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Morning hair… don’t care : cats
Morning hair… don’t care via /r/cats http://t.co/YCHNdh3fTH http://t.co/KW5lRiJPS9
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Why ‘The Martian’ is NASA’s best marketing event in years : space
Why ‘The Martian’ is NASA’s best marketing event in years via /r/space http://t.co/q2a79DX8y8 http://t.co/EeeWZmZkzQ
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Cute&Derpy Cats : A journey of a thousand miles : cats
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No, I wasn’t on the computer… Thanks. : cats
No, I wasn’t on the computer… Thanks. via /r/cats http://t.co/zsSAGSqxTz http://t.co/n26cgq47h7
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I found a jumper on ASOS that looks like my cat : cats
I found a jumper on ASOS that looks like my cat via /r/cats http://t.co/q2Yj0noXEl http://t.co/NQTpBTp8nw
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Sharing a meal with a gecko. : AnimalsBeingBros
Sharing a meal with a gecko. via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/uu3WM0G93y http://t.co/eyq6ybkjPK
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HMB and bring it to the hospital I’ll be admitted in via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/Fs8Tpt0JgK http://t.co/AXsL4VCYa7
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/Ls0KuueHt5 http://t.co/lNHc0bMe6a
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Navajo leader feels betrayed by EPA over ‘contaminated’ water supply | Environment | The Guardian
The president of the Navajo Nation said he feels betrayed that water supplied by the Environmental Protection Agency appeared to be tainted with a black oily substance.
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Brazil’s illegal loggers downscale to avoid satellite detection | Environment | The Guardian
Brazil’s drive to nip illicit tree-felling in the bud has shifted the nature of the problem, according to researchers.
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FLIR One, round two: The thermal imaging camera drops $100, gets a new shape | Ars Technica
Last year, senior editor Lee Hutchinson played with the FLIR One, a $349 iPhone case that had two embedded cameras to bring you all the power of Predator in John McTiernan’s 1987 film Predator.
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Listen Up America: You Need to Learn How to Recycle. Again. | WIRED
Recycling is one of the first post-industrial successes that mixed environmentalism with business. Instead of being buried underground, certain types of waste stream from consumer’s homes to special facilities to be sorted by type, broken down, and …
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Yemen conflict: Scars of civil war in Aden – BBC News
Fighting continues in Yemen’s bitter civil war and hospitals and aid agencies are struggling to help those desperately in need of treatment and supplies. On Thursday, the UN warned that the country was on the brink of famine, as an estimated 13 mill…
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Review: Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Emotion’ Tackles Romance With Precision and Exuberance – The Atlantic
Of all the genres about which it’s assumed lyrics don’t matter, radio-friendly pop is right up there next to, say, death metal (whose vocals are typically unintelligible howls).
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Why English as the Universal Language of Science Is a Problem for Research – The Atlantic
“I was also shy to communicate with researchers, from fear of not understanding quite well what they were saying,” she added. “Reading a research paper would take me a whole day or two as opposed to a couple of hours.
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California Gold: The Uni Dynasty of Mendocino County | Motherboard
Uni are shaped like small, golden tongues, and have a custard-like consistency. The sea urchin gonads are the very essence of the ocean, and not an easy sell in the United States, where people often disdain seafood that tastes like seafood. But that…
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So there I was, standing on the edge of San Francisco, peering out over the bay. Directly in front of me stood a black door in a yellow frame, a tiny opening in a cavernous building blotting out the sky.
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Track How Long It Would Take to Buy Your Time to Improve Your Savings
For most of us, saving is something we do because we know we should. Perhaps it’s because we want to retire. A better way to think of it, however, is purchasing time. The more money you save, the more you can buy your own time back.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: GOP divided on how to deal with Trump
So the other candidates are trying various strategies to seize the initiative. Thus far, nothing seems to work. The worst idea is to try to out-Trump Trump. This is the approach Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — who may be suffering the most from the Tr…
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Syriza split: What next for Greece and bailout? – BBC News
Greece has been thrown into more political turmoil, with a split in the ruling left-wing Syriza party and snap elections expected next month.
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‘Real life’ zombie game goes viral – BBC News
People logging on to messaging services Chat Roulette, Omegle and Skype got a surprise at the weekend when confronted with a “real life” zombie computer game to play live. South Devon film maker David Reynolds made the game in his back garden.
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Obama, in a Letter to a Congressional Democrat, Says U.S. Will Keep Pressure on Iran – The Atlantic
In the letter, also Obama pledged enhanced military cooperation with Israel, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been a leading critic of the agreement. Netanyahu views Iran as an existential threat, and believes the Islamic republican can…
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Report: Xerox is now region-coding some DRMed ink cartridges – Boing Boing
German tech pub c’t magazin reports that Xerox is now requiring customers not only to use their toner cartridges, but they even have to be from a specific region to work.
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The young women approach tourists in Times Square and pose for photos, wearing nothing but a thong and a feathered headdress, their bare breasts painted with patriotic colors in a thin simulation of a bikini top. Then they ask for a tip. Are they pe…
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[OC] Dunadd, Scotland. [2592×1944] : EarthPorn
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The British government has made no secret of its support for fracking. Last year, it opened up bidding for fracking licenses on nearly half the country’s total land area.
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Why The Transgender Community Is In A ‘State Of Emergency’ | ThinkProgress
Transgender visibility and awareness is increasing at a rapid pace thanks to people like Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner and television shows like Transparent and Sense8.
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Spotify’s new privacy policy generates unnecessary outrage | The Verge
An ill-timed Spotify privacy policy update has generated an online backlash against the music streaming service just days after the messy Ashley Madison leak.
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Leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has climbed the polls because of his frank — and sometimes misguided — opinions on touchy political issues including race and immigration.
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Architecture’s King of Tradition – The New Yorker
Le Corbusier had his thick, circular glasses. Frank Lloyd Wright had his porkpie hat and cape. Robert A. M.
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Why Are Some Americans Still Uninsured? | ThinkProgress
While the uninsured rate has significantly fallen in the two years after the rollout of Obamacare’s major coverage provisions, a small portion of the American population remains without health care for reasons that not even the advent of targeted ou…
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WATCH: These gymnastic Japanese breakdancers will leave you breathless – Boing Boing
World of Dance just held their World Finals in Los Angeles, and the breakout team in the Youth competition brought insane levels of energy and breakdancing precision to win their division.
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Meet the First Female Tattoo Artists: Maud Wagner (1877-1961) & Jessie Knight (1904-1994) http://t.co/a3jxU0u39D
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Muslims have a religious duty to take action against climate change, according to a declaration released by a major group of Islamic scholars, faith leaders and politicians from 20 countries. The Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change, launche…
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Hidden beaches via /r/woahdude http://t.co/N6jYAmO1Ge http://t.co/eF1aXpdo0w
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I lost my cat today reddit. Just wanted to show how cool he was. =*[ : cats
I lost my cat today reddit. Just wanted to show how cool he was. =*[ via /r/cats http://t.co/s9ojtsYAea http://t.co/tAePoDf2Kx
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Cat hiding in the fridge : cats
Cat hiding in the fridge via /r/cats http://t.co/SXef5XuKzz http://t.co/ZYxsCaqIZH
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My Siamese Twin Cat via /r/cats http://t.co/yytIRoR6hL http://t.co/uHZ0suLEav
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View of Narin Beach, Donegal, Ireland. [OC] [700×525] : EarthPorn
View of Narin Beach, Donegal, Ireland. [OC] [700×525] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/qPaX80NZD9 http://t.co/50MXtcn5wN
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North Korea ordered on war footing with South by Kim Jong-un – BBC News
Frontline troops in North Korea have been ordered to be on a war footing by leader Kim Jong-un, following an exchange of fire with the South. Mr Kim has threatened further action unless Seoul ends its anti-Pyongyang border broadcasts.
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Social Skills May Be the Key to Career Success – The Atlantic
The impact of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant broadsides appears to have veered dangerously far off the presidential campaign trail. Police in Boston say that one of two brothers who allegedly beat a homeless Hispanic man cited Trump’s message on immi…
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Hillary Clinton private email saga has congressional Democrats concerned | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton is facing fresh worries among congressional Democrats about her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state, as new polls signal that the inquiry is taking a toll on her presidential campaign.
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Admit You’re Anxious to Your Audience to Help Alleviate the Stress
Getting nervous is unavoidable. Whether it’s during a presentation, on a date, or meeting someone new, feeling anxious is going to happen. To help deal with your anxiety, admit it to your audience.
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Rolls Royce and Lamborghini destroyed in Digbeth fire – BBC News
Three luxury cars worth nearly £1 million have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack at a high end hire company. The blaze at VIP Limousine Hire in Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham, broke out during the early hours.
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/MJsfODQViQ http://t.co/aDY7vocjkn
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High school adopts local cat named Bubba as student, gives him I.D. card : cats
High school adopts local cat named Bubba as student, gives him I.D. card via /r/cats http://t.co/QhYbA6AlhZ http://t.co/AwihFNvlBw
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Cat keeps appearing at my friends house : lolcats
Cat keeps appearing at my friends house via /r/lolcats http://t.co/BiLcFUwyGB http://t.co/NxKegW6V2c
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Cuddle buddies via /r/gif http://t.co/VQC9Ubi7gu http://t.co/G1BWZlaOKS
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I am an Area Coach for Pizza Hut and saw this Yelp review of one of my stores. – Imgur
I am an Area Coach for Pizza Hut and saw this Yelp review of one of my stores. http://t.co/fyt1QbkGl9 http://t.co/qkB07u1G03
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My cat and my boyfriend : lolcats
My cat and my boyfriend via /r/lolcats http://t.co/OCSZQ5MnRL http://t.co/7n9oyVqXwu
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Nope Plane http://t.co/8jBFKmWRAV http://t.co/SsYGww63hU
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Let’s see how this goes ! – Imgur
Let’s see how this goes ! http://t.co/6q0QLpcniW http://t.co/CD1B0ywpIs
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/hp5hxCMScO http://t.co/dv3VVXn5TZ http://t.co/lcwo8fcvCi
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/hp5hxCMScO http://t.co/dv3VVXn5TZ http://t.co/lcwo8fcvCi
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Cuddle buddies : AnimalsBeingBros
Cuddle buddies via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/IxzOPWLVSb http://t.co/66QgerULLC
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Google ordered to remove ‘right to be forgotten’ links – BBC News
Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the “right to be forgotten”. Details of a “minor criminal offence” were referenced in the stories regarding an individual, the ICO…
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Premier League has hit the United States and it tastes good | Barney Ronay | Football | The Guardian
One of the most striking things about visiting the United States these days is noticing for the first time how much of the world’s most powerful nation, this glorious frontier land lodged between two shining seas, is coated in breadcrumbs. Basically…
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China loves the lingo of games – Offworld
A few years ago, my mom called to ask for my advice on webcams. She explained, in the Chinese peppered with occasional English words that is the official language of our Chinese-American household, that some of her friends had started recording and …
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Turkey to vote in November snap poll – BBC News
Rebels from Greece’s governing Syriza opposed to the latest bailout say they are forming a new party, a day after PM Tsipras resigned to seek re-election.
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Sauti za Busara: Zanzibar music festival cancelled – BBC News
East Africa’s most popular international music festival, Sauti za Busara in Zanzibar, has been cancelled next year because of a lack of funding. The festival, whose name means “sounds of wisdom”, is held every February.
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Under Fire With the Right Sector (Excerpt from ‘Ukraine’s Failed Ceasefire’) | VICE News
On the frontlines in eastern Ukraine, a number of volunteer battalions fight alongside the Ukrainian army, holding the line against separatist attacks. One of those volunteer groups is the Right Sector, an ultranationalist group who were prominent d…
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Dirty Kids: homeless youth who crash hippie Rainbow Gatherings – Boing Boing
Over time hippie-inspired Rainbow Gatherings in the forest have become magnets for a new counterculture: homeless teens and young adults. Alice Stein’s new film Dirty Kids explores the culture clash and commonality of the two free-spirited groups.
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Ten Indispensable Pieces Of Advice For Every College-Bound Student | Observer
Mark Goldblatt, chair of the Educational Skills Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, offers a crash course to surviving your freshmen year. 1) Show up on time, every time. It should go without saying, but you need to get to class…
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Spotify’s new privacy policy angers users – BBC News
Some high-profile Spotify users say they have left the music service over changes in its terms and conditions. The streaming platform now wants access to pictures, contact phone numbers and sensor data stored on the user’s smartphone as well as perm…
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US-China Space Freeze May Thaw with Historic New Experiment http://t.co/Uj32MRXddB
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NSA preps quantum-resistant algorithms to head off crypto-apocalypse | Ars Technica
The National Security Agency is advising US agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually all e-mail, medical and financial records, and online transactions is rendered obsolet…
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Digital Calendar Shows Best Images from NASA Space Telescope http://t.co/Wf8FADB02H
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How McLaren F1 Tech Is Supercharging the World’s Industries | WIRED
One morning in March 2012, GlaxoSmithKline engineer Shaun Glover visited the McLaren Technology Group headquarters in Woking, Surrey. A year earlier, McLaren’s CEO and founder Ron Dennis and Andrew Witty, the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, had signed a par…
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Mr. Know-It-All: Square Has a No-Tip Button. So Is It Extra-Rude to Not Tip? | WIRED
Tipping, like many sources of profound discomfort, originated in Europe. The custom arrived here from Continental hotels and restaurants, just before the turn of the 20th century. And sweet Lord, it was awful. You have no idea.
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Magazines Can Compete With the Web—With the Right Design | WIRED
Great magazine covers once held pride of place in the home—certainly in my home. They were social and intellectual status symbols. And among them, 92 covers that George Lois created for Esquire from 1962 to 1972 stand above almost all others.
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When the snow melts, rafters ride the runoff. But in the Colorado Rockies, the winter snowpack has been melting more quickly, leading to intense rapids and a shorter rafting season that is peaking weeks earlier than the usual mid-June.
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Walking Dead’s Spinoff Won’t Win New Viewers (Or Old Ones) | WIRED
In the opening scene of Fear the Walking Dead, the new spinoff of the popular AMC zombie drama, we see a young man fleeing from the approach of a shambling flesh-eater, her pale mouth smeared with blood.
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US crude oil prices hit lowest since 2009, eliminating thousands of jobs | Business | The Guardian
America’s oil boom is running out of gas and with US crude oil prices hitting lows unseen since 2009 this week, experts believe the fall may continue taking thousands of jobs with it.
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Take a Tour of the UAE’s Fantastical, Futuristic TV Sets | WIRED
The United Arab Emirates hopes to become the world’s next tech hub, which might explain the futuristic look of its television shows.
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How to Deal with a Heavy Backpack
With school back in session, backpacks are quickly filling up with books—heavy books. So how do you avoid straining your back when everything you’re carrying feels like a necessity? Your education may feel like a burden, but that’s a lot of weight t…
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Leaders in the new civil rights movement campaigning against the killings of African Americans by police set out their most comprehensive set of policies and demands so far on Friday, as they moved to intensify their rapidly increasing influence on …
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Greek ruling Syriza party splits after PM’s resignation – Al Jazeera English
The leftist Syriza party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has split a day after Tsipras announced snap general elections following rebelion in his party.
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The scenic and narrow lane that leads to Robert Hodge’s sugar camp is surrounded by a cat’s cradle of plastic piping that draws sap from 12,000 trees. At the end of the lane, a ramshackle hut contains reverse osmosis pumps to concentrate the harvest.
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Italy anger at ‘Godfather’ funeral for alleged Rome mafia boss – BBC News
The funeral of an alleged mafia boss in Rome has sparked anger after a lavish cortege with black-plumed horses, petals dropped from a helicopter and the theme tune from The Godfather. Italian politicians denounced the ostentatious send-off for Vitto…
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Four moons of Saturn passing in front of it – rare quadruple transit. : space
Four moons of Saturn passing in front of it – rare quadruple transit. via /r/space http://t.co/bG1kxDtLh9 http://t.co/xwmVtYaFcF
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6414-20150815-1-2 by Tor-Erik Larsen Via Flickr: Perseid Meteor Shower http://t.co/0tV261lcie http://t.co/vCobjQJ7SN
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Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Perched on a Branch [1920×1080] : AnimalPorn
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) Perched on a Branch [1920×1080] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/ogMZnMOI1S http://t.co/TaMvsCETJm
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Clean, green New Zealand falls behind Australia on climate change | Environment | The Guardian
Emission-slashing pledges by countries including the United States have experts questioning if New Zealand’s recently-announced climate change target is as fair and ambitious as it was described to be.
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Samsung Is Really Really Really Keen To Convert iPhone Owners To Its Smartphones | TechCrunch
Got an iPhone? Got a dollar? That’s all you need if you want to take one of Samsung’s newest smartphones for a thirty day, “no obligation” spin. (That’s assuming that you live in the U.S.)
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Adventurer Ben Fogle has embarked on an expedition to hunt for great white sharks in UK waters, using the carcass of a 30ft whale as bait. The investigation will reveal the hidden creatures lurking in British seas for an upcoming ITV documentary fro…
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North Korea Has Declared a ‘Semi-State of War’ With South Korea | VICE News
North Korea has reportedly ordered its soldiers to be ready for armed conflict, after giving South Korea a deadline of 48 hours to stop broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts.
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Yemen at war: ‘No side is willing to capitulate’ – Al Jazeera English
Al-Mukalla, Yemen – A year after Yemen’s Houthis rallied to oppose government policies, they have taken the country into a bloody conflict that has killed thousands of people and left millions more at the risk of famine.
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Uber Plans To Go Public In 12-18 Months, According To Leaked Presentation | TechCrunch
Uber could become a public company as soon as next year or early 2016, according to a leaked document published in a report from Reuters.
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Slack Is Overrun With Bots. Friendly, Wonderful Bots | WIRED
There is a Slack bot for everything. Oskar tracks how happy your coworkers are. Shoulda Coulda shows you how many times everyone says “should.” Huskybot is “for people who need Siberian huskies, now.”
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‘Farewell’ pictures of Saturn moon Dione – BBC News
The Cassini mission to Saturn has returned its final close-up images of the gas giant’s Dione moon. The probe passed within 500km of the pockmarked surface on Monday – its fifth such encounter in the spacecraft’s 11-year tour of the ringed planet.
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BBC Sport – Louis van Gaal ‘trusts’ Ed Woodward with Man Utd targets
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal says he trusts executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward with club transfers. Woodward has overseen deals that have brought in Matteo Darmian, Memphis Depay, Morgan Schneiderlin and Bastian Schweinsteiger this summer.
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Stuffed Arctic wolf stolen from Chelsea flat returned – BBC News
The 6ft-long (1.8m) taxidermy, worth £32,000, was taken after the owner and her friend returned from a night out in Soho with a group of men they had met. The “snarling” specimen was brought in to a west London police station undamaged and will stay…
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This new 3D printed glass looks just like pouring honey | The Verge
Humans have been making glass in various forms for thousands of years, from techniques of glassblowing developed by the Roman empire to the industrial methods of the 1950s, floating molten glass on huge baths of melted tin.
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Malala celebrates string of top GCSEs – BBC News
Among those celebrating exam success is girls’ education campaigner, Malala Yousafzai who gained a string of As and A*s in her GCSEs. Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, took to Twitter to list Malala’s grades which include A*s in GCSE and iGCSE maths.
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Glasgow bin lorry crash: Driver ‘told pack of lies’ – BBC News
The driver of a Glasgow bin lorry which crashed, killing six people, has been accused of telling “a pack of lies” about his history of blackouts. Harry Clarke, 58, is being questioned for a second day at the inquiry into the crash on 22 December las…
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August 21, 1940: Leon Trotsky Dies | The Nation
Leon Trotsky died on this day in 1940 after being attacked the day before by assassin Ramon Mercador, hired by Joseph Stalin to murder his longtime rival.
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Data Was Allegedly Deleted from Murdered Argentine Prosecutor’s Phone | Motherboard
Lawyers representing Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman are alleging information was deleted from his phone around the time of his death, adding more fuel to the theory he was murdered and did not commit suicide as was initially suggested.
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This surfer is committed to saving sharks — even though he lost his leg to one of them | Grist
On an early October morning in 1997, on the west side of the island of Kauai, 18-year-old Mike Coots got in the water with his bodyboard, as he had done hundreds of times before, and started to paddle out.
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Spending time in a controversial camp that’s blocking tar-sands pipelines | Grist
It’s his partner Erin’s birthday tonight, and so Ambrose Williams, a member of the Gitxsan nation, is cooking dinner. He’s preparing bear poutine pizza — shredded bear meat, homemade French fries, and cheese baked atop a made-from-scratch whole whea…
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What Carly Fiorina Needs To Make CNN’s Main Stage Debate | FiveThirtyEight
Carly Fiorina has climbed out of the basement. Since her strong performance in the Fox News JV debate on Aug. 6, she’s consistently polled in the middle tier of the 17-strong GOP primary field.
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Seriously It’s Weird Fucking Couples : AdviceAnimals
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I wonder what these two guys talk about : pics
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Cats love towels/laundry : cats
Cats love towels/laundry via /r/cats http://t.co/qWmMiVhK1a http://t.co/AHPWMGF97f
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Humans are ‘unique super-predator’. : environment
Humans are ‘unique super-predator’. via /r/environment http://t.co/Qvzg7oc6bO http://t.co/Ya7uBRSFn3
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The Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill – The Atlantic
And that is twice or three times what hatcheries consider safe for trout. Of even greater concern over the longer term are heavy metals. The Farmington Daily Times reported manganese and iron above safe levels.
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Why the 2016 Republican Nomination Can’t Be Predicted Through History – The Atlantic
Most pundits believe that Trump has a ceiling of support around his current levels of roughly 25 percent.
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The New Orleans Superdome: a great American comeback story | Sport | The Guardian
Of all the stadiums in all of the US, none is more improbable than the dome that rises like an autumn moon over Poydras Street.
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Iraq Inquiry: Lord Morris says PM could ‘pull plug’ on Chilcot inquiry – BBC News
The Prime Minister could step in and “pull the plug” on the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, Tony Blair’s former attorney general has said. Lord Morris of Aberavon said the inquiry committee was a “disgrace” for delaying its report, and parliament…
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The Australian share market is on track for its worst monthly fall since the global financial crisis as concerns about China hit global markets. The benchmark ASX200 index fell 1.3% on Friday, following a 1.7% fall on Thursday, taking falls for Augu…
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Galaxy and NYC bring the MLS glamor, and Didier Drogba is ready to go | Football | The Guardian
LA v NYC: the glitzier half of MLS’s growth strategy It’s fitting that in the same week when the Philadelphia Union announced their sister club in the United Soccer League would play in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – the town once home to the legendary A…
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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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Migrant crisis: Inside Sweden immigration camp – BBC News
The influx of migrants to Calais in France may have dominated the headlines over the summer months but according to the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, it is other EU countries that are bearing the brunt of the crisis.
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Sympathic boy in the Baobab Valley, Tanzania (1024 x 671) (OC) : HumanPorn
Sympathic boy in the Baobab Valley, Tanzania (1024 x 671) (OC) via /r/HumanPorn http://t.co/hcaueSDlB2 http://t.co/XMLanzbPU2
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The Unauthorized History of the GOP’s 30-Year War on Planned Parenthood | Mother Jones
The Reagan administration tries a more indirect way to end family planning funding to groups that also provide abortions by establishing the “gag rule.” The rule prevented family planning clinics that receive federal money from providing abortion co…
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Knotty objects: steak – Aeon Video
While meat has played a vital part in the development of the human brain, according to the US author Harold McGee, our dependence on it could also be our undoing.
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The Drought Isn’t Just a California Problem | Mother Jones
California’s been getting a lot of attention for the drought, but it’s not alone in its lack of rain: This year is on track to be the driest on record for several western states.
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Play it now: Anatomically Incorrect Dinosaurs – Offworld
I love Nathalie Lawhead’s work. She needs her own museum.
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Television news shows the surface of China’s River Hai coated in dead sticklebacks – a scene which Deng Xiaowen, the head of Tianjin’s environment monitoring centre, said ‘was not uncommon’.
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Drive-by art installation highlights Cape Town’s wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
The Table Mountain pride butterfly
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Doris Lessing trailed by MI5 for 20 years – BBC News
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing was spied on by security services for more than 20 years over suspicions of her communist sympathies, newly declassified records show. Lessing’s movements were documented during her younger years by MI5 both …
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Worries about a full-blown crash could be a bit premature – BBC News
Emerging markets currencies tumbling to near record lows. Millions of dollars worth of foreign funds pulled out of stock markets in the region. And some investors around the world fearing a major financial meltdown. It certainly feels like we’ve bee…
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When she knows it’s time for her eye drops he becomes stealth cat. via /r/cats http://t.co/cIT1CWTGIh http://t.co/nMfWppCp5w
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BBC Sport – Nico Rosberg top as Pastor Maldonado crashes
Nico Rosberg beat team-mate Lewis Hamilton in first practice at the Belgian GP despite a difficult session. Rosberg suffered an engine problem early on and did not record a time until halfway through the session but ended up 0.242 seconds quicker th…
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Sierra Leone offers $1,000 reward to find ‘gang-rape killers’ – BBC News
Sierra Leone’s government has offered a $1,000 (£640) reward for information leading to the arrest of a gang suspected of raping and killing a girl. The body of Hannah Bockarie, a teenage sex worker, was found last week on a beach in the capital, Fr…
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Feeling the Heat: Earth in July Was Hottest Month on Record http://t.co/G1QkchURSb
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John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution, Dies at 86 http://t.co/tPTJDKVFbv
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Study: Hunting for Bigger Fish, Game Isn’t Sustainable http://t.co/RDy6CkktTI
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Wheels of Aurelia’s ’70s Italian roadtrip looks enchanting – Offworld
According to developer Santa Ragione, Wheels of Aurelia is a “narrative road trip game set in the roaring Italian 70s. Half racing game, half interactive fiction, it tells the story of Lella, a restless woman driving on the roads of the western coas…
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Meet the ‘toilet man of India’ – Al Jazeera English
According to the UN, around 595 million people, or nearly half of India’s population, defecates in the open. In his first Independence Day address on August 15, 2014, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the building of toilets in rural India, …
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Fearing landmines, displaced Yemenis wary of return – Al Jazeera English
Sanaa – Last month, Yemen’s Houthi rebels were pushed out of Aden, the country’s second-largest city. But although the fighting there has stopped, some displaced residents remain reluctant to return.
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Girls care more about playing as girls than boys do about playing as girls – Offworld
It’s never a bad time to revisit this GDC Vault talk from Ashly Burch and Rosalyn Wiseman about how gender and sexuality portrayals in video games are received by audiences.
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Macedonia police fire tear gas at migrants – BBC News
Police in Macedonia have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of migrants trying to enter from Greece. It comes a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency in two border regions to cope with an influx of migrants.
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US Army Rangers: First female trainees to graduate – BBC News
Two American women will graduate as US Army Rangers on Friday, one of the military’s most elite special operations forces. They are the first in history to make it through the course but they will not be able to serve alongside their male colleagues.
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This 3D-Printed Stethoscope Head Costs $5, Outperforms $200 Competitors | Motherboard
Tarek Loubani, an emergency room doctor in Gaza, wants to apply the principles of open source software development to out-of-patent medical devices.
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Check out a fanzine about ‘the internet’s microconsole’ – Offworld
Earlier this week we brought you Sophie Houlden’s Dusk Child, a tiny but fascinating game for the online PICO-8 console. If you want to learn more about PICO-8—and why wouldn’t you—there’s a new fanzine available today.
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Should India’s Jains be given the choice to die? – BBC News
“You have to understand that for us death is full of excitement. You embrace sallekhana not out of despair with your old life, but to gain and attain something new.
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UK public finances record surplus in July – BBC News
The UK government spent less last month than it received in taxes and other forms of income, official figures have shown. Government borrowing was in surplus by £1.3bn in July, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
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Jon Bon Jovi sings Chinese love ballad – BBC News
Jon Bon Jovi is aiming to woo his Chinese fans by releasing a music video of him singing the most famous Chinese love ballad. Set in a recording studio, it starts in soft focus as the soulful opening strains of The Moon Represents My Heart cue up.
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VICE News Capsule – Friday, August 21 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: The British ambassador is coming back to Tehran, hostages escape an Islamic militant group in the Philippines, Afghanistan promises to eradicate polio, and Mexico defend…
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Even the Muppets’ Dramatic Reading of “It’s a Small World” Is an Earworm
When you were a kid, did you ever play that game where you tried to see who could go the longest giving a straight-faced reading of song lyrics? Turns out, it’s even harder to keep from laughing when the Muppets are doing it.
