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With over 800,000 followers, Essena O’Neill is an Instagram star. But Ms. O’Neill, a 19-year-old Australian, recently surprised her fans by abruptly speaking out against social media. Changing her Instagram name to “Social Media Is Not Real Life,” M…
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Hiding from horror in the swamps of South Sudan – Al Jazeera English
Leer, South Sudan – Civilians in one of South Sudan’s most desperate regions accuse their government of indiscriminate killings in recent months, forcing thousands to flee to swamp islands for safety where there is little medicine or food.
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‘AirBnB law’ defeated at polls – BBC News
San Francisco voters have rejected a proposal to limit short-term rentals offered by AirBnB and similar services. The US city is facing a housing crisis, exacerbated by landlords renting out their property to visiting tourists rather than residents.
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David Mitchell’s Haunted Mansion | The New Republic
Twitter seems like the kind of place a novelist like David Mitchell would feel at home; it’s a platform that allows for shifting identities, where new accounts appear in unexpected contexts, only to slip away and return with a different name and fac…
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How Monopoly Capitalism is Ruining Twitter | The New Republic
“Always aim for a monopoly,” says Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist.
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Google reveals Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge’s security flaws – BBC News
Google has highlighted 11 security flaws in Samsung’s flagship Android handset, the Galaxy S6 Edge. The vulnerabilities include a loophole that could have been used by hackers to gain control of a victim’s phone.
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The Slut-Shaming of Halle Berry – The Daily Beast
When Halle Berry and her husband of just over two years, Olivier Martinez, announced last week that they were separating, gossip hounds wondered aloud if the actress, now apparently headed for divorce No. 3, was doomed in love and marriage.
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Lamb helps Hornets tame the Bulls – Al Jazeera English
Jeremy Lamb scored 20 points to lead seven players in double figures as the Charlotte Hornets notched their first victory of the season by routing the Chicago Bulls 130-105.
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Mafia trial puts the ‘Pirate’ of Rome in the dock – Al Jazeera English
Rome, Italy – Dozens of politicians, businessmen, and alleged gangsters go on trial on Thursday on charges including corruption, money laundering, and weapons possession in one of Italy’s most important mafia prosecutions in the past decade.
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Cities Are Overheating, and Cooling Them Off Will Be Risky | Motherboard
Anyone who has sweltered through yet another urban heat wave might fire back at the idea that you can make a city too cool. And yet, climatologist Haider Taha says it’s possible. Taha is the president of Altrostratus, which developed California’s re…
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All the Ways Bad Credit Can Make Your Life Difficult
Anyone who has had bad credit knows that it can be a huge pain in the butt. Oh sure, it doesn’t seem to affect your day-to-day too much. But when it comes time to get a car, or fill out a rental application, that crappy credit score comes back to ha…
All the Ways Bad Credit Can Make Your Life Difficult https://t.co/9mY68UdgXm -
Darfur poet triumphs in international poetry slam | Books | The Guardian
“When I was 7, she cradled bullets in the billows of her robes,” writes Emtithal Mahmoud in the poem Mama, with which she won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship in Washington DC. “That same night, she taught me how to get gunpowder out of…
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Demon Dentist by David Walliams – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
My favourite characters in this story are Gabz and Alfie because they stick together. I’m not so keen on Miss Root and her cat as they steal teeth from the pillows of all the little children! I actually like Alfie the best.
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In 1544 Thomas Cranmer wrote to his boss Henry VIII with a blueprint for church music in the newly Reformed age. It should “not be full of notes, but as near as maybe a syllable for every note; so that it may be sung simply and devoutly”.
O Sing Unto the Lord by Andrew Gant review – drunken organists and rebellious priests https://t.co/IVMsIxZgO0 -
Matt Bevin Wins the Kentucky Gubernatorial Race – The Atlantic
Conservative businessman Matt Bevin won the Kentucky gubernatorial race on Tuesday night, handing the Republican Party its 31st governorship in a state that has elected Democrats to that office all but once since the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Cargo plane crashes in South Sudan, killing dozens | Al Jazeera America
Police on Wednesday were pulling the bodies of men, women and children out of the wreckage of the Russian-built Antonov cargo plane, which smashed into a farming community on an island on the White Nile River.
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VW scandal might spur new low-emission car solutions, says Germany | Environment | The Guardian
Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal could force German carmakers to come up with new and better ways to build more climate-friendly vehicles, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
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Honduran firm feeds crocodiles owned by ‘drug’s clan’ – BBC News
More than 10,000 crocodiles in Honduras which had gone hungry for weeks because their owners had their assets frozen were fed on Tuesday. The crocodiles are bred for their skin and meat at a farm owned by members of the influential Rosenthal family.
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BBC Sport – Lamine Diack: Ex-athletics chief investigated in corruption inquiry
Lamine Diack, the former head of the IAAF, is under formal investigation by French prosecutors as part of a corruption inquiry. Sengalese Diack, 82, ended his 16-year reign as president of athletics’ world governing body in August.
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Cameron is warned key EU reform objective ‘may be illegal’ – BBC News
Britain’s top civil servant has warned ministers that banning EU migrants from claiming tax credits for four years, a key demand in their EU renegotiations, could be found to be illegal.
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At this point, Bryan Cranston could rest on his laurels. He made his first big splash as the infamous Judaism convert-regifter on Seinfeld; starred in the Peabody Award-winning show Malcolm in the Middle; and, of course, dazzled us as the iconic ant…
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Romanian PM, Government Resigns After Mass Demo | Al Jazeera America
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced the resignation of his government Wednesday in a surprise move that followed huge protests in the wake of a nightclub fire that killed more than 30 people.
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Migrants crisis: Greece sends first refugees to Luxembourg – BBC News
Greece has flown 30 refugees to Luxembourg in the first round of relocations under the EU’s plan to redistribute migrants. The six families, from Syria and Iraq, are among the first to be moved under aims to share out nearly 160,000 migrants across …
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Spurred on by worries about his legacy, Barack Obama is reportedly looking for ways to reduce government secrecy barriers he created that have made drone strikes and other prominent “counter-terrorism” programs so unaccountable to the public before …
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triangles! : InternetIsBeautiful
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Sinai crash: Russia extends search area and uses drones – BBC News
Russian rescue teams have extended the search for bodies and wreckage from a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to a 40-sq-km (15-sq-mile) area. Drones are being used to scan the sandy and hilly terrain, officials say.
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Tarantino ‘won’t be intimidated’ by police film boycott – BBC News
Director Quentin Tarantino says he will not be intimidated by police unions calling for a boycott of his films, after he spoke at a rally against police brutality last month. Tarantino told the Los Angeles Times he had been “misrepresented”, adding:…
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Text This Number to See How Unhealthy Your Lunch Was | Motherboard
Two years ago, software engineer Georges Duverger started writing down everything he ate. He had spent the last several years working in high-stress startups and eating poorly, and he said as he got closer to 30 his body wasn’t reacting to the food …
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I Spent a Frenzied Night Saving Children Washed Up on a Greek Island | VICE | United Kingdom
As more Syrian refugees try to reach Europe, worsening weather is making their sea-crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands more perilous. There have been numerous reports of capsizing boats, and the toll of drowned refugees, including children, is…
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Pay Off Student Debt With Travel Points? Canadians Might Soon Be Able To | VICE News
In what could be a novel way to address what some consider to be a crisis of student debt, Canadians may soon be able to pay off their education loans using travel reward points.
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Ex-Uber Driver Gets Life in Prison for Raping Passenger in India | VICE News
An Indian court sentenced a former Uber driver to life in prison on Tuesday, marking an end to a rape case that led to the private car service being temporarily banned in the country and renewed concerns over women’s safety in India’s capital New De…
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Ginza evening, Tokyo, Japan [1200×800][OS] : CityPorn
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Port Vell, Barcelona [1200×800][OS] : CityPorn
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Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand [1200×800][OS] (by Marek) : EarthPorn
Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand [1200×800][OS] (by Marek) via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Ra0jdI3PlS https://t.co/9o8QgEr5Sd
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if dey dont d00t, giv dem le b00t : ledootgeneration
if dey dont d00t, giv dem le b00t via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/jHurF0xvWA https://t.co/BSiZrYouUj
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What We’re Following on Wednesday, November 4 – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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BBC Sport – Wales v Netherlands: Gareth Bale to miss friendly in Cardiff
Gareth Bale is set to be named in Wales’ squad for the friendly against the Netherlands on 13 November. The forward has only played 45 minutes for Real Madrid since the October internationals after the recurrence of a calf injury.
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America’s Prison Population Is Falling, but Too Slowly to Undo Decades of Growth | Mother Jones
Here’s the good news: The number of prisoners in the United States dropped last year to its lowest point since 2005, a trend likely to continue following the release of about 6,000 inmates from federal prisons in the past few days.
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Senate Republicans Are Blocking Obama’s Judges at a Nearly Unprecedented Rate | Mother Jones
Gridlock has famously prevented Congress from enacting meaningful legislation in recent years, but it’s in another area that congressional inaction is truly setting new records. The Senate has confirmed just nine judges nominated by President Obama …
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Google says EU antitrust charges don’t take into account that search is free | The Verge
Earlier this year, the European Union accused Google of monopolistic practices, alleging that, among other things, it unfairly prioritized its comparison shopping service when users searched for things to buy.
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November 4, 2008: Barack Obama Is Elected President | The Nation
The Nation had endorsed Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate in its February 25, 2008, issue, arguing that “his rhetoric about ‘unity’ can be troubling,” but also that “his candidacy…represents the best chance to forge a new progressive ma…
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How Hillary Clinton Wants to Counterbalance the NRA – The Atlantic
For Hillary Clinton, gun control is a gift.
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Jeb Bush Launches His ‘Jeb Can Fix It’ Tour – The Atlantic
At the start of this year, Jeb Bush was crowned the GOP frontrunner for 2016. And then came Donald Trump. Months later, Bush is polling in the single digits and struggling on the debate stage.
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Patrick Barkham: ‘I tried to mirror the course of a human life’ | Books | The Guardian
Our relationship with the coast has changed over history and it changes throughout our lives. Many of us fall in love with the seaside during childhood holidays. We conduct romances on the sand in early adulthood.
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Sympathy for ISIL runs high in Jordan’s restive Maan – Al Jazeera English
Government sources put the number of Jordanians who joined ISIL in Syria at around 2,000. That is not a huge number for a country of 6.5 million people that borders Syria. These guys that go to Syria are not a threat to Jordan.
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NBA jersey sponsorship is coming – and we’d better get used to it | Sport | The Guardian
Last week the NBA did something timed sneakily – the conspiracy theorist in me believes intentionally – to coincide with the hoopla of opening week. Something that went largely unnoticed by most basketball fans. And understandably so.
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The MLS soccer stars building schools in Sierra Leone | Football | The Guardian
He was a boy of six when it happened. He’d enjoyed a somewhat privileged upbringing to that point, his grandfather a respected local businessman, his parents capitalizing on an attractive opportunity in the United States. But this was Sierra Leone, …
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My first experience of the difficulties of accessing books as a visually impaired person came when I was a teenager.
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Can Locking Up Pill-Pushing Doctors Put an End to Prescription Drug Abuse? | VICE | United Kingdom
On Friday, after ten days of deliberation and a seven-week trial that garnered national attention, a jury found Dr. Lisa Tseng guilty of second-degree murder for writing prescriptions that led to the overdose deaths of three patients.
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Rekindled by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s War on Waste programme, contributions to the seemingly intractable food-waste debate are piling up like an overstuffed compost bin.
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What Bond got right about the surveillance bill – Al Jazeera English
Britain’s intelligence services chose the release of the new James Bond movie, Spectre, to go on both a charm offensive and a recruitment drive last week. Just as the latest 007 film hit the screens, so too did an unusual splurge of media coverage.
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Southern Alps from Gillespie’s Beach [1200×800][OS] : NZPhotos
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Seat with a view! [OC] [7298×3763]
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Gran Via architecture in Madrid [1200×800][OS] : ArchitecturePorn
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Romanian PM resigns after protests over fatal nightclub fire – BBC News
Romanian PM resigns after protests over fatal nightclub fire https://t.co/h2FpgnA8bU
Romanian PM Victor Ponta has said he is resigning, a day after some 20,000 people took to the streets to protest against a nightclub fire that left 32 people dead. Friday night’s blaze in Bucharest started when a band performing at the club set off … -
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Jeb Bush says sorry for mocking French working week – BBC News
US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has apologised to France for referencing their working week to insult a rival. In light-hearted comments to reporters, Mr Bush said he had done a “disservice to the French” by using them to mock Marco Rubio’s senate …
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South Africa in midst of ‘epic drought’ – Al Jazeera English
South Africa is facing its worst drought since 1982, with more than 2.7 million households facing water shortages across the country, the government has said.
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Sinai crash: Russia extends search area and uses drones – BBC News
Russian rescue teams have extended the search for bodies and wreckage from a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to a 40 sq-km (15 sq-mile) area. Drones are being used to scan the sandy and hilly terrain, officials say.
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Myanmar’s neighbours closely monitoring precarious poll – Al Jazeera English
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Myanmar voters will head to the polls on Sunday with neighbouring countries closely watch the political proceedings hoping that no violence will erupt, analysts say.
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Google’s security audit of the Galaxy S6 Edge illustrates Android’s vulnerability | The Verge
The Project Zero team at Google, tasked with discovering severe bugs and exploits in Android, recently turned its attention to Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone, and its findings, published this week, have identified “11 high-impact security issue…
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NomadPlus Smartphone Wall Charger & Battery Pack | Digg Store
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Liam Neeson to play Nixon whistleblower Deep Throat | Film | The Guardian
Liam Neeson will play the legendary FBI whistleblower Mark Felt, otherwise known as “Deep Throat” in a new spy thriller about the Watergate scandal that brought down US president Richard Nixon, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Why Grassroots Democrats Don’t Have a Problem With Democratic Socialism | The Nation
“Do I think Bernie Sanders should talk about democratic socialism? Yes, I do,” says Iowan Mary Clark. “I want him to explain everything in detail—give people a really good explanation. People who like Bernie are probably going to like him a little m…
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Australian jockey Tim Bell falls to death in Singapore – BBC News
Australia’s racing community is mourning the death of young jockey Tim Bell who fell to his death from his high-rise apartment block in Singapore. Bell, 22, was a rising star, having won the 2013-14 Brisbane Jockey’s Premiership in his first senior …
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EE Rising Star Award jury announced – BBC News
TV host Jonathan Ross and Broadchurch actress Olivia Colman are to sit on this year’s EE Rising Star Award jury. Working with a host of industry experts they will help to choose the shortlist for the 2016 award, which is then decided by public vote.
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Fall Split by the Road (Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA) [OC] [iPhone5] : EarthPorn
Fall Split by the Road (Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA) [OC] [iPhone5] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/HWO5kDtoPW https://t.co/RZ9kJg3ZPJ
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‘Our Own Little Kingdom’: Dot-Brands Are Staking a Claim on Their Bit of the Web | Motherboard
Two years ago, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) were introduced into the internet root zone. It marked a transition to expand from the dot-com suffix to dot-everything-else. Since the new program launched, we’ve seen gTLDs like .londo…
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Seeking Votes – and Cash – From Asian America | Al Jazeera America
Editor’s note: This is the last 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, and part two looks at cha…
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This philosopher has a new definition of “nature,” and it includes traffic jams | Grist
It’s Aug. 27, 2028 — my 39th birthday — and I have a reservation for six at the the newly opened Bistro In Vitro in the Netherlands. I’m bringing my parents and brother and my two best friends, Malia Obama and Elon Musk.
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How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the Supreme Meme Queen – In These Times
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes for a spectacularly unlikely Internet celebrity. She’s 82 years old, for one thing, born in 1933, two years before the Hoover Dam was completed and just 13 years after women were guaranteed the right t…
How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the Supreme Meme Queen https://t.co/gbBhgcY2C2 -
Immerse yourself in the virtual environment of your dreams with just your smartphone and the impressive, high-quality Homido Virtual Reality Headset. This futuristic gadget transforms videos and games on your screen into full interactive experiences.
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Species range of the European Starling [1280×598] : MapPorn
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Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (COBS) is an algorithm for encoding data bytes that results in efficient, reliable, unambiguous packet framing regardless of packet content, thus making it easy for receiving applications to recover from malformed p…
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Ahmed Chalabi: The real victor of the Iraq War – Al Jazeera English
Ahmed Chalabi, a prominent yet controversial figure in the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, died of a heart attack in Baghdad on November 3.
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Apple will launch a new 4-inch iPhone early next year, says analyst | The Verge
Apple could release a new 4-inch iPhone next year that “resembles an upgraded iPhone 5S,” according to a report by respected KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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Robin Williams ‘had form of dementia’, says widow – BBC News
Comedian Robin Williams had health problems that would have killed him within three years if he had not ended his own life, his widow has said. In her first interview since the actor died last August, Susan Williams said her husband was “disintegrat…
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‘Sun’ by Roman Avseenko : ImaginaryMindscapes
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French Alps near Grenoble [OC] [6000×4000] : EarthPorn
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Serena Williams took break to recover from depression and knee injuries | Sport | The Guardian
Serena Williams’ coach says her recent break was down to the fact she was suffering from depression and she also needed to allow her knees to recover after missing out on the calendar Grand Slam in September. “She was depressed,” Patrick Mouratoglou…
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German Shepherd Helps Toddler Get Ready for Bed – GIF on Imgur
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What I learned from Gaza’s first TEDx – Al Jazeera English
Gaza – TEDx finally arrived in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians there had some incredible insights. For several years, Palestinians in Gaza dreamed of hosting their first TEDx event, and on October 29 they were finally able to do it.
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Romania PM Ponta resigns over nightclub fire – Al Jazeera English
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has announced his resignation after mass protests in the wake of a nightclub fire that killed more than 30 people last week.
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China underreporting coal consumption by up to 17%, data suggests | World news | The Guardian
China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, has been dramatically underreporting the amount of coal it consumes each year, it has been claimed ahead of key climate talks in Paris.
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Protests in Taiwan ahead of key meeting with China – Al Jazeera English
Demonstrators have gathered outside Taipei’s parliament to protest against a historic meeting planned between the leaders of Taiwan and China.
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Quentin Tarantino refuses to back down in police brutality row | Film | The Guardian
Quentin Tarantino has signalled he will not apologise for a controversial attack on alleged police brutality in the US, while accusing his critics of intimidation tactics. He said: “The people who are screaming against me are the mouthpieces for the…
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China has been burning way more coal than previously reported | The Verge
China has been burning substantially more coal than previously believed, according to new government figures released this week.
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Thousands of job cuts coming at Sprint | The Verge
Thousands of jobs will be cut at Sprint, as the company’s owners, Japan’s SoftBank, continues to try and turn the struggling wireless carrier around.
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Maldives president declares state of emergency – Al Jazeera English
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Gayoom has declared a state of emergency, giving sweeping powers to security forces to arrest suspects ahead of a major anti-government protest rally, his spokesman said.
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BBC Sport – Susie Wolff: Female F1 test driver to retire after Race of Champions
Susie Wolff: Female F1 test driver to retire after Race of Champions https://t.co/rR48ukZl17
Williams test driver Susie Wolff is to retire from motorsport. The Scot – the first woman to take part in a grand prix weekend for more than 20 years – believes her aim of racing in Formula 1 “isn’t going to happen”. -
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Most Americans accept that climate change is real, they just don’t care that much about it | Grist
The online giant just opened an actual brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. Special feature: Big Data. Engineers are learning how to build with DNA. What does that mean?
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The Lottie Project by Jacqueline Wilson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is about a young girl named Charlie. It explores her life with her very young mum Jo and her school life sitting next to the terrible, nerdy Jamie Edwards while being in Mrs Beckworth’s class.
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‘Volkswagen scandal could cost up to $30 billion’ – Al Jazeera English
I think it’s going to cost them all in – €28bn ($30bn) before tax, but it’s very hard to estimate, especially the cost of potential volume losses, net pricing or litigation issues, especially in the US.
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Romania PM Ponta resigns over fire – BBC News
The health secretary says a proposed new contract for junior doctors in England will include an 11% rise in basic pay, although other salary elements are being curbed.
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Only 3 Days Left To Save £400 On Disrupt London Tickets | TechCrunch
Disrupt London is right around the corner, and you have just three days left to purchase an early-bird ticket. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to save £400 on tickets to the hottest show in tech.
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300+ Etchings by Rembrandt Now Free Online, Thanks to the Morgan Library & Museum | Open Culture
Seventeenth-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn may have more name recognition than nearly any other European artist, his popularity due in large part to what art historian Alison McQueen identifies in her book of the same name as “the rise of …
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As far as episodes for a show to come back from after a break go, “Beware Of Young Girls” is a horrible episode.
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Tayras are elusive jungle dwelling animals in the weasel family : Awwducational
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They have to be somewhere, right? : trippinthroughtime
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This is why making the bed takes so long when a cat is involved. : aww
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South Sudan plane crash ‘kills 40’ – BBC News
Around 40 bodies were counted at the plane wreck site by a reporter for Juba station Radio Miraya. It is unclear how many of those were on the plane and how were on the ground.
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My grandmother on her wedding day (1961) : OldSchoolCool
My grandmother on her wedding day (1961) via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/7XM3sK5FDM https://t.co/4ejMkhRkjD
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Those dashed lines via /r/gifs https://t.co/9n4P6FCeHi https://t.co/4VY9GM4Kly
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‘Scores dead’ in South Sudan plane crash – Al Jazeera English
A plane has crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in South Sudan, killing more than 40 people, officials said. Two passengers reportedly survived. Airplane just crashed near Juba Int’l Airport shortly after taking off. #EyeRadio’s D Santo…
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Need some advice for my cat Hayao : cats
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Fleetwood is too cute via /r/cats https://t.co/gw1gvKui8P https://t.co/8o0WGBmSxD
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The Establishment by Owen Jones – get your copy! | Children’s books | The Guardian
It’s National Non-Fiction Month this November, and here at the Teen book club we think that’s too good of an opportunity to be missed to try something a little bit different.
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Free read! The Establishment by Owen Jones | Children’s books | The Guardian
It’s National Non-Fiction Month this November, and the Teen book club is focusing on The Establishment, a tell-all look at the way this country is governed by activist and political commentator Owen Jones. Read the introduction here and then get you…
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Honda profits boosted by North America sales – BBC News
Japanese carmaker Honda has reported a rise in second quarter profits, helped by increased sales in North America. Net profits at the firm – which also makes motorcycles and items such as lawnmowers – rose 6.9% to 127.7bn yen ($1.05bn; £680m) for th…
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Jose Marti: What the revolutionary means to Cubans – Al Jazeera English
For most of his adult life, Marti lived in exile in New York, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, it was through Marti’s gaze that Latin Americans were able to see and understand the United States. Jo…
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Maldives declares 30-day emergency – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Who turns 17 tomorrow? This guy. Happy birthday old man! : aww
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Naomi Campbell: ‘Is UK proud to have me?’ – BBC News
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been at the top of her game for nearly 30 years. The sometimes controversial figure remains a firm favourite among top designers, but she has also turned her hand to acting – with roles in Empire and American Ho…
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What’s the best way to die? by Robyn K. Coggins | Wilson Quarterly
After a particularly gruesome news story — ISIS beheadings, a multicar pileup, a family burnt in their beds during a house fire — I usually get to wondering whether that particular tragic end would be the worst way to go. The surprise, the pain, the…
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Why eco-austerity won’t save us from climate change | Science | The Guardian
Despite the anti-capitalist rhetoric of green-left writers like Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, and the anti-corporate street protests of environmental NGOs, could it be that their small-is-beautiful, degrowth, localist, organic, anti-GMO and anti-nu…
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Afghan Children, Sangin Afghanistan, 2011 [OC][960×720] : HumanPorn
Afghan Children, Sangin Afghanistan, 2011 [OC][960×720] via /r/HumanPorn https://t.co/bf44fW79H2 https://t.co/kBlQZjiv3b
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US high-frequency trader convicted in first US ‘spoofing’ case | US news | The Guardian
A jury has convicted a high-frequency trader of commodities fraud and “spoofing”, in the US government’s first criminal prosecution of the banned trading practice.
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Fuck the System. : firstworldanarchists
Fuck the System. via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/e5GJittv4y https://t.co/7oQjmhsz31
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Japan Post companies net $12bn in biggest IPO – Al Jazeera English
Shares of Japan Post surged nearly 26 percent in their trading debut after the company and its banking and insurance units raised a combined $11.9bn in the world’s biggest initial public offering this year.
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Forgot to plug in the power : cats
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Poets lobby Iran to pardon pair convicted of insulting religion | Books | The Guardian
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been urged to pardon two poets who have been sentenced to 99 lashes each and a total of 20 years in jai for supposedly insulting religion.
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Loveland Pass, CO [5107×1884] : EarthPorn
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Firefox’s new privacy mode also blocks tracking ads / Boing Boing
Mozilla has shipped a new version of Firefox whose private mode also blocks tracking beacons for ad networks, which will make private Web usage much harder to track.
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“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today,” Seneca wrote in contemplating the shortness of life and the art of living with immediacy.
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Zenchef Picks Up €6M To Help Restuarants Build Online Presence | TechCrunch
French startup Zenchef helps restaurants build out their online presence, including website creation tools and the ability to take bookings direct.
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Emoji Keyboards put ghosts and smiling poop at your fingertips | The Verge
As humanity evolves, we find more efficient ways to communicate. Grunting led to talking, which led to writing, which led to letters.
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Hidden cove of Big Sur, CA [4875×2671] : EarthPorn
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Deadly car bomb targets Egyptian police club – Al Jazeera English
A car bomb targeting a policemen’s club in the city of El Arish in Egypt’s Sinai has killed at least five people, sources have said. At least five people were also wounded in Wednesday’s explosion, according to local media reports.
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Hannah Gavron was 29 and, on the face of it, had it all: two children, a successful husband, close friends, supportive parents, an affluent lifestyle, a book due to be published within a few weeks and a successful career, with recent radio and telev…
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Today Ohioans vote on whether or not they’ll follow in the footsteps of Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Alaska (plus the District of Columbia), to become the fifth state to legalise the recreational use of marijuana.
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Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate broke people / Boing Boing
Google bans ads by predatory lenders who promise foreclosure prevention and high-rate short-term loans, but they do allow payday loan ads; when you search for “need rent money fast,” the predatory lenders target you with payday loan ads that collect…
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A man and his dog “Freedom” (1971) : OldSchoolCool
A man and his dog “Freedom” (1971) via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/aoVYSWvAJY https://t.co/biQEnVCxJz
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The Quiet Noisy Book: A Little-Known Vintage Gem by Margaret Wise Brown | Brain Pickings
A tender celebration of curiosity, presence, and attentiveness to the world in its most delicate and delightful details.
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Marks and Spencer sees sales fall again – BBC News
Sales at Marks and Spencer have fallen for the six months to 26 September. UK like-for-like sales fell by 0.4% for the period. General merchandise, which includes the clothing division, were down by 1.2%.
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LED sneakers whose soles glow in seven ultra-bright colors / Boing Boing
The Fancy’s $95 unisex, USB-chargeable light-up LED sneakers glow in seven colors and last 8-10 hours per charge.
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Fighting Uber’s Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms / Boing Boing
As Mark Andreessen noted, software is eating the world because once it’s developed, it scales to infinity.
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Death Star waffle iron / 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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Avengers: Age of Ultron is nominated for five People’s Choice Awards – BBC Newsbeat
Avengers: Age of Ultron is nominated for five People’s Choice Awards https://t.co/TxZS2BJvBH
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Tobias Mayer’s corrected map of Germany (1750) [1601×1400] : MapPorn
Tobias Mayer’s corrected map of Germany (1750) [1601×1400] via /r/MapPorn https://t.co/pmQPRII5Hi https://t.co/D244y8WMGo
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Amnesty: Zimbabwe government ‘intimidating’ the media – Al Jazeera English
Human rights group Amnesty International has strongly criticised the arrest of three journalists in Zimbabwe, calling it a “shocking attempt to intimidate the press”.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron leads the nominations for this year’s People’s Choice Awards. The sequel picked up seven nods for prizes voted for by fans, including nominations for stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson.
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Explosive New Book: Vatican Sainthood Costs $550K – The Daily Beast
Explosive New Book: Vatican Sainthood Costs $550K https://t.co/Tnk8VnzeKx
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Explosive New Book: Vatican Sainthood Costs $550K – The Daily Beast
VATICAN CITY — There is nothing like a good old Vatican scandal to bring Rome to its knees. Never mind that the city government is already in complete shambles on the eve of the Vatican’s Holy Jubilee, which could double the many millions of visitor…
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Houston Voters Reject Broad Anti-Discrimination Ordinance https://t.co/WEONOaNZo5
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Large sinkhole-like vortex in Lake Texoma, USA : woahdude
Large sinkhole-like vortex in Lake Texoma, USA via /r/woahdude https://t.co/p6A35sboQS https://t.co/3BoDHFxwpZ
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As the world’s energy system shifts from fossil fuels to renewable sources, the question is no longer if the world will transition to sustainable energy, but how long it will take and whether the transition can be made in ways that maximise the bene…
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Iraqis freed by US and Kurdish special forces relieved at rescue – BBC News
Two of the Iraqi men freed after a raid by US and Kurdish special forces have spoken about their relief at being released. The operation found almost 70 men being held in an area of northern Iraq.
