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Syrian government ‘profits from enforced disappearances’ – BBC News
Syria’s government has been accused of profiting from a black market in which people pay huge sums to find relatives who have been detained or abducted. Amnesty International said officials and prison staff were benefiting from bribes paid to middle…
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India’s Arundhati Roy returns national award over ‘horrific murders’ – BBC News
Booker Prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy says she is returning a national award over recent “horrific murders” in the country. Returning the award allowed her to be a part of a political movement started by writers and filmmakers, Ms Roy sai…
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Start-up Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Nearly five years after revolutionary zeal swept the Arab world, life in the region has normalised. Yet, it is far from normal: civil war rages in Syria, generals rather than democrats rule Egypt, and violence divides Libya. Economies throughout the…
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Intimate Universes – The New Yorker
Like so many middle- and upper-class Africans of her generation, the painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby came to the United States to pursue her studies. Military dictatorship and financial hardships had long paralyzed the higher-education system in her…
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College Students Aren’t The Only Ones Abusing Adderall | FiveThirtyEight
I can easily understand the appeal of Adderall, a drug that treats ADHD by increasing focus and attention span.
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Eoin Colfer to give Iron Man ‘the Dublin treatment’ | Books | The Guardian
The billionaire playboy Tony Stark is set to get the “Dublin treatment”, as the Irish laureate of children’s books, Eoin Colfer, revealed he will be taking the superhero to the Emerald Isle in a new novel.
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Nicola Benedetti ‘can’t play’ new concerto – BBC News
Virtuoso violinist Nicola Benedetti says she is worried she “can’t play” a new concerto, which is set to premiere in London this Friday. The musician says Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto in D presents multiple challenges in the final movement, whic…
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Balkan asylum seekers fear deportation from Germany – Al Jazeera English
In Germany, where a dramatic increase in asylum applications has been registered this year, much of the public and media attention has been devoted to refugees from war-torn countries like Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
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The Suckiest Things About College
College is supposed to be awesome. Everyone’s constantly reminding you that it’ll be the best time of your life. And it can be! But during the first year, that expectation might set you up for a nasty reality: starting college can really suck, too.
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Bank of England votes 8-1 to keep interest rates on hold – BBC News
The Bank of England (BoE) has held UK interest rates at the record low of 0.5%. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, led by governor Mark Carney, voted by 8 to 1 to keep rates unchanged.
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The fur on my friend’s cat’s face looks like Darth Vader : cats
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Dogs barking via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/rnEwMRuiP7 https://t.co/YiteTrCMl9
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On 18 April 1925 15-year-old Jean Pratt began a journal: “I mean to go on writing this for years and years, and it’ll be awfully amusing to read over later.
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A Typically Bland Meteor Shower Might Shine Extra Bright This Week
This week, the night sky will light up with a flurry of bright meteors. The annual South Taurid meteor shower centers around the constellation Taurus and peaks every year between November 5 and November 12.
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Every Day by David Levithan – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
A is a different person every day. Different gender, different surroundings, different lifestyle; every single day of A’s life has been like this and, for the most part, its normal. Or as normal as it can get when you don’t know who you are!
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Man killed by his tapeworm’s cancer / Boing Boing
A Colombian HIV-positive man who’d gone off his meds died when a tapeworm in his body developed cancer and spread tumors to his lungs. It’s the first known case of a person dying of a disease that had infected their parasite. It was written up in th…
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Scotland’s Independence Referendum Obsession | The New Republic
November 5th is Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom.
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Against Dolls | The New Republic
Though I had a stuffed-animal collection that rivaled the inventory of a Toys “R” Us, I was a child who hated dolls. By “hate,” I’m not talking about a cool indifference.
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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What Your Tattoo Says About the World | The New Republic
One of those assumptions is that a tattoo is entirely about the person who wears it, rather than their place in time and space and culture.
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How Opponents of LGBT Rights Are Exploiting the Politics of Disgust | The New Republic
The gay marriage movement succeeded by convincing people that gay men and women just wanted to be normal.
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Vanguard of the Men’s Movement: Interview With Anne-Marie Slaughter | The New Republic
For a long time, women’s equality has been treated as a “women’s issue,” of interest and importance, naturally, only to women.
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EU economy set for ‘modest’ recovery – BBC News
The economic recovery within the European Union and the eurozone should continue at “a modest pace” next year, the EU has forecast. The economy of the 28-nation EU is set to grow by 1.9% this year, 2.0% in 2016 and by 2.1% the year after.
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Sun comes alive in HD images – BBC News
Remarkable high-definition images of the sun taken by Nasa’s space-based telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have been released.
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Israeli Army’s “sectarian recruiting” – Al Jazeera English
Jerusalem – The Israeli government is engaging in “sectarian recruitment” for military service among Druze and Christian minority sects of Palestinian citizens of Israel, according to a recent report by Haifa-based non-governmental organisation Bala…
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Still life with laptop and catloaf : Catloaf
Still life with laptop and catloaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/6kj1tb4xiW https://t.co/p5x6SHxFef
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Still life with laptop and catloaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/6kj1tb4xiW https://t.co/V1gpmaWX7i https://t.co/NIwkMP3BTv
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When you introduce a dog to an 8 year old cat : funny
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Russia dismisses bomb ‘speculation’ in Egypt jet crash – Al Jazeera English
Russia has dismissed any theories about what caused the Russian plane to crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as “speculation” after British and US officials said a bomb may have brought down the plane.
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Japan same-sex couples recognised in two Tokyo districts – BBC News
Two districts of Japan’s capital Tokyo have started issuing certificates recognising same-sex partnerships. They are designed to encourage landlords and hospitals to treat gay couples the same way as married ones.
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Trevor Noah undergoes emergency surgery – BBC News
Trevor Noah, who took over as host of The Daily Show in September, has undergone emergency surgery to removed his appendix. Comedy Central cancelled Wednesday’s live show and aired a repeat, but said “the procedure went well” and Noah was “currently…
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Thomas Piketty proposes flight tax to raise climate funds | Environment | The Guardian
Air travel should be taxed to protect the world’s vulnerable from drought, flooding and sea level rise. That is one proposal by French economists Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty to address global inequalities between high-polluting individuals and …
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Turns out Daylight Saving Time really does suck | Grist
When an exhausted reader wonders what the benefits of Daylight Saving Time really are, Umbra sets the record (and the clock) straight. These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms.
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As a second year college student I really appreciated this. : AdviceAnimals
As a second year college student I really appreciated this. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/VnGaSPRQkM https://t.co/rBClbC7qQW
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Mysteries Surround Missing Italian Marathoner After He Is Found Safe https://t.co/XzY5qkrQCl
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A new storm forms in the Arabian Sea – Al Jazeera English
The clear-up operation is now underway in Yemen following the passage of tropical cyclone Chapala. Chapala was a rare storm, but remarkably, as the last of the showers die out over the Sarawat Mountains, another system is already making its way towa…
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The Police’s War on Quentin Tarantino – The Daily Beast
There’s a scene midway through Reservoir Dogs where the impossibly cool Mr. Blonde, played with gangster-Elvis panache by Michael Madsen, is brutally torturing a police officer.
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This much is known: Gianclaudio P. Marengo ran 26.2 miles through the five boroughs in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. How many more miles the Italian runner traveled after finishing the race is still a mystery. Mr. Marengo was discovered, dis…
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‘Mafia Capital’ mobster trial opens in Italy – BBC News
One of Italy’s biggest organised crime trials in years – dubbed Mafia Capital – has opened in Rome, where councillors and gangsters allegedly stole millions of euros of public cash. A one-eyed, neo-fascist gangster called Massimo Carminati is accuse…
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Belize leader Dean Barrow wins third term in snap election – BBC News
Belize’s Prime Minister Dean Barrow has won an unprecedented third consecutive term in office in snap elections in the small Central American nation. Mr Barrrow, 64, called the election in September, more than a year ahead of schedule.
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State Supreme Courts Can Go Beyond Federal Voter Protections – The Atlantic
In recent years, as the U.S. Supreme Court has limited its protections of the right to vote, some state courts have stepped in to fill the void.
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The ‘Force of the Future’ and the Fate of the United States Military – The Atlantic
When Defense Secretary Ash Carter took the reins of the Pentagon in February, he inherited a Pentagon coming out of two prolonged land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, navigating a budgetary drawdown threatened by sequestration, and wrestling with how …
The U.S. Military Tries to Halt Its Brain Drain https://t.co/U4BCj6p351 -
Apple is securing a plot of land even bigger than the spaceship campus | The Verge
It seems even a spaceship doesn’t offer enough space for Apple. According to a report from the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the iPhone-maker is in the process of securing a development agreement for a plot of land in San Jose that could hold a c…
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Text of Controversial Pacific Trade Deal Released | Al Jazeera America
Long-awaited details of a sweeping but controversial 12-nation Pacific trade deal were released Thursday, setting the stage for a raucous debate in the U.S.
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This iPhone App Can Help You Unsubscribe From Annoying Email Newsletters | Motherboard
A new iPhone app will help you get rid of unwanted email just as quickly as you’d condemn a would-be Tinder date to swipe-left oblivion. The app, called Unroll.Me, plays to our eternal anxiety about email: Namely, having too much of it. Once configu…
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Uber Expands Cash Payments To Indonesia As It Continues SE Asia Push | TechCrunch
Uber is expanding the option of cash payments to another market in South East Asia, testing cash payments in Bandung, Indonesia. It now accepts cash payments in six countries globally, three of which are in South East Asia.
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What We’re Following on Thursday, November 5 – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Books with beats – celebrating the power of music in YA | Children’s books | The Guardian
Whether you’re nuts for Nirvana, crazy for classical, or have a passion for punk, it’s hard to imagine not turning to your favourite music through troubled times and happy days.
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Romania president names interim PM Cimpeanu as protests go on – BBC News
Romania’s president has appointed Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu as interim prime minister after protests led to the downfall of Victor Ponta. The protesters have blamed widespread corruption for the deaths of 32 people in a nightclub fire and wa…
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Here’s What You Need to Know About the West Coast’s Toxic Crabs | Mother Jones
Fisherman from across the West coast are flocking to California, where the start of crabbing season is just days away. Or not: Health officials are warning that rock and Dungeness crabs along the state coast are contaminated by high levels of domoic…
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The War on Quentin Tarantino, Arby’s, and the Cleveland Browns | Mother Jones
A boycott against filmmaker Quentin Tarantino launched in late October by the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has been gaining steam with police unions across the country, with groups from Philadelphia to Los Angeles urging the publ…
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Black Juror: Prosecutors Treated Me “Like I Was a Criminal” | Mother Jones
Until I contacted her in Rome, Georgia, on Tuesday, Marilyn Garrett had no idea she had become a minor celebrity in legal circles.
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The Time Jeb Bush Hired a Spanking Proponent to Run His Troubled Child Welfare Agency | Mother Jones
It was 2002, Gov. Jeb Bush was up for reelection, and the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) was in chaos. News had recently broken that a five-year-old Miami girl in state care had disappeared—and no one had noticed her absence for m…
The Time Jeb Bush Hired a Spanking Proponent to Run His Troubled Child Welfare Agency https://t.co/0Blp3dYfgc -
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Give Seniors a Raise | Mother Jones
Elizabeth Warren wants to give seniors the same pay raise enjoyed by CEOs—and to raise taxes on some executive pay in the process. The liberal senator from Massachusetts is introducing a bill on Thursday to boost Social Security payments for 2016 wi…
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Live tapeworm pulled from California man’s brain – BBC News
Luis Ortiz was admitted to a hospital in Napa with what he called the worst headache of his life. In a brain scan, neurosurgeon Soren Singel discovered the larvae of a tapeworm and told told Mr Ortiz he had about 30 minutes to live.
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Could MLS-style play-offs work in Europe’s top leagues? | Football | The Guardian
Picture the scene: after a compelling regular season and a keenly contested play-off series, one game to decide the destination of English soccer’s biggest prize the Premier League Cup.
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Mysteries of vernacular: clue – Aeon Video
Part of the Myriapod Productions series investigating the unexpected origins of everyday words, Mysteries of Vernacular: Clue traces the history of the word ‘clue’ from the Ancient Greek to its common English use today.
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Reading should not carry a health warning – Frank Furedi – Aeon
At universities around the world, students are claiming that reading books can unsettle them to the point of becoming depressed, traumatised or even suicidal.
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50 years ago today, as the American Association for the Advancement of Science highlighted, US President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee sent him a report entitled “Restoring the Quality of Our Environment.
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November 5, 1912: Woodrow Wilson Is Elected President | The Nation
In the Nation in 1885, the prominent biographer Gamaliel Bradford—descended from the Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, the sixth of ultimately seven consecutive Gamaliel Bradfords in an unbroken line—reviewed Wilson’s tract, Congressiona…
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Food in books: Goat Curry from William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair | Books | The Guardian
‘Give Miss Sharp some curry, my dear,’ said Mr. Sedley, laughing. Rebecca had never tasted the dish before. ‘Do you find it as good as everything else from India?’ said Mr. Sedley. ‘Oh, excellent!’ said Rebecca, who was suffering tortures with the c…
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How San Diego SWAT Teams Took Down a Heavily-Armed Shooter Without Firing a Shot – The Daily Beast
How San Diego SWAT Teams Took Down a Heavily-Armed Shooter Without Firing a Shot https://t.co/rZ4aVUooxF
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India’s Mission to Mars Promo : space
India’s Mission to Mars Promo via /r/space https://t.co/xFmjLss8JX https://t.co/PIOmnvfRu7
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Walked in my room to see the cutest thing ever : aww
Walked in my room to see the cutest thing ever via /r/aww https://t.co/LpF28UJ6Xg https://t.co/qtGJkFNzsH
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HMB while you throw me a chair : holdmybeer
HMB while you throw me a chair via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/Vywy83V8eW https://t.co/1juGioSGac
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Andy Murray thrashes Davis Cup rival David Goffin in Paris – BBC Sport
Andy Murray thrashes Davis Cup rival David Goffin in Paris https://t.co/zUP6oVbZyk
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Ken Saro-Wiwa memorial art bus denied entry to Nigeria | Environment | The Guardian
A sculpture created as a memorial to Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists has been denied entry to Nigeria, where it had been sent as a gift to mark the 20th anniversary of their execution by the military government.
Ken Saro-Wiwa memorial art bus denied entry to Nigeria https://t.co/LrUDY18hId -
Britain’s Andy Murray swept past Belgian David Goffin at the Paris Masters – three weeks before their likely meeting in the Davis Cup final. Murray, seeded second, won 6-1 6-0 on the indoor hard courts to reach the quarter-finals, where he will play…
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How San Diego SWAT Teams Took Down a Heavily-Armed Shooter Without Firing a Shot – The Daily Beast
Police radios captured every breathless twist and turn of the San Diego standoff as cops subdued an active shooter, who shut down the airport for four hours, without resorting to a shoot-out. Gun madness in America took another turn on Wednesday as …
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Watch two men in jetpacks chase a jumbo jet in the sky above Dubai | The Verge
Jetman Yves Rossy and his protégé Vince Reffet are back for more jet pack action. The pair have recorded a new video showing them soaring and diving around an Emirates A380 jumbo jet (technically a super jumbo jet, as it’s even wider than the Boeing…
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500 Startups Increases Its Southeast Asia Fund To $22 Million | TechCrunch
500 Durians started out as a $10 million fund in 2013 led by Malaysia-based Khailee Ng, an entrepreneur with two exits under his belt. The fund quietly made deals over its first two years, but in 2015 it has been busily expanded.
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ET screenwriter Melissa Mathison dies at 65 – BBC News
ET screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died of cancer, aged 65. Mathison, who was previously married to Harrison Ford, won an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay for her work on the 1982 Steven Spielberg film.
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South Sudan warring sides ‘stockpiling weapons’ – UN – BBC News
Both sides in South Sudan’s conflict are stockpiling weapons despite a peace deal signed in August, United Nations experts say. In a report for the Security Council they also say that President Salva Kiir’s move to create more states could “undermin…
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How newspaper publishers are avoiding that cliff fall moment | Media | The Guardian
Newspaper commentators who have been charting the demise of newsprint for the past decade or so have tended to predict that there will be a transformative moment when newspapers go over a cliff. We know it won’t be like that, of course. To misquote …
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1) It’s time to pay homage to the splendidness of Sonny Bill Williams. Here he is caring about the kids (and in HD). Here he is making the day of some Tonga fans. Here he is showing off his boxing skills. Here he is showing a sleeve who is boss. Her…
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difference between buffalo and bison : AnimalsBeingBros
difference between buffalo and bison via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/rcuBTC0oWA https://t.co/IekWy6A0hp
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WASHINGTON—Instructing his colleagues to take a good, long look at what happens to consensus seekers, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) publicly displayed the impaled body of a fellow senator at the entrance to the Capitol building Thursday as…
Majority Whip Displays Impaled Senator Outside Capitol Building As Warning To All Who Cross Party Lines https://t.co/xsiw0ZKSOl -
Russian plane crash: ‘Security people everywhere’ – BBC News
Flights between Sharma el-Sheikh and the UK remain suspended amid fears than a Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai desert was brought down by a bomb. Egypt has dismissed claims by militants linked to Islamic State (IS) that they were responsib…
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Scientists attempt to breed ‘super coral’ to save threatened reefs | Environment | The Guardian
Scientists at a research centre on Hawaii’s Coconut Island have embarked on an experiment to grow “super coral” that they hope can withstand the hotter and more acidic oceans that are expected with global warming.
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Obama says “no” to TransCanada’s latest Keystone gambit | Grist
These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms. The company asked for a delay in review of the pipeline proposal, hoping to push the decision off to the next president. Obama denied t…
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Dyson asks European court to scrap EU energy labelling law | Environment | The Guardian
The British technology firm Dyson is asking the European court to throw out a large chunk of the EU’s energy efficiency legislation following accusations that rival firms are misleading customers over the way their products operate.
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Can something called the cleanweb help fight climate change? | Grist
These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms. The company asked for a delay in review of the pipeline proposal, hoping to push the decision off to the next president. Obama denied t…
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Jumpstart a steady and high-paying career in front-end development! This bundle will teach you the skills you need to score that essential first job–and it will do so right from your computer screen. So don’t get up, start making career strides rig…
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BBC opens digital store to buy and download shows | The Verge
The BBC has launched a new online service letting people purchase and download shows such as Sherlock, Doctor Who, and nature documentaries by David Attenborough.
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Benzema in French court in Valbuena sex tape case – BBC News
French footballer Karim Benzema is appearing before a judge in connection with a sex tape blackmail plot involving another player. Prosecutors want the Real Madrid striker to be placed under formal investigation.
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Top tech companies compete for attention at Dublin Web Summit – BBC News
Dublin is hosting Web Summit 2015, one of the biggest tech conferences in the world. It has attracted more than 20,000 people from more than 100 countries this week alone.
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Pro cowboy : interestingasfuck
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Rover on a roll
Rover on a roll https://t.co/cvueslmViu https://t.co/95Jzb57Hhs
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Europe comes together for space weather
Europe comes together for space weather https://t.co/2ZYiHk1Bul https://t.co/JEsb6gElFX
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The class of 2012 learned to be stars rather than quarterbacks | Sport | The Guardian
They were the future who came ready to play straight from the box. No training. No learning. No need to study the complexities of professional football. It was 2012 and the NFL had its next big quarterback stars all fresh and fast and different.
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After the carnivalesque Republican debates showcasing bombast like Donald Trump’s utterly preposterous “build a wall” idea, or Carly Fiorina’s shameful calls to defund Planned Parenthood, or Chris Christie and Rand Paul just screaming at each other,…
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The US Patent and Trademark Office and the Washington Redskins are embroiled in a fight over whether the Redskins name is too offensive to qualify as a trademark.
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List of pastors in Nigeria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are over 50 different Christian churches in Nigeria with different founders, General-Overseer and Pastors.
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MI5 ‘secretly collected phone data’ for decade – BBC News
MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone calls to search for terrorist connections, the BBC has learned. The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as “vague” by the government’s terror watchdog.
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belive it or not, it’s true.! : gif
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Working with scientists in 14 countries across Europe, ESA is developing a warning network that will help protect us from the effects of our Sun’s activity.
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Elton John to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow – BBC News
Sir Elton John says he is currently arranging to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss gay rights. The pop star has said he wants to talk to Mr Putin about his “ridiculous” attitude to the issue – but previously fell victim to prank calle…
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Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids built to store grain – 1998 video footage | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson delivers a speech in 1998 in which he says the pyramids in Egypt were built to store grain. In his address at Andrews University in Michigan, he says ‘it doesn’t require an alien being [to make the pyramids…
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Russia urges caution on jet crash cause – BBC News
The Foreign Office says it is working to resume flights between the UK and Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, after they were suspended amid security fears.
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Volkswagen sales fall in UK, says SMMT – BBC News
Sales of Volkswagen brands including VW, Seat, and Skoda all fell last month in the UK amid the carmaker’s emissions scandal. The motor group has been embroiled in controversy over the level of emissions from its diesel and petrol cars.
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England subsided to a 127-run defeat in the third and final Test against Pakistan and a 2-0 series loss. Resuming on 46-2 in pursuit of an unlikely 284, England lost four wickets for 11 runs in the first hour and were eventually bowled out for 156.
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Happy family cat derping around in the cutest way possible : cats
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – Egress test rover in CNES Mars Yard
Every journey begins with a single step – or in this case a downward trundle. The ‘egress’ of Europe’s ExoMars 2018 rover off its lander will be the second most stressful moment of the mission after Mars landing.
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Even Samsung’s tiny Tizen OS is now bigger than BlackBerry | The Verge
In a mobile market dominated by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s stable of Android devices, there’s very little room for any more competitors. Microsoft can only muster a couple of percentage points as the distant third-place contender, and everyone else…
Even Samsung’s tiny Tizen OS is now bigger than BlackBerry https://t.co/O7B0Zx1gMq -
RFID-shielded, ultra-strong duffels for carrying cash through dangerous territory / Boing Boing
SDR Traveller caters to people who, for one reason or another, need to haul huge amounts of cash money through dangerous territory.
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Pro teams ‘paid millions’ to promote US military – Al Jazeera English
The US government has paid professional sports franchises millions of dollars over almost four years as part of a taxpayer-funded programme to promote the military, according to a US Senate report.
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How traditional healers helped defeat Ebola – Al Jazeera English
Freetown, Sierra Leone – A year and a half after the Ebola outbreak began there is at last good news for Sierra Leone. On Saturday it is expected the country will reach 42 days since the last recorded case, meaning it will be officially declared Ebo…
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Wingstar: The Indian superheroine fighting discrimination – BBC News
India’s much loved Tinkle comics have entertained and educated children for more than 35 years. Characters like the cowardly hunter Shikari Shambu and village simpleton Supandi are still hugely popular among Indian children and nostalgic adults.
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Josh Duggar Gets the ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Treatment—And It Is Glorious – The Daily Beast
The first few minutes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are always guaranteed to be equal parts insane, hilarious, and chilling. You know Olivia Benson and co.
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Modern Convenience : wheredidthesodago
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Good grief, the Humble Peanuts Bundle has $171 worth of DRM-free Charlie Brown books / Boing Boing
The latest Humble Books Bundle features more than 11 Peanuts collections and storybooks, including “Waiting for the Great Pumpkin,” “Snoopy vs the Red Baron,” “Snoopy’s Thanksgiving,” “The Complete Peanuts 1950-52 v1” and volumes 1-6 of the Peanuts …
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Public discontent swells in Romania – Al Jazeera English
Bucharest, Romania – More than 70,000 people took to the streets of the main cities in Romania on Wednesday. An estimated 35,000 marched through Bucharest and occupied the centre of the city blocking traffic in the area.
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The undercurrents of violence in Israel and Palestine – Al Jazeera English
A mere 10-minute drive from Tel Aviv, the dilapidated city of Lod – or Lydda as the Palestinians call it – has become a hub for Bedouin drug lords and extremist Jewish settlers.
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David Warner hit a brilliant 163 as Australia amassed 389-2 on the opening day of the Test series against New Zealand in Brisbane. Usman Khawaja made an unbeaten 102 – his maiden Test century – while Joe Burns weighed in with 71 and captain Steve Sm…
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The solar-powered ‘smart’ bench which can charge your phone – BBC News
Five solar benches which are able to charge mobile devices have been placed in London. Designed by Strawberry Energy the benches also monitor temperature, ambient noise and pollution levels.
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No pets for over a year. Now I have two little cats. : cats
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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
After a year in the salt mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien should be dead. Broken at least.
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I walked into a room full of men masturbating : Jokes
This one actually made me laugh. Have an up bone. They were surprised you came so early.
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Russian Guantánamo detainee poses fresh diplomatic dilemma for UK | US news | The Guardian
The release last week of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be held without charge at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, marked the resolution of a prolonged transatlantic wrangle that tested the special relationship between the UK an…
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New Zealand’s lost colossus: all-mechanical racetrack oddsmaking computer / Boing Boing
In 1913, George Julius installed a building-sized, all mechanical odds-calculating computer at Auckland, NZ’s Ellerslie racetrack, powered by huge iron weights that slowly pulled down bike chains over sprockets, driving the clockwork device as it “t…
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More Tickets Available For The TechCrunch Disrupt London Hackathon | TechCrunch
Heads up, London! Our third round of Disrupt London Hackathon tickets are available, but you’ve got to hurry because they are limited. To grab a ticket to the Hackathon, head over to our Hackathon ticketing page to sign up. You’ll definitely want to…
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Just 2 Days Left To Save £400 On Disrupt London Tickets | TechCrunch
Disrupt London is only a month away, and if for some reason you still haven’t bought a ticket, the time to act is now. There are only two days left to get tickets at our early-bird pricing level, a savings of £400.
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When photographers specialize in portraits of famous people, they often speak of finding a visual way to reveal their oft-photographed subject’s rarely exposed nature; to bring their depths, in other words, to the surface.
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Like many successful pop songs, Empire has a great beat and terrible lyrics. Unlike most successful pop songs, its tempo is completely out of whack, and it’s glaringly obvious. It’s like if Adele’s “Hello” was performed at the speed of Bruno Mars’ “…
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Elder Bush Says His Son Was Served Badly by Aides https://t.co/GcZxGg9ScX
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WASHINGTON — After years of holding back, former President George Bush has finally broken his public silence about some of the key figures in his son’s administration, issuing scathing critiques of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Do…
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Bob Dylan – Solid Rock – Remastered https://t.co/jhTg3DZPBN”
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“I don’t know if that’s Oedipal or just mercenary,” Ramona Royale tells Donovan when she realizes he made his mother immortal in search of vengeance. Ramona should trust her instincts: It’s both.
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Lara Williamson’s top 10 goodbyes in children’s literature | Children’s books | The Guardian
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard,” said the clever Winnie the Pooh. And how lucky are we to have such incredible children’s books where goodbyes, painful though they might be, are handled so sensitively.
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Becket Rumsey is all at sea. His dad has run away with him and his brother Billy in the middle of the night. And they’ve left everything behind, including their almost-mum Pearl. Becket has no idea what’s going on – it’s a mystery.
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Sinai plane crash: Britons stranded after flights cancelled – BBC News
The government is working with airlines to bring 20,000 Britons home from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt after it suspended flights between the resort and the UK.
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Trouble in Tajikistan – Al Jazeera English
For almost two decades the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) stood as the lone mainstream Muslim party in post-Soviet Central Asia. But in August, Tajikistan’s Justice Ministry decided to dissolve the IRPT citing a purported lack of mem…
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Canada’s Trudeau names more diverse cabinet – Al Jazeera English
Justin Trudeau has been sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister, appointing a cabinet that he says looks “like Canada”.
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Man pulled from rubble in Lahore after factory collapse – BBC News
A major rescue operation is under way to save dozens of people thought to be trapped in rubble after a factory collapsed in Lahore, Pakistan.At least 20 people died when the factory, which was under construction, collapsed on Wednesday.
