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BBC Sport – Sri Lanka v India: Tourists secure series with victory in Colombo
India secured their first Test series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 with a 117-run win in the deciding match. Sri Lanka began the last day in Colombo on 67-3, needing a further 319 to win.
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How Not to Die of an Overdose | VICE | United Kingdom
Late summer is a particularly painful time for Denise Cullen, who lost her 27-year-old son, Jeff, to an overdose of morphine and Xanax on August 5, 2008. Cullen didn’t just mourn, however: She organized, propelled by a desire that no other family ev…
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Testosterone Decreases Gray Matter in Language Areas of the Brain – The Atlantic
The unfortunate thing about studies on the differences between male and female brains is that they get overstated in ways that perpetuate stereotypes. (“Women are better at nurturing, so why don’t you bring the cupcakes?”)
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Hackers have targeted the website of the National Crime Agency – the department set up to tackle organised crime – in an apparent revenge attack. The NCA’s site was inaccessible for some time on Tuesday morning.
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In Alaska Climate Change Is Making Fires Worse and Decreasing Snowfall – The Atlantic
WILLOW, Alaska—The strange and changing weather in the northernmost state in the union has given Bob Chlupach one hell of a year.
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…trakoscan castle XXIV… by roblfc1892 roberto pavic / 500px
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Brothers from different mothers (and fathers) : AnimalsBeingBros
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Hungary Shuts Down Train Terminal to Halt Refugees | Al Jazeera America
Hundreds of angry refugees demonstrated outside Budapest’s shuttered Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday, demanding that they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as a migration crisis put the European Union’s rules under unprecedented strain.
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Turkey’s bounty hunters – Al Jazeera English
As its two-fronted war on terror heats up, Turkey is taking a page from the world powers.
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I think Dexter needs a break from his little sister… : cats
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I think my new kitten is plotting something sinister.. : cats
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It’s okay to be a misogynist and bash another misogynist without feeling a twinge of hypocrisy. (Erick Erickson) Poor people are poor only because they don’t work as hard as rich people. (Rand Paul)
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How Come Some People Believe in the Paranormal? – Scientific American
So-called “magical thinking” may very well have a common underlying “cognitive style” — that is, the way in which we think about and make sense of the world.
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Speeding geese and swooping kites: readers’ August wildlife pictures | Environment | The Guardian
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Chinese iPhone users hit by ‘KeyRaider’ malware – BBC News
Login names and passwords for more than 225,000 Apple accounts have been stolen by cyber-thieves in China. The credentials were found by security firm Palo Alto Networks while investigating suspicious activity on many Apple devices.
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Wildlife on your doorstep: September | Environment | The Guardian
Saying goodbye to summer is always hard, but the arrival of September means the best the northern hemisphere can hope for is some early bright autumnal sunshine, to make the shift towards the darker and colder days easier.
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Thai Bombing Suspect Arrested | Al Jazeera America
Thai authorities arrested a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago, the prime minister announced Tuesday. He said the suspect resembles a yellow-shirted man in a surveillance video …
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Milky Way over Colorado : space
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TNT’s New Show About Vice Cops In 1960s Manhattan Pushes Some Very Modern Buttons | ThinkProgress
This post discusses plot points of the first two episodes of TNT’s Public Morals. Sometimes it seems like the culture wars are winding down. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land, and the few remaining holdouts are likely to lose their legal batt…
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Clean Water Is Wildly Popular. So Why All The Hate For EPA’s Clean Water Rule? | ThinkProgress
Speaking generally, Americans really care about clean water. According to one Gallup poll, they care about it even more than clean air, and clean soil. And when it comes to water, Americans really care about clean drinking water — even more than cle…
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Why Evangelicals Should Be Terrified Of Trump, And Why He’s Winning Them Over Anyway | ThinkProgress
This article is part of our ongoing series on the faith of presidential candidates. You can find our first entry, which chronicles Gov. Scott Walker’s questionable claims to evangelicalism, here.
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True Horror Is Close To Home: The Legacy Of Wes Craven | ThinkProgress
Legendary horror filmmaker Wes Craven died on Sunday at the age of 76. Craven was responsible for some of the most indelible images and ideas in the slasher canon.
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Here’s How Many People Police Killed In August | ThinkProgress
Police killed 101 people in August, according to Killed By Police. A Washington Post database, which specifically tracks police shootings, put that number at 82. The Guardian indicated that there were 99 fatalities.
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Viewpoint: Uncomfortable realities of big game hunting – BBC News
Trophy hunting has been the subject of much media attention amid the backdrop of declining populations of big game animals in Africa. But is a blanket ban really the answer?
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The Hangover News | VICE | United Kingdom
Police shot and killed a man in Enfield, north London, after he made “threats to kill” this weekend. Firearms officers were called to Cedar Road on Sunday night after receiving reports that a man in possession of a gun was making death threats.
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Spain finds Guinea migrant hidden behind car engine – BBC News
A West African migrant entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco curled up next to a car engine and another was hidden behind the back seat of the Mercedes-300 car.Spanish police found the pair late on Sunday during a customs check at El T…
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Azerbaijan journalist Khadija Ismayilova jailed in Baku – BBC News
Leading Azerbaijan journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for embezzlement and tax evasion. Human rights organisation have complained that the trial was politically motivated.
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Inside the Rise and Fall of NASA’s Beloved Worm Logo | WIRED
Caption: A rendering of what the NASA Graphic Standards Manual could look like as a hardcover book. Hamish Smyth/Jesse Reed One of graphic design’s most famous love triangle begins, as most graphic design stories do, with a request for proposal.
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The shrinking glaciers of Austria | Environment | The Guardian
The view is breathtaking. Sheer cliff faces extend beneath the gondola as it glides from the Styrian town of Ramsau to the southern part of the Dachstein Massif, home to three glaciers. Upon arrival, visitors to the mountain are greeted by a green m…
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Ride Along on New Horizons Probe’s Epic Pluto Flyby (Video)
An amazing new video takes viewers along for the ride during a NASA spacecraft’s epic July flyby of Pluto.
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Research Tool Demonstrates How Your Facebook Likes Reveal Your Personality
Facebook is full of tools that claim to tell you about your personality. Obviously, most of them are crap. However, the University of Cambridge has created one that analyzes your Facebook likes to reveal the kind of demographic information the compa…
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Android Wear smartwatches to work with iPhones – BBC News
Google has made its Android Wear operating system compatible with Apple’s iOS mobile platform. It means users will be able to pair Android-powered smartwatches with iPhones for the first time.
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In the two years since Miley Cyrus’s latex-covered butt cheeks twerked their way to worldwide notoriety at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, the ex-Disney star’s very name has begun functioning as an adjective; code for a one-woman, id-driven, peace-…
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Thailand court clears journalists of defaming navy – Al Jazeera English
An Australian journalist and his Thai colleague have been acquitted in a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Thailand’s navy over an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from Myanmar.
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Rare ‘Supermoon’ Total Lunar Eclipse Coming This Month
The first “supermoon” lunar eclipse in more than three decades will grace Earth’s skies this month, as will a partial solar eclipse that most of the world will miss. The supermoon total lunar eclipse, which occurs on Sept.
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Apttus Enjoys A $108M Round As Business Grows In Leaps And Bounds | TechCrunch
Just a couple of years ago Apttus, a quote-to-cash SaaS company built on top of Salesforce.com, had a couple of hundred employees. Today it has 900 and projects more than a 1000 by the end of the year. And it’s not hiring all of those bodies for not…
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Beyond the Paycheck: One Psychologist’s Dream of Meaningful Jobs for Everyone – The Atlantic
There’s a belief that what gets some workers to keep coming into work every day is their “psychic wages”—the fulfillment that comes with doing meaningful work.
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How ‘Starshades’ Could Aid Search for Alien Life
The next step in the exoplanet revolution may be an in-space “starshade” that lets alien worlds step out of a blinding glare. Researchers are testing designs for a starshade, which would fly in formation with a future space-based telescope.
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The Brightest Planets in September’s Night Sky: How to See Them (and When)
Eye-popping Venus, low-riding Mercury and stealthy Saturn will all make appearances among the bright objects in September’s night sky, and this day-by-day description shows how to find them.
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Blood Plasma, Sweat, and Tears: Selling What’s in Your Veins to Get By – The Atlantic
There is no money to be made selling blood anymore. It can, however, pay off to sell plasma, a component in blood that is used in a number of treatments for serious illnesses. It is legal to “donate” plasma up to two times a week, for which a bank w…
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Gorilla plays peekaboo with toddler at Columbus zoo – video | World news | The Guardian
A two-year-old baby gorilla named Kamoli is caught on camera playing a game of peek-a-boo with a toddler at Columbus Zoo in Ohio.
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‘Hillary Clinton 2016’ Has Never Made Sense for the Democratic Party – The Atlantic
As Hillary Clinton loses ground to Bernie Sanders in Iowa, where her lead shrinks by the day, it’s worth noticing that she has never made particular sense as the Democratic Party’s nominee.
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Americans Don’t Know How Much Credit Card and Student-Loan Debt They Have – The Atlantic
With all the focus on the havoc that debt can wreak, one would assume that most Americans are keeping close tabs on the how much they owe.
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Obama to Call for More Icebreakers in Arctic as U.S. Seeks Foothold http://t.co/M3sNm1xbwT
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Kitten meets Cat – Spidey & Hulk : cats
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How Digital Media Unionization Can—and Can’t—Strengthen Labor | The New Republic
Journalists like writing about journalism, so the dimensions of the industry’s decline are no secret. Across the country, news organizations are contracting—as of last week, Bloomberg was slated to lay off 100 editorial employees, or a full 4.
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The Populist Agenda Is An Electable Agenda
Whether you believe Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is an “electable” presidential candidate, the populist agenda Sanders has placed at the center of his campaign is absolutely an electable agenda.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: GOP candidates and their extreme immigration policies
Remarkably, several of the tough-talking candidates are the sons of immigrants — and one of them, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, was born in Canada. (Could that be why Walker so pines for a wall? To send Cruz back over it?) But listen to Louisiana Gov.
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Harper Lee’s mystery papers are Mockingbird draft, not a third novel | Books | The Guardian
The “mysterious pages of text” discovered in a safe deposit box in Alabama that Harper Lee’s lawyer had suggested could be a further novel by the author are actually typescripts of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, a rare books expert has…
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Serena Williams looks forward to US Open – video | Sport | The Guardian
World number one tennis player Serena Williams reflects on her first-round match at the US Open on Monday and the early stages of the tournament. Her sister Venus also comments on Serena’s success, and says she hasn’t asked how she is feeling about …
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West Bank village protests extension of Israeli wall – Al Jazeera English
Beit Jala, occupied West Bank – On a rocky outcrop overlooking the Cremisan Valley, the mayor of Beit Jala, Nicola Khamis, reaches for a bright orange ribbon tied to a branch of a nearby olive tree, flapping gently in the afternoon breeze.
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Xposed Framework Finally Gets Full Release for Lollipop 5.0 and 5.1
Android (root): Xposed, the awesome framework that allows you to roll your own customized version of Android, has finally reached a full, stable version for the newest Android versions. http://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-…
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The Gun Show http://t.co/mN8aZ0ogsF http://t.co/lANpShCD9J
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“I love you! I love you!…Hey! Hey! Hey!…I love you!” : aww
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Five Mind Tricks That’ll Make Your Food “Taste” Better
If you’re worried about impressing someone with your cooking skills, or you’re trying a new recipe for the first time, there are some mental tricks you can use on others to make your meal seem better than it really is. Here are five of the most effe…
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? | Books | The Guardian
Welcome to this week’s blog.
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A picture from the village by Rarindra Prakarsa / 500px
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Clouds Attack by Thrasivoulos Panou / 500px
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The Spiral Staircase by Luis Vasconcelos / 500px
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: LISA Pathfinder set for launch site
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Google to ‘pause’ Flash-based adverts – BBC News
Google’s Chrome browser will start blocking some internet adverts that use Adobe’s Flash technology, from Tuesday. Google said it had taken the step to help web pages load faster and preserve battery life on mobile devices.
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Premier League transfer spending set for new record – BBC News
Premier League football clubs look set to break the summer transfer window spending record, according to analysis from Deloitte. Clubs have so far spent £790m in the current window, just short of the £835m record set last year.
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MILWAUKEE — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 ho…
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Used Car Retailer, Shift, Raises $50 Million In Round Led By Goldman Sachs | TechCrunch
With $50 million in new funding, the online used car marketplace Shift is hoping to drive off the stereotypes and outrace the stigma associated with buying used cars. In the U.S., buying a used car is a rite of passage that most people go through at…
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The traditional art of Palestinian ceramics – Al Jazeera English
Hebron, occupied West Bank – Traditional Palestinian ceramics are produced at the Hebron Glass and Ceramics Factory, run by the Natsheh family since 1962. The business began with three family members, and today, it employs 16 people.
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Topdotspot : InternetIsBeautiful
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Lac du Sainte-Croix from the Pont du Galetas, France [4426×3615] : EarthPorn
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Jeb Bush and the Fight for Latino Favorability – The Atlantic
For most Republican candidates, a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border is both a performance and an education.
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The ‘Sharpest Picture Yet’ of the Higgs Boson | Motherboard
Over three years ago, researchers announced the discovery of the Higgs boson (or a “particle consistent with the Higgs boson,” depending on how careful you’re being).
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Meet the ‘babassu breakers’ on Brazil’s ‘new agricultural frontier’ | Environment | The Guardian
What, you might ask, is a “babassu breaker”? That’s my translation of “quebradeira de coco babaçu”, a term used by an estimated several hundred thousand women in Brazil who gather and break open the fruit – no easy task – from a species of palm call…
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Sambo Dasuki: Nigeria’s ex-national security adviser in court – BBC News
Nigeria’s sacked national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has appeared in court in the capital, Abuja, charged with illegally possessing weapons. Nigeria’s intelligence agency said it had seized firearms during a raid on his properties in July.
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Spanish Zaragoza fireworks factory blast leaves six dead – BBC News
The bodies of six people have been recovered from the ruins of a fireworks factory after it was destroyed by a blast near the north-eastern Spanish city of Zaragoza. Another six people were being treated in hospital and two had serious injuries, off…
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Estonia’s Kihnu – the women’s island – Al Jazeera English
Kihnu, Estonia – Lost in the Baltic Sea off Estonia’s coast, a little island is home to one of the world’s last matriarchal societies. Women are in charge of this community of 600 souls and have been running the show for centuries.
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Lebanon protesters storm government offices in Beirut – Al Jazeera English
Around 30 protesters from Lebanon’s You Stink! movement have stormed the Ministry of Environment in Beirut, starting a sit-in and refusing to move until their demands are met.
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French, Belgian and German frontier fortifications in 1914 [1200×930] : MapPorn
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Golden Mist by DrNub http://t.co/rXWtqoOKa3 http://t.co/JAFAETg7An
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Sverd i fjell – Stavanger, Norway – Landscape, travel photography by Giuseppe Milo / 500px
Sverd i fjell – Stavanger, Norway – Landscape, travel photography by pixael http://t.co/xF6yIKF9Dp http://t.co/7rj8igYBbf
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Europe’s ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have been attached to the dispenser that will hold them during their flight up into space, then release them into their planned orbits.
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Facebook’s New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding | WIRED
Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words. “I’m going to get in so much trouble,” he says. The question, you see, touches on an eternally controversial topic: the future of computer programming languages.
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12 Must-Follow Feeds in the World of Security | WIRED
The US ambassador to the United Nations is someone who actually knows what’s going on instead of just, you know, talking about it. Plus, is there a better handle than @ambassadorpower?
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We’re at Cyberwar: A Global Guide to Nation-State Digital Attacks | WIRED
Every month, it seems, a mammoth cyberattack sponsored by a nation-state comes to light. In recent years, more than 20 countries have announced their intent to launch or beef up their offensive cyber capabilities.
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The Death of Flash May Not Be Entirely Good for the Web | WIRED
You probably hate Flash ads. They pop up in front of your webpages. They slow down your browser. And they have been exploited by hackers again and again. The giants of the Internet now seem finally to be taking a stand against this much despised tec…
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An International Arms Pact Could Criminalize Legit Software | WIRED
The international arms pact known as the Wassenaar Arrangement was designed to control the spread of potentially dangerous hardware and tech to repressive regimes. But when it was amended in December 2013 to include surveillance software, security p…
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A Guide to the Dark Web’s Lighter Side | WIRED
That underground warren of anonymous sites known as the dark web has a reputation for nightmarish stuff like child porn and hit men for hire. It does indeed contain those horrors—and a lot of perfectly decent things.
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Volcanic Rumbles Mean Magma Might Be Seeping Under Naples | WIRED
I’ve said this before, but if you wanted to pick the most volcanically-hazardous place to live on Earth today, it would be hard to beat Naples in Italy. Vesuvius looms over the city, settled into a rather long period of quiet after centuries of some…
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Spy Agencies Can Run Wild Because Oversight Is Broken | WIRED
There’s just one tiny problem with US oversight of its spies: The people charged with guarding against intelligence abuses are spectacularly ignorant about technology. We’re talking about federal lawmakers and judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surv…
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Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart review – a marvellous debut mystery | Books | The Guardian
A century ago a single woman in America was a dangerous one. She couldn’t vote – that wouldn’t be law until 1920. If she owned property or had money to spend, it was, more likely than not, because of the financial largesse of her husband, brother, o…
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Is It Art? Artists Are Turning Their Work into Startups | Motherboard
James George looks like most other artists in Brooklyn. When I meet him at a cafe near his Bushwick studio, he’s in rumpled head-to-toe black, bleary-eyed, locking up his bicycle.
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Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I really don’t like contemporary novels. Just pointing it out there. This review is coming to you from the fingertips of a fantasy-loving girl, one who rarely ventures out of her vast selection of novels often containing kingdoms made to be mapped o…
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Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, expecting twins – BBC News
The chief executive of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, has announced she is expecting twin girls in December, but plans to take “limited” time off.
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Forest laboratory studies immune system in live voles – BBC News
Patches of the Kielder forest in northern England are being turned into wild research laboratories to study how the immune system of wild forest rodents are affected by the environment.
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Beverley Sister Joy dies aged 91 – BBC News
Joy Beverley, one third of the vocal harmony group the Beverley Sisters, has died at the age of 91. The singer, from Bethnal Green in London, was the eldest sister in the trio, who were known for songs including Little Drummer Boy and the Irving Ber…
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BBC Sport – Nikica Jelavic: West Ham sign Hull forward
West Ham have signed midfielder Alex Song on a season-long loan from Barcelona.
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Border Crisis Escalates in South America as Over 1,000 Colombians Are Deported | VICE News
Thousands of Colombians living in Venezuela have been deported or have fled in the past week, as political crisis grows between the two governments. Many Colombians settled in the border region of Venezuela more than a decade ago, pushed out of thei…
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Joe Cocker, Woodstock Festival, 1969 : OldSchoolCool
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Syukur, the kampung boy #4 by Yaman Ibrahim / 500px
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Climate Change Means One World’s Death and Another’s Birth | WIRED
A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical tree species in small, geodesic greenhouses.
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This laundry bin is now mine. : cats
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Isaac Hayes blepping in his box (x-post r/cats) : Blep
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Katie Moussouris Wants Us to Pay Hackers to Find Our Bugs | WIRED
Katie Moussouris is on a mission to convince the government that security research is vital to keeping us all safe. It’s a tough sell when research and hacking can look so much alike.
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When it comes to refugees, terminology matters – Al Jazeera English
The recent decision by Al Jazeera English to use the word “refugees” instead of “migrants” to describe the thousands of people who risk their lives to make dangerous journeys to reach secure territories is an historical act – maybe even a delayed on…
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Australia by-election could dictate PM’s fate – Al Jazeera English
Adelaide, Australia – Six months ago, the Australian prime minister narrowly avoided being dethroned after a rebellion within his own party. The LNP was not happy.
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LISA Pathfinder set for launch site http://t.co/ta3rGH5UQi http://t.co/OoEvjUaKuA http://t.co/L8UrIRacG6
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Lebanon waste activists occupy ministry – 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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LISA Pathfinder set for launch site / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s demonstrator for spaceborne observations of gravitational waves, is ready to leave for Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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2015 NFL Preview: What To Expect If You’re A Packers, Lions, Vikings Or Bears Fan | FiveThirtyEight
In preparation for the 2015 NFL season, FiveThirtyEight is running a series of eight division previews, each highlighting the numbers that may influence a team’s performance.
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Frederick Forsyth: I was an MI6 agent | Books | The Guardian
Frederick Forsyth will admit in his forthcoming autobiography that he worked as an agent for MI6 for more than 20 years. The bestselling thriller author, who was an RAF pilot and a journalist before turning to fiction with The Day of the Jackal, is …
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Zac Efron DJ film flops at US box office – BBC News
Zac Efron’s dance movie We Are Your Friends has bombed at the US and Canada box office, with one of the worst opening weekends on record. The Warner Bros film, which was shown in 2,333 cinemas, had box office takings of $1.8 million (£1.1 million) -…
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How Katrina Brought Together Battered Communities – The Atlantic
Ten years ago this week, Americans watched their televisions aghast: It seemed that when New Orleans’s flood-control infrastructure failed, so too did its social order.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to allow a county clerk in Kentucky who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds to continue to deny marriage licenses to all couples, gay or straight. In June, in Obergefell v.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo scrapped – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants protest outside a major railway station in Budapest after police seal off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU.
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This is Isaac Hayes. He loves his box. : cats
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A Lazy Afternoon on the Virgin River [OC] [2048×1383] : EarthPorn
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September 1, 1939: Germany Invades Poland, Beginning World War II | The Nation
Just over a week ago The Almanac featured The Nation’s response to the Hitler-Stalin Pact, in which the leaders of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divvy up Poland and, for a time, avoid direct confrontation in war.
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Want your energy efficiency program to succeed? Aim it at poor people | Grist
So, say you are a government, and you want to persuade people to conserve electricity — because using less energy is one of the easiest ways out there to fight climate change. You could institute something like a carbon tax, but that’s not going to …
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The Gun Policy Debate in Four Sentences | The Nation
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Fishnet by Kirstin Innis – complicating the story of sex work | Books | The Guardian
“Everybody thinks they understand what the word prostitute means. It’s this idea of victimhood, of badness and helplessness,” Kirstin Innis told the Herald Scotland. “Laws are made without even talking to the people whose lives they are going to aff…
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How Katrina Sparked a Black Skateboarding Renaissance in New Orleans | VICE | United Kingdom
If you were a teenager in New Orleans East in 2006 or ’07, there wasn’t much to do.
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Pope asks Chicago girl to sing for him – video | US news | The Guardian
Speaking by satellite from the Vatican to the people of Chicago, the pope hears 17-year-old Valerie Herrera tell him how she’d been bullied because of a rare skin condition and had turned to music for comfort. The pope then asks her to sing for me.
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Police block refugees from Hungary train station – Al Jazeera English
Hungarian authorities have blocked refugees from entering Budapest’s main train terminal in an apparent attempt to prevent them from heading towards Austria and Germany – despite letting others travel onwards just hours earlier.
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A self-proclaimed ‘negativist’ with a cynical outlook, Edward Buchanan has been defying the odds since he outlived doctors’ predictions by eight years following a hepatitis C diagnosis.
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Pope Francis has so far had a tough time selling his high-profile climate campaign to Americans—even to the faithful. Two recent national surveys asked whether American Catholics were familiar with the pope’s call for action, and the results were de…
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Watch Donald Trump Completely Contradict Himself on US Troops in Iraq | Mother Jones
Donald Trump, the celebrity tycoon and front-runner in the Republican 2016 race, doesn’t hold back when he criticizes the Bush-Cheney crowd for the Iraq War. Over the years, he has called the Iraq invasion a “big mistake” and a “mess,” and he has in…
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Study: People Are Quicker to Shoot a Black Target Than a White Target | Mother Jones
According to a new report from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, racial bias can affect the likelihood of people pulling the trigger of a gun—even if shooters don’t realize they were biased to begin with.
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Former Secret Service agent guilty of bitcoin theft – BBC News
A former US Secret Service agent has pleaded guilty to stealing $820,000 (£521,000) of bitcoins during the investigation of the Silk Road website.Shaun Bridges was part of the federal task force that helped investigate and shut down the Silk Road – …
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Fall 2015’s best Latin American novels | Books | The Guardian
The names behind fall’s predicted bestsellers are instantly recognisable: Franzen (Purity), Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Rushdie (Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights), and Oates (The Lost Landscape), to name only a few.
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Inside the Inscrutable Physics of a Heart Murmur | Motherboard
The sound is not unlike the distorted low-end bass of an overpowered speaker or jagged whoosh of air against a microphone diaphragm. Next to the even, angular tocks of heart valves opening and closing, the rumble of a heart murmur is difficult to mi…
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Imperial Stormtroopers: They’re Just Like Us! | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Slide: 2 / of 16 . Caption: Jorge Pérez Higuera Slide: 3 / of 16 . Caption: Jorge Pérez Higuera Slide: 4 / of 16 . Caption: Jorge Pérez Higuera Slide: 5 / of 16 . Caption: Jorge Pérez Higuera Slide: 6 …
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Why boring cities make for stressed citizens – Colin Ellard – Aeon
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Last stand by Stratos Gazas / 500px
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Focussed Eye by Harry Eggens / 500px
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In honor of Blue Bell being back on shelves. : firstworldanarchists
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She turned 2 today. Already making me proud! via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/fVTkbfLKyw http://t.co/qM5ISKMq0r
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Ukraine crisis: Second death after anti-autonomy protests – BBC News
A second member of Ukraine’s national guard has died from injuries after Monday’s violent protests outside the parliament in Kiev, officials say.The clashes – involving nationalists – erupted after MPs gave initial backing to reform for more autonom…
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UK national sperm bank has just nine donors – BBC News
Just nine men are registered as donors a year after the opening of Britain’s national sperm bank in Birmingham. It is now planning a recruitment drive, with chief executive Laura Witjens saying that appealing to male pride may be an effective way to…
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Dutch government to appeal against carbon emissions ruling | Environment | The Guardian
The Dutch government will appeal against a district court ruling ordering it to cut emissions of greenhouse gases faster than currently planned, in a politically sensitive case that is being closely watched by policy-makers abroad.
