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Those were the words of Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate for president, earlier this year. Readers of the business pages know her as the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard. For much of this early campaign season, in the crowded field of …
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Islamic leaders issue bold call for rapid phase out of fossil fuels | Environment | The Guardian
Islamic leaders have issued a powerful call to 1.6bn Muslims around the world to work towards phasing out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and a 100% renewable energy strategy.
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Three men arrested in Bangladesh over bloggers’ killing – Al Jazeera English
Police in Bangladesh say they have arrested three men, including a British citizen, in connection with the killing of two bloggers earlier this year.
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Gbenga Sesan: Connecting a Million – Al Jazeera English
As a school student Gbenga Sesan was denied access to the computer room at his Nigerian school and told he was not clever enough to operate one. When I think of my Nigeria, I think of potential and of real-life action. When I think of potential, I t…
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Note: C&J Pharmaceuticals reminds you to ask your doctor if asking your doctor is right for you.
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Iraqis seek respite from oppressive reality – Al Jazeera English
Baghdad – With conflict raging and temperatures rising, Iraqi residents have grown increasingly concerned and angry. A convergence of crises has gripped the country amid ongoing clashes between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State of the Iraq…
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Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe – Scientific American
In the context of opposition to GMOs, genetic modification is deemed “unnatural” and biotechnologists are accused of “playing God”.
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South Korea adds ‘K-police wave’ to national export – Al Jazeera English
At the police university in the South Korean capital, officers from distant Colombia are being trained in Cybercrime techniques. The Korean police has received praise for its professionalism and non-violence in dealing with protests, and it shares e…
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This Is How It Feels to Dance with a Drone | Motherboard
After ambling through the streets of Brooklyn and past residential homes on the outskirts of Queens on Saturday, I arrived at an enclave of warehouses and factories in the industrial neighborhood of Maspeth.
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Basketmouth: Trash Talking – Al Jazeera English
Nigerian comedy has boomed in the last decade, and Bright “Basketmouth” Okpocha is, arguably, the country’s most successful stand-up comic. My Nigeria is my earth, my material, my jokes, my fans. My Nigeria is my joy, my pain, my love. My Nigeria is…
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Ten years ago, the political strategist Frank Luntz issued a proclamation about the language of immigration. ‘‘Always refer to people crossing the border illegally as ‘illegal immigrants’ — NOT as ‘illegals,’ ’’ Luntz instructed fellow conservatives.
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Brother Dunstan Reflects Contentedly on a Life Well Lived : monkslookingatbeer
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This Lemon Gets It : firstworldanarchists
This Lemon Gets It via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/p2AfbCFrzh http://t.co/lWNjiOjcfs
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Baby Giraffe Birth – So beautiful!!! : AnimalsBeingBros
Baby Giraffe Birth – So beautiful!!! via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/pGPcEvQQ8F http://t.co/wdRZ6gqfP8
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HMB while I do some surfing : holdmybeer
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Inflatable Habitats: From the Space Station to the Moon and Mars?
The upcoming launch of a private inflatable module toward the International Space Station could help pave the way for colonies on the moon and Mars. Bigelow Aerospace’s Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will blast off on SpaceX’s next roboti…
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Tracksmith Raises $4M To Outfit The Classic Runner | TechCrunch
Tracksmith, a running apparel brand based in Boston, has pulled in $4.1 million in new funding to outfit a growing pack of runners in the traditional style of the world’s oldest sport.
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Watch a dog play fetch from the perspective of two GoPros
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Swipe, the web-based PowerPoint alternative that brings features such as audience analytics, real-time polls and live syncing to the humble presentation, is flicking the monetization switch today with the roll out of a Pro plan aimed at businesses a…
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The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), a prominent critic of environmental and renewable energy initiatives, is getting even more of its funding from fossil fuel energy companies than previously thought.
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Armed with lawyers, data, and money, the federal government is discouraging local communities from passing laws that treat the daily realities of being homeless as crimes. The effort draws on three different forms of federal power.
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Team USA launches Kickstarter to fund its giant robot duel with Japan | The Verge
Last month, a group of American inventors challenged a team of Japanese engineers to a giant robot duel. Japan accepted the challenge, and with the date of the duel now slated for summer 2016, Team USA (aka MegaBots Inc.
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Could Donald Trump really run as an independent? | US news | The Guardian
Republican voters have welcomed Donald Trump with open arms. More than twice as many back him in polls as any other candidate. In charts, support for Trump looks like a moonshot. Trump would seem to have little incentive to take his presidential run…
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We asked Reddit to say the meanest things they could about us
Last weekend, a subreddit that revels in casual cruelty among strangers hit 30,000 subscribers. But the mods of r/roastme are careful to distance themselves from Reddit’s most controversial hives of bigotry. “This is a comedy subreddit, not a hate s…
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Bangladesh Police Arrest 3 in Bloggers’ Murders | Al Jazeera America
Authorities in Bangladesh said Tuesday that they arrested three men, including a British citizen, for their involvement in the murders of two secular bloggers. The three are suspected members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, a banned armed group, said…
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Sri Lanka PM claims victory over ex-president in polls – Al Jazeera English
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s attempt to stage a comeback in Sri Lanka’s general election has ended in defeat as results showed the alliance that toppled him making decisive gains.
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David Simon probably doesn’t care if you like Show Me a Hero. He has already gone on the record to say he does not think anyone will watch it.
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Donald Trump’s Flawed Immigration Plan – The Atlantic
“In the 1840s and 1850s, Cincinnati society became increasingly unstable as German and Irish immigrants poured in,” The Cincinnati Inquirer reported in a historical retrospective.
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Planting Trees Could Make Public Transit Wait Times Feel Shorter – The Atlantic
Coffee has become recognized as a human necessity. It is no longer a luxury or an indulgence; it is a corollary of human energy and human efficiency. It was November 23, 2010. We were in Surf City, North Carolina, getting ready to fortify ourselves …
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Thai Police Release Images of Suspect in Deadly Bangkok Blast – The Atlantic
Before Monday’s Cabinet meeting he said: “This is the worst incident that has ever happened in Thailand. There have been minor bombs or just noise, but this time they aim for innocent lives. They want to destroy our economy, our tourism.”
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Manhunt for Thai Shrine Bomber | Al Jazeera America
Thai police were hunting Tuesday for a man seen in security footage wearing a yellow T-shirt and carrying a backpack who they believe was responsible for a devastating bomb at a central Bangkok shrine that killed 22 people and injured more than 100.…
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For some years now linguist Daniel Everett has challenged the orthodoxy of Noam Chomsky and other linguists who believe in an innate “universal grammar” that governs human language acquisition.
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Biding Our Time | Best Of MetaFilter
On MeFi, midmarch snowman clocks some multi-link first-post goodness with Finally a horology post for people who like shiny things, while in the Green, mzurer asks, In 1527 how did English households tell time?
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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The first women will graduate from the Army’s Ranger School this week. The Army opened up the prestigious and grueling school to women in January. [NPR]
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/wniqr8Eyb8 http://t.co/xkAjlnvty7
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Woah see thru fish now I’ve seen everything : woahdude
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My neighbours cat comes to visit my indoor only cat from time to time. : cats
My neighbours cat comes to visit my indoor only cat from time to time. via /r/cats http://t.co/iOMerrwHKw http://t.co/oSQp82FOD2
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New fishing spot. OC. Harvard, MA. [2952×5248] : EarthPorn
New fishing spot. OC. Harvard, MA. [2952×5248] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/XgydApmrSd http://t.co/2ZB80I27mH
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My neighbour’s cat came to see my cat. : cats
My neighbour’s cat came to see my cat. via /r/cats http://t.co/WaYRoBwetK http://t.co/HjXNKRAM6T
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A geothermal geyser in Iceland [1920×1250] by Alban Henderyckx : EarthPorn
A geothermal geyser in Iceland [1920×1250] by Alban Henderyckx via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/n4aNtcYlGF http://t.co/87zVKuIIQU
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Autumn in the Ardennes (4912×3264) [OC] : ExposurePorn
Autumn in the Ardennes (4912×3264) [OC] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/0aRqknKsen http://t.co/mhxWTHI0FJ
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That’s My Fetish http://t.co/WIWfzKNhNU http://t.co/qfK0rpCJey
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The Stealth Master via /r/funny http://t.co/F1yzyGqOLw http://t.co/L8aNBD1x7m
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No, Mars Won’t Be as Big as the Moon in the Sky
Here we go again. The infamous Mars Hoax that has circulated widely through the Internet since its first appearance in 2003, when it originated in the form of an email message titled “Mars Spectacular,” has reared its ugly head yet again.
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“Drinkable book” turns dirty water clean for a thirsty world – Scientific American
A group of researchers from the US, in collaboration with a non-profit organisation, has designed a book with silver-impregnated pages that can be used to filter contaminated water.
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11-year-old hits a hole-in-one, so now her dad has to buy her a puppy
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Josh Groban turned Donald Trump’s bombastic tweets into a song
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Trump’s insane immigration plan, electability and the GOP field and more
Also at The Washington Post, David A. Fahrenthold, Jenna Johnson and Max Ehrenfreund analyze how Donald Trump is driving the immigration debate:
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Donald Trump brands Jeb Bush a ‘puppet’ on visit to Iowa – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican candidate for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump, touches down in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. NBC footage shows Trump talking to the press on the tarmac before moving on to the Iowa State Fair.
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‘Bring a map of New Orleans.’’ That was all that Alden J. McDonald Jr., president and chief executive of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, said when I first asked to meet him.
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Cascade of Clouds by Michael Shainblum / 500px
Cascade of Clouds by Shainblum http://t.co/SDyu6BLWGR http://t.co/JWANryC6hZ
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Everyone’s an Astronaut: Virtual Reality Shoots for the Moon (and Beyond)
SAN FRANCISCO — The world could soon tag along on every space-exploration mission, thanks to the power of virtual reality.
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Shell gets final clearance to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic | Environment | The Guardian
The Obama administration has granted final approval for Shell’s Arctic drilling programme, clearing the way for the company to restart its stuttering search for northern oil.
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‘Refugees Will Break the Wall’: On the Frontlines of Hungary’s Immigration Fence | VICE News
Mounir pulls out his phone to consult a map and send his WhatsApp location to a friend monitoring his stealth journey through Europe.
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The Writer Dating a Woman for the First Time — 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.
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Bangkok bomb: CCTV video shows man leave backpack – BBC News
Thailand’s defence minister has said those who planted a bomb at a Bangkok shrine deliberately targeted foreigners to harm tourism and the economy. Prawit Wongsuwan vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of the attack in the capital, which killed at le…
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So my niece has an extra thumb. No one noticed for almost 3 weeks. : mildlyinteresting
So my niece has an extra thumb. No one noticed for almost 3 weeks. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/OsiWymXmHJ http://t.co/VaH09i7GGi
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It almost went wrong. : InterestingGifs
It almost went wrong. via /r/InterestingGifs http://t.co/guTxbpuYCZ http://t.co/0ZntrCybrw
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Meet Bartholomew, the sunbathing hairless wonder. : cats
Meet Bartholomew, the sunbathing hairless wonder. via /r/cats http://t.co/48Qso1tmdt http://t.co/5j24DEj2O9
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Grand Veymont, Vercors, France [12890×3653][OC] : EarthPorn
Grand Veymont, Vercors, France [12890×3653][OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/6eMXTS1vBk http://t.co/olpmhWFz5r
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Android One launches in six African countries with only one new handset | The Verge
Google’s Android One initiative, which launched last year with the aim of standardizing low-cost smartphones in developing markets, is expanding into six countries in Africa.
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Preacher really doesn’t like it when man answers his phone during an exorcism
Ordinarily, we’d classify an exorcism as a pretty big deal. If your problems are serious enough that you have to blame them on demons, then we’d expect you to at least pay attention during your purification ritual. Not so much with this guy, though.
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Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up | Film | The Guardian
Male careers in the movies have always been longer than female ones, but until recently there was only one real route to on-screen immortality – to the certified, gold-standard agelessness of, say, Cary Grant.
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Letter from Texas: Floods didn’t drown the drought | Grist
This year brought what former Texas governor (and current idiot) Rick Perry had us praying for back in 2011: big, biblical buckets of rain. In May, I was passing through the last suburbs of Dallas on my way back home to Austin. Ahead of me, the sky …
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Look who I found this morning : cats
Look who I found this morning via /r/cats http://t.co/TTlV2FrXFo http://t.co/RuTmz7s45m
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TIL it’s possible to take the train from Singapore to London : woahdude
TIL it’s possible to take the train from Singapore to London via /r/woahdude http://t.co/Eie5nFYT0v http://t.co/vzJLMRmHAm
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Marvel, the U.K. startup that lets you turn sketches into mobile app “prototypes” (and famously survived a Wonga loan), has picked up a new $2 million ‘seed extension’ round of funding.
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Baldwin, Michigan, Decided to Send Every Kid to College With Scholarships – The Atlantic
“I’ve never forgotten that. Here’s somebody who never thought they could go out and do what they wanted to do,” he told me. “In that moment, to see somebody say, ‘Hey, I can do it, and there’s nothing that’s going to stop me.’ It was amazing.”
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Mr. Snappy and Other Caimans Go to the Club | WIRED
Andrew McGibbon likes photographing creatures that might want to take a bit out of him. After proving that snakes aren’t so scary, it only makes sense the photographer’s next move would be a bigger, badder reptile.
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You Can Now Use Stephen Hawking’s Speech Software for Free | WIRED
Software created by Intel was instrumental in giving Stephen Hawking a voice. Now, the company has released this same software under a free software license. The development of the platform, called ACAT for “assistive context-aware toolkit,” was det…
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How Much Can You Save With Solar Panels? Just Ask Google | WIRED
If you’re considering solar power but aren’t quite sure it’s worth the expense, Google wants to point you in the right direction.
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Here Comes the World’s First International Drone Film Fest | WIRED
Independent films have Sundance. Foreign films, Cannes. And for the ascending field of unmanned aerial filmmaking, there is now San Francisco’s forthcoming Flying Robot International Film Festival.
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Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and ‘A-RU-Gula’: ‘My Blue Heaven’ at 25 – The Atlantic
Coffee has become recognized as a human necessity. It is no longer a luxury or an indulgence; it is a corollary of human energy and human efficiency. It was November 23, 2010. We were in Surf City, North Carolina, getting ready to fortify ourselves …
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Lamborghini’s Newest Supercar Is Insane—And So Is Its Name | WIRED
Perhaps the only thing Lamborghini likes more than building bedroom poster supercars is building special editions of those bedroom poster supercars.
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Bush Training for a Unified Ireland (Excerpt from ‘Ireland’s Young Warriors’) | VICE News
Earlier this year, VICE News filmed with a republican youth movement in Ireland called Na Fianna Éireann (“Warriors of Ireland” in English), a small group of around 30 boys considered to be hardline dissidents.
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Get Ready for a Flood of Online Campaign Ads That Will Target and Track You | Mother Jones
Television ads will remain the dominant tool for winning hearts and minds, digital consultants say, but the utility of online outreach is that it can pinpoint and analyze who’s seeing and clicking on what. And campaigns can microtarget potential sup…
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At about 2 a.m. on a Thursday in July, Kenton Haggard, a 66-year-old former security officer, walked through the streets of Fresno, California, wearing a white cardigan and a dress. Near the corner of Blackstone and Cornell streets, someone called H…
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The wild life of a female flamboyant cuttlefish – Aeon Video
The bottom-dwelling flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) inhabits tropical waters off northern Australia. It is one of a very small number of cephalopods whose muscle tissue is highly poisonous.
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/fyJTA67TCH http://t.co/HgDML2EcLV
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Sledgehammer vs. bullet proof glass. : perfectloops
Sledgehammer vs. bullet proof glass. via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/1sWh0lbwgc http://t.co/MClU8CG9TS
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Google Pushes Android One To Africa | TechCrunch
Google is ramping up its Android One affordable smartphone program with a push into Africa. The first Android One smartphone for the region is being made by OEM Infinix, and is launching in Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Morocco today…
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U.K. and Ecuador exchange accusations over Julian Assange’s case
British and Ecuadorian officials have been sparring over responsibility for the whereabouts of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. British Foreign Minister Hugo Swire has accused Ecuador of impeding justice by continuing to grant Assange asylum at its…
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Revolutionary ‘drinkable book’ is made of pages that can purify water
In what could be one of the most electrifying innovations in recent memory, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a book that can purify water.
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The Guy Making Actual Cyborgs at Darpa | WIRED
He may seem like he’s from the future, but Musk is really a throwback—to a time when engineers built without bytes. Store the sun’s energy in batteries. Zip across the US in a giant tube.
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Iraqi Kurds in limbo over president’s fate – Al Jazeera English
Erbil, Iraq – Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region is in political and legal limbo over the fate of the autonomous region’s incumbent president, Masoud Barzani, whose tenure is set to end on Wednesday.
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14 Essential Sources for Getting Up to Speed in Science | WIRED
There are seminal books, movies, articles, and more that you’ve been meaning to get to but just haven’t made the time for. Well, the time is now, so here’s some essential background material for helping you understand the world of science today.
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The Biochemist Who Made Editing DNA as Easy as Cut and Paste | WIRED
He may seem like he’s from the future, but Musk is really a throwback—to a time when engineers built without bytes. Store the sun’s energy in batteries. Zip across the US in a giant tube.
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The Dreamer Making Sci-Fi Come True | WIRED
He may seem like he’s from the future, but Musk is really a throwback—to a time when engineers built without bytes. Store the sun’s energy in batteries. Zip across the US in a giant tube.
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The Woman Who Would Crush Ebola—And All Diseases | WIRED
He may seem like he’s from the future, but Musk is really a throwback—to a time when engineers built without bytes. Store the sun’s energy in batteries. Zip across the US in a giant tube.
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Yeast Can Now Produce (Almost) Anything | WIRED
The retraction of a recent study involving falsified data about the effect of door-to-door canvassers on gay marriage opinions might make you think science is in crisis. Indeed, retractions increased 10-fold from 2000 to 2010.
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The Hadron Collider Is Smashing Old Ideas | WIRED
The retraction of a recent study involving falsified data about the effect of door-to-door canvassers on gay marriage opinions might make you think science is in crisis. Indeed, retractions increased 10-fold from 2000 to 2010.
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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine: The Professors I Wish I Had | WIRED
My last couple years of school felt so confining—so boring—that I almost didn’t get my undergrad degree. By the time I was 20 I had found full-time work as a designer, and I was serially ditching class in favor of time at the office.
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The Farm Runoff Feedback Loop Is Turning Aquifers Radioactive | Motherboard
Uranium levels nearly 100 times that of safe limits established by the Environmental Protection Agency have been repeatedly detected in two of the United States’ largest groundwater sources: the High Plains and Central Valley aquifers.
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What’s Going On With Amazon? – Digg
US televangelists are still very much a thing, and US tax law allows television preachers to get away with almost anything. From private jets, to guarantees of medical healing to loan-shark-esque tactics, the “Prosperity Gospel” doesn’t seem quite o…
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Yes, Some Studies Get Retracted, But That’s OK | WIRED
The retraction of a recent study involving falsified data about the effect of door-to-door canvassers on gay marriage opinions might make you think science is in crisis. Indeed, retractions increased 10-fold from 2000 to 2010.
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GM crop ban ‘threatens research’ say scientists – BBC News
A ban on growing genetically-modified crops in Scotland could threaten the country’s contribution to scientific research, according to scientists, universities and farming leaders.Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead announced the move earlier t…
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Commentary on makeup (x-post /r/niceguys) : TrollXChromosomes
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Yawn. via /r/cats http://t.co/2wr8PlOvHC http://t.co/QsOeguTfiY
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Photos of Bangkok bombing suspect released amid manhunt – Al Jazeera English
Thai authorities have said they had the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of a suspect who is thought to be behind a bomb attack in the capital, Bangkok, that killed 22 people, including nine foreigners.
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In June, the Catholic church in the Philippines joined the One Million Against Coal Campaign, which aims to gather at least one million signatures nationwide in a bid to pressure the government to reverse the approval of dozens of coal power plants …
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Designers Turn Ridiculous Cover Art Into Actual Games | WIRED
At the annual “Famicase” exhibitions in Tokyo over the last decade, designers create and showcase absurd cover art for games that don’t exist. For the A Game By Its Cover game jam, developers go one step further and actually create games based on th…
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Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance | FiveThirtyEight
Albert Mach wants to help you lead a Viking clan. He wants you to compete for honor and treasure and the control of islands. He wants you to tame the wild dragon. And he wants the masses of the Internet to bankroll all of it. That’s because he’s a b…
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Ancient underwater plant ‘could be world’s first flower’ – BBC News
Botanists in the US say an ancient plant that grew underwater in what is modern day Europe may have been the world’s first known flowering plant. Researchers studied more than 1,000 fossils of the Montsechia Vidalii species as part of the study.
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Shell gets final permit for Arctic oil drilling – BBC News
Oil and gas giant Shell has been granted the final permit it needs to begin drilling below the ocean floor for oil in the Arctic. Shell began work last month, but was allowed to drill just the top sections of two wells, off the coast of Alaska.
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So sweet, Is it a cat or lion? : cats
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I got a new roommate yesterday. : cats
I got a new roommate yesterday. via /r/cats http://t.co/5EQT9VFNSo http://t.co/wnnK4HJURr
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And then he meowed: “Draw me like one of your french girls” : cats
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Video Shows Second Blast in Bangkok, as Manhunt Begins | VICE News
A day after a bombing in Bangkok resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people, another small explosive was thrown from a bridge in the city’s center today, though no injuries were caused as the bomb landed in a canal.
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Science bodies urge Scottish government to rethink GM crops ban | Environment | The Guardian
A powerful group of scientists and academic bodies has urged the Scottish government to rethink its ban on growing GM crops, with a warning that it would damage farming, healthcare and scientific research.
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Ben Carson Visits Harlem – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, Ben Carson came to Sylvia’s soul food restaurant, an iconic eatery in iconic Harlem, located along Lenox Avenue near 127th Street.
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President Donald John Trump – The Atlantic
And then, just like that, it did. There’s no need to rehash how it all went down. He won the nomination, and then he won the general election. It wasn’t more complicated than that. Some have compared the tenor of the news on election night to the co…
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McDonald’s in Taiwan via /r/gifs http://t.co/uPDfacxLcf http://t.co/TkkIEqGBII
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MRW I see your cursor hovering over the downvote button : shittyreactiongifs
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This cheat sheet is sure to tell you everything about your kitty : AnimalsBeingBros
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A rarely captured event – a bee urinating : interestingasfuck
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Catching the perfect wave is one of the most exhilarating feelings to be had on Earth, and there’s still plenty of time left in the summer to get stoked. If you’re at a beach with some good curls, these tips will have you riding in no time.
