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Shuswap dawn by Viktoria Haack – Photo 127109677 – 500px
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Funerals puts spotlight on Israeli ‘unlawful killings’ – Al Jazeera English
Palestinians in the city of Hebron have gathered for the funerals of teenagers shot dead by Israeli forces in alleged stabbing attacks, including one girl who Amnesty International says was unlawfully killed.
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Happy Days diner owner Al Molinaro dies aged 96 – BBC News
American actor Al Molinaro, who starred as “Big Al” Delvecchio in sitcom Happy Days, has died at the age of 96. He appeared as the owner of Arnold’s Drive-in, where the main characters would gather, from 1976 until 1982.
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Flight tracker on Russian crash: ‘Plane suddenly lost speed’ – BBC News
Mikael Robertsson from the flight tracking service Flight Radar 24 has outlined what could have happened to Russian airliner Flight KGL9268 after the plane left Sharm el-Sheikh.
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Rugby World Cup 2015: Will the Sport Ever Conquer America? – The Atlantic
While football flounders in an ethical mire, a sibling game—one with origins in the same medieval brawls over a pig’s bladder—is poised to enter the big leagues of American sport.
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‘Mythbusters’ and SXSW: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing – The Atlantic
Mythbusters and the Rise of Fact-Checking Everything Christopher Bonanos | Vulture “More than that, though, MythBusters revealed something striking: a national hunger for data-driven authority, and the methodology that delivers it.
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Russia and the Curse of Geography, From Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin – The Atlantic
Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church. If so, he may well go to bed each night, say his prayers, and ask God: “Why didn’t you put mountains in eastern Ukraine?”
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Fossil Q wearables reviewed: Smartwatches that actually look good | Ars Technica
Until recently, wearables had an image problem. If the very first fitness trackers and smartwatches didn’t look like a random piece of silicone with a honking module on top wrapped around your wrist, they were considered a fashionable success.
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Peter Doggett’s ambitious history of pop opens with the author having a terrible time in the “air-conditioned limbo” of a 2003 Merseyside shopping mall: 30 years on from a youthful epiphany brought on by an infamous Bob Dylan bootleg, he reacts with…
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Tom Gauld on health in crime fiction – cartoon | Books | The Guardian
Illustration: Tom Gauld
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Almost €13k raised for American family facing prolonged stay in Dublin after baby Zoe born at 25 weeks (mostpleasent.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Stoner by John Williams – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Books are often like people. Some are intrinsically sexy.
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School for India’s nomadic tribes struggles to survive – Al Jazeera English
Attathode, Kerala – The road into the forest is well paved: it’s on the route of a popular holy pilgrimage. Crude flags and a polythene bag on a stick mark tribal settlements along the way.
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Why is breast cancer becoming deadlier for black women? | Society | The Guardian
Why is breast cancer so much deadlier in black women than in white women? On the heels of an alarming new report that black women have caught up with their white counterparts in breast cancer rates, the question has taken on a fresh urgency. But the…
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Halloween in Space: A Vampire Astronaut and Nightmare in Orbit
Clayton Anderson was known for unusual pastimes during his long-duration space mission in 2007 — here, he portrayed an eerie spacebound vampire over the course of the day.Credit: Clayton C.
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Leprechaun Lake Sunrise by Erwin Buske – Photo 127108303 – 500px
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Eyewitness: Halvergate Marshes, Norfolk | World news | The Guardian
One of 13 places receiving a share of a £31m boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The funding will help support urgent conservation work, connect local communities to their surroundings and create 50 jobs and 6,000 paid training places.
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Romania club fire: ‘There was only one exit’ – BBC News
Hundreds of people, many of them teenagers, were watching a band play in the basement venue when fire broke out. Alison Mutler, a journalist based in Bucharest, told the BBC that relatives were anxiously awaiting news as officials tried to identify …
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: This week’s controversies and conflicts
Drafted in a haste after the sudden overdose death of NBA draftee Len Bias, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 established, among other harsh penalties for drug offenses, the 100-to-1 cocaine disparity.
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The people on these stairs get it : firstworldanarchists
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Mets stay alive in World Series after Game Three win – Al Jazeera English
The New York Mets climbed back into the World Series with a crucial 9-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals at a jubilant Citi Field.
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Tangled Up in Entanglement – The New Yorker
No area of physics causes more confusion, not just among the general public but also among physicists, than quantum mechanics.
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A recipe for an affordable, safe, and scalable flow battery | Ars Technica
Whether we are willing to admit it or not, we are all rather dependent on batteries. We mostly think about small batteries at the individual level—in our cell phones, watches, or laptops. But batteries can be used in technologies that support multip…
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Massive fissure mysteriously opens in Wyoming mountains : environment
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MFW my husband asks me if I’ll work out while he’s deployed. : TrollXChromosomes
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Sweet Creek Autumn by Erin Tolie – Photo 127075339 – 500px
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Qatari FM on the war in Yemen – Al Jazeera English
In this web extra, Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah talks about the war in Yemen, his country’s relationship with the United States, and his vision for Qatar’s role in the region.
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My crush just told me over text that it was “unmanly” for men to have a cat. I sent her this. : aww
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Safe Spaces to Pray as a Gay Muslim American – The Atlantic
In the media, being queer and Muslim often seems to amount to being a victim.
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How Much Do Marco Rubio’s Personal Finances Matter? – The Atlantic
Marco Rubio had two answers he was ready to nail in Wednesday night’s GOP debate. One was about missing votes in the Senate, and he managed to both shut down Carl Quintanilla’s question and deal a body blow to Jeb Bush’s campaign with his reply.
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Yellowstone Hot Springs by Edward Marcinek – Photo 127103057 – 500px
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Top 13 scariest stories for Halloween | Children’s books | The Guardian
I’ve always been determined not to be pigeonholed as a particular kind of writer. And so, whereas my first book, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat, had been warm and inviting and likeable and funny (or at least that was my intention), I decided whatever I …
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Patrick Modiano: ‘I became a prisoner of my memories of Paris’ | Books | The Guardian
In his brief, enigmatic account of his first 21 years, Pedigree, Patrick Modiano describes how, in 1959, at the age of 14, when his mother was performing in a play at the Théâtre Fontaine, he began exploring the Pigalle district of Paris.
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Barack Obama’s announcement on Friday that American special forces will take a more active role in the war in Syria is for many critics of his foreign policy a confirmation that the US has inched deeper into a chaotic conflict.
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15 Spooky Houses for Halloween
Overgrown, derelict, and decaying, these are houses you don’t want to go to for trick-or-treat this Halloween. From a house hastily abandoned after a nuclear disaster to a deserted whaling station, these dwellings are definitely lacking in curb appe…
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What Was on the T. Rex Menu? Sometimes Each Other
What did Tyrannosaurus rex eat? The obvious answer is “Anything it wanted,” but paleontologists have uncovered some surprises in the actual mealtime habits of the Cretaceous carnivore.
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Isopod Got Your Tongue? Naturally Tongueless Animals
Rarely do questions make us speechless. There are, but this being Halloween, we’ll start with animals that have tongues…for dinner.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week Europe’s refugee crisis, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, the continuing violence in Syria – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the…
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Pakistan v England, third TestVenue: Sharjah Dates: 1-5 November Start time: 06:00 GMTCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, Rad
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My friend had the perfect costume this year. – Imgur
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Ain Atiq Beach by Amine Fassi – Photo 127108387 – 500px
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Beverly Hills fined for not conserving enough water in drought : environment
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Russia Passenger Plane Crashes in Egypt | Al Jazeera America
The Airbus A-321 was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
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My dad dressed as Bob Ross for Halloween : funny
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K-Cups, old white men, and more: Last-minute, terrifying costume ideas | Grist
Happy Halloween! Have you been procrastinating on your costume like so many world leaders preparing for climate apocalypse? Well, you’re in luck! We’ve invented easy ways for you to dress up as some of the scariest villains on the planet.
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Happy Days actor Al Molinaro dies aged 96 | Television & radio | The Guardian
Al Molinaro, the actor known to millions of television viewers for his roles as the diner owner Al Delvecchio in Happy Days, and Murray the cop in The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 96.
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Reality Check: A climate change conspiracy? – 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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This teacher went as Drake from Hotline Bling for Halloween. – GIF on Imgur
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How To Peel A Potato Without Wasting Anything – Digg
29 diggs Food Science If you cut and then boil potatoes, the skin slips right off.
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Calm before the storm by Zardo – Photo 127076653 – 500px
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Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President https://t.co/S464VOLqZI
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The Best Halloween Movies You Can Watch For Free – Digg
It’s Halloween weekend, and that means kicking back with friends and watching scary movies.
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One of the wealthiest and most influential Republican donors in the country is throwing his support to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a decision that could swing millions of dollars in contributions behind Mr. Rubio at a critical point in the Repub…
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Why Poverty Isn’t a Halloween Costume | The Nation
When a website documenting the attire of Walmart customers surfaced several years ago, its popularity grew quickly. As Walmart is known for its low prices, and a sizeable number of its customers have very little money, many photos on the site featur…
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October 31, 1926: Harry Houdini Dies | The Nation
Almost two years after Houdini’s untimely death (he died a few days after a student at McGill University in Montreal caught him unawares by punching him in stomach), the inimitably named R.F.
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My relationship with my SO. : TrollXChromosomes
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This Neutrino Detector : interestingasfuck
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Halloween horrors: writers reveal their private fright nights … | Books | The Guardian
A large portion of my childhood was spent in the car, driving between my parents’ houses. To enliven these journeys, my father bought a sizeable collection of story tapes. As a consequence, my sister and I know Three Men in a Boat and The Wind in th…
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Only 13 days after John Kerry, the US secretary of state, opined that the Egyptian military was “restoring democracy”, a bullet missed my head by inches when that same military opened fire on peaceful protesters in the heart of Cairo.
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Inside Australia’s basketball talent factory | Sport | The Guardian
History and tradition are ever present at the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence, located on the leafy Australian Institute of Sport campus in Canberra.
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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About America’s Sleaziest Presidential Races? | Mother Jones
Think the 2016 election is shaping up to be an ugly fight? In historical terms, it might not be so bad. In his new book, Anything for a Vote, Joseph Cummins looks back at more than two centuries of campaign sleaze and scandal, from twisted words and…
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This Film Could Change How the Right Wing Feels About Guns | Mother Jones
Evangelical pastor Rob Schenck was a radical anti-abortion activist who hadn’t put too much thought into gun rights.
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America Has Lost Its Soul. This Unforgettable New Singer Has Found It. | Mother Jones
The man now known as Fantastic Negrito is wearing a three-piece checkered suit with a crisp, mustard-yellow shirt. Two small holes mark the knees of his pants, and orange striped socks flow into his tan leather shoes.
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Trump and the media: A marriage made in ratings heaven? – Al Jazeera English
When Donald Trump announced he was running for the US presidency, the liberal website Huffington Post took an editorial decision that all coverage of his campaign would be posted in their entertainment section, because that’s what they said the stor…
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The gifs that keep on giving: Borussia Dortmund, butterfingers and brilliance | Sport | The Guardian
What’s the catch? The boss Pass and move Woodwork Perfect parkour Shamed When a plan comes together ‘Bullsh…
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BBC Sport – Lewis Hamilton intends to finish career at Mercedes
World champion Lewis Hamilton says he expects to finish his career with Mercedes – and will probably only compete for another seven years. That could mean Hamilton, who joined Mercedes from McLaren in 2013, retiring from the sport in 2022, aged 37 -…
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A 27-year-old Connecticut man will be charged with murder in the death of his parents, an Easton couple who had been missing since August and whose remains were found on Thursday in the nearby town of Weston, the State Police sai…
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Russian airliner crashes in Sinai in Egypt, says Egypt’s PM – BBC News
A Russian airliner has crashed in central Sinai with more than 200 people on board, the office of Egypt’s prime minister has confirmed.The Airbus A-321 had just taken off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on its way to the Russian city of …
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Some life stories are so canonical that they don’t bear retelling, so much as demand it.
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The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth by Mackenzie Crook – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Benjamin Tooth is a budding botanist and scientist.
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Voices: Refugee crisis from the Turkish shoreline – Al Jazeera English
Kucukkuyu, Turkey – By official estimates, Turkey is hosting nearly 1.9 million refugees from Syria, while hundreds of thousands of unregistered refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran live and work in major Turkish cities.
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The Guardian children’s fiction prize – shortlist 2015 | Children’s books | The Guardian
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders (Faber)E Nesbitt’s classic Five Children and It gains an outstanding sequel, with the ingenious conceit of transposing the cosy Victorian setting for the eve of the First World War, yielding devast…
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A mountain to climb for Turkey’s liberals and leftists – 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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The Arena: Racism and activism in the US – 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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What It’s Like to Be Queer in the Church | Al Jazeera America
Before the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops even began, it was obvious it would be no friendly gathering of the Catholic Church’s leaders and laity when it came to gay rights and other social issues.
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Save 35% on up to 5 pairs of one of a kind socks from Happy Socks / Boing Boing
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In the 1816 English cricket season, Manchester Cricket Club was founded and became the forerunner of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
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Rare cyclone heading towards Yemen picks up speed – Al Jazeera English
A rare and intensifying cyclone called Chapala has formed in the Arabian sea and is expected to hit areas in Yemen, the UN weather agency reported.
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jwz: If you work for Facebook, quit.
If you work for Facebook, quit. It is morally indefensible for you to use your skills to make that company more powerful. By working there, you are making the world an objectively worse place. I’m sure you can find a job working for a company that y…
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Photographing America’s creepiest houses – BBC News
Cleveland photographer Seph Lawless has travelled across the United States in search of the spookiest abandoned properties. Some of them have their own horrific urban myths attached, involving murder and mysterious disappearances.
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China building collapse in Henan province kills 17 workers – BBC News
A two-storey building has collapsed in China’s central Henan province killing 17 construction workers and injuring 23 others, state media has reported.Rescue workers searched overnight pulling bodies and survivors from the debris in Beiwudu in Wuyan…
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Palestinian ex-MK to begin jail term over Syria visit – Al Jazeera English
Ramallah, West Bank – Said Nafaa, a former Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament, will on Sunday begin serving a one-year jail sentence for travelling to “an enemy state”, after a second appeal of his case to the Israeli Supreme Court was rej…
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The Headliner: Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiya – 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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My hero: Lisa Jardine by Martin Rees | Books | The Guardian
Most people’s careers run in grooves. Even if their achievements are lasting, they are usually within an established role – in politics, business, academia or a profession.
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Russian passenger plane crashes in Egypt’s Sinai – Al Jazeera English
A Russian plane carrying more than 200 people has crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, according to the Egyptian prime minister’s office. Russian media quoting aviation sources also reported that the plane had crashed.
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BBC Sport – World Series: New York Mets take game three to trail the Royals 2-1
The Kansas City Royals were angered by aggressive tactics from the New York Mets as they lost game three of the World Series 9-3. Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard knocked down shortstop Alcides Escobar with the first pitch of the game, a 98mph fastball…
World Series: New York Mets take game three to trail the Royals 2-1 https://t.co/LBbEB6i7ed -
Friend’s Halloween Costume. The world needed to see : pics
Friend’s Halloween Costume. The world needed to see via /r/pics https://t.co/brpxrU4itN https://t.co/tfdG3YFGXJ
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misty morning by Birgit Pittelkow – Photo 127051301 – 500px
misty morning by BirgitPittelkow https://t.co/JdIr05AWuy https://t.co/vD6twft2wG
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You Only Live 9 Times via /r/cats https://t.co/8hDN8lts5r https://t.co/2N88CzfXkZ
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So… this is what I have to sit next to all day. : funny
So… this is what I have to sit next to all day. via /r/funny https://t.co/1Lju0IxqxD https://t.co/S7fmMCUimz
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Early one evening Rudyard Kipling found himself in the presence of ghosts. Walking aimlessly beside a railway track just outside Khartoum, he “loafed back in the twi-light escorted by a small boy and an entire brigade of ghosts”.
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger – review https://t.co/w2DHhgZniK -
Two Jack Lake by Arnaud Bertrande – Photo 127011387 – 500px
Two Jack Lake by abertrande https://t.co/wuE3eICMDs https://t.co/HCYh9FogJL
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World powers agree to more talks on Syria crisis – Al Jazeera English
Major powers meeting in Vienna for talks on Syria have found enough “common ground” to meet for a new round of talks in two weeks, even as the conflict enters a new phase with the deployment of US special forces in the country.
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Russian airliner missing over Sinai – 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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Lightning over Mt.Hoddle,Aus [OC][2048×1365] : EarthPorn
Lightning over Mt.Hoddle,Aus [OC][2048×1365] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/QkWzdV18Z2 https://t.co/1IEJtXeVA1
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My cat with a pancake via /r/aww https://t.co/hag4xyikCS https://t.co/iI9Ack53vN
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Who would watch the complete googly eyed remaster of StarWars? – GIF on Imgur
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“This was mine, but you need it more than me ” – GIF on Imgur
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The Photographer by Saelanwangsa – Photo 127040227 – 500px
The Photographer by Saelanwangsa https://t.co/eSKM4F47u5 https://t.co/5UOsPL5drl
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THE SOCAL COASTLINE by Scott Doyle – Photo 127050115 – 500px
THE SOCAL COASTLINE by scott125 https://t.co/dPPwZvFxve https://t.co/RbmAOOzNfd
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Did I tell you to stop petting me, Human?? : cats
Did I tell you to stop petting me, Human?? via /r/cats https://t.co/wmVzIxSp1V https://t.co/6wxqYdzJqT
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Shaker Aamer’s Guantánamo detention is a shameful episode for Britain | World news | The Guardian
Shaker Aamer’s return home is the final act in one of the most shameful and ugly episodes in the history of Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Ministers, including Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time, still have a lot to answer for.
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Guardian children’s fiction prize 2015 shortlist – a judge’s perspective | Books | The Guardian
The best children’s fiction makes no compromises on literary or intellectual ambition, but instead finds a way to make mature themes accessible and compelling for younger readers.
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Copenhagen initiative gives bottle collectors ‘dignity’ – Al Jazeera English
A new type of garbage bins have been introduced in the Danish capital to make bottle collection easier – a move the city’s deputy mayor says will give some marginalised citizens more “dignity”. When buying a beverage in Denmark, customers pay $0.15-…
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Leah Remini Slams Tom Cruise and Scientology: ‘This is Some Crazy Sh-t’ – The Daily Beast
Tom Cruise is really not going to like this. Leah Remini’s highly anticipated interview on last night’s 20/20 did not disappoint for dirt-dishing on the Church of Scientology, which the King of Queens actress left in 2013.
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My friend had the perfect costume this year. : pics
My friend had the perfect costume this year. via /r/pics https://t.co/HWpRDpfgKv https://t.co/kpTA1vylHA
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This is My Cute & Sweet cat..i capture it Today. : cats
This is My Cute & Sweet cat..i capture it Today. via /r/cats https://t.co/laVYyNEu8b https://t.co/juhhyIF5q0
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Halloween Costume! via /r/cats https://t.co/6f4yCTZms7 https://t.co/yRxiZulzTx
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Buongiorno Principessa 😉 by Massimuenchen – Photo 127068239 – 500px
Buongiorno Principessa 😉 by maxToby https://t.co/Kt30CV3UpR https://t.co/7hjPnmAFBU
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MRW it’s Friday and a student comes up to ask me a question : TrollXChromosomes
MRW it’s Friday and a student comes up to ask me a question via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/CzkJy7127l https://t.co/BejR3fUpMP
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It’s a barely blep, sir. But it checks out. : Blep
It’s a barely blep, sir. But it checks out. via /r/Blep https://t.co/Bg9YXYbgNt https://t.co/mSfRSkHUbr
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TIL avocados contain more fat than any other fruit or vegetable. Also, the trees contain enzymes that prevent the fruit from ever ripening on the tree, allowing farmers to use the trees as storage devices for up to 7 months after they reach full mat…
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Kye Smith, a drummer based in Newcastle, Australia, recently hauled his drum kit to a nearby rooftop (an homage to The Beatles’ 1969 rooftop gig?) and started banging out a pretty wonderful tribute to Ringo Starr, playing drum parts from 71 Beatles …
Musician Plays Signature Drum Parts of 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes: A Whirlwind Tribute https://t.co/KOYpTtZexk -
For those who have lost a kitty friend… via /r/cats https://t.co/AapNAwXOsD https://t.co/MIBSNJFhkb
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A gentleman dolphin helps a girl up a ladder : funny
A gentleman dolphin helps a girl up a ladder via /r/funny https://t.co/LkjzjGLTsP https://t.co/2P8mOKOADk
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Philippines market fire ‘kills 15 traders’ in Zamboanga – BBC News
Fifteen traders including six children have been killed in a fire at a public market in the Philippines, police say. About 13 others were injured in the blaze at a market in the southern city of Zamboanga.
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Leaders of China, S Korea and Japan set to hold talks – Al Jazeera English
Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, has arrived in Seoul for a three-way summit with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Shinzo Abe, Japanese prime minister.
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Sitterviadukt by Gerald Stoverock – Photo 127046597 – 500px
Sitterviadukt by stoverock https://t.co/HGEiugcJcI https://t.co/Q9119lgSur
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I live a sad life… : AdviceAnimals
I live a sad life… via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/QfENOc6utf https://t.co/xqUNKoRbCv
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hey how’s it going [Magi] : animegifs
hey how’s it going [Magi] via /r/animegifs https://t.co/KKUOrxIDjE https://t.co/CvemdoJXiB
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Twins went as Bruce and Caitlyn Jenner for Halloween : pics
Twins went as Bruce and Caitlyn Jenner for Halloween via /r/pics https://t.co/naCaeh7iD6 https://t.co/73ZObsFzTk
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New bat species rises from vaults of London’s Natural History Museum | Environment | The Guardian
The discovery of a new creature of the night at the museum was announced appropriately on Halloween. It was named Francis’ woolly horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus francisi) after Charles Francis, who collected the specimen in Malaysia in 1983.
New bat species rises from vaults of London’s Natural History Museum https://t.co/Pu73ZZKshe -
two strangers on the ryanair flight earlier both ended up in the same hotel! – Imgur
two strangers on the ryanair flight earlier both ended up in the same hotel! https://t.co/kB3EMQJehf https://t.co/IYliEfGtRe
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Eerie Smoke Ring Halo | Space Wallpaper
About this Image In the DI Cha star system, two stars of the quadruple system of two sets of binary stars beam through a smoky ring of dust that surrounds the new stars. [Learn more about binary stars.
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two strangers on the ryanair flight earlier both ended up in the same hotel! – Imgur
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How Luigi the Lion Cat met his Cat Mom. The story. : cats
How Luigi the Lion Cat met his Cat Mom. The story. via /r/cats https://t.co/1p9IWWoKDv https://t.co/8M8tWiDB9a
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The Hero We Deserve [Mekakucity Actors] : animegifs
The Hero We Deserve [Mekakucity Actors] via /r/animegifs https://t.co/u2xGVYCS9j https://t.co/mOkJREWhd7
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Inquisitive by Gabriel de Leon – Photo 127108739 – 500px
Inquisitive by gabedeleon https://t.co/2JTJJO16rc https://t.co/lZ9hm7cKzv
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Symmetry by Barbara Seiberl-Stark – Photo 127022879 – 500px
Symmetry by BarbaraSeiberl-Stark https://t.co/kfyRjNYGmL https://t.co/fFxFkNUT4C
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Boo! Halloween Asteroid Looks Just Like a Creepy Skull
This radar view of the Halloween asteroid 2015 TB145 looks hauntingly like a skull ahead of an Oct. 31, 2015 flyby. The asteroid pass safely by Earth at a range of 300,000 miles. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico captured this view.
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Shaker Aamer: Guantanamo detainee undergoing medical tests – BBC News
Shaker Aamer, the last UK resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay, is undergoing medical tests ahead of being reunited with his children. His lawyers said he needed urgent care and mental assessments.
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Grasslands in Kudremukh National Park, India | By Tarun Gupta [2048×1009] : EarthPorn
Grasslands in Kudremukh National Park, India | By Tarun Gupta [2048×1009] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/WsoH5m7Bdb https://t.co/zqnQSY6uzs
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Man dressed as Buffalo for Halloween, 1920s : OldSchoolCool
Man dressed as Buffalo for Halloween, 1920s via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/6XcoP4jgr5 https://t.co/gHhf60pG2y
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Where witches cut their wands and butcher birds impaled their prey | Environment | The Guardian
“The trees are undressing,” as Thomas Hardy wrote in his poem Last Week of October. Today, burnt-toffee and russet leaves litter open farmland, one moment absinthe-green, the next treacle-dark as deep shadows pass over wet grass and the sun is switc…
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Tallunden – Visby | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Tallunden – Visby by lars-broberg https://t.co/AIaFZHP0pf https://t.co/qAFsqf96x5
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Cosmic Soufflé: The Tricky Art of Spiral Galaxies
This image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Seen in near-infrared light, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool’s skeletal dust structure. This new im…
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My cat is secretly a chicken : cats
My cat is secretly a chicken via /r/cats https://t.co/zuM8wDYDyS https://t.co/nuhVhc6hK2
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Howe Sound, British Columbia [1800×826][OC] : EarthPorn
Howe Sound, British Columbia [1800×826][OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/DM3gSMm0Vn https://t.co/ZGuhSyhM9g
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Kokee State Park, Kauai, HI [1500×996] [OC] : EarthPorn
Kokee State Park, Kauai, HI [1500×996] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/rBSnbGZVeC https://t.co/WYw6OQUsrc
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Advice for the day before Halloween : AdviceAnimals
Advice for the day before Halloween via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/StLu8gsU1z https://t.co/s7P6M5MC7N
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Sleepy Aperture blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/RxGV9JlBli https://t.co/3NZuLfX0lz
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After Full Lives Together, More Older Couples Are Divorcing https://t.co/Quelq7dX3J
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a tiny village by ning zhang – Photo 127067207 – 500px
a tiny village by zhangning https://t.co/H7QNDug3NA https://t.co/3KqwHXOtGk
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HILARY STEPHENS was 57 when she decided she had had enough — enough of her job, of caretaking, of her marriage of 28 years. So she did something many people fantasize about: She walked away from it all. “Sometimes it’s the only solution,” said Ms.
