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Among socially conservative religious leaders, the rapid shift of the cultural and legal status quo on issues of sexuality has created a palpable sense of disorientation.
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Record warmth in the eastern US – Al Jazeera English
New York recorded its hottest November 6 in nearly 70 years on Friday, with a reading of 23C in Central Park in Manhattan. The previous record for such a high temperature on this date was set in 1948, according to the National Weather Service.
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Russian plane crash: Egypt says intelligence not shared – BBC News
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has accused unnamed countries of failing to share intelligence relating to the crash of the Russian Metrojet plane a week ago. The US and the UK have both said intelligence points to the strong possibility it …
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Before Hotline Bling: 12 Photos of Phones Through the Years
Weird Animal Question of the Week
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Turkey’s ‘free’ press – Al Jazeera English
Last week, fresh elections in Turkey saw the ruling AK party surge back into power. Turks cast their votes for the second time this year after elections in June saw AK party lose their parliamentary majority.
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When I’m watching TV and my GF gets out of the shower. : reactiongifs
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Alien landscapes on Earth : interestingasfuck
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F-you Florida Sky via /r/space https://t.co/AprGdLaSBO https://t.co/FlMyPB5XpN
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[OC] Bluebell forest, Somerset England (iPhone 5) [3,264 x 2,448] : EarthPorn
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There’s two ways to compromise. : funny
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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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The Supreme Court Takes Up a New Challenge to the Affordable Care Act – The Atlantic
On Friday, the Supreme Court granted review in what is likely to be the hottest-button case of the term.
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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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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Airborn is a fantasy adventure book set in an alternate world at some point in the early twentieth century. Most of the action takes place aboard airships, which are the only forms of air transport, since aeroplanes have not yet been invented.
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JFK assassination car licence plates to be auctioned – BBC News
The licence plates from the car which was carrying former US President John F Kennedy when he was shot and killed are to be auctioned. They are going on sale in Dallas, Texas.
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ELI5: Why is there a difference in voltage between America and pretty much the rest of the world (240V vs 120V I believe) and what are the impacts of this in terms of energy transport/conservation and usage. (self.explainlikeimfive)
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India PM rejects foreign ‘advice’ on Kashmir dispute – Al Jazeera English
Srinagar, India-administered Kashmir – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rejected foreign “advice and analysis” on disputed Kashmir as authorities scuttled a proposed “million march” called by pro-independence groups to protest against Modi’s …
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Girl with outside heart coughs : interestingasfuck
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Most bizarre death scene in TV history : television
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India v South Africa: Ravindra Jadeja spins hosts to victory – BBC Sport
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The High Cost of Instagram Modeling – The Daily Beast
The High Cost of Instagram Modeling https://t.co/haVDFtfag2
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Sierra Leone after Ebola: What next? – BBC News
Sierra Leone has finally been declared free of the Ebola virus, which has killed almost 4,000 people in the country since May 2014. Sierra Leone was one of the countries worst affected by the world’s largest outbreak of the deadly virus.
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Spinner Ravindra Jadeja took his third five-wicket Test haul as India beat South Africa by 108 runs inside three days in the first Test in Mohali. The Proteas, needing 218 to win, never recovered after a disastrous start left them 10-3 and were bowl…
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Former inmate warns of struggles Shaker Aamer faces after Guantánamo | US news | The Guardian
A former Guantánamo Bay detainee has spoken of his continuing struggle to adjust to life as a free man, warning of the challenges that face Shaker Aamer a week on from his release after 13 years of imprisonment.
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The High Cost of Instagram Modeling – The Daily Beast
I’ve written before about the high cost of having a high profile on social media and the dangerous addictiveness of having constant attention paid to you—but that attention being superficial “fan” attention that can turn hostile in the blink of an e…
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After Keystone, Bernie Sanders Is Already Leading The Next Climate Fight : environment
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Took this picture while I was in Canada. [ 4288 x 2416 ] : EarthPorn
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Two police officers have been arrested on charges of second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy during a pursuit of his father in a sport utility vehicle in central Louisiana, the state police said Friday. The off…
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week The Sharm el-Sheikh plane crash, Europe’s refugee crisis, Sonny Bill Williams at the Rugby World Cup Final 2015 – the best photography in news, culture an…
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Steering wheel on the Lamborghini Athon concept car : interestingasfuck
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I am extremely motivated to start a blog today after this : InternetIsBeautiful
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Dog wrestling with a baby bear… : AnimalsBeingBros
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November 7, 1929: The Museum of Modern Art Opens in New York City | The Nation
Ad Policy Skip to content Facebook Twitter Sign Up When MoMA opened on this day in 1929, little over a week after the great stock market crash that sent the country spiraling into Depression, The Nation published an article by Lloyd Goodrich, a prom…
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Mr. T, Joe Biden, and Other Celebrities Who Gave Us New Ways to Say “Bullshit” | Mother Jones
While researching my new book Bullshit: A Lexicon, I came across hundreds of words that refer to bullshit or bullshitters. Most of these words—like most words in general—don’t have a definite inventor. Word history is usually far too tangled to poin…
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The Saturday poem: Defence of the Islands| Books | The Guardian
• From The Poems of TS Eliot, volumes I and II, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (Faber, £40). To order copies for £32 each go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846.
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At Least 51 of My Colleagues Have Been Murdered Since 2003 | Mother Jones
Chamelecón is a neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where the streets are lonely and the houses are marked. On one side of the street, two initials stand out on the walls: MS, the familiar scrawl of one of the most feared gangs, or maras, in H…
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Reading with your ears: do audiobooks harm or help literature? | Books | The Guardian
It was Alan Garner’s audio story, The Common Dean, that started me thinking. This second in a series of Forest fables spins a mysterious yarn about an incomer discovering the history layered beneath the fallen leaves of an ancient Cheshire wood.
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Speed skating: can the US team shine after the failure of Sochi? | Sport | The Guardian
Speed skating has left a strong impression even in the fickle minds of the American viewing public. We remember dashing stars like Eric Heiden and Bonnie Blair, and we voted scrappy short-track skater Apolo Ohno to victory on Dancing With the Stars.
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Why NFL quarterbacks need to learn to love the slide | Sport | The Guardian
Less than 72 hours after Ryan Fitzpatrick tore at least one ligament in his left thumb while scrambling from the pocket, New York Jets coach Todd Bowles named him as the starting quarterback for Sunday’s game against Jacksonville.
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Taiwan, China heads Shake Hands at Historic Talks | Al Jazeera America
China and Taiwan must not let proponents of Taiwan’s independence split them, China’s President Xi Jinping told Taiwan’s president on Saturday at the first meeting between leaders of the two sides since China’s civil war ended in 1949.
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Alien landscapes on Earth : Breathless
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Girl managed to lose her pants on a treadmill : holdmyjuicebox
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Wingsuit flight at China air show in Zhaotong – BBC News
More than 30 competitors took to the skies in a dramatic wingsuit display in south-west China. They took the plunge from a mountaintop platform during an air show in Zhaotong.
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A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata / Boing Boing
When UK Home Secretary Theresa May introduced the new, sweeping UK spying bill this week, she reiterated her claim that metadata is like an “itemised phone bill” and does not contain anything harmful.
A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata https://t.co/qUy3P0icND -
Bernie Sanders tells voters he’s not grumpy – video | US news | The Guardian
The would-be Democratic nominee for president tells voters that the biggest public misconception is that he’s grumpy.
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Why It’s Time to Retire James Bond (As We Know It) – The Daily Beast
In 1964’s Goldfinger, nefarious Auric Goldfinger famously tells Sean Connery’s British secret agent James Bond—who’s strapped to a table, a laser beam slowly encroaching upon his crotch—that the purpose of this torture isn’t to make him talk. “No Mr…
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Sennheiser’s expensive new Orpheus headphones cost $55,000 : gadgets
Even if i sold my home still I wouldn’t be able to afford it. Not to be rude, but where do you live where houses aren’t even $55,000?
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Jordan Spieth surges into contention with 63 at WGC-HSBC Champions | Sport | The Guardian
Jordan Spieth’s intention to cap off an epic golfing year with another high-profile victory was endorsed in Shanghai on Saturday as the 22-year-old Texan carded a 63 to move within three of the lead at the WGC-HSBC Champions.
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Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism / Boing Boing
In The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism Across the World published this week in Current Biology, academic researchers from the US, Canada, Qatar, Jordan, South Africa, Turkey and China report on a study of about 1,2…
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Gamergate bogeywoman Zoe Quinn sells a memoir, movie about her harassment / Boing Boing
Zoe Quinn, sometime Boing Boing contributor and object of pants-wetting apoplexy by Gamergate’s jerk-squad, has sold a memoir telling her tale of being targeted for one of the Internet’s most grotesque and cowardly pile-ons, and had the film-rights …
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Once again, the SFPD blames a cyclist for his own death without any investigation / Boing Boing
47-year-old Mark Heryer was killed on October 11th when he was run over by a 38-Geary bus. The SFPD concluded, without investigation, that Heryer’s death was his own fault. The city will not release the footage from the bus’s camera — not even to H…
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Those big, splashy shows of gratitude to America’s soldiers at halftime? They’re the best patriotism the taxpayers’ money can buy. As much as $6.8M has been spent by the Department of Defense on secret payments to pro sports teams in exchange for tr…
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Brazil’s highs and lows: Why ‘Brazilians never give up’ – Al Jazeera English
For years, Brazil’s future looked very bright. A rapidly growing economy was moving millions of poor people into Brazil’s middle class. What has happened has taught Brazilians a lesson and when the economy becomes stable again, they will spend more …
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How Technology in Our Bodies Will Make Us ‘More Than Human’
Without technology, Michael Chorost wouldn’t be able to hear a thing. Such technology-based human enhancements are the subject of Breakthrough, More Than Human, airing Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern on the National Geographic Channel. The episode is direc…
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Her first blep! I only just managed to get the photo. : Blep
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A sleepy and at-peace blep : Blep
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Impressive talent via /r/gifs https://t.co/b08S2PA52Z https://t.co/vuyUaNfOTI
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Pay what you want for this incredible iOS 9 developer bundle / Boing Boing
Unlock a world of career opportunity by mastering the latest and greatest Apple platform, iOS 9. With hours of coding instruction and a library of pre-built app templates, you’ll be turning out amazing apps and writing flawless Swift code in no time.
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In his essay “Why I Write”, George Orwell looked back to the childhood springs of his writing: “I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts.” I have thought of that line a few times reading Jenny Diski.
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Decades After War, Veterans Fight for Home | Al Jazeera America
When he first showed up at a residential treatment facility in Sacramento, California, Roger Schultz’s life was a wreck. After serving as a cannoneer sergeant for five years in the early 1980s, three decades later, Schultz was living out of his truc…
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Haiti runoff candidate calls election results a ‘farce’ – Al Jazeera English
One of the candidates in Haiti’s presidential run-off has called the first-round results of the October 25 elections a farce, amid growing opposition protests in the impoverished Caribbean country.
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F 7 Såtenäs – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The decision to set up the air wing was made in 1936, but disagreements in choosing a location delayed the commissioning. The Såtenäs estate was chosen for its good location and close proximity to suitable target ranges, and was purchased for 685,00…
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Kindrogan, Scotland [3849×2160] : EarthPorn
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Australia v New Zealand: Aussie openers extend lead with centuries – BBC Sport
Australia v New Zealand: Aussie openers extend lead with centuries https://t.co/bwJ5ytxjag
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Spy at will! FCC won’t force companies to honor Do Not Track / Boing Boing
FCC won’t force companies to honor Do Not Track https://t.co/I9FWeWEDy0
The FCC has rejected Consumer Watchdog’s petition to force Internet companies like “Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn”) to honor the “Do Not Track” flag that browsers can send to web-servers, informing them that users do not … -
Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Hallelujah https://t.co/eTHS5xCnNv”
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Amazing Clever Sayings About Love I found : InternetIsBeautiful
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Openers Joe Burns and David Warner scored centuries as Australia continued to dominate New Zealand on day three of the first Test in Brisbane. By the close of play, Australia had reached 264-4 in their second innings to lead by 503 runs.
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Short story: The smell of home – Al Jazeera English
The letter came in the morning, but Emeka did not read it. Not straight away. He was convinced that whatever it contained would be harmless, nothing that could not wait. An invitation to an official function, maybe. It was not until he was getting r…
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Egypt plane crash: intelligence has not been shared with us, Cairo says | World news | The Guardian
The UK, US and others failed to respond to Egypt’s calls for greater coordination to fight terrorism and have not shared intelligence with Cairo about the crash of a Russian passenger plane last week, the country’s foreign minister has claimed.
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Tour Eiffel Paris from Trocadero.- [OC][4654×3032] : CityPorn
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MRW it now gets dark by 5PM because of daylight savings time – GIF on Imgur
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It’s real and it does exactly what it says it will: send Dumb Cuneiform a tweet or an SMS message and they’ll translate it into ancient Persian cuneiform, stamp it into a clay tablet and mail it to you. $20. It’s Snow-Crash-a-riffic. ARE YOU FOR REA…
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Analysis: The identity crisis in Tunisia’s ruling party – Al Jazeera English
The only success story of the Arab Spring may be at risk if the ruling Nidaa Tounes party devolves into smaller conflicting groups. Rising internal struggles within the party are seriously threatening its unity and its ability to remain in power.
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Celebrations as Sierra Leone is declared Ebola-free – BBC News
There have been joyful celebrations in Sierra Leone after the World Health Organisation announced that the country was free of Ebola. The outbreak killed over 4,000 people in an 18-month period.
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Many killed and injured in air strikes on Syria’s Douma – Al Jazeera English
At least ten people have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on a market in a Damascus suburb. Baraa, a Syrian activist in Douma, told Al Jazeera on Friday that Russian air strikes had hit the Kouatly market in Douma, just outside of the ca…
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Wenger, Mourinho, Sterling, Van Gaal, Ronaldo
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher feels this is Arsenal’s best chance to win the Premier League title and believes the Gunners will be waiting a long time for another chance as good as this season. (Daily Mail)
Gossip column: Rooney, Mourinho, Sterling, Van Gaal, Ronaldo https://t.co/GZc622iHrc -
A site that simplifies laptop specifications down to rankings : InternetIsBeautiful
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My aunts are awesome! https://t.co/O2N7OCVJvt https://t.co/aFzKfVdUEm
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The world’s most epic facts – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Did you know if all the dead came back to life there’d be 101 billion zombies? That there are only 400 tigers left in the wild? That some species of bamboo grow 91 cms in a single day? Adam Frost shares thrilling facts
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Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I’ve got the impression that most people just think that this is another same-old story. I, however, am finding it to be a wonderful book to read.
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My hero: Allen Ginsberg by Steve Silberman | Books | The Guardian
In 1977, I saw Allen Ginsberg read poetry for the first time in New York City. I was 18 and already familiar with poems such as “A Supermarket in California”, but nothing could prepare me for the sheer human power of his presence and delivery.
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The hidden lives of car parts revealed – interactive | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
In a circular economy, everything is designed so that nothing is sent to landfill. Use this interactive to learn what this means for the design of different car parts
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Thought Bubble, dirty politics and podcasts: the month in comics | Books | The Guardian
Leeds is a long way from San Diego, both geographically and philosophically, but perhaps that’s just as well.
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TPP will let banks write their own regulations and stick taxpayers with the bill / Boing Boing
One of the most controversial aspects of the secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership is its inclusion of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) — a procedure that allows a corporation to sue governments to get rid of laws that undermine it…
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Old decaying rowboat, Vatne, Norway (768 x 1024) : AbandonedPorn
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Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art / Boing Boing
In 1919, a 16-year old LA Times office boy named Kenneth Taylor was given a back-page spread to show off his typewriter portraits of film stars; Taylor’s work then spread to Photoplay, and a new medium was born.
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Baby cat and the evil hand! : StartledCats
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Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone to be declared disease-free – BBC News
Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone to be declared disease-free https://t.co/mWySPpEYav
People in Sierra Leone are celebrating ahead of expected official confirmation that the country is free of Ebola. The outbreak killed almost 4,000 people in Sierra Leone over the past 18 months. -
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Picture taken by me when i rest my home[2048×1536] : EarthPorn
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Understanding the Junior Doctors’ Contract and How It Will Affect Us All | VICE | United Kingdom
England is on the brink of a doctors’ strike, the sort of which hasn’t been since the 1970s. By now, you’ll no doubt be aware of the row surrounding the new junior doctors contract that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants to bring in next August.
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Annabel Pitcher is a YA novelist whose voice is irresistibly warm and sympathetic, drawing the reader effortlessly into her characters’ inner worlds. She writes about troubling issues with a light, often humorous, touch, and in prose that is easy on…
Silence Is Goldfish by Annabel Pitcher review – the quiet girl expresses herself https://t.co/IbggcahSBh -
Mothership Zeta: a new science fiction zine from the creators of the Escape Pod podcast https://t.co/w9ju7RiAso
New “first look images” from “Alice Through The Looking Glass” were released today by Disney. You used to call me on my cell phone. Late night when you need my cat food. -
Myanmar Votes 2015: Voices from the heartland – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar Votes 2015: Voices from the heartland https://t.co/9qyKwmvJZ4
Yay Tar Shay Village, Myanmar – Of the 55.7 million population in Myanmar, an estimated 70 percent live in rural areas, many working in the agricultural sector. -
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I’m 37 weeks pregnant and caught my husband cheating yesterday – GIF on Imgur
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The unsung heroes of the refugee crisis – Al Jazeera English
Gevgelija, Macedonia- With the refugee crisis squarely in the spotlight for the last several months the world’s attention has focused steadfastly on the bleak accounts of those fleeing conflict and war. Yet, within the shadows lays a group of people…
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Louisiana marshals face murder charge over boy’s gun death – BBC News
Two marshals in the US state of Louisiana are to be charged with murder after the fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy. Jeremy Mardis and his father, Chris Few, were in a car when they were shot in Marksville on Tuesday night.
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Shake Cats: The fur flies : cats
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I’m 37 weeks pregnant and caught my husband cheating yesterday – GIF on Imgur
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CAIRO — Six days after the crash of a Russian charter flight from the Egyptian resort area of Sharm el Sheikh, the government of Egypt is finding itself increasingly isolated in its resistance to the possibility that a terrorist’s bomb brought down …
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The Age of Reinvention by Karine Tuil review – lost in translation? | Books | The Guardian
You often hear sighs about the lack of translated literature in the UK, but if translation can be a bridge between cultures, it can also show up the gulf between them.
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US police officers arrested over fatal shooting of boy – Al Jazeera English
The head of Louisiana’s state police has announced that two law enforcement officers have been arrested over the fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy and the wounding of his father earlier this week.
US police officers arrested over fatal shooting of boy https://t.co/17mO1Afe72 -
AlbumHere’s a few of my favourite pieces that I’ve created over the last year… all done after hours. Hopefully one day I can quit my day job and get back to sleeping like a normal person! All acrylic on canvas. (imgur.com)
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A new anthology for Remembrance Day | Books | The Guardian
For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organied power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late fail…
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Caught a big one! via /r/cats https://t.co/O1ARpfIsT8 https://t.co/PpFAmJaWdc
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Sunset bleached clouds at WhiskyBay, Vic,Aus [OC] [2048×1365] : EarthPorn
Sunset bleached clouds at WhiskyBay, Vic,Aus [OC] [2048×1365] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/VOanlIWjVE https://t.co/03kDENgYaE
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Soul sucking. via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/LwC91fTYpW https://t.co/ftYaSPNC1P
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Nevada[OC][3264 x 2448] : SkyPorn
Nevada[OC][3264 x 2448] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/GghO9LnYy0 https://t.co/mO25IsXTKc https://t.co/eBJNIpAWdP
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Nevada[OC][3264 x 2448] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/GghO9LnYy0 https://t.co/mO25IsXTKc https://t.co/eBJNIpAWdP
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HMB while I use a leaf blower to emulate a helicopter. : holdmybeer
HMB while I use a leaf blower to emulate a helicopter. via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/c95PvaS4TI https://t.co/ry4Md3S42J
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Upvote if prime rib has had a positive impact on your life – Imgur
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In the opening chapter of David Constantine’s novel, 68-year-old Eric and his much younger wife, Katrin, a biographer of overlooked European Romantics, take differing approaches to the diagnosis of his terminal cancer.
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Waltham Forest ‘mini-Holland’ row: politics, protests and house prices | UK news | The Guardian
It was a lively scene outside Walthamstow Town Hall: hundreds of people, young and old, female and male of many faiths and ethnicities united in advance of a full council meeting against what they see as the heedless imposition of one of Boris Johns…
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Sulaimania and all that jazz – Al Jazeera English
Sulaimania, Iraq – “Give that boy 25,000 dinars [$20]! He helped me bring in the flowers,” said the man in the navy blazer and beige chinos. “And dim the lights, lower the music.” Chalak Salar lit up a cigarette and invited his guests to sit down.
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They’ll never find me. via /r/cats https://t.co/t4X2jUacBu https://t.co/Zv2QRmtE4Z
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/PkxU6eLDkl https://t.co/vq6bQwpfH5 https://t.co/7rmY9aJNfn
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/PkxU6eLDkl https://t.co/vq6bQwpfH5 https://t.co/7rmY9aJNfn
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This is usually how my diet goes. : TrollXChromosomes
This is usually how my diet goes. via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/cUc7Md5Ya6 https://t.co/Mg81Ib3Z1x
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MRW I go to Little Caesar’s on a Friday night. : reactiongifs
MRW I go to Little Caesar’s on a Friday night. via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/pn5Ds2AwdA https://t.co/8hmoWtZRy7
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Bison Basin Wyoming [OC][3264 x 2448] : EarthPorn
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Momo the Loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/3wWOA5HcX7 https://t.co/a0Ae4sqS4d
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Don’t miss out on free energy-efficiency measures | Money | The Guardian
Thousands of householders – particularly those on low incomes – are missing out on free energy efficiency measures, including new boilers, because they may not be aware that help is available.
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This is Wally. He’s deaf, loves people, and makes “silent meows”. : aww
This is Wally. He’s deaf, loves people, and makes “silent meows”. https://t.co/jQiomKZfLl
This is Wally. He’s deaf, loves people, and makes “silent meows”. (imgur.com) That’s cute, what about the cat? -
Oregon Coast[OC][3624 x 2448] : EarthPorn
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Boy Cats via /r/cats https://t.co/XH9tWS9mPX https://t.co/jRGU3zTxjR https://t.co/tLBs3b8TvR
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Boy Cats via /r/cats https://t.co/XH9tWS9mPX https://t.co/jRGU3zTxjR https://t.co/tLBs3b8TvR
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/RiZxA7DXqa https://t.co/JZ3W4QMMTj
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The Balance by Christian Schloe (x-post /r/UnusualArt) : ImaginaryMindscapes
The Balance by Christian Schloe (x-post /r/UnusualArt) via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes https://t.co/MXegLk1V8K https://t.co/I8JGdKRzMF
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First time someone has caught Minion blepping on camera. : Blep
First time someone has caught Minion blepping on camera. via /r/Blep https://t.co/Oa5IMcGdqB https://t.co/KeGKcS8AYU
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25 totally confusing photographs of nature[640×480] : EarthPorn
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Western Fence Lizard [3637×2433][OC] : AnimalPorn
Western Fence Lizard [3637×2433][OC] via /r/AnimalPorn https://t.co/vmlltfCrlp https://t.co/X3qJFMhSmR
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My cat has been perfecting his Netflix and chill look for the ladies : cats
My cat has been perfecting his Netflix and chill look for the ladies via /r/cats https://t.co/uv5p6r8IeP https://t.co/b7wgdwJkAG
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Because I’ll never grow up. : funny
Because I’ll never grow up. (imgur.com) Handguns don’t use clips, they use magazines.