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EU referendum: Watchdog urges changes to question – BBC News
The elections watchdog has recommended a change to the question to be put to voters in a future EU referendum. The Electoral Commission said the existing wording proposed by the government – “should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European…
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PayPal today is launching a new take on peer-to-peer payments with the debut of a platform it’s calling PayPal.Me. For the first time, PayPal customers will be able to set up their own user profiles which are associated with a personalized URL (e.g.…
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Why boring cities make for stressed citizens – Colin Ellard – Aeon
In 2007, the Whole Foods supermarket chain built one of their largest stores on New York City’s storied Lower East Side, occupying an entire block of East Houston Street from the Bowery to Chrystie Street.
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Eurozone jobless rate lowest for three years – BBC News
Unemployment in the eurozone fell to its lowest rate in July for more than three years, figures have shown. European Union statistics agency Eurostat said the jobless rate in the currency union fell to 10.9% in July from 11.1% the month before.
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Somalia attack: Al-Shabab attacks African Union Janale base – BBC News
Fighters from al-Shabab militant Islamist group have overrun an African Union military base in southern Somalia, inflicting heavy casualties, witnesses have told the BBC. The militants said they have killed 70 AU soldiers at the Janale base, 90km (5…
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Weak Chinese data hits European markets – BBC News
Renewed fears over growth in China have hit European markets, with the main indexes falling sharply in early trade. Germany’s Dax tumbled by 3% to 9,948.59, while France’s Cac-40 fell 2.8% to 4,519.23 and the UK’s FTSE was off by 2.7% at 6,080.20.
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Migrant crisis: Hungary rail station move sparks protests – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants have been protesting outside a major railway station in the Hungarian capital after police sealed off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU. Crowds of people chanted “Germany” and waved train tickets after being fo…
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Little Giant by Adrian C. Murray / 500px
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Yorkshire Dales captured by i_elly [OC] [3872×2592] : EarthPorn
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I Asked a Black Cop What He Thinks About America’s Policing Problem | VICE | United Kingdom
It’s easy to say fuck the police. But we know we need them. We need the police to protect us, although quite often it seems like we need to be protected from the police.
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indonesian sea nettle by Mamatha Rao / 500px
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College gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Green bus by Diane Putnam / 500px
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Hillary Clinton asked her senior officials to press Gordon Brown to intervene after director Ken Loach persuaded the Edinburgh film festival to reject a grant from the Israeli government.
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Migrant crisis: Budapest Keleti station shuts – BBC News
Authorities closed the main international railway station in Budapest for a short time on Tuesday after around 500 migrants tried to board a train to Vienna. Keleti rail station has since been reopened for train traffic, but migrants are not allowed…
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Cameron and Clegg ‘snobbish and arrogant’ – emails to Clinton | US news | The Guardian
Emails to the US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton from a close confidant portrayed the British prime minister, David Cameron, as snobbish, William Hague as disingenuous and the first coalition government budget as draconian.
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Why is there so much anger around country paths? | Patrick Barkham | Comment is free | The Guardian
Why is there so much anger around country paths? | Patrick Barkham http://t.co/Hn4M5Xcbkc
When the Ramblers Association recently launched its Big Pathwatch, urging walkers to upload pictures of overgrown footpaths, I considered it a bit silly. -
queen and a bee by Kotomi Ito / 500px
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Labor Day weekend is coming up and you or someone you know is throwing a party. So while everyone else is figuring out how to buy the perfect ratio of hot dogs to buns, one-up them and bring the keg. Besides, nothing screams “Back to School” like a …
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Venezuela prison fire: Tocuyito blaze kills 17 – BBC News
Seventeen people have been killed and another 11 injured in a fire at a prison in Venezuela. The cause of the blaze at Tocuyito jail near the city of Valencia is still being investigated.
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Which books will make me feel happy about going back to school? | Children’s books | The Guardian
I’m feeling nervous about going back to school. Are there any stories that will remind me of how much fun school can be? Going back to school for the beginning of the new school year is exciting but also a little scary for most people.
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I found a stick in my bread, more fiber for me! : mildlyinteresting
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Theres a green pepper inside my red pepper : mildlyinteresting
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UK manufacturing growth slowed in August, PMI survey says – BBC News
Growth in the UK’s manufacturing sector slowed slightly in August, a survey has suggested. The UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to 51.5 in the month, down from 51.9 in July. Any score above 50 indicates expansion.
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Glen Shee by Hilda Murray / 500px
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Fungi by Oliver Wetter : ImaginaryMindscapes
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When he entered the game five minutes into extra-time, Edner Breton figured he would play maybe 10, perhaps 25 minutes before the winning goal was scored in a North American Soccer League playoff encounter against the Dallas Tornado.
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AFC West preview: Maclin can spur Chiefs to top Manning’s fading Broncos | Sport | The Guardian
Does Peyton Manning have one more Super Bowl run left? Given that less than four years ago Peyton Manning was coming out of spinal fusion surgery, could barely throw a football more than 10 feet and yet recovered to lead the Broncos to the Super Bow…
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Thailand: Main suspect arrested over deadly shrine bomb – Al Jazeera English
Thailand’s prime minister has said a second foreign man has been arrested at a checkpoint on the Cambodian border on suspicion of involvement in last month’s deadly shrine bombing.
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Cancelled play highlights UK counter-extremism debate – Al Jazeera English
London, United Kingdom – A play examining issues of Islamic extremism and radicalisation in a London school was mysteriously cancelled last month.
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Andrea Shundi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrea Shundi (born in 1934) is one of the most notable Albanian agronomists of the 20th and 21st century.
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Climate change brings cyclone risk to Persian Gulf, study warns | Environment | The Guardian
Climate change is bringing small risks that tropical cyclones will form in the Persian Gulf for the first time, in a threat to cities such as Dubai or Doha which are unprepared for big storm surges, a US study said on Monday.
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VICE News Capsule – Tuesday, September 1 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Conflict starves Yemen’s children, America’s second-largest police force gets body cameras, Egypt clamps down on smuggling tunnels, and China’s first domestically produc…
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Las Vegas Sunset (2048×1365) (OC) : SkyPorn
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The environmental disaster in your wardrobe : environment
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Alabama fishermen redefine ‘catfishing’ with kitten catch : cats
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Leicester Square Long Exposure [4608 X 3072] : ExposurePorn
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Miley Cyrus, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – The Daily Beast
The MTV Video Music Awards has always courted controversy—whether spontaneous or staged. Years ago, the night would be dominated by cheap shocks, like a Madonna-Britney-Christina lip-lock, and an atmosphere of forced “anarchy.” The stakes seem decid…
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Walls of Shame – US/Mexico – Al Jazeera English
It matters little what they are called – whether walls, barriers or fences – the intention is the same: to redefine human relations into ‘us’ and ‘them’.
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Blue Impact by Alessandro Di Cicco / 500px
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melitea by mauro maione / 500px
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Apply to the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London NOW | TechCrunch
Vacation month is coming to a close in Europe and not a moment too soon. Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London. If you’re new to the whole “Battlefield” thing, let’s clear a few things up. The Battlefield is TechCru…
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Second Bangkok bombing suspect held – 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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Kenya welcomes victorious athletes from Beijing – BBC News
Victorious Kenyan athletes have returned home to a hero’s welcome after they topped the medal table at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing for the first time. The team were received at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi by thousands of suppor…
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Anglesey apiarists stung as bee thefts increase – BBC News
Thefts of bees are increasing as their population decreases due to environmental change and disease. Police say criminals are prepared to take huge risks to get their hands on them – a series of raids have been carried out on hives in north Wales.
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Aga Rangemaster gets new takeover offer from Whirlpool – BBC News
Cooker manufacturer Aga Rangemaster has received a takeover approach from a second US firm, in a move that could spark a bidding war. The company confirmed it had received an approach from white goods manufacturer Whirlpool regarding a possible cash…
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BBC Sport – Everton: Ramiro Funes Mori joins from River Plate for £9.5m
Everton have signed defender Ramiro Funes Mori from Argentine club River Plate for a fee of £9.5m. More to follow.
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Samsung Loses $44 Billion of Value in Worst Streak Since 1983 : technology
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Somewhere on the south island of New Zealand [OC] [5077×3385] : EarthPorn
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It’s very awkward… : AdviceAnimals
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The grandeur of Tokyo’s Hotel Okura in pictures – BBC News
The story of one of Tokyo’s grandest hotels came to a close on Monday as the Okura shut for renovation. Though its annex will remain in operation, its iconic main building will be torn down to make way for a new development.
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The Ricks Must Be Crazy – Rick and Morty on Adult Swim Video
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W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923. : OldSchoolCool
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Moscow City Towers by ZhenyaSneg / 500px
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Lucia by Crimson Photography / 500px
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Liquid rocks by Sergio Locatelli / 500px
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What’s An Island of Our Own about? Siblings Jonathan, Holly and Davy have been struggling to survive since the death of their mother, and are determined to avoid being taken into care. When the family’s wealthy but eccentric Great-Aunt Irene has a s…
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Why children’s authors shouldn’t always ‘kill the parents’ | Children’s books | The Guardian
Every so often, someone comments on how different all my books are. It’s not surprising; I’ve written everything from medieval apocalypse to contemporary realism. When this happens, I nod and agree that, yes, I am indeed a fabulously diverse and cre…
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The BBC gets it! : firstworldanarchists
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IBM wants to help China fight air pollution with artificial intelligence : environment
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Haruki Murakami Publishes His Answers to 3,700 Questions from Fans in a New Japanese eBook http://t.co/3ovnSv4Oyn
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Afterglow or Last light or Twilight by Kenjiroh Tukiyama / 500px
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Horses in the mountain by Danilo Bruschi / 500px
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Berahino, Valdes, Adebayor, Lopez, Tarbuck
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is considering a third bid of £22m for West Brom striker Saido Berahino, 22. (Daily Mirror) Levy could also make a late move to bring Newcastle forward Ayoze Perez, 22, to White Hart Lane in a £15m deal. (Daily Mail)
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Lowbrow artist The Pizz, RIP – Boing Boing
Pioneering lowbrow artist The Pizz (Stephen Pizzuro) has died at age 57, a tragic loss of a great underground talent. We send our sympathy to his family and friends. From The Pizz’s self-penned bio on his site:
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US Open 2015: order of play for Tuesday 1 September | Sport | The Guardian
Play begins on all courts at 11amET/4pm BST Arthur Ashe Stadium Related: Andy Murray busy but happy heading into US Open clash with Nick Kyrgios Marina Erakovic (Nzl) v (2) Simona Halep (Rom), Jamie Loeb (USA) v (4) Caroline Wozniacki (Den), Leonard…
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UNHCR: ‘Migrant conditions must improve’ – BBC News
The UN says the number of migrants arriving in Hungary is increasing every day. Hundreds of people have arrived by rail in the Austrian capital Vienna after being held for several hours at the Hungarian border.
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Alexandra by Evgeny Lanin / 500px
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Hillary Clinton emails: Thousands of new pages released – BBC News
Thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails while US secretary of state have been released, including many that have been censored after being deemed classified.
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Dutch government to appeal against emissions ruling : environment
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Ready to Jump by Matteo Senesi / 500px
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Just Arrived by Csilla Zelko / 500px
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Electric vehicles boost climate ‘nirvana’ in the Himalayas – BBC News
Happiness? What’s that? Colleagues might say that a mouth full of cake and Ireland wining the rugby world cup would see me eternally content.
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Insecticide coating effective against mosquitoes – BBC News
A new method of applying insecticide to netting has proved 100% effective against some strains of mosquito, an international study reports.The electrostatic coating allows the netting to carry much higher doses of insecticide.In experiments, the coa…
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Mon Amour by Eleonora Di Primo / 500px
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Pluto in Enhanced Color
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Quizno’s latest ad campaign – Imgur
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Expecting Twins, Plans ‘Limited’ Time Off Work | TechCrunch
Marissa Mayer is expecting twins, but the Yahoo CEO and former Google executive isn’t planning to take a significant break from work during or after her pregnancy.
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As Golden Globe-nominated Andrew Garfield learned through two stints in the Spidey suit, with great power comes great responsibility.
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Cliff Jumping at Horseshoe Lake, Jasper National Park [1836×3265] : EarthPorn
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[OC] The Pinnacle, Blyde River Canyon, South Africa [3456 x 5184] : EarthPorn
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Some Alpine goodness. Summit Lake, CO. [OC] [7360 x 4912] : EarthPorn
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The New Rules of Oyster Eating | Lucky Peach
A decade ago, I wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and the mysteries of molluscan terroir. The book struck a chord, and American oyster culture has…
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Lucille Clifton Reads “Won’t You Celebrate With Me” | Brain Pickings
“One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated,” poet Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936–February 13, 2010) told Poets & Writers Magazine in 1992.
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Row Over Arabic Instruction in SF Schools | Al Jazeera America
SAN FRANCISCO – In May 2015, Arab community members were elated when the San Francisco Unified School District unanimously voted — twice — to pass a resolution mandating instruction in Arabic and Vietnamese for English learners who speak those langu…
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Scores of Clinton emails retroactively classified – Al Jazeera English
The US State Department has released over 4,000 more of the emails former secretary of state Hillary Clinton kept on a private server and revealed that some 150 others have been retroactively classified.
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“The Axe” · Wander Over Yonder · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“The Wanders” and “The Axe” are perfectly fine, fun episodes. They’re as wildly chaotic as the ones preceding them, with enough ridiculous visuals that would make anyone laugh. I don’t know if they feel substantive, though.
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Went to Costa Rica this last summer and wanted to contribute! : sloths
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Brooklyn Skyline with Midtown Manhattan in the Background [4896 x 3264] : CityPorn
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New York’s Pyramid [4896 x 3672] : CityPorn
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Dim Prospects for Quick Change to EU Migration | Al Jazeera America
With thousands of people seeking refuge by entering the European Union (EU) every day, leaders of the 28-nation bloc have announced an emergency meeting in Brussels on Sept. 14 to find a common strategy for facing a humanitarian crisis of “unprecede…
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Migrant crisis: Hundreds arrive at German rail stations – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants thought to be from Syria have arrived by rail at German stations after being held for several hours at the Hungarian border. The authorities in Budapest, who are struggling to cope with the influx of migrants, allowed them to bo…
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Inside the New Hillary Clinton Emails: All the Secretary’s Yes Men – The Daily Beast
Hillary Clinton has always had an army of yes men at her disposal, begging to be tasked with something to do—and they are on full display in a new batch of emails released by the State Department.
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New emails released from Hillary Clinton’s private server show David Miliband confided in the then secretary of state that losing the Labour leadership election was “tough” and having won the support of the party members and MPs made it “doubly so”,…
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Daily pot smoking on US college campuses at 35-year high, study finds | Society | The Guardian
The number of US college students smoking marijuana every day or nearly every day is greater than it has been in 35 years, a study released on Tuesday shows. Nearly 6% of college students reported using pot daily or near-daily in 2014, up from 3.5% …
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What happens when you don’t thank Mr Skeltal [NSFW]
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Allen’s Hummingbird by Salah Baazizi / 500px
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My high school football team takes the field in 1975 : OldSchoolCool
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A Cessna at Sunset [OC] [1365 x 2048] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/4E8dE3QGdr http://t.co/ouz9O1kD4I http://t.co/QatfjwQKuY
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A Cessna at Sunset [OC] [1365 x 2048] : SkyPorn
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Cherry Blossom by Jacky Parker / 500px
Cherry Blossom by JackyParker http://t.co/LstF5qHSLL http://t.co/2v0SJiQaZI
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Kalalau Lookout, Kauai, Hawaii [OC] [3264×1836] : EarthPorn
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Friday was the 60th anniversary of the savage killing of Emmett Till. Till was a black 14-year-old Chicago boy who was visiting his great-uncle in Mississippi during the summer of 1955.
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Latest Clinton Emails Show Frustrations at State | Al Jazeera America
Aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department complained about the limitations of using email to discuss sensitive diplomatic information, according to the latest batch of emails released by the agency from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, September 1. All times are Eastern. Drunk History (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.
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New Zealand unveils flag finalists, to mixed reviews – BBC News
The four finalists in New Zealand’s public competition to design what could be the country’s new national flag have been revealed. But it’s fair to say the response has been muted, with many dismissing them as too conservative, even boring.
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Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82 review – a brave new world | Books | The Guardian
The 1970s were “failure time for Britain”. The words are those of an astute adman who devised the Austin Metro launch of 1980, a brouhaha of flag-waving, commercialised nationalism that caught the hankering to end the defeats, discomforts and grieva…
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Parachutist gets 300 hours’ community work for One World Trade Center jump | US news | The Guardian
Marko Markovich was also ordered to pay a $2000 fine. James Brady and Andrew Rossig had to pay similar fines but they were given lesser community service sentences earlier this month.
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Checking to see if the kittens were still next door to her 🙂 : cats
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How I remind myself to stay humble. : AdviceAnimals
How I remind myself to stay humble. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/E5luW3IqMv http://t.co/ZGzTiBvRMP
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Church of Good Shepherd by Edwin Leung / 500px
Church of Good Shepherd by elkynz http://t.co/6V5ozvjqNd http://t.co/dVvV6n9LIf
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Explosion at Chinese Chemical Plant Is Said to Kill at Least 1 http://t.co/rDLrHz8UmX
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The US president has urged world leaders to agree to cut carbon emissions at a UN summit in Paris later this year. Speaking in Alaska, Barack Obama said the US recognises its role in creating climate change and will ‘embrace’ attempts to solve it.
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LinkedIn Messaging Gets Long Overdue Revamp, Adding GIFs, Emojis And Stickers | TechCrunch
If you’re anything like me or most people I know, you almost certainly have a profile on LinkedIn but you probably never (ever ever) use its messaging service. Well, LinkedIn hopes that by adding stickers, GIFs and other such things you might change…
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From Wrongful Conviction To ‘Gang Kingpin’ – The Daily Beast
Thaddeus Jimenez was 13 when he was convicted of a murder he did not commit. He served 16 harrowing years of a 45-year prison term before he was exonerated.
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Why Liberals Should to Learn to Love Charter Schools – The Daily Beast
Former President George W. Bush’s visit last week to a charter school in New Orleans reinforced the misleading idea that conservatives are for charters and liberals are for traditional district schools.
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Ukraine’s Anti-Terrorist Terror – The Daily Beast
Earlier today the relative peace of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, was shattered when a demonstration outside the parliament building, the Verkhovna Rada, turned violent.
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The Immigrant Who Sleeps Next to Trump – The Daily Beast
It’s almost impossible to imagine Melania Trump—the Republican frontrunner’s glamorous, Slovenian-born wife—chowing down on a fried Twinkie on a stick at the Iowa State Fair.
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Why Tennis Star Rafael Nadal Seems a Very Happy Sex Object – The Daily Beast
After de-robing in the locker room for a shamefully brief 30 seconds, Rafael Nadal looks over his bare, perfectly tanned and muscled shoulders – which connect to the bare and perfectly tanned and muscled rest of him – and flashes a naughty smile.
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The Russian Idol Three Times as Old as the Pyramids – The Daily Beast
An enigmatic wooden idol that has puzzled archaeologists since it was unearthed in a Siberian bog 125 years ago revealed a little more about itself last week.
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Rubio: A Spoonful Of Sugar Keeps The Terrorists Away – The Daily Beast
Marco Rubio thinks sugar subsidies protect us from terrorists. Or something. The Republican presidential candidate is taking heat from the right for comments he made about a controversial federal program, and it could make his life a little complica…
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Inside U.S. Commandos’ Shadow War Against Iran – The Daily Beast
It was July 25, 2004. Violence was escalating in Iraq, the Taliban were reasserting themselves in Afghanistan, and Joint Special Operations Command – the U.S. military’s cadre of elite special operations forces — was already deploying operators to …
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Doctors’ Most Damaging Hit Piece – The Daily Beast
Nobody is perfect. To err is human. Everyone makes mistakes. There are plenty of ways of saying the same thing, and there is one very good reason for that: because it is true. Most mistakes that people make are relatively benign, but in my line of w…
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U.S. Judge Rules Sexual Trafficking Is Not a Violent Crime – The Daily Beast
Sex trafficking is not a crime of violence. At least that is the conclusion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which tossed out this August (PDF) a pimp’s conviction for “possession and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of vi…
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We’re Worse Off Than Ever for El Niño – The Daily Beast
When you hear about El Niño, perhaps you first think of Chris Farley. Or maybe you lived in southern California in 1997, so you remember the storms, floods, and mudslides.
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In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
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Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, but even before his death the process of canonization was well underway. In May of that year Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Creation Myth” was published in The New Yorker.
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A Walk In The Woods · Film Review · The A.V. Club
“Talk to people, it’s good for you!” Bill Bryson’s wife, Catherine, tells him early in A Walk In The Woods, as they attend a funeral he wanted to avoid. “I don’t like talking to people,” he grumps back at her.
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Back in 1967, California governor and future far-right icon Ronald Reagan went on TV to speak out against gun owners.
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There is something wrong with that TV. The week of September 9th, 2001 was fated to become the most historically significant week of the new millennium.
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Barenaked Ladies cover Phil Collins · A.V. Undercover · The A.V. Club
Barenaked Ladies may have set the record for best-attended Undercover session when they stopped in Chicago this June. Following tour mate Colin Hay and his well-received performance of “She’s My Best Friend,” the Canadian quartet drew what appeared …
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Matt Gourley on H.R. Giger and the dream of being “squibbed” · Bestcasts · The A.V. Club
Bestcasts asks podcasters to discuss the three most memorable episodes of their podcast. Ties are allowed/encouraged. For more podcast coverage, see Podmass, The A.V. Club’s weekly roundup of the best ’casts out there.
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Simple app that corrupts your Word docs for extending those submission deadlines (don’t blame me) (wordcorrupt.me)submitted just now by Mr1725loading…
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Milky way over the Himalayas : space
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Donald Trump Says “China” – YouTube
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Wayne, New Jersey (Beauty close to home) [OC] [1920×1080] : EarthPorn
Wayne, New Jersey (Beauty close to home) [OC] [1920×1080] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/x135isHhHB http://t.co/wyI0RxedqT
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Young Gorrilla and kid play peek-a-boo. : AnimalsBeingBros
Young Gorrilla and kid play peek-a-boo. via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/lC9GiJarum http://t.co/Gtu8zCMvuJ
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I found my daughter hiding from me in the Bushes. : funny
I found my daughter hiding from me in the Bushes. via /r/funny http://t.co/wYZ00XfD2E http://t.co/efVMqbGkqe
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Vast areas of eastern, southern and western Australia are set to experience worse than normal bushfire conditions this summer, with the developing El Niño expected to significantly exacerbate fire-prone weather.
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Al-Shabab claims ‘scores’ killed in attack on AU troops – Al Jazeera English
Al-Shabab fighters in Somalia have killed “scores” of African Union troops in an attack south of capital, Mogadishu, a spokesman for the armed group told Al Jazeera.
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Pretty much every trip to the mechanic these days : AdviceAnimals
Pretty much every trip to the mechanic these days via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/7DK9wCvMoI http://t.co/iBZlEOFX1I
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Mountain Hike via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/w3taNn04Oo http://t.co/4qrLvODfoO
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$15 PC makes the Raspberry Pi look expensive : technology
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My dad got some news at work today : AdviceAnimals
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“August 31, 2015” · WWE Monday Night Raw · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There are two versions of WWE on tonight’s episode of Monday Night Raw. There’s the WWE that seemingly doesn’t understand how to build to its next PPV, that doesn’t show any interest in telling a meaningful story. It’s the WWE that gives us Dolph Zi…
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EU referendum: UKIP to launch own campaign – BBC News
The UK Independence Party says it will launch its own campaign against staying in the EU instead of joining one of the two existing No campaigns. Leader Nigel Farage believes UKIP can mobilise thousands of supporters of exiting the EU at public meet…
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NHS personal health budgets ‘spent on patient treats’ – BBC News
Thousands of pounds from NHS “personal health budgets” are being spent on “treats” such as holidays and clothes, an investigation has found. Pulse magazine said money had also gone on horse riding, art classes, massage, and, in one case, a summer ho…
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My new little brother, Nico : aww
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My parents came back from Maine and all I got was this stinking shark outfit : aww
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He came out of no where, and now greats me every morning and night. : cats
He came out of no where, and now greats me every morning and night. via /r/cats http://t.co/jufSMqQ8Kk http://t.co/P5GnZ52okw
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Praise SkeleStalin! 1 up vote = 1 revolution : ledootgeneration
Praise SkeleStalin! 1 up vote = 1 revolution via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/IWDEr8S8LJ http://t.co/T7XRx52Llg
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Barack Obama in Alaska: global fight against climate change starts here | Environment | The Guardian
Shrinking Alaskan glaciers served as a vivid backdrop for Barack Obama’s latest push for action on climate change in Anchorage on Monday night as he warned that the equivalent of 75 blocks of ice the size of the national mall in Washington were melt…
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CatchThatBus Lands $1.5M For Mobile Bus Ticketing In Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
CatchThatBus, the startup behind a mobile app that covers bus booking and information in Malaysia and Singapore, has closed a $1.5 million bridge round ahead of a planned Series A raise and expansion across Southeast Asia.
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A sound artist in the bedroom | Environment | The Guardian
It is perhaps the strangest wildlife alarm ever to be heard in our house. It began when our daughter at 3am, outside our bedroom door and shrouded in her duvet (to stop it getting tangled in her hair, she later revealed), announced that there was a …
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Japanese-Inspired Shoes That Wrap Around Your Feet | Bored Panda
Store bought shoes rarely fit perfectly, and bespoke options are too expensive for many. Italian shoe maker Vibram, more commonly known for its military footwear, has come up with a solution to this problem with its Furoshiki Shoes.
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APOD: 2015 August 31 – Pluto in Enhanced Color
Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see.
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Obama pleads for Paris climate change deal – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has called on world leaders to agree to cut carbon emissions at crucial talks in Paris later this year. Speaking in Alaska, he said countries including his own were not doing enough to stop global warming.
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China’s Eiffel Tower Image, Hangzhou
Sometimes called the “Paris of the east,” the city of Hangzhou in eastern China rose to its reputation with an appropriate set piece—a replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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Kevin Rudd’s aide told the US embassy that the former Australian prime minister had “hoped for a sympathetic call” from Hillary Clinton after he lost the Labor leadership in 2010, newly released emails show.
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Chevy’s New Volt Is Way Better, But Maybe Not Good Enough | WIRED
The Chevy Volt was supposed to historic. It would be the first affordable and practical electric car, with an internal combustion engine tucked in to wipe away fears of running out of battery power miles from home.
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Israeli Raid in West Bank Prompts Violent Clashes | Al Jazeera America
An Israeli raid to arrest armed group members in the West Bank turned into a gunbattle Monday night that left at least five Palestinians and an Israeli soldier wounded.