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After last week’s riveting shift away from this season’s major Hydra and Inhuman plotlines, it was inevitable that Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s return to the norm would be a come down.
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VW emission woes deepen as 800,000 more cars affected – Al Jazeera English
Volkswagen has said it found “unexplained inconsistencies” in the carbon dioxide emissions for 800,000 more cars, the latest blow for the troubled automaker already in crisis from an emissions scandal. The German company said on Tuesday it could tak…
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Uruguay’s radical cannabis plans – BBC News
Uruguay was the first country in the world to legalise the personal cultivation, consumption and sale of cannabis. Now its government is moving a step closer to a full commercial market for it, by awarding licenses for businesses to grow the drug.
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NSFW DO NOT OPEN!!!!!11!1 via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/PADrScyRbG https://t.co/M6YmKuljvF
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The Koch brothers have done a lot to rehabilitate their reputation as Immortan Joe climate-destroyer/plutocrats by talking about criminal justice reform, a cause dear to the hearts of the libertarian right as well as the left.
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Got a new box today via /r/cats https://t.co/H5qge1EPfw https://t.co/3YWNCaggcX
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When a Self-Driving Car Kills a Cyclist – The Daily Beast
Self-driving cars are heading quickly towards becoming a safer option for passengers than their manually controlled counterparts. But there are still concerns about what happens when something goes wrong that the car can’t prevent: No-win scenarios.
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The Formaldehyde Hiding in Your Lipstick – The Daily Beast
“Allergy tested. 100% fragrance free.” This guarantee should have spared me the torture of a painful allergy-related facial rash.
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Jane Clementi: I Almost Killed Myself After Tyler’s Suicide—This Is How I Survived – The Daily Beast
For five years, Jane Clementi has kept her son Tyler’s clothing and possessions intact in his small bedroom in the family’s home in Ridgewood, New Jersey. It is a medium-sized, detached house on a quiet suburban street, its sidewalks lined with tree…
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Hey, White Liberals, the NRA Isn’t the Point – The Daily Beast
Recently, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton eulogized police officer Randolph Holder, who was murdered in Harlem. Holder’s death is a tragedy that has hit the NYPD and New Yorkers hard.
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Ben Carson Was Sued for Malpractice at Least Eight Times – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson had a pretty remarkable track record for a job that involved slicing people’s heads open.
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Private College Kingpin Who Bankrolled Florida Pols Surrenders to Feds – The Daily Beast
A well-known Florida donor who gave thousands to prominent pols from Marco Rubio to Debbie Wasserman Schultz turned himself in Tuesday afternoon for allegedly making illegal campaign contributions.
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How 2016 Went From Donald Trump to Two Hispanics – The Daily Beast
Seven months ago, when Marco Rubio entered the race for the GOP nomination—joining Ted Cruz and others in a field that would grow to 17 presidential hopefuls—I created a document on my laptop and slugged it: “Rubio vs Cruz ’16.
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The Syrians Who Refused to Give Up – The Daily Beast
In the face of regime repression, Syria’s non-violent protests of 2011 had transformed into an armed uprising in 2012.
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Is This Anti-Nausea Pill Safe for Pregnant Women? – The Daily Beast
Deana Brown believes that an anti-nausea drug she took in the first trimester of her pregnancy left her newborn deformed, and she wants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), its manufacturer, to pay for it.
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Scary Halloween story, happened to my buddy the other night… – Imgur
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Evan from Fight for the Future writes, “Imprisoned Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning has written a groundbreaking bill to reform the U.S. government’s unpopular mass surveillance programs, starting by abolishing the Foreign Intelligence Survei…
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Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada [1500×1000] : EarthPorn
Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada [1500×1000] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/PDrTylMG5X https://t.co/V0OzjWv1rC
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Plane makes emergency parachute landing : interestingasfuck
Plane makes emergency parachute landing via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/YPnrQFPXuN https://t.co/2Kf9HjPHkn
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Cat Camping: The New Craze : cats
Cat Camping: The New Craze via /r/cats https://t.co/1KuphMt7wm https://t.co/DEweU4E0vt
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Asean summit ends without statement amid South China Sea row – BBC News
A meeting of South East Asian defence ministers is to end without a joint statement, amid disagreements over mentioning China’s activity in the South China Sea.The Asean summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, also involves counterparts from the US and Ch…
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The first time that British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands met Horst Von Wächter—the son of Nazi officer Otto Von Wächter—the two men looked through Horst’s family albums, flipping past snapshots labeled “A.H.,” for Adolf Hitler.
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Intermittently entertaining but mostly dull and overwrought, Into The Badlands peaks roughly five minutes into the pilot.
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Thy Kingdom come (to regular coverage), thy will be done · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, November 4. All times are Eastern. Kingdom (DirecTV, 9 p.m.): Regular coverage, here Kingdom comes. “‘Nate finds his problems compounded after his loss and Jay spins out of control in his pursuit of…
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The Middle shows coming out is as American as apple pie · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
I came out in a purple PT Cruiser. What a wonderful stage to tell the world I’m gay: in my best friend’s ugly but appropriately colored consumer hearse. That takes pride.
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Described by its first-time director, Naji Abu Nowar, as a “Bedouin Western,” Theeb hails from Jordan, a country much better known for providing stunning locations to other filmmaking nations than for its own cinema.
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Ian Karmel on why “Suck My Kiss” is the “Guy Fieri of songs” · HateSong · The A.V. Club
In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world. The hater: A stand-up and a writer on The Late Late Show With James Corden, Ian Karmel is one of the nicest …
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Bond reborn: 17 suggestions for how to really reboot 007 · Inventory · The A.V. Club
Spectre, the latest installment in the never-ending James Bond series, opens this Friday—and if cryptic and hostile interviews are to be believed, fourth time could be the final time that Daniel Craig slips into the black tux.
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Sexless marriages: The last word · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
Dear readers: Two weeks ago, I announced I would be taking a nice long break from questions about miserable sexless marriages. (I don’t get questions about happily sexless marriages.
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GIF Dance Party lets you get down with all your favorite loops / Boing Boing
There’s even a dancing baby! It’s based on a mobile installation for hire that prompts your guests to turn themselves into loops that they can then drag around on a virtual stage.
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SIBERIA, RUSSIA—Hailing it as among the most intact and substantial Paleolithic-era finds ever unearthed, a team of archaeologists from University College Dublin announced Wednesday the discovery of an ancient human femur that could make a rich, mou…
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What does Haram al-Sharif mean to Palestinians? – Al Jazeera English
“The compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, is the holiest site in Judaism, while the al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam.
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San Francisco voters appear to reject anti-Airbnb legislation | Technology | The Guardian
San Francisco voters appeared poised on Tuesday to defeat a controversial ballot measure to curb short-term home and apartment rentals, handing a victory to companies such as Airbnb, early results showed.
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Imagine something terrible happens to you, like you get hit by a car. You’re bleeding, disorientated, confused. Maybe you need major surgery. You get rushed to A&E, operated on, you get looked after. Imagine, then, that you are a teenager with sever…
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APOD: 2015 November 3 – Seeking Venus under the Spitzkoppe Arch
Explanation: What’s that in the sky? Although there was much to see in this spectacular panorama taken during the early morning hours of a day in late September, the brightest object in the sky was clearly the planet Venus.
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Jeremy Hunt makes pay offer in junior doctor row – BBC News
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said junior doctors in England would see basic pay increasing by 11% in a new contract proposed by the government. He is writing to every junior doctor in a last-ditch attempt to persuade them not to take industrial …
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China has ‘duty to humanity’ to curb pollution, premier says | World news | The Guardian
China has used up too much energy and too many resources in its quest for growth, premier Li Keqiang has told visiting French president François Hollande, adding that the country has a “duty to humanity” to clean itself up.
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Businesses’ commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions has reached a tipping point, claims a new report, despite a rise in emissions over the past five years and a lack of transparency by some high-profile brands.
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Milky Way over Mt. Shasta California. [OC][2000×1500] https://t.co/pig6cg0EnD https://t.co/RAaeWtJhul
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Hey, Einstein: It Really Is a Quantum World
Aerial view of the Delft University of Technology campus, with location of the labs used to test “spooky action at a distance” highlighted. On the far left is location A, housing one of the two diamonds. The other diamond is housed on the other end …
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Most ensemble sitcoms need time to build out their casts, even if most of the actors have been there since the beginning. On the U.S.
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Virgin Galactic is planning to show off its next spaceship in February 2016 | The Verge
Virgin Galactic is already working on the new version of its SpaceShipTwo space place, Richard Branson tells Mashable, and will be ready to show the world its progress early next year.
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Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussel, Belgium [OC] [1080×725] : ArchitecturePorn
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussel, Belgium [OC] [1080×725] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://t.co/xDTQRIVDKQ https://t.co/OaMwrHqBfm
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Russia and US planes in safety test over Syria – Al Jazeera English
US and Russian aircraft have conducted communication tests over Syria, US officials said, in tentative signs the powers are working together ahead of UN talks aimed at ending the war.
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Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman on the secrets of married and writing life | Books | The Guardian
When Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon met on a blind date on 9 May, 1992, they both knew this was it. Within three weeks, they were engaged.
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Imgur, I just defended my Ph.D. in Lasers and Optics – GIF on Imgur
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Prince Charles and Camilla start New Zealand and Australia tour – BBC News
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have arrived in New Zealand at the start of a 12-day tour. Arriving in Wellington to rain and strong winds, Charles and Camilla were greeted by dignitaries, including Prime Minister John Key and his wife B…
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This is why my kid is going places. – Imgur
This is why my kid is going places. https://t.co/Nfmxeu6sOo https://t.co/XbR0XsCjmj
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “The Velvet Underground – Candy Says https://t.co/EGbrSfdHhN”
The Velvet Underground – Candy Says https://t.co/EGbrSfdHhN
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A Sudden Realization… : AdviceAnimals
A Sudden Realization… via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/TAijSBIYvu https://t.co/q25vxUMKx7
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Shenandoah National Park, VA [OC] 2048×1365 : EarthPorn
Shenandoah National Park, VA [OC] 2048×1365 via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/AUxss3P8bg https://t.co/tmg0wqfLsv
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One of the interesting things iZombie is doing in season two is experimenting with the pacing of its storytelling within episodes.
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Our Solar System Compared to one of many Super Giant Black Holes : woahdude
Our Solar System Compared to one of many Super Giant Black Holes via /r/woahdude https://t.co/NpalyJlgcT https://t.co/LixwxxCAbp
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Birds Flying and Fishing Port Image, Norway – National Geographic Photo of the Day
A Flurry of Activity https://t.co/7vowugBekI
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Birds Flying and Fishing Port Image, Norway – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Oh what a big surprise : trippinthroughtime
Oh what a big surprise via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/P1Dx9AnYYY https://t.co/kk14MO7Y3o
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Why Paul Ryan Should Beware of Visions – The New Yorker
For a few minutes last week, Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, sounded like someone who hoped to push the chamber closer to its role as a legislative body capable of legislating and of getting past the speed bumps (or potho…
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I do what I want. : TrollXChromosomes
I do what I want. via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/EdvbmPthy1 https://t.co/zfbJsp2vyG
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Pet rat loves playing peekaboo (cred to /u/iBleeedOrange) : aww
Pet rat loves playing peekaboo (cred to /u/iBleeedOrange) via /r/aww https://t.co/5dzxpyhQMc https://t.co/ktuB1QwZc1
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The Weeknd is getting a limited-edition version of fashion’s favorite vape | The Verge
Fancy smoking startup Pax Labs is releasing a limited-edition version of its popular Pax 2 vaporizer, one designed in collaboration with debauched pop prince The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye).
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Shadow lines up with sidewalk in the most strangely satisfying way. : oddlysatisfying
Shadow lines up with sidewalk in the most strangely satisfying way. via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/02oDYXgkSa https://t.co/qQQ2XjOK7f
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Egypt’s President Sisi defends sweeping security laws – BBC News
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has defended Egypt’s sweeping security laws, insisting he is still taking the country on a path to democracy. Ahead of a visit to the UK, Mr Sisi told the BBC that Egypt was threatened by extremist groups and feared th…
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San Francisco votes against limiting short-term Airbnb rentals | The Verge
San Francisco has voted down Proposition F, which would place new limits on short-term rentals like Airbnb. Early results suggested the measure had failed by a margin of just under 15,000 votes, in a result that had been widely expected after polls …
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #9
(David Nir): Recap: By now you likely know the major news: Democrats lost the Kentucky governorship and most statewide races; they also failed to pick up the Virginia state Senate.
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My mood during this time of the month. : TrollXChromosomes
My mood during this time of the month. via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/uRz3Wm4Myn https://t.co/nNIenBzOfR
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German Shepherd Helps Toddler Get Ready for Bed : AnimalsBeingBros
German Shepherd Helps Toddler Get Ready for Bed via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/UBjsJWPlmL https://t.co/SmoZTm8aVG
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Storytelling tropes are dangerous things. Mishandle them and an already stale idea just gets worse. Breathe new life into them and you’ve got a whole lot of cultural history backing you up.
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Cocteau Twins – Watchlar https://t.co/7LzRixJog7”
Cocteau Twins – Watchlar https://t.co/7LzRixJog7
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The Best Space Photos Of The Month – Digg
As we tediously while away our days down here on Earth, satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from October. Previously: September, August. For more stuf…
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Sudden Realization… – Meme on Imgur
Sudden Realization… https://t.co/H9Kdt66asT https://t.co/RQu58J36n1
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For most runners, the finish line of the New York City Marathon is the end of an arduous journey. For Gianclaudio P.
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Plane makes emergency landing on Arkansas road – BBC News
Bill Simon and two other passengers were flying to Texas when the plane lost cabin pressure. When he tried to make an emergency landing, the engine failed. The emergency parachute deployed and the plane floated to the ground, where it collided with …
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Those dashed lines : oddlysatisfying
Those dashed lines via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/5mMCsCeBLo https://t.co/j8JHp2twE1
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Moon director Duncan Jones is making another sci-fi movie before Warcraft is out | The Verge
Duncan Jones, the director of slow-paced sci-fi favorite Moon and the upcoming fantasy epic Warcraft, is making a new sci-fi movie, starring Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard.
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WalMart CEO Airplane Crash in Arkansas – The Atlantic
This morning, in Arkansas, a plane piloted by a former CEO of Wal~Mart came down beneath a parachute on a main road in Fayetteville, Arkansas. You can see the plane just before touchdown, underneath its orange-and-white parachute, in the screen shot…
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How to stop Indonesia’s forest fires and toxic haze? – Al Jazeera English
More than 500,000 Indonesians are said to be suffering from acute respiratory infection after having been exposed to fire-induced haze for months. The smoke was caused by forest fires that got out of hand after being used to clear land for agricult…
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Afghan woman stoned to death for ‘adultery’ – Al Jazeera English
An Afghan woman has been stoned to death after being accused of adultery in a remote western province controlled by the Taliban, according to local media.
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Lil Wayne’s Miami Mansion Raided, Assets Seized by Police | Rolling Stone
Lil Wayne’s Miami Beach mansion was raided by police and his assets were seized on orders from a judge stemming from a civil case involving the rapper and a private jet leasing company, local station WSVN reports.
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #8
(David Nir): Recap: Here’s what’s happened in the biggest races of the night so far: • Democrats lost KY-Gov and most statewide races in Kentucky except for attorney general and secretary of state • They failed to retake the Virginia state Senate an…
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Open thread for night owls: Coalition pushes for a ‘Global Frackdown’
In Washington, D.C., activists planned to deliver the letter [Tuesday] as part of a rally staged outside the White House. Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007—Giuliani’s Corruption Problem:
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HOUSTON — A yearlong battle over gay and transgender rights that turned into a costly, ugly war of words between this city’s lesbian mayor and social conservatives ended Tuesday in a defeat for supporters of gay rights as voters
HOUSTON — A yearlong battle over gay and transgender rights that turned into a costly, ugly war of words between this city’s lesbian mayor and social conservatives ended Tuesday as voters repealed an anti-discrimination ordinance -
My roommates cat must have been in timeout. Is this sleep behaviour normal? : cats
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Cocteau Twins – Orange Appled https://t.co/wsJnkPJDDf”
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We’ve all been there : trippinthroughtime
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Why Do We Primarily Show Our Left Sides in Portraits? – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Mean Girls director Mark Waters to helm Bad Santa 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Bringing together a pair of mid-2000s films that are mostly united in having no right being as satisfying or good as they actually are, Variety is reporting that Mean Girls director Mark Waters will be taking the reins on the planned Bad Santa 2.
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If anyone ever constructs a museum dedicated to the life of Bill McCartney—the former Colorado Buffaloes football coach, and founder of the Christian men’s group Promise Keepers—the first stop on the tour should be a little theater, where visitors c…
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This is why my kid is going places. : funny
This is why my kid is going places. (imgur.com) Not good places, but places.
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The Bastard Executioner is exhausting.
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Has there ever been a stranger Drunk History segment than The Killing Of Lobo The King Of Currumpaw? When narrator Mike Still sat down with his vodka soda with 75 limes in it and said we’d be talking about about one of the founders of the Boy Scouts…
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Why Did Ohio’s Marijuana-Legalization Amendment Fail? – The Atlantic
Call it Not So O-high-o. Voters in the Buckeye State resoundingly rejected an attempt to legalize recreational marijuana by constitutional amendment on Tuesday.
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Ryan Reynolds Trolls Pint-Sized X-Men In “How Deadpool Spent Halloween”
Ryan Reynolds dressed up as Deadpool for a Halloween video in which he tries to unite a motley crew of kid X-Men, Deadpool-style.
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Crown courts in England and Wales ‘chaotic and archaic’ – BBC News
Victims and witnesses are often left marginalised in a court system that is “archaic” and “chaotic”, a report by the Criminal Justice Alliance has said.
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Jeb Bush says sorry to France for ‘French workweek’ jibe during TV debate | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush’s rebooted campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination included an apology to the French on Tuesday for making a joke about their work ethic. Related: The new American hero is the old Jeb Bush. Oh, no! | Jeb Lund
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UN Syria envoy travels to Moscow for Syria peace talks – Al Jazeera English
Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy to Syria, will hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, as diplomatic efforts gather fresh momentum in the wake of Vienna talks on Friday.
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Kevin Spacey might mentor Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Taking on the mentorship duties for a growing Baby Driver—teaching them baby parallel parking, baby basic maintenance, baby title transfers and registration—is no easy task, but it looks like director Edgar Wright may have found someone up for the j…
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Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgård to star in Duncan Jones’ next film · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Variety, Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgård are set to star in Mute, a sci-fi thriller from Moon and Warcraft director Duncan Jones. The film will be set in Berlin 40 years from now, with the city full of fighting immigrants and clashing…
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Cute Date Ideas To Never Actually Get Around To Doing – Imgur
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Recently made this realization : AdviceAnimals
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How Bathroom Fears Conquered Transgender Rights in Houston – The Atlantic
Houston would seem, at first glance, an unlikely the site for the gay-rights movement’s first major setback since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Houston rejects hotly contested anti-discrimination ordinance | US news | The Guardian
Equal-rights activists were dealt a blow on Tuesday night as voters in Houston rejected an anti-discrimination ordinance that was the subject of a fierce battle that garnered national attention.
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Cute Date Ideas To Never Actually Get Around To Doing – Imgur
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Welcome back, The Grinder after a a baseball induced hiatus (congrats, Royals fans). “A Bittersweet Grind (Une Mouture Amer)” was a nice episode to return to.
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They did it. The Manhattan writers figured out how to get Frank out without cheating: a phone call from Eleanor Roosevelt. We were never likely to see what exactly went on behind the scenes with Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, but I’m dying o…
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“The Darkness And The Light” is a busy episode that never feels frantic or overstuffed. It’s tasked with moving a lot of pieces around to set up future developments, but it takes its cue more from the second part of its title than the first.
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Original [Osomatsu-san 2015] : animegifs
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It was a busy summer on the Appalachian Trail. The movie “A Walk in the Woods” made its debut, the path received national attention for a perceived party culture and the well-known endurance athlete Scott Jurek set an overall record on the trail.
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Facebook is building artificial intelligence to finally beat humans at Go | The Verge
Facebook is now tackling a problem that has evaded computer scientists for decades: how to build software that can beat humans at Go, the 2,500-year-old strategy board game, according to a report today from Wired.
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #7
Tue Nov 03, 2015 at 7:25 PM PT (Taniel): Maine Maine voters have adopted the “Promote Cleans Election” bill—the Bangor Daily News has called it. With 80 percent reporting, the “yes” is ahead 55 percent to 45 percent.
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Directed by Shomi Patwary & Ryan Staake Director of Photography: Andrew Pulaski Lead VFX: Aaron Vinton Producer: Mat Hollis Production Company: Pomp&Clout Agency: Partners&Partners
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Ginger’s not amused blep : Blep
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This was your father’s lightsaber… : funny
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Wondermark » Archive » Here is a Mini Commemorative Plaque I Made
Only a couple of days remain on the Multi-Purpose Cards Kickstarter. We’ve done so well; I’m very excited! This will be my penultimate post about it, I think.
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Liam Neeson to star in Watergate thriller Felt · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Maybe hoping to inject some gravitas into a movie with a title that wouldn’t be out place attached to a biopic of Kermit The Frog, the producers of the upcoming Watergate thriller Felt are in talks with Liam Neeson to play the title role.
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Ohio votes against legalizing recreational and medicinal marijuana | The Verge
Ohio has voted down a proposal that would have legalized recreational marijuana, which would have made it the fifth state in the US to do so, the AP reports. The legislation would also have covered medicinal marijuana.
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All Blacks cheered home in New Zealand – in pictures – BBC News
The All Blacks have been welcomed home to New Zealand as heroes, after winning the Rugby World Cup on Saturday. Thousands turned up on Auckland’s streets and in Victoria Park to meet the players, who touched down in the city on Wednesday.
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Taco Bell you’re doing it wrong. : pics
Taco Bell you’re doing it wrong. via /r/pics https://t.co/BUSt0G9q8d https://t.co/CaGd0Gx9WX
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #6
Tue Nov 03, 2015 at 6:41 PM PT (James L): KY-AG: That’s 98.7% of precincts reporting in this race.
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Ohio voters reject legalization of recreational marijuana | US news | The Guardian
Ohio voters on Tuesday shot down a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana, but advocates remained hopeful for another measure that could be on the ballot in 2016. The swing state of nearly 11.
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Watch Adele’s ‘Hello’ Video Narrated by Naturalist David Attenborough | Rolling Stone
Adele’s long-awaited comeback single “Hello” has already garnered its fair share of remixes, but renowned naturalist and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough, has outdone them all with his narration of the track’s moody video.
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Asking the right questions. – Imgur
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Feel the Bern https://t.co/u2CyBFYRN8 https://t.co/glHPMIKzph
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Garden bird survey aims to solve goldfinch mystery – BBC News
While many of our familiar songbird species are in decline, one avian character in particular has been spotted increasingly frequently in UK gardens – the goldfinch. Now, the British Trust for Ornithology wants volunteers to help work out what has b…
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Driver was color blind and didn’t see the light – GIF on Imgur
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Fox is licensing its movies and TV shows for a theme park in Dubai · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, 20th Century Fox is indirectly getting into the theme park business with a company called Al Ahli Holding Group.
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Romania nightclub fire: Thousands protest in Bucharest – BBC News
At least 20,000 people have marched through Bucharest in Romania, calling for resignations in the wake of a fatal fire at a nightclub. Three owners of the club have been arrested following the fire, which started when fireworks were set off by a ban…
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Japan Post shares surge on their debut – BBC News
Shares of Japan Post and its banking and insurance units surged on their stock market debut in Tokyo after the triple initial public offering (IPO) raised $12bn (£7.7bn). Shares of the state-owned firm and its units were up between 16% and 42%.
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My favourite snaps from my first West Coast USA trip! : unitedstatesofamerica
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All these pennies : oddlysatisfying
All these pennies via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/USIujuIKuX https://t.co/RB9dANMLt7
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Rejected portraits live again – BBC News
Portrait Salon describes itself as a salon des refuses – an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.
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It sucks to swim like a jellyfish, study of animal’s movement suggests | Environment | The Guardian
For the longest time, science has assumed that in order to run, swim, or fly, animals and humans must exert pressure on the ground, water or air around them to project themselves forward.
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Syria: The rise of the Assads – BBC News
The conflict in Syria has drawn in major global powers, some supporting and some opposing President Bashar al-Assad. The Assad family has ruled Syria for more than four decades, but how did they rise to power? Hafez al-Assad was the architect of mod…
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Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd Have Been Cast In Duncan Jones’ Mute
Casting news just dropped for director Duncan Jones’ new science fiction thriller, and it’s two of our favorite fantastical leading men. Plus we’ve got a Mute synopsis. Deep breaths.
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Syfy to start making bad movies for theaters, too · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The network that brought you the TV-movie delights of Dinocroc, Piranhaconda, and Knights Of Bloodsteel is getting into the feature film business, with Syfy announcing today the formation of a new division, Syfy Films.
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Americans Largely Unconcerned About Climate Change, Survey Finds via /r/environment https://t.co/GWKhNdkx0W https://t.co/iN5xbryMEf
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Meet Trump’s Littlest Apprentice – The Daily Beast
Meet Trump’s Littlest Apprentice https://t.co/fk76dKfM1e
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Been and Gone: Gail Zappa and the Curry King – BBC News
Been and Gone: Gail Zappa and the Curry King https://t.co/CJdUSIQTmb
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Visualization of over 500 exoplanets : space
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Just chilling with Marley : cats
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Former wireless charging rivals join forces as new AirFuel Alliance | The Verge
The world of wireless charging has been split, over the past few years, between three major groups. That’s changed today, as two of the three organizations — the Alliance for Wireless Power and the Power Matters Alliance — have merged, forming the n…
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Syrian child refugees ‘being exploited in Jordan’ – BBC News
Syrian refugees as young as three years old are being exploited illegally as child labour by farmers and companies in Jordan, campaigners based in the Jordanian capital Amman have told the BBC.
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Larry King on the art of the interview – BBC News
Former CNN broadcaster Larry King has spoken to the BBC about what he has learned about interviewing, after 58 years in the job.
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A police officer in Arkansas sparked a manhunt and investigation when he claimed he’d been shot during a traffic stop by a “Hispanic man in his 30s.” Turns out that was total bullshit.
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #5
(David Nir): If you’re just tuning in, tonight has gone very poorly for Democrats. They’ve lost the Kentucky governorship and almost all other statewide offices except secretary of state; attorney general is still undecided. They’ve also almost cert…
Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #5 https://t.co/6tKmOQYmfg -
Clean Clicks vs. Dirty Data | The New Republic
Since 2011, Greenpeace has reported the yearly use of coal, nuclear, and renewable energy in data centers used by the world’s largest tech companies. We’ve made strides toward a greener internet—Apple now runs 100 percent of its U.
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Fixing The Healthcare Dichotomy | TechCrunch
It’s astonishing to find technologically advanced industries still struggling with the age-old problem of paper records and disconnected systems. Take the healthcare industry, which has made robotic surgery possible and now is on the verge of releas…
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Facebook set to share AI advances – BBC News
Facebook has been showing off the latest advancements in its image recognition research. As well as talking about it at Dublin’s Web Summit event*, the company has outlined a few of the key points in a blog post.
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US supreme court halts execution of Ernest Johnson in Missouri | US news | The Guardian
The US supreme court on Tuesday night halted the execution of a Missouri man who murdered three people in 1994 to allow an appeal on whether he may suffer undue pain from the lethal injection drug due to a medical condition.
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Been and Gone: Gail Zappa and the Curry King – BBC News
Our regular column covering the deaths of significant – but lesser reported – people of the past month.
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Meet Trump’s Littlest Apprentice – The Daily Beast
She was about four feet tall and dressed like an American Girl Doll, in a peacoat and newsboy hat. She was missing several teeth, and she smiled proudly as she held a sign in the air. It was hand-drawn, and it had taken her about an hour to make. It…
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The Facebook Intifada https://t.co/7DNX70fzCc
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The largest Heroin bust in Australia’s history. (1,032 kilos) – Imgur
The largest Heroin bust in Australia’s history. (1,032 kilos) https://t.co/fDvwShevly https://t.co/IVLGHvhAMO
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Why’d you have to go there, Carla? : funny
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vBulletin password hack fuels fears of serious Internet-wide 0-day attacks | Ars Technica
Developers of the vBulletin software package for website forums released a security patch Monday night, just hours after reports surfaced that a hack on the developers’ site leaked password data and other sensitive information belonging to almost 48…
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The largest Heroin bust in Australia’s history. (1,032 kilos) – Imgur
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Taiwan and China leaders to meet for the first time – Al Jazeera English
Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore on Saturday, in what will be the first meeting between leaders from the two rivals since the end of a civil war in 1949.
