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Fox Girl via /r/foxes http://t.co/rr0S3FSl0V http://t.co/cJQHyShcP8
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Why Artificial Intelligence Can Too Easily Be Weaponized – The Atlantic
Manufacturers and governments interested in developing such weapons may claim that they can engineer proper safeguards to ensure that they cannot be reprogrammed or hacked. Such claims should be greeted with skepticism.
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From Margaret Atwood to Paolo Bacigalupi: The New Popularity of ‘Climate Fiction’ – The Atlantic
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself.
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Lives matter via /r/pics http://t.co/8cgtUztbRG http://t.co/XeIxzIStNx
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How U.S. Climate Plan Can Follow China and Europe—Or Not
Energy Snapshot
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Space Station Sunrise
Two of the ringed planet’s moons make an appearance, and a telescope spies quirky asteroids lined up in a row.
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A classic space pun sent professional TV newscasters into fits of laughter
TV broadcasters are complete professionals, but even they aren’t above a good butt joke.
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Japan’s PM Feels ‘Grief’ Over WWII, But No Apology | Al Jazeera America
Beijing and Seoul had made clear they wanted Abe to stick to the 1995 “heartfelt apology” for suffering caused by Tokyo’s “colonial rule and aggression.” “Upon the innocent people did our country inflict immeasurable damage and suffering,” Abe said …
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I am completely out of control : firstworldanarchists
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WATCH: Timelapsed, tilt-shifted airport – Boing Boing
Darwinfish105 pulled out all the SFX stops, combining tilt shift, time lapse, slow-shutter and some other fun bells and whistles. You can find more on YouTube, like this lovely collection of skyscapes.
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Watch: Venus flytrap takes up smoking – Boing Boing
Deal with it.
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Fruit leather purses are a thing now – Boing Boing
Now you can accessorize with cruelty-free “leather” created from discarded fruit, thanks to Fruitleather Rotterdam. It turns out that different fruits make different grades of leather.
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Hillary Clinton Just Wanted To Send Emails From Her Phone Like A Normal Person | ThinkProgress
In what’s likely to be one of the major controversies of her campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s desire to use her phone for both work and personal communications like the rest of the world has sparked a federal investigati…
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Watch this psychedelic dreamscape: The Colors of Feelings – Boing Boing
French artist Thomas Blanchard mixed paint, oil, milk, honey and cinnamon to create these hypnotic swirlings of color and shape. The film is set to Lost in Space by Max Richter.
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Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted for leaking national security information, faces the threat of indefinite solitary confinement for allegedly violating prison rules.
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Imagine you’re a conflicted lawmaker in the U.S. Congress. You’ve heard all the arguments about the Iran nuclear agreement, pro and con. A vote on the deal is coming up in September and you have to make a decision. But you are torn. Most of your col…
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Every year, about one million Americans and tens of millions of people worldwide suffer the debilitating effects of salmonella poisoning, episodes sometimes serious enough for hospitalization.
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The unique sunken canals and wharfs of Utrecht, The Netherlands [3820×2547] : CityPorn
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Absurd Creatures: Watch the Giant Swimming Face of the Sea | WIRED
Caption: This spider is–how shall I say it–in a good amount of trouble. Keizo TAKASUKA Wasps can be a rather … mean-spirited bunch, particularly when it comes to raising their offspring.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Squid That Looks Like a Bee Stung It in the Eyeball | WIRED
Before the first deep-sea scientific trawls in the 19th century started revealing what lurks in the ocean depths, some scientists reckoned all the creatures down there were blind.
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How Parents’ Unpredictable Schedules Harm Kids — Science of Us
Facebook icon On-call scheduling, a practice which has been employed by companies like Starbucks and Abercrombie & Fitch, in which employees get very little advance
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Are Unions An ‘Us’ Or A ‘Them’?
Divide and conquer works. When you face a strong enemy it’s always a good strategy to find ways to break them apart into smaller units that can be fought separately. A state initiative to gut California’s public-employee pension and healthcare benef…
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Jesus and Donald Trump: who can tell the difference? A close reading | US news | The Guardian
It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump’s favorite piece of literature is the Bible. That’s because he appears to have modeled his 1987 autobiography Trump: The Art of the Deal on the Book of Genesis.
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First time seeing the Milky Way! via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/uqmzT0VKH7 http://t.co/KkdnylmnAH http://t.co/6LKnpMxp18
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First time seeing the Milky Way! : spaceporn
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Your bed is my bed now! : LazyCats
Your bed is my bed now! via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/BSOGK3DRYP http://t.co/2Bk1gn8tbG
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80 Years Later, Republicans Are Still Fighting Social Security
Some things never change. “The lash of the dictator will be felt,” a Republican House member said in 1935 when Social Security was first proposed. “Social Security is the delinquent child of the left,” a Fox News commentator said this week, “that gr…
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Ehhh, you can keep whatever it ends up on. : AdviceAnimals
Ehhh, you can keep whatever it ends up on. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/T7oxVfz5YW http://t.co/npN3V8V0T9
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A tiny blep for Friday morning : Blep
A tiny blep for Friday morning via /r/Blep http://t.co/xd9x6y3oe7 http://t.co/RrEPuhyMyo
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: What we’ve learned about the GOP field since the debates
Matthew Dickerson at US News: Do the normal political campaign laws apply to Donald Trump? Another week, another controversial remark by Trump, another set of predictions by pundits that, this time, Trump’s political bubble will surely burst and ano…
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Cairo airport website hacked as Egyptians mark massacre – Al Jazeera English
The website of Cairo’s airport has been hacked as Egyptians marked the second anniversary of the mass killing of demonstrators in the capital.
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Now free for the world to see on the Cambridge University Digital Library are some treasures from the library’s Chinese collections. Fire up that time machine called the Internet, and you can start perusing:
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People Smuggling in Sicily: Europe or Die | VICE News
In June the European Union (EU) responded to the huge numbers of migrants and refugees dying on its borders by launching an 11.8 million euro ($12.8m) a year naval mission.
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When Your Eating at a Waffle House Full of Cops – GIF on Imgur
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Spock the Catloaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/Rhjtoi9oyz http://t.co/fDEduBqOEH
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The Hamptons: where the mega-rich and working poor collide – video | US news | The Guardian
The Hamptons on Long Island, New York, are known for being posh communities with extravagant second (or third or fourth) homes for the super-rich. But the people who live there year-round have a different story to tell
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Every summer, the Hamptons becomes a billionaires’ playground.
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Al Gore for president? Democratic insiders ponder if candidacy is possible | US news | The Guardian
Some insiders in the Democratic party are discussing having former vice-president Al Gore make another run for US president, BuzzFeed reported on Thursday, adding that the man who won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election has not taken …
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TIANJIN, China — With plumes of toxic smoke still hovering on the horizon, officials of this port city near Beijing were scrambling on Friday to
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Boaters rescue terrified baby deer that swam too far out in a lake
Stories Email
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On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, we must calmly reflect upon the road to war, the path we have taken since it ended, and the era of the 20th century. We must learn from the lessons of history the wisdom for our future.
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Quick updoot to give Mr Skeltal a hand beating up this fuccboi. : ledootgeneration
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Primrose on Primrose | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Primrose on Primrose by mudder_bbc http://t.co/DqFF95znsb http://t.co/Wr9CERKbh3
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My grandmother in the 60’s : OldSchoolCool
My grandmother in the 60’s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/ipmrEcB0R5 http://t.co/k8PqbdBGvv
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My little lion via /r/cats http://t.co/jJ8e5kZk26 http://t.co/AdYoDe57J1
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Some things are best left offline : funny
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How not to pick up girls : gifs
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Cuban Americans, like me, are asked for our opinion on the island constantly – by our friends and family, our bosses and doctors, our grocers and bartenders, as well as by total strangers.
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A Palestinian prisoner on his 60th day of hunger strike has lost consciousness after Israeli doctors refused to force-feed him on ethical grounds.
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Wild Sunspot Activity Looks Tamer in 400-Year Recount
The sun exhibiting a number of sunspots on January 14, 2013. Sunspot Number Version 2.0 is a project to recalculate the daily sunspot count going back 400 years.
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Whale covered in plastic bags approaches fisherman for help
Stories Email
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ISIL attacks on sexual minorities on UN meeting agenda – Al Jazeera English
We hear from Palestinians who were allegedly used as human shields by the Israeli army during the 2014 Gaza war. Inspired by the rags-to-riches story of Manny Pacquiao, many Filipino fighters see boxing as a ticket out of poverty.
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Race in the US: Writing through the tears – Al Jazeera English
The blood of my enslaved ancestors is baked into the rich Mississippi earth of my hometown. The echo of their screams harmonises with the whistle of the whip as it snaps in the air, connecting with bone, skin, heart.
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What is it like riding a £10k Team Sky bike on Britain’s roads? | Environment | The Guardian
“Did you see that?” said one cyclist to his mates as we whizzed in opposite directions on two parts of London’s Olympic Velodrome road track. “What’s going on with that frame?” said another as we briefly cycled alongside each other at the Prudential…
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Young ‘alien Jupiter’ planet discovered – BBC News
The new world, known as 51 Eridani b, is only 20 million years old – a toddler by astronomical standards. The alien world could yield clues to the formation of our Solar System, which has an unusual lay-out.
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Speed painting- the deep serenade : dataisbeautiful
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Vienna, Austria [1500×834] : CityPorn
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Let’s School the Presidential Hopefuls on Cybersecurity | WIRED
In the build up to the 2016 US election, both Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about cybersecurity—and specifically state-sponsored hacks. Cybersecurity is the hot-button national security issue on the campaign trail.
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot May Yield Its Colorful Secret in a Lab
Jupiter’s distinctive Great Red Spot is a storm twice the size of Earth that has blown for at least 150 years. Scientists are trying to recreate its colors in a lab to learn more about the planet’s atmosphere.
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24 Hours of Le Mans in Two Minutes of Epic Stop-Motion | WIRED
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is exactly what it sounds like: a 24-hour auto race. The race has been described as a cross between traveling circus and an entire season of Formula 1 crammed into one weekend. In other words, it’s amazing and fantastic and n…
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We Should All Be Thankful for Samsung’s Weirdo Phone | WIRED
Samsung’s introduced two new phones to the world. One is the Note 5, a slight revision of last year’s Note 4, itself was a slight revision of the previous year’s Note 3. The other is totally nuts. It’s also the one that might save the smartphone ind…
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Booze’s Secret Ingredient? Water | WIRED
Distillers understand that the quality of their ingredients determines the quality of the booze. Kentucky bourbon-makers use commodity-sized truckloads of corn every day and still brag about their standards. The people making scotch say the same thi…
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Audi’s Plan to Make an Electric SUV With a 300-Mile* Range | WIRED
Audi wants to build an all-electric SUV that will go 300 miles on a charge, and it’s working with Samsung and LG to get it done.
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Uber’s Business Isn’t Built to Help Disabled People | WIRED
Nadina LaSpina is looking up from under her wide-brimmed hat at the heavy grey rain clouds overhead, watching the blazing July sun play peekaboo behind them, and worrying about whether she’s dressed appropriately for the weather.
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Tiniest Monster Black Hole Discovered
The smallest supermassive black hole ever identified is gobbling material at rates similar to its larger cousins, providing insights into how these behemoths evolve. Located at the heart of a dwarf galaxy known as RGG 118, the black hole contains ab…
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Beyond the Obvious | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Beyond the Obvious by Aaron Springer http://t.co/h8ua9UJQ7r http://t.co/6qXrz6iXQ5
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Lakes – View towards Buttermere 100315 (2) Explored | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Lakes – View towards Buttermere 100315 (2) Explored by ailognom2005 http://t.co/jP0J3kRKAq http://t.co/x0EWbxhq7E
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Gecko Feet Inspire Climbing Space Robots
Gecko Feet Inspire Climbing Space Robots http://t.co/nqXPQHbe8e
NASA robots may climb the walls of the International Space Station one day using grippers inspired by the super-adhesive feet of geckoes. -
Johnson takes one-stroke lead after PGA opening round – Al Jazeera English
Dustin Johnson, often the nearly man in recent majors, stayed patient and took advantage of relatively calm early conditions to stand one stroke clear after the opening round of the PGA Championship on Thursday.
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The Islamic State Is Believed to Have Used Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds | VICE News
Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq were attacked with rockets filled with what they say was a chemical agent on Tuesday — believed to have been chlorine and launched by Islamic State (IS) militants.
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That’s how an anarchist plays golf! : firstworldanarchists
That’s how an anarchist plays golf! via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/xpCF2TniKT http://t.co/Q25XYv3Fi8
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Boston, a light touch [2000×1333] : CityPorn
Boston, a light touch [2000×1333] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/5tjm8ygr6L http://t.co/H355G3f5AS
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My cat Phil’s big paws; 6 toes on one paw, 7 on the other : cats
My cat Phil’s big paws; 6 toes on one paw, 7 on the other via /r/cats http://t.co/Dv2Peivt36 http://t.co/LQA4R0VuER
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Jacks first day home. via /r/cats http://t.co/xbSWk17y9G http://t.co/urMM7XYqlw
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Slaughterhouse Beach – Explored | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Slaughterhouse Beach – Explored by PrevailingConditions http://t.co/Luo0kqwMHk http://t.co/3Q6jLAELWn
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Sunset at Rim: Crater Lake by KP Tripathi (http://t.co/31ovf8Wb7w) http://t.co/m2vYA1IbYI http://t.co/McqVsU2qIb
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Sunset at Rim: Crater Lake | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Sunset at Rim: Crater Lake by KP Tripathi (http://t.co/31ovf8Wb7w) http://t.co/m2vYA1IbYI http://t.co/McqVsU2qIb
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Milky Way [Explored] | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Milky Way [Explored] by Romain Vernoux http://t.co/DImHI160UX http://t.co/dxaqQVrcfW
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hairless tribble http://t.co/EMvO9ZCU91 http://t.co/5kMTvtNnaD
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Colonel Mittens at home base : aww
Colonel Mittens at home base via /r/aww http://t.co/R8aTiRMGAE http://t.co/X2iiLBIhPN
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BRUSSELS — Eurozone finance ministers are meeting on Friday to decide whether to back the Greek bailout plan approved earlier in the day by lawmakers in Athens, or to instead insist that Greece continue using stopgap funds to pay its bills.
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August 14, 1935: President Franklin Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act | The Nation
Abraham Epstein was the leading proponent of social security in the United States in the 1930s; he even supposedly coined the term to describe his ideas. He founded the American Association for Social Security.
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Donald Trump may be the “post-policy candidate,” but when you strip away the bluster and the outrageous commentary that have defined his campaign to find his occasional, substantive statements about public policy, a surprising fact emerges: Mr. Trum…
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Cute shelter dog via /r/awwgifs http://t.co/joptNkNn0P http://t.co/8Cy09XA8Vl
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This stop sign is blue : mildlyinteresting
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Humpback whales are back in business : natureporn
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To me, he’s beautiful via /r/cats http://t.co/AFrIh4CEK2 http://t.co/FawXRUu37w
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onynx rose | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
onynx rose by ASPphotographic http://t.co/UAHrkZ8tlx http://t.co/qxvtRiVknn
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Nature is awesome | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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You Know When You’ve Been Tango’d (Remixed) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
You Know When You’ve Been Tango’d (Remixed) by Aaron Yeoman http://t.co/pwhk1Dq04A http://t.co/iQOAwwRDII
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El viaje del viento | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Sunrise Exploration (Explore 8/12/15) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Sunrise Exploration (Explore 8/12/15) by Pedalhead’71 http://t.co/n0CuNNTpPq http://t.co/fA6O3ikNlf
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“Let me be blue” 219/365 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
“Let me be blue” 219/365 by Ronny Garcia Moron http://t.co/HgDAiZN6cm http://t.co/bPgfB9h8hW
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My first wet plate collodion portrait (920×1200) (OC). : HumanPorn
My first wet plate collodion portrait (920×1200) (OC). via /r/HumanPorn http://t.co/HGh741Ft8B http://t.co/dFs2SMi0GE
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Hiroshima and History of Bombing Civilians | Al Jazeera America
In Vietnam, Lindqvist argues, the road to mass civilian slaughter was a phased escalation over more than a decade of conflict. Observers were gradually desensitized to the steady stream of violence, until American jets were regularly showering farml…
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Good morning on this warmer Friday. New York City is not widely known for its stargazing.
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Obama’s summer reading: shelf disclosures | Books | The Guardian
Barack Obama has reached the stage of his administration when plans are being made for the construction in Chicago of the Presidential library that former American leaders get to set up in their memory.
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Straight Outta Compton, California – The Atlantic
The 1988 release of N.W.A’s “gangsta” rap album Straight Outta Compton vaulted Compton, California into the national spotlight as a symbol of urban gang violence.
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The Troubling Reassessment of President Warren G. Harding – The Atlantic
Harding served just for just over half a term before he dropped dead of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1923, and even in that short time, he had already earned a “bad boy” image, Richardson said. “By the time he died, rumors had circulated that he was poi…
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Why Support Donald Trump? – The Atlantic
Right now, Trump is telling you all the things you want to hear. There was a time when his two ex-wives and the many former business partners he has since sued felt the same way. Those relationships didn’t work out very well for them.
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Ramon Navarro came to the sea as the son of a fisherman, found his own place on it as a pro-surfer, and now fights to protect the coastline he loves.
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How catching big waves helped turn this pro surfer into a conservationist | Grist
Ramon Navarro grew up on a rugged section of Chile’s central coast known as Punto de Lobos. It’s a craggy headland that extends from cacti- and pine-covered mountains into a long fingernail of cobalt-blue bay. It’s also one of the best cold-water bi…
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In ‘The Study of Mathematics’, Bertrand Russell wrote: ‘Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.’ This is the idea underlying Ars Qubica by the Spanish 3D animator and illustrator Cristóbal Vila.
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A room with a view.. (Timelapse video link in comments) : ImaginaryMindscapes
A room with a view.. (Timelapse video link in comments) via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/BU5WOIZzeN http://t.co/PkqctmGOed
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I dedicate this one to you trolls. You’ve taught me well : TrollXChromosomes
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You wake me mid sleep blep for a pic? Rly? : Blep
You wake me mid sleep blep for a pic? Rly? via /r/Blep http://t.co/yE5uU1ws2r http://t.co/CRFKZdBqfZ
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Has anyone noticed the bumblebees disappearing? : natureporn
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A Perseid from Finland [3965×2643] : spaceporn
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A Perseid from Finland [3965×2643] via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/oI2AR9GUZ8 http://t.co/rQOddTTdEs http://t.co/Q7cabTGvjV
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Lighting strikes in my backyard – 25 second exposure [5768×3449] : ExposurePorn
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! via /r/funny http://t.co/yQP7cL4YJ9 http://t.co/qmArQLNfEh
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Iran battle heats up in Senate | TheHill
President Obama and his allies are working overtime to kill a resolution disapproving the Iran nuclear deal in the Senate, in what would be a major victory for the White House.
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Durbin leading charge on Iran in Senate | TheHill
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, whose job was seen as in jeopardy at the beginning of the year, has emerged as the chief advocate for President Obama’s Iran deal within the Senate Democratic caucus.
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Kuwait uncovers ‘terror’ cell’s giant arms cache – Al Jazeera English
Kuwaiti authorities say they have arrested three members of a “terrorist” cell and seized a huge arms cache they say was smuggled from Iraq and hidden beneath houses near the border.
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Uber has struck a blow against US taxi firms after a judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing it of engaging in deceptive trade practices and racketeering.
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Good morning. Secretary of State John Kerry leads a flag-raising ceremony today at the U.S. Embassy in Havana now that diplomatic relations have been restored between the U.S. and Cuba.
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Five eco villages around the world | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian
“In the 2000s, we felt our land was dying. We were not getting the yields we were expecting,” says Ousmane Pame, who grew up in Guédé Chantier, a village of 7,000 inhabitants in northern Senegal.
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Japan PM expresses ‘deep remorse’ for WWII aggression – Al Jazeera English
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, has expressed “deep remorse” for the country’s aggression during World War II, adding that it was a “mistake that we followed the path of war”. “We cannot change history, but we we shouldn’t repeat it,” Abe said …
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Fifteen US states seek to block Obama’s clean power plan | Environment | The Guardian
Fifteen state attorneys general petitioned a federal court in Washington on Thursday to block new US rules to curb carbon emissions from power plants, in the first of several expected legal challenges to the Obama administration measure.
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Behind the Abbott government’s very bad week – a careening series of disasters that looked like the political version of an AAMI ad – is a common thread that could wreck it permanently. Tricky politics has driven Tony Abbott into yet another crisis.
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The hit list: Endangered bloggers of Bangladesh – Al Jazeera English
The masthead of the Bangladeshi blog Ishtishon, (Station), carries a photograph of the murdered blogger Niloy Chatterjee, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel his smiling face juxtaposed alongside an ax with blood on it and the question: Who is next?
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brother Alberto looking at his beer like freshly in love : monkslookingatbeer
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Chimps booze on alcoholic sap – get a round in! : natureporn
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HAVANA — On a recent evening, tourists in banded hats and guayabera shirts climbed out of pink 1950s-era American cars to puff cigars, drink mojitos and listen to Buena Vista Social Club classics at the Hotel Nacional.
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HONOLULU — As the sun broke from behind the billowy clouds hanging over Oahu’s Koolau mountains, a detail of seven military personnel transferr
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Cuba on Friday morning to attend a flag-raising ceremony at the American Embassy and to give a lift to the effort to rebuild ties after more than half a century of hostility. But Mr.
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8 Apps for Making Legit Music on Your Phone | WIRED
Use your phone for more than just listening to tunes. With the right tools, you can be an artist too. The synth pioneers at Moog give the signature sound of their analog keyboards the digital treatment with this stellar app.
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The independent Climate Change Authority has shot down key parts of Tony Abbott’s new environmental message, saying the government’s new target is not “in the middle of the pack” of similar countries but rather “at or near the bottom”, that the $600…
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Sorry turns your service’s outages into opportunities
Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in New York
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YouTube videos changed how I see one left-wing commentator
Jones, who would be called labelled “divisive” in tabloid speak or simply “controversial” in the equally over-heated argot of broadsheet papers, is a left-wing writer, commentator and activist who predominantly works for The Guardian.
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Xiaomi users in China will get the next killer mobile feature
Ahead of the global launch of its new Android-based OS MIUI 7, Xiaomi announced the Chinese version of its mobile software yesterday with an exclusive feature users around the world will want — on-demand roaming data.
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Indians have one last chance to save net neutrality
Indian netizens have been fighting hard to preserve net neutrality this year, as mobile carriers and Facebook have been pushing zero-rating services in the country.
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Robinhood brings zero-commission stock trading to Android
Stock trading service Robinhood has launched an Android app that lets users buy and sell stocks in the US, at no extra charge. Previously available only on iOS, the new app lets users view their portfolios and track stocks with historical market dat…
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Buffer lets you schedule video posts for Facebook and Twitter
Social media management service Buffer has launched a new feature that lets users create and schedule video posts for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google+.
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MLS weekend preview: Sporting KC’s quietly brilliant season | Football | The Guardian
Amid the oohs and aahs in the Western Conference for Los Angeles and Vancouver, FC Dallas’ impressive July run, and the Seattle Sounders’ tire-fire of a campaign, Sporting KC under Peter Vermes have quietly piled on the wins this summer.
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Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike slips into coma – Al Jazeera English
A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for the past 60 days has now entered into a state of coma, his lawyer told Al Jazeera. Mohammed Allaan, an alleged “Islamic Jihad” member, stopped eating in June to protest against being held by I…
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VICE News Capsule – Friday, August 14 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: U.S. warplanes take off from inside Turkey, a huge explosion displaces residents in China, Peru incinerates its drug problem, and scientists make a big find in PTSD rese…
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It does seem possible, I think, to overvalue the significance of a writer’s library to his or her own literary productions. We all hold on to books that have long since ceased to have any pull on us, and lose track of books that have greatly influen…
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I’m so ready for some fun – Imgur
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Tonight’s going to be a good night : gifs
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ISIS May Be Using Chemical Weapons — NYMag
File under terrible, but not surprising: United States officials say they suspect ISIS used mustard agent against Kurdish fighters in Iraq this week.
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Yanks in Europe power index: Fabian Johnson tops among Americans abroad | Football | The Guardian
Last week after highlighting my seven US talents to watch in Europe this season, I caught a little flak on Twitter over my omissions. That was expected – it’s hard to please everyone – so here’s a more comprehensive attempt: the Yanks in Europe powe…
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Could the smell of the sea help cool a warming planet? – BBC News
Ah, the summertime sizzle of a shell-strewn beach, the bracing odour of the briny sea. There’s nothing quite like it really. If you happen to be on a beautiful beach, do take a good, deep, invigorating sniff!