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My little brothers ask me for help beating a game they’re stuck on – GIF on Imgur
My little brothers ask me for help beating a game they’re stuck on https://t.co/ddALuEtZ0s https://t.co/f6FYNE44gJ
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My dad’s pretty creative Halloween costume. – Imgur
My dad’s pretty creative Halloween costume. https://t.co/qCFpsXP0EL https://t.co/0xJL9xJYYv
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Crimson Peak erects and subverts the gothic family tree · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
Free to live as a woman… free to take my place in the bright world of the living… instead of among the shadows of the dead! When young Edith (Mia Wasikowska) enters the eponymous hall of Crimson Peak, it soars hundreds of feet above her.
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My little brothers ask me for help beating a game they’re stuck on – GIF on Imgur
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“I’m listening to a lot of Supertramp and mid-period Christopher Cross,” my friend Mike Pace recently wrote in an email.
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“She’s a girl with a problem,” Roman Polanski says on the director’s commentary of Repulsion, speaking as efficiently and abstractly as he directs.
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“El Jefe” · Ash Vs. Evil Dead · TV Review · The A.V. Club
It’s fitting that Deep Purple’s “Space Truckin’” cracks open Ash Vs. Evil Dead.
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Slow-motion introduction to my step-cat, Max : cats
Slow-motion introduction to my step-cat, Max via /r/cats https://t.co/zxsE9nLomh https://t.co/AjoCfiWClt
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Nasa tracking Asteroid TB145 with radio telescopes – BBC News
An asteroid called TB145 will pass within a few hundred thousand kilometres of the earth. Astronomers only discovered its existence this month.
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Memo to British PM: Less talk, more action on Syria – Al Jazeera English
British Prime Minister David Cameron has described ISIL as an “existential threat” to the United Kingdom. His defence secretary, Michael Fallon, told an audience during a major speech that the Royal Air Force is taking part in “a new Battle of Brita…
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APOD: 2015 October 30 – The Witch Head Nebula
Explanation: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble …. maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. A suggestively shaped reflection nebula, this cosmic crone is about 800 light-years away though.
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Spider loves sunshine. via /r/cats https://t.co/GT5OJavwKf https://t.co/x2Gp0fmBaK
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Halloween Asteroid Flies By Earth Today: Watch It Live Online
A huge asteroid the size of the football stadium has a close encounter with Earth today (Oct. 31) and you can watch the space rock safely fly by online this Halloween. NASA scientists have dubbed asteroid a cosmic “Great Pumpkin” to celebrate the sp…
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“The Grimm Identity” · Grimm · TV Review · The A.V. Club
The decision to kill off a character on a television show is one that’s made for a variety of reasons—a contract runs out, the narrative dictates they’ve reached the end of their story, the producers want to stir up some interest amongst the audienc…
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“The Best With The Best To Get The Best” · The Knick · TV Review · The A.V. Club
It’s hard to tell whether our beloved Dr. Gallinger is uncomfortable or insecure in the company of eugenicists.
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Everything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong : interestingasfuck
Everything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/QYblUzub92 https://t.co/FygBDLaDOX
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Nurse From Blink 182’s Album Cover : pics
Nurse From Blink 182’s Album Cover via /r/pics https://t.co/G9aCgyka9G https://t.co/ViZ9idY1bT
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/r/science has a a system of verifying accounts for commenting enabling trained scientists, doctors and engineers to make credible comments in /r/science .
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Young Himba Woman and Landscape Image – National Geographic Photo of the Day
A Good Light https://t.co/U4NEitl9f5
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Young Himba Woman and Landscape Image – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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What’s in a Scream? – The New Yorker
Edvard Munch created his most famous image after taking a sunset walk outside Christiania (now Oslo), during which he sensed what his journal records as “a great, unending scream piercing through nature.” Indeed, the natural world is full of screams.
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‘The Knick’ Recap: Straight to Hell | Rolling Stone
“You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn round and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.” – Albert Einstein It’s easy for medicine to be at odds with religion.
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Wes Craven’s Favorite Scary Movies – The Daily Beast
Wes Craven’s Favorite Scary Movies https://t.co/f3xIrPqplx
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Indigenous Games: The tribe showcasing their log carrying tradition – BBC News
More than 2000 indigenous athletes from around the world have gathered in Palmas, Brazil for the World Indigenous Games. Events include spear throwing and canoeing.
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Wes Craven’s Favorite Scary Movies – The Daily Beast
Late horror maestro Wes Craven shared his 10 favorite creepy classics with us in 2010. Here, watch scenes from his picks, from Psycho to Frankenstein. I chose to name films that were in the era where I first really started watching movies and fell i…
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Steel Forging : oddlysatisfying
Steel Forging via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/qVbo5k4sRE https://t.co/7v4mmKovvs
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The Four Horsemen by Daniel Karamudin : woahdude
The Four Horsemen by Daniel Karamudin via /r/woahdude https://t.co/4h84g5wg3P https://t.co/XhoKI868l5
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Looks like I guess I missed my flight – Imgur
Looks like I guess I missed my flight https://t.co/k1xmBV3uFu https://t.co/ck2neivtkF
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Violet Land by Evgeni Dinev – Photo 127024081 – 500px
Violet Land by evgord https://t.co/vrfEeLfv58 https://t.co/00LU1pJiP1
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Just another day at the office. : funny
Just another day at the office. via /r/funny https://t.co/qxu2qsW8dO https://t.co/kxoFUJI4UX
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My cat found a box! via /r/cats https://t.co/VkAa4imxft https://t.co/O7tEz69LR7
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Mets back in the World Series as hitters break loose against the Royals | Sport | The Guardian
Two balls launched over the wall, one fired over an opponent’s head and just like that, David Wright and the New York Mets are right back in this World Series. Related: World Series 2015: Royals v Mets, Game 3 – live!
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Good vs bad under ride guard : interestingasfuck
Good vs bad under ride guard via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/ZkkBSc5d9p https://t.co/lCcwdWxQHO
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sunset from erice with view on trapani… by Margitta Thomann – Photo 126993051 – 500px
sunset from erice with view on trapani… by MargittaThomann https://t.co/Qj0u95fheS https://t.co/TiyAJC3zhb
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the first snow in Lake Superior ( Explore ) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
the first snow in Lake Superior ( Explore ) by rinogas https://t.co/EUwSk40jgN https://t.co/Lv37lUrvtA https://t.co/HhD5kjzVr5
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the first snow in Lake Superior ( Explore ) by rinogas https://t.co/EUwSk40jgN https://t.co/Lv37lUrvtA https://t.co/HhD5kjzVr5
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Cats Are the Greatest Compilation Video 2015 : cats
Cats Are the Greatest Compilation Video 2015 via /r/cats https://t.co/xKpj5LdFRa https://t.co/Icn43u3Cgn
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Hidden Bar via /r/gifs https://t.co/P2dQB1hoyR https://t.co/HcpMcsGs0J
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Tim Curry in the original play of Rocky Horror Picture Show 1973 : OldSchoolCool
Tim Curry in the original play of Rocky Horror Picture Show 1973 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/4AXaYna8pY https://t.co/LGK7KFxQKI
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Al from Happy Days, RIP / Boing Boing
Al Molinaro, most famous for playing Al Delvecchio, proprietor of Arnold’s Drive-In on Happy Days, has died. He was 96. Yeppp, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep… Prior to his role on Happy Days, Molinaro starred on The Odd Couple as Murray the Cop.
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A new batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails released on Friday presented a glimpse into the breadth of her personal network – a who’s who of powerful celebrities, CEOs, political advisers and politicians whom she is now tapping for her presidential camp…
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Shadow approves this radiator. : cats
Shadow approves this radiator. via /r/cats https://t.co/tkD0QQziaD https://t.co/hfEAU0nP3e
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Paul Singer backs Marco Rubio in boost for senator and blow for Bush | US news | The Guardian
Marco Rubio has gained the backing of Republican mega-donor Paul Singer in a major boost for the Florida senator’s presidential campaign.
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Meeting by papa 74 – Photo 127050615 – 500px
Meeting by papa74 https://t.co/SYZ1eVpxa8 https://t.co/SYgYlmlDRw
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I’m not your buddy, friend! – Imgur
I’m not your buddy, friend! https://t.co/Mf3T3DSIzc https://t.co/4JJ7AA7Aqz
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Dune: An Appreciation at 50 Years :: Monthly :: Features :: Paste
Dune: An Appreciation at 50 Years https://t.co/Xp948CiHgo
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Guy dresses up as Alladin and ‘flies’ around on his magic carpet! – GIF on Imgur
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/5lhTPy378P https://t.co/KGXE7gWOWy
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Open thread for night owls: Western nations, led by U.S., are pouring weapons into Middle East
The investigation examines government defense corruption in Tunisia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Syria, and Yemen.
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National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed | TechCrunch
National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed https://t.co/CyECL6gk3O
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National U.S. Privacy Laws Are Needed | TechCrunch
As the most recent security breaches have taught us around the world, losing one’s privacy also means losing one of humanity’s unique attributes — its secrets.
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The Four Horsemen by Daniel Karamudin : interestingasfuck
The Four Horsemen by Daniel Karamudin via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/lZp22HfUrP https://t.co/L5ZaTEo0RL
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Zion Backyard [OC] [5616×3744] : ExposurePorn
Zion Backyard [OC] [5616×3744] via /r/ExposurePorn https://t.co/Dto01yHCHS https://t.co/Lp5FWsfGgP
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Syria conflict: Russia warns US of ‘proxy war risk’ – BBC News
Russia has warned of the risk of a “proxy war” in the Middle East after the US said it would send special forces to Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this increased the need for co-operation between the US and Russia.
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Please Like Me · TV Review · The A.V. Club
A few years ago Mad Men delivered a one-two punch when ad man Don Draper was seeking the Jaguar account. One week he and Joan played a happily married couple taking a Jag for a test drive at Christmas, and the next week the firm was pimping her out …
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Washington NFL player sues FanDuel claiming likeness used without consent | Sport | The Guardian
The Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon is attempting to bring a federal class action lawsuit against daily fantasy sports company FanDuel for using players’ names and likenesses without consent.
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New hiding spot…it’s like he’s invisible. : cats
New hiding spot…it’s like he’s invisible. via /r/cats https://t.co/culjeWnHwT https://t.co/Jq4sHg72Xw
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Dog gets excited whenever the train passes by. : gif
Dog gets excited whenever the train passes by. via /r/gif https://t.co/GjCbJjErai https://t.co/Nrkm2jbhz6
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I got lost in the Louvre, but at least I found this! : pics
I got lost in the Louvre, but at least I found this! via /r/pics https://t.co/rlPzXoYO3r https://t.co/mN7qVv07uo
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Unsolved mysteries and spooky stories
So I thought it would be interesting to look at the strange and the weird.
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Like most other conservative evangelical ministers, the Rev. Rob Schenck objects to same-sex marriage. He is also vehemently against abortion rights. But as this Op-Doc video shows, he is remarkable in that he takes his pro-life stance so far that h…
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Went to a corporate party today, thought this costume was only fitting. – Imgur
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Harrison Ford in this Kirin ad at my local bar (1990?) : OldSchoolCool
Harrison Ford in this Kirin ad at my local bar (1990?) via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/xCmAR2DlXa https://t.co/IenOoJPvrV
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Val Di Funes 2 by Luca Lanzani – Photo 127063529 – 500px
Val Di Funes 2 by luca-lanzani https://t.co/GfZPaqDy6B https://t.co/tVjayV85Ie
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How Machismo Is Keeping Bros Up at Night – The Daily Beast
Energy drinks probably can’t help you snowboard or rock climb much better than you already can. But a new study finds that the more traditionally masculine a man is, the more he might believe in their efficacy, and the more sleep-deprived he might b…
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Between Ole Miss and Me – The Daily Beast
I grew up cheering for the Confederate flag. If it was Saturday and football season, that meant the Ole Miss Rebels were playing and every Friday night before bed, I’d pray for a Rebel victory.
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Real Story of The Secret Space Station – The Daily Beast
In the late 1960s, the U.S. Air Force came close to completing a spy spacecraft capable of snapping photos of the Soviet Union in unprecedented detail. But this wasn’t just another satellite. It was huge—72 feet from tip to base. And for good reason.
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Milwaukee’s Shoot-From-The-Hip Sheriff – The Daily Beast
Milwaukee is under threat by both ISIS and the Black Lives Matter movement, in the mind of Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. For most elected civil servants, this bold assertion would be a regrettable instance of social media hyperbole, but for the outspo…
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The Unknown Caribbean Island Breeding Baseball Stars – The Daily Beast
AMSTERDAM — There was no joy in Mudville. Coach Loek Loevendie pointed to the rain washing over the fields surrounding the Amsterdam Pirates’ Baseball café. “On a day like this,” he said. “There is nothing much you can do.
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The Best Con Man You’ve Never Heard Of – The Daily Beast
In 1915, Americans’ eagerness to speculate was out of whack with their investing knowledge. Smooth talkers were able to sell anything to an indiscriminate public, and a nation of unseasoned stock-pickers operated under the false confidence that they…
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Why Is Kate Middleton so Silent? – The Daily Beast
Kate Middleton has a fear of public speaking, sources say, which may go some way to explain why she has not made so much as a squeak in public since the birth of her baby daughter Charlotte in May this year.
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Jesus, Kale, and Corpses: How We Got the Weirdly Awesome Halloween – The Daily Beast
Halloween is here. It is the one night of the year when children are encouraged to be monsters, women are permitted to wear what they want (with minimal shaming), and we deliberately undo a year’s worth of parental advice about accepting candy from …
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Joe Pesci: ‘Who’s Da Poet?’ – The Daily Beast
The last conversation I had with Taki was about having “fuck you money.” We were at a party in some New York townhouse. Perhaps it was his. Taki’s column High Life has been in The Spectator since 1977.
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Russia Denies Stalin’s Killer Famine – The Daily Beast
Sputnik News, the slick Kremlin-owned multimedia site once dubbed “the BuzzFeed of propaganda,” usually offers a predictable mix of content with a pro-Moscow message: these days, it’s accounts of Russian heroics in Syria, concern-trolling reports on…
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How ‘Star Wars’ Took Over Global Politics – The Daily Beast
This week, a 25-year-old man named Aleksandr Borovik was elected to the Odessa city council with more thanover 54 percent of the vote. He garnered plenty of attention and, apparently, support for his campaign gimmick of dressing as the Star Wars ant…
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Best of Breslin: Stander, As In Stand-Up – The Daily Beast
When they were after him, when he was young and he had everything to lose, Lionel Stander did exactly what everybody knew he would do.
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Who Invented The ‘Bedsheet Ghost’? – The Daily Beast
There is perhaps no Halloween costume more clichéd than the easy-peasy “bedsheet ghost,” the most primitive of which can be fashioned with nothing but white linens and scissors for eyeholes.
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How Uber Killed Taxi TV – The Daily Beast
They’re too loud, they play Taylor Swift’s “Welcome to New York” on loop, and their mute buttons are maddeningly unresponsive. And now, finally, New York City’s Taxi TVs might be going dark.
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A Look At Who’s Down From Google | TechCrunch
No longer content to just being the ubiquitous source of information of all kinds for the typical college student, Google is now trying to be the platform that friends use to plan their next hangout.
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Nearly 150 killed in deadly day of air strikes in Syria – Al Jazeera English
More than 140 people were killed in government and Russian air strikes across Syria within 24 hours, according to sources and monitors. At least 80 people were killed in Aleppo city and nearby towns by a series of Russian and regime air strikes on F…
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What’s Weird about Japanese Halloween – The Daily Beast
TOKYO — In Japan, data show women prefer vampires and men prefer witches―at least on Halloween. But judging by the huge numbers of women in sexy nurse uniforms and the dearth of male vampires we see around this time of year in Tokyo, apparently the …
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I was told to also put this here [xpost /r/Undertale] : ledootgeneration
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Went to a corporate party today, thought this costume was only fitting. – Imgur
Went to a corporate party today, thought this costume was only fitting. https://t.co/LzmHDliV9p https://t.co/8JDlsdWlKa
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The Finnish police via /r/gifs https://t.co/ZPPEpekUTo https://t.co/WjHkNQGg19
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Oklahoma school cop charged for punching student in the face
Master Sargeant Thoams Jaha, a 25-year veteran of the department, had been acting as a school resource officer at U.S. Grant High School when the incident occurred back on Oct. 9.
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Went to a corporate party today, thought this costume was only fitting. – Imgur
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Awesome guy on campus yesterday : AdviceAnimals
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Hush now, only dreams. via /r/aww https://t.co/rlnxMPgOU7 https://t.co/EjbuRG85rl
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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A Suprise Awaits you Inside…. : cats
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Guy dresses up as Aladdin and ‘flies’ around NYC on his magic carpet! : funny
Guy dresses up as Aladdin and ‘flies’ around NYC on his magic carpet! via /r/funny https://t.co/sWskwRIEIK https://t.co/CKTaskvGlw
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in soviet russia log twirls you [oc] : perfectloops
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Fall in the Flathead Valley, Montana [OC] [4000×2667] : EarthPorn
Fall in the Flathead Valley, Montana [OC] [4000×2667] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/BeQHV9L7KX https://t.co/gwngTOv1kS
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Protect Yo-self: 9 Ways To See If A Company Has Your Best Interests at Heart | TechCrunch
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/KFZsB8TpvY
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Ride Sharing Will Give Us Back Our Cities | TechCrunch
Ride Sharing Will Give Us Back Our Cities https://t.co/4rh4UA6FkX
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/DKDonb3KwS https://t.co/NRVdvvizmV
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Hooray! I’m not the stupidest person at the 2015 Trivia Championships of North America / Boing Boing
We’re oblivious to the unfolding disaster as we mill around the Havana Room of the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Amazon fires: Indigenous reserve blazes contained – BBC News
Brazilian officials have managed to contain several forest fires that have destroyed half of an indigenous reserve in the Amazon region. Some 12,000 indigenous people live in the Arariboia reserve, in the state of Maranhao.
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Scottish Labour conference: Scottish Labour would reverse tax credit changes – BBC News
A future Labour government at Holyrood would restore tax credits for working families, its Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale will tell party members.The MSP will make the pledge in her keynote address to the Scottish Labour conference in Perth.
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Consolation win for South Africa in third-place playoff – Al Jazeera English
South African winger Bryan Habana and flyhalf Handre Pollard have fallen just short in their bids for individual records despite helping the Springboks to a 24-13 win over Argentina in the Rugby Union World Cup bronze medal playoff at the Olympic St…
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Netflix renews Longmire · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Reminding people that it’s for everybody, not just weirdo prison fetishists and people into self-destructive cartoon horses, Netflix has renewed Longmire for yet another season.
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Just saw my eBay history, forgot I used to do this : AdviceAnimals
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Bernie Sanders Wants to End the Federal Ban on Weed | VICE News
Bernie Sanders Wants to End the Federal Ban on Weed https://t.co/w3RylLrLxH
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Meet my sister’s coworker, Jon Snow White! – Imgur
Meet my sister’s coworker, Jon Snow White! https://t.co/X5lvzxUWKC https://t.co/nIklz3G3IR
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Ride Sharing Will Give Us Back Our Cities | TechCrunch
Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services have been with us for several years now. What began as a convenient novelty to replace traditional taxi and limo services soon became a standard commute for many people.
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The World Congress of Families: Christian Extremism Decoded – The Daily Beast
The Christian Right speaks in code.
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A peek inside Iraq’s most notorious weapons market / Boing Boing
The fun-loving Chinese journalists in this segment manage to out-VICE VICE. 侣行 On the Road is billed as “a homemade outdoor reality show” featuring an “extreme couple” who love adventure. The pair and their team got some great footage of an open-air…
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That guy just decided to vote. I’m confused by the fact that my state says it’s legal, but my country does not.
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Never Sleep Again: Your Ten Best Stories of Absolute Terror
Never Sleep Again: Your Ten Best Stories of Absolute Terror https://t.co/WuxDGBW0Ad
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I’m not your buddy, friend! : pics
I’m not your buddy, friend! via /r/pics https://t.co/jED45ULNiP https://t.co/pxg1DrGO3S
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Do you know me? I was found in Kansas City! : cats
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/ofaIui6bew https://t.co/dkT2ZbaVnI
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Week in pictures: 24-30 October 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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How Jared Fogle targeted his child sexual abuse victims, in his own words / Boing Boing
Trigger warning, obviously. It takes a television host as gross as Dr. Phil to air this stuff, but hey, hang on to the link in case there are any Jared Fogle truthers you want to impress on the internet.
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Foreign minister Julie Bishop has launched a bid to co-chair the Green Climate Fund once dubbed by Tony Abbott as the “Bob Brown bank”.
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Nigeria’s cabinet: Seven people to watch in Buhari’s team – BBC News
Nigerians finally know the names of those who will form President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, after the senate approved the list of 36 nominees, five months after the president took office.
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Tajikistan fears instability as Afghan conflict rages on – BBC News
US Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to a regional summit in Uzbekistan amid fears that the Afghan conflict could spill over into neighbouring countries in Central Asia.
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Former Liberal party president Shane Stone has suggested a radical overhaul of land use in which states and mining companies would share revenue streams with landholders to overcome the conflict between farming and mining.
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The rise and rise of pumpkin spice everything – BBC News
The US is awash with pumpkin spice everything during Halloween. But when did this craze start and is it is here to stay?
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West Wing Week 10/30/15 or, “The Presidential Wave” on Vimeo
This week, the President welcomed President Widodo of Indonesia, Prince Harry of Wales, and the World Cup-winning U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to the White House. He also traveled to Chicago to talk with law enforcement leaders on criminal justice refor…
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Midtown Manhattan Building Collapse Leaves One Dead https://t.co/9nJVF1ucis
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Autumn in Switzerland by Reto Savoca – Photo 127067085 – 500px
Autumn in Switzerland by RetoSavoca https://t.co/bSyHPsSZFH https://t.co/xYY0tf6I7q
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/qnPxStZhmg https://t.co/fJW0Pv2jC0
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CrunchWeek: Apple Is Rich, Zenefits Versus ADP, And Facebook’s Phone Number Battle | TechCrunch
Hello, comrades of the revolution, and welcome back to CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of all things noteworthy. This week our fearless leader, Matthew Lynley, was joined by Sarah Buhr and myself.
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The dad who wants his daughter’s Halloween costume to be ‘more than cute’ – BBC News
Fed up with “cute” Halloween costumes for his little girls, one father is demanding more options for fancy dress. John Marcotte, a feminist blogger with Heroic Girls, started the hashtag #MoreThanCute after years of disappointing trips to the shops.
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This guy is walking around campus asking for people’s emails so he can send them money – Imgur
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Why young adults are waiting to grow up – BBC News
Young people all over the world are struggling to save enough money to move out of their parents’ homes, get married and raise families. No longer children, but not yet regarded as adults, they are stuck in a period of “waithood”.
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Never Sleep Again: Your Ten Best Stories of Absolute Terror
Reader, beware! These are not for the faint of heart. I used to work in a very remote town, while living in my hometown 30 miles away.
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Listen to the Dad Rock Version of The War of the Worlds
On this very night in 1938, a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds may or may not have caused mass hysteria for American listeners. But there’s another War of the Worlds that scared me much more as a kid.
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Just The Good Stuff From Wednesday’s Republican Debate – Digg
The third Republican Primary debate of the year was Wednesday night, and whether you’re just here for the Trump soundbites or genuinely have a passion for Republican economic policy, Digg has you covered with all the highlights. Scroll down for the …
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Photo by Aleksey Yanikov – Photo 127039735 – 500px
Untitled by alek-s75 https://t.co/WuCKdYjhML https://t.co/7emvDPgmoR
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John Candy, Early 80’s : OldSchoolCool
John Candy, Early 80’s via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/zWwnfzROFv https://t.co/MAlR6xpHOp
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A gentleman dolphin helps a girl up a ladder : AnimalsBeingBros
A gentleman dolphin helps a girl up a ladder via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/GG9MohgDAb https://t.co/LJe1pXqmKu
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Heat-triggered ‘grenades’ hit cancer – BBC News
Scientists have designed microscopic “grenades” that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours. The team will present its findings at the National Cancer Research Institute conference next week.
