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Islamic State Claim to Have Beheaded Croatian Hostage | VICE News
An online image circulated on Wednesday purported to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State (IS) group’s Egyptian affiliate, Sinai Province, after being beheaded.
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Nate the Neoconservative Gets It, and You Don’t! – Boing Boing
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook. And FURTHER, please join Tom the Dancing Bug’s subscription club, the INNER HIVE for advance access to comics and more stuff.
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5 ways to make your welcome emails awesome
What’s the most important characteristic to convey to new and prospective customers? Let’s start by examining the two main traits that form first impressions — confidence and trustworthiness. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains what goes on in yo…
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Google is building tiny devices to help diabetics
Only two days after its Alphabet announcement, Google has inked a deal with healthcare firm Dexcom to build miniature blood glucose monitoring devices for diabetics. The company plans to design and manufacture Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) wea…
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Drupe for Android is now a full-fledged dialer
When I tried Drupe a few months ago, I noted that the app made it easy to ping my favorite contacts on whichever messaging app they used from a single screen. It was love at first swipe. Today, it’s got a neat update that turns it into a replacement…
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Pearson is selling The Economist to Fiat’s Agnelli family, and to The Economist itself – Quartz
The Economist, a jewel of the business media industry, is worth more than £950 million ($1.5 billion). We now know this because a 50% stake in the closely held weekly is changing hands for £469 million.
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Self-Immolation at Anti-Japan Protest in S. Korea | Al Jazeera America
An 80-year old South Korean man set himself on fire during a protest on Wednesday calling for Japan to apologize for forcing Korean girls and women to work in military brothels during World War II, days ahead of the anniversary of the end of hostili…
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What China’s Currency Devaluation Means
China on Monday announced it is lowering the value of its currency about two percent in order to boost its economic growth by supporting its exporters. Traders are betting that the currency will fall further. Markets around the world are reacting ne…
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Mildly startled blep (x-post /r/mildlystartledcats) : Blep
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Sport picture of the day: something for Miguel Ángel Jiménez to chew on | Sport | The Guardian
Miguel Ángel Jiménez chews on a cigar during a practice round on the 12th hole at the US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin. Photograph: Larry W. Smith/EPA
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Store security team springs into action to celebrate 10,00th shoplifter
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The wreckage of a US military helicopter sits on the deck of the USNS Red Cloud, following a crash that left seven people injured.
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Courageous dog isn’t a quitter, keeps trying to pick up tree root
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Obama pushes Congress to renew Voting Rights Act | TheHill
President Obama on Wednesday urged Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act following a Supreme Court decision that gutted a core part of the landmark law.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The Perseids meteor shower peaks this week! At around 3 a.m. Thursday night make your way out of your apartment, home, or local bar and look skyward. Th…
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Perseid meteor shower photos in 60 seconds – BBC News
Skywatchers are hoping for good weather as the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks over the UK. Here are some photos from around the country sent to the BBC, of the shower so far.
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Population Density Cartogram of Europe [1025 x 1024] : MapPorn
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Cuzco Children, Peru 1948 : OldSchoolCool
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The Perseid meteor shower — the year’s best — is tonight. Here’s how to see it. – Vox
The Perseid meteor shower — the most active meteor shower of the year — is coming Wednesday night. As Earth plows through a trail of dust and rock left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle, tiny pieces of debris will enter our atmosphere and burn up, pr…
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NYPD Embraces ‘Jim Crow’ Tactics To Crack Down On Homeless | ThinkProgress
A new campaign launched by the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) in New York City is encouraging members of a police union, as well as their family and friends, to track “the homeless lying in our streets, aggressive panhandlers, people urinati…
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Alibaba Second-Quarter Revenue Misses Expectations | TechCrunch
Alibaba’s investment in its mobile business is starting to bear fruit, but the e-commerce giant still reported disappointing second-quarter results. Second-quarter revenue rose 28 percent to $3.26 billion, which not only fell below the $3.
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Messaging App Declares War on Crappy Conference Calls | WIRED
Conference calling is a running joke of corporate life. As soon as the Polycom, the conference bridge, or the GoToMeeting enters the equation, you’ve begun a very specific ritual.
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Meet The Woman Who Gives Haircuts And Makeup To The Homeless | ThinkProgress
Those are the the voices of some of the clients of Beauty in Transition, an art project begun by Jody Wood in 2006 that gives haircuts to homeless people.
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We’re Reddit Mods, and This Is How We Handle Hate Speech | WIRED
The Web loves to wave the flag of free speech. Look no further than Twitter during the Arab Spring, or activists who turn to YouTube. And of course, there’s Reddit. We moderate two of Reddit’s flagship subreddits—IAmA and AskReddit.
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Opening This Key Watershed To Fracking Could Threaten The Health Of 75,000 Residents | ThinkProgress
Encompassing the longest free-flowing river in the eastern United States, the Delaware River Basin also happens to sit partially on top of the Marcellus Shale, the second largest gas field in the world.
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Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker will sign a bill Wednesday finalizing his controversial plan to spend $250 million in state, county and city funds — plus tens of millions more in interest and future tax breaks —…
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What Should Become of America’s Slums? – The Atlantic
This is your brain on shopping, and it’s not very smart. You walk into a Starbucks and see two deals for a cup of coffee. The first deal offers 33% extra coffee. The second takes 33% off the regular price. What’s the better deal?
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Intel’s Radically Transparent Plan for Embracing Diversity | WIRED
When Intel recently posted signs setting aside some choice parking for pregnant employees, a lot of people went nuts. They weren’t at all happy that Intel had taken away the prized spots in front of the buildings.
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Richard Martinez is managing director of the Expedite detective agency, a private investigation consultancy. He has a diploma in private investigations and is a member of the Association of Private Investigators.
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Nail Biting May Arise from Perfectionism – Scientific American
Many people think of nail biting as a nervous habit, but the driving force may not be anxiety.
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86% off NetSpot Pro Wi-Fi optimizer
Bad Wi-Fi reception can leave you permanently frustrated. An OS X app named NetSpot Pro helps you optimize your network(s) for the best possible signal. In essence, the app turns your Apple laptop into a surveying machine, measuring signal strength …
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Becoming Pacquiao – Al Jazeera English
The crowd bays for blood as boxer Brian Diano steps into the ring. Tonight, the Filipino underdog fights for his life… and more. His impoverished teammates back home are counting on his paltry prize money to feed their hungry stomachs.
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We Need to Let Twitter Be Twitter — NYMag
Twitter is a mess — everybody says so. Twitter is mostly nonsense. You can’t find what you need on Twitter. Twitter is all haystack and no needles, all static and no signal. By the lights of many investors, Twitter is floundering.
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Julian Assange’s ‘sex crime’ legal issues are expiring but he’s staying in the embassy
Julian Assange, known primarily for releasing a huge cache of politically sensitive information back in 2010, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy for nearly five years for fear of being extradited to the US.
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Islamic State Claim to Have Beheaded Croatian Hostage as Ransom Expires | VICE News
An online image circulated on Wednesday purported to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State (IS) group’s Egyptian affiliate after being beheaded.
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Insenth Focuses AR Glasses On Cyclists | TechCrunch
It’s clear that the first version of Google Glass had an identity crisis — unless you count the Scoble shower incident.
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Marijuana the Way our Ancestors Smoked it | The Fix
Was it the medicinal qualities that originally inspired humans to light up, instead of the urge to get high?
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Seven’s ridiculed show Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud wins epic ratings battle : cats
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Farming road block. via /r/gif http://t.co/pfzEAH6CZn http://t.co/LUHc9I1dAr
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Ariane 6 and Vega C begin development
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Feds: Mississippi couple planned honeymoon to join ISIS – CNN.com
But in reality, according to a criminal complaint, she and her soon-to-be husband had a far more sinister trip in mind: flying from Mississippi to Europe, then traveling to Syria and joining ISIS.
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The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | Death Or Glory: Iron Maiden Interviewed
Iron Maiden are just about to release their 16th album, The Book Of Souls; Harry Sword thinks it might be their best yet. He gets the inside story from guitarists Adrian Smith and Janick Gers Idiosyncratic, unashamedly epic and pleasingly deranged, …
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Oh Dear God Look At This Massive Shark – Digg
“What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.”
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Midsummer’s Dream by Jessica Drossin / 500px
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Even by the standards of United States Presidents, Barack Obama has led a pretty unusual life.
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Here’s Tinder’s full, epic Twitter meltdown – Vox
On Tuesday night, Tinder’s Twitter account sent a series of bizarre, defensive tweets in response to a critical Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales. The story, which discussed the app’s role in modern dating, portrayed Tinder users as often shallo…
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View of the German Alps from the peak of Zugspitze. [OC] [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
View of the German Alps from the peak of Zugspitze. [OC] [3264×2448] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/6qqverXeOw http://t.co/2YZ0q94QTP
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Thug life. via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/awVgSNvOIE http://t.co/8NcvSuxdGo
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Military Confrontation Between NATO and Russia Is Increasingly Likely, Warns New Report | VICE News
Armed conflict between NATO and Russia is becoming more likely, warned a new report by the London-based European Leadership Network (ELN) published today. NATO has planned approximately 270 military exercises for this year, while Russia has announce…
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This door. [OC][600×590] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/M05gWTETs2 http://t.co/SQMeqikYR5
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Trying..to..fight….sleep : cats
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My 23 year old gf : AdviceAnimals
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I got you! Now you’re mine! Muhaha : gifs
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Hillary, Bernie and Black Lives Matter
Best candidate video ever! So what’s going on? Sanders is maxing out on gains simply because of increased name recognition.
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“Game Over, Charles” · Pretty Little Liars · TV Review · The A.V. Club
As far as reactions to game-changing episodes of television shows go, that is perhaps the most Jess Mariano-like one of all, but how exactly should one react to Pretty Little Liars finally answering the major questions? (The key word is “major.
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Europe’s oil consumption peaked 2005 : dataisbeautiful
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Something about this Barbie toothbrush terrifies Maya the cat
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Matilda & Memphis | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Assad loyalists protest over siege of troops by ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Dozens of Syrian residents in a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad have staged a sit-in, calling on the leadership to help soldiers besieged by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in an airport in the country’s north.
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Republican hopefuls reap $62m in support from donors with fossil fuel ties | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidates have banked millions of dollars in donations from a small number of mega-rich individuals and corporations with close ties to the fossil fuel industries that stand to lose the most from the fight against climate ch…
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Djokovic cruises at Rogers Cup ahead of US Open – Al Jazeera English
World number one Novak Djokovic kicked off his bid for a fourth Canadian crown with a 6-3 7-6 second-round win over a stubborn Thomaz Bellucci at the Rogers Cup.
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Let this be clear from the start: this is in no way an endorsement of Floyd Mayweather’s reputed swansong, a pay-per-view fight against Andre Berto on 12 September. Far from it.
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Good Wednesday morning from what scientists now say is a dying universe and where Donald J. Trump remains the leader in Republican polls.
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The Wolfberg Arch, Cederberg, South Africa [1920×1266] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Game studio launches campaign to resurrect the old combat-racing genre
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Sneaky loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/w51BCjIE7q http://t.co/gKUUeLegQX
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In response to the perfect @ symbol, my perfect check mark : oddlysatisfying
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Are Soil-Based Organisms Beneficial? – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Nutrition Divaby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific Americanand Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies.
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Eagle-Eyed NASA Mars Orbiter Launched 10 Years Ago Today
Among the many discoveries by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since the mission was launched on Aug. 12, 2005, are seasonal flows on some steep slopes, possibly shallow seeps of salty water. This July 21, 2015, image from the orbiter’s HiRISE cam…
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HMB while I pick some corn. : holdmybeer
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Vagt Lake, Alaska : natureporn
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Custom-built Minecraft PC will be the envy of geeks everywhere
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Tencent’s Mobile Gaming Growth Slows, But Online Advertising Beats Expectations | TechCrunch
Tencent’s second-quarter earnings result was a mixed bag. On one hand, sales at its core smartphone games business slowed down. On the other hand, the Chinese Internet giant’s online advertising revenue soared as it sold more video spots and ads in …
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The British education company Pearson agreed on Wednesday to sell its 50 percent stake in the Economist Group, the publisher of The Economist, to its other existing shareholders for $730 million.
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John Constantine will return to TV with an ‘Arrow’ cameo
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Brother Varys of Achel : monkslookingatbeer
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$100M Worth of Crazy-Swanky Cars Are About to Go on Sale | WIRED
One Sunday each August, those pesky golfers are chased from the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach to make room for a real competition: the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elégance.
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The End of the Universe: A (Slightly Premature) Lament | WIRED
After a short, productive explosion of early activity, the universe has begun its long mope towards oblivion. To the extent that anything was ever important, it won’t be. Time, space, energy, matter—all gone. What is to be done?
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Donald Trump has been the center of attention since the first Republican presidential debate last week.
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How Much Contamination is OK on NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover?
When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover arrives on the Red Planet, one of its primary mission goals will be to select and preserve samples that would eventually make it back to Earth for scientific study.
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Pinned Down by Houthi Gunfire (Excerpt from ‘The Siege of Aden’) | VICE News
VICE News filmmaker Medyan Dairieh spent two weeks in Yemen’s seaport city of Aden. Surrounded by Houthi militia rebels and under siege “from air, land, and sea,” Aden is the focal point of the Yemeni Southern Resistance.
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Amazingly Intricate Carpets Made Out of Everyday Objects | WIRED
We Make Carpets is lying to you. They don’t make carpets. The pieces Stijn van der Vleuten, Marcia Nolte, and Bob Waardenburg craft may look the part, but their Dutch design studio is churning out something very different.
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NASA Europa Mission Team Meets for 1st Time
The team mapping out NASA’s mission to the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon Europa met for the first time last week. Scientists and engineers on the mission, which seeks to determine if Europa is capable of supporting life, got together at NASA’s Jet Pr…
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Promising Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: How to See It
The potentially dazzling meteor shower will reach its peak in the overnight hours tonight, and you can watch it live online – courtesy of NASA – if bad weather rains out your view. The annual Perseid meteor shower will be at its best late tonight (A…
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Here are the 6 best things about our slowly dying universe
An international group of astronomers has determined that the universe is slowly dying. The astronomers confirmed this by measuring the energy consumed through the observation of more than 200,000 galaxies with an array of the world’s most powerful …
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NASA Joins Tumblr to Explore the Social Media Frontier
A constellation of new NASA profile pages have gone live on Tumblr — including profiles for astronaut Peggy Whitson, the Juno mission to Jupiter and the Curiosity rover on Mars. NASA posted its first message to the new Tumblr page Aug.
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Malaysian opposition party files graft suit against PM – Al Jazeera English
A Malaysian opposition party has filed a civil lawsuit against Prime Minister Najib Najib Razak offences for alleged election offenses involving $700m in his bank accounts.
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Man Sets Himself On Fire at ‘Comfort Women’ Protest in South Korea | VICE News
Warning: Graphic images below. An elderly South Korean man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire today during a protest demanding an apology from Tokyo for forcing women into military brothels during World War II.
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Under pressure 02 by Mr. F / 500px
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Nice street view in NYC [960×960] : CityPorn
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A view of Saas-Fee, minutes ago. [OC] [4160×3120] : EarthPorn
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US Catholic fossil fuel investments at odds with pope’s climate push | Environment | The Guardian
Pope Francis heartened environmentalists around the world in June when he urged immediate action to save the planet from the effects of climate change, declaring that the use of “highly polluting fossil fuels needs to be progressively replaced witho…
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When a woman accuses a man of rape she can expect a certain amount of horror to follow: harassment from her community, victim-blaming nastiness about what she was wearing or drinking, the risk of her identity being revealed and the knowledge that he…
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Why Nursing Homes Aren’t Equipped To Care For Transgender Seniors – The Atlantic
Past research has found that many transgender people avoid seeing a doctor for fear of being ostracized. Of those who do seek healthcare, a 2011 survey of 6,456 transgender people across the U.S.
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Tali Lennox ‘shattered’ after boyfriend confirmed dead in Hudson river | US news | The Guardian
Tali Lennox, the daughter of the singer Annie Lennox, has said her “heart is shattered” after a body found in the Hudson river was confirmed to be that of her boyfriend, Ian Jones.
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US Catholic fossil fuel investments at odds with pope’s climate push | Environment | The Guardian
Pope Francis heartened environmentalists around the world in June when he urged immediate action to save the planet from the effects of climate change, declaring that the use of “highly polluting fossil fuels needs to be progressively replaced witho…
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My kittenloaf says hi : Catloaf
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Ariane 6 and Vega C begin development / Launchers / Our Activities / ESA
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25 killed by police 5-12 August. How did they die? [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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Greenland skyscraper by Daniel Kordan / 500px
Greenland skyscraper by Kordan http://t.co/9WL07O5DZ1 http://t.co/p9pD55lVq7
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Well, he isnt wrong via /r/funny http://t.co/JJxYBvn7it http://t.co/M0HeedN4fZ
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His name may be Predator, but I call him Tiny : cats
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When Normal Emoji Are Not Enough… | TechCrunch
The many faces of emoji just gained a few more — thanks to a web tool put together by 17-year-old developer Giacomo Randazzo which randomly remixes standard yellow-faced emoticons to stir up some new expressions.
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Seven injured as US military helicopter crashes off Okinawa | US news | The Guardian
All 17 people on board were rescued after a US military helicopter crashed into the sea off Okinawa, the Japanese coastguard has said. Seven people were injured in the incident. A coastguard spokesman said it was not known how serious the injuries w…
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Sex claims against WikiLeaks founder Assange to expire – Al Jazeera English
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to be cleared of three sexual assault allegations made in Sweden within days, as a five-year statute of limitations against the charges expires.
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Security researchers hack a car and apply the brakes via text | Technology | The Guardian
Researchers have hacked a car, remotely activated its windscreen wipers, applied its brakes and even disabled them, all via simple text messages.
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…And they are as happy as they can be – Meme on Imgur
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Arctic foxes are charcoal colored in summer. : foxes
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Good morning on this drier Wednesday. Even though New York and New Jersey don’t always get along, there’s a lot that connects us.
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Crack, Heroin, and Race – The Atlantic
Indeed, the harsh, punitive reaction to the crack era was the result of mythology about its use, and its users, that later turned out to be false, says Jeffrey Fagan, a Columbia University professor who has long studied the intersection of criminal …
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The first journalist from an American Jewish pro-Israel publication to be given an Iranian visa since 1979 reported Wednesday that he had found little evidence to suggest that Iran wanted to destroy Israel, as widely asserted by critics of the Irani…
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August 12, 1965: The Watts Section of Los Angeles Riots | The Nation
Summer is the season of race riots, as autumn is of financial meltdowns. On this day in 1965, the Watts section of Los Angeles convulsed with one of most damaging riot in American history.
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De-Zionising the US empire – Al Jazeera English
United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama Doctrine that one might venture to call and consider “de-Zionising the American empire”.
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Greeks on the street, clockwise from top L: Mary and Yannis, (Another) Yannis, Dimitri, Ari, Mikis, Vicky, Kostis (Photographs by Tomas Lynch) In January, the Greeks elected Alexis Tsipras and his radical Syriza party on a wave of defiance and hope.
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What’s there to see at the bottom of the ocean? More than you’d think | Grist
“Ocean explorer” sounds like a pie-in-the-sky job description, like “adventure archaeologist” or “Jedi.” But for David Gruber, it’s his actual title.
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There’s a kiwi in my kiwi. : mildlyinteresting
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HELL ON EARTH by Edwin Martinez / 500px
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In an earlier post, I wrote about some research that compared ocean temperature measurements to climate model predictions. It turns out, the models have done a great job estimating the increase in ocean heat although they have slightly under-predict…
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Wildlife groups say 41 tigers have died in India in seven months | World news | The Guardian
Six months after India boasted that its tiger population was growing fast, conservationists on Wednesday said 41 big cats had already died this year and worried that the country was not doing enough to save them.
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No recess for Obama on Iran | TheHill
The White House and its allies are redoubling their efforts to win support for the Iran nuclear deal during President Obama’s two-week vacation at Martha’s Vineyard.
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Good morning. The Justice Department will receive Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server, which housed the personal account she used while secretary of state, along with a thumb drive that contained copies of the emails.
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Sorry, But Digital Songs Sound Better When Recorded on Tape | WIRED
Love Isn’t always rational. Witness magnetic tape. The analog technology, which uses a coating of iron oxide powder on a thin strip of plastic film to capture and store live audio, was commercially developed by the German company BASF in the 1930s.
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India’s ‘Zero Landless’ initiative falls short – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of people across the Indian state of Kerala plan to protest over an unsuccessful land redistribution scheme. The “Zero Landless” initiative was launched in 2013 to provide land for poor households. As part of the scheme, each family was su…
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A small amount of exercise may improve our ability to think as we age, but more may not be better, according to a new study of exercise and cognition. We all know that working out is good for us.
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Why does the Perseid meteor shower happen every year? – BBC News
Cloud and rain are expected to make viewing the annual Perseid meteor shower disappointing in the south of the UK. But clearer skies in northern England and Scotland are likely to give skywatchers here a better experience.
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Caterpillar of Saturniidae Moth : woahdude
Caterpillar of Saturniidae Moth via /r/woahdude http://t.co/0qWMR4CIzc http://t.co/mrfntr4kt6
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Gotta remember that incognito, bro. : trippinthroughtime
Gotta remember that incognito, bro. via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/shhrGBVFy5 http://t.co/RNEKfcBlMe
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I don’t think it will help, but it made me feel better via /r/funny http://t.co/jMruBiOrrV http://t.co/xBBPtGlKll
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A Perseid meteor caught from tonights shoot! [OC][5472×3648] http://t.co/wjQJn9f0E0 http://t.co/6DP8zNhsvO
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On a stormy day in Dakar, Tina Gomis, a local woman in Sicap Mbao, laughs at the idea of selling her own excrement to the government. But this may soon become a reality in a city with a reputation for terrible waste management.
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Dive Into the Action With These Wild Sports Panoramas | WIRED
When Paolo Pellizzari peers through his camera, he sees the big picture—literally. The Italian photographer shoots epic sports panoramas that sweep across the scene, capturing players and spectators alike at a scale beyond what the eye can take in.
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Whiteface Mountain [5584×1712][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/1cieyjJGuy http://t.co/04GzVnKSbv http://t.co/xaxa0q62N1
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When your cat wants to be petted. : cats
When your cat wants to be petted. via /r/cats http://t.co/r3qhfMX8Wm http://t.co/QmozYxT1rV
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Our cat’s beauty sleep via /r/cats http://t.co/A9NEHHqEWn http://t.co/cNYenQQaKz
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ABOARD U.S.S. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in the Persian Gulf — Navy fighter jets roar off this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in support of Iraqi troops approaching Ramadi, a city in Anbar Province overrun by Islamic State fighters in one of the worst de…
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Gaza: Human Shields – Al Jazeera English
For 50 days, more than 6,000 air strikes, 14,500 tanks shells and 45,000 artillery shells were fired on Gaza as Israel decimated the Palestinian enclave in Operation Protective Edge.
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My short bio: Leader of the Australian Greens, doctor, public health specialist and co-convenor of the Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy and Law Reform. Worked in Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory, on HIV prevention in India and in the d…
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My friend sent me this snap of her sister earlier. She gets it. : firstworldanarchists
My friend sent me this snap of her sister earlier. She gets it. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/oYXcvgYW2f http://t.co/EmkWjKoZIm
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Pennichella | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Pennichella – by anto_gal via…
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He’s gonna need some cold water… – Imgur
He’s gonna need some cold water… http://t.co/APV39fDTN4 http://t.co/BcYN0yNiHK
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Bartender just poured this cat a shot of milk at the bar in New Orleans – Imgur
Bartender just poured this cat a shot of milk at the bar in New Orleans http://t.co/30Ne0N1Ta2 http://t.co/uQwxGD4rTU
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Bartender just poured this cat a shot of milk at the bar in New Orleans – Imgur
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UK lobbying for even weaker EU air pollution laws, leaked papers show | Environment | The Guardian
Leaked documents show the UK is pushing for watered-down EU air pollution laws to be weakened further, arguing they would cause the closure of coal pits leading to substantial job losses and the need to import coal.
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CHILAPA, Mexico — For nearly a week, gun-toting masked men loyal to a local drug gang overran this small city along a key smuggling route. Police officers and soldiers stood by as the gunmen patrolled the streets, searching for rivals and hauling of…
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From left, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Senators Mike DeWine, Sam Brownback and Debbie Stabenow, Representative John Lewis and Senator Patrick Leahy at a news conference after the Senate voted unanimously to extend the Voting Rights Act on July…
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For the cover story of our Aug. 2 issue, Jim Rutenberg wrote about efforts over the last 50 years to dismantle the protections in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark piece of legislation that cleared barriers between black voters and the bal…
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Grouse shooting season hit by low bird numbers due to bad weather | Environment | The Guardian
The grouse shooting season gets under way on Wednesday as gamekeepers warn poor weather conditions earlier in the year have hit the birds’ breeding. The season traditionally starts in mid-August on the day known as the “Glorious Twelfth”.
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96m water-saving shade balls released into LA reservoir – video | Environment | The Guardian
The final tranche of 96m black plastic shade balls is released into the Los Angeles reservoir at Sylmar, to help improve water quality and prevent evaporation.
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The tower that clears smog and helps to make jewellery – BBC News
Artist Daan Roosegaarde has been developing a giant ioniser which sucks up dirty air and emits clean air. Using this process, the smog particles can be converted into jewellery – rewarding donors who have supported the project through crowdfunding.
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Tolkien villains too big for the big screen : interestingasfuck
Tolkien villains too big for the big screen via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/PqPZgmKPWC http://t.co/a4kL6X4geb
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Logos, then and now : interestingasfuck
Logos, then and now via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/CGZSF4n8Zq http://t.co/NYD04xtk86
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The Lord of the abandoned street : cats
The Lord of the abandoned street via /r/cats http://t.co/kHdG2C57R7 http://t.co/kwmnEj3O2s
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Medieval ship’s ‘sea monster’ figurehead raised from Baltic – BBC News
The figurehead from the 15th century ship has been raised from the Baltic Sea near Ronneby, Sweden, more than 500 years after it sank. The Gribshunden is thought to be the world’s best-preserved late medieval ship.
