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Hidden Jewel by giovanni zacche’ / 500px
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Life in the Paris Suburbs – The New Yorker
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Starry Temple by Ivan Pedretti / 500px
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Ashley Madison: Two women explain how hack changed their lives – BBC News
When infidelity dating site Ashley Madison was hacked, the details of 33 million user accounts were published on the web. The BBC has spoken to two women, one whose fiance used the site and one who used it herself.
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How Money in Politics Worked in 1519 | Atlas Obscura
Charles V, after his election of Holy Roman Emperor (Image: Bernard van Orley) The story of the Fugger family sounds like a good, old American tale of bootstrapping it to the top: the family patriarch, a low-level tradesman, makes his way to the big…
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BBC Sport – World Championships 2015: Asher-Smith eases into 200m final
Briton Dina Asher-Smith booked her place in Friday’s final of the 200m with a stunning win in her semi-final. The 19-year-old ran a personal best of 22.12 seconds to qualify as the fastest qualifier.
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Everest: Sherpas to repair dangerous Khumbu Icefall route – BBC News
A team of specialised Nepalese Sherpa mountaineers have begun work to repair the climbing route on Mount Everest four months after it was destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
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Emboldened UK government eyes ISIL strikes in Syria – Al Jazeera English
Glasgow, United Kingdom – As Britain’s politicians return to parliamentary duty on September 7 after summer recess, they will face ever-present questions surrounding the UK’s role in combating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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New law permits North Dakota cop drones to fire bean bag rounds from the sky | Ars Technica
Legal experts are very concerned that a new North Dakota law which allows law enforcement drones to be armed with so-called less-than-lethal weapons—including stun guns and beanbag rounds—could be highly problematic. The law, however, explicitly for…
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ISRO Launches its 25th Communications Satellite GSAT-6 From Sriharikota : space
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How to confuse a cashier : funny
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Russia banned Wikipedia because it couldn’t censor pages | The Verge
This week, the Russian government briefly blocked access to Wikipedia over a page about charas, a form of cannabis.
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What Climate Justice Has To Do With Hurricane Katrina | ThinkProgress
The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina will — as in years past — be commemorated by a second line parade to honor the lives lost in the storm and remember that many are still struggling to rebuild.
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Detention Program Allegedly Barred Lawyers From Visiting Their Immigrant Clients | ThinkProgress
Advocates from an immigration detention visitation group say they have been barred from visiting potential clients in California and Alabama just a few weeks after they filed a complaint alleging abusive conditions at one detention facility.
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What’s The Best Universal Remote Control?
It’s been a while since we talked about universal remotes, and the landscape has changed significantly. There are still plenty of great ones, from IR remotes to new models that can control everything in your home from one control—or your phone.
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BBC Sport – Kevin de Bruyne: Wolfsburg in ‘no rush’ to sell winger to Man City
Wolfsburg are in “no rush” to sell Kevin de Bruyne to Manchester City, according to the Bundesliga club’s sporting director. Klaus Allofs said the clubs were in negotiations but that “no agreement” had been reached for the winger.
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Stephen Hawking Hasn’t Solved the Black Hole Paradox Just Yet – Scientific American
Cambridge University physicist Stephen Hawking confers with Gerard ‘t Hooft of Utrecht University at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Remerge, The Berlin-Based Mobile App Marketing Platform, Scores $3M Series A | TechCrunch
Berlin’s reputation as a hotbed of adtech entrepreneurship seems unstoppable as VCs continue to pile money in. The latest example is mobile app marketing platform Remerge.
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Candidates Should Stop Pandering About Debt-Free College | | Observer
Who wouldn’t want someone else to pay for their kid’s college education? That is essentially what three Democratic presidential candidates are promising voters by jumping on the same populist bandwagon: let’s make college free.
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The Secret Suffering of the Middle Manager – The Atlantic
But it turns out that middle managers have it worse.
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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Twelve people have been arrested in connection with the explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin that killed at least 139 people.
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He’s been like this for like 2 hours : cats
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Probe ordered into police brutality at Ahmedabad rally – Al Jazeera English
The Gujarat High Court has asked the Ahmedabad police to investigate alleged police brutality during this week’s massive protests by the Patel community over reservation policies.
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Anger as Venezuela border remains closed despite talks – BBC News
Venezuela says a key border crossing with Colombia will remain closed. The announcement follows talks by the two countries’ foreign ministers on Wednesday aimed at normalising the situation in the border region.
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Virginia shooting: Is it right to show graphic footage? – BBC News
Is it right to show graphic footage of the shooting of two journalists at a TV station in Virginia? The citizen journalism website LiveLeak has done so.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The Trump effect and GOP losers
Before you ridicule me for suggesting that Republicans would be better off today if they had simply done what I wanted them to do — pass immigration reform — please recall that GOP leaders themselves said at the time that they wanted to pass immigra…
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We Caught a Train With the Migrants Trapped Between European Borders | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. It is 3pm on Sunday in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia. Groups of migrants and refugees mill around the train station, and all eyes are on the…
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The washing away of Cajun culture – BBC News
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Dan Bilzerian is one of those celebrities whose fame is difficult to comprehend.
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Drunk Gunman Fires 30 Shots and Kills Four at Traveler Camp in North of France | VICE News
The 73-year-old suspect fired over 30 shots with a hunting rifle, killing three members of a family — including a six-month old baby — and a police officer who tried to stop him. The other two victims in the family are the baby’s mother and grandfat…
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The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide Is Online: A Blueprint for Superman, Batman & Your Other Favorite Superheroes http://t.co/FYudTjaqjq
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Virginia Gunman Was Ordered by TV Station Bosses to Seek Medical Help | VICE News
The man who shot dead two former colleagues as they carried out a live broadcast has a long history of behavioral issues at work, it was revealed on Thursday.
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Rizon for iOS Helps You Take the Perfect “Golden Hour” Photos Anywhere
When it comes to good natural lighting, you can’t beat the time of day known as “golden hour” (or “magic hour”). This iOS app can tell when golden hour is every day no matter where you are, and lets you set reminders so you never miss the perfect sh…
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Compound Interest – A Guide to the Different Types of Fat
Fat is an important nutrient in our diets, but there’s a lot of talk of different types of fats, and whether these types are beneficial or harmful to our health. These different fat classifications have their roots in chemistry – and chemistry can a…
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Lammy and Khan commit to divestment if elected as London mayor | Environment | The Guardian
Boris Johnson has come under increased pressure to move the capital’s finances of out fossil fuels, as Labour party’s Sadiq Khan and David Lammy both committed to do so if they are elected as London mayor next May. “We’ve got hundreds of millions of…
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Dozens of refugees ‘found dead in truck in Austria’ – Al Jazeera English
Up to 50 refugees have reportedly been found dead in a truck in Austria, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Balkan leaders gathered in Vienna to decide on how to tackle together the biggest migration crisis to hit Europe since World War II.
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Migrants found dead in lorry in Austria – 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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No, Mars Won’t Be As Big as the Moon in the Sky Tonight
Sorry, skywatchers: Despite what you may have heard, Mars won’t look as big as the moon overhead tonight (Aug. 27). The “Mars Hoax” has been popping up every Aug. 27 since 2003, when it was born in a widely misinterpreted email.
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New NASA Satellites Could Help Improve Hurricane Warnings
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas, NASA is building an innovative storm-monitoring system that could make significant improvements in storm monitoring and warnings.
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I remember the worst idea for a climate change campaign I’ve ever heard.
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Why plans for a new golf course have caused uproar in New Orleans | Cities | The Guardian
Following media coverage closely, Tim Ahern assumed that he had grasped the magnitude of Katrina’s destruction. But when he arrived in New Orleans in early 2006, Ahern realised the damage was far worse than anything he’d been able to comprehend from…
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feelings by Leonardo Mambrini / 500px
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It was Donald J. Trump at his neediest, pleading with the television anchor in front of him to acknowledge a poll that, he said, showed that Hispanics really do love him. “You saw that, right?” he asked. “Did you see it? Wait. Did you see it?”
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Gipper Syndrome: Republican Candidates Fail the Reagan Test | Observer
It has been more than 25 years since Ronald Reagan left the White House and more than a decade since his death. In addition to leaving a legacy that is still debated, President Reagan still plays a larger-than-life role in the Republican Party, spec…
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Sampling Enceladus: Is Earth Ready for Pieces of Saturn Moon’s Plumes?
Many astrobiologists are champing at the bit to bring back samples from Saturn’s ocean-harboring moon Enceladus, but others say it may be best to exercise a little patience.
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Lonely Supernova Likely Exiled by Merging Black Holes
Elliptical galaxies with dark, wispy dust lanes suggest galaxy mergers. The combination of two supermassive black holes at their center could have cast out pairs of older stars that later exploded into supernovae without host galaxies.Credit: NASA, …
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BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup 2015: George North given Wales recall for Dublin
George North is expected to make his comeback from concussion when Wales face Ireland in Dublin on Saturday. The wing, who has not played since March, is set to be included in a near full-strength side for Wales’ second warm-up game against the Iris…
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Pronto Secures $1.6M To Both Cook For, And Deliver To, Hungry Londoners | TechCrunch
Fueled by apps and the web, ‘on-demand’ is a big business right now. Uber is on-demand transport and (eventually) logistics. PostMates is on-demand delivery. TaskRabbit is on-demand you name it.
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No One Is Ready for the Next Katrina | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. After the storm, after the flooding, after the investigations, the US came to realize that what happened to New Orleans on August 29, 2005 was not a natural disaster.
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Welcome to the World, Drone-Killing Laser Cannon | WIRED
Hang on to your drone. Boeing’s developed a laser cannon specifically designed to turn unmanned aircraft into flaming wreckage.
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160 Years of Hurricanes in One Incredible Infographic | WIRED
Caption: These traces show the path of the lowest-grade hurricanes, which are also the most common, between 1851 and 2014. Category 1 hurricanes have a wind speed of 64 to 82 knots. Ten years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
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Savvy Site Helps You Pick a College—And Find a Scholarship | WIRED
When she was 12, Katie Fang left China to study in the United States. From there, she went to Australia, to continue her English studies, and she has since lived and studied in the United Kingdom and Canada.
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The Graceful, Maybe-a-Bit-Insane Cliff Jumpers of Instagram | WIRED
Zach Liptak’s idea of blowing off steam is flipping backward off a 35-foot cliff into a tiny swimming hole, feet pointed at the clouds and arms out like Superman.
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Inside of a mechanical calculator : interestingasfuck
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I don’t know at what exact point the Virginia murders began.
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Serena Williams performs Disney favourite Under the Sea at the Annual Delta Open Mic event in New York on Wednesday – perhaps hoping that singing the lyrics ‘nobody beat us’ will help the women’s world tennis number one on her way to a fourth consec…
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BuzzFeed in first global advertising deal with Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP | Media | The Guardian
BuzzFeed has entered the big leagues of advertising, striking its first global agency deal with Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP that includes an ad spend commitment thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Chrissy by Tanya Markova – Nya / 500px
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The politics behind China’s stock market turbulence – BBC News
One of the most extraordinary things about the world’s number two economy is that when it faces a crisis, the leadership carries on in public as if nothing has happened. Decisions which affect the fate not just of 1.
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I’m Not Going To Dismaland – The New Yorker
I’d like to be able to report that I’ve been to Dismaland, the latest prank installation by Bansky, which opened recently in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, in the southwest of England.
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Donald Trump wants to deport 11 million migrants: is that even possible? | US news | The Guardian
A confrontation between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos in Iowa on Tuesday may be remembered most for Trump’s decision to throw Ramos from his news conference. Trump said Ramos was “out of line” for sp…
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Cuba’s Black Market Is a Website That Exists Primarily Offline | Motherboard
On Cuba’s version of Craigslist, a website called Revolico, you will find all the usual stuff: Bikes and cars for sale, job offers, apartments for rent, guitar lessons and old digital cameras.
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How to Transition Into a Serious Relationship When You’re Used to Being Single
It seems like people are always looking for love, but single life can be pretty great. You’re independent, you don’t have to compromise, and you get used to doing things 100% your way.
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NASA versus nature: August 29, 2005 | Ars Technica
MICHOUD, La.—On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina came, the federal levees failed, and chaos ensued in the New Orleans metro area. By now the damage is well documented.
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Sir Terry Pratchett fans: Final book ‘devastating’ – BBC News
The final novel by author Sir Terry Pratchett has been released, almost six months after his death. The Shepherd’s Crown, the 41st novel in his Discworld series, went on sale in the UK and Commonwealth at midnight BST (23:00 GMT Wednesday).
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People are getting obsessed with this new Twitter-like website : InternetIsBeautiful
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Oddly Sadisfying : oddlysatisfying
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Rechargeable batteries: Which are the most eco-friendly? | Grist
Q. I recently moved to a remote area where electricity delivery is sometimes unreliable, so I have battery-powered backup devices. I want to get in a big supply of rechargeable batteries. There are many kinds.
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These first-time fishermen know all the best (and worst) parts of fishing | Grist
Andrew and Sophie never planned to be commercial fishermen — but they tried it for a summer. Here’s what they learned. There are many ways to juice your gadgets without throwing away mountains of dead batteries. Umbra charges through the options.
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My pet Furry! [4160×2340] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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Cats via /r/cats http://t.co/EpgnfmqP7h http://t.co/iqTkOlRMkx
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Utakleiv Sunrise by Javier de la Torre / 500px
Utakleiv Sunrise by JavierLt http://t.co/8IEhHdLKHa http://t.co/PSzjNDAF3p
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Virginia shooting: Gunman Vester Flanagan profile – BBC News
The man who accused of killing two broadcast journalists in Virginia has been identified as Vester Lee Flanagan, a former employee at the station where the victims worked. Police said Flanagan, 41, of Roanoke, Virginia, shot himself and later died a…
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A Syrian family’s journey to a new life in Germany – Al Jazeera English
Recklinghausen, Germany – The phone call came out of the blue one day last summer, recalls Naser Alameen. The Syrian was on his way home when a voice asked: “Do you want to be relocated?”
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BBC Sport – Kevin Nolan leaves West Ham by mutual consent
Captain Kevin Nolan has left West Ham United by mutual consent after four years at the Premier League club. The 33-year-old midfielder played 157 games for the east London side, scoring 31 goals, following his arrival from Newcastle United in June 2…
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Apple Patents Wireless Earbuds With Noise-Canceling Sensor Smarts | TechCrunch
Apple continues looking at ways to improve its earbuds — including potentially ditching the iconic white cables which had such a starring role in iTunes ads, back in the day.
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China billionaire Wang Jianlin says drop growth targets – BBC News
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin, one of the country’s best-known businessmen, has said China needs to drop unrealistic official economic growth targets. The Chinese government is targeting growth of around 7% this year.
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Saudi troops enter northern Yemen after Houthi clashes – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabian troops have crossed into northern Yemen for the first time since the conflict with Houthi rebels began in March. Footage published on Wednesday showed soldiers taking positions in a mountainous area overlooking the southern Saudi prov…
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Tyler, The Creator claims he has been banned from the UK. The US rapper says he is not allowed to enter the country for “three to five years” because of lyrics he wrote in 2009.
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Agent 99, Barbara Feldon – 1960’s : OldSchoolCool
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Carly Fiorina Fights to Make the Next GOP Debate – The Atlantic
Carly Fiorina’s strong performance in the B-list Republican debate, and an ensuing bump in the polls, quickly gave rise to a widespread assumption that the GOP’s lone woman candidate had earned her place alongside the top-tier contenders during the …
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Donald Trump and the Dangers of Passions in Politics – The Atlantic
Last week, two men in Boston allegedly beat a Hispanic homeless man. Afterward, one of the two brothers told the police, “Donald Trump was right, all of these illegals need to be deported.
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India sensational murder grips local media – BBC News
The arrest of a prominent media industrialist in India has unearthed a story involving murder, hidden identity, sensational allegations and countless accusations, all of which have contributed to a tale that has gripped media in the country.
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Why The Plan To Shrink New Orleans Failed | FiveThirtyEight
Moldy New Orleans still lay in ruins in January of 2006 as Joe Canizaro drove me to a favorite Italian restaurant of his in the city’s suburbs.
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The Capricious Standards Governing Police Use of Deadly Force – The Atlantic
On July 1, 2012, Milton Hall, a homeless man with a history of mental illness, stole a cup of coffee from a convenience store in Saginaw, Michigan. The store’s clerk called 911. When an officer arrived, Hall produced a knife with a three-inch blade …
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The risks of the everyday – Aeon Video
Just how good are humans at assessing risk? If you take a close look at some of what most worries people in the developed world – terrorism, plane crashes, child kidnappings, animal attacks – the answer appears to be ‘not so good’.
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Google VP Vint Cerf Is (Sometimes) Terrified of the Internet of Things | Motherboard
At the Heidelberg Laureate Forum this past Monday, Vint Cerf, the Google vice president and co-inventor of the internet itself, offered some worried remarks about his progeny’s imminent Internet of Things frontier.
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The Iranian Hacking Campaign to Break into Activists’ Gmail Accounts | Motherboard
As he drank coffee in a London restaurant earlier this month, Nariman Gharib received what looked like an innocuous email from what seemed to be a familiar source. Given that Gharib is an Iranian activist living in the UK, he is often a target of ha…
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Thailand gives check-ups for homeward-bound orangutans – BBC News
Thailand has been carrying out health checks on 14 orangutans, in preparation for their repatriation to Indonesia. The animals were found and seized in Phuket five years ago but the time has now come for them to return home.
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Mexican Drug Gang Leader Arrested in Mexico For Dismembering New York Blogger | VICE News
More than a year and a half since the disappearance of New York resident Harry Devert, the leader of the drug gang accused of his murder has been arrested in a resort town in the crime-afflicted state of Guerrero.
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Smaller of Panda Cub Twins Dies at the National Zoo http://t.co/jik2nVC4Zt
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Illusion by Kulmiye Chan / 500px
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Iraq conflict: Two generals killed by bomb near Ramadi – BBC News
Two senior Iraqi army commanders were among five people killed in a suicide car bombing near the city of Ramadi, military officials say.
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Virginia shootings: WDBJ7 weather man breaks down during report – video | US news | The Guardian
WDBJ7 weather reporter Leo Hirsbrunner becomes emotional during his forecast, following his touching on-air tribute to reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27. Parker and Ward were shot during a live broadcast on Wednesday.
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Hong Kong ‘Umbrella Movement’ students charged – BBC News
Two of the Hong Kong student leaders from the 2014 pro-democracy “Umbrella Movement” have been accused of unlawful assembly. Another activist has been charged with incitement. The charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois Dies | The Nation
Du Bois died on this day in 1963, a day before the March on Washington. He had contributed to The Nation for many decades, perhaps most notably with his essay from 1956, “I Won’t Vote,” excerpted in our recent 150th anniversary issue.
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Obesity is as bad for you as we thought – Caroline Weinberg – Aeon
Can you be obese and healthy? Maybe, but not for long http://t.co/X8R3bivtCG
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Sir Stephen House to quit as Police Scotland chief constable – BBC News
The chief constable of Police Scotland is to stand down from his post, BBC Scotland has learned. Sir Stephen House had been under severe pressure over the three days it took his officers to respond to a fatal crash on the M9.
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Photoshop Process : InterestingGifs
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19 Heartbreaking Photos of Hurricane Katrina’s Aftermath | Mother Jones
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These Two Candidates Are Winning the Race for Small Donors | Mother Jones
Political campaigns often try to portray themselves as driven by grassroots support, but they face a formidable obstacle: Most Americans don’t ever make a campaign donation.
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Book Review: $2.00 a Day by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer | Mother Jones
By Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer Two dollars per person per day is a poverty threshold in the developing world that’s rarely evoked when discussing the United States. It should be, say academics Kathryn Edin and H.
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Happiness in its purest form | Sometimes so cute it hurts : cats
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Well first time I’ve ever been turned on by an Icee… I’m lonely. : funny
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I asked my little sister to draw a panda for me… and got this. : pics
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Keep calm by Stratos Gazas / 500px
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Ballintoy Harbour, Northern Ireland [OC][2123×3492] : seaporn
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World Dog Days Champion 2015 !!!! : AnimalsBeingBros
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[Art] Brother Leopold enjoying a sip : monkslookingatbeer
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Qatar Airways relaxes female cabin crew pregnancy rules – BBC News
Qatar Airways is relaxing rules that saw female cabin crew members who became pregnant face the sack. Under the new policies, female flight attendants who become pregnant are now offered temporary ground jobs.
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McDonald’s politely declines Burger King’s offer of world peace | The Verge
Yesterday, Burger King sent McDonalds an open letter proposing that the two fast food chains team up to create a hybrid “McWhopper” burger to celebrate Peace Day on September 21st.
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Obesity is as bad for you as we thought – Caroline Weinberg – Aeon
Since the World Health Organization declared a global obesity epidemic in 1997, weight has played a dominant role in the conversation about health and wellness.
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Malaysia to block sites promoting anti-government rally – BBC News
Malaysia says it will block websites spreading information about a major anti-government protest this weekend. Authorities said sites which “promote, disseminate information and encourage people to participate” in the demonstration will be blocked.
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Rugby Union: From part-timers to professionalism – Al Jazeera English
Just days after winning the inaugural Rugby Union World Cup in 1987, the All Blacks returned to their day jobs. Captain David Kirk went back to working as a business analyst. Hooker Sean Fitzpatrick resumed his builder duties.
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How the Solar System travels through the Galaxy. : space
How the Solar System travels through the Galaxy. (gfycat.com)
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Oscar Pistorius case: Parole review board sets date – BBC News
The review board which will decide whether South African athlete Oscar Pistorius should be released from jail will meet on 18 September, reports say. The justice minister blocked his early release, which was due last Friday.
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We need to talk about you still being in bed. : cats
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The rare sight of a sleeping Sterling… : cats
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She pops out of different areas from time to time : aww
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This tree gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Migrants crisis: Austria and Balkans call for EU answer – BBC News
Serbia and Macedonia have told a summit in Vienna the EU must come up with an action plan to respond to the influx of migrants to Europe. Austria has complained that the EU has failed to pay enough attention to migrants entering the Western Balkans.
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We Can Finally Definitively Determine What Color the Dinosaurs Were | Motherboard
In recent years, paleontologists have been able to reconstruct the color of dinosaur feathers by analyzing tiny pigment structures preserved in fossils. Needless to say, this is a huge leap for the field, allowing scientists to definitely identify t…
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Quirico D’Orcia watercolor by Enrico Ghiberto / 500px
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Sunrise in Jokulsarlon by Yiannis Pavlis / 500px
Sunrise in Jokulsarlon by YiannisPavlis http://t.co/jUzvN8OhiX http://t.co/r8htCi5U7w
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Plitvice Lakes National Park… by Norbert M. / 500px
Plitvice Lakes National Park… by Nuwe http://t.co/s6zy5Qkvqq http://t.co/bkkM8yQdBo
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Le Trayas by Sylvio Testa / 500px
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Senior Iraqi commanders killed in ISIL suicide blast – Al Jazeera English
Two senior Iraqi commanders have been killed and 10 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack north of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, where fierce fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group is continuing, sources have told …
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Code name: I love this show. – Imgur
Code name: I love this show. http://t.co/i2CAqJZekp http://t.co/cdN2rpOZqb
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I re-watched them all and i can’t figure it out. – Imgur
I re-watched them all and i can’t figure it out. http://t.co/DXbbVoQySe http://t.co/pMqBXbRwwy
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A representative of the Flanagan family in California reads a condolence statement on Wednesday to the relatives of the Virginia shooting victims. Vester Flanagan, 41, took his own life after shooting two former colleagues, Alison Parker and Adam Wa…
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The endlessness of the sea offers an eternal alternative. Perhaps if we just pushed off into it, we could escape death itself – as if its amniotic waters might be a return to a universal womb. After all, the sea is where we came from in the first pl…
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Virginia shooting: vigils held for Alison Parker and Adam Ward – video | US news | The Guardian
Vigils are held in Virginia after two WDBJ7 television journalists were killed during a live broadcast on Wednesday, shot by a former employee of the TV station. Vester Flanagan shot himself as police pursued him on a Virginia highway hours after th…
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Loving the way coins spin in these : firstworldanarchists
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Birmingham, UK, July 2014 [11510×2232][OC] : CityPorn
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UK reprimands kids’ sites using peer pressure to sell memberships | The Verge
Two of the most popular websites for children in the UK are Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils: communities that offer young internet users a range of games, activities, and social features built around rosters of cartoon characters.
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Were the media wrong to publish Virginia shootings video and images? | Media | The Guardian
Thousands of people took to Twitter to complain about national newspapers showing graphic images of a journalist being shot dead in Virginia.
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1) The 135th US Open begins at Flushing Meadows on Monday so here’s a quick rundown of some of the tournament’s greatest hits: 1968 – Arthur Ashe wins the first tournament of the open era; 1988 – Steffi Graf completes a Grand Slam with victory over …
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Larry Lee, Jr – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Larry Lee, Jr. (born October 20, 1953) is a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 84th District, which includes eastern St. Lucie County, since 2012.
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VICE News Capsule – Thursday, August 27 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Nigeria’s most populous city has a housing problem, Indian veterans continue their hunger strike, prominent Iranians support the nuclear deal, and dog is man’s newest al…
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Star Wars radio dramatizations resurface in the latest Humble Bundle | The Verge
In case the slew of Star Wars books, comics, video games, and toys on the horizon won’t fulfil your appetite for things from a galaxy far far away, the newest Humble Bundle offers a way to hear Star Wars as you probably haven’t before.
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Bernie Sanders seems to be the only candidate hitting the social issues on the head. Everybody knows the U.S. is in some sort of social movement.
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Morrissey: Obama is doing nothing for the US black community | Music | The Guardian
Morrissey has attacked Barack Obama for his lack of support for black communities in the US.
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Qatar Airways relaxes cabin crew pregnancy rules – Al Jazeera English
Qatar Airways has relaxed policies which saw cabin crew sacked if they became pregnant or got married within the first five years of employment, officials from the airline said.
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Closer Scrutiny as Chinese Seek to Give Birth in the United States http://t.co/MXpW6nA65Y
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Daylight+Twilight and Aurora Borealis Frequency [2200 x 1700] [OC] : MapPorn
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Not here by Chris Ruhrmann / 500px
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Trying to express views that dont allign with Bernie Sanders on this site – GIF on Imgur
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UK net migration hits record high – BBC News
Prime Minister David Cameron is “punishing businesses” by trying to fulfil promises to cut immigration, the Institute of Directors says.
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Watch The Half Hour Hegel: A Walk Through Hegel’s Phenomenology, Passage by Passge | Open Culture
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Ricky Martin attacks ‘racist, absurd and incoherent’ Donald Trump | Music | The Guardian
Ricky Martin has issued a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump, whose views he has called “racist, absurd, and above all incoherent and ignorant”.
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China Stocks Rebound on Wall Street Rally | Al Jazeera America
China stocks rebounded sharply on Thursday, snapping a savage losing streak, as Wednesday’s rally on Wall Street brought some calm to shaky global markets.
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In the rape trial of Owen Labrie, unfolding this month in a county courtroom in Concord, N.H., this much is settled: When Labrie was an 18-year-old senior at the boarding school St. Paul’s, he competed with other male students over who could “score …
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mfw he “doesn’t eat pussy” : TrollXChromosomes
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TOP 5 Biggest Crocodiles In The World : AnimalsBeingBros
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Chinese Drone Startup Yuneec Grabs $60M In Funding From Intel | TechCrunch
A second Chinese drone startup has disclosed major funding this week. Intel announced it put $60 million into Shanghai-based Yuneec, just two days after rival EHANG publicized a $42 million Series B.
