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Rub the ball via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/MtnSf3RI67 https://t.co/RqXJwnToYf
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The Bee All And End All: Why Should We Care That The Bees Are Dying? : environment
The Bee All And End All: Why Should We Care That The Bees Are Dying? via /r/environment https://t.co/plV7bR5llf https://t.co/zMn72Cojun
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Shawnee blep. via /r/Blep https://t.co/AEBj2rMXlM https://t.co/qEUqi0v0Wl
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Hjelmeland, Norway [OC] [2700×1500] : EarthPorn
Hjelmeland, Norway [OC] [2700×1500] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/6my1Xlr952 https://t.co/3dXJp4k9ZH
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The fish farm of the future – interactive | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
The fish farm of the future – interactive https://t.co/chQbOxhl76
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BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup: New Zealand unchanged for final
Defending champions New Zealand have named an unchanged side for Saturday’s World Cup final against Australia at Twickenham. Fly-half Dan Carter, the all-time leading points scorer in Test history, starts at 10 having missed New Zealand’s triumph in…
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‘1st Hardware Store in Space’: Commercial 3D Printer Launching in 2016
The home-improvement industry will soon get its first foothold in space.
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Dictator by Robert Harris review – a flawed but thrilling finale | Books | The Guardian
Robert Harris was an influential journalist and BBC reporter before he turned to writing fiction. His close friends have included Peter Mandelson and Roy Jenkins, and most of his ancient Roman politicians resemble figures in contemporary British pol…
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Bendukidze case: DNA test in battle for tycoon’s riches – BBC News
Tissue samples from the body of a billionaire Georgian tycoon, Kakha Bendukidze, will be sent from London to Moscow for DNA tests amid a court battle over his fortune. Bendukidze’s widow Natalia Zolotova argued against sending the samples. Ms Goncha…
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Hinkley Point C will cost customers at least £4.4bn | Environment | The Guardian
The UK’s first new nuclear power station for a generation will cost electricity customers at least £4.4bn and the subsidy bill could reach £20bn, the government has revealed.
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The future is the Internet of Things—deal with it | Ars Technica
Even before there was a World Wide Web, there was an Internet of Things. In 1991, a couple of researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab set out to solve the problem of making fruitless quests through the building to a shared coffee pot…
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Bootleg by Alex Shearer – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is a hilarious, heartwarming adventure that will have you either screaming with laughter or gasping with fear.
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China Ends Its One-Child Policy – The Atlantic
China, the world’s most-populous country, is ending its one-child policy nearly four decades after it first adopted the practice.
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Fears grow for missing US trader last seen in west London | UK news | The Guardian
An American trader has gone missing in London after arriving in the city for a job interview and vanishing before his return flight to the US.
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George Lucas museum approved by Chicago council – BBC News
Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas’ plans to build a $400m (£262m) museum along the shores of Chicago’s Lake Michigan have been approved. The city council voted overwhelming in favour of the 300,000 sq ft Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
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Fly Through 17th-Century London’s Gritty Streets with Prize-Winning Animations | Open Culture
Critics did not love 2004 film The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp as dissolute 17th century poet and court favorite John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester. The Guardian faulted its grim tone and historical inaccuracies and called it “grimy and p…
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I’m a first year teacher. Today I broke down. – GIF on Imgur
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Hope wanes for refugees missing in Aegean Sea – Al Jazeera English
At least 11 people – mostly children – have died in five separate incidents in the eastern Aegean Sea, as thousands of people continue to head to the Greek islands from Turkey in frail boats and stormy weather.
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How to Survive in ‘The Martian’ By Doing Math (Infographic)
The Ares III mission was supposed to last 31 sols (a sol is a 24.5-hour Martian day). Just to be safe, NASA sent 68 sols’ worth of food, for six people. For Watney alone, that will last 300 sols, extended to 400 if he rations.
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Math of ‘The Martian’: How It Adds Up
Matt Damon plays stranded NASA astronaut Mark Watney in the movie “The Martian,” which hit theaters in the United States on Oct. 2, 2015.
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Breaking the paralympic record for powerlifting. 241kg (531 lbs) – GIF on Imgur
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Northern Future Forum: Inside Iceland summit hotel – BBC News
The BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg takes a tour through the hotel in Iceland where the Northern Future Forum is being held. David Cameron is meeting leaders from eight other northern European countries.
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The US had no choice but to involve Iran in Syria talks – Al Jazeera English
The US invitation for Iran to take part in talks on Syria marks the first international recognition of the need to involve Iran in resolving the Middle East crisis.
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The Rise of the Hipster Witch | The New Republic
Alex Mar likens the search for her one true sect to “spiritual shopping.
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How To Design The Perfect Horror Cover
Horror comic book legend Steve Bissette gives his four top tips on designing covers that scare the hell out of you. I grew up reading comics in the ’80s and ’90s. X-Men, Justice League, and The Tick were my favorites.
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The End of Torture Porn | The New Republic
Onscreen sexual violence has become as monotonous as it is ubiquitous.
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Meet Snickers via /r/cats https://t.co/t4HefoxrfT https://t.co/7jCvUZRdzE
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HMB while take this segway to get some more beer : holdmybeer
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Gobble Raises $10.75M For Its 10-Minute Dinner Kits | TechCrunch
Food delivery startup Gobble is announcing that it has raised $10.75 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Trinity Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Fenox VC, Initialized Capital and Anjula Acharia-Bath.
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Dawn Probe Heads to Superclose Orbit of Dwarf Planet Ceres
A mosaic by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows Ceres’ Occator crater and surrounding terrain from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers. Image released Oct. 26, 2015.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Third GOP debate in the books
Looking across all pollsters and modes of pollsters, Donald Trump leads the field by 10 points, according to the Huffington Post, which averages poll results. Using only online polls, his lead is even bigger.
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Top 10 haunted houses in fiction | Children’s books | The Guardian
Everyone needs a home and ghosts are no exception. The fact is, they’re going to need it for a lot longer than most. Whether it’s a creepy castle or a gloomy graveyard, the ideal home is dead important when you’re a spook. Here are 10 of my favourit…
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Why Do Supermassive Black Holes Erupt?
Illustrations show how a corona, a shifting feature, can generate a flare of X-rays around a black hole. Image released Oct. 27, 2015.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech View full size image Astronomers are dragging the inner workings of black holes out into t…
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Nigeria army publishes ‘most-wanted Boko Haram militant’ photos – BBC News
Nigeria’s army has published photos of nearly 100 people whom it says are the most-wanted suspected leaders of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The army urged the public to phone special hotlines if any of the suspects were spotted, as it steps u…
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Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories to begin filming for TV | Books | The Guardian
Filming is due to start in November on a four-part TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short stories.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Melting slows ice flow
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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China Decides to Abolish One-Child Policy | Al Jazeera America
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating demographic restraints on the economy.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Comet gas surprise
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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Hiker stumbles upon ‘extraordinary’ 1,200-year-old Viking sword | World news | The Guardian
Some time near AD750, someone left a Viking sword along a mountain plateau in southern Norway. On a late October day more than 1,250 years later, a hiker named Goran Olsen picked it up.
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China Drops One-Child Cap After Three Decades to Lift Growth – Bloomberg Business
China’s ruling Communist Party will abandon the one-child policy introduced in the late 1970s to defuse a demographic time bomb that threatens to choke growth in the world’s second-biggest economy.
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150 miles above a Florida sunset (view from Apollo 7) : space
150 miles above a Florida sunset (view from Apollo 7) via /r/space https://t.co/U8BB8rgJMe https://t.co/G4b4veBtwq
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Melbourne, Australia skyline at dusk [2250×1500] [OC] : CityPorn
Melbourne, Australia skyline at dusk [2250×1500] [OC] via /r/CityPorn https://t.co/hyWO6J9hEl https://t.co/giOPMxfO5r
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MRW my wife is telling me what store she wants to go to next : shittyreactiongifs
MRW my wife is telling me what store she wants to go to next via /r/shittyreactiongifs https://t.co/zZNLDAFmwa https://t.co/i87MThML56
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My parents’ new kitten had no sense of personal space : cats
My parents’ new kitten had no sense of personal space via /r/cats https://t.co/bYgVs1H0nF https://t.co/okT7q2RfYu
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MOVE BITCH GET OUT OF THE WAY : gif
MOVE BITCH GET OUT OF THE WAY via /r/gif https://t.co/GyiEFCmBO6 https://t.co/MoTcBwMw8m
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Thanks for the pizza. via /r/funny https://t.co/tum0UQY9om https://t.co/feupf3Md4k
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Ben Carson’s Mannatech Problem – The Atlantic
During Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, CNBC moderator Carl Quintanilla asked Ben Carson, a leading GOP contender and an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon, about his relationship with a controversial nutritional-supplement…
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China to abolish decades-old one-child policy – Al Jazeera English
The official Xinhua News Agency says China’s ruling Communist Party has decided to abolish the country’s one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children.
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VW emissions cheat estimated to cause 59 premature US deaths | Environment | The Guardian
Nearly 60 people will die prematurely from the excess air pollution caused by Volkswagen cheating emissions tests in the US, according to a new study.
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How to Fake Being More Confident When You’re Just Not Feeling It
Confidence can be an enviable quality. Being completely assured of yourself and your abilities gives you the courage to take risks and accomplish great things. But confidence doesn’t always come easy, and it can come and go depending on your mood. T…
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Smoke From Wildfires Is Killing Hundreds of Thousands of People
Dr. Praveen Buddiga knew he would find a packed waiting room when he arrived at his office that warm September day in California’s Central Valley. White flakes drifted from the sky, as if he were inside a snow globe.
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What a curious, fascinating spectacle: The two men in the lead got lost in the pack.
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/RykTCSwOUa https://t.co/XeIVRpijl1
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He likes to taunt me. via /r/cats https://t.co/zkivzALZnb https://t.co/8WUSS2KZER
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Mulder the Ragdoll took his puppy Raina the Dane to the beach. : cats
Mulder the Ragdoll took his puppy Raina the Dane to the beach. via /r/cats https://t.co/Umg2ZUqW7I https://t.co/0KTyFaDAMy
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My hungry cat tries to steal some food : cats
My hungry cat tries to steal some food via /r/cats https://t.co/uOkOl6H5b6 https://t.co/Znaeb2vjYa
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Can identity be chosen or is it inborn? – Katharine Quarmby – Aeon
Alice, the heroine of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking‑Glass (1871), has many extraordinary encounters, but the one that’s always stuck with me is her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, an egg-shaped being, balanced on a wall.
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The Best Damn Band In The Land: overseas for the first time with NFL – video | Sport | The Guardian
The Ohio State University Marching Band, known as The Best Damn Band In The Land, performed for the first time outside of the United States since their formation in 1878 when their 225 band members came to London for the NFL International Series gam…
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Grab Your Tickets To The Disrupt London 2015 Hackathon | TechCrunch
Want to participate in the Disrupt London Hackathon but missed out on the first ticket release? Great news. Today we’re releasing the second wave of Hackathon tickets to the general public, and you can grab your tickets to the event right now.
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Visiting Etsy, Amazon’s Next Prey – The New Yorker
If you trust the press, Amazon is a capitalist leviathan, good for bargain-hunting consumers and bad for everyone else.
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Saudi blogger gets human rights prize – 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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Your pictures: Construction – BBC News
Your pictures: Construction 29 October 2015 Last updated at 10:44 Each week, we publish a gallery of readers’ pictures on a set theme. This week it is “construction”, and we begin with this photograph by David Bruce. Sarah Bowe: “I took these images…
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Mets Pitchers Have Found Their Kryptonite | FiveThirtyEight
Going into this World Series, many of the previews involved one key matchup: whether hard-throwing New York Mets pitchers could overwhelm the contact-minded Kansas City Royals hitters.
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Hail hell in Australia as storms rage – Al Jazeera English
Storms have raged across southeast Queensland bringing torrential rain, strong winds and giant hailstones. The hail, which has been the size of golf balls, has pelted homes, smashing windows and destroying roofs.
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Hairy Pawtter xpost r/harrypotter : cats
Hairy Pawtter xpost r/harrypotter via /r/cats https://t.co/AlIOC6xLk2 https://t.co/Gw4Va5P3cq
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Is this a Hot Spring or a Geyser in Yellowstone, Wyoming? [OC] [720×480] : EarthPorn
Is this a Hot Spring or a Geyser in Yellowstone, Wyoming? [OC] [720×480] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/tynZ2dQYOT https://t.co/vD9A55n6UJ
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G.O.P. Candidates Take Sharp Tone in Third Debate https://t.co/8MJr63oGru
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Buddhists call for strong Paris climate deal to limit warming – BBC News
Buddhists call for strong Paris climate deal to limit warming https://t.co/QfmqH3PxYs
Senior Buddhists have called on world leaders to agree a new climate change agreement at a conference in Paris next month. The 15 signatories, including the Dalai Lama, are urging politicians to completely phase out fossil fuels. -
Watch the trailer for filmmakers Holly Morris and Anne Bogart’s documentary about the extraordinary survival story of the Ukrainian women who refused to leave their homes following the nuclear disaster in 1986.
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China to end one-child policy – BBC News
The Inquiry into the Iraq War should be published in June or July 2016, its author Sir John Chilcot says.
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Taylor Swift files counterclaim against DJ accused of groping her – BBC News
Taylor Swift has filed a counterclaim against a US radio DJ who is suing the singer over allegations he groped her backstage at a concert in June 2013. David Mueller said he was fired from his job at KYGO in Denver two days later – but claims one of…
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Researchers Are Turning to Game Theory to Tackle Space Debris | Motherboard
Rogue pieces of space debris present a massive threat to present and future space activity. And as well as being a logistical problem, it can also get political.
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Iraq Inquiry published ‘in June or July 2016’ Sir John Chilcot says – BBC News
The Inquiry into the Iraq War should be published in June or July 2016, its author says. Sir John Chilcot confirmed the timetable in a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron on the inquiry’s website.
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These two Republican presidential candidates defended climate science during debate | Grist
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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Australia’s New Chief Scientist Has One of the Toughest Jobs in the Country | VICE | United Kingdom
This article originally appeared on VICE Australia. Alan Finkel was appointed to the position of Chief Scientist by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this week. It may look like a cushy position, but Finkel has a tough job ahead of him: convincing Aus…
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Does eco-friendly shampoo have a short shelf life? | Grist
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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Melting slows Greenland ice flow / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
It may seem counter intuitive, but satellite data suggest that part of the Greenland ice sheet moves more slowly if the surface of the ice melts faster. Greenland is losing vast quantities of ice to the ocean, raising sea levels.
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Senator Marco Rubio of Florida coolly rebuffed attacks from his onetime mentor, Jeb Bush, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas emerged as a champion of social conservatives at Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, as both men found their voices after…
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scent of sawdust by Cherrys Picks – Photo 126829751 – 500px
scent of sawdust by cherryspicks1 https://t.co/hvLNUkyX0b https://t.co/6npEx5A6rW
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Color of autumn by Kyon Kyonjj – Photo 126872955 – 500px
Color of autumn by KyonkyonJJ https://t.co/XSjDbId60D https://t.co/w3iF6vjXde
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Rays by Sadik Boujaida – Photo 126838015 – 500px
Rays by jsadikster https://t.co/WdxD6OHo1E https://t.co/5F9KnkDfxU
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/CTahV14GoG https://t.co/nIWEBAsyob
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What We Learned from a Contentious, Messy GOP Debate | VICE | United Kingdom
What We Learned from a Contentious, Messy GOP Debate https://t.co/QxiYxUMpQM
On Wednesday night, America was treated to the latest episode of the worst show on television, the GOP primary debates. There are too many characters, the plot veers suddenly from subject to subject, and often, it’s not clear who we’re supposed to b… -
Will reintroduced lynx hunt Britain’s sheep? | Environment | The Guardian
Depending on who you ask, the Eurasian lynx is either a benign woodland wonder or a sheep-stalking terror. In reality, any lynx can be either or none of these things.
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Chat App Firm Line Focuses On Services After Adding Just 1M MAUs In 3 Months | TechCrunch
Line, one of Asia’s top messaging app companies, got back to positive financial growth after recovering its first quarterly revenue drop. The Japanese company said its messaging app service grossed 32.
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When Richard Bernstein decided to run for a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court, he had a lot stacked against him: He was a Democrat, he had no experience as a judge, and he was blind—something he’d dealt with his entire life. Bernstein spent more th…
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October 29, 1929: The Stock Market Crashes, Plunging the World Into Economic Depression | The Nation
When the stock market crashed on this day in 1929, neither The Nation nor those boosters whom the magazine criticized for calling the crash merely a “healthy reaction” quite understood the depths of what had happened or how long it would take the co…
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Film Review: The Armor of Light | Mother Jones
Rattled by a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013, the Reverend Rob Schenck begins to question whether it’s possible to be both anti-abortion and pro-gun.
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Zuckerberg: Free, Limited Internet Is Better than Net Neutrality and No Internet | Motherboard
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The City That Has Its Own Operating System | Motherboard
From talking toasters to self-aware fridges, more and more devices are getting connected as part of the much-hyped Internet of Things. But one UK research project is taking the idea of digitizing everything well beyond personal devices: It’s connect…
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Jerry Jones is a lost cause – and it’s time we stopped listening to him | Sport | The Guardian
He’s a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won’t see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.
