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Michelin Ballymena tyre factory to close in 2018 – BBC News
The Michelin tyre factory in Ballymena, County Antrim, is to close in 2018 with the loss of 860 jobs. The factory has been operating in the town since 1969.
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NASA to Unveil New Findings About Mars’ Atmosphere Thursday
NASA will reveal new results about the atmosphere of Mars this Thursday (Nov. 5), and you can watch the action live. The space agency is hosting a news conference on Thursday at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) to “announce new findings on [the] fate of Mars’ …
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Lit Up: Introducing Our Theme Month for November | Motherboard
Last month I went to a small conference in New York City called Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics. It was a series of academic talks largely about the mental health benefits of tripping face.
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Every damn time… via /r/cats https://t.co/Phes76vVP8 https://t.co/SqoihKhBO6
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Took this on my way home today (Amsterdam, NL) : FoggyPics
Took this on my way home today (Amsterdam, NL) via /r/FoggyPics https://t.co/zDfZ2xktWs https://t.co/ylH0yQEC7z
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Rubio’s Immigration Fail: A Senate Record of Quitting, Not Leading
In last week’s debate, Sen. Marco Rubio had a point. He’s not the first presidential candidate to miss Senate votes. It’s impossible to run for president and have a perfect attendance record. What Rubio really missed in the Senate was the chance to …
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Cus D’Amato, who guided the 21-year-old Floyd Patterson to the world heavyweight title in 1956 as the youngest ever champion to that point by putting in him with old Archie Moore, often said matchmaking was about minimising risk.
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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This is another beautiful, touching and fascinating read by the author who wrote The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. I read The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas a few years ago, and it was one book which I really cherished. John Boyne is a truly amazing autho…
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How to Stop Swearing so Damn Much
Swearing can be fun, or help us vent our anger, pain, or frustration. But it’s not always appropriate, and if your swearing is a bit of a bad habit, it’s not too hard to stop.
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I didn’t know that Adam Pally was slated for a Mindy Project guest spot, so I was naturally excited to view a whole new episode with him in it, especially considering how well this show has been doing this season.
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Pressure grows on Paul Ryan to end ‘wasteful’ Planned Parenthood inquiry | US news | The Guardian
Several top Democrats are pouncing on Paul Ryan’s promise of “wiping the slate clean” with demands that the new House Speaker disband the Republicans’ special investigation into Planned Parenthood.
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25 years of IMDb, the world’s biggest online movie database | VentureBeat | Media | by Paul Sawers
The year 2015 heralded a number of notable Internet milestones — the humble .com domain name reached 30 years of age, while both eBay and Amazon reached the grand old age of 20.
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Raspberry Pi Foundation And U.K.’s Code Club Merge For Global Push To Get Kids Coding | TechCrunch
Make way for ‘Pi Club’ (not its real name): The not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, makers of the wildly popular $35 Raspberry Pi microprocessor, and the U.K.
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The only one mum allows to sit in our formal dining room. : cats
The only one mum allows to sit in our formal dining room. via /r/cats https://t.co/0Y5NJISDoy https://t.co/JKP0uJJVXf
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Prince – Uptown https://t.co/oMFXaSPfAL”
Prince – Uptown https://t.co/oMFXaSPfAL
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Nope, Just Detroit via /r/funny https://t.co/I74W21BoQT https://t.co/93huypGVI5
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Adictik Lets You Create Ads For Your Favourite Brands | TechCrunch
In a world where products are increasingly bought or worn like a badge of honour — Android versus iPhone, anyone? — it could be said that you are what you advertise. One startup hoping to cash in on the steadfastness of brand loyalty is Barcelona-ba…
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LeBron reaches NBA landmark in Cavaliers’ win – Al Jazeera English
LeBron James scored 22 points to become the youngest player in NBA history to surpass 25,000 points in Cleveland’s 107-100 win over Philadelphia. The 30-year-old James, 20th on the all-time scoring list, needed 21 points at the beginning of the nigh…
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Company behind the Keystone XL pipeline plots course around Obama | The Verge
Facing rejection from the State Department, TransCanada seeks to delay decision on controversial pipeline until after the 2016 election (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) TransCanada, the company looking to build the Keystone XL oil pip
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Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
This cartoon is from a colour section in the book, which highlights the cat’s adventure in the vets and this was fun to do, as it gave me a chance to add colour to the characters and backgrounds.
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Letter decries ‘atrocious’ prison conditions in Egypt – Al Jazeera English
A letter from the sister of an imprisoned Egyptian activist, which describes the gruelling conditions inside one of the country’s dangerously overcrowded prisons, has shed new light on the appalling state of Egypt’s justice system.
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Taylor stitches up England’s dominance in Sharjah – Al Jazeera English
James Taylor hit a maiden half-century in his comeback match to bolster England to 222-4 at stumps on the second day of the third Test against Pakistan in Sharjah.
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Indian Uber driver gets life in prison for Delhi rape – Al Jazeera English
Driver Shiv Kumar Yadav, 32, “will serve regressive imprisonment, which shall mean imprisonment until natural death,” judge Kaveri Baweja ruled on Tuesday.
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Amazon opens physical bookshop in Seattle – BBC News
Amazon is opening a bookshop in Seattle in a move it described as a “physical extension” of its business. It will stock the most popular books from Amazon.com, and the prices will be the same as those offered on the website.
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Chile miners sue lawyer for fraud over underground ordeal – BBC News
Nine of the 33 miners who in 2010 were trapped by a rockfall in a mine in Chile for 69 days before being rescued are suing their lawyers. The group accuses the lawyers of cheating them out of money.
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My wife took this photo. She lacks confidence, but I know she has an amazing talent. – Imgur
My wife took this photo. She lacks confidence, but I know she has an amazing talent. https://t.co/RokaAmqUXW https://t.co/TIuyL3GMMO
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Debate over chimpanzee ‘accent’ study – BBC News
It was based on a group of chimps that moved from a Dutch safari park to Edinburgh Zoo. Now, three researchers have written to the journal Current Biology suggesting the results don’t stack up.
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My wife took this photo. She lacks confidence, but I know she has an amazing talent. – Imgur
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TransCanada tries desperate move to save Keystone XL pipeline | Grist
As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis.
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AK party is back on stage with force and responsibility – Al Jazeera English
Unlike the expectations, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development (AK party) won a landslide victory in the November 1 election. It increased its votes by approximately 9 percent, hence significantly surpassing even its pre-June 7 election standin…
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How Democrats Suppress The Vote | FiveThirtyEight
In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.
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This Canadian Soldier Killed His Wife — And He Blames PTSD | VICE News
Howard Richmond says that when he sprang from his hiding place, knife in hand, and grabbed his wife, he lost control.
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US extends passport fast-track scheme to UK citizens | UK news | The Guardian
The United States is giving British citizens the chance to bypass long airport immigration queues – if they agree to an extensive vetting procedure and are prepared to pay for it.
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Egypt Dismisses ISIL ‘Propoganda’ over Jet Crash | Al Jazeera America
Egypt’s president has dismissed as “propaganda” claims that ISIL fighters could have downed a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula, as U.S. defense officials reportedly look towards either a bomb or a fuel tank explosion as being repsonsib…
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A New Report Shows How Often American Cops Sexually Assault Civilians | VICE | United Kingdom
By now, most Americans know the country has a glaring problem with police brutality and excessive force, especially against people of color. Virtually every week, a new video emerges of an unarmed black person being roughed up by cops under question…
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Anonymous Says It Just Outed a Bunch of Members of the Ku Klux Klan | VICE | United Kingdom
In the latest move in a ongoing feud between two of America’s most famous masked groups, the online hacktivist collective Anonymous announced plans to reveal the identities of 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan last week.
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Watch an Uber Driver Pepper-Spray a Drunk Passenger in Self-Defense | VICE | United Kingdom
When Uber driver Edward Caban accepted a fare in Newport Beach from rider Benjamin Golden Friday night, chances are he didn’t know it would end with a few quick punches upside his head, a couple violent tugs of his hair, and an attempt to slam his h…
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This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. Anyone hoping notorious killer Luka Magnotta is rotting in a cell would be sorely disappointed to read his letters to friends, which describe prison as a “university setting” complete with gourmet foo…
Notorious Canadian Killer Luka Magnotta Describes Sports, Suntanning and Great Food in Prison https://t.co/M7uKQzgWDX -
Salt, sugar and fat are incredibly cheap, send our brains into overdrive and leave us coming back for more, so it’s no surprise that food corporations pack their products with them.
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ROME — The Vatican announced Monday that two members of a commission set up by Pope Francis to study financial operations at the Holy See had been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents to journalists.
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Tech the Mirror via /r/InterestingGifs https://t.co/GKK2a4eOgq https://t.co/bOm82h2Wu8
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Savage via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/gAIN4UMvZy https://t.co/pZMWOuILQJ
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Why I love Gary Larson. : funny
Why I love Gary Larson. via /r/funny https://t.co/rSQBZ4gPTs https://t.co/h9eWcd65gy
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Singapore Grand Prix: British intruder Dhokia jailed – BBC News
A British national who walked onto the track during the Singapore Grand Prix in September has been sentenced to six weeks in jail by a local court.Yogvitam Pravin Dhokia, 27, breached security fences and wandered onto the circuit, taking photographs…
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How Long Ballots Affect Voter Behavior in Local and State Elections – The Atlantic
On November 3, voters at polling stations across the country cast their ballots in state and local contests. In addition to elections for offices such as school boards and city councilor, state and local ballot measures will also be decided.
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Inspector Rebus: the birth of a real heavyweight | Books | The Guardian
When asked what he would change about Knots and Crosses, Ian Rankin said: “Everything.” His complaints (made to James Naughtie on BBC Radio 4) were mainly about the problems that aspects of the book caused him later on in the series.
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Ben Sasse’s Plan to Save the Senate – The Atlantic
Almost exactly a year ago, just after the 2014 elections, the Washington Post sized up the motley crew of newly elected senators—10 Republicans and one Democrat—and tried to figure out what roles they would play once they arrived in the Capitol.
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It’s Election Day in America. Nope, sorry—it’s not 2016 yet, but just because it’s an odd-numbered year doesn’t mean there’s not an election.
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Congress Dares to Tweak Obamacare – The Atlantic
For nearly the entirety of its five-year existence, the Affordable Care Act has been, in the eyes of most Republicans, the unfixable law. Repeal was the goal; gutting it was the only acceptable alternative.
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If Ohio Bans Gerrymandering Today, There Could be Hope for American Democracy | The Nation
American democracy is in sorry shape–battered on all sides by big money, restrictions on voting and vapid media that trivializes rather than enlightens. But Robert M.
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Did a Dinosaur Break the Sound Barrier before We Did? – Scientific American
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‘The Nation’ Launches “Asking for a Friend,” Advice Column for the Left | The Nation
– The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine of politics and culture, today launched its first-ever advice column, “Asking for a Friend,” by columnist and contributing editor Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz).
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November 3, 1986: The Iran-Contra Weapons-for-Hostages Deal Is Exposed | The Nation
Ad Policy Skip to content Facebook Twitter Sign Up It only gradually became clear to The Nation and others how the Iran-Contra scandal, which burst into the open on this day in 1986, represented an even more egregious violation of the law than other…
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Drone Company Misled Military into Buying UAVs that Were Basically Toys: Lawsuit | Motherboard
A breach-of-contract squabble has spiraled into broader allegations of misconduct against a drone manufacturer with millions of dollars worth of US military contracts.
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Wingnuts Discuss the Right to Bear Arms | The Nation
Support independent cartooning: join Sparky’s List—and don’t forget to visit TT’s Emporium of Fun, featuring the new book and plush Sparky!
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Asking for a Friend: Is It Me or Is It Capitalism? | The Nation
Dear Liza, Is my depression individual or political?—Depressed or Oppressed Dear Depressed, Let’s not draw too sharp a distinction.
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Laser eyes! Miss mochi and the Gizzy! : cats
Laser eyes! Miss mochi and the Gizzy! via /r/cats https://t.co/zBIXc3y5Cc https://t.co/xLljTguQ8L
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Car shredder via /r/gifs https://t.co/OqErfrd1e9 https://t.co/x8KPlzPlTW
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Bentley’s emotion-reading app tells unfeeling billionaires which car to buy | The Verge
Sometimes, when you are so very, very rich, it’s difficult to have normal human emotions like wanting to buy a $250,000 car.
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Lumo Raises $10 Million Series B, Starts Building Wearables Partnerships | TechCrunch
Right off the launch of Lumo Run, Lumo Bodytech, a smart sensors and software platform, has raised $10 million in Series B financing. Lumo came onto the scene a few years back with Lumo Lift, a wearable device that buzzed users when they slouched to…
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The Guns the NRA Doesn’t Want Americans to Get | Mother Jones
One success of gun-rights activists over the past decade has been their campaign to block the advent of smart guns, firearms that use biometric and other sensor technologies to prevent them from being fired by anyone other than their owners.
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What next for the Egyptian revolution? – Khaled Fahmy – Aeon
This is an historical perspective on the Arab Spring – particularly in Egypt, but generalisable to some extent to other Arab countries – from a historian by education and practice.
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Here Are 6 Things You Should Care About in Today’s State Elections | Mother Jones
As John Oliver reminded viewers this week, the much-hyped presidential election may still be 12 months away but important state and local elections are on Tuesday.
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has referenced Dr. Seuss to get her point across during oral arguments. Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday drew an analogy to his grandson making excuses to avoid doing homework. Rhetorical devices take all kinds of f…
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As humans warm the planet through the emission of heat-trapping gases, we expect weather to change. Some ways it has changed are clear and measurable. For instance, heat waves and droughts are setting in faster and are more severe.
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Ben Carson on Americans: “Many of Them Are Stupid.” | Mother Jones
When retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, the current GOP 2016 front-runner, campaigns, he routinely pitches “common sense solutions from We the People.
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UK: Bake-offs, hijabs, and attacks against Muslim women – Al Jazeera English
London, United Kingdom – Twenty-three-year-old Mariah Idrissi had no idea she would almost overnight become the face of hijab-wearing women in the UK.
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Bodies on the line: why it’s so tough to play defense in the NHL | Sport | The Guardian
Defensemen of a certain age in the NHL drop off a cliff. There are some extreme outliers, but for the most part, deals for defensemen over 30 don’t tend to work out. That hasn’t stopped even the most heralded general managers for paying for past per…
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India Uber driver given life term for Delhi rape – BBC News
An Indian court has sentenced an Uber taxi driver to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of raping a female passenger last year in Delhi. Shiv Kumar Yadav was also convicted of criminal intimidation and kidnapping.
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Chef Announces Key Acquisition And New Compliance Automation Tool | TechCrunch
Chef has been helping companies configure, manage and automate their software and infrastructure for some time. Today it made several announcements to bring that same level of automation to compliance.
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Amazon begins a new chapter with opening of first physical bookstore | Technology | The Guardian
Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore, 20 years after the world’s biggest online retailer started selling publications on the internet. The company will unveil a shop called Amazon Books at University Village in Seattle, its home city, on T…
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Court orders Bill Cosby deposition in Dickinson case – BBC News
Bill Cosby and his former lawyer have been ordered to give a sworn out-of-court testimony in the defamation case brought by Janice Dickinson. The ex-supermodel alleged that they falsely called her a liar after she claimed the comedian sexually assau…
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Turkey detains 35 supporters of Erdogan’s foe, Gulen – BBC News
Turkish police have arrested 35 people suspected of links to an exiled cleric accused by the authorities of seeking to overthrow the government. The Turkish government has accused cleric Fethullah Gulen, the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement, …
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The best goals of the week: Suárez, Pogba, Kagawa, Dempsey and Tunnicliffe | Football | The Guardian
4-0 up by half-time! Exquisite team goal from @RyanTunnicliffe & @FulhamFC. See this and much more at 9pm. https://t.co/a9pyXWU4SP
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My daughter telling me about her boyfriend in Kindergarten : AdviceAnimals
My daughter telling me about her boyfriend in Kindergarten via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/WhRX5IOJSn https://t.co/8uhqeuTFRv
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Ohio Votes on Whether to Legalize Marijuana | Al Jazeera America
Ohio could become the next state to legalize marijuana after voters cast ballots Tuesday on an initiative licensing 10 businesses, which would become the only legal commercial growers in the state.
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Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century / Boing Boing
James Bridle’s new essay (adapted from a speech at the Through Post-Atomic Eyes event in Toronto last month) draws a connection between the terror of life in the nuclear shadow and the days we live in now, when we know that huge privacy disasters ar…
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Forbes family sues Hong Kong investors over stake sale – BBC News
The family behind Forbes Media is suing its Hong Kong investors for an alleged breach of payment on the stake they bought in the media firm last year. In a lawsuit, the family has alleged Integrated Whale Media Investments (IWM) breached its purchas…
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A Wild Dog Appears in the Tall Grass : gif
A Wild Dog Appears in the Tall Grass via /r/gif https://t.co/v0KNsPLqRs https://t.co/Soni183FSp
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Citizen Maths: free/open adult math education for practical real-world numeracy / Boing Boing
Without scientific understanding, we don’t run the government, the government runs us” -Carl Sagan, in his final interview.
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V&A Museum turns down Margaret Thatcher wardrobe – BBC News
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has turned down the chance to exhibit former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s clothes. Lady Thatcher’s family offered the contents of her wardrobe to the V&A.
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Twickenham to stage three American football games over next three years | Sport | The Guardian
The NFL’s expansion into London is continuing after it reached an agreement for Twickenham to stage three regular-season American football games over the next three years.
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The eco guide to hoverboards | Lucy Siegle | Environment | The Guardian
Ever since blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan was fined 5s in 1842 for injuring a girl on the bike he is said to have invented, history and bylaws have been unkind to new forms of personal transport.
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Primark owner ABF reports fall in profits – BBC News
Annual profits at Primark owner Associated British Foods have fallen by 30% following falls in food prices and significant currency movements. Pre-tax profit was £717m for the year to 12 September, down from £1.02bn a year earlier, while group reven…
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“Star Trek,” that venerable outer-space adventure, is boldly going where it’s been before, but hasn’t been seen in more than a decade: back to television.
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The cities that are cleaning up their act | Public Leaders Network | The Guardian
There is no better example of a city turning things around – and quickly, said Seth Schultz, director of research, measurement and planning at C40 Cities. “It was not long ago that Mexico City held the dubious distinction of [being] the city with th…
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Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician who championed US invasion, dies – BBC News
Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician most associated with persuading the US to invade in 2003, has died aged 71. Officials said he was found dead at his home in Baghdad in his bed, apparently having suffered a heart attack.
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A few minutes after the credits have rolled and the house lights have come up at the conclusion of a screening of HBO Sports’ film, Kareem: Minority of One, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar walked up on stage in front of a still-cheering audience.
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Amateur footage of Yemen flooding as cyclone hits – BBC News
A rare tropical cyclone is bearing down on the Yemeni mainland bringing hurricane-force winds, heavy rain and powerful waves.Photos and videos posted online showed water pouring through the streets in costal cities.Ahmed Al Junaidi shot this video i…
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‘AirBnB law’: San Francisco residents vote on short-term rent limits – BBC News
The accommodation website AirBnB has shaken up the global travel industry, but in its home town of San Francisco it has a fight on its hands.
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Bacteria infected baby dies at Glasgow super hospital – BBC News
A baby has died at Scotland newest children’s hospital after becoming infected with a harmful bacteria that has also affected five other infants.The baby died in Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children at the weekend after contracting serratia marcescen…
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[OS] Underwater Buddha – Bali [1100X806] : AbandonedPorn
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Tidepools in Santa Cruz, CA [OC] [3212×2860] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/7vqW7QWbQU https://t.co/YboaGJSFro
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Nature and technology are merging. What does that mean for sustainability? | Grist
This pilot project will power 20,000 homes with renewable energy. As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis.
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Save 96% and learn how to become a pro web developer with OSTraining / Boing Boing
With instruction from experts in their fields and unlimited access to an enormous library of trainings, you’ll learn to build and launch amazing websites using open source platforms like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
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ByeBuy Raises €1M To Make It Easier To Switch Gadgets | TechCrunch
German startup ByeBuy, which offers a pay-as-you-go and on-demand alternative to gadget ownership, has raised a €1 million seed round.
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Joan Aiken (famed for writing children’s classics including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase) wrote this story for her 10-year-old brother when she was 17, or in fact told it to him chapter by chapter and then wrote it down in an old exercise book.
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Your Toothpaste Is Ruining Your Toothbrush | Motherboard
It’s common wisdom that you should replace your toothbrush every few months or so. But the reason isn’t so much that it gets ragged and crooked, but rather because toothpaste actually breaks down all the hook-like plastic on the bristles to a near-u…
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Europe’s Largest Data Observatory Turns Big Data into Big Images | Motherboard
Humans are pretty visual creatures. Since caveman times, we’ve scrawled stone walls with pictographs and paintings both to reflect and to understand our changing times. Fast-forward several centuries, and we’re doing something similar with Big Data.
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Asian Americans Lag in Voter Registration | Al Jazeera America
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the Asian American vote and the 2016 elections. Part one looks at how Asian Americans are a swing vote that both Republicans and Democrats have been slow to attract.
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Turkish police detain ‘Gulenists’ after AKP poll win – Al Jazeera English
Turkish police detained at least 35 people as part of a probe into alleged supporters of a US-based cleric who is accused of a plot against the Turkish president, local media reported.
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The Paris Climate Conference: Last Chance for Planet Earth? | The Nation
“Everything is coming together as everything is coming apart.” So said Jamie Henn, strategy and communications director at 350.
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Myanmar’s punk rockers challenge anti-Muslim rhetoric – Al Jazeera English
Yangon, Myanmar – A riotous crowd gathered before a throbbing stage as loud music blared from speakers and sweaty musicians jammed to an eager beat. Young people in black studded leather jackets and spiky multicoloured hair hurled themselves into th…
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Tax authorities raid German football federation – Al Jazeera English
Tax authorities have raided the headquarters of the German Football Federation (DFB) in an investigation linked to 2006 World Cup payments, prosecutors said.
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Holanagadde – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holanagadde is a village in the Uttara Kannada district of the state of Karnataka, India. It is on the west coast beach of the Arabian sea. The main communities that live in the village are havyakas, namdharis, harikanths, patgars with a few Christi…
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Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1 [OST] – Full album 2014 – YouTube
Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1 [OST] ———————–HAVE A GOOD TIME ————————“ＳＵＢＣＲＩＢＥＲ” – “ＬＩＫＥ” – “ＣＯＭＭＥＮＴ”Đã xuất bản vào 29-07-201400:00 Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Swede02:52 Go All The Way – Raspberries06:1…
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Polar bears have transparent fur that only LOOKS white. : Awwducational
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“Cold Way” Kassel, Germany. (c) Ronny Engelmann [1000×667 via tumblr] : EarthPorn
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MRW my girlfriend texts me “I’m not wearing any paintings right now” : reactiongifs
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Mmmm, yeah, maybe? : perfectloops
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Celestials – Enchanting Sight [665×950][OC] : FractalPorn
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I’ve suspected this for a long time : cats
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BBC Sport – Cesc Fabregas denies Chelsea players’ revolt claims
Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has denied media allegations he is organising a dressing room revolt against manager Jose Mourinho. Chelsea are 15th in the league table.
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PC makers have a year left to sell new Windows 7 machines | The Verge
Microsoft is planning to make sure PC makers only install Windows 10 on new machines next year. On October 31st 2016, OEMs like Dell, HP, and Lenovo will all have to stop shipping new PCs with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 pre-installed. Instead, Microso…
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The phablet of smartwatches is shipping next year | The Verge
The phablet was a monstrosity until everyone had one — can the phablet of the smartwatch world pull off the same transformation? The short answer is “No, not right now,” but that doesn’t mean people aren’t trying.
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How Cristin Milioti Met ‘Fargo’—And Left ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Behind – The Daily Beast
Like Ted Mosby and most TV fans, I met Cristin Milioti in the rain. And like them, I was quickly smitten.
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Erdogan’s second chance – Al Jazeera English
The outcome of Turkey’s latest general election – voters have gone to the polls twice in the last five months – reveals important insights into the nature of the country’s democracy and the preferences of its citizens.
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Sorry, not sorry. There IS a limit. : TrollXChromosomes
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This dude on whisper knows what’s up : firstworldanarchists
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WASHINGTON — There are many things Americans cannot yet know about Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plans for his fancy new digs on Capitol Hill.
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We care when humanoid robots ‘hurt’ – Al Jazeera English
A team of scientists in Japan have found that humans empathise with humanoid robots in a similar fashion as with other humans.
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In the United States and the UK, we’ve seen the emergence of a multibillion-dollar brain training industry, premised on the idea that you can improve your memory, attention and powers of reasoning through the right mental exercises.
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The ‘Black Decade’ still weighs heavily on Algeria – Al Jazeera English
Algiers – On October 12, the Algerian authorities shut down private channel El Watan TV and confiscated its technical equipment, following Islamist leader Madani Mezrag’s appearance on the station.
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Milford Sound, New Zealand [OC][3264×2448] : EarthPorn
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untitled, paints on paper : ImaginaryMindscapes
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She looks pretty photogenic while looking out of her Cat Treehouse. : cats
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Kitten gets too curious… : cats
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Tax raid on German football federation – BBC News
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Delhi’s air pollution is causing a health crisis. So, what can be done? | Environment | The Guardian
For a few hours one morning two weeks ago, private cars were banned from driving into the heart of old Delhi.
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The Copernicus Complex by Caleb Scharf review – mind-blowing stuff | Books | The Guardian
Those who remember Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will recall the Total Perspective Vortex, a device that shows the entire universe (cleverly extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake) to anyone placed inside it.
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A trove of books display why black lives have always mattered in America | Books | The Guardian
The phrase “black lives matter” has become a popular and important refrain, insisting, in the words of its founders, on the “affirmation of black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression…
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In a rare joint interview Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt talk about how they coped with Angelina’s ovarian and breast surgery. Jolie underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 after testing positive for a gene with an 87 percent risk of her developing brea…
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Fleeced by Ellie Irving – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Charlie Rudge is a Newcastle United football supporter – everyone else in his family supports South End on Sea where they reside. The Rudges all have a passion for football.
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The Tao of Werner Herzog: ‘I’m Not Someone Like Madonna’ – The Daily Beast
It’s tough to argue with Herzog on Herzog. The Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, The Wrath of God director has been waging interrogations into humanity for almost five decades, seeking truths about the way we live with one another and within the world.
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Edward Snowden’s favorite encrypted chat app is now on Android | The Verge
Encrypted chat and call app Signal is coming to Android six months after it was first released on iOS.
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Veteran Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi dies at 71 – Al Jazeera English
Veteran Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, a key player in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, has died of a heart attack, local media reported. Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, died in his Kadhimiya residence in Baghdad. He w…
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‘Heat flash’ recorded over Sinai at time of plane crash – Al Jazeera English
A US infrared satellite has reportedly detected a heat flash at the time a Russian passenger jet went down in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, a US official has said, as the investigation into the deadly plane crash continues.