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Pentagon MIA on Afghan Doctors Without Borders Hospital Attack – The Daily Beast
When the U.S. military fired on a hospital in Afghanistan last month, the Pentagon promised to reveal details about the disastrous airstrike within 30 days. That promise has not been kept. And according to Doctors Without Borders, the U.S.
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In August of last year, Marceline voice actress Olivia Olson revealed that Bonnibel Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen were a romantic couple in the past.
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Tanzania’s John Magufuli: Five challenges for the new president – BBC News
Tanzania’s President-elect John Magufuli will be inaugurated on Thursday following his landslide victory in fiercely contested elections. Known as “The Bulldozer”, he won with 58% of the vote to the 40% of his main rival Edward Lowassa.
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Weezer Raise a Toke to Love on ‘Do You Wanna Get High?’ | Rolling Stone
Weezer have shared their second new song in as many weeks, “Do You Wanna Get High?” a crunchy, oozing track that harkens back to the band’s Nineties glory days.
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Supreme Court Stays Missouri Inmate’s Execution | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put on hold the scheduled execution of a Missouri man convicted of beating three people to death while a lower court considers an appeal. Ernest Lee Johnson was scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Tuesday for killing three C…
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It was quite the hike: Colchuck Lake, WA [OC] [7627×3360] : EarthPorn
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Driver was color blind and didn’t see the light : gifs
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MPAA claims to have popped Popcorn Time and YTS / Boing Boing
The Motion Picture Association of America today announced that it had effectively shut down the popular Popcorn Time “fork” and movie-sharing torrent destination YTS after court orders in Canada and New Zealand. The MPAA filed suit on Oct. 9 in Cana…
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #4
(David Jarman): To recap, Republican Matt Bevin (whom you might remember from losing his tea-flavored primary challenge to Mitch McConnell in 2014) has won a surprising (to the extent that no poll had given him the lead) victory in Kentucky’s gubern…
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Our Model Thinks Ohio State, Not Clemson, Is The Championship Favorite | FiveThirtyEight
The first College Football Playoff rankings are out, and the selection committee ranked Clemson, LSU, Ohio State and Alabama as the top four teams, in that order, worthy of the playoff were it held today. But we at FiveThirtyEight want to look into …
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You can now turn your Apple Watch into a Fallout Pip-Boy | The Verge
Unless you were one of the lucky few who snatched up Bethesda Games’ $120 Fallout 4 limited collector’s edition, a Pip-Boy wrist-worn computer for all your post-apocalyptic needs is out of reach — unless you’re willing to shell out thousands of doll…
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Here’s How Our College Football Playoff Predictions Work | FiveThirtyEight
Are you ready for some football? Or at least, some vociferous arguing about football? Last season’s first-ever College Football Playoff taught us two things. First, going from a championship game to a four-team playoff won’t end the annual bickering…
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Matt Bevin defeats Jack Conway to reclaim Kentucky governorship for the Republicans
Given the sharp rightward trend in the Bluegrass State in recent years, Republicans had an excellent chance to pick up this seat with Gov. Steve Beshear forced out by term limits, but Bevin did everything he could to piss away his chances.
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TSA airport screeners’ ability to detect weapons declared “pitiful” | Ars Technica
US lawmakers and federal watchdogs took the occasion Tuesday to deride the Transportation Security Administration’s ability, or lack thereof, to adequately detect weapons and other contraband during the passenger screening process at the nation’s ai…
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Groupon, the daily deals website, has said co-founder Eric Lefkofsky is stepping down as chief executive and returning to the role of chairman, effective immediately.
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GoPro Sued Over Hero4 Session Design | TechCrunch
The GoPro Hero4 Session looks like the Polaroid Cube. It’s hard to deny otherwise.
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Kentucky elects businessman as second Republican governor in 40 years | US news | The Guardian
Democrats lost one of their last bastions in the American south on Tuesday as businessman Matt Bevin was elected only the second Republican governor of Kentucky in the past 40 years.
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On Blindspot, The Woods Are Deadly, Dark and Deep
This week on Blindspot, the team heads off the grid and into woods populated by violent anti-government separatists. Who’s ready for a roadtrip? Spoilers for Blindspot episode 7, “Sent On Tour,” a.k.a. the anagram is “Trust no one,” a.k.
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TEL AVIV — THREE weeks ago, my father was riding on a public bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood when terrorists from East Jerusalem shot him in the head and stabbed him multiple times.
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Asian shares bounce on Japan Post debut – BBC News
Asian markets headed higher on Wednesday as investor appetite picked up on the debut of the world’s biggest share-offering this year: Japan Post. Japan Post and its banking and insurance units started trading in Tokyo after an initial public offerin…
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A ‘Troublemaker’ Leaves Her Life In Scientology : NPR
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How? In 2013, the actor Leah Remini left the Church of Scientology after more than 30 years. Her new memoir, Troublemaker, might make her the most famous former Scientologist to publicly criticize the rel…
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Thank you fallout 4. : AdviceAnimals
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/m3yrn0jSUB Stories via @Refugees
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Someone forgot to do their job : mildlyinteresting
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The Colorfully Organized Office of Container Store CEO Kip Tindell
Kip Tindell, founder and CEO of The Container Store, has a workspace that unsurprisingly features lots of organization products, from shelving systems to colorful wall corkboards to matching file and magazine boxes.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Electric Literature | The New Republic
In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut was asked by an interviewer why he started writing science fiction. “I was working for General Electric at the time,” he replied, “right after World War II, and I saw a milling machine for cutting the rotors on jet engines, ga…
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Ash trees under threat if harmful borer beetle finds way to Britain | Science | The Guardian
A tiny beetle could wipe out Britain’s ash trees much faster than the established ash dieback disease which is expected to eventually kill millions of the trees, according to the government’s leading authority on pests and pathogens threatening UK f…
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Four out of five Australians believe that climate change is happening, but those who do not are much more likely to vote for the Coalition, new analysis of existing CSIRO data has found.
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Inside Khloe and Lamar’s Tumultuous Love Story: ‘We Were Very Happy’ – The Daily Beast
“Thank you to Lamar for giving me some of the best years of my life and for everything you taught me about being strong,” Khloé Kardashian writes about Lamar Odom in the acknowledgments of her new book, Strong Looks Better Naked. “Before I met you I…
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Test to diagnose ‘face blindness’ – BBC News
Scientists have come up with a questionnaire they say should help diagnose a condition called face blindness. Prosopagnosia, as doctors call it, affects around two in every 100 people in the UK and is the inability to recognise people by their faces…
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Better Massage Saul! : perfectloops
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Android’s emoji font gets it : firstworldanarchists
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Brothers make good pillows. : cats
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Tesla Hires Former Google VP Of Finance Jason Wheeler As New CFO | TechCrunch
After earnings today, Tesla has made a couple of executive announcements. First, it has named a new CFO, Jason Wheeler. Wheeler spent 13 years at Google as the VP of Finance and let its global finance function. He replaces Deepak Ahuja who announced…
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #3
(David Jarman): To recap, Democratic gubernatorial Jack Conway is currently down 51-46 with more than half of the votes counted, a surprising result considering that no polls gave GOP opponent Matt Bevin a lead. Democratic Attorney General and SoS c…
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Move over, Honeycrisp: There’s a race to create the next big apple | Grist
The pipeline company is asking for a delay in the federal review of its proposal, hoping to get the decision punted to Obama’s successor.
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Surveillance bill to include internet records storage – BBC News
Internet firms will have to store details of people’s online activity for 12 months under a new surveillance law. The requirement is included in the government’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill, to be published later.
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Activision Blizzard to buy Candy Crush Saga maker King Digital for $5.9 Billion / Boing Boing
Activision Blizzard announced Monday evening that it plans to buy King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, for about $5.9 billion. It’s the third-largest video game industry deal ever and quite a dollar amount, but it’s significant…
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What you need to know about humankind’s search for alien life | The Verge
I’ve been timid to talk about space aliens for the past couple decades. As a kid, I loved everything extraterrestrial. My father introduced me to conspiracy theories in the early 1990s through trashy hour-long primetime specials on Fox like Alien Au…
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Police Did Not Treat 911 Call About Colorado Gunman as “Highest Priority” | Mother Jones
As I first reported late Monday, questions are hanging over how the Colorado Springs Police Department handled a 911 call on Saturday morning, when a resident saw a man carrying a rifle on her residential block prior to a deadly gun rampage.
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Quentin Tarantino releases statement on growing police boycotts · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Shocking anyone who’s never seen a Quentin Tarantino movie or heard Quentin Tarantino talk, the director has issued a statement making it clear that he isn’t going to apologize for his comments that led to a police boycott against his upcoming film …
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Beinn Eighe’s dark bees could aid fight against virus – BBC News
Honeybees that were once the stuff of legend among bee enthusiasts are playing a key role in a fight against diseases fatal to the insects. Apis mellifera mellifera, a native subspecies of dark European honeybee, were thought to have been wiped out …
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Postscript: Ahmad Chalabi – The New Yorker
In November, 2005, Ahmad Chalabi stood in front of a crowd at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington, D.C., and gave a little a speech about how he’d spent his day. He was wearing a tailored suit and a blank smile.
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It’s probably impossible to overstate how beneficial it can be for an up-and-coming comic to get an hourlong special on Comedy Central, and SplitSider is reporting that the latest person to receive that honor is popular South African comedian Trevor…
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Be Mesmerized by the Shifting Complexity of our Sun
Sit back, relax, and look straight at the sun just this once. The Solar Dynamics Observatory keeps a close watch on our sun, tracking sunspots, corneal mass ejections, and everything in between to learn more about our nearest star.
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Russian plane’s ‘black box recorded unusual sounds’ – Al Jazeera English
Russian media reports say unusual sounds have been heard from cockpit recordings at the moment a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the weekend.
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Crazy sky | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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How To Make The Chinese Knot Ball – Imgur
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MPAA Takes Down Pirating Group And Popcorn Time Fork | TechCrunch
There are corks popping around the MPAA offices today. The American trade organization is claiming responsibility for shutting down several pirating services including a popular version of Popcorn Time, you know, the Netflix for pirates.
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Groupon shares plunge on earnings and leadership change – BBC News
Groupon shares fell 26% in after-hours trade after the firm missed forecasts and announced a leadership change. The deals website reported revenue below expectations in the third quarter, and its fourth quarter forecast also missed the mark.
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Obama will decide on Keystone pipeline during his term – BBC News
The White House has said it intends to rule on the fate of the Keystone XL oil pipeline before the end of President Barack Obama’s term. The company behind the pipeline, TransCanada, had wanted to delay the approval process until after his term.
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Podcast: The Mets’ Blown Chances, Kobe Sucks, And New Zealand’s Rugby Prowess | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Nov. 3, 2015), we ask whether the Kansas City Royals won the World Seri…
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On a chance visit to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Booker prize-winning author Tom Keneally discovered an astonishing Australian connection to Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Online schools ‘worse than traditional teachers’ – BBC News
You can see why online charter schools in the United States were seen as the next big thing. Charter schools – publicly funded independent schools – have continued to expand across the US, with supporters seeing them as a way of re-energising standa…
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The man who invented relaxation – BBC News
People suffering from stress can tackle it in various ways – from counselling sessions to yoga classes or listening to mindfulness CDs.
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The ‘Secret’ To Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid’s Success – The Daily Beast
In case the promise of ample cleavage and sparkly pop music performances hadn’t already won over the American public, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show has netted the duo that will hand them ratings gold on a silver platter: Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenn…
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #2
Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #2 https://t.co/foFfQNBzqt
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NAAMES (North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study) 2015 : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Plankton are microscopic yet they play a big role in the cycle of elements fundamental to life on earth. The NAAMES project is a testimony to their importance in our ability to predict how the oceans may mediate the Earth’s future climate.
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Key and Peele to get animated with the director of Coraline · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having closed the book on their beloved Comedy Central sketch show, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are now free to devote their talents to their true calling as entertainers: attaching themselves to movies which may or may not ever actually hap…
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Toyota builds a 26-foot-long limo pickup truck, because why not | The Verge
If you’re looking to buy a limousine, you have lots of choices. The stretched versions of the Lincoln Town Car or the Cadillac CTS, for example, are good options. Others, like the Fiat Panda or Saab 9000 that the boys at Top Gear made into limos, ar…
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Did Rabin assassination kill the best chance for peace? – BBC News
My view is that Rabin’s assassination was one of the most successful political killings of the 20th Century; his assassin, Yigal Amir, wanted to destroy the Israel-Palestinian Oslo peace accords by shooting dead the only Israeli leader who had a cha…
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Spot the Pop Culture References in This Delivery Guy’s Race Against Time
You think you had a rough night on the job? Not compared to the hapless hero of Arthur Metcalf’s short, Filthy but Fine, whose “deliver it or else!” ticking-clock quest is complicated by car trouble … a certain Caped Crusader … a spooky elevator…
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Archivists Have Discovered a Long-Lost Disney Film From the 1920s | Vanity Fair
Here’s some happy holiday news for Disney obsessives: film archivists in London have found a long-lost Walt Disney film from the 1920s titled “Sleigh Bells.” And according to a new report, the six-minute feature will reach certain audiences in time …
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A terminally ill Star Wars fan petitions to see The Force Awakens early · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Houston’s KPRC-TV, a terminally ill Star Wars fan is trying to spread the word that his dying wish is to see The Force Awakens early. The man’s name is Daniel Fleetwood, and he has been diagnosed with a connective tissue cancer called…
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Houston ‘bathroom bill’: Voters to decide on LGBT rights – BBC News
Houston voters will decide whether to enact protections for transgender and gay people after a divisive campaign that has lasted more than a year. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance would extend protections over housing, employment and other areas.
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Twin Peaks Reboot Won’t Air Until 2017. Please Send Pie.
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Cross eyed blep [X-post /r/funny] : Blep
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Fair on Worthing seafront, UK [OC] [6000×4000] : ExposurePorn
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #2
(Steve Singiser): Welcome to round 2 of what will be long Election Night 2015! Polls have now closed in Virginia, where legislative battles will soon command our attention. Meanwhile, we are now in the second hour of following a very close gubernato…
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PSA: Keep Your Dog Away from Sugarless Gum
We’ve mentioned dangerous foods for your pets before, but some seemingly harmless foods are more dangerous than others. Cases of dogs getting sick from ingesting xylitol, an ingredient commonly found in sugarless gum, are on the rise.
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Was GMA Host Lara Spencer Sitting on Donald Trump’s Lap? – The Daily Beast
Has Good Morning America cohost Lara Spencer taken leave of her senses? Or did she simply take leave of her feet on Tuesday to sit in Donald Trump’s lap? Let’s clear this up – I’m standing next to Donald Trump.
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I’ve always wondered about how colour blind see the world. : gif
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Star Trails – Cathedral Cove, New Zealand js – Just Space
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Taco, burrito, what’s coming out of Chipotle’s Speedo? It’s troubles | Grist
The pipeline company is asking for a delay in the federal review of its proposal, hoping to get the decision punted to Obama’s successor.
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TIEMAC Is a SaaS Platform For The Trucking Industry | TechCrunch
For an industry generating $650 billion a year in revenue, its surprising how little innovation there is in the trucking business. Launched at last year’s TC Atlanta Meetup, TIEMAC is trying to buck this trend with its end-to-end cloud-based solutio…
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NASA’s guide to the best air-filtering plants to have in your home – Imgur
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This Bob Ross painting has a satisfying twist. – GIF on Imgur
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Study concludes Antarctica is gaining ice, rather than losing it | Ars Technica
Extracting information from the ice-covered continent of Antarctica isn’t easy. You have to go a long way just to ask, and the region isn’t exactly known for its hospitality.
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Ash cloud from Indonesia’s Mt Rinjani grounds Bali-bound flights – BBC News
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mount Rinjani is east of Bali on the nearby island of Lombok.
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Idaho hunter accused of poaching famous deer reaches plea deal | US news | The Guardian
A hunter accused of poaching a well-known and well-liked buck in Twin Falls last winter has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.
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Steven Gerrard ‘in talks’ over Liverpool return to work with Jürgen Klopp | Football | The Guardian
Steven Gerrard is reportedly in talks with Jürgen Klopp over a surprise return to Liverpool, with the former captain considering ending his spell with LA Galaxy early.
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Gerrard, Mourinho, Townsend, Mirallas, Vieira
LA Galaxy midfielder Steven Gerrard, 35, could return to Liverpool – perhaps as a player – after discussions with manager Jurgen Klopp. (Independent)
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Taiwan, Chinese Presidents to Meet | Al Jazeera America
Taiwan’s president will meet Saturday with his counterpart from once icy political rival China, the Taiwanese side said, a historic first culminating nearly eight years of quickly improved relations despite wariness among many Taiwanese of the mainl…
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Runner sues Nike after breaking leg on company’s Iceland ‘dream run’ | US news | The Guardian
A Los Angeles distance runner who fell and broke her leg on a Nike “dream run” adventure in Iceland has sued the sportswear maker for $1.3m, claiming the run was unsafe, according to her lawsuit. Kate Freeman of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit on Friday…
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John Mayer Talks Unique Deadhead Experience in MSG Livestream Trailer | Rolling Stone
Members of the Grateful Dead and John Mayer discuss the experience of playing for hordes of Deadheads in a new trailer for Dead & Company’s upcoming American Express Unstaged livestream event.
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Watch Lianne La Havas’ Reflective ‘Green & Gold’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Lianne La Havas’ Reflective ‘Green & Gold’ Video Song and video explores singer-songwriter’s Greek and Jamaican heritage
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Royals’ Jonny Gomes Cuts Epic Heel Promo at World Series Celebration | Rolling Stone
Royals’ Jonny Gomes Cuts Epic Heel Promo at World Series Celebration “Y’all want to be politically correct? I’m an un-politically correct person. We whooped their ass!” Gomes shouts to K.C.
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Twin Peaks Reboot Won’t Air Until 2017. Please Send Pie.
Bad (or at least frustrating) news today for Twin Peaks fans: CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves said that the new, limited-run series—which has already been held up by David Lynch vs. Showtime pre-production issues—won’t be airing until 2017.
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My son pulled the Batman plastic wrapping off his pencil : mildlyinteresting
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The Skyline of Boulder, CO from Panorama Point. [OC] [3684×2448] : ExposurePorn
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Small Towns Face Rising Suicide Rates https://t.co/9Oi0JCm3vk
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St. Paul’s School and a New Definition of Rape – The New Yorker
An eighteen-year-old male student’s sexual encounter with a fifteen-year-old female student at St. Paul’s School has led to his being sentenced to one year in jail, followed by five years of probation, and registered for life as a sex offender. Both…
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One Black Baseball Manager Is Not Enough – The Daily Beast
Major League Baseball will enter its 2016 season with at least one black manager because a team owned by the 86th-richest man in the world tried to save a few bucks.
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The finish line for the New York City Marathon, so orderly and secure throughout the morning and afternoon, resembled a carcass by Sunday evening as workers began to strip away its decorative features. A red truck slowly backed over the line, and em…
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LARAMIE, WYO. — After her family moved from suburban New Hampshire to the wind-whipped plains of southeastern Wyoming, Monica Morin embraced small-town life, forging lasting friendships and celebrating her own quirky style.
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Watch Romeo Beckham (and Every Other British Celebrity) Re-enact Billy | Vanity Fair
On Tuesday evening, the British luxury brand Burberry unveiled its 2015 Festive Film—a three-minute homage to the memorable musical opening sequence of Billy Elliot, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.
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Tesla Model X SUV puts a charge in company’s third-quarter sales | Technology | The Guardian
Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc delivered more vehicles in the third quarter than it had previously estimated, helped by the rollout of the Model X SUV. Shares of the Elon Musk-led company jumped 7.5% in extended trading.
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Google is giving $2.35 million in grants to groups fighting racism | The Verge
Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, is giving millions to groups in the Bay Area fighting systemic racism. According to USA Today, the company has set aside $2.
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Amazon’s first brick-and-mortar store: One big ad for the Amazon app | Ars Technica
SEATTLE—On Tuesday, after years of rumors and speculation, Amazon launched a brick-and-mortar store—the kind of place that it has frequently been accused of putting out of business for over 20 years. We had to see what it was all about.
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What you need to know about Antarctica, climate change, and ice levels | Grist
The online giant just opened an actual brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. Special feature: Big Data. Engineers are learning how to build with DNA. What does that mean?
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Uber is testing a commuter service between San Francisco and Silicon Valley | The Verge
Are you going to San Francisco? Uber will offer flat-rate rides to San Francisco from the South Bay, in a sign the company is serious about the carpooling business.
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Sometimes Toes Spontaneously Fall Off and Nobody Knows Why
The word of the day is “autoamputation.” It means a limb—usually a toe—has decided to slowly amputate itself. The other word of the day is “idiopathic.” It means no one knows why it happens. Today this condition is called dactylolysis spontanea.
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NHTSA Fines Takata $70M for Faulty Air Bags | Al Jazeera America
U.S. auto safety regulators on Tuesday fined Japan’s Takata Corp. $70 million for concealing evidence for years that its air bags are prone to explode with grisly consequences — a defect linked to eight deaths and more than 100 injuries worldwide.
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Syria bombs Douma despite use of human shields – Al Jazeera English
The Syrian government has continued its air strikes on a Damascus suburb despite the Jaish al-Islam opposition group using dozens of prisoners from President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect as human shields.
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Peyto Lake, Alberta [6622×4872][OC] : EarthPorn
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Tesla is going to lock down Autopilot so it’s harder to do stupid things with it | The Verge
It’s no secret that some Model S owners have been doing truly dumb things with their cars since Tesla rolled out autopilot — the temptation to let go of the wheel and let the car take total control is strong, ev
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Deluge in the Amargosa and Death Valleys : Image of the Day
In October 2015, a series of storms passed across the U.S. Southwest and brought a deluge of rain to the area‘s desert valleys. The animation above shows satellite-based estimates of rainfall from a particularly large storm that passed over the area…
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The Nexus 6P will snap in half if you try to snap it in half | The Verge
Last week, a YouTube tester bent a Nexus 6P quite easily during a durability test.
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Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #1
3:04 PM PT (David Nir): Polls have now closed in eastern Kentucky; they won’t close in the western part of the state for another hour. We do expect results before then, though. In addition to the AP link above, you can find returns at the secretary …
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Play Games on Your New Apple TV With a Third Party Game Controller
You can play games on the new Apple TV with the fancy remote it comes with, but let’s face it, some games are just better with a real controller. If you have your own MFi certified Bluetooth controller, you can just use that.
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On Monday night, the Democratic National Council (DNC) sent an email to its subscribers celebrating the delay of the Keystone XL pipeline, despite the fact the neither the Democratic Party–which the DNC governs–nor President Obama officially oppose …
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Ryan McGinley’s Ecstatic Body Art – The New Yorker
Like the painter Frank Stella, who was barely a college graduate when he exhibited his Black Paintings at MoMA, in 1959, the photographer Ryan McGinley remains shadowed by a museum show staged very early in his career: an exhibition at the Whitney, …
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Italian Road Trip Honeymoon on Vimeo
2 Weeks 1,000 Kilometers 2,000 Photos in 2 Minutes. http://www.mikematas.com facebook.com/mikematas instagram.com/mike_matas/ twitter.com/mike_matas Titles by Sharon Matas http://www.mycookingdiary.com instagram.com/mycookingdiary twitter.com/mycookingdiary
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Why the Internet has no love for Twitter’s ‘like’ button
Twitter doesn’t have any love for it’s users, apparently. But the platform does at least have a heart—or, as they call it now, a “like.” On Tuesday morning, with a simple tweet, the company announced one of the biggest changes to its platform yet.
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Auto Parts Supplier Takata Fined $70 Million For Defective Airbags : NPR
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a “remedy program” for cars with defective airbags from Takata Corporation and fined the company $70 million.
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Nebraskan Farmer Voices Opposition To Keystone XL Pipeline : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Jenni Harrington, a fifth generation Nebraskan farmer, about the suspension of the permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run through her town.
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One bottle was significantly more than the others : mildlyinteresting
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A portrait of patience. : cats
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‘Secret Wife’ Of Saudi King Awarded $40m By UK Court – The Daily Beast
LONDON — The secret Christian wife of the late King of Saudi Arabia has been awarded $40 million after a judge in London ruled that she was entitled to receive the hush money she had been promised to keep their relationship out of the public eye.
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OpenBCI brain-sensing headset / Boing Boing
OpenBCI is an open-source brain computer interface that had a successful Kickstarter a couple of years ago. They are back with a $99 biodata acquisition device and a 3D-printed, brain-sensing headset. They look cool! The OpenBCI Ganglion is a high-q…
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The most protected little girl on the planet. – GIF on Imgur
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TC Cribs: A Trip To The Love Nest, A Co-living Space For Bitcoin Enthusiasts | TechCrunch
This is a bit of an experimental Cribs episode this week. Stretch your wings and expand your understanding of life in startup land as I take you on a journey over to the Love Nest, a technology commune made mostly of bitcoin stars in Palo Alto, Cali…
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Electric carmaker Tesla announces new model as sales rise – BBC News
Tesla, the maker of electric cars, saw a rise in orders during the third quarter helped by sales of the company’s new Model X SUV. Tesla had a 50% rise in orders compared with the same period last year.
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India’s leading e-commerce company Flipkart just hired a familiar name from Google. Surojit Chatterjee spent the last 8 years at Google, serving as “Product Management Director, Mobile Search Ads and AdSense for Search.” He’s also an angel investor.
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Comcast charging extra $35 for Atlanta customers who want unlimited data | The Verge
On Sunday, Comcast started rolling out its new pricing structure experiment for Atlanta internet customers.
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National Geographic lays off staff following 21st Century Fox merger | Media | The Guardian
National Geographic informed employees Tuesday it would lay off about 9% of its staff, months after announcing it would partner with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox as part of an expanded joint venture.
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El Niño Paints the World’s Driest Place with Color
Images of mysterious shapes inspire intriguing theories, but solid answers will come from on-the-ground study, archaeologists say.
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Robin Williams’s Widow Suggests New Suicide Cause | Vanity Fair
Shortly after the tragic suicide of Robin Williams last year, the Oscar-winning actor’s wife released a statement saying that the tireless comedian had been suffering from “depression, anxiety, as well as early stages of Parkinson’s disease” at the …
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This Video Shrinks You Down to the Surface of a Soap Bubble | Motherboard
When you think of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, you usually think of someone whispering softly in your ear or delicately snipping your hair. It’s hard to describe, but imagine it as the aural and physical sensation of getting a perf…
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The Best Twitter Bots for Keeping Tabs on the Government | Motherboard
Twitter bots range from being absolutely charming to being absolutely the worst. Somewhere in the middle are the government transparency twitter bots.
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China debuts new commercial airliner to compete with Boeing 737 | The Verge
China’s state-run airplane manufacturer debuted its new C919 commercial jetliner this week, a competitor to the hugely popular Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 short- to mid-range passenger planes.
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Eating Disorders Are Consuming the Restaurant World | MUNCHIES
The restaurant business is fueled by hard work, insane hours, and huge passion. It’s not for the faint of heart—or stomach.
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Days after protests, Hillary Clinton meets with families of victims of police violence
The meeting and the speech for an event on Black voters at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU in Atlanta, indicate Clinton’s push to woo black voters and gain the support of activists. She faces stiff competition in this regard from Bernie Sanders, w…
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Tide Starts To Turn Against The ‘Crime’ Of Being Homeless : NPR
Work crews in Honolulu recently dismantled wooden shacks and tents that lined city streets and housed almost 300 people.
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[OC] [3456×2304] “Abandonded” rescue truck in Ouray, CO : AbandonedPorn
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This gym : firstworldanarchists
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More Legal Trouble for Paul Aides | Mother Jones
The government’s case against the trio of operatives for Ron and Rand Paul who attempted to buy the endorsement of an Iowa state senator just got a second life.
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There Goes the Neighborhood – The Baffler
On January 14, I approached the field house in Washington Park, the 150-year-old jewel of Chicago’s archipelago of green spaces, for the second of two public meetings to discuss the University of Chicago’s bid to host Barack Obama’s presidential lib…
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Netflix may start producing Bollywood and anime programming | The Verge
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings doesn’t think there’s enough great television, even with the staggering 400 scripted TV series slated for 2016.
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Sir David Attenborough’s voice is majestic. That’s an indisputable fact. So, when he stopped by Radio 1 recently, host Greg James jumped at the chance to have the legendary English broadcaster read something memorable.
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What Teachers Do: A Little Common Sense In This Must-See Video
Turns out the teachers got it right. The wheels are falling off the so-called “education reform” project which dismissed the voices of teachers – and particularly their unions – with no little vitriol. Reformers offered clear, simple answers to the …
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International dog dancing championship takes place in Germany – BBC News
The International Dog Dancing Championships have taken place in Freiburg in Germany. Alex Weber, the organiser of the event, explains how it works.