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Patagonia blues by Felix Inden / 500px
Patagonia blues by FelixInden http://t.co/NfvMkw1UBN http://t.co/T8RNXeArgd
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Chip Kelly doesn’t care what you think | Sport | The Guardian
“I don’t care what other people think. It doesn’t bother me. If I believe what other people think, that means I value their opinion more than I value my own. That’s not the case.” The words of Chip Kelly, who only knows how to be Chip Kelly.
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Could Greece become the Libya of Europe? – Al Jazeera English
Despite being a few hundred kilometres north of Libya in the eastern Mediterranean, Greece limited its exposure to the North African country’s four-year slide into civil war to a financially stimulating influx of Libyan patients into hospitals, the …
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Syrian army and rebels agree to new truce in Zabadani – Al Jazeera English
Syrian rebels and forces loyal to the country’s President Bashar al-Assad have agreed to a new 48-hour ceasefire to halt fighting in the western town of Zabadani.
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People are still living in FEMA’s toxic Katrina trailers — and they likely have no idea | Grist
As soon as Nick Shapiro turned into the parking lot of the Tumbleweed Inn in Alexander, N.D., he recognized the trailers.
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Screw your stupid cat door. : cats
Screw your stupid cat door. via /r/cats http://t.co/y6FKyrxhiq http://t.co/hVKzGzWm4e
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/fK2rD0hBKZ http://t.co/sg0G1EpM3S
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My mom is the best! : AnimalsBeingBros
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Logitech Headphones for the Gaming Audiophile | WIRED
Logitech G is launching two new gaming headphones: the G633 and G933 Artemis Spectrum. They are the result of Logitech’s sound engineering team’s attempt to create a gaming headset that delivers audio comparable to top-shelf headphones. With patent …
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Lotus Blossom photo 2 by Roger Dan / 500px
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Angel by rosetrace http://t.co/6wbhEtbGuA http://t.co/wiKST1Vi0f
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This is Tiger, he likes to sit on cars. : cats
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Hawk? just hanging out by it’s talons : mildlyinteresting
Hawk? just hanging out by it’s talons via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/8gdxFRIvNt http://t.co/iSnkbOyGbB
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Elliott Bay Clouds – Seattle, WA [1024 x 683] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Hatcher Pass, Alaska [OC] [3456X5184] : EarthPorn
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That’s nice .. http://t.co/ZRsVUN6oPL http://t.co/CfIEnPeEyq
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WDBJ anchor Chris Hurst speaks to reporters outside his TV station’s headquarters in Roanoke, Virginia on Wednesday. He was in a six-month relationship with fellow anchor Alison Parker, who was shot and killed during a live report on Wednesday morni…
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Walking alongside the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland. [OC][4608×3456] : EarthPorn
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Virginia shooting: family and colleagues mourn WDBJ7 journalists | US news | The Guardian
Good morning. This is what we know so far about what happened yesterday and overnight after the shooting in Roanoke, Virginia. Her boyfriend, WDBJ7 anchor Chris Hurst, said the pair had not publicised their relationship but were deeply in love and h…
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Radioactive Waste Found in St. Louis Suburbs | Al Jazeera America
ST. LOUIS — The Army Corps of Engineers has found radioactive nuclear weapons waste in residential lots along a St. Louis County creek. Coldwater Creek runs some 20 miles through St.
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The ghost of conflicts past, present and future – Al Jazeera English
It is well-known that traumatic experiences leave lifelong emotional and psychological scars in their wake. Some scientists even suggest that trauma causes genetic changes in the victim.
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Hong Kong student leaders charged over ‘Umbrella Movement’ – BBC News
Three prominent Hong Kong student leaders have been charged over their roles in the pro-democracy “Umbrella Movement” of 2014. Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow are accused of climbing a fence to break into a government compound at the start of …
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[Art] A Brother of Yore Taking the Malty Sacrament : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] A Brother of Yore Taking the Malty Sacrament via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/vus7bcv8eI http://t.co/eenLrbXnLW
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Bubble turns frozen. : oddlysatisfying
Bubble turns frozen. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/TXJMG8oJY7 http://t.co/ixUTT76gXi
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Hillary Clinton on Virginia shooting: we need action on gun control – video | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton calls for action on gun control on Wednesday after the fatal shooting of two television journalists in Virginia on live television.
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The washing away of Cajun culture – BBC News
Louisiana’s coastal wetlands are eroding – more than a football field of land is lost every hour. As the marsh erodes, homes, communities and the local Cajun culture are under threat. Paul Chiquet is not your typical librarian.
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Indian army deployed to riot-hit areas of Gujarat – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of Indian army troops have been deployed to riot-hit areas of Gujarat state following days of unrest that has led to at least seven deaths.
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Lost atmosphere.. by Edmondo Senatore / 500px
Lost atmosphere.. by Edmondo http://t.co/elFo2bw2Yp http://t.co/cky1Vb2ntN
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Rajastani by enrico barletta / 500px
Rajastani by enryba http://t.co/mystJq1GUY http://t.co/3isDhooPUA
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Wife asked me to make a firepit, do think she will like it!? : pics
Wife asked me to make a firepit, do think she will like it!? via /r/pics http://t.co/fRgVpft4QN http://t.co/oKOYZXjLw3
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My cats face after seeing my sisters dog on FaceTime : cats
My cats face after seeing my sisters dog on FaceTime via /r/cats http://t.co/mzjEPSFog5 http://t.co/g4vf5jTUrv
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The battle for the Republican presidential nomination has produced an unexpectedly intense burst of attacks on women’s reproductive rights, not only on the right to abortion, but also by implication on some of the most commonly used methods of contr…
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Adriaan Kamp used to be a die-hard oilman. After 17 years at Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell, the 54-year-old Dutchman now runs a consultancy based in Oslo advising national governments on transitioning to cleaner energy.
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Enterprise Users Will Fuel Shipments Of Large Tablets, Says Strategy Analytics | TechCrunch
Shipments of tablets are straggling as as phablets like the iPhone 6 Plus became more popular. Enterprise users, however, may be the tablet’s saving grace, boosting sales of higher-end models like the Surface Pro 3 and the anticipated iPad Pro, whic…
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Game of Thrones Season 6 Has a Badass Plot for Brienne | Vanity Fair
Sometime during Game of Thrones Season 3, when Brienne and Jaime were grimily cavorting around Westeros losing appendages and battling bears, the tall lady warrior became a huge fan favorite.
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Study Finds Peak Months for College Drug Use | Al Jazeera America
College students tend to experiment with specific types of drugs for the first time during certain times of the year, according to a federal study.
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The Berry’s choice by Andre Villeneuve / 500px
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What are you thinking right now? by Chris Ruhrmann / 500px
What are you thinking right now? by Chris_Ruhrmann http://t.co/hVqACBMj5r http://t.co/gHNNTvOjST
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Virginia killings: Reporter’s boyfriend speaks of their love – BBC News
There have been renewed calls for tougher gun laws in the US after two journalists were shot dead live on TV in the US state of Virginia. WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were targeted by a disgruntled former colleague who later …
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Johnson-Thompson into long jump final
Katarina Johnson-Thompson was one of three British athletes to qualify for the women’s long jump final at the World Athletics Championships in China.
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Virginia shooting: what we know so far | US news | The Guardian
Here is what we know so far about the shooting of two TV journalists in Roanoke, Virginia: Tributes have been paid to two journalists who were shot dead live on air on Wednesday morning. The president of the WDBJ7 news channel, Jeffrey Marks, said: …
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“Hollywood Sequel Doctor” · Key & Peele · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Key & Peele talks a lot about what it means to be a male feminist and the gender roles of men and women; sometimes it’s through the lens of race, but it’s usually pretty universal.
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What would you do with the world’s fastest computer? : AdviceAnimals
What would you do with the world’s fastest computer? via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/w63JZ8F4ia http://t.co/VHSl8TDAWZ
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Are We Getting Trolled or is This Really Happening? – Imgur
Are We Getting Trolled or is This Really Happening? http://t.co/Mp5JbYv6A4 http://t.co/garCVzcVhR
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I’m a guy http://t.co/MHsE2SWPIc http://t.co/RQtDAPwJ1P
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LG Made A Full-Size Keyboard For Mobiles That Folds Into A Stick To Fit In Your Bag | TechCrunch
If you ever wanted to stuff a full-size keyboard inside your (big) pockets or bag, then LG’s got your back with its newest product.
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Mining, by Alberto Simonazzi : ImaginaryLandscapes
Mining, by Alberto Simonazzi via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes http://t.co/8kRUrHSqln http://t.co/3LUFZ8Jucx
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It was a crime both familiar and peculiar. The shooting of TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward, featured old themes — jealousy, race, obsession — but delivered in new ways.
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I frequently lament a particularly prevalent pathology of our time — our extreme impatience with the dynamic process of attaining knowledge and transmuting it into wisdom.
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Caught my feline friend in the yard today : cats
Caught my feline friend in the yard today via /r/cats http://t.co/ps65JqkJyN http://t.co/corPnyTRLr
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BBC Sport – Usain Bolt v Justin Gatlin II: World Championship 200m final lowdown
Four days on from that extraordinary 100m final it is time to go again. Bolt v Gatlin II. A heavyweight contest, a world championship and a supposed morality tale all in one.
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Old town, Bratislava by Rana Jabeen / 500px
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Rebecca Marshall is a bee-farming apprentice for Rowse Honey. Her work includes all levels of beekeeping and bee farming including queen rearing, honey production, swarm control and disease recognition. “I love working closely and in harmony with na…
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Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake Sing Mirrors in Los Angeles | Vanity Fair
Taylor Swift pulled out all the stops for her last night in Los Angeles. After parading out a never-ending stream of celebrity guests during her 1989 World Tour, Swift brought out the big guns: Justin Timberlake and close friend Selena Gomez. The L.…
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Light on mosses by Maryse Dardaillon / 500px
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Brussel, Belgium [OC] [1000×712] : ArchitecturePorn
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How the Feds Took Down Rentboy.com | VICE | United Kingdom
Homeland Security agents came on Tuesday morning for the staff of Rentboy.com, one of the oldest escort websites on the internet. They came to their Manhattan offices, reportedly removing computers. They came, a defense attorney told me, to their ho…
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Maintaining his xenophobic immigration rhetoric more steadfastly than an Olympian’s exercise routine, Señor Donald Trump drove last week’s GOP crusade around his latest tirade: stop letting just any US-born baby get legal papers.
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Scars remain in New Orleans 10 years after Katrina – BBC News
President Obama is to visit New Orleans, as part of commemorations marking ten years since Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc.
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You brought us 7 years of love and laughs. RIP Moxie Crimefighter. : cats
You brought us 7 years of love and laughs. RIP Moxie Crimefighter. via /r/cats http://t.co/rFTnncSml8 http://t.co/le4lYJspAc
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Walking Upstairs by Eva Lechner / 500px
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Amazon Announces One-Hour Alcohol Delivery, Starting With Seattle : technology
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Virginia killings: Family of gunman say they are ‘shocked’ – BBC News
The family of a man who shot dead two US journalists in Virginia have offered condolences to the families of the victims. Vester Lee Flanagan shot dead his former colleagues Alison Parker and her cameraman Adam Ward, during a live TV interview.
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China Detains 12 Over Tianjin Blasts | Al Jazeera America
China has formally detained a dozen people over huge explosions in the city of Tianjin this month that killed at least 139 people, and has accused 11 officials and port executives of suspected dereliction of duty or abuse of power.
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China arrests chemical warehouse management over blasts – Al Jazeera English
Chinese police have arrested 12 people over a series of giant explosions that killed 139 people and devastated a large section of the Chinese port city of Tianjin, state media said.
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Buzz, your girlfriend. Woof. : AdviceAnimals
Buzz, your girlfriend. Woof. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/kMKzwEOCjA http://t.co/6bkWbdakpB
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HMB while I get some air on this rally jump. : holdmybeer
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Joseph Traub, Who Helped Bring Computer Science to Universities, Dies at 83 http://t.co/mJL3fTxD7e
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Impressive. : interestingasfuck
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Arizona Severs Ties With Prison Operator | Al Jazeera America
Arizona will fire the private operator running a state prison after three major uprisings that caused extensive damage and forced more than 1,200 inmates to be relocated, Gov. Doug Ducey said on Wednesday.
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Refugee life at makeshift detention centre in Lesbos – BBC News
There are thousands of people living in the facility, and now makeshift shops have opened up inside the camp. Chris Buckler reports.
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Rescued flying fox munching a grape proves bats can be cute too – video | World news | The Guardian
Sully, a pregnant grey-headed flying fox, savours some fresh grapes hours after being found unresponsive on the ground in a Sydney park. She was nursed back to health by a bat rescuer for six weeks before being released, still pregnant.
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Tata executive says UK should stay in EU – BBC News
One of the most senior figures at the Indian giant, Tata Group, has said that its major businesses in the UK gain from membership of the European Union. Tata Sons Group executive council member Nirmarlya Kumar told the BBC that access to the single …
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Why I ate a roadkill squirrel | Environment | The Guardian
The first hour of the day, before the sun is over the horizon: this is the time to see wildlife.
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Action-Based Email App Dispatch Comes To The iPad | TechCrunch
Everyone has their own favorite email app, there are plenty out there to choose from, but one of the best under-the-radar offerings (and my personal choice) — Dispatch — just got an update that finally adds support for the iPad. Dispatch is a $6.
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The battle to protect Alaska’s great wildlife sanctuary | Rebecca Solnit | News | The Guardian
At midnight on 29 June, the sun was directly north and well above the hills. It had not gone down since I arrived in the Arctic, three days earlier, and would not set for weeks.
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The Second Mother · Film Review · The A.V. Club
A few years ago, the Brazilian director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and his occasional partner, Daniela Thomas, made a lovely, heartbreaking short film for the omnibus feature Paris, Je T’Aime.
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Shooter Tutor is a month-long mini-series that finds a first-person shooter expert (Gameological contributor Ryan Smith) attempting to teach a hopelessly bad FPS player (staff writer Alex McCown).
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My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
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Bright music and dark words define The Mountain Goats · Power Hour · The A.V. Club
Power Hour distills musicians’ discographies down to one tight 60-minute set, picking the big hits and deeper cuts from across a career, looking both to define who the artists are and to serve as a killer compilation.
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Z For Zachariah · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Imagine a film adaptation of The Silence Of The Lambs that decided the story would be more interesting if Hannibal Lecter had a cellmate who kept interrupting Lecter’s conversations with Clarice Starling, trying to secure his own transfer to another…
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FX offers Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Kelly Bishop · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, August 27. All times are Eastern. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (FX, 10 p.m.): It’s a theatrical bonanza this week as Broadway legend Kelly Bishop (a.k.a. Gilmore Girls’ Emily Gilmore) guest stars as Joh…
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We Are Your Friends · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Still in his nascence as a semi-adult movie star, Zac Efron has displayed an affinity for thinly sketched male camaraderie—dim bros who allegedly love each other’s company, but have very little to say to each other or anyone else.
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about. The actor: Born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Josh Lucas began h…
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Waikiki Beach Reopens After Sewage Spill | Al Jazeera America
Hawaii officials are reopening the Waikiki beach after water quality tests showed bacteria levels have declined since a large sewage spill earlier this week. Hawaii state Department of Health deputy director Keith Kawaoka said Wednesday levels have …
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7 Chinese Brothers · Film Review · The A.V. Club
After his first big role in Rushmore, Jason Schwartzman puttered along as a character actor for a good long while, working his go-to comic move of sad-sack self-absorption into larger ensemble pieces. Lately he’s been taking lead roles more often, a…
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Shoreham plane crash: Restrictions on bank holiday air shows – BBC News
A host of air shows will take place over the bank holiday weekend with alterations to their schedules following the Shoreham plane crash.The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) banned vintage jets from carrying out “high-energy acrobatics” over land afte…
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Facebook M: The call centre of the future – BBC News
Digital assistants like Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google Now all share one key thing in common: the more they know about you, the more useful they become.
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Morning in the East Sea by Shangri-La / 500px
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Caro Sue… by Sacha Leyendecker / 500px
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Check how much of an asshole your reddit friends are! : InternetIsBeautiful
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Me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/hSPH43Y8UP http://t.co/y47H086ipd
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APOD: 2015 August 26 – Collinder 399: The Coat Hanger
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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When you ask for a photoshop and it ends up like this… : funny
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Rotterdam by Klaas Fidom / 500px
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/aGPMm5Ux9d http://t.co/9khzOemy3a http://t.co/hGfKPpQRrg
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Tom Harkin Cautions Joe Biden Against Running for President http://t.co/GdDd64hoMb
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India just turned off mobile internet for 63 million citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad : worldnews
If India can do it, so can any western country. In fact, the United States already did so during protests earlier this year. Indian culture is very confusing. There should be an online class; Indian Culture for American Idiots
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Thistle and brimstones: explosion in the fluff factory | Environment | The Guardian
There are specks in the sky over every field and garden, silver-spoked seeds of thistledown, the snowflakes of summer. Up there in the blue, some float past to wherever, some bunch up unloved in the corner of a spider’s web, and one has slipped indo…
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Amazon Prime Video joins Netflix in Japan this fall | The Verge
In Japan, globally popular internet video streaming services are like buses — you wait forever then two show up at once.
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/aGPMm5Ux9d http://t.co/BEU25g4pMZ
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Lake Wakatipu Willows Image, New Zealand – National Geographic Photo of the Day
The famed water-bound willows of Glenorchy, New Zealand, rise from Lake Wakatipu on the country’s South Island. Your Shot member Paul Reiffer, who photographed the scene at sunrise, calls winter “a special time in New Zealand.”
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Fifty Shades publisher ‘must set aside’ $10m in royalties spat – BBC News
A woman who helped publish the Fifty Shades series but was defrauded out of royalties could be set to receive millions of dollars in damages.A US judge ordered Australian Amanda Hayward to set aside $10.7m (£6.9m) for Jennifer Pedroza, a Texas resid…
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LG’s new ‘Rolly’ wireless keyboard turns into a pocket stick | The Verge
Is that a keyboard in your pocket, or are you excited to see me? LG just announced the “Rolly,” a Bluetooth keyboard that folds up along the four rows of keys to create a wand-like device that can be tossed in a purse or pocket.
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Astronaut (STS-122, STS-129; 23d:13h:28m total… – Just Space
Astronaut (STS-122, STS-129; 23d:13h:28m total time) &… http://t.co/rKHYWZ2ha4 http://t.co/7Rsila8HDD
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Hope by Pedro Jarque Krebs / 500px
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I made a friend today via /r/cats http://t.co/BbvRSVkorQ http://t.co/GESea3z8Du
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MRW my co-worker says she’s 35 weeks pregnant : reactiongifs
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Lake Wakatipu Willows Image, New Zealand – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Rising Up http://t.co/2x5u8qSiJL
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Viewers of Virginia TV Station Wake Up to Watch a Nightmare http://t.co/wOOrcK0c8E
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Donald J. Trump expressed no regrets on Wednesday morning for temporarily ejecting a Univision journalist from a news conference and denied that he has been bullying the media. Mr.
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Evernote Is Killing Off Its Dedicated Food App | TechCrunch
Evernote founder Phil Libin was succeeded as CEO by ex-Googler Chris O’Neill last month, and the new man at the top appears to be wasting little time making his mark after Evernote announced that it would cease support for its Food app.
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Hillary Clinton Takes ‘Responsibility’ for Email Use, Saying It ‘Wasn’t the Best Choice’ Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she understood why people had questions about her decision to use only private email while she was secretary of state…
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The Canon EOS M3 is coming to the United States | The Verge
When Canon debuted the EOS M3 in February, it looked like the company had made its most photographer-friendly mirrorless camera yet. But for most of 2015, the M3 has only been available in England and Australia.
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World’s biggest car manufacturers sued over ‘deadly’ keyless ignitions | Business | The Guardian
Ten of the world’s biggest carmakers were sued on Wednesday by American consumers who claim they concealed the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning in more than five million vehicles equipped with keyless ignitions, leading to 13 deaths.
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Gujarat remains tense after Patel caste violence – BBC News
Tension prevails in India’s Gujarat state where two days of caste-related violence has left eight people dead. Fresh clashes were reported overnight and the army has been deployed to maintain peace.
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High contrast summer sky and clouds [5184×3456][OC] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/1meDovQWqN http://t.co/XuL7EHoIDy http://t.co/BEpKccb2Pi
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High contrast summer sky and clouds [5184×3456][OC] : SkyPorn
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We’re all so clever via /r/funny http://t.co/H9vKR1p7nw http://t.co/uh6liPgZM4
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The Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has accused Donald Trump of revealing dictatorial tendencies by expelling him from a press conference.
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“Trap Queen” rapper Fetty Wap announces debut album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rapper Fetty Wap, who exploded onto the singles charts with last year’s “Trap Queen,” has announced the release date for his self-titled debut album.
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il Duomo di Torino by Ardam / 500px
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Meow via /r/cats http://t.co/6IIIdZQfAr http://t.co/h6FlfC6lpJ
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Doesn’t matter… via /r/funny http://t.co/lYKmgurTId http://t.co/eBVRouNymn
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Venezuela and Colombia hold talks over border row – Al Jazeera English
The foreign ministers of Colombia and Venezuela have promised to increase cooperation following the closure of two major border crossings and a crackdown on migrants and smugglers by Venezuela.
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Amazon Prime Follows Netflix Into Japan | TechCrunch
American video-streaming services are like buses if you happen to live in Japan. Fresh off the news that Netflix is heading to the East Asian country next week, Amazon has revealed that its Prime Video service will also swoop into the Land of the Ri…
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Orthodox Jewish Pols Again Rage at Nadler After He Backs Iran Deal | Observer
Blasting Congressman Jerrold Nadler for choosing to support a controversial nuclear accord with Iran, a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders promised tonight that the veteran Democrat would feel the full wrath of his constituents–and one even suggested …
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My kitten, Meeko, loves watching TV with me. : cats
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Finger of shame via /r/cats http://t.co/4NID82elY2 http://t.co/idJytwHWAk
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Skaftafell National Park, Iceland [OC] [6272×1969] : EarthPorn
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Currituck Sound, Duck, North Carolina [OC] [3771×2121] : waterporn
Currituck Sound, Duck, North Carolina [OC] [3771×2121] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/EjGxkPP8pQ http://t.co/p6n9mMcW6v
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Water Is Called Casualty of Syrian War http://t.co/jUQjAab3Zw
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‘Puzzles Are Fun. Search On’: Google Cops to Secret Recruiting Tool Baked Inside Search | Re/code
How does the world’s best search engine recruit programming whizzes? Through search, naturally. On Tuesday, Max Rosett, a new Google employee, blogged on The Hustle about how he landed his new job at Google.
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ABC picks up two comedies from guys who worked on American Dad · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s apparently a big day for non-traditional sitcom families, with ABC announcing that it’s developing two new series from Rick Wiener and Kenny Schwartz.
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Global sea levels have climbed 8cm since 1992, Nasa research shows | Environment | The Guardian
Sea levels worldwide have risen an average of nearly eight centimetres (three inches) since 1992 because of warming waters and melting ice, a panel of Nasa scientists said on Wednesday. In 2013 a United Nations panel predicted sea levels would rise …
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Eko Communications Lands $5.7M For Its Messaging Platform For Corporates In Asia | TechCrunch
Slack opened the tech world’s mind to the potential of messaging inside organizations, but there are plenty of others working to bring the concept to different kinds of businesses.
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Toyota restarts Tianjin production after devastating blast – BBC News
Toyota says it will gradually restart work at its Tianjin plants two weeks after deadly chemical explosions in the Chinese port city. The facilities were shut down after massive blasts at a chemical storage site, which injured 67 Toyota employees an…
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Open thread for night owls: Alabama already tried Trump-style immigration policy. It was a disaster.
Asked about the law, Alabama voters rarely say that it worked. Large farms spent millions training new workers. The Byrds conceded that the agriculture sector suffered after some immigrants fled the state.
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How The Content Giants Are Tackling Global Markets | TechCrunch
It’s no surprise that the major content players – Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Yahoo, etc. – continue to capture front page news and headlines every day for their strategic moves and announcements in the United States and other major markets across the…
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Marcy Borders, who became known as the “dust lady” from a defining picture of her covered in ash and grime on Sept. 11, 2001, died on Monday. She was 42. Her sister, Dawn Borders, said she died from stomach cancer.
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Alemannic German across five countries [1400×1000] : MapPorn
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And now you have your answer : TrollXChromosomes
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HCG 87: A Small Group of Galaxies : Sometimes… – Just Space
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Wailua Falls north of Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii [OC] [2448×3264] : EarthPorn
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Pioneer Pot States Have Collected More Than $200 Million In Marijuana Taxes
Craig F. Walker via Getty Images The first two states to legalize recreational marijuana have collectively raked in at least $200 million in marijuana tax revenue, according to the latest tax data — and they’re putting those dollars to good use.
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/fq3gps3TL2 http://t.co/1640uF0z2s
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Scratch-off application wasn’t quite lined up… : mildlyinteresting
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Shelby GT350 1967 : OldSchoolCool
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Old settlement by Max Mitenkov : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Henwallow Falls, Cosby, Tn. [OC][1553×2761] : EarthPorn
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Itty bitty kitty loaf : Catloaf
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China detains Tianjin officials and managers after explosions – BBC News
Senior managers from the company which owned the Tianjin warehouse where explosions killed 139 people are among 23 criminally detained, state media said. Police had investigated executives from Ruihai International Logistics immediately after the bl…
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UK targets to cut immigration ‘punish businesses’ – BBC News
Prime Minister David Cameron is “punishing businesses” by trying to fulfil promises to cut immigration, the Institute of Directors says. It made its warning jointly with think-tank British Future.
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Apple’s Ex-CEO Has a Smartphone for the Developing World | WIRED
Caption: Former Apple CEO John Sculley’s smartphone brand, Obi Worldwide, launches two new phones today: the Obi Worldphone SJ1.5 and the slightly more upscale SF1. Obi Worldphone
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NBC picks up comedy about a couple whose moms are dating · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The rising mainstream acceptance of gay rights and LGBT issues has been great for a lot of people, but none perhaps more than the humble television writer.
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage again contemplates a run for the Senate
“I am thinking about it very strongly, ” the Republican said in response to Carr’s question about a U.S. Senate run. “I think we need leadership in Washington. Yeah, I might do that.”
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Colton Haynes gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Summer afternoon in my home town [5184×3456][OC] : SummerPorn
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Drought Implicated in Slow Death of Trees in Southeastern Forests : environment
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Woody Guthrie, 1940s : OldSchoolCool
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Looking Up by Paulo Costa / 500px
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Can’t wait to see such an amazing phenomenon. : funny
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India’s sewer cleaners risk their lives for a living – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of sewer cleaners are risking their lives every month in the Indian business hub of Mumbai because of a lack of basic safety gear. The workers, who are mostly from low-caste communities, have to deal with filthy conditions and dangerous ga…
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Los Angeles county supervisors ‘wash cars every few days’ despite drought | US news | The Guardian
Most Los Angeles county supervisors still have their cars washed two or three times a week despite the strict water conservation measures they have imposed on others due to a devastating four-year drought, according to local media.
