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London….KY cemetery : FoggyPics
London….KY cemetery via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/MIwvuF8uBi http://t.co/YLwp0XdLfz
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Beyond the dream, by Ahmet Utgan / 500px
Beyond the dream, by AhmetUtgan http://t.co/ZMihTf1luK http://t.co/tkmwVYYyZP
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Khajiit does not play these games – Imgur
Khajiit does not play these games http://t.co/WV8boEybwu http://t.co/Mlef9Y2AKz
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Clashes force 5,000 to flee after beheading in CAR – Al Jazeera English
Around 5,000 people have fled from their homes in Bambari following clashes between rival militias over the past few days, demonstrating how fragile the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) remains ahead of next month’s presidential elect…
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Though “The Daily Show” is generally consumed as a once-a-day experience, the political offenses and media misdeeds it chronicles are a 24-hour phenomenon, as any glance at your Facebook or Twitter feed will tell you.
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With only a few days left in the current session of the California legislature, an aggressive political and public relations fight between the oil industry and top lawmakers over climate change legislation is moving into a final no-holds-barred roun…
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See a Delightful Vintage Menu for “Cocktails and Breakfast” with Frank Sinatra | Vanity Fair
Cocktails and breakfast with Frankie! Sure, now we call it “brunch,” a word that seems as if it were invented only to make a stiff 11 A.M. cocktail socially acceptable.
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What Koko the Sign-Language-Speaking Gorilla Can Teach Us About Being Human – The Atlantic
One of the first words that Koko used to describe herself was Queen. The gorilla was only a few years old when she first made the gesture—sweeping a paw diagonally across her chest as if tracing a royal sash. The cause of the primate’s celebrity is …
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See Keith Urban’s Vibrant ‘John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16’ Video | Rolling Stone
Keith Urban barely appeared in last year’s video for “Somewhere in My Car,” a steamy clip that focused less on the singer and more on a pair of window-fogging, hot-and-heavy actors. “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” is a different story.
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‘Flash crash’ trader fails to postpone extradition hearing | Business | The Guardian
Navinder Singh Sarao, the British trader accused of contributing to a so-called flash crash in US financial markets, has failed in an attempt to postpone his extradition hearing.
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Vive VR Headset Full Consumer Launch Slips To Q1 2016 | TechCrunch
You wait years and years for virtual reality to become a thing, and then suddenly a truck load of VR headsets pile into the tech hype cycle almost at once (thanks Oculus).
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‘The Walking Dead’ Spinoff You Asked For Is Wildly Popular but Also Boring | Motherboard
About halfway through the series premiere of Fear the Walking Dead, Travis, played by Cliff Curtis, leads a high-school class in a discussion of Jack London’s classic short story “To Build a Fire.
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Why We Need Black Breastfeeding Week | ThinkProgress
This week, a coalition of parents, pediatricians, and advocates converged on social media and in hospitals and community centers across the United States as part of what’s known as Black Breastfeeding Week.
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Japan slashes 2020 Olympic stadium’s cost by 38% – Al Jazeera English
Japan’s government has approved a plan to reduce the seating and slash the construction cost of the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after public opposition to the initial design. The cabinet approved the revised plan which would cap the pri…
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Hawaii’s Governor Is Officially Against Using Natural Gas For Electricity | ThinkProgress
Hawaiian Gov. David Ige said this week he opposes plans to use natural gas as a “transitional fuel” for the island state as it moves to 100 percent renewable electricity.
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Michael D. Brown sounded incredulous. I had just asked him about how his life was going now, and he said it was going well. I said I was glad. “No you’re not. You think I’m an idiot,” he countered. “That I was the total screw-up.”
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Return to the Old West by Delores Poll / 500px
Return to the Old West by delorespoll http://t.co/QVFG4R5FkT http://t.co/5uVur1tAb8
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Brazil’s economy enters recession – BBC News
Brazil has entered recession after official figures showed the country’s economy contracted by 1.9% between April and June, compared with the previous three months. Compared with a year earlier, the economy shrank by 2.6%, the government’s statistic…
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Tropical storm Erika hits eastern Caribbean island of Dominica – BBC News
Rescuers are searching for missing people and survivors after tropical storm Erika hit the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. Four people were reported to have died as mudslides and floodwaters hit communities.
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In Praise of Beach House – The New Yorker
In Praise of Beach House http://t.co/3efPSVoMdu
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Microsoft Wants to Turn Your Phone Into a 3-D Scanner | WIRED
Imagine taking a photo of the Eiffel Tower while on a vacation to Paris. But that’s not all.
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Who Got the Biggest Google Bump From Straight Outta Compton? | WIRED
Garnering $60 million in its opening weekend and nearly $120 million to date, Straight Outta Compton clearly resonated with people curious about N.W.A: the week after its release, there were 24 times as many Google searches for N.W.A as a month prio…
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BBC Sport – Europa League draw: Liverpool face Rubin Kazan
Liverpool will visit Russia after being drawn in the same group as Rubin Kazan in the Europa League. Brendan Rodgers’s side will also face Bordeaux from France and FC Sion of Switzerland.
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Fluorescent green pike caught in the Great Slave Lake, Canada : woahdude
Fluorescent green pike caught in the Great Slave Lake, Canada via /r/woahdude http://t.co/2fPHpmELwJ http://t.co/KUBqsQlP23
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Resist Nostalgia to Improve Your Outlook For the Future
Nostalgia is a tricky feeling. Sometimes, it brings us exciting new Star Wars movies. Other times it brings us yet another damn Transformers film. For your own life, nostalgia for the old days can feel nice, but it can also hold you back from improv…
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, beautiful skys over Arizona js…
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Top Gear: BBC Two boss ‘excited and terrified’ about future – BBC News
BBC Two controller Kim Shillinglaw has said she is “really excited” but also “terrified” about Top Gear’s future with Chris Evans as presenter. Speaking at Edinburgh TV Festival she revealed the hit car show’s next series would be “really different”…
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Japan porn star Yui Hatano to appear on Taiwan metro cards – BBC News
Taiwan’s capital is to introduce a pre-paid public transport card featuring the Japanese porn actress Yui Hatano, despite an outcry over using her image.
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Take a 360° Virtual Tour of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Personal Home & Studio | Open Culture
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U.S. Housing: An Economic Bright Spot After a Wobbly Week – The Atlantic
This past week, financial news has seen a variety of panicked headlines and wire photos of sad men as a volatile global market has put investors on edge. Previously optimistic analysts have decidedly changed their tune on whether the U.S.
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Stretch by Marco De Waal / 500px
Stretch by MarcoDeWaal http://t.co/5ksUXooVu1 http://t.co/REoqw1as4a
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And so it goes; another week of bloody headlines about American gun shootings. It’s something we have long come to expect. According to FBI data , in 2013 8,454 people were shot and murdered in the United States – just under 70% of all homicides.
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Solve Jimi Hendrix’s murder in a game where everyone is Jimi Hendrix – Offworld
You are Jimi Hendrix, a detective. Officer Jimi Hendrix has called you to the scene of the crime. The victim? Jimi Hendrix.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Trump continues to dominate the GOP primary
When it became clear that Trump could not be ignored, party leaders and conservative columnists looked hard for evidence that the combed-over mogul’s political ascendancy was bound to fizzle.
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Watson races to joint-top at The Barclays – Al Jazeera English
Bubba Watson charged into a tie for the first-round lead at The Barclays while newly crowned world number one Jordan Spieth struggled to his worst score of the year in relation to par.
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Reflections of a former white supremacist – Al Jazeera English
The experiences that contributed to the exhaustion that ultimately had me looking for an excuse to leave “the movement”, as we called our loose coalition of hate groups, can be distilled into a series of moments.
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Jewel anemones in sea waters at Plymouth revealed during an exploratory scientific survey of the region’s marine environment Photograph: Matt Doggett/The Wildlife Trusts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest clo…
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[Art] A fellow brother is euphoric about his wine : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] A fellow brother is euphoric about his wine via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/EFf0z93T9R http://t.co/GiMUOUfPNW
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Stop Chasing Inbox Zero, Practice Attention Management Instead
Clearing out everything in your inbox feels great. You get a sense of accomplishment and your to-do list feels a little less burdensome. Except, productivity isn’t measured by how many emails you answer. Instead, learn to manage how you spend your a…
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Ibarguen: That dominant athlete you haven’t heard of – Al Jazeera English
Caterine Ibarguen bagged a second world title in Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest stadium on Monday. With the triumph, she has been unbeaten in 29 competitions since winning silver at the London Olympics three years ago.
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Now, religions unite to save the world from climate change : environment
Now, religions unite to save the world from climate change via /r/environment http://t.co/gHRWcKq88X http://t.co/VWYzel3fbA
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Genius Beta Used to Egg on Europe in Antitrust Fight with Google | | Observer
Companies who object to how Google displays local search results are expressing their distaste right on the Google Europe Blog, on a post about the European Commissions antitrust concerns about how product comparison searches work on the dominant se…
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Guinea ‘blocking ex-junta leader Dadis Camara’s return’ – BBC News
Guinea’s exiled former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara has told the BBC that the Guinean authorities are blocking his return home. His attempt to return via Ivory Coast this week failed when his flight was refused permission to land in Abidjan.
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Shortage of Doctors to Help Transgender People? | Al Jazeera America
From the age of 7, Jayden Thai knew he was different. But his differences didn’t make him stand out academically or athletically. He added: “The world saw me as a girl. What I saw was … I didn’t know what I saw. I just know that it was not that.”
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Rocket launch sends Inmarsat satellite to space – BBC News
VIDEO: Rocket launch sends satellite to space http://t.co/hCbP5KbOUb
Inmarsat, which provides mobile telecommunications, is attempting to put up the third spacecraft in its next-generation global network. The new network, known as Global Xpress, will enable Inmarsat to offer its customers substantially faster connect… -
Key Progressive Victories in States and Localities
Key Progressive Victories in States and Localities http://t.co/rjpzSN0oXy
With the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives controlled by the right wing, it’s no wonder that this Congress has been among the least productive in our nation’s history. But while Congress treads water, some real progress has been made in state… -
Roanoke and the Value of Guns – The New Yorker
Away from the world for August, in a house without Internet or television and only spotty, the-satellite-must-be-passing-over phone reception, I was, until yesterday, thinking more or less benign thoughts about gun owners, if not guns.
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Buzz Aldrin Is Dead Set on Colonizing Mars | Motherboard
For legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, walking the moon in 1969 just wasn’t enough. He’s inaugurated his very own Buzz Aldrin Space Institute at Florida Tech University (FIT), as he now wants to take on Mars.
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A New Program Might Make it Easier for Low-Income Families to Get a Mortgage – The Atlantic
In the years since the recession, the dream of a steady paycheck and a home in a nice neighborhood have become more elusive for many working-class Americans.
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Subsidized housing will assist more of the poorest households in New Orleans than before the disaster, and a far greater number of low- and moderate-income households with incomes between 40 percent and 80 percent of median. This was actually a warn…
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Helping out his buddy via /r/gifs http://t.co/NTeW8WJPP9 http://t.co/UP2ocufmYR
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NASA Tech Aims for Precise Landings on Mars (Video)
Getting a robotic spacecraft to nail a pinpoint landing is still just a dream for engineers, but a new technology could make it easier to reach distant destinations with better precision.
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How to Find ‘Strange Life’ on Alien Planets
This artist’s rendition of the super-Earth GJ 1214b shows it in orbit around a dim red dwarf star. If the atmosphere is thick in hydrogen, scientists may be able to spot signs of alien life.
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Engineer Syllogism http://t.co/MIMClUia1T http://t.co/lnhTsAj3B6 http://t.co/FhI1Af2W68
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Kinney Lake Reflection – British Columbia by Ryan Kole / 500px
Kinney Lake Reflection – British Columbia by ryan_kole http://t.co/yDKDLF4C48 http://t.co/o1Y1Rc4QPl
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Engineer Syllogism http://t.co/MIMClUia1T http://t.co/lnhTsAj3B6 http://t.co/FhI1Af2W68
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Syfy Channel’s ‘Dark Matter’ Finale Tonight Brings Shocking Revelation
In the Syfy original series “Dark Matter,” six people wake up on a spaceship with no memory of who they are. Jodelle Ferland plays “Five.”Credit: Syfy View full size image Syfy’s space-based TV series “Dark Matter” wraps up its first season tonight …
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The unique complications of playing VR games as a trans person – Offworld
Over at Kotaku, my colleague Laura Kate Dale has a heartfelt and interesting piece on various experiences she’s had with VR games, and how being trans has added a unique layer to how she interacts with these games.
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Amazon’s Hardware Isn’t About You, and That’s the Problem | WIRED
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon has laid off “dozens” of engineers in Lab126, home to its hardware division, scaling back current offerings and abandoning some future projects. It’s understandable, because many of Amazon’s hardware produ…
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How New Orleans Built a Bustling Tech Hub in Katrina’s Wake | WIRED
Brent McCrossen left New Orleans for Seattle in September of 1998, part of enormous “brain drain” that hit the city even before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. But four years ago, he returned to the city, as part of a thriving startup scene that a…
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Do Mobile News Alerts Annoy You? | WIRED
Mobile news alerts are becoming an increasingly important way for news organizations to reach you. I don’t mind them, but, hey, I work in news. We want to hear from you, WIRED reader, so tell us how those pesky alerts make you want to scream, or hel…
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Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA | WIRED
Saturday will mark 1,500 days since the Space Shuttle touched down for the final time. Grounding human spaceflights was always supposed to be temporary as we made the necessary transition to a new generation of spacecraft, operated by American comme…
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Telemedicine Can’t Help the People Who Need It the Most | WIRED
For people living in Wyoming or South Dakota or rural Virginia, a trip to the cardiologist isn’t a simple undertaking. “They’re taking a whole day off work to drive 150 miles, go the appointment, and drive 150 miles home,” says Deanna Larson, senior…
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News Push Alerts Are Becoming the Norm, But Do We Want Them? | WIRED
News alerts have taken over my phone. I work in news—and I cover the way technology affects the media industry. So, yeah, I’ve signed up for, and do get, a lot of mobile news alerts.
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Photography Just Can’t Make Up Its Mind About the Square | WIRED
Instagram’s ditching the square, and everyone is freaking out. But the social network isn’t the first to champion the shape only to dump it later. Photography’s had an on-again, off-again relationship with the shape almost from the start. Of course,…
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Upside down blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/lnwTKsERkR http://t.co/wFTuReOlMa
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How to Stop Over-Planning (Even If You’re a Perfectionist)
When done well, daily and weekly planning rituals can help you travel gracefully through life in a peaceful, intentional manner.
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Film Review: Steve Jobs, Man in the Machine | Mother Jones
At an April showing of his Steve Jobs takedown, which already has generated plenty of heat in tech circles, director Alex Gibney admitted he’s basically wed to his iPhone. But boy, does his film avoid the worshipful tones of previous takes.
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Roanoke and the Value of Guns – The New Yorker
Roanoke and the Value of Guns http://t.co/rsnhalAZ58
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Ex-Vatican ambassador dies before his child abuse trial – Al Jazeera English
The Vatican has said that its disgraced former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, has died of apparent natural causes. A statement from the Vatican said Jozef Wesolowski was found dead in his Vatican room early on Friday, where …
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Switzerland: Special trains for Chinese tourists – BBC News
A mountain resort in Switzerland is launching special train services for Chinese tourists to defuse tensions with other visitors, it is reported.Noisy throngs of Chinese tourists disturb those who visit Mount Rigi in the Alps in search of peace and …
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Portrait of NGC 281. js http://t.co/rZ4wfEI6Dx http://t.co/ev8gOXEk2A http://t.co/hmnJAqDRTH
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Millennial Sex Games – Offworld
Condescension drips off the opening screen of Millennial Swipe Sim 2015, a game that purports to simulate the “thrilling world of app-based dating.
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Why Hollywood isn’t panicking about China’s economic crisis | Film | The Guardian
Hollywood seldom misses an opportunity to panic, but China’s financial turmoil has left it serene, even smug, while the world economy trembles.
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George Monbiot skins and eats roadkill squirrel on Newsnight – video | Environment | The Guardian
Environmentalist and Guardian writer George Monbiot butchers and cooks a squirrel on the BBC’s Newsnight on Thursday.
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Liberals Are Wrong to Separate Race from Class | The New Republic
After shutting down a Bernie Sanders speech at a Seattle rally for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, Black Lives Matter activist Marissa Johnson declared to MSNBC’s Tamron Hall that she was motivated by a desire to hold liberal candidates acc…
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Lap blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/NvSEMVh7tb http://t.co/6YyBcRCGKx
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For Autumn Steps by Lafugue Logos / 500px
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Boeing shows off its portable drone-killing laser | The Verge
Boeing has been researching ways to disable drones with lasers for a while now, and this week, the defense contractor released new footage (below) of its Compact Laser Weapons System: a portable, tripod-mounted device that can burn a hole in a UAV o…
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BBC2 gets White House access for Barack Obama documentary | Media | The Guardian
BBC2 has secured unprecedented access to Barack Obama’s White House for a new four-part series from acclaimed documentary maker, Norma Percy. The documentary, Obama, will tell the inside story of the US president’s greatest successes and failures.
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I feel like there is a heavy weight on my chest – it’s as if I’m breathing through a needle hole. And then I ask myself, “If I write or say something, is anybody going to listen to me? Is it really going to make any difference?”
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Baby falcon landed right outside my window today (34 floors above the Chicago River) – Imgur
Baby falcon landed right outside my window today (34 floors above the Chicago River) http://t.co/y4HVNvp6bB http://t.co/fqZ7blNxFb
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India celebrates ‘victory’ in 1965 war with Pakistan – BBC News
India has begun more than three weeks of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of what it claims was victory in the 1965 war with Pakistan. President Pranab Mukherjee kicked off the events by laying a wreath at the martyr’s memorial at Delhi’s I…
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Lara Croft Go Is So Good, But So Short | WIRED
Lara Croft Go may be the unlikeliest name for a game whose measure you take in thousands of discrete steps.
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ReBoard Is An iOS Keyboard With Third Party App Shortcuts | TechCrunch
Since Apple finally opened up the system wide keyboard to third party developers, back in iOS 8, there has been a flood of alternative keyboard apps — from established Android keyboard brands like Swype and SwiftKey, to newcomers hoping their glitzy…
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Cow gets head stuck in chair in Northamptonshire – BBC News
Firefighters were called out to assist a cow after its head became stuck in a plastic chair. The curious cow became wedged in the garden furniture at about 07:50 BST near Boughton, Northamptonshire.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Station street view
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Are we facing a ‘world without wild bees’? : environment
Are we facing a ‘world without wild bees’? via /r/environment http://t.co/osSTuwmeNB http://t.co/1BDbAqS0ws
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Public Transit Should Be Uber’s New Best Friend | FiveThirtyEight
If Uber is worth its $50 billion valuation, it will have to do more than win over the market historically occupied by the taxi and limo industry — it will have to identify new types of customers.
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On Monday, the LAPD Will Start Wearing Body Cameras | VICE | United Kingdom
The Los Angeles Times reports that on Monday, Los Angeles Police Department officers stationed in areas of the San Fernando Valley will be equipped with body cameras.
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The Lower Ninth Ward, Ten Years After Katrina | VICE | United Kingdom
As the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, news outlets from around the country are descending upon New Orleans to find out how it is faring.
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Retracted Scientific Studies: A Growing List http://t.co/e0CayydCkX
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Google Tips Off Developers On Apple Security Workaround, Ad Selling | Re/code
Apple says it cares a lot about privacy. Just ask Tim Cook. Hence, its new iOS 9 operating system will boast a new feature, called App Transport Security, or ATS, which is supposed to require iPhone app developers to use an advanced security protoco…
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Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, and the Return of the ‘Wimp Factor’ – The Atlantic
Donald Trump has gotten a boost in his efforts to maul Jeb Bush in recent days from an unexpected source: Jeb Bush himself. Trump’s attack on Jeb isn’t mostly about issues. As with most things Trump, it’s mostly about persona. The Donald thinks Jeb …
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Poll: Americans Feel Better About Themselves Than About the Country – The Atlantic
Presidential elections turn first and foremost on candidates, but they also hinge on the mood of the electorate. Are voters happy when they head to the polls? Angry? Scared? Are they satisfied with the economy and with the direction of the country?
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Media Coverage in the 2016 Election – The Atlantic
The election season has begun, and with it come regular mentions of presidential candidates on the television networks.
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Wasserman Schultz, Democratic Party Chief, Is Undecided on Iran Deal – The Atlantic
Will the Chair of the Democratic Party Desert Obama on Iran? http://t.co/Zud4vhxHsk
With each passing day, the drama is seeping out of the looming vote in Congress on the Iran nuclear deal. -
BBC Sport – Justin Wilson: Late driver’s car to contest IndyCar season finale
The late Justin Wilson’s number 25 Honda car will be driven by Oriol Servia in this weekend’s IndyCar season finale at Sonoma Raceway. Servia said: “I have known and raced Justin for more than 10 years.
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Civilians killed as India and Pakistan exchange fire – Al Jazeera English
At least 10 civilians have been killed and more than 50 others wounded, as India and Pakistan traded fire across their disputed border, officials have said. Six died near the city of Sialkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province and at least four villagers …
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The Pacific Coast Farm Worker Rebellion | The Nation
A burned-out concrete blockhouse—the former police station—squats on one side of the only divided street in Vicente Guerrero, half a mile from Baja California’s transpeninsular highway.
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August 28, 1963: The March on Washington | The Nation
Conservatives love to invoke a single line from Martin Luther King Jr.
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The UN Is Using Virtual Reality to Make the Rich and Powerful Feel Empathy | Motherboard
I’m standing on the rooftop of an abandoned building in Monrovia, Liberia. My gaze drifts from the setting sun to the man next to me strumming a homemade guitar. Singing along is a young woman named Decontee Davis, a survivor of the Ebola pandemic t…
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Can a thousand tiny swarming robots outsmart nature? – Aeon Video
Can a thousand tiny swarming robots outsmart nature? http://t.co/NCJsNt46hs
Scientists still have much to learn about how life materialised on earth, but the concept of emergence – complex systems developing from smaller, simpler parts – goes a long way towards demystifying it. -
Pirate Bay Founder Released From Jail But Immediately Re-Arrested : technology
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Trailing Donald Trump in the polls by a widening margin, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is trying to use the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday to highlight his successes in crisis response.
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The Anti-Birthright Citizenship Brigade | Mother Jones
For the past several years, the issue of birthright citizenship has slowly worked its way into the Republican agenda. Bills to end birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants have routinely cropped up in Congress. So-called “anchor babies” ha…
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Black Lives Matter Began When New Orleans’ Levees Failed | Mother Jones
This story was first published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu preached unity.
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Capturing the Gulf Coast’s Culture as It Slips Into the Sea | WIRED
Caption: Shell Beach, LA. A cross standing next to pier pilings in Shell Beach, a tiny fishing village in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans. Will Widmer
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Hurricane Katrina scenes overlaid – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Photographer Carlos Barria holds a print of a photograph he took in 2005, as he matches it up at the same location 10 years on. The print shows Michael Rehage squatting on the roof of his car Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook…
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Sign, seal, and deliver mind-numbing form letters in this fun game – Offworld
When Lucas Pope made Papers, Please, which I think is one of the best games of my lifetime, he showed that bureaucracy can be darkly funny, even as it inexorably squeezes the life out of a person, a system.
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10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter District Has Proven a Failure – In These Times
Ninth grade was nothing like what Darrius Jones expected. Jones imagined that with high school would come more independence. Instead, he felt like he was being treated like a kid. “You had to sit a certain way,” he recalls. “You couldn’t lean, or ha…
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Starbuck didn’t want me going to work this morning : cats
Starbuck didn’t want me going to work this morning via /r/cats http://t.co/M5b5E990sZ http://t.co/O9kfOxzfNZ
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Can’t even browse Reddit in peace. : cats
Can’t even browse Reddit in peace. via /r/cats http://t.co/EeaxNyYh8j http://t.co/I8KujcUvhw
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MRW the plot is good [Shimoneta] : animegifs
MRW the plot is good [Shimoneta] via /r/animegifs http://t.co/Mi9vjKqiB7 http://t.co/YRGhvbpBjq
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Badger cull to be extended into Dorset, government announces – BBC News
The badger cull is to be extended into Dorset following pilots in Gloucestershire and Somerset last year, the government has announced. Ministers and the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) say culling badgers will curb tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, but pr…
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Ghana investigates Islamic State recruitment in universities – BBC News
Ghana’s authorities are investigating several universities over links to suspected recruitment for the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials say. IS agents recruited students after urging them to join radical online forums, National Security Coord…
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Why Utah is giving homes to the homeless – Susie Cagle – Aeon
David Hogue isn’t sure that he should tell me his name. He sits in a back office in the shelter where he has lived for the past 18 months, hands folded neatly in his lap. It isn’t that he doesn’t want to talk. He tells me about how he’s had trouble …
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Crater Lake, OR, USA [OC] [6499×1299] : EarthPorn
Crater Lake, OR, USA [OC] [6499×1299] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/sk7EUPrQ9E http://t.co/lRpSuBe3mA
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La Plagne, France via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/wHfGCj6GbP http://t.co/7xMzbe23fb
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Aging2.0 #30in30in30 World Tour Wants To Find The Best Startups For Seniors | TechCrunch
Consumers in their twenties to early fifties are usually considered the most attractive age demographic because of their spending power. Unfortunately, this means that older people are often underserved by companies even though they make up more tha…
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That 15-foot-long tiger shark need wrestling? Leave it to the pros | Grist
For generations raised on Jaws and Sharknado, putting your hands within snapping distance of the ocean’s most awesome apex predator might seem like a very scary prospect — and does the boilerplate “we’re-more-dangerous-to-them-than-they-are-to-us” d…
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Who’s the Bad Guy? The View on Foreign Policy From Tehran | VICE News
The motorcycle chained to the tree in front of Mansoureh Karami’s house looked like a typical fast food delivery bike. Her husband, nuclear scientist Masoud Alimohammadi, started his car, preparing for his usual drive to the University of Tehran.
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IndyCar stars in Golden Gate Bridge tribute to Justin Wilson – BBC News
IndyCar stars have paid tribute to the UK’s Justin Wilson, who died in a crash at the weekend, by driving over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Marco Andretti led the motorcade in teammate Wilson’s No 25 Andretti Autosport car.
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BBC Sport – Lazar Markovic: Liverpool winger set for Fenerbahce loan move
Liverpool winger Lazar Markovic is set to join Turkish side Fenerbahce on a season-long loan deal. Talks are ongoing but a deal is close, with the Reds receiving a loan fee.
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Abandoned Industrial Building in Yorkshire, England [OC] [2764×2073] : AbandonedPorn
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Station street view http://t.co/MdgQUoyfPL http://t.co/As9sCCO23F http://t.co/6BHV0KrkiW
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Me irl [Barakamon] : animegifs
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Fergus looking majestic : cats
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Jellyfish by Ryan Millier / 500px
Jellyfish by ryanmillier http://t.co/nfWU1t6iOx http://t.co/xmfCMC9dQ7
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So I met a guy… http://t.co/89DTHvjGQa http://t.co/wNxJlrLT1c
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House of Lords ‘should be smaller than Commons’ – BBC News
Two members of the House of Lords have joined calls for the upper house to be made smaller and more efficient. Conservative peer Lord Norton and Crossbench peer Baroness Deech said it should be reduced to about 500 members, smaller than the House of…
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The new Justin Bieber song has been leaked online a few hours ahead of its official release. The video for What Do You Mean has been posted on a number of sites, but keeps being taken down.
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Chvrches singer condemns sexist abuse from online trolls – BBC News
Chvurches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry has hit back at misogynistic abuse online, after being widely targeted by internet trolls for wearing a short dress in the band’s recent video. The singer called the response to the Leave a Trace video “ludicrous…
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Lily by PEC GG Photography / 500px
Lily by photoevecolon http://t.co/rvKOzq08m3 http://t.co/40HGmpI18o
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Amused Fox by Julian Rad / 500px
Amused Fox by Julian_Rad http://t.co/tqFVbDr0lI http://t.co/1lG1XuVq9w
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Beauty by Khoi Tran Duc / 500px
Beauty by khoitran http://t.co/9T01com4jt http://t.co/5FbTVZsBoW
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Justin Wilson’s car to be driven by team-mate at IndyCar season finale | Sport | The Guardian
Justin Wilson’s race car will be back on track for the IndyCar season finale. Andretti Autosport have announced that the series veteran Oriol Servia will drive Wilson’s No25 Honda at Sonoma Raceway this weekend.
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Coca-Cola Owns All 61 URLs From Ahh.com to Ahh-With-60-More-‘H’s.com | Motherboard
In April 2013, famous beverage company Coca-Cola tried its hand at a quirky digital marketing campaign. It launched 61 URLs commencing with “ahh.com” and culminating with an epic “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.com.
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The New York Red Bulls saw their six-game undefeated streak end this past midweek against – of course! – the last-placed Chicago Fire in a 3-2 loss.
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Northern Trade Routes by Siim Rimm : ImaginaryLandscapes
Northern Trade Routes by Siim Rimm via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes http://t.co/eDvcf1fgxw http://t.co/dGrzKEduo7
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/93QDJfbxr2 http://t.co/MmwzI3Zkkh
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Footage of the devastation in the Caribbean island of Dominica shows buildings collapsing and roads turning into raging rivers, as tropical storm Erika continues. Nine inches of rain fell late on Wednesday, and six more early on Thursday, causing fl…
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BBC One wins channel of the year at Edinburgh TV awards – BBC News
BBC One has been named channel of the year at the Edinburgh Television Festival’s annual awards. BBC One’s Happy Valley picked up the prize for best new programme, following its Bafta Award victory for best drama series earlier this year.