Because I’ll never grow up. https://t.co/vq98tnZRBQ -
Beautiful hiking trail in Kaikoura,New Zealand[4112×3088] (OC) : EarthPorn
Beautiful hiking trail in Kaikoura,New Zealand[4112×3088] (OC) via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/ZQSIOygw3g https://t.co/TqoFwH6n87
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Two officers arrested over shooting dead of six-year-old Louisana boy | US news | The Guardian
Two officers arrested over shooting dead of six-year-old Louisana boy https://t.co/gJ0MwyzDoq
Two of the four police marshals involved in the shooting dead of a six-year-old autistic boy in Louisiana have been arrested, the head of the state police has said. Colonel Mike Edmonson gave few details of the arrests at a late-night press conferen… -
Species range of Homo neanderthalensis [970×463][OS] : MapPorn
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MRW I finally make my impotent boyfriend cum. : shittyreactiongifs
MRW I finally make my impotent boyfriend cum. via /r/shittyreactiongifs https://t.co/Cb806Mh7f2 https://t.co/BoOzo8BgdP
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A beer, a game, and Karl Marx for kids · Staff Picks · The A.V. Club
I never imagined that my favorite beer would be made a mere 1,500 feet from my doorstep, but that’s my fault for underestimating the unquenchable thirst of our nation’s greatest drinking town.
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IT’S easy to make fun of people in big cities for their obsession with gluten, or chia seeds, or cleanses. But urbanites are not the only ones turning away from the products created by big food companies. Eating habits are changing across the countr…
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Icefield Parkway, Alberta [3456×4608] [OC] : EarthPorn
Icefield Parkway, Alberta [3456×4608] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/fSKfB5hUvp https://t.co/pA3CnNvDKR
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Cheryl Strayed on 5 books by literally trailblazing women · Reading List · The A.V. Club
Cheryl Strayed on 5 books by literally trailblazing women https://t.co/smOlu7kRyr
With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading materials that are tied together by a singular theme. The reader: Cheryl Strayed knows how to talk the talk, and how to walk the walk. -
A Seismic Shift in How People Eat https://t.co/RtjRYj1VAM
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/8h1TzqERdL https://t.co/6qiRfjGm6R
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Some cats are big art enthusiasts. : cats
Some cats are big art enthusiasts. via /r/cats https://t.co/rf7FSQoh9h https://t.co/n4jt2AMXfu
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Russian plane crash: More Britons expected to return home – BBC News
Russian plane crash: More Britons expected to return home https://t.co/a8aDiUartD
The return of thousands of Britons stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh following the Russian plane crash is expected to continue over the weekend. The Department for Transport said 1,400 people arrived back in the UK on eight flights on Friday, and further … -
Don’t assume the worst of a person. – Imgur
Don’t assume the worst of a person. https://t.co/c8ySnbmZFP https://t.co/eTkQj490k9
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Beautiful Kitchen With An Amazing View (1000 x 663) : RoomPorn
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/1raH660dms https://t.co/CrumybWZa7
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playing with a ball via /r/foxes https://t.co/QWFnpshfmt https://t.co/PSzNAHe6dy
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/Hvc0EHtGxx https://t.co/uc1rCTgONO
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Halcyon mood shattered by a single shot | Environment | The Guardian
Along the dune-path, sloes and haws hung from thorn thickets, late flowers grew in profusion: bladder campion, herb robert, guelder rose, colonies of evening primrose, michaelmas daisies, clotted blooms of faded meadowsweet, rustling dry spikes of l…
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Threat Level: Dangerous : StartledCats
Threat Level: Dangerous via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/MRVWTEvN9t https://t.co/fVDx2qPAt4
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Actor Backstage Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Act of Faith https://t.co/pfETVOSq1R
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/gNHYGKbPTC https://t.co/jE4izqRBUk
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Actor Backstage Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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As tempting as it is to pigeonhole Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories as a skewering of anthology-horror series such as Tales From The Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, and even The Twilight Zone, it’s also incorrect.
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MRW I ask my daughter what she wants for Christmas and she says, “A doll.”. – GIF on Imgur
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Gears Simulator : InternetIsBeautiful
Gears Simulator (gearsket.ch)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Scumbag University : AdviceAnimals
Scumbag University via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/z2gVRTEMDx https://t.co/yIgMptjvVc
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As a female in a male body this is the best feeling in the world via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/Q88JbswGKR https://t.co/LKFZJ2QL9O
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/llYYu7NIYM https://t.co/6oEKviLQb1 https://t.co/66H1J3Einy
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meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/llYYu7NIYM https://t.co/6oEKviLQb1 https://t.co/66H1J3Einy
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Unraveling NGC 3169 via NASA https://t.co/jQTcqUSW3U https://t.co/dJf3jg74nT https://t.co/49Zc15iH9s
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Facing your God can be terrifying : funny
Facing your God can be terrifying via /r/funny https://t.co/fyI6rRaULS https://t.co/DFA052ZqU7
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APOD: 2015 November 6 – Unraveling NGC 3169
Explanation: Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 appears to be unraveling in this cosmic scene, played out some 70 million light-years away just below bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans.
Unraveling NGC 3169 via NASA https://t.co/jQTcqUSW3U https://t.co/dJf3jg74nT https://t.co/49Zc15iH9s -
Mount Shasta towers over it’s surroundings. [OC][4286×3214] : EarthPorn
Mount Shasta towers over it’s surroundings. [OC][4286×3214] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/wwBmvvVaFt https://t.co/klBUQ2taBL
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Beautifully color coded cabling : pics
Beautifully color coded cabling via /r/pics https://t.co/DSTjgukrc8 https://t.co/sYZRt2Ml7d
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Rape and the Indian male – Al Jazeera English
There is a plague that seems to have taken root amidst the Indian male. It baffles me as much as anyone else, be it sociologist, psychiatrist, the media, the law enforcement people, or the common men and women.
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me_irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/nl1QM5Qi2S https://t.co/Lke6On01ei
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Lord of the Rings voted ‘best movie soundtrack’ – BBC News
Music from The Lord of the Rings has been voted the best soundtrack of all time for the sixth year running. The Oscar-winning trilogy’s soundtrack triumphed over Schindler’s List and Gladiator in the Classic FM poll.
Lord of the Rings voted ‘best movie soundtrack’ https://t.co/IMxE4dQ4gc -
Bill Maher Bashes Tarantino-Hating Cops: They ‘Think They’re So Brave’ – The Daily Beast
The bulk of Bill Maher’s monologue Friday night concerned the inexplicable, continued rise of Ben Carson.
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The federal government has hit back as a key US senator accusing Australia of being “greedy” threatens to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
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Demon Cat…or, Get that damn light out of my eyes. : cats
Demon Cat…or, Get that damn light out of my eyes. via /r/cats https://t.co/Uua3KCHw5J https://t.co/IvnKFZrpUN
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Just my cat wearing his GPS collar : cats
Just my cat wearing his GPS collar via /r/cats https://t.co/gOxSn5rxt7 https://t.co/Y6q2uGVuM5
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HIFW the ex I’m still in love with texts me trying to be friendly. : TrollXChromosomes
HIFW the ex I’m still in love with texts me trying to be friendly. via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/YyGE9DROmX https://t.co/dwh2SgQili
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Frozen rain today. I rolled my window down with out it breaking : oddlysatisfying
Frozen rain today. I rolled my window down with out it breaking via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/YVnuUNdOwb https://t.co/nApIMRdX1z
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I love the way “Natural Spring Water” expands and contracts. It starts with an overhead shot of a hand holding three capsules containing potentially untrustworthy MDMA Tom got from somewhere unseen. They’re the seeds from which almost everything tha…
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World Cup 2010 in South Africa ‘triggered baby boy boom’ – BBC News
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa triggered an increase in the number of baby boys born in the country nine months after the event, a study says. The ratio of boys born in that period was the highest recorded between 2003 and 2014, the study in the…
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“Wonderful Surprises” · The Knick · TV Review The other half of The Knick · TV Club · The A.V. Club
Despite the fact that this episode contains a man accidentally setting himself on fire, Cornelia’s new secret nighttime activity, and the unexpected survival of Abby, the patient who swallowed malaria to catch the syphilis, “Wonderful Surprises” tec…
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After a series of episodes that have escalated the danger and stepped back from procedural activity, Grimm is back to a more familiar groove this week with “Clear And Wesen Danger.
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“The Price” · Reign · TV Review Reign juggles some monarchs above a grave · TV Club · The A.V. Club
Reign this season has ad habit of backloading its big moments and filling much of the first two acts with what amounts to complex busy work.
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At a social function with my girlfriend right now… : AdviceAnimals
At a social function with my girlfriend right now… via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/hZQSqZEkaL https://t.co/CxsLLgeiP2
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i’ll take an order of savage with a side of no chill – GIF on Imgur
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‘The Knick’ Recap: General Hospital | Rolling Stone
From Sons of Anarchy to Homeland, some of the best shows on television have slid over the edge into soap.
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This lumpsucker looks like it can’t believe what it is seeing – GIF on Imgur
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Open thread for night owls. Ann Jones: Afghanistan—the never-ending war against women
A few invaders strolled unopposed to the city center to raise the white flag of the Taliban. Others went door to door, searching for Afghan women who worked for women’s organizations or the government. They looted homes, offices, and schools, steali…
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Fast broadband for all by 2020 pledged by David Cameron – BBC News
Fast broadband for all by 2020 pledged by David Cameron https://t.co/wbkjMvLhdV
All UK homes and businesses will have access to “fast broadband” by 2020, David Cameron has pledged. The PM is to introduce a “universal service obligation” for broadband, giving the public a legal right to request an “affordable” connection. -
Walking in a Welsh rainforest | Life and style | The Guardian
Walking in a Welsh rainforest https://t.co/TREUhGF0xY
Does the phrase “save the rainforest” conjure up visions of: a) Brazil, b) Borneo, or c) north Wales? You may not know it but Britain is home to 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) of rainforest, in areas including western Scotland, Cumbria, south-west … -
MRW I’m jacking it and I hear someone walking to my room : shittyreactiongifs
MRW I’m jacking it and I hear someone walking to my room via /r/shittyreactiongifs https://t.co/mVvAQSDr4r https://t.co/3geFw1ybA5
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I think I need professional help : AdviceAnimals
I think I need professional help via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/RsvDtCfcZc https://t.co/2SiWvw0eg9
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Green Heron at Oso Flaco Lake | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Green Heron at Oso Flaco Lake by grandmasandy+chuck https://t.co/vQTjFe2kfN https://t.co/Hf2JymNb3y https://t.co/oEEx8VMrCF
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Green Heron at Oso Flaco Lake by…
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Washington Pass, WA[oc][10754X3585] : EarthPorn
Washington Pass, WA[oc][10754X3585] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/6lYlsCnhIv https://t.co/tHtem41Ulc
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Democratic forum – what we learned | US news | The Guardian
The three Democratic candidates for president sat down for a “forum” on MSNBC on Friday in which each was quizzed separately by host Rachel Maddow.
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Brangelina’s New Movie Is Boring As F**k – The Daily Beast
Ten years ago Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt blasted their way to marital bliss in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” as assassins who rekindled their spark in battle.
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Hillary Clinton seeks to outflank liberal rivals at Democratic forum | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton moved to the left on Friday night as the Democratic frontrunner took stronger and more impassioned stances than in the past on police violence and corporate influence in the United States.
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New York Attorney General Subpoenas Exxon on Climate Research : environment
New York Attorney General Subpoenas Exxon on Climate Research via /r/environment https://t.co/GRaRnT693D https://t.co/oEeYef3Xzy
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My pal-in-syndication Dave Pell of Nextdraft has a podcast with Phil Bronstein called What Hurts. Pell writes in today’s newsletter:
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How 007 Learned To Dress To Kill – The Daily Beast
Among the pulsing crowds of a Día de los Muertos celebration with all the giant skeletons, rhythmic drumming, and vibrant costumes, the camera focuses in on one man. He is dressed extravagantly in a long, black overcoat and a top hat.
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Jesus Freaks Huddle For The Gaypocalypse – The Daily Beast
Two people you didn’t realize are still running for president and one you couldn’t forget if you tried to are attending the “National Religious Liberties Conference” (Freedom 2015), a two-day conservative fest that started Friday.
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Spain Wants a Wall to Keep ISIS Out – The Daily Beast
MADRID — Terrorists following the lines laid out for them by the so-called Islamic State are setting their sights on Spain.
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Is it Time to Retire Princess Leia’s Gold Bikini? – The Daily Beast
Princess Leia’s iconic gold bikini, worn during the Star Wars heroine’s brief stint as crime lord Jabba the Hutt’s chain-bound captive in Return of the Jedi, may soon be phased out of the sci-fi franchise’s merchandise and marketing—much to the disa…
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What The Beckhams Can Teach Will & Kate – The Daily Beast
Had it not been for the (at the time of writing) 573,000 likes, it could have been mistaken for any other post on Instagram; a proud dad’s picture of his four kids, captured walking their dog in a darkening woodland park as the sun set.
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Will This Non-Asshole Win the World Series of Poker? – The Daily Beast
On the evening of November 8, nine men will confront one another across a card table in Las Vegas. They will be competing for the largest sum of money awarded in any competition—including the US Open, the Masters, and the Indy 500 combined.
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A Gun Safety Gadget the NRA Kinda Likes – The Daily Beast
Two Air Force buddies from Texas are developing a new, safer handgun—one that verifies the shooter’s identity before it can fire. And here’s the kicker. The National Rifle Association, which opposes almost all gun-safety measures, is actually okay w…
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The Stacks: A Night at Tootsie’s, the Bar Behind the Grand Ole Opry – The Daily Beast
Paul Hemphill was an accomplished newspaper columnist at the age of 32 when he was awarded a Neiman fellowship and spent a year at Harvard. That’s where this son of truck driver began to write a book about country music.
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Is Donald Trump the Modern Nero? – The Daily Beast
In his acclaimed history, Rubicon, Tom Holland charted the bloody origins and ruin of the Roman republic. Twelve years later, the British writer and historian has penned a sequel which focuses on the imperial family that shocked and transformed Rome.
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This Amazing Machine Lets You ‘Paint’ Mozart’s Music – The Daily Beast
Move over, Fantasia—a composer has figured out how to translate Mozart and Bach into moving artworks. Music is supposedly a universal language, a kind of transcendent tongue that encodes meanings mere words cannot capture.
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Will Trump Blow Up The GOP On SNL? – The Daily Beast
This weekend Donald Trump is hosting Saturday Night Live, and to the chagrin of the GOP, everyone knows it will be a ratings hit.
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How Japan Fell In Love With Whisky – The Daily Beast
On a recent Friday night, hundreds of drinkers waited patiently behind a rope policed by a row of beefy security guards to gain access to WhiskyFest.
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Can Asterix Finally Conquer the US? – The Daily Beast
Miroir, miroir, sur le mur, who is the best-selling French author of them all? Is it Jules Verne? Is it Alexandre Dumas? Perhaps it’s Hugo or Zola or Flaubert? Or could it be dear old Proust with his madeleines and cups of tea?
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China and Taiwan leaders to make history in Singapore – Al Jazeera English
China and Taiwan leaders to make history in Singapore https://t.co/IUVGGJaggP
Leaders of political rivals Taiwan and China are set to meet for the first time in more than 60 years for talks that come amid rising anti-Beijing sentiment on the self-ruled democratic island and weeks ahead of elections. -
New DeLorean Concept via /r/pics https://t.co/UqeG3AvwYb https://t.co/HedqMGU0Lk
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Finn & Jake via /r/cats https://t.co/q2kM4CU3Iz https://t.co/H090BgBxgo
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/9uIa2cXe9F https://t.co/u8IHaC1T0f
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looks like she needs to let the soup cool down before she gets burned. Oh too late! – Imgur
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Ben Carson: ‘Opponents trying to tarnish me’ – BBC News
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has accused his opponents of trying to “tarnish” him, after questions were raised about a detail from his autobiography.
Ben Carson: ‘Opponents trying to tarnish me’ https://t.co/PZoeFERT0k -
Bronte Beach headland, Australia [OC] [3609×2409] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Kcaf9DfS64 https://t.co/I3kmdULoOF https://t.co/UdZrqlTdQA
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A bit late; blame Amtrak.
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And if it is broke, don’t fix it.
A study of this magnitude undoubtedly brings up many questions, most notably: how could this happen? The answer: the system is broken. To quote directly from the article, “Resigning or being fired does not mean an officer loses the ability to work i…
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Horsetail falls – Columbia River outside Portland, OR (2448 x 3264) : EarthPorn
Horsetail falls – Columbia River outside Portland, OR (2448 x 3264) via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/o1z9FlvMUB https://t.co/8X9aqSdd8d
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This ball o’ floof just joined my girlfriends family : aww
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/7kEo4uTZtN https://t.co/QCSbYUgIFw
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/4NrqJvKFdq https://t.co/fML5fl4OnZ
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MRW I’m the Grinch and I learn the true meaning of Christmas : shittyreactiongifs
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YASSSS via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/bkdGJHsDZ6 https://t.co/MMmjfHCvO0
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Former Putin aide Mikhail Lesin found dead in US hotel – BBC News
Mikhail Lesin, 57, Russia’s former press minister and a one-time head of the powerful Gazprom-Media Holding group, died on Thursday, the RIA-Novosti and Tass news agencies report. Russian media, quoting his family, said he suffered a heart attack.
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Took some pictures at the New York State Fair. : firstworldanarchists
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Democratic presidential forum open thread #2
Rachel Maddow has questioned Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders, producing some great moments for both. Now she’s on to Hillary Clinton. As a reminder, this is a forum, not a debate, because the Democratic National Committee put limits on debates.
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Socialists ready to head left-wing coalition in Portugal – BBC News
Three left-of-centre parties in Portugal say they have reached a deal to form a government after last month’s inconclusive general election. It means the centre-right coalition of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho now looks set to fail in its attem…
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Mitch McConnell fights for dirty water, political time-wasting
The Senate voted on a motion to take up a bill sponsored by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) that would have killed the rule.
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Making Nuclear Waste Less … Nuclear – The Daily Beast
Nuclear waste is scary. What do you do with something that can give you cancer or potentially kill you even when it’s in the next room? For a long while, the status quo has been to advocate putting all our radioactive waste in a pit where it can’t h…
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Sherlock’s Father Makes Recovery Miserable in Season Premiere of Elementary
Sherlock Holmes and Jane Watson are back in the season 4 kickoff of Elementary, and it’s all about mistakes, forgiveness, and recovery. Holmes relapsed on heroin in the finale last season, and now he has to cope with the fallout with his daddy issue…
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Chloë Grace Moretz is your live-action Little Mermaid · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety is reporting that Kick-Ass star Chloë Grace Moretz will be the fin-bedecked lead in Universal’s troubled live-action version of The Little Mermaid.
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Ralph Wiggum Cut-Out Cake : pics
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Dozens missing in BHP-Vale mine disaster in Brazil as rescue continues | World news | The Guardian
Rescue teams searched through mud and debris on Friday for dozens of people missing after a pair of dams collapsed at a Brazilian mine owned by two of the world’s biggest iron ore producers.
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Anyone want to hear about what it’s like to be in a coma? – Imgur
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I can’t tell who’s happier – Imgur
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Burundi leaders warned to stop inciting mass violence – Al Jazeera English
The international community has condemned Burundi’s government for inciting violence amid a deteriorating security situation in the country and expressed alarm at a number of apparent summary executions.
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Leveraging Technology To Make Credit Credible | TechCrunch
The small-dollar credit (SDC) market — think payday and auto-title lending — is ripe for innovation and disruption. Most of the $44 billion industry consists of high-cost, low-quality products that lead people into cycles of repeat usage and mountin…
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Relaxing in the cat tree blep : Blep
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HMB while I surf in a boat. : holdmybeer
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The Thugification of Ben Carson – The Daily Beast
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The Thugification of Ben Carson – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson might well be the “Rick Ross” of presidential politics. In no small irony, the retired neurosurgeon—much like the chart-topping rapper— is under fire for allegedly misleading the public about parts of his life story.
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Poor BMO. He hasn’t appeared in a single episode this season, and being stuck in Finn and Jake’s tree house while they’re off having adventures has taken a significant toll on his psyche.
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Fall in Connecticut by My Grandfather [960×540] : EarthPorn
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What If You Had Every Friday Off? – The Atlantic
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Brain Responds To Driving Routes Repeatedly – Scientific American
From the backseat of a cab, the moves a driver makes may at times seem, let’s say, daring. In fact, cabbies may actually be better, more agile drivers than the rest of us. Because they know their streets so well.
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Badge of dishonor? Top cop gets thumbs down over Black Lives Matter Protest
The folks who want him: 11 of the 14 members of the Citizen Police Chief Appointment Advisory Committee.
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“I’ll show you how to drive” : gif
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Donald Trump Takes Shots at Ben Carson After Accounts of His Youth Are Questioned https://t.co/7TyZwSiuAR
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Beautiful Croatia [2448 x 3264] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Will Donald Trump be hit by SNL’s candidate ‘curse’? – BBC News
This Saturday, Donald Trump will host the iconic comedy show Saturday Night Live. Trump, who is running to be the Republican nominee for president, is looking to boost his visibility and popularity. But history shows that hosts do not have the last …
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Week in pictures: 31 October – 6 November 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Why does al-Shabab target hotels? – BBC News
On 1 November, al-Shabab militants attacked a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing 15 people. It was the latest in a series of attacks on hotels by the Islamist group.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/Ei9hVewCNk
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Chloe Moretz to star in Universal’s live-action The Little Mermaid | The Verge
Universal’s live-action retelling of Disney classic The Little Mermaid just got its confirmed lead and a potential screenwriter, according to a report today from Variety. Chloe Moretz, known best for her roles in The Amityville Horror remake and Kic…
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Donald J. Trump has become the first Republican candidate to take a hard swing at Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who is now leading in some national polls, over questions that have been raised about his claims of a violent childhood. Mr.
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Democratic presidential forum open thread
The forum runs from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET. You can stream it at http://www.msnbc.com/now if you have a cable subscription that includes MSNBC.
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Hemlock Gorge – A nature oasis in a Boston suburb [OC][4800×2400] : EarthPorn
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Orbital View: Ocean Currents (in motion) – The Atlantic
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The Indian film about beef that turned controversial – BBC News
A documentary on beef eating habits in India was withdrawn from a recent film festival in Delhi. But was the film really about beef eating? The BBC’s Vikas Pandey speaks to the students who made the film.
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Boats at the Harbor | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Boats at the Harbor by JuanJ…
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See Amy Schumer Geek Out Over Meryl Streep and Harrison Ford | Vanity Fair
This past Sunday, Amy Schumer cemented her position at the top of Hollywood’s hierarchy by accepting a Brittania Award alongside a select few actors including Meryl Streep and Harrison Ford.
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Exxon, Keystone, and the Turn Against Fossil Fuels – The New Yorker
“Bill McKibben looks at why President Obama rejected the Keystone Pipeline project.” https://t.co/inYtqNbTWM
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What is this black thing on my cats paw : cats
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The Iranians writing ‘Death to America’ on their hands – BBC News
The US and other world powers have done a nuclear deal with Iran. So who are the Iranians still scrawling “Death to America” on their hands – and their childrens’ too – and posting it on Instagram? For more videos subscribe to BBC Trending’s YouTube…
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Would the pyramids have made good grain stores? – BBC News
US presidential hopeful Ben Carson has attracted attention and some ridicule this week for saying Egypt’s pyramids were built to store grain. As most schoolchildren know, they were actually tombs for pharaohs. But where did the granary idea come fro…
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West Wing Week: 11/06/2015 or, “Top Prize!” on Vimeo
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the White House transformed into an Enchanted Forest for Halloween. The President traveled to Newark to discuss criminal justice reform,…
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Two lives ruined by heroin – BBC News
Heroin deaths in England and Wales have gone up by two-thirds in the last two years. The drug has become cheaper and more easily available, it’s purer than it used to be, and users often take it as part of a cocktail of other drugs.