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Reid makes Obama wait on Iran | TheHill
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has yet to say whether he’ll support President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, angering liberal groups who want to see congressional Democrats rally around the agreement.
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Surging Ben Carson looks to peel off Donald Trump’s voters | TheHill
Ben Carson has his sights set on Donald Trump. The retired neurosurgeon is surging in the polls, but faces a huge hurdle in overcoming Trump, the runaway leader of a pack of candidates looking to tap into the anti-establishment fervor that is ener…
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Donald Trump sits behind his desk on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan. It is 2pm, and he has just got off the phone with America’s most famous football player, Tom Brady. Into the office walks Ernie Boch Jr, a billionaire car salesman with…
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Warner Bros. is developing a Carl Sagan biopic. They’ll have the help of Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow, who is going to be a producer on the film. [The Tracking Board]
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Bush donors not panicking — yet | TheHill
Jeb Bush’s donors aren’t sounding the alarm — yet. The former Florida governor had been labeled the GOP’s frontrunner, but polls show he’s trailing Donald Trump by a wide margin.
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Future of Brazil’s babassu fruit breakers threatened by deforestation | Environment | The Guardian
Tereza Teodoro Sousa balances what looks like a small, hairless coconut on a hatchet and cracks it open with a wooden truncheon. Tereza proudly calls herself a “quebradeira de coco babaçu” – babassu coconut breaker – who collects and cracks open bab…
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When people ask for my credentials as a content writer, I often share (well let’s be honest—I boast) that my work has been published on Fast Company, Inc, Entrepreneur, Salon, and more. In fact, a lot of that publishing was re-publishing.
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The Apple Watch is no longer by appointment only | The Verge
Apple wants customers to be able to walk into its stores and try on an Apple Watch without an appointment, reports 9to5Mac.
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Here’s a simple way to find out what’s in your food
There are lots of ways to find out what’s in the food you’re eating, including many apps like MyFitnessPal. Here’s another one and it’s really well executed: Spe.lt is a Web app that instantly shows you nutritional information for whatever food stuf…
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YouTube and Vevo music videos will get age ratings in the UK
In order to prevent children from viewing inappropriate content, music videos produced in the UK will display age ratings when aired on YouTube and Vevo, reports The Guardian.
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The IRS hack may have hit another 220,000 accounts
Reports of a security breach at the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last May stated that roughly 100,000 taxpayers’ sensitive information was stolen. However, the agency said on Monday that the attackers may have actually gained access to 330,000 …
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One Direction and Pharrell will play Apple’s free music festival
Over ten nights starting September 19, Apple will host its ninth annual free music festival in London with performances by One Direction, Pharrell Williams, Disclosure and Florence + The Machine.
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Minecraft wearable review: Love the game? You want this
And you’d have a good point. It is a lot for what it is. $79.99 for a branded USB key with some bells and whistles. But, if you do have a Minecraft fan in your family – of whatever age – they’ll love this. It’s great fun and makes sharing your Minec…
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The Real War on Families: Why the U.S. Needs Paid Leave Now – In These Times
Each one of these women went back to work less than two months after giving birth due to the financial toll of unpaid maternity leave. (Kate Milford) Leigh Benrahou began laying plans to have a second child almost as soon as she had her first, a dau…
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Webmaker (Android) lets you create content in local languages
Mozilla’s Webmaker app for Android, which lets users create and share multimedia content in regional languages, has now left beta and is available on Google Play. You can use the app to create scrapbooks, photo galleries, how-to manuals memes, comic…
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Algorithms can be a digital star chamber– Frank Pasquale – Aeon
In a recent podcast series called Instaserfs, a former Uber driver named Mansour gave a chilling description of the new, computer-mediated workplace. First, the company tried to persuade him to take a predatory loan to buy a new car.
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August 18, 1958: Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ Is Published in the US | The Nation
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, about an academic named Humbert Humbert who falls in love with a little girl, was published in the US for the first time on this day in 1957. It had already been reviewed in The Nation by fiction writer George P. Elliott m…
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Gals, the GOP Wants Your Vote! | The Nation
Support independent cartooning: join Sparky’s List—and don’t forget to visit TT’s Emporium of Fun, featuring the new book and plush Sparky!
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Is your girlfriend a horse? Take the test! : InternetIsBeautiful
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UN backs Syria peace plan amid continued regime attacks – Al Jazeera English
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a statement backing intensive preparatory talks on key issues to restore peace to Syria, as scores were killed in fresh government airstrikes on suburban of Damascus.
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How do you study an underwater volcano? Build an underwater laboratory | Grist
It was the early 90s, and John Delaney was frustrated. For the past decade, he’d been studying a massive volcano about 300 miles due west of the Oregon-Washington border.
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Rising from the Depths by Phillip Simmons / 500px
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sleep tight skeltal : ledootgeneration
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A dramatic outburst from the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [1024 x 840] http://t.co/e6tp4r5YW4 http://t.co/8BzBXdynT4
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The best goals of the week: Mikel San José, Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto’o | Football | The Guardian
Athletic Bilbao players celebrate Mikel San José’s goal against Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters
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Fashion Discovery Site Roposo Nabs $15M From Tiger Global | TechCrunch
Roposo, a discovery platform for fashion products, has nabbed $15 million in fresh funding from returning investor Tiger Global. Based in Gurgaon, Roposo lets users save items from different websites and also allows brands to create official account…
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Mr Floppy, Flopped on Dr Jones : cats
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Mom alleycat feeds a stray puppy : AnimalsBeingBros
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Humanoid robot takes a run through the woods – video | Technology | The Guardian
Atlas, a humanoid robot, can run on natural terrains such as soil and rocks. Here it is seen navigating through woodland and jogging along a nature trail.
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Timeline: Major air disasters – Al Jazeera English
South Africa’s miner strike led to the country’s deadliest act of police violence since the end of apartheid. Julio Docjar, a street artist from Sao Paulo, dreams of using his art as an instrument for social change.
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Sport picture of the day: Dee Gordon boxed in | Sport | The Guardian
Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon slides safely past the Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy during the fifth inning at Miller Park. Gordon scored from third on a sacrifice fly by Martin Prado. Miami won 6-2. Photograph: Morry Gash/AP
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In the Antarctic, a Tiny Aurora Shimmers in the Night Sky
At the very southernmost point of Earth is Concordia Station, a joint French-Italian inland Antarctic research station with isolation, long stretches of darkness, and low oxygen levels that allow research into the adaptation of human psychology and …
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Wolf pack in the fog @ CFS Alert [1500×1000] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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Google Delays Pilot Of Ara Modular Smartphone Til 2016 | TechCrunch
There are Google (Alphabet) moonshots such as its project to hack death/extend human life. And then there is the stuff shooting quite a lot lower than the moon — aka projects which also seem spectacularly unlikely to ultimately deliver a successful …
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VICE News Capsule – Tuesday, August 18 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Broad new powers for Egypt’s security forces, Russia’s new tourist destination, Ethiopians flee Yemen, and Bolivia’s unique approach to eradicate coca plants.
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The US is needed to battle terror in Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
“Any man and any nation that seeks peace and hates war, and is willing to fight the good fight […] will find the United States of America by their side, willing to walk with them – walk with them every step of the way.” More than five decades ago, t…
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Between war and peace: Lobbying US Congress on Iran – Al Jazeera English
The White House has rolled out an advocacy campaign to promote the agreement with a special webpage and Twitter account. Obama has hosted groups of lawmakers at the White House for long discussions of the agreement and is calling individual members …
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Another bombing attempt in Bangkok, no injuries : worldnews
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Map of Chinese pollution’s health impact [580×666] : MapPorn
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Bomb tossed at Sathorn pier, no injuries | Bangkok Post: news
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“Lie Of Omission” · Teen Wolf · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Allow this to sink in for a moment: “Lies Of Omission” is the penultimate episode of the first half of Teen Wolf’s fifth season.
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Video: Hillary’s Meeting With Black Lives Matter — NYMag
In the past few weeks, Black Lives Matter protesters have disrupted Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders campaign events, but the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential election has avoided any embarrassing confrontations – thanks to the Secret S…
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Cats dress up game, help this feline fashionista look purrfect. : cats
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The weather forecast for this week : oddlysatisfying
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Drones Stress Out Bears Just As Much As Humans
Flying RC drones is hugely fun, but also endlessly stressful: at any time you’re liable to chop someone’s hand open, or crash your $1000 toy into a power line. As it turns out, humans aren’t the only ones who get stressed by nearby UAVs.
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Wondermark » Archive » This Weekend: Sasquan in Spokane!
Very brief note just to say: I’m at the World Science Fiction Convention, Sasquan, in Spokane this weekend! I’m not on any panels this year, but I’ll be hanging out with fellow cartoonist pal Dave Kellett (of “Drive”) in the dealer room. Stop by and…
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Wondermark » Archive » #1151; The Creative Firm
In his extremely long and detailed essay “Star Wars Ring Theory”, Mike Klimo argues for a reexamination of the Star Wars prequel movies.
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underwater silence by Hlias Mpr photography / 500px
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Reflex of the Milky Way by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza http://t.co/DwMwyqlNF9 http://t.co/kLx8Vepj84
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“Avoid ALL Contact” With Rain, American Embassy In Beijing Warns : environment
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An amazing feat of engineering : gifs
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Growing up in Namibia, Africa : pics
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If you’ve ever played Call of Cthulhu, the tabletop role-playing game based on the writing of H.P.
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UberEats Comes to San Francisco, Where Food Delivery Is Hot | Re/code
Uber is bringing its food delivery experiment, called UberEats, to San Francisco, land of abundant munchie-apps.
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A mechanic tried to take advantage of my parents; I’m not impressed. : AdviceAnimals
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In the sink. Here’s my cat – Tom. : cats
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Big Pine lakes, Eastern Sierra Mountains, [3110 x 2073], [OC] : EarthPorn
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Shodan, a search engine for internet connected devices. : InternetIsBeautiful
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[OC] Mt. St. Helens [3264×2176] : EarthPorn
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Tianjin residents accuse government of negligence – Al Jazeera English
Dozens of angry residents whose homes were badly damaged by huge explosions last week in China’s northeastern port city of Tianjin, have accused the government of ignoring their plight and have demanded compensation.
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“Top 10 Perform” · So You Think You Can Dance · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The women of So You Think You Can Dance season 12 have had a rough couple of weeks.
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One Direction and Pharrell will headline Apple Music Festival in London | The Verge
Apple has been hosting its iTunes Music Festival in London since 2007, but with the launch of the company’s new streaming service, this series of gigs and shows has been rebranded as the Apple Music Festival.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Under the Milkyway ! by Mike
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All Sides in Yemen May Be Guilty of War Crimes | Al Jazeera America
Amnesty International said Tuesday that all sides fighting in Yemen have left a “trail of civilian death and destruction” in the conflict, killing scores of innocent people in what could amount to war crimes.
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Sudan’s farmers worried over late rainy season – Al Jazeera English
Khartoum, Sudan – It was early June in Sudan’s Gadarif state, and Abd Alghani Abd Albagi was contemplating his options for the imminent rainy season. He needed to rent a tractor and buy diesel – a lot of diesel – because his vast lands stretch acros…
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Venus to face Ivanovic test after seeing off Diyas – Al Jazeera English
Venus Williams held off young challenger Zarina Diyas 7-6, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, where she will meet Ana Ivanovic. Diyas, a rising 21-year-old from Kazakhstan, fell behind in both sets but refu…
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Ethnic Contributions in the Southern Cone [1086 x 1504] : MapPorn
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How often have you bought something you felt wasn’t worth the money? What if you could set the price?
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Important PSA: No, You Can’t Take Your Batarangs Through Airport Security
See? This is why Batman has to be Bruce Wayne, multi-billionaire. He has to be able to afford the Batplane because you lose all credibility once the TSA is patting down your utility belt. These four batarangs were seized by the TSA last week in Bois…
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Bilbao hold off Barcelona to lift Spanish Super Cup – Al Jazeera English
Athletic Bilbao claimed their first silverware in more than three decades when they wrapped up a 5-1 aggregate win over 10-man Barcelona to win the Spanish Super Cup and unleash ecstatic celebrations in the Basque city.
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Twitter Targets Media Partners To Drive Growth In Asia And The Middle East | TechCrunch
Twitter added just 14 million new users in its last quarter of business, and now it is making a big push to grow in Asia and the Middle East, two regions that collectively account for over half of the planet’s internet users… and where Facebook cont…
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No survivors in Indonesia plane crash, officials say – Al Jazeera English
Search and rescue teams have found the flight recorder for a Trigana Air passenger aircraft that crashed in eastern Indonesia, killing all 54 on board, according to officials.
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Clock Tower Penthouse In Brooklyn [1500X998] : RoomPorn
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Gun magazine reloader : interestingasfuck
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There is a Ned Flanders themed metal band called Okilly Dokilly http://t.co/760MC0Cd8g http://t.co/CjzmOcGNRq http://t.co/eyjJw8zbjM
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Last week of work. What are they going to do? Fire me? : firstworldanarchists
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Two hours of star trails, New Zealand [2500×1639][OC] : ExposurePorn
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“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote in her exquisite letter to Sherwood Anderson, adding: “Making your unknown known is the important thing.
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Adopted her from a shelter today and need advice. Please help! : cats
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Inside a post-Katrina police massacre | Al Jazeera America
Just then Robert Rickman, a maintenance worker, security guard and all-purpose troubleshooter for the Friendly Inn, happened to be snapping pictures of the hotel’s water damage for insurance purposes.
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Over the winter months an estimated 22,000 to 23,000 Australian humpback whales, thought to be a new record, will steam up the country’s east coast to their annual breeding grounds at unknown sites in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Apple’s Will Livestream Its Newly Rebranded Apple Music Festival On Beats 1 | TechCrunch
Dr. Dre’s new album premiered on Apple Music, as you might expect, and now Apple is leveraging its annual live music festival to promote its music streaming service.
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Largest star yet discovered compared to the Earth. : space
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Matlab generated Mandala star [3744X2776] : FractalPorn
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Listen to Epic Music online. It’s epic music time! : InternetIsBeautiful
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An Illustrated Tour of New York City from a Dog’s Point of View | Brain Pickings
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry.” So wrote E.B.
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Farewell, Dione: Cassini Makes Final Flyby of Saturn’s Fourth Largest Moon
Cassini’s epic mission to Saturn is coming to a close with a spectacular finale of daring flybys and swooping encounters. The beginning of the end happened today with the last targeted flyby of Dione, the icy moon of towering cliffs and dizzying can…
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Music video by Rush performing Xanadu. (C) 1977 The Island Def Jam Music Group and Anthem Entertainment
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Sealab 2021 – Fusebox – YouTube
Sealab 2021 – FuseboxCopyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyri…
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Mesmerizing : interestingasfuck
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Enjoying the pool together. : AnimalsBeingBros
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Cat in a box in a box, next to a box in a box in a box. : cats
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Sunset curling up with a wave (X-Post from r/woahdude) : oddlysatisfying
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The tigon’s return: a rare tiger-lion takes over the Manchester Museum | Science | The Guardian
Name: MaudeSpecies: Panthera tigris x P. leo crossDates: 1932-1949Claim to fame: TigonWhere now: The Manchester Museum, Manchester When Maude died, there was much sadness.
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Even for the Abbott government the inconsistencies in the latest “war on environmental vigilantes and saboteurs” are astonishing. And the slapstick nature of its attempt to use the issue as a political wedge is up there with Laurel and Hardy.
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My black kitty likes her chin scratches! : cats
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Bernie Takes on the Media…
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‘Star Wars’ Lands Coming to Disneyland, Disney World
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Bernie Takes on the Media – YouTube
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders takes questions from the press after speaking to 2,000 people in Dubuque, Iowa.
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The life of a cat parent : cats
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Why love and Fallout have never mixed · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
At its QuakeCon expo back in July, Bethesda Softworks announced some new details about Fallout 4, the upcoming entry in its long-running post-apocalyptic series.
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Noelle Stevenson’s Runaways sparks an exciting Secret Wars rebellion · Comics Panel · The A.V. Club
One of the best things about this summer’s big event comics from both DC and Marvel has been the gleeful enthusiasm with which scores of creators explore a slew of alternate universes.
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“The Boy Wander” · Wander Over Yonder · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Before I get in the thrust of this review, I just want to say that Wander Over Yonder animates some of the best wacky facial expressions I have ever seen.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, August 18. All times are Eastern. Real Husbands Of Hollywood (BET, 10 p.m.
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A single television episode can exemplify the spirit of its time. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club’s survey of TV at its most distinctive. California Kid: “We both make one jump. Any way you want.”
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Hippo Campus covers Electric Light Orchestra · A.V. Undercover · The A.V. Club
Hippo Campus is a young band in a couple of ways: The Minnesota quartet has only been together a relatively short time, its members are barely of legal drinking age, and it’s only released one EP so far, the Alan Sparhawk-produced Bashful Creatures.
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Band Of Gypsys was Jimi Hendrix’s funky contractual obligation · Permanent Records · The A.V. Club
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. As incredible as it seems with so many now available, Jimi Hendrix released only one official live album during his lifetime. Band Of Gypsys was born out of a compromise.
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Platform9, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to launch an OpenStack private cloud on their existing servers, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures and with participation from…
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‘totally Destroyed’ Indonesian Plane Found | Al Jazeera America
An Indonesian official says that rescuers have managed to reach the crash site of an Indonesian plane that went missing two days ago with 54 people on board and that there were no survivors.
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Emile Hirsch is accused of putting a female studio executive in a chokehold at a Utah nightclub during the 2014 Sundance film festival. The 30-year-old Into the Wild star entered his plea of guilty on Monday. He will spend 15 days in jail, pay a $4,…
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Hubble Sees a “Mess of Stars” | NASA | We Heart It
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“August 17, 2015” · WWE Monday Night Raw · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Welcome everyone to the SummerSlam preview show! After many weeks of good-to-great episodes of Monday Night Raw, WWE spends the entirety of its go-home show “setting the stage” for it’s second biggest PPV, which is a way of saying that it offers up …
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Well, At Least the Minority Report TV Show Looks Great.
In a new featurette, the cast and crew of Fox’s new Minority Report earnestly explain how the show takes the premise of the movie forward. They’re certainly committing a lot of resources to getting the look right.
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Iran Deal and Iran’s Role as Regional Power – The Atlantic
Now here is Donald Pryce, an emeritus professor of history at the University of South Dakota. He says I was wrong to refer off-handedly to “anti-Semitic rhetoric” from the Iranian government.
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Yes, Even the Equator Can Get Slammed by Solar Storms
On Jan. 7, 2014, the sun unleashed a major solar flare and coronal mass ejection (the bright spot at center right), but the Earth’s magnetic field channeled the worst of the solar storm away from the planet, scientists say.Credit: Möstl et al.
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I made a tiny metal Apollo Lunar Lander : space
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Milky Way Panorama Australian Outback (OC)(7682×2667) http://t.co/R8WslVrTmO http://t.co/P49ziUGUeS
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The government will remove the right of most environmental organisations to challenge developments under federal environment laws unless they can show they are “directly affected” – a direct response to the federal court decision this month on Adani…
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Lil B Spent His Birthday Talking Politics on TV — Vulture
Lil B turned another year older Monday, but instead of celebrating his birth in any apparent decadent or lavish manner, the rapper renowned for positive vibes took to MSNBC to discuss politics.
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Life and death beneath the hedge | Environment | The Guardian
Summertime and the living is easy in our garden, except if you happen to feed on earthworms. Then the withered lawn and parched earth of August drive a number of our neighbours to take special measures.
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HMB baby while I grab this foul ball : holdmybeer
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Andromeda Rising over the Alps via NASA http://t.co/u8WRSpNsDx http://t.co/9s18eXsSGu http://t.co/5xOvpnAQuC
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Girlfriend caught Momo’s blep : Blep
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SuperHeroes For Kids : InternetIsBeautiful
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Fatality via /r/funny http://t.co/JV4MI6EpKz http://t.co/lC8PuChyDG
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Warburg Pincus, Illumina & Sutter Hill Launch New Genomics Co. Helix With $100M | TechCrunch
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is joining Sutter Hill Ventures and the industrial gene sequencing company Illumina are committing $100 million to make a foray into the wild world of custom genomics with the launch of a new company — Helix.
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APOD: 2015 August 17 – Andromeda Rising over the Alps
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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How de Blasio Can Recover from His Rough Summer — NYMag
Labor Day can’t arrive fast enough for Bill de Blasio. The holiday weekend will mark, ceremonially, the end of a miserable summer for the mayor.
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Emperor Penguin Picture, Gould Bay – National Geographic Photo of the Day
An emperor penguin bursts from its watery hunting ground in Gould Bay, Antarctica. The largest of all penguins, flightless emperors live on the Antarctic ice, employing physiological adaptations and cooperative behaviors to deal with the harsh envir…
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BuzzFeed Signs Partnership With Yahoo Japan | TechCrunch
BuzzFeed has signed a joint venture with Yahoo Japan, which until recently was the country’s top search portal before Google gained a slight lead.
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Amal Clooney and the Lost Art of Dressing for the Occasion | Vanity Fair
In the past year, Amal Clooney has made a name for herself following rules we thought we no longer had.
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The ‘drinkable books’ that are saving lives – BBC News
Scientists in America have designed a drinkable book that can save lives by making polluted water safe to consume. It’s an instruction manual with information on how and why water should be filtered.
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Abandoned house in the Tigre river [4896×2752] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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City grime ‘breathes back out’ polluting nitrogen gases – BBC News
Scientists say the grime which clings to urban surfaces “breathes out” nitrogen gases when hit by sunlight. The dark muck was known to absorb such gases from the air, but it appears the nitrogen does not stay locked away.
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Pure quartz heated to temperatures of around 1,700 Celsius : oddlysatisfying
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Dreamy Earth – Turkey by Husham Alasadi js – Just Space
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Over 10,000 gates scale a mountain in Japan : Breathless
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Bangalore, India [2803×1865] : CityPorn
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Pink Snake [4259×2851] : AnimalPorn
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Well shit. via /r/funny http://t.co/OULsLa0YpA http://t.co/bIm6V1EUOu
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Just like a dead horse : funny
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Apologies if you’ve already seen a lizard on liquor bottles today. : funny
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‘Please honey not now’ : funny
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A foggy row. via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/qTRMiMf5Ob http://t.co/abtZocnZMV
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MRW the tip touches the inside of the toilet : reactiongifs
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Porteau Cove, British Columbia [OC][6000×4000] : waterporn
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Lap Cat Laptop… Patent Pending : aww
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That time Meryl Streep got a guitar lesson from Neil Young
With Meryl Streep starring in Ricki and the Flash, a new film about an aging rock star who tries to reconnect with the family she blew off 20 years earlier, it makes sense that Streep would be stoked about receiving a guitar lesson from the legendar…
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Bangkok bomb: ‘After the explosion, there was silence’ – Al Jazeera English
A bomb blast on Monday ripped through a shrine in the commercial centre of the Thai capital, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens. Journalist Maher Sattar, who was at the scene of the Erawan Shrine shortly after the blast, spoke to some of…
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Open thread for night owls: Military plans to boost drone program, with more use of mercenaries
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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Why software engineers will be obsolete by 2060
It’s a good time to be a software engineer. The industry is booming, demand for coders continues to grow, and salaries are at an all-time high. But how long will the party last?