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VICE News Capsule – Wednesday, August 12 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Buenos Aires province floods, Ugandans struggle to find work, boat tours are canceled in Germany, and a ban on Iranian carpets may soon be lifted.
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The Space Needle – Seattle, USA [1024 x 683] [OC] : ArchitecturePorn
The Space Needle – Seattle, USA [1024 x 683] [OC] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/DgO41unsrn http://t.co/n4OIkg3VqQ
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El Golfo black sand beach, Lanzarote [2808×2808] [OC] : EarthPorn
El Golfo black sand beach, Lanzarote [2808×2808] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/IFxeB98NPr http://t.co/ytx8rbyYXh
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‘Being wrong is hard’: Why we rely on luck to explain the unexplainable | Sport | The Guardian
For over a month, from 18 June to 19 July, Zack Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t allow a single run. He started six games in that span, finished 43 2/3 innings, struck out 42 batters and allowed just 24 baserunners. Opposing hitters managed…
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New to reddit? click here! /r/science is a moderated subreddit, please review the Rules for Submissions before submitting to /r/science, and Rules for Comments before commenting. Submissions and Comments that violate the rules will be removed, as wi…
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Pikes Place Market – Seattle, USA [1024 x 683] [OC] : CityPorn
Pikes Place Market – Seattle, USA [1024 x 683] [OC] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/LGh7Y8kSbQ http://t.co/XEuFfXoWr7
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I can’t be the only one, they are just being killed by “others” – Meme on Imgur
I can’t be the only one, they are just being killed by “others” http://t.co/1x7GUVFIMh http://t.co/qYWePrEMwO
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Waddya think? http://t.co/voayePsLyB http://t.co/fcftFxTw6I
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A dollar for a dirty joke – Imgur
A dollar for a dirty joke http://t.co/alUyt4aYnI http://t.co/WX0P03mtpp
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I can’t be the only one, they are just being killed by “others” – Meme on Imgur
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India sues Nestle for nearly $100m over food safety – Al Jazeera English
India’s government is seeking damages of nearly $100m from Nestle India for “unfair trade practices” after the food safety regulator banned its hugely popular Maggi noodles brand in June for containing unsafe levels of lead.
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Q&A: The two sides of Libya – Abdullah al-Thinni – Al Jazeera English
Recognised internationally as Libya’s prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni heads one of the two parallel governments fighting for control of the country. Thinni’s government operates from Tobruk, a port city in Libya’s east, after being driven into ex…
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S Korea, US to hold drill over attack blamed on N Korea – Al Jazeera English
South Korea has announced a series of heavy-weaponry, live-fire military drills with the US as a response to a recent landmine attack blamed on North Korea. The first drill was to take place late on Wednesday, with the last one conducted towards the…
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Trump defends stance on female health issues: ‘I cherish women’ – video | US news | The Guardian
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tells a news conference ‘I will be great on women’s health issues’ if elected. He addresses comments rival Jeb Bush made earlier in the campaign, suggesting too much money was invested in women’s hea…
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Q&A: The two sides of Libya – Khalifa al-Ghwell – Al Jazeera English
A former engineer from the city of Misrata, Khalifa al-Ghwell heads one of Libya’s two parallel – and rival – governments. He and his supporters are based in Tripoli, the largest metropolis of the country, but have extended their influence to contro…
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Uggie the dog, star of The Artist, dies aged 13 | Film | The Guardian
Uggie the dog, the canine star of Oscar-winning film The Artist, had died in Los Angeles at the age of 13.
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butterfly_atalanta | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
butterfly_atalanta – by bramgerritsen via http://t.co/8WbqQNsPlY http://t.co/HYPGlUGzr6 http://t.co/WmTtUJbGSk
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butterfly_atalanta – by bramgerritsen via http://t.co/8WbqQNsPlY http://t.co/HYPGlUGzr6 http://t.co/WmTtUJbGSk
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10 quotes about cats to make your heart purr : cats
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/Lgge8jQKbq http://t.co/DcadK1AGY2
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Whiteface Mountain [5584×1712][OC] : EarthPorn
Whiteface Mountain [5584×1712][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/1cieyjJGuy http://t.co/YNEbAHPSVS
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LGBT in El Salvador: Beatings, intolerance, death – Al Jazeera English
San Salvador, El Salvador – This year’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride parade that took place in June was a big day for Aldo Alexander Peña.
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Laziness is in the air. : LazyCats
Laziness is in the air. via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/NCac4auyes http://t.co/88LwQ6rKGD
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Here is my precious, curled up. : cats
Here is my precious, curled up. via /r/cats http://t.co/atDWq5G5ox http://t.co/1v1F9z5rkM
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The Wonders Within Your Head: A Vintage Infographic of the Human Brain (1938) | Open Culture
Click here to view the infographic in a larger format. From the December 6, 1938 issue of LOOK magazine comes this vintage “infographic” showing “The Wonders Within Your Head.” It takes the human brain/head and presents it as a series of rooms, each…
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Hell hath no fury like Tinder scorned
Tinder came under fire last week when journalist Mary Jo Sales wrote a piece for Vanity Fair about how the dating app, and others like it, are affecting hookup culture.
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A beginner’s guide to understanding UX design
If you are thinking of working on your conversion optimization and landing page optimization, understanding UX design is essential. As you know, we write a lot about the user, the single visitor that arrives on your site or landing page and needs to…
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Your Vote Wanted to Help Name 32 Alien Worlds
This artist’s concept shows the “hot Jupiter” exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, which in 1995 became the first alien world to be found around a sunlike star. 51 Pegasi b is one of 32 exoplanets whose names will be chosen by public vote.Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesse…
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Hackers helped traders make $100m with stolen press releases
Five stock traders were arrested in the US on Tuesday in connection with an elaborate insider trading scheme that saw the accused acting on data culled from leaked press releases, reports Bloomberg.
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GSK Shuts Down Plant Over Legionnaire’s | Al Jazeera America
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) shut down a North Carolina plant Tuesday after testing at a cooling tower found bacteria that causes deadly Legionnaire’s disease, a company spokeswoman said.
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You can now try Facebook’s Relay framework in your own apps
Facebook has made a technical preview of its Relay framework open source and available on GitHub today, so developers can try it in their own projects. First announced in January, Relay adds declarative, component-oriented data-fetching functionalit…
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Books of Adam http://t.co/tBCnBTAqin http://t.co/SjqqenS8i1
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Affectionate Animals That Just Can’t Get Enough Of Your Hugs : AnimalsBeingBros
Affectionate Animals That Just Can’t Get Enough Of Your Hugs via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/xiBxAzySCG http://t.co/IxtiHCBJf9
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“Dog Dinner Party” · Another Period · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Last week’s Another Period took a stab at the “holiday”-themed romantic comedy genre, giving it an injection of the series’ own twisted brand of historical-based humor.
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Quebec City [1174×882] [OC] : CityPorn
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Cologne sunset [4896×3264][OC] : CityPorn
Cologne sunset [4896×3264][OC] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/c4QKpGHFZV http://t.co/e5hGsbRP35
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Sunny day on the Stanley waterfront, Hong Kong [1024 x 683][OC] : CityPorn
Sunny day on the Stanley waterfront, Hong Kong [1024 x 683][OC] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/1ksPADsfMb http://t.co/qmHgC8yGhI
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That time I made the perfect check mark. : oddlysatisfying
That time I made the perfect check mark. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/hMKwl6nWdM http://t.co/chTyyFjGgQ
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Cows that are so excited to be out in the grass
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Walking Fingers, Hidden Kitty : aww
Walking Fingers, Hidden Kitty via /r/aww http://t.co/TItuSXlk0i http://t.co/Du3vf9xneF
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ARLINGTON, Tex. — A white rookie police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black college football player after the youth had broken into a car dealership in this Dallas suburb was fired on Tuesday for “inappropriate judgment” in his handling of …
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A wax figure of late Australian conservationist Steve Irwin is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Sydney by Wes Mannion, Irwin’s best friend and director of Australia Zoo.
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Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Clinton Gives Email Server to Justice Department — NYMag
For months Republicans have been demanding that Hillary Clinton turn over the private email server she used while she was secretary of state to a third-party, and on Tuesday she finally relented. Clinton said she’s directed her staff to give her per…
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CA Law, Grand Juries in Police Lethal Force Cases | Al Jazeera America
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed into law a bill prohibiting grand juries from ruling in cases involving police use of lethal force.
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/TwJHnSOCOG http://t.co/Fls1jm2bB1 http://t.co/kh6RCo1icG
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/TwJHnSOCOG http://t.co/Fls1jm2bB1 http://t.co/kh6RCo1icG
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/IJaAczYKoX http://t.co/wRoWLbvyQg
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/5jZi88JiLc http://t.co/P1CUx4Q8tX
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My 5 year old daughters browser history. : funny
My 5 year old daughters browser history. via /r/funny http://t.co/F8cht1NODf http://t.co/QLiD8t60Gq
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San Diego Zoo’s baby hippo. : aww
San Diego Zoo’s baby hippo. via /r/aww http://t.co/bcGYnyhBYf http://t.co/uKvoBHL7zb
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Strength of polyurethane foam : mildlyinteresting
Strength of polyurethane foam via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/DQOebKRstq http://t.co/eFDQOq7OxO
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Ronda is better at beating women… Sorry Floyd. : funny
Ronda is better at beating women… Sorry Floyd. via /r/funny http://t.co/55sdPoReXZ http://t.co/guUaPwD6UP
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Long distance relationships : funny
Long distance relationships via /r/funny http://t.co/7G7aUylQSm http://t.co/DxG9cjAOJ3
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I can not believe I got this photo of my cat. : cats
I can not believe I got this photo of my cat. via /r/cats http://t.co/tY6tfPO5MW http://t.co/XrYP6rwQt2
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St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands [4128×2322][OC] : EarthPorn
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands [4128×2322][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/54pLCAs0hC http://t.co/usrC5iXZ1S
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Fail Loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/jXEkR4wxIJ http://t.co/umMoSQkTcN
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found this little gem. : InternetIsBeautiful
found this little gem. via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/WFS2hsovAn http://t.co/FbUdfxNzGK
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MRW i attempt to look sexy while giving a blowjob : shittyreactiongifs
MRW i attempt to look sexy while giving a blowjob via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/fao6FSJ2WD http://t.co/yruRfrvyc8
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Gary Oldman in the early 1980s. : OldSchoolCool
Gary Oldman in the early 1980s. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/BrLCI3L9UL http://t.co/clfIM3wAtu
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Made soup today : firstworldanarchists
Made soup today via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/X19JSsQ292 http://t.co/uXHqRuGzVb
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Aristotle laid out the philosophical foundation of friendship as the art of holding up a mirror to each other’s souls. Two millennia later, Emerson contemplated its two pillars of truth and tenderness. Another century later, C.S.
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Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) began honing her craft by reaping the creative rewards of keeping a diary from a young age and was barely a teenager when she first started writing poetry.
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The Centre of the Milky Way | ESO | We Heart It
The Centre of the Milky Way | ESO http://t.co/OzcyP27lWa http://t.co/Dwmv37w7RZ
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Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards | Cities | The Guardian
Something seemed strange. Staring out of a hotel window in São Paulo, my eye was caught by an oversized digital display crowning the top of an undersized skyscraper. Steadily flashing the time, then the temperature, the display was incongruous in a …
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Migrants still arriving in Calais with high hopes – Al Jazeera English
Calais, France – An estimated 3,000 refugees and migrants live in Calais on the northern coast of France. Many of them are refugees who fled conflict, violence or persecution in Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia and Syria and need international protection.
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Ceasefire under way in Syrian town and villages – Al Jazeera English
A 48-hour ceasefire is under way in the Syrian town of Zabadani and two villages in the northwestern province of Idlib after an agreement was struck between pro-government forces and rebel groups. The truce started at 6am local time (3.
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Texas Cop Fired in Killing of Christian Taylor — NYMag
Over the weekend, Chief Will Johnson of the Arlington, Texas police department promised a “transparent, thorough and fair investigation” into the killing of 19-year-old Christian Taylor by 49-year-old rookie cop Brad Miller.
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It comes after nearly 200 locals, including Ballina’s mayor, local businesses, surfers, fishermen and police met earlier in the week in Lennox Head to discuss the spate of shark attacks and sightings in the region. Many surfers want a partial shark …
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Milky way & Zodiacal light over Namtso | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Milky way & Zodiacal light over Namtso – by Jeff Dai via http://t.co/PHwBcA9anx http://t.co/I62hWR34Jw http://t.co/e4H18ugONh
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Milky way & Zodiacal light over Namtso – by Jeff Dai via http://t.co/PHwBcA9anx http://t.co/I62hWR34Jw http://t.co/e4H18ugONh
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A River in Yosemite nation park, by curry village I think [1440 x 2560] : EarthPorn
A River in Yosemite nation park, by curry village I think [1440 x 2560] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/98NzMqOKMF http://t.co/cCBSD8qJcW
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Are you involved in preventing food wastage? Share your projects | Environment | The Guardian
If the amount of food wasted around the world were reduced by just a quarter there would be enough food to feed everyone on the planet, according to the UN. Each year 1.
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Produced but never eaten: a visual guide to food waste | Environment | The Guardian
Whether the wastage is measured in tonnes of spoiled goods, hectares of agricultural land or household expenditure, the scale is frightening 02.00 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 12 August 2015 02.
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Cutting food waste by a quarter would mean enough for everyone, says UN | Environment | The Guardian
If the amount of food wasted around the world were reduced by just 25% there would be enough food to feed everyone on the planet, according to the UN. Each year 1.
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China landslide buries dozens of mining workers – Al Jazeera English
Dozens of people have gone missing in China, after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under one million cubic metres of earth, according to local authorities.
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The trade minister, Andrew Robb, has warned “lawfare” by environmental groups is risking a trade deal with India. Tony Abbott and his counterpart Narendra Modi are keen for talks to conclude in coming months, Robb told the National Press Club on Wed…
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n-c-x: crooksh4nks: Mystery Forest + http://t.co/7jasdlburW http://t.co/K3bvVzrl5M
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, elenamorelli: { golden }
elenamorelli: { golden } http://t.co/t4e6Y6ZpPr http://t.co/bgiW17112O
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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istartedaphotoblog: Jagged cliffs and narrow valleys of the Na Pali Coast http://t.co/4A9fpht4mP http://t.co/YQyLPnejA7
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica
A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica http://t.co/YQapMEmaRS http://t.co/4NhMpHZydW
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He probably is of Transsylvanian lineage… [x-post form /r/Teefies] : cats
He probably is of Transsylvanian lineage… [x-post form /r/Teefies] via /r/cats http://t.co/b8jo1akUuY http://t.co/8BQJiySdnq
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How big is Brazil? [960×952] : MapPorn
How big is Brazil? [960×952] via /r/MapPorn http://t.co/IDrzdTEE0K http://t.co/JNGeKXYbLA
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Gorgon’s head on a yellow sea fan coral by Joakim Boneng / 500px
Gorgon’s head on a yellow sea fan coral by joakim_boneng http://t.co/GtQGzU3mle http://t.co/9CXYEnnlJH
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LEXINGTON, MA—Impatiently scanning store shelves while tersely repeating requests for an inventory of clothing and other items that would be taken along, local mother Susan Vernon, 51, channeled her escalating fears regarding her daughter leaving fo…
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Sarah about to enjoy an ice cream – Imgur
Sarah about to enjoy an ice cream http://t.co/ydfUKgCVE2 http://t.co/NUUe4m75ZL
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Somebody’s ready for bed : cats
Somebody’s ready for bed via /r/cats http://t.co/ZmiuxV8KhS http://t.co/lJG2xV90E6
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News in Brief: Arne Duncan Stressed About Preparing For Standardized Secretary of Education Exam http://t.co/EhU4BUGRIv
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Game ratings board gives Halo 5: Guardians the series’s first T rating
Halo 5: Guardians is one of the most anticipated games coming out this year, and it seems that the game will be available to a wider audience. For the first time ever, a main series Halo game will receive a T for Teen rating.
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New poll puts Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire | US news | The Guardian
For the first time a poll has Vermont senator Bernie Sanders ahead in the crucial early primary state of New Hampshire. This marks the first time Sanders has taken a lead in any poll.
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Hong Kong Police Raid Uber Offices, Arrest Drivers | TechCrunch
Uber’s worldwide expansion plans have hit yet another legal bump. Five Uber drivers were arrested in Hong Kong yesterday, allegedly for operating without a hire car permit and driving without proper insurance.
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New to reddit? Click here! You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
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World language tree, beautiful! : dataisbeautiful
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“The Midnight Sun” x-post /r/educationalgifs : perfectloops
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The fucking way she goes boys. : funny
The fucking way she goes boys. via /r/funny http://t.co/1qghOblJNH http://t.co/TbkZ6f4gW7
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Ballers · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
I’ve been reading your column for a while, and you always advise kinky people to go seek the same within the kink community. But in my experience, the kink community is very “sex right away, get to know you later”-oriented. So I have two questions.
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The Power Rangers Movie Has Some Mighty Familiar Character Descriptions
Usual grain of salt for anonymously sourced info, but Collider has names and descriptions of the Rangers that will be in the new movie. And, yeah, it’s pretty much exactly the Mighty Morphin line-up.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Novels that traffic heavily in metafiction present a unique set of problems when it comes to film adaptations.
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You know Kevin, right? Kevin From Work. No, the other guy. · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, August 12. All times are Eastern. Kevin From Work (ABC Family, 8 p.m.): You know a show is worth at least a look when McG is directing it. That’s just a fact of life. Unless now it means that McG is…
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Tracing “The Tracks Of My Tears,” from Motown to American Idol · Version Tracker · The A.V. Club
Version Tracker examines how different artists have performed the same song over the years, adapting it to suit their own needs and times.
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Meru · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Until NASA starts sending manned expeditions to heavenly bodies other than the moon, it’s extremely difficult for anyone to occupy a spot where no human being has ever previously stood.
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Every in-joke and reference in WHAS: First Day Of Camp (part 1) · Inventory · The A.V. Club
Much like its filmic predecessor, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp is full of deep references.
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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.
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The People Under The Stairs · Film Review · The A.V. Club
On Wes Craven’s commentary track for the Scream! Factory Blu-ray of his horror film The People Under The Stairs, the writer-director says the movie was inspired in part by a dream he had one night, and in part by a news item he read about a seemingl…
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ALAMO, CA—Saying they’d been looking forward to the outing all summer, local friends Sameer Weber, Rob Dempsey, and Drew Hutchinson reportedly packed up their gear and headed out Thursday for their annual camping trip to complain about camping.
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WASHINGTON—Saying the long nights of cramming from the study guide and the constant drilling from flashcards had really worn on his nerves, Arne Duncan told reporters Tuesday that preparing for the upcoming standardized Secretary of Education Test w…
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WASHINGTON—According to a study published Wednesday by geologists at Georgetown University, the earth’s solid inner core will be the most livable part of the planet by the year 2060.
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Russia Destroys 4 Tons Of Banned Imported Food – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Four tons of produce were buried in Russia this week because they violated a ban on Ukrainian imports, despite a petition with 350,000 signatures calling for President Vladimir Putin to instead donate the contraband food to the poor, following last …
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Morning reflections : Breathless
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/Bu19ZdsHcQ http://t.co/OX3CFaJ8Ik
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My foxy trio via /r/foxes http://t.co/oFsLnIL8xz http://t.co/fbIiZtSr1T
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Uber Expects India To Surpass Its U.S. Business Soon, And More [Q&A] | TechCrunch
Uber expects its business in India to overtake its U.S. operations in time, as it prepares to expand into more rural parts of the country to tap the huge growth potential on offer.
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Super-Earths: Exoplanets Close to Earth’s Size
An artist’s conception shows the size of super-Earth 55 Cancri e compared to Earth. A ground-based telescope in Spain was able to identify 55 Cancri e, which suggests that telescopes on the ground help in the search for habitable planets around othe…
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Insane GoPro ski run : woahdude
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Michelle Pfeiffer in a 1978 car ad : OldSchoolCool
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Sonny & Cher and Dylan (1960’s) : OldSchoolCool
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Bartender just poured this cat a shot of milk at the bar in New Orleans : pics
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 7793 | ESO | We Heart It
Spiral Galaxy NGC 7793 | ESO http://t.co/Iga2I7voIM http://t.co/nZ4rHg3kYD
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The Crab Nebula in Taurus | ESO | We Heart It
The Crab Nebula in Taurus | ESO http://t.co/QaZ888Sy1V http://t.co/pdJv0um3Jk
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CLEVELAND — After last weekend, when simply pushing a runner across home plate seemed like such a monumental task for the Yankees, the sight of much-maligned Stephen Drew hitting a home run that snapped their 31-inning scoreless streak provided a si…
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Texas policeman who killed black teenager fired – Al Jazeera English
A policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager during a suspected burglary at a Texas car dealership last week has been fired for “making decisions that had catastrophic outcomes”, the city’s police chief said.
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This Could Seriously Be The Greatest Political Campaign Ad Of All Time
American politicians, you’d better step up your game. This campaign ad from Canadian politician Wyatt Scott—featuring dragons, giant geese, robots, laser eyes and much, much more—is the new gold standard in campaign advertising.
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A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica via NASA http://t.co/igpYezMgxf http://t.co/AzlRg6m7XI http://t.co/7PkhJGKR9M
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APOD: 2015 August 11 – A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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Radio Galaxy Centaurus A | ESO | We Heart It
Radio Galaxy Centaurus A | ESO http://t.co/poXqv7MQGT http://t.co/ZbfAqvrcsZ
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UN Peacekeepers Accused of Rape, Killing | Al Jazeera America
Amnesty International is accusing U.N. peacekeepers of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father, and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents in Central African Republic, the latest in a series of allegations of misconduct ag…
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Blot out and backcross: the butterfly’s genetic secret? | Environment | The Guardian
It’s hard to imagine a creature less like a butterfly than its own caterpillar. This is particularly true for the peacock butterfly – a blue-eyed beauty blinking through the dog days of summer until it’s time to sleep behind the bedroom curtains.
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Why Are We Letting Infectious Diseases Make A Comeback? – Digg
One rainy Friday morning in March 2015, Dr Laila Woc-Colburn saw two patients with neurocysticercosis (a parasitic infection of the brain) and one with Chagas disease, which is transmitted by insects nicknamed ‘kissing bugs’.
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“Masquerade” by Sebastian Kowoll : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Toxic Spill Leaves Navajo Farmers in Murky Water | Al Jazeera America
As a precautionary measure, the Navajo Nation has asked citizens to keep livestock away from the San Juan River and stop diverting water from the river for crops. That means farmers like Lorenzo Bates are beginning to plan for the worst.
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HONG KONG — China weakened its currency, the renminbi, for a second straight day on Wednesday, jolting markets across Asia and raising concerns about the path of the giant economy. The central bank, the People’s Bank of China, set the official rate …
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New York Liberty remain thorn in Chicago Sky’s side amid playoff hunt | Sport | The Guardian
Last season’s WNBA Eastern Conference champions, the Chicago Sky, are in essentially a five-way race for the conference’s four playoff spots. But the defending East champs seem to face their most serious competition for supremacy from the New York L…
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Armenia’s anti-corruption council accused of lavish spending | World news | The Guardian
A much-touted anti-corruption drive in Armenia has got off to a bad start as questions are raised about the spending and income of leading government members of the committee – including its chair, the prime minister.
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WASHINGTON — The number of people without health insurance continues to decline and has dropped by 15.8 million, or one-third, since 2013, the Obama administration said Tuesday. The decline occurred as major provisions of the Affordable Care Act too…
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Contractors abandon mining sector as Carmichael’s future remains in doubt | Business | The Guardian
Frontline contractors are abandoning the mining sector in Queensland amid growing doubts that Adani’s huge Carmichael coal project will emerge to deliver them from a savage industry downturn.
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Shouldn’t the Air and Space museum be empty? : Showerthoughts
Like us on facebook! Showerthought is a loose term that applies to any thought you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming.
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Signing off with thanks to all who have participated in our discussions of fiction writing today. I want to leave you with this thought: I think we are facing a new era of censorship, in the name of political correctness.
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Newport, Oregon [3110×2073] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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All summer long. : AdviceAnimals
All summer long. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/zXncSnIPms http://t.co/HAcrgthcGH
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My ginger girl derping and blepping. : Blep
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Tell me how my nature feels (Okanagan Valley, B.C) [OC-1664×936] : EarthPorn
Tell me how my nature feels (Okanagan Valley, B.C) [OC-1664×936] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/f4MKw3Ebb2 http://t.co/TTCNtWKZe2
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IBM’s Watson AI Wants to Coach Your Fantasy Football Team | WIRED
Fantasy sports leagues are serious business. According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, nearly 57 million people will play in fantasy leagues in the US and Canada this year. Each of them will spend an average of $465 doing so.
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A town’s meeting, presided over by the Mayor, was held at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Monday, “for the purpose of considering and adopting measures to remedy and prevent the injuries to health and the damage to vegetation arising from the escape of smoke a…
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Senate Dem PAC’s first 2016 ad targets Ayotte | TheHill
The Senate Majority PAC’s first television ad of the 2016 cycle will target Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.). The super-PAC, which is run by allies of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.
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groovyherbs: wandering around looking for dragons yesterday http://t.co/6bQy6LVioF http://t.co/WDd5mjLc6P
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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L’s for daze : trippinthroughtime
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Dozens of retired generals, admirals back Iran nuclear deal – The Washington Post
Three dozen retired generals and admirals released an open letter Tuesday supporting the Iran nuclear deal and urging Congress to do the same. The release came as Secretary of State John F. Kerry said U.S.
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Cashmere Burka · Playing House · TV Review · The A.V. Club
I’m a sucker for the “Let’s put on a show” genre of television and “Cashmere Burka” is a worthy entry.