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Bangkok bomb: CCTV shows suspect’s route – BBC News
CCTV pictures of the main suspect in the bombing at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine have been released by Thai police. The images show the suspect’s journey to and from the shrine, where a bomb was detonated on Monday.
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Apprentice star Stuart Baggs’ funeral held in Douglas – BBC News
The funeral of The Apprentice star Stuart Baggs who died following an asthma attack will be held on the Isle of Man later. The 27-year-old Plymouth entrepreneur lived on the island where his Bluewave telecommunications company was based.
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The Most Unfaithful States In The US According To Ashley Madison Data – Digg
While filming a show about blue whales, zoologist Mark Carwardine was in the middle of explaining to viewers just how hard it was to actually spot a blue whale in the wild when a nearby blue whale decided to completely undermine Carwardine.
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How safe is Tianjin after explosions? – BBC News
More than a week after a warehouse packed with hazardous chemicals exploded in the Chinese city of Tianjin, many are still scared that poisons lurk in the air, the ground or the water. How many of these worries are accurate? Is Tianjin still in dang…
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Samsung’s test drive promo lets you swap your iPhone for a Galaxy | The Verge
Samsung is offering iPhone users the chance to test drive a Galaxy smartphone for 30 days for just $1. The new promotion is specifically targeted at Apple users, with individuals only able to sign up from an iPhone.
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BBC Sport – Andy Murray beats Grigor Dimitrov at Cincinnati Masters
Novak Djokovic came back from a double break down in the final set to beat Belgian David Goffin and reach the last eight at the Cincinnati Masters.
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‘Tampon tax’: Australia decides not remove controversial levy – BBC News
Australia’s states and territories have decided not to remove an unpopular tax on female sanitary products. Unlike products such as condoms and sunscreen, sanitary products attract the 10% goods and services tax (GST) because they are deemed non-ess…
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Macedonia police use tear gas against migrants – BBC News
Macedonian police fire have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of migrants trying to enter from Greece. Large numbers of migrants had spent the night stuck at the southern border after Macedonia declared a state of emergency.
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Macedonia issues state of emergency after refugee surge – Al Jazeera English
Macedonia has declared a state of emergency as it ramped up security on its southern border with Greece in an attempt to limit the flow of refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The government said on Thursday that it was deploying troops t…
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The Victorian government has set itself against the Coalition government over renewable energy by fast-tracking plans to build 50 new wind turbines worth $200m.
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Kevin McGuigan: Peter Robinson in warning over ex-IRA man’s murder in Belfast – BBC News
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson says he will ask the Northern Ireland secretary to intervene if it is proved that the Provisional IRA were involved in Kevin McGuigan Sr’s murder. Mr McGuigan was shot dead at his home in east Belfast l…
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The New York Times Makes 17,000 Tasty Recipes Available Online: Japanese, Italian, Thai & Much More http://t.co/qXdreWhSUr
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1965 Mustangs rolling off of the assembly line : OldSchoolCool
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Too real, Trolls. : TrollXChromosomes
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An offshore windfarm : woahdude
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I am an Area Coach for Pizza Hut and saw this Yelp review of one of my stores. : funny
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MI5 Spied on a Nobel Prize Winning Author for Over a Decade, New Files Reveal | VICE News
It was 1956 and Doris Lessing — then a writer of growing acclaim and later a Nobel Prize winner — was feeling cagey. She believed that she was being watched. At home, in London, she felt herself being followed by unseen eyes, from unknown places.
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Queensland kills 621 sharks in a year under protection program | Environment | The Guardian
Queensland’s fisheries minister, Bill Byrne, has defended a shark protection program that caught and killed 621 sharks between July 2014 and June 2015. He said the program had bipartisan support and focused on sharks that could injure or kill swimme…
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Yemen’s Muhamashin caught in war’s crossfire – Al Jazeera English
Khamer, Yemen – The war in Yemen has not been kind to any of its citizens, but one group has been hit particularly hard: the Muhamashin – Yemenis who are originally from the western Tihama region and have ancestral roots in Africa.
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Greece crisis: Opposition gets chance to form government – BBC News
Greece’s opposition leader is to be given the chance to form a new government, a day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned having secured a third bailout with creditors.
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BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup: Australia omit James Horwill from squad
Australia have omitted former captain James Horwill from their 31-man squad for the Rugby World Cup. Uncapped prop Toby Smith and inexperienced flanker Sean McMahon have been included in a party that includes only two scrum-halves.
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My goal in life is to become this guy : funny
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Greece on course for fresh election – BBC News
Greece is on course for a fresh election – possibly next month – following the resignation of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday. Mr Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls now a third bailout had…
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Uber And Ola Add Free In-Car WiFi To Their Taxi On-Demand Services In India | TechCrunch
There’s good news if you’re a ride-sharing app regular in India and sick of struggling with the country’s sometimes (/often) patchy mobile internet coverage. Both Uber and Indian rival Ola have revealed that they will begin offering in-car connectiv…
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Federer through but Nadal out of Cincinnati Open – Al Jazeera English
Defending champion Roger Federer cruised into the quarter-finals of the Western & Southern Open with a 6-1 6-1 demolition of South African Kevin Anderson.
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Palestinian Family Struggles After Arson Attack | Al Jazeera America
The trip, which costs around $80 each way and requires clever maneuvering of Israel’s complicated military checkpoints and permit system, has proven a heavy burden for a family from an impoverished village.
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Ghouta chemical attack: Two years onward – Al Jazeera English
On August 21, 2013 the world woke up to the worst chemical attack since the Halabja massacre of March 16, 1988.
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Northwest wildfires rage unchecked | Al Jazeera America
The Twisp blaze has proven the deadliest. Three U.S.
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Noam Chomsky: ‘The Iranian Threat’ : Liberal
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‘The Iranian Threat’ | Noam Chomsky
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Mauritania upholds conviction of anti-slave activists – Al Jazeera English
A Mauritanian court has upheld a two-year prison sentence against three anti-slavery activists who were arrested during a protest against bondage in the west African nation.
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Australia en route big total in Clarke’s farewell – Al Jazeera English
Steve Smith made a brave unbeaten 78 to lift Australia to 287 for three on the first day of the fifth and final Test against England at The Oval.
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Genetically modified trees are being ‘strangled’ by red tape – BBC News
US researchers say it has become “virtually impossible” to plant genetically modified trees in any part of the world. They argue that the GM trees are desperately needed to deal with an upsurge in forest diseases and pests.
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Wondermark » Archive » #1152; In which a Baby is imperiled
In his extremely long and detailed essay “Star Wars Ring Theory”, Mike Klimo argues for a reexamination of the Star Wars prequel movies.
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Scott Walker’s Rise Fueled by Confrontation | Al Jazeera America
MADISON, Wis. — On the pristinely manicured grounds of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a guiding principle has informed the instruction of hundreds of thousands of students for over a century.
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Bangkok bomb: Thai TV apologises for bomb re-enactment – BBC News
A Thai television station has apologised for re-enacting the Bangkok blast at the Erawan shrine with a staff member dressed as the main suspect.The re-enactment on Thursday evening sparked outrage among Thais at the shrine and online.
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The Abbott government has released its own economic modelling of long-term greenhouse gas reduction targets, confirming that the prime minister’s assertions about the costs of more ambitious targets have been incorrect and overstated.
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When Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) self-published his first book of poetry in 1855, his monumental hopes for this labor of love were met with a few shrieks of harsh criticism amid an ether of noiseless indifference, resulting in pitiful…
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Viral video: Kelly Clarkson, Donald Trump, Chris Eubank and Frankenstein | Media | The Guardian
We start this week with a couple of great clips which feature putting words found on social media to music. Three-time Grammy winner Kelly Clarkson takes the profiles of people using the dating app Tinder and turns them into big ballads.
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Cincinatti Masters: Resolute Murray downs Dimitrov as US Open looms | Sport | The Guardian
Andy Murray has rescued plenty of lost causes in his career, but few can have made such demands of his spirit, body and sheer bloodymindedness so close to a slam as did the three-set agony he inflicted on himself and poor Grigor Dimitrov to advance …
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Here’s What 45 Minutes of Meteor Shower Looks Like in a Single Photo
Taken at Big Sur, this photo by Marc Donahue shows the seventy meteors that crossed his one patch of space in 45 minutes during last week’s Perseid shower. You can see more of Donahue’s work on Twitter, Instagram, and his website.
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Iran: The deal that cuts both ways – Al Jazeera English
The debate over the Iran nuclear agreement has been vibrant and will continue all the way up to the American Congressional vote. Progressives have lined up with the deal, as has most of the world. However, there are many voices in the US, Israel and…
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Delving into the murky world of natural resources and corruption is dangerous work. Two people are killed every week, on average, defending land, forests and waterways against companies and criminals staking their claim on land.
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BBC Sport – Jessica Ennis-Hill: Leaving son for World Championships ‘so hard’
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill said leaving son Reggie at home to compete at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing was “one of the hardest things” she has done.
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Rare Lorenzo Bartolini sculpture saved for nation – BBC News
The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz by Lorenzo Bartolini depicts the lives of fashionable and wealthy Britons in Florence in the early 19th Century. The statue was sold to a foreign bidder at auction but was prevented from leaving the country in ca…
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North Korea Warns of War With South | Al Jazeera America
The North has made similar claims before, and the huge numbers of soldiers and military equipment stationed along the Koreas’ tense border mean the area is always essentially in a “quasi-state of war.
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I think O’ Brother Where Out Thou is one of the best American films ever created. : movies
I have seen this movie more than most movies and I can still watch it through every time. Not only a pretty accurate portrayal of the American depression and the American people during this time. The people they pay homage to during the movie is ama…
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My parents on top of Mount Titlus in Switzerland. (1978) : OldSchoolCool
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Why is it that for so long and under such extreme pressure, Australian political leaders of both dominant stripes have stood by one of the most controversial coal projects in the country’s history?
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Illinois Enacts Gay Conversion Therapy Ban | Al Jazeera America
Backers of the measure were unsure how Rauner, a first-term Republican who has kept his stance on several social issues private, would act. Rauner has refused to discuss his views on same-sex marriage.
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Last week I did this cartoon about cassowaries, I had been meaning to do it for ages and it turned out to be quite timely. I unwittingly became a player in the dark and mysterious politics of cassowary conservation.
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What Should Black Lives Matter Do with All That Power? | VICE | United Kingdom
This article originally appeared on VICE US. At this point, Black Lives Matter could be a historic civil rights movement that significantly changes America.
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A Brief Guide to EU Immigration Debate Jargon | VICE | United Kingdom
These days, it feels like everybody is anxious to have their opinions on immigration heard. Politicians, taxi drivers, that aunt of yours who always seems to have one too many – everybody seems to fancy themselves as an expert on the issue.
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CAPTIONED – Bernie Sanders on Clinton Impeachment 12 18 1998 – YouTube
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SUNAPEE, NH—Taking a deep breath and slowly regaining his composure as he reflected on the disaster he had narrowly averted, Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker appeared visibly relieved after managing to stop himself just short of acknow…
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What’s your go-to pop-culture phrase? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted · Comedy Review · The A.V. Club
Tig Notaro’s sometimes terse delivery can create the illusion of reserve. But it is an illusion. The affectation of remove makes her diversions into silliness even more disarming. Distance is a tool, and Notaro wields it with precise skill.
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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The Expanding Flower Planet · Deradoorian · Music Review · The A.V. Club
With Angel Deradoorian, it’s not the exact words that matter, but rather the feeling conjured up by her voice when singing them.
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Music For Dogs · Gardens & Villa · Music Review · The A.V. Club
Some film buffs enjoy collecting old home movies, because they’re fascinated by the tactile qualities of celluloid, and they like seeing the accidental abstract art that occurs when printed images of banal domesticity begin to decay.
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In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines an album that went to No. 1 on the charts to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In this installment, we cover Bob Dylan’s “Blood On The Tracks…
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Thoughts on, and a place to discuss, elements of the special we can’t reveal in our review. The big surprise in Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted isn’t Notaro removing her jacket and shirt to reveal her chest, altered by a double mastectomy after …
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Emotion · Schoolboy Records/Interscope · Music Review · The A.V. Club
Despite ruling the summer of 2012 with the inescapable “Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen still feels like an underdog. Perhaps it’s because the Canadian Idol veteran’s music lands squarely on pop’s outskirts, never quite fitting in anywhere.
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In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. For the past six weeks or so, I’ve been binge-watching The Good Wife, which I’d initially abandoned fairly early in season one.
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Blunt Talk · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Sometimes it’s like Blunt Talk is daring itself to find a situation where Patrick Stewart cannot be funny, just to watch the old starship captain succeed anyway. Is Patrick Stewart funny when he’s unfolding a toilet seat cover? Yes.
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Obama promises to keep military options open in Iran nuclear deal | US news | The Guardian
President Barack Obama is promising Democratic lawmakers that the US will continue to keep economic pressure on Iran – and keep military options open – if a nuclear deal with Tehran goes ahead.
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Deez Nuts for President? Why Not, Says Iowa Farm Boy The presidential candidate Deez Nuts was surging on Wednesday in a poll, albeit unscientific, in North Carolina. Deez Nutz was also the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter.
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Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, and Henry Rollins (’80s?) : OldSchoolCool
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My crazy ex girlfriend is suing me. – Imgur
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Hail Creates Content For Multiple Online Publishing Platforms With One Click | TechCrunch
If you work on any kind of online content, you know it’s not enough to hit publish and then sit back waiting for traffic. Links have to be shared to Facebook and Twitter, excerpts posted to Tumblr, and newsletters formatted and emailed.
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APOD: 2015 August 20 – M27: Not a Comet
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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My roadside shrine to nature | Environment | The Guardian
On South Uist it’s not unusual to come across a roadside shrine. Each has a glass-fronted niche containing a devotional statue of the Virgin Mary and often a posy of artificial flowers. With whitewashed or painted exteriors, sometimes decorated with…
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Thanks for taking over the news cycle : AdviceAnimals
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Fall Movies Preview – The New Yorker
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Brazil Officials Hit With Graft Charge | Al Jazeera America
Brazil’s attorney general filed corruption charges Thursday against the speaker of the lower house of congress and against a current senator who was impeached while serving as president in the early 1990s. The Attorney General’s Office said Chamber …
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Outcry as Netflix excludes hundreds of workers from paid baby leave | Media | The Guardian
Netflix has been criticised for excluding employees in its DVD-by-mail service from a benefit that gives up to a year of paid baby leave to workers in its more profitable online division..
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The Wayward Charms of Early Baseball – The New Yorker
The rules of baseball, like the Constitution, change rarely but with dramatic effect. When two New York-based teams in the Vintage Base Ball Association, the Gothams and the Mutuals, compete on the parade grounds at Governors Island, on Aug. 29, the…
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Fall Movies Preview – The New Yorker
As the year’s prestigious releases roll in with an eye toward Oscar season, historical reconstructions—whether based on true stories or on classic fiction—will dominate screens. “Carol” (opening Nov. 20), directed by Todd Haynes, is set in 1952 New …
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Fall Classical Music Preview – The New Yorker
There is hardly a great pianist in the world who has not beaten a path to the door of Carnegie Hall.
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Fall Dance Preview – The New Yorker
As Okwui Okpokwasili’s one-woman show “Bronx Gothic” (Oct. 21-24, at New York Live Arts) begins, the actress-dancer faces away from the audience, her back rippling, swaying, heaving.
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Fall Art Preview – The New Yorker
The art season kicks off with two blockbusters in three dimensions: “Picasso Sculpture,” at MOMA, opening on Sept. 14, and “Kongo: Power and Majesty,” a five-century tour of Central African artifacts at the Met, beginning Sept. 18.
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Bar Tab: Pier A Harbor House – The New Yorker
If, a few years ago, you ever passed by the Statue of Liberty ferry dock and wondered about the huge white wooden building on the Battery Park pier—long abandoned, as eerie and old-world as the nearby Merchant Mariners’ memorial—you can now investig…
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Fall Theatre Preview – The New Yorker
Movie stars crash-landing on Broadway seems de rigueur, but last season “Fun Home” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” led the pack without famous names. This fall, star vehicles are back, with a trio of celebrities making Broadw…
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Tables for Two: Little Park – The New Yorker
Andrew Carmellini’s latest Tribeca restaurant has a conundrum that could be filed under Good Problem to Have.
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Fall Night Life Preview – The New Yorker
Best known for such hits as “Lean on Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” and “Use Me,” Bill Withers was one of the great soul men of the seventies. His earthy voice, straightforward songwriting, and fondness for acoustic arrangements worked the seam between R…
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Karaoke-Style, Stephen Colbert Sings and Struts to “Brown Sugar” | Open Culture
Little known fact, during his high school days, Stephen Colbert was the front man of a Rolling Stones cover band. And, appearing on Howard Stern on Tuesday, just weeks before taking over The Late Show, Colbert proved it, singing and doing a jig to “…
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Hkakabo Razi Image, Myanmar – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Blocked by tooth-like spires, author and adventurer Mark Jenkins turns back from the ridge leading to the snowy summit of Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar (Burma), part of the largely unexplored Dandalika Range.
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My wonderful mother put a frozen pizza in the wrong way. : funny
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Pakka quite enjoys her blanket tent. Especially when there are strings. : cats
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Legacy · Under The Dome · TV Review · The A.V. Club
It’s been a while since Under The Dome embraced the nonsense quite as shamelessly as it did tonight.
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Martin O’Malley to campaign on expansion of social security | US news | The Guardian
The Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley is to unveil a detailed plan to expand social security on Friday.
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25m birds illegally killed in Mediterranean each year, says report | Environment | The Guardian
About 25 million birds are being unlawfully shot, trapped and glued in a Mediterranean crime wave that is even affecting birds vulnerable to extinction, according to the first report of its kind.
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An Extremely Short Short About Fighting a Giant Tentacle
“Tako Faito!” is a 40-second short from Giant Ant which shows an every day guy, armed with a sword and walkman, fighting a giant tentacle. Short and sweet. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa calls Donald J. Trump a “racist imbecile.” In Mexico, people are gleefully bashing Trump piñatas after his caustic remarks about Latino immigrants in the United States. In Guatemala, a …
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Toronto Skyline (OC) [2784×1718] : CityPorn
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Leading causes of Lost Years of Life in 2013 [3738×2244] : MapPorn
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Coit Tower, San Francisco, California, USA [2048 x 1365] : CityPorn
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He may or may not be stuck. : cats
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Herring Cove in Fundy Park, NB, Canada [5312×2988] [OC] : EarthPorn
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New Zealand halts cull after rare bird deaths – BBC News
New Zealand has halted a bird cull after marksmen mistakenly killed several birds from a critically endangered species. Local hunters were permitted to cull pukeko birds on Motutapu Island.
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Global stocks in a tailspin as Chinese factory slump drags on markets | Business | The Guardian
Stock markets across the Asia-Pacific continued to fall on Friday after more signs of a weakening Chinese economy compounded overnight losses on Wall Street and European bourses.
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Labour leadership: Corbyn ‘would make Labour Iraq apology’ – BBC News
Jeremy Corbyn has said that, if he is elected Labour leader, he will formally apologise on behalf of the party for it taking the country to war with Iraq. Mr Corbyn told the Guardian that Labour would “never again flout the United Nations and intern…
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“Ken Marino Wears A Slim Gray Suit And Salmon Tie” · Comedy Bang! Bang! · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Last week’s episode of Comedy Bang! Bang!, “Tom Lennon Wears Black Slacks And A Black Skinny Tie,” was the type of ambitious episode that the series constantly knocks out of the park.
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Thank mr skeltal for strong bones and vitmin doot : ledootgeneration
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Bill Burr On Caitlyn & Bruce Jenner – CONAN on TBS – YouTube : television
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Sunset from our camp at Sahale Glacier [960×540] OC : EarthPorn
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quaternion planet [OC][3840 x 2160 HQ JPG] : FractalPorn
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Cincinnati Masters: Serena Williams holds head high for US as men fade | Sport | The Guardian
American participation in the men’s draw at the Cincinnati Masters ended prematurely when the final four Americans – including Mardy Fish in his farewell appearance – lost after two rounds.
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Peru approves shooting down of drug smuggling planes – BBC News
The Peruvian Congress has approved legislation that allows the country’s air force to shoot down small planes suspected of carrying illegal drugs. Peru produces more cocaine than any other country and anti-narcotics agents say most of it is smuggled…
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‘Regrettable’ death of endangered cassowary sparks Queensland review | Australia news | The Guardian
Queensland’s government is launching an investigation into how it deals with injured cassowaries after the “regrettable” killing of one of the endangered birds.
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Navajo President Eyes Lifting River Advisory | Al Jazeera America
The quality of San Juan River water on the Navajo Nation has returned to what it was before a spill at a Colorado gold mine sent toxic sludge into the waterway, federal and tribal officials said Thursday. The testing by the U.S.
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“Murder!” · Married · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Murder!” starts with a full moon, scary music, and even a lone wolf howling as Russ and Lina are startled from bed (and their argument about whose job is worse) by an unexpected noise.
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The Blue Room Cave, Kaua’i, Hawai’i [OC] [4000×3000] : EarthPorn
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Mother Horse checking on her foal : AnimalsBeingBros
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Lawmakers and Legal Experts Want to Expand Your Right to a Lawyer | Observer
Politicker.com is now part of Observer.com. We’re bringing you more political news, as well as culture, style, real estate and opinion. Don’t miss the latest from City Hall, Albany and Washington. Subscribe to our newsletter and follow New York Obse…
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Going Pink: The Suicide Girls Story – Racked
The girls come in all sizes, shapes, and colors — hair colors too: Kool-Aid red, traffic light yellow, neon green, deep purple. Most have piercings; all have tattoos. They call each other babes, and that’s what they are.
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The EPA Goes Halfway on Methane Emissions – Bloomberg View
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new restrictions on methane emissions are a reasonable imposition on the oil and gas industry. Whether they’re adequate to help fight climate change is another question, and the answer depends on what t…
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Today’s Paper – The New York Times
This version of Today’s Paper does not yet support smartphone usage. For more details on supported devices and browsers, please visit our FAQ. Or, return to http://www.nytimes.com/todayspaper.
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Gray bedloaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/UaXgb9qH2y http://t.co/vPenlbxEfO
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Protection come in all shapes and sizes : pics
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Ashley Madison leak 2.0: new dump is twice as large, and includes CEO’s emails – Boing Boing
Self-proclaimed Ashley Madison hackers the Impact Team today released what looks like another 20 gigabytes of ill-gotten data. The just-dropped “other shoe” includes emails from the cheater-dating website’s CEO.
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Open thread for night owls: Sanders’s proposal for worker ownership could build labor movement
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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Attributes: Coffee. Reinvented. GO CUBES are gummy coffee bites with delicious flavor, enhanced performance, and unprecedented convenience on the go. 1.) Yummy taste. GO CUBES are made with real cold-brew coffee, and they pack a serious amount of co…
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China factory activity falls to weakest in over six years – BBC News
Factory activity in the world’s second largest economy, China, shrank at its fastest pace in more than six years in August. The private Caixin/Markit manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 47.1 from 47.8 in July.
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I’ve been here for a solid 10 minutes : firstworldanarchists
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Early morning in rural Chile [2048×1365] : ExposurePorn
Early morning in rural Chile [2048×1365] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/VSQF5mzj1c http://t.co/N0Ttd54l9s
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Cat fort! he may be planning something : cats
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Comparison of T. rex and emu feet : interestingasfuck
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Threw this together because bandwagons – Imgur
Threw this together because bandwagons http://t.co/hhIprU9XcY http://t.co/ETJpgcC2ye
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Kanye West replaces Frank Ocean as headliner for FYF Fest · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In one of those rare situations where it’s an unequivocally good thing for Kanye West to unexpectedly put himself on stage in the place of someone else, the Yeezus rapper has stepped in to replace Frank Ocean as the headliner of this weekend’s FYF F…
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Bangkok prayers held at Erawan Shrine – BBC News
In Bangkok, locals and Thai government officials have taken part in a multi-faith religious ceremony at the site of Monday’s bomb blast. Twenty people were killed in the attack at the Erawan Shrine.
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The children ‘left behind’ in Bangladesh – BBC News
They are known as the left behind children – the millions of youngsters raised by relatives because their parents have moved away for work. Parents often feel they have no choice, but it can lead to feelings of abandonment among the children.
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Ariane 5’s streak continues: Video of today’s successful VA-225 launch. : space
Ariane 5’s streak continues: Video of today’s successful VA-225 launch. via /r/space http://t.co/SSv1BLCw4S http://t.co/7EbLKmV3ms
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Maru and Maru and Maru… : perfectloops
Maru and Maru and Maru… via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/DDWEo85zS3 http://t.co/P8v8CIwEUu
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MRW when I am California and it rains : shittyreactiongifs
MRW when I am California and it rains via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/StKgAZp5RS http://t.co/hprePTuXuo
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Dismaland by Banksy via /r/pics http://t.co/95HQQ5Szb6 http://t.co/lTC3pRfDtr
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Real Life FPS on Chatroulette : woahdude
Real Life FPS on Chatroulette via /r/woahdude http://t.co/CaaTMHEyQx http://t.co/24w3LP0AB5
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Portage, Michigan [3550×1842] : EarthPorn
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Our new resident, Toes. : cats
Our new resident, Toes. via /r/cats http://t.co/85KxShKbwg http://t.co/XWTIZ5Lwcp
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/KF2nKQazQE http://t.co/JpmnbG40ds
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“Cult, Perfect Body” · Review · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Though he hands off decisions to strangers, Forrest MacNeil is driven by internal urges he neither understands nor acknowledges. In “Cult, Perfect Body,” one hidden motivation surfaces. Throughout the episode, Forest isn’t just determined to complet…
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“Sandy Passage” · Documentary Now! · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There’s no question that IFC is the right home for Documentary Now!, the mockumentary series from Saturday Night Live alumni Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers. This is the network that has kept extremely niche comedies like Portlandia and Co…
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“Tattoo You” · Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Sorry folks, Gina Gershon is not playing Gigi’s mother. Rather, the acid tongue-wagging Callie Thorne gets the honor.
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North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchanging fire with South – BBC News
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his frontline troops to be on a war footing, state media says, after an exchange of fire with the South across their heavily fortified border. The KCNA report said Mr Kim declared a “semi-state of war” at …
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First wild grey wolf pack in nearly a century sighted in California | US news | The Guardian
California’s first grey wolf pack since wild wolves disappeared from the state nearly a century ago has been spotted in the woods in the northern part of the state, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
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Global warming caused by human emissions has most likely intensified the drought in California by 15 to 20 percent, scientists said on Thursday, warning that future dry spells in the state are almost certain to be worse than this one as the world co…
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The Lost Dream Journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal—The Man Who Tried to Prove Freud Was a Liar
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish histologist and anatomist known today as the father of modern neuroscience, was also a committed psychologist who believed psychoanalysis and Freudian dream theory were “collective lies.
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Big Data Is Teaching Us About the Nighttime Migrations of Birds, by M.R. O’Connor
In Ithaca, New York, a virtual machine in a laboratory at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology sits in the night, humming. The machine’s name is Bubo, after the genus for horned owls.
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Linkin park, Calcium theory : ledootgeneration
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Flower Nebula js http://t.co/Usg5bvjnbO http://t.co/z4UB41TZer
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/13vrXrb4iP http://t.co/hcOVTwwTwC
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I get to bring this little boy home next week! (crosspost from /r/siamesecats) : cats
I get to bring this little boy home next week! (crosspost from /r/siamesecats) via /r/cats http://t.co/XeAaWPiQTt http://t.co/Brg5PMuHRR
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Denmark police hunt pair who stole Rodin bust – BBC News
Police in Denmark are hunting for two thieves who stole a small bust by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin from a museum in Copenhagen in broad daylight. The theft of the bronze sculpture happened in July but police have just released CCTV footage of…
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Brazil’s key political figures face corruption charges – Al Jazeera English
Brazilian prosecutors have lodged corruption charges against the speaker of the lower house – a key figure in the country’s current political crisis – and also against a former president.
