc http://t.co/6g1LJHX6KX http://t.co/O1phU1PmxS
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Taiwan braces for arrival of powerful Typhoon Soudelor – Al Jazeera English
Taiwan has cancelled flights and school classes as the strongest typhoon in two years headed for the island and was expected to make a direct hit at the weekend.
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Stephen Colbert brings Jon Stewart to tears on his final Daily Show – video | Media | The Guardian
Jon Stewart gets emotional during the final episode of The Daily Show, as fellow TV satirist Stephen Colbert pays a surprise tribute to Stewart’s 16 years fronting one of the world’s most influential news shows. ‘We owe you. And not just what you di…
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An illustrated homage to those who brave the violence of our narrow cultural norms.
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[OC] A more retro map of Native American reservations and lands [5120×3413] : MapPorn
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Electo hitler. : InterestingGifs
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Stereo Pluto
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Wondermark » Archive » Moving Day at Wondermark HQ
I’m back from Gen Con and I’m moving into my new studio in West Los Angeles! In the next few days I’ll be catching up with the Roll-a-Sketch drawings ordered in the last few weeks, as well as the Kickstarter.
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“Series Finale” · The Daily Show With Jon Stewart · TV Review · The A.V. Club
In last night’s penultimate The Daily Show With Jon Stewart—which reverts back to simply The Daily Show after tonight—Jon Stewart did a segment called “The Daily Show: Destroyer Of Worlds,” which set out to destroy, instead, the idea that The Daily …
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MRW I’m going for gold at the Booty Eating Olympics : shittyreactiongifs
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She fell asleep standing on my leg. Downright adorable : cats
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Kim Kardashian trumps Republican debate with Hillary Clinton selfie | US news | The Guardian
It’s the twist that all the Republican hopefuls for president have been dreading. John Kasich will be devastated.
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Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent – and dominant | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump, the unexpected frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination for president, plunged headfirst into the primary’s first televised debate on Thursday, causing an instant splash that was remarkable even by his own standards.
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Primetime GOP Debaters Spar on Issues | Al Jazeera America
The first GOP presidential debate of the nominating season Thursday night did not lack for theatrics or spirited exchanges. Perhaps it was no wonder.
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At the risk of pitting women against each other (without even knowing their workout regimen or how they balance work and family), “Mary Elizabeth Winstead Wears An A-Line Skirt And Pointy Black Boots” is an episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! with a guest…
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How to work the system – Imgur
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I plan on vigorously stimulating the economy : perfectloops
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Wondermark » Archive » #1149; The Prodigal Slur
#1149; The Prodigal Slur http://t.co/lHyXKkuS5M http://t.co/SWhWCH9YQ6 http://t.co/8gmNbYCPtP
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I got this placemat for my cat so he could pretend to be a Cub Scout : cats
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Looked EVERYWHERE for her : cats
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The Stormy Nebula Inside Sagittarius
Inside the constellation Sagittarius is the Lagoon Nebula, a tempestuous cloud of gas and star formation. See the full image below. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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Wondermark » Archive » #1149; The Prodigal Slur
Hooray! The Roll-a-Sketch coloring book Kickstarter ended today having funded at a staggering 379,900% of our goal amount. Thank you so much to everyone who pledged! Stand by for news & updates coming via Kickstarter on that project, starting next w…
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Donald Trump is centre of attention during first Republican debate – video | US news | The Guardian
At the first debate in the race to become the 2016 Republican nominee for US president, Donald Trump stood centre-stage next to Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and seven other men.
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This branch gets it. : firstworldanarchists
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Calvin the Hunter in Camo Mode via /r/cats http://t.co/rrsV71eai4 http://t.co/lTERjsD6Qs
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Apo Island, Philippines [5184×3456] [OC] : waterporn
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Dr. Dre Dissects ‘Compton,’ Kendrick Lamar, Eminem on Beats 1 | Rolling Stone
As the clock struck midnight EST to mark the August 7th arrival of Dr. Dre’s Compton, the rapper joined Zane Lowe on Beats 1 to discuss his first LP in 16 years.
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Dr. Dre cements legacy as the greatest rap producer on star-studded ‘Compton’
Somehow, some way, there is a new Dr. Dre album. In 2015. With Kendrick Lamar on it. And Ice Cube. Snoop Dogg, Eminem, The Game, Xzibit, and Cold 187um too. It is like an angel in khakis with a cuff and a crease answered rap fans’ prayers.
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The Republican Debate and the Battle for Control of the GOP – The Atlantic
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump turned in a characteristically outrageous performance, but candidates who refused to play his game also managed to stand out. CLEVELAND—It is Donald Trump’s world, and the rest of the Republican candidates are jus…
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Animal rescues are one of the few good things about people. : pics
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The smell of summer. So delicious. : foxes
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Is Belgium’s ‘real’ urinating boy statue a fake? – BBC News
Fears have arisen that Belgium’s most famous statue, the Manneken Pis, is a fake. The sculpture that is on display, depicting a little boy urinating into a fountain, is a known replica but now it is thought that the real one located in the Brussels …
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GOP debate’s winners, losers | TheHill
GOP debate’s winners, losers It was the most hyped primary debate in many years.
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Donald Trump in the GOP debate: his best lines and the most cringeworthy | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump was centre stage at the Fox News debate, and the poll-topping candidate for the Republican nomination spoke across a breadth of issues. Immigration. Christians. Financial advice. Marriage invitation etiquette. Trump was across them all.…
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Stephen Colbert brings Jon Stewart to tears with his heartfelt Thank You : television
I’m not even going to try and come up with a clever, reddit-esq, reason why I suddenly teared up. After years and years of watching both the Daily Show and Colbert, what Steven said is just spot on. Well done Daily Show. Even better done, Jon Stewar…
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pyramid gasket [OC] [2500×2000] : FractalPorn
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GOP pundits pick Rubio, Fox as debate winners | TheHill
The raucous prime-time GOP debate on Thursday left included sharp exchanges between a number of candidates seeking to break out from the crowded field. The Hill asked seven GOP pundits to weigh in with their winners.
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Environmental workers spill a million gallons of waste into Colorado river | US news | The Guardian
A team of US regulators investigating contamination at a Colorado goldmine accidentally released a million gallons (3.8 million liters) of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system, the Environmental Protection…
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WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Schumer, the most influential Jewish voice in Congress, said Thursday night that he would oppose President Obama’s deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program. “Advocates on both sides have strong cases for their point of view th…
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jesus’ reaction when : trippinthroughtime
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Lap loaf or…/r/loafgw? : Catloaf
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Water Phase Diagram http://t.co/vhO5lsVLJi http://t.co/Kak9VG6JQe http://t.co/25f5sxzePs
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What is it?…Oh God! : StartledCats
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[OC] Sands of Time in Dungeness Spit Washington [5272×3515] : waterporn
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“F” in school. via /r/funny http://t.co/YJNVGkde0z http://t.co/WcTTu8JFzK
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Alibaba Launches English Version Of Anti-Counterfeiting Tool | TechCrunch
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched an English-language version of TaoProtect, one of its counterfeit reporting system.
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This is the exact moment that Jack Black became a movie star · Scenic Routes · The A.V. Club
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. Defining the moment of transition from actor to movie star can be a tricky business. Sometimes, it’s perfectly clear when it happened, but not exactly …
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What fictional animal’s death affected you the most? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee. Following Flight Of The Conchords, former door-to-door salesman Jemaine Clement has amused in supporting role…
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Death Magic · Health · Music Review · The A.V. Club
Hatched a decade ago from within the underground incubator of famed Los Angeles DIY venue The Smell, Health first made its reputation as a relentless noise-rock band.
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Positive Songs For Negative People · Frank Turner · Music Review · The A.V. Club
Frank Turner’s early albums were filled with blustery folk-punk, his lyrics blunt and certain, perfect for his steadily building fist-pumping crowds that sang along with every word.
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Strike Back is back, still striking back · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, August 7 and Saturday, August 8. All times are Eastern. Strike Back (Cinemax, 10 p.m.
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Mister Ed beat a pair of sitcom trends by a nose · 100 Episodes · The A.V. Club
For most of the history of television, the barrier to syndication—and to profitability—has been 100 episodes. The shows that have made it to that mark are an unusual group. Many were big hits. Some found small cult audiences.
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Weirdo Shrine · La Luz · Music Review · The A.V. Club
Everything that was once considered cool or cutting edge almost always comes back around again. It happened with leg warmers, it happened with acid-wash jeans, and now La Luz is helping to bring back early ’60s surf rock.
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Abyss · Chelsea Wolfe · Music Review · The A.V. Club
Chelsea Wolfe has made an album the unites all her previous work, and then turns the dial up as far as it will go.
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We need more game anthologies like Rare Replay · What Are You Playing This Weekend? · The A.V. Club
Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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Leading US Democrat speaks out against US-Iran deal – BBC News
Leading US Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has announced that he is breaking ranks with President Obama by opposing the Iran nuclear deal. He said there was a very real risk that Iran would use the agreement to pursue what he called its nefarious g…
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Another One · Mac DeMarco · Music Review · The A.V. Club
In the musical world of Mac DeMarco, nothing is ever quite as it seems. His music exists in a sort of hyper-relaxed, escapist milieu, but lyrically he’s weighed down by an emotional anchor.
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Water Phase Diagram http://t.co/vhO5lsVLJi http://t.co/Kak9VG6JQe http://t.co/25f5sxzePs
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Mike Huckabee, the beyond-outspoken evangelical former governor of Arkansas, responded to a question at the Republican debate on Thursday about transgender people’s right to serve their country by saying the US military is “not a social experiment”.
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Donald Trump Burns His Bridges | The Nation
Fox host Bret Baier opened the first debate among the ten men who might be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 with the only question that mattered politically. There, in the middle of the stage, stood the frontrunner for the Republican nom…
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Beauty cloud picture I took (1839×868) : EarthPorn
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Trump Reacts to Misogyny Accusation by Being Misogynist at GOP Debate | Rolling Stone
Thursday’s GOP debate at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena was largely a contest over which of the 10 candidates was the most hateful of social safety nets, immigrants and women. Ted Cruz bragged about never having supported amnesty.
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As late-night talk show finales go, Jon Stewart’s wasn’t exactly a knockout, but it did have two moments that will stand the test of time. One, seemingly unscripted, left Mr. Stewart choked up. The second was a sort of valedictory monologue built ar…
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Here is everything that Donald Trump said in the first GOP debate
Let’s be honest. When the world tuned into the Republican presidential debates on Thursday, there was one thing on the forefront of their minds: What is Donald Trump going to say?
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Donald J. Trump was outrageous. He was demeaning. He was even somewhat menacing, warning a female moderator that he could turn on her at any moment.
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Winning a primary debate isn’t about having the best one-liners or drawing the biggest applause. For top candidates, it’s an audition for party elites, moneyed supporters and, secondarily, voters.
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Bernie Sanders watched the debate so we didn’t have to | Grist
I had intended to write a post this evening on the big first-string GOP debate.
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Trump dominates rowdy debate | TheHill
CLEVELAND — Donald Trump dominated the first Republican primary debate Thursday with a performance that was pugnacious, volatile and, as ever, controversial.
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What Would the GOP Do Without Donald Trump? | The Nation
Cleveland—What would the Republican Party do without Donald Trump? Although he sucks up all the air in the room, the angriest white man on the planet also turned what would otherwise have been the deadliest two hours on television into an electrify…
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Apt to thrill – a mock hummingbird | Environment | The Guardian
My friend squealed and leapt out of the deckchair, nearly spilling her glass of rosé. “What is this thing?” she exclaimed. In the dusky twilight of our campsite we could just see a dark insect circling us.
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Hillary Spent Debate Night With the Kardashians — NYMag
If you’re Hillary Clinton, how can you possibly compete with the hysteria surrounding Donald Trump’s first presidential debate? Simple: seek out the one person who can go toe-to-toe with Trump when it comes to self-promotion and generating media att…
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Kim Kardashian West Gets Her Hillary Clinton Selfie | Vanity Fair
The Republican candidates for president spent Thursday night locking horns inside Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena, but Kim Kardashian West had her sights on a contender nowhere near the fracas. Like the best of reality-TV stars, she let fans follow …
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Fitness Wearable Developer Lemonade Lab Scores $5.8M From Foxconn Unit | TechCrunch
Lemonade Lab, which develops sensors for athletes, has scored $5.8 million led by a Foxconn subsidiary. The Boston- and Tokyo-based startup will form a strategic partnership with FIH Mobile, which provides manufacturing services for mobile device ma…
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Sorry Shippers, Mulder and Scully Aren’t Together in the New X-Files
Love is dead. Or at least abducted by aliens. According to Entertainment Weekly, the returning show is going to turn the clock back on Mulder and Scully’s relationship. I’m more upset about this than I am some real-life break-ups.
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How Jon Stewart’s Final Daily Show Ended | Vanity Fair
There was no better proof of The Daily Show’s cultural impact than the first 15 minutes of Jon Stewart’s episode.
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Guided tour of Greece’s migrant ‘hotel’ – BBC News
This year, more than 100,000 migrants have made it to Greece – the highest total for any EU country. More than 10,000 of these migrants have arrived on Kos, an island with a population of just 33,000.
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Boos for Trump in First GOP Presidential Debate | Al Jazeera America
A combative Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman-turned-presidential candidate, jolted the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign by warning he might run as an independent if denied the GOP nomination.
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China refuses distraught MH370 families access to meeting – BBC News
Some of the Chinese relatives of the passengers on board flight MH370 have been protesting outside the Malaysian Airlines offices in Beijing. They had been attending a planned meeting with the airline – scheduled before the recent debris find.
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American white waterlily [Nymphaea odorata] [1010×1039] : BotanicalPorn
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Let’s offend everybody all at once : funny
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/3w2yWQwDxz http://t.co/SnJmW6GNoD http://t.co/VS7LSSYogR
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Audrey Hepburn with her pet Fawn, Pippin, or “Ip”. 1959. : OldSchoolCool
Audrey Hepburn with her pet Fawn, Pippin, or “Ip”. 1959. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/mu23UTnOY1 http://t.co/U7LRQvUkE6
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/ZHQ6WQMqPO http://t.co/Ec3sdqHvow
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Never let the new guy replace the toner : funny
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Pillowloaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/S6JCx4OTgQ http://t.co/ydYJbbGurP
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Apo Island, Philippines [5184×3456] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Trump vs. the Republican Party: Now It’s War — NYMag
Donald Trump has dominated the early phase of the Republican campaign. The Republican Party needs to put an end to it. The question going into the first debate was which candidate would take it upon himself to take down Trump. The answer is that non…
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Canada’s PM targeted over economy in TV debate – BBC News
Canadian party leaders attacked Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s economic record in a televised debate at the start of a long election campaign. The economy has been hurt by failing oil prices and Mr Mulcair said the country could be in recession.
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Science Takes a Back Seat In the First GOP Debate | WIRED
Seth Borenstein is a longtime science reporter for The Associated Press. On the bright side, Seth, at least that means the candidates couldn’t get it all wrong. Spent the last two hours watching GOP debate to factcheck on science, climate & environm…
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Mount Seymour, British Columbia, Canada [OC][2448×3264] : EarthPorn
Mount Seymour, British Columbia, Canada [OC][2448×3264] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/jBrXkgr18F http://t.co/na14k2KmJA
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/AMOafB83CS http://t.co/qCPLpAJuWF
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Canada’s PM Contenders Spar Over the Economy, Terrorism, and Pipelines | VICE News
The top candidates in the Canadian federal election clashed over the economy, pipeline proposals, Quebec separatism, and what to do about terrorism in the first — and possibly only — debate featuring the full slate of leaders.
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North Korea’s new time zone to break from ‘imperialism’ – BBC News
North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, say state media. North Korea is currently in the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, which are nine hours ahead of GMT.
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Rand Paul and Chris Christie Tussle Over Hugs at Debate | Vanity Fair
One of the most memorable moments of Thursday’s G.O.P. primary debate came not from a Donald Trump statement, but when New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul went at each other—hard—over civil liberties, as related to hugs.
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Donald Trump dominates Republican debate with repeated displays of defiance | US news | The Guardian
A defiant Donald Trump dominated the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday – electrifying the event from the start by refusing to rule out running as an independent if he failed to get the party’s nomination.
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After 16 years of taking satirical aim at the hypocrisy of politics and the fatuousness of the news media, Jon Stewart said goodbye to “The Daily
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First woman to swim the English Channel: from the archive, 7 August 1926 | Sport | The Guardian
Miss Gertrude Ederle, a 19-year-old New York swimmer, swam the English Channel yesterday from the French coast to England.
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Boos for Trump in first Republican presidential debate – Al Jazeera English
Donald Trump drew boos from the crowd and an attack from a rival at a raucous first United States Republican presidential debate after he refused to rule out an independent bid for the White House and bristled at questions about his attitudes toward…
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Displaying his trademark pugnacity in the face of loud boos from fellow Republicans, Donald J. Trump adamantly refused to rule out a third-party run for the presidency during the party’s first debate on Thursday night, the only candidate among 10 on…
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IS claim responsibility for Saudi Arabia mosque attack – BBC News
The group who call themselves Islamic State have said they were behind a suicide attack on an elite security unit in Saudi Arabia. The blast it killed at least 15 people in a mosque in the southern city of Abha.
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The 14 Wildest Moments From the First Republican Debate | Vanity Fair
The Top 10 Republican candidates for president took the stage in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday night, turning in their best effort at impressing the all-important G.O.P. base—and give the rest of the country its first real taste of the 2016 election s…
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APOD: 2015 August 6 – Stereo Pluto
Explanation: These two detailed, true color images of Pluto were captured during the historic New Horizons flyby last month.
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/3w2yWQwDxz http://t.co/PfF4GXSz9x
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Actually never mind, I’ll hold my own beer : holdmybeer
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Beauty at its finest : Breathless
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Seal Beach Pier, Orange County CA via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/e8bgDhyek3 http://t.co/ISpPTUpeFt
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A Great Way to Thank Firemen : AdviceAnimals
A Great Way to Thank Firemen via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/PrcqXcV9d3 http://t.co/YuGkRcWqoc
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my night vision | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
my night vision by SebastianoDamiri http://t.co/0w8Ojrh6SN http://t.co/Jmgl1Map76
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In GOP Debate, Cyber Security Is The New National Security | WIRED
Defense is a perennial topic in any presidential election season. But during the first Republican debate in Cleveland tonight, the candidates fought not about increasing the number of troops and tanks on the ground, but about how to enhance the coun…
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Hillary Clinton watched the GOP debate with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
As Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, and the rest of the 2016 Republican field discussed God and immigration Thursday, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton took in the telecast with a pair of famous friends.
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I should charge my loafs : Catloaf
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Dapper via /r/cats http://t.co/gURCCHtN8T http://t.co/ZX36KoKHcl
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/qDnJ6F5rYv http://t.co/j0tn0aKhR8
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Why can’t I have robot hands like a terminator? : wheredidthesodago
Why can’t I have robot hands like a terminator? via /r/wheredidthesodago http://t.co/jhLpvB3slY http://t.co/o7LLVGAW5N
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GOP debate: Megyn Kelly challenges Trump on misogynist comments – video | US news | The Guardian
Megyn Kelly questions Donald Trump on his (many) past derogatory comments about women at the start of the first televised Republican debate in Cleveland on Thursday night, asking if they are worthy of the office of president
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Trump responds to Megyn Kelly’s questions on misogyny – with more misogyny | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner and not exactly friend of women, was expected to say some confrontational things at the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday.
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Chris Christie Mentioned Hugs, Twitter Made It a Jazz Album | WIRED
Tonight’s GOP presidential debate was heavy on incendiary comments from Donald Trump but low on memes. There was, however, one glimmer of hope: The forthcoming fake Chris Christie smooth jazz album. During an exchange with Sen.
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Chuck Schumer Says He Won’t Vote For Iran Deal — NYMag
Senator Chuck Schumer will announce his opposition to the Iran Deal tomorrow, according to the Huffington Post.
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The just-released Fantastic Four movie was the result of an enormous number of people’s work, but Chronicle director Josh Trank’s name is the one at the top of the pile.
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“We’re not taking any victory laps yet,” said Fox co-chairman Dana Walden in an executive session at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, a sentiment she repeated enough that it started to sound like a victory lap.
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The Danube river at sunset, Austria [2048×1152] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/y1Yw8I5rEQ http://t.co/bHtrCpIFCr http://t.co/04umido3wl
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The Danube river at sunset, Austria [2048×1152] : SkyPorn
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This is why I can’t have nice things. My stupid cat Margo, everyone! : cats
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Isaac Brock, lead singer of Modest Mouse. [1600×1068] : HumanPorn
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Everyone meet Patrick! He’s 11 years old, but is still my little puppy :3 : aww
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JERUSALEM — On one edge of the Zion Square gathering, an Orthodox yeshiva student was in heated debate with a secular couple over the hierarchy of sin. On the other, young men wearing skullcaps rocked back and forth, reciting the evening prayer.
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GOP Debate Spends Less Than A Minute On Police Violence And Black Lives Matter | ThinkProgress
Though the first GOP debate took place in Cleveland, a city rocked by police violence against its African American residents, only one candidate had to speak to the problem: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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Donald Trump railed against the “stupid” leaders and politicians of the US in the Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, as he reiterated his claims that Mexico was sending criminals across the border.
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Cruz: Russian Pentagon hack tied to Iranian meetings | TheHill
The Russian cyberattack on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system may be tied to a top Iranian military official’s visit to Moscow, Sen. Ted Cruz alleged during Thursday’s first Republican presidential debate.
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These Goats Are Cleaning Up Historic Congressional Cemetery | Washingtonian
The goats are back at Historic Congressional Cemetery. For the second time in the graveyard’s history, 30 goats, hailing from a farm in Sunderland, Maryland, will graze the weeds, brush, and bushes of 1.
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Every. Single. Night. : AdviceAnimals
Every. Single. Night. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/SAl9gtnUJ1 http://t.co/wDFX0rxFEA
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“Koreatown” · Married · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Russ and Lina Bowman really don’t like being grownups.
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“The Future” · Rectify · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The prime subject of chatter in “The Future,” mini banishments and self-exiles, taps into the prime mood of the episode, flux. For all the talk of who’s moving where, nothing is quite settled until the end, and really not even then. It’s hard to get…
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio argued with Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly Thursday on his record on abortions, claiming he does not actually support exceptions to an abortion ban in cases of rape or incest. Rubio responded by saying he’s not sure K…
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Wooden Jeb fails to connect … even on repeal/replace Obamacare
Paraphrase of question to Jeb!: You’ve promised four percent economic growth and 19 million new jobs—19 million would be triple what your father and brother created together and the last president to average four percent growth was LBJ during the he…
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Republican debate open thread #7
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Schumer, the most influential Jewish voice in Congress, said Thursday night that he would oppose President Obama’s deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program. “Advocates on both sides have strong cases for their point of view th…
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Yesterday we reported on a short, mood-setting teaser for HBO’s new series Vinyl, a co-production from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Boardwalk Empire’s Terence Winter.
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Mental health experts will fan out to New York City’s homeless shelters, into the streets and to other places to treat mentally ill people who exhibit violent behavior, as part of an initiative announced on Thursday by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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The Difference Between The Hyphen, En Dash And Em Dash, Explained – Digg
Comma Queen Mary Norris clarifies the difference between the hyphen (-), the en dash (–), and the em dash (—).