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Johnny Depp to further bolster his reputation by voicing Sherlock Gnomes · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Reassuring anyone worried that his stand-out performance as Black Mass’s Whitey Bulger might represent some unsettling new shift in Johnny Depp’s cinematic trajectory, Deadline is reporting that the Rango star will soon be voicing an animated garden…
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Hannibal Buress doesn’t think his Comedy Central show is coming back · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In as affable a tone as he does pretty much everything—acting, telling jokes, bringing about the downfall of one of the comedy world’s most sacred cows—Hannibal Buress has suggested his Comedy Central series Why? With Hannibal Buress won’t be return…
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A 53Tbps Transatlantic cable (xpost from /r/pics) : interestingasfuck
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What happens when you use a shotgun to fell a grain silo. : oddlysatisfying
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Get More Money from Your Garage Sale by Gauging Interest in Items Before the Sale
Summer might be over, but you’ll still find garage sales here and there. If you want to get rid of more stuff and also price them appropriately, try this trick: Ask people to email you about items they’re interested in.
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Your last DK v. 4.0 west coast-friendly edition of Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold… [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!] JEERS to the Great Blackout Orangeout of Aught Fifteen. As you’re probably aware, Daily Kos 4.0 is a mere 18 (give or take) ho…
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Serial murder case: Adnan Syed allowed to present new evidence – BBC News
Lawyers for Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit US podcast Serial, will be allowed to present new evidence in his case after a court ruling on Friday. Syed, 35, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999.
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Pathway | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Alphabet and Facebook develop rival secret drone plans | Technology | The Guardian
Google and Facebook have significantly expanded their rival plans to develop unmanned aircraft that can provide broadband internet access from high above the Earth, the Guardian has learned.
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Students in Cañon City, Colo., could face criminal charges after an investigation found they were trading hundreds of nude pictures of themselves and other teenagers on their phones using special apps to keep the images secret, the schools superinte…
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Tamil Nadu to appoint India’s first transgender police officer – BBC News
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is to hire the country’s first transgender police officer after a court cleared hurdles that faced one applicant. But the state police board did not recognise a third gender, leading her to pursue a legal case against …
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Eritreans flee dictatorship for Europe | Al Jazeera America
Editors note: This is the first in a two-part series. Part 2 details the horrors of Eritrean refugees’ journey to Europe. LONDON — In the brutal misery driving an exodus of Eritreans to Europe, Feruz Werede sees both a national tragedy and a very pe…
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Reminder: Abortion is legal and you shouldn’t be paying for birth control | Grist
In this week’s Shots & Chasers, we’re giving you what you need to know about your reproductive rights now. Animal welfare is in with most fast food conglomerates, but Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC just don’t care.
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A first look at characters old and new in “Alice Through The Looking Glass” / Boing Boing
New “first look images” from ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS were released today by Disney.
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The lonely life of the Arctic weatherman – BBC News
Evgenia Arburgaeva is a young Russian photographer who has returned to the place of her birth to take haunting and beautiful images of lives lived alone. Her latest – Weather Man – takes as her subject the life of Vyacheslav Korotki, a meteorologist…
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Jennifer Lawrence And Natalie Dormer kiss on the lips. : gif
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Maryland judge orders Serial subject Adnan Syed’s case re-opened | US news | The Guardian
Adnan Syed will have the chance to argue his case in court, a Maryland judge has ruled, in a victory for the man in prison for murder whose story was told by the a record-breaking podcast.
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Hiring at American companies shifted into higher gear in October, helping to lift wages and clearing the path for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next month.
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On paper, Aziz Ansari’s Dev isn’t entirely dissimilar from Ansari’s Parks And Recreation character Tom Haverford. He loves gnocchi and gelato and bounce houses. But Tom was a manchild painted in broad strokes.
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Why Bernie Sanders Is Different From Any Past Socialist Running For U.S. President – In These Times
Once upon a time, socialists running for president in the United States had to explain that while they had no chance of actually winning an election, their campaigns were aimed at “educating” voters—about socialism. As a successful politician twice …
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: M42 – the Orion Nebula [1600×1076] [OC]
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The Rap on Carson – The New Yorker
Johnny Taylor’s “I Could Never Be President,” Percy Mayfield’s “I Don’t Want to Be President,” Blowfly’s very N.S.F.W. “First Black President”—there’s a long tradition of black musicians imagining the possibility, or impossibility, of a black Presid…
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Think Cat Pics Are Worthless? This One Sold for Nearly a Million Dollars.
You’re looking at “My Wife’s Lovers,” a painting done by Carl Kahler in 1891. It represents forty-two felines of an eccentric California millionaire, and it sold for $826,000.
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US Border Agency Rejects Body Cameras | Al Jazeera America
Customs and Border Protection staff concluded after an internal review that agents and officers should not be required to wear body cameras, positioning the nation’s largest law enforcement agency as a counterweight to a growing number of police for…
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Why the New Vatican Leaks Scandal Is Different – The New Yorker
It has been an unusually turbulent week in Rome.
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JonBenet Ramsey’s Father Still “Sort of” Thinks Her Killer Will Be Found
Barbara Walters sat down with John Ramsey for her new Investigation Discovery show, “Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals.” It’s been 19 years since baby beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her home; the Ramsey family wasn’t off…
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Milky Way over the Kalahari Desert [1531 x 1018] https://t.co/o5BSuRjAJq https://t.co/kECkBVezHH
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Create Your Own Stop Motion Movie With a Custom Raspberry Pi Film Rig
Shooting and combining the thousands of still frames required for a stop motion movie can be tedious, but this custom rig made from a Raspberry Pi can make the production process run a lot smoother.
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US: Gulf states need to do more for Syria’s refugees – Al Jazeera English
A senior United States government official has called on “wealthy” Gulf states and the world’s emerging economies to do more to help the record number of Syrian refugees stranded in camps or in transit to European nations.
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BBC Sport – Athletics corruption on a ‘different scale’, says report
Four men, including the son of former president Lamine Diack, have been charged by the IAAF with breaching its code of ethics. The quartet are Papa Massata Diack, the former head of the IAAF anti-doping department Gabriel Dolle, Alexei Melnikov and …
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The Japanese ‘Force Awakens’ Trailer Has A Few New Shots In It – Digg
29 diggs Trailers Movies And the first shot seems to confirm that yes, the big dark place is in fact a crashed star destroyer.
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Elusively Mind Blowing Moonrise and Milkway at… – Just Space
Elusively Mind Blowing Moonrise and Milkway at Burney Falls, in… https://t.co/zxMW7jLENb https://t.co/ZLaxsUx877
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Swedish woman denies Mr. Skeltal boning her : ledootgeneration
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On the fifth day, there was Blep! : Blep
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Lac bouchard | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” interpreted by some guy and his sleepy cat / Boing Boing
Cat collectors rejoice: the cult favorite mobile game Neko Atsume has finally made its way to Android—and soon, to iOS—in English under the name Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector. The Fuck Yeah Psychedelic Cats blog is honestly and accurately named.
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This Is Why NFL Star Greg Hardy Was Arrested For Assaulting His Ex-Girlfriend
Barefoot and frightened, Nicole Holder walked as fast as she could through the darkness, and the moment she saw the cops she ran. She headed west on Fifth Street toward North Church, away from the Charlotte., N.C.
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Scarlett Johansson might play Zoe Quinn in a movie about Gamergate | The Verge
Embattled former Sony chairperson Amy Pascal is producing a movie about Gamergate, one that might star Scarlett Johansson as developer Zoe Quinn. Deadline is reporting the movie will be based on Quinn’s upcoming memoir Crash Override: How to Save th…
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Scientists tinker with evolution to save Hawaii coral reefs : environment
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Bill McKibben on Keystone XL Rejection: ‘The Tide Is Starting to Turn’ | Rolling Stone
On Friday afternoon, President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden gathered in the Roosevelt Room at the White House to announce the administration had rejected a request by the oil company TransCanada to construct the …
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‘Nashville’ Actors Prove Singing Chops at CMA Songwriters Series | Rolling Stone
The big event in Nashville this week was the 49th annual CMA Awards, of course, but the next night the five leading men of ABC’s Nashville — Chris Carmack, Will Chase, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio — again walked the red carpet.
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George Takei: Life of Star Trek star makes musical – BBC News
This weekend, an uncomfortable chapter of American history will debut as a Broadway musical – the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans in remote camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Male Spiders Give “Back Rubs” to Seduce Their Mates : Awwducational
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Cat map by Whiskas [1984×1323] : MapPorn
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Support for making marijuana legal is increasing around the world, and that is a good thing. Earlier this week, the Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing the drug by giving four plaintiffs the right to grow cannabis for personal use.
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TIL Viking women were hard af : TrollXChromosomes
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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When Apple released the original Macintosh in the mid-1980s, the percentage of women majoring computer science was on the rise: 37 percent of computer science graduates were women. But in 1984, the same year Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh, that t…
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Eruption of Mount Rinjani, Indonesia : Image of the Day
In late October 2015, a 3,726-meter (12,224-foot) volcano on the Indonesian island of Lombok began erupting. In the days that followed, ash from Mount Rinjani blanketed towns and farmland across three Indonesian islands and shut down air traffic to …
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The Water-Resistant Oontz Angle Bluetooth Speaker is Down to $20
Everyone should own a good Bluetooth speaker or two, and now, you have no excuse not to. The highly-rated (and water-resistant!) Oontz Angle from Cambridge SoundWorks is down to $20 today as part of a Gold Box deal. Just be sure to grab yours before…
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Just a test. Please ignore. – GIF on Imgur
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New ‘Star Wars’ International Trailer Is Packed with New Footage
Audiences thought they’d have to wait until December to see more scenes from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” but a newly released international trailer features as-yet-unseen footage.
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Argentina Plaza de Mayo group locates founder’s grandson – BBC News
Argentine campaign group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo say they have identified the grandson of one of the group’s co-founders. Argentina’s military junta snatched hundreds of babies from their opponents in the 1970s and gave them to sympathiser…
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President Obama formally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline after more than six years of review by the State Department, he announced Friday.
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The Republican Debate Fiasco Is About to Get Dumb and Dumber | The Nation
The Republican presidential debates, a mangled attempt at discourse that everyone is now complaining about, are going to get a whole lot worse. It is not the fault of inept or partisan moderators.
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Hello! And welcome to our live coverage of the first Democratic presidential candidates’ forum of 2016.
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Google Adds Business Holiday Hours to Maps and Search
Nothing puts more of a damper on your holiday spirit than making a last minute run to a store that’s not even open. To help you avoid that, Google Maps and searches will now show upcoming holiday hours for businesses.
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Feeling something behind you? Keep walking! : perfectloops
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Taco Bell is a Crunchwrap Supreme jerk on food sourcing | Grist
Animal welfare is in with most fast food conglomerates, but Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC just don’t care. The residents of Mossville, La., have spent years living near multiple industrial plants and have the chronic diseases to show for it.
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Will Obama’s ‘No’ on Keystone Curtail Canada’s Oil Boom?
President Barack Obama’s rejection of a controversial U.S.-Canadian oil pipeline signals U.S. leadership on climate change, but it’s not expected to stop the growth in Canada’s oil production —at least not anytime soon.
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“Change never takes place from the top down,” he told his audience at the University of Chicago. “It always takes place from the bottom up.
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This lumpsucker looks like it can’t believe what it is seeing : gifs
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Bill Burr’s animated Netflix show will premiere in December · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A year ago, Netflix ordered Bill Burr’s F Is For Family, an animated sitcom following a family stuck in the ’70s, “a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport.
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Serial’s Adnan Syed granted motion to show new evidence at upcoming hearing | The Verge
Adnan Syed, the subject of last year’s wildly popular podcast Serial, was just granted a motion to re-open conviction proceedings for his murder case.
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Bill Nye gets a gritty photoshop makeover · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Best known for his endearingly nerdy demeanor, National Geographic somehow managed to make Bill Nye look like a grizzled badass in a photo for a feature story called “Bill Nye’s Global Meltdown.
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Rita Moreno by the pool, 1960? : OldSchoolCool
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Let’s Break Down The Fantastic Spectacle That is the Warcraft Trailer
At last, after years of teasing, the first trailer for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie is here. If you’re familiar with the smash hit video game franchise, it’s packed with secrets, hints and Easter eggs.
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The View from the Doctors Without Borders Hospital – The New Yorker
The first part of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, to be hit when an American AC-130 fired bombs at it, just after 2 A.M. on October 3rd, appears to have been the intensive-care unit. There were eight patients there; two …
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See the Moon, Venus and Mars in the Predawn Sky This Weekend
Venus and Mars will shine near the crescent moon before dawn on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2015. Jupiter will be shining nearby.
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So we got our cat a haircut. : cats
So we got our cat a haircut. via /r/cats https://t.co/tMx9ch7EIE https://t.co/Acs2M1OPbe
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Poopurr.exe has stopped working. : StartledCats
Poopurr.exe has stopped working. via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/9uQYbSXLki https://t.co/Vr19APSvdP
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Sen. Ted Cruz says Obama is afraid of ‘real journalists’ like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh
And, scene.
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Tyshawn Lee: Child’s alleyway ‘execution’ shocks US – BBC News
The news that a nine-year-old boy was executed because of his father’s gang affiliations has provoked widespread revulsion. Tyshawn Lee was lured from a park into an alley and shot several times in a crime that police are calling “unfathomable”.
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Russian plane crash: French ‘rule out engine failure’ – BBC News
The Russian plane crash in Egypt last week was not due to technical failures, French aviation officials familiar with the investigation have told the BBC. Other French officials said the flight data recorder suggested a “violent, sudden” explosion c…
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The Perfect Bond Movie: Sean Connery, Judi Dench, And A Watch That Blows Stuff Up | FiveThirtyEight
“Spectre,” Daniel Craig’s fourth (and possibly final) James Bond film, hits theaters Friday, and a few common themes have emerged from the reviews so far: First, that this is a highly serviceable Bond movie. Second, that it’s no “Skyfall.
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Julia Roberts Says She’s Been Pitched Plenty of Movie Roles Meant for Men | Vanity Fair
This past September, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney made headlines with their high-profile gender swap on the political drama Our Brand Is Crisis.
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Adele Song? | Rolling Stone
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Adele Song? Cast your vote in our weekly poll November
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SXSW Hit-and-Run Driver Sentenced to Life in Prison | Rolling Stone
Rashad Owens, the man who killed four people as he drove his car his into a group of people during South by Southwest in 2014, will spend the rest of his life in prison. A Travis County jury found the 23-year-old guilty of capital murder Friday, acc…
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The Milky Way Over Monument Valley https://t.co/9SPOsGdvzo https://t.co/paDCLvQcye https://t.co/kHosdBZpoy
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This Chart Explains How to Start a Fire in the Rain
Nobody wants to start a fire in the rain, but sometimes you have to. The Art of Manliness put together a visual guide that makes it easy to remember the steps to get a fire going. The basics here are pretty simple.
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CrunchWeek: Diversity, Candy, And Books Of Faces | TechCrunch
Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech.
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Lego Spaceport – Review and Time-Lapse Build | Video
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Confused Over How To Save For College? Here Are Answers : NPR
Many American parents face a tug of war over trying to save enough for retirement and saving for college. Some, like Lisa Carey, a 44-year-old high school history teacher in Tampa, Fla., and her husband, Peter, a minister, haven’t yet started saving…
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It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out… – Imgur
It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out… https://t.co/7TssMRspHN https://t.co/IA9sKF101f
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A 53Tbps Transatlantic cable. – Imgur
A 53Tbps Transatlantic cable. https://t.co/V3VrJ5yZfK https://t.co/VgzMrHmE29
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On the Existential Beauty of Peanuts | Vanity Fair
Peanuts exists on exactly two levels, and they are diametrically opposed. There’s Peanuts the franchise, an endless heap of decorative flags, lawn ornaments, and greeting cards stuffed with sunny generalities.
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Teen hackers have broken into law enforcement and employee records | The Verge
The same group that breached CIA director John Brennan’s personal email last month seems to have stayed busy. A new cache of data has been published, first discovered by Motherboard and apparently from the same group of hackers.
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George H.W. Bush remembers his presidency while Jeb! defends Dubya
“I am lost between the glory of Reagan — monuments everywhere, trumpets, the great hero — and the trials and tribulations of my sons,” Mr. Bush reflected on another day in Houston, where he also has a home.
George H.W. Bush remembers his presidency while Jeb! defends Dubya https://t.co/C0xQGUiYhQ -
Grumpy mini blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/6ibH1cELir https://t.co/oaUM7wxhpF
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Russian Military investigators stand near debris of a Russian airliner at its crash site in north Egypt, Nov. 1, 2015.
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The ‘Dox’ of More than 2,300 Government Employees Might Be Worse Than We Thought | Motherboard
On Thursday, the teenage hackers who broke into the CIA director’s personal AOL email account struck again, releasing a list of almost 2,400 names, emails and phone numbers that appear to belong to members of federal and local law enforcement, intel…
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Drinkers will know : AdviceAnimals
Drinkers will know via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/jIkJXxPQEP https://t.co/OnvqmLXTgK
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The Day Dylan Got It Right : NPR
Ever have a great run of great ideas — one after another? Bob Dylan did. In a span of 14 months — from January 1965 through March 1966 — Dylan created three classic albums in a row: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blond…
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NASA’s Super Guppy Eats Spacecraft Parts for Breakfast
NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft is one of the most extravagant cargo planes in the world. The awkwardly shaped aircraft has been in service since 1965, and was specifically designed to carry oversized payloads, like rocket stages and spacecrafts.
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Distant World by Halil Ural : ImaginarySkyscapes
Distant World by Halil Ural via /r/ImaginarySkyscapes https://t.co/UjAnZVEbJA https://t.co/5TPK5OlqSb
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/IPIGS2D4so https://t.co/yAuretWIhV
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Hillary Clinton unveiled new details of her long-awaited criminal justice reform agenda on Friday, offering the most robust explanation yet of how she would fulfill her campaign promise as president to end the “era of mass incarceration” and rebuild…
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Activision Blizzard cuts out the middleman, launches own movie studio · Newswire · The A.V. Club
No longer willing to see its immensely lucrative video game properties—which include Skylanders, World Of Warcraft, and the hideously popular Call Of Duty series—being brought down by lackluster film adaptations from outside movie studios, publisher…
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Read This: How MythBusters made science cool again · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Two weeks ago, MythBusters hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage announced that the show’s 14th season, which starts in January, would be its last. And yesterday, The New York Times published a piece ably explaining why we all owe MythBusters a debt o…
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BBC Sport – Salford City 2-0 Notts County
Coverage: Watch live on BBC Two (not in Wales) from 19:30 GMT. Follow radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Watch, listen and follow text commentary on BBC Sport website
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Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864 : OldSchoolCool
Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/x9e4gcwTRL https://t.co/4Xv36D1LIH
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Rainy day on a Toronto construction site [OC] [1600×1067] via /r/CityPorn https://t.co/IlSkxniJeF https://t.co/HQZiu9Fvfw
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Ice Lakes Trail, CO [1080×1920] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/wZPXu9P4N2 https://t.co/1icPzrec2z
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As Orbital seeks to fly again, new photos of its dramatic crash last year | Ars Technica
It’s a cliche but also true: rocket science is hard. And it’s been a difficult year for Orbital ATK, the American company that designs and builds small- and medium-sized rockets.
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The Value of an End of the Week “Brain Dump”
This post originally appeared on The Simple Dollar. A brain dump is an idea that I picked up from David Allen’s wonderful book Getting Things Done, which I have lauded and extensively discussed in the past.
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Samsung takes free giveaways to the extreme to boost Galaxy sales | The Verge
Samsung would very much like you to buy a new Galaxy phone. In fact, it’s bribing you with $350 worth of accessories, plus $50 in cash, if you would so kindly buy any one of its four new smartphones in the next 16 days.
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The Vergecast 178: The state of Android, smartwatches and Twitter hearts | The Verge
This week brought no shortage of topics to discuss, but one item stood out among the smoke and mirrors.
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NASA wants you… to be its next flag football referee | The Verge
Earlier this week, NASA announced that it’s about to open up a whole new round of astronaut applications. Hopeful applicants in this crop might someday orbit the Moon, or take the first steps on Mars — if they’re made of the right stuff, that is.
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Innovating In A World Of Patent Lawsuits | TechCrunch
This fall, Apple once again won the dubious honor of dominating the conversation on patent infringement. First, it lost a ruling in Germany’s top civil court over the slide-to-unlock feature, backing an earlier ruling in favor of Motorola Mobility. …
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Some Texans Puzzled By Keystone XL Pipeline Rejection : NPR
President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline provoked cheers from environmental groups and a little bit of head scratching in the state of Texas.
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Environmentalists Cheer Keystone XL Pipeline Decision As ‘Decisive Moment’ : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers interviews environmentalist Bill McKibben, who founded 350.org, about why he’s celebrating Obama’s veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, even though the next president can reverse it.
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That’d better be a steering wheel via /r/funny https://t.co/fKrcBeQlcj https://t.co/D7wxM401DN
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Letters to the Editor: Doxing the KKK, Websites Leaking Your Data, and Comments | Motherboard
Readers of Motherboard! Features editor Brian Anderson here. Hope everyone is doing well. It’s been nearly a month since Motherboard decided to replace comments with something better: letters to the editor. It’s been nice hearing from so many of you…
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Flashback: Watch Chris Stapleton, Little Big Town Sing ‘Elvira’ | Rolling Stone
Flashback: Watch Chris Stapleton, Little Big Town Sing ‘Elvira’ The CMA Awards’ big winner teamed up with the vocal group while on the Pain Killer Tour to sing the Oak Ridge Boys’ classic
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This hay is growing hay. : mildlyinteresting
This hay is growing hay. via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/HD08FLNR8I https://t.co/ciTd5v02Fo
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See Portraits of the Queen and the Royal Household Like You’ve Never S | Vanity Fair
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One of the first free towns founded by former slaves is being taken over by Big Oil | Grist
It involves a fungal infection. Follow along as a science educator from the Alliance for Climate Education finds lively ways to teach teens about rising temperatures.
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Is All Social Media Evil or What? | Vanity Fair
YouTube Digest is a look at some of the most popular, or interesting, new videos of the week.
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Angry tweets from Republican leaders on the Keystone XL decision | Grist
It involves a fungal infection. Follow along as a science educator from the Alliance for Climate Education finds lively ways to teach teens about rising temperatures.
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“Forbidden Love” by Gedogfx : ImaginaryMindscapes
“Forbidden Love” by Gedogfx via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes https://t.co/uiMvbmepe3 https://t.co/cKr3DCeE3u
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James Bond’s Randy Sex Puns, Ranked From Corniest To Suavest | UPROXX
Spectre, the latest go-round with Daniel Craig’s 007, is expected to dominate the box office when it premieres this weekend.
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Cuteness = 2(pi)*r via /r/cats https://t.co/kolPc4AKX0 https://t.co/REDx3328cl
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Library of the Paris Conservatory of Music, 1895 [2591×1984] : bookporn
Library of the Paris Conservatory of Music, 1895 [2591×1984] via /r/bookporn https://t.co/I6niNPQEfR https://t.co/apTN9nkiLg
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Two things are hurtling towards people faster than an old smuggler’s ship going into hyperdrive—the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and holiday advertising. Well, one of those has already arrived. The annual John Lewis holiday ad for the U.K.
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Facebook is censoring links to competitor social network Tsu and deleting old mentions / Boing Boing
Log in to Facebook, create a post, and type in “Tsu.co.” Facebook will censor the link on all its platforms. That means facebook.com, as well as Messenger, Instagram, and the Facebook apps for iOS and Android. Facebook did something a lot scarier, t…
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The first teaser for The Wiz Live! is here · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
In less than a month, NBC will air its third annual live musical event. But unlike earnest old-fashioned classics The Sound Of Music and Peter Pan, NBC is going slightly more modern for its third outing.
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BBC Sport – Nottingham Forest 1-0 Derby County
Nottingham Forest have Henri Lansbury and David Vaughan available after suspension for the visit of their East Midlands rivals. Fellow midfielders Michael Mancienne (knee) and Robert Tesche (foot) are expected to miss out.
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Bond producer says Daniel Craig will return as 007 in For More Money Only · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Bond film producer Michael G.