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ESPN Kills Grantland, Quadruples Down on Profitable Shouting and Hysteria – The Daily Beast
In a Friday news dump that sent fans of brilliant, original sports journalism screaming and rending their garments, ESPN announced that, effective immediately, it was shuttering its distinctive sports and pop culture website, Grantland. That’s all w…
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Thabo Sefolosha is the hero we needed
Just weeks after being acquitted by a jury of all three charges stemming from an April 8 incident with the NYPD, Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha is engaging in a full court press against the department.
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FGM reporting law comes into force – BBC News
Doctors, nurses, midwives and teachers are legally required to report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) to the police from today. Failure to do so will result in disciplinary measures and could ultimately lead to them being barred from workin…
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Turkey to vote in crucial election on Sunday – BBC News
Politicians in Turkey have been making their final appeals to voters, ahead of a crucial general election this weekend. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the vote after his prime minister failed to form a ruling coalition.
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One construction worker was killed and another was seriously injured on Friday when a building being demolished in Midtown Manhattan to make way for a luxury hotel collapsed, fire officials said.
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ESPN Just Killed Grantland — Here Are Some Of Our Favorite Stories – Digg
Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. One writer enters international competition to play the world-conquering game that redefines what it means to be a geek (and a person). Radically brilliant. Ab…
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Why we get so bloated during that time of the month. : TrollXChromosomes
Why we get so bloated during that time of the month. via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/LClPlrasmA https://t.co/RC3bD8pCVv
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Adiós, polluters: Study links immigrant status and exposure to dirty air | Grist
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we’re still arguing over what to call them.
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Kinetic steampunk pub in Romania is boozily adorable / Boing Boing
Enigma Café in Romania claims to be the first “kinetic steampunk” pub in the world. Hard to fact-check that one, but we’ll take them at their word. The place really looks fantastic, and like it would be a lot of fun for people who enjoy Victorian wh…
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Migrant crisis: Germans restrict entry points from Austria – BBC News
Germany is to restrict the number of entry points for migrants arriving via Austria, in a bid to control the flow as thousands cross into Bavaria daily. It says it has reached agreement with Austria on five crossing points on the 800km (500-mile) bo…
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Getting warmer: More Republicans are starting to take climate change seriously | Grist
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we’re still arguing over what to call them.
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These Halloween costume ideas will make your feminist dude the sexiest person at the party | Grist
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we’re still arguing over what to call them.
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io9 Newsstand: Here’s a Great, Mind-Bending Story for Time-Travel Geeks
This week’s stories are about the perils of time travel, resisting and embracing change, and coming of age on a distant planet. And they all come from the December issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
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Squishy just wants one moment to himself. : lolcats
Squishy just wants one moment to himself. via /r/lolcats https://t.co/yIC6LVSstH https://t.co/k8JOTtP6BU
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White House Seeks to Keep Some Clinton Emails Secret https://t.co/BwTJZ3TfuR
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Went to a corporate party today, thought this costume was only fitting. : pics
Went to a corporate party today, thought this costume was only fitting. via /r/pics https://t.co/XPPRJnVvcP https://t.co/oU90UYJbdC
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/c7rmMqijHU https://t.co/v0OvNxA2Pf
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Judge says James Woods doesn’t get to learn his Twitter troll’s identity · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what sounds like the premise for a weirdly legalistic fairy tale, a judge has ruled that actor James Woods must prove that he has a viable legal case against a Twitter troll who called him a “cocaine addict” if he wants to learn his enemy’s ident…
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: Farewell October Edition “Jeb Bush had a very rough night [at the debate]. He finally got time to say what he wanted, and how did he use it? He attacks not Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton or Ben Car…
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Why Is Kate’s Mum Selling Mini-Skirts To Four Year Olds? – The Daily Beast
You might have thought that nothing could be less controversial than running a party supplies business. If you are the mother of the future Queen, and the Daily Mail is doing the judging, you’d be wrong.
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The Best Halloween Freebies and Deals You Can Get Tomorrow
It’s almost Halloween, and while businesses probably don’t want to smell your feet, they definitely want to give you something good to eat. Here are the best freebies and deals you can get all day if you go trick or treating to their door.
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WASHINGTON — The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties to k
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Friday Night Music: Send in the Clowns https://t.co/uEgr0z49ZY
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Everyone at work thought I just half-assed my Lisa Simpson costume : pics
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Great recovery via /r/woahdude https://t.co/EzGaa0yh9K https://t.co/js8lnKrGI2
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“Filthy human touched me!” : cats
“Filthy human touched me!” via /r/cats https://t.co/m1ZUnyfM47 https://t.co/L1S6DhyRMZ
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Distance by Bojan Tosic – Photo 127067779 – 500px
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Our 9 Favorite Companies From 500 Startups “Demo-Ween” | TechCrunch
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‘Suffragette’ and the Perils of Inspiration Porn – The Atlantic
The marketing materials for Suffragette have included not just a series of unfortunate t-shirts, but also a series of Banksy-esque posters.
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Pentagon Throws Shade on New ISIS War Plan – The Daily Beast
The U.S. is sending a small group of Special Operation Forces advisers to Syria to help its stalled allies in the war on the self-proclaimed Islamic State. But even before they get there, there is already skepticism within parts of the Pentagon abou…
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Romanian Nightclub Blast Leaves Dozens Dead | Al Jazeera America
At least 26 people died and 88 were injured in an explosion and fire in a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, where hundreds of people had gathered late Friday, government officials said. It was one of the capital’s worst incidents in decades.
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The ‘Ferguson Effect’ in law enforcement is not real, says former chief U.S. law enforcement officer
Holder gave the most damning debunking of the theory by a public figure yet. According to The Huffington Post: This is especially damaging from Comey, who sits atop one of the largest compilations of criminal justice and policing databases in the wo…
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The Death of Two Syrian Journalists – The New Yorker
Every year, just before Thanksgiving, hundreds of reporters, editors, and producers gather at a ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to raise money for The Committee to Project Journalists and to honor a handful of exemplary men and women who have …
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Your Favorite Downton Abbey Actor Has Refused to Take Part in a Spin-Off Film | Vanity Fair
Of all the Downton Abbey cast members, Maggie Smith is the only one who has publicly celebrated the impending end to the beloved period drama. “I’m glad it’s over, I really am,” Smith told Graham Norton on his talk show this week.
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World Series 2015: Royals v Mets, Game 3 – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Alex Rios singles in the fifth inning on Wednesday. Photograph: Kansas City Star/Rex Shutterstock
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No relation to Wednesday night, no ma’am. And utterly wonderful, regardless.
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Can Republicans and NBC Play Nicely? – The Daily Beast
Widespread anger over CNBC’s much-criticized handling of the Republican presidential debate boiled over on Friday—two days after Wednesday’s food fight in Boulder, Colorado—as the various GOP campaigns raged at the Comcast-owned business channel and…
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Black Lives Matter activists disrupt Clinton campaign rally – BBC News
Black Lives Matter activists have interrupted Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton in South Carolina as she began a speech about reforming the criminal justice system. Mrs Clinton spoke over the shouting, saying if elected she would car…
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Fishbone performing “Lemon Meringue” live (1993) / Boing Boing
Susan Delson of the Wall Street Journal profiles the Japanese sister duo Charan-Po-Rantan, featuring accordion music that “glides from klezmer to Balkan beat to zydeco, from French chanson to blues and boogie.
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As films from Village Of The Damned to The Omen to this year’s Tales Of Halloween have made very clear, children are duplicitous little instruments of Satan who should not be trusted.
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Ocean Dress via /r/pics https://t.co/gMYzwdLYW1 https://t.co/cgYTCraYnf
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And best costume goes to… : aww
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tree [1200×1200] : BotanicalPorn
tree [1200×1200] via /r/BotanicalPorn https://t.co/wrTnkRvgMm https://t.co/TFNzicVZuk
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Floating Island : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Just a herd of puppies my dad and I found while on a run : aww
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When It Comes To Counterterrorism, Why Bush And Obama Aren’t So Far Apart : NPR
In a pile of books about the Obama presidency, Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency stands out. Author Charlie Savage provides the most thorough look yet at how this administration has handled counterterrorism and national security.
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Jeremy Clarkson’s Fire Stick Commercial Is A Big ‘Fuck You’ To BBC – Digg
6 diggs Advertising Business Technology TV It’s nice to see Clarkson mad at someone other than Hammond, or people of a difference race than him.
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watch out! new bony pet!!! : ledootgeneration
watch out! new bony pet!!! via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/Q3xgcXIu8A https://t.co/L5ZztqAGAA
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My Kitty Cinder after two months… always fun trying to find him : cats
My Kitty Cinder after two months… always fun trying to find him via /r/cats https://t.co/CYL8mwe07V https://t.co/6THaPcKRhy
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The scariest thing you’ll watch all day: Al Gore and the climate change conspiracy | Grist
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we’re still arguing over what to call them.
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Captured on video by fellow students, the assualt shows the now-former cop named Ben Fields—who was also a bodybuilder and coached the school’s football team—slamming an unidentified girl, who was sitting still at a desk, onto the ground and then th…
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Deadly fire kills many inside Bucharest nightclub – Al Jazeera English
A fire has ripped through a Bucharest nightclub, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more, Romanian authorities have said. The fire broke out on Saturday night at the Colectiv nighclub in the Romanian capital, with hundreds of people insi…
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Feds: Apple must still unlock iPhone 5S, even after defendant pled guilty | Ars Technica
In a strange twist, federal prosecutors have said that they are moving forward in their attempt to compel Apple to unlock a seized iPhone 5S running iOS 7, even after the defendant in a felony drug case has now pleaded guilty.
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A Eulogy for Grantland | The New Republic
The death of Grantland, made official today by ESPN, has been a long time coming. The site had recently seen an exodus of staffers.
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Rumor: The Solo Batman Movies May Be Centered Around a Certain Robin
We’re still several months away from meeting our newest big screen Batman, but rumors are already surfacing about what Ben Affleck’s Dark Knight may be up to in his first solo outing. The good news is that these newest rumors happen to pretty plausi…
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Nico Rosberg sets fastest F1 practice time before Mexican Grand Prix | Sport | The Guardian
Nico Rosberg took out his frustrations on the track here on Friday, when he set the fastest time in the afternoon practice session as he warmed up for Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix.
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Got This Thing Fills Your Schedule So You Can Back Out of Any Commitment
If you have some commitments and obligations you just don’t want to do, you’ll need a decent excuse to get out of them. Got This thing can fill up your Google calendar with real events around you so you can show people you’re way too busy to do what…
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Climate change is forcing people to migrate and the world doesn’t have a plan to handle it | Grist
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we’re still arguing over what to call them.
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This is Philliam. Master of big eyes and jumping on your face at 3am. : cats
This is Philliam. Master of big eyes and jumping on your face at 3am. via /r/cats https://t.co/XhD7qkysYx https://t.co/PQ6LRckzqo
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HMJB while I hit this punching bag at full speed. : holdmyjuicebox
HMJB while I hit this punching bag at full speed. via /r/holdmyjuicebox https://t.co/ViRKwzUOK3 https://t.co/fc0nB4aFXB
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With Republican frustration erupting into public view after Wednesday night’s CNBC primary debate, the Republican National Committee on Friday temporarily suspended its future debate partnership with its sister network, NBC News, crystallizing the g…
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Another fact-challenged week in the latest tabloids / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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Why do the elderly tend to have such ugly toenails? Ugly toenails are not the exclusive purview of the elderly, but “as you get older, you are more prone to picking up a nail fungus and to having less circulation in your toes, which can affect the w…
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What Niya Kenny Saw – The New Yorker
When a deputy sheriff named Ben Fields walked into Niya Kenny’s math class at Spring Valley High School, in Richland County, South Carolina, she took out her phone and got ready to film him.
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Texas buffeted by rain, storms, and suspected tornado near San Antonio | US news | The Guardian
A truck trailer was whirled on to the roof of a Holiday Inn, buildings were shredded and 14 inches of rain drenched Austin as storms hammered Texas on Friday. The small town of Floresville, near San Antonio, was hit by a suspected tornado early in t…
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Stuyvesant Town Deal | Blackstone | Affordable Housing NYC
TRD Special Report:In August 1947, as the first tenants were moving into Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, workers installed a small metal plaque on the west side of its central oval footpath.
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BBC Sport – Eintracht Frankfurt 0-0 Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga record season-opening winning streak was ended at 10 games after they were held to a goalless draw by Eintracht Frankfurt. Thirteen-goal joint top scorer Robert Lewandowski had a goal correctly ruled out for offside in the…
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Shrine by J.C Park : ImaginarySkyscapes
Shrine by J.C Park via /r/ImaginarySkyscapes https://t.co/HfaJ8SuTBH https://t.co/JrDep7Lrh3
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The only blep I ever captured. : Blep
The only blep I ever captured. via /r/Blep https://t.co/HDuTrSm6US https://t.co/WvG9tRKWHX
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vestrahorn by donald luo – Photo 126982155 – 500px
vestrahorn by donaldluo https://t.co/Tbx1YCZKeO https://t.co/4ckSa0ob4n
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This pup was found wandering in my city. Look at those ears! : aww
This pup was found wandering in my city. Look at those ears! via /r/aww https://t.co/p7u4juiWwL https://t.co/qlvXoPAEB7
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Monclarity Raises $5M And Launches Its Brain-Training App Brainwell | TechCrunch
Startup Monclarity announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding from Access Industries. And it recently unveiled Brainwell, a brain-training app available on iOS, Android, Kindle and the web.
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Title III Approved, Floodgates Now Open For General Investors To Fund Small Business | TechCrunch
The Title III regulations, which I wrote about earlier, are now a reality… so cry havoc and unleash the crowdfunding marketplaces.
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Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores | Ars Technica
The best way to tackle a tough task at work may be to crack a window and breath deep. Compared with inhaling fresh air, gulping down the stale air found in conventional office buildings can stifle cognitive function by half, researchers report in En…
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Rare Cyclone Heads for Arabia : Image of the Day
Citizens of the arid Arabian Peninsula were bracing for strong winds, a storm surge, and extreme rainfall as Cyclone Chapala (04A) was forecast to make landfall in early November 2015.
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Bucharest nightclub fire ‘kills 18’ – BBC News
British resident Shaker Aamer, who spent 13 years in Guantanamo Bay, arrives back in the UK and thanks supporters for his release.
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I Can Sum Up Everything Wrong With Heroes Reborn in a Single Line of Dialogue
“June 13—Part One” is about Hiro taking HRG back to a year ago, the day of Claire’s death and the Unity Summit explosion, ostensibly for HRG to get some answers.
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Blurring, as he so often does, the lines between earnest advice, comedy, and semi-criminal fraud, Comedy Central’s Nathan Fielder has helped propel a new fitness book up the ranks of Amazon.com’s sales charts.
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BBC Sport – South Africa beat Argentina to finish third at Rugby World Cup
Veteran second row Victor Matfield will captain South Africa in the third-place play-off match against Argentina in one of two changes to the Springbok team. Matfield takes over as captain from the injured Fourie du Preez, who is replaced at scrum-h…
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Cartoon: Last-minute Halloween costumes
Click to enlarge. It’s the end of October and the pop-up Halloween stores have been picked clean. Here are some costume ideas for the procrastinators among you.
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Monoprice is Practically Giving Away Lightning Cables This Weekend
Go ahead and shut it down, because I don’t know if we’ll ever see a better Lightning cable deal. Monoprice is selling 3’ cables for $2, and 6’ cables for $3 right now, with $2 flat rate shipping for your entire order, no matter how many you buy. Sto…
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If you’re one of those people who finds yourself repelled by the thought of raccoons hanging out with you, Rufus might be the one to change your mind.
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The Law in GIFs: Writ’s Not You, Writ’s Me | Motherboard
Every week there’s a veritable plague of new lawsuits, hearings, appeals, and Congressional bills. How is anyone supposed to keep up with what’s happening in cyberlaw? With a GIF summary of course.
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Hear Justin Bieber’s Hotline-Released ‘Hotline Bling’ Cover | Rolling Stone
Hear Justin Bieber’s Hotline-Released ‘Hotline Bling’ Cover Singer’s surprise Drake cover is one phone call away
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MRW the drugs kick in : reactiongifs
MRW the drugs kick in via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/iONs3iFJVb https://t.co/TJRBzDCojK
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Countries that recognize the State of Palestine [1,376 x 617] : MapPorn
Countries that recognize the State of Palestine [1,376 x 617] via /r/MapPorn https://t.co/YL0PMpmhZJ https://t.co/3qDRzME3Ml
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US to put boots on the ground in Syria for first time – Al Jazeera English
The United States has disclosed plans to station the first American boots on the ground in Syria in the war against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, saying dozens of special forces troops would be sent as advisers to groups figh…
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From 1996, a Wired article by Josh Quittner about Suck, Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff’s now-legendary website.
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The end of China one-child policy: Too little too late? – Al Jazeera English
When Chinese leaders first introduced the one-child policy in 1979, the population of China was rapidly approaching one billion. Now China is facing a different crisis: a rapidly ageing population, increasing pressure on state pensions and potential…
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An American Hostage in Iran—Again – The New Yorker
Next Wednesday, November 4th, is the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which led to a mass hostage crisis that dragged on for four hundred and forty-four days. Thirty-six years later, the Iranians are still at it. For m…
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Watch This Video And Develop the Fear That Your Organs Are Rocking Out Inside You
You know what your day is missing? Existential angst from the appendix. Which is what “Body of Songs: The Appendix” provides, in the form of an anthropomorphized appendix singing and dreaming about being cut out.
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10 Whimsical Halloween Week Costume Inspirations from Charlize Theron, | Vanity Fair
Costume Inspiration: An Oscar. All that glitters (and matters) is liquid gold. The mystery lies in how, exactly, Charlize got into this dress. Theories: Spray paint? Sheer will and determination?
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Stealth Mode? Built-in Monitor? Not All Body Cameras Are Created Equal : All Tech Considered : NPR
Amid the recent pressure on police to wear body cameras, one thing is often overlooked: Not all cameras are created equal. In fact, cameras vary a lot — and the variations — some contentious — can have a profound effect on how the cameras are used a…
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The Real Bird Genie – The New Yorker
Nearly fifty million Americans, or twenty per cent of the population, identify as bird-watchers, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They are predominantly older than fifty-five, and more than half are women.
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“Keep your hands off” via /r/gif https://t.co/EH8fBH6bCA https://t.co/mp7p6Hp3JP
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“Will you tell me a story tonight?” -Kitty , “Yes.” -Dog : AnimalsBeingBros
“Will you tell me a story tonight?” -Kitty , “Yes.” -Dog via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/ImrGtZ0aCK https://t.co/c6DXxe6InF
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Delicious [Shinmai Maou no Testament] : animegifs
Delicious [Shinmai Maou no Testament] via /r/animegifs https://t.co/KkuncdzaH5 https://t.co/QVbGks3tTh
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My brother spotted this at a Subway in Michigan : funny
My brother spotted this at a Subway in Michigan via /r/funny https://t.co/dfhpoHZ15z https://t.co/iS4dldjHCG
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BBC Sport – Brentford 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
Brentford are likely to be unchanged for the west London derby against Queens Park Rangers at Griffin Park. Midfielder John Swift will be involved again after extending his loan spell from Chelsea until January.
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Did Everybody Miss the Twist At the End of Crimson Peak?
Some people loved Guillermo del Toro’s gothic confection Crimson Peak. Some people found it disappointing. But the overall consensus seems to be that Crimson Peak not only wasn’t scary, but didn’t have a twisty enough storyline.
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BBC Sport – Mexican GP: Rosberg quickest in rain-affected second practice
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was fastest ahead of the two Red Bulls and team-mate Lewis Hamilton in second practice at the Mexican Grand Prix. Rosberg, five days on from the disappointment of seeing Hamilton clinch the title in the US on Sunday, was…
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Comet’s Mysterious Oxygen Stump Scientists – The Daily Beast
Mysterious oxygen has been found within comet 67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko, a revelation that is forcing scientists to re-examine some things we thought we know about the formation of the solar system.
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The Atlantic Daily: U.S. Troops in Syria, a Senate Budget Vote, GOP vs. NBC – The Atlantic
In a significant shift in U.S. policy in the Syrian civil war, a small group of U.S. special operations forces will deploy to Syria and coordinate with local groups against ISIS, the White House announced Friday.
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These three are not amused that I missed cat day. : cats
These three are not amused that I missed cat day. via /r/cats https://t.co/sti1828PqA https://t.co/WTI8E9Cqni
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Iris is ready for Halloween. : cats
Iris is ready for Halloween. via /r/cats https://t.co/gMQgdzdvvE https://t.co/dg1ztfV2TN
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Since Halloween is Taking Over the Front Page : cats
Since Halloween is Taking Over the Front Page via /r/cats https://t.co/5Ht1RtMGqI https://t.co/qcgUGVBEjI
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Kitten? What kitten? via /r/cats https://t.co/WQIQCoDEkm https://t.co/uW4BWZzvDL
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Seriously? You make it impossible to get ready for work T~T : cats
Seriously? You make it impossible to get ready for work T~T via /r/cats https://t.co/Gbi7Ssshbk https://t.co/iyBSsZcdpt
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Hidden Jewel by Max Foster (TheWorldExplored) – Photo 127045357 – 500px
Hidden Jewel by MaxFoster https://t.co/8KJ6vOACcl https://t.co/lxeaYTLVbg
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Gone with the Wind by SilentWave – Photo 127029435 – 500px
Gone with the Wind by SilentWave https://t.co/95eQFxUBd4 https://t.co/2q38kLGhMt
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Father and daughter work together. This is their Halloween costume. : funny
Father and daughter work together. This is their Halloween costume. via /r/funny https://t.co/K1zBwiBvhk https://t.co/GMf0PEE1gZ
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The Old Man’s Boat by Juan Pablo de Miguel – Photo 127060475 – 500px
The Old Man’s Boat by demiguel https://t.co/ObSEZ5T29d https://t.co/mQ2A7JhP06
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I am a strong independent puppy who don’t need no man : aww
I am a strong independent puppy who don’t need no man via /r/aww https://t.co/pIrH8yrlNM https://t.co/RJfDLFHQJt
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Forging steel via /r/gifs https://t.co/BLeq9Bgfcf https://t.co/9oHDBV1ePB
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Body map of awkwardness of physical contact [1194×1070] : MapPorn
Body map of awkwardness of physical contact [1194×1070] via /r/MapPorn https://t.co/s4UbLURCIk https://t.co/vOnhGASJ9b
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/JPQblLyXo9 https://t.co/znrTcCVaqH https://t.co/irvNcNFSdK
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/JPQblLyXo9 https://t.co/znrTcCVaqH https://t.co/irvNcNFSdK
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A Supercut of Every Single Jurassic Park Homage in Jurassic World
A Supercut of Every Single Jurassic Park Homage in Jurassic World https://t.co/tTarkR2UnA
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/cZSwJOuWIm https://t.co/9MhtPT4kwA
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You wanted to print? Too bad. : cats
You wanted to print? Too bad. via /r/cats https://t.co/xwqfhHbpSr https://t.co/P0iuGvZsWr
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HMB while I do a pull up : holdmybeer
HMB while I do a pull up via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/ab0wSz5SF3 https://t.co/ElWRj68fkO
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Use a Tennis Ball to Make Sanding a Curve Easier
It can be tough to avoid flat spots when sanding a curved object like shelf bracket, but if you wrap the sandpaper around a tennis ball, it’s much easier. The rounded shape of the ball helps you get just the right angle you need.
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The 2016 Extra Life gaming marathon – play games, help kids / Boing Boing
It’s fall and my buddy Marcus is at it again. The Extra Life 2015 Video Game Marathon is just a couple weeks away and gamers across the country are preparing to play for 24 hours straight, raising money for Children’s Hospitals in their hometowns.
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HUDWAY Gets Your Eyes Off Your Smartphone And Onto Your Windshield While Driving | TechCrunch
HUDWAY is a piece of glass that turns any smartphone into a heads-up display on the front of your car. The device beams information from your phone to a thin layer of curved glass mounted to the front of any dashboard for turn-by-turn navigation and…
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Official suspended over Mugabe’s ‘wrong-sized cap’ – BBC News
A University of Zimbabwe official has been suspended for allegedly supplying President Robert Mugabe with an ill-fitting graduation cap.
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Outside of the deals they give students and the occasional Black Friday hook up, Apple… isn’t exactly known for throwing around discounts.
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U.N. predicts the impact of existing global climate pledges | Grist
There’s not much chance of a global carbon price emerging from Paris, but smaller cap-and-trade programs and carbon taxes are in effect around the world.
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‘Do you look like me?’: Finding my doppelganger – BBC News
How would you feel if you met a stranger that looks exactly like you? Niamh Geaney from Dublin in Ireland is on a quest to find seven people who look like her.
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Hillary Clinton’s Racial Justice Platform is Finally Taking Shape | The New Republic
America has a rather cavalier attitude towards the bodies its law enforcement throws away, whether into prisons or graves.