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Chicago, see Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
As this week’s Watch This columns are highlighting, there are already quite a few fantastic movies about journalism.
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Adolescence is full of shared experiences like growing pains, awkward haircuts, and posting videos of yourself eating extremely hot peppers on YouTube.
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Can New Yorkers cope without caffeine in their coffee? – BBC News
New York may be the city that never sleeps – but it’s not easy maintaining the frenetic pace of life for which the Big Apple is famous.
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Quentin Tarantino Dismisses Police Boycotts of ‘Hateful Eight’ | Rolling Stone
Quentin Tarantino dismissed the spate of police boycotts of his upcoming film, The Hateful Eight, telling the Los Angeles Times, “I’m not being intimidated. Frankly, it feels lousy to have a bunch of police mouthpieces call me a cop hater. I’m not a…
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It’s 2015, and Men Are Still Being Pussies About Eating Pussy
According to what I’ve been reading, the year is 2015, and men are still refusing to eat pussies. What are you—crazy? I mean, wow. I can’t even imagine this. And especially not now, in the year 2015.
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The remnant of the supernova SN 1006 seen at many… – Just Space
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Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Corgi Wranglers : aww
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Do Science and Art Share a Source? – Café Panel Chat
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Ohio marijuana: Voters to decide whether to make drug legal – BBC News
Voters in the US state of Ohio could decide to make marijuana legal, joining four other states that have rolled back bans on the drug. However, the ballot measure stipulates that only 10 sites would be able to grow the plants, raising concerns about…
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Amnesty: Shell Has Not Cleaned Nigeria Oil Spills | Al Jazeera America
Oil giant Shell is “blatantly false” when it claims it is cleaning up spills that continue to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: “Here is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All” by Rahul Kanakia
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Here is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All” by Rahul Kanakia.
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The Atlantic Daily: Russian Jetliner Crash, Nepal Bus Accident, Election Day – The Atlantic
The remains of the victims of Saturday’s Russian plane crash in Egypt have been transported from Cairo to St. Petersburg, and Russian families have begun identifying passengers.
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Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Funeral Director
Making arrangements after the death of a loved one is an inevitable part of life, and for some people it is also a job. Funeral directors help grieving families navigate the daunting, and perhaps unexpected, bureaucracy of death.
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America’s Vital Interests in Syria – The New Yorker
In an essay that appeared in The National Interest at the start of last year, John Mearsheimer, who is perhaps the leading academic proponent of a “realist” approach to international affairs, argued that the United States should restrict its militar…
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Overwatch Makes A Great First Impression
I can’t remember the last time I felt as excited about a new video game as I feel right now about Overwatch, Blizzard’s unprecedented stab at making a multiplayer shooter. I’ve been playing it for three days and see so much potential.
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This book gets rented twice a year, every few years : mildlyinteresting
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How to make the Chinese knot ball : interestingasfuck
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How I picture everyone in this sub : TrollXChromosomes
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Twitter Holding Post-earnings Q&A On Periscope | TechCrunch
Today, Twitter is going to be holding a post-earnings Q&A on Periscope. The host? CFO Anthony Noto. The company took a bit of a nosedive after its Q3 earnings at the end of last month, so folks have questions.
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Is someone using angst about Black Lives Matter to railroad a Pennsylvania candidate?
But, so far, only white voters are getting the flyer. “They’ve pulled out all the stops. And every dog whistle they could blow, they’ve combined them into that letter,” she says.
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Have you noticed that non-mainstream films are increasingly being produced/financed/released through Amazon, HBO, and Netflix and not the big studios? The latest example is Spike Lee’s new joint, Chi-raq.
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Amazon opens a retail store to replace all the ones it’s closed · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In one of the most ironic decisions a company has ever made, Amazon has just opened its first brick-and-mortar retail bookstore.
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Tesla Will Unveil Its Most Affordable Car To Date In March 2016 | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that the company intended to show off the Model 3 — its most affordable car to date by far, at $35,000 — in March of 2016. But as we’ve learned from the company’s adventures with the Model X, Tesla st…
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Afghan woman accused of adultery is stoned to death – BBC News
The 30-second clip shows a woman in a hole in the ground surrounded by turbaned men who hurl stones at her. Her fiance was lashed. The woman, named by as Rokhshana and aged between 19 and 21, can be heard repeatedly and desperately professing her Mu…
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Rooney leaves it late to win it for Manchester United – Al Jazeera English
A thumping header from Wayne Rooney ended Manchester United’s scoring drought and secured a 1-0 Champions League victory over CSKA Moscow as they went top of Group B.
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Track of the Day: ‘Pass This On’ – The Atlantic
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Zoe Quinn on growing past the online mob / Boing Boing
Zoe Quinn knows what it’s like to be lied about, harassed and generally made a prop in other people’s angry inner lives. But she also knows what it’s like to have been one of the internet’s useful idiots—and how to build something powerful in respon…
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Wellness Programs Add Financial Advice To Improve Employee Health : Shots – Health News : NPR
Sheena Calliham is all too aware of that statistics showing that millennials have less job security and more student debt than their parents. Calliham is 32, manages healthcare centers in Columbia, S.C, and has a 2-year-old daughter.
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Snow was spotted earlier this week in Michigan. The migration begins. : funny
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Pivotal IPO Could Make Dell-EMC Deal Even More Complicated | TechCrunch
Even while the Dell-EMC deal seemingly moves forward, there is still plenty of maneuvering going on at EMC.
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Groupon Names Rich Williams CEO In Mixed Earnings Report | TechCrunch
The deal service Groupon on Tuesday announced CEO and co-founder Eric Lefkofsky would step down, and Rich Williams would take over the company immediately. The company said Lefkofsky would return to the role of chairman of the board.
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The Sociology Book just $1.99 as Kindle e-book / Boing Boing
I’m a fan of DK’s “Big Ideas Simply Explained series.” I have the Psychology Book and the Philosophy Book. Both books go through the history of the subjects, with lots of well-designed infographics.
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What you should know about the new Justin Bieber video | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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The movie industry says it killed Popcorn Time | The Verge
The MPAA just announced that it is responsible for the demise of Popcorn Time: a popular program that brought Netflix-style ease of use to pirating movie torrents. There have been multiple versions of Popcorn Time, but one of the two biggest version…
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Outerwall, the automated kiosk operator that runs Redbox, Coinstar and ecoATM machines, has made a move into e-commerce with the acquisition of Gazelle.com – an online website that buys and sells pre-owned consumer electronics, including smartphones…
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Former Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg is a famous curmudgeon who prefers to save his romantic side for his music.
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Thanks To Virginia Reforms, These People Are Voting For The First Time In Decades | ThinkProgress
RICHMOND, VA — Election Day is usually not a proud day for Wilbur Scott*. In past years, the 66-year-old ex-felon used to loiter around his local polling place and hope that someone would drop their “I Voted!” sticker on the ground.
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The Election Is A Year Away — Is Either Party Winning? | FiveThirtyEight
The presidential election is now officially one year away. So for this week’s 2016 Slack chat, we chewed over each party’s general election prospects. What do we know a year out? As always, the transcript below has been lightly edited.
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Kansas’ Voter Suppression Chief Kris Kobach Spoke To A White Nationalist Group | ThinkProgress
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a notorious voter suppression architect and anti-immigration activist, was a featured speaker at a “writers’ workshop” last week organized by The Social Contract Press (TSCP), a publishing house designated as a…
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BBC Sport – Sevilla 1-3 Manchester City
Gael Clichy and Fabian Delph may be in Manchester City’s squad to face Sevilla in Tuesday’s Champions League match. Midfielder David Silva (ankle) missed training on Monday; Raheem Sterling is expected to start in attack.
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How to Be Serious: A 2007 Hot Mic and Today’s G.O.P. – The New Yorker
On the evening of July 12, 2007, at the end of a Presidential candidates’ forum hosted by the N.A.A.C.P., in Detroit, John Edwards loped across the stage to Hillary Clinton and whispered in her ear.
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BBC Sport – Manchester United 1-0 CSKA Moscow
Manchester United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin is a doubt for the Champions League match against CSKA Moscow on Tuesday. Defender Phil Jones and midfielder Memphis Depay trained separately from their team-mates at Carrington.
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This Incredible 4K Video of the Sun Took NASA 300 Hours to Make | Motherboard
The latest video to come out of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is the most detailed yet, and it’s completely mesmerizing. Launched in 2010, the SDO monitors the Sun 24/7 to better understand how it affects our Earth.
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With the announcement that Nintendo is considering getting back into the film game, now’s the perfect time for some fan films to show what could be possible for a film based on one of its games.
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Overwatch Makes A Great First Impression
I can’t remember the last time I felt as excited about a new video game as I feel right now about Overwatch, Blizzard’s unprecedented stab at making a multiplayer shooter. I’ve been playing it for three days and see so much potential.
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Fifa crisis: Brazil’s Jose Maria Marin extradited over bribery – BBC News
The former head of Brazilian football, Jose Maria Marin, has been extradited to the US to face corruption charges. After his extradition, he appeared in court in New York, where he pleaded not guilty.
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Amir Khan ‘signs agreement’ to fight Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas next year | Sport | The Guardian
Amir Khan is reported to have signed an agreement to fight Manny Pacquiao next year, which sets pulses and alarm bells ringing simultaneously.
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Keystone pipeline: TransCanada denies politics prompted call for delay | US news | The Guardian
The US State Department said on Tuesday it would continue its review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline while considering TransCanada’s request for a pause in the review process.
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Uber wants to help its US drivers get bank accounts | The Verge
Uber is considering offering banking services in the form of prepaid credit cards or assistance in signing up for bank accounts to its US drivers, according to Quartz, which spoke to sources close to the ride-hailing company and reviewed documents r…
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Nestled in the gently rolling hills of Verona, Wisconsin, a small Madison suburb, is the 1,000-acre “Intergalactic Headquarters” of Epic Systems, the multibillion-dollar company that claims its software manages medical records for 179 million Americ…
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Zynga Beats Expectations On Earnings, Posts A $3M Profit | TechCrunch
Zynga today beat analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings, bringing in about $176 million in bookings with flat earnings, and revenue of $196 million. Analysts were expecting a loss of one cent per share for the company’s earnings.
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Today following the bell, Zendesk reported its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $55.7 million, and adjusted earnings per share of negative 0.05. Investors had expected the company to lose $0.09 per share off revenue of $52.2…
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Young Americans shifting US towards becoming less religious nation | World news | The Guardian
Declining levels of religious belief and practice among the generation of Americans born in the last two decades of the 20th century is shifting the US towards becoming a less devout nation, a major new survey has found.
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Tesla missed the street in its reported Q3 earnings today, including non-GAAP revenue of $1.24 billion and non-GAAP loss per share of $0.58. Analysts expected a non-GAAP loss per share of $0.50. The company’s non-GAAP revenue was on par with analyst…
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The Chemistry Behind Making the Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
A great grilled cheese sandwich is all about picking the best cheese for melting. With a little chemistry know-how, you can make sure your sandwich is a gooey, flavorful masterpiece.
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Review: Netatmo’s Welcome home security camera gets facial recognition right | Ars Technica
Most Wi-Fi security cameras follow a simple formula: sleek pieces of hardware, motion and sound detection features, a mobile app where a live stream can be watched, and a subscription platform that lets you choose the footage you want to keep.
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Trump blasts Ben Carson for not having the ‘temperament’ to be president
Dr. Ben Carson seems to have gotten off easy, by Trump standards.
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Tesla says it’s on track to show the Model 3 in March 2016 | The Verge
In its third quarter 2015 shareholder letter released today, Tesla reiterated that it plans on showing its Model 3 — a critical vehicle for the company that is expected to bring Tesla within reach of middle-class car buyers — in March of next year.
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The Oscar winner says Katniss inspired her to write her essay on the gender wage gap.
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All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford To Miss in November!
The holidays are coming up, and there’s no better gift than piles of books. And luckily, there are tons of fantastic science fiction and fantasy books coming this month.
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Putin Was Missing in Action After Plane Crash – The Daily Beast
All day on Sunday, the day after a Kogalymavia plane crash killed 224 people, the biggest loss in the history of Russian commercial aviation, Russians were wondering: Where is Putin? Russia’s leader did not appear in public for almost two days.
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Germany’s Most Notorious Darknet Drug Dealer Sentenced to Only 7 Years | Motherboard
One of Germany’s most spectacular narcotics trials ever came to a close on Monday in Leipzig. The 20-year-old, Maximilian S., was found guilty of selling 914 kg of drugs over the darknet and clearnet. The sentence: seven years imprisonment.
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ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The Graphic Novel
1.5M ratings 277k ratings See, that’s what the app is perfect for. Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna Page 1 (After Curtis, Bradley, and Edgington) Cover (after Jim Steranko).
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Demi Lovato, Sleigh Bells Spar Over Alleged Sample | Rolling Stone
Demi Lovato, Sleigh Bells Spar Over Alleged Sample “The band feels their music has been sampled without proper clearance and are seeking all available remedies with Island Records,” rep says
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New Books Allege Years Of Financial Mismanagement At The Vatican : NPR
Intrigue over Vatican finances is gaining steam with this week’s publication of two books alleging multi-million dollar waste and theft. It follows the weekend arrest of a priest and a Vatican layperson accused of leaking confidential documents.
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Gaming Company Activision Blizzard Buys ‘Candy Crush’ Developer : NPR
King Digital, the Swedish studio behind the “Candy Crush” puzzle game, is selling itself to Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion. The goal of this corporate game: converting Crush players into paying customers interested in other online pastimes.
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Tropical Cyclone Chapala Batters War-Torn Yemen’s Southern Coast : NPR
Thousands flee war-torn Yemen as tropical cyclone Chapala batters its southern coast. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with journalist Iona Craig for the latest on the storm.
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In Texas, Homeless Residents Face Obstacles To Voting : NPR
Tuesday is election day in many cities across the country. But without a fixed address or voter ID, it’s a challenge for many homeless people to vote.
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Keystone XL Pipeline Company Asks U.S. To Pause Review Of Application : NPR
TransCanada has asked the State Department to suspend its review of its permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline Monday until Nebraska decides on its route.
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New TSA Head Promises To Improve Security Procedures : NPR
Government investigators say they’ve found repeated failures in the effectiveness of airport screening. The TSA head said Tuesday he’s committed to trying to improve performance.
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Amazon Opens First Permanent Brick And Mortar Bookstore In Seattle : NPR
Amazon is opening its first permanent brick and mortar bookstore in Seattle. The company often tries out new products and ideas in its hometown, and if this does well, it could be a harbinger of things to come.
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A New Kind Of Tragic Prince In ‘King Charles III’ : NPR
Imagine Queen Elizabeth II has died, and her son Charles has become king. Now, imagine that his first act as king is to refuse to sign a bill restricting the freedom of the press.
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Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi Politician Who Advocated For U.S. Invasion, Dies : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks to Zaid Al-Ali, a visiting research scholar at Princeton University and author of The Struggle for Iraq’s Future, about Chalabi, who helped convince the U.S. to invade Iraq.
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After Thousands Of Inmates Released Early, Probation Officers Will Be Watching : NPR
Over the past few days, thousands of federal prisoners have been leaving confinement early and returning to their communities — the result of changes to sentencing guidelines for drug-related crimes. And who will be monitoring those former inmates?
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German Leader’s Open-Door Policy For Refugees Threatens Her Political Future : NPR
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is finding herself increasingly at odds with her supposed political allies over her open-door policy for refugees.
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20 Years Later, The Question Lingers: What If Yitzhak Rabin Had Lived? : Parallels : NPR
Twenty years ago, an Israeli extremist shot dead the country’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and left the country, and people all over the world to wonder: What if? What if Rabin, the general turned cautious peacemaker, had lived?
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To Keep Track Of Migrants, EU Sets Up ‘Hot Spots’ : Parallels : NPR
The boats land on the rocky shores of Lesbos, a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, nearly every hour. Sometimes 60 or 70 boats arrive every day, carrying mothers, fathers and children from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Why Chipotle’s Hard Line On Swine Antibiotics Is Now Blurry : The Salt : NPR
When you’re a nationwide food company, it can be tough to live up to your own lofty marketing slogans. Chipotle claims to serve only “food with integrity.” But some of that food, it appears, may have infected a couple of dozen customers in Oregon an…
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Misty is graceful and elegant : cats
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The Best Royals Team Ever Played Best When It Mattered Most | FiveThirtyEight
The Kansas City Royals seemed an unlikely champion in the preseason. One projection machine (PECOTA) forecast a paltry 72-win season for the team. FanGraphs predicted 79 wins and a 0.8 percent chance of winning the World Series.
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Etsy Meets Expectations In Q3, Stock Drops Nearly 2% In After Hours | TechCrunch
Following trading today, Etsy reported its Q3 financial performance, including revenue of $66 million, and earnings loss per share of $0.06. The Street expected Etsy to lose $0.06 per share, off revenue of around $66.17 million. The company was up 3.
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All Blacks arrive in New Zealand to heroes’ welcome – BBC News
Rugby World Cup champions, the All Blacks, have arrived home in New Zealand to a heroes’ welcome at Auckland International Airport. Air New Zealand staff performed a haka on the tarmac and hundreds of supporters cheered and screamed as the team ente…
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Death Row Prisoners Have Time to Find God, But Few Find Mercy | The New Republic
Strapped to the execution gurney in Huntsville, Texas, Michael Hall told those assembled to watch him die that he was not the same man who had shot a 19-year-old woman to death 13 years earlier. Stories of condemned inmates who find God and goodness…
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Teens for Trump! | The New Republic
When Donald Trump was signing copies of his new book, Crippled America, at—where else?—Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday, there was a strong showing by an unexpected constituency: the teens.
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There’s an unexpected undercurrent of tragedy to the recent James Bond movies, the ones starring narrow-faced, blue-eyed brute Daniel Craig.
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The first teaser for Alice Through The Looking Glass was a bit of PSA, reminding those who depend on analog clocks to “fall back” an hour.
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The Most Popular Dating Deal Breakers, According to Research
Dating is a complicated affair and you’d think that knowing what people want would be the most important part. It turns out that it’s actually probably the opposite.
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Djokovic edges closer to fourth Paris Masters title – Al Jazeera English
World number one Novak Djokovic was given a decent workout by Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci as he opened his Paris Masters campaign with a 7-5 6-3 second-round win.
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Supercut proves James Bond villains really love to laugh · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Being James Bond may not be much of a laughing matter to Daniel Craig, but it certainly seems to fill his adversaries with glee.
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Are microbes about to remake manufacturing? This synthetic biologist thinks so | Grist
The pipeline company is asking for a delay in the federal review of its proposal, hoping to get the decision punted to Obama’s successor.
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Prominent white supremacist could be buried in Arlington National Cemetery | US news | The Guardian
Arlington National Cemetery has received a burial request for Willis Carto, thought to be the white supremacist leader and prominent Holocaust denier of that name who died on 26 October at the age of 89, the cemetery confirmed. Despite his far-right…
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Moon Over Mars: Why US Needs a Lunar Mission First
Leroy Chiao is a former NASA astronaut and ISS commander. He served as a member of the 2009 Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, and is the special adviser for human spaceflight to the Space Foundation. Elliot Pulham is the CEO of the S…
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Uber Tempts Commuters To Drop The Keys With Flat-Fee Out-Of-Town Car Pools | TechCrunch
Why drive yourself when it might be cheaper to coast to work in the back of an Uber? Today Uber launched the beta of a new flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL option aimed at commuters.
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Atlantic Readers Share Their Stories of Adoption – The Atlantic
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The Candy Crush Mystery – The Atlantic
Every day since 2013, I’ve seen at least one person playing Candy Crush Saga during my daily commute on the New York subway.
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David Attenborough narrates Adele’s Hello
BBC Radio One got David Attenborough to narrate the first minute or so of Adele’s video for Hello as if it were a nature documentary. Solid gold. Although I am a little cross they made Attenborough say the words “hashtag flip phone”. 😐
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Rep. Steve King wants to deport undocumented immigrants who protest on Capitol Hill
It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve gotten the chance to see Rep. Steve King (R-racist) being a horrible person. He hasn’t stopped, mind you, but the background noise of Rep.
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Former Twitter Manager Bashes Company Over Diversity Problem | Re/code
Twitter’s diversity issue — like the growth problem that threatens to kill the company — won’t change, not with its current homogeneous workforce and leadership.
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Trump to negotiate debates with networks without other campaigns | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has inflicted a body-blow on attempts by prospective Republican presidential candidates to control future debates by announcing that his campaign will negotiate directly with television networks, and not in tandem with his fellow GOP ho…
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The exoplanet from hell: Cloudy, with a chance of molten iron rain | Ars Technica
A distant world 75 million light years from Earth is probably a nice enough place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there. OK, you probably wouldn’t even want to visit there. That’s what astronomers have concluded after observing “weather” on …
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Copyright Captures APIs: A New Caution For Developers | TechCrunch
Google v. Oracle. It’s a sensational case. A battle of tech heavyweights — and a software copyright case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Millions of dollars are at stake. And the ramifications for software entrepreneurs are signific…
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You’ll be able to watch the first episode of The Expanse online well before its actual premiere on TV.
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ISS Celebrates 15 Years Of Residency In Space – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
This week, the International Space Station marked 15 years of continuous human residency, during which the crew has expanded the ISS by 10 rooms, performed 1,760 experiments, and completed 189 space walks. What do you think?
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Retirees will no longer be permitted to use certain strategies to increase the amount they collect from Social Security by as much as tens of thousands of dollars.
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Keystone XL Isn’t Dead Yet. Here What You Need to Know About What Comes Next. | Mother Jones
On Monday evening, TransCanada, the company behind the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, asked the State Department to put its permit application on ice.
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Amazon, the company that killed the bookstore, opens one | Grist
The online giant just opened an actual brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. Special feature: Big Data. Engineers are learning how to build with DNA. What does that mean?
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The EPA rule that would offer protection to millions of miles of streams survived another challenge today, as the Senate voted to defeat a proposal by Republican and farm-and-energy state Democrats that would have forced the agency to completely rew…
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The Rigging of the American Market
Much of the national debate about widening inequality focuses on whether and how much to tax the rich and redistribute their income downward. But this debate ignores the upward redistributions going on every day, from the rest of us to the rich. The…
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Building the International Space Station
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The Joy of the “Charlie’s Angels” Reboot, 15 Years Later – The Atlantic
Toward the end of the 2000 reboot of Charlie’s Angels, Drew Barrymore’s secret agent Dylan sits tied to a chair, muzzled by a piece of duct tape upon which Sam Rockwell’s villain has drawn the outline of what he calls “the fullest, sweetest, most lu…
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Explore the solar system in an immortal transhumanist body / Offworld
The space exploration game Sun Dogs comes with a promising description: “Sun Dogs is about exploring our inner solar system, altering your body, and embracing death.” After playing the game, I deem it accurate.
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Airbag maker Takata fined for recalls – BBC News
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Takata failed to provide information about the dangerous airbags. About 23.4 million Takata airbag inflators have been recalled in the US.
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Good samaritan helpfully corrects a Netflix HQ sign | The Verge
While not the official Netflix headquarters sign, the sign appears to be located near the company’s main building just south of San Jose. Reddit user nicktrvs, who spotted the sign three days ago, reported that it was painted over within a few hours.
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The Only Way Jeb Bush Can ‘Fix’ His Campaign is to Fix the GOP | The New Republic
The Jeb Bush campaign has swapped out the language of genuine optimism for the language of forced optimism that often masks hopelessness.
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Now you can own Kurt Cobain’s ratty MTV Unplugged sweater · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Nirvana’s performance on MTV Unplugged is not only one of the most acclaimed installments of the popular acoustic performance series (Sorry, LL Cool J), but a classic Nirvana album in its own right. Spare and elegiac, the whole thing was a rather tr…
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Star Wars extras take center stage in the Elstree 1976 trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
It must be odd to have been one of the many masked background actors in the original Star Wars. Imagine being simultaneously visible and invisible in one of the most successful and influential movies ever made.
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Some things in HBO’s Game Of Thrones are the product of special effects. Gregor Clegane, a.k.a. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson’s “The Mountain” is not one of those things.
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This ‘Robotic Finger’ Will Push All Your Home’s Buttons for You | Motherboard
The internet of things is growing vast and wide. It’s awash with plenty of potentially good ideas, plenty of potentially bizarre and dystopian ideas, and plenty of just bad ideas. Depending on how often you press buttons or like the idea of pressing…
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States with the Highest Gun Death Rates in America | Al Jazeera America
So far in 2015, there have been 307 days – and 318 mass shootings. They’ve taken place in nearly every state across the country, from Massachusetts to Texas and California, according to shootingtracker.
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Israel Is Already Selling Kamikaze Micro-Drones That Will Change Modern Warfare
The tiny drone launches from its pneumatic carrying tube, extends its wings, and zooms at speed up to 115 mph, driven by an electric propeller. But the 7-lb. Hero 30 can also cruise at slow speeds, loitering over an area.
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Does Greasy Food Actually Help A Hangover? | VinePair
In the rhythmic, cranial throbbing that is the dread poetry of a hangover, there’s one desperately repeated whisper: “Quick fix. Quick fix. Dear god, quick fix.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Bush go sledding – Jan 13, 1991 : OldSchoolCool
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Together in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC][5922×3621] : EarthPorn
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NEW YORK—Touting it as a seductive and versatile new addition to their Dream Angels collection, Victoria’s Secret officials announced Tuesday the launch of a 3-square-inch patch of satin that can be placed anywhere on the body.
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Here’s One Way to Tell Businesses To Either Pay Fair or Pay Up
If you are concerned about the cost of funding social programs for the poor, then you should support a living wage for workers. That’s the message supporters of the Responsible Business Act are sending employers in Chicago.
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Bill Murray Will Throw You in the Pool in Exchange for an Autograph | Vanity Fair
What is it like logging hundreds of hours alongside Bill Murray, the elusive comedy mastermind, as he makes a movie in Morocco and a holiday special with George Clooney and Miley Cyrus? That is exactly what writer and Magic City creator Mitch Glazer…
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Why The Vote Ohio’s Gerrymandering Ban Matters
Ohioans are voting on a constitutional amendment to ban gerrymandering that could cure much of what ails our government, and fix our broken political process. Ohio residents are voting on Issue One, which passed the Ohio General Assembly as HJR 12 l…
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Spectre review: James Bond returns to the ham-fisted days of Roger Moore | The Verge
Earlier this year, a Spectre trailer spoof made the rounds, replacing shots of Daniel Craig’s modern take on James Bond with footage of Roger Moore.
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Maira Kalman’s Beloved Dogs – The New Yorker
Tell us about Krupnik. Krupnik is in many of the paintings–she’s in the painting with the two pink chairs. I met her in Tel Aviv, where she lives, in a used bookstore. This is a literary dog–she somehow added character to the bookstore.
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Earbud.fm Is a Curated List of the Best Podcasts Episodes On a Variety of Topics
NPR launched Earbud.fm, a new web site that catalogs the best podcasts as handpicked by celebrities, listeners, and radio hosts. Despite the name, this isn’t just a collection of shows from NPR, though many NPR shows are included.
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NASA captures detailed radar images of Halloween asteroid | The Verge
NASA captured many detailed images of the large “pumpkin asteroid” that passed close by Earth on Halloween. The asteroid 2015 TB145 came within 1.3 lunar distances — or 300,000 miles — of our planet at around 1PM ET on October 31st.
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Can a city pass gun reform in a red state? | Al Jazeera America
MISSOULA, Mont. – For Hayes Otoupalik, guns aren’t just a hobby. They’re a way of life. The history buff has been trading and selling guns, both modern and relic, for most of his life.
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The Lineup | Sweet Dreams: Nevada’s Creepy Clown Motel
It may sound like the setup of a freaky book by Stephen King or R.L. Stine, but the Clown Motel is very real.
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You put your weed in it: Vape on the go with smokable hoodies | Dangerous Minds
Although most credible observers think all fifty states will see legal pot by 2020, today there are still quite a few holdouts, places where you might want to keep things a little more discrete and on the down-low… Enter VAPRWEAR, a newly-launched a…
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Nova is loving the new kitten. : cats
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For the first time in more than a year, the widow of the actor Robin Williams is speaking publicly about the circumstances that preceded Mr. Williams’s death, and sharing details about a disease he had when he died.
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Warning: TITTIES. Nipples, Nazi slogans, and racist slurs against Syrian war refugees have all collided on German Facebook to create the ultimate viral headline, and we at Boing Boing are *so very on it.
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Washington highlight porn sites to defend ‘Redskins’ name | Sport | The Guardian
Washington’s NFL team have struck upon a, shall we say, novel tactic in their effort to preserve the team’s trademark registrations – by filing a laundry list of companies whose obscene or offensive names have been upheld by the US Patent Office.