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Cascades from South Sister at dawn, OR [OC] [5713×3799] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Shell gets final permit for Arctic oil drilling : worldnews
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Shell gets final permit for Arctic oil drilling – BBC News
Shell gets final permit for Arctic oil drilling via /r/worldnews http://t.co/Cg84j3rSzS http://t.co/W3OBrVZOl3 http://t.co/mqAbHx1uHb
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Mary Tyler Moore posing by the pool in the early ’70s : OldSchoolCool
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Incredibly quick oral needle threading : woahdude
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So, today is black cat day. So here’s my cat trying to steal my Beer. : cats
So, today is black cat day. So here’s my cat trying to steal my Beer. via /r/cats http://t.co/QRF9Pix85Z http://t.co/Jq4oiFnav8
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When Tiger Ferocious finds out he is going to the vet : cats
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He told me I just got served : cats
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Choices were made. Not smart ones, but choices nonetheless : cats
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It’s hot in the North East. : cats
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Black cat day? Here’s Mim-mim sleeping under himself : cats
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For The First Time, Women Will Graduate From Army’s Rigorous Ranger School : The Two-Way : NPR
Two women have completed Army’s tough Ranger School, officials say. Both women are in their 20s and are lieutenants. NPR’s Tom Bowman reports that both women, whose names haven’t been released, attended West Point and will graduate with the rest of …
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500 Startups Steps Into Vietnam To Expand Its Reach In Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
500 Startups, the U.S.-led VC firm, is continuing its push into Southeast Asia after it hired two partners in Vietnam, a signal that it may be about to launch a local fund for startups the country. There are plenty of reasons why Vietnam is attracti…
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Obama Wants Americans Flying to Cuba by 2016 — NYMag
Travel from the U.S. to Cuba has already increased 35 percent since the beginning of January, and the current administration is working to boost that number even more by the time President Obama leaves office.
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Two women qualify as US army rangers | US news | The Guardian
Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the US army’s gruelling ranger course.
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Northern Washington by JTREND / 500px
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‘Show Me a Hero’ examines the root causes of intolerance and inequality
Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy. —F. Scott Fitzgerald In 1980, the NAACP and the Department of Justice sued the city of Yonkers and the Yonkers Board of Education for purposeful segregation of schools and unfair housing practices base…
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Stars by Elena Sai : ImaginaryMindscapes
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RunYourJewels – Android Blues by Oliver Wetter : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Bangkok bomber aimed to ‘destroy economy’ – Al Jazeera English
The bombing of a shrine in the commercial centre of Bangkok which killed at least 20 people and injured dozens was an attack on the country’s economy, Thai officials have said.
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The Chemical Brothers announced their first proper album in five years back in April, and with that album—Born In The Echoes—hitting stores early last month, the band has now released a crazy new video for its first track, “Sometimes I Feel So Deser…
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Earlier this month, Roland Moskowitz, a Cleveland physician, and Sandra Lippy, a retired health care executive of Boca Raton, Fla., got on the line with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
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Look at the shadow of this nugget : mildlyinteresting
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In the Woods Near the Creek [OC] : SummerPorn
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Canadian researchers want to build a 12-mile-high space elevator
A new patent from a Canadian technology firm would allow you to skip the stairway to heaven and just take the elevator. The proposal from Thoth Technology, dubbed “space elevator” on the patent, suggests building a towering 12.
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Redlands California Library as Center of Civic Revival – The Atlantic
The public library in Redlands, California is much more than a steward of books and information. It is an exemplar of the history of the town and a living legend of its spirit of generosity, a hallmark of Redlands since its first days.
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Footage shows Mupee, the first baby Lumholtz tree kangaroo born into the Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation’s captive management program on the Gold Coast. Tree kangaroos are seen as a threatened species owing to hunting and destruction of habitat in Pa…
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Amy Poehler Teases Brand New Details About Her Tina Fey Reunion in Sisters | Vanity Fair
Seven years after their first big-screen collaboration—2008’s Baby Mama—Amy Poehler and Tina Fey reunite at the multiplex this December for another comedy, Sisters.
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Bert likes to shove himself into tight places… : aww
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The leaning Floofloaf of BeeBee : Catloaf
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New Stretchy Electronics Will Help Us Stay Healthy And Safe | TechCrunch
Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are working on a new form of electronics encased in a stretchy, bendable casing that allows you to wrap leads around body parts and even sense strain and stress in b…
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New Stretchy Electronics Will Help Us Stay Healthy And Safe | TechCrunch
Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are working on a new form of electronics encased in a stretchy, bendable casing that allows you to wrap leads around body parts and even sense strain and stress in b…
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New Apple TV will reportedly run iOS 9 and launch in September | The Verge
The world is expecting Apple to show off its next round of iPhones next month, but as reported in July, we could also be seeing something else on stage in September — the new Apple TV set-top box.
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This Carpenter Bee Can’t Sting You, But He’s Certainly Giving You the Eye
He looks like a bumble bee, but this is Xylocopa virginica, the Virginia Carpenter Bee. While females have a stinger, the males don’t, but they do step to other males who invade their turf, watching over females and young.
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First day of class…. : AdviceAnimals
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! http://t.co/6eDiA8iYTx
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Rhino thinks it’s a sheep too : AnimalsBeingBros
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Audrey Hepburn in Italy, 1954 : OldSchoolCool
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Early morning on Lake Louise, Canada [2200×1452] : lakeporn
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Behold! The Laptop Butler That Holds Your Drink To Your Laptop | TechCrunch
As we approach the New Age, a thousand portents churn on the horizon. Dogs and cats begin living together. A man has found something he mislaid months before in a place he has already looked. And, as was written in days of old, the Laptop Butler wou…
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Tenant King Creates Local Marketplaces Within High-Rise Buildings | TechCrunch
One of the most frustrating things about living in an urban high-rise building is the close quarters you are forced to share with neighbors. However, one startup is trying to turn this annoyance into a benefit by letting you utilize your network of …
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Cetus Duo M77 and NGC 1055 : At the top right,… – Just Space
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The Beautiful City of Adelaide, Australia. [2559 x 1599] : CityPorn
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Seriousface orange catloaf : Catloaf
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If a man collapses at the opera, should the show go on? This question came up after a friend observed a commotion in the mezzanine during an operatic version of “Romeo and Juliet.
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HONG KONG — When Prime Minister Li Keqiang convened the Chinese cabinet last month, the troubled economy was the main topic on the agenda. The stock market had stumbled after a yearlong boom. Money was flooding out of the country.
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10 totally insane videos of handmade rubber band guns – Boing Boing
If you dig these videos of artisanal rubber band guns, which appear to be geekily faithful replicas of real guns–well, you should be following parabellum1262 on YouTube.
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How microbes can make plastic from sunshine, carbon, and a little bit of love | Grist
We build with it, eat from it, wear it, let our kids play on it, drive around in it, and decorate our houses with it. It fills our landfills, pollutes our oceans, occasionally leaches toxic chemicals into the environment, and makes your neighbor’s l…
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Harvesting Cork. : oddlysatisfying
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Mt Hood + Milky Way + Aurora Borealis [OC][4024×6024] : EarthPorn
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Laura Linney to play hero wife of hero pilot in Clint Eastwood’s Sully · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Film Newswire Mystic RiverMystic River Aug 17, 2015 7:41 PM
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Chicago from the Signature Lounge [OC][4160×3120] : CityPorn
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Throwing a drum of water into a lava lake : woahdude
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Migaloo, the only confirmed albino humpback whale in the world : pics
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Here’s my black fluff ball, watching over her kingdom. : cats
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Cool photo of Neil deGrasse Tyson as a college student in the eighties – Boing Boing
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The Many Extravagances of America’s Fanciest Car Show | WIRED
Caption: The Quail is one of the most exclusive and overall fanciest events on the American automotive calendar. Mathew Scott for WIRED
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Baltimore Anti-Violence Activists March to DC | Al Jazeera America
As their community grapples with an alarming rise in homicides, most of them shootings, anti-violence activists from Baltimore marched forty miles overnight Sunday to the White House to raise awareness and funding for a plan to stop it.
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Howl put all your favorite comedy podcasts in one place
This is a question Gretta Cohn gets quite often. And she believes it will be answered by Howl, a new premium-subscription platform that debuted Monday from podcast advertising network Midroll, which combines content from its comedy podcast bookends …
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MRW I’m watching a tennis match and both players are really bad : shittyreactiongifs
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Seals by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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Leopard tattooed girl after a workout [634×634] [OC] : HumanPorn
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Alabama sorority’s recruitment video sparks national outrage
In a scene reminiscent of Legally Blonde, a sorority recruitment video beckons us into its bleached-blonde, white-skinned universe and presents it as a place full of beauty and void of substance. But now that sorority is distancing itself from the v…
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Dude Wipes just created the best poop-themed, toilet-based TV ad in history – Boing Boing
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Global economy on course for muted growth this year and next, says Moody’s | Business | The Guardian
The global economy is on course for muted growth this year and next as it faces risks from a slowdown in China, the prospect of higher interest rates in the US and the lingering threat of a Greek exit from the euro, according to the latest forecasts…
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Emile Hirsch gets 15 days in jail for assaulting a woman at Sundance · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It may sometimes seem like celebrities can get away with whatever they want, but for every dozen or so guys like Roman Polanski who are completely and utterly above the law, there are one or two celebrities who actually get punished when they do som…
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Solving an “Unsolvable” Math Problem
Until recently, there were just 14 known convex pentagons (nonregular, five-sided shapes with outward-pointing angles) that could “tile the plane” (be arranged with flush sides on a flat surface, with no gaps or overlaps).
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Hillary Clinton’s evolving response to her private email scandal
Hillary Clinton insisted earlier this year that her homebrew email server was entirely devoid of any classified information. That’s not an assessment you’re likely to hear the Democratic presidential candidate make again.
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With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem : The Two-Way : NPR
Jennifer McLoud-Mann had almost come to believe that her last two years of work had been for naught.
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No, Torture Doesn’t Make Terrorists Tell The Truth — But Here’s What Actually Works – BuzzFeed News
So much for what doesn’t work. But what does? Getting good answers to that question has been a priority for the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), which brings together intelligence experts from the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the St…
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Ruby Laffoon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia article of the day for August 18, 2015 http://t.co/MBKD1odKVU
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Double trouble via /r/cats http://t.co/esw57B4NG9 http://t.co/NzD8yxPjHV
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Spring Arrives in Taos. [OC] [5472 x 3648] : EarthPorn
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John Oliver Slams The Shameless Business Of Televangelism – Digg
US televangelists are still very much a thing, and US tax law allows television preachers to get away with almost anything. From private jets, to guarantees of medical healing to loan-shark-esque tactics, the “Gospel of Prosperity” doesn’t seem quit…
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Chicago from the 96th floor of the Hancock Tower [OC] [4160×3120] : CityPorn
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Been seeing some Simpson’s appreciation – One of my favorites – Imgur
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MRW My BF is into vanilla but I like it kinky. : shittyreactiongifs
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Mystery megadonor for Ted Cruz campaign outed as cellphone exec – Boing Boing
Mr. Nash, a former Yeshiva student, who co-founded PCS Wireless in 2001 as a teen, has been outed as one of Ted Cruz’s biggest and most publicity-averse donors. The Texas Senator’s campaign is notable for its reliance on such individuals.
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Here’s why I won’t be buying anything from Amazon again | Grist
We’ve written a lot about Amazon at Grist, from the company’s high-tech campus a couple miles from our own office to brogrammers taking over Seattle’s gayborhood to the real cost of your Prime account. When you live in Seattle, as both Grist and Ama…
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Can an Islamic climate change declaration inspire 1.6bn Muslims? : environment
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Vegeta & Lord Beerus : perfectloops
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NWA Back In The Day, circa 1985 : OldSchoolCool
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Here’s A Video Of A 6 Foot Tall Humanoid Robot Stomping Through A Forest | TechCrunch
Your wish is my command, my friend. We’ve seen plenty of footage of ATLAS (the two legged humanoid robot being built by the now Google-owned Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA) walking around. The vast majority of it has been indoors, in tightl…
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One in four transgender people delay seeking healthcare due to discrimination, according to the National Center of Transgender Equality. A startup called MyTransHealth aims to address this with a website designed to help trans people access safe hea…
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Woman fined for posting photo of police car illegally parked in handicap spot – Boing Boing
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California Probably Isn’t in the Midst of a Quake Swarm | WIRED
Early this morning, a significant chunk of the Bay Area’s population was shaken out of bed by some seismic action, a window-rattling 4.0 magnitude quake. This is barely a week after another earthquake struck a few miles away, just offshore of the Go…
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Intelligence Officials Flag 305 Hillary Clinton Emails for Possible Classified Info | VICE News
US government lawyers revealed on Monday that intelligence officials have flagged 305 documents from Hillary Clinton’s private emails for review.
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How Bad Is Power Plant Pollution? Depends on the Weather
The pollution that forms downwind of a power plant depends on shifting factors in the air. On some days, the mix produces hardly any of the fine particles that contribute to health problems such as asthma. On others, it can churn out more than twice…
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How Did Sea Turtle Get a Straw Up Its Nose?
Kelp gulls are eating the eyeballs from newborn Cape fur seals—a behavior never before seen in nature, a new study says.
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This Week’s Night Sky: Spot a Gap in Saturn’s Rings
Look for M9 in the constellation Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, about 5 degrees to the upper left of the moon–equal to the width of your fist held at arm’s length. Through small telescopes the globular cluster, located about 23,000 light-years from…
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It doesn’t take a seasoned traveler to know that flights are closer to full than ever. Passengers jockey for overhead space, wrestle over an armrest or are smacked by a reclining seat — at least those relegated to economy.
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Underground home cinema : RoomPorn
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For Black Cat Appreciation Day, meet my kitten Soot Sprite : cats
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California Clean Energy Program Just Isn’t Creating Jobs | VICE News
A California law that promises to create clean energy jobs and make the state’s schools more energy efficient with the help of higher corporate taxes is falling far short of expectations, according to a review by the Associated Press.
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The Bologna Stone Was a Glowing Mystery for 400 Years
The Bologna Stone was discovered in 1603 from a dead volcano near Bologna. When treated with heat, and exposed to sunlight, it would glow for hours—sometimes days. It took 400 years to figure out why. In 1603, Vincenzo Cascariolo was digging in the …
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Here’s How Kristen Stewart Would Feel About a Twilight Reboot | Vanity Fair
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that in the year 2015 Hollywood will shamelessly spin-off or reboot any previously successful movie or television show.
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Stinging indictment: poll reveals public ignorance about bees in the UK | Environment | The Guardian
Half of people cannot name a single species of bee even though the vast majority care about the country’s bees, a new poll suggests.
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Sh2-155: The Cave Nebula. js – Just Space
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Sheltered Suburban Kid : AdviceAnimals
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Satisfaction : TrollXChromosomes
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More dunes at Fort Fisher SRA, NC [OC] [1200×801] : EarthPorn
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Tried to walk downtown after the dog park… He lasted a block. : aww
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Google Hangouts Gets Its Own Site, Just Like Facebook Messenger | TechCrunch
Everyone wants to be free and standalone. Remember when Facebook Messenger got its own site that maybe people use but we’re not sure because they don’t talk about it? Google Hangouts wanted some of that action, too. Starting … http://hangouts.google.
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Indonesia’s environment devastated by illegal mining – Al Jazeera English
Metals from smart phones or laptops come from illegal mines in countries like Indonesia, where miners toil in mud and sand. The mining has a devastating effect on the country’s environment and people.
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E! Online just insulted most of YouTube with one simple post
Do not mess with #TeamInternet. E! Online is learning that the hard way today on social media, as prominent YouTubers respond to an article about this weekend’s Teen Choice Awards in an all-out battle between old media and new.
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The Americans’ Noah Emmerich to guest star on Showtime’s Billions · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If there’s anything we can learn from the first two trailers for Showtime’s upcoming financial drama Billions, it’s that Paul Giamatti’s yelling capabilities haven’t waned and having a lot of money might make you kind of a douche.
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Is Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff facing impeachment? – Al Jazeera English
Angered by a colossal corruption scandal and a declining economy, thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets, calling for the president to step down.
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Sri Lankans vote in test for ex-president Rajapaksa – Al Jazeera English
Sri Lankans have voted in parliamentary elections that could see the former president make a political comeback. The country’s ex-president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is running for prime minister. He was in power for nine years as president until his de…
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Facebook Is Trying to Make Blogging Happen Again | Motherboard
I’m an inveterate backstalker. In case you’re one of the lucky few who aren’t familiar with the term (and probably haven’t fallen victim), it’s pretty vile. You go on Facebook, pick a friend, go on their old statuses and profile pictures, and like a…
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Danger Mouse Preps New Record Label, Signs Autolux | Rolling Stone
Danger Mouse has announced his own Columbia Records imprint, 30th Century Records, which will feature artists personally signed by the songwriter-producer.
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Dollar Mart – Hwy 421 Outside of Boone, NC [3850×2250][OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Major causes of death in The US: 1958 – 2010 [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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U.S. allows Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska : environment
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The Ticket Fairy Pays You To Bring Friends To Events | TechCrunch
If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events marketing and analytics suite coming out of stealth from Y Combinator today.
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The 9 Worst Performing Tech IPOs Of The Last Year | TechCrunch
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On the evening of August 6th, when the news broke that Senator Charles Schumer would vote against the Iran accord, the Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid, was as stunned as the rest of his caucus. The two men are close friends.
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Emile Hirsch Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Film Executive | Vanity Fair
On Monday, Emile Hirsch was sentenced to 15 days in jail for a misdemeanor assault at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Hirsch, who was in Park City, Utah with the indie film 10,000 Saints, pleaded guilty to assaulting Paramount Digital VP Daniele…
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This Ex-KGB Agent Lived in a Church for Six Years to Avoid Deportation From Canada | VICE News
Facing deportation to Russia in 2009, Mikhail Lennikov decided to live in Vancouver’s First Lutheran Church to avoid being separated from his family. On Sunday, his immigration lawyer told Canadian media the former Soviet spy agency worker left the …
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The Heart-Eating Hippie Who Admitted “I Am a Cannibal” When He Was Arrested
“I have a problem. I’m a cannibal.” These matter-of-fact words, uttered by 22-year-old “Satan cultist” Stanley Dean Baker, chilled the California Highway Patrol officer who arrested him in July 1970. And it wasn’t long before that horrifying stateme…
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Chicago, see Owen Wilson and Lake Bell in No Escape early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Though Owen Wilson and Lake Bell often find themselves playing comic relief or good-humored romantic leads, both take a turn for the dramatic with this summer’s No Escape.
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Now you can sing “Panama” better than David Lee Roth in Rock Band 4 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Perhaps you’ve noticed a dearth of Facebook pics featuring a bunch of dorks making their best “rock star” faces while playing video games lately.
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How well do you know Idris Elba? | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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McDonald’s brand explained in just one 3-minute video · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It may not be hamburger week at The A.V. Club, but we’re always committed to providing the best burger content on the internet. Having already shared a historical timeline of the American hamburger last week, here’s a look at the brand evolution of …
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Postscript: Julian Bond (1940-2015) – The New Yorker
The opening lyric from that old civil-rights song—“Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom”—may not have been written with Julian Bond in mind, but he personified it. As a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Se…
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Abandoned Mine, Durham, UK [OC] (3000×3554) : AbandonedPorn
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Tehran, Iran (5616 x 3744) : CityPorn
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Monk pointing at beer? : monkslookingatbeer
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Heroin pilot program partners law enforcement with harm prevention | US news | The Guardian
Police and public health experts trying to stem the “severe threat” of heroin trafficking and addiction in the US will work together for the first time under a federal program that focuses more on prevention, emergency treatment and rehabilitation t…
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LAPD & Chicago bought “Stingrays on steroids” with asset-forfeiture & DHS money – Boing Boing
The military surveillance devices known as “Dirtboxes” have been in secret operation for more than a decade, tracking citizens’ locations and intercepting their calls, breaking the encryption on hundreds of calls at once.
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Local hero ‘Route 29 Batman’ killed in car crash
Larry B. Robinson, known as the Route 29 Batman, was killed in a car accident on Sunday. Robinson, 51, had pulled over to the side of the road attempting to deal with some engine issues when a Toyota Camry struck his car just off Interstate 70 near …
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NLRB Rejects Northwestern Football Players’ Unionization Bid – The Atlantic
Of all the ways people can brag about the superiority of their political beliefs, “I’m happier” is a curious choice.
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Meet Project Ara’s amazing, top-secret, totally fictitious new phone modules | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Sprint, Too, Kills Its Two-Year Contracts | Motherboard
AT&T is the last major US wireless carrier to continue to offer two-year contracts after Sprint said today that it would no longer subsidize the cost of smartphones via a traditional two-year contract.
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Stop trashing the climate! EPA’s new plan would crack down on landfills | Grist
Municipal solid waste — commonly known as trash, garbage, or Ke$ha — is under fire. (Not literally, of course, unless you live in Sacramento.
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Obama gives Shell the final OK to drill in the Arctic | Grist
Climate protesters in Germany blockade a huge strip-mining machine in a scene that looks like it’s straight from Star Wars. Sure, there’s less BPA in use these days — but, a reader asks Umbra, what about the plastics that replaced it in our cans an…
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New research shows a flaw in the plan to tax soda out of existence | Grist
Last week, The New York Times covered Coca-Cola’s effort to steer the scientific discussion away from its namesake product, and the Times editorial board scolded the company for funding groups to downplay the evidence that drinking sugar-sweetened b…
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What will happen when the floods hit drought-parched California? | Grist
After four years of a near-biblical dry spell, it’s hard to think of California ever getting wet again. The entire state is scorching — literally, in the 118,000 acres engulfed in flames.
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*Grinds teeth* [Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa] : animegifs
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Post No Bills : firstworldanarchists
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Lab Rescues Stranded Dogs in a Canoe : AnimalsBeingBros
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Actor Emile Hirsch pleads guilty to assaulting female studio executive | US news | The Guardian
Actor Emile Hirsch has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault after being accused of putting a female studio executive in a chokehold at a Utah nightclub during the Sundance Film Festival. The Into the Wild star entered his plea Monday under a deal w…
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Amazon’s $5 Dash Button Already Hacked To Do Other Stuff Beyond Giving Amazon Money | TechCrunch
Need something to spark a bit of creativity this week? How about a super clever hack for Amazon’s $5, single-purpose Dash buttons?