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Los Angeles by ironlaks . / 500px
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My dad in the 80s : OldSchoolCool
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On the way to the top – Snails; life at the limit by Siggi Tal / 500px
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/0n5tJdFWal http://t.co/VsJIaUdPFD
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Maggie Kirkpatrick avoids jail time for child abuse – BBC News
Australian actress Maggie Kirkpatrick has avoided jail time after being found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage girl in 1984. Kirkpatrick, 74, who starred in the Australian TV drama Prisoner Cell Block H, denied charges of gross indecency with a …
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Cruel fans want Jon Stewart to moderate a presidential debate · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what’s rapidly becoming a classic “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” situation, over 100,000 surprisingly vindictive Daily Show fans are trying to force Jon Stewart to moderate a presidential debate.
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Our Incorruptible Dead Girls – The Awl
Maria Goretti haunts my television. Though the Catholic saint was murdered in 1902, long before television was invented, her presence is still felt. The eleven-year-old was stabbed fourteen times by twenty-year-old Alessandro Serenelli when she refu…
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thank golden mr skeltal : ledootgeneration
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This guy gets it. (X-post /r/steam) : firstworldanarchists
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Social Commentary: Governing Parties. : perfectloops
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Zoar Valley, New York. Just noticed it looks like a face. [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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Loving Books in a Dark Age : Longreads Blog
There was nobody else alive, nobody who could read or preach or sing the service, except the abbot, Ceolfrith, and one bright boy: who was local, well-connected and about sixteen, and whose name was unusual. He was called Bede, and he wasn’t called …
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Wormhole Created in Lab Makes Invisible Magnetic Field
Ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, physicists have crafted a wormhole that tunnels a magnetic field through space. The idea of a wormhole comes from Albert Einstein’s theories.
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This guy and his space age shades : trippinthroughtime
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Easter eggs hidden on popular websites : interestingasfuck
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Queen of the Highlands by Lizzy Gadd / 500px
Queen of the Highlands by elizabethgadd http://t.co/2NIqy6QrJt http://t.co/7GLuILmNSK
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The Culture of the Kitchen: David Chang | Lucky Peach
The Fantasy Issue of Lucky Peach included a short essay by Rene Redzepi about the legacy of abuse and fear in professional kitchens. We’re on the lookout for responses from other cooks and chefs, to hear what they think might change or improve in th…
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Watch internet randos play a real-life first-person shooter on Chatroulette | The Verge
How would you survive the zombie apocalypse? We’ve all thought about it, but British-based studio Realm Pictures has allowed a handful of internet randos the chance to live it.
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The second Ashley Madison leak is mostly source code | The Verge
When a second cache of data from the Ashley Madison hack was published earlier today, reporters rushed to download and sort through the contents, expecting internal data akin to the leak published earlier this week.
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Ashley Madison members should come clean or risk extortion – video | Technology | The Guardian
Identity protection analyst Adam Levin says Ashley Madison members should come clean instead of waiting to be discovered or risking becoming the victim of extortion.
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After months of heming-and-hawing about whether it was or wasn’t launching a spinoff of superhero spy series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ABC has finally announced that it’s giving a pilot order to a new show based around Adrianne Palicki’s char…
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The apocalyptic “bemusement” park is Banksy’s newest, and biggest-ever, pop-up exhibition. Located in the British seaside town of Weston-superMare, it features the work of some 50 artists from around the world.
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Jagged Little Pill reissue to celebrate 20 years of irony · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Unlike ra-eee-ain on your wedding day, there’s nothing ironic about Alanis Morissette putting out a special edition of Jagged Little Pill this October to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary.
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Runners, High: Some Notes on a Stoned 5K at the 420 Games | VICE Sports
While most people interested in the issue of weed legalization are concerned with the upcoming (and critical) 2016 elections, the current year has undeniably been significant for the mainstreaming of cannabis culture—and those words, “mainstream” an…
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Translucent rings, taken by NASAs Cassini. js – Just Space
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Cedric Belfrage, the WW2 spy Britain was embarrassed to pursue – BBC News
Britain failed to prosecute a member of the intelligence services who passed secrets to Russia in World War Two out of fear of embarrassment, files in the National Archives have revealed. MI5 also appeared to have failed to grasp the significance of…
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The head of New Zealand’s national deerstalkers’ association has apologised “to the country at large” after four critically endangered takahē were mistakenly shot by hunters carrying out a cull of a somewhat similar-looking bird.
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North Korea’s state media says army being mobilised – Al Jazeera English
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing against a backdrop of rising military tensions with South Korea. The announcement follows a rare exchange of artillery shells across the two countries’ heavily forti…
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Sunlight Activates Smog-Causing Chemicals in City Grime – Scientific American
In recent years big cities have seen lower rates of crime. But there’s still plenty of grime. Combustion from cars, factories and fires spews out nitrogen oxides. Those compounds react with sunlight and air to form ozone—the main ingredient in smog.
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LOS ANGELES — Sheriff’s investigators are to offer evidence to prosecutors that could lead to a manslaughter charge against Caitlyn Jenner for her role in a fatal car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif., in February.
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[Contest] Miyoko Shida : Breathless
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Shelter kittens via /r/cats http://t.co/RXdlNz3gLW http://t.co/vQVydDUW9P
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Dismaland Bemusement Park by Banksy
Banksy has opened an apocalyptic theme park called Dismaland in an abandoned resort in an English coastal town, Weston-super-Mare. Are you looking for an alternative to the sugar-coated tedium of the average family day out? Or just somewhere a lot c…
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Ghostly Particles from Outer Space Detected in Antarctica
Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on t…
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US asks Australia to expand air cover into Syria – BBC News
The US has formally asked Australia to expand its role fighting against Islamic State (IS) to include Syria, local media reported. The request was reportedly sent to the Australian embassy in Washington on Thursday.
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Asian shares continue global downward trend – BBC News
Asian stocks saw sharp falls in early trade on Friday as mounting concerns over China’s slowing economy continued to affect global markets. Markets in the US and Europe had set the tone on Thursday with big drops on Wall Street as well as in Frankfu…
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An Ultra Creepy New Star Trek Beyond Alien Has Been Revealed
The 50th anniversary of Star Trek will be celebrated next year with the release of Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the new timeline, which is currently filming. Very little is known about the movie right now and a set video has leaked that raise…
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Pilot noped out of storm from Chicago to DC : mildlyinteresting
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Edge of Infinity via /r/woahdude http://t.co/0orPSceeDf http://t.co/ZMbsI7vRg2
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“Redlands” by Titus Lunter : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Obamacare is working at family planning clinics, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need funding
More visits to family planning clinics are now covered by insurance since Obamacare, the Guttmacher Institute finds, but a significant portion of patients are still uninsured.
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Refugee flown to Australia months after Nauru ‘rape’ – BBC News
A young asylum seeker allegedly raped at a Nauru detention centre has been sent to Australia for treatment three months after the assault.The government said the woman was flown from the Pacific island to Australia on Thursday, local media said.
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The newest app from Tinybop (The Human Body, Homes, and The Robot Factory apps) is called The Everything Machine. A small sampling of what you can do with it: Use a simple programming language to connect, control, and play with all the sensors and t…
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/vNtOaSdNVi http://t.co/JsBWAopidD
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Devils doorway, Devils lake state park, Wi [1920X1080] [OC] : EarthPorn
Devils doorway, Devils lake state park, Wi [1920X1080] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/xbLYDGQQdo http://t.co/oCOZRlCXfb
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Australia intercepts seven men bound for Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Seven young Australian men have been arrested by authorities after they attempted to board flights to the Middle East, according to the Australian prime minister. Tony Abbott said on Thursday the arrests were “over suspicions they wanted to join mil…
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Agents of SHIELD Could Be Getting A Kick-Ass Spin-off After All!
Earlier this year, there were plans to spin off two of the best characters from Agents of SHIELD into their own show: Bobbi Morse and her on-again, off-again sweetie Lance Hunter. That idea seemed dead in the water, but now it’s back—except that it’…
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All those companies that offered health insurance before Obamacare still provide it
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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Hugh Jackman can’t get away from cyclopes, might star in The Odyssey · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hugh Jackman, an actor who knows a little something about what it’s like to set out from your homeland on a small-seeming project that eventually turns into a decade-spanning ordeal, is in early talks to star in an adaptation of The Odyssey.
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M27 – Dumbbell Nebula | We Heart It
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Clever girl & so fluffy. : aww
Clever girl & so fluffy. via /r/aww http://t.co/We26ZqDM8l http://t.co/Vwh13wsJnG
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Seorsumuscardinus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia article of the day for August 21, 2015 http://t.co/XjvSr3GZvw
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Dismaland by Banksy : interestingasfuck
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Today’s home screen design uses a moderate teal template and a puzzle piece-like grid to give your home screen a vibrant and organized look.
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France, Britain Sign Deal on Calais Refugee Crisis | Al Jazeera America
France and Britain announced new security measures on Thursday to tackle human trafficking from the Calais refugee camps, beefing up the sites with new cameras and fences.
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Sign Peace Deal or We’ll Impose an Arms Embargo, US Tells South Sudan’s President | VICE News
The United States has circulated a draft resolution among UN Security Council members that would implement an arms embargo on South Sudan and additional targeted sanctions on individuals in the country if President Salva Kiir does not sign a peace d…
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British film industry tax breaks approved by EU – BBC News
Government plans to extend tax breaks for the British film industry have been approved by the EU. Under the scheme, film production companies can claim tax relief of 25% payable towards the cost of production.
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Dementia levels ‘are stabilising’ – BBC News
The proportion of people living with dementia is levelling-off in parts of western Europe, a report says. The University of Cambridge study shows the proportion of elderly people with the condition in the UK has fallen, contrary to predictions that …
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The revelation of who opened accounts on the Ashley Madison site for adulterers got the attention of curiousity seekers and suspicious spouses. Josh Barro and Justin Wolfers had a different impulse.
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Took a month, but I found them! : AdviceAnimals
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Years of work in the political realm has left me very jaded : AdviceAnimals
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Leitisvatn, Faroe Islands [2048×1178] by Keara Bacon : EarthPorn
Leitisvatn, Faroe Islands [2048×1178] by Keara Bacon via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/HYG5MIQynh http://t.co/64yYYgsmzm
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/ixi6NIR79T http://t.co/02zJj5UgFw
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The Most Satisfying 5 Minutes Of Video Game Driving You Will Ever Watch – Digg
Imagine hitting 18 holes-in-one in a row in mini golf. Imagine playing skee-ball and nailing 100 point shots each time. This car driving is just like that, only smoother and more graceful and perfect.
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Courtney Barnett releases video of surprise London subway set · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Australian songwriter Courtney Barnett—who we’ve hung out with a couple times, not to name-drop—has been on a viral marketing rampage recently, putting up posters and billboards all over the world with the same uplifting message: “Nobody really care…
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Translation challenges: From gang slang to poetic rabbits – BBC News
Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist has spent almost seven years on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel about a Spanish shepherd’s voyage to Egypt gained immediate popularity in the author’s native Brazil.
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New Bill Cosby Accusers Mean Over 50 Women Have Now Accused Comedian of Sexual Assault | Vanity Fair
Last week, three women stepped forward to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault, bringing the comedian’s accuser count to 49. And on Thursday, two additional women held a press conference in New York City to detail new allegations against the former f…
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I’m Marty Weiner, the new Reddit CTO : announcements
Oh haaaii! Just made this new Reddit account to party with everybody. I’m suuuuper excited to be here! I don’t know much at all yet (I’ve been an official employee for… 7 hours?), but I plan to do an AMA in 30 days (Sept 20ish) once I know a lot mor…
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NASA — International Space Station
The International Space Station is an important and special place that is built on international cooperation and partnership. The station is a convergence of science, technology and human innovation that benefits and advances our global community he…
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News | NASA to Share the Universe with Tumblr Users
NASA is launching an official Tumblr profile that will give Tumblr users a regular dose of space in a blog-like format through text, photos, videos and more. Tumblr is a social media platform that allows users to connect and follow other content cre…
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News | NASA Holds Media Opportunities to Discuss Rising Sea Levels
In a series of media opportunities Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Friday, Aug. 28, NASA experts will present an up-to-date global outlook on current conditions and future projections of sea level rise.
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News | Colorful Calendar Celebrates 12th Anniversary of NASA’s Spitzer
Celebrate the 12th anniversary of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope with a new digital calendar showcasing some of the mission’s most notable discoveries and popular cosmic eye candy.
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News | Cassini’s Final Breathtaking Close Views of Dione
A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in new images of Saturn’s moon Dione taken during the mission’s last close approach to the small, icy world. Two of the new images show the surface of Dione at the best resolution e…
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Hidden beaches via /r/pics http://t.co/TgUHQX80F6 http://t.co/nwISOC5n72
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Jeb Bush doubles down on ‘anchor baby’ remark : progressive
Jeb Bush doubles down on ‘anchor baby’ remark via /r/progressive http://t.co/vB4N1jBRt9 http://t.co/hLm5gXt892 http://t.co/TaII2H0InV
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The fruit section at Kroger gets it : firstworldanarchists
The fruit section at Kroger gets it via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/9kjxvbAFeh http://t.co/ypV0vtCBVU
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Jeb Bush doubles down on ‘anchor baby’ remark | MSNBC
Jeb Bush doubles down on ‘anchor baby’ remark via /r/progressive http://t.co/vB4N1jBRt9 http://t.co/hLm5gXt892 http://t.co/TaII2H0InV
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Jet engine powered truck : gifs
Jet engine powered truck via /r/gifs http://t.co/eCS0GUXh7j http://t.co/LlHDRPvSjD
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Tesla and Airbnb partner to install chargers at prime rental locations | The Verge
Tesla Motors has already invested millions of dollars in its attempt to build electric car charging stations around the world, and the company’s latest move is to partner with home-sharing startup Airbnb to install chargers for Model S cars in selec…
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Merkel and Putin: A grudging relationship – BBC News
On Monday German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host a summit in Berlin about the conflict in eastern Ukraine. French President Francois Hollande and Ukraine leader Petro Poroshenko are due to attend, but not Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Australia has been asked by the US to join the air operation against Islamic State targets in Syria, reports on Friday said.
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Have you tried Newsbeat’s emoji quiz? Try it here.
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The Lord Of The Rings films earned New Zealand a lot of international good will. On screen, the country seemed picturesque, while New Zealander’s willingness to embrace all things Tolkien made them charming and relatable.
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Wolfpack brothers let loose – BBC News
They’ve been described as “a lost tribe” – six brothers growing up in the heart of New York City, who were rarely allowed out of their tiny apartment. Now though, the Angulo brothers have been “found” as the subjects of an award-winning documentary,…
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Audiences should gird their eternal souls, because a new, adult-aimed stop-motion film called Hell And Back is on the way. In the film, Augie and Remy (voiced by T.J.
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Japan combines fashion, health, and fandom with superhero skin care masks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The health conscious Marvel fan faces a daily dilemma that can often border on existential terror: Do they attack the day in their favorite face-obscuring superhero mask, projecting an outward air of bravado even as the mask’s sterile plastic does n…
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Black lives matter: Seeing the protests through a camera – BBC News
Baltimore resident Freddy Gray died following a spinal injury he suffered in police custody. In response, the local community began a series of protests.
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Guilt trip: Is holidaying more hassle than it’s worth? – BBC News
For some people holidaying is not a problem. They can compartmentalise their lives and go off without a care in the world. But for the rest of us, it’s not that simple. We experience a lot of seepage between the walls of work and life. Holiday worry…
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Why Food Tastes so Bland on an Airplane (and How to Make It Better)
If you don’t think in-flight meals taste so great, you’re not crazy. Fact is, even the snacks you pack for the trip probably won’t taste that great either, making the whole flight suck a little more. Here’s the reason why, and what you can do to mak…
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Refugees set up camp on the Haiti-Dominican border – BBC News
The Haitian government is calling on its neighbour the Dominican Republic to delay plans for thousands of Haitians to be deported to the country as they try and make arrangements for their return.
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Twinword Finder for Chrome Instantly Scans Web Pages for Key Information
When you’re scanning a web page for information, a quick CTRL+F search can help you find specific words faster. The Twinword Finder for Chrome, however, takes that word scanning to the next level by also searching for related terms and only highligh…
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The Smoky Mountains in Tennessee [OC] [5184×3456] : EarthPorn
The Smoky Mountains in Tennessee [OC] [5184×3456] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/xDdKgo4pwU http://t.co/F5St4Ek3gV
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Russian Orthodox Church lends weight to Putin patriotism – BBC News
A raid by Russian Orthodox vigilantes on “blasphemous” artworks in central Moscow has highlighted the influence of traditional, ultra-conservative values in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.The Orthodox Church has long had close links to the Kremli…
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Who are the ‘left behind children’ around the world? – BBC News
The United Nations estimates that more than 900 million people globally move away for work, often leaving their children behind. It is a big issue in China which has 61 million so called ‘left behind children’.
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F1 Race Starts Are About to Get Way More Interesting | WIRED
The first lap of a Formula One race is usually the most exciting in the race. Passing, crashing, and nail-biting wheel-to-wheel action happen more frequently here than anywhere else, before the order of the pack is settled. What hasn’t always been a…
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After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts | TechCrunch
Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade. Zuckerberg thought these interrupted the user experience, and could stunt growth.
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Slow-Mo Lets Us See How Hummingbirds Use Their Tongues Like Pumps
Hummingbirds are mysteriously efficient feeders—and in this video we finally see why. Not only are they precise fliers, they’re precise and creative lickers. Watch a hummingbird’s tongue at work. Hummingbirds have grooved tongues.
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Fifty years ago today, The Beatles played two shows at Comiskey Park on Chicago’s south side. The Fab Four were on their second concert tour of the United States (They played one show in Canada).
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Hulu orders Seth Rogen pilot about a janitor who saves the world · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s no secret that comedy writing duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg smoke plenty of weed.
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Soggy Dollar Bar doesn’t care : firstworldanarchists
Soggy Dollar Bar doesn’t care via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/Jouk3XwqPQ http://t.co/DS6olKtODz
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An Einstein Ringor gravitational lensing at work:… – Just Space
An Einstein Ringor gravitational lensing at work: the blue… http://t.co/ptFLWWgWE9 http://t.co/L21ZDgOq5h
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Is Dog Can Eat Ice Cream ? : AnimalsBeingBros
Is Dog Can Eat Ice Cream ? via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/Jn6R2SsRqb http://t.co/GHiZgFb9Yi
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A Photographer Inside the Wildfires
A Photographer Inside the Wildfires http://t.co/v2baUUXaCK
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Good Guy UPS surprised me. : pics
Good Guy UPS surprised me. via /r/pics http://t.co/L1ObCxYUvC http://t.co/ahpohdjrmt
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When you take your girlfriend on a weekend vacation : funny
When you take your girlfriend on a weekend vacation via /r/funny http://t.co/LDX3rcKns6 http://t.co/c2AfXGkmLc
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When former president Jimmy Carter appeared at a press conference on Thursday to discuss his cancer diagnosis, messages poured in from world leaders, including former presidents Obama and George HW Bush. President Carter is as good a man as they com…
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How firms are fighting off spies and hackers – BBC News
It’s two years since Edward Snowden leaked details of massive covert surveillance operations conducted by the US National Security Agency and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). It seemed as if no-one was safe from prying eyes.
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Dozens of Dead Whales Are Washing Ashore in Alaska | WIRED
It’s the end of summer, and you’ve got that sinking feeling. Maybe it’s because you have to go back to school. Maybe it’s because your only vacation left to look forward to is Thanksgiving at your uncle’s house.
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CONCORD, N.H. — The cross-examination began with questions about oral sex, emails, and uncomfortable laughter. The girl at the center of a rape trial drawing national attention to boarding school rituals and sexual assault took the stand for a third…
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The umbrella that allows you text and other tech stories – BBC News
BBC Click’s Nick Kwek highlights the week’s tech news including an age rating system for online music videos, the launch of Samsung Pay in South Korea and the development of an umbrella that allows you to text in the rain. More at BBC.com/Click and …
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Optimizing South Korean Technology For American Users | TechCrunch
Navigating culture and business practices can be a trying task for any company going global. For tech companies, this often can mean coping with varying degrees of Internet connections from different service providers. If one is not careful, this co…
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Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story
I adored my mother so much then, that I just didn’t have the nerve to ever bring these things up to her. I was a child and loved our care-free relationship. She had been married and divorced several times and by the time I was in second grade she wa…
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Jimmy Carter’s Remarkable Discussion of His Cancer Diagnosis – The Atlantic
The 1970s are so dis-esteemed, and Carter has been so vilified (in counterpoint to the elevation of Reagan), and the entire era is now so long in the past, that many people may wonder how Carter could have become president in the first place.
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Which method of raising cows is the most climate-friendly? | Grist
Many people assume grass-fed beef is better for the environment. Instead of feeding cattle industrial monocultured corn gravel, you let them eat what grows naturally in a pasture. And that diet of grass and sunshine makes them happier and healthier.
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Hate to be a broken record, but we’re on track for the hottest year on record | Grist
If you’re a betting person, it would be close to a sure bet to go all-in on 2015 taking the title of warmest year on record.
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Kailua Beach, Hawaii [OC] [2000×1333] : SkyPorn
Kailua Beach, Hawaii [OC] [2000×1333] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/x3AfFUlL3h http://t.co/hTBauRrOOv http://t.co/pwkLY6vkUg
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Birds building a beautiful home : interestingasfuck
Birds building a beautiful home via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/C5yImwkAFj http://t.co/03juGOwqdI
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A common area in an abandoned prison [OC] [5184 x 3456] : AbandonedPorn
A common area in an abandoned prison [OC] [5184 x 3456] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/I6FnMfQ6qa http://t.co/kfuw8LcCuZ
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Kailua Beach, Hawaii [OC] [2000×1333] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/x3AfFUlL3h http://t.co/hTBauRrOOv http://t.co/pwkLY6vkUg
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Colorful Calendar Celebrates 12th Anniversary of NASA’s Spitzer | NASA
Colorful Calendar Celebrates 12th Anniversary of NASA’s Spitzer http://t.co/RO17Y5muEw
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D.C. Panda May Be Pregnant: Why Is Breeding Them So Tough?
Baby Giant Panda Debuts in D.C.: Why Do We Find It So Cute? Cute animals—like the baby giant panda that will make her debut in Washington, D.C., this weekend-are adorable because they share traits with human babies, experts say.
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What Do You Do With a Bear That Kills a Person?
Weird & Wild D.C. Panda May Be Pregnant: Why Is Breeding Them So Tough? With all eyes on the National Zoo’s possibly pregnant giant panda, get the facts on what makes breeding the animals so difficult.
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Rare ‘Fire Rainbow’ Over South Carolina Explained
Conditions are right for a strong El Niño this year, and scientists are predicting a wide range of effects.
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Archaeologist’s Execution Highlights Risks to History’s Guardians
Hiebert, who had been asked to authenticate the artifacts, was present when the vault was finally reopened in 2004. “The biggest shock for me was that they had saved not only the gold, but the old wood, the ivory, the pieces of clay, terra cotta,” h…
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Watch A Girl Named Isabella Unpack A New 3-D Printed Arm | TechCrunch
At this point in the 3D-printing game it should be obvious why the tech exists and why we should all own 3D printers: because they can change lives. Nowhere is that point hammered home more than in videos featuring the E-nable arms.
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North Korea warns of response to ‘provocation’ by South – Al Jazeera English
North Korea has pledged to retaliate for South Korean shelling, which came after the South accused the North of firing a single rocket at a South Korean town.
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This is an X-Ray View of What’s Happening at the Center of Our Galaxy
There’s a lot going on in this brand new X-ray view of our galaxy’s center—but just what does all that sound, fury, and color mean? Basically it means action, much of it spurred by the black hole knocking things around and kicking up clouds of stard…
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Wonder Woman will officiate a same-sex wedding in an upcoming comic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
DC Comics isn’t a big fan of its superheroes getting married, but apparently it has no problem with its superheroes helping other people get married.
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New Details About Rosie O’Donnell’s Missing-Daughter Saga Surface | Vanity Fair
New details about the disappearance of Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea help flesh out the roller coaster of a news story that began on Tuesday, when the entertainer tweeted that the 17-year-old was missing.
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Josh Abbott Band Ready Raw New Breakup Album ‘Front Row Seat’ | Rolling Stone
The Josh Abbott Band — the latest generation of Texas country torchbearers making inroads into the mainstream with songs like “Oh, Tonight” and “Hangin’ Around” — have just announced their ambitious fourth full-length album, Front Row Seat, out Nove…
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Carrie Underwood Announces New Album ‘Storyteller’ | Rolling Stone
Country radio stations all over the world received a big, unexpected surprise today: a new Carrie Underwood song.
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Seven Sevens : firstworldanarchists
Seven Sevens via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/u2voKjyPaT http://t.co/oNsc1JgHia
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Another user asking you guys a favor – Meme on Imgur
Another user asking you guys a favor http://t.co/ct4XMLkocR http://t.co/RzUdZjwZNz
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I though this was pretty cute : aww
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With humor and honesty, Carter talks about his cancer
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter announced Thursday that his cancer showed up in four small spots on his brain and he will immediately begin radiation treatment, saying he is “at ease with whatever comes.
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Earth just got hotter. – Boing Boing
July’s average temperature was 61.86 degrees Fahrenheit, beating the previous global mark set in 1998 and 2010 by about one-seventh of a degree, according to figures released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For global t…
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Sunken 1715 Spanish fleet a treasure trove that keeps on giving gold | US news | The Guardian
Diver William Bartlett had just started exploring a 300-year-old shipwreck with a metal detector late last month in the waters off Florida’s Atlantic coast when he found his first Spanish gold coin. Then one coin became two and two became so many he…
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US stocks hit by global growth fears – BBC News
(Close): Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply on Thursday as worries about global economic growth continued to hit markets around the world.The Dow Jones closed down 358.04 points, or 2.1%, at 16,990.69.The S&P 500 index ended 43.88 points lower at 2,…
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The Lubicon Lake Band in Little Buffalo, Alberta, is surrounded by fossil fuel extraction, and the province is lighting up with increasingly intense forest fires.
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Silence at Baylor – Texas Monthly
A much-talked-about football player at Baylor University—whom coaches “expect back” this fall—is currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student. Questions now swirl around what the program knew and when they knew it.
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Don’t bother owning me : AdviceAnimals
Don’t bother owning me via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/xlrFW3wVkq http://t.co/6HYw4Wzjqy
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Pic from The Mars Rover that doesn’t look like a “Natural Formation”. : pics
Pic from The Mars Rover that doesn’t look like a “Natural Formation”. via /r/pics http://t.co/DIo5ZParz6 http://t.co/SS3zdVZtRz
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Nacho the Mexican via /r/cats http://t.co/81O9irTjjf http://t.co/kugtVqlRvv
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I hope this is a popular opinion… – Meme on Imgur
I hope this is a popular opinion… http://t.co/iMYLQyDnMn http://t.co/RcPkSrFvyw
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Two Guys Claim They’ve Found a Lost Nazi Train Filled with Treasure | VICE News
Two men in Poland claim to have found a long-forgotten Nazi train filled with treasure whose existence was long thought to be a myth, the Associated press reported today.
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Israel fires missiles into Syria after rocket attack – BBC News
An Israeli aircraft has fired missiles at a building in Syria’s Golan Heights in response to a rocket strike on an Israeli village, according to reports. Syrian state TV said “several missiles” had hit a transport centre and public building in the H…
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Watch The Ominous Opening To The Premiere Of Fear The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead will be back on October 11, but you kind of don’t have to wait that long. This Sunday, the prequel spinoff Fear the Walking Dead kicks off its six-week first season. And guess what? You can watch the opening of that first episode ri…
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Let’s explore science fiction’s glorious hallways · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Science fiction films, especially lower-budget ones, only have a few tools at their disposal to sell the otherworldliness of their future fictions. One is the matte painting, which establishes the exotic setting.
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Twitter Collapses To Record Lows, Tests IPO Price As Tech Stocks Slump En Masse | TechCrunch
At least Twitter isn’t alone. Alibaba also set a record low today. In the post-IPO market, Twitter is sucking air. After repeated quarterly reports detailing slowing, anemic user growth, shares in the social media company today reached a new nadir: …
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Fear the Walking Dead Review | Vanity Fair
Though The Walking Dead, AMC’s brutal zombie-apocalypse drama, has introduced us to plenty of characters (hardened heroes, terrifying villains) and creepy locations (nightmare factories, haunted churches) in its five seasons, it’s stayed pretty loca…
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Deadspin What Do I Do With My Dead Father-In-Law’s School Bus Full Of Guns? | Gizmodo What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth? | Jezebel Men Go to Steve Harvey Show Taping on ‘What Men Really Think’ That Gets ‘Too Rapey’ | Kotaku Ma…
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Sleep Drug Modafinil Affirmed by Scientists as a Safe and Effective Brain Booster
Off-license users of modafinil—a drug developed to treat various sleep disorders—have known for some time that it doubles as a surprisingly effective cognitive enhancer, and with very few side effects.