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…so I found this old key at work : mildlyinteresting
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14 Month Progress 314lbs > 195lbs : pics
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Unique night time aerial shot of Vancouver [1920×1278] : CityPorn
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I think this one might be defective. Still love him anyway. : cats
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Chibundu Onuzo: what I read growing up in Lagos | Children’s books | The Guardian
Growing up in Lagos, the closest library to my house was an hour’s drive away. It was a private library, moderately well stocked and tidily catalogued but you could only borrow one book at a time.
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Million-dollar deal for pro-gaming team – BBC News
The deal involves the European LoL squad from Team Dignitas which has been sold to the Follow Esports group. Prior to the sale, Team Dignitas had two professional League squads, one European and one North American, on its books.
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‘AirBnB law’ heads to the polls – what’s at stake? – BBC News
When I first arrived in San Francisco, I went through what every newcomer has to endure – clicking through endless Craigslist entries in the hope of finding somewhere to live.
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Pakistan Shaheen Air plane crash landing injures 10 – BBC News
The Shaheen Air flight made an emergency landing in Allama Iqbal International Airport on Tuesday, with over 100 people reportedly on board. Initial reports said one of the plane’s tyres had burst, causing it to skid off the runway. Other reports sa…
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Q&A: Photo of Kathmandu shows ‘Nepal still stands’ – Al Jazeera English
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati is a photographer and co-founder of the Nepal Picture Library – an online photo archive – and the Nepalese photography collective photo.circle. On April 25, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 and d…
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The Vocabularist: Which came first, cake or pyramid? – BBC News
News that Egypt’s pyramids are to be scanned by radiation brings to mind an odd suggestion about where the word came from. We get both “pyramid” and “obelisk” from Greek, in which obelisk also means skewer, and pyramid can be a kind of bun or cake, …
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Cthulhu socks https://t.co/qOJSGCgPZC
Gorgeous book of paper airplanes collected by anthropologist Harry Smith h Brian writes, “Avant-garde film maker and producer of the highly influential Anthology of American Folk Music series Harry Smith was also an avid collector of folk art. -
Funny Cat Vines from All of the internet : cats
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Autumn Afternoon at Dells Mill | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Autumn Afternoon at Dells Mill by Cole Chase Photography https://t.co/WRNgYNLZX2 https://t.co/axlgWMysDq
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The forge | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
The forge by Mandlenkhosi https://t.co/rzEeaxGGsm https://t.co/bXeirNhngh
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Census Challenge of Counting Native Americans | Al Jazeera America
SAN DIEGO — There are 566 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes in the U.S. and 80 more recognized by the states. Counting every member is a mandate of the U.S Census Bureau when it takes a national population count ev…
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Alan Moore on Lovecraft and the 20th Century / Boing Boing
The Wizard of Northampton in dialog with John Higgs, author of Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, describing HP Lovecraft’s curious, twisted grasp of the awful anxieties of 20th century America, and how this created…
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Googly-eye-face Hallowe’en costume / Boing Boing
Artist Robert Sikoryak is creating a full-length graphic novel based on the terms and conditions for Apple’s Itunes, a novella-length document of eye-watering legalese that you “agree” to without ever reading.
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When you are in a library, you might not know what book you are looking for but the chances are that, even if you don’t, you will find it.
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith review – passionate about the printed word https://t.co/mWSAZJaCNK -
Oscar Pistorius murder charge sought – BBC News
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Charles M. Schulz, Civil Rights, and the Art of Peanuts | Brain Pickings
For half a century, Charles M. Schulz (November 26, 1922–February 12, 2000) made an art of difficult emotions while delighting the world with his enormously influential Peanuts.
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‘Fireball meteor’ lights up Bangkok skies – BBC News
Footage captured by a driver in Bangkok appears to show a huge meteor flying through the night sky. The spectacle was spotted across the Thai capital.
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Court hears Pistorius appeal case – BBC News
Prosecutors are lodging an appeal against Oscar Pistorius’ conviction for culpable homicide following the February 2013 shooting on his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. State lawyers want the athlete convicted of outright murder.
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Former BBC newsreader Peter Donaldson dies – BBC News
The broadcaster and former BBC Radio 4 newsreader, Peter Donaldson, has died. He was 70 and had been suffering from cancer. Donaldson spent the first 14 years of his life in the Middle East before moving to London.
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Jane’s best friend Lina is feeling sidelined this week, and for good reason. Jane The Virgin’s writers have trouble finding ways to integrate Lina into Jane’s roller coaster life, so their friendship hasn’t received the same kind of attention as Jan…
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Itunes terms and conditions as a graphic novel in many cartoonists’ styles / Boing Boing
Itunes terms and conditions as a graphic novel in many cartoonists’ styles https://t.co/KN1StuWZz1
Artist Robert Sikoryak is creating a full-length graphic novel based on the terms and conditions for Apple’s Itunes, a novella-length document of eye-watering legalese that you “agree” to without ever reading. -
Some lite cloth in a man made vortex : oddlysatisfying
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He chose….poorly! {Awesome Halloween Costume!} : funny
He chose….poorly! {Awesome Halloween Costume!} via /r/funny https://t.co/pIh5ux02ux https://t.co/uRB53EdIfi
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Breaking open a slag pot skull : gifs
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I can’t believe how little this one is : aww
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Call for action against ‘twin scourge’ of diabetes and TB – BBC News
More needs to be done to tackle a dual threat of patients having both tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes, global health experts say. The statement calls for greater co-ordination in testing and treating diabetes and TB.
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Gorgeous book of paper airplanes collected by anthropologist Harry Smith / Boing Boing
h Brian writes, “Avant-garde film maker and producer of the highly influential Anthology of American Folk Music series Harry Smith was also an avid collector of folk art.
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Scientist stripped of doctorate over stem cell scandal – Al Jazeera English
A Japanese university has revoked a doctoral degree awarded to a young researcher embroiled in a scandal that has rocked the scientific establishment.
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War of the ‘Star Wars’ Stars: The Dark Side of the Convention Circuit – The Daily Beast
For hundreds of actors, bit-part players, costume-dwellers and droids, appearing in Star Wars in 1977 was the moment that would shape their lives—they were granted immortality.
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“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.
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The Tangled Cultural Roots of Dungeons & Dragons – The New Yorker
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My grandfather’s grandfather turning heads in the 1920s. : OldSchoolCool
My grandfather’s grandfather turning heads in the 1920s. via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/L0Ny7jbGZV https://t.co/6Ch8yZJUaP
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That’s enough Reddit for today. : AdviceAnimals
That’s enough Reddit for today. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/p8l3Vpeo4U https://t.co/4epUxcjQA4
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HMB while I see how long it takes to torch this bike. : holdmybeer
HMB while I see how long it takes to torch this bike. via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/gGI9nLAWLk https://t.co/jcxV4jTfYT
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Analog timekeeping: a clock built into a voltmeter / Boing Boing
Available in Conical and Round, these designs won my heart with their clever use of retort stands and sandblasted lab glass; love the fabric-sleeved power-cable too (available in four colors!). The £165; price-tag is admittedly steep, though.
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Candy Crush maker King Digital bought by Activision Blizzard – BBC News
US computer game company Activision Blizzard, which produces World of Warcraft and Call of Duty, is buying King Digital Entertainment, the creator of Candy Crush. The deal is worth $5.9bn (£3.8bn).
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Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet and Other Cat-astrophes – video | Books | The Guardian
In a new exclusive episode of Simon’s Cat, an outsized vet’s collar throws our favourite feline into a feeding crisis. The latest chapter of the cartoon and book series by the British animator Simon Tofield confronts Simon’s Cat with every moggy’s w…
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Guardian Live: should we say yes to nuclear power? | Environment | The Guardian
Last month George Osborne backed a deal with China to build a £24bn nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The government claims the new plant will be relied on to deliver 7% of the UK’s electricity while providing a low-cost, low-carbon …
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Australia Instagram star Essena O’Neill quits ‘unhealthy’ social media – BBC News
A teenage Instagram star has made an emotional statement about the dark side of social media, editing the captions of her own pictures saying they were artificial and self-promoting. With more than 500,000 followers on Instagram, Australian Essena O…
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Vivaldi Browser Hits Beta After More Than 2M Downloads | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Opera’s former CEO Jon von Tetzchner launched Vivaldi, a new desktop browser for power users (and those who were unhappy with Opera’s direction after that company’s switch to Google’s rendering engine after von Tetzchner left).
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/j4PsK3AuCq https://t.co/r6egg0O3KB
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Niagara Falls Stunning View (1920 x 1080) : EarthPorn
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MRW I get home after my wife has been sexting me all day. : reactiongifs
MRW I get home after my wife has been sexting me all day. via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/O4eJE6y0Ib https://t.co/W8cOUoNFqB
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After rigorous exercise, the muscle pain is more acute a day or two later rather than immediately. Why is that? Welcome to the equivocal effects of delayed onset muscle soreness, the scientific term for aches that accumulate and intensify a day or t…
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NBC Faces Mounting Pressure to Fire Trump as SNL Host, But Ratings Are King – The Daily Beast
Despite the network’s best efforts to “fire” the GOP presidential frontrunner, he is poised to have his biggest media night in months this week when he hosts Saturday Night Live.
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Standard Chartered seeks to raise $5.1bn in capital – BBC News
Asia focused UK bank Standard Chartered bank has announced plans to raise around $5.1bn (£3.3bn) through a share sale to boost its balance sheet and restructure some of its businesses. The capital raising was announced as part of the bank’s strategi…
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When your hair is on point but you work for a dark overlord – Imgur
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Seeking Venus Under the Spitzkoppe Arch
Seeking Venus Under the Spitzkoppe Arch https://t.co/pd0HTDIpm0 https://t.co/VLF3UaVf78
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Car shredder : interestingasfuck
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How Ethiopia slowed its population growth – BBC News
By 2050 the population of Africa is projected to be double what it was in 2008, which could lead to more conflict over limited resources and greater strains on infrastructure.
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Keystone pipeline company seeks pause of US review – Al Jazeera English
The company behind the massive Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast has asked the US State Department to suspend its review of the controversial project.
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When you don’t have to try too hard to have the best costume at the party. – Imgur
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When your hair is on point but you work for a dark overlord – Imgur
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It’s Hard to Run for President When Nobody Likes You: The Jeb Bush Story | VICE | United Kingdom
In the media, we often write the obit before the person dies. It’s not as macabre as it sounds. We all know when someone is near the end, and reporters just want to make sure they have a proper tribute ready when that end inevitably comes.
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Thick fog blankets London landmarks – Al Jazeera English
Thick fog across much of Britain caused travel disruption on Monday with 10 percent of flights cancelled from London Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport. The Met Office said the fog could reduce visibility to less than 100 metres.
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Understanding the Difficult Fight Against Boko Haram | VICE | United Kingdom
According to a study released earlier this year, fighting associated with Boko Haram killed over 6,300 civilians in 2014 alone.
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“We never seem to run out of participants for this,” Jimmy Kimmel remarked during the introduction of his fifth annual “I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy” YouTube challenge video Monday night.
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The Loneliness of the Black Republican | The New Republic
Once upon a time, the Republican Party was known as “the party of Lincoln.” Some still think call it that, seeking to hearken back to a time when the party actually attracted black voters.
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Clinton meets mothers of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown | US news | The Guardian
The Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton met with a group of mothers whose black children died in shootings. Clinton shared the “heartbreaking stories” of their children, according to a statement released by her campaign on Monday night.
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My dad taught me to weld this weekend, trolls! What next? : TrollXChromosomes
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Somewhere near Denali [OC](3264×1836) via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/lbyWlVujbH https://t.co/bXm7xmUXQy https://t.co/Ws5pVggEc9
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Somewhere near Denali [OC](3264×1836) : SkyPorn
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Dust (xpost r/retouching) : gif
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MRW Nofap November ends : shittyreactiongifs
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GOP Debate Flat-Earthers Would Rather Just Talk Among Themselves – The Daily Beast
You know this well enough. On the planet most of us inhabit, huge tax cuts for the rich hurt the economy and compound the deficit. The earth is warming, and man-made carbon emissions have a lot to do with it. Evolution is a fact that happened and is…
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What It’s Like to Have an American War Criminal in Your Barracks – The Daily Beast
It was 3 a.m. when a knock woke Capt. Dan Fields. Fields, a Special Forces team leader, was used to these interruptions and not overly concerned as he pulled on sweatpants and a T-shirt just before dawn on March 11, 2012.
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Germany’s Far Right Wants Muslim Concentration Camps – The Daily Beast
About two weeks ago in Dresden, a speaker at a rally for the new far right movement PEGIDA lamented, with regard to Germany’s growing Muslim population, that “the concentration camps are unfortunately out of action at the moment.
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Marco Rubio’s Slimy Pal Slithers Back – The Daily Beast
As Sen. Marco Rubio emerges as a strong contender for the nomination, the ghosts that have haunted his past are threatening to come back around for another pass. It’s the scandal-ridden gang that won’t leave him alone: former Rep. David Rivera and f…
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Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t Welcome at My Practice – The Daily Beast
When you take a stand about something, it’s nice to look around and realize you’re not standing by yourself.
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Now the GOP Declares War on Comedy – The Daily Beast
Republicans love to wage wars! They must, considering that the GOP has launched wars on women, Muslims, the mainstream media, science, gotcha questions, and of course, on both Iraq and Afghanistan. Just to name a few. But now the Grand Old Party is …
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How Drug Companies Game the Placebo Effect – The Daily Beast
The placebo effect is a psychological mystery. The act of taking medicine imparts a bonus benefit to patients beyond the gains from the medicine itself: this is, on first contact, a strange concept, an experimental discovery that surprises but in a …
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Why Doctors Can’t Have It All – The Daily Beast
Being a doctor is hard, and I’m not referring to the vast amounts of knowledge that are required. In addition to the number of years of education, there are years of training where the pay is meager at best, less-than-minimum wage at worst.
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Russians to Putin: We Won’t Forget Stalin’s Crimes – The Daily Beast
From the early morning into the late night, thousands of Muscovites poured into Lubyanka Square, home of the former KGB, now the FSB. The protest, devoted to naming the victims of Stalin’s “Great Terror,” has taken place on Lubyanka every October fo…
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U.S. Brings Dogfighters to Counter Russians Over Syria – The Daily Beast
The U.S. Air Force is deploying to Turkey up to a dozen jet fighters specializing in air-to-air combat—apparently to help protect other U.S. and allied jets from Russia’s own warplanes flying over Syria.
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Weed Gummy Bears Terrify Ohio – The Daily Beast
Former President and Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft once observed, “no tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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Since Louie became a massive critical hit for FX, other networks have followed its lead, handing over the keys to a singular voice for a show with a defined point of view. Each of these shows say something about who their creators are, where they ca…
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How Israel’s Most Successful Terrorist Stalked Rabin and Ended Peace – The Daily Beast
On Jan. 22, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was due to speak at Yad Vashem, the heartbreaking Holocaust memorial above Jerusalem.
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Certain factors consistent across the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts act as bonding agents for the state’s denizens. The mercilessly frigid weather that dominates from mid-September until early April has tempered Massachusettsians into a state of per…
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Steve ‘N’ Seagulls cover Beastie Boys · A.V. Undercover · The A.V. Club
Steve ‘N’ Seagulls and A.V. Undercover make a great pair, considering that the Finnish group is known mostly for doing covers.
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In March of 1956, Roy Orbison and his band The Teen Kings left their home in Odessa, Texas to record a session in Memphis for producer Sam Phillips, at Sun Studios.
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Even by the heavily multicultural standards of New York City, Jackson Heights, a neighborhood in the northwest part of Queens, boasts a truly remarkable degree of ethnic diversity.
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OCThe average color of every frame of a given movie, compressed into a single picture. [OC] (x-post from r/movies) (imgur.com) Wow, I kinda want a printed version of my favourite movie framed on my wall.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, November 3. All times are Eastern. Drunk History (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.
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Since 1967, Frederick Wiseman has been making extraordinary documentaries about the ordinary. His latest film, In Jackson Heights, is a meticulous, textured portrait of a Queens neighborhood in transition.
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Three-dimensional printing using recycled water bottles is an unlikely enterprise to be found in a remote corner of Arnhem Land, but it’s among a suite of potential ventures being explored to boost development in Indigenous Northern Territory commun…
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APOD: 2015 November 2 – Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun
Explanation: Most comets don’t survive a close encounter with the Sun. Two years ago this month, though, Comet ISON was thought by some to be big enough to withstand its perilous sungrazing dive.
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Typically speaking, there are four or five episodes of Raw between each PPV. Sometimes there’s three and occasionally there’s six, and that can make all the difference. Those varying numbers should mean that WWE often engages in different types of s…
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Microsoft reduces free OneDrive storage and removes unlimited option | The Verge
Just over a year after it started offering unlimited OneDrive cloud storage for Office 365 subscribers, Microsoft is going back on the deal.
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Desert and Berber Image, Morocco – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Activision Blizzard to buy King, of Candy Crush Saga fame, for $5.9 billion | Ars Technica
Activision Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft, announced late Monday that it would spend $5.9 billion to acquire the British gaming firm behind Candy Crush Saga.
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SO ran out of TP while we were both using separate bathrooms… : pics
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Mount Timpanogas overlooking Provo Canyon, Sundance, Utah [OC] [3,686×857] : EarthPorn
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The view from my family’s orchard in Malaga, Washington. [OC][3600×2400] : EarthPorn
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Jeb Bush wants to ‘fix it’ – Al Jazeera English
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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wants to “fix it”. On Monday, the former Florida Governor launched his “Jeb Can Fix It” tour of key voting states, beginning with his own. Although it is unclear what “it” is, political analysts say his cam… -
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Desert and Berber Image, Morocco – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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A tumbleweed of starlings | Environment | The Guardian
One of the striking aspects of starling flocks is the lack of rhythm in their flight. It looks all metropolitan bustle and hurry, but as I emerge on the track by the marsh I can hear the air rush through all those wings.
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How China Wants to Rate Its Citizens – The New Yorker
For a time in my first-grade classroom at Xingqiao Elementary School, in Chongqing, in the late nineteen-eighties, there was an initiative called “the Stars of Xingqiao.
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Trippy evolutionary wall mural in Italy : interestingasfuck
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Downtown Toronto from Mt Nemo [5085×3240] x-post r/toronto : CityPorn
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Seeking Venus Under the Spitzkoppe Arch by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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Languages in the Benelux [696×916] : MapPorn
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Obama: No US troops on Syria front lines – Al Jazeera English
President Barack Obama has said the US is not putting its troops on the front lines in Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), despite his decision to deploy special operations troops on the ground.
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Rand Paul on Donald Trump Winning the GOP Ticket: ‘I Would Want No Part of It’ – The Daily Beast
Rand Paul has never seemed particularly enamored with the Donald Trump show, but things between the two Republican presidential candidates took a nasty turn during the first GOP debate on Fox News when Trump declared, “I’ve never attacked him on his…
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Shell ‘failing to clean up Nigeria oil spills’ – BBC News
Oil giant Shell has been accused of making false claims about the extent of its clean-up operations in Nigeria. In a joint report, Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development said Shell had failed to implement …
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Police chiefs threaten Home Office with legal action over reforms – BBC News
Six police and crime commissioners have threatened the Home Office with legal action over changes to the way police forces in England and Wales are funded.
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Sinai plane crash: IS claims ‘propaganda’, says Egypt president – BBC News
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Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has described claims that militants linked to Islamic State (IS) brought down a Russian airliner as “propaganda”. He told the BBC that it was too early to say what had caused the crash. -
UK documentary makers face Indonesia jail term – BBC News
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Two UK journalists are facing a prison sentence for allegedly filming a documentary about piracy in Indonesia while on a tourist visa. Neil Bonner and Rebecca Prosser were arrested by the Indonesian navy off the island of Batam on 28 May and their t… -
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World’s biggest tech companies get failing grade on data-privacy rights | Technology | The Guardian
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The world’s top tech companies are failing when it comes to privacy and freedom of expression, according to the most comprehensive assessment to date of their user agreement policies. -
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A South African helmeted turtle grooming a warthog : AnimalsBeingBros
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An Arizona grandfather has been arrested and accused of leaving his five-year-old granddaughter alone in the desert with a loaded and cocked .45-calibre handgun and the instruction to “shoot any bad guys”.
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Well here’s a blockbuster acquisition for you. Gaming mothership Activision Blizzard has entered into an agreement to acquire King.com, maker of the wildly popular game Candy Crush and probably other games that I haven’t and will never play. On Nove…
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This cafeteria gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Two birds with one stone : firstworldanarchists
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My kitten Rogue, the mighty huntress. : cats
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Autumn at Great Falls, Maryland [OC] [1600×1067] : EarthPorn
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HBO may not consider The Leisure Class to be the ninth episode of Project Greenlight, but in many ways this is the true season finale, because it puts so many of the battles we saw play out over the eight regular episodes in context.
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“Fear And Trembling” · Fargo · TV Review Fargo is no country for anyone · TV Club · The A.V. Club
You want to believe things used to be better. It’s something fundamental to the human experience; you want to believe the life you used to have, when you were younger and the world made sense, was better than what you have now, all tied up and bent …
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On Sunday, environment minister Greg Hunt urged mining companies to recognise the “moral right” of farmers to the land they owned or leased.
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The James Bond of the post-9/11 era has always had his own mortality painfully in mind, hence the fast sports cars, femme fatales, and shaken-not-stirred brand of functional alcoholism—coping mechanisms for a lonely life marked by heartbreak and one…
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Open thread for night owls. Michelle Obama—Let girls learn
Often, understandably, this issue is framed as a matter of resources—a failure to invest enough money in educating girls.
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Activision Blizzard buys Candy Crush maker King for $5.9 billion | The Verge
Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard has bought King Digital Entertainment, the creator of mobile smash hit Candy Crush Saga, in a deal worth $5.9 billion.
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Bellows Avenue School, Columbus, OH [1920×1280] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Kitty looking for a home! : cats
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Port Melbourne apartments (Explored) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Found this sore on my cats back. Any advice? Polysporin? : cats
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More details have emerged about the man who fatally shot three people on the streets of Colorado Springs, with a book written by his mother documenting his struggle with addiction.
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Well, that was basically perfect. Mental illness and comedy aren’t exactly strangers. We have neuroses to thank for a countless number of excellent movies, television shows, standup routines, jokes, bits, and the occasional patter song.
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Kashmir: Indian soldiers killed in ‘Pakistan firing’ – BBC News
Pakistani forces have killed two Indian soldiers in firing along the de facto border that divides Kashmir between the two countries, India’s army has said. The incident happened in the Gurez area of Bandipora district on Monday evening, an army offi…
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Identikits Of The European Unicorns | TechCrunch
French Tech has never been in such good health: Showroomprivé and Deezer just announced their IPO, Leetchi its trade sale to Crédit Mutuel Arkéa group and several startups have announced significant funding rounds in France in the last three months …
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Help identifying? Explanation in comments. : foxes
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Kittens looking for a home. : cats
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Found a cheap apartment in San Fransisco : funny
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Silver Lake, Colorado taken with my phone [oc] [960×493] : EarthPorn
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Aka Fuji from Shakushiyama | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Plex is now available for the new Apple TV | The Verge
Apple TV finally has its own official Plex app. Available now for free on the new Apple TV App Store, media streaming service Plex has been one of the most wanted apps for the set-top box since its original launch in 2007.
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The 10% Bleed: How Plasma Donors Got Stuck With Prepaid Card Fees and Why It Matters | Inverse
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Amazon opens first brick-and-mortar bookstore — at U Village | The Seattle Times
Bookstore owners often think of Amazon.com as the enemy. Now it’s becoming one of them.
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Desert Snow [OC][5472×2671] Big Bend National Park : EarthPorn
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A recent Nathan For You stunt is actually doing good in the world · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The central gag of Comedy Central’s Nathan For You is that, despite graduating from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades, host Nathan Fielder’s suggestions for how to help struggling businesses are usually terrible.
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Amazon Revamps Parental Leave Policy | TechCrunch
Amazon announced its new Parental Leave policy earlier this morning in an email to employees.
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An attack by the future presidential candidate while seeking office in Morris County showed his tactics early. There was just one problem: It was inaccurate. In his Williamstown, N.J.
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High-Profile Lawsuit Against VC Joe Lonsdale Now Dropped | TechCrunch
Former Stanford student Elise Clougherty has dropped a high-profile lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a former paramour who Clougherty later accused of sexual assault.
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For my seventh grade class, we all brought home permission slips to take part in a sex education class. The extent of my mother’s “the birds and the bees” discussion was asking me if I wanted to watch the video, and we were done with this particular…
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My friend and his dad dressed up as each other for Halloween…. – Imgur
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Gwen Stefani: ‘I Have Enough for Probably Two Albums’ | Rolling Stone
Gwen Stefani: ‘I Have Enough for Probably Two Albums’ “Dude, I got 20 songs.
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Saved this little girl from the rain yesterday : aww
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My friend and his dad dressed up as each other for Halloween…. – Imgur
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This perfect diamond of mud just fell out of the bottom of my shoe : oddlysatisfying
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Turquoise Water of Lake Michigan in Door County, WI [4664×3109] [OC] : EarthPorn
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For you bmg : InternetIsBeautiful
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UN envoy wants all sides to participate in Syria talks – Al Jazeera English
The UN’s special envoy to Syria has called for the government and the opposition to be involved in the latest attempt to bring political progress on ending the four-year civil war.
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If the Indonesian authorities hoped to silence conversation about the 50th anniversary of the country’s anti-communist purges that killed an estimated 500,000 people in 1965, their 11th-hour curbs on the Ubud writers and readers festival failed spec…
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China Launches the C919! Should Boeing and Airbus Look Out? – The Atlantic
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US to return to South China Sea after warship visit – BBC News
The US has said it plans to return to contested areas of the South China Sea, with a top security official saying there will be “more demonstrations” of freedom of navigation in the region. US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes made the com…
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Apple Adds A “Top Charts” Section To The Apple TV App Store | TechCrunch
Apple has now rolled out a “Top Charts” section on the Apple TV App Store, following the release of the company’s revamped streaming media player which went on sale last week.
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No Women, No Kids (The Professional) : pics
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Newark’s Struggle to Renew Its Schools – The Atlantic
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i cant argue with your dootyness there ms skeltal : ledootgeneration
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Downing St denies scrapping vote on Syria air strikes – BBC News
Downing Street has dismissed claims David Cameron has abandoned plans for a Commons vote on air strikes against Islamic State militants (IS) in Syria.
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E.P.A. Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including in a Porsche https://t.co/V6VCTQBfeN
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My friend and his dad dressed up as each other for Halloween…. (imgur.com) From the thumbnail I thought this was a picture from ‘Mean Girls’. Pre and post the mean girl transformation of Lindsey Lohan. Time for bed.
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The Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that it had discovered emissions-cheating software on more Volkswagen and Audi cars than previously disclosed and, for the first time, also found the illegal software in one of the carmaker’s high-e…
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A ridiculous gymnastic tumble : woahdude
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For the first time in history, something just shot out of a Black Hole. : space
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My grandma was cleaning out my grandads stuff after he passed away… : funny
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Spectre review: Suddenly, MI6 objects to the concept of espionage? | Ars Technica
As much fun as James Bond movies can be, they usually suffer from some serious leaps in logic and other half-baked plot setups.
