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My grandfather had a miniature set of all of Shakespeare’s plays. It’s 111 years old. – Imgur
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This Just In: Jordanian Policeman Kills 2 Americans at Training Center – The Atlantic
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Artist Enst Fuchs dies at the age of 85 – BBC News
Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, has died at the age of 85. Fuchs’ son, Tillmann Fuchs, said his father died on Monday but gave no cause of death.
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Russia to provide Iran with S-300 air defence missiles – BBC News
Russia has signed a contract to supply Iran with sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missiles. The contract got the go-ahead after international sanctions on Iran were lifted earlier this year, following a deal over its nuclear programme.
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World Fantasy award drops HP Lovecraft as prize image | Books | The Guardian
The World Fantasy award trophy will no longer be modelled on HP Lovecraft, it has been announced, following a campaign last year that called the author out as an “avowed racist” with “hideous opinions”.
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Xiaomi adds heart-rate monitoring to its incredibly cheap $16 fitness tracker | The Verge
How much extra does it cost to buy a heart-rate monitor for a wearable? If you looked at Fitbit’s products, you’d say $20 — that’s the difference in price between the $129.95 Charge and heart-rate sensing $149.95 Charge HR. For Chinese smartphone gi…
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Syrian fighters call in US air strikes against IS – BBC News
In north-eastern Syria a new alliance of Kurds, Christians and Arabs is pushing back Islamic State militants along the border with Iraq. The coalition, called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), is receiving weapons and air support from the US and o…
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Britain’s fear against Muslims ‘needs to go’ – Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar – Amir Khan does not regret becoming an Olympic silver medallist at the age of 17. But he does miss his youth, ruing the fact that his achievement – becoming the youngest British Olympic medallist – forced him to mature more quickly than…
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Star Wars Partners With Code.Org for Hour of Code Tutorial | Re/code
At this year’s Hour of Code, the international education tutorial where children spend time learning about computer programming, characters from the upcoming movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will animate one of the online games.
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Q&A: Israel’s predawn raid on a youth activist centre – Al Jazeera English
Over the weekend, Israeli troops raided the offices of Youth Against Settlements (YAS), an activist group in Hebron that monitors human rights violations by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers.
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Hard times for northern Iraq as oil prices fall – Al Jazeera English
Erbil, Iraq – Falling oil prices have driven the Kurdish region of northern Iraq to the brink of bankruptcy. Government salaries have not been paid for months, and citizens are suffering. Some of them are being forced to take second jobs. On the sur…
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My Mom Tries a Snake Massage : AnimalsBeingBros
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Railay Beach, Ao Nang, Thailand at sunset [4128×2322] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Israel and US look to heal relationship as Netanyahu visits Washington | World news | The Guardian
Israeli and US government officials are hoping to patch up battered relations between the two countries when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visits Washington this week, for meetings with Barack Obama and leading Democrats.
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Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The book is about a boy that goes into his brother’s room and finds a heavy photo board which falls on him. He shouts at his mum and dad. They lift it and find he has turned flat. Bearing in mind his name is Stanley, they call him Flat Stanley.
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A Year Out, Ignore General Election Polls | FiveThirtyEight
That was the headline on a press release for the Quinnipiac University poll last week. My reaction? I hoped no one spent more than two seconds thinking about anything past the semi-colon.
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Rand Paul: ‘I still am’ the political world’s most interesting man | US news | The Guardian
In 2014, Time magazine called Rand Paul “the most interesting man in politics”. One year later, Republican voters do not seem to agree.
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The 10 best quotes in a crisis | Children’s books | The Guardian
We’ve all been there. Whether you’ve forgotten your wallet, didn’t revise for an exam or are going through a break up, that sinking feeling in your stomach stays the same. The feeling that convinces you it won’t be okay, that the world as you know i…
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How to Turn Waze Into the Ultimate Navigation App
Waze has long been one of our favorite navigation apps, and even though Google purchased Waze way back in 2013, both still exist side-by-side. Google Maps is great, but with the right tweaks, Waze can be awesome—especially in cities with lots of tra…
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CB Insights Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding | TechCrunch
CB Insights, a nearly six-year-old, New York-based research company whose private company research has become oft-cited in media reports about the startup industry, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from the low-flying, bi-coastal growth st…
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This Man is Walking Across Antarctica All By Himself
As summer dawns in the Southern Hemisphere, a seasoned Antarctic explorer is hoping to add his name to the Polar record books on the centennial of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Endurance Expedition.
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How Narendra Modi’s Bihar defeat will hit reforms agenda – BBC News
In a stunning rebuke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling alliance, a group of parties opposed to his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored a decisive electoral victory in the northern Indian state of Bihar on Sunday morning.
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Female governor tries to empower Afghan women – Al Jazeera English
Firuzkoh, Afghanistan – Ghor is one of the largest and most isolated provinces in the country. Its mountainous terrain and harsh winters have effectively sheltered it from the worst of the conflict with the Taliban. However, that does not mean their…
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Blue Mind – Constant Addition to Ocean Water [1200×800] [oc] : waterporn
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Two Americans ‘killed at police training centre in Jordan’ | World news | The Guardian
A Jordanian man has shot dead two American officials at a police training centre on the outskirts of Amman, before killing himself, a security source has told Reuters.
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Two Americans ‘shot dead in Jordan’ – 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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Quantum Physicists Superimpose Past and Future Events | Motherboard
In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger placed a cat in an opaque box with a flask of poison and a device for measuring the decay of atoms (aka radioactivity).
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Analysis: Bridges to build at Netanyahu-Obama summit – Al Jazeera English
The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington, he sided with Republicans and blasted US President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran as a disaster.
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What brought the Russian airliner down? – Al Jazeera English
When the Russia-bound Metrojet Flight 9268, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashed on October 31, in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, killing all 224 people on board, a battle of interpretations ensued almost immediately – before any, let alo…
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Adorable with a creepy reflection. : cats
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The frost on this train track is like a progress bar for the sunrise : oddlysatisfying
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The MOST impressive dog trick EVER – GIF on Imgur
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MIT Is Opening An Innovation Center In Hong Kong | TechCrunch
Hong Kong is to be the location for a startup accelerator-style center of innovation from famed tech-focused U.S. university MIT.