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Cuba’s Communist Computer Clubs for Children | Motherboard
The “Joven Clubs” are where kids can learn to use computers. They can use a Facebook-clone that works only within Cuba (and is government run) and download the “Mochila,” a USB drive of files that are pirated by the computer government and given out…
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The Yank Tanks of Havana | Motherboard
Pre-embargo American cars are still used in Havana and around Cuba. Ones will all original parts are extremely expensive but most have been rebuilt by specialized “talleros” at this point. Most of them are older people who grew up with these cars an…
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How to Make a Magazine in Cuba | Motherboard
Henry Constantin Ferreiro and graphic designer Sol Garcia Basalt create this illegal bimonthly magazine out of Ferreiro’s small apartment in Camaguey, Cuba.
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Buffalo Bill’s House is for Sale (Bring Your Own Lotion)
Here’s a real-estate opportunity for the hardcore horror fan: the Pennsylvania house used as Buffalo Bill’s home in The Silence of the Lambs is up for sale with an asking price of $300,000. Sadly, Bill’s labyrinthine murder basement isn’t part of th…
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A View Inside Typhoon Atsani : Image of the Day
While it has been a quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, the western North Pacific has been churning out typhoons on a near weekly basis.
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Iran Lobbying Battle Heats Up On The Airwaves : It’s All Politics : NPR
The lobbying followed lawmakers home for the August recess, as advocacy groups run TV ads, telephone congressional offices, use social media and attend legislators’ public meetings. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
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It Impossible To Tell What Sounds Will Freak Out Cat – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
News in Brief: It Impossible To Tell What Sounds Will Freak Out Cat http://t.co/JEj5pFQgch
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One-eyed loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/LTNCE8OTJx http://t.co/s5HywyAWkS
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I like to draw over pictures of my cats on Snapchat… : funny
I like to draw over pictures of my cats on Snapchat… via /r/funny http://t.co/KFcaKApYsi http://t.co/QeEclV8nj0
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He can’t look away (bird/squirrel bedtime video) : cats
He can’t look away (bird/squirrel bedtime video) via /r/cats http://t.co/HDKPfIfB8U http://t.co/esenhtK86s
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Wore this shirt to work today. : firstworldanarchists
Wore this shirt to work today. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/QJaB0AED2k http://t.co/r4eDKcclR3
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‘In a Nutshell’ by Wlad Kamenetski : ImaginaryMindscapes
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I think you’ll like this, I did anyways. : TrollXChromosomes
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I was very happy to have this view while working today : natureporn
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Baby jaguar can’t stay awake : aww
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BBC Sport – Atromitos Athens 0-1 Fenerbahce
Substitute Robin van Persie scored a late winner for Fenerbahce with his first touch in their Europa League play-off first leg at Atromitos Athens. It was the Dutchman’s first goal for the Turkish side following his summer move from Manchester Unite…
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Britain’s embassy in Tehran to re-open – BBC News
The British embassy in Iran, which was closed four years ago after it was stormed by protestors, is to re-open this weekend. The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, will travel there on the first such visit since 2003.
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After guilty plea, former Redflex CEO could face up to five years in prison | Ars Technica
The former CEO of Redflex, a large red light camera vendor, pleaded guilty on Thursday to bribery of Chicago city officials as part of a large contracting bid.
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Yelp: Now for Bureaucracy, Not Just Brunch – The New Yorker
Earlier this year, a group of moderate, business-oriented Democratic legislators on Capitol Hill, who call themselves the New Democrat Coalition, proposed that the federal government create a “Yelp for government.
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Hamas members seized from bus near Egypt-Gaza border – BBC News
Masked gunmen have seized four members of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas from a bus travelling to Cairo from the Gaza Strip, officials have said. The bus carrying 50 passengers was ambushed close to the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Wednes…
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Chinese economic winter ‘cooling’ world economy – BBC News
There are growing fears about the health of the global economy after a day of market turmoil. Across the world share prices and currencies have fallen and the London stock exchange has dropped to its lowest level for seven months.
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Haiti asks Dominican Republic for delay over refugee return – BBC News
The Haitian Government has asked the Dominican Republic to delay its plans to deport thousands of Haitians back home. Many refugees are living in makeshift camps along the border and there are fears the situation could develop into a humanitarian cr…
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“The homeless man was lying on the ground, shaking, when police arrived early Wednesday. His face was soaked, apparently with urine, his nose broken, his chest and arms battered.
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Carlton Cuse wants five seasons and an ending for The Strain · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Forgoing the “six seasons and a movie” mantra that Community put forward—first as a joke, and then eventually as an actual barometer of televised success—the crew behind FX’s vampire drama The Strain say they only need three more years to get their …
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Brazil Speaker Eduardo Cunha facing corruption charges – BBC News
Brazilian prosecutors investigating a major corruption scandal have filed charges against the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha. He is accused of taking $5m in bribes to secure contracts with the state oil giant, Petrobras.
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This backlit PC control panel is extremely dope | The Verge
We’ve all dreamed of controlling a Star Trek-style control panel, managing a computer’s functions through physical buttons and tactile commands. Well, some crazy bastard on the internet has really done it, mounting a hundred-button backlit control p…
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Pierce Brosnan Is Far From Wonderful in ‘Some Kind of Beautiful’ | | Observer
A frazzled, brain-dead bore called Some Kind of Beautiful writes its own epitaph. The title alone is asking for it. Call it Some Kind of Rotten. Written by: Matthew Newman Directed by: Tom VaughanStarring: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek and Jessica Alb…
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The Best Way to Pack a Fancy Hat In a Suitcase So It Doesn’t Get Crushed
If you like to wear hats that are a little fancier than baseball caps, travelling with them can be tricky. This packing trick makes it easy to pack your easily crushed hats in your suitcase.http://lifehacker.com/the-best-cleve…
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Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson Form an Unlikely Friendship in ‘Learning to Drive’ | | Observer
Nuanced and subtle, Learning to Driveis a tender example of how two humane, intelligent polar opposites from totally divergent walks of life can achieve intimate friendship through understanding, honesty and compassion.
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50 Shades of Art: Online Auctioneer ‘Mounts’ Erotica Auction | Observer
German online art auctioneer Auctionata is treading into new territory with its first ever sale of Erotica next week. (Buyers beware, most of the content is likely deemed “not safe for work,” so be careful scrolling the lots on offer during your lun…
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“Albert Einstein made mistakes, and like many physicists he sometimes published them. For most of us, the times when we go astray are happily forgettable. In Einstein’s case, even the mistakes are noteworthy.
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Hell Hath No Fury Like an Aging Beatnik Lesbian Nettled | | Observer
Lily Tomlin is the kind of wrinkled jack-o’-lantern you can’t help but love, even in bad, pointless movies like Grandma.
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After a Hispanic man was beaten Wednesday by two Boston men, one of whom told the police that he was inspired by Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant message, Mr. Trump told reporters that his supporters were “passionate.”
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Postscript Paradise: ‘After Words’ Won’t Leave You Speechless | | Observer
No adventure is true if you already know how it’s going to end before it even begins.
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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 advance, over a big oak desk. Occasionally, I’d make a couple of grand in an afternoon.
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European Rocket Launches 2 Communications Satellites Into Orbit
An Ariane 5 rocket lifted off this evening (Aug. 20) from French Guiana bearing communications satellites from two different companies, after a short delay to evaluate the launch base’s infrastructure.
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First female US army rangers ‘open up new doors for women’ | US news | The Guardian
They have hiked miles through swamps and over mountains, patrolled for hours on paltry rations, jumped from planes and endured weeks of mock combat. They ran five miles in under 40 minutes, swam nearly 50ft with gear, and trudged hungry and tired fo…
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Welcome to ‘Dismaland’: An Anarchy-Infused Theme Park By Banksy – The Atlantic
The artist Darren Cullen, who created a pocket money loans shop in the “kid’s enclosure” that offers money to children at the generous interest rate of 5,000 percent, told The Guardian neither he nor the other artists met Banksy during the process o…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: England still have desire, says Mark Wood
Bowler Mark Wood rejected suggestions England took things easy on the first day of the fifth Test against Australia having already won the Ashes. Australia reached 287-3 at The Oval after being asked to bat, as England’s bowlers struggled.
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Uncle Sam Is Footing the Bill For Student-Debt Relief – The Atlantic
The U.S. Department of Education is sticking to the rosier news in a brief report released this week that shows the number of U.S. student-loan holders enrolled in income-based repayment plans has jumped by more than 50 percent since last year. Acco…
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Google says Project Ara didn’t fail drop test, better camera and battery coming | The Verge
Google’s got truly brilliant engineers in its ranks, but some could use some sharpening of their comedic skills. Today the company tweeted a clarification saying that its Project Ara modular smartphone didn’t actually fail any drop test.
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Floggers are for closers, apparently.
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US Ranger course nearly broke us, say first female cadets – video | US news | The Guardian
First lieutenant Shaye Haver and captain Kristen Griest talk about their immense pride in becoming the first women to complete the grueling US Army Ranger school. Speaking at a news conference in Fort Benning, Georgia, Haver called the achievement ‘…
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Mumford & Sons and Jimmy Kimmel Make a Crappy Boy Band | WIRED
As you must know by now, Comic-Con International populated the city of San Diego last weekend, and Conan O’Brien moved his show down south for a few days in honor of the event.
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Hewlett-Packard revenues fall as PC sales slide – BBC News
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard has reported falling profits and revenues as sales of personal computers fall. For the three months to 31 July, HP said net income fell to $854m (£544m) down from $985m a year earlier.
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Ashley Madison subscribers include hundreds of government workers | Ars Technica
The latest face-palm-worthy revelation from the Ashley Maddison hack comes courtesy of the Associated Press, which is reporting that hundreds of government employees—some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress, and law enforcement agencies…
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IOWA CITY, IA—Just minutes before taking the stage for a town hall event Friday, Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham reportedly chastised himself upon realizing he had left the CD-R containing his campaign song in his room at the Red Ro…
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Twitter Stock Falls Below IPO Price for the First Time | WIRED
Are you a “haha,” “hehe,” or “lol” person? Typically I’m an “lol” girl who mashes her keyboard with “HAHAHAHhahajakakjahaahkajkjjsdhfkajdsfk” to convey real, body-quaking laughter. If you thought your preference for online laughter was meaningless, …
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Read This: What it’s like to be an extra on Game Of Thrones · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Be warned, this post discusses a major character death on Game Of Thrones. Serving as an extra in any scene of Game Of Thrones would be a dream come true for most fans.
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This company has 400 people hyped to build Elon Musk’s hyperloop | Grist
It’s unclear whether Elon Musk is a comic book character come to life, or whether we’re all just comic book characters living in his world on the floor of some middle schooler’s bedroom. Either way, Musk is probably watching from a secret lair right…
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It Impossible To Tell What Sounds Will Freak Out Cat – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
DULUTH, MN—Saying that there seemed to be no clear pattern to the animal’s responses, local pet owner Wendy Vogl reported Friday that it is impossible to tell what sounds will cause her cat to totally freak out.
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Marvel at the space-beauty of Cassini’s final close-up image of Saturn’s moon Dione – Boing Boing
This view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn’s icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the mission’s final close approach to the moon on August 17, 2015. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space S…
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New York City mayor Bill de Blasio spoke out this week against Times Square’s desnudas, topless women covered in body paint who charge money for photos, saying they should be regulated the same way other street solicitors are. What do you think?
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On the frontline of Somalia’s fight against al-Shabab – Al Jazeera English
The Somali army is training new recruits in the port city of Kismayo, one of the last remaining strongholds of al-Shabab. Until they finish their training, fighters from the regional administration have the task of defending the territory under gove…
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Challenging athletic’s doping minefield – Al Jazeera English
Sebastian Coe’s election as the president of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) comes as the sport has been tainted with a series of doping controversies. Coe has said he and his new team will be “vigilant” in their fight a…
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Twitter shares have tumbled back to their original IPO price | The Verge
Twitter’s stock price continues to slide, closing today at the $26 strike price at which it went public. It closed its first day of trading around $45, a mark it has not matched since May of this year.
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Women with breast cancer of the milk duct ‘could need less treatment’ | Society | The Guardian
Women who are treated for what has come to be considered a non-invasive breast cancer of the milk duct could need less treatment – not more – a new study of more than 100,000 women indicates.
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Related: St Paul’s prep student faces sharp questioning by alleged rapist’s lawyer A teenage girl who accuses a recent graduate of an elite prep school of raping her as part of a campus tradition of sexual conquest testified Thursday that she was tr…
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Lawyer Gloria Allred has said she will ask “any question and every question” of Bill Cosby in a deposition in October and hopes to extract answers from “Bill Cosby, not the friendly father-figure of his television character, Dr Huxtable.
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Behind the App: The Story of FileZilla
Among the applications I always download when first setting up a new computer is FileZilla, the humble, open source FTP client. For those of us who have run our own little websites it’s been a longtime staple of the webmaster’s toolbox.
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Warner Bros. buys pitch based on Dante’s Inferno · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Screenwriters love Satan, both in the sense that he’s a fascinating character and in that they secretly worship him from the darkest corners of their local coffee shops.
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French far-right party expels founder Jean-Marie Le Pen – Al Jazeera English
Jean-Marie Le Pen has been expelled from the National Front party he founded after complaints about comments he made that belittled the significance of the Holocaust.
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Climate Change Increases the Odds of Epic California Droughts – Scientific American
There’s a drought in California. Perhaps you’ve heard a few things about it. Like the fact that it’s cost the state $2.
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Swarm is now giving people virtual coins they can’t spend | The Verge
Foursquare’s check-in app Swarm has brought back the leaderboard — but it’s making a key change to it. Swarm now rewards its users with virtual coins for being active, and those coins are what rank you on the leader board against your friends.
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What’s Your Favorite Over-the-Top Acting Performance in a Science Fiction or Fantasy Film?
More than one science fiction or fantasy movie has been distinguished by a particular performer who decides there’s no room for subtlety and just GOES FOR IT, spawning critical disdain and cult appreciation galore.
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BBC Sport – Southampton 1-1 FC Midtjylland
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman is expecting a “difficult” challenge against FC Midtjylland in Thursday night’s Europa League play-off tie. He said: “It will be more difficult. They are the champions of Denmark and have a good organisation.
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You Can’t Do Squat About Spotify’s Eerie New Privacy Policy | WIRED
Spotify released a new privacy policy that is now in effect, and it turns out that the company wants to learn a lot more about you and there’s not much you can do about it.
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George W. Bush’s First Pro-Jeb E-mail Is Surprisingly Unenthusiastic | Vanity Fair
Throughout his campaign for the Republication nomination for president, Jeb Bush has been dancing around the topic of George W. Bush’s record.
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How Well Do War And Women’s Health Mix? : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Col. Anne Naclerio, a medical doctor with the Army, about the simple steps that can be taken to help women before and during deployment to war zones.
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Two kids join Book Of Henry, a movie we know nothing about · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety is reporting that Jacob Tremblay and Jaeden Lieberher (Masters Of Sex and St. Vincent, respectively) have joined The Book Of Henry, a movie that we don’t know anything about.
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How Afropunk Became a Full-Blown Movement – Racked NY
“God bless America. God bless all, all the lost lives to police brutality,” Monáe called out to the crowd of about a hundred onlookers, plus the nearly 5.2 million viewers who tune in to Today every morning. “We want white America to know that we st…
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Israeli army attacks Syrian town after rocket attacks – Al Jazeera English
Syria’s state news agency has quoted a Syrian military source as saying that an Israeli army helicopter launched a number of rockets towards Syrian territory, targeting the transportation directorate and the governorate building in Quneitera.
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Up In Northeastern Turkey, The Whistles Of A Secret Language : NPR
Onur Guentuerkuen, a biological psychologist at Bochum University in Germany, has studied the Turkish whistling language. It can be understood up to almost four miles away.
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We’re not exactly telling tales out of school by suggesting the internet is overrun with cats and dogs. Photos, videos, memes, GIFs, inspirational posters—the list goes on, ad infinitum.
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Jimmy Carter ‘Completely At Ease’ Despite Cancer Diagnosis : NPR
In a news conference to discuss his health, former President Jimmy Carter also looked back on his life, his presidency and his work with the Carter Center.
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Defense Secretary Carter Says Two Female Rangers Are ‘Trailblazers’ : NPR
The two women who made it through the Army’s grueling Rangers training program spoke publicly for the first time Thursday at Fort Benning, Ga.
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Watch Gruesome First Three Minutes of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ | Rolling Stone
As Fear the Walking Dead lurches menacingly closer to its Sunday premiere, AMC has released a preview of the pilot with a new clip comprising the show’s harrowing first three minutes.
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History of the Launch of Epicurious in 1995 | Epicurious.com
Exactly twenty years ago today, on August 18, 1995, lines of code staggered out over copper wires and the website you’re reading materialized into digital form. Here’s how it happened, told by the people who did it.
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Ariane 5’s fourth launch of 2015 / Launchers / Our Activities / ESA
An Ariane 5 lifted off last night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits. The launch of flight VA225 occurred on 20 August at 20:34 GMT (22:34 CEST, 17:34 local time).
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For Summer Reading Lists, Some Schools Take A More Modern Approach : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Kathryn VanArendonk, who teaches developmental reading and writing at Union County College, about how some schools are including contemporary books on summer lists.
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“Why you little.. you startled me!” : StartledCats
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When life is ruff and all you want to do is relax : awwgifs
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Our new kitten Shadow. She’s so tiny! : cats
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This is the 15th in a series of interviews on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s discussion is with Cornel West, one of the most prominent and provocative intellectuals in public life.
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10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ Brass Bands March On : NPR
One of New Orleans’ signature traditions is the second line — the weekly brass band parades. But after Hurricane Katrina, a lot of people worried the tradition would become history.
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Black Lives Matter Activist: Hillary Clinton’s Racial Justice Record Is ‘Abysmal’ : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with Daunasia Yancey, the founder of Black Lives Matter in Boston, about the group’s discussion with Clinton last week.
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Marmot of the Vogelsang [OC, 2083×1439] : AnimalPorn
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A Beer So Good It Takes Two Monks To Look At It : monkslookingatbeer
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I can understand every ingredient in this pasta sauce I bought : mildlyinteresting
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I’ve spent for god damn ever trying to find this again – Imgur
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Drop Dead! (1970) : OldSchoolCool
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Comma Queen: The Semicolon; or, Mastering the Giant Comma – The New Yorker
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I would accept my death by Snu Snu : pics
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Much fighting, very combat. : aww
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“Wait! I’m not done with this yet!” – Cat : awwgifs
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Compilation of cats that forced their way into our lives : cats
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The Second Coming Of Deep Linking | TechCrunch
For developers and users, mobile deep linking has been a fantastically anticlimactic technology. Deep linking has existed since iOS 2.0, a time when fewer than 1 in 10 of us had a smartphone and Facebook had around 80 million users.
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Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Two Communications Satellites | Video
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Our 9 Favorite Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 | TechCrunch
Yesterday’s Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day had a little something for everyone, with everything from condom delivery to server vulnerability monitoring thrown in the mix. Of the 52 that debuted yesterday, 9 really stood out to us and those we spo…
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‘The Martian’ Lands at NASA’s Mars Mission Control (Photos)
Actor Matt Damon, who stars in the film “The Martian,” smiles after making cement hand prints at the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Aug. 18, 2015. Looking on are Mars rover Curiosity project manager Jim Erickson (left) and NA…
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Up Close With 4 of the Most Stunning, Influential Cars Ever | WIRED
We’ve been making cars for well over a century now, and the past few years have seen some truly remarkable designs. But a focus on recent accomplishments excludes decades of simply gorgeous and seriously influential vehicles.
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Deadpool’s Latest Meta Joke Is A Playful Swipe At DC Comics
Deadpool’s relationship with the fourth wall is fast and loose—he’s been having a lot of fun in his current comic, Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars, when it comes to having a jab at Marvel’s own history.
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Make Your Videos Look Like Crap with an App That Simulates an 80s Camcorder | Motherboard
For those who are sick of hi-def and want to harken back to more lo-fi times, LA post-production studio Rarevision has created an app to make your smartphone videos look like they were shot with an 80s camcorder.
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Two Last Comic Standing winners have landed their own TV shows · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Whether or not you actually watch it, NBC’s Last Comic Standing has served as launching pad for comedians. Even somewhat established comedians like Doug Benson and Ralphie May got a boost from appearing on their respective seasons.
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FX reveals Bastard Executioner plot details in new featurette · Newswire · The A.V. Club
FX has released a featurette that sheds some light on what its new series The Bastard Executioner is all about. It would appear that Lee Jones’ titular executioner is a knight who was sent to his death at the hands of marauding Scots, as well as “a …
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Hyperloop Approaching ‘Thing’ Status, Groundbreaking Set for 2016 | Motherboard
Elon Musk’s hyperloop may be here sooner than you’d think. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a California company that’s actually building Musk’s futuristic transportation system, said today that it expects to break ground on the project someti…
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Accessing the Web From Cuba’s WiFi Hotspots | Motherboard
The only way to access the internet on your own device in Cuba is to go to a series of newly opened wifi hotspots around the country. There is usually one in every big town, and about five in Havana.
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Comma Queen: The Semicolon; or, Mastering the Giant Comma – The New Yorker
Feelings about the semicolon run strong. Its proper use is a hallmark of literacy.
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart’s road to stoner stardom, in graphs | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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BBC Sport – Steaua Bucharest’s Mirel Radoi banned from talking to players
Steaua Bucharest coach Mirel Radoi has been banned from giving instructions to his players from the technical area. The 34-year-old was given a touchline ban by European governing body Uefa on Monday because he does not have the necessary coaching l…
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Win a pair of tickets to see John Oliver live at The Chicago Theatre · Contest · The A.V. Club
Hey, you guys like John Oliver, right? This winter, the beloved host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight is taking some time off from invoking the ire of South American presidents and exposing tobacco companies’ cover-ups to perform at The Chicago Theatre.
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Ants hold protest calling for protection of Amazon rainforest – video | Environment | The Guardian
Around half a million ants hold a protest in Cologne, Germany, calling for Angela Merkel, the country’s chancellor, to continue supporting the protection of the Amazon rainforest.
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New York prison escapee David Sweat appears in court – video | US news | The Guardian
Sweat, one of the convicted killers who led law enforcement on a three-week manhunt after escaping prison in upstate New York, pleads not guilty to an escape charge.
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Use Sugru to Add a Pair of Lights to Safety Glasses
If you have a workshop, chances are you’re using safety glasses a lot. If you need a little bit of extra light, Make shows you how to connect a pair of lights to your glasses that you can move around as needed. All you’ll need is a spare pair of saf…
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‘Mr. Robot,’ and the Beauty of Confusing Your Audience | | Observer
(Spoilers for all of Mr. Robot’s first season) “You knew all along, didn’t you?” Elliott Alderson asked us, his collective imaginary friend, in last night’s episode of Mr. Robot.
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Propaganda Exchange Causes Friction Along Korean Border – The Atlantic
South Koreans also brought back the years-old practice of releasing balloons into the sky. South Korean activists insert messages written in Korean into the tall, cylindrical tubes, and then release them into North Korean territory.
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7 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before August 23 | | Observer
Poetry: Isaac Pool, “Light Stain” at Nathalie Karg Gallery Artist and poet Isaac Pool with will read excerpts from his new book Light Stain published by the renegade Detroit gallery What Pipeline?.
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OXNARD, CA—Saying that he is counting down the days until the offseason practices are over, Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten told reporters Thursday that he can’t believe he was once again stuck sharing a hotel room with owner Jerry Jones durin…
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Wasting Away in Margaritaville | Lucky Peach
On a recent morning, a friend snuck up behind me while I was fiddling with an old Spotify playlist and let out a snort at what he saw sandwiched between Pavement tracks and obscure Tina Turner B-sides. “Is that…Jimmy Buffett? That’s not Jimmy Buffet…
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Study Suggests Some Treatment For Early Breast Cancer Is Unnecessary : NPR
A new study renews questions about how aggressively doctors should treat a very early form of breast cancer or pre-cancer.
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Preventing Armageddon: The Economic Hurdles Of Asteroid Defense : NPR
Some scientists say we should be doing more to protect the Earth from asteroids. The technical issues are relatively easy, but the economics of asteroid defense are much harder.
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10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ Brass Bands March Again : NPR
One of New Orleans’ signature traditions is the second line — the weekly brass band parades. But after Hurricane Katrina, a lot of people worried the tradition would become history.
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UN Critcizes Saudi-Backed Operations In Yemen, But U.S. Stays Silent : NPR
The United Nations and others in the international community are increasing their criticism of Saudi-backed operations in Yemen, but the U.S. is still backing its ally.
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Greek Prime Minister Resigns To Pave Way For New Elections : NPR
After less than seven months in office, the Greek prime minister announced Thursday he will resign to pave the way for early elections on September 20.
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3 Firefighters Killed While Battling Wildfires In Washington State : NPR
Three firefighters in Washington state died while battling wildfires Wednesday. Scores of wildfires are burning throughout the western U.S. and nearly 30,000 firefighters are involved.
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50 Years Ago, A White Seminarian Gave His Life To The Civil Rights Movement : NPR
Jonathan Daniels is a little-known civil rights martyr who died 50 years ago. The seminarian from New Hampshire was killed near Selma, Ala., where he was trying to help black citizens register to vote.
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Small Time Smuggler Helps Migrants Reach Greece On The Cheap : NPR
NPR meets a man who helps smuggle Iraqi migrants from Turkey to Greece. The journey is dangerous, and paying the fee does not guarantee the migrants will make it to their destination.
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Regal Cinemas To Check Bags Upon Entry Into Movie Theaters : NPR
Movie chain Regal Cinemas has modified its security policy, stepping up checks of bags and backpacks because “security issues have become a daily part of our lives in America.
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Sales Of Convertibles Are Decelerating; Blame The (Fuel) Economy : NPR
Few images evoke the lazy hazy days of summer more than a convertible driving down the coast. Soon that image may be pure nostalgia. Sales of convertibles have seen a steep decline, falling by more than 40 percent in the last decade alone.
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Explosion Of New Cancer Treatments Presents A ‘Very Exciting Time’ : NPR
In light of former President Jimmy Carter’s diagnosis, NPR’s Audie Cornish asks Dr. Elizabeth Buchbinder of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute about promising new treatments for melanoma.
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Former President Jimmy Carter To Start Treatment For Cancer In Brain : NPR
Former President Jimmy Carter announced he has melanoma on his brain and will undergo his first radiation treatment Thursday. He is also stepping away from many of his duties at the Carter Center.
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Can Health Care Be Cured Of Racial Bias? : Shots – Health News : NPR
Jane Lazarre was pacing the hospital waiting room. Her son Khary, 18, had just had knee surgery, but the nurses weren’t letting her in to see him. “They told us he would be out of anesthesia in a few minutes. He never came out,” she remembers. “The …
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Weekend of Wonder: Why we chose the Mission Inn – Boing Boing
The Weekend of Wonder will be held at Riverside, California’s incredible Mission Inn. Often compared to the Winchester Mystery House, this amazing resort has everything a Happy Mutant could need, from engineering marvels to secret passageways!
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People Love Pretending To Be the President On Ashley Madison | Vanity Fair
If the Ashley Madison hack taught us one thing, it’s that cheaters who don’t want to get caught masquerade as the commander in chief.
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Moon As Billboard? Soft Drink Can-Capsule Announced | Video
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Listen, we’re not saying Josh Duggar is a good guy, or that it isn’t deeply hypocritical for a so-called “family values” activist to argue that gay marriage irrevocably damages the very concept of marriage itself when he doesn’t take his own marriag…
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These river rodents are industrious workers and gifted engineers, but have some problematic instincts. These instincts make them very easy to manipulate with just a bit of sound equipment. In the 1960s, a biologist called Lars Wilsson took an intere…
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Former President Carter reveals spread of cancer – BBC News
Former US President Jimmy Carter has spoken publicly about how far his cancer has spread throughout his body. The ninety-year-old said that recent liver surgery revealed the disease, which has spread to other parts of his body.
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GitHub’s top coding languages show open-source is everywhere | Ars Technica
Think of it as a map of the rapidly changing world of computer software. On Wednesday, GitHub published a graph tracking the popularity of various programming languages on its eponymous Internet service, a tool that lets anyone store, edit, and coll…
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NASA and Matt Damon Told Us Why The Martian Is “a Love Letter to Science”
Right now, here’s how close we are to the events of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian actually happening: Not very.