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Rand Paul: Free college is like free heroin
Republican presidential candidate and legacy-based contender Rand Paul argues against free higher education for all Americans.“The main thing I would say is that nothing’s free,” Paul said.
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TransCanada Is Begging Obama Not to Rule on the Keystone Pipeline | The New Republic
TransCanada requested on Monday that the State Department suspend a decision on the 1,179-mile-long Keystone XL pipeline until a new route through Nebraska is formally approved.
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Supergirl doesn’t need training. She’s got super strength, laser eyes, powerful lungs, and the ability to fly—what more could she need? A lot more, it turns out, when she tries to save an oil tanker from exploding but ends up creating a minor ecolog…
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There are a lot of reasons why Gotham has failed to deliver anything compelling in its last few episodes, but one of the biggest issues is the all-around lack of a propulsive narrative.
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The Halloweekend’s Most Insane Crimes – The Daily Beast
Crime rates typically spike nationwide on Halloween. But with the holiday falling on a Saturday this year, the festivities and felonies spilled over into Friday and Sunday. Alabama: A thief stole a giant painted oyster shell from outside a police st…
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Breaking open a slag pot skull : woahdude
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Snoopy celebrates Hollywood Walk of Fame star – BBC News
Animated beagle Snoopy has been honoured with his own star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. He joins fellow cartoon stars such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, as well as famous dogs Lassie and Rin Tin Tin in receiving the accolade.
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TransCanada seeks Keystone XL delay, taking decision off Obama’s hands | Environment | The Guardian
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has asked for its US permit application to be put on hold – a move that would leave the final decision on the controversial tar sands oil project to Barack Obama’s successor.
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Early last year, Steve Perlman — the co-creator of Apple’s QuickTime technology who went on to found the now-defunct video game streaming service OnLive — claimed he had a way of providing wireless speeds 1,000 times faster than those we use today.
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I hope this is a prediction that The Simpsons didn’t get right : AdviceAnimals
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As Hodor, I found this Bran easier to carry : pics
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Walgreens hasn’t told Theranos it’s pulling back on partnership, CEO claims | The Verge
If Walgreens really is taking a break from opening more Theranos centers, no one at the drugstore chain has told Elizabeth Holmes about it. Is Walgreens scrutinizing their relationship with Theranos? “Well, they haven’t said that to us,” Holmes said…
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The true story behind ‘Zola,’ the epic Twitter story too crazy to be real – The Washington Post
No one actually tried to jump off a fourth-floor balcony, and no one ever got shot in the face. But in some ways, the true story of what happened to two young women in a Tampa hotel is even “crazier,” quote-unquote, than the story that captivated th…
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Jarryd Hayne returns to San Francisco 49ers with practice squad | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne has signed with the San Francisco 49ers’ practice squad. The former rugby league star has been in limbo since the 49ers axed him on Saturday, but he announced on Monday he was rejoining the club after 31 other NFL teams declined to sign…
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US regulators widen inquiry into VW emissions scandal – Al Jazeera English
US regulators have widened their inquiry into the emissions cheating scandal surrounding Volkswagen. The German automaker’s luxury brands – Audi and Porsche – are now in the spotlight as well, with US regulator saying that Porsches and Audis were de…
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Asian shares track US shares higher – BBC News
Asian markets headed higher on Tuesday, recovering the previous session’s losses after taking a positive lead from Wall Street. US stocks closed higher despite mixed economic data – manufacturing activity slowed, but construction spending hit a seve…
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Fitbit says Apple Watch has no ‘material impact’ on its business | The Verge
Competitors or categorically different?
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Adele’s new single breaks downloading records · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Billboard, Adele’s new single is (digitally) blowing up the charts. The track, “Hello,” was just released last week, and it has already sold 1.11 million copies. That’s enough to land it at No.
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Volkswagen denies another of its diesel engines is cheating on emissions tests | The Verge
Volkswagen has denied claims that another one of its diesel-powered automobile engines is using hidden software to cheat on emissions tests.
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~6 month old feral girl I brought home! : cats
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66 homeless people have died on the streets of Seattle and the surrounding area this year. Mayor Ed Murray has had enough. On Monday, Murray and King County Executive Down Constantine declared states of emergency in Seattle and the surrounding count…
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66108 sun & shade Lostwithiel | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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A couple girls in my high school made this. : gifs
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So it makes quite a bit of sense that his latest campaign reboot is, well, just gawdawful terrible. There are several obvious problems here.
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Methane Plumes Bubbling Along Northwest Coast – Scientific American
The Northwest is famous for its microbrews. But the region’s bubbles aren’t just for beer. Scientists have found plumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane bubbling up from the seafloor off the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
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Amy Schumer Offers More Clues About Her and Jennifer Lawrence’s Comedy Collaboration | Vanity Fair
Late this summer, Jennifer Lawrence blew our collective minds by revealing that she and Amy Schumer, her new vacation buddy, are co-writing a screenplay for a comedy in which both actresses will star.
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Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore tomorrow | The Verge
Amazon got its start as an online bookseller, and now — over 20 years later — it’s decided to sell books the old fashioned way. On Tuesday, Amazon will open a store in Seattle called Amazon Books.
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Keystone pipeline company wants pause to the bid process – BBC News
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has asked the US government to put its review of the controversial project on hold. TransCanada says the pause is necessary while it negotiates with Nebraska over the pipeline’s route through the state.
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Climate change helps Alaskan grow organic food on the tundra | Grist
As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis. The author and former New York Times columnist talks about the new vegan meal-kit startup he has recently joined.
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Tried and Tested, the Reviews Are In! | Vanity Fair
We turned to our trusted V.F. sources to try some of the new and classic products from the coveted Beauty closet—from spot treatments to makeup and more—and here’s what they had to say. 1) Shiseido Ibuki Multi Solution Gel: Oh my god.
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Michael Moore is fighting the MPAA over his next film’s R rating · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s tough being an in-your-face documentary filmmaker who loves to shake up the status quo, because “The Man” will always try to keep you down and suppress your message.
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Tinashe, Chris Brown Have Dance-Off in ‘Player’ Video | Rolling Stone
Tinashe will release her much anticipated new album Joyride – the follow-up to her breakout debut LP Aquarius – at some point in the coming months, and today the singer premiered her new video for “Player,” featuring Chris Brown.
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The nearly five-month gap between Adventure Time’s sixth and seventh seasons is the longest period this series has ever gone without new episodes, and the show’s momentum as a cultural force has taken a considerable dip as a result.
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Hackers use anti-adblocking service to deliver nasty malware attack | Ars Technica
More than 500 websites that used a free analytics service inadvertently exposed their visitors to a nasty malware attack made possible by a hack of PageFair, the anti-adblocking company that provided the analytics.
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Baby boy, you’ve come such a long, long way : cats
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Sunset in Rio de Janeiro [2048×1360] : SkyPorn
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The Surface of Enceladus is _Different._ : space
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CDC Says E-Cigs Help You Quit Smoking – The Daily Beast
According to a CDC report issued Saturday, electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) are strongly associated with attempts to quit regular smoking. E-cigs are battery-powered inhalation devices that typically deliver nicotine and/or flavored vapor in the form …
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Nebraska tried to get lethal injection drug from Mississippi | World news | The Guardian
Nebraska prison officials unsuccessfully tried to buy a lethal injection drug from a Mississippi-based pharmaceutical company after spending months trying to import some from India, the Associated Press has said, citing documents it obtained.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/1dDAtPdZzL
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Footballers have ‘worryingly poor’ teeth – BBC News
Professional footballers have worryingly poor teeth that could be affecting their performance on the pitch, say dentists. Their study on players at eight clubs in England and Wales, in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed nearly four out o…
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Being a product designer is a tough business that requires all kinds of tools. Case in point, Bellroy co-founder and designer shared his bag with Everyday Carry. The bag is a Tom Bihn Synapse 25. Here’s what’s inside:
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Disrupting fog likely to return for a third day, say forecasters | UK news | The Guardian
Forecasters have warned that the thick fog which has been causing disruption at UK airports is likely to return for a third day on Tuesday. Some 129 flights – equivalent to 10% of departures – were cancelled at Heathrow airport on Monday due to air …
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My new cubicle mate! (For the day) : aww
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Online brain training ‘helps older adults with everyday tasks’ – BBC News
Brain training – playing online games that give memory and reasoning skills a workout – is beneficial for older people, a large-scale study has concluded.
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When reframing the heroin epidemic as a public health crisis, who gets left behind?
That was 44 years ago, and we know now that the War on Drugs doubled as a war on people of color and a war on poverty.
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Canadian oil company TransCanada has asked the State Department to suspend the review process for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan – Turkey’s comeback kid – BBC News
Glance at the front pages of the Turkish press and you get a sense of how this country has reacted to the most surprising election result in a decade. While the pro-government Yeni Safak hailed a “glorious victory”; the opposition-leaning Cumhuriyet…
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Artist Creates A Portrait By Injecting Paint Into Bubble Wrap – Digg
Art Curious Design How you even plan out a piece like this is mind-boggling for most people, but not for Michael Fischler.
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Foggy night in Oxford, thought you might like it 🙂 : FoggyPics
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The filmmakers behind the Amy Winehouse documentary are taking on Oasis · Newswire · The A.V. Club
What does it say about your band when the team behind a documentary like Amy decides that you’ll be their next subject? If you’re Oasis, it’s probably nothing you don’t already know, unless Noel and Liam Gallagher have been under the impression that…
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Three-legged tiger bites woman who broke into Nebraska zoo to pat it | World news | The Guardian
The 33-year-old woman suffered a severe hand injury in the incident at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha early on Sunday, said officer James Shade. The woman was identified by police as Jacqueline Eide.
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Cat loop the loop : perfectloops
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Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes? – BBC News
Japan has a reputation for being fascinated by robots and hi-tech gadgets – a nation at the forefront of manufacturing innovation. But the technological reality in many offices is strikingly different.
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Renaming Buildings and Removing Mascots Doesn’t Cure Racism – The Daily Beast
Lord Jeffery Amherst was horrible to Native Americans. The British general encouraged the attempts to spread Smallpox to the tribes his troops faced in the summer of 1763 during the French and Indian War, and he referred to Native Americans as “this…
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Egypt’s Sisi UK visit puts spotlight on human rights – BBC News
When President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi makes his first visit to the UK, Mohamed Lotfy will be watching – back in Cairo. The Egyptian human rights activist can’t travel himself.
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Australia’s ‘ant man’ breaks his silence over Outback survival – BBC News
An 62-year-old Australian man who says he survived without water by eating ants while lost in the Outback for six days has spoken of his ordeal. Reg Foggerdy disappeared last month while hunting a feral camel in remote Western Australia.
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Google reportedly axes plans for New York City retail store | The Verge
Google has given up on plans to open its first ever physical retail store in New York City, according to a report today from Crain’s New York Business. The company signed a lease on a 5,442-square-foot space on Greene Street in Manhattan’s SoHo dist…
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Nicole Kidman Joins the New DC Universe With A Role In Wonder Woman
Fans can’t read the scripts for big, anticipated movies beforehand so sometimes we rely on other means to pre-judge their quality. For example, if a good actor comes on board, it’s usually a good sign. By that rationale, Wonder Woman just got a grea…
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Orbital View: A Baby Island – The Atlantic
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How cockroaches could save lives – BBC News
Cockroaches are often associated with dirty kitchens and grimy bathrooms – scuttling away as soon as you enter the room and turn on the light.
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OEMs to stop selling PCs with Windows 7 by October 31, 2016 | Ars Technica
In February last year, Microsoft said that it would give a one year warning of when systems with Windows 7 preinstalled would no longer be available from OEMs. That time has finally come to pass.
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Thermonuclear Art – The Sun from NASA : gif
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Confused about weight loss? You’ve come to the right place. – Imgur
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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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My cup was made inside out. : mildlyinteresting
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Confused about weight loss? You’ve come to the right place. – Imgur
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Whales found stranded on Calais beach – BBC News
Seven pilot whales have died after being found stranded on a beach at the northern French port of Calais. Rescuers managed to return three other beached whales to the sea.
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Changing Kenya’s education by phone – BBC News
“I realised the burden of what teachers go through here when I was living in this rural village,” says Toni Maraviglia, co-founder of Eneza Education, a mobile phone based education tool in Kenya.
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There mom died so I have to bottle feed these cute kittens : cats
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Desi beats: Giving Indian aunties a pop art twist – BBC News
Maria Qamar’s Instagram account is fast becoming a bookmark for young people from South Asian backgrounds, but what exactly is it about her pop art with a twist that’s now drawing the attention of mainstream brands?
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Here’s what world leaders could actually achieve on climate change in Paris | Grist
As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis.
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Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes? – BBC News
Japan has a reputation for being fascinated by robots and hi-tech gadgets – a nation at the forefront of manufacturing innovation. But the technological reality in many offices is strikingly different.
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Brine Shrimp Before Cooking to Keep Them Firm and Juicy
A quick brine before you cook shrimp can make sure they’re plump and juicy, no matter how you plan to cook them. You only need to let the shrimp sit in the brine for as little as fifteen minutes and you’ll lock in moisture, add a little flavor, and …
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Hidden Halloween Candy Cam Proves That Humanity Is Evil – Digg
23 diggs Human Nature Someone set up a hidden camera on their porch to see how much candy everyone took on Halloween. Most of the kids practiced moderation, but one MOTHER ended up proving that no one can be trusted.
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Four oil spill sites in Nigeria identified by the UN, which Shell has claimed to have had cleaned up by contractors since 2011, are still polluted, says a report by Amnesty.
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Here’s How Ryan Gosling Spent His Halloween Weekend | Vanity Fair
Ever since 2013’s Only God Forgives, the world has seemed bleakly devoid of Ryan Gosling. The actor was busy, of course, directing his first feature, Lost River; raising a baby girl with Eva Mendes; and, we imagine, trying to avoid viral videos of h…
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[OS] Inside the St. Petersburg house of Alfred Nobel [1000×664] : AbandonedPorn
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Paraglider Daniel Montejo: ‘You can’t think of anything else’ – BBC News
The Paragliding World Cup has taken place in India for the first time. The Bir Billing Valley in Himachal Pradesh, which has become a hub for the sport, hosted the 2015 event, with more than 100 of the top paragliding pilots competing.
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Heavy Smoke Blankets Borneo : Image of the Day
Heavy smoke continued to pour from peat fires in Borneo, Indonesia, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image on October 19, 2015.
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How cockroaches could save lives – BBC News
Cockroaches are often associated with dirty kitchens and grimy bathrooms – scuttling away as soon as you enter the room and turn on the light.
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Burundi’s tit-for-tat killings spread fear – BBC News
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has given gunmen opposing his third term five days to surrender and be granted an amnesty or face tough anti-terrorism legislation to be introduced by the end of the month.
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Are Republicans afraid of confronting Black Lives Matter on the campaign trail?
Except for Donald Trump of course. Trump said back in August that he would fight activists associated with Black Lives Matter if they tried to disrupt one of his speaking engagements. Physically fight them.
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The G.O.P.’s Outlandish Debate Proposal – The New Yorker
In early 2013, the R.N.C., under its current chairman, Reince Priebus, produced a searching report that tried to make sense of Mitt Romney’s 2012 defeat. When the report was released, the biggest news was its frank dissection of the G.O.P.
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Housing Activists Swarm Airbnb On Day Before The Vote On Prop F | TechCrunch
Airbnb has added the lion’s share (more than $8 million) into defeating Proposition F, a proposal some believe is hiking up the rent in SF and converting a bunch of needed housing into bed and breakfasts, instead.
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John Oliver Wants Us To Know Millions Of Americans Still Can’t Afford Insurance – Digg
17 diggs Late Night Health Politics TV Some states are trying to pull out of Obamacare, leaving their constituents earning too much for some forms of government assistance, and not enough for others.
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Bucharest nightclub fire: Three owners arrested – BBC News
Three owners of a nightclub in Romania where 31 people died in a fire on Friday have been arrested for suspected manslaughter, prosecutors say. The men were questioned for several hours about the Bucharest blaze, which started when fireworks were se…
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Obama to ban criminal history section on some government job applications | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama announced he would “ban the box” of criminal history questions on some government job applications, praising former inmates who had reintegrated with society and saying “it’s not too late” to break the cycles of the American justice sys…
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By this time tomorrow, Nick Lachey could be your pot dealer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Tomorrow is Election Day in Ohio, and the most contentious issue on the ballot is—surprise, surprise—the legalization of marijuana.
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Police creating ‘safe exchange zones’ to keep Craigslist deals from going bad – The Washington Post
The rise of Craigslist, and the easy online sale of unwanted computers or concert tickets, has been accompanied by a dark side — the tense moments when strangers must meet to complete the deal.
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Tidal has decided to get into original TV shows | The Verge
While Tidal recently celebrated its millionth subscriber it is still lagging far behind the other streaming music services, and now it’s taking a page from the Netflix playbook in order to drum up some interest.
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We got more horrified reactions than I expected (and won a contest!) – Imgur
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Why do people put broomsticks in trees in Brooklyn? / Boing Boing
Jeff Newel says, “Here’s a story from Dean Haspiel’s Beef With Tomato, a collection of autobiographical comics with some essays that cover Dean’s move from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
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What do you do with frozen embryos after you’ve successfully conceived? | Society | The Guardian
Every four months, my husband and I receive a bill from Cornell Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, asking us for another $250 to continue storing our embryos. We’ve had four embryos sitting on ice, so to speak, since 2010, when I unde…
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My Cat Seems Happy About Our New Kitten : cats
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Jamie Foxx defends Quentin Tarantino amid police boycotts · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Police organizations around the country—first in New York, then Los Angeles, and now New Jersey, Philadelphia, and even Chicago, whose penchant for advanced interrogation makes Reservoir Dogs look like kids’ stuff—are currently calling for boycotts …
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A Gegenschein Lunar Eclipse : Is there anything… – Just Space
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We got more horrified reactions than I expected (and won a contest!) – Imgur
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Speaking on ABC’s Q&A programme on Monday, doomsday ecologist Paul Ehrlich says Australia is waging a “very successful war on the environment” and is destroying its life support systems.
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Oops: College Names Anti-Rape Program After a Wife-Beating Law – The Daily Beast
Kudos to the University of Maryland’s Office of Civil Rights & Sexual Misconduct for launching a campaign to combat sexual assault on campus.
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Chris Hadfield: ‘Life on the ISS is like magic’ – BBC News
The International Space Station is roughly the size of a football pitch, and it orbits Earth every 90 minutes at a distance of 250 miles. On Monday, the current crew marked 15 years of men and women living on board.
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We got more horrified reactions than I expected (and won a contest!) – Imgur
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Moving Beyond Microcredit – The New Yorker
The Makola market, in Accra, is a five-way assault on the senses: a frenzied din of bumping carts and shouted exchanges, amid piles of goods ranging from plastic Chinese housewares to local beads and beat-up Nokias.
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Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.
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Sometime last night, between one and two in the morning, Ned Yost, the manager of the Kansas City Royals, emerged from the bowels of Citi Field and paused at a glass door between the field and the stands.
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Bright day out at Half Moon Bay, CA [OC] [6016×4000] : seaporn
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Thrillist Expands Its Coverage With Three New Verticals | TechCrunch
Here’s one way that Thrillist Media Group is spending the $54 million that it raised earlier this year: It’s adding three new sections to its website, one for entertainment, one for health and one for sex and dating. Naturally, the company is suppor…
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Zeta Interactive Acquires eBay Enterprise’s CRM Business | TechCrunch
EBay today finalized the sale of its previously announced eBay Enterprise business.
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Plex Lands On The New Apple TV | TechCrunch
Plex, the much adored app for streaming totally-legit-and-not-at-all-bootlegged-cough-cough content from your PC to your other gadgets, has just hit the new Apple TV.
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Meet the Kim Davis of Homeschooling – The Daily Beast
Nearly one hundred years ago, the State of Texas required children to attend school, whether in public school, private school, or at home. Now, a state supreme court case may carve out a religious exemption to that requirement.
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The OC is finally streaming online | The Verge
We’re all going back to Cali. Entertainment Weekly reports that The OC, the beloved Fox teen drama about rich kids living in Orange County, is finally available online for streaming audiences on CW Seed, the CW’s online network.
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Believe It: Fox Confirms The Greatest American Hero Reboot
The theme song’s going to be stuck in your head for the rest of the day, but: The Greatest American Hero, the ‘80s superhero cult classic, is being revived for twenty first-century audiences on Fox.
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Anonymous’s Bogus KKK Expose – The Daily Beast
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The late neurologist, Oliver Sacks, called Neurotribes a “sweeping and penetrating history” of autism, presented with a “rare sympathy and sensitivity”. Describing the author, Steve Silberman, Sacks noted that he knew of “no one else who had spent s…
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Burundi crisis: Dead bodies and beatings – BBC News
This report contains some shocking images and details. Burundi is at risk of returning to civil war following a recent upsurge in violence, the United Nations has warned.
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Simon Cowell presented with music industry award – BBC News
Music mogul Simon Cowell has been honoured with the Music Industry Trusts Award in London. One Direction presented their mentor with the award during a tribute-filled ceremony on Monday.
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How Korn figured out the Internet before almost any other band – The Washington Post
Picture the Internet in 1998. AOL, Geocities, and Blue Mountain Arts were some of the most popular domains out there. Hampster Dance existed, but hadn’t yet peaked in popularity. It was not an Internet where you’d expect livestreamed, podcast-style …
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What Happens When Your Lights, Appliances Are Connected To The Internet : All Tech Considered : NPR
Stroll the aisle at Home Depot or some other big box store these days and it can be hard to miss the so-called “Internet of Things”: Thermostats, refrigerators, light bulbs. If you’re not familiar with the concept, here’s one explainer from CNN and …
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Oasis Documentary in Works From ‘Amy’ Filmmakers | Rolling Stone
Oasis Documentary in Works From ‘Amy’ Filmmakers Filmmakers have been granted “unprecedented access” to Britpop icons
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Supreme Court Weighs 1987 Conviction By All-White Jury : NPR
The Supreme Court on Monday revisited the issue of racial bias in jury selection. At issue: the conviction of a 19-year-old African American, sentenced to death in Georgia, by an all-white jury.
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Welp, here is the actual cover of Donald Trump’s new book / Boing Boing
You may remember Elly Blue from Pedal Zombies, a kickstarted collection of feminist science fiction about zombies and bicycles. Now she’s back with a new crowdfunding drive for a feminist steampunk cycling novel called The Velocipede Races.
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Her eyes… her face… everything! : cats
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Texas floods: Aerial pictures after storms leave six dead – BBC News
Parts of the US state of Texas have suffered severe flooding following a weekend of storms that left at least six people dead. Aerial footage of Liberty County, northeast of Houston, showed properties cut off by floodwater and a river widening its b…
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Paul D. Ryan, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, has another potential issue on his hands. For the first time since Brooke Shields donned her Calvins in the ’80s, spurring a national conversation, the question of underage models has re…
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Jay Z Has Adorable Rider Demands For His and Beyoncé’s Daughter Blue Ivy | Vanity Fair
One of the myriad perks of being a world-famous entertainer? Putting together a rider—a list of the food, drink, and other random luxury items that are contractually obligated to be placed in each hotel room along your tour.
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Anonymous’s Bogus KKK Expose – The Daily Beast
Johnny Isakson is not a Klansman—at least, not the Johnny Isakson I know. I have known the U.S. Senator, who was once a Democrat, since he served in the Georgia statehouse.
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So Can We Eat Chick-fil-A Again? – The Daily Beast
I’ve long believed that fried chicken was proof of God’s enduring mercy and grace. When I was growing up, every summer Friday around noon, I’d cozy up to my Auntie Doris Jean in hopes of getting first dibs on a crispy chicken sandwich.
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Three Simple Ways Eyeglasses Can Help You Survive in the Wilderness
You might think that having to wear glasses is a handicap, but in a survival situation it’s just another tool to work with.
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Fitbit triples revenue on popularity of activity tracking – BBC News
Fitbit the maker of wearable activity monitors, tripled its third quarter sales – capitalising on the popularity of wearable fitness technology. The company brought in $409.3m (£265.5m) in the third quarter compared to $152.9m in the same period the…
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Inside Out Nearly Had A Lot More Emotions As Characters
Inside Out’s refreshing look at the human psyche focused on the personification of 5 main emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. But the movie began with quite a few extra emotions running around in Riley’s brain—26 of them, in fact.
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Missing ship: US Navy confirms it found El Faro wreckage – BBC News
The wreckage found on the seabed off the Bahamas on Saturday is that of a cargo ship that went missing last month, the US National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed. The vessel, El Faro, went missing during Hurricane Joaquin, while sailing f…
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What? Something stuck in my teeth? : aww
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Now Tidal is getting into original content with Money & Violence · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Tidal, the streaming service that Jay Z will force all of us to like even if he has to personally go to everyone’s house and explain the benefits of HD audio and why it’s better to give money to rich guys like him instead of rich guys like record la…
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“Discipline Starts Every Day When the First Alarm Clock Goes Off”
Developing discipline is all about doing the little things right. Small wins can set the tone of your day, including the very first moment when your alarm clock goes off. It’s tempting to hit your snooze button in the morning, especially when there’…
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Sally Ride’s Life Shines in New Photobiography Book for Kids
A new children’s photobiography of Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, traces the course of her life in pictures and stories compiled by her partner of 27 years — offering a rare opportunity to get to know the famously private astr…
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Taylor Swift doesn’t need to worry about this expensive ‘Shake It Off’ lawsuit | The Verge
Did Taylor Swift crib the concept of haters hating and players playing from a Los Angeles area non-denominational minister? That’s what Jessie Braham is alleging in a lawsuit filed in federal court last week, one that’s seeking $42 million in damage…
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Humans have lived in space longer than the iPod has existed | Ars Technica
As of Monday morning humans have lived consecutively in space for 15 years. That’s longer than the iPod has existed and before Americans first learned of hanging chads during the contentious election between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Chicago, see My All American early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Are you ready for some football?! From the same guy who wrote Hoosiers and Rudy, My All American is another rah-rah sports film based on a true story. This one is about Freddie Steinmark, who overcame great adversity to follow his dreams, and, well,…
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Airbnb’s San Francisco headquarters has been occupied by protesters as the debate over affordability of the city’s housing reached fever pitch ahead of a crucial local vote on 3 November.
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These Satellite Views of Ancient Earthworks Are Stirring Debate
After watching a television show about ancient pyramids built outside Egypt, Dmitriy Dey wondered if his own Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan might harbor such exotic ruins.
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Rare early photographs of Peking – BBC News
Photographs of Peking, now known as Beijing, made by Thomas Child in the 1870s and 1880s are to go on show in London’s Chinatown as part of Asian Art in London season.
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Metrojet Flight 9268 could only have been brought down by external forces, a senior Russian aviation official claimed Monday, raising fears that terrorism caused the crash. The airliner broke up in midair Saturday over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killi…
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Syrian rebels use caged captives as ‘human shields’ – Al Jazeera English
Syrian rebel groups have locked people in cages and driven them to areas near Damascus to use as human shields against heavy government air raids. Douma is regularly targetted by government air strikes.