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Turkey: Debasing the free press? – Al Jazeera English
The politics of fear was effective and that was reflected in the election results. The media in Turkey performed very poorly in the face of this test. News was reported in a one-sided manner.
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Caparo boss Angad Paul killed after plunging from penthouse flat – BBC News
The boss of the troubled steel company Caparo, Agad Paul, has died after plunging from his penthouse flat on Sunday morning. The 45-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene in central London.
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Three weeks ago, a friend and I took our kayaks down to Cardigan Bay, and launched them on to a flat sea.
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Polluting smog reaches record levels in China – video | World news | The Guardian
Large parts of China are blanketed with some of the worst levels of dangerous acrid smog on Monday. Levels of the most dangerous airborne particulates PM2.
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The thick haze that has covered vast parts of south-east Asia in recent months has put the ecological impact of the palm oil industry back in the spotlight, but the ongoing issue of tough working conditions for plantation workers remains shrouded be…
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I don’t think he likes that whole winter idea : cats
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Storm Set over the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico [3840×2171][OC] : EarthPorn
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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’ Is Lame Military Porn – The Daily Beast
“Call of Duty: Black Ops III contains graphic content, historical footage and language which some players may find disturbing. Player discretion is advised. Would you like to enable graphic content?” There has been a Call of Duty each year since 200…
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Nigeria celebrates Africa’s first English-language Scrabble win – BBC News
Nigerians have been congratulating countryman Wellington Jighere, who has become the first African to win the English-language World Scrabble Championships. The 32-year-old beat Englishman Lewis MacKay 4-0 in the final in Australia.
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Carolina Panthers stay undefeated despite Aaron Rodgers’ smashing best | Sport | The Guardian
It was an instant viral moment. Aaron Rodgers had just thrown a game-ending interception. He was about to lose consecutive games for the first time since 2010. And what did he see on his Microsoft Surface™, the official tablet computer of the NFL? R…
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Tag Heuer’s Carrera Connected luxury smartwatch will be available for $1,500 | The Verge
Tag Heuer’s new Android Wear smartwatch will be available in the US for $1,500, company CEO Jean-Claude Biver confirmed today to Swiss media.
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Obama, Netanyahu, and the Urgency of Reversing Israel’s Settlement Project – The Atlantic
Last year, shortly before Benjamin Netanyahu made one of his periodic visits to the White House, I interviewed Barack Obama about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Is Social-Desirability Bias at Play in Rising Support for Same-Sex Marriage? – The Atlantic
Conservatives have lost the war against same-sex marriage on the two most important fronts: American law and American public opinion. Between 2003 and the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, it had become law in all but 15 states.
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What We’re Following on Monday, November 9 – The Atlantic
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November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Falls | The Nation
The deconstruction, if you will, of the Berlin Wall on this day in 1989 perversely led to the erection of a similarly oppressive barrier, now to critical thinking rather than to the free movement of persons and goods, which has long been begging for…
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New Imagery Reveals That Mount St. Helens Is Sitting Atop a Small Sea of Magma | Motherboard
My home is in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state, roughly equidistant from three of the Northwest’s largest active and potentially active volcanoes: Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, and the ever-rumbling Mt. St. Helens. Mt. Rainier isn’t much further, an…
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Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak Is Officially Over — But the Country Is Still Recovering | VICE News
Exactly 530 days after the first person died from Ebola in Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Saturday that the West African nation is now officially free of the virus.
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The All-Female Coffeeshop Movement Coming to a Boil | Broadly
On 25 April this year, a woman was gunned down on a sidewalk in Pakistan on her way home from the Karachi arts cafe she founded.
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My Father Windsurfing in Ayr, Scotland 1984 : OldSchoolCool
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Bought a small cat tree from eBay… Didn’t expect it to be bigger than me! : cats
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Hidden Cove, Dublin Bay, Ireland [OC][5992×3899] : ExposurePorn
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OECD cuts global growth forecasts amid ‘deep concern’ over slowdown – BBC News
A “deeply concerning” slowdown in trade, particularly with China, will lead to lower global economic growth this year, the OECD said.Global GDP is now expected to grow by 2.9%, down from 3% forecast in September, but will pick up to 3.3% in 2016.
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Enough Already With the Bone Broth Hype | Mother Jones
Another autumn, another slew of fawning stories about bone broth. According to Dr. Oz, adherents of the paleo diet, and the whole-milk-guzzling folks over at the Weston A. Price Foundation, the superfood du jour has a host of mystical powers.
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How Corrupt Is Your State? | Mother Jones
In Missouri, a lawmaker who pushed through a bill that prohibited cities from banning plastic bags in supermarkets also happened to be the director of the state’s Grocer’s Association. New Mexico lawmakers passed a resolution that exempted their ema…
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US-Backed Forces in Syria Accused of Human Rights Violations | Mother Jones
The Obama administration announced last week that it would send a small group of special operations soldiers to northern Syria, marking the first time the administration has openly sent ground troops to aid the Syrian opposition.
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What is a chief resilience officer – and what are they doing in Mexico City? | Cities | The Guardian
Depending on how you count them, there are about 10,000 cities around the world, housing more than 50% of the world’s population. By all estimates, that number is only increasing and by 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas.
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The Plan to Save the World | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Right now, we’re in a car, hanging on for dear life as we hurtle around a mountain bend.