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Analysis: Will Turkey’s AKP push for systemic change? – Al Jazeera English
Turkey’s governing AK Party has defied all expectations, winning a landslide victory in the country’s November 1 general election. The party garnered approximately 49.5 percent of votes and 317 seats in parliament, an increase of 59 from the June 7 …
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The Most Expensive Supreme Court Race In American History Is Going On Right Now | ThinkProgress
That’s how much candidates and interested groups have spent to influence the race for three seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, according to Justice At Stake, a watchdog group which tracks state judicial races.
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Don’t have Starz? Good news, as you can still watch the excellent season premiere of Ash vs. Evil Dead for free. The channel is allowing people who don’t currently subscribe—which is a lot of people—to check out the show here on its streaming online…
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Imagine you’re at a bar, having a few drinks with James Bond. He’s spinning some great yarns, one humdinger in particular, involving his family estate and the death of his trusted mentor/mother figure. It’s serious, exciting stuff.
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This Great American Horror Story: Hotel Theory Explains the Season’s Weakest Link | Vanity Fair
The titular hotel at the center of American Horror Story this season is packed to the gills with ghouls, ghosts, and Gagas.
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Ex-Daily Show host Jon Stewart signs internet deal with HBO – BBC News
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart has signed a deal with HBO to produce topical videos for the network’s internet services. The content will be featured on the network’s streaming services apps, HBO Now and HBO Go, and other platforms.
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PHOENIX—Speaking to reporters Tuesday from his spacious corner office in the company’s sleek downtown corporate headquarters, Harbor Corrections Group CEO Walter G. Parks reminisced fondly about the business’s humble beginnings as a modest six-cell …
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Slack wants to hire a cab or check the weather for you | The Verge
Slack, the social messaging app that is becoming the go-to chatroom for workplace communication, announced a new service Tuesday called Slash Commands to merge outside companies like Lyft, Foursquare, and Poncho into its platform.
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Film of Disney’s first creation, lost in 1928, is found – BBC News
A film of Walt Disney’s first animated creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which has been lost since 1928, has been discovered.The film was found in the archive of the British Film Institute and is going to be screened again.Will Gompertz reports.
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Amazon Store Cardholders Can Save $50 on an Amazon Echo
Ready to speak to the future? For a limited time, Amazon Card holders and new members can save $50 on the surprisingly great Amazon Echo, bringing it down to just $130.
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This is what ladybugs look like when they’re babies. via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/fyE85zvm1y https://t.co/5m8GZNcGIT
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Berlin Mitte, Ziegelstrasse [2448×1836] : AbandonedPorn
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This is Bubba. 8 year old DSH who has stolen our hearts, and food. via /r/cats https://t.co/iPoBa7jzM0 https://t.co/oG6sLkHbR9
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A sunny November morning : FoggyPics
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LeafLink Raises $750K To Become Salesforce For The Cannabis Industry | TechCrunch
LeafLink, an NY-based wholesale management platform for the cannabis industry, has closed a $750k seed round led by group of NY angel investors.
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Marc Andreessen and Sheryl Sandberg: Tech Is Not Driving Income Inequality | TechCrunch
This morning at Fortune’s Global Forum conference in San Francisco, Fortune interviewer Alan Murray got quite an earful from the guests on his panel: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, who …
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Midday open thread: Big Oil PR favors climate initiatives, but its lobbying undercuts them
“Chalabi’s life work, an Iraq liberated from Saddam Hussein, a modern and democratic Iraq, is spiraling toward disintegration,” Dexter Filkins wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 2006, after interviewing Mr. Chalabi at his home in London, where …
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If you can’t live without Twitter’s ‘favorite’ star, you can bring it back | The Verge
When you enjoy something on Twitter, or when someone tweets at you and you want to politely acknowledge them as people but you don’t care to engage, you grace that something with a “favorite.” The “favorite” is represented by a yellow star.
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Blaming Yourself for Failure Could Increase Your Risk of Injury
Practicing a healthy mindset doesn’t just strengthen your brain—it may protect your body from injury, too. Runners in a recent study were more likely to develop overuse injuries like tendonitis if they were hard on themselves after bad performances.…
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Ask an Expert: All About Dealing with Anxiety and Depression
We all feel down sometimes, and it can be difficult to know what differentiates a few bad days from something that might require more serious attention. A what point should you seek help and where can you get it? Here to offer some advice is Dr.
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The Dumbest Thing The Star Wars Expanded Universe Did To Princess Leia
Star Wars’ old Expanded Universe is no more. Under the Disney regime, it has been relegated to the “Legends” banner, and the new official canon includes just the movies and TV shows, along with a whole new set of books, comics, etc.
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France to pay $60m into compensation fund for US victims of Holocaust | World news | The Guardian
France is to pay $60m to mainly American victims of the Holocaust who were transported by train from France to Nazi death camps during the second world war.
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Northwestern professor resigns after sexual harassment investigation | US news | The Guardian
A Northwestern University professor has resigned after investigations found that he had sexually harassed two students, the school announced Tuesday. Peter Ludlow, a philosophy professor, resigned in the midst of termination proceedings, a universit…
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Llaura DreamFeel is an independent developer who has a unique sense of structure, and Istanbul, Texas is a simple but deep work.
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You put your weed in it: Vape on the go with smokeable hoodies | Dangerous Minds
Although most credible observers think all fifty states will see legal pot by 2020, today there are still quite a few holdouts, places where you might want to keep things a little more discrete and on the down-low… Enter VAPRWEAR, a newly-launched a…
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Robotic Eyes to Assist Satellite Repairs in Orbit https://t.co/nblq5ysaX0 https://t.co/POaYAqJvTE
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Watch the first trailer for Chi-raq, Amazon’s first original film | The Verge
Amazon’s first original film, Spike Lee’s Chi-raq, is set to hit theaters in a month, so it’s about time we saw a trailer. Here, we finally see Lee’s vision of South Side Chicago come into focus.
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Strange new underground creature found in rural New Zealand – GIF on Imgur
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Google scraps plan for flagship retail store in New York City | Ars Technica
According to a report from Crain’s New York Business, Google has scrapped plans for a flagship retail store in New York City.
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Germany’s Volkswagen is already in a whole heap of trouble over cheating on U.S. tests for nitrogen oxide emissions. The “Dieselgate” scandal spread to subsidiary brands Audi and Porsche.
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The Growing Ranks of America’s High-Earning Poor – The Atlantic
There’s a growing segment of the American population that earns a decent salary but lives paycheck-to-paycheck: the income-rich and asset-poor. Empty bank balances are often associated with those on the lowest rungs of the income ladder.
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A note hanging from this taxi driver’s steering wheel – Imgur
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Spike Lee made his career on powerful, politically-charged filmmaking, and he’s back to distupting the powers that be with his new Amazon Studios production, Chi-Raq.
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UNHCR: Stateless Child Born Every 10 Minutes | Al Jazeera America
As they grow older, stateless children are highly vulnerable to exploitation, drugs and hopelessness and permanent disenfranchisement, the report says. Many see no future for themselves. As Vikash, a stateless 23-year-old in Malaysia, interviewed by…
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Watch the first bit of footage from Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie | The Verge
Legendary Pictures isn’t giving the public its first extended glimpse at Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie until Blizzard’s BlizzCon kicks off Friday, but it’s tossed the waiting hordes a tiny crumb this afternoon in the form of a 15-second teaser traile…
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Jon Stewart Inks 4-Year Deal with HBO | Vanity Fair
Jon Stewart is coming back, and he’s hanging his comedy shingle with the network that’s home to Game of Thrones and Sesame Street.
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Zimbabwean journalists arrested for linking police to poaching | World news | The Guardian
Three journalists from a state-run weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe will be charged with slander for a front-page story that implicated an unnamed top police officer and other officials in fatal cyanide poisonings of more than 60 elephants for tusks .
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This Is What Five Years of Drought Has Done to California’s Farmland
Promises of rain to come withstanding, California is still smack in the middle of a long, punishing drought. So what does it look like when a top agricultural state undergoes years of drought? Not good, friends.
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My great grandmother circa 1914 : OldSchoolCool
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Mesa Verde cliff dwellings [oc][2560×1707] : ArchitecturePorn
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Decoy Mating Call Battles Citrus Pest – Scientific American
Ten years ago, a bacterial disease began to eat away at the Florida citrus crop. It’s called huanglongbing, or citrus greening, and it causes misshapen, bitter green fruits and, eventually, dead trees. Since 2005, the infection is estimated to have …
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On My Hearts And Stars | TechCrunch
We often forget that Twitter, more Web 2.0 media company than startup, is almost ten years old. We also forget that it has a global user base of just over 300 million people. But we can’t forget that Twitter is in trouble.
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The most powerful argument for British military intervention in Syria is that standing aside permits the continuing slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians, which is morally repugnant.
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When humans can’t hack it, it’s time to call in the robots. Ford has announced today that it’s working with ASI, a Utah-based firm that specializes in vehicle automation, to sell “robotic testing kits” that help automakers endurance test new cars.
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The Best Apps for the New Apple TV
The new Apple TV is here, which means it’s time to start downloading some apps. There’s all kinds of new stuff to search through, so let’s take a look at the best of the best.
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Bin lorry crash: Driver Harry Clarke issues apology – BBC News
The driver of the bin lorry that killed six people in Glasgow has told the BBC he “apologises unreservedly” for his role in the crash. Harry Clarke blacked out while driving a bin lorry in George Square last year.
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That’s what we do in Op-Ed: We render informed opinions that we hope are smart and sometimes provocative, backed up by good, old-fashioned shoe leather. I’m heading off to a new assignment, and as I do, please indulge me as I toss off a few last opi…
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WASHINGTON—Calling the process essential to preventing overgrowth and promoting renewal, a study released Tuesday by researchers at American University found that regular, controlled Washington, D.C. wildfires are crucial to the restoration of a hea…
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Bad Brains Guitarist Dr. Know Hospitalized, on Life Support | Rolling Stone
Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know, real name Gary Miller, is reportedly in the hospital and on life support, according to social media posts by author Greg Tate, the Dean Ween Group and Living Colour guitarist Corey Glover. Tate, a Rolling Stone contrib…
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Dislike: Twitter Ditches Stars And Favorites For Hearts And Likes | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, Twitter rolled out a new function by steamrolling an old one. Gone is the yellow star and the ability to “favorite” a tweet. In its place is a red heart, symbolizing a “like.” How do non-newcomers feel about this development?
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Europe in Serbian [OC] [1200×1142] : MapPorn
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Teal 251015 (2) (Explored) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Getting hydrated while stuck in an elevator : gifs
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Ahmed Chalabi death highlights Iraq war legacy – BBC News
Ahmed Chalabi death highlights Iraq war legacy https://t.co/MWxswgj8xf
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Foggy morning in Shenandoah National Park : FoggyPics
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From school assemblies to Friday prayers and city billboards, it is a slogan still ubiquitous in Iran: “Death to America!” And Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made it clear that the refrain will not leave the Islamic republic’s pol…
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One Thing I Wish Everyone Understood About Justin Bieber’s New Video | Mother Jones
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has followed up his streak of recent dance hits with a new, slower and more introspective ballad this week, “I’ll Show You”, co-produced by Shrillex (one of the guys behind his summer chart-topper, “Where Are Ü Now”).
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‘Fake fish’ fracas hits Belgium – BBC News
Diners in restaurants in the Belgian capital may be in for a surprise after a report found 30% of fish is being substituted with cheaper alternatives. The study, by Oceana environmental group, says more than a third of fish is being mislabelled in a…
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Prepare to Be Enchanted by John Irving – The Daily Beast
Let’s assume that the future and the past hold hands across the present. Let’s assume that the present tense is crisscrossed with throbbing veins of information about the past and the future. (Maybe that’s what makes it so tense.) I’m OK with that. …
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Living in a thin moist layer on a small wet rock
Here’s everything you need to know about the Earth, in a snappy 7-minute video. I am trying very hard not to watch the rest of Kurzgesagt’s videos this afternoon, but I did make time for this one on the Big Bang — key quote: “time itself becomes wi…
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A cartoonist turned the iTunes Terms of Service into a 47-page graphic novel | The Verge
It is a time-honored truth (or at least an oft-cited anecdote) that no one reads the iTunes Terms and Conditions. It’s long and presumably boring (but who knows? I’ve never read it) and I’m not even sure there are paragraph breaks.
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Why Twitter Replaced Its Stars With Hearts – The Atlantic
On Tuesday, exactly a week after announcing dreadful quarterly earnings, cataclysm struck Twitter. The company was not hacked, nor did it suffer a mass user exodus. No mass misogyny movement rose up, either. Instead, the company changed all its star…
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On Nov. 25, 1990, Saturday morning’s favorite scholar, feminist and entertainer, Saved By The Bell’s Jessie Spano, freaked out on caffeine pills while preparing for both a geometry test and a big audition.
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How Fox Sports 1’s ‘Garbage Time With Katie Nolan’ Became Essential Sports TV – The Atlantic
There’s no sphere of television more depressingly homogenous than sports broadcasting, not only in demographics, but also in formatting.
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Even These Fox News Anchors Don’t Buy the GOP Debate ‘Revolt’ – The Daily Beast
While Fox News has remained silent about the Republican effort to coalesce around a list of debate demands, some on-air personalities have expressed their incredulity with the entire stunt.
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I Can’t Get Over How Goddamn Amazing The Warcraft Movie’s Stormwind City Looks
Following the briefest of glimpses earlier, it looks like we’re going to get a lot of teases for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie between now and Friday’s trailer.
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Volkswagen says 800,000 cars may have false CO2 levels – BBC News
Volkswagen says it has uncovered “inconsistencies” when determining carbon dioxide emission levels, which could affect around 800,000 cars in Europe. The firm said preliminary estimates of the economic risks of the problem amount to about €2bn (£1.4…
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Plane parachutes to safety on Arkansas road – video | World news | The Guardian
Video shot by @fredjackturner, shows the moment a small plane parachutes to earth onto a main road, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The plane slowly falls to the ground using a ballistic parachute.
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Hall & Oates scored an ’80s montage to a ’90s movie · Hear This · The A.V. Club
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. Hall & Oates transitioned from a blue-eyed soul FM radio duo in the ’70s to masters of the pop charts by the ’80s.
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Jon Stewart will spend his retirement working for HBO · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although he announced last month that he would soon retreat from the human world to save the lives of more sympathetic creatures, it seems Jon Stewart can’t quite bring himself to quit the news game.
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A True Crime Author Explains Why We’re Drawn to People Who Survive Against All Odds
In 1987, two women were pulled from a wrecked car in Los Angeles. The older passenger was dead; the younger, barely clinging to life. Investigators soon became suspicious: Why didn’t their injuries appear to be related to the wreck? And why did thei…
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The Zodiac killings loom large over this ’80s newspaper thriller · 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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i never complain about my mom. : AdviceAnimals
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National Sandwich Day : firstworldanarchists
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Dreaming of cat nip via /r/cats https://t.co/Rd2m3OtU1o https://t.co/6H7gzOYbMK
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Dogs playing with little girl : AnimalsBeingBros
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The risks (and realities) behind Activision’s $5.9 billion mobile bet | Ars Technica
By buying Candy Crush Saga maker King in a $5.9 billion cash and stock deal, gaming mega-publisher Activision Blizzard is placing two related bets.
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“If You Want to Be Interesting, You Have to Be Interested”
No one wants to be considered dull, whether you’re meeting new people or trying to impress familiar ones. The quote above from Steal Like An Artist author Austin Kleon reminds us that the key to becoming a more interesting person is to become more i…
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Twitter Found Love In A Fave-Less Place | TechCrunch
At its worst, Twitter feels like yelling into a black hole. There’s a whole universe of social bodies floating out there, but your tweets suffocate in the cold reaches of space. The result was too little feedback — not enough favorites and retweets.
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See 10 “Recipes” from the Most Surreal Cookbook of the Year | Vanity Fair
There’s an empty bird’s nest on the cover of the most beautiful cookbook of the year. Not a smiling chef holding a steaming dish of what’s-for-dinner. Not an impeccably styled and frosted five-layer cake. Not a tattooed dude standing over a flaming …
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another 3 Years’ Funding – Scientific American
Europe’s Human Brain Project aims to better understand the brain using information and computing technologies, primarily through simulation.
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Listen to Ira Glass’ 10 Favorite Episodes of This American Life | Open Culture
Even when one is a longtime, jaded denizen of a major city, celebrity sightings can still induce a thrill. During my tenure in New York City, I ran across my share of famous names, though I’ve never been one to bother a stranger, world famous or no.
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Trump calls for some Republican rivals to drop out – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump takes aim at his Republican rivals, calling on some of them to drop out on the grounds that ‘there are too many people’ in the race. Trump criticises presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson.
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Vice’s cable channel, Viceland, will launch February 2016 | The Verge
Most of the big media news these days is about the unbundling of cable television into pieces you can pay to access with just an internet connection.
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Israel Ups Penalty For Throwing Stones To At Least 3 Years In Jail | ThinkProgress
Amid ongoing violence, the Israeli Knesset decided on Monday that the penalty for stone throwing — a tactic commonly used by Palestinians — will now be a minimum of three years in jail. The Knesset passed the temporary law by an overwhelming margin,…
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Ahmed Chalabi death highlights Iraq war legacy – BBC News
The unexpected death of Ahmed Chalabi has highlighted the burning issues still haunting the UK and the West, long after the key role he played in manipulating the US-led invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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UN says Malaysian Anwar’s jailing politically motivated – Al Jazeera English
Imprisoned Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was prosecuted for political reasons and should be released, a UN body has concluded after reviewing a case widely seen as politically motivated.
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Why Is Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the Center of So Many Fraternity Scandals? | Vanity Fair
A brother at Yale’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon allegedly told a group of women at the fraternity house door, “No, we’re only looking for white girls,” a student who claims to have witnessed the interaction told The Washington Post.
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My cat doesn’t like me today : cats
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Help us name our new rescue kitten. : cats
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/O7fON68mT4 https://t.co/i4xtXhmZGC
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News | Radar Images Provide New Details on Halloween Asteroid
The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145’s safe flyby of Earth have been processed. NASA scientists used giant, Earth-based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off the asteroid as it flew past Earth on Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. PDT (…
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US auto safety regulators will fine Takata Corp of Japan $70m for lapses in the way it handled recalls of millions of air bag inflators that can explode with too much force, a person briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
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Jon Stewart Is Coming To HBO In Four-Year Deal Focused On Short-Form Digital Content | TechCrunch
HBO, which launched its first over-the-top streaming service this year with the debut of HBO NOW, has just scored a notable new deal with former Daily Show host, Jon Stewart, who will be tasked with creating “timely short-form digital content” for H…
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Steve Silberman hasn’t slept: a combination of jetlag, excitement and genuine surprise at winning the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
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Dealmaster: Get an APC uninterruptible power supply for just $129 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Once again, we’re bringing you a bag of great deals courtesy of our partners at TechBargains. For today only, you can get an APC 1500VA 860W uninterruptible power supply and battery backup for $129, which is a steal compared to i…
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Twitter users would rather not have a heart, thanks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has been the philosopher king of the social-media world.
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A year after the midterm congressional elections and still a year away from the 2016 presidential decision, election year 2015 is something of a sleeper.
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How to Help the Middle Class Retire Comfortably at No Extra Cost – The Atlantic
The majority of workers don’t have employers who offer them retirement accounts, and the ones who do are lucky: They’re the ones the U.S. Treasury helps the most. In a given year, more than $120 billion in federal money goes towards subsidizing reti…
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For-profit universities have had another rough year, with big players facing federal scrutiny for everything from predatory loans to outright fraud. Now attention is turning to the schools’ accreditors.
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Sage, Ink: Time for a Highway Bill? – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Amazon Books: The Company’s New Seattle Store Feels Like … a Library – The Atlantic
It’s often been said that Apple Stores—soaring glass, sweeping stairs, light-flooded spaces echoing with the din of human voices—function, in their way, as secular cathedrals. The stores— though the word “store” doesn’t quite feel adequate—celebrate…
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The Washington NFL team is once again appealing the cancellation of their “Washington Redskins” trademark, this time using the defense that the U.S.
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Microsoft Didn’t Know You’d Take OneDrive’s ‘Unlimited’ Storage This Far | Motherboard
A year after its launch, Microsoft is making some changes to its OneDrive cloud storage plans—including eliminating the unlimited storage offered to Office 365 subscribers, because according to Microsoft, some people got greedy.
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Misleading U.N. Report Confuses Media On Paris Climate Talks | ThinkProgress
Memo to media: If countries go no further than their current global climate pledges, the earth will warm a total of 3.5°C by 2100. A very misleading news release from the U.N.
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Zimbabwe journalists arrested over elephant poisoning story – BBC News
Three journalists from a state-owned paper in Zimbabwe have been arrested and will be charged with publishing falsehoods over a report about the poisoning of elephants, the police say. The story was untrue and tarnished the force’s image, the police…
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Ash Vs. Evil Dead’s first episode is streaming online for free · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After we all lost our collective minds with happiness over word of the new Ash Vs.
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Takahiro Miyauchi and Takuya Okada’s Tokyo Cosmo is currently in the running for the Audience Choice Award in the 2015 DigiCon6 awards, and it’s easy to see why.
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Why Is the U.S. Perpetually Short of Nurses? – The New Yorker
There is an outcry in the United States that we’re facing an urgent nurse deficit that threatens the safety of individual patients and the nation’s health as a whole. Consider arguments from two Times editorials. “The nationwide shortage of nurses i…
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Ahmed Chalabi: exile whose reputation waned after return to Iraq | World news | The Guardian
Ahmed Chalabi, who did more than any other Iraqi to encourage the 2003 US invasion of Baghdad, has died aged 71.
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Firefox 42 Launches With Tracking Protection In Private Browsing Mode | TechCrunch
After a short beta period, Mozilla today graduated its new Tracking Protection feature for Firefox’s Private Browsing mode into its release channel with the launch of Firefox 42.
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Chalabi Ran the Little Con on Iraq, But Bush Ran the Bigger One – The Daily Beast
PARIS — Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi mathematician, banker, schmoozer, spy and source of dubious intelligence provided to journalists and politicians alike, died today of an apparent heart attack in Baghdad at the age of 71.
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Trevor Noah Calls Out Cops Who Don’t Want to Be ‘Brutally’ Filmed – The Daily Beast
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah isn’t buying FBI Director James Comey’s claims of a ‘Ferguson effect’ on cops who are supposedly too afraid to get out of their cruisers.
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A fictional but physically real world of dolls that heal a beaten man / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. For much of the 1990s, Mark Hogancamp of Kingston, New York, adhered to a predictable pattern of waking up, going to work, returning home, drinking as much as a half-gallon of vodka, and then passing out.
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So, are we supposed to be shocked over Donald Trump claiming that Janet Yellen is keeping rates low to help Obama? Folks, this is a widely held position in the Republican Party; Paul Ryan and John Taylor accused Ben Bernanke years ago of doing somet…
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Rome’s Trevi fountain starts flowing after renovation – BBC News
The water in Rome’s famous Trevi fountain has started flowing again after the attraction was re-opened following a major restoration. The work done on the famous water feature was funded by a famous Italian fashion house, Fendi, who contributed €2m …
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How Often Do Mass Extinctions Occur? – The Atlantic
One thing we know for sure is that conditions on Earth were, shall we say, unpleasant for the dinosaurs at the moment of their demise.
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The Difference Between Being Frugal and Being Cheap: Caring About Value
Frugal people and people who are considered cheap both want to save money, but there’s a world of difference between frugality and being cheap. It’s all about the big picture.
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Israel and the U.S. Try to Move Beyond the Iran Nuclear Deal – The Atlantic
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched his defense chief, Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, to Washington, to help smooth the way for his own visit next week, which will be his first since President Barack Obama defeated his counterpro…
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‘Jeb Can Fix It’: Bush unveils new campaign slogan – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush unveiled his new slogan at a long-planned campaign event Monday that ended up being a reset to an underwhelming campaign – one that Bush told supporters in his home state of Florida is anchored by principle…
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One of the intellectually horrifying things about the response to economic crisis was the way many economists, some of them famous, reinvented old fallacies in the belief that they were saying something profound.
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FBI website to prevent ‘extremism’ targets US Muslims – Al Jazeera English
Muslim organisations and civil rights group have criticised a new FBI interactive website created to prevent violence in schools, saying its focus on Islam is tantamount to racial and religious profiling.
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Almost 40% of Americans ‘not too worried’ about climate change | US news | The Guardian
Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are just not that worried about it, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses. But they will no longer be fully nude. I read in the New York Times that Playboy is losing three million dollars a ye…
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Maybe I’m just being naive, but if it were up to me, reports on politicians’ pronouncements would provide some context about things those politicians have said in the past – just to help the readers, who probably don’t have dossiers ready to hand.
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Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who from exile helped persuade the United States to invade Iraq in 2003, and then unsuccessfully tried to attain power as his country was nearly torn apart by sectarian violence, died at his home in Baghdad on Tue…
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MyKee Titanium Multi-Tool Key | Digg Store
Stay prepared – without rocking a tool belt. The multipurpose MyKee may look like a simple key, but can open boxes, pop tags, peel vegetables, remove staples, work as a screwdriver and wrench, and open, pop or cut just about anything else you need o…
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Fewer Americans are claiming a religious affiliation these days, but those who do are preaching a more progressive faith regarding LGBT issues, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
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Changing the Earth’s climate by covering the deserts with solar panels | Ars Technica
Currently, the Earth’s inhabitants are consuming about 17.5TeraWatts of power each year. It’s estimated that an aggressive rollout of solar panels could generate at least 400TW, and possibly much, much more.
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Why you should read: William H Gass | Books | The Guardian
Recently, the novelist, critic and one-time philosophy professor William H Gass was asked by Publishers Weekly for five writing tips.
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SPUN’s New App Makes It Easy To Mash Up Videos And Make Your Own Memes | TechCrunch
Short videos, looping videos and GIFs are some of the hottest types of user-generated content on the web today, and have everyone from Instagram to Twitter and even Facebook and Google getting involved in offering support and tools for creators.
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Scientists develop ultra-hard glass – BBC News
Scientists in Japan have developed a type of ultra-hard glass. The new material is thin as well as hard and is made using alumina, an oxide of aluminium.
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TransCanada Asks the State Department to Delay Its Application – The Atlantic
In a move that further complicates an already protracted drama, TransCanada, the company behind the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline, has formally asked the State Department to delay its review of the controversial project.
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PlayStation Now adds 105 games to its subscription streaming service | The Verge
Sony today announced more than 100 new titles have been added to its streaming game service PlayStation Now.
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What We’re Following on Tuesday Afternoon, November 3 – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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How Chicago residents fight back against violence | Al Jazeera America
CHICAGO – In 2006, 18-year-old Terrell Bosley, who played the bass in several church bands, was helping a friend unload his drum set from his car when shots rang out outside of a church on Chicago’s far South Side.
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Stunning graphic novel presents the entire iTunes Terms and Conditions / Boing Boing
I thought Robert Crumb’s unabridged graphic novel of the Book of Genesis was a herculean effort, but cartoonist R. Sikoryak has tackled an even more arduous task: incorporating the complete, unabridged iTune’s user agreement into a graphic novel.
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Why I Heart the Twitter Heart | The New Republic
If you happened to be on Twitter today and came across a tweet you wanted to favorite, you might have been surprised when your modest, neutral nod of approval suddenly transformed into a throbbing red heart bursting with rainbow glitter.
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GAME Golf Rolls Out A New Live Golf Swing Tracker | TechCrunch
John McGuire had never golfed before, but he had a background in sports psychology and big data. And it was that combination that eventually drove him to start Active Mind Technology, a sports technology company that first launched with a golf shot-…
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Indonesia Blazes Threaten Endangered Orangutans – Scientific American
The world’s only wild orangutans—already besieged by logging, hunting, pet trading and the steady expansion of palm-oil plantations—are now threatened by forest fires that have burned for months on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in southeast Asia.
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Jerry Heller Talks ‘Compton’ Lawsuit, ‘Very Hurtful’ Movie | Rolling Stone
Since its August release, Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A biopic chronicling the rise and fall of the gangsta rap firebrands, has become the highest-grossing music biopic in history. Though the rags-to-riches story detailed the rise of Dr.
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‘Overwatch’ Is Burying the Bald Soldier Dude Archetype | Motherboard
My favorite character in Overwatch so far is Hanzo, a Japanese assassin with a bow and arrow. He doesn’t shoot very fast, but every shot counts, and when I find a good vantage point I can be a menace.
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Donny Deutsch’s Life Was a Sitcom Waiting to Happen | Vanity Fair
Donny Deutsch, the Manhattan ad man turned professional media presence turned sitcom star, arrived at the Polo Bar a bit early for his 9:30 reservation one Thursday evening last month.
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Milemarker returns with the serpentine “Conditional Love” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Milemarker has regularly shifted since it formed in Chapel Hill way back in the late ’90s: While it always paired the abrasiveness of post-hardcore with synthesizers that skewed ominous instead of sugary, the balance of those elements—and the people…
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Paris — WHEN I moved to France 12 years ago, it was like arriving in an unfriendly paradise. Sure, hardly anyone spoke to me. But there was national paid maternity leave and free preschool.