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The way these leaves contrast in each others natural location : oddlysatisfying
The way these leaves contrast in each others natural location via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/LIM44TrTHn https://t.co/WmctqRDo1N
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Surprisingly emerald waters in Polylimnio, Greece [OC] [3888 x 2592] : EarthPorn
Surprisingly emerald waters in Polylimnio, Greece [OC] [3888 x 2592] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/kBYMPnfCY0 https://t.co/4zsRqdwrwn
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The need to stay updated : cats
The need to stay updated via /r/cats https://t.co/y7cSFq64XB https://t.co/TTy6kpeTdS
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Vultures nearing extinction in Africa | Environment | The Guardian
Vultures nearing extinction in Africa https://t.co/uER4DSKBRM
Africa’s vultures are vanishing, according to a new report, posing a potential health risk to humans and livestock, since populations of other scavengers such as rats and jackals could rise as a result. -
Sf.ANA Lake, Romania by Ana Pana – Photo 126844393 – 500px
Sf.ANA Lake, Romania by AnaPana https://t.co/4I0VtVasm0 https://t.co/JdGS5R6XcO
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This is Garfield. He loves blep,too. : Blep
This is Garfield. He loves blep,too. via /r/Blep https://t.co/NTQLEiliUQ https://t.co/gXknb3Oz5L
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Deutsche Bank to cut 15,000 jobs – BBC News
Deutsche Bank has said it will cut 15,000 jobs as it announced a third-quarter €6bn (£4.3bn) loss. Germany’s biggest bank said it would cut 9,000 full-time jobs and 6,000 contractor roles.
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Blatter: US was agreed host for 2022 World Cup – Al Jazeera English
Sepp Blatter has claimed there was a backroom deal to give the 2022 World Cup to the United States before voting took place, but that the agreement was broken in favour of Qatar after high-level interference.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 10 – Rosetta’s detection of molecular oxygen
Rosetta has made the first detection of molecular oxygen at a comet.
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Shifting to a two child policy in China? – BBC News
Throughout the more-than-three decades of China’s one child policy, few places have borne the brunt quite like Rudong, a county of some one million people in eastern Jiangsu Province.
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Complex ‘character test’ facing tardy Chinese students – BBC News
Wang Sijun, who teaches at a university in Sichuan province, has been giving tardy students a complex character to write out on paper 1,000 times. The Chinese character for “biang”, is made up of 56 pen strokes.
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Couples Costume · The Goldbergs · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Witness Mr. Brick Heck, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by…
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Raven-Symone Has Lost Her Damn Mind – The Daily Beast
The entire country has been up in arms over the video that went viral this week showing hulking Deputy Ben Fields hurl a 16-year-old Black girl from her desk at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Run the Gauntlet Is the Most Disgusting Challenge on the Internet | Motherboard
What is the most disgusting video that you have ever seen on the internet? We’re sure you’ll come up with something. But was it really the most disgusting video on the internet? Certainly, there is always something even nastier and more revolting ou…
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Japan’s yakuza crime group split spikes gang war fears – Al Jazeera English
Japan’s yakuza crime group split spikes gang war fears https://t.co/3EBz3amcnD
Tokyo, Japan – When news broke that Japan’s most powerful yakuza crime syndicate – the Kobe-based Yamaguchi-gumi – was about to split into two groups, police departments around the country braced themselves for the gang war that was expected to foll… -
Royals double World Series lead over Mets – Al Jazeera English
Royals double World Series lead over Mets https://t.co/dsatMFviN7
The Kansas City Royals backed the superb two-hit pitching of Johnny Cueto with a relentless attack to rout the New York Mets 7-1 and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series. -
Joanna Newsom “Leaving The City” (Official Audio) – YouTube
Joanna Newsom “Leaving The City” (Official Audio) https://t.co/ciKTfI8kUE
Track from Joanna Newsom LP/CASS/CD “Divers”, available on October 23, 2015 on Drag City.Preorder now at: http://www.dragcity.com/products/diversBuy “Leaving the City” and preorder “Divers” now at: … -
Tanzania polls: US alarmed over Zanzibar vote annulment – BBC News
The US says it is “gravely alarmed” by the scrapping of Zanzibar’s tightly contested presidential and parliamentary elections. The decision should be rescinded, as the election had been “orderly and peaceful”, it added in a statement.
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Nepal elects first female president – Al Jazeera English
Nepalese politicians have elected a longtime women’s rights campaigner to become the country’s first female president, as the Himalayan nation pushes for more gender equality in politics and work life.
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Another Day, Another Hack: 13.5 Million Passwords from 000Webhost | Motherboard
Quite literally, everyday someone gets hacked. Whether that’s a telecommunications company having its customer data stolen, or another chain of businesses being ripped for all the credit cards it processes, today one hack just seems to melt into ano…
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Middlesbrough send Man Utd packing from League Cup – Al Jazeera English
Manchester United were dumped out of the League Cup after losing on penalties to second-tier Middlesbrough who reached the quarter-finals having withstood a late onslaught to secure a 0-0 draw in extra time.
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Russell Wilson and Ciara: The Curse of Being a Born-Again Virgin – The Daily Beast
On any given Sunday, the name “Ciara” will trend on Twitter.
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Joanna Newsom “Divers” (Official Video) – YouTube
Track from Joanna Newsom LP/CASS/CD “Divers”, available on Drag City.Buy the album “Divers” now at:http://www.dragcity.com/products/diversiTunes: http://geni.us/1HEkAmazon: http://geni.us/mhdVIDEODirected by Paul Thomas AndersonArtwork by Kim Keever…
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Anyone else’s kitty use a pillow daily? : cats
Anyone else’s kitty use a pillow daily? via /r/cats https://t.co/tkb47evCkK https://t.co/fcVw46VrOg
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Gaza Palestinians: Egypt ‘teaching Israel new tricks’ – Al Jazeera English
Gaza Palestinians: Egypt ‘teaching Israel new tricks’ https://t.co/xCbBpN5EIZ
Rafah, Gaza Strip – Eyad Musbah Abu Thar, 31, is a father of eight whose Rafah home lies within eyesight of Egyptian military positions. “When the [Egyptian army] pumps water into the tunnels … [it] reaches all the way to our home. My children can’… -
Stay prepared – without rocking a tool belt. The multipurpose MyKee may look like a simple key, but can open boxes, pop tags, peel vegetables, remove staples, work as a screwdriver and wrench, and open, pop or cut just about anything else you need o…
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Space Is Running Out In Startup And Hardware Alley At Disrupt London2015 | TechCrunch
In a little over a month, dozens of startups from around the world will make their way to London’s Copper Box Arena for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. Will your company be among them?
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A brief guide to … Chelsea’s rivalry with Liverpool | Sport | The Guardian
With the Guardian’s unstoppable rise to global dominance** we at Guardian US thought we’d run a series of articles for fans wishing to improve their knowledge of the sports history and storylines, hopefully in a way that doesn’t patronise you to wit…
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Dynasty by Tom Holland review – the soap opera version of history | Books | The Guardian
Dynasty, the TV series from the 1980s, told the story of an obscenely wealthy, overprivileged and self-obsessed set of people, always dressed in peculiar and expensive clothes, who devoted their lives to shoring up their own wealth and power while s…
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The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book continues Callum’s magical journey at the Magisterium and finding out about himself and the secret that his father has kept away from him.
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OnePlus X Unveiled: 5-Inch Display, 13MP Rear Camera, Starting At $249 | TechCrunch
The rumors were true…today, the OnePlus X Android phone was announced officially at an event in London. The OnePlus 2 isn’t even shipping out to customers yet, but hey, why not announce new stuff? Gadget geeks love them. Since we called the 2 “promi…
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Drug war consumes Brazil’s Amazonian capital – Al Jazeera English
Manaus, Brazil – “Little Ricardo” tried to find a job but failed because of a criminal record for robbery as a teenager. Today he sells cocaine, crack, and marijuana at a “boca de fumo” – a drug den – in the dusty streets of Santa Etelvina.
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Out of the Shadows – Al Jazeera English
Of the half a billion people worldwide currently suffering from mental illness, three quarters live in the developing world. In the poorest countries, governments spend very little on mental health care, leaving their citizens disproportionately aff…
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Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) is a psychotherapy approach developed by Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC.
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08-06-15 by DJ MacIver – Photo 126855343 – 500px
08-06-15 by dj777_100er https://t.co/o8yaNSACX0 https://t.co/gabse96SYE
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My first time take at the Milky Way [1024×683] : ExposurePorn
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I’m not always the cutest in the land… : cats
I’m not always the cutest in the land… via /r/cats https://t.co/a7KIiInsr0 https://t.co/MRDXunOc3L
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China signs deal to buy 130 Airbus aircraft during Merkel visit – BBC News
China signs deal to buy 130 Airbus aircraft during Merkel visit https://t.co/0XYyboKmx6
China has signed a $17bn (15.5bn euro; £11bn) contract to buy 130 aircraft from the European aerospace consortium Airbus. The deal was announced after a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing. -
“Jacked O’ Lantern” · Black-ish · TV Review · The A.V. Club
At the bare minimum, Halloween on Black-ish is the perfect excuse to see the Johnsons in adorable family costumes. That may not sound like much, but it really does mean a lot: Just take a look at Jack dressed as the Obama family dog, Bo, in this epi…
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“Tweek x Craig” · South Park · TV Review · The A.V. Club
I have to admit, until tonight, I was unaware of the phenomenon that is Tweek x Craig yaoi.
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Dozens missing after refugee boat sinks in Aegean | Al Jazeera America
Authorities on the Greek island of Lesbos say 38 people are believed still missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants sank. Three people are known to have died.
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Splashy signings and proven models: Orlando goes all in on women’s soccer | Football | The Guardian
Orlando City SC’s new women’s team, the Orlando Pride, are officially the 10th franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League and they are aiming high. Or at least, they are aiming as high as the Portland Timbers and the Houston Dynamo.
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Israeli book to be distributed in Iran as ‘a life line between the countries’ | Books | The Guardian
The major Israeli author Etgar Keret is hoping that the translation of his new book, The Seven Good Years, into Farsi “will help some of its Iranian readers to see the Israeli people as flawed human entities and not just as mortal enemies”.
Israeli book to be distributed in Iran as ‘a life line between the countries’ https://t.co/dotsSLOcLz -
For a witch, you need three colours – one medium, one light and one dark. We used green, yellow and dark blue. Using a big brush, cover the face in your base colour
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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French City Sued for Mistreatment of Refugees | Al Jazeera America
Medecins du Monde, also known as Doctors of the World, demanded that the city of Calais, which falls under Lille’s jurisdiction, provide basic amenities to the camp’s inhabitants.
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Republican rivals spar in TV debate – BBC News
US Republicans have traded blows in a heated presidential debate in Colorado that featured several angry exchanges. Frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson were under attack from the start, with Ohio Governor John Kasich condemning their “fantasy t…
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Russian fears of Syria becoming a ‘new Afghanistan’ – Al Jazeera English
Moscow, Russia – Alexander Sokolov proudly showed black-and-white pictures of himself snapped more than 30 years ago at a Soviet military base outside Kabul, the Afghan capital, where he served as a communications officer.
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UN: Israeli-Palestinian violence nears ‘catastrophe’ – Al Jazeera English
The United Nations has warned that a deadly surge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians is leading them towards “catastrophe”. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein said on Wednesday that the latest flare-up in the six-d…
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Australia’s newest literary award, the Richell prize for emerging writers, has been won by Sally Abbott for her manuscript, Closing Down.
Richell prize: Sally Abbott’s vision of a future Australia wins literary award https://t.co/neyAGN5W2y -
Prince Harry meets the Obamas for Invictus Games talks – video | UK news | The Guardian
Britain’s Prince Harry met with President Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday to promote next year’s Invictus Games for wounded service members.
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Narendra Modi: India pledges $600m to help Africa – BBC News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced $600m (£393m) in assistance for development projects in Africa at a major summit in Delhi. More than 50 African leaders are attending the India-Africa Forum Summit, unprecedented in scale, in the Ind…
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Merlin | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Merlin by OC Birds https://t.co/5MedEFmMoD https://t.co/lcgiDd6Ovi
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Siamese Peninsula pitviper | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Siamese Peninsula pitviper by Reptiles4all https://t.co/7ex8ECzkHH https://t.co/3lPpafhpG8
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Civory and Dome | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Civory and Dome by Lawrence OP https://t.co/bg0YMlI5PZ https://t.co/rAYLrXYpfZ
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Nuremberg, Germany [OC] [1000×718] : ArchitecturePorn
Nuremberg, Germany [OC] [1000×718] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://t.co/gyrI7Q7wNm https://t.co/kmDqX4fQUP
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Walk towards La Zenia by Joachim Andersson – Photo 126848085 – 500px
Walk towards La Zenia by joachimanderssonhbg https://t.co/vG5PJseHD6 https://t.co/zNOR7bmw5P
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BBC iPlayer app coming to Apple TV ‘in coming months’ – BBC News
The BBC has confirmed that its iPlayer service is coming to the new Apple TV. The catch-up app is not ready to launch alongside the revamped set top box when it goes on sale this week, but the broadcaster signalled it would be soon.
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Social Intelligence Startup Brandwatch Raises $33M Series B To Grow In US | TechCrunch
Social media is officially eating Internet and where the people go with their eyeballs so do the brands. But the brands are – largely – all at sea, still trying to figure all this stuff out.
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Earthquake trauma in Pakistan’s remote villages – BBC News
The Pakistan government has said it it will offer relief and compensation to survivors of Monday’s powerful earthquake. Officials said at least 10,000 homes were destroyed by the earthquake, which struck Pakistan and northern Afghanistan.
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China cartoon to promote economic five-year plan – Al Jazeera English
China is about to reveal its latest five-year economic plan. In the absence of democracy, the five-year plans are the closest thing to an election manifesto for the Communist Party, laying out its longer-term priorities.
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Husky adopts kitten. cute level over 9000 : AnimalsBeingBros
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Candelit vigil after Bailey Gwynne’s death at Cults Academy – BBC News
Candelit vigil after Bailey Gwynne’s death at Cults Academy https://t.co/fCm7IfMZH9
A candelit vigil is to be held in Aberdeen following the death of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed by another teenager while at school.Bailey Gwynne’s death, which happened at Cults Academy, is being treated as murder. -
Kumail Nanjiani of Silicon Valley posted this on Twitter today… : television
Kumail Nanjiani of Silicon Valley posted this on Twitter today… via /r/television https://t.co/uzDBaEGGXG https://t.co/qRrFlB8Cbk
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I recently learned about this thing called ASMR and it’s fucking awesome – GIF on Imgur
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Royal Dutch Shell pushed into loss by charges – BBC News
Royal Dutch Shell has reported a loss for the third quarter of the year, after taking a big charge to reflect the cost of halting major projects. The oil company reported a loss of $6.1bn (£4bn) in the quarter, compared with a $5.3bn profit last yea…
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The Big Ideas Behind Andy Warhol’s Art, and How They Can Help Us Build a Better World | Open Culture
Multicolored Marilyn Monroes, a can of Campbell’s soup, that silver wig, some vague but important role in the formation of the Velvet Underground — how much, apart from a scattering of cultural scraps such as these, does any of us really know about …
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BBC Sport – Sam Burgess: England centre to stay at Bath says Mike Ford
England centre Sam Burgess will stay at Bath and continue in rugby union, according to his coach Mike Ford. More to follow.
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Good morning , and welcome to our rolling coverage of the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and business. Today we’ll be mopping up the reaction to last night’s Federal Reserve meeting, where US policymakers floated the serious poss…
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Slade House by David Mitchell review – like Stephen King in a fever | Books | The Guardian
“Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by MC Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever,” observes a spooked member of a university’s paranormal society in David Mitchell’s manically ingenious new novel, Slade House.
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BBC News – Barclays third-quarter profit falls after settlements
Barclays has said third-quarter profit before tax fell to £861m from £1.22bn a year ago. The lender set aside £290m to compensate foreign exchange customers and £270m to settle two claims in the US over mortgage-backed securities.
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Blatter claims backroom deal on 2018 World Cup – Al Jazeera English
Sepp Blatter has claimed there was a deal to give Russia the 2018 World Cup before voting took place, and blamed “bad losers” England and the US for the corruption scandal engulfing the organisation.
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Marco Rubio’s Big Night at the Republican Debate – The New Yorker
Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, is an unusual politician. When he speaks, he often sounds as though he has just graduated from college with double honors in clichés and platitudes.
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New image of Enceladus’s north pole : space
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Looping Blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/S8OvgdpWJi https://t.co/8Cml4bNeck
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A Sino-American naval showdown in the South China Sea – Al Jazeera English
A Sino-American naval showdown in the South China Sea https://t.co/uhDUz96R7A
For decades, the United States has dominated Asian waters, with its colossal navy roaming vital waterways with impunity. -
Whenever I have to cook dinner. : gif
Whenever I have to cook dinner. via /r/gif https://t.co/c2fskEQSyL https://t.co/TGs1LoRTyn
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Lost kingdom by Lara Koo – Photo 126869951 – 500px
Lost kingdom by poweroflovekoo9 https://t.co/MZaeCUcQGe https://t.co/4cnSjijxmZ
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Possessed via /r/cats https://t.co/Ay0uwiH5VK https://t.co/3lVI3pvsNc
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My cat Rihanna and dog Chuck playing together : cats
My cat Rihanna and dog Chuck playing together via /r/cats https://t.co/aGUlrCSqjW https://t.co/26Ae9wcdli
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Honolulu Investigating Cop for Arresting Lesbians | Al Jazeera America
The Honolulu Police Department opened an internal investigation Wednesday into allegations that an officer wrongfully arrested a vacationing lesbian couple after seeing them kissing in a grocery store.