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Virginia killings: Shooter Flanagan ‘a human powder keg’ – BBC News
A man who shot dead two journalists on live TV in the US state of Virginia apparently sent a rambling fax to ABC News describing himself as a “human powder keg” shortly after the attack. Vester Lee Flanagan, who had been dismissed by the same statio…
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Father Of Slain Journalist Makes Emotional Plea For Gun Control On Fox News | ThinkProgress
Fighting back tears, the father of one the journalists killed on live TV Wednesday morning made an impassioned plea for gun control on Fox News. Andy Parker, father of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, told Megyn Kelly that “we’ve got to do something abo…
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According to Deadline, Christopher Meloni (Wet Hot American Summer, Law & Order: SVU) and Marg Helgenberger (CSI) have joined the cast of Holding Patterns, the “coming of age dramedy” about a guy living at home with his mom and stepdad who has a cru…
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Kitten Burrito via /r/aww http://t.co/HsziIa71xc http://t.co/zVEGSVIk4B
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My laziness is astounding. : AdviceAnimals
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Appeals Court Rules on Kentucky Gay Marriage | Al Jazeera America
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June legalizing gay marriage nationwide, it could not be defensibly argued that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ office may decline to act in conformity with the U.S. Constitution, the appeals court said.
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The first time I did something about America’s epidemic of mass shootings was not when I looked up and saw on TV that a child had shot up a school full of children – although that’s happened a lot of times here.
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And it was THIS big!! via /r/cats http://t.co/5TuZogO27T http://t.co/dAWeeCuNn7
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Beautiful color and shapes at Antelope Canyon [OC] [640×960] : EarthPorn
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White Girls Are About To Get Real Fat : funny
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Syrian refugee crisis strains Jordan water supply – Al Jazeera English
The Middle East is facing a water crisis, according to a new report by the World Resources Institute. The Washington DC-based nongovernmental organisation says that, by 2040, the region will experience eight of the 10 worst droughts in the world.
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Tobias Strebel, who underwent plastic surgery to look like Justin Bieber, found dead – Boing Boing
Tobias Strebel, 35, who famously spent $100,000 on cosmetic surgery to look like Justin Bieber, was found dead in a Motel 6 in Los Angeles County. He had been missing since August 18. Strebel appeared on the TV series “Botched” and “My Strange Addic…
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60 years of Guinness World Records – BBC News
Today marks 60 years since the first edition of Guinness World Records was published. It showcased the feats of record-breakers including Roger Bannister, who had recently run a mile in under four minutes, and Mrs Vassilet from Russia who gave birth…
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Obi reveals its first two low-cost smartphones from former Apple CEO John Sculley | The Verge
It’s been more than 30 years since John Sculley became the CEO of Apple, where he presided over some of the company’s biggest hits — and the controversial ouster of its co-founder, Steve Jobs.
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A Hedge-Fund Manager’s Challenge to the Fed – The New Yorker
For some reason, Janet Yellen, the chair of the Federal Reserve, decided to skip this year’s annual Fed conference in Jackson Hole, where monetary policymakers from the United States and abroad get together with some prominent academics to discuss t…
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Sydney dam spills as flood clean-up continues – BBC News
Sydney’s giant Warragamba Dam is spilling for the first time since 2012, in the wake of days of heavy rain in the region. Authorities have warned of flooding in low-lying areas near the dam but don’t expect any homes to be at risk.
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Fracking Triggered 2014 Earthquake in BC (X-post r/Canada) : environment
Fracking Triggered 2014 Earthquake in BC (X-post r/Canada) via /r/environment http://t.co/YKZMd6rn0G http://t.co/FNe0t0QiX7
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My dog everyday : AdviceAnimals
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James Holmes Gets 12 Life Sentences in Aurora Shootings http://t.co/hpwuoU0kfh
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Cat don’t give a puck! via /r/cats http://t.co/ZhUz8gKzR4 http://t.co/YjYw9xceZg
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My girl via /r/cats http://t.co/DY5nnlOcFg http://t.co/NKfoTvlmTO
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/sETogJ4CJT http://t.co/JEXD4akFCG
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Chincoteague, VA [OC 1200×412] : EarthPorn
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Here’s a Drawing of a Guinea Pig on a Skateboard From 1899
I don’t know what to tell you. It is what it is. As always, the British Library’s flickr gallery of public domain images is a delight. There are over ten thousand pages of things to sift through. This is “Image taken from page 152 of ‘Lilliput Lyric…
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Lionsgate to give Julius Caesar the 300 treatment with Emperor · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Determined to keep on making movies until all of history is orange-tinted and glistening with sweat, 300 producers Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton have started developing a film based on the life of Roman dictator and A-number-one Ides hater Julius C…
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The Moon landing was a giant leap. The next leap is staying there. – Macleans.ca
When Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon, left the lunar surface in December 1972, people on Earth seemed to check it off the cosmic to-do list. Been there, done that.
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Asian shares continue global recovery on strong US lead – BBC News
Asian shares continued the global rally after overnight gains in the US steadied investors’ nerves. The mood was lifted by remarks by US Federal Reserve official William Dudley, who said the case for a rate rise, seemingly on the cards for September…
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Joe Biden confirms he is deciding on whether to run for president | US news | The Guardian
Joe Biden confirmed he is considering whether to run for president in his first publicly aired comments on whether he would seek the Democratic nomination.
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See Kate Moss as an Adorably Awkward Teen | Vanity Fair
Right now, on the Internet, there are countless photos of Kate Moss looking chic, flawless, incredible, and all of the other adjectives reserved for otherworldly attractive supermodels.
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Amazon lays off engineers and curbs hardware development after Fire phone flop: WSJ | The Verge
Amazon has laid off “dozens” of engineers who worked on its failed Fire phone as part of a broader curtailment of its hardware development center, Lab126, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Lake Eyre – South Australia js – Just Space
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All the movies Costco shows on their display TVs were torrented : mildlyinteresting
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Pink Paw Squad ft. Milton (7yo) and Marlee (3mo) : cats
Pink Paw Squad ft. Milton (7yo) and Marlee (3mo) via /r/cats http://t.co/PnUxN2eXlG http://t.co/JgjaTiVucQ
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Traversing the Seas | Hakai Magazine
On a 16th-century vessel in the middle of the ocean, survival depended on captain and crew knowing their ship inside out, from the nuances of the rigging to how the boat behaved in adverse weather. One thing they didn’t always know was the ship’s ex…
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The Summer of Censors — Cuepoint — Medium
Certain intersections of certain cities at certain time have a certain aura about them. The hippie movement had San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury in the 60s. During the 1970s, New York punks took over Bowery and 2nd in front of CBGBs.
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Pablo Escobar’s Unlikely Legacy | GQ
As dusk settles on the Magdalena Valley, the jungly middle stretch of Colombia’s great river basin, the hippopotamuses bawl and snort.
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Genocide Retrial Is Set for Guatemalan Former Dictator http://t.co/Ilx9Df58w6
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Overlooking the Canterbury Plains from Mt Hutt, New Zealand (2048×546) : EarthPorn
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Night fishing in New Hampshire : FoggyPics
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The light by Kannappan sivakumar / 500px
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Path of Joy by Martin Podt / 500px
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A judge in Tennessee has upheld the state’s lethal injection process for executing inmates, hours after a federal judge in Mississippi said that state’s process may break the law. At issue in both cases is the efficacy of the states’ execution drugs.
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Fox Searchlight buys Operation Brothers pitch from Tyrant’s Gideon Raff · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, Fox Searchlight has bought a pitch from Tyrant co-creator Gideon Raff titled Operation Brothers.
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Sharing Salaries In A Spreadsheet Is Not The Way To Pay Transparency | TechCrunch
I’ve seen a lot of media coverage in the last couple weeks regarding one former Google employee’s effort to bring more pay transparency to her workplace by creating a spreadsheet for co-workers to share their salary information with one another.
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Should Facebook Block Offensive Videos Before They Post? | WIRED
This morning, a gunman shot and killed two television journalists while they were on air at a shopping mall in Monetta, Virginia.
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Asia Pacific stock markets continue recovery after Dow bounces back – live | Business | The Guardian
Welcome to the Asia leg of the markets live blog. We’ve all had time to pause and reflect in the time zone but now things are under way again and the Australian and Japanese markets are up strongly following a huge 619-point surge on Wall Street on …
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Leaked images reveal Microsoft’s new flagship Lumia phones | The Verge
Microsoft is preparing to launch two new Lumia flagship devices at an event in October. While we’ve seen some images emerge along with full specifications, Evan Blass (Evleaks) has published what appears to be official press renders for both devices.
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How Your New Favorite Star Wars Character, BB-8, Went From Concept To Set
From the moment we saw it rolling across the sand in the first teaser trailer, we’ve all been fascinated by BB-8. The new droid who’ll be palling around with the characters in Star Wars The Force Awakens is unique, adorable, and now we know its stor…
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What We Know About The Shooting Of Two Journalists In Virginia – Digg
On Wednesday morning, a gunman shot and killed two TV journalists during a live news report for a CBS affiliate in Virginia, WDBJ7. Police are currently in pursuit of a suspect. Here’s what we know so far. Parker was smiling when suddenly at least …
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Too loaf for school via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/DpYoLqQ08g http://t.co/UUGS2c5OUp
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Penrith, Cumbria [oc] [2448×3264] : EarthPorn
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This little kitten was stalking me at work today. : cats
This little kitten was stalking me at work today. via /r/cats http://t.co/xRndMLQhId http://t.co/e3LFxWf8MD
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Five ways China’s economic crisis will affect Africa – BBC News
Signs of an economic slowdown in China have led to fears of a global recession, including Africa, given the close ties it has built up with China in recent years. South Africa’s currency has taken the hardest battering because it is the only African…
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Putin and Sisi pledge to boost Russia-Egypt ties – Al Jazeera English
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have pledged to further boost relations between the two countries at talks in Moscow. Wednesday’s talks’ agenda included economic cooperation, conflicts and the polit…
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Viewpoint: Treat migration as a development issue – BBC News
Europe is facing a mass influx of refugees from outside the region for the first time in its history, as people flee persecution and conflict in countries such as Syria and Iraq. And its politicians are struggling to find a coherent response.
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Can Iran and the UK really bury the hatchet? – BBC News
As the late afternoon sunshine casts down through the trees, dappling the Cotswold stone, Sir John Graham comes out to greet me. It makes his stories of bloodied scarves waved as trophies and tanks in the streets seem unreal.
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Why Angry Birds Games Aren’t Enough For Rovio | TechCrunch
Earlier today, Rovio said it would lay off 260 employees. This was fascinating news to the Internet, given Rovio’s status as one of the vanguards of mobile gaming as the iPhone and Android exploded.
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New non-lethal weapons a step but not a solution
BIPs use a newly invented ammunition that are significantly larger than rubber bullets, and have “silicone heads that expand and flatten on impact,” causing serious pain. One company executive described the feeling as “the equivalent of being hit by…
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The Forest of the Clouds Desktop
apagajewski’s linux desktop reminds us of the cold winter mornings that are on the way. It’s crisp and refreshing, even if it’s still on the warm side where we are. Here’s how he set it up. It’s been a little while since we featured a linux desktop,…
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Barack Obama: ‘Virginia shooting breaks my heart’ – BBC News
Barack Obama says he is still hoping for tighter gun controls in the US, after the shooting of two journalists on live TV in the state of Virginia.
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Twin Jet Nebula is a Marvelous Cosmic Butterfly
Deep space is a wonderland of strange and awe-inspiring sights, but few astronomical curiosities match the exquisite beauty of the Twin Jet Nebula, a dying, binary star that looks like a pair of iridescent butterfly wings.
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What progress has India’s economy made in the past five years? – BBC News
“You’ll find the airport has changed dramatically, you’ll be able to book a taxi using an app on your phone, and you’ll see a real spring in the step of many people in India now – people are charged with optimism,” one Indian busin
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India’s economic rise – in 60 seconds – BBC News
As part of a special day of programmes about India, BBC News looks at the factors helping India’s economy compete on the world stage.
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Kids toss out fruits and veggies from school lunches, researchers find | Grist
Telling kids they have to eat something is not a winning strategy. I know this both as a parent of two small girls (and as an immature adult myself). If I want my 4-year-old to try her beans, I have to somehow trick her into thinking it’s her own id…
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Could climate change kill the Christmas movie? | Grist
In case disappearing coastlines, hellish wildfires, and starving baby sea lions aren’t enough to make you care about climate change, maybe this will: Global temperature rise could kill the Christmas movie.
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Google Hopes Open Source Will Give Its Cloud A Path To The Enterprise | TechCrunch
It’s no secret that Google has been trying to get more enterprises onto its cloud platform. It’s not been easy, however. The company lacks the traditional sales machinery of its competitors (and the legacy relationships that companies like Microsoft…
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Will Berlin’s brake on rents be good for Germany? – BBC News
Germany has introduced a controversial law to cap rents, called a “rent brake”. But there are fears that it may fail in its main aim of slowing down price rises and ultimately have the opposite effect.
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Has Afropunk Abandoned Its Origins? – The New Yorker
When Ms. Lauryn Hill appeared before the crowd of Afropunk Festival attendees at eight o’clock last Saturday night, visibly tired and forty-five minutes late to her set, excitement still coursed through Brooklyn’s Commodore Barry Park.
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Rosie O’Donnell’s Daughter Chelsea Has Left Home Again | Vanity Fair
O’Donnell’s daughter, who recently turned 18, “made a decision” to live with her birth mother, according to the entertainer’s rep, who spoke to Access Hollywood. “This was her choice.” The same day, O’Donnell posted that Chelsea had been found safel…
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Downton Abbey’s Finale Has Already Made Grown Men Cry | Vanity Fair
As Downton Abbey approaches its sixth and final season, prepare to hear a lot of emotional stories from the last days on the series set.
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The watchmaker that hand delivers its timepieces around the world – BBC News
When it comes to offering good customer service, many may argue that luxury watchmaker Gronefeld goes a little over the top. For whenever someone buys one of its timepieces, it likes to hand it over in person – no matter where the buyer is on the pl…
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Kullervo: Tolkien’s fascination with Finland – BBC News
On Thursday JRR Tolkien’s early story The Story of Kullervo will be published for the first time. The dark tale reveals that Tolkien’s Middle Earth was inspired not only by England and Wales… but also by Finland. “Hapless Kullervo,” Tolkien called h…
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The dumbest thing I’ve ever done to my dogs. : aww
The dumbest thing I’ve ever done to my dogs. via /r/aww http://t.co/HwwL3qIE73 http://t.co/pEI8K7oV4X
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I think my cats trying to do the thriller in his sleep : LazyCats
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Hubble image: Stormy seas in Sagittarius js – Just Space
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My photogenic girl Squeakies : cats
My photogenic girl Squeakies via /r/cats http://t.co/nOLteHl0FZ http://t.co/fQZcNeOYEa
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I finally found the perfect collar. : cats
I finally found the perfect collar. via /r/cats http://t.co/jSEYP1bI54 http://t.co/vJv1iB9OcY
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Fog in Tuolumne Valley after a hailstorm. [OC] [6000×3352] : EarthPorn
Fog in Tuolumne Valley after a hailstorm. [OC] [6000×3352] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/6xF7V0mlfi http://t.co/SZz0YfS1SQ
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Five Tips For Faster Wifi – Digg
The more you treat your router like a crappy radio, the better your wifi strength will be.
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Garrett Camp To Take Back Control Of StumbleUpon | TechCrunch
Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon says he’ll soon be the site’s majority stakeholder. Again. The site originally launched in 2001. StumbleUpon was sold to eBay in 2007, but sold back to a group including Camp in 2009.
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YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does | The Verge
YouTube is already a big player in live video. YouTube is already a big player in gaming. As of today, Google is promoting the intersection of the two with YouTube Gaming, a dedicated site and separate app that’s supposed to directly compete with Tw…
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Experiencing “senior moments” may be a good sign rather than a cause for concern, research suggests. The time to worry is when you begin to stop noticing memory lapses, scientists have shown.
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Cloudy morning after a fresh snow at Maligne Lake, Alberta [3264×1836][OC] : EarthPorn
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Sand Dune Arch [OC] [960×960] : EarthPorn
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How To Deal With A Hangover At Work
When you’re drinking on a weeknight, you never think you’re going to drink to the point of having a horrid hangover the next day. So, you agree to happy hour… with the promise to yourself that you’ll only drink a very responsible two drinks and th…
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Smokey Sun over the Laramie Valley [1024 x 662] : SkyPorn
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Beautiful Axial Piston Engine : perfectloops
Beautiful Axial Piston Engine via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/2eMeSgwTtg http://t.co/6FhAKxqfrv
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Smokey Sun over the Laramie Valley [1024 x 662] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/57ioMNsVQY http://t.co/l6fOSjWbBF http://t.co/qXsVnmdBAy
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/yYAn5ahULI http://t.co/Q5Miye2iIF
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Nicola Sturgeon to call for new BBC for Scotland – BBC News
Nicola Sturgeon will call for the BBC in Scotland to have more power, more money and its own TV channel, when she addresses the Edinburgh TV Festival. Scotland’s first minister will call for “bold and ambitious” reforms to the way the corporation op…
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R.I.P. Randy Stickrod, great friend of Wired and Boing Boing – Boing Boing
I just learned that Randy Stickrod died in late July, and I’m in shock. He was 71. Randy was one of the kindest and most generous people I’ve ever met, and he was a great friend to many people in the early 1990s San Francisco publishing world.
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The 30 Second Habit with a Lifelong Impact | Observer
There are no quick fixes. I know this as a social science junkie, who’s read endless books and blogs on the subject, and tried out much of the advice — mostly to no avail. So I do not entitle this post lightly.
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I came across a Chewbacca roaring contest flyer. : mildlyinteresting
I came across a Chewbacca roaring contest flyer. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/QwYijjZPeX http://t.co/U7VcLGaFNh
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The Twin Jet Nebula via /r/space http://t.co/37ETetbV6w http://t.co/pALmLqcsXj
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Osaka elevated highways [1600×1067] : ExposurePorn
Osaka elevated highways [1600×1067] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/RDwkq9Ujb8 http://t.co/Qe5pQwUd4p
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The giant airships that could carry 66 tonnes – BBC News
The airship could be set to quite literally make a big comeback. The Aeros Corporation, based near San Diego, has developed the Dragon Dream – an airship that is 90m (295ft) long and 27m wide. It has the commercial potential of becoming a very effic…
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Blood test ‘detects cancer relapse’ – BBC News
A blood test may be able to save lives by finding cancers that have started to grow again after treatment, a study suggests.Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London found traces of breast cancer eight months before doctors would norm…
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India Rising: Do people feel the economy picking up? – BBC News
If you believe the official figures, India’s economy is growing at an annual rate of more than 7%, the fastest of any major country. Not everyone is convinced growth is really that high though.
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Look for Waist Extension Tabs for a More Comfortable Suit
When you’re buying a suit, you want one that fits perfectly, not just right now, but for the long haul. For your next suit, look for a waist extension tab for a more comfortable—and adjustable—fit around your waist and crotch. This GQ video explains…
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How to turn your child into a video games designer – BBC News
It’s an ambition voiced by many children. That is not surprising given that pretty much every one of them plays games on tablets, phones, consoles and PCs when they have a spare moment. It is certainly my son’s goal.
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In 1979, An Entire Science Class Went “Berserk” After Being Hypnotized
On October 25, 1979, students at a Miami military academy experienced a frightening outbreak of sudden mass hysteria that began in a science class and spread throughout the school.
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A “Cocktail Boat” Can Propel Itself Around Your Drink Using the Marangoni Effect
Yesterday we saw bugs using fluid dynamics to propel themselves around. It turns out that one scientist is turning that into a fun way to add alcohol to a drink. Here’s how to make a moving boat using the Marangoni Effect.
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Zano drones struggle to achieve lift-off – BBC News
Europe’s most successful Kickstarter project is finally ready to deliver the tiny drone that won more than £2.3m in backing last November. That’s the good news.
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Rival Archaeologists Find Space Rocks at Opposite Ends of the World
Wonders Never Cease is a fashion film that takes full advantage of its setting: London’s Museum of Natural History. When two archaeologists engaged in a game of oneupmanship make the same discovery at opposite ends of the world, it ignites a lot of …
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How Alasdair Gray Reimagined Glasgow – The New Yorker
The Citizens Theatre is located in the Gorbals, a historically poor and relatively abandoned area of Glasgow, south of the River Clyde. I arrived there on a gray day in the first half of August, after walking by the water through misty rain, alongsi…
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Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim to star in movie about people escaping North Korea · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a move that has absolutely no chance of inciting international incidents, financially crippling cyberattacks, or the extinction of all life on earth, Lost and Hawaii Five-0 star Daniel Dae Kim has signed on to produce and star in a movie based on…
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‘I’ve lost £40,000 on the Chinese stock market’ – BBC News
For 2,000 years Chinese people have relieved stress by having a foot massage, now it is the only way Mr Qi can relax. He invested £100,000 ($150,000) in shares in May just before the stock market bubble burst, and has lost £40,000 ($60,000).
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For Breitbart, It’s Only a “Race Murder” If the Victims Are White | The New Republic
There are two ways the conservative website Breitbart covers murders with a racial component, and it depends on the skin color of the suspect and victim. When an admitted white supremacist massacres black churchgoers, Breitbart ignores race as a mot…
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HRW I stick it in the wrong hole and she actually likes it. – GIF on Imgur
HRW I stick it in the wrong hole and she actually likes it. http://t.co/Ff9NYyLuzK http://t.co/FDEiF0xjIa
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5 Messages To Those On The Left : democrats
5 Messages To Those On The Left via /r/democrats http://t.co/j8NM2DLoG6 https://t.co/AQBI6p67Ys http://t.co/v4Ffy4kow8
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Starlight Ridge by Michael Shainblum / 500px
Starlight Ridge by Shainblum http://t.co/KbcCEYqMTS http://t.co/lJDKDtvyyF
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5 Messages To Those On The Left – YouTube
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Southern NGC7000 js – Just Space
Southern NGC7000 js http://t.co/McSo5NmMRf http://t.co/4SwrMZMUSf
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Government accused of failing to protect waterways from farm pollution | Environment | The Guardian
Conservationists and angling organisations have joined together in a legal challenge, accusing the government of failing to protect some of England’s “most precious rivers” from agricultural pollution.
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Naomi Klein, the Canadian author, film-maker and social activist, will arrive in Australia this month for a series of events.
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All about supernovae | symmetry magazine
Somewhere in the cosmos, a star is reaching the end of its life. Maybe it’s a massive star, collapsing under its own gravity. Or maybe it’s a dense cinder of a star, greedily stealing matter from a companion star until it can’t handle its own mass.
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Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age
Up until very recently, humans were thought to be the only animals who made and used stone tools, an era in human development that began roughly 3.3 million years ago.
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Scientists try to replicate climate denier findings and fail | Grist
Does the Ted Cruz in you ever wonder whether global warming really is just a hoax? Whether skeptics really are the Galileos of our time? Whether climate scientists really do just want to make money? Well, wonder no more.
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Famous folks call for noisy climate activism ahead of Paris talks | Grist
Le dérèglement climatique tue, proclaims a new campaign. “Climate change kills.” It’s the message being pushed in a new essay collection by the likes of Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, and Desmond Tutu — a book that seeks to inspire ambit…
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NASA Crashes Plane to Test Emergency Beacons (Video)
NASA sent a small airplane plummeting to Earth today (Aug. 26), for safety’s sake. Scientists and engineers at the space agency’s Langley Research Center in Virginia dropped a Cessna 172 from a height of 100 feet (30 meters), in a crash test that wa…
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React Demolishes Engineering Silos So Facebook Can Reuse Code For Web, iOS, And Android | TechCrunch
It was supposed to take 18 months. But with React Native, Facebook built its iOS Ads Manager app in 5 months, and then ported it to Android in just 3 more months. That’s because React Native let Facebook’s engineers work faster and reuse the JavaScr…
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Paula Deen joins Dancing With The Stars, hopefully won’t say anything · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been a few months since Paula Deen last did something offensive and stupid (that we know about), so now ABC is dipping its toe into the proverbial butter and asking America if it’s once again ready to love Paula Deen and her personal brand of g…
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A close look at NASA’s Orion spacecraft after its parachute test | The Verge
On Wednesday, NASA dropped a test version of its Orion spacecraft out of a military transport aircraft flying over the Arizona desert. During the fall, two of the capsule’s parachutes were intentionally made to fail.
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Spotlight on green news & views: Wildfires; First Nations battle Chevron; cow power; the Black Hills
The Green Spotlight will not appear Saturday, Aug. 29. Environmentally oriented diaries published between now and then will be included in the Spotlight published Wednesday, Sept. 2.
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Three including police officer shot in Louisiana, state authorities say | US news | The Guardian
Louisiana state police said a police officer and two other people have been shot in southwestern Louisiana. State police superintendent Mike Edmonson said troopers were on the way to the scene in Sunset, about 70 miles west of Baton Rouge, after get…
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Chicago, see The Transporter: Refueled early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
The Transporter: Refueled isn’t being touted as a sequel, a prequel, or a reboot, and that’s probably because continuity has never been much of a concern for fans of the series.
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Magician Neil Henry proposes to his girlfriend with alphabetty spaghetti trick – Boing Boing
Worth staying until the end of the video. More of his tricks at neilhenrymagic.com, or Facebook.
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Goldendoodles, Pugs, Ponies, and Portraits | Vanity Fair
Amid the over-saturation of summer barbecues, Hamptons pool parties, and champagne-sponsored Polo matches, I decided to host an event that would incorporate all of the tropes of a summer party: a fundraiser, with a local wine sponsor, and a guest ar…
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PASADENA, CA—Upending the conventionally held assumption that the United States must exclusively be moving along a single good or bad path forward, quantum political scientists at the California Institute of Technology published a paper Thursday hyp…
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Samsung’s latest tablet, the Galaxy Tab S2, is all about speed | The Verge
Today Samsung announced availability and pricing for the Tab S2, the company’s next top-of-the-line tablet. Announced last month, the Tab S2 is the first “premium” Android tablet we’ve seen in some time.
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Phelps Mountain – Adirondacks New York [13632×2647] : natureporn
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Girlfriend stayed over for the first time last night. It has begun. – Imgur
Girlfriend stayed over for the first time last night. It has begun. http://t.co/84BQda6u3i http://t.co/10dNoP5n37
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More People Should See Vester Flanagan Kill His Coworkers on Live TV | The New Republic
Sometime around noon on Wednesday, over five hours after Vester Flanagan gunned down his colleagues Alison Parker and Adam Ward on live television, and over three hours after he’d posted subjective camera footage of his own ambush, CNN decided to st…
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Don’t Circulate Videos of the TV News Killing in Virginia | The New Republic
Vester Flanagan seems to have been proud of the fact that he recorded his murder of television journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward in Virginia. “I filmed the shooting,” he tweeted earlier today, then posted two videos as proof.
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Using Satellites to Study Svalbard’s Growing Season : Image of the Day
Based on its northerly location—above the Arctic Circle and just 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from the North Pole—the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard seems like it should be a barren land of snow, ice, and rock.