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VICE News Capsule – Friday, August 28 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: French authorities clear out a Roma camp, Nigerians remember their missing schoolgirls, Pakistani women increasingly join the military, and Thailand will send Indonesian…
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Is the Sports Road to a Scholarship Unattainable? | Al Jazeera America
More than 7 million high school seniors are investing their time and energy in sports programs — many with the goal of earning themselves a rare college scholarship.
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Wingate baronets – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wingate Baronetcy, of Dunbar in the County of Haddington and of Port Sudan, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 July 1920 for General Sir Reginald Wingate. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He …
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Austrian police update on bodies found in lorry – BBC News
Austrian police are holding a news conference after 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway. Police discovered the decomposing bodies on Thursday morning after being sent to investigate the dumped lorry on t…
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stripe by Mark Bridger / 500px
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‘Narcos’ is Now on Netflix! : television
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Finally got my cat to look directly at the camera. : cats
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Fickle fortunes in Los Angeles as Dodgers and Angels fight twin slumps | Sport | The Guardian
The Dodgers and Angels weren’t supposed to be fielding questions over potential of missing the playoffs at this point in the season, but late-summer swoons have intensified a crisis in confidence for Los Angeles’s major-league clubs, setting up a ro…
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~Backlight~ by Christian Schlamann / 500px
~Backlight~ by blickfein http://t.co/DN3pKNDbYQ http://t.co/AMA8S08uPg
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Momo Chewin’ on a flower : sloths
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I’m more than impressed : firstworldanarchists
I’m more than impressed via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/Zh0pxNZHP7 http://t.co/9s0zKtfULQ
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You have to get all the quality kitty time you can while you are unemployed : cats
You have to get all the quality kitty time you can while you are unemployed via /r/cats http://t.co/gFwENrRWdl http://t.co/DetCmO7F30
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Love story by Andre Villeneuve / 500px
Love story by Andre_Villeneuve http://t.co/H2gDyrLIIc http://t.co/7jrzXL80tW
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/kLPxK83pjh http://t.co/aYnN4RFaNl
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Second-quarter UK growth steady at 0.7% – BBC News
UK economic growth for the second quarter of the year was unrevised at 0.7%, official figures have shown. The initial figure released in July was boosted by a sharp rise in oil and gas production.
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Why American Pharoah’s victory lap is setting a worrying precedent | Sport | The Guardian
The last time a horse won the Triple Crown, cable television didn’t exist, much less social media like Twitter and Facebook. When Affirmed won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in 1978, he was the third horse to do so in six …
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Google adds hurricane tips to personalized search results | The Verge
Google this week introduced a new set of features to better alert and inform users about major storms. The company announced the changes in a blog post published yesterday, as the US enters hurricane season and marks ten years since Hurricane Katrin…
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Vatican ex-envoy dies ahead of trial – 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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Apple loses Ian Rogers, the executive responsible for crafting Beats 1 radio | The Verge
One of the key executives behind Apple’s Beats 1 radio has resigned just two months after the “worldwide, always on” service launched, reports The Financial Times. Ian Rogers was formerly the CEO of Beats Music and joined Apple along with fellow Bea…
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Refugees hosted all over the world : InternetIsBeautiful
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A nearly dried up river in California, USA [OC][4160×3120] : EarthPorn
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Rolling up this strap : oddlysatisfying
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Afghan ‘struggling’ to deal with Taliban attacks – BBC News
The acting Afghan defence minister Masoom Stanekzai, told the BBC that the country’s security forces now face challenges after the withdrawal of Nato last December. This is the first fighting season for the Afghan National forces without the help of…
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For Benghazi’s displaced, no help and no dignity – Al Jazeera English
Benghazi, Libya – Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city, was the stronghold of the popular insurrection against Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and a symbol of resistance against his rule.
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Desert & Sunrise by Isam Telhami / 500px
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India: rich world responsibile to curb climate change : environment
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Cheetah Mobile Will Launch Its Online Advertising Platform In India | TechCrunch
Best known as an Android utility app maker, Cheetah Mobile is now focused on global growth for its mobile advertising business. The Beijing-based company announced today that it will launch its advertising platform in India next month.
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LOS ANGELES — This weekend, Miley Cyrus is throwing a rager. Everyone’s invited, and MTV is footing the bill. “They said, ‘This is your party,’ ” Ms.
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Wondermark » Archive » #1153; In which a Lesson is imparted
Very brief note just to say: I’m at the World Science Fiction Convention, Sasquan, in Spokane this weekend! I’m not on any panels this year, but I’ll be hanging out with fellow cartoonist pal Dave Kellett (of “Drive”) in the dealer room. Stop by and…
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Wondermark » Archive » Download funny ebooks (including mine) in the StoryBundle!
The folks at the comedy magazine The Devastator have compiled a collection of ebooks! You can pay what you want (and support charities if you choose), and download the entire bundle: My book Horrid Little Stories is making its ebook premiere in this…
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Vine seems to have Shazam in its targets by focusing more on music. It’s launched two upgrades to its service – one which allows users to work out what tracks are being played in a vine and another to make loops.
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This camel got a nice trim. : interestingasfuck
This camel got a nice trim. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/8DGTDD9LqI http://t.co/ekTiaXOh2g
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Climbing to the Top !!!!!!!! by Judylynn Malloch / 500px
Climbing to the Top !!!!!!!! by judylynn http://t.co/Y0MCkEtc1U http://t.co/v3q5Qsf7Sw
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Shane Mosley v Ricardo Mayorga II: boxing at its tragicomic best – or worst | Sport | The Guardian
Forty-three–year-old ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley, a former three-division world champion, and 41-year-old Ricardo Mayorga will be fighting on Saturday at the Forum.
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DeNA’s Mirrativ App Livestreams Any Game Or App On Your Android Device | TechCrunch
YouTube isn’t the only one to introduce a live-streaming app this week. Just days after YouTube Gaming was outed, Japan’s DeNA — a prolific producer of games itself — has entered the scene with its own take, called Mirrativ.
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How to Age Gracefully: No Matter What Your Age, You Can Get Life Advice from Your Elders http://t.co/M417hzDlNW
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Rebel man strikes again : firstworldanarchists
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Bloodthirsty rabbit brutally devours innocent berry : gifs
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HARBOR WORK by Sabine Wagner / 500px
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mr skeltal wants u 2 help fite the fuckbois! : ledootgeneration
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Ocean Beach Pier, San Diego, CA February 2015 : FoggyPics
Ocean Beach Pier, San Diego, CA February 2015 via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/578OBOWBx1 http://t.co/QHvjFsseCX
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Breaking all the rules one at a time : firstworldanarchists
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Looking up a Paris street corner [OC] [4912×3264] : ArchitecturePorn
Looking up a Paris street corner [OC] [4912×3264] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/20ZXHc48YZ http://t.co/vRTrQnCntY
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Teddy Bear via /r/funny http://t.co/hx3VH0mXTh http://t.co/aT94DyfJQl
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Large Cloud of Magellan
The Large Cloud of Magellan http://t.co/oV9Zo0l3cF http://t.co/rVJO1iMKRa
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/GpwpG2B75Q http://t.co/smXHChAyMx
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Crab Spider and Honeybee [5472×3648] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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Nintendo gives Shovel Knight the first indie Amiibo | The Verge
Shovel Knight is one of the best indie games available for Nintendo systems, with beautifully observed reverence for NES-era design. And it looks like Nintendo has noticed, because Yacht Club Games is now the first indie developer to have been besto…
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EU immigration rules – in 90 seconds – BBC News
Thousands of migrants are trying to reach Europe to escape war zones in the Middle East and poverty and turmoil in Africa. But what are the rules governing immigration to the EU and should the system be restructured to make it fairer to all of the m…
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Creative Therapy for Ebola Workers In Sierra Leone | Al Jazeera America
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Austria raises refugee truck death toll to more than 70 – Al Jazeera English
Austrian investigators say more than 70 bodies have been found in a truck full of refugees abandoned on a motorway.
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Nighttime worship in Varanasi, India [1500×1000][OC] : HumanPorn
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German Capital Sees Uptick in Refugees | Al Jazeera America
BERLIN — Throughout their journey from Syria to Europe, Ahmed Khuzami and his little brother Abdul-Rahman viewed Germany’s capital as the shining light at the end of the tunnel.
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Hawaii Beach Fouled by Partially Treated Sewage | Al Jazeera America
Hawaii health authorities have posted warnings of a sewage spill at a popular beach, the second time this week that a well-known stretch of Oahu’s shoreline has been hit by a sewage spill.
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Billionaire Donors Prove Indispensable for 2016 | Al Jazeera America
Over the first weekend in August, the four top-funded GOP presidential candidates arrived at the St. Regis resort in Southern California to make the case for their White House bids.
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/73d0BHKUJo http://t.co/ZOAKyBBQQO
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“One must be something in order to do something.
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Digging into big coal’s climate connections | Science | The Guardian
Have you heard about the group that has abused open records laws to harass climate scientists across the United States? The organization behind North Carolina’s ban on using sea level science to inform coastal planning? The institution attacking ren…
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Guatemala protests urge President Perez Molina to quit – BBC News
Thousands of protesters have marched in the Guatemalan capital, demanding the resignation of President Otto Perez Molina over a corruption scandal. Businesses, including fast-food chains, were shut in support of the protest.
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Irish Whiskey: New rules protect authenticity – BBC News
Exports of Irish Whiskey have rocketed in recent years. Sales have gone up by around 200% in the last decade.
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‘I was abused by nuns in a Dublin Catholic-run orphanage’ – BBC News
A woman who was physically and sexually abused by nuns throughout her childhood in a Catholic-run orphanage has described the experience as “cruelty beyond belief”.
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My Grandad, born 100 years ago today, looking particularly suave [1937] : OldSchoolCool
Um, is he single? No if I get there first!
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Yvonne De Carlo aka “Lily Munster” 1960’s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/fnMJCK4ZGp http://t.co/GxGfnLIJVG
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iZettle Gets $67M To Expand From Mobile Payments To Small Business Financing | TechCrunch
European mobile payments player, iZettle, which offers smaller merchants the ability to process card payments via its mobile card readers, is expanding into what amounts to small business loans — announcing a capital advance product, called iZettle …
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B&W Milky Way in Korcula, Croatia [OC] [5243×2949] : ExposurePorn
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Oh grandpa-san via /r/funny http://t.co/XQMWlCM9Zn http://t.co/4DCz01jcr2
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BBC Sport – Ian Bell: England batsman ‘not ready’ to quit international cricket
England batsman Ian Bell says he still has the “hunger and desire” to play international cricket. He has since had “a really good talk” with coach Trevor Bayliss and captain Alastair Cook.
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Apple Is About To Lay Down Its TV Cards | TechCrunch
Some of us have been waiting for Apple to drop its proverbial hammer on television for what seems like forever.
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Migrant crisis: More than 70 bodies found in Austria lorry – 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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“One must be something in order to do something.
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Xbox boss dismisses rumors of an Xbox One Mini | The Verge
Earlier this month, it was rumored that in addition to revealing new tablets, fitness bands, and smartphones, Microsoft would use its upcoming October launch event to show off a slimmer Xbox One.
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Aurora over Iceland by Joe Capra js – Just Space
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Brugge by Sara Delgado / 500px
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Aspiring by Alexander Yakovlev / 500px
Aspiring by AlexanderYakovlev http://t.co/qBYKuZu7oV http://t.co/MtWbeZWChj
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MFW, as an Aeronautical Engineer, I explain to people how planes work – GIF on Imgur
MFW, as an Aeronautical Engineer, I explain to people how planes work http://t.co/B9cshnmaj3 http://t.co/LI2fYd7Nzs
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Such a majestic canine via /r/gifs http://t.co/zzhdqQut6f http://t.co/jEhMQDlZO9
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Australian visa crackdown plan cancelled after outrage – BBC News
Australia’s border protection agency has sparked outrage with a snap announcement it would carry out visa checks on the streets of Melbourne. Australian Border Force (ABF) said its officers would be checking for visa fraud as part of a general crime…
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Testing times for Brazil’s economy – BBC News
Brazil is Latin America’s biggest economy but the country faces a troubling slump, with inflation close to 10% and unemployment rising steadily. Official figures suggest the economy is slipping into recession, and set to contract 2% this year, as Ju…
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The sulphurous springs of Yellowstone national park are scalding, tainted with heavy metals and acidic enough to eat through clothing. But their murky depths are also home to an algae that scientists claim could one day help provide cleaner, healthi…
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Venezuela and Colombia recall envoys over border spat – Al Jazeera English
Colombia and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors for consultations amid an increasingly bitter border dispute.
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Refugee crisis exposes massive flaws in EU governance – Al Jazeera English
One doesn’t have to be an opponent of the European project to agree with eurosceptics that today’s EU has evolved into something that is in dire need of fundamental reform or dissolution.
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Beyblade cat via /r/cats http://t.co/FHsU7AxVSn http://t.co/DHlqtcl9il
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Poland: A Warning for Treasure Hunters http://t.co/D89EbLssxJ
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Lawyer Who Represented Churches in China Is Missing http://t.co/61P0IWRBc3
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Josh Duggar Enters Rehab Following Scandal – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
American Voices: Josh Duggar Enters Rehab Following Scandal http://t.co/p3UYIeyD6P
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Khajiit does not play these games : funny
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WASHINGTON—Noting that the level of mental strain associated with the profession was far and away the highest recorded, a federal study on workplace conditions and occupational stress released Thursday has confirmed that your job is the most demandi…
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CHICAGO—Explaining that the sense of unease she felt walking to and from her home had declined markedly over the years, Humboldt Park resident Kirsten Healy expressed her disappointment to reporters Thursday that her neighborhood was becoming too sa…
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Josh Duggar Enters Rehab Following Scandal – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
After it was revealed that Josh Duggar, oldest son on TLC’s now-canceled reality show 19 Kids And Counting, possessed an Ashley Madison account and allegedly had extramarital affairs, Duggar has reportedly entered rehab, though what he’ll be treated…
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Conan O’Brien Reads His Late Night Texts From Adam Sandler : television
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“Come on Jerry, stop screwing around and let’s go!” : funny
“Come on Jerry, stop screwing around and let’s go!” via /r/funny http://t.co/ny1JPpK8Cy http://t.co/P7fCRtDydc
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Man with a cinereous vulture, 1970 : OldSchoolCool
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abandoned house Belgium [9731×5798] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Officer Skeltal is arresting some fuccboys! 1 thank = 1 arrest! : ledootgeneration
Officer Skeltal is arresting some fuccboys! 1 thank = 1 arrest! via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/HAN64qqOMl http://t.co/rXYsvnS1lB
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Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star [1988] : OldSchoolCool
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Colombia and Venezuela recall ambassadors over tensions – BBC News
Colombia and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors following days of growing tension between the neighbouring nations. More than 1,000 Colombians have been deported and about 6,000 have left in fear since Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro close…
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Hannibal would like to have you for one, final dinner · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Hannibal (NBC, 10 p.m., Saturday): On the eve of Hannibal’s final episode, a playlet. Hannibal Lecter [in the NBC boardroom, wheeling in a cart with several covered dishes]: Gentlemen. It is my understanding that you are displeased with our professi…
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Cranekiss · Tamaryn · Music Review · The A.V. Club
From the opening moments of Cranekiss, you realize that Tamaryn’s latest album is new in more ways than one. Gone are the swirling guitars and shoegaze-style rhythms—the defining qualities of her last outing, 2012’s Tender New Signs.
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Depression Cherry · Beach House · Music Review · The A.V. Club
It can be difficult to focus on the subtleties within a Beach House album—and that’s not really a dig.
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Narcos · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Netflix wants the whole world in its hands. Stateside, the Netflix brand has become synonymous with slothful, horizontal weekends, and the streaming behemoth wants to achieve the same level of market dominance worldwide.
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Beauty Behind The Madness · The Weeknd · Music Review · The A.V. Club
It seems fitting that The Weeknd, who built his early catalog on mystique and myth-making, opens his sophomore album, Beauty Behind The Madness, with a song called “Real Life.
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Norwegian countryside by Europe Trotter / 500px
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A Homemade Gauntlet : interestingasfuck
A Homemade Gauntlet via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/JP5DdcpZK0 http://t.co/gykHBTXTzY
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Elisabeth Moss and Alex Ross Perry on admiring Roman Polanski’s films · Fan Up · The A.V. Club
The Internet features more than its share of negativity and snark—sometimes you’ve just gotta vent. But there’s plenty of room for love, too. With Fan Up, we ask pop-culture people we admire to tell us about something they really, really like.
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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What fictional boss would you want to work for? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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APOD: 2015 August 27 – The Large Cloud of Magellan
Explanation: The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth.
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Apollo 15 commander David Scott comparing a hammer and feather on the moon. : space
Apollo 15 commander David Scott comparing a hammer and feather on the moon. (i.imgur.com)
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60 days and 60 nights … in bed / Bedrest studies / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA
On 9 September, the first of 12 men will go to bed for 60 days as part of important research into stopping the wasting effects that spaceflight has on the human body. Although they may be putting their feet up, it is set to be a far from relaxing ex…
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Golden Retriever puppy wants his Mom to play! : aww
Golden Retriever puppy wants his Mom to play! (i.imgur.com) This post will (most likely) make it to the frontpage.
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Us Asks Uzbekistan to Join Anti-isil Coalition | Al Jazeera America
The United States on Thursday asked Uzbekistan to join the multinational coalition it leads against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), saying Central Asia’s most populous state was free to choose how to the fight against the armed grou…
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Bar Tab: Sisters – The New Yorker
Sisters http://t.co/Ps8WTiZv3T
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It’s my cake day and I’ve ran out of fucks to give. : firstworldanarchists
It’s my cake day and I’ve ran out of fucks to give. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/hdea4w4Zus http://t.co/HF6X5ZfkoI
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An evening on the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky [960×960][OC] : waterporn
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Life is languid in the drowsy wood | Environment | The Guardian
The moniker Fermyn Woods applies to a scatter of woods. I am in the biggest chunk, covering three square kilometres of land, but a clear kilometre away from the renowned Fermyn Wood, the bit that draws crowds to its playground and purple emperor but…
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Rowlf the dog gives a dramatic reading of “Grim Grinning Ghosts.” – Boing Boing
Part of the ongoing Disneyland/Muppet crossover video series: I’m away from home and blogging this so that my daughter sees it!
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Well, once again, you guys have blown me away with your staggering amount of responses to my stories! There’s no way I can respond to each of you individually, so I’m just going to address some common things again, and then move on to the stories.
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Cattoo: The Rise of the Cat Tattoo : cats
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Lego Water via /r/woahdude http://t.co/WjiYZZ22jk http://t.co/MJGo0Wg1hv
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Tonight my cat decided he wanted to do pilates with me… : cats
Tonight my cat decided he wanted to do pilates with me… via /r/cats http://t.co/tVPuDKWn0v http://t.co/ffUKZQqqJK
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seascape! by Patrice Thomas / 500px
seascape! by patthom974 http://t.co/BgQVX0FWun http://t.co/wsvOYWuvro
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My kind of school fundraiser : funny
My kind of school fundraiser via /r/funny http://t.co/hdFtbYDxqK http://t.co/k6iVreXYSp
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Arabian Oryx Skull Image, Abu Dhabi – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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“Spring Awakening” in Sign Language – The New Yorker
Nine years before “Hamilton,” the 2006 musical “Spring Awakening” gave the American stage a fresh sound.
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Bar Tab: Sisters – The New Yorker
For a decade, Atchudta Barkr and her son, Ali, ran a cavernous hardware store in Clinton Hill. Photographs of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and the astronaut Mae Jemison hung on the walls. Soul tunes played while local tinkerers wandered the humid ai…
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The Trump Doctrine: “We Want Deal” – The New Yorker
On Tuesday, in Dubuque, Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican Presidential nomination, took a break from his frequent warnings about the threat posed by criminals from Mexico to reflect on his experience with another part of the world.
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Space above the Ocean js – Just Space
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Space above the Ocean js http://t.co/2kN7G9N48d http://t.co/fzlzTxJHut http://t.co/gPQ6m7oNVs
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Tormenta. by jose orozco / 500px
Tormenta. by jose_orozco http://t.co/YsFOEoZhy8 http://t.co/0IQX7yxaYu
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I like this photo. Look artistic. How about you? : StartledCats
I like this photo. Look artistic. How about you? via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/06uQEfRsnL http://t.co/vARv4iLgiy
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Tables for Two: Faro – The New Yorker
Milling one’s own grain: even if these words evoke nothing but a tableau from a dimly remembered Thomas Hardy novel, they at least seem to promise plenty of carbs.
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Avant Garde at the Stone – The New Yorker
If there’s one instrument that sums up the spectrum of possibilities at the Stone, the snuffbox-size room for avant-garde performance that John Zorn established on Avenue C in 2005, it would be the guitar, which has inspired expert practitioners acr…
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Lucas Hnath’s “The Christians” – The New Yorker
A walk through the new Whitney Museum reminds us of what is glorious, heart-wrenching, and unique about American art—and what makes it weird, too.
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Refugees Feared Dead as Boat Sinks Off Libya | Al Jazeera America
Hundreds were feared dead after a boat packed with refugees sank off the Libyan coastal city of Zuwarah on Thursday.
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Love Is A Battlefield · Under The Dome · TV Review · The A.V. Club
This may not have been the worst Under The Dome episode of the season but it was undoubtedly the dullest, with “twists” so repetitive even the writers must have been falling asleep by the time they got to the end.
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I’m drunk I don’t give a fuck : firstworldanarchists
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Feeding the Tigers. via /r/gifs http://t.co/JfKGK41tOv http://t.co/PkCkvcMl8U
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Ring the Bell’s-Aspen,Colorado [OC][1650X1650] : EarthPorn
Ring the Bell’s-Aspen,Colorado [OC][1650X1650] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/mf6FQfrZmZ http://t.co/GTOhFZYrWC
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/UKJoClkU5D http://t.co/VFfPJBcjBT
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/PzgIpGVcd3 http://t.co/eh5SxL0MBU
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Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis recommended for parole | US news | The Guardian
After 43 years in prison and 30 parole hearings, parole officials have again decided it is safe to free Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis – but this is the fourth time, and he remains between bars.
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Usain Bolt knocked down in Beijing – in pictures – BBC News
Usain Bolt was knocked down by a cameraman in Beijing on Thursday night, shortly after winning a race.
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Orange sky earlier this year : Breathless
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thank sweet baby skeltal : ledootgeneration
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The Slow Process of Countering the Emerald Ash Borer http://t.co/REOc2HTdOn
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Akasaka district, Tokyo [2048×863] : CityPorn
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/k0Xy8xf7fY http://t.co/5G6tHPNjHU
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This bus stop ad : mildlyinteresting
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Early morning in Rheden, Netherlands [2048×1155] by Dave Zuuring : EarthPorn
Early morning in Rheden, Netherlands [2048×1155] by Dave Zuuring via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/HAx7brWRzo http://t.co/AfrEIYuXWI
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Dustin is looking for the mouse : cats
Dustin is looking for the mouse via /r/cats http://t.co/JfdUkckhvi http://t.co/Hv7cmqX2vZ
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The fact that a 4 years old kid can use an smart phone does not mean the kid is a genius, it means engineers are. (self.Showerthoughts) It can also mean the parent is stupid.
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Utoeya massacre : Survivor faces deportation – BBC News
There have been protests in Norway, against a decision to deport a survivor of the 2011 terror attack on the small island of Utoeya. Mubarak Haji Ahmed still suffers mental health issues after narrowly surviving the shootings at the summer camp. His…
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Everyone’s confused on “Randall Park Wears Brown Dress Shoes With Blue Socks.” Scott meant to pick out a new hat at Dinah’s Hatties, but without his glasses, he wandered into the identical nearby Hattie’s Diner and walked out with a pancake firmly p…
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“The Cruise” · Married · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Married successfully resists giving audiences what they want. That’s a simplification—by “audiences,” I mean “lucrative, complacent masses of viewers”—but the whole formula of this series is a the weekly impersonation of a sitcom.
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Before I reveal some chilling truths about environmental campaigners, you’d best grab your nearest cuddly toy and take refuge behind the sofa. As government ministers, conservative commentators and coal lobbyists have warned us in recent days, the g…
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Cat spandex that stares into your soul : pics
You tried your best, and that’s all we can ask. Dear God, it’s beautiful.
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Lyveden New Bield summer house, England [3675×2420] by Baz Richardson : AbandonedPorn
Lyveden New Bield summer house, England [3675×2420] by Baz Richardson via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/eQp0j1m3Hs http://t.co/wQxGBrooo9
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Simple symmetry [OC] [9584 x 3072] : RoomPorn
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This carpenters company’s slogan is surprisingly honest : pics
This carpenters company’s slogan is surprisingly honest via /r/pics http://t.co/QStwBXQWy9 http://t.co/MHOpcWvjcE
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[Photograph] Brother Wolfgang Keeps His Eye On The Next Cask : monkslookingatbeer
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How the few actual women on Ashley Madison must have felt : funny
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The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study supporting the existence of …
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Open thread for night owls: The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, 10 years years after Katrina
Before Katrina, the Lower Ninth Ward was a neighborhood of predominantly African-American families.
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Obama praises New Orleans’ post-Katrina recovery – Al Jazeera English
President Barack Obama has held out the people of New Orleans as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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Guatemala Prosecutors Urge President to Resign | Al Jazeera America
Guatemala’s congress also named a commission of five legislators to consider whether to remove the president’s immunity from prosecution, a process somewhat like impeachment. But only one member of the commission was from the opposition, and a previ…
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Statements
Secretary-General’s Remarks to Security Countil on Regional Organizations and Contemporary Global Security Challenges http://t.co/74wvAqBZHY
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Daimler-City, Berlin, Germany [2048×1864] : CityPorn
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Guy squats 315 lbs on a spaceboard : woahdude
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Buzz Aldrin Teams Up With Florida Tech to Push Human Settlement of Mars : space
Buzz Aldrin Teams Up With Florida Tech to Push Human Settlement of Mars via /r/space http://t.co/z8YrfIv1gO http://t.co/7UMmisIqVm
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It’s simple. We kill the Fatman. : funny
It’s simple. We kill the Fatman. via /r/funny http://t.co/OwlQIU0bWs http://t.co/MEfFigQko1
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“Kunuk Uncovered” · Documentary Now! · TV Review · The A.V. Club
In a panel discussion hosted by The Atlantic, co-creator Fred Armisen said the Documentary Now! team doesn’t really think of their episodes as mockumentaries. “We just wanted this framework to tell these stories,” he said. “It’s more like a celebrat…
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“Catfish, Haunted House” · Review · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Forrest’s father, Mr. MacNeil, was in danger from the moment he appeared, and as his houses burned down and he took a gunshot, my anxiety for him only increased. Every episode, I brace to witness his horrible, needless death.
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Supercalifragilisticjuliefriggingandrews · Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Suffice to say, we know what Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll will never be. It’s never going to get too complicated, the drama will always remain minimal, and any conflict will likely be resolved before the credits roll at the 30-minute mark.
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Chinese shares continue their recovery – BBC News
Chinese shares extended their recovery on the last day of a volatile week which started with shock losses that spread fear to global markets. The mainland’s benchmark Shanghai Composite was up by 1.1% at 3,123.04 points in early trade.
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And now ABC has ordered a modern-day Julius Caesar show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In an apparent bid to take all of the week’s entertainment news stories and jam them into a single project, ABC has announced that it’s ordering a pilot for a modern-day political drama based on William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica : Have you ever… – Just Space
A Blue Moon Halo over Antarctica : Have you ever seen a halo… http://t.co/vXscBtpcOO http://t.co/VCLCeZDO91
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Big Lynx [2048×1365] : AnimalPorn
Big Lynx [2048×1365] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/Pfw302hD7x http://t.co/Y4VO2aapm7
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“But they’re family” is no reason to be miserable : AdviceAnimals
“But they’re family” is no reason to be miserable via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/Ko7y6N66tD http://t.co/QrGQCEsaS6
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This is an awesome ceiling fan idea : woahdude
This is an awesome ceiling fan idea via /r/woahdude http://t.co/GpgYrReZEO http://t.co/vnIdlbllj3
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Overprotective Raccoon ‘Rescues’ Brother from Swimming Pool : AnimalsBeingBros
Overprotective Raccoon ‘Rescues’ Brother from Swimming Pool via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/m9Iv1yiN7j http://t.co/mjphcIze3d
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Australian ‘Great Escape’ survivor dies, aged 101 – BBC News
One of the last survivors of World War Two’s most famous prison break, known as the Great Escape, has died, aged 101. Australian Paul Royle was one of 76 airmen who broke out of the notorious German Stalag Luft III camp in 1944.
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Watch Usain Bolt get run over by a photographer on a Segway (everyone’s fine) – Boing Boing
If they can keep up with Usain Bolt, I guess Segways can go kind of fast after all. Bolt, taken by surprise, fell backward, landing on the cameraman’s legs. He ended up flat on his back before doing a cautious back somersault to return to his bare f…
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Statements
Statement Secretary-General’s Remarks to Security Countil on Regional Organizations and Contemporary Global Security Challenges [as delivered] I welcome this opportunity to discuss regional organizations and contemporary global security challenges.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Scientific American Fan – Scientific American
When the famed astrophysicist needed to select a college, he turned to the pages of Scientific American for help. Years later, our profile about him turned out to be his favorite.
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Briton Scott Stammers pleads guilty to North Korean drug smuggling plot | World news | The Guardian
A British man pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to conspiring to import 100 kilos of dangerously pure North Korean methamphetamines into the United States, American prosecutors said.
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Apple Takes Washington – Tony Romm – POLITICO Magazine
As Apple chief Tim Cook quietly slipped out of a public meeting at the White House for a private lunch with Eric Holder in December 2013, the attorney general braced himself for a rough encounter.