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This little guy really enjoys his sink bath : aww
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All of my respect. Any motivation to get fit is great motivation. : gifs
All of my respect. Any motivation to get fit is great motivation. via /r/gifs http://t.co/UQo8DfV6uY http://t.co/Zuu64AlHef
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The Old Chicago Main Post Office [OC] [5472×3647] : CityPorn
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Graffiti on a burned out Chinese restaurant [OC][2000×1473] : AbandonedPorn
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What did one orphan say to the other? : funny
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MH370: France to launch air and sea searches around Reunion – BBC News
France is to conduct air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris which could be linked to MH370. Malaysia said on Thursday that a wing section found on the French Indian Ocean island definitely c…
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Trump doesn’t back down in fiery GOP debate | TheHill
Republicans rumbled in a fierce presidential debate Thursday night, with a defiant Donald Trump on the hot seat but coming out with guns blazing. Anchor Brett Baier asked the field of candidates to raise their hands if they were unwilling to pledge …
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New Mexico park rangers rescue child after French tourists found dead | US news | The Guardian
Two tourists from France have been found dead after hiking in New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument, but a young boy was rescued, authorities said on Thursday.
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Huck: The Soviets said ‘We might defend ourselves’ against U.S. Khrushchev: ‘We will bury you’
Mike Huckabee just spoke out against the Iran deal (of course), contrasting the Iranians with the Soviets. Huck invoked St. Ronnie (“trust but verify”), but apparently, he still thinks the USSR was A-okay.
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Donald Trump spouted no shortage of memorable quotes during Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, but perhaps none were as confusing as his jumbled attempt to prove that “the system is broken” by bragging about … his own past efforts to bribe…
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For many people around the world concerned about climate change, Charles Koch haunts their dreams like the ultimate boogeyman, provided of course they’ve never clapped eyes on Hector the Lump of Coal©.
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The New Vin Diesel Trailer: The Last Witch Hunter | WIRED
OK, so the premise here is a little nuts: Vin Diesel saves the world from the worst witches of all time. But once it sinks in, it actually sounds like a lot of fun.
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“Curing Homosexuality, Mile High Club” · Review · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Forrest’s first request sounds encouraging at first, with the parents of a newly out gay man asking how they can better understand him… so they can cure him of homosexuality. Even our unflagging host is nonplussed by this assignment.
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Republican debate open thread #6
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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It might not have looked like at the time, but Rand Paul will be thanking Chris Christie for going head-to-head with him on the issue of balancing surveillance with national security at Thursday’s Republican presidential debate.
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Chris Christie and Rand Paul clashed in the most heated scenes of the first debate over Paul’s support for curtailing the National Security Agency.
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Republican debate open thread #5
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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N Korea winds back its clocks to make ‘Pyongyang time’ – Al Jazeera English
North Korea has announced that it is winding its clocks back by 30 minutes to create a new “Pyongyang Time” – breaking from a time standard imposed by what it called “wicked Japanese imperialists” more than a century ago.
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Your fingerprints are vulnerable on Android
Fingerprints have been presented as a more secure alternative to standard passwords, but what if those prints can be stolen? Security company FireEye suggests hackers can access and steal fingerprints without anyone noticing.
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Chris Christie risks alienating the Fox demographic: Yes, let’s cut Social Security!
Third Way and the Very Serious People might love that answer, but no one who works hard for a living will.
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National Geographic Archives: Up From Hiroshima
IT IS ON THE THIRD FLOOR of Hiroshima’s Funairi Mutsumi Nursing Home that I first hear the name of Akiko Osato, spoken by her 85-year-old mother, Shima Sonoda. A frail, dignified woman with close-cropped black hair, she closes her eyes to remember t…
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Trump More Heinous Than Previously Thought – The New Yorker
CLEVELAND (The Borowitz Report)—The billionaire Donald Trump shocked the American people Thursday night by proving to be considerably more heinous than they had previously thought, an instant poll taken after the debate shows.
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See How Cecil’s Death Changed Public Opinions on Lions
The illegal killing of Cecil the lion last month has sparked worldwide debate about hunting and conservation of endangered species.
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New GIF Shows Far Side of the Moon Passing by Earth
While the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft was keeping an eye out for solar storms, it caught a glimpse of the mysterious far side of the moon passing over the Earth’s sunlit face. So, of course, NASA made a GIF of it.
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Toronto’s Edwardian Classical 3 Church Street. [OC][1700×1178] : ArchitecturePorn
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HONG KONG — Malaysia’s handling of the discovery of a wing part that apparently came from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has worsene
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John Kasich: I was the ‘lead architect’ of DC’s last balanced budget—when Clinton raised taxes!
Kasich, of course, wants to take credit for all that while conveniently ignoring a key reason it was able to happen in the first place. Typical Republican. If he’s the nominee (I kid, I kid!), Clinton should eat him alive on this.
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Paul cuts off over Trump during healthcare answer | TheHill
As Donald Trump was crescendoing on a clarification of his one-time support of a single-payer healthcare system, Sen. Rand Paul cut him off. The testy exchange came amid a broader discussion of healthcare during the first Republican presidential deb…
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Carson jokes about neglect during GOP debate | TheHill
“I wasn’t sure I was going to get to talk again,” he quipped, drawing laughter from the crowd. Carson then went on to field the question on enhanced interrogation techniques — his second question focused on foreign policy and national security, whi…
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Cat fight: Rand Paul v. Chris Christie on bulk NSA collection
Rand Paul and Chris Christie went at it after Christie defended his assertion that Paul could be blamed for another terrorist attack because he opposes bulk NSA collection of phone records. Paul responded: “I want to collect more records from terror…
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Republican debate open thread #4
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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The last trailer for the Vin Diesel-starring Last Witch Hunter came out back in April, and that one focused mainly on Diesel growling badass nonsense, Michael Caine saying nonsense in a normal way, and Game Of Thrones’ Rose Leslie just kind of looki…
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Dr. Dre is streaming his new album, Compton, which comes out tomorrow · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As previously speculated, a Straight Outta Compton-inspired Dr. Dre is releasing his first studio album in 16 years, with the new record, Compton, coming out tomorrow in advance of the movie’s release. The album features appearances by Dre’s N.W.A.
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2 Second Exposure at Hampton Beach [OC][2048×1360] : waterporn
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Little Toulouse doesn’t enjoy laptop distractions… : cats
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Seoul, South Korea | [2048×1365] by Inhyun Jeon : CityPorn
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Kabul Truck Bomb Kills Eight, Wounds Scores | Al Jazeera America
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion, which shook the center of the capital and ripped through homes and shops. The health ministry said 198 people had been wounded.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a front-runner in Thursday night’s GOP debate, said he has “always been pro-life” and would not allow for exceptions to an abortion ban for women whose lives are at risk. “Well I’m pro-life,” the Republican candidate sai…
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Trump says he may run as third-party candidate during GOP debate
It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to throw the first official debate of top-tier GOP 2016 candidates into chaos.
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This metal snake is actually the prototype for the new charger from Tesla Motors. It can find its own way to the charging point on the all-electric Model S sedan.
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Ben Carson loves him some torture
Asked by Megyn Kelly if he would bring back water-boarding, Ben Carson could barely contain himself. “What we do in order to get the information we need is our business and I wouldn’t necessarily be broadcasting to everybody what we’re going to do.
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Republican debate open thread #3
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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The world’s first ever ant map showing the distribution of the tiny industrious creatures around the globe was launched on Thursday by the University of Hong Kong in a bid to shed more light on the insect world.
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At GOP Debate, Donald Trump Refuses to Apologize for Calling Women “Fat Pigs” | Vanity Fair
During Thursday night’s G.O.P. primary debate, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly brought up the question of sexism, turning her attention to Donald Trump’s_ previous comments—specifically, the times he called women he didn’t like “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, a…
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In pictures: Harry Gruyaert’s pioneering colour photography – BBC News
In pictures: Harry Gruyaert’s pioneering colour photography 7 August 2015 Last updated at 02:31 Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to explore t
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Trump slams Rosie O’Donnell in debate | TheHill
Donald Trump slammed comedian and former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell in the first 10 minutes of the GOP presidential debate on Thursday. Trump has famously feuded with O’Donnell for years.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama used the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act on Thursday to urge Congress to restore key elements of the law, arguing that court decisions and state statutes that discourage “certain kinds of fo
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Huckabee says DNA says life begins at conception, so zygotes have constitutional rights
Also, too, “it’s time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being.” This man shouldn’t be as close to the White House as a presidential debate stage.
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The Women of “Hamilton” – The New Yorker
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rightfully lauded hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” which has just opened on Broadway after a smash run at the Public, is about many things, among them men: how they fight, write, rule, and duel.
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Obama on War and Peace – The New Yorker
President Obama was in a reflective mood when he met with a group of journalists at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, a few hours after he delivered a combative speech defending the Iran deal.
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Fresh off her work keeping Sony’s Fantastic Four copyright intact for another few years, Kate Mara has apparently set her sights on becoming the world’s most beloved actress, signing on to star in a movie about a Purple Heart-adorned Iraq War vetera…
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“What You Like Is In The Limo” · Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Priorities can quickly turn any situation poisonous. That’s the crux of “What You Like Is In The Limo”, a much-needed turning point in Denis Leary’s televised Melba Toast that FX has been promoting as Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.
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Growing up http://t.co/5ywYaoD5yy http://t.co/0gsvIulcLl
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This entertained me for longer than it should – Imgur
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Kira is a loaf with cattitude. : Catloaf
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Dory blep, a few days after fully recovering from near-fatal sickness! : Blep
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This Place Actually Exists- Eleuthera, Bahamas [6000×4000][OC] : EarthPorn
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is this show even real ? : funny
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Republican debate open thread #2
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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Megyn Kelly Grills Donald Trump Over Sexist Comments | ThinkProgress
Megyn Kelly, one of the moderators during Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate, challenged Donald Trump over his long history of sexist comments towards women.
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In yet another passionate defence of coal (in an interview with the Australian newspaper), Tony Abbott has made so many inaccurate and questionable claims it’s hard to know where to start. Here are some of his statements, juxtaposed with facts.
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Rubio notes that Hillary has more experience than any GOP candidate
Marco Rubio made perhaps the keenest observation from the GOP stage within the first 10 minutes:”If this election is a resume competition then Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president.” I mean, hard to argue with that.
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The big names take the field: Republican debate open thread #1
Donald Trump Jeb Bush Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Mike Huckabee Ben Carson Sen. Ted Cruz Sen. Marco Rubio Sen. Rand Paul New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Ohio Gov. John Kasich Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you…
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Donald Trump refuses to take a pledge not to run as a third-party candidate
Big cheers for his refusal to make the pledge, followed by boos.
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[AMA Request] Jon Stewart : IAmA
Request[AMA Request] Jon Stewart (self.
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Norway remembers Utoeya victims – BBC News
Four years after Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik killed dozens of Norwegians at a political summer camp run by the Labour Party, students and activists are back on Utoeya island for the first time.
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CLEVELAND—After the fourth such interruption of the night forced him to pause Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, frustrated moderator Chris Wallace sternly reminded attendees to refrain from any John Kasich chants while other candidates were…
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when people think my username is NSFW – GIF on Imgur
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How has Willem Dafoe not been The Joker yet? – Imgur
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Assert your dominance… – Meme on Imgur
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Downtown LA from above [1024 x 769] : CityPorn
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Lemosho Route – Kilimanjaro : natureporn
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Risk of future Nepal-India earthquake increases – BBC News
There is an increased risk of a future major earthquake in an area that straddles the west of Nepal and India, scientists warn.
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The First GOP Debate: At the Kids’ Table | The Nation
One of the big surprises for me about covering the Republican National Committee summer meeting these past few days has been the incredible nostalgia the GOP has for Jimmy Carter.
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Welcome to the post-Renewable Energy Target (RET) twilight zone, where Australia’s biggest polluters are also apparently its biggest champions of renewable energy.
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Anyone got the recipe? : TrollXChromosomes
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Devil’s Tower – One of my favorite places to visit [3245 x 1414] OC : EarthPorn
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How Venture Capital Incentives Promote Zombie Companies | TechCrunch
It feels like every other day: Another company raises a massive round of funding. We tend to assume that a company that’s raising money must be doing well. However, the truth is that venture capital funds’ incentives drive them to fund companies tha…
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Liveblog of the Republican Presidential Debate – The Atlantic
8:56 p.m. If you missed the 5pm debate featuring the minor candidates, don’t worry—you didn’t miss much. In a room of well-credentialed politicians smarting at their exclusion from the top tier, only the lone non-politician managed not to seem like …
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Ferguson: The other young black lives laid to rest in Michael Brown’s cemetery – BBC News
There is still no headstone in the place where 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr is buried. Those who wish to pay their respects have to ask for a map inside the office at St Peter’s Cemetery, a verdant swatch surrounded by a low stone wall in the middle…
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10 Things You Learn About Dr. Dre on ‘Compton’ | Rolling Stone
He was rich long before Apple dropped $3.2 billion on him to buy Beats by Dre.”I remember selling instrumentals off a beeper/Before the headphones or the speakers,” Dre raps, reminiscing about bygone days, on “Talk About It.
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Five Governors, Three Senators, a Neurosurgeon, & Donald Trump Set to Rumble | VICE News
Ten GOP presidential hopefuls will debate at 9PM tonight in Cleveland, with a lineup that includes five governors, three senators, a neurosurgeon, and business mogul Donald Trump. Trump will stand at the center of the stage thanks to his top positio…
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CLEVELAND—Noting that there are millions of entrepreneurs throughout the country who are in the same difficult position, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responded to a question about the economy at Thursday night’s primary debate by s…
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Volcanic Lightning : Breathless
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That’s a smart cat via /r/woahdude http://t.co/UudgYfVHGr http://t.co/Kz1iTv3gFg
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Mount St Helens at sunrise [2056×610] : EarthPorn
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French woman freed from captivity in Yemen – Al Jazeera English
French President Francois Hollande’s office said in a statement early on Friday that the woman, Isabelle Prime, would return to France in the coming hours.
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Yes, it really is that good. At this point, it would be almost a relief to report that “Hamilton” — the musical that opened at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Thursday night — has shrunk beneath the bloat of its hype.
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Has the international community failed Haiti? – BBC News
Since its shattering earthquake five years ago Haiti has received billions of dollars of foreign aid.
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Candidates Fight for Relevancy at Undercard Debate | Al Jazeera America
Some pundits likened the undercard GOP debate, hosted by Fox News and Facebook and held hours before the main event, to being relegated to the kid’s table or put on the junior varsity team. And for good reason: the seven candidates who did not make …
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The Minority Report show went ahead and fixed that whole Redskins thing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Offering a precognitive glimpse of a world in which social media is blessedly free of screeds about “historical significance” or “tradition,” or that damned “political correctness,” and citizens can get back to their busy lives of stopping future cr…
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How the latest selfie craze divided feminists – BBC News
In an echo of the debate over twerking, there’s now a big online discussion in the US about the “Arch That Back Challenge” and whether it undermines female empowerment. The latest controversial selfie trend began sometime on Monday, and quickly gath…
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Stereotypes of Argentina. [738×1415] : MapPorn
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MRW he hits the spot : reactiongifs
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NYC viewed from the tallest building in brooklyn [8576×1728] [OC] : CityPorn
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Tony Abbott has reaffirmed his support for the huge Adani coalmine in central Queensland, arguing Australia has “a problem as a nation” if the courts could “be turned into a means of sabotaging” such projects.
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Why the fate of Greece matters outside Greece – BBC News
We know that the Greek agony is not over – the country’s future is still hugely uncertain. But does the fate of Greece matter to the wider world? Does it matter if Greece eventually leaves the eurozone, or even the European Union?
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A few years ago, Americans and Europeans were asked in a Pew Global Attitudes survey what was more important: “freedom to pursue life’s goals without state interference,” or “state guarantees that nobody is in need.
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MRW when the poo is bigger than I originally thought : shittyreactiongifs
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“Here Comes the Sun” -Galveston Island this morning [1280×960] : seaporn
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Which is Africa’s favourite Premier League team? – BBC News
For football fans in Africa, the UK’s English Premier League (EPL) is king, the ultimate championship, their main place of their worship. The global football brand is followed by more than a billion people around the world and 260 million of these a…
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Psychology’s unhealthy obsession with the WEIRDest people in the world – Boing Boing
Is psychology too WEIRD? That’s what this episode’s guest, psychologist Steven J.
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Love, the famous feeling of profoundly passionate affection that some people feel for other people, has officially died. There is no more love in the world. Valentine’s Day is a sham, romantic comedies are all lies, and Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet is …
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The bombing of Hiroshima: 70 years on – Al Jazeera English
On August 6, 1945, the nature of global warfare changed forever when the United States air force dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion had more power than 20-thousand-tonnes of TNT.
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Yelp will now help you find the shortest hospital wait times
Yelp, the service best known for giving you a place to rant about the hair you found in your burrito, is now providing wait times at your local hospitals.
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Gigi Hadid, The Social Media Supermodel | Vanity Fair
Gigi Hadid, the 20-year-old international modeling sensation and daughter of a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, was born to be in front of the camera. Almost literally. When she was still in diapers, she scored her first ad campaign, for Guess Kids.
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Utoeya hosts student camp for first time since massacre – BBC News
It’s a tiny place – no more than a few hundred square metres of forested hillside and scattered clearings. A tranquil place of wild flowers, birdsong and lapping water. But for the last four years, the island of Utoeya has been associated with an ac…
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The architects using animation skills to build film careers – BBC News
In a warehouse in north London, I’m surrounded by hundreds of painstakingly made card models and framed architectural plans, all meticulously presented. There are also dozens of other-worldly 3D-printed structures, some of which seem to resemble bui…
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Tapeworms: Bad for your guts, good for your brain? The intestinal worm Hymenolepsis diminuta appears to protect against memory loss in rats, researchers report in Brain, Behavior and Immunity. It’s the latest example of how parasitic worms might be …
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The first GOP debate was just seven adult babies yelling into the void | Grist
The JV squad of GOP candidates’ debate concluded moments ago in the hallowed Quicken Loans Arena of Cleveland, Ohio — an event so sparsely attended that the moderators’ voices literally echoed off the empty seats.
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Dispatch From the Kids’ Table: 11 Insights From the ‘Happy Hour’ Debate | The Nation
Since Fox News announced the line-up for the first GOP debate, the seven candidates who failed to make the cut have made their displeasure clear. Rick Santorum (polling at 1.4 percent) called the decision “preposterous” and “an insult to voters.” Bo…
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Pole dancing for the lazy : perfectloops
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Vancouver, British Columbia [1804×1203] : CityPorn
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Quebec City, view on the river[2981×1677][OC] : CityPorn
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It makes me irrationally angry : AdviceAnimals
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I wondered why he didn’t have a tip cup.. : AdviceAnimals
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MRW my hat doesn’t like me but I won’t let it get away : shittyreactiongifs
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MFW people were actually optimistic about Fant4stic : reactiongifs
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Thunder Rolls [OC 6000×4000] : EarthPorn
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The seven candidates who rank lower in the polls conducted a first and separate debate in Cleveland on Thursday night, with former HP CEO Carly Fiorina standing out in the field despite a lack of political experience, and landing several pointed blo…
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Carly Fiorina won the GOP underdog debate, according to Google
Standing out in the crowded field of 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls is difficult.
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BBC Sport – Floyd Mayweather: Andre Berto ‘deserves’ title shot
The unbeaten champion, 38, faces fellow countryman Berto in Las Vegas on 12 September, and could extend his winning run to 49 fights. Berto, 31, a former world champion, was a surprise choice given his fall down boxing’s pecking order in recent year…
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Carly Fiorina stands apart in lesser-known Republican debate field | US news | The Guardian
Carly Fiorina, the only woman among 18 Republicans seeking the party’s nomination for the White House, achieved the first goal for low-ranking candidates in televised debates on Thursday: getting noticed.
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F1’s Button and wife burgled on holiday in St Tropez – BBC News
Formula One driver Jenson Button and his wife Jessica have been burgled while on holiday on the French Riviera. Two men broke in on Monday and stole a items of jewellery including model Jessica’s engagement ring, a spokesman for the former F1 champi…
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In Pictures: 20 years of Fatboy Slim – BBC News
With hits like Praise You and The Rockerfeller Skank, Fatboy Slim popularised big beat in the 1990s. Along with the Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, he disproved the idea that dance music couldn’t sell albums, and helped to establish modern DJ cul…
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CLEVELAND — They called it the undercard. The kiddie table. The happy hour debate.
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Well, this must be a relief for all the women out there who lose sleep during football season, wondering, what delicious snack can I whip up for this weekend’s N.F.L. games, and what is the appropriate (and possibly color-coordinated) handmade cente…
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Guy Builds A Contraption To Force His Cat To ‘Hunt’ For Food – Digg
This is Monkey the cat. Bring him to your wiffle ball game.
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Sunset in Ellensburg, Washington [OC][1334×750] : SkyPorn
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German cranes showing off : woahdude
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How to hang your keys like a rockstar… : pics
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Ranger Ghislain Somba Byombo on Protecting the Wildlife He Loves : AnimalsBeingBros
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The End of the Island: Aquinnah, Martha’s Vineyard [OC] [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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Torrey Pines State Reserve w/ La Jolla [OC][2048×1365] : EarthPorn
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‘Into the Night’ – Montalegre, Portugal – [1920×1080] : ExposurePorn
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[OC] Girl wearing African headwear. [1024×678] : HumanPorn
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Adopted this happy pup a few days ago, puppy smiles are the best. : aww
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South Sudan Leaders Start Up Talks to End Bloody Civil War — Again | VICE News
Once again, leaders from South Sudan, the world’s newest country, are meeting in Addis Ababa to try and negotiate a lasting peace deal between the current government and rebels loyal to the ex-vice president.
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine’s email newsletter to get articles sent to your …
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From TV blackout to a Premier League broadcasting fortune – BBC News
The Premier League kicks off again this weekend, and for fans raised in an era of wall-to-wall live televised matches it will be a shock to learn that 30 years ago the 1985-86 season began with not a minute of live action shown on TV.
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Ken Liu Explains Why The Social Messages In Fiction Depend on the Reader
Ken Liu’s debut novel The Grace of Kings has sparked lots of interest with its coinage of a new genre, Silkpunk.
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William Friedkin to adapt hit-man thriller The Winter Of Frankie Machine · Newswire · The A.V. Club
William Friedkin has found his follow-up to Killer Joe. Deadline reports that Friedkin has signed on to direct The Winter Of Frankie Machine, an adaptation of the 2007 novel of the same name by Don Winslow.
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The last time we heard from Hollywood Vampires, the rock band started by Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, the group was just a wonderful, beautiful dream created by a famous actor who hates it when famous actors are in bands (a …
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Instead of composting old fruit, these students want to powder it | Grist
There are approximately a billion and one ways of dealing with our major food waste problem. We feel like we’ve seen everything from heating a city to making haute cuisine or graphene — maybe because we have.
