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Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. An Australian man was released from a months-long detention after a substance in his possession originally believed to be methamphetamine turned out to …
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Several Yemeni hospitals ‘on verge of shut down’ – Al Jazeera English
Major hospitals in Yemen have been struggling to function due to a supply shortages caused by the increased fighting between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The medical situation in Taiz is not good. It…
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Ashley Madison Says Gizmodo Report that Women Don’t Really Use the Site Is Wrong | Motherboard
After a massive hack, the dumping of its digital innards, and the resignation of its CEO, Avid Life Media (ALM), the company that owns extramarital affairs site Ashley Madison, wants you to think it is still going strong.
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Road to Papingo, Greece [OC] [4928×3264] : EarthPorn
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Ashley Madison says site is ‘still growing’ – BBC News
The enormous data leak from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website has not stopped people joining the service, the company claims. Details of more than 33m accounts were stolen from the website and published online in August.
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Migrant crisis: With the migrants on Hungary’s border – BBC News
Britain, France and Germany have called for reception centres to be set up, and the finger printing of migrants and refugees, once they arrive in Europe.
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Dead woman named as concert pianist Natalia Strelchenko – BBC News
Austrian authorities say they have detained five suspected people smugglers as they tighten the Hungarian border after the deaths of 71 migrants.
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This Video Teaches You How to End a Conversation Gracefully
Everyone knows what it’s like to get trapped in a conversation. Even if you like the person you’re talking to, you don’t want to be rude or insulting, but you want the conversation to end. This video demonstrates several techniques to get out of it …
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Learn the Basics of Buying a Home With This Online Glossary
Buying a home is a daunting experience. Especially if you’ve never done it before, the process is difficult to navigate, and half the battle is figuring out what all the mortgage-related jargon means. This website will help you figure it out.
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Google OnHub review—Google’s smart home Trojan horse is a $200 leap of faith | Ars Technica
Google’s OnHub is a bit of a mystery. Google shipped us this box—well, this cylinder—but it won’t really talk about what’s in it or why it exists. Today, it’s a Wi-Fi router from Google; tomorrow it might be something totally different.
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Dancing, onesies, magicians … is baseball in danger of becoming fun? | Sport | The Guardian
Minutes after Jake Arrieta completed his first career no-hitter against the Dodgers on Sunday night, he showed up to his press conference in onesie pajamas covered in mustaches.
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Even Though it Has $50 Billion of Oil Money, Alaska Can’t Pay Its Bills – The Atlantic
WASILLA, Alaska—This state has more money in the bank than most small countries. Decades of collecting royalties and revenues from the companies that drilled for oil on its slopes have endowed Alaska with a $50 billion savings account.
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Inside a Category 4 Hurricane. : pics
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Eliminating Hepatitis C Means Treating Prisoners | FiveThirtyEight
Barry Michaelson is one of several people with hepatitis C who have sued this year to get access to new and very expensive treatments for the virus. But Michaelson’s lawsuit, unlike most of the others, isn’t against his insurance company. He’s suing…
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Serena Williams And The Difference Between All-Time Great And Greatest Of All Time | FiveThirtyEight
As of this writing, Serena Williams, 33, is around even money to win the U.S. Open. A victory in Flushing, New York, would be her 22nd major championship — tying her with Steffi Graf for the most Grand Slam titles in the Open era.1
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Taliban admit covering up death of Mullah Omar – BBC News
The Afghan Taliban have confirmed covering up their former leader Mullah Omar’s death for more than two years. The news was kept secret by a handful of Taliban leaders on tactical grounds.
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Domingo Santiago plead guilty to “gagging his wife, binding her wrists together, and beating her with a cord.
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The Student Debt Crisis That No One Is Really Talking About | ThinkProgress
As many as 6.9 million Americans haven’t made payments on their student loans in nearly a year, which is up 6 percent from last year, according to data released last week by the U.S. Department of Education.
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On Sunday, President Obama announced that he would restore the name of the nation’s tallest mountain, currently called Mount McKinley, to Denali.
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Sunset by Stefano Crea / 500px
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By any measure, booking Miley Cyrus to host the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards seemed like a certain coup. Two years ago, performing on the show, she ignited a thousand think pieces with her antics, and since then, she’s become perhaps our most unfilte…
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Podcasts’ Biggest Problem Isn’t Discovery, It’s Diversity | WIRED
Earlier this month, podcast ad network Midroll—the company behind 20 of iTunes’ top 100 podcasts—relaunched Howl, an app that helps listeners connect with hosts and discover new podcasts within the network.
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Explosions Outside Ukrainian Parliament | Al Jazeera America
The blast took place as parliament deliberated over constitutional changes intended to give its eastern regions a special status that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive, but divisions among pro-Western lawmakers suggested they will have a ro…
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Baby mr skeltal is infaltrating le fucboi billy is not : ledootgeneration
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Mobile game of the week: Sage Solitaire – Offworld
Zach Gage is consistently one of the most elegant designers of our time. This week, we can say he’s done a meaningful refresh on computer Solitaire (one of the most-played video games of all time, thanks to the iconic Windows bundle), and not really…
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Chrissie Hynde blames self for being raped – Boing Boing
The interviewer asked Hynde whether she was taken advantage of because she was vulnerable, to which she answered: “If you play with fire you get burnt. It’s not any secret, is it?”
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HMB while I jump this semi 160ft through the air. : holdmybeer
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Günter Grass issues warning from beyond the grave | Books | The Guardian
For much of his lifetime, he was the personification of Germany’s moral conscience, with literary interventions on anything from postwar guilt to the Israel-Palestine debate. And it appears that even his death in April this year hasn’t dimmed Günter…
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Foggy Sunset at Tuggerah Lake (XPost /r/Sunset) : FoggyPics
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The Remarkable Rate of Missouri Executions – The Atlantic
This piece was reported through The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal-justice system. Since Texas carried out the country’s first lethal injection in 1982, the state has performed far more executions than …
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Palmyra temple ‘still standing’ – 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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Why Marijuana Growers Struggle With Pesticide Safety – The Atlantic
Growing marijuana takes vigilance, even when it’s legal.
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The Supreme Court’s Power Shift | The New Republic
The New Republic in the Lochner Era http://t.co/hxRvOwaoxy
Debates about the proper role of the judiciary dominated the Lochner era. Was the Supreme Court using its powers properly? Did its decisions reflect any real Constitutional principles? -
Rosneft profits hit by lower oil price – BBC News
Russian oil giant Rosneft has reported a sharp drop in profits due to lower oil prices. Net income between April and June was 134bn roubles ($2bn; £1.3bn), down 22% compared with a year earlier. Revenue was 1.3tn roubles.
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Sunrise Run by Mario Moreno / 500px
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Why border walls – even with Canada – are not the Republicans’ Trump card | US news | The Guardian
On Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said the building of a wall on the United States’ border with Canada was “a legitimate issue for us to look at”.
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[OS] Sunset in Austin, TX [1170×1170] : EarthPorn
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My grandmother, sometime in the late 60s. : OldSchoolCool
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Body found in missing Maidstone triathlete search – BBC News
Police looking for a man who went missing during the swimming leg of a Kent triathlon race have found a body. The competitor, named locally as Paul Gallihawk, was reported missing when he failed to finish the first part of the race at Leybourne Lake…
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Australia denies collapse of refugee deal with Cambodia – Al Jazeera English
Australia says a multimillion-dollar deal with Cambodia to take its refugees is on track, despite reports that the Phnom Penh government was backing out.
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South Sudan troops break ceasefire – Riek Machar – BBC News
South Sudan’s rebel leader has accused the government of violating a ceasefire hours after it came into effect. Riek Machar said the army attacked his forces in two northern states, allegations which the military denies.
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Facebook announces new tools to tackle video theft – BBC News
Facebook has announced measures to tackle video piracy on its website. The company said new video matching technology would alert selected content creators if their videos were reposted to Facebook without permission.
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BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup 2015: Gareth Anscombe left out of Wales squad
But the 22-year-old has impressed during training camps and could be picked when Gatland names his final 31-man squad at midday on Monday. Aaron Jarvis and Paul James of Ospreys, and Cardiff Blues’ Scott Andrews are the other props left in the squad…
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Little Nala via /r/cats http://t.co/XBuzw5d8ea http://t.co/iMh73AcliK
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Cat gives the dog a massage : AnimalsBeingBros
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Killarney Lake by Deb Harder / 500px
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Create a Network-Wide Ad Blocker with a Raspberry Pi
You have software to block ads on your computer, but if you want to block ads on all your devices—from your smartphone to your tablets—you’ll need something a little stronger. Enter the Pi-Hole, a Raspberry Pi image that blocks ads of all sorts at t…
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BBC Sport – Anthony Martial: Manchester United set to sign Monaco forward
Manchester United are set to sign Monaco forward Anthony Martial after he was released from the France squad on Monday to travel to England, the French Football Federation has confirmed. More to follow.
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Highlights by Josue Guerra / 500px
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H&R Block Lobbied to Make Tax Forms Harder for Low-Income People to Fill Out | Mother Jones
In late July, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 2016 federal agency funding bill that came with instructions to the Internal Revenue Service to vastly expand the paperwork for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Ohio Abortion Bill Could Force Kasich to Take an Uncomfortable Public Stance | Mother Jones
Ohio, a state often considered ground zero for anti-abortion legislation, finds itself at the center of the latest reproductive rights controversy—one that could force its governor, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, to take an uncomfort…
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Men need feminism, too. : TrollXChromosomes
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Silent Reading Doesn’t Exist | The New Republic
Just as Laurence Sterne’s white page invites the reader to pause, to take refuge from the narrator’s words in what might seem an eddy of silence, doesn’t every space on a page of writing offer an exit, or even an escape, from the author’s voice? But…
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NASA Mulling Life-Hunting Mission to Saturn Moon Enceladus
This image of the geyser-spewing Saturn moon Enceladus was taken on Oct. 5, 2008 by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute View full size image A decade from now, NASA probes could be on their way to explore two potential…
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Monday reflection: Do-it-yourselfing, monsters and sad subways – Offworld
A few years ago Anna Anthropy wrote a revolutionary book: Rise of the Videogame Zinesters documented the groundswell of free, cheap and easy-to-learn game-making tools, and how they were enabling new creators, particularly women and marginalized fol…
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California’s Katrina Is Coming | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. California’s always been for dreamers. Dreams of gold brought the forty-niners. Easy seasons and expansive arable acreage brought farmers, dreaming of an agricultural paradise.
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Think Like a Tree: How Shark Skin Can Save Us From Superbugs | WIRED
The hospital can be a place to get healthy—and a place to get sick. Every year, two million people in the US acquire infections while in the hospital.
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This Girls’ Summer Camp Could Help Change the World of AI | WIRED
In a sparse lecture room at Stanford University, six students are rehearsing a presentation they’ll later give to a roomful of VIPs from the university’s artificial intelligence lab. Papers are strewn across the table. Hoodies hang over the cloth-co…
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Goodbye, Dr. Sacks
Oliver Sacks died yesterday. He was a brilliant man, a neurologist who was intrigued by how the brain worked on every level. He was uncommonly insightful, deeply thoughtful, invariably kind.
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It’s Really, Really Hard to Turn Speech Into GIFs | WIRED
The perfect GIF is a difficult thing to find. In an Internet rife with search options, there are a seemingly infinite number of options. But choosing a GIF that animates exactly what you want it to? More difficult.
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As record-setting Washington wildfires burned last week, a 16-year-old inmate who was helping to fight the Chelan Complex fire escaped from a work camp, after punching a security guard. The next day, 22 August, police found the inmate on a nearby ro…
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Underlying the debate over marijuana legalization has been an equally fierce battle between marijuana and another so-called vice industry: alcohol.
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Am I a rebel? Of course not. I’m the hard-working, straight-A student who always came home at the time agreed with her parents. I never wilfully provoked a teacher, never skipped a lesson, was never held back for a detention.
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Life Can Spread Across Universe Like an ‘Epidemic’ in New Mathematical Theory
If life can spread from star to star, researchers should see a characteristic pattern of overlapping growth.
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The Death Cure by James Dashner – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Trials are over. WICKED is planning to restore the survivors’ memories and complete the final cure for the Flare. But Thomas has already remembered more than they think. And he knows WICKED can’t be trusted…
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Colombia ‘to reunite families in Venezuela border crisis’ – BBC News
Colombia is to offer citizenship to Venezuelan relatives of Colombians who have been deported from Venezuela, officials say. It is the latest move by the Colombian government to ease a crisis triggered by Venezuela’s closure of a key stretch of thei…
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The Swimmer by John Cheever – into a suburban darkness | Books | The Guardian
The Swimmer by John Cheever – into a suburban darkness http://t.co/r2PaLzywgq
One of the more surreal journeys in literature takes place over the course of a single afternoon, covers a distance of approximately eight miles, and was first published in the New Yorker magazine in July, 1964. -
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What Bernie Sanders Has Already Won
When Sen. Bernie Sanders initially began running for president, his hope was to “trigger the conversation” about the way the economic and political system is rigged by the billionaires and their corporations.
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Bruxelles, het Atomium ! Cool ! by Marci Marc / 500px
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Last Sunset… by NickSW / 500px
Last Sunset… by NickSW http://t.co/ETXdZWb4ll http://t.co/OZ4yfBWaXf
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Edge of Earth by Mark Metternich / 500px
Edge of Earth by MarkMetternich http://t.co/ejl1HSjmmw http://t.co/UAz36aCxbC
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Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player in the world – but not for the reasons that most of the media focuses on. Coverage of her ascent tends to emphasize her body over her genius. This minimizes her greatness.
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Is it OK to ship recyclables cross-country — if landfill is the alternative? | Grist
Q. I’m considering using TerraCycle’s programs both at home and at work – the kind of products they accept seems too good to be true! They take many things that aren’t accepted by my local recycling facility.
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New York Red Bulls have plenty to thank their rivals for | Sport | The Guardian
Red Bulls find that with enemies like these who needs friends? Before the season started there was a now infamous town hall meeting between long term Red Bulls fans and the new management team.
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What it Will Take to Save Social Security Disability Insurance – The Atlantic
The Supreme Court recently saved the Affordable Care Act with its emphatic 6-3 ruling in King v. Burwell. One time bomb in American health policy was thus defused, but another has kept right on ticking. So far, it hasn’t received much public attent…
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Pentagon Sets Up Battle of the Fighter Jets – The Atlantic
If you’re the Pentagon, how do you choose between an aging, but dependable, fighter jet and a brand new aircraft that you’re not quite sure is up to the job? You have them fight it out, naturally.
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Inviting light. Moscow Oblast, Russia [OC] [2634×1756] : ExposurePorn
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Kiev clashes over Ukraine autonomy deal – BBC News
Clashes have erupted between protesters and police in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, as MPs backed an autonomy deal for the disputed east of the country. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refr…
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Life After Pluto: NASA Announces the Next Target for New Horizons | Motherboard
It’s been a little over a month since New Horizons visited Pluto and its moons, capturing the first close-up images of this beloved dwarf planet.
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Ethiopia opal miners dig their way to prosperity – Al Jazeera English
The Ethiopian highlands are often called “the roof of Africa”. It’s a rugged, breathtakingly beautiful landscape and a discovery in recent years has got precious gem experts around the world excited: opals.
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Migrant crisis: Austria holds suspected people smugglers – BBC News
Austrian authorities have arrested five suspected people smugglers as part of an operation to check vehicles entering along the country’s eastern borders. Over 200 migrants were recovered from vehicles overnight, Austria’s top policeman Konrad Kogle…
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Malaysia’s democracy is in worse shape than we thought – Al Jazeera English
The human sea of yellow swarming though the streets of Kuala Lumpur on the weekend looked, at first glance, like an overwhelming show of people power directed against a government and a prime minister deeply imperilled by political and financial sca…
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Are the millions spent on wildlife rehab a waste? – Emily Sohn – Aeon
What is the moral worth of rescuing individual wild animals? http://t.co/YM8qCTHMWq
It was a frigid Tuesday in November when a tiny rufous hummingbird showed up in a front yard in St Paul. -
BBC Sport – Fabio Borini: Liverpool accept Sunderland bid for forward
Liverpool have accepted a bid worth up to £10m for forward Fabio Borini from fellow Premier League side Sunderland. However, he then rejected a permanent move to the Stadium of Light.
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Hillary Clinton Secures Backing of Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire http://t.co/ONZHtgBb7B
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Playful Kitties : No matter what, we are still brocats. : cats
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August 31, 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, Dies in a Car Crash in Paris | The Nation
Princess Diana died on this day in 1997. Then Katha Pollitt wrote one of her best columns ever, “Thoroughly Modern Di” (September 29, 1997).
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Are the millions spent on wildlife rehab a waste? – Emily Sohn – Aeon
It was a frigid Tuesday in November when a tiny rufous hummingbird showed up in a front yard in St Paul.
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Comic trailer: Raising Dion, superhero child with a single mom – Boing Boing
What’s it like Raising Dion, a 7-year-old son with superpowers? Watch the trailer, then read the first issue free. Dion’s mom is widowed, and she navigates the challenges of raising him while protecting him from those who want to use Dion’s powers f…
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Who makes your t-shirts? – Aeon Video
The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, in April 2013 drew international attention to the plight of garment-industry workers in developing countries.
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Coming into Center City, Philadelphia (1024×696) : CityPorn
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The windmills of Kinderdijk by Franz Engels / 500px
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~claret~ by creative photoworks / 500px
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Fire in the London Skies III by Gerard McAuliffe / 500px
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Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS), a division within Citbank (America’s third-largest bank), recently published a report looking at the economic costs and benefits of a low-carbon future.
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Night Riders by Lauri Lohi / 500px
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Bangkok police claim reward in Erawan Shrine bomber hunt – BBC News
Thailand’s police chief has announced that he will give an $83,000 (£53,793) public reward to his own men after they apprehended a suspect in the deadly bombing at Bangkok’s Erwan Shrine. Somyot Pumpanmuang said the officers deserved it as there had…
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How Cities Can Beat Wall Street—And Why They Must – In These Times
In August 2014, the Los Angeles City Council debated whether to call for the renegotiation of the city’s financial deals. A report by the labor-community coalition Fix L.A. found that the city had spent more than twice as much on banking fees in fis…
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US Open 2015: order of play for Monday 31 August | Sport | The Guardian
Related: Will America finally embrace Serena Williams? Dominika Cibulkova vs. Ana Ivanovic (7)
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Skye fall by KENNY BARKER / 500px
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Cosmic Eruption by Dustin Wong / 500px
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South African police launch manhunt for ‘grenade killer’ – BBC News
Police in South Africa are on the hunt for a 30-year-old man accused of killing his wife with a hand grenade. The couple were arguing when the man allegedly threw two hand grenades at his wife, and one exploded.