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Giant panda Mei Xiang shows proper maternal care to her surviving cub a day after the smaller twin died. It is common for a mother to favour the stronger cub, decreasing the other’s chance of survival.
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WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the Supreme Court bench since 2006. His majority opinions tend to be brisk, efficient and dutiful.
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theyoungkimosabe: IG: @theyoungkimosabe http://t.co/cTbNk5uARX http://t.co/d2HuKCQBHR
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Like bowling a strike. Wish I could have seen their faces. : AdviceAnimals
Like bowling a strike. Wish I could have seen their faces. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/n4azl9aZYI http://t.co/pK8PoVnu9A
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Chevy Chase looking cooler than a polar bear’s toes, 1979 : OldSchoolCool
Chevy Chase looking cooler than a polar bear’s toes, 1979 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/yOSiHQYlyy http://t.co/DeUFzLtcPr
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Today marks the beginning of our commitment to strengthening the connection between music and Vine. Music has been part of Vine’s culture since the beginning.
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Chewing spaghetti : perfectloops
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Last Week Tonight and John Oliver Cited in Circuit Court Ruling : television
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/TpexPBRUNn http://t.co/cmosRmY60H
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Politely show the world you have no time for anyone’s bullshit with one weird sticker – Boing Boing
“Curation is the key to happiness,” says the creator of these nifty stickers, Elizabeth Simins. And man, these stickers really do celebrate the one thing that makes Twitter and Facebook still usable for me.
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Knut died of illness never previously seen in animals – BBC News
The mystery surrounding the death of the famous polar bear Knut, who died at Berlin Zoo in 2011, has finally been solved. Millions of people were shocked when the four-year-old bear was found dead in the moat of his enclosure after suffering a seizu…
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Utah man dies of plague in fourth US death this year | Science | The Guardian
Related: California child diagnosed with plague after camping at Yosemite A man in his 70s in Utah has died after contracting the plague, bringing to four the number of deaths from the disease reported in the United States this year, health official…
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Baratunde joins The Daily Show – Boing Boing
It’s so exciting to see our community finally be represented in the television business by one of our own. And by that, I mean a true nerd. Baratunde Thurston is joining Comedy Central’s The Daily Show as their “supervising producer for digital expa…
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Vine can now put perfectly looping music over your videos | The Verge
Vine is getting into music. With an update rolling out Friday, Vine will begin letting its users add music to their videos. The music will be selected and licensed by Vine — it’s not yet clear whether you’ll be able to dig into your private library …
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ama 8pmHello there, my name is R.A. Salvatore and I’m the author of many fantasy novels, including nearly three dozen set in the Forgotten Realms. (self.books)
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Fox’s Frankenstein Code gets a new, non-Frankenstein name · Newswire · The A.V. Club
From the beginning, Fox’s Frankenstein Code has had issues with its name.
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Boat filled with refugees sinks off Libyan coast – Al Jazeera English
A boat reportedly packed with people from Africa and South Asia bound for Italy has sunk off the Libyan coast, raising fears that dozens have died.
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Real Time Video of Extreme Aurora Borealis tonight : auroraporn
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I’ll put my dishes wherever I like, Applebees. : firstworldanarchists
I’ll put my dishes wherever I like, Applebees. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/QffFqZIkhd http://t.co/vecXblKo7P
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My Week Inside the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, America’s Most Famous Brothel | Broadly
On my flight to Reno, everyone smells like a casino or bubblegum. I’m traveling with photographer Amy Lombard to live in World Famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch for a week. I’m gay (I only fucked a girl once, and I lost my boner after 30 seconds), but I h…
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Aurora Borealis [450×650] : SkyPorn
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My Grandpa (right) modeling bathing suits in Daytona Beach – July 1953 : OldSchoolCool
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Cleaning out my PC like… : funny
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Vine Courts Music With Discovery And Creation Tools | TechCrunch
Vine, the six-second looping video app from Twitter, has today announced a significant feature update that brings more attention to the audio in users’ videos. Starting tomorrow (Friday), Vine users will have more control over their vines with the a…
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Nasa: sea levels rising as a result of human-caused climate change – video | Science | The Guardian
Josh Willis of Nasa explains the space agency’s announcement that a long-term satellite imaging study has shown a dramatic rise in sea levels due to climate change.
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Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, whose real name is Saul Slashington, is no stranger to the film industry.
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America Has Lost The War Against Guns
Yesterday morning in Roanoke, Va., a man named Vester Lee Flanagan walked up to newscaster Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward as they were filming a segment for local TV station WDBJ, and, using a handgun, shot them to death.
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Sick Ants Seek Out Medicinal Food – Scientific American
We humans take medicine when we’re sick. As do our primate cousins. Chimps, for example, snack on a bitter African shrub to combat intestinal worms. But the habit extends even to invertebrates. Take fruit flies—which sip alcohol to ward off parasiti…
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How to Build a Globe From Scratch
Time, patience, time, dedication, and time are just a few of the things Peter Bellerby needed to found and subsequently operate Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, one of the only companies on Earth that still makes globes by hand.
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Hollywood still working on this “Sam Worthington” thing with The Titan · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Unwilling to accept that their years-long attempt to synthesize a movie star out of nothing but water vapor and scowling action sequences had probably run its course, Hollywood producers announced today that Sam Worthington has been cast to star in …
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India’s Haryana sets up all-women police stations – BBC News
On Friday, the northern state of Haryana will become the first Indian state to have all-women police stations to deal with crimes against women in all its districts. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey reports from Gurgaon.
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My blinds made an American flag on the ceiling out of sunlight : mildlyinteresting
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Not his most flattering angle (xpost /r/DelightfullyChubby) : Catloaf
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Trolling the adults via /r/funny http://t.co/M2M8qyovGw http://t.co/S0iHHraHOm
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A monk teaches an old friend how to properly look at beer : monkslookingatbeer
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Hubble View of M 106 js – Just Space
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BEIJING — American sprinters like Justin Gatlin? Usain Bolt keeps beating them and then beating his chest, as he did in winning his latest gold medal, in the 200 meters at the world track and field championships. But Bolt did eventually get taken do…
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Darryl Dawkins, who arrived in professional basketball as a gigantic teenager and became one of the game’s fiercest dunkers and most notoriously
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Auspicious by Ufuk NAYMAN : ImaginaryMindscapes
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South Sudan businesses struggle in a ‘war economy’ – BBC News
South Sudan has what many business people describe as a “war economy”, as they battle to keep their companies afloat as a result of the brutal conflict which broke out between government and rebel forces in December 2013.
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You probably can’t get Valve and HTC’s VR headset before next year | The Verge
The HTC Vive, a headset developed in conjunction with Steam giant Valve, is one of the most promising VR solutions yet, and we were expecting it to come out sometime this year.
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Bow Down to the Beauty of These New Godzilla Posters, Out Friday
Who wouldn’t want to see the King of the Monsters, bursting out of the water and screeching on their wall, every single day? We all would, and that’s what these brand new Godzilla posters by artist Laurent Durieux will do, if you can snag one.
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Rhiana by Peter Coulson / 500px
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I keep one or two saved just in case : AdviceAnimals
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A Battle Royale Of Digital Assistants: The Big 5 | TechCrunch
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Did French media put lives at risk? – BBC News
How far can broadcast journalists go in live coverage of terrorist incidents when their reports might influence the course of events or even endanger lives?
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Europe’s life-jacket capital – BBC News
The city of Izmir on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast has long been known as a tourist destination. But now people fleeing Syria’s civil war are using it as a staging post on their journey to Europe and providing shopkeepers with an unmissable business …
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Will a Turkish border deal block IS recruits? – BBC News
Fifteen months after the jihadists of so-called “Islamic State” overran Mosul and announced their controversial “caliphate”, measures are in train that could seriously disrupt their supply of recruits.
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CBS’s Supergirl to star in cancer romance with the guy from Outlander · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Melissa Benoist, the former Glee star who’s currently suiting up to play Supergirl for CBS, has landed a lead role in the new movie Oxford, where she’ll explore the romantic side of terminal disease with Outlander’s Sam Heughan.
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Dungeness: The corner of England ‘like the end of the Earth’ – BBC News
What amount of land can you buy for £1.5 million ($2.4 million)? In some areas of London that might buy you a two-bedroom flat.
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What Color Were Dinosaur Feathers? We May Soon Know – NBC News
The news that many dinosaurs were likely covered in a thick layer of feathers may make them seem a little less imposing — but it also means they may have been intensely colorful.
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Have you tried Newsbeat’s emoji quiz? Try it here.
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How ‘Netflix and chill’ became teen slang for having sex | Fusion
Recently, in teenage internet circles, the phrase “Netflix and chill” has been inescapable. It’s a phrase that means, roughly, “hooking up.” But it’s a lot more complicated than that. “Netflix and chill” is a classic case of social media-fueled sema…
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Milky Way through a Double Window Sea Cave -… – Just Space
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Season 1 of Fargo now streaming on Hulu : television
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Hallstatt ran by a slight fog. : FoggyPics
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Are Pakistan’s female medical students to be doctors or wives? – BBC News
In Pakistan’s prestigious medical schools, female students outshine and outnumber their male counterparts. However, many do not end up as practicing doctors – and now there are calls to limit their numbers, the BBC’s Amber Shamsi in Islamabad report…
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The prime minister has repeatedly said that the next election should be about jobs. He has attempted to kick-start a new “economy versus environment” strategy in relation to a coal mining. According to the ABS a huge 0.3% of Australians are currentl…
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Facebook’s M Is Not The Droid You’ve Been Looking For | TechCrunch
Facebook unveiled its M personal assistant yesterday, shelled out a few details and revealed that it was currently being beta-tested by a couple hundred random users in the Bay Area.
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If you like bold, high contrast designs, today’s home screen is for you. This design uses a primarily black base (which makes it great for AMOLED displays), accented with stark greens for an attractive display. This home screen was designed for both…
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Spa at Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, a Four Seasons Hotel | Vanity Fair
You know the hotel. Steeped deep in history, this place is what dreams and stars are made of. After all, Julia Roberts as the Pretty Woman can attest to that, as it was filmed there.
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Britain’s Kyle Edmund moves step closer to US Open qualification | Sport | The Guardian
Britain could have four more players in the US Open main draw on Monday after Kyle Edmund, Brydan Klein, Johanna Konta and Naomi Broady moved one step closer to qualification.
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Why do some people refer to themselves in the third person? – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump quite often refers to himself as “Trump” – instead of using the words “I” or “me”. It’s an eccentric habit that delights his critics, though he’s just the latest in a long line of politicians to talk th…
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Was there a link between climate change and Hurricane Katrina? | Grist
In the days after Aug. 29, 2005, when the world watched Hurricane Katrina become one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, a question reverberated through the public consciousness: Was climate change to blame?
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The battle over the words used to describe migrants – BBC News
Images of people scrambling over barbed wire fences in Calais or crossing the Mediterranean in fishing boats have dominated the media over the last few months. And a debate has even emerged about the very words used to describe people.
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It is an increasingly horrific fact of life and death in the United States that easily available guns offer troubled Americans the power to act out their grievances in public.
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Lancashire tap water boiling ‘to end soon’ – BBC News
Hundreds of thousands of people in Lancashire should no longer need to boil their tap water to make it safe within the coming week, water company United Utilities says.
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Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla announces solo album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
About a year after leaving Death Cab For Cutie, Chris Walla has announced a new solo record.
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Probably The Best Middle School Football Play You’ll Ever See – Digg
We feel fairly confident with this headline since you probably don’t watch too many middle school football games, but no matter: the play by this tween quarterback is bonkers.
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A federal labor board voted Thursday to redefine the employee-employer relationship granting new bargaining powers to workers caught up in an economy increasingly reliant on subcontractors, franchisees and temporary staffing agencies.
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Young goths ‘at risk of depression’ – BBC News
Young people who identify as goths may be at increased risk of depression and self-harm, a study suggests. Researchers could not fully explain the link, but suggest a tendency for goths to distance themselves from society could play a part.
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Brands Without Wax | TechCrunch
The ancient Romans had a word to describe the most precious artistic works of the time: sincere. A technique made popular at the time involved inserting wax into a sculpture’s cracks as it aged to preserve its life.
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Young goths ‘at risk of depression’ – BBC News
Young people who identify as goths may be at increased risk of depression and self-harm, a study suggests. Researchers could not fully explain the link, but suggest a tendency for goths to distance themselves from society could play a part.
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Say Hello To Windows 10 Build 10532 | TechCrunch
If you are part of the Windows Insider program, Microsoft’s tool to get new code into the hands of its hardcore users ahead of the general public, you get a treat today: Windows 10 build 10532. Yes, another Windows 10 build.
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US blacklists Colombia ‘Farc members’ in Switzerland – BBC News
The US has announced sanctions against four alleged members of Colombia’s Farc rebel group, accusing them of drug trafficking and money laundering. The four men used a shop in Switzerland as a front for their activities, the US treasury said departm…
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Black Lives Matter DC Distrupts DC Mayor Speech | Al Jazeera America
Chanting “police are not the answer,” dozens of protesters from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on Thursday prevented the mayor of Washington, D.C.
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ASAP Science Runs Through How Many Cherry Pits and Tablespoons of Spice Will Kill You
This is the ultimate video to illustrate that “the dose makes the poison.” ASAP Science explains how much seasoning, how many cherry pits, and how much loud music will murder you.
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Sagrada Familia, Barcelona from a drone : Breathless
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Twenty-cent piece (United States coin) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dov Charney forced out of American Apparel – Business Insider
Mat Szwajkos/Getty ImagesDov Charney was feeling pretty good when he entered the conference room high up inside the Skadden Arps offices in Times Square.
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BBC Sport – The Barclays: Jordan Spieth four off pace after round one
World number one Jordan Spieth is nine shots off the round one lead after his worst round since May at The Barclays. The American, 22, had five bogeys and one double bogey in his final nine holes to finish with a four-over 74.
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Stephen Colbert Tracked Down His Childhood Crush for The Late Show | Vanity Fair
When Stephen Colbert takes the helm of The Late Show on September 8, there will be an extra bit of pressure on the host. Because, while he will have to grapple with the usual programming growing pains—ratings, finding the show’s groove, etc.
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Inside a Kenyan speciality tea factory – BBC News
Tea-making is a centuries-old art that started in Asia, but the Kenyans have made it their own – they are now the largest exporters of tea worldwide.
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Movie of the Week: “A Matter of Time” – The New Yorker
The list of great final films—last works in a director’s career that go farther, deeper, or wilder than the artist had ever gone before—is short and awe-inspiring, and it should include Vincente Minnelli’s “A Matter of Time,” from 1976, which I disc…
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I was in a rush : AdviceAnimals
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How I feel on my day off today. : TrollXChromosomes
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For the first time in a long time : AdviceAnimals
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Colors of Nature by Nature images / 500px
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Untitled by Jonas Hafner / 500px
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Harry Styles of One Direction tells fans at a concert in San Diego last month not to go to SeaWorld if they like dolphins. The city is home to one of company’s biggest parks.
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Watch three astronauts repark a Soyuz capsule on the ISS | The Verge
Even in space, you sometimes have to move your vehicle to a different parking spot. Early Friday morning, half of the astronauts on the ISS will move a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to make room for an incoming capsule — occupied by three additional astr…
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How did H.P. Lovecraft conquer popular culture? In The Atlantic, writer Philip Eil examines the posthumous history of Lovecraft’s works and the current mania for all things Cthulhu.
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Race debate resurfaces as S Africa picks rugby squad – Al Jazeera English
South Africa’s biggest township, Soweto, is officially football territory. But slowly rugby is making inroads. The country’s national rugby union team, the Springboks, are one of the best teams in the world.
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Size Matters When It Comes to Cells’ Vulnerability to Parkinson’s – Scientific American
Each year doctors diagnose approximately 60,000 Americans with Parkinson’s disease, an incurable neurodegenerative condition for which the number-one risk factor is age. Worldwide an estimated seven to 10 million people currently live with the malad…
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Tea Partiers are almost as dumb about vaccines as they are about climate change | Grist
Picture the anti-vaccer. She wears all-natural fibers and lives in San Luis Obispo. She’s eats organic and limits her kids’ screen time. She reads her horoscope every day but doesn’t take it too seriously, and she firmly believes in evolution, clima…
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George Monbiot butchers and eats a squirrel on Newsnight – BBC News
The writer and environmentalist George Monbiot prompted debate on social media on Thursday after he revealed that he had cooked and eaten a squirrel after finding it dead but still warm at the roadside.
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HMB while I do a front flip : holdmybeer
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Remember That Time That Company Changed That Thing? | TechCrunch
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Brain cells ‘burn out’ in Parkinson’s disease – BBC News
Brain cells in Parkinson’s disease exhaust themselves and die prematurely, burning out like an “overheating motor”, an early study suggests. Canadian researchers say the findings might help explain why only small parts of the brain are affected in t…
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Direct Messenger is an unofficial app for sliding into Twitter DMs | The Verge
Twitter has been making a lot of changes to direct messages lately, including removing the 140-character limit, and letting you chat with strangers, send URLs, and create groups. But the one thing that’s missing is a standalone direct messaging app.
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How video-on-demand tech is changing the TV landscape – BBC News
When former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson revealed he would be making a new show on Amazon Prime after being dropped by the BBC, his successor, Chris Evans, must have felt a little nervous.
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The drone guided by a robot and other tech news – BBC News
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake highlights the week’s tech news including the launch of the YouTube Gaming site, a 3D-printed robotic hand and a drone that is able to be guided into precise locations by a robotic scanner. More at BBC.com/Click and @BBCCli…
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Inmarsat set for key rocket launch – BBC News
Britain’s biggest satellite operator has a critical launch on Friday. Inmarsat, which provides mobile telecommunications, is attempting to put up the third spacecraft in its next-generation global network.
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The only thing worse for the GOP than nominating Trump… not nominating Trump
There’s been some reporting that Trump has told “GOP brass” that he wouldn’t make a third-party run. Sure. Remember that truce between Roger Ailes/Fox and Trump? Right, so does Megyn Kelly. And now a second truce, as long as The Donald feels like it…
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TBS orders two more seasons of American Dad · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, TBS has ordered two more seasons of American Dad, the Seth MacFarlane show that we choose not to review just to spite its fans.
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Obama says New Orleans is ‘the gateway to America’s soul’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama on Thursday heralds the progress made in New Orleans ten years on from Hurricane Katrina. Speaking at an anniversary event, the president says New Orleans is the ‘gateway to America’s soul … where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals …
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Buzz Aldrin developing a ‘master plan’ to colonize Mars within 25 years | Science | The Guardian
Buzz Aldrin is teaming up with Florida Institute of Technology to develop “a master plan” for colonizing Mars within 25 years. The second man to walk on the moon took part in a signing ceremony Thursday at the university, less than an hour’s drive f…
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Make Tough Financial Decisions with the Help of an Emotional Balance Sheet
There are a lot of financial decisions that come down to so much more than numbers. Sometimes the emotional benefits of something far outweigh the financial ones, and an emotional balance sheet can help you determine that when things get tough.
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How to Recreate One of Aliens’ Most Iconic Props For Under $30
Many of you now know about one of the many things I collect. Another thing on that list is prop replicas of weapons from movies. I’ve got lightsabers and samurai swords, but one thing I always wanted and never got was the Pulse Rifle from Aliens. No…
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‘The Martian’: ‘Future’ Neil Tyson Gets ‘Cosmic’ For Film Promo | Video
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Female Funders Launches, Challenging 1,000 Women To Become Angel Investors | TechCrunch
Looking to build a bridge over the technology industry’s (and the technology investment industry more specifically) chasm-sized gender gap, a group of successful women entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate executives have launched Female Funders —…
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Facebook has a billion users in a single day, says Mark Zuckerberg – BBC News
For the first time over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg. The “milestone” was reached on Monday, when “1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family”, he sai…
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Massive Protests Call for President to Resign as Corruption Scandal Hits Guatemala | VICE News
The administration of Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has continued to waver. Following the arrest of the country’s former vice president, and the filing of charges against Perez Molina, eight more members of the president’s cabinet announced…
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See David Letterman and Bill Murray Cameo in Darlene Love’s New Music Video | Vanity Fair
What is David Letterman doing these days, other than learning how to a operate a telephone again? Apparently doing the odd favor for old friends and eating cereal.
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Genesis: Live 1973 – First time in HD with Enhanced Soundtrack – YouTube
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The Trials of Jeb Bush – The New Yorker
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“Yeah, I’m totally comfortable” – Lulu : cats
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News | Smallest 3-D Camera Offers Brain Surgery Innovation
To operate on the brain, doctors need to see fine details on a small scale. A tiny camera that could produce 3-D images from inside the brain would help surgeons see more intricacies of the tissue they are handling and lead to faster, safer procedur…
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I just noticed Chipotle rounds out your total : mildlyinteresting
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Into The Cold – Atmosphere : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Syrian conflict: The lives of the refugees who fled – BBC News
It is estimated that more than 340,000 people have crossed into Europe this year to escape war, persecution and poverty. The vast majority are fleeing the conflict in Syria, and under international law are classed as refugees.
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Australia edge out Ireland in rain-affected ODI – Al Jazeera English
Steven Smith’s first match as full-time Australia captain ended with a rain-affected 23-run ODI win over Ireland in Belfast but it needed the speed of Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc to put the hosts in their place.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Ishtar in this new trailer for Rock The Kasbah, the upcoming film starring Bill Murray as a down-on-his-luck talent manager who travels to Afghanistan and discovers a great new singer.
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Check Out “Noticing,” a New Project From Robert Krulwich and Aatish Bhatia
[Noticing is] for folks who like to look around. Who can’t not. Who find it hard to get anywhere on time because there’s always something — an oddly behaving raindrop (is it going up? How can it go up?) — that we can’t not notice, not puzzle over. T…
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Uma Thurman’s The Brits Are Coming casts some Brits (also Sofia Vergara) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For a movie with an allusion to another country right there in the title, the cast of the upcoming jewel heist flick The Brits Are Coming has been looking distinctly Yankee-centric.
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WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood on Thursday gave congressional leaders and a committee that is investigating allegations of criminality at its cl
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Lovetron beckons: legendary dunk artist Darryl Dawkins dies at 58 | Sport | The Guardian
The biggest surprise about Darryl Dawkins’s death on Thursday is that it came at age 58. He always seemed destined to either die early or live on forever. We were lucky that Dawkins came along before sports was ruined by image-makers and professiona…
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Obama: Hurricane Katrina ‘became a man-made disaster’ – BBC News
Barack Obama has been speaking in New Orleans on a visit to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He said that what started as a natural disaster had become a man-made disaster and a failure of government to look out for its citizens.
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How a West Virginia school teacher stopped a hostage-taking drama | US news | The Guardian
Teacher Twila Smith had scarcely started a new school year when a 14-year-old freshman entered her world studies class and drew a gun Tuesday.
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Boots on Mars by 2050, ‘The Martian’ Author Says (Video)
NASA’s quest to put boots on Mars will be delayed significantly by a lack of cooperation from Congress, the author of “The Martian” believes.
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Actually, Hillary, Hearts Do Change – The New Yorker
On August 11th, Hillary Clinton met privately with five Black Lives Matter activists in Keene, New Hampshire. The activists had arrived at Clinton’s campaign stop shortly before it was to begin, but they were not allowed to enter because the room wa…
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Never Attempt This Herculean Feat of Strength and Balance, Bro | WIRED
The maximum load of a PhunkeeDuck—or any other brand of these suddenly popular stand-up scooter boards—is around 300 pounds. The maximum thing you should try to do on one of them is not to fall over.
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SchoolLinks Helps You Find the Perfect Colleges and Scholarships for You
Finding a college that fits all of your personal criteria is no easy task. The web site SchooLinks helps you find and learn about colleges, apply for admission and scholarships, and even offers free educational consulting.http://lifehacker.com/how-t…
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Facebook Is Cracking Down on Video Piracy | Motherboard
Facebook announced a new technology this week that will allow the company to more easily detect pirated videos and quickly remove them. The video matching system put into place Thursday will allow content creators to quickly seek out matches of thei…
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Here’s Another Way to Get Rid of Your Neighbor’s Dumb Drone | Motherboard
Drones. They’re buzzy, getting faster, more commercial, they can knock you out cold or dead, and they’re up in your grill. There’s no place to hide. This thing of Orwellian nightmares is… going to get shot down by lasers.
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Instagram Will Let People Share Portrait and Widescreen Photos – The Atlantic
Nearly five years after it was first released, Instagram has achieved something special, something that has eluded Twitter and Facebook. With its mix of friend photos, vacation postcards, and pseudo-ads, Instagram has stayed fun, really fun.
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Hear Alabama, Alison Kraus Duet on Romantic ‘Come Find Me’ | Rolling Stone
Alabama’s repertoire has always been a solid blend of foot-stomping anthems and tender ballads, and the tradition continues on Southern Drawl, the first album of original songs from the trio of Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook since 2001.
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Flashback: Guns N’ Roses Play Final Show Before Mysterious Hiatus | Rolling Stone
Flashback: Guns N’ Roses Play Final Show Before Mysterious Hiatus Watch ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and ‘It’s So Easy’ from the last show of GN’R’s 2014 tour
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Score Rare Discounts on a Few High End Roombas
I hear nothing but good things about Roombas, and if you want to try one out yourself, a few high end models are on sale today on Amazon.
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The Griot of New Orleans | The New Republic
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Genesis: Live 1973 – First time in HD with Enhanced Soundtrack – YouTube
download the Blu-Ray DVD here: http://tinyurl.com/amn4k93donate to The Genesis Museum here: http://tinyurl.com/atzylybShepperton Studios, UK: 30/31 October 1973Watcher of the Skies (0:00)Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (8:36)I Know What I Like (17:4…
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Google Is Undermining Apple’s New Security Protections | Motherboard
Apple’s iOS 9 is coming soon, and one of the new features in the mobile operating system enhances privacy and security for users by blocking unencrypted traffic for apps. It’s called App Transport Security (ATS).
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A Majority of Gun Victims Know Their Assailant | The New Republic
The tragic deaths of WDBJ journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward on Wednesday morning were unusual in only one respect: that the fatal shooting was broadcast on live TV and videotaped by the gunman.
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The DJI Phantom 3 Professional Is The Easiest Drone I’ve Ever Flown | TechCrunch
DJI didn’t start out as the best entry-level drone maker on the market but, at this point, it’s safe to say that they’ve taken the crown from Parrot and are truly creating flying machines worth flying.
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Signs of Katrina Linger in the Marshes : Image of the Day
Ten years after making landfall, scars from Hurricane Katrina still linger. And not just in the blighted houses that mar some neighborhoods. The marshes and swamps that buffer New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico still show evidence of Katrine’s wrat…
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Migrant crisis: Austrian police work to recover bodies from lorry – BBC News
Forensic teams are working through the night to establish how many people died inside a lorry found abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border, Austrian police say. Police estimate 20-50 people, almost certainly migrants, were in the lorry.
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Nielsen is now tracking ratings for nearly 1,000 streaming shows | The Verge
Netflix is notorious for not providing audience numbers for its streaming programs, instead leaning on subscriber growth to give observers a sense of how well its efforts are doing. That’s starting to change.
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Following fire, Second City will re-open next week · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We reported yesterday that a fire destroyed the offices of Chicago’s Second City theater in Old Town, which has housed the legendary improv company since 1967. As we explained, the fire started at a restaurant, Adobo, on the first floor of an adjace…
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McDonald’s drops nuggets supplier after video shows animal cruelty | US news | The Guardian
McDonald’s Corp and Tyson Foods both severed ties on Thursday with a Tennessee farm where workers were seen stabbing, beating and stomping on chickens in an undercover video shot by animal rights activists.
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Monarch Butterflies Are Getting Wiped Out in Mexico and the US | VICE News
As they start to head south for the winter, monarch butterflies may find it’s hard to go home again.
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Michelle Pfeiffer cast as Ruth Madoff in HBO’s Wizard Of Lies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Wizard Of Lies, HBO’s movie about the rise and fall (but mostly the fall) of Bernie Madoff, has been in the works at HBO Films for a while now, with Robert De Niro set to play the Ponzi scheme wizard.
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The Trials of Jeb Bush – The New Yorker
If you’re following the 2016 Presidential campaign closely (and, at this early stage, I’m not suggesting that’s necessary), you’ll find an interesting subplot.
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Even the “Father of Fracking” would support methane regulation : environment
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Marty probably has the goofiest smile in the world. : cats
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[OC] A rocky ocean side contrast in Negril, Jamaica. [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
[OC] A rocky ocean side contrast in Negril, Jamaica. [3264×2448] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/U1ZBDG6TY7 http://t.co/fwoFP52paU
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Wellington City NZ OC [2048×1280] : CityPorn
Wellington City NZ OC [2048×1280] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/urO6J4JrNb http://t.co/BLIYR2TLsE
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Your Fitness Community Sickens Me
You look at yourself and see a strong, vibrant member of a community of like-minded individuals. I look at you and I see a sweaty, desperate fascist in training. Three supportive cheers from the Fitness Team for your personal record today—fascist! Y…
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Virginia gunman followed TV station’s order to seek outside help, boss says | US news | The Guardian
The television news reporter who shot dead two former colleagues during a live broadcast complied with an order from management that he seek outside help for persistent performance and behavioral issues, the general manager of WDBJ confirmed on Thur…
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Former Facebook And Instagram Marketer Eric Edge Joins Photo Startup PicsArt | TechCrunch
PicsArt is announcing that it has hired Eric Edge as its vice president of marketing. Edge spent the past last four-plus years at Facebook (where he led the company’s marketing efforts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa), then at Facebook-owned I…
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Potential for Flood Insurance Hikes ‘A Great Concern,’ de Blasio Says | Observer
Mayor Bill de Blasio today rolled out plans to make Lower Manhattan safer in the face of storms like Hurricane Sandy—and said the specter of increasing flood insurance premiums for that area and others posed a threat to keeping neighborhoods afforda…
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Associated Press sues FBI over fake news story | Ars Technica
The Associated Press filed a lawsuit (PDF) this morning, demanding the FBI hand over information about its use of fake news stories. The case stems from a 2007 incident regarding a bomb threat at a school.
