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The fossil fuel giant BP helped spur a concerted industry push to curb EU policy support for renewable energies such as wind and solar in favour of gas, the Guardian has learned.
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NASA Orders 2 More Space Station Cargo Missions from Orbital ATK
WASHINGTON — NASA ordered two more cargo deliveries to the International Space Station from Orbital ATK under a 2008 Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract, a company spokeswoman said Aug. 12.
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It used to be said by some in Israel that “only the right can bring peace.” But the brave, pragmatic Zionist right of Menachem Begin is gone. Successive right-wing governments have adopted the mantra “there is no partner for peace.
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Last week, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio became one of the latest Republican presidential candidates to weigh in on the Black Lives Matter movement last week without proposing any actual policy solutions.
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Women Are Finally Breaking Through The Military’s Outdated Gender Standards | ThinkProgress
While women still face numerous obstacles when it comes to serving in the military, one barrier is soon to be broken. In an interview with the Navy Times Tuesday Adm. Jon Greenert said women would soon be welcome to participate in one of the militar…
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Over the last few years, as California’s historic, four-year drought has intensified, scientists have found clues linking the extreme weather event to human-caused climate change. Now, a new study is the first to estimate just how much climate chang…
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Why Canada’s University-Trained Pot Growers Might End Up Slinging Lattes | Motherboard
A university in British Columbia, the storied home of legendary Canadian bud, recently opened registration for an online course dedicated to the art of growing and selling medical marijuana.
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What the New York City Subway “Courtesy Counts” Posters Mean | Vanity Fair
An exclusive preview of the “Courtesy Counts—on the Inside, Too” illustrations. YOU’RE A DIFFERENT PERSON NOWRemember that time in eighth grade when you tripped in front of the whole school at an assembly? You’re the only one who does—let it go.
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After Marikana, little has changed for miners – Al Jazeera English
Marikana, South Africa – A pair of thin brown horses graze on patches of dry, yellow grass and thorny shrubs near a seemingly endless row of shacks patched together from sheets of corrugated steel.
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Fraud, Misconduct, Mistakes: This Blog Finds the Stories Behind Retracted Papers | Motherboard
In 2010, anaesthesiologist Scott Reuben, a researcher from Boston’s Tufts University whose work on painkillers had influenced others in his field, pleaded guilty to fraud. He’d fabricated data in 21 of his studies.
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So How Do You Totally Wipe an Email Server? | WIRED
It started with a bad joke. When asked by reporters if her server had been wiped, the leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shot back: “What, like with a cloth or something?” Ha! You know, like dust. She then proceeded not to ans…
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How a Food Blog Shaped the Way We Use the Internet | WIRED
When Epicurious launched in 1995, there were few websites on the Information Superhighway where you could find recipes for chocolate cake and shrimp scampi. There were very few websites, period. The Internet was an infant, crawling ever so slowly (r…
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Global warming caused by human emissions has most likely intensified the drought in California by roughly 15 to 20 percent, scientists said Thursday, warning that future dry spells in the state are almost certain to be worse than this one as the wor…
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Why Fans Don’t Always Make Things Cooler | WIRED
What do you do when you get hot? You could turn on a fan. Fans cool you off, right? Well, yes — but they don’t cool everything. In fact, fans make some things hotter. Let’s put a fan in a box. This is a mostly normal fan in a foam cooler (for insula…
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Iran nuclear deal has votes to pass Congress, says Nancy Pelosi | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama has enough votes to get the Iran deal through the House of Representatives, despite Republican efforts to block the historic nuclear accord, the minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, has said.
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A great HDTV doesn’t have to crush your home theater budget. Sure, you can spend thousands upon thousands and get a killer set, but more modest means doesn’t equal crappy HD. This week, we’re looking for great sub-$500 HDTVs.
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Missile Defense Agency Progressing on Redesigned Kill Vehicle
HUNTSTVILLE, Alabama – The U.S. Missile Defense Agency hopes to draft a preliminary design for a new kill vehicle, a blueprint that cobbles together the best ideas from three concepts submitted by industry, by the end of the year. U.S. Navy Vice Adm…
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California Drought Worse Because of Global Warming | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — If there were any doubts that global warming has exacerbated California’s four-year drought, a new study puts them to rest by quantifying the impact for the first time: Rising temperatures are worsening the drought by up to 25 percent.
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A “Sound of Music” medley. A cover of the Beatles’ “Across the Universe.” A martial-sounding version of the arena rock anthem “The Final Countdown.
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North and South Korea Trade Fire at Border | Al Jazeera America
South Korea fired dozens of shells Thursday at North Korea after the North lobbed a single rocket round at a South Korean town near the world’s most heavily armed border, the South’s Defense Ministry said.
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Horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a man who lived his life in fear—of people of other races and nationalities, of women, of reality itself.
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‘EverQuest II’ Creates a Server for Assholes | Motherboard
EverQuest II developer Daybreak Game Companyis experimenting with a unique and devious strategy for dealing with the massive multiplayer online (MMO) game’s disruptive players.
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Women and girls as young as 11 have been systematically raped by fighters for the Islamic State, which has made sex slavery a pillar of its self-proclaimed caliphate.
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Sticker shock: simple bus ads could drastically improve road safety in Kenya | Ars Technica
Road safety is a serious public health issue worldwide: 1.3 million people are killed in road transportation accidents every year, most of which occur in the developing world.
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10 Years After Katrina Blight Remains a Major Problem in New Orleans – The Atlantic
For a half-century, Khaled Asaad devoted his life to the antiquities of Palmyra, a UNESCO Heritage site located northeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus. A scholar of Aramaic, Asaad wrote extensively about pre-Islamic life in Syria and was a fixtur…
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Negotiate Monthly Payments to Deal With a Debt Collector
When a debt collector calls, it can ruin your day. You probably know how much you owe and it’s intimidating to think about paying it off all at once. Rather than ignore that call, try to negotiate a monthly payment option.
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The drone warfare game where you spy on players with your smartphone – Offworld
“Bycatch” is a term used by fishermen to describe the extraneous marine life that unintentionally gets caught in their nets. It’s also the name of a card game that deals with a very different sort of collateral damage: the civilians killed by drone …
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New horror text games give voice to marginalized women – Offworld
Bitch Magazine has a wonderful article by Carli Velocci about Twine games, particularly the way women are using the text-only platform to express the unique body and gender fears of their experience.
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NASA funds research for turning poop into astronaut meals : space
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Nasa is raiding museums for spare parts : space
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Simple, geometric, oriental living room. [640×480) : RoomPorn
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Yoogaia’s Home Fitness Platform Gets $3M To Push For International Growth | TechCrunch
Finnish fitness startup Yoogaia has pulled in a $3 million seed to stretch its home exercise platform into more markets. Investors in the round are Nokia Growth Partners, Inventure, Sanoma Ventures and Point Nine Capital.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The GOP primary gets even nastier
Politico: Roger Stone, a former top adviser with Donald Trump’s campaign, took to Twitter on Tuesday to blast Republican pollster Frank Luntz for his profanity-laced tirade against the presidential candidate.
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You Can Send Your Name to Mars Aboard NASA’s InSight Lander
Your name could land on Mars a year from now aboard NASA’s next Red Planet mission.
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Pulsar Proves Gravitational Constant is ‘Rock-Solid’
Through extremely high precision measurements of a pulsar orbiting a white dwarf star, astronomers have found that the gravitational constant, which dictates the force of gravity, is “reassuringly constant” throughout the universe.
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Turkey election body proposes November 1 for snap polls – Al Jazeera English
Turkey’s high election board has proposed to political parties November 1 as a date for possible snap parliamentary elections, according to the state media.
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Where Will NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover Land?
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover may study ancient Mars by surveying the Jezero Crater paleolake. Presented at second Mars 2020 landing site workshop.Credit: Tim Goudge/Brown University, et al. View full size image MONROVIA, California — NASA’s next Mars rove…
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Good Thursday morning. The debate over immigration continues to intensify on the campaign trail, but some Republicans are trying to keep things low-key.
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Russell Brand halts The Trews and takes Facebook and Twitter break | Media | The Guardian
Russell Brand says he is stopping his YouTube show The Trews and taking a break from Facebook and Twitter to spend some time “learning”. The Trews saw Brand regularly weigh in on current affairs, with some posts attracting millions of views.
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The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist – The Atlantic
These writings leave Lovecraft fans in an uncomfortable spot.
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How Viking 1 Won the Martian Space | Motherboard
Forty years ago today, NASA launched the Viking 1 spacecraft to Mars, where it would become the first probe to achieve a soft landing on the Martian surface.
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ATLANTA — In an unusual step for a former president, Jimmy Carter is expected to discuss his health at a news conference here on Thursday, eight days after he said that he had cancer. The appearance of Mr. Carter, 90, follows a written statement on …
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First Saudi women register to vote – Al Jazeera English
Safinaz Abu al-Shamat and Jamal al-Saadi made history last Sunday by becoming the first Saudi women to register to vote. For the first time in the kingdom’s history, women will be able to vote, register as candidates and run for office in the munici…
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BBC – Future – What is it like to have never felt an emotion?
Caleb is telling me about the birth of his son, now eight months old. “You know you hear parents say that the first time they looked at their kid, they were overcome with that feeling of joy and affection?” he asks me, before pausing. “I didn’t expe…
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Balloon releases at college football games? Sack that custom | Grist
Q. I work at Clemson University, which has a tradition of releasing latex balloons at football games and other events. The university has taken the position that the release does not harm the environment. The counterarguments are numerous.
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Another breezy morning : LazyCats
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Are Minor Leaguers Paid Legal Wages? – The New Yorker
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How to join this weekend’s Ludum Dare game-making jam – Offworld
Ludum Dare 33 is here, which means loads of indie developers will soon be jamming on tiny games in accordance with a theme.
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Cape Watch: Let’s Start Bugging Marvel About More Sequels | WIRED
Let us, for a second, ignore the D23 Expo Marvel presentation—except, perhaps to note that it was curiously underwhelming when it came to announcements; has Marvel just run out of news over this summer?—and focus our attentions, instead, on the othe…
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How Autistic People Helped Shape the Modern World | WIRED
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in 68 children in the US are on the autism spectrum, a number that stands in staggering contrast to a 1970 study that put the figure at one in 14,200. Some people believe we’re in the…
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Amazonians Who Have to Work Too Much Like Amazon More | WIRED
Working at Amazon is hard, according to a powerful exposé published by The New York Times over the weekend. The piece by reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld describes a brusing, data-driven workplace culture that chews up white-collar workers.
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Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets | WIRED
Augmented reality glasses like Google Glass have never had a stellar reputation among the privacy crowd.
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GitHub Data Shows The Changing Software Landscape | WIRED
Think of it as a map of the rapidly changing world of computer software. On Wednesday, Github published a graphic showing the popularity of various programming languages on its eponymous internet service, a tool that lets anyone store, edit, and col…
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Are Minor Leaguers Paid Legal Wages? – The New Yorker
For generations, minor-league baseball has been seen as the scrappier, sometimes seedier, counterpart to its big-league sibling. Games are often cloaked in strange and sometimes awkward theme nights. Some of the mascots are ragged or downright bizar…
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The Five Stages of Grief After Losing a Job
It was a Saturday, my plane landed, and I was all set to relax during a short weekend getaway, when an email came through on my phone. I’d lost my job. I showed it to my boyfriend in the seat next to me. “These things happen,” I said, smiling and pu…
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Ten years after Katrina: I thought that was it for New Orleans – video | Cities | The Guardian
It was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
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The biggest Vogue of the year, the vaunted September issue (832 pages, four pounds, three ounces), is now on the stands. On its cover is arguably the biggest star of the moment, Beyoncé. Among celebrity profiles, Vogue is very nearly the holy grail.
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Kinetic Sand : oddlysatisfying
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Abandoned house in Rocklake, ND 4160×2340 [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Thank you, I’m here all week. – Meme on Imgur
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Global Video Service Viki Buys Soompi, A Fan Site For Korean Dramas, In Sub-$10M Deal | TechCrunch
Viki, the global video site owned by Japan’s Rakuten, has made an acquisition of its own after it snapped up Soompi, an English-language news and fan site dedicated to Korean cinema and dramas, for “less than $10 million”.
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Every morning, I send my daughters off to school with a kiss on the cheek and a heavy heart. School is supposed to be a safe and supportive environment where children are able to learn without worrying about threats to their health.
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The games you don’t play – Offworld
Whenever anybody wants to mount an argument about what makes video games so uniquely special and precious versus other media in the world, they note that games are interactive, they let the player do, be or have things, they respond to that player’s…
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Sorry Snapchat, But You’re Not Winning This Election | WIRED
Every election season has its shiny new toy, and this year, Snapchat is most definitely it. We’ve already seen Rand Paul take a chainsaw to the tax code on Snapchat. Jeb Bush announced his campaign on the platform.
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BANGKOK — Thailand’s military government said Thursday that the deadly bombing of a Bangkok shrine this week was “unlikely” to be connected to international terrorism, saying it had reached that preliminary conclusion after consulting with foreign i…
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Don’t like spiders? Play this great game as a teeny walrus – Offworld
Tiger Style’s Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon is our mobile game of the week, because it’s delightful and fun and clever.
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LOS ANGELES — To question change in the state whose companies have transformed the world by networking it may seem like California dreaming. Lives last long enough now for the reality of change to be manifest.
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Winter Is Coming. Here’s What to Expect Around the Country. | Mother Jones
Globally, it’s now virtually certain that 2015 will be the hottest year in history. That’s a pretty remarkable thing to be able to say with more than four months of the year remaining.
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Why Won’t Hillary Clinton Take a Stand on Keystone? | Mother Jones
Scott Walker: “We need a president who will approve the Keystone pipeline on the very first day in office and then seek to level the playing field for all sources of energy,” he said during his campaign launch speech in July.
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The dramatic behavior, usually observed off South Africa, is rare for the eastern U.S., according to shark experts.
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Methodist Meteor by Craig Goodwin Via Flickr: near Davenport, WA http://t.co/KTAbyr2r7x http://t.co/dCehMl0aOm
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Bella getting her monthly review in my office. : cats
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HMJB while I check out this door system. : holdmyjuicebox
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The ugly threat of an ISIL with chemical weapons – Al Jazeera English
The alleged use of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fits in with a pattern of increasing small-scale tactical usages of chemical weapons in both Syria and Iraq.
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BANGKOK — Thailand’s military government said Thursday that the deadly bombing of a Bangkok shrine this week was “unlikely” to be connected to international terrorism, saying it had reached that preliminary conclusion after consulting with foreign i…
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Peak Android? YoY Growth Lowest Ever In Q2, Says Gartner | TechCrunch
It’s no wonder Google is expanding its efforts to broaden Android’s reach by working with OEMs in emerging markets, via its Android One smartphone affordability program; the latest global smartphone market data from analyst Gartner shows growth slow…
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Tend a family of lifelike succulent plants on your desktop – Offworld
In keeping with Offworld’s recent fixation on gardening games, I’ve been playing Viridi, a mysteriously-soothing game about taking care of different varieties of succulent plants. You gently water them and they grow slowly, whether you have the game…
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Millions of Yemenis ‘staring at famine’ as war rages – Al Jazeera English
Millions of people risk facing famine in Yemen, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
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DirectX 12 tested: An early win for AMD and disappointment for Nvidia | Ars Technica
Windows 10 brings a slew of features to the table—the return of the Start menu, Cortana, the Xbox App—but the most interesting for gamers is obvious: DirectX 12 (DX12).
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August 20, 1998: The US Bombs a Suspected Qaeda-Run Chemical Plant in Sudan | The Nation
On this day in 1998, the very same day that Monica Lewinsky was to appear before a grand jury and testify about her affair with President Bill Clinton, the United States military pulverized a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, announcing that it was in …
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Hacker Tent City: a Photo Tour of Chaos Communication Camp 2015 | Motherboard
Our tent isn’t even up and my friendly neighbor has already hacked his electronic name badge and, in honor of us, changed its display to a ASCII version of the VICE logo.
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Updated 6:32 a.m. Good morning on this murky Thursday.
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Raising A Ballerina Will Cost You $100,000 | FiveThirtyEight
Sydnee Carroll, a rising junior at Howard University, has been taking ballet classes since she was 3 years old. As a child, Carroll could not picture a ballerina who looked like she did. She hopes to change that image for future children.
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Maggie is an avid redditor : cats
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New data uncovers the surprising predictability of Android lock patterns | Ars Technica
The abundance of password leaks over the past decade has revealed some of the most commonly used—and consequently most vulnerable—passphrases, including “password”, “p@$$w0rd”, and “1234567”.
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Line Messenger Releases Line Here, Its New Location-Sharing App | TechCrunch
Mobile messenger Line has unleashed its latest standalone app, a location-sharing service called Line Here.
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A brief guide to … Didier Drogba, the biggest of big-game players | Football | The Guardian
English football has been blessed with quite a few big-game players down the years, the guy who always shows up when it really matters. Ian Rush scored five goals in three FA Cup finals for Liverpool, an all-time record.
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New to reddit? click here! /r/science is a moderated subreddit, please review the Rules for Submissions before submitting to /r/science, and Rules for Comments before commenting. Submissions and Comments that violate the rules will be removed, as wi…
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Since the Snowden revelations, the market for privacy-oriented services has only grown – indeed, it’s likely that it will keep growing. We’re not at peak surveillance, but we’re way past peak indifference to surveillance.
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Mary O’Hagan characterises the five years she spent in and out of psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand as a period of ‘desperate existential struggle’, during which she made sense of her mind by putting pen to paper.
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We are sacrificing the right to walk – Antonia Malchick – Aeon
In 2011, Raquel Nelson was convicted of vehicular homicide following the death of her four-year-old son. Nelson, it’s crucial to note, was not driving. She didn’t even own a car.
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Amish barn in Maryland explodes in fireball – video | US news | The Guardian
A diesel tank and Amish barn explode in Charles Country, Maryland, in this video footage released by the Waldorf volunteer fire department. No one was injured in the blast, which happened in an Amish area.
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Sony Releases The SmartBand 2 To Take On Fitbit | TechCrunch
Will it be enough? Sony just announced a new Sony SmartBand 2. It is everything you’ve come to expect from fitness tracker. It has a silicon band, it can track your steps for days and it comes with a heart rate sensor. Everybody is trying to come up…
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Get Ready, Sinners: Warner Bros. Is Making Dante’s Inferno Into a Movie
Instead of following in the steps of a Noah or Exodus, Warner Bros. is going a different route for its next loosely-based-on-the-Bible story. This time, it’s going to be loosely based on a book loosely based on the Bible. A yes, Dante. The original …
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Live TV Won’t Make Apple TV a Juggernaut. Apps Will | WIRED
It’s hard to predict when Apple will announce a new Apple TV, but the possibility is always in the wild-card hunt.
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Good morning. North and South Korea exchanged rocket and artillery fire across their border today, their first armed clash in five years, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.
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FRANKFURT — Greece received new aid from other eurozone countries on Thursday, allowing it to meet the deadline for a crucial payment to the European Central Bank and to narrowly avoid defaulting on its debt. The release of 13 billion euros, or near…
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IAU accepts votes for exoplanet names : space
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Ask Not For Whom The Monk Calls… : monkslookingatbeer
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Pierre Nkurunziza sworn in as president for third term – Al Jazeera English
Pierre Nkurunziza has been sworn in as Burundi’s president for a controversial third term in power, the presidency has said, following last month’s disputed elections boycotted by the opposition.
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What’s in the deal? Agreeing to peace in South Sudan – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan’s government has failed to sign to a peace agreement to end almost two years of fighting in the fledgling country, despite securing substantial gains at the negotiating table.
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David Byrne’s Personal Lending Library Is Now Open: 250 Books Ready to Be Checked Out | Open Culture
Just yesterday we were musing on perusing rock stars’ bookshelves, and today we learn it has become a reality, if you live in London.
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North Korea and South Korea Have Just Started Firing at Each Other | VICE News
This is a breaking news story. Please check for further updates. Tensions are on the rise again between North and South Korea, as the two nations have begun exchanging rocket and artillery fire across their border, according to the South Korean Defe…
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This scuba diver wants everyone — black, white, or brown — to feel at home in the ocean | Grist
Kramer Wimberley is lying on the bottom of the sea. Thirty feet under, facedown against the white sand, he makes a stark black cutout in the shadow of the boat tethered above.
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I spent the exact balance left on my gift card. : mildlyinteresting
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The Good Old Cup of Joe, Reimagined as Galaxies and Oceans | WIRED
Forget a tempest in a teapot. Victoria Seimer puts the ocean in a coffee cup. Her wildly imaginative, often outlandish Instagram coffee mugs make your artfully foamed lattes look downright boring.
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LONDON — After a summer in Britain and France dominated by news of migrants trying to break into the Channel Tunnel, the two countries will announce new security measures on Thursday intended to contain a crisis that has disrupted travel and stirred…
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LONDON — After a summer in Britain and France dominated by news of migrants trying to break into the Channel Tunnel, the two countries will announce new security measures on Thursday intended to contain a crisis that has disrupted travel and stirred…
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AGADEZ, Niger — Behind high metal gates at the edge of town, the migrants wait their turn, not daring to leave their mud-brick compounds — the final staging post before the perilous trip across the Sahara and the sea beyond. Even neighborhood childr…
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Tanzania turns a blind eye to poaching as elephant populations tumble | Environment | The Guardian
For tour guides in Tanzania, the results of a continental elephant census showing that the country had lost two-thirds of its herd in five years and become Africa’s ivory trading hub came as no surprise.
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1) “Ever wondered what he’s like in the comfort of his own home?” runs the ominous introduction to this look around Richard Keys’ Doha gaff. The answer is that, much like Alan Partridge, he is a Toblerone fan. Meanwhile, Youth Hostelling with Chris …
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Final Fantasy VII Comes To iOS | TechCrunch
If you were cheesed off when Square Enix launched a mobile version Final Fantasy XIII for gamers in Japan only, then we’ve got some news for you. Final Fantasy VII, a true classic in the series, has now landed on iOS — and it is available for all wo…
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AGADEZ, Niger — Behind high metal gates at the edge of town, the migrants wait their turn, not daring to leave their mud-brick compounds — the final staging post before the perilous trip across the Sahara and the sea beyond. Even neighborhood childr…
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and North Korea exchanged rocket and artillery fire across their tense border on Thursday in their first armed clash in five years, the South Korean Defense Ministry said. No casualties were immediately reported on e…
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and North Korea exchanged rocket and artillery fire across their tense border on Thursday in their first armed clash in five years, the South Korean Defense Ministry said. No casualties were immediately reported on e…
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Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy (1989) – YouTube
“She Drives Me Crazy” is a song recorded by the Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1989 album The Raw and the Cooked. The song peaked at #5 as a single in the band’s native UK in January 1989 (it was released on New Year’s Day) before hitting #…
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NASA 4K Ultra HD Footage – Complilation Showing what is to come. : space
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4 Day Old Blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/TYoedc77Za http://t.co/yYABT0dT3R
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The long game: time is on New York Cosmos chairman Seamus O’Brien’s side | Football | The Guardian
On a clear summer’s evening at the start of August, a few thousand fans slowly trickled in Hofstra University’s James M Shuart Stadium, on Long Island, New York.