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Refugees seek lasting peace in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh – Al Jazeera English
Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, Lebanon – Hundreds of displaced Palestinians crowded into the reception hall of the Musalli mosque last Friday as a volunteer read aloud the latest news about the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, where fierce factional fightin…
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BWAAAAP! Inception button makes everything dramatic – Boing Boing
Need to spice up your next meeting or school presentation? Dave Pedu created this handy button to play the now-ubiquitous musical sting! Includes helpful tips from Clippy! Also fun while on dates, at your house of worship, and on public transportati…
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The luxuriance of early autumn: Country diary 100 years ago | Environment | The Guardian
The luxuriance of early autumn is seen in the open wood not less than in the orchard. Leaves of the horse chestnut and the sycamore litter the ground, but the beech and the oak are beautifully green.
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Man jailed four months for “meth” that was epsom salt – Boing Boing
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The Australian share market capped its worst week since the global financial crisis by closing 1% lower as investors fretted over the possibility that the US Federal Reserve could soon raise interest rates. The ASX200 closed at 5,207 points on Monda…
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Poem of the week: from The Bard. A Pindaric Ode by Thomas Gray | Books | The Guardian
Poem of the week: from The Bard. A Pindaric Ode by Thomas Gray http://t.co/oyBZnc675T
Weave the warp, and weave the woof,The winding-sheet of Edward’s race.Give ample room, and verge enoughThe characters of hell to trace. -
He shaves with me every morning : cats
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spookyee video : ledootgeneration
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I like this picture of the “Wild Wall” most [1920×1080] : AbandonedPorn
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French PM Manuel Valls visits Eurotunnel – BBC News
The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, along with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, are visiting the Eurotunnel. They will be discussing the migrant crisis with EU officials and hold a news conference.
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Mountain Remnants by Peter James Nature Photography / 500px
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Queensland ‘relying on meanie greenies’ to oppose Acland coal plan | Environment | The Guardian
The Queensland government is relying on “meanie greenies” to take the heat for standing up to a controversial coalmine expansion, according to a veteran activist.
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5 Gulf Coast Photographers You Need to Be Following | WIRED
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina and the resulting flood devastated New Orleans, the city is back, but undeniably different. Despite the innumerable changes of the past decade, NOLA remains a rich, wonderful place, one with a rhythm and pace all it…
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My girlfriend’s siamese twins, Raffles and Sasha! : cats
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Director Wes Craven dies at 76 – Boing Boing
Famous for horror productions such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and his 1972 debut The Last House on the Left, Craven died Sunday of brain cancer in Los Angeles.
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Galileo satellites fuelled and ready for launcher attachment http://t.co/hsOgfiPtPf http://t.co/MLGU2cz9vR
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Singularity by Howard Snyder / 500px
Singularity by snyder7 http://t.co/PsngmLNypM http://t.co/vn1vLGuiTB
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Manarola after sunset by Sus Bogaerts / 500px
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Milkyway Rising Over Lassen Peak and Manzanita Lake js http://t.co/ZAP3A4Fejz http://t.co/6cFbZhFIgs http://t.co/MQCKKWybHF
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The Gadgets and Gear We Loved Most This Summer | WIRED
Caption: The Time Steel is an all-around upgrade for Pebble’s color smartwatch. This new model has a greater heft which screams quality, and the buttons have a more satisfying texture.
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Common facial vein – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Facial Vein usually unites with the Anterior branch of the Retromandibular Vein to form the Common Facial Vein, which crosses the external carotid artery and enters the internal jugular vein at a variable point below the hyoid bone.
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The farmer who’s starting an organic revolution in Cuba | World news | The Guardian
Like all homestead stories, Fernando Funes Monzote’s starts with an epic battle against harsh elements and long odds. Funes, a university-trained agronomist, settled on a badly eroded, brushy hillside outside Havana four years ago and began digging …
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Fish ’n’ chips or currywurst? In Danny Williams’ world, the two are in leagues of their own. “They are both different in their own tastes,” says Reading’s Germany-raised, US-repping midfielder.
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VICE News Capsule – Monday, August 31 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Tropical Storm Erika leaves a mess in Dominica, Nepal’s LGBT community rallies, Brazil has a fish problem, and child migrants in Macedonia now have a place to go.
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Amitabh Bachchan Twitter account ‘hacked’ – BBC News
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has alleged that his Twitter account has been hacked. “WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked ! Sex sites planted as ‘following’ ! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t need this !”, Mr Bachchan tweeted.
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I’ve never taken the time to appreciate this as much as I should have. My mothers wonderful creation (imgur.com)
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Aerial Sunset Over Paranal | ESO
This remarkable image was taken using a quadcopter, hovering high above the Atacama. Ocean, cloud and desert come together to form the aerial scene, stretching out along the Chilean coast.
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Thai police seek two new suspects in bombing probe – Al Jazeera English
Thai police chief Somyot Poompanmuang has said that at least 10 people, including both Thai and foreigners, were involved in the dealy Bangkok blast, as police said they were seeking two new suspects in the case.
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Miley Cyrus Delivers Many Story Lines to 2015 V.M.A.s http://t.co/LTf8inIqLS
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The ice curtain the divides Russia and the US – BBC News
Two islands in the Bering Straits, one Russian, one American, are barely two miles apart. Only a few military observation posts remain on the Russian island, but a community of Eskimos lives on the US island.
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Two people having sex behind a X-Ray. : interestingasfuck
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘spreads to Lagos’ – BBC News
Boko Haram is trying to expand its activities beyond Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, to include the commercial capital Lagos, as well as other parts of the country, officials say. Twelve members of the Islamist militant group have been arrested in La…
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An other nice day Red by Andre Villeneuve / 500px
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Petite Pointe by Lafugue Logos / 500px
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Kanye West stole the show at the MTV Video Music Awards by declaring that he will run for US president in 2020. He was given the lifetime achievement award.
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Friend just uploaded this to facebook… : funny
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Man dies after being shot by police – BBC News
Chancellor George Osborne announces more than £500m of contracts for the Royal Navy’s submarine base at Faslane, securing 6,700 jobs.
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Virginia shooting: mourners remember murdered journalists – video | US news | The Guardian
Mourners gathered on Sunday to remember the two US TV journalists who were shot and killed live on air last week.
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Five near-blind monk seals become ambassadors for vanishing species | Environment | The Guardian
The Hawaiians call their monk seals ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua or “the dog that runs in rough water,” but when I see my first one, I think: whoa, that’s more like a bear. And indeed, a female Hawaiian monk seal weighs up to 240 kilograms – about the size o…
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ICYMI: Gunshot broadcast live on Periscope – BBC News
In Case You Missed It: a round-up of interesting technology-related links shared over the weekend. A live broadcast on Periscope, the Twitter-owned video app, showed two men driving to a house apparently in search of one of their girlfriends.
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Who killed Dr Malleshappa Kalburgi? – BBC News
So who killed Malleshappa Kalburgi, a leading Indian scholar and a well-known rationalist thinker? Police say they are still investigating the motive for Sunday morning’s killing. Two men arrived by motorcycle at the scholar’s home in Dharwad in Kar…
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany [780×1170] (OC) : EarthPorn
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What it’s like to top banned book lists around the world | Children’s books | The Guardian
I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised that my Captain Underpants series continues to top banned books lists around the world. After all, my very first Captain Underpants stories were “banned” by my second grade teacher.
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LG Is Selling A Gold-Plated Version Of Its Watch Urbane Smartwatch For $1,200 | TechCrunch
Android fans wanting a touch of gold with their smartwatch — a la the Apple Watch — may be interested to learn of a fancy pants version of LG’s Watch Urbane. Priced at just $1,200, the LG Watch Urbane Luxe is a limited edition timepiece produced by …
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Close to the Wind by Jon Walter – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Close to the Wind is about a boy named Malik, who lives with his grandpa, Salvatore Bartholomew. There have been some problems in the county that they live in so they decided to catch a ship out of the country.
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France: Hungary refugee fence not even fit for animals – Al Jazeera English
Deep divisions persist within the European Union as thousands of distraught refugees arriving from war-torn countries, mainly Syria, continued to head towards Western Europe via the continent’s southern frontiers.
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A galactic maelstrom | ESA/Hubble
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is of about the same mass and size as the Milky Way.
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48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures Free Online | Open Culture
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Onwall by urapechen http://t.co/DAQGckgZNO http://t.co/1Gmtb1AKAZ
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Kris Boeckmans set to wake from induced coma
Belgian Kris Boeckmans is expected to wake up from an induced coma within 48 hours after scans showed he did not suffer brain injuries in a crash at the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday. He also had facial and rib fractures.
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India top court lifts ban on Jain death ritual santhara – BBC News
India’s Supreme Court has suspended an order of the Rajasthan high court banning santhara – the controversial Jain ritual of fasting unto death. Earlier this month, the high court had ruled that the voluntary religious practice of santhara was a for…
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Mount McKinley’s Alaska name Denali is restored by Obama – BBC News
After decades of controversy, the name of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, has been changed back to its original native Alaskan, Denali. Denali translates to High One and is used widely by locals.
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Day romps to six-shot win at The Barclays – Al Jazeera English
Red-hot PGA Championship winner Jason Day of Australia romped to victory at The Barclays, winning the opening event of the lucrative FedExCup Series by a whopping six strokes.
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Cows in rays by Marcin Sobas / 500px
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Matterhorn Twilight by Roberto Sysa Moiola / 500px
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spookiest site online! 1 thank = 1 spook : ledootgeneration
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Beautiful Preikestolen, Norway [1920×1200] (OC) : EarthPorn
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TIL the reporter who broke the story about the CIA selling Cocaine in the US had his reputation smeared, career destroyed, and was found dead from TWO gunshot wounds to the head… it was ruled a suicide (en.wikipedia.org)
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Production approved for Maersk Oil’s Culzean gas field – BBC News
Production on the largest new oil and gas field to have been discovered in the North Sea for a decade has been approved by the UK Oil & Gas Authority. The Culzean gas field is expected to produce enough gas to meet 5% of the UK’s needs when it reach…
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My dog and my cat finally got along! They’re official bros! : AnimalsBeingBros
My dog and my cat finally got along! They’re official bros! via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/tZNgRat2VO http://t.co/41acWqyyAp
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French Alps, Massif des Cerces [803×1200] by Florian E. : EarthPorn
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A Heckuva Job http://t.co/nYWvsWqAk7
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Amal Clooney’s dilemma over al-Jazeera trial – BBC News
In a packed Cairo courtroom, a nervous quiet reigned on Saturday as Judge Hassan Farid read his long delayed verdict in the retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists.
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The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks | Brain Pickings
“I had no room now for this fear, or for any other fear, because I was filled to the brim with music.
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My cat child, Sushi via /r/cats http://t.co/RpNqEaqtM6 http://t.co/KyQtiy2FXq
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Cyrus Nip / Topless – Best Angle via /r/pics http://t.co/3ld83rGONP http://t.co/ljTc1iUQWW
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Mr skeltal had gone to the beach! Updoot to hang 10. : ledootgeneration
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The Howe Sound, made from 275 slices of birch plywood [3128×984][OC] : MapPorn
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Red Far west of China by Thierry Bornier / 500px
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Google OnHub review—Google’s smart home Trojan horse is a $200 leap of faith | Ars Technica
Google’s OnHub is a bit of a mystery. Google shipped us this box—well, this cylinder—but it won’t really talk about what’s in it or why it exists. Today, it’s a Wi-Fi router from Google; tomorrow it might be something totally different.
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“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”
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Back to the lighthouse no 3 by Giacomo Helensburgh / 500px
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Shine by tulatop http://t.co/U2qxXaPI1g http://t.co/deudSUOtus
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No One Has Ever Enjoyed the VMAs as Much as Kanye West | Vanity Fair
Somewhere in the middle of his ten-minute V.M.A. acceptance speech, Kanye West, reliable awards show scene-stealer, admitted, “I still don’t understand award shows.” But West did seem to enjoy himself at this particular event.
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Kanye West tells VMAs he’ll run for president in 2020 – video | Music | The Guardian
Taylor Swift hands Kanye West his MTV video music award only for the rapper to deliver a lengthy and confusing acceptance speech, taking some customary punches at the music industry before saying he just wants people to ‘like me more’ and that yes, …
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Abbey Road Studios gets planning permission to expand – BBC News
It is the world’s most famous recording studios, producing decades of hits most famously for the Beatles. Now Abbey Road Studios has been given planning permission for a multi-million pound expansion.
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Shenhua coalmine faces legal challenge over risk to koala population | Environment | The Guardian
The $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine faces a significant setback after local landholders launched a legal challenge to the New South Wales government approval process over whether it properly considered the impact of the mine on the local koala population.
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VMAs 2015: MTV’s video music awards 2015 – in pictures | Music | The Guardian
Skip to main content MTV VMAs 2015 VMAs 2015: MTV’s video music awards 2015 – in pictures We round up the best photos from Los Angeles where Miley Cyrus hosted the annual bash celebrating the best videos in the music business
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Australia’s Dyson Heydon will not step down amid claims of bias – BBC News
The head of Australia’s Royal Commission into union corruption has dismissed an attempt to force him to step down. Retired High Court judge Dyson Heydon was under pressure from unions who argued that connections to the Liberal party created the perc…
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Slow-melting ice cream ingredient discovered by scientists – BBC News
A new ingredient developed by scientists in Scotland could mean that ice cream lovers can enjoy their treats longer before they melt.A naturally occurring protein can be used to create ice cream which stays frozen for longer in hot weather.
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Dazzling Apex by Artur Stanisz / 500px
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Full moon over Mobile, AL [750×750] : CityPorn
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I do this with my cat more often than I’d like to admit : TrollXChromosomes
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We survived Erika, Let’s make cook some meatballs… : foxes
We survived Erika, Let’s make cook some meatballs… via /r/foxes http://t.co/hhEkGtfWlh http://t.co/jKKk4z0Zzq
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Last lunch menu and artefacts from Titanic’s number one lifeboat auctioned | UK news | The Guardian
The Titanic’s last lunch menu – saved by a passenger who climbed aboard the so-called “money boat” lifeboat before the ocean liner went down – is going to auction, where it is estimated it will bring between $50,000 and $70,000.
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In the late 1950s, a young woman named Lois Sorrells Beckwith did what many passionate book-lovers find themselves doing — she fell in love with an author through his work; not with the writing alone, but with the man.
Love, Kindness, and the Song of the Universe: The Night Jack Kerouac Kept a Young Woman from Taking Her Own Life http://t.co/eC2SjbK8Uw -
North Carolina Wrestles With Guns in Churches | Al Jazeera America
It has been more than two months since Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed nine members of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church during a Wednesday Bible study, and longtime member Liz Alston still can’t go back to services.
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New Orleans Transforms Access to Health Care | Al Jazeera America
NEW ORLEANS — Standing on Gravier Street, near where the Interstate 10 overpass divides downtown from the Mid-City district, residents can see the past and future of New Orleans’ health care.
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Updoot to buy the Golden skeleton head and return it to its body. : ledootgeneration
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Comfortable blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/nLtsZY6hGJ http://t.co/iWyzJ8zT0G
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My roommates mom asked him how college is going. He sent her this. : funny
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Syndicate Meeting on Coruscant – by Riley Dannenbring [OC] : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Miley Cyrus nipple at the VMA’s. : pics
Miley Cyrus nipple at the VMA’s. via /r/pics http://t.co/RJ6IGHrkCf http://t.co/NGKFoT2Xj8
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Neural algorithm that “paints” photos based on the style of a given painting : pics
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She still a kid , but the beauty of color is visible : cats
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Growing Migrant Crisis Prompts Call for Urgent Meeting of E.U. Officials http://t.co/UTNm6XvOMH
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MRW when I realize that my mom supports Donald Trump : reactiongifs
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We Can’t Wait to See How They’ll Manage to Film The City & The City
The characters in China Miéville’s The City & The City live their lives inside a visual challenge. We can’t see what will happen when the BBC and Mammoth Screen try to include us in that challenge.
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‘Bomb-making material’ found in second Bangkok flat – BBC News
Thai police say they have found bomb-making materials in a second apartment, after the arrest of a suspect in the explosion at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine. Police spokesperson Prawut Thavornsiri said they had found “parts to make bombs and electric char…
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Calais ferry services resume after ‘lifeboat blockade’ – BBC News
Ferry services have resumed at the Port of Calais following a fresh protest by former workers of dissolved operator MyFerryLink. Passengers faced delays of up to five hours on Sunday night as protesters blockaded the port with lifeboats.
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Thai Police Find Bomb Materials in 2nd Lodging | Al Jazeera America
Thai police said Monday they discovered bomb-making materials during a raid of a second apartment on the outskirts of the capital, as authorities widened their search for suspects behind Bangkok’s deadly bombing and issued warrants for two new suspe…
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Read Kanye West’s Blunt, Poignant VMA Video Vanguard Award Speech | Rolling Stone
The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards produced more talked-about moments in one night than the show has garnered in years. Nicki Minaj blasting Miley Cyrus. Cyrus’ surprise new album. The return of (a high-flying) Justin Bieber.
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Fish and snake caught mid-battle by Australian fisherman – BBC News
An Australian spear fisherman has captured a bizarre battle between what appears to be one of the world’s most venomous fish and a deadly snake. Rick Trippe spotted the elegant sea snake latching onto an apparent stonefish off Darwin last Thursday.
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It’s 10:49PM and I already had lunch today : firstworldanarchists
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M31: The Andromeda Galaxy | We Heart It
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Cute little kitten playing with her tail : cats
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Cover Story: Joost Swarte’s “The Mouse of Wall Street” – The New Yorker
“The stock market is all about fear and anxiety, best shown in how a mouse reacts to a cat,” says the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte about his drawing for this week’s cover. When Swarte first sent his sketch, the markets were in free fall—but then a …
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This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin – The New Yorker
This week’s story, “In the Act of Falling,” is told from the perspective of a woman whose life is fraying. Her husband has lost his job; her nine-year-old son has been suspended from school; her house is too big and too expensive for the family’s re…
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The Man to Watch as the U.S. Open Begins – The New Yorker
It continues to be a golden age of men’s tennis, though the lustre may be fading, or beginning to, or is, perhaps, soon to begin to.
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons September 7, 2015 – The New Yorker
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A Shipwreck’s Haunted Treasures – The New Yorker
The sparkle of clear water on white sand in the Florida Keys; and somewhere, remote and hidden within that sparkle, an even more thrilling sparkle: gold! As a boy, this amateur treasure hunter (unsuccessful, now retired) used to dream about the lost…
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China Can’t Sink Us – The New Yorker
The stock market is not the economy. That’s a simple financial truth, but it’s hard to keep in mind in the midst of a sell-off like the one we saw last Monday, especially with headlines screaming about a “Bloodbath in Global Markets.