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Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls! To celebrate the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead growing thin this weekend, we’ve got a really fun, seasonally appropriate short film from Blackmagic Rollercoaster, the Austin-based filmmaker also…
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Is bread mold dangerous? If a small spot of mold appears on bread, should the whole loaf be avoided?
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The Ultimate Evil Playlist for a Sinister Weekend
We’ve done the spookiest songs before, but this year we decided to be a bit more fiendish in our Halloweening. So treat yourself to twenty-five songs sung by, for, or about villains. A few small caveats—we were limited to what was available on Spoti…
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How To Reuse One Of Those Fireplace Lighters – Digg
32 diggs How-To Curious Those disposable long-reach lighters are great for a grill, fireplace, or janky stove.
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McKamey Manor: Inside America’s most extreme haunted house on Vimeo
Warning: this video contains graphic scenes. McKamey Manor is one of the most extreme haunted house experiences in the US. Located in Russ McKamey’s San Diego backyard, the full ‘haunt’ lasts eight hours, yet no one has managed to complete it. McKam…
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International Leaders To Discuss Substances That Cause Global Warming : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy about next week’s international conference on substances in air conditioners and refrigerators that heat up the atmosphere.
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One Third Of Federal Prisoners To Be Released Could Be Deported : NPR
Maureen Franco, the deputy federal public defender for the Western District of Texas, talks about how a number of inmates to be released due to sentence reduction changes are non-U.S. citizens.
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In Contrast To Bush, Obama Approaches Counterterrorism ‘Through A Legal Lens’ : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with New York Times reporter Charlie Savage about his new book, Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency.
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i think i did this twin Halloween costume thing right. – Imgur
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Let us not forget the greatest beer toss of all times – GIF on Imgur
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A Suspect Is Arrested in St. Louis Church Arsons – The Atlantic
St. Louis-area police have arrested David Lopez Jackson, a 35-year-old black man, in connection with the burning of churches around the area. Jennings has been charged with two counts of second-degree arson. There have been seven fires in St. Louis …
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Track of the Day: ‘The Killing Moon’ – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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GOP leader of House anti-immigrant wing says immigration reform is never gonna happen: ‘No way’
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the House “Freedom Caucus” After the revelation that Paul Ryan totally bartered away immigration reform in exchange for support from the House crazies, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio promised right-wing radio host Laura Ingra…
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Ian McKellen Had No Idea How Popular Beauty and the Beast Was When He Signed On | Vanity Fair
The great Ian McKellen has cycled through all of Shakespeare’s greats on-stage over the course of his 50-year career to the point where, at the age of 76, the Tony and Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor can spontaneously perform entire soliloquies…
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David Bowie on ‘Stage’: ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ live in concert, 1978|Dangerous Minds
One of the best Bowie bootleg videos that’s been floating around for at least 30 years is the professional recording of six numbers from his 1978 “Isolar II” tour, shot on film at the Dallas Convention Center performance of April 10th, 1978.
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Black Lives Matter protest interrupts Clinton speech on criminal justice | US news | The Guardian
Vowing to stand against systemic racism and injustice as president, Hillary Clinton took her criminal justice platform to the south on Friday while rallying black voters in Atlanta.
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The Guggenheim family, early Americans who made a fortune in mining, provided its fair share of gossip-column inches in the 20th century. Benjamin Guggenheim, one of 11 children to patriarch Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905), went down with the Titanic i…
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40 Percent Of The NFL Is Real | FiveThirtyEight
It’s Week 8 of the 2015 season, which makes it a weird time on the NFL calendar. Almost half the schedule has been played, so it feels like we should have a decent grasp on which teams are good and bad. But this is the NFL, where we don’t know anyth…
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The Difference Between a Great Story and a Shitty Story Is Often Really Tiny
Hollywood people often say that it’s a miracle there are any good movies at all. Because so much can go wrong, and so many random things have to go right, for a movie to avoid being a hopeless disaster.
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How to Manipulate Your Kids into Doing What You Want
In an ideal world, parents would always be patient and nurturing, and kids would always be cooperative and make smart choices. This is not an ideal world, so we parents need a few sneaky strategies to preserve our sanity when the days are much too l…
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Iranian-American businessman detained in Iran, family and friends say | World news | The Guardian
People close to consultant Siamak Namazi have told media outlets that he was taken into custody by Iran’s security forces around 15 October while visiting family in Iran.
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Bowing to the power of the most potent force in the galaxy (i.e. brand synergy across properties owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company), Jimmy Kimmel Live! is devoting an episode next month to the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awa…
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Why Bob Ross is the perfect Let’s Play-er / Offworld
Could this gentle painting teacher have posthumously inspired a generation of gamers to try art?
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Syria decision the latest blow to Obama’s Middle East legacy | World news | The Guardian
The decision to deploy US troops to Syria is seen in Washington as one of profound political consequence – both for the credibility of Barack Obama’s presidency and possibly for new peace talks aimed at ending the five-year war – but yet of limited …
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Rome mayor ousted in ‘backstabbing’ – BBC News
The scandal-hit mayor of Rome has been ousted from office after more than half the city’s councillors stepped down. Ignazio Marino claimed to have been backstabbed in a plot orchestrated by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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This Guy Turned The Front Of His House Into A Massive Video Game For Halloween | TechCrunch
Most kids love Halloween. Most kids also love video games.
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Even Hillary Clinton Thinks It’s Time to Investigate Exxon | The Nation
ExxonMobile, one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world, is facing mounting calls for a federal investigation of its role in promoting climate change skepticism.
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The Obama administration announced Friday it will send US special forces into Syria, breaking its repeated vow that President Obama would not send ground troops into the civil war-torn country.
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The Today show hosts dressed in terrible, scary Peanuts costumes / Boing Boing
This morning, the hosts of the TODAY show dressed as ridiculously bizarre and frightening interpretations of the Peanuts characters.
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My Go-To Fast Food – The New Yorker
In this week’s Food Issue, Michael Specter reports on a new generation of fast-food entrepreneurs who are attempting to make fresh salads and quinoa bowls as cheap and widely available as a Big Mac and fries.
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A Supercut of Every Single Jurassic Park Homage in Jurassic World
There were so many callbacks to the first Jurassic Park movie in this year’s sequel Jurassic World, it was practically a remake. Don’t believe me? Check out this collection of the many, many World scenes which channeled specific moments from the ori…
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N.W.A. Manager Jerry Heller Sues Over ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Film | Rolling Stone
Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller is suing Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, the Eazy-E estate, Universal and other parties involved in the biopic Straight Outta Compton for what he feels is a unflattering portrayal of the Ruthless Records co-founder.
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Read This: The pains and pleasures of whoring out your music · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
In 2012, veteran hip hop act Public Enemy had an unexpected, late-career hit in the U.K. with a track called “Harder Than You Think.
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Federal Reserve Proposes New Bailout Rules To Remove Taxpayer Burden : NPR
The new rules would help ensure that if a big bank were to fail, the costs of its bailout would not fall on taxpayers. Long-term bonds could provide a cushion of capital to cover losses.
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FXX Celebrates Halloween With ‘The Simpsons’ Treehouse Of Horror Marathon : NPR
FXX cable network is airing a week-long marathon of every episode of The Simpsons annual Halloween show, “Treehouse of Horror.” It will culminate in a full day marathon of all 25 “Treehouse of Horror” episodes.
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The Music Of ‘The Martian,’ Deconstructed : NPR
Outer space is silent, and that may be one reason why a lot of movies about space have iconic scores — in addition to helping advance the the plot, the music in films like Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey must fill a literal void.
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When High Fees Stink Up Your 401(k), What You Can Do? : NPR
Are the mutual funds you invest in efficient wealth generators or overpriced losers sucking money out of your retirement account with fees? It turns out most Americans don’t know.
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Public Libraries Exchange Friendly Fire On Twitter Over World Series : NPR
Trash talk has never been so literate. For the World Series, the Kansas City and Queens Public Libraries are in the middle of a Twitter showdown.
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Week In Politics: U.S. Special Forces In Syria, GOP Presidential Race : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times.
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How China’s One-Child Policy Transformed U.S. Attitudes On Adoption : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Adam Pertman, president and CEO of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, about the impact of China’s one-child policy on the U.S.
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In ‘Ghostly,’ Phantoms Provide An Omniscient Point Of View : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with best selling author Audrey Niffenegger about her love of ghost stories and her new collection, Ghostly.
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Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends : Shots – Health News : NPR
Medicine, meet Big Data. For generations, physicians have been trained in basic science and human anatomy to diagnose and treat the patient immediately in front of them.
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SEC Approves New Rules For Startup Investing : NPR
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules Friday that will allow people who are not accredited investors to take ownership stakes in startups.
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Small Number Of U.S. Special Forces Will Help Fight ISIS In Syria : NPR
The White House announced Friday it will send a small number of special forces soldiers to help fight ISIS in Syria.
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Donald Trump Spent Nearly $1 Million To Get Voters To Wear This Hat : It’s All Politics : NPR
Donald Trump has run his presidential campaign by his own rules, and he’s blown past traditional candidates, playing by the old rules, in the process. When it comes to building a campaign, Trump is investing in the kinds of traditional infrastructur…
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Steep Hikes In Insurance Rates Force Alaskans To Make Tough Choices : Shots – Health News : NPR
Gunnar Ebbesson is used to paying a lot for health insurance, but the small business owner from Fairbanks got a shock recently when his quote came in for next year’s coverage. The premium for his family of five came to more than $40,000 a year.
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The only opening is the one her head is sticking out of. : cats
The only opening is the one her head is sticking out of. via /r/cats https://t.co/AR5ulz3mHN https://t.co/7xjNNV9CMX
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This DIY Wireless Keylogger Fits Anywhere, Looks Like a Wall Charger
The “KeySweeper” is a tiny, arduino-powered wireless sniffer that captures data sent by your wireless keyboard to its receiver. That’s right—it’s a keylogger, and it doesn’t have to be plugged into your computer to work.
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The Grantland Articles We Loved Most | FiveThirtyEight
Today, ESPN announced that it was suspending publication of Grantland. We were loyal readers of it at FiveThirtyEight — it was pretty much our favorite site — and were sad to hear the news.
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A Canadian News Site Just Won $11,470 Because Someone Bypassed Its Paywall | Motherboard
Here’s some chilling news for anyone who’s ever tried to bypass a news site’s paywall to view an article (most of us, probably): an Ontario court recently decided that circumventing a paywall to view content without a subscription violates Canada’s …
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Paul Ryan Elected Speaker Of The House – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
In a landslide vote, Paul Ryan has been elected to succeed John Boehner as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. What do you think?
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Sometimes it’s hard to know if the Patriots are winning because they are spying on all their opponents, or if the Patriots are making their opponents waste all their time thinking they are being spied upon.
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Maybe YouTube Isn’t Ruined After All? | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular new videos of the week. This week we have a further reading of the whole YouTube Red controversy, a big announcement from three of the platform’s biggest stars, an actually likable surprise video,…
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Google’s new ‘Who’s Down’ app shows which of your friends are free to hang out | 9to5Google
Google has just quietly released a new app on the Play Store, called “Who’s Down”. As you might be able to tell from its name, the app will apparently — once there are people who are actually using it — let you see which of your friends are free to …
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The True Story of Good Coffee – The Awl
There was a time not so long ago when all of the coffee in the entire United States of America was bad.
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Download all the Tribes and Starsiege games for free right now | Polygon
The entire Tribes series, including its predecessors Earthsiege and Starsiege, are free to download from the series’ official website, Tribes Universe, thanks to Hi-Rez Studios.
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On the morning of July 13, like most mornings, Stephen Jones’s laboratory in Mount Vernon, Wash., was suffused with the thick warm smell of baking bread. Jones walked me around the floor, explaining the layout. A long counter split the space down th…
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Why The Machines That Dig Tunnels Are Always Named After Women
Tunnel Boring Machines, or TBMs, are some of the most fascinating manufacturers of our infrastructure: Two-ton primary-colored cylinders with jagged teeth that chomp through the Earth. And every single one of them has a traditionally female name.
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Glorious lights over Lake Minnewanka, AB, Canada. … – Just Space
Glorious lights over Lake Minnewanka, AB, Canada. caitensphoto… https://t.co/UyBJUy4Yre https://t.co/HrvXwq05vk
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Craptastic Bluetooth smartwatch for $11 / Boing Boing
Who can resist an $11 bluetooth smartwatch with a touch screen display, even if it is an utter piece of junk? Not me! I just ordered one on Amazon. It will supposedly pair to an iPhone. Features
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I’m 6’6″ and I like to blow coworkers’ minds for Halloween. – Imgur
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Rapper turned IS fighter killed by US strike in Syria – BBC News
A US airstrike in Syria has killed a former German rapper working for the Islamic State, defence officials have confirmed.Denis Cuspert had been designated a global terrorist by the US State Department and had threatened President Barack Obama.
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.30.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session at 1pmPT today.
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The Coolest Tin Toy from the Sixties: Hootin’ Hollow Haunted House / Boing Boing
Watching TV as a little kid in the early 1960s, I yearned very deeply— an insatiable craving sucking at my guts — for a Hootin’ Hollow Haunted House, a tin toy produced by Louis Marx.
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BBC Sport – Guinness Pro12: Scarlets 25-15 NG Dragons
Tom Williams, on loan from Cardiff Blues, starts on the other wing as Scarlets make six changes from their victory over Munster. Pro12 leaders Scarlets have the only 100% record in the league and face a Dragons team with two wins from their five gam…
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Before Shaker Aamer: others who made it back to Britain from Guantánamo Bay | UK news | The Guardian
At least 16 British citizens and residents are among the 774 adults and children known to have been imprisoned in the Guantánamo camps at the US base in the south of Cuba. All were interviewed by the British authorities on their return.
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Vanity Fair and Burberry Celebrate James Corden at the Britannia Award | Vanity Fair
West Coast editor Krista Smith was on hand to greet the starry crowd and honor the man of the hour, English actor and The Late Late Show host James Corden.
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Chile seizes erotic version of Little Red Riding Hood – BBC News
The Chilean government has begun seizing copies of an erotic version of the children’s story Little Red Riding Hood. They were mistakenly distributed to 283 primary schools over the past year.
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The Evolution of Movie Monsters: From “A Terrible Night” to “It Follows” – The Atlantic
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ESPN Shuts Down Grantland After Months of Mismanagement – The Atlantic
When ESPN launched Grantland four years ago as a website built around the hyper-popular writer Bill Simmons, predictions of its irrelevance and death abounded.
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From Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols comes This Bridge Will Not Be Gray (at Amazon), a children’s book about how the Golden Gate Bridge came to be painted orange.
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Clinton rises in polling, and so does Sanders
The Benghazi Inquisition of Hillary Clinton was October 22. We have four polls conducted since. Gravis … You know, fuck Gravis. They show much of the same as above, but I can’t even dignify them by printing their numbers. They suck.
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There’s a coming scrum that will involve all the major Internet giants, and the stakes are just being set now. It’s a fight for video footprint; specifically, for off-network video distribution and monetization.
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Get Ready For “Spooky,” the Halloween Asteroid!
On All Hallow’s Eve, an asteroid dubbed “Spooky” will make its closest approach to our planet. Hurtling along at an impressive 78,830 miles per hour, the 1,300-foot-wide object poses no threat to Earth…or does it? This Gizmodo video explains Spook…
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WASHINGTON — President Obama will deploy a small number of American Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria to help local forces fight the Islamic State, the White House announced on Friday.
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How Many People Take Credit for Writing a Hit Song?
The pop star Rihanna relies on a team of songwriters to make her hits.
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Yellowstone Canyon : Breathless
Yellowstone Canyon via /r/Breathless https://t.co/sqSPwumE5W https://t.co/7bMBPooQKv
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Kid dressed up as Hitler at my school : pics
Kid dressed up as Hitler at my school via /r/pics https://t.co/Vtv6wJLkGW https://t.co/9jq1U84OoF
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Padley Gorge by Tim McAndrew – Photo 127038421 – 500px
Padley Gorge by TimMcAndrew https://t.co/sQbELkcgHv https://t.co/Pu9NNVtbEB
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Effort to crowdfund a moon rocket lags as time runs short | Ars Technica
An effort to crowdfund a moon rocket has until Sunday to raise most of the $1 million its founders say they need to kick the project off. The Moonspike initiative seeks to build a 22-ton, liquid-fueled rocket to launch a small spacecraft to the moon…
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The Cheapest and Most Rewarding Places to Get a Flu Shot
It’s flu shot season again! You’ve no doubt seen the signs saying “walk right in, get a flu shot!” Before you impulsively obey that ad, find out the best places to get your flu shot this year.
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Can a Naturalist Go Fishing in Fragile Waters? [Excerpt] – Scientific American
Excerpted with permission from , by James McClintock. Available from St. Martin’s Press. Copyright © 2015. (Scientific American and St. Martin’s Press are part of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.) The bull redfish was probably close to forty pounds, la…
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There isn’t a whole hell of a lot to see in this teaser for AMC’s Preacher. We mean, there is a lot going on—Cassidy’s burning, Cassidy’s bleeding or gorging, and the preacher’s punching—but the action is all sped up so as to make the scenes go by i…
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1960s-style cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Give It Away” / Boing Boing
Susan Delson of the Wall Street Journal profiles the Japanese sister duo Charan-Po-Rantan, featuring accordion music that “glides from klezmer to Balkan beat to zydeco, from French chanson to blues and boogie.
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The Walking Dead to continue shambling along until everybody’s dead · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With all the predictability of a zombie smashing through a window and devouring someone you’ve grown to love, AMC has announced that it’s renewed The Walking Dead for a seventh season.
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EFF asks appeals court to “shut down the Eastern District of Texas” | Ars Technica
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge have asked a federal appeals court to make big changes to the rules governing venue in patent cases.
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Promise of the Real Ready New Album ‘Something Real’ | Rolling Stone
Promise of the Real Ready New Album ‘Something Real’ Neil Young provides guest vocals on track off backing band’s upcoming LP
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Beverly Hills among cities fined for not conserving enough water in drought | US news | The Guardian
Upscale Beverly Hills is among four California cities where water utilities have been fined for not forcing residents to conserve enough water during California’s unrelenting four-year drought, officials said on Friday.
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NYPD Undercover “Converted” To Islam To Spy On Brooklyn College Students: Gothamist
On the leafy Midwood campus of Brooklyn College, a lecture at the school’s Islamic Society had just ended when a woman stood up and asked to take the Shahada, the Muslim testimony of faith. Nobody knew the woman with light skin and dark hair, who ap…
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All Black Cats Are Not Alike – The New Yorker
Master is a sleeper agent. Like the Russians say, you don’t choose the cat, the cat chooses you. Lars and Irene named their gutsy wee thing for the walking, talking, tram-riding devil’s-associate cat in Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita.
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Judge 50 old books by their animated, pulsating covers · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Academic texts from the 1970’s share a minimal, geometric aesthetic, communicating highly technical or abstract concepts with minimalist cover art that relied on symbols, patterns, and shapes.
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Russia takes a skeptical approach to climate change thanks to Putin | Grist
There’s not much chance of a global carbon price emerging from Paris, but smaller cap-and-trade programs and carbon taxes are in effect around the world.
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By QUOCTRUNG BUI and OCT. 30, 2015 They tend to live in the South, and they tend to be poor.
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Watch Gary Clark Jr.’s Jaw-Dropping ‘ACL’ Performance of ‘Grinder’ | Rolling Stone
Gary Clark Jr. tears through his mid-tempo blues ripper, “Grinder,” during a powerful homecoming concert in Austin set to air on the next episode of Austin City Limits. In the clip, Clark Jr.
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I’m afraid to play Fallout 4 | Polygon
Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to play Fallout 4. I’ve been waiting for the game since I finished Fallout 3 in 2009, though I’ve returned to it repeatedly over the years.
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Moab, UT [480 x 720] : EarthPorn
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Alex by Malte Grüner – Photo 126918309 – 500px
Alex by mltgrnr https://t.co/SBCdYxCXlW https://t.co/zubhLqVWmz
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Five reason Marco Rubio may stumble – BBC News
Five reason Marco Rubio may stumble https://t.co/Z9gIneky1u
After a third solid debate performance and a skilful evisceration of Jeb Bush on Wednesday night, it’s Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s turn to step into the national spotlight. But can he withstand the glare? Mr Rubio has had a lot going for him so fa… -
American Pharoah and Golden Horn to go out on top at the Breeders’ Cup | Sport | The Guardian
He may be the first horse to win the US Triple Crown for 37 years, not to mention the top-rated horse on the planet, but, according to the betting at least, American Pharoah (9.35) still has something to prove as he steps onto a track for the final …
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Building Castles on Stars – The New Yorker
News comes at us in salvos these days, like meteorites striking the surface of the moon, the small ones that raise some dust interspersed with the big ones that carve out craters. It can be hard, seeing them approach, to know which will be which.
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A Halloween Cocktail from the Obscure Candy Aisle | Vanity Fair
This creepy, crawly month we went over to Betony on Manhattan’s “Billionaires’ Row” (Midtown, 57th Street), where the cocktails are fancy and the velvet banquettes are the perfect backdrop to some Halloween-candy-inspired drinks.
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Table loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/SeoWFZm0r3 https://t.co/NJffmq6ndK
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Amazing sky by João Bispo Aragão – Photo 126962951 – 500px
Amazing sky by j_bispo https://t.co/bnljwGulWI https://t.co/ClbYO0bO1z
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ESPN shuts down beloved sports and culture website Grantland | Media | The Guardian
ESPN has shut down its culture and sports website Grantland on Friday, ending the publication that found a devoted following for its variety and longform writing.
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The plummeting price of oil has ripped into the once booming US energy industry so dramatically that the oil sector has laid off 87,000 people so far this year.
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Because why would a child embellish his near-death experience with details of stories he heard in Sunday school just because he gets a lot of positive attention for it, and why would the adults in said child’s life encourage him to keep embellishing…
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Twitch’s latest adventure: Installing Linux | Ars Technica
Twitch playing Pokémon was easy mode. Tomorrow, Twitch viewers will be invited to do something altogether more challenging: install Arch Linux.
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Republicans suspend NBC debate plans as party bashes ‘mainstream media’ | US news | The Guardian
The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced Friday that it would suspend plans to partner with NBC News for a scheduled presidential debate in February, in an escalation of GOP complaints about the “mainstream media”.
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Wingnut Week In Review: The Walking Jeb
Jeb Bush says his campaign is not on life support, and he’s right. It’s long past that point. Bush’s campaign is more like “the walking dead”; lifeless, but lumbering along just this side of the grave. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
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I had forgotten that Britain still had Trident. Obviously had I been in Scotland, where the weapon system is based, I’d have been aware.
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South by Southwest (SXSW) issued an apology Friday for nixing two online harassment panels due to violent threats after suffering days of intense public backlash for the decision.
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Halloween weekend is here, which means there will be festive decorations, little kids going door-to-door, and endless airings of John Carpenter’s classic film on cable.
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Claws out over China cat meat scandal – BBC News
Chinese social media users are buzzing with outrage at news that a “feline house” in Tianjin has been keeping cats to be sold for human consumption. They have raised concerns over food hygiene and many have posted pictures of their own pets to raise…
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Investing in Startups Is No Longer Just for Millionaires – The Atlantic
Though crowdfunding has become immensely popular in recent years, the perks of buying into companies early through platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have mostly come in the form products.
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It is a rare thing for a high-level official to admit they got something completely wrong. Frederic Hof, the former special adviser on Syria to Hillary Clinton (as secretary of state), has had that temerity – or that kind of despair.
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Letters to the Editor: NASA Disappearances, Narcolepsy, and Runaway Blimps | Motherboard
Dearest readers! Motherboard UK Editor Victoria Turk at your service. I’ve been rummaging through our digital mailbag for this week’s round-up and it’s always (well, usually) a pleasure to hear from our readers.
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Just like us, Ars readers worry about more idiots flying drones | Ars Technica
This concludes 2015’s Ars UNITE virtual conference. Thanks for reading, watching and participating! You can catch all the past sessions and articles here. On Friday, Ars Gaming Editor Kyle Orland and I hosted a live 30-minute chat on drones and disc…
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From lab-grown burgers to farms monitored by sensors and drones, technology lies at the heart of many of today’s sustainable food solutions.
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Who is Qatar backing in Syria? – 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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Two Muslims awarded $240,000 in US discrimination case – Al Jazeera English
A jury has awarded $240,000 to two Muslim men who say they were fired from an Illinois trucking company after refusing to deliver alcohol. A judge found that Morton-based Star Transport Inc violated the religious beliefs of Mahad Abass Mohamed and A…
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My Favorite Halloween Movie – The New Yorker
My favorite Halloween movie is low on gore but high on disturbance. It depicts much less violence than it suggests, and some of the most horrific violence that it suggests is evoked solely by means of words.
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Holy Hell, It’s the Very First Footage From the Preacher TV Show
It’s only 13 seconds long, and it’s one of those annoying teasers for the real trailer, coming this Sunday evening during The Walking Dead. But we couldn’t pass up showing you guys the footage from the show including Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, …
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One of the best things an aspiring writer can do is read. A lot.