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North Korea ‘shells’ South’s military unit at border – Al Jazeera English
North Korea has shelled a South Korean military unit on the western section of the inter-Korean border, the South’s official Yonhap news agency has said, citing military sources. The agency said on Thursday that the North shot tens of artillery roun…
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VICE News Capsule – Thursday, August 20 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Migrants in Macedonia struggle to reach Western Europe, Sudan’s Nile River is dangerously polluted, Georgia’s main independent TV channel faces closure, and spider webs …
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Wildfires hit Washington state – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Fire burns into the night on the ridge above a ranch on Twisp River Road Photograph: Ted S. Warren/AP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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When the Monk Caught a Sprite in the Kitchen
It’s a folktale that’s been reworked and re-told for centuries. Disney’s making it into an animated film slated for next year (the live-action version is scheduled for two years after that). The monk, caught in a life of contemplation, hears a sound…
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Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up – YouTube
Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 2,573,462 (C) 1987 PWL
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Private Lives: Personal essays on the news of the world and the news of our lives. I was the envy of my 30-something friends in Palo Alto, Calif. I had my own law office right on California Avenue. People charged with crimes handed me cash, in advan…
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When I started work on Blackfish, I could not possibly have imagined the effect it would have on SeaWorld. Let’s be honest. Not a lot of people see documentaries. And not a lot of people want to see a movie that sucker punches a beloved cultural ico…
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Shuffle off: owner of ‘Goonies house’ tells fans to stay away | Film | The Guardian
The owner of the property, who says she is angry at local government officials for encouraging fans, has wrapped her home with giant blue tarpaulins and put up signs telling visitors to stay away. “Imagine that you buy a house, fix it up, spend mone…
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Pro-Israel lobbying in the UK: Cheap to play – Al Jazeera English
Last November, the British Foreign Office published an article entitled Ukraine’s road to reform: one year on from EuroMaidan. It was attributed to the minister for Europe, Conservative MP David Lidington.
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San Jose, CA [2867 x 2135] (OC) : CityPorn
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Sunset Skyline – Seattle, USA [1024 x 476] [OC] : CityPorn
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LESS IS MORE! by Willos Callaghan / 500px
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Fasten your seat belt http://t.co/LjoiLccIAR http://t.co/P08lXoW2Ot http://t.co/O79nXXjO98
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Fasten your seat belt http://t.co/LjoiLccIAR http://t.co/P08lXoW2Ot http://t.co/O79nXXjO98
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Kid (vs) Shark via /r/funny http://t.co/UljOQobpBK http://t.co/0OjMtcvhjY
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A Beijing court has agreed to hear a student’s lawsuit against the Ministry of Education over textbooks that describe homosexuality as a mental disorder.
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He likes to keep me company when my partner works overnight 🙂 : cats
He likes to keep me company when my partner works overnight 🙂 via /r/cats http://t.co/CMayETfapJ http://t.co/eKCfzklGSi
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Got my salmon tie on ready for work : cats
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I made my cat Fluffy a little home can you spot him? : cats
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Fox collecting sandwich pieces for its cubs : foxes
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Stan Wawrinka: Nick Kyrgios’s sledge hurt a lot of people – video | Sport | The Guardian
World number five Stan Wawrinka speaks about his reaction to number 37 seed Nick Kyrgios’s infamous sledge made during the Montreal Masters.
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Apparently, it’s my cake day. I’ve been saving this one for you guys. : woahdude
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Mum MUm love for her six kittooz 🙂 : cats
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Help me to choose a name for this kitty. : cats
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Singapore Online Grocer RedMart Raises $26.7M Ahead Of Southeast Asia Expansion | TechCrunch
RedMart, an online grocery service in Singapore, has closed a $26.7 million round in preparation for an upcoming Series C which will be used to expand across Southeast Asia.
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The Connecticut Supreme Court could have taken an easy route to finding the state’s death penalty unconstitutional in the decision it issued last week. The State Legislature repealed the death penalty in 2012, but it made the repeal prospective, lea…
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Before Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidates could deflect tough questions on immigration with vague promises to secure the border and oppose all “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. Not anymore. Mr.
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Thank you for noting the cognitive dissonance that finds many Americans lavishing love on tens of millions of dogs and cats, even as we allow the grotesque slaughter of close to nine billion farm animals a year (“Exposing Abuse on the Factory Farm,”…
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What a stunning confluence in the Aug. 16 New York Times! The front page tells the heart-wrenching story of Ke’jorium McKnight, a black youth arrested at 14 on armed robbery charges, awaiting trial in Mississippi these last two years in solitary con…
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Durham, N.C. — DONALD J. TRUMP has built much of his lead in the Republican primary race on his tough stance on immigration, the centerpiece of which is the demand that America wall off its border with Mexico to stanch the flow of “rapists” and othe…
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New York State’s Department of Financial Services announced this week that Promontory Financial Group, a top bank consultant, would pay $15 million to settle allegations that it purposely obscured evidence
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Amicalola Falls State Park, Ga. — I’VE been vacationing in western North Carolina and northern Georgia since I was a kid. I arrive, marvel at the mountains and put on an unconvincing Southern drawl.
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Re “Consequences Ripple After Court Expands Free Speech” (news article, Aug. 18): Robert Post, the dean of Yale Law School, claims that the Supreme Court’s decision in Reed v. Town of Gilbert is bold and sweeping and threatens a wide variety of laws.
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The efficacy and the benefits of Joanne Lipman’s suggestion in “Let’s Expose the Gender Pay Gap” (Op-Ed, Aug. 13) have been amply demonstrated.
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After thousands of irate New Jersey commuters were again delayed in their morning commutes this week, Gov. Chris Christie finally got serious about doing something to help them.
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With tears in my eyes, I finished reading Oliver Sacks’s powerful essay “Sabbath” (Sunday Review, Aug. 16). As he has done many times, Dr. Sacks put into words who we are in this world and what it means.
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Durango, Colo. — THE recent mining pollution spill in my corner of Colorado — La Plata County — is making national news for all the wrong reasons.
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Trump Women Supporters: ‘We need a businessman’ | Al Jazeera America
During the first prime-time Republican presidential debate on Aug. 6, co-moderator and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked Trump about times he has called various women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”
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Durham, N.C. — DONALD J. TRUMP has built much of his lead in the Republican primary race on his tough stance on immigration, the centerpiece of which is the demand that America wall off its border with Mexico to stanch the flow of “rapists” and othe…
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ChurchDesk Scores $2 Million Funding To Help Churches Go Digital | TechCrunch
Almost every business process or human interaction is rapidly being digitised and offered via the cloud, as a seemingly endless supply of startups look to disrupt legacy software or often old, completely non-digital ways of doing things.
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We’ve Identified Those Bugs Infesting Burning Man — And It’s Not Pretty
Yesterday, Burning Man organizers revealed the truth: the annual desert arts festival is infested with bugs. Swarms of them. Piles of them. What are they? Why has nobody ever seen them before, in over two decades of building mega-party spaces in Nev…
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Slide Show: Meike Nixdorf’s Uncanny Valleys – The New Yorker
Although the mountainscapes in Meike Nixdorf’s new series “Your Earth Transforms” would seem, at first, to be thoroughly in the tradition of heroic alpine photography, they are not photographs, and Nixdorf has never actually visited these places.
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How do you catch a wombat? In a giant butterfly net of course – video | Environment | The Guardian
PhD students at the University of Tasmania are netting bare-nosed wombats as part of their research into sarcoptic mange, which can cause localised extinction. Among other things, they hope to determine how the disease was introduced to Australia.
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UN peacekeepers face new sex abuse allegations in CAR – Al Jazeera English
Three young females, including a minor, have accused United Nations peacekeepers of raping them in the Central African Republic, the global body has announced, taking the number of allegations to 13 since the UN stationed troops in the country in Se…
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Georgia Tech Finds 11 Deep Security Flaws in Chrome, Firefox : technology
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Torzym, Poland [OC] [1000×698] : waterporn
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This South Park joke just got funnier. Season 6 Ep1 “Jared Has Aides” : funny
This South Park joke just got funnier. Season 6 Ep1 “Jared Has Aides” via /r/funny http://t.co/syCVqH0SZE http://t.co/eTHsCRdGSh
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Yo momma so ugly… via /r/funny http://t.co/TgyJmZRnDR http://t.co/20Z8P2Jkug
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Elizabeth by Manthos Tsakiridis / 500px
Elizabeth by ManthosTsakiridis http://t.co/FTaay9duob http://t.co/Gj0vemZbnk
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Saint-Petersburg, Russia [OC] [1000×674] : CityPorn
Saint-Petersburg, Russia [OC] [1000×674] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/ZNb55KqsQk http://t.co/XgAW8VLwxy
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Saint-Petersburg, Russia [OC] [1000×653] : CityPorn
Saint-Petersburg, Russia [OC] [1000×653] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/TfSQAd9Tc3 http://t.co/EpqpVHlJ1Z
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“A person’s identity … is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound.” As a teenager in Bulgaria, the great joy of turning sixteen…
The Genes of the Soul: Amin Maalouf on Belonging, Conflict, and How We Inhabit Our Identity http://t.co/pn6feXH02w -
Spotify doing it right. : firstworldanarchists
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Cats love ruins via /r/cats http://t.co/xRAlAoxKrH http://t.co/5KACmuG6Q1
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MRW Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison account was leaked : reactiongifs
MRW Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison account was leaked via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/IJxLfdTdRN http://t.co/2xUMyoJsc3
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Saving the drink via /r/gifs http://t.co/PFcHnhewf3 http://t.co/8pvzJWav8E
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In Canada, Indigenous Group Blocks Pipeline | Al Jazeera America
This is the second in a two part-series on Canadian government monitoring of First Nations groups over land and environmental issues. Read the first part here.
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Baltimore Officer Charged in Shooting | Al Jazeera America
A Baltimore police officer who authorities say shot a burglary suspect in the groin at close range after he’d been subdued is being charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, the city’s top prosecutor announced Wednesday.
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Why thinking about pizza can be a potent form of cognitive-behavioral therapy for self-doubt. Children, MoMA curator Juliet Kinchin observed in her superb design history of childhood, “help us to mediate between the ideal and the real.
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Dialects of Spanish spoken in Argentina[2989 x 5068] : MapPorn
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‘Moon’ by N Kayurova : ImaginaryMindscapes
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floating into paradise by Sarah Lee / 500px
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Barenquell Brauerei Berlin [3110×2073] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Josh Duggar on family values : AdviceAnimals
Josh Duggar on family values via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/t5Xa7eRpSX http://t.co/0USSO356vK
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This little guy tied himself into an infinity knot when I picked him up. : aww
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Amazing Concept Art From the Jurassic Park Cartoon That Never Got Made
Back when the original Jurassic Park came out, all sorts of spin-off projects were in development. One of them was an animated series that artist William Stout did some early concept art for. Unlike the sequels we eventually got, the cartoon brought…
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Fatal shooting of black teen in US city sparks protests – Al Jazeera English
Police in the US state of Missouri have fatally shot a black teenager, who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions in the country.
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Alibaba-backed Paytm Can Now Offer Banking Services In India | TechCrunch
Eleven companies, including Alibaba-backed Paytm and several telecoms, can now offer a wide array of financial services after being granted provisional approval by the Reserve Bank of India, the country’s central banking authority.
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Thai Police Seek Interpol Help Over Blast | Al Jazeera America
Earlier in the investigation, police said they believed at least three people, including a foreign man, were involved in the attack on a famous city shrine. “It is a big network. There was preparation using many people,” police chief Somyot Poompanm…
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This whole GIF is satisfying. : gaming
This whole GIF is satisfying. (gfycat.com) Thought this gif was a infinite loop for a second.
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Yesterday, we found out that Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman and reputed college porn kingpin, was expected to plead guilty on child pornography charges, and today we know what those charges are.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. The newspaper clipping has been on the living room wall for decades: a photo of a doe-eyed toddler framed and displayed by proud parents.
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Election Class of 2016: Why America Is Waiting for Joe Biden | VICE | United Kingdom
[Editor’s Note: In the run-up to the 2016 election, VICE will be profiling the individuals who are important to the presidential race. Some of them are famous, others you probably won’t have heard of before—but all of them will have an outsize impac…
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Who Are Donald Trump’s Supporters and What Do They Want? | VICE | United Kingdom
Over the last few months, a pattern has started to emerge in the 2016 presidential campaign. First, a new poll reveals that Donald Trump is leading the Republican primary field, that his momentum is growing, that his more than double that of his nea…
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Carbon nanofibres made from CO2 in the air – BBC News
Scientists in the US have found a way to take carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and make carbon nanofibres, a valuable manufacturing material.
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Spending the exact balance left on my giftcard. : oddlysatisfying
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Unicode Emoticon List http://t.co/Un2Rj2Gn5B http://t.co/JdskNmgHva
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We all know the feeling – Imgur
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when your wife finds you on the Ashley Madison leak : trippinthroughtime
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Toronto, Canada [1600×1066] : CityPorn
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Innsbruck, Austria [4128 x 2322] (OC) : CityPorn
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Bad lip reading Republican debate : Liberal
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[Mr. Robot] S01E09 – “eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt” – Discussion Thread (SPOILERS) : television
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One of the most heartbreaking pictures I have seen in my entire life. : pics
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My kid found some trippy stairs today. : woahdude
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Yellowstone National Park [3872×2592] [OC] : EarthPorn
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I think there is something wrong with the dryer : foxes
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Central Cygnus Skyscape
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Piazza del Campo Image, Siena – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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The arrest of a drug smuggler in scuba gear led to the discovery of a tunnel from Mexico that is partially underwater and ends in a canal. Evelio Padilla pleaded guilty in a San Diego federal court to one count of possession of drugs with intent to …
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“eps1.8m1rr0r1ng.qt” · Mr. Robot · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Elliot finally caught up to us. It took being confronted with his father’s grave, but at long last, the circle is closed. And he is not pleased.
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Digging For Fire · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Early in Digging For Fire, Tim (Jake Johnson) excitedly informs his wife, Lee (Rosemarie DeWitt), that he’s just found a pistol and what appears to be a human bone buried in the hillside near their house.
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Learning To Drive · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Early in Isabel Coixet’s latest feature, Learning To Drive, an exchange between the protagonists pokes ever-so-mildly at one of the film’s central issues.
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An A.V. Club staffer embarks on a quest to not suck at shooters · Shooter Tutor · The A.V. Club
Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown).
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In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
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Documentary Now! · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
These days, we’re in a fascinating uncanny valley of cynicism when it comes to the documentary: perpetually interested in the truth as documentaries suggest it, but so aware of the manipulation that goes into a narrative that mockumentaries can ofte…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, August 20. All times are Eastern. Documentary Now! (IFC, 10 p.m.): Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers aim to do for documentaries what Christopher Guest did for, well, documentaries.
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American Ultra · Film Review · The A.V. Club
In American Ultra—a stoned, occasionally gruesome riff on The Bourne Identity, flavored with a touch of First Blood and Burn After Reading—a small-town pothead lives blissfully unaware of his past as a brainwashed super-soldier, programmed by the CI…
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She’s Funny That Way · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Can a screwball comedy be too breezy? Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way is a broad bedroom-and-backstage farce styled after the pre-Code comedies of the early 1930s—a retro exercise that announces itself with an Irving Berlin tune and a lengt…
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I’m an active feminist and a casual NASA fan, but up until I watched the fifth episode of The Astronaut Wives Club I had never heard of FLATs.
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Sinister 2 · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Bughuul is back! But what can he do for an encore? The horror-movie faithful already know what drives the death-metal-looking bogeyman from 2012’s Sinister: He and his band of pre-adolescent phantasms influence children to kill their families and fi…
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Hitman: Agent 47 · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Skip Woods must truly believe in the cinematic potential of the video game Hitman. Usually, a do-over like Hitman: Agent 47—the kind of soft reboot that seems more like a recast DTV sequel—recruits new filmmakers to set a would-be franchise on a dif…
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Grandma · Film Review · The A.V. Club
There’s a long tradition of films treating scrappy and lively older characters as a punchline, as if it’s inherently hilarious to see anyone above 65 swear, drink, fight, acknowledge sex with positivity or enthusiasm, or otherwise indicate they’re s…
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You know it’s fake, right?: How WWE constructs reality · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
Every single wrestling fan, no matter their age, has heard the same question repeated after declaring their love for sports entertainment: “You know it’s fake, right?” It’s a common refrain, and one that, more than anything else, is meant to critici…
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WhatsApp’s Web Client Adds iOS Support | TechCrunch
At last, WhatsApp has added iOS to the platforms supported by its web app. This means that iPhone users can now sync their accounts and chats to WhatsApp Web. iOS is already listed on WhatsApp Web’s site, but is still gradually rolling out to iPhone…
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Officials say two people have been killed and five others wounded in a drive-by shooting in western New York. It happened late Wednesday night near the headquarters of the Boys and Girls Club in Rochester.
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The wasteland – what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?* | Environment | The Guardian
The fragrance of newly mown hay drying in the sun in Weardale’s meadows is just a memory now that the last cut has been gathered in, but 10 miles down the dale, in this small market town, it lingers.
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Ex-Sheriff’s Captain Pleads Guilty | Al Jazeera America
A former captain with the nation’s largest sheriff’s department pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying on the witness stand during a widespread misconduct investigation into abuse within the Los Angeles County jail system.
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“MC Mom” · Key & Peele · TV Review · The A.V. Club
When an episode of Key & Peele really gets going, all of its sketches—no matter how much of a variety there is—feel interconnected.
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Bad News, Good News: Disney Is Making a Jungle Cruise Movie Starring the Rock
I’m praying that this movie is more in the mold of Pirates of the Caribbean than Tomorrowland. It doesn’t need to be a brilliant work, it just needs to be fun.
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APOD: 2015 August 19 – Central Cygnus Skyscape
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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Thailand seeks Interpol help to track blast suspect – Al Jazeera English
Thailand has asked Interpol for help in tracking down the man they believe planted a bomb in Bangkok that killed 20 people, Reuters news agency reports.
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How Diamond Formation Depends on the Ocean | Hakai Magazine
Forged in the extreme pressures and temperatures of the Earth’s mantle, diamonds are, at their most basic, crystals of compressed carbon. Though they may seem simple, the process of diamond formation is very complex.
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Maximize Credit Card Rewards | Wallaby Financial
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Piazza del Campo Image, Siena – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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The Wellcome Trust’s investments in fossil fuel companies have lost an estimated £175m in the last year, due to sharp falls in share prices.
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Yvonne Craig, the actress best known as Batgirl on the hit 1960s television series “Batman,” died on Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. She was 78. Her death was announced on her official website.
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Much has already been made of the way F. Gary Gray’s N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton elides some of the group’s less admirable aspects—especially its members’ relationships and sometimes violent actions toward women.
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Donald Trump and Jeb Bush trade shots during New Hampshire town halls | US news | The Guardian
The 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Jeb Bush faced off at dueling town hall events in New Hampshire on Wednesday evening, capping a day of campaigning in the early-voting state.
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Virginia Burkett, chief scientist for climate and land-use change at the US Geological Survey, said the denial of climate science by Australian decision-makers was a surprise to her. “I thought it was just a US problem but it’s not, apparently, it’s…
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump reiterated his election pledge to build a more secure wall along the US border to keep migrants out.
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John Henry Holland, a computer scientist whose seminal work on genetic algorithms, or computer codes that mimic sexually reproducing organisms, proved crucial in the study of complex adaptive systems, a field he helped create, died on Aug. 9 at his …
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Fox develops a series about orphans who are also international spies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fox has announced that it’s developing a TV show about a group of orphans who get captured by the government and raised to be international spies, just like in all those Annie/Alias crossover stories you swore you’d get around to writing some day.
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Milky Way over Spencer Bay, Moosehead Lake, Maine … – Just Space
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When you come home drunk and it’s really late : trippinthroughtime
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Chicago, IL. Taken while running along the lakefront. [OC] [2448 X 1836] : CityPorn
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Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption : technology
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I think this more often than probably ‘acceptable’. : AdviceAnimals
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I’ll HYB while you get blindsided. (xpost from r/gifs) : holdmybeer
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My grandfather (1970’s) : OldSchoolCool
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Taj Mahal as viewed from inside the adjacent mosque [oc] [1024×683] : ArchitecturePorn
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Priorities via /r/funny http://t.co/nWZqipqGYl http://t.co/pEy4YHifmg
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I can’t wait to say this one day. : funny
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Far Across the Distance – Andaman Islands, India [OC][598×598] : seaporn
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“It was an accident! I swear!” : funny
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There was an Alaskan Husky on my flight : aww
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A bed fit for a kitten via /r/aww http://t.co/UinQIDr24I http://t.co/2xBMUJcvyX
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Reclamation : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Hands by unorthdx http://t.co/XigkBWe8sd http://t.co/rwZukLuROC
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A rare sunny day somewhere west of Sitka, AK [3264×2448 OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Sunset at Pine Creek Lake Montana USA : natureporn
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NYC 1970s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/7YaxDh2YLO http://t.co/gLuX7ImBOr
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Bookloaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/QYTY1Bz5mR http://t.co/DBICSCJznW
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Sob stories boo hoo. – Meme on Imgur
Sob stories boo hoo. http://t.co/wxjgx54KS0 http://t.co/YhwMW5Vddr http://t.co/gAjNnyegHI
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WARM LOAF via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/ZGwwfMZSCt http://t.co/sUFrxlOP9u
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Sob stories boo hoo. http://t.co/wxjgx54KS0 http://t.co/YhwMW5Vddr http://t.co/gAjNnyegHI
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Average UV index during summer in Australia [691×486] [OS] : MapPorn
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday joined the call for a crackdown on the nearly naked women in body paint who pose for photos in Times Square.
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Three firefighters die in Washington state as blazes force evacuations | World news | The Guardian
Three firefighters were killed and up to four others injured as wildfires advanced on towns in north-central Washington, authorities said. Okanogan county Sheriff Frank Rogers said the deaths happened in a wildfire near Twisp on Wednesday.
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This App Shoots VHS Quality Video That Bob Saget Would Be Proud Of | TechCrunch
If you long for the shitty quality videos of pre-2000, the ones shot on a camcorder, then this iOS app is for you. Fittingly, it’s called VHS Camcorder and it costs $3.99. It’s kind of worth it, and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t pay for a l…
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DES MOINES — On a three-day tour of Iowa after declaring his candidacy for president last month, Scott Walker wore the same rolled-sleeves unifo
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ST. LOUIS — An armed man fleeing from two officers serving a search warrant at a home in a crime-troubled area was shot and killed Wednesday by the police after he pointed a gun at them, the police chief said.
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This is my baby brother, Corporal David O’Shea. He took his own life on 9/24/2014. 22 veterans a day commit suicide, a rate more than double that of the general population. On August 22 join Buddy Check 22 to reach out and talk to a veteran, see how…
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How the F.B.I. Made ‘Winners Don’t Use Drugs’ the Arcade Motto of the ’90s | Inverse
Walk into any retro arcade — the one nearest my office, called Barcade, happens to serve craft beers with your Galaga — and you’ll see it.
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Like us on facebook! Showerthought is a loose term that applies to any thought you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming.
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What about the cats?? http://t.co/GJHNkRovia http://t.co/fHZV4BIrrR http://t.co/DaSgXzu5vj
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What about the cats?? http://t.co/GJHNkRovia http://t.co/fHZV4BIrrR http://t.co/DaSgXzu5vj
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UK approves e-cigarettes as healthier alternative – Al Jazeera English
Smokers in the UK could be prescribed e-cigarettes to help them kick the habit, after they were approved as a healthier alternative by the UK’s public health body. The surprising decision comes despite Public Health England having previously critici…
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Firm that vetted Edward Snowden settles with US justice department for $30m | US news | The Guardian
United States Investigations Services Inc, the private firm that vetted former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, has agreed to a settlement worth at least $30m, resolving US claims connected to its background investigations.