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Stars Bursting to Life in Messier 94 | Space Wallpaper
About this Image Around the Galaxy Messier 94 a starburst ring reveals the birthing of new stars into the Universe.
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Painful legacy of China’s one child policy – BBC News
The policy-making arm of China’s Communist Party is meeting this week to hammer out a strategy for the country’s economic and social development in the next five years. One of the measures widely rumoured to be under consideration is the end of Chin…
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Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, arrived in South Sumatra on Thursday, pledging to tackle the raging forest fires that have engulfed the country and its neighbours in thick smog for almost three months.
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Beloved Dog: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Our Canine Companions | Brain Pickings
“Dogs … are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend our unconditional love.” “A lot of us humans,” Ursula K.
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At the end of this year the millennium development goals will be replaced by 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). Focused on tackling poverty, education, health, hunger and environmental issues around the world, the private sector has been invol…
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It was an eerie moment. The former foreign secretary William Hague told the American biographer Robert Caro that he was George Osborne’s favourite author. Caro was pleased, not least as he was about to have dinner with Osborne at Downing Street.
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2015 Fritz Pölking nature photography prize – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Italian photographer Bruno D’Amicis has won the 2015 Fritz Pölking prize with his photography story ‘Fennec, little ghost of the dunes’. The award, named in honour of wildlife photographer Fritz Pölking, who died in 2007, is run by the Society of Ge…
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On 26 April 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactor No 4 blew up after a cooling test. The resulting nuclear fire lasted 10 days, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Indian hanged girls: Court rejects probe ruling out rape – BBC News
An Indian court has rejected a federal police report which had ruled that two teenage girls found hanging from a tree in India last year took their own lives and were not gang-raped and murdered.
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A Walk Among the Waterfalls [1000X666] : EarthPorn
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Meet Harvey. :3 via /r/cats https://t.co/yiNyrpaSjI https://t.co/cN4nrlvngb
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‘Monster Mash’, as sung by a baby owl and its electronic owl friend
‘Monster Mash’, as sung by a baby owl and its electronic owl friend https://t.co/7g06U23qel
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Sony Records $280M Profit In Q2 2015 But Struggles For Smartphone Profitability | TechCrunch
Sony’s financial turnaround continues with its Q2 2015 period. The Japanese company posted a slim net profit of $280 million (33.6 billion JPY) on revenue of $15.8 billion (1,892.7 billion JPY). Operating profit came in at $733 million (88 billion J…
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Does America Really Need Cops in Schools? | VICE | United Kingdom
Earlier this week, a shocking video of a black South Carolina high school student being tossed around like a rag doll by a white cop went viral.
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The Pass That Allows People to Fly Free Forever and the Airline’s Attempt to Kill It
Back in 1981, in an effort to raise some quick funds, American Airlines introduced a $250,000 pass (about $641,000 today) that would allow customers to fly on its airlines for free for the rest of their lives. In 1990, they bumped the price to $600,…
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“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.
Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Its Mastery https://t.co/xtNwN9653v -
Your mileage may vary when it comes to what Sansa Stark was up to on Game of Thrones last year. Some people—including actress Sophie Turner—loved the plot that saw Sansa ensnared and tormented by the Boltons.
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Murdered NYPD Cop Randolph Holder ‘Died as a Warrior’ – The Daily Beast
The memory of three fallen comrades stood in the soaking rain with thousands of cops who saluted the hearse bearing the fourth member of the NYPD murdered in the past 10 months. Police Officer Randolph Holder had stood at attention just like this at…
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Well he’s not wrong… https://t.co/2cz8gzZvmp https://t.co/YrLwCAvsRV
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Online university for refugees launched in Germany – Al Jazeera English
The first online university for refugees, which offers them a free higher education wherever they are in the world, has launched in Germany. Kiron University says on its website that all students need is a computer and an internet connection.
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S. Korean Ferry Firm Head Sentenced Over Sinking | Al Jazeera America
South Korea’s highest court on Thursday sentenced the head of a ferry operator to seven years in prison over a ship sinking last year that killed more than 300 people. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced Kim Han-sik, preside…
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Republican 2016 debate: Winners and losers in five key fights – BBC News
There was a whiff of desperation in the air – along with the sizzle of political pyrotechnics – as Republican candidates took the stage for Wednesday night’s presidential debate on cable news network CNBC.
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Woolworths forecasts 35% slide in first-half profits – BBC News
Australia’s biggest supermarket chain, Woolworths, said that profits would fall by up to 35% for the six months to December. The profit warning is the third from the retailer this year as it struggles to compete with rivals Coles and Aldi.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula
IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula https://t.co/6UzQGA0hEA
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel… -
How Stress Makes You Sick – The Atlantic
How Stress Makes You Sick https://t.co/MA44NCMHT1
The advice, “Stop worrying! Stress is bad for you” is true, but as with a lot of health guidance, its vagueness makes it less effective. -
Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (1981-1987) : OldSchoolCool
Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (1981-1987) via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/wOFx1YjtgV https://t.co/STfUqwNTHQ
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Misty, in a rare exposed belly pose : cats
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Walked 200 feet into a mine then opened the shutter [4147×2848][OC] : ExposurePorn
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Watch an NYPD Cop Tackle and Pepper-Spray a 22-Year-Old Skateboarder | VICE | United Kingdom
A 22-year-old named Yibin Mu was violent arrested on Sunday evening for allegedly ignoring the numerous signs in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle that ban skateboarding there.
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EU referendum: ‘UK yet to reveal reform details’ – BBC News
Two European leaders have told the BBC that the UK is yet to reveal any details about what it wants to achieve in a renegotiation with the EU. Estonia and Finland’s leaders say David Cameron has so far failed to provide concrete proposals.
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VICE Meets Chris Hedges | VICE | United Kingdom
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times.
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On Monday in South Carolina, Spring Valley High’s school resource officer, a brawny Sheriff’s deputy named Ben Fields, flipped over and dragged a 16-year-old student out of her desk and threw her clear across the room.
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/xtJTHyonMJ https://t.co/E0hoL5KAq8
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Third Republican debate scorecard – Al Jazeera English
JEB BUSH: Needed to have a good night and it didn’t happen. He chose to attack Marco Rubio and that backfired. He was steady in his answers on some topics but seemed at times to wish he was somewhere else. Faces a real battle to stop his big money …
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Sanders Would Remove Pot From Fed’s Drug List | Al Jazeera America
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday if elected president he would seek to remove marijuana from a list of drugs deemed illegal by the federal government, freeing up states to regulate pot like alcohol or tobacco.
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Taylor Swift launches counterclaim against radio DJ accused of groping her | Music | The Guardian
Taylor Swift filed a counterclaim on Wednesday against a former Denver radio host who sued her after he said he lost his job because of false accusations he inappropriately touched her.
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Australia and China are set to proceed with planned joint military exercises next week, with the Coalition indicating the US “freedom of navigation” patrol through the South China Sea that angered Beijing has had no effect on the timing.
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I love my cat, she is very cute! : cats
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The box is too small : Catloaf
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“Always Two There Are” · Star Wars Rebels · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Here’s what we know by the end of “Always Two There Are”: there are two Inquisitors, one is slightly smarter than the other, and that she may know Ahsoka Tano at a more personal level.
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Ghostly little egrets and art deco mergansers | Environment | The Guardian
The final meanderings of the River Kent cut jigsaw pieces out of the low-lying farmland at the northern perimeter of Morecambe Bay. The fields were created centuries ago from deposits of peat, silt and sand, and by ditching.
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New York City unveils Statue of Liberty: archive, 29 October 1886 | US news | The Guardian
New York, Thursday.The dedication of M. Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty on Bedloe’s Island took place to-day. The proceedings were unfortunately marred by unfavourable weather, with a drizzling rain and fog prevailing throughout.
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Turkey election: Security has become the key issue – BBC News
Turkey holds an election on Sunday – the second in five months – with the governing AK Party hoping to win back its majority. The faltering economy and the state of Turkish democracy are among the issues.
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Nintendo’s First Mobile Game Isn’t Mario, And It Won’t Be Available Until March 2016 | TechCrunch
Nintendo fans waiting for the Japanese gaming giant to release its first mobile game this year will have to wait a little longer, after the schedule for its much-anticipated first release was bumped back to March 2016.
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“Devil’s Night” · American Horror Story · TV Review · The A.V. Club
When an episode opens with The Night Stalker strutting into the Hotel Cortez and announcing “I have a standing reservation” to the star-struck Liz Taylor, it’s clear American Horror Story is swinging for the fences, and “Devil’s Night” is a bang-up …
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Lamestream CNBC Moderators Blamed for GOP Debate Debacle – The Daily Beast
People will argue about which Republican presidential candidate came out on top in Wednesday night’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colo., but it was pretty clear who lost.
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I had something she wanted : cats
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Flags of French Regions [1300 x 1217] : MapPorn
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Many bleps. via /r/Blep https://t.co/WxpjZRWehA https://t.co/lQ1NSKe4Sf
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My friend found this fox hiding in his bathroom. : aww
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The Growler by Mike Olbinski – Photo 126812973 – 500px
The Growler by MikeOlbinski https://t.co/dg0DqlSBJK https://t.co/Wna6X5tx9Z
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Pan stretched out for a nap : LazyCats
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Now Kids Are Being Trained to Stop Heroin Overdoses – The Daily Beast
Now Kids Are Being Trained to Stop Heroin Overdoses https://t.co/0USFQRlVIQ
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Still fuming over HTTPS mishap, Google gives Symantec an offer it can’t refuse | Ars Technica
Google has given Symantec an offer it can’t refuse: give a thorough accounting of its ailing certificate authority process or risk having the world’s most popular browser—Chrome—issue scary warnings when end users visit HTTPS-protected websites that…
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In Boulder, GOP Candidates Debate With New Urgency | Al Jazeera America
The theme of Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate, hosted by CNBC, was ostensibly the economy, but the 10 GOP candidates who met for the third time were often too preoccupied with throwing lobs at each other and the “mainstream media” to answer…
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Yeah, Jeb Bush Is Probably Toast | FiveThirtyEight
Yes, we pride ourselves on being skeptical of the conventional wisdom here at FiveThirtyEight. You don’t have to look very far back for examples where it was wrong, such as how it badly overestimated the degree of danger that Hillary Clinton’s campa…
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Will China Colonize North Korea? – The Daily Beast
At the beginning of last week, Seoul launched a new round of China diplomacy to encourage Beijing to play a “constructive role” in denuclearizing North Korea.
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Columbia’s Anti-Rape Protest Gets Wacky – The Daily Beast
“Racism? It happens here! Classism? It happens here! Oppression? It happens here! Protect all survivors!”
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We’ve Been Measuring Poverty All Wrong – The Daily Beast
According to an economic study released this month, poverty-reducing programs such as food stamps and housing vouchers are almost twice as effective as originally estimated.
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Nun Excommunicated for Becoming a Priest – The Daily Beast
When Letitia “Tish” Rawles was ordained as a Catholic priest in April, it was the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of yearning—and a practical fix to ministering to the sick and dying at her Cincinnati assisted living facility, where it was often h…
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Biggie’s ashes rise from beyond the grave. Is it witchcraft? Demonic possession? Or the bouncy cadence of that Ray Charles sample on Kanye’s no. 1 single “Gold Digger?” H.P.
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Is Sexism All in Your Brain? – The Daily Beast
Sexism is deeply ingrained in our patriarchal society, alive and well in our misogynistic culture—or so the rhetoric goes. Now we can blame “neuroscience,” too, thanks to a new study, which found that sexist views can be inferred from brain anatomy.
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Boko Haram Wants Bombmaker for Girls – The Daily Beast
ABUJA, Nigeria — Ever since Muhammadu Buhari took office last May as Nigeria’s fifth democratically elected president, he has made the war against insurgency in the country’s northeast region his top priority, working hard to keep his pre-election p…
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Now Kids Are Being Trained to Stop Heroin Overdoses – The Daily Beast
The antidote for a heroin overdose is so easy to give that even a child can do it. Jennifer Stepp of Kentucky wants to teach local children how to administer the drug naloxone to people who have overdosed on opiates—starting with her 8-year-old dau…
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Four UK bird species including puffins ‘face extinction’ – BBC News
Puffins are among four UK bird species now at risk of extinction, according to the latest revision of a global conservation database.
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A GOP Debate Without a Winner—Or Much of a Point | The Nation
Donald Trump lost interest mid-way through the third Republican presidential debate. It’s a bad night for Trump when his most memorable line is a closing-statement claim of credit for negotiating a shorter debate: “I got it down to two hours so we c…
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James Packer buys into Robert De Niro’s restaurant and hotel chain, Nobu | Business | The Guardian
James Packer and the Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro have become unlikely partners after the Australian billionaire bought a stake in the actor’s world renowned Japanese restaurant and hotel chain, Nobu. Packer’s Crown Resorts casino business has…
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The Wonders · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Some people’s problems would never occur to you. About midway through The Wonders, an autobiographical drama about a family of beekeepers in rural Italy, a violent storm hits, with winds strong enough to blow the lids off of the boxed hives upon whi…
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In Gameological Unplugged, Samantha Nelson looks at trends and new developments in the vast world of tabletop games.
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Samsung Mobile Sales Increase In Q3 2015, But Profit Drops Following Price Cuts | TechCrunch
Samsung beat expectations from analysts in Q3 2015, but with little help from its mobile business. The Korean firm’s semiconductor and display panel divisions were the stand-out performers that, alongside favorable currency rates, contributed to a $…
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Think of the worst thing you’ve ever done. Now: Why did you do it? Maybe you have some vast network of rationalizations for it, or maybe it was because you were bored, or curious, or angry, or drunk.
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Despite starting off perfectly, the Halloween series becomes less scary with each film, succumbing to tonal inconsistencies, an emphasis on violence over atmosphere, and two completely separate timelines.
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Our Brand Is Crisis · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Fictionalizing non-fiction is a common practice; most films that purport to be “based on a true story” ought to slide a “loosely” in front of that boast of veracity.
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The Armor Of Light · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Abigail Disney’s documentary The Armor Of Light introduces Reverend Rob Schenck in an intentionally inflammatory way: via old news footage of the evangelical pastor at an Operation Rescue rally, walking through an angry pro-choice crowd with a model…
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Is The Cabin In The Woods a horror movie? · Crosstalk · The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club staff is full of horror movie buffs, but one film in particular has generated a lot of discussion over the past few years, just as it has in the horror community in general.
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It’s the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover no one was waiting for! · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, October 29. All times are Eastern. Bones (Fox, 8 p.m.)/ Sleepy Hollow (Fox, 9 p.m.): Some network crossovers make sense: Sure the detectives of New York’s SVU sometimes share cases with the Chicago P…
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Love · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Working in that time-tested arthouse tradition of combining explicit sex with interminable scenes of people arguing and talking about themselves, Gaspar Noé’s overlong 3-D relationship drama Love unfolds as series of spats between pigheaded American…
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Burnt · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Is it too much to ask for a film about creative self-destruction to have a few loose screws of its own? Because Burnt is just about the toniest movie anyone could make about a recovering junkie throwing tantrums and lobbing pots and pans at people, …
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John Carpenter’s low-budget, precision-made slasher Halloween is one of the cornerstones of the modern horror film. A massive hit upon its initial release in 1978, the movie spawned a franchise and scores of imitators, and put Carpenter on the path …
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Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Pounce in GOP ‘Cage Match’ – The Daily Beast
It was the worst debate ever, but a few candidates emerged unscathed—particularly Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Wednesday night’s two big winners.
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Pyrenees, Spain[4928x 3264][OC] : EarthPorn
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Night lapse from my back yard. : space
Night lapse from my back yard. via /r/space https://t.co/flSm5gOtD2 https://t.co/l3feD2AAOm
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Kiribati’s Dilemma: Before We Drown We May Die of Thirst : environment
Kiribati’s Dilemma: Before We Drown We May Die of Thirst via /r/environment https://t.co/vV45Z70sFL https://t.co/0sOFHuvuM7
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When Johnny Cueto is great, so are the Royals. And Cueto was great | Sport | The Guardian
When Johnny Cueto is great, so are the Royals. And Cueto was great https://t.co/FRc9jTfily
Picking the Most Valuable Royal from a roster as deep as the Mariana Trench is a fool’s exercise, but humor us here. Exhibit A. The Clincher, Game 5 of the 2015 American League Division Series: eight innings pitched, two hits, two runs, eight strike… -
(oc) I miss summer (6000×4584) : EarthPorn
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My cat needs to take a very sour medicine. She looks like a rabid cat : cats
My cat needs to take a very sour medicine. She looks like a rabid cat via /r/cats https://t.co/JYvgpaDsW4 https://t.co/X9Uqu6g42w
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Love a morning like this II. by Leif Løndal – Photo 126850149 – 500px
Love a morning like this II. by LeifLndal https://t.co/ovqXWagipp https://t.co/qQ0rSY7ERj
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Everything you need to know about the Republican debate in six gifs | US news | The Guardian
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) October 29, 2015 @LindseyGrahamSC’s foreign policy. pic.twitter.com/Ae8obILle8 — Guardian US (@GuardianUS) October 29, 2015 @CarlyFiorina confirms that despite criticism after the previous debate, she can smile. pic.twitt…
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APOD: 2015 October 28 – Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star
Explanation: What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole? Recent observations from Earth-orbiting observatories of an event dubbed ASASSN-14li, in a distant galactic center, appears to be giving one star’s harrowing story.