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The IRS says 338,000 people may have been affected in March hack
More than three times as many Americans may have been affected by an IRS hack in March than previously thought. Criminals potentially accessed the personal information of as many as 338,000 taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service said in a statement…
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Google Hangouts now has its own website | The Verge
Google has given Hangouts a brand new home on the web. As of today, the messaging and video chat service is no longer buried inside of Google+ and Gmail: you can now just head to hangouts.google.com to start talking.
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UNRWA staff in Gaza protest over ‘cuts to services’ – Al Jazeera English
Hundreds of employees with the UN body assisting Palestinian refugees have protested in the Gaza Strip over what they describe as the agency’s slashing of the vital services it provides to Palestinians, especially schooling.
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Jon Stewart to turn heel as host of the WWE SummerSlam · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what is either an ironic commentary on the theatrical, deeply partisan nature of the current political climate or a fun story to tell at cocktail parties, USA Today reports that Jon Stewart’s first post-Daily Show gig will be as host of the WWE S…
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‘Star Wars’ takes a big step forward in casting diversity with ‘Rogue One’
With the D23 Expo casting announcement of Rogue One, the first Star Wars anthology film from Disney and LucasFilm, all eyes were on the newest actors to step into that galaxy far, far away. And it’s not because, well, Star Wars.
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Kevin Costner’s not sure you know how much the world loves Waterworld · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Waterworld, a film synonymous with giant Hollywood flops (regardless of the eventual profitability of the film), has left a bad—one might even say fishy—taste in the mouths of audience members the world over.
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Losses in Lake Mead : Image of the Day
Persistent drought has contributed to the ongoing drawdown of Lake Mead—a large reservoir straddling the Nevada and Arizona border. The decline is visible in these images, acquired 15 years apart with instruments on Landsat satellites.
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MILWAUKEE—Going above and beyond the simple proposition of a 12-month lease, a local Craigslist apartment listing reportedly sweetened the pot Tuesday with an offer to sell the current tenant’s nearly decade-old furniture, sources confirmed.
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Buffalo saves friend by sending lion airborne : AnimalsBeingBros
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If Eminem retires from music I think he has a shot at comedy : funny
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The South Australian government is conducting a royal commission into expanding the nuclear industry in the state.
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Judge: Kentucky clerk need not issue gay marriage licenses amid court case | US news | The Guardian
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is being sued by two gay couples, and US District Judge David Bunning ordered her last week to issue them licenses despite her objections. But on Monday, he granted her request to stay his decision while she pursues her …
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Critics Say New Plan to Stop Heroin Overdoses Shows White House ‘Still Doesn’t Get It’ | VICE News
The White House unveiled a new yearlong initiative to combat heroin overdoses on Monday, announcing a pilot program in 15 states where heroin-related deaths have surged. The government’s $2.
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What We Know About the NSA and AT&T’s Spying Pact | WIRED
New Edward Snowden documents revealed on Saturday in the New York Times detail a decade-long secret partnership between the NSA and AT&T, which provided the spy agency with metadata on billions of emails.
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NSA kremlinology: spooks outsourced lawbreaking to AT&T – Boing Boing
Last weekend’s bombshell report on AT&T’s enthusiastic cooperation with NSA mass surveillance revealed that the NSA categorized many of its most egregious spying programs as “Partner [AT&T] Controlled.
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Your inner child will love this giant Lite-Brite wall
A favorite toy from your childhood is getting a super-sized makeover. Everbright is bringing back pixel art as a modern reimagining for the classic Lite-Brite.
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Chris Hemsworth Isn’t Just Answering Phones in Ghostbusters | Vanity Fair
It looks like Chris Hemsworth will be doing more than some light secretarial work in the new Ghostbusters movie. When director Paul Feig first announced that Hemsworth a.k.a.
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Oldest US veteran dies weeks after she met Obama | US news | The Guardian
A Michigan woman who was believed to be the nation’s oldest veteran at 110 has died a month after meeting President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. The Oakland County medical examiner’s office said Emma Didlake died on Sunday in West Bloomfield, no…
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Penis-on-fire video goes viral, despite being fake
A video of what looks like a woman pouring nail polish remover onto her sleeping boyfriend’s crotch, then lighting it on fire, is going viral.
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Not to be outdone by June which just had its warmest temperatures ever recorded, July has now smashed all its own previous temperature records. NASA just confirmed that the 2015 July was the warmest one ever seen. It’s getting pretty warm up in here…
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In Photos: The Selma to Washington ‘Journey for Justice’ | VICE News
In early August, a week before the one year anniversary of the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, members and supporters of the NAACP converged in Selma, Alabama to embark on a historic march under the b…
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Archive: the dashcam clip that made Maryland’s Batman famous – video | US news | The Guardian
A look back at the dashcam video that made Batman impersonator Leonard Robinson, who was killed in a highway crash on Sunday, an online star. In the clip, shot in March 2012, Robinson is pulled over by Maryland police while dressed head to toe in Ba…
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Should your company make a smartwatch? | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Sprint Kills the Two-Year Contract | WIRED
Four years ago, an Apple patent surfaced that outlined how the consumer electronics company might become something called an MVNO. Rumors to that effect have persisted for years, most recently resurfacing this week at Business Insider.
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Deadspin These Are Our All-Time Favorite Sports Tweets | Jalopnik Maryland’s ‘Lamborghini Batman’ Killed In Highway Crash | Jezebel University of Alabama Sorority Deletes Viral Recruitment Video After Backlash | Lifehacker Watch a Google Street View…
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Gray Goo Scenarios and How to Avoid Them
The prospect of self-replicating nanobots devouring the Earth is a frightening one, indeed. But as Idea Couture foresight strategist Jayar LaFontaine explains, there are some practical things we can do to prevent such nightmares from happening.
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I won’t let some God damn fruit snacks tell me how to live. : firstworldanarchists
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One of many entrances to Mammoth Cave – Cedar City, UT [OC] [1334×750] : EarthPorn
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Flow video controller for iOS lets you easily combine high speed and slowmo
There are plenty of mobile video apps out there that can transform your home-made footage into any kind of artistic work you’d like — from throwing together separate clips into a unified movie to placing special or live motion effects into the mix.
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Zulily’s Buyout Spike Leaves It Less Valuable Then When It Went Public | TechCrunch
For investors of Zulily, today is a good day. The company has agreed to be acquired by the parent company of QVC in a roughly $2.4 billion deal. The agreement values Zulily at $18.75 per share, up nearly 50 percent from its prior close. Temper your …
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After two weeks of testimony, a jury will hear closing arguments Tuesday in the case of a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of an unarmed black man.
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Ace Solar Observatory to Make 3,000th Comet Discovery
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has discovered thousands of comets during its sun-watching mission. Now SOHO is nearing the discovery of Comet No. 3,000.Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/GSFC View full size image SOHO wasn’t meant to search for comets.
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Can Twitch Defeat One of the Hardest Games Ever? (Nah.) | WIRED
We’ve become obsessed with increasingly ludicrous feats of gaming valor. Man beats Dark Souls with his voice. Small child beats Ocarina of Time upside down. Orangutan beats the hardest boss in Destiny while holding its breath, whistling, and hopping…
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Rocket Raccoon’s secret origins are revealed in new animated shorts · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As far as origin stories go, Rocket Raccoon is probably one audiences would actually be interested in watching. The cultish comic book character was a breakout star of last year’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, and the tale of how Rocket Raccoon became Ro…
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A private jail near Nashville, Tennessee, is exploiting free prisoner labor to line staff members’ personal pockets, former inmates allege.
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Constellation Sagittarius: Archer, Dipper or Teapot?
Bow, arrow, milk ladle or teapot — the constellation called the Archer appears as many things besides, and you can find it down near the southern horizon this week.
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Google’s Project Ara Won’t Be Around Until at Least 2016 | Motherboard
Google’s modular smartphone is officially delayed, with tests pushed back to 2016. The program, called Project Ara, was to begin testing in Puerto Rico later this year, but now both the date and the place are uncertain, as developers work toward fin…
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Google Hangouts finally has its own website
It’s a full-fledged Web client, with access to all the same features you’ve come to expect from the service, including voice and audio calls.
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Watch Chvrches’ Dark, Minimal Video for ‘Leave a Trace’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Chvrches’ Dark, Minimal Video for ‘Leave a Trace’ Singer Lauren Mayberry sings against stormy backdrops in promo clip for Glasgow synth-pop trio’s upcoming second LP
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Jordan Spieth’s Majors Run Was One Of The Greatest In Golf History | FiveThirtyEight
By finishing second (to Jason Day) in the PGA Championship on Sunday, Jordan Spieth completed a remarkable run at golf’s major championships this season. He won two major tournaments (the Masters and the U.S.
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There’s one in every meeting : funny
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When Google catches you picking up hookers. : funny
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Our Man in Havana: John Kerry Begins a New Era | The Nation
In the aftermath of inaugurating the reopened US Embassy in Cuba last week, Secretary of State John Kerry toured the Plaza San Francisco in Old Havana and hopped into the driver’s seat of one of the vintage American automobiles that still traverse t…
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Can you believe Donald Trump didn’t register these scandalous domains? | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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How to Add Politics to Our Protest | The Nation
While the electorate is rarely excited for elections, the 2016 race takes place against the backdrop of a country on the brink of a crisis of democratic legitimacy.
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The world won’t be getting a real, functional actual lightsaber any time soon (at least not one that can liquify reinforced metal doors), but that shouldn’t stop anyone from imaging the physics required to build a real starship Enterprise or the law…
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A lawyer representing the family of a 19-year-old man shot dead by police in Seneca, South Carolina, has questioned whether the department is “out of control” and “needs federal oversight because people’s civil rights are being violated”.
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Man moves to Swiss Alps to live life as a goat
To know is not enough. One must be to reach true understanding. And for one goat enthusiast, the world of humans was a bore. To be a goat, however, was was to live.
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Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Jon Stewart’s first hosting gig after The Daily Show is WWE SummerSlam | The Verge
Jon Stewart will be the celebrity guest host of WWE’s annual SummerSlam event, which is happening this Sunday at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
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The 1997 animated film Hercules arrived relatively late in the period known as the Disney Renaissance, underperformed at the box office, and triggered accusations of cultural insensitivity from the population of Greece.
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Girls’ Andrew Rannells will also be on The Simpsons this season · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We already knew that most of the gang from HBO’s Girls would be appearing on The Simpsons’ upcoming 27th season as a “young, funny pharmacist” and her friends, all of whom presumably hate each other a little, if it’s anything like Girls.
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Why is Calvin Harris blocking me on Twitter? | The Verge
Today, I was notified of a 100% inconsequential Twitter fight involving Zayn Malik, Taylor Swift, and Calvin Harris, three individuals whose activities are of interest to me. After reading up on Zayn’s side of the dispute, I went to go see what Calv…
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God bless John Oliver: late-night comedian forms his own church | Television & radio | The Guardian
Bless you, John Oliver. On Sunday, the British satirist and host of Last Week Tonight, eviscerated mega-churches, which earn millions every year by preying on the vulnerable to donate hefty, tax-free donations – but are somehow exempt from paying ta…
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North Korea Promises ‘Military Counter-Action’ to Joint US-South Korea War Games | VICE News
The US and South Korea launched a joint-military exercise on Monday, ignoring a string of threats from North Korea that the planned action would provoke the “strongest military counter-action.
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Better Living Through Podcasts – The New Yorker
One of the pleasures of the portrait-in-greatness podcast—“WTF with Marc Maron” and many dozens of others, multiplying all the time—is the dual presentation of culture and character, the insight into both art and its creation.
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ISIL ‘brutally’ quells rebellion in Libya’s Sirte – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has brutally quelled a rebellion in the Libyan city of Sirte by citizens who took up arms to try to push back the armed group, residents have said.
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Bloomberg Columnist: Report On Amazon’s Work Culture Not Surprising : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Justin Fox, columnist for Bloomberg View, about Amazon’s work culture, following a scathing article in The New York Times.
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California Rations Birth, Death Certificates Amid Security Paper Shortage : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Melody Gutierrez about the shortage of special security paper used for birth and death certificates in California.
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White House Plan To Tackle Heroin Abuse Focuses On Treatment : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks to Director of National Drug Control Policy Michael Botticelli about how the plan to tackle heroin abuse shifts focus from punishment to treatment.
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Money in the music streaming business keeps mysteriously disappearing. Here’s why. | Fusion
A ton of money in the music industry is going missing. Some companies, like Kobalt Music Publishing, have platforms that watch their money in real time.
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People are constantly praising the Haggler’s willingness to fight for consumers. By “constantly,” the Haggler means “about twice a year.” Actually, that might be an exaggeration. It’s probably happened. Once. Don’t ask for specifics, though. But num…
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WASHINGTON — It is not too early to identify the sleeper case of the last Supreme Court term. In an otherwise minor decision about a municipal sign ordinance, the court in June transformed the First Amendment.
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Tech808 Merges The Worlds Of Hip-Hop And Entrepreneurship | TechCrunch
This past Saturday in Oakland, CA, about 120 underrepresented people in tech — ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs to BlackGirlsCODE students to tech leaders — gathered inside ImpactHub Oakland for Tech808, an intimate startup conference inspired by…
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What Is the Most Baffling Decision a Scientist Has Made in a Science Fiction Movie?
Scientists in science fiction movies are often brimming with esoteric knowledge and incredible skills, but some of them… some of them are very poor decision makers. What is the most perplexing choice made by a fictional movie scientist? There are …
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18-year-old hacker busts OS X open, exposes 2 new vulnerabilities
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Windows 10 is the end of cloud-free computing | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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“Eat this.” Nicole hands me a crystalline pebble of MDMA and her Modelo. It’s Saturday, 1 AM, at Webster Hall’s “Grand Ballroom.” A DJ is standing on the main stage in front of a laptop, the origin of a techno song that sounds like every techno song.
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Fires in the Pacific Northwest : Natural Hazards
Summer usually brings hot, dry weather and elevated wildfire risk to the western United States. Summer 2015 was no exception. As of August 17, outbreaks of large wildfires had charred nearly 7 million acres, nearly two million more than the ten-year…
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The U.S. Military Is in Africa—But What Is It Doing There? – In These Times
The United States military is a global force, with bases spanning six continents and dozens of countries.
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What magicians, con-artists, and scammers can teach us about humility and humanity – Boing Boing
On this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, we discuss the folk practitioners of cognitive science with magician and scam expert Brian Brushwood.
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Now that Straight Outta Compton has hit theaters, it’ll likely only be a week or so until the “Straight Outta” meme finally fades away to live out its last remaining days on your aunt’s Facebook page. But before that happy day, there’s at least one …
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US gives Shell the final approval it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic | The Verge
The US government has given Royal Dutch Shell the final approval it needs to drill for oil below the Arctic Ocean floor, off Alaska’s northwest coast. Shell plans to drill two exploration wells before late September, when the open-water season ends.
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From cussing on course to glory on the greens: dawn of a new Jason Day | Sport | The Guardian
Some players keep their aspirations hidden from view but Jason Day is not one of them. In fact, had the Australian not claimed a major championship – let alone fallen just short, time after time – one would be left to wonder about the extent of the …
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Feds Allow Shell to Drill for Oil in Arctic Ocean | Al Jazeera America
Since the vessel arrived last week, Shell is free to drill into oil-bearing rock, estimated at 8,000 feet below the ocean floor, for the first time since its last exploratory well was drilled in 1991.
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Amazon’s ‘Bruising’ Work Environment Was An Inevitability | ThinkProgress
A New York Times exposé on the stressful and extremely competitive workplace culture at the world’s number one retailer has drawn battle lines within Silicon Valley.
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David Denson’s huge leap conceals pro sports’ problem with gay players | Sport | The Guardian
The day before Milwaukee Brewers minor league player David Denson announced he is gay, the first openly gay professional football player walked away from his sport. Michael Sam said he worried for his mental health.
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David Cameron Pigs Out on Paprika Pringles — NYMag
This weekend, British prime minister David Cameron was flying back to Portugal to finish his summer vacation.
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Patented ‘space elevator’ may put astronauts into orbit – Al Jazeera English
A Canadian space company, has been granted the US patent for a space elevator which would take astronauts 20km above Earth so they could then be propelled into orbit. The freestanding space tower would be pneumatically pressurised and be 20 times th…
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Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte – The Atlantic
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a long, brutal piece about what it is like to work at Amazon.
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Warner Bros. is (still) making an animated Scooby-Doo movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what is apparently an annual tradition, Warner Bros. has announced that it is still developing a new big-screen Scooby-Doo movie. The studio first brought this up back in 2013, when it announced that it was working on a totally animated reboot of…
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Slackbot may soon be a lot more helpful than Siri
Slackbot, the handy (but also annoying) assistant buried within communications platform Slack, may soon be a lot more useful. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield says Slackbot may one day be more useful than Siri.
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Arrow’s Starling City Is Getting A Comic Book Name Change
When Arrow first began, it was reticent to show off its comic past—Oliver Queen was a snarly Batman-type, the Green Arrow became “The Hood” and “The Vigilante”, and Star City became Starling.
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Get a Load of This Goddamn Sneaky Octopus
Cephalopod experts at UC Berkeley have discovered that the larger Pacific striped octopus—seen here outstretched—employs a rare hunting strategy.
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Jennifer Aniston fans make a photo of some other pretty woman go viral
Over the weekend, a photo of Jennifer Aniston in her wedding dress went viral and was featured by dozens of media outlets. The only problem? That’s not Jennifer Aniston. The photo was first shared by a Jennifer Aniston fan page. The photo has been l…
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Want to See More LGBT Superhero Comics by LGBT Creators? Support This Anthology
Oath is an upcoming collection of comics featuring original LGBT superheroes written and drawn entirely by LGBT creators. The black-and-white anthology sounds massive: over 240 pages long with work from over two dozen creators.
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Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz – The New Yorker
It’s no spoiler to describe the crucial moment in “Best of Enemies,” Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s documentary about the debates between William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal that were televised live during ABC’s broadcasts of the 1968 Democr…
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Google unveils hopefully sweeter new operating system Marshmallow | Technology | The Guardian
Google’s new operating system is called Marshmallow. The new name was revealed on Monday not in a press release but in a statue outside Google’s office in Mountain View, California.
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Climate change could wipe out the internet’s favorite animal | Grist
Internet dwellers, unite! The red panda, lord of all things cute, is in danger, and only we can help it.
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Project Ara has been delayed until 2016
Google is delaying the launch of Project Ara, its modular smartphone concept, until next year. Originally slated to soft-launch as a beta program in Puerto Rico later this year, Google decided it would rather delay Ara while it looks for locations t…
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Oh man, this episode of This American Life on desegregation and the Normandy School District (aka the Missouri district that Michael Brown attended) just totally wrecked me. Tears of sadness and rage.
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Unboxing Modernism: How the Russian Revolution Spurred Mid-Century Design | Collectors Weekly
Who was “The Man With the Golden Arm” and where did he come from? Well, Frank Sinatra played the “Man” in the 1955 Otto Preminger film, and the movie itself was shot at RKO Studios in Hollywood.
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A Tiny, Working V6 Engine Model — Made Out Of Paper – Digg
This tiny paper and cardboard model of a V6 engine — which “runs” on compressed air — would be perfect for your pet hamster’s miniature Porsche.
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Hand-drawn and framed, ready for college! : sloths
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YouPorn on esports sponsorship: ‘We’re fans and gamers first, and a business second’
Jason “Bizzarro Flame” Yoon enjoys a rare luxury among his fellow Super Smash Bros. competitors. As the Ganondorf player strode around the venue at the Evolution Championship Series (EVO) last month, even casual observers couldn’t help but notice th…
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Netflix spares the average viewer from 130 hours of commercials a year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Besides providing stand-up comedians with hours of material—did you know, for example, that Netflix features many documentaries, some of them quite depressing?—one of the greatest benefits the streaming-service-turned-aspiring-media-conglomerate off…
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Obama Administration Approves Shell’s Request To Drill Even Deeper In The Arctic | ThinkProgress
Just weeks after giving Royal Dutch Shell final approval to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean, the Obama administration is now allowing the oil company to drill even deeper.
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Did anyone require a remix of OMI’s “Cheerleader” that features a large man getting slapped in his belly and occasional verses by Randy “Macho Man” Savage? Probably not. But now that it’s here, it’s hard to imagine the world without it.
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Meet the Next Android: ‘M’ Is for Marshmallow | WIRED
Every release of Google’s operating system so far has taken the name of a sweet treat. So while the next version of Android is officially known as release 6.0, you and I should just call it Marshmallow.
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Matisyahu Kicked Off European Festival Over Palestinian Politics | Rolling Stone
Organizers of a reggae festival in Spain have canceled a scheduled appearance by Matisyahu after he did not respond to their requests to endorse Palestine.
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What We Do In The Shadows is getting a sequel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
What We Do In The Shadows’ writer and star Jemaine Clement has told The Seattle Times that a follow-up film is already in the early planning stages.
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Justin Bieber Joins Khalil and Khelani on Smooth ‘Future’ | Rolling Stone
Produced by Rex Kudo and Charlie Handsome, Khalil’s track is mostly a duet between Bieber and Kehlani, who both croon softly over acoustic guitars. “Baby, there’s a future / Such a great future / See what the future holds,” the young pair sing in th…
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The IRS Vastly Underestimated How Many Tax Forms Hackers Accessed | Motherboard
The cyberattack that the Internal Revenue Service fell victim to in May is much bigger than the service originally projected. At least twice as big, to be a little more exact.
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NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this… – Just Space
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[OC] Volcano in Salar the Uyuni in Bolivia, South America [5184×3456] : EarthPorn
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NEW DELHI — Every society has its articles of faith: “This is a free country”; “Islam is a religion of peace.” The strength of a society depends on the extent to which its articles of faith match the reality on the ground.
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Disney Adding ‘Star Wars’ Attractions To Parks – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced this week that both the company’s Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts would be undergoing massive Star Wars expansions that would each sit on 14 acres of land and include features like the Millennium Falcon, though…
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Exploring the abandoned digital campuses of Second Life universities – Offworld
During the late ’00s heyday of Second Life, everyone wanted a piece of the virtual world’s digital real estate, including colleges and universities who set up their own online campuses to engage students—or even teach real classes.
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Check out the screeching, Earth-shattering sounds of the new Formula E cars
Electric cars are generally known to be silent, but that’s not the case when it comes to Formula E. Think of it as Formula 1, but electric. It’s a very new form of high-performance racing that’s wanting to push the boundaries of the medium.