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My SO’s boss posted this picture on FB in honor of the new school year : funny
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Tinder Completely Freaked Out On Twitter | WIRED
Tinder totally melted down on Twitter. It was hilarious. The company sent a flood of tweets—actually, we ought to call it what it was, an epically disastrous tweetstorm—aimed squarely at journalist Nancy Jo Sales insisting that the app is about so m…
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Open thread for night owls: Giving up on the Florida panther
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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On the cover of my edition of The Drawing of the Dark : monkslookingatbeer
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When you get an apprentice to do your hair… : trippinthroughtime
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Animated Sex Positions via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/Sxit0AWIyl http://t.co/2K5hso6InU
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Maybe it is true via /r/funny http://t.co/Lxn4QY5GMs http://t.co/joTGxuOKcQ
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Machine That Turns Poo Into Water Gets a Test Run in Africa | WIRED
In early January, a video clip featuring Bill Gates started making the rounds on the Internet. But he wasn’t delivering one of his inspiring speeches about vaccines or getting drenched in ice water to raise awareness about ALS. He was just drinking …
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Suspected Boko Haram bomb in Nigerian market kills about 50 | World news | The Guardian
The explosion happened about 1.30pm in the town of Sabon Gari, in Borno state, which is the heartland of the Islamist militant group. Kidda, who saw bodies being taken away, said the market had been busy when the explosion occurred.
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This is a boxing match on the USS New York in 1899 : OldSchoolCool
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Chased by goats to get this shot. Dingle, Ireland : Breathless
Chased by goats to get this shot. Dingle, Ireland via /r/Breathless http://t.co/6BFuWnHO8w http://t.co/bNAiqaK65X
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No one wants your mixtape bro : funny
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness
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David Bowie – Tokyo 12-12-1978 (full video) – YouTube
David Bowie – Tokyo 12-12-1978 http://t.co/y8IRw9RPH7
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Your graham crackers have no power here! : firstworldanarchists
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Is Mineral Evolution Driven by Chance? | Quanta Magazine
Is evolution predictable, or was it heavily shaped by random events? Biologists have argued over this question for decades. Some have suggested that if we replayed the history of life on our planet, the resulting species would be different. Opponent…
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China unveils plan to land on mysterious far side of the moon : space
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Clouds drifting through the Grand Canyon-[OC] [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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Michael Vartan, best known for his role as Jennifer Garner’s dreamy-eyed CIA handler on the long-running spy series Alias, has been cast in a starring role in The Arrangement, a new scripted drama from E!.
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She even told me that she’s happy I stopped acting like a “horny teenager.” – Meme on Imgur
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Court Hears Arguments for Polar Bear Habitat | Al Jazeera America
A federal plan designating a huge swath of the U.S. Arctic as critical polar bear habitat should be upheld over the objections of the state of Alaska, petroleum industry groups and communities along Alaska’s north coast, a Justice Department lawyer …
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Novak Djokovic launches hard-court campaign with Rogers Cup win | Sport | The Guardian
World No1 Novak Djokovic kicked off his bid for a fourth Canadian crown with a 6-3 7-6(4) second round win over a stubborn Thomaz Bellucci at the Rogers Cup on Tuesday.
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Check out these 7 awesome companies from 500 Startups’ latest class
At today’s demo day for the 13th batch of the 500 Startups accelerator program, 28 companies stepped up to show off their four months of hard work to VCs, angels, and discerning journalism folk.
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It started with Megyn Kelly’s interrogation of Donald J. Trump at Thursday night’s debate on Fox News. Mr. Trump wasted no time responding, in less than presidential terms. The network’s chief executive, Roger E. Ailes, intervened, placating Mr. Tru…
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DENVER — Nearly a week after the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally breached a store of chemical-laced water from an abandoned mine in southwest Colorado, toxic water continues to spill at a rate of 500 to 700 gallons a minute, E.P.A. offi…
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Meet The Chinese Rappers Bringing Hip-Hop To The Middle Kingdom
CHENGDU, China — Earlier this week, the Ministry of Culture banned 120 songs from Chinese websites on the grounds that they “trumpeted obscenity, violence, crime or harmed social morality.
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After days in which Donald J. Trump engaged in a tense war of words with Megyn Kelly over her questioning of him at last week’s Fox News debate, he spent Tuesday trying to steer the campaign conversation toward policy issues. In a series of televisi…
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drxgonfly: Cataratas (by David Rochas) http://t.co/7L4dCQw0R4 http://t.co/fAygCxBL5a
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drxgonfly: Lost Emerald (by Scott Smorra) http://t.co/ytHlGicr2Z http://t.co/zmLMgwr3nK
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drxgonfly: Wooded bridge in the temple (by Anek Suwannaphoom) http://t.co/5gsisLZlGc http://t.co/bc2fM5yGBy
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Brother Shamus Shares a Hardy Laugh With a Freshly Brewed Beer : monkslookingatbeer
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Small figurines interacting with everyday objects in interesting ways : pics
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MRW when everyone leaves and I can finally jack off : reactiongifs
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Flying Rock, Monument Valley, AZ/UT border [OC][3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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Readers Respond: Arguments For and Against the Iran Deal – The Atlantic
My real-world alternative: fall back to our own sanctions, in fact impose tougher ones—easy to pass through Congress today—and begin again strong diplomacy among EU states to reinstate their own.
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Pregnant elephant keeps baby weight down with regular exercise – video | World news | The Guardian
Melbourne zoo’s pregnant Asian elephant, Num-Oi, tries to keep her weight down with regular exercise led by her keeper. This will help her have an easier delivery.
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Barcelona survive Sevilla fightback to win Super Cup – Al Jazeera English
Barcelona substitute Pedro scored deep into extra-time to secure the European Super Cup with a 5-4 win over Sevilla in a thriller after they surrendered a three-goal lead in Tbilisi.
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Australia’s “pathetic” 2030 emissions reduction target shows the country has opted out of the global effort to limit warming, according to the head of the British government’s climate change advisory body.
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Clinton: Email Server to Go to DoJ | Al Jazeera America
Hillary Clinton relented Tuesday to months of demands she relinquish the personal email server she used while secretary of state, directing the device be given to the Justice Department.
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DOVER, DE—Reminiscing about past online promotions for goods and services as he perused the internet Wednesday, area man Walter Delray, 32, reportedly grew nostalgic for a time when the advertisements targeting him were not quite so sad.
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Me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/zbXaYz0hIq http://t.co/8NbomMkInK
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David Bowie – Tokyo 12-12-1978 (full video) – YouTube
David Bowie Last night of Low and Heroes Tokyo 12/12/1978 1. Warszawa 2. Heroes 3. Fame 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. Five years 6. Soul Love 7. Star 8. Hang on…
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David Bowie – Tokyo 12-12-1978 (full video) – YouTube
David BowieLast night of Low and HeroesTokyo12/12/19781. Warszawa2. Heroes3. Fame4. Beauty and the Beast5. Five years6. Soul Love7. Star8. Hang on to yourself9. Ziggy Stardust10. Suffragette city11. Station tot station12. TVC 15from:Tunz Master Dino…
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Sunset – Highlands Ranch Colorado [1343×1919] [OC] : EarthPorn
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America’s worst human, Kris Kobach, ready to deny 30,000 Kansans the vote
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — With President Bashar al-Assad of Syria facing battlefield setbacks, diplomats from Russia, the United States and several Midd
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Donald Trump, speaking at a press conference Tuesday evening, threatened to fight Black Lives Matter protesters if they attempted to speak at one of his events. Trump blasted Bernie Sanders, who let the protesters speak at one of his events, as a “d…
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If the Indian mining company Adani is concerned that its beleaguered Carmichael mine will be halted by the government, it should take comfort in the numbers – just 1.3% of projects that require federal environmental approval have ever been knocked b…
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The war in Iraq, which dominated American presidential politics in 2004 and 2008, has returned as an issue in 2016. This time, the argument is not over whether the United States should have gone to war, but rather how the Obama…
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Hillary Rodham Clinton has directed her aides to give the Justice Department an email server that housed the personal account that she used exclusively while secretary of state, and a thumb drive that contained copies of the emails, her presidential…
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these fr00ts dont have enuf calsium 4 mr skeltal : ledootgeneration
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My nerf gun has actual rifling in the barrel. : mildlyinteresting
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More accolades… : monkslookingatbeer
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Libya Pm Announces Intent to Resign | Al Jazeera America
Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said in a television interview that he would resign, after the station confronted him with questions from angry citizens criticizing his cabinet as ineffective.
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Tyrone Harris ‘drawing gun’ before shooting at Ferguson protest – video | US news | The Guardian
The St Louis county police have released this footage, saying that detectives from the crimes against persons unit has identified the person in the video as Tyrone Harris Jr, who appears to take a handgun from his waistband once shots are fired duri…
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Stuff over here, Here’s an exercise: Imagine a world where nobody…
Here’s an exercise: Imagine a world where nobody has full time jobs anymore, where everyone is a contractor. For some of you, that will probably seem like some kind of entrepreneurial utopia, a libertarian dream. In theory, sure.
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Chicago Summer Night Stroll [6000×4000] [OC] : CityPorn
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/qYkskzWJ9S http://t.co/HNmh6dnwcF
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Strathcona Park, Vancouver Island [3684×2070] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Monkeycatt gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Shearing an Australian Cashmere goat : oddlysatisfying
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California Gull | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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With one punch, Ikemefuna Enemkpali transformed himself from a little known third-string linebacker into a figure of infamy for the Jets. Enemkpali, 24, broke quarterback Geno Smith’s jaw on Tuesday morning with what Coach Todd Bowles called a “suck…
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HERE are two things that China’s government wants very badly: first, for its economy to remain on an even keel, keeping growth and employment high.
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Ted Cruz is the only candidate willing to cozy up to Donald Trump. Will it ever pay off?
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Eliza Coupe to guest star on The Mindy Project · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The now-separated cast of ABC’s three-season cult success comedy Happy Endings have become the wanderlust-afflicted nomads of the sitcom world.
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Branch8 Lets Merchants Sell Via Multiple E-Commerce Sites With Fewer Headaches | TechCrunch
If there’s one thing that is as diverse and multi-faceted as culture in “Asia” — a term that really exists only on paper to help people label this part of the world — it would probably be the region’s e-commerce landscape.
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These Huggable Dragons Grow Tea Leaves on Their Backs
Artist Strangely Katie blends creatures and cuisine with her latest series of original characters: the Tea Dragons. Each dragon grows a different blend of tea leaves on its body, making them the perfect companions for cafe owners—assuming they can a…
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Twitter Now Makes It Possible to Harness Every Tweet Ever | WIRED
Today you may have noticed your delightful and carefully chosen Twitter wallpaper is missing. Right now, it’s unclear whether this is a choice on Twitter’s part or just an annoying bug.
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Annabeth Gish’s Agent Reyes will also return to Fox’s new X-Files · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Up until now, most of the talk about who will be in Fox’s X-Files revival has been monopolized by the characters people fondly remember, like Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and The Cigarette-Smoking Man, but we’ve all somehow forgotten about Monica Reyes …
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Police release surveillance video allegedly showing Tyrone Harris with a gun
Police say the man in the video is Tyrone Harris, an 18-year-old who was shot multiple times and critically wounded by a white Ferguson police officer shortly before midnight.
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Castle on the Rhine | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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A pile of rocks on the loch | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
A pile of rocks on the loch by Semi-detached http://t.co/7rR5tdCtLj http://t.co/SwmTZfIi9N
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If you do this after camping, Fuck You. : pics
If you do this after camping, Fuck You. via /r/pics http://t.co/GHJHeOGpN5 http://t.co/A64vxSAn8p
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Hillary Clinton to give her private email server to Justice – CNNPolitics.com
Clinton, now the Democratic presidential front-runner, “directed her team to give her email server that was used during her tenure as (Secretary of State) to the Department of Justice, as well as a thumb drive containing copies of her emails already…
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Why I’ll never get a tattoo : funny
Why I’ll never get a tattoo via /r/funny http://t.co/e0eCWlNfgG http://t.co/LUMHeXDgaJ
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The Justice Department said the arrests were part of a continuing effort to stanch the flow of Americans seeking to fight in the Middle East after being lured by online recruiters to join groups the American government has designated terrorist organ…
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SAN FRANCISCO — For a glimpse of how Larry Page might envision the way a newly restructured Google will work, take a look at Nest Labs, the company’s Internet-connected thermostat business. Nest, which Google acquired in 2014, is in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Senator Chuck Schumer, seeking an end to the standoff over financing new Hudson River rail tunnels, proposed on Tuesday creating a nonprofit corporation to oversee the project and to assemble the billions of dollars needed to build new tunnels. In a…
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A scheme, announced by federal authorities on Tuesday, to hack into three news wire services to steal copies of corporate news releases went on for years, and required a good deal of patience and persistence. For a while, it seemed to pay off.
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Carnaby Street, London, 1968 : OldSchoolCool
Carnaby Street, London, 1968 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/JNTig5YeQk http://t.co/FYqhsBMGBe
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World Trade Center Path Station Construction August 2015 by Anthony Quintano http://t.co/7zG2MvFmip http://t.co/4Tf0sPgLnW
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Yellowstone-River | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Yellowstone-River by Jason Plett http://t.co/tFDuPNfiBU http://t.co/FzSPzjLAFk
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Window Seat | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Window Seat by demandaj http://t.co/tAGtacJOPi http://t.co/25iQyInDp0
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Libya’s prime minister to step down – Al Jazeera English
Libya’s internationally recognised prime minister has said in a television interview that he will resign after the station confronted him with questions from angry citizens criticising his cabinet as ineffective.
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You Can Be Part Of The Official Star Wars: The Force Awakens Art Show
Star Wars: The Force Awakens doesn’t open until December 18, but before that, an event that’s freaking us out just as much will take place. Lucasfilm has teamed up with Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles for an official Star Wars art show and they are aski…
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Me Irl via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/9pWAdYrctO http://t.co/5hKelUBfsa
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Momentos de Calma | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Momentos de Calma by NoelleBuske http://t.co/CRxKLGc0jL http://t.co/eX6xP74P6I
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Ghostly Tornado (Explored) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Ghostly Tornado (Explored) by Rigsby’sUniquePhotography http://t.co/uciotxZAY2 http://t.co/9v8rq9cNnY
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/ARht6s4YET http://t.co/ghtufKuZ9N
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Cops hand smack down to Black Lives Matter protestor blocking freeway – GIF on Imgur
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Trump: I’m liberal like Reagan | TheHill
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday said he’s no more liberal than former President Ronald Reagan. “Ronald Reagan was a Democrat and he was sort of liberal,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “He was a Democrat with a libe…
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Bolivia’s president Morales says he wants to improve ties with US | World news | The Guardian
Bolivia is set to try to rebuild ties with the United States and exchange ambassadors again, President Evo Morales said Tuesday, citing Washington’s warmer Iran and Cuba stances.
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#FergusonTaughtMe Touches On Race, Police Brutality And Privilege | TechCrunch
A year ago this past Sunday, police in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old.
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The FDA slams Kim Kardashian for promoting prescription drug on Instagram
Kim Kardashian is famously famous for being famous. Whatever she does attracts attention, especially on social media. And wherever there’s a shiny thing for people to look at, there will be brands clamoring to put advertisements all over that space.…
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Does Europa Have 2X Earth’s Liquid Water? Very Likely! | NASA Video
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/0wZjOXLGAl http://t.co/J6n8P00Dnw
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You know that feeling you get when you’re watching a scary movie, and something bad is about to happen? The music gets weird, the action starts to slow down, someone says something meaningful like “I’ll always be there for you.
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Australia files joke of a climate pledge to the U.N. | Grist
The National Nurses United union, which is 90 percent female, is throwing its weight behind Sanders — despite his lack of a vagina.
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Bernie Sanders gets union endorsement because he, unlike Clinton, opposes Keystone | Grist
The National Nurses United announced they will be endorsing Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Everything You Should Read About Alphabet And Google – Digg
“What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.”
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Robots that build ‘baby robots’ – BBC News
Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a robot that can build “baby” robots that get progressively better at moving – without any human intervention. The ultimate aim is to develop robots that can evolve and adapt to their surroundings.
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Lost in space? Nasa under pressure – BBC News
The recent flyby of Pluto brought back memories of Nasa at its best. But is the space agency’s effort to explore the Solar System with robotic spacecraft in trouble? Among Nasa’s greatest achievements was sending astronauts to the Moon and returning…
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Robots learn to evolve and improve – BBC News
Engineers have developed a robotic system that can evolve and improve its performance. The ultimate aim of the research project is to develop robots that adapt to their surroundings.
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Eye movements ‘change scenes’ during dreams – BBC News
For the first time, neuroscientists have measured the activity of individual brain cells during the dreaming phase of sleep. They discovered bursts of activity that are strikingly similar to what happens when we are awake and see a new image.
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This can of sea food comes with sea shells to eat it with : mildlyinteresting
This can of sea food comes with sea shells to eat it with via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/N9hotRd6ko http://t.co/f10u4wsERr
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So we sprayed an old black widow spider web red. : woahdude
So we sprayed an old black widow spider web red. via /r/woahdude http://t.co/keuejRZQRH http://t.co/kip5VtjSo8
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Rico and his blep. via /r/Blep http://t.co/EHiy8FDWUk http://t.co/hZR8gTUDB4
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Smyth Report – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia article of the day for August 12, 2015 http://t.co/u8bKY90VDN
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Don’t worry about cooking tonight! I brought dinner home! : cats
Don’t worry about cooking tonight! I brought dinner home! via /r/cats http://t.co/MmOw9ue0dX http://t.co/nMMN9fKale
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This Shifty-Eyed Chameleon Just Challenged You to a Danceoff. Do You Accept?
TRICK QUESTION. You’ve already lost. In all seriousness, this National Geographic short on the chameleon and its remarkable physiology is as gorgeous as it is fascinating.
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It has been one full year since polio was detected anywhere in Africa, a significant milestone in global health that has left health experts around the world quietly celebrating. The goal had seemed tantalizingly close in recent years, but polio alw…
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Mark Wahlberg to star in buddy cop romance Partners · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mark Wahlberg apparently really likes playing cops; they’re right up there with “Soldiers” and “Cades Yeager” on his list of most-played film roles.
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Police Say Video Shows Ferguson Shooting Suspect | Al Jazeera America
A state of emergency that was declared on Monday for the Ferguson area was still in effect on Tuesday. Protesters have been marching and staging acts of civil disobedience to mark the anniversary of the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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TNT’s The Last Ship renewed for another year of sailing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It looks like TNT is hoping to spend another year cooped up with Eric “McSteamy” Dane on a battleship, as the network has renewed The Last Ship for a third season.
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Svartifoss (Black Fall), Iceland [6016×4000][OC] : EarthPorn
Svartifoss (Black Fall), Iceland [6016×4000][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/5J5Suky6co http://t.co/fZuJswQtwi
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Veggie kitty Tater eating a ‘Mater : cats
Veggie kitty Tater eating a ‘Mater via /r/cats http://t.co/m7CBIQpMnr http://t.co/Ywcg3vabqY
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Hillary Clinton handing over email server to justice department | US news | The Guardian
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said on Tuesday that she had also directed her team to turn over a thumb drive containing copies of emails sent to and from a personal email address via that server.
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A Look At A Completely Modular Building In Japan – Digg
The concept for the Nakagin Capsule Tower was that individual units could be removed and replaced easily without having to refurbish the entire building. Unfortunately that plan was never carried out, but it remains the first example of capsule arch…
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A morning stretch via /r/aww http://t.co/rDr9qxGFn8 http://t.co/f1viJXk3a5
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Waiting on the Stars [oc 6000×4000] : EarthPorn
Waiting on the Stars [oc 6000×4000] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/euP6Ov7kr2 http://t.co/zHvcTiK9yU
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Gov. Scott Walker set to sign bill spending $400 million to buy NBA’s Bucks a new arena
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Jets Fans Should Be Happy Geno Smith Got Punched In The Face | FiveThirtyEight
In the most surreal bit of sports news to hit Tuesday’s wires, Geno Smith, the incumbent starting quarterback for the New York Jets, is going to miss six to 10 weeks with an injury. And it wasn’t just any kind of injury; it was the kind you get when…
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Stephen Colbert announces his second opening night Late Show Guest · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The pieces are falling into place for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show kickoff.
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Ten years after Crash took the best-picture Oscar, many of us are still smarting from what may have been the worst voting decision in Academy history.
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ARLINGTON, Tex., — A rookie police officer who shot and killed a Texas college football player inside a car dealership in suburban Dallas was fired on Tuesday, the police said.
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Cop Who Shot Christian Taylor Fired as Police Release Official Audio of Incident | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. The police officer in Arlington, Texas, who shot an unarmed college football player last week has been fired, Arlington police chief Will Johnson announced …
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Officer Sacked Over Shooting of Unarmed Texas Man | Al Jazeera America
A Texas police officer who killed an unarmed 19-year-old college football player was fired Monday for failing to follow police department policy and putting himself and other officers in danger, the department’s police chief said.
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Los Angeles Drops 96 Million ‘Shade Balls’ into Reservoir, Creating Ye | Vanity Fair
On Tuesday, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti ceremoniously dropped 20,000 black plastic balls into the Los Angeles reservoir, the final addition to a water conservation project that could also double as the world’s biggest ball pit: an entire city re…
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Alan and Sarah at Camp Imgur http://t.co/wsq4tSdJ0s http://t.co/ro9Eh0bqpu http://t.co/Lx5DcdcMWo
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Alan and Sarah at Camp Imgur – Imgur
Alan and Sarah at Camp Imgur http://t.co/wsq4tSdJ0s http://t.co/ro9Eh0bqpu http://t.co/Lx5DcdcMWo
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I loaf you. ❤ via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/VMMrwSP68N http://t.co/LIccFtmSl3
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Innocent Childhood via /r/foxes http://t.co/SSbmtqUw7r http://t.co/AKbt592iwB
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CW renews Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Whose Line Is It Anyway · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hey folks, thanks for coming out tonight. We’ve got a great show ready for you, but to get started, we just need a suggestion of something that a TV network could do to a magic-based reality competition, along with a revival of a long-running, belov…
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Your Fake Diamond Ring Might Be Resistant to Radiation
Zirconium is best known to the public as the ring you get your fiancée if you don’t love her enough to invest in a blood diamond. Popular as it is in “fake” jewelry, zirconium is more often used in power plants and space shuttles, because it has a r…
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Overshare: Justin Hall’s biopic about the first social media/blogging – Boing Boing
All 40 minutes of the movie are available on Youtube, and there’s an extended cut for $12. I love Justin, and I love how he wrote the web. This movie is amazing.
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WITNESS. Madventure Time: GREATEST MASHUP EVER – Boing Boing
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/ugL9IPCmr3 http://t.co/a3qvRK8IqW
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Does this make me a monster? : AdviceAnimals
Does this make me a monster? via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/bIZKQSJN8h http://t.co/a5pJVMSrD5
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HMB while I transport some beer : holdmybeer
HMB while I transport some beer via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/SrOD7ZK5Tz http://t.co/URHfMh2hh6
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HMB and Move While I Dive : holdmybeer
HMB and Move While I Dive via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/5Z8jUO5lkH http://t.co/ACYaT4l36E
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Don’t be that guy…but be THAT guy(x/gifs) : oddlysatisfying
Don’t be that guy…but be THAT guy(x/gifs) via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/fDDf9AFSfs http://t.co/lDddyrOBpq
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Pearl Dragon by Mohammad Qureshi : ImaginaryLandscapes
Pearl Dragon by Mohammad Qureshi via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes http://t.co/8XC6n4o6FZ http://t.co/eglkMbHipr
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Finally. via /r/funny http://t.co/NeihNBMq0k http://t.co/EPi0lPvn8C
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Weekend of Wonder: It wouldn’t be Boing Boing without cute cats – Boing Boing
Cute pictures of cats are such a big part of what makes the internet great, to Boing Boing anyways, that we couldn’t possibly put on the Weekend of Wonder with out “kittehs” being involved. Luckily for us, we happen to friends with Perre DiCarlo!
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Driving Your Car Will Soon Be Illegal | TechCrunch
Driving a car will be illegal by 2030. Our economy will be severely impacted as millions of truck drivers, cabbies and delivery people are put out of work. In this era of endless innovation, man’s century-long relationship with the automobile is abo…
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London Skyline [OC][2048X2769] : CityPorn
London Skyline [OC][2048X2769] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/nlG52E2rTx http://t.co/wc4Y7hLjzJ
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Beauitful bridge http://t.co/aZwjgGZCAN http://t.co/v5WZqzRIn5 http://t.co/xJuYYLGUxW
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Beauitful bridge http://t.co/aZwjgGZCAN http://t.co/v5WZqzRIn5 http://t.co/xJuYYLGUxW
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How the universe began and how humanity will drown: A scientist’s to-do list | Grist
No pressure, scientists, but you just got your marching orders for the next 10 years, and, well, you’ve got your work cut out for you: Understand the origins of the universe (cosmic inflation, the quantum nature of gravity, the nature of everything,…
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This makes an excellent pillow (x-post r/aww) via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/LNEx5hDZJ4 http://t.co/sAOsOKaMHv
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How Did Rare White Whale Spotted Off Australia Get That Way?
The ominous insect, immortalized in The Silence of the Lambs, has rapid, accordion-like mouthparts that allow it to make sound, a new study says.
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Is Jay Z’s New All-Pinot Champagne Worth $760 a Bottle? – Bloomberg Business
Rapper Jay Z’s latest venture, an all-pinot Armand de Brignac “Ace of Spades” Champagne, will be released in October. A few tastes were doled out at Vinexpo in Bordeaux in June, but alas, Shawn Corey Carter didn’t drop by the booth as everyone hoped…
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Secret of “Death” Moth’s Scary Squeak Revealed
Every day is Valentine’s Day for the gold swift moth, which may have the most advanced mating system of any insect.