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Rival GOP Campaigns Launch Power Plays In Debate Negotiations : NPR
Jeb Bush is resetting his campaign, and the GOP candidates agree that the party isn’t in charge when it comes to debate negotiations. NPR explores what it all means for the 2016 race.
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In ‘The Diplomat,’ Filmmaker David Holbrooke Recalls Late Father’s Career : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks with filmmaker David Holbrooke about his new documentary, The Diplomat, exploring the life of his late father, the renowned diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
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Apply Now For TechCrunch Include’s Diversity-Focused Office Hours With Accel | TechCrunch
TechCrunch is pleased to announce our second monthly Include office hours. On November 17th, Ryan Sweeney and Dan Levine of Accel Partners will join TechCrunch editors in providing advice and feedback to startups.
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If You Think You’re Groovy: Dig the amazing soul rock sound of P.P Arnold | Dangerous Minds
Gorgeous P.P.
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Is Justin Trudeau Too Sexy? | The New Republic
There’s one thing that virtually everyone can agree about incoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: He’s sexy. Immediately after his victory in October, the international press was filled with articles describing him as “super hot” and “hunky.
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Are hangovers good for writing? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
We asked alcohol experts, psychologists, a few writers, and a biomolecular archaeologist if alcohol withdrawal fosters creativity or not so much. Hangovers. Curse the things. We hate the headaches. Our stomachs churn.
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Palouse Falls at Sunrise [OC][2048×1489] : EarthPorn
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Melting ice in west Antarctica could raise seas by 3m, warns study | World news | The Guardian
The study follows research published last year, led by Nasa glaciologist Eric Rignot, warning that ice in the Antarctic had gone into a state of irreversible retreat, that the melting was considered “unstoppable” and could raise sea level by 1.2m.
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Ambient Toronto Skyline [OC] [598×487] : CityPorn
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Ireland Plans Heroin Injection Centers | Al Jazeera America
Ireland aims to become the latest European country to introduce supervised heroin injecting rooms in a radical overhaul of its approach to substance abuse, the country’s drugs minister announced on Monday.
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AKP Retakes Control of Polarized Turkey | Al Jazeera America
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s election tactic of playing on security fears paid off at the ballot box on Sunday, when his Justice and Development Party (AKP) reclaimed millions of votes from nationalist and pro-Kurdish rivals.
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Lessig quits presidency bid, blames political system he wanted to change | Ars Technica
It didn’t take long for Harvard legal scholar Larry Lessig, the cofounder of Creative Commons, to drop his US presidency bid as a Democrat. Lessig trumpeted himself as a sign of change in August. He said he was running “to build a mandate for the fu…
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Sam Smith Releases a Surprise Track Before Taking Hiatus | Vanity Fair
Sam Smith—responsible for the Bond theme for the forthcoming Spectre—recently announced he’d be taking off some time from music, explaining that he’s been “playing now for three years nonstop,” and he wants to take some time to “just go home and liv…
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BAE Takes Stake in British Air-Breathing Rocket Venture
PARIS — Defense technology giant BAE Systems plc on Nov.
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Raven at Grand Canyon National Park 0504 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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See James Hetfield Play Crushing New Metallica Riff in Studio | Rolling Stone
See James Hetfield Play Crushing New Metallica Riff in Studio Also, band books pre-Super Bowl gig in San Francisco
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America’s a rigged carnival game that rips off the poor to fatten the rich / Boing Boing
America boasts a collection of one-of-a-kind policies that send wealth from the poor to the rich: the lack of competition in cable operators gives Americans some of the most expensive Internet anywhere; the rules permitting pharma companies to pay g…
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Which Republican Campaign Made These Debate Demands? | Rolling Stone
On Sunday night, the managers for 13 Republican presidential campaigns huddled in a Hilton hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, to hammer out acceptable parameters for the debates set to take place over the next several months.
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Obama’s Plan to Help Former Inmates Find Homes and Jobs – The Atlantic
Last month, the Justice Department announced that 6,000 inmates held in federal prisons would be released on November 1 after the U.S. Sentencing Commission reduced punishment for their drug sentences.
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Chipotle temporarily closes 43 stores amid E coli outbreak | US news | The Guardian
Chipotle has temporarily shut down 43 of its locations in the Pacific northwest after an E coli outbreak linked to the food chain affected nearly two dozen people. As of Friday, three people in the Portland area and 19 people in western Washington r…
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The Internet Just Spent the Day Making Fun of Jeb Bush | Mother Jones
Jeb Bush’s campaign for the 2016 presidency is not going to according to plan, and the bad news keeps piling up. In recent polls, Bush, the former Florida governor was in fifth place, and Public Policy Polling tweeted today that Louisiana Gov. Bobby…
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War in Weed Country | VICE | United States
This story appears in the November Issue of VICE. If you are looking for pot growers on the remote southern end of the Yurok Reservation in Humboldt County, California, you might start your search at Pearson’s, a cluttered grocery perched above the …
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As America’s middle class collapses, no one is buying stuff anymore / Boing Boing
From Walmart to Hershey to Campbell’s Soup, America’s biggest retailers and manufacturers are warning their shareholders that flat growth is a fact of life because of “consumer bifurcation,” which is plutocrat-speak for “everyone is broke except the…
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The FCC is investigating whether Hilton Hotels blocks Wi-Fi hotspots | The Verge
In the past year, the FCC seems to have made it a priority to punish companies who are blocking the lawful use of Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Donald Trump Crosses Picket Line, Shivshivs Fellow G.O.P. Candidates b | Vanity Fair
On Sunday, the G.O.P. presidential campaigns collectively drafted a letter listing their demands to networks hosting future presidential debates, bypassing the Republican National Committee and attempting to take destiny into their own hands.
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[OC] Reflections on an abandoned mining town [3984×2988] : AbandonedPorn
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‘Gripping’ autism book wins Samuel Johnson prize – BBC News
Author Steve Silberman has won the £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for his book about autism. The judges said Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently was a “tour de force” of journal…
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‘Hopeful’ study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015 | Books | The Guardian
Steve Silberman’s investigation into autism, Neurotribes, has become the first popular science book to win the Samuel Johnson prize, praised by judges of the prestigious non-fiction award for “inject[ing] a hopeful note into a conversation that’s no…
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US Air Force Launches 11th GPS 2F Satellite
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the 11th satellite in its current-generation series of positioning, navigation and timing satellites Oct. 31 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas…
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Live Long and Die Out – The Awl
If you’re prone to flights of depressive thoughts in the shower (who isn’t?), you’ve perhaps briefly entertained the notion that, since humans are responsible for every environmental catastrophe, maybe the planet would be better off if we all just d…
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Noted Con Artist is at it again. Behold, how the mighty have fallen. Disgraced televangelist bazillionaire turned doomsday prepper and potato hyperenthusiast Jim Bakker has been reduced to hawking actual buckets of Bibles on television. Huh, so ther…
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New SEC Ruling Brings Equity Crowdfunding Even Closer | TechCrunch
The idea that the average consumer i.e. a non “high net-worth individual” could invest in a small equity round has been in the works since June but a new rule released last week now brings the US closer to true equity crowdfunding.
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Track of the Day: ‘Tik Tok’ (mashup) – The Atlantic
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How to Craft the Perfect Playlist for Productivity
Nothing has more of a negative impact on my workday than forgetting my headphones. Like most people, music is a huge part of my life. I listen to the most music while I work, sifting through playlists, on what seems like a never-ending search for th…
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Sanders Could Be The First Jewish President, But Doesn’t Like To Talk About It : NPR
The conservative Christian college Liberty University is the last place you’d expect to find a Jewish politician on Rosh Hashanah. But that’s exactly where Bernie Sanders was on the first day of the Jewish New Year.
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Fight! [Yuru Yuri S3] : animegifs
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MRW I’m in an intense fight with John Cena, but I’m 85 : shittyreactiongifs
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George Osborne: UK does not want closer union – BBC News
The EU’s drive towards an “ever-closer union” is causing “strains” in the UK’s relationship with other European countries, the chancellor is to say.
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Late afternoon sun loaf : Catloaf
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A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Monday to eight years in federal prison for supervising the backroom beating of a jail visitor who fellow guards testified was handcuffed on the ground and covered in blood.
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When Should The New Star Trek TV Series Take Place?
Today’s news of a new Star Trek TV show hit the world like a phaser set to stun. CBS is creating a brand new Trek show for January 2017—but what does this mean? The Star Trek universe is so big and has been seen in so many different ways, the possib…
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Irish government to decriminalise personal quantities of many drugs / Boing Boing
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin the Irish Minister of State for New Communities, Culture and Equality, announced that his government is opening safe injection sites, will introduce a new Misuse of Drugs Bill bill in early 2016 that will decrminalise possession of…
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What would our technology look like if we treated climate change like the Cold War? | Grist
This pilot project will power 20,000 homes with renewable energy. As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis.
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Autumn’s Night Skies Offer the Best of Summer … and Winter
Look up into the sky this week to see why autumn is the favorite season for many skywatchers: You can get your last look at summer stars and, if you stay up late, your first look at winter stars. Best of all, it gets dark earlier and the night tempe…
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See the Sweaty, Determined, and Bravely Costumed Runners of the New York Marathon | Vanity Fair
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Police sexual misconduct: Just how big of a problem is it?
Over the weekend the Associated Press published the results of a year-long investigation into sexual misconduct by law enforcement in the U.S.
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Even Non-Nerds Should Be Excited for the New Star Trek Series | Vanity Fair
CBS announced today that they would be launching a new Star Trek TV series. The news was enough to send a tingle to the tip of every pointy Vulcan ear and add joyful wrinkles to the Ferengi foreheads of die-hard Trekkies big and small.
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How Did the One-Child Policy Change China?: An Interview with Mei Fong – The New Yorker
Mei Fong is the youngest of five daughters, conceived in hopes of a son who never materialized. “Be glad we’re not in the old country,’’ her relatives, who had immigrated from southern China to Malaysia, would tell her. “You’d never have been born.
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A plane cutting through the clouds : oddlysatisfying
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The Pacific Ocean Becomes a Caldron https://t.co/E8qxy88fU5
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BBC Sport – Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Aston Villa
Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino has no fresh injury worries ahead of the clash with Aston Villa. Nabil Bentaleb, Alex Pritchard and Nacer Chadli all remain sidelined with ankle injuries, along with Son Heung-min because of a foot problem.
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How to Fix iMessage’s Read Receipts: A Proposal
If you’ve ever used iMessage, the proprietary messaging platform for Apple devices such as the iPhone, you’ve probably developed an opinion (or a refined lack of opinion) about its “read receipts” feature.
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Admit It, You’re Probably Going to Pay $6 a Month Just for ‘Star Trek’ | Motherboard
It’s been over 10 years since Star Trek: Enterprise closed off its final episodes on CBS, and it’s been nearly 50 years since the series first started. Now, with enough fan demand and some appropriate timing, Star Trek is coming back for a new serie…
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Google X sets ambitious goal of drone deliveries by 2017 | The Verge
The head of Google’s Project Wing program, Dave Vos, today told attendees at an Air Traffic Control conference in Washington, DC that he aims to launch the company’s drone delivery business by 2017.
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Hurricane Patricia was a surprise. The eastern Pacific hurricane strengthened explosively before hitting the coast of Mexico, far exceeding projections of scientists who study such storms. And while the storm’s strength dissipated quickly when it st…
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Activists took over Airbnb’s headquarters in San Francisco to protest evictions | The Verge
Chanting “no more displacement,” dozens of activists paraded around the large lobby on Brannan Street, accompanied by drummers and a group of musicians known as the Brass Liberation Orchestra.
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For This Released Inmate, Freedom Tastes Like Pizza For Breakfast : NPR
Dana Bowerman walked out of a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, Monday morning and for the first time in more than a decade, she chose her own breakfast. Bowerman is one of about 6,100 inmates released over the past few days as part of a change i…
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Meet Oliver, the sweetest little rescue. : cats
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Covering a Kitty in Post-It Notes Makes it Walk Funny : cats
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[OC] Love isn’t complicated. via /r/cats https://t.co/es23OvtSxy https://t.co/HeV9H32xfH
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My friends cat Oreo on Halloween : cats
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Being so bored you make ur own friends : funny
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Winter in Australia. via /r/funny https://t.co/lWjmBchrH8 https://t.co/IQm97Uuv8g
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ISS: 15 years orbiting the earth – BBC News
For 15 years the International Space Station has being orbiting the Earth with a human crew. Travelling at a speed of five miles per second, the microgravity laboratory is expected to continue its work for a further ten years.
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EPA Says Porsche, Audi, Volkswagen SUVs Cheated On Emissions Tests : technology
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‘Sherlock’ will end when Benedict Cumberbatch leaves, co-creator reveals : television
‘Sherlock’ will end when Benedict Cumberbatch leaves, co-creator reveals via /r/television https://t.co/RRuSBHAsHv https://t.co/tnH3yvZdEa
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Book and Bed: Tokyo’s coffin hotel/bookstore / Boing Boing
If you’re in Ikebukuro and need a cozy, bookish bed for the night, try Book and Bed, a “designed hostel” that hides coffin-hotel-style bunks among bookshelves lined with handsome volumes and rolling ladders. The books aren’t for sale, but you’re wel…
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Porsche cheated on emissions tests too, EPA says | Grist
As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis. The author and former New York Times columnist talks about the new vegan meal-kit startup he has recently joined.
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Kickstarting an exciting feminist steampunk bicycle-racing novel / Boing Boing
You may remember Elly Blue from Pedal Zombies, a kickstarted collection of feminist science fiction about zombies and bicycles. Now she’s back with a new crowdfunding drive for a feminist steampunk cycling novel called The Velocipede Races.
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Which airlines are best and worst for the climate? | Grist
As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis.
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Paris Go Zones // i-D Magazine on Vimeo
Contesting the words of a Fox News reporter who labelled the north of Paris as a “no-go zone”, director Cyprien Clément-Delmas, and the Parisian youth have come together to show an alternative side to the story; neighbourhoods bursting with life, cr…
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Ten pilot whales stranded on Calais beach – BBC News
Ten long-finned pilot whales have been found stranded on a beach in Calais. Three were able to be rescued and returned to sea, but six of the whales were dead before the authorities arrived and one more died as they were trying to save it.
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Unionists Plot To Derail Marriage Equality In Northern Ireland – The Daily Beast
Like King Canute, Mike Nesbitt, the leader of the center-right Ulster Unionist Party, knows he cannot turn back the tide of progress. His colleagues in the hardline Democratic Unionist Party aren’t so sure.
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Following the bell, Fitbit announced its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $409.3 million, and earnings per share using normal accounting methods of $0.19. The company’s adjusted profit totaled $0.24 per share. The results ar…
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Calgary, Canada: Where Bubbles Instantly Turn to Ice – The Atlantic
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Charlie Kaufman’s new, long-in-the-works movie Anomalisa premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this fall, where The A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd saw it and said it lived up to his (admittedly high) expectations. (The word “triumph” w…
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Welcome to the internet, bitch: The O.C. is now streaming online · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Halloween has just ended, but apparently it’s not too early for a Chrismukkah miracle: Complex announces today that The CW has put the entirety of classic Fox teen series The O.C. on The CW Seed.
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For Most Syrians, the Problem Isn’t ISIS—It’s Assad | The Nation
This photo, taken on August 23, 2015, depicts the emergency room staff in my hometown, Douma, just a few miles east of Damascus. They were appealing to the world to stop the airstrikes by the Assad government, stop the killing of civilians, stop the…
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Apparently angling for some kind of job as an ambassador when he’s done with TBS, Conan O’Brien has announced that he’ll be joining First Lady Michelle Obama on an upcoming trip to visit U.S. troops in Qatar.
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To many, the music of The Shaggs is borderline unlistenable, full of wrong notes and sour-sounding chords.
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Royals Are Kings: Kansas City Wins First World Series In 30 Years : NPR
The Kansas City Royals staged a dramatic Game 5 comeback to beat the New York Mets Sunday night, earning their first World Series title in 30 years and thrilling fans who have been desperate to win after last year’s crushing loss.
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In Disappointing Month For Studios, October Chock Full Of Box Office Flops : NPR
October was grim for movie studios. NPR reports on four weeks of flops.
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Turkey’s AK Party Sweeps Back Into Power In Parliamentary Election : NPR
Turkish voters selected the long governing AK Party back into power in surprise election results Sunday. President Erdogan called it a vote for stability, and the push for a new constitution — one that would give the increasingly authoritarian Erdog…
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Racial Discrimination In Jury Selection : NPR
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case involving an African-American man convicted of killing an elderly woman by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. The court is considering the issue of racial discrimination in jury selection.
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Red Tape Impedes European Efforts To Prosecute Migrant Smugglers : NPR
Finding the people smugglers responsible for the deaths of migrants at sea is hard enough. Bureaucratic obstacles and a lack of political will have also impeded Europe’s crackdown on smugglers.
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With The ‘Internet Of Things,’ A ‘Niche Solution’ In Search Of A Problem : NPR
In this week’s All Tech Considered segment, NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Sean Gallagher, IT editor at technology website Ars Technica, about the benefits and concerns with the “Internet of Things.
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Thousands Of Federal Inmates Released Following Sentencing Changes : NPR
Several thousand federal inmates are being released early as a result of changes to U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines on drug crimes.
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Russian Investigators Search Wreckage Of Aircraft Downed Over Sinai : NPR
Russia promises a “credible” investigation into Saturday’s plane crash over the Sinai peninsula that killed all 224 people on board. Investigators are looking into what could cause the Airbus A321 to disintegrate in flight.
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‘This Gulf Of Fire’ Examines The Lisbon, Portugal, Earthquake In 1755 : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Mark Molesky, associate professor at Seton Hall University, about his book, This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason.
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One Mariachi Band Brings Morrissey To Dia De Los Muertos : NPR
In Los Angeles, one of this year’s largest Day of the Dead celebrations was held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery where Rudolph Valentino, Jayne Mansfield and Dee Dee Ramone are buried.
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‘Patchwork Of Protection’ In Rural Areas For LGBT Community Has Limits : NPR
Pocatello, Idaho, and Laramie, Wyo., might not be the first places you think of leading the charge to protect the LGBT community from discrimination. But in these rural, Republican-led states, local governments are taking the matter into their own h…
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Could A Tiny Mobile Studio Solve Your Housing Crisis? : All Tech Considered : NPR
If you travel for work — and you’re tired of living out of a suitcase, renting rooms and sharing bathrooms with grungy roommates — there’s a man in Austin, Texas, who has a possible solution. Call it a long shot. But basically, he’s building tiny se…
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For Victims Of A Migrant Shipwreck, Justice Remains Elusive : Parallels : NPR
Europe is vowing to prosecute smugglers who pack migrants onto ships making dangerous journeys from the Mideast. It’s not an easy job: Among the challenges is tracking down smugglers who make it their business to keep their full identities hidden fr…
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In Reversal, Death Rates Rise For Middle-Aged Whites : Shots – Health News : NPR
The cause of the reversal remains unclear. Researchers speculate it might be the result of the bad economy fueling a rise in suicides, plus overdoses from prescription painkillers and illegal drugs like heroin, and alcohol abuse.
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Jimmy Carter: ‘I’m Still Maintaining A Pretty Normal Schedule’ : NPR
Former President Jimmy Carter took a break from reprising his role as Habitat for Humanity’s most recognizable champion Monday to talk with All Things Considered’s Kelly McEvers from Memphis, Tennessee. “I’m taking special treatments for the cancer …
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ColorSearch Finds Professional Artwork That Matches Your Home’s Decor
There’s a lot of work that goes into laying out a beautiful home. Art can help jazz up the place, but the last thing you want is a nice print that clashes with your room’s color theme. ColorSearch can help.
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MRW I hear there is free food and I have not eaten in 20 minutes. – GIF on Imgur
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How Pixar Rescued The Good Dinosaur From Creative Extinction
It’s kind of amazing that The Good Dinosaur is hitting theaters in a few weeks. And it actually looks great. Just a couple of years ago, we kept hearing The Good Dinosaur was in the midst of a huge creative crisis.
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BBC Arabic Festival Awards announced – BBC News
Five winners of this year’s BBC Arabic Festival Awards have been announced at Broadcasting House in London. The film-makers were selected by a panel of judges in the categories of Feature Documentary, Short Documentary, Reportage, Short Film and You…
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In the US, middle-aged white people face rising mortality rates | Ars Technica
Though people in industrialized countries are generally living longer and better lives, one group isn’t going with the healthy flow.
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The Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Covert radio broadcasts tied to China prompt US government investigation | US news | The Guardian
The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California company whose US radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government, officials said.
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How will Turkey’s president consolidate his power? – Al Jazeera English
Turkey’s ruling AK party has regained its big parliamentary majority following a snap election on Sunday. In June, the party had lost that majority for the first time in 13 years, and attempts to form a coalition government with other parties failed.
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Gas companies and lobbyists treated senior figures from the Queensland industry regulator to tickets to the Australian ballet, corporate boxes at football games and cocktail parties as part of thousands of dollars in hospitality.
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Chegg Beats Analysts’ Q3 Estimates With $81.3M In Sales | TechCrunch
Online textbook and tutoring company Chegg beat Wall Street’s expectations when it reported its third quarter sales of $81.3 million. Its revenue was expected to total $78.28 million. The company posted a loss of 12 cents per share, compared to the …
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Slow Ventures Get a New Partner | TechCrunch
Will Quist has joined four-year-old Slow Ventures as a partner. Slow Ventures, managed by Facebook employees Dave Morin and Kevin Colleran, raised a $65 million fourth fund in April. At the time, it announced that Sam Lessin, another former Facebook…
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Qualys Beats In Q3, But Light Guidance Drags Its Shares South 10% | TechCrunch
Ahead of FireEye’s Wednesday report, Qualys reported its third quarter performance today, including revenue of $42.5 million, and earnings per share of $0.11 using normal accounting techniques. Employing less rigorous standards, Qualys earned a stee…
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Listen to a new Rustie single, ‘First Mythz’ | The Verge
Glaswegian maximalist Rustie (aka Russell Whyte) released a new single this morning, “First Mythz.
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Employers appear to discriminate against well-qualified job candidates who have a disability, researchers at Rutgers and Syracuse universities have concluded.
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Watch this self-flying drone dodge through tree branches at 30 miles per hour | The Verge
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have just released a video showing a drone autonomously navigating its way through tightly clustered trees at 30 miles per hour, the most advanced system of object detection and av…
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Google’s head of design isn’t a fan of Windows 10 | The Verge
Matias Duarte, Google’s vice president of design, thinks Windows 10 looks like hot garbage.
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Fashion Shock: People Really Do Want To Wear Kanye’s Clothes – The Daily Beast
Kanye West was the enfant terrible at New York Fashion Week in September, throwing a wrench in the schedule with his last-minute show, which looked remarkably like his previous collection (hoodies, baggy pants, nude bodystockings).
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The US Department of Defense spent nearly $43m on a gas station in northern Afghanistan and has been unable to explain why it cost so much, according to a congressionally-mandated inspector.
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Colorado Springs shooting witnesses come forward as police stay silent | US news | The Guardian
Colorado Springs police have provided few official details in the days following the 31 October shooting that left four dead, but a picture has emerged as witnesses and friends and family of the victims come forward.
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Afghan fuel station cost $43m, US military report says – BBC News
The US Department of Defense has spent $43m (£28m) on a vehicle fuelling station in Afghanistan, according to a recently published oversight report. The project was intended to show how Afghanistan’s natural gas reserves could be used as an alternat…
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Adele’s ‘Hello’ Tops 1 Million Downloads in Opening Week | Rolling Stone
Adele’s ‘Hello’ Tops 1 Million Downloads in Opening Week ’25’ track becomes first digital single to go platinum in one week
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For years, Trekkers and Trekkies have had to rely on fan-made films to satiate their thirst for new, Chris Pine-free Star Trek adventures.
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Cyclone Chapala Over the Gulf of Aden : Natural Hazards
At 12:40 p.m. local time (09:40 Universal Time) on November 2, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of Cyclone Chapala over the Gulf of Aden.
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Joseph Stiglitz on Fixing Economic Inequality – The Atlantic
If there’s one thing Joseph Stiglitz wants to say about inequality, it’s that it has been a choice, not an unexpected, unfortunate economic outcome. That’s unnerving, but it also means that citizens and politicians have the opportunity to fix the pr…
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Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal is more widespread than originally thought. On Monday, the EPA sent out a second notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to Volkswagen, as well as VW-owned Audi and Porsche.
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S Africa police filmed ‘shooting unarmed suspect dead’ – Al Jazeera English
Four South African police officers have surrendered themselves after a surveillance video of them shooting a suspected robber was broadcast. The suspect, identified as Khulekani Mpanza, fired at police while attempting an armed robbery.
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Paul Ryan’s a Good Guy. So What? | The New Republic
Paul Ryan is now the speaker of the House, putting an end to internecine Republican squabbling that began when his predecessor, John Boehner, announced his resignation during Pope Francis’s stateside visit in September.
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Donald Trump goes rogue on debate demands … will the other clowns in the car go along with him?
For about a day, it looked like the Republican presidential candidates had figured out the strength of collective bargaining—joining together to, in this case, demand that debate moderators go easy on them. But trust Donald Trump to blow up all that…
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Gillmor Gang LIVE- SPECIAL EDITION 11.02.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang SPECIAL EDITION : Notifications Summit Wrap-up – John Northwick, Dennis Crowley, Om Malik, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session at 1pmPT today.
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Stop Making Sense — The Message — Medium
EVERYBODY PANIC! The technology industry is running out of a fundamental finite resource. But the problem this time isn’t scarce chips or broken servers, and it certainly isn’t venture capital — it’s words.
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Google points out that people suck at taking control of semi-autonomous cars | The Verge
In its usual monthly report on the progress of its self-driving cars — which are now being tested in and around Mountain View and Austin, Texas — Google waxes philosophical this month on the state of autonomous driving, as semi
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Snapchat Owns Your Soul – The Daily Beast
When Snapchat first debuted, it offered something straight out of Mission Impossible: visual messages that self-destruct as soon as they are viewed.
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This Week’s TV: Constantine Is Back!
What does this week’s TV have in store? TWO Star Wars shows! THREE zombie shows! And FOUR DC Comics superhero shows! Plus the first episode of the mysterious Agent X, and Doctor Who’s wildest cliffhanger gets resolved. All of that, in This Week’s TV!
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Cyclone Chapala Still Looking Nasty as it Advances on Yemen
Yemen is in for a mess as last week’s rapidly-growing Cyclone Chapala continues to hold it together while approaching the dry desert air. If it makes landfall, it’s anticipated to be the largest storm to hit the country since we started recording th…
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The most dominant F1 car in history is coming to Forza 6 | The Verge
There’s a new Forza 6 car pack being released this week, but there’s only one car included that truly matters. Starting tomorrow, Forza 6 owners will be able to virtually pilot one of the crown jewels of all motorsports: the McLaren MP4/4.