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SoundCloud Downloader : InternetIsBeautiful
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In the New Inside Out Short, Riley’s Parents Are Too Embarrassing For Disgust to Handle
Is it even possible to get tired of seeing the emotions of Inside Out? We think not. To sate our desire for more, we finally have a preview of the short that’ll be included with the Inside Out digital HD (October 13) and the Blu-ray (November 3). It…
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Global warming increases ‘food shocks’ threat – BBC News
Climate change is increasing the risk of severe ‘food shocks’ where crops fail and prices of staples rise rapidly around the world. Researchers say extreme weather events that impact food production could be happening in seven years out of ten by th…
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Reflections on Rabaa: ‘My life was changed forever’ – Al Jazeera English
On August 14, 2013, Egyptian security forces violently dispersed a sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo, killing an estimated 1,000 protesters.
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Central Park, New York : oddlysatisfying
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Lopud Island, Croatia [2000×1337][OC] : EarthPorn
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I don’t think Smokey was ready for the camera : cats
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Life in an Egyptian prison – Al Jazeera English
Esraa el-Taweel was leaving a restaurant in Cairo when she was grabbed, bundled into a mini-van and taken to a holding facility by Egyptian security forces.
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The Joy of Six: Athletes who hated sports | Sport | The Guardian
No great professional athlete truly hates their sport. That would be impossible. No one can fake those hours of workouts and practice. But there are players who love sports more than others, whose lives become the game they play for a living.
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ATHENS — Greek lawmakers approved their country’s third bailout plan in a parliamentary vote on Friday that relied on opposition party support and saw the government coalition suffer significant dissent.
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Not quite sharp enough : perfectloops
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Maiya BW by Jenna Martin / 500px
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Free Thinking by Andrea Izzotti / 500px
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She Doesn’t Know What She’s Talking About : lolcats
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Plz, you know door is no open : lolcats
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Ready for a sea kayaking tour in Dubrovnik [1024 x 680][OC] : CityPorn
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Mighty Himalayas as seen from North Sikkim, India [3887 x 2591] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, #1150; In which a Harp is huge…
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Berlin, Germany [OC] [1000×657] : ArchitecturePorn
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Jeb’s New Iraq Stance: ‘Mission Accomplished’ — NYMag
In the early months of his candidacy, Jeb Bush fumbled whenever he faced extremely predictable questions about his brother’s foreign policy.
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World record paper airplane : interestingasfuck
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Hey, girl. Baby you know it’s Prince…in the 1980s : OldSchoolCool
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Wondermark » Archive » #1150; In which a Harp is huge
It’s a big week next week!! (The picture above isn’t relevant to anything, it’s just a context-free reflection of my fondest hopes and dreams.) On Monday, my Roll-a-Sketch Kickstarter comes to an end.
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John Kerry to raise US flag at Havana embassy | World news | The Guardian
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, travels to Cuba on Friday to raise the US flag at the recently restored American embassy in Havana, another symbolic step in the thawing of relations between the two cold war-era foes.
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2 Ways by Andrea Izzotti / 500px
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Cat overwhelmed by puppies : AnimalsBeingBros
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Mr. Belvidere was getting annoyed : cats
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“My daughter has asthma. She is not the only one around here, something is wrong here, our air quality shouldn’t be this way.
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Funny Cat Compilation : StartledCats
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Blep. via /r/Blep http://t.co/QxFA0H4pKV http://t.co/LoyoAcuMxn
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Bern down http://t.co/WhyNZVgpUV http://t.co/Rq89ZSSNWR
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Map of England and Wales during the English Civil War, 1643 [1248×1588] [OS] : MapPorn
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Western officials probing ‘ISIL use of chemical arms’ – Al Jazeera English
United States and German officials have said they are looking to investigate reports that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant(ISIL) group used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
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HONG KONG — China’s currency, the renminbi, stabilized on Friday, ending a three-day plunge that shook markets globally and caused the renminbi’s steepest devaluation in decades.
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Cape Perpetua, Oregon – Thor’s Well [OC] [6016×4000] : EarthPorn
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In This Short, Mysterious Lights Bring Famous Paintings to Life
In “Nightlight” by Emmanuel Adjei and Marleen Ozgur, a strange magic brings the paintings of famous Dutch masters to life. The lights bring out a girl from Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, who wanders the worlds of these paintings, eventually traveling …
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This is the city-wide follow up to my aerial exploration of downtown Los Angeles from last year (https://vimeo.com/101231747). And much like with downtown, I continue to be awe struck by how much of this vast city I have partially or completely over…
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When the great French Enlightenment philosopher and satirist Voltaire (November 21, 1694–May 30, 1778) was traveling in England as a young man, he met Catherine Barton, Isaac Newton’s niece, who enchanted him with the story of how the trailblazing s…
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Rubio reminds voters: fertilized human eggs don’t become cats : nottheonion
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3-shark by Dmitry Miroshnikov / 500px
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Me when I look at Tumblr/Twitter posts about Rick and Morty “Fandom” : rickandmorty
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Their Snuggle Game is Strong Today : cats
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A photo of the Pacific in California [OC] [6000×4000] : EarthPorn
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Bernie Sanders is said to be surging, Joe Biden is considering jumping in the race, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s unfavorable ratings are the worst they’ve been in her 23-plus years in national politics — lower than they were in 2007 or 2008.
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US Shift Threatens Cuba’s Loyalty to Revolution | Al Jazeera America
John Kerry’s visit to Havana on Friday — the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 1945, is not solely symbolic pomp. It represents the crowing achievement thus far of Barack Obama’s policy shift on Cuba, which followed 55 years of open U.S.
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Wellcome Trust urged to divest by 1,000 health professionals | Environment | The Guardian
Close to 1,000 health professionals from around the world have thrown their weight behind an open letter asking the multi-billion pound health charity, the Wellcome Trust, to move its money out of fossil fuels on ethical grounds.
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Cuban Migration Increases, As Relations Thaw | Al Jazeera America
Could the laws change in the near future? Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., an outspoken opponent of the Castro brothers, has suggested he would favor “re-examination” of current policy to prevent new arrivals from taking advantage of generous U.S.
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Ruling Greek party in turmoil ahead of bailout vote – Al Jazeera English
A Greek parliamentary debate on the massive new bailout deal has lasted through the night after repeated delays over procedure and dissent within the governing left-wing Syriza party.
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Stars and stripes Havana street fashion – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Student Naomi Perez wears a pair of stars and stripes sunglasses. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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We write as concerned health professionals and academics in relation to the Guardian’s Keep It In the Ground campaign calling on the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest from the world’s 200 largest fossil fuel companies over the next five …
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10 amazing places on the planet, untouched by man : Breathless
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Stanley Park [4374×1854] [OC] : CityPorn
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Monk in the trunk : monkslookingatbeer
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My Friend Took This Picture of a Wolf in Yellowstone, WY [6000×4000] : AnimalPorn
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Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images
Matter and antimatter appear to be perfect mirror images of each other as far as anyone can see, scientists have discovered with unprecedented precision, foiling hope of solving the mystery as to why there is far more matter than antimatter in the u…
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As a lifeguard at a pool with a strict “no running” policy : AdviceAnimals
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So smooth! : TrollXChromosomes
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Most epic animal’s lifes saved of internet! – Compilation : AnimalsBeingBros
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Since Reddit is unbanned in Russia…. via /r/funny http://t.co/eh1MJMy5Te http://t.co/SxutHviylR
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Octopus Species Filmed Mating Face-To-Face – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The Pacific striped octopus, long suspected of being more social than its fellow species, was recently filmed by researchers mating face-to-face and otherwise demonstrating tight bonds with its partner, challenging conventional understanding of the …
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The US studio behind the film Dallas Buyers Club will have to pay a $600,000 bond before it can send invoices demanding damages to the thousands of Australians who allegedly downloaded the film illegally.
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Morning World · Teen Daze · Music Review · The A.V. Club
It’s a perfectly reasonable plan of PR attack to spin a new album from a fledgling songwriter as a collaboration with a seasoned musician and producer. Fine and dandy, makes sense.
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US PGA Championship: McIlroy exudes confidence in Whistling Straits opener | Sport | The Guardian
Rory McIlroy revealed it took him just two US PGA Championship holes to convince himself that no negative reaction had been caused by his recent and enforced injury absence.
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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Show Me A Hero · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
David Simon may be television’s most self-effacing brand-name storyteller, but he’s not immune to the joys of reverse prestige, reveling in his shows’ small, exclusive audiences.
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An early YA novel gets lost in the Freaky Friday canon · Page To Screen · The A.V. Club
In Page To Screen, we compare a movie to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.
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What movie, TV, or book moment will always make you laugh? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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Power powers down for the season · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Power (Starz, 9 p.m., Saturday): Ghost’s people are turning up dead, Angela’s investigation is closing in, and, with this being the season two finale of this surprise hit crime drama, Joshua Alston is prepping himself for some serious twists. Maybe …
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The Ghosts of Pickering Trail — The Atavist Magazine
Courts have been grappling with the legal ambiguities of stigmatized real estate since the 1980s. One of the earliest cases involving haunted property was brought in New York in 1989, by a bond trader named Jeffrey Stambovsky.
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Baby Belle, A Three Fingered Baby Sloth! : sloths
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Mount Shuksan Over Picture Lake, Washington [OC] [3903×2596] : EarthPorn
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New Financial Times And Economist Owners Ponder The Future Of Digital Media | TechCrunch
Who saw the recent sale of the Financial Times (FT) from Pearson to Nikkei for $1.3 billion coming? The sale of The Economist, also owned by Pearson, three weeks later, was less of a surprise, as Pearson set forth its new streamlined “digital ambiti…
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New to reddit? Click here! You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
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Act natural, and maybe they’ll just move on and not downvote – GIF on Imgur
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red rili shrimp plays dung beetle – somehow :o) by Siggi Tal / 500px
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Hive of activity | Environment | The Guardian
For the past two months I have been watching the construction of a hornets’ nest inside a bird box in my garden.
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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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Moonless Meteors and the Milky Way via NASA http://t.co/f6wsUsaxlI http://t.co/IVZ9t2jRgm http://t.co/6g8yeq1Uyw
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APOD: 2015 August 13 – Moonless Meteors and the Milky Way
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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Act natural, and maybe they’ll just move on and not downvote – GIF on Imgur
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MRW My friend’s kid asks the black mailman if he is made from chocolate. – GIF on Imgur
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The Genius of Ingrid Bergman – The New Yorker
Ingrid Bergman excelled at playing strong-willed, independent-minded women; she herself was one, and she paid a higher price for her artistic ambition and personal freedom than did any other movie star. Her centenary is being celebrated in retrospec…
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Bar Tab: The Raccoon Lodge – The New Yorker
The beloved thirty-three-year-old lower-Manhattan mainstay—decorated with duck decoys, a moose head with hard hats on its antlers, and the double-rifles video game Big Buck Hunter—has long been a watering hole that attracts the whole village.
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Tables for Two: The Black Ant – The New Yorker
This summer, Twitter was set ablaze by a controversial recipe for guacamole that called for green peas. At the Black Ant, in the East Village, the house guacamole varies; it has been studded with garbanzo beans, fried corn, orange slices, jicama, ra…
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Audra McDonald, Tough and Vulnerable – The New Yorker
No one will ever mistake the Broadway actress Audra McDonald for an “ugly lump of a woman.” An extraordinarily versatile performer, McDonald exudes both vulnerability and toughness, glamour and earthiness. At the Williamstown Theatre Festival (throu…
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Honoring Lord Buckley, His Royal Hipness – The New Yorker
I first heard the poet and comedian Lord Buckley’s sui-generis, incredible music-as-talk during a dance performance by Karole Armitage.
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Woman peacefully engaged in an underwater yoga pose beside a 1,500 lb manta ray : pics
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Yahoo’s Audio-Free Video Messaging App Livetext Is Now Available Worldwide | TechCrunch
If you were intrigued by Livetext, the audio-free video messaging app launched by Yahoo last month, but don’t live in the U.S. or the handful of test markets where it was available, then we have news for you.
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China sends chemical experts to Tianjin blast site – Al Jazeera English
China has sent chemical experts into Tianjin to test for toxic gases after a series of deadly explosions. The team of nuclear and chemical experts is on the ground in the northern port city of Tianjin, the scene of two massive explosions that have l…
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Celebrity Apprentice Will Live, Sans Trump — Vulture
If you’ve ever wanted to yell Donald Trump’s most famous line back at him, now is as good a time as any.
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Professor X Will Play a Substantial Role in the Third Wolverine Movie
At least, that’s the answer that Patrick Stewart gave when asked about it. And he seems really taken with the idea of doing the “Old Man Logan” story for this movie. I think what you say is true. There is a project in development.
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A day after the N.F.L. and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady faced off in federal court over Brady’s four-game suspension for his role in the deflation of footballs used in the A.F.C.
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It didn’t take me long to find her : cats
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Dubai Desert Image, United Arab Emirates – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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The New South Wales government is to step up shark surveillance and tagging efforts after a spate of attacks off the NSW north coast but has backed away from a cull. The state government will spend $250,000 on a shark tagging project, a public educa…
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Grab your fluoro spray can and prepare to do “the Carlton” because Will Smith is reportedly working on a 21st century reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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oh noes!!!!!!?! >!>!: via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/iXs3ME9QBg http://t.co/nQmSVud1uo
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Holy Family Shrine – Cathedral in a field in Gretna, NE [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
Holy Family Shrine – Cathedral in a field in Gretna, NE [OC] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/xrBH2iADpF http://t.co/ycrQXfcmKv
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An interactive tour of the rise and fall of chemistry sets : InternetIsBeautiful
An interactive tour of the rise and fall of chemistry sets via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/tCuHIraWnN http://t.co/uz4cx2Am4a
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Scuba was acting extra weird today. – Imgur
Scuba was acting extra weird today. http://t.co/lC8cs7O0dB http://t.co/4ErXjHnHQ3
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Hiked into a glacier… http://t.co/s16ulx7msY http://t.co/FKQ6HAGlda
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If Clinton Has Email Backup, FBI Wants to See It — NYMag
After her staff sorted through the emails from her time as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton gave the State Department 30,490 emails deemed work-related and deleted 31,830 personal emails.
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Jeb Bush refuses to rule out use of torture if he becomes US president | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush has declined to rule out the US resuming the use of torture – with the Republican presidential hopeful saying brutal questioning methods might be justifiable and necessary in some circumstances.
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My friend after smoking a joint : AdviceAnimals
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Which one of you amazing ladies did this? : TrollXChromosomes
Which one of you amazing ladies did this? via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/UAoIHkPjq5 http://t.co/NYxq4NrxnE
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Dungeon and Fighter BG by Lee Mingi : ImaginaryMindscapes
Dungeon and Fighter BG by Lee Mingi via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/uI66GBSx9v http://t.co/XTnTnG2dpi
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Went camping last weekend at Trillium Lake, Oregon [OC] [7712×4352] : EarthPorn
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Dancing like her big sister : gifs
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Close-up footage of a great white shark near Guadalupe Island. The female shark, known as Deep Blue, is thought to be at least 50 years old.
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In celebration of the NBA reopening training camps for the season, it’s time for Scott to sink his annual three-point shot on camera… or for Comedy Bang! Bang!’s editors to make it look like he did.
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Open thread for night owls: When will we ever friggin’ learn?
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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“Pimps” · Married · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The three Bowman daughters are employed sparingly on Married, their intermittent appearances in Russ and Lina’s ongoing story serving to emphasize how overmatched the couple feels playing at being adults.
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“The Source” · Rectify · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“The Source” is named for the ocean, water, the source of life, which is the medium of both Daniel’s salvation and his transcendent imaginary rendezvous with Tawney. Yes, Daniel gets to see the beach. Pretty much everything happens as scheduled as t…
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Man dies at Ohio amusement park after getting struck by rollercoaster while looking for phone
Cedar Point, one of the most popular amusement parks in the country, played host to a deadly tragedy Thursday evening when a man was hit and killed by a rollercoaster while looking for his phone. As the Sandusky, Ohio, park tweeted Thursday…
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The Beckham pacifier controversy reveals an ugly truth about parental shaming
Parents are the absolute worst. They’re always in public with their children, walking around, flaunting their terrible decisions. Let their child stand up in the grocery cart? Monster.
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The sewer system of New York — the more than 7,500 miles of it — exists to move the slush left behind in a city of millions. Still, for a branch of infrastructure, it has done a remarkable job of inspiring the public’s imagination into believing it …
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Voyagers Neptune js – Just Space
Voyagers Neptune js http://t.co/N98g0T7g1V http://t.co/isPp7tv2CK
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My favorites. via /r/cats http://t.co/J9dZCevNPB http://t.co/L9x0nkMjtx
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Woke up to my cat using my butt as a pillow : cats
Woke up to my cat using my butt as a pillow via /r/cats http://t.co/1e1CLLw6RF http://t.co/d4EXgXaZSF
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View over the Chamonix Aiguilles from the Aiguilles Rouges [5312×2988] : EarthPorn
View over the Chamonix Aiguilles from the Aiguilles Rouges [5312×2988] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/5B9CBDBZHk http://t.co/5LzgoC5GcB
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IN BRIEF: Star Wars Hits the Runway with New Makeup Campaign
Hoping for that Leia look without traveling to a galaxy far, far away? Or are you more the Chewbacca type? Either way, a new makeup line by Covergirl has you, well, covered. Get an exclusive first look at the @CoverGirl x #StarWars campaign! …
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Finally, some razor marketing I can get behind. : TrollXChromosomes
Finally, some razor marketing I can get behind. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/SiWi8vBh5v http://t.co/LqJ57Qd4sk
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Finally! No more distractions and back to writing my paper : cats
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Bald Eagle [1600×747] : AnimalPorn
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Not even 3 weeks old, and I caught Louie’s first blep. : Blep
Not even 3 weeks old, and I caught Louie’s first blep. via /r/Blep http://t.co/8AnNopha4y http://t.co/jGwLSRNSVm
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Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland [2048×1367] by Marius Roman : EarthPorn
Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland [2048×1367] by Marius Roman via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/r86fpJ9R5x http://t.co/0ZUtBtOoAL
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/aCgPV47Ccq http://t.co/LLPuaevpOb
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Looks like a Monty Python fan got ahold of the air conditioning at the local YMCA – Imgur
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That moment where you realise that your headphones aren’t plugged in… – GIF on Imgur
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“Falsely Accused, Sleep With Your Teacher, Little Person” · Review · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Forrest MacNeil is an odd collection of impulses: He’s a control freak who hands over major life choices to other people. To review the experience of being falsely accused, Forrest enlists his intern Josh (H.
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“Doctor Doctor” · Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Therapy itself is a kind of drug: Someone (preferably intelligent and insightful) spends an allotted amount of time listening to nothing but your problems and issues, and offers their own two cents, which you can then either take to heart, toss in t…
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Heroes got a lot of traction out of sending its cast of superpowered individuals into various unpleasant futures, the better to show the consequences of failure or dispose of no-longer-necessary Irish girlfriends.
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Does It Matter Whether Japan Says Sorry for Its Wartime Behavior? | Foreign Policy
How sorry is sorry enough? In April 2015, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a local TV station that because he upholds “the basic thinking” behind past apologies for Japan’s behavior, “there isn’t a need to reiterate them.
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Thank comrade skeltal : ledootgeneration
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If only that’s what cat calls really were… : TrollXChromosomes
If only that’s what cat calls really were… via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/cCahCz7sNy http://t.co/vy169WNza9
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Trust level of various news sources by political ideology : dataisbeautiful
Trust level of various news sources by political ideology via /r/dataisbeautiful http://t.co/NxLvkrJlZ7 http://t.co/vGw7O7kzsR
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Hiked into a glacier… via /r/pics http://t.co/tU9g4dhPp4 http://t.co/EYWijDTIVy
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At one point, Anita Pointer—lead vocalist and writer for the Pointer Sisters’ Top 10 hit “I’m So Excited”—was one of the most famous women in the world.
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Japan PM to make World War II anniversary statement – Al Jazeera English
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, is to deliver a war anniversary statement that neighbouring nations, particularly China and South Korea, will scrutinise for signs of sufficient remorse over the country’s past militarism.
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Regular Show: The Movie Trailer I Cartoon Network – YouTube
Check out this trailer for Regular Show: The Movie.CN GAMES: http://bit.ly/CNGames SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/109Y6wq WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/CNRegularShow About Regular Show: Best friends, Mordecai (a six-foot-tall blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactiv…
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The moment before a sneeze blep : Blep
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My new tattoo! It’s my first. It had to be a fox. : foxes
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/immefwL8GC http://t.co/FtiEaXLkvn
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Will Smith might not be in those two Bad Boys sequels · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sony pulled a big power move earlier this month when it announced the release dates for 16 of its upcoming movies, daring all other studios to try and take on its Jumanji reboot or its never-gonna-happen Dark Tower adaptation.
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden is vacationing on Kiawah Island off South Carolina’s coast, riding bikes and walking the beaches with his family.
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Alan P. Gross at Joint Base Andrews in December, after he was released from a Cuban jail after being held for five years. WASHINGTON — Before the United States and Cuba could seal a historic diplomatic rapprochement brokered in 18 months of secret t…
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An Illustrated History of Hamburgers in America | First We Feast
By now, the hamburger is such a crucial part of America’s identity that it’s hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t being hailed as our de facto national dish. But according to Hamburger America author George Motz, the burger as we know it is less th…
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Doing the dishes then a wild storm trooper appeared. : mildlyinteresting
Doing the dishes then a wild storm trooper appeared. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/cayDFLfoLu http://t.co/Q3Qph2zUoy
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/NQbNLjk2QZ http://t.co/DnDnlbCqzG
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Talking devil cat with red eyes : cats
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MRW I’m browsing reddit at work when all of a sudden.. Diarrhea. : reactiongifs
MRW I’m browsing reddit at work when all of a sudden.. Diarrhea. via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/GC2kNmrqFe http://t.co/et4T0u3DjJ
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Serene Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park [1280×462] [OC] : EarthPorn
Serene Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park [1280×462] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/iJEDuiurhL http://t.co/j04kAh4ja4
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Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for one in six premature deaths in the world’s most populous country, a new study finds. Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, calculated about 1.
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US flag to be raised outside embassy in Cuba – Al Jazeera English
In a historic moment in US-Cuba relations, John Kerry will raise the Stars and Stripes over a restored American embassy in Havana, though the economic embargo legally remains in effect.
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Sweden Drops Some Charges Against WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange – The Atlantic
Assange faced four allegations in Sweden in 2010, of which three had five-year statutes of limitations. According to The Guardian, one allegation of sexual molestation and an allegation of unlawful coercion expire Thursday; the other sexual molestat…
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The earliest example of multicolor printing is now available for the public eye, digitally available through Cambridge University Library’s Digital Library site.
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Bottle Rocket Under Ice : interestingasfuck
Bottle Rocket Under Ice via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/Vw2yZbbadi http://t.co/Ek9GbctxBB
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A friend’s black loaf : Catloaf
A friend’s black loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/J9KtdwuKkv http://t.co/zEfsM7tYzz
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Zoe bleps because she loves scritches : Blep
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My cat, Butt 🙂 via /r/cats http://t.co/v2Z30Mnyd2 http://t.co/wP6kGVBoJg
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A foggy day at Perce Rock in Gaspe, Quebec [OC] [5312 x 2988] : EarthPorn
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RSVP “maybe” via /r/funny http://t.co/hRTsx09a6W http://t.co/l2BM5m696Y
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Half Moon Bay, St Kitts [OC][2048×1365] : ExposurePorn
Half Moon Bay, St Kitts [OC][2048×1365] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/EylXK5Oi2j http://t.co/7kBNo7LlcC
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Two Books You Must Read If You Care About the Future of Humanity in Space
Two of the most celebrated authors in science fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson and Neal Stephenson, released epic novels this summer about our future lives in space. And yet both Robinson’s Aurora and Stephenson’s Seveneves are actually about why we ma…
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This concept art from the Shuttle Program’s early days depicts two spacecraft and what looks like an early vision of an orbital outpost. This illustration comes from the archives of the San Diego Air & Space Museum, where you’ll find lots of “ideas …
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Cute Racoon at morning teasing his “Dad” : AnimalsBeingBros
Cute Racoon at morning teasing his “Dad” via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/O04AXPYMGa http://t.co/wop9vGeMcv
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it would seem my unborn son is mr skeltal : ledootgeneration
it would seem my unborn son is mr skeltal via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/ccNHE8Frgu http://t.co/rA8tCPOeun
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Siuslaw River Bridge : FoggyPics
Siuslaw River Bridge via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/6yY2FtfuPe http://t.co/eEVwCHtPca
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Tiny Hamster’s day out at Disney is blissful and inspiring
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It’s not the motorcyclists you have to watch out for. : gifs
It’s not the motorcyclists you have to watch out for. via /r/gifs http://t.co/zkjUfuU3IC http://t.co/G7BWhQYjMc
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Loafing on my bed via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/Z8iTqZn14E http://t.co/kTaRDNAvuk
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One of the last photos of my kitten : cats
One of the last photos of my kitten via /r/cats http://t.co/afJtAPzaOX http://t.co/hAIjazkBRe
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I am the captain now, thermostat. : firstworldanarchists
I am the captain now, thermostat. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/fo3y0JlrlE http://t.co/fRYzeRjh4d
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Istra, Russia via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/1hkitukuk1 http://t.co/jEAMufYNGA
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Reddit I present you my new kitten! Gallifrey :3 he is such an affectionate cat : cats
Reddit I present you my new kitten! Gallifrey :3 he is such an affectionate cat via /r/cats http://t.co/1Z4qWMX1hC http://t.co/BqoPWJNMvm
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There was a show in Japan where celebrities had to guess what is candy : gif
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/cWaYFfbqa0 http://t.co/DRPx27ZOPa
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What the hell did I do last night? [SFW] : aww
What the hell did I do last night? [SFW] via /r/aww http://t.co/CmRSdgWx7F http://t.co/GzC2dusib2
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Man slicing off the front of a piano with a 64 inch chainsaw. : oddlysatisfying
Man slicing off the front of a piano with a 64 inch chainsaw. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/a94iLTrMOe http://t.co/ZEES5kBMhY
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Chaotic Moon Is Building A Fitness Tracker For Wheelchairs | TechCrunch
Here’s a different kind of fitness tracker — Freewheel, a prototype developed by Chaotic Moon Studios. The Austin-based design and development studio was in the news recently because of its acquisition by Accenture.