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“Queen of Earth” and “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” – The New Yorker
The first shot of Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), the presiding figure in “Queen of Earth,” is not a pretty sight.
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From High School to City Hall – The New Yorker
Zoe Markowitz is sixteen and in the eleventh grade at Eleanor Roosevelt High, on East Seventy-sixth Street. “My dad is a lawyer, and my mom is a banker at JP Morgan,” she said one morning, while strolling up Madison Avenue. “They, like, don’t know w…
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What Is College Worth? – The New Yorker
If there is one thing most Americans have been able to agree on over the years, it is that getting an education, particularly a college education, is a key to human betterment and prosperity.
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Israel’s Favorite Palestinian Moves to Illinois – The New Yorker
A century ago, on Mt. Scopus, in Jerusalem, Albert Einstein gave the first lecture at the future Hebrew University, a ninety-minute inquest into cosmic mysteries: the meaning of time, the properties of light.
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Love and Glamour in Old Hollywood – The New Yorker
“You are seeing me at my absolute fucking worst,” Monica Lewis said cheerfully. The ninety-three-year-old entertainer had taken a fall a few days earlier in her apartment at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home, near Los Angeles.
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The Mail (September 7, 2015) – The New Yorker
Adam Gopnik’s article about “Go Set a Watchman” attributes the longevity of “To Kill a Mockingbird” in America’s literary memory to Harper Lee’s depiction of childhood (Books, July 27th).
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Inside the Salem Witch Trials – The New Yorker
In 1692, the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft. The sorcery materialized in January. The first hanging took place in June, the last in September; a stark, stunned silence followed.
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“In the Act of Falling” – The New Yorker
It was a little after 7 A.M., and outside in the garden her nine-year-old son, Finn, was stringing a tennis net between two trees, stringing it not in the normal fashion, the way one might to play tennis, but horizontally, like a hammock.
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews – The New Yorker
World Without End, by Hugh Thomas (Random House). Thomas concludes his three-volume history of the Spanish Empire with Philip II’s expansion of his territory in the late sixteenth century.
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“Encyclopædia Britannica” – The New Yorker
We were as excited as when we’d bought our new car,and it, too, weighed a ton, the entire historyof the world and everything in iton two whole shelves in our family room,sitting like a judge over our new color TV.
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Confab with Your Children – The New Yorker
Sit down and talk with your kids about it. If you don’t think you have time in your family’s busy schedule, make time to talk about it. Your kids should hear about it from you, as soon as is convenient, in a setting that’s familiar and unthreatening.
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“A Threshold” – The New Yorker
Where have you gone, my little saving grace? Iona or Iola of the laughlike falling silver . . . Now nothing’s in its place, and all’s as light and cold as that blue scarfI lost or left without, or I don’t own.Everything shames me. Every card decline…
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What’s New About Bill Bratton’s N.Y.P.D.? – The New Yorker
On a bitterly cold night in February, William Bratton, New York City’s police commissioner, joined several hundred uniformed officers for an informal memorial service at the corner of 107th Avenue and Inwood Street, in Jamaica, Queens.
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How Ralph Waldo Emerson Changed American Poetry – The New Yorker
In January of 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s firstborn child, Waldo, contracted scarlet fever and died within a week. He was five. He had been his father’s exuberant companion, who had, Emerson wrote, “touched with his lively curiosity every trivial fa…
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The Fight to Save Atlantic City – The New Yorker
Mike Hauke opened a pizza and sub shop in Atlantic City in 2009, but only after he had failed in nine tries to rent the space to somebody else. He had bought the building three years earlier on the advice of his father, an accountant who considered …
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MRW I see two customers arguing and my shift is over : reactiongifs
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Snoqualmie Pass, WA in early spring [OC] [3456 x 5184] : EarthPorn
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Rainbow in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. [OC] [3264×1836] : EarthPorn
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More male carers needed, says providers’ chief – BBC News
More male carers are needed to look after older people, the chief executive of Care England has said. Prof Martin Green told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the government should do more to recruit men into front-line adult social care roles.
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Game Over for Two-a-Days – The Daily Beast
Scorching sun. Vomit. The thud of plastic. Football training camps mean pain, which has long been held as a good thing for the guys sweating through this annual rite of passage in the weeks before the season kicks off.
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Sudan’s Vaccination Card Black Market – The Daily Beast
KHARTOUM — Standing at the junction of two of downtown’s busiest avenues, Ahmed, a slim young man with yellowing teeth and torn drawstring trousers, cuts a shifty figure as he slowly paces around a shopping arcade steps from the presidential palace.
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Who Decides What You’re Allowed to Learn? Our Knowledge Economy Sellout – The Daily Beast
Recently, a few English professors here at Chabot College, a community college in Hayward, California, had an email dialogue about the meanings of success for students in our basic skills program.
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D.C.’s Snobbery-Free ‘Diner en Blanc’ Showed Washington at Its Partying Best – The Daily Beast
White people are crazy.
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How to Get Health Care Like the 1% – The Daily Beast
Leslie Michelson has spent the last 30 years helping people get the best possible medical care from a challenging system. His new book The Patient’s Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love distills all the advice, tips, and s…
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Tracing a Father’s Escape From Auschwitz – The Daily Beast
In January, HBO broadcast the shattering documentary Night Will Fall, the story of a groundbreaking British government documentary from 1945 which featured exclusive footage of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
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American prosecutors are powerful officials. They have the power to deprive people of their liberty, destroy their reputations, and even take away their lives. They have virtually unlimited discretion in how they exercise their powers.
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Behind Trump, the GOP Really Is Becoming the Racist Party – The Daily Beast
Let me offer some friendly advice to the Republican Party that I learned firsthand as a Muslim American: You don’t want to be defined by your most extreme members. And here’s a little more advice.
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Vigilante Justice Comes Back to NYC – The Daily Beast
It’s 10 p.m. and we’re somewhere in Central Park, but it’s pitch black out, and so for the life of me I couldn’t begin to say exactly where the Guardian Angels and I have ended up.
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First Day Of Camp proves that size matters for reboots · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
There was little in Wet Hot American Summer to suggest it should be resurrected. Here was a self-contained movie from 14 years ago, a film without an expansive mythology to explore or complex themes to interrogate, or even dangling narrative threads…
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The late greats: 18-plus TV characters who buoyed shows midstream · Inventory · The A.V. Club
Characters added in the middle of a TV show’s run get a bad rap. For every Cousin Oliver or Scrappy-Doo, there are characters who actually added something to their show, even rejuvenating a longrunning series’ later seasons.
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When do music festivals evacuate due to bad weather? · Expert Witness · The A.V. Club
In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get…
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Faking It gets real in season premiere · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, August 31. All times are Eastern. Faking It (MTV, 9:30 p.m.
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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“The Ricks Must Be Crazy” · Rick And Morty · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There’s nothing really shocking about anti-heroes anymore.
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Netflix Is Letting A Number Of Hollywood Movies Go In Order To Focus On Exclusives | TechCrunch
Neflix is bidding adieu to a slew of top Hollywood films from Epix as it continues to focus on hosting exclusive content on its service. A joint venture between MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment and Viacom’s Paramount, Epix is a big name in the industry.
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The Georgia lynching of Leo Frank: from the archive, 31 August 1915 | US news | The Guardian
New York, August 20.The shocking murder of Leo Frank, formerly of Brooklyn, by a mob that travelled a hundred miles to get him and bring him to the place where Mary Phagan, his alleged victim, was buried at Marietta, has been the greatest local happ…
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VMAs 2015: Kanye West reveals political ambitions as Minaj insults Cyrus | Music | The Guardian
Kanye West announced that he plans to run for president in 2020 at the MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles.
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Pure water from the depth of the mountain | Environment | The Guardian
Of all the places in Lakeland where you can be guaranteed to find fresh running drinking water, Brownrigg Well is the highest. It graces Helvellyn (950m) 100m or so below the summit and has long assuaged the thirsts of shepherds and fell runners.
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Beef, Bombast and Kanye West Reign at Wild Video Music Awards | Rolling Stone
The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards dished out a buffet of bombast and beef, a barrage of memorable performances and ridiculous outfits, and ultimately served as a pristine example of the transitive properties of pop: Host Miley Cyrus got into it with N…
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Miley Cyrus Surprise-Releases New Album Following VMA Performance | Rolling Stone
Miley Cyrus capped off the show with a glittery, wild performance of a new song titled “Dooo It” before announcing her new album, titled Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, was available to stream for free at her website.
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What Hillary Needs to Beat Biden and Bernie – The Daily Beast
Brooklyn, we have a problem. Largely the result of her own doing, Hillary Clinton is mired in a candidacy-threatening scandal that could reshape the Democratic primary race in the short-term and undermine her chances of getting the nomination in the…
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Tesla strikes deal to buy lithium hydroxide mined in northern Mexico : technology
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Kirkjufell Waterfalls Image, Iceland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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British neurologist Oliver Sacks dies at the age 82 – BBC News
British neurologist Oliver Sacks has died of cancer at the age of 82. He is best known for his work examining the quirks of the human brain.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: History Lies : television
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Wittle fluffball fits in my hands comfortably. : cats
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I’m in the early stages of labor, and even my cat is monitoring me closely. : cats
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My cats tail is awesome : cats
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Pepper doesn’t like picture time as much as I do : cats
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Christmas, soaking in her retirement years. : cats
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Dandy got shot in the face, but she’s still pretty snooty about her new tree. : cats
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Sunrise over sea of clouds in North Cascades, Washington [OC] [3072×2139] : EarthPorn
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Kitten and chick : AnimalsBeingBros
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HMB while I shove this lady. : holdmybeer
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This way Bruce Willis… : funny
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Going through the cloud line on Madeira Island : FoggyPics
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Remembering Wes Craven: The Master of Horror Who Scared Us Senseless – The Daily Beast
More than four decades after making his first foray into the horror genre that would define his long and influential career, Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream helmer Wes Craven died Sunday in Los Angeles. The 76-year-old filmmaker passed away at 1 …
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Ebola nurse working at NHS hospital that saved his life – BBC News
The first British healthcare worker who caught and survived Ebola is working as an NHS nurse in the hospital that helped save his life. He spoke to the BBC while working nights in A&E at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
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Egypt row over Facebook Muezzin call – BBC News
An Egypt muezzin is facing disciplinary action for altering the words of the traditional call to dawn prayer. The country’s ministry of religious affairs is taking legal action against Mahmoud al-Moghazi, the cleric of the Nile Delta town of Kafr al…
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Nigeria Reports Boko Haram Arrests | Al Jazeera America
Nigeria’s security agency said on Sunday it had made significant breakthroughs in the fight against Boko Haram and arrested 20 prominent members of the group accused of orchestrating deadly attacks. President Muhammadu Buhari has made halting Boko H…
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“Intruders” · The Strain · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The multiple threads that The Strain set up in its earliest episodes are taking a long time to unravel.
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India: No country for wild tigers? | Janaki Lenin | Environment | The Guardian
If the tigers of Panna are under threat of being displaced by a dam, the tigers of nearby Kanha, Pench, and Navegaon Nagzira tiger reserves in the two central Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are in danger from a highway.
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Kanye West Jabs MTV, Award Process in VMA Vanguard Award Speech | Rolling Stone
Kanye West received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, with Taylor Swift — the artist West infamously interrupted six years ago at the VMAs — presenting the award.
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Wes Craven, Horror-Movie Innovator, Dead at 76 | Rolling Stone
Wes Craven, the filmmaker responsible for countless horror classics like Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes and Scream, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 76.
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Wes Craven: his life and career – in pictures | Film | The Guardian
Freddy Krueger, the star of Craven’s movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was released in 1984. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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“Surrogacy” · Masters Of Sex · TV Review · The A.V. Club
It’s odd that Bill’s storyline this week, in which he makes a unilateral decision to launch a therapeutic sex surrogacy program, never offers a strong sense of Virginia’s objections to the new venture.
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Kanye West Running For President 2020 : Music
He announced seconds ago that he was gonna run for president during the VMAs. Okay, now I want this to happen.
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Botanists conduct first large-scale genetic study of marijuana, hemp : science
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Ragunan Zoo launch a phone app to help visitors – BBC News
Indonesia’s zoos have made headlines for a series of animal deaths and bad conditions. But now a mobile phone app aims to change the negative image, and attract more visitors.
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APOD: 2015 August 30 – M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: What is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy? An…
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Wes Craven, master of Hollywood horror, dies aged 76 – video report | Film | The Guardian
Hollywood film director Wes Craven has died aged 76 from brain cancer. Craven was best known for his 1984 classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street, featuring Freddy Kreuger, and the franchise it spawned.
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Hunter S. Thompson in Puerto Rico 1960 : OldSchoolCool
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Pablo Escobar with his son outside the White House. 1980. : OldSchoolCool
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Kanye West: I’m Running For President in 2020 – The Daily Beast
So sayeth Yeezus, your future (hopeful) commander-in-chief. Yes, while accepting the Video Vanguard Award during MTV’s Video Music Awards ceremony, the inimitable Kanye West announced plans to make America great again, running for the highest office…
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Liquids Are Good For Hydration — And Awesome Science Tricks – Digg
YouTuber brusspup demonstrates that high-fructose corn syrup, while bad for you, is good for cool science tricks. And we still can’t figure out what’s going on with the last one.
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Kanye West at VMAs: I’m Running for President in 2020 | Vanity Fair
At Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West accepted the Video Vanguard Award in true Kanye style: by offering a stream-of-consciousness rumination on the events of years past, and making bold claims about the future.
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Wes Craven, Horror Film Director, Dies at 76 | Al Jazeera America
Prolific horror filmmaker Wes Craven, who directed the slasher classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” died on Sunday afternoon, his family said in a statement. He was 76.
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Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus’s V.M.A. Spat Was Totally Real, MTV Swears | Vanity Fair
Taylor Swift’s “surprise” appearance onstage with Nicki Minaj at the beginning of the VMAs may have been well orchestrated in advance, but another well-publicized beef popped up onstage as a genuine surprised.
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Now you’re playing with portals : funny
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Kansas statistician suing the state to obtain election records, says voting results don’t add up. (kshb.com)
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Netflix breaks up with Epix, Hulu swoops in with a shoulder to cry on · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s always tragic when someone decides that they’re too good for an old friend.
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Anyone know what anime this is from? : animegifs
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Paris Streetscape [OC] – [1024×576] : CityPorn
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Kanarra Creek by Ryan Engstrom / 500px
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Morning in Docklands, Melbourne, Australia. 5s (2743×1823) [OC] : ExposurePorn
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Open thread for night owls: ‘Contrarian’ climate studies are the product of identifiable errors
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Little brother of ex-president who must not be named says President Obama needs a spanking:
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Australia’s Bishop dismisses reports of Cambodia refugee collapse – BBC News
Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said a deal to resettle refugees in Cambodia is on track despite reports to the contrary. Under the deal, signed in September last year, Australia is paying Cambodia to take in its rejected refugees from…
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Justin Bieber Marks VMA Comeback With High-Flying Performance | Rolling Stone
Dressed in all black – boots, pants, T-shirt and trucker hat – Bieber delivered his first VMA performance in five years backed by a stunning light display, a dozen dancers and some well-oiled choreography.
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VMAs 2015: Nicki Minaj calls Miley Cyrus ‘bitch’ on stage at MTV awards | Music | The Guardian
Nicki Minaj confronted MTV Video Music Awards host Miley Cyrus during the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night while accepting the award for best hip hop video. Minaj thanked her pastor while taking the award for her music video Anaconda, …
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North America’s tallest mountain to be renamed Denali – Al Jazeera English
President Barack Obama will officially restore Denali as the name of North America’s tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley.
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Watch Nicki Minaj Blast Miley Cyrus During VMA Acceptance Speech | Rolling Stone
Nicki Minaj ended her acceptance speech for Best Hip-Hop Video at the Video Music Awards by thanking her pastor, then cursing out Miley Cyrus, passing it back to the host with the curt: “And now, back to this bitch who had a lot to say about me the …
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‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Recap: There’s a Riot Goin’ On | Rolling Stone
Congratulations, Tobias: For the second week in a row, Fear the Walking Dead’s pimple-faced prophet of doom is the show’s MVP, the one who sees opportunity in the apocalypse where others see…well, nothing really, as of yet.
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Moby DJing at a hip hop competition in 1988 : OldSchoolCool
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The Horse Whisperer by Dylan Gehlken / 500px
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“Parts Five and Six” · Show Me A Hero · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The first two acts of Show Me A Hero have skillfully built an intertwined story in which very few of the characters from the narrative divide of City Hall and Public Housing actually intertwine.
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The secret history of “Y’all”: The murky origins of a legendary Southern slang word – Salon.com
As I jumped across the pond for a few weeks, back in my grad school days, I wanted to at least try to assimilate. Step one was toning down my Americanisms and in particular my Southern accent.
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High school vs College : TrollXChromosomes
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Just got this cute. Still haven’t found a good name for him. Any ideas?? : cats
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io9 Book Club Reminder: Meet Sept. 1 To Discuss Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora!
Just a quick reminder—the io9 book club is meeting on Tuesday to talk about Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Aurora. In the meantime, here’s a video of Robinson talking about the ideas behind the book.http://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Kim-Sta… Contact the …
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Malaysia protest: PM Najib Razak calls for unity – BBC News
Malaysia’s PM Najib Razak has refused to resign after mass protests, and has called for national unity. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets at the weekend, urging Mr Najib to step down over allegations he took hundreds of millions of dol…
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The long and storied history of the white van speaker scam | Digital Trends
You walk out of Home Depot with a new faucet for that bathroom project you’ve been putting off, and as you head to your car, two guys in a windowless van roll up.
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Dusk on the plains of Bagan [1280×960][oc] : AbandonedPorn
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Man survives polar bear attack. : funny
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‘Show Me a Hero’ Recap Roundtable: Episodes 5 and 6 – The Atlantic
Each week following Show Me a Hero, Brentin Mock, Lenika Cruz, and David Sims discuss the controversial efforts to build low-income housing in Yonkers in the ’80s, as depicted in HBO’s six-part miniseries.
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“So Close, Yet So Far” · Fear The Walking Dead · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Okay, that’s more like it. I could spend this review trying to re-edit “Pilot” and “So Close, Yet So Far” into one great episode, but let’s just give the pilot a mulligan and move on to episode two, which corrects—almost over-corrects, even—last wee…
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Horror film legend Wes Craven dies at 76 – Al Jazeera English
Wes Craven, the director of iconic horror films such as “Scream” and the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, has died aged 76, The Hollywood Reporter said.
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China in crackdown on spreading online ‘rumours’ – Al Jazeera English
China has punished 197 people in a special campaign by police targeting online rumours about China’s stock market, the recent fatal explosions in Tianjin and “other key events”, state media reported.