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Tauranga, New Zealand at night [2048×1152] (X-post from /r/NewZealand) : CityPorn
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Bob’s barber scam was his most ingenious one yet. – GIF on Imgur
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Tux stretched out on the couch! : cats
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MRW a college classmate starts texting me about things not class-related – GIF on Imgur
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Starbucks Drive-Thru accepts orders with American Sign Language – GIF on Imgur
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Bob’s barber scam was his most ingenious one yet. – GIF on Imgur
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Vangelis – Keep Asking https://t.co/TFLPgBryqm”
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In late 1999, Wallace wrote a lengthy and laudatory profile of writer and dictionary-maker Bryan A. Garner. A correspondence ensued, which became a friendship, which sprouted a series of conversations about writing and language, eventually published…
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Adidas raises outlook after third-quarter profits grow – BBC News
German sportswear firm Adidas has raised its outlook for full-year sales and profits after better-than-expected results for the third quarter. It expects net income from continuing operations, excluding goodwill impairment, to increase by about 10% …
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Toyota reports higher profits but cuts sales target – BBC News
Japanese carmaker Toyota has reported a rise in second-quarter profits but trimmed its annual sales target. The world’s biggest carmaker said net profit rose 14% in the July to September quarter to 611.7bn yen ($5bn; £3.2bn).
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Vatican braced for new leaks – BBC News
When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis in 2013, he created a commission to clean-up the Vatican. But despite his best intentions, the Pontiff now faces the publication of some of the private records from the very commission he established.
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Mysterious US police death ‘a suicide’ – BBC News
When a police officer died in the US state of Illinois in September, it triggered a major manhunt. ABC’s Megan Hughes reports.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho will solve Chelsea problems – Jorge Mendes
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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho “will solve” the club’s current problems, says the agent of the Blues boss. The Premier League champions are 15th in the table after six defeats in 11 matches and out of the League Cup. -
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In July 2008 the Butcher of Bosnia, Radovan Karadžić, was finally arrested for his crimes. He’d been hiding in plain sight in Vienna, working as a new age healer and sex therapist, disguised simply but effectively in beard and ponytail.
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Little ninja girl : interestingasfuck
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i just had to get this off my chest. : AdviceAnimals
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Sex Is a Funny Word: An Intelligent and Inclusive Illustrated Primer on Sexuality | Brain Pickings
“If only I could feel about sex as I do about writing!” young Susan Sontag wrote in her diary. “That I’m the vehicle, the medium, the instrument of some force beyond myself.
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Russia Sends Anti-aircraft Missiles to Syria | Al Jazeera America
The commander of the Russian Air Force says Russia has sent anti-aircraft missiles to Syria in order to safeguard its jets involved in airstrikes against militants in the war-battered Arab country. Col. Gen.
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UK welcome for Egypt’s Sisi faces criticism – Al Jazeera English
London – Egyptian opposition groups and human rights campaigners have called for the investigation and arrest of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and members of his entourage during his visit to London amid condemnation of the “red carpet” we…
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Here Is the Audio of the 911 Call Just Minutes Before the Colorado Gun Rampage | Mother Jones
The Colorado Springs Police Department on Wednesday released the audio from two 911 calls placed last Saturday morning just prior to and during a deadly gun rampage. The first call came just 10 minutes before a man shot three people to death and was…
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Life after Ebola: The survivors facing health problems and grief – BBC News
Many patients who overcame Ebola following the 2014 outbreak are now facing physical and mental health problems, according to survivors groups in Sierra Leone. More than 28,000 cases of Ebola have been reported since the first confirmed case in Marc…
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The Ebbsfleet elephant died about 420,000 years ago, killed by early humans with bits of flint. His substantial remains – he weighed the same as four Hondas – were uncovered in 2003, during the construction of the HS1 high-speed rail link from St Pa…
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Growing up in darkness on the streets of Mozambique – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
NinjaMozambican photographer Mário Macilau started taking pictures in 2003 on the streets of the capital, Maputo. His series, Growing in Darkness, captures children across the city who are growing up without access to electricity Facebook Twitter Pi…
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Sinai plane crash: New footage of aftermath – BBC News
New amateur footage has emerged of the immediate aftermath of the Russian plane crash in Egypt in which 224 people were killed.
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Swiper… No Swiping! (x-post /r/AnimalsBeingJerks) : foxes
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Teen Hackers Who Doxed CIA Chief Are Targeting More Government Officials : technology
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Vatican Scandals Detailed In Tell-All Books – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Two books released this week by Italian journalists both detail alleged greed and excess within the highest ranks of the Vatican, including the rampant, unsupervised spending of church donations that allegedly angered Pope Francis, who strives for a…
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What We Know About ‘GI Joe’, the Illinois Cop Who Staged His Own Murder | VICE | United Kingdom
When Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found shot to death late this summer, the Illinois cop seemed like a hero gunned down by violent, vile criminals.
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Only a week ago Mark Hauk was the owner and operator of Saskatoon’s only medicinal marijuana dispensary, but a police raid has left him facing trafficking and possession charges.
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A Massive Protest Brought Down Romania’s Government This Week | VICE | United Kingdom
This article originally appeared on VICE Romania. Romania is in mourning following the Colectiv nightclub fire that killed 32 people and gravely wounded 134.
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What Happened to the Mafia in Williamsburg? | VICE | United Kingdom
In a city like New York, the past dies a fresh death every day. As you read this, something special is being built over, transformed, forgotten, or turned into a Pret a Manger.
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San Francisco Hates Airbnb, But Voted to Keep It Anyway | VICE | United Kingdom
Airbnb’s San Francisco office is objectively beautiful. The converted warehouse’s high ceilings are awe-inspiring. The wall in the reception area is covered by a forest of greenery that’s a living work of art. One of the conference rooms is a geodes…
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We Asked a Lawyer What to Do if You’ve Been Screwed By an Arbitration Clause | VICE | United Kingdom
If a client came to you and, say, had a dispute like some in the story did with a company like AT&T or American Express, what would your legal advice be to them? What advice do you have for consumers who have been wronged but have signed a contract …
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As VICE reported on Friday, for the past year there has been a large effort underway by conservatives in Houston to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).
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Dorothy Leland, the university chancellor, said two students, a student adviser and a contractor were injured in the attack. Two of the people who were stabbed were taken by medical helicopters for treatment, while the others were treated on campus.
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My Mom’s Mom – Watsonville, CA (1950s?) : OldSchoolCool
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Dads: How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex – The Daily Beast
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Eyes Post ‘above the president’ | Al Jazeera America
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday she would be “above the president” if her party wins a historic election on Nov. 8, defying a constitutional ban on becoming head of state herself.
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Lahore factory collapse: Rescuers search rubble for survivors – BBC News
A major rescue operation is under way to save dozens of people thought to be trapped in rubble after a factory collapsed in Lahore, Pakistan.At least 17 people died when the factory, which was under construction, collapsed on Wednesday.
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To be clear, I am all about an Ezra-centric adventure. Taking a step back from the more serious, darker episodes and presenting something younger, lighter, and scrappier is a good way to have some fun with the Star Wars universe, particularly when y…
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Where to start with the indie charm of Beat Happening and K Records · Primer · The A.V. Club
Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This installment: A breakdown of Calvin Johnson’s Beat…
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APOD: 2015 November 4 – The Great Orion Nebula M42
Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulas in the sky.
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As strikes and riots shut down France in May of 1968, slogan graffiti spread like kudzu over the sidewalks, one of the best-remembered being: “All power to the imagination!” Jacques Rivette’s monumental Out 1 is set almost exactly two years later, i…
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There’s a very famous shot in the 1976 classic All The President’s Men of Woodward and Bernstein seated at a table, paging through stacks of pertinent documents, as the camera slowly pulls back to reveal the full size and scope of the room.
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Trumbo would like to remind everyone that Roman Holiday screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was a genius.
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Brooklyn is a very nice movie. It’s an arthouse picture for people who don’t frequent arthouses—a tale of cultural displacement so sanitized and swooningly romantic that film buffs could recommend it to their parents and grandparents without hesitat…
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The Peanuts Movie opens with a scene not dissimilar from the beginning of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the feature that first brought Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip to the big screen back in 1969.
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Daddy issues are afoot in Elementary’s fourth season premiere · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, November 5. All times are Eastern. Elementary (CBS, 10 p.m.): The debut of Elementary’s fourth season brings with it some changes to the show’s world and to our coverage of said world.
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Halo 5 feels like a missed opportunity to evolve more than just combat · Game Review · The A.V. Club
Much of the hype around the new Star Wars movies (perhaps the only space epic bigger than Halo) is fueled by rumors surrounding Luke Skywalker, the galaxy’s last remaining Jedi knight.
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Late in the weepie cancer story Miss You Already, oil-rig worker Jago (Paddy Considine) comforts his pregnant wife Jess (Drew Barrymore) after a big, painful blowout with her best friend Milly (Toni Collette). “No more drama, all right?” he pleads.
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“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman / Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean / By providence impoverished, in squalor / Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?”That’s the opening question in Lin-Manuel Miranda’…
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Do the Peanuts characters even belong on the big screen? · Run The Series · The A.V. Club
With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.
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There’s a scene in Tim Robbins’ 1992 sly sledgehammer of a political satire Bob Roberts—about a media-savvy, crypto-fascist political candidate who hides his ambition behind a wall of plain-talking, folk-singing populism—where the candidate is booke…
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Suu Kyi ‘will be above president’ if NLD wins Myanmar election – BBC News
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she would be “above the president” if her National League for Democracy wins Sunday’s election. The NLD is widely expected to do well in the election, but Ms Suu Kyi is banned from taking the role …
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Shia LaDoot : ledootgeneration
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I hope ISIS bombed that plane … : AdviceAnimals
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Man & Girl in Traditional Maori Attire : pics
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Great Orion Nebula M42
The Great Orion Nebula M42 https://t.co/pNaLZG0VDg https://t.co/0B0aJVcWfa
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Indonesia’s growth picks up pace in third quarter – BBC News
Growth in South East Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia, picked up in the third quarter, improving upon the previous one which saw the lowest growth in six years. It grew 4.73% from July to September compared with a year ago, after hitting 4.67% grow…
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George W., Father of the Stem-Cell Revolution – The Daily Beast
It wasn’t what President George W. Bush had in mind. In 2001, Bush restricted the use of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, giving conservatives what looked like a major victory in the nation’s culture wars.
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Tyler Clementi’s Webcam Bully, Dharun Ravi, Wants a Retrial – The Daily Beast
Dharun Ravi, convicted on 15 counts in 2012 for offenses relating to webcamming his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man, is seeking to have his case retried.
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The crux of Brooklyn is so simple that it’s profound: A young girl grows up. In Hollywood, however, that journey—as TMZ, Us Weekly, and a red carpet’s worth of cautionary tales remind us—is much more fraught.
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My Old London Paper Sounds Like Pravda – The Daily Beast
When I was a cub reporter at the Evening Standard, I and some other younger members of the newsroom were summoned to lunch with the editor, Max Hastings. We sat in the executive boardroom, dined on baked salmon and drank Pouilly-Fumme (this was the …
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Gay Rights Splits Rubio & His Money Man – The Daily Beast
Marco Rubio’s newest big donor could make his life very good—and a little complicated. Last weekend, New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer revealed that Rubio is his pick for 2016.
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Remove Islam’s ‘Scarlet Letter’ Sex Laws – The Daily Beast
On a rocky patch of dirt in the mountainous province of Ghor in central Afghanistan, a band of about a dozen men, clad in turbans and traditional salwar kameez, or baggy pants and tunic, tower over a young woman, named Rokhshana, buried, yes, in a p…
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Fox Newsers Suddenly Quiet When Their ‘Hero Cop’ Revealed to Be Fraudster – The Daily Beast
It was a narrative perfectly suited for Fox News’s conservative commentariat. Too bad it was total bullshit. Three assailants allegedly shot and killed Lt.
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How Raul Castro Watered Down Communism – The Daily Beast
Cuban Revelations is a reporter’s account of the epic shifts that have transpired since an aging, infirm Fidel Castro ceded the reins of power nearly a decade ago.
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The Conspiracy Theories Animating the Right – The Daily Beast
As someone who pays close attention to politics, I don’t know which I found more unsettling—the many conspiracy theories making the rounds on the right that I’d never heard of, or the ones that I’m familiar with because they have made their way into…
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A Hamptons Mom Vanishes—And No One Says A Word – The Daily Beast
From the outside, Lilia Aucapina had it all. Two months before she vanished, the Hamptons house cleaner and her 14-year-old daughter cooked for pediatric cancer patients. Friends said the mother devoted her life to helping others and taught her kids…
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Cop Killed a Teen Over a Prank Gone Wrong, Lawsuit Says – The Daily Beast
After a late night dip, a group of teenaged boys decided to toss their soaked skivvies onto a West Virginia trooper’s parked cruiser. The trooper’s wife rousted her husband awake. He then suited up, assigned himself on-duty, and went out prowling fo…
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Dads: How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex – The Daily Beast
It’s the news that will fill every teen—and, probably, parent—with dread: sex talks actually work.
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How To Get Famous The Essena O’Neill Way: Renounce Fame – The Daily Beast
A nearly twenty minute long video of a teenage girl mid-emotional breakdown about how social media has ruined her life went viral earlier this week, after she posted it on YouTube for her 200,000 followers to watch despondently.
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How Bryan Cranston’s ‘Trumbo’ Whitewashes Stalinism – The Daily Beast
One of the weaknesses of Trumbo, the hagiographic new film starring Bryan Cranston as blacklisted communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is that it never grapples with what it meant to belong to a political party funded by an unfriendly foreign power…
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Exquisite fossil coral unmasked in wet slabs | Environment | The Guardian
Standing under a leaden sky on this bleak moorland, with a bitter wind blowing over Harnisha Hill, it was difficult to imagine that the Frosterley marble that we had come to find was once a coral reef in a tropical sea.
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Rustie’s new album EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE is available now | The Verge
Electronic producer Rustie released two new singles earlier this week, and he’s followed them up by making new LP EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE available in full today through Warp. The 15-track record has a bunch of tracks listed as “feat.
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Sanders Introduces Bill to Legalize Pot | Al Jazeera America
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
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He made a new friend today : cats
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Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were grain stores, not pharoahs’ tombs | US news | The Guardian
Egypt’s pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain and were not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for pharaohs, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.
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How tens of thousands of Syrians have ‘disappeared’ – Al Jazeera English
What Raneem Matouq remembers most vividly are the screams. Two years after her father, human rights lawyer Khalil Matouq, suffered the same fate, Raneem was kidnapped by Syrian authorities in 2014. She was released after two months in detention, whi…
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This sign is unconvincing : mildlyinteresting
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This Almost Makes Sense Now : interestingasfuck
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Had some wild fun with my man tonite 😉 am grylls btw via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/RrlyUWonA5 https://t.co/wxpsL9NE3I
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Sand Dunes and Trees Image, Iran – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Shifting Light https://t.co/vuNcD1PaoJ
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/FCub1qfFR9 https://t.co/dj5lIlYNLz
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Discover how Norway saved its vanishing forests : environment
Discover how Norway saved its vanishing forests via /r/environment https://t.co/VnS7duXrat https://t.co/fz8WATBgdz
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Colombia lifts same-sex adoption limits – BBC News
Colombia’s constitutional court has lifted restrictions on same-sex couples adopting children. Until now, same-sex couples could only adopt a child if it was the offspring of one of the partners.
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Sand Dunes and Trees Image, Iran – National Geographic Photo of the Day
This spot should be left empty to be filled in by the Photo of the Day logic.
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Rob (Justin Kirk) and Lexi (Tara Summers) have made a good life together. He’s a film restorer, she’s a greenspace architect. They have a home together complete with a subway tile backsplash. They have a child named Harper who has a crucial intervie…
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/64bOrnmRpn https://t.co/WlDENacRBN
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My precious little angel taking a nap : aww
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Kitteh! via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/FEzwlV6Jvs https://t.co/GrCVeDy8PN
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5Cats react to mandarin : cats
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See Eric Church Debut New Song ‘Mr. Misunderstood’ on CMA Awards | Rolling Stone
See Eric Church Debut New Song ‘Mr. Misunderstood’ on CMA Awards https://t.co/DYVYJ46WqJ
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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood’s 5 Funniest CMA Awards Moments | Rolling Stone
The CMA Awards may be all about the red-hot live performances and the eye-popping fashions (with a few awards thrown into the mix), but eight-time co-hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood have hooked viewers from minute one with an opening segment…
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood’s 5 Funniest CMA Awards Moments https://t.co/UqBxxkY7zq -
Somewhere along Highway 17, as it dips under the canopy of the California Redwoods, into the knotted hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Eddie realizes the lid to his snake’s terrarium has been knocked off.
My Dreamy, Dangerous Season With the Weed Harvesters of California Cannabis Country https://t.co/Inl4dczwUz -
The way my comforter is after washing it. : oddlysatisfying
The way my comforter is after washing it. via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/M1yAmI9idF https://t.co/nvqf9kTpXW
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Ricky Gervais joins animated homage to Blazing Saddles · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Wrap, Ricky Gervais has signed on to play the villain in Blazing Samurai, an “animated family comedy” starring Mel Brooks, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Cera, George Takei, Gabriel Iglesias, Aasif Mandvi, and Djimon Hounsou.
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After a decade of blogging, writing a best-selling memoir and dispatching clever tweets, the author Jenny Lawson is skilled in the art of self-deprecating humor.
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Suu Kyi warns against ‘fraudulent acts’ ahead of polls – Al Jazeera English
Yangon, Myanmar – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has declared that her party has the momentum for victory in Sunday’s elections, but warned against “ongoing fraudulent actions” that could disrupt the electoral process.
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Inside the Kitchen That Listens to Food and Cooks by Itself | WIRED
I have no idea how to cook a chicken. Sure, I can defrost a chicken breast, lay it on a pan, and bake it until it won’t kill me, but that’s not really cooking a chicken.
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I always sleep with my feet right next to my face too : cats
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That is a pretty stupid way to die – Imgur
That is a pretty stupid way to die https://t.co/LK0eE8uopp https://t.co/ubU1IEM7m9
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Middlebrow? What’s so shameful about writing a book and hoping it sells? | Books | The Guardian
Reading the recent Sydney Review of Books essay, Could Not Put It Down, it’s difficult to work out who its author, Beth Driscoll, intended to insult the most: readers for liking middlebrow books, writers for having the temerity to write them, or pub…
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Open thread for night owls: Kris Kobach defends now-open ties to white nationalist hate groups
According to SPLC, The Social Contract Press‘ publisher John Tanton is also the founder of the modern nativist movement. Kobach was spotted by the Center for New Community at the October 25 gathering in Washington, D.C. U.S. Rep.
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It’s always a gamble when she invites me to rub her belly… : cats
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Ruling in Mexico Sets Into Motion Legal Marijuana https://t.co/KrrbzjOCcs
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Lake Louise, Banff National Park, AB, CA [960×720] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Meteor caught while posing with the Milky Way[OC][5472×3648] I thought it was kind of cool. https://t.co/OtTu9fOUq9 https://t.co/UmnMTIYt9r
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Chronicles of Civic Engagement – The Atlantic
A motorized rickshaw in Ethiopia. In much of Asia these are known as tuk-tuks. They’re powered by two-stroke engines, as are lawn equipment and leafblowers in the United States.
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Stare into this 4K video of the Sun for half an hour | The Verge
There’s not a ton to say about this amazing video of the Sun that NASA released this week. It was created from images taken every 12 seconds by the agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, and took about 300 hours to stitch together.
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Watch Donald Trump Attempt to Poke Fun At Himself in First Saturday Night Live Promos | Vanity Fair
Despite the best efforts of protestors, Donald Trump is still slated to host this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. As evidence, NBC unveiled the first set of Trump S.N.L.
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Colombia High Court Rules for Same-Sex Adoptions | Al Jazeera America
Colombia’s constitutional court opened the door Wednesday for same-sex couples to legally adopt children in the conservative South American nation. In the 6-2 ruling, the court said adoption agencies can’t discriminate against gay, lesbian and trans…
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Like most of the individual elements of The League, Taco MacArthur is mostly good in small, low-intensity doses.
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Throughout this Second Chances season, Survivor has made it a point to focus on the experiences of those returning players who were originally on earlier seasons.
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At sea level, climate change in Georgia is more than theoretical : environment
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Fawn reunited with the man that saved its life : AnimalsBeingBros
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Modern Convenience via /r/gifs https://t.co/AKwYIe44lf https://t.co/RxIH8V7e3X
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Take 5 minutes and read.. Hopefully this will speak to someone else. – Imgur
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Taiwan says meeting with China’s Xi to normalise ties – Al Jazeera English
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou says his upcoming meeting with President Xi Jinping was about further normalising ties with China and had nothing to do with the democratic island’s elections in January.
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See Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake’s Stunning CMA Awards Duet | Rolling Stone
See Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake’s Stunning CMA Awards Duet Big-voiced friends cover George Jones’ “Tennessee Whiskey” and Timberlake’s “Drink You Away”
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‘Empire’ Recap: Sleeping With the Enemy | Rolling Stone
When was the last time the end of an episode of a television show made you laugh with delight? If you’re an Empire viewer, chances are good this is a regular occurrence. And if you watched tonight’s installment, it probably happened to you about fiv…
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The Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing marijuana on Wednesday, delivering a pointed challenge to the nation’s strict substance abuse laws and adding its weight to the growing debate in Latin America over the costs and consequences o…
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What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing? | Slate Star Codex
[Epistemic status: Speculative. I can’t make this post less condescending and elitist, so if you don’t like condescending elitist things, this might not be for you.] Developmental psychology never struck my interest in the same way as a lot of other…
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“Be First” is actually the fourth episode of the second season of Kingdom, but it’s as good a place to start (reviewing) as any.
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The inside of this guitar looks like a nice big room : woahdude
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Check out these chestnuts : cats
Check out these chestnuts via /r/cats https://t.co/vDrhjcvRTi https://t.co/9D6K2RiqCj
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The new crew https://t.co/55xtWUFHFP https://t.co/fDq0pXwCHz
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Former President George HW Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son’s administration, over their reaction to the 11 September attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on…
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Clutterloaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/PGiXZubyZ1 https://t.co/cvbLnnAuCs https://t.co/mKwuZWt29k
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Clutterloaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/PGiXZubyZ1 https://t.co/cvbLnnAuCs https://t.co/mKwuZWt29k
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well someone is fired. : wheredidthesodago
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Cat born with ectrodactyly, also known as lobster claw syndrome. : cats
Cat born with ectrodactyly, also known as lobster claw syndrome. via /r/cats https://t.co/Vh5b8OqoWu https://t.co/n1PAZTdbAK
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The Alps above Mittenwald, Germany : Breathless
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This is my new kitten that I adopted, Dexter. : cats
This is my new kitten that I adopted, Dexter. via /r/cats https://t.co/AVmFisg7r2 https://t.co/n7ddIFhAbP
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See Eric Church and Hank Williams Jr. Open CMA Awards | Rolling Stone
The 49th CMA Awards kicked off with a flash of rowdiness, as Hank Williams Jr. and Eric Church teamed up to perform “Are You Ready for the Country,” the first single off Williams’ upcoming album It’s About Time.
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During a visit to Doha in Qatar on Wednesday, the first lady of the US, Michelle Obama, calls for more action to be taken to help women and girls achieve an education.
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British music industry boosts economy by £4.1bn – BBC News
Artists like Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and Paloma Faith helped the British music industry contribute £4.1bn to the UK economy in 2014. Overall, the market grew by 5%, outpacing the British economy, which grew 2.6% in the same period.
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CMA Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List | Rolling Stone
The 49th CMA Awards are held tonight at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, with Eric Church and Little Big Town leading all nominees with five nominations. Keep refreshing this page for real-time updates to the winners list below. (*Winners in bold…
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Parkour-Loving Dog Is The Greatest Athlete Of Our Time – Digg
Parkour dog…Dog bless you, and Dog speed.
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Bob’s barber scam was his most ingenious one yet. : wheredidthesodago
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Throat Tunnel via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/VOKLge7GNl https://t.co/tEQOt2lZjq
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Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/mDXQix8Quh https://t.co/eZ82L6ZvHF
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Stahp hogging all the blankets! : cats
Stahp hogging all the blankets! via /r/cats https://t.co/a61G7wlzEH https://t.co/f7dvJyJFhz
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This crow looks out for his friends. : gifs
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“Haunted” · Arrow · TV Review Green Arrow meets John Constantine · TV Club · The A.V. Club
The bulk of tonight’s episode is given over to John Constantine restoring the soul of Sara Lance.
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US Probes Dolphin Deaths After Navy Sonar Use | Al Jazeera America
The National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday said it was investigating the death of two dolphins found washed ashore in California shortly after Navy ships were using sonar in nearby waters.
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No, Spooning Isn’t Sexist. The Internet Is Just Broken. – The Daily Beast
Having housed all the world’s homeless and fed the world’s hungry, Slate wound up an outrage fastball that broke the sound barrier on Wednesday. Yes, spooning. Yes, like the spooning that you’re thinking of. Yes, like hugging, but sleeping at the sa…
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Cindy Gamrat, the ousted state representative, casting her ballot in Gun Plain Township, Mich., on Tuesday. LANSING, Mich. — Two Michigan lawmakers who were forced from office over an extramarital affair and a convoluted cover-up scheme lost long-sh…
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My Wild and Crazy Porn Star Halloween – The Daily Beast
My Wild and Crazy Porn Star Halloween https://t.co/H46OnBFNcd
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HMJB while I play basketball. : holdmyjuicebox
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Lesbos Struggles to Care for Refugees | Al Jazeera America
LESBOS, Greece — Tragedy has struck the island of Lesbos, in the eastern Aegean Sea, repeatedly in the past year, and October was the worst month yet. Lesbos received 125,000 refugees, double the number in August. It saw dozens of shipwrecks, with a…
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De-escalation Is The Answer To Today’s Growing Cyber Tension | TechCrunch
Leading up to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, media buzzed with talk of an unprecedented cybersecurity agreement on par with previous governance around the creation and handling of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
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Melissa Mathison, ET screenwriter, dies aged 65 in Los Angeles | Film | The Guardian
Melissa Mathison, the Oscar-nominated writer behind Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic ET: The Extra Terrestrial has died in Los Angeles. The screenwriter, 65, also known for The Black Stallion and Martin Scorsese’s Kundun, died on Wednesday after an i…
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Chris Christie: Two decades of being a liar and a jerk
There was one problem. Christie would eventually go on to bigger and better things. Who knows why? It was clear even 20 years ago that the guy couldn’t be trusted farther than you could throw him.
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Police in Mexico say they found 84 pounds (38 one-kilogram packets) of cocaine inside the luggage of a guy who claimed to be a cancer patient, as he boarded a Learjet “air ambulance’ from Tijuana to New York City.
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Photograph of Pleiades, over Illinois. Practicing Night Photography. [OC] [6016×4000] https://t.co/gHQGQHgqZX https://t.co/CjpyPr80Kk
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To not lose a baby kitten in the house, my dad does this. via /r/aww https://t.co/A6WOr9vQtl https://t.co/LboZkfm2sB
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I just picked up my dog Clyde from the groomers and they gave him a bow tie – Imgur
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Get Ready for More Ads on Instagram
Facebook is looking down the barrel of a future advertising crisis, so it’s trying to think up new ways to put “buy now” links in front of your peepers. The company’s top brass believe the answers will come from Instagram, Whatsapp, and video.
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R.I.P. Melissa Mathison, screenwriter of E.T. · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died from an undisclosed illness. She was 65.
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“Punk archaeologists” study the human side of the oil industry in the Bakken shale | Grist
Data suggests that China emitted hundreds of millions of additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
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My Wild and Crazy Porn Star Halloween – The Daily Beast
A debaucherous Halloween weekend in Vegas bringing together fans and porn stars in a hotel for fun. What could go wrong?
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My Dad’s found out about memes: his first attempt : AdviceAnimals
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This is how tight the Blue Angels diamond formation is : interestingasfuck
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MRW I leave work early : reactiongifs
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Taken a few months ago near Kennedy Lake, CA. [2448×1836] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Romanians hold mass protests despite PM’s resignation – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of Romanians have taken to the streets of the capital for a second night to call for end to corruption despite the resignation of the country’s prime minister. Prime Minister Victor Ponta quit earlier on Wednesday after mass protests trigg…
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We’ve seen some great desktops around records and record players, but I love this one because I have the same wallpaper. I don’t have the same widgets that Ben K has though, although I may correct that shortly. Here’s how he set everything up.
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This past August, Jennifer Lawrence bestowed the best possible gift upon the Internet by revealing that she and Amy Schumer had teamed up to write a comedy, in which they both star as sisters.