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See Bernie Sanders Rap in ‘Bern It Up’ Video Remix | Rolling Stone
See Bernie Sanders Rap in DJ Steve Porter’s ‘Bern It Up’ Video Remix Democratic presidential candidate takes to song in stump-speech supercut
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President Obama couldn’t resist on Monday night questioning the intestinal fortitude of the Republican candidates who have spent so much time questioning his, pointing to their complaints about the conduct of last week’s presidential debate.
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JON STEWART AND HBO CONCLUDE EXCLUSIVE FOUR-YEAR PRODUCTION PACT — Medium
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3, 2015 — Jon Stewart and HBO have concluded an exclusive four-year production pact, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.
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Meet The Guy Who Changed Porn Forever – BuzzFeed News
Online porn is at something of a crossroads. High-quality, high-def streaming adult videos are everywhere, but the margins for those who produce and perform are slim, and getting slimmer by the day.
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Inky cap mushrooms are sprouting up in my driveway : mildlyinteresting
Inky cap mushrooms are sprouting up in my driveway via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/UXX6M77lE8 https://t.co/OCtVobopbf
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French energy giant EDF buys Dungeness – ‘Britain’s only desert’ | Environment | The Guardian
Dungeness Estate, the windswept stretch of shingle coastline where the film-maker Derek Jarman spent his final years, has been bought by EDF Energy, the French company that owns a nearby nuclear power station.
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Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore” (1984) / 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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Jon Stewart has signed a four-year contract with HBO | The Verge
Jon Stewart is heading back to work. HBO just announced that the former Daily Show host has signed a four-year production pact with the cable company.
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Barack Obama roasts the Republican Party during an encore performance at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York.
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News | Whopping Galaxy Cluster Spotted with Help of NASA Telescopes
Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy cluster, located 8.
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Robin Williams’ widow says his health was a nightmare – BBC News
Comedian Robin Williams had health problems that would have killed him within three years if he had not ended his own life, his widow has said. In her first interview since the actor died last August, Susan Williams said her husband was “disintegrat…
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‘Lost’ Disney cartoon Sleigh Bells to be screened – BBC News
A cartoon featuring the first Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, is to be screened for the first time in 87 years. A restored print of Sleigh Bells (1928) will have its world premiere at the BFI in London in next month.
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Star Trek is a big, but necessary investment in CBS’s streaming future | The Verge
Yesterday, CBS announced that a new Star Trek TV series would premiere in 2017. It was a watershed announcement, especially considering the troubled state of the franchise. No new TV effort has entered production since the end of Star Trek: Enterpri…
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Slack Improves Slash Commands So You Can Call A Lyft And More From Inside Slack | TechCrunch
Slack just unveiled a new way for app developers to create slash commands, letting users interface with their apps from within Slack channels.
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Sundance Institute opens residency for virtual reality filmmakers | The Verge
The Sundance Institute is collaborating with cinematic virtual reality company Jaunt to fund making VR art. The “New Frontier/Jaunt VR Residency” is part of Sundance’s existing New Frontier program, which funds and showcases art that blends film, pe…
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Pinterest launches dedicated shopping section | The Verge
Pinterest started adding a buy button to pins back in June, and today those buyable pins are becoming even easier to shop. First, buyable pins are rolling out to Android, so they’re now available on both of Pinterest’s mobile apps.
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Rumor: Disney May Be Retiring “Slave Leia” Merchandise For Good
It’s one of the most iconic outfits in Star Wars, and sci-fi in general: The metal bikini Princess Leia is forced into by Jabba the Hutt during Return of the Jedi.
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Pinterest Starts Rolling Out Buyable Pins On Android Devices | TechCrunch
Pinterest is starting to roll out Buyable Pins on Android devices today, the company said. Buyable Pins let some retailers who are partners with Pinterest and retailers use Shopify and Demandware.
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Donald Trump Is the Candidate Republicans Trust on the Economy – The Atlantic
The economy, and ways to improve it, is arguably the most important issue in the upcoming presidential election. In May, a Gallup poll showed that Americans thought the economy was more critical than foreign affairs, immigration, or terrorism.
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How to Painlessly Fire Your Personal Trainer
Firing someone, even a fitness coach or personal trainer, is hard to do. You’ve invested a lot of time and energy into this person. So when you need to part ways, it actually feels like you’re breaking up with a really close friend.
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From Syria to Israel, Jeb Bush’s ‘Serious’ Foreign Policy Is Absurd – The Atlantic
Jeb Bush fashions himself the thinking man’s Republican candidate for president. Donald Trump, he declared late last month, is “not serious.” When it comes to foreign policy, Trump hasn’t “thought these things through.
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GoPro is being sued by the company behind the Polaroid Cube | The Verge
The company behind Polaroid’s Cube camera is suing GoPro for making a cube camera. The lawsuit claims that GoPro’s Hero 4 Session infringes on a design patent granted for the Polaroid Cube in May, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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BOULDER, CO—Following the completion of his lengthy divorce proceedings earlier this week, local man Brian Keller, 43, sorrowfully removed his now ex-wife’s administrator privileges from his home security system, sources confirmed Tuesday.
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Many great artists have been inspired by their beloved muses throughout history. During Pablo Picasso’s surrealist period, for instance, his favorite model (and mistress) was a young Frenchwoman named Marie-Thérèse Walter. Alfred Stieglitz was likew…
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If today’s bits of James Franco-related news don’t prove that he’s a Renaissance man, well then…he probably isn’t, though not for lack of trying.
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Volkswagen Denies Software Tinkering as EPA Charges Spread – Scientific American
The scandal over Volkswagen AG’s use of software to circumvent federal air pollution standards in some of its diesel cars broadened yesterday to include some Porsche and Audi models, U.S. EPA said.
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Police establish “Exchange Zones” for Craigslist buyers/sellers to meet / Boing Boing
Police departments around the country are establishing “safe exchange zones” at police stations for people who buy and sell stuff on Craigslist to meet in person. From the Washington Post: The practice appears to have started last year in Boca Raton…
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VW software emissions scandal widens to include Porsche | Ars Technica
US pollution regulators said late Monday that the Volkswagen emissions-test cheating scandal now includes Porsche, the brand that was run by VW’s new CEO. The Environmental Protection Agency said the cheating software to rig pollution tests was in 3.
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Refugees protest at British military base in Cyprus – BBC News
More than 100 Syrian refugees have staged a series of protests demanding that they should be allowed to leave a British military base in Cyprus. Pictures show tents on fire and one person shouting “we are people, not animals”.
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Statue kicks man for taking money / Boing Boing
You’ve no doubt seen those street performance artists who wear metallic clothes and makeup and stand in frozen poses. Well, here’s a gentleman who is apparently unfamiliar with these performances, because he reaches into a performer’s tip bucket to …
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US ‘playing catch-up to China’ in clean energy, UN climate chief says | Environment | The Guardian
China is now leading the world when it comes to fighting climate change – handily beating the US’s efforts under Barack Obama to move to a clean energy economy, the United Nations climate chief said on Tuesday.
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Russia inspects Tsar Alexander III remains in murder case – BBC News
Russian experts are preparing to take DNA samples from the remains of Tsar Alexander III in St Petersburg as part of a murder investigation. Work began on Tuesday at his grave in the city’s Peter and Paul Cathedral.
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Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues | TechCrunch
Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving have everything to do with the way Twitter is a…
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Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa
Seven years after his directorial debut with the fantastic Synecdoche, New York comes Charlie Kaufman’s second movie as a director, a stop-motion animated film called Anomalisa. The film successfully raised funds on Kickstarter and will be out in se…
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Airbnb, Proposition F And The Shared Hypocrisy Of Bay Area Housing | TechCrunch
In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. Spending north of $8 million to defeat the measure, Airbnb’s effort has blanketed local TV stations with ads at a ratio of 100-to-1 against…
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Shell accused of lying over Nigeria oil spill clean-up – Al Jazeera English
Shell has been accused of making false claims about the extent of its oil spill clean-up operations in Nigeria and urged to take more action to help worst-hit communities.
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High school ordered to lift locker room restrictions on transgender student | US news | The Guardian
An Illinois school district discriminated against a transgender student when it created a special set of rules restricting her use of the girls’ locker room, the US Department of Education determined on Monday.
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Chicago, see the holiday comedy Love The Coopers early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
The first snow. Lights on trees. A family dramedy headlined by Diane Keaton. These are the traditional signs that the holiday season is rapidly approaching. In Love The Coopers, Keaton again plays the matriarch to a harried brood of neurotic, over-s…
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The ‘Three Stops’ Rule That Killed Walter Scott | ThinkProgress
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — When North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager pulled over 50-year-old Walter Scott for a broken tail light, a “negligible offense” that resulted in the officer fatally shooting the father of four, Slager was just doing…
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US union sues ITV-owned production company in health insurance dispute | US news | The Guardian
The Writers Guild of America has a court date for early next year with ITV production company Kirkstall Road alleging the production company scrapped existing health insurance coverage in favor of a plan so poor no one agreed to use it.
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io9 Book Club Is In Session: Let’s Talk About If Then by Matthew De Abaitua!
Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. This month, we’ve read If Then by Matthew De Abaitua. Jump into comments to get started talking about it!
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“The Big Bang Was a Mirage” (Today’s Most Popular)
“For all physicists know, dragons could have come flying out of the singularity,” said Niayesh Afshordi, an astrophysicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Big Bang was a mirage from collapsing higher-dimension…
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The Man Behind Hannibal Wants To Reboot The British Avengers
Okay, so you might be more familiar with a bunch costumed superheroes when someone says “The Avengers” to you—but to UK-based readers of a certain age, it means only one thing: The spy-fi adventures of John Steed and Emma Peel.
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Migrant crisis: Disturbances at UK military base in Cyprus – BBC News
Footage has emerged showing a series of disturbances by migrants who want to leave a UK military base in Cyprus. It shows a tent on fire, people trying to climb fences and one person shouting “we are people, not animals”.
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Firefox Adds Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators, and More
Mozilla has added tracking protection to Firefox’s private browsing mode, so in addition to not saving your browsing history, Firefox will also block ads and other content on websites that are trying to track your every move.
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Chilean miners say they were cheated out of profits from Hollywood film | World news | The Guardian
Nine of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than two months in 2010 have sued their lawyers for failing to secure an adequate share of the revenue from a new Hollywood film about their 69-day ordeal.
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Former England cricketer Tom Graveney has died at the age of 88. More to follow.
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The Loneliness of the Black Republican by Intersection | Free Listening on SoundCloud
The black Republican identity has completely transformed over the past 100 years. Will Ben Carson be able to woo black voters back to the GOP? Historian Leah Wright Rigueur, conservative TV anchor Amy Holmes, and journalists Mychal Denzel Smith and …
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All The World’s a Hot Dog Topping | Lucky Peach
Some say that hot dog season ends with the summer, but we disagree. Hot dog season is a state of mind that knows no seasons. In that spirit, we’re sharing these nineteen insane hot dog toppings from the new Olympia Provisions cookbook.
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Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of The Dark?”… REIMAGINED : television
Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of The Dark?”… REIMAGINED via /r/television https://t.co/xcq6QTqUi4 https://t.co/v6VgSCtyXS
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Murphy says morning. And Blep. : Blep
Murphy says morning. And Blep. via /r/Blep https://t.co/Ajgj7nFCQH https://t.co/4CaWBaYS2p
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A small gesture can go a long way… – Imgur
A small gesture can go a long way… https://t.co/fkLBjzUGTi https://t.co/U0SQyfnTcl
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As if these films weren’t cheesy enough – Imgur
As if these films weren’t cheesy enough https://t.co/ajJYhevnws https://t.co/l5ERkxnDQs
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How I Got Back in a Race Car After Drug Trafficking Sent Me to Prison for 26 Years
No one knew what to expect. The flights and lodging were booked, the car was ready to race, and the team had been assembled. I had secured a couple days off from my job at Swap Shop and the permission of my federal parole office to travel out of sta…
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We live in a world where success is the only measure of success. The lack of government funding for British basketball is stifling the opportunities for young players, voicing their passions in this new film UK government funding for sport is based …
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1. Instead of taking a clear-eyed view of your recent behavior, base your apology on how angry someone else is. The more upset they are, the more wrong you were.
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The Future Of Helmets Is A Suspension System That Saves Your Brain
Until very recently, helmets have had two jobs: keep things from impaling your head and reduce the force of hitting things that hit it.
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This animated music video is like a massage for your brain | The Verge
“Slowly Rising” is a song by Beatsofreen, a relatively unknown producer from the Netherlands. The song itself — a wandering parade of string instruments and blurred atmospherics — is pleasant enough, but when paired with this new video it starts to …
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Exploit traders say million-dollar iPhone hack has been claimed | The Verge
A computer security firm that sells exploits to government agencies claims to have acquired a method for remotely comprising an iPhone running iOS 9.
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Me in the morning. via /r/gifs https://t.co/aDCnnSYTD2 https://t.co/fll5zppZ2f
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The Evolution of Simplicity https://t.co/csDllN9yii
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Lynda Carter in the 1970s, the Original Wonder Woman. : OldSchoolCool
Lynda Carter in the 1970s, the Original Wonder Woman. via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/ROOfX2yRRT https://t.co/Nzw6IX5H3t
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/cLiTKIBpyj https://t.co/o3HtDR9kA8
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Carly Fiorina’s Feminism – The Atlantic
Cultural critic and Atlantic contributor Christina Hoff Sommers has been finding fault with feminism for years. Now, though, as she reports along with Christine Rosen in Politico, she finds herself impressed with a new feminist icon: Carly Fiorina.
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Taiwan leader ‘to meet China’s President Xi Jinping’ – BBC News
Taiwan says its President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore on Saturday. It would be the first meeting between leaders of the two countries.
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Red Mars? Discovery of surface water spurs Chinese interest in lander | Ars Technica
Nearly two years ago, China became only the third country to make a soft landing on the moon when its Chang’e 3 spacecraft successfully deployed the Yutu rover. Now China appears increasingly set on doing the same thing on Mars.
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Microsoft drops unlimited OneDrive storage after people use it for unlimited storage | Ars Technica
A little over a year ago, Microsoft announced that paid Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers would get, as part of their subscription, unlimited cloud storage on its OneDrive service. Yesterday, the company announced that it wasn’t going to do t…
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Star Wars cast members want to let a dying fan see The Force Awakens early | The Verge
Luke Skywalker and Finn the Stormtrooper, aka Mark Hamill and John Boyega, have joined an online campaign to let a terminally ill Star Wars fan see The Force Awakens ahead of its December 18th release.
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Studying microscopic bugs require, well… more than a microscope! : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Plankton are microscopic yet they play a big role in the cycle of elements fundamental to life on earth. The NAAMES project is a testimony to their importance in our ability to predict how the oceans may mediate the Earth’s future climate.
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Marco Rubio and the Race to Win the Invisible Primary | The New Republic
This week, Marco Rubio received a boost that may be just as important as the glowing press coverage he has received since the last Republican debate.
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Ken Whisenhunt’s Titans exit shows NFL’s demand for instant results | Sport | The Guardian
Of all the managing jobs in sports, the most important is head football coach. Nobody has a bigger impact on an organization, from the way the players practice, to the food that is cooked in the cafeteria, to the way receptionists answer the phone.
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The Clean Power Plan, an EPA rule which limits carbon emissions from power plants, is being challenged by 26 states across the country — even though more than 60 percent of Americans in those states support the rule, according to new data.
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Ghosts in the machine: Occult fun with trick photography | Dangerous Minds
It must be the season—the darkening days, the icy cold, and fog here in Scotland at least—drawn like net curtains that has led me to indulge in reading classic ghost stories by M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Dickens.
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The Case for Bernie Sanders | Rolling Stone
“[Sanders] rarely drops by diners or coffee shops with news cameras in tow, unlike most politicians. He hardly ever kisses babies, aides say, and does not mingle much at fund-raisers. “His high-minded style carries risk.
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While there are plenty of things we know about the upcoming Wonder Woman—it stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, it’s being directed by Monster’s Patty Jenkins after Michelle MacLaren left due to the time-honored polite reason of “creative differences”—t…
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Israel passes ‘minimum sentence’ for stone-throwers – Al Jazeera English
Israel has passed an amendment to the country’s civil law establishing a minimum prison sentence of three years for people who throw rocks at Israeli troops, civilians or vehicles.
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Poem to My Daughter By Graham Foust | The New Republic
The sky has, is, one exit, one excuse,and if I’m dead now that I’m saying this, can’t vouch for my transition from lifeas having been rough or even evident.
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Microsoft is breaking its cloud-first promise | The Verge
Microsoft kicked off its own “productivity war” in June last year by doubling its free OneDrive storage and offering competitive pricing and 1TB of space for Office 365 subscribers.
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The End of Twitter’s ‘Fav Culture’ | Motherboard
After a test this summer, it’s official: Twitter is killing the favorite button, and replacing it with a “like” button. Loyal Twitter users are disgruntled by the change.
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The Halloween season may be over, but that doesn’t necessarily mean an end to thrills, chills, and nightmares. The upcoming holidays bring with them a terror all their own.
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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer Follow in Tina and Amy’s Awards Host Fo | Vanity Fair
Heartbroken that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are no longer hosting the Golden Globes? Hallelujah: there’s another female awards-host duo to fill the void. And since these awards won’t be broadcast on network television, the hosts will be able to work e…
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The concept of fate has always been a tricky thing in popular culture.
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Just Because You Love Books, Doesn’t Mean You Have To Write One
Besides, the whole set-up of the event seems primed to exacerbate the most irritating aspects of creative culture today.
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This 15-Second Warcraft Movie Teaser Will Be the Best 15 Seconds You Spend All Day
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The US navy’s challenge last week to China’s sovereignty claims in the South China Sea was not designed as a military threat, the head of US Pacific military forces has said in a mostly upbeat speech about prospects for preventing US-China disputes …
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Translation Tuesday: from Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser | Books | The Guardian
In a forest painted by Diaz, a little motherkin and her child stood still. They were now a good hour from the village. Gnarled trunks spoke a primeval tongue. The mother said to her child: “In my opinion, you shouldn’t cling to my apron strings like…
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RelayRides Rebrands As Turo, Raises $47 Million Led By Kleiner | TechCrunch
RelayRides, the six-year-old, San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car rental service, has just rebranded itself as Turo. The company is also announcing $47 million in Series C funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The combined announcement i…
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Confusion over closure of ‘first KFC branch’ in Iran – BBC News
Only a day after it opened, Iran has shut down what officials reportedly thought was a branch of the US fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken. But the manager of the restaurant, called Halal KFC, said it had nothing to do with the US company.
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‘Loaded’: The Velvet Underground in 5.1 surround, win a free box set from Rhino | Dangerous Minds
Here’s the TL;DR version: If you are an aficionado of 5.1 surround music, run, do not walk, to buy the new Velvet Underground Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition box set NOW. Don’t hesitate. It’s fucking amazing. For readers who want a more c…
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Audio-Beacon Startup LISNR Raises $10 Million Series B Round Led By Intel Capital | TechCrunch
Smart tone startup LISNR just raised a $10 million series B round led by Intel Capital to further advance the product as “a true protocol to connect devices across a number of different verticals,” LISNR co-founder and CEO Rodney Williams told TechC…
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Body Labs Raises $8 Million To Create Ultra-Realistic 3D Body Images | TechCrunch
Body Labs, the company that turns your picture into a true-to-life 3D body scan, is announcing the close of an $8 million round of Series A funding led by Intel Capital, with participation from FirstMark Capital, Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH, Osage Un…
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Newfound Moon Craters Point to Asteroid Puzzle
Newfound lunar craters suggest that asteroids that smashed into the moon long ago were very different from the ones that now occupy the asteroid belt, researchers say. Solving this asteroid mystery could yield answers regarding the habitability of t…
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Chargifi Raises $2.7M Led By Intel Capital To Power Wireless Charging Network | TechCrunch
Like WiFi before it, could wireless charging be the next value-add for coffee shops and other public venues? One startup banking on that being the case is London-headquartered Chargifi, which is building out a wireless charging network. Today the co…
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AirBnB Spends Millions To Rent San Fran – The Daily Beast
San Francisco citizens are about to decide if they want to restrict what some see as short term Airbnb rentals dominating much of their housing market, and the tech company is spending millions to maintain a grip on its hometown.
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Two Kentucky jailers indicted in federal civil rights charges in the killing of a detainee
Today, the Department of Justice announced that Damon Hickman and William Howell, two jailers at the Kentucky River Regional Jail in Hazard, Kentucky, are being indicted on civil rights charges stemming from the 2013 death of Larry Trent.
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Physiology Pioneer’s Nobel Prize Sells for Nearly $800,000 – Scientific American
British biophysicist Alan Lloyd Hodgkin won the shiny gold medal in 1963 for discovering how the nerve cells of a giant squid generate an electrical pulse when stimulated By and LiveScience | Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997), Australian neurophysio…
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Make an Accurate Dowel Jig from Scrap Wood
Connecting thin pieces of wood together is easy with dowels, which make strong joints. But lining them up can be a tricky process. Make this dowel jig for drilling accurate holes. Dowel joinery is a great alternative to drilling pocket holes.
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QI Is the Best British Show Ever and America Needs to Remake It
We’ve remade the rest, now let’s remake the best. QI is the British television show that America needs—and if there’s one thing we know about America, it’s if we need something, we take it. Most people know that America has imported scores of script…
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The absurdly long run-up to the US election has begun.
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Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act | The Nation
The 2016 election is one year away and many states and cities hold local elections today. But not everyone will be able to cast a ballot this year or next. The 2016 election will be the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protec…
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Intel Invests $22M In 10 Startups, $500M This Year | TechCrunch
Intel Capital, the venture arm of the tech giant, today announced $22 million in new investments across 10 startups. The news was delivered at the company’s annual global summit, where it also said that it would invest half a billion dollars in tota…
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Cause of Russian Passenger Plane Crash Remains Unknown – The Atlantic
Russian families have begun identifying the victims of Saturday’s plane crash in Egypt, which killed all 224 people on board.
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what3words Gets $3.5M Led by Intel Capital To Simplify Location Sharing | TechCrunch
Location-pinpointing platform what3words has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Intel Capital, with Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures and several of w3w’s original angel investors also participating. It brings the total raised by the …
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Could the Sony Hack Happen to Your Company? – The Atlantic
Hearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101 executives, innovators, and thinkers weigh in on some of the biggest technological, politica…
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Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson Celebrate 35 Years of The Planetary Society
Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” dances at the 35-year anniversary of The Planetary Society, a nonprofit space exploration advocacy organization, of which Nye is CEO.
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Orbital View: Braided Clouds – The Atlantic
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BBC One has ordered a His Dark Materials event series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy isn’t the easiest fantasy epic to bring to life on screen. The protagonist is a 12-year-old girl named Lyra Belacqua who runs around the grounds of Oxford University at the outset of the first book, North…
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Polaroid portraits from Amsterdam’s Red Light District, 1979-80 (NSFW) | Dangerous Minds
Before hipster party photographers The Cobra Snake or Last Night’s Party, there was artists Marc H. Miller and Bettie Ringma who documented Amsterdam nightlife through Polaroids from 1979 through 1980.
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In this country we’re raised to go for the gusto, to try new things and savor the smorgasbord of life’s possibilities. As Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, “The chief work of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex.
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A Teaser For The Metroid Movie That Should Absolutely Exist – Digg
46 diggs Gaming Short Film Sometimes fans deliver Harry Potter sex scenes in their fanfiction, and sometimes they deliver true works of art. This live-action Metroid short by the production house Rainfall falls in the latter category.
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Guys: We Can See You Liking Sexy Instagram Pics — Following: How We Live Online
Like most adults, I’ve frequently found myself lightly Insta-stalking in the evening as I procrastinate on sleep.
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Confessions of a bandwagon sports fan
This baseball season I cheered for the Seattle Mariners, the Oakland A’s, the Toronto Blue Jays, the New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Terror in Little Saigon – ProPublica
The journalists were assassinated on American soil, one after another. Duong Trong Lam was the first. He was 27 years old and ran a Vietnamese-language publication called Cai Dinh Lang, which he mailed to immigrants around the country.
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Uniplaces Raises $24M In Series A Funding From Atomico And Angels | TechCrunch
Last year Uniplaces, startup founded back in 2012 which runs an online booking platform focused on student accommodation, pulled in £2.2 million ($3.5 million) in Series A funding led by Octopus Investments. Today it’s announced that it has raised a…
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SnapApp Raises $12M To Help Marketers Build Interactive Content | TechCrunch
Content marketing startup SnapApp has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The Boston-based company offers online tools for building calculators, quizzes, infographics, interactive videos and other types of interactive content.
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VW US sales rise despite scandal – BBC News
German carmaker Volkswagen increased its sales in the US in October despite the current global emissions scandal entangling the company. The carmaker sold 30,387 cars in October, a rise of 0.24% compared to the same month last year.
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What the Republican candidates really wanted to demand for the next debate | US news | The Guardian
Following the last, highly contentious Republican presidential debate, the candidates have released a list of demands to networks. Here is a sampling of what the candidates are requesting:
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Google Inbox will reply to e-mails for you with machine learning | Ars Technica
Google Inbox, Google’s new-age e-mail client that lives alongside Gmail, can now respond to messages for you. The feature is called “Smart Reply,” and for e-mails that only need a quick response, Inbox will generate three short replies you can pick …
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Thanks to an esoteric state law born from conservative small-government thinking, Colorado voters must decide Tuesday whether they’d rather have new schools or eight bucks each.
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Planets on Parade in the November Sky: How and When to See Them
Say farewell to the ringed beauty Saturn: In November, it drops into the sunset fires, until it is out of sight. In fact, not a single bright planet is evident in the evening sky this month. Fear not: the planets reappear in the predawn sky.
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A proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through the Southeast U.S. is raising environmental justice, health, and regulatory questions among representatives in one of the states it would affect. Congressmen Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. John Lewis, H…
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Why Does Anybody Play Football Anymore? | The Nation
On Sunday, NBA player LeBron James was asked why he does not allow his young sons to play football, as he did, when growing up in Akron, Ohio. LeBron said, “I needed a way out (of poverty). My kids don’t.”
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The Future of Climate Change Is Widespread Civil War | The Nation
At the end of November, delegations from nearly 200 countries will convene in Paris for what is billed as the most important climate meeting ever held.
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Real-Life Paranormal Experiences Are Nothing Like the Movies | Motherboard
Visiting Al Capone’s cell in Eastern State Penitentiary, my dress strap repeatedly undid itself. Only a quick hand kept me from exposure. I’ve seen books fly off shelves and doors open unexpectedly.
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Exactly one year before the 2016 presidential election, House Democrats held a press conference to call for the passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act, which so far has no House Republican support.
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Chris Cairns trial: Former cricketer denies match-fixing – BBC News
Former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns has repeatedly denied allegations that he tried to coerce former teammates into fixing matches. Giving evidence at his criminal trial in London, he said that there was “no truth” in the claims.
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This 15-Second Warcraft Movie Teaser Will Be the Best 15 Seconds You Spend All Day
Again, I absolutely hate posting teasers for trailer in principle, but 1) this is the first footage of Duncan Jones’ infinitely anticipated Warcraft movie that anyone has seen and 2) it’s amazing.
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Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change, says Minister
Drug users will be able to use supervised injecting rooms in Dublin next year, followed shortly afterwards by Cork, Galway and Limerick, according to the Minister in charge of the National Drugs Strategy.
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It’s no accident that the teaser for season five of HBO’s Girls is set in a women’s dance class. Lena Dunham’s successful series teases its return via the internet, a safe space similar to a private dance studio, where one can expect an outpouring o…
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Hunger Games ride brings District 12 to Dubai theme park | Film | The Guardian
The Hunger Games, the franchise based on a televised battle to the death between children, will be the inspiration for a string of attractions at a new chain of theme parks to be licensed by film studio Lionsgate, according to the New York Times.
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Volkswagen’s US sales go up in October, despite diesel emissions scandal | The Verge
There is a world in which consumers swiftly punish Volkswagen where it counts — the coffers — for its massive, systematic deception of the Environmental Protection Agency in which it cheated its way around diesel emissions tests for half a decade. T…
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Well, Gotham Has Gone Completely Off the Rails
If you’ve been reading these recaps, you probably thought Gotham had left the rails some time ago. I did too! But only now do I see how much separation there is between this show and the rails.
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Google’s AMP—an Internet giant tackles the old myth of “the Web is too slow” | Ars Technica
There’s a story going around today that the Web is too slow, especially over mobile networks. It’s a pretty good story—and it’s a perpetual story. The Web, while certainly improved from the days of 14.
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Trey Gowdy did Hillary Clinton a big favor with partisan Benghazi hearing, poll shows
Clinton made progress as well among swing voters, the survey found. Before her testimony, 84% of swing voters had said they were not satisfied with her responses to questions about Benghazi. In the latest survey, only 40% said so.