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Chasm Lake, Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park [1920×1080] [OC] : EarthPorn
Chasm Lake, Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park [1920×1080] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/4NBWkNYNRI http://t.co/kDr4cgafrR
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For a while, it was looking like David Lynch wasn’t going to be involved in Showtime’s reboot of Twin Peaks because of a money dispute. But now that he’s locked back in to direct all episodes of the upcoming season, more details have begun to emerge…
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The police chief in the Dallas suburb of Arlington has fired an officer who fatally shot an unarmed Texas college football player.
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This Failed Experiment Is Still Causing Farmers Trouble Almost a Decade Later
Nine years ago, an E. coli outbreak led to an expensive, labor-intensive change to the way a lot of our farms operated. But things didn’t get better—in fact, they got worse. In 2006, there was a particularly nasty, in some case even fatal, E. coli o…
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Deadspin Report: Geno Smith Got His Jaw Broken Over A $600 Plane Ticket | Gizmodo LA Dumps Millions of Plastic Balls in City Reservoir to Fight Drought | Jezebel A Timeline of Kelly Rutherford’s Six-Year Custody Battle | Lifehacker Peeling Back the …
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Indian Teenager Dies After Setting Herself on Fire Over Alleged Sexual Harassment | VICE News
A teenage girl in the Indian state of Punjab died today from burns covering some 75 percent of her body that she sustained after setting herself on fire, a day after she told authorities that she was driven to do so by days of sexual harassment at t…
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New Details on How Homeland Will Radically Reinvent Itself for Season 5 | Vanity Fair
Just how different will the dramatically altered fifth season of Homeland be? Well, according to Showtime president David Nevins, we’re in for a whole new story and maybe a radical shake-up is just what the drama needs.
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Last month, we passed on reports that Lily Rabe would be playing a “famous serial killer” on American Horror Story: Hotel, the latest incarnation of Ryan Murphy’s long-running horror anthology.
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“The Walking Deadpool” pits Rick Grimes against Wade Wilson · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It’s not immediately clear what’s going on in this fan-made Walking Dead/Deadpool crossover.
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How Columbia House Made Me Cool Overnight | WIRED
It’s easy to romanticize the days of physical media. I’m just old enough to remember the thrill of tracking down a hard-to-find album in a used CD bin and the pleasure of owning something special. I remember how long a new album seemed to last befor…
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There’s an Entire Scientific Industry Focused on Making Mutant Fish
How do you get fish to develop a third set of chromosomes? This is something that many smart people have been working on for a long time. In fact, triploid fish are the only legal kind of fish to farm in many areas. Learn why we need to screw around…
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Listen to the Hauntingly Beautiful Sounds of Icelandic Cave Singing
A thousand years ago, Gaelic monks sang and chanted inside Iceland’s vast series of caves. Recently, a group of folk singers made the trek inside one of these caves to test out the acoustics. Here’s what it sounded like.
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She cried the whole time I was taking a dump. : AdviceAnimals
She cried the whole time I was taking a dump. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/e0XCC28o4U http://t.co/rk6q8Ezo5C
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Podcast: We Tell John Starks Why He Was The J.R. Smith Of The ’90s | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 11, 2015), we revisit the career of an NBA cult favorite.
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How Famous Comedians Deal With Hecklers – Digg
From Richard Pryor and George Carlin to current luminaries like Patton Oswalt and Louis CK, every comic inevitably has to deal with some jerk who thinks a show is actually a conversation.
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How a Mail-Order Music Scam Taught Me to Steal
It’s hard to say exactly when I learned how to steal music. At first, I think it happened when I learned how to torrent. Then I recall my late nights with Napster. But if I really think hard about it, I remember middle school and Columbia House and …
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wig 20$, glances of neighbors – priceless! : funny
wig 20$, glances of neighbors – priceless! via /r/funny http://t.co/sbOtwqS7Ty http://t.co/djqKIP0Wdd
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Sunset Near Monterey, CA [3264×1836] [OC] : seaporn
Sunset Near Monterey, CA [3264×1836] [OC] via /r/seaporn http://t.co/yAvvZJyZYB http://t.co/7C6oFUiM2J
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6 Tricks to Double Your Chipotle Burrito Size (for free!)
It’s basically a universal truth that the only thing better than Chipotle is…more Chipotle. I’m no religious scholar, but I’m pretty sure heaven is just one big Chipotle restaurant where the guac and chips are ALWAYS free and hell is just some Taco …
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Hillary Clinton agrees to private meeting with Black Lives Matter activists | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton agreed to meet privately with representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement after the activists were kept out of a New Hampshire campaign event by Secret Service agents who said the space had reached its full capacity.
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Perseid Meteor Shower Sky Maps for 2015
Perseid Meteor Shower Sky Maps for 2015 http://t.co/lR3jMNi0k7
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The Obama administration has intervened in a lawsuit over Palestinian terror attacks that have killed Americans, advising a judge that requiring a hefty bond payment in the case could financially destabilize the Palestinian government.
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Trump: I Would Attack ISIS on Twitter – The New Yorker
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In an effort to boost his foreign-policy credentials, the billionaire Donald Trump on Tuesday said that, if he were elected President, he would defeat ISIS with “brutal and relentless” attacks on Twitter.
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Does Hillary Clinton’s College Plan Go Far Enough? – The New Yorker
Nathan Hornes, a twenty-five-year-old musician from Southern California, recently had a run of bad luck that changed his life. In 2010, after his mother insisted he pursue a higher degree, he chose a campus of Everest College, run by the for-profit …
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Is the Ben Affleck Nanny “Scandal” Finally Over? | Vanity Fair
Now that the alleged Ben Affleck nanny scandal has lost momentum, slowing to a dribble drabble of suspiciously sourced information in your favorite grocery-store glossies, gossip Web sites are resorting to desperate measures to wring—actually, ring—…
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Jeb Bush plans a major foreign policy speech tonight that will blame the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton for mishandling Iraq and terrorism, and allowing the rise of the Islamic State.
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A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Inmates Allege Horrifying Abuse by Prison Guards During June Manhunt f | Vanity Fair
During the manhunt for two convicted murderers in upstate New York in June, a group of prison guards allegedly tortured several dozen inmates, beating, choking, and psychologically tormenting them to get them to admit that they’d aided the escapees,…
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HONG KONG — As President Xi Jinping of China prepares for a state visit to Washington next month to smooth over troubled relations, his government has just turned the spotlight back on what had been a fading issue: the value of his country’s currenc…
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Video Appears to Show Teen With Gun Moments Before Police Shot Him in Ferguson | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. St. Louis County police have released surveillance footage of the chaotic scene on August 9 that led to the police shooting of 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr.…
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Jeb Bush plans a major foreign policy speech tonight that will blame the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton for mishandling Iraq and terrorism, and allowing the rise of the Islamic State. The site: the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Sim…
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Jets Coach Todd Bowles on Fight – Video – NYTimes.com
Coach Bowles of the Jets said Tuesday that the quarterback Geno Smith will be out six to 10 weeks after a punch from a teammate left him with a broken jaw.
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Flashback: Blake Shelton Starts Road to Fame in ‘Austin’ | Rolling Stone
In 1998, songwriter Bobby Braddock (“D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” “He Stopped Loving Her Today”) was getting ready to produce a new artist from Oklahoma. In his upcoming memoir, A Life on Music Row, due this fall, Braddock recalls that the singer was “tall, funn…
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One of our cats, Aria – 4 Years old. : cats
One of our cats, Aria – 4 Years old. via /r/cats http://t.co/3Pv5uva8iU http://t.co/J71hVTcfWr
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Casper wouldn’t move when I was making the bed, so I tucked him in instead. : cats
Casper wouldn’t move when I was making the bed, so I tucked him in instead. via /r/cats http://t.co/gRShgAOxRW http://t.co/uIJkOs3ofh
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Belly up on a hot summer day : cats
Belly up on a hot summer day via /r/cats http://t.co/bqxX6Opdde http://t.co/qc5bVobd6q
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Brace yourselves: winter is coming. And by winter I mean the slow heat-death of the Universe, and by brace yourselves I mean don’t get terribly concerned because the process will take a very, very, very long time. (But still, it’s coming.)
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One can only assume that before Larry Page and Sergey Brin chose Alphabet as the name for their new holding company, they Googled it. If so, they would have discovered that the Internet domain alphabet.
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Newly proposed 6 federal provinces of Nepal. [600×400] : MapPorn
Newly proposed 6 federal provinces of Nepal. [600×400] via /r/MapPorn http://t.co/HTavscvG6l http://t.co/o6cNoyRfV6
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Canadian Man Kills Dragon in Campaign Ad — NYMag
“Let’s be realistic … the odds of getting elected as an independent are so slim,” Wyatt Scott, who is running for Parliament in British Columbia, told The National Post. However, as his recent campaign ad shows, that doesn’t mean he can’t make voter…
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An international press freedom group has called on US defense secretary Ash Carter to revise “dangerous” language of a new Pentagon manual that says journalists can become “unprivileged belligerents” akin to spies or saboteurs.
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The Flash Gives Us an Amazing First Look at Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash!
We’ve known for a while that The Flash would be bringing in the original Flash, Jay Garrick, in its second season.
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Sure being a stand-up comedian isn’t as hard as, say, digging ditches. But it does come with a few notable downsides: Weird hours, little structure, the crippling anxiety of having to be funny, and, of course, hecklers.
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Britney Spears is set to guest star as herself in the fifth episode of the upcoming second season of Jane The Virgin, Variety reports.
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Although Donald Trump was always destined to dominate the first Republican presidential debate, there was one moment from the night in particular, involving Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, which may go on to define his candidacy.
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Matt Ryan’s John Constantine lives, will appear on Arrow · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As long prophesied in some ancient book deep within The House Of Mystery—and also this Newswire—the snarky, cynical, chain-smoking, Sting-looking demon hunter known as John Constantine will officially be crossing over into the world of The CW’s Arro…
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Does the G.O.P. Need a New Machine? – The New Yorker
When Martin O’Malley, one of the back-running Democratic Presidential candidates, accused “party bosses” of fixing the nomination process, it was enough to bring on a wave of nostalgia.
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Barber shop in abandoned prison, Florida [OC] [4194 x 4194] : AbandonedPorn
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Goose Lake Dries Up : Image of the Day
Several lakes straddling the California–Oregon border are ephemeral. One of them, Goose Lake has a long history of filling and then drying out. In 2015, it disappeared again. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these views of Goo…
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Sunset in Nafplio, Greece (1024 x 550) [OC] : waterporn
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Hank’s pretty happy with his new PlentyOfFish profile picture blep. : Blep
Hank’s pretty happy with his new PlentyOfFish profile picture blep. via /r/Blep http://t.co/Kisr1OW1Q1 http://t.co/n70uLsXOo2
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Fox the Cat via /r/cats http://t.co/AV08Y9POS5 http://t.co/8RsVgPaEBb
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Reminder: Get Your Discounted Student Tickets To Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
Disrupt SF is coming up fast, and we still have some student tickets available for the show at the deeply discounted price of $300 a piece.
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Oklahoma governor denies execution delay for inmate despite opposition | US news | The Guardian
Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin says she has no plans to delay next month’s execution of a man condemned for his role in a 1997 killing, despite concerns raised by death penalty opponents that he is innocent.
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Amnesty International Votes to Push for the Decriminalization of Sex Work | VICE News
Amnesty International members voted Tuesday to officially advocate for the decriminalization of sex work, amid backlash from anti-trafficking groups and Hollywood celebrities.
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The Abyss Table via /r/woahdude http://t.co/FGCoGZ8L5c http://t.co/muDHlYb6k8
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There’s always that one couple : funny
There’s always that one couple via /r/funny http://t.co/CijRc8F0Dp http://t.co/K1INBc3QUh
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Strawberry picking machine : gif
Strawberry picking machine via /r/gif http://t.co/qkIscb7oAj http://t.co/jJTLxcTnxd
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MFW my girlfiend says I’m much better at sex than all my friends – GIF on Imgur
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Mulder And Scully Are Back In X-Files Action In This Week’s New Comics!
Sure, they might be coming back to TV until 2016, but this week X-Files’ 11th season kicks off in a new run of comics.
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Amnesty International Votes to Decriminalize Sex Work | VICE News
Amnesty International members voted Tuesday to officially advocate for the decriminalization of sex work, amid backlash from anti-trafficking groups and Hollywood celebrities.
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Hackers Busted in Insider Trading Scheme | WIRED
If you take apart Oracle’s software and find a hackable vulnerability, don’t tell the company. Or at least not its chief security officer. That, in short, is the message of a nearly 3,000-word rant Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson wro…
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Donald Trump misread a Warren Buffett quote as an endorsement
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The CW is making a The Notebook series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Capitalizing on the ever-present romantic allure of wasting neurodegenerative diseases, The CW has announced that it’s developing a TV series based on Nicholas Sparks’ bestselling Alzheimer’s romance The Notebook and its subsequent film adaptation.
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Google Will No Longer Build Driverless Cars – Observations – Scientific American Blog Network
Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created a collection of companies called Alphabet that let will let Google focus on search while other entities shoot for the moon.
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Your ‘Star Wars’ fan art could be featured in an official Lucasfilm gallery show
Stories Email
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Matt Ryan to Return as Constantine on Arrow!
John Constantine lives! He just doesn’t have his own TV series any more. But there’s some good news as Arrow has just announced that actor Matt Ryan will reprise his role as DC’s most dickish wizard for an upcoming episode of the show’s fourth seaso…
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Martin Luther King’s first I Have a Dream speech recording unearthed | US news | The Guardian
Months before the Rev Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.
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EPA Chief: Colorado Mine Spill ‘pains Me’ | Al Jazeera America
“It is really a tragic and very unfortunate incident, and EPA is taking responsibility to ensure that that spill is cleaned up,” McCarthy said. “I am absolutely, deeply sorry that this ever happened.
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How One Image Comics Artist Said Goodbye to Paper
Today most comic artists use computers to assist with their art, but going full digital is still a big leap. In an in-depth essay on SKTCHD, artist Christian Ward shows how he left paper behind starting with Issue #6 of his Image comic ODY-C, a scie…
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Bottle caps are scary. via /r/cats http://t.co/XdbSBN8R8m http://t.co/m8egVFpsyZ
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Grenoble, France [OC][2400×1600] : CityPorn
Grenoble, France [OC][2400×1600] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/0YFRT67Uxh http://t.co/TykceTBw1M
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Just finished up a desert environment sketch, thought i’d share. : ImaginaryLandscapes
Just finished up a desert environment sketch, thought i’d share. via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes http://t.co/jQolUq77i9 http://t.co/oFkO7n9wOZ
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This could be a huge move for air-pollution monitoring | Grist
A few years ago, I moved to a cool neighborhood. It didn’t seem cool at first; it was in a sprawling, industrial area. But I soon found out that the neighborhood had its charms –- and a reputation. “I’d love to buy a place there!” a friend gushed. “…
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By far one of the most uncomfortable situations I’ve ever been in via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/H9UwQo9Fd5 http://t.co/C1hujI8LbF
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His Holiness approves of our Trappist works. : monkslookingatbeer
His Holiness approves of our Trappist works. via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/OnkfQVw1l8 http://t.co/45uLo2t8AR
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Power washing always amazes me. : pics
Power washing always amazes me. via /r/pics http://t.co/Z9Gi0Y15mw http://t.co/EdS9aT26yE
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Telluride, Colorado in July [OC] [1136×758] : EarthPorn
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Everyone knows having a lot of money will make you happy, but this trailer for Showtime’s Billions suggests that maybe, just maybe, having a lot of money doesn’t actually make you a nice person.
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Texas woman accuses police of sexual assault over body-cavity strip search | US news | The Guardian
A woman has accused sheriff’s deputies in Texas of sexually assaulting her at a gas station by stripping her and conducting a body cavity search without her consent during a traffic stop.
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Real Stuff: “The Strange Saga of Hoggie and the Blossoms” – Boing Boing
Published 2:29 pm Tue, Aug 11, 2015
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Serena Williams rallies from behind to blast Flavia Pennetta in Toronto | Sport | The Guardian
Top-ranked Serena Williams rebounded to beat Italy’s Flavia Pennetta 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Tuesday in the first round of the WTA Tour’s Rogers Cup. The 21-time Grand Slam winner won a day after sister Venus Williams was eliminated in straight sets by Ger…
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#BlackLivesMatter Planned Clinton Event Protest — NYMag
The New Republic reported this afternoon that #BlackLivesMatter activists — who have protested at several recent Bernie Sanders campaign events — planned to disrupt a Hillary Clinton event on substance abuse in New Hampshire.
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The Notebook Is Being Adapted Into the TV Series of Your 2004 Dreams | Vanity Fair
What if The Notebook, the Nicholas Sparks adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, never had to end? What if this great American love story of MTV Award–winning “best kiss” fame could live on indefinitely in 30- to 60-minute, commercial-…
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In the new red-band trailer for Sleeping With Other People, “love addicts” Lainey (Alison Brie) and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) try their darndest not to sleep with each other.
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Jennifer Nettles to Play Dolly Parton’s Mother in TV Movie | Rolling Stone
Jennifer Nettles follows her ‘Chicago’ stint with a role in the Dolly Parton biopic. After making her Broadway debut earlier this year in the musical Chicago, Jennifer Nettles is adding to her acting resume.
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While the first trailer for the highly anticipated Jem And The Holograms movie showcased its modern updates, its self-empowerment message, and—for some reason—a One Direction song, it felt like there was one thing missing.
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Production logos confer a Pavlovian response, conditioning us to associate a given program with a brand flavor.
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Here’s the ‘outsider’ candidate Donald Trump voters should really be supporting
If you’re not a Republican, chances are that you already dislike Donald Trump.
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Christopher Guest Lands Netflix Deal for New Film, ‘Mascots’ | Rolling Stone
Actor-filmmaker Christopher Guest has revolutionized the “mockumentary” format, satirizing rock spectacle (This Is Spinal Tap), stage musicals (Waiting for Guffman), dog shows (Best in Show) and folk music (A Mighty Wind).
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Geno Smith’s Greatest Hits: A Timeline of Tomfoolery | Rolling Stone
With apologies to the tortured fanbases in Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland – and the citizens of Patriots Nation, currently the victims of a vast, Goodell-led conspiracy (according to them) – there isn’t a more beleaguered team in the NFL than the Ne…
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Cast 舞踊家／Dancer 東海林 靖志／YASUSHI SHOJI http://shojiyasushi.com YASUSHI SHOJI: INTERVIEW https://vimeo.com/130421615 Special Thanks to 飛生アートコミュニティー／TOBIU ART COMMUNITY http://www.tobiu.com http://tobiucamp.com In Association W
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HMB while I get back into this moving car : holdmybeer
HMB while I get back into this moving car via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/I2F24YeL3c http://t.co/U9xkGnMnJl
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The East African fable goes like this: A man frees a snake that is trapped between two rocks, and as a reward the snake gives him a charm that will allow him to hear what animals say, but only if the man keeps it a secret.
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Looking Glass Founders See Their L3D Cube As A New Type Of Display | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Looking Glass successfully raised $252,000 on Kickstarter ear for its 3D LED cube, dubbed the L3D Cube.
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Russian trolls spread government propaganda – Al Jazeera English
Propaganda has been used as a tool in conflict for decades. And today, the internet has become a platform to promote causes. In Russia, people are allegedly being paid to go online to promote the government’s message.
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The Activists Are the Stars of #BlackLivesMatter — NYMag
Cornel West was arrested during the Ferguson, Missouri, protests yesterday, and in the news photos he was uniquely identifiable — the scholar wearing a formal black tie and scarf amidst the throng of demonstrators in T-shirts.
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Patreon Makes Space To Create | TC Cribs | TechCrunch
In today’s episode of Cribs we head to San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood to check out the digs at Patreon, a subscription-based funding platform for artists. This also happens to be the episode where I take over as the new host of the show. Hello my…
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This Mad Max/Adventure Time Cartoon Is Shiny and Chrome Beyond Imagining
Hey, remember that bewilderingly awesome Adventure Time and Mad Max: Fury Road mash-up art made by Ryan May? Well, Egor Zghun has taken it into the world of animation, and the results are just as fantastic.
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Jeb Bush’s ISIL strategy – Al Jazeera English
His brother launched a war in the Middle East that cost tens of thousands of lives and is now partly blamed for the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL).
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Penny Dreadful creator adapting Patti Smith’s memoir for Showtime · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Among the interesting tidbits of information to come out of Showtime’s presentation at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, here’s one of the more unexpected: Apparently proto-punk poet Patti Smith is a big fan of the network’s horror seri…
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Inspired by Ryan May ( Mad Max / Adventure Time: http://www.thecityofpyramids.com/mad-…)© Egor Zhgun | http://zhgun.ru
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Ready to Die: Three Days of Drugs and Disintegration with The Grateful Dead | NOISEY
All photos by Petya Shalamanova run through the DeepDreamGenerator. Day One: Now You Have the Universal Experience?
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overshare: the links.net story
Justin Hall has been sharing his life online for over 20 years at links.net. Justin’s Links from the Underground was one of the first sites I found and read regularly, back in the mid 90s. Now Hall has made a documentary about his time online, overs…
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Watermelon carving. via /r/gifs http://t.co/2yprGZN576 http://t.co/7kzPNLuNhd
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Strawberry picking machine : interestingasfuck
Strawberry picking machine via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/912CJHm5GK http://t.co/6jsIurE5MW
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this entire experience was so surreal and I had to… – No Style, No Grace
this entire experience was so surreal and I had to share it immediately
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What A Bar Graph Can Tell Us About The Legionnaires’ Outbreak In New York | FiveThirtyEight
At a press conference in New York City on Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio brought along a bar graph that he said represented the evidence necessary to show that a lethal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease had passed.
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Four Reasons Not to Panic About the Yankees — NYMag
Two weeks ago today, the Yankees had a seven-game lead over second-place Baltimore in the American League East, while the Toronto Blue Jays sat in fourth place, eight games out. At the time, Baseball Prospectus had the Yankees’ odds of winning the d…
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Lawrence Lessig wants to turn the 2016 election upside down
Creative Commons co-founder and political activist Lawrence Lessig is forming a committee to run for president, he announced on Tuesday. And he has a plan to flip American politics on its head.
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OnePlus 2 invites fetched $70,000 (for charity)
OnePlus, the smartphone manufacturer behind the ever-exclusive OnePlus 1 and OnePlus 2, has raised $70,000 for UNICEF by auctioning off invites for its new OnePlus 2 smartphone.
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UN peacekeepers raped a 12-year-old girl during security operations in the capital of the Central African Republic earlier this month, according to investigators at Amnesty International. The UN had not publicly reported the rape allegation when Amn…
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The Fan Letdown Trailer: Jem and the Holograms | WIRED
If you spent the last trailer for Jem and the Holograms wondering “Where on Earth is Synergy?” then this new clip should make you feel better—kind of. Or maybe not at all.
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Fans help William Shatner create a 6,000-photo mosaic tribute to Spock
On Sunday Shatner revealed why. He was collecting the images for a GISHWHES task: a tribute to friend and fellow Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy.
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Do You Suffer From Foot Orgasm Syndrome?
In 2013, researchers identified a woman who, 5 or 6 times a day, would experience spontaneous orgasms originating in her left foot. They called her condition, straightforwardly enough, Foot Orgasm Syndrome (FOS). Now, they’re searching for others li…
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Turning point in Yemen’s war? – Al Jazeera English
Houthi rebels in Yemen are on the back foot, as pro-government forces – loyal to the exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi – continue to recapture significant amounts of territory. Most of southern Yemen is now held by forces loyal to Hadi.
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How to double your reading speed (without losing comprehension)
Billionaire Bill Gates wishes that if he had one superpower, it would be the ability to read faster. Information is the most valuable commodity out there, and our ability to read faster can undoubtly speed up how fast we learn.
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Old ferry terminal on Boblo Island (OC) [5312 x 2988] : AbandonedPorn
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Driver fatigue cited as cause of crash that injured comedian
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board is blaming a fatigued Wal-Mart truck driver for a highway crash last year that severely injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian.
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Some kind of yucca, I think. [OC][4288×3216] : BotanicalPorn
Some kind of yucca, I think. [OC][4288×3216] via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/UqCUKtEgwg http://t.co/BdpvVwpfnS
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Rain via /r/natureporn http://t.co/TSvPqAYgZu http://t.co/IiDFozFK4p
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White militiamen roam Ferguson with rifles while black men falsely arrested | US news | The Guardian
A group of young black men were incorrectly arrested on suspicion of firearm possession during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, as a group of white militiamen, armed with automatic rifles and wearing body armour and camouflage claimed they were gran…
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Delight your friends with a coffee mug that has fake cigarette butts in it – Boing Boing
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Trump Poll Watch: Post-Debate, He’d Win Iowa, New Hampshire | Rolling Stone
Trump Poll Watch: Post-Debate, He’d Win Iowa, New Hampshire Despite his controversial remarks about Megyn Kelly, Trump’s poll numbers in key primary states remain strong
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The Who in 1968 : OldSchoolCool
The Who in 1968 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/6oWOloBHJW http://t.co/Gei0C1xvxt
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Can Chuck Schumer Kill the Iran Deal? | The Nation
Since Iran and world powers struck a historic nuclear deal in July, all eyes have fallen on Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democrat from New York. Last Thursday, the notoriously camera hungry Schumer released a long statement announcing his opposition i…
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Eight hours labor, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours of rest. – Imgur
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Benedict Cumberbatch says people filming him on stage is ‘mortifying’
To record or not to record; that is the question. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, of Sherlock and The Imitation Game fame, recently stepped out of the stage door of the theatre at which he’s performing and asked patrons not to film him in his current ro…
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Back in the day the only distinction comic book fans had to worry about was Marvel versus DC. But with Marvel Comics’ characters licensed to multiple studios and the term “Marvel movie” used as shorthand for the stuff produced by Marvel Studios (a.k…
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Coal will be hit hardest by the Abbott government’s new greenhouse gas targets and global climate action – with a 14% cut in the value of coal production in 2030 due to the new Australian target and an 8% cut due to the policies of other countries.