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A Moment of Zen: Seven Stories Looking Back at Jon Stewart’s Fake-News Legacy : Longreads Blog
Tonight, Jon Stewart ends his 16-year run as host of “The Daily Show.” Here are seven stories looking back at how Stewart became the most influential fake-news anchor in the history of television: 1. Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? (…
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Fiorina: Jeb ‘played into Democratic talking points’ | TheHill
Republican presidential contender Carly Fiorina on Thursday slammed fellow candidate Jeb Bush, saying a misstatement he made on the campaign trail will give Democrats a talking point to use against Republicans.
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Competitive Call of Duty to ditch Xbox for PlayStation
There’s been rampant grumbling as to what would happen to competitive Call of Duty now that Sony has a marketing partnership with the incredibly popular first-person shooter. And indeed effective this week all future Call of Duty tournaments will di…
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One of the highlights of an altogether dull “early debate” on Thursday came when six out of the seven Republican presidential candidates demonstrated an inability to count to two.
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Judd Apatow is producing Jemaine Clement’s new HBO series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A little less than a year ago, Flight Of The Conchords co-star Jemaine Clement revealed that he and HBO were once again working together, although not, as many fans hoped, on new episodes of the beloved musical comedy series.
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French hostage freed in Yemen – 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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Candidates Vie for Airtime in Republican Undercard Debate – The Atlantic
The GOP hopefuls excluded from the prime-time debate faced an impossible task in Thursday’s opening-round bout. Reject seven Republicans from the main debate, invite them into an empty theater, and ask them why they’re failures.
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For Some Items, Buying Online Can Actually Add to the Shame Factor
The privacy that comes from buying things online allows people to purchase all kinds of things they normally wouldn’t, right? Not quite. In some cases, buying something online can make you try even more strenuously to avoid the purchase in future th…
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US military’s joint staff hacked as officials point the finger at Russia | Technology | The Guardian
Russia is the leading suspect in a sophisticated cyber-attack on the unclassified email network of the US military’s joint staff that prompted the Pentagon last month to restrict access to portions of that network, US officials said on Thursday.
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Leading up to the first anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — and the cultural convolutions that followed — The New Yorker has published an article including extensive interviews with Darren Wilson, the police officer…
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Five Governors, Three Senators, a Neurosurgeon, & Donald Trump Set to Debate | VICE News
Ten GOP presidential hopefuls will debate at 9PM tonight in Cleveland, with a lineup that includes five governors, three senators, a neurosurgeon, and business mogul Donald Trump. Trump will stand at the center of the stage thanks to his top positio…
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Former Argentina President Menem misses Jewish centre bomb trial – BBC News
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem has missed the opening day of his trial over a huge bomb attack against a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in 1994. Mr Menem, 85, said he could not attend because of health reasons.
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About Ray Trailer: See Elle Fanning as a Trans Teenager | Vanity Fair
With transgender people more visible than ever in the media and in everyday life, more trans people have been able, at younger ages, to begin their own transitions.
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Amid Controversy, Amnesty Int’l Could Soon Push for Sex Work to Be Decriminalized | VICE News
Amnesty International is set to vote in the coming days on whether to adopt a contentious plan to advocate for the decriminalization of sex work, after prominent anti-trafficking groups and celebrities denounced the move.
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Why Parental Leave Remains A Privilege – The New Yorker
Netflix’s announcement, on Tuesday, that it will start offering new moms and dads up to a year of paid leave has the tone of a parent whose leniency is strategic: “At Netflix, we work hard to foster a ‘freedom and responsibility’ culture that gives …
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Trump ramps up interest in GOP debate | TheHill
CLEVELAND — The tension enveloping the Quicken Loans arena has been ramping up all day for the political equivalent of a big game for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, who play at the venue. Candidates face a make-or-break moment in this evening’s clas…
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The Almost Perfect World War II Plot To Bomb Japan With Bats | Atlas Obscura
Mexican Free-tailed bats spill out of Bracken Cave in Texas. (Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service) Imagine: a quiet, tense night in the middle of wartime. A plane rips through the air above your city, rupturing the stillness. The bay doors open, and…
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Amnesty International’s Long-Due Support for Sex Workers Rights | The Nation
Amnesty International, after two years of consultation with members and human rights advocates around the world, is meeting with the international board over the next few days in Dublin to “adopt a policy that seeks attainment of the highest possibl…
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Image: Wikipedia.
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An unauthorized visitor at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, seen on a videotape about 24 hours before the museum experienced the largest art heist in American history.
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At least three dead in Afghanistan Kabul blast – BBC News
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured by a powerful car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Friday morning, health officials have told the BBC. Police say that the bomb went off in the Shah Shahid area of the city.
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The 8 Most Ridiculous Questions From The Fox News Early Debate | ThinkProgress
On Thursday night, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum peppered the GOP presidential candidates who failed to qualify for the network’s prime time debate with tough questions about why they’ve failed to capture the excitement of the Republica…
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Instagram just embraced breastfeeding in a major way
Nipples are causing a stir on Instagram again, but this time for a good reason. The social network celebrated World Breastfeeding Week by posting a photo of a baby breastfeeding on its official page on Wednesday.
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A Forensics Expert Explains Just How Far Removed CSI Is From Reality
Stand back behind the yellow tape, everyone! The CSI techs are on their way and they are coming to science—and it’s driving the real forensics experts crazy.
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Turns Out The Fantastic Four And X-Men Movies Are In Different Universes
Remember how Bryan Singer started teasing the potential of a “Fox Cinematic Universe,” where the new Fantastic Four and the cavalcade of X-Men movies crossed over? Well, apparently someone at Fox desperately shook him and told him to shut up, becaus…
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Newlyweds’ first dance is a bootylicious good time
Forget about the wedding vows—these newlyweds’ first wedding dance is where all the action is. At Dave and Hollie Smith’s wedding, the couple decided to treat their guests to a spectacular performance.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. The 10 leading Republican presidential candidates will jockey for position — and try to avoid gaffes — in their first debate (Fox at 9 p.m. Eastern, video on FoxNews.com). Times reporters are providing real-time a…
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Someone Actually Played Through All of Fallout 3 As A Baby
Years ago, Fallout fans discovered that it was possible to escape the opening area of Fallout 3 at the start of the game, thus allowing players to go through a game as a baby. It was a fun trick, sure, but it seemed untenable for an entire game…un…
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THROW IT THROW IT THROW IT – Imgur
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The Natural History Museum London : Breathless
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Egypt unveils new Suez Canal extension – Al Jazeera English
Egypt has unveiled a major extension of the Suez Canal billed by its President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi as a historic achievement needed to boost the country’s ailing economy after years of unrest.
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Apple.com Removes Standalone Store Tab, Emphasizes Curation In Huge Redesign | TechCrunch
A redesign of Apple.com that went live today removed the standalone ‘Store’ tab, and the ‘store.apple.com’ domain entirely. This is an enormous change for one of the biggest online retail stores in the world.
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Comments You Might Actually Want to Read During the Debate | WIRED
There will tweets. There will be liveblogs. There will be thinkpieces. It’s the GOP debate tonight—and everyone on the Internet will have a whole lot to say.
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Using neuroscience to know what you want before you know it – Boing Boing
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Republican JV debate wrap-up: Well, that was a whole lot of nothing
There were no newsworthy moments, other than the moderators asking questions about whether American mosques needed more monitoring or what the candidates would do about “illegals.
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Indulge in the Finest with 24K Sally Hershberger Gold | Vanity Fair
Who doesn’t love gold? No one. This is precisely why hairstylist extraordinaire to the stars (and when we say stars, we mean Kristen Stewart, Nicole Kidman, and Hilary Clinton, just to name a few) Sally Hershberger named her latest collection of hai…
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Bounty hunters follow Facebook tip to Phoenix police chief’s house
A quick piece of advice for those who dally in the art of bounty hunting: Don’t crash the house of the local police chief and then refuse to leave after you realize you have a case of mistaken identity. Either that, or don’t forget to vet the tips y…
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Lancashire residents urged to boil drinking water | Environment | The Guardian
Hundreds of thousands of people in Lancashire are being warned to boil their tap water before use to kill a microscopic bug. Tests at a water treatment plant have found traces of cryptosporidium, which can cause sickness and diarrhoea.
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Treasure from Spanish shipwreck fetches $2m in New York auction | US news | The Guardian
An extraordinary collection of shipwrecked 17th and 18th century Spanish treasure discovered off the coast of Florida has sold in New York for about $2m.
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During Thursday night’s Fox News second-tier GOP debate, notorious marriage equality opponent Rick Santorum momentarily forgot that he does not actually support equal rights for all Americans. When the U.S.
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US Officials Accuse Russia of Hacking the Pentagon | VICE News
Russia reportedly launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” on the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s email system, which was immediately shut down by the Pentagon following detection of the attack, and has remained down for the past 11 days, accord…
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The 10 leading Republican presidential candidates will jockey for position — and try to avoid gaffes — in their first debate (Fox at 9 p.m. Eastern, video on FoxNews.com). Times reporters are providing real-time analysis.
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HBO Vinyl Teaser | Vanity Fair
HBO has released a minute-long tease for its upcoming period drama series Vinyl, about the wild world of the music industry in 1970s New York City. Given the era, it’s not surprising that we see a lot of drugs and bad hair in this brief clip.
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It is a confounding truth about outsize executive pay — all past attempts to rein it in have failed.
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Nile Rodgers Enlists Pharrell, Keith Urban for Diverse FOLD Festival | Rolling Stone
Of all the impassioned encomiums delivered to Nile Rodgers during Chic’s set at Rodgers’ inaugural FOLD Festival Tuesday night in Riverhead, NY, Pharrell Williams’ words were the most precise. “This man has been on fire since before I was born.
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Wildfires in the West : Image of the Day
Summer usually brings hot, dry weather and elevated wildfire risk to the western United States. Summer 2015 was no exception. As of August 6, outbreaks of large wildfires had charred more than 6 million acres, nearly two million more than the ten-ye…
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Typhoon Soudelor Takes Aim at Taiwan : Natural Hazards
After a period of rapid intensification on August 1, Typhoon Soudelor became the sixth category 5 storm of 2015.
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Russia reportedly launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” on the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s email system, which was immediately shut down by the Pentagon following detection of the attack, and has remained down for the past 11 days, accord…
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iOS 9 Will Know To Use Cell Data When The WiFi Sucks | TechCrunch
The WiFi at my house is almost perfect, save for one frustrating flaw: the signal tanks down to nearly nothing about five feet from where I park.
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Nepal’s Quake May Have Primed the Area for Another Big One | WIRED
In April, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Gorkha, Nepal. In Kathmandu, the capital, people fled into the streets as buildings buckled and collapsed. Historic architecture, hundreds of years old, crumbled. More than 8,000 people died.
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Ryan Phillippe is your new Mark Wahlberg in the Shooter pilot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The USA Network announced today that it’s offered actor Ryan Phillippe one of the crown jewels of a career in the performing arts: the chance to take on the coveted role of Mark Wahlberg in a cable TV thriller.
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A forensic pathologist testified in graphic detail on Thursday about the 10 bullet wounds suffered by Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed black man who was shot dead by a white Charlotte police officer.
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Rick Perry Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Rick Santorum Carly Fiorina George Pataki Sen. Lindsey Graham Jim Gilmore Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you can’t watch live.
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Why CGI in movies doesn’t actually suck
Many a fanboy, including myself, touted the greatness of Mad Max: Fury Road for George Miller’s use of practical effects. It is truly an amazing feat of filmmaking—and extra impressive that nobody died in the making of the crash derby.
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Only 10 more years until we can see The Day The Clown Cried · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Aside from Harry Shearer, who saw it at a private screening in 1979 and has said about the experience, “This movie is so drastically wrong…that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is,” almost no one h…
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Wildfires in the West : Natural Hazards
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Summer usually brings hot, dry weather and elevated wildfire risk to the western United States. Summer 2015 was no exception. As of August 6, outbreaks of large wildfires had charred more than 6 million acres, nearly two million more than the ten-ye… -
“Here Comes the Sun” -Galveston Island this morning. [1280×960] : EarthPorn
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Atlantic Ocean as calm as a lake in Stuart, FL – [5150×2897][OC] : seaporn
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Oh, good. Another “holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa” pic. : aww
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White tips by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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An abandoned highway outside of Centralia Pennsylvania [1280×960] : AbandonedPorn
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Dashcam video shows moments before Jonathan Ferrell’s death – video | US news | The Guardian
Dashcam footage released by the Charlotte police department shows the moments before the killing of Jonathan Ferrell by Officer Randall Kerrick. Kerrick shot 12 times at Ferrell, who was seeking help after a car crash.
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In the first GOP debate, consisting of the seven candidates whose poll numbers failed to put them in the top 10 prime-time debate, Fox News moderators asked question after question about how the contestants would confront ISIS and other Islamic extr…
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Luxury Wool Made From … Leftover Animal Parts? | WIRED
Caption: This mitten was made in a materials lab in Zurich, Switzerland. The yarn is spun from gelatin, which is made from the skin, bones, and tendons of livestock. Functional Materials Laboratory Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering ETH Zürich
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Taking The Mystery Out Of SDKs With Open Source | TechCrunch
Mobile SDKs are, for most publishers, a necessary evil. Whether you’re trying to integrate analytics, cross-promotion, tracking, monetization or payments, your first step is most often to inject a third-party SDK into your codebase.
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Hillary Clinton: Republicans warning of election fraud are ‘fear-mongering’ | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused her Republican presidential rivals of “fear-mongering” over a “phantom epidemic of election fraud” as a ruse to justify imposing new barriers to voting that would harm the democratic process.
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Mets Pitcher Falls Off Curb, Is Out for Season — NYMag
The Mets have won six straight games since the trade deadline, and currently sit atop the National League East, but they can’t fully shake the misfortune that fans have grown accustomed to.
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Series of child murders shocks Bangladesh – Al Jazeera English
Dhaka, Bangladesh – As air was being pumped into Rakib Hawlader’s body, around the evening of August 3, the pre-teen had pleaded to his tormentor to stop, or else he would die.
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Large explosion strikes Afghanistan’s capital Kabul – Al Jazeera English
A large explosion has hit central Kabul, near a US-Afghan army base in the city’s District 8, police sources told Al Jazeera. The explosion, thought to be caused by a car bomb, occurred early on Friday morning, rattling nearby homes. “Moments ago th…
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Graham’s plan to fix the economy: Not be Hillary Clinton
GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham When Lindsey Graham was asked how to get Americans to take a job instead of a handout, he started out okay (if bored) saying most Americans want to work. But he just couldn’t resist turning the question into…
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Cute and environmental: goats graze Congressional Cemetery – video | US news | The Guardian
For the next two weeks, these goats will graze 24 hours a day at the Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill, a national landmark and resting place of more than 70 members of Congress.
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Watching the Soyuz Dock to the ISS Is Almost Unbearably Tense
Shot from almost every angle imaginable, these combined takes of the Soyuz spacecraft launching, flying through space, and then going through incredibly fiddly process of trying to dock itself to the space station is straight up hair-raising.
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CINCINNATI—After firmly telling them that she was okay paying city prices and that she would not move back to her hometown just because it was cheaper, local woman Ellen Wallace, 40, confirmed Thursday that winning an argument with her parents has b…
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What’s So Great About Manufacturing? – The New Yorker
Democrats and Republicans disagree on a lot, but leaders of both parties are as keen now as they were decades ago to embrace manufacturing jobs. G.O.P.
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Know What I Mean? – Reaction GIFs
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Avalanche Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana [3200×2400] : EarthPorn
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What`s up down there? II by Ortwin Khan / 500px
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Prim and proper Pancake : cats
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The Deep Influence of the A-Bomb on Anime and Manga
At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film Akira, a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, swallowing it whole and leaving a skeleton of a city in its wake.
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“Auditions” · Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Episodic television criticism has its inherent shortcomings, but some shows are better suited for episodic analysis than others. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp defies the medium.
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Republican presidential candidates ready for first debate – BBC News
The top 10 Republican candidates for president are gearing up for their first debate, with all eyes on outspoken frontrunner Donald Trump. The hotel tycoon has upended the race with his blunt style and controversial comments about Mexicans and war h…
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Michael Keaton and and J.K. Simmons both recently announced that they were no longer heading to Kong: Skull Island, possibly because they heard it was shooting on location at an actual skull island.
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Fox is still working on that live-action X-Men TV series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Since it seems like a safe bet that The Fantastic Four aren’t going to become Fox’s hottest superhero team any time soon, the studio is continuing to focus most of its energy on a Marvel Comics property that people actually seem to like: The X-Men.
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Floods wreak havoc across South Asia – Al Jazeera English
Hundreds of people have been killed and millions of others displaced by monsoon floods across South Asia. Large swathes of land, from Pakistan to Myanmar, lie submerged under water, as torrential rains continue across the region.
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Ennui, the French word for boredom that symbolizes world-weariness and existential depression, has merged with Nintendo’s Mario Bros. in a new game, Ennuigi, that highlights Luigi’s sad plight.
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Invisible Deck – one of the greatest card tricks ever – Boing Boing
The Invisible Deck is one of my favorite trick decks because the effect is simple and stunning. It blows people’s minds. Take a look at this video above of David Blaine using the deck on a man in the street.
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The 50 Most Cringe-Worthy Moments In Comic-Book Movie History
There have been hundreds of movies based on comic-books, going back to the earliest days of both media. And that cinematic flood has come with a certain amount of “holy crap, what was that” moments. Here are the 50 most shudder-inducing comic-book-m…
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Russia destroys tonnes of foreign food imports – BBC News
Russia has bulldozed a pile of Western-produced cheese and tonnes of other foodstuffs imported in violation of sanctions. The country has also steamrollered fruit and burnt a huge pile of bacon.
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Artisanal water is both a joke and a thing | Grist
Remember when drinking water came from the tap? You may have to reach back into the recesses of your memory, but long ago, humans used to have a readily available and basically free resource known as “city water.
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Giudecca Canal, Venice [OC] [2592×1936] : CityPorn
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Abandoned playground near my home [5312×2988] : AbandonedPorn
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In case you haven’t seen this – Imgur
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Susan Sarandon and James Spader, 1990. : OldSchoolCool
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Ames Stradivarius violin stolen in 1980 has been found – BBC News
A Stradivarius violin stolen in 1980 has been recovered after a woman, having inherited it, had it appraised and discovered it had been illegally obtained.The instrument, known as the Ames Stradivarius, belonged to the Polish-American violinist Roma…
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Parents of children with ADHD react to video of handcuffed eight-year-old | US news | The Guardian
The video of a school resource officer restraining an eight-year-old boy in Kentucky struck a chord with parents of other children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Only 67 Days Until the First Democratic Debate — NYMag
Not to steal any thunder from tonight’s big Trump vs. Those Other People fight in Cleveland, but the Democratic National Committee has released its 2016 primary debate plan. A total of six debates are scheduled, with six different sponsors: Oct. 13…
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This Group May Stop the NSA From Tapping the Internet’s Backbone | VICE News
It’s taken seven years of legal wrangling, but one group of pro-privacy activists are hoping an appeals court will finally declare a critical part of the National Security Agency’s spying apparatus unconstitutional.
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Fox moderators to JV debaters: You people suck. Get out.
The second question posed: Donald Trump is doing great. Why do you think Donald Trump is doing so much better than you? Someone compared Trump to Ronald Reagan—why are you not generating that sort of response?
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The surprising reason why 13 percent of Latinos are still supporting Donald Trump
It should come as no surprise that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Latino voters are likely to say, “You’re fired.
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The US Forest Service Is Burning Through Its Budget Fighting Wildfires | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. The people behind Smokey Bear are ringing alarm bells about the rising cost of fighting forest fires in a hotter, drier climate.
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The bottom of the clown car empties: GOP JV debate open thread #1
Rick Perry Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Rick Santorum Carly Fiorina George Pataki Sen. Lindsey Graham Jim Gilmore Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including Fox News, you can’t watch live.
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An Unsexy Critique of the Ashley Madison Signup Process | WIRED
Nearly 40 million people signed up for Ashley Madison, a matchmaking site for people looking to cheat on their significant others, before it was hacked. Or at least that’s what the company claims. What’s the secret of the site’s pre-hack success? Su…
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Several years ago, David Withers, a zoologist with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, was digging for crayfish in some creek beds on the edge of DeKalb County, in an area that can plausibly be described as nowhere at all, when…
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The End of the Hoop Dream: A Journey to the Extreme Fringe of International Basketball «
Fueled by desperation and long-shot hopes, a twentysomething huckster agent leads 10 end-of-the-line players on a European exposure tour. It could be their final chance at basketball glory, but will anyone buy what he’s selling? Jon Solomon has the …
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The cops just kept coming : perfectloops
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O’Malley accuses Democratic party of ‘stacking the deck’ in Clinton’s favor | US news | The Guardian
Martin O’Malley on Thursday accused the Democratic Party of “rigging the process and stacking for the deck” in favor of Hillary Clinton.
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Vin Diesel’s Fake Beard Steals The Show in the Last Witch-Hunter Trailer
There’s a lot of silly fun going on, in this first look at The Last Witch Hunter—a movie where immortal Vin Diesel teams up with Rose Leslie and Elijah Wood to kill Witches and skeletal monsters.
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Egypt’s President Vows to Defeat Terrorists During Suez Canal Expansion Ceremony | VICE News
Egypt has officially unveiled a major new expansion of the Suez Canal — the strategic maritime passage that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
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In this clip from the first episode of Review’s second season, Andy Daly—playing the clueless Forrest MacNeil—doesn’t quite get the concept of a glory hole, but watching him fail at finding one is hilarious.
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Scientists Turn Skin Cells into Brain Cells, Using Alzheimers Patients
You are looking at freshly-made human neurons, or brain cells. But they used to be common skin cells. And their existence could change how we treat Alzheimers. Using a special mix of small molecules, two groups of scientists in China have successful…
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The Republican Debate, Live-Doodled | The Nation
Smackdown in Crazytown! Tonight we will be doing live artblog coverage of the first debate of the 2016 presidential election season, right here. Millions will tune in as Donald Trump leads an equally distinguished field of Republican luminaries.
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Netflix to unleash a Mr. Peabody And Sherman series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In news that will surely elicit a symphony of “huh”s, Variety reports Netflix and DreamWorks Animation are teaming to bring a rebooted version of Mr. Peabody And Sherman to the streaming service this fall.
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The Gaza Strip’s Last Safety Net Is in Danger | The Nation
Not long ago, I had a conversation with an official I know from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The official told me about a conversation he had with a senior Israel Defense Forces officer.
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Power plant emissions hit a 27-year low — and Obama’s plan hasn’t even kicked in yet | Grist
Politico’s Michael Grunwald, among others, has been arguing that Obama’s Clean Power Plan is not actually as ambitious as some analysts make it out to be.
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CLEVELAND—Hailing the bygone era as a golden age of opportunity, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal spent his opening remarks during Thursday’s GOP debate vowing to return America to a time when he was a rising star within the Republican Party.
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Clementinum National Library, Czech Republic [660×440] : RoomPorn
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Bean loves to sleep with her arms sticking out like this. : cats
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My handsome man.. Vader. : cats
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Daily Intelligencer’s Fox GOP Debate Liveblog — NYMag
We’re hunkering down in front of the TV to watch both Republican debates being shown on Fox News tonight. At 5 p.m.
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Josef Ruckhofer told AFP on Thursday he had been renovating the house near the city of Salzburg when he stumbled across the leather wallet under a wooden plank in June.