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Instantly Set Up a Tor Proxy on a Raspberry Pi with a Script
We’ve seen that it’s pretty easy to set up a Raspberry Pi as a Tor proxy before, but it takes a bit of know-how and time to get one up and running. If you’re looking for an easy way out, GitHub user CMoncur wrote some scripts to automate the process.
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Adele’s ‘Hello’ is the first song ever to sell a million downloads in a week | The Verge
Adele continues to break records with “Hello,” the debut single from her upcoming album 25. In the week since she released the song, the video broke the record for the most Vevo views in a single day and became the second-fastest video to reach 1 mi…
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US power grids [620×369] via /r/MapPorn https://t.co/qzEQN7QOZo https://t.co/69Tr2aw93c
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Paul Ryan explains why you shouldn’t get paid family leave
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Why games need to stop letting everyone save the world / Offworld
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a look inside the cheerful pacifist adventure game Undertale as well as Life is Strange’s final chapter.
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Fifteen years before the Baltimore police were accused of causing the death of Freddie Gray, the city was taken to court by another black man, one who had been paralyzed from the waist down after being tackled by an officer.
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The Battle In Seattle: Democracy Vouchers vs. Corporate Money
In Seattle, Washington, a ballot initiative that could wrest power way from corporate interests and big money donors, and change the way we do democracy comes up for a vote. Tomorrow, Seattle residents will vote on Initiative 122.
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A Female Rapper Pushes Forward – The New Yorker
This June, Nicki Minaj took the stage at the 2015 BET Awards to accept her trophy for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist. She invited her mother up to accept the award with her—an unexpected gesture from the larger-than-life star.
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Try this addictive coconut cocoa drink / Boing Boing
I’ve been trying to cut back on the amount of caffeine I drink. I stopped drinking coffee, except on weekends, and have switched to mainly to tea (herbal and black tea). I feel less jittery. Recently I started making a hot drink out of cocoa powder …
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Dandy’s smiling blep/nose beep combo : Blep
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Scaring People to Improve Health Works, But Can Have Downsides : Shots – Health News : NPR
The use of fear in public health campaigns been controversial for decades. A campaign with gruesome photos of a person dying of lung cancer to combat smoking might make people think twice about lighting up.
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Can Rocker Grace Potter Induce the ‘Overview Effect’?
Steve Spaleta, Space.com senior producer, and Dave Brody, Space.com executive producer, contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Trying to understand the cosmos –– and humanity’s place in it –– can be life-altering.
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French weatherman fired for promoting book sceptical of climate change | World news | The Guardian
A weather forecaster for French state television has been fired after releasing and promoting a book criticising politicians, scientists and others for what he calls an exaggerated view of climate change.
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Mark Wahlberg’s Six Billion Dollar Man Movie Is Officially Happening
Cross The Six Million Dollar Man off the list of classic TV shows that had yet to get a big screen adaptation. After a several months of development, an updated version called The Six Billion Dollar Man starring Mark Wahlberg now officially has a re…
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Chipotle Suffers Its Third Food-Contamination Outbreak in Three Months – The Atlantic
On Halloween, Chipotle received an unexpected visit from the Irony Police. The company had recently revamped its Boorito promotion, in which it previously offered $3 burritos to anyone who came into one of its 1,700 stores in a Halloween costume.
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JK Rowling: ‘Writing as Robert Galbraith is liberating’ – BBC News
JK Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith, has released her third book in the Cormoran Strike series. She revealed writing under a pseudonym had been “genuinely liberating”.
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11 of the Most Constipated-Looking Action Figures Ever Released
As action figures have become more detailed, toy fans have been treated to some amazing-looking figures over the years. But not that long ago, when sculpting techniques were less advanced, toy likenesses could range from the mediocre to the terrifyi…
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Transgender Rights in Houston Ballot Measure | Al Jazeera America
Houston is embroiled in a culture war over bathrooms. On Nov. 3, when voters in the nation’s fourth-largest city will decide on a new mayor, as Democrat Annise Parker, the first openly lesbian mayor of a large U.S.
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T-Mobile’s network extender lets anyone use your Internet bandwidth | Ars Technica
T-Mobile US is giving customers free devices that boost network coverage in and around their homes, with one caveat: the device lets anyone in the immediate area use the customer’s Internet bandwidth.
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For most tweens of the mid-’90s, Are You Afraid Of The Dark? was must-watch TV.
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Google Self-Driving Car Update From October: No Accidents, Halloween Helpful | TechCrunch
Today, Google shared their self-driving car project monthly report. Good news, there were no accidents. There were however, some interesting learnings that the team shared about how they’re training their software. Halloween’s a great time to get so…
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Baileys prize crowns Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as its ‘best of the best’ | Books | The Guardian
Pitted against nine other titles – from Zadie Smith’s On Beauty to Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel of the Biafran war, Half of a Yellow Sun, has been named the best winner of the women’s prize for fi…
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Exclusive: See Wayne Brady Make His Drag Debut in Kinky Boots | Vanity Fair
Meet Cinnamon de Bergerac. That’s the drag name Wayne Brady has adopted for his new long-lashed alter ego, who may appear in performance at a club in West Hollywood very, very soon, though we can’t say for certain when or where.
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Dog covers baby with blanket : AnimalsBeingBros
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Everyone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter | FiveThirtyEight
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series. The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even though New York City’s metropolitan area has nearly 1…
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Where Is Media Outrage Over Republican Debate Demands?
The Republican party has cancelled a planned NBC/Telemundo presidential candidate debate because candidates were asked substantive questions and their answers were challenged by moderators in last week’s CNBC debate.
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US supreme court weighs ‘strong’ new evidence of racial bias in jury selection | Law | The Guardian
Timothy Foster, a black teenager who confessed to the murder of a white woman in Atlanta in 1986, is appealing his death sentence after legal notes subsequently emerged that revealed how all the black jurors at his sentencing were singled out and ex…
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Took a really nice photo of Theo. I think Reddit will like it. : cats
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Watch the Surreal Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’ | Rolling Stone
Watch the Surreal Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’ ‘Being John Malkovich’ writer returns with stop-motion tale of loneliness and romance
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Bizarre brutalist and experimental Soviet bus stops / Boing Boing
Over the course of 12 years, photographer Christopher Herwig traveled more than 18,000 miles around Eastern Europe to photograph the incredible, brutalist, experimental, and downright bizarre bus stops built during the Communist era. He compiled the…
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A plane cutting through the clouds : gifs
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BMW – Museum [Explored] | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Y: The Last Man Producer Explains How She Won Brian K. Vaughan Over
Hollywood tried very hard to make Brian K. Vaughan’s classic comic Y :The Last Man into a movie but, finally, everyone gave up. The story was just too epic and too risky to condense into that form. TV has always been the right medium and now that’s …
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Governor Tweets That Discrimination Is A ‘Texas Value’ | ThinkProgress
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is the latest conservative leader to chime in on the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), which voters will consider at the ballot on Tuesday.
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Amazon’s Taking $30 Off the Kindle Paperwhite and Voyage, for Prime Members Only
For a limited time, Amazon’s taking $30 off the sticker price of the two best e-Ink Kindles, including the best deal we’ve seen on the new, 300ppi Kindle Paperwhite, and the first discount we’ve seen on the high-end Kindle Voyage, other than a well-…
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Why It’s Still Smart to Get a Flu Shot
There’s a new flu shot every year, to match the particular flu strains floating around. Some years the shot isn’t a good match—like last year, when it was only 23% effective. Even so, the flu shot is still a good bet.
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Why Buy ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’ Maps When You Can Make Your Own? | Motherboard
After years of annual releases, the Call of Duty series is getting stale. Still, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which is slated for release on November 6, is trying its best to shake things up.
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Did Anti-Francis Cabal Plant a Sexy Spy in the Vatican? – The Daily Beast
VATICAN CITY — For many inside the Vatican, Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui was trouble from the start.
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Google Denies That It’s Looking to ‘Phase Out’ Chrome OS | Motherboard
Google wants to clear up “some confusion” brought about by a Wall Street Journal report last week suggesting the company was looking to ditch Chrome OS for Android as the operating system for its inexpensive line of laptops known as Chromebooks.
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Hackers Release Personal Information of Alleged KKK Members | Motherboard
Last week, hackers claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous (as well as alone vigilante) threatened to publish personal information and “dox” members of the racist group the Ku Klux Klan. Over the weekend, the hackers delivered …
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This weekend brought yet another volley of publicity about Taylor Swift, though for once it wasn’t thanks to her own efforts.
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Lebanon charges Saudi prince over record drugs haul – Al Jazeera English
Lebanese authorities have charged a Saudi prince and nine other people with drug trafficking, a week after they were arrested in the largest ever drug seizure at Beirut’s airport.
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Scumbag insurance provider : AdviceAnimals
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Neil LaBute to produce a female-led Van Helsing series for Syfy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Like the spider spinning his web for the unwary fly, Neil LaBute has talked someone at Syfy into letting him executive produce and write a drama about a vampire hunter.
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Australia is “working to become a third-world country” through its economic dependence on mining natural resources for export and reliance on coalmining, according to doomsday ecologist Paul Ehrlich.
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TBS orders “dark comedy” series starring Alia Shawkat · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Cries of “Marry me!” are presumably ringing through the halls of TBS today as Deadline reports that the network has ordered the dark comedy series Search Party—starring Alia Shawkat, a.k.a. Mae “Maeby” Fünke—to series.
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Kate Middleton and Prince William Will Be Meeting with Facebook and Twitter Bigwigs | Vanity Fair
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have, especially over the last year or so, made it clear that the mental health of young people is going to be one of their central causes.
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A New College Ranking System Looks at What Schools Provide Biggest Earnings Boost – The Atlantic
For more than three decades the rankings released by U.S. News and World Report have been used by millions of soon-to-be college students to whittle down their lists.
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Norway Then and Now: Tilbakeblikk – The Atlantic
“Tilbakeblikk” is the name of a joint project between the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute and Norsk Folkemuseum.
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Midday open thread: Immigrant detainees launch hunger strike; lion numbers could be halved by 2035
No one is talking about taking your guns. And why, exactly, is that, by Susan Grigsby Thompson’s key prop was a red pickup truck that he used to crisscross the state throughout the campaign. In the end, Thompson captured 60 percent of the vote again…
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this magical creature – x-post r/floof : cats
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Rising deaths among middle-aged Americans could exceed Aids toll in US | Science | The Guardian
A sharp rise in death rates among white middle-aged Americans has claimed nearly as many lives in the past 15 years as the spread of Aids in the US, researchers have said.
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‘Jeb Can Fix It’: Bush looks to revive campaign with focus on experience | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush has set out to resuscitate a campaign he insists is not on life support, kicking off a tour on Monday that will cast the former Florida governor as a proven leader amid a sea of candidates with less executive experience.
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U.S. Troop Deployment To Syria Draws Criticism | ThinkProgress
After years of denying that American troops will deploy to Syria, President Obama has changed course and decided to send troops to help in the fight against ISIS, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State.
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A change to the federal sentencing guidelines enacted last year has resulted in the release of about 4,300 prisoners from federal custody beginning this week. Most of those impacted were Hispanic and African-American men imprisoned for low-level dru…
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San Francisco Is Latest Battleground for Airbnb | Al Jazeera America
San Francisco is set to vote Tuesday on a ballot measure that would restrict short-term housing rentals in the city. The proposition is widely seen as a crackdown on AirBnB, which critics say has driven up housing prices in the city’s already expens…
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Cyclone Chapala [4200 x 5600] approaches Yemen. Dunes visible in NW corner. https://t.co/sWI3ZtwgkD https://t.co/Up6ZWQe2h5
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Is It Tom Hanks? Is It Martin Sheen? No, It’s The Queen! – The Daily Beast
It might look like Tom Hanks. It might look like Martin Sheen.
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Putting back a banana : oddlysatisfying
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How Nick Lachey Could Get Stoners Voting Against Marijuana Legalizatio | Vanity Fair
Boy-band veteran + legalized marijuana sounds like the kind of unholy mash-up that only happens on the Internet, but it’s actually at the heart of a very real ballot initiative going out to Ohio voters this week—and one that’s not nearly as OMG-hila…
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Spending Halloween with Lil Wayne in Las Vegas | Vanity Fair
It’s Sunday afternoon, November 1, and the line at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas seems exceptionally lengthy and sluggish under the throb of a killer hangover.
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The Leftovers Hits a Season High With a Totally Depressing Episode
Talk about harrowing. We finally spend more than a scene or two with the Jamiesons—which means a lot of heavy lifting for Christopher Eccleston’s determined reverend—and in a season that’s been all about scaling down, “No Room at the Inn” was The Le…
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Preview Charlie Kaufman’s Stop-Motion Masterpiece Anomalisa | Vanity Fair
Seven long years after Charlie Kaufman’s last film Synecdoche, New York, the wonderfully cerebral filmmaker returns to movie screens this December with another thought-provoking feature, Anomalisa.
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Space Station Twang: NASA Goes Hillbilly For Anniversary Music Video
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Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia opposition leader ‘should be freed’ – BBC News
A UN body says the sodomy conviction of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was politically motivated and he should be released immediately, according to a copy of a report released by his family.
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‘The Nation’ Live! in Portland | The Nation
On Tuesday, October 13, The Nation Live!, a new live magazine experience, launched a short anniversary series in front of 800 people crowding Portland, Oregon’s venerable Newmark Theater.
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Pitfalls of funding infrastructure the British way | Letters | Politics | The Guardian
The private finance initiative (PFI) fell out of favour with the government in the aftermath of the crash, when borrowing money for 25 years at rates delivering the private investors double-digit returns made no sense even to HM Treasury.
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Something tells us Air France knows the power of the dark side of the Force—it knows the power of exploiting Star Wars nerds for profit, at least.
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Sex Lives helps you determine which new emoji to use when sexting · Podmass · The A.V. Club
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A simple yet very entertaining physics simulator. : InternetIsBeautiful
A simple yet very entertaining physics simulator. via /r/InternetIsBeautiful https://t.co/ocmjo7uBvw https://t.co/g2ZFhHyX1h
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World’s largest floating wind farm coming to the U.K. | Grist
This pilot project will power 20,000 homes with renewable energy. As Madison, Wis., tries to fight off a bad scheme from its utility, it’s taking lessons from Boulder and Minneapolis.
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet – The Atlantic
Lawrence Lessig’s bid for the presidency is no more. The Harvard Law professor and internet pioneer launched his campaign just after Labor Day, and from the start, it was clear that to call his bid quixotic was to sell Cervantes’ protagonist short.
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Winter is coming: the new crisis for refugees in Europe | World news | The Guardian
Record numbers of migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October – just in time for the advent of winter, which is already threatening to expose thousands to harsh conditions.
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The 10 Most Unsettling Vitals.com Reviews of Dr. Ben Carson | Vanity Fair
America’s newest hot prospect for the G.O.P. presidential nominee is Dr. Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon and mumblecore enthusiast currently leading several polls in Iowa and nationwide.
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Scarface vintage embroidered leather jacket Just when I thought I had pretty much seen everything that had anything to do with the the 1983 film Scarface, this came across my radar—elaborately embroidered leather jackets with images and quotes from …
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‘Star Trek’ Needs This New Show To Win The Next Generation | FiveThirtyEight
CBS announced Monday that it will release a new “Star Trek” television show in 2017, and it really couldn’t come at a better time for the franchise.
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Republicans’ Demands For Upcoming Debates – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following last week’s contentious debate in Colorado, Republican presidential candidates are formulating demands for future debates in the effort to reduce perceived media bias and foster a more productive, policy-focused discussion. Here are the GO…
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Top 5 TV: ‘Evil Dead’ Sees Starz, ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Goes Intergalactic | Rolling Stone
Doesn’t it seem like the best characters on TV right now are non-fictional? This past week, a colorful slate of Republican presidential candidates took part in a debate so tense and sloppy that it may change the way those events are televised in the…
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NFL Week Eight Winners And Losers – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Onion Sports presents its winners and losers from week eight of the NFL season: Winners Peyton Manning: Experienced a glimmer of feeling in his hands while high-fiving teammates after win over Packers Houston Texans Defense: Proved they can complete…
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Kurt Cobain’s ‘Unplugged’ Cardigan, Hair Up for Auction | Rolling Stone
Kurt Cobain’s green cardigan from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged taping, the Beatles’ drumhead from their 1964 visit to the Ed Sullivan Show and a long-lost acoustic Gibson belonging to John Lennon are among the nearly 350 rock-related items that will hit …
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Will Shortz and the Ping-Pong Prodigy – The New Yorker
Five years ago, dipping into the small fortune that his crossword and Sudoku puzzles have brought him, the Times crossword editor Will Shortz bought an old “junk dealer’s warehouse,” near his home in Pleasantville, New York, and—because puzzles aren…
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Download Videos from YouTube, Save Photos from Instagram, and More with Workflows on iOS
Workflows is one of those amazing apps that really shouldn’t exist on iOS. With it, you can do all sorts of automation things. Over on One Tap Less, they point to a few workflows that allow you to do things you’re definitely not supposed to do on iO…
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My sink is clogged with an 18lb hairball : cats
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Ozzy Osbourne recently spoke with Billboard about the pleasures of playing Halloween shows in the U.S., working with Slash, retiring Black Sabbath for good, and, strangely enough, a new historical program he’s currently filming with his son, Jack.
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There’s a concept EP about The Sopranos, and it’s amazing · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The Sopranos hasn’t been in production for nearly a decade, but in the hearts of Brooklyn-based lo-fi noise rock act Dread, Tony and company are as active as they’ve ever been. The group’s new EP is called Dread Is Tony Soprano, and it’s entirely in…
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His Girl Friday salutes journalism and the amazing Rosalind Russell · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: In honor of Spotlight, we throw a spotlight on some of our favorite films about journalism.
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Alcohol, Blackouts, and Campus Sexual Assault
In the war against campus sexual assault, why are we not talking about drinking? I walked across the University of Texas campus on a warm, breezy night in April, trying my best not to look too middle-aged.
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: songs from classic movie and T.V. montages. Wes Anderson is one of those rare directors who has a knack for making the first film of his that you see lodge itself i…
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram reveals rocket-making factory – BBC News
Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released photos apparently showing a rocket-making factory in north-eastern Nigeria. The group has used rocket-propelled grenades in the past and many Nigerians have been asking where the weapons have been comi…
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CBS Will Launch A New “Star Trek” TV Series On Its Streaming Service, Not Network TV | TechCrunch
CBS’s own over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters has largely flown under the radar in comparison with more popular competitors like Netflix and Hulu.
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Bill Cosby and his former attorney should be deposed by lawyers for Janice Dickinson in the model’s defamation lawsuit against the embattled comedian, a judge ruled Monday.
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EPA Says Porsche, Audi, Volkswagen SUVs Cheated On Emissions Tests – The Atlantic
The EPA says Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests on more diesel cars than previously believed. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a second notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act to the automaker, covering about 10,000 model year 20…
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Lionsgate’s ‘Hunger Games’ Theme Park Signals the Death of the Disney Dream – The Atlantic
It probably won’t involve violently slaughtered children, but you never know.
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Vanessa Helsing TV Series Coming to Syfy. Get It? Get IT?!
You probably get it. Syfy announced the new series, set for fall 2016, which is basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer-meets-I Am Legend. Here’s the official description, courtesy of THR:
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How Jean-Paul Sartre’s Philosophy Can Empower You to Live the Life You Truly Want | Open Culture
The latest installment from The School of Life’s animated video series introduces us to Jean-Paul Sartre‘s concept of bad faith, a concept integral to his philosophy, Existentialism.
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A visual history of abortion and birth control — Hopes&Fears — flow “Politics”
For most of recorded history, the burden of family planning has been placed on women, and due to restrictive laws founded on religious or demographic agendas, methods were ineffectual, harmful or even deadly.
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Satellites as Superheroes : Earth Matters : Blogs
Usually, comic book heroes wear tight pants and have superhuman strength. In the new educational manga Raindrop Tales from NASA, one of the heroes (Mizu-chan) evaporates water with her hair. The other (GPM) rides on a 3,900-kilogram satellite that o…
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InterFAX Sends a Fax Straight From Your Email Account
Believe it or not, faxes are still a thing. And if you’re dealing with mortgage paperwork or handling a legal matter, you might find yourself sending lots of them. InterFAX makes it as easy as sending an email.
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Property developer’s fellatio-themed billboard stays up / Boing Boing
This looks like a billboard from the movie Idiocracy, but it is Christchurch, New Zealand, and the property development company that owns it has refused to take it down after receiving complaints that it demeans female construction workers.
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Analysis: Sony continues to widen its console sales lead over Microsoft | Ars Technica
Ars Technica’s latest analysis of the worldwide game console market will look largely familiar to anyone who has been following our previous reports. Sony continues to slowly increase its majority share, while Microsoft holds relatively steady and t…
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Quentin Tarantino speaks at anti-police brutality protest in New York – video | Film | The Guardian
Oscar-winning film director Quentin Tarantino addresses a crowd decrying police brutality in Washington Square, New York on October 24. Tarantino says he is ‘on the side of the murdered’ at the demonstration organised by the group Rise Up October.
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Why Turkey Stuck With Erdogan | The New Republic
These days, the best way to not understand what is happening in Turkey is to listen to the growing army of Turkey experts, columnists, and commentators who make a living analyzing a country that remains obscure to so many.
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Election 2016: Larry Lessig ends his campaign for the Democratic nomination – CBS News
Larry Lessig announced in a video Monday that he’s ending his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. Lessig launched his campaign in September and said he would use the platform to push for campaign finance reform.
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This LucasArts job posting gets it : firstworldanarchists
This LucasArts job posting gets it via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/3HLt55C0Pl https://t.co/Qxd6Uo080a
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UK Conservatives ‘row back’ in Europe rights battle – BBC News
The UK government’s threat to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights has diminished in the past year, a senior Conservative MP says.
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Somebody Just Claimed a $1 Million Bounty for Hacking The iPhone | Motherboard
Apple devices are widely considered extremely secure and hard to hack. But as the internet adage says, everything can be hacked—even the new iPhone.
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This board game takes place over a really bad year for humanity / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. If you’re familiar with Pandemic then you’ve already got a handle on the basic game play of Pandemic Legacy. Fly around the world, cure diseases and save humanity.
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Congress Can Fuel Tech Growth | TechCrunch
TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF 2015 put the ingenuity of some of the world’s top budding startups on full display in San Francisco. Allison Kopf, CEO of Agrilyst — an intelligence platform for indoor farms — took home the coveted “Disrupt Cup.”
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Star Wars characters wonderfully painted by Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock / Boing Boing
Here is excellent work by Dave Pollot, who improves thrift-store art with the addition of pop culture icons. [via r/gaming] In another series, he describes how he turned a charming, if slightly uncanny beach painting into a scene from libertarian ni…
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Russia warplanes ‘bomb IS positions in Palmyra’ – BBC News
Russia says its warplanes have bombed Islamic State (IS) positions around the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Activists said the air strikes targeted the area around a reconstructed 13th Century castle perched on a hilltop to the west of Palmyra’s R…
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Double loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/XDk5pAUGl0 https://t.co/TbyeNc1pj6
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Gaspar Noé Talks Love, Filming 3-D Sex Scenes, and What’s Next | Vanity Fair
In Gaspar Noé’s latest movie, Love, a film student named Murphy asks his then-girlfriend Electra what her ultimate fantasy is, to which she responds, “Can you show me how tender you can be?” It’s hard not to imagine the query being posed by audience…
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Greenhouse in Cluj Napoca [OC][1024×478] : BotanicalPorn
Greenhouse in Cluj Napoca [OC][1024×478] via /r/BotanicalPorn https://t.co/uQmKZfJdnx https://t.co/tjXTPNUYbc
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Amanita muscaria | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Amanita muscaria by Schiffpat https://t.co/cdtHGQIeaF https://t.co/V7qL5hfhHZ https://t.co/MZOAS1B3iR
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Amanita muscaria by Schiffpat…
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My cat often looks really worried. : cats
My cat often looks really worried. via /r/cats https://t.co/pssMKUUrb4 https://t.co/pLUbUVLbeT
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Lego Minimoog Synthesizers kits / Boing Boing
Andy G made these little Minimoog Synthesizers out of Lego bricks, If 10,000 people approve his proposal on Lego Ideas, Lego might create a kit and sell them.
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China’s Dangerous War Talk About the South China Sea – The Daily Beast
Over the weekend, China’s military released photographs of its heavily armed fighter aircraft training, it said, over the South China Sea, and claimed they flew out of an unnamed airstrip in those contested waters.
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How Britain’s oldest tree became ‘sexually ambiguous’ | Environment | The Guardian
After possibly 5,000 years alive, doing anything other than dying would be a surprise. But Britain’s oldest tree is very much alive – and has amazed observers by apparently changing sex.
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Utah Congressman introduces bill to limit use of phone-watching “stingrays” | Ars Technica
The use of “stingrays” that capture data about cell phone calls has become increasingly controversial, but law enforcement agencies continue to embrace the devices.
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U.S. Expands Investigation of Volkswagen Emissions Cheating – Bloomberg Business
Volkswagen AG is facing a new round of questions as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it has expanded its investigation of an emissions cheating scandal to include more diesel models, including Porsche. The EPA has determined certain 201…
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Nepalese police shoot dead Indian man amid protests – Al Jazeera English
Nepali police have killed an Indian man and injured several Nepalese after opening fire on demonstrators allegedly attacking a police station with stones and petrol bombs on the country’s southern border, Nepalese officials have said.
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Los Angeles — Lee O’Denat, known as Q, the founder of WorldStarHipHop.com, used to go out constantly, hitting the clubs, hosting parties, attending movie premieres and HBO-televised prizefights.
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The slowed-down Chipmunks are both brilliant and terrifying · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
By now, we’re all pretty used to people speeding up vocal samples to make them sound like Alvin And The Chipmunks. It’s how Kanye West launched his career.
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The FBI at least temporarily suspended a web-based anti-extremism program on Monday, reportedly putting it on hold after it was criticized for unfairly profiling Muslim Americans.
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These three cities are fighting for a clean-energy future | Grist
These three cities are fighting for a clean-energy future https://t.co/MA0pNysV88
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Chipotle Closes 43 Locations After E. Coli Outbreak – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Acting out of what they call an “abundance of caution,” Chipotle announced they are temporarily closing 43 locations in Washington and Oregon after an outbreak of E. coli has affected 20 people who recently ate Chipotle in the region. What do you th…
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Democratic presidential candidate Larry Lessig has announced that he is dropping out of the race, accusing the Democratic party of having changed the rules for inclusion in the debates in a way that made it impossible for him to get in.
Larry Lessig drops presidential run: Democrats ‘won’t let me be a candidate’ https://t.co/IWnYaXnsLz -
VW emissions scandal widens to include Porsche claims | Business | The Guardian
The diesel emissions scandal facing Volkswagen has deepened after US authorities accused the car maker of installing defeat devices into sports cars including Porsches.
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Google plans drone delivery service for 2017 – BBC News
Search giant Google has announced a date for the launch of its drone delivery service. Called Project Wing, the initiative aims to be delivering goods to consumers using the robot aircraft sometime in 2017.