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Should the Mets trade Harvey and other MLB offseason questions | Sport | The Guardian
For those of you who completely freak out after the World Series and wonder what you’re going to do with yourself all winter long, the hot-stove season is a warm, comforting blanket. So having said that, let’s throw a couple of logs on the fire, sha…
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The stupid-from-the-beginning Keystone XL pipeline is dead. It was designed to make it easier to sell the dirtiest of all fuels (tar sands and petcoke), which pollute our air and are inefficient as fuels. The proposed project was incompatible with s…
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Cyclone Megh batters Yemeni island of Socotra – BBC News
Two people were reported to have been killed as hurricane-force winds and torrential rains brought by the storm, called Megh, triggered flash floods. The Yemeni government has appealed to the UN and neighbouring Oman to send emergency relief teams t…
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Poem of the week: Search by Christine Marendon | Books | The Guardian
Bowls of milk in the rain. A rabbit’s wet head.Here’s someone walking through meadows with rolled-uptrousers. Owl pellets. Banks of fog. Hillsides.Cranes in flattened grass. Dripping cloths.A look. Here’s my mouth in the reeds. And there.My breath o…
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BlackBerry’s ‘Gallery of Privacy’ is suffering from too much privilege | The Verge
Sometimes you just need to say “no” to your marketing team What does privacy mean to you? Is it a doctor with a smartphone in his pocket? Or a doctor with a smartphone in his hand? Is it a tree, a zen garden? A woman laughing inexplicably, alone in …
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Rwanda says Burundi leaders ‘killing own people’ – Al Jazeera English
Rwanda’s president has accused Burundi’s leaders of killing their own people as human-rights activists accuse security forces of killing 11 people over the weekend. Paul Kagame’s comments could cause tensions between the neighbouring countries to ri…
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Warming set to breach 1C threshold – BBC News
Global temperatures are set to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels according to the UK’s Met Office. Figures from January to September this year are already 1.02C above the average between 1850 and 1900.
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China and Taiwan: Normal is the new normal – Al Jazeera English
Two Chinese men met for an early supper Saturday in Singapore. Xi Jinping, age 62, of Beijing was in the area for a series of meetings with regional heads of state. Ma Ying-jeou, age 65, lives in Taipei but was born in Hong Kong to Chinese refugee p…
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Xiaomi’s Second Wearable Device Tracks Your Sleep, Steps And Heart Rate For $15 | TechCrunch
Xiaomi’s much-speculated second wearable device is now official, after the Chinese company unveiled the Mi Band Pulse.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay stars’ separation anxiety – BBC News
It has broken box office records and over the last four years has propelled the film’s stars – Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson – to new levels of fame.
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BBC Sport – Bournemouth: US-based investors Peak 6 ‘set to buy’ 25% stake
A private equity firm from the United States is set to buy a 25% stake in Premier League club Bournemouth, BBC South Today reports. Chicago-based Peak 6 are understood to be the group involved, having previously failed in a takeover of Championship …
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So my dad sent this adorable picture of my kitten butters while im away : cats
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Cubbington Pear Tree voted as Tree of the Year 2015 : environment
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Bubble Max, a street performer who uses bubbles [2048 x 1313][OC] : HumanPorn
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Create your typo and download it : InternetIsBeautiful
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I forgot how to puppy via /r/aww https://t.co/cY8RnHRzNl https://t.co/LYfWGhgOwC
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Second Thailand lese majeste detainee dies in military custody – BBC News
A celebrity fortune-teller detained in Thailand for allegedly insulting the royal family has died in military custody, the authorities say.Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, also known as Mor Yong, died of septicaemia late on Saturday, the justice ministry sa…
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Earth’s climate entering new ‘permanent reality’ as CO2 hits new high | Environment | The Guardian
The Earth’s climate will enter a new “permanent reality” from next year when concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are likely to pass a historic milestone, the head of the UN’s weather agency has warned.
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BBC Sport – Coneygree: Sandown victory for Cheltenham Gold Cup winner
Coneygree warmed up for the Hennessy Gold Cup later this month with an impressive comeback victory at Sandown. Jockey Nico de Boinville guided the eight-year-old to a 25-length triumph.
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A New Type of Wildlife Sky Bridge is Being Tested on the UK’s Rare Dormouse | Motherboard
One critter that conservationists in the UK have been trying to protect for decades is the tiny, dozy little hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius).
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Watch John Oliver tear apart the Washington Redskins’ offensive trademark appeal | The Verge
In July, a federal judge upheld an order cancel the Washington Redskins’ trademark on the grounds that the team’s name is offensive to Native Americans. The NFL franchise appealed the decision last week, and as John Oliver explains, its argument res…
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EU referendum: David Cameron to say national security at stake – BBC News
David Cameron is to warn Britain’s economic and national security is at stake in the upcoming referendum on membership of the European Union. The prime minister will tell the CBI conference the issue isn’t whether the UK can survive outside the EU b…
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Lonmin offers shares at 1p in effort to shore up finances – BBC News
Platinum producer Lonmin has priced its £270m share sale at a discount of 94% as it fights for survival after a near-collapse in the commodity’s price. The miner said it would sell 27 billion shares at 1p per share. That compares with a share price …
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Giant hole that swallowed 12 vehicles in Mississippi – aerial video footage | US news | The Guardian
Aerial footage shows the extent of the damage caused when a giant hole opened up and swallowed 12 vehicles in Meridian, Mississippi, on Saturday night. Engineers are investigating how the ground collapsed leaving a 400ft long chasm in the car park o…
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Spectre shoots to top of US box office – BBC News
James Bond film Spectre has raced to the top of the North American box office in its first weekend of release. The 24th film in the spy franchise, which sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as 007, earned $73m (£48.5m) between Friday and Sunday, accor…
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Save over 30% on the NomadPlus smartphone wall charger and battery pack / Boing Boing
So smooth, so attractive…it doesn’t get much better than the Apple USB wall plug. NomadPlus acknowledges the presence of true greatness—it doesn’t replace your charger, it makes it better. Slip it inside the NomadPlug and charge your phone and inter…
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Does politics matter? Some stats to prove that yes, it does | Children’s books | The Guardian
What proportion of government spending goes towards helping the unemployed? How much does your ethnic background affect the likelihood of being stopped and searched? What percentage more likely are you to become an MP if you’ve been to private schoo…
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Prince Charles meets New Zealand Prime Minister John Key – BBC News
The Prince of Wales has met with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key for talks in Auckland. Prince Charles, who also had a meeting with leader of the opposition Andrew Little, discussed climate change and issues facing the country.
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How Wall Street Is Cashing In on Climate Catastrophe – In These Times
Bigger and more expensive storms are brewing. One study found that as much as $507 billion worth of U.S. coastal property could be underwater by 2100.
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Crowdfunded robot dragonfly project in trouble / Boing Boing
In another high-profile failure of a successfully-crowdfunded gadget, it turns out that TechJect’s robot dragonflies won’t be flying their way to pledgers’ pockets any time soon. The company raised more than $1.