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People love to hate series finales. Reddit user ChallengeResponse has taken up the task of exploring fans’ tumultuous relationships with television conclusions in a graph that charts a show’s finale reception when compared to the average rating of t…
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Michael Shannon says Zod will have flipper hands in Batman V Superman · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Vulture, Michael Shannon divulged that his cameo as General Zod in Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice will finally address one of the grave missteps that alienated audiences from 2013’s Man Of Steel. No, he won’t be retiring his petula…
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New LPs from Beach House, Destroyer, and Yo La Tengo now streaming online · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Next Friday’s release day is a big one for indie rock fans, with new records coming from Beach House, Destroyer, and Yo La Tengo. And, fortunately for those strapped for cash or who just can’t wait eight goddamn days, all three of those records are …
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Bangkok bombing – Who were the victims? – BBC News
Bangkok bombing – Who were the victims? 20 August 2015 Last updated at 20:57 BST A bomb blast at a shrine in Bangkok killed 20 people on Monday.BBC News looks at some of the known victims of the attack.Report by Mohamed Madi and Kavitha Prasad.
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The Chemical Long Used in Non-Stick Pans Might Be Unsafe at Any Level | VICE News
A toxic chemical long used to make non-stick or water-repellent coatings may be more dangerous than believed — perhaps unsafe at any level, a leading environmental group warned Thursday. Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, was used to make DuPont’s pop…
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Kelsea Ballerini on Taylor Swift Comparisons and Beyoncé Ambitions | Rolling Stone
Walking into a midtown Nashville coffee shop for her first cup of the morning, Kelsea Ballerini seems already sufficiently caffeinated as she excitedly talks about her new rescue dog, Dibs. (Yes, he’s named after the latest single from her debut alb…
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Christian Bale to play Ferrari founder for Michael Mann · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Michael Mann loves cars—fast, gleaming cars, especially when seen at night, with streetlamps reflected on a spit-shined hood. It should come as no surprise, then, that one of the writer-director’s many long-gestating projects is a biopic about Ferra…
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Hear Patti Smith’s Moving Elegy to ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ | Rolling Stone
The world’s least likely Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan, Patti Smith, recorded a surreally sincere elegy for the goofy Adult Swim show, which will end later this month. “I’d never dreamed I’d be in Aqua Teen/13 seasons, what did it mean?” she sings plai…
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Will Tech Ever Make Arranging a Threesome Easy? | Inverse
Rappers make polyamory sound so easy. A$AP Rocky is “pampered by threesomes,” and, Drake, who likes his chicks “in twos,” tells us in the Ballers intro that “all the girls are down to roll.
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The Chemical Used in Non-Stick Pans Might Be Unsafe at Any Level | VICE News
A toxic chemical long used to make non-stick or water-repellent coatings may be more dangerous than believed — perhaps unsafe at any level, a leading environmental group warned Thursday. Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, was used to make DuPont’s pop…
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The US Army’s Top General Points a Spear at Russia | VICE News
General Raymond Odierno, then the top general in the US Army, said this to me a week before he retired on August 14.
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UK and France announce plan to target human traffickers – Al Jazeera English
Britain and France have announced boosted security efforts to prevent thousands of people living in makeshift camps in Calais from reaching the UK through the Channel Tunnel. Many of the people are refugees, but Britain says others are economic migr…
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Massive Sinkhole In Florida Reopens – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Two years after a giant sinkhole opened beneath a Tampa, FL home and fatally swallowed a man in his bedroom, the same sinkhole reopened, though no homes currently occupy the site. What do you think?
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FilePizza Does Peer-to-Peer File Sharing In Your Web Browser
Peer-to-peer file sharing services like BitTorrent Sync are great ways to share large files without paying for third-party cloud storage, but that still requires you download software. FilePizza shares files using peer-to-peer, but does so right in …
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Fifty Shades of Grey Sequel, a Film About Female Fantasies, May Be Directed By a Man | Vanity Fair
Given the discord behind the scenes of Fifty Shades of Grey’s first film adaptation, which starred Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, it is no surprise that Universal wants to go in a different direction for the film’s sequel, Fifty Shades Darker.
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France’s National Front Expels Founder Le Pen | Al Jazeera America
France’s far-right National Front expelled founder Jean-Marie Le Pen on Thursday in a bid to shed the party’s anti-Semitic reputation and bolster his daughter Marine’s prospects in a presidential election bid.
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Misophonia research: Disorder of irritation by chewing, lip-smacking, sniffing sounds.
But when Edelstein and her colleagues interviewed 11 volunteers from the support group, they were struck by the common patterns. Each volunteer reacted intensely to what Edelstein describes as “chewing, mouthy sounds” made by adults.
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Paranoid Republicans think EPA contaminated river on purpose | Grist
Today in Utah news, two state lawmakers accused the EPA — yes, the agency tasked with protecting the environment — of purposefully releasing 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas River. Utah’s Sen. Margaret Dayton (R) and Rep.
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Burlington, home of the University of Vermont and the birthplace of Phish, Ben and Jerry’s and Seventh Generation, has long embodied the earthy progressivism and can-do independence that define the state’s spirit.
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Costa Rica’s green plans: Sustainable coffee, bikes, and clean energy | Grist
Costa Rica has set an ambitious goal for itself: To be entirely carbon neutral by 2021. But it’s really not that crazy — just this summer, the entire country was powered entirely on renewable energy sources for 94 straight days.
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Amor Prohibido – Texas Monthly
As is proper in Texas, especially in Corpus Christi, our group gave thanks for the Whataburger. “Thank you, Jesus, for the food we’re about to eat,” intoned Sylvia D. over her number one combo with cheese. “Bless the hands that made it and the good …
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Messier 53 Hubble WikiSky | We Heart It
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Cat on a hot tin toaster? : cats
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Vela Supernova Remnant. js – Just Space
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New York City’s Tech Industry Is 62 Percent White, 60 Percent Male | TechCrunch
New York City’s tech industry is mostly white (62%) and male (60%), according to a recent analysis from the Center for an Urban Future.
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Long-suffering California can blame drought on global warming – scientists | US news | The Guardian
Global warming has increased the severity of the ongoing drought in California, as part of a larger trend of human-caused climate change intensifying dry weather spells, scientists said on Thursday.
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How well do you know IBM’s thirsty supercomputer, Watson? | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Twitter shares crash to below initial market price | Technology | The Guardian
Twitter shares have crashed below the price they originally sold for as investors grow increasingly concerned that the service won’t be be able to become a mainstream platform like Facebook.
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Greece’s Necessary Election – The New Yorker
On the very day that Greece received the first tranche of its new bailout from the European Union, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has decided to resign and call a general election, which will be held next month.
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Schools Don’t Think Kids Want to Learn Computer Science | WIRED
Times have never been better for computer science workers. Jobs in computing are growing at twice the national rate of other types of jobs.
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Today is Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s birthday, and the prolific author would’ve turned 125 years old.
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Congress Is Sick of the Secrecy Around TPP | The Nation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in its final stages, though nobody seems certain when talks over the massive trade deal will actually conclude.
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Wonder Woman Speaks Out for Marriage Equality … and Educates Clark Kent in the Process
Wonder Woman officiates a same-sex wedding in the new issue of Sensation Comics, a digital series written and drawn by Jason Badower.
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Are Green Arrow and The Flash the New Batman and Superman?
Ronda Rousey wants to play Captain Marvel. Thoughts? I love the fan art of her as Carol Danvers—it’s genuinely fantastic, as you can see above—but I’ve seen Fast & Furious 7, in which she plays the silent badass bodyguard of a billionaire prince.
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Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse was originally going to attempt mix genres under the title of Boy Scouts Vs. Zombies—but even with its new name, it’s still the same old dreck.
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The Fragile Reality of the National Zoo’s Panda Pregnancy – The Atlantic
When Susan Rosalsky was hired as an English instructor at SUNY Orange last year, she was elated. After several years of unemployment, she and her husband, Michael Trost, had been eating through their savings and 401Ks.
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What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth?
We all know that major storms can wreak havoc, flooding cities and decimating infrastructure. But there’s an even bigger worry than wind and rain: space weather. If a massive solar storm hit us, our technology would be wiped out. The entire planet c…
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FRIGID by Chris Burkard / 500px
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The Yelper’s guide to federal politics | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Recover Lost Spotify Playlists from Your Account Page
Accidentally delete a playlist from Spotify? It turns out there’s a recovery section on your account page that allows you recover pretty much any playlist you’ve ever made. Just head to your account page and click the Recover playlists option.
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Stan Wawrinka hangs on but Belinda Bencic faces fight to make US Open | Sport | The Guardian
It was a mixed day for Switzerland in this otherwise hospitable corner of Ohio.
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Google Photos will now show you photos and videos from the past | The Verge
Google Photos is one of the best photo storage options around. It’s free, you can store as many gigabytes or terabytes of your memories as you want, and it has an incredibly smart built-in search engine.
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The NSFW Trailer for Your Inner 14-Year-Old: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse | WIRED
Have you been waiting hopelessly for Zombieland 2? As Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone become bigger and bigger stars, the possibility of that sequel happening becomes a longer shot all the time.
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What You Need To Know About ‘Female Viagra’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The FDA recently approved the sale of Flibanserin, a pink pill intended for women diagnosed with low sex drive; critics have questioned the pill’s effectiveness, while advocates are praising the move toward supporting both men and women with these s…
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Josh Duggar admits to being ‘biggest hypocrite’ for using Ashley Madison | US news | The Guardian
Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has admitted to being “the biggest hypocrite ever” in being unfaithful to his wife, Anna, a day after he was revealed to have allegedly held an account on the Ashley Madison spousal cheating site.
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Married Role-play – The New Yorker
HUSBAND: So, what seems to be the problem, Miss? WIFE: My drain is clogged. Clogged bad.
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Trump, on supporters who beat Hispanic man: ‘People who are following me are very passionate’
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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First collar. She’s lookin sharp. Meet Loki : cats
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In the ER : firstworldanarchists
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Lake Bled [CO] [900×657] : EarthPorn
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Aww dammit I just got caught watching porn : funny
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The Propaganda Food of North Korea | MUNCHIES
North Korea is constantly trying to convince the rest of the world that life in the Hermit Kingdom is not that bad.
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INNOVATE2016: Silicon Valley Is A Political Issue In The 2016 Election | TechCrunch
Why should Silicon Valley care about the 2016 election? According to Georgetown University’s Larry Downes, it’s going to be an election in which the most disruptive technologies – from the Internet of Things to drones to Bitcoin to Uber – are becomi…
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Astronomer Makes Music From A Ringing Star | Video
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Thanks to Jurassic World and Furious 7, Universal Pictures owns the 2015 box office | The Verge
This has been a landmark year for movies, but not in the way many of us might have expected. Blockbusters came out in droves to stake a claim at the box office, including the return of the Terminator and Mad Max franchises.
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‘More Ashley Madison’ data is leaked onto dark net – BBC News
A fresh set of files that appear to be leaked Ashley Madison data has been uploaded to a part of the internet known by some as the “dark web”.The data dump was accompanied by a note addressed to the infidelity dating website’s boss saying: “Hey Noel…
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France and the UK Have Signed a New Pact to Tackle the Migrant Crisis in Calais | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here.
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2nd dump from Ashley Madison hack twice the size, includes CEO e-mail | Ars Technica
Hackers behind the breach of the Ashley Madison cheater’s dating service have released a second, much bigger dump of sensitive materials that include a massive amount of e-mail from its parent company’s CEO Noel Biderman.
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Is London’s Cockney Rhyming Slang Dying Out? – The Atlantic
As for why anyone would bother to choose from, by Green’s count, 18 different inscrutable terms for tea (“Mother McCree,” “sailors on the sea,” “split pea,” etc.
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Why You’re Biased About Being Biased – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
In a classic experiment in 1953, students spent an hour doing repetitive, monotonous tasks, such as rotating square pegs a quarter turn, again and again. Then the experimenters asked the students to persuade someone else that this mind-numbing exper…
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Podcast: The Military’s Drone Obsession Isn’t Making It Better | FiveThirtyEight
How much data do we need to collect, what do we do with it, and what’s the purpose? Right now we’re just stuck on a treadmill of collecting because we can. We need to start asking the question “Why?”
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Meet Ricardo Aca, the Mexican immigrant who works at Trump Soho | US news | The Guardian
A segment from a film by New Left Media on an undocumented Mexican immigrant who works at a hotel owned by Donald Trump.
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The Country’s Job Creators Are Increasingly Women Of Color | ThinkProgress
Shelly Kapoor Collins had spent more than 10 decades in technology, but she felt that something was still missing from her career. “I knew that I loved tech, but I never quite understood the concept of working for someone else,” she said.
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A professional football player is causing controversy this week thanks to his decision to return his young sons’ participation trophies, saying the 8-year-old and 6-year-old shouldn’t receive awards they didn’t earn.
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The State Bar of Michigan awarded — and then rescinded — an award they gave to a lawyer with a long history of clownish stunts and racist views.
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Hottest Month On Record Portends Global Warming Speed Up | ThinkProgress
Last month was not just the hottest July on record. Since July is “the warmest month of the year globally,” NOAA’s latest monthly State of the Climate Report, notes that July 2015 “was also the highest among all 1627 months in the record that began …
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HBO Now Rolls Out For Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick | TechCrunch
HBO is expanding HBO Now, its subscription streaming service, to the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
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Dogs guard fawn killed in Idaho wildfire | US news | The Guardian
Among the images of destruction that have come from the wildfires tearing up the west is one showing an act of kindness by a family of dogs in Idaho. The photo, taken in wildfire-ravaged Kamiah by Louis Armstrong on Monday, shows a sheep dog and two…
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Ashley Madison Hackers Release an Even Bigger Batch of Data | WIRED
The hackers behind the Ashley Madison breach appear to have upped their game, if that was even possible, by taking direct aim at the company’s top executive, Noel Biderman, CEO of Avid Life Media, AshleyMadison’s parent company.
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How Lady Gaga Influenced HEALTH’s Reinvented Sound | WIRED
On the Song Exploder podcast, host Hrishikesh Hirway talks to musicians who take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the stories of how they were made. Listen below. The Los Angeles-based noise band HEALTH recently released a great new album…
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Mexican immigrant who works in Trump hotel defends ‘my community’ | US news | The Guardian
A Mexican immigrant who works in one of Donald Trump’s hotels and took part in a video hitting back at the Republican frontrunner over his statements on immigration has said he wanted to “defend my community”.
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Trump Says 1,179-Mile Tar Sands Pipeline Would Have ‘No Impact’ On The Environment | ThinkProgress
No leaks, no spills, no impact on climate change. The Keystone XL pipeline would have “no impact” on the environment if it were approved and built, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
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Buck stops truck: rabbit halts race after haring around speedway track | Sport | The Guardian
When a rabbit began haring around the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, halting the final Camping World Truck Series practice, officials tasked with catching the intruder did not necessarily mind where the buck stopped, just that it did.
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Can Ashley Madison Claim Copyright on Its Hacked User Data? | Motherboard
In the wake of a high profile, ugly leak with devastating consequences for its users, Ashley Madison is sending DMCA notices left and right, playing copyright whack-a-mole with every new upload or posting of the hacked data.
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BBC Sport – Fifa meets with major sponsors over corruption probes
Fifa has met with some of its leading sponsors after they expressed concern over its corruption-tainted image. The inquiries prompted worried sponsors to call for a meeting, which was held on Thursday with AB InBev, Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and…
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Lost in the tedious melodrama of an inflated ball scandal that should have ended months ago are the real issues the NFL and its players are going to have to address.
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Sheriff’s investigators plan to recommend prosecutors file a vehicular manslaughter charge against Caitlyn Jenner for her role in a fatal car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu last February.
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How The Hugo Awards Saboteurs Actually Disproved Their Own Best Argument
The people who stuffed the ballot at this year’s Hugo Awards nominations have made a number of arguments in favor of their actions. We shared some of those with you a while back.
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‘Best of Enemies’: The Roots of the Cable-News Shoutfest | Rolling Stone
In one corner sat Gore Vidal, author and liberal bon vivant; in the other was William F. Buckley Jr., talk-show host, conservative blowhard and founder of the far-right publication National Review.
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Andy Murray goes undercover to serve fans ice cream – video | Sport | The Guardian
World tennis number two Andy Murray dons a disguise and tries his hand at selling ice cream in his down time at the Cincinnati Masters tournament in Ohio. The Scottish tennis player attempted to trick his fans, but many saw through the wig, glasses …
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Why Silicon Valley Is Fuming at Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies | Motherboard
Silicon Valley is not happy with top Republican candidate Donald Trump’s stance against skilled foreign workers. Todd Schulte, president of Fwd.
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An Animated Short About the Ocean That Will Almost Definitely Make You Laugh
I know an animated short about an environmentally conscious shark maybe isn’t the kind of thing you’d normally watch but STAY WITH ME. DON’T GO INTO YOUR ZONE WHERE YOU DON’T WANNA HEAR, OKAY? This video is hilarious. It will make your day better, a…
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Alanis Morissette to Release ‘Jagged Little Pill: Collector’s Edition’ | Rolling Stone
Following the 20th anniversary of Alanis Morissette’s landmark album Jagged Little Pill, the singer-songwriter will release a collector’s edition of the LP, complete with unreleased demos and a full live concert from the year of its release.
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MERRIMACK, N.H. — At a serious and sober town hall meeting here Wednesday night, Jeb Bush dropped statistics like New Year’s Eve confetti. “A third at best, a third of our kids are college and/or career ready,” Mr.
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The Best Way To See A Blue Whale Is To Say How Rare It Is To See A Blue Whale – Digg
While filming a show about blue whales, zoologist Mark Carwardine was in the middle of explaining to viewers just how hard it was to actually spot a blue whale in the wild when a nearby blue whale decided to completely undermine Carwardine.
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Lake Lungern, Switzerland [OC] [3696×2079] : EarthPorn
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Humans are ‘unique super-predator’ – BBC News
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Stop mangrove destruction in Indonesia to slow climate change : environment
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ZocDoc Joins the Unicorn Club (Officially) | TechCrunch
In June of last year, VC Experts discovered a filing that suggested ZocDoc, a roughly eight-year-old, New York-based online medical care schedule service, was raising a new round of funding worth $152 and that valued the company at $1.6 billion.
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De Blasio May Open Times Square Pedestrian Plaza to Fight Off Nudity | Observer
Mayor Bill de Blasio is considering a controversial idea to tackle the controversial issue of bare breasts in Times Square—opening up the area’s pedestrian plaza to car traffic again.
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More Disrupt SF Hackathon Tickets Are Available Now | TechCrunch
Want to participate in the Disrupt SF Hackathon but missed out on the first wave of tickets? Well, good news. Today we’re releasing the next wave of Hackathon tickets to the general public, and you can score your tickets to the event right now.
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We told you a couple of weeks ago about the new comedy special, Crash Test, wrangled by Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer and starring some big-name talent, including Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, and Jack McBrayer. The premise: A bus full of comedy fans driv…
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Midday open thread: El Niño means more accurate weather reports; the Thames River lives!
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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Watch an Ariane 5 rocket launch two satellites into space | The Verge
European launch provider Arianespace is sending two communication satellites into orbit this afternoon on top of an Ariane 5 rocket.
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It’s Impossible To Find Out Exactly How Many People Are Shot By Cops in Canada | VICE News
Andrew Loku was shot to death within “seconds” of police arriving at his Toronto home, his friends say. James McIntyre was slumped over, his blood pooling on the sidewalk, as an officer approached him on the streets of a Dawson Creek, BC, gun still …
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Doesn’t exactly sound hilarious, does it? Now imagine that within that group are Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers, all veterans of Saturday Night Live and accomplished sketch comedy artists.
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Heidi Klum Has a Good Poker Face, Could Probably Out-Drink Jimmy Fallon | WIRED
As you must know by now, Comic-Con International populated the city of San Diego last weekend, and Conan O’Brien moved his show down south for a few days in honor of the event.
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Patti Smith sends Aqua Teen Hunger Force off with a solemn tribute song · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After 13 seasons subverting the airwaves late at night on Adult Swim, Meatwad, Master Shake, Frylock, and their curmudgeonly neighbor Carl Brutananadilewski will call it a day this Sunday with a series-ending episode titled, “The Last One Forever an…
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S Sudan reporter killed days after ‘president’s threat’ – Al Jazeera English
Assailants have reportedly shot dead a reporter for the New Nation newspaper in South Sudan in an apparently targeted attack, days after President Salva Kiir allegedly made a thinly veiled threat to target journalists who reported “against the count…
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Oklahoma Has Had More Earthquakes So Far In 2015 Than It Did In All Of 2014 | ThinkProgress
The state recorded its 587th earthquake of 3.0 magnitude or higher early this week, breaking the previous record of 585. That record was set for all of 2014, meaning that Oklahoma has now had more 3.0 magnitude or higher earthquakes so far in 2015 t…
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The wizarding world of Harry Potter is a pretty white-washed affair, according to a new study by Dylan Marron. Marron has been looking at various films and filmmakers to see how often a person of color speaks, and as we’ve previously reported, the r…
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Kurdish democracy tested in presidency row – BBC News
Iraqi Kurdish parties are locked in a bitter stalemate over the fate of the presidency of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, which expired on Wednesday.
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BBC Sport – Alex Sandro: Brazilian joins Juventus from Porto in £18m deal
Brazil left-back Alex Sandro has signed for Italian champions Juventus from Porto for £18.6m (26m euros) on a five-year deal. Juventus begin their Serie A campaign at home against Udinese on Sunday.
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Android Wear Faces Are Finally Interactive, Congratulations Google | Motherboard
Google just gave Android Wear a shot in the arm. The company said today that, over the next few weeks, a software update will be pushed out that will allow developers to make Android Wear faces interactive.
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Kate Middleton Embarks on Luxury Tennis-Court Upgrade at Country Estate | Vanity Fair
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are famously major, major tennis connoisseurs.
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ISIS Militants Have Beheaded a Prominent Syrian Archaeologist
Known as one of the most important pioneers in 20th Century Syrian archaeology, Khaled al-Asaad has reportedly been executed by ISIS militants near the ancient city of Palmyra.
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Steven Lane is a woodworking artist, from the south island of New Zealand, with a unique approach to gathering the materials needed for his work. From eyewear to headphones, Steven creates one of a kind pieces that are truly beautiful. He prefers sa…
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Yet another land mine for GMO Golden Rice | Grist
Good God, what a mess: That’s what I kept thinking as, face in palm, I read the latest updates on an evolving controversy over Golden Rice. I was alerted to it by a recent piece in the Boston Globe, but Retraction Watch had the story first. Here’s t…
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Do NOT change the channel! : cats
Do NOT change the channel! via /r/cats http://t.co/gcSBVRAdpt http://t.co/xrewBxVSki
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Beauty of Planet Earth – Milky Way | via Facebook | We Heart It
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Timelapse of the Sun in 4K : space
Timelapse of the Sun in 4K via /r/space http://t.co/KUJuFBFmkn http://t.co/J2DHT8CzIo
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Milky Way – Wikipedia | We Heart It
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Andromeda Galaxy | We Heart It
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So much power via /r/funny http://t.co/3XmEfNBxqU http://t.co/ZTeOjnqhdv
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Two weeks ago, 99% Invisible broadcast an audio documentary from 1998 about one of the last remaining flophouses on The Bowery in NYC called The Sunshine Hotel. It is an amazing time capsule from a Manhattan that just doesn’t exist anymore. The Suns…
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“Author’s preferred text” of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: What do those words mean?
Sifting through Slate’s mailroom recently, we found a new edition of Neil Gaiman’s first novel, Neverwhere, with three words printed beneath the title on its glossy cover: “author’s preferred text.
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How the Ashley Madison Hack Could Threaten People’s Lives | VICE News
The widespread reaction to the now-public trove of stolen user data from extra-marital dating service and social network Ashley Madison has generally not been one of sympathy — but it is quickly becoming clear that there is a darker effect of the ma…
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French National Front expels founder Jean-Marie Le Pen – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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If This Selfie Emoji Becomes Official I Am Going Back To Using A Flip Phone | TechCrunch
One of my favorite things to do is to watch and see what emojis become candidates for Unicode updates (don’t judge). Sometimes they’re really great and sometimes they’re well…obnoxious.
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Gawker Is Really Great—No Really, It’s So Great | WIRED
Last night, the popular news and gossip site Gawker posted a story outing a top Condé Nast executive. (Condé Nast is WIRED’s parent company.) The blowback was swift and furious. Many of Gawker’s commenters were outraged.
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Hunger Games star and David O. Russell darling Jennifer Lawrence tops the Forbes list of highest-paid actresses in 2015, with an estimated $52 million in earnings from June 2014 to June 2015. Last year, Lawrence was ranked second on the list, with S…
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Humans are ‘unique super-predator’ – BBC News
Humans’ status as a unique super-predator is laid bare in a new study published in Science magazine. The analysis of global data details the ruthlessness of our hunting practices and the impacts we have on prey.
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Tiger Woods shoots 64 at Wyndham, his lowest round in two years | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods is having the worst season of his professional career, but he had a day to remember in North Carolina after shooting his lowest score in more than two years.
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America does a better job of tracking bee deaths than deaths in police custody – Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “The federal government has a pretty good picture of where bees are dying across America, with two federal agencies collaborating on a systematic, scientifically-rigorous, long-term look at the problem, particularly imp…
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Audio Visuals: Lana Del Rey Has an RPG and Isn’t Afraid to Use It | WIRED
Here’s a fun detail for you: This week’s Audio Visuals post includes an Academy Award nominated actress, an alien, and the beloved Game of Thrones character Grey Worm—and they’re all singing! OK, so we can’t prove that FKA Twigs is from another cele…
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Feed Plants with Leftover Cooking Water
Just a quick PSA: The next time you boil (or steam) vegetables, eggs, or pasta, don’t pour the leftover water down the drain. The water could benefit your garden or household plants.
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Prosecutors amend Uber lawsuit to include background check failures | Technology | The Guardian
California prosecutors have amended a complaint against popular ride-sharing service Uber to include poorly managed background checks that permitted drivers with convicted murder and sex crimes to drive for the company.
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Android Wear watches can now translate entire conversations | The Verge
Google Translate has arrived on Android Wear. Alongside a big update to watch faces today, Android Wear has been given support for Google Translate. The app is supposed to make it easy for two people who speak different languages to converse with on…
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Sleep Like a Bitcoin Bo$$ in One of These $48,000 Beds | Motherboard
Accused Bitcoin embezzler and general sneaky weasel Mark Karpeles appears to have spent most of his ill-gotten gains on software rights, but he also reportedly spend $48,000 on a bed. This led us at Motherboard to wonder: what the hell kind of bed c…
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Greek Prime Minister to Resign | Al Jazeera America
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday that he is stepping down and calling early elections after suffering a rebellion within his left-wing Syriza party over the country’s new bailout program.
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California’s Ag Land Is Sinking Hella Fast | WIRED
It’s the end of summer, and you’ve got that sinking feeling. Maybe it’s because you have to go back to school. Maybe it’s because your only vacation left to look forward to is Thanksgiving at your uncle’s house.
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Ashley Madison Hackers Release Second Dump Of Data — Here’s What You Should Know – Digg
On Saturday, the New York Times dropped a big investigation into the insanely intense working conditions (for white collar employees) at Amazon — and set the Internet and business world on fire. If you haven’t been following along, here’s what you n…
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What’s the difference between erotica and pornography? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Tony Ward, the star of my film Hustler White, once said in Rolling Stone magazine that the difference between art and porn is the lighting, and he has a point. Aesthetics go a long way in describing how people view sexually explicit material.
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Bandit the Cat via /r/cats http://t.co/aaD6TJLDiu http://t.co/CSRnLXGOIV
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Google/Gallup Study: Computer Science Is Not A Priority For Most Schools | TechCrunch
Nine in 10 parents believe that teaching computer science is a good use of school resources. Two-thirds of parents believe CS education should be mandatory in schools. Eight percent of students think they will learn about CS in the future.
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Updated Tile Item Tracker Boasts Louder Ring, Find Your Phone Feature | TechCrunch
A new version of the bluetooth tracker tag Tile just dropped on Amazon, Tile’s website and a host of T-Mobile stores. The updated item tracker now boasts a ring that’s three times louder and has added a super dandy new feature called Find Your Phone.