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I Can’t Stop Laughing At This $3 Billion Lord of the Rings Indiegogo Campaign
There’s fandom, there’s madness, and there’s total freaking insanity. A new Indiegogo campaign to actually build the fictional Middle Earth city of Minas Tirith from The Lord of the Rings is something beyond that. It’s absolutely hilarious. The camp…
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Scientists Use Bioengineered Yeast Instead of Poppies to Make Opioids – Scientific American
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have invented a speedy method to make potent painkilling opioids using bioengineered baker’s yeast instead of poppies, but need to fine-tune the process to make it commercially viable, according to a study published…
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With New York City’s largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease apparently waning, the City Council passed a bill on Thursday intended to thwart future spread of the illness.
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Strike brings Ecuador’s capital to a standstill – Al Jazeera English
A general strike by a broad coalition in Ecuador upset with President Rafael Correa has virtually paralysed the capital, Quito, provincial cities and stretches of the Pan-American Highway.
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Common and Ne-Yo will also be in NBC’s The Wiz Live! · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Given the way NBC has been continuously doling out information about The Wiz Live!, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s one of those huge-budget superhero movies that demand a headline every time someone new puts on a colorful outfit.
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What kind of impulses might rush through climate scientists’ minds as they scroll through some of the gumph that gets written on climate change?
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Here it comes! Researchers at NOAA just confirmed the first signs that this year’s predicted historic El Niño has already kicked off, just like they thought it would. But what does that mean for us? Here’s a breakdown of what we can expect to happen…
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Read Stephen Colbert’s Impassioned, Hilarious Feminist Essay | Vanity Fair
Over the last few months, Stephen Colbert has prepared for his Late Show takeover by ingeniously hosting an entire public-access program, interviewing George Lucas, premiering a podcast, introducing a delightfully bizarre Web series, and charming pr…
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NBC’s next Dolly Parton movie will be based on “Jolene” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC’s deal to convert the songs and stories of prolific country star Dolly Parton into a series of two-hour TV movies continues, with news coming today that Parton’s signature hit, “Jolene,” will be the next to receive the treatment.
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That’s the process of becoming generic, or “not sold or made under a particular brand name,” according to Webster’s dictionary. The definition is of more than just linguistic interest to Google and its shareholders.
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A new study shows that carbs were essential in human brain development. Pass the French fries, scientists!
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Sorry, paleo fans, science says carbs helped make your brain big | Grist
Despite the popularity of the protein-heavy, carb-light paleo diet — which purports to replicate the nutriment of our ancient ancestors — it turns out that carbs likely helped humans evolve into the large-brained geniuses we are today, according to …
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Gecko Feet Teach NASA How To Stick To Space Objects | Video
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11-Year-Old in Paraguay Gives Birth to Girl After Being Denied An Abortion | VICE News
An 11-year-old girl who was denied an abortion after being raped by her stepfather gave birth on Thursday, ending a case that put a spotlight on child rape in Paraguay, and drew criticism from human rights groups.
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Facebook vigilante takes on haters of Target’s new gender-neutral policy
Haters: They’re gonna hate. But that doesn’t mean you have to let them get away with it.
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Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump.
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This year’s El Niño weather pattern could be the most powerful on record, federal forecasters said, while warning that the effects of the weather system are never certain.
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Under Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau, AK [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
Under Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau, AK [OC] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/hypwIE9Gjw http://t.co/9u1Rmj0WDK
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Sooo highhhh on dat catnip : cats
Sooo highhhh on dat catnip via /r/cats http://t.co/67Jpbkq6Dj http://t.co/6o9FhvYufU
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Auro Robotics (YC S15) Is Building A Driverless Shuttle System For College Campuses | TechCrunch
College students may soon be taking autonomous shuttles from class to class and wherever else they need to go on campus.
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Rory McIlroy back from injury and in contention at US PGA Championship | Sport | The Guardian
This cannot have been the scene Rory McIlroy dreamt of when ploughing through five weeks of tiresome recuperation from a snapped ankle ligament. Standing in Lake Michigan, right trouser leg rolled up, attempting to save par on the 5th hole at Whistl…
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Learn How To Drive Stick In Five Minutes – Digg
It’s a given that every human has a soul-demanding right to know how to drive a manual transmission, and it’s one of the greatest problems facing mankind today. It’s unbearable that so many people still don’t know how. Let’s fix that.
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In the womb, no one can hear you scream – Imgur
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My mom was a model in the 70s. : OldSchoolCool
My mom was a model in the 70s. via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/c0uat8SO9A http://t.co/rVQWnhQrkY
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[OC] I moved to colorado for the pot, but this is cool too! [577×1024] : EarthPorn
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/pVFjb5VRud http://t.co/mFreb446DH
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The New Jem Music Video Fails to Truly Truly Truly Outrage
In the latest promo for the Jem and the Holograms movie, Universal has released what amounts to a music video for the film’s original song “Youngblood.” And it’s… okay. Let’s be fair here: the songs in the 1980s cartoon weren’t exactly solid gold.
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Without ska, there would be no reggae | Public Radio International
If there’s one musical style that epitomizes summer, it might be the loping island style of ska. It caught fire in early ’60s Jamaica, a precursor to reggae. “Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Jimmy Cliff … all started in ska as teenagers. So, ska is …
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The CEO Selling Clothes That Speak Internet — The Cut
If you haven’t heard of Shop Jeen, that’s because you’re not a 19-year-old with pastel-pink hair and an iPhone plastered in emoji stickers. Crop tops are probably not your favorite separate, and four-inch platform sneakers are not your go-to footwea…
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Bookstore sign for those that kinda sorta know what they’re looking for : pics
Bookstore sign for those that kinda sorta know what they’re looking for via /r/pics http://t.co/RIqef9uAZs http://t.co/QCWbF8K6wh
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Just want to crush her little face! Cute aggression is a real problem. : cats
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NASA Tests New ‘Brain’ for Old RS-25 Rocket Engine | Video
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Reporter Killed in Veracruz Bar Shooting Was About to Start His Own Newspaper | VICE News
A former reporter for Mexico’s media conglomerate Televisa who was poised to begin an independent newspaper was among six victims shot dead by an armed commando just after midnight in the state of Veracruz.
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Slack for iOS updated with new search features and a ton of bug fixes
Slack for iOS has been updated, and adds a ton of new features while squashing more bugs than we care to count. A new search feature lets you tap on a search result to jump straight to the corresponding message, and admins can now invite new users v…
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Apple Wants to Be Diverse, But White Dudes Still Run Things | WIRED
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The White House’s Iran Deal Twitter Feed Just Got Stupid | 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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Unstoppable J.K. Simmons cast in Ed Helms/Owen Wilson comedy Bastards · Newswire · The A.V. Club
J.K. Simmons, who was already Hollywood’s go-to character actor of a certain vintage before he won last year’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar, is continuing his reign of cinematic ubiquity with an appearance in the upcoming comedy Bastards.
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After mastering her skills, Emma is ready to join the circus : wheredidthesodago
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Girl crushes : TrollXChromosomes
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Reddit Responds After Being Threatened, Banned And Unbanned By The Russian Government | TechCrunch
Reddit has had a pretty bizarre last few days in Russia.
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Major “shocks” to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a new report.
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Scientists Announce New Discovery in Fight to Save This Unreasonably Cute Bird
We recognize that it’s important to save all kinds of species from extinction, but come on. Doesn’t it help when they’re adorable? Scientists have found out information that might allow them to help an incredibly cute bird that you’ll actually care …
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When Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled her plan this week to make higher education more affordable, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida promptly dismissed it as “Obamacare for college.
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Heavy lies the crown for any leader in the smartphone market, and Samsung’s plan to stay in the lead is to introduce new phones alongside a new mobile payments system.
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COME with me to the Battery, to the tip of Manhattan, where the sea meets the city, where the sea once was, where the sea may be again someday. We are going to ride through an underwater garden, inside giant fish that shimmer with electric biolumine…
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TODAY I am a two for one. This is how it works: the first lap dance is free. The second one is 20 bucks. “Tenner Tuesday” is a weekly special, offering a bargain for customers on an otherwise sluggish day where I work, the only strip club for miles.
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WSJ: ISIL Likely Used Mustard Agent in Iraq Attack | Al Jazeera America
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, could have obtained the mustard agent in Syria, whose government admitted to having large quantities of the blistering agent in 2013, when it agreed to give up its chemical weapons arsenal, the news…
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Should you joke about good hair and scary earthquakes? | Grist
How much oil would make Shell’s controversial Arctic bid profitable? And what would be the impact of a catastrophic oil spill? They didn’t get everything they wanted, but the activists pushed hard and got some changes that could make a real differen…
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Can Shell afford the risks of Arctic drilling? | Grist
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Shell’s Polar Pioneer rig whirrs through the Chukchi sea bedrock this week, there’s a lot riding on what it finds.
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Am I doing this right? : monkslookingatbeer
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Mini loaf in a tube! : Catloaf
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Toucan taking a break in a tree. : pics
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Cleaner fish keep salmon healthy by eating lice – BBC News
Scotland’s salmon farming industry has begun farming a new type of fish, specifically to keep salmon clean.
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Someone already mashed up ‘The Hateful Eight’ with ‘The Thing’
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No Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Is Now On Android | TechCrunch
Robinhood, a zero fee stock trading app, is now on Android. The app launched on iOS late last year and since grew to “hundreds of thousands of customers” and made over $1 billion in trades on the platform, according to the startup.
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The US government has formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso, valued at $15m (£9.6m), which had been stolen more than a decade ago from a Paris museum and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey.
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Fitbit launches universal app for Windows 10
Fitbit, maker of wearable activity trackers, today launched a new Windows 10 universal app, which is now available free on the Microsoft store. Redesigned using the new Windows 10 interface design guidelines, the app supports such Windows 10 feature…
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Here are the domains Donald Trump bought to prevent trolling (and a few he didn’t)
Website domains can help identify an individual or brand on the Internet, but can also serve trolls. Donald Trump is covering both ends of that, and has snapped up some domains he (or his campaign, at least) feels may do him an injustice.
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Pinterest’s Tim Kendall Talks Monetization And Commerce | TechCrunch
Tim Kendall’s new job is to make sure Pinterest’s partners are finding new ways to make money off one of the most engaging platforms on the Internet. He’s been plenty busy since he got started, including launching Buyable Pins.
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Can You Outwit Tens of Thousands of New York Times Readers?
Here’s a fantastic exercise in thinking about thinking: The Upshot at the NYT is hosting an interactive puzzle that pits you against every other person who attempts the puzzle. It’s… a bit of a mind game.
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Italy’s Parmesan cheese barons threaten PornHub with lawsuit
This is nacho typical lawsuit. The Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Consortium, AKA the Italian government agency in charge of producing Parmesan cheese, is considering legal action against renowned adult film site, Pornhub.
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Samsung’s record-breaking hard drive fits 16 terabytes into a 2.5-inch SSD
Samsung’s big news today may have mostly involved huge phones, but that’s not all the hardware giant is unveiling today: The company today announced a 16 terabyte flash memory hard drive.
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saltwater by Rocco Romola / 500px
saltwater by RoccoRomola http://t.co/aIbVUO3xyZ http://t.co/UQ4is9412F
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Dancing with a beer : perfectloops
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Bi-Directional Model Train Spiral [x-post /r/gifs] : perfectloops
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What does he do in there?!?! : cats
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Scuba was acting extra weird today. : aww
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Star watching from Mirror Lake, Mt Hood, Oregon last night [2495×1871][OC] http://t.co/cHRwR21Yrp http://t.co/Tp5Oj69hhd
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Do Giant Plumes of Saharan Dust Explain Why We’re Having Such a Quiet Storm Season?
NASA’s Terra satellite recently captured this stunning photo of Saharan dust wafting over the Atlantic ocean. It’s one of several outbreaks this summer that some speculate may be contributing to this year’s relatively peaceful storm season.
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PLAINS, Ga. — Here, just beyond the welcome signs with the presidential seal, people still call him “Mr. Jimmy.”
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NBC has extended Mr. Fallon’s contract for four and a half years beyond his previous deal, which will keep him as the show’s host through fall 2021. “The Tonight Show” has consistently been No.
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Rust-colored water continues to gush from Colorado mine – video | US news | The Guardian
Rust-colored water is seen gushing out of Colorado’s Gold King Mine on Thursday, several days after workers inspecting the mine accidentally unleashed a torrent of wastewater into Animas river.
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Today, the government of New Zealand announced the 40 top choices for the flag that might replace their current design, which has been the same since 1902.
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Have you seen them in the same place? – Imgur
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A squashed duck… via /r/pics http://t.co/ppxQz8U0mM http://t.co/MR26mByHoC
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Crunch time for Joe Biden | TheHill
Vice President Biden has little time to decide whether Hillary Clinton’s problems have opened up a lane for his third presidential bid. With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
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“Staff Party” · Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The humor in the Wet Hot American Summer universe can be hard to pin down. Most of the jokes don’t follow comedy logic, and they rely heavy on how they’re performed. Whether a joke in First Day Of Camp succeeds or fails, it’s nearly impossible to fi…
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A San Diego Woman Renting Rooms Through AirBnB Was Fined $25K | VICE News
In the latest legal hurdle confronting modern-age home rentals, a woman in San Diego has been hit with a hefty $25,000 fine for failing to obtain the required permit to operate a bed-and-breakfast out of her home.
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In Photos: Kentucky as LGBT Medical Education Progresses | VICE News
In Kentucky, where there are still holdout clerks who refuse to marry same-sex couples, the University of Louisville School of Medicine is planning to pilot the first full-year curriculum for treating LGBT patients in the country.
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King Bach, DeStorm Power set to host ‘Punk’D’ on BET
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Little Houses By the Prairie – The New Yorker
Last weekend, some dozen little houses appeared on a big patch of dirt and trampled grass in Colorado Springs. The occasion was the Tiny House Jamboree, which had been advertised as the largest-ever gathering devoted to houses that contain no more t…
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Almost 40,000 signatures have been added to petitions calling on the US military to drop charges against the army soldier and Guardian columnist Chelsea Manning that could put her into indefinite solitary confinement for violations that include stor…
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In Photos: ‘Gaza Beach’ Vs. ‘Tel Aviv Beach’ In Paris | VICE News
Visitors gathered in Paris Thursday for Tel Aviv on Seine, a one-day cultural event organized by the city.
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“Cuckservative”: noun, portmanteau of cuckold and conservative, pejorative internet slang. A conservative who is not conservative enough for some other conservatives, with implications of cowardice and sexual impotence and/or deviance.
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Indiegogo campaign wants $2.9 billion to build a real-life Minas Tirith · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Crowdfunded campaigns have been used to create everything from a hoverboard to the Veronica Mars movie.
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A framed photo of Carl Sagan makes Pharrell very happy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There are three big reasons a musician might make an odd demand in a contractual rider. Either they actually need something to prepare for their performance, they want to show off how powerful they are, or they want to assess the venue.
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Star Trek cruise to boldly go where many cruise ships have gone before · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by USA Today, Norwegian Cruise Line will soon be taking about 2,200 nerds on the first officially licensed Star Trek cruise.
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This video exposes the untold history of TV spinoffs · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Whatever happened to predictability? It used to be that sitcoms were a hotbed of spinoffs, either by sending away popular characters (Frasier, Family Matters) or bringing in backdoor pilots by introducing new characters onto a popular show (Happy Da…
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The 808 Heard Round the World – The New Yorker
Last Friday, a Stradivarius violin that had been stolen in 1980 was returned to family members of the deceased virtuoso Roman Totenberg. It had been made by Antonio Stradivari in 1734, purchased by the Totenberg in 1943, and served as his career ins…
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Anemone by digitalbiology http://t.co/wmZ3CArrAy http://t.co/4hlBiWiMws
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Incredible long jump : woahdude
Incredible long jump via /r/woahdude http://t.co/1gTkqhtmYc http://t.co/8tGE6vUgjl
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Bought my kitty, Bea, a new bed. “This,” she says, “this is mine.” : cats
Bought my kitty, Bea, a new bed. “This,” she says, “this is mine.” via /r/cats http://t.co/3xACsGYrf9 http://t.co/lAOZCs0xF7
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This is her hiding… via /r/cats http://t.co/GC7SnWxXhv http://t.co/nXUxKdKAjx
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My cat dreams of Time Lords… : cats
My cat dreams of Time Lords… via /r/cats http://t.co/Cza6nIBQhn http://t.co/nfrt0aRoXj
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There there hedgehog via /r/cats http://t.co/cXhwflK9wB http://t.co/L91NC7AsMz
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Sunset at Scripps Beach in San Diego [7458×4975][OC] : EarthPorn
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“Human…HUMAN! I cannot go on! Too..many..stairs… : cats
“Human…HUMAN! I cannot go on! Too..many..stairs… via /r/cats http://t.co/kILRSAJklO http://t.co/9olrgAjoFN
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What do you mean “Not helping”? : aww
What do you mean “Not helping”? via /r/aww http://t.co/Gxq01XUOci http://t.co/4I2IoDf9Sw
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A Factual and Emotional History of the Burrito | Broadly
The end of my life’s first great love occurred within moments of the discovery of my second. This will perhaps sound less callous when you note that my life’s second great love affair has been burritos.
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How To Have An Actual Conversation With A Woman
I know the headline may have ruffled your peacock feathers, but please, hear me out. Many men do not know how to have a conversation, and it would behoove our communities, our country, and dare I say the entire human race if this disconnect could be…
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Chief of Myanmar’s Ruling Party Removed in Tense Political Reshuffle Ahead of Elections | VICE News
Myanmar’s President Thein Sein has replaced the head of the country’s governing Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), party officials announced on Thursday, signaling a tightening of control by the country’s military ahead of elections on N…
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Fifteen U.S. States Seek to Block EPA Carbon Rule | Al Jazeera America
States from Alabama to West Virginia that oppose the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan filed for the stay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and asked for a ruling by Sept. 8, one year before states need to submit compliance pla…
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NASA Just Tested the Rocket Engine We’ll Use to Visit Mars
NASA’s RS-25 engine, the powerhouse aboard the SLS rocket that will one day launch us to Mars, just completed an explosive test run. You’re gonna wanna see this.
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Deadspin Straight Outta Compton Celebrates The Day The Bad Guys Won | Jalopnik Why Are Jordanian F-16s Suckling Gas From Israeli Tankers On Way To U.S.? | Jezebel Welcome to Hell: Airline to Begin Weighing Passengers | Kotaku Nintendo Fires Employee…
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The President Of Lucasfilm Eases Our Worries About Han Solo Movie
Even the biggest Star Wars fan was stunned when Disney announced an upcoming Han Solo-centric, standalone film. Would they ruin one of the best characters ever? Well, the president of Lucasfilm doesn’t want that and has offered some encouraging new …
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Obama’s summer 2015 reading list
Obama’s off for a couple of vacation weeks on Martha’s Vineyard and is taking the following books with him on vacation: All That Is by James Salter, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, The Lowland…
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Fires in Siberia : Image of the Day
The 2015 fire season has been harsh in parts of western Canada and the United States. On the other side of the Northern Hemisphere, a significant amount of burning also has taken place.
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Cosmos Tree: Fraser Bay, Lake Huron, ON [OC]… – Just Space
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Cyberflashing is sexual harassment for the smartphone era
Spend enough time in a big city, and you’ll probably get flashed—or, as the police like to call it, “indecent exposure.” But have you ever been cyberflashed? That’s what happened to a 34-year-old British woman while on a train in South London.
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That was quick: Russia has lifted its Reddit ban
After blocking Reddit completely yesterday, Russia has already lifted the ban it had imposed. According to a post on Roskomnadzor’s official Facebook page, after it was able to contact Reddit admins, the site agreed to block the specific post from b…
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Arkansas buys lethal injection drugs ahead of first execution in 10 years | US news | The Guardian
The Arkansas Department of Correction has bought the drugs needed to resume lethal injections, and Governor Asa Hutchinson said Thursday that he expects to be asked soon to schedule the state’s first execution in 10 years.
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Fury built in the Chinese city of Tianjin the day after two huge explosions involving warehoused chemicals killed at least 50 and injured more than 500.
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TestFlight now lets developers distribute iOS 9 apps to anyone
When Apple began letting developers seed beta apps for iOS 9, it was only for “internal” testing. TestFlight has now been updated to allow anyone to test iOS 9 apps. This allows developers to provide any user with apps meant to run on iOS 9, which h…
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Apple’s latest diversity report shows barely perceptible change
Today, Apple released its second EEO-1 diversity report, which shows the percentage of employees from different genders and ethnicities. But you’re going to have to look really closely to see the differences, which might make your heart hurt a littl…
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Smoking Is Making a Comeback in NYC — NYMag
Encouraging news for those who are still hoping that Mayor de Blasio will return New York to the bad old days: Cigarettes are cool again. “In 2010, the city’s smoking rate fell to 14 percent, a 15-year low and 5.3 percentage points below the U.S.
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NASA Successfully Tests Engine For Future Mars Mission | WIRED
It was just before midnight on Wednesday when a pair of explosions lit up the Chinese port city of Tianjin. No one yet knows what caused the blasts.
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Will Smith is working on a Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air reboot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now, this is a story all about how people continue to have a strong, marketable connection to the sitcom that first made Will Smith a household name, 20 years after the program went off the air.
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With the D23 Disney fan expo this weekend, plenty of Star Wars fans were eagerly anticipating a new trailer for The Force Awakens, anticipation director J.J. Abrams is more than happy to crush.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Fury built in the Chinese city of Tianjin the day after two huge explosions involving warehoused chemicals killed at least 50 and injured more than 500.
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Japan’s new railway cameras can detect drunk passengers to help save lives
You absolutely do not want to drink and drive. But maybe you don’t want to take public transportation home either — at least not until you can walk a fairly straight line. When it comes to railway accidents, recent statistics from Japan are sobering.
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Hear Disclosure’s Smooth New Track, ‘Willing & Able’ | Rolling Stone
In anticipation of their sophomore LP Caracal, due out September 25th, Disclosure have previewed new track, “Willing & Able.” The smooth, soulful song features British singer-songwriter Kwabs.
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Sara Evans, REO Speedwagon Tapped for ‘CMT Crossroads’ | Rolling Stone
Sara Evans will perform with Eighties powerhouses REO Speedwagon on ‘CMT Crossroads.
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Hear Janelle Monae Protest Police Killings on Powerful New Song | Rolling Stone
Janelle Monáe and her Wondaland Records roster have united for “Hell You Talmbout,” a police brutality protest song posted to Soundcloud on Thursday. Over marching drums, Monáe, Jidenna, Roman GianArthur, Deep Cotton, St. Beauty and George 2.
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You Can Indeed Wear Short-Sleeve, Button-Down Shirts as an Adult; Here’s How – Bloomberg Business
Consider me biased—but as a professional advice giver, I happen to believe that all my thoughts on style matters big and small are invaluable jewels of wisdom.
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Microsoft Word 2016 is getting collaborative editing for OneDrive files
Microsoft will now let you collaborate on Word files stored on OneDrive using the desktop Office 2016 suite.
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Why the US Secretary of Labor Doesn’t Uber — Backchannel — Medium
The on-demand economy has plunked labor rights into the zeitgeist this summer: Homejoy (of homeless housecleaner infamy) went belly up, with the CEO saying the deciding factor was its multiple lawsuits over classifying its cleaners as contractors — …
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Here’s how environmental justice advocates improved Obama’s Clean Power Plan | Grist
In many low-income communities and communities of color, breathing is hazardous to your health because of high levels of air pollution — a legacy of the environmental racism that exists in our country.
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From cutting down rainforests to restoring them: A company changes course | Grist
A company that once served as the face of Southeast Asian deforestation is now restoring forests.
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How suburban sprawl causes segregation and isolates the poor | Grist
As any sharp sociology major could tell you, a lot of the problems we associate with poverty are not actually caused by being impoverished but by being in an area where the impoverished are isolated from the middle class. Decades of social science d…
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London gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Cat overwhelmed by puppies : aww
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Why Julian Assange has no plans to exit the embassy in London
Julian Assange has a knack for uncovering some of the U.S. government’s most dangerous secrets, but his legal status in the U.S. remains a mystery even to him. The U.S.