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San Diego gunman is arrested after long stand-off – BBC News
A gunman in the US city of San Diego who opened fire on police and brought air traffic at the international airport to a temporary halt has been taken into custody.Police say they were involved in a long stand-off with the man – a suspect in an earl…
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Vatican leaks lift lid on Pope Francis’s financial fight – BBC News
In the country he rules with absolute power, Pope Francis has chosen for himself one of the worst views. The pontiff’s small suite of rooms in the Vatican’s Santa Marta guest house looks out beyond the enclave’s walls on to a small street and the re…
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Mexico just took a huge step toward legalizing marijuana / Boing Boing
Mexico’s supreme court today ruled that some parts of the country’s health law are not valid, and that growing, possessing, or using marijuana for recreational purposes is perfectly legal under existing Mexican law. The ruling covers plaintiffs in a…
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Oh crap, I’m in trouble (x-post r/funny) : StartledCats
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Lorane, Oregon [oc] [3456×1840] : EarthPorn
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/DFWiMWCFZ8 https://t.co/TI7ax6oJtb
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India’s cricketers look for redemption against South Africa – BBC News
India Test cricket captain Virat Kohli’s team is likely to face a tough challenge from the visiting South Africans in the four-match series which starts on Thursday.
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Graham Falk is one of the most reliable creators in Adventure Time’s line-up, consistently delivering episodes that are clever, heartfelt, inventive, and full of contrast between light and dark story elements.
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Indonesia volcanic ash ground tourists for third day – BBC News
Tourists are stranded for a third day as volcanic ash forced the closure of airports in three Indonesian islands. Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport has been shut since Tuesday after eruptions from Mount Rinjani.
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Raman Raghav: When India’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ terrorised Mumbai – BBC News
Nearly 50 years after Raman Raghav terrorised Mumbai (then Bombay) by murdering 41 people, there’s renewed interest in the serial killer – a film made for television in 1991 had its first public scre
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Let’s keep encouraging Donald Trump by watching his SNL promos · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Legitimate presidential candidate Donald Trump is hosting Saturday Night Live this week in a move by NBC that does not at all seem desperate or hypocritical, and now the network has released a handful of promos for what will surely be the proudest m…
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Mexico court allows recreational use of marijuana – Al Jazeera English
Mexico’s Supreme Court has opened the door to recreational use of marijuana in a historic ruling, giving a group of activists permission to grow and smoke their own pot.
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Like a damn ninja : StartledCats
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/69LJhZgPa0 Stories via @UN_CTED
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We made this! via /r/aww https://t.co/YGE6HjntqU https://t.co/b2JN0ClB6z
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Google Maps For iOS Finally Gets Spoken Traffic Alerts | TechCrunch
Google Maps for iOS got a seemingly small, but extremely helpful feature today in an update. Starting today, you’ll now get spoken traffic alerts while navigating.
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Dropbox Lays Out An Updated Enterprise Playbook | TechCrunch
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and his lieutenants took the stage today to give their big enterprise pitch to customers. Houston, of course, has to answer questions that a lot of critics have for the company.
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Counting the Carbon in Mexico’s Forests : Image of the Day
For the past several decades, conservationists and governments have worked to reduce deforestation around the world.
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Why India’s Hindu nationalists are shedding their shorts – BBC News
India’s leading Hindu nationalist organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is a formidable institution in almost every regard. It is the ideological fountainhead for the family of Hindu groups that includes the country’s ruling party, BJ…
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They’re Not Scientists | The New Republic
On stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in mid-September, two-plus hours into the second GOP presidential debate, the candidates were shifting under the glare of the klieg lights as moderator Jake Tapper began grilling Senator Marco Rubio…
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Bangkok, Thailand [1600×1067] : CityPorn
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Two Dogs Sleeping on the Couch – time lapse : AnimalsBeingBros
Two Dogs Sleeping on the Couch – time lapse via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/lWoSIutWPo https://t.co/IM4DtdpU0G
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MRW I finally have the whole house to myself : reactiongifs
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A manta ray with a pink underside is filmed swimming in the southern Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Lady Elliot Island. Dive instructor Ryan Jeffery spotted the animal while out with a group two weeks ago.
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Orbital View: Merging Medial Moraines – The Atlantic
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The story of a small but crucial town in Myanmar – BBC News
This is the story of Hinthada, a sleepy market town in Myanmar’s watery heartland that has become an unlikely political battleground. The BBC’s Jonathan Head follows one man who simply has to win here to retain credibility, through a landscape that …
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Here’s What Americans Call “Muggles” in the World of Harry Potter
Big happenings in the wizarding world of H.P.
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My friend’s daughter badass costume : aww
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What you lookin at? via /r/cats https://t.co/SJdiSOSoFv https://t.co/WjgTfM4bGq
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Working in IT via /r/funny https://t.co/gq9MwtKs2k https://t.co/hMkO3keQhm
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Asian shares mixed on Fed comments – BBC News
Asian shares traded mixed on Thursday as comments by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen on the possibility of an rate rise in December capped gains. Ms Yellen told a congressional committee that a rise in interest rates before the end of the year wa…
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Living with violence in Jerusalem – BBC News
A surge in deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence has entered a second month, with more stabbings reported this week despite international calls for an end to the violence. Eleven Israelis and 70 Palestinians have been killed so far.
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Michelle Obama has made an impassioned speech in Qatar calling for an end to “outdated laws and traditions” preventing millions of girls around the world from completing their education.
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State Department tells TransCanada it will not suspend review of Keystone XL. DNC screws up email
Ever since President Obama’s June 2013 climate speech, rumors have floated about saying he was leaning against giving TransCanada the okay to build the northern leg of the pipeline.
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Proposed natural gas pipeline raises major social justice concerns | Grist
Our video explains how the organic rules are kind of like a school uniform. Data suggests that China emitted hundreds of millions of additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
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Academia, A Startup That Hosts Scientific Papers, Looks To Score The Best Studies | TechCrunch
It took three years for Richard Price, a PhD in philosophy, to get a paper published. The slow speed of that inspired him to start what is essentially a social network called Academia, where academics can publish their papers and have them reviewed …
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The battle for power in the run-up to Myanmar’s elections – BBC News
More than 90 parties are contesting Myanmar’s historic election on Sunday but only two parties have a realistic chance at forming the next government – the incumbent, military-backed USDP, and Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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Victoria Cross heroes of World War One – BBC News
On Remembrance Sunday, the UK honours those killed in the two world wars and later conflicts. First awarded in 1857, the Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award available to the British and Commonwealth armed forces for gallantry in action with the…
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The More I Watch, The More Confused I Get. : gifs
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Feeding time at the zoo : cats
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The First Person on Mars | Vela
When my dad, Nick, finished building our house, which stood between a wheat field and a lake, we moved off my grandparents’ farm. My mom, Jeannie, was a beautiful heart but a young thing raised amid traumas more profound than mine.
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Expedia just bought an Airbnb competitor for $3.9 billion | The Verge
Expedia, the parent company to some of the world’s largest travel sites, is buying short-term rental site HomeAway for $3.9 billion, a move that further solidifies its spot at the center of online travel.
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Migrant crisis will decide Merkel’s future – BBC News
Western Europe’s most powerful leader will survive – for now. Angela Merkel has struck a truce with a key right-wing coalition partner unhappy about her stance on migration.
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The fisherman and the forest – BBC News
Mangrove forests can be found where the land meets the sea, supporting a wealth of tropical life. But in many parts of the world they are disappearing and preserving them takes dedication.
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France’s fight with unions reveals echoes of Revolution – BBC News
France was shocked by scenes from a recent Air France demonstration, which ended with two executives fleeing an angry mob, their shirts and jackets torn to shreds. But what does this headline-grabbing event say about France’s relationship with its u…
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The Breakfast Machine – YouTube
Probably the least effective way to feed yourself breakfast.
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Jarryd Hayne back in with a shout of playing for the 49ers this season | Sport | The Guardian
Jarryd Hayne could be back on the field this season as the San Francisco 49ers’ starting punt returner after special teams co-ordinator Thomas McGaughey said the Australian was “definitely an option”.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — During the filming of “By the Sea,” Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt — who play a depressed former dancer and her blocked novelist husband — had a go-to method for lightening an often somber mood on the set.
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I found my father living on the street – BBC News
Diana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an eff…
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Side Underwater Museum opens in Turkey – BBC News
Europe’s first underwater museum has opened in Antalya, Turkey. The Side Underwater Museum features 110 sculptures grouped under five themes, including ‘Whirling Dervishes’.
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Katy Perry is officially the highest-paid woman in music for 2015 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Forbes, Katy Perry has narrowly defeated number one seed Taylor Swift to become the highest-paid woman in music for 2015.
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Catching a lift on a private plane – BBC News
Taking a private aircraft can be a surprisingly cheap way of travelling. The flight I took from the small aerodrome of Benavente, near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, to Braga, a city 300km further north, took around one hour and twenty minutes.
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California Law Adds New Twist To Abortion, Religious Freedom Debate : Shots – Health News : NPR
The latest front in the debate over religious freedom is all about an 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of paper. This particular piece of paper is a notice — one the state of California will soon require to be posted in places known as crisis pregnancy center…
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Silky black pillow loaf : Catloaf
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Her mood has improved considerably : AdviceAnimals
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Kangaroo farts could have implications for farmers in climate change fight | Science | The Guardian
New analysis of kangaroo farts suggests their low methane levels could have implications for farmers in the fight against climate change. It has long been known that kangaroos – unlike sheep and cattle – produce little of the potent greenhouse gas m…
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Americans filled the National Mall in October for no other reason than they were called to do so by Minister Louis Farrakhan, the 82-year old leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Aliens, Pyramids, and Granaries? What on Earth Was Ben Carson Thinking? – The Atlantic
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In Rome Mafia Trial, The One-Eyed Gangster and His 40 Thieves – The Daily Beast
ROME — They could have come out of central casting: a one-eyed gangster and 45 of his closest henchmen and, for that matter, henchwomen are facing what’s has been billed as Rome’s most important organized crime trial.
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Russian airliner may have been ‘downed by bomb’ – Al Jazeera English
British and US officials say they have information suggesting the Russian jetliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula may have been brought down by a bomb.
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‘Binge-watch’ declared 2015’s word of the year | Books | The Guardian
“Binge-watch” has been named word of the year by Collins, after our relentless consumption of shows such as House of Cards and Breaking Bad led its usage to increase by 200% last year.
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Kraft Heinz to close plants and cuts jobs – BBC News
Food giant Kraft Heinz is closing seven factories and cutting 2,600 jobs in North America in an effort to reduce costs. The cuts are in addition to the 2,500 workers in the region the company announced it would let go in August.
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Cover Up Frosting Mistakes (and Add a Tasty Topping) with Cereal
A good-looking, great-tasting cake can be tough to make, but when it all goes wrong, reach for the closest box of cereal. A light layer on top adds a delicious, crunchy accent to the cake, and also convenientl… http://lifehacker.com/5926056/decora…
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Wall of flame from firecrackers : interestingasfuck
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Elmo vs. jet engine : woahdude
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My 7 month old Kitten sleepy blep! : Blep
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“Clue to the Huge Mystery of Why Today’s Universe Consists Mainly of Ordinary Matter” https://t.co/AuD3XnOdp1 https://t.co/rf4wgzcPMN
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The Sexiest Liquid-Cooled Computer You’ll Ever Lay Eyes On – Digg
5 diggs Lust Technology Yea baby….drain those pipes….get those pumps….pumping.
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San Francisco voters reject proposition to restrict Airbnb rentals | US news | The Guardian
Airbnb has claimed “a victory for the middle class” in San Francisco after voters rejected proposals to restrict short-term vacation rentals.
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Bitcoin Fluctuates | TechCrunch
If you haven’t stared at the price of bitcoin over the past few days, you’ve missed some excitement. After spending large swaths of 2015 middling in the $200 range, bitcoin broke out, reached the $500 mark, and then gave up some of its gains.
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SF Housing Crisis Left Festering After Votes | Al Jazeera America
It was an election that symbolized the clash of San Francisco’s titans of technology with Bay Area residents who say they have been squeezed out of their city by the booming industry’s real estate appetites.
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What’s Next For Diversity At Twitter? | TechCrunch
Now what? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself since Leslie Miley, the now former engineering manager at Twitter, published a post explaining that his reason for leaving the company was because of the way it addresses, or doesn’t address, diver…
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One of Uber’s rivals is offering customers surge pricing refunds | The Verge
An Uber rival is literally giving away free rides to compete with Travis Kalanick’s $51 billion behemoth. London-based Gett is offering New Yorkers free rides equal to what they pay Uber in surge pricing. Naturally, they call this promotional event …
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Louisiana Is Getting Sued for Forcing Online Bookstores to Verify Readers’ Ages | Motherboard
The American Civil Liberties Union and two independent New Orleans booksellers filed a lawsuit today alleging that a state law that forces booksellers to enact age verification systems online violates the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and…
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MRW I beat fucking cancer : TrollXChromosomes
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One of Tessa’s many Bleps ! : Blep
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Spotlight on green news & views: Oklahoma’s earthquakes; Indonesia’s fires; Yemen’s hurricane
The ultimate buzz kill: climate change drives down sex drive …
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Bomb May Have Downed Russian Jet officials say | Al Jazeera America
British and U.S. officials said Wednesday they have information suggesting the Russian jetliner that crashed in the Egyptian desert may have been brought down by a bomb, and Britain said it was suspending flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula as a…
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Puff Daddy drops a birthday mixtape, MMM · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Someone should probably let Puff Daddy know that typically, on your birthday people give you presents. This year, to commemorate his 45th year of existence, rapper/mogul Puff Daddy, a.k.a .Sean Combs, a.k.a. Puffy a.k.a.
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Sony is planning a hard reboot of the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite making $233 million on a $90 million budget, David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has been deemed too expensive to warrant a proper sequel.
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Donald Trump’s SNL Promo: ‘Ben Carson Is a Complete and Total Loser’ | Rolling Stone
In a series of promos posted online — then quickly taken down — Wednesday, Featuring SNL cast member Cecily Strong, the promo video contains several sketches making fun of Trump for being so very Trumpish: bragging about his impressive accomplishmen…
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iZombie Gave Major the Shortest Downward Spiral in History
In other news, Ravi is the best. It was a weird week in “Love & Basketball.” Spoilers …
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Facebook is helping campaigns target politically active users | The Verge
With a year to go before the US general election, Facebook is gearing up for campaign season. Today, the company announced a new ad product tailored specifically to political campaigns, allowing candidates to advertise specifically to the most polit…
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Angelina Jolie Reveals the Brad Pitt Moment That Meant More to Her Than Their Wedding | Vanity Fair
When we first heard that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt wed in the South of France last year, we imagined that the nuptials took place in the clouds above the family vineyard, with God himself conducting the ceremony and their six children bearing wit…
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MI5 ‘secretly collected phone data’ for decade – BBC News
MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone calls to search for terrorist connections, the BBC has learned. The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as “vague” by the government’s terror watchdog.
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Lawmakers Call For Army To Investigate Misconduct Discharges Of Service Members : The Two-Way : NPR
The formal letter sent to top Army officials Eric Fanning and Gen. Mark A.
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Tree root foot. : mildlyinteresting
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Grandmother in 1958. So pretty : OldSchoolCool
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Calder and Hebble Navigation at Elland Wood Viaduct [OC] [3822×2948] : waterporn
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We forget too, Aubrey…we forget too… : gifs
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A new era in Taiwan-China relations? – Al Jazeera English
For the first time in more than six decades, the leaders of China and Taiwan will meet this weekend. This coincides with rising anti-China sentiment in Taiwan ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in January.
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BBC Sport – Barcelona 3-0 BATE Borisov
Luis Suarez could pass Diego Maradona and Romario in Barcelona’s list of all-time goalscorers when the Champions League holders face BATE Borisov. Suarez, 28, has scored 36 times for the Spanish club, two goals fewer than Maradona and three adrift o…
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These Are the Best Tasting Bottled Water Brands In the World
For 25 years, water tasting experts have gathered for the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting. Here are the winners of 2015’s best bottled water competition. Some bottled waters are just better than others, and the BSIWT’s judges know.
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Many American families cherish faded memories of the Old Neighborhood and the Old Country, places that help supply both a sense of identity and a story of progress — complementary answers to the question “Where do we come from?”
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Mexico court ruling could eventually lead to legal marijuana – BBC News
Four people in the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Personal Use will now be permitted to grow and smoke their own marijuana. Marijuana still cannot be sold in Mexico but some say the court’s ruling could lead to full legalisation.
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LOL Nothing Matters: A defense of the internet’s absence of meaning | The New Republic
Let me tell you how I read: I sit in my apartment with my back to shelves of lovely books, hundreds of carefully chosen books, and I fire up a web browser and go to archive.
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Exclusive NBA content is headed to Verizon’s Go90 app | The Verge
Go90, Verizon’s fresh new video service aimed directly at millennials, is already growing.
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‘Can anyone help me find accounting?’ : gif
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Deneva | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Deneva by bernhard.rauscher…
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There’s just something cute about the way he uses his leg as a pillow : cats
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Son of a bitch, I love pie, I think I might murder the neighbor today. : funny
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This McDonald’s shill is preaching diet tips in schools | Grist
Data suggests that China emitted hundreds of millions of additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull are expected to be more cooperative on climate action than their obstructionist predecessors.
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A Rumination on Taste: Bibimbap and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson – The Atlantic
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Researchers Can Now Created 3D-Printed (Plastic) Hair | TechCrunch
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a system to put realistic-looking plastic hair on 3D printed objects. While this doesn’t help the follicularly challenged humans among us it does allow you to add cute hairdos to 3D printed characters and …
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U.S. officials say intelligence reports suggest that a bomb, possibly planted by the Islamic State, may have brought down the Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over the weekend.
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A site called SDR Traveller sells ultralight, strong, and discreet bags for traveling to places where such things are necessary.
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Bayern eye CL knockouts after crushing Arsenal – Al Jazeera English
Bayern Munich dismantled Arsenal 5-1 in Champions League Group F after a sensational first-half performance to close on the knockout stages with two matches left.
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LONDON — The British government temporarily halted flights to Britain from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el Sheikh on Wednesday after Prime Minister David Cameron said that a Russian chartered jet that broke apart over the Sinai Peninsula on Sat…
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The Republican Establishment Inches Toward Marco Rubio | FiveThirtyEight
The race for endorsements among Republican presidential candidates has been a slow one since we began keeping track of the endorsement primary earlier this year.
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Shanghai – Near Yu Garden [OC 1920×1280] : ArchitecturePorn
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Disaster resilience in the Pacific Northwest | Al Jazeera America
Seismologists like to joke that earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do. But not all seismic building codes are equal and in the past, the conventional philosophy in the U.S. has been to build for “life safety”. In other words, build so that occ…
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Fireballs from Taurus: See the Taurid Meteors This Week
Meteors, popularly called “shooting stars,” are much more common than most people think. In fact, there’s a display going on now – courtesy of two Taurid meteor showers – if you know when and where to look.
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Battery train longest journey world record set – BBC News
It is powered by 600 batteries and did a 22.615km (14.1 miles) round trip travelling at 7-10kph (4.3-6.2mph).
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Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway For $3.9B | TechCrunch
Expedia Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire the publicly traded vacation rental service HomeAway and its brands (including VRBO.com) for $3.9 billion in cash and Expedia common stock. The Austin, Texas-based HomeAway was founded back …
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Facebook videos reach 8 billion views per day | The Verge
Video on Facebook is swallowing the entire social network. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, Facebook videos notch more than 8 billion views daily. That’s double what the average view count was back in April and eight times the amount of daily…
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We Want You To Show Your Gear At Hardware Battlefield | TechCrunch
People get ready: applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield are now open. Submit your application by November 18 at 9pm PT to compete for free demo space at the Consumer Electronics Show, $50,000 prize and the Metal Man trophy.
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A Google Engineer Is on a USB Cable-Reviewing Spree | Motherboard
Why would anyone in their right mind spend time—any amount of time, really—reviewing USB cables on Amazon? Not as some half-assed jokey one-off, either. I’m talking numerous, dead serious reviews of off-brand charging cables.
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BBC Sport – Chris Ramsey sacked as Queens Park Rangers head coach
Queens Park Rangers manager Chris Ramsey has been sacked.
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The last 20 years of hip-hop history have been pretty dramatic. You’ve had assassinations, shifting alliances and constant battles for supremacy. Writer Lev Novak noticed this, and decided to re-imagine the world of rap as a pair of Shakespearean dr…
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FBI official: It’s America’s choice whether we want to be spied on | Ars Technica
FBI General Counsel James Baker today spoke about how encryption is making it increasingly difficult for law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance.
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Louisiana booksellers sue to block law that could make them verify ages online | The Verge
This year, a new law in Louisiana made it a crime to distribute “material harmful to minors through the Internet” without first asking users to verify that they’re 18 years old.
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Vermont senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Wednesday that would remove marijuana from the federal government’s list of the “most dangerous” drugs – a move that distinguishes the Democratic presidential hopeful from the other candidates…
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Second mistrial declared for Alabama officer who threw Indian man to ground | US news | The Guardian
Eric Parker, 27, was retried on accusations that he used unreasonable force while working as a Madison, Alabama, police officer. During his first trial in September, another jury in federal court in Huntsville, Alabama, also deadlocked, resulting in…
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HMJB While i punch this snowman on the face : holdmyjuicebox
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Teen Hackers Who Doxed CIA Chief Are Targeting More Government Officials | Motherboard
A group teenagers that call themselves “Crackas With Attitude” reminded me of those words when they were able to hack into the personal AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan.
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Watch Run the Jewels’ Cat GIF Video for ‘All Meow Life | Rolling Stone
Watch Run the Jewels’ Cat GIF-Filled Video for ‘All Meow Life’ Single appeared on duo’s cat-sound remix album ‘Meow the Jewels’
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Make a Roasting V-Rack Out of Stove Grates and Aluminum Foil
A roasting rack is essential for cooking turkeys, roasts, and other large cuts of meat all the way through. If you don’t have one in your kitchen’s arsenal, you can throw one together with some stove grates and aluminum foil.
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Netflix lets you set up a maximum of five different logins on your account. However, even if you’re the only person who uses your Netflix account, these extra user logins can still come in handy. [Gizmodo]
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Movie of the Week: “Memphis” – The New Yorker
If there were still an award category for Best Musical, Tim Sutton’s film “Memphis” (which I discuss in this clip) would have deserved it when it was released last year.
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Republicans Win Governor’s Races In Mississippi, Kentucky : NPR
Across the country Tuesday, voters cast ballots in state and local elections. Ohio voters rejected a referendum to legalize marijuana, and Republicans won governor’s races in Mississippi and Kentucky.
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A Man In Colombia Got Cancer. And It Came From A Tapeworm : Goats and Soda : NPR
In January 2013, a 41-year-old man came to a hospital in Medellin, Colombia. He was in bad shape. He’d lost weight, had a fever, a tapeworm infestation and also had trouble breathing. He had HIV but had stopped taking his medications a few months be…
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How Much It Actually Costs to Be in a Long Distance Relationship
I’ve been in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend for close to three years. We were basically inseparable all through college, but when graduation rolled around, we were both offered amazing opportunities—on opposite sides of the world.
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Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud js – Just Space
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Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Is Endlessly Likable and Remarkably Good | Vanity Fair
The antic, hyped-up, Tom Haverford-ian personality we maybe most closely associate with the comic Aziz Ansari—a genial, good-times guy who mines millennial culture for its amiable silliness—perhaps belies a more thoughtful soul.
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Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to legalize recreational marijuana | The Verge
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (D-VT) introduced a Senate bill today that would legalize recreational marijuana use on a federal level, The Hill reports. This is the first Senate bill ever to propose completely legalizing recreational marijuana.
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California man has tapeworm removed from his brain in life-saving surgery | US news | The Guardian
When the headaches first started in late August, Luís Ortíz tried to ignore them. But after a day spent skateboarding in early September, the 26-year-old university student found the pain had become too much to bear.
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When Emily Yang, a San Francisco tech worker, is running out of cat food, she taps an app called Instacart to order a new bag of kibble to be delivered to her door within hours. For dinner, she often orders through Sprig and Munchery, app-powered se…
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Everywhere, the shopping season is about to begin. Everywhere, that is, except at “the most complete retail destination in New York City, the most alluring retail landmark in the world,” as the luxury Westfield World Trade Center mall describes itse…
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Markets fall after Yellen’s comments on rate hike – BBC News
(Close): Shares fell on Wednesday after Janet Yellen, head of the Federal Reserve, announced interest rates may well rise in December. Ms Yellen made the comments while testifying before the US Congress, calling a December rate hike a “live possibil…
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Sorry, New York Times: Your Big China Story is “Old News.” | Mother Jones
On Wednesday morning, the Times reported that the world’s biggest carbon polluter, China, had recently ratcheted up the amount of coal it says it burns every year by a staggering figure—17 percent more per year than the Chinese government had previo…
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New type of auto-rooting Android adware is nearly impossible to remove | Ars Technica
Researchers have uncovered a new type of Android adware that’s virtually impossible to uninstall, exposes phones to potentially dangerous root exploits, and masquerades as one of thousands of different apps from providers such as Twitter, Facebook, …
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Track of the Day: ‘Baby Blue’ – The Atlantic
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Facebook Hits 8 Billion Daily Video Views From 500 Million Users, Up From 4B In April | TechCrunch
Facebook video viewership is growing by leaps and bounds. It now sees 8 billion average daily video views from 500 million users. That’s up from just 4 billion video views per day in April. We’ll have more info soon.
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Facebook now averages over one billion users a day | Technology | The Guardian
Facebook now averages 1.1 billion users per day, according quarterly results announced on Wednesday, which also revealed the company made more money on mobile advertising alone than the whole business took in during the same period last year.
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Myrtle Beach Sunrise by Apache Pier [2048×1365] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Chicago, see Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
One of the most talked-about movies from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Brooklyn, the ’50s-set tale of a young Irish immigrant who finds herself torn between her new life in America and the one she left behind.
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How Much It Actually Costs to Be in a Long Distance Relationship
I’ve been in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend for close to three years. We were basically inseparable all through college, but when graduation rolled around, we were both offered amazing opportunities—on opposite sides of the world.
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In 2015, in America’s fourth-largest city and one of its most diverse, backing the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance might have seemed an obvious choice. The ordinance passed May 2014 to protect against a broad range of discrimination had a noble nickn…
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Remember When Google Tried To Start Uber In May 2005? | TechCrunch
The internet is a wonderful thing. It’s a place for new and fresh ideas, forums for people to discuss them. And well, ways to find ones that had been dropped. One idea that was dropped was Google’s attempt to start what sounds a whole lot like Lyft …
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Continuing to Be Awesome, Agent Carter Adds Ken Marino to Its Cast
At some point, Agent Carter news will be disappointing. This is not one of those times. Get ready for Ken Marino, Marvel mobster. Variety reports that Marino is playing Joseph Manfredi, described by them as a “volatile leader in the Maggia crime syn…
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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15 Years Later, Few Answers in the Witman Tragic Fratricide Case – The Atlantic
On October 2, 1998, 15-year-old Zachary Witman called 911 to report finding his brother, 13-year-old Gregory, in the laundry room. Gregory was found stabbed more than 100 times, 65 times in the neck.
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Cancer cells from a tapeworm form tumors in patient with HIV | The Verge
For the first time, cancer cells originating from a common tapeworm have been found inside a patient with HIV. The cells formed into cancer-like tumors that looked nearly identical to human tumors in the patient’s body.
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The US Can’t Abandon Iranian Human Rights Activists Now | The Nation
The debate in Washington over the Iranian nuclear deal was among the toughest fights of Obama’s second term.
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Think It’s Hard Finding a Place to Live? Try Doing So With a Criminal Record | The Nation
Some 6,000 inmates serving time for drug crimes were released early from federal prisons over the weekend. One of the most pressing questions facing the newly freed is where they’ll live.
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This webcomic about a Polish girl is actually an Instagram account / Offworld
Regina, or 1995Regi, as she calls herself on Instagram, is a Polish girl who likes selfies, science fiction, and Drake.