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5 Reasons ‘Star Wars’ Tanks Make Absolutely No Sense
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SXSW Announces All-Day Summit on Harassment After Canceling Panels | Motherboard
SXSW said on Friday it “made a mistake” this week in cancelling two video game panels, one about topics related to GamerGate, an online movement whose members have criticized video game journalism while also engaging in harassment campaigns primaril…
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If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would be Among the Poorest States | Mises Wire
The battle over the assumed success of European socialism continues. Many European countries like Sweden have gained a reputation as being very wealthy in spite of their highly regulated and taxed economies.
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The Battle Between Gravity and Quantum Physics, as Told by Craig Hogan and Lee Smolin
It is the biggest of problems, it is the smallest of problems. At present physicists have two separate rulebooks explaining how nature works.
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Shark by Tobias Großkopf – Photo 127062173 – 500px
Shark by TobiGrosskopf https://t.co/xhZ8hiafD9 https://t.co/jI5BIGc6vM
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A friend made the best Michael Jackson costume I have ever seen. : pics
A friend made the best Michael Jackson costume I have ever seen. via /r/pics https://t.co/zrGzkXehjB https://t.co/F5xemjnFnJ
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800-year-old Byzantine church [4288×2848] : AbandonedPorn
800-year-old Byzantine church [4288×2848] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/j7zOOWtyrd https://t.co/7RD7e6heqD
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Scout’s blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/QoNDeUQdkC https://t.co/SwoPisKvUE
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Fairytale in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC][3477×5215] : EarthPorn
Fairytale in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC][3477×5215] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/UNmm8oxbMm https://t.co/3x6SraoM0H
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I’m looking for my son, Akeem – Imgur
I’m looking for my son, Akeem https://t.co/1unqKZMpKq https://t.co/6yzR9J0aGG
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Misurino See by Friedrich Beren – Photo 127009353 – 500px
Misurino See by FriedrichBeren https://t.co/M39EcS72CY https://t.co/2X2aKeXe1J
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Body cam footage of cop killing unarmed man disputed | Ars Technica
It all happened so quickly. A 20-year-old unarmed Utah man was dead, shot twice by a Salt Lake City police officer.
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Amazon is shutting down its daily deals site, Amazon Local. While it won’t sell any more deals after December 18, the vouchers you’ve bought on Amazon Local will still be valid past that deadline. [via TechCrunch]
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Congressman: ‘No Way’ Comprehensive Immigration Reform Will Happen, Even After Obama | ThinkProgress
It’s been widely reported that newly-elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) won’t bring immigration reform legislation to the House floor while President Obama remains in office. What’s been mentioned less is what will happen when Obama is go…
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Adele Achieves True Diva Status, Books Radio City Music Hall For One N | Vanity Fair
When you’re Adele, you don’t just come back after a four-year absence and release an album like it’s no big deal. You make it an event. You break records. And you do your best Liz impression and celebrate it all with a performance at Radio City Musi…
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When CNBC Created the Tea Party – The Daily Beast
After Wednesday’s debacle of a debate, CNBC is now the most-hated cable network among conservatives. The fury has grown so intense that on Friday the Republican National Committee broke off its partnership with NBC News for an upcoming February deba…
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Midday open thread: The still unbroken political taboo; 6 states consider setting a carbon price
Barrett laid out his plan in Senate Bill S.1747, one of two carbon price options before the legislature. Massachusetts joins five other states—Connecticut, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington—with proposed legislation exploring this option …
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Here’s a fun example of how news publishers can take advantage of technology — the Financial Times just launched a collaboration with Google called Hidden Cities.
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Watch Orson Welles’s Ludicrously Insincere Apology for Scaring the Crap Out of America
On this very night in 1938, Orson Welles’s production of the H. G. Wells classic, The War of the Worlds, convinced many unwary radio listeners that a Martian invasion was underway. The next day, Welles told reporters he was deeply sorry for scaring …
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Migrants’ risk grows with Greece bad weather discounts – BBC News
“Go now and it’s 850 dollars, and your kids can go for free, wait until tomorrow and it’s double.” A Syrian nurse, Nancy Ahmed, recounts the conversation she had with Turkish smugglers in Izmir, as she chose to risk setting off on a rubber boat to G…
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Fugitive who allegedly shot Tennessee officer killed in Kentucky shootout | US news | The Guardian
A fugitive accused of shooting a Tennessee police officer and firing at a Kentucky trooper was killed in a shootout with authorities early Friday, ending a nearly weeklong manhunt and relieving a community on the eve of Halloween.
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Amazon To Exit Daily Deals With Closure Of Amazon Local | TechCrunch
Amazon is exiting the daily deals space. According to a message now being displayed on the Amazon Local homepage, the company’s deals platform is closing up shop on December 18, 2015. At that point, Amazon will stop selling deals via the website and…
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If there are two things that I love it is our culture’s suffocating obsession with Halloween and internet news outlets gleefully exploiting that obsession by publishing the exact same post on every single website. Can’t get enough!
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“Human Trafficking” Has Become a Meaningless Term | The New Republic
The second definition is a good deal more accurate. “Trafficking,” in practice, is less a clear-cut crime than a call to moral panic.
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BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup 2015: Australia’s final tactics leaked
Australia’s World Cup final tactics have been leaked after staff were pictured with their game plans in hand. Among the instructions were to “expose” All Blacks wings Nehe Milner-Skudder and Julian Savea under the ball.
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The Tragedy Of ESPN Shutting Down Grantland, In 13 Articles | ThinkProgress
CREDIT: AP Photo/David J. Phillip ESPN has announced it is shutting down Grantland, the sports and culture site founded by Bill Simmons. Grantland was home to some of the most thoughtful and original reporting on the internet.
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ESPN Shutters Grantland, Effective Immediately | Vanity Fair
After months of speculation, ESPN announced Friday that it is officially shuttering Grantland, effective immediately.
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Sheldon Wolin, 1922-2015 | The Nation
On October 21, the political theorist Sheldon Wolin died at the age of 93.
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Clinton Joins Sanders, O’Malley: Probe Exxon Climate Denial Funding
Former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton this week joined with fellow Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley in asking for a federal investigation into charges that Exxon knew as early as the 1970s that …
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Child porn and drugs see five UN staff fired – BBC News
Four United Nations staff shared child pornography on work email accounts, an internal report from the agency said. All four were sacked, while another member of staff was fired for transporting 173kg of marijuana in an official vehicle.
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Orbital View: Ripple – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Kanye West, Travis Scott Get Creepy in ‘Piss on Your Grave’ Video | Rolling Stone
Travis Scott and Kanye West recently teamed for “Piss on Your Grave,” an off-kilter, hallucinatory track from Scott’s debut LP, Rodeo. Now the G.O.O.D. Music duo have united for the song’s brooding music video, which features the rappers hanging out…
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B.D. Wong to play Hugo Strange on Gotham · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Gotham has already introduced a surfeit of villains for pre-Batman to not battle, so there’s nothing odd about the news that one of the Caped Crusader’s oldest foes has been added to the mix. USA Today reports that B.D.
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This Guy Implanted His Bitcoin Wallet and Made a Payment With His Hand | Motherboard
Patric Lanhed is trying to send one euro worth of Bitcoin from one digital wallet to another. But first, he has to hold a near-field communication (NFC) chip reader against his hand.
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Earlier this week we made a mistake. By cancelling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry. The resulting feedback from the individuals involved and t…
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NEWTON, N.H. — When Courtney Griffin was using heroin, she lied, disappeared and stole constantly from her parents to support her $400-a-day habit. Her family paid her debts, never filed a police report and kept her addiction secret — until she was …
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Quadruple rainbows all the way. : mildlyinteresting
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The Frosty Leo Nebula js – Just Space
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Turkish baker covered in flour [1000×562] : HumanPorn
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autumn chapel by Piotr Krol – Photo 126992747 – 500px
autumn chapel by PiotrKrol_Bax https://t.co/1s9vRqvSL7 https://t.co/rgi99owXzh
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VW scandal: the winners and losers, from carmakers to car owners | Business | The Guardian
For the first time in 15 years, Volkswagen’s quarterly accounts have landed in the red. Results published by the German car giant on Wednesday showed a loss of €3.5bn (£2.5bn) for the three months until 30 September – the month when the emissions sc…
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It’s not Al Jolson’s fault, entirely, but the phrase “jazz singer” has always been a thorny term. In Jolson’s day, the word “jazz” itself was used to signify big-city excitation, impropriety, or connectedness to the black world as often as it was us…
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What’s on Jennifer Anniston’s Vanity Table? | Vanity Fair
When naming which celebrities influence beauty trends—and we’re talking about those that can start a cult following (as huge Friends fans, we cannot and will not forget “the Rachel”)—it’s a safe bet that Jennifer Aniston will be on the list.
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Remember the perpetual motion machine called Orbo? It’s back! / Boing Boing
I’ve been following news about a company called Steorn for many years now. They claim to have developed a technology that generates more energy than it consumes. Every time they’ve had a public demonstration, it doesn’t work. I’m not surprised. I th…
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In this week’s podcast we join a Guardian Live celebration of Halloween with three writers who have a special interest in ghoulies and ghosties. Audrey Niffenegger has just published Ghostly, an anthology of ancient and modern stories complete with …
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Republicans will not air February debate on NBC – BBC News
A coming US presidential debate will not air on NBC after Republicans said this week’s forum on a sister network was conducted in “bad faith”.Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Preibus said CNBC’s moderators subjected the candidates…
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Make Oatmeal Overnight in a Cantaloupe and Wake Up to a Super Easy Breakfast
In this breakfast upgrade, oatmeal cooks itself overnight and a hallowed-out cantaloupe serves as the bowl. Add equal parts oats and liquid to the “bowl,” let sit in the fridge overnight, and in the morning add the melon balls and other toppings.
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Pablo Eyre took a number of movie posters featuring photography from their respective movies and replaced the photos with the actual scenes. I imagine this is what movie posters look like in Harry Potter.
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Katie Holmes to Respond to Leah Remini’s Scientology Claims in 20/20 S | Vanity Fair
Since her 2012 divorce from Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes has stayed relatively mum about her marriage to the movie star and her experience with Scientology.
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The Joy of Bats – The New Yorker
In September, 1984, a million and a half Brazilian free-tailed bats took up residence under a bridge in Austin, Texas. A bat panic ensued: articles claimed that hundreds of thousands of rabid bats were attacking townspeople, and a local headline rea…
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Why Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn Is Never Having Her Tarot Cards Rea | Vanity Fair
Gillian Flynn is the kind of author who doesn’t need a dark or stormy night or thing that goes bump in the night for her stories to unsettle you—so imagine how creepy things get in her new novella, The Grownup, in which actual ghosts may lurk.
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If you do anything for Halloween this weekend, chances are pretty good you might see a child (or an adult) trick-or-treating (or partying) dressed as a ninja. Maybe it’ll be a generic ninja, or maybe a specific one, like a Naruto character or a Ninj…
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China’s New Two-Child Policy – The New Yorker
Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China’s one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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NASA: “Spiral Stars Signal the Presence of Giant Planets” https://t.co/ab9MIVG4zV https://t.co/dGfcAOdRDr
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: GoPro, Sonos, And Flosstime | TechCrunch
Another work week has come and gone, and today marks the beginning of a fresh weekend. And what better way to start it than with a listen to the old TechCrunch Gadgets podcast.
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Breeders’ Cup 2015: day one live from Keeneland! | Sport | The Guardian
Hello from the Bluegrass State of Kentucky, and welcome to live coverage of this year’s Breeders’ Cup meeting, which travels to Keeneland – in Lexington, the beating heart of America’s thoroughbred breeding industry – for the first time.
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Sex message on Chipotle cup / Boing Boing
“My son’s Chipotle cup says ‘reproductive sex’ on it,” wrote a mom who posted this photo to Reddit. It also looks like the cylindrical object is penetrating something. The text below it reads, “Who wants to feel so small?”
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National Review: Ben Carson is more ‘authentically African-American’ than Barack Obama
You would think that the National Review, the magazine famous for presenting the “serious conservative” defense of segregation and which has had to ditch several writers in recent years after their connections to white supremacy became too overt or …
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Report: iPad Pro, Smart Keyboard, and Apple Pencil go on sale November 11 | Ars Technica
According to a report by the usually reliable 9to5Mac, Apple’s new iPad Pro is slated to go on sale on Wednesday, November 11.
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The FBI flew surveillance flights over Baltimore during the unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray and over Ferguson, Missouri following the death of Michael Brown, using advanced surveillance techniques including infrared cameras, documents…
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Syrian Anti-isil Activist Beheaded in Turkey | Al Jazeera America
An activist with the only group reporting on human rights abuses in ISIL’s de facto Syrian capital was found beheaded in his apartment in southern Turkey along with a friend, the group — called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) — told Al Ja…
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This Chart Shows Where All the Candidates Stand on the World’s Biggest Issue | Mother Jones
At first glance, there are just two groups of presidential contenders when it comes to climate change: those who think it’s real and urgent, and those who don’t. But take a closer look, and the picture blurs.
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Oliver Sacks on the Kind of Hallucination He Would Liked to Have Had | Motherboard
When the late Oliver Sacks reached North America in the 1960s, he reports in his memoir On The Move, he knew he wouldn’t be returning to London and his Orthodox Jewish family anytime soon. He sent home a telegram that read simply, STAYING. His mothe…
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Everyone knows those insane sports promotions that seem unwinnable, like the million dollar half court shot, or those car dealerships that promise if, say, the Cleveland Browns win the Super Bowl, that every car they sell that July will be free.
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Routelines Map of London [1500×2250] [OS] : MapPorn
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800 year old byzantine church hidden in the forest…. : mildlyinteresting
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How I feel whenever someone at work complains about IE. : AdviceAnimals
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This woman has won Halloween this year! : TrollXChromosomes
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John Oliver on the wage gap : TrollXChromosomes
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Rite-Aid don’t give a FUCK. : firstworldanarchists
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My Little Loaf, Luna, the Liquor Lookout! : Catloaf
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Forging of a steel roll : woahdude
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i think he had a rough day.. : cats
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Momcat is 16 years old. : cats
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Fires and Smoke in Northwest India : Natural Hazards
On October 30, 2015, the Visible Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of fires burning in the Indian state of Punjab. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface tempera…
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FHTAGN: Silver tentacle rings and earrings / Boing Boing
It’s been nearly a decade since a single thumbnail image of Michaelangelo’s David’s willie caused a censorware company founded by a registered sex-offender to block Boing Boing for all its clients as a “nudity” site. This post will probably blow the…
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Watch the Trailer for a Documentary About the Star Wars Actors Whose Faces You Never Saw
There have been Star Wars documentaries on almost everything. The history, the fans, the merchandise and more. But a new one, Elstree 1976, takes a different spin. It focuses on actors who played what they thought were going to be blink-and-you-miss…
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MLS playoff party gets serious after Portland squeak home on penalties | Football | The Guardian
Maybe you didn’t watch the MLS playoffs on Thursday night – Maid in Manhattan was on the Oxygen Network, after all, and there was some football match or other going on in Foxborough – but, like the one-eyed dog who can’t catch his Bonio, you missed …
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This parent doesn’t want to check their kid’s candy haul for nut products, so they put up these obnoxious posters instead. See full size image here.
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Shaker Aamer’s case raises big questions | Letters | US news | The Guardian
The news that Shaker Aamer has been released from Guantánamo Bay is brilliant to all who have campaigned for his release and to his British family who feared he would never come home. He has shown immense fortitude during his incarceration.
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Republican National Committee Threatens to Cancel Next NBC Debate Afte | Vanity Fair
In a letter published on the R.N.C.’s Web site and addressed to NBC News chief Andy Lack, Priebus said that he would not let the network air a debate scheduled for February 2016 unless the company held a discussion with the G.O.P. campaigns.
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EU Parliament votes to drop criminal charges and grant asylum to Snowden / Boing Boing
The 285-281 vote was nonbinding and thus “largely symbolic” but it’s a hell of a symbol. Snowden called it “not a blow against the US Government, but an open hand extended by friends. It is a chance to move forward.”
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White House: US ‘special operators’ to fight Isis in Syria – video | World news | The Guardian
White House press secretary Josh Earnest confirms that President Obama will be deploying ‘special operators’ to fight Islamic State on the ground in Syria.
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Stunning Nasa images capture hints of Saturn moon’s underground ocean | Science | The Guardian
A Nasa spacecraft that dived through a geyser plume on one of Saturn’s moons, closer to the surface than ever before, has delivered the first images and data from its “taste” of an underground ocean.
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According to a new synthesis of the more than 140 national climate action plans already submitted to the United Nations, the world is on track for a 2.7°C temperature rise by the end of the century.
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‘Be the Astronaut’ and ‘Journey to Space’ in New Museum Exhibits
In Los Angeles, the California Science Center has debuted “Journey to Space,” a hands-on, climb-aboard experience at what it takes to live and work off the Earth.
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Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance? – The New Yorker
This is the third essay in a three-part series looking at problems and solutions in the health-care marketplace. Read part one, on the main problems with the existing insurance system, here, and part two, on new attempts to sell insurance directly t…
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Just a couple of weeks ago, Will Butler released a new video starring Emma Stone. That clip, for the song “Anna,” was charming and whimsical, with Stone dancing manically on the Queen Mary as the song blasted in the background.
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Vienna talks on Syria ‘agree to disagree on Assad’ – Al Jazeera English
Major powers meeting in Vienna have failed to reach an agreement on Syria, especially the future role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but found enough “common ground” to meet for a new round of talks in two weeks, even as the conflict enters a …
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Facebook is big on experiments if they further the company’s goal to better engage and connect people.
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Don’t count on STARTTLS to automatically encrypt your sensitive e-mails | Ars Technica
Researchers have some good and bad news about the availability of secure e-mail. Use of STARTTLS and three other security extensions has surged in recent months, but their failure rate remains high, in large part because of active attacks that downg…
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China warns US over provocative acts in South China Sea – Al Jazeera English
China’s naval chief has issued a serious warning to the US navy against carrying out “provocative acts” in the South China Sea, two days after Washington vowed to again sail warships near disputed islands there.
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Get One of The Most Acclaimed Space Books In Recent Years For Just $1.99
The self-published novel A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers got nominated for the Golden Tentacle Award for best SF debut, and got tons of praise from some of science fiction’s most respected critics.
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Spike Lee’s Marathon Prep – The New Yorker
“It’s a love letter to the greatest city on this planet,” Lee, clad in a blue camouflage tracksuit and bright-orange glasses, said.
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HitFlix reports that, despite rumors of an indefinite delay, director Guillermo del Toro has turned in to Warner Bros.
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VIENNA — As Secretary of State John Kerry sat down here on Friday to push for a political settlement of the Syrian war, the immediate tension surrounded his dealings with the Russians and the Iranians.
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ESPN Statement Regarding Grantland – ESPN MediaZone
Effective immediately we are suspending the publication of Grantland. After careful consideration, we have decided to direct our time and energy going forward to projects that we believe will have a broader and more significant impact across our en…
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Kim Dotcom Wants to Build an Alternate Internet Powered by Blockchains : technology
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/3fNlCJMhfw https://t.co/7OnPK3LAjX
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Peter Gabriel Song? | Rolling Stone
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Shoot them in the head! : funny
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Amy Lee Talks Evanescence Reunion, New Music Plans | Rolling Stone
Amy Lee Talks Evanescence Reunion, New Music Plans https://t.co/r4UspGUGKH
In November, Amy Lee and Evanescence will . Before entering rehearsals next week, Lee has confirmed to Rolling Stone during a soon-to-be-published interview that there are currently no plans for new music from the band, but that they may expand the … -
See Jennifer Nettles, Brandy Clark’s ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ | Rolling Stone
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Can solar cookstoves help reduce greenhouse emissions in developing countries? https://t.co/ak72lTD4Py
Since Hillary Clinton announced the creation of a Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves in 2010, the public-private partnership has helped raise more than $400m for cleaner stoves and cooking fuels, enlisted more than 1,300 partners and, by its own a… -
These Bats Look Exactly Like Teddy Bears and Cute Little Piggies | Mother Jones
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Despite the fact that Dr. Merlin Tuttle, 74, has saved millions of bats around the world through his research and advocacy, and has taken hundreds of thousands of pictures of bats (sometimes shampooing them beforehand), he won’t judge you if you are… -
Wild World pops with breath-taking photographs on every page / Boing Boing
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Visit the Best Breweries in the US in One Road Trip
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Forget visiting the top landmarks and historical sites in every state. Take a road trip to drink the best beer in the US. Flowing Data took the list of the top breweries in the US from RateBeer’s annual review and mapped them out for the most effici… -
Half of Russia’s 144mln population lives in the red part [1440×802] : MapPorn
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Please be nice to the bus driver, or this could happen. – GIF on Imgur
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Adele’s Hello tops UK singles chart – BBC News
Adele’s Hello has become the biggest-selling number one song in three years. The singer made a much-trumpeted return to the limelight last week when she released the first track from her forthcoming album, 25.
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Environmental groups demand inquiry after Exxon ‘misled public’ on climate | US news | The Guardian
Leading US environmental campaigners have joined a diverse line-up of pressure groups to demand a federal investigation into allegations that the oil giant ExxonMobil illegally covered up the truth about climate change.
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In 2010, officials from six US government agencies jointly reviewed the case of Shaker Aamer, the British resident who at that point had spent more than eight years in captivity at Guantánamo Bay.
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Here’s When You Should Stop Trick-Or-Treating | FiveThirtyEight
Tomorrow is Halloween, when suburbia experiences an annual bacchanal of egging, teepeeing and vandalizing. Also, a bunch of trick-or-treating. Just like showing up to parties or dancing at weddings, trick-or-treating is imbued with a whole bunch of …
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Flowers bloom in the Atacama desert – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Flowers in the Huasco region of the Atacama desert, 400 miles north of Santiago, Chile. Photograph: Carlos Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Here’s a fun Halloween trick: Mention the Peacock family to an unsuspecting “X-Files” fan and enjoy the reaction. It’s likely to be some combination of a shudder, a squeal and a groan, a mix of delight and revulsion. (A reporter’s wife: “Please, God…
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Republican Senators Form A Group Dedicated To Climate And Environmental Action | ThinkProgress
The environment just got a boost from an unlikely source: Senate Republicans.
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The Japanese cat collecting game Neko Atsume is finally in English / Offworld
Cat collectors rejoice: the cult favorite mobile game Neko Atsume has finally made its way to Android—and soon, to iOS—in English under the name Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector.
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BBC Sport – Mexican GP: Max Verstappen fastest in damp first practice
Toro Rosso’s Max Verstappen set the pace in first practice at the Mexican Grand Prix as new world champion Lewis Hamilton was 11th. Verstappen, an 18-year-old rookie, was 0.305 seconds quicker than Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat as F1 returned to Mexico Ci…
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Fish, Ram, Triangle and More In November 2015 Skywatching | Video
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You May Not Have a Smart TV, But With Google’s $35 Chromecast You Won’t Need One | Motherboard
Consumer tech is at its best when it seamlessly solves a problem for you, and with Google’s latest Chromecast I can now easily watch New Japan Pro-Wrestling on my TV. Allow me to explain.
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NBC to air Adele concert special, probably cancel it immediately · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hello, it’s Adele NBC is looking for. Not content with merely canceling most of the shows it chooses to air any given year, NBC has started looking outside the realm of actual TV series for things it can put on the air, then quickly remove.
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Watch the Cult Classic Horror Film Carnival of Souls (1962) | Open Culture
Herk Harvey had a successful career as a director and producer of educational and industrial movies in Lawrence, Kansas, but he longed for something more. After all, fellow Kansas filmmaker Robert Altman had made the leap from industrial flicks to H…
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Reince Priebus cancels upcoming NBC debate because CNBC was too mean to his candidates
So RNC chair Reince Priebus has written a very huffy letter. To wit: Screw you guys, we’re going home. While we are suspending our partnership with NBC News and its properties, we still fully intend to have a debate on that day, and will ensure that…
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WASHINGTON—According to law enforcement personnel and dozens of distraught eyewitnesses, packs of savage, ferocious House Republicans are currently running loose through the nation’s capital, causing mayhem and bloodshed on a mass scale following th…
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Halloween Fireballs Will Blaze in the Sky Through November
Amateur skywatcher John Chumack filmed a number of Taurid meteors in 2012. In 2015, the Taurids will be active all through November, but will peak between Nov. 5 and Nov. 12.Credit: John Chumack/www.galacticimages.
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The Bones/Sleepy Hollow Crossover You Never Wanted Led to a Halloween You Kind of Did
This week, “Dead Men Tell No Tales” as Sleepy Hollow crossed over with Bones! It’s as odd as it sounds, and ran into some forensic snoozology, but it had Halloween charm and the most satisfying wrap of the season so far.
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When Stress Gets Out of Hand, Refocus with the SLLS Method
Stress can snowball quickly and easily, and before you know it, your entire day is off, and you find it difficult to manage tasks efficiently. Refocus with the “SLLS Method.” It’s a pretty common scenario, and one probably all of us have dealt with …
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Photos of the Week: 10/24-10/30 – The Atlantic
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CNBC’s Republican Primary Debate was Extremely Substantive | The New Republic
After Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate on CNBC, a conventional wisdom quickly congealed that it had been a failure due to a combination of unsubstantive questions, liberal bias, and chaotic format.