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I got a sad pickle : mildlyinteresting
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Dreaming at Alki [OC][7888 x 5054] : ExposurePorn
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Picture I took with my cellphone in St. John’s, Newfoundland (3264×2448) : EarthPorn
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Chincoteague, VA [OC 4608×3546] : EarthPorn
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On YouTube, Iran Activists Urge America to Back Nuclear Deal http://t.co/lgVw09gkZR
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[Advice]What is my cat doing to my other cat? (Details in comments) : cats
[Advice]What is my cat doing to my other cat? (Details in comments) via /r/cats http://t.co/7NhUhIKGz7 http://t.co/maNN0qmtt5
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Chillin outside on this beautiful August evening : cats
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Deep Water by Joachim Bergauer / 500px
Deep Water by joachimbergauer http://t.co/8IyofGXuWe http://t.co/V4icRBdwF0
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This Family Budgeting Calculator Estimates Living Costs Around the U.S.
It’s already difficult to figure out how to budget for a family, but when you add in the fact that things don’t cost the same everywhere, it gets even more complicated. This calculator helps you estimate the budget you need depending on location and…
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Rowan County clerk Kim Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religious reasons. She stopped issuing marriage licenses the day after the US supreme court overturned state bans on same-sex marriage. Two gay couples and two straight couples sued her.
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Clashes Erupt as Indians Rally to Protest Affirmative Action Caste Quotas | VICE News
Renewed clashes broke out between members of India’s social and economic classes on Wednesday, following a night of violent protests in the western state of Gujarat. As many as 300,000 people rallied in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s largest city, on Tuesday.
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‘Mr. Robot’ Finale Postponed Due to Virginia Shooting | | Observer
Tonight’s season finale of Mr. Robot has been postponed one week due to a scene that bears too much of a resemblance to the tragic shooting of news reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward in Virginia. “The previously filmed season finale of M…
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It’s hard to keep track of superheroes these days. DC had to press the reset button with the “New 52,” but that still doesn’t solve the problem of Batman’s countless sidekicks, protégés, and offspring, and we’re still seeing weird offshoot Supermen.
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James Spader’s Ultron Motion-Capture Is As Goofy As It Is Awesome
No matter what you thought of Avengers: Age of Ultron, there’s no arguing the perfect casting of James Spader as Ultron. Even though he’s playing a 9-foot-tall robot, the character still had that perfect, Spader smugness to him and it worked incredi…
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Deerhunter launches a worldwide tour for its new album, Fading Frontier · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Indie rock band Deerhunter, the outfit behind albums like Halcyon Digest and 2013’s Monomania, has announced that it’s launching a worldwide tour in support of its latest release.
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Kenna Plots Crowdfunded New LP ‘Songs for Flight,’ Charity Initiative | Rolling Stone
Kenna Plots Crowdfunded New LP ‘Songs for Flight,’ Charity Initiative “I feel like this is a way to empower my art to create change through the connection I have with my fans,” Ethiopian-American singer says
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How to Innovate in a Regulated Industry | Observer
We’ve given and attended enough workshops to know that virtually every corporate innovation team is familiar with the concept of lean. Build, measure, learn, iterate. You get it. You may even buy into it. But you incur insurmountable hurdles when yo…
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Kurt Sutter Planning ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Spinoff Series | Rolling Stone
Nine months after Sons of Anarchy reached the end of the road and its seven-season run, creator Kurt Sutter has revealed that he is currently developing a spin-off series based on the motorcycle-gang drama.
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I give my baby the middle finger: Parenting ethics 101.
My daughter is 7 months old, and her existence encapsulates every clichéd emotional deluge of the new parent. She’s precious to me beyond any imaginable previous personal attachment. She has deepened and broadened and redefined my life and my humani…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Drinking Beer in Belgium | First We Feast
For as small as it is geographically (by square mileage, it’s roughly 20% of the size of my home state of Georgia), Belgium packs a heavy punch in the beer industry. Due to its brewing traditions and stature, it’s widely considered one of the most i…
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Roommate found this feller in the woods. He is my new best friend. : cats
Roommate found this feller in the woods. He is my new best friend. via /r/cats http://t.co/8mPCLTvPkJ http://t.co/VK51kpqDim
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wonderwork by Fred Matos / 500px
wonderwork by fredmatos http://t.co/rb6RHXx6FN http://t.co/j9Z3WMId2T
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Port of Nice, France [OC] [8760 x 2960] : CityPorn
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YouTube Gaming Launched Today, And Twitch Should Watch Out | WIRED
Google’s striving to make its services more stream-friendly with Youtube Gaming, a new games-centric site launched today.
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Podcast: Effective Altriusm interview with the author of “Doing Good Better” – Boing Boing
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Hundreds of bogus charges filed against Ferguson protestors almost a year later
Until now. According to the Huffington Post: The county has apparently decided to go forward with these cases despite the fact that both the state of Missouri and the city of Ferguson already decided that they weren’t worth the resources.
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These Nations Are About to Start Running Out of Water | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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EFF announces the 2015 Pioneer Award winners – Boing Boing
Caspar Bowden, Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra will be awarded the EFF’s prestigious prize recognizing the leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic fron…
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Walmart to stop selling AR-15 rifles due to ‘decreased demand’ | Business | The Guardian
Walmart will no longer stock AR-15 rifles and other semi-automatic weapons, saying the decision is because of less demand from customers and not continued political pressure in the wake of several mass shootings in the US.
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It’s Impossible to Watch This Profile of AeroPress-Inventor Alan Adler and not Fall in Love With Him
Inventor-engineer Alan Adler is the man behind the record-setting Aerobie Flying Ring and the widely beloved AeroPress coffee maker. In this profile by filmmaker David Friedman, Adler tells the stories behind his superior designs— and man, is he eve…
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Hollywood is Already Working on an Ashley Madison TV Show | Vanity Fair
Specifically: hey, it’s got an Ashley Madison–like TV show in the works. Not only that, but the project, which is being written by Jennifer Kennedy (Justified) and Ian MacDonald, is tentatively titled after the affair Web site: Thank You Ashley Madi…
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A Look Inside Donald Trump’s Campaign Headquarters – Bloomberg Politics
Behind a velvet rope and a set of double doors on the fifth floor of Trump Tower, glossy marble gives way to a cavernous, raw, unfinished space of drywall and exposed ductwork. This is Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters.
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From Biology Teacher to Colorado Marijuana Magnate | Al Jazeera America
DENVER – When you speak with Tim Cullen, it’s immediately obvious that he knows a lot about the science of growing marijuana.
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FTC: Vemma Shut Down for Running Pyramid Scheme | Al Jazeera America
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday announced that Vemma Nutrition — a multilevel marketing firm that relies on independent salespeople, called affiliates, to buy and sell its energy drinks, diet shakes and supplements — has been shut do…
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Clean Paint Brushes by Soaking Them In Warm Water with a Dryer Sheet
If you don’t have any paint thinner around, you can clean latex-based paint out your paintbrushes with just some warm water and a dryer sheet. Latex-based paint can be pretty stubborn once it’s found a home in the bristles of your paint brush.
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Concerns new Tor weakness is being exploited prompt dark market shutdown | Ars Technica
A dark market website that relies on the Tor privacy network to keep its operators anonymous is temporarily shutting down amid concerns attackers are exploiting a newly reported weakness that can identify server locations.
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Mr. Robot Finale Postponed in Wake of Virginia TV Station Shooting | WIRED
Citing similarities between the show’s finale and today’s tragic shooting at a Virginia TV station, USA Network says it will postpone tonight’s finale of Mr. Robot. “The previously filmed season finale of Mr.
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Matthew Willig to play an Inhuman monster on Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by TVLine, former NFL player Matthew Willig (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, NCIS) has signed on to season three of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC.
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Black Lives Matter Publishes ‘Campaign Zero’ Plan To Reduce Police Violence : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks to Brittany Packnett about the campaign to create a policy agenda out of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Ashley Madison was working on an app called What’s Your Wife Worth
The Ashley Madison leak has been devastating for the site’s customers, but the reputation of the company’s owner isn’t faring much better.
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Californians Hope Alert System Will Help Catch Drivers Who Hit-And-Run : NPR
Most of the 7,500 people who fled an accident in Los Angeles county last year will never be caught. But a proposed statewide hit-and-run system could get some of these drivers off the streets.
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My Grandfather being a crazy man, circa 1950 : OldSchoolCool
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When I’m trying to kill Tinkerbell but my English is subpar : shittyreactiongifs
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High school teacher uses this for attendance – Imgur
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Sunset over Argolic Gulf, Greece [OC] (1024 x 586) : waterporn
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Shocking: Prominent climate denier gets money from Big Coal : environment
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I Can’t Even go to the Bathroom Alone : cats
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Heavier than air and flammable : oddlysatisfying
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Who Hacked Ashley Madison? — Krebs on Security
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Flashback Photobomber Hoodie | Men’s Reflective Jacket | Betabrand & Chris Holmes
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This Man Is Not Vester Flanagan, and the Media Put His Life in Danger | The New Republic
On April 26, Sherman Lea Jr. tweeted a photo taken at Benny Marconi’s, a pizzeria in Roanoke, Virginia. He’s seated between two journalists from WDBJ, the city’s CBS affiliate: reporter Alison Parker and anchor Chris Hurst, who had recently fallen i…
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Which Science Fiction or Fantasy Book Was So Much Fun You Couldn’t Stand It?
Some books keep you turning pages with suspense. Others keep the pages flipping with their deep character studies. But then there are those books that are just so much damn fun, you can’t do anything but keep reading and laughing out loud.
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New NASA Model Maps Sea Level Rise Like Never Before (Video)
At a news conference today (Aug. 26), NASA officials described a new computer visualization of sea level change incorporating data collected by satellites since 1992 — it reveals that sea levels are rising quickly but unevenly across the globe.
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USA Network has announced that it will delay the finale of its well-received summer hacker drama Mr. Robot due to “a graphic scene similar in nature” to a shooting Wednesday at a Virginia TV station that left three journalists dead, including the sh…
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A group of Yazidi spiritual and political leaders, activists, and aid workers are demanding an inquiry into the work of a Montreal man who claims to have rescued 128 Yazidi and Christian women and children enslaved by Islamic State militants.
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Gawker Everything We Know About the Live WDBJ Shooting and the Alleged Gunman | Jalopnik Chris Harris Loses His Damn Mind In A Bugatti EB110 Super Sport | Jezebel Tourist Unclear On Concept Of Wild Animals Demands Yellowstone Provide Better Bears | …
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A respected journalist in China who reported an important story about that nation’s stock market fluctuations was held by police, who say he was “spreading false information.
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Kansas, South Carolina Take NIMBY Stance on Guantanamo Prisoners : Parallels : NPR
In hopes that it can persuade Congress to drop its prohibition on transferring detainees in Guantanamo to American soil, the White House is hunting for a highly secure place in the U.S. for some 50 detainees.
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How Ancient Palmyra, Now in ISIS’s Grip, Grew Rich and Powerful
In Palmyra, history is literally written on the walls: across temples and above doorways, encircling funerary monuments and snaking up the towering limestone columns that rise above the Syrian desert some 134 miles (215 km) northeast of Damascus.
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Tour Guide Killed in Lion Attack Did Everything Right
Quinn Swales, 40, a professional guide, was leading a group of six tourists in the park—the former home of Cecil the lion—when they came upon a pride. The male lion got up and began approaching the tour group.
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How to Detect Alien Civilizations That Self-Destructed
For more than 50 years, we’ve been eavesdropping on the cosmos, searching for transmissions that would reveal the existence of intelligent, extraterrestrial life. To date, nobody’s bothered to call.
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Mad River Complex, California : Natural Hazards
In late July 2015, lightning ignited the Mad River Complex fires in northwest California’s Six Rivers National Forest. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this false-color image of the area almost one mo…
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Death Of Journalists Points Out Dilemma Of Publicizing Mass Shootings : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with NYU journalism professor Mitch Stephens about the killing of two journalists Wednesday. He says publicizing this type of violence presents a dilemma for news media.
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15 Fun, Adorable, and Solemn Pictures of Dogs
Weird Animal Question of the Week Do Animals Blow Their Noses? They might not reach for a hanky, but some animals—including primates and dogs—have their own devices for clearing nasal passages.
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From Quiet Kid To Trash-Talking Titan: Ronda Rousey’s Year Speaks For Itself : NPR
Clock yourself the next time you tie your shoes. Chances are, in the time it took you to get those shoes laced up, Ronda Rousey would have knocked out her opponent in a typical mixed martial arts match.
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It’s Not You. Traffic Has Gotten Worse Since The Great Recession : NPR
With the recession coming to an end, and more people going back to work, more people are hitting the road. A new report from the Texas Transportation Institute studies traffic across the U.S.
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Happy national dog day : firstworldanarchists
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My Best Mood by Harry Eggens / 500px
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A quiet night on the frozen surface of Europa many… – Just Space
A quiet night on the frozen surface of Europa many decades from… http://t.co/MvzNYe0XPo http://t.co/qNRSXJFjB3
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Milky Way 1 by Gaynor Roberts
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Cat Hospital infuses feline cuteness into a soap opera drama · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
“You’re going to get us all sued for meowpractice,” Nurse Kathy’s lover, Chase Buchanan III, scolds in the opening scene of Cat Hospital. Later, we discover that although Mr.
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A group of Yazidi spiritual and political leaders, activists, and aid workers are demanding an inquiry into the work of a Montreal man who claims to have rescued 128 Yazidi and Christian women and children enslaved by Islamic State militants.
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Dredd’s Adi Shankar is making a “super violent” Castlevania cartoon · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dredd executive producer/self-proclaimed rebel filmmaker/self-proclaimed voice of the digital generation Adi Shankar loves putting edgy spins on pre-existing properties with clever, viral-friendly short films.
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BBC Sport – Club Brugge 0-4 Manchester United (1-7 agg)
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal said Marouane Fellaini will play in attack rather than midfield this season before Wednesday’s Champions League play-off tie at Club Brugge.
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Exclusive interview: Machar on South Sudan peace deal – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan’s president talks about the ongoing violence, internal rivalries, and the future of his country. The comedian gives an insight into his street-smart Nigerian life as he gets his act together and grows his brand.
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Jarvis Cocker to take London audiences under the sea · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jarvis Cocker is taking to the sea—or, rather, he’s bringing the sea with him on stage. The Pulp frontman is set to perform an underwater-themed set alongside the BBC Philharmonic in London on September 10.
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Mr. Robot Finale Postponed in Light of Virginia Shooting | Vanity Fair
Mr. Robot—USA’s runaway, gritty summer hit—was slated to premiere its season one finale Wednesday night. But in light of the graphic on-air shooting out of Virginia this morning, the network has decided to postpone the episode until next week. The p…
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USA has postponed tonight’s scheduled season finale of Mr. Robot in light of the murders that occurred live on air this morning in Virginia. The network has released a brief statement: “The previously filmed season finale of Mr.
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The US Is Allegedly Withholding Information About GMOs | VICE News
A nonprofit organization called the Center for Food Safety filed suit on Tuesday against a division of the US Department of Agriculture for allegedly not responding properly to their requests for information about genetically modified organisms (GMO…
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10 Beers for 10 of Life’s Biggest Problems | Vanity Fair
Sure, beer harmonizes divinely with food—but the world’s oldest fermented beverage can also be paired with some of life’s most common complications. Alcohol is, after all, as Winston Churchill once said, “The cause of and solution to all of life’s p…
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It looks like Garry Marshall will continue to work methodically through the Gregorian calendar, directing movies as holidays arise and casting marquee names to pal around in them.
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LAPD’s long-awaited body cameras will hit the streets on Monday – LA Times
Starting Monday, many Los Angeles police officers will hit the streets with new equipment: body cameras. After nearly two years of fundraising, testing and negotiating policy, Monday’s rollout marks a significant moment for the police department’s l…
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Gracies Versus Everybody Many years later, as he stood amid a haze of dry ice in a half-full arena in Portland, Oregon, Roger Gracie imagined the afternoon on the Amazon River when his grandfather Carlos Gracie was introduced to Mitsuyo Maeda, a Jap…
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Former NFL player Jonathan Martin: I considered suicide multiple times | Sport | The Guardian
Jonathan Martin, the former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman who left the team in 2013 after a sustained campaign of bullying by team-mates, revealed on Wednesday how he had considered suicide on numerous occasions.
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It’s Okay To Be Smart • skunkbear: skunkbear: The past is packed with…
The past is packed with monsters! Behemoths by the dozen! Let’s meet these fossils! (and their less colossal modern cousins) Earth’s ancient history is full of giant versions of modern animals.
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Largest TV blackout in US history hits Dish because of money dispute | Ars Technica
Dish Network today said its customers are experiencing “the largest blackout in US television history,” all because of a money dispute between Dish and Sinclair Broadcast Group. 129 stations in 36 states and Washington, DC went dark yesterday aftern…
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BBC Sport – Women’s Ashes 2015: England Twenty20 win keeps series alive
England kept their hopes of retaining the points-based Women’s Ashes alive with a seven-wicket win over Australia in the first Twenty20 at Chelmsford. More to follow.
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Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, who shot and killed two journalists on Wednesday and later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was a reporter for WDBJ7 before he was fired for misconduct.
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NASA’s 3D Printed Rocket Parts Actually Work | TechCrunch
Today, NASA tested a 3D printed turbopump, one that was put together with 45% fewer parts than pumps made any other way. This obviously saves time and money, but come on…NASA is slowly 3D printing an entire freaking rocket. That’s cool.
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USA Postpones Mr. Robot Finale Due to Similarities to WDBJ Shooting
The finale of USA’s buzzed about hacker show Mr. Robot will not be seen Wednesday evening because of a scene that shared similarities with the tragic shooting in Virginia earlier today. In a statement, USA said the following: “The previously filmed …
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The US Government Is Allegedly Withholding Information About GMOs | VICE News
A nonprofit organization called the Center for Food Safety filed suit on Tuesday against a division of the US Department of Agriculture for allegedly not responding properly to their requests for information about genetically modified organisms (GMO…
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Is peace really possible in South Sudan? – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has signed a peace deal that it is hoped will end 20 months of war. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and brought the world’s newest country to the brink of famine and economic collapse.
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Syrian rebel commander killed in Turkey car blast – Al Jazeera English
A commander of a rebel faction linked to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), an umbrella group fighting Syrian government forces, has been killed in a car bomb attack in southern Turkey, local officials have said.
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Birds Are Way More Lethal Than Bullets on This Week’s Zoo
After last week’s rat-pocalypse, the team gets back to facing enemies of a more human sort: the villainous puppet masters at Reiden Global and the vengeful FBI.
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Tom Dumoulin leads after Caleb Ewans stage win
Ewan claimed his first Grand Tour stage victory by beating John Degenkolb and Peter Sagan in a sprint at the end of the 167.3km Rota-Alcala route. Giant-Alpecin’s Dumoulin finished two seconds later in a pack for a one-second advantage over Esteban …
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James Holmes Formally Sentenced to Life in Prison for Dark Knight Rises Massacre | Vanity Fair
On Wednesday, James Holmes was formally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2012 Colorado theater massacre that left 12 innocent moviegoers dead. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr.
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A$AP Rocky Wrestles Downside of Fame in ‘Everyday’ Video | Rolling Stone
A$AP Rocky Wrestles Downside of Fame in ‘Everyday’ Video Rod Stewart, Miguel and Mark Ronson make cameo appearances in big-budget ‘Sunset Blvd.
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A Sad Cat via /r/cats http://t.co/ytophpaMFd http://t.co/2TLtIrGNMJ
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Ainhoa by Javi Inchusta / 500px
Ainhoa by JaviInchusta http://t.co/wZ3R4t3VOd http://t.co/YTVZVkKBDt
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This bee tried to fly through the trampoline net and died. : mildlyinteresting
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Darkness by Ness Farmilo / 500px
Darkness by VanessaFarmilo http://t.co/Iu6Pgke3xT http://t.co/5an82rC8oO
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U bein sunrise by enrico barletta / 500px
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Cutting Machine : perfectloops
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Gunman in French Train Attack Charged With Attempted Murder and Terrorism | VICE News
Ayoub El-Khazzani, the 25-year-old Moroccan gunman involved in last Friday’s attack on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, has been charged with “attempted murder with terrorist intent” and remanded in custody, the French prosecuto…
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BlackRock Buys Robo-Advisor Startup FutureAdvisor | WIRED
Asset management giant BlackRock is acquiring financial services startup FutureAdvisor. Founded in 2010, FutureAdvisor offers an automated investment service where so-called robo-advisors (or, you know, software) helps clients manage longterm invest…
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AT&T says that showing extra ads to hotspot users was just a test | The Verge
AT&T says that it’s no longer inserting extra ads into websites that people visit over some of its Wi-Fi hotspots. “We trialled an advertising program for a limited time in two airports (Dulles and Reagan National), and the trial has ended,” AT&T te…
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Revel in the glorious goriness of Odin’s Afterbirth · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
What is the purpose of life? Obviously, the answer is to “Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
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A Murder on Live TV – The New Yorker
At about 6:45 this morning, a man stood on a balcony near the Bridgewater Plaza shopping center, near Roanoke, Virginia, and fumbled with his phone and its camera.
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Review: Narcos is the next great Netflix show | The Verge
Television certainly isn’t hurting for crime dramas. The medium is positively glutted with shows that each, in their own way, bear a passing resemblance to the likes of Law and Order and CSI.
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Amazon Underground Gives You Free Access to Paid Android Apps
Android: Amazon’s Appstore hasn’t done much to take the spotlight off the Google Play Store, but its free app of the day was a nice feature. Now, the company is getting rid of that, replacing it with Amazon Underground. This now gives users tons of …
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Plantwatch: Pretty weeds and alien space invaders | Science | The Guardian
Himalayan balsam is in bloom, its stunning helmet-shaped flowers giving off a heady fragrance unlike any other plant. It is also spectacular, standing up to over 10ft tall and growing in dense clusters.
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Guatemala leader could lose immunity over alleged fraud – Al Jazeera English
Guatemala’s Supreme Court has taken the first step in allowing impeachment proceedings against President Otto Perez Molina, while his former vice president Roxana Baldetti has been ordered to remain in jail pending trial in a corruption case that ha…
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White House renews call for gun control after Virginia TV shooting | US news | The Guardian
The White House on Wednesday renewed its call for stricter gun controls in the wake of the fatal shooting near Roanoke, Virginia, of two local journalists while they were broadcasting live on air.
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Captain de Villiers wraps up series for South Africa – Al Jazeera English
AB de Villiers returned to form with a brisk half-century which helped South Africa to complete a 62-run win and a 2-1 series victory over New Zealand. Captain De Villiers blasted 64 from 48 balls to lead the Proteas to 283 for seven in their 50 ove…
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New Jersey Is Letting Exxon Pay $225 Million For $8.9 Billion Worth Of Pollution | ThinkProgress
A state supreme court judge approved a settlement between Exxon and New Jersey on Monday, despite the fact that the settlement was $8.68 billion less than the $8.9 billion the state had originally requested.
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Anne Hathaway Is Making a Movie About Meteors That Turn Men into Aliens
Working with Christopher Nolan must have given Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway a taste for space. The Interstellar co-star just signed on to make The Shower, a film about a baby shower that turns into a meteor shower that turns men into blood-thirsty ali…
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After her turn as a somber astronaut in Interstellar, Anne Hathaway is going back to the science fiction genre. Only, this latest sci-fi project has a comedy component as well.
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Hillary Clinton Not Alone In Using Personal Email For Official Business | ThinkProgress
U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy is under fire, along with several other high-ranking diplomats and government officials, for using a personal email address to conduct official State Department business.
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A Murder on Live TV – The New Yorker
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Bolo Yeung using Jackie Chan as a weapon to fight Bruce Lee : pics
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Use this shocking gadget for mosquito bite relief – Boing Boing
This little gadget, called the Zap-It ($13 on Amazon), delivers a small electrical shock to a mosquito bite, making the itch stop. It uses a piezoelectric crystal to create the spark, so no batteries are needed.
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This Webcomic Perfectly Captures the Awe and Poetry of Astronomy
Boulet has done it again. The cartoonist’s latest installment is a quasi-animated pixel comic that challenges the notion that science has somehow robbed the universe of poetry.
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Lugg, An App For On-Demand, Short-Distance Moves, Raises $3.8 Million | TechCrunch
While Uber, Lyft, and similar ride-sharing services can help you get from one place to the next, they aren’t practical for hauling your large purchases – like those from an IKEA shopping spree, or a sofa you found on Craigslist, for example. That’s …
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Lucas Museum’s ‘Jabba the Hutt’ Design to be Scrapped | Observer
Now, the people of Chicago have spoken, as has Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and it looks as though Chinese architect Ma Yansong’s controversial design proposal will be scrapped, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
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National Zoo Reports Newborn Panda Cub Has Died – The Atlantic
One of two giant panda cubs at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has died, the zoo said Wednesday. The cub was less than four days old. Giant pandas have twins about 50 percent of the time. In the wild, panda mothers can care for only …
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Charlotte Gainsbourg and Daughter Make It Easy To Dress Like A French Woman | Observer
As a family name, Gainsbourg sums up everything chic and cool about the notion of Parisian life since the late 1960s. Yet Charlotte Gainsbourg, long an ingénue and muse for photographers and directors, has truly come of age. Now aged 44, Ms.
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Burger King launched an ad campaign this week inviting McDonald’s to join forces with them for a single day and sell the “McWhopper,” a combination of each of their bestselling hamburgers, to drive awareness of the Peace One Day nonprofit, though Mc…
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No cute pets, but I feel like this belongs here. : aww
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estaras dentro de mi naturaleza by Ivan Castro http://t.co/0AvSGFIUEC http://t.co/5rZGMUwRZe
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/DyiQt8TXM6 http://t.co/yFefkkfWFs
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Husband Found On Ashley Madison Adultery Site Says: It Wasn’t Me : All Tech Considered : NPR
Here’s an awkward situation. You’re in Hawaii with your spouse, vacationing. And you find out you’ve been exposed as part of an adultery website. Your email is in the Ashley Madison data that hackers leaked. This is precisely the situation in which …
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9/11 Survivor Known As ‘Dust Lady’ From Iconic Photo Dies : NPR
Marcy Borders was captured in an haunting photo where she was pictured covered in dust after fleeing the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Her family says she died of stomach cancer this week.
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Suspect Kills Self After Fatally Shooting 2 Journalists On Air : NPR
A gunman shot and killed a reporter and her videographer Wednesday on live television in Virginia. The suspect, a disgruntled former station employee, then posted his own video of the shootings on social media, and later died from a self-inflicted g…
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The Strange History Of Betting On Elections: It Wasn’t Just About Money : NPR
It wasn’t always illegal to bet on presidential elections. Before polling, the practice used to be so commonplace that it actually increased public engagement with elections.
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Civil Rights Activist Amelia Boynton Robinson Dies At 104 : NPR
Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson has died. Her brutal beating during the 1965 Bloody Sunday march was depicted in the movie “Selma.”
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‘Univision’ Anchor Jorge Ramos Removed From Trump Press Conference : NPR
Donald Trump’s “blunt talk” on immigration has brought him head-to-head with Spanish-language media. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos was physically removed from a Trump press conference Tuesday.
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Morrocan Immigrants In Spain Shaken By Attack On French Train : NPR
The man who tried to open fire on passengers on a train in France last week comes from a town in southern Spain where many immigrants live in grinding poverty.