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Apple TV Updated With A New Categories Section | TechCrunch
Apple TV’s App Store now has a Categories section, a feature which was missing at launch alongside Top Charts. The latter section rolled out on Monday, confirming that the new TV App Store is largely filled with games and other video and media appli…
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GoDaddy Reports Q3 Earnings Beat On Revenue of $411M, Stock Jumps 7% | TechCrunch
GoDaddy just released its Q3 2015 earnings report, showing GAAP revenue of $411 million and a loss of $.08 per share. The street expected the company to report a loss of $.
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Most black millennials—including me—have experience with police violence
The report also indicates that less than half of all black millennials trust police, and while the majority do believe that police are in neighborhoods to protect community members, they report believing so at much lower rates than millennials of ot…
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Twitter Launches A Political Transparency Page | TechCrunch
Twitter rolled out new page policy.twitter.com aimed at disclosing where the company stands on critical policy issues to users and Twitter’s political endeavors – including donations and Twitters’ PAC involvement.
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A Second Chance for Nonviolent Drug Offenders | Al Jazeera America
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rudolph Norris is the first to admit that he was caught up in the crack epidemic of the late ’80s and early ’90s. But it wasn’t an addiction to drugs that landed him behind bars.
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‘Droid Tales’ Speeds Through ‘Star Wars’ Story, Lego Style
This week, “Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales” wrapped up its madcap five-episode race through the “Star Wars” story, as told from the perspectives of those lovable droids R2-D2 and C-3PO. The finale, which aired on Disney XD Monday (Nov.
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Facebook reports jump in profits – BBC News
Facebook has reported a spike in profits in the third quarter on the back of increased advertising sales. The social media company reported net income was up 11% to $891m (£579m) for the period between July and September compared with $806m last yea…
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State Department Rejects TransCanada’s Request To Suspend Keystone XL’s Review | ThinkProgress
The State Department has turned down a request by Canadian oil company TransCanada to temporarily halt the review process for the Keystone XL pipeline, welcome news to environmental groups who are pushing for President Obama to reject the pipeline w…
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Edward Snowden attacks Tories over investigatory powers bill | World news | The Guardian
Edward Snowden has outlined his opposition to the British government’s investigatory powers bill, arguing that Conservative politicians were “taking notes on how to defend the indefensible”.
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US denies TransCanada request to delay Keystone XL review | Environment | The Guardian
The United States has formally denied a TransCanada Corp request to pause the US review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a State Department spokesman said on Wednesday. John Kirby told a briefing there was no legal requirement to pause the Keys…
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Kickstarter surpasses $2 billion in pledges | The Verge
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter today announced that more than $2 billion has been pledged toward projects as of October 11th. It took the company, founded in 2009, nearly five years to hit the first billion dollars pledged, while the second took …
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Bomb may have hit Russia airliner – US – 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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Mexico Court Rules Pot Use Is Constitutional Right | Al Jazeera America
Smoking marijuana is a basic human right.
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BBC Sport – Bayern Munich 5-1 Arsenal
Forwards Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will miss the Gunners’ Group F return in Bavaria with injuries that keep them out until late November.
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Scott Wallace: Progressive Champion For The Common Person
Scott Wallace, Co-Chair of the Wallace Global Fund, accepted the “Progressive Champion” award at the annual 2015 Awards Gala Celebrating America’s Future with a thought-provoking speech honoring his grandfather Henry Wallace.
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BBC Sport – Chelsea 2-1 Dynamo Kiev
Chelsea striker Radamel Falcao will miss Wednesday’s Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev through injury. Blues boss Jose Mourinho said the on-loan Monaco player suffered a “muscular injury” in Tuesday’s training session and would be out for a…
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Pew’s Study on Work-Life Balance for Families With Two Parents – The Atlantic
The first thing to note about families with two parents working full-time is that having two incomes is pretty sweet, financially speaking. These families take in an average of $102,400 annually, according to a Pew survey of two-parent households re…
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Lost Disney short was just discovered in British film archive · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If you were looking for a long-lost Disney short film featuring the proto-Mickey Mouse, the British Film Institute National Archive might not be the first place you’d look. You’d probably want to question one of these weirdos first.
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Here Is a Real Skunk Doing a Real Handstand – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Most TV networks don’t really have the cred to justify a dramatic nine-minute trailer promoting their new shows, but Viceland isn’t like most networks.
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When you suck at parkour but you remember you haven’t broken any bones. – GIF on Imgur
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Federal Trade Commission cracks down on ‘bully’ debt collectors | Business | The Guardian
The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on debt collectors that “bullied, intimidated or scared” consumers into paying debts they didn’t owe or had already paid off, Illinois’ state attorney general said on Wednesday.
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“Clue to the Huge Mystery of Why Today’s Universe Consists Mainly of Ordinary Matter”
“The Big Bang—the beginning of the universe—produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. But that’s not the world we see today. Antimatter is extremely rare.
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Kal Penn is making a comedy about TV news for ABC | The Verge
Kal Penn is reuniting with the writers behind the Harold & Kumar series for a TV comedy that sounds like equal parts The Office and The Newsroom.
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Watch Downton Abbey’s Lady Edith Finally Tell Off Mary in New Teaser | Vanity Fair
If we had a dollar for every time Lady Mary rolled her eyes at or talked down to her unlucky-in-life sister Lady Edith in Downton Abbey’s first five seasons, we’d probably have enough money to purchase Lord Grantham’s pile and make Edith head of the…
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Nick Hornby on ‘Brooklyn,’ Taylor Swift and ‘High Fidelity’ Sequel | Rolling Stone
Nick Hornby is not a casual person. One of the most popular writers to emerge from the U.K. in the Nineties, the author exploded onto the literary scene with tales of overgrown boys whose passions metastasize into lifestyles and prevent them from be…
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Get the Kids to Bed Faster With Netflix’s New “5 Minute Favorite” Videos
If you telling your kids it’s time for bed usually leads to them pleading for “just one more episode,” Netflix’s new Dinotrux 5 Minute Favorites episodes might let you both win.
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10 Things I Hate About My Tesla
I picked up my new Tesla Model S a year and a half ago. It is a dark shade of green and affectionately named the Green Hornet. After 18,100 miles I have compiled my list of the ten things I hate most about my Tesla. Don’t get me wrong. This is a ver…
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Hear Puff Daddy’s ‘MMM’ Mixtape Featuring Wiz Khalifa, Lil Kim, Future | Rolling Stone
Puff Daddy has recruited an all-star collaborative cast – including Lil Kim, Future, Wiz Khalifa, Jadakiss, French Montana, Pusha T, Big Sean, Travis Scott, Ty Dolla Sign and the Lox – for a free mixtape, MMM, timed around his 46th birthday.
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Are francophone women unusually mediocre writers, or is the Prix Goncourt unusually sexist? Some day, one hopes, this question will no longer surface every November when the jury members for France’s top literary prize meet in the Parisian restauran…
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The Real Cost Of NASA Missions | Popular Science
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished some pretty spectacular feats of science. Our country has landed humans on the Moon six times.
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How Warren Ellis Brought the James Bond Of Ian Fleming’s Books To Comics
James Bond is back! And not just on the big screen—Britain’s most famous spy has returned to comics after decades away in today’s release of James Bond #1 by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters.
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U.K. Says Bomb Likely Brought Down Russian Plane Over Sinai : NPR
The British government announced Wednesday it fears a bomb may have caused the Russian plane flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg to break up in mid-air over the Sinai Peninsula.
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Driver Who Plowed into 2014 Comic-Con Zombie Walk Found Guilty
A San Diego court returned a guilty verdict in the felony reckless driving case against Matthew Pocci, a man who drove into a 2014 Comic-Con crowd that included participants in a zombie-themed parade. A 64-year-old woman was severely injured in the …
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Stigma Keeps Many Gay Latinos Off HIV Prevention Pill : Code Switch : NPR
Earlier this year, Victor Barillas decided to get on the HIV prevention pill called Truvada. When taken every day, the pill is nearly 100 percent effective in blocking the transmission of HIV, even through unprotected sex.
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Florida Rivals Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio Begin Tours Through New Hampshire : NPR
Jeb Bush is betting a lot on New Hampshire, so he’s spending three days on a bus tour of the state as he tries jumpstarting his campaign. Bush has been battling his protégé, Sen. Marco Rubio, in the campaign lately.
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Racial Tensions Rise In Rio De Janeiro As Economy Continues To Struggle : NPR
Amid Brazil’s economic slump, race and class tensions are playing out on Rio de Janeiro’s beaches. Online images of police and vigilantes targeting poor black youth have captured the public’s attention.
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Indian Folk Music Brought To Trinidad Looks For Fans Outside The Caribbean : NPR
We’re not talking about the jam, though Chutney does jam. It’s a kind of music from Trinidad and Tobago that blends Indian folk, brought to the island nation by indentured Indians in the 19th century, with rhythms from calypso and soca.
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Senior EU Official Asks Arab States To Help Fund Relief For Refugees : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel interviews Kristalina Georgieva, European Commission vice president and chair of the UN High Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing, about why she’s asked Arab countries to help the EU fund relief for refugees.
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U.S. Diplomats Defend U.S. Policy In Syria Before Congressional Panel : NPR
Two top State Department officials visit Capitol Hill Wednesday to explain how the US is countering Russia’s military campaign in Syria. Some analysts say the U.S. is waiting for Russia to fail.
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States To Face Challenges Enforcing Volkswagen Recall : NPR
There are nearly 500,000 diesel engine Volkswagen vehicles that will require a fix to bring them into compliance with U.S. air quality standards. It could be a challenge for states to entice reluctant owners to get their cars fixed.
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Chinese, Taiwanese Leaders To Meet In Singapore : NPR
Taiwan’s official government news agency said Tuesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping would meet Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore this weekend.
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Quentin Tarantino, At The Eye Of A Firestorm — And A Brewing Culture War : NPR
Quentin Tarantino isn’t apologizing for his comments last month about police shootings — but he is trying to explain. At a rally against police brutality in New York City, on Oct. 24, the film director provoked a storm of criticism when he referred …
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‘Boston Globe’ Owner Launches ‘Stat News’ Site Covering Life Sciences : NPR
The billionaire owner of the Boston Globe, John Henry, launched Stat Wednesday, a separate digital newsroom devoted to covering life sciences.
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Proof Of Citizenship Up In Flames After California Wildfires : NPR
When a wildfire destroys a home, it leaves people’s lives in disarray. For undocumented workers — many of whom don’t have insurance or savings — it’s even harder to recover. “We lost everything because we couldn’t salvage anything,” Patrica Madrigal…
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Physicists Probe Antimatter For Clues To How It All Began : The Two-Way : NPR
Our world is made of matter. “Everything you see and feel — your laptop, your desk, your chair — they are all ordinary matter,” says Aihong Tang, a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory. But matter has a counterpart called antimatter.
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Time, Memory And Distance May Be Linked In The Brain : Shots – Health News : NPR
At least that’s the implication of a study of rats published in the journal Neuron. It found that special brain cells that track an animal’s location also can track time and distance.
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U.S. Says Illinois School Must Give Locker Room Access To Transgender Student : NPR
A suburban high school in Chicago is the center of a debate about how to accommodate transgender students without singling them out. At issue is whether a student who identifies as female can use the girls locker room in the same fashion as other fe…
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Can Prince Charles Sway Australia Away From a Royal Divorce? – The Daily Beast
Can Prince Charles Sway Australia Away From a Royal Divorce? https://t.co/gmdSxQ2rzX
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NASA Awards Contract for Space Communication, Navigation Support | NASA
NASA Awards Contract for Space Communication, Navigation Program Support via NASA https://t.co/TBvsPHVd3N
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/2Yjj6Qk4Fj https://t.co/JAp8b7ODX8
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Watch this guy do 50 voice impersonations in 5 minutes / Boing Boing
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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Firefox Founder Writes Original Screenplay Called ‘PRICKS’ Brutally Parodying Theranos | TechCrunch
When Firefox cofounder Blake Ross last showed off his writing wits, he was imagining new adventures for the fictional Pied Piper team on HBO’s Silicon Valley.
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“Circle With Disney” Is A New Device That Helps Families Manage Online Usage And Apps | TechCrunch
Parents looking to manage their children’s internet usage and screen time have a new option with today’s launch of Circle with Disney, a hardware device that works in conjunction with an iOS application that allows moms and dads to filter web conten…
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Facebook now averages over 1 billion active users every day | The Verge
Facebook reported its third quarter earnings today, and the figure that stood out was 1.01 billion average daily users. That is up 17 percent from the same three month period last year and highlights was a massive global phenomenon the social networ…
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Following the bell, Hortonworks announced its third quarter financial performance including adjusted earnings per share of negative $0.74, and revenue of $33.1 million. Investors had expected the company to lose $0.83 per share, off revenue of $30.6…
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Motorola is opening its own ’boutique’ Moto Shop in Chicago | The Verge
Motorola is opening a retail store in its hometown of Chicago, where holiday shoppers will be able to get hands-on time with a variety of smartphones, wearables, and accessories including the Moto X, Moto 360, and Droid Turbo 2.
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A six-year-old boy in Louisiana was killed Tuesday when he was “caught in the line of fire” after police who were pursuing his father began shooting, according to the local coroner.
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Prisoners in Guantanamo not ‘too dangerous’ after all – Al Jazeera English
For more than a decade, they have been dubbed “too dangerous to release,” the Guantanamo prisoners who the US says have to be detained indefinitely. Now, the US has just decided another one of those prisoners is in fact not that dangerous.
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MIT drone taught how to swerve to avoid crashes – BBC News
Researchers in the US are teaching high-speed drones how to avoid obstacles in their flight path with very little notice. The team working on the project at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are making their algorithm open sourc…
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The newsboy Jimmy Bozart knew that the two schoolteachers who lived on the sixth floor of 3403 Foster Avenue in East Flatbush were reliable tippers: Every week, they paid him 50 cents for their Brooklyn Eagle subscription; actual cost, 35 cents.
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Hottest Red Nails | Vanity Fair
There is something so classic and bold about the color red. A red dress, a red lip, or a pair of red-soled shoes – anything red really is bound to make a lasting impression. So let’s make that statement on your nails. Here is a roundup of some our f…
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Snubbing Margaret Thatcher’s Clothes – The New Yorker
“The V&A politely declined the offer of Baroness Thatcher’s clothes, feeling that these records of Britain’s political history were best suited to another collection which would focus on their intrinsic social historical value,” a spokesperson from …
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In the years preceding the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray, more than half of young black Americans said they or someone they knew experienced harassment or violence from police, according to a new report.
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FireEye Shares Tank 14% After Hours On Sales Miss | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity and malware protection company FireEye on Wednesday reported its third quarter sales were $165.6 million, compared to the $167.13 million Wall Street expected. Despite missing on sales, the company’s losses were not as high as analysts…
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With $93 Million in Spending Money, OfferUp Quietly Becomes a Top Shopping App | TechCrunch
OfferUp, a four-year-old, Bellevue, Washington-based mobile-first marketplace that’s trying to take on stodgy – albeit stubbornly successful – Craigslist, is making a big media push right now. The reason, in part: so reporters will stop calling to a…
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Aaron Sorkin once pitched a Pixar movie about talking office supplies · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Aaron Sorkin just made a movie about Steve Jobs, but that wasn’t the first time his career found itself in the orbit of the iconic Apple co-founder.
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Ken Marino to play a mob boss on Agent Carter season 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Raising The A.V. Club’s hopes that someone might actually buy that Agent Carter/Wet Hot American Summer crossover script we wrote on spec, Variety reports that Ken Marino has joined the cast of Agent Carter season two.
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Plutos Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy… – Just Space
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Place Saint-Michel – Paris [OC 5184×3456] : CityPorn
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Cat eats our white cheddar popcorn. : cats
Cat eats our white cheddar popcorn. via /r/cats https://t.co/baKH5U0Wsk https://t.co/eAcsJLR6Lt
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The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death – Scientific American
Male Xenopsylla cheopis (oriental rat flea) engorged with blood. This flea is the primary vector of plague in most large plague epidemics in Asia, Africa, and South America. From Quanta Magazine (find original story here).
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Inside the jihadi lifestyle magazine wars — Hopes&Fears — flow “Media”
Samir Khan sat on the floor of a Charlotte, North Carolina mosque, describing his pro-al-Qaeda blog to a reporter from The New York Times. Khan was 21-years-old, living in his parents’ basement, where he continued to nurse an affinity for Islamic ex…
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It’s always interesting to see how beloved children’s products change over time, from Barbie’s wider hips to Thomas The Tank Engine’s marketing explosion.
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Can Prince Charles Sway Australia Away From a Royal Divorce? – The Daily Beast
When Prince Charles and Camilla touched down on the first leg of their Antipodean tour on Wednesday, their first event—a ceremonial welcome in the capital city—had to be cut short because of inclement unseasonal weather.
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Facebook Surpasses 1.5 Billion Users And Q3 Estimates With $4.5B Revenue | TechCrunch
Facebook’s growth continues as it hit 1.5_ billion users and beat the street’s estimates in Q3 2015 with $4.5 billion in revenue and $0.57 earnings per share. Analysts estimated Facebook would see $4.37 billion in revenue and $0.52 EPS.
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The federal government doesn’t know how to regulate Tesla’s autopilot software | The Verge
Autonomous vehicles are still years away from hitting the streets, but before they do they’ll be put through a rigorous set of tests by federal regulators to ensure they meet the government’s slowly evolving standards for road safety.
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Do more women actually own game consoles than men? It’s hard to say | The Verge
Last week, the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey on American device ownership. Much of it was intuitive. A growing number of adults have a smartphone, though there are disparities across age groups and income levels.
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Set a Passcode on Apple TV to Make Purchases Faster While Keeping Security
Entering in a massive, complicated iTunes password every time you want to buy something on an Apple TV is a pain, but disabling the password altogether isn’t exactly secure. Over on Apple Insider, they suggest setting up a passcode to retain that se…
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Canada’s Environment Minister Is Now Minister of Environment and Climate Change | Motherboard
Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was literally sworn in today, and already he’s shaking things up. His new cabinet, announced Wednesday morning, is 50 percent women. Oh, and the government’s Ministry of Environment is now the Ministry of E…
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The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah sidelined by emergency appendectomy | Culture | The Guardian
Comedy Central says The Daily Show’s host, Trevor Noah, underwent an emergency appendectomy Wednesday morning. The procedure went well and Noah was expected back on the show Thursday, the network said.
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Out from under | Local News | Detroit Metro Times
SHAKIYA ROBERTSON WAS STANDING on her front porch when a small maroon sedan heading west on East Outer Drive slowed to a crawl and parked in front of her home. A middle-aged man with blond hair and glasses got out and made his way toward her. It was…
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This story has turned into a circus after video was released. – Imgur
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Party Like It’s 1849: The Developer Tools Gold Rush | TechCrunch
That was a common axiom that permeated the venture community as recently as a few years ago. But just in the last couple of quarters, GitHub, Stripe, Twilio and Slack have all raised giant rounds, valuing each company at at least one billion dollars.
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The First Avatar Cirque du Soleil Photos Will Haunt Your Dreams
Remember Avatar? That 3D, James Cameron movie that’s still the highest grossing film of all-time yet no one talks about it? Well, last year, it was announced the masters of acrobatic spectacle at Cirque du Soleil would be turning the James Cameron f…
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Midday open thread: NASA again taking applications for astronauts; ‘Blood and Oil’ misses Bakken
While the [Russian] Soyuz will continue to ferry people to and from the International Space Station, other vessels are on course to take over some of the trips. Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are developing the CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon space…
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But the “people” the new House speaker defends are corporations. And the “Washington” he attacks is the one that does deliver for real people. For the past five years, Ryan has authored the budget passed by the House of Representatives.
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This story has turned into a circus after video was released. – Imgur
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Illinois officer who staged suicide ‘brought shame to the badge’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Lake County officials say an Illinois police officer who staged his own suicide to look like murder had brought shame on the department. Authorities now say Fox Lake police Lt Charles Gliniewicz killed himself on 1 September and tried to make it loo…
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Romania: Thousands join protests despite PM Ponta’s resignation – BBC News
Thousands have joined a march in the Romanian capital Bucharest, hours after Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned over a deadly nightclub fire. The protesters, numbering at least 10,000, are demanding early elections and further political reform.
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Iran Hardliners Trying to Kill Nuke Deal Arrest Western ‘Infiltrators’ – The Daily Beast
Over the last several days, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Unit has been arresting journalists. At least five are now in custody, taken from various print and online media outlets in Iran.
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In 2009, Steven Soderbergh unveiled an indie experimental film at the Sundance Film Festival. Called The Girlfriend Experience, the drama starred former adult-film actress Sasha Grey and centered on her character’s life as a Manhattan escort who pro…
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Last Night’s Limitless Was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Gone Wild
Dangerous super drugs, a shady black ops gig, plenty of ‘80s references… several of my boxes, checked. Last night’s Limitless showed what happened when Brian tried to take a “day off,” packing in Ferris Bueller nods in between gruesome murders.
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Especially after exams… : trippinthroughtime
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Really simple (free) teleprompting webapp that looks incredible. : InternetIsBeautiful
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There’s a lot that no one knows about Paul Ryan’s nascent tenure as speaker, from what his new roadmap for the House GOP will be to how long the party’s conservative wing will give him a break. But one thing that’s certain is there won’t be immigrat…
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Antibody-antibiotic superdrug triumphs over MRSA superbug in mice | Ars Technica
By latching onto bacteria and detonating at just the right moment, a new drug could help take out the leading cause of bacterial infections in humans worldwide.
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VW emissions scandal still obscured by a cloud | Business | The Guardian
The surprise is that Volkswagen’s shares fell only 10% as the cheating affair deepened in several ways. First, the scandal now covers emissions of carbon dioxide, or CO2, not only nitrogen oxide. Second, some petrol engines are now involved.
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Strong forces make antimatter stick – BBC News
Physicists have shed new light on one of the greatest mysteries in science: Why the Universe consists primarily of matter and not antimatter. Antimatter is a shadowy mirror image of the ordinary matter we are familiar with.
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Just after I published my first novel in Guatemala, in 2003, I had a beer with the Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya, who was living there at the time. We met at an old bar called El Establo.
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If you’re scrolling through the channels tonight and see the correspondents on The Daily Show discussing yesterday’s news, don’t panic. Superman has not turned back time by flying around the Earth really, really fast. Trevor Noah just almost died.
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Marianne Faithfull’s Secret Life|Dangerous Minds
It’s tempting to call A Secret Life, Marianne Faithfull and Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti’s lushly orchestrated and emotional 1995 collaboration a “lost” album but frankly, I don’t think it was ever really “found” in the first place.
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Vape Regulation Is Coming, and It Just Might Kill the Industry | Motherboard
The vaping industry in America is on a precipice, staring down a fast-approaching but uncertain future.
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It was always going to end up this way. When Spike Jonze’s Her presented a love story between a lovesick Joaquin Phoenix and a really fancy operating system, an important boundary had been crossed.
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Quarterback Colin Kaepernick officially benched by 49ers coach Jim Tomsula | Sport | The Guardian
The San Francisco 49ers have officially made the change at quarterback from Colin Kaepernick to Blaine Gabbert. Coach Jim Tomsula announced the switch Wednesday as he looks to spark his struggling offense heading into Sunday’s game against Atlanta.
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In the New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann writes about “the Southernization of American politics”. In 1865, the United States won the Civil War against the South, but the current US has been significantly shaped by the ideals, politics, and values of the S…
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Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia – The Daily Beast
The Pentagon was tipped off in 2011 by a longtime Army contractor that Russian computer programmers were helping to write computer software for sensitive U.S.
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Exclusive: A Rare Frank Sinatra Song Gets Unearthed – The Daily Beast
Had he survived the cold, music legend Frank Sinatra would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. But there’s still some of his stuff almost no one in the world has heard—so all of that is coming out in a new compilation this month.
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Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveils a new bill aimed at stopping future production of oil and other fossil fuels on US land. Sanders made the announcement along with the bill’s author, Senator Jeff Merkley.
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These Teams Earned The Most From The Military’s “Paid Patriotism”
Senate investigators report that the Department of Defense has spent more than $9 million over the last four years on military tributes at sporting events, carefully staged patriotic displays meant to drum up goodwill and recruiting that weren’t pub…
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Le Petit Chef – Bouillabaisse on Vimeo
The world’s smallest chef cooks a typical fish dish, ‘Bouillabaisse’… Bon appétit! http://www.skullmapping.com / skullmapping@gmail.com
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BALTIMORE—After an exhaustive review of financial records from the present back to the cuneiform ledgers of ancient Mesopotamia, economists at Johns Hopkins University released a report Wednesday indicating that human civilization is still many year…
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Facebook’s Notify news app reportedly launching next week | The Verge
Facebook’s upcoming news app Notify may finally be ready to make its debut. The Financial Times reports that the social network’s new standalone app for receiving real-time news updates will launch next week.
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Video Games Can Help You Endure Pain
Pain relief isn’t just a physical thing; distracting yourself can help you get through a painful experience. We’ve already seen that kids who watch cartoons don’t feel as much pain when they get a shot. It turns out that playing a game works even be…
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Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Seductive ‘Girlfriend Experience’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
Steven Soderbergh has always been clear that his retirement from directing features was not going to be a complete withdrawal from filmmaking altogether.
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Justin Bieber and Drake ‘Do It for Toronto’ at 2011 MMVA | Rolling Stone
Flashback: Justin Bieber and Drake ‘Do It for Toronto’ at 2011 MMVA Plus, the younger Canadian flirts a little with now former girlfriend Selena Gomez
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Remembering Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground’s Pioneering Producer | Rolling Stone
The Velvet Underground rarely played offices, but Lou Reed and John Cale made at least one exception about 50 years ago.
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7 Things We Want In The New Star Trek TV Show
Yes, it’s finally happening: We’re getting a new Star Trek TV show for the first time in over a decade. Since this week’s announcement, Trek fans all over the world have been speculating and sharing their desires for the series—here’s just 7 things …
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See Banks Sing Among Writhing Nudes in ‘Better’ Video | Rolling Stone
Banks sings a lilting melody, pleading that she can “love you better than she,” amid a chorus of eerie background vocals and crashing synths in “Better,” the first new song she’s released since her 2014 debut Goddess.
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Went in for a phone, came out with a toothpick. : AdviceAnimals
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Room for debate on the UK’s rising population | Letters | World news | The Guardian
Zoe Williams puts forward an extraordinary argument (There’s plenty more space for humanity on this ‘tiny’ island, 2 November). She suggests that because “only” 10.6% of England’s land area is urbanised there is room for a great many more people tha…
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Mark Hogancamp woke up one day in terrible pain in an unfamiliar room. His memory was gone. He looked up at the ceiling and tried to piece together what had happened. He knew it was 1984, he was in the navy and that this was Ibiza, but that was all …
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Marco Rubio’s Immigration Reversal Is Complete: He Promises To Deport Dreamers | ThinkProgress
A long, long time ago, Republican presidential hopeful Sen.
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Foggy fiction and the lure of the avocado | Letters | Books | The Guardian
It’s surprising, after your delightful feature on how London fog has “seeped into fiction” (Beyond the pall, Review, 31 October), that no one has mentioned Margery Allingham’s superb 1952 novel, The Tiger in the Smoke.
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iTunes Terms & Conditions Adapted into a Graphic Novel: Read It Free Online | Open Culture
In the past, we’ve brought you the creative work of R. Sikoryak. An illustrator who teaches at the Parsons School of Design in NYC, Sikoryak has a penchant for creating comic book adaptations of literary classics.
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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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Now that Guinness is to be made without isinglass (Pass notes No 3,575: Guinness, G2, 4 November) I may start drinking it.
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David Lynch wants transcendental meditation to be more than a luxury fad | US news | The Guardian
Katy Perry says it helps with her jetlag, Rupert Murdoch gave it a try after “everyone” recommended it to him, and some of the Beatles’ best and trippiest photos and comments are associated with their embracing of the practice.