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Hillary Clinton’s emails, data erased from server before handed to FBI | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton’s personal lawyer has told a senate committee that emails and all other data stored on the Democratic presidential hopeful’s private server were erased before it was turned over to US government authorities.
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Many of the world’s plants are turning “alien”, spread by people into new areas where they choke out native vegetation in a worsening trend that causes billions of dollars in damage, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Meet ‘Deez Nuts,’ the Teen Presidential Candidate Punking America | Rolling Stone
News broke this week that an independent presidential candidate going by the name of “Deez Nuts” is polling at 9 percent in the latest PPP poll from North Carolina — after posting similar numbers in PPP polls of Minnesota (8 percent) and Iowa (7 per…
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Anti-LGBT pro-creationist rich guy eyes Montana governorship
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How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election – Robert Epstein – POLITICO Magazine
America’s next president could be eased into office not just by TV ads or speeches, but by Google’s secret decisions, and no one—except for me and perhaps a few other obscure researchers—would know how this was accomplished.
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How does your brain remember a face? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Science”
H&F: I’ve heard of what neuroscientists call the Jennifer Aniston neuron [in studies, one neuron lit up only when stimuli involved the actress]. Is there one neuron that’s remembering someone’s nose and one that’s remembering someone’s mouth? How de…
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Hawthorn, the art doll, by me! : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Kepler-186f, the First Earth-size Planet in the… – Just Space
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RIP Punipuni 199?-2015 via /r/cats http://t.co/IbNqcFV0Ft http://t.co/JkrC1tQ6vU
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“Genie” by imgur user DrClaww : gif
“Genie” by imgur user DrClaww via /r/gif http://t.co/fxhvBCKDYO http://t.co/SoRM1B9aCS
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On July 11, 2000, in one of the more unlikely moments in the history of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Orrin Hatch handed the microphone to Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, to hear his thoughts on art in the age of digital reproduction.
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SANTA CLARITA, CALIF. — In a career spanning more than six decades, Patrick Stewart has played kings and murderers and one-legged whalers. He has led an international team of superpowered mutants and has captained a starship.
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Clinton Case is Potential Criminal Investigation | Al Jazeera America
Exactly one week after the FBI took possession of Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, Al Jazeera America has been told that the FBI is now treating the Clinton case as a potential criminal investigation.
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Clive Owen to kill some dudes in Luc Besson’s Valerian · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Clive Owen is setting down his surgical tools and getting back to the honest work of killing lots and lots of mostly faceless mooks.
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Thor: Ragnarok writer Christopher Yost joins Masters Of The Universe · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Through a process that we can only assume involved holding up a pen and shouting something about the power of Grayskull, Thor: Ragnarok writer Christopher Yost has transformed into someone powerful enough to write Sony’s big Masters Of The Universe …
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As humans, we have an urge to explore. So, where to next?
Col. Chris Hadfield is the former commander of the International Space Station, the first Canadian to walk in orbit outside the station, and the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm.
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French Fries? Ah! dsewewjdsiewdsi : wheredidthesodago
French Fries? Ah! dsewewjdsiewdsi via /r/wheredidthesodago http://t.co/t3sRnBCuSN http://t.co/QZVjSvYENI
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HIFW I’ve gone three months without shaving : TrollXChromosomes
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Map of Ceres, with Crater Names : space
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12 packs of idiot, available for a limited time only ❤ : cats
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This dog just walked into my kitchen. I don’t have a dog. Hi dog. : aww
This dog just walked into my kitchen. I don’t have a dog. Hi dog. via /r/aww http://t.co/T0ceY5Xudm http://t.co/wFanQ5Jju3
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The United States is proposing that the United Nations Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan after President Salva Kiir refused to sign a peace deal this week. A draft resolution, which also proposes more sanctions, was circulated W…
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St Kilda’s Jason Holmes set to become first American to play AFL game | Sport | The Guardian
St Kilda ruckman Jason Holmes is set to become the first born-and-raised American to play in an AFL game on Saturday. The club announced on Thursday that Holmes will make his premiership debut when the Saints take on Geelong at Etihad Stadium.
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In saying on Wednesday that he supported annual standardized tests for public school students, Jeb Bush invoked his brother.
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SAKI, Crimea — Tamara Tsetlayana stood on a narrow stretch of gray beach, rinsing off a thick layer of the black, ostensibly therapeutic mud that has drawn visitors to the salty lake here for more than a century.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio made a promise as a candidate to animal-rights activists that he would end the Central Park horse-carriage industry on the first day of his administration. Nearly 600 days into his tenure, the horses are still clopping.
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mr skeletel says noone has rigt to tuch yuo : ledootgeneration
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Brother and sister via /r/cats http://t.co/0352p5CVh2 http://t.co/UjmOc3C75x
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turns out, it’s pretty cool having one-way windows at the office… – Imgur
turns out, it’s pretty cool having one-way windows at the office… http://t.co/RjyC9QyPSr http://t.co/NUQHy63Dzv
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My Russian Blue via /r/cats http://t.co/WPQ4BjWGNk http://t.co/miVFcothJo
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Good Guy Scotty. http://t.co/dPzDsII3gb http://t.co/Hoy8KytnwE
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Trump beware: political apprentice Deez Nuts is top-polling independent | US news | The Guardian
It may be Donald Trump who has raised this presidential campaign to new levels of frivolity, but in a poll that is arguably frivolous by nature one “candidate” has managed to go viral – and it turns out he’s a 15-year-old from Iowa.
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Erdogan Gambles on New Election | Al Jazeera America
Just two months after his hold on power looked tenuous, with his party failing to obtain a majority in parliamentary elections, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan all but acknowledged on Wednesday that his government would call new elections, b…
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Drones to combat turtle egg poachers in Mexico – video | Environment | The Guardian
Authorities in Mexico will deploy drones on southwestern beaches in Oaxaca to protect against a reported surge in poaching of the eggs of the threatened Olive Ridley turtle. The turtles return to the country’s coast each year to lay their eggs in th…
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Nonpartisan analysis: Yes, Republicans have broken the judicial nomination process
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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A newly released video from Good magazine, showing Hillary Clinton in a meeting being confronted by young activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, thrilled me to no end. It also depressed me just as much.
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Edited a video of my family’s day on the lake together. Stepmom was not happy. : videos
Introducing the Official Twitter account of r/Videos. Click Here and follow! Tweet us something. Follow us on A great place for video content of all kinds. Direct links to major video sites are preferred (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Ever since Pedro Martinez entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in July, Emilio Cordova, the Dominican Republic’s most celebrated baseball historian, has been carrying copies of stat sheets with him all over town.
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Arizona Monsoons via /r/Breathless http://t.co/jkEKJxpkIs http://t.co/83M28qI01o
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Creator: This has been a Long Term Goal of mine,… – Just Space
Creator: This has been a Long Term Goal of mine, probably three… http://t.co/uKOTLlOebe http://t.co/2b3viUpZ0D
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‘Errol the Feral’ pregnant rescue cat’s first cuddle! : cats
‘Errol the Feral’ pregnant rescue cat’s first cuddle! via /r/cats http://t.co/RrbJafHExH http://t.co/gHMFY4iWOz
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I have no friends. : AdviceAnimals
I have no friends. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/r1fiwMiO7B http://t.co/JhVPAWseNh
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Grab a pillow and join me. : gifs
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The release of stolen data from Ashley Madison, a dating website marketed at would-be adulterers, promises to roil the marital lives of its members. It has also underscored the troubling limitations of Internet privacy.
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Blasts near government offices rock Egypt’s Cairo – Al Jazeera English
Egyptian security sources say explosions heard in several parts of Cairo occurred near a state security building and courthouse in a northern suburb of the capital and casualties are feared.
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Which Royal Wants Vin Diesel to Play Him in a Movie? | Vanity Fair
Many European royals have been portrayed on-screen by gorgeous Hollywood actors over the years. Most recently, for example, Princess Diana was played by Naomi Watts. Princess Grace of Monaco was summoned on-screen by Nicole Kidman. Queen Elizabeth w…
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A typhoid outbreak is threatening displaced Palestinian residents from the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus, Syria, the United Nations reported Wednesday.
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The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millions of hungry women and children facing possible starvation, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON — Gov.
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HOUSTON — With oil prices collapsing and companies in retrenchment, a federal auction in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday attracted the lowest interest from producers since 1986.
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Crank it via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/WBKjWavXTA http://t.co/LDVLQS1ZyW
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Marty brutally kills a duck : cats
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My wife gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Ashley Madison Still Trying To Abuse The DMCA To Hide Leak : technology
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Central Cygnus Skyscape [6023×4374]
Central Cygnus Skyscape [6023×4374] http://t.co/kILzk0hRcj http://t.co/zcNrcVUKm5
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Valley Fog via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/0ddCHr9AZ1 http://t.co/KjD7gMO2r8
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A 100% Accurate (and Totally Ludicrous) Reenactment of the Dinosaurs’ Extinction
Let’s face it, you can’t show the extinction of the dinosaurs without including showing these prehistoric beasts mowing their lawns, going grocery shopping, and getting ridden by Jesus… Well, okay, so maybe this isn’t the most accurate video, but …
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UNITED NATIONS — In the latest in a series of sexual abuse allegations against United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, the families of two women and one girl under the age of 18 have accused three peacekeepers of rape, the Unite…
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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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Miles Teller might star in a movie about PTSD · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Miles Teller has been through a lot in his life. J.K. Simmons threw that chair at his head, he came across like a dick in this interview, and he was in that Fantastic Four movie everyone forgot about already.
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Containers come to Windows with new Windows Server 2016 beta | Ars Technica
The third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 was released today, with one new feature in particular sure to attract interest: container support. Microsoft announced two kinds of container support for Windows Server 2016 back in April.
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Someone Made an R-Rated Stop Motion Animated Film About Going to Hell
The R-rated, Hollywood animated film is a rare form, indeed. Other countries release them but in the U.S., a decade could pass between two. The next one is coming sooner than you think, though, and it’ll get even more niche by using stop-motion anim…
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Fred Armisen and Bill Hader’s fake band is releasing a real EP · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Joining the ranks of such semi-fictional musical outfits as Spinal Tap, The Rutles, and Orange Is The New Black’s Sideboob, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen’s fake band The Blue Jean Committee will be straining the words “fake” and “band” to their breaki…
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Edinburgh [2048×1408] OC OS : CityPorn
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Used my old boxes from work to build a cat house. : cats
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On becoming an egg donor : TrollXChromosomes
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UniBlep via /r/Blep http://t.co/FcuHZdYiI0 http://t.co/374PCbUKUd
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Florida treasure hunters find $4.5m in rare Spanish coins | US news | The Guardian
Florida treasure hunters found a trove of $4.5m worth of Spanish gold coins 300 years to the day after a fleet of ships sunk in a hurricane while en route from Havana to Spain, the salvage owner has said.
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Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 | TechCrunch
Hardware was the clear cut theme of Day 1, Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 was a bit more… eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, eSports! There was a little somethin’ for everybody today.
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US proposes UN arms embargo on South Sudan – Al Jazeera English
The US is proposing that the UN Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan after its leader surprised rebels and observers by refusing to sign a peace deal. The US circulated a draft resolution to council members on Wednesday evening, an…
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The police arrested two people on Wednesday after a hand grenade was hurled and shots were fired at officers guarding the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, a tourist attraction, the Istanbul governor’s office said. One police officer was slightly wound…
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Thomas Friedman: The world is hot | Grist
Here’s my bet about the future of Sunni, Shiite, Arab, Turkish, Kurdish and Israeli relations: If they don’t end their long-running conflicts, Mother Nature is going to destroy them all long before they destroy one another.
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Could the solution to climate change come from this castle? | Grist
For six weeks, over 100 entrepreneurs will be living communally in a 16th-century castle outside of Paris. Their goal, like all cults worth their dianetics, is to save the world.
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Starry, starry night by Sean Martell http://t.co/qkO82go7hk http://t.co/IWJ6IIWG2P
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HMB while I turn the electric fence on : holdmybeer
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More than three million people are suffering from hunger as insecurity persists in Mali’s north, Malian officials and the United Nations said Wednesday. More than 715,000 children are at risk of acute malnutrition, the United Nations humanitarian co…
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Simmering tensions between protesters and the authorities over Lebanon’s continuing trash crisis erupted into violence on Wednesday as the police used force on demonstrators rallying outside the seat of government in Beirut.
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South Africa’s justice minister on Wednesday intervened to delay the early release of Oscar Pistorius, the imprisoned Olympic athlete convicted of killing his girlfriend — 48 hours before he was scheduled to begin serving the rest of his five-year t…
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In need of cash — we’ll get to why she needs it in a minute — Elle Reid, a poet and sometime professor in her 70s, decides to sell some precious old books.
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What To Read About Dr. Dre’s History Of Violence Against Women – 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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You’re biased about your biases. “We judge whether we have a bias by examining our thoughts, and because we believe our thoughts are rational, we often think we’re not biased when we are…
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This ‘Mad Max’ Remake With GoKarts And Paintballs Is Amazingly Realistic – Digg
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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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Chernobyl’s “Elephant Foot” : interestingasfuck
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Taste of the Aurora – Yukon js – Just Space
Taste of the Aurora – Yukon js http://t.co/rMqSG8Dm9I http://t.co/JBIf7VWJWy
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Meow_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/TeDpuGLfya http://t.co/thm9mfBqUS
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Lewis’s Woodpecker flycatching [1920×1280] [OC] [OS] : AnimalPorn
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Marine mammals thriving in Thames – BBC News
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Ten years of public sightings show that large marine mammals are regularly found in the River Thames. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has received records of 2,732 animals over that period. -
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A Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread in Puke | WIRED
Officially, it’s called the Ebola Outbreak of 2014. But it’s 2015 now, and the disease is still infecting people. For the past two months, that rate was about 15 people a week. But in the past two weeks, the rate has doubled. This is bad.
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St. Louis Police Kill Black Man | Al Jazeera America
Despite the police explanation of events, a large crowd of people gathered near the scene protesting the police use of deadly force, according to local media.
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GiacomoLawrance’s desktop is a lot of fun—some abstract shapes, active widgets on-screen, and shortcuts and information in easy sight when they’re needed. Here’s how he set it up. This desktop isn’t too tough to set up, you’ll just need the right co…
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Here’s A Book That Adds a Fascinating New Dimension to Posthuman Space Opera
By now, the stories of humans transcending their limitations in space have become pretty much ubiquitous. We’ve had space cyborgs, space immortals, and tons of other posthumans in space. But the new novel Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper still represen…
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Gov. John Kasich: ‘If I were king in America, I would abolish all teachers’ lounges’
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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Like us on facebook! Showerthought is a loose term that applies to any thought you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming.
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Each time Kimberly Wesson sheds her customary trousers and button-front shirt to put on a flowery dress, she suspects something is off. “I feel like I’m dressing up in someone else’s clothes,” Ms. Wesson said the other day over chilled rosé at her s…
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‘The last mile’: Toyota sees its future in short-range cars | Business | The Guardian
Toyota, the world’s largest automotive company by revenue, is redefining its strategy regarding the making and selling of cars, as it prepares for a future in which it believes public transport will play a bigger role in city life.
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Nation’s dads swoon as Jay Leno guest stars on Tim Allen’s sitcom · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Sending fathers across America scrambling to their garages, so as to surreptitiously wipe away their tears of joy—and also to grab another beer, since they’re out there anyway—ABC has announced that Jay Leno will be guesting on the fifth season of T…
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2015 set to be bumper year for jellyfish in UK waters | World news | The Guardian
It is shaping up to be a bumper year for sightings of jellyfish in the UK, according to the Marine Conservation Society, with record numbers reported of barrel jellyfish, typically 40cm (16ins) in diameter, and the potentially dangerous jelly-lik…
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Why Disney/Pixar Hired One of Its Biggest Critics to Work on Its New Movie
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz just announced that he’s joining the crew of Pixar’s Coco, an upcoming movie inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead.
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Review: Grado GH1 Headphones Are Big On Sound, Tradition | TechCrunch
Good sound never goes out of style, and in the audio world tradition is a uniquely strong credo. In keeping with that thought, I’m currently leaning back in an Eames Lounge Chair dialing in on a copy of the Citizen Kane of headphone-listening albums…
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Irn-Bru maker ends glass bottle returns | Life and style | The Guardian
Irn-Bru’s maker, AG Barr, is to end glass-bottle returns after 110 years as it invests £5m in new facilities. The company cited a reduction in the number of bottles returned for 30p as customers increasingly chose to recycle at home.
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Andy Murray serves American fans a sweet surprise – in disguise | Sport | The Guardian
Andy Murray swapped his tennis racket for an ice-cream scoop on Wednesday to surprise fans in the US. The world No 2 wore glasses, a wig and a hat to disguise himself while he served at an ice-cream parlour ahead of his latest tournament in Cincin…
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Rosie O’Donnell’s Daughter Was Found at Home of Convicted Heroin Dealer | Vanity Fair
Rosie O’Donnell’s search for her missing 17-year-old daughter Chelsea may not have ended as happily as first thought.
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The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. This is the 15th in a series of interviews on race that I am conducting for The Stone.
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SAKI, Crimea — Tamara Tsetlayana stood on a narrow stretch of gray beach, rinsing off a thick layer of the black, ostensibly therapeutic mud that has drawn visitors to the salty lake here for more than a century.
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High-contrast moon, 73.4% full js – Just Space
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She’s hiding from the dogs : cats
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St Paul’s prep student faces sharp questioning by alleged rapist’s lawyer | US news | The Guardian
A 16-year-old girl who says she was raped by a popular senior boy at an elite New Hampshire prep school faced sharp questioning in court Wednesday about claims that she was considering engaging in sexual acts with the boy.
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Hamas Says it Captured an Israeli Spy Dolphin | VICE News
A dolphin has become the latest animal to be accused of spying for Israel after the Palestinian militant group Hamas reportedly claimed to have captured a marine mammal equipped with underwater recording devices and an arrow-firing weapon off Gaza’s…
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These DIY Frozen Treats Keep Your Dog Cool When It’s Hot Outside
Frozen toys or treats are a great way to help your dog stay cool during hot weather. Make your own frozen dog treats with just three ingredients and a few minutes in the kitchen.http://lifehacker.com/5920797/doggy-…
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We all have dreams. Today at Lifehacker: After Hours, we’re talking about how to make your…ahem…wildest dreams a reality.
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The video is visceral and raw: Hillary Rodham Clinton — the presidential candidate so often faulted for insulating herself from voters and critics alike — in a tense, awkward, unscripted moment. A Black Lives Matter activist demands, at great length…
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Spectre co-star Stephanie Sigman joins ABC’s American Crime · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Since she’ll soon be appearing as one of the female leads in Spectre, Stephanie Sigman’s acting career is already enjoying a classic James Bond-boost, and according to Variety, she’s just been cast as a recurring character in the second season of AB…
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No Asteroid Is Threatening to Hit Earth Next Month, NASA Says
There’s no reason to fear a devastating asteroid strike next month, NASA experts say. For the last few months, rumors have circulated on the Internet that a big asteroid will slam into Earth near Puerto Rico between Sept. 15 and Sept.
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Here’s the Best Per-Bulb LED Pricing We’ve Ever Seen
If you still haven’t started outfitting your home with LED light bulbs, here’s the best deal we’ve ever seen on them. These Philips 60W equivalents are non-dimmable, but they’re perfect for filling out cheaper lamps and ceiling fixtures around your …
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Nickelodeon picks up social-media focused talking hot dog mockumentary · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what’s either a sign of the network’s continuing tween-focused savvy or the onset of a language-mangling aphasia, Nickelodeon has announced that it’s giving a 20-episode order to Pinky Malinky, a new mockumentary cartoon about a talking hot dog’s…
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Turns out, Americans love their nanny-state lunches | Grist
Watch any cartoon or kid-centered sitcom long enough and you’ll come across a lunchroom scene where the little ones are served a bubbling, inorganic-colored pile of mystery by an unsympathetic, hairnet-sporting drone. For many kids, that lunch-room …
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People who work 55 hours or more per week have a 33 percent greater risk of stroke and a 13 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease than those working standard hours, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Once again, public nudity falls into issues of clothing practices and lewd behaviors. Many countries have such strict public obscenity laws, that any amount of skin unclothed by women can be met with harsh punishments, particularly those who follows…
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A Social History of Jell-O Salad: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon | Serious Eats
When my great-grandmother, Retaw “Dandeen” Mccoy, passed away in 2005 at the age of ninety-nine, we gave her a proper Presbyterian funeral in her Western Pennsylvania hometown.
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Protecting a New Generation of Poisoned Kids After Katrina
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Will the Olympics Make Things Better or Worse for Rio?
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Maya Rudolph and Martin Short to co-host a variety show on NBC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC is continuing to do everything it can to ameliorate the crippling variety show addiction it instilled in Saturday Night Live star Maya Rudolph by putting her on the air 15 years ago.
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Spotlight on green news & views: Oil bust coming; how hot will it get? wind turbines vs. eagles
New Antarctic Research ups Sea Level Rise While Pine Island Glacier calves Iceberg B35—by Pakalolo: “The Pine Island Glacier (PIG) in West Antarctica, is a large ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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People who work 55 hours or more per week have a 33 percent greater risk of stroke and a 13 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease than those working standard hours, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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America’s largest movie theater chain adds bag check policy | Film | The Guardian
Following two recent deadly incidents at movie theatres in the US, the Regal Entertainment Group – the nation’s largest movie theater chain – this week added a bag and purse check policy as a security measure in some of the 569 theaters it operates.
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Scandal co-executive producer sells family drama to NBC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The “real-life Olivia Pope” has sold a New Orleans-set family drama to NBC, Deadline reports. Judy Smith, who co-executive produces Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal and whose crisis-management firm inspired the series, is developing House Of The Rising Sun wi…
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Hear Andrew Combs’ Dylan-Inspired ‘Part Time Lovers’ | Rolling Stone
“Part Time Lovers (Full Time Fools)” was one of the first songs Andrew Combs recorded for his excellent second record All These Dreams, which Rolling Stone Country recently named one of the 30 Great Country Albums of 2015 You Probably Didn’t (but re…
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Giant Fire Tornado Whirls Above Idaho’s Soda Blaze
Supersize fires are burning up bird habitat, killing trees, and turning forests into open range. Climate change will only make it worse.
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10 of Our Favorite Orangutan Pictures
Oil palm plantations are a major threat to orangutans, but new initiatives for deforestation-free palm oil may help save them.
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New Video: Great White Shark Leaps After Seal in Cape Cod
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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CONCORD, N.H. — The 16-year-old girl sat on the witness stand here, her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She tried to speak steadily as she told a jury about the night when a ritual at St.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — For decades, he was the bespectacled overseer of some of Syria’s greatest archaeological treasures, a man so tied to the reputation of the sprawling ancient ruins in his home city that one historian called him Mr. Palmyra.
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Error-Prone – A Fun Little Self-Driving Car Webtoy : InternetIsBeautiful
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Pent-Up Energy Causes Drops to Hurl Themselves Off a Teflon-Covered Thread
When you see a droplet resting on a counter or coalescing around a thread, you don’t generally think of it as a coiled spring, but under the right circumstances that’s what it is. In this video, we can see how the spring releases.