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Swarm Gets Back Into The Game With Leaderboards | TechCrunch
In its quest to add a little fun through your (literal) journey through life, Swarm is launching version 3.0 of the app, bringing in a special new game that lets you compete with your friend network. In short, the Swarm leaderboard rewards users wit…
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The Vergecast will be live today at 4:00PM ET! | The Verge
Verge Hack Week. What is it? What does it mean? How will you die on Mars? What Android phone is going to be the one to get this fall? Would you go swimming in a transparent pool in the sky? These are deep questions, none of which have answers.
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Where Are All the Dark Energy and Dark Matter?
An artist’s impression of the experiment to detect chameleon dark energy particles. Cesium atoms are dropped above an aluminum sphere, while sensitive lasers measure the forces on the freefalling atoms.
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Bitcoin Community in Disarray After New Software Introduced | VICE News
Users of Bitcoin have found themselves divided this week over how the digital currency should prepare itself for anticipated growth in coming years, with two members of the community acting independently to offer their own solution.
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Iran is Not the Greatest Threat to World Peace | The Nation
Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the asses…
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The Addams Family opening gets a color makeover · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Stuart Manning, creator of the Dark Shadows News Page, made a color version of The Addams Family opening, using the color set photos as his guide.
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TOLEDO, OH—Bending down to hug her in her wheelchair before quickly saying their goodbyes, members of the Schueller family reportedly cut their nursing home visit short Thursday so that their grandmother, Anna Schueller, could get back to her excruc…
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Let’s photoshop the future together | The Verge
Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.
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Why Jeb May Have Bested Trump In The Town Hall Duel
Jeb Bush and Donald Trump had New Hampshire town halls at the same time yesterday. The media scored the town hall “duel” for Trump. I’m not so sure. The Washington Post and Bloomberg noted that Trump had the bigger and more energized crowd.
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When Your Period Tries to Kill You | Broadly
Sitting cross-legged on a hospital bed, I was relaying the history of my period to a doctor. He looked at me quizzically, glancing at my notes. “25? You’re very young.” That afternoon, I found out that I was severely anemic.
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Punk rock and its accoutrements—including the handmade, Xeroxed ‘zine—pass into history, replaced by Taylor Swift and Snapchat, or whatever.
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Josh Duggar on family values : funny
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Brother Bernard Marie Generously Serves The Pour : monkslookingatbeer
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Techy distance-ed courses from O’Reilly: Learning Paths – Boing Boing
O’Reilly’s debuted “Learning Paths,” a promising new line of distance-ed programs for techy subjects, with the quality and range you’d expect from the company that brought us the camel book and Make: magazine. Sara from O’Reilly Media writes, “Intro…
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How will California’s drought impact its ancient redwood forests? – Boing Boing
A team of scientists from the USGS, UC Berekeley and the National Parks Service seek to find out.
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Everyone’s Addicted to Mobile Messaging Apps | WIRED
App browsing still doesn’t have quite the same cachet as window shopping, but it should—the sheer amount of time spent staring into our smartphones is indication enough that we very much care what’s going on inside. We’ve selected some new titles wo…
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LawDingo users, meet DocDingo, CashDingo and PsychDingo. As I’ve written in the past, the Y Combinator-incubated startup promises to connect you with a lawyer instantly, usually over the phone.
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How to Completely Uninstall OneDrive in Windows 10
OneDrive comes installed with Windows 10 and is enabled by default if you sign on with a Microsoft account. If you don’t use OneDrive, however, and don’t want it running in the background, there are some hoops you can jump through to disable it or g…
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Greek PM announces resignation and calls for snap polls – Al Jazeera English
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for early elections in a televised address to the nation, as he tackles a divide within his governing left-wing party over the terms of the country’s latest bailout.
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Seth Rollins Is Happy You Hate Him | Rolling Stone
It’s been more than a year since Seth Rollins sold out – or “bought in” – via a series of chair shots on former Shield brothers Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns, and in the time since, he’s made the most of his opportunities, becoming one of the top he…
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A group of 130 religious and civil rights advocacy groups are demanding President Barack Obama reconsider a 2007 legal memo allowing the federal government to use a broad interpretation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) — a framework t…
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How Did Scientists Discover the Neutrino When it Has No Charge and No Mass?
It’s the early 1950s, and people pretty much agree that a neutrino exists. No one has found it, and because it’s nearly massless and completley chargeless no one can figure out how to find it. Learn how two scientist finally managed it. It was 1949 …
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Flashback: David Allan Coe Cuts the ‘Perfect Country and Western Song’ | Rolling Stone
If the notion of any current country performer labeling himself an outlaw was ever laughable, it would never be more so when considering David Allan Coe.
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Penny Tracks Your Spending and Walks You Through Your Budget
There are plenty of budgeting tools out there, like Mint, that help you keep track of every penny and analyze your spending in a number of different ways. But if you’re new to budgeting, or you just like to keep things simple, it’s nice to have a ba…
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Hear Corb Lund Mix Motown and Honky-Tonk With ‘Weight of the Gun’ | Rolling Stone
Canadian cowboy Corb Lund has grown a cult following with his off-kilter twang and Southern-gothic-meets-city-streets sense of storytelling.
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Jane’s Addiction Break Down ‘Ritual de lo Habitual’ Track by Track | Rolling Stone
In the eyes of the cultural mainstream (and most of the music business), 1980s Los Angeles was simply a sea of spandex, a synthetic breeding ground for cookie-cutter hair-metal hopefuls vying to be the next Ratt, Poison or Warrant.
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Motherboard | Home | Motherboard
To dive beneath the waves and experience the ocean’s awesome, unforgiving wonder was once the privilege of a few fortunate explorers. Something just happened, we think.
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Twitch Is Cheating At Dark Souls
The Internet’s attempt to play Dark Souls has been fun to watch, even if they’ve spent most of the time rolling into walls. But last night, a breakthrough: they beat the game’s first boss.
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As many as 60,000 American women each year are told they have a very early stage of breast cancer — Stage 0, as it is commonly known — a possible precursor to what could be a deadly tumor.
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Summer Spells Hunger for Kids in Small American Towns
Metropolis, Illinois, population 6,465, isn’t much of a metropolis. But when Reverend Orlando McReynolds moved to that small town on the Kentucky border two years ago to become the pastor at the First Missionary Life Center, he found the same thing …
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Every Forest Biome on Earth Is Actively Dying Right Now | Motherboard
Forests are ecological superheroes—they ventilate the planet, nurture the most biodiverse habitats on Earth, and regulate global climate and carbon cycles. From the poles to the equator, our survival is completely dependent on healthy woodlands.
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Why “Anchor Baby” Is Offensive—and a Distortion of Truth | The New Republic
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to lead not only in the polls, but with his crude rhetoric. In a Tuesday interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Trump questioned whether “anchor babies,” a pejorative term for babies born in …
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In a Land Before iTunes | The New Republic
Every ship the traveler takes today,” a New York Times correspondent wrote in 1922, “throbs with the staccato cacophony of jazz.
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No Indictments for New Jersey Officers Who Shot Black Man With Hands Up | Mother Jones
Reid opened the door and got out of the car with his hands up, after saying, “I ain’t doing nothing. I’m not reaching for nothing, bro.” As Reid got out, Worley fired one shot through the car’s windshield and didn’t hit anything, according to the Cu…
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Just a panda eating sushi : AnimalsBeingBros
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Sleep blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/YtnKnC6lqE http://t.co/Mo2q5hZfSU
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Dizzy Gillespie playing horn in 1955 : OldSchoolCool
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News in Brief: Family Cuts Nursing Home Visit Short So Grandmother Can Get Back To Excruciating Loneliness http://t.co/69m0rTqZkS
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2015 May Just Be Hottest Year on Record – Scientific American
If you’re a betting person, it would be close to a sure bet to go all-in on 2015 taking the title of warmest year on record.
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Meet the unlikely political operative behind Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign | US news | The Guardian
The last major campaign run by Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, featured vicious intraparty fighting and allegations of racism. In other words, it was good preparation for his current job.
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You Can Now Make Animated GIFs From Your Phone with Giphy’s New App | Motherboard
Animated GIFs just got a whole lot easier thanks to Giphy, an online repository of animated GIFS. The company is rolling out a mobile app that allows users to create a GIF directly from their phone, much in the same way you’d shoot a video.
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Were Malcolm X’s autobiography to be published today, would it be called “hate speech”? Would he be blindfolded and shackled, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay? What’s certain is that its subject matter, first published…
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Legendary Investor Yuri Milner Will Hit Up Disrupt SF In September | TechCrunch
Today, TechCrunch has its own announcement: Yuri Milner will be joining us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September. Milner is one of the biggest names in tech venture capital, founding DST Global after finding success as the CEO of…
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In This Japanese Game, Defeating Enemies Gives You Bigger Boobs | Motherboard
The game features students from an all-female school who are competing to win “The Cup of Beauty,” which grants the student one wish. Conveniently, all the girls want the same thing—bigger boobs.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Resigns Amid Opposition From His Own Party – The Atlantic
The package—about $96 billion over three years—calls for tax increases, cuts to Greece’s vast public sector, and pension reforms.
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Ashley Madison hackers have posted more leaked data | The Verge
The hackers behind this week’s leak of Ashley Madison user data may have released more details, this time about the company itself. Motherboard reports that the group behind the hack, known as Impact Team, have posted another 20GB of data on the sam…
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BBC Sport – Ashes 2015: Steve Smith & David Warner battle for Australia at Oval
Steve Smith struck an unbeaten 78 as Australia made 287-3 on day one of the final Test against England at The Oval. In his final Test, Chris Rogers made 43 in an opening stand of 110 with David Warner (85), but both edged to slip.
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Republican presidential also-rans fuming at their treatment in the ‘kids table’ debate
Ya think?Two weeks after the first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, several candidates scraping the bottom of primary polls are still seething about their treatment — and ripping party leadership for what they describe as, at best carele…
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New York prison escapee David Sweat arraigned on new criminal charges | US news | The Guardian
A convicted killer serving life behind bars when he staged a daring escape from a maximum-security prison was arraigned on Thursday on new criminal charges in his first court appearance since his capture after more than three weeks on the run.
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Rob Reiner’s LBJ movie has found its Jackie Kennedy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rob Reiner’s LBJ film cast Woody Harrelson as the 36th president early on, then quickly added Richard Jenkins as his adversary and former fictional president Bill Pullman as a liberal Democrat senator.
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Daredevil’s season two costume looks a lot like his season one costume · Newswire · The A.V. Club
This post contains plot details from the first season of Marvel’s Daredevil.
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This harrowing expedition pushed a group of mountaineers to the mental and physical brink; carving them down to nothing. A six-person team from The North Face and National Geographic attempted to summit an obscure peak in Myanmar (Hkakabo Razi) to d…
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Greek bailout: Alexis Tsipras to ‘step down and call snap elections’ | World news | The Guardian
The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has decided to step down and call snap elections for 20 September, government officials said.
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The Gender Orgasm Gap | FiveThirtyEight
Sex appears in my inbox at least once a month. We all occasionally wonder if we’re normal, especially when it comes to the most private parts of our lives.
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Studio behind Adam Sandler movie you didn’t see now suing Popcorn Time users | Ars Technica
The studio behind a poorly-reviewed Adam Sandler movie has targeted 11 Popcorn Time users in Oregon who used the BitTorrent-based app to download The Cobbler.
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BBC Sport – Tiger Woods’ 64 at Wyndham Championship lowest for two years
Former world number one Tiger Woods shot his lowest round for two years with a 64 at the Wyndham Championship in Sedgefield, USA. The 14-times major champion finished the first round two shots off the lead on six under par, a week after missing the …
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Google covertly lobbied against net neutrality in India – Boing Boing
The company emailed members of the Government Relations committee of the Indian ISP association, asking them to support Facebook’s Internet.org program, which delivers “a poor Internet for poor people.
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BBC Sport – Jenson Button: Burglary ordeal ‘behind us now’
Button was robbed while holidaying in France with friends and wife Jessica, whose engagement ring was stolen. “You never want anyone in your house that you haven’t invited when you’re there. And asleep as well,” he said.
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A Baltimore judge has set bail at $1m for a police officer charged with attempted murder in what authorities describe as the shooting of a subdued burglary suspect at close range.
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Learn Why Symmetry Is at the Heart of Physics In Less Than 3 Minutes | Motherboard
Got time for a quick particle physics lesson? Dr. David Kaplan from John Hopkins University narrated this short video in Quanta Magazine explaining why symmetry in the natural world is so important to physicists.
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Like too many pop songs, new Empire teaser features Pitbull · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The new teaser for Empire is less than a minute long, but it debuts season two’s new song, “No Doubt About It,” by Jussie Smollett’s Jamal Lyon.
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This Is Julia Child’s Recipe for Shark Repellent from Her Stint at the CIA
In 1943, a young Julia Child was working for the CIA on a slightly different recipe than the ones we remember her for—a shark repellent that was soon spread widely through government agencies. There was just one problem: it didn’t keep the sharks aw…
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If the hack doesn’t kill Ashley Madison, these lawsuits could | The Verge
This week, the adultery-themed dating site Ashley Madison was hit with one of the most damaging and personal breaches we’ve seen, as digital attackers released names, emails and private profiles for as many as 32 million users worldwide.
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Jurassic World was a mammoth hit that seemed to divide critics. Some enjoyed the blockbuster sights and mammoth production, while others felt that such excitement came at the price of character development and common sense.
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When a Plane Crash Has a ‘Happy Ending’ – The Atlantic
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Lincoln Chafee has no taste for neoconservative fantasies, or for the politicians of both major parties who entertain them.
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I Flew With NASA To Study the California Drought From the Sky
It didn’t look good. Dark sapphire pools dotted the bare gray peaks of the Sierras, ringed in too many concentric circles of sediment to count.
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UNESCO status forces change on Reunion’s island farmers – Al Jazeera English
Five years ago, 40 percent of Reunion, a French territory east of Madagascar, was named a UNESCO world heritage site and turned into a national park.
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A Donald Trump-Inspired Hate Crime in Boston – The Atlantic
The impact of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant broadsides appears to have veered dangerously far off the presidential campaign trail. Police in Boston say that one of two brothers who allegedly beat a homeless Hispanic man cited Trump’s message on immi…
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U.S. taxpayers are getting ripped off by fossil fuel extraction | Grist
President Obama, having failed to get a bill to address climate change through Congress when Democrats controlled it, has begun to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions by using his executive authority under existing law.
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California is sinking. Blame the drought. | Grist
California is sinking. New data released by NASA reveals that parts of the the Central Valley are sinking faster than previously expected — over two inches a month in some places. Corcoran, home of the California State Prison (and Charles Manson), s…
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America. We used to bestride the world like a colossus, a leader among nations, smarter, faster, braver, more forward-thinking than our rivals. Once, we were great, inventive and nimble, always pressing fearlessly ahead in the name of progress.
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Rioters look better with lightsabers! : gifs
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California Right-to-Die Advocate Dies, But Not the Way She Wanted | VICE News
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Jennifer Glass had no control over the lung cancer ravaging her body, but the 52-year-old knew how she wanted to die: at home in bed with her husband and their cat, quickly and…
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Android Wear’s watch faces are getting a bit more interesting today. Developers were always able to display a lot of information on their watch faces, but users couldn’t interact with them.
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Hamas Claims It Caught An Israeli Spy…Dolphin | ThinkProgress
Hamas claimed this week to have captured an unusual Israeli spy off the coast of Gaza. The militant Palestinian political organization said that the spy dolphin was “stripped of its will” and turned into “a murderer,” according to the Palestinian ne…
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Is Your Friend “Sleep It Off” Drunk or “Call 911” Drunk?
The night is no longer young. Your friend, life of the party a few hours ago, is passed out on the couch. But how drunk are they? Do they just need a helping shoulder to stagger off to bed, or is this the level of drunk that warrants a call to the h…
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NOAA: July hottest month on record, 2015 could be hottest year – CNN.com
(CNN)If you felt the heat this past July, you are hardly alone. July saw the highest average temperatures since record-keeping began — globally, not just the United States — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.
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Amazing sunset in Cincinnati, Ohio [5184×3456] : EarthPorn
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It was just HERE via /r/funny http://t.co/PUGyr0Tdxn http://t.co/Xr6y7z3ayY
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St Louis police fatally shoot man, setting off protests – BBC News
Nine people have been arrested amid protests in Missouri after St Louis police fatally shot a 18-year-old black man who they say pointed a gun at them. Police used tear gas after protesters threw glass bottles and blocked a motorway on Wednesday nig…
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Android Wear 1.3 coming with interactive watch face support | Ars Technica
Today Google announced an upcoming Android Wear update that adds interactive watch face support to the platform. Developers can now write watch face apps with customized layouts and buttons that reveal information and trigger new activities.
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Tiger Woods shoots best competitive round for two years | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods produced his best competitive round for two years on Thursday on the first day of the Wyndham Championship at a soggy Sedgefield course in Greensboro, where he shot a six-under-par 64, two off the early clubhouse lead.
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Fan makes 3D model of Sleeping Beauty Castle, Disney hires him to make it official – Boing Boing
John Frost writes, “Disneyland needed a 3D model of Sleeping Beauty Castle for its 60th Anniversary overlay, here’s how one Disney fan was hired to do the job.” A reminder that trademark holders can protect themselves from dilution by authorizing fa…
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Hackers Dump More Ashley Madison Data | Motherboard
Over the past few days, people have been digging through 10GB of data apparently sourced from the extramarital site Ashley Madison, and its parent site Avid Life Media.
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Android Wear watch faces are now interactive and way more useful | The Verge
Google’s making it possible for Android Wear developers to do way more with watch faces starting today. “We’re launching interactive watch faces, making it easier (and more fun) to stay connected, right from your wrist,” the company wrote in a blog …
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UK regulator orders Google to pull ‘right to be forgotten’ removal stories | The Verge
Google and European regulators continue to fight over which links ought to be removed under the controversial “right to be forgotten.” In an order this week, regulators have taken issue over a decision by Google not to remove nine links, which the c…
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What We Need To Know About On-Demand Work Platforms Before Regulating Them | TechCrunch
As we fast approach the 2016 election cycle, the future of on-demand work platforms is at a crossroads, with Uber, TaskRabbit and other market leaders facing increased scrutiny and skepticism from regulators and political leaders.
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Google Photos Introduces “Rediscover This Day” To Help You Reminisce | TechCrunch
Without a doubt, Google Photos wants to be home to all of your photos. Whether you have a thumb drive, CD, DVD or undeveloped film laying around, the team wants you to consider uploading them to the service. Why? Because that’s when they can make th…
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Images Captured by the UK’s First Female War Photographer Are Going Online | Motherboard
Few may know about the pioneering works of photographer Olive Edis. But now, a UK museum has won an £81,000 grant to create an interactive website of her works and writing, bringing Edis’ work online for the first time.
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Netflix Teases An Updated Costume For Daredevil Season 2
We were quite enamoured with Daredevil’s take on Matt Murdock’s iconic red crimefighting suit—but there’s always room for improvement. It looks like we’re getting such an improvement, if this glimpse of Matt’s new crimefighting suit is anything to g…
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Muppets Tonight gave Prince his first real chance to be funny · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: With Lifetime debuting The Unauthorized Full House Story, we take a look at some favorites from the TGIF era.
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In this Review clip Forrest tries to live as a little person · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
Forrest makes his best effort at being small but suffers from a different kind of alienation. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central App.
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Some Kind Of Beautiful · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Some Kind Of Beautiful is a romantic comedy that initially sets out to reclaim the old poetic definition of “romance.
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Bomb The Music Industry! sparked a campaign for better weekends · 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. It’s hard to discuss Bomb The Music Industry! without having a lengthy preamble about the band’s ethics.
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Ashley Madison commits copyfraud in desperate bid to suppress news of its titanic leak – Boing Boing
The company is shotgunning DMCA notices against journalists and others who reproduce even the tiniest fraction of the dump of users who signed up to find partners with whom to cheat on their spouses — included in the dump are thousands of people wh…
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Affirm Partners With Shopify, Will Now Let All Merchants Offer Financing Options | TechCrunch
Affirm, the lending company started by Max Levchin that offers customers payment plans for online purchases, has announced that the company’s financing options will now be available to all Shopify stores.
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What’s in a square mile? Instagram account of aerial photos – Boing Boing
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For those New Yorkers who can’t get away, summer in the city can be brutal – a series of unhappy encounters with rotting garbage and sticky taxi-seats, in which one is constantly being plunged from furnace-like heat into the meat-locker chill of ove…
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US cinema chain Regal introduces bag search after attacks – BBC News
One of America’s largest cinema chains, Regal, is now searching bags of filmgoers following several attacks on movie theatres across the US. Regal’s updated policy says it wants customers and staff “to feel comfortable and safe” in its cinemas.
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Walking into Mexico at the nation’s busiest border crossing with the United States is no longer an uninterrupted stroll for foreigners.
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Arrests and Tear Gas at St. Louis Protest Following Fatal Police Shooting | VICE News
St. Louis police arrested nine people and fired tear gas at protesters during a demonstration on Wednesday over the killing of an 18-year-old black male by officers carrying out a search warrant at a house.
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More senators line up to back Iran pact; AP writes a baloney report on inspections at Parchin
The AP reported that a classified draft document that came into its possession shows that International Atomic Energy Agency would permit Iranians to carry out inspections at Parchin without any U.N. inspector on the ground.
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Sex Offenders and a Convicted Murderer Passed Uber’s Background Check | Motherboard
Ride hailing company Uber has allowed dozens of convicted criminals to slip through its background check process, California prosecutors are alleging this week. The oversights were laid out in a complaint Thursday as part of an ongoing civil suit ag…
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Ralph Lauren’s ‘smart’ shirt is the ultimate preppy tech | The Verge
Ralph Lauren’s sensor-laden shirts are finally coming to the masses — provided the masses are willing to cough up $295 for a workout shirt.
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If you’re anything like us, you see the words “Swedish Chef and The Seventh Seal mashup” and think to yourself, “That sounds idiotic.” And you’d be right.
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Greece’s Radical Leftist Prime Minister Resigns In Defeat | ThinkProgress
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is resigning days after the Greek parliament officially approved a third stringent bailout package that will impose further austerity on the struggling archipelago.
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The Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse Trailer Is A NSFW, Kick-Ass Bloodbath
The new red-band trailer for Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is not safe for work. It’s also not safe for zombie cats, zombie heads, chests, strippers, jocks or anything else either. Pretty much, it’s an absolutely filthy destructive bloodbath…
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Lightning strike permanently zaps data in European Google datacenter | Ars Technica
One of Google’s datacenters in Europe, europe-west1-b, suffered permanent data loss after power fluctuations resulted in sporadic I/O errors. The cause? Four lightning strikes to the power grid disrupted the building’s power.
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Germany refugee riot over torn Koran leaves 17 hurt – BBC News
An argument over a Koran that erupted at a shelter in central Germany has led to violence in which 11 refugees and six police were injured. Twenty people tried to lynch an Afghan man of 25 after he tore pages from the Koran and threw them in a toile…
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Britain’s Poles Are Using Their Blood to Show Their Worth | VICE News
Polish immigrants living in the United Kingdom are making a bold statement — using their actual blood — about how much they should be valued by their adopted country.
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New American Horror Story Set Photo Unveils Lady Gaga’s Mega-Glam Character | Vanity Fair
Way back in May, Lady Gaga teased American Horror Story fans by posting a glam photo on Twitter with the caption “I heard you called for a blonde @MrRPMurphy #AHSHotel.” But there was been precious little about her character design since.
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Sir Rocco Forte: Europe project ‘a complete disaster’ – BBC News
Sir Rocco Forte has said that the European project has been “a complete disaster” that has harmed the economies of many countries involved. The British hotelier believes that the UK should not “be afraid of leaving the EU”.
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Jeb Bush Suggests Donald Trump Is A Secret Progressive. Is He Right? | ThinkProgress
You can’t run for president in this day and age without being asked repeatedly about Donald Trump. And you can’t avoid Donald Trump’s wrath without repeatedly dodging the question. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, however, is taking the chance.
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Keep a Grab-and-Go Bag of Toiletries on Hand for Last Minute Trips
Maybe you’ve got a last minute business trip, or maybe you decide to sleep over at a friend’s place on a Friday night. Whatever the scenario, it helps to have a quick bag of travel essentials on hand that you can grab before you go.
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Metric Mull ‘Fortunes’ on Foreboding, Futuristic New Single | Rolling Stone
Metric have released another spacey, stirring, synth-soaked new track, “Fortunes,” from their upcoming LP, Pagans In Vegas.
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South Sudan journalist Peter Moi shot dead – BBC News
Gunmen have killed South Sudan reporter Peter Julius Moi by shooting him twice in the back in the capital, Juba, his family said after identifying his body. He is the seventh journalist to be killed this year in South Sudan, where a civil war is ong…
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ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that doctors had found cancer on his brain and that he would begin radiation treatments later in the day. During a news conference at the Carter Center here, Mr.
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Donald J. Trump continues to overheat the Republican Party’s speech on immigration. What is his latest protest against political correctness? “Anchor babies.”
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Perseids Meteor Shower over Devils Castle by Jake Allison http://t.co/0x5D55I4dn http://t.co/0AS1BTJ2Yj
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July was Earth’s hottest month on record, NOAA says – BBC News
July was the hottest month on Earth since records began, averaging 16.6 C (61.9 F), according to US scientists. That is 0.08 degrees higher than the previous record, set in July 1998, a significant margin in weather records.
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Giving Birth Ruined My Vagina, So I Got a New One
It was at my six-weeks-postpartum appointment that someone in the birth world finally admitted what we all fear to be true: vaginal birth can ruin your vagina, even might ruin it—and, in my case, did.
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MuckRock • Bees but not bodies: Insufficient data on deaths in custody
Every year, a certain number of bees die. And every year, a certain number of people die while in police custody. We have a solid figure for one of these death tolls. At present, it’s not the human body count.
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Videogames are afraid of the female body – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
Women redesign female characters to show what videogames are missing out on “Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts i…
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I woke her from her nap and she looked at me like this. : cats
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We Asked Prison Inmates How Jared Fogle Will Get Treated Behind Bars | VICE | United Kingdom
Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman who famously lost hundreds of pounds by eating the fast-food chain’s sandwiches, is what’s known in prison parlance as a chomo.
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Noam Chomsky: The Real ‘Gravest Threat’ to World Peace Isn’t Iran—It’s the U.S. – In These Times
This post first appeared at TomDispatch. Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.
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Zalando is making billions by tailoring its e-commerce services to European stereotypes – Quartz
The name Zalando is unfamiliar to most people outside Europe, but on the continent, the online shopping site has exploded since it started selling flip-flops in 2008. After a massive growth spurt in 2010—Zalando spokesperson Boris Radke says monthly…
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Fire Lake. Sunset Pathway. [OC] [6000 x 4000] : waterporn
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YouTube, Vine, MTV, and porn can all trace their roots to this little-known technology
If you drew a family tree leading back from MTV, pay-per-view, cable, Internet porn, YouTube, and Vine to its common ancestors, it would look like the kudzu devouring a creepy Southern mansion. And it would all lead back to one gnarly stem buried de…
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Goodwill goes upscale with new boutiques – LA Times
The trappings of an upscale boutique are there: exposed brick, mannequins draped with flashy clothing and designer brands. But the prices are decidedly cheap chic — the Stuart Weitzman black pumps that go for $350 at Bloomingdale’s are a steal at $1…
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NASA Holds Media Opportunities to Discuss Rising Sea Levels | NASA
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Jolla Opens Up More Sailfish Tablet Pre-Orders | TechCrunch
Finnish mobile maker Jolla has opened up additional pre-orders for its forthcoming Sailfish tablet. It said today that a “limited” batch of additional slates is now available to pre-order via its online shop — costing €267 for the 32GB version, or €…
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Astronaut Captures Spectacular Time-Lapse Videos of Earth from Space
As NASA astronaut Scott Kelly sails on through his year-long mission on the International Space Station, the veteran space traveler has beamed down some seriously jaw-dropping videos from “Monday Motivation: May your electrons and protons be fully c…
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China’s ‘Valentines Day’ dims future for fireflies – Al Jazeera English
Ditching flowers and chocolates as gifts for China’s “Valentine’s Day,” some lovers have instead gone online to buy insects glowing in the dark. Fireflies are widely available on the country’s booming e-trade sites, marketed as symbols of love and b…
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Leaving Their Kids Locked Up (Excerpt from ‘The Fruits of Cheap Labor’) | VICE News
In northern Mexico, farm workers who pick produce bound for US supermarkets earn as little as $7 a day. They follow the harvest, traveling between the states of Sinaloa and Baja California as internal migrants in their own country.