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Mount Fuji is simply breathtaking when in bloom. : Breathless
Mount Fuji is simply breathtaking when in bloom. via /r/Breathless http://t.co/ia54Kq0VZc http://t.co/lTlPZirowe
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Descending California’s Mt. Lassen during wildfire season [900×750, OC] : EarthPorn
Descending California’s Mt. Lassen during wildfire season [900×750, OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/X4Hs1P1Y4M http://t.co/gh0UY2sIlT
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Wondermark » Archive » #1154; In which a Lesson is imparted, Part 2
The folks at the comedy magazine The Devastator have compiled a collection of ebooks! You can pay what you want (and support charities if you choose), and download the entire bundle: My book Horrid Little Stories is making its ebook premiere in this…
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Barack Obama has said that people criticising Jews who support the Iran nuclear deal are like African Americans who dismiss others as “not black enough”. Obama, in an interview with the Jewish newspaper Forward, was asked whether it hurt him persona…
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IDG Ventures Closes on $120 Million for Its Third Fund | TechCrunch
IDG Ventures, an early-stage venture firm that was among the first VC outfits to plant its flag in San Francisco instead of Silicon Valley, has raised $120 million for its third and newest fund, according to cofounders Phil Sanderson and Alex Rosen.
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Hillary Clinton emails released by US State Department – BBC News
Thousands of pages of emails from the private server of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been released by the state department. The emails also include 150 that were censored because they contained information that was considered cl…
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Now watch me spook : ledootgeneration
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What you get when you let your puppy pick out a buddy… : aww
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Photos that seem fake, but are actually real : woahdude
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ONLY LADDERS by juandevillalba / 500px
ONLY LADDERS by Juandevillalba http://t.co/JG7vknMVlO http://t.co/PiGVFqouwi
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China’s Eiffel Tower Image, Hangzhou
Game of Towers http://t.co/37C9lNeRUg
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Svedka, or as we call her “kitten,” is completely deaf and adorable : aww
Svedka, or as we call her “kitten,” is completely deaf and adorable via /r/aww http://t.co/sH3EZVVzLh http://t.co/zYSqUG20Mo
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Messaging Firm Line Introduces A Launcher App For Android Devices | TechCrunch
Line, the Japanese messaging company, has continued its flurry of new app and service launches after it released an Android launcher app. Launcher apps essentially take central control of an Android device, allowing a user to customize the look, fee…
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How Will Smith Can Take Down the NFL – The Daily Beast
Three years ago, Hall of Famer Junior Seau shot himself in the chest with no suicide note after seven years of insomnia left him too depressed to continue. Two years before, he had survived his car’s 100-foot fall off a cliff.
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This machine that tests highlighters : oddlysatisfying
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Loafing with Betsy via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/BYHGxmGWF2 http://t.co/LsHJSpoulT
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Damnit Dan. via /r/funny http://t.co/RCzt5mKudm http://t.co/GWx7fj0pVB
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Thai Phuketwan journalists acquitted of defaming navy – BBC News
Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian, from online news site Phuketwan, had faced a potential jail term for a paragraph they included in an article on human trafficking in 2013.
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Open thread for night owls: Tennessee county’s commissioners say no way to privatizing a prison
This is an important stand, not only because outsourcing often worsens conditions for both staff and prisoners, but because Johnson County joins a growing list of communities taking common sense action on criminal justice.
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Southern California Immigration Sting | Al Jazeera America
Immigration agents arrested more than 240 people with criminal records during a four-day sting in Southern California, authorities said Monday in a show of force that comes as fewer people are being deported.
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Meet the Republican Who Launched the ‘Ready for Kanye’ PAC | Rolling Stone
Following Kanye West’s VMAs declaration that he wants to run for president in 2020, 24-year-old Baltimore-native Eugene Craig on Monday registered ReadyForKanye.net and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to register the Ready for K…
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People who type “u”, rather than “you”, what do you do with all your free time? : AskReddit
People who type “u”, rather than “you”, what do you do with all your free time? (self.AskReddit) Masturbate and cry, u?
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/mP1FFe5RCt http://t.co/IcmC9IWAlM
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I was hourly, pretty sure that’s called wage theft : AdviceAnimals
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Honey Boo-Boo’s mother : perfectloops
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My cat lives (and feasts) outdoors : cats
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The beautiful Great Plains of Minnesota [4339×2151] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Grandad’s football team with a young JFK circa 1930s : OldSchoolCool
Grandad’s football team with a young JFK circa 1930s via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/gM4tjym8Tu http://t.co/EJoFFOGn81
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Abandoned Muscogee Wharf in Pensacola Bay [2400×1800] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned Muscogee Wharf in Pensacola Bay [2400×1800] via /r/AbandonedPorn http://t.co/ifyIFKTGVk http://t.co/FpHOOGCzqw
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Dahlia very close up by John Wright / 500px
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‘Coach’ follow-up dead at NBC : television
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Up to 90% of seabirds have plastic in their guts, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
As many as nine out of 10 of the world’s seabirds are likely to have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. An Australian team of scientists who have studied birds and marine debris found that far more seabirds were affected than th…
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Hundreds of refugees arrive in Vienna and Munich – Al Jazeera English
Trains from Hungary carrying hundreds of refugees started arriving in Vienna and Munich early on Tuesday, witnesses said.
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Last week, Stephen Colbert confirmed the entire slate of guests scheduled to appear on his first week of The Late Show on CBS, and it was a thrilling list that combined big names (George Clooney! Amy Schumer! Maybe Pavement!) with lesser-known up-an…
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Why Do the Chinese Hate G.M.O.s? – The New Yorker
In China, which has one-fifth of the world’s population but just seven per cent of the world’s arable land, food security is a national obsession.
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As the music industry celebrates, it’s still struggling to halt the decline
Last night, people across the entertainment industry gathered to honor accomplishments in music on a network that doesn’t play music anymore. MTV’s 2015 Video Music Awards are like every other televised awards program.
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The journalists being sued by the Thai navy – BBC News
It was the Thai Navy which first alerted Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian to the story for which they are now being sued – by the Thai Navy.
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Moscow financial center at night [2048×1365] : CityPorn
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Weeping to the Stars Joshua Tree, CA js – Just Space
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La Paz, Bolivia [2048×1356] : CityPorn
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Every Finding Bigfoot episode ever : funny
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Apple Exploring Original Programming Move, Could Compete with Netflix | Variety
The moment the media and technology industries have been expecting for years may finally be arriving: Apple is exploring getting into the original programming business. Sources indicate the Cupertino, Calif.
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Meningitis B vaccinations start across UK for all newborns – BBC News
Meningitis B vaccination for all newborn babies has started in the UK. The Men B vaccine will be given to babies at two, four and 12 months old as part of routine immunisations.
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India accuses Google of stifling competition – BBC News
Indian authorities have accused internet giant Google of abusing its dominance in search advertising. The three year inquiry centres on complaints filed by several websites which claimed Google had been unfairly highlighting its own services.
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Apple wants to make original movie and TV programming, reports Variety – Boing Boing
Apple is exploring getting into the original programming business, reports Variety. “An Apple representative declined comment,” but you knew that was coming. […
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And now for Deep Thoughts with Donald Trump
Donald J. Trump: super genius.
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Nauru migrant centre ‘unsafe’ for children – senate report – BBC News
Australia’s government is being urged to remove children from its detention centre on Nauru island in the Pacific. The senate committee report published on Monday found conditions on Nauru were not “appropriate or safe” for detainees.
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Obama: Climate change defining threat of century – Al Jazeera English
US President Barack Obama said climate change will shape this century like no other threat, as he visited Alaska to stress it’s a problem of now, not the future.
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Christian clerk in Kentucky loses same-sex marriage court battle – BBC News
A Christian official who refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples in Kentucky has been ordered to do so by the US Supreme Court.Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis had argued that her faith prevented her from carrying out her duty.
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Federal Agent Pleads Guilty To Obstruction And Money Laundering In Silk Road Case | TechCrunch
U.S. Secret Service special agent Shaun W. Bridges of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today before the U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California to obstruction and money laundering that occurred during the Silk Road…
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Obama Delivers Climate Speech in Alaska | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama said on Monday that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a U.N. summit in December because the climate is changing faster than efforts to curb global warming.
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Bedtime routine used to be my job. This one thing helps me cope… : AdviceAnimals
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Lake Tahoe, California [OC] [1600×1200] : EarthPorn
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An Owlet Goes For a Stroll… : funny
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Mountain Gentian Flower – Pneumonanthe parryi [2048×1365][OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Supreme Court Turns Away Anti-Gay Kentucky Clerk With A Brief, Dismissive Order | ThinkProgress
Kim Davis, an anti-gay clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses in order to avoid having to issue them to same-sex couples, will receive no quarter from the Supreme Court of the United States.
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BBC TV host is very excited about Blue Whale that just photobombed his live shot – Boing Boing
Watch Steve Backshall, a very enthusiastic television news presenter, react to the surprise appearance of a blue whale during a live shot. It gets even more intense and fantastic when he realizes there’s krill in the water. Wait for the part where h…
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Argentina ‘stolen child’ abducted in 1978 found – BBC News
Campaigners in Argentina have identified another child abducted from left-wing political prisoners during military rule between 1976 and 1983. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group says DNA tests confirm the woman, now in her thirties, was the…
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Fresh factory data confirms slowdown in China’s economy – BBC News
China’s factory activity contracted at its fastest pace in three years in August, confirming fears that the country’s growth is continuing to slow. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 49.7 from 50 in July.
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Liz Cheney on the ‘gratitude’ Americans have for her torture-supporting father
I’m not sure why Bush administration Vice President Dick Cheney and his offspring Liz continue to pair up for their Sunday show appearances, unless we’re just preparing for the inevitable day when master kicks the bucket and apprentice must advocate…
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Next batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails released | US news | The Guardian
The State Department released another tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server late Monday.
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Defending champion Serena Williams marches into US Open second round | Sport | The Guardian
Serena Williams, as befits the grand dame of tennis, began the pursuit of a calendar grand slam with a regal swat on the first evening of the 2015 US Open.
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The State Department Just Released a Huge Batch of Hillary Clinton Emails | VICE News
The US Department of State just released more than 7,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails, the largest batch of documents yet to be made public from the Democratic presidential candidate’s time as Secretary of State.
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Nicola Sturgeon to unveil Programme for Government – BBC News
Education and welfare are expected to feature heavily when the Scottish first minister unveils her new Programme for Government. Nicola Sturgeon will set out the Scottish government’s legislation for the coming year, as well as summarising its main …
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Geography of Poverty Northeast | msnbc
The hulking old factories and abandoned industrial plants that dot cities across the North and Northeast offer a fitting illustration to the swath of the country known as the Rust Belt.
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Microsoft accused of adding spy features to Windows 7, 8 | Ars Technica
Windows’ network activity continues to be scrutinized amid privacy concerns. Windows 10 was first put under the microscope with both new and old features causing concern.
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To deport American-born children, conservatives keen on rewriting 100+ years of American law
The notion of who was subject to the jurisdiction of American law was settled as of 1898, in a case that itself was born of open racism against immigrants and their children.
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City of Chicago sues red light camera maker Redflex for more than $300 million | Ars Technica
The city of Chicago has joined a lawsuit against Redflex, an Australian company that sold the city red light cameras starting in 2003. Redflex announced the legal action in a statement to stockholders (PDF) today, sending the company’s already-suffe…
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SCOTUS Rules Against KY Clerk in Gay Marriage Case | Al Jazeera America
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against the Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the clerk will arrive at work Tuesday morning to face her moment of truth.
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In Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-18M Spacecraft Awaits Its Journey to the Stars
Here’s a low-angle look at the Russian Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, vertical on the launch pad in the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket will blast off on Wednesday carrying astronauts from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Denmark to t…
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MRW my bf tells me he found my account on here. : TrollXChromosomes
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My cousin Kenny in the 80s : OldSchoolCool
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My sister says I’ve found true love, hard to disagree. : aww
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! http://t.co/VFDi5ztV3N
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As a waiter, I hate this. : AdviceAnimals
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Asked the pizza guy to write a joke inside the box. : funny
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Water looks pretty surreal at fast shutter speeds : woahdude
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China’s state broadcast network today aired footage of Wang Xiaolu appearing to announce to the world that he solemnly regrets writing the influential story he did, about the nation’s recently troubled stock market.
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Donald J. Trump likes to brag that he leads his Republican rivals in every poll, but a new poll on Monday showed him with company at the top of the field. According to a survey of likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers from Monmouth University, Ben Cars…
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US federal agent investigating Silk Road admits $800,000 bitcoin | Technology | The Guardian
A former US secret service agent has pleaded guilty to stealing over $800,000 worth of bitcoin during an investigation into online drug marketplace Silk Road.
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Asia shares follow US markets downwards – BBC News
Asian shares have slipped after a weak lead from Wall Street and ahead of economic data expected to point to a further slowdown in China’s economy. Investors were cautious after US stocks closed in the red again, concluding the worst monthly losses …
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You Might As Well Ignore Photos of Dead Refugee Babies on Africa’s Shores – The Daily Beast
Do not look closely at the photographs here. Do not look at them at all. They will, in an instant, inspire pity, revulsion, anger and calls to “do something…now!”
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Petraeus: Use Al Qaeda Fighters to Beat ISIS – The Daily Beast
Members of al Qaeda’s branch in Syria have a surprising advocate in the corridors of American power: Retired Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus. The former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has been quietly urging U.S.
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Tear here, I will not : firstworldanarchists
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Spooky fact : ledootgeneration
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Contactless card limit rises to £30 as card use surges – BBC News
Shoppers in the UK will now be able to spend up to £30 using contactless cards after the limit was increased. The limit per transaction for the so-called tap and pay cards, which do not require a PIN or a signature to authorise payment, was previous…
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CBS cancels Under The Dome · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After three seasons of enticing viewers with tantalizing questions about the nature of domes, the origin of domes, what’s going on outside of domes, and the metaphorical domes that we seal ourselves in, CBS has decided to cancel the Stephen King ada…
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Antelope Canyon, AZ [OC] [5184X3456] : EarthPorn
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waking up to smell the flowers : cats
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Writer Tom Switzer has attacked climate change activists as ‘watermelons’ who conceal their socialist agendas under their ‘green skin’. Appearing on the ABC’s Q&A program, Canadian author Naomi Klein said rightwingers needs to be more ‘scientificall…
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Poor start to US Open for Australian contingent with four defeats on day one | Sport | The Guardian
Daria Gavrilova suffered an agonising three-set loss to continue Australia’s dire start to the US Open in New York.
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Miley Cyrus Wasn’t ‘Whitesplaining’ To Nicki Minaj – The Daily Beast
Moments after publicly patching up a feud with Taylor Swift at last night’s VMA’s, Nicki Minaj started a new one as she closed her acceptance speech for Best Hip-Hop Video with a dig at Miley Cyrus, “this bitch that had a lot to say about me the oth…
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World’s most powerful digital camera gets green light from U.S. Energy Department – Boing Boing
”The LSST’s camera will include a filter-changing mechanism and shutter. This animation shows that mechanism, which allows the camera to view different wavelengths; the camera is capable of viewing light from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared
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The Fantasy Epic On MTV Trailer: The Shannara Chronicles | WIRED
MTV has dabbled in fantasy programming with Teen Wolf, but The Shannara Chronicles is taking the network fully into Game of Thrones territory. For the uninitiated, Chronicles is based on the Shannara series by Terry Brooks.
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We are sacrificing the right to walk – Antonia Malchick – Aeon
In 2011, Raquel Nelson was convicted of vehicular homicide following the death of her four-year-old son. Nelson, it’s crucial to note, was not driving. She didn’t even own a car.
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What’s Behind the Music Isn’t Nearly as Important as the Song Itself | The New Republic
“Water Boy” was already an old song when the folksinger Odetta performed her version of it at Carnegie Hall in 1960.
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Second world anarchy? : firstworldanarchists
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Start a Business Using RepWarn System : StartledCats
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Abandoned Car in the woods of Minnesota[OC][933×1408] : AbandonedPorn
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Captain Hook puts up with a lot of shit. : cats
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Good guy bus driver via /r/gifs http://t.co/QJf3q8m7yE http://t.co/2ueEzhIHpq
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The Latest YA Dystopia Trailer: The 5th Wave | WIRED
Despite the fact that Chloë Grace Moretz has been in our consciousness for more than 10 years (little Chelsea Lutz!) she’s still just 18, and that means she sits squarely in young adult territory.
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COPENHAGEN — PUBLIC controversy has returned to haunt Times Square. This time, it is the presence of body-painted, topless women, who call themselves “desnudas,” and are accused of polluting the public space by “aggressive panhandling.”
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New cross symbolic for Pakistan’s Christians – BBC News
Over the last year or so, on my way to work in Karachi I have noticed an unusually tall structure come up. Initially, it seemed like a massive pillar made of tonnes and tonnes of iron, steel and cement. It later took the shape of a giant cross.
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Stories from Our Advertisers 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
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Brandinchi by Daniele Silvestri / 500px
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I got turned down for a medical study today. : AdviceAnimals
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631 Exposures Blended – Cloverdale, CA js – Just Space
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Four cats who inspired a new litter box : cats
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Reflection by Russell McGuire / 500px
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Illinois Lottery Winners Demand Their ‘Delayed’ Prize Money—Now – The Daily Beast
Illinois has so little money that it can’t even pay its lottery winners. Anyone who wins, or has won, $25,000 or more this summer cannot claim the prize until the state passes a budget for the year.
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Rumored Site of Nazi ‘Gold Train’ Catches Fire as Authorities Warn People to Stay Away | VICE News
The area in Poland where a Nazi train filled with gold and other loot is supposedly hidden went up in flames on Sunday night — just as authorities warned the swarms of tourists and treasure hunters descending on the city of Walbrzych about the dange…
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It’s back to school time, and as most students know, that means it’s time to get your bag as light as possible. Pharmacy student and Everyday Carry reader Eric Shen shares his bag. The bag is a Gravis Metro. Here’s what’s inside:
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This Prehistoric Sea Scorpion Was the Size of a Person | Motherboard
The fossilized remains of an enormous sea scorpion have been found in a Iowan fossil bed at the bottom of an ancient impact crater. (Take a moment to let all that sink in.) Named for a Greek warship called the penteconter, Pentecopterus decorahensis…
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Secret Service agent pleads guilty to stealing money from Silk Road dealers | Ars Technica
SAN FRANCISCO—Shaun Bridges, a former Secret Service agent who was investigating the Silk Road drug trafficking website, pled guilty today to charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice. Bridges’ scheme was straightforward and very profit…
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Migrant crisis: Hundreds arrive at Austria station – BBC News
Hundreds of migrants have arrived by rail in the Austrian capital Vienna after being held for several hours at the Hungarian border. Many of them immediately boarded trains bound for Germany.
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Gizmodo Amazon Prime Is About to Get Worse | Jalopnik What The Hell Is Fiat Chrysler’s CEO Really Up To? | Jezebel Why Isn’t Elisabeth Hasselbeck Classified As a Hate Group? | Kotaku What Was Your Worst Experience At A Video Game Store? | Kinja Popu…
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Jarryd Hayne’s NFL dream still alive after making first 49ers cut | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne has survived the first round of roster cuts at the San Francisco 49ers, but the team’s announcement offered a lesson to the former NRL star. The 49ers will take gambles on project players from other sports, but if the development isn’t …
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UN confirms destruction of famed Palmyra temple – Al Jazeera English
Satellite images confirm the destruction of another famed temple in Syria’s Palmyra, the United Nations said.
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No, Michael Shannon Won’t Have Flipper Hands In ‘Batman v Superman’ – The Daily Beast
Sorry, Internet: Michael Shannon is ready to set the record straight on his involvement in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the flippers-for-hands rumor that’s had comic book fans scratching their heads for weeks.
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This teenager maps the Syrian war from his bedroom – BBC News
Every day, Thomas van Linge scours Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for the latest on the Syrian conflict. But Thomas doesn’t work for an intelligence agency. In fact, he doesn’t work anywhere at all.
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South African pop star Penny Penny reborn in clubs of LA – BBC News
Have you ever wondered what happens to pop stars after their fame has faded? In 1994 Giyani Kulani was working as a cleaner in a South African recording studio when he persuaded the producer to let him sing on a track.
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This is Exactly What New Horizons saw Zipping by Pluto
When the New Horizons spacecraft raced past Pluto this summer, it constantly snapped photographs both coming and going. This is exactly what it saw while zooming past the frozen dwarf planet. Whoa.
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The family fed up of being called ‘wolves’ – BBC News
Jesus Aceves was born with a rare condition that means he has thick hair all over his face. About 30 members of his family also have hypertrichosis making them almost certainly the hairiest family in human history.
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Afternoon Hypnosis: Watch These Droplets Coalesce and Break at Terminal Velocity
It’s (relatively) easy to get water droplets to move at terminal velocity. They don’t even have to be moving relative to you. Just get air flowing upwards fast enough, and the water will hover, without increasing its speed up or down. Then throw mor…
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Why does India struggle top produce luxury brands? – BBC News
In a dark, stylish bar in Mumbai’s historic Colaba district, the city’s well-heeled locals and expats mingle. The soundtrack is chatter, lively jazz through speakers and the popping of corks.
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This Chain Whip Martial Arts Demonstration Isn’t Sped Up At All – Digg
Zhang Xiaolong took home first place at the China Traditional Wushu Nationals last year. You can tell why.
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Shortly after Donald Trump’s bodyguard forcibly removed him from a press conference in Dubuque, Iowa, the Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos declared that the ejection had caught him by surprise.
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Slanted Slopes by Mohammad Qureshi : ImaginaryLandscapes
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This colorful collection of Hubble Space Telescope… – Just Space
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*** by Elena Shumilova / 500px
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What my dog thinks of this No Trespassing sign. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/d2n41jIYTS http://t.co/iBs0XihV5t
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Confused puppy via /r/gifs http://t.co/F1USmkGXTr http://t.co/K8hBZ8NyhN
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This ATM is pink and gives you cupcakes : mildlyinteresting
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Modica at night – Sicily, Italy [2048×1354] : CityPorn
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London O2 at night [6000 x 4000] : CityPorn
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MRW our troll brothers don’t stand for victim blaming. : TrollXChromosomes
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My Margaret Catwood Spies A Squirrel : cats
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MRW I’m pretending to be a dot matrix printer : shittyreactiongifs
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Sunrise over the Black River, South Carolina [OC] [3237×2427] : EarthPorn
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Enigma Full Album – The Cross Of Changes (1992) – YouTube
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A Tennessee Lake in the Mountains : FoggyPics
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Trio of Hurricanes Over the Pacific Ocean : Natural Hazards
Hurricanes traversing the Pacific Ocean are often solitary storms. Occasionally they show up in pairs. But according to meteorologists, August 2015 marked the first time in recorded history that three Category 4 storms simultaneously paraded over th…
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Could diesel made from air help tackle climate change? – BBC News
Making diesel out of thin air sounds like something from science fiction. But small companies in Germany and Canada are doing precisely this – capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and finding ways to sell it.
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Yet Another Reason to Not Eat Whale Meat | Motherboard
We talk a lot about the environmental impacts of Japan’s whaling industry, but a new report is shining a light on another, potentially devastating effect: the dangerously high levels of contaminants in the whale meat consumed in Japan.
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Novak Djokovic beats João Souza to move into US Open second round | Sport | The Guardian
It is a year since Kei Nishikori embarrassed Novak Djokovic in the US Open semi-finals – an impossibility this year after his shock departure on day one – but the Serb looked far happier at the start of this campaign than he has done for weeks, movi…
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Patch a Torn or Damaged Underwire Bra with Moleskin
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No one likes getting turned down. Today at Lifehacker: After Hours, it’s time to stop sabotaging yourself and make your partner feel special.
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Cool teen Chloë Grace Moretz stars as a cool, alien-fighting teen in the upcoming post-apocalyptic thriller The 5th Wave, based on the first book in a YA trilogy, naturally.
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TV Land renews The Jim Gaffigan Show and Impastor · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After spending years providing viewers with exactly what they want—reruns of old sitcoms and plenty of Betty White—TV Land is now trying to transition into a more traditional network that tells people what they like and hopes the people agree.
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Boko Haram Kills Nearly 80 in 3 Nigerian Villages | Al Jazeera America
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback shot dead nearly 80 people in separate attacks on three villages in Nigeria’s restive northeast in recent days, a member of a vigilante self-defense group and residents said Monday.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Conservative activists who want the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates distributed chocolate coins in golden wrappers at the local airport last week as Fed officials arrived for their annual policy retreat.
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Enigma Full Album – The Cross Of Changes (1992) – YouTube
Musical group: EnigmaAlbum: The cross of changesYear: 1992Track list:1.Second Chapter2.The Eyes Of Truth3.Return To Innocence4.I Love You… I’ll Kill You5.Silent Warrior6.The Dream Of The Dolphin7.Age Of Loneliness (Carly’s Song)8.Out From The Deep…
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Grover Norquist goes to Burning Man, texts us all about it | Grist
Despite our valiant attempt to get the sand orgy known as Burning Man canceled this year, over 70,000 white people are currently gathered in the Nevada desert pretending to be bohemian.
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Enigma Full Album – The Cross Of Changes (1992) – YouTube
Musical group: EnigmaAlbum: The cross of changesYear: 1992Track list:1.Second Chapter2.The Eyes Of Truth3.Return To Innocence4.I Love You… I’ll Kill You5.Silent Warrior6.The Dream Of The Dolphin7.Age Of Loneliness (Carly’s Song)8.Out From The Deep…
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No, Carly Fiorina, the government has not “destroyed” California ag | Grist
When Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina spoke at the Iowa Corn Grower’s Association’s annual meeting last Saturday, she told farmers to hang on to their wallets, because big-government greens were coming to put them out of business.
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General Mills pledges $100 million to combat climate change | Grist
Last year, the poverty-fighting nonprofit Oxfam slammed 10 big food and beverage companies for not doing enough to fight climate change, and called out General Mills and Kellogg in particular for being “clear laggards.” Now General Mills is trying t…
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News | New, Ultrathin Optical Devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways
Researchers have developed innovative flat, optical lenses as part of a collaboration between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, both in Pasadena, California.
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McKibben to Obama: We can’t negotiate over the physics of climate change | Grist
This story was originally published by Medium and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Obama is visiting Alaska this week — a territory changing as rapidly as any on Earth thanks to global warming.