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IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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While Wednesday’s Republican debate on CNBC was a less lively affair than previous encounters, candidates still had flashes of nasty, taking shots at each other and even the debate moderators (ahem, Ted Cruz).
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“Spooky Sunday Funday” · You’re The Worst · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Sooner or later, most everyone realizes that good intentions just don’t cut it all the time. No matter how pure of heart or how intelligent or how emotionally aware you are, it all pales in comparison to actually being cognizant of other people and …
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Open thread for night owls: The House committee even worse than the Benghazi committee
David Roberts:The Benghazi committee is not even the worst committee in the House.
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Rupert Grint to keep making comic-based shows until one sticks, we guess · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rupert Grint is making his second try at comic book-based TV stardom, with the Harry Potter star and recovering Weasley attaching himself to a new project that was just given a pilot commitment by NBC.
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
Global Research Alert Called for Microbial Ecosystems Critical to Life on Earth https://t.co/QnCfePh3qw https://t.co/LiDobmQWNC -
photo by @joelsartore | Ring-tailed lemurs at @LincolnChildrensZoo. As you can see, lemurs are social mammals- up to 30 lemurs can live together at once. This species is also the most terrestrial lemur, meaning it spends the most time on the ground.
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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Valley of the five lakes, Jasper AB (1920×1440) : EarthPorn
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My teen self, learning to pick up women : funny
My teen self, learning to pick up women via /r/funny https://t.co/C3rxYmurjN https://t.co/11A4ULlGwN
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Movie on Iceberg Image, Greenland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
This spot should be left empty to be filled in by the Photo of the Day logic.
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Third Republican debate: nine things we learned | US news | The Guardian
The third Republican debate is over. Here’s what we learned:
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And I’m gonna have to ask you to upvote ALL cosplay. Thanks. – Meme on Imgur
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The Oatmeal trolled Huffpo UK yesterday when they got caught hotlinking – Imgur
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Rihanna Cast in Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’ | Rolling Stone
Rihanna is returning to the big screen. Director Luc Besson, the man behind Lucy, announced via Instagram that the singer has been cast for his upcoming sci-fi movie, Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The film is set to release on July 21…
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21 Hilarious and WTF Moments From the GOP Debate | Rolling Stone
The third Republican debate took place Wednesday evening at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Republican debate: candidates attack media amid tough economy questions | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidates turned fire on the media on Wednesday as their economic policies were put under the spotlight in a tetchy but wide-open presidential debate in Colorado. Related: Trump and co spar on gay rights, equal pay, marijuan…
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The Nine Biggest Moments From Wednesday’s Republican Debate | Mother Jones
Colorado brownies, fashion critiques, fantasy football, and snide remarks on lectern placement: It must be another presidential debate. On Wednesday evening, the top 10 Republican presidential contenders gathered in Boulder, Colorado, for the third …
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The latest cancer report from the World Health Organization provides persuasive evidence that eating meat can cause cancer, but the risk is very small for most people. A research arm of the W.H.O.
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Nintendo Announces Its First Mobile Game | Motherboard
Nintendo finally unveiled its first free-to-play mobile game on Wednesday night, and it’s probably not you expected. It’s not a greedy, match-3 game in the style of Candy Crush Saga, only with The Legend of Zelda rupees, or a Clash of Clans clone, b…
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Patton Oswald’s Tweet Scrolls During Republican Debate : gifs
Patton Oswald’s Tweet Scrolls During Republican Debate via /r/gifs https://t.co/F7SiPYfq6B https://t.co/fRN3Y4HaZk
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The Oatmeal trolled Huffpo UK yesterday when they got caught hotlinking – Imgur
The Oatmeal trolled Huffpo UK yesterday when they got caught hotlinking https://t.co/UwMVBOvi4k https://t.co/W7w1Y5OI88
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West Virginia Power Company Admits Coal Is Doomed : environment
West Virginia Power Company Admits Coal Is Doomed via /r/environment https://t.co/N0pJKiIYtU https://t.co/R0zvwsJDkH
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The Pesticide Tax and Rebuilding our Bee Population : environment
The Pesticide Tax and Rebuilding our Bee Population via /r/environment https://t.co/fT21aATEvq https://t.co/yuwDQ4GVcG
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Fraught relationship between Saudi Arabia and ‘Brand Britain’ – BBC News
Brand Britain is ubiquitous in Riyadh – a slow drive through heavy traffic causes you to notice all the trademark signs you would see on British high streets. It is a visual reminder that the Saudi Kingdom is Britain’s biggest market in the Middle E…
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No, the Republicans aren’t done sounding the racial dog whistle | The New Republic
Racial justice hasn’t received much attention in either party’s presidential debates. But more silence would have been preferrable to what we got from Republicans on Wednesday night.
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Syria conflict: John Kerry seeks end to civil war ‘hell’ – BBC News
The US is intensifying diplomatic efforts to end the “hell” of Syria’s civil war even as it increases support for moderate rebels, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said. Mr Kerry is travelling to Vienna for talks with foreign ministers on ending…
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Travelers Are Taking No-Frills Cruises on Ocean Freighters – Bloomberg Business
In recent years, big cruise operators such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Star Cruises have spent heavily on soaring atriums, sushi bars, cabaret shows, and on-deck water slides to woo vacationers.
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The Truth About New York’s Legendary “Mole People” | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
The mouth of the tunnel is wide and dark, swallowing the light and all that breathes. Rubble is scattered along the train tracks, bordered by retaining walls covered in numerous layers of graffiti. This is where it all started.
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Ragnar by Raung Binaia – Photo 126770989 – 500px
Ragnar by raungbinaia https://t.co/0j0sAOHZ58 https://t.co/ZjIwHPdVPH
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Cat stuck in a plastic bag [OC] via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/zQ43tW2uN4 https://t.co/QqNdd0g32q
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YaJoe Makes Clothes For All Us Nerds, Geeks | TechCrunch
The last 20 years of my life – from about senior year of high school until now – I have made a concerted effort not to look like a nerdy weirdo doofus head. It’s been a hard road, I assure you, but I’ve finally come out the other side the of dweeb d…
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Gulf oil spill: Transocean and states agree millions in compensation | Environment | The Guardian
All five Gulf of Mexico states have reached a settlement with the owner of the offshore drilling rig involved in the 2010 BP oil spill. A court filing from Transocean and attorneys for Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas said all of t…
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“Beyond Redemption” · Arrow · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Somewhere along the line, Detective Officer Captain Lance went from going after those who were mobbed up to their eyeballs to being the man who was mobbed up his eyeballs. (Or possibly H.I.V.E.-d up to his eyeballs. Whatever he’s up to, it’s to his …
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US Republican presidential hopefuls spar over tax plans – Al Jazeera English
The Republican presidential candidates have clashed over tax plans during the party’s third presidential debate, with front-runner Ben Carson defending his Bible-inspired proposals.
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Fox is down with Trump’s pretty lady parade · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Assuaging the fears of internet-less porn hounds and everybody who profits from our continuing cultural fixation on unnaturally perfect cheekbones, Fox has announced that it’ll be the new home for Donald Trump’s Miss Universe pageant.
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Johnny Cueto outpitches Jacob deGrom as Royals take 2-0 World Series lead | Sport | The Guardian
Johnny Cueto smothered the New York Mets with another big October outing. And the pesky Kansas City Royals kept fouling off Jacob deGrom’s best pitches, wearing him down with persistence and prowess. Related: World Series 2015: Mets 1-7 Royals – as …
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Black Sabbath Scrap Final Album Plans to Focus on Tour | Rolling Stone
Black Sabbath Scrap Final Album Plans to Focus on Tour “It’s the end of Sabbath, believe me,” singer Ozzy Osbourne says
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“Lasers and Liars” · Moonbeam City · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Last week, Moonbeam City introduced two mild wrinkles into its anything-goes adult-cartoon universe, one good and one less so: some background details about the neon-soaked ’80s-pastiche city where the show is set (good!) and the direct humiliation …
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Ted Cruz debate tirade against the media was likely a ‘pre-planned hit’
Check out blind quote 4 in @mikeallen Playbook this ayem. Cruz almost uttered line word for word. Pre-planned hit https://t.co/…
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Good morning. The Republican Party’s presidential candidates will be in Boulder, Colo., tonight for their third debate, with a focus on economic issues (8 p.m. Eastern, CNBC).
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Pin by Michael Pando on Universe!!! | Pinterest | Swords, Orion Nebula and Nebulas
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Universe | Universe!!! | Pinterest | Nebulas, Universe and Spaces
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I just learned that my kitten loves watching Blue Planet : cats
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Super Saiyan rocks via /r/pics https://t.co/gAHX8rzDR1 https://t.co/mbWiGk35qK
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Autumn sunrise I by rasica – Photo 126822711 – 500px
Autumn sunrise I by rasica https://t.co/sXwgTdIk2w https://t.co/nWFvBrdTKA
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Whitehorse Falls, North Umpqua River, Oregon [OC][3624 x 2448] : waterporn
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Nintendo’s first mobile app will let Mii avatars talk to themselves | Ars Technica
Nintendo’s first mobile phone app will be focused on allowing user-created Mii avatars to communicate with each other automatically, to help shy people who may be reluctant to reach out themselves.
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Ted Cruz’s Solutions for Women: Get Married and Return to Gold | The New Republic
At the third GOP presidential debate on Wednesday night, CNBC moderator Becky Quick asked Ted Cruz how he would “try and help” the working women in this country who “still earn just 77 percent of what men earn.
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Marco Rubio, the Only Republican Hope | The New Republic
The Republican Party once again packed a stage with its candidates for a debate on Wednesday night, and most of them still don’t have a prayer.
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Ted Cruz Thinks Sucking Up Will Make Him the Trumpocalypse Survivor | The New Republic
At the CNBC Republican debate, Ted Cruz really took it to his opponents—the terrible liberal media.
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Global Research Alert Called for Microbial Ecosystems Critical to Life on Earth
Microbiomes are ecosystems of one-celled organisms, such as bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, algae, and plankton, as well as viruses. Over billions of years, they created our oxygen-rich atmosphere and fashioned the rich loam of our soils, and th…
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Carson Denies Obvious Ties to Controversial Supplement Maker – The Daily Beast
At the CNBC debate, Ben Carson tried to argue that he never had anything to do with an extraordinarily shady supplement company. That is nonsense.
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Inside Bulletproof, the Butter-Loving Wellness Cult of the 1% – Mic
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The third annual Bulletproof Biohacking Conference was open for all of 15 minutes before I had a needle sticking out of my left butt cheek. The shot, called Muscle Beach, was a mixture of CoQ10, L-carnitine and magnesium; it purported to give me str… -
Typical women overreacting. : TrollXChromosomes
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Celebrate National Cat Day with Imgur : cats
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Glen Coe, Scotland, UK [OC] [4912×3264] : EarthPorn
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Understanding The 3D Printing Ecosystem | TechCrunch
Understanding The 3D Printing Ecosystem https://t.co/Sx7OY6KnRy
Excitement about 3D printing has steadily accelerated over the past decade — but this excitement has largely outpaced innovation and development in the field. -
OVER TIME by Raquel de Castro – Photo 126816871 – 500px
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Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Won the Third Republican Debate – The Atlantic
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MI5 not seeking new intrusive powers, says spy boss – BBC News
The head of MI5 has said he is hoping for a mature debate on intercepting communications data, rather than accusations of mass surveillance. Andrew Parker said the service was not seeking “sweeping new intrusive powers” but rather a framework that “…
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“The Last Temptation Of Andre” · The League · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Do you remember when The League was good? I’m talking, like, seasons two through four, especially. There was a lot of good stuff there, once upon a time. I bring up the golden past of the show for two reasons.
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North Koreans sent abroad into ‘forced labour’, says UN – BBC News
As many as 50,000 North Koreans have been sent abroad to work in conditions that amount to “forced labour”, a UN investigator has said. Marzuki Darusman said workers earn very little, are underfed and are sometimes forced to work up to 20-hour days.
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German Shepherd/Akita/Corgi puppies are practically domesticated bear cubs! – Imgur
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I like Imgur because it helps me become a better petty criminal – GIF on Imgur
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Bidhya Devi Bhandari elected Nepal’s first female president – BBC News
Nepal’s parliament has elected women’s rights campaigner Bidhya Devi Bhandari as its first female president, in a move hailed as a milestone. She is the second person to hold the mainly ceremonial role.
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Fact-Checking Carly Fiorina on Job Losses by Women Under Obama | Mother Jones
Carly Fiorina has a long history of playing fast and loose with numbers, even those that have been debunked, and she was at it again in tonight’s GOP debate.
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Trump’s Zuckerberg Debate Claim Refuted by His Own Website | Vanity Fair
Becky Quick, one of the three CNBC moderators at Wednesday night’s Republican debate, was accused twice by Donald Trump of a crucial quote misattribution. According to CNN, the statement has been in Trump’s platform since August 17th.
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The CNBC Republican Debate Was A Total Trainwreck | ThinkProgress
Reporters from both conservative and liberal-minded news organizations seem to agree: the CNBC Republican presidential debate was kind of a trainwreck. That wasn’t really because of the candidates, though — it was because of the moderators.
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How CNBC Lost Its Own G.O.P. Debate | Vanity Fair
Americans and pundits will spend the next few days weighing who won Wednesday night’s Republican debate on CNBC.
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GOP Presidential Candidates Discuss Economics, Taxes In Third Debate : NPR
Floridians Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio butted heads, while Texan Ted Cruz lashed out at the moderators on the negative nature of their questions.
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Marco Rubio tries to play Clinton’s Benghazi hearing as good for Republicans
Seriously, a Republican voluntarily brought that embarrassment to his party up on national television and tried to turn it to his advantage. Because, see, Clinton said different things about the causes of the attack on the U.S.
Marco Rubio tries to play Clinton’s Benghazi hearing as good for Republicans https://t.co/MZnIutDjdK -
Into the Wild by Jarrod Castaing – Photo 126766113 – 500px
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Waterval park Sonsbeek by Jaap Mechielsen – Photo 126823325 – 500px
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Went as Forrest this Halloween. : funny
Went as Forrest this Halloween. via /r/funny https://t.co/Pq14NpvBfT https://t.co/pWZaj1qWUw
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mets Manager Terry Collins sat for a World Series postgame interview in a pillbox room in Kauffman Stadium, red-faced, his jawline tight and with a hint of a twitch. He spoke of an emotion that had become a stranger these past thr…
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The GOP Debates Have Ignored One of America’s Biggest Economic Threats | The New Republic
Republicans are three debates in, and the presidential candidates have yet to field a substantive question on climate change. CNBC’s debate on Wednesday in Colorado was supposed to focus on economic growth.
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Australia gallery collects Lego for Ai Weiwei – BBC News
An Australian gallery has set up a collection point for Lego for a work by artist Ai Weiwei, after the Danish company refused a bulk order from him. The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) wants Australians to donate the toy bricks by pouring them th…
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Fremantle novelist Joan London wins Patrick White literary award | Books | The Guardian
Fremantle author Joan London has been awarded the 2015 Patrick White literary award for her ongoing contribution to Australian literature.
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Ralph Bakshi wants to make Wizards II · Newswire · The A.V. Club
They might get another chance to kill Fritz; animation legend Ralph Bakshi has said that his next project will be a sequel to his cult fantasy allegory Wizards.
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Now Grandfathered gets a full season from Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Just a day after Fox gave its Rob Lowe/Fred Savage comedy The Grinder a full season, the network has done the same for its other new comedy starring a famous guy: Grandfathered.
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Carly Fiorina Couldn’t Save Herself at the Third Republican Debate | The New Republic
There was very little doubt that Carly Fiorina would deliver a strong performance at the Republican debate Wednesday night. One hour into the evening, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard was already nimbly fielding questions and offering sharp riposte…
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“Bunking With The Devil” · Survivor · TV Review · The A.V. Club
For an episode that started with such an uncertain, scary moment, it sure ended up being a hell of a good time. This is an hour jam-packed with dramatic family emergencies, tribal shuffles, extensive strategizing, rivalries, fun challenges, and endi…
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Can Someone Please Tell Us How This Levitating Goal Celebration Works? – Digg
Cesar Martinez plays for the Venezuelan soccer club Zamora. On Sunday, he scored a pretty goal to put his team up 1-0 over Estudiantes de Caracas. And then he celebrated his goal by making the ball, uh, levitate.
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Is this what they call bedroom eyes? : cats
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The EU just made porn filters illegal : technology
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My place [4896×3672] : AbandonedPorn
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Bernie Sanders – Tonight the Republican candidates talked… | Facebook
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested that CNBC, the network that served as key inspiration for the Tea Party movement, was too liberal to host the Republican debate on Wednesday. “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t…
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Mammograms not catching worst cancers before they spread – US study | Society | The Guardian
A new report has raised fresh questions about the value of mammograms, with the United States recording no reduction in the rate of cancers that have already spread far beyond the breast before they are found.