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Galaxy with 1000 Rubies – M83 js – Just Space
Galaxy with 1000 Rubies – M83 js https://t.co/jbhbJarfRW https://t.co/kRrKi7QGRJ https://t.co/wE5RJ4g7b3
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Galaxy with 1000 Rubies – M83 js…
Galaxy with 1000 Rubies – M83 js https://t.co/jbhbJarfRW https://t.co/kRrKi7QGRJ https://t.co/wE5RJ4g7b3
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Leaders from business, welfare, the conservation movement, the electricity sector and the union movement have moved to try to fill Australia’s climate policy vacuum by starting a new slogan-free debate to help political parties find workable greenho…
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Google acquires Fly Labs to build video editing tools for Google Photos | The Verge
Google said today it has acquired Fly Labs, maker of four iOS apps for quickly editing video, and will put its team to work on Google Photos.
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Luck Of The Flip: New England Patriots Defy Probability With Coin Toss Wins : NPR
The New England Patriots have recently been very lucky. NPR’s Kelly McEvers and Robert Siegel explain the probability of the football team winning the last 19 out of 25 coin tosses.
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VA Restores Benefits To Vietnam Vet After Believing He Was Dead : NPR
A Vietnam veteran tells NPR he was recently informed by the Department of Veterans Affairs that it believed he was dead. The VA’s records for tens of thousands of other people remain flawed; agency officials say they don’t know in many cases whether…
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Batmobile Creator George Barris Dies At 89 : NPR
George Barris, who created the Batmobile through his work customizing cars, has died.
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‘Destiny And Power’ Reveals Elder Bush’s Criticism Of His Son’s Administration : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Jon Meacham about his biography of George H.W. Bush, which includes the elder Bush’s criticism of his son’s administration when it came to the second war in Iraq.
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In The Post-Obama Age, Democrats Look To Inspire Southern Black Voters : NPR
African-American voters turned out in record numbers for Barack Obama’s historic campaign in 2008 and again in 2012. As the top Democratic presidential candidates meet at a forum in South Carolina Friday night, NPR explores what is on the minds of b…
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Russia Suspends Flights To Egypt Amid Probe Into Plane Crash : NPR
Russia has become the latest country to suspend tourist flights to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, after the crash of a Russian jet in the area on Saturday.
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Obama: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Undercut U.S. Leadership On Climate Change : NPR
President Obama announced Friday that he rejected a permit to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The controversial project would have carried oil harvested from tar sands in Canada.
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Ben Carson Faces Scrutiny Over West Point Story : NPR
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is facing scrutiny over his biography, which states he was offered a scholarship to the U.S. military academy at West Point. It turns out, Carson never applied to the academy, his campaign said Friday.
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Canada’s Trudeau Expresses Disappointment In U.S. Decision On Keystone XL : NPR
Canadian Company TransCanada took a blow Friday when President Obama announced he was rejecting its request to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would have helped transport hundreds of thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sands oil from A…
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Week In Politics: Jobs Report, President George H.W. Bush Biography : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss the economy, and how a biography on President George H.W. Bush will…
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The Sounds Of James Bond, From The Editors Who Created Them : NPR
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg won the Oscar for their sound work on Skyfall. Now they’re back with the new James Bond movie, Spectre. NPR’s Becky Sullivan talks to the pair about just what a sound editor does.
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As Brazil’s Currency Falls, Florida Struggles To Attract Tourists : NPR
As Brazil’s currency has fallen in value, so has Brazilians’ buying power. This isn’t just clear in Brazil, but its effects are also being felt in Florida, a popular shopping destination for Brazilians when they’re feeling flush.
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Interview: Bryan Cranston, Actor In ‘Trumbo’ : NPR
Dalton Trumbo was a successful Hollywood screenwriter in the 1930s. Like other writers, his anti-fascism and pro-working-class politics led him to join the American Communist Party. Then in the ’40s, Trumbo was part of a group of screenwriters who w…
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Brazil’s Economic Downturn Disrupts Development In Miami : NPR
Economic challenges in Brazil and other foreign countries — plus a strengthening U.S. dollar —are having an impact in Miami. Developers are seeing a decline in demand from international buyers that’s already led some projects to be cancelled.
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Obama Rejects Plans To Build Keystone XL Pipeline : NPR
After seven years of study, the Obama administration has rejected plans for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline. The move comes on the eve of an international climate summit.
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Make Animated GIFs from Still Images in OS X with a Right-Click
Have a bunch of still images you’d like to turn into an animated GIF? Blogger Jacob Salmela’s shows off how to add that option to the right-click menu with Automator. First off, you’ll need a utility called Imagemagick installed.
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Meet one of the world’s most groundbreaking scientists
As the dish of steamed chicken feet clattered onto the table, an impish toddler drummed with her chop sticks. Nobody in the noisy restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown gave a second glance at the man dressed in a polo shirt and jeans enjoying dim sum wit…
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Scottish man indicted for Twitter-based stock fraud | Ars Technica
The US Attorney for Northern California has indicted a Scottish man on charges that he illegally manipulated stock prices with a simple Twitter account.
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Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Photos Team | TechCrunch
Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months. Their suite of apps will be available for the next three months.
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The FCC won’t force websites to honor ‘Do Not Track’ requests | The Verge
In a spot of bad news for privacy advocates, the FCC explained today that it will not force websites to accept “Do Not Track” requests, which are used to ask websites to not follow visitors around the web through advertising networks and analytics s…
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One of 2013’s Most Beautiful Stop-Motion Shorts Is Finally Online
Christophe Peladan’s Goutte d’Or is so brilliantly conceived and executed, all other undead pirate stories (looking at you Pirates of the Caribbean) will fall from memory. Warning: mildly NSFW due to naked half-octopus woman.
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All Hail Disco Coldplay: ‘Adventure of a Lifetime,’ Reviewed – The Atlantic
At some point, it’s typical for rock bands who’ve conquered their genre to dabble in dance. The Rolling Stones did it, the Clash did it, U2 did it, Arcade Fire did it. Now Coldplay have done it, with a gloriously absurd, “Get Lucky”-aping new single…
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Track of the Day: ‘The Devil Named Music’ – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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#HORROR: The Most Well-Connected, Artsiest Scary Movie of the Year | Vanity Fair
What’s a horror movie doing with original artwork from the likes of Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente, and with performances from the likes of Timothy Hutton and Chloë Sevigny? #HORROR is not what you would expect from the average genre offerin…
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My friend asked for a bite of my burrito… He’s an asshole : pics
My friend asked for a bite of my burrito… He’s an asshole via /r/pics https://t.co/Y7fimBpcq2 https://t.co/MENJJkB5Uw
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Keystone XL Wasn’t About Jobs Or The Climate — It Was All Politics | FiveThirtyEight
During Keystone XL’s seven-year review process, the pipeline’s political significance ballooned far beyond its measurable consequences. In partisan narratives, it was often framed as a fight pitting jobs against the climate and energy security again…
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The Truth About Ben Carson: Smart People Can Believe Crazy Things | The New Republic
The mystery of Ben Carson is that he’s a startlingly intelligent man with an inspiring life story who repeatedly makes unhinged assertions that are divorced from reality—and who, as we now know, unnecessarily embellishes his life story.
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Zinc alloy herb grinder for $9 / Boing Boing
This heavy duty grinder is a must for anyone who purchases culinary herbs as buds. It has a pollen screen to capture all the cumin pollen that falls through it when grinding cumin buds.
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Further expanding beyond consoles, Activision announces a film division | Ars Technica
Reuters reports the first project will be an animated TV series based on Skylanders, but Activision said Call of Duty wouldn’t be far behind.
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October Puzzler Answer: Salt Glaciers in Xinjiang : Earth Matters : Blogs
Congratulations to Shadab Raza, a geologist with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, for being the first reader to decipher the location of our October Puzzler, Xinjiang in western China. Jonathan Aul followed up later in the day with the exact…
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No one needs a tape gun for making 3D prototypes, but I want this one | The Verge
Look, interior design is important and takes a lot of thought. That’s why a team at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design created what they call the “Protopiper,” a handy prototyping device that lets the user turn tubes of tape into sturdy 3D struc…
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One of the challenging things about Starz’s ballet drama Flesh And Bone is that by the end of the pilot, viewers may think they already know everything important about the characters.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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Pumpkin spice everythinngggg : pics
Pumpkin spice everythinngggg via /r/pics https://t.co/RiHokcryps https://t.co/9o69yKqsib
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The Law in GIFs: An Extremely Rude Appeal | Motherboard
Every week there’s a veritable plague of new lawsuits, hearings, appeals, and Congressional bills. How is anyone supposed to keep up with what’s happening in cyberlaw? With a GIF summary of course.
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My kitty Greystripe via /r/cats https://t.co/QtJYUWR5td https://t.co/mgk82c1g3g
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Children of same-sex couples will not be able to join the Mormon Church until they turn 18 — and only if they move out of their parents’ homes, disavow all same-sex relationships and receive approval from the church’s top leader
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She keeps stats on all the cars. “Losers” are given to her brother… – Imgur
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Wingnut Week In Review: “Diva Demands” For the GOP Debates
Ya gotta hand it to the GOP presidential candidates. It takes either incredible skill or monumental stupidity to get President Obama and Fox News to agree. But their “diva demands” for future debates did it.
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Activision Blizzard to launch a TV and film studio – BBC News
Activision Blizzard, maker of the Call of Duty video game, announced it will make original films and TV series. The newly formed Activision Blizzard Studios will base the shows and movies on the company’s games.
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Can Clinton Mend Fences With Netanyahu? | The Nation
For Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, cozying up to Israel’s right-wing leadership—or at least eschewing criticisms of it—seems like a no brainer.
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Pumpkin Carving via /r/funny https://t.co/EJnrBIBIKa https://t.co/seN9Y5IIL4
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What the Flux? No Sign of Aliens Around Strange, Dimming Star
If alien civilizations are broadcasting from around a strangely behaving star, they aren’t chatting loud enough for humans to hear them from Earth, new observations show.
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Donald Trump’s SNL appearance is going to be a shitshow · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Usually, all Saturday Night Live’s crew has to worry about during a live taping is the cast getting a bad case of the giggles, or perhaps a wig slipping off of Kenan Thompson’s head mid-sketch.
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Four Reasons Obama Rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline | The New Republic
President Obama and the State Department on Friday officially rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Browsecurely Brings Secure Browsing to Any App on iOS
iOS: Tons of apps have built-in browsers and a number of them use their own code instead of Safari. This lets them track what you’re doing and tends to be an underwhelming experience. Browsecurely fixes that so you can open any link with Safari rega…
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A little more than a year ago, my former college Erika Eichelberger wrote about the fact that, for many, the rent is simply too damn high (I chipped in with some pretty charts illustrating an ugly problem).
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The current Republican frontrunner said investigations into his past that have shown inconsistencies in various childhood stories are a ‘bunch of lies’. Carson was responding to questions about specific details recounted in his book Gifted Hands.
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Burundi violence: UN condemns ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ – BBC News
The UN secretary-general has condemned “inflammatory rhetoric” amid growing concern at the escalating violence in Burundi. The Brussels-based International Crisis Group says the language is “chillingly similar” to that used in Rwanda before the geno…
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From Sandy to Bridgegate: the peaks and pits of Chris Christie’s career | US news | The Guardian
When Fox Business Network announced the lineup on Thursday for the next Republican debate, New Jersey governor Chris Christie was relegated to the “undercard” event for the first time due to his low poll ratings.
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Graphic novel version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Boing Boing
Troy Little created a graphic novel version of Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo memoir, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and he is keeping a comic book diary of his book tour. Here are a couple of pages. “I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a profes…
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Rod Stewart Has a New Song Called “Batman Superman Spiderman” and It’s Driving Me Insane
Just an FYI: Rod Stewart has a song on his new album, Another Country, that is really called “Batman Superman Spiderman.” It’s apparently a lullaby he wrote his 4-year-old kid, which is kind of sweet, until you listen to the song and life stops maki…
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Spacewalking Astronauts Tackle ‘High-Flying Plumbing’ Job on Space Station
Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren return to the Quest airlock after over 7 hours outside the International Space Station Nov. 6.
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In the first two weeks of the Keystone fight, we couldn’t get any press to pay attention to our work to defeat the environmental disaster we knew it would be if it were approved – none at all. Because back then in the summer of 2011 everyone knew th…
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Only Dozens of Refugees Resettled in EU | Al Jazeera America
A first group of refugees will be relocated to Spain from Greece this weekend, the Spanish government said Friday, as part of the European Union’s program to redistribute arriving refugees more equally across EU countries.
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This has happened twice so far this semester : AdviceAnimals
This has happened twice so far this semester via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/xPUJ9hpC9g https://t.co/Do4Alf1SuE
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Linux Ransomware Is Now Attacking Webmasters | TechCrunch
A new bit of ransomware is now attacking Linux-based machines, specifically the folders associated with serving web pages. Called Linux.Encoder.1 the ransomware will encrypt your MySQL, Apache, and home/root folders. The system then asks for a singl…
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Hoosier Daddy: Indiana’s ‘Peyton’ Baby Boom | FiveThirtyEight
Peyton Manning was more than just a superstar in Indiana; he was an inspiration for baby names. Manning comes back to Indianapolis this weekend when his Denver Broncos play the Colts on Sunday. And there will be a whole lot of new Peytons watching.
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Fame really does have its perks, even if those perks are ones that many people would consider icky, off-putting, and wholly inappropriate for dinner party conversation.
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What a Sports Bra (Probably) Doesn’t Do
If you have breasts, you’ve probably figured out a sports bra’s most important job: preventing the pain that can come from bouncing as you jog or jump. The idea that the right bra can prevent sagging over time, though, is somewhere between a myth an…
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Outkast once said no to performing at the Super Bowl · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stop worrying about whether Maroon 5 will perform at the Super Bowl next year (you only watch the commercials anyway, right?) and take a trip down memory lane with previous halftime-invitee Big Boi of Outkast.
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The new trailer for Warcraft—a movie that feels a lot more exciting when we think of it as “the third film from Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones” than “a video game cutscene stretched to two hours”—hit the internet today.
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With The Force Awakens due out next month, it feels like a good time to look back at the first series of Star Wars films. The now-defunct Kenner Products had the toy rights for Star Wars, and it really made the most of them.
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Inside the Kremlin [1911×913] : RoomPorn
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How Scarlet Witch’s New Comic Uncovers The Mystic Marvel Universe—And The Scarlet Witch Herself
Sister of Quicksilver. Wife of Vision. Daughter of Magneto (or not). X-Man. Avenger. We know these facts about Wanda Maxmimoff, but really, who is Scarlet Witch? Ahead of her first-ever solo series, we sat down with writer James Robinson to discuss …
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Women Are Beating Men at Retirement Savings – The Atlantic
In the U.S., the average woman is expected to live five years longer than the average man—a fact that leads to the financial advice that women should probably save more for retirement.
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World of Warcraft’s next big expansion, Legion, is coming out this coming summer, Blizzard confirmed today at Blizzcon. Also Illidan Stormrage is coming back! Are you PREPARED? I’m not. Watch the fantastic new trailer above.
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Have UN-led talks in Libya been compromised? – Al Jazeera English
For the past year and a half, rival militias loyal to rival goverments in Libya, have been fighting what has been described as a low-level civil war. And the UN’s envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, has been trying without success, to push the two side…
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Sina Schmocker asks for a minute to think before responding. “I have really enjoyed seeing the whales and the other animals,” she said. “But I am really shocked by how little space they have.
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‘Home of the Brave’: Laurie Anderson in concert (with William Burroughs)|Dangerous Minds
Laurie Anderson’s 1986 film, Home of the Brave, a cinematic documentation of her Mister Heartbreak concert tour, was shot in Union City, NJ, in the summer of 1985, at the Park Theater.
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Amazon Will Never, Ever, Replace Public Libraries | Motherboard
This week, Amazon unveiled a brick and mortar bookstore in Seattle’s University Village. It was covered widely across the press, and the Atlantic was even inspired to wonder: “Did Amazon just replace the public library?” But the difference between t…
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An Attempted Suicide Forced a Tumblr Community to Open Its Eyes About Bullying | Motherboard
On the internet, the most horrifying place you can find yourself trapped is an echo chamber. It’s hard to remember that harassment isn’t solely the domain of wingnuts, MRAs, or petulant twenty-something men with something to prove.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor Are Headed to the Supreme Court – The Atlantic
On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to tackle the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns who believe, along with some priests, a Roman Catholic Archdiocese, and several universities, that the government is compelling them to violat…
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Review: In the superb Master of None, Aziz Ansari is coming straight for your heart | The Verge
It feels like almost every network has its own modern New York comedy.
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Doha at Night [2885×1159] : CityPorn
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Palestinians bury teenage fisherman shot by Egypt navy – Al Jazeera English
Gaza City – Palestinian residents of the besieged Gaza Strip gathered in the southern city of Rafah for the funeral of 18-year-old Faris Meqdad, a fisherman who succumbed to wounds caused by fire from an Egyptian warship late on Thursday evening.
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Former Police Captain Ray Lewis joins anonymous at Million Mask March / Boing Boing
Meet the Anonycop! A former Philadelphia police captain, Ray Lewis, joined the Million Mask March Thursday in Washington D.C. Donning the Anonymous mask, Lewis participated in the march from beginning to end.
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Busta Rhymes Pleads Guilty to Throwing Protein Drink | Rolling Stone
Busta Rhymes pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an August incident where the rapper threw a protein drink at a Manhattan gym employee. Rhymes was initially charged with second-degree assault, a felony, after hurling the cardboard drink containe…
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Here’s the First ‘Warcraft’ Movie Trailer | Motherboard
Blizzard just revealed the first trailer for the Warcraft movie, and mostly it just makes me feel bad for actress Paula Patton. In the movie, Patton plays the role of Garona, one of the orcs who will have to put their differences with the human race…
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Eric Church’s ‘Mr. Misunderstood’: 10 Best Moments on Surprise LP | Rolling Stone
Following in the footsteps of pop stars like Beyoncé and Drake, Eric Church dropped the first surprise album of his career. With no fanfare, no promotional push and no advance single, Church’s Mr.
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Red Rock Canyon State Park in California : natureporn
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Adidas To Help Change Native American Mascots – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
After attending the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Adidas has offered to help 2,000 high schools change their Native American mascots by employing the Adidas design team to recreate their logos and uniforms. What do you think?
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Midday open thread: Humans making natural disasters worse; critics say TPP text worse than expected
Nevertheless, there is a rapidly growing field of research that is attempting to improve this kind of one-off attribution.
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HMB while I try to show off : holdmybeer
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Weight loss apps no better at helping shed pounds than pamphlets | Ars Technica
Relying on a smartphone-based strategy to lose weight may be the wrong call, a new study finds.
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Doodle Partners With Paperless Post To Bring Easy Scheduling To Your Event Invitations | TechCrunch
Doodle makes it easy to schedule things with friends, coworkers, whoever — but scheduling isn’t the only thing that you need to organize an event. So the company has also connected its tools to the invitation process, by rolling out an integration w…
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Peggy Johnson, Microsoft’s Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley | TechCrunch
If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it? That is a question Microsoft is trying to answer.
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USA leave out Clint Dempsey for upcoming World Cup qualifiers | Football | The Guardian
Seattle forward Clint Dempsey was left off the US roster for its opening qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup, but US coach Jurgen Klinsmann included a pair of players who could make their national team debuts: Portland Timbers midfielder Darlington Na…
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One-woman media conglomerate Lena Dunham dives into radio · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Tormented by one of the last remaining media that she hadn’t yet ventured into—after TV, movies, books, comics, and podcasts—Lena Dunham has just debuted her own radio drama. She wrote the script, and performs it with her boyfriend Jack Antonoff.
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FCC won’t force websites to honor “Do Not Track” requests | Ars Technica
Consumer Watchdog had petitioned the FCC to “initiate a rulemaking proceeding requiring ‘edge providers’ (like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn) to honor ‘Do Not Track’ Requests from consumers.
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Bottom Line: Does the TPP Trade Deal “Put American Workers First”?
The full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has finally been released and We the People can see what has been negotiated in our name. President Obama laid out the bottom line, saying the deal “puts American workers first.” Does it? The full…
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Sage, Ink: Live From New York! … – The Atlantic
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The Titi monkeys! They mate for life and sit with their tails entwined. : aww
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Cliff City by Eric Hu via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes https://t.co/X9KZHDECN2 https://t.co/gOmE15li6L
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Double rainbow in philly [2672×2122] : WeatherPorn
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How Director Ivo van Hove Turned a Classic Arthur Miller Play into a Greek Tragedy | Vanity Fair
There is no dagger in the final, tragic scene of A View from the Bridge, but someone is stabbed and the violence onstage is astounding. Without giving anything away, let’s just say it’s an image on Broadway that theatergoers won’t forget.
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What happens when renewable energy meets public art? The Land Art Generator Initiative, or Lagi, founded by Pittsburgh-based artists Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, is trying to find the answer with several proposed public art structures designe…
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Overwatch is coming Spring 2016 for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 | The Verge
Blizzard’s upcoming team-based shooter finally has a release window. Overwatch, which recently entered private beta, will be coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 — yes, it’s coming to consoles — in Spring 2016.
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Poll: What’s Your Favorite Android OEM? | The Verge
Well, I am just curious to know which OEM is the favorite among Verge readers. Cast your votes!
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Majestic Hotel and Spa Launches Signature Scent with Atelier Cologne | Vanity Fair
If you are planning a trip to Barcelona and the Majestic Hotel and Spa, you are in for a treat! You will be delighted to find something a little more chic than chocolate on your pillow—a beautiful destination fragrance.
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How Popular Are Your First and Last Names?
One of the best things about the internet—for those of us obsessed with names and history—is that there are a bunch of tools out there for tracing the popularity of your name. Here are three of my favorites. Fair warning: two of the three of these a…
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The Discovery of Statistical Regression
The method seemed so obvious to Gauss that he figured he must not have been the first to use it. He sure enough it must have been discovered that he did not publicly state his finding until many years later, after his contemporary Adrien-Marie Legen…
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Satellite Spots Massive Tonzang Landslide : Natural Hazards
An Earth-observing satellite has observed one of the largest landslides not caused by an earthquake that scientists have observed in a decade. The landslide occurred in Chin, a remote state in western Myanmar (Burma), after slow-moving Tropical Stor…
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The Sanitized Past of “Brooklyn” – The New Yorker
John Crowley’s “Brooklyn,” which opened Wednesday, contains just enough narrative information to fill a short film and delivers it very deliberately, as if doing so would dispel the risk of any ambiguity and make its lack of substance seem very impo…
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Help Us Cut Through the Noise of 2016 – The Atlantic
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Merck and Eli Lilly investigated over pricing policies – BBC News
Drug makers Merck and Eli Lilly are being investigated over their pricing methods. The US Attorney’s Office in Pennsylvania is looking into how the companies determined prices for certain drugs.
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VW says it will cover extra CO2 and fuel usage taxes paid by EU drivers | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen has said it will foot the bill for extra taxes incurred by drivers after it admitted understating the carbon dioxide emissions of about 800,000 cars in Europe.
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: October 30th to November 6th
This week we looked at why you should stop buying phones from carriers, tested a pillow that will keep you cool, learned how to get the perfect all-Google experience on an iPhone, and more. Here’s a look back. For years, the only decent way to buy a…
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Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand [OC][1600×1068] : waterporn
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Hearthstone’s newest single-player adventure is The League of Explorers | The Verge
Blizzard is currently celebrating all of its various games and products on stage at its annual BlizzCon event, and Hearthstone fans were given their share of the action with the announcement of a new single-player adventure, The League of Explorers.
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Adidas to help high schools change to non-racist mascots / Boing Boing
Evidently the costs of changing from a racially themed high school team name and mascot to one less charged is high.