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There Aren’t Enough Firefighters to Stop America’s West From Burning : environment
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On Being a Foster Mom (xpost to r/rescuecats) : cats
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E.T Church by Iris van Wolferen / 500px
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‘before a misty sunrise’ by Chris Hornung / 500px
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Quizno’s new ad campaign. Simple and to the point. : funny
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Cat weighs himself multiple times per day… and fitbit records and logs it : funny
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Kansas white supremacist ‘guilty’ of Jewish site killings – BBC News
White supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross has been found guilty of murdering three people at two Jewish sites in Kansas City last year. Cross, who has admitted to the murders, said he hoped to “die a martyr” after the verdict was announced.
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Accused killer of Texas police officer has history of mental illness | US news | The Guardian
The man accused of shooting and killing a suburban Houston officer has a history of mental illness and once lived in a homeless shelter, authorities said on Monday.
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Auschwitz Museum Responds to Mist Shower Outrage | VICE News
Some visitors to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland this weekend were appalled to find that officials running the memorial had installed mist-showers — reminiscent of the sprinklers used in the notorious death camp’s gas chambers —at the ent…
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A ton of famous musicians will contribute songs to a SpongeBob musical · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob Squarepants has always been a very musical show, from the incredible “Band Geeks” finale to the episode where Pantera did the music for some reason. It’s fitting, then, that SpongeBob will soon be making the leap to the big l…
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Australians should take to the streets to protest over the treatment of refugees in Nauru that is “tantamount to torture” rather than just focus on the activities of the border force in Melbourne, Canadian author Naomi Klein has said.
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President Obama to hack it in the wild with Bear Grylls · Newswire · The A.V. Club
President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure is drawing to a close, leaving us to wonder if he’ll follow up his historic time in office by hosting a podcast or becoming the next James Lipton.
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The density of various common liquids : interestingasfuck
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Fresh morning fog and dew in Ohio : FoggyPics
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Pumpkin got a haircut. I love the tail poof. : cats
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President Obama Renamed Mt. McKinley and Pissed Off Some Ohio Republicans | VICE News
America’s tallest mountain peak, Mt. McKinley, is getting its old name back. President Barack Obama, who is on a three-day tour of Alaska, highlighting the impacts of climate change, announced on Sunday the restoration of the Alaskan Native name of …
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Netflix takes gamble with Epix film cull – BBC News
Thousands of movies will be removed from Netflix after the streaming service decided not to renew a deal with distributor Epix. Removed titles will include the Hunger Games and Transformers movies.
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Watch This Guy Fly In A 54-Propeller Super Drone | TechCrunch
Flying drones are all the rage right now. The latest DJI Phantom is smoking hot. But sitting in your very own one and flying it? That’s uncharted territory…until now. It’s hard to tell just how far he got off of the ground. Maybe 15 feet or so. It’s…
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Win the Sean Astin-starring The Surface on DVD · Contest · The A.V. Club
Sean Astin survived the trip to Mordor, but can he survive being stranded at sea with a mysterious stranger? Indie drama The Surface puts Sean Astin’s Mitch in the same broken-down boat as Kelly (character actor Chris Mulkey), a plane crash survivor…
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Black Lives Matter network disavows political ties after DNC backs movement | US news | The Guardian
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement have disavowed all political parties after the Democratic establishment adopted a resolution in support of the movement, which has interrupted the party’s frontrunners at several campaign events in recent m…
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Syria names park in capital after N Korea founder – Al Jazeera English
Syria’s embattled government has inaugurated a park in Damascus, which was named after North Korea’s founding father Kim Il-Sung. The 9,000-square-metre park lies in the southwestern Damascus district of Kafr Souseh, atop the ruins of recently bulld…
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Here’s Kanye West’s VMA speech recut as a stand-up act · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The world now knows that Kayne West took to the VMA stage last night to announce his intention to run for president in 2020. What this YouTube video presupposes is: What if instead he performed a stand-up routine about arena stages?
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Cut Back on Your Before-Bed Smartphone Addiction With This Exercise
If you want to wean yourself off of the need to look at your phone before bed, some deliberate practice ignoring notifications during the day might help. Your smartphone can keep you up at night for a couple reasons.
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US Army helicopter mistakenly releases dummy missile in upstate NY – Boing Boing
The US Army graciously requests your assistance in locating their lost missile.
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Kanye West for President – The New Yorker
On April 11, 2012, in the middle of the Presidential campaign season, I watched Lil B, a performer whose medium is a hybrid of rap and Internet performance art, give a lecture at N.Y.U. He spoke about everything, which is to say nothing.
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Feminism Does Not Depend on Whether You Take Your Husband’s Name | The Nation
It is true, as the old feminist rallying cry goes, that the personal is political. From the beginning, sexism shapes the most intimate spheres of our lives. It affects the toys we’re given, the behaviors we’re rewarded for, the interests we’re encou…
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Trio of Hurricanes Over the Pacific Ocean : Image of the Day
Hurricanes traversing the Pacific Ocean are often solitary storms. Occasionally they show up in pairs. But according to meteorologists, August 2015 marked the first time in recorded history that three Category 4 storms simultaneously paraded over th…
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Any love out there for good guy employees? : AdviceAnimals
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Felt someone staring into my soul. : cats
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Can’t a baby get some privacy..? : trippinthroughtime
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Dan Harmon, Will Ferrell, more to appear on season three of Drunk History · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Comedy Central’s Drunk History probably isn’t the most effective way to learn anything, but it’s one of the more entertaining ways. With the show returning for another year tomorrow night, host Derek Waters has announced some of the famous faces we’…
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Yearlong Mock Mars Mission Will Test Mental Toll of Isolation
On Friday (Aug. 28), six scientists left the comforts of civilization, set to be gone for an entire year. Their mission will simulate what it might be like for astronauts journeying to Mars.
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Adam Ward: Cameraman shot on TV honoured – BBC News
The family and friends of the cameraman killed last week while broadcasting in Virginia have gathered to remember him at his former school. Salem High School held a memorial for Adam Ward, 27, who graduated from the school in 2007.
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire has released a teaser trailer for its 14th season in syndication—yes, it’s still on the air—giving viewers their first glimpse of Chris Harrison (The Bachelor) as host.
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India’s top court suspends ban on Jain suicide ritual – Al Jazeera English
India’s Jain community has scored a legal victory when the Supreme Court temporarily lifted a ban on the traditional ritual of Santhara, or fasting to death. Community leaders welcomed the ruling on Monday and said it would give them time to make th…
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Court considering California death penalty focuses on procedural issues | US news | The Guardian
A federal appeals court considering whether California’s death penalty is unconstitutional because of excessive delays focused on Monday mainly on procedural issues over whether a killer’s novel legal theory had been addressed by the state supreme c…
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Find 25 Minutes to Watch This Short About a Young Boy and His Powers
Umkhungo (The Gift) is really, really good. It’s a self-contained story about Themba, a young boy whose powers have branded him cursed. When his parents die, he ends up with a street thug named Mthunzi.
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Google Life Sciences Makes Diabetes Its First Big Target | WIRED
Google’s life sciences division has its first big mission: developing new ways to treat and manage diabetes. But in a sign that the company is serious about making real progress, it’s not diving into diabetes research alone.
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The Democratic Party welcomes Kanye to the presidential race · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As he apparently thought the world expected of him, Kayne West used his time onstage while receiving the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs to announce his intention to run for president in 2020.
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Israeli raid prompts violence in West Bank’s Jenin – Al Jazeera English
Several people were wounded during an Israeli raid to arrest a Hamas leader in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian security official said. Israeli soldiers surrounded a house and came under fire from Palestinians protecting th…
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What’s The Worst RPG/Tabletop Gaming Experience You’ve Ever Had?
Playing Dungeons & Dragons or some other role-playing game with your best friends can be amazing. But play a tabletop RPG or other game with the wrong people, and things can take a very dark turn. What’s the worst RPG/tabletop experience you’ve ever…
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Palmyra’s Temple of Bel ‘destroyed’ – BBC News
A satellite image confirms that a temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra has been destroyed, the United Nations says.There had been earlier reports of an explosion at the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, which is held by militants from Islamic State …
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Oliver Sacks, human treasure, 1933-2015
Oliver Sacks was a champion of one of humankind’s most admirable qualities: Curiosity. The neurologist and writer died on Monday. He wrote beautifully about his impending death in a piece published a couple weeks ago:
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US Open 2015: Serena Williams v Vitalia Diatchenko – live! | Sport | The Guardian
She arrived just after noon on Thursday to a standing-room-only throng of press that had gathered in the main interview room below Arthur Ashe Stadium, clad in a navy T-shirt and gray sweats after a morning on the practice courts. Camera shutters wh…
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Two French Journalists, the King of Morocco, and a Tale of Blackmail | VICE News
The French journalists Éric Laurent and Catherine Graciet were arrested last week for allegedly attempting to extort 3 million euros ($3.37 million) from King Mohammed VI of Morocco by offering to withdraw a damning book they had written about his m…
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Los Angeles police hand out body cameras to first patrol division | US news | The Guardian
The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) handed out body cameras to its first patrol division on Monday, putting hundreds of the devices on the streets of the nation’s second-largest city in a rollout of technology seen by proponents as key to build…
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Seabirds ‘blighted by plastic waste’ – BBC News
About 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic and are likely to retain some in their gut, a new analysis estimates. The study concludes that matters will only get worse until something is done to stem the flow of waste to oceans.
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Around 150 previously unclassified emails from the private server of Hillary Clinton have been subsequently upgraded to classified, the State Department announced on Monday.
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The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The thermite bomb was the second of two delivered to Mapesbury Road during the war. The first, a 1,000-pound monster, landed next door, but failed to explode.
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Now that NBC’s Hannibal has ended, making all our lives just ever-so-slightly less vibrant (and definitely less culinary-enhanced), it’s possible to stop and take stock of the iterations of Hannibal Lecter we’ve been treated to over the years.
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Will Smith Riles NFL in Hard-Hitting ‘Concussion’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
Watch Will Smith Rile the NFL in True-Life ‘Concussion’ Trailer Actor plays Dr.
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David Bowie, Aerosmith, Flaming Lips Pen Songs for ‘SpongeBob Musical’ | Rolling Stone
A surprising collection of musicians will write songs for an upcoming theatrical production of SpongeBob SquarePants, dubbed The SpongeBob Musical. David Bowie, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Cyndi Lauper, Flaming Lips, John Legend and T.I.…
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LEGO to Launch: Astronaut from Denmark Taking Danish Toys to Space Station
Denmark’s first astronaut is launching to the International Space Station with a Danish toy that is famous worldwide. Andreas Mogensen will fly to the space station with LEGO minifigures bearing the official logo of his mission for the European Spac…
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Too chubs for the window sill : cats
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A blep moment from Hera! : Blep
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Forget insecticides. Scientists are making pests that destroy themselves | Grist
Let’s get this right out in the open: Scientists are genetically engineering moths to self destruct. I know, I know — sounds pretty mad scientist-y. But consider this: those moths are wreaking havoc on sauerkraut-destined cabbage, kale, and other su…
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Side Businesses Flourish Around Texas Barbecue Joint’s 5-Hour Line : The Salt : NPR
Texas has a barbecue joint known as much for its tender brisket as for the line of people waiting outside. At Franklin Barbecue in Austin, people start lining up around 5 a.m., waiting six hours chatting with other line-waiters until the restaurant …
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Here, China — let this algorithm tell you how to control your pollution | Grist
For those of you who aren’t constantly plundering the trenches of Meteorology Monthly* for the latest weather models, the general badassery of predicting the evolution of massively complex meteorological and climatic systems can perhaps slip your mi…
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Six UK teens arrested for being “customers” of Lizard Squad’s DDoS service | Ars Technica
On August 28, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency announced the arrest of six teenagers, ranging in age from 15 to 18, for launching distributed denial of service attacks against multiple websites.
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Refugees and Europe’s dilemma – Al Jazeera English
Hungary’s government has complained about the French foreign minister’s latest remarks on how it is dealing with refugees. Laurent Fabius described as scandalous the attitude of a number of eastern European countries, particularly Hungary because of…
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Finally, The Regular-Size New Nintendo 3DS Comes to America | WIRED
Nintendo of America is finally about to catch up to the rest of the world, releasing the smaller, customizable version of New Nintendo 3DS on September 25. Of course, I hope you like Animal Crossing, since the new machine will at first only be avail…
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Make It Easier to Get Rid of Your Clutter by Saying “Thank You”
It can be difficult to part ways with your items, even if you don’t need them, but sometimes you need to find a way to let them go. It might sound a little strange, but thanking your items before you say goodbye might help you move on.
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The Flash TV Series Just Cast Zoom, So Now I’m Completely Confused
Actor Tony Todd has been cast as the Flash’s archenemy Zoom in the second season of the CW’s hit TV series. Now, if you’re thinking to yourself, “Hey, I thought the Reverse-Flash was the Flash’s archenemy,” well, you’re right. Because Zoom is the Re…
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‘The Swarm’ Is a Many-Rotored Drone That Can Carry the Weight of a Person | Motherboard
Some British guys built a massive network of drone propellers strong enough to lift one of them several feet off the ground. Though it technically ceases to be a drone once a person is seated in it, “Manned Aerial Vehicle” is not quite as catchy.
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Death of Unarmed Man Seeking Medical Assistance Ruled Homicide as Video Released | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. On August 1, Joseph Hutcheson, 48, ran into the Dallas County Jail seeking medical assistance.
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soul within soul by Stefan Beutler / 500px
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Sloths in a nursery via /r/sloths…
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BLOOD PULLS A GUN // Short Film on Vimeo
http://www.bloodpullsagun.com // http://www.benbriand.com Follow on instagram : https://instagram.com/bloodpullsagun_film A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel. WORLD PREMI…
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FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus — Beyond a wilderness of parched weeds, crumbling buildings and roads amputated by tangles of razor wire, a long line of multistory hotels basks in the east Mediterranean sun. Behind it, the turquoise sea glistens, rolling softly o…
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This is Pippin and he does this from time to time : cats
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So it begins… via /r/funny http://t.co/nJH5Eks8kK http://t.co/Lg6AYSjvDG
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Send anyone in the world fake pubes- The Pube-Velope : InternetIsBeautiful
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My new kitten! She’s so sweet! : cats
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Sloths in a nursery via /r/sloths http://t.co/M0z55XCoUv http://t.co/Uh46AUNwmP
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Ashley Madison Says Business Is Booming | TechCrunch
If you felt bad for the folks who work at “discreet encounter” site Ashley Madison, don’t. They’re just fine, apparently.
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We Got Berned | FiveThirtyEight
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece headlined “The Bernie Sanders Surge Appears To Be Over.
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Protesters gathered in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square on Saturday under the rallying cry “You stink!” — a reference to the city’s ongoing waste management crisis, and a slogan which has since expanded to represent the population’s frustration with the…
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Hostile Corporate Takeovers: Just a Kind of Hug | WIRED
The boss of Fiat Chrysler, wants to join forces with General Motors, and he’s not thrilled the object of his attention doesn’t want to dance. The car business is used to mergers, which let companies cut costs by sharing factories, engines, and vehic…
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An Ohio traffic stop that a police officer justified by saying a black driver “made direct eye contact” has prompted a promise of review by the Dayton police department and an acrimonious response from police supporters defending the stop.
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Suspected stalker of female wrestler shot by deputy in Florida | US news | The Guardian
A deputy shot a man who authorities say was stalking a female wrestler outside a World Wrestling Entertainment training facility in central Florida. Sheriff Jerry Demings of Orange County said the man had life-threatening injuries after he was shot …
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Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail | VICE News
With a federal election in its home stretch, Canada’s chiefs of police have issued a wish list of investigative powers they are hoping that the country’s next prime minister can deliver — everything from allowing them to search Canadians’ mail, to p…
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Andy Murray busy but happy heading into US Open clash with Nick Kyrgios | Sport | The Guardian
If Andy Murray were not leading the British charge at a grand slam tournament, a familiar pall would hang over proceedings, once the norm for the travelling representatives of a tennis nation not so much starved of success as incapable of even remem…
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How RG III turned into an easy target for a team mired in dysfunction | Sport | The Guardian
If Robert Griffin III is really done in Washington – and with Washington nothing is ever certain – his failure there is not his fault. He deserves better than the last three-and-one-half years have given him.
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders said he wouldn’t end the lethal drone program on Sunday in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think we have to use drones very, very selectively and effectively. That has not always bee…
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Death of Unarmed Man Seeking Medical Assistance Ruled Homicide | VICE News
On August 1, Joseph Hutcheson, 48, ran into a Dallas County Jail in distress seeking medical assistance. The surveillance footage shows Hutcheson stumbling around the busy lobby, apparently disoriented and behaving erratically.
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Merkel says refugee crisis tests Europe’s core ideals – Al Jazeera English
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that European Union states “must share the responsibility for refugees seeking asylum,” arguing that failing them will betray the bloc’s values.
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What Wes Craven Once Said He Wanted on His Epitaph | Motherboard
Master of horror Wes Craven passed away yesterday due to brain cancer. The man behind The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream left behind a massive legacy that impacted not just the world of horror movies,…
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Watch Oliver Sacks’ 2009 TED Talk on Hallucinations in the Blind | Motherboard
The brilliant, soft-spoken neurologist Oliver Sacks passed away yesterday after a protracted battle with ocular melanoma at the age of 82.
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Turkey Charges Two Vice Journalists With Aiding ISIS – The Atlantic
Under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidency, Turkish journalists have increasingly been badgered, intimidated, threatened, and punished. Now, however, the Turkish government is going after two foreign journalists.
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Five ways Trump has changed the 2016 Republican presidential race – BBC News
Donald Trump isn’t going away. As the recent Time magazine cover succinctly says: “Deal with it.” That’s proving easier said than done for many Republican officials, political commentators and presidential hopefuls, however.
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The Real Unicorns Are Female Angel Investors | TechCrunch
Despite the attention over the past year, the lack of diversity in tech — both in race and gender — has not markedly changed. Only 3 percent of tech CEOs are women, and just 15 percent of startups have at least one female founder.
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Guantanamo Bay: Obama considering closure options – BBC News
The White House says President Barack Obama is considering “a wide array” of options for closing the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Spokesman Josh Earnest said winning Congress approval to close the jail would be the best option.
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WASHINGTON — With little fanfare, the Obama administration has been pursuing an aggressive campaign to restore protections for workers that have been eroded by business activism, conservative governance and the evolution of the economy in recent dec…
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — In the kitchen of her double-wide trailer, Dora Charles sets spare ribs kissed with flour into a deep fryer and sautés yesterday’s collard greens with rice and onions.
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Candyman’s Tony Todd to play new villain on The Flash season two · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Early on in the first season of The CW’s The Flash, the show revealed that Tom Cavanagh’s Harrison Wells was the villainous “man in the yellow suit,” later renamed The Reverse Flash because that’s way snappier.
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Feeding Russian zoo’s flood-hit stranded bears – BBC News
The deluge was caused by a local river bursting its banks following heavy rainfall. Helpers tried to feed the stranded animals with bread and sugar from a boat.
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In the days before Redbox, Netflix, Hulu, and Crackle, video stores would have to purchase copies of new releases from distributors in order to rent them out.
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Like the first trailer, this new look at Goosebumps lays out the film’s meta-premise: R.L. Stine (Jack Black) is a famous author, but the world doesn’t know that all the monsters he’s written about are actually real and kept under his magical lock a…
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Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Home Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is one of the most useful and important parts of using a computer, and yet it’s also one of the most frustrating. If you’re plagued by slow speeds, bad reception, and other Wi-Fi issues, here are 10 ways you can power up the Wi-Fi in your home.
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The Most Awesome Female Runner in the World – The New Yorker
This is the third installment of Malcolm Gladwell and Nicholas Thompson’s discussion of the 2015 World Track and Field Championships. Here are part one and part two. Nicholas Thompson: Wow. What an extraordinary end to the world championships.
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Mt. McKinley To Be Renamed Denali – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
As part of his visit to Alaska this week, President Obama will officially change the name of Mt. McKinley back to its original and native name, Denali, a decision praised by Alaska residents who have long fought for the name reversal. What do you th…
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Anti-Establishment Candidates Trump, Sanders Continue Rise In The Polls : NPR
Populism and voter discontent defined this summer in politics. NPR explores what insurgent campaigns by Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump suggest about the next phase of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Samsung’s Slick New Smartwatch Makes Calls Without a Phone | WIRED
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How the US Periodically Reveals the Locations of Special Operations Missions | VICE News
Some very classified, top-secret special forces activity went down in Tunisia last week. At 1:24pm local time on August 25, a US special operations tactical transport aircraft departed from Tunis and headed southwest toward Tunisia’s border with Alg…
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Samsung Announces The Samsung Gear S2, Now More Round | TechCrunch
Samsung has just announced their new smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S2. The watch is unique in that it has a round rotating bezel – the thing on the edge of the crystal – in addition to two buttons on the side for home and back.
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“Wire Cutters,” a wonderful short film on the rough lives of off-world robot miners – Boing Boing
And all that rendering shows. “Animated as if by a team of hundreds, remarkably, this film was made by Jack Anderson while an undergraduate at Chapman University.”
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Canadian Commandos Want High Tech Vehicles That Can Parachute From Aircraft | VICE News
Canadian special forces operators want brand new ultralight combat vehicles small enough to be stored inside of helicopters and delivered by parachutes for top secret operations, according to a federal tender recently released online.
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Refugee Crisis Pits Neighbors Against Each Other in Serbia | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. A dusty road weaves through the bare fields that separate the Serbian border village of Miratovac from Macedonia.
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The Will Smith Wants an Oscar Trailer: Concussion | WIRED
In October 2009, Malcolm Gladwell published an essay in The New Yorker about head injuries in American football. One of the supporting voices in that piece was Bennet Omalu, a neuropathologist who diagnosed the first case of Chronic Traumatic Enceph…
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Sunspot Group’s Break-Up Captured By Orbiting Observatory | Time-Lapse Video
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Another Massive Chemical Explosion Just Happened in Eastern China | VICE News
The state-run People’s Daily confirmed the blast on Twitter and posted an image that appears to show a large fireball “in a chemical industry zone,” but authorities have not detailed the cause of the explosion or its impact.
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The Strain Introduces the Show’s Biggest Badass and Then Instantly Takes Him Away
First of all, let me apologize for the lack of last week’s recap. I had to travel very early on Monday morning to NYC for io9/Gawker shenanigans, and was unable to watch last week’s episode, which is a shame, because it was definitely the highlight …
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Syria official says Palmyra’s Bel temple largely intact – Al Jazeera English
Syria’s antiquities chief has said that an attempt by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to blow up the famed Temple of Bel in Syria’s Palmyra has rocked the ancient ruins, but that the site appears to be largely intact.
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The Most Ill-Advised Continuations of Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows
The X-Files, Heroes and Twin Peaks are all coming back to our screens soon, with at least some of the original castmembers returning. Sounds great—except that this sort of thing doesn’t always work out. Here are the most ignominious examples of clas…
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Teach Kids to Do Their Laundry With Dry Erase Marker Instructions
For a kid that’s never done laundry before, the whole operation may as well look like NASA getting ready to launch a rocket. Writing clear instructions on your machines in dry erase marker will make it easy for them to learn.
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Amazon Prime Is About to Get Worse
We’ve generally considered Amazon Prime to be the best deal in technology. But, alas: It’s about to get slightly more annoying to use, and I am irrationally upset about it.
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Carina Nebula aka Mystic Mountain js – Just Space
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Colors of Red sea by Vitaliy Sokol / 500px
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Make up your own title – Imgur
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Professional window cleaning : oddlysatisfying
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What It’s Like To Fly The America’s Biggest Jet, The Gargantuan C-5 Galaxy
One of Foxtrot Alpha’s readers, Ben Brown, flies the Pentagon’s biggest jet, the mighty Lockheed C-5 Galaxy.
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Are You Good Enough to Be a Tennis Line Judge? – WSJ.com
Video by Jeff Bush (lines) and Sloan Dickey (judge). Animation by . Illustrations by Mike Sudal. Other contributions by Geoff Foster. Balls hit by Tushar Liberhan and Mark Oljaca at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy. Line judge Rebel Good at the Citi …
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Federal Judge Hands Down The Wackiest Anti-Birth Control Court Decision To Date | ThinkProgress
In a significant escalation of the birth control wars, a federal judge held on Monday that employers who object to contraception can refuse to include birth control coverage in their employees’ health plan — even if their objection to birth control …
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Concussion, starring Will Smith, is about Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered the link between football and CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) and will be out in December. The movie is based on the 2009 GQ article, Game Brain.
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Supreme court: Virginia’s ex-governor can stay out of prison during appeal | US news | The Guardian
The US supreme court on Monday granted a request by former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell to remain out of prison while he appeals his corruption convictions.
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A Tribute to Oliver Sacks from Colleague and Friend Christof Koch – Scientific American
Oliver Sacks has left the world. The British-born neurologist-cum-writer who called New York City his home for the past half century died yesterday at his Greenwich Village apartment at the age of 82.
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Suppers And Downers – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Judge Sides With Anti-abortion Group | Al Jazeera America
March for Life sued the Obama administration last year over a requirement that health insurers cover the cost of contraceptive services. The organization said the requirement violated its strongly held position against abortion. The group holds an a…
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For Jeff by Artur Stanisz / 500px
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Estes Park, Colorado [1280×960] (iPhone 6) : EarthPorn
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Gaelic Tales: Part 3 – Into the dreaming by Inese Stoner / 500px
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Never Brown. : firstworldanarchists
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Amazon Prime Is About to Get Worse
We’ve generally considered Amazon Prime to be the best deal in technology. But, alas: It’s about to get slightly more annoying to use, and I am irrationally upset about it.
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Public housing: The myths, the facts, the HBO show | Grist
HBO’s Show Me a Hero, which ended last night, cuts right to the stereotypes about public housing: It breeds crime and hatred toward the police, tenants don’t want anything better in their lives, surrounding property values go down. The six-part mini…
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Tensions Rise At Border As Dominican Republic Begins Deporting Haitians : NPR
Dominican forces are expelling Haitians everyday, part of an ongoing plan to deport people without papers who have been living on the wrong side of the border for years.
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Katrina Sparked Push To Improve Hurricane Forecasting : NPR
In the decade since Katrina, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service have invested in new satellites and computer modeling technology that have significantly improved their ability to forecast and track h…
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North Dakota Law Aims To Set Parameters For Police Use Of Drones : NPR
North Dakota is out in front with a law setting the parameters for police use of drones. It bars the use of lethal weapons on these remote controlled flying machines, but it seems to specifically rule in non-lethal weapons.