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Luke Skywalker Is a True Jedi Master in his First Photo from The Force Awakens
I wish I had something clever or profound to say about the first photo of Mark Hamill as Luke Skkywalker taken in 30 years, or about it being the first time we’ve ever seen Luke wearing traditional Jedi robes. But I don’t.
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Audit: Subway Was Delayed Almost 500,000 Times — NYMag
The New York State Comptroller released a detailed audit on the subway’s “on-time performance” that basically confirms what you’ve learned from your experience on a random weekday: Delays are up, and they’ve gotten worse.
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Watch Kendrick Lamar interview N.W.A · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
On the eve of it’s release, the media frenzy surrounding the release of the film Straight Outta Compton is reaching near Marvel-movie levels, with almost every major media outlet running coverage of some kind.
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Public Morals Stars Talk Policing and the Past — NYMag
Public Morals, TNT’s new ’60s-set cops-versus-gangsters show premiering August 25, follows vice crimes in the seedy streets of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.
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How Straight Outta Compton Recreated the L.A. Riots, N.W.A. Concerts, and Epic Parties | Vanity Fair
The urban crisis of 1980s Compton was so integral in the formation of N.W.A.
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“Strange Horizons” by me : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Sometimes I like to make it seem like Shark Bait takes her own picture : cats
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The Gray-Faced Ponderer : cats
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Stars and Lightning in the Same Week. [5993×3850] : WeatherPorn
Stars and Lightning in the Same Week. [5993×3850] via /r/WeatherPorn http://t.co/MR0uDrGfLk http://t.co/sElLohaPa2
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Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein tweeted this morning that he’d found what looked like a used condom in a freshly cleaned bag of baby clothes from laundry startup Washio.
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North Carolina officer charged with shooting black man testifies in trial | US news | The Guardian
The white police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black man testified in his own defense on Thursday, following witnesses who quoted him as saying he thought his life was in danger, that the man was going to grab his gun, and that…
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The Next Bradley Cooper Oscar Run Trailer: Burnt | WIRED
It’s always fun to find the through lines in an actor’s career.
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NASA Test-Fires Engine for Next-Gen Megarocket
An RS-25 engine — four of which will compose the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System megarocket — undergoes a 9-minute “hot fire” test at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Aug. 13, 2015.
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Dying St. Bernard plays in the snow one last time
Just as terminally ill children are often granted last wishes, so are dying pets. Such is the case with Sophia the St. Bernard, who spent her final hours doing something she loved. Six-year-old Sophia was diagnosed with bone cancer two months ago.
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Hear What Famous Horror Movies’ Theme Music Sounds Like in a Major Key
Oh my god. What happens when you shift the theme music for The X-Files from its natural minor key into a major one? Well, you get what sounds like the opening theme to an adorable Japanese RPG videogame from the Super Nintendo era.
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New York Times reporter Stephanie Clifford channels years of writing about business, media, and NYC into her first novel, Everybody Rise.
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What’s Been Found In Hillary’s Emails So Far – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Hillary Clinton agreed to turn over her private email server to the FBI Wednesday after it was alleged that emails sent over her personal account could be compromised outside the possession of the government.
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ANDOVER, MA—While saying he’d always known that “everything would fall apart eventually,” 45-year-old Bruce Lifschitz admitted his surprise to reporters Friday that his body was breaking down in a completely different order than he expected it would.
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Sommer på Stadlandet – YouTube
Glem Kragerø, glem Skudneshavn, glem Kristiansand, ingenting kan måle seg med Stadt en vakker sommerdag! Her får du vanvittige utsikter, lange strender og er du heldig kan du oppleve flere årstider samme dag.Filmet sommeren 2015Filming og redigering…
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Clearly, This Man is Not a True Monk : monkslookingatbeer
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A very good reason to drink wine : pics
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You are what you eat, and so were your ancient ancestors. But figuring out what they actually dined on has been no easy task. There are no Pleistocene cookbooks to consult.
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On the morning of Nov. 20 last year, Tyrone Tomlin sat in the cage of one of the Brooklyn criminal courthouse’s interview rooms, a bare white cinder-block cell about the size of an office cubicle.
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I wish my girlfriend told me she was afraid of heights BEFORE going on the ferris wheel – Imgur
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How it feels when he hasn’t masturbated in a week – GIF on Imgur
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Twitter will censor tweets in Turkey, but it won’t snitch on Turkish users
Twitter hides a lot of content that Turkey doesn’t like, but a new report shows that the social network at least isn’t snitching on its users. According to Twitter’s new transparency report, in the first half of 2015, Turkey asked Twitter 412 times …
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Janelle Monae Just Released An Awesome New Track Protesting Police Brutality | ThinkProgress
Janelle Monae and her imprint, Wondaland Records, just released a new song protesting police brutality. The song, which you can listen to on SoundCloud, is a revamped version of “Hell You Talmbout” from Monae’s 2013 album The Electic Lady.
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The road of the future will charge your car as you drive
What if you never had to refuel your car again? Highways England, the governmental body that operates and maintains the United Kingdom’s roadways, will develop road infrastructure that charges electric cars wirelessly as they travel to their destina…
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Sesame Street Is Going to HBO. Naturally, Twitter Has Opinions | WIRED
You probably remember the old slogan, “It’s not TV, it’s HBO.” People trot it out when they want to talk about how TV has grown more HBO-like over the last decade. But with today’s announcement that HBO is the new home of Sesame Street, the cable ne…
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Cat Video Festival Honors Cecil the Lion — NYMag
On Wednesday night, nearly 13,000 people — many with whiskers and pointy ears — stormed a baseball field in St. Paul, Minnesota, to watch cat videos. The mayor threw a ceremonial ball of yarn to begin the fourth annual Internet Cat Video Festival.
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Environmentalism’s Racist History – The New Yorker
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted about thirty degrees to the right. He belonged, like his political ally Teddy Roosevelt, to a Manhattan aristocra…
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Connecticut Clears Death Row, Effectively Abolishes Death Penalty | Vanity Fair
In a 4–3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that 11 prisoners slated to be executed had been deprived of their constitutional rights, and effectively abolished the death penalty and shut down its death row. In the majority opinion, Justic…
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Ferrolic | Where digital meets nature.
Ferrolic was designed from a strong fascination for the magical material Ferro Fluid. The natural dynamics of this fluid makes that this display bridges the gap between everyday digital screens and tangible reality.
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PBS is airing a documentary in September about Muppets creator Jim Henson called In Their Own Words: Jim Henson.
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The Strange, Sensitive World of Plastic Surgery Photography | Broadly
On the first day of Mia Berg’s first real job out of college, she found herself asking a woman to take her clothes off so she could take her picture. The woman stood with one foot on either side of a pentagram-esque diagram taped to the floor. Her l…
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Craig Schweisinger opened the doors to Skateland U.S.A. on Saturday, Nov. 16, 1984. High schoolers mingled with gangbangers and roller skaters who took their choreography seriously. A sign reading NO CAPS — NO COLORS greeted attendees at the door.
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Anti-gravity via /r/gifs http://t.co/C22jw5cnFP http://t.co/tB4cxWxqSo
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Screw you, Dove : firstworldanarchists
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Bryce Canyon, Utah [OC] [4261×2841] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/r9sAgIE0GM http://t.co/juY2xBJ9Ja
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The View Down Sixth Ave – New York, NY [OC][853×1280] xpost r/pics : CityPorn
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Treasure hunters find coded WWII message, uncover hilarious story – Boing Boing
Some Italian treasure hunters found a strange looking bullet in Tuscany. Inside was a dated, coded message. Turns out the message tells the story of a crazy engagement between US and German soldiers, in 1944. Germans were throwing surplus Italian gr…
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After winning poker tournament, gentleman caught flushing fake poker chips down toilet – Boing Boing
Christian Lusardi, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina was pleased to win $6,814 in an Atlantic City poker tournament. But he was sad when his attempt to get rid of $3.6 million of counterfeit casino chips he’d used in the tournament was unsuccessfu…
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‘Sesame Street’ on HBO: Wealthy Viewers Financing the PBS Show Is Nothing New – The Atlantic
Today, when kids watch Sesame Street on repeat, they’re far more likely to do it on a streaming service like Netflix or Amazon Prime. And that’s a problem for Sesame Workshop, because no streaming service pays the bills like physical media sales do.…
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Corporate Venture Capital Is King In Japan | TechCrunch
When it comes to raising money in the U.S., corporate venture capital is seemingly synonymous with “Plan C.” If you can’t raise money from top-tier firms, you move on to Plan B, second-tier firms. Failing that, Plan C is corporate.
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A Direct Line to a Personal Stylist? There’s an App for That | Vanity Fair
Two years ago a pair of boots caught the eye of Anna Jensen in a Georgetown boutique, triggering the usual shopping anxieties: Did they have the potential to be an investment piece, or would they end up being a waste of money? What would they look l…
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Thursday marks Left Handers Day, a chance for 10-15% of the US population to share their pride as lefties and raise awareness about the issues faced by those living in a right-handed world.
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Apple’s Tim Cook On Latest Diversity Numbers: There’s “A Lot More Work To Be Done” | TechCrunch
Apple just released a new diversity report with data about the race, gender and ethnic makeup of the company. Even though the company is still mostly white (54%) in the U.S.
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Is Syria’s president losing his grip on power? – Al Jazeera English
There have been four long years of war. Almost a quarter of a million people dead. Millions more displaced. More rebel groups and ISIL fighters are infiltrating and taking territory.
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Using magician’s thread to make a dancing cane – Boing Boing
I wanted to make my own dancing cane. All you need is a drill, some magicians thread, and a far lighter cane than mine. Making a dancing cane is pretty simple.
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YouTube fitness expert turns to his fans to share his cancer struggle
We’re furious on Furious Pete’s behalf. The YouTube fitness expert and competitive eating champion announced on his channel that he’s battling cancer for a second time.
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11 Years After It Was Announced, Batman: Europa Is Coming This November
Hell, it’s about time. In 2004, DC announced Batman: Europa, a miniseries from Brian Azzarello, Matteo Casali, Jim Lee and Giuseppe Camuncoli. Europa promptly disappeared from solicitations, before briefly re-emerging in 2011, only to vanish once mo…
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Soar on the wind as a flock of birds in Gathering Sky – Offworld
You begin Gathering Sky as a bird. Move your cursor, and it follows. But as you guide it through the sky, slowly adding other birds to your aerial coterie, the nature of your relationship quickly changes: you have become a flock.
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Getting a Tiny Bit of This Element on Your Skin Will Make You Reek of Garlic for Weeks
Tellurium is usually found stuck to various metals in the ground. It forms ores with gold, silver, copper, and lead. When refining these metals, some unfortunate people have come into contact with purified tellurium—and exposure means you reek of ga…
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Watch Dan Auerbach-Fronted the Arcs’ Violent Cartoon Video | Rolling Stone
Dan Auerbach soundtracks a tragic love story in the bloody cartoon clip for the Arcs’ “Put a Flower in Your Pocket.” Director Omar Juarez presents the violent tale of a boxer, his lover and a merciless gangster, set to the band’s psychedelic throb.
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Watch Eric Church Burn Through Charlie Daniels’ Hit at Volunteer Jam | Rolling Stone
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alabama, Blackberry Smoke, the Oak Ridge Boys, Travis Tritt, Wynonna and Ted Nugent were among more than two dozen acts taking the stage last night at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for the 40th anniversary of Charlie Daniels’ legenda…
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Petrus Wine – Chateau Petrus Winery
Last fall Jean placed a bottle of 1990 Petrus in an impregnable shipping box made by Bordeauxthèque, Duclot’s wine boutique in Paris, and had it delivered to La Vinicole’s office. He wanted to make sure I tasted an exceptional vintage that otherwise…
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Google figured out something important: You can sell businesses the future, but they’ll show up with lots of the past.
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/GtN23p0cHe http://t.co/1oCGopETc1
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Water boarding via /r/gifs http://t.co/2PXG7ak18x http://t.co/uuf0IRTkUl
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Best friends : TrollXChromosomes
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You can see an Owl’s eye through its ear! : woahdude
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Famous horror themes re-recorded in a major key are adorable · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Nigel Tufnel famously said D minor is the saddest of all keys; it can also be the scariest. Most horror movie themes are performed in a minor key to provide creepy tone and a sense of dread.
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We Want Quirky Spy Flicks, Not Generic Action Movies | WIRED
For once, the reason I’m shouting, “Uncle!” isn’t a third-grade bully! I can’t wait for the Friday premiere of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., mostly because it actually takes place in the 1960s, when the original series was set.
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Meet MIT’s Beer Delivery Bots | WIRED
Sonos makes objectively lovely speakers. But even the most compact, affordable, and unobtrusive model, the $199 Play:1, looks like what it is—a piece of consumer electronics. It comes in black or white with a metallic-gray grill, like just about eve…
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Louisiana and Alabama may be violating federal law by ending state Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, federal health officials warned the states after both announced they were cutting off the payments.
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The Techies Have Come to Disrupt Your Next Music Festival | WIRED
It’s noon on a Thursday at Lyft HQ in San Francisco, and most employees are filtering through the main lobby toward lunch. But in a parking lot behind the building, the ride-sharing company’s newest fleet sits, arranged in a semicircle.
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Author Bruce Sterling Testified to Congress in 1993 as a Time Traveler From 2015
80 percent graphic image files of attractive young women without veils or, in fact, much clothing of any kind. 15 percent digitally stored pirated copies of Western pop music and Western videos, still illegal to possess in Tehran.
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See First Photos from Downton Abbey’s Final Season | Vanity Fair
The sun is figuratively setting on Downton Abbey, as we approach the period drama’s sixth and final season, and literally setting on the series in the final cast photo, released today.
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Churchill’s bulldog scowl 1941 : OldSchoolCool
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So many ducks via /r/gifs http://t.co/2DibhiNUVj http://t.co/NwT4S2Ubj4
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Tiny flowering bonsai tree : pics
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Nigeria Set Up a Fund to Clean Up the Niger Delta — but There’s Not Much Cash in It | VICE News
Four years after a scathing UN report on oil pollution in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian government has finally put in place a fund from which to finance clean up efforts in what is among the world’s most contaminated areas.
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INNOVATE2016: Understanding The Zignal To Noise Ratio In The Presidential Race | TechCrunch
Welcome to INNOVATE2016, a weekly interview series focusing on how new technology and innovation is influencing the upcoming Presidential election. Guests will include candidates, pundits and start-up entrepreneurs with special insights into the pol…
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Jimmy Fallon to play beer pong with celebrities through 2021 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ever since his run on Saturday Night Live (and probably before that, too), there have been people have prided themselves on being strongly opposed to everything related to Jimmy Fallon. They hate it when he laughs in the middle of sketches. They hat…
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Beauty vlogger goes makeup-free to show how shallow men on Tinder can be
Vanity Fair made headlines this week with a widely read (and critiqued) article called “Tinder and The Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse” which lamented the superficial nature of 20-something men who use dating apps for quick, easy hookups.
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Harvard student loses Facebook internship after exposing privacy flaw
Facebook, a company born in a Harvard dorm room, has dismissed an inbound intern over something he created in his own Harvard dorm. Computer science student Aran Khanna made headlines a few months ago by releasing a Chrome browser extension called M…
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Music Found To Speed Recovery In Surgery Patients – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Researchers have found that patients who listen to music before, during, and after surgery experience less pain and quicker recovery times, a phenomenon that might be caused by music’s ability to change the brain’s neural pathways and induce relaxat…
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Louis C.K.’s Hardcore Porn Doppelganger: A Great Reddit Conspiracy
A few weeks ago, a Reddit user was watching a gang bang on Pornhub. Just as one of the men was about to ejaculate onto the chest of the woman on the receiving end, something caught the Redditor’s ear. Was that the familiar whine of…Louis C.K.?
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How Reddit treats this meme nowadays : AdviceAnimals
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Cat that sneezes her tooth out from r/wtf last week. (X post r/pics) : cats
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Hairy Houdini via /r/cats http://t.co/gj1XEtt4Ze http://t.co/Nfh9Y7QNpc
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A lone tree in a field. Niagara Falls, Canada. [OC] [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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News in Brief: Vilsack Reprimanded For Spending Work Hours Writing Corn Blog http://t.co/FZlYapu7eZ
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The Great SoundCloud Purge of 2015 Has Begun | Thump
It’s happening. After years of speculation about what the next steps in SoundCloud’s ongoing quest for monetization will be, the Berlin-based streaming platform has gone on an aggressive, worldwide offensive over copyright claims this week.
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Man pranks people upset with Target for no longer segregating toys by gender – Boing Boing
Mike Melgaard pretended to be Target on Facebook and teased people who are threatening to boycott Target for removing gender labeling from toy aisles (e.g., separate labeling for “Building Sets” and “Girls Building Sets”). The boycotters were nonplu…
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IK Enemkpali vows to be a good team-mate after breaking Geno Smith’s jaw | Sport | The Guardian
Linebacker IK Enemkpali says it was never his intention to hurt New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith, and adds he’s grateful to get a second chance at his career with the Buffalo Bills.
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11 Inmates Off Death Row After Connecticut Bans Capital Punishment | VICE News
Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the death penalty is unconstitutional and banned the execution of all prisoners — including 11 who were already on death row after the court in 2012 repealed capital punishment for any new offenses.
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Be quiet and look at how much this kitten and owl love each other
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This app blocks mentions of Donald Trump—and its creator might get sued
For a brief shining moment, it seemed possible to ignore Donald Trump’s candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He was just a preening reality TV star with a penchant for self-promotion and some questionable views on immigration.
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Disney’s D23 Expo is This Weekend—Here Are 5 Things We’re Excited For
The D23 Expo, which takes place this weekend in Anaheim, California, is like Comic Con for Disney fans. But it’s more than a place to buy the latest Mickey Mouse t-shirt. Disney now uses the convention to break news on their big properties like Marv…
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Longtime ‘SNL’ writer Paula Pell talks about her queer webseries, ‘Hudson Valley Ballers’
It’s just like any other gay bar: sweaty dancers crammed into a writhing circle, generic dance music thumping, a too-cool DJ holding court above the crowd. A crowd of about 20 people is jammed into the center of the Metropolitan, a queer hotspot and…
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It’s a fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to blow shit up. Or at least, likes shit blowing up around him in his movies. Maybe it’s because he so often works with James Cameron, a man who also loves the spectacle of exploding destruction.
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When news of Ride Along 2 broke last year, audiences were promised more action and multiculturalism. The trailer delivers on both fronts, even if the jokes remain stale.
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Milk prices row: Asda pledges to pay supplier 28p a litre – BBC News
Asda is to increase the price it pays its milk supplier to “a level that will assist” farmers, the supermarket says. The chain says it will commit to paying 28p per litre for 100% of its liquid milk throughout its entire range.
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The Heroes Reborn premiere will be a two-hour event · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC is pretty convinced people miss Heroes, releasing two Heroes Reborn-branded video games and roping in as many original cast members as possible for the continuation series.
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WASHINGTON—Sternly reminded that it was inappropriate to pursue personal interests at the office, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was reprimanded Thursday for writing his corn blog during a cabinet meeting, sources told reporters.
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Iran and the Myth of Anti-Semitism – In These Times
Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic is a respected and well-connected American commentator on U.S.-Israel affairs and regional issues such as the nuclear deal with Iran. His access to top Administration officials like President Obama and Secretary of S…
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The NYC subway to a person using a wheelchair – Sociological Images
The Americans with Disabilities Act turned 25 years old last month. It was enacted by U.S. Congress with the goal of ensuring that people with disabilities had access to “reasonable accommodations” so that they could participate wholly in public lif…
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‘For $12 of Commissary, He Got 10 Years Off His Sentence.’ | The Marshall Project
In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield’s murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten petition arguing, essentially, he was serving tim…
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Fires in Siberia : Natural Hazards
The 2015 fire season has been harsh in parts of western Canada and the United States. On the other side of the Northern Hemisphere, a significant amount of burning also has taken place.
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Riding over a heavy wave : Breathless
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Train Spiral via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/dShmnN8xdL http://t.co/tOvXVGoWIT
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Ohio voters to decide on marijuana legalization in November election | US news | The Guardian
Ohio citizens will vote on whether to legalize recreational and medicinal marijuana use in November, a decision that could concentrate the state’s legal marijuana business to 10 growers.
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Facial Recognition Technology Is Big Business — And It’s Coming For You | VICE News
Every face is different. The precise space between eyes, the curve of the cheek, the fullness of the lips — the sum of these features distinguishes one person from another, even identical twins.
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Ben Carson used fetal tissues in his own research
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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US court backs gay couple in wedding cake dispute – Al Jazeera English
A US court has ruled that a baker cannot cite religious beliefs as grounds for refusing to make a wedding cake for same-sex couple.
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DNA test confirms Warren Harding fathered daughter outside his marriage | US news | The Guardian
Warren G Harding, the president who ushered the US into a decade of speakeasies and big band jazz, fathered a daughter with a mistress, new genealogy tests confirm.
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The definitive breakdown of Drake’s raps as seen on ‘Degrassi: The Next Generation’
I love Drake. Odds are you do too, considering If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late was the first album to go platinum this year. This marks the fourth-consecutive album by Aubrey “Drake” Graham to sell more than one million copies in the United Sta…
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Seattle Neighbors Are Seriously Pissed About Those Crows That Bring Gifts to an 8-year-old Girl
Remember that 8-year-old girl who receives small objects from crows in return for feeding them? Well, her parents are now facing a $200,000 lawsuit accusing them of running a large-scale feeding operation out of their backyard.
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Audio Visuals: A Diseased Pac-Man Will Eat the Universe | WIRED
This week in music videos brings us some great experimentation. King’s Parade and Networks came in with two of our favorite animated videos in a long time, while Nero and Of Monsters and Men tell a pair of unexpected love stories. There’s some total…
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‘Late Night’ Host Seth Meyers on Ditching the Standup Monologue – The Atlantic
The standup monologue has been a fixture of every late-night show since Steve Allen’s, but at a certain point it became a strange cross to bear for the younger, more experimental comedians who’ve been taking the reins.
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The End of the Tour Director James Ponsoldt | Vanity Fair
It has to have been an overwhelming summer for James Ponsoldt. His fourth feature, The End of the Tour, has been met with both critical raves and blistering dissent from those who object to the movie’s portrayal of David Foster Wallace.
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Instagram’s Mark on Public Art – The New Yorker
Last Tuesday, the Public Art Fund assembled a group of art-world Instagram “influencers,” in the middle of the park at MetroTech Commons, in downtown Brooklyn.
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Spreadable Beer Is a Real Thing … And It’s Delicious – Bloomberg Business
This week I had beer for breakfast. On a Wednesday. I spread oatmeal stout on my toast with some peanut butter from the company canteen and then sat down at my desk to write this. And no one gave me so much as a funny look.
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Shakespeare’s Lost Weed Sonnets – The New Yorker
South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis, suggesting the playwright might have written some of his famous works while high. SONNET NO. 155
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Don’t Let John Kasich Anywhere Near The U.S. Department Of Education
Some Very Serious People have decided Governor John Kasich of Ohio is the latest personality to emerge from the field of presidential candidates in the Republican Party to warrant genuine, bona fide consideration.
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Nerf US | Nerf Rival – Behind the Blaster – YouTube
Learn more about the new Nerf Rival line as one of our engineers takes us behind the scenes to show how these blasters were made! These blasters have superior accuracy and fire high-impact rounds! Whether the competition is 1-on-1 or a group battle,…
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Alfred Jarry’s Fun Home | The Nation
The scenery looks familiar: a well-appointed, upper-middle class home that could be the setting for any number of the domestic dramas that still dominate the mainstream American stage.
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This inscription, engraved on a 13th-century double-edged sword owned by the British Museum, is the medieval mystery of the moment. Stumped by its cryptic engraving, last week the British Library tapped the interwebs for its crowd wisdom, asking com…
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Jimmy ‘Orion’ Ellis Seemed So Much Like Elvis, People Thought He Actually Was | Atlas Obscura
Orion is his iconic eagle suit. (Photo: Sun Records/Courtesy Pipoca Pictures) When Elvis Presley died in 1977, the mourning that ensued was as fevered and earnest as the fandom that surrounded him in life.
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Endless Bi-directional Model Train Spiral : woahdude
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I think she still haven’t got over that tea thing… – Meme on Imgur
I think she still haven’t got over that tea thing… http://t.co/nWhC7eRVX2 http://t.co/I7rmazlLZH
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Hazy day on Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park, ME [OC][2048×1536] : EarthPorn
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Triglav, Triglav National Park, Slovenia [OC][4608×3456] : EarthPorn
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Game Theory Says R.A. Dickey Should Throw More Knuckleballs | FiveThirtyEight
Of all the strategic elements of baseball, few are more fascinating than the poker game between pitcher and hitter. Each participant knows his strengths and those of his adversary, and that knowledge informs both players’ tactics in a complex entang…
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With Sesame Street, HBO Puts the ‘Stream’ in ‘Mainstream’ | WIRED
You probably remember the old slogan, “It’s not TV, it’s HBO.” People trot it out when they want to talk about how TV has grown more HBO-like over the last decade. But with today’s announcement that HBO is the new home of Sesame Street, the cable ne…
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Of Course a Louboutin Broke the Condé Escalator — The Cut
The red (-soled) menace has struck Condé Nast headquarters. We’re talking, of course, about the Christian Louboutin heel that wedged itself into the elevator at HQ, temporarily halting operations.