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Should Software Companies Be Legally Liable For Security Breaches? | TechCrunch
It’s a truism that all software has bugs and security holes. It’s another that license agreements invariably make software vendors immune to liability for damage or losses caused by such flaws.
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Longtime nemesis Antonio Cromartie says Tom Brady shouldn’t be suspended | Sport | The Guardian
Tom Brady received support from an unlikely quarter on Thursday when New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie came out in defense of the embattled New England Patriots quarterback during an appearance on ESPN.
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How Crickets Help Explain One of Schizophrenia’s Biggest Mysteries
For a long time, people with schizophrenia have reported feeling as though their thoughts and actions were controlled by an outside influence, and people didn’t understand why. One experiment, involving crickets, may have shed some light on the neur…
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US trained Syria troops ‘not supported’ – BBC News
A US plan to build a moderate fighting force to take on the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria has been criticised by a senior rebel trained in the programme.
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Tesla’s charging prototype is a Gigeresque prehensile robotic penis – Boing Boing
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Iowa’s Kids Will Now Be Taught Accurate Climate Science In School | ThinkProgress
The state that will host the first-in-the-nation caucuses and a Republican presidential debate in January of next year will be teaching its kids mainstream climate science in school.
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If Hollywood is still churning out lazy crap, stop paying for it
Yesterday, news broke that a study from USC Annenberg showed that the multiplex is whiter and more male-dominated than ever. The school found that since 2007, the percent of women, minorities, and LGBT people in the top 100 grossing movies haven’t c…
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New Relic reported its first quarter, fiscal 2016 performance today, including better than expected revenue, and lower than expected per-share loss.
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of course it was Chris Pratt! : funny
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Five things to watch for in tonight’s debate(s)
1: Will Donald Trump entirely lose his mind? Trump is, of course, the loose cannon of tonight’s debate. He does not respond well to criticism. He does not respond well to challenges to his ideas. He certainly does not respond well to other people’s …
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JetHawks Baseball Team Honoring Astronaut with Bobblehead
The JetHawks’ Jerry Ross bobblehead depicts the record-setting space shuttle astronaut flying a B-1 aircraft. A thousand of the bobbleheads will be given away at the team’s Aug. 9, 2015 baseball game.Credit: Lancaster JetHawks via collectSPACE.
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Senators angered by the decision to upgrade Malaysia in the State Department’s human trafficking report have threatened a subpoena on Thursday unless they receive all communications related to the annual US ranking of countries’ efforts to combat mo…
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NVIDIA Soars 9% After Reporting Better-Than-Expected EPS Of $0.34, Revenue Of $1.15 B | TechCrunch
NVIDIA (NVDA) shares were up nearly 9% in after-hours trading following their announcement of a beat in FY 2016 Q2 earnings Thursday. The computer component manufacturer managed to exceed street expectations on revenue with $1.153 billion while post…
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The TechCrunch NYC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Nigh! | TechCrunch
The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off in NYC is kicking off in less than two weeks, and you know better than most that a party isn’t really a party unless you’re there. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
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Republicans line up for first 2016 primary debate – live updates | US news | The Guardian
Welcome to our live coverage of the first debates in the race to become the 2016 Republican nominee for president.
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter’s cultural influence knows no bounds. She’s the namesake of nearly 2,000 people living in the U.S., the pop-star ideal other pop stars are held to, and the human embodiment of the word “flawless.
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Man in Spider-Man costume brawls with troublemaker – Boing Boing
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The Wet Hot Doc Trailer: Hurricane of Fun | WIRED
Back in 2000, a bunch of State alums and their friends went out into the woods to make what would become the cult classic Wet Hot American Summer. During that time some 25 hours of behind-the-scenes footage was shot.
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Daily Show set to be donated to the Newseum after Jon Stewart’s last show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jon Stewart will bow out of his Daily Show hosting duties tonight, and even though we’ve had since February (and, more recently, a punny Twitter campaign) to get used to the idea, we at The A.V. Club are still having a rough time of it.
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Indiana’s Preschool Programs May Shut Out Undocumented Toddlers | ThinkProgress
Indiana’s publicly funded preschool pilot program may shut out undocumented toddlers from enrollment, the nonprofit news website Chalkbeat Indiana first reported. The publication reported that only legal U.S.
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Helpful Police Offer Drug Dealers “Free Service to Eliminate” Their Co | Vanity Fair
When the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department placed the above ad on Facebook, its followers wondered whether the department was making a joke, or if the department was staffed by a squad of naïve grandmothers with no knowledge of how drug dealing w…
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Deadspin This Is The Most Lit Political Ad Of All Time | Gizmodo iTunes Is Dead to Me | Jezebel Millennial Dads: Trying Hard, Hitting the Fatherhood Glass Ceiling | Kotaku Seven Things Fans Are Excited About In World of Warcraft: Legion | Kinja Popu…
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The Prehistoric Beaches of Wisconsin – The New Yorker
The billboards for water parks at the Wisconsin Dells begin at a radial distance of about two hundred miles, markers of the edge of an irresistible vortex into which most Midwestern parents will eventually find themselves drawn some blistering summe…
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Time magazine sucks the joy out of VR with meme-worthy cover
Virtual reality is a thing and TIME magazine is on it. Twenty two-year-old Oculus founder Palmer Luckey graced the cover of the magazine’s August 17 issue, wearing a pastel blue polo shirt and an Oculus Rift on his face. Inexplicably, Luckey is jump…
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Passengers, the sci-fi romance starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, is about to get even more sci-fi romantic as The Hollywood Reporter says that Laurence Fishburne is in talks to join the project in an unspecified role.
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The party announced its slate of six meetings for 2016 candidates, and Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders are not pleased.
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The new Limitless TV spot makes it look like a wacky comedy · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
It seems like CBS is having trouble figuring out how to sell its new sci-fi show Limitless. You‘d think the network would be pretty psyched about a series based on a movie starring Bradley Cooper, which the star is not only producing but acting in a…
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The endless goodbye continues apace as we prepare to load Jon Stewart into a rocket-powered spaceship coffin and launch his body into the stratosphere. (Quitting a popular TV show isn’t easy.
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Body-Acceptance Acceptance Speech – The New Yorker
Wow! I really did not think I would be up here tonight. First, I would like to say I am so honored just to have been considered along with my fellow nominees.
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The Virgin Rainbow, The World’s Finest Opal, Is About To Go On Display | Atlas Obscura
Put together a team of your best bag men and cat burglars, because the world’s finest opal, the “Virgin Rainbow,” is about to go on display at the South Australian Museum. But just what makes the Virgin Rainbow, currently valued at around $1 million…
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Will Supersonic Planes Ever Make Travel Fast Again | Inverse
For 27 years, the Concorde ferried Burberry-clad patricians from London to New York in three hours while they sipped martinis at Mach 2.04. As Air France and British Airways ramped service by Concordes, many had high hopes that supersonic commercial…
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Pornhub Premium: Netflix for porn costs $9.99 per month | VentureBeat | Media | by Emil Protalinski
Pornhub, the largest pornography site on the Internet, is going premium. The company isn’t beating around the bush: Pornhub wants to become the Netflix for porn. The porn site has launched a new on-demand streaming service called Pornhub Premium (ob…
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I am cute, deal with it! : StartledCats
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Met this slug on a photo outing yesterday. [OC] [2960 x 4661] : AnimalPorn
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Butterflywatch: Can the blues be in clover once more? | Environment | The Guardian
Many butterfly names are inaccurate – the Essex skipper, for instance, is found far beyond that county – and some are becoming more so. The common blue is not common and lepidopterists are keen to identify its surviving colonies.
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Meet Bethany Black, The First Transgender Actor on Doctor Who
Now that shows like Sense8 have helped massively expand the presence of transgender people in science fiction and fantasy, one of the most venerable TV shows is following suit. Trans actor Bethany Black is appearing in Mark Gatiss’ upcoming “scary” …
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Did Virtual Reality Just Have Its Google Glass “Shower” Moment? | TechCrunch
If you followed the Google Glass saga, you remember that everything started out pretty hunky dory. There was an exciting demo that included people jumping out of a plane. Then there were developers in line to pay $1,500 to have a play with them and …
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France And Russia Finally Reach Deal Over Suspended Warship Delivery | VICE News
The long-running diplomatic saga over France’s suspended delivery of two massive, Mistral helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ships to Russia reached a conclusion Wednesday, when France agreed to “fully reimburse” Russia for the two warships.
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A preliminary CNBC report is suggesting that the Russian government is responsible for a “sophisticated cyber intrusion” of an unclassified Joint Staff email server. The server, which affected “4,000 military and civilian personnel” is still under i…
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Secret Origins Of The Japanese Superhero Show That Became Power Rangers
If you look at the picture above, you probably think of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, costumed heroes who have been kicking their way across TV in different incarnations for nearly 20 years—but you’d be wrong.
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Zynga Beats Expectations In Q2 With $200M In Revenue, Fails To Stem User Exodus | TechCrunch
Zynga today beat analyst expectations for revenue and earnings, but its user numbers continued to decline, sending the stock down about 1% in extended trading. Zynga’s daily active user numbers declined 23 percent year over year to 21 million, which…
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Migrant crisis a failure of European policy, UN says – Al Jazeera English
The refugee crisis in Europe is a crisis not because of the number of refugees, but because of Europe’s failure to respond to it in a coordinated fashion, the UN Refugee agency has said. We also need to stop being afraid of what is happening. This i…
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Questions I have about these people making out with a lizard
Who is the target demographic? Could there be a “climax” to the action here? What happens then?
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Signs Off: Executive Producer Steve Bodow Looks Back | Vanity Fair
On January 11, 1999, President Bill Clinton was five days into his impeachment trial, Y2K was cause for worldwide panic, and a new anchor took over a scrappy fake news show on a little-known basic-cable channel. Today, with an extra-long episode sch…
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Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation | Inverse
Blue LEDs, once confined to the world of digital displays and Blu-ray players, have just found a new calling: food preservation. New research at the National University of Singapore shows the potential of using blue LEDs as a chemical-free method to…
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday that New York City building owners would be required to test and disinfect their water-cooling towers within the next two weeks as the city continued to battle an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the South B…
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President Obama on Wednesday made a powerful case for the strong and effective nuclear agreement with Iran.
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Essential Reading On The 70th Anniversary Of Hiroshima – Digg
Seventy years ago today, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic weapon on Hiroshima, Japan, in an attempt to force the Japanese into surrender in the late stages of World War II. The bomb flattened the city and killed tens of thousands i…
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The Making of Overland — Medium
The story of how we eventually bootstrapped our indie dream game. For the last couple of years I’ve been working on my dream project, a tactical survival road trip game called Overland.
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Live Coverage Of The First Republican Debate | FiveThirtyEight
2016 Election 2:54 PM
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Blackpool Tower Ballroom : Breathless
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My boyfriend’s elderly, blind cat still loves to loaf : Catloaf
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An album of fosters! via /r/cats http://t.co/yo1nKu1VzJ http://t.co/m0UOyAT2TF
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Hey Charlie, how about a spa day? : funny
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Humans Need to Coexist With Fire
The dry, hot weather of our warming planet doesn’t just mean drought—it also means the fire season is getting longer. Almost six million acres have burned in the US this year, with 45 active large fires currently burning right now.
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Kings of India playing cards – Boing Boing
The Kings of India playing card deck looks fantastic. It has met its funding goal on Kickstarter, but they have not yet met the stretch goal that will enable the creators, Bhavesh and Reena Mistry, to include embossed details on the box.
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Hackaday Acquires DIY Hardware Marketplace Tindie | TechCrunch
Tindie, the marketplace for makers to fund and sell their hardware creations, is being acquired by maker blog Hackaday. Headquartered in San Francisco, Tindie has previously raised $1.7 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Slow Ventu…
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If you haven’t been cast in American Horror Story: Hotel, do you even exist? This existential crisis is brought to you by Ryan Murphy, who seems hell-bent on filling his hotel of horrors with every actor working in television, plus a pop star or two.
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Iran denies military site clean-up ahead of UN search – Al Jazeera English
Iran has denied reports it had tried to clean up suspicious activities at the controversial Parchin military complex outside the capital, Tehran, ahead of a planned United Nations inspection.
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: Australia will not give up, says Michael Clarke
Australia captain Michael Clarke insists his side will not give up as they look to save the Ashes series following a disastrous first day for the tourists at Trent Bridge. Clarke’s side were bowled out for 60 before lunch as Stuart Broad took 8-15.
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Enjoy Death Wish the way it was intended—with Bert and Ernie · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Sesame Street resident Ernie knows a good movie when he sees it. It has to have funny parts, sad parts, surprising parts, and Charles Bronson tearing somebody’s private parts off.
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Reece Shearsmith will return to the Doctor Who universe this season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After appearing in a small role in An Adventure In Space And Time, the BBC’s dramatization of the beginning of Doctor Who, Reece Shearsmith will now be making the jump to actual Doctor Who in what Deadline is calling “a special episode.
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Fall In Love with Your Job, Get Ripped Off by Your Boss – In These Times
“Do what you love” is not a new mantra. Since at least the 1980s, when individualistic ambition was elevated to a national virtue, Americans have taken for granted that good work should reward the soul.
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The Most Stylish Royal Weddings of the Decade . . . So Far | Vanity Fair
1/7Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
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The Wrecking Crew at the Voting Rights Act Anniversary
As fate would have it, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act coincides with the first 2016 Republican presidential nomination debate.
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Spicy Foods Could Increase Lifespan – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A study that observed nearly half a million people over a seven-year span found that those who consumed more spicy foods such as chili peppers showed a reduced overall risk of death, as well as reduced risk of developing cancer or heart disease. Wha…
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Does CG Suck Or Do We Only Notice Sucky CG? – Digg
Are computer generated visual effects really ruining movies? Or do we only notice CG that’s bad because it stands out?
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Space Station Partners Announce Crew Members for Missions in 2017 | NASA
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Fox trying to eat chickens /xpost /r/videos : foxes
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Tilt’s already expanded to the United Kingdom, its second international country, this year and plans to expand to five more countries in the next five months or so. That’s a challenge for any startup for a number of reasons.
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Some Debate-Watching Social-Science Nuggets — Science of Us
Facebook icon Tonight’s two Republicans debates — the first featuring non-top-ten candidates; the later, more important one featuring the ten candidates cur
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Cape Watch: Hulk Smash Civil War! (We Think) | WIRED
Before Fantastic Four makes us all feel that little bit more unhappy with the concept of superhero movies in general—our apologies for those of you who’ve already tasted the disappointment—let’s take a moment to remember that this really is the show…
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Peru admits Shining Path rebels have not been ‘exterminated’ – BBC News
The Peruvian government has admitted that the Shining Path Maoist rebel group is still in existence. Counter-terror chief Jose Baella said the left-wing rebels still have some 350 members, and 80 fighters.
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From London to a Football Field, Protests Spread Against ‘Genocide in Mexico’ | VICE News
Sports photographers in Buenos Aires held a brief demonstration before an internationally televised championship soccer match in the wake of the Mexico City massacre that took the lives of a photojournalist and four others.
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New security video gives clues to notorious Gardner museum art heist | US news | The Guardian
Never-before-seen footage from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum shows a possible dry run on 19 March 1990, the day before the robbery. The video could lead investigators closer to solving the heist of $500m worth of art
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BBC Sport – Astra Giurgiu 2-1 West Ham (agg 4-3)
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic says he is prioritising their Premier League opener against Arsenal after naming a squad of mostly second-string players for their Europa League qualifier second leg against Astra Giurgiu.
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Sanders attacks ‘political cowards’ pushing tougher voting-rights laws | TheHill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday celebrated the silver anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by teeing off on policymakers advocating tougher election laws.
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The Lax Bros of Long Island | Rolling Stone
Paul Rabil could have ripped a shot from the point and won the game himself. It was, after all, his kind of moment: Sudden-death overtime of the Major League Lacrosse semifinals, Rabil’s New York Lizards versus the team that had drafted him, the Bos…
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Social Publishing Service Wattpad Hacked, “Some” Passwords Exposed | TechCrunch
It looks like Wattpad, a site where authors can share their writing and interact with readers, was hacked a couple of months ago. The company has been sending out emails to some users alerting them that their information may have been compromised.
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Puff Daddy, Pharrell Seize Retro Vibe on ‘Finna Get Loose’ Video | Rolling Stone
Puff Daddy enlists Pharrell and heads underground to turn up in the alternately grimy and vibrant new video for the hip hop mogul’s latest single, “Finna Get Loose.
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Hear Chris Farely Voice Shrek in Rare Footage | Rolling Stone
Audio of Chris Farley voicing Shrek, the titular ogre from the DreamWorks animated franchise, has surfaced on YouTube. The uploader, user “Bedhead Bernie,” attributes its origins to John Garbett, a producer who briefly worked on the film.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane indicted for perjury; governor calls on her to resign
It’s the culmination of a long investigation into Kane, and it’s an amazingly quick and harsh downfall for her as well.
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On Space-Time and the Problem of the Berenst?in Bears | Inverse
Perhaps, as a child, you — target audience — read or pored over the pictures in a series of books about a family of Bears who live in a treehouse together and learn important, Family Circus-esque lessons.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Visualize Real-Time Weather Data with NOAA weatherView
A new visualization system provides access to real-time NOAA Global Forecast System weather model data. NOAA weatherView uses advanced techniques to show global wind data, along with other layers such as the day-night terminator, air temperature, pr…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Visualize Real-Time Weather Data with NOAA weatherView
A new visualization system provides access to real-time NOAA Global Forecast System weather model data. NOAA weatherView uses advanced techniques to show global wind data, along with other layers such as the day-night terminator, air temperature, pr…
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Another Times Square Spider-Man Gets in a Fight — NYMag
It’s August in New York, and tensions are running high: Everything smells like garbage, more tourists than usual are crowding the streets, and — even with this week’s temperature drop — it’s too hot.
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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One has a release date · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s only been in the works for a few months, but it seems that—unlike Robopocalypse, or any number of other projects to which Spielberg’s name gets attached—this particular film is actually happening.
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The Flame-Throwing Helicopter That Fights Wildfires | WIRED
Unlike fighting a house fire, which involves pouring thousands of gallons of water on the problem, battling a wildfire is more akin to precision high-speed landscaping. There’s no way to apply enough water to put it out entirely, so you deploy manpo…
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NCIS’ Marisol Nichols joins Teen Wolf as Desert Wolf · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although Marisol Nichols has been capturing bad guys for the last year on NCIS, she’ll have a chance to let loose as a possible villain in the second half of Teen Wolf’s fifth season.
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Jeb Bush on Donald Trump: ‘a buffoon,’ ‘clown,’ ‘asshole’
Hey Donald Trump, I know you’ve got a lot on your plate what with the debate and all but I just wanted to make sure you saw this.
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Why Nicolas Cage Sympathizes With Politicians Caught in Sex Scandals | Vanity Fair
If there’s one definitive thing you can say about Nicolas Cage’s lengthy career it’s that it’s impossible to define. The Academy Award winner and king of 90s action films alternates between quiet films, loud films, and films that defy categorization.
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Diving by Christian Schlamann / 500px
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Saw this pretty kitty while walking in the neighborhood. : cats
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Canyon lake dam near New Braunfels Texas. [8176×1664] : EarthPorn
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James Franco to play twin porn impresarios for David Simon and HBO · Newswire · The A.V. Club
David Simon might not have a lot of confidence in his own shows, but HBO has a lot of confidence in him as Deadline reports that the network has given pilot orders to two projects Simon currently has in development.
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If you’re like us, and frankly, like the rest of the television watching public, you’re probably having trouble keeping track of all the threads in the increasingly tangled web of corruption that is Vinci, CA.
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Why Taking the Thing’s Pants Off Was Such a Dumb Idea
Greetings, my friends! In today’s “Postal Apocalypse” we discuss whether zombies need to eat, a fascinating Star Wars theory about Obi-Wan the prequels ruined, and why the Thing’s lack of underpants is emblematic of the new Fantastic Four movie.
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As Democrats and Republicans celebrate the law’s 50th birthday, their praise hides deep divisions over whether it’s a piece of history or if it remains a vital tool.
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Researchers Hack A Model S, Tesla Sends Out Over The Air Fix | TechCrunch
When it rains, it pours.
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The Iran Nuclear Deal: What Is at Stake? – The Atlantic
At a time of growing uncertainty in the Middle East, scholars are divided as to how a nuclear agreement with Iran will affect stability in the region.
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President Proposes Ordering Sick Leave For Federal Contractors
President Obama is drafting an executive order to require federal contractors to provide sick leave for workers who are sick or caring for a sick relative. The order would benefit hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Jennifer Aniston has reportedly married her boyfriend Justin Theroux in a secret ceremony in Los Angeles. According to reports, the couple who’ve been going out for four years, got hitched at their Bel Air mansion.
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Enjoying Toronto’s Skyline at sunset [3000×2250][OC] : CityPorn
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It’s the most annoying (and therefore his favorite) spot : cats
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Cute Fox cub in a Hedgehog Box – TheWildlifeKate via /r/foxes http://t.co/4dhoxT6UsF http://t.co/YjgzZiwnbA
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Things that will definitely happen in the first Republican presidential debate
We’ve prepared our best guesses for the tactics of each candidate going into tonight’s debate as they attempt to separate themselves from the pack, even though Jeb Bush is almost certainly going to be that nominee, no matter what happens.
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This Gaunt Polar Bear Smashed an Underwater Diving Record on a Futile Hunt for Seals | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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Stephen King creates new Donald Trump campaign slogan: ‘If you’re white, you’re all right’
Stephen King is absolutely not a fan of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Keith Richards says ‘Sgt. Pepper’ is ‘rubbish’—does he have a point?
You’re either a Beatles fan or a Rolling Stones fan, and it makes sense that Keith Richards isn’t a Beatles guy. Richards, the Rolling Stones guitarist, poked fun at Paul McCartney on Saturday Night Live in February.
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Spielberg’s Ready Player One Movie Comes Out December 2017
We’ve known for a while that a Steven-Spielberg-directed adaptation of Ernest Cline’s nerd-fantasy novel Ready Player One was happening—but now we know when it’s actually going to land in theaters, and it’s sooner than you might think: December 15th…
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Audio Visuals: A Pair of Rockers Become Nude Video Game Characters | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. We’re switching it up a little in the Audio Visuals roundup this week. Normally, we limit the entries to videos that have come out in the past week.
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‘Shrimp Boy’ accuses San Francisco mayor Ed Lee of taking bribes | US news | The Guardian
The mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee, has been hit with allegations of corruption, after attorneys for former gang member Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow argued that the mayor and other city officials have been given a pass while Chow is being prosecuted on…
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Darkroom 2 for iOS adds granular color editing tool and filter sharing via Instagram
Darkroom, an app many already like for editing photos on iOS, has been updated. Version 2 brings in an embarrassment of new tools and features, with an improved color altering tool and the ability to share your custom filters.
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Movie of the Week: “Ishtar” – The New Yorker
For the three-hundredth installment of Movie of the Week, something special: Elaine May’s “Ishtar.” It’s one of my favorite films, and it’s the victim of enduring misunderstandings—which are ultimately May’s very subject.