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Chronos, comScore, And The Ario Smart Lamp | TechCrunch
In case you want to opt out of the smart watch trend without having a dumb watch, Chronos is there for you. comScore made moves this week in the world of mergers and acquisitions, while the Ario smart lamp went live (and surpassed its goal) on Kicks…
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Square share prices drop as a third of $6bn valuation is shaved off | Technology | The Guardian
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey’s other company, Square, has seen at least a third shaved off its 2014 valuation at $6bn, resulting in an IPO share price of between $11 and $13 a share. To make up the shortfall, the company may have to issue ext…
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Periscope adds fast-forward and rewind to replays on Android | The Verge
While live-streaming continues to be the heart of Periscope, the Twitter-owned video app is making some new investments in the replay experience for people who missed the original broadcast.
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Keystone XL Is Dead. Will The Tar Sands Industry Die With It? | ThinkProgress
After six years of environmental reviews, permitting battles, and vocal opposition from climate activists, the Keystone XL pipeline is officially dead.
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A Sherlock adult coloring book might have confirmed a popular fan theory · Newswire · The A.V. Club
This post contains plot details from the entire run of Sherlock, speculation about the future of Sherlock, and a discussion of a Sherlock adult coloring book. Read at your own risk.
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Intelligence review concludes Clinton emails didn’t contain classified information
Hey, guess what. Claims of “top secret” information in Hillary Clinton’s email are, according to the intelligence officials tasked with investigating it, untrue.
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Bjork issues typically whimsical call to save the Icelandic highlands · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because where else is she going to get the field recordings of icebergs melting and volcanos bubbling that she’ll use to compose her next album, Bjork is teaming up with prominent environmentalists to call for the creation of an Icelandic national p…
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In the classic “Homer Goes To College” episode of the The Simpsons, Krusty The Clown airs an “Itchy & Scratchy” cartoon even he knows is beyond the pale, then excitedly declares, “Wow! They’ll never let us show that again! Not in a million years!” A…
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Kansas teacher won’t resign after parents complain over anti-bullying film | Film | The Guardian
A Kansas schoolteacher says he has changed his mind about resigning after showing a graphic anti-bullying short film about to his history class, which led to vociferous complaints from parents.
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Republican debate with all the dialog removed / Boing Boing
Last week, I linked you to a piece pointing out that three New York Times op-ed pieces linking bacterial exposure (or lack thereof) to autism, celiac disease, and allergies were all written by the same guy, Moises Velasquez-Manoff.
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I’m taking a wild guess here, but I reckon that little camera on your computer or phone is not covered up by black tape. I also suspect that, were I to look up your house on Google Street View, I’d be able to see it clearly, and not be confronted by…
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline – Scientific American
President Obama announced Friday morning that he has denied TransCanada’s permit application to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the U.S. Obama said America is a global leader on taking action on climate change, and approving Keystone XL would …
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Hear One Direction’s Folky, Fan-Assisted New Song ‘History’ | Rolling Stone
Hear One Direction’s Folky, Fan-Assisted New Song ‘History’ Band brings fans into studio to record song’s chorus
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‘Call of Duty’ Movies Are Coming | Motherboard
Activision-Blizzard, publisher of World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and other huge video games, today announced that it wants to get into the movies and television business.
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‘Spotlight’ Director Tom McCarthy on Heroes, Healing and ‘The Cobbler’ | Rolling Stone
Listen,” sighs director and co-writer Tom McCarthy as his train of thought derails while trying to answer a question. “I just finished this movie in September and I haven’t really had time to process it objectively. I just know it probably won’t be …
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The Search for a Secret Chamber at King Tut’s Tomb Just Got Interesting
The investigation of King Tut’s tomb to find secret chambers ended today with promising results, according to a statement from Egypt’s antiquity ministry.
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Julia Gillard: ‘We can make a difference’ in education – Al Jazeera English
More than 124 million children are not in primary and lower secondary school, according to UNESCO. Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, now chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education, is trying to change that.
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What Does Mexico’s Supreme Court Ruling on Marijuana Mean for the Drug War? – The Atlantic
Members of the pot club that won the right to grow and use marijuana in Mexico through a historic Supreme Court ruling on November 4 have no intention of ever lighting up a joint.
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Headliner: Former Australian PM Julia Gillard – Al Jazeera English
Filmmaker Najibullah Quraishi talks about the challenges he faced while reporting on the rise of ISIL in Afghanistan. In rural Ghana, bursaries and extra training are helping girls stay in secondary school and shape their futures.
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Why are middle-aged Americans dying? This is a question that throws into sharp relief the purpose of economic policy, and the shadows that it casts are very dark.
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Questions over Ben Carson’s West Point story – BBC News
Republican Ben Carson has admitted that he never applied to join the US military academy at West Point, despite implications in his book that he had. The presidential hopeful wrote in his 1996 autobiography, Gifted Hands, that he had been offered a …
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Corruption In Kenya Reaches New Lows With Reports Of $85 Ballpoint Pen Purchases | ThinkProgress
$85 for a ball point pen. $1,000 for a wheelbarrow. The outrage over government malfeasance in Kenya has continued to grow, along with revelations of outrageous expenditures.
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ISIS Used Chemical Weapons Against Syrian Rebels, Report Says | ThinkProgress
The radical jihadist group ISIS used mustard gas against Syrian rebel groups this past August, according to an upcoming report by weapons experts. The attack violates the Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons in…
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The US and the pro-Israel lobby – Al Jazeera English
Filmmaker Najibullah Quraishi talks about the challenges he faced while reporting on the rise of ISIL in Afghanistan. In rural Ghana, bursaries and extra training are helping girls stay in secondary school and shape their futures.
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It’s Not Rocket Science: We Need a Better Way to Get to Space
This article was originally published at The Conversation.The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Human beings will always be explorers. We’ve pretty well surveyed our planet, our tiny blue dot, for an…
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My cat tries for selfie : cats
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Four Peaks Sunset, near Phoenix, AZ [OC] [2048×1367] : EarthPorn
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First Warcraft movie trailer revealed: orcs vs. humans | The Verge
Here we go. The first trailer for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft film has been unveiled, debuting as part of the kickoff for Blizzcon, the annual celebration of Blizzard’s major franchises.
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Policy Genius Compares Insurance Rates, Doesn’t Violate Your Privacy
Shopping for insurance is a drag. Getting quotes usually means giving up your personal info and then getting harrassed by sleazy agents. PolicyGenius lets you compare life, renter, long-term disability, and pet insurance—without sacrificing your pri…
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Philip Bump at the WaPo makes the same point I made a couple of days ago about the Obama job record: private sector job creation under the “job-killing” president has far outpaced anything that happened under Bush, while public-sector employment has…
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BBC America to present us with a Luther special in December · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You can forget about that made-in-America Luther show—well, it’s still getting made, probably, but you can set your concerns about it aside for about three hours this December. Collider reports that BBC America will air a Luther special next month.
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Judd Apatow Stands Up – The New Yorker
Comedy is entertainment, of course, but now, perhaps more than ever, it’s also the primary arena in which we work everything out.
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NASA releases wild high-res images of last year’s Orbital rocket explosion | The Verge
This week, NASA posted new high-resolution photos to Flickr of last year’s Orbital Sciences rocket failure, showing the nighttime launch pad explosion in even greater detail.
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Obama rejects construction of Canada-proposed pipeline – Al Jazeera English
US President Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada in a victory for environmentalists who have campaigned against the project for more than seven years.
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I commented on every Facebook thread in my feed for 72 hours — Hopes&Fears — flow “Experiment”
Andrew Spaulding is a regular contributor to Adhoc and drums in the mutant sax no wave group Pill. Andrew lives in Brooklyn, New York and previously lived for a week using a 56k modem.
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/IwRgledWk9 https://t.co/eZOk3pZ33p
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Climate Change Could Reduce Fertility. Would that Help the Planet? | The New Republic
In a working paper released this week, economists with the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that climate change is linked to reduced “coital frequency,” in an analysis of U.S. birth rates between 1931 and 2010.
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They may have the latest gadgets, but the men and women of Silicon Valley are rarely thought of as superheroes. Joseph Floyd, an Emergence Capital investor, wants to change that.
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NASA Offers Media Access to Cygnus Cargo Module Nov. 13 | NASA
NASA Offers Media Access to Cygnus Cargo Module Nov. 13 via NASA https://t.co/3dNEyLLAmd
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Apps regularly spy on users; Android moreso than iOS / Boing Boing
The research, conducted by MIT, Carnegie-Mellon and Harvard, examined the behavior of 110 titles and found that 73 percent of Android apps and 47 percent of the iOS apps reported the user’s location.
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‘Ghost on the Highway’: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club|Dangerous Minds
Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and the Gun Club, directors Andrew Powell and Kurt Voss’s 2006 documentary about the legendary Los Angeles-born punk blues singer has no footage of Gun Club actually playing music, in fact it ha…
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Is Ben Carson running a presidential campaign – or a budding record label? | US news | The Guardian
When Ben Carson’s campaign cancelled two weeks of campaign events in October so the candidate could attend signings for his book A More Perfect Union, pundits wondered whether his presidential run might merely be a publicity stunt to sell books.
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Or that’s what I guess will happen at the IMF Annual Research Conference at 4:15; the final session, including yours truly, will be webcast here.
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Ben Carson’s West Point Claims Raise Eyebrows | Vanity Fair
Friday, November 6 might well be remembered as the end of Ben Carson mania. That’s because several key points in his inspirational, rags-to-riches life story were revealed to have been exaggerated, if not fabricated outright.
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Mark Ruffalo presented DiCaprio with the Artists Inspiration Award on Thursday.
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Behind School of Rock’s Broadway Transformation | Vanity Fair
The old, possibly apocryphal W. C. Fields adage “Never work with children or animals” is not one that Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever felt compelled to heed.
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Like A Fitbit, But For A Cop’s Gun – BuzzFeed News
Around 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2013, Detective Sgt. Loran “Butch” Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler pulled up to a house in the 800 block of North Branciforte Avenue in Santa Cruz, California.
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The Best Ways To Die, According To Digg Users – Digg
Today, after reading this interesting piece from The Wilson Quarterly, we posed a question to our users: What’s the best way to die? They delivered. View Journaloser’s full thread here.
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Anonymous Releases Names and Data of Alleged Ku Klux Klan Members | Re/code
Last week, people affiliated with the hacking collective Anonymous vowed to reveal the identities of hundreds of U.S. Ku Klux Klan members.
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These Shitty Robots Remind Us We’re All Human After All | Motherboard
Shitty robots remind us that we’re human. Sure, the advanced robots at the DARPA Robotics Challenge may demonstrate how brilliant we can be as a species, but their high-tech anodyne design somehow makes them seem like alien objects removed from the …
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin on Friday suspended all flights from Russia to Egypt, the most popular foreign tourist destination for Russians, until the cause of a mysterious plane crash that killed 224 people over the Sinai Peninsula can be …
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A report on Friday said Ben Carson has acknowledged never having applied to the prestigious military academy at West Point, raising questions about his repeated assertions that he had turned down a scholarship to attend. According to the report, in …
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Become a vigilante superhero in this interactive tale about wealth inequality / Offworld
Vigilante superhero tales tend to revolve around seeking justice outside of a failed system, and the idea that one man or woman can cause real change within that system by punching people.
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Snowden: Democratic debate showed major shift in how I am perceived | US news | The Guardian
Edward Snowden has described the Democratic presidential debate last month as marking an “extraordinary change” in attitudes towards him.
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Man interviews himself 38 years later and makes it into an amazing movie / Boing Boing
This is wonderful. When Stoney Emshwiller was 18 years old, he filmed himself interviewing his older self. Thirty-eight years later a 56-year-old Stoney completed the interview by answering his younger self’s questions. He’s funded the production of…
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Strange and beautiful clip of a huge “shelf cloud” / Boing Boing
Stormchaser/photographer Nick Moir posted the gorgeous video clip below of a shelf cloud off Sydney, Australia. The whole shot is quite surreal, as if the cloud background is were digitally added later.
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Bob Dylan has a big box set out today titled The Cutting Edge: 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12 that compiles a vast array of outtakes from three of his most iconic records, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde On Blond…
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Readers mourn the loss of split-screen Halo · Keyboard Geniuses · The A.V. Club
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Z Nation renewed for a third season of throwing zombies at the wall · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Syfy’s Z Nation is an inexplicably entertaining series. It’s a bunch of post-apocalyptic nonsense pulled together on a budget that’s probably less than craft services on your average indie film, yet somehow it works.
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Coldplay’s new album is coming out soon, and Beyoncé is on it · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Continuing its mission to remain a fixture in the pop-music world, despite actual instruments now being considered a relic of a bygone era, Coldplay has announced a new album.
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How to start taking risks (and why you should) – Imgur
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Here’s That Insane Surprise Star Wars Trailer Scene-By-Scene As GIFs To Tear Apart | TechCrunch
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Head to Barnes & Noble with Your Kids This Weekend for Free Maker Workshops
Parents, if you’ve got a budding maker on your hand, this is a good weekend to visit Barnes & Noble. In collaboration with Make: Magazine, all 650 B&N locations are hosting a Mini Maker Faire.
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Ben Carson’s Fall is a Damning Indictment of Conservative Politics | The New Republic
Ben Carson’s popularity among conservatives has been marked by their imperviousness to questions about his honesty and fitness.
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Supreme court to hear Christian argument for contraception exemption | Law | The Guardian
The US supreme court on Friday agreed to hear appeals brought by Christian groups who are demanding full exemption from the requirement to provide insurance covering contraception under Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
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How to easily search the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for bullshit / Boing Boing
The US spent five years locking its trading partners in smoke-filled rooms with its most rapacious corporate lobbyists, writing a secret trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all the while assuring us all that it would be great when …
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Barack Obama announces at the White House on Friday that he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline because he does not believe it serves the national interest.
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BREAKING: The Birth Control Wars Return To The Supreme Court | ThinkProgress
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear a bloc of cases, all of which present the issue of how far employers may go to cut off their employees’ access to birth control coverage those employees are entitled to receive under the law.
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Ben Carson Says Honesty Is More Important Than Political Experience | Mother Jones
Ben Carson’s improbable presidential campaign took a big hit on Friday when Politico reported that a key story Carson has long told—that he was offered a “full scholarship” to the prestigious US Military Academy at West Point after meeting a promine…
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The number of murders of transgender people in the United States hit a record high this year, activists said on Friday, amid outcry over rising violence in the transgender community.
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MANCHESTER, NH—Reportedly cupping his hands around his eyes for a better look at the cheerful volunteers inside, presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham gazed longingly into the window of fellow candidate Marco Rubio’s bustling New Hampshire campaign he…
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The 27 Times You Should Not Wear Plaid Flannel
A few weeks ago, I walked into my office only to realize that everyone was wearing a slightly different version of the same shirt.
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One week from today, the world will wake up to four new episodes of sketch comedy from Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Twenty years after the comedy duo’s seminal Mr.
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This is your next jam: Coldplay, Rustie, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup.
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My Indie Hip-Hop Hustle — Cuepoint — Medium
When I was 13 years old I was enrolled in Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. To get to school every day I would take a dollar van from Flatbush Ave and Avenue K to the “junction” train station at Flatbush & Nostrand Ave.
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The Staten Island Advance reports that Brandon Williams, 13, was eating his lunch at Barnes Intermediate School on Oct. 28 when he saw that his classmate Jessica Pellegrino was choking on a piece of apple.
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DEA chief: medical marijuana is “a joke.” Science: No, it’s not. / Boing Boing
Chuck Rosenberg, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is either woefully ignorant, protective of his administration’s reckless mission, or both. “What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal — because it’s not,” Rose…
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Justin Trudeau takes Canada by the horns as Prime Minister – BBC News
He campaigned on change. And within two days of being sworn in as Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau altered the course of the country. With a team of new ministers, Mr Trudeau acted swiftly.
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Kshama Sawant Declares Victory in Seattle | Al Jazeera America
Outspoken socialist politician declares victory in Seattle https://t.co/T7Yl0NhqxG
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What’s the Best Way to Stay Motivated? – The Atlantic
At its best, work is like a semi-challenging level of Super Mario World. It’s hard enough to be engaging, easy enough that victory is within sight, and fun enough to make you want to try again if you lose—as long as you have lives left.
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What We’re Following Friday Afternoon, 11/6 – The Atlantic
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I cooked chicken with a solar powered stove / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. I’ve never used a solar cooker, so I didn’t know what to expect when I made a meal with one. The GoSun is a 3.
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Brothers charged with hate crime say they were inspired by Donald Trump | US news | The Guardian
Two brothers who claimed to have been inspired in part by Donald Trump’s views on immigrants have been indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly beating and urinating on a homeless Mexican man.
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Woman shredded $1 million before death to spite relatives / Boing Boing
An 85-year-old woman in Vienna shredded more than $1 million in cash before dying just to zing her relatives. Amazingly, the National Bank of Austria (OeNB) will replace all the cash.
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Hollywood knew him best as Random Task, the bowler-hatted thug who hurled shoes as deadly weapons in 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
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Perfecto Is A Marketplace For Bikes That Are Not Stolen | TechCrunch
Launched last month, Perfecto is a bike marketplace that verifies buyers, sellers, and bicycles, essentially eradicating the potential of stolen bikes. As bicycle commutes becomes a larger trend in cities worldwide, the market for secondhand bikes i…
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Here’s the new seaplane from legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan | The Verge
Many of the most important, transformative, and interesting aircraft of the past 40 years have come from the mind of Burt Rutan — everything from the round-the-world Voyager, to the spacefaring SpaceShipOne, to the experimental (and wildly popular) …
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‘It Is Sickening’ And Other Outrageous Responses To Obama’s Keystone Decision | ThinkProgress
President Obama announced Friday that his administration would reject TransCanada’s permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have run from Alberta’s tar sands region to the Gulf Coast.
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Shoot the Moon: How to Take Lunar Photos Through a Telescope
Owing to its brightness and large apparent size, the full moon is an easy, favorite target for budding lunar photographers.
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Every year, British retailer John Lewis debuts a new sob-inducing Christmas ad, and 2015 is no different.
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Google Maps will now show you holiday hours for businesses | The Verge
For the upcoming holiday shopping season, Google is going a step beyond its usual practice of displaying business hours in Maps and Search. This year, the company will specify holiday hours for businesses — at least for the ones that publish them on…
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Watch Rudimental, Ed Sheeran’s Introspective, Weird New Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Rudimental, Ed Sheeran’s Introspective, Weird New Video Black-and-white clip for electro-soul single “Lay It All on Me” features band members facing younger versions of themselves
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There’s been a lot of discussion about the gender wage gap lately (mostly as it pertains to millionaires), as Hollywood has had the curtain pulled back on its bean counters to reveal what stars are making these days. It’s been established that Rober…
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If the Star Wars movies were intended to rhyme, then the Mad Max films are certainly even closer to a form of echoing call-and-response poetry. L.A.
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The Beatles’ ‘+1’ Video Collection: The 10 Fabbest Moments | Rolling Stone
Act naturally, indeed.
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One Direction Songwriter on ‘Made in the A.M.’ | Rolling Stone
In One Direction’s fifth year, the ever-maturing boy band endured the most drama and chaos of their career, following the loss of original member Zayn Malik and the announcement of a hiatus to follow the release of fifth album, Made in the A.M.
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Fox Shows On Hulu Will Offer Reduced, Only 30-Second Long Ad Option | TechCrunch
Hulu may have introduced a commercial free-tier to improve the user experience for those who can’t stand watching ads, but a new deal with Fox Networks has the potential to make the ad-supported version of Hulu less painful as well.
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Microsoft considers blocking SHA-1 certificates after cost of collisions slashed | Ars Technica
Microsoft may phase out support for TLS certificates that use the SHA-1 hashing algorithm as early as June 2016. The decision comes in the wake of recent calculations that suggest generating collisions is quicker and cheaper than previously anticipa…
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Why do encryption tools suck? / Boing Boing
Mailvelope is a browser extension that is described as the easiest way for mere mortals to send PGP-encrypted messages. Researchers at Brigham Young University brought in a group of people unfamiliar with Mailvelope and observed them try to install …
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Moon Photography Tips from Astrophotographers: A Visual Guide
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Alibaba in Singles Day sales clash – BBC News
China’s two largest internet retailers have clashed in the run-up to Singles Day, the world’s biggest online sales day, on 11 November. Alibaba has been accused by its smaller rival JD.com of “forcing retailers” to promote their sales exclusively wi…
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May Coop the Cat be a light to you in dark places : cats
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Formula E: what to expect from the second race of the season tonight | The Verge
The second race of the second season of all-electric racing series Formula E takes place this weekend in humid Putrajaya, the government seat of Malaysia.
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Hear Arthur Miller Read From Death of a Salesman, His Great American Play (1955) | Open Culture
Playwright Arthur Miller recalled that when the curtain fell on the first performance, there were “men in the audience sitting there with handkerchiefs over their faces. It was like a funeral.”
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Citing climate change, Obama rejects Keystone XL Oil Pipeline construction plan / Boing Boing
In a decision that environmental activists see as a hard-won victory, President Obama today announced he is rejecting the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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Astronomers spot gigantic hole in sun js – Just Space
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week, Prop F was struck down, Facebook reported continued growth and Twitter traded in stars for hearts. TC Cribs visited the Love Nest, a Palo Alto co-living space that’s part commune and part startup incubator.
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FindTheCompany Helps You Research Everything About an Organization
You can research almost every detail about a company online, from average salary to employee benefits. FindTheCompany compiles all of the info you’d want to know in one place. It’s sort of like Glassdoor, but with a more options.
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Yahoo Rolls Out A New, Flickr-Powered Image Search That Returns Your Own Photos | TechCrunch
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Yahoo announced today an upgrade to its image search engine which now includes a combination of web results as well as images from its photo-sharing site Flickr, including your own photos. -
Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) wrapped in a small towel in the 1960s : OldSchoolCool
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Ebola: WHO ‘delayed Sierra Leone state of emergency’ – BBC News
The World Health Organization (WHO) delayed Sierra Leone from declaring a state of emergency and restricting movement during the Ebola outbreak, the country’s president has told the BBC. President Ernest Bai Koroma said he had had “conflicts” with W…
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Touchnote postcard app suffers data breach – BBC News
Hackers have stolen customer data from Touchnote which makes an app that lets people turn a photo taken on a phone into a postcard. The company has sent an email to customers hit by the breach informing them that data has been stolen.
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BBC Sport – IAAF cancels annual World Athletics Gala in Monaco
Athletics’ annual awards ceremony has been cancelled by the sport’s governing body in the wake of investigations into former president Lamine Diack. The World Athletics Gala was scheduled for Saturday, 28 November in Monaco.
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Why Obama Killed Keystone | Motherboard
President Obama has announced that his administration is officially rejecting the long-embattled Keystone XL, TransCanada’s proposed 1,179 mile pipeline which would have transported crude oil from the tar sands in Alberta to the US Gulf Coast.
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UN’s climate fund releases $183m to tackle global warming | Environment | The Guardian
The head of the UN’s climate fund has hailed a “paradigm shift” as poor countries began receiving money to help them tackle global warming just weeks before pivotal climate talks in Paris.
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Too many people don’t realize this. Or maybe just don’t care. : AdviceAnimals
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My service dog goofing off during our flight : aww
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Stephen Colbert and Bryan Cranston Ponder The Big Questions : television
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boyfriend broke up with me. : AdviceAnimals
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I submitted my resignation yesterday. Gave a month’s notice! : TrollXChromosomes
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Obama rejects Keystone XL, left scores major victory | MSNBC
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She gets this crazy look on her face when she’s kneading : cats
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Hermain Cain commercial : perfectloops
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Water dancing in a Tibetan singing bowl : woahdude
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Chapy then and now! Kitties grow up so fast! : cats
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Just found this on a ten year old pillow, never noticed it before : mildlyinteresting
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The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous | Pitchfork
Mark Linkous woke up late inside the yellow two-story house on Irwin Street. The 47-year-old songwriter was finishing up a move from rural North Carolina to a spare bedroom at his bandmate Scott Minor’s place in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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British cucumbers on brink of extinction | Business | The Guardian
The British cucumber is facing extinction, the latest victim of a supermarket price war that has knocked retail prices down from up to 90p to less than 30p in some stores.