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Thomas Merton and Louisville’s Search for a Hometown Hero | The New Republic
When Thomas Merton entered the Trappist monastery in the rolling hills of Kentucky’s bourbon country in December 1941, his literary-minded friends back in New York City—and there were many of them—assumed they’d never hear from him again.
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Iranian state TV claims US resident in custody is a spy | World news | The Guardian
Iranian state television has claimed that a Washington-based Lebanese citizen missing in Tehran since September is actually an American spy now in the custody of authorities. The state TV report is the first official word about Nizar Zakka, who hold…
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Back in April, the 28-year-old Diversity and Welfare Officer of Goldsmiths Student Union Bahar Mustafa made the headlines after she made a Facebook event for a political meeting that was intended for ethnic minority women to discuss their experience…
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Will Iran Abandon the Vienna Peace Talks on Syria? | The Nation
Iran is considering whether to come back to the Vienna talks on Iran in two weeks, according to deputy foreign minister Hussein Abdollahian.
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How Should the US and NATO Respond to Erdogan’s Electoral Triumph? | The Nation
On Sunday, Turkish voters went to the polls and handed the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) a resounding victory, restoring to it the majority it briefly let slip in the elections of this past June.
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How the Rohingya Have Been Excluded From Myanmar’s Landmark Elections | The Nation
After almost five decades under despotic military rule, the people of Myanmar will head to the polls on November 8. But hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority group, have lost their right to vote, entrenching and deepening d…
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Articulation warmup for actors – Imgur
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Why does Facebook want the machines to win at Go? / Boing Boing
Classic strategy games have long been bested by computers: checkers is a solved puzzle, and the machines long ago surpassed human Chess grandmasters. But thinking meat is still the master when it comes to Go—for interesting reasons that Facebook is …
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Paris to stop traffic when air pollution spikes | Environment | The Guardian
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has won a long-running battle with the French government to introduce emergency traffic bans in the city when air pollution spikes.
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The BBC Is Bringing a Beloved Book Series Back from the Dead | Vanity Fair
Your mileage may vary when it comes to the 2007 film The Golden Compass. But love it or hate it, fans of His Dark Materials, the Philip Pullman book series it was based on, had to have been disappointed that the underperforming franchise never made …
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Hand-Colored 1860s Photographs Reveal the Last Days of Samurai Japan | Open Culture
Any fan of samurai movies knows the elaborate lengths some productions can go to in order to recreate the look and feel of old Japan, but globetrotting Italian-British photographer Felice Beato (1832 – 1909) actually managed to capture those days on…
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Doctors’ ‘No Alcohol While Pregnant’ Policy Is Based on Ambiguous Science – The Atlantic
I’ve long described pregnancy as a lengthy list of things you can’t do (or eat or drink). Of course, growing and nurturing a human being is a miraculous process, but let’s be honest: It’s also a buzz kill.
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Chromecast Can Now Stream Live Television With Added Sling TV Support | TechCrunch
Sling TV, Dish’s streaming live TV service that offers a variety of cable TV channels, including ESPN, is now available on Google’s Chromecast.
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Man with IQ of 63 set to become Missouri’s seventh execution this year | US news | The Guardian
Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1994 killing of three convenience store workers in Missouri. He would be the 26th person executed in the US this year and the seventh in Missouri. Only Texas, with 12, has performed more executi…
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Trump’s new book Crippled America – live read | US news | The Guardian
There are 169 pages in Crippled America. It takes one page before Donald Trump raises the subject of illegal immigrants. They are among a list of the “relentless and incompetent naysayers of the status quo” that Trump says knew would line up against…
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‘The Good Is Illusive and Transitory in This World’ : Longreads Blog
Few things remind me of how much beauty there is in the world as clearly and reliably as Maira Kalman’s work.
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Sinai crash: Experts to start examining flight recorders – BBC News
Investigators are due to start examining flight recorders retrieved from the wreckage of a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt on Saturday. Egypt says its experts will be joined by teams from Russia and also the Republic of Ireland, where the Airbus…
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Surface Book teardown shows it’s nearly impossible to fix yourself | The Verge
Microsoft may have made the best possible hybrid laptop with its new Surface Book, but that also apparently means you should never ever try to repair it on your own. Thanks to iFixit, we now have a clearer look at the new device’s impressive interna…
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Robin Williams was ‘disintegrating’ before suicide, widow says | Film | The Guardian
Comedian Robin Williams had been planning to undergo neurological testing the week before he killed himself last year, and probably only had three years to live, his widow said on Tuesday.
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The US govt’s trove of beautiful apple paintings
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library contains around 3800 watercolor paintings, lithographs, and drawings of different apple varieties, most of which you will not find at the typical American grocery store. They also ha…
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Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones – review | Books | The Guardian
Adam Mars-Jones observes in this memoir of his late father, the redoubtable high court judge Sir William Mars-Jones, that when writing about the dead, “the writer, the survivor, has all the power”.
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The 1 Percent’s Earnings Could Be Stagnating — At $671,000 | FiveThirtyEight
The richest Americans had a very, very good year in 2014. But there are signs that over the longer term, the earnings of the richest Americans may be stabilizing, albeit at a very high level. The average person in the top 1 percent of wage earners m…
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Half of world’s rare antelope population died within weeks | Environment | The Guardian
More than half of the world’s population of an endangered antelope died within two weeks earlier this year, in a phenomenon that scientists are unable to explain.
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Even the Crew of American Horror Story: Hotel Thinks All the Actors Look the Same | Vanity Fair
When Vanity Fair published an item earlier this summer about the handsome brunette men of American Horror Story: Hotel, we put together the composite photo above of Matt Bomer, Finn Wittrock, Wes Bentley, Max Greenfield, and Cheyenne Jackson hoping …
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Spirit Airlines Kicks Black Passengers Off A Plane For Being ‘Disruptive’ | ThinkProgress
The flight attendant asked the couple to move seats, but the passengers insisted they had done nothing wrong and that the seats were double-booked. According to a witness interviewed by CBS Los Angeles, the man eventually got up to move, but the fli…
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Is There Such a Thing as a Progressive Bank? | The Nation
“Bankers are not the most popular figures in America right now,” says Keith Mestrich, chief executive of Amalgamated Bank. “The industry has lost consumer trust and has done very little to earn it back.” With respect to the banking industry in gener…
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Missouri To Execute Intellectually Disabled Man With Brain Tumor | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday night, an intellectually disabled man with a brain tumor will die by lethal injection in Missouri, for the murder of three convenience store workers in 1994.
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Andrea Bocelli’s Greatest Regret Is That He Never Completed His Piano | Vanity Fair
What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being in peace with the whole world, starting with my family, in which harmony represents the condition sine qua non to be happy. What is your greatest fear? Fear is just a waste of time. The best thing is to …
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‘Brooklyn’ Is a Different Kind of Immigrant Movie | The New Republic
In pop culture, the immigrant experience is often conceived as the American dream corrupted.
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Though Mike O’Brien was a cast member on Saturday Night Live for a year, he wrote on the show for much longer, spending time mostly off-camera creating hilarious pre-taped pieces like “Monster Pals” and “Grow A Guy.
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Buying Phones From Carriers Sucks, and It’s Time For Us to Stop
For years, the only decent way to buy a phone was from your carrier. Those days are behind us. Now, in many circumstances, it’s just as easy and usually better to buy your phone outright and ditch the contracts forever.
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Thank Goodness Supergirl Didn’t Make Us Wait For The Big Family Reunion
The first half of last night’s Supergirl episode seemed like it was settling in to a cute, comfy groove: Supergirl learns a lesson about becoming a hero, while everybody is kind of mean to her but then also tells her how great she can be.
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By Tejal Rao | Nov. 3, 2015 Made is a series of simple, gorgeous short films that demonstrate how everyday luxury objects are made, and honor the process and craftsmen behind them.
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Patrick Stewart scrooges it up in this Christmas Eve trailer · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
In this trailer for Christmas Eve—which is somehow not an entry in Garry Marshall’s holiday-movie franchise—a series of mishaps strands a bunch of New Yorkers on elevators on Christmas Eve.
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Even Gorillas Can’t Resist Smartphones – The Atlantic
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Japan Is Building a Fleet of ‘Robot Taxis’ for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 – The Atlantic
Japan is planning to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as an opportunity to show the world it’s still a tech leader. One of those efforts—if the technology and regulatory clearances shape out—could be an autonomous, self-driving taxi service, currently in…
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The Fleetingness of Expat Friendships – The Atlantic
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Balancing Act: The Modern Revival of Slave Dances – The Atlantic
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What We Think About When We Run – The New Yorker
What are they thinking? Whatever your opinions about running, that is a reasonable question to ask, not just rhetorically but also literally, about the more than fifty thousand people who ran the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
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Winter arrives early on the US west coast – Al Jazeera English
The west coast of the US has seen its first snow of the season with an early taste of winter arriving over the west coast on Monday. The snow was very welcome across the ski resorts in the region but caught many motorists unprepared.
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Hilton obstructed investigation into Wi-Fi blocking at hotels, FCC says | Ars Technica
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday issued proposed fines against two companies in its latest actions against Wi-Fi blocking at hotels and convention centers.
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Empire: exclusive clip reveals life in the Lyon den – video | Television & radio | The Guardian
Cookie struggles to keep control of her business in the sixth episode of the second season, A High Hope for a Low Heaven, premiering this week
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Tectonic, CoreOS’s Kubernetes-Based Container Platform, Hits General Availability | TechCrunch
A few months ago, CoreOS launched the preview of Tectonic, a container platform based on the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management and orchestration tool. Starting today, CoreOS considers Tectonic to be out of beta.
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This handheld stapler is $265 / Boing Boing
El Casco began as a firearm company in 1920. By the 1930s, business wasn’t booming so they expanded into desk accessories, starting with an elegantly machined handheld stapler. They still make that model stapler, along with many others including thi…
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Gaming’s classiest magazine wants to put real money behind longform journalism | The Verge
Questions like “Are games art?” are, in 2015, pretty boring. We’ve accepted that some games are probably art, some games probably aren’t, and the question is probably irrelevant anyway.
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Margo Jefferson’s memoir Negroland couldn’t have arrived at a more relevant time.
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 3rd – The New Yorker
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When I was diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago, I was terrified. For over a year, I lived with the fear that death was just around the corner, that I might not be there for my family anymore, that I might never see my kids get married and have kids …
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Poll: Ben Carson hits new highs as Republican primary leader
According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted October 25 to 29—mostly before but some after the third Republican debate—Carson leads with 29 percent support, more than any other leader has had to date.
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With a camera this good, who needs gimmicks? If you were to ask me how many cameras and displays a phone needs, I’d say one good one of each. If you ask the same of LG, however, the answer would be five.
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Dear Officer, How Can I Trust You When All You Seem To Do Is Kill? — Matter — Medium
My name is Jessica. I was born and raised in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, and was the first high school graduate from my family. My mom’s Mexican and my dad’s Cuban. They both migrated to the United States in their early 20s and…
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Twitter Changes Favorites, Prompts Massive Outrage | Vanity Fair
Twitter on Tuesday replaced its “favorite” button with a heart. The company said the move was designed to make the social network more intuitive for new users, some sizable number of who were apparently flummoxed by the idea of a star.
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Kinsey is going to murder us. : cats
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Kitty Krueger via /r/cats https://t.co/DiDu4Rld5G https://t.co/R64pKRcau7
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Cat on Umbrella (Saudi Arabia) : cats
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Beauty rest blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/aP0k0cINne https://t.co/IQ2QnZXZk4
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Autumn eyes via /r/cats https://t.co/No2ty1BSPD https://t.co/u3v53PO6Vv
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Lake Moraine, Alberta – OC [4460 x 3369] : EarthPorn
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No matter my strategy… : funny
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You’re not doing it right. : funny
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Always examine your green beans! : sloths
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Netflix CEO: Actually, There’s “Not Nearly Enough” TV | TechCrunch
Are there just too many TV shows right now? You may remember that’s what FX Networks CEO John Landgraf told reporters and critics over the summer — that there’s “simply too much television.” Well, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings doesn’t agree.
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Underwater or outer space? Strange life pulses in animated music video / Boing Boing
Fantastic vintage graphic, minimalist, and op art paperback covers animated by Henning M. Lederer. See the full video below. More GIFs over at Dangerous Minds! For the source material, check out the Julian Montague Project and Book Worship.
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Cybersecurity Firm iboss Raises $35M From Goldman Sachs, Looks Toward IPO | TechCrunch
After ten years without any outside investment, cybersecurity firm iboss is finally raising its Series A. The company’s CEO said that even now, the company, which has been profitable since it launched, really “didn’t need the money.”
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Key and Peele are making a stop-motion comedy about demons and goth teens | The Verge
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are developing a stop-motion animated comedy with Henry Selick, the director behind movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline. According to Variety, Wendell and Wild doesn’t have a buyer yet, but its…
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Colombia ELN rebels ‘to free two kidnapped soldiers’ – BBC News
The ELN rebel group in Colombia has announced that it is planning to free two soldiers it kidnapped last week “in the coming days”. Writing on Twitter, the left-wing guerrilla group said that the soldiers were in good health.
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Sennheiser’s new Orpheus headphones will cost you €50,000 | The Verge
If you’re tired of those Apple EarPods, I have a treat for you. Sennheiser is attempting to make the world’s best headphones. Again. Back in 1991, Sennheiser created the Orpheus HE90, which became widely known as the best pair of headphones money ca…
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Even if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it never hurts to cite your sources or acknowledge your inspiration. At least, that’s the position that Sleigh Bells has taken on Demi Lovato’s latest song.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Friends, Doctor Who, and More
The One Where Amazon Sold the Complete Friends Blu-ray For An All-Time Low Price. [Friends: The Complete Series, $80] Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our posts, we may get a small share …
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How Wall Street Has Rigged The Legal System Against Consumers | ThinkProgress
Thanks to a clause buried deep into many contracts between corporations and their consumers or employees, companies are pushing claims of wrongdoing out of the court system and into an arbitration process that is often rigged in their favor.
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St Marks Is Dead: Kathleen Hanna and Ad Rock wax lyrical on East Village life | Books | The Guardian
Related: St Marks Place: is this America’s coolest street?
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The Golden Compass Resurrected as a British TV Series
You can’t keep a best-selling young adult fantasy novel trilogy down! The BBC has announced it’s making an eight-part miniseries based on Philip Pullman’s best-selling, critically acclaimed His Dark Materials book series.
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Amazon adds paternity leave policy, improves maternity leave for full-time employees | The Verge
Amazon just announced a new family leave policy that gives new fathers paid time off for the first time in the company’s history, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Watch a Drone Autonomously Dodge Trees at 30 MPH | Motherboard
This team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory or CSAIL—the lab that brought you soft robots pining for the 90s and devices that can see through walls—built a drone that’s able to maneuver through obstacles and quickly …
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Deadly cyclone triggers heavy flooding in Yemen – Al Jazeera English
A rare tropical cyclone has slammed into Yemen, triggering heavy flooding and causing damage in a region of the war-racked country.
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The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has formally issued a report finding Illinois’ largest school district in violation of Title IX for refusing a transgender student access to the girls’ locker rooms.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Medicaid Gap (HBO) – YouTube
The election in 2016 decides our new president, but the one this year could determine whether many Americans will have healthcare.Connect with Last Week Tonight online…Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it a…
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Library where you can check out dead animals / Boing Boing
At the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services, anyone can check out skulls, taxidermy mounts, pelts, and other bits and pieces of dead animals for free.
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Parents today can be overwhelmed when trying to keep up with their child’s online activity, and often fail to spot troubling behavior like bullying, threats, sexting, and even possible mental health issues.
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just need to remind why guinea pigs are the best. especially this one – Imgur
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It is my cake day so here is one of my favorite things on the internet. – GIF on Imgur
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The Best Places to See Fall Foliage in the States, According to Fodor’s
Nothing says fall quite like crisp weather and changing leaf colors, and Fodor’s has rounded up ten of the best places to see this kind of fall foliage in the United States. There’s no methodology here, this is simply based on Fodor’s own expertise,…
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Who Would Win an Immigration Debate Between Sanders and Clinton? Martin O’Malley. | The Nation
Martin O’Malley, Democratic presidential candidate and former governor of Maryland, is a mere whisper in the polls and has been pilloried for his record on policing while he was mayor of Baltimore. He also happens to be an immigrant voter’s dream.
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Reeling after Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama in 2012, the Republican Party gathered for a soul-searching exercise called the Growth and Opportunity Project. Project leaders surveyed thousands of Republican voters, technical experts and elected o…
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Firefox now blocks ads and trackers in Private Browsing mode | The Verge
The latest version of Firefox will come with a powerful ad-blocking feature, Mozilla announced today.
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EIN EISSA, Syria — Weeks after the Obama administration canceled a failed Pentagon program to train and arm Syrian rebels to combat the Islamic State, American officials announced a new effort to equip ground forces in Syria to fight the jihadists.
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Republicans redefine ‘fair’ in debates to mean ‘being on our side’
Carly Fiorina was quick to follow, telling “Fox & Friends” that her campaign wasn’t at Sunday night’s meeting and that she’d rather focus on Iowa.
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Cam Newton Can’t Win, So He Stopped Losing Instead | Rolling Stone
Cam Newton planted his right foot inside his 40-yard line, lofted the mother of all perfect passes down the left seam and prepared to celebrate. Game, set – wait, what? Are you freaking kidding, Ted Ginn Jr.?
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Kanye West, Hype Williams Accused of Plagiarism by Director Gaspar Noe | Rolling Stone
Kanye West, Hype Williams Accused of Plagiarism by Director Gaspar Noe French filmmaker addresses similarities between ‘Enter the Void’ and rapper’s “All of the Lights” video
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‘W/Bob and David’: Inside the ‘Mr. Show’ Duo’s New Sketch Series | Rolling Stone
It’s late April, and David Cross has just taken the stage in front of a small, cheering audience in a modest Echo Park studio. Standing beside him is Bob Odenkirk; he’s prepping the crowd for a taping of what the night’s host, Paul F.
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What I Learned About Money After My Parents Died – The Billfold
A few years ago, I came home to my apartment in New York City after having flown upstate to Rochester. I walked in the door, put my bags down, and told my roommate why I had left suddenly for a week. “My father died,” I said. He knew that my mother …
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A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife — and What It Says About American Society
In a reversal of earlier trends, death rates among white non-Hispanic Americans in midlife increased sharply between 1999 and 2013, according to a new study by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, winner last month of the Nobel Prize for economics.
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MRW after hours of debugging my ragdolls still glitch out [OC] : reactiongifs
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Cartoon: No limits on poverty https://t.co/YXROPUFGCD
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Verge Genomics, On A Quest To Solve Neurodegenerative Disorders, Picks Up $4M Seed | TechCrunch
Verge Genomics, the YC-backed company that looks to use algorithms to help cure neurodegenerative disorders, has announced the close of a $4 million seed round led by IA Ventures, with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Draper Associates, Great …
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Is Obama’s USDA Silencing Scientists? – The Atlantic
Late last year, Jonathan Lundgren, a South Dakota-based entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, submitted an article to the scientific journal Naturwissenschaften.
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David Ignatius is right to recognize the importance of historical legacy to the rise of ISIS. He is also right to criticize the embrace of an “80-percent solution” to the reconstruction of Iraq after the U.S.
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Oklahoma mayor defends husband who wore KKK costume / Boing Boing
Ah yes, good old boys, sitting around drinking, out of control, in the south. It’s all good! After the group headed out into the night, complaints started rolling into the local Sheriff, who reportedly notified Sharp—but not before photos of their a…
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First Evidence of Neutrinos –The ‘Ghostly’ Building Block of the Universe
Major international collaboration has seen its first neutrinos – so-called ‘ghost particles,’ subatomic, almost massless high-energy particles that only interact via gravity or nuclear decay, generated in cosmic accelerators: black holes, massive e…
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In a nod to our nation’s recreational drug users, NASA has created this 30-minute ultra high-resolution look at our Sun, assembled from thousands of photographs taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which snaps a 16-megapixel image of the Sun eve…
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Finding the American Ideal in Queens – The New Yorker
Frederick Wiseman’s approach to documentaries is so radically interventionist, his personal imprint is so strong in his choice of subject and his approach to it, that he has no need to show himself in the mirror, or put his voice on the soundtrack, …
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Moby to follow ancestor Herman Melville into print with memoir | Books | The Guardian
The musician Moby is following in the footsteps of his long-distant ancestor Herman Melville and turning to the literary arena, with a memoir due out next summer and already drawing praise from the likes of Salman Rushdie and Dave Eggers.
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Twitter is changing the way it looks when you “favourite” a post – so you’ll soon be seeing hearts instead of stars. Hitting the heart button will now be classed as a “like” in the style of Facebook.
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Blackmail: Manila airport security’s “bullet scam” / Boing Boing
Filipino politicians have decried an alleged blackmail scheme by Manila airport security officers, who are said to drop bullets into passengers’ luggage and then demand cash payouts to stay out of jail.
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How a Crazy Space-Vampire Comic Like Interceptor Could Be the Next Big Comic Book Movie
There’s been a bit of a running trend of comics getting picked up for movie adaptations even before they release an issue—and Heavy Metal’s next big creator-owned series, Interceptor, is joining that trend.
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Elizabeth Warren’s New Warning About Retirement Affects Everyone | Vanity Fair
Massachusetts senator and financial crusader Elizabeth Warren plans on taking on a new foe, on top of the banks and student lenders and income inequality: those sketchy people in your local bank, sitting behind particleboard desks while trying to se…
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We Did Hard Time in EverQuest II’s ‘Prison Server’ | Motherboard
I spent a good chunk of Friday night staring at my screen in EverQuest II expecting to see a racial slur, a homophobic remark, or players manipulating their avatars into sexual positions.
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Rebel flag supporter ‘bombs Mississippi Walmart’ – BBC News
Rebel flag supporter ‘bombs Mississippi Walmart’ https://t.co/IXMKx4thHz
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The true King in the North. : pics
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Study: People Forget Health Information When The Media Emphasizes Risk – The Atlantic
The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 led not only to the inevitable frantic media coverage, both good and bad, but also to a meta-conversation about health media, whether it’s good or bad, responsible or irresponsible, sc…
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When the writer Mary Gaitskill was a child in the 1950s, she was once taken to a roller-skating rink. She looked around and burst into tears. She didn’t understand why everybody was wearing the same thing, those poodle skirts and poodle hairdos.
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IBM’s Shopping Spree Continues As It Buys Cloud Brokerage Firm Gravitant | TechCrunch
IBM could have a shopping problem. It’s become the company that can’t say no as it scoops up properties to prop up its cloud strategy. Last week it was The Weather Company. Last month it was Cleversafe and today it was cloud brokerage firm, Gravitan…
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Vast, uncharted viral world discovered on human skin | Ars Technica
In the microbial metropolises that thrive in and on the human body, underground networks of viruses loom large. A closer look at human skin has found that it’s teeming with viruses, most of which don’t target us, but infect the microbes that live th…
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Smiling Rickie Fowler believes first major win is not far away | Sport | The Guardian
Rickie Fowler delivers the line with a broad smile which barely masks the ferocious competitive spirit for which he has been known since childhood. “Taking the past two years and putting them together? I should win a major next year.”
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Sling TV now works with Google’s Chromecast | The Verge
Sling TV has finally delivered something its subscribers have long been waiting for: Google Chromecast support. Today the company announced that its internet TV service can now be beamed to the television using Google’s $35 streaming stick.
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Google’s Inbox email app gets intelligent quick replies | The Verge
Google today announced a new feature coming to its Inbox email app that will automatically suggest short replies for incoming messages. Dubbed Smart Reply, the new feature is designed to make it easier to reply to email while on a mobile device.
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What Android could stand to learn from Chrome OS | Ars Technica
A recent report from The Wall Street Journal claimed that Chrome OS and Android are merging. The Journal said that Chrome OS would be “folded into” Android—a move that would have big implications for both OSes.
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NASA looks directly at the sun so you don’t have to, and it’s gorgeous / Boing Boing
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in orbit keeps a constant vigil on the Sun to help us understand how solar variations impact life on Earth. Launched in 2010, the SDO is part of NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program.
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Anonymous Klan member dump obviously bogus / Boing Boing
A purported exposé of KKK members is proving an enormous dud, with the flagship names revealed—U.S. Senators and mayors of major cities—obviously no such such thing. The mayor of Lexington, Ky., says he’s not a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin ‘targeted by sniper’ – BBC News
Ukraine’s officials have launched a criminal investigation into what they believe was an assassination attempt on the country’s top prosecutor. They say a sniper fired three shots at the office of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin late on Monday in K…
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This week we read The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We read it so that we could compare it with Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar for our coursework.
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Livefyre Launches New Platform To Help Marketers Harness User Content | TechCrunch
There’s been a big push from startups promising to help marketers and publishers take advantage of all the user-generated content that’s posted to social media, but Livefyre CEO Jordan Kretchmer suggested that one area has been relatively neglected …
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Twitter And Vine Choose Hearts Over Stars And Smileys | TechCrunch
Twitter’s making changes and nothing is sacred. Today’s change, while not as dramatic as making tweets editable or more than 140 characters, is definitely something that you’ll notice. The stars are out. So is the word they represent…”favorite.”
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Inbox by Gmail Adds Smart Replies That Predict What You’re Going to Say
Ever wish your phone just knew what you wanted to say so you didn’t have to type it out? Gmail’s nontraditional Inbox app hopes to do just that with its new Smart Reply feature. Think of Smart Reply like a predictive keyboard, but on a much larger s…
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Twitter officially kills off favorites and replaces them with likes | The Verge
Twitter’s “favorite” button, the service’s primary way for users to signal agreement, acknowledgement, laughter, support, and occasionally (and perversely!) utter hatred, is officially dead.
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Someone with widespread mainstream popularity who nonetheless maintains a resolutely idiosyncratic artistic persona? You’d be forgiven for wondering if that descriptor was meant for author or reader in this case, as James Franco is taking the reins …
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The Vanished World of ‘Stoner’ | The New Republic
Fifty years ago this November, in a half-full gymnasium at Southwest Texas State, Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a bill that aimed to transform American higher education.
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A superhero created by the government to fight the Axis powers in World War II, Captain America has always been a character with a strong political foundation, and writer Nick Spencer gets back to the hero’s roots with Captain America: Sam Wilson (M…
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Late Saudi King Faud’s ‘secret wife’ wins £25m payout – BBC News
A woman who says she was the “secret wife” of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has won a multimillion-pound claim at the High Court.Janan Harb, 68, alleged one of the king’s sons had agreed she would be looked after “for the rest of my life”.
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Cinderella’s Lily James to swim the English Channel for Jerry Bruckheimer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Before she becomes the Baby Passenger in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver movie, Lily James will tackle a little thing like swimming the English Channel. Deadline reports the Downton Abbey alum has has been cast as the lead in a film adaptation of Glenn S…
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“Welfare reform” is clearly heading towards forcing people into permanent poverty, and Arizona wants to be in the vanguard. Scapegoating the poor for not earning enough while denying them earning power is one of many paradoxes of the GOP. More here.
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Hearts on Twitter | Twitter Blogs
We hope you like what you see on Twitter and Vine today: hearts! We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we’ll be calling them likes. We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star cou…
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Adele: Inside Her Private Life and Triumphant Return | Rolling Stone
As Adele steers through a South London high street in her four-door Mini Cooper, with her toddler’s vacant car seat in back and the remains of a kale, cucumber and almond-milk concoction in the cup holder, a question occurs to her.
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It has never been harder to leave my apartment : pics
It has never been harder to leave my apartment via /r/pics https://t.co/7X6d1NNZVW https://t.co/lbC3KdxNNX
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Earth from Space
Earth from Space https://t.co/z2cij36QJZ https://t.co/I7c8uB50is
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Alien-Planet Weather Forecast –Moderate to Heavy Molten-Iron Rain Storms
Weather patterns in a mysterious world beyond our solar system have been revealed for the first time, a new study suggests. Layers of clouds, made up of hot dust and droplets of molten iron, have been detected on a planet-like object found 75 light …
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of November 3, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
While it’s true you’ll never really understand, accept, or tolerate homosexuality, it’s admirable that it hasn’t stopped you from having sex with people of your gender.
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With Smart Reply, Google’s Inbox Can Now Respond To Emails For You Automatically | TechCrunch
Some say that email is bloated and dying, but Google has been using Inbox, its Gmail-based mobile email client, as a way to raise the bar on how to improve the experience and make it once again into a productive place to communicate with people, by …
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Beastie Boys Tour with Madonna / Boing Boing
With less than a handful of songs the Beastie Boys got to tour cross-country in 1985 during Madonna’s “Virgin” tour. Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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Tennessee Opens Animal Abuser Registry – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new bill passed in Tennessee established the first statewide public registry listing people who have been arrested for animal abuse within the past two years, with several other states considering the adoption of similar registries. What do you th…
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BBC is making a His Dark Materials series to make up for The Golden Compass movie | The Verge
Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy is being adapted for the small screen. Variety reports that BBC One is now working on an eight-part TV series based on His Dark Materials.