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FBI seeking better automatic tattoo recognition tech – Boing Boing
Police photograph and manually tag suspects’ tattoos as part of the booking process, but the FBI says computers could classify them much better, leading to more “hits” when trying to identify criminals and also corpses.
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Deadspin Adrian Peterson Will Never Believe He Did Anything Wrong | Gawker Family Values Activist Josh Duggar Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account | Kotaku What The Heck Happened In Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture? A Guide.
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MOSCOW — A Russian court convicted an Estonian security police officer of espionage on Wednesday and sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor in a case highlighting tensions between Russia and its Baltic neighbors, which have escalated along with the…
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THE SECOND CIRCLE, HELL—Affirming the need to reverse the trend after several millennia of discouraging numbers, officials from the Underworld Health Organization unveiled a new initiative Thursday to improve Hades’ incubus immortality rate.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. About a third of the Republican presidential candidates debated education policy at a conference in New Hampshire, and Jeb Bush sparred with Scott Walker over the Common Core curriculum. “If people don’t like Comm…
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James Cameron Geeks Out On Special Effects In Foreword To New Book
Few people have been as influential in the realm of digital effects as James Cameron. Seemingly with every film he releases, Cameron pioneers something new in the field. And while he may get the credit, he’s not the one doing the work. He’s not a tr…
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About a third of the Republican presidential candidates debated education policy at a conference in New Hampshire, and Jeb Bush sparred with Scott Walker over the Common Core curriculum. “If people don’t like Common Core, fine,” Mr. Bush said.
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Keep from Over-Packing Clothes by Sticking to a Single Color Palette
When you’re trying to travel light, packing clothes that go well with everything else you pack can save you a ton of space. Sticking to a carry-on for your trips is completely doable, and it allots you a certain kind of freedom you cant achieve with…
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Amazon and the Realities of the “New Economy” – The New Yorker
First up, an admission: like tens of millions of Americans, I am a member of Prime, Amazon.com’s program that charges ninety-nine dollars annually for unlimited shipping and other benefits. Originally, I used Barnes & Noble’s Web site for purchases …
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See Kelly Clarkson Sing Tinder Profiles on ‘Kimmel’ | Rolling Stone
See Kelly Clarkson Sing Tinder Profiles on ‘Kimmel’ Clarkson mines musical gold with lyrics about hairless cats and foot fetishes
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The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim – The New Yorker
I’m always amazed when I encounter well-read people unfamiliar with Iceberg Slim. The notion that his books circulate only in the urban ghetto’s literary underground is laughable.
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Ice Loss From Jakobshavn Glacier : Natural Hazards
Summer is the season to watch for ice loss from the outlet glaciers lining the perimeter of Greenland. Jakobshavn—Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier—is notorious for such losses; in 2014 the glacier shed kilometers of ice from its front.
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Happy Hydrology! : Notes from the Field : Blogs
One of the great things about this collaborative research project is that each researcher uses very different techniques to study the firn aquifer and we will put all our results together to get the most comprehensive understanding of the aquifer.
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Ice Loss From Jakobshavn Glacier : Image of the Day
Summer is the season to watch for ice loss from the outlet glaciers lining the perimeter of Greenland. Jakobshavn—Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier—is notorious for such losses; in 2014 the glacier shed kilometers of ice from its front.
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Dwayne Johnson to star in movie based on Disney’s Jungle Cruise ride · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It seemed inexplicable when Disney announced it was turning its Pirates Of The Caribbean ride into a feature film, and we all know how that turned out (the first was a hit, the second broke box office records, the fourth grossed $1 billion, and a fi…
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Introducing TechCrunch’s Seven New Weekly Newsletters Because Email Won’t Die | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is excited to announce the launch of seven new weekly newsletters. You can sign up for them here. Many have tried to kill email, but no one has succeeded. In fact, email is making a comeback, especially as it relates to newsletters and mo…
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CBS is developing a show about making friends via Facebook · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For people who have friends, managing them can be as time-consuming as a second job. You have to remember all of their birthdays, their favorite movies, and, most importantly, their names.
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This interactive map charts the most popular emoji by state · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Emoji have become such a ubiquitous part of the contemporary vernacular that it’s possible to recreate entire movie plots using them. And while it might seem obvious there’s a generational divide when it comes to emoji use, it’s not so apparent that…
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‘How We’ll Live on Mars’ (US 2015): Book Excerpt
Journalist Stephen Petranek thinks living on Mars is far more than science fiction — he believes it will happen within the next 20 years.
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Amla seals South Africa’s win in series opener – Al Jazeera English
A century from Hashim Amla laid the foundation for success as South Africa beat New Zealand by 20 runs to win their opening ODI at Centurion.
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Check If Your Data Was Leaked In the Ashley Madison Hack
If you’re concerned that your data, or the data of someone you know, was leaked in the recent Ashley Madison hack, this tool can let you know. http://lifehacker.com/ashley-madison…
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Goonies house owner to visitors: Enough with the truffle shuffle already · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Imagine buying a house, fixing it up, investing money, time, and love into it, only for the city of Astoria, Oregon to encourage hundreds of thousands of people to stand in front of it.
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These DC Superhero Cafes Will Feed You Bat-Waffles
And Superman pancakes. Malaysia has two licensed DC Super Hero Cafes, with a third scheduled to open in Singapore next month. The casual dining joints, run by a company that owns a chain of DC retail stores across Asia, feature flashy comic-book the…
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Uber has a valuation of more than $50 billion.
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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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NEW ORLEANS — How well do you remember the last days of August 10 years ago? Asked that question, a 23-year-old New Orleanian writes of seeing a dead alligator on the highway, having nowhere to sleep and crying every night.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The former president of a company whose toxic chemical spill contaminated the drinking water of more than 300,000 people last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to environmental crimes.
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On This Week’s Zoo, the Team Faces Down a Mob of Rampaging Rats Hungry For Human Flesh
Rats rats rats raaaats! Furry ones … and human ones too! There was all kinds of squealing on this week’s excellently creepy-crawly episode of Zoo, the network television show that’s actually a B-movie from the 1970s in disguise. Spoilers ahoy…
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A Brief History of Laser Eyes, Heat Vision, and Other Ocular Power-Beams | Inverse
For a pair of small, goopy organs, the eyes get a lot of love. And for good reason: We communicate subconsciously with dilations in our pupils and consciously with long sexy gazes that can indicate all manner of intention.
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So Long, Big Mac: Cleveland Clinic Ousts McDonald’s From Cafeteria : The Salt : NPR
One of the most prestigious names in health care is taking a stand on food. This week, Cleveland Clinic announced it would sever ties with McDonald’s. As of Sept. 18, the McDonald’s branch located in the Cleveland Clinic cafeteria will turn off its …
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More Washington Drivers Use And Drive : NPR
When Washington state legalized recreational marijuana, people wondered if it would mean more stoned drivers on the roads. Two and a half years later, one trend is clear: police are arresting more drivers with pot in their systems — but what’s not c…
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Hardware Alley In SF Wants YOU | TechCrunch
It’s that time again: Hardware Alley time! We want you to exhibit at Disrupt this September and we won’t take “Ehhh, maybe.” for an answer. Disrupt runs from September 21 – 23, 2015 and features a number of new pavilions including a dedicated VR are…
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Prince Harry Is a Master of Versatile Royal Style | Vanity Fair
Is anyone having more fun with fashion than the Prince of Wales? As he was internationally famous since even before he was born, up through now, some 30 years later, Prince Harry has been photographed quite a bit, to put it mildly.
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Y Combinator Gets Hardcore About Hardware | TechCrunch
“Hey Robot, make me a sandwich”, I yelled over the ruckus of Y Combinator Demo Day’s break room. The traditional catered lunch had been replaced with a new buffet: hardware startups.
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Meet the 17-Year-Old Fighting Against the Impending Eviction of France’s Oldest Slum | VICE News
The Samaritain slum in the northern Paris suburb of La Courneuve is home to some 80 Roma families, many of them from Romania or Hungary.
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LA artists who earn their livings through the Internet – Boing Boing
There’s a sax player who teaches sax over Skype to students around the world; a composer who creates music for indie media and TV pilots; a potter who sells online; an animator; a person who hosts house-shows for indie bands…
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Protests Erupt After St. Louis Police Fatally Shoot Black Man | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. Protests erupted in a St. Louis neighborhood Wednesday after police shot and killed an armed black man while carrying out a search warrant this morning.
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An armed man fleeing from officers serving a search warrant at a home in St Louis was shot and killed on Wednesday by police after he pointed a gun at them, the city’s police chief said.
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Google’s Project Ara Got Delayed Because It Breaks Too Easily | Motherboard
A modular phone is a great concept, on paper. It reduces e-waste and allows for ultra-customization of a smartphone. But Project Ara, Google’s modular phone concept, won’t hit the market this year because of one giant downfall: it breaks. Really, re…
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Living in a tent hanging from a cliff with a 4,000 foot drop – Boing Boing
The Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru is 21,000 feet above the Ganges River in Northern India. In this short video, climber-filmmaker Jimmy Chin gives a tour of his tent, which hangs on the side of a sheer cliff, and contains 200 pounds of stuff that he and…
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The biggest Vogue of the year, the vaunted September issue (832 pages, four pounds, three ounces), is now on the stands. On its cover is arguably the biggest star of the moment, Beyoncé. Among celebrity profiles, Vogue is very nearly the holy grail.
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Curiosity Rover Snaps Awesome Selfies on Mars During Mountain Trek
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled into a rock target called “Buckskin” on lower Mount Sharp as seen in a self-portrait which combined several images taken by Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Aug. 5, 2015. Image released Aug. 19, 2015.
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Denver corpse flower: Early visitors disappointed by lack of stench – The Denver Post
People lined up as early as 4:30 a.m. to get a whiff of something extraordinary. After enduring a slow snaking line early Wednesday at the Denver Botanic Gardens, they leaned over and took deep breaths, hoping they might just need the complimentary …
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In Learning To Drive, Patricia Clarkson plays a newly single Manhattan book editor who begins taking driving lessons from Sir Ben Kingsley’s Darwan Singh Tur. Of course, Darwan’s got issues of his own: He’s trying to adjust to life with his new wife…
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How to make people care about climate change? Tell it one story at a time | Grist
I first met Christine Cordero at a conference several years ago. She was leading a workshop for the Center for Story-Based Strategy, the organization where she is now the executive director.
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Latino voters care a whole lot about climate change | Grist
This just in, from the “we’re really goddamn tired of people saying that people of color don’t care about the climate” department: A new poll shows that Latino voters are significantly more likely than the U.S. population as a whole to understand cl…
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Could we make tennis rackets out of atmospheric CO2? Science says yes | Grist
You know the old saying: “When life gives you atmospheric CO2, capture it, turn it into carbon fiber, and build cool stuff with it.” No? That’s OK — I just made it up, but let the record show that if this does become an old saying, you heard it here…
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New Orleans’ transit system still hasn’t recovered, 10 years after Katrina | Grist
After Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, on Aug. 29, 2005, Americans were awoken to a few sobering realities: our infrastructure is crumbling, sea levels are rising, storms are getting stronger, and too many inner-city residents lack acce…
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Owlet, The Smart Baby Bootie, Raises $7 Million Series A | TechCrunch
Owlet, the teenie tiny bootie that goes on babies and informs you if they’ve stopped breathing, has raised a $7 million A round, adding some solid numbers to their already impressive $1.85 million seed.
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Jeb Bush wants “a new arrangement with Silicon Valley” to ease crypto | Ars Technica
Jeb Bush, one of the leading Republican presidential candidates, told a national security forum that Washington, DC needs a stronger link to Silicon Valley.
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UN Peacekeepers Accused of Rape Yet Again In The Central African Republic | VICE News
Less than a week after the head of the UN’s mission in the Central African Republic was booted amid accusations of peacekeeper sexual abuse, the UN has announced new allegations involving the rape of three young women, one of whom was a minor.
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The Racist Roots of the GOP’s Favorite New Immigration Plan | The Nation
The year 1866 was an alarming one for xenophobes: Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, declaring “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power…to be citizens of the United States.
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LA Dodgers agree to deal for Phillies star Chase Utley | Sport | The Guardian
The Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to trade veteran baseman Chase Utley to the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to reports. Utley is moving to Dodger Stadium in exchange for two minor leaguers.
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The National Zoo’s giant panda Mei Xiang, who was showing signs of being pregnant, is actually carrying a developing fetus and could give birth in coming weeks, the Washington zoo said on Wednesday. Veterinarians detected a 1.
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Migrants Sue Texas For Denying Birth Certificates | Al Jazeera America
Juana, a 33-year-old mother of three, works as a kale picker on the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, where she shares a one-bedroom trailer with her children. She was born in Mexico, but her uncle helped her to cross the border into Texas whe…
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The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim – The New Yorker
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This Is the Curiosity Rover’s Newest Selfie—and There’s Something Unusual About It
The Curiosity rover has snapped a brand new self-portrait and, like any good newbie selfie-taker, it’s figuring out its best angles—not only to show itself off, but also to show us something new about the Martian landscape it lives on.
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WASHINGTON — Burlington, Wash., was a small city fighting what seemed like a local lawsuit. Three poor people said that their public lawyers were too overworked to adequately represent them in municipal court cases.
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One More Summer In The Big City on Vimeo
Summer at last. The beaches are overflowing; the rides are running, and fireworks light up the nighttime air. Winter lasts a lifetime; summer is but a fleeting dream. This is a tribute to another passing of the season that seems to be gone before it…
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Google Wants To Fix Your Wi-Fi Problems With Their New Router – Digg
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How To Fix A Broken Eye with Rand Paul – YouTube
Senator Rand Paul, an eye doctor, traveled to Haiti to help residents in need.Story: http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/39545…
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Tinder and the moral panic over women using technology to meet men and have sex.
I bet the demimonde daters of the 1860s would have loved Tinder. James P.’s yearning for a stylish, homely girl would be easily satisfied by a trip to Brooklyn. S.J. A.’s one-line joke ad about his handsomeness is an acceptable tone for detached tex…
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Matsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] – あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English] – YouTube
Matsuoka Shuzo’s famous NEVER GIVE UP!! message, subtitled in English for those viewers who have no clue what he’s saying.After seeing so many MAD videos of his speeches tuned to many songs such as Second Heaven, RED ZONE, Xepher, among others, I wa…
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Virginia police officer charged with murder literally passes out when he’s denied bail
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Why Hillary Needs an Army of Digital Defenders
Why Hillary Needs an Army of Digital Defenders http://t.co/FcjfJdSF8Z
I’m having PTSD. No, not from my war years in Beirut (I survived that) but from my time in John Kerry’s war room in 2004, where I witnessed a brazen and shameful attack perpetrated against a decorated veteran’s military service. -
Uqora Is An After-Sex Drink To Prevent UTIs In Women | TechCrunch
Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are the second leading cause of doctor visits in the U.S., responsible for 10 million visits per year. They’re incredibly uncomfortable, require antibiotics, and if left untreated, they can cause life-threatening b…
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Loss Of Extended Post-Graduation Work Permit Could Hurt International STEM Students | TechCrunch
International students in the United States who are working toward a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degree may soon find it a whole lot harder to work legally in the country after graduation. A recent ruling by the U.S.
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Back-to-school must-have: pink bullet-proof backpack – Boing Boing
Don’t let your child out of the house without this stylish pink bullet-proof backpack. It has been “tested against 2 types of ammunition, yet weighs just a few more ounces than non-armed backpacks. Ideal for everyone, including students, law enforce…
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NSA Finds New Snowden Emails — But They’re Not About His ‘Concerns’ With Surveillance | VICE News
Last year, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in interviews with Vanity Fair and NBC News that before he leaked highly classified documents about the agency’s vast surveillance programs to journalists, he first emailed several NSA offices and “ra…
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Darwinism At Your Doorstep: Why You Only Care About Amazon Now | TechCrunch
I’ve seen a lot of people on social media talking about Saturday’s New York Times article by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld about Amazon’s toxic workplace culture.
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When kids are small, they can probably name about five different jobs: doctor, teacher, fireman, police officer, and princess. (“Astronaut” might in there, too.
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Would new elections in Turkey serve AKP? – Al Jazeera English
The Turkish president spoke after efforts to form a coalition government failed. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey is rapidly heading towards a new election. He will now consult with the parliament speaker on the formation of an interim government ah…
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Deformed toenails, eating disorders and backstabbing jealousy — that’s a quick survey of ballet stereotypes. But with Instagram, dancers have found a way to break through the tulle and tiaras by presenting backstage life on their terms.
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Rise, A Nutritional Coaching App, Acquires HealthyOut | TechCrunch
Rise, a service that connects users with diet coaches, has acquired healthy restaurant food recommendation startup HealthyOut.
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Greece ships Syrians to Athens as refugee crisis mounts – Al Jazeera English
A ferry carrying more than 1,000 Syrian refugees has left the Greek island of Kos to the mainland, where the migrants will continue their journey to other parts of Europe.
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Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself
We’re all about do-it-yourself here at Lifehacker. But just because you don’t have the skills to do something doesn’t mean you can’t learn them.
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Anthony Michael Hall to play Brad Pitt’s sidekick in War Machine · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Anthony Michael Hall has signed on to Netflix’s black comedy War Machine.
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An Epic On-Air Debate 40 Years Ago Marked the Downfall of Television News | The Nation
While it made for bracing viewing, Stewart’s wasn’t a particularly novel observation.
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Trump Immigration Plan Raises Legal Questions About Birthright Citizenship : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Suzanna Sherry, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, about the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, following Donald Trump’s call to end it.
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), who is running for president, commented on Common Core state standards at an education summit in New Hampshire hosted by The 74, an education news website.
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Influential post-punk dance albums by Liquid Liquid reissued on vinyl! – Boing Boing
In 1983, Downtown NYC post-punk dance band Liquid Liquid released this Michael Sporn Animation Studios video for “Cavern,” a killer track whose bassline became the foundation of Grandmaster Melle Mel’s pioneering hip hop track “White Lines (Don’t Do…
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Please Stop Saying It Follows Is a Horror Movie About STDs. It’s Not.
It Follows is rightly credited as being one of the scariest horror movies in recent years. It’s also frequently described as a film about an STD that turns supernatural. And I completely disagree with that description. Warning: Spoilers for the enti…
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Comcast’s Plan to Get More People Online Actually Isn’t Evil | WIRED
You may hate Comcast. A lot of you do. But it’s hard to get mad at customer service if you can’t afford to be a customer in the first place. Today, the much-maligned cable company is unveiling an experiment in San Francisco aimed at bringing low-cos…
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This is Galaxy Whiskey. I hope you relish it as much as I. – Boing Boing
Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: “Hunter Oatman-Stanford just interviewed Noah Rothbaum about his new book, The Art of American Whiskey. In their conversation, Rothbaum explains (among other things) how whiskey was sold during Prohibition, much …
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Jenny Hart’s embroidered cover for Postmistress – Boing Boing
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Hillary Clinton Is Not a Fan of Obama’s Arctic Drilling Decision | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Clinton, who served as Obama’s secretary of state, also said she was “getting impatient” with the administration’s delay on deciding the fate of the Ke…
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Hackers have released what appeared to be confidential and sensitive information of 33m user accounts on the infidelity site Ashley Madison, including names, addresses, emails and information about their sexual preferences. The data from the website…
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Check Out These Beautiful Aerial Shots of a Centuries-Old Land Division System | Motherboard
Seen from above, the geometry of rural America is an aesthetic dream. Instagram account @the.jefferson.grid is dedicated to gorgeous satellite shots of square mile patches of land, mostly west of the Mississippi and around the Great Lakes region.
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Vast areas of California are sinking as groundwater is pumped in drought | US news | The Guardian
Vast areas of California’s Central Valley are sinking faster than in the past as massive amounts of groundwater are pumped during the historic drought, NASA said in new research released Wednesday.
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Thurst Is A Promising Dating App For Queer, Trans And Gender Non-Conforming People | TechCrunch
Finding love using online dating apps and services can be tough, and even dangerous for anyone who’s not straight and cisgender (those who don’t identify as transgender). Yes, there are apps for gay men, like Grindr and Scruff, and one for queer wom…
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This is the First Salamander Ever Found Preserved in Amber
Paleontologists working in the Caribbean have uncovered the first-ever salamander preserved in amber. It’s a discovery that’s shedding light not just on salamander evolution, but the ancient geology of the Caribbean itself.
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Top GOP Hopeful Suggests We Use Drone Strikes to Protect the Border | Motherboard
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, one of the party’s current frontrunners, wouldn’t be opposed to using drone strikes to protect the US border, he told reporters Wednesday. “I’m not saying that I would [order drone strikes].
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The Government Wants Americans to Review It on Yelp – The Atlantic
Yet the agreement handing over the pages to the government has the potential to the make the experience of venting online more interactive, and ideally, more productive. For one, it can serve as another outlet for agencies to provide basic informati…
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Why Flibanserin Is Not the ‘Female Viagra’ – The Atlantic
But in a move that would later become key to flibanserin’s approval, the studies also had a secondary endpoint: how the women scored on the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), a tool that assigns respondents a sexual-function score based on their s…
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Buffalo Bill Is Selling His Silence of the Lambs Victim-Skinning Lair | Vanity Fair
The three-story Victorian home immortalized in Silence of the Lambs as Buffalo Bill’s torture den is up for sale.
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The Man Who Screamed So Loud the Drug Laws Changed – The New Yorker
Before the term “mass incarceration” started appearing on the front pages of newspapers, before Obama became the first sitting President to visit a federal prison, before Democrats and Republicans began working together on criminal-justice reform, R…
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Read a Short Story Where Video Game Cats Save Peoples’ Souls
A crippling disease has made the body of Grace’s wife a prison for her erratic, reclusive brain. The only hope for their marriage? A video game where she rules over kingdom of cats.
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The middle of NY Metro North Train Seats : oddlysatisfying
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Jared Fogle, the once popular former pitchman for Subway sandwich restaurants, intends to enter a guilty plea to sex acts with minors and distributing child pornography, federal court documents show. As part of a plea agreement, Mr.
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Rand Paul Wants To Run For President — And Senate : It’s All Politics : NPR
Rand Paul is trying to have it both ways — running both for president and reelection to his Kentucky Senate seat in 2016. But whether he’ll be able to do keep that electoral insurance policy rests in the hands of Kentucky Republicans this weekend.
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What Do You Think of Cara Delevingne’s Decision to Quit Modeling? – Man Repeller
There has been a conversation circumscribing the ethics of modeling vis-a-vis a decision Cara Delevingne made earlier this year to ultimately retire her modeling muscle and attempt acting in spite of a career that has been largely deemed one of the …
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Television 2015: Too Much In Too Many Ways : Monkey See : NPR
House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, is one of the many (many) shows now available on your TV — and in other places, too.
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As More Women, Minorities Win Hugos, ‘Sad Puppies’ Blast Sci-Fi Awards : NPR
The prestigious Hugo Awards, which honor science fiction and fantasy writing, will be held Saturday.
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2 Women To Graduate From Army Ranger School : NPR
Two West Point graduates have become the first women to complete the grueling Army Ranger course. NPR profiles the women, who will graduate at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Friday.
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Louis Stokes, Ohio’s First African-American Congressman, Dies : NPR
Former Rep. Stokes has died at the age of 90 after being diagnosed with cancer. He was the first African-American representative elected from Ohio and a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Justice Department Inquiry Into Hillary Clinton Email Server Continues : NPR
The Justice Department, Congress and inspector general watchdogs are all looking at the email practices of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton even as the 2016 presidential race intensifies.