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UN launches campaign to tackle Iraq’s cholera outbreak – Al Jazeera English
The United Nations has launched a major campaign to tackle a deadly cholera outbreak in Iraq, as infections reported in neighbouring Syria, Kuwait and Bahrain sparked fears that it could spiral into a regional epidemic, UNICEF’S Iraq Director Peter …
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Dealmaster: Get an Xbox One with Call of Duty 3: Black Ops 3 for $349 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we are bringing you a fantastic deal on a highly anticipated game. Now you can get a bundle including an Xbox One, the new Call of Duty 3: Black Ops 3 game, a Gears of War bundle, and a $…
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How is marriage equality like being forced to own a giraffe? Oddly enough, that’s what passes for legal analysis at the Mississippi Supreme Court, where two justices testily dissented from a routine order recognizing that the Supreme Court’s landmar…
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Oasis’s Noel Gallagher rips on Thom Yorke and many others / Boing Boing
“I reckon if Thom Yorke fucking shit into a light bulb and started blowing it like an empty beer bottle it’d probably get 9 out of 10 in fucking Mojo,” Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher told Esquire UK. “I’m aware of that.
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Protopiper: tape-gun-based 3D printer extrudes full-size furniture prototypes / Boing Boing
The Protopiper (white paper [PDF]) is a modified tape-gun that extrudes regular, precise lengths of hollow tubing made from packing tape, with which you can prototype room-sized objects at full size to get a sense of the masses and scales involved.
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Aziz Ansari ‘Master Of None’ | ThinkProgress
The great love story of Masters of None starts, like so many great love stories, with the guy saying, “Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck!” as he realizes the condom broke.
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Watch Adele Sing “Hello” Live for the First Time | Vanity Fair
It is Adele’s world, and we are just . . . trying our best not to break down in tears in our offices in it. The 27-year-old pop deity has broken all kinds of records with the release of her debut single, “Hello” (in advance of her forthcoming third …
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Toyota is Putting $1 Billion into Developing Self-Driving Technology | Motherboard
Today, Toyota announced that it is establishing a new company, Toyota Research Institute, which will be dedicated to developing technology for driverless cars, primarily artificial intelligence. Toyota has already pledged to invest $1 billion into t…
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Yankees star CC Sabathia: I realised I was an alcoholic in 2012 | Sport | The Guardian
New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia first realized three years ago he was an alcoholic. Sabathia left the team for treatment ahead of its loss to Houston in the one-game AL wild-card playoff and went public with his problem.
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Russian Airstrikes in Syria Kill 27 Civilians | Al Jazeera America
Airstrikes by Russian warplanes on the ISIL-held Syrian city of Raqqa killed 42 people earlier this week, including 27 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
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“The city flourishes when its great institutions work together,” says the cardinal to the newspaper editor during a friendly chat in the rectory. The city in question is Boston. The cardinal is Bernard F.
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The Longest-Running Miscarriage Meme on the Web — Following: How We Live Online
In 2008, web-comic artist Tim Buckley sat down to write a dramatic four-panel strip for his long-running comic “Ctrl+Alt+Del.” What he ended up creating was loss.jpg, the web’s best-known and longest-running meme about a miscarriage“I’m not sure wha…
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Infrared Scans Show Possible Hidden Chamber in King Tut’s Tomb
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has just announced that a scientific team has found initial evidence of what might be a hidden chamber in the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
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18 of Your Favorite Pop Culture Icons Turned Into Kids Book Covers
No matter what your age, you probably know what someone means when they say “Little Golden Books.” They’re skinny kids books with a gold spine that pretty much everyone owned.
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The tiny snail that just helped save its species from possible extinction wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. Researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry didn’t need that baby snail in their lab.
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BBC Sport – Sepp Blatter recovering after ‘stress-related checks’
Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter is undergoing stress-related health checks but is not in hospital, his spokesman has revealed. Stoehlker told the BBC that Blatter is recovering at home and hoped to be well enough to leave his residence by the …
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How a plane crash is investigated – BBC News
When faced with the aftermath of a plane crash, how do investigators try to piece together the facts? The first priority is, of course, for local police or military to secure the crash site while investigators make their way there.
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More ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Footage In International Trailer | Video
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer with much unseen footage! / Boing Boing
Activision Blizzard announced Monday evening that it plans to buy King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, for about $5.9 billion. It’s the third-largest video game industry deal ever. It’s quite a dollar amount, but it’s significa…
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Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship / Boing Boing
In his autobiography Ben Carson wrote, “I was offered a full scholarship to West Point.” But West Point says he’s lying. “When presented with this evidence,” reports Politico, “Carson’s campaign conceded the story was false.”
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BBC Sport – Lionel Messi & Fleetwood’s David Ball in running for top Fifa award
David Ball of League One Fleetwood Town and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi are among the 10 nominees for Fifa’s “most beautiful” goal of the year award.
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How Xin Li Went from the Runway to the Center of Nine-Figure Art Aucti | Vanity Fair
The model turned deputy chairman of Christie’s Asia Pacific will be in the heart of the action at one of the world’s liveliest sales this month, when Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu Couché hits the block with a minimum bid of $100 million.
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Hillary Clinton Says She “Might” Watch Donald Trump on S.N.L. | Vanity Fair
We don’t usually call people fibbers, but we’re not sure we believe Hillary Clinton’s supposed uncertainty about whether or not she’ll watch Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
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12-year-old Pennsylvania boy born without limbs plays football – video | Sport | The Guardian
A twelve-year-old Pennsylvania boy who was born without a complete set of limbs suits up and plays football. Gaven Toney’s determination and fearlessness have made him a towering presence at his school, said coach Mitch Hoffman.
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AWS Plans To Launch A UK Region By The End Of 2016 | TechCrunch
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively expanding the number of different geographic regions it offers its services in. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced today, the company plans to launch a UK region by the end of 2016 (“or early 2017”).
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Over the past five years, hardly any other artist in music has weaved together a catalog of material as dark and danceable as that of Canadian singer and producer Grimes.
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A Detroit-area police officer who attempted to handcuff an unarmed man while his partner beat him sent racially charged text messages following the incident, it emerged this week.
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A group of immigrant workers and community members rallied on Thursday at Taylor Farms in California, the largest producer of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, asking for safer work conditions nearly one month after managers failed to evacuate the pl…
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An early advocate for physician-assisted suicide used the now-legal procedure to end his own life Tuesday.
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President Obama nixes Keystone XL
The TransCanada project would have carried 830,000 barrels a day of diluted bitumen from the tar sands of Alberta—as well as some fracked oil from the Bakken formation in Montana— to Steele City, Nebraska.
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Jeb Bush is emailing with random people from Twitter · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Anyone following the candidacy of Jeb Bush knows the poor little guy’s been having a rough go of it.
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White supremacist graphic design standards fall short / Boing Boing
Courtesy of Gawker comes a look at “the shitty memes of the KKK,” which might be funny were it not the output of the 21st-century vanguard of a violent white supremacist hate group.
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EFF on TPP: all our worst fears confirmed / Boing Boing
The US spent five years locking its trading partners in smoke-filled rooms with its most rapacious corporate lobbyists, writing a secret trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all the while assuring us all that it would be great when …
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A baby girl who was close to dying from cancer has been rescued by a cell therapy envisioned as a “one size fits all” treatment that had never been tested in people, doctors reported on Thursday.
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The best software for beating Internet censorship
Humankind’s most advanced censorship regime, China’s Great Firewall, is more powerful than ever.
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The lawsuit that could change Uber forever has a trial date | The Verge
Are Uber drivers independent contractors or employees entitled to certain benefits? A California judge set a trial date for the class action lawsuit challenging the way Uber classifies its drivers as independent contractors. Judge Edward M.
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Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious households, according to a new study. Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the …
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Project – The Atlantic
President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, killing the long-stalled project to bring oil from the Canadian tar sands to Texas.
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The Long, Slow Death of the Keystone XL Pipeline – The Atlantic
President Obama finally killed the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, waiting until the last drop of suspense had drained from a debate that pitted environmentalists against champions of economic development and domestic oil production.
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Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? – The Atlantic
Describe a banana. It’s yellow, perhaps with some green edges. When peeled, it has a smooth, soft, mushy texture. It tastes sweet, maybe a little creamy. And it smells like… well, it smells like a banana.
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Waiting for the Past by Les Murray review – matter-of-fact extravagance | Books | The Guardian
Serious consideration of the gifts reserved for age is likely to be sobering. Les Murray does not deny it. Waiting for the Past takes in vertigo, sudden falls, diabetes, frequent night visits to the lavatory while “trying not to dot the floor // wit…
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Nancy Grace (Yes, That Nancy Grace) Has a Cooking Show | Vanity Fair
On TV Nancy Grace is tough as nails, a prosecutor turned commentator on a never-ending crusade for victims’ rights, spurred on by an early-life tragedy (the 1980 death of her fiancé, Keith Griffin).
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China To Green-Light IPOs Again By Year End | TechCrunch
China plans to lift its moratorium on IPO listings before the end of the year, the official news agency Xinhua said earlier today. The country had instituted a ban on IPOs back in July, after roaring along for the first half of the year, bolstered b…
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Hang a Heavy Mirror and Keep It Centered on Your Wall
Hanging something really heavy, like a mirror, may seem more difficult than hanging a small panting. With the right anchors, though, it’s pretty simple. Here’s a tip to keep your newly-hung mirror from going askew. Before hanging anything, you need …
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Focus on KKK Ignores Otherl White Hate Groups | Al Jazeera America
The ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous on Thursday released of a list of at least 1,000 names of alleged Ku Klux Klan members, but experts who track hate group activity in the United States said the focus on the KKK ignores other, more powerful white supr…
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Ben Carson’s hogwash stories of a violent youth / Boing Boing
It seems obvious that the presidential candidate’s stories of youthful violence are fables, but why? It’s not just because he keeps changing the events to account for inconsistencies and incredibilities—it’s because no-one can find the people he des…
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There was no reason why American forces should have attacked the hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan according to an internal investigation by the international humanitarian organization that operated the facility.
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No, Ben Carson Didn’t Actually Get A West Point Scholarship | ThinkProgress
Former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate didn’t actually get a full scholarship to West Point as he said in his autobiography Gifted Hands, the campaign admitted to Politico on Friday. In that autobiography, Carson said he met with Gen.
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Reasons to be fearful about surveillance | Ewen MacAskill | Comment is free | The Guardian
Do the British public, especially the younger generation, care about privacy? Are they apathetic, or is it that they just regard security in at time of Islamist threats as the overriding concern?
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An intelligent piece by BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan said that Google’s self-driving car would bring about the “ugly end of driving.” He’s correct in almost every way; cars are “giant, inefficient, planet-and-people-killing death machines,” killing, as he c…
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US President Obama statement from the White House – BBC News
US President Barack Obama makes a statement from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington.
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Ex-BP Engineer Pleads Guilty in Oil Spill Probe | Al Jazeera America
Kurt Mix has been fighting an obstruction charge for more than three years. In federal court on Friday, he pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage without authorization to a protected computer. Prosecutors suggested no prison time for Mix, an…
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US urged to free immigrant female hunger strikers – Al Jazeera English
A rights group has urged US immigration authorities to end “retaliatory” measures against detainees as an estimated 500 female undocumented immigrants hunger strike in a Texas for-profit detention centre, in protest of the facility’s harsh condition…
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Bjork Rallies Against Icelandic Government Over Endangered Wilderness | Rolling Stone
Last August, the Icelandic pop star Björk cancelled the final dates of her 2015 tour, including a closing-night homecoming performance at this year’s Iceland Airwaves, scheduled for November 8th.
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Why Martin O’Malley Could Be the Future of the Democratic Party | Rolling Stone
The trees are on fire in New Hampshire when Martin O’Malley says the first batshit-crazy thing that makes me want to turn my Chevy Cruze around and head for the state liquor store and then some late-October leaf-peeping.
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Ben Carson fabricated story about being admitted to West Point
The academy has occupied a central place in Carson’s tale for years. According to a story told in Carson’s book, “Gifted Hands,” the then-17 year old was introduced in 1969 to Gen. William Westmoreland, who had just ended his command of U.S. forces …
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“Houseplants” for D.I.Y.ers Who Have Killed Too Many Houseplants – The New Yorker
This is the perfect office accent for any professional with a minimalist design sense or just a minimal sense of design.
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Arkansas authorities said on Friday a charter bus that crashed near Little Rock, killing six people, was traveling from Michigan to Texas. Arkansas state police major Mike Foster said the bus was traveling from Monroe, Michigan, to Laredo, Texas, wh…
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Lawyers Wage Campaign to End Lawyer Jokes – Bloomberg Business
Why did they stop putting lawyers on stamps? Nader Anise, the legal marketing expert who told me this joke, was at a mixer for lawyers more than a decade ago when he first heard the punch line: Because people didn’t know which side of the stamp they…
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Luma, Quite Improbably, Makes Wi-Fi Setup Fun | TechCrunch
Wi-fi setup is usually pretty easy: you find a space in the house, hire a team of radio experts to scan it for dead spots and an entire IT team to manage security and QoS. Then you try to connect from the back patio and discover that you can’t watch…
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For the 200 kids who play in the New York City based New Renaissance Basketball Association (RENS), gun violence isn’t just a statistic to be used in debates about the second amendment and gun control. Gun violence is something they deal with on a d…
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Bhopal: new exhibition commemorates 30th anniversary of disaster | Environment | The Guardian
It was just past midnight on 3 December 1984, when the pesticide plant which sat at the heart of Bhopal, India, exploded.
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Key aide to Jeremy Corbyn suspended by party – BBC News
Jeremy Corbyn’s head of policy Andrew Fisher has been suspended from the Labour Party pending a report by its ruling National Executive Committee. He has faced calls for his expulsion after suggesting people should back a Class War candidate in May’…
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Björk calls for action to prevent destruction of Iceland’s highlands | Music | The Guardian
Two of Iceland’s best-loved artists are trying to draw the world’s attention to the plight of the country’s landscape. Björk and writer-environmentalist Andri Snær Magnason have called for urgent action to protect Iceland’s highlands at a press conf…
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Exxon Mobile probed for misleading investors over climate change risks | Ars Technica
The Attorney General of New York is investigating whether Exxon Mobil lied to the public and investors about the risks of climate change, the Texas oil giant confirmed late Thursday.
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Russia hits out at Charlie Hebdo over crash cartoon – BBC News
Russia has heavily criticised French magazine Charlie Hebdo for two cartoons depicting the Sinai air crash in which 224 people, mostly Russians, died. In the other, a skull and body parts of victims are depicted.
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Obama Rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline—And Secures His Legacy | The New Republic
President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy will be remembered for its series of firsts. He is the first president to limit carbon pollution from power plants, curb methane emissions, and broker a climate deal with China.
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How to Observe the Moon with a Telescope
The major craters of the moon and its maria are labeled in this amazing lunar map created by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. A good moon map is handy to help stargazers locate interesting spots on the moon through a telescope.
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It used to be common practice to flush old medications down the toilet, but reports of feminized fish and drugged runoff have raised concerns. Alternative drug disposal methods are not much better.
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When skydiving isn’t dangerous enough by itself : woahdude
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Not Doomed Yet: Wal-Mart Is Good at Capitalism, and Fighting Climate Change – The Atlantic
This is “Not Doomed Yet,” The Atlantic’s new weekly newsletter about global warming. It lives here in the science section; you can also get it in your inbox. Most strategies for fighting climate change aim to reduce demand.
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Artists Fight to Raise Awareness: Mexico’s 43 Students Are Still Missing – The Atlantic
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US Federal Reserve is right to raise interest rates, yet risk remains | Business | The Guardian
Janet Yellen’s finger is poised over the button. The US Federal Reserve will finally take the plunge and raise interest rates when it meets for the next time just before Christmas. The days when borrowing costs were kept at zero are coming to an end.
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The Pig That Inspired Wilbur – The Atlantic
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Tim Peake Will Be the First British Astronaut to Go to the ISS | Motherboard
Tim Peake, the first British astronaut set to visit the International Space Station, visited London’s Science Museum on Friday, his last UK appearance before leaving the planet. Peake is set to launch from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome on Decembe…
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USA captain Carli Lloyd nominated for Fifa goal of the year | Football | The Guardian
Carli Lloyd has had a year to remember. As captain of the US women’s national team, she won the Women’s World Cup, the Golden Ball and the Silver Boot – and now she’s been nominated for Fifa’s best goal of the year for her long-range effort against …
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Why Comcast’s Data Caps Aren’t About ‘Fairness’ | Motherboard
Leaked documents allegedly from Comcast’s internal customer service guide were posted to 4chan late Thursday, showing that the ISP plans to tell customers its expanded data limit programs is really about “fairness.
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Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point ‘scholarship’ but never applied – POLITICO
Republican hits POLITICO story, later admits to The New York Times he wasn’t offered aid. West Point has no record of Carson applying, much less being extended admission. | AP Photo
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History of a Suicide by Jill Bialosky review – a sister’s search for answers | Books | The Guardian
On 15 April 1990, Jill Bialosky’s youngest sister, Kim, killed herself aged 21. More than two decades later, Bialosky attempts to understand Kim’s final act and the state of her mind in the hours, weeks and years leading to it.
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What Cities Would Look Like if Lit Only by the Stars | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Related Galleries Carl Sagan once said anything shining in the night sky does so because of distant nuclear fusion. The physics involved are awesome, and so too are the billions and billions of stars s…
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A Detroit woman has apologized for a massive fire that she and authorities said was accidentally started by her efforts to eradicate bedbugs from her apartment. Tuesday’s fire tore through Ramblewood Apartments, destroying the 48-unit complex.
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Anonymous leaks identities of 350 alleged Ku Klux Klan members | Technology | The Guardian
The hacking collective Anonymous has begun its promised leak of the identities of members of the Ku Klux Klan with a data dump of the names of more than 350 alleged members along with links to social media accounts. Many of the identities are alread…
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FCC fines Cox for falling for Lizard Squad scam, exposing customer data | Ars Technica
What’s the cost of giving up customers’ information because of weak information security practices? For Cox Communications, the answer is a half-million dollar fine and having the Federal Communications Commission watching its every information secu…
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The six-year fight over Keystone is finally coming to an end. President Obama is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the Wall Street Journal, a move that comes after years of protests, rallies, arrests, and marches from environmentalist…
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Hell Yeah It’s Time For a GIF Party!
Your attention for the GIF PARTY! Bring us your best, worst, and weirdest. It is Friday after all. Let us know.
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Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline | Al Jazeera America
The Obama administration will reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, sources told several media outlets.
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There’s Finally Battle-Safe Foam Lightsabers That Actually Glow
In the world of Star Wars make-believe you usually have two choices: you can go with a realistic plastic glowing lightsaber, and never actually make contact with your opponent, or opt for safer foam, and battle it out without the glow.
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
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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Andrew Furdell of The Search For Schlock podcast set himself a challenge to read all the Avengers comics, from the beginning up until now. (He’s currently stuck somewhere in the mid-’90s, a period in which the Avengers got super into bomber jackets.
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The disastrous Extraordinary X-Men ushers in a bleak mutant future · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Extraordinary X-Men #1.
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IFC renews Maron for another season of angst, awkwardness · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The third season of Maron ended with the closest thing to a cliffhanger that Marc Maron could (or would) muster—his character fell off the wagon after struggling with sobriety and various other things.
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Gravity Visualized by High School Teacher in an Elegantly Simple Way | Open Culture
Just a few miles down the highway from Open Culture’s gleaming headquarters you will find Los Gatos High School, where Dan Burns, an AP Physics Teacher, has figured out a simple but clever way to visualize gravity, as it was explained by Einstein’s …
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Barack Obama is expected on Friday to reject a proposal from TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline through the American heartland, the Guardian has learned.
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How the Bloomberg Terminal Made History–And Stays Ever Relevant
The Computer History Museum is making room for an innovative gadget that arrived in 1982 and has never stopped evolving. By definition, any computing platform invented in the first half of the 1980s that has survived until 2015—and is an enormous bu…
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Suicide officer ‘tried to order hit’ on woman – BBC News
An Illinois police officer who staged his suicide to look like he was murdered also attempted to hire a hitman, officials say. Charles Gliniewicz sought to have a town administrator killed because he believed she would expose his financial misconduc…
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Plant-based diet helps health, environment : environment
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Obama administration reportedly set to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline | The Verge
The New York Times reports that the Obama administration plans to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline project, which would carry massive amounts of petroleum from Canada through to the Gulf Coast.
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For much of its running time, Spotlight holds its audience at arm’s length. Its plot follows one of the most upsetting topics conceivable: Child abuse in the Catholic Church, and institutional efforts to cover up the crimes.
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Whoa. Generally, word starts going around that a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is going to drop days before it actually does. This one sort of just… appeared. We didn’t even have to pretend to care about Monday Night Football to see it!
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Filmish by Edward Ross review – an enjoyable rattle through cinema | Books | The Guardian
As its name suggests, this thoroughly enjoyable rattle through film is about the way cinema speaks to us, and we through it. Ross eschews a chronological approach to focus on topics including “The Body”, “Time” and “Power and Ideology”.
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China and Taiwan leaders to meet for historic talks – BBC News
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou are set to hold historic talks in Singapore. It is the first time since the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 that the leaders from both sides have met.
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US to reject Keystone construction permit – reports – BBC News
US media are reporting that the Obama administration will announce that it is rejecting an application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline would have run 1,179-mile (1,897km) from Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska.
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South Carolina lawmaker wants Zachary Hammond shooting death re-examined | US news | The Guardian
South Carolina’s house minority leader wants the state’s top prosecutor to reopen the investigation into the shooting death of a 19-year-old by a Seneca police officer during a drug sting.
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Don’t say “data cap”: Highlights from a Comcast customer service script | Ars Technica
With Comcast expanding its data caps to more cities, call center employees are likely being hammered with questions from disgruntled customers. Thanks to a leak of an internal customer service script, we know exactly what reps are supposed to tell t…
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Now White People Are Dying From Our Terrible Economic Policies, Too | The Nation
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. But this week America learned that the folks everyone thought had it better than most are suffering a fate just as bad as the rest of us, and by some measures, even worse.
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Hunting for Dark Energy [Slide Show] – Scientific American
The Dark Energy Survey is an ambitious project to figure out why the expansion of the universe is speeding up 1 of 9 Ambitious Dark Energy Project Probes Mysterious Cosmic Expansion » More Slide Shows ADVERTISEMENT
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In the best episode of Netflix’s “Master of None” — I think, it’s hard to pick just one — Dev (Aziz Ansari) wants tacos, but doesn’t know where to go.
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Seven-11 has been leading the way since staying open 24 hrs : firstworldanarchists
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When someone makes something look very easy, and then I attempt to do it. – GIF on Imgur
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Jennifer Lawrence and Natalie Dormer kissing at mockingjay Part 2 premiere in London – GIF on Imgur
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The milk situation at work is starting to get a little serious – Imgur
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A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers | The Verge
One of the web’s most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers. In a message to subscribers, The Economist warned that anyone who visited the site between 11:52PM and 12:15AM GMT on Halloween night may have been expo…
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Exxon Mobil accused of climate change cover-up – BBC News
Oil giant Exxon Mobil is being investigated for misleading the public about the impact of climate change. The New York attorney general has sent a request for emails and financial records to the company.
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Spectre is Way Too Ridiculous A Movie To Take Itself So Seriously
James Bond movies are generally ridiculous, although they run the gamut from Casino Royale to Moonraker. Spectre, the new one that’s out today, is definitely one of the more ridiculous of the bunch—but holds itself with a kind of overly grim dignity…
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If Democrats are losing the culture wars, then why are liberal positions so popular?
For another, Ball tries to brush away the very serious problem any analyst faces when comparing presidential elections with midterm years—or even worse, freakazoid elections in odd-numbered years like this one.
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On location with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers in ‘The Ladykillers’|Dangerous Minds
Alec Guinness was almost killed during the filming of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers in 1955. Guinness starred as “Professor” Marcus, the wily head of a gang of crooks responsible for a security van robbery.