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Dennis Olshove – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dennis Olshove (born January 18, 1950) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He is a former Democratic member of both houses of the Michigan Legislature and a current member of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.[1][2] Dennis Olshove …
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The Tui, one of New Zealand’s most amazing native birds [4670×2380](OC) : AnimalPorn
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Volunteer doctor uses holiday to help refugees in Lesbos – BBC News
A Dutch doctor has taken leave from work, but rather than going on holiday he is volunteering on Lesbos to help refugees in need of medical attention.Nigel Kooreman is providing first aid for the boatloads of people arriving from Turkey.
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She likes to have her nose tickled – GIF on Imgur
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Supreme Court to Examine Group Litigation | Al Jazeera America
Lawyers for one of the world’s largest meat producers, Tyson Foods, are urging the Supreme Court to take its side in a case that could affect the rights of low-wage workers and, more broadly, people who want to bring class-action lawsuits. Tyson Foo…
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Decision day in Myanmar – Al Jazeera English
The November 8 parliamentary election was a historic day for Myanmar. Since opening up in 2012, Myanmar has experienced a slow and bumpy path towards true democracy, with many of its most powerful people, including current leaders, still well connec…
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Croatia’s conservative opposition wins election – Al Jazeera English
Croatia’s conservative opposition has won the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013, but without enough votes to rule alone.
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Al-Razi, Ibn Sina and the Canon of Medicine – Al Jazeera English
Standing in one of the largest neo-natal units in the world at Hamad Hospital in Qatar, you would not immediately be able to draw a link between the pioneering medical research being conducted and the work of physicists from the 9th century.
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Obama to meet Netanyahu amid tensions over Iran deal | World news | The Guardian
President Barack Obama and the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, will seek to mend their fractured relationship when they meet at the White House on Monday, the first time they have talked face to face in more than a year.
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Helped an old widow clean out her basement and found this, she let me keep it. : pics
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Tired teens start school at lunchtime as part of a trial – BBC News
Students in the sixth form of Hampton Court school in Surrey begin lessons at 13:30 and finish at 19:00 as part of a trial to see if it will help them to concentrate better. Some experts say young people are biologically programmed to get up later.
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Infant Star’s First Steps | ESO
The power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveals two immense, rippled jets of dense gas with near-perfect symmetry emanating from a single source at the centre of this image.
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This book’s main characters are the prince of Wrenly named Prince Lucas and their family royal seamstress’s daughter Clara. The story is all about Prince Lucas dreaming about a land of mermaids and Clara, his best friend not believing him.
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It’s not another massive enterprise merger, but two of the biggest companies whose equipment and technology underpin a lot of our communications networks today are now teaming up: Ericsson and Cisco have announced a strategic partnership, in which t…
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Russian activist sets fire to FSB Lubyanka door – BBC News
A Russian artist and political activist has been arrested after setting fire to the Moscow headquarters of the country’s security service, the FSB.Pyotr Pavlensky set the door of the Lubyanka building alight and was pictured standing in front of the…
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W.B. Yeats’ Poem “When You Are Old” Adapted into Japanese Manga Comic | Open Culture
Click on images to view them in a larger format. Last week we featured Julian Peters’ comic-book adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
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BHP Billiton shares hit seven-year low after Brazil dam disaster | Business | The Guardian
Falling commodity prices and the aftermath of the Brazil dam disaster have combined to push shares in the mining giant BHP Billiton to a seven-year low, helping to drag the wider Australian market down sharply. BHP Billiton dropped 5.64% on the ASX …
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The 24 Largest Islands [720 x 824] : MapPorn
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Momma with her babies via /r/cats…
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Australia took seven wickets before lunch on the final day to seal victory against New Zealand in the first Test of a three-match series. The Black Caps, having been set a world record 504 to win, resumed on 142-3 and their challenge quickly folded.
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Castle life in the Irish highlands – Al Jazeera English
Since the Normans first landed on Irish shores in 1169, Ireland’s landscape has been peppered with more than 4,000 castles. Surrounded by brooding lakes, rolling hills and misty valleys, the castles form an integral part of Ireland’s history.
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14,000 drawings of the French Revolution posted online / 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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That moment when Walter realised he may have miscalculated – Imgur
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Mapping the dead in latest Israeli-Palestinian violence – Al Jazeera English
Since the beginning of October, 50 Palestinians have been killed in shootings and clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, while nine Israelis have been killed in knife and gun attacks.
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Fierce contest for world robot supremacy – Al Jazeera English
Doha – From robot football to volcanic ash-mining robots, the Qatari capital has this weekend been hosting more than 3,000 young robot enthusiasts. The students, from more than 45 countries, designed, built and programmed robots, largely from plasti…
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Cats in slow-motion – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
Skip to main content Cats Cats in slow-motion – in pictures An explosion of fur and spit is caught on camera as cats shiver and shake in these unusual slow-motion portraits Monday 9 November 2015 03.25 EST Last modified on Monday 9 November 2015 03.
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Korean band performs “Beat It” acapella / Boing Boing
The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, st…
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Doing the loaf whenever she can [album] : Catloaf
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Found at walmart. Can’t say they are wrong. – Imgur
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My dad and his morbid sense of humor make their way to the family reunion – Imgur
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Sierra Leone’s tourist industry recovering from Ebola – BBC News
Sierra Leone’s economy was hit hard by the Ebola outbreak and its tourist industry is now trying to recover. Mining, farming and its developing tourism industry were all badly affected the the epidemic.
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E.ON must pay £7m over smart meter delays | Business | The Guardian
E.ON has been told to pay £7m to the Carbon Trust for its “unacceptable” failure to supply enough advanced smart meters to business customers, regulator Ofgem has revealed. The energy giant will also face a sales ban and a further £7m redress if fai…
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That moment when Walter realised he may have miscalculated – Imgur
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The narrative of Rise Of The Tomb Raider practically writes itself.
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Banishment to fight Drug Trade in Indian Country | Al Jazeera America
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION — The basketball courts in Fort Yates, the central town in this reservation that straddles the border between North and South Dakota, are the first clue to just how bad the narcotics problem has become in the past fiv…
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The Palestinian cause and international law – Al Jazeera English
The Palestinian quest for international recognition took another major step forward when 107 nations voted to admit Palestine as a full member to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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Riot at Australian detention camp after refugee’s death – Al Jazeera English
A riot has erupted at a controversial offshore refugee-detention facility in Australia following the death of asylum-seeker.