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‘Rosenwald’ Celebrates ‘The Greatest Philanthropist You’ve Never Heard Of’ : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel interviews Aviva Kempner about her latest documentary on Julius Rosenwald, the successful businessman who helped advance the cause of educating African-Americans in the South.
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Thai Business Owners Worry Bombing Could Drive Away Tourists : NPR
The Thai economy has been struggling since the military seized power 15 months ago. The bombing in Bangkok Monday has raised fears that tourism — a driver of the economy — may now struggle too with many foreigners among the dead.
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After Serving Suspension, Is Alex Rodriguez Making A Comeback? : NPR
After going hitless in 18 at bats, Rodriguez hit a homerun Tuesday night. NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks to MLB Network Insider and New York Post sportswriter Joel Sherman about A-Rod’s comeback season.
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Researchers Explore Declining Bat Population In North America : NPR
As bat populations dwindle, a new effort is aimed at getting North America’s bat researchers working on the same page.
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Prominent Syrian Archaeologist Killed By ISIS In Palmyra : NPR
The Islamic State has beheaded a prominent Syrian archaeologist in Palmyra, Syria. The city is home to Roman ruins under threat amid ISIS’ record for destroying antiquities.
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Israeli Court Suspends Detention Of Palestinian Prisoner On Hunger Strike : NPR
Israel’s highest court temporarily suspended Tuesday the detention of a Palestinian prisoner who had been on a hunger strike for two months.
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‘Waitress’ Serves Dark, Funny Fare With A Musical Twist (And A Side Of Pie) : NPR
Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus has a knack for developing works that make it to Broadway. She premiered Finding Neverland, Pippin and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., before bringing thos…
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To Learn More, This High-Schooler Left The Classroom : NPR Ed : NPR
Like a lot of students, 17-year-old Nick Bain says he really likes his school, but sometimes it can feel like a chore. So one day he decided to write down what he was doing every 15 minutes at the Colorado Academy in Denver.
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In Search Of Salvation From Drought, California Looks Down Under : The Salt : NPR
Judging by some of the most pessimistic reports from California these days, the place is doomed. You can read all about the folly of trying to build cities in a desert.
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Wallpaper by Dmitry Miroshnikov / 500px
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Cannings Falls – Mono, Ontario [OC] [5008×3756] : EarthPorn
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For His U.S. Visit, Pope Francis Will Use Chair Built With Immigrant Labor | ThinkProgress
When Pope Francis takes a seat during mass next month in New York City, he’ll being sitting in a chair made — intentionally — by immigrant hands.
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This Video Shows How Garbage Patches Form in the Ocean | WIRED
The researchers at NASA’s Science Visualization Studio are the unacknowledged artists behind many a viral video.
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Why The New National Transgender Survey Will Be Revolutionary | ThinkProgress
August 19 marks the launch of the new U.S.
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Germany expects up to 800,000 migrants this year – Al Jazeera English
Germany could see as many as 800,000 migrants arriving this year – four times the number from last year, the country’s interior minister has said, citing current trends as a signal for the drastic increase.
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New Gene-Editing Techniques Mean a Lot of GMO Loopholes | WIRED
As the battle over GMO labeling plays out in supermarkets and in Congress, the definition of genetically modified organisms is fuzzier than ever. GMO regulation—insofar it exists in the US—relies on old statutes for plant pests, animal drugs, and pe…
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This Is Mario Maker’s Most Annoying Feature | WIRED
Super Mario Maker, a Wii U game that lets you create your own Mario levels, comes out September 11. I’ve got an early copy, and so I’ll be telling you all about my experiences attempting to create game levels that are not terrible. Turns out it’s qu…
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FDA warns Ohio that importing lethal injection drug would be illegal | US news | The Guardian
The US Food and Drug Administration has warned the state of Ohio that it would be breaking the law if it imported drugs from overseas for use in a lethal injection.
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Epic Trailer for ‘The Martian’ Questions the Value of a Human Life in Space
An epic new trailer for the movie “The Martian” looks even more intense than the last one, and it raises some intriguing questions about the value of human life in space exploration.
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The Drinkable Book: Innovative response to H2O crisis – Al Jazeera English
It is called The Drinkable Book: Its pages are made from technologically advanced filter paper made of nanoparticles of silver nitrate that kills waterborne disease such a cholera, e-coli, and hepatitis.
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Make Tomato Cages for Your Garden Out of Old Political Sign Supports
You can find political signs all over the place, and most of the time they’ve been left standing long after an election is over. If you want to get some use out of them, the wire supports can make for great plant support cages.
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Entertainment Podcast: Will We Get More Biopics After Straight Outta Compton? | WIRED
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Sort By Original Location or Date Deleted in Windows’ Recycle Bin
If you haven’t messed around in Windows’ Recycle Bin much, you might be interested in two of the sorting methods that it has by default. One is “original location”, the other is “date deleted”.
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In case you momentarily forgot which website you were reading, let me say right here up at the top that I am not a textile expert. I’m actually not even particularly fashionable. To me, obsessing about fashion is silly.
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Baby loves to see her kitty : gifs
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Japan Launches Vital Supplies (and Mice) Toward International Space Station : space
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WASHINGTON—Responding to widespread criticism from an increasing majority of Americans who find the team’s moniker offensive, Washington Redskins officials announced Wednesday that they were legally granted the right to use the name by the 1807 Trea…
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A common critique offered against Black Lives Matter activists who have targeted and even disrupted events featuring Democratic presidential candidates — all while largely staying away from Republican events — is that the activists are going after c…
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The Fantastic Four Won’t Even Have A Home In Marvel’s “All-New” Universe
The Fantastic Four have been through a lot lately. Their comic got cancelled. They’ve seemingly gone their own separate ways in Marvel’s upcoming continuity reboot. Their movie really, really sucked. Like, really sucked! Anything else would be just …
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Dropbox Now Lets You Drag And Drop URLs To Share Webpages | TechCrunch
Dropbox announced a pretty handy feature today, allowing you to drag and drop URLs into Dropbox. Anyone with access to where you’ve dropped them can then open the web pages on any device.
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A Startup Is Pushing the Boundaries of Biology with Synthetic DNA | Motherboard
Biotechnology company Synthorx has taken the next step towards creating truly synthetic life. Dr.
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In This Webcomic, Dr. Jekyll Tries to Make Mad Science a Respectable Profession
After perfecting his secret formula, Dr. Henry Jekyll’s life doesn’t fall apart in the webcomic The Glass Scientists—at least not right away. Rather, he travels the streets of London, rescuing poor mad scientists from angry mobs so that he can give …
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Han Solo Has Become an Urban Legend in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
For years, fans have imagined what Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia have been up to after Return of the Jedi. And even with Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening in just four months, we still don’t know. Director J.J.
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Watch Karen O’s Grainy Short Film for ‘Singalong’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Karen O’s Grainy Short Film for ‘Singalong’ Asli Baykal-directed clip for ‘Crush Songs’ cut features faded footage of people walking in New York City
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Television Is Picking Up The Science Fiction Baton That Movies Dropped
Even just a few years ago, it seemed like science fiction was an endangered species on television. But now, there’s a new wave of smart, ambitious science fiction coming to the small screen. And meanwhile, a lot of original SF has flopped at the mov…
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Steven Tyler to Headline Tennessee’s Pilgrimage Festival | Rolling Stone
There’s a new festival giving Bonnaroo some healthy competition in middle Tennessee, and its lineup just got Pump-ed up.
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Meet the Presidential Hopeful Who’d Quit After Signing a Single Law | Rolling Stone
Most people considering a presidential run dream of eight years in the White House.
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David Lynch, Members of Best Coast, Dinosaur Jr. Unite for New Box Set | Rolling Stone
Surrealist filmmaker-musician David Lynch, punk-metal icons Melvins and noise-rock veteran David Yow will contribute new music to a box set led by Australian musician Adam Harding’s collaborative project, Dumb Numbers.
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Stolen data from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating site includes approximately 10,000 email addresses belonging to government officials or workers with .gov addresses.
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Will the Pope Change the Vatican? – National Geographic Magazine
When about 7,000 awed strangers first encounter him on the public stage, he is not yet the pope—but like a chrysalis stirring, something astounding is already present in the man.
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Lost Kitty today. Took her to get spayed, she passed away during the surgery. : cats
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MRW the drugs wear off and I remember my responsibilities : reactiongifs
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This Tumblr turns popular films into abstract art · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Movie Barcode is the work of an anonymous Tumblr user who takes every frame from a film and condenses them all down to a single pixel’s worth of color. Laid out in a single rectangular box, the results take on a form that, while abstract, is evocati…
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New Spider-Man Tom Holland will explore Brazil in Lost City Of Z · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Lost City Of Z has found another one of its explorers—Variety reports that Wolf Hall’s Tom Holland has been cast as part of the ill-fated crew searching for El Dorado. The newest friendly neighborhood Spider-Man joins a cast that includes Charli…
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The Garden of Eden reimagined by artists Charles Burns and Killoffer – Boing Boing
My friend Alvin Buenaventura is the proprietor of Pigeon Press, which publishes excellent comic books and books. He has just released In the Garden of Evil, a book that combines the talents of Charles Burns, Killoffer, and Will Oldham (Bonnie ‘Princ…
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Court refuses to reinstate man’s 1990 arson-murder conviction | US news | The Guardian
An elderly man who spent 24 years in prison for his daughter’s death in a fire will remain free after a federal appeals court in Pennsylvania on Wednesday refused to reinstate his murder conviction.
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The Women Left Out of Straight Outta Compton Have Begun to Speak Up | Vanity Fair
There are a lot of women along the fringes of Straight Outta Compton—mothers encouraging their sons to make something of themselves, wives and ex-wives and baby mamas lending support and/or criticism, and—especially—women in bikinis, thongs, or noth…
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Hayley Atwell is best known for playing a character from the ’40s, but in real life her social media savvy is second to none. She’s the kind of person who can turn Dubsmash into an art, then a competition, then recruit megastar Chris Evans into her …
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The hacked infidelity site Ashley Madison apparently retained enough personal data about users to identify them to spouses – as the site’s hackers have claimed – despite offering a paid-for “full delete” service, which charged users £15 or $20 to re…
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Real-Life Astronaut Joins ‘Star Trek’ Fan Film
After spending 199 days on the International Space Station, a European astronaut is readying for her next big mission: joining an independent “Star Trek” production.
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I Didn’t Ghost You; I Got Sucked Into Another Dimension – The New Yorker
Ghost, a word more commonly associated with Casper, the boy who saw dead people, and a 1990 movie starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, has also come to be used as a verb that refers to ending a romantic relationship by cutting off all contact and…
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UN: Syria’s Yarmouk faces Typhoid outbreak – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian capital’s Yarmouk district, which has been under siege by government forces for years, is facing an outbreak of Typhoid, a bacterial infection that could be fatal if not treated properly, the UN has said.
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Jumpshare, the Easy File Sharing App, Adds Support for Screencasts, Notes, and More
Mac: We’re fans of Jumpshare because it makes sharing files as easy as dragging and dropping them, and today they’ve updated the Mac version of the app with a slew of new features, including support for screen… http://lifehacker.com/jumpshare-make…
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The leaders of Andreessen Horowitz believe that experience is the best teacher. So the best venture capitalists are ones with first-hand experience founding companies, people who have “been through the war,” as Marc Andreessen puts it.
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You probably haven’t heard of “social impact bonds,” but policymakers are already placing their bets on this complicated investment vehicle.
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FOLSOM, Calif. — Evert W. Palmer has a vision for this city famous for its state prison: 10,200 new homes spread across the rolling hills to the south, bringing in a flood of new jobs, new business and 25,000 more people. Yes, Mr.
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Naked Eye Nova Sagittarii 2015 No 2 : It quickly… – Just Space
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The ‘Do It When I Want Economy’ Is Here To Stay | TechCrunch
The public discourse about the “on-demand” economy gets a D+.
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Adani poised to submit third plan for dredging in Great Barrier Reef | Environment | The Guardian
The latest version of Adani’s controversial plan to dredge in Great Barrier Reef waters to expand its Queensland coal port is poised to go before federal environment minister Greg Hunt for approval.
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What Super Mario Maker Taught Me About Game Design (So Far) | WIRED
Super Mario Maker, a Wii U game that lets you create your own Mario levels, comes out September 11. I’ve got an early copy, and so I’ll be telling you all about my experiences attempting to create game levels that are not terrible. Turns out it’s qu…
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The city of Flint, Michigan must stop shutting off water to homes and businesses with accounts in arrears and cut the rate it charges for water service by a third, a circuit court judge ordered Monday.
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Read This: An oral history of the first Mortal Kombat film · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In August of 1995, a film managed to break the curse of previous video game adaptations and actually end up number one at the box office. Despite previous efforts like Super Mario Bros.
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Subway’s Jared Will Allegedly Plead Guilty To Child Porn – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Longtime Subway spokesman Jared Fogle will reportedly plead guilty to criminal charges related to the possession of child pornography, a development linked to a July 7 raid of Fogle’s home. What do you think?
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The results from the first national-scale investigation looking at the environmental prevalence of a controversial and widely used pesticide are in, and they’re pretty stunning: a little more than half of the streams sampled by the United States Geo…
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Put down the Emergen-C — vitamin C does not ward off colds | Public Radio International
Most of us have a friend who keeps their dresser stacked with vitamin bottles.
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New probe ‘lights up’ blood clots in single scan – BBC News
A new probe that sticks to blood clots so they can be seen in a PET scan has proved successful in rats – and will be tested in humans later this year, according to researchers in the US.They say the technique can scan the entire body and pinpoint th…
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Blue whale’s perfect timing to upstage TV presenter – BBC News
Mark Carwardine was outlining the difficulties of whale-spotting and expressing frustration that he had been unable to spot one. At that very moment the whale was seen as it surfaced behind him.
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In May, the Islamist insurgent group ISIS seized Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old Syrian city.
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Stephen Hawking’s speech tech released by Intel – BBC News
Software that helps Prof Stephen Hawking to speak via a computer has been published online by Intel, the company that created it. The program interprets visual signals and translates them into words, which are then “spoken” by a machine.
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A street cleaner in Tajikistan [2,048×1,365] : HumanPorn
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You know you want to know. Ashley Madison email search : InternetIsBeautiful
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WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: The Flash | WIRED
Television franchises are nothing new. Dick Wolf pioneered multiple successful incarnations of Law & Order, with SVU running long enough to now cross over with all three Chicago-set series on NBC: Fire, PD, and Med.
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How We Tell if a Volcano Is Active, Dormant, or Extinct | WIRED
Yesterday, GNS Science in New Zealand declared that the volcanic unrest at Tongariro that started in 2012 is over. They lowered the volcanic alert status to Level o (background) and declared that Tongariro was back asleep (even if some steam might p…
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Watch Out. Rosetta Probe! Comet 67P Spewing Chunks! (of Ice) | Video
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Japan launches rocket bound for ISS – BBC News
Japan has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft bound for the International Space Station. The Kounotori, which means white stalk in Japanese, is on course to deliver six tons of cargo to the ISS and its crew.
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Elizabeth Warren is still the key for Democrats : progressive
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World record tightest parallel parking with only 7.5 cm gap : interestingasfuck
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MRW I’m a hummingbird stuck between two interesting conversations : shittyreactiongifs
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Elizabeth Warren is still the key for Democrats | TheHill
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‘The Martian’: Matt Damon Wants Excitement Over Science | Video
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London’s Trying to Cut Plane Noise With Steeper Landings | WIRED
For as long as there have been airports, neighbors have complained about the noise. Those inside the plane get to slap on some noise-canceling headphones, while people on the ground are SOL. Beyond the annoyance of jets roaring overhead, high noise …
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Stan Wawrinka puts troubles to one side to see off rising Croat Borna Coric | Sport | The Guardian
Life has been tough for Stan Wawrinka lately.
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Missing and shaky evidence and a questionable confession should be enough to keep a mentally ill Texas man who’s been imprisoned for more than 35 years despite his original murder conviction being tossed from being found guilty a second time, a defe…
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Federal Reserve moves toward raising interest rate for first time in years | Business | The Guardian
The Federal Reserve is inching closer to the first interest rate increase in nearly a decade, minutes of the central bankers latest meeting indicated on Wednesday.
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Robert Zemeckis has promised that Back To The Future will never see a reboot or remake as long as he and original producer/co-writer Bob Gale are still alive, so hopefully that means the legacy of his unimpeachable original film (and its moderately …
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PARIS — President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya may face proceedings at the International Criminal Court in The Hague after all, under a ruling issued Wednesday. An effort to prosecute Mr.
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NEW DELHI — In the film, a man explains why he beheaded five fishermen instead of shooting them. He did not want to waste his bullets, which cost 100 rupees, or $1.50, each.
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The Science Of Love In The 21st Century – The Huffington Post
Once upon a time, in the Pony Expresso cafe in Seattle, a man and a woman began to experience the long-mysterious but increasingly scientifically investigated thing we call love. The first stage is called “limerence.
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Imgur Is the Last True Internet Culture Remaining — But Can It Survive? – Mic
There is no more popular online destination for the modern male than Imgur.
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If You Spill Water On This Book, That’s A Good Thing : Goats and Soda : NPR
It looks like a regular hardcover book, though in an eye-catching shade of orange with an even catchier title: The Drinkable Book. But it’s definitely not your typical book.
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My Amazon box was exactly big enough fit my cookware set : oddlysatisfying
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Sen. Menendez comes out in opposition to Iran nuclear deal | On Air Videos | Fox News
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“He lies hard for the money” : democrats
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Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK [OC] [5472 x 3648] : EarthPorn
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/hRNq7pDOtD http://t.co/BIw1gatVlp
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St. Louis Police Fatally Shoot Man One Year After Fatally Shooting Kajieme Powell | ThinkProgress
St. Louis police have shot and killed an unidentified man a couple miles away from a protest over the St. Louis police shooting of 25-year-old Kajieme Powell one year ago.
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William Blake’s final drawings given a spectacular send up – Boing Boing
The story goes that William Blake worked until the very day he died. His final drawing was said to be a portrait of his wife sitting by his deathbed. Earlier in the day, he had spent his last shilling on a pencil.
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Area Dad Informs Busboy He’s Ready To Order – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
NASHUA, NH—Raising his arm into the air while leaning outward from the table in a bid to command attention from the other side of the restaurant, area father Walter Bierko called over a busboy at DiCapri’s Italian Eatery to inform him that he was re…
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The Machine That Promises to Turn Carbon Pollution Into ‘Diamonds from the Sky’ | Motherboard
Here’s some bad news: Humans have put too much carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, and it’s heating the globe, rising sea levels, accelerating the sixth great extinction, and all around endangering the sustainability of civilization.
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Gone off sex? Never fear, ‘pink Viagra’ is here to save womankind | Comment is free | The Guardian
Rejoice, rejoice womankind! There is now a magic drug that will make sex desirable. Again. Or for the first time.
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CONCORD, N.H. — The 16-year-old girl sat on the witness stand here, her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She tried to speak steadily as she told a jury about the night when a ritual at St.
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It’s no secret that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, like many GOP candidates vying to win the White House in 2016, likes to present himself as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative Christian.
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The Best and Worst Countries for Medical Care
How good is the health care where you’re traveling? In some countries, you can count on good care anywhere; in others, you’re fine if you stick to a big city but really don’t want to have an emergency out in the boonies.
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Q. What is this Android bug where your device can get hacked with a message? Is there security software to protect me? A.
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Midday open thread: Wildfires burning millions of acres; black reporters discuss painful coverage
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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Republicans Defend Right to Be Born and Immediately Deported – The New Yorker
DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report)—Eager to shore up their pro-life credentials, several Republican Presidential candidates used campaign appearances on Wednesday to assert that the babies of undocumented workers have the right to be born and then imm…
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Here’s a conversation topic for you and your golfing buddies as you kick back at the 19th hole on a summer’s evening and look back over your day on the course: all the apps that can help with your golfing game.
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Shielding Wall Street from the Ravages of Bigotry
Phil Gramm, the former right-wing senator from Texas, has surprised me. I assumed he had zero charitable instincts.
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Why shade balls aren’t such a great idea after all | Grist
Here’s how the news works circa 2015: A story gets reported, usually by journalists for major media outlets like the Associated Press or The New York Times. Then, when it starts to get traction on social media and shows up in your Twitter feed or yo…
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NGC 2174: Stars Versus Mountains js – Just Space
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I just don’t feel like clicking through 20+ pages. : AdviceAnimals
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Kyle Landry gets it : firstworldanarchists
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The Buffalo Bill house from Silence Of The Lambs is for sale · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It places its house on the market—The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (via Mashable) reports that the home used as Buffalo Bill’s (Ted Levine) lair in Silence Of The Lambs is for sale.
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New Cellphone Trackers Give Police Cheap, Discreet Surveillance Option | ThinkProgress
With intense code names such as “Jugular” or “Wolfhound,” a new cellphone sniffing technology has caught the attention of law enforcement across the country because it’s cheap, small — and possibly used without a warrant.
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An Analysis Of Zirtual’s Reality And The Perils Of Debt | TechCrunch
Before migrating to the west coast, I spent two decades working in the debt capital markets on Wall Street.
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Authorities say one or two wallaroos, a type of kangaroo, have escaped from a north Tucson home. The Pima County sheriff’s department spokesman, Tracy Suitt, said a person reported that at least one pet wallaroo went missing on Monday afternoon.
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The Year Summer TV Surprised Us | Vanity Fair
While it would probably be best to spend most of the summer outdoors, there’s so much interesting television airing between June and August these days that it’s impossible to resist its indoor thrall.
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It’s become a time-honored tradition to take audio from a rap song and plug it into the mouths of innocent puppets. Re-dubbed as Muppets With Attitude, Kermit and Fozzie are here to break it down, old-school style, with a cover of N.W.A.’s “Express …
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The Most Essential Items for Stocking Your First Kitchen
Not everyone needs a stand mixer, a mortar and pestle, or a dedicated Egg McMuffin maker. What should people who move into their first real kitchen have, though? Some items are obvious: utensils, pots and pans, a few knives.
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In politics, the smallest things often turn out to be the most telling ones, and so it is with the man who was supposed to be the Republican front-runner, who once inspired such rapture among party elders and whose entrance into the presidential rac…
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AP Exclusive: UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site
VIENNA (AP) — Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a docum…
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How one VFX artist made these 3 minutes of madness | fxguide
When Gimpville co-founder Alf Lovvold decided to make a trailer in his spare time aimed at experimenting with complex scenes and GPU rendering, he started documenting the process. The Norwegian artist would upload test shots to his Vimeo page and re…
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‘Beautiful Beast’ by Elena Dudnakova : ImaginaryMindscapes
‘Beautiful Beast’ by Elena Dudnakova via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/ep2pP8QaRW http://t.co/0JtNatRSEX
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Daily Kos Democratic Primary Straw Poll 8-19-15
Daily Kos Democratic Primary Straw Poll 8-19-15 http://t.co/HbG7Mj1xkb
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Bill Murray and Carrie Fisher on Saturday Night Live 1978 : OldSchoolCool
Bill Murray and Carrie Fisher on Saturday Night Live 1978 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/fw2yduHAi2 http://t.co/pADGOkxWuD
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This poster for the Cincy Comicon pays homage to old comic book ads – Boing Boing
Cartoonist Tony Moore (co-creator of The Walking Dead comic book series) designed this very fun poster for the Cincy Comicon (September 12-13), which pays homages to the old comic book ads for novelties and practical jokes. He did such a good job th…
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Iran nuclear deal only ‘empowers rogue nation’ says Huckabee – video | US news | The Guardian
US Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee condemns the Iranian nuclear deal during a visit to Israel.