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Muslim Students Demand Bernie Sanders Denounce Islamophobia In The 2016 Race | ThinkProgress
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA — Sen.
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US retailers slammed over ‘offensive’ Halloween outfits – Al Jazeera English
US retail giants have courted controversy for selling an Israeli soldier’s Halloween costume for children and an “Arab” nose that civil liberties groups called offensive and racist. Wal-Mart, America’s biggest employer, quickly withdrew both items.
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Ted Cruz slams the media: ‘This is not a cage match’ – video | US news | The Guardian
At the third Republican debate on Wednesday night, Senator Ted Cruz took a detour during questioning to slam the media and the CNBC moderators for encouraging conflict among the candidates rather than focusing on serious questions.
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Photo by @shonephoto (Robbie Shone) – An Italian explorer traverses through a canyon, avoiding deep cold water below a thin unstable crust of ice inside a moulin on the Gorner glacier, Switzerland. Progress is often slow when the floor is dangerousl…
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CISA passes the Senate despite opposition from tech firms, privacy advocates
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to pass a bill designed to encourage companies to share data about cybersecurity threats with the federal government.
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Illegal Dumping of Fracking Wastewater Is Project Censored #2 Story : environment
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Myanmar election: Cash still king as economy opens up – BBC News
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The Ben Carson Paradox | The New Republic
Earlier this week The New York Times attributed Ben Carson’s rising poll numbers—especially, to Donald Trump’s growing frustration, in Iowa—to his calm, seemingly unflappable demeanor. “His supporters cite Mr.
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Kickstarting tick-the-box greeting cards for unusual occasions and nuanced sentiments / Boing Boing
The always-brilliant David Malki ! of Wondermark writes “I love greeting cards, but what if you need one for a super unusual occasion, or have a very nuanced sentiment you want to convey? The answer: Tick-the-option greeting cards, made in the Wonde…
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But for the love of Julia Child and the sake of every other soul in the restaurant, particularly the underpaid line cooks sweating their way through another Saturday night shift, please, please stop describing your food preferences as an allergy. Ne…
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Jeb Bush Owes President Obama A Warm Kiss | ThinkProgress
During the third GOP presidential debate on Wednesday night, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made a bold bet. Unfortunately for Bush, spending under President Barack Obama has decreased and is on track to reach the lowest level in more than 50 years by…
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Conor Oberst Briefly Hospitalized, Cancels Desaparecidos Tour | Rolling Stone
Conor Oberst Briefly Hospitalized, Cancels Desaparecidos Tour “Conor Oberst fell ill whilst on tour in Jacksonville, Florida,” band says in statement.
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Republican debate open thread #4
Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including CNBC, you can’t watch live. If you do have that subscription and want to subject yourself to this, here’s where to go.
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Marco Rubio on Missing Votes: BFD – The Daily Beast
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he’s well within his rights to skip votes in Congress. After all, Rubio told Wednesday night’s GOP debate, that’s how John Kerry and Barack Obama rolled when they were Senators running for the White House.
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Noted historical sensationalists Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny are both in talks to dramatize one of the most talked-about crimes of the 19th century: the alleged murders committed by famed hatchet spokesmodel Lizzie Borden.
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Flow of migrant boats is constant off the shores of Lesbos – BBC News
More than 4,000 migrants and refugees have had to be rescued by the Greek Coast Guard off the shores of Lesbos this month alone. Hundreds have already died making the crossing from Turkey and Greece.
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The home-chefs causing panic in restaurants – BBC News
Restaurant owners in Paris are furious with chefs who have started catering for diners in their own homes – traditional eateries say they could be put out of business as websites put customers directly in touch with cooks.
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Brian May on 40 years of Bohemian Rhapsody: ‘I still listen to it in the car’ – BBC News
Bohemian Rhapsody celebrates its 40th birthday on 31 October, 2015. Guitarist Brian May recalls the song’s creation, and why he’ll never grow tired of hearing it. How many songs become so ingrained in popular culture that they get their own nickname…
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Climate change to shrink habitat for rarest Hawaii birds : environment
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New York Autumnal Scene [1024 X 684] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Apollo 7 Crew Costumes- October 1968 : OldSchoolCool
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Jeb Bush v Marco Rubio: ‘You should be showing up for work’ – video | US news | The Guardian
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CNBC’s Bad Night | The New Republic
The big winners of the third Republican debate are surely CNN and FOX, which come out looking much better than CNBC. The journalists on CNBC repeatedly paraded their economic ignorance.
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Ben Carson Suggests Overregulation Is To Blame For Prescription Drug Price Hikes | ThinkProgress
Presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson suggested during the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday that drug companies hiking the prices of life-saving drugs by 5,000 percent is the fault of a “regulatory structure” and…
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The US chief of naval operations and his Chinese counterpart will hold an hour-long video teleconference on Thursday, days after Beijing was angered by a US warship’s patrol within a 12-nautical-mile (22km) limit around a man-made Chinese island in …
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This Was the Moment Jeb Bush Lost the Republican Debate | The New Republic
Among the many dramas of the debate, perhaps the most interesting is the battle between Jeb Bush and his one-time protege Marco Rubio.
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John Kasich’s Debate Rant Shows Why Trump’s Candidacy Is Great | The New Republic
Donald Trump and John Kasich fought for several minutes early in the Republican primary debate on CNBC on Wednesday, and it was great. Yes, that’s partly because Trump got his signature cheap shots in. But Trump’s attacks often unexpectedly result i…
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John Kasich Doesn’t Want to Play Nice Anymore – The Daily Beast
John Kasich had a clear plan in the third GOP presidential debate: Attack Donald Trump. As the curtain rose and the 10 candidates took their podiums, the Ohio governor started out aggressively, as if already planning to lob whatever he could at Trum…
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R.I.P. Bob Minkler, Oscar-winning Star Wars sound designer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by The Wrap, Oscar-winning sound mixer Bob Minkler died on October 11 from respiratory failure. He was 78. Minkler was born in California in 1937 and entered the music industry as a young man.
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Jeb Bush Went At Marco Rubio, and Proved Why He Ought to Drop Out | The New Republic
Before Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate began, GOP consultant Rick Wilson got wind that someone was going to make a big mistake. Man oh man, the dumb, pre-planned move a certain campaign is about to make in the big debate is campaign-endi…
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Watch Trump Bully the Sanest Guy on the GOP Debate Stage | Vanity Fair
While Wednesday night’s G.O.P. debate started with a snoozy question (“What is your greatest weakness”), the claws soon came out when Donald Trump went after Ohio governor John Kasich after the latter made the mistake of touting his economic credent…
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Hand-made: Meet the locksmith with the key to the past – BBC News
By using simple hand tools, a box of matches and a candle, Aaron is one of the few people in Australia who can prise open antique locks and safes and, in so doing, unlock the social conditions from which the locks emerged.
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10 Republican Candidates Asked To Name Their ‘Biggest Weakness,’ 9 Fail | ThinkProgress
The beginning of Wednesday’s Republican debate started with a fairly straightforward question: what is your biggest weakness.
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The Jeb-Rubio Lovefest Is Now a Blood Feud | Vanity Fair
Jeb Bush was Marco Rubio’s political mentor, but during the Republican debate on Wednesday night in Boulder, Colorado, there was nothing but bitter enmity on display between the two Florida politicians.
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China’s New Zealand farm-buying runs into opposition – BBC News
Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Pengxin Group has been on a buying spree ever since it entered New Zealand in 2011. The food giant has bought 29 farms through local subsidiaries to become the country’s third largest dairy producer.
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MLS playoffs: Seattle Sounders v LA Galaxy – live! | Football | The Guardian
Will the Galaxy be celebrating? Photograph: Michael Janosz/ISI/Corbis
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Highlights from the Third Republican Debate | The New Republic
The top 10 Republican presidential candidates met in Boulder, Colorado, on Wednesday night for their third debate of the campaign season. (Four additional candidates also participated at an earlier undercard debate.
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Republican debate open thread #3
Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including CNBC, you can’t watch live. If you do have that subscription and want to subject yourself to this, here’s where to go. : Trump asked about his bankruptcies, how he can be trusted after th…
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The 13-year-old girl sent on a ‘day-trip’ to Australia – BBC News
Up until the late 1960s the UK sent children living in care homes to new lives in Australia and other countries. It was a brutal experience for many, writes Kirstie Brewer. In the winter of 1949, 13-year-old Pamela Smedley boarded a ship to Australi…
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‘Milestone’ prostate cancer drug – BBC News
The first drug that targets precise genetic mutations in prostate cancer has been shown to be effective in a “milestone” trial by UK scientists. The study, at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, took place on 49 men with untreatable cancer.
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Collapsed charity Kids Company given £46m in public cash – BBC News
Collapsed charity Kids Company received at least £46m of public money despite repeated concerns about how it was run, the National Audit Office has found. The charity lobbied the government for funding and warned of service closures if officials res…
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Energy minister Josh Frydenberg has supported farmers’ rights to reach agreement with mining companies on coal seam gas before resource development goes ahead, and will put the issue on the agenda for the Council of Australian Governments (Coag) ene…
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Russia’s Syria intervention: One month in – BBC News
The deployment of a Russian strike force of 34 combat jets and 21 helicopters showed how billions invested in the armed forces by President Vladimir Putin had paid off. Within days of arriving they were flying attack missions, and have now clocked u…
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Justin Bieber Unveils ‘Purpose’ Songs via Graffiti | Rolling Stone
Justin Bieber spent his Wednesday teasing fans with song titles from his forthcoming album, Purpose. On Wednesday afternoon, he began tweeting and sharing on Instagram the album’s track list via photos of graffiti on walls located around the world.
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Turkey election: Diyarbakir feels pressure – BBC News
Lisa Calan pauses her workout, hoisting herself into her wheelchair. Before the bomb blast in which she lost both legs, running and pilates were her exercises of choice. But since then, she has turned to the gym – and she is more committed than ever.
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Republican debate open thread #2
Unfortunately, unless you have a cable subscription including CNBC, you can’t watch live. If you do have that subscription and want to subject yourself to this, here’s where to go. : Ted Cruz pimping his new tax plan, 10 percent flat tax, 16 percent…
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African army gears up for crisis intervention – BBC News
An African army that can quickly respond to crises on the continent is about to become a reality, 13 years after its conception.
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Apple could be the victim of its own success | Technology | The Guardian
Just over 14 years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled a cigarette pack-sized product that didn’t impress many onlookers. The iPod looked like just another music player – not a product that could transform Apple’s fortunes, then acomputer maker struggling with…
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Peru prepares for El Nino – BBC News
People in the neighbourhood of Moyopampa, 35km (22 miles) east of Lima, say 23 March was a sunny Monday afternoon like so many others. But then the skies darkened and heavy rain like no one had seen in living memory began to fall.
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Europe waits for Cameron to show his hand – BBC News
It is all a bit of a drama, the British renegotiation, and what I want to know is: Where is the wow factor? What is the twist? How does David Cameron stun us all with a surprising denouement and persuade those reluctant to stay in the EU that it is …
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A night patrol with India’s cow protection vigilantes – BBC News
The men leap out of the darkness at a fork in a lonely village crossroad well past midnight. It is a bright, moonlit night, pregnant with the promise of a frosty winter. The landscape is etched with silhouettes of hills and trees.
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Puffins and turtle doves at risk of being wiped out, say experts | Environment | The Guardian
Puffin and turtle dove numbers across the globe have plummeted so rapidly the birds now face the same extinction threat as the African elephant and lion, say conservationists.
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Women now 25% of FTSE boards but more needed – report – BBC News
The UK’s top companies have reached a “major milestone” in increasing the number of women in their boardrooms, but more needs to be done, a new report is expected to say.
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Archaeologists discover Mesolithic eco home near Stonehenge | UK news | The Guardian
Evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were environmentally aware home builders has emerged a mile from Stonehenge – together with a stone age version of the storage heater.
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Surprisingly emerald waterfall in suburban Columbus Ohio [OC] [2304×3456] : EarthPorn
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This cloud looks a whole lot like a whale. : mildlyinteresting
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Thermite pumpkins via /r/gif https://t.co/JFAKoyFNck https://t.co/X4NeNfJozU
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Black hole flyby in a video game. : woahdude
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Stephen Tobolowsky joins HBO’s Silicon Valley · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The likelihood of viewers yelling out “Ned! Ned Ryerson!” during the next season of HBO’s Silicon Valley has just increased dramatically, because Deadline is reporting that Stephen Tobolowsky has joined the show’s cast.
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Bernie Sanders Supports Ending Federal Marijuana Ban | Rolling Stone
Bernie Sanders Supports Ending Federal Marijuana Ban A bill could be introduced as early as this week, according to a representative from Drug Policy Alliance
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Keith Urban Exhibit to Open at Country Music Hall of Fame | Rolling Stone
Earlier this week, Keith Urban fans began looking toward the future and the anticpicated release of the “Break on Me” singer’s upcoming album, Ripcord.
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Pedro, Mourinho, Neymar, Rooney, Lukaku
Chelsea forward Pedro, 28, has told friends he regrets moving to the club from Spanish giants Barcelona in the summer and would be happy to return to the Nou Camp club. (Fichajes via Daily Express)
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The First Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Casting News Raises Big Questions
We’re a little over a year and a half away from seeing the continuing adventures of Star Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2—and now, casting has begun on the sequel. First the good news.
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a broken teleporter can be a working time machine – GIF on Imgur
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France: Marine Le Pen in European Parliament vote row – BBC News
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has been accused of violating European Parliament rules by getting an MEP to vote on her behalf. It is alleged to have happened when she left parliament early on Wednesday.
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Arguably, the two easiest places to experiment with color and textures are the nails and lips, which are the prefect canvases for fun products. Here is a roundup of fun polishes, glosses, and lipsticks that are must-tries this season.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/XKhRn7jiwr Stories via @UN_CTED
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders Calls For Federal Decriminalization Of Marijuana | ThinkProgress
While much of the nation was tuned into the third GOP debate, Sen.
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During the undercard GOP debate Wednesday, former New York Gov. George Pataki questioned the other Republican presidential candidates’ rejection of science, calling it “ridiculous” that members of his party reject climate science and question vaccin…
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Movie of the Week: “Mission to Mars” – The New Yorker
The best thing in “The Martian” isn’t the science or the suspense but the strangeness of space—an element that its director, Ridley Scott, downplays and that Brian De Palma revels in, with gleeful inventiveness, in his 2000 feature, “Mission to Mars…
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Lindsey Graham: No, Accepting Climate Science Doesn’t Make Me A Democrat (WATCH) | ThinkProgress
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is one of the only Republican presidential candidates who publicly accepts mainstream climate science. At Wednesday night’s CNBC undercard debate, he was forced to explain why.
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A Void Where Justin Bieber Usually Is – The New Yorker
By all accounts, this has been an eventful month for template-skewing music videos. Adele planted herself in a clearing and theatrically clapped a flip phone shut (“Hello”). Drake pulled on a turtleneck and pranced about a James Turrell-indebted lig…
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is not shy about his conservative views. He once described men and women protesting police violence in Ferguson, Missouri as “vultures on a roadside carcass.
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Brigid Berlin’s World in Polaroids – The New Yorker
The Warhol superstar Brigid Berlin was a lapsed Fifth Avenue debutante, an amphetamine-loving wild child, the biggest and most proudly exhibitionist member of the Warhol clan, and also Andy’s loyal best friend and muse.
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West Virginia Power Company Admits Coal Is Doomed | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, in front of a roomful of energy executives, the president of Appalachian Power declared that the war on coal was over, and coal had not emerged victorious.
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Paul Ryan Trashes GOP ‘Vision’ He Helped Craft | ThinkProgress
Speaker-elect Paul Ryan emerged from a House Republican caucus meeting on Wednesday and had some cutting words for his predecessor. “We are not going to have a house that looked like it looks the last few years. We are going to move forward,” Ryan s…
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Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Want To Get Rid Of The Death Penalty | ThinkProgress
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she does not support abolishing the death penalty, calling instead for a review of the practice and for it to be used in fewer cases.
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On October 17, New York Times opinion writer and prominent Catholic conservative Ross Douthat penned a scathing critique of Pope Francis entitled “The Plot To Change Catholicism.
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Fun game, a game and a half. Yes, as I’ve been saying, baseball keeps showing you something you’ve never seen before, like Alcides Escobar’s inside-the-park homer, on the first pitch to his Kansas City Royals in the first inning of this World Series…
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The Health-Care Industry’s Relationship Problems – The New Yorker
This is the first essay in a three-part series looking at problems and solutions in the health-care marketplace. When I became a doctor, last year, I had to sign up for health insurance. The hospital where I work offered two primary options, a Value…
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Kelvedon Beach, Tasmania, Australia: Aurora… – Just Space
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Carson in Spotlight at GOP Boulder Debate | Al Jazeera America
Ben Carson is entering Wednesday night’s third GOP presidential debate with a surge of momentum, ensuring the soft-spoken retired neurosurgeon will face heightened attention from rivals in need of a breakout moment three months before primary voting…
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Austria to build ‘technical barriers’ over refugee flow – Al Jazeera English
Austria, a strong critic of the building of fences to keep out refugees, has announced plans to erect barriers along parts of its own border, but has insisted the move is meant solely to bring order into the flow of people entering the country.