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Oldest Lice Combs in the Americas’ Discovered – Scientific American
The earliest evidence for lice infesting humans is a 10,000-year-old specimen of a Brazilian mummy’s lice-ridden hair. Evidence was lacking, however, that prehistoric South Americans created and used combs to remove the pests.
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You Just Lived Through the Hottest Month in Recorded History | Motherboard
Congratulations, you’ve just lived through the hottest month ever recorded. (Yes, another one.
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Donald Trump takes shots at rival Jeb Bush’s ‘dumb statements’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump calls his Republican rival Jeb Bush ‘unelectable’ during a press conference in Derry, New Hampshire on Wednesday. Trump later speaks at a town meeting where he again takes aim at his rival, accusing Bush’s audience at a nearby rally of …
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Eat invasive species and enjoy guilt-free meat – Boing Boing
For some values of guilt-free, anyway: I ate practically nothing but lionfish when we went diving in the Caribbean, and every delicious forkful helped save the reef from a destructive, invasive species.
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The Evolution of a Criminal: An Excerpt From Filmmaker Darius Monroe’s Documentary – The Atlantic
In this excerpt from Darius Monroe’s feature-length autobiographical documentary, Evolution of a Criminal, he uncovers the events that led him to rob a bank as a teenager—convinced that it would help his financially-strained family.
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The opening to the relatively short-lived children’s series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was a dream. Full of claymation, puppets, and a ton of Pee-Wee Herman himself, the manic, frantic introduction is still both endearing and innovative all these years lat…
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In the pages of Nextwave, Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen established Elsa Bloodstone as one of the premier badasses in the Marvel Universe, and she’s been given the opportunity to let loose in Marvel Zombies, a Secret Wars tie-in that strands Elsa …
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Behold, the Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATM | Motherboard
When Mike Tyson announced that he was getting into Bitcoin with his very own branded ATM on the Las Vegas strip, many were skeptical. Hell, some commentators even thought that the whole thing might be a scam. Well, eat your heart out, unbelievers.
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The Big Business of Female Sexual Arousal | Motherboard
Earlier this week, the FDA voted to approve flibanserin, also known by its brand name Addyi, a “pink Viagra” produced by Sprout Pharmaceuticals.
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Elephant on trampoline. : perfectloops
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Sen. Claire McCaskill to back Iranian nuclear deal : politics
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Sen. Claire McCaskill to back Iranian nuclear deal | The Kansas City Star
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Keeping the Faith | The Players’ Tribune
Arian Foster doesn’t believe in God. We could easily fit into the believer/non-believer binary that religion has constructed over time; a Christian praying for the soul of the faithless and the godless rebuking salvation. There should be tension bet…
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Soon after this week’s apparent leak of user data from Ashley Madison, users of the cheating-focused dating site searched frantically for ways to retroactively scrub their accounts from the massive data release.
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July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded for the globe. : environment
July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded for the globe. via /r/environment http://t.co/xNFTPbMlq1 http://t.co/KT2tBSqFlW
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For foreign baseball players hoping to make it in America, just about every conceivable journey — the 1,300 miles from Venezuela, the 5,000 miles from Japan, the 7,000 miles from Australia — has been easier than the 90 short miles from Cuba.
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Elon Musk’s hyperloop is actually getting kind of serious | Ars Technica
The hyperloop sounds like science fiction, Elon Musk’s pipe dream: leapfrog high speed rail and go right to packing us into capsules that fling us across the country in hours using what are, essentially, pneumatic tubes. It sounds crazy, when you th…
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No charges against New Jersey police officers in fatal 2014 shooting | US news | The Guardian
A grand jury in New Jersey has voted against filing charges against two police officers in the fatal shooting of a man who defied orders by stepping out of a car during a traffic stop with his hands raised.
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The latest video intended to cast Planned Parenthood in an unflattering light relies on images of fetuses that were not actually aborted at Planned Parenthood clinics.
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EPA says it isn’t monitoring an estimated 161,000 abandoned mines | Environment | The Guardian
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it has no system for monitoring hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines that pock the American landscape, or knowing which one could be the source of the next big toxic spill.
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Donald Trump is not a true conservative, says Jeb Bush – video | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush sheds his usual tact towards campaign rival Donald Trump and calls him a fairweather conservative during a rally in Merrimack, New Hampshire. The pair held dueling press conferences on Wednesday night and traded blows in their separate town…
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Keep Extension Cords and Air Hoses Off the Ground with Retractable Reels
Extension cords and air hoses can be quite the hazard if left lying around. Set up a safer workshop by using retractable extension cord and air hose reels. Extension cords can be tripped over and and air hoses can be pinched.
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Absolutely Anything’s Biggest Crime Is Going Absolutely Nowhere
Sci-fi comedies rarely have a weight of expectation like Absolutely Anything does. A script 20 years in the making. The first movie from Monty Python’s Terry Jones in decades. A cast made up of British comedy icons. A premise that allows…. well, a…
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Being Evel · Film Review · The A.V. Club
In America, sometimes all it takes to make a million damn dollars is faith in one simple idea.
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Depending on one’s political affiliation, it may not be that hard to find some silly gibberish in a presidential debate.
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Three Washington firefighters killed after ‘hellstorm’ overtook vehicle | US news | The Guardian
Four other firefighters were hurt, including one critically, on Wednesday as crews fought raging wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state, some of the many blazes burning uncontrolled throughout the arid west.
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While MTV’s Video Music Awards are a non-stop celebrity-packed orgy of excess and “what’s Taylor Swift wearing?” queries, viewers will not doubt be shocked to know that—gasp!—the awards ceremony really doesn’t do all that much to honor the people wh…
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NASA’s logo: the worm vs. the meatball
It was referred to, colloquially, as the meatball. In the 1970s, the meatball was switched out for the worm, a more Modernist take: This logo was done by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn, and Danne wrote an essay about the experience.
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Physics In Space Make Absolutely No Sense – Digg
You thought things in space pretty much follow the rule “go in one direction forever” right? Well it turns out you are wrong and not a physicist.
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Bryan Cranston on the 1970’s hit tv show CHiPs : OldSchoolCool
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The way my friend mowed his lawn today! : oddlysatisfying
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Your organic fruits and veggies might have been irrigated with fracking wastewater | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s organics standards, written 15 years ago, strictly ban petroleum-derived fertilizers commonly …
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One often hears lamented the lack of well-spoken public intellectuals in America today.
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Taylor Swift Has the Perfect Name for Her Most Awkward Dance Move | Vanity Fair
When the 2014 MTV V.M.A.s unleashed full-time audience cameras streaming nonstop footage online, we were treated to a few extraordinary sights from the famous faces in the audience. Blue Ivy Carter, it turns out, has some incredible moves. Taylor Sw…
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German spy charged with treason for passing secrets to CIA and Russia | World news | The Guardian
Germany has charged a spy who allegedly acted as a double agent for the US and Russia with treason, breach of official secrecy and taking bribes.
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Former president Jimmy Carter says cancer has spread to his brain – video | US news | The Guardian
Carter, 91, reveals that doctors have detected ‘four spots’ of melanoma on his brain after liver cancer surgery.
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Sunset at the river “Every reflection is the light … by Johannes Drooghaag / 500px
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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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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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Night shift by Lorenzo Mittiga / 500px
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Voice-Focused Dating App Revealr Acquired By Smooch-Owner Venntro Media Group | TechCrunch
Voice-focused dating app Revealr, which lets you record a 20 second audio clip as a calling card for prospective dates, has been acquired by Venntro Media Group, owner of multiple dating properties including Smooch.com via its acquisition of WooWise…
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Inside Banksy’s Dismaland – Boing Boing
Banksy installed a massive pisstake of Disneyland, called Dismaland, that includes his art and other, at a former swimming pool compound in Weston-super-Mare, England. More images below. Juxtapoz has an exclusive interview with Banksy in their new i…
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Google Just Made Its Smartwatch Faces Actually Useful | WIRED
Among watchmakers, a complication refers to any mechanism on a watch that does something other than tell time. They’re essentially analog apps that live on the watch face: chronographs, date displays, moon phases, and the like. Things work a little …
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Windows 10 EULA: Microsoft can killswitch your unauthorized hardware and pirate games – Boing Boing
When you click through the Windows 10 “agreement,” you agree to let Microsoft subject your games and hardware to authenticity tests and to shut down anything it doesn’t like the looks of.
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Giphy’s New App Turns Your Life Into a Parade of GIFs | WIRED
GIFs are part of the Internet’s foundation. You know how to find them, and you know how to perfectly deploy them on Twitter, Tumblr, or in a group text. But do you know how to make them? For such a simple file format, making GIFs has always been sur…
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) named Howard Fuller, an author, civil rights activist, and education reform advocate, as someone he “listens to” on education matters at an education summit sponsored by education news site The Seventy-Four on Tuesday.
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Getting ready to wreak havoc in England. : firstworldanarchists
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Married With Children Spinoff Will Bring Back All The Bundys : television
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Preview Carrie Underwood’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ Opening | Rolling Stone
Preview Carrie Underwood’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ Opening “Little Toy Guns” singer returns for another season of the NFL theme song
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‘The Fat Jew’ Joke Theft Victims Speak Out | Rolling Stone
Last year, comedian and television writer Patrick Walsh was eating lunch when a friend showed him a funny Instagram image of a daily planner that followed scheduled time blocks of “drugs and alcohol” and “crush pussy” with “meet with accountant to d…
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The GOP Candidates Who Are Against Abortion and Birthright Citizenship | Rolling Stone
Two ugly ideological undercurrents have surfaced in the Republican presidential field in the days since the first GOP debate. Several candidates, led by Marco Rubio, have come out opposing abortion, with no exceptions, even in cases of rape or inces…
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Fires in the Pacific Northwest
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There Are Only 2 Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets | TechCrunch
The clock is ticking. If you’ve been holding out on purchasing tickets to Disrupt SF 2015, you have just two days left to score them at the low, early-bird price of $1,995. You seriously don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to save $1,000 on ti…
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Add recreational vehicles to the so-called sharing economy.
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Giphy Cam Lets You Create And Share Homemade Gifs | TechCrunch
Giphy, the search engine for all things gif, has today released a new app called Giphy Cam that lets users create their own gifs to send or share on social media.
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Your Android unlock pattern sucks as much as your password did – Boing Boing
In Tell Me Who You Are, and I Will Tell You Your Lock Pattern, Marte Løge presented some of her Master’s Thesis research on the guessability of Android lock-patterns — and guess what? They’re pretty guessable.
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When Susan Rosalsky was hired as an English instructor at SUNY Orange last year, she was elated. After several years of unemployment, she and her husband, Michael Trost, had been eating through their savings and 401Ks.
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Comcast Is Now Offering Cheap Retiree Rates to Seniors in Florida | Motherboard
Comcast is extending its Internet Essentials program, piloting a program in San Francisco and Palm Beach County, Florida to give retirees cheap internet access. The program would provide senior citizens 10 mbps internet access for $10 per month.
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Bitcoin Core Devs in ‘Civil War’ Insist We’re Not Getting The Whole Story | Motherboard
Bitcoin has never been a boring technology. At first glance you might figure that a seemingly tiny design decision, Bitcoin’s “blocksize,” would be a departure from that.
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How Did Two Yosemite Park Campers Catch the Plague? | Motherboard
In the last three weeks, two separate cases of human plague have been reported in visitors to Yosemite National Park. Luckily, both the child from Los Angeles who became ill last month and the unidentified visitor from Georgia who recently contracte…
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Turkish Officials Eye November for New Elections | Al Jazeera America
Turkey’s election commission has proposed that any snap parliamentary election should be held on Nov. 1, officials of the ruling AK Party said on Thursday, reinforcing the sense that a re-vote is inevitable after June’s poll yielded no working major…
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Greek Prime Minister Expected to Announce His Resignation | VICE News
Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras has decided to resign and call snap elections for September 20, according to government sources. Officials told Reuters that Tsipras was expected to make the announcement later on Thursday. His left-wing Syriza part…
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Search App Vurb Adds Messaging To Become The U.S. WeChat | TechCrunch
WeChat dominates China with its messaging hub that lets you shop, call a taxi, and pay bills — all from one app.
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It’s 8pm on a Wednesday and in a Brooklyn loft, a Bernie Sanders screen-printing event is in full swing. Kowalcyzk, 29, is an actor originally from Atlanta.
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Tim Howard and DaMarcus Beasley picked in USA squad for Brazil test | Football | The Guardian
Goalkeeper Tim Howard is back with the US national team. The US Soccer Federation announced Thursday that coach Jürgen Klinsmann had called up Howard and veteran defender DaMarcus Beasley for exhibitions next month against Peru and Brazil.
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Train full of Nazi war spoils claimed found in Poland – Boing Boing
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If You’re Looking for a Shortcut, You’re Doing the Wrong Work
There are a lot of ways to make a job easier, whether it’s losing weight, learning a new skill, or cooking a fantastic dinner. But there’s a big difference between doing something more efficiently and avoiding the work altogether.
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This ant is actually INSIDE of my monitor : mildlyinteresting
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Paper Weight Loaf. Still working out the kinks. : Catloaf
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Build an imaginary world in your mind, hanging in space. Spin it around a bit; kick the tires. Now change one thing about that world. Throw a bug of your choice into the machine.
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Prince Harry Is Headed to Washington, D.C., This Fall, Hoping to Meet | Vanity Fair
Brace yourselves: Prince Harry is preparing to return to the States in October, Kensington Palace has confirmed. The 30-year-old royal, who has been clocking up the air miles this year, will visit Washington, D.C., in October to launch his eagerly a…
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EPA, New York Times Keep Using Wrong Lowball Numbers For Methane’s Warming Impact | ThinkProgress
Pretty much every recent news article you’ve read about the global warming impact of methane compared to carbon dioxide is wrong.
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Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan Debunked In Under 2 Minutes | ThinkProgress
After losing the 2012 presidential election, Republicans pledged to “embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,” warning that if they ignore the issue, “our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.
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Bangkok Bomb ‘unlikely’ Work of Foreign Group | Al Jazeera America
In a televised statement Thursday, however, military spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree cast doubt on an international connection. When contacted by telephone for clarification, he said that a link to global terrorism hadn’t been ruled out. “We still ha…
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How my cat likes to sit ❤ : cats
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Auctioning off a Rainbow Dash stratocaster-ish guitar for charity – Boing Boing
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City commissioners approve shooting range/restaurant that serves booze – Boing Boing
Daytona Beach, Florida commissioners approved a combination 12-lane indoor gun range and restaurant, that serves alcohol, to open in the city. Owners Ron Perkinson and Edward Staudt say they have a plan to prevent drunk gunplay. From the Daytona Bea…
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Welcome To Larry Ellison’s Cat Island – BuzzFeed News
“They’re the island’s cats,” Kathy Carroll says as I literally trip over Shelby, a gray tabby who won’t stop rubbing my leg.
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It’s just oddly satisfying : AdviceAnimals
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Surface Pro 4, new Bands, and Lumia flagships expected in October | Ars Technica
A bumper crop of new Microsoft hardware will be announced at an event in October according to a rumor coming from Chinese site WPDang.
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‘Six Feet Under’: The Oral History of HBO’s Beloved Landmark Series | Rolling Stone
It’s easy to imagine that, 15 years from now, television audiences will take for granted the existence of groundbreaking series like Orange Is the New Black and Transparent.
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ORLANDO, FL—Noting that the show had simply appeared on the park’s schedule last week without an announcement or fanfare of any kind, visitors to SeaWorld told reporters Thursday that the theme park’s latest attraction consists solely of an elephant…
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Death Cab For Cutie’s Facebook hacked, inundated with NSFW content · Newswire · The A.V. Club
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Russell Poole, Notorious B.I.G. Murder Investigator, Dead | Rolling Stone
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Go Inside the Gwar B-Q: The Grossest Party of the Summer | Rolling Stone
For three decades now, no group has sprayed their fans with gallons of fake bodily fluids better than Gwar.
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New Images of Milky Way’s Center: “Catastrophic Events Caused By the Supermasssive Black Hole”
An international team of astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has been scouring cosmic images of X-ray emission, hunting for elusive clues that reveal the culprit responsible for violent acts that have left deep scars…
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Lights from Perth, Australia as seen from the International Space Station : space
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Behold: the kraken D20! – Boing Boing
It’s a 3D printed D20 studded with questing tentacles, made to order in a wide spectrum of metals and plastics. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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Solved: The Mystery of How Saturn and Jupiter Were Formed
Ironically, the largest planets in the solar system likely formed first. Jupiter and Saturn, which are mostly hydrogen and helium, presumably accumulated their gasses before the solar nebula dispersed.
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Comedian Tig Notaro is Having a Moment | The New Republic
When Going Topless on HBO is a Radical Act http://t.co/Wb80m8nSSZ
Comedian Tig Notaro’s delivery style is dry and flat. The funny in her standup is often in the silence after and between her statements, her long pauses allowing the audience to catch up to the joke, as it is in the words she’s actually said. -
Jimmy Carter Discusses His Cancer Diagnosis – The Atlantic
Contraception is not a toy, but the Caya, a new, one-size-fits-most diaphragm, looks like something Polly Pocket might be into: It’s lilac, squishy, and comes in its own little case. The look is part of its appeal.
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Bicycle Desks: A Good Idea – The Atlantic
Americans sit. A lot. According to one estimate, sedentary jobs have risen 83 percent since 1950, and now account for 43 percent of American jobs. To combat the ill effects, some have taken to standing desks.
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Beat Your Eyeballs to Death with This Majestic GeoCities Tribute | Motherboard
Remember GeoCities? That web-hosting service that spewed millions of uninhibited personal websites filled with garish, blinking, ClipArt designs. Well, Cameron Askin, a digital designer and artist, has spent 10 months creating a cult of love to it.
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“Bender’s Big Score” · Futurama · TV Review · The A.V. Club
It’s hard to say goodbye, isn’t it? Especially when nothing ever goes away. Oh, I know, I know. Firefly isn’t coming back any time soon, and Uncle Ben is still dead (although given the number of Spider-Man movies we’ve seen, who knows what the futur…
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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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The Mend · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Part of the fun of watching a new filmmaker develop his or her own voice involves noting early influences, then seeing them get integrated into a unique personal style.
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Remember Second Life? The virtual world where users can do and create just about anything they want, especially if it has something to do with penises? So powerful was the allure of its futuristic digital spaces and the service’s potential as a tool…
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The Arrangement, E!’s new series about a staged romance that’s almost certainly not inspired by Scientology-scripted love stories, has found its female lead.
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Denver to Las Vegas [3264×1836] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Kenya tribe uprooted by al-Shabab conflict – Al Jazeera English
For one tribe in Kenya, it has been their home for centuries. But now a forest on the border with Somalia has become a main hideout for fighters from al-Shabab, the Somalia-based armed group that says it is at war with the Kenyan government.
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MRW I live in the 90’ies and need my catnip. : shittyreactiongifs
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EU calls for urgency in ‘seriously lagging’ Paris climate talks | Environment | The Guardian
With 100 days to go until the Paris climate summit, the EU’s climate chief has warned that progress in thrashing out a draft negotiating text is proceeding too slowly and urgently needs to be stepped up.
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Jimmy Carter Reveals He Has Melanoma in His Brain | Al Jazeera America
Former President Jimmy Carter announced Thursday that his cancer is on four small spots on his brain and he will immediately begin radiation treatment.
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TV Channel Guide from the Future — The Message — Medium
Why Will This Happen?NBCUniversal announced this week that it was investing heavily in two internet publishers, Vox Media and Buzzfeed — $200 million for each.
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Who is listening in on your phone calls? On a landline, it could be anyone, says privacy activist Christopher Soghoian, because surveillance backdoors are built into the phone system by default, to allow governments to listen in. But then again, so …
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This article appears in the Summer 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Twelve years after his death, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is not remembered as an avid liberal.
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The tumultuous heart of our Galaxy / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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New York governor joins calls for Times Square crackdown on topless women | US news | The Guardian
New York’s governor has joined calls by Mayor Bill de Blasio for a crackdown on topless women who work in Times Square.
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How to get faster fiber-optic pipes through computation | Ars Technica
The information age demands fat pipes. But making fat pipes is not always as easy as it sounds. Consider our current generation of fiber optic communications.
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Learning to Drive Clip Featuring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley | Vanity Fair
We’re not really sure how anyone can manage to go outside with a blinding hangover, much less rush out to the street and ask a stranger for driving lessons.
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Nintendo Really Wants You To Buy A 2DS For Your Kid | TechCrunch
Nintendo just cut the Nintendo 2DS price tag to $99. And for this price, you also get Mario Kart 7. This cheap portable console can play all the 3DS games, which makes it a good console for your kids — it doesn’t cost much, and it can do a lot. And …
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For the past two days, E! Online has been at war with a million irate teens. And as the battle winds up, we must conclude: The teens are winning.
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Well, she took it quite literally… via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/rZGmDmc987 http://t.co/aNTzup60PY
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MRW my crazy ex texts me out of the blue : gif
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Japanese Police: Mt Gox CEO Bought Himself a $48,000 Bed | Motherboard
Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of Mt Gox, a Bitcoin exchange that shut down under suspicious circumstances, is facing new charges, AFP reports. This time he’s accused of embezzling about $2.
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In Wake Of Movie Theater Shootings, Regal Cinemas To Search Bags | ThinkProgress
Regal Cinemas, the biggest movie-theater chain in the United States, will start to search ticket-buyers’ bags before they enter any of its movie theaters.
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Bernie Sanders Says He Will Introduce Legislation To Abolish Private Prisons | ThinkProgress
Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that he will introduce legislation to abolish private prisons, one piece of his comprehensive racial justice reform package that has won praise from Black Lives Matter…
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‘Pac-Man 256’ Turns an Iconic Glitch into a Fun, Not-Annoying Free-to-Play Game | Motherboard
When once great, now fading game publishers make a last ditch effort for relevance by creating sleazy, free-to-play mobile games featuring your childhood video game heroes, it usually doesn’t go well.
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Watch this mind-blowing spintop demonstration – Boing Boing
Takeshi Kamisato is a master of the spintop, accurately described by this book as a “universal toy, enduring pastime.
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Growing wealth disparity has produced a new financial hyper-elite who make eight-figure donations to major universities, who hand that money back over to more finance titans in the form of special commissions that are taxed at a ridiculously low rat…
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Two Ashely Madison accounts for reality TV’s Josh Duggar? – Boing Boing
Mr. Duggar, the “19 Kids and Counting” star, apparently needed 2 accounts to help him find “…someone who was interested in ‘experimenting with sex toys’ and ‘one night stands.
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Cosplayers and Amateur Horror Directors Will Love This Book of Makeup Techniques
If you want to add some realistic wounds to your zombie makeup or just do a better job applying those cosplay elf ears, Hollywood Makeup Lab can guide you step by step through some basic procedures that will make your fantastic creations and creepy …
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Today’s Best Media Deals: The Walking Dead, Edward Scissorhands, and More
Preorders for the surprisingly decent fifth season of the Walking Dead are down to $30 today on Amazon, the lowest we’ve seen. If you order now, and the price dips any further prior to next week’s release, you’ll automatically get the best deal.
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Wind energy in Belguim’s Flanders region booms | Environment | The Guardian
Wind turbines are under construction everywhere. In the coming months they will be unmissable along Flemish roads, as an unprecedented building boom breaks out, a survey by De Standaard and green power companies reveals.
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Ivory poaching: UK troops sent to Gabon to fight illegal trade – BBC News
British troops have been sent to Gabon to tackle an increase in ivory poaching. The 12 Northern Ireland-based soldiers are on their way to the African country, which has seen widespread elephant killings for their tusks.
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US visa regulation flaws allow for embassy corruption – Al Jazeera English
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam – In what the prosecutors had dubbed “one of the largest bribery schemes involving a foreign service officer in the history of the United States”, last week a court in Washington DC sentenced 44-year-old Michael T Sestak to 64…
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Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean ‘migrants’ – Al Jazeera English
Imagine waking your children in the morning. Imagine feeding and dressing them. Imagine pulling a little girl’s hair into a ponytail, arguing with a little boy about which pair of shoes he wants to wear.
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Herbig-Haro 151 js – Just Space
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Okta Customer Research Finds Office 365 Most Used Cloud Service | TechCrunch
As a cloud identity management service, Okta collects tons of data about how its customers use other cloud products. Today it released its first Okta Business @ Work Report.
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Jennifer Lawrence Is the Highest-Paid Actress in the World | Vanity Fair
Though it may seem like inevitable, obvious news, this is actually the first year Jennifer Lawrence has topped the annual Forbes Highest-Paid Actresses List. The odds are unquestionably in her favor.
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Lavaboom Encrypted Email Startup Declares Bankruptcy | TechCrunch
Lavaboom, a German startup that was building a zero access secure email service that focused on simplifying PGP encryption security to target a more mainstream user-base, is shutting down and filing for bankruptcy.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 20th – The New Yorker
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3D printed chess set where each piece holds a tiny plant – Boing Boing
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Eli Manning: I have never asked to be the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback | Sport | The Guardian
Me? Greedy? Eli Manning was miffed on Wednesday at reports that he asked the New York Giants to make him the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback.
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A new study provides the first evidence of a link between neonicotinoid pesticides and escalating honeybee colony losses on a landscape level.
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Petrified pooch overcomes his fear of crossing lines – Boing Boing
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The Transformation of New Orleans Into a City Laboratory – The Atlantic
Then there’s the ongoing grand experiment of producing an entirely new K-12 education system for the city. This system-wide charter-ization of public schools in New Orleans is a project that has yet to be replicated at the same scale in any other Am…
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Fish in the Clouds by Jorge Jacinto : ImaginaryMindscapes
Fish in the Clouds by Jorge Jacinto via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/266lLUTjw9 http://t.co/vDRCwG3Ddb
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Bringing up baby | The Economist
IT IS a long way from the western Pacific Ocean to the flooded streets of Buenos Aires where, this month, the city’s Good Samaritans have been distributing food and candles by kayak after some unseasonably heavy rain. But there is a link. Its name i…
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8 Reasons Joe Biden Is a Dream Candidate and a Disaster | Mother Jones
With the political class chattering about Hillary Clinton’s recent difficulties—the email controversy, the Bernie Sanders wave, a decline in some polls—Vice President Joe Biden seems to be closer to running for president. At least, there’s more talk…
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Glider spiders | The Economist
AS FAR as biologists can tell from the fossil record, only four groups of animals have evolved sustained, powered flight. These are the insects, the pterosaurs, the birds and the bats. Many others, though, can manage powered flight’s precursor, glid…
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What goes around, comes around | The Economist
GLASSMAKING began 4,500 years ago, in Mesopotamia. The industry’s first products were trinkets, such as beads and pendants, cast from moulds and carved by hand.
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EL NIÑO is part of a wider climate system called El Niño Southern Oscillation, in which the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere above it influence each other. This interaction drives the warming and cooling of the equatorial Pacific, which in turn affe…
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Out of Sync: How Modern Lifestyles Scramble the Body’s Rhythms – Scientific American
For much of her life, Sparrow Rose Jones was the kind of late riser about whom other people roll their eyes, the kind who goes to bed at dawn and wakes in the midafternoon. As a kid growing up in Louisville, Ky.
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Strength in Numbers: Spaghetti Beams – Scientific American
Will it bend or will it break? Learn how engineers study materials for use in the construction of bridges and buildings. Build your own bridge out of strands of pasta and see how strong it can be!
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An image from 2001 of the active delta front before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed much of it in 2005. Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans 10 years ago, a grim anniversary to be marked next week. Huge earthen levees dissolved and concret…
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Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Cairo Car Bombing | VICE News
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a Cairo police building today that injured 29 people.
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Carly Fiorina Says No One Knows What The U.S. Department Of Education Does | ThinkProgress
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Republican presidential hopeful, said that one “metric of success” would be to make the U.S. Department of Education a “whole lot smaller.
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Magnificent photo of severely endangered rhino – Boing Boing
My pal John Curley took this incredible photo of Harapan the Sumatran rhinoceros, at the excellent Cincinnati Zoo. Sadly, Sumatran rhinos are one of the world’s most endangered animals with around 100 left on Earth. John says: Follow John on Instagr…
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How America Mistreats Sex-Crime Victims | The New Republic
Jared Fogle, the former Subway sandwiches spokesman, appeared in an Indianapolis court Wednesday on charges of possession of child pornography and paying to have sex with underage girls. As part of a plea bargain, Fogle will pay $1.