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Ethiopian Prisoner Urges U.S. To Put Pressure On His Country Over Human Rights : NPR
After spending four years in an Ethiopian prison on trumped up terrorism charges, Bekele Gerba visits Washington, D.C., and says he’s disappointed that the Obama administration hasn’t been tougher on its ally, Ethiopia, over human rights. Obama visi…
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Illicit Version Of Painkiller Fentanyl Makes Heroin Deadlier : Shots – Health News : NPR
Angelo Alonzo, a resident of Portland, Maine, says he nearly died last month after injecting what he believed to be a safe dose of heroin — the same amount he’s taken before. But this time, he says, the drug knocked him to his knees.
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Some Moved On, Some Moved In, And Made A New New Orleans : NPR
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans today is smaller than when the storm hit, with 110,000 fewer people than the nearly half-million who lived there. But the city’s recovery is a story that varies with each neighborhood.
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German Publication Criticizes Attacks On Migrant Shelters In Germany : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief of the online publication, Bild, regarding his op/ed piece in which he condemns recent violence against refugees in Saxony.
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Before There Was The Donald, There Was Arnold : It’s All Politics : NPR
Donald Trump has used his wealth, his celebrity and his blunt manner of speaking to blast his way to the top of the polls in the GOP presidential race. It’s a phenomenon that’s had pundits — and some voters — scratching their heads.
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Knock Knock, Teacher’s Here: The Power Of Home Visits : NPR Ed : NPR
Ninety percent of students at Hobgood Elementary in Murfreesboro, Tenn., come from low-income households. Most of the school’s teachers don’t. And that’s a challenge, says principal Tammy Garrett.
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Getting Murdered At Work Is Incredibly Common In The U.S. | ThinkProgress
On Wednesday morning, WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed in the middle of recording a live report from a strip mall. The suspect is their former coworker Vester Lee Flanagan II, known on air as Bryce Williams.
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Virginia gunman was told by TV station to seek medical attention, memos say | US news | The Guardian
Vester Flanagan, the gunman who killed two journalists in Virginia, was told by his bosses to seek medical help after colleagues at the television station where he worked with his victims repeatedly complained about him, according to memos obtained …
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Ever wanted to look at a millipede’s genitals? | The Verge
Scientists discovered a new species of millipede in Spain — and thanks to 3D imaging, they didn’t have to cut it open to see how it works. The millipede in question is a humble species that the researchers named Ommatoiulus avatar — in honor of its …
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Colorado Mine Blow Out That Turned Rivers Yellow Was ‘Likely Inevitable’ | VICE News
The mine wastewater spill that turned two Colorado rivers into a mustard-yellow broth of heavy metals was “likely inevitable,” but inspectors had no sign it was imminent, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported Wednesday.
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Entertainment Podcast: Disney Rules Everything Around Us | WIRED
Hello, old friend. We have a lot of catching up to do. On last week’s episode of The Monitor, WIRED associate editor Jason Kehe filled in—fantastically, we might add—while senior associate editor Angela Watercutter was out covering the D23 Expo.
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General Mills fails to predict lawsuit from fake psychic network · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although a cereal company using a fake psychic to promote a faltering brand sounds like some magnetic poetry, that’s exactly what’s happening in a Florida courtroom.
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Build an All-In-One Desktop Case for a Raspberry Pi
If you use your Raspberry Pi as a regular computer a lot, you might be looking for a more permanent case for it. Adafruit has put together a guide for a premium case that packs in the monitor and all the components. This case is expensive to build, …
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Alternate Friends ending shows Phoebe’s disaster of a life · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Admit it, you’re still pretty misty-eyed over the ending of Friends in 2004. It’s okay—there’s even an ongoing comment thread on Quora discussing how the last episode just slaughtered everyone’s happy outlook on life (even though it was a happy endi…
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Jim Belushi cast in Fox’s modern Urban Cowboy pilot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jim Belushi has been cast in Fox’s upcoming drama pilot Urban Cowboy, a modern reimagining of the 1980 Paramount movie Urban Cowboy starring John Travolta and Debra Winger.
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UPDATD: Chicago’s Second City theater building is on fire · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Second City Theatre is on fire.
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Most Adults Aren’t Checking Their Phone Just to Be Antisocial, Study Finds | Motherboard
A large majority of adults use mobile phones, but how we feel about using them in social gatherings may be different depending on which decade you were born in.
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How to Respond to the Latest Mass Shooting | Rolling Stone
Wednesday morning, a former employee of a Virginia TV news station waited until two of his former colleagues were live on air, then filmed himself raising a gun and shooting them both dead. He uploaded the videos to Twitter before committing suicide.
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Springsteen, Letterman, Bill Murray Cameo in Darlene Love’s New Video | Rolling Stone
Darlene Love’s new album Introducing Darlene Love – featuring newly written songs by Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Webb, Linda Perry and Steven Van Zandt – is still three weeks from release, but the legendary Wall of Sound singer has released a video for…
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Walmart Halts Sale of Assault Weapons | Rolling Stone
Walmart, the nation’s largest selling of guns and ammo, announced that they would stop the sale of assault rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and other firearms commonly used in mass shootings when their stores restock with fall merchandise.
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Why Rudeness At Work Is So Contagious | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Most offices have policies in place to stop sexual harassment, abuse, and other problems in the workplace. And rightly so. But smaller-scale issues can do major damage if they’re left unaddressed—everyday rudeness perhaps most of all.
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Smaller panda cub twin dies after being ignored by mother – BBC News
One of the panda cubs recently born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC has died, the zoo confirmed on Twitter. The smaller panda cub was being kept alive by zookeepers because its mother, Mei Xiang, refused to nurse it, only nursing its larger tw…
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The Roanoke Shooting and the Danger of Auto-Playing Video – The Atlantic
On Wednesday morning, two journalists in Roanoke, Virginia, were murdered on live television by a gunman. The two victims were a 24-year-old reporter, Alison Parker, and a 27-year-old cameraman, Adam Ward.
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Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site
When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake. Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake, though nobody put forth any e…
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Baby pandas born and bred at National Zoo are not birthright citizens – LA Times
Zookeepers call pandas their sexiest animals. They fawn over their inclination to make even laziness look so darned cute and covet their ability to draw thousands of visitors who buy plush toys and faux panda ears.
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Breaking: Vegemite May Power The Electronics Of The Future | TechCrunch
Ok, not really, but this is pretty cool. Vegemite is a disgusting yeast paste beloved by far too many people.
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Facebook Goes Nuclear On The Messaging War With Its M Assistant | TechCrunch
All messaging apps are the same no more. A few years ago, there were few differences between SMS and a slew of chat apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Kik, Line, Kakaotalk, and Facebook Messenger.
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Pushbullet’s Portal, the App that Sends Large Files Between Devices, Arrives on iOS
iOS: Portal, Pushbullet’s file transfer app, makes it easy to share file between any device over Wi-Fi, but was only originally available for Android. Today, it’s now out on iOS as well.http://lifehacker.com/portal-by-push…
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Watching a spacecraft fall in the desert | The Verge
NASA just dropped its Orion capsule out of a plane with two failed parachutes. I’m somewhere outside Yuma, Arizona, in the middle of the desert, watching a spacecraft fall to Earth. It’s like a white teardrop descending slowly against the bright azu…
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Mormon Church Won’t Abandon Boy Scouts Because It Can Still Discriminate | ThinkProgress
In July, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced it would be lifting the ban on gay and lesbian adult leaders, which prompted the Mormon Church to question whether it would continue its longstanding relationship with the organization.
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James Holmes, Colorado cinema gunman, sentenced to life in jail – BBC News
The man who was convicted of killing 12 people and wounding 70 others inside a Colorado cinema has been formally sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. Earlier this month, jurors decided not to sentence James Holmes to death.
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How Light-Based ‘Li-Fi’ Could Help Free Medical Patients from Wires | Motherboard
Patients could soon be less tied down in hospitals, as researchers work to develop technology that transmits vital signs by light instead of wires. The technology, called Li-Fi, has been in development for a few years and works by using LEDs to tran…
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Virginia Reporters First To Be Killed In The U.S. Since 2007 | ThinkProgress
Two reporters were shot dead today during a live broadcast for WDBJ7, a local news station based in Roanoke, VA early Wednesday morning. Their deaths mark the first time that journalists have been killed while on the job in the United States since 2…
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The United States’ Lone Sumatran Rhino Is Heading Home to Find Love | Motherboard
The last Sumatran rhino in the US is about to head to Indonesia, where conservationists hope he will make a crucial love connection. Harapan is an eight year-old Sumatran rhino living at the Cincinnati Zoo, and he’s been all by his lonesome since hi…
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Ashley Madison gets the Weeds treatment in new TV pitch · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Where a sexy, headline-friendly scandal like the recent Ashley Madison hack goes, TV producers, being an opportunistic lot, tend to follow.
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Police: Virginia gunman dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound – video | US news | The Guardian
The Virginia gunman who shot and killed two journalists has died as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Franklin County sheriff Bill Overton confirmed at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
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Would a Falling Drone Crush Your Skull? We Did the Math | Motherboard
From time to time, drones fall from the sky—we’ve already seen a few people injured thanks to some combination of gravity, pilot error, recklessness, and equipment malfunction. But could a falling drone actually crush your skull like a rotten grapef…
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I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon. This Is My Story — Medium
Last Saturday, I read the 6,000-word New York Times piece, “Inside Amazon,” in the car on my way to the beach. I sat quietly in the front seat, glued to my phone while my husband flapped his hand gesturing for help with Google maps. My two-year-old …
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I’m Better Than 245 NFL Players At Catching Footballs | FiveThirtyEight
“Madden NFL 16” came out Tuesday, and with it a suite of new NFL player evaluations. The folks at Madden have a difficult job: finding a way to quantify hundreds of athletes on a range of skills to accurately represent a complicated game.
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Aurora Theater Shooter James Holmes Is Formally Sentenced To Life In Prison | ThinkProgress
James Holmes murdered 12 people at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012. Wednesday morning, Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr.
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Android Pay partners think Google’s new mobile wallet has already launched | The Verge
Something strange is going on with the rollout of Android Pay. Google’s own partners are under the belief that the company’s second take at a mobile wallet, unveiled earlier this year, is available to consumers right now.
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Aurora cinema shooter receives nine life sentences – video | US news | The Guardian
James Holmes receives nine life sentences, consecutive to 3,318 years in prison, as he is sentenced for killing 12 and injuring 70 in a Colorado cinema in 2012. The judge says he is aware this is the maximum sentence, but says he believes it is a ju…
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Synchronicity abounds. The Robert Zemeckis-directed, Joseph Gordon-Levitt-starring The Walk recently released its latest trailer. The film is a fictionalized retelling of the Philippe Petit story that was previously covered in Man On Wire.
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Why a Softer Bicycle Seat Won’t Help Your Sore Butt
Just as the squishiest running shoes aren’t the most comfortable in the long run, the softest bike seats aren’t the best either. If your butt hurts when you ride, there are other things to check before you buy a new saddle—and other considerations b…
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Think Like a Tree: Learning From the Oaks that Survived Katrina | WIRED
Ten years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, bringing floods and gale-force winds that devastated the region and displaced more than a million people.
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Seniors have ‘highest rate of drug overdose death’ | Al Jazeera America
In “Take as Prescribed,” Fault explores why so many elderly Americans becoming addicted to painkillers—and looks at efforts aimed at stopping it. The film premieres on Monday, Aug. 31, at 10 p.m. Eastern time/7 p.m. Pacific on Al Jazeera America. | …
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It’s Rumor Time: Now Man Of Steel 2 is on “permanent hold” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stop! It’s rumor time. Late last week, those of us who enjoy good movies got excited when it was reported that Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller might be gearing up to direct Man Of Steel 2.
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LONDON — He is, he complains sulkily, “too much in the sun.” That is correct on so many levels. When the title character of “Hamlet” offers this self-diagnosis early in the highly pictorial production that opened on Tuesday night at the Barbican her…
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I Will Fly to the Ball – SBNation.com
What you are to be, you are now becoming, was posted in the locker room below the scattering of wooden grave markers bearing the names of vanquished opponents, the Japanese Rising Sun flag and the ‘89 and ‘91 state championship trophies.
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South Sudan’s President Signs Deal to End Civil War, But Peace Still in Doubt | VICE News
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has signed a peace deal with rebels that could end the country’s 20-month-long conflict, but questions remain about enforcement of the agreement and continued impunity for rebel and government forces accused of war c…
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A look inside Google’s new OnHub wireless router | The Verge
Last week, in Amazonian fashion, a new Google product suddenly appeared on the internet: a wireless router, the bastion of (and scapegoat for) all at-home internet experiences.
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BlackRock Acquires Sequoia-Backed FutureAdvisor | TechCrunch
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is acquiring FutureAdvisor, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based online financial advisory firm that aims to help people manage their existing IRAs, 401(s) and other investment accounts.
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Virginia TV shooter Vester Lee Flanagan was a ‘disturbed’ and ‘unhappy man’ | US news | The Guardian
Vester Lee Flanagan was a popular teenager, a model for Macy’s department store as a young man, and appeared to be a successful reporter at local television news stations in California and across the American south.
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Hackers Think a Dark Web ‘Zine Is the Secret to $376K Ashley Madison Bounty | Motherboard
Earlier this week, the company behind extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison offered a $376,000 USD bounty (or $500,000 CAD) to anyone providing information that “leads to the identification, arrest and prosecution” of The Impact Team, who are …
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NASA Television to Air Launch of Next International Space Station Crew | NASA
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In March 2013, followers of the Paradise Garage Bot were baffled. The Twitter account, which sends out links to singles that sainted DJ Larry Levan once spun at the hallowed New York City club, had just posted Rick Astley’s infamous “Never Gonna Giv…
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The Big, Weird Business of Prom – Racked
Look at the edgy little spikes on her tatas!” proclaims eveningwear designer Johnathan Kayne. He’s standing on a makeshift stage, in a room no bigger than a studio apartment, as a tanned model glides in front of him.
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For the love of God, put me on the Iron Maiden plane | The Verge
For the third time, Iron Maiden will contract a jumbo jet for their world tour — and Bruce Dickinson, the band’s vocalist, will probably be flying.
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Pocket now recommends stories and videos you might like | The Verge
Pocket, one of the best save-for-later reading apps out there, today announced that its “recommendations” feature, previously in beta, is now rolling out to all users on Android, iOS, and the web.
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Jeb Bush’s ‘anchor babies’ remark distracts from real reform, advocates say | US news | The Guardian
Asian American advocacy groups are criticizing Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush after he singled them out in reviving the controversial term “anchor babies”.
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Will South Sudan peace deal be worth the wait? – BBC News
They waited and they waited in the big tent adorned with chandeliers and fairy lights as the temperature gradually rose.
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Low income people in Alaska are on the verge of getting health care. So, in a story that’s become so familiar that it’s practically a cliché, Republican elected officials filed a lawsuit on Monday trying to prevent this expanded access to health car…
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Joaquin Phoenix and M. Night Shyamalan might make another movie together · Newswire · The A.V. Club
M. Night Shyamalan—a consistently interesting, often inspired director who’s become something of a cornball punchline because not all of his movies are good—is in negotiations with Joaquin Phoenix for a project that would start shooting this Novembe…
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Indie sitcoms are having a moment: culturally speaking, they’re the new indie music. The more offbeat, the better to brag about. The more tenuous the relationship to actual human laughter, the more prestigious.
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The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating an allegation that the US military command overseeing the anti-Islamic State campaign distorted or altered intelligence assessments to exaggerate progress against the militant group, a defense offici…
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What does Barack Obama think he’s doing? The question is neither casual nor rhetorical, not when it comes to Obama and the climate crisis. Like the fictional case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
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Authorities say a man died this week of injuries he sustained when he was hit by a vehicle in eastern Pennsylvania a half-century ago. The Lehigh County coroner’s office said Richard Albright, 58, died on Monday night at the Good Shepherd Home-Raker…
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Is Joe Biden Banking on the Contents of Hillary Clinton’s Emails? – The Atlantic
As Joe Biden edges closer to a presidential run, there’s no shortage of theories as to what he’s up to. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has built a commanding lead in the national polls, giving Biden little apparent space to gain traction.
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Adobe will introduce a new Photoshop for iOS this October | The Verge
Adobe is without question the place to go for image editing on the desktop. On mobile, it’s closer to an afterthought. Adobe has been trying to change that over the past couple years as it rolls out more and more free mobile apps that break out some…
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Aurora Theater Gunman James Holmes Sentenced to Life Without Parole – The Atlantic
Judge Carlos Samour, Jr.’s ruling was largely a formality in the capital-murder case. On August 7, the jury sentenced Holmes to life imprisonment without parole and spared him the death penalty. Colorado law requires a unanimous jury to impose death…
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It’s Hannibal—but with puppets, jokes, and songs · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
As the series finale of Hannibal rapidly approaches, viewers who need more Will Graham, Jack Crawford, and the most stylish cannibal of all time have a new place to turn to fill that void.
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Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden is a strange and funny game, so it’s not surprising that the recently released trailer for its follow-up, The Magical Realms Of Tír Na NÓg: Escape From Necron 7—Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game Of The Movie—C…
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Virginia Shooting Exposes the Dark Side of Instant Sharing | WIRED
When graphic content finds its way online, social media can make it tough to look away. That was the case this morning, after a man shot and killed a reporter and cameraman during a live televised interview in Virginia.
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20 Years Ago This Week: A Look Back at 1995 – The Atlantic
20 Years Ago This Week: A Look Back at 1995 Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft launched its Windows 95 operating system, which would go on to sell tens of millions of copies in its first year alone.
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The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win – The New Yorker
Eric Rohmer’s films aren’t just people talking at length on earnest subjects.
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Facebook’s Personal Assistant Is Real, and You Can Talk to It Like a Friend | Motherboard
Recent rumours that Facebook was working on a Siri-like personal assistant have proven to be true. On Wednesday afternoon, the social network announced it has begun testing just such a service, simply called M.
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NASA Crashes Small Plane To Test Emergency Transmitter | Video
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News | The Fingerprints of Sea Level Rise
When you fill a sink, the water rises at the same rate to the same height in every corner. That’s not the way it works with our rising seas. According to the 23-year record of satellite data from NASA and its partners, the sea level is rising a few …
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Kickstart a Documentary on Emily Dickinson, Narrated by Cynthia Nixon | Open Culture
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My parents’ pug is a smelly pug. Dad sent this photo to me today. – Imgur
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PSA: You Can Negotiate a Credit Card Balance Transfer Fee
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The scientific consensus behind man-made global warming is overwhelming: multiple studies have noted a 97 percent consensus among climate scientists that the Earth is warming and human activities are primarily responsible.
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Unless you want TV by diktat, defend the BBC | Armando Iannucci | Comment is free | The Guardian
Eighteen years ago I took my son, who was about three, to the cinema for the first time. It was a long and execrable film called Flubber. As we came out I asked him what he thought, and he said: “It was good. It was like a big video you can only see…
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The Media’s Ethical Dilemma About How To Handle Footage Of People Shot On Live TV | ThinkProgress
After reports emerged on Wednesday that three people were shot on live television during a local news broadcast in Virginia, reporters and social media users were faced with an immediate ethical dilemma: Should they republish the graphic footage of …
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Afghan graffiti artist strives to beautify Kabul – Al Jazeera English
His plan is to make Kabul the graffiti capital of the world, one mural at a time. It won’t be an easy task; there are kilometres of blast walls in the Afghan capital, symbols of the perilous security here.
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The Classic N64 Game ‘Turok: Dinosaur Hunter’ Is Being Remastered for PC | Motherboard
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, a first-person shooter in which you hunt dinosaurs (duh), is being remastered and will soon release on PC via various digital distribution platforms.
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Give Trump This: The 14th Amendment Has Been Working Overtime | The Nation
All other issues to one side, when a leading presidential candidate, an alum of the Ivy League, insists that an amendment to the United States constitution doesn’t say what it clearly does say, it’s well past time the country sat down and had a litt…
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday’s shooting of two journalists in Virginia is yet another example of the need for stronger gun laws.
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First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist – The Daily Beast
It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.
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“Once Upon A Time makes every Sunday night a television event,” the narrator boasts in the new promo for Once Upon A Time’s fifth season.
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Forget the ‘Supermoon’: What’s Actually Happening at Lunar Perigee
You’ll probably hear a lot about a “supermoon” over the next few months. This is not a term that astronomers use, but here are some facts about what will actually happen. A full moon is when the sun, Earth and moon line up, with the Earth in the mid…
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Alabama Is About To Make It Much Harder To Get A Voter ID | ThinkProgress
With Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature refusing to consider any tax hikes, the state is preparing to take drastic measures to address its budget crisis — including shutting down all state parks and the vast majority of Departments of Motor…
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Google inviting very small number of developers into futuristic Project Soli | The Verge
Google’s Project Soli, first demonstrated at I/O earlier this year, is making its way to developers — albeit very slowly to start. The company has sent out applications to what it says is “a small number of developers” who may be interested in recei…
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The Eater Guide to Surviving Disney World – Eater
Here, now, Eater’s comprehensive overview of everything worth eating, drinking, and doing across all 4 parks, 39 hotels, 449 restaurants, and 27,258 acres of Central Florida’s most magical kingdom.
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Contrary To Reports, Android Pay Not Launching This Week | TechCrunch
Android Pay, Google’s forthcoming payments platform and rival to Apple Pay, will soon launch, allowing consumers to pay using their Android smartphones at point-of-sale as well as make purchases within mobile applications.
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Star Wars fans are known for being, let’s say, detail-oriented generally, and particularly when it comes to their beloved collectibles.
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Adventureland is more melancholy than its wacky trailers let on · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With the fall movie season upon us, we wave goodbye to the warmer months with some of our favorite films about the end of summer.
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Toned Ear Trains Your Ear for Better Musical Ability
I always thought I had “a good ear” for music. I guess I was wrong. The Toned Ear site’s ear training practices can test your musical hearing and also help you improve that skill.
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Eazy-E pulls off a heist, then pulls out his dick · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: Songs we felt we had to hide from others.
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Laurel & Hardy boogie down to Morrissey · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Despite all his mopery and off-stage antics, Morrissey has created some incredibly danceable tunes. The former Smiths frontman may write lyrics about the doomed and the damned, but his beats are still enough to get a toe or two tapping.
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Two guitar to USB adaptors – Boing Boing
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High-Rise-Window Washers of Manhattan – The New Yorker
High-rise-window washing, once among the most dangerous jobs in the world, has become extremely safe, statistically speaking.
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Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time? – Digg
Last week, the folks behind Product Hunt introduced Product Hunt LIVE, which, in a Medium post about the launch, founder Ryan Hoover described as “a place for the world’s most interesting founders, investors, musicians, authors, game creators, enter…
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Franklin County sheriff’s briefing on Virginia shooting – BBC News
Journalist Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during an interview, being broadcast live, in Roanoke, Virginia. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is holding a news briefing on the shooting.
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A simple blood test may predict breast cancer relapse | The Verge
Women who test positive for tumor DNA after having undergone surgery and chemotherapy are 12 times as likely to relapse compared with women who test negative, according to a study published in Science Translation Medicine today.
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3D-Printed Microfish May Soon Inject Themselves In Your Body | TechCrunch
Not unlike those fortune-telling fish you used to get at joke shops a new form of 3D-printed microfish – fish, not fiche – can wiggle and jiggle and wriggle inside you, dropping off medicine and cleaning up toxins as they go.
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Police in North Dakota can now use drones armed with tasers | The Verge
Police in North Dakota are now authorized to use drones armed with tasers, tear gas, rubber bullets, and other “non-lethal” weapons, following the passage of Bill 1328. Sponsored by Rep.
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Watch This Robot Livestream From the Ocean Floor Off Canada’s Pacific Coast | Motherboard
Each year, a crew from Ocean Networks Canada sets out to sea for an expedition known as Wiring the Abyss. Each expedition serves as both a servicing mission for ONC’s network of underwater cables, platforms and sensors, and a chance to gather new sc…
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Hubble Finds a Little Gem : This colorful bubble… – Just Space
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NASA Invites Student Teams to Participate in Underwater Research | NASA
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My Dad hanging with EPMD in Russell Simmons’ home (1989) : OldSchoolCool
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High-Rise-Window Washers of Manhattan – The New Yorker
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Eagle Nebula – Pillars of Creation – Wikipedia | We Heart It
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Hi Berry ! by Andre Villeneuve / 500px
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Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the Bloody Sunday civil rights march in 1965, championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, died early Wednesday …
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Trump Supporter Tells U.S. Citizen Jorge Ramos To ‘Get Out Of My Country’ | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “passionate” fans will likely support him for any reason, even if it means going after U.S. citizen journalists.
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Here’s How Much of the World’s Forests Could Vanish by 2050 | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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Saudi Arabia executes four more despite moratorium call – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia has executed four people in one day, bringing the total number of those killed in the country within the last 12 months to at least 178. The deaths on Wednesday came a day after the rights group Amnesty International urged a moratorium…
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These Are the 6 US Prisons That May Soon House Guantanamo Detainees | VICE News
In the coming weeks, the White House is expected to send Congress a final plan to “safely and responsibly” move dozens of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay to military and, possibly, federal prisons in the United States.
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North Dakota Allows Cops To Arm Their Drones With Tasers And Tear Gas | ThinkProgress
There’s a new sheriff on the high plains. Or rather, just above them.
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Mustard gas ‘likely used’ in suspected Islamic State attack in Syria | World news | The Guardian
Testimony from doctors and experts has added weight to claims that civilians in a town near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo were the victims of an Islamic State attack involving a chemical agent that was most likely mustard gas.
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Elves’ Beach by Shuxing Li : ImaginaryLandscapes
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My Reese, among the most interesting kittens in the world. : cats
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Angry Birds studio cuts 260 jobs after revenue continues to fall | Ars Technica
Following lackluster 2014 earnings, the Finnish company behind Angry Birds has now decided to cut 260 jobs—or over a third of its workforce of 700—not a good sign for the gaming studio. “This is personally a difficult decision,” CEO Pekka Rantala sa…
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US interest rates are going nowhere fast despite upbeat news at home | Business | The Guardian
Central bankers have their own lingo. They tend to speak in tortured prose that obscures more than it illuminates. Given the choice, they favour a gnomic utterance over plain speaking.
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LG brings OLED tech and HDR to non-curved 4K TVs | Ars Technica
Right now, if you want to buy a 4K OLED TV, your options are limited to curved panels from LG. And that’s fine if you’re into the whole curved TV thing, but for the most people the curve is unnecessary. Sometimes, the curve even makes the picture wo…
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Charlotte Church sings This Bitter Earth outside Shell’s London HQ in protest at plans to begin drilling in the Arctic. The Welsh singer told the crowds gathered under Hungerford bridge she wanted to make the company question what they are doing.
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NASA’s Failed Orion Parachute Test Was a Success | WIRED
NASA’s test flight of Orion, the space capsule that could one day take astronauts to Mars, was a big success back in December. But that test was too easy. When the capsule fell from low Earth orbit, it had all five of its parachutes working to slow …
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Massachusetts parents cite shaky science in lawsuit over Wi-Fi network | Ars Technica
Despite years of study, there is no clear evidence that exposure to the photons emitted by devices like cell phones and wireless networks pose any health risk whatsoever.
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The Amount of Sleep You Should Get at Night to Be Happiest the Next Day
It’s no secret that sleep significantly affects our mood and performance the next day. How many hours of sleep is the sweet spot, though? Jawbone’s study offers concrete recommendations.