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Alphabet Could Give Google Employees More (Stock) Options | WIRED
Though Google is now many companies—a wide array of businesses that operate under a new umbrella called Alphabet—these businesses still share a common stock.
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European Tour drops sanctioning of Bridgestone Invitational in 2016 | Sport | The Guardian
Although those involved in the process will hastily deny as much, the sense the European Tour has put down a Ryder Cup marker by withdrawing its co-sanctioning of next year’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is impossible to ignore. Pertinently, it has …
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Tom Hardy Developing Vertigo’s Pulp Noir Comic 100 Bullets for Big Screen
After years bouncing around from big name to big name, the amazing comic series 100 Bullets may have found its champion. Tom Hardy, Bane and Mad Max himself, has signed on to produce and potentially star in a big-screen adaptation of the Vertigo com…
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The most widely used herbicide in the United States is “probably carcinogenic” to humans, according to the World Heath Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Glyphosate is the main ingredient in agrochemical giant Monsant…
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Roundup Is the Most Used Herbicide in the US and It’s ‘Probably Carcinogenic’ | VICE News
The most widely used herbicide in the United States is “probably carcinogenic” to humans, according to the World Heath Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Glyphosate is the main ingredient in agrochemical giant Monsant…
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How Audrey Hepburn, Pharrell, and Tom Ford Inspired the 2015 Best-Dressed List | Vanity Fair
Emma Watson and Sofia CoppolaPerhaps Coppola’s fashion sense rubbed off on Watson while they worked together on the set of the The Bling Ring, as Watson named the director as one of the people whose style she admires most.
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Fun bar soap in the form of Nintendo 64 cartridges – Boing Boing
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You’re Going to Love to Hate Homeland’s Damian Lewis in His New Showtime Series | Vanity Fair
No matter how bad things got with Congressman Nicholas Brody on Homeland, there was a part of us that was always supposed to love him a little. Sure, he was a terrorist, but such a gosh darn likable one! Well all that likability is out the window fo…
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Local anger swells at EPA over toxic gold mine spill in Animas River | Environment | The Guardian
Townspeople watching millions of gallons of orange-colored mine waste flow through their communities demanded clarity on Tuesday about possible long-term threats to their water supply.
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Mattel Toys Like He-Man, Barbie and Hot Wheels Get A Beautiful Art Show
Odds are the toys you loved as a child are gone. Either your parents still have them, someone threw them away or they magically disappeared. Now that you’re grown up though, if you want to relive those memories, a new Mattel art show will let you do…
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The Friends Stars Who Weren’t Invited to Jennifer Aniston’s Wedding | Vanity Fair
Remember those terrifying hours when all we had to go on about the Jennifer Aniston-Justin Theroux wedding was a TMZ report, and Courteney Cox wasn’t listed as one of the guests? Remember the great rift in the Friends universe it seemed to portend, …
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Tom Hardy to produce film adaptation of 100 Bullets · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Hardy and New Line are developing an adaptation of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s 100 Bullets comic series. The script will be written by The Vatican Tapes’ Chris Borrelli, and Hardy is considering starr…
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Mint flower mid-bloom (Mentha spicata, I think) [1520×2688] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Silene acaulis (moss campion, cushion pink) 5312×2988 [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Brother Bruno Is Hoppy To Pour Another : monkslookingatbeer
Brother Bruno Is Hoppy To Pour Another via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/oNAvmdMPRD http://t.co/UwQIDy1D0d
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/7367WijOCC http://t.co/TVovFt25jd
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Side sleeping may clean up ‘mess’ in brains – Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Sleeping on your side—rather than your back or stomach—may be the best way to rid your brain of waste.
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Don’t be that guy or this can happen : gifs
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IKEA makes a big promise on LEDs, clean energy | Grist
We’ve all heard the horror stories about IKEA: The couple who goes to purchase matching bed stands and ends up breaking up in the Lounging & Relaxing section; the dad who accidentally fell asleep on a faux leather armchair and is still there, 10 yea…
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Geno Smith, the Jets’ starting quarterback, will miss at least the next six to 10 weeks after sustaining a broken jaw when he was punched by a teammate in the locker room Tuesday morning, Coach Todd Bowles said.
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Murals in Harlem show birds like you’ve never seen them before | Grist
If you know New York City, you’re familiar with rolldown gates. Also known as “riot gates,” they’re the ribbed metal walls that shopkeepers installed after the riots of the 1960s. At night, when stores are closed, they roll down in front of the wind…
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Want to go to an eco-friendly college? Here are the 10 best. | Grist
When I was in college a mere decade and a half ago, if anyone used the word “green,” I would have assumed they were referring to marijuana.
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Let’s Build a New Borough – The Awl
In late 2014, reports surfaced of a floating park that would be constructed in the Hudson River. The stilted park, financed by Barry Diller, would feature paths, open spaces, and a concert venue, and would cost roughly a hundred and thirty million d…
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Lassen Peak from a meadow below [OC] [3000×1048] : EarthPorn
Lassen Peak from a meadow below [OC] [3000×1048] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/lTLc8IVOHd http://t.co/PztddPYjZr
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ImpactFlow wants to bring nonprofits and businesses together for greater social impact
Events that benefit a worthy cause are always a good idea. Arranging those events — that’s not so easy. ImpactFlow, a startup out of Portland, OR, aims to make the planning process easier with an automated matching platform for businesses and indivi…
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Apple Shares Tumble 5% Amidst China Concerns | TechCrunch
Apple suffered a 5% drop in its share price Tuesday as Wall Street reacted strongly to news from China that the government is further devaluing the yuan. The currency devaluation is likely to increase import costs of devices for Apple in the region.
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Colorado Toxic Spill Turns Animas River Orange – The Atlantic
This is your brain on shopping, and it’s not very smart. You walk into a Starbucks and see two deals for a cup of coffee. The first deal offers 33% extra coffee. The second takes 33% off the regular price. What’s the better deal?
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Showtime ends Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Showtime has canceled Web Therapy, the Lisa Kudrow-led cable series. Showtime president David Nevins shared the news during the TCA press tour Tuesday, telling THR that the half-hour comedy was “done” and would n…
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Guards Reportedly Beat Up Inmates at Clinton — NYMag
After two inmates escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in early June, leaving everyone to wonder what awful things might happen outside the prison’s walls, there were plenty of horrible things already happening to the prisoners still trapp…
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Nebraska farmer quoted $383,000 for rural Internet service
Think your cable company charges you an arm and a leg for broadband Internet service? Your ISP woes are likely nothing compared to one Nebraska farmer who was quoted the downright astronomical price of $383,500 to upgrade to fiber-based Internet ser…
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It’s Operating Systems Vs. Messaging Apps In The Battle For Tech’s Next Frontier | TechCrunch
As mobile devices continue to explore and colonize the technology landscape, their conquests are leading us to a new era, beyond search and apps.
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Arizona prison bus crashes as inmates tend to injured and direct traffic | US news | The Guardian
A prison bus carrying about 50 inmates slammed into a rolled-over semi-truck, injuring the bus driver and some 20 inmates, authorities said.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment, and Ferguson – The Atlantic
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, grounded his opinion in the exceptional nature of cellphones. “They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televi…
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Chicago, catch a free advance preview of Fox’s new fall shows · Contest · The A.V. Club
As summer turns to fall, the only things guaranteed to be more inescapable than pumpkin spice lattes are ads for new network shows. Fox, for one, has a lot riding on its new Tuesday night schedule, a shiny comedy lineup with an emphasis on some fami…
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Don’t Take Your Cellphones to See Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet’ – The Atlantic
Part of the magic of live theater is that it exists in a space that is totally removed from the outside world.
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Read This: An oral history of Lollapalooza 1995 · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Lollapalooza revolutionized the way Americans experience large musical festivals with its multiple stages, carnival midway and cross-genre acts, bringing a taste of England’s famous five-day Glastonbury Festival to the United States.
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Arrow adds a new old love interest for Oliver Queen · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Just one day after we reported that his little sister will be getting a new beau to help her forget about Colton Haynes’ Parkour Boy, Entertainment Weekly says that Arrow’s Oliver Queen will also be getting a new love interest in the show’s upcoming…
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Nest 1 [2000×1500] [OC] : FractalPorn
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Catloaf Blep via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/NqJR5e9lOz http://t.co/62l9fThZay
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Newest Firefighting Technology : interestingasfuck
Newest Firefighting Technology via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/dfcN9mTUOx http://t.co/WPVNXm51LJ
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The invention of the era of flight
David McCullough (Truman, John Adams, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award) recently published a new book on The Wright Brothers. James Salter has a nice review in the New York Review of Books. They knew exactly the importance of what they had accomp…
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Meet Eight New Afrofuturism Artists Creating a Future of Color
This stunning gallery on Blavity showcases eight up-and-coming visual artists influenced by Afrofuturism, science fiction that explores the experiences and culture of people of color. They’re amazingly diverse not just in their sci-fi visions, but t…
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Hillary Clinton And Jeb Bush Had An Epic Photoshop Fight On Twitter | WIRED
Jeb Bush recently took to Twitter to offer Hillary Clinton some graphic design advice. The Republican presidential candidate, whose logo has drawn its own special breed of attention, offered what you might call a reworking of Clinton’s divisive ‘H’ …
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ISIL frees 22 Assyrian Christians held since February – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released 22 Assyrian Christians who were abducted along with over 200 others in Syria last February, Al Jazeera has learnt.
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Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance | WIRED
Daniel Negari is the founder of .XYZ, the company that acts as the registry operator for the .xyz domain. When I interviewed him for WIRED’s April issue, he told me, “We end the alphabet in ‘xyz’ and we should end domain names the same way.” It turn…
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Meanwhile in the Future: You Can Live for 300 Years, But You’ll Be in Prison
What if “life in prison” could mean 100 or 200 or 400 years? Does that change the way that sentences are doled out? What happens when a person gets out of prison? For all of you who’ve written in asking me to do an episode about longevity, this epis…
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William Shatner, ‘Star Trek’ Fans Honor Leonard Nimoy with Epic Selfie Mosaic
More than 6,000 “Star Trek” fans are now part of a giant online tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who played the Vulcan Spock on the famed series.
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Health Experts Say Coca-Cola is Funding its Own Science to Deliberately Mislead the Public
The Global Energy Balance Network— a research institute supported by Coca-Cola—is claiming that exercise, and not diet, is the best way to prevent weight gain. It’s a dubious and self-serving message that’s not going over well amongst diet and obesi…
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A Canadian Pharmacy Is Accused of Selling Counterfeit Cancer Drugs to US Doctors | VICE News
US prosecutors are charging a Canadian pharmacy website with smuggling, money laundering, and conspiracy after it allegedly sold millions of dollars worth of counterfeit cancer medications to American doctors.
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Lessons Learned From NBC’s English Soccer Buy | Al Jazeera America
But it also crystallizes a number of trends and changes in U.S. sports culture and beyond.
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overshare: the links.net story
Hello, my name is Justin Hall and I’ve been sharing my personal life in explicit detail online for over twenty years. Starting in 1994, my personal web site Justin’s Links from the Underground has documented family secrets, romantic relationships, a…
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Hammerhead by Dmitry Miroshnikov / 500px
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A Bolivian Subway in the Sky (16 photos)
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Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, or at least their campaign staff, spent Monday night posting altered versions of each other’s campaign slogans and logos, in a check-out-how-tech-savvy-I-am fight that might as well have been hashtagged #DownWithTheKids.
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A very common gender inequality that rarely makes headlines. – Meme on Imgur
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Dems rally around Schumer despite Iran stance | TheHill
Democratic senators say Sen. Charles Schumer’s opposition to President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran won’t prevent him from becoming their next leader. Even a potential rival to Schumer said Democratic senators who back the Iran deal will not turn …
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An Inmate’s Take on Life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary – The Atlantic
Joseph Norfleet is serving life in prison after missing his intended target in a drive-by shooting and killing a 9-year-old boy in 1994. In this video, Jeffrey Goldberg visits him in the Louisiana State Penitentiary to discuss his experience in pris…
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Perseid Meteor Shower Set to Peak on Weds. and Thurs. – Scientific American
The Perseid meteor shower is the most widely observed and dependable annual meteor display of the year, and its peak this week has all the earmarks of being an excellent example of celestial fireworks, weather permitting.
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Inside Angola Prison: Jeffrey Goldberg Visits The Louisiana State Penitentiary – The Atlantic
There are more than 6,000 men currently imprisoned at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola—three-quarters of them are there for life, and nearly 80 percent are African American.
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Should We Be Worried About the Twin Peaks Revival? | Vanity Fair
Ever since director David Lynch and Showtime announced that the cult TV classic Twin Peaks would be returning for a third season, fans of the original have been eagerly gobbling up news like it was freshly baked cherry pie.
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US PGA Championship: McIlroy may have to play through pain, says Woods | Sport | The Guardian
The most stark warning yet regarding the challenges Rory McIlroy will encounter on his return to action at the US PGA Championship has arrived from Tiger Woods.
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A Conversation With New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Ending Gun Violence – The Atlantic
About 6,000 African American men have been murdered in the city of New Orleans since 1980. As Jeffrey Goldberg writes in the September issue of The Atlantic, Mayor Mitch Landrieu has made it a priority to curb the violence.
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Can Google Become a Normal Business? – The New Yorker
My colleagues Ken Auletta and Vauhini Vara have already posted insightful accounts of Google’s decision to reinvent itself. Quoting a former Google employee, Ken writes that the company’s co-founder Larry Page, who returned to the C.E.O.
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8 unexplained images sent back by the Mars Curiosity Rover
NASA’s Curiosity Rover—the tricked-out Roomba that rolls around Mars collecting data about our neighboring planet’s environment—has sent back many a stunning image from its explorations.
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A Woman Wore Her Fitbit During Sex and Replicated a Classic Experiment
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Having Fun at Camp N.S.A.! – The New Yorker
As campers around the country sleep under the stars and dive into mountain lakes, 1,400 youths have packed their overnight bags or lunchboxes for a very different experience. They are attending dozens of free overnight and day camps across the count…
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MRW I look up and suddenly I’m holding some guy’s cock in my hand : shittyreactiongifs
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On the fifth floor of a 122-year-old South LaSalle Street building, the door opens to the office of Allan Ackerman. It’s a one-room, paper-filled cave that is testimony to how lawyers used to work. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. Ackerman i…
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Perfect Frisbee throw : oddlysatisfying
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Your Next Computer Should Be a Desktop – WSJ
The most frequent question is: “Which laptop should I buy?” To me, that’s like asking which Lunchable to feed your first-grader. I like to answer by challenging the assumption that that’s all there is. Forget the laptop, have you considered a deskto…
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Looking good, doing it wrong : funny
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Emails Show Feds Have Monitored ‘Professional Protester’ DeRay Mckesson | VICE News
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has monitored the Twitter account of prominent civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, referring to him as a “professional protestor” who is “known to law enforcement,” according to documents obtained by VICE …
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The Obscure Neuroscience Problem That’s Plaguing VR | WIRED
Despite virtual reality’s recent renaissance, the technology still has some obvious problems. One, you look like a dumbass using it. Two, the stomach-churning mismatch between what you see and what you feel contributes to “virtual reality sickness.
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Christopher Guest’s new Netflix movie to explore the furry underbelly of mascots
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Google Announces It’s All Grown-Up With Alphabet’s New Logo | WIRED
Google has a new owner: a holding company called Alphabet, run by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Alphabet owns a few other things, too: Namely, every company ever created or acquired under the tech giant’s many-tentacled purview.
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Read This: What’s the best horror film of the 21st century? · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Is there a way to use ratings, scores, user input, and other analytics to define the single “best” film? It’s uncertain but at least one man set out to try just that by using MetaCritic, IMDB, and Rotten Tomatoes in order to figure out the best horr…
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Eritreans fleeing conscription seek refuge in Ethiopia – Al Jazeera English
Eritrea does not have a war or famine, but it accounts for the second largest number of asylum seekers arriving in Europe after Syria. Many Eritreans also make the dangerous trek across their border to find refuge in Ethiopia.
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Kathryn Morris and Adrian Pasdar are headed to USA’s Colony · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Carlton’s Cuse’s upcoming USA drama Colony has added Adrian Pasdar and Kathryn Morris to its cast as recurring characters.
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Traveling to Another Planet? Just Add Water! – Guest Blog – Scientific American Blog Network
The authors’ design for a “spacecoach” consisting of inflatable habitats and an electric water rocket powered by thin-film solar arrays, rendered alongside an average human being for scale.
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Facebook is reportedly working with publishers to build a breaking news app
News consumption via Facebook is continuing to rise, and it looks like the social network giant is looking to further capitalize by creating a new app just for breaking news.
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“Electro-City” · Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp · TV Review · The A.V. Club
First Day Of Camp seems way too silly to be substantive, but “Electro-City” manages to have it both ways. Maybe “substantive” is the wrong word, but it’s safe to say “Electro-City” is unexpectedly affecting. Take for example the flatulent romance be…
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Chris Sale Is Not Ready for His Close-Up | Rolling Stone
For someone supposedly allergic to the spotlight, Chris Sale is surprisingly approachable – accommodating, even. About a week prior, the Chicago White Sox’ pitcher had agreed to an interview with Rolling Stone, a rare occurrence for a guy who makes …
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E! developing The Jinx mockumentary starring former American Idol host · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It may be hard to remember, but there was once a time on American Idol when Ryan Seacrest did not reign supreme.
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Denis Leary’s hockey sitcom Benders gets a trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Having already tackled his interest in firehouse culture and rock ‘n’ roll in his other television ventures, Denis Leary is now bringing men’s league hockey to the small screen. The series, Benders, plays off of an old cliché: A beer league with a h…
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Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him and took him into a broom closet for questioning. Then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last wee…
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Patti Smith Plots ‘Just Kids’ Memoir Adaptation Series for Showtime | Rolling Stone
Patti Smith Plots ‘Just Kids’ Memoir Adaptation Series for Showtime Network president David Nevins also announces Jim Carrey-produced pilot based on 1970s comedy scene, talks ‘Twin Peaks’ revival
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Garden of the Gods – Colorado [OC][OS][1920×1280] : EarthPorn
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Midday open thread: Lieberman takes charge of anti-Iran pact group; Katrina’s twisted legacy
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Mom promotes idea of breastfeeding her kid and friend’s kid: #MilkSiblings – Boing Boing
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Why Google Isn’t the New Berkshire Hathaway — NYMag
What are companies for? That might be the most interesting question raised by Google’s surprise reorganization, announced yesterday.
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Why Happy Daredevil Is the Best Version of Daredevil
For a good long while, Daredevil was Marvel’s ultimate dark hero, a character who experienced and dealt out tragedy in equal measure.
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‘Ant-Man’ reimagined as a Werner Herzog documentary
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Security Tool Tricks Workers Into Spilling Company Secrets | WIRED
Tricking people into bypassing security measures, revealing passwords, and disclosing confidential information is called “social engineering” in the computer security business.
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Man ordered to pull donkey in cart – Boing Boing
An extraordinary scene took place on Saturday last at a small village within three miles of Middleton. A half-witted fellow named James Driscott had cruelly ill-used his donkey.
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Amnesty International sides with sex workers, votes for decriminalized prostitution
Rights, not rescue. That’s the call put forth by sex workers and their supporters in an increasing effort to decriminalize prostitution and stop driving sex workers underground and into risky situations.
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CNN invites all but one Republican presidential candidate to next debates | US news | The Guardian
All but one of the 17 Republicans vying for the party’s presidential nomination have made the cut so far for the next candidates’ debates hosted by CNN, the network said on Tuesday in a decision that could leave former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore …
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The problem with blaming the ‘hot nanny’ for cheating husbands
It’s a common tale among women: a male friend gets a new girlfriend, she becomes suspicious of his friendships with women, and encourages him to spend less time with them (and time alone is off limits). It’s always irked me, because it suggests my p…
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With one punch, Ikemefuna Enemkpali transformed himself from a little known third-string linebacker into a figure of infamy for the Jets. Enemkpali, 24, broke quarterback Geno Smith’s jaw with what Coach Todd Bowles called a “sucker punch.” He was i…
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Bic celebrated South African Women’s Day by telling women to ‘think like a man’
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but in the case of Bic, the pen is mighty misguided. Bic’s South African arm found itself in hot water this week after posting a controversial Facebook message on Sunday for South African Women’s Day.
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Consolidation : interestingasfuck
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Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him, took him into a broom closet for questioning, and then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last week, the beatings began.
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Filming Straight Outta Compton Got a Lot More Real Than Anyone Intended | L.A. Weekly
Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs (“Crap Rap N.W.A”) and ran over a pile of the group’s…
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The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie
When people begin a story about how to fix America, they often start with education, and they often start in communities like Liberty City, Fla. Liberty City lies to the west of Miami Beach, across the Biscayne Bay and away from the sun-washed beach…
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Music From a Farther Room | The New Republic
When T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” made its first appearance in print 100 years ago, it did not in any way disturb the universe.
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An EPA-supervised cleanup crew accidentally breached a debris dam in an abandoned Colorado mine last week, sending 3 million gallons of wastewater into the Animas River and turning it to yellow sludge and leading Colorado to declare a state of emerg…
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Ponying up radical inclusion at BronyCon — Hopes&Fears — flow “Happenings”
It’s been five years since My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic first aired, and the Brony fandom is stronger than ever. This year’s BronyCon in Baltimore gathered over 10,000 Bronies, the first MLP convention to hit five digits.
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My wet hair made this pattern on the bed. : mildlyinteresting
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The New Jem Movie Trailer Still Isn’t Truly Outrageous, Just an Outrage
The second trailer for the live-action Jem movie is here with new disheartening info. It appears that the holographic AI named Synergy, who gives Jem her rockin’ powers in the cartoon, will be in the movie… but as some tiny robot that plays home m…
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James Hole cannot remember a time in his childhood when he wasn’t helping out on the farm. “I’ve always been on the farm. We’re a farming family, that’s what we do. I suppose, yes, I’m proud of that,” he said.
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College affordability in 2016: debt-free v tuition-free, explained (and more) | Money | The Guardian
What’s this I hear about debt-free college? Hillary Clinton spoke in front of a crowd of about 600 people on Monday in Exeter, New Hampshire, and announced her plan to make college more affordable. Wait a minute. Affordable … or free? Well, that d…
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Melissa Gilbert is running for Congress · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Taking a cue from “The Gipper,” “Cooter,” and “Gopher,” former television star Melissa Gilbert is making a bid for public office, and she’s doing it without a silly nickname.
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This is how to motivate creative teams
An early-80s baby, I was among the first Millennials. Yet, when I entered the workforce, we were already a hot topic.
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Straight Outta Compton Review | Vanity Fair
Genre tropes exist for a reason.
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The gush of toxic wastewater that spilled out from a defunct Colorado gold mine last week and turned the Animas River a bright orange-yellow is now estimated to be at least three times larger than initially reported.
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Matt Cohen joins How To Get Away With Murder · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Matt Cohen of Supernatural has joined the cast of How To Get Away With Murder, Deadline reports.
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Tortoise opens a door and lets himself into a house
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Bite Me: The Mutation That Made Corn Kernels Consumable – Scientific American
Nothing says summer like a sweet ear of corn. But that treat would be much harder to eat if it weren’t for a crucial mutation. The change, in just one letter of the DNA code, appears to have cracked the hard casing that covered every kernel in corn’…
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Poland’s pledge to accept 2,000 migrants sparks debate – Al Jazeera English
Poland has agreed to accept 2,000 asylum seekers as part of a EU effort to stem the European migrant crisis.
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Donald Trump becomes Dr. Evil in a new mashup · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Donald Trump has one simple request: sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
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GoDaddy CEO on ditching bikinis and promoting diversity
Last week, I wondered aloud: can the strides that GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving has made in furthering diversity in the workplace, especially for women, undo the damage that its years of sexist ads wrought upon the company?
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The End of the Tour: Has the Internet Deprived Us of Another David Foster Wallace? – The Atlantic
I would especially love to know his thoughts on that last one, since the movie, being pretty much a filmic love letter to the late author, could well fall into the category of Praise That Made David Foster Wallace Itchy and Squirmy.
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A bunch of dumb Twitter users are mourning the wrong Williams · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Robin Williams’ death one year ago today took nearly everyone by surprise. And since then, the world has been deprived of a comedy visionary who brought us the voice of Genie, Mrs. Doubtfire, Patch Adams, and more.
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Read an Excerpt From Bio of Stones, Beatles Manager | Rolling Stone
To many fans of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Allen Klein is nothing but a one-dimensional villain.
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Map of the United States of Mexico, circa 1847 [1610×1154] : MapPorn
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The Never Ending Hallway : perfectloops
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Can You Lose Weight with Exercise Alone? – Scientific American
Don’t stress too much about cutting calories if you want to shed pounds—focus on getting more exercise. That’s the controversial message beverage giant Coca-Cola is backing in its new campaign to curb obesity.
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The Modern Noir Has Atrophied — Vulture
When discussing his masterful 1968 neo-noir Le Samourai, writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville said, “I’m not interested in realism. All my films hinge on the fantastic […] A film is first and foremost a dream.” This same philosophy runs through True…
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Timeline Of Google’s History – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Google recently announced the formation of Alphabet, an umbrella corporation that will separate the company’s internet search business from its forays into robotics, biotechnology, and other areas of innovation.
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NASA TV to Air Test of Space Launch System Engine | NASA
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Because animals are not mentioned in the Constitution, anti-cruelty acts for animals are mostly introduced at the state rather than the federal level, making legislation limited in scope and inconsistent between states.
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Star Trails in Marija Gorica – Croatia [3000×1798] : ExposurePorn
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Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen Are Being Sued By Their Unpaid Interns | ThinkProgress
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s fashion empire is worth an estimated $1 billion. Interns at the Olsens’ Dualstar Entertainment company are unpaid. And, as of Tuesday, they’re suing.