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German schoolkids perform adorably chilling Kraftwerk cover · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Fans of outsider music and strange cover versions may remember a 2001 album called The Langley Schools Music Program: Innocence & Despair that collected some archival ’70s recordings of schoolchildren, bringing both youthful enthusiasm and utter naï…
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New Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine: ‘My inner voice says ‘You suck!” | Books | The Guardian
Brooklyn-based cartoonist Adrian Tomine has been drawing professionally since he was in high school. Now, at 41, he’s an in-demand illustrator whose work regularly graces the covers of the New Yorker and classy Criterion Collection movie re-releases.
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BBC Sport – Helen Glover: Olympic champion had to ‘Google rowing’
British Olympic champion Helen Glover said she needed to “Google rowing” when she took up the sport in 2008. The 28-year-old won coxless pair gold with Heather Stanning at London 2012, and is now focused on defending the title in Rio.
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Snapchat’s New Terms Allow It to Hold On to Your Nudes | Motherboard
Snapchat has updated its terms of service to include some ominous clauses granting it the right to store and reuse your photos.
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After months that were not-so-filled with casting news and denouncements from British officials, The Brothers Grimsby has a premiere date and a red band trailer.
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Pictures Give Raw Look at South Pole of Saturn Moon
The first images have made it back to Earth from the Cassini spacecraft’s deepest dive ever into a jet on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. On Wednesday, Cassini swooped low over the small moon’s south pole, where dozens of geysers are continually hurlin…
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Halloween 2015: The Haunted Strip Clubs of New Orleans | GQ
On the first floor of most French Quarter strip clubs, the energy isn’t that much different from other dens of sexy dancing scattered across America.
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Newly Declassified Photos Show The Crewed USAF Spy Spacecraft That Almost Was
On October 22, 2015 the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) declassified and released 282 rarely or never before seen images and 825 confidential records (a total of 20,681 pages) about the so called Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), the project wh…
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The trust machine | The Economist
BITCOIN has a bad reputation.
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What We Know About the Computer Formulas Making Decisions in Your Life – ProPublica
We reported yesterday on a study of Uber’s dynamic pricing scheme that investigated Uber’s surge pricing patterns in Manhattan and San Francisco and showed riders how they could potentially avoid higher prices.
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Every Day I Want To Quit Social Media
Today is the day I finally leave social media. I feel I’ve outstayed my welcome. I don’t have anything else to say. The feeling has grown in the weeks leading up to this point; I’ve seen my social media activity plummet in popularity.
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New York building collapse: At least one dead and another trapped – BBC News
One construction worker has been killed and another was hurt after a building in New York City partially collapsed. The eight-story building in midtown Manhattan is being demolished to make way for a high-end hotel.
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RushCard Says System Is Restored But Customers Still Report Problems | ThinkProgress
For nearly two weeks, customers of RushCard, the prepaid debit card company co-founded by rap mogul Russell Simmons, were cut off from all of their funds after a technology problem was triggered by the company changing over to a new processing provi…
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The personal cost of China’s one-child policy endures – BBC News
China’s long-standing one-child policy is no more. Its impact, however, has affected generations. Two Chinese people tell us their stories – one who grew up without siblings, and a mother who could not give her daughter any.
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ISIS Assassinates Prominent Syrian Activists in Turkey – The Daily Beast
Earlier this month, ISIS perpetrated the worst terrorist attack in modern Turkey’s history. Today, it dispatched an assassin to murder two Syrian activists from the “capital” of the so-called caliphate, and wasted no time boasting of its cross-borde…
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The Refugee Crisis: There’s an App for That – The Atlantic
Displaced by civil war? There’s an app for that. Scratch that: There are several dozen apps for that. Which one would you like? Coding humanity’s way out of crisis has become popular in recent years, pioneered in response to natural disasters.
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St Louis police arrest suspect in arson cases at mostly black churches | US news | The Guardian
St Louis police have arrested an individual in connection with a spate of arson cases at predominantly black churches. The suspect, a 35-year-old black male, was taken into custody on Thursday, said Schron Jackson, spokesperson for the St Louis poli…
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Republicans Suspend ‘Partnership’ With NBC Over CNBC’s ‘Bad Faith’ Debate | ThinkProgress
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter on Friday to NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack saying they would be “suspending the partnership” with the news organization for the scheduled February debate over the “bad faith” approa…
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Alien Hunters Spent the Last Century Looking for the Black Knight Satellite | Motherboard
In 1899, Nikola Tesla heard from aliens. The pioneer of radio had constructed a massive tower at his home/laboratory in Colorado Springs for the purpose of experimenting with wireless power, but instead may have accidentally become the first human b…
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The Secret Lives of ‘Star Wars’ Extras | Motherboard
Before Star Wars became the franchise that branded an entire generation of geeks and brought a sea of eyes on science fiction films in Hollywood, the people who played extras in the film thought it was just another gig.
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A Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Will Produce 15 Million Higgs Bosons Per Year | Motherboard
This year, the Large Hadron Collider was rebooted to run at twice its previous energy, in an effort to redouble particle physics research after the Higgs boson discovery in 2012.
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‘Spotlight’ Celebrates the Journalists Who Exposed Clergy Sex Abuse | The New Republic
If the fourth estate is on the ropes—beaten and bloodied by the economic realities that come with delivering news in the social media (and ad block) era—then the movies, especially big, bright, fictional Oscar-bait movies, haven’t found out yet.
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BLACK children are not allowed to be children. They are not allowed to be safe, not at home, not at pool parties, not driving or sitting in cars listening to music, not walking down the street, not in school. For black children, for black people, to…
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The authorities in Oregon have confirmed a case of the bubonic plague in a teenage girl who was believed to have contracted the disease from a flea bite. Plague is rare and treatable with antibiotics if caught early, but federal authorities have bee…
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On The Cultural Logic of Prizes | JSTOR Daily
Have you heard that Marlon James won the Man Booker for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings? It may have been hard to miss the news. This followed on the heels of Svetlana Alexievich receiving the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Ted Cruz Is Right: Let Limbaugh and Hannity Moderate a GOP Debate! | The Nation
I rarely agree with Senator Ted Cruz, but he has a great idea: He wants conservative talk show hosts/demagogues Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to moderate a GOP debate. Let’s be clear: the Republican whining about debate moderation to da…
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The African Union released a comprehensive — and devastating — report on ongoing conflict in South Sudan which documents gang rape, mass graves, and forced cannibalism.
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SXSW Interactive changes tune, announces day-long Online Harassment Summit | Ars Technica
The SXSW Interactive 2016 festival began announcing panels and discussions last week, but two of those—one specifically about online harassment and abuse, and one with apparent ties to the GamerGate hashtag—were canceled on Monday due to “threats of…
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Trippy, freaky animated GIFs from Zolloc
Operating under the name of Zolloc, Hayden Zezula makes all sorts of cool, creepy, lovely, trippy animated GIFs. This one is my favorite. (via ignant)
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Greening the Big Apple: New York plants millionth tree ahead of schedule | Cities | The Guardian
The best city stories we’ve spotted around the web this week celebrate the tree-planting efforts of New York City, discover how Grenoble is bringing short stories to its streets and reveal which cities in England and Wales have the youngest populati…
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Environment news Features and comment On the blogs Multimedia And finally …
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Sprint’s new T-Mobile-style “unlimited” data plan throttles you after 1GB | Ars Technica
Sprint yesterday unveiled a $40-per-month “unlimited data” smartphone plan that comes with 1GB of high-speed data. You can use all the data you want, but after that first gigabyte, you’ll be throttled to lower, 2G speeds for the rest of the month.
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What If Your Tap Water Was Too Polluted to Drink? | The Nation
One hallmark of life in a “developed” country is a secure supply of clean water. But America’s rural and urban landscapes are marred with dry patches.
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Consider the puffin. I was reading an article the other day about them being added to the endangered species list due to climate change. Apparently they’re Britain’s most popular sea bird, though I don’t know how many people have ever laid eyes on o…
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: October 23rd to 30th
Things got a little dark with our annual Evil Week series—we had a lesson in covert public farting, learned how to remotely monitor computers and create an untraceable messaging device, but also took a look at some more innocuous tricks. Here’s a lo…
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Lord Huron’s “Love Like Ghosts” asserts the rarity of love and ghosts · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: For Horrors Week, we’re once again talking about songs with the word “ghost” in the title.
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‘Halloween Asteroid’ Will Fly Near Earth Saturday – Scientific American
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 slig…
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Syrian Peace Talks Don’t Include Anyone From Syria. Here’s Why. | ThinkProgress
Talks aimed at finding a solution to the four-year-old Syrian Civil War are underway in Vienna today, with at least one notable absence. There are no representatives from Syria involved in the talks, either from the regime or the opposition.
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One Of The Scariest Aliens In Film History Gets An Adorably Cute Makeover
The Xenomorph from the Alien series has got to be one of, if not the, most terrifying creatures ever in film history. Even in the bad films of the franchise, the alien looks awesome. But one author imagined, what if he wasn’t so scary? Enter Alien N…
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Get in the holiday spirit with these horror anthology films, which offer several scary stories for the price of one.
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White House news briefing – BBC News
White House spokesman Josh Earnest gives a news briefing in Washington.
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Watch as Gigi Hadid Learns She Is Victoria’s Secret’s Fashion Show Material | Vanity Fair
It would seem to any casual observer that Gigi Hadid has it “all”: she’s one of the hottest models of the moment; her best friends are Taylor Swift and Kendall Jenner; she’s dating a Jonas brother.
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Star Wars Advice from Carrie Fisher: “Don’t Be a Slave Like I Was” | Vanity Fair
For decades Carrie Fisher was essentially the only female face of the Star Wars universe. In 1999 she was joined by Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala, and now she has a new member of the club with Daisy Ridley, who plays lead character Rey in Decembe…
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Construction worker killed after NYC building collapses during demolition | US news | The Guardian
A building being demolished to make way for a luxury boutique hotel partially collapsed on Friday in midtown Manhattan, killing one construction worker and trapping at least one other beneath the rubble, officials said. The fire department of New Yo…
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Hear Azealia Banks’ Sultry Fall Out Boy Remix | Rolling Stone
Hear Azealia Banks’ Sultry, Slowed-Down Fall Out Boy Remix “The Kids Aren’t Alright” features on group’s rap-remix album ‘Make America Psycho Again’
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NBC’s Today has a longstanding tradition of dressing its hosts in elaborate costumes every Halloween, the better to scare its viewers out of their living rooms and into doing something more productive with their mornings.
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Hear Pope Francis’ Somber New Song ‘Por Que Sufren los Ninos?’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Pope Francis’ Somber New Song ‘Por Que Sufren los Ninos?’ Pontiff’s newest ‘Wake Up’ single focuses on impoverished children
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Queen’s Brian May Remembers ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on 40th Anniversary | Rolling Stone
Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of Queen’s monumental prog-opera-pop-metal hit “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a tune that topped the charts in the U.K. in 1975 and then nearly repeated the feat in America in 1992 thanks to an especially iconic lip-sync in…
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Old Jeb: ‘I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do.’ New Jeb: ‘I’m having a blast!’
Also, a five-hour debate? That might be the only way Jeb could win this race, because everyone else would die of sheer boredom.
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This onion has a rotten layer. : mildlyinteresting
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First image of Cassini flying through the water ice geysers of Enceladus : space
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Abandoned House, Germany (Bad Staffelstein) [698×890] : AbandonedPorn
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Legion Analytics Offers A Pandora-Style Interface For Finding Sales Leads | TechCrunch
The founders of Legion Analytics say they’re offering a better way for salespeople to find new customers.
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Sacca To Shark Tank: “I Will Not And Cannot Do It If I Have To Wear A Suit” | TechCrunch
If you’re not familiar with Shark Tank, it’s ABC’s show that drops companies in front of investors from all walks of life, including the very loud Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
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Snow in Beartooth Mountains Melts Away | Al Jazeera America
BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS, Wyoming — Jim Halfpenny, an ecologist and teacher, didn’t know where the snow went. He had taken a group of students to see the ancient snowfields of Wyoming’s Beartooth Mountains, but the vast white expanses had vanished.
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The skeleton war is coming. 1 updoot = 1 calcium – GIF on Imgur
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Forget Self-Destructing Messages, Buzz’s New App Offers Self-Destructing Connections | TechCrunch
Today, there are a variety of apps to choose from if you just want to privately chat with friends or even place phone calls without having to give out your real phone number – for example, Google Voice, Burner, kik, Viber, Whatsapp and others are po…
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week, we watched an NBA game in virtual reality, a number of tech companies reported earnings, and we went hands-on with the OnePlus X Android phone. These are our best stories. 1. The OnePlus X Android phone was announced officially at an even…
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The Bitcoin Rally Is Real | TechCrunch
Strap in, friends, bitcoin is back. After spending most of the year in something approaching the doldrums, the cryptocurrency is enjoying a strong price rally, pushing it to its highest value of 2015. Of course, trading for around $320 per coin is s…
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Man finds his doppelganger sitting in his seat on a flight – BBC News
Neil Thomas Douglas boarded a flight on Thursday night and came face-to-face with his lookalike. The selfie was posted on Twitter and has been retweeted thousands of times.
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The Diplomat: Richard Holbrooke Documentary Comes To HBO | Vanity Fair
Holbrooke was stricken in December 2010, in the middle of a meeting with Secretary Clinton at the State Department.
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Entering the Competition The Stephen King – The Bazaar of Bad Dreams writing competition (the “Competition”) is open to UK residents aged 18 and over.
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Ten things I learned about writing from Stephen King | Books | The Guardian
Stephen King is an All-Time Great, arguably one of the most popular novelists the world has ever seen. And there’s a good chance that he’s inspired more people to start writing than any other living writer.
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Stephen King short fiction competition: Send us your stories | Books | The Guardian
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Her Writing Knows Things About Us That Most of Us Will Never Imagine | The Nation
Talking about Jessica Hagedorn is a challenge because who she is and what she is is more than a half-blind, one-hand-tied-behind-his-back American can readily imagine. Jessica, among other things, is a novelist.
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The Adorable Japanese Cat Game Everyone Was Obsessed With Is Now in English | Motherboard
Remember Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector? It’s that Japanese mobile game where you buy fish, toys, and other treats to lure cats into your garden and grow your kitty kingdom.
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Conceptual Genius Goes As Self For Halloween – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
SHERMAN OAKS, CA—Brilliantly subverting the very idea of a costume, conceptual genius Mark Richards, 27, reportedly stunned his fellow partygoers Friday when he announced that he had dressed as himself for Halloween.
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Wolf Pond in Lake Placid, upstate NY [OC][4800×2400] : EarthPorn
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Beef Up Your Retirement Now, Because Working Longer May Not Be an Option
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When it doesn’t look like you’ll have enough money to retire, the answer is easy: work longer. It’s not a fun solution, but it’s all you can do if you don’t have enough saved, right? Turns out, working longer might not actually be a very realistic s… -
Another Honor for Maine Maritime Academy, at an Important Time – The Atlantic
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Another way to get away with killing an unarmed black person: become an FBI deputy
Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that Kleinert was shielded by the supremacy clause of the constitution when he shot Jackson in the neck during a struggle at the end of a pursuit in July 2013. Kleinert, 51, was indicted for manslaughter by a grand jury last y…
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Georgia ex-President Saakashvili accused of ‘coup plot’ – BBC News
Georgia has launched a criminal investigation into the former President, Mikheil Saakashvili, who is accused of a coup plot.
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Bus crash in eastern Germany leaves one child dead, others injured – BBC News
Several other children were seriously injured, DPA news agency reported, citing motorway police. The bus was heading towards Dresden and the children on board were believed to be from the state of Saxony, police said.
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The Enduring Power of ‘The Witches’ and Other Children’s Horror Films – The Atlantic
Nearly everyone can recall a film that scarred them beyond reason when they were younger—a movie that in retrospect probably wasn’t so bad, but at the time seemed obscenely terrifying.
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Watch Jimmy Fallon help Will Forte test his beard for fecal matter · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Earlier this year, a whole slew of articles came out about how, statistically, most men with beards have at least a little fecal matter roaming around their faces. In short, if you’ve got a beard, you’ve got poop on your face, poopface.
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In August 1987, in the midst of one of the darkest periods in English soccer history, a countercultural movement sprung into existence in the stadium of the Manchester City Football Club when a man named Frank Newton brought a five-foot inflatable b…
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From Pashtun Papa to Nicki Minaj: How Outrage Became a Halloween Tradition – The Atlantic
It happens every year with a predictability that is both reassuring and frustrating. Someone wears a Halloween costume—or sells a Halloween costume—that blurs the line between “outrageous” and “outraging.” He went as Caitlyn. She went as Ebola. How …
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These Animals’ Screams Will Chill Your Blood
For a real scare on Halloween, try listening to the wildlife at night. The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has a call like Jack the Ripper is roaming the streets. The screams of this wild city-dweller can seem disturbingly human.
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UN Warns of ‘Extreme’ Taiz Food Shortage | Al Jazeera America
The U.N. World Food Program on Friday appealed for safe access to the Yemeni city of Taiz, saying that fighting between warring factions had blocked food supplies and left thousands of people in extreme hunger. The last U.N.
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Yes, Your Dating Preferences Are Probably Racist
When it comes to dating, there are a lot of opportunities for people to sound like assholes. And let’s be real: we’ve all been huge, gaping assholes about dating.
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Don’t Cross The Streams: The Tech Of Modern “Ghost Hunting”
Paranormal investigators, or “ghost hunters” as most of us refer to them, are private investigators who visit homes and businesses subject to perceived hauntings. And, like most other industries these day, they rely on specialized technology to do t…
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The Only Action Figure You Can Genuinely Call a Masterpiece
Hot Toys is known for its incredibly detailed and life-life action figures, but can you really call them art? Not if they’re being compared to Figma’s Table Museum series which now includes a perfect action figure replica of Michelangelo’s David.
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This week, all over the internet : AdviceAnimals
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[Art] Rosary & Chill via /r/monkslookingatbeer https://t.co/GLULcojMgv https://t.co/Y3SA8QkH3A
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Love a morning like this III by Leif Løndal – Photo 126962141 – 500px
Love a morning like this III by LeifLndal https://t.co/ngBDis8YtO https://t.co/Vq0nI5Xi3s
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Tensions rise in Hebron between Israelis and Palestinians – BBC News
Violence between Israelis and Palestinians has continued in recent days with attacks concentrated in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank. This month, there have been reports of about 20 Palestinian stabbing attacks and attempted attacks there,…
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Why the Salem witch trials still haunt the American imagination | Books | The Guardian
When the Salem witch trials occurred in 1692, the colonial authorities imposed a publication ban, thinking it best if no one wrote about them.
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Pakistan off-spinner Bilal Asif can continue his international career after the International Cricket Council found his bowling action to be legal. The 30-year-old was reported for a suspect action following his second one-day international appearan…
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The Most of Nora Ephron review – a friendly, sensible voice | Books | The Guardian
In her 2010 essay demanding an end to the tasteless horrors of the egg-white omelette, Nora Ephron takes a second to address her more high-minded readers.
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Baseball’s Bogus Pine-Tar Controversy – The Daily Beast
On July 24, 1983, George Brett hit a deep home run with two outs in the top of the ninth at Yankee Stadium that put his Kansas City Royals ahead.
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I love everything about this including @elrottencrotch as a tag – Imgur
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NASA To Ping Halloween Asteroid With Large Antenna | Video
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Wild: A game of animal survival that stretches off into infinity | Ars Technica
If Sony’s PlayStation 4 lineup is anything to go by, 2016 will be the year games go to infinity. The headline grabber is No Man’s Sky, of course, but for those not keen on space travel, there’s another option that’s also crazily ambitious.
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Flash fiction: My Father Brought Me to Watch | Books | The Guardian
First-born, a girl, but anyway his first-born so he brought me to watch when he touched the other woman. He started his fingers at her lips. And the woman bracing her hips off the car seat, wanting him lower, where she was swollen.
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What We’re Following Friday Afternoon, 10/30 – The Atlantic
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Fatigued refugees trapped in Slovenia and Greece – Al Jazeera English
Chaos has erupted in a Slovenian border town, as thousands of people pushed through metal barriers and a police cordon, to force their way into Austria, part of an ongoing refugee crisis, which claimed more lives off the waters between Greece and Tu…
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Study in China Finds Many Types of Salt Are Contaminated With Plastic – The Atlantic
Scientists have discovered that various brands of table salt sold in China contain a range of plastic pollution, which might make food unsafe. The highest proportion of plastic was found in sea salt, according to a paper from researchers at Shanghai…
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To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw – review | Books | The Guardian
Ian Kershaw is one of the world’s most distinguished and prolific historians of Germany, and his new history of Europe in the era of the two world wars is a very Germany-centred book. There are good reasons for this.
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China Ends One Child Birth Policy, but it May be Too Little, Too Late – Scientific American
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on th…
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70 Babies Have Died Since Aylan – The Daily Beast
More than 70 babies have drowned since the fragile body of 4-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on Turkish shores last month. The outrage over the loss of his young life faded all too soon, but the drive to keep the world focused on the continuing trage…
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Republican Senators Allege Gender Discrimination At Guantanamo Bay | ThinkProgress
Are the accused terrorists at Guantanamo Bay entitled to religious freedom? What if that freedom means the right to discriminate against women?
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2015 Vail International Film Festival, 2015 Lighthouse International Film Festival. Winner Columbia University Film Festival 2014 Audience Award Knives stars Paul Castro Jr, Chloe Levine, Marc Menchaca and Peter Friedman. Directed by Aaron David DeF…
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The Most Terrifying Games Let Players Create Their Own Fear | Motherboard
It’s 4 AM. You awake with a pounding headache. All the appliances in your bedroom are off, but you can discern a few twinkling lights in the inky blackness. There’s a faint rustling sound at the door. You stumble, sleep-drunk, to see what the matter…
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The Word “Million” Didn’t Exist Until We Needed It – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
I would cut off my right hand if you find it.” That was the guarantee retired Columbia history professor Jens Ulff-Møller made that there was no word for “million” in Old English, a medieval predecessor of the language you’re currently reading.
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A Long Strange Chat With Momofuku’s David Chang | Washingtonian
Momofuku CCDC and Milk Bar, which opened last Friday in CityCenterDC, are, jointly, the most hotly anticipated restaurant openings of the year.
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The Spooking : ledootgeneration
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You come at the king, you best not miss : cats
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burning sky by Alain Martin – Photo 126931049 – 500px
burning sky by AlainMartin4 https://t.co/20mEMq11ph https://t.co/F8MyfxtWXG
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Ars UNITE: Before you take your drone out this weekend, come rap with us | Ars Technica
Friday marks the fifth and final day of Ars Unite, our week-long virtual conference exploring the horizons and boundaries of the future of technology.
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VW emissions fraud will cause about 60 premature deaths in US | Ars Technica
Extra smog spewed from Volkswagen’s emission-scamming cars will cause about 60 people in the United States to die 10 to 20 years early, researchers report.
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Fishnet by Kirstin Innes review – alluring, dangerous, entangling | Books | The Guardian
There’s more than one hole at the heart of Kirstin Innes’s debut novel, winer of the Guardian’s Not the Booker prize. The book’s chief absence is that of cold-hearted Rona Leonard, who disappeared from Edinburgh six years ago leaving her parents and…
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Letter: Michael Meacher and the right to roam | Politics | The Guardian
Michael Meacher’s achievement in winning greater freedom to roam on open country in England and Wales was not a foregone conclusion, despite the inclusion of the legislation in the 1997 Labour party manifesto.
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US prisoner release: Nearly 6,000 drug inmates to go free – BBC News
The US will release nearly 6,000 people jailed for drug crimes in the coming days, an effort to reform policies that led to mass incarceration. About 3,400 inmates were already confined in places like halfway houses.
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Two children in China: Burden or blessing? – BBC News
This week, China ended its decades-old one-child policy, relaxing rules to allow all couples to have two children. The government said the decision was made because of the country’s rapidly aging population and to help support the economy.
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Lengthen Electrical Wires That Are Too Short by Splicing in Jumpers
Don’t let short electrical wires cramp your DIY project. Splice in extra wire in a few seconds using easy push-in connectors. Electricians should leave at least six inches of wire in wall boxes, which will provide enough length to install a new swit…
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Astrophysicists May Soon Announce Earth’s Twin Around a Distant Star –“Exotic Clouds or Haze a Key”
Scientists have cataloged nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far. While most of these are giant and inhospitable, improved techniques and spacecraft have uncovered increasingly smaller worlds. The day may soon come when astrophysicists an…
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What Would It Take to Have an Economy Full of Good Jobs Again? – The Atlantic
Looking back a few generations to the postwar era, there was what could be described as a golden age of work for many Americans. This was a time when homeownership was on the rise, unemployment was low, and the middle class grew.