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U.S. Treasury Holds Public Forum On $10 Bill Redesign : NPR
A woman will likely be on the $10 bill by 2020, but which one? The U.S. Treasury held a forum in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Monday to get the public’s input.
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Archaeologist Works To Track The Islamic State’s War On Culture : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to archaeologist Michael Danti, who is tracking the cultural heritage sites and artifacts in Palmyra, Syria, that may soon be lost forever at the hands of ISIS.
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Some Suspect Kenyan Anti-Terror Forces In Disappearance Of Somali Muslims : NPR
Under the guise of anti-terror investigations, Somali Muslims are disappearing in Kenya.
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Scientists Discover New Disease Caused By Prion Protein : NPR
Scientists have discovered the first new human disease caused by a “prion” in more than 50 years. Prions are strange, deformed proteins that can act like viruses and bacteria.
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What Do Low Oil Prices Mean For Unconventional Extraction Methods? : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel interviews Barbara R. Shook, senior reporter-at-large at the Energy Intelligence Group, about how low oil prices need to go to make “unconventional oil” extraction too expensive.
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Rest In Peace, Wes Craven — The Rest Of Us Sure Won’t : NPR
He was called the Sultan of Shock and the Guru of Gore: Wes Craven, who died Sunday, directed dozens of now-classic horror movies, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and all of the Scream films.
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Obama To Rename North America’s Tallest Mountain In Alaska : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks with National Park Service historian Frank Norris about the history of how North America’s tallest peak was named.
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Patel Clan Challenges India’s Quota System : NPR
Twenty-two-year-old Hardik Patel is shaking one of the pillars of India: its quota system for socially and economically challenged castes. His drive to win the same status for his relatively well-off sizable Patel clan has attracted a major followin…
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Once Migrants Reach Europe, What Rights Are They Entitled To? : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks with Babar Baloch, Central Europe spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, about how Europeans are handling the migrant crisis.
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Some Veterans Affairs Reforms Undermine Medical Recruitment Efforts : NPR
The Department of Veterans Affairs is suffering a shortfall of physicians, especially in mental health. A steady flow of scandals and attempts at strict reform by Congress may be hurting recruitment.
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Oil Market Bust Yields Unexpected Boom For Texas Repo Men : NPR
The price of oil has dropped to its lowest point in years in recent weeks. That’s bad news for almost everyone in oil-producing parts of the country. But there is at least one business that’s booming in the oil patch.
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Europe’s long dry summer | Environment | The Guardian
An antidote to the recent rain is the August edition of Drought News from the European Commission. This details the continuous high temperatures that parts of Europe have been experiencing, along with up to 60% less rainfall.
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US stock markets finish down to close out worst August in three years | Business | The Guardian
Global stock markets dipped again on Monday as worries over China’s economy and the timing of the first increase in US interest rates in a decade rattled investors.
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Google announced in July that it’d be taking its self-driving car test on the road…to beautiful Austin. It has done just that, and the company looks to be expanding the tests it’s doing as well.
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Buddy Is A Really, Really, Ridiculously Cute Family Robot | TechCrunch
Robots need better PR agents. They’re often portrayed as hard-edged, cold automatons that are just waiting to kill you in your sleep. Buddy, a family robot currently available for pre-order on Indiegogo, seems to be a lot nicer.
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Seahawks punt returner gets the Mario Kart treatment · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Fans of the Seattle Seahawks have been excited about rookie kick-returner Tyler Lockett since the team traded up for him in May. He delivered immediately with a 103-yard kickoff return touchdown in the first preseason game, but struck again on Satur…
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China Is Trying to Blame Its Stock Market Crash on Journalists and Businessmen | VICE News
Chinese stocks are down 40 percent since June, and the government is rounding up journalists and financial executives who supposedly caused the market to dip. Chinese authorities arrested nearly 200 people over the weekend for spreading information …
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It’s only been about a week or so since Adult Swim aired what was supposedly the final episode of its long-running fast food farce, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and already the program’s fans may be experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
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Donald Trump: second Scottish independence vote would be ‘crazy’ | US news | The Guardian
He’s currently preoccupied by his battle for popularity against other candidates seeking the US Republican presidential nomination, yet Donald Trump has still found time to advise prime minister David Cameron on Scottish issues.
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The Most Adorable Film Ever Made About the Perils of Space Capitalism | Motherboard
”Wire Cutters,” is an adorable, award-winning, Pixar-styled short about a robot miner sent to another planet and the shenanigans that unfold when he bumps into another bot.
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Trump gives Jeb! the ‘Willie Horton’ treatment on immigration
In a nod to the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad deployed by Jeb!’s father against his hapless Democratic challenger Michael Dukakis, Trump is now turning the tables on Jeb!—linking his “act of love” comment about immigrants to three undocumented men …
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Fans were pretty pumped when Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde announced that she was writing a tell-all memoir back in March.
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Group behind Planned Parenthood attacks has close ties to extremists
The group’s leader and one of the actors in the videos is David Daleiden, “who was previously the director of research for Live Action News.” Live Action also produced falsified Planned Parenthood videos, in a failed effort to bring the organization…
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How virtual reality training is changing American Football — Hopes&Fears — flow “Technology”
Imagine you’re a quarterback. You walk up to the center, take the snap, and the defense descends on you like a pack of ravenous predators. You look to your first two reads. Both wide receivers at the split end positions are closely covered by corner…
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Turkey jails two ‘Vice’ journalists, translator for allegedly supporting ISIS | Fusion
Two British journalists and their Iraqi translator working for American-based media outlet Vice will remain in a Turkish prison awaiting trial on charges of “engaging in terror activity” on behalf of ISIS, Agence France Presse reports.
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Canada Is Reportedly Asking Egypt to Pardon Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy | VICE News
The Canadian Embassy in Cairo is petitioning the Egyptian government to pardon imprisoned journalist Mohamed Fahmy to Canada or deport him back to Canada, his wife told The Canadian Press on Monday.
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Murder charges against Irish nanny dropped in Massachusetts | US news | The Guardian
Prosecutors in Massachusetts have dropped a murder charge against an Irish nanny charged with killing a one-year-old girl after a state medical examiner reversed an earlier decision that the death was a homicide.
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From ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ to ‘Scream’: How Wes Craven Redefined Horror – The Atlantic
To see a Wes Craven film was, above all, to have your expectations met and subverted. The director, who died yesterday at 76, worked primarily in horror—a genre steeped in formula, where any film that makes the slightest progress is imitated for yea…
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Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, who has been representing himself at trial, admitted on the witness stand on Friday that he committed the murders but wants to be found not guilty.
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‘Boko Haram fighters on horseback’ kill villagers – Al Jazeera English
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback have shot dead nearly 80 people in attacks on three villages in Nigeria’s restive northeast at the weekend, a vigilante and residents have said.
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Public Health Hero Jimmy Carter; SciAm Turns 170 – Scientific American
Jimmy Carter talks about his public health efforts to eradicate guinea worm and improve global mental health and women’s health. Plus, magazine collector Steven Lomazow brings part of his collection to the Scientific American 170th birthday party.
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All Those Mobile News Alerts Are Getting On Your Nerves | WIRED
Mobile news alerts are becoming the norm. If you have a news app on your phone and the stock market drops, you get an alert. A court case comes to a close, your phone flashes. A storm hits somewhere far, far away, and you know in an instant.
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The Unusual Opinions of William C. Bradford – The Atlantic
On Monday, West Point law professor William C. Bradford resigned after The Guardian reported that he had allegedly inflated his academic credentials.
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Marcato Creates Site-Specific, Secure Browsers on iPhone
iPhone: It’s tough to keep mobile browsing private and secure, but one way to do it is to isolate some of your browsing away from everything else. Marcato is a browser that allows you to do that, essentially creating a bunch of private browsing wind…
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Hack Brief: Malware Hits 225,000 (Jailbroken, Mostly Chinese) iPhones | WIRED
With a track record of practically zero mass malware infections in its eight-year history, the iPhone is a remarkably secure little computer. That is, until you jailbreak it, removing essentially all of its operating system’s security features, and …
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Strongside/Weakside: Serena Williams – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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The U.S. Open begins today (August 31), and Serena Williams has a chance to make tennis history. A win would put her at 22 career Grand Slam titles, tying Steffi Graf for second most, behind only Margaret Court.
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How Bad Are K-Cups for the Environment? : environment
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You’re welcome : firstworldanarchists
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For Jeff by Enrico Fossati / 500px
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I never know what to do with babies : funny
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Of all the electronic devices in American homes, the cable box is one of the hardest to use and probably one of the most expensive. A recent survey by two Democratic senators found that consumers spend on average about $231 a year to rent them.
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Jonathan Kozol Explains What’s Wrong With Health Care And Education
I don’t think anyone who read “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol would easily forget it.
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Los Angeles Police Roll Out Body Cameras | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has become the largest U.S. city to begin equipping its police officers with body cameras. The rollout of the “bodycams” began early Monday, with the first of 7,000 cameras that will be bought and deployed over the next few…
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Twitter Supports Kanye West’s Run for President. Sort Of | WIRED
Even if you didn’t watch the MTV Video Music Awards last night, if you were on Twitter, you watched the MTV Video Music Awards. Pretty much everyone’s feed was full of bon mots about the ceremony, which logged some 21.4 million tweets in the US, acc…
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Titanic’s last lunch menu expected to fetch up to $70,000 at auction | US news | The Guardian
More than a century after first-class passengers aboard the Titanic ate grilled mutton chops and custard pudding in an elaborate dining room, the ship’s last luncheon menu is expected to fetch up to $70,000 in an online auction, a curator said on Mo…
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Missouri death row inmate appeals to supreme court to halt execution | US news | The Guardian
An inmate scheduled to be executed on Tuesday for killing a 15-year-old Missouri girl has asked the US supreme court to halt his punishment, saying the death penalty is unconstitutional.
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Novak Djokovic v Joao Souza: US Open – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Novak Djokovic stretches for a forehand against Roger Federer in Cincinnati. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
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MTV’s Scream preparing Wes Craven tribute · Newswire · The A.V. Club
MTV’s Scream, the freshman TV series based on Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-horror classic, will be honoring the director—who died yesterday—during Tuesday’s season finale. What the showrunners have in mind isn’t clear, but there will be a tribute of some …
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Rain and cooler temperatures Monday helped firefighters battling a series of big blazes in north-central Washington and other states in the West. In Washington, the North Star Complex of wildfires stood at 313 square miles and was about 22% containe…
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Users Say the ‘Smart Drug’ Modafinil Is the New Adderall — Only Better | VICE News
In the not-so-dark corners of the internet, there are groups of people talking about a drug they’ve nicknamed “moda,” but they’re not taking it to have a good time. They’re taking it to work better, be more focused, and stay awake.
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Blast Reported at Chemical Plant in Northern China | Al Jazeera America
An explosion shook a chemical plant in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong late Monday, state media said, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after other industrial facility blasts killed more than 145 peop…
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Explore the International Space Station (Toilets and All) With This Interactive Map
Before the end of her record-setting stint on the International Space Station, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a number photos of each module of the ISS, which the European Space Agency has stitched together into an awesome interactive tour.
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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Akhbar Salehi at the signing of a roadmap for the clarification of past and present issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program in Vienna. Coburg Palace, Vienna, A…
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Watch Talib Kweli’s Frenetic, Political ‘F–k the Money’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Talib Kweli’s Frenetic, Political ‘F–k the Money’ Video Chaotic clip highlights new album released for free earlier this month
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See Thomas Rhett Play Daredevil in ‘Vacation’ Video | Rolling Stone
Thomas Rhett takes vacationing to the extreme in his new video for the funky rump-shaker, “Vacation.” The track comes off his soul and R&B peppered second album, Tangled Up, as Rhett leads up its September 25th release with a series of new videos.
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Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots
After searching through the Ashley Madison database and private email last week, I reported that there might be roughly 12,000 real women active on Ashley Madison.
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Solarpunk wants to save the world — Hopes&Fears — flow “Life”
In the news, the state of our planet is doom and gloom: another species is always disappearing, an exceptionally violent storm is ravaging another unprepared city, and some of the weirdest weather ever breaks another record.
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A housewife drops acid (legally), 1963|Dangerous Minds
Before it became a Schedule I controlled substance in October of 1968, there was a not-all-that-brief period in which lysergic acid diethylamide, otherwise known as LSD, enjoyed some respectability among the chattering classes, even benefited from t…
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Kei Nishikori shocked by Benoît Paire in first round at Flushing Meadows | Sport | The Guardian
Tumult arrived early in Flushing Meadows as the erratic but talented Frenchman Benoît Paire beat last year’s US Open finalist, Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4.
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Google+ Brings Its Interest-Based “Collections” Feature To iOS | TechCrunch
Google+ Collections, the company’s effort at establishing its Google+ social network as more of a Pinterest competitor (since taking on Facebook didn’t go so well), has launched today in the iOS version of the Google+ app.
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Trump thinks the police are not tough or powerful enough
Speaking at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies on Saturday, Trump pledged to make police more powerful and aggressive.
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What Did the Ankylosaurus Look Like Before It Got This Club Tail?
Ankylosaurs are common features on documentaries or animated films about dinosaurs. Their armored body and club-like tail make them easy to identify. But how did that tail actually evolve? Evolutionary biologists show us the “first draft” of a popul…
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A Turkish court leveled formal charges of terrorism at two VICE News journalists and their colleague on Monday, as global rights groups have called for the reporters to be released.
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Nicholas Hoult to play J.D. Salinger in new biopic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mad Max: Fury Road’s Nicholas Hoult—who has played war boys, zombies, and beasts—is set to star as real-life human J.D. Salinger in the upcoming biopic Rebel In The Rye, Variety reports. Empire co-creator Danny Strong is set to direct from his own s…
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Don’t let Roanoke murderer’s arrest justify a license plate reader rise | Ars Technica
As someone who has been reporting on license plate readers (LPR) for some time now, it actually surprised me when I heard that Roanoke, Virginia, shooter Vester Lee Flanagan had been first located through the use of the scanning device.
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5 Moments From Wes Craven Movies That Still Have The Power To Freak Us Out
Horror fans all over the world are mourning the passing of director Wes Craven. To remind you why he’ll never be replaced, here’s a look at five of the most terrifying scenes he ever directed. Are you ready for Freddy?
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Cassini Watches Enceladus Fizz into Space
NASA’s Cassini mission is no stranger to the mysterious Saturn moon Enceladus — the icy world contains a sub-surface ocean and, through vast chasms etched through the moon’s south pole, powerful geysers blast water vapor into space.
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Man arrested for single Viagra pill sues Brooklyn police officer for humilation – Boing Boing
Viagra is not a controlled substance but that didn’t stop Brooklyn police offficer David Esparragoza from arresting Earl McLeod, 33, for possession of a single Viagra pill.
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The ‘Real’ Dark Web Doesn’t Exist | Motherboard
These posts were written by users desperately looking for murder, terrorism, human experiments, torture, and trafficking—things that they’ve heard are buried in the dark web, and are sure will be revealed if they just keep digging hard enough.
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Oliver Sacks, Who Depicted Brain-Disorder Sufferers’ Humanity, Dies – Scientific American
“I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms and extreme immoderation in all my passions,” wrote Oliver Sacks six months ago in a New York Times op–ed in which he told the world that he was dying of cancer.
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On Sunday, the Italian energy group Eni revealed its discovery of what it described as a “supergiant” gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea some 125 miles off the coast of Egypt.
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Google Is Taking a Big Step to Kill Off Flash for Good | WIRED
Starting tomorrow, Google’s Chrome browser will automatically pause web ads that use Flash. That means that videos and animations in ads using Adobe’s Flash technology will no longer autoplay in the world’s most-used browser. Ads using HTML5, on the…
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Big Bank Says It’s Going To Cost A Lot To Do Nothing On Global Warming | ThinkProgress
A new report from Citibank found that acting on climate change by investing in low-carbon energy would save the world $1.8 trillion through 2040, as compared to a business-as-usual scenario.
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There’s Nothing Special About Alkaline Water
Alkaline water is showing up on more and more grocery shelves—but it doesn’t offer any health benefits over its neutral-pH brethren.
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Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift reburied the hatchet at last night’s VMAs · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Summer 2015 was chock full of blockbuster movies, binge-worthy series, and plenty of online squabbles (if that’s your thing).
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‘Phantom Road’ Experiment Shows How Traffic Noise Harms Birds – The Atlantic
In the autumns of 2012 and 2013, any hikers walking along a particular ridge in Idaho’s Lucky Peak State Park would have become very confused. One minute they’d be enjoying the tranquil chirps and rustles of a temperate woodland.
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Worst case scenario: How bad could a tropical cyclone be? | Ars Technica
Before Natalie Portman slipped on a pair of ballet shoes and won an Academy Award, the term “black swan” was already full of psychological tension.
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Ask an Expert: All About Utilizing Positivity in the Workplace
When you go about your daily work you inevitably deal with people who’s negativity drains you. How do you deal with an unhappy work environment? How can you use positive psychology to strengthen your career? Here to help is Michelle Gielan, author o…
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The 2015 Interest-Rate Hike Watch: Jackson Hole Edition – The Atlantic
As the hot weather winds down, the summer of 2015 might be remembered in the finance world as the one when the possibility of an interest-rate hike loomed daily.
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Bill Murray explains why he agreed to appear in the new Ghostbusters · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After starring as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, Bill Murray made it pretty clear that he wasn’t ever going to strap on a proton pack again.
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The entire Law & Order franchise is rife with ripped from the headlines stories, including tales of internet abuse, Duggar drama, and whatever dumb shit Mel Gibson is up to these days.
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Wes Craven: A Tribute to the ‘Scream’ King | Rolling Stone
It was hard to see writer/director Wes Craven, who died yesterday at the age of 76 after a battle with brain cancer, in person without experiencing a sense of cognitive dissonance.
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[Photograph] A Superior Mother Goose : monkslookingatbeer
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It was at this moment, Edd knew he messed up. : StartledCats
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All the terminology on fancy restaurant menus can be overwhelming. From Judy Wu at Gaper’s Block, a glossary of common menu items and terms. Gluten-Free: This dish contains a small trace of gluten, but a full dollop of bullshit.
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The Myth of a Better Iran Deal
The nuclear deal that the United States and its international partners reached with Iran achieved what it set out to do: prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. This is not solely a White House talking point.
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Deflategate: Tom Brady leaves court after talks break down – video | Sport | The Guardian
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady leaves a New York court after failing to reach a settlement with the NFL over a suspension for his role in ‘Deflategate’.
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At a campaign rally in Tennessee on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke about criminal justice, ignoring concerns about police brutality that have become a central issue this election.
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Meru – documentary about the attempt to scale an unclimbed mountain – Boing Boing
For decades, the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru in Northern India was thought by most elite climbers to to unclimbable. The 21,000-foot high mountain makes Everest seem easy. On this mountain of ice and nearly featureless rock there are no Sherpas to car…
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BBC Sport – US Open 2015: Kei Nishikori and Ana Ivanovic lose in round one
Kei Nishikori and Ana Ivanovic both made early exits on the opening day of the US Open in New York. Japan’s Nishikori, last year’s runner-up and the fourth seed, lost 6-4 3-6 4-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 to Frenchman Benoit Paire.
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Our Galaxy’s Heart Glows in Psychedelic X-Ray Light
When a doctor uses an x-ray machine to look inside your body, dense structures like your bones are made visible.
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Custom Ferraris Take Exclusivity to a Whole Different Level | WIRED
Caption: To honor the tradition of custom Ferraris, this year’s Quail classic car show dedicated a special class to the rare and valuable vehicles. Mathew Scott for WIRED When it comes to Ferrari, exclusivity matters nearly as much as style and perf…
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Beirut Protesters Give the Lebanese Government an Ultimatum | VICE News
Lebanese protesters have given the government a 72-hour ultimatum: come up with a permanent, sustainable solution to the ongoing garbage crisis in Beirut by Tuesday, or civil unrest will escalate.
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Court artist transforms Tom Brady from Gollum to Adonis at second attempt | Sport | The Guardian
Last time out at federal court in Manhattan, it didn’t go so well for Jane Rosenberg. The courtroom sketch artist was given the brief of a lifetime: draw Tom Brady looking bored as various court officials drone on and on about ball pressure and sett…
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Plastic Will Be Inside Nearly Every Seabird on Earth by 2050 | Motherboard
Oceans are the world’s forgotten landfill, and seabirds are turning into flying garbage cans. By 2050, 99 percent of all seabird species will be contaminated by the plastic waste flooding our oceans.
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‘How We’ll Live on Mars’: Q&A with Author Stephen Petranek
The northern hemisphere of Mars is marked by vast sandy plains, made up partly of red iron oxides. The jagged Valles Marineris canyon near the equator is nearly five miles deep and almost as wide as the United States.
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Midday open thread: Coal going bankrupt, but mountains not coming back; study says studies are wrong
Council President Bill Linehan, who has been the public face of the battle for six-figure salaries, attended 15 percent of hearings, the fewest of anyone on the 13-member body.
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This Week’s TV: The Guardians of the Galaxy Go Back to Knowhere!
This week’s television brings us our first look at the Guardians of the Galaxy TV show! Plus season finales of Mr. Robot, The Whispers, The Last Ship and Scream! Also: the quest for leopard DNA on Zoo, and that dome’s coming down any day now on Unde…
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5 Times Black And Brown People Have Been Asked To Answer For Random Acts Of Violence | ThinkProgress
Texas deputy Darren Goforth was shot “execution-style” fifteen times while he was pumping gas on Friday night. A suspect, who is black, is in custody and has been charged with capital murder.
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Australia’s Dystopian Data Law Is Changing the Internet Spying Game | Motherboard
The Australian government passed a law in March that lets law enforcement collect, store and access potentially revealing information about its country’s internet users without a warrant.
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Hannibal GIF and a Graf: The Final Mic Drop | WIRED
In the end, it was always going to be the story of Will and Hannibal.
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The 30 Most Disturbing Beanie Babies Ever Made
Collecting Beanie Babies was once the craze to end all collector’s crazes. Somehow, the company Ty turned cheap, tiny, plush animal dolls into a billion dollar industry where people were practically killing each other to get all the new releases.
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TIPTON, IA—Following Gov. Scott Walker’s recent endorsement of building a fence along the Canadian border, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reportedly worried Monday that all the good foreign countries to wall off from the U.S. had already been taken by other G…
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WASHINGTON—Wistfully recalling the prominence he had in previous campaign cycles, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told reporters Monday that he is nostalgic for a time when his beliefs were considered outlandish enough to make headli…
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The New Mecha-Batman Now Has A Mecha-Joker To Fight
Batman’s been through a few changes in DC’s comics recently. First off, he’s no longer Bruce Wayne, but Jim Gordon. Secondly, he’s now a giant, Jim-Gordon-piloted Mech Suit.
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Portrait of a Greater Cormorant by Beena Balasubramaniam / 500px
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NASA to Study Uranus, Neptune Orbiters
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NASA has initiated preliminary studies of missions to either Uranus or Neptune, Jim Green (above), the agency’s planetary science director, said Aug. 24.Credit: NASA View full size image LAUREL, Md. -
Lisa Frank on Lisa Frank — FOUNDATIONS
People say never meet your heroes. With this in mind, I was unsure of how wise it would be to reach out to Lisa Frank, whose mysterious, cult-like reputation is both fascinating and intimidating.
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Construction approved for world’s most powerful digital camera | symmetry magazine
The US Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera—the world’s largest—at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
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Across India an entire category of architecture is slowly crumbling into obscurity, and you’ve probably never even heard it. Such was the case 30 years ago when Chicago journalist Victoria Lautman made her first trip to the country and discovered th…
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Migrants breach Hungary’s razor wire fence – 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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Page not found | The A.V. Club
Liam Hemsworth—youngest Hemsworth brother by age and middle Hemsworth brother by fame—is the latest actor to sign up for a guest appearance on ABC’s upcoming Muppets series, according to The Wrap.
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Hulk Hogan sees all men as brothers, brother · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hulk Hogan, the former professional wrestler whose tenure as a walking Pavlovian beef-jerky ad came to an end last month after he was caught spewing racial epithets on tape, has apologized for his less-than-brotherly behavior.
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Mardy Fish eases through opener at his final US Open | Sport | The Guardian
Mardy Fish won’t be retiring just yet. The former top-10 player will stick around at the US Open for at least a couple of more days after winning his first-round match at what he says will be his final tournament.
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Flight attendants who work for Qatar Airways will no longer risk losing their jobs if they decide to get married or pregnant.
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What a lovely day: Uber offers free Mad Max-style rides in Seattle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Glorious news today, if you’re someone who watched Max Rockatansky get strapped to the chassis of a nitro-boosted Hot Rod and blasted across the sandy nightmare of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and thought to yourself, “Yes, that seems like a sensib…
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What Travel Destinations Weren’t What You Expected?
Travel is a great experience, and we should all be so lucky to see different parts of the world. But there are probably some places you’ve been that you felt were overrated, or they just weren’t what you expected.
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ReBoard Adds App Shortcuts to Your iPhone’s Keyboard
iOS: Third-party keyboards in iOS didn’t quite live up to the hype for most of us, but ReBoard is a new keyboard that takes a different approach.
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Selfie Sticks Extend Their Reach – The Atlantic
The use of a stick to hold a camera at a distance for a self-portrait is not a new phenomenon, but the popularity of the new breed of extendable selfie stick has exploded over the past two years. Multiple companies are producing varied versions of t…
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Pebble is a mouth breather : cats
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Milky Way over the Crimean Peninsula. Photo by Ilya Zhirnov js http://t.co/V2rbBhux1A http://t.co/OVJGK4fTeU http://t.co/oFehzpsZYx
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Milky Way over the Crimean Peninsula. Photo by… – Just Space
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When my EX gf told me “it is either me or your dog” : reactiongifs
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Invisible Sun by Alister Benn / 500px
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Sun Disk by JEAN-CLAUDE HEERAMAN / 500px
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Neo hides from the new kitten in the entertainment center : cats
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Can You Rape a Robot? — Backchannel — Medium
Jerry Kaplan, a long-time entrepreneur and Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, has weighed in on the Great Robot Controversy with a book called Humans Need Not Apply. Kaplan doesn’t believe that robots will be conscious anytime soon…
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A Photo Editor With 5 Million Filters and Other Great Apps | WIRED
Instagram’s 23 filters not enough? Infiltr has infinity filters! (Sort of: 5 million, actually.) The app lets you shoot in a filter, and you simply tap the screen to change to a new one.