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Turkey election: OSCE says ‘serious concerns’ over vote – BBC News
European observers have said violence marred the run-up to polls in Turkey in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority. The OSCE said that an increase in violence, particularly in the south-east, “restricted some contestan…
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Have You Ever Worked for Free?
Working for free seems like a bad idea on the surface, but we’ve given you examples of when it can pay off. If you’ve ever made the decision to work for free, we want to know about it.
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Historic ship SS United States: from luxurious to derelict – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
The retired passenger liner, larger than the Titanic, is docked in Philadelphia. The SS United States Conservancy says it needs $60,000 a month for docking and maintaining the ship Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest …
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Google: Chrome OS Is Here To Stay | TechCrunch
By now you have probably seen the WSJ report that says Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system into Android and phase it (and the “Chromebook” name) out over time. Google today published a story on virtually every blog it owns that denies t…
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Pell Grants Are Now Available for High-School Students in Dual-Enrollment Programs – The Atlantic
Last week the White House announced a new higher-education experiment that will direct federal grants to some high-school students who want to enroll in college classes.
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A colored ball rescues his missing brothers / Boing Boing
This cute little video takes place in a Gumby-style universe and stars a little red ball named Biisuke who must go through a clever Rube Goldberg obstacle course to save his brothers who are imprisoned in a tower.
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Dr. Ben Carson doesn’t believe in evolution, and he wants you to know it
Indeed, there are a great many spiritual people in the world who accept both the notion of a Creator and are keenly interested in the details of How.
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Sometimes judging a movie by its premise risks setting unrealistic expectations—for example, streaming The Full Monty because you liked Magic Mike XXL.
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President Obama comes through for formerly incarcerated people
Just weeks after becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, President Obama is ramping up his efforts to make criminal justice reform a key target in the last phase of his presidency.
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Flush With Victory, Erdogan Says (In Effect) ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’ – The Daily Beast
ISTANBUL — Fresh from a landslide victory at the polls, Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost no time telling the world what he now expects: a little more respect, please.
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New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Warps Into Action in 2017
Set phasers to stunned. It’s official, “Star Trek” is coming back to TV in 2017. The folks at CBS Television Studios announced today (Nov. 2) that a new “Star Trek” series will launch in January 2017, with the premiere episode airing on CBS’s televi…
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Decoration scares boy and so little sister protects him – GIF on Imgur
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A New Map of the Arctic? – The New Yorker
In the early months of 1846, a hundred and twenty-six sailors and officers, commanded by Captain John Franklin of the Royal British Navy, sailed south from their winter harbor on Beechey Island, in the Canadian Arctic.
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Obama Signs Budget, Debt Deal | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law a bipartisan budget bill that avoids a catastrophic U.S. default and puts off the next round of fighting over federal spending and debt until after next year’s presidential and congressional elections.
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Who Is ‘Yoda’? — Ratter — “Heyday in Tabloids”
“What Is” (or “Who Is”) is a weekly series that explores early media descriptions of an object, genre, concept, or character.
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VW emissions scandal: More cars found with defeat device – BBC News
Volkswagen cars with bigger engines also contained devices designed to cheat in emissions tests, according to US regulators. The Environmental Protection Agency said that cars with 3.0 litre engines from the years 2014 to 2016 also contained the so-…
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The Trailer For The Year’s Most Surprising Movie Is Finally Here
You may not believe it, but one of this year’s best movies features puppets. It’s called Anomalisa, written and co-directed by Charlie Kaufman, the genius behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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UK’s oldest tree is undergoing sex change, botanists say | Environment | The Guardian
The UK’s oldest tree, thought to be up to 5,000-years-old, is undergoing a “sex change”. Records have always noted the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire as a male tree but it has recently started sprouting berries – something only female yew trees do.
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Here’s Your Exclusive Excerpt From One of This Fall’s Most Exciting Space Novels, Planetfall
Emma Newman’s novel Planetfall is getting a ton of buzz, with people comparing it to Ursula K. Le Guin. And now you can see for yourself why, with our exclusive excerpt.
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A new cancer treatment strategy is on the horizon, that experts say could be a game-changer and spare patients the extreme side effects of existing options such as chemotherapy.
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New nuclear plants in US may offset the planned closures | Ars Technica
Although the US is on the brink of ending a long hiatus in new additions to its nuclear capacity, there’s a very good chance it will see the overall capacity drop before the decade is out.
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New York company fined over fake clothing donation bins that netted $10m | US news | The Guardian
A company that operates more than 1,100 clothing donation bins throughout New York is going to pay a $700,000 fine to settle claims that it misled people into believing that the items collected in the bins would go to charity when in fact it resold …
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Comcast’s attempt to bash Google Fiber backfires / Boing Boing
Comcast’s Xfinity posted a snide comment on Facebook about Google Fiber’s hiccup during a televised pro sports event. Comcast customers used the opportunity to fire back at the much-hated cable provider. The first reply to the post said, “Screw your…
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The scientist who transplanted monkey heads / Boing Boing
You’ve likely read about Italian physician Dr. Sergio Canavero’s plan to perform the first human head transplant? There is precedent with non-humans and it ain’t pretty. In 1965, Dr. Robert J.
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Meet the most popular straight woman on OKCupid / Boing Boing
Lauren Urasek, 24, “the most popular heterosexual on OKCupid” according to the dating site, has a new book out, Popular: The Ups and Downs of Online Dating from the Most Popular Girl in New York City.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho: Stadium ban and fine handed to Chelsea manager
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been given a one-match stadium suspension with immediate effect and fined £40,000 by the Football Association. The punishment relates to a misconduct charge over his language and behaviour in a defeat by West Ham on…
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New G.O.P. Debate Format Forbids Questions About Things Candidates Said, Did – The New Yorker
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—According to a format negotiated between the Republican National Committee and the television networks, future Presidential debates during the 2016 campaign will strictly forbid questions about things the candidates “s…
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A Mother and Daughter, on How Epilepsy Made Us Stronger | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
Ayun Halliday is the Chief Primatologist of the award-winning East Village Inky and author of seven books, including “Peanut” and “No Touch Monkey! And Other Lessons Learned Too Late.” She discovered Crazy Bet in the course of homeschooling her youn…
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Chuck Wicks to Release New Album Eight Years in the Making | Rolling Stone
In 2007, Chuck Wicks’ debut single, “Stealing Cinderella,” waltzed all the way into the Top Five on the country chart. A few months later, the Delaware-born singer released his first album, Starting Now, on the RCA label. To say his follow-up LP has…
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Flashback: Tom Jones, Dwight Yoakam Cover the Rolling Stones | Rolling Stone
Throughout the Sixties, Welsh-born singer Tom Jones scored huge pop hits on both sides of the pond with “It’s Not Unusual,” “Delilah” and “What’s New, Pussycat.
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Legal Weed, Airbnb and a ‘Bathroom Bill’: Races to Watch This Week | Rolling Stone
With all the attention being lavished on an election that’s still more than a year away, it’s easy to forget that voters around the country will be heading to the polls this Tuesday. Here are three races to keep your eyes on.
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Tim McGraw Talks World Series Memories, Famous Father Tug | Rolling Stone
Tim McGraw threw out the first pitch during Game Three of the 2015 World Series. As a small child in rural northeast Louisiana, Timothy Smith had a baseball card on his wall: Tug McGraw, star pitcher for the New York Mets and later the Philadelphia …
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Hacking tool swipes encrypted credentials from password manager | Ars Technica
Using a password manager is one of the biggest ways that average computer users can keep their online accounts secure, but their protection is pretty much meaningless when an end user’s computer is compromised.
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Bill Cosby’s Fate Could Hinge on a Small-Town Election | Rolling Stone
In 2005, former Temple University employee Andrea Constand reported to police that Bill Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her at his Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, home a year earlier, making her one of the first woman to publicly accuse Co…
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R. City: The 20-Year Journey From Poverty to the Top Ten | Rolling Stone
R. City, the rap duo behind the Number One Pop song in the country, have been performing together since they were elementary school students on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. But brothers Theron and Timothy Thomas are suddenly …
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How This Month’s Elections Could Affect Low-Income Americans’ Access To Health Care | ThinkProgress
With all eyes on the ongoing 2016 presidential election, not many Americans are paying attention to the state elections happening this month.
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Campaign Finance Reform Candidate Calls It Quits | ThinkProgress
Democratic presidential candidate and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig called it quits for the nomination on Monday, citing rule changes in qualification for the upcoming Democratic debate.
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The HIBR Pillow Keeps You Cool, May Be the Last Pillow You Ever Buy
Finding the right pillow has been a bit of a mythic quest for me. I want something firm and supportive, but with just enough give. I also want it to keep my head cool at night. For a long time, I assumed I’d never find it—then I tried the HIBR Pillo…
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Will Mark Bittman’s Job at The Purple Carrot Live Up To His Ideals? – The Atlantic
Mark Bittman’s grin has appeared next to impassioned essays in the opinion section of The New York Times, and on book jackets promoting the virtues of cooking at home.
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So a glorious run of a Mets season, a trip deeper into the terra incognita of the postseason than anyone had reason to expect in midsummer, ended in an improbable string of sorrows.
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Obama to announce executive actions to help prisoners rejoin society | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama will announce a series of executive actions to help current and former prisoners re-enter society on Monday, as the president continues his campaign to wind down the war on drugs and reform a “broken” system.
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US overtakes Caymans and Singapore as haven for assets of super-rich | Politics | The Guardian
The US has overtaken Singapore, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands as an attractive haven for super-rich individuals and businesses looking to shelter assets behind a veil of secrecy, according to a study by Tax Justice Network.
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Making GIFs of Our Own Lives Is Less Fun Than Using Ready-Made Ones | Motherboard
Despite the GIF’s surge in popularity on social media, two recently released apps dedicated to creating your own GIFs haven’t quite taken off. Instagram’s Boomerang, which takes a burst of photos and stitches them into a 1-second clip, was released …
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Evil Demons, Devils & Imps from ‘The Infernal Dictionary’ | Dangerous Minds
A few lessons in French maybe required if you want to seriously study the Dictionnaire Infernal (Infernal Dictionary)—an A-Z on demonology and the occult—though Google translate may offer an easier option to access the histories of such demonic figu…
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Can pro sports players legally demand payment from online fantasy sites? | Ars Technica
Hundreds of millions of dollars are wagered each week online by fantasy sports enthusiasts looking to profit from professional players’ on-field performances. But do the players deserve a piece of the ever-growing wagering pie? That’s the latest leg…
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The devil comes to Fox in a pair of Lucifer teasers · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
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We’re two weeks away from the premiere of With Bob And David, and we’ve already been treated to one preview sketch that reminded us of the chemistry among Mr. Show alums Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Paul F. Tompkins, Jay Johnston, and John Ennis.
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Viewers who want TV episodes about Christmas obviously have many, many choices. And there were enough Simpsons Halloween episodes for FXX to devote an entire marathon to them.
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This Week’s Night Sky: Planets and Moon Meet Up
Venus and Mars. Early risers will get to witness a super-close encounter between Venus and Mars an hour before sunrise on Tuesday, November 3. Both planets will appear just a little more than a half degree apart—equal to about the width of the full …
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Serial’s second season is coming to Pandora · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There might not be an officially official release date for the second season of Serial yet, but the podcast phenomenon already has an interesting new media partner.
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Leah Remini Says That Scientology Statement from Katie Holmes Almost Made Her Cry | Vanity Fair
Last Friday during Leah Remini’s highly publicized 20/20 interview about her defection from the Church of Scientology, ABC aired a short statement from Katie Holmes.
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Filipino TV host offends with Arab Halloween outfit – BBC News
Halloween is a day when people around the world usually dress up in scary or outrageous outfits. Most dress as Dracula, Jack the Ripper, or maybe a witch or some other scary character.
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Paris streets renamed by press freedom advocates – Al Jazeera English
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has staged an unusual protest in Paris, renaming several streets after journalists who have been murdered, tortured or disappeared.
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Star Trek Will Return to Television in 2017, But Online Only – The Atlantic
The news that a new Star Trek TV series is in the works at CBS, while welcome to many fans, feels ultimately not so surprising. Since the end of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005, the franchise has rebounded on the back of two blockbuster films directed…
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The Power of Expat Friendships – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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A Triage Guide to Thinking About the Russian Airliner Crash Over Egypt – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Top Issues For Voters In The 2016 Election – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
With the presidential race well underway and the pool of candidates narrowing, Americans will soon have to choose their next leader based on how well they speak to the issues.
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Kansas City Royals Win Their First World Series in 30 Years – The Atlantic
To score their first World Series title in 30 years, the Kansas City Royals had to win 11 playoff games. They completed the feat on Sunday night in Queens, beating the New York Mets 7-2 in a 12-inning game.
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Black Lives Matter Is Winning. That’s Why Conservatives Want To Stop It.
The right-wing backlash against the #BlackLivesMatter movement has intensified in recent weeks. There are two primary reasons for this: (1) black Americans are telling the truth about their lives, and (2) it’s working. There’s little proof to these …
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J. Crew, Urban Outfitters, and More Just Stopped Using ‘On-Call’ Scheduling | The Nation
Several major retailers have in recent weeks relieved their workers from having to spend their mornings waiting for their boss to tell them if and when to show up for work. J.
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Painting tips from Steve Ross, son of Bob Ross / Boing Boing
Steve Ross doesn’t have the sweet ‘fro, but he knows his way around a tube of Van Dyke Brown just like his dad. Here are a few tips and comments Steve offers on this video about painting a lake in the woods.
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Trial to Start for Cop in Videotaped Beating | Al Jazeera America
The trial of a white former suburban Detroit police officer accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Floyd Dent in January is scheduled to begin this week.
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ISS Astronauts Reflect on 15 Years of Continuous Human Presence in Space | Motherboard
We’ve been sending astronauts to live in orbit around the Earth for a long time now, but Monday is a particularly notable milestone in human space residency. November 2 marks 15 years of continuous occupation on the International Space Station—the l…
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Watch Tesla’s Autopilot Save This Man from a Near Collision | Motherboard
Since Tesla rolled out its Autopilot feature to its Model S cars on October 14, people have been posting videos of near-accidents, much like the one above.
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The Tangled Cultural Roots of Dungeons & Dragons – The New Yorker
In 1984, the comic-strip artist Jack Chick, an evangelical Christian, published a tract called “Dark Dungeons.” In it a young woman named Debbie is seduced into witchcraft through her participation in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
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The Czur Scanner Can Build A Digital Library Five Minutes At A Time | TechCrunch
When the Visigoth’s burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms.
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New Star Trek TV series to premiere in 2017 – BBC News
New Star Trek TV series to premiere in 2017 https://t.co/fU6268b5Ee
According to the show’s website, it “will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations”. The hugely successful show franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. -
The Sun in 4k made from the snapshots every 12 seconds by NASA : space
The Sun in 4k made from the snapshots every 12 seconds by NASA via /r/space https://t.co/OxAvzy3ANP https://t.co/AgCEKUKSkW
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Bruce Campbell Is Hilarious on the Bloody, Amazing Ash Vs. Evil Dead
Ash vs Evil Dead debuted on Halloween, which is thematically appropriate. But this would be our new favorite show any time of year: it’s funny, raunchy, goofy, and awesomely gory. And, naturally, star Bruce Campbell slays. Hail to the King, baby!
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A flashback miniseries that takes place between the gutter of two panels in a Harley Quinn issue released a year ago, Harley Quinn & Power Girl has thus far proven to be a very silly adventure for the titular pair, mining comedy from their buddy dyn…
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For movie studios, Halloween weekend is a bit like that spooky abandoned mental hospital up on the hill: Most dare not enter, and those that do often wish they hadn’t.
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The full-length Preacher trailer is here to kick your arse · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Building on the brief, quickly edited teaser released Friday, last night AMC premiered the first full-length trailer for its Preacher series, and it’s as violent as fans of the comic might hope, although less surreal.
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“God” · Quantico · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it. No, that bromide isn’t the foundation for this week’s episode of Quantico, though it easily be a line spoken by Liam or Miranda as part of an investigatory lesson that involves traveling to eac…
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US Supreme Court hears white jury case – BBC News
The US Supreme Court is determining whether racism played a role when an all-white jury put a black teenager on death row for killing a white woman.
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SCOTUS Express Concerns in Race Bias Jury Case | Al Jazeera America
Supreme Court justices signaled concern Monday over the actions of a Georgia prosecutor who disqualified all the black prospective jurors from the death penalty trial of a black teenager accused of killing an elderly white woman.
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Rockstars soloing with giant slugs explains the face… – Imgur
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How Arbitration Affects Health Care – The Atlantic
The next time you’re filling out paperwork in the waiting room of a doctors’ office or nursing home, you might want to look for a phrase buried amid all the legalese and checkboxes. It’ll be something like, “Claims are decided by a neutral arbitrato…
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Forget everything & upvote Jason Statham on the choo-choo – Imgur
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Bizarre automatic handgun with “horseshoe” magazine / 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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Republicans draft their debate demands, threatening to boycott if networks don’t cave
Sunday night’s meeting of 13 Republican presidential campaigns to discuss how totally unfair the debates have been to all of them and decide what to demand for future debates has yielded up a letter to be sent to debate hosts.
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And there you have it : AdviceAnimals
And there you have it via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/s4hn5q1wME https://t.co/lVqQpK29Wk
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Evil Demons, Devils & Imps from ‘The Infernal Dictionary’ | Dangerous Minds
A few lessons in French maybe required if you want to seriously study the Dictionnaire Infernal (Infernal Dictionary)—an A-Z on demonology and the occult—though Google translate may offer an easier option to access the histories of such demonic figu…
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Tea Garden by dA artist ‘dawnpu’ : ImaginaryLandscapes
Tea Garden by dA artist ‘dawnpu’ via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes https://t.co/kD8itO9gp7 https://t.co/JXlVkVFd8C
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SoundCloud Rolls Out A Dedicated App For Creators | TechCrunch
SoundCloud, a top 5 Music app on both iOS and Android, has today released a new mobile application aimed specifically at artists and creators.
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Nancy Lublin: The heartbreaking text that inspired a help line for teens | TED Talk | TED.com
When a young woman texted DoSomething.org with a heartbreaking cry for help, the organization responded by opening a nationwide Crisis Text Line to provide an outlet for people in pain. Nearly 7 million text messages later, the organization is using…
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Iran nuclear deal: Centrifuge decommissioning ‘begins’ – BBC News
Iran has begun to decommission uranium enrichment centrifuges in order to fulfil the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, its nuclear chief has announced during a visit to Japan.
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Vatican leaks: Two arrested in new scandal – BBC News
The Vatican says it has arrested two people, a high-ranking priest and a former employee, on suspicion of leaking confidential documents. They were members of a commission set up by Pope Francis to help reform Church finances.
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How I imagine it would be to meet a sloth in real life. : sloths
How I imagine it would be to meet a sloth in real life. via /r/sloths https://t.co/Mim7yzF0Re https://t.co/XNUOsJjPQZ
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The World’s Tiniest Snail Is Microcute | Motherboard
Biologists have discovered a new record-holder for the illustrious title of world’s tiniest snail. Members of the diminutive mollusk species Acmella nana are only about half a millimeter wide and between 0.60 and 0.79 millimeters in height.
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Star Trek is returning to network television / Boing Boing
The first episode of Star Trek aired on Sept. 8, 1966. The fifty-year-old franchise has spawned a number of television series, and the last episode (Star Trek: Enterprise) aired 10 years ago. But the beloved series is returning in 2017 on CBS.
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The Latest Twist in the Megaupload Case Hinges on a German Translation | Motherboard
Lawyers for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom accused the United States of misrepresenting evidence and of trying to “contort the law” in a bid to persecute their client. This is do-or-die time for Dotcom and three other former Megaupload execs at the n…
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Here’s a Global Heatmap of People with Your Last Name | Motherboard
Ever wonder where people with your last name end up? Forebears is a website started in 2012 that’s dedicated to mapping out mentions of some 11 million surnames, and it’ll allow you to further cull them from newspaper mentions, genealogical record s…
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Lock up your fish, the fen raft spider is back | Patrick Barkham | Comment is free | The Guardian
The possibility of lynx or wolves being brought back to our land thrills and terrifies in equal measure. But one creature has already been successfully returned to the wild that many people may find scarier: one of Britain’s largest arachnids, the p…
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A top American intelligence official has said “no direct evidence” had yet emerged pointing to terrorism being involved in Saturday’s crash of a Russian Metrojet airliner in Egypt’s Sinai desert that killed all 224 people on board.
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Kids Company was not given ‘special treatment’ amid concerns – BBC News
Senior civil servants have denied the collapsed Kids Company charity was given “special treatment” amid allegations of financial mismanagement. Richard Heaton – former permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office – said the charity was “collectively su…
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91-year-old Jimmy Carter hasn’t slowed down despite brain tumors | US news | The Guardian
Jimmy Carter’s August announcement that doctors had discovered tumors on his brain came with a promise: the former US president would scale back his work schedule. Months later, he sheepishly admits that hasn’t happened.
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‘Make No Mistake About It, This Is a War’ | The Nation
Congressman Peter Welch has done his due diligence. He has studied the circumstances on the ground in Syria and surrounding countries. He has traveled to the region as part of a congressional oversight trip. He has visited centers for refugees on th…
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New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Planned for 2017 | Rolling Stone
New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Planned for 2017 ‘Star Trek’ film writer Alex Kurtzman will executive produce new show based on classic series
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Watch Dana Carvey Imitate Obama, McCartney in Halloween ‘Fallon’ Bit | Rolling Stone
Watch Dana Carvey Imitate Obama, McCartney in Halloween ‘Fallon’ Bit “Wheel of Impressions” also finds ‘SNL’ veterans imitating grumbled Keith Richards, bemused Bernie Sanders
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The 7 Mistakes Everyone Makes At A Wine Shop | VinePair
For many people, heading to the local wine shop can be an intimidating and anxiety-inducing experience. All you want to do is get in and get out with a bottle of wine you’re going to enjoy.
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See Sturgill Simpson Cover Orbison and Zeppelin, Break Up Fan Fight | Rolling Stone
So began Sturgill Simpson’s heated dismissal of two fans who’d begun arguing during his cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying,” halfway through his sold-out Halloween homecoming at the Ryman Auditorium.
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Viola Davis’s Daughter Had a Perfect Halloween Costume: Her Mom | Vanity Fair
When the princess costume is too itchy and you can’t get a pair of Supergirl tights at the last-minute, why not dress up on Halloween as the hero closest to you?
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False Balance Lives In Reuters Story On Putin’s Climate Science Denial | ThinkProgress
With the big climate change talks in Paris starting at the end of the month, you’re starting to see a lot of climate change news stories.
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An International Pop Culture Art Scavenger Hunt Starts Right Now
An International Pop Culture Art Scavenger Hunt Starts Right Now https://t.co/etxcrfTSEO
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The F.B.I. is about to introduce an interactive program it developed for teachers and students, aimed at training them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism.
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Adorable robotic cube jumps it way to the top of a pile / Boing Boing
Robots have a hard time making their way across uneven, unstable terrain. But not this plucky little fellow. Given the catchy name “Soft Cube Capable of Controllable Continuous Jumping” by its creators at MIT, this robot uses spring-loaded paddles t…
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What to Do About ISIS? – The Atlantic
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A Day in the Life of a Syrian Refugee in Makeshift Camp in Paris – The Atlantic
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What We’re Following on Monday Afternoon, 11/2 – The Atlantic
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History of Queen’s groundbreaking “Bohemian Rhapsody” / Boing Boing
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was released 40 years ago. Here is Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor along with the group’s studio engineer Justin Shirley Smith on the history of this feat of rock opera. This clip is from the bonus DVD on Queen’s Great…
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The Big Republican Debate: The Candidates vs. the RNC vs. the Media – The Atlantic
The attempt by the Republican presidential candidates to wrest control of the primary debates away from news networks has, so far, mostly succeeded in highlighting internal divisions within the party. Whether it can produce debates that are more to …
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A Day in the Life of a Syrian Refugee in a Makeshift Camp in Paris – The Atlantic
Reuters photographer Eric Gaillard spent a day with 23-year-old Ehab Ali Naser in late September, shedding a light on the everyday experiences of a young refugee in Paris. Naser travelled hundreds of miles from his hometown of Homs, Syria, to reach …
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There’s a new Star Trek TV series in the works · Newswire · The A.V. Club
That final frontier is just going to keep getting explored, whether it likes it or not: According to The Hollywood Reporter, there’s a new Star Trek TV series being developed at CBS Television Studios.
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Nix the Nightcap: How Alcohol and Marijuana Can Harm Your Sleep
“Nightcaps” come in all shapes and sizes. Some people like to have a drink before bed, and others prefer taking a nice long toke. But while these nightcaps may help you fall asleep faster, they may not be giving you the rest your mind and body actua…
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Read This: Maybe we’ve all been underestimating Jar Jar Binks · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
“Yoosa should follow me now, okeeday?” So said Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace, and maybe it was damned good advice.
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An International Pop Culture Art Scavenger Hunt Starts Right Now
All this week, all over the world, you have a chance to own a free, original painting from some one of your favorite movies of all time. In 19 cities across five different countries, artist Scott Campbell is kicking off what he calls The Great, Grea…
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What Women’s Tennis Is Doing To Prepare For Life After Serena Williams | ThinkProgress
Serena Williams wasn’t just one of the biggest stories in tennis this year, she was one of the biggest stories in American culture. After winning the U.S.
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Republicans Aren’t Even Trying To Pretend To Care About The Latino Vote | ThinkProgress
The Republican National Committee has suspended its partnership with NBC News moderators for the Republican primary debate in February 2016, potentially shutting out debate partners at Telemundo, the second-largest Spanish-language network, accordin…
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Fugitive French ‘cocaine pilots’ arrested in Lyon – BBC News
Two French pilots who fled the Dominican Republic last week have been arrested by French police in Lyon. Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos were convicted of drug smuggling by a Dominican court earlier this year and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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Cornish Rex Helping Me Carve a Pumpkin : cats
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‘Jeb Can Fix It,’ promises Bush’s latest campaign reset. Is ‘it’ his campaign?
Bush has gotten one piece of legitimate, if not exactly enormous, good news: Marco Rubio’s former chief of staff, soon-to-be Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, is endorsing Bush.
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BBC Sport – Remi Garde: Aston Villa confirm ex-Lyon boss as manager
Aston Villa have appointed Remi Garde as their new manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. More to follow.
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Fresh fog warnings issued as flight disruption continues – BBC News
Fresh weather warnings have been issued as dense fog continues to cause disruption to flights across the UK. Heathrow cancelled 122 flights on Monday, while London City, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Belfast and Cardiff airports were also aff…
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‘Star Trek’ TV Series with Alex Kurtzman in the Works | Variety
Producer Alex Kurtzman is developing a new “Star Trek” TV series, setting it at warp speed to debut on CBS in January 2017. The premiere episode all all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS’ Al…
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Dhaka protests against violence in Bangladesh – BBC News
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, to protest against a series of deadly attacks on secular writers and publishers in the country.
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Nine Out of Ten of the Internet’s Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data | Motherboard
The vast majority of websites you visit are sending your data to third-party sources, usually without your permission or knowledge. That’s not exactly breaking news, but the sheer scale and ubiquity of that leakage might be.