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What To Expect From Tonight’s GOP Debate – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The first Republican primary debate will air Thursday evening on Fox News and will feature the top 10 polling candidates, with Donald Trump in a strong lead, as they field questions from moderators Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace.
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FOXBOROUGH, MA—Complaining that the quarterback has kept up the annoying habit throughout training camp, several members of the New England Patriots admitted to reporters Thursday that they have grown tired of Jimmy Garoppolo beginning every huddle …
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The 10 Commandments of Rock ‘n’ Roll, According to Robert Hunter | Open Culture
In the afterglow of the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well concerts, we highlighted The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, an online project launched in 1995, which provided editorial footnotes explaining the references of every original Grateful Dead song.
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Bluff Hill in New Zealand : Breathless
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A few of my favourite pictures of my handsome boy! : cats
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Study Finds Bad Yelp Review Is Death Knell For New Business
Yelp’s second-quarter losses of $1.3m and the resignation of its chairman Max Levchin last month gave naysayers fresh material to bash the start-up’s utility, but the study found that potential customers consider Yelp an objective way of making deci…
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Midday open thread: Machine-gun bacon it’s not; the make-up tax; turning down R*dsk*ns money
Just one problem, it’s not a machine-gun, not even a sub-machine-gun. Such weapons will keep firing as long as the trigger is held down or they run out of ammunition.
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Not Just An App: The Front End Of The Trillion-Dollar, Full-Stack Revolution | TechCrunch
Today’s apps can best be compared to websites of the last tech revolution (or bubble) in late ’90s.
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The Republican presidential power rankings: Who ya got?
It’s Jeb Bush’s nomination to lose—and it’s not particularly close. Headed into Thursday’s prime-time presidential debates there is a defined No. 1 coming out of the political preseason.
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Readers recommend: songs about confusion and delusion | Peter Kimpton | Music | The Guardian
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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Snapchat’s Weird New Political Ad Is Evil Genius | WIRED
Snapchat really wants to be the Next Big Thing in political advertising, and, so far, it’s had some middling success. But its latest political ad, which launched today, is just plain bizarre. It’s also completely genius … in an evil kind of way.
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Norway Island Will Host Political Youth Camp Four Years After Massacre – The Atlantic
The Labor Party will return Friday to Utoya for the first time since 2011 when a gunman killed 69 people on the island.
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Our New Best Guess for Where to Find MH370: The Indian Ocean | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. You’d think confirming that the piece of airplane that washed ashore on Réunion came from Flight MH370 would be great news. If nothing else, it proves investigators have been spending their time and mo…
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Researchers compile list of horse facial expressions – Boing Boing
Scientists at the University of Sussex have published a directory of horse facial expressions. The Equine Facial Action Coding System catalogs “17 discrete facial movements in horses that may indicate mood or intention or just bafflement,” reports T…
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For 10 months now, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation has been involved in a lawsuit against Goodfellas actor Frank Sivero (a.k.a.
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In this clip from the first episode of Review’s second season, Andy Daly—playing the clueless Forrest MacNeil—goes out looking for a good-old fashioned fistfight, but ends up on the receiving end of something much worse. Below, check out the trailer…
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Exclusive Excerpt From Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Quest: Will Fitz EVER Learn?
FitzChivalry Farseer just can’t resist taking in orphans and creatures in need. And that trait will continue to get him into major trouble, judging from our exclusive excerpt from Fool’s Quest, the second book in Robin Hobb’s Fitz and the Fool trilo…
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The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Donald Trump spoke to former president Bill Clinton in late May, weeks before launching his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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JERUSALEM — On one edge of the Zion Square gathering, an Orthodox yeshiva student was in heated debate with a secular couple over the hierarchy of sin. On the other, young men wearing skullcaps rocked back and forth, reciting the evening prayer.
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Pornhub comes into its own with premium streaming service
If you’ve ever dreamed of instantly streaming high-quality, ad-free porn, you’re in luck: Pornhub launched a premium service on Thursday that will let people to access full-length videos from places like Brazzers and Reality Kings in stunning 1080p.
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In April 2005, President George W. Bush hailed “clean coal” as a key to “greater energy independence,” pledging $2 billion in research funds that promised a new golden age for America‘s most abundant energy resource.
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Some ‘Age of Ultron’ DVD and Blu-ray boxes nixed Black Widow and Hawkeye
Black Widow is already excluded from most of Marvel’s merchandise (and replaced in one of her own scenes) to the point where Marvel’s own actors are asking #WheresNatasha, but now she’s even missing from some variations of the Age of Ultron DVD and …
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Podcast: When Data Tells Us To Lock Someone Up | FiveThirtyEight
“We talk a lot about the statistics in these tools, but at the end of the day, these still end up being policy questions. Even a perfect statistical tool might say I have a 50 percent chance of committing a crime. Whether you think that’s a high ris…
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Fly Over Ceres’ Mysterious Mountain and Bright Spots in Incredible Video
With or without 3D glasses, a newly released video tour of Ceres offers a new perspective on the dwarf planet’s dramatic and diverse surface.
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Broad’s eight dismantles Australia on opening day – Al Jazeera English
England skittled out shell-shocked Australia for 60 and piled up 274 for four in reply to take control of the fourth Ashes Test on a dramatic first day at Trent Bridge on Thursday. The hosts, 2-1 up in the series and without their leading bowler Jam…
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Nuclear Watchdog Accuses Iran of Cleaning Up a Suspected Weapons Site | VICE News
Government intelligence reports and commercial satellite images show Iran is up to something at its Parchin complex, a military-site just 19 miles from Tehran. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) released a report on Wednesda…
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Rebecca Hall Talks About The Gift | Vanity Fair
Rebecca Hall describes her career as “trying to keep on trucking on,” but what it looks like is a whole lot more impressive than that.
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President Obama this week took the debate on the Iran nuclear deal beyond the immediate issues which preoccupy his opponents, to declare that the fundamental choice before the United States is between a foreign policy based on careful diplomacy and …
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Q&A: Bee crisis stinging world food production – Al Jazeera English
As an essential pollinator, honeybees are responsible for helping produce about one third of the world’s crops, according to the United Nations.
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Here’s what it would look like if the Hiroshima bomb hit your town
What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your city? That’s the question Public Radio International (PRI) aims to answer with a new Web application built in remembrance of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, which took place 70 years ago today.
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Hear Chris Farley voice Shrek in this long-lost clip · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Chris Farley’s 1997 overdose was tragic for many reasons, not the least of which is that it cut short a movie career that was starting to take some interesting twists and turns.
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The Republican Debate: The Wait Is Almost Over – The New York Times
As the candidates wrangle in Cleveland tonight, Times reporters will provide real-time analysis, fact checking and viewer reactions. The preliminary contest, featuring candidates who trail in the polls, begins at 5 p.m. on Fox News; the debate among…
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A Purrfectly Adorable Night at the Algonquin Hotel’s Cat Show | Vanity Fair
There is no catwalk at the annual cat fashion show at the Algonquin Hotel. The cat models— “mewdels,” as the placards in front of them read—were mostly stationary, arranged on a circle of tables in the Oak Room, just off the main hotel lobby.
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The Hotwives Of Orlando taught us that it’s okay to enjoy the Real Housewives franchise; all you have to do is carefully observe the original, and create a scripted “reality” series with the thinnest veneer of parody.
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Why Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Is the Hardest Comic Book to Adapt – The Atlantic
The revolutionary Marvel property has been filmed four times with little success, partly because of the difficulty in striking a balance between its dazzling ’60s kitsch and real-world humanity.
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Look who my friend has jury duty with today.. – Imgur
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Why Are Mafia Attacks On Italian Journalists Going Ignored? | ThinkProgress
Eight years ago, Italian journalist Roberto Saviano wrote the book Gomorrah, an insider account of the mafia-war between two of Naples’ most notorious crime families that quickly became an international best-seller.
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Duran Duran on Keeping ‘Brand Duran’ Fresh | Rolling Stone
It’s safe to say nobody ever expected Duran Duran to endure this long — not even Duran Duran. But the original New Romantics are back with a vengeance. Their excellent new LP, Paper Gods, lives up their their classic sex-synths-and-mascara legacy.
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Revealed for the first time: the seer stone that translated the Book of Mormon – Boing Boing
In 1827 an angel directed the Prophet Joseph Smith to a spot in New York, where he found ancient golden plates inscribed with “reformed Egyptian” characters.
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Cecil the lion scientist: ‘My stomach went into knots’ – BBC News
The Zimbabwean researcher who followed Cecil the lion for nine years, and was the one who discovered he had been killed has told the BBC he heard when he found out about Cecil’s death.
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Vanderbilt football apologizes for ‘We Don’t Need Your Permission!’ tweet | Sport | The Guardian
Vanderbilt University’s football program, which has been rocked over the past year by a gang rape trial involving four former players, unveiled their slogan for the upcoming season on Thursday morning. They might want to workshop it a touch.
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Controversy clouds excitement for Marvel’s ‘All New, All Different’ relaunch
The All New, All Different Marvel Comics universe will begin with a rollout of around 60 new titles starting in October. The plan is to revitalize old favorites while making the Marvel universe more accessible to new readers, including some comics a…
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Why privacy activists and economists should be on the same side – Boing Boing
Ryan Calo writes, “I argue in a new paper that economists and privacy advocates don’t need to hate one another… Here’s the abstract:” Law and economics tends to be skeptical of privacy, finding privacy overrated, inefficient, and perhaps even immo…
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West Bank’s Ahli plays out historic draw in Gaza – Al Jazeera English
Palestinians long riven by geography and factional feuding enjoyed a rare show of unity on Thursday in a football match that brought together teams from their two territories.
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BBC Sport – Angel Di Maria: Man Utd spell ‘did not go well’ as PSG deal confirmed
He added: “The three parties agreed. Me, Manchester United and PSG agreed the deal.” Di Maria moved to Old Trafford from Real Madrid in August 2014 for a British record £59.7m.
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Afrojack on His Recipe for Creative Bliss | Rolling Stone
Afrojack’s big hit of 2015 is “Hey Mama,” a chart-topping collaboration with David Guetta, Nicki Minaj and Bebe Rexha, but right now, he’s most excited about “SummerThing!” The new single, the first off an album due early next year, rides a peppy gu…
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A Look at California’s Drought – The Atlantic
Across the American West and elsewhere, the issue of water scarcity is real and urgent. Some suggest California could be out of water in 12 months.
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A New-York police officer playing with kids from Harlem, 1978 : pics
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“I take playing very seriously” : cats
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Behold! Watch As The Power Of The Wind Instantly Energizes This 3D-Printed Thingamabob | TechCrunch
Do you believe in perpetual motion? The Flat Earth Theory? The sauroids who run our governments? Have I got something for you.
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The Republican National Committee issued a statement on Thursday praising a law that Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have hobbled and that Republican officials have actively sought to undermine through state laws that disenfranchise racia…
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Apple Music Will Be Streaming Dr. Dre’s New Album Exclusively Tonight | TechCrunch
You knew it was going to happen. Apple acquires Beats. Announces Apple Music. Launches Beats 1 radio station (and yes…it’s WORLDWIDE).
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Tesla’s Whipped Up Your Latest Nightmare | WIRED
Last December, Elon Musk announced Tesla was working “on a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a metal snake. For realz.” Because why should you have to use your arms for things?
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Louisiana officer fatally shot as police launch search for wanted suspect | US news | The Guardian
Police in north-west Louisiana have identified an officer who was killed Wednesday night and the suspect wanted in his slaying.
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BBC Sport – Europa League: Police called to Arnhem before Southampton game
Police were called to the Dutch city of Arnhem after trouble flared before Southampton’s Europa League game against Vitesse. According to the Press Association, 50 Dutch fans and three English supporters were arrested following the incidents.
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Putting metal detectors in movie theaters won’t stop mass shootings in America
Two recent attacks in movie theaters have had some theatergoers questioning the safety of a dark, packed, stadium of 200 people with no security checks. On Wednesday, a Nashville movie theater was the scene of an attack by a man wielding a hatchet, …
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Arby’s will miss Jon Stewart most of all · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jon Stewart—or someone on the Daily Show writing staff, anyway—has always had a special vendetta against Arby’s, describing it at various points as “technically food,” “shock and awe for your bowels,” and “a dare for your colon.
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Microsoft releases Project Islandwood as ‘Windows Bridge for iOS’ on GitHub
Microsoft’s ‘Project Islandwood’ was a curious grab for iOS apps. It is meant to bridge the gap between Windows and the iPhone, allowing developers to ‘port’ iOS apps to the Windows platform in a few easy steps.
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Rich nations spend huge sums to keep the seas at bay but wealth may not save them indefinitely.
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Femsplain reveals plans for new community initiative – Femsplain Beta
Online storytelling community Femsplain has announced its plans for a new initiative – Femsplain Beta – just one year after the website’s initial launch.
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Read the Full Text of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” A Story of 6 Survivors
For the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The New Yorker has published online the full text of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” to which the magazine devoted the entire editorial space of its August 31, 1946 issue.
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Visualization of nuclear detonations from 1945 to present. A project by Orbital Mechanics (https://www.facebook.com/OrbitalMechanics) Code / Visuals: Ehsan Rezaie Sound: Phil Rochefort & Patrick Trudeau
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The Smiths and Tears For Fears need no help in the moodiness department, but a new mashup featuring the two groups creates an angst vortex that’s delightfully downtrodden. BRAT Productions (a.k.a.
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FROM the earliest days of Starbucks, I’ve been captivated by the art of leadership. I was mentored over three decades by Warren G. Bennis, the eminent professor and scholar on leadership. I’ve gathered insights from peers, and I’ve drawn inspiration…
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This Week On TechCrunch’s Bitcoin Podcast: Biggs Goes Reddit, And Meet TØ.com | TechCrunch
Hello dear friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast. Akin to the proverbial ancient turtle, we are still here. This time around, John Biggs came back from Poland, and I sat in a conference room in San Franc…
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Genius Hub Is Like A Paid Version Of Reddit’s AMA | TechCrunch
Reddit’s traffic may be climbing amid its recent controversy and turmoil, but the company’s fate is now more questionable than before. And that means it’s time for competitors to swoop in to take advantage of Reddit’s instability to target those use…
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A portrait of Ferguson one year after Michael Brown’s death – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Hakeem Thomas, 14, at his family home. ‘My parents made us stay home because of the shooting. Sometimes we couldn’t go to school. I felt more afraid of the police because I thought they would shoot me for nothing.’ He also said: “A lot of the busine…
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Microsoft Launches Open Source Tool To Help iOS Developers Port Their Apps To Windows | TechCrunch
At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would soon release tools that would make it easier for iOS and Android developers to take their existing code and port their apps to Windows.
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Bill Hader is Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s new precinct captain · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the Brooklyn Nine-Nine season two finale, Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) left the squad to pursue a career in NYPD’s public relations department, leaving Peralta & Co. leaderless. Now The Wrap reports that the power vacuum will be (temporarily) fi…
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NHL star Patrick Kane investigated by police over rape allegation | Sport | The Guardian
Police in Hamburg, New York, are investigating after Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane was accused of rape, sources said. The Buffalo News reported that a woman made the allegation after an incident last weekend. The woman went to hospital, an…
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NASA Totally Found an Alien Crab on Mars and Didn’t Tell Anybody
And then—get this—THEN they accidentally posted a picture of it online. And then some people spotted it and called a spade a spade crab a crab. Hey everybody! Look! It’s a crab on Mars! This crab-like object was found in a Mars rover.
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Outrage after Russia steamrolls tonnes of Western food – Al Jazeera English
Russian officials have steamrolled tonnes of cheese, fruit and vegetables, defying public outrage to begin a controversial drive to destroy Western food smuggled into the country.
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EFF ships major new Privacy Badger release – Boing Boing
Noah from EFF writes, “Online tracking has become a pervasive invisible reality of the modern web. Most sites you load are likely to be full of ads, tracking pixels, social media share buttons, and other invisible trackers all harvesting data about …
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Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths – The New Yorker
The centrality of comedy to American cultural and intellectual life—from “The Daily Show” to “Louis” to “WTF” to “Inside Amy Schumer” and beyond—has everything to do with the fearlessness of its best practitioners.
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Lee Daniels is developing a girl-group musical series at Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Not content to rest on his laurels after co-creating the biggest breakout hit in recent television history, Empire’s Lee Daniels is developing his second musical series for Fox.
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Ryan Adams is recording a Smiths-like version of Taylor Swift’s 1989 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Further proving he’s, like, totally down with the kids, Ryan Adams is working on covering Taylor Swift’s 1989 in its entirety. Calling Swift’s cuts “badass tunes,” Adams says he’s applying Smiths-like qualities to his versions of the songs, somethin…
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Singing zebra. HILARIOUS : AnimalsBeingBros
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Planet Earth Shines in Weather Satellite’s 1st Photo from Space
Africa looked awash in splotches of dusty pink, vibrant green and a swirl of white clouds in an image snapped Tuesday (Aug. 4) by Europe’s newest weather satellite, according to an announcement from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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McConnell rules out linking highway bill to overseas tax reform | TheHill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday ruled out using revenues from overseas corporate tax reform to pay for a multi-year highway bill, something Senate Democrats have discussed with House Republicans.
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McConnell: ObamaCare repeal likely to be included in fast-track budget process | TheHill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday said language repealing ObamaCare is the most likely choice for a budget reconciliation package expected in the next year. The tactic allows Senate Republicans to pass legislation with …
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at First By the Sea Trailer | Vanity Fair
It’s a good thing we know that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s domestic life is actually full of adorable children and trips to Subway, because this first trailer at their collaboration By the Sea presents something much darker: two beautiful people,…
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France Looks To Build World’s First Floating Wind Farm | ThinkProgress
Two weeks after passing a law that completely re-envisions the country’s energy system, France is already making moves to bolster its wind potential by inviting companies to submit proposals for floating wind farms off both its northern and southern…
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Video Shows Guatemalan Soldiers Slapping, Punching, Drop-Kicking Two Teen Boys | VICE News
Five Guatemalan soldiers are under fire after a video surfaced showing them taking turns beating and kicking two minors. The video went viral, and Guatemalans on social media expressed anger and outrage at what many called “an abuse of authority” by…
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Ivanka Trump’s Friends Don’t Hold Her Dad Against Her | Vanity Fair
As we’ve been constantly reminded since he began his anarchic and quixotic run for president, Donald Trump is known for a lot of things—real-estate deals, flashy golf courses, boisterous comments, and firing people on national television—but refinem…
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Russia Is Destroying Tons of Western Food to Mark a Year of Retaliatory Sanctions | VICE News
Russian officials took steamrollers and tractors to tons of seized cheeses, fruit, and other imported edibles Thursday to mark a year of retaliatory sanctions against Western foods.
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Microbes Deep under Seafloor Reflect Ancient Land Origins – Scientific American
Microbial organisms live in you, on you, in soil, in clouds and below the ocean floor. That last batch of single-celled critters is particularly hard to study. Not only are the samples difficult to obtain, but they can easily be contaminated with al…
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Ryan Adams is covering Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ in the style of the Smiths
Ryan Adams might have produced the “guaranteed saddest” Taylor Swift cover yet. The singer-songwriter announced on Twitter early Thursday morning that he’s vowing to cover 1989 track by track, “as played by the Smiths,” and posted a photo of a reco…
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Apocalypse in the land of Starbucks | Emma Brockes | Comment is free | The Guardian
For the last couple of weeks, a piece of apocalyptic journalism has been dominating the most read section of the New Yorker website, under the heading “The earthquake that will devastate Pacific Northwest”.
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Is The Internet Taking Us Where We Want to Go? – The Atlantic
The Internet is 50 years old now—made up of billions of nodes, 99% of which were not imagined when it was invented. Always on, always running somewhere in the world, the Internet enables millions of creative people to innovate every single day.
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Why This Year’s California Wildfires Are The New Normal – The Atlantic
Thanks to the state’s unprecedented drought, fire season has seemed especially dire this year,. But federal records show that these trends are now fairly normal.
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Why So Many Bog Bodies Show Signs of Violent Death
Who will say ‘corpse’ to his vivid cast? Who will say ‘body’ to his opaque repose? —Seamus Heaney, “Grauballe Man” (1975)
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Australia says it turned back over 600 migrants at sea – Al Jazeera English
Australia has turned around more than 600 asylum seekers trying to reach its shores on 20 separate boats since enacting controversial new border controls in December 2013, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has said.
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Image of the Day –‘Cosmic Raindrops’ in the Hydra Galaxy Cluster
This is a composite image of the Hydra Galaxy Cluster, including a look at the hot atmosphere of plasma that pervades the cluster, an ultraviolet image of young stars swirling, an optical image of the elliptical galaxy at the heart of the cluster, a…
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Image of the Day –‘Cosmic Raindrops’ in the Hydra Galaxy Cluster
This is a composite image of the Hydra Galaxy Cluster, including a look at the hot atmosphere of plasma that pervades the cluster, an ultraviolet image of young stars swirling, an optical image of the elliptical galaxy at the heart of the cluster, a…
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How to make a woman in a Confederate Flag bikini look classy – Imgur
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NASA to Pay Russia Another $490 Million to Fly Astronauts on Soyuz Spacecraft
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Kenyan tweeters raise money for brain tumour patient – BBC News
Emmanuel Jadudi tweeted that he was “overwhelmed” and did not know how to thank them for the money raised. On Tuesday, popular Kenyan blogger Jackson Biko urged Kenyans to donate money to help Mr Jadudi fly to India for a fourth brain operation.
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Artificial intelligence decodes Islamic State strategy – BBC News
Researchers in the US have used artificial intelligence to better understand the military strategy of Islamic State extremists. Analysis established a causal link between air strikes and roadside bomb attacks as well as a connection with the jihadis…
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Remembering Ted Cruz, Scary Debate God — NYMag
One question left to be answered in tonight’s Republican debate: Will any of the candidates be able to best Trump, the master of mangled, mercurial, and captivating oratory, in the competitive sport of bombastic speechifying? People who remember
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#ILookLikeAnEngineer Is Coming To A San Francisco Billboard Near You? | TechCrunch
#ILookLikeAnEngineer has taken the Internet by storm over the last few days. Now, there’s an IndieGoGo campaign that has already surpassed its goal of raising $3,500 to put up a billboard in San Francisco.
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Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency | WIRED
Imagine an election—a close one. You’re undecided. So you type the name of one of the candidates into your search engine of choice. (Actually, let’s not be coy here. In most of the world, one search engine dominates; in Europe and North America, it’…
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NYPD Uses Old COPS Clip in Presentation — NYMag
On Wednesday afternoon, NYPD chief Bill Bratton held a press conference to discuss the dangers of synthetic weed (a.k.a. “K2,” “spice,” and “$5 pouches of dried plant leaves laced with unpredictable chemicals”), the use of which is on the rise in Ne…
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Hip-Hop Artists Make The Case That ‘Riots Work’ | ThinkProgress
Reactions to police violence in Ferguson one year ago, and countless American cities since then, have typically started with the assumption that civil unrest is the wrong response.
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5 lessons I learned during a year of self-employment
July 31, 2014. That’s the day I walked away from my PR and marketing job with a steady paycheck and into a life of self-employment and uncertainty.