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Mysterious Dark Matter May Not Always Have Been Dark
Lawrence Livermore scientists have devised a new model of dark matter. It identifies it as naturally “stealthy” today, but would have been easy to see via interactions with ordinary matter in the extremely high-temperature plasma conditions that per…
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NEW BRITAIN, CT—Explaining that the article did not meet the publication’s high standards, the editors of The Recorder, Central Connecticut State University’s student newspaper, confirmed Wednesday that the inaccuracy of every single detail forced t…
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Why ‘Punk Archeologists’ Are Heading to North Dakota | Motherboard
Archaeologists often find themselves studying cultures from a long time ago, at dig sites far away. But in North Dakota, one team of “punk archaeologists,” as they call themselves, is busy with something happening almost literally in their own backy…
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There was a lot of good news for progressives that you may have missed on Tuesday night
This isn’t about cherry-picking good news or ignoring bad news. Rather, it’s about calling attention to important developments that simply aren’t getting as much play as they ought to. So here are some key results you may not have learned about yet:
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Meth labs per county in USA. [720×1280] : MapPorn
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Elite Liberal-Arts Colleges Aren’t Producing the Highest-Earning Elites – The Atlantic
Last month, President Obama unleashed a barrage of data on U.S. higher education and its outcomes in the form of the Education Department’s College Scorecard. The data isn’t meant to be used as a ranking system, but something that prospective studen…
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Rail-Launched Super Strypi Rocket Packed with Cubesats Fails in Debut
The U.S. Air Force’s rail-launched Super Strypi rocket lifted off from Hawaii about 9:45 p.m. local time, roared toward the sky and failed less than a minute into the long-awaited flight.Credit: U.S.
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How Fine Dining ‘Burnt’ Out – The Atlantic
The classic chef’s outfit, passed down from the French masters of the 19th century, consists of a coat of thick cotton, double-breasted and secured with cloth-covered buttons, a hat (toque) that roughly resembles a piece of rigid rigatoni, and acces…
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It’s time to meet The Muppets’ new showrunner · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As chronicled in the first six episodes of ABC’s The Muppets, running a television series can be harmful to romantic relationships, healthy eating habits, and senses of right, wrong, and when to enlist Josh Groban in your post-breakup manipulation t…
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Earlier today, singer/producer Santigold went on Zane Lowe’s show on Apple’s Beats 1 Radio and announced the existence of her long-anticipated third record titled 99¢.
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Most Black Millennials Know Cop Harassment Victim | Al Jazeera America
More than half of black millennials have either experienced police violence or harassment, or know someone who has, but they are more optimistic about the possibility of political change than their non-black peers, a study said on Wednesday.
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Does U.K. Know Something About Russian Jet That U.S. Doesn’t? – The Daily Beast
British authorities, apparently acting on their own initiative, have decided to send their own aviation security experts to the airport at Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh to “assess” the level of security. As a result, flights carrying British tourists to t…
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NEW YORK—Referring to the two months of contracted labor as an “opportunity,” online media company RazerWire posted a temporary graphic design freelance gig in the “Careers” section of its website, sources confirmed Wednesday.
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Migrant crisis: New footage shows refugee unrest at UK base in Cyprus – BBC News
Footage has been sent to the BBC from the people being held at a British military base in Cyprus. The asylum seekers, mostly from Syria and Lebanon, say they are all desperate to leave for Europe.
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How to Find the Best Woodworking Plans Online for Any Project
Woodworking is a skill that you can take as far as you want. The more you learn, the more complex projects you’ll be able to tackle. But no matter your skill level, your project can always benefit from plans someone else has made. Here’s how to find…
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A Bread Baker’s Guide to Flours | Lucky Peach
At its heart, bread baking is the art of turning dry, relatively flavorless ground grain—flour—into a delicious food with great complexity and variety. There are many tricks to the bread baker’s art, but no escaping the fact that it all begins with …
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Decorating wood with electricity : woahdude
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Recently got a new kitten. She loves our fat boy. : cats
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The Absolutely Terrible Muppets Reboot Is Already Being Rebooted
It wasn’t at all a secret that ABC’s new Muppet show isn’t, well, good. In fact it’s terrible. The good news is that it looks like the network has plans to try to fix it. Showrunner and executive producer Bob Kushell is gone.
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2016 Presidential Candidates Health, Ages, and Likelihood of Death
Morbid? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely. Before Harry S. Truman authorized the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was FDR’s veep. Lyndon Johnson escalated the conflict in Vietnam, with disastrous consequences, following the assassination of JFK.
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Two New Movies about Why the Powerful Are Trying to Kill Journalism | The Nation
Ted Cruz holds professional journalists in such contempt that, in the aftermath of CNBC’s Republican debate, he says future debates should be moderated instead by “real journalists”—like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Marc Levin.
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Joseph Ganim: Convicted Felon and Connecticut’s Comeback Kid – The Atlantic
The most irresistible storyline in politics is the comeback. Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 six years after California voters rejected his bid to be governor.
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Papua New Guinea suffering domestic violence ’emergency’ – BBC News
The government of Papua New Guinea needs to do more to stop “emergency” levels of family violence, campaigning group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. It says officials often ignore the fact that women across the country endure brutal attacks from thei…
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MPAA shuts down major torrent sites, including Popcorn Time | Ars Technica
The site that provides much of the content for illegal movies shown on the “Popcorn Time” app, PopcornTime.io, has been shut down after the Motion Picture Association of America won court orders in Canada and New Zealand.
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Eminem Partners With Genius, Alex And Drew Rap Battle The News | TechCrunch
Today, Eminem announced that he’d be investing in and partnering with lyric-annotation site Genius. It’s kind of a match made in heaven, seeing as Eminem’s lyrics are constantly scrutinized. Coming up we would always obsess over the lyrics from our …
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Colour Me Fun Run | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Colour Me Fun Run by Howie44…
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No bones about it: Climate change could wreck your sex life | Grist
Data suggests that China emitted hundreds of millions of additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.
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Diamonds Might Not Be As Rare As Once Thought – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
According to new research, the process by which the earth creates diamonds might be more common than we thought, though many of the resultant gems are microscopic and immaterial to humans. What do you think?
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The Logic Behind Activision Blizzard’s $6 Billion Purchase of Candy Crush’s Creator – The Atlantic
The fact that Activision Blizzard bought Candy Crush creator King Digital startled people less than the sheer size of the deal: $5.9 billion. As many noted, that’s almost $2 billion more than Disney paid for either Marvel or Lucasfilm. It’s more tha…
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UK suspends flights from Sinai over bomb risk concerns – Al Jazeera English
Britain has said it is concerned that a Russian airliner that crashed in Sinai may have been brought down by a bomb, prompting it to temporarily suspend flights from Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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This App Would Let Dissidents Share Video When Governments Shut Off the Internet | Motherboard
Imagine that you’re an anti-government protestor living in a country with an oppressive government, and shit has just hit the fan.
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US fines Deutsche Bank $258M for working with Iran – BBC News
The bank will pay penalties to the New York State Department of Financial Services and the Federal Reserve. Employees who worked on the illegal transactions must not work with the bank again, the Federal Reserve said.
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Allison Williams to star in Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Viewers who found the character of Marnie on Girls to be irredeemably irritating might finally have their chance—sort of—to see her die a painful onscreen death: Deadline reports that Allison Williams has been cast in Jordan Peele’s new horror movie…
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Merkley and Sanders introduce bill to end new and non-producing oil and gas leases on public lands
Behind the legislation is a simple message: When the common good depends on our adapting to and ameliorating the impacts of climate change, it makes no sense for public land meant for that common good to continue as a source of the fuels that are dr…
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Watch Mike Tyson Talk Meeting Tupac Shakur for First Time | Rolling Stone
Mike Tyson detailed the genesis of his friendship with Tupac Shakur in a new interview with DJ Whoo Kid. The last time the boxer saw the rapper, it was September 7th, 1996 prior to his boxing match in Las Vegas; hours later, Shakur was shot. He died…
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Evernote on iOS Now Lets You Sketch or Hand Write in Notes
iPhone/iPad: Ever wish you could just make a quick sketch or handwritten note in Evernote? Your wish has come true today, at least on iOS. Update to the latest version of Evernote for iOS and you’ll see a new pen icon when you create a note.
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The Senate Just Voted To Overturn The EPA’s Clean Water Rule | ThinkProgress
Almost immediately after failing to pass a bill that would have required the EPA to rewrite its Waters of the United States rule, the Senate voted to advance a measure that would block the rule entirely under the Congressional Review Act. The resolu…
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Short a ship, the Navy tells Congress of “carrier gap” | Ars Technica
The aircraft carrier “is at the very core of our maritime strategy,” US Navy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Sean Stackley told the House Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee on Tuesday.
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How to Watch the 2015 CMA Awards Live Online – The Daily Beast
The 49th annual Country Music Association Awards will air tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET on the ABC network, live from the Brookstone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Vera Joins Forces With Dropbox And Okta On Secure File Sharing | TechCrunch
Vera, a secure file transfer company announced an agreement today with Dropbox and Okta to offer customers a way to transfer Dropbox files in a secure fashion from end to end.
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China might be an even bigger coal user than previously reported | Grist
Data suggests that China emitted hundreds of millions of additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull are expected to be more cooperative on climate action than their obstructionist predecessors.
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Watch and learn what “organic” actually tells you about food and sustainability | Grist
Data suggests that China emitted hundreds of millions of additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull are expected to be more cooperative on climate action than their obstructionist predecessors.
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Kenyan officials accused of buying sex toys on expenses – BBC News
The items appeared on a list of expenditure that parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC), chaired by Mr Gumbo, was looking into. Kenya’s Ministry of Devolution is alleged to have bought a series of goods at inflated prices.
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Two rampage killer attacks today in California. Great job, America. / Boing Boing
One attack took place at the University of California Merced campus: 5 stabbed, suspect commits suicide by cop. Another attack in San Diego, in a mixed residential and business area north of the city core known as Banker’s Hill.
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The de Blasio Diaries, Chapter 47: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em . . . Tweet ‘Em | Vanity Fair
So I was out on my morning walk on Saturday, and I came across a small child, wearing a Mets hat, who was holding hands with her father as they waited at the crosswalk on Flatbush and Sixth Ave.
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‘Hero’ police officer stole thousands of dollars and faked his murder
After Lt. Joe Gliniewicz died from a gunshot wound suffered in a marsh in Fox Lake, Illinois, he became an avatar of a burgeoning “Police Lives Matter” movement, which seems to place itself in ideological opposition to the “Black Lives Matter” movem…
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Marco Rubio on the defensive as his personal finances face renewed scrutiny | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Wednesday tried to dismiss attacks on his personal finances as “discredited” as opponents on both left and right cast new doubts over his use of an official Republican party credit card.
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A company called EnChroma has built a pair of glasses that claims to restore color vision for the colorblind. But it’s not the first instance in which a piece of technology has made this bold assertion, and the science behind color perception isn’t …
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Inside the weird business of ’90s cult TV reboots – The Washington Post
“Gilmore Girls,” the WB dramedy following a witty mom-daughter duo in small-town Connecticut, was never close to a TV smash. At its peak, in 2002, the seven-season series ranked 121st in U.S. viewership, behind Fox’s “Temptation Island.”
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As co-founder and CEO of on-demand cleaning startup Hassle, Alex Depledge is not only one of the more successful founders in London’s current startup scene but is also one of the most outspoken.
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Did the 2015 Elections Put Common Core and School Funding At Risk? – The Atlantic
Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core, but with a new Republican governor elected Tuesday—who opposes the standards for English language arts and math—that pioneering legacy could be upended.
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The fatal shooting of a police lieutenant made national news and brought a stretch of Northern Illinois to a tense standstill with roadblocks, thudding helicopters and officers tramping through woods, farms and backyards, searching for the killers. …
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In just two decades, Asian-American support for the Democratic presidential candidate more than doubled, from the 31 percent Bill Clinton got in 1992 to the 73 percent cast for President Obama in 2012, according to exit polls.
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New leaders in Canada and Australia offer new hope for Paris climate talks | Grist
Justin Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull are expected to be more cooperative on climate action than their obstructionist predecessors. These are the rules that an “organic” label guarantees farmers will follow. What exactly are the benefits? That’s where…
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Interview: Kyrgyzstan coalition nominates Sariyev as PM – Al Jazeera English
Kyrgyzstan’s new coalition government has nominated Temir Sariyev as prime minister, according to coalition deputy Chynybay Tursunbekov. The agreement on Wednesday ends almost a month of political wrangling following the country’s October 4 election.
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With one year to go before the 2016 general election, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discussed gun violence on Tuesday in Iowa. Clinton said gun laws needed to be changed, and that she would make it a central theme in her 2016 pre…
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My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon’s Bizarre New Bookstore | The New Republic
Amazon’s new brick and mortar bookstore is wildly banal. The only thing it disrupts is foot traffic heading toward a Restoration Hardware. So why does it exist?
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Apple TV Made Talking to My TV Seem Totally Normal | Motherboard
Apple TV is back, and this time you can talk to it.
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Warsaw has come a long way (Poland) [1366×911] : CityPorn
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Paperlesspost landing page : InternetIsBeautiful
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Floridians Protest Ben Carson’s ‘Hate And Bigotry’ | ThinkProgress
SARASOTA, FLORIDA — More than 650 people, mostly of them white and elderly, lined up along Sarasota’s upscale main street, waiting for their moment to shake the hand of GOP frontrunner Dr. Ben Carson and get his signature on his new book A More Perf…
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Why Underage Models Need Protection At A Federal Level | ThinkProgress
Washington, D.C., a city not exactly known for its sense or understanding of style, is facing a decision that could impact the fashion industry nationwide. On Monday, Rep.
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Object-Oriented Programming Explained with a Role-Playing Game Example
Object-oriented programming (or OOP) is an abstract concept, often hard to grasp when you’re new to programming.
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Aide says Erdogan may push for constitutional change – Al Jazeera English
Turkey could hold a referendum on constitutional changes for a new political system, reviving a highly contentious push to increase the powers of the president, an aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
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Are Liberals Losing the Culture Wars? – The Atlantic
In Tuesday’s elections, voters rejected recreational marijuana, transgender rights, and illegal-immigrant sanctuaries; they reacted equivocally to gun-control arguments; and they handed a surprise victory to a Republican gubernatorial candidate who …
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Why Parents Shouldn’t Feel Guilt About Their Kids’ Screen Time – The Atlantic
Tune into the conversation about kids and screen time, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that before the invention of the iPhone, parents spent every waking moment engaging their kids in deep conversation, undertaking creatively expressive arts-and…
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Sun ‘Hocks A Loogie’ And ‘Sneezes’ Plasma During 2 Flare-Ups | Video
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It’s Shocking How Relevant This 150-Year-Old Denunciation of American Racism Is Today | The Nation
Exactly 150 years ago this week, just a few months after its founding, The Nation published a scathing article denouncing the racism endemic in the United States, including in the North, immediately after the Civil War.
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Got the Right Stuff? NASA Is Recruiting New Astronauts
Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, STS-115 mission specialist, waves at the camera during a space walk. NASA will be seeking applications for astronauts starting in December.Credit: NASA/JPL View full size image Calling all aspiring astronauts: NASA announ…
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Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Team Spent $4132.60 On Pizza During Q3
Hillary Clinton may have raised more than $28 million last quarter, but the staffers running her campaign aren’t eating fancy fare. In fact, Clinton’s White House bid is largely fueled by pizza.
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RANKED: The Teams With The Drunkest Fans In The NFL [MAP] | VinePair
While some NFL fans are known to be rowdier than others, no one ever took it upon themselves to quantify the levels of intoxication around the league…until now. We reached out to the folks at BACtrack — who make personal smartphone-linked breathalyz…
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Einstein’s Biggest Triumph: A Century of General Relativity
A partial map of the distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, going out to a distance of 7 billion light years.
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National Grid in urgent call for companies to reduce electricity usage | Business | The Guardian
National Grid has for the first time used “last resort” emergency powers to tell companies to reduce their electricity usage in an effort to avoid the risk of blackouts.
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NewsON Brings Your Local News Stations To iOS, Android And Roku | TechCrunch
A company called NewsON launched today, offering cord cutters and mobile consumers access to local news with an app that works on iOS, Android, and Roku devices. The service, which is financially backed by a cohort of TV stations, claims to offer lo…
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Samsung announces its first 4K laptop, the ATIV Book 9 Pro | The Verge
It may have taken longer than you’d expect from a company that produces screens seemingly in every size, but Samsung has finally announced its first laptop with a 4K display. The ATIV Book 9 Pro is Samsung’s latest addition to its ATIV line of high-…
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Napster is bringing its streaming music service back to Canada | The Verge
After being acquired by Rhapsody in 2011, Napster — by then offering a legally legitimate streaming music service — folded into its new owner and quietly shut down streaming operations in Canada.
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Deutsche Bank fined $258m for violating US sanctions | Business | The Guardian
German banking giant Deutsche Bank will pay $258m in fines for doing business with US-sanctioned countries like Iran and Syria, US regulators said Wednesday. Deutsche Bank will pay $200m to the NYDFS and $58m to the Federal Reserve.
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On American Horror Story, Denis O’Hare has played a pyromaniac, a tongue-less mute, and a collector with a massive penis. But Elizabeth Taylor might be his greatest role yet.
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While there will not be a fourth trailer for The Force Awakens—although director J.J. Abrams has said that a few TV spots will come down the pike—Lucasfilm kept the hype machine humming today by releasing five posters featuring new and old faces fro…
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Against spooning: A manifesto.
Spoon no more! Why did Slate start a sleep blog? Find out here. At the end of this past summer, I dropped my partner off for a year of dissertation work in Spain.
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Details about Shane Carruth’s new film have been scarce, but there are a few things to share. First off, here’s what The Modern Ocean is about:
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New Apple TV wants to be more than just a streaming box (but it isn’t yet) | Ars Technica
When you update a piece of technology after leaving it essentially untouched for three years, the changes are bound to be big. That’s certainly true for the fourth-generation Apple TV, the first significant update to Apple’s “hobby” project since ea…
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Gaming on Apple TV: Decent selection, hit-and-miss controls | Ars Technica
Since the utter failure of the Apple Pippin in the mid-’90s, there’s always been a certain subset of the tech world obsessed with the idea of Apple swooping in to save the game console market from itself.
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Alfred Taubman’s $500m art trove goes under the hammer | Art and design | The Guardian
A stupendous art collection including works by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Degas, Rothko, Bacon, Dürer, and the last Raphael known in private hands, is being scattered in a series of sales in New York – at the Sotheby’s auction house once owned by…
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The Cartoon Lounge: Nakedity and Nudedness – The New Yorker
The typical New Yorker cartoon character has the good sense to keep his or her clothes on. But the classic dynamic between his and her is that sometimes those clothes come off–yes, even in New Yorker cartoons. In this Cartoon Lounge, all is revealed.
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Comedians on Acid: Hippie madness at the end of the 60s|Dangerous Minds
Last week we posted our interview with Kliph Nesteroff about his marvelous new book The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, which is now available for purchase. It’s a winner, folks.
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Researchers Used ‘FIFA 13’ to Convert Real Soccer Matches to 3D | Motherboard
A joint effort by MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute has developed a system for converting 2D video of soccer matches to 3D footage that can then be played on any device with 3D capability, including 3D TVs and Oculus Rift.
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Why ‘Banning the Box’ Is Such a Big Deal For the Formerly Incarcerated | The Nation
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people who have spent time behind bars prepare for life outside of prison. President Obama just helped ease their path back to society by removing one of the major barriers to reintegration: a common part of the j…
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In the UK, Web browsing history must now be stored for a year | Ars Technica
The UK home secretary, Theresa May, confirmed today that the UK government will seek to force all ISPs to retain a record of your Web browsing history for the previous year, even though the existence of tools like Tor and VPNs can make such data use…
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Scores Trapped in Fatal Pakistan Factory Collapse | Al Jazeera America
Rescue official Jam Sajjad Hussain said emergency teams were using heavy machinery to pull out bodies and survivors as dozens remained trapped under the rubble. Initial reports on the number of casualties put the number of dead at as many as 20.
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Former Cop Who Sexually Assaulted 13 Black Women Faces All-White Jury | ThinkProgress
The trial of Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer charged with 36 counts of rape, sexual battery and forcible oral sodomy of 13 black women, began on Tuesday. But there’s one glaring problem: there are no black women on the jury. …
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Making movies is just an incredible pain in the ass sometimes · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The men and women who work on Hollywood blockbusters may seem distant, unknowable, and perhaps even all-powerful to the average ticket buyer.
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Seven passengers were removed from a Spirit Airlines flight on Monday before it left Los Angeles, bound for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The incident appears to have started with a double-booked seat and escalated when other passengers q…
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Genentech drug adds antibiotics to proteins to fight hidden bacteria | The Verge
Scientists at Genentech have armed the body’s immune system warriors with antibiotics — which means that bacteria that hide from drugs inside cells are now targets. In a study published today in Nature, scientists linked an antibody with the antibio…
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Children are much more likely than not to grow up in a household in which their parents work, and in nearly half of all two-parent families today, both parents work full time, a sharp increase from previous decades. What hasn’t changed: the difficul…
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The presidential candidate announced his support for a new climate bill. Koert van Mensvoort’s vision of “Next Nature” doesn’t distinguish between what’s born and what’s built.
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The EPA recently called out Volkswagen’s 3-liter diesel for emitting up to nine times federal standards for nitrogen oxides, alleging that it has a “defeat device” — the same kind of cheat that had first nabbed VW with its smaller 2-liter diesels in…
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When Parenthood ended its six-season run on NBC earlier this year, it seemed like the end of an era for a familiar TV staple: the network family drama.
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Totem’s Press Page Builder Gets Automated Updates Thanks To Its New Concierge Model | TechCrunch
Here’s a product built for a very specific need: Totem creates press pages where reporters (and anyone who’s curious) can learn more about a company, find images and reach out for further information.
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Bake a Magic Cake, a Cake That Bakes into Three Layers on Its Own
A “magic cake” has three layers, each with its own texture and flavor (a dense and moist base, a middle cream layer, and a light sponge top). It’s called magic because the cake divides into these layers during the baking.
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Marco Rubio can call facts ‘discredited attacks,’ but he can’t hide his credit card mess forever
Rubio’s campaign keeps telling the Tampa Bay Times that full records on Rubio’s use of a Republican Party of Florida credit card will be released, but so far we only have part of the story. Here are the key points of what we know:
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Un Architecte traces the will of one boy, Landry, to play football and the master craftsman who gives him the means to attempt that goal. Shot in Democratic Republic of Congo with the nonprofit StandProud, the story is emblematic of difficulties ove…
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It’s a Fine Line Between Historical Fact and Fiction on Manhattan
The physicists on the Hill face a crisis of leadership in their quest to build an atomic bomb on this week’s episode of Manhattan, as Robert Oppenheimer contemplates relinquishing the throne for love.
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Splits have emerged between Russia and Egypt as Cairo rejected Russian investigators’ conclusion that a Metrojet airliner had broken up in mid-air before crashing.
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VW hit by falling sales as crisis deepens – BBC News
The ever-expanding emissions crisis at VW is having a direct effect on sales. VW sales in the UK are down by more than 8% over the same period last year, I understand.
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Ukraine’s inquiry into Odessa fire ‘not independent’ – BBC News
The Council of Europe has criticised Ukrainian authorities for their investigation into a May 2014 fire in Odessa that killed more than 40 people. It said that the investigation had lacked “institutional and practical independence”.
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The Truth About Houston’s Equality Law – The Daily Beast
In their story on how voters in Houston had struck down the city’s “Equal Rights Ordinance” in Tuesday’s election, NPR said the ordinance would have “banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” This is true, but not the …
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A new Android One phone will launch in India soon | The Verge
Android One was supposed to give phone manufacturers an easy way to create good, low-cost Android phones, but after its unveiling last year, the program basically went nowhere.
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A Writer in Love With Ruins and Fragments – The New Yorker
A few pages into Robert Harbison’s “Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery,” I had to stop, catch my breath, and laugh. Harbison opens the book by reflecting on a chunk of the Pergamon frieze, which was part of a second-century B.C.
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Sinai plane crash: Bomb fears prompt Sharm flights suspension – BBC News
Flights from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh to the UK have been delayed amid concerns that the Russian jet was brought down by an “explosive device”. All flights due to leave the holiday resort for Britain this evening are affected, to allow UK experts to …
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A graphic novel about a leaf – it’s better than it sounds / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Being a fan of wordless graphic novels like Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Thomas Ott’s The Number, I was eager to experience Chinese artist Daishu Ma’s Leaf. Like those previous efforts, Leaf is rendered in met…
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A Little Bit of Water, A Lot of Impact : Feature Articles
Look at natural–color satellite images and it becomes clear that most of the water on Earth (about 97 percent) is stored in the oceans. Next you might notice some on the land: liquid water fills lakes and rivers, while frozen water blankets the pole…
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FXX’s ‘You’re the Worst’ Finds Laughs While Tackling Clinical Depression – The Atlantic
Relationship sitcoms as a subgenre usually stick to a limited number of formulaic storylines—something that You’re the Worst has dodged again and again.
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United Kingdom Suspends Flights Departing Sharm-el-Sheikh – The Atlantic
Russian and Egyptian officials say it’s too early to determine what brought down a jetliner over the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, but the United Kingdom said Wednesday it will take precautionary measures amid concerns that terrorism was involved.
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Chris Christie calls for drug addicts to receive treatment, not jail time | US news | The Guardian
New Jersey governor Chris Christie questioned why we treat drug addicts differently than cigarette smokers during an impassioned and personal speech on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.
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Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected marijuana legalization on Tuesday, delivering a defeat on state-level cannabis reform.
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Two of the victims attacked at the University of California, Merced, were taken by helicopter to hospitals for treatment, spokeswoman Lorena Anderson said. The three other victims were treated locally, she said.
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$500m art collection of Alfred Taubman for sale – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
The vast art collection of the former owner of Sotheby’s is for sale. Here’s a selection of the works estimated at half a billion dollars, collected by the man who made his money from real estate
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Volkswagen says 800,000 European cars have false CO2 emissions levels too | Ars Technica
If you thought that the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal couldn’t get any worse, you were sadly mistaken. The company is now reporting that it has found “irregularities” in the carbon dioxide emissions levels of around 800,000 cars.
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These 25 States, Cities And Counties Just Stood Up For The EPA’s Carbon Rule | ThinkProgress
The EPA now has the backing of 25 states, cities, and counties who say the risks of not implementing the Clean Power Plan are greater than the expense — if there is one — of implementing it.
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You Might Soon Be Paying Comcast $35 a Month for Unlimited Data | Motherboard
Despite receiving strong backlash, Comcast is continuing to roll out data caps in several US markets, according to DSLReports. Areas in Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Virginia will soon be affected by the limit, which is 300GB a month and begins…
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These new Star Wars: The Force Awakens posters get up close and personal | The Verge
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is just over a month away at this point, and the hype machine is going to get louder with each passing day.
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Betrayed by Their Bodies | Al Jazeera America
Ask Victor Lopez, a 17-year-old transgender male, what it was like when he got his period at the age of 8, and he’ll tell you a wrenching story about locking himself in his room for hours, crying and hiding from his family. Just getting out of bed f…
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Taco Bell exec fired after recorded assault on Uber driver / Boing Boing
Ben Golden (32) of Costa Mesa, California lost his job as a marketing executive for Taco Bell after he was recorded on video violently assaulting his Uber driver.
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HMB while I finish this race : holdmybeer
HMB while I finish this race via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/41A1sgBrV0 https://t.co/iB5cDH4tOA
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Pom Pom Bush (Montanoa bipinnatifida) [1200×900] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
Pom Pom Bush (Montanoa bipinnatifida) [1200×900] [OC] via /r/BotanicalPorn https://t.co/33lhVFWZdM https://t.co/jS65qHgkCV
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Netflix has given parents a new bedtime-enforcing tool · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Even though they have a hard time understanding that Dora The Explorer can’t actually hear them, kids can be surprisingly wily negotiators.
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Miguel Ferrer to return to Twin Peaks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
“Albert’s path is a strange and difficult one,” Special Agent Dale Cooper once observed of FBI Forensics Specialist Albert Rosenfield.
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December US rate rise ‘a possibility’ – BBC News
A rise in US interest rates in December is “a live possibility”, Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve has told a Congressional committee.The US central bank holds a policy meeting in December, at which it could decide on a long-anticipated inc…
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Volcano leaves tourists stranded at Indonesia airports – Al Jazeera English
Thousands of tourists are stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of three airports, and blanketed villages and farmlands.