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Why Silicon Valley Falls Short When It Comes To Education | TechCrunch
Despite Silicon Valley billionaires’ remarkable track record of innovation, it appears they have decided to throw in the towel on higher education.
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RIP Wes Craven, Iconic Director of Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream
Iconic horror director Wes Craven died today aged 76, of brain cancer. In addition to creating the character of Freddy Krueger in Nightmare on Elm Street and the most famous meta-horror franchise with Scream, he also directed People Under the Stairs…
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Wes Craven, Horror Maestro, Dies at 76 : movies
This is just awful. Tremendous loss for the film community but more importantly the horror genre. His impact is forever. Really devastated right now 😦 Yes. RIP.
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Horror Director Wes Craven Has Died at Age 76 | Vanity Fair
A famed master of horror who both parodied and rejuvenated the genre with the Scream series, director Wes Craven has died at the age of 76. His representative confirmed to The Daily Beast that he had been battling brain cancer.
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Nicki Minaj Puts Miley Cyrus on Blast at the VMAs – The Daily Beast
We’re just a half-hour into the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards and Nicki Minaj, bless her, has already won the whole damn show. First, the bootylicious “Anaconda” singer performed a PR-orchestrated duet with Taylor Swift.
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Would you feel inspired in a weird workplace? – BBC News
Can a quirky office make you a better worker? Meet the people who do conventional work in unconventional places. Whether it’s the constant babble of voices in your open plan office, the strip-lighting, or the claustrophobia of the battery-cage desk …
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Peeling old paint off a paint tray : oddlysatisfying
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Milkyway – Lago Espejo, Rio Negro, Patagonia… – Just Space
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I don’t remember this chair having a tail.. : cats
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What Is the Trump Endgame? — NYMag
The media’s obsessive coverage of Donald Trump has been stalked by a cloud of self-imposed shame. The Huffington Post made an early decision to relegate Trump coverage to its entertainment section, reflecting a wide sense that Trump’s contribution t…
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Wes Craven, Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director, dies at 76 | Film | The Guardian
Wes Craven, veteran writer and director of some of Hollywood’s most famous horror film franchises, has died at the age of 76. The Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director died on Sunday night after a battle with brain cancer, the Hollywood Report…
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Louise Fili photographs Parisian signs in her book, Graphique de la Rue: The Signs of Paris.
Starting in her early 20s, Louise Fili spent years wandering the streets of Paris, photographing the beautiful old signs she saw along the way. She was beginning to discover graphic design at the time, and her documentation of the vernacular signs w…
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The news last week that the Newcastle City Council had voted to divest from fossil fuel stocks was one of those signposts that historians will someday cite to mark the greatest economic transition in human history.
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US horror filmmaker Wes Craven dies – BBC News
The European Union announces emergency talks on its escalating migrant crisis, as record numbers try to enter the bloc by sea or land.
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R.I.P. Wes Craven · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Multiple sources are reporting that iconic horror director Wes Craven, best known for A Nightmare On Elm Street and the Scream series, has died. Though nothing official has been released, Craven had reportedly been battling brain cancer. He was 76. …
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Watch Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift Bury the Hatchet During VMA Performance | Vanity Fair
After a summer of Taylor Swift’s endless roll call of guest stars on her 1989 tour, it was her turn to make a megawatt cameo at the 2015 VMAs on Sunday night. Nicki Minaj performed “Trini Dem Girls” before calling Swift out as her guest for “The Nig…
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Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift Open VMAs With Surprise Medley | Rolling Stone
Nicki Minaj provided an unexpected opening for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards as she teamed with Taylor Swift, who the rapper briefly beefed with in the months prior to the VMAs, onstage for a surprise duet.
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Watch Taylor Swift’s Glamorous, Retro ‘Wildest Dreams’ Video | Rolling Stone
Taylor Swift premiered the romantic video for her latest single “Wildest Dreams” during the Video Music Awards pre-show. The video stars Scott Eastwood — Clint’s son — as her love interest and was previewed on her Twitter one week before the ceremon…
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Legionnaires’ Disease Strikes San Quentin Inmates | Al Jazeera America
At least six San Quentin State Prison inmates are ill with Legionnaires’ disease and dozens more under observation Sunday, prompting a weekend halt to visitors, no hot meals and limited drinking water supplies at California’s oldest prison.
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Eight point buck in Highland Park, NJ [2890×1935][OC] : AnimalPorn
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This must be what heaven looks like – Imgur
This must be what heaven looks like http://t.co/y88QxZlTuv http://t.co/wfAqZvyymU
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Pedralbes by DAVID MAS / 500px
Pedralbes by subiyama http://t.co/v68jY9N3So http://t.co/oFETwuewRS
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My boss didn’t think this was funny. : funny
My boss didn’t think this was funny. via /r/funny http://t.co/YvZpgWsw4V http://t.co/FP14ZIdzIO
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Here’s What The Military’s Top Roboticist Is Afraid Of (It’s Not Killer Robots) – Defense One
Gill Pratt can safely be called the military’s top mind in robotics.
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You’re a Harry, wizard! via /r/aww http://t.co/0KECmWa9EJ http://t.co/OOQA8djnDC
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Nebraskan bean threshers, September 1941 : OldSchoolCool
Nebraskan bean threshers, September 1941 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/4OeHubSj5T http://t.co/Iy3E0gevFy
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hawksbill turtle via /r/NatureGifs http://t.co/0cFeybIcNQ http://t.co/dxivHxLp7f
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Checking out her new digs : cats
Checking out her new digs via /r/cats http://t.co/4zoQtRmPgM http://t.co/A6Q9xzmgsS
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Flawless practical effect : gifs
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It’s a good thing nukes are really hard to make. If they could be fabricated as easily as mustard gas or gunpowder, we would be in a world of trouble, literally and figuratively. And there’s another reason it’s such a good thing.
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Japanese shares lead Asia lower on US rates expectation – BBC News
Asian shares have opened lower on hints US interest rates may rise in September, despite last week’s market turmoil. Over the weekend, US Federal Reserve officials said that recent volatility could ease and therefore pave the way for a rate hike nex…
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The dark secret about fantasy football no one is talking about
Davis Mattek was “irrationally confident” when the Cincinnati Bengals played the Cleveland Browns last December—enough to let thousands of dollars ride on the outcome. He started enigmatic quarterback Johnny Manziel. The Browns lost 30-0 on Dec. 14,…
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Wes Craven, Horror Maestro, Dies at 76 – Hollywood Reporter
Wes Craven, the famed writer-director known for the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76. His Freddy Krueger character horrified viewers and became an iconic horror character. He is credited with r…
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Looks like I won’t be single my whole life after all : funny
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Dude Chilling at a park : pics
Dude Chilling at a park via /r/pics http://t.co/YyvlujBygL http://t.co/7KuCHnYFvW
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“Loss” My illustration inspired by the loss of a loved one : ImaginaryMindscapes
“Loss” My illustration inspired by the loss of a loved one via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/pyYdZPUhbA http://t.co/GcIRb8H3lK
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Found out why my spare bed keeps falling over. : cats
Found out why my spare bed keeps falling over. via /r/cats http://t.co/ne7pDO9fWP http://t.co/noK7wiwWUt
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Pokémon’s copyright lawyers wipe out themed PAX pre-party | Ars Technica
Pokémon fans headed to the PAX gaming conference in Seattle suffered a disappointment on Thursday when their schedule party didn’t materialize. The reason? Copyright lawyers working for the The Pokémon Company saw the whole fiesta as a giant festiva…
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GZA to team up with iconic composer Vangelis for his next album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ever since live musical performances were invented, musicians have come up with countless reasons to cancel a tour date. Maybe they got sick and don’t want to put on a bad show. Maybe they got really into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret …
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Migrant crisis: EU calls emergency talks – BBC News
The European Union has called emergency talks on tackling the bloc’s escalating migration crisis. The EU presidency said interior ministers from all 28 member states would hold an extraordinary meeting on 14 September, and the crisis had reached “un…
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2015 VMAs: The Most Outrageous Outfits | Vanity Fair
1/11MILEY CYRUS—As host, she gets to make a splash while also keeping it classy; her futuristic look is custom Versace.+−zoom
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Taylor Swift Brought Her Girl Squad to the V.M.A. Red Carpet | Vanity Fair
It’s customary when going into a big awards show night to have one or two people on your arm for emotional support. Be that a romantic partner or family member, it’s important to know someone has your back. Well, mulitple-V.M.A.-nominee Taylor Swift…
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I don’t know how it came about but I started calling him “baby bit” : cats
I don’t know how it came about but I started calling him “baby bit” via /r/cats http://t.co/70YFHYYbpD http://t.co/G1rhToTjJY
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Such a tragic loss http://t.co/xtDnVRyLFZ http://t.co/g9WGXlfS8l
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MRW my female friend asks me to come round at 11PM : reactiongifs
MRW my female friend asks me to come round at 11PM via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/59NY0PV57P http://t.co/1a7XrOzsC1
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Mt. Jefferson, OR [OC] 2070×3105 : spaceporn
Mt. Jefferson, OR [OC] 2070×3105 via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/EymKBvYZn5 http://t.co/JTryVTXDVI http://t.co/WISED3yEDw
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Mt. Jefferson, OR [OC] 2070×3105 via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/EymKBvYZn5 http://t.co/JTryVTXDVI http://t.co/WISED3yEDw
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MTV Video Music Awards 2015: The Complete VMA Winners List | Rolling Stone
MTV Video Music Awards 2015: The Complete VMA Winners List The full rundown of who won on one of the industry’s biggest nights
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The Rehabilitationists: The Libertarian Movement to Undo the New Deal | The New Republic
In November 2013, a who’s who of America’s conservative legal establishment descended on the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting of the Federalist Society, the most influential conservative legal organization in the country.
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‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Tackles Police Brutality, Black Lives Matter Not So Much – The Daily Beast
The Walking Dead spinoff treated us to an intense second episode filled with anti-cop riots, zombie feeding, and a supposed act of police brutality.
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Martin O’Malley Declares that the Democratic Debate Schedule is ‘Rigged’ | The Nation
Minneapolis, MN — It is rare in politics for a candidate who is seeking a party’s presidential nomination to tell the party leadership that it is wrong. It is ever rarer for a candidate to do so at a formal meeting of the party’s leadership.
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Tokyo’s record comeback seals Little League World Series against Lewisberry | Sport | The Guardian
With more than 42,000 fans cheering against them, the Tokyo players found themselves down eight runs in the first inning of the Little League championship game against Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
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Televangelists and Trump: A Match Made in Heaven – The Daily Beast
Donald Trump isn’t exactly a Sunday School poster child.
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TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment. (cnn.com)
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I think my dog approves of her. : aww
I think my dog approves of her. via /r/aww http://t.co/bBC5cP4TbW http://t.co/1ZTptXe1mX
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This box and paper might stay in my floor for a while… : cats
This box and paper might stay in my floor for a while… via /r/cats http://t.co/7pZtrPYUjT http://t.co/XinUKOxvS7
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President Obama announced on Sunday that Mount McKinley was being renamed Denali, using his executive power to restore an Alaska Native name with deep cultural significance to the tallest mountain in North America. The move came on the eve of Mr.
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/UBwkglmvDk http://t.co/Hm1QCzsPHg
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Afghanistan via /r/woahdude http://t.co/dydoBHXMVS http://t.co/lK1BLEDXoV
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NGC 5189 js http://t.co/R60cfRD0SY http://t.co/vVJsHMQTm2
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The 10 Breakout Stars of the Summer | Vanity Fair
Heading into Summer 2015 there were a few pop cultural certainties we could rely on. Taylor Swift’s 1989 tour was going to dominate. Chris Pratt was going to have another hugely lucrative summer—this time with the help of some dinosaurs.
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DJ Snake via /r/gif http://t.co/B4SMljLQBi http://t.co/OiDLyrW3ag
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You Shouldn’t Be Able To Use A Bike This Way – Digg
Rider Nicole Frýbortová is highly talented at using a bike for pretty much anything other than as a means of transportation.
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TIANJIN, China — One partner was the son of a local police chief, the other an executive at a state-run chemicals firm.
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I NEVER went to Iceland. I suppose I should say I didn’t go to Iceland this summer — never sounds a little melodramatic, possibly terminal. It’s not as if I’ve died and all hope of ever having gone to Iceland is obviated.
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In Iowa, when J. Ann Selzer talks, people listen. Many surprising findings in a new survey by Ms. Selzer, Iowa’s most respected pollster, are sure to be topics of elated or anxious conversations on campaign conference calls on Monday morning.
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Why does South Sudan matter so much to the US? – BBC News
It wasn’t so much a collective sigh of relief when President Salva Kiir finally signed the peace deal this week. It was more a sense of “let’s see” as the US issued a warning that it would “hold to account” any of the leaders who might stray from th…
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Giffiti Jazzes Up Photos With GIFs | TechCrunch
In the ever-escalating social media arms race, GIFs are the best way to get attention. Static photos are so 2013. But a new app called Giffiti (like graffiti with GIFs) lets you enhance your pics by overlaying animations.
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Are we addicted to technology? – BBC News
Just five minutes after meeting sleep and energy expert Dr Nerina Ramlakhan in her central London clinic, she delivers some bad news. “You’re running on survival energy. Your sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive.
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But for Republicans and their conservative water carriers, Hall’s remark came as an unpleasant surprise indeed. After all, congressional Republicans chose Hall over incumbent Douglas Elmendorf precisely to implement “dynamic scoring” models.
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“A Time To Punch” · Survivor’s Remorse · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“When people use a false equivalency to make light of domestic violence against women, it makes me want to punch someone in the face.
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Four wars and counting: Making sense of the anti-IS struggle – BBC News
Adversity, they say, makes strange bedfellows. This is especially true in the contemporary Middle East.
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What will Royal Navy warships look like in 2050? – BBC News
Futuristic images of what Royal Navy vessels could look like in 2050 have been developed by young British scientists and engineers. They hope it will offer a glimpse of how advanced vessels could be. Its aim is to ensure that the UK remains at the f…
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Whites Quit Working With Black Mississippi Judge, Then He Got Sacked – The Daily Beast
A black judge in Mississippi claims he was removed from office following years of resistance from a mostly white legal system to his push to treat drug offenders instead of imprisoning them.Justice Court Judge Rickey Thompson of Lee County—named for…
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Barack Obama to give Mount McKinley back its Native American name | US news | The Guardian
The US president, Barack Obama, has said he will be changing the name of the highest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali. He announced that he will be returning the mountain’s traditional Alaskan native name on the eve of a presi…
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Fenrir Greyback portrait from the Harry Potter Creature Vault book : creepy
This really captures my imagination… I always thought of this character as horrifying yet the films seemed to make him out as a cartoon. This creature eats people. Fuck this is scary. They should do an R rated Harry Potter movie series.
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One Egyptian’s message of love to Israel – BBC News
An Egyptian university student has a surprising take on Israel – he loves it. When Haisam Hassanein’s enthusiastic speech after graduating from Tel Aviv University got onto YouTube, some Egyptians online responded with anger.
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Event Horizon by Majeed Badizadegan / 500px
Event Horizon by MajeedBadizadegan http://t.co/6NCpGAsfT8 http://t.co/SSbW0NmY3h
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Our curious peacocks came to meet our new cat. : cats
Our curious peacocks came to meet our new cat. via /r/cats http://t.co/IV2eHRVaJ5 http://t.co/1KTfzJKQ59
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AFL star Adam Goodes booed again during Melbourne match – BBC News
Australian football star Adam Goodes has again been booed, just weeks after he became embroiled in a racism row. The Indigenous Australian is regularly jeered by spectators but in recent weeks his treatment sparked a fierce debate over racism in Aus…
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Venus flytrap eats frog via /r/gif http://t.co/ilgKwaZxAM http://t.co/gU3x6LIgEz
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Sunrise Outside My Office Windows Looks Like A Nuke Went Off : mildlyinteresting
Sunrise Outside My Office Windows Looks Like A Nuke Went Off via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/bttZEfrZRr http://t.co/KUCaUFzfpj
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HIFW I try to step up my eyeliner game : TrollXChromosomes
HIFW I try to step up my eyeliner game via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/99Nq09q9cJ http://t.co/lTV48wY3cU
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Eos’ first sleepy blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/4puavziWcU http://t.co/AlUUlOCHNl
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Mount McKinley Will Again Be Called Denali http://t.co/kRF0Wzkvpl
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Republican Candidates Address Donald Trump and Volatility in Polls http://t.co/S51xlaP9W8
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Shaping Cape Cod : Image of the Day
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station used a very long lens to shoot this detailed photograph of the northern tip of Cape Cod, showing 14 kilometers (8.5 miles) of its 105-kilometer (65-mile) length.
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Kabul families struggle to smile amid rising violence – BBC News
The entrance to the City Park fairground in the Afghan capital Kabul is jam-packed. People are moving impatiently through the spiralling queue to the ticket booth. Inside the fairground there is a candyfloss stand and a sandwich and French-fries kio…
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The ice curtain that divides US families from Russian cousins – BBC News
Two islands in the Bering Straits, one Russian, one American, are barely two miles apart. Only a few military observation posts remain on the Russian island, but a community of Eskimos lives on the US island.
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Tesla hopes Obama administration can convince China to ease up on US automakers | Ars Technica
This weekend, the Wall Street Journal reports that Tesla Motors is trying to press the Obama administration to make foreign auto sales in China a vital topic when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the US in September.
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Faslane base gets £500m contracts ‘to secure 6,700 jobs’ – BBC News
Chancellor George Osborne has announced more than £500m of contracts for the Royal Navy’s submarine base at Faslane. The government said the work, which is due to begin in 2017, would secure 6,700 jobs and create thousands more.
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Blank Bodies Is A Technological Retelling of Genesis
There’s been a few films out there about robots being taught to function, such as Chappie and Ex Machina. In Blank Bodies, a short film written and directed by Ryan Weatrowski, a pair of robots are printed up as blank slates by an art gr… http://io9.
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: August 30 – The Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton’s decision to skip the Sunday talk show circuit so far is affording her primary rival Bernie Sanders plenty of opportunities to make his political case.