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This AR Device Turns Your Forearm into an Imaginary Tablet | Motherboard
In the near future, factory and maintenance workers might no longer need to rely on cumbersome clipboards or tablets to enter data or check their to-do lists. Researchers in Japan want to transform human bodies into keyboards and touchpads, so they …
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Japan’s ‘Star Wars’ Trailer Has Footage We Haven’t Seen Before | Motherboard
Did you think we were done here? There were three trailers for The Force Awakens, released over the last year or so, creating a steady hype train for those of you itching to peel apart J.J. Abrams’ newest and probably most awaited darling.
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Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi review – classic feminist novel | Books | The Guardian
Zed Books is reissuing Nawal El Saadawi’s classic feminist work. It was first published in Arabic in 1975 and in English in 1983, translated by Sherif Hetata. Forty years on it feels just as fresh, powerful and necessary as on the first day it appea…
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Bureaucrats make unlikely heroes, and they do not come much more unlikely than Sir Eric Drummond.
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What “Net Carbs” On Food Labels Actually Means
A myriad of low-carb products are marketed as having “zero net carbs”, but a closer look at the nutrition label reveals most of the “cancelled” carbs to be from dietary fiber or sugar alcohols.
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How to draw… Timmy Failure | Children’s books | The Guardian
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis shows us how to draw his comic creation!
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Throwback To The Past: it is 1977, quartz watches are still less than 10 years old; it’s the year Star Wars hit theaters for the first time… and you are actually looking at, not a piece of science fiction, but what is nothing less than the most te…
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The Inherited Guilt of Nazi Officials’ Children: What Our Fathers Did – The Atlantic
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Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review | The Verge
I’m biking through Brooklyn when the Droid Turbo 2 slips from my hand and smacks the pavement. For any other phone, this would be a disaster — a spiderweb of cracks across the screen, if not a totally smashed pane of glass sending tiny shards everyw…
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Our Milky Way Galaxy Has a Mysterious ‘Great Dark Lane’
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this striking image of the galaxy NGC 7049, with its dust lanes backlit by the stars in its central halo.Credit: NASA/ESA/W.
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Bad News for Terraforming: Mars’ Atmosphere Is Lost in Space – Scientific American
The hopes of turning Mars into a more Earth-like planet have just taken a hit. Science-fiction writers have long dreamed of terraforming Mars—changing the frigid Red Planet’s climate to make it more suitable for human colonization.
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The Democratic frontrunner joked with TV host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday about what to call her husband if she were to become president. ‘Would he be the First Man, the First Gentleman, the First Mate?’ asked Kimmel.
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The Jobs Report Is Even Better Than It Looks | FiveThirtyEight
The U.S. job market had its best month of the year in October, posting impressive gains after two weak months that had sparked fears of a slowdown. Employers added 271,000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. That’s the most since Decem…
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Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on His Definitive New Beatles Video Set | Vanity Fair
Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s five-decade career as television, film, and theater director has spanned everything from Ready, Steady, Go! to Waiting for Godot. There was also a period, in the mid-1960s, when he made something called promos for a band calle…
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Man saves a family from a flooded house. : gifs
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Andy Murray moved into the semi-finals of the Paris Masters with a hard-fought three-set victory over Richard Gasquet. The British number one came from a break down in the final set to win 7-6 (9-7) 3-6 6-3 and reach the last four of the tournament …
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Star Wars Steelbooks, Better Call Saul, and More
If the new international The Force Awakens trailer got your heart pumping, you can channel that energy into collecting the Steelbook editions of the previous films, all for just $15 each today.
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The Walking Dead May Have Just Cast the Perfect Actor for Its Newest Villain
Normally a rumor like this would go in Morning Spoilers, but this time it’s such a brilliant idea I’m reporting it on its own because it should be true.
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Hear Mike Love’s Spirited, Bittersweet New Christmas Song | Rolling Stone
With Halloween in the rearview, the Beach Boys’ Mike Love is getting into the holiday spirit as quickly as possible, releasing “(You’ll Never Be) Alone on Christmas Day,” a new version of an old yuletide bootleg available exclusively on Rolling Ston…
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Director J.J. Abrams said upon the premiere of the third Force Awakens trailer that there would not be another one.
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Garth Brooks Talks Tour’s ‘2.0 Stage,’ Hints at Nashville Stop | Rolling Stone
Garth Brooks continues to announce cities one-by-one on his massive world tour with wife Trisha Yearwood, leaving fans all over the globe on the edge of their seats. So when Rolling Stone Country spoke with the superstar couple at this week’s CMA Aw…
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After decades in the shadows, the gatekeepers who determine which colleges can access taxpayer money through student loans will have to start operating in the sunlight.
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Never mind Didier Drogba – Montreal Impact do it on defence | Football | The Guardian
We’re nearing the end of the MLS season, which means, of course, that its brightest stars are now the subject of some curious transfer rumours.
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US looks set for December interest rate rise after jobs boost | Business | The Guardian
The US appears to be on course for a first interest rate rise in almost a decade next month after higher-than-expected job creation pushed the unemployment rate down to 5%.
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4 Predictions Republicans Made About The Economy That Are Really Embarrassing Now | ThinkProgress
Republicans have consistently claimed that President Obama’s policies will kill jobs. Today, the Department of Labor announced that 271,000 jobs had been created. Overall, there have been 68 straight months of job growth creating 13.5 million new jo…
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‘Monsterman’: The Rise and fall and rise of Lordi, the Monsterboy who never grew up|Dangerous Minds
It all started out as a joke. A Finnish heavy metal band wearing Gwar-like costumes enters the cornball Eurovision Song Contest in order to freak the squares out. What happened was totally unexpected. They won! And Finland went apeshit.
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Fleetwood’s David Ball up against Lionel Messi for Fifa’s Puskás Award | Football | The Guardian
Fleetwood striker David Ball is in the running to win Fifa’s Puskás Award for the best goal of the year but faces stiff competition from Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez and Carli Lloyd.
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Anonymous Releases Personal Data Of Alleged KKK Members And FBI Informants | ThinkProgress
Anonymous, the controversial hactivist organization, released what it claims to be a list of hundreds of members and supporters of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.
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It really matters who the next president is. But there are other things that matter just as much to the nation’s future prosperity. One of them is: What is happening to health care costs?
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Model Vicki Witt playing pinball (on rollerskates), 1978 : OldSchoolCool
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Photos of the Week: 10/31-11/06 – The Atlantic
Kitesurfing in the Mediterranean, pig riding in China, cosplay in Thailand, All Saint’s Day in Poland, heron dancers in Japan, removing landmines with flamethrowers in China, big wave surfing in Portugal, running with flaming barrels in Ottery St. M…
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$30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots | TechCrunch
Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million.
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Moon Photography 101 / Boing Boing
Are you planning on taking a vacation trip to the Moon? If so, you’ll want to create a commemorative photo album. The moon is a pretty desolate place and the truth is, you just don’t have a whole lot to work with.
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Review: On Art Angels, Grimes gives us every version of herself | The Verge
Is this what you’ve been waiting for? In an interview with Entertainment Weekly this summer, Grimes’ Claire Boucher said she hated “Oblivion,” the track from her breakout 2012 album Visions that is still, more than two years later, the biggest song …
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church, has introduced a new policy that deems married LGBT couples apostate and prohibits blessing or baptizing children that live in their homes until they turn 18.
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Solid, Liquid, Ants – The Atlantic
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Scientists Confirm Anti-Vaccine Sites Contain No Facts – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new study found that despite the prevalence of websites encouraging parents not to vaccinate their children, two-thirds of the sites presented false or disproven information as scientific evidence, while others misinterpreted the findings of peer-…
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Technology Might Be Able to Save Americans From Their Short-Sighted Spending – The Atlantic
As humans, our failings are epic. Some of us eat too much, lie to ourselves, don’t exercise enough, and spend so much money that we have nothing left for that vacation in Hawaii. But technology, Dan Ariely believes, might save us from ourselves.
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Solar farm in Balcombe ‘fracking village’ shelved due to Tory policies | Environment | The Guardian
A project to generate renewable energy in the village at the centre of the UK’s first fracking protests has become the latest casualty of the shake-up of the government’s green policies.
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Two New Orleans bookshops are challenging a new Louisiana law that requires websites publishing material deemed harmful to minors to verify the age of their users, saying it would make them appear incorrectly to be “adult” bookstores.
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Ben Carson is furious that CNN quoted Ben Carson
Did Ben Carson really have a violent childhood in which he hit a classmate in the head with a lock in his hand, among other incidents? CNN has gone looking for anyone who knew Carson when he was young and remembers the Republican presidential candid…
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Why New Antibiotics Never Come to Market | Motherboard
In the murky depths of Lake Michigan, around 15 feet below the surface, Brian Murphy is examining the various thickets of seaweed and vibrantly coloured sponges clinging to the sides of an old wooden cargo ship.
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There’s a few different images you can find in the media that demonstrate, better than words, what life in Britain looks like in 2015.
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The Hardest Puzzle You’ll Ever See—and the Secret You Need to Solve It
While a doctoral student at Princeton University in 1957, studying under a founder of theoretical computer science, Raymond Smullyan would occasionally visit New York City.
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Carson Plummets in Polls Amid Reports He Did Not Stab Anyone – The New Yorker
DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report)—New reports indicating that Ben Carson might not have actually stabbed anyone during his youth have sent the retired neurosurgeon plummeting in the latest Republican Presidential polls.
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The Four Factors You Need to Gain Someone’s Trust
Whether you’re selling a product, giving a speech, or just trying to make new friends, it can be hard to gain someone’s trust when you’re an utter stranger to them. Fast Company explains that, ultimately, it’s about finding a balance between being h…
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‘Gammy’ To Some, ‘Nana’ To Others: A Grandmother’s Story – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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What the BlackBerry Priv means for Android security | The Verge
The new BlackBerry Priv comes at a crucial time for both BlackBerry and Android at large. It’s BlackBerry’s first-ever Android phone, and the first major device since the Passport, a major bet for a company that’s struggled to stay relevant.
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Japanese trailer for The Force Awakens
This is a Japanese trailer for The Force Awakens. It’s similar to the most recent trailer released in the US, but it contains a bunch of new footage. Still no Luke. (via @gavinpurcell)
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Winless quarterback Zach Mettenberger is football’s Susan Lucci · Block & Tackle · The A.V. Club
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. The Tennessee Titans deigned to score only a pair of field goals in their divisional matchup against the Houston Texans in Week 8, apparently feeling that a touchdown would be uncouth.
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October Jobs Report – The Atlantic
After three consecutive months of disappointing jobs reports, October finally delivered the strong numbers economists had been hoping for.
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So Did Ben Carson Try To Stab Someone Or Not? | ThinkProgress
Reporters are asking new questions about a key story in Ben Carson’s autobiography in which he originally said he attempted to stab a friend — and now says the victim was a “close relative.
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Dov Charney Says He Doesn’t Have Enough Money for a Lawyer | Vanity Fair
Former American Apparel chief and permanent drawer of ire Dov Charney has smacked against rock bottom again.
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Japanese version of The Force Awakens trailer shows off new images, new hope | Ars Technica
We see what could be the initial meeting between Daisy Ridley’s Rey and BB-8, the spherical droid who’s already available in toy form. We also get to hear Rey and John Boyega’s Finn character introduce themselves—the first time either character’s na…
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Jury Acquits Officer Who Shot Unarmed Man Face Down On The Ground | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, a jury acquitted Officer Lisa Mearkle for shooting David Kassick in Pennsylvania, who was pulled over for an expired inspection sticker. The same day, video of the deadly encounter was released by the local D.A.
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Ozzy Osbourne to apologize to Texas for peeing on the Alamo monument · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ozzy Osbourne recently shared the news that he’s taking a break from being retired to hit the road with his son Jack for the History Channel.
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How Donald Trump Became America’s Insult Comic in Chief | Vanity Fair
Donald Trump’s quest to become president of the United States as a stepping-stone to emperorship and eventual godhood is clearly a new viral strain of performance art, a vanity production with innovative, popular appeal, so let’s examine its tooth m…
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Million Mask March: What are Anonymous’ demands? – BBC News
Organisers of the 5 November Million Mask March predicted the “largest global protest” in history. Thousands wearing Guy Fawkes masks gathered in London and Washington DC, joined by similar protests across the globe – from Canada to Guatemala to the…
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The REAL meaning of shark week… : TrollXChromosomes
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Robert De Niro drops f-bomb on ‘condescending’ tech mogul | Page Six
Robert De Niro channeled his inner Vito Corleone to oddly verbally whack a tech mogul at a chic MoMA gala on Wednesday. The star was presenting an award to Angelina Jolie at the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards when he took exception to an earlier acc…
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One of the dogs at our workplace being like “Yo dawg, just chillin” : AnimalsBeingBros
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At the CMA Awards on Wednesday, John Mellencamp sang his classic “Pink Houses,” joined by the Australian singer Keith Urban, who politely shredded the guitar (in a women’s blazer and a wifebeater) and helped Mellencamp to question if that ain’t Amer…
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Learning to Be Beyonce from Her Terrible Father – Racked
It’s hour six of Mathew Knowles’s day-long seminar “The Entertainment Industry: How do I get in?”, and he is yelling across the theater at an usher who just told him new microphones are “on the way.
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Adele’s “Hello” is No. 1 on the Hot 100, has broken every record, is the ultimate comeback song.
A crucial part of being a star is knowing how to make an entrance. Perhaps no one knew this better than golden-age movie stars. They made entrances that pretended to be about the material but were really all about them.
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Greenpeace loses Indian registration – BBC News
Greenpeace says its charitable registration to operate in India has been revoked. The environmental campaign group says that the decision effectively shuts it down in India.
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Myanmar election: Unusual candidates causing a stir – BBC News
As Myanmar ramps up for its historic election on 8 November, the BBC takes a look at some of the more unusual candidates causing a stir. Opposition candidate Win Min had, until recently, never been able to visit the place he was campaigning in – the…
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exactly the same way I feel about my little man – Imgur
exactly the same way I feel about my little man https://t.co/abm6rdHYaZ https://t.co/uspfddaA4F
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Madonna, a year before the release of her first album (1982). : OldSchoolCool
Madonna, a year before the release of her first album (1982). via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/kaQU9tFyaq https://t.co/14CKDRbxtv
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Well before one hottest-year-ever was followed by yet another record-breaker, before Arctic ice vanished in real time and Pope Francis made a plea to save our troubled home, the world’s largest private oil company discovered that its chief product c…
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So I guess I really should have gone to hear Ben Bernanke’s keynote at the IMF yesterday. But the first thing you learn in economics is opportunity cost: the cost of Ben Bernanke would have been Elephant Revival: And let’s face it: Ben’s instrumenta…
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New trailers: The Hateful Eight, Chi-Raq, Star Wars, and more | The Verge
I finally saw The Martian over the weekend and really loved it. It’s just a two-hour thrill ride where every obstacle is solved by science, which is really fun to watch (for more, you should read our review).
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Illegally planted palm oil already growing on burnt land in Indonesia | Environment | The Guardian
Freshly-burned land in Indonesia has already been illegally planted with oil palm, new evidence suggests, following the loss of two million hectares of forest and peatland since July to fires.
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Do We Need Uber for Anything Else? – 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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In praise of Tom Drury’s small-town America | Books | The Guardian
First, a warning. If you read Tom Drury’s first novel The End of Vandalism (1994)you will become one of those people who try to foist it on others, your eyes shining with the unsettling delight of having lived through it.
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Deadline Extended: One More Week To Save £400 On Disrupt London Tickets | TechCrunch
Did you miss the deadline or just forget to get early-bird tickets to Disrupt London? You’re in luck! We’re giving you one more week to stop procrastinating and get your tickets for £400 off the total retail price of £1,200.
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A Song For Ella Grey by David Almond – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
A Song For Ella Grey, with all its lyrical writing, is a romance wrapped in a mystery. A modern interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it’s as thought-provoking as it is beautiful.
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Stop Your Roommates from Eating Your Food and Label What’s “Up for Grabs”
If you shop separately from your roommates, you don’t always know what food is off limits—and what’s up for grabs. A simple sticker system clears everything up, and ensures your roommates don’t eat your food. We had a handy sticker system for food i…
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Heroes Reborn Has Momentarily Resumed Not Making Me Want to Weep in Agony
Let me be the first one to admit when I was wrong. Last week, after several story-less, entertainment-less episodes in a row, I assumed that like its forebear, Heroes Reborn was just making shit up as it went along.
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Master Of None · Sponsored TV Trailer · The A.V. Club
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New Cook Arrives in Life’s Kitchen – Scientific American
Inside every cell is a chef of sorts, cooking up the “cuisine” that makes life possible—a vast array of proteins.
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NASA’s MAVEN Mission Video: “Once a Blue Planet” –Solar Wind Strips Mar’s Atmosphere
“Mars appears to have had a thick atmosphere warm enough to support liquid water which is a key ingredient and medium for life as we currently know it,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for the NASA Science Mission Director…
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New Medical Devices Vanish Inside You – Scientific American
Although the physician who first wanted to open blocked blood vessels was described as “something of a radical” by his colleagues, even he might have been surprised by the idea of a tiny plastic scaffold that holds open an artery and then dissolves.
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Major League Soccer’s play-offs are well under way and it will not come as a surprise to hear that an Englishman is involved in the thick of the action. But eyebrows may be raised at the fact he is called neither Frank Lampard nor Steven Gerrard.
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The very best of American photography – in pictures | Culture | The Guardian
The greatest names in American photography are to be exhibited in one place as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago turns 40. Over 100 pictures will be on show from its permanent collection including Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Walker …
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Does today’s good job report mean that the Fed will raise rates next month? Probably yes. Does it mean that the Fed should raise rates? Definitely not. The arguments against an early rate rise remain compelling, and shouldn’t be abandoned based on o…
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Cartoon: The real Republican debate
When it comes to Republican presidential candidate silliness, it doesn’t get any better than this. (Oh wait, unless you’re talking about this.) After the recent on-stage mayhem, the GOP presidential candidates are trying to get control of the debate…
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Police Emails About Ahmed Mohamed: ‘This Is What Happens When We Screw Up’ | Motherboard
When Ahmed Mohamed announced he will be moving to Qatar, it set off a new wave of media, politician, and pundit reactions. Well, employees at the Irving Police Department, who arrested the 14-year-old for bringing a clock to school, had some thought…
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Texas Police Threatened to Arrest Ahmed Mohamed’s Father, Internal Memos Show | Motherboard
Ahmed, his father, and their lawyer. Image: Associated Press
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Germany to expedite deportations of refugees – Al Jazeera English
Germany is set to speed up the deportation of asylum-seekers after weeks of disputes within the government coalition over the “overwhelming” surge of new refugees.
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The (James) Bond Index: From gadgets and tuxes to cocktails and quip
Time in a suit or tuxedo is the cumulative length of all film time in which Bond is in the scene and wearing any of the following: a suit with matching jacket and pants, a tuxedo, a white dinner jacket or a particularly formal military uniform.
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Putin grounds all Russian flights to Egypt | Al Jazeera America
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a halt to all Egypt-bound flights and told authorities to begin repatriating Russian citizens trapped in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh amid growing speculation that an onboard bomb downed a passenger jet …
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When economic crisis struck in 2008, policy makers by and large did the right thing. The Federal Reserve and other central banks realized that supporting the financial system took priority over conventional notions of monetary prudence.
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/PkVhdWN7rs https://t.co/Nt2CcK6lTv
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Interactive map of every fatal car accident in the U.S. for from 2004-2013 : MapPorn
Interactive map of every fatal car accident in the U.S. for from 2004-2013 via /r/MapPorn https://t.co/bCbcBhANuD https://t.co/a8UOILfuqw
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mr skeltal jr makes life decisions : ledootgeneration
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It may not seem like much. : AdviceAnimals
It may not seem like much. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/IAm9nI9MdP https://t.co/TyVCmrh6eg
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/hlhNAO6wvq https://t.co/N09WPkGHcM
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Today was a good day! : AdviceAnimals
Today was a good day! via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/rVA6QEDSIq https://t.co/bQTF7u95UF
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Young fella on the move : sloths
Young fella on the move via /r/sloths https://t.co/megQIOwJx0 https://t.co/71Ud75WkxB
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Animated walk via /r/gif https://t.co/Mr5QAwmWcj https://t.co/6B0zaYxOuy
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The Protopiper is a hand-held fabrication device that turns tape into hollow tubes for prototyping large objects at 1:1 scale like cabinets, couches, microwaves, or whatever else you wish.
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India Is Training ‘Quacks’ In Medicine to Solve a Rural Health-Care Shortage – The Atlantic
Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than 20 years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West Bengal, India. He has no degree in medicine.
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Los Angeles Mayor Accidentally Endorses Hillary Clinton | Vanity Fair
On Thursday, Los Angelenos suddenly received huge news: their mayor, rising liberal star Eric Garcetti, had sent an e-mail announcing his endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nominee.
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The Modern Civil-Military Divide – The Atlantic
Tiger Woods, while a Marine holds the flag at a PGA event.
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Yo-Kai Watch could be the next Pokemon-style global phenomenon | The Verge
In 1996, Nintendo launched a new role-playing game called Pokemon in Japan. It was about collecting and battling monsters, and unlike most RPGs, it was aimed at kids; the story was playful, and the game mechanics easy to grasp.
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Sport picture of the day: canoeists making a splash in the Pacific | Sport | The Guardian
Competitors race in the second leg of the Hawaiki Nui Va’a 2015 outrigger canoe race between the islands of Raiatea and Tahaa in French Polynesia. Originally made from wood, almost all of the canoes are fabricated with high-tech polyester material a…
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Tesla could be making it easier for you to find your lost car keys | The Verge
Spotted by friend of The Verge Dave Zatz this morning, Tesla has a new key fob that just received approval from the FCC, and there’s one feature that’s notable in particular: it was tested for its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support.
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ExxonMobil Denies Lying about Global Warming – Scientific American
Exxon Mobil Corp. insisted yesterday that it has not lied to its shareholders about the risks of climate change as it reacted to news that New York’s attorney general is investigating the company’s climate statements to investors.
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Ozzy Osbourne Tours the Alamo 33 Years After Urination Arrest | Rolling Stone
It’s one of the most notorious moments in rock history: Ozzy Osbourne, arrested in San Antonio, Texas in February 1982 for urinating at a monument near the Alamo dedicated to the lives of soldiers killed in the 1836 Texas Revolution.
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Songwriter Spotlight: Mac McAnally on CMA Dominance and Chesney Hits | Rolling Stone
When Mac McAnally nabbed the trophy for Musician of the Year at the 49th CMA Awards Wednesday night, it was his eighth straight win.
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Beyoncé Will Be Guesting on a Major December Album | Vanity Fair
Coldplay is due to release their seventh studio album—titled A Head Full of Dreams—this December, and today the band has released its first single, “Adventures of a Lifetime” (which sadly does not begin with the lyrics, “For years and years I went ‘…
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MuckRock • Burt Shavitz, international man of mystery
Eternalized as the familiar face of Burt’s Bees personal care products, Ingram Berg Shavitz was the subject of a recent documentary entitled “Burt’s Buzz,” which explored his life as a mild-mannered bee keeper in Maine.
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How Athena might save you from assault | Fusion
A lie I tell my female relatives is that I carry pepper spray. My mom gave me a small, pink keychain canister of pepper spray a few years ago after a young woman was kidnapped and sexually assaulted on the same block as my college apartment.
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Square Plays Safe On Initial IPO Price To Entice Investors | TechCrunch
Payments company Square has set its IPO offering to price at $11 to $13 per share. This will raise up to $403.7 million, and value the company at at approximately $4.19 billion.
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Last push for votes in Myanmar – BBC News
Candidates in Myanmar have entered their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s general election. The elections will be Myanmar’s first openly contested polls in 25 years, following decades of military rule.