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A Ben Carson Surge May Test Trump | FiveThirtyEight
One question we’ve asked about Donald Trump’s campaign is what would happen if another candidate were to get a surge of media coverage, throwing a wrench in the works of Trump’s perpetual attention machine.
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The Unusual Abundance of Ascension Island – Expeditions – Scientific American Blog Network
Luiz Rocha swims through a mixed school of triggerfish, chromis, and jacks off the coast of Ascension Island. Editor’s note: There’s a fascinating natural experiment happening around Ascension Island.
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Pandorea Jasminoides by Cayetano Blanco / 500px
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Mount McKinley Is Dead, What U.S. Places Are Next? – The Daily Beast
After decades of failed attempts, Alaskan lawmakers succeeded in their efforts to take North America’s tallest mountain back to its native roots: Mount McKinley will now be Denali again, like it was before 1917.
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Apple And Cisco Ink Nebulous Enterprise Partnership | TechCrunch
Apple playing nicely with enterprise companies is a sight for sore eyes. The edict that Microsoft has enterprise on lockdown is dissipating.
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Prepare Yourself For A Rollicking Bitcoin Panel At TechCrunch Disrupt | TechCrunch
What do you get when you put a Casares, a Popper, and a Lee on stage? Some Bitcoin madness, that’s what.
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Enter To Win A Pair Of Tickets To Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
Disrupt San Francisco is a few weeks away, and to celebrate we’re giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky TechCrunch reader (a $5,990 value). You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and following our so…
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Will Smith takes on the NFL in Concussion trailer | Film | The Guardian
Will Smith threatens to give the NFL an almighty headache in the first trailer for Concussion, a new film that paints the league in a harsh light.
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A law professor who published an inflammatory article urging attacks on law professors and “Islamic holy sites” and who has been dogged by accusations of misrepresenting his academic and military credentials has resigned from the US Military Academy…
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Ban daily stock market reports | Fusion
Stocks are down! Or up! Or something. In any case, it’s all over the news. When news organizations cover stocks in this manner, it’s known as “market reporting”, and very, very little good ever comes from market reporting.
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Renewable Energy is Good for Your Health – IEEE Spectrum
Renewable energy projects and energy efficiency measures—particularly those that replace coal-fired power plants—will not only decrease carbon emissions but may also have major health implications worth millions of dollars, according to researchers …
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Jailbreaking your iPhone has its downsides.
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3quarksdaily: Can free speech survive the internet?
The internet has made it easier than ever to speak to others.
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Read This: Lisa Frank talks about rainbow leopard underwear · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Nearly everybody who bought school supplies in the ’80s and ’90s has been blinded with the searingly bright designs of Lisa Frank: Trapper Keeper and folder designs, stickers, even jewelry.
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‘Galaxy Quest’ Movie May Become TV Show
The beloved science fiction comedy movie “Galaxy Quest” is on its way to becoming a TV series. Reports released Aug. 27 say Paramount Entertainment has sold the project to Amazon Studios.
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Obama Administration Explores Sanctions In Retaliation To Chinese Cyberthreats | ThinkProgress
China may soon face economic sanctions as a warning shot from the Obama administration in light of recent cyberattacks. According to a Washington Post report, the U.S.
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Armie Hammer joins Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Armie Hammer has landed a role in Tom Ford’s upcoming drama Nocturnal Animals, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Iran deal gathers support from two more in Senate, five more in House. Republicans focus on optics
That’s just three short of what’s needed to sustain a presidential veto of any Republican-initiated resolution of disapproval of the agreement. Two Democrats—Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez—have declared their opposition.
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Bradley Cooper: The Ultimate Tennis Fan | Vanity Fair
1/10This look is very Just Got Off a Long Flight.
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Saudi Women Can Vote For the First Time Ever — But Only 16 Have Registered to Do So | VICE News
Despite initial excitement for what appeared to be a step forward for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, the registration of women to vote in upcoming elections for the first time ever has so far been slow in the conservative kingdom.
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As Kanye West soaks in the first day of his campaign for president of the United States in 2020, the last thing the restlessly ambitious rapper will be thinking about is the possibility of failure.
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Downton Abbey’s Final Season Trailer Will Make You Cry – The Daily Beast
Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, is crafty. He knows how fans will be feeling about the final season of the show, and so has set the first trailer for it to a haunting, weep-on-impact version of ‘Time To Say Goodbye’ by Lauren Aquilina…
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Hillary Clinton stumbles in Iowa as Trump’s fortunes reach new heights | US news | The Guardian
Despite all the time and effort Hillary Clinton has invested in Iowa this year, her numbers there are tanking. Eight years after she finished third in the Hawkeye State, the former secretary of state could be in for another humbling experience.
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My Hungover Cat Lola. 🙂 “Can u turn the sun off please” : cats
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His speech is still relevant to this date. : OldSchoolCool
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Smaato Ad Report Shows Big Growth On The Mobile Web | TechCrunch
Ad spending on the mobile web doubled in the first half of 2015 (compared to the same period last year), according to a new report from Smaato. Specifically, Smaato saw its total ad spend split between 62 percent on apps and 38 percent on the mobile…
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Google’s Smartwatches Now Support the iPhone | Motherboard
Android Wear, Google’s 18-month-old smartwatch platform, now supports iOS, but that support is limited to only one currently available smartwatch (the LG Watch Urbane). Future Android Wear smartwatches, including models from Chinese manufacturer Hua…
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WASHINGTON — For years, Republicans have run for office on promises of cutting taxes and bolstering business to stimulate economic growth, pledging allegiance to a Reaganesque model of conservatism that has largely become the party’s orthodoxy.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Glitter is a no-no. Sequins are frowned upon. Feathers were verboten, though they have still infiltrated in trims and turbans, to gnashing controversy.
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Twitter tells James Woods to put down the crack pipe – Boing Boing
Woods–who insults people on Twitter with comically hyperbolic accusations of drug use–is suing someone on Twitter who insulted him with a comically hyberbolic accusation of drug use. Woods is suing the individual tweeting as “Abe List” for $10 mil…
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Great white bit California surfer’s board, fortunately not surfer – Boing Boing
On Saturday, Elinor Dempsey, 54, was surfing Morro Strand State Beach near San Luis Obispo, California when she noticed a great white shark approaching her. It knocked her off the board but fortunately the shark ended up with a bite of fiberglass no…
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Thai police reward themselves $84K over bomb arrest – Al Jazeera English
Thai police who offered an $84,000 reward for tips leading to arrests over the Bangkok bombing earlier this month have handed the cash to themselves. Somyot said he was taking the unusual step of redirecting the three million baht reward to highligh…
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Hugo Ortega’s Journey From Dishwasher to Award-Winning Restaurateur – The Atlantic
Presented by http://www.theatlantic.
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Google Starts Deprecating Web Hosting Support In Google Drive | TechCrunch
One of the lesser-known features of Google Drive has always been its ability to host basic web sites for free. If you only found out about this from the preceding sentence, you now have one year to enjoy this tool.
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Donald Trump is once again equating undocumented immigrants with criminals, this time through an attack ad released Monday against fellow 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush (R).
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Toro Y Moi also releases free album online, so take that, Miley · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Miley Cyrus may have thought she was being very cool by releasing an album online for free this weekend, but it looks like she was actually beaten to the punch by Toro Y Moi.
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: With Labor Day on the horizon, we’re once again talking about our favorite “baby” songs.
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Dave Grohl brings intimacy and emotion to stadium rock · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
Most of the great rock shows of my life have been small, close-up affairs with familiar variables: drunk band at a hole-in-the-wall before they hit it big, or an epic set list at a divey club that raged on past four encores, or an intimate evening w…
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Agnès Varda trails an aimless nomad in this neorealist masterwork · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Venice Film Festival begins, so we’re recommending some of the best winners of the fest’s highest honor, the Golden Lion.
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[Art] Sadly, Radishes Give Brother Ives The Wind : monkslookingatbeer
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My friend’s dog in Costa Rica : pics
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Milkyway over Jordan pond house by Michael… – Just Space
Milkyway over Jordan pond house by Michael Ciuraru/Darkvoid… http://t.co/w4xK8hgLhJ http://t.co/WuuwBLwtXl
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Wonderful colors of nature. by FaceChoo Yong / 500px
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Two British Vice News journalists arrested in Turkey – BBC News
Two British Vice News reporters and a translator are arrested in Turkey, accused of helping an illegal armed group. 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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As Scandal Grows, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Condemns Unpatriotic Protesters | VICE News
As a financial scandal involving nearly $700 million in allegedly pilfered state funds grows, with thousands protesting in the streets, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is rejecting pressure for his resignation and slamming his critics as unpatr…
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A Surprise Source of Life’s Code – Scientific American
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Genes, like people, have families — lineages that stretch back through time, all the way to a founding member. That ancestor multiplied and spread, morphing a bit with each new iteration.
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Who Really Wiped Out The Templars?
The Templars have gained a formidable reputation, thanks to years of appearances in genre stories. They tend to be a convenient Secret Underground Order whenever someone needs to fight (or be helped by) a Secret Underground Order. But what were they…
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Kanye for president: could his beautiful dark twisted fantasy come true? | Music | The Guardian
Kanye West has famously likened himself to Jesus, Pablo Picasso, Steve Jobs and even Walt Disney. Perhaps the only ascent left for the ambitious and outspoken rap artist, producer and fashion designer is the Oval Office.
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Inside the 2015 VMAs: 8 Questions We Asked From Our Seats | Rolling Stone
“I don’t understand award shows!” Kanye West declared last night with real agony in his voice during a long, emotional speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. He was there to pick up the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, but had oth…
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Hear Slayer’s Crushing New War Cry, ‘Cast the First Stone’ | Rolling Stone
Plodding, doomy guitars open one of the heavier tracks on Slayer’s upcoming album Repentless, “Cast the First Stone,” which is now streaming online and available for free download via Adult Swim Singles.
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Which would come out on top in a duel, a lightsaber or the Sword of Gryffindor? This is the mindbending question posed by theRadioTimes (via Ask Science Fiction).
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Hear Siouxsie Sioux’s Haunting ‘Hannibal’ Finale Song, ‘Love Crime’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Siouxsie Sioux’s Haunting ‘Hannibal’ Finale Song, ‘Love Crime’ Siouxsie and the Banshees singer ends eight-year musical hiatus to contribute track to drama’s series finale
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How Halsey Became America’s Buzziest New Pop Star | Rolling Stone
The Halsey origin story follows a narrative that’s starting to feel almost standard in modern pop. YouTube covers lead to SoundCloud originals, which spur a massive online following, a record deal and the promise of lasting IRL success.
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Rep. Pete Sessions: America’s rampant gun violence due to American promotion of ‘diversity’
“It has a lot to do with distrust of people. Chris, I have been in lots of societies, we could say like Japan, where they have a homogeneous society, where people are more alike,” Sessions said. He went on to discuss “this thought process that we ha…
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Obama announces Denali name change. Ohio Republicans freak out | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Sunday, President Barack Obama announced that the highest peak in North America, Alaska’s Mount McKinley, would formally be chan…
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Watch John Kerry deliver remarks live at Arctic conference | Grist
While Bush is praised for his response to Hurricane Katrina victims in Florida, no one is talking about his Carnival Cruise boondoggle. If you want to change the culture, you have to get your message spread by “trusted advisers.” Then get them to re…
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Obama goes on climate tour in Alaska, gets called massive hypocrite | Grist
President Obama is heading to Alaska for a three-day tour meant to highlight the effects of climate change on the region.
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The Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin Kingpin | Rolling Stone
Just after sunrise on August 1st, Tokyo police stormed into a sleek two-story townhouse on a quiet residential street in Japan’s capital and arrested Mark Karpeles, the 30-year-old head of Mt. Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world.
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Photos of Victorian women and their long-ass hair|Dangerous Minds
A lot of Victorian and Edwardian era women simply never cut their hair. Now I know this was considered very fashionable in those days, but I can’t imagine how much suffering went along with maintaining such manes.
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Ice sheet bigger than Texas, California discovered on Mars : space
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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT FRODO – Imgur
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I thought you ladies would like this! : TrollXChromosomes
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BBC Sport – US Open 2015: Heather Watson loses to Lauren Davis in New York
Britain’s Heather Watson lost in the US Open first round for the fifth year running as she went down to American Lauren Davis in straight sets. Davis, ranked 23 places lower at 84 in the world, won 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-0) in New York.
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Barack Obama to test survivor skills on Bear Grylls show – BBC News
US President Barack Obama will trek through the wilderness in Alaska this week with British TV adventurer Bear Grylls, the NBC channel has announced. He is due to tape an episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls to observe the effects of climate cha…
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Think twice before jailbreaking your iPhone. A recent rash of malware has helped hackers steal over 250,000 Apple accounts, the largest theft of its kind.
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Calculate the Expected Salary (and Debt) With Your Degree
There are a number of factors that affect how much you earn in the professional world. Still, it’s interesting to know what you can expect to earn with a certain degree, and this tool will give you a general idea. It’ll also tell you what kind of de…
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“Play nug-a-nug” and 30 other terms for sex from the last 600 years – Boing Boing
Mental Floss has a list of the 31 “most adorable” terms for sexual intercourse from the last 600 years, complied from the massive Green’s Dictionary of Slang. Some make sense, others are cryptic, at least to me. “Give someone a green gown.” Huh? 23.…
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Google Maps Drops Plans to Stalk You With Location-Based Ads | Motherboard
Local business and discovery apps often tread a line between being useful and being glaringly thirsty—if you’ve ever used Foursquare, you’ve probably been pinged multiple times outside of storefronts.
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Malware infecting jailbroken iPhones stole 225,000 Apple account logins | Ars Technica
A newly discovered malware family that preys on jailbroken iPhones has collected login credentials for more than 225,000 Apple accounts, making it one of the largest Apple account compromises to be caused by malware.
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With a new memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, due out October 27, Carrie Brownstein is going on tour.
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SNL only adds 1 new cast member this year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, just one new cast member will join the ranks of Saturday Night Live before the show kicks off its 41st season. Jon Rudnitsky is a 25-year-old stand-up comedian with both an improv and writing background.
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India’s Antitrust Commission Accuses Google Of Rigging Its Search Results | TechCrunch
Less than a week after it responded to anti-competition claims laid down by the EU, so Google is under-fire once again for its business practices. This time in India. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has charged the U.S.
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Concussion trailer shows the NFL being awful to Will Smith · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
We’ve known for a while now the NFL wasn’t going to be thrilled with Will Smith’s new movie.
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Tep Is An Adorable Fitness Tracking App That Works Like A Tamagotchi | TechCrunch
Remember the Tamagotchi? Those little monsters were great. A new iOS app called Tep created a Tamagotchi-like app for your phone to help you stay motivated when it comes to working out. Move around if you want to feed your giraffe.
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Is Obama’s Alaska Trip His “Mission Accomplished” Moment on Climate? | The New Republic
Is Obama’s Alaska Trip His “Mission Accomplished” Moment on Climate Change? http://t.co/uxrv1lggKn
President Barack Obama’s historic Alaska trip this week, part of his ongoing efforts to highlight the devastating effects of climate change, will take him further north than any sitting president has traveled before. -
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Came home to find my cat Cocoa laying under the covers of my bed : cats
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*Love me harder* by Verwunschlicht by Mel Pozuelo / 500px
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Boing Boing’s Weekend of Wonder sounds pretty great – Boing Boing
Boing Boing knows how to craft a difficult-to-resist pitch for its “three-day extravaganza of hands-on wonder”: Start with a name like “Weekend of Wonder,” add guests like Disney veteran John Edgar Park, puzzle designer Michael Borys, hot-rod artist…
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Feminist Frequency Explores the Gaming Trope of ‘Women-As-Reward’ | Motherboard
In the latest video for her YouTube channel Feminist Frequency, cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian explores the age-old video game trope of “women as reward.
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Notting Hill Carnival crowds brave downpours – BBC News
Notting Hill Carnival bands are taking to the roads of west London for the second day of what is thought to be Europe’s largest street music festival. Up to 60 bands in colourful costumes are taking part in the Grand Finale street parade. There are …
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SpaceX CEO: Prospect of Another Failure ‘Keeps Me Up at Night’ | Motherboard
Ever since SpaceX had its first launch failure in late June, those following the company have wondered it would shelve some of its more ambitious short-term plans in favor of focusing solely on returning to space safely. The answer, according to CEO…
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Obama to film episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls during Alaska visit | US news | The Guardian
Just when you think American politics cannot get weirder, the White House announced that Barack Obama will trek through the Alaskan wilderness with Bear Grylls for an upcoming episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
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Metal Gear Solid Is One Of The Most Fascinating Science Fiction Stories in Any Medium
Metal Gear Solid is an obsession for millions of gamers, with its totally insane science-fiction storytelling. But at its heart, the series has always been about celebrating and questioning the power of technology. The story of Solid Snake, Raiden, …
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For the third weekend in a row, hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton dominated at the US box office, earning an impressive $13.2m (£8.6m) – pushing its domestic total to a whopping $134.1m (£87.3m), making it the highest-grossing musical biopic of …
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Last Night’s Falling Skies Finale Actually Depressed The Hell Out of Me
The human race is doomed. That’s what I take away from the final episode of Falling Skies, in which the human race is saved in such a slapdash and unconvincing manner, you sense that everyone concerned felt as though humanity actually deserves to pe…
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Chris Christie: track immigrants like FedEx packages – Boing Boing
Chris Christie hopes to win the Republican nomination by being the biggest plain-speaking asshole of the pack. It’s not working, though, because the absentee New Jersey governor can’t rise above Mini Me status next to Donald Trump.
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Is Putin Dating This Knockout Boxer? – The Daily Beast
The Russian Internet is abuzz with rumors that a famous female boxer is Vladimir Putin’s new girlfriend after the two were seen together last week. Natalia “Sledgehammer” Ragozina is a 39-year-old blonde who won all major female super middleweight b…
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Psychological disorder causes you to hallucinate your doppelgänger – Boing Boing
In the book The Man Who Wasn’t There, Anil Ananthaswamy explores mysteries of self, including the weirdness of autoscopic phenomena, a kind of hallucination in which you are convinced that you are having an out-of-body experience or face to face wit…
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News | NASA to Study Arctic Climate Change Ecosystem Impacts
As part of a broad effort to study the environmental and societal effects of climate change, NASA has begun a multi-year field campaign to investigate ecological impacts of the rapidly changing climate in Alaska and northwestern Canada, such as the …
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New $499 Xbox Bundle Adds 1 TB Hybrid Drive, Crazy New Controller | WIRED
Just in case you want to spend even more money to acquire an Xbox One this November, Microsoft has a spiffy new bundle for its console.
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Now you’re playing with power(slave) with the Iron Maiden 8-bit game · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the video for Iron Maiden’s new song, “Speed Of Light,” the band’s mascot Eddie The Head shows up in various styles of video games based on famous Iron Maiden album covers.
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As Scandal Grows, Malaysian Prime Minister Condemns Unpatriotic Protesters | VICE News
As a financial scandal involving nearly $700 million in allegedly pilfered state funds grows, with thousands protesting in the streets, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is rejecting pressure for his resignation and slamming his critics as unpatr…
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BBC Sport – Eoin Morgan inspires England T20 win over Australia
England captain Eoin Morgan hit seven sixes in a thrilling 74 as his team beat Australia by five runs in a tense one-off Twenty20 at Cardiff. More to follow.
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DVR Club bids a final farewell to Hannibal · DVR Club · The A.V. Club
This weeks marks our final critique of Hannibal, as after just three short seasons, Bryan Fuller’s baby is dead—presumably eaten in some sort of bourgeois stew.
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The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy
There are a ton of browser extensions that promise to protect your privacy, which leads to some natural questions: Which is the best? Do they all do the same thing? What should I really download? In this guide, we’re going to look at the most popula…
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Derek Blasberg is Vanity Fair’s Man on the Street | Vanity Fair
Over the past decade, Derek Blasberg has made a name for himself as an astute and enthusiastic chronicler of society’s moveable feast. He’s more than the smiling sidekick in a thousand selfies—though he’ll gladly acknowledge that he is that.
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VMAs 2015: the weirdest, wildest moments of the night – video | Music | The Guardian
A look back at the weird and wonderful moments from this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, including bids for president (see: Kanye West), beefs squashed and started, and all the brilliant and bizarre performances in between
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Exclusive DC preview: Wonder Woman goes to war in DC Bombshells #2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
DC Bombshells has quickly become one of the most pleasant surprises in DC’s lineup, taking a ’40s pin-up-inspired concept and using it to create a captivating World War II-era story spotlighting DC’s female characters.
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Android Wear Comes to iOS, Supports Newer Watches, Works on Some Older Ones
Google has officially released an Android Wear app for iOS. While Google claims that the app only supports LG Watch Urbane, Huawei Watch, and Asus ZenWatch 2, news site The Verge says it works on several older models. You can download the new Androi…
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Miley Cyrus releases free 23-track album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
At the end of her closing performance at last night’s VMAs, Miley Cyrus took advantage of the platform to share a little information with the world: She was releasing a brand-new album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, and it’s streaming online now, free…
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Kanye West to perform 808s & Heartbreak at one-off gig · Newswire · The A.V. Club
While the world waits for the release of Kanye West’s seventh solo album, Swish, the rapper plans to satisfy fans of his earlier work by performing his fourth album, 808s and Heartbreak, in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl on September 25.
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John Oliver knows how to keep the internet hooked. Though the Last Week Tonight show is currently in the midst of a two-week hiatus, he (and his staff) still managed to release a signature Oliver-style takedown to the web last night.
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Perched like a gargoyle: Callie is the ubiquitous protector of the bedroom. : cats
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things you can do to make your cat happy : funny
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News in Brief: Pope Cleans Up Dead Angel Who Flew Into Sistine Chapel Window http://t.co/c2sdVzyd0p
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Ashley Madison’s Business is ‘Growing,’ Company Says | WIRED
Despite its recent hack, purported leak of customer information, and resignation of its chief executive, the parent company of Ashely Madison says business is going, well, just fine. In fact, it says, it’s “growing.”
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The faces of transgender teen America
Katherine, a gentle 19-year old from Brooklyn, is many things: Bangladeshi American, an avid gamer, Muslim, a future programmer. But one thing she is not: human. At least, that’s what she’s been told by the family who rejected her.
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Constellations, Planets And A Super Lunar Eclipse – Sept. 2015 Skywatching Video
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Trump’s mass deportation plan—a bad idea recycled from the 1930s
The result: Around 500,000 to 1 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were pushed out of the country during the 1930s repatriation, as the removal is sometimes called.
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Texas man held in shooting death of sheriff’s deputy – BBC News
A Texas man is being held without bail after police say he shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy as the officer refuelled his patrol car.Police believe Shannon Miles targeted Darren Goforth at a petrol station near Houston because Goforth was in unifor…
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Hit Video Messaging App Dubsmash Raises $5.5 Million Led by Index Ventures | TechCrunch
Dubsmash, a roughly two-year-old, Berlin-based startup whose video messaging app lets users create and share dubbed “selfie” videos (you choose a famous audio clip, then record yourself lip-syncing the words or lyrics), has just raised $5.5 million …
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Azar Nafisi on why we need to cherish rather than ban books | Children’s books | The Guardian
Throughout my childhood and teen years, even much later when I had children of my own, my mother worried that I had my head in the clouds, reading too many stories, neglecting real life and its problems.
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Watch: Toddler and baby gorilla play peek-a-boo through glass at zoo – Boing Boing
Every parent knows that baby humans love to play peek-a-boo. But in this adorable video taken at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, a toddler finds an enthusiastic baby gorilla to play the game with him. It started when the 2 1/2-year-old boy, Isaiah, pounde…
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BBC Sport – David De Gea: Real Madrid and Man Utd in talks over goalkeeper
Manchester United are talking to Real Madrid over a deal to sell goalkeeper David De Gea. The Spain international, 24, has been linked with a move to the Spanish giants throughout the summer.
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‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ Is a New Low for Pre-Orders | Motherboard
It has been a rough year for pre-orders, the practice of collecting money for games from eager players before the titles are even released. Gamers are incentivized to buy early by bonus in-game items and extra tchotchkes. But in practice, the games …
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VATICAN CITY—Hurrying outside after hearing a disturbingly loud thud against the side of the church, Pope Francis was reportedly left to clean up the remains of a dead angel Monday that flew straight into one of the Sistine Chapel’s windows.
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The Trailer for ‘Concussion’ Should Give Roger Goodell Night Sweats | The Nation
The NFL should be afraid of the forthcoming film Concussion, due to be released this December. Very afraid. I say that having not seen the film, just the trailer. But already there is enough revealed to know that the Will Smith vehicle should be giv…
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When historian Robin D. G. Kelley began work in the 1980s on what would become his classic work of radical history, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, he was surrounded by activism.
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AHMEDABAD, India — The resentment built slowly in Hardik Patel.
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Remembering Wes Craven, the Man Who Changed Horror | WIRED
From gore to crass wit to mind-bending self-reference, no one pushed the boundaries of horror quite like Wes Craven, who died yesterday of brain cancer. Whenever you see someone gruesomely killed in an improbable way and the murderer cracks a corny …
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) was widely criticized and mocked when he suggested Sunday that the U.S. should explore building a wall on its more than 4,000-mile long northern border with Canada, calling it a “legitimate issue.”
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Teddy Roosevelt On Why Environmentalism Is A ‘Patriotic Duty’ | ThinkProgress
“Conservation is a great moral issue for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.” On August 31, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt uttered those words in his famous speech, “The New Nationalism.
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[OC] Peak District/Staffordshire Moorlands [4160×3120] : EarthPorn
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my cute milly. via /r/aww http://t.co/nBezKOkt1L http://t.co/qdLh7zLb0Y
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A gem from facebook… http://t.co/E8Q6RYBkdZ http://t.co/4hcy4UOYhQ
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“Hey, how was work? Cuddles?” : AnimalsBeingBros
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How Climate Change Impacts Women the Most | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here.
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Katy Perry Preps ‘Prismatic World Tour Live’ Concert Film | Rolling Stone
Katy Perry’s colorful, sprawling Prism trek will come to the small screen this October with the release of The Prismatic World Tour Live. The concert film will focus on Perry’s December 2014 visit to Sydney, Australia, where she performed six shows …
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This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: The Number 8 | TechCrunch
TCBTC, TechCrunch’s bitcoin podcast is back this week, on video, with a special guest, and no John Biggs. All that is fun, aside from the lack of Biggs.