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Watch Beatles’ Restored, Trippy ‘A Day in the Life’ Video | Rolling Stone
The Beatles will reissue their Number One singles compilation 1 as a 2-Blu-ray/1CD collection – now titled 1+ – that boasts 27 songs and their accompanying promo videos alongside 23 more restored videos used for promotional purposes but never former…
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Army blimp breaks loose, drifts over Pennsylvania | Al Jazeera America
An unmanned Army surveillance blimp broke loose from its mooring in Maryland and floated over Pennsylvania for hours on Wednesday with two U.S. fighter jets on its tail, triggering blackouts across the countryside as it dragged its tether across pow…
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Police officer in US fired for flipping school student – Al Jazeera English
The white sheriff’s deputy caught on video flipping a black high school student out of her classroom chair in Columbia, South Carolina, has been fired, a sheriff said.
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Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of the House – The Atlantic
The Republican Party may have 15 presidential candidates and a deeply frustrated voter base, but as of Wednesday afternoon, it has a new de facto leader: Paul Ryan.
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Defrocked Priest Decries Vatican Treatment of Gays | Al Jazeera America
Krzysztof Charamsa said in the letter that the Roman Catholic Church makes the lives of gay Catholics “a hell” and that the clergy is “full of homosexuals,” the BBC reported Wednesday. The Vatican had not issued a public response to the criticism at…
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Fears for future of Pakistani schools damaged in quake – Al Jazeera English
Along the railroad from Greece to Macedonia: Refugees share their hopes, fears and expectations for a future in Europe. We look at the Indonesian president’s first year in power and his efforts to kick-start the country’s flagging economy.
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Former US Airman Tells UN an Accidental Nuclear War Was Narrowly Avoided in 1962 | Motherboard
At any given moment, the world is just a few minutes away from a nuclear catastrophe, missiles standing ready in silos around the world waiting for a short burst of computer signals to let them loose. It’s the highest stakes game there is—but even s…
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House Republicans Nominate Paul Ryan for Speaker | Al Jazeera America
The House Republican conference on Wednesday nominated Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., for House speaker in a closed-door meeting. The vote brings an end to weeks of internal party chaos after John Boehner announced in late September that he was retiring.
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‘We Were So Surprised’: Researchers Detect Oxygen on Rosetta’s Comet | Motherboard
Ah, Rosetta, everyone’s favourite comet orbiter.
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Boko Haram Fighters Kill 13 People in Niger | Al Jazeera America
Thirteen people were killed and three others injured in an attack on a village in southeast Niger that was blamed on Boko Haram fighters, local officials said Wednesday. “Boko Haram militants came in number. They burned cars, houses, stores,” local …
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Derek Trucks on What He Learned From Allman Brothers | Rolling Stone
“There was a spirit and reverence they brought to it,” Derek Trucks said in a recent interview, marking the one-year anniversary of his final performance with the Allman Brothers Band, at New York’s Beacon Theater on October 28th, 2014.
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Brothers Osborne Ready Debut Album ‘Pawn Shop’ | Rolling Stone
With a CMA nomination for Vocal Duo of the Year and a Top 15 hit in “Stay a Little Longer,” John and TJ Osborne, collectively known as Brothers Osborne, are gearing up for the release of their debut album. Titled Pawn Shop, the LP is set for release…
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A Runaway $2.7 Billion Military Blimp Is Floating Aimlessly Over Pennsylvania | Motherboard
A massive, $2.7 billion dollar military surveillance blimp broke loose from its tethers and is aimlessly floating above the mid Atlantic, according to the Associated Press. It is currently being tracked by military fighter jets.
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Inside the Studio of a Halloween Sound Effects Artist | Motherboard
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura. Halloween, amirite?
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Palestinian president to UN: ‘We need protection’ – Al Jazeera English
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for “international protection” for his people as the death toll in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories continues to rise.
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Watch George R.R. Martin’s Zombie Cameo in ‘Z Nation’ | Rolling Stone
Watch George R.R.
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The Tale of the Dueling ‘Friday the 13th’ Video Games | Motherboard
About a month ago, I was chatting on Skype with Wes Keltner and Ronnie Hobbs from Gun Media, co-creators of a multiplayer horror game called Summer Camp. There wasn’t much known about the game, other than that it was being billed as an “homage to 19…
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Boulder Expects Thousands of Protesters | Al Jazeera America
The liberal stronghold of Boulder, Colorado, will host Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate as well as, organizers hope, thousands of activists arrayed against the GOP’s positions on climate change, health care, immigration, gender equality a…
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Ad-Free YouTube Is Here, But It’ll Cost You $10 a Month | Motherboard
You can now watch YouTube totally ad-free without resorting to using an ad-blocker. YouTube Red, the company’s $9.99 per month subscription service, went live Wednesday, letting users watch their favorite videos without being interrupted by pesky ad…
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Heroic Junkyard Owner Says He Saved Priceless Moon Rover From Scrap Heap | Motherboard
Tuesday, we told the sad story of a prototype NASA lunar rover that was sold by an Alabaman to a scrap yard. That is true, but there’s a twist: A heroic scrap dealer has saved the buggy, which appears to be in good condition.
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Labor: ‘Serious Problems’ at Seattle Restaurants | Al Jazeera America
Seattle labor activists scored a major win last year when the city became the second in the country to pass a $15 minimum wage law.
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Natural Bridge – Yoho Provincial Park by Ryan Kole – Photo 126835547 – 500px
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Abandoned building and piano [4144×3444] : AbandonedPorn
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A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students | The Nation
The mainstream media are abuzz with possible justifications for the videotaped brutalization of a South Carolina high school student by a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school.
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Subway art revisited – BBC News
In the late 1970s and early ’80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant were both documenting the work of graffiti artists on the subway system of New York.
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BOULDER, CO—Speculating that he might be nudging it just a tiny bit with his foot or something, Americans viewing Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate said that candidate Jeb Bush appeared to be inching his podium closer to the center of the s…
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Can India challenge China’s dominance in Africa? – Al Jazeera English
When it comes to influence in Africa, one country towers above all others: China. The leadership there has spent billions of dollars investing in the continent, developing ties that have given Beijing access to the resources it needs to fuel its eco…
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The Republican Presidential Debate Liveblog – The Atlantic
7:58 pm: In the undercard debate, each low-polling candidate offered his diagnosis for what’s wrong with the Republican Party. To Bobby Jindal, it’s that Republican leaders don’t fight hard enough for their principles.
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VW suffers $3.9bn quarterly loss over emissions scandal – Al Jazeera English
Volkswagen has announced its first quarterly loss in at least 15 years as it faces up to the mounting costs resulting from an exhaust emissions scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest car maker. The embattled German auto group reported on Wednesday…
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Amnesty: Australian officials paid people smugglers – Al Jazeera English
Amnesty International has called for a full public inquiry into reports Australian officials paid people smugglers to turn back boats carrying asylum seekers, saying it had evidence to back the claim denied by the Australian government.
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Finding Aurora: An Icelandic View of the Northern Lights – The Atlantic
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The Atlantic Daily: Classroom Cop Fired, Paul Ryan Hired, GOP Debate Mired – The Atlantic
The school officer who dragged, threw, and restrained a female student on the floor in a South Carolina classroom was fired.
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Budget Deal Easily Passes the House – The Atlantic
The final major vote of John Boehner’s drama-filled tenure as House speaker turned out to have very little drama at all.
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Republican Candidates Prepare to Debate in Boulder – The Atlantic
The clan of 10 takes the stage again tonight for the third GOP debate, this time in Colorado. Republican presidential hopefuls will square off in what is expected to be, at the very least, an entertaining debate if it shakes out like the others.
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‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ Is Back on Sale, and People Are Already Complaining | Motherboard
Three and a half months ago, publisher Warner Bros. released one of the most highly anticipated games of the year on PC, Batman: Arkham Knight, and it was such a broken mess that Warner Bros. pulled it.
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Saudi FM: Vienna talks to test if Iran serious on Syria – Al Jazeera English
International talks in Vienna this week will test whether Russia and Iran are “serious” about finding a political solution to the war in Syria, the Saudi foreign minister has said.
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For a season that began in fantastical fashion—complete with an alternate reality where Joseph Gordon Levitt played the title character’s seemingly picture-perfect husband—The Mindy Project’s recent episodes have tackled issues of much more general …
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Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Epic ‘These Walls’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Epic ‘These Walls’ Video Corey Holcolmb and Terry Crews star in funny, cinematic video
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‘Diabulimia’: When Diabetes Leads to an Eating Disorder – The Atlantic
At age 15, Sara Pastor discovered that she could use her diabetes to control her weight. All she had to do was stop taking her insulin. She put two and two together.
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‘Broad City’ Reveal Halloween Costumes in New Clip | Rolling Stone
‘Broad City’ Reveal Halloween Costumes in New Clip Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer cement best friendship by picking out same costume, though inspired by different people
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AU report finds forced cannibalism and rape in S Sudan – Al Jazeera English
African Union (AU) investigators have discovered mass graves in South Sudan and found evidence of killings, rape and forced cannibalism, according to a new report. The AU also disputes that there was a coup attempt that same month by former Vice Pre…
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Several refugees drown off Greek coast after boat sinks – Al Jazeera English
Several refugees have drowned after their wooden boat, carrying about 300 people, sank north of the island of Lesbos, authorities have said. Two small boys and a man were found drowned on Wednesday, and an extensive search was under way in the area.
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A Magical Countryside World, Made From Clay – The Atlantic
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The U.S. Congressional Defunding of the Export-Import Bank – The Atlantic
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How People Use Head Movements to Show Emotion – The Atlantic
Shortly after Steven Livingstone arrived at McGill University, he went out to a bar with some new friends to check out the Montreal nightlife. It was loud, and crowded, and dimly lit, and he found himself struggling to hear when one of his friends t…
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Not Even Silicon Valley Insiders Have Bought Apple Watches – The Atlantic
Hearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101 executives, innovators, and thinkers weigh in on some of the biggest technological, politica…
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Here’s How We Can Actually Reduce the Number of People in Prison | VICE News
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The Passport Bubble | The New Republic
In 2006, as the government of St. Kitts and Nevis was winding down its ailing sugar industry, a slight, wiry Swiss man with thick eyebrows and a brooding manner arrived on the scene.
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BOULDER, CO—Vowing to be a forceful advocate for the group, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina promised during her opening remarks at Wednesday’s GOP debate that she would fight tirelessly for whoever everyday Americans are.
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Watch 2 GOP Presidential Candidates Call Out Their Party for Denying Science | Mother Jones
The 2016 GOP presidential field is a hotbed of science denial—especially when it comes to the most high-profile candidates. Jeb Bush once called himself a global warming “skeptic.” According to one prominent climate scientist, Texas Sen.
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The ‘Star Wars Battlefront’ Launch Trailer Is Breathtaking – Digg
Trailers Gaming Movies The game comes out November 17th, which suddenly became a long time to wait after watching this.
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The Orion Nebula HD js – Just Space
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The Oatmeal trolled Huffpo UK yesterday when they got caught hotlinking : funny
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Live Blog: The Third Republican Debate of 2016 | The New Republic
The staff of the New Republic, led by senior editors Elspeth Reeve and Jeet Heer, is live-blogging the third Republican primary debate in Boulder, Colorado, on Wednesday night. The event, hosted by CNBC, begins at 8 p.m.
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Is There a Silver Lining to Citizens United? https://t.co/PaUKHbkq9r
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Elon Musk’s solar company used cheap prison labor for a big taxpayer-subsidized project | Grist
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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Is the USDA trying to silence a pesticide researcher? | Grist
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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The five-member conservative majority of the Supreme Court did Democrats and reformers a favor when it released its decision in Citizens United in 2010.
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O’Malley: Clinton only consistent on big banks : Liberal
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O’Malley: Clinton only consistent on big banks | TheHill
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Cat jumps on a horse. : StartledCats
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CNBC Republican Debate: Live Coverage | FiveThirtyEight
2016 Election Updated 7:11 PM
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Watch The Royals Hit An In-The-Park Home Run On Their First Pitch In World Series – Digg
Royals leadoff hitter and shortstop Alcides Escobar didn’t waste any time after a Mets error in the outfield.
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I’m in a leafy garden behind a San Francisco coffee shop, holding on to a copper rod connected by a wire to a big wooden box. Inside the box are glowing knobs that look like red jewels.
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This ad might be one of the only factual things you’ll hear during the Republican debate | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you watch tonight’s Republican primary debate on CBNC, you can expect to hear opinions on the economy and pot, attacks on newly …
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Will Obama come close to ending mass incarceration? | Grist
The 30-second commercial about climate change is part of a TV ad buy from NextGen Climate. As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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Where there is water, is there life? That’s the $64 billion question now facing NASA and the rest of lonely humanity. When the New Horizons spacecraft, cameras clicking, sped past Pluto in July, it marked an inflection point in the conquest of the s…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — About an hour before the first pitch of Game 1 of the World Series, Royals Manager Ned Yost went to Chris Young, the scheduled Game 4 starting pitcher, and told him he might have to start Game 1 instead.
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Jupiter from my balcony : space
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Counting down the days : Notes from the Field : Blogs
I can now count the number of days before I leave for the first NAAMES cruise on one hand – boy, did the last few months fly by! I am relatively new to oceanography/microbiology and this will be my first time on a research cruise or really, a large,…
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El Niño Disrupts the Marine Food Web : Image of the Day
Since the spring of 2015, observations collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA indicate El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific have been strengthening to a magnitude similar to events in 1997–98 and 198…
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This Australian man has prevented around 160 suicides : funny
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“Wicked City” and Our Enduring Obsession with Killer Couples | The New Republic
“Another day, another corpse,” a radio DJ gleefully announces in the opening minutes of Wicked City, which premiered Tuesday night on ABC.
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Fleas Are Great! But Watch Out For A Worm That Looks Like Vermicelli : Goats and Soda : NPR
Dr. Tim Littlewood handles more gross and terrifying creatures than just about anyone in London. And he loves it.
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO – When I Was A Boy on Vimeo
Warren Fu, Director Columbia, Label Raffi Adlan, Producer Partizan, Production Company Byron Werner, Director of Photography Warren Fu, Editor Jeff Pantaleo, Executive Producer Bryan Younce, Commissioner JC Molina, Production Designer Aubrey Binzer,…
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I have only ever got a shiny bidoof – Imgur
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Modern Mystery: Ancient Comet Is Spewing Oxygen
The Rosetta spacecraft has detected molecular oxygen in the gas streaming off comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a curious finding that has scientists rethinking the ingredients that were present in the early solar system.
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CNBC Undercard Republican Debate: Live Coverage | FiveThirtyEight
2016 Election Updated 5:31 PM
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Why Is the Center for American Progress Hosting Benjamin Netanyahu? | The Nation
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to town next month, he’ll meet with President Obama at the White House for the first time since the right-wing Israeli led a failed campaign to block the liberal Democrat’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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Does ‘Translating’ Shakespeare Into Modern English Diminish Him? | The New Republic
An uproar ensued after it was reported that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF)—southern Oregon’s 80-year-old annual theatrical extravaganza—would be commissioning playwrights to “translate” all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English.
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David Lynch’s Elusive Language – The New Yorker
One of the first video recordings of a David Lynch interview dates from 1979.
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PASSAU, Germany — Reza Mohammadi lost his parents in a forest in Macedonia. Or Serbia. He does not remember. What he does remember is that it was raining: Thick mud clung to his shoes and weighed down his 7-year-old legs. His family had fled from Af…
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The Moon Entering Earth s Shadow : On September… – Just Space
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Craig Ferguson Talks About Kate Winslet : television
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Everything We’ve Written About The GOP Candidates So Far | FiveThirtyEight
Since the Republican primary season began earlier this year, there have been 17 significant candidates, creating one of the largest fields in many years.
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Ted Cruz as Beowulf: Matching Candidates With the Books They Sound Like https://t.co/t3tMgEne5G
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Test Scores Are Falling, Is The Sky? : NPR Ed : NPR
For the first time in 25 years, America’s fourth- and eighth-graders are doing worse in math, at least according to The National Assessment of Educational Progress. NAEP, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, tests students in both grades every tw…
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Elizabeth Warren Takes On ‘Insider Washington’ At CAF Awards Gala
Sen. Elizabeth Warren launched a fresh attack against “insider Washington” as the enemy of naturally progressive American values as she received the Campaign for America’s Future’s Progressive Champion Award at its awards gala Tuesday night.
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Rookie Spacewalkers Perform Critical Space Station Work
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren makes his way towards the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the outside of the International Space Station near the beginning of his spacewalk with mission lead Scott Kelly on Oct. 28.
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The dubious relationship between Lego and the art world — Hopes&Fears — flow “Art”
Each of us intimately knows the sound of digging through a bucket of Lego bricks, and the satisfying click as our fingers find and press together those perfectly round studs that create a hairline grid on a smooth, glossy surface.
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On Tuesday, TIME released their annual list of the most influential teens of 2015. The roundup celebrates wildly talented young people who are entrepreneurs, scientists, social media superstars and activists. They’re slaying the game.
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Donald Trump falls somewhere between “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Ben Carson resembles A.W. Tozer’s “The Pursuit of God.