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Tiny Hamster visits Walt Disney World – Boing Boing
Tiny Hamster (previous/tiki bar – also in book form) visited Walt Disney World, but not the same one you and I visit — this one was replete with tiny cardboard replicas of churro stands (with pouchable mini-churros!) and Dole Whip stands and a tiny…
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Screw the naysayers, True Detective season 2 was a blast · DVR Club · The A.V. Club
Katie Rife and John Teti bid farewell to True Detective’s second year in today’s DVR Club video, and even Katie—a skeptic at times during this season—finds herself singing the praises of this much-maligned sophomore effort.
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After she arrived at an immigrant detention facility, a Guatemalan woman who sought out medical care for an ear injury and extreme pain was given a cotton ball, ear drops, and a mild painkiller. Her son, who had a severe cough which persisted for ei…
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Jets’ Geno Smith jaw broken by ‘sucker punch’ from team-mate | Sport | The Guardian
If anyone thought the New York Jets camp would be more sedate after the Rex Ryan era, Tuesday’s news of a punch up came as a rude shock. Although perhaps not as much of a shock as the one Geno Smith received to his jaw.
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Everything that makes Hillary Clinton’s college plan great is exactly why it will fail
This week, Hillary Clinton unveiled her ambitious plan to reduce the crushing level of student debt many Americans face.
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How one bot won 1,000 Twitter contests
If you’ve entered a “retweet to win” contest on Twitter, odds are you didn’t come up victorious. Next time, try building a bot.
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Transhumanism Is Funny (But Still Awesome) in This Short Dark Comedy Film
What will life in the future be like as the line between human and machine starts to blur? Well, if it’s anything like the aptly titled short film Posthumanismaniarama!, life will be kind of ridiculous, even when the technology is working exactly as…
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The woman with no name – Al Jazeera English
When I asked her what I should call her, she paused, laughing nervously as she looked at her companion. “Well, I can’t give you my real name, and I’ve used so many aliases I don’t know which one to give you now,” she paused again, a long list of pse…
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I’m up to 67 words per minute : AdviceAnimals
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Tummple! A reverse Jenga in which you build rather than take away – Boing Boing
Tummple! has been described as reverse Jenga. That seems pretty accurate. Both games share a similar wooden-block aesthetic, and in both games the object is to keep things from falling. The key difference is that in Tummple! you are building.
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The hilarious banality of today’s college comedy circuit – Boing Boing
Caitlin Flanagan has written the funniest and most incisive glimpse into what it’s like for today’s road hacks whose livelihoods depend on navigating the treacherous waters of the college comedy circuit.
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Wearsafe Is A Connected Panic Button For The App Generation | TechCrunch
At the Disrupt NY hackathon this year the winning hack was a live-streaming app called Witness whose team’s pitch was a desire to be the panic button for the mobile age. But what about sticky situations where you don’t have time to fumble with your …
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80 million plastic balls to prevent Los Angeles reservoirs from becoming carcinogenic – Boing Boing
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is buying 80 million 4-inch black polyethylene balls to cover the surfaces of three Los Angeles reservoirs that serve 4 million residents.
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Showtime has renewed two of its most popular dramas, Ray Donovan and Masters Of Sex, for fourth seasons.
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Hillary Clinton has made her first direct dig into Scott Walker, the hardline conservative favourite for president who is now fading in Donald Trump’s shadow, as the Democratic frontrunner continued to condemn Republicans on the campaign trail.
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One Of The Country’s Most Racially Segregated Cities Wants To Get Healthier | ThinkProgress
For evidence of Boston’s racially turbulent history, public health official Atyia Martin points to what she describes as the city’s lethargic reaction to the more than 50 shootings that occurred in the weeks after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ma…
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Drunk Mode App Aims To Be College Kids’ Responsible Drinking Buddy | TechCrunch
There were inklings of hints that this was the frattiest startup of all time. For starters, the subject line of the email pitch was “Not Porn” and it was about an app called Drunk Mode that helps wastoids avoid the unsightly ramifications of getting…
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Reading Tony Judt in Wartime Ukraine – The New Yorker
Five years ago, a Ukrainian graduate student in history, Mykola Balaban, came across Tony Judt’s monumental “Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.
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A Video Postcard from Japan – The New Yorker
We (Jenni and Lena) are in the wonderful—and rare—position to be shooting a half-hour comedy on an entirely different continent.
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Leonardo DiCaprio may have recently signed on to star on Martin Scorsese’s film about murderous hotelier H.H. Holmes, but even before that he’s been trapped inside another twisting labyrinth of his own design: the distorted, maddening hall of mirror…
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The Duplass brothers charmingly cover the classic HBO theme · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
If you’re the right age and love movies, the HBO theme is engrained into your brain right next to the 20th Century Fox fanfare.
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An old musician’s joke goes “there are three kinds of drummers in the world—those who can count and those who can’t.” But perhaps there is an even more global divide. Perhaps there are three kinds of people in the world—those who can drum and those …
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Good Luck Not Crying During This Beautiful And Wordless Animated Short – Digg
We know it’s a well-worn genre (see: the first 10 minutes of Pixar’s “Up”) but damned if it doesn’t work every time.
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This sunflower doesn’t want to face East : interestingasfuck
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Coffee doesn’t adhere to your capitalist notions of price : firstworldanarchists
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Square Has Both The Hardware And Software To Help Businesses Of All Sizes | TechCrunch
Last week, I visited payments company Square. I sat down with their Hardware Lead, Jesse Dorogusker, about much more than hardware. Dorogusker, a former Director of Engineering at Apple, discussed with me how the company has evolved to much more tha…
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Top VCs Are Chasing Digital Companies In Latin America | TechCrunch
It has been difficult to attract investors to the digital startup space in Latin America.
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Mexican Governor of Deadliest State for Reporters Will Testify in Photographer Killing | VICE News
Governor Javier Duarte of the Mexican state of Veracruz will face questioning in the case of slain photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and the threats the journalist said were directed at him for his work there.
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Wildfires are charging through several states in the parched west, scorching homes and forcing people to flee. Flames are plaguing some California residents, who had to evacuate for the second time in recent weeks after blazes exploded in size.
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For the Love of Spock! Leonard Nimoy Documentary Surpasses Kickstarter Goal
NASA astronaut Terry Virts honored the late Leonard Nimoy with a Vulcan salute from the International Space Station, with the Earth below. A fan documentary “For the Love of Spock” is crowdsourcing funding to highlight the famed actor.
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Ali Express discovered the worst way to advertise plus-size leggings
It’s important to know that the car you’re buying is roomy, but the same can’t be said for leggings. That’s why people were so alarmed by an online retailer’s post, which showed a regular-sized model promoting a pair of plus-sized leggings.
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LastPass lets you manage passwords for free on any device as pricing structure changes
LastPass, the popular app for managing your passwords, now has a free tier for managing your passwords on mobile as well as the desktop. The free tier allows you to sync passwords for free, so long as you use the same type of device (smartphones syn…
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Skype for Business preview is hitting Android and iOS
Skype for Business arrived in April as a replacement for Lync, but so far it’s been limited to desktop users. That changes today with the announcement of a preview app for iOS and Android.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Geno Smith, the Jets’ starting quarterback, will miss at least the next six to 10 weeks after sustaining a broken jaw when he was punched by a teammate in the locker room Tuesday morning, Coach Todd Bowles said.
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Who Killed Beylin Sarmiento? | The Nation
Riding on top of the chatarrero, a junk train heading north, Ismael was recording video on his pink, screen-shattered LG S3 cell phone when he saw another train approaching on the opposite tracks.
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For reasons not entirely clear to me, recently I found myself thinking about Lester Thurow’s Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America.
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Ismael Recounts the Attack That Killed Beylin Sarmiento | The Nation
After the attack that killed Beylin Sarmiento, Ismael wrote down the events of that day as he recalled them. The following is an excerpt from that testimony.
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Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion – Quartz
Scientific beliefs are destined to supersede and replace primitive religious views, once argued 19th-century French philosopher Auguste Comte. His scientific positivism birthed today’s scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the t…
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Hillary Clinton Joins Debt-Free College Push With a Big Plan | The Nation
Hillary Clinton outlined her plan to nearly eliminate student debt on Monday at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire—joining two of her opponents in the Democratic primary and a growing activist push to make college debt a central issue of the presi…
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NASA TV Airs Test of Space Launch System Engine | NASA
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CHICAGO—Noting that only a small handful of patrons have ever had the fortitude to successfully complete the contest, sources confirmed Monday that local restaurant Carson’s Pub offers a Nacho Challenge that requires participants to watch a man eat …
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This Is What It’s Like To Vape Caffeine
Why sip on a cup of coffee when you can literally inhale your daily dose of caffeine? Vancouver-based Eagle Energy Vapor is one of several companies currently selling a caffeine vaporizer.
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On the fifth floor of a 122-year-old South LaSalle Street building, the door opens to the office of Allan Ackerman. It’s a one-room, paper-filled cave that is testimony to how lawyers used to work. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. Ackerman i…
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Kansas Voter Suppression Chief Wants To Purge 30,000 Citizens From The Voter Rolls | ThinkProgress
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) — notorious voter suppression architect who now wields the power to prosecute people for voter fraud — has proposed a change to state regulations which would allow his office to purge more than 30,000 incomp…
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‘Slippery customer’: police snare carpet python in London park | Environment | The Guardian
Police have captured a “feisty” 1.5-metre snake that was on the loose in south London. Officers were called to a park in Wandsworth where the carpet python was found slithering along the edge of a fence.
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Canada’s Conservative government spent several million dollars on a tar sands advocacy fund as its push to export the oil faltered, documents reveal.
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Is Trying to Fight Corruption by Rebooting the Government | VICE News
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi laid out a plan to fight corruption throughout his war-weary country on Sunday, announcing one of the most sweeping political reform packages since he took office last year.
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Even Paul Haggis doesn’t think Crash deserved Best Picture · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Many film fans consider Paul Haggis’ Crash to be one of the worst Best Picture winners of all time, and it turns out that not even the writer-director himself would have voted for it at the 2006 Academy Awards.
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Brace yourselves: winter is coming. And by winter I mean the slow heat-death of the Universe, and by brace yourselves I mean don’t get terribly concerned because the process will take a very, very, very long time. (But still, it’s coming.)
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Yarra Valley Water had a problem: the water and sanitation company in Melbourne, Australia, couldn’t easily see what was going on with its operations.
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Christopher Guest to produce furry mockumentary for Netflix · Newswire · The A.V. Club
That recurring dream you have with Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in frog costumes might actually be coming to life as Deadline reports that Christopher Guest has signed an agreement with Netflix to produce his next movie, Mascots.
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Australia Offers ‘Vastly Inadequate’ Emissions Reduction Pledge, Critics Say | ThinkProgress
Politicians and environmentalists in Australia are criticizing the country’s new carbon reduction pledge, saying it doesn’t go far enough to protect Australia from the impacts of climate change.
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Everyone’s got their own way of participating in the whole “wishing your casual acquaintances happy birthday on Facebook” debacle, but what about celebrities? How can we, the citizens of the world, wish them happy birthday in the way that both requi…
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Ellen Burstyn will play a grandmother on Mom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
TVLine reports that Ellen Burstyn will play perhaps the oldest mom in the Plunkett family on Mom this season. She’s been cast as Bonnie’s (Allison Janney) estranged mother Shirley, who abandoned Bonnie when she was only four.
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Fox News Picked Trump Over Megyn Kelly — NYMag
In the fallout since the first GOP debate, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has found himself caught between Donald Trump, who has the full backing of Fox’s misogynist audience, and Megyn Kelly, the star anchor whom Ailes has nurtured and sees as the k…
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The best $12, I’ve spent in a long time! : cats
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I thought someone painted the line darker : oddlysatisfying
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A visualization of how many Earth[s] could fit into the sun. : pics
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Video: Sandra Bland’s jailer calls Methodist pastor a satanist – Boing Boing
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Checking In On Windows 10 | TechCrunch
A few points, dear reader, to get ourselves acclimated: Windows 10 landed in the market at the beginning of this month to moderately strong reviews Microsoft is hellbent on attracting a user base for its new operating system quickly A large Windows …
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Orphaned Baby Rhino Hopes Gray Car Will Adopt It — NYMag
In late July, after his mother was killed by poachers in South Africa, Donnie, the orphaned baby rhinoceros, was desperate to find a parent-shaped object to take care of him. A tourist’s gray Hyundai Santa Fe seemed to fulfill all his requirements —…
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Judge dismisses Georgia inmate’s lawsuit over ‘cloudy’ execution drugs | US news | The Guardian
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by lawyers for a Georgia death row inmate that claimed the state violated their client’s constitutional rights by subjecting her to cruel and unusual punishment. Kelly Gissendaner was scheduled for…
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Perseid meteor shower: how to see the celestial show from the US | Science | The Guardian
Fleeting blazes of fire and light will streak and fade through the sky this week, at the height of what astronomers predict will be a spectacular meteor shower visible to skygazers in the US.
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This is why chameleons are so amazing – Boing Boing
National Geograph explores the magic and mystery. A tongue far longer than its body, shooting out to snatch insects in a fraction of a second. Telescopic-vision eyes that swivel independently in domed turrets. Feet with toes fused into mitten-like p…
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Cultivate an alien garden on this sunless world – Offworld
A dark, distant planet is slowly coming to life with a colorful ecosystem of flora and fauna. Will you tend it? In Earthtongue: The Hungry Fungus you play as a researcher observing a world with no sun.
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Harvard professor considers 2016 run with single goal: electoral reform | US news | The Guardian
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig is an “incredible admirer of Bernie Sanders”, who has been “incredibly inspired by the bold ideas of what the next Democratic administration could look like” presented by presidential candidates this year.
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Here’s what happens when two men in Jerusalem hold hands
Being openly gay in Jerusalem takes serious guts. Late last month, an orthodox Jewish man attacked innocent bystanders at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, killing a 16-year-old girl—a violent warning to the city’s LGBT community.
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This Is Peter Bagge’s Best-Selling and Worst-Selling Comic
Peter Bagge has one of the most unpredictable careers in comics, from his 1990s cult comic book Hate to his recent bestselling graphic novel about sex-education pioneer Margaret Sanger.
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Here’s What We Need to Do to Get VR to Take Off | WIRED
As companies like Oculus, Valve, and Google address virtual reality’s technological hurdles, the interesting problems in VR no longer hinge on the question, “Can we do this?” Instead, for those working in the field, the question to ask—the one that …
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YouTube Space L.A. plays host to James Corden’s ‘Late Late Show’
The smallest screen is ready for its late-night close-up. Corden will film his Aug. 21 episode at the Playa Vista facility, which has played host to a variety of programs and series for YouTube creators. He won’t just be using the space, however.
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From the Dissident to the Supreme Leader: What Iranians Think of the Nuclear Deal – The Atlantic
Second and somewhat surprisingly, many prominent opposition leaders also support the support.
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Why is a humanoid figure walking on Mars? Her car broke. – Boing Boing
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Japan Returns To Nuclear Power After Fukushima Disaster – The Atlantic
Two years ago, Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors. On Tuesday morning, one of them kicked back into gear.
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Kim Kardashian Shuts Down Surrogate Rumors with Nude Selfie | Vanity Fair
In the Kim Kardashian playbook, “post selfie” is pretty much the default response to any compliment or criticism. Feeling good about a new endorsement deal? Post a gleaming selfie. In a feud with another celebrity? Post a glowering selfie.
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Janis Joplin, Arcade Fire, Aretha Docs Lead Toronto Film Fest | Rolling Stone
High-profile music documentaries on Janis Joplin, Arcade Fire, Aretha Franklin and Sharon Jones will be included as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which commences September 10th.
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Are Depeche Mode Metal’s Biggest Secret Influence? | Rolling Stone
When Depeche Mode titled their 1990 album Violator, it was supposed to be taken ironically.
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The 18 Fittest Stars in WWE | Rolling Stone
Thirty years ago, WWE was the land of giants – massively muscular stars capable of impressive feats of strength, even if they couldn’t wrestle their way out of a wet paper bag.
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Rick Perry’s Low-Budget Campaign Needs Super PACs To Survive | FiveThirtyEight
Rick Perry’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is sputtering. It is running short on cash and is no longer paying its staff, according to reports from several news organizations.
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Looking back on the many lives of Robin Williams
The world of Los Angeles comedy clubs in the 1970s can seem a little romantic now—mostly because the Baby Boomers were getting into comedy at the time, and they romanticize everything. Still, for a comedian like Robin Williams, there was something …
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How the Heroin Crisis Ushered in a Hepatitis C Epidemic
The first thing Amy does after rising from the brink of death is apologize. “I’m sorry,” she says, scanning the small crowd of first-responders who have formed a semi-circle around her. She rummages through her scalp with fingernails painted lime gr…
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Is It Time to Embrace Unverified Theories? – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
In the world of modern physics, there is change afoot. Researchers are striving so hard to leap beyond the mostly settled science of the Standard Model that they’re daring to break from one of science’s crucial traditions.
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A keyboard hooked up to a tray filled with ferrofluid : woahdude
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Toronto, Canada [1600×1200] : CityPorn
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“Sky Ladder” pyrotechnic artwork by Cai Guoqiang – GIF on Imgur
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Some people just want to watch the world burn, and then beautifully capture it on film.
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Rick Grimes faces off against Deadpool in this epic ‘Walking Dead’ mashup
Rick Grimes has never faced anything quite like Deadpool. Throughout five seasons of The Walking Dead, the titular Walkers have been used as disguises, pets, bait, and ultimately weapons for anyone trying to score fresh supplies.
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Cecil killer just saw a ‘nice lion’, says Jacob Zuma | World news | The Guardian
The South African president, Jacob Zuma, has angered conservationists in neighbouring Zimbabwe by speculating that the experienced hunter who killed Cecil just saw a “nice lion” and was unaware of the animal’s importance.
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The best way to hack a system is almost always to exploit its human weakness.
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Odd Mom Out is in for a second season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jill Kargman’s Odd Mom Out—based on her own experiences as the still wealthy but slightly “alternative” mom in the Upper East Side world of perfect mommy robots—has been renewed for a second season.
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The Marx Brothers make a mockery of the opera in this classic farce · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Noah Baumbach’s new film, Mistress America, is a modern farce. Gear up for it with five days of classic ones.
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Heed Sleep’s call and follow the riffs to the smoke-filled land · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: our favorite songs that come in at over 10 minutes long. Heavy metal is obsessed with mythos.
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My loaf fell on one corner : Catloaf
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‘Light Therapy’ – 2015 REDirect surf film festival entry Director / Cinematographer / Editor: Riley Blakeway Featuring: Chippa Wilson, Dion Agius, Nate Tyler Original Music by: Sasami Ashworth Score Produced by: Avi Zahner Water Cinematography: Talo…
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Victory Journal | Bruce Davenport Jr: The Game is Mine
Artist Bruce M. Davenport Jr., born Bruce M. Washington, aka “Dapper Bruce,” lives and works in the back of a tidy shotgun house on a street a couple of blocks from the Mississippi River in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.
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Updated, 8:04 a.m. | Donald J. Trump’s feud with Fox News came to a close on Tuesday morning when the billionaire tycoon called into the network for a friendly interview, declaring “we’ve always been friends.”
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A Bolivian Subway in the Sky – The Atlantic
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The city of La Paz, Bolivia, has long struggled with transportation issues. Steep terrain, high density, and narrow streets have resulted in years of traffic nightmares for fleets of minibuses and private taxis. -
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My sister meeting a dog for the first time. – Imgur
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Bernie Sanders speaks to 28,000 people in Portland, Oregon, the largest rally so far in 2015 of any candidate. (Benjamin Kerensa / Flickr) Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
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Google Launches First Beta Of Its Zync Visual Effects Renderer On Google Cloud Platform | TechCrunch
Google, the largest subsidiary corporation of Alphabet, wants movie studios to use its cloud to render their special effects. Last August, Google acquired Zync, a visual effects rendering service that allows studios and independent artists to render…
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Social data company Gnip, acquired by Twitter last year, has become an indispensable tool for all types of companies. Data, especially social data, is necessary to make decisions on things like timing a product launch or putting together a new marke…
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Helping Johnny Remember: creepy video remixed from ’60s PSAs – Boing Boing
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Watch This Leaping Great White Shark Get Some Serious Air | WIRED
This awesome video shows a shark shooting out of the water like a Poseidon missile launched from an underwater submarine (seen at the 1:37 mark). Normal humans think this is cool, but what does a physicist see? We see a projectile motion problem.
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How We Could Detect an Alien Apocalypse From Earth
It’s generally assumed that we will eventually find signs of life in the galaxy. But rarely do we consider searching for advanced civilizations that have destroyed themselves. Here’s how we could do it—and what the search for dead aliens could tell …
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Scientists growing new arms for monkeys – Boing Boing
Bioengineers are developing methods to grow new arms for monkeys using human progenitor cells that can become blood cells, vessels, and other tissue. Lead researcher Harald Ott at at Massachusetts General Hospital previously regenerated a rat’s limb.
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Hearthstone Americas regionals head to San Francisco, finals confirmed for Blizzcon
The second Hearthstone World Championship is fast approaching, and the final stop for the contenders from the Americas region will be the regional championship this October in San Francisco. Eight players will travel to San Francisco on Oct.
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Christopher Guest Is Coming to Netflix | Vanity Fair
There has never been a better time to be a fan of cult comedy, because no matter how obscure your TV show, movie, or comedian of choice, there’s a really decent shot it’s going to make a comeback. With a Wet Hot American Summer TV series out there, …
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The Jeb Bush–Hillary Clinton rivalry has devolved into a snarky Photoshop battle
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Inside Alphabet: why Google rebranded itself and what happens next | Technology | The Guardian
Every month a hundred billion searches run through Google – a repository of the world’s curiosity, hopes, dreams and fears. Google has been a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2006, it is valued at $445bn and last year had revenues of $66b…
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2018’s Godzilla Sequel Will Be “Bigger” and “Better,” Obviously
By the time U.S. audiences see Godzilla back on the big screen, it’ll have been four years since the mega monster terrorized (and then saved) the world. The sequel is still happening, though, and even though it’s a long way away, the film’s writer h…
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The Cartoon Lounge: Let’s Do Lunch – The New Yorker
Aristotle claimed that man is the only animal who laughs. We now know that this is not true: it seems that apes and chimps get the giggles now and again, and even rats think being tickled is a riot. What really separates us from our animal brethren …
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China Devalues Its Currency Amid an Economic Slowdown – The Atlantic
For a number of years now, Jonathan Franzen has forsworn the most obvious ways of showing off intellect in fiction.
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Supercut of 80s movies’ computer hacking – Boing Boing
A phone slams into an acoustic coupler on the desk. Screeching beeping sounds. Two people sitting side-by-side in front of a computer. One is a socially awkward nerd. The other is cooler, but dumber. The nerd types something really fast on the keybo…
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Netflix’s brilliant reason for making more mediocre television | The Verge
Netflix has arguably produced the best summer of television programming ever. Daredevil, Chef’s Table, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, season two of BoJack Horseman, and season three of Orange Is the New Black were met with glowing prais…
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Are Bank Tellers the Fast Food Workers of Wall Street? | The Nation
Occupy Wall Street’s encampment at Zuccotti Park exposed the abysmal gulf between the “99 percent” and Wall Street’s filthy rich—but other wealth gaps have long bubbled just below the asphalt.
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On Monday night as protestors and a heavily militarized police force once again took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri on the one year anniversary of Michael Brown’s murder, it was hard not to experience a sense of déjà vu.
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Hellbent, But Not Broken: The Tough Birches Paddle the Yukon River Quest – SBNation.com
The hallucinations started out small, subtle flickers of light at the edges of my vision. “Lightning!” I’d think, and then turn my head to see a cloudless sky.
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Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth | NASA
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Hong Kong Says Goodbye to Thousands of Neon Signs | The Creators Project
Old photo of neon-lit streets in Kowloon in the 1990s. Courtesy of Keith Macgregor The stock image of Hong Kong is populated with neon signs; like the neo-noir dystopian landscape of Blade Runner, the city’s layers are made up of glowing symbols and…
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In Photos: California Farmers Versus the Delta Smelt | VICE News
California is in the midst of its worst drought in 1200 years.
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Japan Restarts Reactor in Test of Nuclear Policy – Scientific American
TOKYO/SATSUMASENDAI (Reuters) – Japan switched on a nuclear reactor for the first time in nearly two years on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to reassure a nervous public that tougher standards mean the sector is now safe after the Fukus…
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Ernest Cline, author of the beloved sci-fi novel Ready Player One, has reportedly netted a mid-seven-figure deal for his third book. According to Deadline, the untitled story is another sci-fi project, making it a safe bet that, like its predecessor…
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This Week On The Line: Simon Ostrovsky Discusses ‘The Smartest Guy in the Sea’ | VICE News
More than 2,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea already in 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration. As the Mediterranean migrant crisis continues in the face of apparent government inacti…
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Kim Kardashian bares all with naked pregnant selfie
This article contains sexually explicit material and may be unsafe for work. Kim Kardashian started a conversation about the vastly different experiences of pregnant women by proudly sharing a selfie showing off her own pregnancy on Tuesday.
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Your Edgy Startup Idea Is Stupid | TechCrunch
First it was glitter and dicks. Then it was on-demand everything. Then it was breasts. Startups, please: stop. 2015 has been the year of the awful idea. It began early on this year with a number of services that wanted to send your enemies glitter a…
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Megyn Kelly tells Donald Trump she ‘will not apologize for doing good journalism’
Fox News host Megyn Kelly shrugged off attacks from Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday, asserting that criticism from the former reality-television star wouldn’t dissuade her from continuing to ask politicians tough questions.
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Anchor John Brown walks out of a live broadcast on Fox 35’s Good Day Orlando on Friday in protest against a story about Kylie Jenner’s new rabbit.
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How would your coastline fare in a flood? This flood mapping tool from NOAA answers that question in a remarkably complete way—charting out exactly where sea level rises will hit, what percentage of the area lies in a flood zone, and where storm sur…
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There’s Maybe Going to Be a Beetlejuice Sequel, Says Winona Ryder | WIRED
As you must know by now, Comic-Con International populated the city of San Diego last weekend, and Conan O’Brien moved his show down south for a few days in honor of the event.