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The bestselling fantasy author Leigh Bardugo paid a visit to Guardian towers when she was over here from the US, and teen site member Connie AKA Wanderer376 came to interview her. So here’s a great chance to listen in and get to know Leigh a little …
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Monk, Moyes, Mourinho, Ibrahimovic, Perez
Garry Monk is set to be sacked as Swansea manager after a run of one win in eight Premier League games. (Daily Mirror)
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Dell’s “business class” Chromebook gets good reviews / Boing Boing
Dell’s “business class” Chromebook is almost perfect, writes Wired’s Scott Gilbertson. The release of this 13-inch model marks a shift from the low-end zone most ChromeOS laptops occupy, to the middle ground of “real” computers.
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Poland’s modest refugee policy proves controversial – Al Jazeera English
Wroclaw, Poland – The Polish government’s decision to accept 6,800 refugees fleeing Syria and Eritrea has created a fierce debate dividing Polish society with opponents of the decision dominating the discussion.
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“Feeling helpless and confused in the face of random, unpatterned events, we seek to order them and, in so doing, gain a sense of control over them,” the great psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom wrote in his magnificent meditation on uncertainty and our se…
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Rise of the Tomb Raider review | The Verge
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a wonderfully pulpy title for what is either the second or eleventh Tomb Raider game, depending on your perspective.
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Scan indicates hidden chamber in King Tut’s tomb / Boing Boing
After architectural peculiarities were noted in the tomb of King Tutankhamun, an infra-red scan suggests that a hidden chamber indeed lies behind a decorated wall.
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MTN chief executive quits after fine – BBC News
The boss of Africa’s biggest mobile company, MTN, has resigned after receiving a $5.2bn (£3.4bn) fine from Nigeria. Chief executive Sifiso Dabengwa tendered his resignation with immediate effect, saying it was “in the interest of the company and its…
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Some cats stalk. Others hide, waiting for unsuspecting fingers to pass by. : cats
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“Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer,” E.B.
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Mesmerizing. : oddlysatisfying
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Nothing scares better than another cat : StartledCats
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/jdbI5no2vO https://t.co/Ora6Sf2APc
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Megastructures: seven wonders of the modern world near completion | Art and design | The Guardian
Beijing airportIn the 1980s, British architect Norman Foster revolutionised the airport terminal with Stansted airport. His innovations involved streamlining the systems and machines that make up this most complex of buildings. Now, Zaha Hadid has b…
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Think you can’t help the environment? These Europeans disagree | World news | The Guardian
Climate change has vanished from the headlines since the financial crisis elevated other economic concerns to the top of the agenda. But across Europe there is no shortage of activists trying to make a difference before this month’s UN climate summi…
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English speakers are the least optimistic about humanity’s chances of avoiding dangerous climate change, according to a survey of readers in English, French, German and Italian conducted by the Guardian, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung and La Stampa.
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Storm and drought: what Europe has to fear from climate change | World news | The Guardian
For most Europeans, the climate change threat is elsewhere: the rising sea levels in south Asia; crop failures in Africa; mightier storms in the tropics, drought in the developing world.
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The late feminist academic Carolyn Heilbrun spent five years writing a biography of Gloria Steinem. The Education of a Woman was published in 1995 when Steinem was 61.
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Charlie Hebdo plane-crash cartoons anger Russians – Al Jazeera English
The Kremlin has denounced French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over a set of cartoons about the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Party Headed for Landslide Win | Al Jazeera America
The acting chairman of Myanmar’s ruling party conceded defeat to Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition on Monday and said he would accept the result of the country’s first free national election in 25 years.
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I can really get behind this one : funny
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“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re being lied to. It provides a mid-course correction to our mistakes.
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Steel industry calls for EU action on Chinese imports – BBC News
An emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in the steel industry is to be held by European economy ministers at the request of the UK. The industry is demanding tougher action against cheap imports of Chinese steel, which it blames for low global st…
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Syria: On the frontline in the fight against Islamic State militants – BBC News
A new alliance of Kurds, Christians and Arabs, called the Syrian Democratic Forces, has pushed back Islamic State militants along the Iraqi-Syria border.They are receiving weapons and air support from the US and others.Quentin Sommerville reports fr…
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Watch debt grow in real time at the US Debt Clcok / Boing Boing
The politics escape me, but I’m fascinated by the US Debt Clock, a website covered in real-time tickers and counters purporting to show all of the unpleasant statistics piling up in America. They also have a World Debt Clock for all your internation…
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This week’s The Last Man On Earth addressed something obvious but crucial about the Malibu Crew: None of them are living for tomorrow.
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Whew, this fucking show. I hate to be hysterical about it, but The Leftovers is absolutely clowning the rest of television in this quantum leap of a second season. It’s doing monster-truck wheelies over the competition.
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Ronda Rousey to take on Holly Holm in Melbourne – video | Sport | The Guardian
A sneak peak of a behind-the-scenes preview of the much-anticipated clash between undefeated women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and former world boxing champion Holly Holm – who has never lost an mixed martial arts fight either.
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Crimea via /r/Breathless https://t.co/7GyrgG4JQ7 https://t.co/VOAjTks9CE
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I love volunteering, but these faces make it impossible to leave sometimes : cats
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Supermarket Morisson’s efforts to encourage customers to buy wonkier-shaped vegetables have been branded “pathetic” by the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
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The NFL has plenty of problems, from a spate of domestic violence (and the troubling case of Greg Hardy) to the recent revelation that the league has been accepting money from the U.S. armed forces for all those nice “salute to the troops” moments d…
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Striking Mizzou Football Team Wants President Out Over Wave of Racism – The Daily Beast
There was no football practice at the University of Missouri on Sunday, but the school’s training grounds were far from empty.
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Fox Business Channel Star Maria Bartiromo to GOP Candidates: Grow Up – The Daily Beast
When it comes to running a presidential debate, the folks at Fox Business Network—which on Tuesday will broadcast four hours’ worth of squabbling Republican candidates—are neither forgetting the past nor looking to repeat it.
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Ben Carson: Gifted Hands, Active Imagination – The Daily Beast
Last week began with Ben Carson’s surge in the polls and a novel request from his campaign to stream all debates online. It ended with them crying foul at any human being with a recorder.