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Remains on Matterhorn are Japanese climbers gone since 1970 – BBC News
Remains found at the foot of Switzerland’s Matterhorn glacier have been identified as two Japanese climbers who disappeared 45 years ago. DNA tests showed the bones belonged to the men, who went missing on the mountain in August 1970, police say.
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On a humid Monday afternoon in July, Reverend William Barber, dressed in black t-shirt and slacks, stood barefoot in the carpeted lobby of a Holiday Inn in Raleigh, North Carolina, and spoke emphatically about the historic voting rights trial in his…
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TV Great Job, Internet! Aug 6, 2015 12:02 PM As we’ve already learned, Rick Sanchez of Dan Harmon’s Rick And Morty is no slouch when it comes to the rap game.
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When your daughter says, “You should write a song about the cat” · 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, we’re featuring songs written about or inspired by pets.
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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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Kelly Clancy on the Logic Behind the Myth That We Only Use 10 Percent of Our Brains
You’ve probably heard the myth that the average person uses only 10 percent of their brain. It’s a seductive lie because it suggests that we could be more than we are.
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Calais crisis: Migrant stopped inside Channel Tunnel – BBC News
The Sudanese national was arrested a few kilometres from the British entrance of the 50.5 km (31-mile) tunnel on Tuesday. The train operator held an “unplanned” inspection on the same day, which led to four-hour delays.
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Fantastic Four · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Why is it so hard to make a good Fantastic Four movie? Marvel’s first superteam, that yammering surrogate family of Silver Age aberrations, has now appeared in as many features as it has members, and each film is embarrassing in its own special way.
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Criminal Charges Filed Against PA Attorney General | Al Jazeera America
Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor was charged Thursday with leaking secret grand jury information and lying about her actions under oath.
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The agony and the ecstasy of the canine reaction shot · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
Dogs are emotive, and because they’re non-human, we sometimes read their expressions as extreme stylizations of our own, especially when they’re on camera and in close-up. In other words, when we recognize something human in a dog’s face, it becomes…
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The Infinity Gauntlet is a very silly concept.
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The Trouble with Teaching Computers to Think for Themselves, by David Berreby
Nineteen stories up in a Brooklyn office tower, the view from Manuela Veloso’s office—azure skies, New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty—is exhilarating. But right now we only have eyes for the nondescript windows below us in the tower across the s…
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Watch Jon Stewart roast climate deniers — and more classic moments from The Daily Show | Grist
Trump.com had a surprising message on Thursday — a thank-you note to Jon Stewart. We are writing you today via Mr Trump’s website because, seeming, the only way to get anyone to pay attention any more is to grease a Presidential candidate’s website.
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MEXICO CITY — When Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, escaped from prison last month, he walked out of captivity and str
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A chronology of Crayola colors. : dataisbeautiful
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Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA [OC] [3500×1969] : EarthPorn
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Tesla’s unveils its mesmerizing car-charging snake because you didn’t want a Model S already
Teslas are already cool enough, but when Elon Musk teased the ‘snake’ charger a while back, it was too much. We almost hoped he was just kidding, but no — he wasn’t. The snake is real, and it’s amazing.
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New Gardner museum video may show thieves 24 hours before art heist | US news | The Guardian
New video footage of one of the most notorious museum heists in history has surfaced, and it may lead investigators closer to the thieves of Rembrandt’s the Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The key to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery may lie …
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Who is this man? Grainy footage could solve $500m art heist – Boing Boing
Even by the standards of 25-year-old security video, it’s grainy and indistinct. But if someone can identify the man visiting Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, federal investigators could solve a $500m art theft that’s kept them in the dark f…
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States Ask EPA To Hold Off On Carbon Emissions Plan | ThinkProgress
The Clean Power Plan hasn’t been out a week yet, and 16 states have already formally requested that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delay the rule.
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Eight Months on ‘Mars’: Looking Back at a Mock Space Mission
On June 13, for the first time in eight months, Jocelyn Dunn stepped out of a Mars-like habitat in Hawaii without a spacesuit.
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‘An Epidemic Of Invisibility’: The Damning Data That Quantifies Inequality In Film | ThinkProgress
You know what’s so great about going to the movies? You can be transported. A movie lifts you out of your life and takes you to some distant, fantastical place. For instance, if you attended a movie in 2014, you may have looked at the screen and fou…
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Sprig is the latest on-demand service to reclassify its workers as employees
San Francisco-based organic meal delivery service Sprig is undergoing a big change — both in looks and in practice.
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Schultz Tamps Down Schultz-for-President Fever — NYMag
Last weekend, Maureen Dowd floated two possible names as late entrants into the Democratic presidential primary. The first, Joe Biden, briefly set campaign journalists alight with speculation. The second, Howard Schultz, attracted no attention whats…
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A Scientist Responds… to The Fly
In our series, A Scientist Responds, we’re dredging up the great and terrible science fiction flicks of days past—and we’re making scientists watch them. Today’s movie: David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the B-movie screamer, The Fly.
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Death and Destruction in the Wake of Nagasaki | The Nation
Korean and Chinese workers, prisoners of war, and mobilized adults and students had returned to their work sites; some dug or repaired shelters, others piled sandbags against the windows of City Hall for protection against machine-gun fire.
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Turkey’s War on PKK Terror and Strangling of the New Left | The Nation
The struggle between the ruling center-right Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the far-left Kurdish guerrilla movement, the PKK, had entered into a relatively quiet period in March 2013, when a peace process was begun.
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The chief executive of General Electric raked in a $37.3 million pay package last year, a large sum by any standard.
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Jon Stewart Showed Us He Could Grow—and America Could, Too | The Nation
When Jon Stewart ends his 16-year run hosting The Daily Show tonight, progressives everywhere will miss him terribly. But politics has never been Stewart’s chief concern—his heart has always been with comedy.
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But today, better technology and market fixing courtesy of “the OPEC of maple syrup” drive the business, creating controversy now, and perhaps isolating the industry from climate change’s effects in the future.
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Special Air Service in North Africa, 1943 : OldSchoolCool
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Found this Yakuza cat gang in a Tokio corner. : StartledCats
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This blep pleads for you to stop cleaning teeth… : Blep
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Room with mirrors on the floor, ceiling, and walls with transparent furniture. : pics
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A very full African Lion with his Quarry (South Africa) [3840×2571] [OC] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/ECsgxJbZfM http://t.co/ozKKjmcsFE
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/TFjkTN4Ucq http://t.co/np5LfCEsIp
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Rescued Mediterranean migrants arrive in Sicily – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants rescued from a boat that sank off Libya with 600 people on board have arrived on the Italian island of Sicily. Members of the International Red Cross met them at the quayside with water and medical supplies. The survivors will b…
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China Just Declared War on Amateur Sex Videos | VICE News
Following the circulation of various videos of questionable taste on Chinese social media, China’s top anti-pornography office is launching a campaign to purify the web and strip it of amateur sex clips.
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Rebagg, an online resell marketplace for designer handbags, has closed on $4 million in seed from General Catalyst, Metamorphic Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Founder Collective, Big Sur Ventures-Necotium and FJ Labs. There’s no shortage of second-han…
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On-Demand Food Startup Sprig To Start Classifying Its Contractors As Employees | TechCrunch
Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer its hundreds of contract workers employment at the compa…
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Pushing Back the Islamic State: The Battle for Rojava (Dispatch 1) | VICE News
The northeastern city of Hasakah is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse in Syria. Its population of Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and Christians was until recently politically divided between equal zones of Kurdish and Assad regime control.
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How the Hell Is This Still Happening
Contact the author at rob@io9.com.
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Facebook Users Are Talking About Race. So Should the GOP | WIRED
If Facebook users—which is to say, most of us—had their way, the GOP candidates taking the stage during the debate tonight would have an honest and open conversation about race. And also, they’d all ride into Cleveland on winged unicorns.
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More than 78,500 victims of domestic violence reached out to the country’s programs offering housing, legal help, and other services on a given day last year. But of those, 10,871 had to be turned away because the programs didn’t have the resources …
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California Restores Voting Rights To Nearly 60,000 Released Prisoners | ThinkProgress
This week, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla reversed a state policy that disenfranchised residents who had completed their prison time, but remained under community supervision. The move is expected to allow nearly 60,000 Californians to h…
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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux Reportedly Got Married on a Wednesday Night | Vanity Fair
Seems pretty on-brand for Jennifer Aniston to get married in casual fashion, on a Wednesday night, in the backyard of her home, doesn’t it? According to People, though not yet confirmed by any official representatives, Aniston and longtime-paramour …
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Blood Boat: Inside a Florida Fight Club’s Quest for the High Seas | Rolling Stone
It was supposed to happen on the Blood Boat. Two cruises, departing June 3 and June 5. The Bimini SuperFast, three days round-trip, with a stop at a Bimini resort to gamble, to eat crabs or to contract them – the destination wasn’t the point, only t…
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Ryan Adams Recording Smiths-Style Covers LP of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ | Rolling Stone
Ryan Adams is a master of stripped-down, emotional covers, but he’s taking that mastery to a new level as he records covers of Taylor Swift’s smash album 1989 in its entirety and in the style of the Smiths.
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ISLA GRANDE DEL MAÍZ, NICARAGUA—Creeping stealthily into the bungalow where John Kerry lay sleeping after a trade summit Thursday, Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Santos López, illuminated only by a sliver of moon, reportedly slid open…
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One of the best things about light painting is how incredibly accessible it is! You don’t need a crazy camera, or insane lens, or expensive accessories.
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How New York Ended Up With 1.2 Million Open 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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Mandelbrot Plains 2 [2000×1500] [OC] : FractalPorn
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MRW I am the top comment on a post but all the replies are negative. : reactiongifs
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IBM Buying Merge Healthcare For $1B To Bring Medical Image Analysis To Watson Health | TechCrunch
IBM announced a huge deal today, agreeing to pay a billion dollars for Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging company it plans to fold into the Watson Health unit. Merge’s technology is in use in 7500 healthcare facilities in the US, according to infor…
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Bernie Sanders to Speak at Liberty University Convocation | Vanity Fair
Liberty University was founded by the Reverend Jerry Falwell Sr. in 1971.
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Turkish couple spent their wedding day feeding thousands of Syrian refugees
Weddings are complicated affairs, but one Turkish couple ditched the long to-do list—and even longer guest list—by spending their special day feeding several thousand people.
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Tesla’s Robotic Metal Snake Charger Is “For Realz” | TechCrunch
Tesla is coming off of a rough earnings day, but that didn’t stop the company from showing off some awesome stuff. Today, the company tweeted out a demo of something its founder and CEO Elon Musk has talked about before. At the time it sounded crazy…
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The Army Surgeon Who Jumped Out of a Plane at 40,000 Feet—For Science!
Sometimes progress requires huge risks. Just ask William Randolph “Randy” Lovelace II, who wanted to prove that an oxygen mask could protect pilots from blacking out at high altitudes when they bailed out of their planes.
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Nobody Expects an Exploding Manhole Cover — NYMag
On Tuesday, a woman had the misfortune of choosing the seat on the BX 11 bus in the Bronx that would soon be invaded by an exploding manhole cover while idling at a stop at 170th Street and Inwood Avenue.
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Microsoft Outlook For Apple Watch One-Ups Apple’s Native Email Client | TechCrunch
Microsoft Outlook is now a fully-featured Apple Watch app.
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New York City Outbreak: What Is Legionnaire’s Disease? – Scientific American
At least seven people in New York City have died and 86 have been infected in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. The illness can cause high fevers and pneumonia. But despite the current outbreak, most people in the region aren’t at any increased …
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‘Trans Broken Arm Syndrome’ and the way our healthcare system fails trans people
That’s the simple question at the heart of a complex issue dubbed “Trans Broken Arm Syndrome.” The term was coined by Naith Payton at British LGBT site Pink News on July 9 to describe when “healthcare providers assume that all medical issues are a r…
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Our First Look At Neil Gaiman’s Remastered Miracleman
Many comics legends have worked on Miracleman, but no run on the series is as fondly remembered as Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham’s, cut short before its time.
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Marco Rubio ‘Not Sure’ Congress Can Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal – The Atlantic
The Republican senator is “not sure” Congress can kill the agreement, which he dismisses as a “piece of paper” that Tehran will disregard and exploit.
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Pennsylvania attorney general charged in grand jury leak | US news | The Guardian
The state’s top prosecutor was charged on Thursday with leaking secret grand jury information and lying about her actions under oath.
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Russia destroys literally tons of fine cheese in the #Fromagicide
If Russian President Vladimir Putin’s record of military expansionism and human-rights abuses hasn’t convinced you of his curdled character, then maybe his wholesale destruction of delicious European cheeses with a bulldozer will. Good god, man! Th…
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor was charged Thursday with leaking secret grand jury information and lying about her actions under oath. In announcing the charges, the Montgomery County district attorney, Risa Vetri Ferman, said that …
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has toughened air travel requirements on foreign governments in response to what it believes is the growing threat from fighters who have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other gro…
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Deep Sea Electricity May Have Kickstarted Life On Our Planet
Curious about how life got started on Earth 3.
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One, two, Freddy’s coming for another Nightmare on Elm Street reboot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Freddy Krueger can’t be stopped. It doesn’t matter how many dream warriors, dream masters, dream children, and Jason Voorheeses you throw at him; he’ll just wait until you nod off in Algebra II.
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Why Chris Christie Hates Teachers
What was the most surprising thing about New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie’s recent remark that the “national teachers union” deserves a “punch in the face?” Certainly not that he made the remark.
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The Austrian National Library in Vienna [1039 x 769] : bookporn
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My cat sleeps in my pillow case under my pillow, she’s a strange one! : cats
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Lake Sorapis, Dolomiti, Italy [OC][768×1024] : EarthPorn
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everyone in the hospital is now dead : firstworldanarchists
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Jonathan Ferrell Is The Latest Victim Of The ‘Monster’ Attack | ThinkProgress
Nearly two years after he was shot 10 times by a police officer while seeking help after a car crash, Jonathan Ferrell just became the latest victim of the smear tactic playbook.
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Anna Kendrick Says Sorry with Diamonds | Vanity Fair
Anna Kendrick, Oscar-nominated Pitch Perfect star (though, not nominated for Pitch Perfect), often seems like just a regular gal. She posts silly, self-effacing things on Twitter, she does goofy things on talk shows.
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Idaho’s ‘Ag-Gag’ Law Criminalizes Muckrackers, So a Federal Judge Struck It Down | VICE News
A federal judge in Boise, Idaho, ruled on Monday that the state’s so-called “ag-gag” law violates the United States Constitution, the first time that has happened to this kind of statute.
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Ribbiting news: frogs’ poison spines revealed and new species discovered | Science | The Guardian
Many of world’s frogs may be at risk of extinction, but something new always hops up in the amphibian world.
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Malaysian Airlines Mystery: Newfound Wing Debris Is from MH370 – Scientific American
In this photo dated Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island.
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Femsplain Rolls Out A Community Platform For Feminists | TechCrunch
Femsplain bills itself as a “community-driven publisher,” and it’s looking to build that community with a new initiative called Femsplain Beta.
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Listen to Elon Musk’s Awkward Silence After A Question About Tesla’s Self-Driving Fleet | TechCrunch
Yesterday on Tesla’s earnings call, Adam Jonas, an analyst from Morgan Stanley, asked Elon Musk about the company’s future plans to either sell cars to Uber (prompted by Travis Kalanick’s recent remarks), or develop their own autonomous transportati…
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In Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis, who has been married four times, has been under fire for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs.
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A small intelligent orb that guesses what object you are thinking of in 20 questions – Boing Boing
This tennis ball-size orb knows what you are thinking. Most of the time it will guess what you have in mind after asking you twenty yes/no questions. It is eerily smart, and slightly addictive. The toy is remarkable.
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Dashcam Video of Cop Killing Black Man Seeking Help After Car Crash Shown at Trial | VICE News
A panel of jurors in the voluntary manslaughter trial of a police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man in Charlotte, North Carolina, has viewed dashcam video of the incident in the courtroom, after a judge allowed video evidence …
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Dog Owner Who Buried Pet Alive in France Is Arrested After Online Outrage | VICE News
Pitiful images of a dog buried alive and left to die have sparked a furious response online and led to the arrest of a man in France. After the pictures of the French mastiff were rapidly circulated online, police confirmed on Wednesday that her own…
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The Contender is like Cards Against Humanity for political debates
Just as Cards Against Humanity revolutionized Apples to Apples, a new game is revolutionizing Cards Against Humanity by sprinkling in classic political tropes to build a world of hilarious debate possibilities.
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Dog Owner Who Buried Pet Alive Is Arrested After Online Outrage | VICE News
Pitiful images of a dog buried alive and left to die have sparked a furious response online and led to the arrest of a man in France. After the pictures of the French mastiff were rapidly circulated online, police confirmed on Wednesday that her own…
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Egypt calls Suez extension ‘a miracle and its gift to the world’ – BBC News
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi travelled on board a historic yacht alongside foreign leaders. It has been marked by a day of celebration across Egypt but there have been criticisms over the economic rationale behind the expansion.
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This Mathematical Riddle Explains All We Know of the Father of Algebra
Diophantes was a Hellenistic Greek mathematician who lived around 200 AD. His claim to fame comes from substituting symbols for numbers and operations in equations, thus creating algebra, but everything else we know about his life comes from a singl…
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Tech Trends reporter Aaron Vaughn takes a look at Green Forward, a startup creating new green technology for Americans to blindly disregard.
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The Fair Housing Failure—Where Even the Liberal North Whistles Dixie
In 2006, a civil-rights lawyer named Craig Gurian filed suit against Westchester County, New York, charging that the affluent county just north of the Bronx had been engaging in exclusionary housing practices that prevented people of color from movi…
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Onion Explains: The Totalitarian State Of North Korea – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
How is secretive totalitarian government of the Hermit Kingdom operated? The Onion explains North Korea.
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Eastern Black Rhinoceros [2048 x 1366] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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Snowdonia, Wales. View from Y Garn [OC] [3715×2089] : EarthPorn
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Like a small cat leopard : cats
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The boss this morning. : AdviceAnimals
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the bus – Paul Kirchner : woahdude
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SeaWorld sees profits plunge 84% as customers desert controversial park | US news | The Guardian
SeaWorld has suffered a 84% collapse in profits as customers have deserted the controversial aquatic theme park company following claims it mistreated orca whales.
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The Trump effect: immigration remarks push GOP contenders sharply right | US news | The Guardian
Before Donald Trump walks on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland for the first Republican presidential debate tonight, he will have already succeeded in wielding a dramatic – and some believe potentially fatal – impact on his party and the…
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Donald Trumps’ White House Ballroom – The Atlantic
Five years ago, the real-estate developer turned presidential candidate offered an unsolicited donation, and along with it, a hint about his priorities. What would Donald Trump do if elected president?
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Dinner Lab Raises A $7M Series A To Expand Its Social Dining Club | TechCrunch
Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives you access to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River Capital. The company also received follow-up funding fr…
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Twitter’s Quest to Be the Way We Yell at Customer Service | WIRED
Pop quiz: You’re on a layover between Houston and New York, and your airline cancels the connecting flight because of “weather.” It’s sunny out. Every other passenger just lined up in front of the only gate agent. You pull out your smartphone, and s…
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Box Metadata Update Part Of Broader Strategy To Attract Large Customers | TechCrunch
Box announced a major update to its metadata feature today, a move that is part of a broader strategy to attract and keep larger customers.
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GameOn rallies sports fans with news, stickers and trash talk
Sports fan culture is binary: either you get it or you don’t. For those willing to go down the rabbit hole for their favorite sport or local team, there’s endless amounts of blogs, publications, columns and hot takes to sink your teeth into.
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Theresa Burroughs came of voting age in the late 1940s and was ready to cast her ballot. During the Jim Crow era in the rural South, however, the board of registrars at Alabama’s Hale County Courthouse prevented African Americans from registering to…
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Venomous frogs use toxic face spines as weapons | @GrrlScientist | Science | The Guardian
It’s common knowledge that some frogs secrete toxins from special glands in their skin. But according to a paper published today in Current Biology, an international team of researchers report for the first time ever that two frog species are actual…
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‘The Daily Show’ is donating Jon Stewart’s iconic set to the Newseum
Jon Stewart might dismiss the idea that he’s a newsman, but his set is headed to the museum of news anyway. The Newseum, a museum about journalism in Washington, D.C., announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Stewart’s iconic Daily Show set after hi…
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US offers $5m reward for Mexico drug lord Guzman – BBC News
The US government is offering a reward of $5m (£3.2m) for information leading to the capture of fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman. Guzman escaped from a Mexican maximum-security jail on 22 July.
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Fulfilling a quest that’s been years in the making, U2 has finally made an appearance on the U Talkin’ U2 To Me podcast hosted by Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott.
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Baltimore firm accused of cutting corners on police psych evaluations | US news | The Guardian
A psychological firm paid to evaluate troubled Baltimore police, including a lieutenant charged in the killing of Freddie Gray, is under investigation by the city and has been put on probation by the state police for taking shortcuts in its mental h…
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Bin Laden plane crash: Jet issued six warning alerts – BBC News
An initial report into a plane crash that killed three members of the Bin Laden family stated the aircraft’s warning system issued six alerts. The aircraft had also overtaken a microlight before it landed and overshot the runway, the Air Accidents I…
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Is Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Running for President? – The Atlantic
The master of the macchiato denies he’s brewing up a presidential run, but in some ways he’s a natural candidate for the Democratic Party of 2016. You can imagine why Democrats might be jealous.
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Sky’s new £15 Now TV box is still the cheapest way to own a ‘Roku’
At the start of the year, Sky said it would launch a gutsier version of its first Now TV box, introduced back in 2013. Back then, it cost £10. This time around, it costs £15.
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HBO Now can stream to Chromecast starting today
If you’re a Chromecast owner that loves some ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Silicon Valley,’ you’re in for a treat: you can now stream HBO Now content to everyone’s favorite Google dongle.
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Psych Firm That Screens Baltimore Cops Reviewed | Al Jazeera America
A psychological firm paid to evaluate troubled Baltimore police, including a lieutenant charged in the killing of Freddie Gray, is under investigation by the city and has been put on probation by the state police for cutting corners in its mental he…
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Carrot’s smartass weather app comes to Mac
Carrot’s special brand of apps insult you to get fit, motivate you to do your task list or tell you the weather in unique ways. Now, the company is bringing Carrot Weather to the Mac for the first time.
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Purple winter night : Breathless
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Patar Beach, Pangasinan, Philippines via /r/Breathless http://t.co/rJiQ6m6Ev7 http://t.co/bCxCVeGqVQ
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New York City, summer of 1969 : OldSchoolCool
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Mikan + Apron [To LOVE Ru Darkness 2nd] : animegifs
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A whale fossil in Antarctica : pics
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kitten befriends cameraman : gifs
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Mom offers food to baby if he can say “mama,” hungry dog says it first – Boing Boing
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Robert Charles Wilson’s The Affinities: when science changes everything – Boing Boing
Being in an affinity is amazing. The affinities share an outlook and point of view, and have an instant rapport with one another.
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Sister of Jihadi Bride Speaks Out (Extra Scene from ‘Groomed By The Islamic State’) | VICE News
In February 2015, three teenage schoolgirls left the comfort of their homes in East London and traveled to Syria to join the self-styled Islamic State. Around 60 women and girls are thought to have made the same journey from Britain.