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800-Pound Publishing Gorilla Facebook Barges Back Into Blogging With “Notes” | TechCrunch
Facebook basically locked Notes in the basement for the past half-decade. Its bare-bones blogging feature launched in 2006 as a place for writing missives that wouldn’t fit in a status update. After a few tweaks like the ability to insert photos, Fa…
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Hillary Clinton emails: 305 flagged as needing further review, lawyers say | US news | The Guardian
Lawyers for the US State Department say they have already identified 305 emails in Hillary Clinton’s private account that may have contained classified information or otherwise require further review, according to a court filing on Monday.
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Officer says police who shot homeless man knew he had schizophrenia | US news | The Guardian
An Albuquerque Swat sergeant says police were aware that a homeless man suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had previously attacked an officer before he was fatally shot during a standoff in March 2014.
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Nichelle Nichols: Lt Uhuru’s Enterprise workout – Boing Boing
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Clinton probe tests FBI chief | TheHill
FBI Director James Comey is being thrust into the spotlight as the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s personal email server intensifies. The FBI is investigating the security of Clinton’s email setup, including if classified information was m…
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Syrian Migrants Are Now Being Processed On A Cruise Ship In Greece | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. Unable to cope with the recent influx of migrants, local authorities on the Greek holiday island of Kos have started processing migrants on board a p…
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Band of former NFL players oppose league’s $1bn concussion settlement | Sport | The Guardian
Former National Football League players who oppose the league’s potential $1bn settlement of lawsuits claiming it hid the risk of concussions on Monday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the accord.
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Planned Parenthood Asks Judge for Emergency Ruling | Al Jazeera America
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, says the Agency for Health Care Administration changed its definitions of gestational periods and that the centers were operating in compliance with Florida …
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Philly’s black barbers shape up voters in 2016 | Al Jazeera America
PHILADELPHIA — State laws have stripped almost 1.4 million black men of the right to vote because of felony convictions, according to estimates from the Sentencing Project.
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Government Introduces Plan To Cut Emissions From Landfills By A Third | ThinkProgress
The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Friday that aim to reduce landfill emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases by nearly a third, in an attempt to more tightly regulate a sector that accounts for nearly a fifth of total U.S. …
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Is Your New Religion | WIRED
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Podcast: Ian McDonald talks about Luna: New Moon – Boing Boing
Science fiction titan Ian McDonald’s forthcoming novel Luna: New Moon is the subject of the latest installment of the always-great Coode Street podcast (MP3). Luna has no government: it has contracts.
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Amazon chief Bezos rejects ‘bruising workplace’ claims – Al Jazeera English
Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, has swiftly sought to reject claims that the company he founded is a “bruising workplace,” saying a scathinh article published in the New York Times (NYT) “doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring A…
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IRS Hacking Victims Up to 334,000 People | Al Jazeera America
A computer breach at the IRS in which thieves stole tax information from thousands of taxpayers is much bigger than the agency originally disclosed, it was revealed Monday.
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There were raised voices and broken glass and the high-voltage emotions that pinball between a wild teen and her worried mom. In their Davie home, Bonnie had installed new locks on the windows to keep her 16-year-old daughter, Cathy, from sneaking o…
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Why the Next Presidency is So Important : progressive
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Why the Next Presidency is So Important – Bill McKibben
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Breathtaking Purple and Green Auroras Leave Photographer Awestruck
A horse statue appears to rear up as a spectacular purple aurora lights up the night sky in this stunning view by a photographer in Washington. The image was taken by Jason Matias at the Wild Horses Monument on the Columbia River Gorge near Vantage,…
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Google delays its Project Ara modular smartphone until 2016 | The Verge
Google is pushing back plans to release its deeply customizable Project Ara smartphone hardware until sometime in 2016. The Ara team today tweeted a message acknowledging the delay and shift away from plans to test out the modular phone project in P…
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South Sudan’s President Refuses to Endorse Peace Deal as Deadline Passes | VICE News
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir today refrained from endorsing an internationally backed peace deal aimed at ending almost two years of war between his government and rebel forces loyal to Riek Machar, his former vice president.
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German mass grave records prehistoric warfare – BBC News
A mass grave containing at least 26 skeletons is further evidence of the brutal conflict that appears to have beset central Europe 7,000 years ago.The remains were uncovered at Schöneck-Kilianstädten in central Germany.Individuals had their heads sm…
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Scott Walker Blames Bald Spot on Sink — NYMag
Whatever gets you through the day. “I’ve got a clean bill of health,” Scott Walker recently told the Washington Post.
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Should Society Start Contacting the Amazon’s Uncontacted Tribes? | VICE News
In June 2014, seven members of the Chitonawa tribe emerged from the Amazon rainforest. Naked except for loincloths, they began communicating across a river with people in the tiny village of Simpatia, part of a protected region in Brazil inhabited b…
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Stunning On-Orbit Time-Lapses Captured By NASA’s One-Year Astronaut | Video
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Misty Copeland’s Fashion Sense and Style Icon Rise | Vanity Fair
Misty Copeland has garnered quite the list of accomplishments lately: first African American principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre; Broadway leading lady; Under Armour spokeswoman. As of this month, add to that list her first appearance o…
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Body Parts and Pools of Blood Visible at Tourist Site Targeted in Bangkok Bombing | VICE News
A bomb blast ripped through the center of Thailand’s capital Monday evening, killing at least 16 people and injuring 81 others. The bomb exploded by the Erawan shrine, a popular religious site located in the heart of Bangkok’s teeming shopping distr…
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Mississippi Coaches Call for State Flag Change — NYMag
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen were among the high-profile names to sign a full-page newspaper ad this weekend calling for the removal of the Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state flag.
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Apple Propels Dr. Dre’s ‘Compton’ to Second Place on Billboard Charts | Motherboard
Compton, Dr. Dre’s third and final album that was exclusively available on Apple Music and iTunes for two weeks earlier this month, has landed at the number two spot on the Billboard Top 200.
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Of all the immortalized Albert Einstein quotes, there is one about the future of military (de-)escalation and global warfare that can really suck the life out of a room: “I do not know how the Third World War will be fought,” Einstein reportedly sai…
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Gears of War resurrects the ‘Mad World’ trailer for the Ultimate Edition
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A Glorious 3D Glimpse of a Massive Martian Canyon
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission has sent back a dramatic image of the Ophir Chasma terrain on Mars, giving us an unprecedented 3D look at one the Solar System’s largest canyons.
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Does Febreze Really Work to De-Funkify Smells? | Motherboard
You’ve likely seen the phrase “neutralizes odors” on product packaging many times. But what does that mean? Is it a bullshit claim? As this video from Reactions shows, there is real science behind the odor-fighting properties of Febreze and similar …
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Sen. Brown Blocking Trade Nominee Over TPP Secrecy
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has put a “hold” on the nomination of Marisa Lago to be deputy U.S. trade representative. Brown says that his trade advisor is not allowed to see text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) unless he is present. The secrec…
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Isn’t he lovely: Stevie Wonder gives free concert in Washington DC – video | Music | The Guardian
Stevie Wonder gives a surprise concert in Washington as part of his fall 2015 tour. A large crowd braved the sweltering heat outside the DC Armory Mall to see Wonder perform five songs on Monday. The 65-year-old is also scheduled to give free pop-up…
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The human cost of getting your next-day Amazon order
According to a new report from the New York Times, delivering all of those books, sweatshirts, and toilet paper in record time takes a considerable human toll on Amazon employees.
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NASA’s Logo From The ’70s Was Ridiculously Cool | WIRED
Jeb Bush recently took to Twitter to offer Hillary Clinton some graphic design advice. The Republican presidential candidate, whose logo has drawn its own special breed of attention, offered what you might call a reworking of Clinton’s divisive ‘H’ …
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MTV’s Moonman statue gets a funky makeover · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Though MTV’s Video Music Awards get sidetracked almost every year by some (occasionally pre-planned) controversy—Eminem challenging Moby to a fight, Kanye West stealing the mic from Taylor Swift, that whole Miley Cyrus/Robin Thicke thing—the show is…
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Mad Max: Fury Road has been the lasting film of the summer, leading to wave after wave of memes, mashups, and other tributes. It’s been wildly celebrated by critics and audiences alike who have found much to enjoy about the film’s simple storyline.
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Trouble at the mill threatens Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s reputation | Business | The Guardian
A company’s reputation is precious. Once lost, it is mightily hard to recover. Think Gerald Ratner, who once famously described the jewellery he was selling as “crap”. Think BP after the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Scooby-Doo Will Return to the Big Screen the Way He Should: Animated
Over a decade has passed since everyone’s favorite, slobbery, mystery-solving dog was on the big screen—and even then Scooby-Doo was presented in an unfamiliar, live-action form. Warner Bros.
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Only a red-hot nickel ball can destroy an old Nokia phone
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Escaping from War-Torn Syria to Western Europe – The Atlantic
The number of migrants fleeing into Europe this year has already reached 235,000, topping the total number of migrants for all of last year, 219,000. The International Organisation for Migration estimated that number will grow to at least a quarter …
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Watch Chemical Brothers’ Creepy, Cyborg-Filled New Video | Rolling Stone
The Chemical Brothers present a dystopian wasteland of oil-guzzling and decaying limbs in their hypnotic clip for “Sometimes I Feel So Deserted,” a single from their eighth LP, Born in the Echoes.
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Bernie Sanders is an unlikely phenomenon. He is attracting massive crowds.
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How to buy an iPhone in America | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Interview with TV show host and maker Jimmy DiResta – Boing Boing
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Norm Macdonald is now Colonel Sanders · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Something squirrely has been going on over at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Last spring, the company trotted out Colonel Sanders as part of a 75th anniversary brand refresh, by which we mean going back to its old branding.
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UK Doctors Actually Got Together and Studied How Much Ears Grow as We Age
A group of UK doctors got together and measured ear growth with age. Then they decided to teach us all the European terms for big ears. Because why not? We all know that ears and other body parts made of cartilaginous material grow as we age, but no…
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The United Nations has promised to offer “every possible help” to a 12-year-old girl who claims to have been raped by a U.N. peacekeeper in the Central African Republic.
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Florida Planned Parenthood asks for ruling on second-trimester abortions | US news | The Guardian
Planned Parenthood in Florida asked a judge Monday for an emergency ruling to allow them to continue performing abortions at 12 and 13 weeks after a discrepancy with the state about what constitutes first- and second-trimester abortions.
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Pixar is doubling down on sequels with its latest lineup
Disney shared details on the next slate of Pixar films coming out to a roaring crowd at the D23 Expo over the weekend, demonstrating that like sister production company Marvel Studios the major focus is on expanding already-established worlds.
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Tiger Woods commits to Wyndham Championship: ‘Bam! Tiger is coming!’ | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods will play the Wyndham Championship for the first time. In an email to the Associated Press on Monday, agent Mark Steinberg confirmed that Woods will play in Greensboro this week.
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Toaster With $5,600 Inside Returned to Target — NYMag
A woman storing thousands of dollars at Black & Decker Bank lost her money in mysterious circumstances last week. She did not lose the $5,600 hidden in her toaster oven in the most obvious fashion — at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
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FTC picks a new favorite app for blocking robocalls
Consumers notched another win in the war against robocalls Monday, as the FTC picked a favorite new app to block automated phone messages.
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Fossil Fuels Make Up An Unusually Large Portion Of Ted Cruz’s Personal Wealth | ThinkProgress
Nearly a quarter of Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) current personal wealth is made up of direct investments in fossil fuels, an unusually high amount for an elected official.
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Photos: Washington Wildfire Burns Resort Town — NYMag
The western United States is burning. More than 100 wildfires are tearing through California, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. The parched, dry landscape and heat are fueling these blazes, which firefighters across the region are struggling to control.
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Everybody wants to be a Ghostbuster—Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon are even going to get their chance next year— and in the ‘80s, Six Flags was prepared to give park goers that chance with a Ghostbusters themed amusem…
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This Week’s TV: Fear the Walking Dead Reveals How the Zombie Apocalypse Began!
Kim Dickens battles a zombie horde in LA the series premiere of the Walking Dead spinoff Fear the Walking Dead. Astronauts Wives Club and Killjoys end their first seasons, and an Autobot created by fan committee makes her animation debut! All on Thi…
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Elevator Up – At the London School Of Economics [OC][1600 x 1068] : ArchitecturePorn
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Inspired by the athleticism and sports-loving nature of Australians, I started thinking about the huge variety of ball-related games out there. I made a list of types of balls and set that list to music. I took this idea and developed an animated vi…
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What It’s Like to Have ADHD As a Grown Woman — The Cut
Years ago, with the start date of a new job closing in, I made the mistake of trying to explain my mounting panic to the guy I was dating at the time. “I’m so afraid of screwing up,” I told him, trying to keep my voice even, “with the ADHD stuff.
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Equality: Why We Can’t Wait | The Nation
Ad Policy Skip to content Facebook Twitter Sign Up Equality: Why We Can’t Wait Copyright © 2015 The Nation
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FREE TEXT BOOKS. You may need this next week. – Imgur
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Do you think President Obama is a socialist? No.
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Facebook’s Big Notes Redesign: Let There Be Blog | WIRED
Remember Facebook Notes? I didn’t. And based on the sparse number of friend-written Notes I found when I finally traversed my way to that long-forgotten corner of Facebook, not many of you do either. That makes reports of its recent overhaul a bit o…
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The Smoldering Character Study Trailer: Carol | WIRED
It’s always fun to find the through lines in an actor’s career.
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The White House Wants To Put Heroin Addicts In Treatment Rather Than In Prison | ThinkProgress
The Obama administration unveiled a new strategy to combat heroin abuse on Monday, pledging $2.5 million in additional funds to target five “high intensity drug trafficking areas.
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When Radazz Hearns was shot seven times by police in Trenton, New Jersey earlier this month, police claimed the 14-year-old pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot them while running.
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Who Gets to Wear Hervé Léger? The Bandage Dress and the ‘Voluptuous’ Woman – The Atlantic
If you have not, yourself, worn a bandage dress, you have probably seen a bandage dress—on a celebrity, on a reality TV character, on a model, in a magazine, in the wild.
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How Radio Enthusiasts Are Listening to Earth’s Secret Symphony – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Stephen McGreevy looked nervously at the sky. Outside his camper van in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, angry black clouds gathered on the horizon as 30-mile-per-hour winds whipped across the flat expanse. At his feet, an array of copper wire—hundreds o…
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NEW ADVENTURE [OC] : perfectloops
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Volcano Beach, Ney’s Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada [OC] [2446×2446] : EarthPorn
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How DNA Could Replace Hard Drives
The capacity of our digital storage devices has skyrocketed in recent years. But there’s one storage medium that still kicks the crap out of our state-of-the-art solid state, and humans didn’t invent it. It’s called DNA.
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Venera 7, 1st to Send Data from Venus Surface, Launched 45 Years Ago
Forty-five years ago today (Aug. 17), the then-Soviet Union launched Venera 7, a spacecraft that would eventually become the first probe ever to send data from the surface of Venus, if only for a few brief minutes.
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Custom Analytics Company Keen IO Goes Open Source With Its Data Explorer | TechCrunch
Keen IO announced today that it’s open sourcing one of its key features. The company allows customers to create their own analytics tools without having to develop the infrastructure from scratch.
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6 quotes from the NYT’s Amazon exposé you won’t believe are real
Most likely, you’ve done business with Amazon.com. From selling books at a fraction of the price to streaming hit series like Transparent, the Internet marketplace pioneer has undoubtedly made itself hard to ignore.
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China Cracks Down on Websites Accused of Spreading ‘Rumors’ About the Tianjin Blast | VICE News
Four days after several mammoth chemical explosions killed more than 100 people in the Chinese city of Tianjin, government officials in the country are working to control the flow of information about the disaster.
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Russia warns of Ukraine offensive amid deadly shelling – Al Jazeera English
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, has warned of a possible Ukraine offensive against pro-Moscow separatists in east Ukraine, following an upsurge in fighting that has left seven civilians dead.
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How Instagram’s ‘The Fat Jew’ Is Building a Career Off Other People’s Jokes – The Atlantic
While the comedy community isn’t divided on Ostrovsky, the idea of joke “ownership” seems less concrete to the wider public, considering that the age-old concept of joke-telling seems built on the idea that no one can claim the rights to a particula…
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US Examines Citigroup ties to Mexican Billionaire | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into Citigroup’s dealings with companies linked to Mexican billionaire Carlos Hank Rhon as part of an expanding investigation into the bank’s money-laundering controls, Bloomberg reported on Monday. U.S.
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Details Of Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
This week, Donald Trump unveiled his plan for addressing immigration as president, a series of core principles that specify his heretofore generalized statements about America’s relationship with immigrants.
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Early morning in Pike National Forest [4147×2765][OC] : EarthPorn
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Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover Explain How Bandette Can Be Bright and Fun and Scary All At Once
Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover are the writing and art team behind Bandette, named for the costumed teen thief who battles sinister master criminals and stays one step ahead of the law in its pages. We talked to Coover and Tobin about what it takes t…
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Inside the sensual world of ASMRotica – Boing Boing
We’ve written about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) on Boing Boing several times in the past couple of years. (See “The brain-tingling world of ASMR collides with science fiction” and “The whispery world of ASMR enters virtual reality”).
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Ted Cruz launches Guam ground game as consultant is sent to tiny island | US news | The Guardian
It’s not unusual for presidential campaigns to deploy staffers across the country in the year before voting begins. But Republican candidate Ted Cruz has gone one step further and sent an operative across the Pacific Ocean.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt Can’t Hardly Wait for a sequel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Following a screening of the flagship ’90s teen movie Can’t Hardly Wait at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (where even the dead had to endure lines like, “Let’s go, boys. Time is honey”), star Jennifer Love Hewitt has started a Twitter campaign to make a…
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iPhone’s Siri made call that teenager says saved his life on Tennessee road | US news | The Guardian
Sam Ray says the voice recognition service on his iPhone called emergency dispatchers after his truck fell on him while he tried to make repairs.
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Hillary Clinton has a fundraising pot that is overflowing. She appears to be cruising to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination: and then, if the stars align in her favour, on to a well-deserved place in history as the first female president of…
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Kingdom Hearts III to include Baymax and San Fransokyo from ‘Big Hero 6’
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Dads react to the catcalling their daughters experience every day
Do men really know what the women in their lives go through on a daily basis? Apparently not. In a new video from The Scene, three father/daughter pairs sat together and watched candidly shot footage of the daughters walking down the street getting…
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Former Black Flag, Misfits Member Dez Cadena Reveals Cancer Battle | Rolling Stone
Dez Cadena of Black Flag in 1981. Dez Cadena, who rose to prominence fronting Black Flag prior to the band’s recruitment of Henry Rollins, has announced that he is still battling throat cancer. The guitarist and singer had a malignant tumor removed …
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Hannibal GIF and a Graf: Will Has Just About Had It | WIRED
Hot damn, it’s great to hear that theme song again. After a three-month break—irregular episode scheduling has become Disney’s M.O.
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Please Let This What We Do in the Shadows Sequel Happen
Co-writer/co-director/costar Jermaine Clement has confirmed that a sequel to the vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows is in the planning stages.
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Here Are the True Radiation Dangers in Your Environment
People are terrified that they’re being exposed to radiation all the time, whether from distant nuclear accident or the mobile devices snuggled against their heads. Generally, they are wrong.
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Higher education doesn’t protect black and Hispanic students’ family wealth in periods of economic recession, a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows. The research found these groups’ wealth took a bigger hit than white and Asi…
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Google’s Android naming policy: ‘sometimes we like to troll’ | The Verge
Google’s revelation of Marshmallow as the name of Android 6.0 today has been accompanied by a behind-the-scenes video that gives a glimpse into the creative process behind Google’s naming scheme. It turns out to be just as lighthearted and jovial as…
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An archaeological dig at an 18th-century military site in the southern Adirondacks has uncovered large sections of stone walls that are believed to have been constructed within a larger British fortification that was never completed more than 250 ye…
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Watch record-breaking free solo slackline walk – Boing Boing
Earlier this month, Spencer Seabrooke broke the world record for the longest free solo slackline ever. He walked 209 feet, 1000 feet above a canyon in Canada. He slipped off the rope twice and had to catch himself.
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Watch the Peanuts gang react to the The Peanuts Movie trailer · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
When the first trailer dropped for The Peanuts Movie, people weren’t sure to make of it. A CGI-animated version of beloved hand drawn characters was one thing to get used to, but then there were all the odd music cues to swallow alongside these aest…
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In 2000, Aaron Carter was on a quest to be the “flyest kid on the block” · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: songs that tell a story. There are lots of good story songs, and then there’s “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It),” the hit 2000 single by Aaron Carter, brother of Backstr…
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Deadline reports that 20th Century Fox has tapped Annabelle director John R. Leonetti to helm an adaptation of Tag, a comic miniseries by DC Comics writer Keith Giffen and Kody Chamberlain (BloodRayne, Sweets).
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With Teen Angel, two Simpsons alums dared to laugh in the face of death · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With Lifetime debuting The Unauthorized Full House Story, we take a look at some favorites from the TGIF era.
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Cameron Crowe Looks Back on His 1975 Eagles Cover Story | Rolling Stone
“Take It Easy” had only been out a few months in the summer of 1972. I was a big fan of the song, and was still in high school when the Eagles came to the San Diego Civic Theatre.
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Here Are the Mobile Companies Still Tracking You Across the Web | Motherboard
Tracking headers, sometimes called “supercookies,” are injected into your connection by internet companies at the network level so users have no control over their use.
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WASHINGTON—Amidst a recent decline in support from likely primary voters, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was assured by campaign staffers Monday that her drop in the polls was merely an indication that people have not yet abandoned their ide…
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“Pixar is bulletproof, assholes”
John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Pixar, writing in The Onion: I’ve Got You Dumb Motherfuckers Eating Right Out Of My Hand.
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How an inspiring group of women built one of the greenest buildings in Portland | Grist
When the Portland Alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority purchased a long-abandoned gas station in east Portland in 1992, the idea was to use it as a meeting place. But it was a little dirty. Correction: “It was nasty!” insists Aletha Cha…
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Check out these amazing photos of activists shutting down a coal mine | Grist
More than 1,000 activists descended into a dystopian hellscape on Saturday to shut down one of Europe’s largest sources of carbon pollution, a lignite coal mine owned by RWE, Germany’s biggest power company.
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Boston, ‘The Last Tenement’ [960×600]…Riding through this world all alone : CityPorn
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Mr. Skeltal is going through an existential crisis Doot Doot : ledootgeneration
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Tips For Handling A Picky Eater – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Tips For Handling A Picky Eater – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Having a child who refuses to eat most foods can be both frustrating and alarming for parents, but there are ways to work through this phase as a family.