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Here’s Your First Look at Jude Law in The Young Pope | Vanity Fair
Paolo Sorrentino—the director behind 2014’s luscious Best Foreign Film Oscar-Winner, The Great Beauty—is bringing his sumptuous eye to both television and the Vatican. If this first image of Jude Law in The Young Pope is any indication, it’s going t…
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Here are the most timeless songs, as definitively proven by Spotify · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Think of all the time you’ve wasted after a song comes on the jukebox when you’re out somewhere, and you declare, “This song is timeless,” only to have someone else stare at you blankly and say, “I don’t know this one.
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Why Are These Parents Going On A Hunger Strike For A Chicago High School? | ThinkProgress
A small group of parents and community members in the South Side of Chicago have gone on a hunger strike until the Chicago Board of Education agrees to a proposal to revitalize a local school. It has lasted 10 days.
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The Queen Will Soon Be the Longest-Reigning Monarch in British History | Vanity Fair
While Her Majesty the Queen has banned any celebration next month to mark her becoming the longest-reigning monarch in British history (the milestone moment takes place on September 9), I’m told she is looking forward to another important date on th…
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The Average American Commute Time Is Increasing Thanks to Rush-Hour Traffic – The Atlantic
Americans stuck in rush-hour traffic—and estimates suggest there are about 110 million of them on any given day—have the economic recovery to thank for their frustration, at least in part. In a recovering economy, more people need to get to work.
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Hook, Line, and Sinker: Greg Brooks’ Port Nicholson Treasure Hunt
On the moonless night of June 15, 1942, the S.S. Port Nicholson steamed through rough waters east of Cape Cod, its lights blacked out. The British freighter, packed with materials valuable to the war effort, was traveling in the center of an 11-ship…
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‘Merkel’ Has Become A Verb In German Youth Vernacular : The Two-Way : NPR
On the international stage, she’s seen as decisive and principled, especially when it concerns austerity measures in Europe. Domestically, however, Germany’s chancellor is known for a wait-and-see approach to politics.
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Scores of dead refugees found on boat off Libya coast – Al Jazeera English
Scores of bodies of refugees have been found in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya, the Italian and Swedish coastguards have said.
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This Technicolor 3D Cancer Model Lets Researchers Glimpse a Tumor’s Evolution | Motherboard
How does cancer progress? New research provides insight into just how a tumor can grow via a new modeling technique. The simulation above reveals a mosaic of mutations, with each color representing a bunch of malignant cells.
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Howard Stern Just Taught Everyone’s Parents About Ad-Blockers | Motherboard
“Oh, dude!” With those two words, Howard Stern may have just hammered another nail into the coffin for online marketers, after he learned of the magic of ad-blocking software live on air Tuesday: While Stern was complaining about ads on YouTube, a c…
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YouTube Made Its Own Version of Twitch | Motherboard
Google-owned YouTube is throwing its weight behind gaming in a big, big way. The company officially launched YouTube Gaming this afternoon, a centralized hub for video game-related videos that will feature both pre-recorded videos and live streams.
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Windows 10 Now Runs On 75 Million Devices | TechCrunch
Microsoft is 7.5 percent of the way to its goal of a flat billion devices running Windows 10 in the next few years. Today the software giant announced that its latest operating system, Windows 10, is now running on 75 million machines.
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Judge Formally Sentences CO Shooter to Life | Al Jazeera America
Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was formally sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday, more than three years after he carefully planned and executed a merciless attack on hundreds of defenseless moviegoers. Judge Carlos A. Samou…
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Facebook Is Adding A Personal Assistant Called “M” To Your Messenger App | TechCrunch
We’ve been hearing rumblings that Facebook was working on an “assistant” within Messenger, but today we’ve gotten the details that pull it all together. This puts the company squarely in competition with Apple, Google and Microsoft in the digital pe…
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Facebook’s Siri-like personal assistant is called M, and it lives inside Messenger | The Verge
Facebook has launched its own personal assistant, and you’ll find it right inside an app you’re already using every day: Messenger.
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10 of the Most Maddening Delays in Comics History
Comic Book release schedules are, more often than not, a little fluid. Sometimes a release is only pushed back a week. Sometimes, a month. But sometimes, a comic can be delayed for months and years, like the recently re-announced Batman: Europa.
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Suspected Virginia gunman taken to hospital after police chase – video | US news | The Guardian
The man believed to be responsible for killing two journalists in Virginia was carried into an ambulance in Markham after a police chase. Police pursued the suspect from Moneta after he allegedly shot and killed a reporter and cameraman live on air.
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China’s Meltdown Goes Deeper Than the Stock Market | The Nation
This week, China was the site of two crises, one of them fatal, the other, more fatalistic. While Tianjin burned, Shanghai’s stock exchange stumbled, but the industrial horror eclipses the market’s fears.
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Berlin and Paris Versus Kiev | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the New Cold War. This installment focuses on different but related recent developments.
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In Photos: Life in Gaza a Year After the Ceasefire | VICE News
Heavy fighting broke out in Gaza last summer after Israel launched Operation Protective Edge. The devastating 50-day conflict that followed came to a halt a year ago today, when the Israelis and Palestinians agreed to an indefinite ceasefire. The co…
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Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana | WIRED
Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant. Facebook will prompt them to test it with examples of what M can do: Make restaurant reservations. Find a birthday gift for your spou…
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Bizarre illustrations from old men’s adventure magazines – Boing Boing
Soon after American soldiers returned home from World War II, a new type of magazine was created for them – the man’s adventure magazine.
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People of all ages offer words of wisdom to their younger counterparts – Boing Boing
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Nigeria anti-graft boss Ibrahim Lamorde denies corruption – BBC News
Nigeria’s anti-corruption boss Ibrahim Lamorde has denied allegations that $5bn (£3.2bn) has gone missing at the commission he heads. Mr Lamorde told the BBC it was a smear campaign, as the EFCC was prosecuting the man making the allegations.
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The Curious Silence of Cosby’s TV Daughters | Vanity Fair
We may finally know what Bill Cosby‘s most rebellious TV daughter thinks of the allegations of sexual assault against him.
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WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: UnReal | WIRED
“Here we go,” a voice barks. “Let’s give them what they want: ponies, princesses, romance, love. I don’t know, it’s all a bunch of crap anyway.” It’s opening night of Everlasting, and executive producer Quinn King is ready. And so are we.
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Donald Trump Throws Latino Journalist out of Presser: “Go Back to Univ | Vanity Fair
Footage of Univision’s Jorge Ramos getting into such a heated debate with Donald Trump that the presidential candidate ejected him from a press conference—with a forceful “Go back to Univision!,” no less—has prompted a broader debate within the jour…
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Two television journalists from Roanoke, Virginia, CBS affiliate WDBJ were shot and killed during a live broadcast around 6:45 AM on Wednesday morning. A woman being interviewed was also wounded in the shooting, which took place at a shopping mall c…
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Dark web marketplace shuts down over security concerns – BBC News
Agora, one of the biggest online black markets, has shut down because of security concerns, its website reports. The site said fears that a recently discovered flaw in the network on which it runs could lead to Agora’s servers being located, were be…
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A look at the $50 billion battle to save Louisiana | Grist
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. I’m driving down a dirt road in the vast tangle of coastal bayous that stretch south of New Orleans, so that Reggie Dupre can show me his pride and joy.
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A look back at the short but promising careers of Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, who were killed by a gunman live on air in Moneta, Virginia, on Wednesday morning. The pair were former interns at WDBJ7 before gaining full-time jobs for the st…
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In Search of the Keys to the Virtual City – The New Yorker
I’m not the first man to believe that he might fix London.
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At Navy Submarine School, first enlisted women begin training | US news | The Guardian
The first four of the female enlisted sailors selected for the navy’s “silent service” began training this week at submarine school in Groton, the latest milestone in the elimination of one of the US military’s few remaining gender barriers.
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Facebook’s Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI | WIRED
Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you’re saying. And when she does, there’s a pretty good chance she’ll respond with nothing more than a page filled with Internet links. Part of the problem is that Apple’s talking digital assistant…
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Normally, when your main geopolitical rivals are shooting themselves in both feet, the military manual says step back and enjoy the show. But I take little comfort in watching China burning money and Russia burning food, because in today’s interdepe…
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Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables | The Nation
At the Asia Pacific Resilience Innovation Summit held in Honolulu, Hawaii this week, Governor David Ige dropped a bombshell.
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/r/Breathless hits 10K subscribers : Breathless
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In Search of the Keys to the Virtual City – The New Yorker
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Kurt Sutter is definitely working on a Sons Of Anarchy spin-off · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Entertainment Weekly reports that Sons Of Anarchy has officially spawned a spin-off: Creator Kurt Sutter has confirmed that he’s working on a prequel or sequel to his hugely popular FX show.
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EVENT: #PhotoBombSF, August 27th at PianoFight – Boing Boing
This Thursday, August 27th, at the PianoFight theater in San Francisco, Imran G and Red Scott present their new monthly comedy show #PhotobombSF, a one-of-a-kind show that asks comedians to answer for their their own Instagram, Facebook, and snapcha…
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How to Skip the Line and Manually Update Your Nexus Device
Android updates take forever. While that’s okay most of the time, it can be a problem when a new, terrible security vulnerability is found.
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‘Mr. Robot’: Meet the Show’s Breakout Star Rami Malek | Rolling Stone
When Mr. Robot debuted back in June, the show was pitched as a ripped-from-the-headlines techno-thriller, with the return of Christian Slater to TV as its main attraction.
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Floyd Mayweather’s Training Regiment? Boxing With $100 Bills | Rolling Stone
Floyd Mayweather’s Training Regiment? Boxing With $100 Bills As a new clip from Showtime’s ‘All Access’ shows, Money’s taking his September 12 fight with Andre Berto pretty seriously
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In a new take on an old classic, Hannibal asks kids to fill in some famous quotes and gets some unexpected results. Watch a new episode of Why? with Hannibal Buress every Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central ap…
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A microphone is a rapper’s weapon and their vocabulary their arsenal. The more words an artist has at their disposal, the more ambidextrous, interesting and insightful they can make their flows.
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Trucking Companies Want To Drug-Test Drivers Using Hair Samples | VICE News
American truck drivers are fighting a proposal in Congress that would subject them to drug testing via hair sample, a relatively new method of analysis in which drugs can be detected for up to 90 days after ingestion, a significant increase over tra…
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In a move that shocked both industry observers and grassroots clean energy advocates, the Public Service Commission of Washington, D.C. unanimously rejected a proposed merger between Exelon and Pepco. Together, they would have created the nation’s l…
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Far-right protesters boo Merkel during refugee visit – Al Jazeera English
Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Germans to stand up against hatred and vowed zero tolerance for attacks against refugees, as more than 100 far-right protesters booed her during a visit to a shelter for asylum-seekers.
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Quentin Tarantino has issues with It Follows’ fuzzy mythology · Newswire · The A.V. Club
This article discusses plot details of It Follows. In his recent interview with Vulture, Quentin Tarantino acknowledged that David Robert Mitchell’s indie horror darling It Follows is quite impressive, but like many things that Tarantino encounters,…
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The GOP Candidates’ Extreme Anti-Immigrant Positions, In One Chart | ThinkProgress
Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has pushed immigration to the forefront of the Republican primary campaign. Since no candidate besides Sen.
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Furious 7 gets its own attraction at Universal Studios Orlando · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Between Jurassic World, Furious 7, Minions, Fifty Shades Of Grey, and Pitch Perfect 2, Universal Studios has made a killing at the box office this year.
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Meet the Humvee’s replacement: Oshkosh’s L-ATV | Ars Technica
There may soon be a whole lot of used Humvees on the market—or in the scrapyard. The US Army has picked its replacement for the aging vehicle originally designed as a Cold War replacement for the Jeep—and it comes from Wisconsin.
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“You say emotions are overrated,” a white-haired Harvey Keitel says sadly. “Emotions are all we’ve got.” That’s the moment when this trailer for Youth, the new film from Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), lets you know you’re probably…
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This Tool Quantifies Reddit Bigotry | Motherboard
Do you know all your friends’ Reddit usernames? Do they know yours? Probably not, right?
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News | NASA Zeroes in on Ocean Rise: How Much? How Soon?
Seas around the world have risen an average of nearly 3 inches (8 centimeters) since 1992, with some locations rising more than 9 inches (25 centimeters) due to natural variation, according to the latest satellite measurements from NASA and its part…
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News | Warming Seas and Melting Ice Sheets
Sea level rise is a natural consequence of the warming of our planet. We know this from basic physics. When water heats up, it expands. So when the ocean warms, sea level rises. When ice is exposed to heat, it melts. And when ice on land melts and w…
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Invasive caterpillar ‘could spread in UK’ – BBC News
An invasive caterpillar that feeds on hedges is starting to spread from its established base in London across the UK, experts warn. The box tree caterpillar is the larval stage of a moth native to the Far East and India.
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Swype’s new ‘Star Trek’ themes let you explore the final frontier of keyboards | The Verge
Have you ever dreamed of tapping on Captain James T. Kirk’s face while messaging your bae? Thanks to a bundle of new themes available for Swype’s Android keyboard, you can do just that.
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News | NASA’s OMG Mission Maps Greenland’s Coastline
This summer, a refitted fishing boat is mapping the seafloor around Greenland as the first step in a six-year research program to document the loss of ice from the world’s largest island.
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Resonate by .Vulture Labs / 500px
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The presidential candidates react to the latest incident of senseless gun violence
Heartbroken and angry. We must act to stop gun violence, and we cannot wait any longer. Praying for the victims’ families in Virginia. -H And for that point, she will undoubtedly be attacked. After all, another mass shooting in America’s epidemic of…
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Mythbusters proves Walter White’s boobytrap works – Boing Boing
Spoilers! A trunk-mounted machine gun attached to a garage door opener will, indeed, massacre your enemies on a pleasingly horizontal plane through plate metal and stucco. [via Laughing Squid.
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Watch: runner celebrates before crossing finish line, gives up bronze medal – Boing Boing
Molly Huddle was set to win the bronze medal in the 10,000 meter run at the IAAF Track and Field World Championships in Beijing on Monday, but as she approached the finish line she slowed down to savor her achievement and her teammate Emily Infield …
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Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch’s Archenemy | TechCrunch
YouTube just launched YouTube Gaming on the web, Android and iOS. As expected, YouTube Gaming goes head-to-head against Twitch, mirroring many popular features of the existing gaming streaming giant. We played with the Android app before the launch,…
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Dodge Kickstarter Fees And Take Crowdfunding On Your Site With Celery Launch | TechCrunch
Why pay Kickstarter 5% or Indiegogo 4% to 9% when most crowdfunding traffic comes from project creators and their own promotion? And why publicize a crowdfunding page that will only live for a month instead a business’ own website that can take orde…
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Virginia TV journalists shot: Suspect ‘shoots himself’ – BBC News
A man suspected of shooting two US journalists during a live TV report in Virginia has subsequently shot himself, American media say.Reports suggest Vester Lee Flanagan, a disgruntled ex-employee of WDBJ7 TV whose car was surrounded by police follow…
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Ukraine’s Tarantino Goes to the Gulag – The Daily Beast
Few filmmakers achieve the meteoric success of Oleg Sentsov. After self-funding his first feature, Gamer, shot for $20,000, he received wide acclaim at the film’s premier at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2012.
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Two guys drove a Tesla almost 500 miles on a single charge | The Verge
A fully charged Telsa Model S should get you about 270 or 310 miles before you need to plug back in, depending on whether you buy it in the United States or Europe.
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Photo of a kitchen damaged by a pressure cooker explosion – Boing Boing
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A Super-Hot Star Shines At the Center of a Nebula
Star Hen 2-427 (also known as WR 124) is the bright spot in the middle of nebula M1-67. Both live in the familiar constellation of Sagittarius, 15,000. Hen 2-427 is a super-hot type of star called a Wolf–Rayet star, while the nebula M1-67 is a cosmi…
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Pocket Now Recommends Articles for You Based on the Ones You’ve Saved
Pocket is one of our favorite services for saving articles to read later. Today, the service has introduced a Recommended section with content customized to your saving and reading habits.http://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-poc… The recommended artic…
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Spanish-language media airs its disgust of Trump
Mr. Ramos, who has been called the Walter Cronkite of Latino America for the tremendous influence he holds with Hispanic viewers, said that he could not recall Spanish-language news media covering a story as aggressively as it has Mr. Trump’s candid…
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This New Game of Thrones Theory Is Almost Certainly Wrong, But It’s Still Fascinating
A shocking new theory about Jon Snow is floating around the nerdosphere. It’s actually not about his mysterious parentage, but rather whether he, being Game of Thrones’ equivalent of Luke Skywalker, might have a twin sister kicking around Westeros a…
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Hey reddit, I painted this viking painting! what do you think? : pics
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Early mornings in Gainesville : FoggyPics
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Striking his best pose for PlayCat Centerfold : cats
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Woman killed in Illinois is 19th transgender homicide reported this year | US news | The Guardian
Keyshia Blige, of Aurora, Illinois, has become the 19th reported transgender or gender non-conforming homicide this year.
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Death of 9/11 ‘dust lady’ Marcy Borders renews worry over related cancers | US news | The Guardian
The cancer death of Marcy Borders, a Bank of America worker who was the subject of a haunting photograph on 9/11, has drawn renewed attention to the illnesses suffered by many survivors of the attack.
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US September rate rise ‘less compelling’ – BBC News
Federal Reserve official, William Dudley, has said that a rate rise in September now “seems less compelling” than it was a few weeks ago. New York Fed president Mr Dudley said economic turmoil in China had made the case for a rate rise harder to mak…
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Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer pair up to write a screenplay | Film | The Guardian
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are writing a comedy in which they will star together as sisters, according to the New York Times. The duo are 100 pages into the screenplay, and plan to co-write with Schumer’s Trainwreck screenwriting partner: her…
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The Flood That Sank George W. Bush | Vanity Fair
What a weird moment in U.S. presidential history. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm, had smashed into the Gulf South. People were drowning. And the president of the United States played guitar in San Diego, egged on by country singer Mark Wills.
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Colorado theatre shooter James Holmes to get 12 life sentences in prison | US news | The Guardian
The judge in the Colorado movie massacre trial will condemn the gunman to 12 life sentences and potentially thousands more years in prison on Wednesday, and is expected to address James Holmes directly as the proceedings conclude.
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Final Terry Pratchett novel The Shepherd’s Crown set for release – BBC News
The final novel by author Sir Terry Pratchett is about to hit bookshops, almost six months after his death. The Shepherd’s Crown, the 41st novel in his Discworld series, will go on sale in the UK and Commonwealth at midnight BST (23:00 GMT Wednesday…
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Why Shaun King’s Race Doesn’t Matter for Black Lives Matter – The Atlantic
Shaun King, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, responded last week to accusations published by some conservative websites that he has lied about being biracial, and about being the victim of racially-motivated attacks.
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Russia’s Food Ban: What’s ‘Strategically Important’ About French Cheese? – The Atlantic
One face of Vladimir Putin’s brave new Russia is a man called Nikolai. We don’t know his last name, but we know he lives in Vladivostok. And we know that after having a few drinks on the evening of August 16, he called the cops to rat on his neighbo…
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Tomatina festival – in 60 seconds – BBC News
More than 22,000 people from across the world have gathered in the small Spanish town of Bunol to celebrate the 70th annual Tomatina Festival. For about an hour the participants hurled tomatoes at each other, an event inspired by a food fight in 194…
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Jorge Ramos Challenged Both Trump and an Increasingly Absurd Debate | The Nation
When Univision anchor Jorge Ramos kept asking Donald Trump tough questions about immigration policy — until Trump’s security forces physically removed one of the nation’s most prominent journalists from what was supposedly a press conference — he wa…
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Pete Best, the Beatles original drummer, still doesn’t know why he was fired – Boing Boing
In 1960 a Liverpool band called the Silver Beatles asked Pete Best to join them as drummer. Best was already in a band called the Blackjacks, but he took the gig and for the next two years he played with the band (which eventually dropped “Silver” f…
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Lessons learned from cracking 4,000 Ashley Madison passwords | Ars Technica
When hackers released password data for more than 36 million Ashley Madison accounts last week, big-league cracking expert Jeremi Gosney didn’t bother running them through one of his massive computer clusters built for the sole purpose of password c…
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Morrissey’s novel has a cover and UK release date · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As we so graciously pointed out to you several days ago, while you sat there and didn’t appreciate our solo career, and tried to stick daggers in our backs, Morrissey will release his debut novel, List Of The Lost, later this year.
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Burger King wants to make McWhoppers, not McWar, with McDonald’s · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hold on to your Happy Meals: Burger King turned to the New York Times and The Chicago Tribune to negotiate a truce with McDonald’s, flying in the face of generally accepted social norms.
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Many people have jammed out to the “Bacon Pancakes” song that Jake performs in Adventure Time. Some have even done so with the remix that smashed it up with “Empire State Of Mind” by Jay Z featuring Alicia Keys.
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Verizon is making it easier to use unlocked iPhones and Nexus 6s on its network | The Verge
Verizon has a history of making it pretty difficult to start using an unlocked phone on its network, but that’s apparently starting to change.
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The Mormon church – the nation’s largest sponsor of Boy Scout units – is keeping its longtime affiliation with the organization despite its decision to allow gay troop leaders. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the decision W…
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WDBJ: Virginia TV station at center of fatal shooting is small but crucial | US news | The Guardian
The area of the Virginia Blue Ridge mountains where cameraman Adam Ward and reporter Alison Parker were murdered this morning is both a quiet, spacious community filled with greenery and also one of the most important areas for political campaigning…
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The panel on tourism was an all-star lineup of local entrepreneurs — a restaurateur, a museum director, a hotel executive, the founder of a weekend markets and a theater impresario.
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Hook, Line, and Sinker: Greg Brooks’ Port Nicholson Treasure Hunt
On the moonless night of June 15, 1942, the S.S. Port Nicholson steamed through rough waters east of Cape Cod, its lights blacked out. The British freighter, packed with materials valuable to the war effort, was traveling in the center of an 11-ship…
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22 Years of Sea Level Rise Measured From Space | Video
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Galaxy Image in SkyNews js – Just Space
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The cosmic butterfly pictured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image goes by many names. It is called the Twin Jet Nebula as well as answering to the slightly less poetic name of PN M2-9. -
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This week we’re barely putting up with MTV’s VMAs · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
Pictures of Banksy’s “Dismaland bemusement park” exhibit. It’s almost as fascinatingly bleak as Eurodisney. GSN’s completely unnecessary home-improvement-through-Steampunk show, Steampunk’d. The solution to home renovation is never, “Get a steampunk…
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Build this brain-teasing golf ball in a block of wood – Boing Boing
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Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence are writing a movie together · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Presumably after reading The A.V.
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‘World of Beer’ Hits NYC With A 500-Beer Menu | Observer
Beer lovers and connoisseurs are about to get a new haunt. World of Beer, the chain tavern known for its enormous selection of craft beer, is opening its first NYC location in Chelsea next Monday.
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PRINCETON, NJ—Saying that no system as equitable or impartial could be found within the realms of government, business, or academia, a study released Wednesday by Princeton University’s Department of Sociology found that limbo competitions are the n…
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Indian State of Kerala Tries a Hackathon to Decrease Traffic Fatalities | | Observer
In India, it’s very dangerous to walk or ride a bike (of either kind). People who aren’t inside cars account for about half of all the people who die on the road in India, according to the World Health Organization. And road deaths have been going u…
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Afropunk, Sponsored by Dr. Martens, Coors and Social Activism | | Observer
It’s no secret music festivals are rarely about the music anymore. Never mind the artists—the big news at this year’s Coachella was Justin Bieber getting forced out by security.
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Magical light, magical girl by Roberto Inetti / 500px
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How to Age Gracefully on Vimeo
A farewell message to CBC Radio’s WireTap. People of all ages offer words of wisdom to their younger counterparts. Based on a story originally aired on WireTap.
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Are You Happy Or Delusional? | Observer
Happiness may be the purpose of life, but it seems to elude most people. Consider this startling and sad fact: Only one in three Americans claim to be happy. Which, of course, begs the obvious question: Why is happiness so hard to experience?
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Working Retail Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About People
People say that “everyone should work retail or service at least once in their lives.” I couldn’t agree more. Like many people, some of my first jobs were retail service gigs. One in a department store, another in a bookstore.
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LawBreakers is the next game from Gears designer Cliff Bleszinski | The Verge
Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski has a new game and it’s a free first-person shooter called LawBreakers. It’s described as a “new FPS that’s all about skill, not streaks,” set in a near-future world where people have near super-human abil…
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Hear Kurt Vonnegut Read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle & Other Novels | Open Culture
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Sea Level Rise Hits Home at NASA : Feature Articles
For the past two centuries, two trends have been steady and clear around the United States. Sea level has been rising, and more people have been moving closer to the coast.
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Norway’s Child Protection Service Takes Away Children From Immigrant Parents | ThinkProgress
Earlier this month, Norwegian school officials took away Airida Pettersen’s children at school and placed them in a foster home.
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Here Is the DEA’s ‘Personal History Report’ on Silk Road from 2011 | Motherboard
Motherboard has obtained the Personal History Report on online drug market Silk Road from June 15, 2011, when the investigation into the site began, through a Freedom of Information Request.
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Mapping the Displacement of Katrina Survivors – The Atlantic
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the city of New Orleans on the morning of August 29, 2005, swept in by winds traveling at 127 mph. But the true damage came after the levees broke, when about 80 percent of the city flooded.
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Alison Parker and Adam Ward: ‘rockstar’ journalist and gregarious cameraman | US news | The Guardian
Alison Parker was a rising star at the Virginia station where she first began her career as an intern. The WDBJ newsroom was the center of her professional world and also where she fell in love. Parker had been quietly dating Chris Hurst, an anchor …
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Map of mass shootings in the US since Sandy Hook [650×350] : MapPorn
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Homeward Bound by Cherylorraine Smith / 500px
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Today in Politics: Conference Call Could Give Democrats Reason to Hold for Joe Biden http://t.co/Ys3BVYq0XB
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Life in Gaza One Year After War With Israel – The Atlantic
My brain cannot stop dreaming of war, I don’t want to wake up this way! Its really annoying and sad. #Gaza 😦 I tweeted this more than six months after Israel’s 2014 bombardment of the Gaza Strip. I was not alone among Gazans in my unrelenting suffe…
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China signs deal with Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote – BBC News
A Chinese state-owned engineering company has signed a deal worth $4.3bn (£2.8bn) to build factories for a Nigerian cement company run by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote.China’s Sinoma will build seven plants across the continent and one in Nepa…
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Banksy’s Dismaland has a really eerie trailer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Everyone’s favorite anonymous graffiti artist Banksy recently announced the grand opening of his charmingly morbid theme park Dismaland.
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Author and journalist Jessica Hopper isn’t shy about speaking up about all of the ways in which the music industry oppresses and attacks those in the margins.
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Will universal cards ever be more than a novelty? Coin, the buzzy but troubled company whose signature product seeks to replace your credit cards with a single piece of plastic, will begin shipping the second version of its card today. Coin 2.0 incl…
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Laser detects brain tumour cells during surgery – BBC News
Surgeons in London have used lasers to diagnose abnormal tissue during an operation to remove a brain tumour for the first time in Europe. The non-invasive technique measures light reflected off tissue to determine whether it is cancerous or healthy.