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Wild Man Fischer and DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh interpret ‘The Way We Were’|Dangerous Minds
I never cared much for “The Way We Were” as Barbra Streisand sings it, but if you’re going to put on Larry “Wild Man” Fischer’s version when I’m around, you’d better bring a whole box of tissues. There are going to be all kinds of bodily fluids happ…
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Spoil Your Pets With Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal
Today only, Amazon’s offering big discounts on a great selection of pet supplies from a variety of manufacturers. Inside, you’ll find everything from toys, treats, beds and more for your favorite rent-free roommates, so be sure to check out the full…
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The Real Little Red-Haired Girl of Peanuts Speaks | Vanity Fair
Donna Johnson Wold’s hair, which was once, in her own words, “violently red,” has long since faded to the white you’d expect of an 86-year-old grandmother.
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Stronger flu vaccine for 2016 in Australia – BBC News
A new stronger flu vaccine will be introduced in Australia in 2016 following a record number of cases of the virus this year.The vaccine will cover four flu strains, instead of the usual three, including two influenza B strains.
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Government reports 271,000 new jobs created in October, the best performance in 10 months
The bureau also revised numbers for September from 142,000 to 137,000 and August from 136,000 to 153,000. Last month’s report had included downward revisions to previously estimated numbers for August and July. The civilian workforce rose 216,000, a…
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Follow Basic Money Rules, But Keep Your Eye on The Big Picture
It sounds crazy, but yes, personal finance can be exciting. Not like, “we’re going to Disneyworld!” exciting, but more like, “how exciting, I finally have control of my debt.
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Do you think the Sukkel twins are identical or fraternal? Take our quiz and see if you can figure out if Lilly and Abbie and six other twin pairs are identical or fraternal. It’s not always easy to tell whether a twin pair is identical simply by the…
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My attempt at multitasking made for an eventful morning. : AdviceAnimals
My attempt at multitasking made for an eventful morning. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/9sL8jZ1WH5 https://t.co/N8kSCHY0do
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Chris Christie, JV Debater, Could Thrive In Primary Chaos | FiveThirtyEight
What if a mainstream Republican wins neither Iowa nor New Hampshire? I’m not talking about a Donald Trump sweep. I’m talking about two factional candidates within the party trading victories: A social conservative (Ben Carson, say) wins Iowa, and a …
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Blackberry Priv early impressions: This is (currently) not a very good phone | Ars Technica
Specs at a glance: Blackberry Priv Screen Curved 5.43-inch, 2560×1440 pixel, 540 PPI AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 4 OS Android 5.1.1 Lollipop CPU Snapdragon 808 hexa-core, 64 bit: dual-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A57 and quad-core 1.
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Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-For-Food Start-Ups – The Atlantic
I work some days from a small office in San Francisco, and every day, I gotta eat. For a stretch of several weeks this year, I obtained my lunch from an iPhone app called Sprig. It’s a beautiful piece of software.
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Sandow Birk’s ‘American Qu’ran’ Makes a Sacred Text Familiar – The Atlantic
Sandow Birk spent the last nine years creating an illuminated manuscript of the Koran in English. He didn’t do it for religious reasons—he’s not a Muslim.
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A Surprisingly Positive Jobs Report That Shouldn’t Make Us Complacent
Even with today’s positive job report, we have a long way to go to repair the damage done by the 2008 recession and the slow growth that followed. (Chart by Economic Policy Institute)
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Battle of Ohio: fans’ photos from Cleveland Browns vs Cincinnati Bengals | Sport | The Guardian
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The skyscraper at One Bryant Park in Manhattan looks like a vision of the future – or at least, what the movies tell us the future will look like.
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BattleBots is coming back for a second season on ABC | The Verge
BattleBots has been renewed for a second season after a successful summer revival on ABC.
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Somewhere in a box in my attic I still have a collection of Topps trading cards that I used to collect (the 80s reboot of Creature Feature and the Charlie’s Angels packs were always my favorites).
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Fifty-two things to enjoy in the fifty-two weeks before the US election | US news | The Guardian
1. Winter 2. Spring 3. Summer 4. Meeting someone who takes your breath away and gives you fresh hope in humanity 5. Asking her on a date to the local bowling alley 6. Mike Huckabee 7. Thanksgiving 8. Christmas 9. New Year’s Eve 10.
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We Probably Haven’t Found Evidence for the Multiverse
Perhaps you saw the news this week about new evidence that we do, indeed, live in a multiverse.
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Holy Cow, This International Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Has Tons Of New Footage
Wow. You thought you were done with new Star Wars trailers after the recent, amazing one we just had? Think again. Disney has released an international cut of the trailer—one that is packed with new shots and dialogue.
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We May Finally Know Why Wonder Woman Gets Caught Up in Batman v. Superman
The Witcher could be heading to the big screen. Jurassic World won’t just have a sequel, it’s now part of a trilogy. Casting calls reveal The CW’s subversive take on Archie for Riverdale.
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Your Cat Questions Answered – Scientific American
Are cats less domesticated than dogs? Are they becoming more domesticated over time? Cats are far more similar to their wild ancestors than dogs are to wolves, so dogs are in that sense the more domesticated of the two species.
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Jeb Bush clinches crucial ‘UFO Man’ endorsement|Dangerous Minds
“UFO Man” endorses Bush.
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The kernel of the argument over Linux’s vulnerabilities | The Washington Post
It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second.
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New phone satisfaction via /r/gif https://t.co/shAErioroO https://t.co/neujHcaD4R
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Tortoise Surprise : StartledCats
Tortoise Surprise via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/PHw3Bl1ySB https://t.co/ijTjLvxieK
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Watch the Bob Ross of engineering dispel the myth of hi-res audio | The Verge
I’ve spent the past month reviewing a pair of smartphones with one thing in common: great audio. First came the HTC One A9, capable of upscaling 16-bit recordings to 24-bit and powering high-end headphones with an especially potent integrated amplif…
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The John Kerry-ization of Jeb Bush: A Vine Analysis | The New Republic
Jeb Bush has let himself be turned into a cartoon.
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First-of-its-kind gene-edited cells treat baby’s leukemia | Ars Technica
With genetic tweaks and snips, researchers created cancer-busting immune cells that, so far, seem to have wiped out a life-threatening form of leukemia in a one-year-old girl.
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The awesome power of science fiction’s alien megastructures | Books | The Guardian
Sci-fi fans call it “sensawunda”, that awe and amazement that the best science fiction stories can inspire in us. The entire world felt it recently when scientists declared that observations of a distant star might have revealed an alien megastructu…
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Six Surprising Facts About ‘The Martian’
“The Martian” just topped the box office for the fifth consecutive weekend. Here are six surprising things you might not know about this Red Planet survival story.
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Samsung Galaxy View review | The Verge
Does the world need a ginormous tablet designed almost exclusively for streaming movies and TV shows? After spending a good week with Samsung’s 18.4-inch Galaxy View, I can say that the answer is no.
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The US supreme court will decide as early as Friday whether to hear a case that could tee up the most consequential ruling on abortion rights in 23 years: a challenge to a Texas law that threatens to shut down half of the state’s clinics, or an appe…
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The Fallout From the Russian Plane Crash – The Atlantic
The British airline EasyJet says two of its flights have left the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with 379 passengers, while Egyptian authorities aren’t allowing seven others to operate.
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Jimmy Wales Talks to Antonio Mora | Al Jazeera America
If you were able to talk to your younger self, a guy who was involved in finance — you were out there, trading futures in Chicago — and you [said] you were going to create a not-for-profit Internet encyclopedia, what would you have thought? I would …
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New Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer reveals new footage | The Verge
Well, this is a surprise. Disney’s Japanese YouTube account has uploaded a brand new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, full of new scenes. The star of this one, without question, is BB-8 — we actually get to hear the droid “talk” a bit this …
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Kelly Ayotte and the Rise of Green Republicans | The New Republic
Before joining the Senate, Ayotte had a positive environmental record as the attorney general in New Hampshire, having fought the Bush administration for failing to regulate carbon.
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AMD sued over allegedly misleading Bulldozer core count | Ars Technica
A class action lawsuit has been filed against chip-maker AMD for allegedly tricking consumers into buying its Bulldozer processors by overstating the number of cores contained in the chips.
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Star Wars International Trailer Makes BB-8 the Star | Vanity Fair
It seems safe to call BB-8 the breakout star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. No, the movie hasn’t opened yet, but it’s still hard to think of anything from the film that’s captured imaginations the way that little soccer ball droid—irresistible to …
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Payrolls in U.S. Climb Most This Year as Jobless Rate Reaches 5% – Bloomberg Business
Employment snapped back with a vengeance in October, wage growth accelerated and the jobless rate fell to 5 percent, boosting the odds that Federal Reserve policy makers will raise borrowing costs next month.
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There’s a Huge Advancement in Poop Science That Could Save Thousands of Lives – Mic
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a terrible way to die. It’s an antibiotic-resistant gut bug that causes painful diarrhea, fever and kidney failure. Almost half a million Americans are diagnosed with C.
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Spencer gorge, Ontario, at the height of fall (OC) [683×1024]. : EarthPorn
Spencer gorge, Ontario, at the height of fall (OC) [683×1024]. via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/PXBPpOopfE https://t.co/ciessWX53n
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How Will Robots and Smart Gadgets Transform Energy? You Ask, We Answer
A multibillion dollar trend is transforming the energy industry, and it’s not about drilling. It involves a different kind of bit: digital data.
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Russia ‘should suspend Egypt flights’ – 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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Kshama Sawant Declares Victory in Seattle | Al Jazeera America
The first socialist to hold a seat on Seattle’s city council in nearly 100 years looks set for a second term, in what the campaign and supporters are describing as a victory for the socialist cause nationally.
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Classroom Technology Is a Booming Market – The Atlantic
Every few months, a new study claims that gadgets in the classroom don’t improve learning—but that hasn’t stopped the educational technology market’s steady upward climb. The ed-tech market totaled $8.
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The SETI Institute looked at oddly dimming star and found nothing | Ars Technica
E.T. hasn’t phoned home, at least not yet. After considerable excitement in the planet hunting community about a star 1,500 light years from Earth that dimmed substantially at irregular periods, the SETI Institute decided to take a closer look from …
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Democrats’ divide on death penalty emerges as major point of difference | US news | The Guardian
Now, the three candidates sparring for the Democratic nomination are questioning the effectiveness and application of the death penalty. Among them, only former secretary of state Hillary Clinton opposes abolishing the practice, and only in certain …
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US adds 271,000 jobs in October – BBC News
The US economy added 271,000 jobs in October, which is much stronger than the 185,000 figure that economists had been expecting. That strong number will raise expectations that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its policy meeting i…
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Bad News for Terraforming: Mars’ Atmosphere Is Lost in Space
The hopes of turning Mars into a more Earth-like planet have just taken a hit. Science-fiction writers have long dreamed of terraforming Mars — changing the frigid Red Planet’s climate to make it more suitable for human colonization.
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Wildlife The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures The last US Sumatran rhino, a mushroom fairy ring and an amazing Jesus lizard are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Friday 6 November 2015 08.
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Significant Digits For Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. So far into this season of television, none of the four major networks have cancelled a television show.
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HTC Encourages You To “Be Different” While Not Being Different | TechCrunch
HTC has released a new commercial whose primary message is Be Different.
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Astronauts Taking Walk in Space Today: Watch It Live
Scott Kelly captured this photo during his first spacewalk last week with Kjell Lindgren. Today (Nov. 6) the duo is heading out again to reconfigure a station cooling system over the course of 6.5 hours.
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Economy Added 271,000 Jobs In October; Unemployment Rate Fell Slightly To 5 Percent | ThinkProgress
The economy added 271,000 jobs in October while the unemployment rate fell slightly to 5 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Analysts had expected 180,000 jobs to be added.
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Iran family fears for Shahram Amiri, detained scientist – BBC News
The father of an Iranian nuclear scientist detained since returning from the United States in 2010 says he fears for his son’s safety. Speaking about the case for the first time, Asgar Amiri told BBC Persian he has not been allowed to see or speak t…
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US economy smashes expectations to add 271,000 jobs in October | Business | The Guardian
The US economy added 271,000 jobs in October, about 90,000 more than expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 5%. The Federal Reserve is scheduled to meet in December to discuss raising interest rates for the first time since the 2008 recession.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
But I really did want to maybe try to get off the subject of crackpot Ben Carson! And I don’t think he’s going to let us do it. I really don’t! The Ben Car-istocrats!
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Don’t Just Wait For An Offer, Research the Other Side Before Negotiating
You might have heard that it’s best to let the other side make the first offer when negotiating. However, if you only find out what they want at the table, you may be at a disadvantage. Instead, research first. As business blog Inc.
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The long tale of the British short story | Books | The Guardian
Over the last two years, I undertook the task of reading as much of the British short story as I humanly could.
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Dawn of gene-editing medicine? – BBC News
Does the smiling face of Layla Richards mark a new era in genetic medicine that could change all our lives? Her story is simply remarkable and a world first.
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Twitter boss admits diversity tool ‘blind spot’ – BBC News
Engineering manager Leslie Miley wrote that he was asked to build a tool that would classify recruitment candidates’ ethnicity by analysing their last name. The idea was intended to improve diversity among staff.
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Why Foodborne Disease Outbreaks Are Getting Larger And More Deadlier Than Ever | ThinkProgress
Foodborne illnesses have been increasingly impacting the country’s health — and headlines — over the past decade.
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Coldplay Announce New LP ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ | Rolling Stone
After much speculation, Coldplay have officially announced that their new album, A Head Full of Dreams, will arrive on December 4th.
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Starship Size Comparison Chart : interestingasfuck
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London Cycling Boom Renews Demand for Artisan Bike Builders – Bloomberg Business
Caren Hartley trained as a jeweler then turned her metalworking skills to larger objects. Think sculptures. These days you can find her in a south London workshop cutting steel tubes, filing, shaping, and wielding an 840 degree torch to make steel b…
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BoF Exclusive | Raf Simons Speaks to Cathy Horyn on the Speed of Fashion | BoF Exclusive | BoF
In March, Raf Simons agreed to spend the following several months, on and off, discussing life at Dior with esteemed writer and critic Cathy Horyn, for System magazine.
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Socialist politician credits Bernie Sanders after re-election in Seattle | US news | The Guardian
Kshama Sawant may be the only elected politician in the US who thinks Bernie Sanders has compromised his socialist principles a little too much to win the White House.
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BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho: Chelsea boss opts not to appeal stadium ban
The Football Association punished the 52-year-old for his behaviour towards the match officials during Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at West Ham on 24 October. Mourinho cannot enter the Britannia Stadium but will travel with the team and be in charge of subs…
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Why are stock photo sites so useless for human interest stories? / Boing Boing
As body image, sex, relationships and gender issues come to the fore, blogs and news sites are quitting stock photo providers such as Getty. The problem: most of the material there touching upon these matters are packed with stupid, stereotypical pa…
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Danny Bowien’s Mission Chinese has been through health department hell and back again. After being shut down for various violations, it came out reborn: bigger, shinier, and still jam-packed, night after night.
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Gangnam Style statue built in South Korea’s Seoul – BBC News
A statue dedicated to the South Korean music hit Gangnam Style is to be unveiled in the Seoul district made famous by the song.The metal sculpture will show two fists overlapped in the style of the song’s “horse-riding” dance move.
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Inside the Very Charmed World of British Noble Annabel Astor | Vanity Fair
‘This sofa we’re sitting on—the springs are all gone—is my grandmother Lady Clifford’s sofa,” says Annabel Astor, the high-born, well-connected co-founder and executive vice-chairman of OKA Direct, the British home-furnishings retailer.
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Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took his 13th five-wicket haul as he helped India bowl South Africa out for 184 on the second day of the first Test. The tourists began the day on 28-2 but struggled against the slow bowlers with AB de Villiers (63) o…
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An impromptu game of hide and seek with my cat today. : cats
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“Let’s go, bro” : AnimalsBeingBros
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Greenpeace says India has cancelled its legal registration | Environment | The Guardian
Greenpeace says its registration to operate in India has been cancelled under orders from the country’s home ministry. The environmental group said in a statement that it would challenge Friday’s decision in court.
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‘Spectre’: The Case for Why James Bond Shouldn’t Have an Origin Story – The Atlantic
The words that flash across the screen at the beginning of Spectre have two distinct sets of meaning, one of which is apparent immediately and one of which will become so soon enough. The first is literal: As the words fade, the scene opens in Mexic…
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Sage, Ink: Bush and Cheney – The Atlantic
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The Country’s Fourth-Largest Craft Brewery Is Trying Its Hand At Climate Activism | ThinkProgress
efore they sold their first bottle of beer, Kim Jordan and Jeff Lebesch, co-founders of New Belgium Brewing, went for a long hike in Rocky Mountain National Park. On that hike, they came up with four core beliefs and values that would guide their fl…
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The largest Jewish movement in the country has passed a sweeping resolution to make their communities more welcoming for transgender people, a move supporters say is an expression of their compassionate faith. On Thursday, the Union for Reform Judai…
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How The Religious Right Learned To Use Bathrooms As A Weapon Against Justice | ThinkProgress
If you live in Houston, you’ve probably spent the last several weeks listening to conservatives talk about the potty.
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Improve Your Budget By Focusing On How Much Satisfaction Your Money Buys
When you’re buying something, you might think about how much you’re saving versus a similar deal somewhere else. Instead, consider how much fulfillment you’re buying for yourself.
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Rap Tracks Written by Algorithms May End Up Not Being Anything to Fuck With | Motherboard
Given that they’re the only millionaires who seem to understand how fun it is to be a millionaire, being a successful rapper seems like pretty much the best get-rich-quick-[or-die-trying] scheme imaginable.
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Deadpool director: Ryan Reynolds’ character will be first pansexual superhero | Film | The Guardian
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What’s the Best Vagina Emoji? | Motherboard
It is a well known fact that any sufficiently popular form of communication will eventually be used for sexual purposes.
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Ultrasonic Levitation – Scientific American
Nature Video finds out how to levitate objects using sound waves. Scientists can float objects in mid-air, using just the power of sound.
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Sorry, NHL fans: fighting is here to stay | Sport | The Guardian
If the findings in a new Canadian study on fighting in hockey are accurate, you have little interest in clicking on this link to see Mike Brown and Cody McLeod fight last Sunday. Or this Kevan Miller-Joe Vitale fight from last month.
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Facebook launches music sharing app called Music Stories – BBC Newsbeat
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The cat trap worked: I caught two prime specimens last night : cats
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Jason Aldean’s Music Returns to Spotify | Rolling Stone
Jason Aldean’s Music Returns to Spotify After a year-long hiatus, the “Gonna Know We Were Here” artist’s songs are available on the streaming-music service
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Native Groups Report Mixed Success for Education | Al Jazeera America
Native American leaders from over 500 tribal nations gathered in Washington, D.C. on Thursday for the Tribal Nations Conference to discuss a range of issues with the Obama administration.
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Harlan Ellison’s Wonderful Rant on Why Writers Should Always Get Paid | Open Culture
In a perfect world, I could write this post for free. Alas, the rigors of the modern economy demand that I pay regular and sometimes high prices for food, shelter, books, and the other necessities of life.
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Coliving: A Solution for Lonely Millennials? – The Atlantic
SYRACUSE—This office looks like a pretty typical co-working space, what with the guy with a ponytail coding in one corner, the pile of bikes clustered in another, and the minimalist desks spread across a light-filled room.
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Square Takes an IPO Bullet for All of the Overpriced Unicorns | Re/code
Square announced plans on Friday morning to price its IPO at $11 to $13 share, meaning an IPO in that range would value the company at much less than the valuation it secured in its last round of private financing.
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How anime avatars became a warning / Boing Boing
NYMag’s Max Read considers whether or not it is a good idea to preemptively block anyone you see with an anime avatar, that having become a signifier for a particular type of angry, prolix adolescent.
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Police officer dies days after he was shot during apartment search | US news | The Guardian
A central Kentucky police officer died early Friday after he was shot in the head and severely wounded Wednesday while searching an apartment for a robbery suspect, authorities said.
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Ian Fleming was afraid the Cold War would end too soon. While serving as a British Naval Intelligence officer during the Second World War, he’d begun to think about writing a spy novel. By the end of the 1950s, his James Bond series was a huge succe…
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Chanterelles by Evie Wyld – 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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Bad weather forces US first lady to cancel Jordan visit – Al Jazeera English
Michelle Obama, the United States’ first lady, was due to visit Jordan on Wednesday but had her flight delayed. This was “due to a weather call” and finally, 36 hours later, the visit was cancelled.
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The life of a tyre begins with the rubber tree in south-east Asia, which produces around 90% of the world’s natural rubber supply.
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Syria conflict: ‘Mustard gas used’ in Marea attack – BBC News
Mustard gas was used in an attack on a town in northern Syria in August, chemical weapons experts are reported to have concluded. Journalists who have seen the report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it found t…
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A Dance for the Dead – The New Yorker
I like to visit a Web site called Thoughts on the Dead, which I learned about from my colleague Nick Paumgarten. The writer of the site is unidentified, but he posts photographs of the Grateful Dead and writes satirical dialogues to accompany them.
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Robots Will Make Leeds the First Self-Repairing City | Motherboard
Researchers in Britain want to make the first “self-repairing” city by 2035. How will they do this? By creating autonomous repair robots that patrol the streets and drainage systems, making sure your car doesn’t dip into a pothole, and that you don’…
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Why ‘Star Trek’ Should Demilitarize | Motherboard
This story originally appeared on War Is Boring. I love Star Trek. Growing up, I looked forward to sitting next to my father on the couch and watching the continuing adventures of the USS Enterprise.
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James Bond, Existentialist – The New Yorker
When did you last hand over your white dinner jacket to be pressed? To be precise, when did you last hand it over on a train, to an obliging steward? That is not, as far as I am aware, a service that is regularly available on the 5:53 from Grand Cen…
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/UklrVjI0OR https://t.co/OzT87Tm5oH
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Barack Obama threatens South Africa over chicken row – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has given South Africa 60 days to remove barriers to US farm produce or face sanctions in a long-running row over chicken exports. South Africa banned US poultry imports last December after an outbreak of bird flu.
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Ben Carson, one of the GOP 2016 front-runners, is a retired neurosurgeon who has never held office, but he asserts that a candidate’s faith (and character) is a more important qualification for the job of president than political experience.
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Abbreviate pundit roundup: Ben Carson’s aversion to facts
Carson spent much of Thursday pushing back against the CNN probe of his descriptions of his past. Earlier in the day, he said reporters shouldn’t expect to find childhood friends or acquaintances who could corroborate his anecdotes. There are proble…
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First Click: iPhone regret | The Verge
Android saved my butt today thanks to a feature unavailable to iPhone users. This morning, my 13-year-old son approached me slowly like a shamed puppy. In his paws were the glass and metal scraps that once formed the husk of a working iPhone 4.
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You Can Now Watch Any YouTube Video In Google Cardboard
Remember that scene in Back to the Future where Marty Jr. was rudely watching TV at the dinner table in giant glasses? Now, you can do that same thing with YouTube and Google Cardboard.
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Facebook has announced a new post format which allows people to listen to the first 30 seconds of a song shared on the site. It will be called Music Stories and Facebook says it is aimed at “enabling better music discovery and sharing”.
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At the Last Minute, a Judge Stops Sprint from Shutting Off Internet for 300,000 | Motherboard
A Massachusetts judge has ordered telecom giant Sprint to halt plans to shut down parts of its aging WiMax network, granting a last-minute reprieve to hundreds of thousands of people in underserved communities around the country who faced the prospe…
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Sharm el-Sheikh airport flights: UK Ambassador say priority ‘is to get people home’ – BBC News
British holidaymakers are being repatriated from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh two days after a Russian airliner crashed in what is feared to have been a bomb attack.
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My kitten has taken to sleeping in a Pope hat. : cats
My kitten has taken to sleeping in a Pope hat. via /r/cats https://t.co/vvLmgukQTK https://t.co/gwoYKj01A6
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HMB while I light my parachute on fire : holdmybeer
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HMB While I Punch This Bag : holdmybeer
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How Should Religious Conservatives Deal With Same-Sex Marriage and Transgender Issues? – The Atlantic Among socially conservative religious leaders, the rapid shift of the cultural and legal status quo on issues of sexuality has created a palpable sense of disorientation. tags: Pocket brainiacs emma green news newsblur opinion stories storytelling…
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