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Dangerous plant that can make you go blind spotted in Michigan – Boing Boing
Giant hogweed was introduced to the United States from Asia in 1917 as an ornamental plant. Pretty as it may be, it is more dangerous than poison ivy and can cause blindness if its sap finds its way into your eyes.
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The LA Times fired a journalist after cops told them he lied—but did they investigate? – Boing Boing
Ted Rall, a journalist and cartoonist often critical of police misconduct, was fired by the LA Times after the LAPD claimed he lied about a 2001 encounter with an officer.
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Why you should welcome the robots – Boing Boing
We chat with J-F Dubeau, author of The Life Engineered about why we should keep calm and build more robots. Also the good news of more Game of Thrones coming to TV thrilled the live audience at Nerdtacular 2015 as did our surprise host-swap!
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Lee Daniels wants Mariah Carey to join his Empire · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mariah Carey got a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame star Wednesday, and she got a bit of a bonus at the ceremony. The Associated Press reports that Lee Daniels—director of all things Lee Daniels, who sits atop an Empire—suggested that the singer-a…
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Google, Samsung, LG to Roll Out Regular Android Security Updates | WIRED
The Stagefright bug has quickly frightened cell phone manufacturers into action.
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The first Republican presidential primary debates will be broadcast on Fox News Thursday, and immigration reform is expected to be a key topic of debate.
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Clutter On-Demand Storage Service Expands To Bay Area, Raises $1.3 Million | TechCrunch
Clutter, the on-demand storage service based out of Los Angeles, has today announced that it has expanded its offering to cover all of the San Francisco Bay Area. The company also announced that it has raised an additional $1.3 million in funding, b…
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Raccoons have the most appalling table manners – Boing Boing
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Bride price practices in Africa – BBC News
Uganda’s top court has ruled that “bride price”, when a man pays his future wife’s family for her hand in marriage, is legal. But the judges have banned the practice of refunding the bride price on the dissolution of a marriage.
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Oral histories have become so culturally ubiquitous that NPR member station Nevada Public Radio has what may be an M.C. Escher-like first: An oral history of an oral history.
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Swedish pilot uses axe to open locked toilet door – BBC News
The man, who was in his 50s, locked the bathroom door 10 minutes before the Nextjet’s flight from Stockholm was due to land in the northern town of Ornskoldsvik on Wednesday. He was repeatedly asked to return to his allocated seat in order to comply…
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Have you heard of Dubai? Of course you have. It’s a cityscape photographer’s fantasy land that rivals New York or Hong Kong. And it’ll have you drooling over your gear before you even arrive.
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It was a cold case for more than three decades — a cold violin case — but now it has been closed.
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2015 is the year the old internet finally died – Vox
Here are five stories that couldn’t be more different but are, at their base, animated by the same basic fears.
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Online library of animal sounds
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has digitized their vast library of animal sounds, dating back to 1929, and made them available online. It took archivists a dozen years to complete the monumental task.
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Fathering http://t.co/s5CIjX3Gd8 http://t.co/sgQZ0yh0Pd
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3D brain map reveals connections between cells in nano-scale : dataisbeautiful
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View From Wilson Mesa, Ute Park, NM [OC] [4608 x 3456] : EarthPorn
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Javea Beach,Spain[OC][4272×2848] : seaporn
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Matches helping me through the tough times : funny
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NBA Champion And Finals MVP Andre Iguodala Will Speak At Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
The Golden State Warriors were the hometown favorite here in Silicon Valley during their championship run, so naturally we’re ecstatic to announce that NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala will be joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco to discuss t…
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Kristen Stewart pranks Jesse Eisenberg with sexist interview questions
In this “awkward” interview, the actors flip the script on typical interview questions aimed at male and female stars.
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IBDL Honoree Eddie Redmayne’s Freckles Are His Best Accessory | Vanity Fair
Eddie Redmayne can lay claim to many impressive distinctions: Academy Award-winning actor, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, ambassador of plaid. And now, for a second time, International Best-Dressed List honoree.
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Strange Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Pyramid Mountain | Video
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This Month on #maketechhuman: What is tech doing to our humanity? | WIRED
As technology becomes ubiquitous in our lives, these über-questions become all the more salient: Is all this tech dumbing us down, or accelerating and enriching the pace of learning? Is social media connecting us digitally but handicapping us emotio…
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Why There Aren’t Fully Operational Nanobots Just Yet – The Atlantic
Scientists have long said that tiny robots would soon be able to conduct surgery and deliver drugs deep inside the body. Here’s why they’re still not a reality. For years, the cutting edge of medicine has promised nanobots.
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White People Still Don’t Like Mayor de Blasio — NYMag
New Yorkers like Mayor de Blasio less than they used to, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. At 20 months into his term, 41 percent of voters want to see de Blasio reelected in 2017, while 47 percent don’t.
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Bill Cosby Ordered to Give Deposition in 1974 Sexual-Assault Case – The Atlantic
The comedian has been ordered to give sworn testimony in a lawsuit brought by a woman who says he forced her to perform a sexual act on him when she was 15. A California judge ruled Thursday that Bill Cosby must give sworn testimony on October 9.
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Women Really Don’t Notice Details About Your Penis
We’ve seen it in study after study: men worry about what their penis looks like. Is it too short? Too long? Too thin? Is the glans too fat? Will that birthmark be a deal breaker? Relax.
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Mike Huckabee Is Wrong: Iran Isn’t Nazi Germany – The Atlantic
The idea that Iranian leaders seek another Holocaust is at the emotional core of opposition to the nuclear deal. Is it true? Mike Huckabee’s sin was being too vivid.
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Youngbuck to coach Enemy through relegations
North American League Championship Series side Enemy Esports is bolstering itself ahead of its battle to stay in the LCS, bringing in former Copenhagen Wolves top lane player Joey “Youngbuck” Steltenpool.
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R. Crumb’s Vibrant, Over-the-Top Album Covers (1968-2004) | Open Culture
It is surprising to me, but a few people I’ve come across don’t know the name of cartoonist Robert Crumb, cult hero of underground comics and obscure Americana record collecting. On second thought, maybe this shouldn’t come as such a surprise.
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Thai Meth Epidemic and Vomit Rehab – YouTube
Thailand is in the midst of epidemic. Due to its affordability, ‘yaba’ has supplanted heroin as the golden triangle’s main product and now Thailand is dealing with a generation hooked on this new and dangerous form of meth. VICE Japan went to invest…
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Every Guest Jon Stewart Ever Had On ‘The Daily Show’ | FiveThirtyEight
An era is ending: “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” airs its last new episode tonight. This show has been on TV since I was 8 years old. I went to William & Mary, Stewart’s alma mater, and from the prospective students tour to the graduation walk, t…
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Every time I ask my husband for something. : TrollXChromosomes
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MRW people tell me Trump might actually win the election : reactiongifs
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Stormy Seas in Sagittarius
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — To the surprise of many who witnessed its incineration by an atomic bomb 70 years ago on Thursday, this city, like Japan itself, rebounded vigorously after World War II. The population, nearly halved by the new and terrifying Amer…
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NASA Camera Snaps Stunning View of Earth and Moon [Video] – Scientific American
The moon crosses Earth’s face in a spectacular new video captured by a spacecraft watching from a million miles away. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) studies the solar wind and snaps vivid shots of Earth’s surface from its position about…
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Ferguson’s radical knitters: fighting for justice, one purl at a time | US news | The Guardian
In a coffeehouse on the south side of St Louis, a group of women discuss how to knit, purl, and dismantle white supremacy. They are The Yarn Mission, a collective formed in October 2014 in response to the violence and police brutality in nearby Ferg…
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Truck Driver Wins Gubernatorial Primary — NYMag
On Tuesday night, Robert Gray’s mom called him and joked that she had voted for him in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Mississippi. She assumed she had just cast a ballot for someone with the same name as her son, according to The Clarion-Le…
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Senate Passes Commercial Space Bill
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved a bill Aug. 4 that extends two key provisions of commercial launch law as well as authorizes operations of the International Space Station beyond 2020, but the bill will have to be reconciled with a House bill t…
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Ask a Forensics Expert All Your Questions About Working on a Body Farm
How do forensics experts know what they know? A lot of it is due to research done on body farms, research facilities that examine how bodies decompose. Today, forensic anthropologist Dawnie Steadman, the director of the nation’s oldest body farm, is…
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Poll shows significant support for Deez Nuts in 2016 election
Not only is a vulgar Internet meme running in the 2016 presidential election, it’s outperforming many other major candidates. Mr. Nuts is running as an independent, throwing his hat in the ring from Wallingford, Iowa, a rural community of 197 people…
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All These Fires Are Burning Through Firefighters’ Budgets | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The whole west is freckled with fires. And in between each fire, the land is dry and hot as hell. As of yesterday, six million acres of US land has caught fire in 2015. But it’s not the burning land th…
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Democratic primary debate schedule criticized as Clinton ‘coronation’ | US news | The Guardian
On the eve of the first of at least nine Republican presidential debates on Thursday, the Democratic National Committee announced their debate schedule for their 2016 presidential primary. The Guardian has learned that the first debates will be held…
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“The Farnsworth Parabox” · Futurama · TV Review · The A.V. Club
In which one of these things is not like the other or the other or the other or… I love it when Futurama plays games.
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The Craziest Cosplay from Gen Con 2015!
The biggest tabletop gaming convention in North America keeps setting attendance records, and cosplayers show up in full force.
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HONG KONG — For many relatives of the 239 people who were on the Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished 17 months ago, there was little or no solace
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Senate Republicans try to gut Wall Street reform, Obama administration strikes back
Donovan’s letter reflects this year’s more proactive Obama administration response to GOP budgeting, aimed at fighting off ideological riders and deep funding cuts.
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Kerry Says Accord Reached With Russia on Syria | Al Jazeera America
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he hopes an agreement reached with Russia to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria will hold the perpetrators accountable.
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CLEVELAND — Just over 24 hours before the first Republican primary debate here, more than a dozen Fox News executives and producers gathered Wedn
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Fox and Friends : Longreads Blog
The hounds of Shakerag Hounds, the oldest mounted fox hunt in the state of Georgia, are trained as pups to heed every note of their huntsman’s horn.
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Obama: ‘There are still to many barrier too vote’ | TheHill
President Obama on Thursday fired up his supporters ahead of the first Republican presidential debate, defending the Voting Rights Act on its 50th anniversary.
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3D printing could lead industrial revolution in Togo – BBC News
In Africa, some say that the 3D printer could bring a new industrial revolution, allowing goods to be made with less dependence on imported commodities. For the past three years, in Lome, the capital of Togo, members of a small and innovative commun…
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Philip Kaplan’s startup, the DistroKid, has had it’s first major success story. The hip hop group Jack & Jack have hit #12 on the Billboard Top 200, a first for an indie group. I asked Kaplan about how to make a band successful in the Internet age a…
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Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. at the Scene of the Historic Duel | Vanity Fair
There’s a big, rusty-colored rock in Weehawken. It’s protected by a locked fence, behind a pillar holding up a bust of Alexander Hamilton.
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Gone with the Wind: Plant Seed Dispersal – Scientific American
Scattering seeds! Learn how some of the most fun seeds of summer travel so well on the breeze. Can you design a seed that scatters well with the wind?
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George Holz, Photographer of the Stars, Looks Back at 30 Years | Vanity Fair
One day in 1991, photographer and angling enthusiast George Holz went fly-fishing on the Gallatin River in Montana with a young and relatively unknown Brad Pitt, who would soon star in the film adaptation of Norman Maclean’s ode to the pastime, A Ri…
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The Runner · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Nicolas Cage has spent much of his post-stardom exile in Louisiana, where it sometimes seems as if he’ll appear in any movie willing to redeem the state’s tax credits and set up camp within a 10-minute drive of whatever haunted mansions Cage may or …
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HBO NOW Adds Support For Google’s Chromecast | TechCrunch
HBO’s over-the-top streaming service may not be making money just yet, but it is rapidly expanding its footprint.
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Beyoncé masters the elements in amazing ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ remix
We already knew that Beyoncé was the queen of pop music—but it turns out she’s also master of all four elements and defender of the world. In this amazing mashup from Tumblr user flawlessvevo, Bey gets the Avatar: The Last Airbender treatment.
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Rory McIlroy has continued to fuel speculation about his return to action by posting a video of himself driving a ball. Accompanied with the message, “Feels good to hit the driver again!”, McIlroy shared a short clip on his Instagram account of him …
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Shemara, the Yacht with Old Hollywood Glamour | Vanity Fair
The newly renovated 65-meter Shemara is one of the prettiest private yachts that boat folk are clamoring to charter this summer. Interiors, by Ilse Crawford, include eight cabins, four decks, two saloons, and a Hollywood-worthy grand staircase.
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MH370 relatives: ‘One piece of wreckage does not mean anything’ – BBC News
Some relatives of those who were on board flight MH370 are angry at the government’s confirmation that the piece of wreckage found on Reunion island is from the plane. Many refuse to believe it, saying the decision has been made too quickly on too l…
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The first Republican debate will air on Fox News tonight at 9 pm. (A separate debates of candidates who did not make the top 10 in recent polls will air at 5PM.) The moderators are Fox hosts Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: The Buried Life, Wilfred, and More
The Buried Life is a former io9 Must-Read, and you can snag a Kindle copy for just $2 today. More Dealshttp://deals.kinja.com/todays-best-de…
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Jon Stewart Remembered on ‘Daily Show’: ‘A Man Who Was on TV’ | Rolling Stone
Before Jon Stewart signs off as host of The Daily Show for the last time Thursday night, his latest team of crack correspondents interrupted his impromptu game of five-finger fillet to present a poignant, moving tribute, “A Man Who Was on TV.
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You have to hear Chris Farley’s Shrek voice to believe it
Fans saw just how different a movie Shrek might’ve been after audio from one of Chris Farley’s recordings surfaced online. It’s hard to imagine the film (and its many sequels) without Mike Myers behind the lovable ogre, but he wasn’t the original ch…
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The Reign of Archie Continues as Adam McKay Takes the Comic to Broadway
Not content with a new TV series on the CW, a newly redesigned and shockingly excellent comic relaunch, fighting zombies, Predators and Sharknados, and all the other ways he and his Riverdale pals are conquering the entertainment world, Archie will …
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 6th – The New Yorker
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Watch Jon Stewart ‘Eviscerate’ Years of ‘Daily Show’ Eviscerations | Rolling Stone
Jon Stewart opened his penultimate Daily Show with a moment of reflection, waxing nostalgic on the multitudes of headlines he’s garnered over the years proclaiming his glorious eviscerations of issues, pundits and politicians.
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Murders in Mexico City Are Solved Quickly and Conveniently | The Nation
On July 31, Rubén Espinosa, a prominent Mexican photojournalist who covered social movements, and Nadia Vera Pérez, a 32-year-old activist, along with three other people—Yesenia Quiroz, an 18-year-old student from Mexicali, and two other unnamed wom…
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Run the Jewels on Ferguson: ‘Riots Work’ | Rolling Stone
Run the Jewels on Ferguson: ‘Riots Work’ “Post-riots, [Ferguson has] two new black city council members,” Killer Mike says.
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Comedians Debate: Is Amy Schumer’s ‘Trainwreck’ Sexist, or the New Feminism? | The Nation
It’s hard to watch TV, go online, or even leave the house without encountering the deceptively cherubic face of comedian and filmmaker Amy Schumer. Sketches from her Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer, are viral sensations; her HBO standup spec…
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American Democracy Has to Do Better Than This | The Nation
The horse race started earlier this time, and political reporters are having a good time keeping up with the goofiness. On the right, sixteen wannabes are prancing around the paddock. On the left, the Clinton dynasty claims the throne as rightful in…
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The Milky Way’s of the Early Universe –“Existed 500 Years After the Big Bang”
“It’s awe inspiring to think that galaxies much like our own existed when the universe was so young,” said Tiziana Di Matteo, professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon.
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For a More Substantive Republican Debate, Ask Tougher Questions | The Nation
Donald Trump will debut his latest television project Thursday. The former host of “The Apprentice” will be featured in his new role as a trash-talking presidential candidate who identifies the weaknesses of contenders for the Republican Party’s 201…
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Drones Are Delivering Contraband To Prisons | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
A drone transported nearly half a pound of drugs into an Ohio prison on July 29, sparking a fight among inmates. Unknown parties coordinated the drop and flew the drone into a prison yard at the Mansfield Correctional Institute.
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Banff, Alberta in the 1950’s : Breathless
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One True God blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/uEt3zFyA8R http://t.co/KaT74LsIyN
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Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue – YouTube
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Cecil the Lion researcher opposes hunt ban – BBC News
The Zimbabwean researcher who followed Cecil the lion for nine years, and was the one who discovered he had been killed, says he opposes a ban on hunting.
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Get Your Free Tacos Tonight, Courtesy of Donald Trump | WIRED
If you weren’t planning on watching the Republican debates tonight, perhaps this will convince you to reconsider. Food delivery startup Eat24 is launching a very special debate night promotion: every time Donald Trump says “Mexico,” you get a free t…
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Palestinians bid Jon Stewart a fond farewell – Al Jazeera English
Apart from the constant aerial bombardments and denials of our rights by Israel, we Palestinians have been victims of another major global force: the American news media. Misrepresentations of our history, our struggle, and our narrative have been t…
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Cecil the Lion bronze statue planned, says wildlife group – BBC News
Cecil the lion, whose death at the hands of hunters in Zimbabwe prompted worldwide outrage, may be commemorated by a bronze statue at the entrance to the park where he lived. Cecil was shot in July by US dentist Walter Palmer. Zimbabwe is seeking hi…
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George RR Martin visits New York Jets training camp | Sport | The Guardian
George RR Martin went to the Jets training camp on Wednesday, and everyone who is into Game of Thrones and science fiction and the Jets and the NFL was very excited. Jokes about fantasy football were up 987% on the day. George R.R. Martin poses with…
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The trials of the celebrity juror – BBC News
Former President George W Bush appeared for jury duty at a Dallas courthouse on Wednesday, prompting excitement amongst fellow jurors.
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Tinder and Hookup-Culture Promotion | Vanity Fair
It’s a balmy night in Manhattan’s financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering. The tables are filled with young women and men who’ve been chasing money and deals on Wall Street all day, and now they’re out looking for…
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Number 8 birdshot, like Merideth used, is a good start, but you can go further; the higher the better. Number 10 birdshot will net you around 1,000 tiny pellets per 1 oz. cartridge. Number 12 birdshot (which tends to be harder to find) has as many a…
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Emerging Galaxy Observed –“Feeding On Cool Primordial Gas Tracing Back to the Big Bang”
A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away–a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.
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Dark Energy and Dark Matter : space
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“No, I didn’t take your chair” : cats
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This is Tucson right now. : pics
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An architect in his office, 1988. : OldSchoolCool
An architect in his office, 1988. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/GvCDwn7oDj http://t.co/WiMVpuum7X
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HMB So I Can Give This Car A Push : holdmybeer
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Sculpting glove prototype combines mechanics and hand-sculpting – Boing Boing
Morten Grønning has been experimenting with gloves fitted with small motorized sanders, and it seems it has some potential for new ways to shape materials as it gets more refined.
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Women engineers refute sexism with #iLookLikeAnEngineer campaign – Boing Boing
After Engineer Isis Wenger at OneLogin appeared in a recruiting ad, sexist comments about her appearance (e.g., “you don’t look like an engineer”) inspired the hashtag #iLookLikeAnEngineer. You can sign up for updates at iLookLikeAnEngineer.com.
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Jim Henson vs. Stan Lee rap battle – Boing Boing
Henson and Lee battle to a place of grudging respect till spoiler Walt Disney shows up and (literally) owns them both. Fun fact: Disney also owns Maker Studios, producer of Epic Rap Battles of History. Disclosure: I do work for Disney because it’s a…
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Self-defense umbrella given out to women in India – Boing Boing
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. Married women, living alone, face a greater risk of being attacked when they go to collect remittances from their husbands who work abroad.
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Snobswap Raises A Million To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Consignment Shops Online | TechCrunch
A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.
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Olympics Loser Boston Wins Big Economically – Scientific American
For the last couple of years, some interested parties in Boston have been trying to get their city to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Mayor Marty Walsh was among them. But on July 27th, the mayor suddenly reversed course.
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Last week, Kenya’s highly respected auditor general, Edward Ouko, released an annual audit of government accounts. An uproar immediately followed as the scale of mismanagement of public funds became clear. Only 1.2% of the country’s 2013-14 $10bn (£…
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China plans to put police offices inside major Internet companies
China is tightening its grip on the Internet even further—but this time, it’s doing it offline.
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Call Me Lucky · Film Review · The A.V. Club
If it accomplishes nothing else, the new documentary Call Me Lucky should bring some welcome attention to a man who’s been under the radar for the past few decades, mostly by his own design.
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Natalie Portman Is Happy She Could Drink Freely When She Was Younger | Vanity Fair
In this age of Periscopes and Thoroughfares (we know Thoroughfare isn’t an actual app; just sounded right to us there), it can be pretty tricky for up-and-coming celebrities to navigate their public and private personas.
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mr skeltal modeling for a mixtape cover : ledootgeneration
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MRW I see a blatant repost on the frontpage : reactiongifs
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Nudibranch by rafi amar / 500px
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Stormy Seas in Sagittarius | NASA
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You can always trust the newspapers for facts. – Imgur
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A chunk of iceberg rising from the water : NatureGifs
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May I present to you, the beautiful and rare Dogtopus : aww
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Cats falling in love! I think my cat is gay…! : cats
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Pornhub Launches An Unlimited Streaming Service, Pornhub Premium | TechCrunch
It’s been generally accepted since the days of the 9600 baud modem that all Internet porn should be free. However, with the rise high quality video and new streaming systems, we can change that universal truth to “all bad porn on the Internet is sup…
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W. E. B. Du Bois: A Black Schoolmaster in the Post-Antebellum South South – The Atlantic
W. E. B. Du Bois’ 1899 account as a young, black schoolmaster in the South Once upon a time I taught school in the hills of Tennessee, where the broad dark vale of the Mississippi begins to roll and crumple to greet the Alleghanies.
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Alex de Campi tells us why horror fans make the best comics readers
De Campi, who worked on last year’s Friendship is Magic tie-in for IGW, pulls out her phone to show me what she’s been doodling—a My Little Pony Predator pony.
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‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ gets the academic treatment on Tumblr
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and will make you think critically about the societal issues that plague Bikini Bottom? SpongeBob SquarePants, star of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The real problem with blaming mass shootings on mental illness
It doesn’t matter if James Holmes is mentally ill. That’s what a jury determined this week while deliberating the case of the Aurora shooter.
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Sketchbook: New Yorkers Carrying Way Too Much Stuff in Tote Bags | Vanity Fair
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Bumpy Black Hole X-Rays May Push the Limits of Einstein’s Relativity – Scientific American
In the century since Albert Einstein proposed his theory of general relativity physicists have put it through the wringer with extensive experimental tests—and it has withstood them all. But these experiments were conducted in environments of relati…
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The numbers are stunning: From 2007 through 2014, women made up only 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing fictional films released in the United States. That’s bad enough to repeat: For every 2.