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Nicole Kidman up for Evening Standard theatre award – BBC News
Nicole Kidman is competing for the best actress prize at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The Oscar-winning star is nominated for her role as pioneering British scientist Rosalind Franklin in the play Photograph 51.
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Goodbye Grantland, ESPN’s Home for Actual Sports Journalism | The Nation
A genial windbag named Grantland Rice was the pre-eminent voice of America’s first golden age of sports, larding his newspaper columns, radio shows, speeches, and newsreel appearances with metaphors and pseudo-classical allusions that included this …
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Encountering Enceladus
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Star Trek will return to TV in January 2017 | Ars Technica
CBS Television Studios has just announced that it will be introducing a “totally new” Star Trek TV series in January of 2017, the first since Star Trek: Enterprise went off the air in 2005.
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Three killed in Colorado street rampage – BBC News
Police are saying little about why a man killed three people at random on the streets of Colorado Springs. The unidentified gunman was shot dead by police after roaming the streets with a rifle and a revolver in broad daylight on Saturday.
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The rare Felis unicornus : cats
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Follow The “I Feel, I Need” Formula To Avoid Fighting With Your Partner
When you’ve got a bone to pick with your partner, a simple conversation can easily turn into a nasty argument. Try the “I Feel, I Need” formula to keep a simple conversation from exploding into a fight.
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People Think This New Queen Elizabeth Statue Looks Like Tom Hanks | Vanity Fair
Earlier this year the U.K. and China launched a Year of Cultural Exchange, which saw, among other things, Prince William helping legendary U.K. animation studio Aardman dot the Chinese countryside with Shaun the Sheep sculptures.
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International Space Station is 15 Years Old: First Commander Remembers – Scientific American
NASA astronaut Bill Shepard recalls leading the first mission to the space station on Nov. 2, 2000 Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft …
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My cat looks like a straight up thug : cats
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‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Is Smart, Sexy, Unapologetically Feminist TV – The Daily Beast
There is near universal consensus that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has a terrible title. There is also near universal consensus that it’s an excellent show. Only one of those things is true.
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Morpurgo and Simon among Children’s Book Award nominees – BBC News
Michael Morpurgo, Francesca Simon and Thomas Flintham are among the authors on this year’s shortlist for the Children’s Book Award. The prize, which is divided into three categories, is the only national award for children’s books that is voted for …
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World War Z sequel gets new writer, sassy new fall zombie look · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After a torturously extended production for the first movie, Brad Pitt’s World War Z sequel worked overtime to insure that wouldn’t happen again, mainly by giving itself plenty of time to revise, reshoot, and generally do as many takes as necessary …
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Scammers pose as Nigerian anti-fraud bankers – BBC News
Nigeria’s central bank has warned that fraudsters are taking advantage of a major crackdown on fake bank accounts. Customers had until the end of October to register their fingerprints and photographs at their local bank.
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Iraq’s parliament pushes back against PM over reforms – Al Jazeera English
Iraq’s parliament voted has unanimously to bar the government from passing important reforms without its approval in an effort to curb the power of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi amid discontent over his leadership style, politicians have said.
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BBC Sport – Netherlands drop Memphis Depay and Robin van Persie for Wales
Netherlands have left Memphis Depay and Robin van Persie out of their squad to face Wales in a friendly at Cardiff City Stadium on 13 November.
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Washington, D.C. (November 2, 2015)– AtlanticLIVE, the events division of The Atlantic, has hired Emmy award-winning journalist Rob Hendin as its Executive Producer.
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A brief survey of the short story: Silvina Ocampo | Books | The Guardian
In 1940 a book was published in Buenos Aires that drew together a vast array of fantastic tales, from Petronius and Pu Songling to Edgar Allan Poe and Kafka. Its editors were three Argentinian bibliophiles: Silvina Ocampo, her husband Adolfo Bioy Ca…
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Does Bernie Sanders Need to Go Negative? | The New Republic
Bernie Sanders has always hated personal attacks in politics. And the latest controversy surrounding his campaign shows why that’s a particularly risky strategy when it comes to Hillary Clinton, whose supporters will always be poised to hit back.
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How a 3D Film with Real Sex Stays Intimate | The New Republic
In the films of French director Gaspar Noé, no scene of pain or desire is cut short. Noé often urges audiences deeper into moments that might normally be reduced to a suggestive kiss or a glimpse of a wound, or censored altogether.
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FOUND: A 2,250-Foot-Long Crack in Wyoming | Atlas Obscura
Earlier last month, a hunter in Wyoming was out in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains when he came across a crack in the earth.
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Finally, An Umbrella That’s Tough Enough for a Wind Storm
We’ve all had it happen—a sudden gust of wind in a heavy rainstorm turns your umbrella into an inverted canvass lance that pulls you backward while you get drenched. After that, the umbrella is usually destined for the landfill, its frame thrashed b…
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If You Give a Hunk a Cookie – Racked
If you are not, as I am not, from Los Angeles, then you might not know what Erewhon is. It’s not a mythical creature, or the name of a Tolkienian elf, or “nowhere” spelled backwards, although it almost is.
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Black Friday Starts Today for Amazon Customers | Motherboard
Amazon is taking Black Friday and stretching it into a weeks-long deal bonanza with special privileges for Prime members, starting now and ending December 22.
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Jennette McCurdy https://t.co/hMhS7EWnYI https://t.co/QT3safZAva
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Don Mattingly introduced as new Miami Marlins manager | Sport | The Guardian
Don Mattingly has been introduced as the Miami Marlins manager, the team’s seventh since June 2010. Mattingly was hired last week, and Monday’s news conference was delayed until after the World Series. He parted last month with the Los Angeles Dodge…
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Four weeks before representatives from hundreds of countries are set to convene in Paris in the hopes of hammering out an international climate deal, France and China have publicly agreed that any successful deal must include five year check-ins to …
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Hear All of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia Novels Read Aloud in Free Online Audio | Open Culture
I have not seen the second two of a promised seven films based on the novels in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia series.
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We may not yet be living in an age of flying cars, as predicted in the 1985 film Back To The Future II, but the rise of smartphones and other new technologies is creating a reality that is arguably as exciting and almost as far-fetched.
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DJI tempts developers with new Ubuntu computer for drones | Ars Technica
Drone manufacturer DJI today unveiled the Manifold, an embedded computer for drones that offers more powerful hardware and runs on Ubuntu Linux. “Designed for developers, the Manifold’s built-in Ubuntu operating system supports CUDA, OpenCV, and ROS…
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Developers have been digging into the Apple TV App Store data in the absence of category listings and a Top Charts section on Apple’s newly launched version of its media player device, which now, for the first time ever, has opened up to third-party…
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How some fans are reacting to the delayed resolution from S06E03’s cliffhanger – GIF on Imgur
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Sport picture of the day: New York Mets fall foul | Sport | The Guardian
Yoenis Cespedes of the New York Mets lies on the ground after fouling the ball off of his leg in the sixth inning against the Kansas City Royals during Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field, Queens, New York. Royals won 7-2 in Game 5 to take…
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The First Amendment, Bible Believers, and the Legacy of Irv Feiner – The Atlantic
The late Irving Feiner would have made a hell of a lawyer. After he spoke to my First Amendment class twenty years ago, a few students suggested he’d also have been a better professor than I.
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There’s a face on the wall of T spawn in de_mirage. I like to give him haircuts. – Imgur
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We Just Met the Real Hero of The Walking Dead
Ever wondered how the character Morgan turned from the homicidal lunatic of season 3 into the bo-wielding, philosophical badass of peace that arrived at Alexandria? Of course you have. Tonight’s extra-sized episode was basically a big origin story f…
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Dear Anxious Virgin, Your Time Will Cum — Bright — Medium
Sex ed needs a refresh. If you could write a letter to your teenage self explaining what you wish you had known about sex back then, what would you say? As you read this letter from the future, I know you’re probably wondering two things: 1.
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Read Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Genius Annotations for Hamilton | Vanity Fair
If you saw any Alexander Hamiltons bewigged this Halloween, it isn’t because founding fathers are so hot right now. It’s thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose history-packed rap musical, Hamilton, has taken the world far beyond Broadway by storm.
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Republican Campaigns Meet in an Effort to Alter Debates https://t.co/7ml0BPGFwI
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Aerial view / Krka National Park – Visovac Island : Breathless
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Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye last weekend [OC] [1136×640] : EarthPorn
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New U.K. Comms Data Capture Bill Incoming This Week | TechCrunch
Reminder: The U.K. government is preparing to publish a draft bill aiming to strengthen and shore up the intelligence and security agencies’ capabilities in the digital era.
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US manufacturing grows at slowest pace in two years – BBC News
US manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in two years in October, according to data released by Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The group reported a fourth consecutive month of declines in factory activity, with growth at its slowest pace si…
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Pet dogs ‘may help children avoid asthma’ – BBC News
Young children who have a pet dog in the home are less likely to go on to develop asthma, a large Swedish study has found. Exposure to a dog in the first year of life was linked to a 13% lower risk of asthma in later childhood among the 650,000 chil…
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Build Sliding Trays to Increase Shop Drawer Storage
Organizing workshop tools and materials is a constant struggle. If you have deep enough drawers, you can add sliding storage trays to maximize their capacity. First, measure your drawers and determine if they are deep enough to accommodate a tray as…
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D.C. Set to Sink 6 Inches by 2100 – Scientific American
The nation’s capital has sunk to new levels. In fact, Washington, D.C., along with the rest of the Chesapeake Bay area, is losing elevation every day, according to a new study. Prehistoric ice sheets to the north used to push up the mid-Atlantic reg…
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Obama Will Order Federal Government To ‘Ban The Box’ | ThinkProgress
In order to remove barriers to employment for the formerly incarcerated, President Obama will order federal employers to “ban the box” in the early stages of the application and hiring process. Monday’s announcement is the result of mounting pressur…
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Cheap, Reliable, Lightweight Battery Near, But Not Here Yet – Scientific American
Second of a two-part series on new battery technologies. To read the first part, click here. In the push for a better battery, many in the industry are finding that the biggest challenges aren’t in chemistry and physics, but in regulations and marke…
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Paris Games Week: Gaming behemoths collide with art and culture in the City of Light | Ars Technica
PARIS—This year, Paris Games Week became the focus of considerable intrigue after Sony skipped Gamescom, the world’s largest video game trade fair, to host its press conference in the legendary City of Light.
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Amazon declares Black Friday a season, launches dedicated online store · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It used to be that avid bargain hunters had to camp out with catheters and protein bars after taking a few days off from work to nab the best deals on Black Friday.
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Obamacare faces enrollment challenges in its third year
Livid over the government telling them they must buy something and loath to take anything that looks like a “handout, the uninsured here are likely to stay that way.
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Israel bill seeks to make foreign-funded NGOs wear tags – Al Jazeera English
Human rights groups and non-governmental organisations in Israel have blasted a new bill that imposes several requirements and restrictions on Israeli NGOs that receive international funding.
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Hear Justin Bieber’s Introspective New Song ‘I’ll Show You’ | Rolling Stone
With “What Do You Mean” and “Sorry,” Justin Bieber’s first two singles from upcoming fourth LP, Purpose, the singer explored an upbeat, danceable vibe. But his latest album tease, “I’ll Show You,” is a weighty, introspective electro-R&B jam.
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Don’t Believe Russian Airline’s New Excuse for Crash – The Daily Beast
A spokesman for the Russian airline Kogallymavia, or Metrojet, whose jet crashed in Egypt, said Monday that the cause was “external influences.
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Apple Doesn’t Want Talks About Hacking on Apple TV | Motherboard
Apple rejected the Chaos Computer Club’s new Apple TV app because it includes computer security talks, according to an announcement by the CCC on Saturday. The Chaos Computer Club, or “CCC” for short, is Europe’s self-described “largest group of hac…
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The presidential candidates in the crowded Republican field finally can agree on at least one thing: just how frustrated they are with the debate process so far.
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On the Charts: 5 Seconds of Summer Edge Out Carrie Underwood | Rolling Stone
On the Charts: 5 Seconds of Summer Edge Out Carrie Underwood Australian band lands second straight Number One LP as country singer’s top spot streak comes to an end
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SEOUL, South Korea — In a culture in which funerals are often lavish three-day affairs with hundreds of guests, the recent funeral for Song In-sik was modest at best. It had only one guest — an activist who volunteered to hold a ritual for a person …
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This Airport Gallery Shows Off Japan’s Freakin’ Fantastic Hi-Tech Toilets
This Airport Gallery Shows Off Japan’s Freakin’ Fantastic Hi-Tech Toilets https://t.co/rH3bDzG5SM
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Waterfall rafting : holdmybeer
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Ready For The Regulators | TechCrunch
It’s not just the impending 2016 political theater or our own paranoid imaginings. Silicon Valley really has been buzzing more about the role of government policy in business innovation, and the crescendo will persist long after our next POTUS is de…
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The Cost To The Mets Of Leaving Matt Harvey On The Mound | FiveThirtyEight
With a little help from the Kansas City Royals’ aggressive brand of opportunism, the New York Mets committed a variety of blunders en route to losing the World Series.
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This Cube Robot Can Climb Up Little Hills Thanks To Its Springy Tongues | TechCrunch
Imagine you’re a squishy cube. Imagine you need to climb a hill. How do you do it? With your tongue(s), of course. Researchers at CSAIL at MIT have created a little cube robot that can propel itself around by swiping at surfaces with metal tongues.
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Democrats to Host Blowout Fund-Raiser at Performance of Hamilton | Vanity Fair
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-winning creator of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, has often credited Barack Obama for creating the kind of world where a hip-hop musical based on the Founding Fathers and cast almost entirely with minority performers…
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Vatican Arrests Pair over Leaked Documents | Al Jazeera America
A statement from the Holy See’s press office said that Vatican prosecutors on Monday upheld the arrests of the two, who had been interrogated over the weekend. It identified the woman as Francesca Chaouqui and the monsignor as the Rev. Lucio Angel V…
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 2nd – The New Yorker
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Holy Crap, They Are Officially Making a New Star Trek TV Series
It’s only logical it would come to this. The rejuvenation of Star Trek on the big screen, eventually, had to do the same for the franchise’s native medium, television. And after months of rumors and speculation, it’s actually happening—Star Trek is …
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Breaking Bad, Hayao Miyazaki, and More
You don’t need to become a meth kingpin to afford the complete Breaking Bad box set today. In fact, it’s never been cheaper. Can I get a “yeah, bitch?” [Breaking Bad: The Complete Series, $70]
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Plastic Cthulhu Goes On A Rampage in Warpo’s Final Retro Legends of Cthulhu Advert
Over the past few months, Warp have been teasing their Legends of Cthulhu toys in some pretty rad retro-style adverts. But they’ve saved the best for last, as the monstrous 12-inch Cthulhu himself goes to town on a bunch of poor Deep One figures.
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Kanye West Ripped Me Off – The Daily Beast
Gaspar Noé’s hallucinogenic mindfuck of a film, Enter the Void, almost ended his career. Set in Tokyo and inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and DMT tripping, the movie is a recreation of the afterlife—shown from the perspective of a slain Ame…
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This Airport Gallery Shows Off Japan’s Freakin’ Fantastic Hi-Tech Toilets
You may think toilets aren’t very exciting. That’s where you’re wrong, my friend. Because in Japan, toilets can be self-cleaning wonder thrones that are energy efficient and even keep your buns nice and toasty.
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Where did the Internet begin? – The Atlantic
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HIF when not a single person I invited came to my Halloween party. : TrollXChromosomes
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Sunset on Captiva Island, Florida [3264×2448] [OC] : EarthPorn
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I’ll see your raise and raise you my Crater Lake [OC](2306 x 1800) : EarthPorn
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Our planet’s fragile ozone layer is on a path toward full restoration by about 2050. But there’s a hitch: the success has hinged largely on replacing ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) – chemicals we now know are highly damagin…
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Many nights, Tonya Cook made her rounds alone. She walked the halls of one of Florida’s most dangerous mental hospitals clutching her clipboard to her chest, trying not to think too much about the patients in her care.
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15 Years Later, Space Station Commander Recalls 1st Expedition
A week into taking up residency on board the International Space Station, Bill Shepherd closed out the first entry in his new (space) ship’s log with a note to those supporting him and his crewmates on the ground. “We have all written some space his…
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The history of Cuban bread can be traced back to the flour-strewn halls of a small bakery on the edge of Ybor City in Tampa, Florida.
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“Once an Ancient Blue World?” NASA TV to Live Stream New Findings on Fate of Mars’ Atmosphere
NASA will provide details of key science findings from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 5 in the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast liv…
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Wolfgang Munchau declares that the euro was a mistake, and pinpoints a key illusion. Advocates
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myFICO’s Home Buying Educator Walks You Through the Mortgage Process
There’s so much that goes into buying a new home, the whole process can be intimidating. MyFICO offers a resource that helps you navigate the waters, step by step. If you’ve never purchased a home before, you might not even know where to start.
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If you think your own logic came from someone else, you might not believe it | Ars Technica
Many people are already familiar with the concept of confirmation bias, which is the tendency for people to seek out arguments that support their existing opinions.
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I don’t like fashion. I don’t like art. I do like smashing up expensive things. Wendy O. Williams
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Can music make you feel better? – The Atlantic
Listening to music is a form of emotional self-care that many of us turn to every day, without much conscious thought.
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MEDFORD, MA—In a finding that upends longstanding assumptions about human mental capabilities, a Tufts University study published Monday has determined that gratification can actually be deliberately postponed.
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Chemistry: The Search for the Philosopher’s Stone – Al Jazeera English
The chemical industry has reshaped the modern world – giving us new fuels, drugs and materials. But the methodology and principles of chemistry go back over a thousand years.
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MINNEAPOLIS—Mere minutes after rejecting a Home Depot employee’s offer of assistance with a curt shake of his head and the phrase “No thanks,” local man Garrett Hoffman, 44, reportedly came crawling back for help Monday.
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There has been consolidation, collapse and other troubles among some on-demand home services startups, but others seem to be cleaning up in their wake.
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Peyton Manning hushes critics, but stout defense powers perfect Broncos | Sport | The Guardian
The doubters were out in full force coming into Sunday night’s game: Peyton Manning just didn’t have it any more. The oddsmakers had even made the 6-0 Broncos home underdogs against the similarly undefeated Packers. They had good reason to doubt.
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Larry Summers reacts to an offhand post of mine, seeking to draw a distinction between our views. I actually don’t think our views differ significantly now, but he’s right that what he has been saying differs from the approach I took way back in 199…
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Ork Records: When New York lost its mind and changed rock and roll forever | Dangerous Minds
Ork Records captured a moment in time when rock and roll tossed off its restraints and went impossibly mad.
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A Yemen hurricane? Rare, but not unprecendented | Ars Technica
The equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane, Cyclone Chapala, should make landfall in Yemen on Tuesday. The outlandish prospect of a hurricane striking the desert, war-torn country of Yemen, on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, raises two ques…
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Republicans revolt over debates, but agreeing on demands is more difficult
Your Republican candidates, ladies and gentlemen. United in the belief that they’ve been done wrong and that they shouldn’t have to answer difficult questions, but not agreeing on much else. (About debates, that is.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – Sampling the ocean on Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus as it approached for its closest-ever flyby of the moon’s active south polar region.
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Spectre is already doing very well in Mr. Bond’s home country. THR is reporting that the movie has broken a bunch of records in the UK following a successful release.
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Using Harry Potter to Argue Against Boycotting Israel Is Fatuous Bullshit | VICE | United Kingdom
How would Harry Potter respond to the Israel-Palestine conflict? What would Spock say about the rational markets hypothesis? Does Luke Skywalker think that David Cameron really fucked that pig, and who is Yoda backing in the Republican primaries? Th…
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Danny Brown Details Charity Thanksgiving Show | Rolling Stone
Danny Brown Details Charity Thanksgiving Show Rapper announces Bruiser Brigade II show, launches pledge drive to help place poets in Detroit classrooms
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Peyton Manning: The Ultimate Game Manager | Rolling Stone
I’m not going to lie: Every time the ball flutters out of Peyton Manning’s hands these days, I worry that it will be the last pass he ever throws.
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Watch John Oliver Explain ‘Tragic’ Medicaid Gap | Rolling Stone
Watch John Oliver Explain ‘Tragic’ Medicaid Gap ‘Last Week Tonight’ host examines imminent elections in Kentucky, Mississippi and Virginia, which could affect health of half-million people
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Apple Is Self-Censoring in China. Is Facebook Next? | Motherboard
Larry Salibra was traveling across China last month when he noticed something strange with his iPhone.
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Justin Timberlake, Chris Stapleton to Duet on CMA Awards | Rolling Stone
“We’ve always talked about finding a reason to do something together,” Chris Stapleton tells Rolling Stone Country of buddy Justin Timberlake. And what better reason than the CMA Awards?
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Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace Talks ‘Gender Is Over’ Jersey Giveaway | Rolling Stone
For the past four months, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace has worn a black jersey reading “GENDER IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT” — a riff on the 1969 John Lennon–Yoko Ono slogan — at every show she’s played with the band.
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Why Are Victorian-Era Diseases Like Gout Making a Comeback in England? – The Atlantic
Victorian-era diseases, such as gout and malnutrition, have dramatically risen in England in the past five years. Gout, more commonly known as the “disease of kings,” is a type of arthritis where crystals of sodium urate form inside and around joint…
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Did Snake And Lizard Venom Evolve Once Or Twice? – The Atlantic
Reptilian venoms are among nature’s deadliest innovations. Every year, these chemical weapons, delivered through the fangs of vipers, cobras, kraits, and more, kill up to 200,000 people, not to mention millions of rodents, birds, and other animals.
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Americans Didn’t Really Pay Attention to Hillary Clinton’s E-mails | Vanity Fair
Herewith, the December poll, in which we try to sort through the Whole Clinton Thing.
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Comment from the November 9, 2015, Issue – The New Yorker
In “Powerful Gestures,” George Packer writes about Rosalynn Carter’s visit to the Thai-Cambodian border, and the Obama Administration’s inaction in response to the Syrian refugee crisis.
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After Defending His Own Family Time, Paul Ryan Refuses To Support Paid Family Leave | ThinkProgress
On a number of Sunday shows this weekend, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) responded to recent calls that he support a federal paid family leave program after insisting on preserving his own family. The new speaker of the House made it clear that he won’t back…
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The New Captain America Comic Reveals the Big Difference Between Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers
The new Captain America comic, starring Sam Wilson as Captain America, has already drawn some heat for the way it’s shown Sam taking an active role in the politics of the modern day U.S.
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Make Hand Washing Easier for Your Kid by Reusing a Sippy Cup
Young kids can have trouble washing their hands without splashing water everywhere. Luckily, a mess-free, fun solution is probably already in your kitchen: Modify an old sippy cup to control the flow of water and minimize mess. You can see how this …
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After three years without a product, is VR over before it even started? | Ars Technica
PARIS—While waiting to see what HTC had to show at this year’s Paris Games Week, I got into an interesting conversation with a good PR friend of mine (not from HTC, I might add) over the pros and cons of virtual reality.
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What We Left Behind by Robin Talley – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
In a neat little package which proved surprisingly difficult to open was a book; a proof copy, specifically. I knew it was on it’s way and I was madly excited for it to arrive. Perhaps that’s why it was difficult to open.
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Get ready for World War III with Wikipedia! · Wiki Wormhole · The A.V. Club
With more than 4.9 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or you never learned how World War II ended. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 4,997,835-week se…
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Lebanon charges Saudi prince with drug smuggling – BBC News
Prosecutors in Lebanon have charged a Saudi prince and nine other people with drug smuggling, a week after a record seizure at Beirut’s airport. The prince was not named, but he and four other Saudis were arrested after two tonnes of Captagon pills …
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Is The Walking Dead Just Messing with Glenn Fans Now? | Vanity Fair
Keeping the fate of a beloved character on an intensely popular show a secret is a nearly impossible proposition in this day and age. Just ask Kit Harington and the Game of Thrones team.
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Spanish ex-premier defends decision to back Iraq war | World news | The Guardian
Spain’s former prime minister, José María Aznar, has defended his decision to back the war in Iraq, arguing in a recently released letter that his country emerged “a winner”.
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The tail of the Metrojet airliner that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Saturday.
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In an interview that aired on Sunday, Jeb Bush said that he was unaware of a PowerPoint presentation his aides put together raising questions about his rival, Senator Marco Rubio, volunteered that he’d “kill” for his father, and said he has question…
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Monday, November 2, marks the 200-year anniversary of the birth of the man who put True/False,0/1, and AND/OR and NOT on the map. Isaac Newton, Wikipedia tells us, “is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a …
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Ambitious Dark Energy Project Probes Mysterious Cosmic Expansion – Scientific American
Nearly 100 years ago Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding: almost all galaxies are speeding away from our own Milky Way, and faraway galaxies are receding faster.
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Meet Me In St. Louis (And Brooklyn) | TechCrunch
A young man named Matt Burns and I will be in St. Louis very soon and we want to see you. Yes, you. You, the person reading this right now. You are very special to us. So let’s meet in St. Louis!
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Hey! If you missed the Kickstarter for my hardcover, two-volume compilation, 25 Years of Tomorrow, you can still pre-order a set! And if you want to support independent cartooning, please consider joining Sparky’s List!
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of November 2, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
China Unable To Recruit Hackers Fast Enough To Keep Up With Vulnerabilities In U.S.
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BBC Sport – Louis Picamoles: Northampton Saints sign France number eight
France and Toulouse number eight Louis Picamoles is to join Northampton Saints for the 2016 season. The 29-year-old has won 51 caps and scored a try against eventual winners New Zealand during the World Cup.
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Q&A: ISIL, the Taliban and the battle for the Khorasan – Al Jazeera English
In ISIL and the Taliban , filmmaker Najibullah Quraishi gained exclusive access to the central leadership of the Afghan chapter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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Study: Married People Heal Better After Heart Surgery – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Scientists studying 1,500 heart surgery patients found that those who were divorced or widowed were 40 percent more likely to either die or continue needing help with everyday tasks long after their surgery, as opposed to married people, who returne…
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‘Welcome to Kashmir’ – Al Jazeera English
I remember it clearly. It was August 19, 2011 – World Photography Day. To commemorate the day in 1839 when the French government made public the photographic process known as daguerreotype, developed by photographer Louis Daguerre, I decided to capt…
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nitrite – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Last week The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed article by Carly Fiorina titled “Hillary Clinton Flunks Economics,” ridiculing Mrs. Clinton’s assertions that the U.S. economy does better under Democrats. “America,” declared Ms.
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President Obama’s Unconstitutional War Against ISIS in Iraq and Syria – The Atlantic
Without Congressional permission, public debate, or any attempt to rally the American public’s support, President Obama has ordered U.S. ground troops to a war zone, his most flagrantly unconstitutional war-making since he unlawfully helped to overt…
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October’s final The Walking Dead episode placed a certain former delivery boy in peril: Glenn (Steven Yeun) had been knocked into the not-so-loving arms of the worst mosh pit ever, following Nicholas’ suicide.