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Bomb Disposal Technician – 1970’s Northern Ireland : OldSchoolCool
Bomb Disposal Technician – 1970’s Northern Ireland via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/B41oyLGlxF http://t.co/Q0OQDn74zN
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Milkyway Rising Over Lassen Peak and Manzanita… – Just Space
Milkyway Rising Over Lassen Peak and Manzanita Lake js http://t.co/ZAP3A4Fejz http://t.co/k7MsJddFIH
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Mom and new kitten blepping : Blep
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UFO caught on tape via /r/funny http://t.co/cQLvmnUCMS http://t.co/78FRLyKApJ
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The Coen Brothers: POV Shots on Vimeo
With a filmography that covers everything from westerns and gangster flicks to comedies and film noir, it can be rather difficult to pinpoint what exactly contributes to the style of Joel and Ethan Coen. While there are reoccurring themes and ideas …
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Lindsey Graham Struggling To Stay Awake While Driving Empty Campaign Bus Overnight To Next Event http://t.co/cA6NzeXsjz
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He thinks the dryer is just for him. : cats
He thinks the dryer is just for him. via /r/cats http://t.co/5fHGzFrRtQ http://t.co/BKAXEmN2cS
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Abandoned Hotel Basement Banquet Hall [OC] [5184×3456] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned Hotel Basement Banquet Hall [OC] [5184×3456] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/RAXldu9ryg http://t.co/5YAeioQBmM
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Unfortunately spaced sign : funny
Unfortunately spaced sign via /r/funny http://t.co/khOLPGPyVh http://t.co/xg7WFtliZ9
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Sunset by Masahiro Otsuka / 500px
Sunset by MasahiroOtsuka http://t.co/KNW0YcC0ik http://t.co/1MDFb98TPs
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Your First 10 Customers Can Make Or Break You | TechCrunch
Early in a startup’s life, the main focus is building the right product for the right market. For most B2B startups, this is the period when you start winning your first 10 customers. These 10 customers are unlike any others you’ll have over the cou…
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The Start to Finish Guide to Sharpening a Knife with a Whetstone
There’s no need to buy new extravagant knife sets every time your blades start to dull. Instead, you can take care of the knives you have and prolong their lifespan. This video will show you how to keep them just as sharp as when you bought them.htt…
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Fighting to save Sydney’s working-class history – BBC News
Australia’s first public housing site and an area with deep roots in Sydney’s history is being transformed into a millionaire’s precinct thanks to a government plan to sell homes built for dock workers to developers.
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FLORENCE, KY—Feeling his eyelids grow heavier as he continued along a pitch-black stretch of I-75 South, Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham struggled to stay awake while driving his completely empty campaign bus overnight to his next e…
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The way this pizza box fits in my fridge. : oddlysatisfying
The way this pizza box fits in my fridge. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/YCs6o50qAh http://t.co/A8w5TlDyRe
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Loaf cooling in the window. : Catloaf
Loaf cooling in the window. via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/dfFSXiB2rt http://t.co/kB72lxj15Z
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I’m shopping here on a Sunday afternoon : firstworldanarchists
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x-post from /r/gingerkitty…Laaaazy Sunday : cats
x-post from /r/gingerkitty…Laaaazy Sunday via /r/cats http://t.co/UQhGh9Rlf0 http://t.co/30OpKAX726
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Added a shortcut to parents phone everytime they type”No” : funny
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Stanley! via /r/cats http://t.co/iNMg7ASaGi http://t.co/4Zdi8LjZbx
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Tilting windows. : interestingasfuck
Tilting windows. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/3i4LkoTkaB http://t.co/poZZReIa7U
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WATCH: Octopuses Appear To Take Up Arms As Submarine Warfare Escalates : NPR
There may be an octopus arms race underway. And that’s not even a joke about tentacles: Octopuses are actually fighting, and potentially using weapons. The creatures are hardly team players under the best of circumstances.
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Brazil mayor who ran town via WhatsApp wanted for corruption – BBC News
A mayor in Brazil is on the run after she was accused of siphoning off funds from the school system and running the town remotely through WhatsApp.Lidiane Leite, 25, lived a life of luxury in the capital of Maranhao state, prosecutors said.
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So You Want To Join The Empire: Arm Up!
The last couple of weeks with this column, we’ve looked at getting stormtrooper armor up and running: measuring, accuracy, the differences between films and last week, finally getting to assembly. This week, let’s look at putting together another co…
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BBC Sport – Monaco 0-3 Paris St-Germain
Angel Di Maria set up a goal on his debut as Paris St-Germain maintained their 100% start to the Ligue 1 season with a deserved win at Monaco. The former Manchester United winger, on for the last 25 minutes, teed up Ezequiel Lavezzi to score after E…
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Use an Old Kindle to Share Messages on the Fridge Electronically
Sure, writing a note on a piece of paper and plopping a magnet on it to stick it to a refrigerator works perfectly fine. But if you have an old Kindle around and want an over-engineered, but fun new way to leave fridge messages, DIYer Pete Vojtek sh…
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Mount Mckinley to Be Renamed Denali | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama will change the name of North America’s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, bestowing the traditional Alaska Native name on the eve of a historic presidential visit to Alaska.
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This Jackdaw bird is picking up trash and throwing it away. : woahdude
This Jackdaw bird is picking up trash and throwing it away. via /r/woahdude http://t.co/5oP4r2Yjwm http://t.co/fnXsXnGWJi
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Auroral Corona over Norway : Higher than the… – Just Space
Auroral Corona over Norway : Higher than the highest mountain… http://t.co/DKqkYF1D04 http://t.co/NM9KbK0zQc
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100% accurate. : TrollXChromosomes
100% accurate. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/N92f2NdQlE http://t.co/tE7mVBGq9s
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30sec exposure lightning [3443×2531] : ExposurePorn
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In the church! by Patrice Thomas / 500px
In the church! by patthom974 http://t.co/GboV7o2IPa http://t.co/goFf2xPMVM
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Interview: Nicola Yoon, Author Of ‘Everything, Everything’ : NPR
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How? Teenagers often feel bound by their parents’ rules, and many young people feel isolated at some point, separated from the rest of the world.
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IS causes ‘severe damage’ to Palmyra’s Temple of Bel – BBC News
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has destroyed part of another temple at the ancient Syrian site of Palmyra, activists and witnesses say. The extent of the damage to the Temple of Bel is not clear but residents have described a large explosion.
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Will the protests in Malaysia gain momentum? – Al Jazeera English
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak is fighting to save his political career after tens of thousands of people took to the streets for a second day, calling on him to step down.
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Michael Jordan’s Space Jam uniform is being auctioned off · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the classic basketball documentary Space Jam, Michael Jordan gives his team of literal cartoon characters a much-needed boost by sharing with them a water bottle filled with his “Secret Stuff.
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Charts: Disturbed Capture Fifth Straight Number One | Rolling Stone
Disturbed kept their impressive Billboard 200 streak alive as Immortalized, the heavy metal band’s first studio album in five years, grabbed the top spot in its debut week, giving Disturbed five consecutive Number One albums.
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Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music – YouTube
Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music http://t.co/aWSLx86cFS
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Text from dad, “Wooden shoe boat on the river transporting Darth Vader” : pics
Text from dad, “Wooden shoe boat on the river transporting Darth Vader” via /r/pics http://t.co/aqTghSfQ3q http://t.co/0y265gIBaW
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A new Milky Way Panorama for you [1638×2048] [OC] http://t.co/udmmKMX6kO http://t.co/aQu30JZ8QC
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My boyfriend sent me this of our sassy one (sorry for quality) : cats
My boyfriend sent me this of our sassy one (sorry for quality) via /r/cats http://t.co/TiNRGCMTyD http://t.co/7w3YLJ2z1D
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Botched taking pano, stitched ok! Buzludzha, Bulgaria [3686×1562] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
Botched taking pano, stitched ok! Buzludzha, Bulgaria [3686×1562] [OC] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/xQWsaQYcAa http://t.co/Mg0qz8iJus
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Immigration is all the GOP has and Donald Trump is the canary in the coal mine
Political pundits have speculated for months about Trump’s inevitable political demise. First, they said he wouldn’t run because he would refuse to file the necessary financial disclosures. When he said he would file the papers, they said he would t…
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An Israeli soldier armed with a machine gun was recently caught on camera scuffling with several Palestinian women and girls, who intervened as the man tried to detain an injured 12 year-old boy for throwing stones.
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EU to hold crisis talks on refugees – Al Jazeera English
European Union home affairs ministers will hold emergency talks on September 14 in Brussels on the continent’s escalating refugee crisis, the Luxembourg government has said.
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The Incredible Hulk Was Inspired By A Woman Saving Her Baby
Here’s a bit of trivia for you: when he was coming up with an idea for a new comic, art Jack Kirby witnessed a woman lift a car to get her child out from under it. The moment helped inspire one of his most famous creations: the Incredible Hulk.
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BBC Sport – US Open 2015: Maria Sharapova pulls out injured
World number three Maria Sharapova has pulled out of the US Open on the eve of the tournament because of injury. More to follow.
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My son posted this today on FB. He’s at University of Kansas. Along with the picture he posted, “These kids paid for this.” Is this an every day occurrence for this particular class? Are there others?
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Tesla strikes deal to buy lithium hydroxide mined in northern Mexico | Ars Technica
On Friday, Tesla struck a deal with mining companies Bacanora Minerals Ltd and Rare Earth Minerals Plc. to purchase lithium compounds from a proposed mining site in northern Mexico.
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Nepal families join festival to remember dead relatives – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of families in Nepal are taking part in an annual festival to remember their loved ones who have died over the past year. With more than 9,000 people killed by April’s powerful earthquake, this year’s Gai Jatra festival is especially poign…
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Small Shocks Help Enormous Birds Learn To Avoid Power Lines : NPR
The California condor is big. In fact, it’s the largest flying bird in North America with a wingspan of 9 1/2 feet. Mace works in a condor power line aversion training program at the zoo. It was developed to address the condors’ unfortunate run-ins …
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ISIL Blows Up Bel Temple in Syria’s Palmyra | Al Jazeera America
Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have blown up part of the historic Temple of Bel in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, sources have told Al Jazeera.
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How To Change Parking Spaces in Earth’s Orbit | Motherboard
Changing parking spaces seems like an utterly mundane task on Earth, but pulling it off on the International Space Station (ISS) requires some genuinely next-level driving skills.
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Microsoft Starts Collecting User Data from Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs : technology
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Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music – YouTube
Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music
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For High Court’s First Black Justice, Road To Confirmation Wasn’t Simple : NPR
It’s been 48 years since Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice. Author Wil Haygood talks about the fight for that confirmation and how it shaped American history.
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FAIRBANKS – The White House announced on Sunday that President Obama has restored the name Denali to North America’s tallest peak, ushering out the controversial era of Mount McKinley.
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White House Says Mount McKinley to Be Renamed Denali – ABC News
President Barack Obama says he’s changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali. He’s giving the mountain its traditional Alaska Native name on the eve of a historic presidential visit to Alaska.
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For This Mom, A Son’s First Step On Campus Took Years Of Twists And Turns : NPR
College freshmen across the U.S. are settling in on campus, a time that can be very unsettling for parents. One mother’s shares her story of pride, hope and concern as her eldest son starts college.
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Andy Murray ready for US Open with volume up on and off court | Sport | The Guardian
When Roger Federer beat Andy Murray in the Wimbledon semi-finals seven weeks ago, the Swiss played tennis that was like water running steadily and unendingly from a tap on a summer’s day, effortlessly brilliant and soothing – until it dried up in th…
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British trio led by Heather Watson go into US Open on mixed fortunes | Sport | The Guardian
It has been another summer of dashed hopes and teasing promise for British women’s tennis but Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Johanna Konta have arrived at Flushing Meadows with dramatically contrasting baggage.
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You Must Pick Up The MIT Technology Review’s 2016 Issue Of Twelve Tomorrows
MIT’s Technology Review has a bit of a secret: just about every year, they put together a science fiction edition titled Twelve Tomorrows. It’s one of the best collections of short science fiction out there, and you can now preorder the upcoming iss…
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Lleyton Hewitt charged with taming Nick Kyrgios in US Open swansong | Sport | The Guardian
The Australians gathered at the 2015 US Open are not exactly the Millwall of tennis but they do give the impression of caring little about what faraway critics think of them, or even those with tape recorders and microphones who turned the players’ …
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Storm looks like Professor X with a wig : mildlyinteresting
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And so begins her quest to chew on everything imaginable. : aww
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my new Kat Spade via /r/cats http://t.co/Exjm9PUr4O http://t.co/XUsqGhrvvi
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ISIS Culls From School-Aged Kids To Assembly Its Army Of Tomorrow : NPR
Richard Engel, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent, talks with NPR’s Arun Rath about his reporting on the Islamic State’s brutal tactics to recruit the next generation of their fighting force.
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Donald Trump, Loyalty Pledges And The State Of The Race In 2016 : NPR
NPR political editor Domenico Montanaro joins Arun Rath to recap the latest developments with the 2016 presidential hopefuls.
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A View On Oliver Sacks, From A Longtime Friend And Colleague : NPR
Renowned neuroscientist Oliver Sacks died Sunday at the age of 82. NPR’s Arun Rath talks with his friend and colleague Dr. Orrin Devinsky.
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Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Joyous Gift To New Orleans : NPR
From African drums in Congo Square to raucous brass bands second-lining in the streets, jazz is the soundtrack of New Orleans. The history and spirit of the Crescent City can be summoned through thousands of now-classic songs.
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An Aerobatics Pilot Spins (And Rolls, And Loops) A Career From A Crash : NPR
As part of a series called My Big Break, All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into their careers.
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You’d think this was obvious… : AdviceAnimals
You’d think this was obvious… via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/h6BQawVHDH http://t.co/lZ09iGrtgA
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Fishing at sunset (5312×2988) : EarthPorn
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Nearly science’d my house down! : pics
Nearly science’d my house down! via /r/pics http://t.co/TykJbBCpiX http://t.co/Sf1RHAltk0
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So my sister found a very silly bigot the other day… : TrollXChromosomes
So my sister found a very silly bigot the other day… via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/0WLGrIaoxE http://t.co/TkBBQRCGq1
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The Night Sky is quite a beauty js http://t.co/jq9qjkolgH http://t.co/d8GqwPQnQB http://t.co/tOVZd4Tdfo
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Aslan’s blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/d4tuVugPTy http://t.co/vlGN4VgqWc
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Colorful Puffleg [1887 x 1151] : AnimalPorn
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Stuttgart, Germany [OC] [2048 x 735] : CityPorn
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Come & Dream With Me by Enrico Fossati / 500px
Come & Dream With Me by efossati http://t.co/X8z5YiWKne http://t.co/61zfSBx6TL
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Parenthood in one picture : funny
Parenthood in one picture via /r/funny http://t.co/ytMakQVV0x http://t.co/0OjR9IRqxP
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Young goths ‘at risk of depression’: 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 fro…
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‘Controversial’ Hurricane Katrina snow globes lead to death threats?|Dangerous Minds
That’s right, ten years ago on this very day, the nation—if not the world—was watching the tragedy of a major American city descending into chaos as the authorities proved themselves entirely unable to (a) adequately protect New Orleans from a major…
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The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead|Dangerous Minds
Like rings in a tree, you can age me by the rock and roll songs that have embedded themselves in my brain and body.
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‘Lunchtime’: 1970s street portraits capture the eccentric everyperson|Dangerous Minds
From 1977 to 1980, while working at Columbia College Chicago and then the LIGHT Gallery in Midtown, photographer Charles H. Traub would hang out on the street during his lunch hour and ask people if he could take their portrait with his trusty Rolle…
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The festival, which was also held in 2008 and 2011, features popular Estonian punk songs performed by choirs. The Punk Song Festival is a symbiosis of the traditional Estonian song festival with lot of choral singers and punk rock.
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‘Supergiant’ gas field discovered off coast of Egypt – Al Jazeera English
The “largest ever” offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean has been discovered inside Egypt’s territorial waters, according to the Italian energy giant Eni.
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Ferry services disrupted by Calais port blockade – BBC News
Passengers are facing Bank Holiday delays at the port of Calais following a fresh protest by former workers of a dissolved ferry company. Protesters – believed to be from former operator MyFerryLink – are reported to have blockaded the port, affecti…
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Does biomedical research have a mouse addiction? | Ars Technica
It’s with thanks to noted chemist-blogger Derek Lowe that I discovered a recent paper that (once again) has me questioning one of the cornerstones of 21st century biology. I am talking about our over-reliance on the inbred mouse as a proxy for all t…
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World Pollutionwatch: Fire can kill – far from the flames| Environment | The Guardian
Vancouver is normally one of the world’s cleanest cities but this July its air resembled that in Beijing due to smoke and ash from forest fires over 200 kilometres away.
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Hackers manage to steal an Ultra HD version of Breaking Bad from Netflix · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After a thrilling heist that we assume revolved around a stopped train and some long internet-tubes, hackers have managed to pirate an Ultra HD copy of the Breaking Bad pilot from Netflix.
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Gordon Brown: Union is in ‘mortal danger’ – BBC News
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he believes the next 12 months could determine the long-term fate of the union between England and Scotland. Mr Brown said the union was in “mortal danger” unless the UK government considered modifying the…
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A new Milky Way Panorama for you [1638×2048] [OC] : spaceporn
A new Milky Way Panorama for you [1638×2048] [OC] via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/C2KFIuIwVD http://t.co/Qbj24UI6MU http://t.co/DFt5AkAuZF
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A new Milky Way Panorama for you [1638×2048] [OC] via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/C2KFIuIwVD http://t.co/Qbj24UI6MU http://t.co/DFt5AkAuZF
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After a new poll showed Bernie Sanders trailing Hillary Clinton in Iowa by only seven points, the Vermont senator seized a chance to differentiate himself from the establishment favourite for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Rand Paul poses in front of NSA data center that he pledges to shut down | The Verge
Serious campaign promise or just another stunt? On Saturday, presidential hopeful and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) made an unusual campaign stop. Wearing his usual shades and messy curls, Paul posed with arms crossed in front of a controversial Utah dat…
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ISIL blows up part of the Bel temple in Syria’s Palmyra – Al Jazeera English
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have blown up part of the Temple of Bel in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, sources have told Al Jazeera.
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Mt. Marcy, Adirondacks, NY [15000×2144] [OC] : EarthPorn
Mt. Marcy, Adirondacks, NY [15000×2144] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/rk1YjdRLpq http://t.co/YM81k4OGzG
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The Night Sky is quite a beauty js – Just Space
The Night Sky is quite a beauty js http://t.co/jq9qjkolgH http://t.co/qDTOvQmJ7z
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/PH4oszVHUG http://t.co/1we41olFGs
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MRW I accidentally press the steam ‘Big Picture Mode’ button – GIF on Imgur
MRW I accidentally press the steam ‘Big Picture Mode’ button http://t.co/kPlVLTysJt http://t.co/82mqNW3TMD
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Brian Harman hits two holes-in-one in same round at The Barclays | Sport | The Guardian
Brian Harman made a hole-in-one twice on Sunday in The Barclays, the first time the feat has been achieved on the PGA Tour in nine years. Harman hit a 7-iron from 184 yards on the third hole at Plainfield, before repeating with another ace on the 22…
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‘My body, my choice’ is not true for women in poverty, in federal employment, or in the military
“My body, my choice” is a privilege for those whose insurance provides coverage for abortions (assuming that their employers don’t object), or who can afford to pay the expense out of pocket.