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Post-TI Dota 2 roster reshuffling creeps into Asia
The annual, sweeping changes that follow Dota 2’s biggest event are spreading into Asia. The top respective teams in Malaysia and Korea, Fnatic and MVP Phoenix, have both made major changes to their rosters with more likely to come in the future.
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This is What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Exercising
It takes a lot of hard work to stay in shape, which is why it’s important to exercise on a regular basis. But it’s not always possible to remain active, and sometimes a few days off can turn into a more… extended hiatus. Here’s what happens to you…
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YC-Backed Drip Capital Provides Small Businesses With Working Capital, Loans | TechCrunch
With a broader U.S. economic recovery under way, loans to small businesses that fall under the $1 million mark have still been slow to recover. A Y Combinator startup called Drip Capital is looking to step in with a new product for working capital t…
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Speculation grows that Iran willing to ‘swap’ Washington Post reporter | World news | The Guardian
The case against Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who is expected to be sentenced in Iran this week, remains a mystery and subject to much speculation.
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Amazon treats its workers like machines because it wishes they were machines
Online retail giant Amazon is embroiled in yet another controversy about the company’s rather absurd standards for its workers.
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Share your most vivid memory of hurricane Katrina with GuardianWitness | US news | The Guardian
It’s been 10 years since hurricane Katrina pounded the US gulf coast and caused disastrous flooding in New Orleans after levees failed to hold back the water. Looking back, what’s your most vivid memory?
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CNN Surprised To Learn Hip-Hop Film Didn’t Result In Mass Violence | ThinkProgress
CNN ran a segment on Monday reporting that there wasn’t violence at movie theaters during the opening weekend of the hip-hop oriented film Straight Outta Compton. CNN host Carol Costello reported, “Some movie theaters were worried about violence whe…
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Mike Huckabee says he supports Paraguay’s denial of abortion for raped 11-year-old girl
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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P2P Payments App Xendit Launches In Indonesia | TechCrunch
Xendit, a money-transfer service geared toward Southeast Asian countries, is launching today in Indonesia. The company is billing itself as a more private money-transfer service that’ll beat companies like Venmo to the market in Southeast Asia.
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Build a top quality kinetic Rhinoceros Mini-Beest from a kit – Boing Boing
Dutch engineer and artist Theo Jansen has created the most amazing kinematic sculptures, which he refers to as life forms. The incredibly ingenious mechanical linkages are powered by compressed air, harvested from the wind.
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Stealthy Hardware Startup Solu Bags $1.3M Seed | TechCrunch
Another hardware startup is sparking up in Finland. Helsinki-based startup Solu has taken in a $1.3 million seed round, ahead of a planned product launch this fall.
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Over the weekend, The New York Times published a long, brutal piece about what it is like to work at Amazon.
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A meat-inclusive diet often comes with a side of environmental caveats, including livestock’s contribution to global warming, its contribution to deforestation, and the stress it places on a bevy of increasingly precious resources, from water to lan…
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My Stuff: Matthew Gray Gubler | Vanity Fair
—a film student and Wes Anderson’s intern—was cast in the seminal role of Intern #1 in the filmmaker’s 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Since then, you may know him as the mad genius Dr.
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This is What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Exercising
It takes a lot of hard work to stay in shape, which is why it’s important to exercise on a regular basis. But it’s not always possible to remain active, and sometimes a few days off can turn into a more… extended hiatus. Here’s what happens to you…
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Talking Politics With the Head of the Communist Party USA
The United States of America has a Communist Party. John Bachtell is its national chairman. We spoke to him about American politics, the mistakes of the Soviets, and communism’s “branding problem.” Bachtell grew up in Ohio, with parents active in th…
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The Science of Melting Cheese | Serious Eats
Have you ever gotten all excited to make a grilled cheese and then…your cheese just doesn’t melt? Or maybe it breaks, separating into a tough, stringy mass surrounded by a pool of oil? Yup, it’s a crappy feeling. Luckily, there are ways to know wh…
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Zodiacal Light or false dawn taken at night along… – Just Space
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ST. LOUIS—Emphasizing that a new stadium to replace the 19-year-old Edward Jones Dome is an absolute necessity, St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke revealed Monday that the team will be forced to relocate as soon as 2016 unless taxpayers build a new s…
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The 500px Marketplace was born out of a simple desire: reward visual creativity.
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Race and criminal justice: What the Black Lives Matter campaign gets wrong | The Economist
HECKLING politicians is rarely an effective form of advocacy. In the midterm elections advocates for illegal immigrants heckled Barack Obama—and mostly were shouted down.
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If you put together a list of the world’s greatest Vincent Price fans, you’d have to rank Tim Burton at the top. That goes for “greatest” in the sense of both the fervency of the fan’s enthusiasm for all things Price, and for the fan’s accomplishmen…
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Smoke from Tianjin Explosion Fires Spied from Space
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Smoke from two massive explosions that rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin on Wednesday (Aug. 12) floated east over the Bohai Sea before heading south toward the Shangdong Peninsula, NASA satellite images reveal. The images, captured yesterday (… -
How Much Does it Cost to Clone Your Favorite App?
How much does it cost to build an application like Uber? If you ask a developer, it’s hard to get a straight answer. That makes sense, software development is a complex process.
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I built a Twitter bot that entered—and won—1,000 online contests for me – Quartz
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning an average of four contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight. RT for chance 2 win 2 tkts & Miami prize pack! #DeeringSeafoodFestival T…
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The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Tomorrow And You’re Coming And That’s Final! | TechCrunch
We’re a day away, people. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in NYC is going down in almost exactly 24 hours, and it simply wouldn’t be complete without you.
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Ukraine’s Mystery Battle: Hunting for Truths Across an Elastic Border | VICE News
The dynamic of claim and counter-claim between the opposing forces in eastern Ukraine is nothing new. From social media posts to ministerial press releases, the conflict is as much a war of words as it is of bombs and bullets.
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Masters of Sex GIF and a Graf: A Proper Courtship | 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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How to hack Amazon’s $5 WiFi button to track baby data – Boing Boing
Amazon is selling Dash Buttons for $5. They contain a Wi-Fi radio and a battery. You are supposed to stick them to your washing machine, inside a cabinet door, etc, and when you run out of Tide, Gatorade, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, etc., you just pu…
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Meet the Twitter bot that’s inventing new musical subgenres · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Anyone who’s ever asked someone in a band what kind of music they play knows the kinds of pretzel-twist descriptions musicians will often come up with to avoid having to label their art.
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Trump’s Day On Jury Duty Gets the Snapchat Treatment | 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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In Photos: Deadly Heat Waves Scorch Europe, the Middle East, and Asia | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Coming off its hottest year ever and fueled by a “Godzilla” El Niño, Planet Earth keeps getting hotter and hotter, with NASA reporting that last month …
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The Next Global Spy Wars Won’t Be Over Weapons—They Will Be Over Food
In the clandestine world of spies and double agents, there are some constants: mysterious strangers, drop-off points, stolen secrets. But it’s not missile plans these spies are seeking.
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Why Do People Support Donald Trump? – The Atlantic
Trump Could Make the Speech Police Go Away––“I’m in my early 30s and I grew up in San Francisco in a liberal home. And I have a very difficult time keeping up with all the various appropriate and inappropriate terms used to reference people and thei…
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It looks like BBC America is no longer content to let HBO, Starz, The History Channel, Syfy, and seemingly every other channel with the slightest amount of original programming hog all the series about dudes hitting other dudes with swords.
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The New Harry Potter Spinoff Movie, Written by J.K. Rowling, Is Now Filming
Harry Potter may have hung up his horcruxes with Deathly Hallows, but Hollywood isn’t done with the wizarding world. Monday marked the start of filming on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel written by Potter creator J.K. Rowling hers…
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United Airlines’ Frequent Flyer App Can Be Hacked to Reveal Passenger Info | Motherboard
Flying has never been more convenient for customers. The security checks might be a drag, but sometimes all it takes to check in online is punching in a few digits into a mobile app. But that may be just a little too convenient.
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Morgan Freeman’s Granddaughter E’Dena Hines Stabbed to Death | Vanity Fair
A woman stabbed to death on a Manhattan street on Sunday night has been identified as E’Dena Hines, an actress and granddaughter of Oscar winner Morgan Freeman.
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Cannabis, Once a Crime, Becomes an American Dream – The Atlantic
Wanda James describes herself and her husband, Scott Durrah, as “serial entrepreneurs.” They’ve owned restaurants, consulting companies, and they are the first African American dispensary owners in Colorado. However, the goal is more than just bring…
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Someone Weaponized a Frisbee by Attaching Scalpels | Motherboard
If you really, really want to win a game of Ultimate Frisbee, and don’t care about going to jail, consider this Frisbee/ninja throwing star hybrid created by YouTube user Jörg Sprave.
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The Whistled Language of Northern Turkey – The New Yorker
The small town of Kuşköy, which is tucked into an isolated valley on the rainy, mountainous Black Sea coast of Turkey, looks much like the other villages in the region. Houses balance on steep hillsides beside tea fields and hazelnut orchards.
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This happened to my sister when we were kids. : AdviceAnimals
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Wood Tables Embedded With Glass Rivers By Greg Klassen : woahdude
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Mr. Twigs says “happy black cat appreciation day!” : cats
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Our Fluffy Maine Coon Kitty. : cats
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What Julian Bond Taught Me | The Nation
His lecture on the Montgomery bus boycott spanned three class periods. Professor Julian Bond traced the origins and development of the boycott, in the hours and days after Rosa Parks’ arrest.
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Google’s Next Version Of Android Is Called “Marshmallow” | TechCrunch
Google has made it a thing to name its Android OS versions after food. Not just any food, food that’s really bad for you. This version, which has been called “M” until now, had its name unveiled today: The new statue was unveiled today on Google’s c…
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Migrant workers in Qatar will begin receiving wage payments directly to their bank accounts beginning on Tuesday. The Wage Protection System (WPS) aims to guarantee that migrant workers — many of whom are working on 2022 World Cup-related projects —…
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FDA: Medical Scope Maker Failed to Report Problems | Al Jazeera America
Federal regulators have uncovered new violations by the manufacturer of medical scopes recently linked to outbreaks of deadly “superbug” bacteria at U.S. hospitals. Olympus Corp.
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Lebanon’s BMX-Riding Preacher Arrested After Two Years On the Run | VICE News
The fugitive Lebanese cleric Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir was apprehended at Beirut’s airport on Saturday as he attempted to board a plane to Nigeria with fake travel documents. Assir tried to disguise his appearance by shaving his beard and donning a 1970…
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Going up? Space elevator could zoom astronauts into Earth’s stratosphere | Science | The Guardian
A Canadian space firm is one step closer to revolutionizing space travel with a simple idea – instead of taking a rocket ship, why not take a giant elevator into space? Thoth Technology Inc has been granted the US patent for a space elevator designe…
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Weekend Box Office: Straight Outta Compton goes straight to the top · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It wasn’t superheroes, but a kind of retroactive supergroup, that owned the domestic box-office on one of the final weekends of summer. Straight Outta Compton, a kind of origin story of the seminal rap group N.W.A., opened to the tune of $56.1 milli…
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Dave Goldberg’s Proposal to Restructure Sony Music | Re/code
A decade and a half after Napster, the music business is finally changing. But only grudgingly: Even as music labels have begun to embrace digital streaming, they are still trying to protect the sales of $15 albums, a format consumers have long reje…
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Tracy Morgan to make triumphant TV return as host of SNL · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After surviving a near-fatal accident more than a year ago, Tracy Morgan will make his triumphant return to comedy as the host of Saturday Night Live this October. Variety reports that Morgan, who’s emceed the show once before, will host the third e…
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Android M’s name is Marshmallow | The Verge
Google has revealed what the M in Android M stands for: Marshmallow. The Android 5.2 update, set for release this fall, was first previewed at the company’s I/O conference in late May. But as it’s done before, Google held off on announcing the full …
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South Sudan leader Salva Kiir snubs peace deal – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has refused to sign a final peace deal following talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, aimed at ending the country’s civil war.
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Northwestern Football Team Barred From Union — NYMag
The National Labor Relations Board decided unanimously on Monday to dismiss the Northwestern University football team’s petition to unionize. The decision cannot be appealed, but the board said this outcome doesn’t “preclude reconsideration of this …
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Tracy Morgan, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer to Host ‘SNL’ | Rolling Stone
Tracy Morgan, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer to Host ‘SNL’ Sketch show’s upcoming 41st season kicks off October 3rd
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Lena Dunham’s newsletter Lenny launches early for special Sandra Bland story
Sandra Bland may no longer be alive to tell her story, but Lena Dunham’s new online newsletter is doing its part to make sure it lives on.
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The Thing is a legendary roadside tourist trap. How the hell is it still in business?
Driving on Interstate 10 between El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix you’ll spot these signs for a mysterious roadside attraction known as the Thing. They’re tough to miss: According to RoadsideAmerica.com, 247 of them were counted within a 200-mile span of…
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Trump Is the Republicans’ Nightmare — NYMag
When Donald Trump initially rocketed to the top of national Republican polls, it was fashionable to compare him to Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich — a flamboyant media personality, briefly capturing the spotlight, but doomed to immo…
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Philadelphia police use old Saved By The Bell PSA to say “No” to drugs · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last week, the Philadelphia Police Department released its latest anti-drug public service announcement, which is actually an old PSA taken from an episode of Saved By The Bell entitled “No Hope With Dope.
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Though some pretty rabid anti-Fat Jew sentiment had been bubbling under for a while, it really kicked up on Twitter this weekend, with dozens upon dozens of comedians weighing in on the Instagram darling, “content aggregator,” and blatant joke thief.
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20 of the Most Useless Dungeons & Dragons Spells Ever
Wizards are the most powerful characters in Dungeons & Dragons, as the hundreds of spells available to Magic-Users, IIllustionists, Necromancers, Clerics, Druids, will attest. But for every Meteor Swarm, Time Stop and Resurrection there are a dozen …
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Google Maps can now tell you if it’s worth installing solar panels on your roof | The Verge
Google wants to help you harness the power of the sun. A new service called Project Sunroof aims to provide a “treasure map” of solar energy with the help of Google Maps.
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September is almost here, and with it comes The 2015 Los Angeles Podcast Festival, this year presented by Audible.
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Tituss Burgess and Keegan-Michael Key chat about challenges on Bullseye · Podmass · The A.V. Club
Tituss Burgess and Keegan-Michael Key chat about challenges on Bullseye
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Grateful Dead China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider 4 17 1972 – YouTube
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Grateful Dead China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider 4 17 1972 – YouTube
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[OC] Panoramic Downtown Vancouver on a cloudy Summer night [1475×439] : CityPorn
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How these fourteen year old littersisters still sleep. : cats
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Google’s Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof | TechCrunch
Google now lets you see if your house is a good candidate for installing solar panels. Project Sunroof, a 20% project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, shows you how much solar power your roof could generate using Google Maps and the data it ha…
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Being the child of an active-duty military member may present increased risks for violence, substance abuse and becoming the victim of bullying, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics finds.
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Wuala, The Secure P2P Cloud Storage Service Acquired By LaCie, To Shut Down | TechCrunch
Back in 2009, hardware storage company LaCie acquired Wualu, a Zurich-based startup and pioneer in peer-to-peer cloud storage. Despite exiting pretty early instead of scaling to become a leader in the space (in then somewhat typical European style),…
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UK radioactive waste disposal site search continues despite opposition | Environment | The Guardian
Plans costing £4bn to identify and create a geological disposal site for the UK’s radioactive waste are being hindered by a “nuclear perception problem” say experts.
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The ‘Straight Outta Compton’ tribute in Grand Theft Auto has the right attitude
YouTuber AnimalRobot has shown yet again how the Rockstar Editor in GTA V is such a versatile tool for creating machinima, including music videos. His tribute to the original N.W.A. music video comes hot on the heels of a huge opening weekend for do…
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Josh Ostrovsky, known to his 5.7 million Instagram followers as “The Fat Jew,” just signed with major Hollywood agency CAA.
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Board Votes Against College Athletes to Unionize | Al Jazeera America
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday overturned a historic ruling that gave Northwestern University football players the go-head to form the nation’s first college athletes union, saying the prospect of union and non-union teams could throw …
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Our Alphabet company generator could help you build the next Google | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Donald Trump says he’s Batman. He’s really Bizarro Lex Luthor | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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S.N.L. Picks Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer, and Tracy Morgan As Their First Hosts | Vanity Fair
When S.N.L. fans started trying to predict who the first host in fall 2015 would be, many people guessed Amy Schumer. Well, they were pretty close.
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The Transformative Power of Dancing in the Dark – The Atlantic
Peter Vosper is an engineer by day, but at night he can be found dancing in the streets in a glowing body suit. This short documentary follows Vosper to No Lights No Lycra, a weekly dance event where strangers come together in a dark room to see whe…
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Donald Trump is good for women—but not for the reason you think
Donald Trump is terrible for women, and he’s terrible for the Republican Party, so says the conventional wisdom.
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The abandoned Buran Shuttle hangar (Album) : space
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When you just want what you were promised. : trippinthroughtime
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Everything* Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan Gets Wrong | FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the southern border of the United States and get Mexico to pay for it. He wants to end birthright citizenship. He wants to deport tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants. What he doesn’t want, apparently, i…
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Soda Pop Soldier, a novel of what is far too likely to come, by Nick Cole – Boing Boing
I remember the Cola Wars, I lost so many friends. Nick Cole offers a fantastic look at the future of advertising. Nick Cole’s Wasteland saga is amazing. When I realized his Soda Pop Soldier was a take on one of my favorite odd advertising campaigns,…
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College Job Finder Campus Job Rebrands As WayUp | TechCrunch
Campus Job, a startup that connects college students with local job opportunities, has changed its name to WayUp.
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How IoT Will Change Your Relationship With Insurance | TechCrunch
Between TVs, refrigerators, ovens, light bulbs, cars, fitness trackers and jewelry, it seems like everything these days is connected to the Internet. It’s probably safe to say that you’re already using a few connected devices in your daily life.
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New interactive Mad Max game trailer lets you blow up cars
Stuff is going to explode, spewing rusted, metal debris across the sandy dunes, no matter what path you choose in the new Mad Max game.
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What amazing feature will the Tesla Model X have? | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Talk About Being Vain! V.F. Beauty’s iPhone Video Series: Next Up, Lind | Vanity Fair
So, when was the last time you came across someone so chic and clever?!? Well, if you don’t know Linda Rodin, you must meet her.
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Need a trailer that quickly conveys danger while establishing a directorial aesthetic and a period-piece setting? You could do a lot worse than opening with tight shot of a molotov cocktail being tossed into a stagecoach, followed by a full shot of …
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Stevie Wonder Extends ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ Tour | Rolling Stone
Stevie Wonder Extends ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ Tour Soul legend adds 20 new North American dates to acclaimed jaunt, including climactic show at Madison Square Garden
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Walker battles hecklers in Iowa | TheHill
Scott Walker took on hecklers during his stump speech Monday at the Iowa State Fair, arguing things are better in Wisconsin because of the labor reforms he introduced as governor. “I will fight for the American people over and over and over and over…
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Game Of Thrones scenes + Sesame Street theme = nightmare time · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
After 46 years, Sesame Street will be moving from PBS to HBO, where its neighbors will include the Game of Thrones TV series.
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Samsung’s new hard drive can store 3,840 hours of HD porn, 1.8 million songs
In its ongoing efforts to ensure that collectors of adult entertainment always have space to download more, Samsung has unveiled the largest SSD ever. At 16 terabytes—technically, it’s only 15.36 TB, but you know how companies love to round up—Sams…
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Cloudy Day in Lake Louise Canada (2048 x 1365) : EarthPorn
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Lauren Hutton coming out of the subway in Greenwich Village (1974). : OldSchoolCool
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[OC] Dramatic mountains in north Iceland [5456 x 3632] : EarthPorn
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Storm clouds building over Emerald Peak, NM [OC] [1145×613] : EarthPorn
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Time-histogram of 10 million key strokes [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco [OC][2048 x 1280] : CityPorn
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco [OC][2048 x 1280] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/3ka6OAJttj http://t.co/cEOAMd8BwH
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Chicago reflected in Lake Michigan from an airplane. : pics
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My friend sent this snap from Summer Set via /r/funny http://t.co/qoXrP3TiuV http://t.co/itNVNdV8Ym
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The only real good guy boss….. : AdviceAnimals
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Loafing under a crib : Catloaf
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/IhhdAPYjfQ http://t.co/fffcAFejMO
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Tracy Morgan will make his triumphant SNL return on October 17th | The Verge
Longtime Saturday Night Live cast member and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan will host SNL on October 17th, NBC announced today.
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Amazon office culture nothing like NYT article, says Jay Carney – video | Technology | The Guardian
Former White House press secretary Jay Carney defends the competitive work environment of his new employer Amazon after a damning New York Times exposé into the retail giant.
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Donald Trump arrives in Manhattan for jury duty amid throng of onlookers | US news | The Guardian
After a whirlwind weekend campaigning in Iowa, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump took a break from the race on Monday to report for jury duty in a Manhattan courtroom. “Is his helicopter going to land here?” a wily New York judge, who…
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Please welcome to the stage this hilarious parade of Taylor Swift’s hypothetical besties
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Byron Crawford’s history of Dr. Dre is the best thing I’ve read on Medium – Boing Boing
Dr. Dre would get tickets driving Lonzo’s car and wouldn’t pay them, either because he figured it wasn’t his car, so it doesn’t really count (classic hood logic), or because he’s just one of those guys.
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Scott Walker Wants Credit For Trump’s Harsh Immigration Policy | ThinkProgress
2016 Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker wants credit for fellow contender Donald Trump’s harsh immigration position, saying it’s “very similar” to the immigration position that Walker supported as Wisconsin governor.
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In Photos: Earthquakes in Oklahoma | VICE News
Sometimes it’s just a distant rumble, barely felt across the prairie. Sometimes it’s a violent jolt that knocks dishes out of the cabinets and cracks the walls. With 585 noticeable earthquakes in 2014, and 2015 set to top that record this month, Okl…
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Why Syrian Refugees in Calais Want to Come to the United Kingdom – The Atlantic
Last October, Mouaz al-Balkhi and Shadi Kataf, two Syrian refugees, bought wetsuits from a sports shop in Calais and tried to swim across the channel to England. They never made it. Ahmad mentioned this in passing. “They were from here. … Every two …
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J.K. Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ begins filming today
Principal photography began on Monday at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, England.
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Amazon’s White-Collar Salary Slaves — NYMag
This weekend, the New York Times published an excellent, in-depth look at what it is like to work for Amazon. We’ve heard a lot about the working conditions in which the retail behemoth’s blue-collar wage slaves toil.