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A Christian University That Forbids Gay Sex Is Fighting for a Law School in Canada | VICE News
A private Canadian university that forbids sex outside the confines of heterosexual marriage has taken its fight to set up a law school to court, in a case that is testing the balance between same-sex equality rights and freedom of religion.
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ACLU sues to block sweeping Nevada education funding program | US news | The Guardian
A Nevada education funding program that’s considered the nation’s broadest school choice initiative has attracted its first legal challenge, with three civil liberties groups saying it violates the state constitution by releasing public funds to rel…
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Fall Asleep Faster by Sticking One of Your Feet Outside of Your Covers
Now matter how hard you try, sometimes you just can’t fall asleep when you want to. There are a lot of tricks for helping your brain head to sleepy town, but this scientifically supported method might be one of the simplest. Body temperature plays a…
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Ten years after Katrina, black residents see significantly less improvement than whites
The survey found that on a “range of topics—such as the local economy, the public schools, hurricane and flood protection, and the overall quality of life in their communities—the city’s white residents think things are better …[and] African-America…
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Watch Tom Hardy Lip-Synch 50 Cent Flawlessly | Vanity Fair
Tom Hardy is more than just an actor and world-class dog whisperer—he is also an all-star lip-synch artist. This, 50 Cent proved earlier this week by deeming Hardy’s interpretation of the rapper’s 2003 hit single “P.I.M.P.” legitimate enough for Ins…
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Meet the Protein That Plugs a Sperm Into an Egg During Fertilization
The successful union of egg and sperm in fertilization depends on a sperm cell’s ability to get through an egg’s thick protective coating and latch itself to its membrane. A study published in the journal Andrology yesterday gives us our first look …
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MRW i’m getting a prostate exam and the doctor says “Oops” – GIF on Imgur
MRW i’m getting a prostate exam and the doctor says “Oops” http://t.co/NKXl3PJryv http://t.co/sA49vSehUs
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Nebelhorn Sunset by Pangea Productions / 500px
Nebelhorn Sunset by pangeaproductions http://t.co/u5Baj9RUdC http://t.co/FArdZruqGq
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I work at a casino : AdviceAnimals
I work at a casino via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/6zZfhYpZoJ http://t.co/N9Wz8demUw
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/N4dIpMVbYu http://t.co/Owh0ZGeHWi
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The new tech making game preservation more authentic and future-proof | Ars Technica
For a medium that’s just a little over 40 years old (give or take), it’s kind of incredible just how many truly classic video games are completely out of print.
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Vincent D’Onofrio is directing a gritty-sounding Western · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fresh off his career-revitalizing turn as Kingpin Wilson Fisk on Netflix’s Daredevil, actor Vincent D’Onofrio is hopping back into the director’s chair.
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A state prosecutor in Virginia will seek to prosecute a police officer who shot dead an unarmed black 18-year-old outside a supermarket in the city of Portsmouth earlier this year, it was announced on Thursday.
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One mega-conglomerate’s brand synergy is another person’s nostalgic childhood mashup.
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The Roots remake has its Kunta Kinte · Newswire · The A.V. Club
British actor Malachi Kirby has been cast as Kunta Kinte in that upcoming remake of Roots, according to Deadline. He’ll step into the iconic role previously held by LeVar Burton in the 1977 original miniseries.
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So, Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Character Ever Walk Into a Bar …
Artist Noah Stacey (Zen-Master on DeviantArt) created this piece of art for the menus at Storm Crow Tavern in Vancouver, which imagines a galactic way station where Lando absolutely destroys Link at holographic monster chess. See the full art below.…
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Venice’s Mayor Wants to Ban the Gay Pride Parade — But Says He’s Not Homophobic | VICE News
Venice’s new center-right mayor Luigi Brugnaro provoked quite a reaction after the Italian daily La Repubblica published an interview with him in which he said that he would not tolerate a gay pride parade in the floating city.
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Walmart Just Instituted Its Own Assault Weapons Ban | The Nation
For many years, you could walk into America’s most ubiquitous retail store and walk out with a military-style assault rifle. That will soon be impossible.
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Lebanon’s deepening crisis – Al Jazeera English
Hezbollah ministers and their Christian allies boycotted a weekly cabinet meeting, further paralysing Prime Minister Tammam Salam’s unity government. They are reportedly in dispute with other members of the government over issues including decrees p…
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Documentary Now! also postpones an episode in wake of Virginia killings · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mr.
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BBC Sport – Kevin de Bruyne: Man City offer ‘astonishing’ wages
Wolfsburg winger Kevin de Bruyne has been left out of Friday’s game with Schalke as talks continue over a move to Manchester City. However, a source close to the transfer said that talks are “moving in the right direction”.
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Now we know that almost none of the woman in the Ashley Madison database ever used the site. The question is, was this a deliberate fraud? Or was it just a dating site gone wrong?
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Scandinavian Children’s Books Get Away With Way More Sex and Violence
Scandinavians are just a lot more relaxed about certain things. Like, one popular Norwegian book for eight-year-olds includes lessons on how to masturbate. Author Ingelin Røssland, writing in the Guardian, explains just how far children’s and young-…
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What’s the Most Enjoyably Terrifying Animal-Attack Movie Ever Made?
Last week, Zoo was the second-most watched show in America. Yep, the silliest show on TV is a huge hit.
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Upcoming stargazing events of 2015 : space
Upcoming stargazing events of 2015 via /r/space http://t.co/hMdLo3vYJU http://t.co/COzqdPe8fV
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Moi 🙂 by Willy Malbosc / 500px
Moi 🙂 by willymalbosc http://t.co/wfxv2goTuB http://t.co/6lCUGjkZVO
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mono shot! by Patrice Thomas / 500px
mono shot! by patthom974 http://t.co/ibOCMfx5xG http://t.co/PwgHt0crWU
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*** by Tigran Manukyan / 500px
*** by TigranManukyan1 http://t.co/oNleBnYYQN http://t.co/P1EikbEWX9
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Starbucks is tearing the Hungarian nation apart. : firstworldanarchists
Starbucks is tearing the Hungarian nation apart. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/Hw5TmYwaep http://t.co/jbjiRt1AoL
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On Sept. 2, 2005, four days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans with devastating impact, NBC gathered celebrities from TV, film, and music to raise money for the victims. “A Concert for Hurricane Relief” drew 8.
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This Man Is About to Put a Robot in Your Pocket
What will it take for robots to become as common in our homes and daily lives as smartphones, TVs, and computers? Ask roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi.
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The Mystery of Patrick Modiano | The New Republic
If repetition is a common trait among prolific novelists, it is a vice that, as the historian Michael Wood has written, applies to Patrick Modiano “more than most.
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Boeing Case Is Latest Targeting 401(k) Plans With Excessive Fees : NPR
Boeing is moving to settle a lawsuit accusing it of mishandling its 401(k) plan for thousands of workers. The case is part of a legal assault by a consumer rights attorney to stop companies from offering employees high-cost, bad retirement plans.
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Doris the major blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/FksojTRkdV http://t.co/BvaWrdVXRY
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The Great Qing and all it’s administrative regions in 1820 [800×593] : MapPorn
The Great Qing and all it’s administrative regions in 1820 [800×593] via /r/MapPorn http://t.co/Zb3xBMPfcb http://t.co/7Z6RU1OIcF
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Gentle Giants via /r/gifs http://t.co/ufUAFmU6po http://t.co/m2GGBIPe1k
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That’s why we’re here right? : AdviceAnimals
That’s why we’re here right? via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/PH08Yr9ksg http://t.co/F2Q7aK3WN5
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My coworker was fighting the fires in Washington and sent me this. : funny
My coworker was fighting the fires in Washington and sent me this. via /r/funny http://t.co/Z5f8XaovEI http://t.co/YRHhYtUQdY
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Glencore has yet to finish erecting signs warning of contaminated river life near a Northern Territory mine more than a year after the miner and the state government became aware of elevated levels of heavy metals.
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GOP Congressman Daniel Donovan: Donald Trump ‘Resonating With Voters’ | Observer
Congressman Daniel Donovan, the only Republican representing New York City in the House of Representatives, had words of praise today for his “personal friend” Donald Trump and for the Queens-born real estate magnate’s populist message—though he dec…
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BBC Sport – FC Midtjylland 1-0 Southampton (agg 2-1)
Europa League play-off second leg Venue: MCH Arena Date: Thursday, 27 August Kick-off: 19:45 GMT Coverage: Text commentary on BBC Sport website, radio commentary on BBC Radio Solent on 96.1FM, 103.
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Democratic leaders are increasingly frustrated by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s failure to put to rest questions about her State Department email practices and ease growing doubts among voters about her honesty and trustworthiness.
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NASA’s Next Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover: Building the Beast
MONROVIA, California — NASA’s next nuclear-powered Mars rover, slated to launch in 2020, is slowly coming together. And while the Mars 2020 mission is largely based on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, which is now exploring the Red Planet, there are a v…
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I’m Farhad Manjoo, Tech Columnist at the New York Times, and This Is How I Work
There’s something about Farhad. Tech reporters can quickly become jaded and cynical about their work, but Farhad Manjoo’s lucid writing lacks any sense of needless snark when he discusses how technology affects our lives.
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The Best Reality Show On Television Is Set In 1902 | ThinkProgress
In Comedy Central’s breakout new show, Another Period, it’s 1902. We’re on Newport, Rhode Island, where 90 percent of our still-kind-of-new nation’s wealth is concentrated. The show’s co-creators are also its executive producers, writers and stars.
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Fans of Stieg Larsson’s captivating odd couple of modern detective fiction — the genius punk hacker Lisbeth Salander and her sometime partner, the crusading investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist — will not be di
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1 Billion People Used Facebook on Monday | WIRED
A million users visiting the same Internet service on the same day. This isn’t all that cool. You know what’s cool? A billion users on the same service on the same day. And now it’s been done. So says Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Victim’s father: ‘Mr President, you need to do this’ – BBC News
The BBC talked to Andy Parker, father of slain journalist Alison Parker, about gun control in the US. He urged President Obama to “work the press” on gun control and that he knew it would be an uphill battle, but he could do it.
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How Hedge Funds Are Exploiting Baltimore’s Poorest Residents | ThinkProgress
The death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore and the ensuing protests brought the nation’s attention to the economic devastation that continues to grip the city.
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Beach Stink Smells Bad Because It Went Through Two Different Animals
As much as we like to marvel at the power and majesty of the ocean, we have to admit that as beautiful as it is, it also stinks. It stinks because it’s shot through with sulfur. And that sulfur has seen the insides of two different creatues before i…
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This Man Is About to Put a Robot in Your Pocket
What will it take for robots to become as common in our homes and daily lives as smartphones, TVs, and computers? Ask roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi.
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Time lapse video of a caterpillar turning into a monarch butterfly
(via the kid should see this)
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Trump: ‘mental instability’ to blame for WDBJ7 shooting, not guns – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighs in on gun control debate after Wednesday’s shooting of two journalists in Virginia. Trump says the debate should be more focused around mental health than gun control.
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US markets close higher for second day as global economy shakes off losses | Business | The Guardian
Most of the world’s stock markets had recovered from days of losses on Thursday, shaking off concerns about the health of the Chinese economy.
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Obama in New Orleans to mark Hurricane Katrina 10th anniversary – BBC News
US President Obama is delivering a speech in New Orleans as part of commemorations to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Mr Obama has been meeting the city’s Mayor and residents of areas rebuilt following the storm which left 1,800 peop…
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Ten Years After Katrina, Here’s What’s Happening to Louisiana’s Coastline | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. It’s been ten years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, crippling New Orleans and highlighting America’s vulnerability to natural disa…
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Migrant boats capsize off Libya – 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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The extreme loss of Arctic sea ice due to climate change is forcing thousands of walruses to crowd ashore on a remote barrier island off Alaska, and threatening their survival.
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A loving tribute to VHS and ’80s aesthetics, the music video for Gunship’s “Tech Noir” is a stop-motion tale of a post-apocalyptic world where the video cassette reigns supreme.
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WDBJ7 manager: Virgina shooter was urged ‘to get outside help’ – video | US news | The Guardian
The general manager of Virginia TV station WDBJ7 gives more details on concerns staff had over gunman Vester Flanagan’s ‘performance issues’ when he worked for the broadcaster.
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Look upon these Chewbacca Crocs, ye nerds, and despair · Newswire · The A.V. Club
First, they released that dispenser that made it look like you were pulling Scotch tape from C-3PO’s crotch, and I did nothing, because I thought that was pretty funny.
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[Art] Eyes On/Eyes Off : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] Eyes On/Eyes Off via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/FNjzyB71hO http://t.co/BrWdLcsyZK
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Harrison Ford in a kitchen, late 70’s : OldSchoolCool
Harrison Ford in a kitchen, late 70’s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/eGn4RBuidC http://t.co/4Mo9ezpxsk
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The Appalachian Trail – Virgina : FoggyPics
The Appalachian Trail – Virgina via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/AfNQHQojbo http://t.co/6Iwk8Ida7i
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Loaf of Doris’s famous beer bread : Catloaf
Loaf of Doris’s famous beer bread via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/BTD4LSKRmz http://t.co/ZUP0J34oky
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Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble. … – Just Space
Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble. js http://t.co/QsZ3e8dfxF http://t.co/bKk3uQ9IFe
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Froggy Went A-Courtin’, But Lady Frogs Chose Second-Best Guy Instead : NPR
Picking a mate can be one of life’s most important decisions. But sometimes people make a choice that seems to make no sense at all. And humans aren’t the only ones — scientists have now seen apparently irrational romantic decisions in frogs.
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Ask Dr. Nerdlove: Help, I’ve Fallen In Love With A Cam Girl
Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that was born 500 years ago in the highlands of Scotland. This week, one NerdLove reader is dealing with a crush that is more complicated than your usual run of the mill interest i…
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De Blasio Names Artist Mary Valverde to NYC Public Design Commission | Observer
Mayor Bill de Blasio has chosen artist New York-based artist Mary Valverde as the newest member of the city’s Public Design Commission, according to an announcement made Thursday by the Mayor’s Office. Ms.
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For a medium that’s just a little over 40 years old (give or take), it’s kind of incredible just how many truly classic video games are completely out of print.
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Facebook draws 1 billion users in a single day | The Verge
The biggest social network on earth keeps getting bigger. Today Facebook hit a huge milestone: a billion people now use the service every day, founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a post. “On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with t…
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Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users In A Single Day | TechCrunch
Facebook just achieved a major milestone, on Monday nearly 1 in 7 humans logged on to its site. On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family.
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Guatemala president urged to resign ‘to prevent unrest’ – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of protesters have continued to take to the streets of Guatemala’s capital to pressure President Otto Perez Molina to resign over his alleged involvement in a major corruption scandal, as the government comptrollers’ office urged him to qu…
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Both Donald Trump and Kanye West Loved Miley Cyrus’s V.M.A. Twerking | Vanity Fair
Miley Cyrus is making the promotional rounds in advance of her Video Music Awards hosting gig this weekend, and, in an interview with The New York Times, she shed some light on what we can expect Sunday night.
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Former FEMA Head: Don’t Blame Me for Hurricane Katrina | Vanity Fair
In a Politico op-ed titled “Stop Blaming Me for Hurricane Katrina,” former FEMA head Michael Brown, who bore much of the blame for botching the government’s response to the 2005 storm’s aftermath, asked people to stop blaming him for Hurricane Katri…
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Dispatch Comes to the iPad, Adds New Action Sorting and Auto-Suggest Snippets
iOS: Dispatch is one of the best email apps for iOS, especially for power-users. Today, it gets a bit better with a new iPad version alongside some new actions and snippets. The big news is the iPad app, which is included if you’ve already purchased…
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Recut trailer makes Harry Potter the series’ true villain · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Everyone knows Harry Potter as “The Boy Who Lived,” but what if he was also “The Boy Who Kills?” That’s the premise of this recut trailer by BloodBlitz Comedy in which it’s revealed that Harry Potter might actually be a bit of a sociopath.
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Mads Mikkelsen might play a villain in Doctor Strange · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Earlier this summer, we reported that Chiwetel Ejiofor had signed on to Marvel’s Doctor Strange to play Baron Mordo, the film’s ostensible villain.
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Win a pair of tickets to see Bill Burr live at The Chicago Theatre · Contest · The A.V. Club
Bill Burr is one of the most recognizable voices working in comedy today, sharing his “uninformed logic” on massive tours and frequent late night TV guest spots on Conan, The Tonight Show, and more.
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Slain Virginia Reporter’s Father Vows Gun Control | Al Jazeera America
The father of a Virginia journalist killed in an on-air shooting said on Thursday he would become a crusader for gun control, but analysts said there was little likelihood of legislation on the federal level any time soon, despite changes in some st…
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When your mom runs into a friend at the supermarket. : ledootgeneration
When your mom runs into a friend at the supermarket. via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/3ZgGrh88Nc http://t.co/z846Bnqdfw
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Serra Do Cume by Michael T. Lim / 500px
Serra Do Cume by miketlim http://t.co/VhxdpTbKW2 http://t.co/Ku1UioLmIR
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We’ve lost Al! via /r/gifs http://t.co/GRYXJNzqlh http://t.co/xB8PVXaAnI
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This is how Havarti drinks out of his new water fountain. : cats
This is how Havarti drinks out of his new water fountain. via /r/cats http://t.co/8NkeCw8ulv http://t.co/A5gHiDuNhT
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Manhattan Beach Pier by Spud Groshong / 500px
Manhattan Beach Pier by spudthesoundguy http://t.co/ehTCXObGNz http://t.co/N8I78yUqQK
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Security and the European Union – The New Yorker
Security and the European Union http://t.co/rbHesOPwfM
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The Summer Isles by Alister Benn / 500px
The Summer Isles by AlisterBenn http://t.co/0w8IRF6YuJ http://t.co/hTMzyjdEjj
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In Thailand, Young People Push The Boundaries On Public Dissent : NPR
Last week’s bombing in Thailand came after a remarkably peaceful 15 months. The military seized power in May 2014, and since, hasn’t tolerated public resistance. But opposition is still there.
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Virginia TV Station Remembers Victims Of Wednesday’s On-Air Shooting : NPR
It was a somber broadcast this morning at WDBJ in Roanoke, Va., one day after a former station employee gunned down two former co-workers on live television.
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‘It’s Fun To Get A Little Deeper’: Carly Rae Jepsen Walks The Pop-Star Tightrope : NPR
Back in 2012, an unknown Canadian singer suddenly became the voice of summer. “Call Me Maybe” was the earworm to end all earworms — pure pop pleasure distilled into a lasting and ubiquitous hit, at a time when such things were meant to be extinct.
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New Ruling May Have Sweeping Implications For Fast Food, Other Industries : NPR
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that many corporations using a franchise model are “joint employers” with the local franchisee, which will impact union organizing and negotiations.
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A Message In A Bottle Makes Its Way Home — More Than A Century Later : NPR
Guy Baker of England’s Marine Biological Association tells the story of a postcard his group recently received.
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Who Are The Smugglers Transporting Migrants And Refugees? : NPR
The migrants and refugees streaming into Europe aren’t traveling on their own. Leonard Doyle, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, explains who the smugglers are and how their networks get migrants into Europe.
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Street Where Sandra Bland Was Arrested Renamed In Her Honor : NPR
In Texas, the Prairie View City Council has voted to rename a street as “Sandra Bland Parkway.” Bland was arrested by police after a traffic stop and later died in jail.
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Boeing Agrees To Preliminary Deal In Lawsuit Over Retirement Plan Mismanagement : NPR
A class action suit accusing Boeing of mismanaging the retirement plans of its 190,000 employees is close to being settled. Boeing agreed to a preliminary deal to settle claims that the company harmed employees financially by choosing expensive fund…
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A Grisly Discovery In Austria: Bodies Of Dozens Of Migrants In A Truck : NPR
The bodies of at least 20 people, thought to be migrants, were recently found in an abandoned truck in Austria. NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with reporter Kerry Skyring about the tragic discovery.
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New Play On Incarceration Has The Fingerprints Of Real-Life Prisoners : NPR
Whorl Inside A Loop, a new play opening in New York, looks at six inmates in a medium security prison and the actress who agrees to teach them how to tell their stories — as she steals those stories for her own use. The play really did get its start…
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Mass Rally Protesting Indian Quota System Led To Unrest : NPR
Mass protests turned deadly in Gujarat, India, this week. Hundreds of thousands of people, galvanized by a charismatic young member of the Patel community, took to the streets to demand access to public jobs and education.
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Planned Parenthood Says Experts Found Misleading Edits In Videos : NPR
Planned Parenthood has paid forensic experts to comb through undercover videos released by anti-abortion activists, and their report finds significant distortions and misleading edits.
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Wal-Mart To Stop Selling Some Semi-Automatic Rifles, Including The AR-15 : NPR
The nation’s largest retailer will stop selling military-style modern sporting rifles. Citing low demand, not politics, the company says it will focus on other hunting and sportsman firearms.
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Stock Market’s Sudden Correction Might Not Impact Most Americans : NPR
Only about 53 percent of Americans own stocks, and those who do mostly have them in retirement accounts they may not tap for decades. So the stock market’s recent drop won’t have much effect on them.
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Hunger Strike Over Future Of Chicago School Enters Its 11th Day : NPR
Parents, teachers and activists are fighting to defend a high school the Chicago Public School Board voted to close several years ago. They say officials who called for proposals on what type of school to reopen are ignoring their plan.
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‘The Wake’ Is An Unlikely Hit In An Imaginary Language : NPR
Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel, The Wake — a grim tale of medieval conquest and revenge — became a hit against all odds in the U.K. last year, and it’s about to be released here. I met Kingsnorth at his home in the countryside of far western Ireland.
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Decade After Hurricane Katrina, Obama Celebrates New Orlean’s Resilience : NPR
President Obama visits New Orleans Thursday, on the eve of the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast.
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I see your Resting Bitch/Dick Face and raise you a Permanently Arched Eyebrow | The Verge
In the summer of 1997, when I was eleven years old, my mom and grandmother and I made a road-trip pilgrimage to the suburbs of Chicago to visit my late second cousin and her husband.
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De Blasio: Journalist Murders Show Need for Gun and Mental Health Laws | Observer
In the wake of the shocking shooting deaths of two Virginia journalists on live television, Mayor Bill de Blasio today said the nation needed to act on the “challenge of mental health” and to curb the availability of guns to those with such problems…
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OpenFeint Founder Jason Citron Returns To A Familiar Place With Discord App For Gamers | TechCrunch
Some founders keep returning to the same ideas over and over in new form. Jason Citron, a lifelong gamer, was the creator of OpenFeint, an early mobile social gaming network that he sold to Japan’s GREE for $104 million.
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NYC Rises As A Hub For Software-As-A-Service Startups | TechCrunch
Debating the importance of Software-as-a-Service long ago became a great way to flag yourself as a luddite.
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Apple probably won’t introduce an iPhone 6C next month | The Verge
It’s a very safe bet that Apple will introduce an iPhone 6S and an iPhone 6S Plus at the event it’s holding two weeks from now, but it’s been an open question about whether we’ll see a smaller phone — perhaps an iPhone 6C — too.
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Small percentage of unvaccinated kids in US could lead to disease outbreaks | US news | The Guardian
The vast majority of US kindergarten-age children are vaccinated against preventable diseases but sizable pockets of unprotected children still exist, posing a public health threat, according to a government study. Only 1.
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Key Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 designer returns to Ubisoft after five years | Ars Technica
Nearly seven years after working as creative director on the critically acclaimed Far Cry 2, and over five years after leaving Ubisoft, Clint Hocking has revealed that he has returned to the French mega-publisher that has given him all of his publis…
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Brooklyn Goes To Paris | | Observer
The Parisian department store Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche is playing host to Brooklyn’s hottest brands, beginning September 3rd.
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It’s hard to imagine Wall Street bankers worrying about what One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles thinks. But, it turns out at least some of them do.
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How do we stop killers from exploiting social media? | The Verge
The shooter yesterday, at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia, optimized his murders for attention. This isn’t new. All mass murderers do. Mass shootings are violence that is meant to be disseminated. Consider the Charleston church shootings, in w…
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Watch ‘Homeland”s Tense New Season Five Trailer | Rolling Stone
Showtime has released the official trailer for Season Five of Homeland, which returns to the network on Sun, October 4th.
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Investigators across five continents reported that they were able to replicate only about 40 percent of the results from 100 previously published studies in cognitive and social psychology, in a study described today in the influential journal Scien…
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Why Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Is One of Marvel’s Greatest Comics Ever
While researching my article on Monica Rambeau’s unfortunate history, I naturally re-read one of her standout series: Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen’s Nextwave: Agents of HATE.
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Guillermo Del Toro Wants Pacific Rim 3 to Have Godzilla as a Guest Star
Guillermo Del Toro wants to move Pacific Rim from kaiju homage to straight-up kaiju canon. Good luck with that. So far with the sequel, what we’re writing, what we’re creating, is very different, so there are no plans. Hypothetically, I would love t…
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Airbnb Hires Ex-Clinton Aide to Play Nice With Policymakers | Motherboard
Airbnb has added former Clinton administration aide Chris Lehane to its ranks as it continues to battle with regulators and works to keep its apartment sharing service legal around the world.
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Van Morrison Preps Expanded Reissues of ‘Astral Weeks,’ ‘His Band’ | Rolling Stone
Van Morrison’s seminal 1968 LP Astral Weeks and 1970’s His Band and The Street Choir, will be expanded, remastered and reissued on October 30th via Warner Bros. Both LPs will be made available digitally and on CD, each featuring a handful of previou…
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Jennifer Nettles Announces Tour, Readies New Album for 2016 | Rolling Stone
After parting ways with her longtime label Universal Nashville earlier this month, Jennifer Nettles has found a new home: the singer-songwriter, Broadway actress and one-half of Grammy-winning duo Sugarland has signed with Big Machine Records.
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Darryl Dawkins, NBA Dunk Legend, Dead at 58 | Rolling Stone
Darryl Dawkins, the 14-year NBA vet whose powerful dunks and off-court flash earned him the nickname “Chocolate Thunder,” died Thursday at the age of 58. A cause of death has not been reported.
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Musk’s new Tesla gets extra credit in respected auto test | Grist
Today in break the Internet news, the new Tesla P85D — an all-wheel drive version of the Model S — scored a 103 out of 100 in a Consumer Reports evaluation. For those of you keeping track, that’s an improper fraction.
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In the dog days of August, the news channels have turned themselves into the Trump show. Bernie Sanders rouses the biggest crowds in obscurity while Trump floods the air waves. Commentators still dismiss Trump as a summertime fling, a bad boy escape…
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Kim and Kanye settle lawsuit against YouTube co-founder for $440,000 | The Verge
Nearly two years after their bombastic fairytale proposal in San Francisco’s AT&T Park, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have won a settlement from the tech pioneer who secretly filmed it for his flopping startup.
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Grace Kelly’s Former Home is Asking $42 Million | | Observer
If you’re looking live like a princess (or rather, a wealthy woman who would someday become a princess), the Upper East Side building that Grace Kelly once called home is available for the kingly sum of $42 million.
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Splash Integrates With Giphy Because Why Not? | TechCrunch
Splash, the event page service that lets anyone create beautiful event landing pages, has announced an integration with Giphy, the betaworks-backed GIF search engine. This makes Splash the only event site platform with a direct Giphy integration.
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NFL’s Twitter Video Deal Came And Its Deal With Facebook Went | TechCrunch
Today, the WSJ reported that the NFL’s video test with Facebook ended “quietly” earlier this year. The publication also referred to it as a “partnership,” a term that is used very loosely in business, especially here in the Valley.
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Parachute Failure Success! NASA Drop Tests Orion Capsule Over Arizona | Video
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NEW YORK—As concerns about the health risks involved for youth players continue to rise, a new poll revealed Thursday that a growing majority of NFL players would not allow their sons to play preseason football.
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Discovery of dead refugees overshadows Austria summit – Al Jazeera English
Talks in Vienna to tackle Europe’s refugee crisis received a sobering reminder of the urgency of their mission when up to 50 people were found dead in a truck not far from their venue.
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In what may be a historic first, a Catholic school that ended a contract with a teacher for being openly gay has reversed course, challenging Church teaching by instituting hiring polices that welcome LGBT people. Earlier this year, 27-year-old Laur…
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What the Fed’s Rate Hike Means For Your Credit Card Debt
There’s a lot going on in the economy right now, including all this news about the Fed raising interest rates. The details can be confusing, but what you really need to know is how this will affect you as a consumer. Here’s what the hike means for y…
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HMB while I defuse this IED. : holdmybeer
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Hours of night per day per country averaged over a year [1919×974] : MapPorn
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On top of Oberaarhorn (3631m), Switzerland [OC][2464×608] : EarthPorn
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ROANOKE, Va. — The signal from WDBJ-TV carries across hundreds of miles of southwest Virginia, and on Wednesday morning, so did the grief.
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In an age when even the most obscure subculture is within easy reach, a passion for music can become tinged with one-upmanship. “Have you heard these Levantine recordings from 1906?” “S’OK. I’m more into this Tuareg reimagining of Purple Rain.”
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A Complete Guide To Buying Her Flowers
You wanted to do something nice for your girlfriend—maybe even a little corny.