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Did Mexico’s Army Help a Mass Murder? – The Daily Beast
General Salvador Cienfuegos, Chief of Staff of the Mexican Army, four stars, sat on a high-backed leather chair with both feet flat on the floor in front of him and his hands over the knees of his dress uniform.
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Donald Trump’s Corrupt Partner Is a Mayor Again – The Daily Beast
The Democrats suffered some embarrassing losses in Tuesday’s elections. But one of the biggest embarrassments might have been a race they won.
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College Kids Try to Ban a Pro-Gay Film – The Daily Beast
It’s come to this: Students at Colorado College are demanding that the film studies department refrain from screening Stonewall because the movie—a very, very pro-gay movie from a gay director about the beginnings of the gay rights movement—is deepl…
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Why Bill O’Reilly Is Wrong About Reagan – The Daily Beast
There’s a classic episode of Star Trek where the normally responsible Chief Engineer Scottie punches a Klingon. Captain Kirk launches an investigation to find out who threw the first punch—and why.
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‘The Other Paris’: The City of Light’s Dark Underbelly – The Daily Beast
We are tired of monumental Paris. No one lives there; it is a city that does not exist. We reject its many mythological metonymies. No more macarons, no more Champs-Elysées. No more accordion music, no more lovers, no more lovelocks. But we are not …
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Helping Soldiers Transcend Trauma – The Daily Beast
When army surgeon Rhonda Cornum came to, she wondered, Am I alive? Her Black Hawk helicopter had been shot down over the Iraqi desert in 1991. She crawled out of the wreck only to see five Iraqi soldiers towering above her with pointed rifles.
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Here’s a tip [xpost /r/funny] : firstworldanarchists
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons November 16, 2015 – The New Yorker
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Chester Bennington Leaves Stone Temple Pilots to Focus on Linkin Park | Rolling Stone
Two-and-a-half years after replacing Scott Weiland as the frontman of Stone Temple Pilots, Chester Bennington announced Monday that he was departing the band to focus on his other group, Linkin Park.
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This Week in Fiction: Mark Haddon on Writing Stories as Complex as the Real World – The New Yorker
Your story in this week’s issue, “The Weir,” is set in Oxford, alongside the Thames, near Wytham Woods. Why did you choose to stage such a sad event—an attempted suicide—in this bucolic terrain?
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From Mongolia to Carnegie Hall – The New Yorker
Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, winner of first prize in the male-vocalist category in the fifteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition, held in Moscow and St. Petersburg last summer, and winner of the competition’s Grand Prix, for over-all excellence, is…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews – The New Yorker
Notorious RBG, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik (Dey Street). It’s possible that the Clinton Administration’s most consequential decision was the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. It was certainly the most consequential for wo…
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Creating an Opera as Big as Los Angeles – The New Yorker
Jonah Levy, a thirty-year-old trumpet player based in Los Angeles, has lately developed a curious weekend routine. On Saturday and Sunday mornings, he puts on a white shirt, a black tie, black pants, and a motorcycle jacket, and heads to the ETO Doo…
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The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library – The New Yorker
It was a warm day in Paris, and the library of the Institut de France was stuffy and hot. Daniel Delattre, a distinguished French papyrologist, did not remove his suit jacket. The institute, which includes the Académie Française, is a jacket-and-tie…
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It’s weird to realize that the great playwrights who came of age in New York in the nineteen-sixties and seventies—artists ranging from John Jesurun to Wallace Shawn, Sam Shepard, Mac Wellman, María Irene Fornés, David Rabe, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ro…
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The Real History of Rock and Roll – The New Yorker
In 1968, when Patti Smith was twenty-one and working in a Manhattan bookstore, she went to a Doors concert at the old Fillmore East. She loved the Doors. As she described the concert in her memoir “Just Kids,” everyone was transfixed by Jim Morrison…
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“Caravaggio, Texas” – The New Yorker
The fire truck edged up onto the sidewalk.I was smitten with stoopingin the iridescent rhubarband with the expected cramping of moon. To be smitten with pain is a discipline,the priest used to say …The fire truck looked like a poor man’s meat loaf s…
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“Memento Mori” – The New Yorker
On my bare scalp, Australia:a birthmark that hidin the thicket of my hair. Unblessed in a downburst, I lostmy leafy summer, my lovely,my crest, my crown.
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Are Polls Ruining Democracy? – The New Yorker
“I am who I am,” Donald J. Trump said in August, on the eve of this season’s first G.O.P. Presidential debate, and what he meant by that was this: “I don’t have a pollster.” The word “pollster,” when it was coined, was meant as a slur, like “huckste…
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Nabokov’s Silent Partner – The New Yorker
Véra and Vladimir Nabokov were married for fifty-two years—a record, apparently, among literary couples—and their intimacy was nearly hermetic. When they were apart, he pined for her grievously.
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An All-Female Shakespeare Company – The New Yorker
Dame Harriet Walter is regarded as one of the greatest living Shakespearean actors: in the past decade, she has delivered revelatory interpretations of Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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He pops the catch and lifts the rusty boot. Quivering with excitement, the dogs burst from the back of the car, squirm under the lowest bar of the fence, and bolt across the field in great arcing bounds. Leo and Fran, big chocolate-and-white pointer…
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At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while still a high-school student, in Des Moines, Zhang found a structural protein ca…
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The Hangover News | VICE | United Kingdom
This weekend the British and US governments, and crash investigators in Egypt, said the Sinai plane crash was mostly likely caused by a bomb. Russia grounded its flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, but Egyptian authorities would not concede the crash was ca…
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A Bohemian’s Triumphant Return – The New Yorker
Like a firecracker with a very long fuse, the reputation of the Chinese-American painter and bohemian’s bohemian Martin Wong has sizzled inconspicuously since before his death, in 1999, from aids-related causes, at the age of fifty-three.
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Leaving the club : trippinthroughtime
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Sunken ship near Gelendzhik, photo by Slava Stepanov [OC 1000×683] : AbandonedPorn
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“This is mine, I hunted this.” : aww
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“I put the skittles in the machine boss” : funny
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Spending review: Nine new prisons to replace Victorian jails – BBC News
Nine new prisons will open in England and Wales – five by 2020 – under plans to close Victorian jails and sell them for housing, the government has said. About 10,000 inmates will be moved to the new institutions in an attempt to save an estimated £…
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You can’t spell Monday without DC! Wait… · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, November 9. All times are Eastern. Top pick—DC Comics edition!