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Charles Kelley on Lady Antebellum’s Future: ‘We Need to Step Away’ | Rolling Stone
When Lady Antebellum concludes their Wheels Up Tour in Camden, New Jersey, next month, the show will mark the end of the touring cycle for the trio of Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott.
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Barack Obama heads to Alaska on mission to highlight climate change | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama will use a trek across Alaska’s melting glaciers and permafrost to showcase the fight against climate change during a three-day visit to the state starting on Monday. Related: We in Alaska see that climate change is real. The time to ac…
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The death of a man at a jail in Texas earlier this month was caused in part by sheriff’s deputies restraining him and one placing his knee on the man’s back and throat, authorities in Dallas said on Monday.
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An Ode to Mick E. Mouse, One of the Most Badass Bulls to Ever Live | VICE Sports
Marlene Henry became a first-time mother at age 52. Seven years later, on August 11, her maternal love was put to the ultimate test. She had to let her son go to that great dirt ring in the sky.
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Josh Gordon: Will ‘Flash’ Ever Find His Way? | Rolling Stone
Cleveland’s Josh Gordon might be the most talented wide receiver in the NFL, but he won’t be on the field this season. He’s not even allowed near team facilities.
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How Political Was N.W.A., Really?
Straight Outta Compton, the biopic of hip-hop group N.W.A., seems to have struck a nerve amid a steady stream of highly publicized police violence toward black men.
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Issara Is Everlane For Leather Goods | TechCrunch
Meet Issara, a new e-commerce player focused on selling leather goods, cutting the middleman and fairly compensating workers. In many ways, Issara is reminiscent of Everlane, a clothing startup that has inspired many entrepreneurs.
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NASA Crashes a Plane to Make Finding Crashed Planes Easier | WIRED
Sometimes, you’ve got a good reason to take a 1970s plane, fill it with dummies and electronics, and drop it 100 feet onto a pile of dirt. At least, NASA does. A plane crash triggers a race to find the wreckage as quickly as possible.
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Pianist brings new life to The Walking Dead theme · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Though cover songs tend to be very hit or miss these days, Sonya Belousova still hasn’t missed a beat. The award-winning Russian pianist has been putting “a classical twist” on well-known theme songs for over a year now with her popular YouTube chan…
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A handful of American food and agriculture companies are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars by selling processed meats that are ending up in school lunchrooms and contributing to the childhood obesity epidemic, a new report claims.
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The director of Alvin And The Chipmunks is rebooting Oh! Heavenly Dog · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Lest you think Hollywood is running out of good ideas—or even good movies to remake—according to The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Hill is attached to direct a redux of Oh! Heavenly Dog for Fox 2000.
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Australia inquiry says Nauru immigration camp unsafe – Al Jazeera English
An Australian immigration camp on the Pacific island of Nauru is inadequate and unsafe, according to a Senate committee report which called for the government to remove children from the centre.
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Moleskine Unveils New Notebooks Designed for Productivity and Organization
Moleskine’s notebooks are some of your favorites, and today the company is taking the wraps off of “Moleskine Pro,” a reboot of the original with some added features designed for productivity.
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Sling’s Streaming TV Service For Cord Cutters Now Runs On Amazon Tablets | TechCrunch
Sling TV, the Dish-owned live TV service aimed at cord cutters – or those who never wanted to sign up for a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription in the first place – is today available on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets, including the Amazon Fi…
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Green Circle Trail, Stevens Point, WI [OC][2688×1520] : EarthPorn
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Hacking Google Earth to Create Stunning Mountain Shots | WIRED
Hacking Google Earth to Create Stunning Mountain Shots http://t.co/3ECRnolmSN
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One of these things doesn’t belong here : cats
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When You and Your Homies All Get paid at the Same Time. : trippinthroughtime
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Amber Shiprock by Aric Jaye / 500px
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On Monday, General Mills — the sixth-largest food company in the world — announced plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2025.
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‘Don’t Play With Me’: Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, And The VMAs | ThinkProgress
The best ad campaign for Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards was Nicki Minaj’s Twitter feed. In July, when MTV announced the nominees for its flagship awards show, neither Minaj’s video for “Anaconda” nor “Feelin’ Myself” was nominated for the hig…
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Why Do Flags Matter? – The People Speak | VICE News
VICE News traveled around the world speaking to people about what they think about the flags, and why these symbols are so important. Find out what people from Antigua, Guatemala to Bangkok, Thailand had to say about about flags.
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Grenade Attack Outside Ukrainian Parliament Kills National Guardsman | VICE News
A national guardsman was killed by nationalist protesters in clashes outside the Ukrainian parliament Monday just as lawmakers considered a draft bill that would grant more autonomy to regions in the east of the country. At least 90 other members of…
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Washington DC mayor backs police chief after union’s no-confidence vote | US news | The Guardian
Washington mayor Muriel Bowser vowed support for the US capital’s police chief on Monday after a police union voted that it had no confidence in her amid a sharp upturn in killings.
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Apple Just Poached a HoloLens Engineer from Microsoft | Motherboard
An engineer who previously worked on Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality project is now working for Apple. Hmm! Nick Thompson joined Apple in July, but news of his move to Cupertino was first published this morning by Apple analyst Gene Munster.
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The Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines Now Has a Unique Ethics Policy | Motherboard
The Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines has a first-of-its-kind ethics policy: it is refusing to work on artificial intelligence, automation, or machine learning for military purposes, instead pursuing its research from a purely pacifist st…
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Scott Walker’s fall from grace
These supporters say what is needed now is a return to basics, a more disciplined focus on the issues Walker long has championed in Wisconsin. […] Several supporters say Walker appears to have had too many meetings with too many experts, turning h…
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The History of Homecoming | Broadly
Last October, Charli XCX made a pit stop in Los Angeles to perform at a homecoming dance held by the charter school Aspire Pacific Academy.
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New Map Plots North America’s Bounty of Rivers | WIRED
More of North America’s land is covered by rivers than we thought, according to a new map. Scientists came up with a way to use satellite images to estimate the width of rivers and found that previous methods tended to underestimate how wide they ar…
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The Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Prostitution – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Several global advocacy groups, including the World Health Organization, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, are calling for the decriminalization of prostitution, but many are fighting to keep the practice illegal, citing the moral, ethi…
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Would President Kanye Be a Libertarian? – The Daily Beast
Judging by his website, presidential candidate Kanye West’s campaign is narrowly focused on an obscure gathering of libertarians set to take place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn the weekend of October 10th. Internet vultures wasted no time capitalizing on …
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Migrant crisis: Five obstacles to an EU deal – BBC News
Europe is struggling with its biggest migration crisis since World War Two, with unprecedented numbers of refugees and other migrants seeking asylum in the EU. The 28 EU interior ministers will hold an emergency meeting on the crisis on 14 September.
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Young Adam Ant looking like a pretty punk rock Adonis|Dangerous Minds
Adam and the Ants at Eric’s Club in Liverpool, 1977 Before the flamboyant gyrating, Native American-obsessed pirate we all know and love as Adam Ant there was another fellow (born Stuart Leslie Goddard), who looked more like the proto-goths of the 7…
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Malaysia PM Najib Vows Not to Quit | Al Jazeera America
Malaysia’s prime minister vowed he would not quit over a $700-million financial scandal, and accused protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his resignation on the eve of the country’s National Day on Monday.
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The most timeless songs of all time
Matt Daniels of Polygraph used playcount data from Spotify to identify the most played songs from the past, which he labeled The Most Timeless Songs of All Time. The most timeless song of the 90s, by a wide margin? Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.1
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Cyprus Hopes Reunification Talks Will Revive a Resort, Population 0 http://t.co/Kceob6OVnT
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ONLY in Albany can a bill pass the Assembly with overwhelming bipartisan support, be sponsored by a majority of the State Senate, be endorsed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and yet never come up for a final vote.
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Has Fear the Walking Dead Inherited The Walking Dead’s Black Actor Problem? | Vanity Fair
After only two episodes the body count on Fear the Walking Dead isn’t all that high yet.
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Boko Haram Massacres 56 in Nigeria Despite Progress Against Terror Group | VICE News
Nigerian authorities touted gains made in the war against Boko Haram on Sunday, as the governor of Borno State in the northeast confirmed to reporters that the radical Islamist group had slaughtered 56 people in a secluded village.
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Maybe what Hannibal needed to succeed was the Friends theme · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
On August 29, Bryan Fuller’s gory, critically-beloved Hannibal, adapted from the novels of Thomas Harris, left the airwaves, after being booted by NBC three innovative yet little-watched seasons in. Proponents of the gruesome series—and they are leg…
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Highlights from Notting Hill Carnival – BBC News
Notting Hill Carnival bands have taken to the roads of west London for the second day of what is thought to be Europe’s largest street music festival. Up to 60 bands in colourful costumes took part in the Grand Finale street parade. There are also 3…
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Chrome’s Dev Channel Mutes Auto-Play Media Opened in the Background
Ever open a YouTube video in a new tab, only to find that it’s started playing without you? Or a page that starts playing music before you’re ready? Chrome’s latest update will now mute those by default, until you navigate to the tab yourself.
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Sudden and Unexplained: The Sleep Deaths that I… | Van Winkle’s
Before there was a Freddy Krueger, there was the night terror. The horror icon wasn’t born in a boiler room, but he did originate in troubling dreams. A string of real-world deaths inspired the A Nightmare on Elm Street films.
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Apple TV 4 Will Retail Under $200 Starting In October: Report | TechCrunch
Though there has been quite a bit said about the forthcoming Apple TV 4, price is still a yet-to-be-determined factor. But 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman has sources who say the new box, reportedly powered by an A8 chip, will retail for under $200 (either $1…
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Scientists promise ice cream that doesn’t melt – Boing Boing
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The Completely Predictable Conservative Backlash to Renaming Mount McKinley – The Atlantic
There are many disorienting things about traveling to Alaska in the summer; the long daylight hours are only the most obvious.
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This beautiful Tintin tome is full of all wonderful things Herge – Boing Boing
If you’re a fan of Tintin comics and of Hergé (Georges Remi), this is one book you’ll want to own. Nothing “comic book” or throw away about this beautifully produced volume.
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“Injustice Collectors”: How to Understand Vester Flanagan’s Manifesto | The New Republic
Vester Flanagan was determined to explain himself. After murdering two TV journalists (and former coworkers) during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, he faxed three different suicide notes to ABC News that were strewn with absurdities, cont…
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The Hosts of This Ted Cruz Event Warned Attendees They Might Get Murdered By Bees | Mother Jones
Attendees to a Ted Cruz event on Sunday held at the farm of a Dover, New Hampshire couple were handed an eyebrow-raising disclaimer before entering the premises.
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Teenager walking with his radio in Charlotte, NC (1970s). : OldSchoolCool
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Ah, the joys of parenthood : AdviceAnimals
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“I’M A FAN” by Roy Hancliff / 500px
“I’M A FAN” by Roy-Hancliff http://t.co/gq0R7klxbM http://t.co/tsbh3NlLpn
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Erin Foster and Sara Foster Show Off Their Apartment | Vanity Fair
Erin Foster and Sara Foster, the duo behind parody reality show Barely Famous on VH1, are the total package. They’ve got razor-sharp wit, beachy California looks, and a family tree to rival that of the Coppola/Cage/Schwartzmans.
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Eatsa, A Futuristic Restaurant Where Robot Cubbies Serve Quinoa | TechCrunch
Eatsa has no lines because it has no cashiers. You order on an iPad, your name comes up on a transparent LCD screen box, and you pull out a bowl of quinoa. Opening today in San Francisco at 121 Spear St, Eatsa is a new restaurant designed around tec…
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Rude tourists in Kyoto receive politeness lessons – Boing Boing
The stunning temples and gardens of Kyoto are something my family and I will never forget. The rude tourists tugging the kimono sleeves of beautifully dressed and made-up maiko and asking them to pose like Disney World characters for a photo is some…
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The Venice film biennale may be the world’s oldest surviving film festival, having staged its first edition in 1932, but venerable origins and a glorious past are no guarantee that Venice can secure its future.
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Ashley Madison says it added over 100,000 new users last week | Ars Technica UK
Executives at Ashley Madison may have lost their founder and CEO after suffering a breach that leaked highly personal details for more than 30 million users, but they want to make one thing clear: business fundamentals are strong, and the service fo…
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This iPhone Malware Stole 225,000 Passwords from Jailbroken Phones | Motherboard
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, be careful what apps and software you trust. In early July, some Apple users began noticing that their accounts were being used to make unauthorized purchases through iTunes and to install iOS apps, according to rese…
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Smartphone addiction is not a real diagnosis.
“The second time I got hammered and lost my iPhone last winter, I knew what I had to do,” says Kevin Allison, host of the not-safe-for-NPR podcast Risk. “I quit the booze, not the phone.
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China and Russia cross-referencing OPM data, other hacks to out US spies | Ars Technica
The identities of a group of American technical experts who have provided assistance to covert operations by the US government overseas have been compromised as the result of cross-referencing of data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) an…
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Android Wear gets iOS support | Ars Technica
Google has announced that iOS is an officially supported operating system for Android Wear. Users with an iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, 6, or 6 Plus running iOS 8.2 and above will be able to pair with “newer” Android Wear devices, download the app, and be off a…
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On The Line: Sydney Lupkin Discusses Her Recent Reports On Health Issues | VICE News
VICE News and want to hear from you! Let us know your questions on Twitter with the hashtag #ontheline, or send us a video message on Skype. With support from Skype.
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After the Iran Deal: How to Make the Most of the Next 15 Years | The Nation
A major sticking point for universal support for the Iran deal is the worry expressed repeatedly by doubters and supporters alike, in the plethora of mainstream media coverage, that in 15 years Iran may have the capacity to break out and produce a n…
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This Labor Ruling Could Give a Big Boost to the Fight For 15 | The Nation
The government just showed corporate America that they’re the boss, when they’d actually prefer not to be.
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M45 Pleiades – 12.5 min exposure – by Scott… – Just Space
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Impossible not to yawn when he is around. : cats
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What Bernie Sanders Has Already Won : progressive
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The Best Times To Get A Grip On Your Startup’s IP | TechCrunch
What’s a tech startup’s most valuable asset? It’s not the seed money. It’s not the workspace. And it’s definitely not the espresso machine or Ping Pong table.
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Wiselike, The Q&A Platform For Professionals, Picks Up $1.23M In Seed Funding | TechCrunch
There is no shortage of Q&A platforms on the web. But today, a new startup with fresh funding is looking to repurpose the Q&A format into something more valuable for the asker, the answerer, and the general viewer. Meet Wiselike, which has just pick…
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Watch Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, More Perform at VMAs | Rolling Stone
Given Miley Cyrus’ gig as the Video Music Awards’ host, the MTV award show was filled with surprises and special guests.
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The Moon Is Going to Look Insane on September 27 | Motherboard
Skywatchers have been treated to a lot of spectacular celestial shows this year, from a total solar eclipse to an unusually radiant Perseids shower. Bu on the night of September 27, a rare astronomical event known as a Supermoon Lunar Eclipse is set…
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Kiev Grenade Kills Riot Police as Divided Ukraine OKs Minsk Ceasefire – The Daily Beast
Violence, blood, riots, and betrayal rhetoric returned to the heart of Ukraine on Monday.
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Kanye West, Travis Scott Team for Psychedelic ‘Piss on Your Grave’ | Rolling Stone
Kanye West, Travis Scott Team for Psychedelic ‘Piss on Your Grave’ Leaked cut from Scott’s upcoming debut LP, ‘Rodeo,’ bears similar title to West’s rumored collaboration with Paul McCartney
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Ohio Republicans extremely butt-hurt that Alaska’s Mt. McKinley is getting its real name back
“McKinley served our country with distinction during the Civil War as a member of the Army. He made a difference for his constituents and his state as a member of the House of Representatives and as Governor of the great state of Ohio.
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How President Kanye Saved the Video Music Awards: MTV, What’s Good? | Rolling Stone
Hail to the chief — our future President Kanye West stole the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, announcing his beautiful dark twisted candidacy for Commander-in-Cheezus.
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Always an innovator when it comes to youth culture, MTV has found a way to combine the popularity of Game Of Thrones with the demand for futuristic dystopian stories about impossibly attractive teens.
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Your (Next) Android Wear Watch Will Connect To The iPhone | WIRED
Google announced this morning that it’s developed an iOS app for Android Wear, meaning iPhone users can now use Android smartwatches. This is a big moment in smartwatch world, one a lot of people have eagerly awaited.
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Weekend Box Office: We are not Zac Efron’s friends · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Let’s hope that Zac Efron doesn’t have any real EDM aspirations, because America has spoken, and it wants him to step away from the mixer. Just how badly did the star’s new DJ drama do at the box-office this weekend? Put it this way: The Adventures …
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The Boy Scouts of America’s recent decision to allow gay troop leaders is the result of anti-discrimination laws that were “designed” to take down the organization, according to one Republican member of Congress. In an interview with NBC 5’s Julie F…
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Google Launches Android Wear Support For iOS, But Older Watches Won’t Work | TechCrunch
More than a year after the launch of the first Android Wear watches, Google is now finally bringing iOS support to its smartwatch platform with the launch of its Android Wear mobile app in Apple’s App Store today.
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Six DR Congo soldiers killed in ambush north of Goma – Al Jazeera English
Six soldiers have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, a region where Rwandan Hutu rebels are known to operate, regional and military sources said. The attack took place in Rugari, about 50km north of Goma, th…
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Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde islands – BBC News
An extremely rare hurricane, with winds of up to 130km/h (80mph) has hit the island nation of Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The government has grounded all flights until further notice.
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With Recently, Receive A Monthly Printed Magazine With Your Camera Roll | TechCrunch
Many, many startups let you send postcards and print photo albums from your phone, but this startup is different. Recently is a subscription service to receive a monthly magazine with your best photos from your camera roll. It will cost you $9 a mon…
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 31, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Man To Undergo Extensive Interrogation By Coworkers About Where He Got Falafel Read Full Article Single, Unemployed Mother Leeching Off Government Read Full Article ISIS Operatives Destroy Hofner Bass Guitar Signed By Paul McCartney Read Full Articl…
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Wendy Freedman: This new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe | TED Talk | TED.com
When and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will let us see. Wendy Freedman headed the creation of the Giant Magellan Telescope, under const…
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 31, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized in America | The New Republic
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“Come over, my mom’s cool” : gifs
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Stories from Our Advertisers For Miley Cyrus, complete personal and artistic freedom — the kind that allowed her
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Though thousands of Latino workers rebuilt New Orleans during the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery, many still have not been repaid for their efforts, NBC News reported.
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Thanks To Instagram, You Can Experience Burning Man Sand & STD Free – The Daily Beast
Burning Man 2015 is well underway, and despite the potential for massive rabbit casualties, the world’s trippiest festival is moving and grooving in 88-degree temps and the occasional blinding wind-and-sand storms.
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Brows furrow at Trump’s “endgame” possibilities – Boing Boing
NYMag wonders: what exactly does The Donald want out of all this? The assumption is that the Republican field narrows to Trump and Someone Else, who picks up everyone else’s votes and crushes Trump in the primaries.
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A bin of rubber ducks sounds like people screaming in anguish – Boing Boing
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Vogue’s guide to Burning Man fashion – Boing Boing
Vogue shares this handy guide to dressing for the playa! You can look unique, just like everyone else! So what to wear to the badlands of bizarre? Let your skin breathe—and be comfortable in it.
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Matt Damon explains why he waited so long to be Bourne again · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It turns out we can thank President Obama for the lack of Matt Damon-led Bourne movies. While doing some press for The Martian, the actor let slip the reason for his hiatus from playing super-soldier Jason Bourne—he and director Paul Greengrass were…
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Two gay men are travelling… : Jokes
Two gay men are travelling… (self.Jokes) …on a plane. Let’s call them Steve and Bill.
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Watch iriss launch live / iriss / Human Spaceflight / Our Activities / ESA
Watch ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov being launched into space. Coverage starts at 03:35 GMT (05:35 CEST), with launch at 04:38 GMT (06:38 CEST).
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There’s a life-size David Bowie pillow doll|Dangerous Minds
If you ever wanted to eat an ice cream cone sitting on David Bowie’s lap… now is your chance! Proxy Shop on Etsy makes these life-size David Bowie pillow dolls for $400 + shipping. The Lifesize David Bowie Pillow stands 66” tall and is the ultimate …
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Manolo Blahnik: Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions Book | Vanity Fair
In his five-decade career, Manolo Blahnik has designed more than 30,000 individual shoe styles (current starting price: $700). “I’m 72 years old,” the Bath, England-based Canary Islands native points out.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Safe Urban Running
Running in the urban heart of a metropolitan city can be a lot different than running in a quiet neighborhood or on a trail. The scenery can be an obstacle in its own right, and there are potential dangers that lurk literally around every corner.
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Last night, in the final minutes of the V.M.A.s, when it seemed like we had seen every part of Miley Cyrus’s body and every permutation of a marijuana joke a single person could make, she managed to surprise us.
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Watch Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan Recreate an Iconic James Dean Photograph | Vanity Fair
Playing a famous person on film is a big enough challenge as it is.
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NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Hurricanes Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena Surround Hawaii
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Isle of Skye, Scotland [OC] [1600×1200] : EarthPorn
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Parties Try to Chart a Course to Senate Control as Races Shape Up http://t.co/P6fulFdUBF
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Moonlight Shadow by Antonio Lozano / 500px
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Save Over 75% On This Car Plug-In Air Purifier – Boing Boing
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Comment from the September 7, 2015, Issue – The New Yorker
In “The Populists,” George Packer writes that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump harness populism’s appeal—and demonstrate its limits. You can read previous Comments published in the magazine, as well as our online Daily Comment and Cultural Comment co…
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The Post-Katrina New Orleans Police Department As A Model for Reform – The Atlantic
The New Orleans Police Department had a reputation for corruption long before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the summer of 2005. For decades, the department was infected by a culture of discrimination, abuse, and lawlessness. That culture spille…
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Tokyo’s iconic Okura hotel closes ahead of demolition – BBC News
Tokyo’s iconic Okura hotel has closed ahead its demolition and redevelopment for the 2020 Olympics. The hotel is considered a modernist masterpiece and a perfect representation of 1960s Japanese style.
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New Xbox One Bundle Comes With 1TB Hybrid Drive, New Elite Controller For $499 | TechCrunch
Microsoft just announced a new bundle for the Xbox One. The Xbox One Elite Bundle is the first bundle to come with Microsoft’s new Elite controller. But that’s not all as the company also switched to a hybrid 1TB SSD and HDD drive for the first time…
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Binary stars can throw planetary orbits into chaos | Ars Technica
Planets go through a process known as precession, where the angle of their orbital tracks around a star changes over time. This is a very slow process, requiring many orbits to complete.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Educational Kindle Sale, Age of Ultron, and More
Today only, Amazon’s taking up to 90% off over 400 educational books, running the gamut from self-improvement to cookbooks to programming language tutorials to political science. [Today Only – Over 400 Educational Kindle Books are up to 90% Off]http…
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Fear the Walking Dead Shows a Flicker of Life, But Still Disappoints
The second episode of a new series is crucial in establishing the show’s identity. It’s the first real episode, in a way, and a good one is usually a great sign. For Fear the Walking Dead, episode two is definitely an improvement over the pilot, but…
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The sexy, porny nose art of WWII combat planes|Dangerous Minds
It’s easy to imagine a… lonely soldier doodling a smutty little pin-up on the side of a military plane from sheer boredom, but the elaborate “nose art” of World War II also served a very functional purpose.
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So pizza you say : firstworldanarchists
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For all TrollX out there… Never forget This!!! : TrollXChromosomes
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Highway to the skyway in Arches National Park js – Just Space
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A New Billion Mile Journey for New Horizons – Life, Unbounded – Scientific American Blog Network
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Ooops, another viral pic turns out to be a hoax/fake – Imgur
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Neil Armstrong eating his last breakfast on Earth before leaving for the moon – 1969. – Imgur
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Rawson Lake, Alberta [OC] [5312×2988] : EarthPorn
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Deadly protest over Ukraine ‘decentralisation’ law – Al Jazeera English
Protesters have thrown “several” explosive devices outside Ukraine’s parliament in the capital Kiev, killing at least one policeman and wounding at least 90 people, according to the Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
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T-Mobile promises to “eliminate” customers who abuse unlimited data | Ars Technica
T-Mobile US is planning to take unlimited data plans away from customers who use workarounds to bypass limits on tethering.
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Artisanal globemaking is damned hard work – Boing Boing
Peter Bellerby is one of the last people in the business. Occupying an artisanal space between mass-produced tat and astronomically-expensive artwork is “horrendously difficult,” he tells Citylab. Today, Bellerby sees globes as inspirational rather …
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Deflategate: Roger Goodell and Tom Brady meet with judge for final time | Sport | The Guardian
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrived early to court on Monday for a final face-to-face meeting before a judge rules on the Deflategate case.
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Music: “Emotion,” Samantha Sang (1977) – Boing Boing
There’ll be nobody left in this world to hold me tight. Nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight.
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The FAA Starts Moving To The Cloud | TechCrunch
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to move away from its own data centers and toward cloud services. Last week, the FAA signed a deal with Computer Science Corp.
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Spirited Away • Princess Mononoke // Miyazaki Double Feature // on Vimeo
Two episodes of “8-BIT CINEMA”, a show I created and produce on CINEFIX Network. I love these two episodes because… they’re Studio Ghibli films of course! But please check out more episodes if you like these. Thanks! http://www.duttonfilms.com @duttonfil…
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Top 5 TV: Kanye for President and ‘Hannibal”s Last Meal | Rolling Stone
The top two items on this week’s list aired on NBC, but since one’s already been cancelled and the other’s being quickly killed off, it’s feels wrong to call them “NBC shows.
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Livestreaming Torture Is the Dark Web’s Favorite Hoax | Motherboard
Hundreds of would-be voyeurs sat at their computers Saturday, anxiously discussing whether this would finally be the time they’d get to watch a live streamed, scheduled torture-and-murder session.