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Chunder-bot used to confirm how viruses spread | Ars Technica
Norovirus is famed for sending cruise ships scurrying back to port to unload hoards of violently-ill passengers. Aside from its brutal symptoms—vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, and a general sense that death would be a fine option—the virus is famed for …
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Science is really f*cking hard – Boing Boing
The rash of high-profile journal retractions, revelations of systematic frauds in peer-review, and journals publishing deliberately bogus papers (e.g. “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List”) — are we experiencing a crisis in science?
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Autism has always been with us – Boing Boing
One in sixty-eight children are now on the autism spectrum, according to the Centers for Disease Control. We argue over whether this is a diagnostic or epidemic phenomena, but either way, neurodiversity has always been with us, shaping history.
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Mexican marines set to prevent turtle eggs’ poaching. : pics
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“As Long As You’re Still Breathing” By Jeffrey Smith : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Dog with Cat mask is perfect. : pics
Dog with Cat mask is perfect. via /r/pics http://t.co/AkgJsZr1BH http://t.co/tqssOVBDDu
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Nintendo dropping 2DS price to $100 on August 30 | Ars Technica
Nearly two years after its U.S. launch, Nintendo has lowered the price of its slate-like 2DS to $99.99, throwing in a downloadable copy of Mario Kart 7 with the system for good measure.
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I am actor Patrick Stewart of Yorkshire, X-Men, Star Trek and Blunt Talk. AMA! : IAmA
Mr.Stewart, did it ever bother you that a French Born character named Picard has an English accent, was that ever brought up to the writers?
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The He-Man Movie Just Got a New Writer, and Here’s Why It Actually Matters This Time
There have been a lot of screenwriters hired to pen a live-action movie adaptation of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, but none of theme have managed to turn the story of a tan, mostly naked barbarian/bodybuilding enthusiast for modern audien…
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Former President Jimmy Carter reveals cancer has spread to brain
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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Deadspin Former NFL QB Erik Kramer Wounded In Apparent Suicide Attempt | Gizmodo We’ve Identified Those Bugs Infesting Burning Man — And It’s Not Pretty | Jezebel Drop Everything and Marvel at Jennifer Aniston’s Stunning Wedding Ring | Lifehacker Ch…
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals to buy ‘female Viagra’ maker for $1bn | Business | The Guardian
Valeant Pharmaceuticals will pay about $1bn to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the first prescription drug intended to boost sexual desire in women. The deal announced Thursday comes a day after US regulators approved the pill.
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A decade ago hurricane Katrina ignited a chain of events – broken levees, more than a thousand deaths, a million displaced, chaos and mayhem, and billions of dollars in losses – that left New Orleans so devastated that a number of politicians half-s…
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American Apparel’s Female CEO Was Set Up To Fail, And Now The Company Is Failing | ThinkProgress
American Apparel made it semi-official on Monday: its cash position and business prospects have deteriorated to the point that it may not be able to stay open for another year. The news comes after years of struggles.
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Humans Are Predictable, and Therefore So Are Our Lockscreen Patterns | Motherboard
New research now suggests that Android users frequently create lock screen patterns that are similar to each other and that are not nearly as complex as they can be.
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The Banks That Offer Free Checking With No Minimum Balance
A number of banks offer free checking, but many of them have a minimum balance requirement. If you don’t keep hundreds or even thousands of dollars in your account, the perk may be lost on you. GOBankingRates rounds up five banks that offer truly fr…
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Macedonia stepped up security on its border with Greece on Thursday, blocking thousands of migrants from entering and leaving them stranded on a dusty field.
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Onion Explains: The Terrifying Growth Of ISIS – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
What motivates the brutal terrorist group to commit its atrocities and how does it use technology to spread fear worldwide? The Onion explains the horrifying spread of ISIS.
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Government Agencies Soliciting Yelp Reviews – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The U.S. government’s General Services Administration has begun working with the review website Yelp to create official pages for various government agencies where consumers can give feedback to places such as the TSA, post offices, and courthouses.…
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Future unclear for Palestinian hunger striker – Al Jazeera English
Ashkelon, Israel – At the Barzilai Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Maazouzeh Allaan’s eyes filled with tears as she watched a video of a recent demonstration in support of her hunger-striking son.
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Conflicting Messages Emerge From the Thai Investigation Into the Deadly Blast – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, police issued an arrest warrant for the man, whom they described as tall and “foreign.” They said he had a prominent nose, thick lips, and a fair complexion. Police said two other men in the video—one in a red T-shirt and the other in …
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Contraception is not a toy, but the Caya, a new, one-size-fits-most diaphragm, looks like something Polly Pocket might be into: It’s lilac, squishy, and comes in its own little case. The look is part of its appeal.
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Most popular programming languages shift at Github – Boing Boing
Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious. Somewhere in the distance, a Perl script barks mournfully.
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My soon to be 13 year old friend, maci, in all her drooly cuteness. : cats
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Green tree frog, North Texas [2448×3264][OC] : AnimalPorn
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My cat, Millie, is a bit crossed eyed. : cats
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Jimmy Carter announces cancer has spread to his brain | US news | The Guardian
Jimmy Carter’s melanoma, a form of skin cancer, has been discovered in four places on his brain and is likely to “show up other places in my body”, the former US president said on Thursday.
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Recently, the Washington Post reported that Ariel Wilson Cetrone, who was a pregnant worker at a government agency of two and a half years, requested maternity leave. Silly woman – her workplace didn’t offer such a thing for independent contractors,…
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Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana [OC][3264×2448] : CityPorn
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I wrote this as I waited for the F train at West 4th on a day where it just WASN’T coming. It was a particularly hot and sweaty day and as the station filled up it got hotter and sweatier. Eventually I realized we were 250 people staring into a blac…
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What does H.P. Lovecraft’s comeback say about us? – Boing Boing
H.P. Lovecraft died obscure, but his cosmic nightmares are woven into the fabric of modern horror. Philip Eil reports on how the memory of such a grossly bigoted writer—he wrote of “flabby, pungent, grinning, chattering niggers”—can thrive in the 21…
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Ulysses pacts and spying hacks: warrant canaries and binary transparency – Boing Boing
As the world’s governments exercise exciting new gag-order snooping warrants that companies can never, ever talk about, companies are trying out a variety of “Ulysses pacts” that automatically disclose secret spying orders, putting them out of busin…
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China’s Fossil Fuel Pollution Has Been Overestimated – Scientific American
China’s greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion could be as much as 14 percent lower than previously thought, according to a sweeping new study released yesterday.
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The Believer – What’s in a Necronym?
I remember the day I first learned about her. I was eight. My father was in his chair, holding a small white box. As my mother explained that he had a dead daughter named Jeanne, pronounced the same as my name, “without an i,” he opened the box and …
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A Troll in the Lost City of the Dead | Motherboard
In 2010, anonymous emails started popping up in the inboxes of Department of the Interior officials. The messages accuse museums across the country of failing to deal with their massive collections of Native American bones.
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Former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer injured in apparent suicide attempt | Sport | The Guardian
Erik Kramer, the former Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears quarterback, shot himself on Tuesday night in what his ex-wife said was an apparent suicide attempt. Kramer, 50, was wounded in the shooting but survived.
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Long-Lost Nazi Train Packed With $1B in Gold Allegedly Discovered in Poland
We’ll believe it when we see it, but two men, one a Pole and one a German, say they know the location of a heavily armored Nazi train that was rumored to be hidden away in a tunnel during the dying days of the Second World War—a train that could con…
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9-Year-Old Shot Dead in Ferguson While Sitting in Bed Doing Her Homework : news
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‘Aggressive’ Police Response to St. Louis Protest | Al Jazeera America
After a night of protests Wednesday sparked by the killing of an 18-year-old black man by a white officer the same day, activists criticized the St. Louis police for “aggressive” tactics that they said recalled the last year’s protests after Ferguso…
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HMB while I become a professional Russian : holdmybeer
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Who Is Presidential Candidate Deez Nuts? – Digg
On Wednesday morning, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina’s ABC11 Eyewitness News tweeted some boiler-plate political polling news:You know, just your standard horse-race coverage. Except wait — Deez Nuts? Surely a typo. Or a fake candidate.
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Japan rocket for International Space Station was Successful ! : pics
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Chase Utley’s Case For The Hall Of Fame | FiveThirtyEight
For a 13-year stretch that ended with Wednesday’s trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chase Utley served as the Philadelphia Phillies’ gritty, hard-nosed, tone-setting leader. He grinded out at-bats and played through pain.
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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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Biblical Wave of Bugs Takes Over Burning Man Site | Vanity Fair
The images are hard to look at: bugs of different sizes, colors, and shapes blanketing car tires and carpets. Bug bites that leave welts on the backs of humans. Critters that crawl into bras and fly right into mouths.
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Defend Planned Parenthood Against Republican Attacks | The Nation
What’s going on? Earlier this summer, militant anti-choice activists fraudulently obtained and deceptively edited videos that showed what many women already knew about abortion and Planned Parenthood: they provide medical care that can be described …
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Mumford & Sons Unveil Boy Band Past on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ | Rolling Stone
Mumford & Sons uncovered a forgotten era of their musical past on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night, appearing in a fake documentary about their late-Nineties boy band — featuring Jimmy Kimmel — Mumtown.
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Cartoon: Dr. Seuss’s old shopping list… now a new book!
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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Original ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Script Had Dr. Dre Assault Scene | Rolling Stone
The N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton has come under fire for its glaring omission of one of the group’s darkest chapters: Dr. Dre’s January 27th, 1991 nightclub assault on hip-hop journalist Denise “Dee” Barnes.
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When You Should Travel by Train, Not Plane in Western Europe
Sometimes traveling by train is better than flying. When it comes to hopping between cities in Western Europe, there are times when the train beats out tempting offers from cheap airlines.http://wayfarer.lifehacker.com/this-guide-sho…
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Matt Might, who is a professor in computer science at the University of Utah and a professor at the Harvard Medical School, responded to a question on Quora about minimizing the chances of having a disabled child and ended up answering two seemingly…
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Israeli App Security Startup Snags $2.3M Seed Round | TechCrunch
AppInside, a tool designed to help app developers check for security vulnerabilities, announced a $2.3 million seed round from Boston’s Accomplice today.
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Donde Fashion Is Bringing Smarter Search To The World Of Online Apparel | TechCrunch
Shopping online for clothes can be a real pain, especially when you’re searching for something very specific. Sure, most retailers have filters for tops, pants, dresses, etc., but most don’t get any more granular than that.
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The High Stakes History of Card Counting (And Its Uncertain Future) | Atlas Obscura
“It’s a tough way to make an easy dollar,” says Josh Axelrad, a former professional card counter and the author of Repeat Until Rich, a memoir of his card-counting days.
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Why Do Writers Drink So Much? | VinePair
The notion of Writer-As-Sot is a cinematic cliché. In the movies, writers – particularly best-selling writers – typically divide their days by employing a strict temporal template: minutes allocated to producing paragraphs, hours devoted to pickling…
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Standards Lowered For Second Search Through Fridge – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Annular Eclipse at Westwood, CA js – Just Space
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cherry tomato + microwave = arcs of plasma [OC] : perfectloops
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Forrest attempts to seduce a teacher in this clip from Review · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
For his latest review, Forrest brushes up on ‘90s trivia in order to woo Mrs. Greenfield. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central App.
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The curious case of whistled languages and their lack of left-brain dominance | Ars Technica
Whistled Turkish is a non-conformist. Most obviously, it bucks the normal language trend of using consonants and vowels, opting instead for a bird-like whistle. But more importantly, it departs from other language forms in a more fundamental respect…
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What Einstein Got Wrong – Scientific American
Like all people, Albert Einstein made mistakes, and like many physicists he sometimes published them. For most of us, the times when we go astray are happily forgettable. In Einstein’s case, even the mistakes are noteworthy.
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Pesticides blamed for bee declines widespread in US waterways | Environment | The Guardian
The most comprehensive survey to date of pollution in the US from a controversial group of pesticides has found the chemicals are widespread in streams and rivers.
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The Curse Of Downers Grove · Film Review · The A.V. Club
It’s not much of a surprise that American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis co-wrote The Curse Of Downers Grove, dealing, as it does, with the themes of toxic masculinity and extreme aggression and violence.
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British trip-hopper FKA Twigs (née Tahliah Debrett Barnett) has a new, 5-song EP catchily titled M3LL155X, which is garnering respectable if not rhapsodic reviews. The title, by the way, is pronounced “Melissa.” Duh. It’s the name of the Twigs’ alte…
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Morgan Freeman will star in and direct Madam Secretary season premiere · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Entertainment Weekly reports that Oscar winner and erstwhile Heavenly Father Morgan Freeman will guest star on Madam Secretary next season. Freeman will play a Supreme Court Justice in the season two premiere and will share a scene with Secretary Mc…
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One of these is Jupiter’s moon Europa, the rest are frying pans. : space
Week of August 16, 2015 ‘All Space Questions’ Thread | Visit the /new queue and vote About /r/space is dedicated to the insightful and thoughtful discussion of outer space Schedule Date Event 20 Aug, 4:10pm Ariane 5 • Eutelsat 8 West B & Intelsat 34…
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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced on Wednesday that a police officer who shot an unarmed burglary suspect at the end of last year is charged with attempted murder.
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The World’s Biggest Pet Store Has 250,000 Animals – Bloomberg Business
Norbert Zajac got his first pet, a golden hamster, when he was 4 years old. He took good care of her and bought a second hamster one year later. By the time he was 8, Zajac had bred more than 100 golden hamsters in the basement of his family’s littl…
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Gaza’s footballers aim high with new rooftop pitch – Al Jazeera English
The Middle East’s first rooftop football pitch has opened in an unlikely location – the besieged Gaza Strip. The densely populated, war battered, Palestinian territory has few open spaces that can be used to play the sport.
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HMB while I bust some dance moves on battlefield : holdmybeer
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MixStik Is An Essential Mixology Tool To Make Great Cocktails With No Skill | TechCrunch
There’s nothing like a sweet, sweet cocktail during summertime. But maybe you don’t know how to make great cocktails. Meet MixStik, a small connected stick that will help you make tasty cocktails from the first try.
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Increased border enforcement in recent decades has had the unintended effect of keeping unauthorized immigrants in the United States when they might otherwise have left, a recent study has found.
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Want to see some seals? Head to Canary Wharf | Philip Hoare | Comment is free | The Guardian
If marine mammals are the canaries of the sea – offering advance warning signs of the healthy state, or otherwise, of our waters – then the new report from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on the extraordinary numbers of seals, porpoises, dolp…
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Uber, the ride-hailing service, has become one of the tech industry’s newsmakers of the moment. This week is no exception. On Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company said it would soon bring its food delivery service, UberEats, to its hometown.
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Family Values Activist Josh Duggar Had a Paid Ashley Madison Account
In 2013, conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar—of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting fame—was named the executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group in D.C.
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Why ‘Teddy Roosevelt’ Was Protesting An Offshore Lease Sale In New Orleans This Week | ThinkProgress
Joined by a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator in New Orleans earlier this week, a group of conservationists called on the White House to postpone oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico until Congress takes action to save what environmental groups …
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You’ve Heard About a Camera Obscura. What About a Camera Lucida?
A camera obscura and camera lucida work using different principles, but they both make use of mirrors to let us see the world in a different way. The camera lucida used to be a favorite tool of artists and amateur sketchers, because it lets people t…
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Two Brothers Allegedly Beat Up A Latino Man, Say They Were Inspired By Donald Trump | ThinkProgress
A pair of siblings in Boston, Massachusetts targeted and ambushed a 58-year-old homeless Latino man because one brother was “inspired in part” by 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Boston Globe reported.
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Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? – Bloomberg Business
Last August, the tens of thousands of answer sheets from the bar exam started to stream into the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The initial results were so glaringly bad that staffers raced to tell their boss, Erica Moeser.
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Strengthening El Salvador’s rule of law – Al Jazeera English
In July, the people of El Salvador came under direct attack from the country’s main gangs: buses set on fire, transportation workers and police murdered, and a grenade tossed at a prestigious hotel.
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Man arrested after trying to walk out of store with PlayStation 4 in pants – Boing Boing
Sony’s game console comes in a box 19 inches long, 13 inches wide, and just over 4 inches thick. It does not fit in your pants, as Floridian Christopher Caldwell learned to his dismay. A security guard at a Port St.
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Imgur founders profiled – Boing Boing
With 150m monthly visitors, the image-hosting site “blows BuzzFeed, Reddit and even Tumblr out of the water,” writes Jack Smith. But it’s now at the tipping point from useful mess to “media empire,” and that’s where things get murky.
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It’s interesting to note how readily modern conservatism degenerates into a defence of corporate malfeasance.
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How to Make Healthier, Tastier Versions of Lunchbox Favorites at Home
It’s back to school season, which means pencil purchasing and lunch planning. You already know the basics for packing a healthy lunch for your kiddo, part of which is making sure your child actually eats what you pack them.
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Sign at elementary school in Arkansas : pics
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Is grad school worth it? – Quartz
Graduate school is pricey. Very pricey. But with the dearth of data coming from schools on how their students perform financially after graduating, it can be nearly impossible to figure out whether taking thousands of dollars in loans or evisceratin…
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Texas Jury Re-Convicts Jerry Hartfield, Who Spent 35 Years Awaiting Retrial – The Atlantic
Jerry Hartfield, 59, has been in prison since 1977 even though his original murder conviction was overturned in 1980. On Wednesday, a Texas jury found him guilty of the crime for a second time.
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CAIRO — An Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for the bombing of a local branch of the Egyptian security agency in Cairo on Thursday, the third major attack by militants in the capital this summer.
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The scenic and narrow lane that leads to Robert Hodge’s sugar camp is surrounded by a cat’s cradle of plastic piping that draws sap from 12,000 trees. At the end of lane, a ramshackle hut contains reverse osmosis pumps to concentrate the harvest.
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Sanders and Trump: The Populist and the Demagogue
Donald Trump is rocking. Polls show him consolidating his lead over Republican presidential rivals and closing in hypothetical run-offs with Hillary Clinton. He crows about crowds bigger and more raucous than his rivals can draw. He dominates the ne…
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Napping at Work Can Be So Exhausting – Bloomberg Business
For more than a decade now, research has proven the benefits of napping on the job. Yet another study out this summer from the University of Michigan found that participants who took an hour-long nap weathered frustrating tasks better than those who…
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Upgrade to a Dyson DC41 Vacuum For $200, Today Only
Dyson vacuums dominated the nominations in our Kinja Co-Op for best vacuum, but they can be prohibitively expensive. Today only though, refurbs of the popular Dyson DC41 are down to $200 on Amazon, an all-tim… http://co-op.kinja.com/five-best-vacu…
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After her much-dissected wedding to Justin Theroux, held in her Bel Air mansion, and her much-dissected “group hang”-style honeymoon, held in Bora Bora, Jennifer Aniston made—yes, that’s right—her first official appearance since the wedding, on Wedn…
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Williamsburg’s Newest Artisanal Beer and Wine Bar is a Starbucks | Vanity Fair
At 4:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, most customers were still zeroed in on their laptops, and half-sipped iced coffees were still sweating on tables at the Starbucks on North 7th Street in Williamsburg. But today wasn’t a normal day at the coffee…
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Reports That Crime Is Spiking | ThinkProgress
If you’ve read a newspaper or watched cable news recently, you might have heard that crime is exploding in many U.S. cities this summer.
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Upper Horsetail Falls, Oregon [OC] [2048 x 1510] : EarthPorn
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With $100M In Funding, Carbon3D Will Make 3D Manufacturing A Reality | TechCrunch
Carbon3D, a startup building 3D printers for manufacturers, has pulled in $100 million in new funding to move 3D printing out of the prototyping phase and into production. Google Ventures led the Series C round, joined by new investors Yuri Milner, …
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Donald Trump hails ‘evening of love’ in New Hampshire as Bush overshadowed | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump argued for a low minimum wage and cuts to foreign aid on Thursday while hailing a “love fest” press conference in New Hampshire the night before, at which he overshadowed Republican rival Jeb Bush, who spoke only a town away.
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That’s intentional. PATH spent 20 years trying to make the Caya both anatomically friendly and visually appealing.
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MRW the top comment on my post has more upvotes than the post itself : reactiongifs
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HONG KONG — Cyanide levels near the site of large chemical explosions in northern China last week now far exceed national standards, officials said on Thursday, raising fears that the environmental damage caused by the blasts may worsen.
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Chase Utley gets standing ovation: ‘The hardest part is leaving Philadelphia’ | Sport | The Guardian
Chase Utley received a standing ovation from the Phillies crowd on Wednesday after the veteran second baseman confirmed he would be reuniting with Jimmy Rollins in Hollywood.
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Mobile industry asks judge to halt Berkeley’s RF disclosures | Ars Technica
Can a city make it easier for cell phone users to learn about RF energy?A federal judge in San Francisco is set to hear arguments today on a city’s ability to force cell phone retailers to reiterate government information regarding radiofrequency (R…
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Twitter Expands Its Program For Ads Outside Twitter | TechCrunch
Twitter is unveiling several new features for advertisers who want their campaigns to go beyond Twitter itself. And it’s giving the program a new name, the Twitter Audience Platform.
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Doctor Who Season 9 Could Feature The Show’s Weirdest Experiment Yet
A set report from fan site BlogtorWho has offered a wealth of new details about the next season of the show.
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Morning Digest: Meet the House Democrat who wants to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriage
• IL-Sen: Democratic state Sen. Napoleon Harris has been considering challenging GOP incumbent Mark Kirk since at least February, but he’s done little to actually prepare for a campaign. However, WLS reports that Harris “plans to enter the race.
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The Jot 8.5 Is A Better And Brighter Boogie Board | TechCrunch
Boogie Boards are a lot of fun and the company just released a new model. Called the Jot 8.5, the slate combines the fun of a white board with the convenience of an electronic writing screen. But then again all Boogie Boards do that. The Jot 8.5 is …
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Listen to the unearthed goodness of Brown Acid: The First Trip · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stumbling across a long-lost gem is part of the drive for record collectors, and it’s something Lance Barresi, the owner of Permanent Records, knows well. Having amassed a collection full of obscurities he’s partnered with Ride Easy Records to give …
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Make Your Own Protein Powder to Save Money
Regular buyers of protein supplements, rejoice! Those big jars can be pretty pricey at your local grocery or supplement store, so here’s a more affordable way to recreate the convenience of protein powders at home.
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Wargames-style map shows ongoing internet attacks – Boing Boing
The Norse Map is a Wargames-style visualization of ongoing attacks on servers around the world. Though it shows honeypots rather than actual private or government targets, the result is a live snapshot of trends in computer mischief. Dubai seems to …
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 109 | WIRED
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb…
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How to Move a Forest of Genes – Scientific American
That trees need to match their habitats may sound obvious. But those habitats are changing as the planet warms—and trees can’t exactly get up and walk to a new home. If a species cannot keep pace with a changing climate, it is doomed.
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Stock market falls: four factors stoking global economic fears | Business | The Guardian
China’s continued growth helped limit the impact of the global recession of 2009 but now fears are increasing that the world’s second-biggest economy could cause the next recession.
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Left in one piece : oddlysatisfying
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This Animist Tribe Is Being Flooded Out of Its Pakistani Valley Thanks to Climate Change | VICE News
High up in the Hindu Kush mountain range of Pakistan, homes, crops, roads, and bridges are being washed away by flooding caused by climate change. Up to 40 people have died since torrential rain hit the district of Chitral — which sits along Pakista…
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Mesosphere And Microsoft Bring Mesos To Windows Server | TechCrunch
Mesosphere, the company that aims to build a container-centric “operating system for the data center” based on the Apache Mesos project, is giving the first public demo of Mesos running on the preview version of Windows Server 2016 at MesosCon today.
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CAIRO — An Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for the bombing of a local branch of the Egyptian security agency in Cairo on Thursday, the third major attack by militants in the capital this summer.
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Snail eating a worm. : woahdude
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A Shooting by Police in St. Louis Leads to Protests, Arrests, and Tear Gas – The Atlantic
Protesters quickly took to the streets, blocking an intersection. Dotson said they threw glass bottles and bricks at them, and refused to leave. The chief said police first used inert gas to disperse the crowds, but that did not have an effect.
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Defense of Hillary Clinton’s Email Server – The Atlantic
Let’s consider another possibility. Think of it as the defense of “Servergate,” which the candidate herself wouldn’t dare make, even if she believed that parts of it were true.
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How to Fight Big Medical Bills – The Atlantic
Bon Secours admitted Trost, and, after performing an echocardiogram, deduced that he had a failed mitral valve and would require surgery. He was taken by ambulance to a different hospital, Good Samaritan in Suffern, New York.
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Donald Trump Doesn’t Need to Appeal to Big Donors – The Atlantic
The Republican business establishment supports more immigration, not less. Trump has ignored the Chamber of Commerce position. The Republican donor class wants more trade, not less. Trump has railed against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other tr…
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Facebook, Medium, and the Personal Press Release – The Atlantic
Facebook products never quite die; they just get shelved in ever more distant menus. Such was the case with Notes, the simple blogging software that has lingered in the nether regions of the social network for the last half-decade.
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Review: In ‘American Ultra,’ Jesse Eisenberg Plays the Perfect Action Hero – The Atlantic
Why people like to watch people hurt other people is a question too big, or perhaps too distressing, to fully answer. But how people allow themselves to watch people hurt other people is a simpler one.
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skunkbear: Big math news! It’s been thirty years… – Totes Masc Bruh
Big math news! It’s been thirty years since mathematicians last found a convex pentagon that could “tile the plane.” The latest discovery (by Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau) was published earlier this month. Full story.
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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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Bing for Android Adds Google On Tap-Style Contextual Search Cards
Android: Google Now on Tap was easily the coolest feature announced at Google I/O this year. However, you still can’t use it yet. If you want to get an idea of how it works, though, Microsoft has gone ahead and added it to their Bing app.
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Curiosity Mars rover takes low-angle ‘selfie’ – BBC News
The US space agency has issued another of the “selfie” portraits acquired by the Curiosity rover on Mars. Nasa tries to make one of these mosaics at every location where the robot drills into the surface.
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Curiosity Mars rover takes low-angle ‘selfie’ – BBC News
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Living Room With Lots Of Natural Light – [1301 x 977] : RoomPorn
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Here is how my kitten loves to sleep : cats
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Shadows over a mountain pasture [OC] [4912×3264] : EarthPorn
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Yet Another Subsidy for the Big Banks
When Mitch McConnell wanted to pay for a transportation bill this summer, he targeted a subsidy the Federal Reserve automatically pays to banks.
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Grand Rounds Raises $55M to Connect Patients With Specialists | TechCrunch
Grand Rounds, a service that companies employ to give access to healthcare advice and treatment to employees around the U.S. independent of where they live, has raised $55 million in a new financing round.
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Battle of the Baddest Women on Earth | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Most of the time, they live out nine-to-five routines as psychologists, accountants, mothers, hairdressers and kindergarten teachers. But on nights and weekends they become Bettie Rage, Cheerleader Melissa, Pink Flash Kira, Courtney Rush and Mistres…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: Click on the embedded player above Go to netrootsradio.
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Inocente Orlando Montano sat in the sparsely filled courtroom, saying nothing, as two American lawyers and a federal judge argued his fate.
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15-Year-Old “Transparency” Effort Seems to Curb Dubious Biomedical Findings – Scientific American
The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 seems to have had a striking impact on reported trial results, according to a PLoS ONE study that many researchers have been talking about online in the past week.
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Note: The president of Shell requests that you please stop drilling for oil in his back yard, as this may result in a major spill that would affect property values in his neighborhood and also create a big mess that will take forever to clean up, if…
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International said on Thursday that it would acquire Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the maker of a new libido drug for women, for about $1 billion, plus a share of future profits.
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Planned Parenthood Means Fewer Abortions – The New Yorker
One doesn’t have to be Mike Huckabee, the galactically insensitive former governor of Arkansas—who has compared the consequences of Roe v. Wade with the Holocaust—to believe that the United States would benefit from fewer abortions.
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Molecular scientists unexpectedly produce new type of glass : science
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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Massive Car Bomb Hits Cairo Building, Injuring 29 | Al Jazeera America
A massive car bomb claimed by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ripped into a national security building in a working class residential neighborhood in Cairo early Thursday, wounding at least 29 people and blowing the fac…
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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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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. The price of a 45-minute intravenous dose of the club drug ketamine at a clinic in New York City for the severely depressed and suicidal.
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