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It’s an exciting time for short animated films. In addition to the ones churned out by Pixar and Disney and attached to their movies, there’s also an explosion of creative voices bringing their animations to audiences via the web. Some, like Tokyo C…
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SF Bay area: Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, Friday at Muir Beach / Boing Boing
Of course you remember the 5th of November! Friday night, around 6pm, the folks from the Pelican Inn will start their fire. Join our former colonist oppressors as they descend on Muir Beach to burn a freedom fighter in effigy! I saw a movie about it…
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Owen Taylor gently blows on tiny lettuce seeds from the Syrian region of Homs, sending fluff flying through their air and into a dust on his skin, as though he’d just emerged from a pillow fight. But the tiny seeds are still far from clean.
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Five books to fire my passion for science | Children’s books | The Guardian
Here’s my confession.
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Jeb Bush grouses that CNBC didn’t ask him the questions he had ‘prepared for’
Everything continues to be fine. Go about your business. Jeb Bush is, of course, still unhappy about the CNBC debate. He blames the moderators.
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Heathrow airport has said that a new runway will not increase the number of cars on the roads or make air pollution any worse than in central London, because public transport access to the airport will be greatly improved.
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In This Trippy Short Film, a Man Meets Every Possible Future Version of Himself
In Therefore I Am, the McCoubrey brothers create a compelling time travel mystery in just six minutes. It leaves you with questions, BUT in a good way.
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Even Star Wars Stars Can‘t Resist Playing with Toy Lightsabers | Vanity Fair
John Boyega isn’t taking any of this Star Wars stuff lightly. At the same time, the 23-year-old knows that sometimes you’ve just got to play with your Star Wars toys.
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Scenes From the Fat Jew’s Book Party — Following: How We Live Online
The author’s note at the beginning of Money, Pizza, Respect, the new book by Instagram celebrity the Fat Jew (real name Josh Ostrovsky) begins with this sentence: “Imagine going out and partying HARD.
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2015 National Geographic Photo Contest, Part II – The Atlantic
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Google Says Over 19K Organizations Are Now Testing Or Using Android For Work | TechCrunch
Google today announced that over 19,000 organizations are now either testing, deploying or using its Android for Work service. Android for Work makes it easier and safer for businesses to allow their employees to bring their own Android devices to w…
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Afghan Taliban splinter group names Mullah Rasool as leader – BBC News
A breakaway Afghan Taliban faction has appointed its own leader, underlining deep divisions in the group following the death of founder Mullah Omar.Mullah Mohammad Rasool was chosen to lead the splinter group at a meeting of fighters in western Fara…
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Thousands tweet man’s dying wish to watch Star Wars with the tag #ForceForDaniel – BBC News
On 1 September, Daniel Fleetwood, an avid Star Wars fan, was given two months to live after surgery and chemotherapy treatment failed to stop the cancer cells spreading to his lungs.
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A parking spot in Boston for sale: $650,000 / Boing Boing
If you have $650,000 you can buy a nice one-car spot at Boston’s Brimmer Street Garage. The garage is heated and has valet service. When the garage opened in 1979, spots sold for $7,900. Last month, a spot sold for $390,000. It’s a better investment…
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Love May Stink, but Love Potion is a Lie – Man Repeller
Though my intentions were never cannibalistic, I have, at least a few times, wanted to take a bite out of someone I loved. Just a chomp — like that of a puppy or a bipolar cat. I’m not alone: “Oh please don’t go,” the Wild Things said to Max, “We’ll…
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Memory-Boosting Devices Tested in Humans – Scientific American
A strategy designed to improve memory by delivering brain stimulation through implanted electrodes is undergoing trials in humans.
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Australia can have stronger economic growth, much lower greenhouse gas emissions and a better environment – without individuals needing to make major lifestyle changes – if politicians take tougher action to reduce greenhouse emissions now, ground-b…
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Turn Your Old Laptop Into a Chromebook with CloudReady
If you haven’t used a Chromebook in a while, they’ve come a long way. But you don’t need to shell out cash for a new laptop just to run Chrome OS. You can install it on nearly any laptop with an application called CloudReady.
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It’s fashionable among some conservatives to rail that there’s insufficient respect for religion in America and that religious people are marginalized, even vilified. That’s bunk. In more places and instances than not, they get special accommodation…
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Sit n spin via /r/woahdude https://t.co/e8O4Y7yrl1 https://t.co/cEKWO1IRTM
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An interacting colossus – NGC 6872 [2587 x 1387] https://t.co/nPJ4JVVmCg https://t.co/JBQwAqzW08
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The look he gives me when he takes my spot in bed. : aww
The look he gives me when he takes my spot in bed. via /r/aww https://t.co/l3WuRyBTju https://t.co/TNluw2cujk
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Stripe Hires Away Twitter’s Romain Huet To Lead Global Developer Relations | TechCrunch
At Twitter’s Flight conference, one of the stand-out portions of the keynote was an on-stage coding exercise. It lasted about a half hour and turned into a sample project that was immediately made available on Github.
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Warning From Kentucky: Managerial Democrats Can Lose to Extreme Republicans | The Nation
Democrats who think they can win simply by highlighting the extremism of Republicans—a popular notion as Dr. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and Senator Ted Cruz rank high in Republican presidential polls—would do well to consider the case of Kentucky.
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UK plutonium stockpile is ‘energy in the bank’ – BBC News
The UK is sitting on a plutonium stockpile that represents “thousands of years” of energy in the bank, according to a leading nuclear scientist.
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Why I Got an iPhone, And You Probably Should Too | Motherboard
Over the summer, after more than four years using Android, I decided to abandon ship. I loved Android, and still do, but I just couldn’t take the tradeoffs that came with it, specifically the security tradeoffs.
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Back in grade school, I got into the genre of computer games known as “graphic adventures,” narrative experiences — and often quite elaborate ones — through which the player guides the protagonist with points and clicks: games like Maniac Mansion, S…
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Bernie Sanders’ Fully Baked Pot Plan – The Daily Beast
Bernie Sanders claims to have never been a stoner, but he’s becoming one of the best friends potheads have in the nation’s capital. The presidential candidate is introducing a bill in the Senate today that would end the federal prohibition on mariju…
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Is the New Atheism Dead? | The New Republic
This week, the Pew Research Center released a major installment of its U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, an ongoing data-gathering effort to measure the religious makeup of the United States.
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Jason Kreis will be fine, but same can’t be promised for starstruck NYC FC | Football | The Guardian
For a man walking away from a club with less than one win every three games – as said club helpfully pointed out in their statement on his departure – Jason Kreis will be just fine, in MLS circles at least.
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“Long-lost” 1928 Disney animation with ‘Oswald the Lucky Rabbit’ found in BFI archives / Boing Boing
Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny’s long-lost, long-eared ancestor has been discovered in the National archive of the British Film Institute. The last known copy of the 6-minute animated short made its way to the BFI from a Soho film lab that folded.
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Eric Church Releases Surprise Album ‘Mr. Misunderstood’ | Rolling Stone
Members of Eric Church’s fan club the Church Choir were treated to a surprise yesterday afternoon, when copies of Mr. Misunderstood — a new studio album from the Chief himself, with unfussy production by Outsiders producer Jay Joyce — arrived in the…
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Bosnia’s Unending War – The New Yorker
One of the largest massacres in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century took place in the small city of Prijedor, in northern Bosnia.
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Saunas and metal rockers: Finland to launch national emojis
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland is launching a series of ‘national emojis’ that include people sweating in saunas, classic Nokia phones and heavy metal head-bangers.
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Carrie Brownstein is many things, including a member of Sleater-Kinney, star of Portlandia, and author of the book Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl. She’s also, as it turns out, an ordained minister. That came in handy at her book event last night in L…
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Why can’t Kesha just release a mixtape? | The Verge
It’s hard to think of a more heartbreaking music industry story than Kesha’s ongoing legal fight with former producer Dr. Luke. The bratty party-pop pioneer behind “Tik Tok,” “Die Young,” and “Timber” sued Dr.
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It’s been a very bad year for the saiga antelope. More than 200,000 saigas — a small, critically endangered species of antelope with a distinctive snout — died this spring — a number that’s more than half of the antelope’s entire population.
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Chicago, see Chilean coal miner drama, The 33, early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
Most of the world is already aware of the harrowing 2010 Chilean mine collapse, which trapped 33 miners 200 stories deep for nearly 10 weeks, but this month’s The 33 wants to shed new light on the tragedy by taking the audience underground.
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Ryan Reynolds should celebrate every holiday as Deadpool | The Verge
Deadpool’s trademark ability to break the fourth wall is being turned into marketing… and it’s actually, surprisingly good.
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If nothing else, Deadpool promises to be unlike the current bumper crop of risk-averse Marvel movies.
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Even for The Simpsons, it’s hard to stay fresh after 26 years. With over 579 episodes, plots get recycled, gags get repurposed, and it becomes difficult to stay on the cutting edge of various fads and trends.
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The second trailer for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi announces from the beginning that this is a serious Michael Bay movie through the use of OCR-A, the sternest of fonts.
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While in the US modest attempts have been made to curb the NSA’s powers in the wake of the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations, the UK is going the other way.
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VC Formation 8 Axes Plans For A Third Fund [Memo] | TechCrunch
We’ve heard about consolidation in the word of startups; today comes some news about a thinning of the ranks among VCs.
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The Superficiality of the Republican Commitment to Racial Justice | The New Republic
Last night in Kentucky, Matt Bevin, a Tea Party-aligned Republican who unsuccessfully attempted to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year, was elected the state’s second GOP governor since the end of the Civil Rights Movement. Conse…
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The Poseable David|Dangerous Minds
Here’s a fully poseable, articulated rendition of Michaelangelo’s “David.” At first I thought David here was life-sized and hesitated blogging about it due to the pearl clutchers and the “I’m so offended there’s a GIANT wiener in my face” crowd.
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This is mine via /r/aww https://t.co/OokXnvDXqP https://t.co/3jk4zylRYO
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Whatcha thinking bout? Stuff : cats
Whatcha thinking bout? Stuff via /r/cats https://t.co/sd8xmALSpb https://t.co/Zur2daDzBa
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How my girlfriend expects me to treat all other female specimens in the galaxy. – GIF on Imgur
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Well… it is Donald Trump. I mean, well you know. – GIF on Imgur
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My first ever attempt at painting after being inspired by Bob Ross – Imgur
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American Meteorological Society to Congress: ease off NOAA scientists | Ars Technica
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is one of three main organizations that keep track of the global temperatures (NASA and the UK’s Met Office being the others). Like the rest of them, NOAA updates its temperature record as i…
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How to Build a Robot That Will Feed You Breakfast | Motherboard
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. It’s also my least ambitious one and tends to disappear between the time I spend lingering in bed until I’m about to pee myself and getting stuck on what color socks to wear for the day. Skipping breakfast i…
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This Popular Cam Girl Site Is Making Its Models’ Accounts Easy to Hack | Motherboard
MyFreeCams.com, which describes itself as “The #1 adult webcam community,” has terrible password security, for both its users and, more importantly, its models, Motherboard has learned. The site actually undermines strong passwords created by its us…
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The Internet’s Obsessive Hunt for a Bootleg SpongeBob Movie That May Have Never Existed
A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie, a straight-to-DVD unauthorized spoof of the Nickelodeon cartoon, appeared for sale on Amazon on November 22, 2011. Sometime shortly after that, stock of the film mysteriously vanished from the site and ev…
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China Is Spewing Out Much More Pollution Than We Ever Imagined | Mother Jones
The story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, has been dramatically underreporting the amount of coal it consumes each year, it has bee…
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If you love George Orwell, never read his poems | Books | The Guardian
Name: George Orwell. Age: Born 1903; died 1950; image stuck in about 1984.
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Watch Rudimental Rehearse, Talk Band’s Evolution Before Big NYC Gig | Rolling Stone
Watch Rudimental Rehearse, Talk Band’s Evolution Before Big NYC Gig London electro-soul purveyors discusse breakthrough single, approach to live shows in exclusive behind-the-scenes video
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Set Up Multiple Netflix User Accounts for All of Your Moods
Netflix lets you set up a maximum of five different logins on your account, and this typically lets you grant access to someone else in the family or means you can keep the kids’ viewing history (and recommendations) separate from your own.
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How Much Money Should a Woman Be Paid for Egg Donation? – The Atlantic
The terminology used to describe women who sell their eggs only makes things more complicated: The medical community doesn’t call them patients; it calls them donors. And egg-donation websites regularly describe the process as the priceless gift of …
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Chronicles of Civic Engagement – The Atlantic
A motorized rickshaw in Ethiopia. In much of Asia these are known as tuk-tuks. They’re powered by two-stroke engines, as are leafblowers in the United States.
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Giant wave sends people sliding across parking lot / Boing Boing
Harald Albrigtsen shot this beautiful footage off the coast of Norway. (YouTube) No, you’re not tripping. And these aren’t CG. You’re looking at Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish captured by Florida-based photographer Aaron Ansavor who finds them on a…
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The Craziest Ways That Abortion Opponents Are Trying To Punish Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress
Thanks to a series of selectively edited videos that accuse Planned Parenthood of trafficking fetal tissue, the national women’s health organization remains embroiled in controversy.
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Colorful snails : interestingasfuck
Colorful snails via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/VMvO6682Sg https://t.co/z0L8gqP9h4
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[[PLEAS]] only open if you ARE A SPOOKY SKELLY!!@ : ledootgeneration
[[PLEAS]] only open if you ARE A SPOOKY SKELLY!!@ via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/GrdJbX8s77 https://t.co/1FtmhrdMg4
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Chapy loves his new toys! Which is your cat’s favorite toy? : cats
Chapy loves his new toys! Which is your cat’s favorite toy? via /r/cats https://t.co/FgdM38H9Vp https://t.co/YLgg2x4SBB
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Twitch’s Bob Ross marathon is the most beautiful thing the Internet has ever created | Ars Technica
I’m a Londoner, and as such, I didn’t grow up with Bob Ross. Through the power of the Internet, I had some vague low-level awareness of him. I’d seen meme pictures of the man with the ridiculous hair and funny little tree-filled paintings, and as su…
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How the Planet Will Change Without Arctic Sea Ice – Scientific American
By midcentury, the Arctic coastline and most of the Arctic Ocean will be devoid of sea ice for an additional 60 days each year, with some regions seeing closer to 100 days more of open water, according to a study released this week in the journal Na…
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Death of US policeman that sparked manhunt ruled suicide – BBC News
The death of an Illinois police officer that set off a massive manhunt in September has been ruled a suicide. Lt Charles Gliniewicz radioed to say he was chasing three suspects and was later found struck by two gunshots.
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Janet Yellen says December interest rate hike is still on the table | Business | The Guardian
Asked by New York congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, whether the risk of raising rates in December outweigh the benefits, Yellen said that the committee has made no decision yet but that December rate hike was still a “live possibility”.
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Gentleman surprised that bull doesn’t enjoy being taunted / Boing Boing
The classic Mac screensaver Flying Toasters (from the “After Dark” suite) is yours to enjoy again, complete with Toast Controls and optional monochrome. And, thanks to the glory of modern web technology, it works on any computer. [masswerk.at] You c…
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Amazing New Star Wars Posters Give Us Heroes, Villains, and Our Best Look at Leia
Were you bummed that there was only one poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens? That just changed. Star Wars social media exploded Wednesday morning with a bunch of brand new character posters featuring Finn, Rey, Kylo Ren, Han Solo and Princess Le…
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How to Understand and Enjoy Cheesesteaks | Lucky Peach
Philadelphia and cheesesteaks: two nouns synonymous in the annals of our national culinary lore. Popular history goes that sometime in the 1930s, Pat and Harry Olivieri operated a hot dog cart in South Philly, one that would soon become Pat’s King o…
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New York City’s Mail Chutes are Lovely, Ingenious and Almost Entirely Ignored | Atlas Obscura
If you have ever worked in an old building, the chances are you will have at some point walked past a small mysterious brass box . Located about halfway up the wall, it is notable for a flat length of glass leading both into and out it, disappearing…
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As ranks thin, NASA seeks to bolster its astronaut corps | Ars Technica
With its eyes set on deep space exploration, NASA will soon begin seeking applications from would-be astronauts. The space agency says it needs to bulk up its depleted roster of astronauts for missions to the International Space Station as well as i…
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Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander George Filenko, who led the two-month investigation into the 1 September death of Fox Lake police lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, said the popular officer embezzled thousands of dollars from the Fo…
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VW scandal: Germany says 98,000 Volkswagen petrol cars affected by CO2 issues – BBC News
Around 98,000 Volkswagen petrol vehicles are caught up in VW’s latest emissions scandal, Germany’s transport minister has said. That follows an admission by VW that it had found “irregularities” in carbon dioxide emissions levels that could affect 8…
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Reform Jews poised to pass resolution in support of transgender community | Society | The Guardian
The body that represents synagogues in the Reform Jewish movement – Judaism’s largest US branch – is poised to pass the most far-reaching resolution on transgender rights of any major religious organisation.
Reform Jews poised to pass resolution in support of transgender community https://t.co/hEhmKpQQyg -
Good morning. Voters in Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S., rejected a measure that would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race and a dozen other categories on Tuesday. It was one of the country’s mo…
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TechCrunch Tallinn, Meetup And Pitch-Off, November 18 | TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt London, our stupendous European conference, is coming to London, December 5-8. In the lead-up to this we’re holding a Meetup and Pitch-off in Tallinn, Estonia, on November 18 and we want you there!
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Ahmad Chalabi: A Failed Politician in a Ruined Iraq – The Atlantic
The obituaries for Ahmad Chalabi have, inevitably, focused on his role in persuading U.S. President George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq, and his contribution to the fabrication of evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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Return of the Flying Toasters / Boing Boing
The classic Mac screensaver Flying Toasters (from the “After Dark” suite) is yours to enjoy again, complete with Toast Controls and optional monochrome. And, thanks to the glory of modern web technology, it works on any computer. [masswerk.at] You c…
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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta Resigns After Nightclub Fire Protests – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, less than a week after 32 people died in a massive fire at a nightclub in Bucharest, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned from office.
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Tech Leaders Would Un-Invent Nuclear Weapons and Selfie Sticks – 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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Chicken: Not a Guilt-Free Alternative to Red Meat – The Atlantic
Americans love chicken. On a sandwich, in a nugget, or even as a bread replacement. In the past 50 to 60 years, chicken has gone from a seasonal food usually enjoyed in the summer to an ever-present one.
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Before They Created Apple, Jobs And Wozniak Hacked The Phone System | FiveThirtyEight
It’s a David and Goliath story, only David is armed with a whistle from a box of Cap’n Crunch cereal and Goliath is a telecommunications giant.
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What We’re Following Wednesday Afternoon, 11/4 – The Atlantic
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WASHINGTON—Moving a 19th-century armchair away from the mahogany-paneled wall as he rearranged his new office Wednesday, recently elected House Speaker Paul Ryan reportedly stumbled upon a half-finished escape tunnel leading out of the Speaker’s cha…
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This week we’re barely putting up with Trump on SNL · Tolerability Index · The A.V. Club
Netflix reviving the awesome Gilmore Girls for a series of movies. Finally: A TV reunion worth streaming. Leah Remini’s memoir, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood And Scientology. A.k.a. Going Clear On The Set Of King Of Queens.
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Harrison Wells Is Back and The Flash Is Damn Near Perfect Again
Yes, Tom Cavanaugh has returned to The Flash, as the Harrison Wells of Earth-2 joins the SuperSTARS in fighting Zoom. Guess what, though? People are having a hard time trusting someone ho looks exactly like the evil mastermind who murdered their lov…
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Bet you recognize this famously sampled song / Boing Boing
The high-water mark of American culture. “If that’s your best, your best won’t do.” Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was released 40 years ago.
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New podcast Codebreaker asks if tech is “evil” | Ars Technica
Apparently, I’m a terrible cryptologist. That’s what I’ve learned from the intriguing new podcast Codebreaker, which hits the Internet on Wednesday, November 4.
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China opens drone schools as demand for pilots soars – Al Jazeera English
New aviation schools are opening across China to meet a growing demand for commercial pilots to fly small, remote-controlled aircraft, or drones. It is estimated the country’s maintenance, mapping, filming and agricultural industries will need more …
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Grown-ups re-imagine kids’ monster drawings / Boing Boing
These are some of the best examples of adult artists’ re-imagining of kids’ monster drawing. Behance has a large gallery of Monster Project art.
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Hiku’s New Connected Grocery Scanner Lets You Order Groceries From Walmart And Peapod | TechCrunch
Amazon may be leading the internet-of-things market when it comes to push-button ordering via hardware devices like its Dash grocery scanner and Dash buttons, but it’s not without its competition.
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something about memories : woahdude
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When there are no more seats left in lecture : funny
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Dungeons & Dragons and the ethics of imaginary violence — Hopes&Fears — flow “Video Games”
These are questions familiar to many who have crowded around a table to play Dungeons & Dragons, the turn-based roleplaying game, created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974.
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Time Warner plans to win back cord cutters by showing fewer ads | The Verge
The broad trend in the television industry is that viewers are moving away from linear, ad-supported programming toward on demand, a la carte viewing they can pay for directly.
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Jeb Bush Gets Pretty Hot at the Gym – The New Yorker
Jeb was finishing up on the treadmill at his local Equinox when it appeared on the television: an ad for “Supergirl.” Sweat dripped down his forehead and pooled in the space between his eyebrows and the sports glasses that he always wore when he was…
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Sharm flights delayed amid bomb fears – BBC News
Flights from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh to the UK have been delayed amid concerns that the Russian jet was brought down by an “explosive device”, Downing Street says.
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Google Calendar Is Down, Feel Free To Be Late For Your Meetings | TechCrunch
Google Calendar is having issues this morning, so if you don’t know what meetings you have and where you are supposed to be, you’re not alone. As far as we can see, the outage started sometime around 8:15am Pacific this morning and Google acknowledg…
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The gloomy Arctic seed bank that’s key to future crops – BBC News
In just under a month, world leaders will gather in Paris to try to agree a new course of action to tackle climate change. One key concern is that global warming could affect food crops.
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One second on the internet / Boing Boing
Marie Kondo’s Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up became a global bestseller by advising you to get rid of everything that doesn’t bring you joy, and advising you to anthropomorphize your belongings and imagine how they feel about being owned by you.
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Anti-Trump protesters to descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance | US news | The Guardian
Hundreds of people will gather outside NBC’s headquarters in Manhattan on Wednesday to protest Donald Trump’s upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live.
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France is lifting its ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men | The Verge
Next year, France will lift a long-running ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. “Giving blood is a generous act that cannot be conditioned by sexual orientation,” said Marisol Touraine, the country’s health minister.
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Illinois cop’s death declared a suicide | Al Jazeera America
Authorities say an Illinois police officer, whose fatal shooting this summer led to a large-scale manhunt, staged his death after committing a series of criminal acts over a seven-year period.
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Your Tape Measure Case Is a Measure Itself
Tape measures are great, but the when you’re doing inside measurement, like in a window, you have to awkwardly bend the tape to get your measure. It turns out that most tape measure cases are a measure themselves. On the back of most cases, you’ll s…
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Rubio’s Says His Tax Plan Helps the Poor More Than the Rich. Here’s Why It Doesn’t. | Mother Jones
During last week’s Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio insisted that the poor benefit more from his tax plan than the rich. “The largest after-tax gains is [sic] for the people at the lower end of the tax spectrum under my plan,” the senator…
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So I look at Business Insider and see that Stanley Druckenmiller is issuing dire warnings that terrible things will happen unless the Fed hikes rates now now now. I guess this is supposed to be news.
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Ron Conway, Tencent, and Paul Graham aren’t getting their money back, and that’s the point. They’re part of today’s $3.
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Ario Smart Lamp Wants To Help You Sleep (And Wake Up) Better | TechCrunch
There are plenty of smart lighting systems out there that let you change light colors and dim with just your smartphone (or even your voice), but a freshly Kickstarted product called the Ario is a smart lighting system that works to benefit your hea…
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Just in time for the holiday season (or, really, the almost holiday season because America starts early like that), Uber is rolling out its group events service UberEVENTS.
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Bernie Sanders launches new climate plan to curb US fossil fuel extraction | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders launched a new climate campaign on Wednesday, aimed at fighting global warming by banning new coal, oil, and gas mining on public land.
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The Big Baby Experiment – Scientific American
Baby Ezra is sitting on his mother’s lap and staring at the computer screen with the amazement of someone still new to the world. The five-month-old’s eyes rest on a series of pictures: three dancing women, four black circles, then a face among rand…
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President Sisi laments Western criticism over democracy in Egypt – BBC News
Right from the get-go, Egypt’s President makes it clear he wants to set the record straight. Even as we film our introduction, he hears me say to camera that while he says he has a “roadmap for democracy,” not everyone is convinced.
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Vintage photos of NYC from the 50s to the 80s
I don’t know what is going on, but in the past few days, several sites have linked to rarely seen or recently uncovered photos of vintage New York. In no particular order: Paige Powell’s photos of 80s culture in NYC, stored in boxes under her bed un…
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Uncanny X-Men Ends With a Bang—and Finally Deals With Iceman’s Sexuality
When All-New X-Men #40 released, a major topic of discussion was the fact that a younger, time-displaced Bobby Drake, a.k.a. Iceman, came out as gay. But ever since, fans have wondered if this meant the present-day Bobby was simply in the closet, or…
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Endless Train via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/bz4xLRInRg https://t.co/yecyhKv3RS
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Raquel Welch can make soda sexy (1960s). : OldSchoolCool
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Halloween: Kitten carves pumpkin with his human : cats
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Eden On-Demand Tech Help Service Goes Exclusively B2B | TechCrunch
Eden, the YC-backed on-demand tech installation and repair service that launched in May of this year, has shifted the focus of the business to the enterprise market, serving offices with tech help as opposed to serving both businesses and individual…
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In a result that contradicted most polling, Republican Matt Bevin was easily elected the next governor of Kentucky on Tuesday, besting Attorney General Jack Conway (D) by a 52.5 percent to 43.8 percent margin (with about 30 percent voter turnout).
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Sennheiser unveils $55,000 marble-clad, valve-amp Orpheus headphones | Ars Technica
How much would you pay for a good pair of headphones? $50? $200? How about $55,000? Sennheiser, purveyor of all things high-end audio, has released an update to its legendary Orpheus headphones, which combine an electrostatic set of cans with a valv…
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Egypt’s ‘lost’ train rescued from desert after nine years – BBC News
The train was originally part of a line opened in 1999 linking Egypt’s Western Desert with a port on the Red Sea. The line, subject to shifting sands, was forced to close due to difficulties maintaining it and after thieves stole some 93 miles (150k…
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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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‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’ Entertainment Weekly Cover – Imgur
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UK government axes plans for fracking in protected nature sites | Environment | The Guardian
The government has backed down on its plan to allow fracking in some of England’s most important nature sites.
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The Week In College Football: More Than Just Bama/LSU | FiveThirtyEight
Good gosh o’mighty, what a college football season so far. It’s early November, and fans have already witnessed: Amid all this excitement, in walks the selection committee to cut the ribbon on its first iteration of this season’s College Football Pl…
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The best smartwatch for the iPhone | The Verge
If you have an iPhone, the best smartwatch for you shouldn’t be a surprise, it’s the Apple Watch. It does a better job of working with your iPhone than anything else because it’s designed by the same company that makes your iPhone.
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The best smartwatch for Android | The Verge
The Moto 360 (the 2015 edition) has the best combination of style and functionality for most people. First off, it runs Android Wear. Although smartwatches that run on other platforms are able to give you many of the basics you’ll want, only Android…
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Election Day 2015 in Review | Al Jazeera America
Liberals and conservatives woke up to big wins and disappointments on Wednesday morning, following a busy Election Day for local races and ballot initiatives. Here are the results for several key votes:
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Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canada’s second youngest prime minister ever | World news | The Guardian
Justin Trudeau has been sworn in as Canada’s prime minister, following in the footsteps of his storied father. The 43-year-old Trudeau, a former schoolteacher and a member of parliament since 2008, on Wednesday became the second youngest prime minis…
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Toronto from 50 KM Away [2048×1305] : CityPorn
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Better save these two for later. : foxes
Better save these two for later. via /r/foxes https://t.co/1Mb3WHHd1q https://t.co/UgiFqEsVK1
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User data plundering by Android and iOS apps is as rampant as you suspected | Ars Technica
Apps in both Google Play and the Apple App Store frequently send users’ highly personal information to third parties, often with little or no notice, according to recently published research that studied 110 apps.