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In spite of numerous hits that have kept him in the rock pantheon since the late ’70s, Tom Petty hasn’t been the subject of a major biography—not counting Peter Bogdanovich’s four-hour documentary from 2007, Runnin’ Down A Dream.
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The professor, the prankster, and the poet: It might be too pat of a way to classify Greg Graffin, Ian Svenonius, and Richard Hell, respectively, three legendary punk singers who happen to have new non-fiction books on the shelves. But the shoes fit.
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To those who watched Clarissa Explains It All back in the 1990s, Clarissa Darling was either who you wanted to be or who you wanted to be friends with.
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Bob Odenkirk and David Cross on making a sketch show with “less crying” · Interview · The A.V. Club
November 3, 2015 marked the 20th anniversary of Mr. Show With Bob And David, the sketch comedy series fronted by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Of course, Odenkirk and Cross were working together before the fall of 1995, and their creative partnershi…
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Who doesn’t love anniversaries? The music industry sure does. So far this year, untold oodles of deluxe reissues have been released to celebrate milestones—that is, 10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 40th, or 50th anniversaries—in an attempt to stir up nostalg…
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The Full Trailer For ‘Warcraft’ Has Landed – Digg
Trailers Gaming Movies So there are people and orcs, and they’re fighting because of some sort of refugee crisis. That’s just about all we know so far.
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Opera’s Max Data-Savings App Now Comes Pre-Installed On Phones From 14 OEMs | TechCrunch
Opera today announced that its Opera Max data-management app is now integrated into phones from 14 OEMs. These include previously announced partners like Samsung and Xiaomi, as well as three newly announced partners: Acer, Hisense and TWZ.
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US ambassadors in diplomatic limbo as they wait for Senate approval | US news | The Guardian
On paper, John Estrada – who was born in Trinidad, became an American citizen and won a distinguished service medal after 34 years in the marines – is the perfect choice for US ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.
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Myanmar awaits results after landmark election – Al Jazeera English
Yangon, Myanmar – A sense of anticipation has taken over Myanmar’s commercial capital, a day after the country’s landmark election that saw an estimated 80 percent voter turnout.
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Y’know, when I get so frustrated with OUAT, it’s because it sets a high bar up against itself. Like this episode, for example. It takes a classic myth, perfectly twists it into the show’s own purposes, and manages to be jaw-dropping in a single hour.
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Pizza Express, this means you. : AdviceAnimals
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Christmas Island: Detainees ‘angry’ at death of inmate – BBC News
Australian immigration officials says a major disturbance is taking place at a detention centre for migrants on Christmas Island.
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Bob Belcher may love Thanksgiving, but all available evidence suggests the holiday doesn’t love him back. “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal” had an absinthe-addled Bob dodging bullets from the sharpshooting object of Mr. Fischoeder’s desire.
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Umpqua National Forest [oc] [2570×1209] : EarthPorn
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Traditional method for making lead sheet : woahdude
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Perspective on war from an overgown airfield | Environment | The Guardian
Hostility in the countryside takes many shapes: here outside King’s Cliffe, between thorned hedges, is a memorial to an installation built for war. Beyond it a fence, “Keep of my land” daubed in a red of a suggestive tone you suspect wasn’t accident…
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US and Israel leaders to meet amid violence – BBC News
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet the US president later on Monday, with Israeli-Palestinian clashes high on the agenda. The meeting, their first in 13 months, takes place after a month of regular attacks by Palestinians on Israel…
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Massive sinkhole eats IHOP car lot / Boing Boing
Welcome to the International Hole of Pancakes: a sinkhole that swallowed 15 vehicles at a diner in Meridian, Miss., leaving them submerged in mud and sending otherwise unhurt locals scrambling. Emergency services were called about 7:15 p.m.
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Weeks of simmering racial tension at Yale University boiled over in recent days into a heated debate over whether the administration was sensitive enough to concerns about Halloween costumes seen as culturally offensive, students and adminstrators s…
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Homemade bark chainsaw tool : oddlysatisfying
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You can’t give me free answers : firstworldanarchists
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Millenials https://t.co/REYPQy71KZ https://t.co/7VNVSBeLYg
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My dad and his morbid sense of humor make their way to the family reunion : funny
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“Who the fuck are you? Where’s Nancy? Who’s Nancy?” Who is champ? -
APOD: 2015 November 8 – A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake
Explanation: This was a sky to show the kids. All in all, three children, three planets, the Moon, a star, an airplane and a mom were all captured in one image near Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA in early September of 2005.
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Lerps? Illustration: First Dog on the Moon for the Guardian
The swift parrot – or how to get your frustrating animal listed as critically endangered https://t.co/TJBglpLEpe -
Philadelphia Eagles hand Dallas Cowboys their sixth successive defeat | Sport | The Guardian
Sam Bradford threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Matthews in overtime and the Philadelphia Eagles sent the Dallas Cowboys to their longest losing streak in 26 years with a 33-27 victory in overtime on Sunday night.
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How to blow your dogs mind : gifs
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A F/A-18F during transonic flight : gifs
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Nice shot via /r/gif https://t.co/S0EabLjooz https://t.co/cdprWFe1KU
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I came home to find a snowy owl on my deck : aww
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Lioness Image, Okavango Delta – National Geographic Photo of the Day
A helicopter flying overhead captures the attention of a lioness as she walks through the tall grasses of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Shooting from aboard the aircraft, Chris Schmid considered the experience a lucky one. “She was …
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Airpocalypse now: China pollution reaching record levels | World news | The Guardian
Residents of north-eastern China donned gas masks and locked themselves indoors on Sunday after their homes were enveloped by some of the worst levels of smog on record. Levels of PM2.
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Democratic presidential underdog Martin O’Malley will lay out his plan for veterans on Monday, the latest attempt by the former Maryland governor to boost his chances by emphasizing his policy bona fides.
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Mexico’s Prosecutors Blasted Over Missing Students | Al Jazeera America
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission is criticizing the Attorney General’s Office for failing to address all the recommendations it made in July about the investigation into the fate of 43 missing college students.