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In Photos: Jerusalem In the Wake of the LGBT Pride Murder | VICE News
A fatal stabbing spree by an ultra-Orthodox man at Jerusalem’s LGBT pride march on July 30 shocked the city, Israel, and the world. The week after the deadly attack, in which 16-year-old Shira Banki was murdered, the Holy City’s LGBT and Orthodox co…
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Former US soldier Chelsea Manning, currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for revealing official secrets, could face solitary confinement after an issue of Vanity Fair and toothpaste tube were found in her cell.
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Study Shows That Bears Cannot Bear Drones — NYMag
Scientists who want to monitor wildlife might just end up scaring the hell out of them. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that, unsurprisingly, black bears in Minnesota freak out when you fly unmanned aerial vehicles near th…
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Government vows to pay for Colorado mining spill but costs remain unknown | US news | The Guardian
The spill of toxic wastewater from an abandoned gold mine high in Colorado’s San Juan mountains caused untold millions in economic disruptions and damages in three states – to rafting companies, Native American farmers unable to irrigate, municipal …
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Internet filters considered harmful – Boing Boing
Alan sez, “In its latest report, the American Library Association reviews the state of Internet content filters and finds the state dismal.
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This year’s El Niño weather pattern could be the most powerful on record, federal forecasters said, while warning that the effects of the weather system are never certain.
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This New Protest Song from Janelle Monae’s Wondaland Team Is Massive | WIRED
Game of Thrones just scored very big. The fantasy drama snagged 24 Emmy nominations this morning, beating out every other show in the bunch, and its network—HBO—lead all networks with 126 nominations total. Not bad for a show that weathered its shar…
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Hair analysis ‘should be abolished’ | Al Jazeera America
In “Under the Microscope: The FBI Hair Cases,” Fault Lines looks at how, for decades, the FBI used the flawed forensic method of microscopic hair analysis to convict thousands of criminal defendants. The film airs on Monday, August 17, at 10 pm East…
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Connecticut Supreme Court abolishes state’s death penalty
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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A Century-Old Device May Be the Future of Electronics
There’s a new device in the works over at DARPA, the agency known for pushing the technological envelope with mind-controlled prosthetics and drone-launching submarines. This latest innovation? The vacuum tube. You might remember it from the first t…
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HOW serious are we, really, about tackling income equality? The Securities and Exchange Commission took a shot at it last week, approving a rule that would require companies to disclose their C.E.O. pay gap — comparing how much chief executive offic…
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Money-Saving Tips Will Ensure You Get The Most Out Of Your Groceries : dataisbeautiful
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Super Useful Inventions To Make Life Easier : dataisbeautiful
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I don’t follow the rules : firstworldanarchists
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Thursday afternoon at the park : cats
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Straight Outta Spooks : ledootgeneration
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I think she still haven’t got over that tea thing… – Meme on Imgur
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Happiness in its purest form: a dog and two ball pits – GIF on Imgur
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Dell’s new Chromebook 13 hits the ‘Google for Work’ program
Dell has a new laptop, and its slated in the ‘Google for Work’ lineup. The Dell Chromebook 13 has a 13.3-inch touchscreen with an Intel processor — and can cost as much as $900. Weighing 3.2 pounds, Dell says its Chromebook 13 has a 12 hour battery …
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Dustin Johnson bounces back at US PGA Championship with another strong start | Sport | The Guardian
Whatever accusations can be thrown towards Dustin Johnson, and there has never been a shortage of them, no one can legitimately claim recurring failure has dampened his appetite for success.
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The Outdated Law That Helped Lead To The Massive Mine Spill In Colorado | ThinkProgress
This week, a river running through Colorado turned orange after Environmental Protection Agency workers accidentally broke through a dam at an abandoned mine site, spilling 3 million gallons of lead and arsenic-laden mine waste into the Animas River.
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Here’s How Republican Presidential Candidates Want To Defeat ISIS | ThinkProgress
Foreign policy has taken an important role in the 2016 Republican Presidential primaries. One of the most prominent issues is how to deal with nefarious Islamist movement ISIS, also referred to as ISIL and the Islamic State.
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Twitter responds to HBO’s gentrification of Sesame Street · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Since 1969, Sesame Street has been offering an alternative way for children to learn the basics of math, spelling, grammar, and even cultivate emotional development.
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Laurie Holden has quit NBC’s Chicago Med · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A few months before Chicago Med—the second spinoff from Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire—is set to premiere, star Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead) has decided to leave the show.
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Study Finds ‘Detectable Effect’ Of Climate Change In Texas’ Devastating May Floods | ThinkProgress
In May, more than 35 trillion gallons of water fell on Texas — enough to cover the entire state in eight inches of water. More than two dozen people were killed, and it was the wettest single month on record in both Texas and Oklahoma.
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Obama’s Beach Reads Include Nazis, Racism — NYMag
With President Obama vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard for another ten days, his summer reading list passes for White House news.
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Curating Coffee Tables for Holly Golightly, Patrick Bateman, and More | Vanity Fair
Annie Hall from Annie HallThe look: “Quirky, eclectic, and full of personality. With this display I wanted to merge androgynous, classic style with offbeat humor.” © Greg Natale Design; From United Artists/Getty Images (Keaton).
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Major banks test a system to let you pay for things with your heartbeat
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What’s Really Behind Opposition to the Iran Deal in Israel and the United States? – The Atlantic
Finally, another reader links the bitterness of the U.S. debate to factors that have little to do with either Iran or Israel but rather with the larger polarization in American discourse.
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7 Great Shows to Binge-Watch During the Dog Days of Summer | Vanity Fair
We’re in an unusually dead time, TV-wise. With most networks letting go of the traditional September–May schedule, we’ve quickly grown used to new television coming at us almost every week of the year—except for now, in the dog days of summer, where…
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Watch an exclusive clip from The End Of The Tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
James Ponsoldt’s The End Of The Tour is set over the course of five days in 1996, as Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) accompanies the late, great David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) to the last stop of a reading tour to promote his…
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Season two of The Affair will include betrayed spouses’ perspectives · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Showtime’s The Affair has proven that it takes two to tango (i.e., cheat on your spouse) and to tell very different versions of the events before and after said adultery.
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Bic apologizes for urging South African women to “Think Like a Man” – Boing Boing
This ad for Bic didn’t go well, and Bic is very, very sorry. “Look like a girl, Act like a lady, Think like a man, Work like a boss.” Ridiculous. Everyone knows bosses are terrible workers.
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Moderns Scramblers in an adventure rally? – Boing Boing
Motorcyclist Online puts both Ducati and Triumph’s modern reinventions of the simple Scrambler to the test, entering them in a Colorado Rockies adventure rally. Things go better than you’d imagine and worse than you’d hope!
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Mark Reay is a former model, actor, and fashion photographer who was homeless in NYC for six years. Homme Less is a documentary on Reay; here’s a trailer: So began a period of my life sleeping rough. It was pretty tiring, and I didn’t have much luck…
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As Republican presidential candidates offered careful answers to questions about education, immigration and foreign policy at last week’s debate, streams of tweets panned their responses as too soft or disingenuous. Senator Marco Rubio is beholden t…
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Endless train : oddlysatisfying
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Beautiful falls from Willow! Burney Falls, CA [2048 x 1536] [OC] : EarthPorn
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My timid Captain Marvel protected by his friendly older brother, Simba : cats
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MRW I see the cop who didn’t give me a ticket come into where I work. : reactiongifs
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Get Your Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets Now | TechCrunch
It’s time. Tickets to the Disrupt SF 2015 Hackathon are now available, and you can get in on the action by snagging a ticket here. The event takes place September 19 and 20 at the historic Pier 70 in San Francisco, and you’re going to want to be the…
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Midday open thread: Bail system screws innocents; Nan Britton didn’t lie about President Harding
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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Tinder C.E.O. Out After Five Months, Sean Rad to Return | Vanity Fair
Popular dating app Tinder has once again shuffled its leadership. Chris Payne, a former Microsoft and eBay executive, is no longer C.E.O. Tinder co-founder Sean Rad is returning to the position, one he held until this past March.
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What’s Next for the Marvel Movies After Infinity War?
Greetings, my fantastic friends! (finger guns) Doesn’t worry, not all the questions in this week’s mailbag are about a certain fantastic flop, although there are a few; I guess that’s what I get for not doing a FAQ.
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Apple rolls out new Boot Camp version with support for Windows 10
Apple is now rolling out a new version of Boot Camp, the utility that lets you run Windows on the Mac.
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As California’s Wildfires Continue To Grow, Inmates Take On Much Of The Work | ThinkProgress
Northern California is burning: the Rocky Fire has charred nearly 70,000 acres west of Clearlake, while the Jerusalem Fire has grown to more than 14,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of 150 homes near Napa.
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Sunny days, sweepin’ the clouds away – to HBO? Sesame Street announced on Thursday morning that the public broadcast show is moving to the premium cable channel. But with more, let’s say, adult neighbours and primetime real estate, the popular child…
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This Odd-Looking Clothing Is Designed to Help Autistic Kids | WIRED
Wearing a Sensewear jacket isn’t like wearing an ordinary jacket. It doesn’t just keep you warm; it can kind of hug you, thanks to its inflatable lining. When you throw on a Sensewear scarf, it does more than wrap around your neck.
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Facebook’s Parse releases SDKs for iOS, Android and Mac as open source projects
Parse, Facebook’s platform for building native mobile apps, will now have its SDKs available as open source projects. The SDKs for OS X, iOS and Android are already up on GitHub. Facebook is promising its SDKs for other platforms (like IoT) are “soo…
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We must regrettably debunk the supposed ‘Frozen’–’Tarzan’ connection
We can’t get enough of the Pixar Theory, which ties together every single Pixar movie to date in one giant cinematic universe. But what if that concept also applied to Disney films decades apart?
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Wowza Dragon Quest 11 Is Looking Gorgeous | WIRED
Pastel meadows and poplars? Emo-parted coifs and noseless faces? Exotic creatures with body-sized tongues and waggish smiles on their mugs as they smack you and your companions around? Must be a Dragon Quest!
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12 rules for badass brand videos
Vimeo was helping companies create what industry folks call “branded video” long before it became the hottest new marketing buzzword. Branded video is not to be confused with video advertising, though.
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Hands-on with Galaxy S6 Edge+: If you didn’t like the first, you definitely won’t like this
Samsung has launched the Galaxy S6 Edge+, a follow up to the first S6 Edge model, except this time it has a larger (5.7-inch) display. There are few differences between the original model and the new S6 Edge+. If you loved the look of the Edge but f…
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This app automatically picks you up in an Uber and takes you to a mystery bar
Up for an adventure but can’t decide where to go? This app randomly picks a top bar on Yelp, picks you up in an Uber and takes you there — without you knowing the destination. Bar Roulette uses the Yelp and Uber APIs to find a place to go and doesn’…
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Podcast: We Still Rely On Volunteers To Tally The Victims Of Police Violence | FiveThirtyEight
“How prevalent are police killings in America? Where are the places where there are hot spots of police violence? And where are the places that may be models for police being able to do their job without killing people? We couldn’t answer those ques…
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This communal fridge is pretty damn amazing | Grist
Anyone who’s ever lived with roommates knows that communal fridges are basically just big boxes of chilled nightmares and disease sprinkled with 500 mostly empty condiment bottles.
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Digg Blog, What Digg Is Building Next
For the past few years, we’ve been describing Digg as “What the Internet is talking about right now.” Today, all that “talking” happens in countless places all over the web, but it’s consolidating on an increasingly smaller number of networks.
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Rio Olympic venues might already be making rowers sick | Grist
Ahhh, the Olympics! That glorious spectacle of strength, nationalism, performance enhancing drugs, and now, stomach cramps. The 2016 Rio Olympics, still a year away, are already going to shit.
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Look at it! [Himouto! Umaru-chan] : animegifs
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Half the British public… don’t trust the British public, survey finds : nottheonion
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The Balls On This Guy : woahdude
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Five Lessons for Democrats From the Black Lives Matter Protests
Many observers are perplexed by the decision of some Black Lives Matter activists to twice disrupt attempted addresses by presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders. Well, I am not perplexed. The new generation of civil rights activists never accepted…
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Talking Less and Listening More To Black Lives Matter Activists
This commentary originally appeared in Raw Story. A lot of white progressives have been flummoxed by #BlackLivesMatter activists disrupting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ events.
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Red Planet Fashion: Mars Colony Project Inspires Sportswear Line
Artist’s depiction of Mars One astronauts on the Red Planet. Mars One aims to land four people on the Red Planet in 2027.Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One View full size image A private Mars colonization effort has inspired a new sportswear collection.
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Beyoncé’s Vogue September Issue Cover and the Politics of Stringy Hair – The Atlantic
What is going on with that Beyoncé image in Vogue’s September issue? The cover’s background is not an actual background so much as, it would seem, Photoshop shade #858674; its cover line—“Just B,” with “Beyoncé” beneath it—seems both redundant and o…
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Joe Biden election decision nears as supporters see surge in momentum | US news | The Guardian
US vice-president Joe Biden is nearing an imminent decision in on whether to challenge Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination as supporters report a surge in interest from potential backers.
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Two San Diego librarians, Jenne and Miko, created fictitious dishes from the Harry Potter series to celebrate Harry Potter month, a fictitious holiday created by Scholastic. They share their recipes, photos, and whether you should bother to try them…
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How Jennifer Lawrence’s New Movie with David O. Russell Gave Her P.T.S.D. | Vanity Fair
We may not be able to spend our summer vacation with Jennifer Lawrence like Amy Schumer did. But this December, we are getting something just as good: Lawrence’s latest collaboration with David O. Russell, Joy, which bows in theaters on Christmas.
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This Graphic Video of a Live Whale Shark Being Sawed Apart Is Pissing People Off | VICE News
A video of two fishermen on China’s southern coast sawing through a live whale shark has elicited outrage among some in the nation, where a growing movement to recognize — and legislate — animal welfare is confronting a tradition of indifference tow…
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Pakistan sentences convicts to die over Peshawar attack – Al Jazeera English
Pakistani military courts have sentenced seven people to death over attacks including an assault on a Peshawar school that killed 150 people, most of whom were children, the Pakistani army says. Another man was sentenced to life in prison, according…
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Outgoing US Army Chief Urges Boots on the Ground In Islamic State Fight | VICE News
The outgoing US Army chief of staff has said that the United States should increase efforts to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), and that putting military forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria might be the only way to do so.
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Samsung reveals the Galaxy Note 5 and a very odd keyboard
Samsung revealed a pair of new smartphones today at the company’s Unpacked event in New York City, along with a peculiar accessory that will turn the newest Galaxy Note into a massive Blackberry-alike.
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Ferguson’s interim police chief suspended three times in the past | US news | The Guardian
The interim Ferguson police chief appointed to try to repair shattered community relations amid racial unrest has a series of suspensions on his police record and a past protection order against him following an allegation that he hit a woman in the…
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Colorado Court Rules Against Anti-Gay Baker | ThinkProgress
The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled 3-0 against Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. The ruling affirms a 2013 decision from an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) against the baker.
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The Noise Around You Could Strengthen Your Passwords | WIRED
Last year after nude photos apparently stolen from various celebrities’ iCloud accounts began circulating on Reddit, Apple responded by telling people to enable a feature called “two-factor authentication.” The idea is simple.
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Great Figures of the Paleolithic – The New Yorker
Throughout the Upper Paleolithic era, between about ten thousand and fifty thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers across a broad swath of Eurasia—from the Pyrenees to Siberia—carved small objects out of stone, mammoth ivory, clay, and bone that repres…
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Gregg Allman Previews Peach Fest, Talks Allmans Reunion | Rolling Stone
The Allman Brothers-curated Peach Festival returns for its fourth season of jammy vibes, screaming fiddles and drum circles this weekend, but, according to Gregg Allman, don’t expect this to be the moment where his band, who took their final ride to…
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At Least 60 Dead After ISIS Attack in Baghdad — NYMag
A bomb in a refrigerated truck that went off in a busy market in Baghdad on Thursday morning has left at least 60 people dead and at least 100 more injured — the highest death toll Iraq’s capital has seen in two years. ISIS claimed responsibility fo…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: Will New Villain Kylo Ren Be As Cool as Darth Vader? – The Atlantic
At the movies and on TV these days, sci-fi and fantasy stories are easy to come by. Awesome villains, for some reason, are not.
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its all fun and games till a crazy billionaire becomes a liable candidate for presidency – Imgur
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Chelsea Physio Eva Carneiro demoted for doing her job – Imgur
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What China’s Huge Tianjin Explosion Looked Like From Space | WIRED
This morning, the three astronauts aboard the International Space Station pulled a Sandra Bullock. Well, not quite—they weren’t captured outside their craft, pummeled by debris, and sent adrift into space with only their wits and a dwindling oxygen …
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Miguel Cotto to fight Canelo Alvarez on 21 November in Las Vegas | Sport | The Guardian
The city of Las Vegas hosted the fight of the century in May. Now it will host the fight of the year.
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NBC just can’t quit Tina Fey, Parks And Rec’s Michael Schur · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Not long after loosing their last projects into the Netflix wilderness and burning them off in what was euphemistically referred to as an “event,” NBC has decided that it can’t live without 30 Rock creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and Parks And …
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Show Me a Hero HBO Review | Vanity Fair
When asked to describe The Wire, journalist-turned-TV writer David Simon’s five-season meditation on crime and consequence in Baltimore, people often reach for “Dickensian,” because the series was a dense thicket of narratives and characters, tragic…
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur May Be Marvel’s Most Adorable New Comic Ever
Marvel has just announced its most adorable-looking comic since Rocket Raccoon met Groot: Moon-Girl and Devil Dinosaur, a new series based on Jack Kirby’s cult-favorite 1978 comic Devil Dinosaur.
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Ecuador’s indigenous lead anti-government protests – Al Jazeera English
Demonstrators have taken to the streets across Ecuador to protest against President Rafael Correa’s constitutional amendments that would allow him to seek a fourth term in office.
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Is DC Comics’ new Starfire series getting the character all wrong?
The DC Comics character Starfire has long been a controversial figure. The latest version of the character in DC’s New 52 reboot turned her into one of the most blatantly objectified female superheroes in the DCU.
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Dolph Lundgren is starring in the Kindergarten Cop sequel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For a few months, we’ve known that a direct-to-video sequel to Kindergarten Cop is in the works, but it’s been a mystery which humungous actor would accept Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 25-year-old lesson plan for interrogating students and beating up the…
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Mashups grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s star-studded Western cabin romp The Hateful Eight dropped (because it was), and there’s already a cut of it synced to edited trailer audio from John Carp…
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Newly Discovered “Baby Jupiter” is the Lightest Planet Ever Imaged by Telescope
Behold the lightest planet ever imaged by a telescope: an extremely young, Jovian-like planet that’s twice the size of Jupiter. Astronomers detected it through visible light, which is an extraordinary feat for a planet of this nature.
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Why Finding the Original 1977 ‘Star Wars’ Verges on the Impossible | Inverse
It’s a scene etched into every Star Wars fan’s mind. The roguish anti-hero Han Solo sits alone at bare table in the Mos Eisley Cantina. An alien bounty hunter pulls up a chair to confront him.
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An adoptable bug-eyed blep. : Blep
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Yeast can now make opiates | The Verge
A strain of yeast engineered in a lab was able to transform sugar into a pain-killing drug — called hydrocodone — for the first time. And a second strain was able to produce thebaine, an opiate precursor that drug companies use to make oxycodone.
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WASHINGTON—Calling the late-night horror film host well-suited for the job “and then some,” Vice President Joe Biden offered Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, an entry-level position within the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, White House sources co…
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Police in Texas are investigating the murder of a transgender woman that ranks as the 13th in the US this year, a death toll that renders 2015 one of the most deadly, violent years for transgender people in recent times.
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Found! ‘Young Jupiter,’ the Smallest Exoplanet Directly Seen by Telescope
Astronomers have found the smallest planet outside this solar system yet to be directly photographed by a telescope on Earth, a methane-shrouded gas giant much like a young Jupiter.
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‘Young Jupiter’ 51 Eridani b: Why Directly Imaging an Exoplanet Is Big
An artistic rendering of the Jupiter-like exoplanet, 51 Eri b, seen in the near-infrared light that shows the hot layers deep in its atmosphere glowing through clouds.
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Fidel Castro Says U.s. Owes Cuba Millions | Al Jazeera America
In Cuba, the embargo is referred to as “the blockade,” considered a decades-old rallying cry against U.S. influence. First implemented in 1960 after the Castro-led government seized U.S.-owned oil refineries, it was strengthened over the next two ye…
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Viral video of dude watching porn in class is not what it seems
Talk about faking it. There’s a video making the rounds of a guy supposedly caught watching porn in class. He “forgot” to plug in his headphones, so the exaggerated moans of the performers can be heard echoing through the lecture hall.
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Exoplanet 51 Eridani b: A Red-Hot Young Jupiter Around Distant Star (Infographic)
Astronomers have directly photographed a planet not unlike Jupiter orbiting 51 Eridani, a sunlike star 96 light-years from Earth. The star is young, only 20 million years old (compared with the sun’s 4.6 billion years).
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Emirates Claims World’s Longest Commercial Flight | WIRED
Emirates will soon be the proud provider of the longest scheduled commercial flight in the world, with new service between Dubai and Panama City, Panama. The route, which will cover some 8,588 miles, beats out Qantas’ Sydney to Dallas route by just …
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Dell’s New Chromebook Might Be The Best One Yet | WIRED
Sonos makes objectively lovely speakers. But even the most compact, affordable, and unobtrusive model, the $199 Play:1, looks like what it is—a piece of consumer electronics. It comes in black or white with a metallic-gray grill, like just about eve…
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A job that offers free rent for six months in exchange for posting photos to Instagram and tweeting sounds like every cash-strapped millennial’s dream.
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Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy snap-on keyboard: #tbt just got real
We all knew the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ were coming, but the company surprised (and maybe confused) us all when it announced a snap-on keyboard for the latest models of the Galaxy S and Note phones.
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Don’t Try This at Home: Scientists Brew Opiates With Yeast | WIRED
We’ve got a poppy problem. The only way to make morphine, oxycodone, and other opiates is with the latex that oozes from opiate poppy seed pods. But if researchers and pharmaceutical companies have it their way, they’ll soon be making those commerci…
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Google And Dell Launch A Chromebook Built For The Workplace | TechCrunch
During an enterprisey event at Google SF today, the company announced a brand new Chromebook for enterprise, built by Dell. The Google for Work team has been tailoring all of Google’s consumer software products for enterprise use. That means securit…
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Astronomers Glimpse a Young Jupiter, 51 Eridani b – Scientific American
An artist’s rendition of the young Jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Eridani b. At only an estimated 20 million years old, the planet still glows with the remnant heat of its formation, and could help solve the mystery of how exactly gas giant planets form.
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Ed Helms: Where I Go | Vanity Fair
magazine.
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Student Loses Facebook Internship After Highlighting Dangers Of Location Tool | ThinkProgress
Third-year Harvard University student Aran Khanna had it made: secured an internship at Facebook, created a Chrome browser extension, and highlighted potential privacy concern lurking in his soon-to-be employer’s messaging system — the latter of whi…
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The GOP Candidate Who’s Willing To Stick Up For Undocumented Immigrants | ThinkProgress
Ohio Gov.
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Apple Music bugs for iOS and Mac just got fixed
Apple released updates to iOS and OS X today, bringing new software to your Mac and iPhone. Both are incremental updates, but fix a few annoying niggles. Apple Music gets all the attention in iOS 8.4.
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Sesame Street will begin airing on HBO this fall · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The next five seasons of Sesame Street will be brought to viewers by the letters H, B, and O—the “perfect TV show” will now air on the premium cable network that’s already home to such educational (in that there’s a historical setting) shows as Boar…
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Ever wanted to look like Iron Man combined with Batman, but lack the Bruce Wayne (or Tony Stark) budget to do so? Cinefix’s Homemade Movies has got you covered.
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Bradley Cooper cooks aggressively in the trailer for Burnt · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Blame it on Bourdain. Somewhere along the line, being a chef became the third-manliest profession out there, coming in just behind lumberjack and maybe construction worker. (Male strippers are too concerned with grooming.
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Adobe launches new tools to make video content shoppable
Adobe has launched Shoppable Video authoring and publishing tools as part of its Experience Manager. The new tools will allow consumers to click on the products shown in videos and purchase them, making it easier for marketers to make instant sales.