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Rebel flag supporter ‘bombs Mississippi Walmart’ – BBC News
A man apparently angered by Walmart’s decision to stop selling confederate battle flags has been accused of bombing one of the retailer’s stores.Marshall Leonard is being held by police after throwing a bomb into one of the department stores in Tupe…
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Hafeez pulls Pakistan back in final Test – Al Jazeera English
Opener Mohammad Hafeez made a brave unbeaten 97 to lift Pakistan to 146 for three, 74 runs ahead of England at stumps on a tense third day of the final Test in Sharjah.
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The Transhumanist Movement Is Having an Identity Crisis | Motherboard
How many fringe movements, subcultures, and special interest groups have been torn apart by infighting right when they were at the verge of reaching a larger audience? It’s a common phenomenon that has thwarted many important discussions before they…
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May The Queue Times Be Ever In Your Favor At The Hunger Games Theme Park
Look, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe turning a franchise about an enforced violent battle to the death among teenagers isn’t really the best idea for a theme park?
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His Dark Materials to get BBC One adaptation (Wired UK)
Philip Pullman’s dark fantasy His Dark Materials is getting another shot at on-screen success, with the BBC announcing a new adaptation of the books. The first season will run eight episodes, and adapt the first novel in the series, Northern Lights.
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Fountain art in South Korea : interestingasfuck
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Offline for maintenance : palatecleanser
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Amazon opens its first real-world bookshop in Seattle | Ars Technica
Literary fans in Seattle will no longer need their MacBooks to procure the latest bestselling book: they just need to stroll down to the local Amazon Books store. Today, the online retailer is opening its flagship physical outlet in Seattle’s Univer…
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Google Apps For Work Passes 2M Paid Users, Now Vets And Recommends 3rd Party Apps | TechCrunch
Last month, Google made a bold move to win over more business customers using cloud-based apps by making Google Apps for Work free for any company that is still under contract with a rival like Microsoft of Amazon.
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EPA finds more toxic VW emissions fraud in Audis and Porsches / Boing Boing
The EPA, the California Air Resources Board and Environment Canada have detected more fraudulent firmware in VW products; this time in 2014-2016 cars from the super-profitable Audii and Porsche lines. The company had stated categorically that it had…
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Save Time By Feeding All of Your Guests from One Giant Steak
Steaks are a great choice for casual, outdoor gatherings, but can be a little tricky for seated dinner parties.
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The Science of Visualization – SA Visual – Scientific American Blog Network
What is visualization? When asked of data and information visualization professionals, answers will generally swirl around one of two punch lines…a visual tool that aids in (1) analysis or (2) communication of information.
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Koch brothers say they are ‘largely failures’ at influencing US politics | US news | The Guardian
Billionaire megadonor Charles Koch said that he and his brother are “largely failures” at influencing US political rhetoric – at least in the way they had hoped.
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Long wait for justice in Amazon pollution case – Al Jazeera English
It is exactly 22 years since the first class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the residents of the Ecuadorian Amazon region, known as the ‘Oriente,’ against Texaco in New York for allegedly causing environmental damage and increasing the risk o…
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The Kardashians Will Be Getting New BlackBerrys Before Anyone Else | Vanity Fair
Yes, we know, the most shocking thing about that headline is probably the “new BlackBerrys” part.
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Will Candy Crush deal leave Activision with a bitter taste? – BBC News
Candy Crush describes itself as the “sweetest game around” – but even so there’s no guarantee that the $5.9bn (£3.8bn) takeover of King.com won’t leave both investors and players with a bitter taste.
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Brad Paisley, Color Me Badd Unite for ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’ on ‘Kimmel’ | Rolling Stone
Brad Paisley, Color Me Badd Unite for ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’ on ‘Kimmel’ “Color Me Bradd” deliver delightfully weird start to late-night show’s new month of “Mash Up Mondays”
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The Best—But Not Cheapest—Way to See Star Wars: The Force Awakens Early | Vanity Fair
Want to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens but wish the drive to your local theater was a bit longer? Want bragging rights about seeing Star Wars a few days early and the Eiffel Tower as a bonus? Then Air France has just the ticket for your very, very…
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His Dark Materials set to become BBC One drama series – BBC News
Philip Pullman has expressed delight that his trilogy, His Dark Materials, is to be made into a BBC One drama. His epic fantasy novels, set in a parallel universe, have already been adapted for stage, radio and cinema.
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Superhero Roundup: Rumors and Hints For Punisher, X-Men, Jessica Jones and Dr. Strange!
X-Men: Apocalypse could add a lot more Wolverine. Get a look at the heroes of the Warcraft movie. Jessica Jones’ entire first season gets some teasing descriptions.
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Watch Fracking Protesters Invade ‘Monday Night Football’ Broadcast | Rolling Stone
Watch Fracking Protesters Invade ‘Monday Night Football’ Broadcast Group representing We Are Cove Point sneaks inside Bank of America Stadium, rappels from upper deck during ESP
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Anger at advert that said ‘diamonds are useless! Gift your wife a maid’ – BBC News
India is set to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, this month and it is customary to exchange gifts – but when a website advertisement suggested that husbands “gift” their wives a maid, it prompted a huge reaction online.
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Soon, Gmail’s AI Could Reply to Your Email for You | WIRED
Ever wished your phone could automatically reply to your email messages? Well, Google just unveiled technology that’s at least moving in that direction.
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Watch Ashley Monroe’s Cathartic ‘Bombshell’ Video | Rolling Stone
Ashley Monroe’s latest video brings to life the very idea the singer-songwriter and her co-writers, Gordie Sampson and Steve McEwan, had when they wrote “Bombshell,” one of the most quietly explosive tracks on her extraordinary LP, The Blade.
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Who Keeps Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Flowing to For-Profit Colleges? These Guys – ProPublica
For-profit universities have had another rough year, with big players facing federal scrutiny for everything from predatory loans to outright fraud. Now attention is turning to the schools’ accreditors.
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America is full of high-earning poor people – Quartz
Do you earn a decent salary, but live paycheck-to-paycheck? If so, you are part of a growing segment of the American population: the income rich-ish and asset poor. We tend to associate empty bank balances with those on the lowest rungs of the incom…
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NOAA Maps Historic Snowfall Date for All 50 U.S. States – CityLab
It’s 4:30 p.m., painfully dark outside, and it’s going to take some doing to get the chocolate grease off my laptop. Only thing missing from this winter-is-coming misery is some thin, wet snow dropping outside.
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The insect eggs on this tshirt : mildlyinteresting
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greenvan gets it : firstworldanarchists
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White capped redstart, OC [1588×1337] : AnimalPorn
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Germany’s Approach to School Reform: Standards and Testing Without Any Penalties – The Atlantic
To make a good national school system, a country needs to help its most disadvantaged students. So says Andreas Schleicher, the man in charge of the most authoritative international test.
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EPA finds more Dieselgate emissions fraud in VW’s Audis and Porsches / Boing Boing
The EPA, the California Air Resources Board and Environment Canada have detected more fraudulent firmware in VW products; this time in 2014-2016 cars from the super-profitable Audii and Porsche lines. The company had stated categorically that it had…
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Anonymous denies releasing incorrect Ku Klux Klan member information | Technology | The Guardian
The hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has denied involvement in a data-dump on Monday that incorrectly outed several politicians as being members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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He has been accused in lawsuits and a federal indictment of planting evidence, wrongfully killing civilians, falsifying police reports and conducting illegal arrests. His conduct has cost the city of Detroit millions in legal settlements. He’s well-…
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France’s top literary prize awarded to Mathias Énard | Books | The Guardian
France’s oldest and most prestigious literary accolade, the Prix Goncourt, has been awarded to Arabic and Persian scholar Mathias Énard for his novel Boussole (Compass).
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The Panthers-Colts matchup on Monday night was billed as a clash between two of the top young quarterbacks in football: Cam Newton and Andrew Luck. What we got was sloppy, disappointing … and ultimately won by Newton.
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Hello’s Sense Sleep Tracker Lands On Amazon | TechCrunch
Sense sleep tracker maker Hello has signed up with one of its first major retail distribution partners, Amazon, as it heads into the holiday season.
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Syria conflict: Russia softens support for Assad – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Stay Connected During a Power Outage With This Discounted UPS
Today only, Amazon is offering up this 860 watt/1500-volt APC UPS for just $130, or about $30-$40 less than its usual price. If you use a desktop computer, and you’ve ever lost work due to a brief power outage, this will of course keep your machine …
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Google Searches Put Consumers at Risk – The Atlantic
Google knows the questions that people wouldn’t dare ask aloud, and it silently offers reams of answers. But it is a mistake to think of a search engine as an oracle for anonymous queries. It isn’t. Not even close.
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Ranking Internet companies’ data-handling: a test they all fail / Boing Boing
Rebecca MacKinnon, the journalist/activist who wrote the seminal Consent of the Network, has launched a new project called Ranking Digital Rights, part of the New America Foundation’s Open Tech Institute.
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How to Find Cheetah Poop, and Other Stories From the Field – The Atlantic
I’ve seen this sequence time and again in any number of wildlife documentaries: There’s a cheetah. It stalks a gazelle, body slung low, shoulder blades pumping like pistons.
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The Foods That Are Linked With Childhood Weight Gain – The Atlantic
We’ve tried everything to curb childhood obesity. Marketers have done their best to make carrots seem radical and soda seem reasonable. Policymakers have contemplated barring fast-food restaurants from opening near schools.
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Why DMCA Rulemaking Is an Unsustainable Garbage Train | Motherboard
Jay Radcliffe is a security researcher with diabetes. In 2011, he gave a talk at Black Hat, showing how his personal insulin pump could be hacked—with potentially deadly consequences.
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Dozens dead as bus veers off mountain road in Nepal – Al Jazeera English
A packed bus, with passengers also travelling on its roof, has plunged over a cliff and killed at least 30 people in central Nepal, officials have said. Police said they were investigating the accident which occurred on Tuesday about 80km northwest …
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Keystone Xl Builder Asks US to Suspend Review | Al Jazeera America
Faced with dimming prospects for approval, the Canadian company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline chose to plead with the U.S. government for a delay on its fate, signaling that prolonged uncertainty is preferable to rejection of the $8 billi…
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Sales of organic and natural products are soaring — but you would never know it from the share price of Whole Foods Market, the premier purveyor of such merchandise. Shares are almost 50 percent lower than they were in February, the high point of th…
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A few months before he took a toxic mix of drugs and died on a stranger’s couch, Nicklaus Ellison wrote a letter to his little sister.He asked for Jolly Ranchers, Starburst and Silly Bandz bracelets, some of the treats permitted at the substance abu…
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CHICAGO — Federal education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgend
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One Of The Country’s Biggest Urban Farms Will Be Built In Detroit – Modern Farmer
Detroit’s urban farming possibilities aren’t a secret; there is nowhere else in the country with an infrastructure as big as Detroit’s that contains so much city-owned or delinquent land.
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Terror in Little Saigon – ProPublica
The journalists were assassinated on American soil, one after another. Duong Trong Lam was the first. He was 27 years old and ran a Vietnamese-language publication called Cai Dinh Lang, which he mailed to immigrants around the country.
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Traditional Korean drummers [2048 x 1160][OC] : HumanPorn
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Hit Me, Hit Me, Hit Me, Hit Me : awwgifs
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Listen: Ars Editor Sean Gallagher turns an NPR IoT segment into a security lesson | Ars Technica
As part of Ars UNITE last week, Ars IT Editor Sean Gallagher outlined what many already know—the Internet of Things (IoT) is inevitable. However, this being Ars, he also documented that future’s dirty little secret.
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How to write a book – top tips for National Novel Writing Month | Children’s books | The Guardian
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and takes place every November. It’s for anyone thinking about writing a novel. To take part all you need to do is commit to writing 50,000 words of your novel in the 30 days of November.
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James Brown teaches you how to dance / 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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Memorable meals in fiction – quiz | Books | The Guardian
Who set off on a picnic with a yard of French bread? Photograph: Ryan McVay/Getty Images
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How RFID Delivers Big Data On Cows And Milk Production | TechCrunch
We know that big data has been used in retail, healthcare and finance, but you might be surprised to find out that it also helps farmers with dairy production.
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Omni Is Cloud Storage For Your Physical Stuff | TechCrunch
Omni is trying to find a solution for the problem of shrinking apartments and rising rent in urban areas. The company launched their iOS app in the Apple App Store today, the first full release of a product that has been in the works for a while.
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The Promise of Optical Atomic Clocks: Watch Live Wednesday [Video] – Scientific American
Atomic clocks are currently the most precise timekeepers in the universe. But they are not quite good enough for all purposes. To work correctly, forthcoming technologies such as quantum computers might require clocks that are even more exact than e…
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How House Cats Evolved – Scientific American
The aloof and elusive nature of cats is perhaps their most distinctive feature, endearing to some and exasperating to others. Despite such mercurial tendencies, the house cat is the most popular pet in the world.
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Leading Senate Candidate Says He’s Open To Eliminating The VA | ThinkProgress
There are around 1.5 million veterans who live in Florida, more than any other state besides California and Texas. Nearly 100,000 of them served in World War II. But despite the significant veteran presence in the Sunshine State, the leading Republi…
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Fighting Mosquitoes with Mosquitoes – Scientific American
To combat the bug problem in Los Angeles, insect-control experts are releasing thousands of male mosquitoes infected with a powerful bacterium By | Aedes Albopictus were only recently introduced into California and researchers hope it is still possi…
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England struck late on day three to leave the third Test against Pakistan evenly poised in Sharjah. Pakistan looked set to take control when a century opening stand between Mohammad Hafeez and Azhar Ali wiped out England’s first-innings lead of 72.
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Ben Carson: Birthright Citizenship Was ‘Not Intended’ For ‘Anchor’ Children | ThinkProgress
KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA — Pausing between hundreds of book signings at a mall just a few miles from Disney World, neurosurgeon and new GOP frontrunner Dr.
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‘Smart drugs’ are here — should college students be allowed to use them? – The Washington Post
We use coffee to stay awake, good food and nutrition to stay healthy and alert. But if there was a drug that made you smarter, helped you learn, and made you more focused, would you take it?
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The British PM, the Middle East, and human rights – Al Jazeera English
In August 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron urged the House of Commons to consider military action in Syria in order to “alleviate human suffering” in the wake of a horrific chemical weapons attack. He was rebuffed by the MPs.
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They really need to stop. : AdviceAnimals
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I don’t think Yoda likes to be held! What do you think? : cats
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Researchers Threatened a Robot With a Knife to See If Humans Cared | Motherboard
In the future, social robots will most likely step in as our carers, companions, and teachers. But will we actually empathize with them in the same way that we are supposed to with each other?
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The current number one movie in Germany is a Hitler comedy | Dangerous Minds
Knocking Pixar’s Inside Out from the top-spot, the number one German box-office draw is currently Look Who’s Back, a comedy about Hitler waking up in modern Germany, and his disgust with modern media, technology, politics, and cultural norms.
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Photos of Barcelona’s famed Basilica Sagrada Família – The Atlantic
The social network fundamentally changed in early 2014. And that’s causing big problems for the company. In his new book, a Nobel laureate outlines how the huge disparity arose and the huge course correction needed to address it.
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In August 1963, Merloyd Lawrence wrote a dispatch in The Atlantic from Barcelona, mentioning many of the city’s cultural landmarks: the merchants on Las Ramblas, the food, and the buildings designed by Antoni Gaudí, the “architect laureate of Catalo…
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Dr. Know of Bad Brains is apparently on life support | Dangerous Minds
Though it is as yet unsubstantiated by any news media, word is spreading wildly via social media that the influential hardcore guitarist Gary “Dr. Know” Miller of Bad Brains is fighting for his life.
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The Role of Animal Poop in the Earth’s Nutrient Cycle – The Atlantic
Tens of thousands of years ago, giant land animals roamed the Earth. And these animals— woolly mammoths, giant deer, sloths the side of elephants—would often take breaks from their roaming to deposit vast piles of nutrients on the ground. In other w…
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Daily Kos Radio is ALL NEW at 9 am ET!
But things get really weird when we look at another Google project and realize that their true mission is to compile all the information there is. And I mean everything. Listen SORT OF LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET!
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What was remarkable about this typically lame attempt at subculture commodification for normies to play dress-up-like-a-weirdo for Halloween, is the fact that they went all deep-cuts for the title on the package.
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Pay to Win: Activision Buys ‘Candy Crush’ Maker for $5.9 Billion | Motherboard
News broke late on Monday that Activision Blizzard, perhaps best known for its Call of Duty and World of Warcraft franchises, had agreed to buy King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion.
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Push for South China Sea Issue in Forum Statement | Al Jazeera America
The United States and Japan are pushing to get concerns over disputed sovereignty rights in the South China Sea included in a regional statement to be issued at defense talks in Malaysia — a move being strongly resisted by China, officials said.
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Beware Company “Perks” That are Just Incentives to Work Long Hours
A while back, I briefly worked for a startup that paid beans but offered some awesome perks, like laundry service and an onsite chef. Perks like these are becoming common, but many times, they’re just an incentive to work longer hours.
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Talk of alpha and beta males is common in the suburban Des Moines studio of the nationally syndicated conservative talk-show host Steve Deace.
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Made to Kill: 1960s killer-robot noir detective novel / Boing Boing
In Made to Kill, Adam Christopher presents us with a mashup of Raymond Chandler and Philip K Dick: the world’s last robot (all the others were destroyed after they stole everyone’s job) and his boss, a building-sized computer, who operate a private …
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If Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has his way, undocumented immigrants could be deported for protesting in congressional buildings in Washington, D.C.
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Keith Richards sparks rush for rare book after singing its praises on radio | Books | The Guardian
An obscure collection of short stories that sees a one-legged sailor wax lyrical on the various ways in which he might have lost his limb has become the most searched-for title on books marketplace Abebooks, following a tip from Keith Richards.
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Actor and writer Colin Welland dies – BBC News
Oscar-winning writer and actor Colin Welland has died aged 81 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years, his family has announced. He won an Oscar for best original screenplay for Chariots of Fire in 1982.
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LEGO Won’t Be Making Fan’s Space Station Despite 10,000 Votes
LEGO will not be launching a model of the International Space Station, passing on the orbiting outpost during its most-recent review of fan-suggested and supported projects. The company announced its decisionon Friday (Oct.
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Watch Jimmy Kimmel’s Annual Halloween Candy Prank on Kids | Rolling Stone
In what’s become an annual Halloween tradition like trick-or-treating, scary movie marathons and questionable costumes, Jimmy Kimmel Live! has once again recruited parents to tell their children they ate all of their Halloween candy while recording …
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Facebook Changes Real-Name Policy In Campaign To Be More User Friendly | ThinkProgress
Facebook is cleaning house. But instead of laying off hordes of employees like some tech companies, Facebook is getting rid of or softening its thorniest qualities seemingly in atonement.
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Tim McGraw on ‘Passion’ of ‘Damn Country Music’ Album: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Tim McGraw on ‘Passion’ of ‘Damn Country Music’ Album: The Ram Report Country superstar talks to Rolling Stone Country about the retrospective title track of his 14th studio LP
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Sure, it’s an off-off-year election day, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some—nay, a lot of—important issues and candidates on the various ballots around the country. Here in Maine we’ve got some interesting decisions to make.
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Colts’ comeback falls just short as Panthers stay unbeaten | Sport | The Guardian
Andrew Luck wasn’t into discussing a report that he’s been suffering from a rib injury in addition to a problematic shoulder. Not after the way his night ended Monday.
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Do You Have $55K to Spend on Headphones? Buy These | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Related Galleries Two decades ago, Sennheiser unleashed Orpheus, a $16,000 listening station with a tube amp and a pair of over-ear electrostatic headphones.
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Being on imgur like – GIF on Imgur
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[Art] In Flagrante Delicioso : monkslookingatbeer
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I can’t stop laughing at this grave stone : funny
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/in9yocWR9j https://t.co/731waMRl0Z
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Let me take care of that snake for you…stomp,stomp,stomp : AnimalsBeingBros
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Vicious Kitty via /r/cats https://t.co/wQrR6ASuWM https://t.co/7nPt4PoVpW
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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. In nine states, the average per-gallon price of regular unleaded gasoline is lower than $2. South Carolina has the cheapest gas of all. [The Post and Co…
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Lean In To Be Stretched Thin? – Scientific American
One reason for fewer women in positions of power: They have more goals in life. Men and women have fundamentally different preferences for achieving high-level positions in the workplace.
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IPL scandal: Top official Sundar Raman resigns – BBC News
Indian Premier League chief operating officer Sundar Raman has resigned amid a corruption investigation, a top cricket official has said. Sundar Raman met Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials in the western city of Nagpur to submit…
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Mary Gaitskill on ‘Anna Karenina’ and the Key to Writing Good Characters – The Atlantic
By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more.
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German photographer uses bare breasts to protest Facebook hate speech | The Verge
A German photographer has launched an online protest calling for Facebook to crack down on a recent surge in hate speech, arguing that the site is quicker to censor images of topless women than it is anti-migrant xenophobia.
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Here’s the Back Story on the ‘Fresno Reborn’ Video – The Atlantic
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Nepal bus crash kills 30 people – BBC News
At least 30 people have been killed and 35 injured in a bus crash in Nepal. The bus veered off a mountain road in the Rasuwa district, about 80km (50 miles) north of the capital, Kathmandu.
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Bill Murray Is Ready to Laugh Again: The Cover Story | Vanity Fair
Bill Murray and I ride the dark highway between Fez and Rabat. We are on Murray’s “party bus,” rented for himself and two of his sons for a seven-week shoot in Morocco for a movie we’re working on, Rock the Kasbah.
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Getting a job 90’s style : AdviceAnimals
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It has never been harder to leave my apartment : cats
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Why California Jails Poor People Unless They Pay The Bail Bondsman | ThinkProgress
California jails could soon stop locking up tens of thousands of people who haven’t even appeared before a judge yet simply because they’re too poor to post bail, if a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday succeeds. Riana Buffin, 19, was charged with…
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Programmers are a tiny bit introverted, but otherwise agreeable | Ars Technica
“Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers,” writes psychologist Timo Gnambs in the Journal of Research and Personality.
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Why Candidates In A Pennsylvania Election Are Campaigning On Bill Cosby | ThinkProgress
Will the onslaught of allegations against Bill Cosby have any legal consequences? That’s a question we’ve been asking a lot lately, usually with the focus on repercussions for Cosby or for the women who have accused him of sexual assault.
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People Are Paying $10 for an App Where You Tap a Cactus for Luck | Motherboard
A good luck app has been climbing its way up the iTunes store, with dozens of users thanking the $10 “Lucky Cactus” for everything from surviving near-death experiences or avoiding jail time to passing exams.
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Forget 2016. Here Are 9 Huge Issues Americans Are Voting On In Today’s Elections. | ThinkProgress
Much of the national media’s attention has of late been focused on the upcoming 2016 presidential election — and comedian John Oliver is not happy about it.
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Ask These Five Questions to Prepare For Money Problems In Relationships
Money is one of the most universal sources of relationship problems. If you’re getting serious with your partner, ask these five questions to establish a baseline so there are no surprises later.
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Dancing pheasants and roaring bucks: readers’ October wildlife pictures | Community | The Guardian
We asked you to share your October pictures of the wildlife around the world. Here’s a selection of our favourites
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What We’re Following on Tuesday, November 3 – The Atlantic
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Uber Driver to Life in Prison for Rape | Al Jazeera America
An Indian court has sentenced an Uber driver to life in prison for raping a passenger in his vehicle in New Delhi last year in a case that once again highlighted the issue of sexual violence against women in India and marred the reputation of the po…
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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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Chemical Engineering AMAACS Science Tuesday: I am Todd M. Przybycien, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, AMA about Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (self.science) I am Todd M.
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Inside Facebook’s MemNets And The Drive To Bring Advanced AI To Everyday Tasks
Facebook opens up about “My New Assistant,” their proposed personal digital helper. Facebook has long said its core mission is to connect everyone in the world. Now it wants to use artificial intelligence to automatically help those connected billio…
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Guess he didn’t want to get salmonella. : gif
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Dressed up as ” first world’s biggest fears” : funny
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British Autumn [4128×3096] : EarthPorn
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Boston, USA autumn colors x-post [OC] [3264×2448] : CityPorn
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[cat picture] Diamond’s pink nose and heart markings : cats
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Ernest Hemingway seemed to feud with most of the prominent male artists of his time, from Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho: Chelsea manager denies dressing room revolt
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has denied there is a dressing room revolt at the club, telling a news conference that journalists were accusing his players of “dishonesty”. More to follow.
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Occupy Airbnb: San Francisco housing advocates rally – video | US news | The Guardian
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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Death from Above: Mass Extinctions Tied to Comet Strikes
Many of Earth’s mass extinctions over the eons have been caused by comet strikes, a new study suggests. Over the past 260 million years, cratering rates on Earth have peaked every 26 million years or so, in tune with a previously noted cycle of mass…
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? | Books | The Guardian
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s a roundup of your comments and photos from last week, including essential reads about race in America and non-challenging books for those times when real life is challenging enough. By ’eck it’s good.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans vs. the media
By Monday evening several campaigns had announced they wouldn’t end up signing the leaked list of demands, but they are expected to continue pressuring would-be debate hosts to make changes.
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Puzzlephone’s simple modular smartphone hits Indiegogo | The Verge
We’ve seen and heard a lot about modular smartphones in the last couple of years, but we’re finally getting a little bit closer to testing them in the wild.
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Microsoft Downgrading OneDrive Storage Plans For All Users
Microsoft has announced that it’s planning to downgrade virtually all of its OneDrive storage accounts, affecting nearly all users. Though, it will hit some harder than others.
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Pontoon to nowhere: why the Thames Deckway cycle scheme gets it wrong | Environment | The Guardian
When last year I first read about a mooted scheme to build a floating pontoon cycleway along the Thames in London, I assumed it was yet another of those design flights of fancy that would generate some speculative media coverage, boost the CVs of th…
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Lobster claws way to top of Bifa nominations – BBC News
Surreal dystopian drama The Lobster tops the list of nominations for this year’s Moet British Independent Film Awards. The film has seven nods in total including Colin Farrell for best actor and Olivia Colman and Ben Whishaw for their supporting rol…
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The new American hero is the old Jeb Bush. Oh, no! | Jeb Lund | US news | The Guardian
A Jeb (!) Bush campaign crowd is unlike the generic Republican campaign crowd that has cropped up on television over the last six years. You don’t have to cram all those normal people into the frame, because they’re the only ones in it. There are no…
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Ethan, take a photo of me with my ice-cream and put it on that weird site you’re always on – Imgur
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First Click: The new Apple TV moved to HDMI 1 in just four days | The Verge
I’ve been living with two media streamers in my living room for the last five years. But now that Plex is in the app store for the new Apple TV I can finally consolidate around a single device that streams all my favorite media regardless of origin.
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Space Station Crew Celebrates 15-Year Streak of Humans in Orbit
Yesterday (Nov.
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Zambia raises interest rates to 15.5% in inflation busting effort – BBC News
Zambia’s central bank has pushed up interest rates from 12.5% to 15.5% in an effort to curb soaring inflation. Consumer prices nearly doubled in October to 14.3% from 7.7% in September as Zambia’s currency weakened sharply.
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The Green Stuff by Ali Smith – Forest Fables podcast | Books | The Guardian
Forests have a long tradition in literature. They represent the edge of the civilised and the unknowable. They are the home of outlaws and the otherworldly. In a new series sponsored by the Woodland Trust, the Guardian is publishing four new stories…
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Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks
A spate of shipwrecks recently found near a group of Greek islands has given researchers new insights into how trade routes and sailing technology evolved in the Eastern Mediterranean. And with more exploration planned, additional discoveries are st…
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A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen’s Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country’s fifth-largest city, Mukalla, and sending thousands of people fleeing for shelter.
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Moscow library of Ukrainian literature raided by ‘anti-extremist’ police | Books | The Guardian
Employees of the Moscow Library of Ukrainian Literature arrived at work last week to find armed and masked police waiting for them. The target of the morning raid by riot police wasn’t a dangerous criminal, but what the investigative committee calle…
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New UK passport design criticised over lack of women – BBC News
The government has been criticised over a decision to include just two women in the new UK passport design. Pages from the latest passport include cultural figures and landmarks from the past 500 years, such as Shakespeare and the Angel of the North.
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Little fluffy stormtrooper : gif
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This backlit grape resembles a planet. : mildlyinteresting
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Rat catcher, 1900s : OldSchoolCool
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Love Everyone Often 11/04/2015
www.nytimes.com With over 800,000 followers, Essena O’Neill is an Instagram star. But Ms. O’Neill, a 19-year-old Australian, recently surprised her fans by abruptly speaking out against social media. Changing her Instagram name to “Social Media Is Not Real Life,” M… tags: Pocket fashion & style jonah bromwich new york times…
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