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Carrie Fisher’s advice to Daisy Ridley includes “no slave bikinis” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As part of the seemingly endless cycle of press for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens (perhaps you’ve heard of this small indie film?), Interview magazine has brought together Carrie Fisher and Daisy Ridley, the two actors who represent the …
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U.S. to send Special Operations Forces to Syria – The Atlantic
The U.S. is sending a small group of Special Operations Forces to Syria to coordinate with local groups against the Islamic State, multiple news organizations are reporting, citing an unnamed U.S. official. A formal announcement is expected later Fr…
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The Director of Adele’s “Hello” on the Record-Breaking Video | Vanity Fair
A week ago, Adele debuted her first new song in three years, and her fans couldn’t get enough of the video for her soulful and enchanting new single, “Hello.” Within five days, the video had been watched over 100 million times.
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Watch Spike Lee’s New Movie of NBA Video-Game Cut Scenes | Rolling Stone
Watch Spike Lee’s New Movie of NBA Video-Game Cut Scenes Director’s latest project is made up entirely of ‘NBA2k16’ footage
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Fleetwood Mac Prep Massive ‘Tusk’ Reissue | Rolling Stone
Fleetwood Mac will revisit their 1979 epic Tusk this December with an ultra-deluxe reissue featuring dozens of unreleased alternate takes and live renditions of the album’s tracks.
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Prosecutor suspended for threatening to shoot office spider decorations | US news | The Guardian
An assistant prosecutor in West Virginia has been suspended after pulling a gun and threatening to shoot fake spiders scattered around the office as Halloween decorations.
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Hear Justin Moore Anticipate a Break-Up in ‘Need a Drink’ New Single | Rolling Stone
In his new single “You Look Like I Need a Drink,” Justin Moore pours a tall one not in celebration, but as a salve to heal an impending broken heart. Released today, the track recasts the idea of a breakup song as a rocking anthem instead of a tradi…
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Saturday Night Live co-head writer Bryan Thompson, in conjunction with Above Average, launched a sports-themed comedy website called The Kicker this week. “We thought the world needed another website,” Tucker explains.
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The White House went pink this month, awash for a night in rose-colored light. Delta Air Lines painted a huge pink ribbon on one of its planes, dressed flight attendants in pink, and has been selling pink lemonade to passengers. Police departments s…
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My sister-in-law found the end of the rainbow. : mildlyinteresting
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Just a reminder about Daylight Savings Time via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/PXLk41AlPO https://t.co/qfImtY8pZz
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He smelled some new wool yarn and went blep for about 5 minutes straight : Blep
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Not Muslim Enough? The Malcolm X Zombie Rises Again – The Daily Beast
Not Muslim Enough? The Malcolm X Zombie Rises Again https://t.co/7bV0GJHh5Z
LONDON — Last week, an Israeli left-wing columnist, Rogel Alpher of “an apology to my terrorist killer” infamy wrote a column about Lucy Aharish, the first Israeli-Arab female Muslim TV anchor. -
B.D. Wong Joins Gotham as Dr. Hugo Strange
B.D. Wong is joining Gotham as Dr. Hugo Strange. Given that Wong played crime-fighting psychiatrist George Huang for 14 seasons of Law & Order: SVU, playing a crime-committing psychiatrist should be a breeze for him. Contact the author at rob@io9.co…
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Senate Republicans Block Resolution Calling For Equal Pay For Female Soccer Players | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that called on soccer’s global governing body to “immediately eliminate gender pay inequity and treat all athletes with the same respect and dignity.
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News | Saturn’s Geyser Moon Shines in Close Flyby Views
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting its latest images of Saturn’s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus, acquired during the dramatic Oct. 28 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 miles (49 kilometers) above the moon’s south polar …
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Halloween Asteroid Flyby: Why You Won’t See the Space Rock Saturday
As you may already know by now, we’re going to have a pretty close encounter on Halloween Saturday (Oct. 31) with a pretty big asteroid. The object in question has been cataloged as asteroid 2015 TB145 and was discovered recently – Oct.
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Nigeria deadline to get new bank account security number – BBC News
Millions of Nigerians could lose electronic access to their bank accounts as a deadline for a compulsory biometric registration expires shortly. Nigeria’s central bank said non-registered customers would lose all the benefits attached to online bank…
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Leaked Jeb Bush campaign documents map out strategy to attack Marco Rubio | US news | The Guardian
A leaked campaign playbook for Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has revealed a strategy that counts on denigrating rival Marco Rubio and calming donors about their beleaguered candidate’s weak performance on the trail.
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On Twitter, Margaret Cho Shares Her Experiences As A Sex Worker | ThinkProgress
Thursday night, comedian Margaret Cho sent out a series of tweets revealing that she had been a sex worker, expressing her support for women in the sex industry and her disdain for those who judge and criminalize sex work. Sex work is simply work. F…
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1986 wasn’t a spectacular year, especially if you were Oliver North, or one of the few hundred people who purchased the first New Kids on the Block album and were promptly blinded by Donnie’s sweater. Still, there were highlights: The Oprah Winfrey …
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Israel legalises hundreds of settler homes in West Bank – Al Jazeera English
Israel has retroactively legalised about 800 homes in four settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian occupied territory, the interior ministry said.
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‘Pete’s over’ — How USC’s hopes of recapturing glory failed the Trojans
The minute Pete Carroll “bailed” on USC for the Seattle Seahawks — otherwise known as the day the music died — the sullen Trojans players tried taking back the program. It was Jan. 11, 2010, and the nine previous seasons had been college football …
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BBC Sport – Michael McKillop: Irish athlete wins sixth IPC World title
The 25-year-old from Glengormley, on the outskirts of Belfast, has a mild form of cerebral palsy. The T38 800m champion stayed on the shoulder of Australia’s Brad Scott before making a move with 600m to go.
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50 Scenes That Do Not Appear in the Fox ‘X-Files’ Revival «
People are often surprised to learn that I, Brian Phillips, enjoy spending time with celebrities in glamorous situations and environments.
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Felix being elegant via /r/cats https://t.co/ouEwuAGU0p https://t.co/Be80Hmc3m6
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
The week in wildlife – in pictures https://t.co/Vm6JyKxpac
Skip to main content Wildlife The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures A rare electric blue gecko, Fennec pups and Chile’s desert blooms feature in this week’s pick of images from the natural world Friday 30 October 2015 11. -
The Apple TV Is Now Available In Stores | TechCrunch
The Apple TV, complete with a brand new remote and its own app ecosystem, is today available in retail stores. You can pick up the $149 set top box at your local Apple Store, and 9to5mac reports that Best Buy and Target are carrying the device, as w…
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Japanese pop-music girl group plays klezmer-inspired music / Boing Boing
I’d long wondered who recorded this, I’m not surprised to learn it is the famous Bob Crewe. Far fucking out! Weirdo space jazz prog-rock from French composer Jean-Pierre Massiera and his Visitors ensemble 1974.
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Nigeria mother arrested over ‘$90 baby sale’ – BBC News
Six people have been arrested in south-eastern Nigeria for allegedly selling a two-week old baby. Police in Cross River state said those arrested included the baby’s mother, who said extreme poverty forced to sell her child for around $90 (£60).
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Talk With Your Colleagues Anonymously, With Blind | TechCrunch
Tired of being monitored by your company while wanting to dish with colleagues about the said company? Or maybe you’re curious about what people with your degree of experience are making at other companies? Blind, a two-year-old app founded in South…
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So after all the meshugas on the right over the past few years, the Republicans could wind up with two new leaders going into this election, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. That’s a pretty excellent outcome for a party that has shown an amazing tendency …
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Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed | TED Talk | TED.com
You’re not at your best when you’re stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuro…
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From pumpkins to pranks: how writers fell under the spell of Halloween | Books | The Guardian
Halloween lit begins with two peculiar but seminal works in the debut collections of writers who would come to be hailed as founding fathers of their respective national traditions.
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There once was a dildo from Nantucket
When whalers from Nantucket set out for their journeys around the world, left at home were their wives, sometimes for three or four years at a time. According to scholars and legend, the wives turned to dildos for comfort as stand-ins for their depa…
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Send Us Your Skeletons [Australia] – Scientific American
Pink snapper, image courtesy of the Western Australia Department of Fisheries. Citizen scientists in Australia can help the Western Australia Department of Fisheries by donating fish skeletons to help long-term monitoring program of fish stocks.
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NASA: “Spiral Stars Signal the Presence of Giant Planets”
A team of astronomers is proposing that huge spiral patterns seen around some newborn stars, merely a few million years old (about one percent our sun’s age), may be evidence for the presence of giant unseen planets.
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Ben Nevis visitors urged not to build mini cairns | UK news | The Guardian
Building “mini cairns” on Scottish mountains has become a popular way for walkers to leave a memorial, create a photo opportunity, or hide their rubbish. However, the ever-increasing piles of rocks are ruining Ben Nevis and other mountains in the Hi…
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How big are the biggest planets? – The Atlantic
When a star is born, it is the result of immense pressure on hydrogen atoms until fusion reactions begin. And for many stars, a pancake-shaped glob of gas and dust particles—a feature called a circumstellar disk—ends up hanging around for a few mill…
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Lessons From Harper’s Election Defeat: How Canada’s Conservative Party Can Win Again – The Atlantic
You lost by nominating Hubert Humphrey? Nominate George McGovern! The pattern continues into our own time. It explains much of Republican politics since 2008, and almost every choice made by Britain’s Labour Party since the retirement of Tony Blair.
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Can the Candidates’ Revolt Against the RNC Fix the Republican Debates? – The Atlantic
Can’t somebody get some control over the Republican primary debates? First, the Republican National Committee tried. But after what was widely regarded as a debacle Wednesday night, the candidates want to take a shot at handling it themselves. Polit…
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Waco biker gang shootout captured on restaurant’s CCTV – video | US news | The Guardian
Footage obtained by CNN from Waco police shows the start of a shootout between rival biker gangs the Bandidos and the Cossacks in a Twin Peaks restaurant in May. Nine people were killed, 18 injured and 177 arrested by Texas police.
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Whoops! Late Open Thread Start
The changing weather means I’m getting later and later in my day without realizing it. I forgot it’s open thread day before Halloween! So, let’s quickly start talking about some projects we have done and plan to do. I plan to do some grout work duri…
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Newly-Discovered Geoglyphs Are So Big, NASA Is Helping Study Them From Space
Turgai, Kazakhstan might not look like much besides wide, sweeping plains. But over the past few years, archaeologists have revealed more than 200 massive earthworks, so large that you’d never notice them from the ground. As the New York Times repor…
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A gorgeous pair of human-sized pneumatic wings|Dangerous Minds
Wow, wow! Laughing Squid hipped me to these jaw-dropping pneumatic articulating feather wings by Alexis Noriega. They were made for her kickass Halloween costume. I can’t wait to see the final product.
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We Had Tea with Broadway’s Kate Middleton | Vanity Fair
If you had a friend who was playing Kate Middleton onstage—on Broadway, no less!—you, if you’re anything like us, would doubtlessly be deluging her with screenshots of Kate looks, with jokes of a “So are you too fancy now to meet me at Chipotle for …
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She likes to pretend she’s a ball! : cats
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Hollywood or Houston? NASA eyes actual human landing sites on Mars | Ars Technica
Hollywood or Houston? NASA eyes actual human landing sites on Mars https://t.co/eHrbDetcZV
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Ted Cruz: ‘Climate Change Is Not Science. It’s Religion.’ | ThinkProgress
Sen. Ted Cruz, candidate for the highest office in the land, thinks that climate change — a phenomenon widely accepted by the scientists who study it — is a religious belief. “Climate change is not science. It’s religion,” Cruz told Glenn Beck on Th…
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Amazon wildfire engulfs Brazilian forest and threatens tribes – video | World news | The Guardian
A huge fire that has been burning for two months engulfs a swath of Brazilian forest, threatening the existence of remote indigenous tribes. According to Greenpeace, the fire is suspected to have been started by illegal loggers invading the territor…
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Glasgow bin lorry crash: Driver resigns from council job – BBC News
The driver of a bin lorry which crashed in Glasgow, killing six people, has resigned from his council job. Harry Clarke, 58, was due to attend a disciplinary hearing on Friday but the council said it received his resignation letter earlier in the da…
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Meet The People Being Prosecuted For Voter Fraud In Kansas | ThinkProgress
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a notorious voter suppression architect, is the only election official in the country with prosecutorial power. He secured that authority earlier this year, the latest step in his crusade to go after what he vi…
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This Just In: U.S. to Send Special Operations Forces to Syria – The Atlantic
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Blackface Halloween: A Toxic Cultural Tradition – The Atlantic
It’s hard imagining a scenario where Rachel Dolezal isn’t one of the most popular costumes of this year’s Halloween season.
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The most amazing residences of heads of states – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Skip to main content US news The most amazing residences of heads of states – in pictures Every country has head of state, and every head of state has an official residence – here’s a selection of some of the most opulent around the world
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Why Rentboy Is Selling Everything From Their Gay Male Escort Offices | Broadly
It was raining outside the offices of Rentboy on Wednesday. After being raided in August by both Homeland Security and the NYPD, seven employees of the male escorting website were charged with promoting prostitution across state lines.
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New lawsuit claims idea for Quantico was stolen from a documentary · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s an awful lot happening on ABC’s Quantico, a drama that’s ostensibly a Homeland-meets-Grey’s Anatomy hybrid.
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, October 30th – The New Yorker
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We Talked to a Roller Coaster Developer About Engineering Fear | Motherboard
You are on a roller coaster, strapped into a tiny car, sitting three people across. There is a bar across your lap. You are ascending, but not very fast. Not yet.
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Why is Hillary so Eager to Leave Big Issues in State Hands? | The New Republic
The remaining candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination have clear and well-documented differences on a number of issues, most of which matter little in the face of political reality.
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How Did the Mindfuck That Is ‘Mr. Robot’ Manage to Get Greenlit? | Motherboard
It’s been an astoundingly good couple years for television shows and movies that fit into the Motherboard orb of interest. Whenever people ask me what Motherboard is, I tell them we write about stories that are like Black Mirror, but real. Now, I’ve…
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The annual Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon has arrived, and it’s a doozy.
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Lindsay Lohan Fake Engagement Ring | Vanity Fair
Imagine we are all Jane Eyre. Rattling around the haunted heath house that is America, pining after our own Mr. Rochester—some sense of love, justice, fairness, freedom.
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Chris Janson Cashes In With ‘Buy Me a Boat’: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
A change in songwriting strategy is partly to credit for Chris Janson’s new album, Buy Me a Boat, out today (October 30th). After two failed record deals, the Missouri native kept his chin up by keeping his songwriting momentum at a Nascar pace.
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With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment. At 13 movies and counting, the occult horror series Witchcraft is, technically, the longest-running franchise in horror histo…
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A Glitch Revealed Facebook Is Working on a Craigslist-Like ‘Local Market’ | Motherboard
It looks like Facebook will soon be coming for Craigslist with a new feature called Local Market. The lid was blown off this new venture when a glitch allowed Abs Elmaz in Melbourne a small preview by accident.
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Future of gaming via /r/woahdude https://t.co/z7Cfahq3yg https://t.co/yKtDPFxh1s
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Dani likes to let it all hang out. : cats
Dani likes to let it all hang out. via /r/cats https://t.co/odJot39apt https://t.co/SqBRNZLPDj
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Autumn Tunnel by Anthony Melendrez – Photo 126947551 – 500px
Autumn Tunnel by AnthonyMelendrez https://t.co/N0HUlyTuhQ https://t.co/v7JFmtEqkC
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Frida Kahlo’s legacy is definitely informed by her careful husbandry of own image. She understood its currency, and how to leverage it. Even when caught out of uniform or having a seemingly unaware laugh, she stayed true to what in modern parlance w…
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Why the Koch Brothers Are Funding Colleges – The Atlantic
Last summer, a top lieutenant of Charles and David Koch’s vast network of philanthropic institutions, laid bare the billionaire brothers’ strategy to evangelize their gospel of economic freedom.
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US to send special forces unit to Syria – 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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Some big-name brick-and-mortar retailers have made the decision to stay closed on Thanksgiving Day, but that decision – nor all those Facebook pledges to not shop on the holiday – will make much of an impact on this year’s holiday season sales.
Online Holiday Sales To Hit Record $83 Billion, Mobile To Drive Majority Of Visits For First Time https://t.co/8jwhoQwdIU -
Thanks to the meth wars, cold medicine’s effective ingredient isn’t / Boing Boing
When the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 passed, pharmacies moved all cold-medicine with the actually-works ingredient pseudoephedrine, only available on request and with a copy of your ID.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is about to vote on Title III Crowdfunding regulations, designed to open up investments in private companies to all investors — rather than just the accredited investors (mostly high net worth individuals) who …
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What’s Really Killing Digital Health Startups | TechCrunch
In 2004 I started the first VoIP-based SaaS company for the call center market. Based on the moderate success we achieved, I thought making a play in the healthcare industry would be a cakewalk. I was wrong. Stupidly, ignorantly wrong.
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Two strangers sit next to each other on a flight and meet their doppelganger – Imgur
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MRW I make it to FP 3 times in one day with Alan Tudyk posts. – GIF on Imgur
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This book is about three people who go into the ancient Labyrinth. They are trying to find the centre of the Labyrinth where Daedulus works, because they want to talk to him about how to navigate through the Labyrinth.
Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan – review https://t.co/twAhhMpsFb -
This Jem/X-Men Crossover Cosplay Is Both Uncanny and Truly Outrageous
You know what’s better than the live-action Jem movie? Well, just about anything.
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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has some strong words for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who espouses some pretty xenophobic immigration policy plans: “Every restaurant in America would shut down” without the undocumented immigrant …
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Three Evil Skills I Learned in Childhood That Are Actually Useful for Adults
The first evil skill I acquired was subterfuge. Trying to deceive my parents is one of my earliest memories. I escaped from my crib by removing one of its loose bars and then, after climbing out, put the bar back in—as if to trick my parents that I …
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New Russian Gulag museum recreates Soviet terror – BBC News
The Russian authorities have opened a new museum in Moscow dedicated to the millions who were persecuted in Soviet labour camps in 1930-1950 – in the so-called Gulag system. The opening coincided with a national day of remembrance for the victims of…
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Obama administration to announce U.S. will send ‘tiny’ number of special operations forces to Syria
One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the number of special operations forces to be deployed was “tiny” but did not give a number.
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Zombie Physics: 6 Baffling Results That Just Won’t Die – Scientific American
When a scientific result seems to show something genuinely new, subsequent experiments are supposed to either confirm it—triggering a textbook rewrite—or show it to be a measurement anomaly or experimental blunder.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Pirates of the Caribbean, Macgyver, and More
You won’t need to dig up any buried treasure (under your couch cushions) to afford all four Pirates of the Caribbean movies today. [Pirates of the Caribbean: Four-Movie Collection, $32]
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Cuba Skate: Meet the Embargo-Defying Skaterboarders of Havana – The Atlantic
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UK police & spies will have warrantless access to your browsing history / Boing Boing
A new plan from Tory Home Secretary/Sith Lord Theresa May will require ISPs to retain one year’s worth of Britons’ online activity, and hand it over to the police and security services on demand, without a warrant.
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Gender Equality Is Not Possible Without Abortion | The Nation
It’s taken me a while to get back to Ross Douthat’s responses (Parts I and II) to my questions for pro-lifers. (Here’s my first reply.) But if you’re still following along at home, I’ve replied TO the rest of his points below.
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In wake of merger reports, Google says it’s “committed” to Chrome OS | Ars Technica
Yesterday, a report from the Wall Street Journal claimed that Chrome OS and Android will be merged into a single unified OS, which will be demoed next year and released sometime in 2017.
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NM judge believes daily prison rape is a fit punishment for nearly all defendants / Boing Boing
New Mexico Second Circuit Court Judge Christina Argyres told an 18-year-old first time offender who’d pleaded guilty to burglary that she would grant him probation because if he went to prison he’d be “someone’s bitch” and be “raped every day.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
Human spaceflight and operations image of the week for 27 October 2015: All Hallows’ Eve celebrates the cycle of destruction and rebirth, which our Cluster mission knows well.
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National Pledges Could Restrain Global Warming – Scientific American
Countries’ collective pledges toward a new international climate change agreement put the goal of averting catastrophic warming within sight, a sweeping new U.N. report out today finds.
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Detainee 239: who is Shaker Aamer? – video | World news | The Guardian
How and why was he captured? What do we know about his incarceration? Why has it taken so long for his release? It has been 14 years since he was first detained, but Shaker Aamer is now the last British resident to be released from Guantánamo Bay pr…
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Obama administration to announce small troop deployment in Syria | World news | The Guardian
The Obama administration is expected to announce on Friday a decision to deploy a small number of special operations forces in an advisory role to Syria, US administration and congressional sources said.
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Clever use of a small steampunk device to help with ingrown toenails / Boing Boing
When I think of torture devices, my mind flashes back to Mel Brooks singing about The Inquisition in The History of the World, Part I. Others might focus on Italian horror films from the 1960s, where a spike piercing an eyeball seemed to be a favori…
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The slow-burning Polanski saga – BBC News
The case against film director Roman Polanski has been rumbling on for almost 40 years. The incident that sparked the long battle took place in 1977, when Polanski had unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Gailey at actor Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood…
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Neill Blomkamp’s Alien Movie Is On Hold Until At Least After Prometheus 2
Less than a year after it was announced (and after his concept art made everyone swoon), Neill Blomkamp’s Alien has been put on indefinite pause.
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Justin Bieber Had Had It With This Week | Vanity Fair
It’s been a long week, right? You’ve been frantically putting together a last-minute Halloween costume, or preparing for and then recovering from the Republican debate, or pondering what went wrong with the release of Steve Jobs, and you just haven’…
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In the future, NFL fandom will not be optional · Block & Tackle · The A.V. Club
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. Back in June, when the NFL announced that this season’s Buffalo-Jacksonville game would be aired exclusively on Yahoo in most of the country, America stopped listening after the words “Buffalo…
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Ash Vs. Evil Dead premieres this Halloween night on Starz. It’s hard to believe Sam Raimi’s schlocky little piece of drive-in trash has lived on for so long and that its original star is still fighting Kandarian demons 30 years on—on basic cable, no…
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US to Send Special Forces to Syria | Al Jazeera America
The Obama administration is expected to announce on Friday a decision to deploy a small number of special operations forces in an advisory role to Syria, U.S. administration and congressional sources said.
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More than 50 international news editors have today written to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to express their concerns about continued attacks on press freedom in the country. The letter comes as Turkey goes to the polls this Sunday, for the…
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It’s Friday, It’s All Hallow’s Eve Eve, And Here’s Your Gif Party!
We’ve made it through another week, and now we are rewarded with Halloween. And then half-price candy on November 1st. Give us your high and lows however you want, as long as what you want is a GIF.
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Review: EL VY’s ‘Return to the Moon’ Joyfully Subverts Indie-Rock Angst – The Atlantic
In a recent episode of Billy on the Street, the comedian Billy Eichner dons a football jersey and rounds up a pack of hooting dudes to put a fratty twist on his regular shtick of quizzing random strangers about pop culture.
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How Did You Get Revenge on Your Annoying Neighbor?
Whether it’s letting their dog poop in your yard or blasting Skrillex at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, we’ve all had that one neighbor. How did you get back at them? This post is part of our Evil Week series at Lifehacker, where we look at the dark side of g…
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Caparo steel group to cut 452 jobs across UK sites – BBC News
Steel company Caparo Industries is cutting 452 jobs across its UK sites after going into administration earlier this month. Most of the jobs are being lost at plants in the West Midlands, with other losses at sites in Hartlepool, Wrexham and Tredega…
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Murder Rates Don’t Tell Us Everything About Gun Violence | FiveThirtyEight
In the middle of a Tuesday afternoon last December, a shootout erupted at a busy intersection in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. Nearly 50 rounds were fired, riddling several cars with bullets, yet only one person was hit; the man sustaine…
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Fatigued refugees trapped in Slovenia-Austria border – Al Jazeera English
Chaos has erupted in a Slovenian border town, as thousands of people pushed through metal barriers and a police cordon, to force their way into Austria, part of an ongoing wave of refugees heading to Europe.
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NASA Can’t Legally Claim a Rover Prototype That Was Sold to an Alabama Scrapyard | Motherboard
NASA says it’s interested in acquiring what is believed to be a lost lunar rover prototype from an Alabama scrapyard owner, but admits that it likely has no legal ownership over it or any way to compel him to donate it.
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Freaking people out who suffer from Trypophobia (fear of holes) during Halloween|Dangerous Minds
Image via blkvoodoo · I had no there was such a thing called trypophobia where one has a fear of tiny clusters of holes on human flesh or objects. In fact, there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to this phobia.
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Hear a 1976 Live Version of Marshall Tucker Band’s ‘Take the Highway’ | Rolling Stone
Doug Gray remembers well the members of the Marshall Tucker Band posing for a snapshot near the Eiffel Tower in 1976. The seeming incongruity of the burly, bearded Spartanburg, South Carolina group standing in front of the Paris landmark was not los…
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Jeb Bush realizes ‘I need to get better’ as he scrambles to keep donors from jumping ship
The biggest investment is in New Hampshire, which will vote Feb. 9. Bush has slated $5.6 million for five weeks of broadcast and cable television, radio and digital advertising purchases. The Granite State is seen as close to a must-win for Bush as …
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Reprieve’s Cori Crider on Shaker Aamer release – video | World news | The Guardian
Cori Crider, Shaker Aamer’s US lawyer, says Reprieve is delighted he has been freed from Guantánamo Bay, adding it’s even better news that Aamer will not face detention back in the UK.