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Venus Express snaps swirling vortex js – Just Space
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The wine is made with grapes from Bordeaux. They are chilled and sent to Egypt for processing by the Al-Ahram Beverages Company. The flavour is certainly distinctive, complete with a lingering acidity that seems to stick to the back of the throat.
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Okilly Dokilly, a Ned Flanders tribute, metal band – Boing Boing
Talk about BRUTAL. Rip It Up tells the history of this awesome tribute band, and shares a link to some of their music!
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People page $20 to enter Rage Room and destroy things with a bat – Boing Boing
The Break Club and the Rage Room are good examples of life imitating art. The “Destruct Room” in Jack Kirby’s wonderfully weird comic book OMAC (1974) was a place where stressed-out people could act on urges to smash things.
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Jupiter-Like Exoplanet With Methane Atmosphere Found | Video
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Apple Releases iOS 8.4.1 Update With Various Apple Music Fixes | TechCrunch
Apple released an official iOS update (8.4.1) to users today, aiming to fix a number of bugs that have been plaguing those using Apple’s new music service.
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Facebook’s Parse Open-Sources All Of Its SDKs | TechCrunch
Parse, the backend platform for apps Facebook acquired back in 2013, today announced that it will open source all of its software development kits (SDKs).
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Music: “Sweep the Leg,” No More Kings (2007) – Boing Boing
“Sweep the leg, Johnny.” For those of you who remember, this is a fantastic treat.
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On World Elephant Day, a message of hope from Amboseli | Environment | The Guardian
It’s 7.30 am, on August 12th, World Elephant Day. I’m in Amboseli National Park and the sun is rising over the Savannah. I’m about to go out to the field and meet the American Ambassador Robert Godec, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Environment Jud…
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Milk prices, morality and market mechanisms | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
With the increasing numbers of pound shops, and our demand for a bargain, or cheap deals in supermarkets, it’s no surprise UK farmers are being forced to take such direct action (Report, 12 August).
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A state appeals court in Colorado ruled Thursday that a baker could not cite religious beliefs in refusing to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples.
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Simple physics and machine building via LEGO for my 8 year old – Boing Boing
Combining useful physics lessons, building cool machines, and LEGO is always win in my household. This book has my daughter back to building! LEGO Chain Reactions: Design and build amazing moving machines arrived as a gift the other day.
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The Victorian Hugos: 1894 Brings The First Great Female Mad Scientist In Literature
We’re now into the mid-1890s, and readers of science fiction at this time will be forgiven for thinking that they’re being rewarded for years of patience. The Age of the Storyteller, as Roger Lancelyn Green put it, has not yet reached science fictio…
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This is usually what happens when I write a piece for Open Culture: As I drink an overpriced coffee at my local coffee shop, I research a topic on the internet, write and edit an article on Microsoft Word and then copy and paste the whole thing into…
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Drones stress bears out | Fusion
Scientists and tech-savvy conservationists are starting to fly drones in woods and national parks to study and protect, respectively, animals in the wild.
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Zimbabwe bones may be held in UK museum – BBC News
The UK’s Natural History Museum has said it may hold Zimbabwean human remains in its collection. However, it could not confirm whether they were the “skulls of beheaded heroes” which President Robert Mugabe referred to earlier this week.
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday that Planned Parenthood concentrates its clinics in black neighborhoods as a “way to control that population.
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Rain could come to drought-stricken California this fall, as one of the strongest El Niño weather patterns in recorded history looks set to hit the state, the National Weather Service (NWS) said on Thursday.
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A new world record for the Longest Team Barbecue Marathon has been set by Andrew Battistelli and Susan Bulloch, after grilling for 34 hours and 35 minutes, along with celebrity chef and Food Network star Tyler Florence.
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FIFA: Managers have no right to dictate to doctors – Al Jazeera English
Managers had no right to tell their medical staff whether or not they should go on the pitch to treat a player, according to football’s world governing body FIFA.
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Top-Secret X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 3 Months in Orbit
The United States Air Force’s X-37B space plane has now been in orbit for nearly three months on its fourth mystery mission.
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Watch Thundercat, Flying Lotus Reunite on ‘Why? With Hannibal Buress’ | Rolling Stone
“Please welcome one of the baddest DJs in the land,” the host enthusiastically exclaimed while welcoming the bassist to the stage. He then launched into his smooth, funky single off his mini-album The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam.
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Hear Duran Duran’s Melancholic New Song, ‘You Kill Me With Silence’ | Rolling Stone
Duran Duran have unveiled another new song (via Daily Beast) from their upcoming 14th studio album, Paper Gods. Titled “You Kill Me With Silence,” the slow-burning, synth-led track finds singer Simon Le Bon attempting to break free of the emotional …
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See Reba McEntire’s Sizzling ‘Until They Don’t Love You’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
Reba McEntire pulled double duty on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night, performing her latest single and also teaming up with Fallon to make an audience member squirm by getting a little too up-close and personal.
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Sean Lennon on His New ‘Fictional Band,’ the Moonlandingz | Rolling Stone
Sean Lennon was astounded when he saw psychedelic punks Fat White Family for the first time at a South by Southwest party last year. “They’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen,” he says. “We became really good friends.”
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NEW YORK—Expressing concerns over dwindling resources and the preservation of the environment for future generations, an adult male American cockroach was reportedly worried Thursday about what kind of kitchen cupboard he was leaving to his children.
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We used your caffeine addiction to explain our bad consumption habits | Grist
Stop whatever you’re doing — right now — because today is Earth Overshoot Day! Congratulations, citizen of the Earth: You’ve used all the resources that you were allotted for the year.
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Is Uber bad for the environment in NYC? | Grist
Are cab-hailing apps good for the environment? That might depend a lot on where you live. Some urbanists, yours truly included, have argued that apps like Uber, Sidecar, and Lyft are great from a green perspective.
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Monsanto’s coming up with an alternative to GMOs | Grist
Sharpen your talons, Monsanto haters. Everyone’s favorite biotech company is cooking up a new GMO alternative, and it’s just begging to be crucified. The new technology, called BioDirect, is a kind of temporary, spray-on defense mechanism for plants.
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Two toed sloth at the Toronto zoo. First time I’ve ever seen him move. : sloths
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BINGHAMTON, NY—Saying it seemed like a perfectly fine way to bide her time, recent SUNY Binghamton graduate Brenna Novich told reporters Thursday that she might as well do some good in the world until the economy picked up.
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Nightmare video: cable snaps on slingshot amusement park ride – Boing Boing
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New Jersey teenager shot seven times by police was unarmed, lawyer says | US news | The Guardian
A New Jersey teenager remains in stable condition after being shot seven times by police as he ran away from officers. The 14-year-old, Radazz Hearns, was unarmed, according to a lawyer representing the family.
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The Pentagon is blocking the return of UK permanent resident Shaker Aamer and two other longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees for whom the US Department of State has completed diplomatic deals to transfer home, the Guardian has learned.
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Tesla Will Raise $500M In A Public Offering With Participation From Musk | TechCrunch
In a prospectus filed today by the company, Tesla announced the intention to sell up to 2,100,000 shares of common stock. Underwriters will also receive a 30-day option to purchase up to 315,000 additional shares. Using yesterday’s closing price of …
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Andy Murray v Gilles Müller: Rogers Cup – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Andy Murray is looking for a good run as the US Open approaches. Photograph: Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
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Ex-boyfriend violates restraining order by “liking” Facebook posts
As one Pennsylvania man recently discovered, “liking” your ex-girlfriend’s photos and videos on Facebook is a bad idea — especially when that ex-girlfriend has a restraining order against you.
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Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker now selling potato soup buckets on TV – Boing Boing
Jim Bakker, the smarmy, sex-scandal embroiled, 1980s TV evangelist fraudster and ex-con who fleeced his followers for decades with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker, has a new gig: selling plastic pails he calls “creamy potato soup bulk buckets” for $…
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Three More Women Come Forward to Accuse Bill Cosby of Sexual Assault | Vanity Fair
Three more women have stepped forward with claims that they were sexually assaulted by famed comedian Bill Cosby. The three women, all represented by celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, said in a press conference on Thursday that they had been targeted …
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Now Star Wars News Is Coming From The Makeup Counter
Star Wars is obviously going to everywhere in the coming months as we gear up for The Force Awakens, but some of its promotional partners are more surprising than others. Take, for example, CoverGirl, who is not only doing a limited edition makeup l…
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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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Donald Trump’s secret web addresses – Business Insider
If so, would you be interested in purchasing the website DonaldTrumpSucks.com? Well, you are (probably) out of luck. Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, already owns DonaldTrumpSucks.com, along with thousands of other web addresses.
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People Underestimate Their Creative Potential — Science of Us
They say Thomas Edison tested more than 1,600 different materials before he figured out a way to design his electric lightbulb, a reminder that “lightbulb moments” are not usually the sudden flashes of insight we believe them to be.
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Penn and Teller perform “ball and cup” trick with clear cups. : woahdude
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A team of researchers successfully teach a father how to express his own emotions.
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The Cost Of A Month’s Rent Hits New Record High | ThinkProgress
It’s the worst time in 36 years to be a renter in America. The median rent nationwide now takes up 30.2 percent of the median American’s income, the highest cost burden recorded by Zillow since the real estate firm began tracking the figure in 1979.
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Kentucky clerk defies federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses | US news | The Guardian
A clerk’s office turned away gay couples who sought marriage licenses on Thursday, defying a federal judge’s order that said deeply held Christian beliefs don’t excuse officials from following the law.
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Facebook rescinds internship from student who exposed app privacy flaws | Technology | The Guardian
A Harvard University student says he lost his internship at Facebook after he launched a browser application from his dorm room that exploited privacy flaws on the company’s mobile messenger.
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Inside the Brains of Happily Married Couples — Science of Us
Facebook icon Have you ever waited with excitement to share some amazingly good news with your partner, only to experience a surge of frustration and resentment
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America’s Next Best Weather Satellite? Japan Already Has It | WIRED
This week, a super typhoon named Soudelor marched massively, ominously across the western Pacific before stomping over Taiwan and stumbling into coastal China. The loop above lets you see it the day after it left the island of Saipan and her 45,000 …
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Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Preview – CNET
So long, faux-leather backing. Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 5 is all slim, shiny, large-screened luster, with a redesigned stylus to match. It’s eye-catching alright, but there isn’t terribly much that’s new.
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Forrest gets caught in a bidding war in this clip from Review · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
In this clip from Review, the stakes get raised as Forrest must outbid the competition to meet his goal. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker trade parody for 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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Sufjan Stevens takes 25 minutes to bare his “Impossible Soul” · 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.
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Connecticut’s highest court ruled on Thursday that the state’s death penalty law was unconstitutional, blocking the state from executing the 11 inmates who are currently on death row.
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You are what you eat, and so were your ancient ancestors. But figuring out what they actually dined on has been no easy task. There are no Pleistocene cookbooks to consult.
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ISTANBUL — Turkey’s two largest political parties ended talks on Thursday without agreeing to form a coalition government, setting the stage for a likely new election and threatening further political instability.
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Three years ago, Photographer Christian Carollo came upon his grandfather’s travel photography from across the United States. The initial spark for the “Past and Present” Project started with a particular image of the small coastal town of Wincheste…
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Soylent Tastes Better Without the Utopian Rhetoric | The New Republic
Soylent—a pale, powdery drink that is meant to satisfy all of a person’s nutritional needs—is perhaps the perfect symbol of the Silicon Valley mentality: efficient, soulless, and naïve.
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Wettest and driest months of the year [2200 x 1700] [OC] : MapPorn
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7 Reasons Horror Movie Sequels Can Only Get Less and Less Scary
People go to horror movie sequels for many reasons—genuine interest, idle curiosity, tradition, blind optimism—but they almost never go to be scared. Horror movie sequels don’t just negate the point of the previous movie, the negate the point of the…
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Artist combines celebrity faces – Boing Boing
Norwegian illustrator ThatNordicGuy mixes celebrities faces together to create alternate universe stars. Above, Angelina Fox. Below, Nikolaj Coster-Dinklage.
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‘Best Meteor Shower in Years’: Perseids Put on a Spectacular Show
Photographer Ruslan Merzlyakov captured this spectacular photograph of the Perseid meteor shower filling the Danish sky in the early morning of Aug. 13. “I have been outside for about 3 hours, and the results are bloody fantastic!” he said.
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If Congress Votes ‘No’: What a Better Iran Deal Might Look Like – The Atlantic
So, what will you do? Some of your colleagues have floated the idea of a “conditional yes” as an alternative to “approve” and “disapprove.” They, like you, recognize that the agreement has some significant advantages but are deeply troubled by its r…
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Review: iHome Control SmartPlug offers HomeKit functionality and cloud-based control
Those who’ve been on iOS long enough to remember the days before Bluetooth speakers likely had an iHome dock. The company is back, but bedside sound systems aren’t the goal this time. Kicking off its new iHome Control lineup with the SmartPlug, iHom…
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Legally, this case has a few interesting aspects. First, the Court of Appeals takes up a somewhat-common free-speech argument, that cake baking is a form of art, and thus a form of free speech. Not so much, the Court said.
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Yahoo’s silent video messaging app rolls out globally
Yahoo debuted its silent video messaging app called Livetext last month in Canada, France, Germany, the US and UK. As of today, Yahoo is taking things up a notch as it rolls out globally.
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‘Sesame Street’: Now on HBO with more Muppets
‘Sesame Street’ is not ditching the home that has nurtured it for so many years. Instead, it’s now got a second one to get comfy in. While it’s remaining on PBS, it’ll now be screened on HBO and available on HBO Go, HBO On Demand and HBO Now.
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‘Lord of the Rings’ city: Crowdfunding campaign for Minas | Fusion
A group of architects and structural engineers in England are trying to raise £1.85 billion (that’s $2,884,973,250) to build “.
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White Bengal Tiger At Franklin Park Zoo : AnimalPorn
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The long legacy of a short life
The Rosses were expecting twins but learned that one of the two, Thomas, wouldn’t live much past birth. They decided to donate Thomas’s body to science. And then, they decided to investigate just what it was they had given and how it had helped othe…
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Today I was awarded this medal for services to counter piracy in Somalia. – Imgur
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Unpaid Tent-Dwelling UN Intern Resigns — NYMag
Earlier this week, Switzerland’s Tribune de Geneve introduced us to perhaps the world’s saddest unpaid intern: David Hyde. Hyde, a 22-year-old New Zealander with a degree in international relations, has spent the last couple weeks living in a little…
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GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson is struggling to explain what makes Planned Parenthood’s facilitation of fetal tissue donation different than his own brain research, which has also relied on samples from aborted fetuses.
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The 51-Year Old Mom Sexting a Married Man — The Cut
New York’s Sex Diaries series asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives — with comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing results. This summer, the Sex Diaries will appear on the Cut as a special edition. Check back weekl…
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‘Sesame Street’ leaves PBS for HBO so it can produce more original content
Sesame Street, the children’s show that has been a mainstay of PBS’ educational programming for decades, will premiere its next five seasons on HBO and the premium cable service’s digital platforms instead of the public-broadcasting network that it …
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How a post about magic mushrooms got Reddit blacklisted in Russia
“Will I remove this post? No. I also think that Reddit administration needs to do nothing. This is important issue on freedom of speech,” the user, who goes by Anton Nesterov IRL, declared Wednesday.
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CT SC Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional — NYMag
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the 11 inmates still on death row in the state cannot be executed.
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On this day in August 2015, humans have used an entire year’s worth of the Earth’s natural resources, according to the Global Footprint Network (GFN).
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DNA evidence clears Pennsylvania man’s murder conviction after 34 years | US news | The Guardian
A Pennsylvania judge is vacating the murder conviction of a man who has been in prison for 34 years in the shooting death of a 15-year-old, citing new DNA evidence. The Innocence Project says a senior visiting judge issued the order Thursday in Indi…
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Bob Greenblatt says NBC is looking for a Xena reboot writer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Lucy Lawless: Warrior Princess wanted a Xena: Warrior Princess reboot, and then she maybe didn’t, but too bad! According to The Hollywood Reporter, a reboot project is already in the works.
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Samsung Breaks Out a Keyboard Case for its New Phones | WIRED
Miss the days of hitting actual keys and buttons on your phone, tap-tap-tap away and feeling the give of a physical keyboard? Well Samsung thought you might and is showing off a new keyboard case that can be fitted to its new Galaxy Note 5 and Galax…
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Stephen Colbert, Hugh Jackman to Host 2015 Global Citizen Festival | Rolling Stone
Stephen Colbert and Hugh Jackman have announced that they will co-host the 2015 Global Citizen Festival, to take place on the Great Lawn of New York City’s Central Park on September 26th.
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Diary of an unknown soldier from WWI illustrated by a contemporary cartoonist – Boing Boing
Imagine walking down a street in Paris one morning, stumbling upon a rubbish heap, plucking out a cardboard box from the debris, and finding pages of song lyrics, a war medal and a diary written 100 years ago inside the box.
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Watch Jason Isbell Swagger Through ’24 Frames’ on ‘Conan’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Jason Isbell Swagger Through ’24 Frames’ on ‘Conan’ Isbell and the 400 Unit play a standout track from the singer-songwriter’s Number One album ‘Something More Than Free’
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Can Jimmie Ward Save the San Francisco 49ers? | Rolling Stone
Last year, Jimmie Ward was taken 30th overall by the San Francisco 49ers, the second highest a player from Northern Illinois University had ever gone in the draft (behind only the immortal Larry English).
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Hear Sean Price Shine on Late Rapper’s ‘Planet Apes’ | Rolling Stone
The hip-hop community was rocked August 8th by the sudden passing of rapper Sean Price, who died in his native Brooklyn at the age of 43. At the time of his death, the Boot Camp Clik rapper also known as Ruck was putting the finishing touches on a n…
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Why Corporations Would Love a ‘Territorial’ Tax – And You Shouldn’t
At 35 percent, the U.S. corporate income tax is technically among the highest in the world. In practice, corporations pay a small fraction of that, and some pay no taxes at all. Corporations will do everything under the law to reduce their tax bill,…
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CINCINNATI—Complaining that his teammates had taken their rookie hazing rituals too far, Bengals first-year linebacker Adam Rothwell revealed to reporters Thursday that he was recently forced to pay for the rest of his team’s child support.
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The Fruits of Mexico’s Cheap Labor | VICE News
In northern Mexico, farm workers who pick produce bound for US supermarkets earn as little as $7 a day. They follow the harvest, traveling between the states of Sinaloa and Baja California as internal migrants in their own country.
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This Is How Much America Is Willing to Pay to Have Little Designs Drawn into their Coffee
Hey, that’s a nice-looking picture you just drew in my latte there, barista! But what fair price could there be for something so priceless? But wait! This isn’t some communist dystopia where every dreary, corporate-mandated piece of coffee-art is ju…
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Human traffickers arrested in Thailand crackdown – Al Jazeera English
Twenty-two people who have profited from human trafficking have been arrested in Thailand as part of an ongoing crackdown, local police have said.
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Colorado Mine Spill Aftermath: How to Clean a River – Scientific American
On Aug. 5, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers inadvertently breached a wall of loose debris that was holding back a pool of mustard-hued wastewater from the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado.
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Say hi-diddily-ho to a Ned Flanders-themed metal band · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite Ned Flanders’ religious benevolence and gentle demeanor, he tends to inspire quite a bit of musical hate. With an assist from David Byrne, Homer Simpson expressed frustration toward his neighbor with the castigation “Everybody Hates Ned Flan…
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Here’s an exclusive Daytrotter session from Texas icon Dale Watson
No buzzworthy millennials this week. Not into mystery indie musicians who hide behind deft Tumblr curating, Instagram filters, and lonely SoundCloud islands. Instead, we’ll lean out and use this safe Daytrotter space to tip our ball caps at the hard…
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Fidel Castro has marked his 89th birthday with a newspaper column repeating assertions that the US owes socialist Cuba “numerous millions of dollars” for damages caused by its decades-long embargo.
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Peru returns bodies of victims of 20-year war – Al Jazeera English
After years of investigation, the remains of some victims from the 20-year conflict between Peru’s army and the Shining Path rebel group are finally being returned to their families. The war was launched in 1980, with both sides carrying out brutal …
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Republicans have chosen wrong billionaire in Trump – Al Jazeera English
It is never easy to admit this but I just have to: I was wrong. I recently wrote a blog where I went to great lengths trying to not write the name Trump, as in Donald Trump. I assumed the reason he was ahead was because of name recognition. He did h…
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Speak & Spell Robot or Human Voice? – The Atlantic
Old Havana, the historic district of Cuba’s capital, was founded by Spanish colonists in 1519.
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Bernie Sanders gets the Curb Your Enthusiasm treatment · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Over the weekend, Black Lives Matter activists interrupted Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders at a town hall meeting.
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What if your school’s final exam forced you to kill your friends? A group of students at the Victor Von Doom Institute For Gifted Youths is faced with this question in Marvel’s Runaways miniseries, and, as the title promises, they decide to make a b…
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NASA’s View of the Perseid Meteor Shower – The Atlantic
Old Havana, the historic district of Cuba’s capital, was founded by Spanish colonists in 1519.
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Federal judge orders Kentucky clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
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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Sesame Street Is Now an HBO Show | Vanity Fair
Bert and Ernie are about to move in next door to Tony Soprano and Jaime Lannister. The New York Times reports that the Sesame Workshop and HBO have struck a deal that will bring new episodes of Sesame Street to the premium-cable network.
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Ann Coulter Is a Human Being | Broadly
In a corner booth at a popular Los Angeles Mexican restaurant called El Coyote, Ann Coulter and her friends are celebrating the completion of the professional conservative’s latest book,¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Thir…
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Matt Kenyon: How I snuck a memorial for Iraqi civilians into the US government | TED Talk | TED.com
It’s estimated that 150,000 to 1 million Iraqi civilians died as a result of the US-led invasion in 2003. Artist Matt Kenyon wanted to create a monument for them. But rather than build a large stone pillar, he made his monument small in size and eas…
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The Sin of Man game mockup #2 by Noah Bradley : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Friendship : trippinthroughtime
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In the weeks before Senator Chuck Schumer’s decision to oppose the Iran nuclear accord, John Shapiro, a New York financier and a leader of the American Jewish Committee, had his ear, plying him with reasons to oppose it. Mr.
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This game is a classic one for many psychologists, game theorists and behavioral economists because it highlights the trouble that most people have in thinking more than one or two steps ahead.
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SAN DIEGO — Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify po
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New York City Hospitals to End Filming Without Consent – ProPublica
Bruised by criticism after a reality TV show surreptitiously recorded and aired a man’s death, New York City hospitals will no longer allow patients to be filmed without getting prior consent.
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The design story of NASA’s “worm” logo, sadly retired – Boing Boing
Over at Display, Graphic designer Richard Danne tells the story of the fantastic “worm” logo he and partner Bruce Blackburn created for NASA in 1974. It was used for almost twenty years until the NASA administrator Dan Goldin unfortunately reinstate…
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Police Improperly Medicated Cleveland Woman Who Died In Prison | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
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Novak Djokovic v Jack Sock: Rogers Cup – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Novak Djokovic has lost just three singles matches in 2015. Photograph: Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
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Google starts letting people edit its maps again
In May, Google closed the service, which let anyone add location data to Google Maps, following the discovery of a user-added Android illustration depicted peeing on an Apple logo.
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Comet and Rosetta Spacecraft Make Closest Approach to the Sun – Scientific American
After more than a year in orbit around a comet, the European Rosetta spacecraft and its icy dance partner are hitting a huge milestone: their closest approach to the sun By and SPACE.
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Group Commerce Startup Massdrop Raises $40M | TechCrunch
Massdrop is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The company focuses on what it calls “community-driven commerce.
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Fallout Shelter is finally available for Android
Fans on Android devices who’ve been dying to experience the mobile version of the post-apocalyptic Fallout universe should get their radiation suits ready.
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Ants Are Really Good at Sniffing Out Enemies—Literally | WIRED
Caption: This spider is–how shall I say it–in a good amount of trouble. Keizo TAKASUKA Wasps can be a rather … mean-spirited bunch, particularly when it comes to raising their offspring.
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All the New Craziness We Spotted in Doctor Who’s Latest Trailer
Yesterday, the BBC unveiled a brand new look at the upcoming season of Doctor Who, and even though it’s only a minute long, it’s packed with a ton of new, delicious details to pore over. Let’s uncover them and delve into a bit of wild speculation, s…
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‘You Have Issued a Death Sentence’: Azerbaijan Activists Condemned to Years in Prison | VICE News
Azerbaijani human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus have been sentenced to eight-and-a-half and seven years in prison respectively, after spending a year detained without trial.
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Booming market for rare and vintage console video games – Boing Boing
CNN Money investigates the crazed market for the vidgames of yore, fueled by the likes RetroLiberty, a YouTube channel about the hunt for vintage video games at swap meets or parking lot deals, and Videogamesnewyork, a shop specializing in vintage g…
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EPA Chief in New Mexico | Al Jazeera America
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is visiting Farmington, New Mexico, to see how officials are dealing with the fallout from the Colorado mine waste spill that traveled downstream on the Animas and San Juan Rivers.