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty In Hush Money Scheme : NPR
Once one of the country’s most powerful politicians, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of evading bank rules.
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Richard Strauss’ Musical Mountain Climb : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
Harrowing tales of mountain climbing filled theaters this summer in such films as Meru and Everest. But exactly 100 years ago today, audiences took a different kind of climb when Richard Strauss premiered An Alpine Symphony, a majestic, musical depi…
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Provision On Trade Disputes Draws Criticism : NPR
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement the Obama administration is trying to sell to Congress includes a seemingly obscure and controversial provision. It’s called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS among wonks. NPR explains why t…
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Hillary Clinton Amplifies Push For Women Voters With New Ad Campaign : NPR
Hillary Clinton has been talking about women’s issues since long before she was a presidential candidate. Throughout the early months of this campaign season, she went out of her way to talk about being a grandmother and how that framed her thinking…
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GOP Candidates Prepare To Debate On Economic Issues In Colorado : NPR
The GOP presidential candidates are in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday night for their third debate, which will focus on economic issues.
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Stalled Legal Process Threatens Obama’s Executive Actions On Immigration : NPR
Nearly a year ago, the Obama administration expanded protections to certain immigrants and their parents living here illegally. States, led by Texas, sued and won an initial victory to block implementation.
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Music Review: ‘Oh My Goodness,’ Donnie Fritts : NPR
For over 40 years, Donnie Fritts has been a musician, an actor and a songwriter. Music reviewer Meredith Ochs says his latest album, Oh My Goodness, contributes to an Americana legacy that continues to inspire.
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Comparing Presidential Candidates’ Language To Books In ‘The New York Times’ : NPR
Josh Katz discusses his most recent graphic “Matching Candidates With Books They Sound Like” for “The Upshot” in The New York Times.
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S.C. Sheriff’s Deputy Fired After Arrest Of High School Student : NPR
The white deputy in South Carolina who was shown on video tossing a black high school student out of her classroom seat was fired Wednesday. The sheriff says the deputy did not follow proper training or procedures.
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Missed Treatment: Soldiers With Mental Health Issues Dismissed For ‘Misconduct’ : NPR
Staff Sgt. Eric James, an Army sniper who served two tours in Iraq, paused before he walked into a psychiatrist’s office at Fort Carson, Colo. It was April 3, 2014.
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Why Fighting Climate Change Requires Changing The Narrative : NPR
NPR blogger Adam Frank says Americans need to stop carrying the guilt of climate change, so that we can move on and fix it.
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National Test Scores Show Declines In Math For The First Time In Decades : NPR
The latest scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress were released Wednesday, and math scores are down for the first time in more than two decades. Understanding why is no small task.
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Paul Ryan Wins Republican Nomination For Speaker Of The House : NPR
Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan won the Republican nomination speaker of the House Wednesday, but there are questions about whether he will be able to bring together a fractured caucus.
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As Migrants Flow In, More Europeans Question Open Borders : Parallels : NPR
Germany and Poland may not share a common language or currency, but they do share an open border. Both are among the 26 European nations in what’s known as the Schengen Area, and getting from one to the other is as simple as crossing a bridge over t…
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Is A Walgreens-Rite Aid Merger Good Medicine For Consumers? : The Two-Way : NPR
Two of the nation’s largest drug store chains want to merge, a deal that’s certain to face intense scrutiny from federal regulators worried about its potential harm to consumers.
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Mauna Kea at night (OC) (2048 x 1365) – Just Space
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Study: Monkeys’ Roars Mean Lower Fertility – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Though howler monkeys are one of the loudest primates on earth, with throat sacs that help them emit deep, booming roars to attract females, scientists have noted that the most sonorous calls actually come from the males with the smallest testes, wh…
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Yoda with yet another blep! : Blep
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The Paradox of Paul Ryan: Why the Tea Party’s Right to be Wary
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Only in a world where Cosmopolitan magazine can declare the Kardashians “America’s First Family” and the multi-billionaire loose cannon Donald Trump is perceived by millions as the potential steward of our nuclear …
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Subway Joins Other Fast-Food Giants to Cut Back on Antibiotics – Scientific American
Pressure from major food chains adopting antiobiotic-free policies could lead to changes in how livestock is raised.
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What’s It Like to Have Refugees Stream Into Your Town?
Rigonce, Slovenia was a quiet, bucolic town on the border with Croatia where farmers tended crops and neighbors greeted each other warmly in the street. That changed last week.
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Chrome extension transforms ‘Donald Trump’ into ‘your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving’|Dangerous Minds
As the dreaded holiday season inches ever closer—and the next Republican debate is tonight—a developer named Tim Bornholdt has created a Google Chrome extension that changes instances of the name “Donald Trump” to “your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.
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A photo of the iceberg that sank the Titanic
Did you know that there’s an alleged photograph of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic? I did not. This is the sonovabitch right here: The picture was taken the morning of April 15th, 1912, by M.
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“Baked Sausage Meat Ring” Is Much Better Than It Sounds (Or Looks)
The Woe of Cooking is an ongoing fiasco where the guy who does the Beer Idiot unearths the weirdest, grossest recipes he can find in The Joy of Cooking, and cooks/eats them. It has been awhile; we missed you. Screw Christmas—fall is the most wonderf…
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The Color Line Baseball Doesn’t Want to Talk About | Mother Jones
Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners fired their manager, Lloyd McClendon, the only African American skipper in Major League Baseball. Now, for the first time since 1987, there isn’t a single black manager in the league. Just six years ago, in 2…
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The Football of Tomorrow Will Be Connected—And Undeflatable | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. For a glimpse into football’s immediate future, you have to go back in time. Nestled among the silos and wheat fields and wind turbines that dot the rural northwest Ohio landscape, there’s a large whit…
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Apple’s Newest Software Update Will Shut Off Your iPhone Alarm While You Sleep
Instead of waking up this morning to the proprietary echoing blip of the iPhone’s default alarm tone, a bunch of iPhone owners awoke this week to find the alarms they set had been turned off. Why? How? What the fuck happened?
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Why smoking and drinking often go together – Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Past research shows that more than 85 percent of US adults who are dependent on alcohol are also dependent on nicotine, but why do the two go hand in hand?
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Playa cigs : trippinthroughtime
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Tony Abbott, Ousted Australian Leader, Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants https://t.co/WrsH1qkAjh
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George Carlin at Summerfest 1972 before being arrested : OldSchoolCool
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Oregon coastal roads by Hayden Scott – Photo 126746083 – 500px
Oregon coastal roads by HaydenScott https://t.co/wTEnwzn51g https://t.co/drArsnM88z
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Kitten sees snow falling for the first time. : aww
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Tuberculosis Now Rivals AIDS As Leading Cause of Death, Says WHO – Scientific American
This is an anteroposterior (AP) x-ray of a patient’s chest, who was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—Quietly navigating through the damp, pitch-black tunnels underneath the 82,500-seat arena, gruesome, deformed New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul was reportedly spotted Wednesday lurking in the sewers below MetLife St…
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Fossil fuel companies aren’t just bad for the climate — they’re bad investments | Grist
Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that the TPP could open up governments to corporate lawsuits over climate rules. Under Ryan’s vision for the country, our shift away from fossil fuels and cars would be impeded and our air and water qu…
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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Stump that looks like Cthulhu : mildlyinteresting
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Autumn’s Fire by Dana Walker – Photo 126791129 – 500px
Autumn’s Fire by dananaylorwalker https://t.co/AegnEmOcj3 https://t.co/npbBWlCPnO
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Peyto Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada [4150×2467] : waterporn
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A white sheriff’s deputy in South Carolina was fired Wednesday after county officials concluded he had acted improperly when, in a videotaped confrontation, he dragged and then threw a female African-American student across a high school classroom t…
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Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia, used his first major speech since his ouster last month to denounce Europe’s migration policies, warning in London that the continent risked “fundamentally weakening itself” t
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The Pacman Nebula [3108×2340][OS][OC] – Just Space
The Pacman Nebula [3108×2340][OS][OC] https://t.co/lEoFEv1PQt https://t.co/ryOwEKQtV2
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Bowling alley in a former textiles factory [OC][5248×2952] : AbandonedPorn
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Peacock [2510 x 1554] : AnimalPorn
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Sunrise Denmark by Henrik Elstrup – Photo 126785487 – 500px
Sunrise Denmark by Elstrup https://t.co/eXy8HYaAzQ https://t.co/1SDWo2zwCm
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Dining Room with bamboo ceiling [1200 x 800] [AIC] : RoomPorn
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MRW I see a pumpkin Javert gif on the front page : reactiongifs
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The Key Point About The Export-Import Bank Passing The House
The House voted Tuesday to reauthorize the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank. The vote was an overwhelming 313-118, with 127 Republicans voting to reauthorize. On September 30 the House passed a “clean” continuing budget resolution to keep the government i…
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Why Homejoy Failed — Backchannel — Medium
It was Thanksgiving 2013 and the San Francisco offices of Homejoy were uncommonly quiet. The online home-cleaning startup was in the midst of an explosive expansion and only shut its doors two days each year: Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
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An Animated Bill Murray on the Advantages & Disadvantages of Fame | Open Culture
I could watch Bill Murray in pretty much any film. And, for that matter, any animation too. So let’s queue up the brand new animated video from Blank on Blank, and watch Murray riff on the pros and cons of being rich & famous.
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American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel — Matter — Medium
O 21-year-old Elisa Lam stepped off a train from San Diego in downtown Los Angeles, gathered her belongings, and walked to a hostel on Main Street. It was, like most every mid-winter day in LA, sunny and in the mid-60s, the kind of weather that make…
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Inside the Comedy Factory – Splitsider
A few years back, Terry Withers, star of the Terry Withers Mysteries at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, and also the theater’s director of sales, brought in a contract with a cruise line, booking nine weeks of shows for four UCB pe…
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underwater landscape by Thomas Bannenberg – Photo 126763759 – 500px
underwater landscape by tbanny https://t.co/q61tgXhNBG https://t.co/rr9C8hw0Ta
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Boston, Autumn Schwarzenegger [1024×1024] : CityPorn
Boston, Autumn Schwarzenegger [1024×1024] via /r/CityPorn https://t.co/5oTOYmHcBf https://t.co/BjAjeTROp9
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Cthulhu stump via /r/pics https://t.co/wFS4JfIC4W https://t.co/cQlGmP6WF7
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Mating Ladybugs II [5472×3648] [OC] : AnimalPorn
Mating Ladybugs II [5472×3648] [OC] via /r/AnimalPorn https://t.co/p7QqzVLkCu https://t.co/fOyEGtToG3
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Panorama I shot of the Aleutian Range at sunset. Alaska [OC] [2048 x 440] : EarthPorn
Panorama I shot of the Aleutian Range at sunset. Alaska [OC] [2048 x 440] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/x4l5CcWWxk https://t.co/p0F7YzR8iV
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Lago Nero by Stefano Finotello – Photo 126716447 – 500px
Lago Nero by Stefano7 https://t.co/PToAJ6LIAb https://t.co/DT5muLoiTo
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Day 22, the pack has accepted me : aww
Day 22, the pack has accepted me via /r/aww https://t.co/0SGbdbJh6j https://t.co/udKVypFScH
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Names of European countries in Turkish [2000 x 1529] [OC] : MapPorn
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Funny Cat Videos via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/kTOHgbZ80n https://t.co/EkWNzBXM3C
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 1980 : OldSchoolCool
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 1980 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/dFzE9pAMuT https://t.co/cnYrghWqKL
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Kinney Lake, Mt Robson Provincial Park, BC, Canada [OC] [4160×2340] : EarthPorn
Kinney Lake, Mt Robson Provincial Park, BC, Canada [OC] [4160×2340] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/p0FnsCRdTu https://t.co/NqHcKA9V2P
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WASHINGTON — Weeks before President Obama ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011, four administration lawyers hammered out rationales intended to overcome any legal obstacles — and made it all but inevitable
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Donald J. Trump pledged to redouble his efforts in Iowa on Tuesday, sounding stunned and chastened that he had lost the lead in the state. “What the hell are you people doing to me?” he asked in both mock and real exasperation. It…
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Budget Deal? Don’t Applaud Republicans for Releasing Their Hostages
Monday night, the Republican leadership agreed to release their hostages: the need to raise the debt limit, the need to keep the government operating, and the need to ensure that all Social Security disability benefits can continue to be paid in ful…
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Almost any amount and type of physical activity may slow aging deep within our cells, a new study finds. And middle age may be a critical time to get the process rolling, at least by one common measure of cell aging.
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Surprise discovery suggests ‘gentle’ start for Solar System – BBC News
The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered molecular oxygen in the cloud of gas surrounding the comet it is tracking. The discovery has come as a complete surprise to scientists who thought that oxygen would have reacted with other elements as planets we…
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NASA Probe Flies Through Saturn Moon Enceladus’ Plume
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made its deepest dive yet through the plume emanating from the south pole of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Cassini flew low through the plume today (Oct. 28) at about 1 p.m.
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The Middle East could be looking at 140-degree days thanks to climate change | Grist
Under Ryan’s vision for the country, our shift away from fossil fuels and cars would be impeded and our air and water quality worsened. A fake news site reported that the pontiff endorsed the Socialist presidential hopeful. The internet fell for it.
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What’s Going On With #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh? – Digg
On Monday, video emerged of a police officer at Spring Valley High School, located outside Columbia, South Carolina, pulling a student from her chair, slamming her into the ground and dragging her out of the classroom.
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faro punta nariga by gabriel sorin matache – Photo 126714095 – 500px
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Cod Could Recover in Warming Waters – Scientific American
Cod rebound in warming Canadian waters but continue to decline in U.S.
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Inside Cassini’s Multi-Year Saturn MIssion (Infographic)
The ambitious Cassini orbiter and Huygens lander mission achieved the first landing of a probe on another planet’s moon. For more than 11 years, Cassini has orbited the ringed planet, taking photos and making observations that have greatly expanded …
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A Year After Private Rocket Explosion, Orbital ATK Aims to Soar Again
One year after the explosive loss of an Antares rocket, as well as the Cygnus spacecraft riding atop it, Orbital ATK is getting ready for both Cygnus and Antares to return to flight.
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The Scientific Method is a Myth
It’s probably best to get the bad news out of the way first. The so-called scientific method is a myth. That is not to say that scientists don’t do things that can be described and are unique to their fields of study.
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North Korea’s recently completed Sci-Tech Complex [670×439] : ArchitecturePorn
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Evening Oil Rigs : perfectloops
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Star Wars fans in 1980 : OldSchoolCool
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Thought bananas were just for eating? You were wrong : gifs
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WASHINGTON — To most Americans, the speaker of the House is the man (and in one case, the woman) sitting next to the vice president during the State of the Union address to Congress, and the one who goes on television now and then to denounce the op…
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Here’s Our Exclusive Recap of Tonight’s Republican Debate | Mother Jones
Editor’s note: Mother Jones reporter Tim Murphy recently acquired a time machine. But he didn’t go back into the past and kill baby Hitler. Instead, he traveled forward in time to Boulder, Colorado, to watch Wednesday night’s Republican presidential…
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Whoa, how have I not heard about this before today: the Cassini spacecraft is going to dive through a jet of water erupting from Enceladus, a Saturnian moon. Discovering life was not on the agenda when Cassini was designed and launched two decades a…
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‘The Day of the Dead’: Putting Malcolm Lowry to jazz|Dangerous Minds
The loss of ignorance makes existence worthwhile.
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When Bank Workers Occupy the Banks | The Nation
After about eight years of seeing Main Street households get owned by Big Finance, front-line bank workers are now trying to reclaim Wall Street, branch by branch.
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Are humans meant to be monogamous? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they’re talking about. Today, we ask psychology, biology, and sexuality experts whether humans are wired to stay together.
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By coup-plotting standards, Plaek Phibunsongkhram was in a good position. The year was 1938.
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Abandoned worship hall; Among the Ruin [2048 x 1364] : AbandonedPorn
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Overturned chair in an abandoned church. [OC] [683×1024] : AbandonedPorn
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Canadian canoeing adventure with dog : pics
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Made it to my last semester of college, about to graduate like…. : funny
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Colors After the Storms
Damaging heavy rains fell on South Carolina in the southeastern United States at the beginning of October 2015. Much of that water had, by mid-October, flowed into the Atlantic Ocean bringing with it heavy loads of sediment, nutrients, and dissolved…
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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The State v. Robertson – SBNation.com
It is while watching Portland’s annual Vagina Beauty Pageant, a very explicit talent contest, that Oregon’s commitment to protecting free speech really shines.
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Morning Aurora From the Space Station : NASA… – Just Space
Morning Aurora From the Space Station : NASA astronaut Scott… https://t.co/1ch1JDdGPn https://t.co/rvuRxc1oje
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Chew on This—Babies Need Their Tongues to Tell Sounds Apart – Scientific American
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Why you shouldn’t panic about human DNA in veggie dogs | Grist
Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that the TPP could open up governments to corporate lawsuits over climate rules. Under Ryan’s vision for the country, our shift away from fossil fuels and cars would be impeded and our air and water qu…
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Photograher Tod Seelie is constantly taking his camera into extreme conditions to both document and participate in exceptional events—from punk shows to a firecracker festival, to seaworthy rafts of found materials floating in the Adriatic sea, to a…
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Target is fuccboi : ledootgeneration
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Me as a parent via /r/funny https://t.co/kKbCgGsUwP https://t.co/y0q22xBIzG
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Zooming along Mars’ Surface | Space Wallpaper
About this Image SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft speeds over the surface of the Red Planet while the sun glows on the horizon in this artist’s illustration. [Read the story.