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Easily Upgrade Leftovers With a Simple Pan Sauce Recipe
A little reimagining can make leftovers pretty tasty. Here’s a simple recipe for easily upgrading leftovers after you’ve heated them up. Epicurious offers an easy, three-step recipe for creating your own pan sauce to drizzle on top of leftover meals.
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Oliver Sacks, the Doctor – The New Yorker
Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians.
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Dark Matter Ends With a Twist No One Saw Coming — Which Is a Bad Thing
Two hours of episodes brought an end to season one of Dark Matter. One was a pretty standard by now background story, the other team story ending on a season finale cliffhanger. And the cliffhanger is stupid. So, episode 12: We meet Two’s creator, w…
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Oliver Sacks Showed Us the Human Side of Neurology
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks passed away today at the age of 82. Sacks is best known for his writing, which brought neurological case studies to life for a general audience.
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A glimpse of the blood Moon eclipse. : space
A glimpse of the blood Moon eclipse. via /r/space http://t.co/wlIjdpsCuP http://t.co/W7f4ojrAzq
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Sunset, Blackpool, UK (1279 x 720) via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/sMnu06ft0K http://t.co/9dZzDpSnib http://t.co/njLIkU1wyB
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Sunset, Blackpool, UK (1279 x 720) : SkyPorn
Sunset, Blackpool, UK (1279 x 720) via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/sMnu06ft0K http://t.co/9dZzDpSnib http://t.co/njLIkU1wyB
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Getting Banned From The App Store Was The Best Thing That Happened To Us | TechCrunch
“Brace yourself, Marco…we’ve just been removed from the App Store.” With those words, I visualized everything we’d slaved over for months crumple itself into a ball of trash and — ironically — flinging itself into the bin beside me. But it hardly ca…
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Arab coalition destroys Houthi ‘bomb-making factory’ – Al Jazeera English
The Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen has denied killing civilians in an air strike in the northern province of Hajjah, saying it destroyed a bomb-making factory, not a water bottling plant.
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Betrayal at House on the Hill – play if you dare – Boing Boing
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game that takes place in a haunted mansion. You and your friends must explore the mansion to discover its dark secrets. But you should tread carefully as one of you might be a traitor.
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Jay Z Joins, Quits Instagram After Michael Jackson Tribute | Rolling Stone
Jay Z Joins, Quits Instagram After Michael Jackson Tribute @Hovsince96 remembers the King of Pop, gains 100,000 followers, then deactivates account
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Farmer Joe by Iris van Wolferen / 500px
Farmer Joe by IrisvanWolferen http://t.co/Yqaqg6T4p0 http://t.co/tsnbmfyNzw
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Girls and retro bike by David Dubnitskiy / 500px
Girls and retro bike by David-foto http://t.co/rNo9Ah0eTT http://t.co/wW3SWQZLOy
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HMB! and watch racer car crashes with on lookers! : holdmybeer
HMB! and watch racer car crashes with on lookers! via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/sLY7sJpRVx http://t.co/R32bxT8fu7
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I almost can’t believe I complained about this to another teacher : AdviceAnimals
I almost can’t believe I complained about this to another teacher via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/1YYrInZ76D http://t.co/d3lUNw2fI5
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Egypt parliament elections to be held in October and November – BBC News
Egypt’s election commission has announced that a long-awaited parliamentary election will be held in two stages in October and November. The poll had been scheduled for March and April but was delayed by a Supreme Court ruling that part of an electo…
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Tim Howard makes USA return for Brazil and Peru friendlies | Football | The Guardian
Tim Howard has returned to the USA roster for the first time since taking a break from international football following last year’s World Cup. Jurgen Klinsmann named the Everton goalkeeper in an experienced squad for the upcoming friendly matches ag…
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Egypt announces elections for October and November – Al Jazeera English
Egypt has announced that parliamentary elections will take place in two stages in October and November. Ayman Abbas, head of Egypt’s Supreme Election Committee, said on Sunday that half the governorates will vote on October 18 and 19.
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Global Rights Groups Call for Turkey to Release Detained VICE News Journalists | VICE News
Global rights groups have issued calls seeking the immediate release of four journalists working for VICE News who have been detained in Turkey since Thursday without being charged.
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When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes | The Marshall Project
America’s prison population is rapidly graying, forcing corrections departments to confront the rising costs and challenges of health care in institutions that weren’t designed to serve as nursing homes.
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It’s no coincidence that so many of the qualities that made Oliver Sacks such a brilliant writer are the same qualities that made him an ideal do
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Check out these slick new Moto 360 renders | The Verge
The new Moto 360 smartwatch has been leaked from almost every angle already, but these renders from @evleaks are dandy.
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Army searching for missile that fell from Apache helicopter in Upstate NY | Ars Technica
The Army told Ars on Sunday it was still looking for a 100-pound dummy missile that fell from an Apache helicopter flying early Friday from Fort Drum in northern New York to an air show at the Stewart International Airport in New Windsor.
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“Realty Bites” · The Simpsons (Classic) · TV Review · The A.V. Club
To paraphrase Lionel Hutz, there’s “the truth” about “Realty Bites”: I don’t want to be entertained by Marge Simpson’s quiet despair. [Shakes head.] And then there’s the truth about “Realty Bites”: I am entertained by Marge Simpson’s quiet despair. …
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R.I.P. author and neurologist Oliver Sacks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has died at the age of 82, according to The New York Times and other sources.
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Steven Pasquale to play the new male lead on CBS’ re-tooled Doubt · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Earlier this summer, CBS decided to give courtroom drama pilot Doubt—which it passed on last year—another shot. For writers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater (who are also Grey’s Anatomy producers), the first step in accomplishing that was to recast the sh…
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heavy fog by dzorma http://t.co/sialSW98dv http://t.co/L0bVqYYjEq
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NASA-funded recruits begin a year-long isolation mission to simluate conditions on Mars – Quartz
Three men, three women, 365 days. NASA, the US space agency, is concerned about the effect that prolonged isolation could have on the members of any potential mission to Mars—a mission that, they estimate, could take as long as three years.
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In pictures: Notting Hill Carnival – BBC News
Hundreds of thousands of people will head to west London over the next two days for Notting Hill Carnival. Although there is some discrepancy over when the inaugural event was held, the consensus is the first carnival was staged sometime between 196…
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The crystal clear waters of Lake McDonald in Montana : woahdude
The crystal clear waters of Lake McDonald in Montana via /r/woahdude http://t.co/GX5jwEAUct http://t.co/eYnqZ4u9SW
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The Seagull Nebula | We Heart It
The Seagull Nebula http://t.co/v4d7pwn3rj http://t.co/XO33S2xnXB
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Cool staircase at The Royal Academy of Arts, London : interestingasfuck
Cool staircase at The Royal Academy of Arts, London via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/4jDLdXiMpK http://t.co/ynXNh5P4vI
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Splitting wood. via /r/woahdude http://t.co/UK2NNaQTxN http://t.co/Zpd53xrMVP
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Chris Froome impresses as Tom Dumoulin leads
Chris Froome produced a sensational climb to Sunday’s summit finish as Tom Dumoulin won stage nine on another intriguing day at the Vuelta a Espana. Briton Froome looked set to win the stage after riding clear of his general classification rivals on…
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OK, This Trump Thing Isn’t Funny Anymore – The Daily Beast
It has been more than two months since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, and slowly but surely the entertainment factor as been on the wane and the fear factor has been on the rise.
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Mysterious Wooden Idol Found in Russia is 11,000 years old, The Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Pyramids and Stonehenge – and is by far the oldest wooden structure in the world. Covered in a code no one can decipher. (uk.news.yahoo.com)
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Week in pictures: 22-28 August 2015 – BBC News
The UN says “much more is required” to prevent fatalities among migrants fleeing to Europe, after hundreds are reported dead in recent days.
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August’s Best News Bloopers – Digg
Another month goes by, and another couple dozen local news anchors have accidentally said some horrible things on air.
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Patuxent River, Calvert County, Md [640×360] [OC] : waterporn
Patuxent River, Calvert County, Md [640×360] [OC] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/xTycO2rmgC http://t.co/bVHlHMi0Ms
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Bothering mom via /r/aww http://t.co/8djZKBWGnB http://t.co/hDbzDBmlDn
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In pictures: An emotional arrival in Europe – BBC News
In pictures: An emotional arrival in Europe http://t.co/h0Yj2TOyf3
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ClearLock Blocks Your Distracting Apps For a While
Android: Your phone would be a walking distraction machine if it were capable of walking. For the times you need to focus, ClearLock can help by blocking your most distracting apps for a set duration. When you first use ClearLock, you’ll need to cho…
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Dylan Archer and Richard Smith named as Shoreham victims – BBC News
Tony Blair tells Labour party members to come to their senses and reject the “Alice in Wonderland” politics of Jeremy Corbyn.
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Duck Army (I have not laughed this hard in at least a week!) : videos
This. Is. (Discount bin) Sparta!
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Buried New Mexico Atari Games Bring In $100,000 In Auction
Remember that story of how Atari buried a bunch of their games in a landfill, and how they were rediscovered last year? Now, some of the recovered cartridges have sold for over $100,000.
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Wildgerlossee in Austria [4570×3122] [OC] : EarthPorn
Wildgerlossee in Austria [4570×3122] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/R0ll5HrClF http://t.co/uykkZdZiqd
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Just a furry baby via /r/cats http://t.co/Bu2BvxRoIM http://t.co/BTMYcK8fv6
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Astyplaia island under full moon! by George Papapostolou / 500px
Astyplaia island under full moon! by GeorgePapapostolou http://t.co/ott0H7oJp2 http://t.co/atFqWfSnD8
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Red Dots by Harry Eggens / 500px
Red Dots by Harry-Eggens http://t.co/fYmC959FaF http://t.co/qNvDIao0hb
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Mandala by Tobias Kuhl / 500px
Mandala by tobikuhl http://t.co/XyDNReRekn http://t.co/SQdAwcvpCD
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Texas university removes Confederate president statue from campus | US news | The Guardian
Crews could be seen on Sunday morning removing the statue of the Confederate president from its place near the university’s clock tower. University president Greg Fenves recently said the statue would be moved to a museum.
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This Fall, You Can Bid On Michael Jordan’s Jersey from Space Jam | Vanity Fair
In 1996’s half-animated, half live-action masterpiece Space Jam, a group of tiny intergalactic alien terrorists, hell-bent on poaching the entire Looney Tunes squad in order to install them as the main attraction at their theme park, steal the talen…
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Netflix keeps losing big movies, but reassures you Adam Sandler is coming | The Verge
The shifting sands of Netflix’s streaming library are tough to measure in any given month, but recently it seems like its catalog has been on a steady march toward resembling the WalMart bargain DVD bin.
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On 29 June the Department of Energy and Climate Change told me, on behalf of Amber Rudd, that “as you may know the government’s position remains that we are committed to seeing solar PV, including wide-scale deployment across community homes and roo…
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Sri Lanka fight back in series decider against India – Al Jazeera English
Fast-bowler Ishant Sharma’s seventh five-wicket haul helped India bundle out Sri Lanka for 201 but the hosts fought back to take three quick wickets and leave the third and final Test evenly poised.
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What are some movies that invented clichés? : movies
What are some movies that invented clichés? (self.movies) Jesus, people. Name the cliche, not just the movie.
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Russians Rally Over Demon Motif destruction | Al Jazeera America
Hundreds of Russians rallied in Saint Petersburg on Sunday after a century-old bas-relief of a mythical demon was destroyed amid fears of increasing religious intolerance under President Vladimir Putin.
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Sweetpea – Lathyrus latifolius [1930×2190] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Iran in the 60s and 70s : pics
Iran in the 60s and 70s via /r/pics http://t.co/qOneZjG8Ws http://t.co/59buuUqoBM
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Moved to New York recently, I feel like there is a lot of this… : AdviceAnimals
Moved to New York recently, I feel like there is a lot of this… via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/nJwHVO0E9E http://t.co/8MeTovUAQj
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Dawn by Beena Balasubramaniam / 500px
Dawn by BeenaBalasubramaniam http://t.co/TogodJVkRy http://t.co/3aXl6ULhN6
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wait state… by Olivier Eric Photography / 500px
wait state… by Olivier-Eric http://t.co/WGzJ9XO8Dd http://t.co/phbpysh7nF
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Morning by Joachim Bergauer / 500px
Morning by joachimbergauer http://t.co/9byZ0UnHck http://t.co/w2XLGoVVt3
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A newly displaced centrist Republican’s guide to third parties
While the mission of Daily Kos is to elect more and better Democrats, a lot of folks on the right would never vote that way.
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Swansea end Man Utd’s unbeaten start to the league – Al Jazeera English
Swansea City came from behind to end Manchester United’s unbeaten start to the Premier League season with an impressive 2-1 victory at the Liberty Stadium.
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Justin Timberlake is Making a “Space-Age Music Film” with Jonathan Demme | Vanity Fair
Per Entertainment Weekly, Timberlake enlisted the Oscar-winning director to film the last date on his “20/20” tour at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Arena, and this fall, Demme will edit the footage into an “independently financed, as-yet-untitled feature.
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It’s the Final Sunday Puzzle, People. Let’s Talk Tubers.
The Martian is a book by Andy Weir about how potatoes will become the first food crop on Mars. Alright, it’s about more than that, but anyone who has read Weir’s novel knows potatoes get plenty of mentions.
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Beckoning Berries by RH Miller / 500px
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Someone left a puddle of cats on the bed via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/RPbYTcD2TP http://t.co/opQsOcg2pI
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Defending champions Juventus have lost their opening two Serie A games of the season for the first time in their history, with Roma deserved victors.
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One Take: Kanye West Discography Guitar Cover – Jacob Brody – YouTube
I guess, this is my dissertation… @jacobjamesbrody jacobjamesbrody@gmail.comhttps://soundcloud.com/jacobjamesbrodyhttps://www.facebook.com/jacobthedingushttp://www.jacob-brody.com/I learned most of these songs by ear and decided to record my inter…
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China punishes 197 over stock market and Tianjin ‘rumours’ – BBC News
Chinese authorities have punished 197 people for spreading rumours online about the recent stock market crash and fatal explosions in Tianjin, according to state news agency Xinhua. No details have been reported about the nature of the punishments h…
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This building looks like a basket : mildlyinteresting
It’s the Longaberger Basket Headquarters in Newark, Ohio. It’s the longaberger basket factory!
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Vermont Woods [2102X3152] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Soul… by KatySendza http://t.co/77W0XMUHU6 http://t.co/Z7V0Eeeq5T
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There’s 2 sides to every cat. : cats
There’s 2 sides to every cat. via /r/cats http://t.co/BEsH5yGFGW http://t.co/SWvnKE4vC8
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Authorities said on Sunday three people were killed and a child was injured during a shooting spree at a home in eastern Tennessee.
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New Jersey man wants to track immigrants like FedEx tracks packages | The Verge
From Donald Trump’s outrageous fantasies about Mexican criminality, to Jeb Bush’s casual use of the term “anchor babies,” it seems like Republican presidential candidates are competing to find new ways to offend a substantial portion of the US elect…
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Saudi women candidates register for historic elections – Al Jazeera English
Women in Saudi Arabia have for the first time been able to register as candidates for the country’s municipal elections in December. According to local media, about 200 women have so far expressed an interest in running for office.
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Unearthed ‘E.T.’ Atari Games Sell for $108,000 at Auction | Rolling Stone
Unearthed copies containing what’s hailed as the worst video game of all time proved to be a valuable commodity as an online auction of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial Atari cartridges netted over $108,000.
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Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne Bury the Hatchet With a “Complicated” Duet | Vanity Fair
Taylor Swift’s had one hell of a summer. Some might even call it . . . complicated.
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Derelict TrackHoe [OC] (683 x 1024) : AbandonedPorn
Derelict TrackHoe [OC] (683 x 1024) via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/nlfoWkVOnf http://t.co/onAWawqHZy
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Mainz by Ole Steffensen / 500px
Mainz by olemsteffensen http://t.co/7KfMjZbGJh http://t.co/FIQJ9xX8or
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BBC Sport – EuroHockey 2015: England beat Netherlands in penalty shoot-out
England came from 2-0 down to beat Netherlands on penalties and win the EuroHockey Championships. Goalkeeper Maddie Hinch made a string of crucial saves in the final and then saved three penalties in the shootout, which finished 3-1.
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Our Lingering Questions For Hampton Creek | TechCrunch
Josh Tetrick, the charismatic founder of Hampton Creek, a food startup in Silicon Valley, bills it as one that uses science and technology to change the way the world eats. However, Tetrick has repeatedly found himself in trouble over company claims.
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Windows 10 Worst Feature Installed On Windows 7 And Windows 8 : technology
Windows 10 Worst Feature Installed On Windows 7 And Windows 8 via /r/technology http://t.co/n3wxXk9sSM http://t.co/gEeGoIMOgN
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The trailer for Downton Abbey’s final series is out. : television
The trailer for Downton Abbey’s final series is out. via /r/television http://t.co/u84VJHYOfP http://t.co/0eMmFNSp30
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Puerto Rico sunset : NatureGifs
Puerto Rico sunset via /r/NatureGifs http://t.co/0nsKQC69qF http://t.co/NFe86Jg8FG
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Heute gibt der Sommer noch einmal Vollgas….. by Dirk Wiemann / 500px
Heute gibt der Sommer noch einmal Vollgas….. by dirkwiemann http://t.co/9iJ2I9pRd4 http://t.co/D6iPMvXWro
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Letter: Charles Tomlinson obituary | Books | The Guardian
To his undergraduate students at Bristol in the 1960s, Charles Tomlinson was that rare thing, an acute literary critic who was also a working poet and a consummate practitioner of his art.
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VW and Suzuki settle four-year dispute – BBC News
The International Chamber of Commerce ruled that VW should sell its 19.9% stake in Suzuki. Japan’s Suzuki first requested the sale of VW’s shares in 2011 after a plan to collaborate on new technology failed, but the German firm had refused.
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An Insider on Switching Between Top Venture Firms — and Their Biggest Differences | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, we sat down with venture capitalist Brian O’Malley of Accel Partners to talk about where he’s shopping now.
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How Technology Is Fueling The Push Toward Solar | TechCrunch
Solar energy in the United States has seen immense momentum throughout the years. When the Solar Energy Industries Association released its annual report in 2008, it concluded that U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity reached a total of 1.183 gigaw…
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What Is A Sensory Prediction Error? Researchers at McGill observed the divergence between what you expect to happen when initiating a movement and actual feedback received from the environment.
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The Moscow-Washington red phone wasn’t red and wasn’t a phone – Vox
The iconic idea of the direct line from Washington to Moscow is a bright red rotary phone. On this day in 1963, the first DC-to-Moscow hotline was installed in the White House.