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Scores killed in Nigeria cattle market blast – Al Jazeera English
A blast in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State has killed at least 47 people and injured another 52, a military source and a civilian joint task force member said.
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NY Lawmaker: Trump’s Sexism Is Nothing Compared To Other GOP Presidential Candidates | ThinkProgress
A New York state senator is incensed with the media for focusing on Donald Trump’s now-infamous quip about Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s period, saying other Republican candidates pose a much bigger threat to women’s rights.
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Joanna Newsom returns with new album, Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been a busy five years for Joanna Newsom. She got married, was the subject of a tribute book, acted on Portlandia and in Inherent Vice, and contributed to a bunch of other peoples’ albums (including, of all things, the soundtrack to the 2011 Mu…
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If too many cooks can spoil the broth, then what can happen when too many writers are working on one film? As detailed by Simon Brew on Den Of Geek, the result is a creative mess, albeit a lucrative one.
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Oracle Deletes CSO’s Screed Against Hackers Who Report Bugs | WIRED
If you take apart Oracle’s software and find a hackable vulnerability, don’t tell the company. Or at least not its chief security officer. That, in short, is the message of a nearly 3,000-word rant Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson wro…
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Who are the Oath Keepers, and why has the armed group returned to Ferguson? – The Washington Post
On Monday night, protesters again gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb have flared up in recent days to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was fatally…
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With his simplified art style and wry sense of humor, Norwegian cartoonist Jason has crafted some immensely entertaining stories featuring anthropomorphized animal characters. And next month, Fantagraphics is releasing a collection of Jason’s short …
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Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America | TED Talk | TED.com
As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and moved in. In this funny, honest, human talk, he s…
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Sundar Pichai Just Inherited the Most High-Pressure Job at Alphabet | WIRED
Larry Page has lofty goals for Alphabet. The new holding company was established to morph the search engine he and Sergey Brin founded in 1998 into a platform to technocharge the entire world.
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Sketchfab Adds Animations To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform | TechCrunch
3D model repository Sketchfab just added a nifty little feature that should appeal to 3D animators. You can now upload animated models to Sketchfab, making it much easier to share and browse animated models as you don’t need to install a professiona…
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Ferguson Police Arrest Dozens of Protesters as Pentagon Requests City Return Humvees | VICE News
From Ferguson to downtown St. Louis, authorities arrested dozens of protesters in Missouri on Monday as demonstrators gathered for a third day to commemorate one year since unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer D…
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Scalzi’s latest Old Man’s War novel hits shelves today! – Boing Boing
It’s called The End of All Things, and it’s book six in the series (here’s my review of book one); he’s touring it all over the USA.
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We might be years away from the debut of emotional robots and a self-driving car in every garage, but AI-driven behavior by machines is already enabling profound changes across industries.
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When Did Rosé Become a Thing? | Vanity Fair
One night earlier this summer, a group of six women filed into a corner booth at Mamo, a Manhattan transplant of the very popular restaurant Mamo Le Michelangelo in the French Riviera.
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CNN to Host Non-Gilmore Presidential Debate — NYMag
Finally, a chance for Republicans to talk issues without Gilmore interrupting all the time. CNN is hosting a Republican presidential debate, and everybody’s invited! Everybody but Jim Gilmore, who is supposedly the former governor of Virginia.
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The Making of the Taylor Swift Cover Story | Vanity Fair
Along with this month’s regular edition of V.F. Audio—available now—listen to a special bonus download of “Taylor Calls the Tune,” featuring an exclusive interview with writer Josh Duboff in the Vanity Fair offices.
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Google’s Alphabet restructure could get boost from Delaware tax loophole | Technology | The Guardian
Google’s Street View cameras have photographed locations across the world, allowing armchair tourists a view of anything from the Tower of London to Tiananmen Square. But one address is notable by its absence.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, a Police Helicopter Chasing a Paraglider | Vanity Fair
A man on a paraglider was chased by a Los Angeles police helicopter through the stunning Sierra Pelona mountains, after he drifted too close to a detention facility. Watching the video feels like watching a real-life version of Pixar’s Up, or an aer…
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Why Is Russia Destroying Food? – The New Yorker
A hundred and fourteen tons of pork were annihilated in the Russian city of Samara, on the Volga River. The pork, which had been imported using Brazilian documents, was revealed to have come from the European Union. More than two hundred tons of oth…
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Harry Reid wants you to know just how bad Mitch McConnell’s Senate is
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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WASHINGTON — For nearly a century, Democrats have honored two men as the founders of their party: Thomas Jefferson, for his visionary expression of the concept of equality, and Andrew Jackson, for his populist spirit and elevation of the common man.
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Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? | The Nation
Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I’m not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as t…
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Kerry pushes back against Schumer on Iran | TheHill
Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back Monday against opponents of the Iran nuclear deal — including Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) — who say the Obama administration should scrap the accord and negotiate a better one.
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Would you like some gluten-free organic frozen H2O for that burn? – Imgur
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R.I.P. Columbia House (for now) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
On Monday, the current owner of Columbia House—whose shady math The A.V. Club wrote about back in June—filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, surprising everyone who had no idea the mail-order media behemoth was still in business.
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While many were disappointed by the new Fantastic Four movie, including the director himself, let’s look back to a simpler time before comic book films had become the huge tentpoles they are today.
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Jeb Bush Says Hillary Clinton ‘Stood By’ as Iraq Descended Into Violence LOS ANGELES – Jeb Bush is planning to issue a full-throttle attack Tuesday night on the Obama administration’s handling of Iraq and terrorism issues, asserting that Hillary Rod…
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Grand Ole Opry Celebrates Anniversary, Birthday and Surprise Reunion | Rolling Stone
The Grand Ole Opry, heard each week on Nashville’s 650 WSM-AM, is the longest running live radio show in American history. Since it began in November 1925, each of the show’s more than 5,600 performances has offered something special for country mus…
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Steven Spielberg may be trying to lure Gene Wilder out of retirement · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Gene Wilder has stayed retired since his last cameo appearance on Will & Grace in 2003. (A pair of A&E mystery movies aside, Wilder’s last big screen appearance was 1991’s Another You.
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Law & Order: SVU is doing its own take on Robert Durst · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Noted burper and wincer and alleged murderer Robert Durst has been fictionalized several times over the years, as Ryan Gosling’s “David Marks” in director Andrew Jarecki’s 2010 film All Good Things, as “Kenneth Strick” in a 2002 Law & Order: Crimina…
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BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Parliament unanimously passed measures on Tuesday that are meant to transform Iraq’s corrupt political system.
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Dr. Dre, Ice Cube to Appear in ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Livestream | Rolling Stone
Original N.W.A members Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella and MC Ren will participate in a YouTube livestream on Tuesday tied to the upcoming biopic Straight Outta Compton. The hip-hop icons will join director F. Gary Gray, cast members O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
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Cities, businesses, and artists are producing small batches of paper currency designed to be spent locally. I love the £10 note from Bristol, England (above)…it’s got Wallace’s head on it!
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NEW YORK—Stressing that the new policy would be effective immediately, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced Tuesday that the league will strictly prohibit family members from delivering remarks at players’ funerals.
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Rosanne Siino finds it amusing when students interrupt one of her lectures at Stanford University to ask: “So, what is Netscape?” “Wow, how long has it been?” Siino, one of the first hires at Netscape, recalls telling a student.
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Judges who perform marriages in Ohio can’t refuse to marry same-sex couples on personal or moral grounds or because of religious beliefs, according to a state judicial conduct board.
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Two WTC BASE Jumpers Avoid Jail Time — NYMag
Two of the three BASE jumpers who leapt off One World Trade Center in September 2013 and posted the videos of their dive were sentenced Monday for their gravity-defying caper.
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InboxVudu, The AI-Based Email Prioritizer, Launches An App For iOS And Apple Watch | TechCrunch
InboxVudu, the system that helps you prioritize important emails, is today launching an iOS app and an Apple Watch app. The service uses machine learning to recognize phrases and sentences that may indicate an important email, and packages those pri…
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InboxVudu’s iOS app helps you conquer your email to-do list
Email-first startups are still a relatively rare breed, but Sunrise, Timehop and Product Hunt are all notable examples of services that started off sending out useful emails to users, only later expanding into an app or website.
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The Most Important Scenes from Fantastic Four (As I Remember Them)
The new Fantastic Four movie is unquestionably a box office bomb, which critics have savaged with scathing reviews such as “More like the Unfantastic Four!” For those of you who want to avoid sitting through it, I have taken the liberty of chronicli…
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Lawrence Lessig Thinking About Running in 2016 — NYMag
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor whose anti-big money super-pac inspired the headline “How to Waste $10 Million” last year, is thinking about joining the Democratic presidential primary.
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It’s Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly – Scientific American
The most comprehensive assessment of the energy output in the nearby universe reveals that today’s produced energy is only about half of what it was 2 billion years ago.
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Twitter Digits for developers just got more useful
Twitter’s developer toolkit, Digits, which makes it easy for companies to build simple on boarding for their users is getting an update in some regions today. It’s adding the ability to call users for two-factor verification if they don’t receive th…
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Copenhagen Wolves fined $3,000 for invalid player contracts
It’s been a nightmare Summer Split for Copenhagen Wolves. The team suffered a mass exodus of players after it emerged that the organization had plans to replace them after the split, which in turn ensured the team fell into the automatic relegation …
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Judge in Deflategate case urges settlement between Tom Brady and NFL | Sport | The Guardian
Judge Richard Berman on Tuesday ordered the sides to have “further good faith settlement efforts” prior to the first meeting since the sides took the case to federal court.
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Saudi FM says ‘Assad not part of the solution’ in Syria – Al Jazeera English
Russia and Saudi Arabia have failed in talks held in Moscow to overcome their differences on the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a central dispute in Syria’s civil war that shows no sign of abating despite renewed diplomacy.
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Twitter increases scope of its transparency reports as governments keep requesting more data
Twitter is getting more serious about its biannual transparency reports. The company today announced it’s expanding its reports’ scope with two new sections: trademark notices and the email privacy practices of several providers.
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Fragments at MH17 Site May Be Russian-made Missile | Al Jazeera America
Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday.
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Memo to pollsters: while I’m having as much fun as everyone else watching the unsinkable Donald defy predictions of his assured collapse, what I really want to see at this point is a profile of his supporters.
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HTML & CSS tricks, episode 1: Learn flexbox
This is the very start of a new HTML and CSS Tricks series with one of our best-selling instructors, Ryan Bonhardt. Together with Ryan we’ll be sharing actionable tips and tricks you can immidiately start using when working with HTML and CSS. This t…
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7 things Ferguson taught Americans about racism
The uprising in Ferguson, Missouri was more than a moment in time. It was the spark that ignited a movement.
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What the Media Gets Wrong About the South | The Nation
Those words, uttered by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in a March 30, 1963 essay for The Nation, are as true today as they were then. In that statement, Dr.
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Trump makes ‘blood’ truce with Fox then says he is top candidate for women | US news | The Guardian
After days of public sniping from Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump about the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, the real estate mogul and the king-making conservative network seem to have reached an uneasy truce after private diplomacy.
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Here’s how to stop Snapchat from using all your mobile data
Snapchat finally stopped its app from gobbling up all of your precious data with a new feature called Travel Mode. With its there-and-gone media and its constantly updating features like Stories and the brand-heavy Discovery tab, Snapchat has long b…
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British architects are trying to crowdfund a $2.9 billion replica of Minas Tirith
In what may be the most ambitious crowdfunding campaign of all time, a team of British architects have launched an Indiegogo page to pay for a life-size replica of Minas Tirith. The walled city from Lord of the Rings would cost about £1.85 billion (…
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Fantastic Cities: the most intricate all-ages colouring book yet | Cities | The Guardian
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Jeb Bush lands first guest spot on Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’
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For a number of years now, Jonathan Franzen has forsworn the most obvious ways of showing off intellect in fiction.
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Hot Looks: Disco Fever | Vanity Fair
Summer nights are made for having a good time. Here is a roundup of our favorite products that will have you looking good while getting down on a Saturday night. 1) Guerlain Rouge Automatique Hydrating Long-Lasting Lip Colour: Packaged in a gold cas…
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Where to Get Authentic Desi Food in New York City – The Atlantic
When Harpreet Sohal moved from India to Queens, New York, with three young children, she recalls being on the edge of a nervous breakdown for many years. “I would not say it was easy—it was very hard for us,” she says in this short documentary by Cl…
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What Coca-Cola Does To The Body – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Including recent claims that it funded research that blamed obesity on a lack of exercise rather than bad dietary habits, the Coca-Cola Company is often accused of trying to hide or downplay the damaging effects of soft drink consumption.
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What Do The Republican Candidates Really Think About Climate Change?
Republicans have come a long way on climate change. Unfortunately that way is down. 23 years ago, Republican President George H. W. Bush not only acknowledged climate change was real. He signed an international climate change treaty, which the Senat…
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Why Do We Judge Virgins? : Longreads Blog
Rachel Hills’ first book, The Sex Myth, presents a radical deconstruction of our cultural narratives about sex. Hills, an Australian journalist and blogger who lives in New York, argues that we have imbued sex with undue meaning, treating it as one …
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Assad’s ‘Asshole’ Cousin Arrested in Syria After Alleged Road Rage Murder | VICE News
A cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was arrested Monday after he allegedly killed a military officer in a brutal act of road rage. Suleiman al-Assad is accused of shooting Colonel Hassan Sheikh after the officer “overtook him at a crossroa…
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Oracle’s CSO demands an end to customers checking Oracle products for defects – Boing Boing
Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson’s deleted post on the company blog was called “No, You Really Can’t,” and it demanded that Oracle’s customers respect the company’s outlandish license-agreement terms, and stop checking to see whether …
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A Programmer Is Recreating The Classic Game Night Trap In The Browser | TechCrunch
Our sister site Engadget has a fun interview with a programmer who is currently porting live action video game Night Trap to the browser using HTML5. Why? Because Night Trap, one of the first video games to use live-action video interspersed with ga…
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This Animal Can Go Over a Decade Without Food
This is the olm. It’s a blind cave salamander. Endangered in the wild, it is sometimes regarded as a pet, sometimes as a research subject—and sometimes as something to keep in the fridge for a decade. The olm is one of those creepy, near-eyeless thi…
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3-D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem – Scientific American
Artificial-intelligence researchers have long struggled to make computers perform a task that is simple for humans: picking out one person’s speech when multiple people nearby are talking simultaneously. It is called the ‘cocktail-party problem’.
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Copwatching in Ferguson, one year after Michael Brown’s death
“Police,” someone shouts from outside. David Whitt grabs his camera as he dashes out of his apartment. Two more copwatchers go racing after him into the parking lot, where a Ferguson police SUV has just pulled up.
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Hugh Grant Has Reached the Point of Middle Age Where He’s Furious About Dog Poop | Vanity Fair
We all know that stepping in dog poop is disgusting and a huge annoyance, and Hugh Grant knows it as well as anyone.
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Typhoon Soudelor finally blows itself out – Al Jazeera English
Typhoon Soudelor, the most powerful storm of 2015 yet, has finally blown itself out over China. The Northern Mariana Islands, Taiwan and eastern China have all felt the effects of this storm over the last week.
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‘Show Me a Hero’: David Simon Is Still Mad as Hell | Rolling Stone
Of all those who revolutionized TV in the last 20 years, David Simon was always the most political and least commercial.
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Watch Arcade Fire’s Frenzied Trailer for ‘Reflektor Tapes’ Film | Rolling Stone
Watch Arcade Fire’s Frenzied Trailer for ‘Reflektor Tapes’ Film Kahlil Joseph-directed feature, which traces creation of band’s acclaimed ‘Reflektor’ LP, hits U.S.
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See Luke Bryan Go Barry White With Sultry ‘Strip It Down’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
See Luke Bryan Go Barry White With Sultry ‘Strip It Down’ on ‘Fallon’ Second single from ‘Kill the Lights’ features Bryan playing piano and crooning about feeling his “belt turn loose from these old blue jeans”
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‘WWE Raw’: Sheamus Can’t Cash In, Seth Rollins Survives | Rolling Stone
They say when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. So when fortune and circumstance result in several hands either recovering from injury or shooting their latest role in a movie no one will ever see, you center storylines around CW superstars …
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BBC Sport – IAAF suspends 28 athletes after ‘adverse findings’ in retests
Twenty-eight athletes who competed at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships have returned “adverse findings” from retested samples, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has said.
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Image of the Day: Quartet of Supermassive Black Holes in a Giant Nebula
Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first quadruple quasar: four rare active black holes situated in close proximity to one another.
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Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Sigmund Freud: if these theorists share any quality at all, they share a reputation for not going easy on their readers.
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Space Station Cargo Ship Departure to Air on NASA TV | NASA
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Salem getting some sun. : cats
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I am lizard king I can do anything. Especially in America. – Imgur
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Markhor Takes The Middleman Out Of Designer Shoemaking | TechCrunch
Markhor founder Waqas Ali spent the first half of his life without ever using the Internet. He grew up in a small village in Pakistan, and recalls using Google for the first time in 2007 after he moved to Lahore to attend college.
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The Islamic State Is Allegedly Training Britons for ‘Lone Wolf Attacks’ | VICE News
In an apparent shift in tactics, the so-called Islamic State (IS) group has reportedly urged British jihadists to carry out “lone wolf” attacks in the UK instead of traveling to fight in Syria.
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This Natural Language Interface Aims To Let Anyone Make Animations Jump | TechCrunch
UK-based animation tech and post-production effects studio iKinema has been demoing a natural language interface for controlling animations (demoed in the above video) which CEO Alexandre Pechev reckons could prove its worth in a future of virtual a…
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Everyone dies in the biggest Grand Theft Auto freeway pileup ever
This pileup on a Grand Theft Auto highway was so bad that even the fire trucks and ambulances sent to help the victims wound up smashed and on fire. YouTuber Hookser Don’t has offered documentary footage of one of the longest accidents we’ve ever se…
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Larry Wilmore has a simple message for Donald Trump’s supporters
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U.S. tech companies are now using a massive database to stop child pornography
Silicon Valley’s largest Web companies introduced a new weapon this week in their fight against child pornography. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and Yahoo are using a new database run by the U.K.
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Inside Starz’s Flesh and Bone: Center Stage Meets Breaking Bad | Vanity Fair
If you think it’s strange that an Emmy-winning veteran of Breaking Bad has moved on to a show about ballet, then clearly you haven’t seen what can happen to feet crammed inside toe shoes all day.
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Graydon Carter’s Editor’s Letter Says Goodbye to Jerry Weintraub | Vanity Fair
Until quite recently, relationships between young people, intimate or otherwise, were initiated by the application of old-school concepts of courtship.
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Kevin Morris’ short story collection White Man’s Problems was released last year to critical acclaim—and, apparently, a whole lot of celebrities eager to contribute to an audiobook edition. (It probably doesn’t hurt that Morris is a Los Angeles ente…
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After a 10-year hiatus, HBO is bringing back Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s moviemaking reality show Project Greenlight for a fourth season.
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Reese Witherspoon to produce and star in supernatural thriller · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Reese Witherspoon regularly displays a can-do attitude on and offscreen, whether she’s tackling hair-related stereotypes while trying to earn a fictional law degree or establishing her own production company to snap up woman-centric film adaptations.
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Our First Look at Agents of SHIELD’s Melinda May In Her Very Own Comic
We’ve known for a while that Agents of SHIELD’s premiere ass-kicker Melinda May would be getting a one-shot comic book as part of SHIELD’s 50th birthday bash.
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One can only assume that before Larry Page and Sergey Brin chose Alphabet as the name for their new holding company, they Googled it. If so, they would have discovered that the Internet domain alphabet.
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Winds are blowing Chinese ozone pollution to the American West | Fusion
An article published on Monday in Nature Geoscience argues that the reason the American West is falling short on ozone pollution reduction may have less to do with their own efforts, and more to do with China.
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Steven Salaita, Professor Fired for ‘Uncivil’ Tweets, Vindicated in Federal Court | The Nation
There is not a little poetic justice in the fact that it was precisely at the time that a federal judge ruled that Steven Salaita’s lawsuit against the University of Illinois could go forward, against the objections of the university, that the chanc…
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Ex Machina: No Techno-Fix For Irreversible Ocean Collapse From Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress
A new study finds there is no “deus ex machina” way to prevent a catastrophic collapse of ocean life for centuries if not millennia — if we don’t start slashing carbon pollution ASAP.
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Virginia alcohol agency clears agents in bloody arrest of Martese Johnson | US news | The Guardian
Three Virginia liquor agents involved in a bloody arrest that prompted allegations of racism followed procedures and did nothing wrong, the state alcoholic beverage control department (ABC) said on Monday.
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Makerbase Is An IMDb Of Who Made Your Favorite Apps And Websites | TechCrunch
A new service called Makerbase wants to make it easier for anyone to discover who built some of the most popular websites and apps people use every day.
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The Conflicted History of Alcohol in Western Civilization – Scientific American
Asubstance, like a person, may have distinct and even contradictory aspects to its personality. Today ethyl alcohol, the drinkable species of alcohol, is a multifaceted entity; it may be social lubricant, sophisticated dining companion, cardiovascul…
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Touring El Chapo’s Tunnel (Excerpt from ‘El Chapo’s Escape’) | VICE News
Infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who daringly escaped prison on July 11, utilized a tunnel leading from the only “supermax” maximum-security prison in Mexico, where he’d been held.
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Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network | TechCrunch
Facebook’s making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it’s going to let other developers earn money off them too.
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Game publisher’s lawsuit against VR headset maker Oculus proceeds – Boing Boing
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DigitalOcean has made a name for itself as an hosting service that focuses on simplicity. Now, the company is making it easier to install complex applications on its service with the help of Bitnami. DigitalOcean users get two free months of Bitname…
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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton announced her college affordability plan in New Hampshire on Monday. Republican presidential candidates have already criticized her day-old plan as too expensive and lacking innovative ideas.
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Trump Bags the GOP – The Atlantic
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 said. “Better safe than sorry,” Chinedu Unaka offered.
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It’s trans-inclusive, with contributions by Jizz Lee, Ignacio Rivera, Toby Hill-Meyer, Julia Serano and Sandra Daugherty, with erotic fiction interludes. OJST gives the book’s contents two thumbs up, but notes that the production is a little amateur…
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Jeb Bush is going on Stephen Colbert’s first ‘Late Show’
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Here are two things that China’s government wants very badly: first, for its economy to remain on an even keel, keeping growth and employment high.
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Hiko Team Liquid’s first choice, salary demands only stumbling point
While many placed Spencer “Hiko” Martin as the most-likely candidate—primarily based on a streamed conversation involving eLevate’s Will “RUSH” Wierzba—team management said that nothing had been decided and Mendez was still on the roster.
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At Least 23 People Arrested In Ferguson, Missouri, Protests – The Atlantic
A second night of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, to commemorate the first anniversary of Michael Brown’s death led to the arrests of more than 20 people, and saw patrols by an armed group that calls itself the Oath Keepers.
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The Artist As a Lonely Hunter – The New Yorker
In the poem “Lonely Hunter,” by Fiona MacLeod (the pen name of the Scottish writer William Sharp), the speaker asks, “Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song you bring? / What are all songs for me, now, who no more care to sing?” D…
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Charges Set in Hacking, Insider Trading Cases | Al Jazeera America
Federal authorities in Brooklyn and Newark are planning to announce indictments Tuesday in a rare case tying together hacking and stock market trades.
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Suave gets it. : firstworldanarchists
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The Adventures Of Pete & Pete: A Happily Deranged Union Of Music, TV
What does it take for a television show to stick in people’s minds – not as a flicker of a memory, or an amusing reference point, but something that is really meaningful to them? There are many great things about The Adventures of Pete & Pete, a sho…
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The GOP’s Contempt for Women | The Nation
During the Republican primary in 2012, one of Mitt Romney’s most damaging gaffes was saying that he would “get rid of” Planned Parenthood. If only that were the Republican Party’s biggest problem with women today.
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Lacie Little won back last week everything Indiana University Health Inc. took from her – except her job. Her beloved nursing job. She got back wages and a formal public statement by the hospital corporation saying that it removed the firing from he…
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Should You Bring Your Kid To The Bar? | VinePair
For many people with kids, sacrificing some of the pleasures they used to enjoy pre-children seems like too much of a tradeoff just for the joy of having children – which is ridiculous.
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Armed Oath Keepers in Ferguson: we’re here to protect people – video | US news | The Guardian
The leader of Oath Keepers, known only as John, says the only reason the militia is getting involved with the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, is to protect people. He warns against the harm caused by making up rumours about the group’s intention…
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Florida anchor storms off in Kardashian protest: ‘I’m sick of this family’ | US news | The Guardian
A Florida news anchor has apologised for storming off in the middle of a live broadcast in protest over the channel’s coverage of the Kardashian family. John Brown of Fox 35 News posted a video of the incident – which has been watched more than a mi…
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Only a handful of scientists who rely on fetal tissue donations to conduct their research feel comfortable going on record to defend the practice, after weeks of controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood’s role in facilitating this process.
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Bernie Sanders pledges to end institutional racism – video | US news | The Guardian
At a rally Monday night in Los Angeles, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pledged to fight harder than any other candidate to end institutional racism.
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On Saturday, Black Lives Matter organizers Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford got on stage and took the microphone away from from presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders to remind him that the Black Lives Matter movement is the grassroots move…
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How to overtake cyclists – the video all drivers should watch | Environment | The Guardian
“Socialism,” wrote the 1970s Chilean politician José Viera Gallo, “can only arrive by bicycle.” That’s why Jeremy Corbyn cycles everywhere. And come the revolution, prime minister Corbyn will see to it that this land of ours will be festooned with b…
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Heavily Armed Oath Keepers Return to Ferguson — NYMag
On Monday night, as a smattering of protesters continued to remember the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, a group of four white men carrying assault weapons walked onto the streets of Ferguson. They might have looked familiar to veterans from l…
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Five arrested in $30m insider trading scheme using hacked data, FBI says | US news | The Guardian
Five people were arrested and are in US custody, charged in an insider trading scheme that generated more than $30m in illegal profits, an FBI spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Symantec Sells Veritas Division To Private Equity Group For $8B | TechCrunch
Symantec announced today that it had sold its Veritas division to The Carlyle Group, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm for $8 billion in cash.