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Map of the presidential election results in Argentina [1380×1300] : MapPorn
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They can hear pretty good but… : lolcats
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What is dis? via /r/cats https://t.co/9hRsfKQBud https://t.co/EZB8YFQglz
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Below Zapata Falls, CO [2048×1365] [OC] : EarthPorn
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I wouldn’t subject anyone to being in a relationship with me. – Meme on Imgur
I wouldn’t subject anyone to being in a relationship with me. https://t.co/Rw1rW8xbyV https://t.co/8LeLXPOk25
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Einstein Is Right About General Relativity — Again
Scientists have confirmed, with amazing precision, Einstein’s general theory of relativity. To do so, they looked at how each planet’s elliptical orbit shifts over time.
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Lions and tigers aren’t the only big cats threatened by poaching. According to research published this week in the journal Biological Conservation, the lesser-known clouded leopards (two species from the genus Neofelis) have become the latest target…
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Please, John Kasich, Make This Debate Matter by Calling Out Trump and Carson | The Nation
The third Republican debate would have drawn a lot more viewers if CNBC had selected Mad Money host and Squawk on the Street co-host Jim Cramer as a moderator. He could have shouted “Risky!” “Don’t Buy!” and “Sell!” in response to each and every abs…
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Christine Sun Kim: The enchanting music of sign language | TED Talk | TED.com
Artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn’t a part of her life, that it was a hearing person’s thing. Through her art, she discovered similarities between American Sign Language and music, and she realized…
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Rural countryside by Fabrizio Lunardi – Photo 126773317 – 500px
Rural countryside by blazblue78 https://t.co/VBege3vDb0 https://t.co/sPTpJgP9D9
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In the Times review of the American Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross’s important new history of Israeli-U.S. relations, “Doomed to Succeed,” a telling moment on the eve of the 1991 Madrid peace conference caught my attention.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Less than an hour after the Mets had lost Game 1 of the World Series to the Royals in perhaps the most dispiriting and exhausting way imaginable, Jeurys Familia and a few teammates sat around a table and ate barbecue in silence.
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How Whole Foods Market Changed Its Company Culture – The Billfold
Over the course of 10 years, I have worked for Whole Foods Market off and on in four different states, three different regions and 11 different positions.
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A large spiral galaxy, known as UGC 1810, with a… – Just Space
A large spiral galaxy, known as UGC 1810, with a disk that is… https://t.co/rOhN9sjf6o https://t.co/XSUhTNNxIp
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Me, thinking the exclusivity talk is relatively close. : TrollXChromosomes
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Street magician via /r/gifs https://t.co/p1hJ7kSDWs https://t.co/ie60FuInCP
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The Politics of Daylight Saving Time
U.S. clocks fall back this Sunday to mark the end of daylight saving time (DST)—but lawmakers in many states are increasingly trying to avoid the time change.
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The Foley Artist a charming short film on how a Foley artist would sound design a day in an ordinary life. Running hands through spaghetti noodles stands in for hair washing, a spray bottle sounds like rustling sheets, that sort of thing.
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Top CEOs Have $4.9 Billion Saved Up for Retirement. Nearly 1/3 of Workers Have Nothing. | The Nation
David Novak, the executive chairman of the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, has a lot to look forward to—$234 million, to be exact. That’s the size of his retirement package, which is the largest of any top executive’s.
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Teens Say They Are Drawn to Flavored or Fruity Tobacco – Scientific American
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A survey of teen smokers has added more evidence that flavored tobacco products are particularly attractive to people younger than the legal smoking age.
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Ron Howard Grew Up on TV. Now He’s Tackling the Science of Aging
The world knows Ron Howard by different roles—as Opie from The Andy Griffith Show, as Richie Cunningham from Happy Days, and as the Oscar-winning director of films like A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13.
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Nighthawks at the Cinema | The Verge
It’s midnight in Hobart, Indiana, and the auditorium of the cozy, single-screen Art Theatre is echoing with the sounds of cartoon characters in the throes of passion.
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Sleep Paralysis Is an Inescapable Waking Nightmare | Motherboard
Once, when I was 17, I woke up in the dark and couldn’t move. I could hear, at least. That’s why I was awake to begin with: someone was banging on the front door in the middle of the night, insistent, sharp, angry.
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The Band – Forever Young – YouTube
The Band – Forever Young https://t.co/bmFN3FvzWW
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Tears For Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” – ORIGINAL VIDEO – YouTube
Tears For Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” – ORIGINAL VIDEO https://t.co/AVrEmsv8rJ
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Van Halen – Jump https://t.co/O16qClfOmP
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autumn by Jürgen Brochmann – Photo 126701001 – 500px
autumn by jbrochmann https://t.co/veQDExgRpQ https://t.co/tDOTiNJMOg
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The Band & Neil Young Helpless – YouTube
The Band & Neil Young – Helpless https://t.co/IR6G0KUQGi
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It’s only a matter of days before the new six disc Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition box set of the 1970 Velvet Underground classic comes out.
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Halloween Asteroid Flyby: Here’s What We Know About 2015 TB145
As a big asteroid flies by at a close but safe distance from Earth on Saturday (Oct. 31), astronomers will likely get a better radar view of the surface than ever before. Asteroid 2015 TB145 — discovered earlier this month, on Oct. 10 — will fly by …
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Army Photographic Competition: The winning images – BBC News
From the dust and dirt of a warzone to the gleaming uniforms of an Army parade – these are the images that show the reality of life for British servicemen and women.
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Who needs a tent? Outside Zion NP, UT. [5312×2988] : EarthPorn
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Sloth on a chandelier : sloths
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Kiribati’s Dilemma: Before We Drown We May Die of Thirst – Scientific American
The island nation is one of the world’s most vulnerable to rising sea levels. But residents may have to leave well before the ocean claims their homes
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Stream All of Bach and Beethoven: 250 Free Hours of Music | Open Culture
Has the endless distraction of modern life destroyed our ability to sit with the symphonies of Beethoven and Bach? Do we no longer have the attention span to read novels? These are the kinds of questions scholar Alan Jacobs asks in books like The Pl…
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GOP’s Budget-Deal Win Over Obamacare Is an Empty One | Mother Jones
When Congress announced a budget accord on Monday night to keep the government funded for the next two years, Republicans boasted that they scored a victory against the plague of President Obama’s health care reform law by striking a section of the …
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Cruella De Vil and her Dalmatian|Dangerous Minds
We try to stay away from “cute kids” posts here on Dangerous Minds, but sometimes we do make exceptions like for this adorably-twisted Halloween costume of Cruella De Vil and her sobbing Dalmatian. This photo is too perfect for words. She’s obviousl…
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On a bright day in the flats of San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles, the busiest restaurant around is a Panda Express tucked into a shopping center dominated by a Walmart.
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Santiago Lopez wasn’t expecting to find a dead body when he scaled the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel on February 19, 2013.
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Western Medusa Fossae Formation on Mars… – Just Space
Western Medusa Fossae Formation on Mars [2880×1800] https://t.co/s7pJ2wojN1 https://t.co/o3z1OAutcK
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HAPPY MEOWLOWEEN 🙂 one of my latest art, check it out and SHARE!! meeeeeooooow : cats
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HMJB while I ride this bike : holdmyjuicebox
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WASHINGTON—Pulling the congressman aside Wednesday and sitting him down in his office, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly told his likely successor, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), that he had once been young and beautiful too.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Moon over Carolina [864×960]
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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Hillary Clinton Isn’t the Only One Fighting for Paid Leave | The New Republic
Democratic presidential candidates are striving to out-do each other with the most buzz-worthy paid family leave plans.
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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Soon, you’ll be able to go to the Olive Garden and order your fettuccine alfredo from a tablet mounted to the table. After paying, you’ll rate the server. Then you can use that tablet to hail an Uber driver, whom you’ll also rate, from one to five s…
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The rise and fall of unemployment across the U.S., 2007-2014 (animated map) : gif
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That’s cold.. : trippinthroughtime
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Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) [4800×3200] [OC] : AnimalPorn
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Are Prions behind All Neurodegenerative Diseases? – Scientific American
Evidence mounts that chain reactions involving toxic proteins link Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and more By | Alzheimer’s disease (bottom) destroys neurons in many areas of the brain, including those responsible for memory.
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[OC] The British Empire — 1583-1997 [4500×2234] : MapPorn
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Drama by Dino Marsango – Photo 126782099 – 500px
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BOULDER, CO—Arriving in Colorado several days early to get acclimated to the 5,400-foot elevation, Republican presidential candidates have reportedly been preparing for Wednesday’s GOP primary debate with a series of high-altitude speaking drills.
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MiVape: Meet the iPhone of weed|Dangerous Minds
I’m a fellow with an awful lot of experience burning the leaves of the cannabis plant and inhaling it deeply into my lungs. I’ve been a wake-n-bake smoker for over 35 years, which surely should qualify me for some sort of Ph.D. in weed.
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Hong Kong ‘Open-Minded’ to Banning its Ivory Trade
The release of undercover footage of traders admitting they “hide” illegal ivory in what remains of their old legal stocks, along with the publication on October 23 of the report Illusion of Control by WildAid in conjunction with the African Wildlif…
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BOULDER, CO—Reflecting on the repeated drubbings they have doled out since the process began six months ago, advisors for Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio confirmed Wednesday they are secretly enjoying totally destroying him during thei…
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This Is The Best Use Of A Drone We’ve Seen So Far – Digg
If this is an infomercial for the many uses of drones, consider us sold!
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If you wanted us to stay out you should’ve closed the door. : firstworldanarchists
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Ace’s Derpy Blerpy Blep : Blep
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DOLOMITES by TOMÁŠ MORKES – Photo 126705501 – 500px
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Via Mark Thoma — whom everyone interested in today’s economic debates should check out daily — Thomas Laubach and John C. Williams of the Fed have a new paper updating their estimates of the natural real rate of interest.
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Rishi Kaneria examines the use of props in movies, from the sled in Citizen Kane to the oranges in The Godfather to the cardboard box in Se7en. A transcript is available here. When used like this props become more than just objects. They become symb…
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ESO Observatory Discovers a Completely Unknown Part of the Milky Way
Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way.
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Real-Life ‘Tractor Beam’ Can Levitate Objects Using Sound Waves – Scientific American
The device relies on a precisely timed sequence of sound waves that create a region of low pressure that traps tiny objects that can then be manipulated solely by sound waves By and LiveScience | The research team has created three-dimensional acous…
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Polaroids of Desire: Architect Carlo Mollino’s secret stash of erotica (NSFW)|Dangerous Minds
The architect and designer Carlo Mollino had a secret life—one that only came to light after his death in 1973. Born in Turin in 1905, Mollino first established himself as an architect designing a house in Forte dei Marmi–a seaside resort and commun…
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Two stories you should read in tandem. First, it’s now very clear that Exxon has been spending millions of dollars to prevent public action against a slow-motion catastrophe it itself was well aware was on its way.
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‘I am the f*cking greatest of all time!’: Iggy Pop live on ‘The Tube’ in 1983|Dangerous Minds
Iggy Pop on the UK TV music show, The Tube, 1983 About four months before UK music TV show The Tube went off the air, one of its hosts, the excellent Jools Holland uttered the phrase, “be there or be ungroovy fuckers” while doing a live trailer for …
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[oc] nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom : perfectloops
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The Best Part of Waking Up is Anarchy in my Cup : firstworldanarchists
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Purple & Green Palette with a Stained Glass Bay Window [990×660] : RoomPorn
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I found this awkward and funny at the same time : AdviceAnimals
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WASHINGTON—Saying their numbers could easily plummet into the hundreds of billions within our lifetime, officials from the World Wildlife Fund issued an urgent warning Thursday stating that as few as 8 trillion brown rats remain in existence.
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Tiny Island Nation’s Massive New Ocean Reserve is Official
An island nation in the Pacific Ocean that’s smaller than New York City has created an ocean reserve that’s bigger than California. The president of Palau signed legislation Wednesday designating a reserve that’s about 193,000 square miles (500,000 …
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New Harry Potter Play In The Works – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Author J.K. Rowling has announced that the eighth installment of the Harry Potter series will be a two-part stage play called Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, written in collaboration with playwright Jack Thorne and set to open at London’s Palace …
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Halloween’s ‘Great Pumpkin’ Asteroid Snapped By Observatory | Video
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Aurora in Sweden [OC] [3599×2316] – Just Space
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Clear blue pond by ken aqua – Photo 126772567 – 500px
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Fall, Falls.. Falling by Erin Tolie – Photo 126749275 – 500px
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How to Build an Empathetic Robot – Scientific American
This may be the first empathetic utterance by a commercial machine. In the late 1990s the Boston company SpeechWorks International began supplying companies with customer-service software programmed to use this phrase and others. In the years since,…
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Volkswagen graveyard, PA. [OC][1024*683] : AbandonedPorn
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LIVE Coverage of Spacewalk EVA-32 on NASA TV : space
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just in time for doot season : ledootgeneration
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Maybe Republicans Really Are In Disarray | FiveThirtyEight
As many of you have probably noticed, we’re suspicious of overarching political “narratives” here at FiveThirtyEight. Oftentimes, they’re applied prematurely to explain short-term fluctuations in the polls that prove irrelevant in the end.
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Mt. Tamalpais, CA. [OC] [2560×1440] : EarthPorn
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Beautiful color photographs of England during the 1920s|Dangerous Minds
The summers seemed brighter, the weather warmer, the days more leisurely. The First World War—”the war to end all wars”—was long over and the 1920s began as a decade of great prosperity. But by the 1925, the years of plenty were over.
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Political Campaigns Are Wasteful—So Turn Them Into Startups | WIRED
It was late November 2008, and Dan Wagner’s post-Election Day high was wearing off. Just a few weeks before, the Obama for America team had gotten their guy elected, and people like Wagner, a member of the analytics staff, were getting a whole lot o…
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How Stress Makes You Sick – The Atlantic
The advice, “Stop worrying! Stress is bad for you” is true, but as with a lot of health guidance, its vagueness makes it less impactful.
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Beautiful lion moment : AnimalsBeingBros
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Presidential Candidates: Who Believes in Climate Change? https://t.co/Yh9wdiUi6t
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Whale Poop Drives Global Nutrient Cycling – Scientific American
The world’s oceans were once home to 10 times as many whales… before the Captain Ahabs of the world came round. Hunting hit big species the hardest, wiping out 99 percent of the southern hemisphere’s blue whales, for example.
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Lion populations in Africa ‘could halve in 20 years’ – BBC News
The number of lions in Africa is rapidly dropping, except in highly-managed areas in the south of the continent, a study has found. It suggests that lion populations in unprotected areas could be cut in half over the next two decades.
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Jeb Bush at an Existential Crossroad | The New Republic
We can’t know what would have become of Jeb Bush’s presidential candidacy if Donald Trump had never entered the race, or if Bush’s campaign could have avoided the damage it’s incurred by waking up to Trump’s durability sooner than it did.
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Why Do People Favor Opinion Over Scientific Evidence? – Scientific American
Keith E. Stanovich, an emeritus professor of applied psychology and human development at the University of Toronto, answers: Decades of research have shown that humans are so-called cognitive misers. When we approach a problem, our natural default i…
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Foods to Restore Your Intestinal Flora – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Nutrition Diva by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. We hear a lot about the microbiome these days—the trillions of probiotic bacteria that live on and in us.
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intel…
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The unified theory of all zombie fiction – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
Regardless of whatever else zombies have meant or stood for over their long popular run, at their core, they’re all the same. George A.
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Did not dilute : firstworldanarchists
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Walking in the Fall by SilentWave – Photo 126681249 – 500px
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F.B. by Friedrich Beren – Photo 126686777 – 500px
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I’m not convinced this guy is not an airbender. : gifs
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It’s sad that this makes me think highly of a person. : AdviceAnimals
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Spooky’s sleepy sunshine blep : Blep
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Behind by Richard_ Mark – Photo 126748621 – 500px
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Headless Cockroaches: The Myth, The Legend, The YouTube Videos | Atlas Obscura
This is part two of a three-part series on decapitation. Previously: Zombie dogs and the birth of neurosurgery.
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Astronomers make a remarkable discovery in the center of the Milky Way – The Washington Post
Scientists have found a brand new feature at the center of our own galaxy — a disk of young stars hidden in with the old-timers. Until now, astronomers thought that the bulge at the center of the Milky Way contained only ancient stars.
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The shredding of a tire : oddlysatisfying
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Colored Pass Road by Mirco Gugg – Photo 126673165 – 500px
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Game 1 Of The World Series Was 14 Innings Of Weird | FiveThirtyEight
I asked for weird baseball, and Game 1 of the World Series delivered. On Tuesday night, the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets played an epic marathon that ended in a Royals victory after 14 innings.
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Our Philadelphian readers may know PYT, home of insanely gimmicky culinary constructions like the Deep-Fried Twinkie Burger, Chicken Bacon Eggo Sliders, and the Cocoa Krispies Chicken Burger.
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Podcast: A World Series Sabermetrics Spectacular | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Oct. 27, 2015), it’s a very stats-y World Series special.
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