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Let’s End Incarceration and Just Have Drones Supervise Criminals | Motherboard
The US prison system costs almost four times more to run than the US education system. It doesn’t matter what your politics are—virtually everyone thinks this is wrong. So what can we do about it? As a transhumanist, I always look to science and tec…
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Watch Justin Bieber Stage Kidnapping in ‘What Do You Mean?’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Justin Bieber Stage Kidnapping in ‘What Do You Mean?’ Video Neon-coated clip inspired by David Fincher’s ‘The Game’
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Obama Heads to the Arctic for a Photo Op with Our Melting Future | Motherboard
There are few better places to look for a glimpse of our climate-changed future than Alaska, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the rest of the world, ice sheets are rapidly melting, glaciers are calving spectacularly, wildfires are swee…
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Watch Kanye West Get Booed by ‘60,000 People’ at a Dodgers Game | Rolling Stone
It was fitting that, at last night’s Video Music Awards, Kanye West’s Video Vanguard Award acceptance speech did not contain a single mention of his music videos. After all, what better way to sum up a show that went so gloriously, uproariously off-…
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Report: New Apple TV said to cost between $149 and $199 | Ars Technica
An iPhone refresh at Apple’s September 9 event is all but certain, but the more interesting news might actually be about the Apple TV.
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Here’s Where the 7% Average Stock Market Return Comes From
Common investing knowledge is that you can expect a 6-7% return when you invest in the broad stock market. But where does this number come from? And is it accurate?
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American Wage Growth is Broken, and There’s No Quick Fix | The New Republic
As Labor Day approaches, we are likely to hear from a growing chorus of political, religious, academic, labor and business leaders who agree “America needs a raise” to reverse three decades of wage stagnation and rising income inequality.
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What us worry? Ashley Madison says it added over 100K users last week | Ars Technica
Executives at Ashley Madison may have lost their founder and CEO after suffering a breach that leaked highly personal details for more than 30 million users, but they want to make one thing clear: business fundamentals are strong, and the service fo…
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – LISA Pathfinder launch sequence
Scheduled for launch in late 2015, ESA’s LISA Pathfinder will test key technologies for space-based observation of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
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Kanye West announced his presidential campaign last night at the VMAs · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the lead up to Sunday’s show, the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were pushing a new statuette and another opportunity for Kanye West to give us all what for. West was to be presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award by his old pal, Tayl…
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Cheap Airfare Finder Hopper Hits Android, Now Books Tickets With Just A Few Taps | TechCrunch
Hopper, a travel application launched earlier this year with the goal of helping you pay less for airfare by telling you the best time to buy tickets, is out today with a new version that will actually help you book tickets yourself, without leaving…
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US Open 2015: Lauren Davis v Heather Watson – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Good evening/morning depending on where you’re reading from and welcome to this opening chapter of a fortnight of drama.
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T-Mobile Doesn’t Like Customers Who Use 2,000GB Of Data Per Month | TechCrunch
T-Mobile CEO John Legere issued a strong announcement saying that some customers are abusing the company’s network. While T-Mobile has become quite popular with its unlimited LTE mobile plans, unfortunately you don’t get unlimited LTE for tethering.
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How can we say no to drilling in the Arctic when we use oil every day? We use it for heating our houses, fueling our four-wheelers and cooking our meals. But saying no to oil does not mean we have to go back to old times.
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Rare Super ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Coming, Last Until 2033 | Video
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Enormous tree unimpressed by truck – Boing Boing
What on Earth was he thinking? [via]
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Yet More Evidence That Andrew Garfield Deserved Better as Spider-Man
No matter what else went wrong with the Amazing Spider-Man movies, Andrew Garfield’s passion for the character was never in doubt. Unfortunately, along with being deeply invested in something comes the opportunity to be deeply let down. Well, nothin…
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MIT: “Largest of the Five Mass Extinctions Caused By Microbes” (Today’s Most Popular)
Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet’s five known mass extinctio…
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Even the Bottom of the Grand Canyon is Now Contaminated
By almost any calculation, the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is one of the most isolated places in the contiguous United States.
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It all started a few weeks ago with a nice lady dropping by the record store with two cardboard moving boxes full of old newspapers. “I thought I’d see if anyone here wanted these before I threw them out.”
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NAMASTE, JARHEAD! Little green army men toys in yoga poses|Dangerous Minds
Dan Abramson is the purveyor of “Brogamats,” yoga mat carry cases for men, amusingly camouflaged with masculine signifiers like lumberjack plaid, hewn logs, quivers full of arrows, giant burritos… they’re pretty funny.
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“Extinct” Toad Rediscovered in Ecuador
To biologists’ delight, the extinct Azuay stubfoot toad has just leapt back to life in Ecuador.
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When Keith Bellows walked into a room, you knew it. It wasn’t just his Canadian hockey player looks—the thick shock of graying hair, the broad shoulders, and the warm smile.
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Keith Bellows, Award-Winning Editor of National Geographic Traveler, Dies
Keith Bellows, a visionary journalist, author, and globetrotter who was editor-in-chief of National Geographic Traveler for 17 years, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 63.
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What Hurricane Katrina Can Teach Us About Leadership
When Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf Coast states ten years ago, leadership was in as short supply as tarpaulins. President George W. Bush was excoriated for his inept handling of the crisis, as was Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans.
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At Burning Man, a Counterculture Festival, the Fashion Police Walk the Beat http://t.co/91cElukwFD
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 31st – The New Yorker
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Blue Tides by Arild Heitmann / 500px
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Given the generally dismal state of leadership contests in this country, it’s no wonder that I’ve been secretly coveting America’s hunt for a Republican presidential candidate.
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Trump’s Immigration Plan Depression Deportations | Al Jazeera America
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for mass deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, as well as their American-born children, bears similarities to a large-scale removal that many Mexican-American famili…
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Walmart Cuts Workers’ Hours After Raising Its Minimum Wage Earlier This Year | ThinkProgress
After raising the minimum wage for its lowest compensated workers, Walmart is now cutting some workers’ hours to try to trim costs.
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Rental cars get old—what happens to them next?
There are rental cars, and then there are kind of old rental cars—the ones where, during the initial walk-around with the agent, you carefully point out a scratch on the back door or a small dent in the hood, just to be clear that the blemish predat…
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Margarine Used To Be Pink, and More Colorful Tales From The Food Dye Industry | Atlas Obscura
Multi-colored cereal. (Photo: frankieleon/flickr) It’s common today to hear food experts raise concerns about the amount of artificial dyes in our foods today, but this is actually a problem that has decreased with time: we’re in much better shape n…
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The death of an elderly former housewife normally does not make the news beyond her hometown. But when Dorothy McElhaney died on Aug. 8 at age 104, her obituary in the Richmond Times-Dispatch demanded attention.
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Man regrets having crude drawing of a penis tattooed on thigh – Boing Boing
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Washington to start Kirk Cousins, not Robert Griffin III, for Dolphins opener | Sport | The Guardian
Washington are set to start Kirk Cousins at quarterback for their NFL season opener against the Dolphins on Sunday, throwing into doubt the future of Robert Griffin III.
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France: Where refugees go to avoid ‘the jungle’ – Al Jazeera English
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France – It is easy not to notice the refugee camp in Tatinghem, a sleepy little village in the northern French countryside. Tucked inconspicuously between two wheatfields off a bumpy side road, even the locals outside the town p…
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The one scientific statement to reboot civilization
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?
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Books kept me alive in prison | Books | The Guardian
The official lifting on the ban on sending books to prisoners, which comes into effect on Tuesday, finally brings to an end one of the most irrational and baffling Ministry of Justice policy decisions in recent times.
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Temple of Baal in Palmyra Is Damaged by ISIS http://t.co/7xSwekfnxf
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Can’t seem to teach our kitten Antigone that wires are not toys… : cats
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Golden fields of barley, in the Danish summer – Bornholm [OC] [4160×3210] : EarthPorn
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Today in Politics: Hillary Clinton, Facing a Difficult Summer, Flexes Her Muscle http://t.co/ScEA1Oc8sM
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Watch the Sklar Brothers get creepy in this exclusive Playing House clip · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When The A.V. Club visited the set of Playing House on location in Malibu in June, stars/producers/writers Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair spent a few hours hanging out with the Sklar Brothers in an increasingly gross hot tub.
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Outsider artist Jandek released dozens of albums anonymously · Wiki Wormhole · The A.V. Club
With more than 4.9 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or browsing volcanoes for a potential lair location. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 4,955,368…
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Which airport do you hate the most? – Boing Boing
Of the American contenders, Newark is the most-hated, though Turkey’s Dalamar airport takes the international honors. In the U.S., Miami is the second-most loathed hub, followed by D.C. and LAX.
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White House eyes sanctions for China over cyber-theft of trade secrets | Ars Technica
The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima reports that under the direction of the Obama administration, US government officials are planning “a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals” who have profited from…
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US stock markets head south again – BBC News
(Open): US stocks dipped in early trading, reflecting continuing concerns about the Chinese economy and uncertainty over US interest rates.The Dow Jones fell 158 points, or 1%, to 16,485.00. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 0.3% at 4,813.01, while the…
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These X-ray pills will map the inside of your body | Fusion
Colon cancer is a societal scourge, killing roughly 700,000 people each year. Most cases start as small, benign clumps of cells; if caught early, it can potentially be life-saving which is why screening are recommended for anyone over the age of 50.
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This Modern Survival Kit Comes With a Battery for Your Phone | WIRED
Caption: The Patch kit comes in a water bottle, which you can use for drinking or storage. Box Clever Three years ago, the team at Box Clever began looking for a project to take on internally.
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Presidential Campaign Name-Calling Season Kicked Off This Weekend | Vanity Fair
As August gives way to fall, we’re seeing a proliferation of headlines involving [Candidate X] calling [Candidate Y] a [Nasty Slur Goes Here] during their final summer fundraising kicks.
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Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I loved Girl, Missing and reread it several times, because when you pick up this book, you will never put it down! Some like me, will stay up till midnight reading it, others will want to stay on each cliff-hanger and wait until the next night.
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Sun Accused of Stealing Planetary Objects from Another Star – Scientific American
Sedna (purple) and 2012 VP113 (blue) never come close to the orbits of the four giant planets (red) or even to Pluto’s home in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt (orange). At the time of Sedna’s discovery in 2003, it was the farthest body ever seen in our pl…
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Farewell, Wes Craven, and Thank You For All the Nightmares
Legendary director Wes Craven died yesterday at the age of 76. His name became synonymous with horror, thanks to films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Last House on the Left, and the Scream series—a most unexpected career for a man who didn’t even s…
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If you missed the Kickstarter for my hardcover, two-volume compilation, 25 Year of Tomorrow, good news—you can still pre-order a set!
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Make a Batch of Base Salad Dressing and Tweak It for Every Salad
Knowing how to make basic mother sauces that you can customize throughout the week makes cooking faster without sacrificing great flavor. You can do the same for your salads by creating a “mother” salad dressing to tweak before you serve.http://life…
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Apple Is Cracking Down on Games with Serial Codes | Motherboard
On Saturday, Apple unceremoniously removed developer Mixi’s Monster Strike from the Japanese iTunes App Store. It was the top mobile game in the country in terms of sales at the time.
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Burning Man said to be “wealthy libertarian fantasy world” and cautionary tale – Boing Boing
Though famous for banning ads and appealing to progressive values such as inclusiveness and self-expression, Burning Man is becoming defined by Silicon Valley co-optation and various business shenanigans. Keith A. Spencer:
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Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costume Sparks Outrage – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
American Voices: Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costume Sparks Outrage http://t.co/Da9B5hoi5o
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He was told to come as a biker. : funny
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The last one … by Gabi Baumgaertner / 500px
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The Milky Way from Yosemite, CA js – Just Space
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Watch John Oliver Spew ‘History Lies’ About Horse Sex, Paul Revere | Rolling Stone
Watch John Oliver Spew ‘History Lies’ About Horse Sex, Paul Revere ‘Last Week Tonight’ punks Internet in web exclusive, presenting “plausible but unverifiable nonsense” about Catherine the Great, Winston Churchi
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Nation With Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall – The New Yorker
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As the United States’ bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting sense of urgency that it is time to build a giant wall. Across the U.S.
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Ashley Madison Refutes Claims That Its Site Was Populated With Fake Female Accounts | TechCrunch
Avid Life Media, the parent company behind hacked dating site Ashley Madison, says this morning that media reports claiming the site had very few active female users were inaccurate.
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Hear a Rare 1990 Glen Campbell Recording in England | Rolling Stone
Although he’s since retired from touring and making music following his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2011, Glen Campbell remained a top concert draw up until his final show in 2012. Now, a new live recording — the first in a series of U.K.
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Miley Cyrus Talks ‘Dead Petz,’ ‘Really Trippy’ Wayne Coyne Friendship | Rolling Stone
The pair’s first collaboration came when Cyrus provided vocals to “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” a track off the Lips’ Sgt. Pepper’s tribute album With a Little Help From My Fwends.
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Add Seltzer to Your Batter for the Fluffiest Waffles of Your Life
I love a good waffle. That perfect combination of its crisp exterior and tender, fluffy insides is one of the few things that can get me out of bed before nine on a Sunday morning.
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Choose From Two Great Deals on Your Next Pair of Headphones
If you’re in the market for a new set of headphones, we’ve spotted two great options on sale today. V-Moda’s well-reviewed Crossfade M-80s feature a unique look and customizable face plates, not to mention a practically indestructible design.
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Warren G. Harding Was The First Celebrity-Endorsed President | Atlas Obscura
Warren G. Harding campaigns for the presidency in 1919. (Photo: Library of Congress) Nearly a century after his death, Warren G. Harding is having a moment in the limelight.
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Why Levees Fail: A Brief History – The Atlantic
The levee is a technology fundamental to human civilization. Artificial embankments were designed for the earliest cities, along with the first known draining systems and wells.
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VMAs: Nicki Minaj’s Comments to Miley Cyrus Were Really About Manners – The Atlantic
Nicki Minaj didn’t, in the end, say much to Miley Cyrus at all.
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Slower melting ice cream developed by scientists – BBC News
Scottish scientists believe they have found the secret to making an ice cream that does not melt so quickly on hot summer days.
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Looks like Kitty’s coming with me then… : cats
Looks like Kitty’s coming with me then… via /r/cats http://t.co/YN8z28q0LD http://t.co/Nc0k4zeZBJ
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A smiley family portrait : sloths
A smiley family portrait via /r/sloths http://t.co/6W4LId5wkM http://t.co/SxYgNf6Bo9
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Migrant crisis: Merkel warns of EU ‘failure’ – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says “Europe as a whole needs to move” on how to deal with refugees and migrants arriving in the EU. She was speaking after Austrian authorities arrested five suspected people smugglers along the country’s eastern bor…
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Thai police reward officers for arrest of bombing suspect – BBC News
Thai police have decided to reward the officers involved in the arrest of a man suspected of carrying out the bombing of a shrine in Bangkok. Somyot Pumpanmuang said the officers deserved it as there had been no public tip-off to help them.
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Join me, dear urban dwelling, bunny-hugging Guardian reader, in setting aside your ethical and environmental concerns about killing our biggest surviving carnivorous wild animal, and follow this, the most rational case that can be made in favour of …
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Concussion Trailer: Will Smith in the Christmas Movie the NFL Doesn’t Want You to See | Vanity Fair
Debuting a trailer for a Will Smith movie in the middle of a Sports Illustrated column isn’t exactly Hollywood marketing 101, but for Concussion, a drama about head injuries in the N.F.L., it’s oddly fitting. Get your first look at the trailer below…
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Sri Lanka staring at defeat in final Test – Al Jazeera English
India stood seven wickets away from a series-clinching victory after setting Sri Lanka a formidable 386-run victory target on the penultimate day of the third and final Test.
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India’s mentally ill: On a pill and a prayer – Al Jazeera English
Erwadi, India – On a hot-humid day, Arun Kumar, 23, walks barefoot to a clinic near the entrance to the holy Erwadi Dargah shrine in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu.
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Detained Vice News staff to appear in Turkish court – Al Jazeera English
Four members of staff from VICE News, who were detained in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, are set to appear in court on Monday, Turkish authorities have told Al Jazeera, amid calls from human rights groups for their immediate release.
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Deadspin Darren Rovell Says Racism Is Okay If The Market Approves; ESPNers Flee | Gizmodo The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirder | Jezebel Kanye West Is Running For President, Nothing Is Real | Kotaku Japan’s Coolest Looking Capsul…
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You Can Actually Poison Yourself If You Eat Undercooked Beans
When you get a package of dry beans examine the cooking instructions on the side. Most likely they’ll stress that after you’ve soaked your beans in water for an hour or two, you should discard the water before cooking the beans very, very well. That…
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Congressman Blames Gun Violence On ‘Diversity In America’ | ThinkProgress
Rather than acknowledging the clear link between lax gun laws and deadly shootings, a Texas congressman has found a new culprit: multiculturalism. On the Chris Salcedo Show last week, the radio host asked Rep.
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President Obama will talk the climate talk this week in Alaska, but we need more of the climate walk
On the first day of his trip, the president will deliver the keynote address at the State Department’s Arctic conference in Anchorage where a dozen foreign ministers and hundreds of others participants will be in attendance.
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BBC – Earth – Ceres: The planet that wasn’t
When it comes to underdog planets, Ceres might be at the top of the list. Sure, you’ve probably heard about Pluto’s demotion to dwarf planet. But before Pluto, there was Ceres. Ceres also once enjoyed full membership in the solar system’s planetary …
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Twitter Is Testing Funky New Photo And Video Editing Tools | TechCrunch
It looks like Twitter is planning to give its users a lot more creativity in the photo and video department soon.
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Russian government backs down on Wikipedia censorship – Boing Boing
Given the option, the censors backed down, allowing Russians to freely access the online encyclopedia, for now. A Russian court had ordered the block to prevent locals viewing an article about charas, a form of hashish, that somehow vexed them.
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It seriously needs to be illegal for sound effects of emergency vehicle sirens to be played on radio commercials. (self.Showerthoughts) And sirens in rap music.
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Matthew Klein notes that Very Serious People are now worried that China’s troubles, which have caused it to switch rather suddenly from a buyer of Treasuries to a seller, will cause U.S. interest rates to spike. He rightly finds this unconvincing.
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There are many things we should remember about the events of late August and early September 2005, and the political fallout shouldn’t be near the top of the list.
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I walked into the bathroom, he wasn’t impressed. : cats
I walked into the bathroom, he wasn’t impressed. via /r/cats http://t.co/vR33jRdaUz http://t.co/7jum6PDm7d
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Scott Walker calls border wall with Canada a ‘legitimate issue’ – BBC News
Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has called building a wall along the border between the US and Canada a “legitimate issue”.
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You Don’t Have a Creative Block, You’re Just Procrastinating
When you get writer’s block (or any other creative block) it can be tough to get past it. There are strategies you can use to get the juices flowing. They all have one thing in common: they involve actually doing the work.
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How Kurobe, Japan Became the Zipper Capital of the World | Atlas Obscura
It has done so through the auspices of YKK, the world’s largest manufacturer of zippers, producing roughly half the world’s supply—some 7 billion a year.
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Terse Titles Cited – Scientific American
When it comes to communicating ideas, brevity is all the rage. Take a look at Twitter, which allows just 140 characters to speak your piece. Now scientists, it seems, could learn a lesson from the power of the tweet.
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Turkey with Erdogan is heading to havoc – Al Jazeera English
Right after Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary elections, I forecast the following: “Change will not come easily to Turkey. The ruling AKP doesn’t have enough seats to form a government on its own as it runs the risk of losing a potential vote of confide…
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Just One Bump of Cocaine Makes It Harder to Perceive Others’ Emotions | Motherboard
Doing just one dose of cocaine makes it harder for you to tell when your friends are angry or disgusted with you, a new study has found.
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NASA, USAID Open Environmental Information Hub for Southeast Asia | NASA
NASA, USAID Open Environmental Information Hub for Southeast Asia http://t.co/5RUsxjt6QO
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Bird’s eye view of the sunset and starry sky by Kurone Konopei. : ImaginaryMindscapes
Bird’s eye view of the sunset and starry sky by Kurone Konopei. via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes http://t.co/8QZZcRQBHF http://t.co/Obmarv0dz4
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 120 | WIRED
Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 120 http://t.co/aW6GGq37NE
For the seemingly interminable wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters, we’re helping pass time by giving you daily challenges related to everyone’s favorite universe. When you complete a task, send us a tweet @WIRED or tag us on Faceb… -
McKinley no more: America’s highest peak to be renamed Denali | Alaska Dispatch News
It’s official: Denali is now the mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley. With the approval of President Barack Obama, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has signed a “secretarial order” to officially change the name, the White House and Interior Dep…
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Running High – Roads & Kingdoms
Just after noon, panic sets in. Dad should be staggering out of the forest by now, body heavy with exhaustion. Around us, runners stumble to aid stations, but none of them have his signature handlebar mustache. Pit crews made up of friends and famil…
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Daredevil Teases A New Romance For Matt Murdock—But Not The One You’d Expect
Could we really get a sequel to The Iron Giant? Lucy Lawless discusses her Ash vs Evil Dead character. An unlikely character will take the lead in STAR Labs on The Flash. Plus, set footage from The Force Awakens, and more teases for Maisie William’s…
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Morning Digest: Lacy Clay could face a tough primary over his role in the Ferguson protests
• MO-01: Rep. Lacy Clay has never had much of a problem securing renomination in his safely blue St. Louis-area seat, with him easily defeating Russ Carnahan after the two congressmen were drawn into the same district in 2012. But in mid-August, sta…
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PAX Prime 2015 in pictures: Cosplay, cartridge art, and classic gaming | Ars Technica
In the years since about 3,000 people gathered in a Bellevue, Washington banquet hall in 2004, the Penny Arcade Expo has grown into something that’s hard to sum up in a single idea.
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AOL Acquires Photo And Messaging Startup Kanvas Labs | TechCrunch
AOL is announcing another acquisition — Kanvas Labs, maker of mobile social apps. An AOL spokesperson told me that the company will continue to offer the existing Kanvas Labs products.
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New York reporter strips off for a piece of undercover journalism | Media | The Guardian
It was a piece of “undercover journalism” aimed at ridiculing a decision by the city’s mayor and state governor to crack down on the so-called “painted ladies” who wander the square and receive tips for posing with tourists.
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Piracy: Outbreak off Somalia despite international effort – BBC News
There are warnings about a new outbreak of piracy off Somalia’s coast. It comes despite an international naval taskforce and British backed efforts to build stability onshore in the Horn of Africa.
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California court to consider if delays on death row violate US constitution | US news | The Guardian
In California, more prisoners have died of natural causes on death row than have perished in the death chamber. More than 900 killers have been sentenced to death since 1978, but only 13 have been executed.
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All I could think of when seeing Justin Bieber at the VMAs today. : funny
All I could think of when seeing Justin Bieber at the VMAs today. via /r/funny http://t.co/ytFbHtDsWn http://t.co/jZVBXG2lyN
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Traveling Backward in Time Is Kind of Hard – Scientific American
Traveling Backward in Time Is Kind of Hard http://t.co/QxgGhYaDVK
H. G. Wells published his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895, just a few years before Queen Victoria’s six-decade reign over the U.K. ended. An even more durable dynasty was also drawing to a close: the 200-year-old Newtonian era of physics. -
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Arthas, my Maine coon via /r/cats http://t.co/6JD5giqhKz http://t.co/JpEdhI2wnb
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Kanye West wants to run for president in 2020 – BBC News
Kanye West has announced that he wants to run for the US presidency in 2020 at the MTV Video Music Awards. It is not clear exactly how serious the rapper was being and he appeared to confess to smoking cannabis before taking the stage.
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I Used Physics to Calculate How Much Yoda Weighs | WIRED
Everyone knows Luke Skywalker travels to Dagobah to learn the ways of The Force (like his father before him). He trains with Jedi master Yoda. Perhaps you recall the scene where Luke does a one-armed handstand while balancing Yoda on one foot.
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After his daughter, WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker, was gunned down on live television, Andy Parker announced that he will devote himself to preventing gun violence.
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Turkey with Erdogan is avoiding chaos – Al Jazeera English
After Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK party) proved unable to form a coalition government with other parties in parliament, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his constitutional authority to call for an early election.
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T-Mobile Begins Downgrading “Network Abusers” Who Bypass Tethering Limits
Tethering has always been a sore subject with carriers. While T-Mobile has a plan that includes a limited amount of tethered data with its unlimited data plans, the company claims that a few users are bypassing that limit.
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Thai Police Hunt Two Bombing Suspects | Al Jazeera America
Police investigating Thailand’s deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects — then congratulated themselves on an earlier arrest, and said they would give themselves the money offered as a reward.
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How Mindfulness Could Help Teachers and Students – The Atlantic
A five-minute walk from the rickety, raised track that carries the 5 train through the Bronx, the English teacher Argos Gonzalez balanced a rounded metal bowl on an outstretched palm.
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meow_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/P0FlwWTY7v http://t.co/vKyt8ajYNO
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Sky Beneath the Waves by Christian Wicklein / 500px
Sky Beneath the Waves by wicklein http://t.co/LjpvpIT6l3 http://t.co/LIMpfjBYG2
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[OS] Sunset in Austin, TX by Matt Kinsely [1170×1170] : EarthPorn
[OS] Sunset in Austin, TX by Matt Kinsely [1170×1170] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/dQrntcdIVO http://t.co/qvS4nEWwmG
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Insomnia by zardo500px http://t.co/eHZrn2rS6j http://t.co/6II3eZdM7E
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Without him pointing me to the morning’s headlines, I might just end up spending the whole show sharing with you a story of corporate mass murder. Curious what that’s about?
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“Molecular Tweeting” Could Hold the Key to Busting Superbugs – Scientific American
Social Network: The Carnegie Mellon University researchers simulated biofilm evolution involving both homogeneous and heterogeneous bacteria populations.
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BBC Sport – Women’s Ashes: England beat Australia in final T20 at Cardiff
Natalie Sciver starred with bat and ball as England won the final Twenty20 international of the Women’s Ashes against Australia by five wickets. Having taken a career-best 4-15 with the ball, the all-rounder hit her highest score in T20s for England.
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We work in one of the few offices in the country dedicated to helping students (health professional, life sciences, population and social sciences) and postdocs navigate the job market.
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They sat here and fought the power. : firstworldanarchists
They sat here and fought the power. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/CLhjULeO41 http://t.co/wLyxrshDcd
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He sleeps with me but never calls back. : cats
He sleeps with me but never calls back. via /r/cats http://t.co/0PSvizFatW http://t.co/j1ekz2yx62
Love Everyone Often 09/01/2015
BBC Sport – Sri Lanka v India: Tourists secure series with victory in Colombo India secured their first Test series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 with a 117-run win in the deciding match. Sri Lanka began the last day in Colombo on 67-3, needing a further 319 to win.…
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