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Obama visits Tremé 10 years after Katrina hit New Orleans – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Obama’s first stop in New Orleans on Thursday was Tremé, one of the oldest black neighborhoods in America. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Saudi Arabia’s Troops Have Crossed Into Yemen for the First Time | VICE News
Saudi forces have reportedly crossed the border into northern Yemen near a site where Houthi rebels have launched shelling attacks toward the kingdom.
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Obama in New Orleans recalls ‘natural disaster that became a manmade one’ | US news | The Guardian
With plans to call Hurricane Katrina a disaster “that revealed another tragedy,” President Barack Obama made his ninth visit to New Orleans as president on Thursday, to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic storm.
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The New Kristen Wiig Indie Movie Trailer: Nasty Baby | WIRED
Of all the Saturday Night Live alums making a go of it in movies, no one’s career right now is more varied than Kristen Wiig’s. Just this year alone she’s had the indie films Welcome to Me and The Diary of a Teenage Girl. She also was in the Lifetim…
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Security and the European Union – The New Yorker
A few minutes before six o’clock on Friday evening, a passenger on board a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris took his suitcase into the bathroom. He emerged armed with an AK-47. There were more than five hundred passengers on board, and the g…
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Hey, LA: Here’s How You Say ‘No’ to the Olympics | The Nation
On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on whether the city should advance with its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Things move quickly in the world of the Olympics. Just last month, Boston became the first American city in…
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Farah Fawcett Red Swimsuit Photo Was Almost Completely Different | Vanity Fair
Every week, VF.com editors pick a classic image from fashion history to examine what really went on behind the scenes. Today, we look at a 1976 picture of Farrah Fawcett, then on the cusp of stardom for Charlie’s Angels.
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Sheriff’s deputies in Idaho have interviewed more than a dozen girls named Destiny trying to crack a vandalism case where someone spray-painted a prom invitation on a south-west Idaho cliffside.
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Judge Dredd Explodes out of This Brand New, Exclusive Poster
Few non-superhero comic book characters are as iconic as Judge Dredd. I mean, the guy has had two movies made about him along with decades of great comics. Part of that is because, when John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra created the character in the la…
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome in touch as Chaves regains lead
Britain’s Chris Froome remains in contention at the Vuelta a Espana after Esteban Chaves regained the overall race lead with victory on stage six. Colombia’s Chaves attacked two kilometres from the finish in Sierra de Cazorla to win his second stage.
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Saudi Arabia sees Mers deaths surge – BBC News
Saudi Arabia has announced four more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), bringing the number of deaths in the past week to 17. Health officials admit they are worried by the timing, as the kingdom prepares to welcome around two mill…
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Will the Game of Thrones TV Series Actually Stand the Test of Time?
Greetings, folks! I’m in the desolate ruins of New York City, visiting the former Gawker offices for the first time (honestly, it’s hard to tell what was destroyed in the apocalypse and what is just unfinished construction).
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Clinton calls GOP ‘extreme’ on women’s issues, RNC demands apology. Fat chance.
Republicans are in a twit because Hillary Clinton called their stances on women’s issues “extreme”—as in, if you want to completely defund an organization that provides health services to nearly three million American women a year—and shut down the …
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WA Governor: Fires Are ‘Slow-motion Disaster’ | Al Jazeera America
The massive fires burning in Washington state are a “slow-motion disaster,” Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday as he praised crews battling the blazes that have burned an area nearly the size of Rhode Island.
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THE REFLECTION by Chris Babida Acaso / 500px
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My scumbag cellphone whenever I’m right on the edge of a wifi signal. : AdviceAnimals
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Paula Rúpolo took some famous brands’ iconic logos (McDonald’s, Starbucks, eBay) and swapped the colors with logos of their competitors (Subway, Dunkin Donuts, Amazon). Here’s FedEx and UPS:
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The Real Life of a Sugar Daddy | GQ
Thurston Von Moneybags (not his real name) was scammed once by a girl in Houston. He had arranged to meet her so that he might size her up and determine whether he wanted to give her a monthly stipend in exchange for regular sex and sometimes maybe …
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Chrome Starts Telling Autoplaying Videos To STFU | TechCrunch
We’ve all been there: you’re exploring the vast interwebs, opening tabs rapid fire like the middle-clickin’ master you are.
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Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Video Piracy | TechCrunch
Facebook didn’t get to be one of the largest video streamers on the web without making a few enemies. Unfortunately, up to this point, a lot of those enemies were the people actually creating cool video content for the site.
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Workflow Adds a Today Widget for Instant Automation on iOS
iOS: Workflow is an incredibly powerful app for iOS that allows you to create your own miniature extensions to make working with multiple apps easy on iOS. Today, it gets an update that adds a new Today Widget so you can run those workflows without …
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Racist online groups demand sympathy after Virginia TV shooting | US news | The Guardian
Anti-black groups have been quick to latch on to murders of young white women by black and Hispanic men in recent years, and Wednesday’s killing of Alison Parker and her colleague Adam Ward is no exception, becoming a major point of discussion in on…
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The World’s Longest Tunnel Is Complete | Motherboard
Switzerland has just completed work on the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which is 35 miles long and now the world’s longest tunnel.
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To help commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of Bruce Springsteen’s magnum opus Born To Run, Rolling Stone has posted a previously unpublished excerpt from an interview conducted back in 2005 with the man himself.
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J. Jill, Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant, and Eileen Fisher Get Together for Tea – The New Yorker
Eileen Fisher leans back in an Adirondack chair. Breathes in and exhales serenely. Takes a contented sip of iced tea. She smiles and opens her eyes. “I just want to simplify,” she says. “You know?” They all nod in nourished agreement.
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Tyler, The Creator has been banned from the U.K. over old lyrics · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Rolling Stone, Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator has been banned from entering the United Kingdom for several years, forcing him to cancel a handful of upcoming shows. Tyler announced the news himself on Twitter, blaming the ban on “lyr…
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Black Cat Pushes Orange Cat into Pool : cats
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Spotted in Dubai Marina… : pics
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The Rama Versus the Canal | Hakai Magazine
On a Sunday morning on the Nicaraguan island of Rama Cay, Becky McCray visits with her family in her parents’ home over a breakfast of beans, coconut rice, coconut bread, and thick coffee, with the grounds still swimming in the bottom of the cup.
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Pop Music, Teenage Girls and the Legitimacy of Fandom | The Pitch | Pitchfork
There is no greater cultural crime a young girl can commit than loving pop music without apology. Forever marginalized as the screaming, crying Beatlemaniac, Directioner, or Swiftie, teen girl fandom in 2015 is more powerful and worthy of our respec…
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Self-Repairing Material Could Prevent Spaceship Catastrophes
Orbiting the Earth is a bit like living in a minefield, with millions of tiny flecks of space junk whizzing about at thousands of miles per hour.
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People Don’t Like Current Education Policies, So Why Do Policy Leaders?
The big annual poll on how Americans view public schools and education policy is out, and anyone eager to don the mantle of “education reform” might want to rethink their wardrobe.
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Makes you wonder what they’re thinking… Every morning, while I wash up : cats
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Edinburgh, with Arthur’s Seat in the distance [2048 x 1371] : CityPorn
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Rand Paul gets more cowardly on Black Lives Matter
After expressing some relatively nuanced thoughts on Black Lives Matter—relative to the other GOP contenders, that is— Rand decided to slip back into completely and totally ignorant territory yesterday.
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Audio Visuals: Jam Out to Claymation Tributes to ’80s Action Flicks | WIRED
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INNOVATE2016: Shining A Light On Political Fundraising | TechCrunch
So here’s the bad news. When it comes to politics, the Internet, it seems, has been a great disappointment.
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Ode to monster truck rally commercials – Boing Boing
I’ve never been to a monster truck rally, however I feel their commercials are a truly a specialized, and under-appreciated art form! Please join me in enjoying these few, fine examples.
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Alicia Vikander’s Style, From Louis Vuitton to Oscar Gowns | Vanity Fair
1/10Alicia Vikander in a fitted, white, floral mini at the Vanity Fair and Chanel dinner.By Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images.+−zoom
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The Soho Design District Isn’t Giving up on the Neighborhood | | Observer
Soho is pretty much the poster child for gentrification.
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A surprising number of psychology studies can’t be reproduced | The Verge
Researchers ought to be able to duplicate the findings of other scientists’ work, but a new study suggests that many published psychology results can’t be recreated.
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Two journalists were shot and killed on Wednesday, during a live broadcast in Roanoke, Virginia. Another woman was wounded. The 2016 presidential candidates quickly offered their condolences.
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Nielsen is scanning 1,000 Netflix shows to break the streaming “black box” | Ars Technica
The Nielsen ratings company is measuring Netflix watching to inform entertainment studios which of their shows are most popular on Netflix, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Desmond Tutu’s daughter gives ‘hugs from well-wishers’ – BBC News
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, Canon Mpho Tutu, has been speaking about her father’s health. South Africa’s archbishop is in hospital for the third time in recent weeks, and is now half-way through what is expected to be a two-week treatment.
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Photo: In Guatemala’s national day of protest today, Anonymous is a Mayan woman – Boing Boing
Just one of the many stunning images hitting social media today from the protests around Guatemala. An unprecedented number of Guatemalans of all economic, ethnic, and social backgrounds have united in the streets, calling for an end to corruption a…
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This Urban Fantasy Story Will Make You Realize Just How Creepy Psychic Gifts Can Be
The Apex Book of World SF 4, available now as an ebook for just $4.49, contains 28 stories from all over the world. We’re proud to feature one of them, “The Good Matter” by Swedish author Nene Ormes, as an exclusive excerpt here at io9.
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Louisiana guv tells Obama not to mention climate change during Katrina anniversary visit | Grist
Bobby Jindal — Louisiana governor and GOP presidential candidate with far less chance of winning than even Ben Carson — has a special request for President Obama ahead of his visit to New Orleans to mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:…
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Podcast: Bad Incentives Are Blocking Better Science | FiveThirtyEight
If you Google “is science broken?” you gather a surprising number of hits.
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Why the tiger came to tea, and the cows typed | Emma Brockes | Comment is free | The Guardian
A side-effect of having babies and reading them the same five books on endless repeat is that you start to see subtext where possibly there is none. Take the picture book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.
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Making the connections on tar-sands pollution, racism, and sexism | Grist
Melina Laboucan-Massimo was born in the wilds of northern Alberta, Canada, in a tiny town aptly named Peace River. She grew up in Little Buffalo, an even tinier town about 65 miles to the east, where most of her family still lives.
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A Canadian lawyer has launched a constitutional challenge of an anti-online harassment law, arguing its definition of “cyberbullying” is too expansive and infringes on free expression.
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Captain America: Civil War Concept Art Reveals the Battle Lines | Vanity Fair
Do we now know which super-powered fists will be smashing into which photogenic jaws during Captain America: Civil War? Sure, ever since Robert Downey Jr. joined the cast of Captain America 3, we’ve known that Tony Stark and Steve Rogers would come …
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Science Has Its Problems, But the Web Could Be the Fix | WIRED
For many researchers, the scientific method is as close to a religion as they’ll ever get. The appeal is similar: The scientific method, rigorously followed, provides disciples with a hint of the objective truth an all-knowing god might impart. But …
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The father of Alison Parker, a Virginia journalist shot dead on television, vows to fight gun violence, saying his daughter must not die in vain. ‘How many times are we going to see a crazy person with a gun kill people,’ says Andy Parker, speaking …
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Facebook Wants to Crack Down on Pirated Videos | WIRED
Facebook says it will give video creators and publishers a way to remove copyrighted videos that have been uploaded to its popular social network without the proper permission.
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Polygamous family defends union by citing same-sex marriage ruling | US news | The Guardian
A polygamous family says the landmark supreme court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage shows that laws prohibiting consensual adult relationships are outdated even if the unions are unpopular.
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Hulu has no difficulty renewing Difficult People · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Good news for people who love people who hate everybody else. Deadline reports Hulu has renewed Difficult People, the freshman comedy starring Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner as codependent best friends living in New York and alienating basically e…
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White supremacist expressed surprise that Kansas victims were not Jewish | US news | The Guardian
Prosecutors in Kansas rested their case on Thursday in the murder trial of a white supremacist after playing a recorded call in which he expressed surprise that the three people fatally shot outside two Jewish centers last year were not Jewish.
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The Sopranos as a sitcom is no laughing matter · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It should come as no surprise that adding a wacky bass-infused theme song and a laugh track can do a lot to change the dynamics of a television show. What was once a dark drama with its own moments of black comedy can become a full-blown laugh riot,…
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Facebook brings us closer to Skynet with new virtual assistant M · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you find Siri too sassy or Cortana too limited, Facebook is now offering an upgraded knowledge-navigator experience. Wired reports the social network has begun rolling out a new virtual assistant called M (for “Messenger,” probably, or as an homa…
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Spike Lee will finally receive an (honorary) Oscar · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Even when they finally give him a Academy Award, the people at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences want to make sure Spike Lee doesn’t get anywhere near the podium on Oscar night.
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Rand Paul’s Patronizing, Self-Parodying Response To Black Lives Matter | ThinkProgress
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in a statement that seems calculated to antagonize members of the Black Lives Matter movement, said on Fox News Wednesday night that the movement should “change their name, maybe” to something that does not emphasize concern w…
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GREENVILLE, SC—Insisting there is no way anyone else would be able to get ahold of the weapons in his home, local gun owner Kevin Williamson told reporters Thursday he always keeps his firearms securely locked away where only he can access them duri…
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When Calling The Police On An Abusive Partner Leads To A Victim Losing Her Home | ThinkProgress
For seven months, Nancy Markham’s now ex-boyfriend visited violence on her in her apartment in Surprise, Arizona. “He choked me, punched me, threatened me with weapons,” she said on a call with press on Thursday.
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Yanis Varoufakis Takes Questions From 9 Leading Academics – The Atlantic
When Yanis Varoufakis was elected to parliament and then named as Greek finance minister in January, he embarked on an extraordinary seven months of negotiations with the country’s creditors and its European partners.
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Nasty Baby, the new film from Chilean writer-director Sebastián Silva (Magic Magic, Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus) premiered earlier this year at Sundance, but as its overseas release approaches, the first trailer for the indie drama has emerge…
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National Zoo Panda Cub Dies – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The smaller of the two panda cubs born to Mei Xiang last weekend at the National Zoo has died despite the medical team’s best efforts to save it, the second of Mei Xiang’s cubs to die in three years. What do you think?
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WASHINGTON—Waiting in line and nervously watching as, one by one, his fellow presidential candidates took their turn inside the machine, Gov.
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Vicious fight between two large headed women : animegifs
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Will Artificial Intelligence get high? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Technology”
With the speculative possibility of a sentient machine, can we assume that Artificial Superintelligence would “take drugs” or “get high”? Hopes&Fears looked toward researchers at Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Laboratory, as well as Dr.
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The Psychology Of Insecurity | TechCrunch
The recent Ashley Madison hack isn’t the only high-profile one to make headlines this summer. The personal and private information of more than 21.
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Afternoon Bulletin: NYPD Reassigned to Times Square | Observer
In an attempt to tackle the panhandlers and topless women covered by the media in recent weeks, NYPD officers taken out of Times Square earlier this year will soon be reassigned to the busy intersection.
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Good luck in the D2 playoffs, Emerald City Roller Girls! – Boing Boing
Tomorrow, Eugene’s scrappy Emerald City All-Stars face off against Chicago’s Outfit Roller Derby team at the WFTDA playoff’s in Detroit. Good luck! The Roller Girls didn’t just skate by other teams to get to the playoffs. It’s been a tough season an…
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Midday open thread: Petitioners hope to reverse NE death penalty repeal; D’Souza out-viles himself
These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook August 26:There is no “there” there: Clinton Email Scandal Falls Apart As State Says There Was No Policy, by Sassine Atlanta, GA Admits to Illegally Disenfranchising Voters in ’08 & ‘1…
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Evernote Food is shutting down, and that’s terrible | The Verge
The only reason I used Evernote is going away on September 30th, when the company shuts down recipe app Evernote Food. Launched in 2011, the iOS (and later Android) app was a food-focused complement to Evernote’s main note-clipping service.
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Study: 42% Of Americans Check Their Email In The Loo | TechCrunch
Need a quiet spot to check your email? Looks like for many people, that’s the bathroom. According to a new study from Adobe, 42 percent of Americans use their time there to check their email.
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Old Pal of Giuliani Sells West Village Townhouse for $10M | Observer
The last time we bumped into Elliot Cuker, he was showing off his shoulders, clad in a ripped t-shirt and giving some poor lady with a black veil quite a tongue-lashing. “Woman, I have seen more ladies in my time than you have seen sparrows in yours…
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BitTorrent patched against flaw that allowed crippling DoS attacks | Ars Technica
The maintainers of the open BitTorrent protocol for file sharing have fixed a vulnerability that allowed lone attackers with only modest resources to take down large sites using a new form of denial-of-service attack.
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Ray Bradbury’s FBI File Shows That He Was a Threat To Our Emotional Security
Ray Bradbury’s FBI file is not newly uncovered—it first appeared online in 2012 at Muckrock—but it’s been making the rounds this week. And as Slate’s Future Tense points out, it seems particularly timely given all of the debates over politics in sci…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Describes NASA’s Mission in Latest Peek at The Martian
We’ve gotten a few looks at Ares 3, the mission at the heart of the upcoming film The Martian, and this one comes courtesy of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Coming to us from the year 2035, Tyson explains the challenges that the crew of the Mar…
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‘Daughter Shot-Put’ Highlights Jim James’ ‘No Escape’ Video | Rolling Stone
Jim James has released a video for his heartfelt, slow-burning new track “Take Care of You,” which appears on the soundtrack to the Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan film, No Escape.
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Watch Gas-Guzzling Androids Battle in a Mad Max-Style Dystopian Future
The music video for The Chemical Brothers’ “Sometimes I Feel So Deserted” takes us to a literal desert, one that looks straight out of an Australian post-apolyptic movie.
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What is Earth’s Average Temperature?
Earth is the only planet in our Solar System where life is known to exist. Note the use of the word “known,” which indicates that our knowledge of the Solar System is still in its infancy, and the search for life continues.
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Palase, Vlore, Albania [960×717] : EarthPorn
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Stars above New Zealand mountains js – Just Space
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Have you noticed mysterious goo rolling onto American beaches? : environment
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News in Brief: Nation To Try Channeling Outrage Over Gun Control Into Issue That Can Actually Be Addressed http://t.co/2Spt5w7Pat
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Dan Bilzerian is one of those celebrities whose fame is difficult to comprehend.
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August 2015 Meteor Shower, Mount Baker, Washington. [2695×1797] : ExposurePorn
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Mirrors placed at an angle to make it seem like a painting : pics
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Reminder: The A.V. Club is coming to Bumbershoot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We mentioned it a couple months back, but here’s a reminder for anyone in the Seattle area over Labor Day weekend: The A.V.
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A Former Apple CEO Is Making Android Phones for Emerging Markets | Motherboard
John Sculley, a former Apple CEO known for falling out with and then firing Steve Jobs in 1985, is, perhaps appropriately, designing Android phones for developing markets. Their first two phones, the SF1 and the SF1.
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Amazon gives bizzare alien greeting to the Galaxy Quest TV show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
That Galaxy Quest TV show Paramount has been developing has found a home at Amazon, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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Photographing a 125-MPH Plane That’s Feet Off the Ground | WIRED
If photographing an airplane flying upside down just over your head at 125 mph sounds like it might be difficult, well, it is. When Red Bull offered Dan Vojtech had a chance to shoot its star racing pilot Martin Šonka, Vojtech knew he must do someth…
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Donald Trump: I don’t wear a toupee. It’s my hair, I swear – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump brings a woman onto stage at a a campaign speech in Greenville, South Carolina to prove his hair is real. Trump was responding to a New York Times article that quoted someone calling him ‘the man with a t…
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California lawmakers pass Fair Pay Act in win for equal pay protections | US news | The Guardian
California lawmakers have passed a fair pay act, aiming to end the wage gaps that exist between men and women for the same job across the state. The legislation passed by the state assembly on Thursday by a vote of 66-2.
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Walmart is well-known for its low prices, but it’s not always the most inexpensive option (in some cases, Amazon is). Go Banking looked to experts at deal hunting sites to find the best and worst deals at Walmart. Good news: LEGO sales abound.
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Apple Pay Aims at Food Trucks With New Mobile Payment Device – Eater SF
While San Francisco has recently been rightfully recognized as America’s number one food city, it’s still known (for better or worse) as a leader in the tech industry. Which is, of course, a double-edged sword— who else will can pay for these $200+ …
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San Francisco Mayor Vows to Remove City’s Homeless by Super Bowl Weekend | VICE News
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has promised to sweep the city’s downtown streets of its booming homeless population by the time the Super Bowl comes to town in early 2016. Lee has promised to move some of the homeless population into 500 housing units a…
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Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile – The New Yorker
This is the second installment of Malcolm Gladwell and Nicholas Thompson’s discussion of the 2015 World Track and Field Championships. Here is the first part, about Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, doping, and just how fast the marathoners run.
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American Horror Story could sprout two more heads · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Like the mythical Hydra who guarded the entrance to Hades at the lake of Lerna, Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story has proven nigh unkillable.
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Quebec Is Now the Only Place In Canada Where Streaming Music Doesn’t Suck | Motherboard
Easily the biggest barrier to streaming music on mobile phones is data—chiefly, a lack of data, thanks in no small part to Canada’s extremely expensive cellphone plans.
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Chrome is getting more aggressive about silencing autoplay videos | The Verge
Chrome is getting more aggressive about that least popular web feature: autoplay video. A new post from engineer François Beaufort laid out Chrome’s new approach, which will block playback as long as a given autoplay video is in a background tab.
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WASHINGTON—Reasoning that it would likely be a much better use of their time and effort, exasperated citizens across the nation announced plans Thursday to try channeling their current outrage over the country’s lack of effective gun control into an…
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Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia – The Huffington Post
“Hold on to something,” Jim Tennant warned as he fired up his tractor. We lurched down a rutted dirt road past the old clapboard farmhouse where he grew up. Jim still calls it “the home place,” although its windows are now boarded up and the outhous…
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The Traffic King of Reddit – The Awl
Last week, while avoiding work, I stared at a gif of an endless model train spiral for what seemed like hours, transfixed by the constant, seamlessly looping stream of miniature carriages, moving without end, going nowhere, yet constantly in motion.
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New Report Shows Germany Was In Bed With NSA | ThinkProgress
Behind the public admonishment of the National Security Agency’s spying techniques, Germany has been secretly in cahoots with the intelligence agency.
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How Illustrations Made A Comeback in the #FoodPorn Era | First We Feast
When journalist David Carr first wrote about Lucky Peach back in 2011, he singled out the debut cover as a striking symbol of its vision: a backside of a “wrinkly” chicken “squirting out graphic eggs.
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Sea levels are rising and show no signs of stopping | The Verge
Sea level rise due to warming oceans and melting ice is by now unavoidable. According to new NASA research released this week, sea levels have risen an average of almost 3 inches since 1992. At that pace, oceans will have risen by 3 feet by the end …
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Watch John Boyega wield a lightsaber in Star Wars: The Force Awakens | The Verge
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is coming this December, but other than a glimpse of Kylo Ren last year there’s been little footage of lightsabers in action.
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Facebook Starts Cracking Down on Video Piracy | Re/code
A year after it started making a big push into video, Facebook is acknowledging it has a video piracy problem. And it says it’s going to start fixing it.
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Seven Mutilated Bodies Found In Trash at Guatemala Prison | VICE News
Prison officials discovered the bodies of seven unidentified inmates stuffed into trash bins and bearing signs of torture at a notorious Guatemalan prison on Wednesday. The bodies were found in an area of the prison that houses members of the powerf…
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California beats water conservation goals amid drought with 31% cut in July | US news | The Guardian
California cities cut water use by a combined 31% in July, exceeding the governor’s statewide mandate to conserve, officials said Thursday.
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Photos Show How NASA Removed Tanks from Retired Space Shuttles for Station
New behind-the-scenes photos reveal how the water storage tanks deep inside NASA’s retired space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour were recently removed by the space agency for future use on the International Space Station.
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Star Wars Snuck a New Teaser Onto Instagram | WIRED
You already know that Instagram has expanded its canvas to include both portrait and landscape orientations. But what you should have anticipated is that Lucasfilm would find a way to leverage that.
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Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds, and Gena Rowlands to Receive Honorary Oscars | Vanity Fair
Every year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors key Hollywood figures who, even if they’ve previously won Oscars, are due for additional recognition.
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Cape Watch: Mad Max’s George Miller Might Direct the New Superman Movie | WIRED
As summer draws to a close and people start to wonder just how it is that Ant-Man wasn’t the disappointment they’d expected it to be (and that Fantastic Four totally was), it’s time to turn our attention to the future, and the movies awaiting us: su…
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Brian Nosek’s Reproducibility Project Finds Many Psychology Studies Unreliable – The Atlantic
No one is entirely clear on how Brian Nosek pulled it off, including Nosek himself.
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Dominatrix by Sylvio Testa / 500px
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Can Australia’s Approach to Gun Violence Work in America? | The New Republic
The on-camera shooting on Wednesday of two Virginia reporters has already reignited the debate over gun control in America.
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The Evolution of Batman in Cinema: From 1939 to Present | Open Culture
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Signs of Katrina Linger in the Marshes : Natural Hazards
Ten years after making landfall, scars from Hurricane Katrina still linger. And not just in the blighted houses that mar some neighborhoods. The marshes and swamps that buffer New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico still show evidence of Katrine’s wrat…
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Poppy Delevingne, Julia Restoin Roitfeld Share Their Favorite Outfits | Observer
Don’t we all have that go-to piece of clothing (or entire outfit) that is an unabashed favorite? It’s usually a pair of ultra-faded jeans from forever ago. Or maybe it’s that party dress that is a total conversation starter, but is still totally fla…
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Australian State May Force Convicted Pedophiles to Undergo Chemical Castration | VICE News
A new government task force in Australia is considering whether to force child sex offenders to undergo chemical castration as a judicial alternative to prison sentencing.
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FBI to US Art Dealers: ISIL-Looted Antiquities Hitting Market | Observer
The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a detailed warning to art collectors and dealers to be on high alert for looted antiquities seized from Syria and Iraq by ISIL. Artworks stolen by terrorist organizations, the agency warned, are known to be…
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Hillary Clinton Compares Anti-Abortion Republicans To Terrorists | ThinkProgress
In a speech in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, Hillary Clinton issued her strongest defense yet of a woman’s access to reproductive health care including abortions. After calling out former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and Ohio Gov.
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7 Out Of 10 Americans Want Their States To Comply With The EPA’s Climate Plan | ThinkProgress
Americans support the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan by a margin of nearly two to one, a new poll from the League of Conservation Voters found.
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Ashley Madison abusing DMCA “to put genie back in the bottle,” EFF says | Ars Technica
The online exposure of the Ashley Madison cheating sites’ membership data has, to say the least, shaken the Internet like a giant earthquake. Many of the site’s members have been unmasked as one of the millions of cheaters searching for an affair. S…
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Hillary Clinton on Thursday compared her Republican opponents to terrorist organizations when it comes to their views on women, telling an audience her potential rivals were pushing outdated policies. “Now extreme views about women? We expect that f…
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Christian Taylor soars to gold in world championships triple jump | Sport | The Guardian
In the stands, Jonathan Edwards could barely watch.
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John Boyega wields a lightsaber in new Force Awakens teaser · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
As Star Wars fans approach next week’s Force Friday (when all of the new Star Wars toys officially hit shelves), Disney and the notoriously secretive J.J. Abrams have been very slowly doling out new information about The Force Awakens.
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Perform Quick Calculations and Conversions in Windows 10’s Taskbar
Quick: How many grams are in an ounce? How many Euros is $1 worth? What’s the square root of 65? Windows 10’s search in the taskbar can answer these and similar questions.
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Instagram 7.5 removes ratio restriction, says it’s hip not to be square | Ars Technica
If ever a social media service has proven that popularity matters more than functionality, Instagram pulled that off.
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Google Responds to EU Antitrust Charges | WIRED
Google has finally responded to antitrust charges filed against the company by the European Union last April.
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Planned Parenthood says covertly filmed videos were heavily altered | US news | The Guardian
Planned Parenthood has sent a report to Congress saying controversial videos of officials discussing fetal tissue for research were heavily altered by anti-abortion activists.
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What to Do If You Think You Have Food Poisoning
The worst food poisoning I ever had was a few days after returning from a weekend vacation with friends.
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A Huge Study Found Less than Half of Psychology Findings Were Reproducible | Motherboard
Scientists love a good study of studies, but a new paper in Science takes this investigative thoroughness to a particularly high level: It features 270 researchers attempting to replicate a whopping 100 experiments from previously published psycholo…
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The Weirdest Crime in History: “Looking Good While Poor”
Sumptuary laws are the quaint old laws which made it illegal for peasants to look, eat, or travel in more style than the upper classes. They make for very interesting reading. They’d probably be even more interesting if they were introduced today.
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There will soon be a new way to look at the international phenomenon that is 50 Shades Of Grey: From the point of view of a small publisher who is finally getting paid the royalties she was owed.
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As China’s economy slows, countries with significant exposure to raw materials, like Australia and Brazil, are facing serious headwinds. Germany exports machinery and automobiles to China, which had been a counterbalance to slow growth in Europe.
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Annals of Gastronomy: Spice Mix – The New Yorker
How to properly flavor a dish is considered, by most of us, to be a vexing affair.