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Will UK spy bill risk exposing people’s porn habits? – BBC News
After weeks of conflicting reports, the draft Investigatory Powers Bill has been revealed. It represents the UK government’s attempt to update and tidy up the powers the authorities have to delve into the public’s data to combat crime.
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Magic cards generated by neural networks / Boing Boing
This is almost certainly an implementation of the science described by Vice’s Brian Merchant in this article. Here’s the code, and here’s a simple text-only generator.
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This robotic finger will really push your buttons | The Verge
Connecting analog devices to the Internet of Things can be a hassle.
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When It Comes To Family Leave, Not Everyone Is As Lucky As Paul Ryan | ThinkProgress
Newly-elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) raised a few eyebrows when he warned Republicans that he wouldn’t run for Speaker unless he was able to spend weekends with his family in Wisconsin.
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NPR’s new podcast finder is like a buffet for your ears · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
There are a lot of podcasts out there, and they are of wildly divergent quality. And while The A.V. Club’s Podmass feature helps separate the wheat from the chaff, there’s always room for more thoughtful podcast chatter out there.
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California Banned Antibiotics In Livestock. Will The Rest Of The Country Follow? | ThinkProgress
In 2009, a salmonella outbreak in a California beef plant left 63 people ill. Five years later, another salmonella outbreak linked to California poultry plants infected more than 600 people.
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Agency Uncovers Widespread Anti-Transgender Discrimination In The Nation’s Capital | ThinkProgress
The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights has conducted the first government-run test of employment discrimination against transgender people. The results confirm the rampant high rates of discrimination that transgender people have documented in …
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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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Hillary Clinton ad confronts once-taboo topic of gun control – video | US news | The Guardian
The Clinton campaign on Tuesday released a new TV ad on gun control, putting the once taboo subject front and center in the Democrat’s bid for the White House.
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Is the New Cold War Trending in Russia’s Favor from Syria to Europe? | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the new US-Russian Cold War. Having just returned from Moscow, Cohen reports on several notable developments in Russia.
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Bernie Sanders will today announce his support for a new climate bill that would ban all new fossil fuel development on US federal lands and terminate current leases that aren’t producing.
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Review: The pleasant, slippery logic of Floating Points’ Elaenia | The Verge
Elaenia, the new album by UK producer Floating Points was inspired by a dream Sam Shepherd had about a migratory bird getting lost on its way to South America.
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Photographs of the ‘supreme Beatnik chick’ who inspired Patti Smith (NSFW)|Dangerous Minds
In the early 1950s, a young Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken arrived in Paris to begin his career as a photographer.
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The Hunt for Vulcan, the Planet That Wasn’t There
One hundred years ago today at the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein gave the first in a series of lectures that rewrote Newton’s laws of gravity and changed the world.
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The author of a glowingly reviewed picture book says that she has “come to understand that my book, while intended to be inclusive and truthful and hopeful, is racially insensitive”, following criticism over its images of smiling slaves.
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Humans of New York and the Cavalier Consumption of Others – The New Yorker
The most famous photograph from Brandon Stanton’s new book, “Humans of New York: Stories”—the one you have probably seen or read about or heard discussed—is of a boy in an open black bubble jacket.
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Peaceful via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/0xXrqSPhpd https://t.co/xSrh8jVFLg
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DDT Linked to Abnormal Sperm – Scientific American
Men exposed to certain banned but long-lived chemicals at high levels as teenagers are more likely to have defective sperm later in life, according a new study.
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Poll finds more women than men own game consoles / Boing Boing
According to a survey by Pew Research, 40 percent of the adults report that their home contains a videogame console: 42 percent of women and 37 percent of men. The survey confirms the general consensus that videogame popularity has substantially gro…
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Nato war games – in 90 seconds – BBC News
Nato is putting on its biggest display of military might in over a decade in Spain. The US-led alliance also want to train and exercise Nato troops and military personnel.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux to become officially supported on Azure (at last) | Ars Technica
Microsoft and Red Hat together announced that Red Hat’s software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the JBoss app server, will be fully supported on Azure.
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Greece Transfers 30 Refugees to Luxembourg Under EU Plan – The Atlantic
Thirty refugees have been sent from Greece to Luxembourg as part of the European Union’s plan to relocate 160,000 people across the bloc. Indeed, an estimated 608,000 people—nearly two-thirds of them Syrian—have crossed the Mediterranean to Greece i…
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Watch Alanis Morissette, Meghan Trainor Cluck ‘Ironic’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Alanis Morissette, Meghan Trainor Cluck ‘Ironic’ on ‘Fallon’ Fallon, Morissette, Meghan Trainor form “Jagged Little Chicks” for chicken-styled ‘Tonight Show’ performance of 1996 single
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Iranians Mark Anniversary of US Embassy Takeover | Al Jazeera America
Thousands of Iranians burned the American flag and chanted slogans Wednesday as they marked the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by students 36 years ago.
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Watch Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz Record Theatrical New Duets | Rolling Stone
Watch Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz Record Theatrical New Duets Pair team up for Bareilles’ album of songs from ‘Waitress’ musical
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Charles Kelley, Maren Morris Preview Tour at RSC Party Powered by Ram | Rolling Stone
In one of his first appearances as a solo artist, Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley headlined last night’s “Rolling Stone Country Live Nashville” event, powered by Ram, at City Winery. With help from a five-piece band, the Georgia native played songs…
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Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace Talks ‘Really Different’ New Album | Rolling Stone
Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace Talks ‘Really Different’ New Album “The last record was…really personal,” singer says.
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Into The Badlands Has Its Own Comic, and You Can Read It Right Now
AMC already hasa pretty good rep for comic bookTV shows, considering they run The Walking Dead and will soon have the intense-looking Preacher adaptation. But it turns out they can also turn their TV shows into comic books, as is the case with their…
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TEHRAN — Anyone who hoped that Iran’s nuclear agreement with the United States and other powers portended a new era of openness with the West has been jolted with a series of increasingly rude awakenings over the past few weeks.
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All those 2015 Halloween scare stories exposed / Boing Boing
The “pot-laced” candy that a man from Ohio complained about was tested by police and had no traces of drugs. The razor blade in a Hershey bar had been placed there by the kid who found it. The needle in the candy bar was the handiwork of a kid looki…
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Residents in the border town of Presidio, Texas are outraged after a mean-spirited Spanish language sign reading “Solo las familias Americanas recibiran dulces” — or “Only American families receive sweets” — appeared outside a government housing bui…
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This Odd-Nosed Antelope Is Experiencing a Mass Die-Off
On the vast steppes of Central Asia, an endangered antelope is teetering on the brink. This spring, a mysterious disease wiped out more than half of the species’ remaining population on Earth, scientists recently announced at a meeting in Uzbekistan.
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Internet Recipes Are a Starting Point, Not a Bible
Learning to cook usually starts with finding some recipes on the web and trying them out in the kitchen. That’s great, but don’t stop there. Internet recipes are a great starting point, but they have limitations.
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The MPAA Killed Another Movie Torrent Site | Motherboard
Carve another headstone for the graveyard of torrent sites: YTS and the associated torrent release group YIFY have been permanently dismantled by the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Rand Paul No Longer Most Embarrassing Thing About Kentucky – The New Yorker
FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY (The Borowitz Report)—In an improbable development that few saw coming, on Tuesday night Sen. Rand Paul lost his title as the most embarrassing thing about Kentucky. Paul’s reign as the state’s most embarrassing thing began in 20…
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Turkey’s President Gets His Majority—at a Terrible Price | The Nation
If there’s a lesson to be drawn from the November 1 Turkish elections, it’s that fear works, and there are few people better at engendering it than Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Slide Show Poetry: The Islanders Move to Brooklyn – The New Yorker
I still miss Freddy’s Backroom, the Brooklyn neighborhood dive bar that was razed to make room for the bicycle racks behind the Barclays Center. But as a hockey fan, it’s exciting to have the New York Islanders in my backyard again. I grew up on Lon…
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Google vs. Shady Advertisers – The Atlantic
How much of a responsibility does the Internet’s gatekeeper have to protect the people who pass through its doors?
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The company also disclosed it had raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $35 million in funding from Playground Global, Redpoint Ventures and Shasta Ventures. The startup didn’t want to talk exact funding details, but did put the total funding to d…
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What Happens to Grantland’s Archives? – The Atlantic
When a website is in its death throes, the preservationists at the Internet Archive don’t waste any time.
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‘GI Joe’ Gliniewicz Stole From Police Then Staged His Own Suicide – The Daily Beast
FOX LAKE, Illinois — Investigators never found the men suspected of killing Lieutenant “GI Joe” Gliniewicz. Not for lack of effort, not for lack of evidence, and not for too few tips. The men didn’t exist.
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How Room‘s Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay Bonded Over Star Wars | Vanity Fair
“Never work with animals or children,” W.C. Fields famously said, but as Brie Larson can now attest, sometimes it’s worth the risk.
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Shakespeare and Company’s New Café Was 50 Years in the Making | Vanity Fair
It’s hard to improve upon perfection, but in the early 1960s George Whitman felt that something was missing.
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Agents of SHIELD’s Latest Curveball Literally Came Out of Nowhere
Last night’s episode of Agents of SHIELD reveals its subtle theme early on, when Jemma Simmons talks about how too much therapeutic “kid gloves” treatment can make you feel weaker, not stronger. But maybe some people have a harder time getting over …
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The Assassins of Assassin’s Creed are terrible at their jobs. For nearly a thousand years they’ve been waging a guerilla war against the tyrannical Templar Order, but no matter where you look in history the Templars are on top and the Assassins are …
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Tokyo at Night [3264 x 2176][OC] : CityPorn
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Look at it. It’s got anxiety. : TrollXChromosomes
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Stray cat blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/KCu4hgVW05 https://t.co/gOp1CDVkkB
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It’s too early… via /r/cats https://t.co/IVRxVNCNVp https://t.co/Elb2hc81ll
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This bathroom pass at my school : funny
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New Insights on Ancient Mars’ Climate
New calculations suggest that vast valley networks that spider across the southern highlands of Mars may have been carved by a surprisingly small volume of water.
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The Night John Lennon & Yoko Ono Jammed with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East (1971) | Open Culture
It’s unfortunate, I think, that legions of Beatles fans turned on Yoko Ono with such ferocious animosity after the breakup of the band. Most fans still absolutely despise Yoko. (See the legion of often crudely misogynist comments under every Youtube…
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Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance | World news | The Guardian
Stingrays are one of a class of suitcase-size devices known as “cell-site simulators”, which work by pretending to be a cellphone tower in order to strip data and metadata from any phones which connect to them.
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Often too long to sell to magazines and too short to sit alone on the bookshop shelf, the novella has long been sidelined as an awkwardly impractical form of fiction.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King review – dark stories with moments of magic https://t.co/yCEdD64chn -
France has the highest rate of HIV among homosexual men in Europe. Half of those newly infected with HIV between 2003 and 2008 were men who had sex with other men, according to the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ).
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Record rainfall drenches parts of Australia – Al Jazeera English
Australia has just had its hottest October on record, and with the bushfire season fast approaching, it comes as a relief that many central and eastern parts of the country have had a good dousing of rain.
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In Colorado’s second-largest school district, residents overwhelmingly voted to recall three conservative school board members who floated a controversial proposal that the Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum be changed to “promote patriotism.
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If you live in Kentucky, you probably didn’t vote yesterday. Turnout in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election was simply dreadful. According to the state’s chief elections officer, preliminary results show that only 30.7 percent of voters actually cast a…
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Apple’s sapphire glass supplier has cut a deal to get out of its $439 million debt | The Verge
Last year, prospective smartphone buyers were awaiting a new feature in the iPhone 6: a scratch-resistant, ultra-durable sapphire glass screen.
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Worldwide Natural Disasters Seen Better By ‘Crowdsourced’ Satellite Coverage | Video
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Cibele is a game about the muddled reality of video games and online love | The Verge
If the name Nina Freeman is familiar to you, it might be because of How Do You Do It, a short and clever game about making dolls collide in ways that may or may not resemble sex.
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Come at the queen, you best not miss: Serena thwarts phone thief at dinner | Sport | The Guardian
Tennis champion, actress, fashion designer. Now Serena Williams can add crime fighter to one of sport’s most eclectic resumes.
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Atlassian Opens Its HipChat Messaging Platform To Developers | TechCrunch
HipChat, the team chat platform Atlassian acquired in 2012, now allows developers to build apps that run directly inside its user interface. Until now, developers were only able to push inbound messages to HipChat through its existing API, and creat…
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Today’s Best Media Deals: The Wire, Marvel Phase 2, and More
Just the other day, we told you to buy The Wire on Blu-ray for $80, which was an all-time low price at the time. Well, this is a little awkward, but Amazon just dropped it to $60 as part of a Gold Box deal. If you bought it earlier this week, try as…
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Trying to Move Forward After 60 Years of Rape | Broadly
“On May 5 in 2003, in the indigenous territory of Betoyes, Colombia, soldiers allegedly posing as paramilitaries […] raped four girls aged 11, 12, 15, and 16. The 16 year old was Omaira Fernández. She was six months pregnant at the time. Having ra…
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NASA Discovers a Giant Galaxy Cluster from the Beginning of the Universe
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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Your pictures: Autumn – BBC News
Your pictures: Autumn 4 November 2015 Last updated at 15:44 Each week, we publish a gallery of readers’ pictures on a set theme. This week it is “autumn”, and we begin with this photograph by Eva R Lima taken during a walk in the forest in northern …
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The Three Types Of Sandra Bullock Movies | FiveThirtyEight
Sandra Bullock’s latest movie — “Our Brand Is Crisis,” a black comedy based on the time a bunch of Americans interfered with a Bolivian election — bombed at the box office and flopped among critics last weekend.
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Justin Trudeau sworn in as new Canada prime minister – BBC News
Canada’s new leader, Justin Trudeau, is being sworn in as prime minister, ending 10 years of Conservative rule. His ascension marks a new era of Liberal politics after an election that saw Stephen Harper’s party ousted.
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$750/pill pharma company under investigation by Senate for price gouging | Ars Technica
Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, just got a letter from the US Senate. And it’s not a nice letter (PDF).
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Carrie Brownstein and Amy Poehler Conducted an Impromptu Marriage Ceremony | Vanity Fair
Question & answer sessions following any sort of live discussion, book reading, or expert panel are typically comprised of a mixture of thoughtful questions, not-so-thoughtful questions, and declarations of affection (or some combination therein: “H…
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It’s Our First Look at Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Entertainment Weekly has Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Eddie Redmayne on its cover, giving us our first glimpse of Newt Scamander. EW calls Fantastic Beasts a “Harry Potter prequel” and we can’t blame them.
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Microsoft Readies Its Cortana For iOS Beta, Promises Invites In “Weeks” | TechCrunch
Microsoft said earlier that its Cortana personal assistant – something of a rival to Google Now and Apple’s Siri – would take on its competition by offering cross-platform support, including via iOS and Android.
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Antarctica Is Gaining Ice, Creating a Climate Change Mystery | The New Republic
A new NASA study found that Antarctica is gaining more ice than it’s losing. But that isn’t a sign that climate change is slowing down.
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Codeanywhere Supercharges Its Cloud Development Platform | TechCrunch
Of late the code development area has seen Atlassian heading for and IPO and GitHub becoming a Unicorn. But more specifically Koding, Nitrous.io and others have rubbed shoulders with the likes of Microsoft, SAP and even Oracle because just about eve…
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Jon Stewart at the Beacon Theater in February. His work for HBO will include digital shorts. Three months after retiring as host of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart has signed a production deal with the premium cable channel HBO, the channel announced …
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500 exoplanets to scale in a single image / Boing Boing
Jupiter is more beautiful than ever in this footage from NASA, as used by Adrienne Lafrance to illustrate her splendid article about the gas giant. rom far away, the planet looks vaguely beige. But its clouds are a kaleidoscope of warm colors—altern…
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How I’m spending my time until the release of Fallout 4 – Imgur
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Historic Rosetta Mission to End with Crash into Comet – Scientific American
This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 7 July 2015 from a distance of 154 km from the comet centre.
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CBS finally bites, orders a zombie show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
CBS has been carefully avoiding the zombie plague that’s slowly infecting television, including deftly sidestepping a Zombieland adaptation (that’s still in limbo) a few years ago.
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Reddit launches its first documentary series | The Verge
Just a month after officially launching its very own news site in Upvoted, Reddit is expanding its original video stable with its first documentary series. Called Cyborg Nation, the six-episode series shows how researchers and regular humans use tec…
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England, Pakistan set up exciting Test series finale – Al Jazeera English
England were 46 for two wickets against Pakistan at stumps on the penultimate day, setting up an exciting finale where they chase 284 to win the third and final Test and draw the series.
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Tyler Breeze: NXT’s Prince Pretty on Making His Mark in WWE | Rolling Stone
Prince Pretty. Breezus. The King of Cuteville. The Gorgeous One. The Sultan of Selfies. Tyler Breeze already had more nicknames than Shaquille O’Neal, but now, the NXT stalwart can add another one to the list: WWE Superstar.
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‘Into the Badlands’: Meet the New Dystopian Kung-Fu Plantation Western | Rolling Stone
Kung-Fu and the Western: always an unkillable combination.
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TSA screeners can’t detect weapons and they never could / Boing Boing
TSA screeners’ ability to detect weapons in luggage is “pitiful,” according to classified reports on the security administration’s ongoing story of failure and fear. We know about them because lawmakers are tiring of the charade and the complacency …
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau swearing in ceremony – BBC News
The new Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is being sworn in, along with members of his cabinet, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
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Watch Trevor Noah Tease Republicans Over Debate Demands | Rolling Stone
Watch Trevor Noah Tease Republicans Over Debate Demands ‘Daily Show’ host asks, “What happened at that CNBC debate that transformed the crew from ‘The Expendables’ into the cast of ‘Scooby-Doo?’”
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Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke on Band’s ‘Hippie-ish’ New Single | Rolling Stone
The new Bloc Party single — “The Love Within,” out last month — ended a lengthy hiatus for the dance-friendly Brit-rock band. Frontman Kele Okereke released his second solo record, Trick, last year, but his main group hasn’t put out an album since 2…
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5 cool things you may not know about your tape measure / Boing Boing
Have you ever wondered why the riveted metal tab that holds the end hook on a tape measure has slop in it? It’s not because it was manufactured by a shoddy company. Gareth Branwyn at Make explains the reason: If you’ll notice, the inch marks on the …
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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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The Halo franchise has made more than $5 billion | The Verge
Halo has always been the Xbox’s star franchise, and here’s why: after the launch of Halo 5: Guardians last week, the franchise has now soared to over $5 billion in lifetime games and hardware sales.
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GOP’s Hostility to the Media Is Self-Defeating | The New Republic
It’s too much to say that Ted Cruz won the last Republican debate, but he undeniably won the debate about the debate.
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Fidel Castro Reaction to Kennedy Assassination in Cuba | The New Republic
President Kennedy presided over both the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, but when he was shot and killed on that November morning in 1963, Fidel Castro’s reaction was one of shock and sadness. “This is bad news,” he repeate…
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Review: In Spotlight, old-school journalism is its own kind of thrill ride | The Verge
Tom McCarthy’s journalists-in-the-trenches period piece Spotlight is almost more remarkable for the scenes it doesn’t include. It’s a movie about a crusading newspaper team slowly uncovering a huge scandal, but there are practically no big, Oscar-wo…
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Donald Trump Pitches New Book (and a Campaign, Too) https://t.co/64uuF7G13I
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GoPro sued by Polaroid camera maker – BBC News
GoPro is being sued by the producer of a rival camera over the design of its latest cube-shaped device. C&A Marketing, which produces Polaroid cameras, said GoPro had infringed a US design patent it was granted in May.
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The Fight to Bring Commercial Drones to Africa | Motherboard
The man lied motionless in a coffee field in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, asleep after a night of heavy drinking. He wore a grey polo shirt that rippled from the whirr of a small quadcopter flown by my guide, George, who hovered his drone close …
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Shane Carruth’s next movie will star Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, and Daniel Radcliffe | The Verge
Shane Carruth, the filmmaker behind 2004’s cult time travel missive Primer and 2013’s identity-driven sci-fi thriller Upstream Color, finally has a cast for his upcoming big-budget picture The Modern Ocean. Unlike Carruth’s past movies, The Modern O…
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U.K. Users’ Online Activity To Be Logged Under New Surveillance Law | TechCrunch
The U.K. government has today published a draft bill setting out new surveillance powers that if passed into law will allow the security and intelligence agencies to more deeply probe Brits’ digital activity by requiring U.K.
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Several dead as factory collapses in Pakistan’s Lahore – Al Jazeera English
At least 10 people have been killed after a factory collapsed in the industrial area of Lahore, in Pakistan’s east. Muhammad Usman, a local administrator, said about 150 workers, including the owner of the factory, were at the three-storey building …
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“Hacking the Cosmos” –World’s Physicists Analyze CERN’s Vast Large Hadron Collider Data
At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, scientists initiate millions of particle collisions every second in their quest to understand the fundamental structure of matter.
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Inside the pink marbled atrium of the Trump Tower on Tuesday, Donald J. Trump, the salesman, signed copies of his new book by the armload, gleefully demanding to know precisely how long the line of buyers had become on 56th Street. “Is it all the wa…
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BBC Sport – Andy Murray races past Borna Coric at Paris Masters
British number one Andy Murray thrashed Croatian teenager Borna Coric in just 58 minutes to reach the third round at the Paris Masters. Murray, seeded second, won 6-1 6-2 and will next play Belgian David Goffin – a warm-up for this month’s likely me…
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Jordan Spieth delights at being big in China after year of the fairytale | Sport | The Guardian
Jordan Spieth only needed to stand at a Shanghai baggage carousel on arrival in China for the latest reminder of how 12 months can shape a sporting storyline. There, he is depicted alongside Rory McIlroy as player turned superhero. Spieth has become…
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i moved to a new city. : AdviceAnimals
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 4th – The New Yorker
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Our Lady of South Dakota: A Poem By Adam Fitzgerald | The New Republic
Our Lady of Allen, South Dakota be with us.Our Lady of turquoise towers and water pumps,of barbiturate skies barreling o’er dry granaries,bucolic at the continental pole of inaccessibility. Our Lady of Brundage and Wounded Knee,pray for us. Average …
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Abacus Lofts, Toronto by Quadrangle & RAW Design [OC] – [1024×683] : ArchitecturePorn
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The Honest Company, Jessica Alba’s e-commerce startup best known for its eco-friendly baby products, expanded this fall with the launch of Honest Beauty – a beauty line that continues the company’s mission to offer products with fewer harsh chemical…
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How Venmo Won In One Of The Most Crowded Spaces In Tech | TechCrunch
Seamless peer-to-peer mobile payments have been considered inevitable for quite a while. And for good reason: One experience figuring out the bill at a group dinner party or splitting the cost of a wedding gift and you understand the headache that c…
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These Voters Just Guaranteed Their Fellow Workers The Right To A Paid Sick Day | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, voters in Elizabeth, New Jersey approved a paid sick days law that guarantees all residents the right to earn leave.
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This Week On Bullish: How To Be Nonprofit On Purpose | TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show and running attempt to see how much I can sweat inside of 10 minutes on a regular basis. This week we dug into a topic that is both near, and far from our hearts: Nonprofits, and their …
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Legacy Industries of the World, Unite! – The Atlantic
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The Autism Spectrum’s Elusive Parameters – The Atlantic
If I tell people that I have two autistic brothers, I often get asked some variation of the same question: “Where are they on the spectrum?” There are better and worse ways that people ask. “How bad are they?” is a worse way.
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Help Us Find the #ActualWorst Character on Television – The Atlantic
From time to time, at happy hour or by the proverbial water cooler, the thoughts of The Atlantic’s culture team return to one timeless question: Which character in the rich, complex, antiheroic world of modern television is the actual worst characte…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Matilda by Roald Dahl – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This story has lots of great characters such as Miss Honey who is Matilda’s teacher, Matilda’s awful Mum and Dad and Miss Trunchbull, who is headmistress at Matilda’s school and hates children.
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Maldives Declares State of Emergency | Al Jazeera America
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, giving security forces sweeping powers to arrest suspects ahead of a major anti-government protest rally.
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Apollo Moon Landing Sites, Moon Phases In Nov. 2015 Skywatching | Video
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Why Keystone XL Is Dead – Scientific American
PIPELINE PROBLEMS: The Keystone XL pipeline has faced challenges based on its proposed route through Nebraska. Tough times have come to Alberta’s tar sands. The oil-rich region enjoyed a long boom in the early 21st century. A truck driver could make…
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The UK Plans to Retain All Citizens’ Web History | Motherboard
On Wednesday, the UK’s Home Secretary Theresa May announced the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, which, if made into law, will force internet service providers to retain the web browsing history of every customer for up to one year. Those records ca…
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The heart is just a pump | The Verge
Steve Williams couldn’t breathe. The former athlete had cardiomyopathy, which occasionally choked his lungs with fluid, making him gasp for air. But this felt different; Williams felt like he was dying. He was raced to an Orange County hospital, and…
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Cartoon: Do you even vote, bro?
Pre-order a copy of Eat More Comics: The Best of The Nib, 300 pages of political cartoons, comics journalism and essays out this month.
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US Air Force’s experimental rocket spirals out of control after launching from Hawaii | The Verge
A small, experimental rocket meant to carry 13 communication satellites into space for the Department of Defense failed just one minute after launching from Hawaii last night, according to the US Air Force.
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Edward Snowden’s Halloween Costume Is Too Real | Vanity Fair
Last Friday, Edward Snowden and his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, triumphed over everyone’s ironic couples costumes by dressing up as the 90s’ favorite fugitives, Carmen Sandiego and Waldo (last name unknown).
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How Babies Learn Language – Scientific American
An infant child possesses an amazing, and fleeting, gift: the ability to master a language quickly. At six months, the child can learn the sounds that make up English words and, if also exposed to Quechua and Tagalog, he or she can pick up the uniqu…
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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A time lapse of changing USA boundaries, 1629-2000
This is an animated map of the lower 48 United States showing every boundary change (country, colony, state, and county) from 1629 to 2000. (via @ptak)
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Chronicles of Civic Engagement – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Hundreds arrested in Kashmir ahead of Modi visit – Al Jazeera English
Authorities in India-administered Kashmir have cracked down on hundreds of political activists and pro-independence leaders ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the region.
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In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines an album or single that went to No. 1 on the charts to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and how that has changed over the years. In this installment, we cover Duran Duran’s “A View …
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Launch Your Own Podcast with NPR’s Training Hub
Starting your own podcast goes beyond having a topic idea and knowing how to use your equipment. Take your podcast or blog to the next level with this in-depth collection of training materials from the team at NPR.
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Ever since the first episode premiered back in February, there’s been a lot of debate about Fresh Off The Boat’s treatment of race.
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Einstein’s General Relativity Explained In Under Three Minutes – Digg
39 diggs Explainer Animation Science Walter Isaacson, a biographer of Albert Einstein, explains with the aid of some animators, just how the science of relativity works.
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Apple and sapphire supplier will finally bury their $439 million hatchet | Ars Technica
After months of fighting, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple and onetime sapphire supplier GT Advanced Technologies have reached an agreement that could dig GT out from under the $439 million debt it still owes to Apple.
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Mexico mass graves to be examined in Guerrero state – BBC News
Forensic experts have been sent to the Mexican town of Carrizalillo to examine human remains found in a number of mass graves. The location was disclosed by a member of a drugs gang who was attacked by residents of Carrizalillo.
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South Sudan Crash: At Least 25 Are Dead – The Atlantic
Ateny Wek Ateny, a spokesman for the South Sudan presidency, said the Antonov An-12 plane had just taken off from Juba airport and was headed to the Paloich oil fields in Upper Nile state. The number of fatalities in unclear, with various media repo…
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Pakistan factory collapse ‘kills seven’ – 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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One of the two driving forces behind Dangerous Minds, Tara McGinley has noted in the past that she has a “slightly unhealthy” obsession with shower curtains.
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The Common Dean by Alan Garner – 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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Reminder: other people can see your likes and favorites on social networking / Boing Boing
The case at hand is Instagram, where gentlemen often realize too late that their friends and family know when they like pictures of scantily-clad barely-legals.
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Kentucky Just Set the Stage for the Next Obamacare War | The New Republic
From the start of his long-shot campaign for governor of Kentucky, Republican Matt Bevin was gunning to make the race a referendum on Obamacare, promising to roll back a law that he dubbed “a disaster for Kentucky taxpayers.