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Einstein in the Wild: Have You Seen Him? – Scientific American
Forget the idea that Elvis is still among us. It’s rock star scientist Albert Einstein who truly lives on. He may have died awhile ago (at least, that’s the story), but his likeness keeps popping up around the world.
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Subway Jared, Who’s Pleading Guilty To Child Porn, Worked Closely With Children | ThinkProgress
Before Subway icon Jared Fogle was charged with multiple counts of child pornography and paying for sex with a minor, he was traveling the country speaking to children about how to improve their lives.
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Daily Kos Democratic Primary Straw Poll 8-19-15
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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This One Poll Shows Why Republicans Could Have Trouble Winning The Latino Vote | ThinkProgress
A new poll released Tuesday suggests Republicans could have a tough time winning over a key voting bloc next year if they don’t start taking environmental issues seriously.
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BERLIN — Germany expects as many as 800,000 asylum seekers or refugees this year, four times the number who came last year, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said on Wednesday in announcing new actions to cope with the biggest influx since the af…
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San Francisco police sit on pinned man’s prosthetic leg in bystander video | US news | The Guardian
A cellphone video showing San Francisco police officers pinning and handcuffing a black man while sitting on his prosthetic leg has sparked substantial debate on social media.
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Leaked Document Shows Iran Will be Allowed to Inspect Alleged Nuclear Site Themselves | VICE News
Iran will be permitted to inspect a suspected nuclear work site themselves under a secret deal reached with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), according to documents obtained on Wednesday by the Associated Press.
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Coders Are Making It Easy to Look Up Emails from the Ashley Madison Hack | Motherboard
One website called ashley.cynic.al, which was purportedly created by the same person behind the Adobe leaked password checker, enables visitors to search for email addresses contained within the dump. Another website, checkashleymadison.
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‘Space Jam’ Forever: The Website That Wouldn’t Die | Rolling Stone
In November 1996, executives at Warner Bros. were making final preparations to release one of the most ambitious films in the studio’s 73-year history.
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Watch Hannibal Buress Stump For Obama’s Third Term | Rolling Stone
Watch Hannibal Buress Stump For Obama’s Third Term Comedian hands out Obama 2016 bumper stickers, cocoa butter and kitty litter scoopers in hilarious new ‘Why?’ clip
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What Is Even Happening with Bitcoin Right Now | Motherboard
So, how are things going with that whole Bitcoin thing? Oh, not much, not much, there’s a new Bitcoin client that everyone’s talking about, with some tweaks to the protocol.
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See Chris Stapleton Get ‘Stoned’ on ‘Seth Meyers’ | Rolling Stone
When the whiskey bottle is emptied, there’s only one course of action: light up a fat one. That’s the gist of Chris Stapleton’s on-the-nose “Might As Well Get Stoned,” one of the most bluesy tracks on his excellent debut album Traveller.
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Israel’s Court Order’s Release of Hunger Striker | Al Jazeera America
Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of Mohammed Allaan, a high-profile Palestinian prisoner whose 65-day hunger strike had drawn attention to his detention without trial.
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The Flash Storage Revolution Is Here | WIRED
You’ve likely heard about Samsung’s 16TB hard drive, by far the world’s largest. That is an eye-popping number, a large enough leap forward that it’s difficult to fully process. And the most exciting thing about that 16TB hard drive? It’s just a hin…
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Myths Made Flesh: Last Breaths in a Spanish Bullring – SBNation.com
On Sept. 16, 2012, in Nimes, southern France, the Spanish bullfighter José Tomás fought six bulls in one afternoon. Although I was not there in person, it remains the most transcendently beautiful fight of the world’s most troubling sport that I hav…
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The Long Life and Quiet Death of True Detective Magazine
As recently as the 1970s, fact crime magazines were a significant, if not reputable, segment of the publishing industry.
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Statistics Could Do More For Your Sex Life Than ‘Female Viagra’ | FiveThirtyEight
Other people’s sex lives can ruin yours: If you think you’re having less sex than your peers, it can take a toll on your relationship and your overall happiness. That’s one problem some experts see with flibanserin, a drug to treat low libido in wom…
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Recently an older musician acquaintance told me he never “got into ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ and all that,” referring to the “first major space jam” of Pink Floyd’s career and the subsequent explosion of space rock bands. I found myself a little take…
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It was at this moment that Sarah knew her father was insane. : wheredidthesodago
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Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams js – Just Space
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SCUBA by LEONAV http://t.co/XO91DtyP9F http://t.co/0LEWzKkNqX
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Candy: I claim this butt! It is my butt. : cats
Candy: I claim this butt! It is my butt. via /r/cats http://t.co/aglGk5n3eV http://t.co/HdCskAL0Yv
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Yep via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/QPKohipw0v http://t.co/AFrvX5D97V
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MFW i see a hilarious post/comment but im at work : reactiongifs
MFW i see a hilarious post/comment but im at work via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/ULPvNqk36v http://t.co/GCLN6XZ9BV
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Finally got a decent shot of the milky way over Yosemite Valley [OC] [1024 x 499] http://t.co/vWGHlvaOpd http://t.co/QgqcRjy1Xi
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Here’s my bet about the future of Sunni, Shiite, Arab, Turkish, Kurdish and Israeli relations: If they don’t end their long-running conflicts, Mother Nature is going to destroy them all long before they destroy one another.
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Woman’s obituary includes witty jab at Clinton – Boing Boing
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How to help get guitars and instruction into the hands of inner-city and at-risk youth – Boing Boing
MUSACK’s goal is simple: get guitars and instruction into the hands of inner-city and at-risk youth. It’s not about turning kids into rock stars. If it happens, great… hope they remember us. Our foundation wants to afford kids a platform to say “I…
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Amazon Softens Blow of Times Article, But It’s Too Soon to Celebrate, Say Attorneys | TechCrunch
In recent days, Amazon has worked to soften the blow of a blistering piece about its culture in Sunday’s New York Times.
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No Full Credit Card Numbers Stolen In Ashley Madison Hack | TechCrunch
No current or past members’ full credit card numbers were stolen from Avid Life Media. Any statements to the contrary are false. Avid Life Media has never stored members’ full credit card numbers.
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Peter Florrick to run against Hillary Clinton in The Good Wife season 7 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Good Wife co-creator Robert King, Peter Florrick is set to launch his own bid for President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in the upcoming seventh season of the CBS legal drama. And he’s running against none other tha…
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Of Course BlackBerry’s Upcoming Android Phone Is Awkward | TechCrunch
Meet the FrankenBlackBerry. Is it an Android phone? Is it a BlackBerry? No, it’s the new BlackBerry Android phone! If you ever wondered what would happen if you slapped a BlackBerry keyboard onto an average Android phone, look no further. BlackBerry…
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Israel suspends detention of Palestinian hunger-striker – Al Jazeera English
Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended the detention order of a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner, releasing him while he receives medical care. Mohammed Allaan has refused food for 65 days.
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FDA approval of ‘female Viagra’ leaves bitter taste for critics | Science | The Guardian
It is the small pink pill that its manufacturers hope will do for women what Viagra did for men. The decision to give the drug a marketing licence in the US has been cheered on by campaigners for women’s rights, but the question remains whether Addy…
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Sinkhole reopens in same spot where sleeping Florida man died | US news | The Guardian
Sometime after the sun came up Wednesday, a woman walking her dog past a fenced-off area in a sleepy suburban neighborhood near Tampa heard a loud rumble. She quickly dialled 911. The earth had opened, again.
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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials want to see more evidence the economy is in good health before they start to raise interest rates, according to an official account of the Fed’s most recent meeting, released on Wednesday.
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Cliick Wants App Users To Click Over Clickbait | TechCrunch
Meet Cliick: another dating app wannabe, but one that’s taking a bit of a leftfield approach to the perennial problem of matching singles.
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Thai police hunt foreigner over deadly Bangkok bombing – Al Jazeera English
Thai authorities have said they are hunting a foreigner and at least two other men suspected of carrying out the devastating bombing of a Bangkok shrine that killed at least 20 people.
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Sisi’s Counter-Terrorism Measures in Egypt May Create More Terrorists – The Atlantic
There are very few people nowadays ignoring the growing repression in Egypt. Most recently, a new “counterterrorism” law was imposed this week—but it snuffs out free speech more than terror.
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If Your Job Interview Is Going Too Smoothly, You Probably Won’t Get the Job
A common complaint among job seekers: It felt like you nailed the interview, but weeks later you still haven’t heard from the company.
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Spain Festival Backtracks, Re-invites Matisyahu | Al Jazeera America
Following a barrage of criticism, organizers of an international reggae festival in Spain backtracked Wednesday and apologized for canceling a scheduled performance by Jewish-American singer Matisyahu because he had declined to state his position re…
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Lyme Disease May Linger for 1 in 5 Because of “Persisters” – Scientific American
Lyme disease is a truly intractable puzzle. Scientists used to consider the tick-borne infection easy to conquer: patients, diagnosed by their bull’s-eye rash, could be cured with a weeks-long course of antibiotics. But in recent decades the U.S.
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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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Vaccine against Middle East Mystery Disease Shows Promise – Scientific American
When the mystery virus was first detected in Saudi Arabia three years ago, researchers did not know quite what to make of it.
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Ween’s “Buenas Tardes Amigo” sells its big twist with venomous flair · 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.
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Random Battles Axed in ‘Final Fantasy VII’ for iOS | Motherboard
Japanese video game publisher Square Enix already answered fans’ prayers earlier this summer when it revealed, after years of prodding, that it would remake Final Fantasy VII, the wildly popular role-playing game that was first released for the orig…
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Ashley Madison Sent Me a DMCA Request for Tweeting 2 Cells of a Spreadsheet | Motherboard
As journalists (and probably criminals) dig through the cache of internal documents and customer data leaked in the Ashley Madison hack, it seems the company is trying to fight back—using copyright law.
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The Fungus That Could Replace Plastic | Motherboard
Our dependence on plastics is a major environmental issue. Plastic barely degrades, and it’s filling our landfills and oceans faster than we can get rid of it. But scientists and designers have come up with a viable replacement for plastic in many o…
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On July 11, 2000, in one of the more unlikely moments in the history of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Orrin Hatch handed the microphone to Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, to hear his thoughts on art in the age of digital reproduction.
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The War on Women in Israel | The Nation
In 2009, a couple from the village of Taybeh in the West Bank were in the midst of a bitter separation. Their marriage had already dissolved in acrimony, with various legal battles under way, when the husband turned to the Islamic court and sued for…
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The Neuroscience of Being a Selfish Jerk — Science of Us
If we’re being honest, most of us have at least some selfish aims – to make money, to win a promotion at work, and so on. But importantly, we pursue these goals while at the same time conforming to basic rules of decency.
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Stephen Hawking’s speech tech released by Intel – BBC News
Software that helps Prof Stephen Hawking to speak via a computer has been published online by Intel, the company that created it. The program interprets visual signals and translates them into words, which are then “spoken” by a machine.
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Is It Works! legit? – Tech Insider
I’ve started seeing promotional weight-loss posts from people I know on Facebook and Instagram.
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Lolita as Cultural Icon | The New Republic
In January of 1959, the 600 residents of Lolita, Texas, found themselves in the midst of an improbable identity crisis. The town had been named in 1909 for Lolita Reese, the granddaughter of a Texas patriot. But following the U.S.
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Greed Corp concept art by Jesse van Dijk : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Found this old loop on my machine, figure you guys might like it : perfectloops
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Falling into Nemo 33 — the deepest pool in the world. : interestingasfuck
Falling into Nemo 33 — the deepest pool in the world. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/WFYqqfyFTH http://t.co/0kZyt1j1YL
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“Naked” cats fighting, just gotta love the punch sound… : StartledCats
“Naked” cats fighting, just gotta love the punch sound… via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/fMdm4fJNvQ http://t.co/WpcPTUdYWc
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Target Locked! via /r/lolcats http://t.co/QxDISuwVgU http://t.co/MT4f2cuHlO
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My New Cat Plays with his new Pal : AnimalsBeingBros
My New Cat Plays with his new Pal via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/mPW5YlcYFP http://t.co/K06j00ylzC
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Prosecutor clears immigration officer who shot Detroit man in home raid | US news | The Guardian
Terrance Kellom, 20, was killed on 27 April during a multijurisdictional raid, in which Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Mitchell Quinn and several other officers raided Kellom’s home to arrest the Detroit resident in connection with…
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Marco Rubio accidentally throws football at boy’s face – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio accidentally hits a boy in the face with a football at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday. In a short video posted online by Bloomberg Politics, Rubio is seen giving a soft throw to the boy who misses the ca…
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Extra Good Stuff: “It’s Good to Be the King” – Boing Boing
Published 10:43 am Wed, Aug 19, 2015
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The Top 9 Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1 | TechCrunch
Smart mattress covers, RNA diagnostics photosynthetic grow lights were amongst the big ideas that shone brightest on stage at Demo Day 1 for Y Combinator’ Summer 2015 batch. 50 startups presented on the record, including a massive influx of hardware…
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A great way to experience a place is to simply wing it — look up from the map, take a break from the sightseeing checklist, and just wander a bit.
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Donald Trump is calling to “end birthright citizenship,” a demand that would mean the people born to foreign parents in America are no longer automatically U.S. citizens.
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NBC wants to read you Miranda’s Rights · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has given a script commitment to a legal soap opera titled Miranda’s Rights.
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Mondo’s Making More Than Posters, And It’s Alienating Fans | WIRED
One morning in late July, a 4LP vinyl box set of Gustavo Santolalla’s score for videogame The Last Of Us went on sale. All 2,500 available copies sold out within 90 minutes.
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Morrissey speaks to Larry King about cancer, depression and Barack Obama | Music | The Guardian
Morrissey doesn’t do many interviews, but when he does he’s not shy about opening up.
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Fire managers overwhelmed by huge wildfires blazing across the west are looking for help wherever they can find it and have called in 200 active-duty military troops to fight the flames.
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Appeals court: Prenda lawyer who drained cash from his law firm must pay up | Ars Technica
A Minnesota court has ordered Paul Hansmeier, one of two lawyers considered the creators of the Prenda Law copyright-trolling scheme, to pay sanctions in a case where he and his colleague John Steele were accused of trying to collude with a defendan…
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Google’s In-House Programming Language Now Runs On Phones | WIRED
Google builds software in ways that software was never built before.
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TechCrunch Is Hiring A Mobile Product Team | TechCrunch
At TechCrunch, we cover the latest in mobile, and it’s time for us to devote the same intensity to creating new TechCrunch apps on mobile platforms. To accomplish that, we aim to build out a mobile app product dream team. TL;DR: We’re hiring!
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Jared from Subway will also plead guilty to paying for sex with minors · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In news that ought to make any decent person switch to Jimmy John’s (if they haven’t already), NPR reports that now-former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle will plead guilty to charges of paying for sex with minors.
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Make Five Crockpot Freezer Meals in 15 Minutes While Cleaning Out Your Fridge
If your fridge looks anything like mine, your shelves are filled with half-empty bottles of sauces and other condiments. Use those up and make nearly a week’s worth of dinners at the same time. Naturally, use what you have and what you want to get r…
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Depression Isn’t Contagious, But a Healthy Mood Is – The Atlantic
That’s if mentally healthy people are there for their depressed friends, which could be easier said than done. Even if you can’t actually catch depression, that’s not to say spending time with a depressed friend doesn’t take its toll.
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The latest trailer for The Martian shows the indomitable spirit of (one) man—that’s Mark Watney (Matt Damon), Earth’s most charismatic botanist. As you may already know, Watney is stranded on Mars after a space storm forces his space crew to get the…
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America’s next top soccer star is a hotly run contest. It might not have a primetime cable TV slot, or Tyra Banks as host, but competition is fierce.
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St Paul’s prep school student describes rooftop meeting that led to rape | US news | The Guardian
A 16-year-old girl who attends an elite New Hampshire prep school testified that a popular older student turned a secret rooftop meeting last spring into a rape, biting her breasts as she froze in confusion and fear. “I felt so scared. I had no idea…
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‘The Martian’: Jessica Chastain Gets In Touch With Exploration’s Human Side | Video
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Mexico condemns Donald Trump’s ‘racist’ and ‘absurd’ immigration plan | US news | The Guardian
Mexico’s government on Wednesday slammed US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposals to deport undocumented immigrants en masse and make Mexicans pay for a wall separating the two countries as absurd, racist and ignorant.
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The de Blasio Diaries, Chapter 38: One Ring to Govern Them All | Vanity Fair
Politicos among the crowd included Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was spotted mingling with billionaire Patriots owner Bob Kraft and trying on his Super Bowl ring. Roots leader Questlove was seen handing de Blasio one of his hair combs to give to his son…
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To Build a Gas Giant, Just Add Pebbles
An artist’s conception of a very young planetary system. One model of planet generation posits that orbiting pebbles are the key to quick-forming gas giants.
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Americans Actually Like Michelle Obama’s Healthier School Lunches | ThinkProgress
As another academic year kicks into full gear and students across the country return to school, longtime supporters of a 2010 law that updated nutritional standards for cafeteria meals have reason to remain calm amid uncertainty about its future.
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As school districts across the country increasingly invest in technology for their students, the volume of personal computers in the classroom is surging.
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This Flash season two promo goes by in a—well, you know · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Frankly, we’re a little disappointed at how quickly this new teaser for the upcoming season of The Flash zooms by. We feel like season one Iris over here, wishing that red streak cruising past us would slow down a little, so we could get a better lo…
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The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday criticized what it described as false Iranian state media reports that accused the newspaper and one of its veteran correspondents of conspiring against Iran’s government.
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U.S. Consumer Prices Rise in July – The Atlantic
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in July. This is the sixth straight month that the consumer price index (CPI) has increased, with July’s gains slightly down from a 0.3 percent gain in June and…
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HONG KONG — Scientists may have been overestimating China’s emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas driving global warming, by more than 10 percent, because of inaccurate assumptions about the country’s coal-burning, according to a stud…
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Why Is Windows 10’s “System” Process Using So Much RAM?
If you’ve made the jump and updated to Windows 10, you might have noticed something strange: the System process takes up an insane amount of RAM, often over 1GB. That’s actually not a bug, it’s a feature of Windows 10. Here’s how it works.
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Chelsea Manning Found Guilty of Violating Prison Rules for Reading Material – 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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WINDHAM, N.H. — As former Gov. George E. Pataki of New York strolled through the senior citizen luncheon, bending his 6-foot-5 frame downward to make small talk over a soundtrack of square-dance music, he earned a rare smile of recognition.
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The simplest kite I could find: the EO Atom – Boing Boing
I have a fairly large and ever growing collection of kites. This is the easiest to fly, never fail to have a good time, anyone can fly it kite you’ve been looking for.
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BIRDY x RHODES | Let It All Go on Vimeo
http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/08/13/birdy-rhodes-let-it-all-go-sing-j-lee Credits – Production Company – Partizan Executive Producer – Claire Stubbs Producer – Nicole Gray DP – Sy Turnbull Steadicam – Doug Walshe Editor – Ryan Beck Colourist -…
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Girl has skills : interestingasfuck
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Cooking bacon on a M16 : interestingasfuck
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Sail Amsterdam 2015 via /r/pics http://t.co/nHXPQSfBoO http://t.co/AYIl7WObLP
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Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web http://t.co/nSnfCHUbdr
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Secret of Rosetta’s cool
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Citadel by Bioware : ImaginaryMindscapes
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John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham, London 1968 : OldSchoolCool
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Siberian bear-hunting suit from the 1800s : OldSchoolCool
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An Orion Deep Field js – Just Space
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$50 please.. : trippinthroughtime
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Cathedral Rock, Sedona, AZ [1275×1920] [OC][xpost] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Looking east in Yellowstone National Park [OC] [4160×3120] : EarthPorn
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The minimum wage machine. : pics
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Central Cygnus Skyscape | We Heart It
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My local theatre is getting roof construction done : funny
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Mark Iacono strolls through Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, at a regal pace, knowing few will allow him to pass without a handshake or a loving mention of his grandmother the cook or his grandfather the pawnbroker.
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Vladmir Putin Went Deep-Sea Diving in a Miniature Submarine off the Crimean Coast | VICE News
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, has shown off his action-man credentials to Russia’s newest citizens by plunging deep beneath the surface of Crimea’s Black Sea coast in a miniature submarine.
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LOS ANGELES — “I don’t know, bro. I was screwed up in the head.” M. Night Shyamalan, ruminating last month about career choices gone wrong, spoke those words and then burst into a giddy giggle. Just kidding! But the tenderness in his eyes betrayed h…
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Stealing Officer’s Pen Fails to Prevent Ticket — NYMag
A 24-year-old man’s spontaneous caper to avoid getting a ticket earlier this month completely failed, according to DNAinfo’s police blotter.
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Rosie O’Donnell’s missing teenage daughter found with ‘sound mind’ | US news | The Guardian
Rosie O’Donnell’s teenage daughter was “of sound mind and body” when she was found in New Jersey after she left home for a week, police in New York said Wednesday.
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Pistorius’ release from jail put on hold – Al Jazeera English
Oscar Pistorius’ release from prison has been put on hold by South Africa’s Department of Justice, which said his case must be reviewed again by a parole board because he was approved to be moved to house arrest too early.
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China’s carbon emissions from fossil fuels and cement production may have been overestimated by as much as 14%, according to a new analysis by scientific researchers. The report, published in the journal Nature, estimates that in 2013, China’s CO2 e…
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After Hannibal claims he worships Yeezus instead of Jesus, a street preacher threatens him with eternal damnation. Watch a new episode of Why? with Hannibal Buress every Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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The Hacked Ashley Madison Data Is Now Public and Apparently Legitimate | VICE News
The hackers who threatened to publish the stolen personal data of millions of AshleyMadison.com users followed through on their threat Tuesday night — and the leaked material appears to be genuine.
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Finally, an iPhone that runs Android
Apple’s next iPhone hasn’t even been officially announced yet, but thanks to the somewhat broken nature of international copyright laws you can already buy an “iPhone 6s” straight from China. The only problem is that Apple didn’t design it and Appl…
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Little boy can’t seem to wrangle all these kittens
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, kid. I hired you to do one job, one job only: wrangle kitties. I should have kept it in the family. Ever since my great-grandpa started this kitty-wranglin’ business, we valued the importance of keeping bab…
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Motion City Soundtrack loses control in new video · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For its sixth album, and second since returning to Epitaph Records, Motion City Soundtrack enlisted the help of John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth) to capture the band’s younger spirit.
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A Hacker Swatted the Owner of Parenting Forum ‘Mumsnet’ | Motherboard
Justine Roberts, the owner of Mumsnet, a large UK-based parenting forum, was subject to a “swatting” attack—metropolitan police arrived at her house in the middle of the night last week after a troll phoned in and claimed that there was a gunman nea…
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UK Vloggers Promoting #Brands Must Now Label Their Videos as Advertisements | Motherboard
UK video bloggers can no longer rake in cash for online ads without limitations, following a landmark ruling by an advertising watchdog this week. Popular YouTubers are now required to disclose if they have been paid by brands to promote products in…
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Kate Middleton and the Mystery of the Wedding No-Show | Vanity Fair
We’ve all pulled a last-minute cancellation, haven’t we? We’ve said we would attend an event, out of obligation, lamenting in our heads that we have absolutely no desire to actually go, brainstorming possible excuses for weeks prior, before finally,…
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Speak, a video chat platform that’s a lot like Slack, adds support for multiple teams
Simple communications platform Speak is getting a bit more dynamic. Today, the company is launching support for multiple teams. Before today, companies with multiple teams operated in silos.