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What I Learned from Chess | Observer
Chess got me a girlfriend, it got me into college, it got me into graduate school, it got me my first job, it helped me raise money, it got my company sold, and it opens doors when previously they seemed locked to everyone around me. But all of that…
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It has been a long-standing ornithological mystery as to why tropical songbirds have smaller clutches of eggs and raise fewer chicks per breeding effort than do temperate songbirds.
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See How Much Hurricane Models Have Improved Since Katrina | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Ten years ago, on August 24, Katrina was a tropical storm brewing over the Bahamas. Over the next five days, it would get stronger and weaker, and then stronger and weaker again before finally hitting …
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German justice minister tells Facebook to take racism more seriously | The Verge
Germany’s minister of justice and consumer protection is urging Facebook to respond more proactively to racist material, as the country faces anti-refugee protests and violence.
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Psychology Is Starting To Deal With Its Replication Problem | FiveThirtyEight
Last week, I made the case that science isn’t broken, it’s just hard. Today in the journal Science, a group of more than 350 researchers published a paper demonstrating the challenges of a core step in scientific inquiry: replication.
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Saudi-led forces accused of cluster bombings in Yemen – Al Jazeera English
Human Rights Watch has accused Saudi-led coalition forces of using cluster bombs that are illegal under international law in its conflict with Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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A neural network tries to identify objects in Star Trek:TNG intro
Ville-Matias Heikkilä pointed a neural network at the opening title sequence for Star Trek: The Next Generation to see how many objects it could identify. But the system hadn’t seen much space imagery before,1 so it didn’t do such a great job.
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Sea levels are rising and they’re not going to stop, says NASA | Grist
Global sea levels have risen by an average of three inches since 1992, the result of warming ocean temperatures and melting ice sheets and glaciers, according to new data released by a NASA panel yesterday. And the data suggest that we can look forw…
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An Interactive Guide To Police Killings And The System That Excuses Them | ThinkProgress
Upon hearing the news that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, caught on film using an illegal chokehold and ignoring Eric Garner’s now-famous cry of “I can’t breathe,” would not be indicted, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets in prote…
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Forensic Analysis Shows the Real Planned Parenthood Scandal Is the Videos Themselves | The Nation
On Tuesday, the Center for Medical Progress—an anti-abortion group that has little to do with actual medicine—released the eighth in its series of undercover videos purporting to show that Planned Parenthood officials have profited from illegal sale…
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Some thoughts on Bernie : Liberal
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The Problem With Bernie – Tilting Ground
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Instagram Finally Allows Landscape and Portrait Photos
Android/iPhone: Instagram has rolled out an update to its app that allows you post landscape or portrait photos and videos, finally ditching the requirement to make photos square. Basically, you’re no longer required to post square photos.
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Google On EU’s Anti-Competitive Claims: “Concerns Are Unfounded” | TechCrunch
We’re a little over five years into the EU’s antitrust investigation of Google and today’s back and forth is about Google Shopping results.
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Customers Are Boycotting UPS Because It Ships Severed Animal Heads | Motherboard
Next time you ship a package, it might make its journey sitting next to the severed head of an African elephant. Thousands of wildlife products are being flown around the world every day, ferried below unaware passengers on commercial flights or ins…
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Tech nerds are smart. But they can’t seem to get their heads around politics. – Vox
We live in an age of nerds. Sometimes I try to explain to my kids that I grew up in a time — a dark age known as The Eighties — when reading comic books, playing fantasy-based card games, watching Doctor Who, or being really into computers could get…
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Donald Trump: I don’t wear a toupee – BBC News
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has hit back at accusations he wears a toupee. He invited one of his supporters at a rally in Greenville, South Carolina, to come on stage and examine his hair and then declare to those gathered that it w…
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The Vergecast will be live today at 4:30PM ET! | The Verge
Siri, give us a hint. No, seriously, quit teasing us, your hints are very nonspecific. Is it bigger than a breadbox? Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? What happens if I Force Touch it? Ok, fine, we’ll wait until September 9th. But we’re going to …
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The Next iPhone May Come With Animated Wallpapers | TechCrunch
It would appear that the next-gen iPhone may come with some added flare. Sources told 9to5mac that the UI for the iPhone 6S may come with animated wallpapers, not unlike the animated watch faces that shipped with the Apple Watch.
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Vaccines Weren’t Ready for Ebola. We Can Do Better | WIRED
By the time the World Health Organization declared Ebola a “public health emergency of international concern” last August, the virus had spread to four West African countries and taken nearly 1,000 lives. Over the next year, Ebola would claim over 1…
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Techy Is An On-Demand Repair Service For Laptops | TechCrunch
While companies like iCracked have extensive repair networks allowing you to get a phone or tablet repaired in just hours, getting a laptop repaired normally requires making an appointment, dropping your device off, and eventually picking it up days…
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Scott Walker to give big foreign policy speech, possibly including actual foreign policy
In an interview Tuesday, Walker told me he would be demonstrably different from Bush on foreign policy by scuttling the Iran deal as soon as he took office. Anyhoo, this promises to be great fun.
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Jared Fogle, Subway’s lead pitchman for 15 years, may be on his way to prison, and the restaurant chain is losing a cornerstone of its enormously successful brand story. But it doesn’t have to.
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Croissants with Cthulhu – The New Yorker
At seven-thirty on a recent August morning, Providence was shrouded in mist. I scuttled down Steeple Street, entered the Art Deco Biltmore Hotel, and took the elevator to the seventeenth floor. Two cloaked and hooded men swept past, bearing fruit cu…
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New Star Wars Footage Reveals a Lightsaber Battle Between John Boyega and Adam Driver | Vanity Fair
One of the most exciting reveals out of Disney’s D23 Expo was the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster which showed John Boyega’s character wielding a blue lightsaber. Well now we can see that weapon in action in this new snippet of footage from …
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Tap water restored to 80,000 homes after parasite alert – BBC News
Tap water in 80,000 homes in Lancashire has been declared safe to drink, after the discovery of a parasite at a treatment works left residents boiling water for three weeks. Parts of Blackpool, Chorley and Preston got the all clear from 18:00 BST, U…
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Movies based on video games usually don’t go so well, but this movie based on a video game has Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, so here’s hoping the Assassin’s Creed film adaptation can raise the stakes for the genre.
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Here’s the Trailer for the Remastered Iron Giant For You to Cry At
No, I’m not crying. You’re crying. Brad Bird’s amazing 1999 film has been remastered for a Blu-Ray release this fall. But before that, it’s going back into the theaters on September 30 and October 4.
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Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS) says it will pursue SoundCloud “through the courts” for unpaid royalties. In a letter to its members, PRS says that SoundCloud needs a licence to operate in the UK and Europe.
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This week marks the release of highly anticipated albums from the Weeknd and Alessia Cara. They’re just two of many artists hailing from Toronto, a city that, over the past five years, has come to dominate the music world with its dark, hazy take on…
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What It Means When Female Pop Stars Pick Up Guns | The FADER
Senseless violence is a depressingly common part of mainstream news—and with the advent of newsfeeds, of our every waking moment. Just this week, I’ve seen headlines proliferate about the victims of the awful onscreen shooting in Virginia, where a n…
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Holders Barcelona get favourable Champions League draw – Al Jazeera English
Holders Barcelona were handed a favorable draw with Bayer Leverkusen, Roma and BATE Borisov in the Champions League. Real Madrid were placed in a tougher group with Shakhtar Donetsk and Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s current and first clubs, Paris Saint-Germa…
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The shot that killed a young San Francisco woman, touching off a heated debate over immigration, ricocheted off pavement before striking her in the back, something defense attorneys say show the killing was an accident.
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See Clare Dunn Bust Out Fiery Fretwork in ‘Move On’ Video | Rolling Stone
With opening slots on cross-country tours by Lee Brice, Chris Young and Miranda Lambert, Clare Dunn — one of Rolling Stone Country’s Artists You Need to Know — is gearing up for a busy fall.
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Nationwide revulsion over the killing of two journalists on live television has prompted fresh calls for gun reform – but campaigners are as far as ever from cutting through the political gridlock that prevents it at many levels of US government.
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Ride this surreal subway line to wonderful places – Offworld
Most of us use public transportation for very goal-oriented purposes: we have somewhere we need to go, and we take the shortest path possible to get there.
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How To Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets Of Navy SEALs & Olympians | Observer
Know what’s really interesting? Learning how Navy SEALs build mental toughness to handle deadly situations. Know what else is really interesting? Learning how Olympic athletes deal with the pressure of competition when the entire world is watching.
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Peter Hall obituary | Environment | The Guardian
As a lecturer in tourism at Manchester Metropolitan University, my father, Peter Hall, showed students at the university’s Hollings campus and on field studies in areas as diverse as the Peak District, Snowdonia and Budapest the benefits and limits …
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4 Percent Growth Doesn’t Look So Crazy When You’re At 3.7 Percent
A few weeks ago, liberal critics jumped on Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s suggestion that he could get the nation’s economy to grow at a 4 percent annual rate. They not only criticized the policies he proposed to get there; they critic…
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The Downstairs Gays – The Morning News
One afternoon about a year ago, I found a CB2 catalog in my mailbox addressed to one of my downstairs neighbors, a well-heeled gay couple in their early 30s.
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Europe’s Views of the Iran Deal Differ from America’s and Israel’s – The Atlantic
The survival of the Iran deal seems more likely by the day; for past assessments of what that might mean in the Middle East, the United States, and beyond, please see the items grouped here. Two weeks ago, as part of a collection of notes from reade…
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You can’t buck the market, so said Margaret Thatcher back in the late 1980s. Maybe you can’t, but the world’s policymakers are giving it their best shot. Let’s just consider the context. August has seen a big sell-off in shares amid concerns that th…
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A Truly Original Baby Name Will Cost You More Than $30K – The Atlantic
There is a company that promises to come up with a list of names for your new baby that are—as much as baby names can possibly be—unique.
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Apple will stream its iPhone event to Windows 10 users | The Verge
For the first time in years, Apple is planning to stream its iPhone event to Windows users. A webpage for the September 9th iPhone event reveals that Apple will support Windows 10 PCs with the Microsoft Edge browser.
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For some gay activists, it had shades of bathhouse raids and gay-bar roundups from decades ago. On Tuesday, federal authorities burst into the Union Square office of the gay-escort website Rentboy.com and arrested the chief executive and several emp…
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Randy Pitchford on Battleborn, the new genre-busting game from the makers of Borderlands | The Verge
Gearbox Software is no stranger to skepticism. When the company first started showing 2009’s Borderlands to people, it was greeted with incredulity and the well-intentioned advice to “just do more Brothers in Arms.
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The Atlantic is Bringing Blogging Back | | Observer
The Atlantic is returning to blogging, the158 year-old media company announced last night in a blog post. The new section of TheAtlantic.com, called Notes, will be a place for “first thoughts, running arguments, stories in progress,” the section’s t…
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Jewish Activists Focus Intense Anger on Jerold Nadler | | Observer
An email listserv that resembles a Who’s Who of hawkish New York Jewish thought leaders exploded with anger Tuesday morning as members of Manhattan’s right wing train their sites on Jerold Nadler, the Congressman who announced last week that he woul…
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Look Who’s Wielding Luke’s Lightsaber in this Brand-New Force Awakens Footage
Is that a lightsaber in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? The Star Wars Instagram has just posted a brand new clip from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and it features a geek-melting shot of Finn (John Boyega) lighting up a blue lightsaber.
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We Rank the Animated Shorts That Define Disney’s Success | WIRED
During his life Walt Disney amassed 22 Academy Awards, more than anyone in film before or since, but none for any of his classic animated features—that category didn’t exist until 2001. The majority of his statuettes instead came from the category n…
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Rescued beagles feel grass for the first time – video | World news | The Guardian
The Beagle Freedom Project have released footage of the moment that thirty-eight caged beagles are released from captivity in the United States.
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BBC Sport – John Stones: Everton reject transfer request from defender
Everton have rejected a transfer request from defender and Chelsea target John Stones. More to follow.
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Today, we’re excited to announce that — in addition to square posts — you can now share photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientation on Instagram. Square format has been and always will be part of who we are.
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Democrat Picks Up UNITE HERE Backing in Bid for Eastern Queens Seat | Observer
Food service workers union UNITE HERE Local 100 today announced it is supporting attorney and activist Ali Najmi in the special election to replace former Queens Councilman Mark Weprin, who resigned earlier this year to join Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s admi…
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Cute Wonder Woman lunchbox banned from school for being too violent – Boing Boing
Not sure if it’s the scary-looking lasso or the ass-kicking red boots, but a school on Mainstreet, USA banned this dangerous Wonder Woman lunchbox from campus.
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Kentucky clerk denies marriage licenses to gay couples despite court order | US news | The Guardian
James Yates and William Smith Jr said that officials at Rowan County courthouse, led by clerk Kim Davis, refused to provide the couple with the paperwork for a marriage license on Thursday.
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Trevor Noah’s Daily Show Leans Even Further Toward the Internet | Vanity Fair
If you’re a TV news program, you can continue thinking about Snapchat and Instagram and the rest as mere social media, or distractions, the stuff that people entertain themselves with when there’s nothing real to watch.
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iPhone rumors: everything we think we know about the new Apple iPhone 6S | The Verge
The iPhone camera is finally upping its megapixel count. 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman reports that the next major flagship from Apple will feature a 12-megapixel camera, an increase over the 8-megapixel approach the company has stuck with for years.
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Maybe The Apple Watch Isn’t a Flop After All | WIRED
Apple won’t say how many Apple Watches it has sold, but market research firm IDC thinks the company’s new-fangled wearable is doing pretty well—at least as new-fangled wearables go. IDC says that Apple shipped 3.
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UK jihadist Junaid Hussain killed in drone strike – US says – BBC News
They said Junaid Hussain from Birmingham, who fled to Syria in 2013 at the age of 20, had been a “high-value target” within the Islamic State group. The US said it was a “serious blow” to the militant group and a “swift act of justice against a top …
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Instagram Ends the Tyranny of the Square | WIRED
Rejoice: The iron-fisted reign of the square is dead.
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Robin Murphy: These robots come to the rescue after a disaster | TED Talk | TED.com
When disaster strikes, who’s first on the scene? More and more, it’s a robot. In her lab, Robin Murphy builds robots that fly, tunnel, swim and crawl through disaster scenes, helping firefighters and rescue workers save more lives safely — and help…
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Death of Knut, the Polar Bear, Finally Explained | Vanity Fair
A team of researchers announced on Thursday that they had found the reason why Knut, Earth’s most beloved polar bear, died a tragically early death in 2011: he had suffered from a debilitating autoimmune disorder, and not, as several reports indicat…
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How Facebook Idiots Reacted to Today’s Austrian Refugee Death Tragedy | VICE | United Kingdom
Today, the decomposing bodies of dead refugees were discovered in a car park on Austria’s A4 highway, just east of Vienna. Currently, there are no exact figures as to how many people are dead but estimates range from 20 to 50.
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$7.50 for a Day’s Work (Extra Scene from ‘The Fruits of Cheap Labor’) | VICE News
In northern Mexico, farm workers who pick produce bound for US supermarkets earn as little as $7 a day. They follow the harvest, traveling between the states of Sinaloa and Baja California as internal migrants in their own country.
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Luigi risks his life skateboarding in this Mario Kart parody · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Italian plumber and Nintendo staple Luigi doesn’t get the respect he deserves. He’s constantly overshadowed by his slightly older brother Mario who, time and time again, takes off on unpredictable adventures.
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The Solution to All of Your Life’s Problems | Observer
Do you struggle to find meaning in your life? Are you overworked and constantly broke? Do you wish you had better relationships with less conflict and more genuine love and intimacy?
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American Graffiti said goodbye to both summer and youth · 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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As he embarks on his quest to attain the perfect body, Forrest takes a few shortcuts to speed up the process. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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German minister urges Facebook to purge racist posts – Al Jazeera English
Facebook has accepted an invitation from Germany’s justice minister to hold talks on cracking down on racist posts on the social network site after widespread complaints from users.
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“Head Like A Hole” captured the dangerous allure of Nine Inch Nails · 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. “The guy told me they’re satanists!” my mom said.
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Is NASA Serious About Humans To Mars? | Video
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Workflow Lets You Put Shortcuts To Frequent Actions Right In iOS’s Notification Center | TechCrunch
Workflow, the clever if somewhat geeky app aimed at iOS power users that helps you automate frequent tasks you perform on your iPhone or tablet, like ordering an Uber to your next event, making a GIF from your photos, creating reminders that alert y…
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You can now post full-size landscape and portrait photos on Instagram | The Verge
Visit the Eiffel Tower in Paris, as I did last year, and you’ll see tourists contorting themselves to try and fit the length of the monument into Instagram’s iconic square frame. Even after Instagram began letting you shoot in landscape mode, you co…
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As journalists at the Virginia TV station WDBJ7 grieved openly for two colleagues who were shot and killed by a disgruntled former employee, the father of one of the victims, 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker, called for reform to America’s laws on…
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Here’s Why Amazon is Giving Away Tons of Free Apps | Motherboard
Amazon won plaudits yesterday when it launched Underground, a new Android app that, in addition to functioning like the normal Amazon shopping app, also promises users the ability to download “over ten thousand dollars in apps, games, and in-app ite…
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This Georgia Tech chemist is simulating the genesis of life in a $5 toaster oven
God might just as well have begun with a toaster oven. A few years ago at a yard sale, Nicholas Hud spotted a good candidate: A vintage General Electric model, chrome-plated with wood-grain panels, nestled in an old yellowed box, practically unused.
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Faking It — The California Sunday Magazine
Inside a 110,000-square-foot warehouse in northeast Los Angeles, Gregg Bilson Jr. is showing me his blood. There’s drinkable blood, chunky blood, dried blood, and flowing blood, all sitting in tidy rows on a display shelf.
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One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait imagery to fit in Instagram’s square cropping.
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7 Things To Do in NY’s Art World This Weekend | Observer
Screening: “Period Rohmer: The Marquise of O… and Other Films” at BAM Grab your beret and head on down to BAM for BAMcinématek’s week-long run of films by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer.
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BBC Sport – Champions League draw: Arsenal to play Bayern Munich
Arsenal will face Bayern Munich in the Champions League for the third time in four seasons after being drawn against the German club in the group stage. Manchester United will play PSV Eindhoven on their return to the competition, with striker Memph…
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Secret Wars has ended the old Marvel Universe, but thanks to some skillful cosmic surfing, Norrin Radd and Dawn Greenwood have escaped annihilation in the pages of Silver Surfer.
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Siri’s hints about Apple’s iPhone event are a giant tease | The Verge
Apple just announced its big iPhone event for September 9th. Usually blogs are delicately picking apart the invite image for hidden clues, but this time Apple has involved Siri for some additional fun.
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Ars Technica: A technical issue has occurred.
Google has responded to European Union regulators’ claims that its search results violate antitrust law, saying its search results are focused on “improving quality” and not anti-competitive. The blog post accompanies Google’s formal legal response …
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Have You Tried Asking Siri To Give You A Hint? | TechCrunch
Hey Siri, give me a hint. Apple just invited journalists to his annual September press event. It’s happening on September 9th at 10am. But the best part of this invite is the attention to details and Apple’s easter eggs. The invite starts with a sim…
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Cotopaxi Continues to Rumble as Ecuador Prepares for Eruption | WIRED
Cotopaxi in Ecuador continues to rumble after its first eruption in 70 years earlier this month. Over the last week, the volcano has been emitting almost constant steam-and-ash plumes punctuated by small explosions—all signs that magma is rising int…
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The government wants to slash by 87% subsidies for householders who install solar panels on their roof tops, in a move that renewable energy experts warn could kill off a promising industry.
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Here’s What Happens When You Ask Siri for a Hint | WIRED
It’s official: Wednesday (not Tuesday!) September 9 is the Apple event. Things kick off at 10am at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, a cavernous venue in SF’s city center that holds thousands of people.
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Verizon and T-Mobile join forces in fight for Wi-Fi airwaves | Ars Technica
A plan to use Wi-Fi airwaves for cellular service has sparked concerns about interference with existing Wi-Fi networks, causing a fight involving wireless carriers, cable companies, a Wi-Fi industry trade group, Microsoft, and network equipment make…
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A Decade of Anna Wintour’s Tennis Tournament Outfits | | Observer
What does Anna Wintour do in her spare time, when she finally gets a break from editing Vogue, attending fashion shows and sporting a tough-to-read facial expression behind a pair of large, dark sunglasses? She attends tennis matches, of course (whe…
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Hunger Games studio plans trilogy on life of Julius Caesar | Film | The Guardian
A big-budget trilogy of epic films about the rise and ultimate fall of Julius Caesar, from the studio behind The Hunger Games, is heading to multiplexes, reports Deadline.
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Nazi ‘gold train’: Treasure hunters warned of risks – BBC News
Polish authorities have warned treasure hunters to stop looking for a rumoured Nazi “gold train” as it could be mined or carrying “dangerous materials”. Such activities had increased in the south-western Walbrzych area after new reports of a train b…
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The Islamic State’s Top Hacker Might Have Just Been Killed in a US Drone Strike | VICE News
A leader of the Islamic State insurgency’s so-called “CyberCaliphate” hacking team has reportedly been killed in a US drone strike in Syria.
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Gadget ‘allergy’: French woman wins disability grant – BBC News
A French woman has won a disability grant after telling a court she suffers from an allergy to electromagnetic radiation from gadgets. Marine Richard, 39, was told she may claim €800 (£580) per month for three years as a result.
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Why We Can’t Get Over Ourselves – Issue 27: Dark Matter – Nautilus
You and I are members of one of the most social species on the planet. No human being succeeds in life alone.
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Why does it take so long to get a doctor’s appointment? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they’re talking about. Today, we wonder why must we wade through so much red tape just to be seen by a doctor.
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Donald Trump on his racist supporters: ‘Everybody likes me’
“People like me across the board. Everybody likes me,” Trump said, citing the poll from Public Policy Polling released Tuesday. He’s running circles around the rest of the Republican field, you know. I don’t know that everyone likes him, but the Rep…
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Mississippi State University has declared an all-clear and says a suspect is in custody after an active shooter was reported on campus. It said there was “no report at this time of any shots that have been fired” and that no injuries had immediately…
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See Whether It’s Cheaper to Fly Home for Christmas or Thanksgiving
The holidays are creeping up, and it’s time to start thinking about booking flights to visit friends or family across the country. Depending on where you plan to travel, prices might be considerable cheaper at Thanksgiving than Christmas, or vice ve…
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Invites go out for Apple’s September 9 iPhone event | Ars Technica
Apple has made it official: the company’s next product event happens on September 9 at 10am PT. The event will be held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, which is larger than the “town hall” event space on Apple’s campus in Cupert…
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Ars talks with Matt Damon on being astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian | Ars Technica
We’re going to stay away from any major spoilers in this story until a small one in the very last section, so stop reading there if you haven’t read the book! To get this out of the way right up front: we’re excited about the upcoming October releas…
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Jordan’s ‘anti-terror’ law cracks down on journalists – Al Jazeera English
Amman, Jordan – Last January, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Queen Rania marched alongside world leaders in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo attacks to stand for freedom of expression.
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Nigeria marks 500 days since Chibok girls’ abduction – Al Jazeera English
Relatives of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram mark 500 days since the abductions with hope dwindling for their rescue despite a renewed push to end the armed group’s rebellion.
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Get Ready for Apple News on Sept. 9 | Motherboard
Apple moments ago sent invitations to a press event to be held on September 9 in San Francisco, and Motherboard was invited! We can reasonably assume the company will announce next-generation iPhones, referred to as the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus …
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Democracy Now did a great interview today with journalist Allan Nairn, on the unprecedented protests taking place today in Guatemala. To follow today’s historic national strike as it unfolds, follow the hashtags #JusticiaYa #RenunciaYa on twit…
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Confirmed: Apple’s Next iPhone Event is September 9 | WIRED
It’s official: Wednesday (not Tuesday!) September 9 is the Apple event. Things kick off at 10am at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, a cavernous venue in SF’s city center that holds thousands of people.
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Sinkholes swallowing people in China this month – Boing Boing
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Sorry, But the Names for Weed Strains Are Kinda Meaningless | WIRED
So, my brother was like “Bro check out this Blueberry Kush,” and I was like, kind of sketched out because last week my cousin was like “Bro check out this Blueberry Kush,” and even then I was like “This Blueberry Kush looks a lot like the Purple Sou…
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Galaxy Tab S2: A lighter tablet with the right aspect ratio, high price | Ars Technica
Last night I made my way to the rooftop of a New York City hotel to pick up Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab S2, the sequel to last year’s reasonably well-regarded Galaxy Tab S. The new tablets, which come with 9.7-inch and 8.
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California is an agricultural powerhouse, supplying the majority of the nation’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
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Smoke grounds resources and aircraft battling Washington wildfires | US news | The Guardian
Smoke from big wildfires burning east of the Cascade Range grounded helicopters and airplanes that have been battling the flames in Washington state. The dense smoke also was causing respiratory problems for people far from the fire lines.
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Most Shocking V.M.A. Moments Aren’t That Shocking | Vanity Fair
During an Instagram scroll last month, I stumbled upon a post by Miley Cyrus. Dressed in a neon-green alien body suit, tongue extended, Miley paused momentarily from adorning herself in weed-themed accessories to announce that she would be hosting t…
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See Emma Roberts and the Scream Queens Compete in an Ice Cream Taste-Off | Vanity Fair
This fall, just as college coeds are beginning their courses, Ryan Murphy returns to Fox with Scream Queens, a new campus-set series that crosses the bubble-gum camp of Glee with the death count of American Horror Story.
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Elizabeth Warren Is a More Interesting Late-Entry Prospect Than Than Joe Biden | The Nation
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren met over the weekend to discuss presidential politics. And the whole of American political media is still talking about it — when it isn’t talking about Donald Trump.
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German Justice Minister Tells Facebook to Clean Up Racist Posts | Motherboard
German justice minister Heiko Maas has criticized Facebook for not doing enough to keep racist and xenophobic content from being posted to the site.
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The Numenera RPG Is Getting Much Weirder and Even Better
If the science-fantasy world of RPG Numenera wasn’t weird enough for you (with its Aeon Priests and forgotten technologies and invisible ziggurats), its creators are planning to take it into space, beneath the oceans, and into other dimensions with …
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Here’s Michael Fassbender in the Assassin’s Creed Movie, as a Brand New Character
After years of delays and false starts, the Assassin’s Creed movie is finally happening and there’s visual evidence. That’s Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch, the star of the film and a brand new character, so as to not mess with the history of the…
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VIENNA — The decomposing bodies of as many as 50 people assumed to be migrants being smuggled across Europe were found in a truck abandoned on a highway east of Vienna on Thursday, the police said.
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HONG KONG — The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent heavily for years, mining iron ore across Australia, digging for copper in Chile, and pumping oil off the coast of Trinidad. The company could be confident in its direction as commodities orders s…
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Drone pilot spots man sunbathing atop 200-foot-tall wind turbine – Boing Boing
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Apple Invites Press To iPhone Event On September 9th Files | TechCrunch
“Hey Siri, give us a hint” is about all the hints we’re going to get on what’s coming up at the next Apple event. Some say new iPhones, new Apple TVs and both.
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German spy-agency gave the NSA German’s private data in exchange for Xkeyscore access – Boing Boing
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV — Germany’s domestic spy agency) coveted access to Xkeyscore, the NSA’s flagship tool for searching and analyzing mass-surveillance data, so they secretly, illegally traded access to Ge…
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After Katrina, FBI prioritized cellphone surveillance – Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock sez, “There’s a lot of lessons that the federal government should have learned in the aftermath of Katrina.
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Something about the name Sushi Go had me hesitant to take the game seriously. It landed in my game closet over a year ago and remained untouched. Then last week my family wanted to play something new, so I finally ripped open the Sushi Go’s plastic …
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Apple iPhone event announced for Wednesday, September 9 | The Verge
Apple has just announced its next iPhone event, sending out invitations to the press for September 9th, as expected. The company is expected to unveil a new pair of smartphones: the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.
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Google responds to EU charges that its search results are anti-competitive | The Verge
Following the European Union’s formal accusation of antitrust practices by Google, the company has now officially responded. Not surprisingly, Google is arguing that the “allegations are incorrect,” and that its search practices haven’t harmed consu…
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FDA Wants Food Makers to Hand Over Their Contaminated Samples – Scientific American
The FDA is building a network of state and federal labs equipped to map out the exact DNA sequence of strains of Listeria, Salmonella and other foodborne pathogens.
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Why Legal Aid Is Crucial Part of Disaster Recovery | The Nation
I can barely believe it was 10 years ago that Hurricane Katrina upended our corner of the world. Almost two thousand lives were lost and there are damages of $108 billion dollars and counting, making it the costliest hurricane in U.S. history.
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Waiting for the Presidents in New Orleans | The Nation
On Barack Obama’s first opportunity as president to join New Orleans as we commemorated an anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, he instead sent what amounted to a postcard. Obama and his family were vacationing on Martha’s Vineya…
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Abortion opponents are sifting through public records — including 911 calls, autopsy reports, and state health department documents — in order to glean medical information about women who have had abortions, according to a report from the Washington…
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Watch Ashley Monroe Deliver Dark ‘I Buried Your Love Alive’ on ‘Conan’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Ashley Monroe Deliver Dark ‘I Buried Your Love Alive’ on ‘Conan’ One of the most haunting tracks on Monroe’s new album ‘The Blade’ was inspired by the book ‘Feelings Buried Alive Never Die ‘
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Last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight is getting a fun update — from now until September 8, users can enter a contest to visit to the Los Angeles set of Silicon Valley while the HBO show shoots its third season.
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Winemaking is not new to San Francisco. In the 19th century, hills were lined with grapevines – a familiar sight for many of the Europeans hoping to make it rich in California’s gold rush.