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The man behind Ben Carson | TheHill
Armstrong Williams, 52, is a black conservative radio personality, a real estate investor, TV station owner, publisher and former political operative for figures as diverse as the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Supreme Court Justice Clarence …
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Cheeky police ask the Internet if anyone is missing their weed plants
If you’re a parent, one of the lessons that should be imparted to your kids is that, by and large, policemen exist to help those in trouble. If there’s danger, we tell our offspring, find a policeman or policewoman, because they will know exactly wh…
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Iraqi MPs vote to bring men who failed Mosul to justice – Al Jazeera English
Iraqi MPs have voted to refer to the judiciary a report holding top officials, including former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, responsible for the fall of the country’s second city, Mosul, the parliamentary speaker has said.
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Watch Pussy Riot Discuss Police Violence in U.S. and Russia | Rolling Stone
Watch Pussy Riot Discuss Police Violence in U.S.
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Cassini Makes Final Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione – Scientific American
The Cassini spacecraft will make one last close flyby of Saturn’s pockmarked moon Dione today (Aug. 17), in search of direct evidence that the moon is geologically alive and active.
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Watch Tame Impala’s Nightmarish Video for ‘Let It Happen’ | Rolling Stone
“I heard about a whirlwind that’s coming ’round / It’s gonna carry off all that isn’t bound,” Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker sings on the electro-psych freak-out “Let It Happen.” The song’s nightmarish music video brings that lyric to life, dep…
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This Color Changing Helmet Material Could Help Detect Concussions | Motherboard
A new helmet material that visually indicates how severe an impact is could help soldiers and athletes get quicker, better brain trauma diagnoses. The material, developed by a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, changes color only…
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Jeb!’s super PAC preps to drop $10M on ads to improve his image
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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Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer, and Tracy Morgan Are the First Hosts of ‘SNL’ Season 41 – Splitsider
We finally have a premiere date and host lineup for season 41 of SNL, and it’s pretty great. NBC revealed on Twitter today that its 41st season will kick off on October 3rd with host Miley Cyrus, followed by Amy Schumer on October 10th and former ca…
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Northwestern football players cannot form a union, NLRB rules | Sport | The Guardian
The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a historic ruling that Northwestern University football players are school employees who are entitled to form what would be the nation’s first union of college athletes. The NLRB released its decision…
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These Monsters Are Raising an Army of Spiders and Releasing Them Into the Wild
Bad news, Britons. There are people in your midst who are trying to increase the spider population in your nation. Of all the things that they can be doing, those web-huggers at the London Zoo have decided to take the biggest spider in their country…
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Classy Donald Trump Does Huge Civic Duty — NYMag
Huge news out of lower Manhattan: Republican presidential candidate and Batman Donald Trump reported for jury duty on Monday morning. Of doing his civic duty, Trump told CBS 2, “
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Neutron stars: Weirdly Fascinating, or Fascinatingly Weird? | Video
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On The Line: Simon Ostrovsky Discusses “The Smartest Guy in the Sea” | VICE News
VICE News and want to hear from you! Let us know your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #ontheline, or send us a video message on Skype. With support from Skype.
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Wild Inflatable Space Elevator Idea Could Lift People 12 Miles Up
An artist’s concept of an inflatable space elevator design patented by the Canadian company Thoth Technology, Inc. The elevator would lift passengers to an altitude of 12 miles (20 kilometers) where they could catch a commercial spacecraft launch in…
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Aipoly Puts Machine Vision In The Hands Of The Visually Impaired | TechCrunch
t’s 3.30am in the featureless Singularity University meeting room I’m peering into via Skype and I’ve just asked Marita Cheng to take a photo of the buttons on her co-founder, Alberto Rizzoli’s, shirt.
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A software update grounded hundreds of flights over the weekend | The Verge
A problematic FAA software update led to almost 1,000 flight delays and cancelations on Saturday in the Washington, DC area. The outage lasted from 11AM ET until about 4PM ET.
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Clark Kent has been dealing with a lot of stress since his secret identity as Superman was revealed to the world, and this influx of drama has dramatically upped the quality of Superman’s four titles at DC Comics.
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QVC Owner Acquires Zulily – The Atlantic
Liberty Interactive, the parent company of home-shopping network QVC, is acquiring shopping website Zulily in a $2.4 billion cash-and-stock deal.
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The first official teaser trailer has been released for Carol, writer Phyllis Nagy’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian romance novel The Price Of Salt, published under a pseudonym in 1952.
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Sometimes actors have various tics that make them easy to impersonate. Think about William Shatner’s unique halting speech pattern or whatever it is that Christopher Walken does.
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The Creative Perks of Feeling Happy-Sad — Science of Us
Does creative work come more easily when you’re feeling calm and content, or is there something to the tortured-artist stereotype? In a word: yes.
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How to Bake Ancient Roman Bread Dating Back to 79 AD: A Video Primer | Open Culture
Ecce panis—try your hand at the kind of loaf that Mel Brooks’ 2000-year-old man might have sunk his teeth into. Literally. In 1930 a loaf of bread dating to AD 79 (the year Vesuvius claimed two prosperous Roman towns) was excavated from the site of …
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The thousands of bombs exploded on Earth
From Orbital Mechanics, a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945. 2153! I had no idea there had been that much testing. According to Wikipedia, the number is 2119 tests, with most of those coming from the US (1032) an…
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If You Want to Know the Future of the Climate, Look at California | The Nation
Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight man in a gay construction company. Strangely enough, the drought now strangling California brings back memories of those days. It was the 1970s.
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“Pleezus more beezus,” writes the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist. At his Los Angeles home, he’s keeping three hives with 60,000 bees each.
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Facebook redesigns Notes to take on blogging sites like Medium
Facebook’s long-neglected Notes feature is getting a Medium-like upgrade. Facebook employee John Biesnecker, one of the company’s user operations leads, demonstrated the new features in a post on Monday—and the new design looks very familiar.
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Twitter’s MoPub Sees Big Growth In Native Ads | TechCrunch
Twitter-owned mobile ad exchange MoPub is releasing some new numbers about the growth of native advertising. Native advertising is a fuzzy term, but it usually refers to ads that have been customized to resemble editorial or user content.
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Mobile game of the week: Spider, Rite of the Shrouded Moon – Offworld
I’m not the biggest fan of spiders or anything, but within a few minutes of starting Tiger Style’s newest exploration and web-making adventure, I had unlocked a new and grudging sort of appreciation for the little fellas.
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Firefighters across the Pacific north-west are working to protect property from fast-moving wildfires that destroyed multiple homes in eastern Oregon, cut off power in Washington and forced thousands of evacuations throughout the region.
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When it comes to the complex world of robotics, Helen Greiner is an expert.
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Away, The Direct-To-Consumer Luggage Brand, Packs Up $2.5 Million | TechCrunch
Bringing down the cost of luxury goods through direct-to-consumer sales isn’t a new trend. We’ve seen companies like Warby Parker, Casper and more succeed in the space. But today, a new company is coming out of stealth to bring the D2C value proposi…
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Whistled Language Forces Brain To Modify Usual Processing – Scientific American
Language can take many forms—spoken, written, even gesticulated, as with American Sign Language. Regardless of the language form, the left hemisphere of the brain dominates the information processing. But the right hemisphere plays a greater role in…
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Velvet ants share warning signals with the neighbours | @GrrlScientist | Science | The Guardian
A team of American scientists report they’ve discovered of one of the world’s largest complexes of mimics, North American velvet ants.
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Are you too gay, fat or poor to wear an Herve Leger bandage dress?
In an interview Saturday with Britain’s Daily Mail, Herve Leger head designer Patrick Couderc said so many offensive things about women that the internet is still reeling—and fuming.
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Police Are Freaking Out Over Drugged-up Flakka ‘Zombies’ | VICE News
A video captured by the body cameras of two cops in southern Illinois last month reportedly shows a naked man, allegedly high on the drug flakka, violently thrashing around his home, flipping over furniture, banging into walls, yelling, and avoiding…
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Don’t Google Ottessa Moshfegh: Read Her Debut Novel, Eileen, Instead | Vanity Fair
Go ahead, Google Ottessa Moshfegh: you won’t find much. Well, that’s not entirely true—you’ll find several of her arresting short stories, many of which have found a home at the illustrious Paris Review.
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Clashes in Ukraine End in Several Deaths | Al Jazeera America
Fighting flared between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least two Ukrainian soldiers and several civilians, Kiev’s military and separatist sources said on Monday.
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Read the Great Cyberpunk Comic Man Plus Months Before It Comes Out
In an age where the line between digital comics and their physical counterparts is becoming blurrier, big publishers are trying new things to get digital readers to buy physical comics.
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Google Announces ‘Project Sunroof’ to Encourage People to Install Solar Panels | Motherboard
Google has just announced the launch of Project Sunroof, which is designed to help people figure out how to make solar power work for their household. The project aims to use existing Google Earth data to show people how much sunlight their roof get…
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The Fraud of the New “Family-Friendly” Work
Netflix just announced it’s offering paid leave to new mothers and fathers for the first year after the birth of adoption of a child. Other high-tech firms are close behind. Some big law firms are also getting into the act.
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Two Centuries Of Restaurant Menus Reveal New York’s Evolving Culinary & Cultural History | VinePair
New York City has a rich culinary history, owing both to its age and the waves of immigrants who have settled there over the centuries. In the late eighteenth century, the Sons of Liberty plotted revolution in Fraunces Tavern.
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Gloucester, MA Police Chief Leonard Campanello – Meme on Imgur
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imgur: the simple overloaded page
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Interstellar gas a light-year long js – Just Space
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 17, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Slideshow: The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 17, 2015 http://t.co/dxWdwK2czp
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Last Week To Get Your Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt SF | TechCrunch
If you somehow still haven’t picked up your ticket to Disrupt SF, the time to act is now. You only have until 11:59 p.m. PT on August 21 to purchase tickets at the early-bird price of $1,995, a full $1,000 off the full retail price of $2,995.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes a break from the campaign trail on Monday to report for jury duty in New York. Swamped by media, Trump signs autographs and fist-bumps a supporter as he enters the courthouse.
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This display uses magnetic ferrofluid to tell time, and it’s utterly mesmerizing | The Verge
At first, the inky blobs that form the digital clockface on Zelf Koelman’s Ferollic display look almost like living creatures. They pulse and dart and jump, leaving little droplets in their wake before forming into lines, patterns, and finally numbe…
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The 30-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing the step-granddaughter of Morgan Freeman has been charged with murder and taken to hospital for a psychological examination, the New York police department said on Monday.
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Local cases overlooked in hair evidence review | Al Jazeera America
Timothy Scott Bridges declined to speak to “Fault Lines,” citing his ongoing appeal. In the more than 20 years since his conviction, he has consistently maintained his innocence. The facts of Bridges’ case bear striking similarities to the wrongful …
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When a colleague in the funeral business called from Venezuela asking to borrow a glass-sided hearse for the funeral of president Hugo Chávez in 2013, Colombian undertaker Luis Fernando Arango didn’t think twice about sending his snazziest car.
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Games of Thrones Star Maisie Williams Says Her First Sex Scene Was “Very Awkward” | Vanity Fair
When 18 year-old Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams debuted a very grown-up look at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards earlier this year, fantasy fans had a big dose of reality.
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California’s Retirement Funds Lost $5 Billion In Fossil Fuel Investments Last Year | ThinkProgress
California’s public pension funds lost $5 billion last year through declines in their fossil fuel investments, according to a new report from Trillium Asset Management.
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Amazon Chief Says Employees Lacking Empathy Will Be Instantly Purged – The New Yorker
SEATTLE (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that he was “horrified” by a New York Times article recounting callous behavior on the part of Amazon executives, company founder Jeff Bezos warned today that any employees found lacking in empathy would be insta…
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When Facebook posts and tweets blamed Ukrainian rebels for downing a Malaysian jet there last year, U.S. spies studied social media trend lines to gauge public opinion of the Kiev-Moscow conflict.
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Stephen Colbert on Making The Late Show His Own | GQ
It was early July, about nine weeks before the debut of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and we were sitting in his temporary office above a BMW dealership on the far west side of Manhattan.
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For black cat appreciation day I present Fatso, my 16 year old beauty. : cats
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Climate change has a moral dimension that can’t be ignored : environment
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Amazon said late Sunday that it would not tolerate the “shockingly callous management practices” described in an article in The New York Times over the weekend.
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Music: “The Grand Illusion,” Styx (1977) – Boing Boing
The opening monolog is a bit baffling. The promoter tries…
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‘Star Wars’ star Daisy Ridley geeks out over her first ‘The Force Awakens’ figure
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Airbnb takes off in tech-friendly Africa
At last month’s Global Entrepreneurial Summit in Nairobi, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced that the peer-to-peer rental company would accelerate its growth in Africa. In the last year, sub-Saharan Africa listings on the service have doubled and the…
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Her Universe releases Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ back-to-school collections
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The tragedy behind Amazon’s toxic management fad | Andre Spicer | Comment is free | The Guardian
Imagine working for a company where your annual performance review seems to happen every week. To assess performance, the company collects data on employees constantly, with hundreds of data points.
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Genetically Modified Algae Could Replace Oil for Plastic – Scientific American
From polyester shirts, plastic milk jugs and PVC pipes to the production of high-grade industrial ethanol, the contribution of the chemical feedstock ethylene can be found just about everywhere around the globe.
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Bake a lot? I love my aluminum pizza peel – Boing Boing
Perfect for getting anything I’m baking on my baking stone into or out of the oven, this aluminum pizza peel really comes in handy. Every few years I destroy a wooden pizza peel. I bake a lot, and my daughter would live solely on pizza if allowed.
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Prison isn’t the most intellectually stimulating environment, but the dimmest corners of the criminal justice system may actually be a perfect place to liberate an otherwise wasted mind.
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Honor Julian Bond’s Legacy by Protecting Voting Rights | The Nation
The fight for voting rights was always a key cause for Julian Bond over his distinguished life.
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 17, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Nation’s Pregnant Women Announce Discovery Of Comfortable Sitting Position Read Full Article New Statewide Education Standards Require Teachers To Forever Change Lives Of 30% Of Students Read Full Article Mom’s Fears About Daughter Leaving For Colle…
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Monastery Garden in Tokyo, Japan [OC] [4912 x 3264] : CityPorn
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Singularity [SpaceEngine] : space
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Free Hugs (abandoned house in the woods) [2915×4372] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Indian probe captures 3D image of vast Mars canyon : space
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I hate these type of people, they usually all act the same too. : AdviceAnimals
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MRW I get food poisoning : reactiongifs
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Holy @#$%, Things Are Actually Happening on The Strain
I know! It sounds crazy! But some major things are finally going down—interesting developments even, that should affect the show’s status quo for the rest of its lifespan—and it’s only taken us until nearly the midpoint of the show’s second season! …
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Washington owner dismisses name change for possible new NFL stadium | Sport | The Guardian
Washington NFL president Bruce Allen made clear Monday the team would not reconsider whether to change the team’s nickname if it became a political barrier to building a new stadium in the nation’s capital or elsewhere.
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NASA Extracting Tanks from Retired Shuttle Endeavour for Use on Space Station
Photo showing the potable and waste water storage tanks on the lower deck of the space shuttle. The California Science Center is letting NASA remove the tanks from inside the shuttle Endeavour for use aboard the International Space Station.Credit: N…
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The Nation’s Most Public Police Body-Camera Policy Might Come From… Washington, D.C. – The Atlantic
What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by …
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Kylie Jenner 18th Birthday Party | Vanity Fair
What did you do for your 18th birthday? It’s a big milestone birthday, the middle of three big birthdays stretched across five years. (That’d be 16, 18, and 21. If you live in the United States, anyway.
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Is a Misguided Action Escapade | Vanity Fair
Now that The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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The Health Issue That Julian Bond Helped Pioneer | ThinkProgress
As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the late civil rights leader Julian Bond, who passed away on Saturday night after a short illness, much of the focus has been on his activism during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Jeff Bezos Says Times Story ‘Doesn’t Describe the Amazon I Know’ – The Atlantic
The Times relied on interviews with more than 100 former and current employees at the retail giant for its reporting. Still, he urged employees who knew of such incidents to email him directly.
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Pharrell Premieres Funky, Unreleased N.E.R.D. Song, ‘Locked Away’ | Rolling Stone
Pharrell Premieres Funky, Unreleased N.E.R.D.
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A Collision Between Mini-Moons May Have Formed One of Saturn’s Outer Rings | Motherboard
Saturn’s intricate ring system is one of the most spectacular sights in the solar system, and has understandably captivated astronomers for centuries.
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At Amazon, Employees Treat the Bathroom as an Extension of the Office | Motherboard
Because Amazon is mostly men, the men’s bathrooms were usually crowded. I worked there for four years, in the midst of Amazon’s greatest expansion of headcount.
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Is This the End of Oregon’s Duck Dynasty? | Rolling Stone
Last week, an athlete at a small college passed a math test, and this became national news.
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Carrie Underwood Receives ‘Little Toy Guns’ Salute | Rolling Stone
Carrie Underwood capped a big week with a “Little Toy Guns” Number One party in Nashville Friday. Prior to addressing the audience herself, she was effusively praised by song publishers, co-writers and industry executives for taking the compelling s…
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Tim McGraw Tour Storms Nashville With Surprise Guests | Rolling Stone
Tim McGraw’s companion in “Shotgun Rider” isn’t the only one singing along to the radio. During a headlining show in Nashville last Saturday night, McGraw offered his own rendition of one of his favorite new songs, Chris Janson’s “Buy Me a Boat,” wi…
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Hear Carly Rae Jepsen’s Heartbreaking New Song, ‘Your Type’ | Rolling Stone
Carly Rae Jepsen has released another synth-heavy, Eighties-inspired love song off her upcoming LP Emotion. This time, it’s the heart-wrenching, lovesick track “Your Type.” Jepsen launched her new album with the March single, “I Really Like You.
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The Dread of Loneliness | The Nation
“Marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out only to find no one there.” —from Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges When in June the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage the law of the land…
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Alix Generous: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger’s | TED Talk | TED.com
Alix Generous is a young woman with a million and one ideas — she’s done award-winning science, helped develop new technology and tells a darn good joke (you’ll see). She has Asperger’s, a form of autistic spectrum disorder that can impair the basi…
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – Test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope
The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant objects that we can see in the night sky with the naked eye. The light that we see now left there 2.5 million years ago.
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Now you can use BitTorrent software to anonymously DDoS anybody
A number of popular BitTorrent programs can be hacked to let a single user bring down a big website with a DDoS attack, new research has found. uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze are all vulnerable to the new attack, dubbed a Distributed Reflective Denial…
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Stephen Hawking’s speech program is now open source and available to anyone
Stephen Hawking’s famous voice can now read aloud your speeches too. The impressive technology that lets the paralyzed British physicist communicate has been open-sourced, meaning that anyone can use and change it as they see fit.
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What did the pros get right about Goblins vs. Gnomes?
Sometime in the next week (or so), Hearthstone’s latest expansion, The Grand Tournament, will be unleashed. With 132 new cards, pros and pundits (including here at the Daily Dot) are falling over themselves to give their opinions on cards based pure…
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‘Star Wars’ and PlayStation announce limited-edition Darth Vader console
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‘Shuffle All’ Returns to Apple Music | WIRED
Four years ago, an Apple patent surfaced that outlined how the consumer electronics company might become something called an MVNO. Rumors to that effect have persisted for years, most recently resurfacing this week at Business Insider.
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This New Superconductivity Research Stinks | WIRED
The search for a material through which electricity can flow with zero resistance—a superconductor—has taken more than a century. Researchers have for decades chased metals and ceramics that, chilled below a transition temperature, would turn transp…
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The legacy of Pakistan’s loved and loathed Hamid Gul – Al Jazeera English
In the passing of retired Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, the division and fissures in deeply polarised Pakistan were exposed again as vehemently divergent views greeted the news that the once-feared, 79-year-old former spy master has died on Saturday…
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The Most Sensational Cosplay From D23, Part Two
At this point, Disney includes a shocking number of your most favorite stories and characters—so it’s not surprising that Disney’s D23 fan event included some mind-boggling cosplay. Including Squirrel Girl, Mary Poppins, Princess Leia, and much, muc…
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Climate Change May Get Its Own Museum – Scientific American
American museums get about 850 million visits annually, nearly double the attendance of all major league sporting events and theme parks combined, according to the American Alliance of Museums.
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Facebook wants you to blog | The Verge
Facebook has been making big moves into the publishing world, and its next step appears to be rolling out something a bit like a blogging platform.
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Most Gay and Lesbian Researchers Are “Out” in the Lab – Scientific American
Other studies have indicated that out employees feel more accepted at work, whereas those who are closeted or not open about their identities are more likely to be stressed out at work and have negative attitudes towards their work and co-workers.
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Stabbing of Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter ‘resembled exorcism’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Neighbours who witnessed the killing of Edena Hines, the step-granddaughter of actor Morgan Freeman, in Harlem, New York, on Sunday say it resembled an exorcism. An eyewitness said he saw a man kneeling over Hines, screaming ‘God has arisen’.
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Republican presidential candidates: Long on tough foreign policy talk, short on details
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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Banks and security agencies are running a vulnerable version of Windows
Surprise: companies don’t like updating their computers. We’ll do the math for you: that’s a 12 year old operating system still powering web hosts for banks and security vendors. An operating system that – as of last month – Microsoft will no longer…
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Population density of Vietnam [OC] [402×797] : MapPorn
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Vik, Iceland – from the small hill behind the church [OC] [4608×3072] : EarthPorn
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[OC] [5183×3456] TV Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania : CityPorn
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Halloween Meets Gasoline – The 24 Hours Of LeMons on Vimeo
$500 junkyard cars are resurrected for a shot at racing glory. Halloween Meets Gasoline follows a team’s quest in the nationwide racing series, The 24 Hours Of LeMons. Everything that a gentleman’s race isn’t – a spectacle of costumes and themed car…
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Jason Day Deserves An Ovation, But Give The Field A Golf Clap Too | FiveThirtyEight
Heading into last weekend’s PGA Championship, Australia’s Jason Day had cracked the top five in nearly a third of the major championships he’d entered. He finished in the top 10 nearly half of the time. But he’d never hoisted one of those shiny trop…
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Uber’s New Update Gives Food Delivery As Much Attention As Transportation | TechCrunch
Uber is quietly rolling out an update today where Uber Eats (Uber’s prepared food delivery service that is available in NYC, Los Angeles, Toronto, Austin, Chicago, and Barcelona) is getting a major facelift. First seen by Business Insider, the updat…
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Circle Medical Brings A Full Service Medical Practice To You | TechCrunch
Circle Medical, launching from this summer’s Y Combinator batch, is a full service medical practice that will come to you.