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The NYPD Wants Disney To Do Something About Times Square Costumers
Costumers plying tourists for money isn’t anything new in Times Square: stop by and you’ll likely see a variety of characters to take a picture with, for a small fee. Now, the NYPD is asking Disney to help crack down.
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BBC Sport – Swansea City 2-1 Manchester United
Ki Sung-yeung could come back into the Swansea starting line-up, having proved his fitness with 81 minutes of League Cup action in midweek. That is likely to be Garry Monk’s only selection quandary, with no other injury concerns in the squad.
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Dan Rather: ‘Have the guts to dig into stories people in power don’t want’ | Media | The Guardian
As the first Republican presidential primary debate was drawing near on 6 August, news site Mashable published some pre-debate analysis by a new contributor. The piece was structured in the form of a drinking game.
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Chris Christie calls criticism over FedEx immigration proposal ‘ridiculous’ | US news | The Guardian
New Jersey governor Chris Christie pushed back on Sunday against “ridiculous” criticism of his new proposal to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages, saying the government needs private sector expertise to tackle illegal immigration.
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Trivial Loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/XD291xwfUp http://t.co/8gdqTfIwkm
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[Art] A Brother Savors A Heavenly Bouquet : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] A Brother Savors A Heavenly Bouquet via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/V3sGNQ67PZ http://t.co/plphiG8HZs
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July Joy 2 by kerivista http://t.co/DMzPHKsKyf http://t.co/lyfEWHIgnB
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Reconstruct by Paulo Abrantes / 500px
Reconstruct by restotus http://t.co/8wvdZmN5CO http://t.co/ys2nfq0DGd
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The only way to avoid hangover is to drink less, study says – CNET
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Whether you’ve ever been drunk or not, you may be familiar with the concept of the hangover.
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GE GEnx-1B 3D Printed B787 Jet Engine with Thrust Reverser – YouTube
Printed in a Prusa i3 3D printer with ABS Plastic, 0.3mm nozzle 0.1mm layer height.Specs.- 100mm diameter 18 blades.- 24 outlet guide vanes.- 34mm diamenter 18 blades internal turbine for cooling the motor.- Thrust reverser, complete system with tra…
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Kenya tops medal table at World Athletics Championships – BBC News
Kenya has come top of the overall medal table at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing for the first time, with seven gold medals. Kenya also won six silver and three bronze medals, with Jamaica and the US in second and third place respective…
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Clinician of compassion: Oliver Sacks opened a window to the extraordinary | Books | The Guardian
The world will be a far, far poorer place without regular reports from the distant reaches of the land of mind and brain by the great neurologist Oliver Sacks. He had a unique literary gift.
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Republican presidential hopeful, Scott Walker, says he has been approached by voters with the idea of building a Canadian border wall, and that it is a ‘legitimate issue’ which should be looked at.
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Cypress Knees in the Florida Swamps [OC][800×600] : EarthPorn
Cypress Knees in the Florida Swamps [OC][800×600] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/FsLWMfMztp http://t.co/kgH2J8Ne7h
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[Photograph] Brother Bogart : monkslookingatbeer
[Photograph] Brother Bogart via /r/monkslookingatbeer http://t.co/AynO2MVlTL http://t.co/4HsU6YWNFz
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By John Morris js – Just Space
By John Morris js http://t.co/BTleWGmxPM http://t.co/yWBTZIPXAf
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Oliver Sacks, Casting Light on the Interconnectedness of Life http://t.co/1Uz0lxyYV2
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Tvindefossen detail by Leo van der Sanden / 500px
Tvindefossen detail by Leo_van_der_Sanden http://t.co/3PUqXxfBtk http://t.co/eD0DzXZq6e
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Scott Walker Calls A U.S.-Canada Fence A ‘Legitimate Issue For Us To Look At’ | ThinkProgress
Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker said Sunday that he thought building a wall along the U.S.-Canada border was a “legitimate” issue for the United States to consider.
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Driving BMW’s 2016 7 Series: the $81,300 contradiction | The Verge
There is a preconception that as a car gets larger, it gets softer and gentler; it disconnects you from the road; it places you gently on a cloud of nothingness while you glide down the highway protected by excessive sound insulation. Even in the dr…
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Hundreds protest over smashing of Russian demon figure – Al Jazeera English
The protest came on Sunday, a week after the figure of Mephistopheles was ripped down from the facade of a century-old building in Saint Petersburg.
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Italy’s Eni Finds ‘Supergiant’ Natural Gas Field | Al Jazeera America
The Italian energy company Eni SpA announced Sunday it has discovered a “supergiant” natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as the “largest-ever” found in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Senior Citizens Getting Hooked on Painkillers | Al Jazeera America
In “Take as Prescribed,” Fault Lines explores why so many elderly Americans are becoming addicted to painkillers—and what’s being done to stop it. The film premieres on Monday, Aug. 31, at 10 p.m. Eastern time/7 p.m. Pacific on Al Jazeera America.
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The 2016 presidential polling is deeply weird (but does that matter?)
Meanwhile, the less-scrutinized polls that look forward to November 2016 are still fascinating. To put it simply: The national numbers, when matched with recent state polling, make pretty damned close to zero sense.
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Great Scott, Doc has lost his marbles. : funny
Great Scott, Doc has lost his marbles. via /r/funny http://t.co/od9TQX29t5 http://t.co/ZykcSFAt3J
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A member of the Genus Psathyrella – Florida [750×500] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
A member of the Genus Psathyrella – Florida [750×500] [OC] via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/8DaQRAr9qq http://t.co/BIt2uUSyDL
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The new Apple TV will reportedly cost between $149 and $199 | The Verge
We’re expecting to see a new Apple TV at the company’s event on Tuesday, and it looks like the device will have a bump in price to accompany its list of rumored new features.
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Iran jails two unnamed people for 10 years for espionage | World news | The Guardian
A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced two people to 10 years each in jail on charges of spying for the US and Israel, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday without naming those convicted.
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California surfer escapes injury after shark bites her board | Sport | The Guardian
Elinor Dempsey, 54, said she was surfing at Morro Strand state beach, just north of Morro Bay, around 10am when a shark swam under her board and chomped on it, leaving an approximately 35cm-wide bite mark. Dempsey pushed her board towards the shark …
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Oliver Sacks dies in New York aged 82 – BBC News
British neurologist Oliver Sacks has died at the age of 82, it has been confirmed. The acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings inspired a film of the same name, died of cancer at his home in New York.
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New Horizons: Pluto probe’s next target chosen – BBC News
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has a new target to aim for following its historic flyby of Pluto. It is called 2014 MU69, and was one of two comet-like objects that were under consideration by scientists working on the mission.
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What Are the Worst Airports in the World?
Airports are a tempest of emotions. They can be the source of deep frustration due to long lines, security, and delays. But they are also a place where one can be reunited with family members and friends, or even find romance (at least, in our cultu…
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Tech Noir Is Your Fantastic ’80s Mashup Music Video Of The Day
Retro Indie band Gunship has just released a new music video for their song Tech Noir, and it’s chock full of references from all the great films of the 1980s. Cue up the nostalgia!
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Brain Squid by Dave Bonneywell [x-post from /r/UnusualArt] : ImaginaryMindscapes
Brain Squid by Dave Bonneywell [x-post from /r/UnusualArt] via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/1xMa5RDN1W http://t.co/kvTbq3k3GO
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Shadows on the mountain by Bob Bittner / 500px
Shadows on the mountain by Bob_Bittner http://t.co/qihLAXhTGH http://t.co/pzuvCV1CVP
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L’Atlante by Natalia Kovachevski / 500px
L’Atlante by nataliakovachevski http://t.co/53uUrsBNZW http://t.co/HXCvlg40Vu
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Islamic State Claims to Mint Gold Coins in Effort to Drive US to Financial Ruin | VICE News
The self-styled Islamic State (IS) claims it is now minting its own gold coins and other currency, according to a lengthy propaganda video released Saturday by the militant group.
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TIFU by picking up a hitchhiker and then showing up to my own funeral : tifu
This happened a few years ago and I was living in Zimbabwe at the time, and I was having a pretty bad day, I was going to see my auntie who lived about 400km away from me. If youre african you’ll understnad that this was no small journey.
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LPT: Add your child(ren) as an authorized user on your credit card and they can build credit without the worry of debt. (self.LifeProTips) By adding your child or children as authorized users on your credit card you legally allow them to make purcha…
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The last of us by Timur Oezer / 500px
The last of us by TimurOPhotography http://t.co/tIEO503GZa http://t.co/IAyD6glGo5
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Chester almost fits in the bag (at least he thinks he does) : cats
Chester almost fits in the bag (at least he thinks he does) via /r/cats http://t.co/iU4eqCQp5D http://t.co/2QoV8zmfAM
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Splitting wood. : interestingasfuck
Splitting wood. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/lUXyJxvsde http://t.co/4dFpm8QlNM
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Venus Express snaps swirling vortex js – Just Space
Venus Express snaps swirling vortex js http://t.co/EOv857CMIn http://t.co/e20kTFCV9x
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Soul in Amsterdam … by godwithme / 500px
Soul in Amsterdam … by godwithme http://t.co/ohyUkSFsuE http://t.co/waEpmpFtOb
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I’m like 80% sure the Comcast guy shouldn’t have asked me to do this. – Imgur
I’m like 80% sure the Comcast guy shouldn’t have asked me to do this. http://t.co/5hlwt38Lz8 http://t.co/8dSlbXsK4R
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Chiseled by sherin atrouni / 500px
Chiseled by shushulb http://t.co/iNZqcXjICM http://t.co/o0eZ0BmBkP
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Gasson Hall at Boston College, Boston, MA [2048×1378] : ArchitecturePorn
Gasson Hall at Boston College, Boston, MA [2048×1378] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/m2mUlTtNJz http://t.co/GmNUtvAxMo
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Try Not to Cry Watching the New Trailer for Downton Abbey’s Last Seaso | Vanity Fair
Last week, we shared with you that filming Downton Abbey’s sixth and final season brought nearly all of the grown men and women that populate its cast and crew to tears, which is very hard to do to buttoned-up English aristocrats.
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Theresa May: Free EU movement ‘for those with jobs’ – BBC News
EU free movement should mean the “freedom to move to a job” – not to look for work or benefits – Home Secretary Theresa May has said. This would be a return to the “original principle” of free movement in the EU, she wrote in the Sunday Times.
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Egypt summons UK ambassador over al-Jazeera trial remarks – BBC News
Britain’s ambassador to Egypt has been summoned to the country’s foreign ministry over his “unacceptable interference” following the trial of three al-Jazeera journalists. Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste were each jailed for three year…
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Calls for Action on Refugees After Austria Tragedy | Al Jazeera America
Pressure intensified Sunday for European nations to get to grips with a refugee crisis that in recent days has seen more than a hundred people drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the discovery of scores of dead migrants in the ba…
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My co-worker seems to be mistaken : AdviceAnimals
My co-worker seems to be mistaken via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/vEbvkYQA7A http://t.co/CjdqUyuFGv
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Majestic blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/s55X5WrlKi http://t.co/82Fpihs28r
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Peter Sagan joins list of abandonments
Peter Sagan’s Tinkoff-Saxo team have threatened legal action after he was knocked out of the Vuelta a Espana by an official race motorbike. Sagan, one of the favourites to win Saturday’s stage eight, collided with a race motorbike 10km from the end …
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Oregon Democrat becomes 31st senator to back Iran nuclear deal | US news | The Guardian
The Oregon Democratic senator Jeff Merkley on Sunday became the 31st senator to announce support for the Iran nuclear deal, as momentum continued to build behind the agreement the Obama administration and other world powers negotiated with Tehran.
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Motorhead Cancel Gigs Over Lemmy’s Altitude Sickness | Rolling Stone
Motorhead Cancel Gigs Over Lemmy’s Altitude Sickness “The Rocky Mountain High has affected Lemmy…
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I went undercover as a topless performer in Times Square | New York Post
A little girl in a hot pink T-shirt looks up at me as if staring at a princess. “You’re so pretty! Can I take a selfie with you?” she asks. The girl, around 7 years old, beams for the camera.
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Inside the NFL’s virtual reality arms race
Imagine stepping inside a Madden NFL 16 game. You’re at quarterback. It’s third down and 12 on your own 42-yard line. The game responds to your movements intuitively: You can see the nickel defense in front of you, the fullback behind you, and the w…
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A week in the life of one of fantasy football’s most trusted experts
Dave Richard’s rise from living with his parents to being among fantasy football’s most trusted experts began with a girl.
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Tiny Space Telescope to Aim at ‘Super-Earth’ Atmospheres
Even with about 2,000 confirmed planets found outside the solar system, we know so little about them. What are they made of? Are their atmospheres habitable? What weather exists?
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Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author, dies at 82 – Boing Boing
In February, Oliver Sacks announced to the world that an earlier case of melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver, and that he would likely soon die of metastatic melanoma. Dr. Sacks died today, in his New York City home, of cancer. He was 82.
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Malaysia PM says protest organisers are ‘haram’ – Al Jazeera English
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has condemned the organisers of demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur calling for his resignation as “haram,” during his annual address on the eve of Independence Day.
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Leave you broke, Star Wars digital trading cards will | The Verge
Earlier this year, we reported that Topps, the company that popularized trading cards, had come out with an app that let users collect and trade digital Star Wars trading cards. They even have digital replicas of the licensed paper trading cards of …
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Five Best Universal Remote Controls
Picking a universal remote control is pretty tricky these days. There are plenty of simple, programmable IR blasters out there, but some of the best remotes can control other devices using Bluetooth or even Wi-FI.
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Splitting wood. : oddlysatisfying
Splitting wood. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/l1cgq0GXM0 http://t.co/nDH2cAXajo
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Apparently somebody accepted this at a bar. A for effort. : funny
Apparently somebody accepted this at a bar. A for effort. via /r/funny http://t.co/9qX3ckDr1Z http://t.co/ExvJKGBTI6
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hi she is my best friend cute cat : aww
hi she is my best friend cute cat via /r/aww http://t.co/zudFbZfLuo http://t.co/tpKggaA06V
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Car rides with Oakley and my boyfriend! : cats
Car rides with Oakley and my boyfriend! via /r/cats http://t.co/M5aE5ozMqB http://t.co/k7OnTmJLNK
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La tarde by Micaela M.Bayon / 500px
La tarde by toalafoto http://t.co/jYThlTkmSd http://t.co/HjywyiGKno
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Second Cosmic Ray Detector Delivered to Space Station
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector that was attached to the space station in 2011. It will now be joined by the Calorimetric Electron Telescope, a detector that will be used to measure…
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Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a ‘legitimate issue’ | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said on Sunday that building a wall on the US northern border with Canada was “a legitimate issue for us to look at”.
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Leo Santa Cruz outslugs Abner Mares in potential fight of the year | Sport | The Guardian
Abner Mares was an undefeated upstart in 2012 and at the precipice of his pro career the last time Staples Center hosted a boxing match. A green Leo Santa Cruz, on the cusp of breaking out, was the co-featured attraction that November night. They th…
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Russia Pulls Funding From Its Only LGBT Film Festival | ThinkProgress
There is only one film festival in Russia that heralds films by members of the LGBT community. Well, there was only one. Now there are zero. Moscow Premiere, the charitable festival that hosted free screenings of controversial-in-Russia features, ha…
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Bernie Sanders: ‘Environmentalists Deserve A Debate’ | ThinkProgress
On Sunday, Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke out about the need for issue-specific debates, saying his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls should be debating multiple issues, including the environment.
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Oliver Sacks · The man who mistook his wife for a hat · LRB 19 May 1983
The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech (aphasia) consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisph…
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BBC Sport – Bayern Munich sign Juventus winger Kingsley Coman
Bayern Munich have signed teenage Juventus winger Kingsley Coman on a two-year loan deal with the option to make it permanent. The Italian champions revealed Bayern will pay £5m for the loan deal and can buy the 19-year-old for £16m in 2017.
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On Learning & Losing Language: A Reading List : Longreads Blog
Language shapes every facet of our lives—how we communicate, how we act, how we feel. When we can name something, we feel comfort and security (think of the medical diagnosis, the new baby’s name). We feel relief: common gestures while haggling in a…
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Best Space Stories of the Week – Aug 29, 2015
This artist’s concept shows a black hole’s surroundings, including its accretion disk, jet and magnetic field.Credit: ESO/L.
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Guardians of Infinity Features All Of The Galaxy’s Guardians
Marvel Comics is launching a new series featuring the members of Guardians of the Galaxy: all of them. The galactic team-up will feature characters from the original lineup last seen in Guardians 3000, all the way up to the modern makeup.
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When you’re so high you put your ass in your water bowl. : cats
When you’re so high you put your ass in your water bowl. via /r/cats http://t.co/qjQWG6keyY http://t.co/l4XDDg0awP
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Shotgun pump in slow motion : oddlysatisfying
Shotgun pump in slow motion via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/jc749aSFUv http://t.co/QLfMs9AbiX
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/l4ZHoBUXLc http://t.co/GKNT2QvP9z
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/pTA8PvujGL http://t.co/KGewC4KgDu
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Kittens playing with rabbits (x-post /r/funny) : StartledCats
Kittens playing with rabbits (x-post /r/funny) via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/ntSqfJagAX http://t.co/no9cWF2Syv
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BBC Sport – Kevin de Bruyne: Manchester City sign Wolfsburg midfielder
Manchester City have signed Belgium midfielder Kevin de Bruyne from German side Wolfsburg for a club-record fee. The 24-year-old has agreed a six-year deal and is City’s fourth high-profile summer arrival after Raheem Sterling, Fabian Delph and Nico…
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Bangkok Bombing Suspect Not Cooperating | Al Jazeera America
Thai police said Sunday the man arrested in connection with Bangkok’s deadly bombing was being uncooperative, possibly not telling the truth to interrogators and would remain in military custody for at least seven days.
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Journalist or ‘unprivileged belligerent’? – Al Jazeera English
The Pentagon recently published a new set of rules for its personnel on how to deal with the media, including guidance on how to treat reporters who cover wars. What they’re proposing will mean fundamental changes in the way that the media cover con…
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Cowboy Bebop – Waltz for Zizi [Chill/Blues] : Music
One of the best soundtracks of any show, animated or not. Absolutely amazing study music to put on in the background to focus or even just to chill out and have a drink with. It’s a regular album that I put on when I have people over to play card ga…
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Tea party and Trump supporters can’t accept people like Jorge Ramos and Barack Obama as Americans
Clearly thrown by the idea that this man with a Spanish accent might actually be an American, the Trump supporter spluttered: “Well, whatever. No. Univision. No. It’s not about you.” Ramos, able to form actual sentences in English, calmly replied, “…
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Chrissie Hynde under fire for rape remarks – BBC News
Singer Chrissie Hynde has come under fire for suggesting it can be a woman’s fault if she is raped. The Pretenders singer, 63, said she takes “full responsibility” after she was sexually assaulted aged 21 in Ohio.