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Can Plants Help Slow Soil Erosion? – Scientific American
Soil is a surprisingly valuable resource. But it doesn’t always stick around. Learn how a few plants can help save it from being washed away by water. Introduction Perhaps you try to save water. Maybe you already reduce, reuse and recycle.
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Connecticut supreme court overturns death penalty | World news | The Guardian
Connecticut’s highest court has overturns the death penalty in the state, calling it unconstitutional. It is unclear what will happen to the 11 men currently on the state’s death row. In 2012, Connecticut passed a law to repeal the death penalty, bu…
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Yuck! This app lets you anonymously harass contacts
I’ve been writing a lot recently about the disconnection between the predominantly male, predominantly white ‘thinkers’ of the tech orthodoxy and vast swathes of humanity. And lo and behold, Product Hunt puked up a perfect example of the division.
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What Does It Mean To Die Of Natural Causes? | FiveThirtyEight
I’m curious about the term “died of natural causes” and what ailments/events actually make that term up. It’s not just that one day people die because they’re old, but rather the kidneys or liver go out, or something else. You’re right.
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Why do we take our anger out on machines? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
We usually hit machines because we’re mad at them. Unlike a child or a friend or a spouse, machines exist for the sole purpose of doing what we tell them to do, and we are infuriated when they fail to do it.
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On the Hunt for America’s Last Great Treasure | Outside Online
Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hid it somewhere north of Santa Fe. If one man is going to find it, by god, it’s an ex-cop from Seattle named Darrell Seyler.
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Donald Trump’s deviant Republicanism: Trumpismo and its limits | The Economist
DONALD TRUMP’S raucous performance in the first debate between the leading GOP presidential aspirants has not hurt his national poll numbers. Nor has his abhorrent comment about Megyn Kelly, a hard-charging Fox News presenter. Not yet, at least.
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This Church uses an old propeller as a cross : mildlyinteresting
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Tianjin, China Explosion From Different Sources Synced Up : interestingasfuck
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Blue Oyster Cult – In Thee (Live at UC Berkeley) – YouTube
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Blue get it : firstworldanarchists
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My username is often misunderstood by a certain type of redditor. : TrollXChromosomes
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Woman Identified as 13th Trans Homicide in 2015 | Al Jazeera America
Her body was so severely decomposed when it turned up in a vacant field along Riverside Boulevard in Dallas that area police had difficulty identifying murder victim Shade Schuler, or even determining her race.
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Tinder Cofounder Sean Rad Back In As CEO | TechCrunch
Last night it was revealed that Sean Rad, cofounder and President of Tinder, would return to the CEO position he once held and, in March, handed over to Ebay exec Chris Payne.
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President Trump Will Use The ‘Greatest Minds’ — NYMag
On Wednesday night, the second part of Donald Trump’s Fox News interview aired. Sean Hannity asked the presidential candidate who he might pick to serve in his cabinet. Trump didn’t want to “use names,” but proceeded to list a few. “I could say a Ja…
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Here’s What Iranians Hope and Fear About the Future of Western Sanctions | VICE News
The staff at the Dr. Sapir Hospital in Tehran know well the impact of Western sanctions on Iran. The 70-year-old charity hospital was founded by Iranian Jews but now mostly serves Muslims in a poor and working class neighborhood of the city.
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Funny or Die’s Planned Parenthood sketch is on-point
Earlier this month, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked her fellow United States senators, “Do you have any idea what year it is?” just before their vote on a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Yelp gets a zero-star review in new documentary · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what must come as welcome news to the dentist who shot Cecil the lion, embattled rival Angie’s List, and rude waitstaff everywhere, a new documentary is alleging that crowdsourcing-review site Yelp engages in mafia-like practices.
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“Pledge Week” · Difficult People · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There are certain aspects of “Devil’s Three-way” that don’t work, so it’s a convenient coincidence that it is paired with “Pledge Week” for this review; in juxtaposition, it’s clear that in several instances, the third episode of Difficult People ge…
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Dropbox boosts security cred with new USB login key
The cloud-hosting company announced on its blog Wednesday that users can now log in with a hardware security key, giving users a new way to set up the much-touted “two-factor authentication” that security experts say is essentially for modern Web se…
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Photos of the Aftermath of the Massive Explosion in Tianjin, China – The Atlantic
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Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri pledges allegiance to Taliban head – Al Jazeera English
The leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansoor, whose appointment has caused divisions within the Taliban.
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Gallup: America really hates Congress
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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Investigators Can Get Your DNA From the Guts of Maggots That Have Fed On You
Some crime scenes don’t have bodies. What they have is a place where a body was, and a suspiciously large amount of maggots. Up until recently, the maggots could only have been a very bad sign. Now, it seems that maggots can help genetically identif…
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China’s Yuan Drops For Third Straight Day – The Atlantic
But other observers paint a less rosy picture. In addition to acceding to International Monetary Fund-mandated targets for currency internationalization, a weaker yuan will make Chinese exports cheaper and more competitive in global markets.
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Hear Kip Moore’s Rule-Breakers Anthem ‘That’s Alright With Me’ | Rolling Stone
When a photo showed up on social media of Kip Moore holding what appeared to be joint, the “I’m to Blame” singer wasn’t mad at the fan who posted it — he was upset by the people who were asking him to take it down.
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Death Toll Rises From Blasts in Chinese Port City of Tianjin – The Atlantic
Old Havana, the historic district of Cuba’s capital, was founded by Spanish colonists in 1519.
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HBO in Preliminary Talks for ‘Deadwood’ Movie | Rolling Stone
Deadwood, the acclaimed HBO western series that was cancelled in 2006, may be returning — as a movie. Actor Garret Dillahunt, who played two characters on the show, including geologist Francis Wolcott, during its run from 2004 to 2006, posted two tw…
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Decoding the Genome of an Alien –Today’s Feature
What could the first intellgent species of an alien planet look like? Imagine a skeleton-less creature with three hearts, with most of its nearly half a billion neurons distributed in eight tentacular arms. Each arm can regenerate like the mythical …
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What a No Vote on the Iran Deal Would Mean
In the least plausible alternative version of my life, I would have stayed in the San Fernando Valley rather than leaving Los Angeles over 40 years ago and moving not long afterward to Jerusalem.
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The Risks of The Everyday – with Jared Diamond on Vimeo
Jared Diamond shares what he learnt about risk and everyday life from the tribes of Papua New Guinea. This was taken from a 2013 conversation, ‘The world until yesterday’. Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/ceLuaf7low4 Pullitzer Prize-…
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All supermarkets should do this. – Imgur
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They’re old Friends via /r/pics http://t.co/5Wukiqfktq http://t.co/Bof1JCd9HG
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The perfect crime via /r/funny http://t.co/EPz6h58O6u http://t.co/kJRPcKZsV6
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The most shocking thing about the Republican debate last week – apart from the discovery that Ted Cruz is only 44 – was the way in which we were made to take Donald Trump seriously.
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Orlando City midfielder Kaká handed surprise recall by Brazil coach Dunga | Football | The Guardian
Orlando City midfielder Kaká was the surprise inclusion in Brazil’s squad for the September friendlies against Costa Rica and the United States. The 33-year-old former AC Milan and Real Madrid player was included after being left out of the squads f…
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The Galaxy S6 Edge+ Is Samsung’s Answer To The iPhone 6 Plus | TechCrunch
Today at a big press conference, Samsung announced two new flagship phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and its new sibling, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+. While a Note update was highly anticipated, the S6 Edge+ is a new beast.
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From gangsters to Mexico mural artists – Al Jazeera English
As part of a government-sponsored project that rehabilitates ex-convicts, former drug gang members, armed with paintbrushes, have turned an entire district in the city of Pachuca into the country’s largest mural.
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Jeb Bush shouted down by Black Lives Matter protesters – video | US news | The Guardian
Protesters interrupt a town hall gathering in Las Vegas on Wednesday hosted by Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, chanting ‘black lives matter’ as Bush wrapped up a Q&A session.
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How a Text Message Gets Sent So Quickly: Bell Lab Scientists Explain – The Atlantic
Bell Labs was originally created by Alexander Graham Bell in the late 19th century, then called the Volta Laboratory and Bureau. In this short film, which was created for Bell Labs by the production company Lonelyleap, its engineers explain how our …
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Meet The People Raising $4 Million To Preserve Hawaii’s Coast | ThinkProgress
HONOLULU, HAWAII — On an oppressively hot and humid Saturday, Ursula Retherford and Levani Lipton are out in the unrelenting sun handing out fliers.
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How to disable Windows 10 mandatory automatic updates
For the first time in its long history, Windows updates are now automatic and mandatory by default thanks to Windows 10, but they don’t necessarily have to stay that way.
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Man pits brands against each other, wins a year of free pizza
For some, greatness is destined. For others, it is earned—as in the case of a British man who played two phone companies against one another on Twitter to ultimately land a year-long supply of pizza. Dan May is the titan in question.
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DERRY, N.H. — Gov. John R.
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Arena of the Planeswalkers Board Game is Part Heroscape, Part Magic: the Gathering
As you stare at the box cover for Arena of the Planeswalkers (and Jace’s leering, vacant face), one question springs to mind: why does the world need a board game based on a card game? Is it for people who like Magic but want to play a game that isn…
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TIANJIN, China — This bustling port city a 90-minute drive from the Chinese capital awoke on Thursday to scenes of devastation — huge
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Artist and music producer Brian Eno wrote one of my very favorite books: A Year with Swollen Appendices, which takes the form of his personal diary of the year 1995 with essayistic chapters (the “swollen appendices”) on topics like “edge culture,” g…
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Colleges are inflating federally defined tuition cost to give athletes bigger sports scholarships.
Earlier this year, Nick Saban, head football coach at the University of Alabama, said he was concerned about the large discrepancies that existed between individual colleges’ full cost-of-attendance numbers.
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Grace Slick @ Woodstock – August 1969 : OldSchoolCool
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The wake on this lake. : oddlysatisfying
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Samsung launches the Galaxy Note 5
Samsung has lifted the lid on its new Galaxy Note 5 phablet device today at simultaneous press events in London and New York City. The device picks up where the other Note models left off and keeps the same 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display as p…
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US DOJ: It’s unconstitutional to prohibit the homeless from sleeping outside – Boing Boing
Banning the homeless from sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to sleep is unconstitutional, argues the United States Department of Justice in a statement of interest filed regarding a Boise, Idaho court case about an anti-camping ordinance.
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YouTuber lures teen girls via Facebook in viral ‘social experiment’
It’s “stranger danger” for the modern age. New viral video “The Dangers of Social Media” purports to show how easy it is for a pedophile to pick up an underage girl using social media.
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Samsung Pay comes to the US on September 28
Samsung Pay, the company’s answer to Apple Pay and… Android Pay, Google is coming to the US on September 28 and Korea on August 20. To pay using Samsung pay, it’s pretty much the same as Apple Pay: swipe up, scan your fingerprint and pay on the term…
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Rand Paul calls out Donald Trump over past pro-Democrat statements | US news | The Guardian
Rand Paul has implied his Republican rival Donald Trump is a closet Democrat – leading the businessman and party frontrunner to point out that he recently beat the Kentucky senator at golf.
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New edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with Dali artwork! – Boing Boing
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Photos: Perseid Meteor Shower Lights Up the Sky — NYMag
Outer space had a treat for planet Earth this week: The annual Perseid meteor shower transformed the skies into a brilliant light display. The meteor shower happens once per year when Earth moves through particles streaming off the Swift-Tuttle come…
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Samsung launches Galaxy S6 Edge+ with 5.7″ display
Samsung has revealed a new addition for its Galaxy range of smartphones today in the form of the Galaxy S6 Edge+. The device brings a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display, which keeps the same curves as the first S6 Edge.
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Senior Citizens Use Tinder for the First Time | Vanity Fair
Nancy Jo Sales’s article about hookup apps in V.F.’s September issue has created quite a stir. Those who are still curious about Tinder and other mobile dating services may enjoy this video from Skin Deep, a video-production company in New York.
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The letters of the day on “Sesame Street” are H, B and O.
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Just One Person Flunked Maine’s Expensive New Drug Test For Welfare | ThinkProgress
Maine began screening applicants to its welfare program in April, requiring those with past drug felony convictions to take a drug test. But despite spending $624 on the program, just one person has tested positive so far, the Associated Press repor…
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Turkey fails to form coalition government – Al Jazeera English
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s efforts to create a coalition alliance with the country’s pro-secular party have failed, pushing the country closer towards new elections. Davutoglu told reporters on Thursday that the two party leaders had n…
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Kentucky Refuses Same Sex Marriage Licenses | Al Jazeera America
A Kentucky clerk’s office turned away two gay couples seeking marriage licenses on Thursday, defying a federal judge’s order that dismissed her argument involving religious freedom.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. — A county clerk here is apparently defying a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Two same-sex couples seeking licenses left the Rowan County courthouse empty-handed Thursday morning.
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As the campaign for a $15 minimum wage has gained strength this year, even supporters of large minimum-wage increases have wondered how high the wage floor can rise before it reduces employment and hurts the economy.
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Why does fashion ignore big breasts? | Fashion | The Guardian
The average bra size in Britain is 36D. That’s not small – 36D is a lifetime of painful stair-running and unavoidable cleavage away from the aspirins-on-an-ironing-board chests many catwalk models have. But it’s not huge, either.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – Flooded Myanmar
Since mid-July, more than a million people have been severely affected by monsoon floods and landslides in Myanmar. What is the current situation?
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The Final File | The New Republic
Due to some flaw in my personality I love thinking about where my data goes after I fill out a form. Friends who work for giant banks describe projects that take years—endless regulatory documents, huge meetings, all to move a few on-screen pixels a…
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Antarctica Ice-Cube-Observatory Discovery –“Deepens a Cosmic Mystery”
Scientists have hoped that ultra-high-energy neutrinos could point to sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays—supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies or hypernova star explosions, for instance.
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Plummeting Oil Prices Might Be Good News for the Planet | The Nation
The plunge of global oil prices began in June 2014, when benchmark Brent crude was selling at $114 per barrel. It hit bottom at $46 this January, a near-collapse widely viewed as a major but temporary calamity for the energy industry.
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Stormy Seas in Sagittarius : This new NASA/ESA… – Just Space
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“WE LEARNED that the steps taken by President Obama to re-engage with Cuba have launched a bit of a global race […] to leave as little as possible for American business when the restrictions are lifted altogether.
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Arsenic and lost face | The Economist
“I AM absolutely deeply sorry this happened,” said the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, on August 11th.
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Midsummer murder | The Economist
AT THE corner in West Baltimore where a burnt-out pharmacy sits as evidence of riots, Tay Wizzle, a 26-year-old student, explains why he thinks the murder rate has spiked. “It’s a decrease in police presence,” he says. “The police don’t patrol like …
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Towering silliness | The Economist
ITS prospectus declares that One57 will redefine luxury New York living; its bland interiors are, apparently, the acme of Danish modernism. The best condominiums in the building are said to sell for $100m.
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Student debt in America now totals $1.2 trillion, up more than threefold over the past decade. On August 10th Hillary Clinton announced a $350 billion plan to reduce this sum.
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A tale of two cities | The Economist
EVER since Uber arrived in New York in 2011, the days of the city’s yellow taxis have seemed numbered. Catching a cab requires standing outside until one drives by, giving directions if necessary and rummaging for cash.
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Anger management | The Economist
AS A rule, supporters of the Republican Party tend to dislike losing elections to Democrats. Bear this in mind as opinion polls emerge, suggesting that Donald Trump may have peaked as a front-runner among Republican presidential hopefuls.
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Other people’s rules | The Economist
IN THE normal run of things, the location of an ageing e-mail server would not be headline news.
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The Archaeologist Who Studies ‘World of Warcraft’ | Motherboard
Archaeologist Andrew Reinhard has worked on digs excavations around the world, but his latest project requires no shovels, brushes or chisels. All he needs is a game controller. Reinhard is part of a renegade breed of self-styled “punk” archaeologis…
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The letters of the day on “Sesame Street” are H, B and O.
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Fox climbs up to first floor balcony for a cat nap : foxes
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“Spanish Fry” · Futurama · TV Review · The A.V. Club
In which Fry smells bad… All this time on Futurama, and I’m not sure the show has ever really gotten into what it would be like for humans to exist in a universe teeming with alien life.
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Samsung Has Two Big New Phones, and Even Bigger Ideas | WIRED
It’s tempting to think of Samsung as only the world’s greatest follower. It’s the company that overhauled its tablets in a matter of weeks after seeing the iPad 2, and the one whose flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S, looks suspiciously more like the…
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Boku Acquires Mobileview Italia In Further Carrier Billing Consolidation | TechCrunch
Boku, the U.S.-based company that enables consumers to pay for goods via their phone bill or phone credit, has made another land grab in Europe with the acquisition of Italy’s Mobileview Italia from parent company dtms. Terms of the deal remain undi…
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Samsung Touts Video Chops With Two More Big Screen Phones | TechCrunch
As expected (and amply leaked), Samsung has today whipped back the curtain on a pair of new flagship smartphones, announcing two new phablets: the Galaxy Note 5 (pictured above) and the Galaxy S6 Edge+ at press events in New York and London.
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Samsung Pay Won’t Kill the Wallet—It’ll Make It Smaller | WIRED
We’ve been trying to replace our wallets with our cellphones for almost as long as we’ve had cellphones.
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Samsung Launches Samsung Pay In The U.S. | TechCrunch
Today at Samsung’s Unpacked 2015 event, the company announced that its mobile payment feature, Samsung Pay, is launching in the U.S. in September. In many ways, Samsung Pay works like Apple Pay.
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The Sinister Submarine in World War I – Scientific American
August 1965 Infrared Astronomy “Researchers from the California Institute of Technology used the 100-inch reflecting telescope on Mount Wilson to make measurements of the carbon dioxide absorption bands in the photographic infrared radiation reflect…
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Martin Scorsese’s Love Letter to His Old Friend Giorgio Armani | Vanity Fair
Timeless elegance—two words that come to mind when I think of Giorgio Armani, my old friend, whom I love and admire. I look at Giorgio’s clothes, at his sense of balance and proportion, line and shape, color and texture, and I’m always astonished al…
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Video argues The Beatles’ LP covers tell the band’s story · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The internet just cannot stop eulogizing, analyzing, and generally fetishizing album covers.
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Air · Film Review · The A.V. Club
In Christian Cantamessa’s Air, the survivors of a global chemical war are left to hibernate in an underground vault, waiting for the day when the surface becomes livable again.
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Children aren’t morons, but we often treat them as such. If I asked you to imagine a typical kids’ film or TV show, I’m willing to bet you’d think of something sanitized, bland, and populated with talking merchandise tie-in opportunities.
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A Deadwood Movie Might Actually Happen This Time | Vanity Fair
Bullock and Star may ride again as HBO admits they’re in “preliminary conversations” about resurrecting Deadwood. One of the slimmer chapters in the Golden Age of Television, HBO’s western Deadwood is no less beloved by those who have seen it.
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Oolite is a modern version of Elite (without the Dangerous part) – Boing Boing
If you find Elite: Dangerous a too-contemporary spin on the space-trading theme, try Oolite, inspired directly by the original 8-bit masterpiece. [via]
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Kurdish fighters killed after attacks on Turkish troops – Al Jazeera English
Seven Kurdish fighters have been killed after they launched attacks on military outposts in eastern Turkey overnight, according to a statement by the Turkish armed forces.
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Rosario Dawson will fight Katherine Heigl in Unforgettable · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rosario Dawson has joined the cast of Unforgettable, an upcoming thriller co-starring Katherine Heigl. Dawson and Heigl will play the current and former wives of some guy, and Heigl will reportedly torment her ex…
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The complete 2016 voter’s guide to police, crime, and punishment
“The presidential campaign is a new space for criminal-justice reform,” says Holly Harris, executive director of the U.S. Justice Action Network.
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Simply Framed, The Online Custom Frame Shop, Expands Collection | TechCrunch
Simply Framed, the online shop that helps you get any artwork custom framed, is today announcing a host of new features to make the process much more simplified.
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Muslim Leaders Insist They Have A Religious Duty To Act On Climate Change | ThinkProgress
Prominent Muslim leaders are putting the final touches on a new statement on climate change, hoping to issue a sweeping call to protect the planet and insist that followers of Islam have a religious duty to help the environment.
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Watch Samsung’s Galaxy Note Press Event Live Right Here | TechCrunch
Samsung is holding a big press conference in New York at 11 AM EDT (8 AM PDT, 4 PM BST). The company is expected to announce two new flagship phones — the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the Samsung S6 Edge Plus. The S6 Edge Plus is a newcomer in Samsung’…
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Perseid from Wicklow, Ireland. [1600 x 1060] : ExposurePorn
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Queen – I Want It All (Official Video) – YouTube
Queen – I Want It All (Official Video) http://t.co/0gwQYzrwnt
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Google, Alphabet, and the Googlettes
Google announced earlier in the week that they were creating a new company, Alphabet, to house a collection of companies, including Google. What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.
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Kuang Si Falls, Laos [OC][3000×2000] : EarthPorn
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Nick Kyrgios Does Not Give a F–k | Rolling Stone
As if his haircut didn’t give it away, let’s just say Nick Kyrgios is running out of fucks to give.
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Watch James Corden, Craig Robinson Sing Sexy Public Domain Songs | Rolling Stone
The Late Late Show’s James Corden has found his late-night TV niche with his singing. For his latest sketch, Corden and guest Craig Robinson either slowed down or funked up a collection of classic public domain songs.
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Is Jeb Bush Right About Hillary Clinton and Iraq? – The New Yorker
Iraq is burning, and the zealots of the Islamic State are rampaging across the Middle East, beheading their captives and erasing borders. Is this Hillary Clinton’s fault?
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Studying Wild Animals for Human Health – The Atlantic
In 1920, a shipment of cattle on its way from India to Brazil made a pitstop at the port of Antwerp, where it deposited a surprise—and unwelcome—gift: rinderpest, a viral cattle disease with a death rate close to 100 percent.
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14 Things We Learned About ‘Straight Outta Compton’ | Rolling Stone
F. Gary Gray, the filmmaker behind new N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, also directed 1995’s Friday, as well as the videos for Dr. Dre and Ice Cube’s “Natural Born Killaz” and Cube’s “It Was a Good Day.” He grew up in South Central L.A., and has…
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Prolific Indie Singer Alex G Announces New Album, ‘Beach Music’ | Rolling Stone
Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alex Giannascoli — AKA Alex G — has announced his seventh full-length album, Beach Music. In advance of the October 9th release date, Giannascoli is previewing his new material with the moving new track “Bug.” Li…
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Onion Explains: The International State Of Women’s Rights – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
What is the path forward for women given the barriers to equality they face worldwide? The Onion explains women’s rights.
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ST. LOUIS—Based on the sheer power of the animals and their potential for extreme aggression, wildlife experts concluded Thursday that not climbing into the gorilla enclosure at the Saint Louis Zoo very likely saved 34-year-old local man Richard Ful…
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Blue Oyster Cult – In Thee (Live at UC Berkeley) – YouTube
Music video by Blue Oyster Cult performing In Thee. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment
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Blue Oyster Cult – In Thee (Live at UC Berkeley) – YouTube
Music video by Blue Oyster Cult performing In Thee. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment
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Rosetta’s big day in the Sun / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
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Sri Lanakn Samba Deer @ Horton Plains National Park | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Stride Health Expands Nationwide, Introduces Prescription Discounts For Freelancers | TechCrunch
Stride Health, a startup that aims to be the HR team for all independent working Americans, is introducing two new features today to help freelancers better manage their health insurance.
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Groundhog Predicts Endless Winter — NYMag
A groundhog in eastern Pennsylvania made an impromptu weather forecast on Monday after seeing nothing but shadows due to the tin can stuck on its head.
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Feds warn states that defunding Planned Parenthood could be breaking the law
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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The Tom Brady Courtroom Artist Has Apologized for Rendering Him Hideous | Vanity Fair
Tom Brady has not exactly had the finest summer.
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Inside Armani’s 40th Anniversary Bash with Leo, Sophia Loren, Tina Turner, and More | Vanity Fair
1/17Photograph by Tom Munro.+−zoom
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There is a Ned Flanders themed metal band called Okilly Dokilly – Imgur
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I shit you not, It’s the first Ned Flanders themed metal band.. – Imgur
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How to make a beautiful MoMA-inspired necklace out of paracord – Boing Boing
Josh and I recently spent some time perusing the MoMA gift shop and I came across this beauty (and similarly this). I thought to myself… I can do that! Or at least something along those lines. So here is my attempt:
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A Surge in Heat Wave “Danger Days” Is Imminent – Scientific American
Chances are you’ve never heard the phrase “danger day” when it comes to weather. That’s because they’re rare. You’ll want to get to know it, though, because climate change is about to make them a lot more common over the next 15 years.
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The United Nations Has A Rape Problem | ThinkProgress
Ten years after the establishment of a “comprehensive strategy” to eliminate sexual violence by United Nations’ Peacekeepers, reports of rape and sexual exploitation have continued to mar the voluntary forces who serve the international agency.