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Trump: The opposite of coattails
The debate over Trump’s immigration stance “will, by its very nature spill down to races,” the strategist said. Naturally, the Democrats are all over it, feverishly working to make sure The Donald’s comments stick like glue to the GOP.
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The Internet Won’t Let Us Look Away From Murder | Motherboard
Maiming, death, murder: the ugliest shadows of the human heart have always been with us, and have graced the evening news and the front pages of newspapers for decades. In 2015, they stream right into our eyeballs, auto-playing on our devices withou…
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Andy Murray drawn against Nick Kyrgios in US Open | Sport | The Guardian
Andy Murray has been drawn against the bad boy of tennis Nick Kyrgios in the first round of next week’s US Open. The Australian is currently facing a one-month ban from the tour if he is found guilty of breaching behavioural standards in the next si…
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Apple Pay For Everyone! PayAnywhere Mobile Reader Hits Apple Stores in September | TechCrunch
It doesn’t happen that often, but once in a while I find myself in the wild without my wallet and really need to buy something.
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Leaked photos give us the best look yet at new Moto 360 | The Verge
Earlier this month, an FCC report indicated that Motorola may be set to offer two versions of the next Moto 360. A new image posted by the HelloMotoHK Google+ account shows what seems to be a smaller Moto 360, set alongside the original for comparis…
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Shortcut app Workflow now works in the iOS Notification Center | The Verge
One of the best shortcut apps on iOS just got an added boost of functionality, because Workflow now offers widget integration with Apple’s Notification Center. And, in many cases, you’ll be able to run a specific workflow immediately from Notificati…
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Michael Fassbender is an actor. A very good actor. The first time you saw him was probably in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. Or maybe X-Men: First Class, when he played Young Magneto. And if you’re like me, you’ve watched as he’s gone on t…
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Moment of silence held on air for journalists killed in Virginia – video | US news | The Guardian
The morning news crew from Virginia TV station WDBJ7 hold a moment of silence for two of their journalists killed yesterday during a live broadcast. The news anchor, holding back tears, says staff will never forget the tragedy that unfolded, and tha…
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Walmart to halt selling some military-grade weapons – BBC News
US retailer Walmart has announced it will stop selling certain military-grade guns due to low sales. That includes AR-15 rifles and other semiautomatic weapons, which were only being sold at a third of the 4,600 Walmart stores in the US.
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Seeing as we’re a week and half out from Labor day, it’s time for advertisers to open the Christmas floodgates (not the “Holiday” floodgates, because it’s not like we choke on an accelerating deluge of Hanukkah promotions for four months).
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Onion Explains: Global Nuclear Proliferation – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
How close has the nuclear-armed world come to a descending into outright global catastrophe? The Onion explains nuclear proliferation.
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Maria Bello to play Billy Bob Thornton’s ex in Amazon’s Trial · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Maria Bello has been cast opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Trial, the upcoming Amazon drama currently on track for a 10-episode order at the streaming service. The legal drama comes from legal drama wizard David E.
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IoT And The Rise Of Subscription Marketing | TechCrunch
The ties that bind consumers to brands are growing stronger. At the same time, however, they are fading into the background, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). Today, a slew of devices, from refrigerators to thermostats, are connecting to the I…
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Announcing The Disrupt SF 2015 Agenda | TechCrunch
Every year, at the end of summer, a new kind of school opens in San Francisco. The school year is truncated – only three days of intense education – and the students come from all walks of life. There are hungry makers, intent on building the next b…
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Google Rolls Out Personalized Storm-Tracking Information In Search Results | TechCrunch
With the U.S. hurricane season about to kick off, Google announced today that it’s expanding the weather-related information that will appear in Google search results when web users search for information about particular storms or tornadoes.
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Deadline Extended: Only Three Days Left To Save $1,000 On Disrupt SF Tickets | TechCrunch
The window was supposed to close last week, but we’ve extended the deadline for early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2015 to this Friday, August 28. That means you have only three days left to save $1,000 on tickets to the show before the prices jump to…
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Welcome to Include 2.0, TechCrunch’s Diversity Program | TechCrunch
In June of 2014, TechCrunch launched Include, a program designed to direct TechCrunch’s resources to improve diversity in the startup community. In year one, our approach was simple. The headliner was a $50k grant to support an organization making s…
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Narvar, A Service That Improves Online Post-Purchase Experiences, Raises $10M | TechCrunch
Narvar, a startup that enables companies to better engage with customers after online purchases, said it has raised $10 million. Narvar provides companies with software that improves the post-purchase experience.
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Direct Messenger Is An Unofficial Twitter DM App | TechCrunch
I can’t wait to see @alex crying tears of joy when Twitter finally releases a standalone Twitter DM app. This day hasn’t come yet, but it doesn’t mean that third-party developers aren’t already working on it. Meet Direct Messenger, an unofficial iOS…
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Watch: Magician Cyril Takayama works the streets of Tokyo – Boing Boing
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iPhone 6S will reportedly feature 12-megapixel camera, 4K video recording | The Verge
The iPhone camera is finally upping its megapixel count. 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman reports that the next major flagship from Apple will feature a 12-megapixel camera, an increase over the 8-megapixel approach the company has stuck with for years.
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BBC Sport – US Open 2015: Andy Murray to face Nick Kyrgios in first round
Britain’s Andy Murray has been drawn against controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios in the first round of the US Open. More to follow.
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The Citizens Equality Act of 2017
Larry Lessig is raising funds for running for President in the 2016 election. Lessig would run as a “referendum president”, whose single task would be to pass a package of reforms called the Citizens Equality Act of 2017, and then resign to allow hi…
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When Trump Attacks! | FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump knows how to command attention, and one way he does that is by attacking … everyone. If you’re another candidate, in the media or just walking this earth, there’s a good chance you’ll be hit by some Trumpian fury at some point.
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Cosmic Oases –“Did Life Cross the Vast Gulf of Interstellar Space Long Ago?”
We only have one example of a planet with life: Earth. But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars. If we find alien life, new questions will arise.
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 2 September with commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.
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Grieving Father of Slain Journalist Vows to Fight for Gun Control | Mother Jones
The father of a Virginia journalist who was gunned down during a live TV broadcast on Wednesday morning delivered an emotional and devastating message about gun laws on Fox News.
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Breaking the Mold : Longreads Blog
Bella DePaulo, a Harvard-trained social scientist who is now a Project Scientist at UCSB, started her career researching deception.
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Chaos in England as ornamental wheelbarrow tipped over – Boing Boing
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In pictures: Agatha Christie: Unfinished Portrait – BBC News
A collection of previously unseen and rare photographs of Agatha Christie are on display at an exhibition marking the 125th anniversary of the author’s birth.Agatha Christie: Unfinished Portrait features images from the writer’s private collection t…
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This month, I broke the law. I wasn’t alone; I was with 1,500 others, many of whom had never broken any law for their beliefs before. Together we managed to shut down Europe’s biggest source of CO2 emissions: RWE’s lignite mines in the Rhineland in …
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We look because it’s there. We humans look towards violence in order to define it, to decide where we must run (or if we should stand and fight). We are fascinated by suffering. There is a cognitive bias towards the terrible. Many complain that ther…
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Amazon is now developing a Galaxy Quest TV series | The Verge
By Grabthar’s hammer, Galaxy Quest is heading to Amazon. According to Entertainment Weekly, the new series based on the 1999 sci-fi cult classic is in development at Amazon Studios. The project is currently in its earliest stages, and a pilot hasn’t…
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Ashley Madison planned a “What’s your Wife Worth?” app – Boing Boing
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Microscopic zoom-in on a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod – Boing Boing
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Rising Sea Levels More Dangerous Than Thought – Scientific American
The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don’t fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) a…
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Vester Flanagan’s video of his own murderous shooting of Alison Parker and Adam Ward shows a brutal double killing from the shooter’s point of view.
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We built a robot to help you win The New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest | The Verge
In one of Seinfeld’s last episodes, Elaine and Jerry sit in their favorite diner. Elaine pulls out a copy of The New Yorker, points to a cartoon and says, “I don’t get this.” “Me neither,” Jerry says after some inspection. “And you’re on the fringe …
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Former security intern admits developing super-stealthy Android spyware | Ars Technica
A former intern at security firm FireEye has admitted in federal court that he designed a malicious software tool that allowed attackers to take control of other Android phones so they could spy on their owners.
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Google rejects EU’s search abuse complaint – BBC News
Google has rejected the EU’s objections to how it displays shopping links in its search results as “wrong as a matter of fact, law and economics”. Europe’s competition commissioner had accused the firm of abusing its dominance in search in April.
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Antonio Banderas Follows His Dreams and Enrolls in Fashion School | Observer
The name Antonio Banderas doesn’t quite evoke images of haute fashion, or really style in general, but all that is bound to change. The actor has revealed that he is currently knee-deep in school work and it’s only his second week at London’s top fa…
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Director Brian De Palma has always been a polarizing figure in film, often times drawing as many scathing critiques as he has mentions of effusive praise. One thing his detractors and fans alike agree upon is that there are certain recurring element…
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Who, exactly, is asking Facebook to censor things for us? – Boing Boing
Could these services go further in policing such content? We asked Twitter, and a company spokesman referred us to its media policies.
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The Martian and Station Eleven are both $1.99 as Kindle ebooks today – Boing Boing
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A Kickstarter Pro’s How-To Guide For Making Sure Your Project Is Funded | Observer
There’s no golden rule for crowdfunding success, but you can improve your chances of getting funded with some research and a carefully crafted campaign.
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Germany trades citizens’ metadata for NSA’s top spy software | Ars Technica
In order to obtain a copy of the NSA’s main XKeyscore software, whose existence was first revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency agreed to hand over metadata of German citizens it spies on.
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European ‘extreme weather belt’ linked to worst drought since 2003 | Environment | The Guardian
A swathe of central Europe has suffered the most severe drought since 2003 in what EU climate experts see as a harbinger of climate changes to come.
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Financial Robo-Advisers Go Into Overdrive as Market Rumbles | WIRED
On Monday, as the global financial markets crashed, my boyfriend sent me a string of texts. He’s a relatively new investor, and his losses, he said, were piling up. But that’s not all.
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Hundreds of well-meaning journalists have flocked to New Orleans in the past weeks, each thinking to put his or her stamp on the quintessential “New Orleans: 10 Years After Katrina” story.
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Fans of anthropomorphic saplings capable of uttering only a few words can breathe a sigh of relief today, because the voice making those utterances is going to be familiar.
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Mogadishu book festival brings Somali talents together – Al Jazeera English
The Somali capital, Mogadishu, is hosting an international book fair, the first such event in the city in more than two decades.
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Though most publications reporting on the latest Oxford Dictionaries inclusions are leading with “butthurt,” The A.V.
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Amazon Adds Music And Water Controls To Echo As Part Of Alexa Fund Roll-Out | TechCrunch
Amazon has today announced that two new companies, Musaic and Rachio, are being added to the Amazon Echo platform with investments from the $100 million Alexa Fund.
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Captain America and Iron Man’s Civil War Teams Revealed
While there’s been many rumors circulating about just who is fighting who in the next Captain America movie—but newly emerged promotional art has given our first look at just who is standing with Captain America or Iron Man in Marvel’s impending sup…
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[OC] Midsummer in Gjelledalen Norway. Panorama [6203×2023] : EarthPorn
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When Donald Trump’s security escorted the Univision anchor Jorge Ramos out of a news conference on Tuesday, I decided that I was officially done. Maybe I should have been long before that.
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‘Radio Phoenix’ Rises From Galaxy Cluster Collision Ashes | Video
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The Decomposed Bodies of up to 50 Migrants Have Been Found in a Truck in Austria | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. Dozens of dead migrants have been discovered in a truck in Austria, near its eastern border with Hungary.
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Rand Paul tells Black Lives Matter: change your name – and your tactics | US news | The Guardian
The Black Lives Matter movement should change its name, Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul has advised.
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WDBJ7 early show back on air after journalists killed in Virginia – video | US news | The Guardian
Virginia TV station WDBJ7 open their early morning news show with a tribute to reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, who were killed yesterday by a gunman. The news anchor thanks all those who have supported the show in the wake o…
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The Red-Baiting of Lena Horne – The Atlantic
She was a goddess with a honey-sweet voice. “I remember once seeing her on a train,” says the jazz scholar and author Stanley Crouch. “She had a luminous restrained presence that most superstars try to pretend they have. She really had it.”
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Rebecca Lynch: ‘Perception’ Mayor ‘Does Not Care’ About Eastern Queens | Observer
Council candidate Rebecca Lynch last night admitted that many people in the eastern Queens district she hopes to represent feel that her former employer, Mayor Bill de Blasio, “does not care” about their issues—though she argued that sentiment preda…
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Virginia shooting: US TV station mourns murdered journalists – BBC News
Staff at a US TV station in Virginia have held a minute’s silence in memory of the two journalists shot dead by a disgruntled ex-colleague live on air. Vester Flanagan died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after he shot dead reporter Alison…
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Why Cities: Skylines has become the new darling of the city-building genre – Offworld
There’s a beautiful article in the New Yorker about the popular new city-building game Cities: Skylines—I admire any reference to Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” made in a conversation about video games, so good work, Simon Parkin.
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Can Kombucha Survive in Space? ESA Experiment Will Find Out
Microorganisms that cluster together and can stick to a surface are known as a biofilm. This Kombucha biofilm is similar to one that was recently sent into space by the European Space Agency.Credit: ESA–J. Harrod CC BY SA IGO 3.
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Murdered reporter’s father says stronger guns laws are now his ‘mission in life’
“And I know the NRA, I know what their position is going to be,” he said. “I can hear it now. They’re going to say, ‘Oh, gee, well, if they were carrying, this never would’ve happened.
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Virginia Shooter Was Fired from TV Station for “Aggressive” Behavior, | Vanity Fair
A series of memos revealed that Vester Lee Flanagan II, the shooter in Wednesday’s murder of a reporter and photographer during a live news segment, had been fired for his angry outbursts after being asked to seek counseling for his behavior, and pr…
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Samsung Pay US beta launches for all carriers except Verizon | The Verge
Samsung Pay will formally launch in the United States late next month, but if you want to try it before that, there’s now a beta you can register for. It’s open to anyone who owns a Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Note 5, or S6 Edge+ on all major carriers excep…
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SoundCloud is being sued by a UK licensing company for not paying royalties | The Verge
Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS), a group that represents musicians and publishers in the UK, is suing SoundCloud for failing to obtain the proper license to host PRS members’ music on its platform.
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Rubio Says There Are No American Refugees. He’s Wrong. | ThinkProgress
The issue of refugees has been prominently in the news in 2015 as millions of displaced people are currently seeking asylum away from home.
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Patti Smith Leads Powerful ‘Horses’ Set in Jimi Hendrix’s Studio | Rolling Stone
As part of a performance of her debut album Horses in the studio where she recorded it, Patti Smith sang her beatific cover of Them’s “Gloria” twice.
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These Animations Were Created with an Ultra-Precise Light-Painting Drone | Motherboard
California company PRENAV made it official yesterday, and it has aired an amazing promotional video to go with its debut, showing a drone using its system to write words and draw shapes in the air with light.
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Life360 Acquires Chronos To Add “Quantified Self” Tracking To Its Family Locator App | TechCrunch
Life360, the maker of mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone that help keep families connected, has acquired Chronos Mobile Technologies, a startup behind a number of mobile apps that passively collect data from users’ smartphones in…
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NBA star Derrick Rose accused of rape, reports say | Sport | The Guardian
Derrick Rose, the Chicago Bulls point guard, is reportedly being sued by an unnamed woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by Rose and two other men two years ago.
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Gabon: protecting vital forests, and communities | World news | The Guardian
Anne-Marie Ndong Obiang has a machete attached to her belt, which she assures us is “for cutting off poachers’ fingers”. In her spotless forest-green camouflage uniform she does not appear to be joking.
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NYC Tabloids Face Sharp Criticism Over WDBJ Covers | Observer
The New York Post and New York Daily News are both in hot water for putting photos of Roanoke, VA television reporter Allison Parker’s murder on their front pages today. The stills were taken from video footage that killer Vester L. Flanagan took as…
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“Metamorphosis” –The Evolution of Galaxies: The Basic Building Block of the Observable Universe
A team of international scientists has shown for the first time that galaxies can change their structure over the course of their lifetime.
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In pictures: Agatha Christie: Unfinished Portrait – BBC News
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Steller’s Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus); [2048 x 1461] : AnimalPorn
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Under the bridge by Tim McAndrew / 500px
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Make Your O.C. Dreams Come True and Buy Seth Cohen’s House | Vanity Fair
We may be hitting peak 90s nostalgia right now, but 00s nostalgia isn’t far away, and signs point to The O.C. being the standard-bearer for when the Juicy Couture generation comes roaring back. And where do you want to be when The O.C.
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Colombian migrant: ‘Maduro is throwing us out like dogs’ – BBC News
Colombia and Venezuela are holding talks on Thursday as a border row between the two countries intensifies. Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of a border post near the city of Cucuta and announced that Colombians liv…
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Art festival electrifies Ghana’s streets – Al Jazeera English
Accra, Ghana – The Chale Wote Street Art Festival was born in a spirit of recapturing the freedom and essence of African art in a post-colonial environment. Functioning independently of state control, the non-profit festival is free to the public an…
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Mystery twitterer linked to Ashley Madison dump – Boing Boing
Security blogger Brian Krebs is among those hot on the trail, and he “may have a new lead,” according to the New York Times. Some apparent problems with this hypothesis have already been noted, but the operator of the @deuszu account is doing his or…
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Every iOS Setting You Should Check When You Get a New Phone
Once upon a time, iOS “just worked” out of the box. But over the years, Apple’s introduced all kinds of features to iOS that most of us don’t want to use.
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The 10 Most Expensive Countries for Tourists to Visit
Vacations are expensive, and some destinations can be pricier than others. Here are the most expensive countries around the world for tourists, according to the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2015.
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The Beast With A Billion Backs · Futurama · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Relationships aren’t easy. You have to make compromises, and you have to change the way you view your life. You have to trust someone, and accept that this trust makes you vulnerable.
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A Look At The Class Of 2019 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
This year’s incoming college freshmen will comprise the graduating class of 2019, with the majority of students born in the year 1997.
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A hydroelectric project in India’s eastern Himalayas will soon destroy one of the winter habitats of the magnificent Tibetan crane, a vulnerable bird regarded by local Buddhists as the reincarnation of a the sixth Dalai Lama, scientists and environm…
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Missing Home: The Demolition of New Orleans After Katrina | The Nation
Read more in The Nation’s special issue, New Orleans: 10 Years Later.
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Rays of Light in the Shadow of Dark Money | The Nation
As the 2016 election season heats up, there is little doubt that dark money will once again dominate and distort the electoral process.
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The Mets’ Hot Streak Should Carry Into September | FiveThirtyEight
The New York Mets are on some kind of tear right now. With a 9-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night, the Mets have won 21 of their last 29 games — a run that dates to July 25 and the handful of player acquisitions the team mad…
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Marble Race–in Liquid! – Scientific American
Syrup or honey? Oil or water? Who will win in this liquid, marble-race challenge? Test the viscosity of common liquids around your house, and find out!
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Thai Government Whitewashing Bangkok Bombing to Reassure Tourists | The New Republic
BANGKOK — Last Monday, my aunt called me at around 7 p.m. A careful and soft-spoken woman, her voice was filled with worry: “Turn on the TV. Huge explosion at Rajprasong. Might be a bomb.
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Sunbather catches some rays on top of a wind turbine – video | US news | The Guardian
Drone footage shows a man taking a nap in the the bright sunshine on top of a wind turbine in Rhode Island. The drone travels up the side of the 200ft turbine to reveal the man, thought to be an engineer, lying flat on his back catching some rays.
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Two and a half years ago, Rose Broome had a moment that most San Franciscans are all too familiar with. She passed a homeless woman on the streets, but didn’t know what the best way to help her would be. Most people might brush that thought aside, b…
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ITV’s Jekyll & Hyde Looks Adequately Ridiculous
ITV released the first clip from its 10-part Jekyll & Hyde series. And it turns out that Jekyll/Hyde is basically a Victorian superhero in it.
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Mediterranean Eating Habits Prove Good for the Brain – Scientific American
Whenever the fictional character Popeye the Sailor Man managed to down a can of spinach, the results were almost instantaneous: he gained superhuman strength. Devouring any solid object similarly did the trick for one of the X-Men.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Disaster StoryBundle, $10 Steelbooks, and More
If you need to fill out your Kindle library, and don’t mind a heavy dose of the macabre, StoryBundle is offering 11 disaster books in their latest bundle. You’ll get six DRM-free ebooks if you pay the minimum $5, but anyone who ponies up $15 or more…
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Middle East faces water shortages for the next 25 years, study says | Environment | The Guardian
Water supplies across the Middle East will deteriorate over 25 years, threatening economic growth and national security and forcing more people to move to already overcrowded cities, a new analysis suggests.
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iPhone 6S will reportedly have animated wallpaper like the Apple Watch | The Verge
9to5Mac is reporting that at least one thing separating the iPhone 6S from its predecessor will have to do with wallpaper. Similar to Apple Watch (and Android’s live wallpaper feature), the next iPhone will reportedly support animated backgrounds.
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How a new coach made Kei Nishikori a grand slam contender | Sport | The Guardian
How does one begin to measure toughness? It’s probably most akin to gauging or producing team chemistry, and about as tangible. Lucky for Kei Nishikori and his coach, American legend Michael Chang, both have seemed to arrive for them almost effortle…
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Court Orders Montreal Cops to Pay Anarchist $15,000 For Wrongful Arrest | VICE News
A Quebec court has ordered two Montreal police officers to pay $15,000 to a prominent Canadian activist they wrongfully arrested and detained for five days in 2007.
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New Establishment Summit 2015 Announces New Speakers | Vanity Fair
With the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit less than six weeks away, editor Graydon Carter announced a new slate of speakers who will join Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, J.J.
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If you want to catch your favorite Twitch personality playing through Sony’s recent horror title Until Dawn, you may need to make time to catch them playing live.
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Tesla’s New Car Is So Good, It Literally Broke the Consumer Reports Scale – Bloomberg Business
This score is kind of insane. Tesla Motors Inc.’s all-wheel-drive version of the battery-powered Model S, the P85D, earned a 103 out of a possible 100 in an evaluation by Consumer Reports magazine.
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Become a pharmaceutical industry monster in this striking new simulation game – Offworld
Big Pharma, out today on PC, Mac and Linux, is a fascinating look at the complicated and often dark world of drug development.
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Every week is Shark Week: Discovery launches network for virtual reality video | Ars Technica
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US stocks extend Thursday’s rally – BBC News
In early trade, the Dow Jones was up 1% at 16,449.52, with the S&P 500 up 1.2% at 1,964.52 and the Nasdaq up 1.1% at 4,749.11. That follows a rally on Thursday, when Wall Street saw its biggest one-day gain in almost four years.
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Judge Shuts Down Kris Kobach’s Attempt To Disenfranchise Voters In Kansas Elections | ThinkProgress
A Kansas judge last week dealt a blow to Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s voter suppression efforts, denying his attempt to end a lawsuit challenging the state’s two-tier voter registration system that requires voters to provide proof of citizenship…
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The Community Bookstore in Park Slope is not the sort of place you might imagine a West Side Story–style rumble to break out, and yet fans of the wildly successful epic meta-fiction novels of Elena Ferrante, author of the Neapolitan series and Karl …
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Read an Excerpt from Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child | Vanity Fair
In this scene from Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth and final volume in her Neapolitan series, Elena and Lila are both pregnant.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 27th – The New Yorker
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When Animals Dream · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Comparing When Animals Dream to Let The Right One In is both lazy and pertinent—lazy because both films bear the surface similarities of being slow, Scandinavian, and atmospheric, and pertinent because both use their young female protagonists as liv…
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AL-BUKAMAL, SYRIA—Calling it another heinous act designed to shock the conscience, international experts confirmed Thursday that members of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS recently destroyed a Hofner bass guitar signed by music legend Paul McCartne…
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The second season of Fox’s Empire will be all about “new music, new money, new power,” but that doesn’t mean that the show (or label) is scrapping all of its current artists. Deadline reports that Serayah, who plays singer Tiana Brown, has been prom…
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Darkness Descending : Saturns unusual appearance… – Just Space
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EverBlocks are the giant Lego bricks you always wanted – Boing Boing
EverBlock’s concept is simple: interlocking plastic bricks at a macro scale. Wired’s Liz Stinson: “with just three block versions, there are limitations to what you can build with the blocks. Don’t expect a life-size version of Lego’s architecture s…
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Virginia shooting: Facebook and Twitter told to rethink autoplay video – BBC News
MPs have called on Twitter and Facebook to take action after many users were confronted with autoplaying videos of the murder of a US TV news crew. The footage was suspected to have been posted by the murderer on Wednesday.
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Greece debt crisis: Top judge appointed caretaker PM – BBC News
Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker prime minister ahead of early elections next month. President Prokopis Pavlopoulos named Ms Thanou after efforts to form a coalition failed.
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We now understand the Universe’s doom better than ever | Ars Technica
In a massive study, a team of researchers from around the world has found a depressing, but unsurprising, result: the Universe is dying. Pretty quickly, too. This isn’t really an unexpected finding, but it’s the most detailed examination of its even…
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Page 4 of The Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin Kingpin | Rolling Stone
Just after sunrise on August 1st, Tokyo police stormed into a sleek two-story townhouse on a quiet residential street in Japan’s capital and arrested Mark Karpeles, the 30-year-old head of Mt. Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world.
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Poll shows Hillary Clinton leading. Headlines show … something else.
Up now, a Quinnipiac poll that shows any number of things—Donald Trump takes 28 percent in the Republican primary, more than twice the 12 percent of runner-up Ben Carson; Hillary Clinton has 45 percent to Sen.
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The Future of Twitter as a Global Town Square – The Atlantic
In the summer of 2013, Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, reflected on his vision of the company as a “global town square.
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Is Star Wars: The Force Awakens being set up for disappointment? You may have seen Deadline’s report claiming the film will obliterate box office records.
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The Psychology Behind Guinness World Records – The Atlantic
Earlier this week, Stuart Sobeske, a high-school student from Coldwater, Michigan, finally accomplished the feat he had spent the past six months preparing for: He rode his unicycle up and down a runway at the Coldwater Airport for a little under an…
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Father Of Murdered Journalist Blasts NRA, Promises Tireless Fight For Gun Control | ThinkProgress
The father of slain journalist Alison Parker, who was killed in a tragic shooting on live television Wednesday, is calling on politicians to stop being “cowards in the pockets of the NRA” and pass meaningful gun violence legislation.
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Mystery Show podcast by Starlee Kine
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Joe Biden Can’t Just Sell Himself as the Anti-Hillary | The New Republic
Why should Joe Biden run for president? For the Democratic Party, the political case for Biden seems fairly straightforward: He would be the liberal establishment candidate without Hillary Clinton’s baggage, with a more telegenic smile and a more au…
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Glacier National Park from the Highline Trail (35mm) [OC][1800×1215] : EarthPorn
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The Bonneville Salt Flats May Be Flatlining [Slide Show] – Scientific American
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China Latest Knock Off? Goldman Sachs | Vanity Fair
In what may be the most high-brow counterfeit to come out of China, there is now a knockoff Goldman Sachs operating just outside of Hong Kong. Goldman Sachs (Shenzhen) Financial Leasing Co.
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Maria Sharapova Goes to Tennis Street Fight | Vanity Fair
The commercial is a defining television moment for any of us who grew up through the 1990s: the clean-cut and handsome Pete Sampras rolls out of a taxi cab with tennis renegade Andre Agassi for a match on the streets of New York City.
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On the Market: Morning links from the New York Observer | Observer
Home prices in London’s super-prime housing market have begun falling slightly and are likely to slip more as Chinese and Russian markets suffer, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman | Ars Technica
The man who authorities said infamously killed two Virginia television journalists Wednesday was tracked down by police via license plate reader technology, according to law enforcement. Moments later, police tried to stop the Chevrolet the man was …
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Hear Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock Reunite on Fiery ‘Easy Bake’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock Reunite on Fiery ‘Easy Bake’ “Money Trees” duo showcase skillful interplay on track from Rock’s upcoming LP, ‘90059’
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Watch Miley Cyrus Go Undercover, Report on Herself on ‘Kimmel’ | Rolling Stone
Miley Cyrus hit the streets of Los Angeles as an undercover news reporter on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night to get the full scoop on what real Americans think of, well, Miley Cyrus.
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Dez Bryant: The Survivor | Rolling Stone
here Dez Bryant was raised, they call it the come-up — that Tupac-twisty climb from starveling to stardom, from rags-to-Rolls-Royce royalty.
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To Ashana Bigard, a mother of three, the New Orleans public school system seems built on instability. Her 22-year-old daughter switched high schools three times before passing the GED exam and going to college.
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Well, this is something you don’t see every day. According to a new report out of Consumer Reports, the Tesla Model S P85D, all-wheel-drive electric sedan, performed “better in our tests than any other car ever has, earning a perfect road-test scor…
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In the new New Orleans, an international soccer hero hides in plain sight | US news | The Guardian
Eduardo Antonio Laing is the new New Orleans. For 32 years Tony Laing was the last Honduran player to score in the World Cup.
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Donald Trump spat with Univision ‘hurting Republicans’ – BBC News
The fallout from this week’s press conference in which US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump expelled a veteran Spanish-language reporter shows little signs of abating.
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Who Can Stop Harry Potter’s Reign of Terror?
A little creative editing, a bit of horror music—that’s all that’s needed to prove Harry Potter is one of cinema’s great villains.
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Forrest starts a cult in this clip from Review · Sponsored Post · The A.V. Club
After finding a group of followers, Forrest bestows tips on how to live a five-star life. Watch a new episode of Review every Thursday (TONIGHT!) at 10/9c on Comedy Central or anytime on the Comedy Central app.