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Flight Carrying 54 People Crashes in Indonesia — NYMag
Search-and-rescue crews are working to reach a remote spot in Papua, Indonesia, where a commercial aircraft carrying 49 passengers and five crew members crashed on Sunday afternoon.
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The Pentagon is planning 50 percent more drone flights by 2019 | The Verge
After a brief lull, the military is doubling down on drones. A new report from The Wall Street Journal details the Pentagon’s new plan to increase daily drone flights by half, raising serious questions about the future of military drone strikes.
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German Aid Worker Reportedly Kidnapped in Kabul | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog. Armed assailants reportedly kidnapped a German aid worker in Kabul on Monday, according to a senior Afghan police official.
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The Aftermath of the Battle for Marinka (Extra Scene from ‘Ukraine’s Failed Ceasefire’) | VICE News
On June 3, forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) attacked the Ukrainian-controlled town of Marinka, around half a mile west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Under The Skin, Ex Machina, and More
Want to feel intensely uneasy for two hours? I can’t recommend Under The Skin highly enough! [Under The Skin, $10]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00…http://io9.com/under-the-skin… More Dealshttp://deals.kinja.com/todays-best-de…
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Here’s A First Look At China Miéville’s Harrowing New Novel, This Census-Taker
It’s been way, way too long since the last China Miéville novel, 2012’s Railsea. Now at last, the master of strange, thought-provoking worlds has a book coming out early next year, This Census-Taker. And we’ve got an exclusive first look at the cove…
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The Plan Is There Is No Plan | Motherboard
“If you think your generation’s got it bad!” The decrepit hippie/Harvard Professor pauses to glug her red wine. “I was once dumped over Betamax!” I’m trying not to eavesdrop.
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Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser to star in new series about debt · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having wrapped up his adman character’s journey on Mad Men, Vincent Kartheiser is moving on to the similarly sexy environs of a debt collection agency. Deadline reports that Kartheiser will star in and executive produce Debt, a new drama at WGN Amer…
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This Kebab Bot Will Precision Cut Your Döner Dinner | Motherboard
Hakan Gorenli, the owner of Super Kebab Takeaway in North London, wants to accelerate the takeout experience. The Guardian reported that he’s invested in a £5,000 ($7,800) precision kebab robot that offers up hygienically sliced doner for hungry cus…
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Uh Oh, Luigi Read Some Derrida and Now He’s ‘Ennuigi’ | Motherboard
Everyone knows how to play the original Super Mario Bros. Go from left to right, jump over the gaps, stomp on some goombas, and reach the flag at the end of the level. But one question remains: Why?
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Jeff Bezos Says the NY Times’ Amazon Exposé Is All Wrong | Motherboard
Jeff Bezos is none too pleased with the New York Times. Amazon’s CEO hit back at the paper of record late last night, saying its recently published exposé about poor working conditions at the online retailer were not representative of the company cu…
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Deadly bomb attack on well-known tourist destination in downtown Bangkok
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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Playing ‘Tetris’ Reduces Drug Cravings, Study Says | Motherboard
There really is nothing quite as satisfying as the feeling when a tetrimino falls perfectly into place in Tetris.
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Australia Considers Same-Sex Marriage | Al Jazeera America
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage was introduced into the Australian parliament on Monday, but it is doomed to fail with Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government opposed to the measure.
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Last Week Tonight 8/17/2015: John Oliver’s Founds Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption http://t.co/blcBrCOQ3f
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15 Movies You Need To … – GIF on Imgur
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Dark Energy ‘Mission’ Discovers Eight Celestial Objects Hovering Near the Milky Way
Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American O…
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Suwon reminds me why I love Korea after 3 years here. (4132×3096) : CityPorn
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This bacon looks like a seahorse. : mildlyinteresting
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Julian Bond Built Coalitions, Practiced Solidarity, and Showed Us the Future | The Nation
At the 1968 Democratic National Convention, after suffering too many setbacks in their drive to bring the ideals of the civil rights and anti-war movements into their party, the most determined delegates decided to make one last stand for a new poli…
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Shot On Location – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Fantastic light in Kermorvan | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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The 2015 Perseid meteor shower : Breathless
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Donald Trump’s First Policy Plan Is Even More Racist Than You Think It Is | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policy has a very ugly forerunner.
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Indonesia’s reliance on coal power – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
A worker on a break looks over an open-pit coal mine in Makroman, East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. At its most destructive pattern of operation, coal extraction transforms mountain tops into giant holes using explosives, the cheapest way employed…
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Facebook Notes revamp set to battle Medium and Twitter
Facebook Notes has been one of the sprawling social network’s least looked after features. It has sat there for years largely unloved and useless, like Facebook’s appendix, serving no purpose yet apt to explode and spill its toxic contents everywher…
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MLB ‘very proud’ of David Denson, openly gay player and baseball pioneer | Sport | The Guardian
It had been a long day and night for David Denson, in so many ways. His team had been swept in a doubleheader in the low-level Pioneer League, he didn’t have much luck hitting and he’d made a throwing error, too.
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The Paradox of Time Capsules – The Atlantic
The Crypt, along with the 1939 World’s Fair Westinghouse capsule originally termed a “time bomb,” are the two best known capsules of the pre-war era. Both contain articles selected by the then National Bureau of Standards.
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It’s 2015 and it’s still a very, very mad world | The Verge
Microsoft knows how to tug on heartstrings. As if it wasn’t enough to bring the classic Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War back for a graphically updated Ultimate Edition, we’re now also being treated to a throwback trailer for the new / old game as well.
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Televangelists are con artists, and they are thriving – Boing Boing
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Remains of “Warrior Princess” Found Buried Alongside Dagger and Sword
Archaeologists working in Kazakhstan have uncovered the remains of an ancient female warrior who lived sometime between the 11th century BC and 4th century AD. Researchers from Russia’s Institute of Archaeology identified the remains as female by an…
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How ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Became a Summer Blockbuster | Rolling Stone
Grossing an estimated $56 million this weekend, the N.W.
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What it’s like getting your sense of smell back after five years
Earlier in the month, I wrote about a man who lost his sense of smell. Over lunch, he says: “I joke I can’t smell my daughter’s diaper. But I can’t smell my daughter. She was up at 4 o’clock this morning. I was holding her, we were laying in bed.
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Deerhunter Ready ‘Complex’ New LP, ‘Fading Frontier’ | Rolling Stone
Atlanta indie rockers Deerhunter will return this fall with Fading Frontier, Bradford Cox and company’s follow-up to 2013’s Monomania.
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Unleash your animal side with mythological human hybrids · Wiki Wormhole · The A.V. Club
With more than 4.9 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or trying to convince someone not to offer your god a peanut. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our …
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Rihanna Shuts Down Matt Barnes on Instagram | Rolling Stone
Go on and take a bow, Matt Barnes. You put on quite a show. According to TMZ (and “sources connected to” Barnes), the Grizzlies’ forward was recently spotted hanging out with Rihanna on a couple of dates.
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Watch John Oliver Blast Televangelists, Create His Own Mega-Church | Rolling Stone
“There are roughly 350,000 congregations in the United States, and many of them do great work: feeding the hungry, clothing the poor,” John Oliver says, opening his latest Last Week Tonight report. “But this is not a story about them.
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Gawker Report: Morgan Freeman’s Step-Granddaughter Was Killed in an Apparent Exorcism | Jalopnik Some Dick Stole Papa John’s Camaro Z28 | Kotaku How Snoopy Killed Peanuts | Lifehacker The Lifehacker Pack for Students |
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“This is an impressive crowd — the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base.”— George W.
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When Artists Cultivated FDR’s Four Freedoms
The Second World War ended 70 years ago this past weekend.
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The abridged history of Disney, 2015–2040 AD | The Verge
Odds were on Joss Whedon at the 2018 Academy Awards. The writer and director, nominated for an adaptation of Richard III set inside the offices of a Silicon Valley social media app, appeared to have the honor in the bag.
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Houndstongue (non-native) – Cynoglossum officinale [1597×1519] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Crafty Ants Form Conga Lines to Drag Millipedes to Doom | 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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Welcome to Verge Hack Week 2015 | The Verge
It’s hard to imagine that it’s been an entire year since our first-ever Verge Hack Week, but here we are. It is once again August, the news cycle has once again slowed to a crawl, and it is once again incredibly hot outside. We’re all going a little…
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Tesco to hold talks with dairy farmers after protests over milk imports | Environment | The Guardian
Tesco is to hold talks with farmers after campaigners blockaded distribution centres at Avonmouth and Widnes to protest against the supermarket group importing dairy products from outside the UK.
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Artist Donald “Drawbertson” Robertson’s Rise to Success | Vanity Fair
Before becoming the fashion world’s favorite artist, Donald Robertson was a middle-aged suburban dad with a nine-to-five job, a daily commute from Westchester to N.Y.C., and little interest in social media.
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Unused Vacations in Us at 40-year High | Al Jazeera America
There’s a new trend when it comes to U.S. workers and vacations. Americans are forfeiting much of their vacation time each year. One report even shows that unused vacation is at a 40-year high, with about $224 billion sitting on the balance sheets o…
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Jason Day on winning PGA Championship: the hardest round I’ve played – video | Sport | The Guardian
Jason Day discusses winning the 2015 US PGA championship. The 27-year old Australian won his first major title with a three-shot victory over Jordan Spieth at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin.
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The Creature from the Red Lagoon : What… – Just Space
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Drones Could Be Causing Stress To Wildlife – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
As the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for recreation and research alike continues to rise, a study in Current Biology found that added drone activity above their habitat causes a measurable stress response in black bears, whose heart rates soared w…
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Sunset curling up with a wave : woahdude
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Baby sloth peeking out! : sloths
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Something strange is happening in the Republican primary — something strange, that is, besides the Trump phenomenon. For some reason, just about all the leading candidates other than The Donald have taken a deeply unpopular position, a known politic…
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Seventy years ago this month U.S. atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing a total of roughly 200,000 Japanese people in the world’s first, and so far only, use of nuclear weapons in war.
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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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Spectacular Galaxy Collision Discovered ‘Hidden’ Behind the Milky Way
A spectacular galaxy collision has been discovered lurking behind the Milky Way, some 30 million light years away, which means that it is relatively close by. It has been dubbed “Kathryn’s Wheel” both after the famous firework that it resembles.
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God Announces Plans To Slowly Wean Humans Off Religion – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
THE HEAVENS—Saying that the various belief systems had a “good run” over the last few millennia but that it was probably time for humans to get by on their own, the Lord Our God, He Who Is Seen And Unseen, proclaimed Monday that He would begin slowl…
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Samsung gives professional studio headphones what they really need: a gold color option | The Verge
Samsung has been slowly building up its premium range of Level headphones over the past few months, hoping to take on Beats in this lucrative market with its own of stylish and colorful audio products.
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Alpenglow on Mt. Tyndall [OC] [4104×2736] : EarthPorn
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Special Serrations Gave Carnivorous Dinosaurs an Evolutionary Edge – Phenomena: Laelaps
Railroad spikes. Knives. Razors. The teeth of carnivorous dinosaurs like Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus have been compared to plenty of piercing and cutting tools over the years, but such comparisons are far too rough.
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Massive Star Wars lands coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World – Boing Boing
They’re the largest-ever single-themed expansion of a Disney theme park in 60 years, but they’re still a fundamentally conservative approach to the Star Wars franchise.
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America’s “worst voting machines” dropped in Virgina (at last) – Boing Boing
AVS Winvote machines are so insecure that if they weren’t hacked in the last election, “it was only because no one tried.” So wrote Jeremy Epstein, who has campaigned for years to get the ghastly devices put out of service.
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Egypt opens border crossing with Gaza for four days – Al Jazeera English
Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip, allowing Palestinians to travel in both directions for the first time in two months. The border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world with no Israeli cont…
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Obama’s Post-Presidency Panel of Experts: Celebrities, Billionaires, a | Vanity Fair
Much has been made of Barack Obama’s “fourth quarter,” during which the president’s administration has ticked off a string of accomplishments that range from negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran and normalizing relations with Cuba to unveiling sweep…
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Julian Bond: Race Man, Poet, Movement-Builder — and Friend
America has lost a great leader, and many of us lost a good friend.
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The Many Lives Of The American Dream – The Atlantic
The Indonesian province of Papua is one of the world’s most remote regions, a place so forbidding that scientists regard it as a “lost world” famous for its many undiscovered animal species. On Sunday, the area played host to human tragedy on a larg…
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The estimable Charles Gaba notes the latest in Obamacare denialism; OK, say the usual suspects, maybe the number of insured Americans has risen, but it’s mainly because of Medicaid expansion.
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At Least 1 Dead in Bangkok Blast – The Atlantic
Updated on August 17, 2015, at 9:33 p.m. ET There has been a massive explosion in the center of the Thai capital, Bangkok, near one of the city’s major Buddhist shrines. Bangkok police say at least three people are dead and 25 wounded, The Associate…
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FRONT ROYAL, Va. — The five red panda cubs in large boxlike cribs at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute here are bottle-fed, sleepy and wobbly on their legs.
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How a spiraling, dystopian birthday joke on Twitter turned into a book deal
Back in January, Daniel Barker had a harmless complaint to share with his Twitter followers: not enough people were celebrating his birthday.
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Devon Aoki(2014) by Minjae Lee : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Dolphins swimming at the coast in Na Pali, Kauai : Breathless
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LAZY CAT,LAZY OWNER : LazyCats
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We’re Still Using a Medicine That Was Fished Directly Out of a Sewer
Allergic to penicillin? Then you could be shot full of something that came out of a Sardinian sewer. Here’s the backstory of the important medicine that we found floating around in our own feces. Typhoid fever is a life-threatening sickness.
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America lost a giant this weekend when Julian Bond left us at 75. And CAF lost a friend, a founder, a mentor and a guide. Julian lived a large life, devoted to making America better. And we all are beneficiaries of his work and his wisdom.
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“And That Means More Awesomeness” | Best Of MetaFilter
In MetaTalk, julen suggests a cool member collaboration for next month: “Let’s Encourage and Help Folks Make Their First Posts,” and asks for input.
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NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s “Extreme Willingness to Help” – Scientific American
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.
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Charts: Dr. Dre Misses Number One, But Apple Gets Modest Win | Rolling Stone
Straight Outta Compton’s impressive $56 million opening weekend at the box office wasn’t enough to propel Dr. Dre’s Compton past Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights on the Billboard 200, as the rapper’s first LP in 16 years finished Number Two behind the c…
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This Symphony Sounds Like Another Wall Street Scheme
Symphony, a planned chat system being developed on behalf of Wall Street’s biggest institutions, has a ton of fancy new features. You can personalize filters, share trading algorithms, prevent “government spying,” and much, much more! Wait, about th…
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5 tech jobs machines will never be able to do
Gartner has predicted that a third of all jobs will be lost to automation within a decade. So will Artificial Intelligence take your job? It depends. In any profession, you must look ahead and pinpoint the skills that will make you valuable tomorrow.
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Saudi truck driver forgets to lower the bed, collides with highway sign
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My black cat contribution. Ms. Kat. : cats
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To Zachary Hammond’s supporters, the shooting death of the 19-year-old man was yet another example of questionable police behavior that has shaken communities around the country. In their view, the police in Seneca, S.C., falsely claimed Mr.
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Death Toll in Tianjin Blasts Rises to 114 Dead, Chinese Officials Say – The Atlantic
Chinese authorities are still trying to determine what caused last week’s deadly blasts in the city of Tianjin. The toll from those explosions, they now say, is 114 dead and 70 still missing. The explosions on August 12 displaced nearly 6,000 people…
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Mayor Bill de Blasio was already having a bad week. Then Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called. Mr. Cuomo had cast the city as slow-footed in responding to a recent outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx. Fed up, Mr. de Blasio’s press secretary, Karen…
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Does Star Wars Episode VIII Already Have Its Villain?
J.J. Abrams explains what Simon Pegg brought to The Force Awakens. Team Arrow is getting a new base. Star Trek Beyond is trashing a huge starship. Plus, insane rumors about the origin of Jared Leto’s Joker in Suicide Squad, and Olivia Munn in action…
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Rape case sheds light on elite prep school’s alleged sexual tradition | US news | The Guardian
St Paul’s School in New Hampshire boasts a glittering roster of alumni that includes senators, congressmen, a Nobel laureate and the current US secretary of state.
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U.S. States ranked by population—over the last century – Boing Boing
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Donald Trump: ‘I Am Batman’ — NYMag
Donald Trump’s helicopter had just landed near the Iowa State Fair, and the man himself emerged, wearing a “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” red baseball cap.
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Platini smear campaign to be investigated by FIFA – Al Jazeera English
FIFA will investigate the alleged distribution from their headquarters of an anonymous heavily critical ‘dossier’ on UEFA President Michel Platini following a complaint from European football’s governing body.
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This Game Lets You Build a Cam Girl Empire | Motherboard
Sim City is fun and all, sure, but why manage a city when you can manage a growing cam girl operation? HunieCam Studio, a new management simulator from the makers of the salacious dating simulator HuniePop, will let you do just that.
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The Hunt for Narco Subs | Motherboard
The vessel cut a low profile as it slipped through international waters, hundreds of miles off the coast of El Salvador in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It was mostly submerged, except for an exhaust pipe and a windowed cockpit that poked a few feet ab…
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Safe Surgery Innovations in Uganda – Al Jazeera English
The global burden of disease caused by treatable surgical conditions is twice that of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The solution is simple: more surgeries. Yet almost one in three people, mainly the world’s poorest, have no access to…
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When you sharpen a pencil : oddlysatisfying
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NYT report: Amazon is hell to work at – Boing Boing
The New York Times exposes a brutal, cultlike environment of midnight phone calls, mind-numbing jargon and sadistic management. Bosses encourage workers to tear one another down. Workers cry at their desks.
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The Coding 101 Bundle: Take your first steps into programming
Basic coding is a valuable skill most anyone can learn in a few hours. The Coding 101 Bundle at TNW Deals is a great place to start, with eight courses covering the fundamentals of web and app development.
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Podcast collective the Heard is experimenting with community
The act of podcasting can be an isolated, intimate act—that’s part of its charm. But a new podcast collective called the Heard is experimenting with building a community around it.
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Deadly bomb blast rocks Thailand’s capital – Al Jazeera English
At least 5 people have been killed and 20 wounded by a bomb blast that hit a commercial centre in the Thai capital Bangkok, police have said. The blast occurred about 7.10pm local time, according to the Bangkok Post.
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At Least 12 Reportedly Dead As “Bomb Blast” Hits Central Bangkok – BuzzFeed News
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Included.co helps independent spaces take on coworking giants
Coworking spaces have seen something of a boom in recent years; you only have to look at the burgeoning empire that is WeWork or its Europe-based rivals TechHub and Central Working to see that. But there are plenty of independent spaces serving the …
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 106 | 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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What Is Elegance in Science? – The New Yorker
In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on the genetic provenance of amino acids, the organic compounds that make proteins, and the…
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YouTube Is the Sleeping Giant of Livestreaming | WIRED
The first game of the German soccer season kicked off on Saturday morning. Bayern Munich vs. Hamburg, 8:30 pm Munich time. This game was a big one: It marked the new season, and the beginning of a new partnership between the Bundesliga league and Fo…
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Threatened Forests Cannot Move, So Scientists Are Relocating Their Genes – Scientific American
In a field in Vancouver, across the road from a row of tidy white townhomes, roughly 500 bushy Sitka spruce trees climbed toward the sun.
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Carol Trailer, Featuring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett | Vanity Fair
Nobody does period pieces or romantic longing as well as Todd Haynes, and both are on glorious display in this brief first teaser for Carol, his romantic drama due in theaters November 20.
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Eye’m going to keep my eye on you…. : cats
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A pair of junior loaves : Catloaf
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MRW I’m trying to watch a video but it keeps buffering (OC) – GIF on Imgur
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Bangkok-explosion | Al Jazeera America
Local television outlets say at least five people were killed and 20 more were wounded in the explosion
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Kuppies, Cat-Dogs, And Other Pet Hybrids That Are Too Good to Be True | Atlas Obscura
Most of the animals pictured cannot breed together, contrary to popular opinion. (Photo: David de Koninck, via Wikimedia Commons) In December of 1970, a man named Roy Tutt told the world that he had accomplished what science deemed impossible: he ha…
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Reports of Huge Explosion in Thai Capital of Bangkok | VICE News
There have been reports of a massive explosion close to the center of the Thai capital of Bangkok. Those at the scene have confirmed that there appear to be both dead and injured. Local media is reporting that five people have been killed.
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Egypt Imposes New ‘Anti-Terrorism’ Law | Al Jazeera America
Dalia Fahmy, an assistant professor at Long Island University and a member of the Egyptian Rule of Law Association, told Al Jazeera that under the new law any media “that defies the national narrative, will be fined.
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Dude’s anger rises as his trick shots keep missing
Everyone can understand the satisfaction of slam-dunking something into a trash can without looking. Such is the appeal of trick-shot videos. We’ve seen plenty of awesome trick shots before, so we feel some sympathy for this guy who just fails over …
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Revealed: Secret Strategies of World’s Most Lucrative Apps – Bloomberg Business
A few months ago, Yoshiki Watabe, a producer at Japan’s DeNA Co., was looking to draw attention for the company’s hit mobile game. He introduced a spiky-haired hero armed with an outsized sword — then gave players a mere four days to bring down an …
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Change in poverty in major US cities, from 1970 to 2010 : dataisbeautiful
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Black Kitty Appreciation Day : cats
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Strapped for Cash, Some Greeks Turn to Ancient Source of Wealth
Grief stricken after her father’s death, Susan Casey went to Maui for surf and solace. A pod of dolphins showed up and changed her life.
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Ohio prepares to vote on marijuana legalization: which states will be next? | US news | The Guardian
Ohio officials approved a bid last week to get recreational and medical marijuana legalization on the 3 November ballot. Thus far, Ohio is the only state where voters will consider pot legalization in the 2015 election.
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White House Program To Combat Heroin Deaths | Al Jazeera America
On the back of rising fatal heroin overdoses across the United States, the White House will announce a plan Monday pairing law enforcement officials with public health workers in an effort to promote treatment over the prosecution of addicts, the Wa…
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Launch date for Inmarsat’s delayed Global Xpress spacecraft – BBC News
London-based Inmarsat hopes to get its latest next-generation spacecraft into orbit at the end of the month. It has been waiting on a review of the Russian Proton rocket, which failed on its last outing in May while carrying a Mexican payload.
Love Everyone Often 08/18/2015
www.nytimes.com Those were the words of Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate for president, earlier this year. Readers of the business pages know her as the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard. For much of this early campaign season, in the crowded field of … tags: Pocket andrew ross sorkin business day…
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