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Had this little minx for a month now, she’s a silly baby. : cats
Had this little minx for a month now, she’s a silly baby. via /r/cats http://t.co/k2MlxMoJyz http://t.co/ad4XFfFDVE
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I went fishing for cats and caught a floofy one! : cats
I went fishing for cats and caught a floofy one! via /r/cats http://t.co/L7f7P4HGjk http://t.co/Bc8Ruk7x4b
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My new cat loves to lay around. Say hi to Rhadamanthys! : cats
My new cat loves to lay around. Say hi to Rhadamanthys! via /r/cats http://t.co/NyY5LhKO9i http://t.co/lOYyvjaudx
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A Dream within a Dream by Petricor_Photography / 500px
A Dream within a Dream by Petricor_Photography http://t.co/nJmXdNPdCn http://t.co/brLrPG64KO
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Twitter: Beyond the hashtags – Al Jazeera English
It is one of the biggest players in the breaking news business – yet it does not have any reporters, editors, a printing press or a scheduled news broadcast. When news breaks out, there’s simply no faster way to report on it than Twitter….
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Father of Virginia reporter shot on air reaffirms push for gun control | US news | The Guardian
Andy Parker, the father of the news reporter who was shot dead with her cameraman live on air in Virginia on Wednesday, on Sunday vowed again to succeed in his push for gun control legislation, saying: “They messed with the wrong family.
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S Sudan rival sides cry foul as truce comes into effect – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan government forces and rebels have accused each other of breaking a ceasefire agreement just hours after it came into effect.
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Thought you guys would appreciate my newest tattoo : foxes
Thought you guys would appreciate my newest tattoo via /r/foxes http://t.co/JgNygz6rxq http://t.co/findF6qCKh
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Why does Toboggan throw food on the ground? : cats
Why does Toboggan throw food on the ground? via /r/cats http://t.co/b027jrl9gx http://t.co/CuFa7L8tOX
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how is babby skeltal formed? how ms skeltal get pragnent? : ledootgeneration
how is babby skeltal formed? how ms skeltal get pragnent? via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/OFgyjGGAJj http://t.co/Utu9mi7nFz
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/s2ZfTAjqte http://t.co/yQTYgytc4A
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Sometimes we are all lazy together : LazyCats
Sometimes we are all lazy together via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/ktyChRTdmm http://t.co/IsDmtRXOoU
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Architecture by Fabrice Kurz / 500px
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Mountain Coffee by Dylan Furst / 500px
Mountain Coffee by Fursty http://t.co/YTitt2bROW http://t.co/hUbWaIhSyE
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TOWARD the end of the Second World War, researchers at the University of Minnesota began a legendary experiment on the psychology and physiology of human starvation — and, thus, on hunger. The subjects were 36 conscientious objectors, some lean, som…
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We Don’t Know What We’re Doing by Thomas Morris review – an assured debut | Books | The Guardian
Caerphilly is itself a character in Thomas Morris’s debut collection of stories: its castle, shopping centre and Big Cheese fair.
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Italian firm Eni makes huge gas discovery of Egyptian coast – BBC News
Italian energy group Eni says it has found one of the world’s largest natural gas fields off Egypt’s coast. The company said the area was 1,450m (4,757 feet) beneath the surface and covered 100 sq km (60 sq miles).
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Beneath the Earth by John Boyne review – stories of insight and beauty | Books | The Guardian
The Irish writer John Boyne’s first collection of short stories is mostly a triumph, barring a couple of insubstantial squibs towards the end.
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Dylan Goes Electric! review – meticulous exploration of a musical landmark | Books | The Guardian
It was the electric guitar that launched thousands of boos and cheers, and proved instrumental in sparking musical change.
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Confessions of a Hearthstone addict | The Verge
When it comes to Hearthstone, a collectible card game you play online, I am a helpless addict. I battle late into the night and squeeze in a game or two over breakfast.
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Watercolor art of a Rabbit, TilenTi : Art
The longer you stare at it, the better it gets. Love this. Watercolor is by far my favorite medium. It just has such a dreamy sort of vibrance that is absolutely gorgeous to look at.
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Yemen air strike kills 31 in Hajjah province – BBC News
An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition backing pro-government forces in Yemen has killed 31 people in the northern province of Hajjah. The strikes hit a bottling plant in the province on Sunday morning. Most of the dead were civilians.
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Malaysia’s Mahathir Backs Movement to Topple PM | Al Jazeera America
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, joining anti-government protesters for a second day on Sunday, called for a “people’s power” movement to topple Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal. “And to remove him, the people must show p…
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This DIY Audio Jack Key Holder Lets You Plug In Your Keys for Safe Keeping
You don’t have to be an audiophile to appreciate this DIY audio jack key holder, but it certainly helps. Mounted on your wall, you’ll always have a place to plug in your keys when you get home—and you’ll know where to find it. It’s easy to build, to…
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Next door has a new kitten. We have rabbits… : aww
Next door has a new kitten. We have rabbits… (i.imgur.com) Is THAT what they sing? For 20 years I’ve been singing along that song with ‘Everybody wants kung fu fighting’
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Libra by Guangjian Huang (xpost /r/ZodiacArt) : ImaginaryMindscapes
Libra by Guangjian Huang (xpost /r/ZodiacArt) via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/5LPFJEmVjz http://t.co/ml6e0l4i6H
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Great Weather, Northwestern Iceland, Road One [OC] [960×540] : EarthPorn
Great Weather, Northwestern Iceland, Road One [OC] [960×540] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/A3bLPd7xzo http://t.co/6u7cLSXY1z
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The Black Cullins, Isle of Skye [OC] [3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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Trilling by Spiller http://t.co/Mi64lJ3PC9 http://t.co/Nb91hMAXLW
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Tens of thousands of Japanese protest against ‘war law’ – Al Jazeera English
Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied outside Japan’s parliament to oppose legislation that could see troops in the officially pacifist nation engage in combat for the first time since World War II.
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10 years after Katrina: An evacuated family’s new crisis, far from New Orleans | The Washington Post
AUBURN, NEB. The sunlight bothered his eyes and the dry air gave him chills, so Troy Williams, 46, closed the living-room window and shut the blackout shades.
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Hawaii Still Has a Leprosy Colony With Six Patients – The Daily Beast
On a picturesque peninsula of one of Hawaii’s smallest islands are the remnants of one of history’s most horrific medical sequesters. Kalaupapa, on the island of Molokai, is Hawaii’s leprosy colony, where 8,000 people were sent into exile over the c…
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More Than This by Patrick Ness – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Normally I don’t like being told what to like; I will admit to being one of those teenagers who sneers at the mainstream and accepts so-called youth culture with the reluctance of a cantankerous old man.
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Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dies Aged 82 | Al Jazeera America
Dr. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as ‘Awakenings’ and ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,’ died on Sunday at the age of 82, the New York Times reported.
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“The two most engaging powers of an author: new things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new,” wrote Samuel Johnson – powers that Michel Faber exhibits in abundance in his astonishing novel, now published in a beautifully designed pape…
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Independent films make a comeback in the Philippines – Al Jazeera English
The Philippines has one of the oldest film industries in southeast Asia, and for many years was dominated by big budget studio productions. But now digital technology and social media have led to what industry-watchers call “the democratisation of c…
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Oliver Sacks Humanized His and Others’ Diseases, Is Dead at 82 | Motherboard
Oliver Sacks, a neurologist, writer, and pianist best known for humanizing some of mankind’s most complex and poorly understood diseases, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, according to the New York Times.
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Japan: Taking to the streets to combat militarism – Al Jazeera English
Tokyo, Japan – They gathered in the drizzling rain in the tens of thousands on Sunday to make their objections heard to new security laws that would allow the military to deploy overseas for the first time since the end of World War II.
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Oliver Sacks in The New Yorker – The New Yorker
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, died on Sunday at the age of eighty-two. He was a treasured writer here at The New Yorker. Sacks wrote his first piece for the magazine, “A Surgeon’s Life,” in 1992; it was a profile of a doctor with Tourett…
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2016 SATs Will Put Stronger Emphasis on Graphic Literacy – Scientific American
“Fortune favors the prepared mind,” as Louis Pasteur once said. So as school revs up this month, so do SAT prep classes. Students might be surprised, however, at the amount of time dedicated to visual literacy skills. The increased focus on graphics…
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Sea Breeze by T_Reishin : ImaginaryMindscapes
Sea Breeze by T_Reishin via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/itUakMOAra http://t.co/CBlNATBow0
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The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, Shropshire, England, UK [OC][3290×4972] : ArchitecturePorn
The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, Shropshire, England, UK [OC][3290×4972] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/3QkHZqC4eG http://t.co/otddLeC0SB
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HMB while I run from the police : holdmybeer
HMB while I run from the police via /r/holdmybeer http://t.co/iLqn5Ex6Ev http://t.co/uafIxgat8A
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Susan Rice meets Pakistan’s PM in Islamabad to discuss militant attacks | World news | The Guardian
President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, met Pakistan’s prime minister on Sunday to press concerns over attacks launched by militants based in Pakistan, officials said.
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Kanye West Sets ‘808s & Heartbreak’ Concert in Los Angeles | Rolling Stone
Kanye West Sets ‘808s & Heartbreak’ Concert in Los Angeles Rapper will revisit his groundbreaking 2008 LP on Hollywood Bowl stage in September
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Sunday’s Best Deals: GoPro Silver, Garment Steamer, DualShock Charger, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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Police confirm death of baseball fan at Turner Field – video | Sport | The Guardian
A baseball fan died on Saturday after falling from the upper level of the stands during a game between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees.
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Seashore Mallow (Kosteletzkya virginica) [4288×3216] : BotanicalPorn
Seashore Mallow (Kosteletzkya virginica) [4288×3216] via /r/BotanicalPorn http://t.co/9qy2d4po7G http://t.co/0hHoMn5qU3
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Albert Einstein, 1932 : OldSchoolCool
Albert Einstein, 1932 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/oxyG3AH7hU http://t.co/JDm9tbD4sB
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Family Guy lied to me. – Imgur
Family Guy lied to me. http://t.co/x3D4Bjyshd http://t.co/Yiwfh2esFR
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FCC Rules Block use of Open Source : technology
FCC Rules Block use of Open Source via /r/technology http://t.co/B4FOAY4ZVV http://t.co/kmh9WDtpQY
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Yellow Eyelash Viper !!!!!! by Judylynn Malloch / 500px
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St Mark’s Church by Rolando Felizola / 500px
St Mark’s Church by RAF_PHOTOGRAPHY http://t.co/ZOwY11PapS http://t.co/rywYGWGZ9B
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Bad weather in the morning by Ichiro Murata / 500px
Bad weather in the morning by IchiroMurata http://t.co/c1iYUJV5wH http://t.co/fG9SbElnK2
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Israel won’t bomb Iran but US had nothing to do with it – Al Jazeera English
There is one central player remarkably absent from the recent revelations concerning Israel’s decision not to bomb Iranian nuclear sites in 2011 and 2012 – the United States.
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The Verge Review of Animals: the octopus | The Verge
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.
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The digital debate is done, and the reading public are the winners | Books | The Guardian
When I started writing this column three-and-a-half years ago, the digital publishing revolution was just starting to filter down to public consciousness. From a pub lunch where someone was showing off their new Kindle to the 8.
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Justin Gatlin reveals 2010 apology to IAAF and co-operation over drugs | Sport | The Guardian
Justin Gatlin has moved to head off the wave of criticism directed at him during the World Athletics Championships by releasing letters that reveal the extent to which he co-operated with US anti-doping investigators and apologised for his own offen…
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In Appalachia, the coal industry is in collapse, but the mountains aren’t coming back | Grist
In Appalachia, explosions have leveled the mountaintops into perfect race tracks for Ryan Hensley’s all-terrain vehicle (ATV).
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Thai Police Say Bombing Suspect Had More Than 200 Forged Passports | VICE News
Thai authorities arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the August 17 bombing at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine on Saturday, but they say he’s not cooperating and could be lying to his interrogators.
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The Week In Data: Minimum Wage, College Majors And Ashley Madison | FiveThirtyEight
This is The Week In Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet.
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It’s been 50 years since Bob Dylan stunned the world with the release of his seminal album Highway 61 Revisited.
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Iranian Americans bank on historic nuclear deal – Al Jazeera English
New York, United States – For Mahmoud Reza Banki, an Iranian-American businessman, the fruits of a nuclear deal between Tehran, Washington and others could not come soon enough.
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When you partying as a minor and the cops show up. : trippinthroughtime
When you partying as a minor and the cops show up. via /r/trippinthroughtime http://t.co/AdrHPhaWXS http://t.co/JSdwICopdf
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Heart of the World by Pete Mohrbacher : ImaginaryMindscapes
Heart of the World by Pete Mohrbacher via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/ngn8rkgZX3 http://t.co/QcBlFoLCEn
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Black City II by Mohamed Raouf / 500px
Black City II by Mohamedraof http://t.co/alnVJi1Gwa http://t.co/vz7AwrduRf
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Houston area investigators look for motive in killing of sheriff’s deputy | US news | The Guardian
Investigators were trying to determine on Sunday what may have motivated a 30-year-old man who is accused of ambushing a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy filling his patrol car with gas in what authorities believe was a targeted killing.
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Oliver Sacks’s Best Essays and Interviews – The Atlantic
Oliver Sacks always seemed propelled by joyful curiosity. The neurologist’s writing is infused with this quality—equal parts buoyancy and diligence, the exuberant asking of difficult questions. More specifically, Sacks had a fascination with ways of…
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He stopped mid-WORD. : AdviceAnimals
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As a German, I think this is a good description : funny
As a German, I think this is a good description via /r/funny http://t.co/T15yRYxOiK http://t.co/d2BcPT8OUX
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LIGHTHOUSE by Pantelis Nicolaides / 500px
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Green Gorge by Tobias Richter / 500px
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The Observer by Majeed Badizadegan / 500px
The Observer by MajeedBadizadegan http://t.co/wiStsdOLoc http://t.co/GeLOH1A8kf
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Russia’s Putin and Medvedev work out together – BBC News
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev have been pictured sharing a morning workout at a government residence in Sochi. Video and still images released by state news agency Tass show the two leaders in tracksuits liftin…
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Migrants in Agathonisi, Greece ‘pick up litter or face jail’ – BBC News
Residents on the Greek island of Agathonisi say they need help to deal with the large number of refugees arriving there on a daily basis.
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Claudia Rankine’s book may or may not be poetry – the question becomes insignificant as one reads on. Her achievement is to have created a bold work that occupies its own space powerfully, an unsettled hybrid – her writing on the hard shoulder of pr…
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Rating The Websites Of The 2016 Republican Political Candidates | TechCrunch
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Remembering Thurgood Marshall and fighting to ensure the future of the Supreme Court
Marshall faced opposition from segregationists in the Senate, who searched for dirt in his past while his confirmation hearing was delayed for two months. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., asked FBI director J. Edgar Hoover if Marshall had any connections…
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South Dakota Lawmaker Proposes Genital Inspections For Trans High School Athletes | ThinkProgress
South Dakota legislator Roger Hunt (R) offered legislation that could require examination of a transgender athlete’s genitals before competing in high school sports.
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Why The Rentboy Raid Matters More Than The Ashley Madison Hack | ThinkProgress
The Justice Department took down what it called the largest “internet brothel” last week, arresting the CEO and six employees behind the online male escort service Rentboy.com.
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Book Review: The Road to Relativity – Scientific American
Any devotee of Einstein will relish the chance to parse this annotated facsimile of the physicist’s original manuscript on general relativity.
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Balconies in the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai. : woahdude
Balconies in the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai. via /r/woahdude http://t.co/taQNbzYvNw http://t.co/DhB6IuqkUL
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Mt. Rainier, Washington [OC] [3187×1793] : EarthPorn
Mt. Rainier, Washington [OC] [3187×1793] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/ZiW6chVzMY http://t.co/SHjK7lAQHF
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There is no escape via /r/funny http://t.co/xWYhqdUSEi http://t.co/7FyKCIZuj6
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My uncle having fun with his bee hive. 1960s : OldSchoolCool
My uncle having fun with his bee hive. 1960s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/TIBMArjdhH http://t.co/m6eStvdfGj
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Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” using his patients’ disorders as starting poi
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In Alaska, Climate Change Threatens to Sweep Away the Village of Newtok – The Atlantic
NEWTOK, Alaska—Two decades ago, the people of this tiny village came to terms with what had become increasingly obvious: They could no longer fight back the rising waters.
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Oliver Sacks obituary | Books | The Guardian
With his absorbing and accessible yet profound accounts of neurological cases and conditions, Oliver Sacks, who has died aged 82, brought the clinical science of the brain to life for countless readers.
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Hunter S Thompson, High Times and how to survive the hangover from hell | Books | The Guardian
I could barely move from my prone position on the bed. My head was pounding and my stomach was awash with a queasiness that meant one thing: I was in for a hangover from hell. The room was dark, the TV was on low and from the other bed there was the…
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Two hours of star trails, New Zealand js – Just Space
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* Happy weekend * by Ellen M / 500px
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Rocks of Ages 2 by KENNY BARKER / 500px
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Joie de vivre by John Beckers / 500px
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Benidorm, Spain [2048 x 779] : CityPorn
Benidorm, Spain [2048 x 779] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/pC44NPDrFt http://t.co/cx1kDELEdr
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Open-source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code | Ars Technica
The days of coders being shackled to Monaco or Courier New ends now. At SourceFoundry.org this week, programmer Chris Simpkins debuted the 2.0 version of Hack, an open-source typeface designed specifically for use in source code.
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X Factor launch in ratings slump – BBC News
The number of viewers watching the opening episode of this year’s X Factor series has fallen by well over one million, in comparison to last year. Overnight viewing figures revealed an average of 7.6 million tuned in to watch the 12th series launch,…
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BBC Sport – Victor Valdes: Manchester United keeper’s Besiktas move off
Manchester United goalkeeper Victor Valdes’s proposed transfer to Turkish side Besiktas has collapsed. The transfer window in England and Scotland closes on Tuesday, but it is Monday in most European countries.
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A woman who was stranded in the Sierra Nevada for nine days while suffering from some broken bones survived by using a water filter to drink from a creek, authorities said.
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Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway’s first black Jean Valjean, dies after fall | Stage | The Guardian
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African American and youngest person ever to play the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway has died after falling from a fire escape, according to a show spokesman. He was 21.
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A cool online service to turn list of words into text : InternetIsBeautiful
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Love Everyone Often 08/31/2015
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. An Australian man was released from a months-long detention after a substance in his possession originally believed to be methamphetamine turned out to … tags: Pocket…
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