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Here’s an exclusive new Matt Nathanson song from Show Me Your Fangs · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Matt Nathanson has been plugging away for two decades, playing for a dedicated fanbase and occasionally popping his head into the mainstream. (You may remember 2009’s “Come On Get Higher.
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Gizmodo A Startup With No Website Just Announced a Major Fusion Breakthrough | Jalopnik North Korea’s Ongoing Massive Submarine Deployment Is Worrisome | Jezebel Ed Sheeran, the Devil, Was Joking About His Terrible Chest Tattoo Being Fake | Lifehack…
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The newest Tomb Raider is a beautiful mobile puzzle game | The Verge
Hitman Go was a wonderful surprise. The mobile game took the core of the Hitman franchise — sneaking around and killing people — and turned it into digital board game, where a cold-blooded assassin was just a piece you moved around a board.
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Want to fly a drone for work? Go get a hot air balloon license | The Verge
In the absence of new rules, drone owners are taking advantage of bizzare legal loopholes Several days a week over the past month, Alon Sicherman has found himself sitting upright in bed at 4:45AM in a motel near a town called Poughquag, in upstate …
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Future Katrinas will become more and more devastating to New Orleans and the entire Gulf of Mexico. If we don’t tackle climate change ASAP, it is hard to see how New Orleans could survive the century.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Are Looking for a London Pad | Vanity Fair
A few months ago, time stopped briefly, you may remember, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt swung by Kensington Palace to meet with Prince William and Kate Middleton for an afternoon.
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The Best Way to Spot Great Racing Drivers? Videogames | WIRED
The next time you’re about to scold your kid—or spouse—for spending too much time playing videogames instead of enjoying the sunny weather, consider this: They could be preparing for a career in motorsports.
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Hopes high for strong day on Wall Street after US GDP growth revised up | Business | The Guardian
The US economy picked up pace in the second quarter and beat economists’ estimates as businesses ramped up investment, helping fuel a second-day bounce-back for Wall Street’s battered financial markets.
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Between 20 and 50 bodies were found partly decomposing inside a truck on a highway in Austria, authorities stated this week.
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President Obama is heading to New Orleans Thursday to mark the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But there’s one subject Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hopes the president won’t broach in his remarks to city residents: climate change.
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Even If You Haven’t Had an Abortion, You Owe Planned Parenthood | The Nation
Nearly one in three women in the United States will have had at least one abortion by the time they reach menopause. Some will have had more than one. Where are they? In a recent piece on the New York Times op-ed page, I called on them to break thei…
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Drug-Resistant ‘Super Lice’ On The Rise – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new strain of lice immune to over-the-counter treatments has many parents worried as they send their children back to school this week, with 25 states nationwide reporting the presence of the “super lice” so far. What do you think?
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Chris Christie, Presidential Candidate | The Nation
When thinking now of poor Chris Christie, My heart goes out. My eyes grow misty. The White House door to him was shut, ’Twas said, unless he lost that gut. So bariatric work was done. He dropped some weight—though not a ton, Enough at least so he co…
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Bibi vs. Barack: Who Owns US Foreign Policy? | The Nation
Naked Democracy, an occasional election-season column, will focus on the deeper disorders of our politics—those evaded or actively concealed by the money-drenched campaigns.
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Birthright Citizenship Is the Good Kind of American Exceptionalism | The Nation
Birthright citizenship—the principle that any person born in the United States is automatically a citizen—has been embedded in the Constitution since the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868. This summer, it has suddenly emerged as a major iss…
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What Amazon Didn’t Understand About Overwork | The Nation
The New York Times recently shocked us with the gritty details of Amazon’s high-stress workplace. There are many ways the company amps up the pressure—encouraging anonymous complaints against coworkers, regularly culling the ranks, and relentlessly …
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Since When Are Democrats Afraid of Debates? | The Nation
The Democratic National Committee needs to adapt to the new politics of 2016. Instead of constraining debate, as it has so far, the DNC should change course and encourage an open and freewheeling discourse. This is not just the right choice; it’s th…
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Apple Watch Not A Flop – Now #2 Wearable, Just Behind Fitbit | TechCrunch
According to a new report out this morning from IDC, Apple is now the number two wearable maker, thanks to its Apple Watch, coming in just behind market leader Fitbit during the second quarter of 2015. And it’s a close race, the analyst firm found. …
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“Iranian” hackers try to convince activists they are reporters – Boing Boing
Motherboard reports on hilariously insistent efforts made by mystery correspondents to trick people into thinking they are news reporters.
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One of History’s Great Polymaths Shows Us the Wisdom of Owning Our Mistakes
Pierre-Simon Laplace lived from 1749 to 1827 and was busy the entire time. He wrote books, worked in politics, and figured out the secrets of the universe. One of those secrets he quietly withdrew from later copies of his books. Pity.
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Find Your Perfect Perfume or Cologne with a Cheap Sample Kit
Cologne and perfume are great to spruce yourself up for a special event or when you want to feel fancy, but it’s tough to find that perfect scent, and it’s expensive to try. Instead, try sample kits to test multiple scents without spending a fortune.
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Evernote announced this morning that they’re shutting down Evernote Food, their recipe clipping and organization app. The app will stop syncing on September 30th, and the company recommends just using the Evernote app proper to handle recipes and re…
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Most of us know the story of Achilles, the Greek warrior whose mother tried to protect him from an early death by submerging him in the magical waters of the river Styx. Despite her best efforts, she missed dunking one heel that she gripped as she d…
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The Struggles of New York City’s Taxi King
Gene Freidman’s got a new hairdo. For as long as the New York tabloids have been taking photos of him, which is to say a while, Freidman has worn his hair in a ponytail. It is, along with the Euro scarves and Bono sunglasses, something of a trademar…
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This Rare, White Bear May Be the Key to Saving a Canadian Rainforest | Science | Smithsonian
Very quietly we paddle to shore in a raft from the research vessel, which has stopped at the mouth of a small river cascading into the Pacific, one of more than a hundred salmon-bearing rivers in the 1,500-square-mile territory of the Kitasoo/Xai’xa…
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Want to Make a Diamond in Just 10 Weeks? Use a Microwave – Bloomberg Business
The 2.62-carat diamond Calvin Mills bought his fiancée in November is a stunner. Pear-shaped and canary-yellow, the gem cost $22,000. A bargain. Mills, the chief executive officer of CMC Technology Consulting in Baton Rouge, La.
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Amazon cutting back on making consumer devices, reports WSJ – Boing Boing
After failed smartphones and other gadgets, Amazon’s laying off people who work on consumer electronics. Amazon.com Inc. flamed out with critics and consumers last year in its first attempt at a smartphone.
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Just Out Of Jail, Ethiopian Leader Brings A Sharp Message To Obama : Goats and Soda : NPR
Just a few months ago, Bekele Gerba was languishing in a high security Ethiopian jail, hearing the cries of fellow prisoners being beaten and tortured. Now, the 54-year-old foreign language professor is in Washington, D.C., for meetings at the State…
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Hot on the heels of a live Taylor Swift-Beck performance at Los Angeles’ Staples Center comes “Bad Dreams,” the mashup of Swift’s “Bad Blood” and Beck’s “Dreams” that no one really asked for but that most everyone will at least enjoy a little bit.
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That week I tried to unplug from Slack | The Verge
I have a troubled relationship with my smartphone. I love the convenience and access it gives me, but it’s also made it more difficult for me to control my impulsive behavior.
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Raid on Gay Male Escort Service Rentboy.com Questioned by LGBT Activists | VICE News
Gay rights advocates and others are asking why federal authorities bothered to raid the Manhattan offices of gay male escort service Rentboy.com on prostitution allegations.
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Taylor Swift sang “Smelly Cat” on stage with Lisa Kudrow last night · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Taylor Swift set up camp last week at Los Angeles’ venerable Staples Center for a five-night run.
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A small but operational ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plant was inaugurated in Hawaii last week, making it the first in the world. The opening of the 100-kilowatt facility marked the first time a closed-cycle OTEC plant will be connected to…
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Top VC Brian O’ Malley On The Next “On Demand” Wave | TechCrunch
Brian O’Malley is good at his job. He’s good enough, in fact, that two years, ago, Accel Partners plucked him out of his former firm, Battery Ventures, so he could bat for its team instead. As venture industry watchers know, these moves are rare, an…
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Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment | The Nation
The best science-fiction writers are the peripheral prophets of literature—outsiders who persuade us to explore an often uncomfortable vision of the future that shows us not only what might be, but also what should never be allowed to happen, thereb…
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There is no sound on earth like that of a quiet man, a dignified man, exploding in primal grief. Nothing compares to it—not fingernails scraping on a blackboard, not the whir of a dental drill through enamel. Nothing.
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Sasha Abramsky’s “Life on the Wrong Side of the Drought” [August 3/10] is excellent in many ways. His description of people in poverty who suffer from lack of water is priceless. But alack! He undermines his article with one gargantuan and egregious…
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White Hands and Black Skulls: From the Panthers to ‘Straight Outta Compton’ | The Nation
Television images of the 1965 Watts riots jolt across the screen toward the beginning of Stanley Nelson’s magnificent documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, as a baritone newscaster declaims the obvious: “Relations between polic…
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Maria Sharapova preparing to thwart Serena Williams at US Open – video | Sport | The Guardian
Maria Sharapova, the women’s tennis world number three, speaks at a promotional event. Sharapova says she is preparing to halt number one Serena Williams’ calendar grand slam. She also comments on her 2006 success at the US Open and looks ahead to t…
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Subsidies for small scale solar face steep cuts – BBC News
The UK government says it plans to significantly reduce subsidies paid to small-scale green power installations. Under the proposals, the amount of money paid to home owners and businesses producing electricity from roof-top solar and small wind tur…
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Ocean warming and acidification needs more attention, argues US | Environment | The Guardian
The US government has urged the international community to focus more on the impact of climate change on the oceans, amid growing concern over changes affecting corals, shellfish and other marine life. The US will raise the issue at United Nations c…
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Water trapped inside diamonds gives us a peek at the Earth’s mantle | Ars Technica
Diamonds may be valued by the jewelry industry for their exquisite sparkle. But a recent scientific discovery has revealed that diamonds can be of value for the information they hold in addition to their beauty. Natural diamonds are formed roughly 9…
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The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test | TechCrunch
The other day I was writing an article and I wanted to link to a piece I wrote when I was at CITEworld in 2013 — just two years ago. I went searching for it, but soon discovered that IDG, the publication’s owners had taken the site down — and all of…
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Early September will see the very first force-feedback-based teleoperation of a rover-based robotic arm system on Earth from the International Space Station, orbiting 400 km above our heads.
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In March 2012, Vester Lee Flanagan II achieved what he had been seeking: a return to television news after a long hiatus. But documents filed in a civil court case showed that soon after Mr. Flanagan’s arrival at WDBJ, a television station in Roanok…
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The Best Way to Truss a Chicken for Juicy Meat and Crispy Skin
In the world of kitchen tips and tricks, there seems to be an never-ending supply of “you’ve been doing it all wrong” type of articles.
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Amazon Is Firing ‘Dozens’ of Engineers Because the Fire Phone Was Such a Failure | Motherboard
Following the failure of the Fire phone, Amazon has in recent weeks laid off “dozens” of engineers at its Silicon Valley hardware development center, according to the Wall Street Journal. These were the first layoffs to hit the development center, k…
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Why So Many People Have Pets – Scientific American
On my 10th birthday, I got a puppy. I was so shocked—I had wanted a dog for as long as I could remember—and so overwhelmed with happiness that I burst into tears. For the next 14 years, Happy, a beagle, charmed everyone he met.
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Mount Your Kitchen Knives to the Wall With a $10 Magnetic Strip
Unlike traditional knife blocks, magnetic knife strips don’t take up any space on your kitchen counter. Plus, they just looks way cooler. This 14” model from Chicago Cutlery is down to $10 today on Amazon, within a few cents of an all-time low.
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The Two Guys at the Heart of Bitcoin’s Current Crisis | Motherboard
If Bitcoin is going to be used by a large audience, it’s going to need new code. That simple fact has sparked what may be the largest crisis yet to hit the still-fledgling cryptocurrency community.
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How Cities Can Beat the Heat – Scientific American
The greenhouses that sprawl across the coastline of southeastern Spain are so bright that they gleam in satellite photos. Since the 1970s, farmers have been expanding this patchwork of buildings in Almería province to grow produce such as tomatoes, …
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You Might Not Want To Hold Your Breath For George Miller’s Man Of Steel 2
Quentin Tarantino still wants to make a science fiction film. American Horror Story: Hotel finally drops some story details. Plus, new information on Agents of SHIELD season 3, Teen Wolf’s midseason twists, and why Felicity doesn’t have a code name …
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Citizenlab details an “elaborate phishing campaign” against Iranian expats and activists, combining phone-calls from fake Reuters reporters, mostly convincing Google Docs login-screens, and a sophisticated attempt to do a “real-time man-in-the-middl…
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The best superhero movies this summer didn’t have any superheroes at all | The Verge
As if it couldn’t let the final days of summer draw to a straggling close without showing off just a little bit more, Universal Pictures announced this morning that it had set a new domestic box-office record, racking up $2.113 billion in box office…
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Gap Will End Scheduling Practices That Wreck Havoc On Workers’ Lives | ThinkProgress
In a blog post on Wednesday, Andi Owen, global president for Banana Republic at Gap Inc., announced that the company will end the practice of on-call scheduling and commit to giving employees at least 10 days advance notice of their schedules.
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How ‘Hamilton’ Is Revolutionizing the Broadway Musical | The Nation
There are many reasons why Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War hero, principal author of The Federalist Papers, and America’s first treasury secretary, never could have become president. In some quarters, it was blemish enough that he was illegiti…
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Writings From the Most Fractured Place on Earth | The Nation
Of the many names given the brutal, black-flag-waving entity currently marauding its way across the rubble of Syria and Iraq, ISIL is the strangest and the most ironic.
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A Case for Calming Down About ‘Screen Time’ – The Atlantic
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Apple shipped 3.6 million Apple Watches last quarter, says IDC | The Verge
With only a single product to its name, Apple has already taken the number two spot in the global wearables market, according to market analysts IDC. The agency’s quarterly wearable report claims that Apple shipped a total of 3.
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Like Louisiana’s largest city, New Orleans, the state’s verdant, marshy coastline is wild and diverse: a fat, largemouth bass might snatch the same topwater lure in the same fishing spot where you just landed a 30lb bull redfish.
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New Tesla scores Consumer Reports’ highest rating ever : technology
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Policing Reform in California – The Atlantic
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Three presidents are descending on New Orleans in three days, but they are not assured of a warm welcome from everyone.
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Bolt out-guns Gatlin to win 200m world title – Al Jazeera English
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt ran the fastest time of the year in 19.55 seconds to win the world 200 metres title for a record fourth time and sweep the individual sprints at a major global championships for a fifth time.
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Taylor Swift and Lisa Kudrow sing ‘Phoebe’s’ Smelly Cat – video | Music | The Guardian
Lisa Kudrow joins Taylor Swift on stage for a rendition of Smelly Cat, the song made famous by Kudrow’s character Phoebe in NBC hit TV show Friends. Swift was performing for a fifth night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as part of her 1989 tour.
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Facebook’s virtual assistant “M” is powered by real people | Ars Technica
Following in the footsteps of Google Now, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, Facebook has launched its own virtual personal assistant, simply named M. M is being baked into the company’s Messenger app, and, unlike its competitors, is powered not…
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Usain Bolt beats Justin Gatlin again to win 200m gold in world championships | Sport | The Guardian
Usain Bolt has done it again, winning his fourth consecutive world 200m title with a display of supreme confidence in his fastest time since the Olympic final at London 2012. Five days after overcoming the odds and a flying Justin Gatlin to retain h…
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In one sad sense there was nothing new, or even very unusual, about the televised killing of two journalists in Virginia on Wednesday morning.
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Grabbing Dan Time with Hollywood’s most elusive illustrator – Boing Boing
Who does the U.S. Army call when they need a concept artist for their latest top secret project? Who do marketing agencies, filmmakers and game designers rely on when they are in a creative jam? Well I’ll tell you…they call a seasoned illustrato…
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Commercial for Banksy’s Dismaland – Boing Boing
The sold-out installation at Weston-super-Mare is a carnival of dark delights and clearly fun for the whole family. (via JWZ)
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Stream Dan Auerbach’s New Arcs LP ‘Yours, Dreamily’ | Rolling Stone
Dan Auerbach’s the Arcs will release their debut album Yours, Dtreamily on September 4th, but a week before it arrives, the Black Keys singer has offered up a stream of his new project’s new LP.
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New York City’s taxi industry insiders made an app to compete with Uber | The Verge
The introduction of Uber to New York City has destabilized the taxi industry. The value of medallions has been cut nearly in half, pushing medallion owners into financial distress. Meanwhile swathes of yellow cabs are now sitting idle, as drivers fl…
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How Katrina Still Haunts New Orleans’ Juvenile Justice System | ThinkProgress
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — When New Orleans began to flood, everyone forgot about the kids they had locked away in one of the nation’s worst prisons. They had no water, food, or means of contacting their loved ones.
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Joe Biden Positions Himself as the Backup Democrat – The New Yorker
Politics can be unfair. Consider Joe Biden. Being Vice-President is a thankless job— “not worth a bucket of warm piss,” in Vice-President John Nance Garner’s famous words.
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Edie Parker Designer and Founder Brett Heyman’s Favorite Things | Vanity Fair
Edie Parker clutches, the vintage-inspired collection of bags from designer and company founder Brett Heyman, are carried by the most fashionable ladies around the world. The must-have wardrobe accessory, often an acrylic jewel of a rectangle, is ex…
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The Beauty of Summer Science – The New Yorker
Patrick Honner, a math teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School, arrived at a recent class seemingly unprepared. This was surprising, given that, days before, he had received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
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From Pony Express to Amazon Drone: The Strange History of Delivering Packages | Atlas Obscura
Rural Free Delivery, 1914. (Photo: Library of Congress)
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Final Pratchett novel is out: The Shepherd’s Crown – Boing Boing
Well, The Shephed’s Crowd (a Tiffany Aching book) is out in the UK, anyway — (idiotically) the US release will be Sept 1. As noted, Pratchett’s daughter, Rhianna, his literary executor, will not authorize any more Discworld novels.
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Embrace the Manic Pixie Dream Witch! – Boing Boing
We’re happy for the Hugos, sad for the last Terry Pratchett novel, and J.R.R. Tolkien has a new book. Plus, we wrap up Uprooted by Naomi Novik and make our peace with a trope.
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WATCH: How to be a totally awesome 80s model – Boing Boing
You’ll learn you’ve been drinking Pepsi wrong all these years. You want to keep the can 4 to 6 inches from your mouth while imbibing. And who wouldn’t take career advice from this guy?
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Get high for free: stare in a friend’s eyes for ten minutes – Boing Boing
Induced dissociative states are the best dissociative states, and one cheap and easy way to get there is to stare into someone’s eyes for about ten minutes. More researchers are looking into the phenomenon.
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Lovely profile of James Merry, Björk’s maskmaker – Boing Boing
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25 years ago today, LL Cool J confidently proclaimed, “Don’t call it a comeback; I’ve been here for years,” and a classic was born.
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Judgey: Web game that lets you judge a book by its cover – Boing Boing
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Knut polar bear death riddle solved – BBC News
Scientists say they can now explain what happened to Knut, the famous polar bear that drowned at Berlin Zoo in 2011. Researchers hope this knowledge can help both human and animal sufferers.
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The Saddest Landscape offers forgiveness for “Souls Worth Saving” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Since 2002 The Saddest Landscape has been a lynchpin of the Northeast’s post-hardcore scene. And while Topshelf Records won’t release the band’s fifth full-length, Darkness Forgives, until October 23, it’s also releasing a 7-inch in advance to make …
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The Fight to Unmuzzle Canada’s Scientists | Motherboard
As a scientist employed by the Canadian government, every question Janet receives from a journalist or member of the public must be screened by a media officer. These officers decide what questions reach her, and have the final say on what answers c…
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Review: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5 | WIRED
Phablets are dead. Long live huge phones. There are a few stragglers left, clutching their iPhone 5s and claiming that life was better when everyone was squinting at tiny screens. But most people have come around. Good thing, too: Big phones are gre…
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 116 | 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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Einstein’s Light and Dark Sides – Scientific American
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A Dream Come True: Huge Lego Bricks for Building Real Stuff | WIRED
Caption: EverBlock is a full-scale building block that interlocks like a Lego. EverBlock If you’ve ever played with Lego (and who hasn’t?) as an adult, you’ve inevitably looked at the tiny bits of plastic in your hand and thought, Damn, these things…
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Usain Bolt beats Justin Gatlin in 200m final
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt beats rival Justin Gatlin to win the 200m and complete the sprint double at the World Championships in Beijing. Bolt was in command from the start and powered out of the bend to cross the line in 19.55 seconds, with Gatlin takin…
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The agency tasked with giving approval for Shell’s deep-water drilling off Canada’s east coast includes a Tory-appointed official who worked for Shell for decades, it has emerged.
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‘Xombie’ Rocket Got Brains! Proves New Mars Landing System | Video
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Alienware’s gaming laptops and X51 desktop get faster specs and extra features | The Verge
Over recent years, Alienware computers have become increasingly reasonable options for anyone who’s looking to get into PC gaming but is unable or unwilling to build a rig from scratch (which will, of course, usually be cheaper for those with the ti…
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Morning Digest: Good riddance to a craptacular ex-Democrat (but maybe not)
• Montgomery Mayor: On Tuesday, Artur Davis’ comeback attempt fizzled out.
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Square Adds Appointments App To Its Business Suite | TechCrunch
Piece by piece, Square is trying to provide all of the tools that businesses need to manage themselves. They have the payment processing part down, a payroll product, real-time analytics and now a way to manage appointments.
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Fire Phone flop blamed for layoffs and reorganization at Amazon | Ars Technica
Amazon is laying off “dozens” of employees at Lab126, the hardware-development center in Silicon Valley responsible for products like the Fire Phone, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
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The Real Life of a Sugar Daddy | GQ
THURSTON VON MONEYBAGSThurston Von Moneybags (not his real name) was scammed once by a girl in Houston. He had arranged to meet her so that he might size her up and determine whether he wanted to give her a monthly stipend in exchange for regular se…
Thurston Von Moneybags (not his real name) was scammed once by a girl in Houston. He had arranged to meet her so that he might size her up and determine whether he wanted to give her a monthly stipend in exchange for regular sex and sometimes maybe … -
Ukraine crisis: Creditors to ‘write off’ 20% of debt – BBC News
The Ukrainian government says it has reached a debt restructuring deal with its creditors including a write-off of up to $3.8bn (£2.5bn; €3.4bn). Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said Ukraine’s sovereign debt, estimated at $19bn, would be cut by 20%…
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MoMA Reshuffles Its Collections to Host Picasso Sculpture Show | Observer
On September 14, MoMA will open “Picasso Sculpture,” arguably the biggest museum exhibition of the fall, and a “must-see” on every art worlders’ calendar.
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Ethiopia races to preserve ‘Africa’s Jerusalem’ – Al Jazeera English
Conservationists are facing a race against time to prevent one of Ethiopia’s most sacred religious site from crumbling away. The ancient churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia have been a place of pilgrimage for local Christians since they were c…
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Ohuruogu last as Felix takes 400m gold
Great Britain’s double world champion Christine Ohuruogu finished last in the women’s 400m as American Allyson Felix took gold to win her ninth world title. More to follow.
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BBC Sport – Sam Burgess earns England call for Rugby World Cup 2015
Sam Burgess has been included in England’s 31-man squad for the World Cup, which starts next month. Rugby league convert Burgess only made his union debut for Bath in November and won his first England cap against France in August.
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The red markers started to disappear from classrooms. In some of the brand-new marker boxes, the count became seven instead of eight. It was always the red one missing.
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AMD’s R9 Nano crams a full Fury X into a tiny 6-inch form factor | Ars Technica
Earlier this year, AMD unveiled three new graphics cards: the R9 Fury X, R9 Fury, and R9 Nano. While the top-of-the-line water-cooled R9 Fury X and air-cooled R9 Fury have both since been released to positive reviews, the mini-ITX sized R9 Nano has …
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US economic growth revised up sharply to 3.7% – BBC News
The US economy grew by far more than previously thought between April and June, revised figures have shown. The economy grew by an annualised rates of 3.7%, up from the first estimate of 2.3%. Growth of 0.6% in the first three months of the year was…
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Virginia Shooting: On-air silence for slain journalists – BBC News
Colleagues of two journalists who were shot dead live on TV in the US state of Virginia have held a moment’s silence in their memory. In an emotional broadcast, members of the WDBJ7 team held hands and wiped away tears.
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The murder of a TV reporter and her cameraman live on television was shocking. What made it all the more real for many was being forced to unwittingly witness the murder through videos made by the killer posted to Twitter and Facebook, which automat…
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Can women’s soccer maintain its World Cup high? | Football | The Guardian
When USA smashed Japan in the Women’s World Cup final, drawing record TV ratings for soccer in America along the way, Jeff Plush was probably smiling somewhere.
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Tesla’s Model S P85D is so good it broke Consumer Reports’ rating system | The Verge
How good is Tesla’s Model S P85D? Insanely good, says Consumer Reports, with the electric sedan performing better than any other car the magazine has reviewed and breaking its rating system in the process.
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How Being Dehydrated Affects Your Mind and Body
Water is super important to your health. While most of us know that we should be drinking enough water, you might not know what can happen to you body if you don’t. This video breaks it down. As science news site DNews explains, a lack of water can …
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NASA Is Fully Prepared to Watch the Oceans Swallow Earth | Motherboard
At this point, there is unanimous scientific consensus that sea levels are globally rising as a result of climate change. But how fast are oceans advancing? How much damage can rising sea levels do? And most importantly, what can we do to slow this …
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How thousands watched murder video without choosing to – BBC News
Thousands saw the moment two US journalists were killed because it played automatically on Facebook and Twitter. Footage of Alison Parker and Adam Ward being shot was posted to social media by the gunman.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
We’ll try not to top yesterday with today’s news. But, as always, we’ll strive to bring you a better show than the day before.
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Father of Slain Reporter: ‘Do Something About Crazy People Getting Guns’ | Observer
It isn’t often than a guest on Fox News Channel can say things like this without being interrupted, shouted down or ridiculed. But Megyn Kelly wisely kept almost silent while one of Wednesday night’s guest spoke from a broken heart and a shattered l…
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Jeb Bush’s shoulders are always slumping, and I’m afraid that’s a dealbreaker for me. One thing I haven’t had to worry about this summer is getting stung by a bee. But that’s been replaced by a new worry: no bees.
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Microsoft Snip brings Windows screenshots to life with voice and ink | The Verge
Microsoft has a new Office tool that’s really useful if you regularly take screenshots. Microsoft Snip, available in beta now, allows Windows users to capture screenshots and then annotate on them and record audio over the top.
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Solitaire gets a much-needed makeover in this new mobile game | The Verge
Zach Gage hates Solitaire. More specifically, he’s not a fan of the way the game has changed as it shifted from a physical card game to perhaps the most played video game of all time, thanks to the version that comes bundled with every copy Windows.
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Donald Trump puts third-party run on back burner as poll lead balloons | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has offered his strongest hint yet that he will not run as an independent in the 2016 US presidential election, saying “it’s not something I want to do” should he fail to win the Republican nomination.
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Modafinil Really Is a ‘Smart Drug,’ Study Says – The Atlantic
If you could take a pill that will make you better at your job, with few or no negative consequences, would you do it?
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The Dead Sea is dying – Al Jazeera English
The Dead Sea, occupied West Bank – On the Dead Sea’s coast in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers, Palestinians and tourists make the downhill trek from the former waterline to its new resting place.
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Last of the Indie Radio Stations Fights On | Al Jazeera America
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It is not a sight one usually associates with a radio station: a fully fledged restaurant and bar. But WWCD 102.
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The slaying of two journalists Wednesday as they broadcast live to a television audience in Virginia is still seared on our screens and our minds, but it’s a moment not only to mourn but also to learn lessons.
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US warns South Sudan’s Kiir and Machar over peace deal – BBC News
The US has warned South Sudan’s leaders not to violate the peace deal aimed at ending a brutal civil war in the world’s youngest state. The US would “hold to account” leaders who breached the deal, and would support sanctions against them, said stat…
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Lawmaker Receives Racist Threats For Criticizing Chick-fil-A | ThinkProgress
A member of the Denver city council said he received violent and racist threats after voting to delay the approval of new Chick-fil-A franchisee at the Denver International Airport. Councilman Paul D.
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Life in the Paris Suburbs – The New Yorker
In this week’s magazine, George Packer writes about the alienated, impoverished communities of the Paris suburbs, or banlieues, and the question (fiercely debated in France since the Charlie Hebdo killings, in January) of whether the neighborhoods a…
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Iraqi Army Generals Killed in ISIL Suicide Bombing | Al Jazeera America
An Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber killed two army generals in Iraq on Thursday as they led forces against ISIL positions in the turbulent Anbar province west of Baghdad, military officials said.
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New Jersey law currently prevents state contractors from giving more than $300 to statewide candidates’ campaigns. But that hasn’t stopped New Jersey contractors from donating more than $500,000 in total to the super PAC supporting Gov. Chris Christ…
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Ten Years After Katrina, Poor And Black People Still Left Behind
Ten Years After Katrina, Poor And Black People Still Left Behind http://t.co/FFSArWZMZf
When President Obama visits New Orleans today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, he will find the city whiter, wealthier, and more unequal than it was before the storm.
Love Everyone Often 08/28/2015
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