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The chatty, frenetic dispatch hubs of neighborhood car services are getting quieter.
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Teen claims world record for kicking oneself in head – Boing Boing
By kicking himself 134 times in the head in 60 seconds, Nepalese teen Puskar Nepal has booted the previous champion from the record books. Puskar Nepal says he hopes to bring attention to the poor of Sindhupalchowk district.
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Fix your Facebook privacy settings – Boing Boing
Facebook’s privacy settings remain mysterious and ever-changing. The idea is to lead users into a state of pervasive self-exposure that’s fit for aggregation, without us realizing we’ve lost control. Wired’s guide to raising your Facebook privacy sh…
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One Chart Showing Why the Global Drought Is Only Going to Get Worse
The world is dry and getting drier. So when should we expect relief to finally land? Possibly not at all, according to this chart.
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Endless battle: Fighting systemic corruption in Iraq – Al Jazeera English
Over the last two weeks anti-government protests have erupted in several Iraqi cities, including the capital Baghdad, Basra in the south, and the predominantly Shia heartland towns of Najaf, Karbala, and Hilla – the constituencies of Iraq’s major po…
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Which of the President’s Men, Exactly? | JSTOR Daily
Newly declassified snippets of Haldeman’s diary highlight how much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration It may be the most scrutinized day of the Nixon administration: June 30, 1971, the day that the Supreme Court decided…
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NASA TV to Host Perseid Meteor Shower Program | NASA
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Hillary Clinton on Monday rolled out a sweeping higher education plan — a $350 billion proposal that would help millions pay for college and reduce interest rates for people with student loans.
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The Last Kings Of Kong | FiveThirtyEight
The best “Donkey Kong” player in the world dies all the time. It’s part of his plan. Dean Saglio, a 38-year-old real estate agent from Rhode Island, knows that the only way he’s going to break his high score (1,206,800) — again — is by taking huge r…
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Malvern Hill Sunrise | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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A Vaccine to Shield Threatened Honeybees From Disease – Scientific American
Bees use an egg yolk protein to prime their offspring’s immune system against different pathogens, Finnish researchers have discovered.
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Google’s Alphabet is so ambitious they might as well have called it DNA | Technology | The Guardian
“Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things,” writes Google co-founder Larry Page, in his blogpost launching the company’s latest venture to the world: the birth of a Google mother-brand, henceforth to be known as Alphabet.
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Harvard Professor Wants to Crowdfund a Presidential Campaign | 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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Louis CK releases pay-what-you-want live album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
While we’re already missing Louie (on an extended break from FX), we don’t have to start missing Louis. Louis CK has released a live album on his web site, and is offering fans the “pay what you want” option pioneered by Radiohead.
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Fish leaps from water to bite a man’s nipple
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‘I don’t believe in can’t’: Lawrence Guy’s journey from special ed to the NFL | Sport | The Guardian
On Monday I drove to see Lawrence Guy. I wanted to know how he saw his football life four years after we first met. Over the years I have written about a number of football players fresh out of college angling for position in the NFL’s draft.
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Greek police spray migrants with fire extinguishers – Al Jazeera English
Police in the Greek island of Kos have beaten migrants with batons and sprayed them with fire extinguishers as hundreds were gathering at a football stadium to wait for immigration documents.
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Ronda Rousey: ‘I Can Beat Anyone on the Planet’ | Rolling Stone
Cris Cyborg can threaten Ronda Rousey with as many lawsuits as she wants. It sure as hell won’t stop the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion from speaking her mind. And on Monday night, Rousey did just that, hosting an AMA on Reddit.
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This should go well: Jeb! Bush to attack Hillary Clinton, President Obama on Iraq
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Kelsea Ballerini Celebrates Historic Number One | Rolling Stone
Kelsea Ballerini’s “Love Me Like You Mean It” is her first Number One hit.
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Australia carbon plan sends shudder through neighbours – BBC News
The remnants of burnt carbon have been causing Australians all over the world to hang their heads in shame in recent days. But the painful loss of the Ashes, cricket’s most ridiculous trophy, to England, isn’t the only CO2 related problem facing the…
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Bob Weir Reveals What Grateful Dead Song to Play at His Funeral | Rolling Stone
Fresh off announcing that the Grateful Dead’s music will live on as Dead & Company, Bob Weir will sit down with Dan Rather for a wide-ranging chat that will air on the newscaster’s AXS TV series The Big Interview.
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Donald Trump Is Winning The Polls — And Losing The Nomination | FiveThirtyEight
Twelve years ago, in August 2003, Joe Lieberman led in most polls of the Democratic primary. Eight years ago, in August 2007, Rudy Giuliani maintained a clear lead in polls of Republicans, while Hillary Clinton led in polls of the Democratic nominat…
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Shirley Jackson and Me – The Toast
When it comes to literary daydreaming, I’m not one for those imaginary dinner parties, with artisanally curated assemblages of Great Authors of All Time swapping deft bon mots between courses.
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Chicago just being Chicago. [OC] [3984×2988] : CityPorn
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¶ 1One day, as Niel was strolling down the road, he spotted a snake trapped between two rocks. Niel hated seeing a creature in trouble. He pulled apart the rocks carefully so that the snake could slither away. 8Niel sat up in surprise, clasping his …
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“Our Fading Universe?” –GAMA Project Looks To Its Past and Future
All the energy in the Universe was created in the Big Bang, with some portion locked up as mass. Stars shine by converting mass into energy, as described by Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2.
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See Shooting Stars Galore as Meteor Shower Peaks
Scott Kelly caught the moon, Earth, Venus, and Jupiter in a row from his perch on the International Space Station.
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Competition No. 54: Movies for Summer — NYMag
Welcome back to the New York Magazine Competition. On alternate Mondays (Tuesday, this week), we lay out a challenge and offer a sample responses. Enter in the comments section, or on Twitter with the hashtag we’ve provided, and the editors will sel…
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Gizmodo Google Creates Alphabet, a New Company to Rule Them All | Jezebel Lexi, Won’t You Think of All the Lives Lost at the Hands of Fall Out Boy | Kotaku Ronda Rousey Dishes On Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z Once More | Lifehacker Five Basic Hand Stitc…
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra on the Romeo + Juliet-Inspired ‘Multi-Love’ | WIRED
On the Song Exploder podcast, host Hrishikesh Hirway talks to musicians who take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the stories of how they were made. Listen below. “Multi-Love” is the title track from the 2015 album by the acclaimed rock b…
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The ultimate guide to doing anything in Slack
Slack, the team messaging app that’s the hot thing of the moment among startups, has seen explosive growth in the last year with over one million people now using the service every day. It’s chat room for your whole company.
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Doug Aitken’s 30-Day Film Is an Ode to the Creative Process | WIRED
Every day for 30 days this summer, Doug Aikten grabbed his camera and shot one 15-second film. (Aitken is a multi-media artist best known as the mastermind behind Station To Station, the roaming art exhibit that carted dozens of artists from NYC to …
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If everybody’s gone to the rapture, then this must be hell: a game where the player hardly matters, a story that not even the characters care about, and a world whose pastoral beauty is a hollow vessel.
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Drug-Resistant Stomach Bug Gains a Foothold in the U.S. – Scientific American
The kinds of bacteria that can cause diarrheal ailments such as food poisoning lurk all around us.
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You Can Now Score a Rental Property with a View of . . . William and Kate’s House | Vanity Fair
Imagine this: you’re on the couch. The Friends rerun you were watching just ended and now the local news is on. You don’t have the energy to stand up and turn it off, so you just blithely scroll on your phone while the newscasters go on about a loca…
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My sister meeting a dog for the first time. : aww
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American bison at Lamar Valley [OC][2048X899] : AnimalPorn
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Black lipstick is the best lipstick – Boing Boing
“From Maori tattoos to the golden age of Hollywood, from David Bowie to being considered a “disruptive force” in schools, black lipstick has been around much longer than Hot Topic and the Kardashian Krew.
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Perseid Meteor Shower Gets a Boost from Dark Moon, Jupiter
The Perseid meteor shower is the most widely observed and dependable annual meteor display of the year, and its peak this week has all the earmarks of being an excellent example of celestial fireworks, weather permitting.
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Louisiana County Gets A Win Over Plans To Frack In Wetlands | ThinkProgress
A Louisiana district court judge on Monday threw out — at least temporarily — a permit for fracking exploration in wetlands about an hour outside New Orleans.
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How a Brutal Murder Is Changing Jerusalem’s LGBT Community | VICE News
Shira Banki wasn’t murdered at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade because she was gay. The 16-year-old was straight, and supporting a close lesbian friend at the July 30 march when an ultra-Orthodox extremist stabbed her and five others.
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YC-Backed Bizzy Helps Brands Send Fewer Emails With Better Conversion | TechCrunch
There’s nothing worse than a clogged inbox, and though it might not appear so, ecommerce brands don’t want to be the object of your resentment from over-emailing. Bizzy, a YC-backed startup, aims to help ecommerce brands make more of an impact in fe…
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Great Perseid Meteors Expected August 12-13 (Dark Moon) | NASA Video
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The rise and fall of cellphone company HTC – Boing Boing
Wired’s Brian Barrett reports on how the company became worth less to stockholders than the cash in its own pocket: “a smartphone market that simply doesn’t have room for more than a handful of players, one in which being different no longer counts …
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US lobbying for TPP to lock up clinical trial data – Boing Boing
Copyright only extends to creative works, not facts, meaning that clinical trial data (and other data sources) are in the public domain as soon as they’re published — unless governments create special “sui generis” rights to scientific research dat…
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America’s children no longer know what shoes are
Millennials may never recover from the effects of the Great Recession, but Generation Z—those born in the mid-’90s and ’00s—were long believed to be on the track to success.
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Cartoon: Legacies of the Trump presidency
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Fenerbahce footballer unhurt after shots fired at car – Al Jazeera English
Fenerbahce midfielder Mehmet Topal has escaped unhurt after assailants fired shots at him while he was driving, according to the Turkish football club. The club said the player was targeted while driving home from training. The shots hit his bullet-…
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Updated, 8:04 a.m. | Donald J. Trump’s feud with Fox News came to a close on Tuesday morning when the billionaire tycoon called into the network for a friendly interview, declaring “we’ve always been friends.”
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Solar system exploration update
Emily Lakdawalla provides an update on all of the exploration that’s going on in our solar system this month. Here’s a quick map view of the 20+ spacecraft exploring our solar system beyond Earth: Mars remains the most active spot beyond Earth in th…
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Rand Paul’s Decline Marks the End of Realism Within the GOP | The Nation
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010, the ever-dwindling number of foreign policy realists within the ranks of the Republican party have nurtured unrealistically high hopes for Dr. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
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Donald Trump: I whine until I win : nottheonion
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Stingray [1200×787]. Photo by David Doubilet. : seaporn
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Jeb Bush to embrace family legacy on Iraq in hawkish foreign policy speech | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush will seek to recapture the Republican presidential primary race from Donald Trump on Tuesday with a hawkish speech echoing his brother’s foreign policy and attacking the Obama administration for leaving Iraq too soon.
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Suspected Russian Missile Parts Found at MH17 Crash Site | VICE News
Parts of a suspected Russian missile system have been found at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year, killing all 298 people on board.
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The mother who defends Stop and Frisk: ‘What about my dead son’s civil rights?’ | Law | The Guardian
Akeal Christopher lay face down on a Brooklyn street, his legs twisted and convulsing from a bullet that rested deep in his brain. Minutes before, the 14-year-old and seven childhood friends had been walking down Cornelia Street in Bushwick.
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Winona Ryder confirms Beetlejuice sequel and enduring appeal · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been a while since we had any news about a Beetlejuice sequel—it was all the way back in December that Tim Burton “oh yeah’d” in passing that he was up for helming the film.
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Rick Perry Can’t Afford to Pay His Campaign Staff | Vanity Fair
Former Texas governor Rick Perry might have a few billionaire sugar-daddy investors in his presidential campaign, but according to The New York Times, Perry’s actual campaign is pretty much out of money.
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Harry Houdini 1914 : OldSchoolCool
History’s cool kids, looking fantastic! A pictorial and video celebration of history’s coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
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Why Ohio Is Requiring All Judges To Perform Same-Sex Marriages | ThinkProgress
Since the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling (Obergefell), states have wrestled with whether officials are required to officiate same-sex couples’ marriages.
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Drunk guy takes an escalator ride into infinity
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Cuba’s hottest Internet business delivers content to subscribers by hand
Think your Internet connection is slow? Try surfing the Web in Cuba, where the hottest way to get access to a week of online content is… physical home delivery. Enter El Paquete Semanal, or The Weekly Packet, which is reportedly growing like mad.
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Building a conversion optimization strategy is a process. You’ve spent time on tracking, analyzing, building a hypothesis and building your test.
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Giant Burst of Tiny Organisms Discovered on Tree of Life – Scientific American
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). It used to be that to find new forms of life, all you had to do was take a walk in the woods. Now it’s not so simple.
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Massive Toxic Algae Blooms May Prove a Sign of Climate Change to Come – Scientific American
The water began turning a barely perceptible brownish-green in early May, a sign that algae were present and growing in the waters of Monterey Bay.
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Thank you for the present, Maya! : cats
Thank you for the present, Maya! via /r/cats http://t.co/tJQzKY9cvx http://t.co/tHIZTIXXmm
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This Place May Have the Tallest People in the World
These are the majestic Dinaric Alps. They’re not a country—they’re a region that spans multiple countries. This region, according to one study, is home to a concentrated population of the tallest people on Earth.
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As a flotilla of kayaking environmental protesters surrounded her fleet in Seattle harbour in May, Ann Pickard, the rarely-interviewed executive in charge of Shell’s Arctic drilling programme, launched a PR counter-offensive.
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R.I.P. Columbia House, mail-order music club to cease operations | Consequence of Sound
The rise of digital media has finally, but sadly, taken its toll on Columbia House. The mail-order music club that once raked in as much as $1.4 billion in sales during its peak in the mid-’90s is calling it quits for good. Its parent company Filmed…
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Columbia House, once a mail-order giant, files for bankruptcy – LA Times
The parent company of Columbia House, the once-popular mail-order music club, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after 20 years of declining sales. Filmed Entertainment Inc. said Monday it would sell its Columbia House DVD Club business …
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Photo highlights of the day: WWII bomb and black balls in LA | News | The Guardian
London, UK British military personnel dealing with an unexploded bomb, in Bethnal Green – believed to have been dropped over London during German bombing raids in the early 1940s. The unexploded 250kg World War Two device was discovered during const…
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A year after being arrested in Ferguson for not leaving McDonalds fast enough, two reporters charged
“Charging a reporter with trespassing and interfering with a police officer when he was just doing his job is outrageous,” Martin Baron, executive editor of The Post, said in a statement Monday.
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Pre-Order: The SKEYE Mini Drone with HD Camera
You can fly the palm-sized SKEYE Mini just about anywhere, but with auto-stabilization and an HD camera, it offers big-drone functionality. A great drone for newbies and master pilots alike, it’s currently available at 67 percent off on pre-orders a…
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6 Train Character by Ryan Parrilla / 500px
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How a love for geek fashion transformed a lifelong friendship into a business
Lifelong friends Georgia Kicklighter and Victoria Ying did just that.
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Scuba divers get up close and personal with curious baby orcas
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White Armed Militiamen Appear In Ferguson After State Of Emergency Declared | ThinkProgress
One year after criticizing the militarized police force in Ferguson, the Oath Keepers — a group of armed white militiamen — took to the city’s streets, clashing with protesters on Monday night.
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Map of Albanian dialects [1300×1100] : MapPorn
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Bernie Sanders assures Black Lives Matter protesters: I’m your guy | US news | The Guardian
They came to “Feel the Bern” and to see how the man himself felt about being recently singed. Bernie Sanders did not disappoint.
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Floating Capital by Jedd Chevrier : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Wildcard pivots to an attractive way to get news
Wildcard, which launched in late 2014 as a way to browse the Web as cards instead of webpages, is launching version two of its app today and it looks very different (in a good way).
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dooty and spooky : ledootgeneration
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Columbia House Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Streaming | Rolling Stone
Columbia House, the mail-order music retailer that turned an “Eight CDs for a penny” offer into an annual profit of $1.4 billion at its peak, has filed for bankruptcy. Filmed Entertainment Inc.
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Stephen Colbert Talks Letterman, Trump and New ‘Late Show’ | Rolling Stone
With less than a month to go before Stephen Colbert takes over CBS’ Late Show, the host spoke for the first time about replacing David Letterman, what he learned from hanging out with the late-night legend, rooting for Donald Trump to succeed and hi…
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Why Risk Lives With a Drone When You Can Rent an Ace Pilot? | WIRED
Equipped with the right camera, drones can capture mesmerizing fly-by videos and bird’s-eye-view photos. But there’s a big problem with that, and it goes beyond the high price of most UAVs: They can be quite dangerous in the wrong hands. Drones requ…
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FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring Fall Interns | FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight is looking for two fall interns, one for our visual journalism team and one to help with our podcast and video production. Both positions are paid, and we can accommodate part-time interns who are enrolled in school.
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Finish Him! (X-Post /r/gifs) : gif
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Wildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age | TechCrunch
Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities that users today do on their phone. It’s so popular, in fact, that Apple is introducing its own native News app in iOS 9, due out this fa…
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No White House for You, Rick Perry — NYMag
There is a hardy saying in American politics: Campaigns don’t end, they run out of money. Rick Perry’s campaign has run out of money and can no longer pay its staff, who have been freed up to find work elsewhere.
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WATCH: scorching guitar riff with ACPAD MIDI controller prototype – Boing Boing
ACPAD is a touch-activated MIDI controller that can be overlaid on an acoustic guitar face, allowing a range of effects and rhythms while playing. Sign up on their site for updates, including their soon-to-be-announced crowdfunding campaign.
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Given that Marvel has now turned a talking raccoon, an anthropomorphized tree, and a man who can telepathically speak to ants into blockbuster stars, 1986’s infamous flop Howard The Duck somehow feels slightly less ridiculous in retrospect.
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It’s Official: Supergirl Will Never Cross Over With The Flash Or Arrow
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What does $60 trillion in debt look like? – Boing Boing
There’s about $60 trillion in public government debt worldwide, and the folks at Visual Capitalist created a chart to show proportions and debt-to-GDP ratio in one handy image. About two dozen countries carry over 90% of the world’s debt, with Japan…
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WATCH: Why Japan already embraces our android future – Boing Boing
They also note the cultural differences that have allowed the android market to flourish in Japan.
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For Inmates, “The Wall” Has a Totally Different Meaning | Runner’s World
, when the first inmates arrived, the Oregon State Penitentiary did not have a wall. It was a tricky situation, operating a prison that was still under construction, so the warden outfitted each of his new charges in an iron ankle shackle.
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He Was Tougher Than Titanium | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
The only noise in the car during the thirty-minute drive is the soft sound of breathing. While I listen to my parents and my sister inhaling and exhaling, I’m aware that my brother has been unable to perform this simple, essential task for hours now.
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Spotted hyenas have good hearing and sharp eyesight at night. : Awwducational
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Why every member of your team should be a UX expert
Building a culture of User Experience (UX) awareness requires education and leadership. You’ll need some buy-in from employees across the different teams to get them to believe that they should care about UX, even if it’s not part of their core job …
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Touchjet Wave will turn your TV into a giant touchscreen
If you’ve always wanted to turn your TV into a giant touchscreen display then the Touchjet Wave is an Indiegogo campaign that you’ll want to check out.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 100 | 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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Hi Reddit! For the last 18 years my focus has been in the discovery and engineering of materials, specifically nanomaterials, and find useful applications related to things like paints, composites, sensors, and packaging.
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Stars above New Zealand mountains [OC] [5000×2689] : ExposurePorn
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Morning Digest: Fellow Republicans trash Mark Kirk for his vote against defunding Planned Parenthood
• FL-Sen: It’s a bit of a good news/bad news day for Rep. David Jolly, who is seeking the GOP nomination for Florida’s open Senate seat. Jolly scored the endorsement of fellow Rep. Dennis Ross, but a local blog also dredged up the fact that he donat…
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The struggle of being the only Mexican in your group of friends : AdviceAnimals
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5 tricks to extend your iPhone’s battery
While we wait for the battery life improvements promised by iOS 9, we’re taking a look at some nifty tricks to get more out of your iPhone’s battery now.
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Find My iPhone or the triumph of the American Spirit
Have you ever stalked a cab? Not pacing from street corner to street corner like a junkie in search of a lost high, trying to hail any taxi that passes.
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The Bernie Sanders Surge Appears To Be Over | FiveThirtyEight
Not long ago, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was surging. In just a few months, the Vermont senator halved Hillary Clinton’s lead in Iowa and moved to within shouting distance of her in New Hampshire. But it’s probably time to chan…
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The irrepressible pop of Dej Loaf and Tink—2 rap queens in training
Something that has become increasingly evident in the wake of this whole Drake vs. Meek Mill imbroglio rap fans have been mired in for the past few weeks: Hip-hop needs more superstars. Mill has appeared very out of his element in the mainstream sp…
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Flanders knows how to keep it real : funny
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Sunset over a dead tree, taken with Samsung Galaxy S5 [OC] [5312×2988] : EarthPorn
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Why America’s Largest Nurses Union Is Endorsing Bernie Sanders Over Hillary Clinton | ThinkProgress
National Nurses United has chosen Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as its preferred Democratic candidate for president, dealing a blow to other candidates who had sought the union’s endorsement — namely, Hillary Clinton. NNU announced its decision on Mond…
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Meet ‘Muslim’: The Chechen Commander Battling Russia With Some Unlikely Allies | VICE News
The knowledge that the toffee-and-poppy-seed cake had been made by a group of local volunteers was enough to reassure the Chechen militia commander that he would not be poisoned over afternoon tea.
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Dutch Forces Mobilize (Extra Scene from ‘The Russians Are Coming: NATO’s Frontier’) | VICE News
In the wake of events in eastern Ukraine over the last year, NATO has turned its attention towards countries that border the Russian Federation and attempted to boost its quick-response capabilities in Europe.
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Confusion plagues EPA response to Colorado mining spill | US news | The Guardian
Six days after a burst plug shot 3m gallons of toxic mining waste from Gold King Mine into Colorado’s Animas River, communities in three states are increasingly frustrated that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hasn’t explained the environme…
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Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton Got into a Twitter Fight | Vanity Fair
The fight to elect the next president of the United States devolved into a battle of the memes on Monday night. Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush—or whoever was manning their respective social feeds—traded a number of pointed barbs on Twitter, complete w…
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This sunflower doesn’t want to face East : mildlyinteresting
Aww, cripes. I didn’t know I’d have to write a description. How many words is that so far, like a hundred? Soooo, yeah. Mildly interesting stuff. Stuff that interests you. Mildly. It’s in the name, ffs. Does your post qualify for Mildly interesting?
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Why Google Is Becoming Alphabet – The New Yorker
On Monday, Google, at sixteen years old, announced, like many a restless teen-ager before it, that it was changing its name. Late in the afternoon, a new Web page materialized at the memorable, if unsightly, U.R.L. abc.xyz.
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‘They can’t unsee what you have made’ – Offworld
This splendid little bit of artwork by Taylor Orendurff is in tribute to Tom McHenry’s Horse Master, a game which, if I were able to pick my top three Twine game, would definitely be in the top three. Maybe top one. If there is anything whatsoever s…
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Felicia Day’s “You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)” – Boing Boing
Felicia Day started out as a math prodigy and violin virtuoso, home-schooled by her oddball mother while they followed her Army doctor father around several postings in the American south.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – Lightly thru space
Shining as brightly as the Moon in a clear Spanish night, new LED lighting installed at ESA’s Cebreros tracking station is saving energy and money, while ensuring efficient station operation.
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/JP4hadSGjY http://t.co/OOaGY2PMxs
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Once, a long time ago, a rock star was a free-spirited, convention-flouting artist/rebel/hero/Dionysian fertility god who fronted a world-famous band, sold millions of records and headlined stadium concerts where people were trampled in frenzies of …
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Hello This is Rex via /r/gif http://t.co/yOkN38FrFw http://t.co/mCkyyy0tiu
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It’s Tuesday : firstworldanarchists
It’s Tuesday via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/eoJ8q6FKft http://t.co/PKEJBU10EW
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Seems Legit via /r/gif http://t.co/5ceoj4ZtGf http://t.co/yqLxGd0Iw2
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Can You Lose Weight with Exercise Alone? – Scientific American
Don’t stress too much about cutting calories if you want to shed pounds—focus on getting more exercise. That’s the controversial message beverage giant Coca-Cola is backing in its new campaign to curb obesity.
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TOKYO — For more than four years since the nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima in 2011, Japan has been debating whether it should permanently abandon a technology that went so disastrously wrong but that for years was seen as essential to its economy. Go…
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Fights Among Migrants Break Out on Kos | Al Jazeera America
Fights broke out Tuesday among migrants on the Greek island of Kos, where overwhelmed authorities are struggling to contain increasing numbers of people arriving on rubber dinghies from the nearby Turkish shore.
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Chopsticks the parrot is an adorably chatty fellow
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That shockwave : interestingasfuck
That shockwave via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/qgan0D7zdj http://t.co/e4MdpwtIdf
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/M15xntNrWn http://t.co/l0dtjjvgvr
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LOS ANGELES — Stephen Colbert discussed his plans for his new late-night show for the first time Monday — as well as his restlessness about being off the air and the challenges of breaking from the satirical character he’s played for years. Mr.
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Islamic State Claim to Have Beheaded Croatian Hostage | VICE News An online image circulated on Wednesday purported to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State (IS) group’s Egyptian affiliate, Sinai Province, after being beheaded. tags: Pocket news newsblur stories storytelling top level vice TOM THE DANCING BUG:…
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