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See the Cadillac Three’s Stripped-Down ‘Meanwhile Back at Mama’s’ | Rolling Stone
The Cadillac Three may be best known for eardrum-rattling country-rock, but the Nashville natives can dial it back when necessary. During a recent performance at the Grand Ole Opry, the trio went for versatility over volume with their take on Tim Mc…
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Jon Batiste: How ‘Colbert’ Visit Became ‘Late Show’ Job Interview | Rolling Stone
Jon Batiste: How ‘Colbert’ Visit Became ‘Late Show’ Job Interview Bandleader also reveals he and Stephen Colbert will have an “interactive” relationship on late-night program
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Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer Co-Writing Sisters Movie | Rolling Stone
What began as mutual admiration between Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence has blossomed into a movie, as the two actresses have collaborated on a new script where the duo will play sisters.
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Agora, The Dark Web’s Biggest Drug Market, Is Going Offline | WIRED
The Dark Web’s biggest marketplace for drugs seems to have learned a lesson from the downfall of the Silk Road: When cracks start to appear in your anonymity’s armor, it’s time to quit while you’re ahead—or, at least, retreat and regroup.
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Coin Unveils The Next Generation Of Its All-In-One Credit Card | TechCrunch
Coin, the device that wanted to replace all of your credit cards with a… card, is prepped and ready to dig into the future with Coin 2.0. Coin 2.
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Twitter yanks murder video posted by apparent killer of VA journalists | Ars Technica
As news and confirmations piled up regarding the murder of two journalists at Virginia TV station WDBJ7, the story took a dark turn on social media when accounts in the name of another WDBJ7 staffer posted what appeared to be first-hand video of the…
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Image of the Day –The Spectacular Core of the Twin Jet Nebula
The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula’s shells and its knots of expanding gas in striking detail.
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Spanish-language media condemn Donald Trump over reporter’s ejection | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump’s ejection of venerated Spanish-language journalist Jorge Ramos from a press question-and-answer session has infuriated other Spanish-language journalists, who roundly condemned the Republican presidential candidate.
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MFW I’m about to start an argument in the comments – Imgur
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Great advice for crazy people with guns… : AdviceAnimals
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My new little foster family.. : aww
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9/11 ‘Dust Lady’ describes how iconic photo was taken – archive video | US news | The Guardian
Marcy Borders tells the story of how she became known as the Dust Lady, after she was photographed fleeing from the World Trade Center covered in ash and concrete dust.
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The governor of Virginia says police believe a gunman who shot two TV journalists on Wednesday morning is a ‘disgruntled employee’ of the station.
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Dallas Cowboys lament season-long loss of injured Orlando Scandrick | Sport | The Guardian
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick will miss the entire 2015 season after tearing two ligaments in his right knee in practice at training camp on Tuesday. An MRI confirmed that the veteran corner has tore his medial collateral ligament and …
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Summer Encounters – The New Yorker
All of this begins in Venice, not New York, but the Venice experience presaged an incredible New York event that has come and gone, though not in the mind. This June found me in Italy with the gallerist Brent Sikkema.
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Researcher catches AT&T injecting ads on free airport Wi-Fi hotspot | Ars Technica
When computer scientist Jonathan Mayer was in Washington Dulles International Airport last week, he logged onto an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot and soon noticed that websites were showing a lot more ads than usual.
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Slain Cameraman Photographed Killer; Suspect Is Disgruntled Employee – The Daily Beast
The gunman who shot and killed a Virginia TV crew was a man dressed all in black. Cameraman Adam Ward captured the man approaching as he fired at him and reporter Alison Parker. The shooter has not yet been identified.
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Why Is The New York Times Bashing Jeb for Donald Trump’s Sins? | Vanity Fair
The New York Times is becoming unhinged in its hatred of Donald Trump. This morning, the paper published what may be the worst editorial that has ever graced its pages, excoriating not Trump but Jeb Bush for running a lousy campaign against Trump.
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The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages by 2040 | Motherboard
Water access is going to be one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. As climate change dries out the already dry areas and makes the wet ones wetter, we’re poised to see some radical civilizational shifts.
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A few months ago, Chris Capuozzo was admiring his freshly scrawled graffiti on the walls of the Schlobohm Houses in Yonkers, remembering the nighttime raids he and his friends made in the 1980s on the NYC Transit Yards to tag subway trains.
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How a Computer Predicts Schizophrenia and Psychosis – The Atlantic
Although the language of thinking is deliberate—let me think, I have to do some thinking—the actual experience of having thoughts is often passive. Ideas pop up like dandelions; thoughts occur suddenly and escape without warning.
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An Easy Way to Help Americans Save More for Retirement – The Atlantic
Fact: Americans stink at saving. That’s bad news since pensions are increasingly a rarity these days, leaving people on their own when it comes to tucking away money for the future.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie distanced himself from many of his fellow Republican presidential candidates this week by taking a contrary position on the question of how LGBT nondiscrimination protections interact with religious liberty.
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Tech-Sniffing Dogs: the New Way Cops Are Using Canines to Fight Crime | Motherboard
When the police and the FBI raided former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle’s house, they had a secret weapon: something that could detect thumb drives, SD cards and other tiny, hidden tech devices in a matter of minutes.
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Teens to Netflix: We Already Like You, Stop Trying So Hard | Motherboard
There’s been some buzz this week about Netflix trying to woo more ~teens~ with shows and movies specifically targeted to their demographic.
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There Are Now Four Class Action Lawsuits Against Ashley Madison in the US | Motherboard
Lawsuits against Ashley Madison have been stacking up ever since hackers breached the site and published the personal information of its users. A total of four class action lawsuits against Ashley Madison have been filed in the US so far—two in Cali…
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Fusion Power Is a Bit Closer, Claims Mysterious Energy Startup | Motherboard
In an unassuming building in an unassuming industrial park south of Los Angeles, nuclear physicists are smashing together rings of plasma at one million kilometers per hour, producing temperatures on the order of a hundred-million degrees Celsius.
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Summer Encounters – The New Yorker
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Streets of Sarajevo by Emir Terovic / 500px
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Mercury is Killing the Biosphere at Grand Canyon : environment
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Go-Pro footage from the news reporter shooter : gif
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British Family killed in Canada crash named – BBC News
UK family killed in Canada plane crash named as Fiona Hewitt, 52, Richard Hewitt, 50, Felicity, 17, and Harry, 14 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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Venice Gay Pride: Mayor Brugnaro ‘wants to ban parade’ – BBC News
The mayor of Venice has been quoted as saying that he will try to ban Gay Pride parades in the city, provoking fury from gay rights activists. However, he said he was not homophobic, insisting he had friends who were gay.
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The meteorological Fall kicks off next week with the release of a ton of new video games, including the new Metal Gear Solid and an open-world Mad Max game from the Just Cause people. Here’s a list of what’s coming. There are over fifty items on it.…
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There is nothing courageous about a political party standing big to undocumented people, arguably the most vulnerable and exploited people in America.
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Amazon Underground Is An Android App Store With Only “Actually Free” Apps | TechCrunch
Amazon just announced a new store for Android apps and games called Amazon Underground. While the company already has the Amazon Appstore, Amazon Underground is a brand new section as well as a new app to download premium apps for free. Here’s how i…
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Turkey Is Using ISIS as Cover For Its War Against Kurdish Activists | The Nation
In the days and even hours before the bomb went off, the atmosphere among Turkey’s young leftists had been hopeful, even upbeat.
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Hubblecast 86: The wings of the Twin Jet Nebula – YouTube
This Hubblecast explores the wings of Twin Jet Nebula which were observed and studied by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/…Subscribe to Hubblecast in iTunes! …
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Flyby video from latest photos shows Pluto in all its glory
Bjorn Jonsson used the photos taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to make an animation of the probe’s flyby of Pluto. The time covered is 09:35 to 13:35 (closest approach occurred near 11:50).
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Zac Efron and the Strange, Sad Power of We Are Your Friends | Vanity Fair
Zac Efron hurts so good. Wait. Let me rephrase that so it doesn’t sound dirty. What I mean is, Zac Efron, an actor of seemingly limited range, has some innate, wholly beguiling quality about him that tends to only come to the surface when whatever c…
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One Way To Fight The California Drought: Study Trees | FiveThirtyEight
You can tell how old a tree is by counting its rings, but those rings have a lot more to say. And if you live in California, which is in the midst of a four-year drought, you may want to listen.
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N64 classic Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is being remastered for PC | The Verge
Dust off that bow and arrow: Turok is making a comeback. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter — the cult classic Nintendo 64 shooter about killing dinosaurs, which first launched in 1997 — and its sequel are being remastered for PC, with updated graphics and “oth…
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Rafael Nadal looking forward to US Open: ‘It’s great to be back’ – video | Sport | The Guardian
Rafael Nadal says he is looking forward to the start of the US Open tennis tournament in New York on Monday. The world number eight missed last year’s competition because of a wrist injury, having won the title in 2013.
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How Batman’s Butler Alfred Evolved from a Joke Character to a Total Badass
Bruce Wayne has always been a vigilante and billionaire. Since a vigilante needs a lot of help around the house and a billionaire has the money to buy that help, most Batman fans assume that Alfred was in the comics from the beginning.
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How to Maximize Your Shopping at Big Box Home Improvement Stores
Any budding DIYer or homeowner can tell you that they spend a lot of time at places like Lowe’s and Home Depot. Shopping at big box stores can be a frustrating experience, from trying to locate a single item to finding someone who can answer a basic…
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Mountains reflecting in the river. Index, Washington [OC] [4695 x 3401] : EarthPorn
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…………hoch oben – Der Falkertsee by Norbert M. / 500px
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Shooter Of Virginia TV Journalists Identified: Bryce Williams | ThinkProgress
The shooter in a tragic incident Wednesday morning in which two journalists, 24-year-old Alison Parker and 27-year-old Adam Ward, at a local Virginia television station has been identified as Vester Lee Flanagan. Reports say he was a former employee…
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Why Denver Lawmakers Are Reluctant To Approve An Airport Chick-Fil-A | ThinkProgress
The Denver city council is ruffling some feathers for its reluctance to allow Chick-fil-A to open a restaurant at the Denver International Airport, due to the chicken chain’s stance against marriage equality.
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Yahoo Announces New Tumblr Sharing Tools And Native Video Ads For Developers | TechCrunch
Simon Khalaf, Yahoo’s senior vice president of publisher products, today outlined some big shifts in the mobile ecosystem and unveiled some new tools for mobile developers. He made the announcements on-stage at the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference …
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China’s slowdown and cheap oil – BBC News
China’s economic slowdown has finally left its imprint on global stock markets. But the impact has been discernible in the oil market for many months and it has gone further in the last few days. The reason: China is the world’s biggest importer of …
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Virginia shooting: station manager pays tribute to journalists – video | US news | The Guardian
The general manager of CBS Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV pays tribute to a reporter and cameraman who were gunned down during a live broadcast in Moneta, Virginia, on Wednesday morning.
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Pesticides Killing Bees: Study Shows What ‘Everybody’s Suspected’ | Rolling Stone
It’s no secret that bees are in trouble. What’s causing bee populations to plummet – neonicotinoid pesticides, mites, stress – remains hotly contested, despite a growing body of scientific evidence that neonics are part of the problem.
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Concept art reveals unaired Jurassic Park animated series · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Back when Chris Pratt was still going through puberty, Jurassic Park was quickly becoming a critically acclaimed, record-breaking film.
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Flashback: The Bee Gees Sing Medley With Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson | Rolling Stone
Flashback: The Bee Gees Sing Medley With Glen Campbell, Willie Nelson In this clip from 1979, the pop and country legends harmonize on “Bye Bye Love,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You” and more
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Russell Wilson: The Chosen One | Rolling Stone
Throned and dethroned Super Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson is working the artificial turf at the University of Southern California. Nearly 300 kids are screaming his name at a session of the Russell Wilson Passing Academy when he says something tha…
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Watch Taylor Swift Perform Explosive Live Cover With Beck, St. Vincent | Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift, Beck and St. Vincent: the ultimate one-night-only power-trio. The arena-packing pop star brought out the latter guests during her Tuesday show at L.A.’s Staple Center, performing an energetic cover of Beck’s funky single “Dreams,” Ster…
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Hubble Snaps Twin Jet Nebula’s ‘Spectacular Light Show’ | Video
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The trains rumbled overhead, the rain drove in sideways and the buses steered through the crowds. But despite the distractions, Charlotte Church carried on singing the blues song This Bitter Earth.
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50 refugees Found Dead in Boat Off Libya | Al Jazeera America
Some 50 refugees were found dead in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya on Wednesday during a rescue operation that saved 430 other people, the Italian coast guard said.
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Windows 10 installed on 75 million devices after just a month of availability | Ars Technica
The free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 is doing wonders: In just under a month of general availability, Windows 10 is now running on 75 million devices.
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Donald Trump Kicks A Univision Anchor Out of His Press Conference – The Atlantic
On Tuesday night, Jorge Ramos, an anchor for Univision, got into a heated exchange with Donald Trump in Iowa—an incident that may have broad ramifications not just for Trump, but for the Republican Party as a whole.
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Beach House and Destroyer grapple with the past on two new records | The Verge
Any band with the skill and fortune to last a decade eventually has to negotiate with their past.
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Will New Orleans Survive the Next Katrina? | Mother Jones
I’m driving down a dirt road in the vast tangle of coastal bayous that stretch south of New Orleans, so that Reggie Dupre can show me his pride and joy. In front of us, construction crews are shaping mounds of rock and dirt into a mile-long, 12-foot…
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Louisiana’s Coastal Crisis (Trailer) | VICE News
Louisiana is currently losing around a football field’s worth of land every hour to the encroaching ocean. The erosion is due to an array of factors, from an ill-conceived historic levee system, the legacy of oil and gas drilling and, of course, the…
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Actress Margaret Qualley to Star in The Leftovers, The Nice Guys | Vanity Fair
AGE: 20. PROVENANCE: Asheville, North Carolina.
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Codementor, A Learning Platform For Developers, Launches Live Group Classes | TechCrunch
Codementor, an open marketplace for code instructors, is ramping up its services with the launch of live group classes. The startup, a Y Combinator alum, also announced that it has doubled its seed funding to $1.2 million.
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China Is Knocking Out VPN Access Before Its WW2 Parade | Motherboard
Prior to a military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of World War II in Beijing, China appears to be disrupting access to virtual private network (VPN) services.
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Autoplay Is for a G-Rated World | Motherboard
Tragedy struck Bedford County, Virginia this morning when two journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, were shot to death on live TV. The people viewing the broadcast at home had no choice but to watch the horror unfold, and neither did many social…
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How to Stop People from Flying Drones into Airplanes – Scientific American
A near miss with a personal drone forced a Shuttle America flight to pull up while on final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport in New York City earlier this year. It wasn’t the first such incident. The U.S.
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NASA Science Zeros in on Ocean Rise: How Much? How Soon? | NASA
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A new study shows that a plan to decrease greenhouse gas emissions backfired after “criminal” activity in Russia and Ukraine flooded the carbon credit market, resulting in 600 million metric tons of emissions.
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Toby Dawson: the unabridged interview | The Verge
Toby Dawson, better known by his gamer handle TobiWan, is one of the most prominent names and voices in the Dota 2 scene.
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Meet TobiWan, the voice of Dota 2 | The Verge
Whether it’s Howard Cosell in boxing, Murray Walker in Formula 1, or John Motson in the sport most of us call football, our favorite sporting memories are usually tied closely to the commentators narrating those events.
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Democrat Celebration Is Premature: GOP Hardly DOA | | Observer
For the reader of liberal online discussion boards who possesses even a smidgen of objectivity, the experience can be a bit surreal.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are Making the Goofy Cool Girl Movie of Your Dreams | Vanity Fair
When promoting her very last Hunger Games film, Jennifer Lawrence gave Brooks Barnes of The New York Times some insight into what her Katniss-less future holds. Well, for one thing, it holds even more Amy Schumer. The goofy blondes are writing a scr…
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NYC Council Speaker Blasts GOP’s ‘Anchor Baby’ Remarks | Observer
Continuing her assault on national Republicans, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito declared yesterday that the use of the term “anchor baby” is nothing short of “despicable.” Ms. Mark-Viverito, a liberal Democrat and native of Puerto Rico, attack…
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The Number Of People With Dementia Is Exploding, New Report Says | ThinkProgress
Instances of dementia exploded in the last five years, bringing the current number of people affected worldwide to more than 46 million, a new report shows. The report, titled ‘World Alzheimer Report 2015,” says nearly 60 percent of those with demen…
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Austin Grossman’s CROOKED: the awful, cthulhoid truth about Richard Nixon – Boing Boing
Austin Grossman’s got a lot of arrows in his quiver.
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Vim On A Typewriter Will Endear You To Grizzled Unix Experts | TechCrunch
There have been many mechanical keyboard solutions in the past few years, most notably an IBM Selectric with serial out that let you klack away like Ada Lovelace directly into a printed email.
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Oh God Spiders Are Using Textspeak Now
Photographer Heather Ar’ite stumbled upon this web, created by a spider with more than a passing familiarity with online chatting.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Mad Max Anthology, Pulp Fiction, and More
If you enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road, but want to get caught up on the original trilogy, Amazon’s selling an anthology with all four films, plus a Madness of Max documentary. [Mad Max Anthology (4-Film Collection), $50]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XUV1B…
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By now many of us have read the New York Times’s insider account of the brutal workplace culture at Amazon’s corporate offices.
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The Happiest And Saddest Fans In Baseball | FiveThirtyEight
Baseball teams have a way of dragging their fans’ moods with their fortunes on the field. It’s no fun to root for a perpetually losing team, especially if its performance seems unlikely to improve. Conversely, an unexpected contender has a way of li…
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Is Your City Ready for the Next Katrina? | The New Republic
In the ten years since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has done more to guard itself from the ocean than any other city in the nation. Thanks to state and federal funds totaling $14.5 billion, the city now has 133 miles of levees, floodwalls, and gat…
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US reporter and cameraman shot dead during live report – Al Jazeera English
A reporter and a cameraman for a local CBS affiliate in the US state of Virginia have been shot dead during a live broadcast. Shots could be heard in footage taken on Wednesday by the WDBJ7 cameraman Adam Ward before he dropped to the ground.
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Former mayor of SLC suing NSA for warrantless Olympic surveillance – Boing Boing
Rocky Anderson is suing the agency for spying on him (and everyone else in Salt Lake City) during the 2002 Olympics — he’s added his name to a mass lawsuit against the NSA, FBI, George W. Bush, Michael Hayden, Dick Cheney and 50 “Does.”
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Robert Pattinson to play astronaut in Claire Denis’ sci-fi movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
ScreenDaily reports Robert Pattinson has been cast as the lead in Claire Denis’ upcoming sci-fi movie. He’ll play an astronaut who’s out of this world—because he’s traveled outside of our solar system.
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Realignment of Yemen’s identity politics – Al Jazeera English
As a blogger on human rights issues in Yemen for the past six years, I am stunned by the growing polarisation in the country. To take an even-handed stance for human rights is either viewed as an act of treason or as a sectarian bias.
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Female Executives Aren’t Just Paid Less, They Also Suffer More For Bad Performance | ThinkProgress
There isn’t just a gender wage gap among the highest-paid employees in the country. Pay for female executives also drops further when companies perform poorly compared to men but rises less during good times.
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Hardik Patel: Face of Gujarat caste protests – BBC News
A 22-year-old Indian has become the face of massive caste protests which have shut down Ahmedabad, the main city in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey meets Hardik Patel.
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If You’re Scared of Stock Market Dips, Try Dollar Cost Averaging
Stock market drops like the one we saw this week are natural, and most of us know you shouldn’t panic and sell. Still, it can be scary to buy $3,000 worth of a fund only to see it completely tank the next week.
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Ricardo Sánchez, known as “El Mandril” on his Spanish-language, drive-time radio show in Los Angeles, has taken to calling Donald J. Trump “El hombre del peluquín” — the man of the toupee. Some of Mr. Sánchez’s listeners are less kind, referring to …
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Two journalists were shot to death Wednesday morning while broadcasting live from a strip mall in Moneta, Va., near Roanoke, the police said. Video from the shooting appeared to show a television crew from WDBJ7 in Roanoke being hit by gunshots.
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Why can’t Curt Schilling stop upsetting people? | Sport | The Guardian
Curt Schilling is entitled to stumble through his retirement shouting like the mad neighbor with flags in yard blaming the world’s trouble on every faith that is not his own. The constitution offers him this right.
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Donald Trump attacked by ‘madman’ … aka Latino asks him a question
It’s not news that Trump thinks “asking me difficult questions” or “not hating Latino immigrants” equals “madman,” but let’s consider just who he’s aiming his abuse at this time.
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On September 2, 2005, a few days after Hurricane Katrina essentially rendered New Orleans a ghost town, 31-year-old Henry Glover was walking through the parking lot of a strip mall in a section of the city called Algiers when he was shot in the ches…
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PSA: Classic Bethesda titles available DRM-free on GOG | Ars Technica
Bethesda Softworks is mining its library of good, old games and offering many of them up without any digital protections on GOG starting today.
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Amazon will promote its free apps in new Underground section | The Verge
Amazon has quietly launched a new section within its app called Underground that collects all of the free apps offered throughout the Amazon store. Underground gathers and displays apps and games that are “actually free” as Amazon calls it — with no…
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Three pesticides banned in Europe for their potential to damage bee populations could pose an even greater threat than was thought, according to a new assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa).
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Apple Loses ‘Swipe To Unlock’ Patent In German Court | TechCrunch
Apple has lost a challenge in the German court system that sought to overturn an earlier ruling, which voided its patent for ‘swipe to unlock’ in Europe.
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Virginia’s governor, Terry McAuliffe, has announced that “there is an active pursuit” of a suspect in the fatal shooting of a reporter and cameraman near Smith Mountain Lake on Wednesday morning.
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WDBJ-TV Reporter Alison Parker was interviewing Vicki Gardner, director of the local Chamber of Commerce, when gunshots rang out at Bridgewater Plaza near Moneta, Virginia. Parker and her cameraman, Adam Ward, were killed. Gardner was seriously inju…
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Trump’s flawed policies would threaten the global economy, say analysts | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused China on Tuesday of “one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world” and said he could fix the problem by drawing on the negotiating skills laid out in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the…
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Norwegian hypermiler drives Tesla 452 miles on a single charge | Ars Technica
The fear your car will run out of battery before you get where you’re going—also known as range anxiety—is still the electric vehicle’s biggest PR problem. It’s a little odd when you think about it, since most of us travel under 30 miles a day.
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Ashley Madison’s ‘Full Delete’ Wasn’t Full at All, Lawsuit Claims | Motherboard
Notorious dating website Ashley Madison offered account holders the ability to completely delete their account from the company’s servers for the low, low price of $19. Too bad, then, that this “full delete” option was apparently anything but.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 26th – The New Yorker
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Reporter and Photographer Shot and Killed During Live TV Broadcast | Vanity Fair
A local television station in Virginia confirmed on Wednesday morning that two of its employees, reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward, were shot and killed while filming a live television report at 6:45 A.M.
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Where in the World Will Kate and William Be Heading on Their Next Tour? | Vanity Fair
It’s been about nine months since Kate and William visited New York (that they haven’t erected some sort of bronze commemorative monument in the exact location where Beyoncé and Kate greeted one another is hard to fathom), and about a year and a hal…
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Finally, Some Good News For Billionaires | Vanity Fair
Investors across the world have been biting their nails over the last week, as global markets careened off a cliff on fears of a slowdown in China. The bleeding seems to have slowed for now, and no one is happier about that than billionaires.
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Colombians leave Venezuela in droves over border crisis – BBC News
More than 1,000 Colombians who were living in Venezuela have crossed into Colombia as a border spat between the two neighbours intensifies. Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of a border post near the city of Cucuta.
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TV station boss: Journalists’ murders ‘terrible crime’ – BBC News
WDBJ-TV general manager Jeffrey Marks said the shooting of two of the station’s employees was “a terrible crime against two fine journalists”. Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were killed during an interview in a shopping cen…
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FLORENCE, KY—Feeling his eyelids grow heavier as he continued along a pitch-black stretch of I-75 South, Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham struggled to stay awake while driving his completely empty campaign bus overnight to his next e…
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Partners Who Share Parenting Duties Have Better Sex – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Researchers at Georgia State University have found that couples who evenly distribute the responsibilities of child care have more fulfilling relationships with fewer fights and higher quality sex, contrary to partnerships where one person assumes t…
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Nothing About This Star Wars Toy Event Makes Sense to Me
Can’t wait for Force Friday, the event where Hasbro has talked retailers into opening their doors at midnight so people can purchase the first action figures and merchandise of The Force Awakens? Well, good, because Maker Studios is giving people a …
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Even-longer versions of The Hobbit movies returning to theaters this fall | Ars Technica
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy ended last December with Battle of the Five Armies, closing the metaphorical book on movies that aped, but couldn’t recapture the spirit of The Lord of the Rings movies from a decade earlier.
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PayPal’s Instant Checkout Platform One Touch Goes Live In Over A Dozen More Markets | TechCrunch
PayPal today expanded its instant checkout service known as One Touch to 13 new markets worldwide, including a wide swath of European countries along with Australia.
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Embrace your inner darkness with a 3-hour intro to goth music · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It might be August, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not the perfect time to delve into the bleak, dark world of goth music.
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What Are Your Financial Milestones?
Whether you’re just trying to avoid common money mistakes or have a unique milestone, you likely have at least one big financial goal you’re focused on.
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Saudi Arabia ‘holds suspect in Khobar Towers bombing’ – BBC News
The main suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia is reported to have been captured. Ahmed al-Mughassil was apprehended in the Lebanese capital Beirut and then transferred to Riyadh, the Saudi-owned newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsa…
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In an ideal world there would be no child labour, but instead opportunities for children to play, learn, relax and otherwise enjoy life.
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Milwaukee Bucks Arena to cost taxpayers millions | Al Jazeera America
It’s being called a disastrous deal by some critics and yet another example of corporate welfare. On Aug. 12, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin approved $250 million of public funding to build a $500 million arena for …
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Patel protest leader: We will use violence ‘if need be’ – BBC News
The leader of the Patel community protests in India’s Gujarat says his group are prepared to use violence “if need be”. Hardik Patel led a huge rally in Ahmedabad, the capital of the Indian state.
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Martian’s New Smartwatch Hides The Power Inside An Unassuming Package | TechCrunch
The Martian Voice Communicator tries hard make you think it’s not a smartwatch. The model I tested, a black faux diver with a non-working bezel and quartz movement, looks more like a drugstore Timex than a piece of precision electronics.
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With the help of some folks on his writing staff, Hannibal does a dramatic reading of the text conversation between him and the person that stole his bag. Watch a new episode of Why? with Hannibal Buress every Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Cent…
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Verizon enters the connected car space with Hum | Ars Technica
Verizon has just announced that its telematics device, now called Hum, is ready for the road. Hum was originally called Verizon Vehicle and was announced back in January. It consists of two devices: an OBD2 reader and a speaker that you clip onto yo…
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Nation Needs Cheaper Way to Find Worst People – The New Yorker
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—With U.S. Presidential elections now costing more than five billion dollars, there must be a cheaper way to find the worst people in the country, experts believe.
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Wilco, The Complete Studio Albums
Here’s your workday sorted, then: every studio album Wilco has recorded, all in one go.
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Reporter And Cameraman Shot On Live Television | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday morning, two journalists were shot on camera during a morning broadcast in Moneta, Virginia. According to reports, WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27 were killed, and the woman they were interviewing, Vicki Ga…
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Despite watching their sustenance wilt in the summer sun, Navajo Nation tribe farmers near Shiprock, New Mexico, have opted not to reinstate access to river water after a spill at Gold King mine released toxins earlier this month.