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Birth order doesn’t affect your personality—just your intelligence | Ars Technica
For centuries, humans have been curious about the effect that birth order has on personality, possibly because eldest children in ruling families typically inherited the seat of power.
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Broad racial disparity plagues school disciplinary measures, data shows | US news | The Guardian
Just a few hours before a white police officer tossed a black female student across a classroom floor, stirring outrage in South Carolina and across the nation, a newsletter for concerned black parents in the school district went out with a warning.…
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“Arms” by Sun Bones http://www.facebook.com/SunBones/ director: Timothy Reckart http://www.facebook.com/TimothyReckart/ dp: Justin Ivan Hong automata: Hoodoo Projects http://www.hoodooprojects.com sculptor: Bryn Fraker wardrobe lead: Andee Franklin wardrobe asst: Jana M…
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Watch Ellen, Adele’s Missed Connection in ‘Hello’ Spoof | Rolling Stone
Watch Ellen, Adele’s Missed Connection in ‘Hello’ Spoof Lionel Richie, Drake also give the talk show host a ring in new clip
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Straight on ! by Nik Phot – Photo 126994351 – 500px
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A small update about the ROTC kids screaming obscenities at me. : AdviceAnimals
A small update about the ROTC kids screaming obscenities at me. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/Ype0JYYY8W https://t.co/O89SqWldwP
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At one point during Wednesday’s Republican debate, Ben Carson was asked about his involvement with Mannatech, a nutritional supplements company that makes outlandish claims about its products and has been forced to pay $7 million to settle a decepti…
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High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.
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Tiny Homes as a Solution to Homelessness in Nashville – The Atlantic
NASHVILLE—Around the time that Vanderbilt University released the results of a large-scale study outlining the most effective solutions to homelessness, Pastor Jeff Obafemi Carr was moving into a 60-square-foot house with no bathroom, kitchen, or ev…
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After Suffering Broken Leg In Police Encounter, NBA Player Will Sue The NYPD | ThinkProgress
In September, Thabo Sefolosha was faced with an impossibly difficult choice.
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Matt Kaplan’s ‘Science of the Magical’ Finds Truth in Mythology – The Atlantic
The science journalist Matt Kaplan starts and ends his book The Science of the Magical with quotes from the royal elf Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings. And some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost. History became legend and leg…
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I’m a citizen of the six nation Haudenosaunee, commonly known as the Iroquois confederacy, one of the original peoples of what is called North and South America. We travel the world on our own passports, embracing the full rights extended by the rul…
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REI Will Close For Black Friday – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Outdoor retailer REI announced this week that they will close their stores on the notoriously lucrative Black Friday, encouraging customers to get outside and spend the day with loved ones instead of shopping. What do you think?
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Bill de Blasio Finally, Finally Endorses His Old Boss Hillary Clinton | Vanity Fair
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has a notorious reputation for showing up late to events, so it’s no surprise that he finally arrived at the Endorsing Hillary Clinton Party six months after his fellow New York politicians declared their loyalties…
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Prime-time soap operas are back
Goodbye anti-heros, hello soap operas. Margaret Lyons writes about the increasing popularity of prime-time soap operas like Scandal, Empire, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and House of Cards.
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Paul Ryan, R-Wall Street | The Nation
Paul Ryan began his tenure as the 54th speaker of the House with a well-received speech that placed a great deal of emphasis on the role of the chamber as a representative body.
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Why Horror Games Are More Fun to Watch Than Play | Motherboard
I’m hiding under a desk in an insane asylum, waiting for two hulking, naked twins with machetes to turn the corner so I can run into the other room without being noticed.
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Sandra Bullock to lead an all-female cast in new Ocean’s Eleven movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If time is a flat circle, and everything that ever was will be again ad infinitum, then we should all be able to take this news of a possible soft reboot of Ocean’s Eleven in stride.
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I’m an Only Child Because of China’s One-Child Policy | Motherboard
Growing up in China, I was immersed in the one-child culture. Back then, I wasn’t self-conscious about being an “only child,” because we never really talked about it. When you are born, you are the one and only child of the family, and the same for …
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Windows 10 Will Automatically Download to Your PC Next Year | Motherboard
Windows 10 is so revolutionary that it will soon download itself to your PC. Microsoft early next year plans to make Windows 10 a “Recommended Update” for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
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The Basement’s Basement – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
Silent Hill 2’s architecture, along with its iconic blend of fog and darkness, is its main antagonist.
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Shaker Aamer lands in the UK after release from Guantánamo Bay – video | World news | The Guardian
The plane carrying Shaker Aamer, the last British detainee to be freed from Guantánamo Bay, lands at Biggin Hill airport, south east London. During his 14 years incarceration at the US military jail in Cuba he was never tried for any offence.
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Welles Lettres – bookforum.com / current issue
One day in 1974, Orson Welles, John Huston, and the comedian Rich Little were sitting in a Denny’s near Carefree, Arizona, about to order a meal.
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Amazon Music Adds Support For Android Wear, Offline Playback From SD Cards | TechCrunch
Amazon today rolled out a small, but useful benefit for Amazon Prime members who use the company’s Prime Music streaming service.
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Charlie Higson: ‘The Enemy series is my own zombie survival plan’ | Children’s books | The Guardian
I’ve had the pleasure of reading The Enemy series from the first book all the way to the last and I have to say it’s an extremely entertaining and suspenseful series! How did you manage to come up with so many detailed, interesting characters?
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Cremation of the dead was the norm in the first century AD and the exception by the fourth. No one has explained why, although everyone agrees that it was not, as was long thought, due to the rise of Christianity.
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Free read! The End by Charlie Higson | Children’s books | The Guardian
The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets – crazed and hungry. Sickos swarm the streets of London. Gathered in the centre of the city, they lie in wait. The surv…
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Scientific American MIND Reviews The Brain Electric – Scientific American
In one of the most memorable scenes from the early Star Trek movies, Dr. Leonard McCoy confronts a 20th-century surgeon, who is about to drill holes in Enterprise navigator Pavel Chekov’s head, and gives him a dressing-down, roaring about the era’s …
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PSA: Don’t Pack E-Cigarettes in Your Checked Luggage
If you use e-cigarettes, you’ll now need to put them in your carry-on instead of your checked bag when you travel.
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Wildlife TV shows don’t help conservation, says Autumnwatch presenter | Environment | The Guardian
Wildlife programmes have totally failed to have an impact on conservation, the presenter of some of the UK’s most popular natural history shows has said.
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Will you miss Facebook’s ‘other’ inbox? – BBC News
There has been a mixed reaction to Facebook’s changes to its Messenger service, announced this week. In the next few days it will phase out the Other inbox, where members currently receive messages from people they are not Facebook friends with.
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White House Issues Recommendations on Improving Biosafety at Federal Labs – Scientific American
The White House issued a 187-page report on Thursday designed to improve biosafety following a series of safety breaches at federal laboratories charged with handling dangerous pathogens such as anthrax, bird flu and smallpox.
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Shaker Aamer: the father who spent his son’s life in Guantánamo Bay | World news | The Guardian
Shaker Aamer arrived in Guantánamo Bay 13 years ago on the day his youngest son Faris was born. He had been picked up in Afghanistan in 2001 where the US alleges he was fighting for al-Qaida in the Tora Bora cave complex.
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Rare baby dinosaur fossil airlifted from New Mexico desert wilderness | US news | The Guardian
This was something that had never been seen before – the full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, a plant-eating dinosaur with large horns that once roamed what is now North America tens of millions of years ago.
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We’ve heard about the kooky right wing politicians in the “Freedom Caucus,” but what about the smart budget wonk who is apparently going to reign them in? Now that House Republicans have nominated Paul Ryan to be speaker of the House, he is pledging…
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho cannot promise Champions League spot
Boss Jose Mourinho says he “cannot promise” that Chelsea will qualify for the Champions League next season. The defending Premier League champions sit 15th in the table after winning three league games this season.
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“Have you ever had an experience?” This, Flathead Beacon reporter Molly Priddy learned, is how believers in Bigfoot, the mythical creature who has inspired numerous films and television specials, habitually greet each other.
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Gary Numan collaborators Vowws debut their LP on Dangerous Minds|Dangerous Minds
The Australian/Iranian dark electronic duo Vowws have lived in Sydney, New York, and Los Angeles, and made a splash earlier this year when they released a single featuring vocals by one of their influences, electronic post-punk pioneer Gary Numan.
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Bernie Sanders, weed and upvotes. We are going to the frontpage. Here, take a fictional upvote.
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When anti-abortion activists gathered in Glasgow for a sombre commemoration last night, to mark the 48th anniversary of abortion being legalised in Britain, they probably weren’t expecting to spend the night tucked away behind dozens of feminists an…
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Cute cult cat-collecting app Neko Atsume is finally in English | The Verge
There’s big news today in the world of Neko Atsume, the oddly compelling game that has ensnared countless people around the world in its adorable cat-collecting loop — despite being entirely in Japanese.
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Carnegie bought a university. So did Stanford. Now, it’s Apple’s turn. – Quartz
Apple has more than $205 billion in cash. What should they do with the money? Apple should buy a university and rebuild it from the ground up. In recent years, some private equity firms have bought universities and turned them into for-profits.
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The 1965 Blackout: Hear The Eerie Broadcast When New York Went Dark – Flashbak
“Lindbergh didn’t know it, but when he was describing flying across the Atlantic he was actually describing doing a disk-jockey show.
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skeleton war is coming 1 updoot = 1 calcium : ledootgeneration
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Chocolate Loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/rxqmtac6QL https://t.co/jzSMi8Ng63
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My cat gets it. : firstworldanarchists
My cat gets it. via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/veJQhAiDOj https://t.co/CZnGEvIow8
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Mating walking sticks (Phasmatodea) [1632×1224] [OC] : AnimalPorn
Mating walking sticks (Phasmatodea) [1632×1224] [OC] via /r/AnimalPorn https://t.co/YlDt1K7EES https://t.co/LlD2IgWjLm
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Deaf Dog nearly hit by car, gets kicked by a man. – GIF on Imgur
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Runaway JLENS balloon shot 100 times by Pennsylvania Police | Ars Technica
The wayward JLENS aerostat, which left a trail of power outages caused by the 6,000 feet of cable it dragged for over 160 miles on Wednesday, was hit by a barrage of shotgun fire to remove its remaining helium.
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Tennessee manhunt ends as fugitive accused of shooting officer is killed | US news | The Guardian
A fugitive accused of shooting a Tennessee police officer and firing at a Kentucky trooper was killed in a shootout with authorities early on Friday, ending a nearly weeklong manhunt.
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Charity with US Characteristics: how our oligarchs buy their way out of criticism / Boing Boing
The Koch brothers give a lot of money to universities, but on the condition that they get to approve the economics faculty. They give to public television, but only if they can cancel the airing of documentaries on climate change. They’re not the on…
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Essar Oil fined £500k for Cheshire pollution | Environment | The Guardian
An oil company has been fined nearly half a million pounds for two pollution incidents in Cheshire.
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Seals Use Their Whiskers to See and Hear – The Atlantic
If you were to blindfold a harbor seal, give a fish a 30-second head start, and then let the seal start swimming—well, things would not end well for that fish. Take the blindfold off and throw a pair of noise-canceling headphones on the seal, and th…
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American Citizen Siamak Namazi Reportedly Arrested in Iran – The Atlantic
Iranian officials have reportedly arrested a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, multiple news organizations are reporting, citing family members and friends of Siamak Namazi.
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Inside the sprawling Peabody opera house, a stream of St Louis Rams fans made their impassioned cases on Tuesday that it was worth a $1bn-plus investment to build a new publicly subsidized stadium and keep their NFL team in town.
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On Friday, five years after the Fair Sentencing Act drastically reduced the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine users, Hillary Clinton will propose a more radical reform: eliminating the sentencing discrepancies altogethe…
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Just Harrison Ford Talking Star Wars While Dressed as a Hot Dog, No Biggie
A surprisingly game Harrison Ford stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss Star Wars and the upcoming new installment. Notably, he was in a cheap hot dog Halloween costume at the time, because sometimes life truly is worth living.
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Israeli police kill Palestinian after alleged attack – Al Jazeera English
Israeli police have killed a Palestinian youth and critically wounded another at a West Bank checkpoint after an alleged stabbing attack.
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Can Ariana Grande’s New Single “Focus” Unseat Adele at the Top of the Charts? | Vanity Fair
On any other week, on any other Friday, a new, heavily-hyped single from Ariana Grande—even if it were just, like, three minutes of Grande reading spam e-mails—would have no trouble ascending immediately to the top of the iTunes chart.
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The Beauty and Total Illegibility of Extreme Metal Logos | WIRED
Caption: Mark Riddick gave us his picks for the logos that set the bar for metal bands in the 1980s and ’90s. Slayer’s logo from its first album is a classic thrash metal aesthetic. Mark Riddick/Logos From Hell
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What Happens to Your Body after You Die? – Scientific American
Whatever your beliefs, most people would agree that the body left behind when we depart this mortal coil is just a heap of bones and flesh.
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Surreal body art that will give you the creeps!|Dangerous Minds
Hikaru Cho is the artist responsible for the surrealist body art I’m bringing to you today. To date, Cho’s mind-altering art has been featured in ad campaigns for Amnesty International and tech giant Samsung.
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More than 50 Indian historians have detailed their collective “anguish” at the “highly vitiated atmosphere prevailing in the country”, just weeks after dozens of Indian writers returned their literary awards in protest over what they called India’s …
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Fully poseable, articulated Michaelangelo’s David action-figure / Boing Boing
It’s been nearly a decade since a single thumbnail image of Michaelangelo’s David’s willie caused a censorware company founded by a registered sex-offender to block Boing Boing for all its clients as a “nudity” site. This post will probably blow the…
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North Korea’s Workers’ Party to hold first congress for 35 years – BBC News
North Korea’s Workers’ Party is to hold its first congress in 35 years, it has been announced. The meeting will “further strengthen the party… and enhance its leading role”, an official announcement said.
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Indigenous actor Jack Charles ‘refused taxi twice in three days’ – BBC News
Indigenous Australian actor “Uncle” Jack Charles says he has been refused taxi rides two times in three days. Mr Charles’ manager, Patrice Capogreco, said the actor may take legal action against the drivers and taxi company.
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How McDonald’s is getting to kids while they’re at school – The Washington Post
Two years ago, a 280-pound teacher in Iowa decided he would eat only food from McDonald’s for six months. But unlike in the infamous documentary “Super Size Me,” the goal wasn’t to see how much weight he would gain. It was to see how much he could l…
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The minute you walk out the gates the second sentence begins, goes an adage of ex-cons that will likely spread to many of the 6,000 inmates with drug convictions set for early release this weekend, out into an alien world that will largely leave the…
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A football field in Washington state has become more than a battleground for athletes as the suspension of an assistant coach for praying at midfield after games divided people around the country over the religious rights of school employees.
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Try Out a Magnetic Smartphone Dash Mount For $4
It didn’t take long for Magnetic smartphone vent mounts to join our bestsellers club, and it’s easy to see why. They’re essentially invisible when your phone is attached, and there’s just something cool about slapping your phone onto your dashboard,…
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Ash spews from Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico – BBC News
Mexico`s Popocatepetl volcano has erupted spewing ash and black smoke into the sky. The volcano is located 50 miles (80 km) southeast of the capital, Mexico City.
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A Timeline of the Endless Delays to the Public Inquiry Into the Iraq War | VICE | United Kingdom
So: after six years, four months and around £10 million of taxpayer’s cash, a vague timetable for the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry – the “independent investigation” into the Iraq War fuck-up – has finally been announced for summer next year.
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Haunted House Owners Were Once Legally Barred from Arguing Ghosts Aren’t Real | Motherboard
The legal system is practically infested with cases about people who buy houses full of termites and find out too late. These are run-of-the-mill lawsuits that can turn on the wording of the contract and the jurisdiction the house was sold in. Stamb…
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Five former prisoners speak about their impressions of how the world has changed since their time inside and how it affects them. Clinton Thomas says the world has sped up considerably since he was jailed in 1991, emphasising how cellphones and digi…
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Why George Takei Would Like to Be Reincarnated as a Gay Couple’s Dog | Vanity Fair
What is your idea of perfect happiness? I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close. What is your greatest fear? There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dr…
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Jessica Jones Could Include A Surprising Cameo From Another Marvel Hero
The future Transformers films will maintain one key element of the previous films. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 may have cast a new superhero. You might have to wait a bit longer than usual to see new Game of Thrones. Plus, high-res images from Su…
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BBC Sport – Jurgen Klopp says Jose Mourinho can be a ‘nice guy’
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says Jose Mourinho can be a “nice guy”, so long as you’re not a referee or journalist.
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‘We are the Robots’: German elementary school kids do Kraftwerk|Dangerous Minds
OK. We’re pretty sure that this is the cutest kid-related thing you’ll see all day. Students at Lemmchen elementary school in Mainz, near Frankfurt, Germany perform Kraftwerk’s classic “Die Roboter,” complete with adorable cardboard robot costumes.
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The Ancient Greeks Sacrificed Ugly People | Atlas Obscura
An 1864 painting of the Acropolis in Athens, where the pharmakos ritual became an annual event. (Photo: Public domain/WikiCommons)
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It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars – Quartz
Our 12-year-old daughter who, like us, is a big fan of The Martian by Andy Weir, said, “I can’t stand that people think we’re all going to live on Mars after we destroy our own planet. Even after we’ve made the Earth too hot and polluted for humans,…
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What It Took to Make the Most Complicated Watch Ever – Bloomberg Business
A few weeks ago, Vacheron Constantin announced that it had made the most complicated mechanical watch ever.
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Avoid Uber’s Surge Pricing by Waiting a Few Minutes
When demand is high, Uber uses surge pricing, which charges extra for a ride to your destination. But it’s easy to avoid this higher price, and now there’s research to prove it. Researchers at Northwestern University wanted to check out the algorith…
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Angela Carter’s reputation has had a switchback ride. She went, as she put it, from being “a very promising young writer” in the 60s to being “completely ignored in two novels”.
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Researchers Seek Cancer Clues from Pet Dogs – Scientific American
Imagine a 60-year-old man recuperating at home after prostate cancer surgery, drawing comfort from the companionship of the aged Golden Retriever at his side.
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Jeb Quits Race with “Mission Accomplished” Banner – The New Yorker
MIAMI (The Borowitz Report)—Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced that he was dropping out of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, while standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner draped over the façade of his campaign…
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This clip of the Wayne’s World VCR game is comedy gold · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Much has been made about the general silliness of VCR games, because—let’s face it—they were pretty dumb. You’d sit at home in front of the TV and wait for a videocassette to tell you what to do in a board game, rather than just rolling a die or spi…
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Laura Stevenson goes for a swim in the video for “Jellyfish” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
On her fourth album, Cocksure, Laura Stevenson’s songs began showing a fondness for bombast.
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Nona Hendryx Talks to Randall Pinkston | Al Jazeera America
Randall Pinkston: Your exhibition, “Transformation: The Beautiful Cruelty of Time and Distance” — what does it mean? Nona Hendryx: Well, “transformation” has been a word that’s been associated with me for a long time. From the first being “Transform…
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Becky Watts trial: Accused ‘throttled girlfriend Shauna Hoare’ – BBC News
The man accused of murdering Becky Watts once strangled his girlfriend leaving her “panicked and scared”, the trial is told. Shauna Hoare told the court Nathan Matthews also once stabbed himself with a fork in anger and dragged her by the hair acros…
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The Thirty Meter Telescope and a Fight for Hawaii’s Future – The Atlantic
This story begins with an earth-cracking volcanic eruption. One million years ago, great ribbons of lava poured out of the sea floor, piled on top of one another, and eventually grew into the mountain that is now called Mauna Kea.
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Morning Digest: As Edwards weathers the storm, our Louisiana rating moves to ‘Lean Republican’
• LA-Gov: It wasn’t long ago that David Vitter was the undisputed frontrunner to become Louisiana’s next governor, sure to dominate his rivals—Republican and Democrat alike—in both the primary and the runoff.
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Tom Hardy Really Did Wrestle The Revenant Director On Set | Vanity Fair
The Revenant won’t hit theaters for several months, but it’s already becoming famous for what happened behind the scenes. A production moved to Argentina when it ran out of snow. Star Leonardo DiCaprio sleeping in animal carcasses.
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These 10,000-Year-Old Cave Lion Cubs Were Preserved with Fur and Skin Intact | Motherboard
The frozen carcasses of two cave lion cubs unearthed in Siberia are the “the best preserved ever seen in the world,” reports the Siberian Times. Though these cubs died at least 10,000 years ago, their skin and fur have barely decayed thanks to their…
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If We Want Humane AI, It Has to Understand All Humans | WIRED
The first picture flashes on the screen. “A man is standing next to an elephant,” a robotic voice intones. Another picture appears. “A person sitting at a table with a cake.” Those descriptions are obvious enough to a person.
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Recycle Your Loved Ones With Eco-Friendly Funerals – Bloomberg Business
Recently you may have heard about two units available in Manhattan for about $17,500 a square foot—a record-breaking price for real estate in the borough.
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Tor launches anti-censorship Messenger service – BBC News
Tor Messenger allows users to chat over the Tor (The Onion Router) network in a way which hides the location of participants. It means that the contents of messages will only be visible to the participants.
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Polish court rejects US request to extradite Roman Polanski | Film | The Guardian
A Polish court has rejected a US request for the extradition of film director Roman Polanski over his child sex crime conviction. “[Polanski’s] extradition is inadmissible” said Judge Dariusz Mazur at the district court in the southern city of Krako…
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Indiegogo criticised for helping climate deniers crowdfund money | Environment | The Guardian
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo has been criticised for carrying a campaign raising money for the Heartland Institute, a thinktank that casts doubt on climate science, to run a rival conference alongside a landmark UN summit in Paris in December.
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Exxon Mobil profits hit by low oil prices – BBC News
Low oil prices are still hitting profits at the world’s largest quoted oil company, Exxon Mobil. It reported three-month profits of $4.24bn (£2.76bn), down 47% from the same period last year.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
We’ll also round out the week with a Michigan politics update from Rosalyn MacGregor! Listen LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET!
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First map of clouds on an exoplanet | Ars Technica
Of the 2,000-plus planets discovered orbiting alien stars, only one has been found to have clouds. The planet, Kepler-7b, is one of the earliest exoplanets discovered. If you were hoping the clouds could be a sign of life, you’re likely to be disapp…
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Valeant cuts ties with “phantom” pharmacy Philidor – BBC News
Drug maker Valeant announced it will cut ties with the speciality pharmacy it is accused of using to fake sales. The company’s share price has dropped 32% in the two weeks following accusations of an inappropriate relationship the pharmacy Philidor.
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Living In Fear: One Family’s Struggle To Survive In The Occupied West Bank | ThinkProgress
HEBRON, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Mofid Sharabati shifted uncomfortably on the edge of his bed, having offered all other available seats to the cadre of journalists sprawled across his tiny living room.
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Germany migrant boy murder: Suspect admits to earlier killing – BBC News
Prosecutors in Berlin say the man suspected of murdering a four-year-old migrant boy has admitted killing another young boy, Elias, missing from his home in Potsdam since July. The suspect, named only as Silvio S, was arrested on Thursday. The body …
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Dolphins suspected in whale attack off Skye – BBC News
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Marine wildlife experts believe dolphins attacked a young pilot whale which was found stranded on a beach in Skye. Vets had to put down the badly injured three-year-old female calf, which was discovered on Tuesday at Dunvegan. -
Syria talks: News briefing from Vienna – BBC News
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gives a news briefing from talks on the Syria conflict in Vienna, Austria. The negotiations are bringing together all foreign powers backing the rival sides in Syria’s civil war, with Iran involved in the diplo…
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A video has gone viral of a teenage girl dropping the beat dancing with ‘the heat’. A Washington DC police officer dispersed a crowd of fighting teenagers by challenging one of them to a dance off in the street.
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Keep Your Screens Off Until You’ve Finished Your Morning Routine
When you first wake up in the morning, do you check your phone? If so, you might be used to having your day hijacked before you get started. Change this by making it the last thing you check.
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Keira Knightley’s Broadway tragedy causes ‘giggles’ – BBC News
Keira Knightley’s Broadway debut as Therese Raquin has been met with a mix of critics’ bemusement and praise. Emile Zola’s story of adultery and murder is notoriously dark and tempestuous but many critics seem to have suffered an attack of hilarity.
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New lithium-air battery design shows promise – BBC News
Lithium-air cells can store energy much more densely than today’s lithium-ion batteries, making them particularly promising for electric cars. The design, published in Science, uses a spongy graphene electrode and a new chemical reaction to drive th…
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Virgin Galactic’s Road to Recovery After Fatal SpaceShipTwo Crash
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo during an April 2013 powered test flight. The ship broke apart during a test flight in October 2014.
Virgin Galactic on Road to Recovery After Fatal SpaceShipTwo Crash https://t.co/jg8OZPUVUb
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