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The Big Question from the Aspen Ideas Festival: Can Technology Help Us Learn Better? – The Atlantic
At this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, engineers, designers, and journalists how tech has changed the ways we absorb information—if at all. “I think a big change is just the accessibility,” says Khan Academy curriculum …
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Perhaps more than any year in the last 40, 1981 was the nadir of American style. The ’70s of breezy feathered hair and brazen disco sexuality were over, but the adrenalized’80s look, marked by angular haircuts and eye-popping MTV colors, had not qui…
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Bonobos Make Sounds Like Human Infants – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Download a tiny executable poem about feeling sorry for robots – Offworld
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Number and Size of Swiss Cheese Holes Can Be Programmed – Scientific American
About two decades ago Swiss geneticists were trying to figure out how a few vital genes exerted master control over the development of fruit flies. In the course of their work, they managed to get a fly to grow numerous eyes all over its body.
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UK govt wants your opinion on sending file-sharers to jail for 10 years – Boing Boing
Jim from Open Rights Group writes, “Should file-sharers be threatened with up to 10 years in prison? The UK’s Intellectual Property Office are consulting on this idea.”
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BuzzTime Restaurant Entertainment System Launches Payments Functionality | TechCrunch
NTN BuzzTime, the service that puts trivia games and entertainment in the palm of restaurant diners and bar patrons hands, has today announced the ability to pay their bill through the BuzzTime tablets.
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Warning after security experts hack Tesla car – BBC News
Tesla has issued a software update for its model S car after two researchers found a way to subvert its onboard systems. It is the second time in a month that a car maker has had to act to solve security problems with its vehicles uncovered by hacke…
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Washington’s Yakima Valley produces more than $1.2bn dollars annually in produce, but drought and broad dysfunction in a federally run irrigation project is damaging crops and jeopardizing agricultural businesses.
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Modem Butterfly? New opera to tell life story of Steve Jobs | Music | The Guardian
He is already the subject of two feature films and a bestselling biography, but the ongoing lionisation of Steve Jobs is about to get rather more highbrow, as an opera about his life is announced.
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Gawker The Debasing Race: Meet the Fox News GOP Debate Contestants | Jalopnik New Documents Found Pointing To Japan’s WWII Atomic Bomb Program | Kotaku Pixel Art Game Will Teach You Pixel Art | Lifehacker The Earthbound Desktop |
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The Rubbernecking Liberal’s Guide to Hate-Watching the GOP Debate | Vanity Fair
On Thursday night at nine P.M. Eastern time, America will sit down to watch the first clash between the G.O.P. presidential candidates—at least, the ones that Fox deemed worthy enough to join the debate.
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Stradivarius stolen from NPR reporter’s father in 1980 found in locked case | US news | The Guardian
A Stradivarius violin that disappeared without a trace in 1980 has been recovered after more than three decades and will be returned to the family of late violinist Roman Totenberg, according to his daughters.
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The Trump Campaign Has Descended Into Civil War — NYMag
No matter what happens when Donald Trump takes center stage at the prime-time Republican debate tonight on Fox News, he can already claim at least one victory: The 2016 GOP primary has been all about him.
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Fast-growing fish species face greatest collapse risk – BBC News
A study of global fish populations has suggested fast-growth fish species are more vulnerable to population collapses than previously thought.It had been assumed that life under the waves reflected life on land and that slow-growing species were mos…
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America is on the wrong side of history | Business | The Guardian
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development recently convened in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The conference came at a time when developing countries and emerging markets have demonstrated their ability to absorb huge amounts…
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There’s a new 500px iOS app in town, and it’s about to totally revolutionize how you experience the 500px community on-the-go.
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Texas’s Gratuitously Cruel Attack On A Dying Gay Man | ThinkProgress
Half a year ago, John Allen Stone-Hoskins returned home to discover that his husband had hung himself, a tragedy that may have occurred after a medication that Stone-Hoskins’s husband James was taking triggered a psychotic episode.
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Bonobos Make Sounds Like Human Infants – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Though many species of apes only vocalize to express their emotional state, researchers have found that the bonobo species native to Congo made “peep” sounds unrelated to specific objectives or emotions, much like human infants engage in babbling. W…
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Stay secure online with a lifetime of TigerVPN
If you want to stay private and secure online, using a Virtual Private Network is essential in today’s hacker-heavy world. The unlimited bandwidth of TigerVPN Lite means the protection doesn’t affect your browsing preferences and routines.
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Chris Farley as Shrek (1997 Story Reel) [LOST MEDIA] – YouTube
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As the Voting Rights Act turns 50, it’s time for a fundamentally new approach to voting rights
After decades of struggle against the tyranny of institutional racism, the civil rights movement led by luminaries such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. finally achieved its most critical victory.
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Taylor Swift’s 12 Best Outfits from the 1989 World Tour | Vanity Fair
1/12Decked out head-to-toe in all-black and all-sequin everything
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Jon Stewart’s Greatest Legacy | Vanity Fair
I once asked Stephen Colbert what I should some day tell my hypothetical grandchildren about attending his and Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, in 2010.
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Watch Metallica Rock Lollapalooza With Three Crushing Songs | Rolling Stone
Metallica returned to the Lollapalooza stage for the first time in nearly two decades this past weekend to play a crushing set that Rolling Stone declared the fest’s “Best Return.
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500px overhauls its iOS app to enhance photo display and discovery
500px, the community for discovering, sharing, buying and selling photography, has launched a fresh redesign of its iOS app.
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Revolution on Broadway: Inside Hip-Hop History Musical ‘Hamilton’ | Rolling Stone
“I feel about 100 pounds lighter!” says Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Signily lets you use sign language on iOS
When it comes to communicating on mobile for Deaf people, sign language isn’t really an option unless using video messages. That’s about to change with the release of Signily, a sign language keyboard app for iOS (coming soon to Android).
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How Jon Stewart Changed the Way We Talk About Politics on TV | Rolling Stone
It’s safe to say that, 17 years ago, The Daily Show was a fledgling show. “Daily satiric news anchor” was not a job. And Jon Stewart was just a stand-up comic and occasional actor, not yet the comedy nerd/political junkie’s lord and savior.
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Donald Trump’s Six Stages of Doom | FiveThirtyEight
The recent polling surge by Donald Trump has launched a thousand stories about Trump’s “unprecedented campaign.
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Busta Rhymes Arrested for Throwing Protein Drink | Rolling Stone
Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged with assault after allegedly throwing a protein drink at a gym employee’s head during an incident at a New York City gym on Wednesday night. Rhymes was released from custody early Thursday morning and ordered to…
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Killer Heat Grows Hotter around the World – Scientific American
Millions of people around the world are experiencing a scorching summer, as records are broken and thermostats climb this week in parts of Europe. Temperatures in Paris and Brussels exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit at a time of year when 70-degree wea…
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Islamic State Seizes Key Town in Central Syria | VICE News
Militants belonging to the so-called Islamic State (IS) have seized control of a key town in central Syria after violent clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad.
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Shallow Fracking Wells May Threaten Aquifers – Scientific American
Several thousand near-surface hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations for oil and natural gas production in the U.S. pose a potentially significant risk of contaminating drinking water sources, according to a new analysis.
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They Began a New Era by James Salter | The New York Review of Books
The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, come down to us in photographs as somewhat stiff, unromantic figures in dark jackets and white shirts, often with hats. They were not twins—Wilbur was four years older—but they were remarkably similar in thei…
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Psychologists Urge People With Low Self-Esteem to Watch G.O.P. Debate – The New Yorker
MINNESOTA (The Borowitz Report)—Psychologists at the University of Minnesota have issued a research study recommending that people suffering from low self-esteem watch Thursday night’s nationally televised Republican debate.
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In August of 1946, the New Yorker dedicated an entire issue to a piece called Hiroshima by John Hersey. As an introduction, the editors wrote: TO OUR READERS.
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The Tale of a Thousand El Chapo Escape Theories — NYMag
The State Department announced yesterday that it is offering $5 million for any information on Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the drug kingpin who escaped from a Mexican maximum-security prison last month.
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When I first saw coverage of the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, it affected me at a physiological level – I remember being sickened and made cold by what I had seen.
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When you get Chromozoned – Imgur
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The Relevance http://t.co/5WgDXb2jdj http://t.co/sVVyeafVtz
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Ed, Edd & Eddy http://t.co/cGFtUBBi5D http://t.co/EFe1xJBah2
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Sunset on the beach : Breathless
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She knows she looks good. : aww
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Find Alpine road cycling tough? Imagine doing it with one leg | Environment | The Guardian
At first I wasn’t sure if my eyes were seeing correctly. I rubbed them, not merely because sweat was pouring in during a long, steep climb up Italy’s challenging, dramatic Passo di Pordoi in 2014, but because of the cyclist ahead of me.
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Congress Had a Crazy Plan for Nation-Wide On-Demand Rainstorms
You have to love the optimism of the 1800s. There was nothing people thought they couldn’t do, including irrigating the entire United States by strategically setting fire to parts of it. For three decades in the 1800s, the United States government t…
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20 Minutes of Kite Flying Time Collapsed: San Diego Study #6 on Vimeo
This was shot on June 28, 2015 in an area of San Diego County called the Tijuana Slough. It is the most southwestern corner of the continental U.S. where the U.S. meets Baja Mexico. The landmass in the bottom left of the frame is a neighborhood of T…
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Hiroshima remembered as lanterns light up the night – BBC News
Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft. People across the country observed a minute’s silence at the exact time an American aircraft dropped the bomb…
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California firefighters gain ground against blaze after thousands evacuated | US news | The Guardian
Backed by important firefighting resources, crews are gaining ground against a northern California blaze that has destroyed numerous buildings and driven thousands of people from their homes, officials said.
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Bernie Sanders Accepts Invitation To Speak At Liberty University | ThinkProgress
Democratic presidential candidate and self-described Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has announced that he will be a convocation speaker at Liberty University, a conservative Christian school deeply influential among Republicans.
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Murray’s US Open preparations hit by second-round loss – Al Jazeera English
Andy Murray’s preparations for the US Open got off to a poor start when the Briton suffered a stunning 6-4 4-6 7-6 loss to unseeded Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili in the second round of the Citi Open in Washington.
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Cop Car · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Truth in advertising: Cop Car is almost entirely about a cop car.
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What turns a person into a sustainability crusader? Author and professor Steve Schein wanted to know, so he interviewed corporate sustainability executives – people who have dedicated their careers to doing business better – to find out what makes t…
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New York prison escapee was drunk when he was fatally shot in forest | US news | The Guardian
Toxicology tests show a convicted killer who escaped from prison and was on the loose for three weeks was drunk when he was fatally shot by border patrol agents who tracked him down in a forest, authorities said Wednesday.
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For every cigarette you smoke… : funny
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JAWS by Masahiro Hasegawa / 500px
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title[782×818] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/skrPzqoUKP http://t.co/mDahmZMyXg
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Uganda bride price refund outlawed by top judges – BBC News
Uganda’s Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of refunding a bride price, or dowry, on the dissolution of a customary marriage is unconstitutional and should be banned. The judges said it suggested that women were in a market place, and infring…
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Boy, 11, charged with manslaughter over US child’s shooting – BBC News
An 11-year-old boy has been charged with manslaughter, accused of using his father’s gun to shoot a three-year-old boy in Detroit, US media reports. The boy was visiting his father in the east of the city on Monday when he took a handgun from the be…
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The Shark Fishermen of New England – The New Yorker
Ever since Steven Spielberg set a shark fin gliding through the waters of a fictional New England town, Martha’s Vineyard has become irrevocably associated with the movie “Jaws.
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Morning Digest: Florida’s proposed new congressional map is better, but a far cry from equal
• FL Redistricting: On Wednesday, Florida Republicans released a proposed new congressional map to comply with the state Supreme Court’s ruling that invalidated the current lines as unconstitutional.
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New Proof That Birth Control Pills Can Help Save Women’s Lives | ThinkProgress
The birth control pill has prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of endometrial cancer, and can help reduce women’s risk of developing cancer even long after they stop using it, according to a new research that analyzes data collected between 196…
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Donald Sterling files for divorce as Clippers ownership battle rumbles on | Sport | The Guardian
The former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling filed for divorce from his wife of nearly 60 years on Wednesday as he continues to battle her over ownership of the team. Sterling, 81, cited irreconcilable differences in paperwork submitted to the Los A…
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Today in Washington D.C., a coalition of lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, non-profits and others (including Fundera and Funding Circle) have introduced the “Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights,” aimed at eliminating predatory lending to s…
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25-year-old turns advanced cancer diagnosis into blog hilarity
Young and overworked but otherwise in perfect health, John Underwood had every reason to think his girlfriend was just being dramatic when she insisted he might have cancer—until he nearly collapsed on a London Underground train.
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Two of Trig’s Hearthstone players are leaving the team a day after reports surfaced that they are owed $6,000 each in unpaid salaries. Harald “Powder” Gimre and Jan “Faramir” Engelmann will announce today that they are no longer competing under Trig…
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Sirens blare. There’s a constant thunking sound from every corner of the room. “We’ve got a missing player!” booms a voice from overhead. From the distance, a man screams as if he’s being tortured: “I didn’t even get a chance to hit it!”
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Arby’s bought ad time during ‘The Daily Show’ to thank Jon Stewart for all his jabs
Out of all the things Jon Stewart has eviscerated over the past 16 years, it’s his eternal nemesis Arby’s that will miss him the most.
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1920’s Speed Limit Sign : OldSchoolCool
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/97TfMo8YF6 http://t.co/DXWXRQhZtE
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/dhxRY0j9Gk http://t.co/HLFMouY1Zj
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From Above, Solar Farms Look Like Tetris Pieces Left Behind By Giants | Atlas Obscura
Of all the ways that people have altered the surface of the earth, solar power plants do not rank high. The United States covers 2.4 billion acres and more than 400 million of those have been co-opted as cropland. Cities take up 61 million acres.
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500px Revamps Its App To Better Appeal To The Instagram Crowd | TechCrunch
500px, the online photo-sharing community which recently raised another $13 million to challenge Flickr and Getty, is today rolling out a significant change to its mobile application.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 95 | 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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Mirantis And CoreOS Launch Enterprise-Grade OpenStack And Kubernetes Integration | TechCrunch
OpenStack company Mirantis and CoreOS today announced that they have teamed up to integration Mirantis’ OpenStack distribution with CoreOS’s Tectonic container platform.
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Your Mental Health Could Use a Personal Trainer, Too | WIRED
I woke up with a vague sense of dread on Sunday. I’d been on vacation for two weeks, my life totally, blissfully on pause. But I was back, and felt … well, I’m not exactly sure. Anxious? Overwhelmed? Maybe I was just hungry.
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Monument Valley-Maker Moves Into Mobile Health With Moodnotes | TechCrunch
Q: What do you get if you cross seasoned psychological cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques with modern app design? A: Moodnotes: aka the lovechild of London-based digital product studio ustwo — maker of minimalist mobile game Monument Vall…
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This Hacker’s Tiny Device Unlocks Cars And Opens Garages | WIRED
The next time you press your wireless key fob to unlock your car, if you find that it doesn’t beep until the second try, the issue may not be a technical glitch. Instead, a hacker like Samy Kamkar may be using a clever radio hack to intercept and re…
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Flipboard Launches Its First Destination Site, 2016 Election Central | TechCrunch
In preparation for tonight’s first Republican presidential candidate debate, Flipboard is launching its first ever destination site, 2016 Election Central, to help users of the popular news curation app keep up with all of the latest news regarding …
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We May Already Know Who’s Guest-Starring in The Deadpool Sequel!
Yet another version of the Flash is joining The Flash. Elizabeth Henstridge discusses Simmons’ fate in Agents of SHIELD. Plus, teasers for Doctor Strange’s costume, crazy casting news for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and a Doctor-Doom-fi…
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BBC News – Islamic State ‘seizes Syria town of al-Qaryatain’ in Homs province
Islamic State (IS) militants have captured al-Qaryatain town, in the province of Homs, from pro-government forces, reports say.
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US government seeks Lance Armstrong medical records in sponsorship lawsuit | Sport | The Guardian
The US federal government wants to see Lance Armstrong’s medical records from his treatments for cancer, specifically whether his doctors knew back in 1996 that he was using performance-enhancing drugs.
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A Year Since The Killing of Michael Brown, A Year of Sports Being Shaped By Struggle | The Nation
The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by Officer Darren Wilson and the subsequent protests have sparked a new Black Freedom Struggle and forever changed this country.
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Malaysia offers proof wing piece is From MH370 | Al Jazeera America
Malaysia said Thursday that paint color and maintenance-record matches proved that a piece of wing found on the shore of an Indian Ocean island last week was part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which vanished without trace last …
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Investigation: Do Bears Get Drunk Off Rotting Fruit? | Atlas Obscura
We humans never seem to tire of stories about drunk animals—horses that topple into pools, birds that fly erratically, moose that get stuck in trees. One of the most commonly cited examples is that of the drunk black bear, stumbling around after ind…
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Weather woman’s boyfriend proposes to her on live TV
We’ve seen our fair share of romantic proposal videos, but few of them take place in a TV news studio. Mexican weather woman Marcela Mistral was in the middle of a typical weather report when she was interrupted by a surprise visitor: her boyfriend.
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Widening inequality in America has its roots in several trends but is driven primarily by unequal earnings. In this package of articles, five authors address the pressure on middle- and working-class income—and strategies for reversing the trend.
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Reddit Analysis AMAScience AMA Series: We created a map of reddit to make it easier for you to discover new communities. We are Drs. Zachary Neal and Randy Olson from Michigan State University, Ask Us Anything! (self.science) Prof.
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The modern internet sucks: Bring back Geocities
The modern internet sucks. As HTML5 has hit its stride, we’ve been lucky enough to receive abominations like parallax scrolling, social media buttons everywhere, loading screens for no apparent reason and scrolljacking.
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Turn your knowledge into a $1,000 per month side business
What would you do with an extra $1,000 per month? Save up for a nice vacation for your family? Put it towards a car payment? Or maybe splurge on that new pair of jeans? It’s time to start figuring out your answer.
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7 mobile app problems solved by Cheezburger’s co-founder
It’s one thing to build a minimum viable product for your app, and another challenge entirely to run and maintain it as your user base grows.
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Australia Says Over 600 Asylum Seekers Turned Back | Al Jazeera America
Australia has turned around more than 600 asylum seekers trying to reach its shores on 20 separate boats since enacting new border controls in December 2013, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Thursday.
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Facebook killed a guy’s account. We helped him get it back
Rejoice, Al Overdrive is back on Facebook. A small victory against the casual use of unreliable algorithms has been achieved, but this case is still a salutary warning to anyone who gets a lot business from being on the social network.
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Slinky Contraption : perfectloops
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Pierre as a kitten resting on the back of the lounge chair : cats
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Once in a while, Facebook isn’t crazy relatives being annoying. : TrollXChromosomes
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How Far Does Obama’s Clean Power Plan Go in Slowing Climate Change? – Scientific American
The U.S. energy transition will continue under the new plan, but it needs to move even faster WINDS OF CHANGE: The Clean Power Plan will boost renewable energy, like wind farms, but also preserve the role of fossil fuels, especially natural gas.
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Suicide Bombing and Helicopter Crash Mark Another Bloody Day in Afghanistan | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog. The attacker detonated an explosives-laden truck outside government offices in the provincial capital of Puli Alam, blowing ou…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
I’m getting pretty excited about an event there’s almost no chance I’m actually going to watch live, and I think it’s all about wondering what Trump’s going to do. I’ll say this much, the man is a genius at getting people to wonder whether he’ll lig…
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The New York Times Company reported net income of more than $16 million for the second quarter on slightly lower revenue, as digital growth and cost declines offset a continued drop in print advertising across the industry.
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This book review appears in the Summer 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. French politics can be bewildering to outsiders. The state seems all-powerful.
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How White Students Reap Benefits from Teachers of Color – The Atlantic
Nonwhite educators can offer new and valuable perspectives for children of all backgrounds. Noah Caruso, 17, calls South Philadelphia home.
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Your Medical Records May Unlock Disease Secrets for All – Scientific American
The scheme sounded too good to be true: with a few simple clicks researchers could identify thousands of people who would be a good fit for trials testing certain drugs or therapies, thanks to their geography, rare disease or risk factors like obesi…
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Hiroshima, 70 Years Later: Why the United States Bombed the Japanese City – The Atlantic
On May 10, 1945, three days after Germany had surrendered to the Allied powers and ended World War II in Europe, a carefully selected group of scientists and military personnel met in an office in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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The Republican debate: meet the 2016 candidates | US news | The Guardian
His surge in the polls on the back of a tide of anti-immigration, anti-establishment sentiment is the biggest story of the Republican race so far. Bombastic, fearless and a barely plausible occupant of the White House, he is, as far as national poll…
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Egypt To Unveil $8.5B Suez Canal Extension | Al Jazeera America
Egypt on Thursday will unveil a major extension of the Suez Canal, which President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi hopes will boost the country’s ailing economy after years of unrest.
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The Most Outrageous Responses To The Clean Power Plan | ThinkProgress
When a president announces the most significant action ever on climate change, it’s going to raise some hackles among the opposition.
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He’s scared of tradesmen so hid in the cupboard when he heard one : cats
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MRW I see my alarm clock and realize that I’ve overslept : reactiongifs
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A massive vacant industrial factory. (OC) (1366X908) : AbandonedPorn
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the look on his face when he gets to the smallest one is priceless – GIF on Imgur
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Black Trampoline Loaf : Catloaf
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Britain Told it Has a Responsibility to Help Protect Tunisia from the Islamic State | VICE News
One month after the world was left stunned by a bloody attack by a single gunman on a Tunisian beach resort, Britain has been told it has a responsibility to help protect the country from Islamic State (IS) militants.
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On the same day that the Republican clown car pulls into Cleveland for the first official Top Ten primary debate (preceded by the insulting bottom seven kiddie table debate), Jon Stewart bids farewell to The Daily Show.
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This sumo-wrestling movie has a twist—it’s a coming-of-age musical
Here are three words we never thought we’d see together: sumo wrestling musical.
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Soldiers participating in a training exercise on a Mississippi military base heard them Tuesday and Wednesday – noises they believed were gunshots at the edge of the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center.
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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Public Policy Polling ran a poll in Minnesota and we learned a bunch of stuff about an election that is months away. Whatever.
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Do Brain Training Games Work? – Scientific American
I’m tapping away at my laptop as colored shapes appear onscreen. I’m supposed to hit the right arrow key—and fast—if the new shape matches the previous one and the left arrow key if it doesn’t.
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Taylor Swift was almost yanked offstage during a concert
Two fans tried to jump onstage and grab Taylor Swift during a concert in Edmonton, Canada, this week. Swift was in the middle of singing Bad Blood and kept performing as the two men were wrestled away by security.
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They’re starting young. : firstworldanarchists
They’re starting young. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/gwgGUMa5yG http://t.co/cTs79UUNlh
Love Everyone Often 08/07/2015
My first attempt at shooting the Milky Way, from a light-polluted area : space My first attempt at shooting the Milky Way, from a light-polluted area via /r/space http://t.co/wsw7bVdBDj http://t.co/qByDDmmJlU tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Panoramic Sunrise in Delaware [OC][2048X801] : SkyPorn Panoramic Sunrise in Delaware [OC][2048X801] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/FNTHjXPZYx http://t.co/GaQu8Le3N0…
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