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Planned Parenthood videos are a ‘Trojan horse’, bioethicists say | US news | The Guardian
The anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress released a sixth video alleging that Planned Parenthood affiliates improperly handled fetal tissue samples, part of an ongoing series of videos used as ammunition to defund the healthcare organizat…
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At Least 50 Dead in Chinese Warehouse Explosion | Al Jazeera America
Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored.
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The Moral Case For Using Aborted Fetuses In Scientific Research | ThinkProgress
Over the past several weeks, Republicans lawmakers have seized on Planned Parenthood’s practice of facilitating fetal tissue donations — which abortion opponents have characterized as “selling aborted baby parts” — to push for defunding the national…
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Can the United States Cope With a Resurgence of Tropical Disease?
Having stamped out a number of tropical diseases—including malaria—decades ago, is the United States today complacent about a rising wave of infectious disease?
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Britain issues formal protest to Ecuadorian Government over its harboring of Julian Assange
The British Ambassador in Quito has said there will be a formal protest submitted to the Ecuadorian Government over its decision to harbor WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its embassy in London.
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When his new love interest shoots him down Forrest has to make the best of a bumpy ride as he tries to join the mile-high club. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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Amnesiac · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Amnesiac is small film, apparently by design.
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A Dutch criminal is bombing supermarkets, demanding Bitcoin ransoms
A peculiar case in the Netherlands was bought to light by local police today: a criminal has been repeatedly planting explosives at Jumbo, a supermarket chain, and won’t stop until they are paid a large amount of Bitcoin.
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Huge Blasts at Port in Northeast China Kill 50, Injure More than 700 – Scientific American
TIANJIN, China, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, off…
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Lago di Resia | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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A Juvenile King Getting Rid of a Pellet | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Since the July 24 announcement, Turkey has launched several waves of airstrikes against elements of a Kurdish separatist group known as the P.K.K., which is widely listed as a terrorist group.
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Tehran’s Nuclear Pact Debate Mirrors Washington’s | Al Jazeera America
The intensifying conservative-led campaign in Washington to sink the international agreement over Iran’s nuclear program is mirrored by a similar effort in Tehran — a fact not lost on President Barack Obama, who last week enraged the deal’s U.S.
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President Trump Would Have to Tweet Less: Finally, a Reason to Vote for Him! | Vanity Fair
Donald Trump, a man of money, admitted in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that, if elected president, he might have to dial back some of the tweeting. “Well, probably a little bit less, but I’ll tell you, it’s pretty amazing,” Trump said in…
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Fleksy Adds Deep-Linking To Its Keyboard App, Opening New Revenue Opportunities | TechCrunch
Fleksy, the popular third-party keyboard app for iOS and Android, has taken the next step to monetizing its service after it began enabling deep-linking to other apps.
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VICE Announces Inaugural Class of Knight-VICE Innovators | VICE News
The Knight-VICE Innovators Fund today announced the inaugural class of Knight-VICE Innovators. The fund, the result of a new collaboration announced in December 2014 between VICE Media, the John S. and James L.
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Bill Shorten will “axe” Tony Abbott’s emissions reduction fund if he wins next year’s federal election, gaining budget savings of up to $4.3bn over a decade.
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Even before her deft performance in the early evening Republican presidential debate last week, Carly Fiorina was being heralded as the candidate who could take on Hillary Clinton.
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Cape Watch: Yes, Fantastic Four 2 Is Still Going to Happen | WIRED
Once upon a time in Marvel comic book mythology, there was something called a No-Prize. No-Prizes were awarded to fans who not only pointed out a particular mistake in a story, but then came up with a plausible (or at least entertaining) explanation…
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Meet the Young Republicans Fighting Their Party on Gay Rights | Vanity Fair
Given the behavior of some of its current presidential candidates, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the Republican Party is a haven for backward-thinking homophobes.
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Anti-Gay Clerk Refuses To Obey Marriage Equality Court Order | ThinkProgress
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is required to process marriage licenses for all couples. Thursday morning, she violated that order by refusing to process a same-sex marriage license, suggesting she could soon be…
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The surprising freedom of standup comedy under Chinese censorship
China doesn’t exactly leap to mind when people think of standup comedy, but a group of comics in Shanghai aim to change that. Kung Fu Komedy (KFK), founded in 2009 by American Turner Sparks and an Australian named Andy Curtain, is mainland China’s …
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Nicotine-Chomping Bacteria Could Help Smokers Quit – Scientific American
Quitting smoking is tough—so tough that only about 5 percent of smokers who try to quit in a given year actually succeed. Medications can double those odds—which still leaves a high failure rate.
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The ultimate guide to ‘Game of Thrones’ tinfoil-hat theories
This article contains extensive spoilers for Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. What happens when you’ve finally reached the bottom of the seemingly endless well of Game of Thrones or A Song of Ice and Fire Internet theories?
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At a Wednesday press conference led by women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred, three more women came forward to publicly accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault. With their claims, the total list of alleged Cosby victims is now nearly 50 names long.
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David Oyelowo Is the First Black James Bond | Vanity Fair
Whether or not the endless rumors about Idris Elba taking over as James Bond ever come true, we really are, finally, getting a black Bond. Just not on-screen.
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Cartoon: Nate the Neocon Gets It, and You Don’t
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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As Miss Piggy once sagely advised: “Never eat more than you can lift.” The trouble is that we seem to buy food as though we intend to do just this and as a result a huge amount goes to waste. According to the UN, developed countries throw away aroun…
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A San Francisco Story : Longreads Blog
On a Saturday afternoon in February, a group of 15 men stood chatting on the back patio of the Eagle, a leather-themed gay bar on 12th Street in San Francisco.
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Losing kid at the mall : funny
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So Pleasing In Thy Sight : monkslookingatbeer
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NEWARK, DE—Citing evidence gained from observational studies of thousands of citizens nationwide, a report published Monday by the University of Delaware found that the average American feels comfortable in their own skin for only 6 percent of the d…
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Gawker Chelsea Manning Faces “Indefinite Solitary Confinement” for Possession of Expired Toothpaste | Gizmodo Why Do We Use a Dumbass Unit to Measure Explosions? | Jalopnik America’s Secret Airline Flies Non-Stop To Area 51 | Kotaku Game Mocks Pirat…
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Return One Day by Rae Liles : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Earth and it’s inhabitants [6000×4000] [OC] : EarthPorn
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How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past | The Nation
Since the Maidan uprising and the subsequent attacks on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territory by Russia and Russian-backed rebels, there has been intense debate on how to interpret not only Ukraine’s dramatic present, but also its complex and difficul…
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Latest forecast suggests ‘Godzilla El Niño’ may be coming to California – LA Times
The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once-in-a-generation storms this winter to drough…
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Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’? | The Nation
The New School was founded as a bastion of progressive thought a century ago, but it’s taking a decidedly old school approach to its students’ labor rights.
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20 iOS game development courses for $20, at TNW Deals
Making a great game takes a lot of development know-how. If you want to make the next mobile smash hit, the 20 for $20 iOS Game Developer Bundle provides 20 project courses to hone your skills on. These video courses are split into four genres, with…
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Watch the Most Pants-Wetting Moment From the Claustrophobic New Movie Air Right Now
Norman Reedus volunteers to test out a cryogenic suspension chamber—only to find out that it’s not just like going to sleep regularly—in this clip from the new movie Air. This is one of the most terrifying moments in this post-apocalyptic movie, and…
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Use Of ‘LOL’ On The Decline – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
According to a recent Facebook study, more users are eschewing the acronym “LOL” to convey amusement and opting for “haha” or various laughing emojis, with linguists speculating that “LOL” is less intuitive than its counterparts in the era of smartp…
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Report: One Guy Really Fucking Up 4-Way Frisbee Circle – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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MRW, as a gay guy, girls flirt with me at the bar for drinks. : reactiongifs
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FBI opened a file on George Carlin for telling “bad taste” Hoover jokes – Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “After George Carlin satirized FBI and J.
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Black Lives Matter Protesters Set Their Sights On Jeb Bush | ThinkProgress
On Wednesday night, Black Lives Matter protesters made good on their promise to keep the heat on presidential candidates, turning their sights on Jeb Bush (R). At a rally in North Las Vegas, Nevada, protesters called on Bush to speak out about racia…
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Tortoises opening doors – Boing Boing
The more I think about this, the more terrifying it gets. Here are more videos of tortoises opening doors. Previously: Tortoise solves Lament Configuration, summons adorable tortoise Cenobites.
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Bionic Bird: a cat-foolin’, smartphone-controlled ornithopter – Boing Boing
Kyosho’s $150 Bionic Bird is a smartphone-controlled ornithopter that is birdlike enough to fool a cat (or at least, the cat is pretending to be fooled).
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Silicon Havana? Young Cubans dream of a hi-tech era – Al Jazeera English
New York, United States – As United States and Cuba relations are improving, so too have Raul Perera’s prospects.
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ Theaters Hiring Extra Security | Rolling Stone
Universal Pictures is offering to reimburse theaters for costs associated with hiring security guards during opening-weekend screenings of the N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton.
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Is Apple Taking Over the Music Business? | Rolling Stone
As of early August, Apple Music, the company’s long-awaited on-demand streaming service, seemed to be a success: Overcoming technical glitches and complaints about a complex interface, Apple announced 11 million trial-subscription sign-ups in five w…
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I still can’t stop laughing at this damn picture of snow white without her make up. – Imgur
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The First Trailer For Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Has Arrived – Digg
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Melting Antarctic Glaciers Create Iron Hot Spots – Scientific American
Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University, has spent nearly two decades studying remote sites in Antarctica that experts like to call an “oasis in a desert of ice.” They are so inaccessible that even scientists who study them m…
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Sex assault probes into WikiLeaks’ Assange dropped – Al Jazeera English
The multiple sexual assault investigations facing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dropped to only one case on Thursday, after Swedish prosecutors reached the time limit for investigating the remaining three crimes.
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Origin of Life: First Cells May Have Been Glued Together – Scientific American
Electrostatic interactions induced by short, positively charged, hydrophobic peptides are all it takes to attach RNA to vesicle membranes.
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Evil but Stupid | Issue 23 | n+1
the London Review of Books published “The Killing of Osama bin Laden,” a 10,000-word piece by veteran reporter Seymour Hersh. The story argued that the official White House narrative of the al Qaeda leader’s killing was a fabrication. The intelligen…
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[OC] Sunset in Yosemite Valley. Taken with iPhone [1920×1080] : EarthPorn
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How to Make Flavored Spirits That Are Way Tastier Than Store-Bought
Walk into any big box liquor store and you’re likely to see shelves and shelves of colorfully packaged vodkas with flavors ranging from “cookie dough” to “Swedish fish.
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2Arc Gaming release Heroes of the Storm roster
After failing to qualify for the Heroes World Championship, 2Arc Gaming has released its current Heroes of the Storm roster. 2Arc Gaming competed in all three of the NA Open qualifying tournaments, losing to Tempo Storm in the round of 16 in June.
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The Milky Way during the Perseid meteor shower [1228×1842] [OC] : ExposurePorn
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Today in unusual pets rescued from homes: 1 pig, 179 pigeons – Boing Boing
179 “valuable” pigeons were taken from an apartment in North Carolina, reports the Charlotte Observer—so many that Carolina Waterfowl Rescue was overwhelmed and has asked for donations. The owner will not be charged with a crime, having cooperated w…
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How Doodling Can Help You Get Ahead at Work – Bloomberg Business
Ah, the blank whiteboard: The ultimate canvas for unfiltered creativity, where ideas pour out of your brain just as fast as your can move a marker. Such a shame, then, that even the best-drawn ideas are likely to elicit yawns the second they migrate…
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Watch the First 6 Minutes of Fort Tilden, Summer’s Cruelest Comedy | Vanity Fair
I don’t know about you, but I love a comedy with the guts to lampoon its main characters with no mercy whatsoever. Spare me the teachable moments, please, and bring on the spectacularly horrible behavior (as long as it’s actually, y’know, funny).
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Perseid meteor shower: Your pictures in 45 seconds – BBC News
Stargazers captured the dazzling display of the annual Perseid meteor shower as it reached its peak on Wednesday night. The display was widely anticipated this year as the shower coincided with a new moon for the first time since 2007, creating a da…
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DNA Testing Concludes President Warren G. Harding Had a Love Child | Vanity Fair
It’s a true Throwback Thursday: DNA testing revealed that President Warren G. Harding did, in fact, have a daughter born from a mistress, putting to rest some fairly vintage rumors dating back to the Jazz Age.
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Manta and Divers (silhouette) by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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My wife asked me which one I like more
: funny My wife asked me which one I like more
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Sunrise at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah [5257×3423] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Brother Nicholas Kneels At His Ministration : monkslookingatbeer
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HBO says Deadwood movie is in early talks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Turns out HBO isn’t going to leave Garret Dillahunt twisting in the wind over those Deadwood movie tweets—according to /Film, the cable network released this official, albeit terse, statement regarding plans for a feature film.
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Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive – Bloomberg Business
Americans living in rentals spent almost a third of their incomes on housing in the second quarter, the highest share in recent history. Rental affordability has steadily worsened, according to a new report from Zillow Group Inc., which tracked data…
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Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab | The Verge
As we walk through Lucasfilm, Gaeta points out a particular floor. That, he says, is where the writers and directors of the new Star Wars movies work — and it’s a place he and Bredow visit regularly to give demos and conceive of experiences for movi…
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12″ pianist: the rest of it – Boing Boing
And the bartender’s, like, “Yeah. Why, what did you wish for?” So the bartender is understandably ashamed.
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Blobtastic ferrofluid display – Boing Boing
Ferrolic is a prototype ferrofluid display that draws blobby, weird, awesome imprecise bitmaps by manipulating magnetic particles suspended in liquid.
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Magnetic numbers shift and reform in amazing ferrofluid clock – Boing Boing
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Salesforce turns customer support forums into shops, with a new Buy button
Cloud software giant Salesforce is adding a new feature that will allow users of its Community Cloud to add their own Buy buttons. Joining the likes of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Pinterest, Salesforce is part of a growing list of companies that r…
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Need $1,000? Reproduce this glitch in Mario 64
Got a $1,000-sized hole in your pocket you need to fill? All you need to do is reproduce a new glitch discovered in Super Mario 64. Hailed as one of Nintendo’s true masterpieces, Super Mario 64 has long been a staple of the video game speedrunning c…
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MuckRock • “Considered to be in very poor taste” George Carlin’s FBI File
Documents from the FBI reveal that J. Edgar Hoover took personal offense to comedian George Carlin following his appearances on “The Carol Burnett Show” and “Jackie Gleason.” Carlin was a stand-up comedian whose set list included topics as diverse a…
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Sanders Pandering to Voters Who Want to Hear Truth – The New Yorker
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report)—Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is gaining legions of new admirers by shamelessly pandering to voters who want to hear the truth, critics of the Vermont Senator say.
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Acerola (Malpighia emarginata) [1200×900] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Dhawan, Kohli put India in control of opening Test – Al Jazeera English
Centuries by opener Shikhar Dhawan and skipper Virat Kohli earned India a handy first-innings lead before their spinners dismissed the Sri Lankan openers to put the tourists on top of the first Test at Galle.
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George R.R. Martin Explains How Game of Thrones’ Ending Will Be Like Lord of the Rings
The Halo TV show is still happening. Rutina Wesley’s Arrow role is revealed, while Marc Guggenheim discusses the “one time only” deal to bring Constantine to the show. Plus, rumors of a big fight for Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman, and when to ex…
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Why It’s So Important to Check for Skin Cancer–and How – The Atlantic
Supported by http://www.theatlantic.
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QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin.
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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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WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away at his legacy.
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Happy 1st Birthday to my favorite gingerkitty, Peter! : cats
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Hanging Gardens by Li Shuxing : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Ndonesia Navy Nabs Cargo Ship | Al Jazeera America
A massive refrigerated cargo ship believed to be loaded with slave-caught fish has been seized by Indonesia’s navy and brought to shore after an Associated Press report alerted authorities about its presence in the country’s waters, officials said T…
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Morning Digest: Georgia Democrat picks up Republican seat by running against anti-gay discrimination
• MO-Sen: One of the greatest acts of political ratfucking came in 2012, when Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill ran a series of ads that successfully boosted Rep. Todd Akin in Missouri’s GOP primary, powering him to an unexpected victory.
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NASA TV to Air Japanese Cargo Craft Launch to Space Station | NASA
NASA TV Coverage Set for Japanese Cargo Craft Launch to Space Station via NASA http://t.co/GEVQD0HhF0
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Accepting Affirmative Action Before the Supreme Court Decision | Vanity Fair
In a Charles Saxon cartoon in The New Yorker from 1969, an older man in a dark suit sits in his clubby-looking study, addressing a younger man, apparently his son. The son is dressed, from the perspective of 2015, quite conservatively, in a sweater …
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#ByeFelicia Gets an Uncomfortable Origin Story — The Cut
We have Ice Cube’s 1995 classic, Friday, to thank for the very useful phrase “Bye, Felicia”: In the movie, his character gets rid of a freeloading neighbor with this curt, simple phrase. Bye, Felicia.
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How to Break Apart London’s 1,000-Ton Tunneling Machine | WIRED
Digging a tunnel is tough work. Digging a 26-mile, 20-foot wide train tunnel under one of the oldest and most complicated cities in Europe? That’s really tricky.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 102 | 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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The effects of NZT : perfectloops
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Traffic accidents per billion kilometres : dataisbeautiful
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I bought a keyboard with two “4” keys : mildlyinteresting
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Watch the teaser for Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight – Boing Boing
To think, he threatened not to make it at all! [Youtube, via]
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What We Need To Do To Prepare For Another Nuclear Event – Digg
As we observe the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it may seem like the threat from nuclear weapons has receded. But it hasn’t; the threat is actually increasing steadily.
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FREITAL, Germany — Even as Germany has been trying to accommodate a swelling stream of newcomers, the most anywhere in Europe, it is also experiencing a persistent pattern of violence against migrants, raising concerns about escalating far-right opp…
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Zach King’s magical vines will have you mesmerized
The stereotype of a Vine star is a young guy being idolized by equally young teen girls who dutifully watch their raunchy six-second comedy bits. Zach King breaks that mold.
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Australia mulls joining Syria air strikes against ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Australia is considering joining air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Syria, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said. Since October last year, Australian jet fighters have been striking ISIL targets in northern Ir…
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3 creative ways to choose your brand name
If you’ve ever attempted to name a company, you know that the process can be grueling. First, the best domain names were taken—as of 10 years ago.
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Why Diets Don’t Work (and What Does) – Scientific American
My friend Ann (not her real name) recently tried the Paleo diet. She stopped eating dairy, grains, refined sugars and processed foods. Six weeks in, Ann had lost 15 pounds.
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Bernie Sanders, #BlackLivesMatter, & Free Speech — NYMag
A week ago, a handful of protesters associated with Black Lives Matter shut down a Bernie Sanders speech in Seattle to protest what they see to be his insufficient platform on racial justice.
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Timing Is Everything – Scientific American
Insomniac readers (yes, you reading this at 3 A.M.), please don’t hate me! I just happen to be one of those people who falls asleep minutes after my head hits the pillow and awakens cheery and refreshed when the sunlight filters through the window.
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Baltimore From Above [1082 x 1600][OC] : CityPorn
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HTC Cuts 15% Of Its Workforce As It Bids To Return To Profitability | TechCrunch
HTC said last week that it would be cutting costs “significantly,” and today the struggling Android phone maker revealed that will make 15 percent of its staff made redundant as part of that strategy. That’ll mean around 2,250 employees lose their j…
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Pornhub has better sense of humor than Italian cheese police – Boing Boing
Cheesemakers are so angry that Pornhub ran an ad comparing Parmigiano-Reggiano to premium smut, they’re threatening to sue the porn company.
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Npower profits plunge 60% amid ongoing billing problems | Business | The Guardian
Profits at npower have tumbled 60% as it struggles with billing problems which have sent customer complaints soaring. Many customers have been receiving late bills or no bills at all, since npower introduced a new billing system in 2013.
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Beyoncé’s Vogue September Issue Cover Story – Vogue
What do we want from the glamorous, powerful women we call divas or icons or cultural forces? We want them to want—and in our names get—everything they possibly can. Success in work and love. Sexual pleasure. Money and power. We want them to embody …
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Detroit’s transgender community: ‘police have have no sympathy for us’ | Society | The Guardian
Reyes was referring to the death over the weekend of Amber Monroe, a 20-year-old black trans woman who was fatally shot in what police have deemed a homicide.
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Those Republican Spending Caps Are Costing Us Jobs
The case for ending the federal budget spending caps known as the “sequester” has just gotten a whole lot stronger. It’s all about jobs. At the request of Sen.
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Shape these 120 colorful balls into perfect relaxation – Boing Boing
You could be lying around on this super-comfy mat of configurable balls if you have $8K lying around. Comes in blue, red, brown, and gray.
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We’d never ignore Air New Zealand’s new ‘Men In Black’ safety video
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Watch this rice-grain size motor clock over 100,000 RPMs – Boing Boing
This tiny motor is only a little bigger than a grain of cooked rice (4 x 12 mm), but it can generate speeds over 100,000 RPM. It’s designed to run at 3.7 volts, but YouTuber Larskro decided to see what these could handle. At 6 volts, he maxed out hi…
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Watch ‘Documentary Now’ tear VICE a new one – Boing Boing
Documentary Now! is a hilarious sendup of the documentary genre by SNL alumni, and IFC has released the second episode DRONEZ: The Hunt for El Chingon, a parody of the always mockable VICE sensationalism.
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In fact, redshirting could mean that a preschool-educated 6-year-old is learning alongside a low-income 4-year-old who’s never stepped foot in a classroom—a kid whose vocabulary may be 30-million words smaller than her wealthier peers.
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Ride Along With New York’s Bail Bondsmen and Bounty Hunters — Vantage — Medium
In her young career, Vannucci has embedded with an Italian prison theater troupe, and she was the first photographer to go inside the special wing for battered women on Rikers Island Jail.
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Meet Maximus, slayer of beasts, blepper of tongues : Blep
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Video: Rare white humpback whale sighting – Boing Boing
Humpback whales with albinism are extremely rare, so it was a real treat when one appeared off the coast of Australia this week.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: Click on the embedded player above Go to netrootsradio.
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China explosions: Tianjin blasts ‘on seismic scale’ – BBC News
The blasts in Tianjin on Wednesday night were so large that they registered as seismic activity in China. An official from China’s National Earthquake Network told the BBC that scientists were “alarmed” at the scale of the explosions. The official c…
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“Dance with me, Golden Retriever, dance the dance of life!” : AnimalsBeingBros
“Dance with me, Golden Retriever, dance the dance of life!” via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/rDWcZdl2pK http://t.co/PpRN9CViVv
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US PGA Championship 2015: first round – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Which of the major championships is the greatest? Each and every one of us, all golf’s excitable children, will give the same answer: why, the greatest major championship is the one being contested right here, right now, silly. The glamorous and ele…
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Axis Mundi, Tor Messenger, and the new breed of encryption tools
The battle over encryption is heating up in Washington. But on the Dark Net, encryption technology has already passed lawmakers by.
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Watch black smoke engulf the Moscow River, stirring residents’ fears
Of all the places in a city that might go up in flames, a river is pretty much at the bottom of the list. But following an oil spill on Wednesday, part of the Moscow River did indeed catch fire.
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cute seals playing : StartledCats
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Sweden Drops Some Sex Cases Against Assange | Al Jazeera America
Swedish prosecutors said Thursday they have dropped three cases of sexual misconduct against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because the cases have expired, but the prosecutors said they will continue to investigate rape accusations against him.
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upstairs neighbours favourite shoes – Imgur
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Trayvon’s Mother: ‘I Have Not Forgiven’ — The Cut
Black Lives Matter is, in a sense, Trayvon Martin’s legacy. The hashtag first began appearing when George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who fatally shot the 17-year-old as he walked home in a small Florida town, was acquitted in July 2…
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Q&A: Why are bloggers being killed in Bangladesh? – Al Jazeera English
Bangladesh has seen the fourth murder of a blogger with secularist views in 2015, adding to the already existing concerns about freedom of speech in the country.
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How to get a journalist’s attention
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, or PR person, I’m certain that all of you have needed to deal with the media at one point or another, and have asked yourself questions such as: How do I tell my story? Who do I share my story with? What’s t…
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Note: Rick Santorum would like you to know that he is still in the presidential race. Purchasing this note—this virtual lawn sign, if you will—to drum up support cost him five dollars, but it’s all he could afford. So please support Rick Santoru…
Love Everyone Often 08/14/2015
Fox Girl : foxes Fox Girl via /r/foxes http://t.co/rr0S3FSl0V http://t.co/cJQHyShcP8 tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Why Artificial Intelligence Can Too Easily Be Weaponized – The Atlantic Manufacturers and governments interested in developing such weapons may claim that they can engineer proper safeguards to ensure that they cannot be reprogrammed or hacked.…
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