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US Navy Seals plan to accept women too, says admiral | US news | The Guardian
The US Navy Seals plan to allow women into their teams, an admiral says, days after the army announced that two soldiers would be the first women to graduate from the elite and gruelling Army Ranger School.
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The mayor of an idyllic Italian island has refused to close a beach featured in an Oscar-winning film, despite warnings from environmental protection agents that the sea contains high levels of E coli and faecal material.
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The Simple Trick Ashley Madison’s Users Could Have Used to Protect Themselves | Motherboard
It might seem strange in the age of cryptocurrency and consumer-level VPN services, but it turns out that the easiest ways to remain anonymous while making purchases online might also be the simplest: just use a gift card.
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How Old-School Computer Graphics Overcame the Limited RAM of Early Machines | Motherboard
If you’ve ever wondered how old-school computer game graphics worked, YouTube user iBookGuy has crafted a nifty explainer. Back in the 1980s, even a top-flight personal computer only had 64 KB of RAM, and the video chip had to share that tiny allotm…
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This tool turns any image into an emoji mosaic · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Given that our grandchildren are already going to look back upon this period in history as essentially one long string of emoji (followed by Miley Cyrus twerking), it’s fitting that the finest minds of our generation turn their attention to the topi…
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Venmo now supports shared group accounts
Venmo is making it easy to manage payments between multiple people. The transactions service is has announced a beta for group accounts. Group accounts essentially act as separate account several people can share for things like paying dues or colle…
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UFC’s Anthony Johnson under fire for misogynistic Facebook rant | Sport | The Guardian
Anthony Johnson, the No1 contender in the UFC’s light heavyweight division whose history of domestic violence against women is well-documented, is under fire for a since-deleted Facebook rant that’s been called misogynistic.
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Smoke from Wildfires in California, Washington Seen from Space (Photos)
An image taken by NASA’s Terra satellite on Aug. 17, 2015, shows five large fires raging through an area in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, located west of Redding, California. To the north are two additional fires, just south of the Oregon stat…
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The Constitutional Principle of Birthright Citizenship Under Fire – The Atlantic
Birthright citizenship has been a bedrock principle of American civic society since Reconstruction. But it is steadily gaining opponents among the 2016 GOP contenders.
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Your #Instafood and #Foodporn snaps could soon be illegal, which is ridiculous
It’s a familiar situation for most of us these days that someone at our table or near us in the restaurant is going to take a photo of the food. However, this simple act could be deemed illegal soon if other countries are to follow in Germany’s foot…
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Facebook spoof’s “user data” for sale to the highest bidder—on eBay – Boing Boing
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Prosecution and defense paint opposite images of Charlotte shooting victim | US news | The Guardian
The prosecution and defense painted very different pictures of police shooting victim Jonathan Ferrell during closing arguments on Tuesday in the voluntary manslaughter trial for the officer who killed him.
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Demonsaw Uses “Social Cryptography” To Share Files And Data Anonymously | TechCrunch
While Demonsaw sounds like it would be an amazing metal band, it’s actually a sharing system built by a senior programmer at Rockstar Games. The creator, Eijah, was part of the core team for Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3 and is also a dedicated…
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Aaron Hernandez lawyer allowed to question juror tipster, judge rules | Sport | The Guardian
Aaron Hernandez’s lawyer has been given the go-ahead to question under oath an anonymous tipster who claimed one of the jurors who convicted Hernandez of murder was biased, raising a faint glimmer of hope of a new trial for the disgraced Patriots ti…
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ISIS Kills Antiquities Scholar in Palmyra – The Atlantic
For a half-century, Khaled Asaad devoted his life to the antiquities of Palmyra, a UNESCO Heritage site located northeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus. A scholar of Aramaic, Asaad wrote extensively about pre-Islamic life in Syria and was a fixtur…
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Ricardo Aca knew he could be fired. But he wanted the camera to roll anyway. Mr. Aca is shown holding his cellphone watching Donald J. Trump call Mexicans who enter the United States rapists, criminals and drug dealers. Then, Mr. Aca calmly tells hi…
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Researchers debut system to route Internet traffic away from repressive countries
The global Internet may soon have a way to be a little more free, if slightly less global. The technology, called Alibi Routing, builds a network of computers in safe locations that can transmit sensitive data around the globe.
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Three California law firms are seeking an injunction to stop the US retail chain Costco selling prawns unless they are labelled as the produce of slavery.
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How to stop being mad at everything on the Internet
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Dr. Dre Female Assault Victim Talks N.W.A Film’s ‘Revisionist History’ | Rolling Stone
Dee Barnes, a journalist whom Dr. Dre attacked while still a member of N.W.A, is speaking out against the way the biopic Straight Outta Compton overlooked the assault. “Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.
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Jared Fogle, the once popular former pitchman for Subway sandwich restaurants, intends to enter a guilty plea to sex acts with minors and distributing child pornography, federal court documents show. As part of a plea agreement, Mr.
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Ashley Madison staff raised security concerns before hack | Technology | The Guardian
Senior staff at Ashley Madison, the hacked extramarital dating site, were raising concerns over its security procedures as recently as June, just a month before the site was attacked.
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This site turns the words you speak into GIFs
This is one of those occasions when the headline really does say it all. Give Giftawk – a simple site making use of clever APIs – access to your microphone, say something and it’ll grab GIFs from Giphy that it thinks represent those words. It’s hila…
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Ohio Planned to Import Death Penalty Drug Illegally | Mother Jones
The state of Ohio planned to illegally import sodium thiopental, a drug used for executions, according to a Food and Drug Administration letter obtained by BuzzFeed through a Freedom of Information Act request. Veneziano reminded Ohio Director of Re…
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The Jefferson Grid is an Instagram account which posts satellite photos picturing one square mile of land. The account takes its name from the grid Thomas Jefferson used to divide up the growing United States.
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A Hollywood Legend Returns With a Screwball Comedy. Will Anyone Notice | The New Republic
She’s Funny That Way, which comes out this Friday, is the first film Peter Bogdanovich has directed in 14 years. He used to churn them out; in the early 1970s alone, Bogdanovich dispatched a run of classics that included The Last Picture Show, What’…
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Donald Trump Talks to Hollywood Reporter — NYMag
The interview began by asking about the criticism his campaign has received thus far — and if he happened to remember the last time he apologized to someone. “I believe in apologizing,” he said. “But to apologize for me is very difficult. I definite…
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Hundreds of Black Activists Endorse BDS Movement | Al Jazeera America
Young African-Americans facing heavily armed police in the streets of Baltimore and Ferguson over the past year have compared their situation to that of Palestinians under Israeli fire, telling reporters that their conditions were “like Gaza.
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Ben Carson: understated candidate quietly rises in polls amid Trump frenzy | US news | The Guardian
An outsider candidate with no political experience could shake up the Republican field – but it’s not Donald Trump.
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Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016.
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Mike Huckabee blunders his way through Israel press conference | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee delivered a confused and garbled press conference in Jerusalem during a brief campaign stop, which included a controversial fundraising visit to a settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Things are getting even more serious in season two of WGN America’s period drama Manhattan—which is really saying something, given the show is already about creating the atomic bomb.
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Patrick Fischler to play Paget Brewster’s brother on Grandfathered · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Grandfathered (i.e., the show that was almost certainly pitched as, “John Stamos…is a grandfather?!?!”) will be getting another familiar face soon.
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Reelz’s satisfyingly cheesy crime re-enactment show, Murder Made Me Famous. It’s like a mini-Lifetime movie each week—from the era when “Lifetime movie” meant “cheesy crime re-enactment” and not “behind the scenes of a sitcom.” Coverage of Jennifer …
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The great philosopher Homer Simpson once memorably described alcohol as “the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.” Internet advertising is a bit like that — the funder of and terrible nuisance baked into everything you do online.
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Most Americans Don’t Want To Defund Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress
The vast majority of Americans favor providing federal funding for clinics that provide women’s health services, and most of them support these taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood clinics specifically, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll …
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Export bar placed on first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls | Art and design | The Guardian
An 18th century watercolour which is the first known eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls has been temporarily prevented from leaving the UK.
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WHO do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the university’s money? It’s not even close.
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Airbnb On Building A Global Company | TechCrunch
In 2008, Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia could barely make rent. But, after hosting strangers on air mattresses at their apartment, they came up with a crazy business concept — people paying to stay in other people’s homes around the …
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Music: “Teardrops,” Womack and Womack (1988) – Boing Boing
This was the first song that came to mind for “Greatest love song of the 80s.” She cries on every tune. Every tune.
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Only 3 Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets | TechCrunch
Disrupt SF is right around the corner, and the deadline for getting early bird ticket pricing to the show ends this week. You seriously don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to save $1,000 on tickets to the hottest show in tech — an event you to…
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Why Pay Your Taxes? – The Business of Life (Episode 9) | VICE News
The American tax code is one of the most impenetrable elements of our society. Surprising, considering how it affects your life every single day. On this episode of the Business of Life, we will show you exactly how your taxes are distributed—and wh…
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Saudi women register to vote in municipal elections – Al Jazeera English
Women in Saudi Arabia have begun registering to vote in municipal elections, the first time they are able to take part in the electoral process in the kingdom. Women will also be able to stand as candidates in the polls, slated for December.
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Gaza: Deadly Assaults – Al Jazeera English
The Israeli assault on Gaza in 2014 cost the lives of 72 Israelis and more than 2,100 Palestinians. The attacks on the neighbourhoods of Shujayea and Rafah caused wide-scale killing and injuries to civilians and colossal structural damage.
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Obama to mark Katrina anniversary | TheHill
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, President Obama will visit the city to celebrate its recovery. Obama on Aug. 27 will meet with Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D), tour neighborhoods and meet with local residents.
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Someone’s already making a low-budget Straight Outta Compton followup · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The film industry has established a running habit of milking every cent out of its intellectual property by making sequels to hits and gritty reboots to disappointments.
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A guitar hero, identified only as Joe, takes us on a journey through the last 85 years of television with a performance of 100 TV theme songs in less than 11 minutes. The melody starts with Looney Tunes (1930) and ends with the theme from Game Of Th…
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WASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to New Orleans next week for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the costliest disasters in United States history. Mr. Obama will use the Aug.
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Harry Styles/Taylor Swift shippers swoon over autographed Taylor hat
On its own, this isn’t a hugely big deal for anyone other than @otrataylor and her friends. But since her real name is Taylor, footage of Styles signing the hat was enough to bring back sweet, sweet memories from the Harry Styles/Taylor Swift romanc…
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Should you take Tylenol, Advil, or aspirin for pain? Here’s what the evidence says. – Vox
Welcome to Dear Julia, a weekly column where readers can submit everyday health questions on anything from the science of hangovers to the mysteries of back pain.
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Trump’s “Go-To” National Security Adviser Says He’s Never Talked Policy With Trump | Mother Jones
When Donald Trump, the reality-show-tycoon-turned-GOP-frontrunner, appeared on Meet the Press this past Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked him, “Who do you talk to for military advice right now?” At first, Trump had no direct answer. He replied, “Well, I…
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A Star Hiding Out in A Nebula : space
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The Crescent Nebula js – Just Space
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Since he shot to the top of the presidential polls, Donald Trump’s serial bankruptcies and bullying nature have made big headlines. But no one seems to have brought up a bullying business practice he’s particularly fond of: eminent domain.
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Amsterdam becomes a ‘smart city’ with The Things Network
Amsterdam is set to become a ‘connected city,’ with the launch of a new Internet-of-Things wireless network that will allow objects to transmit data between each other – and The Next Web is helping to bring it to life.
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“We Googled the worst place in America to live, and St Louis came up,” says Johnel Langerston, the president of Urban Born, a nonprofit youth organization. “So we expanded our program to College Hill almost three years ago.
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Here’s Samsung’s Answer To The Apple Watch | TechCrunch
Last week, Samsung held a big conference in New York. While many anticipated the announcements of the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+, the company also teased a new upcoming device — the Samsung Gear S2. This new smartwatch looks nothing like …
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Oldest Human-Like Hand Bone Might Reveal the Origins of Tool Making – Scientific American
The bone, which is the earliest modern human-like finger bone ever found, could come from a number of species that were around at the time, including Homo erectus By and The Conversation US | The international research team that made the discovery s…
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Final Fantasy VII arrives on iOS
Are you a Final Fantasy fan and own an iOS device? Then you’re in for a treat: Square Enix has just released Final Fantasy VII to the App Store.
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The Islamic State Has Beheaded an 81-Year-Old Antiquities Scholar in Palymra | VICE News
The so-called Islamic State (IS) beheaded an elderly Syrian antiquities scholar in the ancient town of Palmyra, then hung his body from the Roman ruins, according to reports.
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Hillary Clinton: ‘I did not send or receive classified material’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton again defends herself against suggestions of misconduct in her use of a private email server as secretary of state, saying ‘what I did was legally permitted’.
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Why Isn’t Amy Schumer Directing Her Own Trainwreck Follow-up? | Vanity Fair
The relationship between Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow was crucial to the success of this summer’s Trainwreck; Schumer, a rising star, used Apatow’s industry status to get the movie made and secure a prime summer release, while Apatow, directing someo…
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WASHINGTON—Evoking cataclysmic scenes of extreme weather and widespread drought and famine, the nation’s climate change deniers held a press conference Wednesday to describe exactly what the Earth must look like before they will begin to believe in …
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MPAA loves fair use so much they don’t want to share it with the rest of the world – Boing Boing
The MPAA letter is way out of proportion to the USTR’s extremely weak-kneed proposal, which says that signatories “shall endeavor” to achieve a balance in their copyright rules.
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Death, murder, and fear in post-elections Burundi – Al Jazeera English
Bujumbura, Burundi – At 6:30pm on Wednesday, August 5, Congolese Burundians Paul Ramadhan,29, and his nephew Mechak Ramadhan,17, whose family fled political violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo many years ago, were stopped by police and …
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From Romero to ‘Walking Dead’: A Brief History of Pop-Culture Zombies | Rolling Stone
Think of a teeming metropolis like New York City. Now double that in size. If every single person who lived there, every hot-dog vendor, third-grader and euphoric Mets fan, was in fact a flesh-eating zombie, that would roughly equal the 17.
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WhatsApp Web is finally coming to iPhone
WhatsApp Web, which allows you to send messages via the service to your friends from your computer, is rolling out to iPhone users now.
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Finn Balor: The Demon Comes to Brooklyn | Rolling Stone
Last summer, WWE made a splash when it signed a trio of wrestlers to its nascent developmental promotion, NXT. One was Kevin Steen, a former Ring of Honor champion who would go on to make a serious impact as Kevin Owens.
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The Last Place to Polka: A Short Film About Sefcik Hall – The Atlantic
In the late 1800’s, tens of thousands of Czech immigrants settled farmland in central Texas, and brought with them the tradition of the community dance hall. Annie Silverstein’s short documentary takes us to Sefcik Hall, one of the last true Czech d…
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Is Brian Kelly’s Best Notre Dame Team Good Enough? | Rolling Stone
This is Brian Kelly’s sixth season as the head coach at Notre Dame, which doesn’t seem like much given where things started, given that he’d inherited a program that had been decimated by the overarching arrogance and ineptitude of his predecessor, …
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Hear a Lively Track from New Steve Martin–Edie Brickell LP | Rolling Stone
Hear a Lively Folk-Rock Track from New Steve Martin–Edie Brickell Album Duo premieres song from upcoming second studio LP, ‘So Familiar,’ partly inspired by their joint 2014 musical
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Buffalo Bill’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ House For Sale | Rolling Stone
Buffalo Bill’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ House For Sale Four-bedroom 1910 Victorian, fictionally inhabited by victim-skinning serial killer, has asking price of $300,000
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Welcome to Maternity Hotel California | Rolling Stone
Peter and Ellie Yang, by all outward appearances, are living the Beijing dream. They have a condo in an up-and-coming area, a white Honda that Peter keeps immaculate and a rambunctious one-year-old son, Xiongxiong. They wear brand-name jeans and own…
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An Improbable Weapon Supercut on Vimeo
Weapon & Film List (in order of appearance): Ladder – First Strike Melons – Transporter 2 Umbrella – Kingsman Afro Picks – Undercover Brother Ship – Pacific Rim Shirt – Transporter Tea Cup – Chronicles of Riddick Guitar Case – Desperado Trash Can – …
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China, South Africa and the ‘currency wars’ – Al Jazeera English
China has devalued its currency once again sparking fears of a global currency war that is unsettling global financial markets. Emerging and developing nations have been the hardest hit and have seen their currencies fall to multi-year lows.
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17 Stories & Novels by Neil Gaiman Online: Free Texts & Readings by Neil Himself | Open Culture
Neil Gaiman might just be the most beloved fantasy author out there. He writes weird, twisted, exhilarating tales about hidden realities and the bizarre, fanciful creatures that live in them. His works, like Sandman, Fragile Things and American Gods…
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Why are Republicans more satisfied with their marriages? According to a recent study, Republicans between 20 and 60 years of age are 67% more likely to be satisfied with their marriages than Democrats in that same demographic.
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Young Children Aim for ‘Tomorrowland’ in Summer Space Challenge
Bill Nye joined NASA astronauts Mike Massimino and Yvonne Cagle as well as “Miles from Tomorrowland” star Adrian Grenier and “Good Morning America” Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee at a New York Hall of Science kickoff event for “Miles from Tomorrowla…
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A Tetris-Related Science Reporting Failure — Science of Us
Facebook icon Wouldn’t it be great if video games, particularly fun, excellent ones like Tetris, could reduce unwanted cravings, and perhaps even help fight s
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The Ashley Madison Hack Is Not Just About People Who Cheat | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, hackers revealed the personal information of millions of users of infidelity site Ashley Madison.
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Store owner scares off machete-wielding robbers with even bigger sword
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Vaio PCs Are Returning to the US, at Twice the Price of a Mac | Motherboard
Vaio computers, which disappeared from store shelves outside of Japan after Sony sold the brand last year, will be making a comeback in the US this fall—with a hefty new price tag to match.
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This Drone Combat Champion Is Still in High School | Motherboard
Drone combat pro Kyle Ettinger went undefeated in his last tournament, knocking down the other teams’ drones one after another. He’s a drone fight club champion—and he’s only 15. Kyle picked up his first drone about two years ago while working at a …
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San Francisco Magazine | Modern Luxury | The Hardest Test
“I have some issues about my education in San Francisco,” the fifth grader began, barely pausing for breath as she faced the packed meeting room of the Board of Education one evening in March 2011.
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USA to play Cuba, Canada and Panama in Olympic soccer qualifying | Football | The Guardian
The United States men’s national team has been drawn into a group with Canada, Cuba and Panama for Concacaf Olympic qualifying. USA will be in Group A and open with two games at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, against Canada on October 1 and C…
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet Has Fixed Its “To Be or Not to Be” Problem | Vanity Fair
Shakespeare has, for decades, if not centuries, been messed with. Shakespeare plays have been set in all kinds of different time periods, directors have done gender-bending casting, playwrights and dramaturgs have hacked up his plays and reformed th…
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Female Libido Drug Nets FDA Approval, with Warning – Scientific American
The first drug to treat low sexual desire in women won approval from U.S. health regulators on Tuesday, but with a warning about potentially dangerous low blood pressure and fainting side effects, especially when taken with alcohol. The U.S.
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Earlier this year, Anne Hathaway was loosely tied to a bit of controversy in the film world: Shortly after signing on to Colossal, a movie described by director Nacho Vigalondo as “a serious Godzilla movie but I’ve got an idea that’s going to make i…
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We talked to people the Fat Jew stole from
Since Josh Ostrovsky, better known at the Fat Jew, signed with the talent agency CAA, the Internet has been buzzing—or rather, screaming—with fury. Ostrovsky runs a Twitter and Instagram account where he aggregates funny content made by other comedi…
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A man was falsely accused of Bangkok bombing, and that’s the problem with internet activism
Sunny Burns, an Australian man living in Thailand as an actor, fashion blogger and English teacher, had his life turned upside down in the hours following the bombing that took place in central Bangkok.
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Mad Max: Fury Road reminds us that well-composed action movies using physical effects are more engaging than bombastic, CG hurricanes of chaos. Now YouTube user devinsupertramp makes the case that a similar approach can elevate fan films as well.
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What are you reading in August? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
We’ve expanded the regular AVQ&A discussion prompts to ask several of our regular contributors (and you) a simple question: What are you currently reading? If you have suggestions for future AVQ&A questions, big or small, email them to us here.
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Why Westerners Join ISIS – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
With more than 150 Americans accused of attempting to fight alongside ISIS in Syria and countless young Europeans allegedly joining or supporting the terrorist group, many are left wondering what a population of extremists has to offer Westerners a …
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The FDA Has Approved a Drug for Women’s Libido—But Don’t Call It ‘Pink Viagra’ | Motherboard
The drug, flibanserin, also known by the brand name Addyi, is intended to treat what drug maker Sprout Pharmaceuticals calls hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or HSDD.
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Obama’s former CTO is heading to PayPal
Harper Reed is a cool guy. He was CTO of Threadless, then worked on Obama’s 2012 election campaign in same role. He’s now… a PayPal employee. Um… okay, so that’s not quite as cool as the other stuff, but how he ended up there is actually pretty neat.
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The IRS Hacked, Ashley Madison Dumped: The Crisis in Cybersecurity – The Atlantic
My wife leans in. A year ago, after nine hours of labor, she received an epidural and immediately asked me to pass the iPad so she could send a note to work.
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Sharing data from the Ashley Madison leak is deplorable, even if you think people deserve it
Last month Ashley Madison, a website that encourages and enables people’s infidelities, was hacked. No doubt you’ve heard about it in amongst the media’s collective glee that people are getting something they “deserve.”
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What Stephen Marche Gets Wrong About Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper – The Atlantic
The first of five scheduled party-leader debates already took place on August 6. You can watch it here. If you do, you will be joining some 4.3 million Canadians who tuned into one of the most-viewed political events in years.
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The truth about guest posting & KPIs
In the past few months, I’ve written posts for sites like TechCrunch, Kissmetrics, and HubSpot. Collectively, these have garnered over 5,000 shares so far.
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New to reddit? Click here! You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
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Dwarf Galaxy Orbiting the Milky Way –“May Be Signaling Dark Matter From Its Core”
A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise — it appears to be radiating gamma rays, according to an analysis by physicists at Carnegie Mellon, Brown, and Cambridge universities.
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Senator Sanders, You’re No Barack Obama | FiveThirtyEight
Is the 2016 Democratic primary a sequel of 2008? The Bernie Sanders supporters filling up my email inbox think so.
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NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe js – Just Space
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The Martian | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX : space
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When you’re on 1% and you decide to upvote one more time : reactiongifs
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It’s National Aviation Day and NASA Wants You to Celebrate
NASA research pilot Greg Slover spreads his arms like wings at the Langley Research Center to celebrate National Aviation Day. NASA is inviting the public to celebrate National Aviation Day on Aug. 19 with a social media campaign.Credit: NASA Langle…
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The difference between a sliced cucumber salad and a smashed cucumber salad reveals itself on first bite. Sliced cucumbers have a smooth, impenetrable surface, and when you introduce them to dressing, they usually shrug it off.