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There were no survivors – Imgur
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Groupon Opens 30% Down On Market Jitters Over CEO Change, Weak Q4 Guidance | TechCrunch
It’s a bad deal today for Groupon, the company that built a business around daily deals for goods and services and has since expanded into areas like commerce solutions for small businesses. The company’s stock opened at $2.
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Oxytocin makes socializing feel fun, just like marijuana | Ars Technica
Marijuana enhances social interactions (or so I’ve heard). But how does this work on the molecular level? And what’s it tell us about the normal chemistry of the brain? Well, cannabinoid receptors are present in brain regions involved in social and …
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France’s Karim Benzema held in sex tape investigation – BBC News
French footballer Karim Benzema is being questioned by police in a blackmail case surrounding a sex tape involving another player, Mathieu Valbuena. The Real Madrid striker turned up at a police station in Versailles.
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Make Super Tasty Sandwich Spreads and Salad Dressings with (Free!) Takeout Sauces
I’m a pretty big fan of dipping sauces, and believe they have many uses beyond dipping.
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This Algorithm Can Predict How Exciting a Website Is | Motherboard
How exciting is this website? I’m not asking your opinion—the answer is 80 out of 100. That’s according to new algorithms from a Berlin-based machine learning startup that rate the design of web pages on their “excitingness.
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How Transphobia Killed Houston’s Shot At LGBT Protections | ThinkProgress
By a whopping 61-39 margin, Houston voters defeated the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) Tuesday, which would have extended nondiscrimination protections to many groups, including the LGBT community.
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Cinemas Ban Masks, Prop Weapons At ‘Star Wars’ Release – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Citing safety concerns, movie theater chain Cinemark is warning audiences ahead of the December 18 opening of Star Wars: Episode VII that they are not permitted to wear masks or face paint as part of any costume, nor can they carry prop weapons to s…
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Doctor Who May Be Part of The Lego Movie 2
Everything is, indeed, awesome. Following a deal with the BBC that saw the inclusion of Doctor Who in the video game Lego Dimensions as well as get its own fantastic Lego playset, it looks like the Doctor may be taking a trip to the big screen…
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Uneven justice | The Washington Post
Two bad shootings, two guilty cops. One family sues and gets a million dollars; the other sues and collects not a penny. Joseph Erin Hamley, 21, was wandering lost and alone on an isolated stretch of Highway 412 near the Ozark National Forest, fumbl…
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San Francisco Votes Down Tough Airbnb Regulations
SAN FRANCISCO — In a major victory for one of the world’s most valuable startups, San Franciscans voted Tuesday against further regulating Airbnb and other short-term rental services.
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The best way to shoot a deer is with a camera – GIF on Imgur
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Here’s Your First Look at Eddie Redmayne in the Harry Potter Prequel | Vanity Fair
We’re still a year away from the premiere of the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but Entertainment Weekly has your first look at star Eddie Redmayne and a few select members of the cast. There’s plenty for obsessive Pot…
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Ahmed Chalabi: A proud pawn for a big American lie – Al Jazeera English
The claims that it was Ahmed Chalabi who has pushed the United States into invading his country in 2003 are not only false but self-serving by those seeking to exonerate Washington from the consequences of its imperial aggression and crimes.
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Amazon’s Cuisinart Kitchen Gear Sale Is Full of Great Gift Ideas
Whether you’re in the market for some new kitchen gear, or you just want to kick off your holiday shopping a little early, Amazon’s offering great prices on a nice selection of Cuisinart stainless steel kitchen appliances and cookware, today only.
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Top 10 assassination attempts in fiction | Books | The Guardian
What is it that makes assassination attempts so fascinating to fiction writers? I asked myself this as I was researching High Dive, my novel based around the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 1984 – an attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher t…
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Romanian Prime Minister Resigns Over Fatal Nightclub Fire | Rolling Stone
Several key members of the Romanian government have stepped down in the aftermath of the Bucharest nightclub fire that claimed the lives of 32 people and injured over 180.
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Dancing with Dabo: Clemson Tops the College Football Playoff Rankings | Rolling Stone
There were several moments on Tuesday evening, in the midst of ESPN’s hour-long College Football Playoff rankings show, when the parties involved admitted that they were arguing about ideas that would ultimately prove meaningless.
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Guitarist Julian Lage’s Road From Child Prodigy to Seasoned Pro | Rolling Stone
WHO: Julian Lage released his debut album, Sounding Point, in 2009, when he was just 21 years old. By then, however, the New York City–via–Santa Rosa, California, guitarist had already lived multiple musical lives.
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Maddie & Tae on ‘Writing Fever,’ New Single ‘Shut Up and Fish’ | Rolling Stone
Maddie & Tae may have three nominations at tonight’s 49th CMA Awards, along with a performance slot on the telecast, and a new single, “Shut Up and Fish,” but that doesn’t mean the buzzed-about duo — who have a solid shot at upsetting the Vocal Duo …
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Be an Astronaut: NASA Seeks Explorers for Future Space Missions | NASA
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China says it plans to land rover on Mars in 2020 : space
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HMB while I ride a zip line : holdmybeer
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What To Look For When TPP Text Is Released
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been completed. The agreement is a big deal. It is said it writes the rules for doing business in the 21st century and covers 40% of the world’s economy.
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Teens spend 9 hrs a day with media, 3 yr olds are “media multitaskers” | Ars Technica
To no one’s surprise, tablets, smartphones, laptops, and televisions are now permanent fixtures in the lives of most kids. But knowledge of whether that media use will enrich their minds or turn them into easily distractible dullards is fuzzy.
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How to Turn Adele‘s “Hello” Into a Nature Documentary | Vanity Fair
The trend of having famous, important people read aloud silly things may have run its course, but every now and then there’s something wonderful enough to make it worth reviving.
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Tesla will restrict self-driving Autopilot mode to stop people “doing crazy things” | Ars Technica
During a quarterly financial call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed some interesting details about the future of the Model S’s Autopilot feature.
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Shah Rukh Khan row: BJP leader pulls tweet amid uproar – BBC News
Kailash Vijayvargiya said his suggestion that Khan’s “soul is in Pakistan” had been misconstrued. Mr Vijayvargiya’s tweet came after the actor spoke out against “extreme intolerance” in India.
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Tech-buying bonanza latest! Game firm Activision buys Candy Crush-maker King for $5.9bn
Gaming company Activision purchasing the makers behind addictive smartphone game Candy Crush Saga is both a sensible and ludicrous move in today’s tech feeding frenzy.
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Erdogan urges Turkey’s new parliament to address constitution – BBC News
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey’s parliament should prioritise discussions on a new constitution, following his AK Party’s electoral triumph. Mr Erdogan said that constitutional change was one of the most important messages of Sunday’s re…
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Given context, there is something poetic about Steve Williams’s portrayal of a jilted lover.
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BEIJING — China, the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to 17 percent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data. The finding could complicate the already diffi…
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Stephanie Sigman: From Narcos to Bond Girl | Vanity Fair
AGE: 28. PROVENANCE: Ciudad Obregón, Mexico.
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What Does ‘The Cloud’ Mean? – The Atlantic
It turns out driving directly toward huge, looming storm clouds is a great rhetorical device to employ on a road trip to see cloud infrastructure—and also a great way to be faced with the cruel truth of your own mortality.
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Ohio vote was against monopoly not marijuana, say campaigners | US news | The Guardian
Marijuana legalization advocates in Ohio are turning their attention to 2016, after voters on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational use in the Buckeye State – a measure critics said would have enshrined an oligopoly in…
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. It’s only been a few months, but civilization has withered without Jon Stewart on television.
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240000 volts on cd : oddlysatisfying
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Rising Moon over Madrid, Spain. via /r/Breathless https://t.co/ylyowCJf3S https://t.co/ugJ52Mk4dJ
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An Iilyushin 62 in a state of disrepair [1152×780] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/rJPGpLNDlD https://t.co/ZN6jPp9Fid
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Thought my phone skin would fit in well here : sloths
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Meanwhile at the electronic store (X-Post /r/pics) : firstworldanarchists
Meanwhile at the electronic store (X-Post /r/pics) via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/YHfhWgUGVg https://t.co/oLFimz8Srg
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Ambling Through America’s Most Stoned Suburbs — NYMag
Ambling through America’s most stoned suburbs. “Should we smoke before we pray?” Cynthia Joye asked, tapping the Bible resting on her lap.
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More Than 20,000 Android Apps Make Themselves ‘Impossible to Remove’ | Motherboard
It’s been a few rough months for Android security. Over the summer, a security researcher revealed that almost a billion Android phones could be hacked with just a simple multimedia message. Google later patched the bugs, but botched the patch.
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Theresa May bans US segregationist from UK for ‘neo-Nazi’ remarks | World news | The Guardian
Theresa May has banned a US southern nationalist who has advocated racial segregation from entering the UK, because of his neo-Nazi and antisemitic remarks.
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There Could Be Plans For More X-Files—Without Mulder And Scully
Lego Batman gets a butler. Tim Miller discusses which mutants could have been part of Deadpool. Andrew Kreisberg teases Cyborg Superman on Supergirl. Greg Nicotero thinks it’s unlikely a certain Walking Dead character will ever lose a limb. Plus, de…
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Deadline reports that Daniel Radcliffe, Anne Hathaway, and Keanu Reeves have just been added to the all-star cast of the upcoming film, The Modern Ocean.
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Why Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits | Atlas Obscura
A few years back, when the Pew Research Center surveyed Mormons in America about their place in society, more than 60 percent of the participants said that Americans “are uninformed about Mormonism.
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Mossberg: It’s time for Google to make its own hardware | The Verge
Welcome to Mossberg, a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code. It’s Nexus time again, the time each year when Go…
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Hollingsworth Hound Learns the Truth About Climate Scientists! / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Hollingsworth Hound infiltrates a meeting of climatologists, and learns the TRUTH! FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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The first school district facing a federal order to change its discriminatory policies toward transgender students says it had not ruled out the possibility of fighting the decision in court and insists it didn’t break the law.
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The new Hiku smart kitchen button can do your grocery shopping | The Verge
Before Amazon started filling homes with grocery-ordering buttons, magic wands, and AI-enabled speakers, a company called Hiku made a device for your kitchen that quickly assembled shopping lists.
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How Many Years Does The Space Station Have Left? | Popular Science
STS-116 astronauts installed part of the space station’s main backbone in 2006. In the movie The Martian, a stranded astronaut is able to survive for years in a habitat that NASA originally designed to last 30 days.
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Elvis Presley drug paraphenalia up for auction|Dangerous Minds
Julien’s calls itself “The Auction House to the Stars,” and not without reason—an auction they’re holding this week, “Icons and Idols 2015: Rock n’ Roll,” features a metric shitload of guitars, amps, and even a couple of autoharps owned by Heart’s N…
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Brian Eno – Some of Them Are Old https://t.co/hkOADGgMKO”
Brian Eno – Some of Them Are Old https://t.co/hkOADGgMKO
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Should have said please : funny
Should have said please via /r/funny https://t.co/XNsnjvXkHy https://t.co/VjlNIqkc42
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Does an “M” Sound Round to You? – Scientific American
They are just nonsense words, but for decades bouba and kiki have been studied by linguists, who are fascinated by the way they convey meaning across a broad spectrum of languages.
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What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)? – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Savvy Psychologist by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. As a culture, we’re fascinated by narcissists and psychopaths, two of the more dramatic disordered person…
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Chemical Test Quickly Finds Cognitive Damage In Stroke Patients – Scientific American
A stroke happens when blood flow to the brain is interrupted and brain cells starve of oxygen. Aftereffects include muscle weakness and altered senses. In many cases, strokes also affect the way a patient thinks or processes information.
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Twitter Promises Transparent Political Funding | Al Jazeera America
Federal law lets political action committees wait weeks, even months, to reveal which candidates benefit from their cash.
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Konami closes down studio responsible for Metal Gear Online | Ars Technica
Kojima Productions Los Angeles, the studio responsible for the so-so Metal Gear Online portion of Metal Gear Solid V, has been closed. Konami opened the LA studio in 2013 to help with the development of MGSV, and specifically with its multiplayer co…
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Many Services Will Help Students Cheat in Their Online Courses—for a Price – The Atlantic
When I was in high school, I cheated pretty regularly. And I mean all the time. I remember writing chemistry formulas on small bits of paper that I then sealed to the bottom of my dress shoes with transparent tape. When I crossed my legs, the inform…
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What To Make Of Kentucky’s Polling Failure | FiveThirtyEight
It feels like deja vu all over again: The polls in a major election were off by a wide margin.
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Mindfulness and the Popularity of Adult Coloring Books – The Atlantic
And indeed, reader, I did not. Let me clarify: When I say “adult coloring book,” I’m referring to a specific subset thereof. I don’t mean the Benedict-Cumberbatch-is-your-boyfriend coloring books or novelty coloring books based on beloved TV shows.
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The Despair Death of the Middle-Aged American – The Atlantic
Since 1998, people all over the world have been living healthier and living longer. But middle-aged, white non-Hispanics in the United States have been getting sicker and dying in greater numbers. The trend is being driven primarily by people with a…
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In the lobby of a Mexico City office building, people scurrying to and fro gazed briefly at the digital billboard backing a candidate for Congress in June. They probably did not know that the sign was reading them, too.
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Putin tops Forbes’ Most Powerful People list – BBC News
Vladimir Putin has topped Forbes’ list of the Most Powerful People in the world for the second consecutive year. The BBC looks at why the Russian president is number one again and asks who else is up and down in the magazine’s global ranking of infl…
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Prickly problem: man crowdfunds vet bill after porcupine takes on dogs | World news | The Guardian
The owner of three dogs who was landed with a hefty vet bill after his pets encountered a prickly situation with a porcupine has raised thousands of pounds in a crowdfunding campaign.
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UK surveillance laws will keep citizens’ internet history on file for 12 months | The Verge
British politicians will dramatically expand the UK’s powers of mass surveillance under a draft bill demanding that ISPs store records of every website visited by internet users for up to a year.
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A New SSD Design Uses Sound Waves, ‘Singing’ To Manipulate Data | Motherboard
The future of computer memory is largely an unsettled place. This is true for volatile RAM-type system memory, but also non-volatile long-term memory, like hard drives, flash memories, and the like.
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Apple considered making a car in 2008, says Nest’s Tony Fadell | The Verge
In a video interview with Bloomberg, Nest founder Tony Fadell says that he and Steve Jobs had toyed with the idea of building a car back in 2008, when Fadell was a senior executive at Apple and the iPhone was gaining momentum.
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Bill Cosby could face charges after DA election in suburban Philadelphia | US news | The Guardian
Democrat Kevin Steele won election as district attorney in suburban Philadelphia on Tuesday, a result that could lead to charges against Bill Cosby in a decade-old sex assault complaint.
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Serbian and Bosnian governments hold historic joint session – BBC News
The Serbian and Bosnian governments are holding their first joint session in Sarajevo. The two sides are seeking to improve relations more than two decades after the conflict during the break-up of Yugoslavia.
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A tarsier having a snack : perfectloops
A tarsier having a snack via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/XXPVFtmrds https://t.co/5DYJnBfYZj
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NASA to Fly, Sail North to Study Plankton-Climate Change Connection | NASA
NASA to Fly, Sail North to Study Plankton-Climate Change Connection https://t.co/GXErbuWMJI
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You Can Finally Buy a Dedicated Hardware Emoji Keyboard
Communicating via the written word can sometimes fail to communicate the nuances of human emotion. For those times, there are emoji—and now you can actually buy a dedicated hardware emoji keyboard to help.
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The Great Pottery Throw Down debuts to mixed reviews – BBC News
BBC Two’s The Great Pottery Throw Down premiered on Tuesday night. Made by the team behind The Great British Bake Off, the six-part series aims to find pottery’s hottest stars.
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Plot Your Purchases Along the Fulfillment Curve to Know When It’s Worth It
At a certain point, buying more stuff isn’t going to make you happy. However, some things you can buy absolutely will make life better. This Fulfillment Chart helps you figure out which is which.
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Microsoft opens up its Cortana for iPhone beta | The Verge
Microsoft is getting ready to let iPhone users test a version of Cortana for iOS. The software maker has been steadily testing the app over the past six months internally, and it has now reached the stage where it’s ready for outsiders to preview.
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The greatest vanishing act in prehistoric America : Nature News & Comment
Vultures carve lazy circles in the sky as a stream of tourists marches down a walkway into Colorado’s Spruce Canyon.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
But with Greg Dworkin and Joan McCarter on the show, it’s all good from here. Listen LIVE, right here at 9:00 AM ET!
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Pharrell Williams and Al Gore’s promise of a second round of Live Earth concerts on seven continents that would be broadcast to an audience of billions has been downgraded to a webcast in Paris, organisers have confirmed.
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PLOS Science Wednesday: we’re Jean-Michel Drezen, Salva Herrero, and Elisabeth Huguet. We discovered active genes derived from bracoviruses in the genomes of many moths and butterflies, which provide protection against some infections — Ask Us Anyth…
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Optical illusion via /r/woahdude https://t.co/y0HNBGqWgr https://t.co/xmw34C9fGl
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China, Taiwan and a Meeting After 66 Years https://t.co/jIjAFbDxQ9
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When I get home from work and my SO wants to go grocery shopping. : funny
When I get home from work and my SO wants to go grocery shopping. via /r/funny https://t.co/bF1bsLMnzM https://t.co/tUdliNYPtv
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GOP Frontrunner Says Pardoning Edward Snowden Would Set A ‘Bad Precedent’ | ThinkProgress
LAKELAND, FLORIDA — Neurosurgeon, author, and new GOP frontrunner Dr. Ben Carson weighed in this week about the future of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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England’s hopes of winning the final Test against Pakistan were dented by the loss of two wickets in quick succession late on day four in Sharjah.
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Only the churlish could fail to feel grateful for the NFL’s decision to up the number of regular season games played on English soil to at least five by 2020.
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James Franco porn murder film King Cobra finishes shoot | Film | The Guardian
The notorious 2007 murder of porn film producer Bryan Kocis (AKA Bryan Phillips), the latest film to feature the prolific James Franco, has finished shooting, according to Deadline.
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Even Bill O’Reilly Thinks the Republicans’ Debate Demands Are Dumb | Vanity Fair
The G.O.P. presidential campaigns’ attempted strategy to collectively bargain for favorable debate formats collapsed after several candidates, including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Jeb! Bush, refused to sign a joint letter listing their…
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Hillary Clinton is attempting to make gun control and reducing gun violence a key part of her presidential campaign, as a once political-sensitive campaign issue moves front and center in the wake of the Charleston church massacre in June.
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Houston Voters Reject LGBT Civil Rights Measure | Al Jazeera America
Voters in Houston, the fourth most populous U.S. city, rejected a measure Tuesday night that would have banned discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, protections not guaranteed under Texas law.
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Meet Britain’s New Generation of Student Radicals | VICE | United Kingdom
“I knew paying £9,000 fees is bullshit and I knew I was prepared to do something about it,” says Angus O’Brien, who’s studying European Social and Political Studies at UCL.
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President Xi Jinping, left, of China, and President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan will meet on Saturday.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Matt Bevin, a Republican political novice, wealthy Louisville businessman and Tea Party favorite, was elected Kentucky’s next governor on Tuesday and swept fellow Republicans into statewide office with him.
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Same drill as last year. Step 1: Spend the day with one of these… Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold…and life goes on.
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Ada Calhoun’s ‘St Marks Is Dead’ Explores the Complexity of Gentrification – The Atlantic
I’ve lately begun collecting old tourist guides to New York City. Most of them don’t even mention St. Marks Place, which may at first seem not so surprising. St. Marks is an unusually tiny street.
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I’m Going to Minnesota to Compete in the Netrunner World Championships | Motherboard
Wet snow, dark. A cold Wednesday night in Toronto’s Chinatown. I’m walking down the street headed to a basement underneath a well-to-do bank, and I’m nervous. I have some whisky with me to take the edge off, and I duck into an alleyway to take a sip…
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The aura of Twitch – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
If there isn’t a big tournament going on that weekend and you want to watch some Dota 2, you’ll have to settle for Artour “Arteezy” Babaev.
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Steve Jobs Considered Building an Apple Car in 2008 – Bloomberg Business
Count Steve Jobs among those curious about what an Apple car would look like. In 2008, not too long after the Apple co-founder introduced the iPhone, Jobs was considering the possibilities of a much bigger gadget.
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New Bill Would Keep Fossil Fuel Reserves On Public Lands In The Ground | ThinkProgress
Over the past year, environmentalists have called for keeping significant stores of the world’s remaining fossil fuel stores in the ground in order to curb climate change — a call that’s backed up by science. Now, a new bill aims to do just that. Se…
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Ian Fleming: Bond ‘cured Pussy Galore’s psycho-pathological malady’ | Books | The Guardian
A letter in which Ian Fleming asserts that his lesbian Bond girl Pussy Galore “only needed the right man to come along … to cure her psycho-pathological malady” will be sold at auction later this month.
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Here’s Why Hobby Lobby Might Have Illegally Purchased Antiquities From Iraq | ThinkProgress
CREDIT: SANA via AP The proudly Christian proprietors of the craft store chain Hobby Lobby have been under federal investigation for the past four years for illicit importation of religious artifacts and cultural antiquities from Iraq for their soon…
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The Uphill Battle For Strippers’ Rights | ThinkProgress
After a decade of working as a stripper, Brandi Campbell had finally had enough of being groped by customers and management alike. In that time, she’s worked at 57 different clubs across six different states and says she experienced sexual harassmen…
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Irish Government To Decriminalize Heroin, Cocaine, And Marijuana | ThinkProgress
As the battle to decriminalize — and legalize — weed in the U.S. continues, another country is taking a giant leap towards eliminating stringent drug laws. In the near future, Ireland will decriminalize marijuana, cocaine, and heroin possession.
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Republican Matt Bevin elected governor of Kentucky | Al Jazeera America
Republicans continued their slow takeover of Kentucky politics on Tuesday by electing only the second GOP governor in four decades. Matt Bevin defeated Democrat Jack Conway with 52 percent of the vote. Independent Drew Curtis was a distant third wit…
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iFixit Launches Certification to Prove You Know How to Repair a Smartphone
iFixit is well known for being the best source of smartphone repair guides around. Now, the company has launched its own certification program if you want to prove you know how to repair phones. The certification consists of both a written and hands…
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BBC Sport – Missing Italian marathon runner Gianclaudio Marengo found
Gianclaudio Marengo was still in his running gear when he was found on the subway in Manhattan by an off-duty police officer on Tuesday. The 30-year-old had last been seen in Central Park on Sunday shortly after finishing in four hours 44 minutes.
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UK Government Works on Restricting Encryption, Urges Staff to Use It | Motherboard
Today, the UK government will announce details of the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a piece of legislation that will propose sweeping surveillance powers for law enforcement. These are expected to include the retention of citizens’ internet brows…
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Chained in Somaliland: Inadequate mental health system – Al Jazeera English
Hargeisa, Somaliland – Abdirisak Mohamed Warsame is one of just a handful of professionals working to improve the lives of people suffering from mental health problems in the Horn of Africa country, people who are largely neglected and often abused.
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Are hydrogen cars the answer to our pollution woes? – video | Environment | The Guardian
The Hyundai ix35 is the Korean company’s first attempt to bring hydrogen-fuelled cars to the mass market, promising zero-emissions and more convenience at the pump.
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The future is here: mass-market hydrogen cars take to Britain’s roads | Environment | The Guardian
The first mass production hydrogen cars, billed for more than a decade as a clean alternative to petrol and diesel vehicles but only glimpsed as concepts at automotive trade shows, have arrived on British roads.
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Aurora Australis – Shot last night in Melbourne 6 shot Pano on my D800 [7137×1980] https://t.co/6tuCtbcLbS https://t.co/uVlLTN3AHC
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Theresa May unveils surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims | World news | The Guardian
New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen’s use of the internet without any need for any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory power…
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Flying Telescope Catches Glimpse of Alien Planet
For the first time ever, astronomers have used instruments onboard the world’s largest airborne observatory to examine a massive planet beyond Earth’s solar system. Studies of exoplanets normally have been confined to either outer space or the groun…
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Syria conflict: Army recaptures key Aleppo supply route – BBC News
The Syrian army has retaken control of a road that was the only route into the government-held side of the second city of Aleppo, state media report.
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FIFA elections: ‘Time to look beyond Europe’ – Al Jazeera English
New York City, USA – Football’s embattled governing body needs to look for a new leader beyond Europe at its Congress in February, where FIFA’s new president is set to be elected, according to presidential candidate, Tokyo Sexwale.
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Two years ago, we highlighted for you the beginning of a promising project — Julian Peters’ comic book adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s 1910 poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” At the time of our post, Peters had only completed the first nine page…
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When I realize there are kids in high school that were born in the 2000’s – GIF on Imgur
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Dust Gaps Around Young Stars Not Exoplanet ‘Proof’
Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are the breeding grounds of planets. When visible or near-infrared observations show a gap in a disk like this, it is often interpreted as evidence for an unseen planet.
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Is New Star Wars Movie (or Anything Else) So New?
A recent twitter feud pitting William Shatner against Star Wars’ fans over the upcoming J.J. Abrams film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” raises questions about the originality of popular culture.
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Makers of Rolling BB-8 Droid from New ‘Star Wars’ Film Promise Hidden Tricks
Sphero’s version of the BB-8 droid featured in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is smaller than its movie-trailer analogue, but no less of a personality.Credit: Sphero/Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Halloween Asteroid Not So Spooky in New Photos
These eight individual radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 were captured on Oct. 31, 2015 using NASA’s DSS-14 antenna in Goldstone, California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
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Doctor guilty over death of boy, six – 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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How Bioprinting Has Turned Frankenstein’s Mad Science Sane – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
In the United States alone more than 120,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, and many will die before their turns come. What if they didn’t have to wait, because doctors could print out replacement organs on demand?
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The GOP’s Primary Rules Might Doom Carson And Cruz | FiveThirtyEight
In a few months, after Iowa and New Hampshire begin to winnow the field, the GOP nomination race could boil down to an epic final between a candidate with a more pragmatic image, such as Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina or Jeb Bush, and a more conservativ…
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What does it mean to be a ‘‘truther’’? We are all supposedly on journeys to truth. I had a rabbi tell me this once. And to be an agent of truth — a truth-teller — is a noble thing.
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Q&A: what are the new revelations about VW? | Business | The Guardian
So has Volkswagen been rigging CO2 emissions tests as well as diesel emissions? That is the implication of the oblique statement released by the German carmaker on Tuesay night.
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Keep Skype Out of the Taskbar With This Setting
Windows: If you use Skype, you might know that it is unusually difficult to get Skype out of the taskbar. If you want to keep the app active without it taking up all your space, hit this setting.
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First Click: The Apple TV changed my mind about gaming | The Verge
“I hate video games,” I wrote last year on the pages of The Verge dot com. “I hate how my obsessive gameplay disrupts all other aspects of my life. So I quit.” People lost their shit.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: GOP KY Governor win sets up ACA fight
On Tuesday night, it was the Democrats eating dust. Attorney General Jack Conway, who was expected to replace Beshear, lost in a rout to Tea Party activist Matt Bevin. Conway defended KYnect; Bevin called it a disaster.
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Tone-Policing on Twitter – The Atlantic
In his article on Twitter and the obstacles that it faces, my colleague Robinson Meyer persuasively argues that many people are alienated by the notion of speaking conversationally to their followers, only to have their words scrutinized in far-flun…
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Jury selected in rape trial of former Oklahoma police officer | US news | The Guardian
A prosecutor says a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting and victimizing 13 women became bolder and more brazen with each alleged attack.
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Former athletics chief investigated for corruption – Al Jazeera English
France’s financial prosecutor’s office has confirmed that the former head of the international athletics federation had been placed under formal investigation as part of a probe into suspected corruption.
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Even in my sleep I’m a slob. : AdviceAnimals
Even in my sleep I’m a slob. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/xzqbx7fknE https://t.co/3kb5QctsXb
Love Everyone Often 11/05/2015
Syrian government ‘profits from enforced disappearances’ – BBC News Syria’s government has been accused of profiting from a black market in which people pay huge sums to find relatives who have been detained or abducted. Amnesty International said officials and prison staff were benefiting from bribes paid to middle… tags:…
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