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Greater support and training is needed at national level to increase the chances of prosecuting crimes of sexual violence in conflict, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
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Senior Citizens Learn to Use Snapchat | Vanity Fair
The third installment of The Skin Deep’s Senior Orientation video series is perhaps the most helpful yet. You see, it’s about Snapchat, the wildly popular social-media platform that’s confusing to plenty of people well below retirement age, let alon…
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Reporter, Cameraman Are Shot Dead During Live Broadcast in Roanoke, Virginia – The Atlantic
Updated on August 26 at 9:57 a.m. ET Two journalists who worked for a CBS affiliate in Virginia were killed by a gunman on live television.
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Hear the Oak Ridge Boys and Home Free Reimagine ‘Elvira’ | Rolling Stone
While working on their new album of classic country covers — Country Evolution, due September 18th — a cappella vocal quintet Home Free crossed paths with the Oak Ridge Boys, arguably the forebears of Home Free’s style of harmony-rich country singin…
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Watch Conan Suggest Bizarre Boy Band Replacements for One Direction | Rolling Stone
Watch Conan Suggest Bizarre Boy Band Replacements for One Direction With group planning to take “well-earned break,” comedian recommends hilarious, fake alternatives like “Heaven’s Centipede”
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This shoe salesman knows what’s up : firstworldanarchists
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Assisi (PG) Basilica San Francesco by Giuseppe Peppoloni / 500px
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Don’t blame the beer goggles—they might be a myth | Ars Technica
The existence of “beer goggles”—the tendency to find fellow drinkers growing more attractive as you drink more—is in dispute. A study conducted in a naturalistic setting (that is, a pub), found that increased alcohol consumption did not boost attrac…
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S Sudan leader signs peace deal – 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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On September 2, 2005, a few days after Hurricane Katrina essentially rendered New Orleans a ghost town, 31-year-old Henry Glover was walking through the parking lot of a strip mall in a section of the city called Algiers when he was shot in the ches…
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The First Driverless Vehicle to Hit US Highways Is a Truck | Motherboard
Driverless vehicles are coming. But the first to hit US highways this year won’t be a car, but a truck.
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Why the EU bans 700 ‘made in India’ drugs – Al Jazeera English
Could it be that Indian companies are so competitive in terms of pricing that it hurts European companies … we suspect there is more to this ban than meets the eye.
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe heckled during speech – BBC News
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been jeered by opposition MPs as he delivered his state of the nation address in parliament. Mr Mugabe carried on despite being interrupted several times during his speech.
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Mix Ikea and Warby Parker and You Get … On-Demand Furniture | WIRED
Caption: The on-demand economy has changed how we get rides, make meals, buy eyewear, and run errands. Now it’s about to change how you decorate your apartment. Campaign Brad Sewell has spent three days carrying a mysterious, unmarked cardboard box …
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The Egyptians line their beaches with fine two-metre high nets that can stretch for miles across the Nile delta and will catch any bird coming close; the Maltese will cover whole trees in nylon; the Cypriots smear branches in glue to stop birds flyi…
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Al-Qaeda denies holding UK hostage freed in Yemen – Al Jazeera English
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has told Al Jazeera that it never held a UK citizen which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it had freed from the group in Yemen on Sunday.
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Rovio announces more layoffs in effort to focus on games | The Verge
The decline of Angry Birds maker Rovio continues, as today the game developer announced another set of layoffs, with plans for up to 260 job cuts totalling more than 30 percent of the studio’s workforce.
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Why Gogo’s Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy.” It was about how we live in a time of mind-blowing technological achievement, and al…
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Chasing stardom in YouTube’s crowded universe | The Verge
Valley Village is located next to North Hollywood, which isn’t very close to Hollywood at all. The Santa Monica Mountains, plus a handful of neighborhoods and freeway exchanges, separate Hollywood from North Hollywood.
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This Week On Bullish: Radical Transparency | TechCrunch
Hello friends and welcome back to Bullish, a weekly show from TechCrunch designed to see how long I can sit under lights and not sweat through my makeup. Jokes aside, Bullish is our first talk show, and we’re glad that you are here.
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BBC Sport – Danny Cipriani left out of England World Cup squad
Sale fly-half Danny Cipriani will be left out of England’s 31-man squad for the World Cup. Owen Farrell and George Ford are set to be named as the two fly-halves, with Mike Brown and Alex Goode as the full-backs, leaving no place for Cipriani.
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Sony Crammed A Full-Size Speaker Into This Silly TV Remote | TechCrunch
Remember the coolest cooler? It was a cooler with a speaker, a blender, big wheels, USB power, lights and more. Sony is releasing its own version of the coolest cooler! Here it is, a weirdly shaped TV remote that comes with a built-in speaker, makin…
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Get Ready For Your Next DIY Project With This Discounted Cordless Dremel
In addition to the Dremel tool itself, the kit comes with 28 accessories to repurpose it for various jobs around your house, including sanding, engraving, cutting, and even polishing. The 4.
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Make Juicy Smoked Chicken Without a Smoker
A recipe for “smoked” chicken that never sees the inside of a smoker gave me pause at first, but after watching the above video from ChefSteps, I have to admit that their smokerless smoked bird really got my mouth watering.
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Anxiety over taxpayer costs helped cripple Boston’s 2024 Olympic bid, but organizers in potential stand-in Los Angeles projected that they could stage events from Santa Monica Beach to the Hollywood Hills and bank a $161m surplus.
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“Staggering” –Exploring the Limits of What Life Might Be Like in the Universe
Bizarre creatures that go years without water. Others that can survive the vacuum of open space. Some of the most unusual organisms found on Earth provide insights for Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch to predict wh…
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Gawker Gunman Murders Two Virginia Reporters in Attack Broadcast on Live TV | Jalopnik People Are Paying For Car Tech They Aren’t Even Using | Kotaku New GTA V Graphics Mod Looks Nngh | Lifehacker In Defense of the Clean Install |
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Much like Glenn Danzig, Ian MacKaye is a punk legend. And while he’s never really left the public eye, the fact that he’s not as beloved or acclaimed as he arguably should be has made the onetime Minor Threat and Fugazi member one of those guys ever…
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Portal Lets You Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Thumbdrive | TechCrunch
Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via your Wi-Fi connection, has today made its way to iOS.
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Sorry, but Heroes Reborn isn’t bringing back Primatech · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the lead up to its premiere, we’ve had a lot of our questions about Heroes Reborn answered. We know the miniseries will serve as a kind of “tenth season” for the show, though we’ve been spared a glimpse at the interregnum.
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Is “Baby Brain” a Myth? – Scientific American
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“You’re going to see it all there – gang banging, sex trafficking, gambling, drugs, all the dark stuff, they’ve ruined the place,” says the man on the front desk at the Super 8 Motel where we stop for the night en route from Fargo.
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Many bodies found on migrant ship – BBC News
Two journalists have been shot dead during a live TV report in the US state of Virginia, their employer confirms.
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Dow Jones surges over 400 points at opening bell as US markets rally | Business | The Guardian
US stock markets rallied strongly on Wednesday as global stock markets attempted to shake off days of sell-offs amid fears that China’s economic boom is stalling. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened up over 400 points (2.62%) while the S&P was u…
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Sir John Chilcot explains report delay to families – BBC News
The long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war will spread criticism of senior figures wider than previously thought, a newspaper has been told. The Guardian says blame will be apportioned beyond Tony Blair and his inner circle of advisers.
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The Number One Site for Dating You and Only You | | Observer
Alexis Rose wants to stand out from the pack of those looking for love online. Or maybe she wants to see which guys are willing to go the extra mile? The L.A.
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Why Did Rafael Nadal Play Tennis With Nearly-Naked Supermodels? | Observer
Tommy Hilfiger stopped traffic in midtown yesterday afternoon, so much so that the man himself had to jump out of his chauffeured car and walk a few blocks to Bryant Park where the designer’s powerhouse eponymous brand was busy launching their under…
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Botswana prisons: Foreign inmates win case for free HIV treatment – BBC News
Botswana’s court of appeal has upheld a ruling that foreign prisoners should receive free treatment for HIV/Aids, rights lawyers say. Foreign prisoners were previously expected to pay for their own medication, unlike local inmates.
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How Art Collected By a Long-Lost Rockefeller Changed the Met Museum | Observer
Speak with anyone who has ever visited the Michael C.
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New Free, Open Learning Platform Uses AI to Improve Over Time | Observer
A new learning platform teaches kids in grades K-12 subjects like math, English, science and history, but it does some learning of its own as well. Knewton.
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In October 2008, in the early days of the last economic collapse, Sequoia Capital invited founders of technology companies to a frank meeting outlining the new global reality. The presentation was called “R.I.P.
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Young People Should Support GMOs — They’re All We’ll Be Eating in 20 Years – Mic
Earlier this year, health-conscious fast-food chain Chipotle announced a plan to give genetically modified organisms the boot from its menu ingredients. It did so to appease its young target audience, which loves organic food — even if they might no…
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The Fresh-Water Beast Beneath New York’s Streets | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Don-re Carroll had been here before. He lived down the block. His flare for adventure was contagious. Anton and Geovanni were with him, as usual. It was the weekend and the late summer air hung with a blanket of humidity.
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Here is the badass truck replacing the US military’s aging Humvees | The Verge
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle — the HMMWV, or Humvee — is a stalwart of the battleground.
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PIFcamp: Slovenian art+technology in nature hackercamp – Boing Boing
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Alaska Experiences Dramatic Climate Change – Scientific American
President Obama’s summer climate change tour will culminate in the Alaskan Arctic next week, putting him in a setting that has experienced the country’s most dramatic climatic changes and one that Obama hopes will help him boost public support.
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong is where nostalgia meets novelty, plus cyborg elves | The Verge
Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing, lulling us into enjoying the same familiar things over and over instead of breaking new ground. And if anything in gaming could get away with that endless repetition, it might be Shadowrun Returns.
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Paris Regulators Force Airbnb to Start Collecting Hotel Taxes | Motherboard
Airbnb will be collecting tourist taxes on behalf of hosts in Paris, its most popular city, beginning on October 1st. Parisians renting out their homes to tourists through Airbnb have always been required to collect tourist taxes, but until now, the…
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The Pentagon’s inspector general is looking into allegations that military officials skewed intelligence assessments about the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq against ISIS to make them seem optimistic, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing several…
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An American Startup Is Letting Cubans Share Internet Connections for Free | Motherboard
If you try to connect to the public wifi in any of Cuba’s 35 new hotspots, you will see the standard, government-owned network, but you’ll also see a flurry of quasi-legal personal hotspots created by the tech savvy.
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Earlier this year, I learned that the founding editor of Scientific American Magazine, Rufus Porter, was an artist—an influential muralist and prolific portrait painter at that. I also learned that there’s a museum dedicated to him in Bridgton, Main…
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Seaweed Bodyguards Coral Against Bullying Sea Stars – Scientific American
Warmer, more acidic oceans are already damaging corals in the South Pacific. But the corals also have more visible foes: such as crown-of-thorns sea stars. “It’s an underwater swarm of locusts with a stomach that can be turned wrong side out and dig…
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Does Einstein’s Theory of Gravity Hold Near Black Holes? – Scientific American
Scientists have been trying unsuccessfully to poke holes in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity for a full century. So far, however, Einstein’s theory has had it easy. Every assessment to date has been conducted in rather weak gravitation…
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Jez Burrows is writing short stories composed of example sentences from the New Oxford American Dictionary. Here’s a story called Noir; the underlined words are those from which the example sentences are drawn: The midnight hours. The rain had not s…
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Let me get this straight.
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On Tuesday night, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos — one of the world’s most influential journalists — stood up at a press conference attempted to ask Trump some basic questions about his immigration policy.
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Reporter and Cameraman Killed in Virginia During Live TV Broadcast | VICE News
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates. In a statement, the broadcaster — which covers southwest and central Virginia — said that deputies from Franklin County and Bedford County are now on scene in Bridgewater Plaza is on Smith Mount…
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My parents’ pug is a smelly pug. Dad sent this photo to me today. : aww
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Cars and their faces via /r/funny http://t.co/LvGcvU07aq http://t.co/pLO826J2db
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Chris Pratt knows what his fans want : TrollXChromosomes
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FengHuang old city by Duothink / 500px
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Virginia Journalists Shot Dead During Interview | Al Jazeera America
Two local television journalists in Virginia were killed Wednesday morning after being shot during a live interview at a shopping plaza, their station, WDBJ7, said.
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Floating Points – Silhouettes (official video) on Vimeo
An oscillating stream of light attempts to intrude on an arid natural landscape, abstract light and a living environment merge, reacting to the dynamics of the music. The luminous abstract forms are produced by a light-painting machine that, frame b…
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High-carbon, whale-shaped chef’s knives and pencil-sharpening knives – Boing Boing
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GitHub attacked again as Chinese developers forced by police to pull code | Ars Technica
GitHub, the software project and collaboration site, suffered another distributed denial of service attack on Tuesday morning, making the site unavailable to many users for several hours.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Its Disastrous Effect on The Vietnam War – Boing Boing
From John Wilcock, New York Years Published 6:18 am Wed, Aug 26, 2015
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Zharnel Hughes joins Bolt and Gatlin in world championship 200m final | Sport | The Guardian
Britain’s Zharnel Hughes impressed in reaching the final of the men’s 200m at the world championships, winning his semi-final in 20.14secs at the Bird’s Nest, as Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin set up the sequel to their world championship sprint showd…
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Reporter and cameraman shot dead in Virginia during live broadcast | US news | The Guardian
Police are investigating the shooting at the Bridgewater Plaza near Smith Mountain Lake that took place at about 6.45am ET. A news crew from WDBJ7 local news was on the scene to film a segment for the morning news when several shots rang out.
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Castle Howard Turquoise Room, York, Yorkshire, England, UK [OC][5184×3456] : RoomPorn
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Marlon Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now, 1979 [3447 x 2263] : HumanPorn
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Stories from Our Advertisers WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating allegations that
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Windows 10 is now installed on 75 million PCs after just four weeks | The Verge
Microsoft released Windows 10 four weeks ago today, and now the company is providing a fresh update on its upgrade figures. 14 million machines had Windows 10 installed on them within 24 hours of the operating system release last month, and that fig…
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Cops: Helpful burglar reported lit stove in victim’s home to 911 – Boing Boing
Mary Smith was looking for prescription medicine and cigarette filters in a neighbor’s home when she noticed the stove was going, so she made the neighborly decision to report the fire hazard to 911. Debbie Downer-inspired mugshot courtesy Hopkins C…
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WATCH: Elephant seal decides this is mah boat now – Boing Boing
No longer content with hoarding human-made buckets, elephant seals are now trying to take our boats. Here’s a recently stabilized version of the classic Powerboat Training UK vid.
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WATCH: Cat don’t need no stinking cat door – Boing Boing
Philo the Cat got a new cat door, but he prefers the human way. Cats are jerks.
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WATCH: More great a capella covers of classic video game themes – Boing Boing
Smooth McGroove and his cat are back with a new set of lovely a capella versions of classic video game theme songs, including Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy X, and Kirby.
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Meet the ‘Bitcoin Family’ | Motherboard
When Jamie Redman’s six-year-old son Joshua loses a tooth, he wakes up to a paper QR code linking to a Bitcoin wallet stuffed under his pillow.
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‘Angry Birds’ Maker Rovio to Cut 37% of Its Staff | Motherboard
“Angry Birds” maker Rovio said this morning that it would lay off as many as 260 employees, or around 37 percent of its workforce, in order to cut costs and “sharpen focus” on its core businesses of games, media, and consumer products.
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How One Community Of Artists Is Fighting For Their Homes And Their Livelihoods | ThinkProgress
Maya Pawar is an acrobat who’s lived on government land in the Indian capital of Delhi all of her life. Although Kathputli Colony has become a haven for traditional art forms that range from sword swallowing to miniature painting, the land the artis…
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Studies With Shorter Titles May Be More Successful | Popular Science
If you’re looking to cure your insomnia, try reading a scientific journal. If jargon, confusing abbreviations, statistics, and rampant use of the passive tone doesn’t put you to sleep, who knows what will.
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Studies With Shorter Titles May Be More Successful | Popular Science
If you’re looking to cure your insomnia, try reading a scientific journal. If jargon, confusing abbreviations, statistics, and rampant use of the passive tone doesn’t put you to sleep, who knows what will.
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Two US TV journalists shot dead on air – 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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Those who are squeamish and don’t care about saving Earthrealm from utter annihilation probably don’t play Mortal Kombat very often. The rest of us can’t get enough of the excessive gore, never-ending violence, and remarkably horrific fatalities.
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Rentboy.com Is Shut Down By Federal Prosecutors – The Atlantic
A website on which male escorts advertise just got busted. The CEO of Rentboy.com and six of its employees have conspired to promote prostitution, according to an indictment unsealed by Kelly T. Currie, the acting U.S.
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Displaced Rohingya rocked by devastating floods – Al Jazeera English
Sittwe, Myanmar – Amid the mud and drizzle, Khin Maung Myint surveyed the scene from his single-room bamboo hut. With floodwaters reaching knee height in places, he worried about the damage inflicted on his ramshackle home by monsoonal storms.
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The Obama administration might be disappointed to find out there’s not much support for one of its key school-discipline reform initiatives—at least not from teachers or members of the general public.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 115 | 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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This Robot Tutor Will Make Personalizing Education Easy | WIRED
Personalizing education can change a kid’s life. It can keep the advanced ones from getting bored and the struggling ones from falling behind, because every kid, no matter their level of proficiency, is encouraged to move at his or her own pace.
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Morning Digest: It’s been a long time since Ohio was bluer than Pennsylvania
• OH, PA-Sen: It’s another round of topsy-turvy polling from Quinnipiac, which somehow has decided that Ohio is a bluer state than Pennsylvania. The problem with this view is that such a situation hasn’t occured since 1948 (Dewey Defeats Truman…
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Marvel May Be Planning A New Blade Movie—Starring His Daughter
Who is Kylo Ren working for in Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Seminal British historical comedy Blackadder could be making a comeback. The Flash casts yet another speedster from the comics. Plus behind the scenes on Ash vs Evil Dead and Heroes Reborn…
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The day after legs day at the gym. : funny
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By candle light. by Mostapha Merab Samii / 500px
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School of Jacks by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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Monster Musume boing boing : animegifs
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kiss me baby by lucamoriconi / 500px
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Golden Manarola by Fabrizio Lunardi / 500px
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Usain Bolt & Justin Gatlin reach 200m final
World 100m champion Usain Bolt and silver medallist Justin Gatlin will race each other again after they both qualified for Thursday’s 200m final. Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, 20, will also have the chance of winning his first major medal having w…
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Michael Vick signs one-year deal with Pittsburgh Steelers | Sport | The Guardian
Free agent Michael Vick has signed a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced on Tuesday.
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Hear Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp’s Gritty ‘My Generation’ | Rolling Stone
Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and some of their closest friends, all of whom perform here under the group name Hollywood Vampires, have unveiled the first official streaming track from their self-titled debut: an especially raw rendition of the Who’s “M…
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Is it OK to dress up as Cecil the Lion’s killer or Caitlyn Jenner? – BBC News
Halloween is weeks away but some costumes are already causing controversy online. Another costume based on Cecil the Lion has been slated by an animal welfare charity.
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Superstars Take On Risk, Reward of Stadium Show Resurgence | Rolling Stone
If the Zac Brown Band hadn’t sold out all three of its shows at Fenway Park earlier this month, selling 105,000 tickets and setting an attendance record at the hallowed Boston baseball stadium, the shows might have been a disaster.
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Let’s Talk About Uber, Congestion And Urban Air Quality | TechCrunch
The U.K. government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has released updated statistics on the number of taxis and private hire vehicles operating in England — which shows a marked increased in the latter since 2013.
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Health’s unkillable urban legend: “You must drink 8 glasses of water/day” – Boing Boing
In 1945, the Food and Nutrition board advised that most people needed 2.5l of water/day, noting that most of this would come from your prepared foods. This got garbled over the years into the theory that you needed to drink eight glasses of water ev…
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Ashley Madison: Delete tool detailed in latest analysis – BBC News
New details have emerged about the actions taken by hacked infidelity dating site Ashley Madison after users paid to delete their data. Security news site The Register has published a report in which it suggests that a variety of personal data was r…
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Google’s Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available. This means Google now considers it ready for production use …
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Storefront Launches RetailGrade, A Scoring Tool For Pop-Up Shops | TechCrunch
Despite a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar shopping still accounts for 94 percent of retail sales in the U.S.
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Deadly shooting during live TV news report in Va. – CBS News
A gunman killed a reporter and videographer for a CBS affiliate in Virginia in a shooting that was broadcast live Wednesday morning. Alison Parker and Adam Ward, a reporter and cameraman for CBS Roanoke affiliate WDBJ-TV, died in the shooting, Parke…
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In June the European Union (EU) responded to the colossal toll of people fleeing war and poverty dying on its borders by launching an 11.8 million euro ($12.8m) per year naval mission.
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MacGyvering a Female Engineer Onto Television – Voices – Scientific American Blog Network
In late July, I had the honor of being selected as one of five winners of The Next MacGyver competition, an initiative designed to encourage more women to choose a career in engineering.
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The Quest for a Female MacGyver – Voices – Scientific American Blog Network
MacGyver creator Lee Zlotoff at “The Next MacGyver” competition live pitch event on Tuesday, July 28 at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, co-presented by the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the National Academy of Engineering, and The …
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Giving Minecraft a story | The Verge
Calling Minecraft a popular video game is an understatement — it’s more like a cultural phenomenon.
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, Reviewed by His Biggest Fans | Vanity Fair
Tickets were gone within minutes, making Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet the fastest-selling play in British history. Cumberbatch has undoubtedly, and possibly unwittingly, acquired the weeping global fandom (or “Cumberbitches”) of three boy bands com…
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The Phones That Charge Their Batteries the Fastest
Fast charging is quickly becoming one of the most important features in a new phone. Quick chargers allow you to fill your phone’s battery in much less time. These are the phones that do it the fastest.
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On Tuesday morning, federal agents and New York City police officers descended upon the headquarters of the internet portal that bills itself as “the World’s Largest Gay Escort and Massage Site.
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This Warehouse Robot Has 2 Arms, Works Twice as Fast | Motherboard
In 16th century Japan, Miyamoto Musashi made his name as a famous swordsman by deftly battling his foe with swords in both hands. Now, following in his footsteps—and switching swords with automated parts—comes Hitachi’s two-armed warehouse robot.
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Two NATO Soldiers Killed by Men Wearing Afghan Military Uniforms | VICE News
Two NATO soldiers have been killed by men dressed in Afghan military outfits in an apparent insider attack.
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My kitten loves a selfie! : funny
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Abendstimmung in Holland 2….. by Dirk Wiemann / 500px
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Alex by Tanya Markova – Nya / 500px
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..stop the bully…))) by Konstantin Vodolazov / 500px
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China investigates securities brokerages amid turmoil – BBC News
Chinese police are investigating four securities brokerage firms for possible stock manipulation amid market turmoil. China’s volatile stock market dropped sharply on Monday, in its biggest single-day fall since 2007.
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Taliban capture key Helmand district of Musa Qala – BBC News
Taliban fighters have seized control of a strategically-important district headquarters in Afghanistan’s Helmand province despite American air strikes. Musa Qala, once a key Nato position, is the second town in northern Helmand to fall to the Taliba…
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Donald Trump’s New Campaign Co-Chair Makes Donald Trump Look Levelheaded | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has built his campaign on belligerent — even outright racist — rhetoric.
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German’s Angela Merkel booed at migrant centre – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been booed by far-right protesters during a visit to a shelter for asylum seekers which was the focus of clashes at the weekend.
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The heartbreaking farewell: the world’s greatest sports library checks out | Sport | The Guardian
Earlier today I spent about four hours researching my latest book project inside the Sports Illustrated library on the 32nd floor of the Time Life Building. It’s a place I consider to be my editorial home.
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Well, well. Now we know. One niggling detail about the 2009 campaign has eluded us—namely, just who the hell financed the opposition, which ran such a dirty, dishonest and divisive campaign that even the guy in charge of running the ground game ad…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Listen LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET! Or click this link to listen through your own media player.
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Dow Futures Are Sharply Higher Even Though the Chinese Economy Remains a Worry – The Atlantic
Chinese stocks continued their losing streak Wednesday, and European markets were lower amid lingering uncertainty about the health of the Chinese economy. U.S. stock futures were, meanwhile, sharply higher. The Shanghai composite index closed down …
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What it Means When People Put the Word ‘So’ at the End of a Sentence – The Atlantic
On an old episode of Saturday Night Live, LeBron James stands behind a podium. “I was the youngest player in the NBA to score 1,000 points in one season,” he says. He’s about to be upstaged. Kristin Wiig pops up in front of him, twirling her hair.
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Aurora Borealis over Beach Lake, Alaska, USA [2048 x 994] http://t.co/vdt9V6c5m9 http://t.co/b6yUDx1jv0
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Aerial view of Red & Blue Lake in Croatia caught by drone : Breathless
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Valar morghulis by B Ela / 500px
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What Would Warren Buffett Do? | Observer
In the dog days of summer, the markets are definitely barking: sell, sell, sell. Last week, almost every major stock market around the world fell, most notably China’s 11.5% nose dive. In the United States, the S&P declined yesterday for the sixth c…
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Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils rebuked by advertising watchdog – BBC News
The UK advertising watchdog has ruled against online games Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils in a crackdown on adverts pressuring children to spend money. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said both “directly pressured” young players to pay sub…
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Newspaper Death Spiral Made Plain in One Chart | | Observer
There have been so many final nails hammered into the coffin of the daily print newspaper that the industry now looks practically ironclad.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Just Offered Me $12,500 to Whitewash Cousin’s Murderous Past | | Observer
This past weekend I took my daughter back to college to start her senior year, and helped her move into her apartment with three other young women.
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Why the Rollercoaster Workout Crunches the Competition | Observer
Over the last decade, interval training has been believed to be the best workout for most people. As the go-to fitness routine, interval training improves strength and endurance over moderate-intensity steady-state cardiovascular exercise.
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What Did Our Vice Presidents Do After Leaving Office? – NationalJournal.com
While our current VP is contemplating the 2016 race, see where his predecessors ended up after leaving office.
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YouTube’s New Gaming-Centric Hub Goes Live Today
Android/iOS/Web: YouTube’s new gaming service is set to finally roll out today. In response to services like Twitch, as well as the massive amount of gameplay videos on YouTube, the company is launching YouTube Gaming to give players a space of thei…
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Principals at Poor Schools Grossly Underestimate the Demand for Computer Science | Motherboard
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that computer science related occupations will grow 18 percent by 2020, creating over 1 million job openings. It’s a field with good average pay, a healthy demand, and maybe most importantly, satisfying in…
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Global markets languish despite Chinese rate cut | Al Jazeera America
In a day of whipsaw trading, global stock markets posted mixed results Wednesday as initial euphoria over an interest rate cut by China the day before succumbed to lingering worries over longer-term problems with its economy.
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Donald Trump Is Running A Perpetual Attention Machine | FiveThirtyEight
Earlier this month, I outlined Donald Trump’s “Six Stages of Doom” — the hurdles he’ll have to clear to win the Republican nomination.
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