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Protests by 1000s of Ecuadorians meet with brutal repression | Environment | The Guardian
Would you believe me if I told you that while president Rafael Correa was singing “Hasta siempre, comandante” with a band in the main square in central Quito last Thursday night just one block away riot police were tear-gassing and clubbing Ecuadori…
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In contemporary America, where the street lights are always on and human connection (or at least its digital facsimile) can be found with the push of a button, it’s hard for us to grasp how isolated and terrifying life could be for colonial American…
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Madame Tussauds rethinks Nicki Minaj waxwork display over saucy fan photos | Music | The Guardian
Madame Tussauds has said it is redesigning its Nicki Minaj display after images of visitors taking provocative photos with the waxwork appeared online.
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Uber has picked up another strategic investor. The ride-sharing company has raised roughly $100 million in financing from the Tata Opportunities Fund, an Indian private-equity firm owned by the Tata Group, the Indian conglomerate, according to a per…
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Ghana to bring Cuban doctors to mitigate medical strike – Al Jazeera English
Ghana plans to bring in more than 170 doctors from Cuba to help mitigate the deficiencies from a crippling strike by medics over pay and training.
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Guardant Health And Flatiron Health Team Up To Cure Cancer With Big Data | TechCrunch
Every year, 8 million people around the world die from cancer, and 14 million people find out they have the disease. Guardant Health and Flatiron Health are joining forces in an aim to cut those numbers down using big data and analytics.
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Zorro Reborn is back in pre-production action with new studio · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It wasn’t all that long ago that the world seemed to have its pick of Zorro-related reboots, with the race to find the right project rivaling only that of churning out a proper Frankenstein film or TV series.
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Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the Ukrainian crisis and new US-Russian Cold War.
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Chelsea Manning, the transgender service member incarcerated for leaking national security information, faced solitary confinement for various disciplinary charges alleging that she possessed “prohibited property” and that she showed disrespect to p…
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After escaping into the air-conditioned sanctuary of Bergdorf Goodman, Ms. Barel inhaled. Downstairs, in the beauty department, she led a brief tour of scents, including Tom Ford’s Tuscan Leather.
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The Changing Face of Shenzhen, the World’s Gadget Factory | Motherboard
Mention Shenzhen to most people, and they’ll probably think of the vast Foxconn manufacturing plant that churns out high-end phones, tablets, laptops, and gaming consoles for the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Dell, and Sony.
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The Creator of ‘Mr. Robot’ Explains Its Hacktivist and Cult Roots | Motherboard
What if Bruce Wayne were a Silicon Valley stooge by day and a crusading hacktivist by night? And what if Mr. Wayne didn’t need hardware and muscle at all, but a computer, wifi and the passion to change the world one keystroke at a time? That is the …
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Spanish Fest Invites Matisyahu Back After Gov’t Condemnation | Rolling Stone
Spain’s foreign ministry has criticized the Benicàssim’s Rototom Sunsplash after the reggae festival kicked Matisyahu off their bill for refusing to declare his support for Palestine.
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Matt Barnes ‘Really Knows’ Rihanna, Big Baby Says | Rolling Stone
Don’t worry, Matt Barnes: Big Baby’s got your back.
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Watch Maddie & Tae Duet With Lee Ann Womack | Rolling Stone
Watch Maddie & Tae Duet With Lee Ann Womack On-the-rise duo previews new album ‘Start Here’ with help from their hero
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I wrote Monday about the strange phenomenon of Republicans lining up to propose cuts to Social Security, a deeply unpopular policy that is, however, also a really bad idea.
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Meteorite Impacts on Ancient Oceans –“May Have Created the Genetic Molecules That Led to Life”
A new study shown that meteorite impacts on ancient oceans may have created nucleobases and amino acids.
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Needle Points | Best Of MetaFilter
A couple of fantastic examples of animated stichwitchery recently on Mefi: In 27kjmm’s debut post, Nina Paley and Theodore Gray beautifully animate the traditional Passover folk song “Chad Gadya” in embroidery on matzoh covers in one of their most l…
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A public service announcement for those who want a hearing: if you send me an email with an attached letter, which says “Please read attached letter” without any indication of what it’s about, you should know what will (or actually won’t) happen.
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Islamic Climate Change Declaration More Effective Than Encyclical | The New Republic
Pope Francis may have soaked up headlines earlier this summer when he published a whopping 192-page encyclical on climate change, but this week Muslims issued a declaration that could influence an even larger population than the Catholic decree.
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This gift wrapping. : oddlysatisfying
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Walking on water like a boss. : InterestingGifs
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Jumping into the Sky by Mocha : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Sentinel by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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MRW I discover I have Multiple-personality disorder : shittyreactiongifs
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Salt and pepper shakers : foxes
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Jared Fogle is reportedly planning to admit to possessing child porn and paying to have sex with children. Subway has fired him and scrubbed its website of his face—but it has not yet deleted this incredible online game where SUBWAY KIDSTM compete t…
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It sounds like the plot of an animal horror B movie: a gigantic plague of flesh-eating “crazy ants” from Argentina invades the city of Birmingham.
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America’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer DJ Patil Is Coming To Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer for data policy DJ Patil is coming on stage with us at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. We’re excited to have him come and chat with us about his role as the first national data scientist.
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New ‘The Martian’ Trailer Reveals Dangers Of Exploration | Video
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Toy Soldiers: War Chest is a delightful take on tower defense
Star Bright skips around the battlefield, Dark Lord throws a d10 at sci-fi soldiers, and the Kaiser’s army holds off G.I. Joe, Cobra, and He-Man. How does a Toy Soldiers fan not love this?
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What Is Haunting Kurt Cobain’s Childhood Home, Which No One Wants to Buy? | Vanity Fair
There’s a publicity effort in full force to spread the word that Kurt Cobain’s childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington, is for sale—and the price is dropping fast. In March, the Peep-colored house-shaped box was listed for $400,000, but just dropped …
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The judge presiding over the “Deflategate” legal case says there is no deal, but talks continue in an effort to settle a dispute over a four-game suspension of New England quarterback Tom Brady.
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What If They Discovered Sequels to Catcher in the Rye or On the Road | Vanity Fair
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Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle to plead guilty in child abuse case | US news | The Guardian
Longtime Subway sandwich pitchman Jared Fogle has agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child abuse images that he knew had been secretly produced by the former director of his charitable foundation…
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 19th – The New Yorker
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This mouse trap looks more like a mouse toilet. : mildlyinteresting
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Heard you guys like Pressure Washing… : gifs
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Wind Power Must Now Contend with Extreme Weather – Scientific American
Lower-than-average winds in the western United States in the first half of the year have cut into production and revenues at wind farms there, according to company data. Now, the industry is trying to figure out how it will deal with variable weathe…
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The establishment has now accepted the reality that Donald Trump could win the GOP nomination — and could even possibly … become the next president of the United States. [Memo To Self: Adjust meds.]
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Kennedy Dad to Kennedy Millennial: Watch What You ’Gram | Vanity Fair
A few years ago, in late 2013, we introduced you to Kyra Kennedy, the 18-year-old (at the time) daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (or, the great niece of J.F.K.).
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Singapore at 50: What lies ahead? – Al Jazeera English
Issues such as political freedoms could become more important, and I think there will be more agitation in Singapore moving ahead. Singapore’s rise from colonial backwater to one of the richest nations in the world makes it the envy of those nations…
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The journalist Dee Barnes’s recollection of the time when Dr. Dre beat her—and of its aftermath, and of her feelings about its omission from Straight Outta Compton—is one of the best essays to be published this year. You can read it at Gawker.
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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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Saudi closes emergency ward after MERS spike | Al Jazeera America
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have closed an emergency ward in one of the kingdom’s largest hospitals after at least 46 people, including hospital staff, contracted the potentially fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome, also known as MERS, a health o…
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The video is visceral and raw: Hillary Rodham Clinton — the presidential candidate so often faulted for insulating herself from voters and critics alike — in a tense, awkward, unscripted moment. A Black Lives Matter activist demands, at great length…
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Hillary Clinton answers all the email questions, but Politico is miffed that she got ‘testy’
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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MUMBAI — One of India’s best-known human rights activists, Teesta Setalvad, was brewing her morning tea on July 14 when she got a telephone call from her security guard.
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Official Google Blog: Meet OnHub: a new router for a new way to Wi-Fi
Ugh…not again. You get home at the end of the day, and sit down to stream a new movie or upload vacation photos — and your Wi-Fi slows to a crawl or just stops working.
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Supermassive black holes are *really* massive
How massive are they? The Sun is 1 solar mass and as wide as 109 Earths. Sagittarius A, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, weighs 4.3 million solar masses and is as wide as Mercury is far from the Sun.
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Cleveleys Beach, England [OC][5182×3454] : seaporn
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Horsehead Nebula in infrared js – Just Space
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San Francisco police pin man down and kneel on his prosthetic leg – video | US news | The Guardian
Video has emerged of San Francisco police pinning down a man with a prosthetic leg earlier in the month. The footage, shot 4 August near Market Street, shows five police officers restraining the man on the ground. One officer is later seen kneeling …
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Why the 2014 El Niño Was a Great Big Dud | Motherboard
The seemingly essential chaos of weather and, slightly less so, the climate at-large is enormously undersold.
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The Fat Jew is everything wrong with comedy on the Internet
For many, getting famous is hard work. But if you’re Instagram celebrity Josh Ostrovsky (better known as The Fat Jew), you just get other people to do the work for you. The comedian—a term I use loosely—has built a strong following of 5.
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It’s not just about child pornography found on his computer, possession of which he reportedly will admit to in court. Fogle’s computers and other gear were snatched by prosecutors on a recent raid on his home in Zionsville, Indiana.
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The Horrifying, Old-School Witchcraft Trailer: The Witch | WIRED
It’s always fun to find the through lines in an actor’s career.
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The “drinkable book,” a new filtration system with individual pages that can be torn out to purify containers of water, has completed its first round of field testing and could benefit many of the 700 million people worldwide who lack access to pota…
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The Bitcoin Schism Shows the Genius of Open Source | WIRED
Mike Hearn is one of the primary engineers behind bitcoin, the digital currency that aims to remake our financial system. Or at least he used to be.
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Man Doing Karaoke Clearly Sings This One Every Time – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
TAMPA, FL—Shaking their heads as he confidently eschewed the large binder of songs and recited his chosen track number by heart, patrons at karaoke bar Luna’s told reporters today that local man Steven Croucher obviously sings Fleetwood Mac’s “Littl…
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Saving Mary Jane – Al Jazeera English
With just minutes to spare, Filipina Mary Jane Veloso escaped death by an Indonesian firing squad that executed eight other foreigners found guilty of drug trafficking. Her lawyers argue Mary Jane is not a criminal but a victim of human trafficking.
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Corruption blights Nigeria’s oil industry – Al Jazeera English
The fight against corruption is the single most important thing we have to do. Attempts to rein in corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry are reportedly falling short, leaving many Nigerians asking where most of the wealth has gone.
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The Clinton Candidacy: What the Republican War on Planned Parenthood Is Really About
In the Republican war on Planned Parenthood, there are many casualties, most notably, poor women and the truth. But the real target is the Democratic Party and its frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination.
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Spredfast Acquires Shoutlet For A Social Marketing Team-Up | TechCrunch
Spredfast has acquired another social marketing company, Shoutlet. While the two companies are in the same industry, Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron (pictured above) said that when he looks at their products, he sees “a lot more complements than overlaps.
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Why Salvador Dali Loved Duplicity and Illusion – Scientific American
Salvador Galo Anselmo Dalí i Domènech was born to Felipa Domènech i Ferrés and Salvador Dalí i Cusí on October 12, 1901, in the town of Figueres in Catalonia, Spain. The couple’s firstborn child, he showed signs of great precociousness, but his pote…
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This Week On Bullish: The Digital Divide | TechCrunch
Happy Wednesday, friends, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish, a new show from TechCrunch designed to force me to wear makeup at least once a week. This time ’round we’re talking about education, technology, and how they don’t always end …
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Howdy! Senior Writer Jason Heller here. Just wanted to let you know that Science Friction—The A.V. Club’s monthly sci-fi film series—continues tonight in Denver at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema with Hackers.
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Hannibal Buress takes to the streets to get the public’s opinion on the 2016 presidential hopefuls and how they’d feel if Obama took a third term. Watch a new episode of Why? with Hannibal Buress every Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central or a…
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Methane-Eating Microbes May Mitigate Arctic Emissions – Scientific American
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, on average. And as permafrost becomes, well, not so perma, microbes are warming up, feasting on organic compounds in the thawed soil. The microbes then belch methane—a potent greenhouse …
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Special Topics In Gameology explores a specific corner of the gaming world in a miniseries of articles. The current theme is commerce, in which we examine games’ representation and use of business and trade. Niko Bellic is a man frozen in place.
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R.I.P. Yvonne Craig, TV’s Batgirl and Star Trek guest star · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Actress and ballet dancer Yvonne Craig has died as a result of complications due to breast cancer. She was 78. Craig was born in Taylorville, Illinois, but grew up in Columbus, Ohio.
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Will Sasso will guest star on Shameless next year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Gallaghers will get a new neighbor and anti-yuppie ally on Shameless next year as Deadline reports that Will Sasso (Modern Family, MADtv) has been cast in a recurring role for season six.
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Children Bearing Brunt of War in Yemen | Al Jazeera America
Fighting in Yemen has killed nearly 400 children since the end of March, with a similar number having been recruited by armed groups in the conflict, the UN children’s agency warned Wednesday.
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The Journey by Dehong He : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that he sees the women parading around Times Square covered in little but body paint not as creative artists, but as pushy panhandlers whose efforts to separate tourists from their money should be regulated.
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SoftBank CEO In Waiting Nikesh Arora Buys $483M Of Stock In ‘Personal Bet’ | TechCrunch
SoftBank’s Nikesh Arora — the man who Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son is backing as his replacement at the Japanese company — is doubling down on his employer after he agreed to buy 60 billion JPY ($483 million) in company shares from his own pocket.
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Clinton Gives Press Conference on Emails — NYMag
Hillary Clinton gave a press conference in Las Vegas that mostly focused on her email server yesterday; she didn’t provide much new information on the subject except to make clear that she’s tired of talking about it.
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Chastity belts were a joke, then a metaphor, then a hoax – Boing Boing
Historian Albrecht Classen got so tired of hearing people blithlely assert that chastity belts were ever a thing that he wrote The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process, explaining how a 15th century hoax that appeared in a manuscript that a…
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“When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best,” Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said during his campaign kick-off speech in June. “They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those prob…
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Jeb Bush: the NSA isn’t spying on us enough – Boing Boing
Bush says that the “balance” between privacy and security has “gone the wrong way.” Because there’s “no evidence” that spying violates civil liberties. Bush doubled down Tuesday on his assertions that there is “no evidence” the data collection viola…
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Supercut of casual, chortling sexism on Fox News – Boing Boing
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My First Session at a Private Tech Addiction Clinic | Motherboard
I’m flat on my back staring at a strip-lit ceiling doing breathing exercises—the kind of calming, in-out motions expectant mothers learns in ante-natal class. My mind blank of thoughts, I’m experiencing something half-yoga class, half-AA meeting.
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Hear the Who’s ‘Tommy’ Track ‘Christmas’ With Orchestra, Chamber Choir | Rolling Stone
Years before the Who’s Tommy was adapted for the big screen and Broadway stage, the landmark 1969 rock opera was staged by the London Symphony Orchestra in a massive all-star symphonic concert featuring guest spots by Rod Stewart, Steve Winwood, Rin…
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Ashley Madison Knew It Was a Target for Hackers, Alleged Leak Shows | Motherboard
The digital innards of the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, and its parent company Avid Life Media, are allegedly spewed all over the dark web for anyone to see.
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The Martian | Official Trailer 2 [HD] | 20th Century FOX : movies
I am so excited for this. The book was a fantastic read and Matt Damon is great casting for Watney. The editing and music of the trailer has brought out the more light-hearted and fun nature of the novel which I like. Can’t wait to see this film del…
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The Club Drug Cure: Ketamine’s New Shot as a Depression Treatment – Bloomberg Business
On the seventh floor of a building overlooking the Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhattan, two medical clinics share an office. One is run by a podiatrist who’s outfitted the waiting room with educational materials on foot problems such as hammer t…
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Bernie’s campaign has been channeling grassroots enthusiasm into massive rallies. Now, it’s working to whip all those supporters into a sophisticated political machine. RENO, Nev.
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Katrina and Conservative Failure, Ten Years Later
Ten years later, the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina is a heartrending example of the consequences and human cost of conservative failure. Ten years after the poorest and most vulnerable in the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina were …
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S Africa’s secret cricket plans end up on Facebook – Al Jazeera English
The papers outlining secret tactics were meant to be slipped under South African fast-bowler Dale Steyn’s hotel room door on the eve of a game against New Zealand.
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The Real Threat in the Times’ Amazon Story — NYMag
Nothing about life at Amazon seems fun after that big New York Times report on the corporation’s brutality toward its own white-collar workers. But unpack the account a little bit and it turns out to be documenting two very different kinds of misery.
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Gunfire and blast heard outside Istanbul tourist spot – Al Jazeera English
World-renowned feminist author and democracy campaigner Naomi Wolf on the state of feminism and civil liberties. We hear from Palestinians who were allegedly used as human shields by the Israeli army during the 2014 Gaza war.
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Ankur Jain, the founder of Humin – an app that aims to organize your contacts better than your smartphone – is sitting across from me in a conference room in downtown San Francisco and knocking on his own smartphone.
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Hackers Dump Stolen Ashley Madison Data Online | Vanity Fair
Hackers who targeted Ashley Madison, the cheaters’ dating Web site whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair,” appear to have made good on their threat to post stolen customer data online Tuesday.
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Martin Short Will Co-Host Maya Rudolph’s Variety Show | Vanity Fair
The variety show may never again have the place of prominence on television that it did in the Carol Burnett/Ed Sullivan years, but NBC is going to do its damndest to try.
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Recruiting top talent in Silicon Valley is always tough. But you know there’s a boom under way when the hiring gets even tougher. That’s the situation these days as many Silicon Valley start-ups go on hiring sprees, often poaching from established t…
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How 2001: A Space Odyssey beat NASA into space – Boing Boing
Sorry, but Taschen’s $1000 four-part art book on the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey is already sold out. Console yourself with Wired’s feature about the movie’s most enduring and prescient imaginings. This particularly helped with the movie’s light…
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FanDuel Acquires Sports Analytics Company NumberFire | TechCrunch
Fantasy sports company FanDuel is acquiring numberFire, in a deal that co-founder and CEO Nigel Eccles told me will help FanDuel pursue a vision that goes beyond fantasy sports.
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Why won’t major websites stop using Flash? – Boing Boing
Flash: a bloated, unstable, battery-slurping fountain of security problems to wrap video in. So why do so many big sites still require it? Jared Newman reports on the agonizingly slow decline of obsolete technology.
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump caused his weekly public stir when he released his first policy paper on immigration.
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It’s always fun to find the through lines in an actor’s career.
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Hole Quest: When Twitter turns your real life into a point-and-click game
As someone who got trapped in an elevator yesterday, I feel for Ryan North. Luckily for North though, he had the luxury of a pocket computer and fresh air when he got stuck in a skateboarding pit yesterday evening.
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Top Admiral Opens the Door to Women Joining the Navy SEALs – The Atlantic
The Navy’s top admiral tells Defense News and the Navy Times “there is no reason” why women cannot join the elite Navy SEALs if they can pass the notoriously difficult training program.
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LinkedIn launches Lookup, a standalone app to help you tap your co-workers’ skills
LinkedIn has launched a new standalone iOS app called LinkedIn Lookup today in a bid to help users make better use of their co-workers’s skills.
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Hillary Clinton has again defended herself against suggestions of misconduct in her use of a private email server as secretary of state, dismissing the issue in a press conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. “The facts are stubborn. What I did was lega…
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How do you localize mobile games for regional markets?
Customizing your games for regional markets can help bring in more players, establish your brand in new territories and increase revenue. But there’s a lot more to it than merely translating your textual elements into other languages.
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Britney Spears’ ‘Slave 4 U’ predicted everything awful about this summer
Summer has been around for three months, and we can’t say we’re sad about its departure. Now that the polar vortex is just a distant memory, the sun that we prayed for has outworn its welcome. We’re at the point this August where any venture outdoor…
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The bastards finally did it : pics
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Clew Bay from atop Croagh Patrick [360×640] [OC] : EarthPorn
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This is an edit of all 3 Odin’s Afterbirth chapters combined.
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Cancer risk ‘even from light drinking’ – BBC News
Even light and moderate drinking – up to one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men – could increase the risk of cancer, say researchers. The work in the British Medical Journal looked at two large US studies involving more than 100,000 …
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A decade after Katrina, are America’s flood estimates dangerously wrong?
In the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri, time apparently flies. In 2013, Hannibal had a 50-year flood, a high-water event only expected once every 50 years. In 2014, it had another 50-year flood.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – Rosetta thermal louvres
These might resemble venetian window blinds, but they are actually a key technology enabling ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft to travel safely from the Sun-warmed inner Solar System to the frigid expanse of the Asteroid Belt, then back again.
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The Republican Party Is Becoming a Bloodbath | The New Republic
The political media tends to process each Donald Trump controversy anew, or if not anew then as the latest in a series of contretemps, any one of which would have ended the candidacy of a more traditional politician.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
Springer, an academic publisher, has issued retractions for 64 papers after the discovery that some peer reviews may have been faked. [The Washington Post]
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Elizabeth Samet’s Leadership Bible Soothes Scared Elites | The New Republic
Next month marks four years since Occupy Wall Street tumbled into parks and town squares and onto the American consciousness.
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What Black Lives Matter Made Clear to Hillary Clinton | The New Republic
Last week, Hillary Clinton met with a small group of Black Lives Matter protesters who had intended to disrupt her campaign event, only to arrive late and be shut out by Secret Service.
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What If Stalin Had Computers? | The New Republic
When will capitalism end? It’s not a new idea, and even the capitalists suspect it will happen. After all, every other mode of production has fallen, and capitalism isn’t a steady-state system. It simply isn’t built to stay the same.
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Pulitzer-Winner Adam Johnson Delivers Tales of Trauma and Redemption | The New Republic
Adam Johnson has long been interested in trauma. Best known for his 2013 novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author has written about North Korean gulags, apocalyptic epidemics, and future Americas where everyone must wear bul…
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The milkyway through natures eye, Canberra,… – Just Space
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Riley is not happy with sitting in the bathroom waiting. : cats
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Food metaphors go a long way. – Imgur
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In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway Smash ‘Hamilton,’ Thomas Jefferson Is the Bad Guy – The Atlantic
How Hamilton Recasts Thomas Jefferson as a Villain http://t.co/mCy66jJPzN
Go to any American elementary school and ask the students to name the Founding Fathers, and it’s likely that Thomas Jefferson will come up, right alongside George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jef…
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BP lobbied against EU support for clean energy to favour gas, documents reveal | Environment | The Guardian The fossil fuel giant BP helped spur a concerted industry push to curb EU policy support for renewable energies such as wind and solar in favour of gas, the Guardian has learned.…
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