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Expanding on the success of the Amazon-created sales holiday Prime Day earlier this year, Amazon announced it’s now launching a dedicated Black Friday Deals Store where Amazon Prime members will get early access to some of the best discounts.
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AMD Radeon Software Crimson: A new name and a new look for Catalyst | Ars Technica
AMD is taking the fight directly to Nvidia with the long-overdue launch of a new driver software package and UI. Called Radeon Software Crimson, the new software replaces the old AMD Catalyst Control Center (CCC) with a flat modern UI and simplified…
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Germany’s planned nuclear switch-off drives energy innovation | Environment | The Guardian
Hinkley Point will be the first nuclear power plant to be built in Europe since the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima reactor in 2011. But while the British government sees nuclear energy as a safe and reliable source of power, Germany is going in a dif…
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In 2012, Ross Ulbricht Apparently Asked for Help Recovering 40,000 Lost Bitcoins | Motherboard
While Ross Ulbricht, convicted creator of the drug marketplace Silk Road, starts his sentence, internet sleuths are still digging through the blockchain, looking for other stories to tell around the site’s history.
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AP: Hundreds of officers lose licenses over sex misconduct
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Flashing lights pierced the black of night, and the big white letters made clear it was the police. The woman pulled over was a daycare worker in her 50s headed home after playing dominoes with friends.
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NEW YORK—Having capped off their championship run with a 7-2 victory over the New York Mets in Game 5 Sunday night, members of the Kansas City Royals expressed their delight at silencing the doubters who still happened to be paying any attention to …
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Families Pose Next to Everything They’ve Ever Bought Online | WIRED
Caption: Liu Jun and his family live in Inner Mongolia. They started shopping in 2012. He has since spent more than 30,000 yuan on the shopping site Taobao. Huang Qingjun
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China unveils aircraft to challenge Boeing and Airbus – BBC News
China has unveiled its first large passenger aircraft, in an effort to mount a challenge to planemakers Boeing and Airbus. The C919, with 168 seats and range of 3,444 miles, was displayed at a ceremony attended by 4,000 guests.
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The Best Thanksgiving Kitchen Tools and Tableware | The Sweethome
After spending more than 120 hours on research, including interviewing chefs and materials experts and chopping 23 pounds of produce for our cutting board guide, we found that Progressive’s Prepworks Cutting Board offers the best balance of cutting …
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In pictures: Haiti celebrates Day of the Dead – BBC News
Haitians on Sunday marked the Day of the Dead by gathering in cemeteries. Followers of voodoo, or vodou as it spelled in Creole, which was brought to the Caribbean country through the slave trade in the 16th and 17th Centuries, celebrated the spirit…
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Munich Center seen from Peterskirche [599×589] : CityPorn
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Windows 10 sneaks up on you : funny
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Repurpose Any “Extra” Halloween Candy Into a Delicious Popcorn Cake
As an over-planner, I almost always buy more Halloween candy than I need. This isn’t a terrible problem (because I love candy) but the time will arrive when I’ve had one Fun Size bar too many, and I’ll need to get the sugary stash out of my house.
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Sprinklr Acquires Booshaka For Smarter Audience Targeting | TechCrunch
Social media company Sprinklr has acquired Booshaka, a company aiming to give businesses a better understanding of their audience.
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Can A Democrat Still Win The Kentucky Governor’s Race? | FiveThirtyEight
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home state, Kentucky, may elect a Democrat, Jack Conway, as governor on Tuesday. Conway leads Republican Matt Bevin by about 3 percentage points in the Huffington Post/Pollster aggregate and Real Clear Politi…
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Amy Schumer Praises “Amazing” Selena Gomez at Hollywood Film Awards | Vanity Fair
The Hollywood Film Awards! You could ask 100 people—100 film experts, no less—and probably wouldn’t be able to get a straight answer as to what they are, who comprises the voting body, and what they’re actually awarding. It sounds like a made-up awa…
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Earlier this year, the punk rock band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, or PKN, represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest, making it all the way to the semi-final before getting knocked out.
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The Hacking Team Defectors | Motherboard
I am sitting in a non-descript all-white office room in Sliema, a touristy, commercial town that faces Malta’s capital of Valletta. I’m staring at my computer, typing commands into the terminal, and I have no idea what I’m doing.
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The Temple Owls’ Brief Moment on the Big Stage | Rolling Stone
Less than a block west of Temple University, drug dealers used to take over a vacant bodega where you could buy nickel bags of weed from someone on the other side of a barricaded window.
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John Oliver Unveils ‘Secret Weapon’ Versus China: Kenny G | Rolling Stone
John Oliver Unveils ‘Secret Weapon’ Versus China: Kenny G Saxophonist’s “pouring liquid velvet down your ears” is key to avoiding war with China, host argues
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‘Not everyone sucks’: A Q&A with Lauren Urasek, the most popular woman on OkCupid
When Lauren Urasek learned she was the most popular heterosexual woman on OkCupid back in 2014, she received an average of 35 messages a day. Sure, a lot of those messages were garbage—but plenty of others weren’t. The 25-year-old makeup artist must…
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How Many Photographs of You Are Out There in the World? – The Atlantic
Most of us probably have one weird question that consumes them. No? Okay, well, I do. A lot of places I go, people I don’t know are taking photos. I wind up in some of them, inadvertently. I think about this all the time.
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Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures Invests In Solar Software Company Sighten | TechCrunch
Evan Williams’ venture firm, Obvious Ventures has led a $3.5 million investment into solar supply chain software developer Sighten. Sighten looks like it provides tools for solar installers and project developers to optimize their buying power and i…
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In 1998, Ron Unz, a Silicon Valley millionaire and former gubernatorial candidate, set out to abolish bilingual education in California.
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The Decay of Twitter – The Atlantic
On Tuesday, Twitter Inc. announced another dreary set of quarterly earnings. While the company beat investor expectations, it’s still running at a loss of $132 million after taxes. Its fourth-quarter projections seem low.
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Australia Drops Knights and Dames From Its Honors List – The Atlantic
Australia is dropping knights and dames from its list of honors. He said Queen Elizabeth II agreed to the recommendations to remove the titles from the Order of Australia.
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Jamie Foxx defends Quentin Tarantino over growing police brutality row | Film | The Guardian
Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx has encouraged his friend Quentin Tarantino to “keep telling the truth” about alleged police brutality in the US, despite a growing rightwing backlash.
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China’s New Birth Rule Can’t Restore Missing Women and Fix a Population – Scientific American
The government ended a one-child limit, but it already encouraged millions of abortions of females, causing lasting damage By | Despite what Communist Party leaders may hope, available data suggests that China is now truly a single-child society.
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In 1959, Texas journalist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and lived for six weeks as a black man in the segregated South. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe his harrowing story and what it showed about the tru…
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Sinai plane crash: ‘External influence’ caused crash – BBC News
The bodies of 144 people killed in Saturday’s air crash in Egypt have been flown back to the Russian city of St Petersburg, as an investigation into the disaster continues.
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Unbelievable! Holy grail footage of The Shaggs from 1972 FOUND! | Dangerous Minds
Of all outsider music, none is further outside than The Shaggs. Three young sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire whose harrowing story is like no other pop music story in history, is known at this point far and wide.
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Taylor Swift sued for $42m over lyric “haters gonna hate, players gonna play” / Boing Boing
The claimed copyright proprietor is Jesse Graham, whose action comes not long after Swift declined to appear in a selfie with him, according to the New York Post. Taylor Swift’s song, Shake it Off, contains a similar wording to the one Graham situat…
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Who is your Bailey of Baileys winner? | Books | The Guardian
Every now and then prizes feel compelled to celebrate themselves. We’ve had the Best of Booker (Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children), the Booker of Bookers (also Salman Rushdie), the lost Booker (JG Farrell’s Troubles).
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Amazon Will Sell You a Second Gen Moto X For $200, Today Only
The second generation Moto X is still among the best Android phones you can buy, and Amazon will sell you one unlocked for just $200 today, the best price they’ve ever listed by $100. That price gets you a perfectly-sized 5.
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Fiorina Tells Women Of ‘The View’ To ‘Man Up’ | ThinkProgress
In an interview on Fox News Monday morning, Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked presidential candidate Carly Fiorina about a segment on her former program last week in which The View hosts called Fiorina’s face “demented” and “like a Halloween mask.
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Why Captain America: Civil War Could Turn The Vision Into Marvel’s Most Important Hero
Gwendoline Christie compares her Force Awakens character to a beloved Star Wars villain. Mark Ruffalo teases Thor: Ragnarok. Lucy Lawless has a bizarre idea for the Xena reboot.
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At least 20 male immigrants, mainly from Central America, began a hunger strike at an adult immigration detention facility in California on Friday night, according to the advocacy group Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (C…
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Video inside cockpit shows what it is like landing in fog – BBC News
Video filmed inside a plane’s cockpit shows what it is like when a plane lands on the runway in thick fog. Poor visibility caused by fog disrupted flights across the UK for a second day on Monday.
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A closer look at the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy | The Verge
Special edition video games aren’t so special anymore. When every blockbuster release, even the not-so-great ones, comes with some kind of commemorative statue or lunchbox, it makes the entire concept a lot less interesting.
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Pumpkin Fox (Rather late !) : foxes
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Gene-modified Tomatoes Churn Out Healthy Nutrients – Scientific American
A variety of tomato that has been genetically engineered to produce large quantities of potentially health-boosting compounds—including flavanols and anthocyanins—has been developed by researchers in the UK.
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China and France say Paris climate pact should have 5-year reviews | Environment | The Guardian
French president François Hollande claimed China and France had taken an “historic” step towards tackling climate change on Monday after the two countries agreed any deal reached in Paris next month should include checks on whether signatories are k…
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Build Your Listening Skills by Holding Back the Interruptions
If you want to build your communication skills, you need to be able to listen to others. If you want to listen to others, you need to stop talking every once in a while. As business blog Inc. points out, interrupting others is the quickest way to sa…
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Judge Dredd’s assault on consumer culture icons finally unleashed | Books | The Guardian
Episodes of the Judge Dredd strip from classic British weekly comic 2000AD that poked fun at McDonald’s, Burger King and corporate mascots such as the Michelin Man and the Jolly Green Giant are due to be reprinted after almost four decades in legal …
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Teaching Machines to See – Scientific American
Most of the afternoons I would pass looking out at the pasture. I soon began seeing things. A figure emerging from the birch woods and running straight in my direction. Usually it was the Sheep Man, but sometimes it was the Rat, sometimes my girlfri…
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African and Asian migrant workers are being routinely but illegally used as cheap labour on Irish fishing trawlers working out of some of the country’s most popular tourist ports, the Guardian can reveal.
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Kansas City Royals: World Series 2015 champions – video | Sport | The Guardian
The Kansas City Royals clinched their first World Series championship in 30 years after beating the New York Mets 7-2 in Game 5 to take the series 4-1 at Citi Field.
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This Hacker Group Wants to Put the Cypher Back into Cypherpunks | Motherboard
The cypherpunks are broken. That’s according to at least one disillusioned member of the infamous Cypherpunks mailing list, which is a vibrant place of discussion for technologists and activists interested in privacy, encryption and freedom of infor…
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One of Rhode Island’s most powerful Democrats doesn’t believe that “white privilege” exists.
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Turkey’s AK Party scores surprise win in snap polls – Al Jazeera English
Istanbul, Turkey – Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has swept to a majority victory in a snap poll held on November 1, allowing it to lead the country alone after less than half a year break.
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‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ Is Still So Broken, PC Users Are Getting Refunds Again | Motherboard
The PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight will probably go down as one of the most disastrous launches in video game history. First launched in June, the game suffered from so many technical issues, publisher Warner Bros.
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Morning Digest: Conservative pollster musters up a tie for Matt Bevin
• KY-Gov: Just days ahead of Kentucky’s gubernatorial election, GOP pollster Vox Populi released the first survey since June—and just the second one all year—that does not show Republican Matt Bevin losing to Democrat Jack Conway.
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Watch Paul Rudd Join the Kansas City Royals Locker Room Celebration | Vanity Fair
Paul Rudd doesn’t actually play for the World Series-winning Kansas City Royals, but you might not know it from watching the video above.
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Here we go again with attacks on the “mainstream media” and the invocation of the dreaded “gotcha question” to excuse poor performance and intellectual flat-footedness.
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Pakistan v England: James Taylor puts England in good position – BBC Sport
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The Sun in 4k made from the snapshots every 12 seconds by NASA : woahdude
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Disney Princesses as Nuremberg defendants / Boing Boing
With this clicktastic headline, Le Yawn mocks the low-effort listicle format whereby Disney Princesses are edited in some inoffensive mashup-tastic way to be food, zombies, mermaids, lovers, genderswapped, etc. Le Yawn has a nice pixel art blog.
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Supreme court case to examine alleged racial prejudice in US juries | Law | The Guardian
Alleged racial prejudice at the heart of the US criminal justice system comes under scrutiny at the supreme court on Monday, as it considers the controversial case of a black teenager sentenced to death by an all-white jury.
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”: space is bigger than you think / Boing Boing
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora is the best book I read in 2015, and by “best” I mean, “most poetic” and “most thought provoking” and “most scientific,” a triple-crown in science fiction that’s practically unheard of.
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Texpand Adds Text Expansion to Android, No Matter What Keyboard You Use
Android: Text expansion apps are awesome on the desktop, but Android hasn’t had much beyond keyboard shortcuts. Texpand fills the gap with real text expansion for any keyboard. Unlike most text expansion solutions, Texpand doesn’t care what keyboard…
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James Taylor’s maiden half-century moved England into a good position on the second day of the third and final Test against Pakistan in Sharjah. Taylor, playing his first Test for three years, made an unbeaten 74 to move the tourists to 222-4.
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Daily Kos Radio is ALL NEW at 9 am ET!
And it’s about the Republican grift machine, mostly. I thought you might like that! Listen LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET!
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Mr. Levin: Thank you, Rush. Governor Huckabee, my question to you is: would you like some pudding? Would ya, huh huh? Brrrrrrroom Brrrrrrrroom…here comes the big pudding airplane into the big Huckabee hangar! Open wide…. Attaboy! Mikey eats the pudd…
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Awe by Jo Blakely : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/ymbOu4pzvp https://t.co/4WqqSQjqpH
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Significant Digits For Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Kenyan Stanley Biwott won the New York City Marathon Sunday, and Mary Keitany, also of Kenya, won a repeat women’s title with a time of 2:24:25.
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Strictly beats X Factor by 4m viewers – BBC News
Strictly Come Dancing attracted nearly 4m more viewers than X Factor on Saturday, with ITV’s show losing 1m viewers since last week. ITV talent show X Factor averaged an audience of 5.6m for the first live show of the series on Saturday night.
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Needles found in Halloween Candy / Boing Boing
Sewing needles and pins were found in chocolate bars given to children in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, reports NBC News. Police believe the tampered-with candy was given out in the area of South Union Street and West South Street.
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Feds explain (sort of) why they really want data on seized iPhone 5S | Ars Technica
Federal prosecutors in New York have responded to a judge’s request that they explain why the government still needs Apple’s help to unlock an iPhone 5S after a recent guilty plea.
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World Series tickets for face value – if you’re willing to wait | Sport | The Guardian
Al Fekety was 24th in line for the ticket booths outside Citi Field on Sunday afternoon, more than five hours before Matt Harvey tossed the first pitch of Game 5 of the World Series, practically in defiance of the canned recording that played on a l…
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South African police filmed ‘shooting suspect dead’ – BBC News
South African authorities have opened an internal investigation into video footage allegedly showing police fatally shooting a suspected robber. The CCTV video appears to show the suspect drop his pistol before he falls to the ground.
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BBC Sport – Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho facing Eva Carneiro legal action
Jose Mourinho is to be the subject of individual legal action from former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro, the Press Association reports. It means the Chelsea boss will have to appear at an employment tribunal unless there is an out of court settle…
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Warner issues refunds for broken PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight… again | Ars Technica
Less than a week after re-releasing the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, which is amazingly still very broken, publisher Warner Bros. has thrown in the towel and begun offering full refunds to customers, regardless of how much of the game they h…
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These 13 U.S. States Saw Carbon Pollution Go Up
Not surprisingly, all but one of those 13 states have joined lawsuits to stop the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which sets state emission targets to cut carbon pollution from power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels. The rules, a key p…
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The next Galileo launch campaign has begun with the arrival of the latest pair of navigation satellites at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
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SCOTUS Grapples With Racism In Jury Selection | Al Jazeera America
Timothy Foster has spent nearly 30 years on Georgia’s death row. On Monday, his lawyer will speak before the Supreme Court to fight for his life, pointing to endemic racism in U.S. jury selection and the death penalty.
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A Chat with Anthony Bourdain on How to Survive a Knife Fight | GQ
On a rainy evening last week, Anthony Bourdain invited a few journalists to a dim and moody izakaya just south of Times Square.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Bruce Bennett is 52 and has a bum knee in need of surgery. But two Sundays ago he put on a knee brace and huffed his way up steep hills and dozens of stairs to implore residents to vote against a city measure called Proposition F.
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Kettle Lake, Groton, Vermont [4608×3456] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
Kettle Lake, Groton, Vermont [4608×3456] [OC] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica https://t.co/hbw1UsIMUG https://t.co/zy2PZWPnkE
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Trick or Treat? A Skull-Shaped Asteroid Flew by Earth on Halloween | Motherboard
Trick or Treat? A Skull-Shaped Asteroid Flew by Earth on Halloween https://t.co/apgfrv2qTC
On Halloween, Earth received its very own cosmic trick-or-treater when asteroid 2015 TB145 zipped by at only 1.3 times the distance between Earth and the Moon (486,000 km). -
La Beaute Sauvage – Wild and Beautiful [1200-2000] : waterporn
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Stomorhina Lunata at 5x [5472×3648] [OC] : AnimalPorn
Stomorhina Lunata at 5x [5472×3648] [OC] via /r/AnimalPorn https://t.co/CW3J44JhBk https://t.co/JycfwY6x12
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You scratch my back and he will scratch your back : AnimalsBeingBros
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Is OxyContin a Safe Way to Manage Kids’ Pain? – The Atlantic
Imagine your alarm ringing in the early morning. You reach over and hit the snooze button, but the buzzing won’t stop. In desperation, you unplug the clock, take out the batteries, even throw the darn thing against the wall—but defying all reason, t…
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Wyoming has a nice new hole in it after landslide / Boing Boing
Nearly everyone in the US depends on food crops grown in California, so farmers must continue to pull what little water remains in underground aquifers. This is causing the state to actually sink. It’s been sinking for decades, but the problem is ge…
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Fitbit’s race to stay ahead of the pack – BBC News
Technology has made life easier in lots of different ways especially for those of us who are aiming to be healthy and active. Wearable tech keeps track of activity levels, calorie intake and even sleep.
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Young Qawwali stars take to the sacred stage in Pakistan – BBC News
The heirs to a Pakistani musical dynasty have sung on a sacred stage for the first time. Brothers Kaif, 12, and Saif Ali Miandad Khan, 13, performed at Baba Farid’s shrine in Punjab.
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Are Magnet Schools Like These The Answer To Segregated Schools? | ThinkProgress
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT — “How about the ‘I’ in BRICK?” asked Julie Goldstein, principal of Breakthrough Magnet school to an auditorium full of students. Goldstein then asks what integrity means. When she doesn’t get an answer besides “confidence,” sh…
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For Some Americans, the Housing Crisis Isn’t Over – The Atlantic
The millions of foreclosures stemming from the Great Recession made for dramatic headlines. Now, the housing markets in many of the hardest-hit areas have recovered, and cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York are even seeing record …
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The most striking thing about Foster v. Chatman isn’t the very strong evidence of race discrimination that brought this death penalty case to the Supreme Court — it is the almost comic levels of incompetence by the prosecution that enabled this race…
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What Caused the Crash of the Russian Airliner in Egypt? – The Atlantic
The Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board, could have only been brought down by external forces, a senior airline official said.
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Build Better Habits By Having Someone Else Dole Out Your Rewards
A good way to build a habit is to give yourself a specific reward when you stick to your habits. A better way is to have someone else control those rewards. Because, let’s face it, you can’t be trusted with them.
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Jase Dillan was running some errands on Boston’s Newbury Street last week when she noticed something odd: a man was filming her even as he tried to conceal his camera.
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Suntan vending machine, 1949 : OldSchoolCool
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Exxon, Edelman, And How Shame Can Lead To Action On Climate | ThinkProgress
You might have heard about the ill-fated app, Peeple, which would have allowed users to rate their friends, neighbors, coworkers and exes on a scale of one to five stars — “Yelp for people,” as it was described by Julia Cordray, one of the app’s cre…
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Sonic the Hedgehog added to thrift store painting / 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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Filmmaker Jacob T. Swinney’s First and Final Frames, Part II, above, is a rare sequel that upholds the quality of the original.
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The Children’s Book Award – shortlist 2016 | Children’s books | The Guardian
More amazing books are celebrated today as The Children’s Book Award 2016 shortlist is announced.
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Michelle Obama tackles Mideast’s out-of-school girls – Al Jazeera English
We travel the country to find out how Russians feel about their president and the way the Kremlin runs the country. Mexico’s first independent governor says he is committed to fight against political establishment and drug cartels.
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Wildlife on your doorstep: November | Community | The Guardian
All of a sudden it’s November, and the northern hemisphere is bracing itself for sparser sunshine and early darkness as winter is just a few more weeks away. The southern hemisphere on the other hand is soaking up the last moments of spring ahead of…
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At the end of each baseball season, Ned Yost goes home to his 700-acre spread in Georgia, where he can close the gate behind him, settle into his blind and hunt. It is his sanctuary, a place where he is at peace, jettisoning the scrutiny and sleeple…
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Metrojet Exec Says ‘External Impact’ Caused Crash | Al Jazeera America
But when pressed for more details about the type of impact and what could have caused it, Smirnov insisted that he was not at liberty to discuss details because the investigation was ongoing.
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On America’s nomads, from Native to modern – Richard Grant – Aeon
On visiting the United States, the Tibetan dignitary T T Karma Chophel met with a group of supporters in Utah. He was there to discuss democracy, but his gaze kept travelling out across the high desert to the snowy mountains on the horizon.
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Van Morrison – Linden Arden Stole the Highlights https://t.co/YjYsvrqFIv”
Van Morrison – Linden Arden Stole the Highlights https://t.co/YjYsvrqFIv
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Untitled by Artem Chebokha : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Coat of Arms from the capitals of the 18th districts of Portugal [1976×3832] : MapPorn
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English Garden in Munich, taken with my phone [OC] [2448×3264] : EarthPorn
English Garden in Munich, taken with my phone [OC] [2448×3264] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/60uMgTH7fj https://t.co/20FPGT50kc
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Google is the latest tech company to be sued by its own delivery workers | Ars Technica
Legal challenges over how workers in the on-demand tech economy should be classified keep popping up. The latest one, filed on Friday and first reported by Reuters, is a proposed class action lawsuit filed by a Massachusetts woman named Anna Coorey …
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New planet formation hypothesis places giant hidden worlds everywhere / Boing Boing
Simulations of circumstellar disks, the vast dust-planes left over from stellar formation, suggest that planets ten times larger than Jupiter may lurk in the universe. Being far from the stars they orbit, these hypothetical worlds are so dark as to …
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Tanzania polls: Zanzibar president’s term extended – BBC News
Zanzibar’s president has had his term extended after elections on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago were cancelled last week by the electoral chief, citing fraud. Ali Mohamed Shein’s term in office was due to expire on Monday.
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Migrant crisis: Monthly record of 218,000 reach EU by sea – BBC News
A monthly record of 218,394 migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea in October, the UN says, almost as many as the total number of arrivals in 2014.The number reaching Greece was 210,265, and for Italy it was 8,129, according to the UNHCR.Many a…
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Did This Spanish Shipwreck Change the Course of History?
An international team of archaeologists has found a shipwreck that may be connected to one of the most important naval battles in Latin American history.
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Indonesia’s forest fires: living under a yellow haze – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
• Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
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Pet rescue: Unseen TS Eliot cat poem recovered | Books | The Guardian
In Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, TS Eliot gave us a Mystery Cat, in Macavity, an Original Conjuring Cat, in Mr Mistoffelees, and a Curious Cat, in the Rum Tum Tugger.
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These Hands-On Classes Teach You HTML, CSS, Online Privacy, and More
If you’re looking to learn HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, why online privacy is so important, how Creative Commons works, or the basics of good password and security hygiene, these great online workshops from the Mozilla Foundation (that’s right, the fol…
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Google services set for ‘return’ to China – BBC News
Google is planning to expand its presence in China, Eric Schmidt, chairman of the search giant’s holding company, has said. Google search left the Chinese mainland in 2010, after the company said it would no longer self-censor results.
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Iran’s involvement in Syria talks alarms hardliners – BBC News
Coffins are being flown back to Tehran from Syria at an alarming rate. On Sunday, the Revolutionary Guard in Tehran held a funeral for two of its men killed in action in Syria, the latest of dozens in recent weeks.
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How to remove a ring from a swollen finger : gif
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Stop drop and roll via /r/funny https://t.co/knaOS14U93 https://t.co/e7mKBcbw5b
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Abbreviated pundit round-up: GOP optimists vs. pessimists; can U.S. forces in Syria matter?
E.J. Dionne Jr. at The Washington Post writes—The real GOP divide: It’s often cast, accurately enough, as a choice between “outsiders” and “insiders.
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Hub of human trafficking: underground sex trade thrives in Milwaukee | US news | The Guardian
Milwaukee has become “the Harvard of pimp school” and Wisconsin is a hub of human trafficking, an expert has said in the wake of an FBI sting last month in which nine adolescents were rescued from commercial sexual exploitation, meaning Milwaukee ti…
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China’s massive grey tide – Al Jazeera English
Chongyang, the traditional holiday honouring China’s senior citizens, always falls in deep autumn (the ninth day in the ninth month of the lunar calendar) when the leaves are turning gold.
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Maybe Spotify Isn’t Killing The Music Industry After All | FiveThirtyEight
In 2013, David Lowery, a singer and guitarist for the band Cracker, was aghast with the music service Pandora. In a now infamous blog post, Lowery lambasted Pandora for paying him only $16.89 in royalties despite playing Cracker’s 1993 hit song “Low…
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How Working Women Can Fight the Status Quo | The New Republic
Shirley Chisholm broke ground as the first African-American woman elected to Congress. But back in 1970, she knew her story was the exception, not the rule.
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Rod Serling on censorship and where it really comes from / Boing Boing
In this 1959 interview with Mike Wallace, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling describes his experiences fighting the “antiseptic, rigid” qualities of censorship.
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Frederick Douglass’s Faith in Photography | The New Republic
Towards the end of the late nineteenth century, Arabella Chapman, a young African American woman from upstate New York, began to collect and mount personally meaningful tintypes and cartes de visite in a set of small, leather-bound albums.
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Michelin Ballymena tyre factory to close in 2018 – BBC News The Michelin tyre factory in Ballymena, County Antrim, is to close in 2018 with the loss of 860 jobs. The factory has been operating in the town since 1969. tags: Pocket bbc news – world brainiacs newsblur opinion stories…
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