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And just like that, the wiretap boys are back. When Lucca and Alicia take on a case that ends up leading back to the NSA, where three-hops are still going strong. “Lies” taps into the sprawling universe of The Good Wife and does so in a way that’s f…
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‘The Affair’ Recap: When Your Mom Is A Crazy Hippie – The Daily Beast
‘The Affair’ Recap: When Your Mom Is A Crazy Hippie https://t.co/gqvDwVo4v9
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
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Sennheiser’s $55,000 headphones sound like heaven on Earth | The Verge
In the basement of a posh London hotel today, you’ll find the world’s most outlandish headphones. They are not portable or, at €50,000, particularly affordable.
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Momma with her babies via /r/cats https://t.co/YpFt0dyGsy https://t.co/iJ3WsjfAae
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Northern California coastal hills at Point Reyes.[3517×1978][OC] : EarthPorn
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‘The Affair’ Recap: When Your Mom Is A Crazy Hippie – The Daily Beast
Fans of The Affair fans are used to difficult questions, made even more impossible by varied interpretations of the same events.
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FC Dallas shock Seattle Sounders on penalties after wild finish | Football | The Guardian
Walker Zimmerman forced extra time with a 91st-minute goal and scored the clinching for penalty kick to help top-seeded FC Dallas reach the MLS Cup Western Conference finals with victory on Sunday night over the Seattle Sounders in their two-game se…
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From the beginning, The Affair has steadfastly refused to judge its own characters.
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This one got so close. At this point in Simpsons history, there’s nothing inherently wrong with recycling plots, especially when the family’s weekly adventure keeps them close to home—trip to Jambowski Island (formerly Haiti) excepted.
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Fallout 10? Shouldn’t it be a pixel?
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In a lot of ways, Brooklyn Nine-Nine leads a charmed existence. That’s not to deny the strong work that goes into this series week to week, of course, but plenty of circumstances have given it a leg up.
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Mr Playful (aka my kitty Jinx) : cats
Mr Playful (aka my kitty Jinx) via /r/cats https://t.co/JxLJA0Axni https://t.co/X8hk0gxVcE
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Grassi Lakes Trail. Canmore, Alberta (3264×1836) : EarthPorn
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Sir, that’s not how tips work. : funny
Sir, that’s not how tips work. via /r/funny https://t.co/P5n6m4ylCG https://t.co/grXp8gXHtL
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Nestle boss: Maggi noodles testing ‘highly unreliable’ – BBC News
The new boss of Nestle India has told the BBC that tests which showed Maggi noodles had lead in them were “highly unreliable”.
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Building a pool. (imgur.com)
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‘The Walking Dead’ Recap: Slow and Low | Rolling Stone
It’s called “Now” — but has another Walking Dead episode ever felt less urgent? The show was due for a downshift after four straight weeks of terror, panic, and tragedy, but maybe not into a gear quite this low.
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Ground swallows dozen cars in Mississippi – BBC News
Tests are to take place to determine why the ground opened up in a Mississippi city, swallowing 12 cars in a restaurant car park. The large gash, some 400ft (120m) long and 35ft (11m) wide, opened up late on Saturday in Meridian, near the Alabama st…
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Open thread for night owls: Our generation, our choice,’ say youth, readying for civil disobedience
In what was surely one of the most hollow, pathetic pieces of partisan hackery ever witnessed, Tucker Carlson actually manages to get himself schooled by Dennis Kucinich here, when he claims that removing Cheney from office would be meaningless, sin…
Open thread for night owls: Our generation, our choice,’ say youth, readying for civil disobedience https://t.co/8ti9Fijaum -
Reddit, meet my adopted tabbies G and Rocky. : cats
Reddit, meet my adopted tabbies G and Rocky. via /r/cats https://t.co/m08FzkHGNy https://t.co/mJgtzB3HMR
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Ken M on practicing agnostics – Imgur
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This mannequin has a beer belly. : mildlyinteresting
This mannequin has a beer belly. via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/SJN7OBrSX1 https://t.co/QJfKWcPjRl
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Supreme Court hears Libya dissident rendition claim – BBC News
One of the most controversial claims of rendition involving the UK comes before the Supreme Court later. The case, involving allegations against ex-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and an ex-MI6 chief, prompted an unprecedented battle over whether it ca…
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Croatia’s Conservatives Claim Victory | Al Jazeera America
Croatia’s conservative opposition claimed victory Sunday against the ruling center-left coalition in the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013 — held amid deep economic woes and a massive surge of ref…
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Cars swallowed up in Mississippi hole – BBC News
Cars were swallowed up when a large hole opened up in a restaurant car park in Mississippi. Diners described how they were eating their meals when the lights suddenly went out and they heard a loud crash.
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Spending review: George Osborne ‘secures deals’ on 30% cuts – BBC News
Four government departments have provisionally agreed to cut their spending by an average of 30% over the next four years, Chancellor George Osborne is to announce later.
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Tommy Wiseau wants to remake The Room in 3D, has designed new underwear · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s always fun to check in on The Room’s director/star/writer/whatever Tommy Wiseau and see what the film community’s favorite…performance artist(?) is up to these days.
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/bxCzJTCbZM https://t.co/FvtFFAh1Jb
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A local pond in Swampscott, Massachusetts [4320×2432] [OC] : EarthPorn
A local pond in Swampscott, Massachusetts [4320×2432] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/JuYrvDWYgp https://t.co/A5g4aCkQ2z
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Gonna need a bigger cage. –Diver : gif
Gonna need a bigger cage. –Diver via /r/gif https://t.co/SPO98E0UOr https://t.co/JdcNPNtOua
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The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched what it described as a historic bid to have the federal government’s approval of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine declared illegal – but the action has prompted one Coalition senator to renew calls for …
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‘The Walking Dead’ Recap: Season Six, Episode Five, ‘Now’ – The Atlantic
Every week for the fifth season of AMC’s post-apocalyptic drama The Walking Dead, Lenika Cruz and David Sims will discuss the latest threat—human, zombie, or otherwise—to the show’s increasingly hardened band of survivors.
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‘The Leftovers’ Recap, Season Two, Episode Six: ‘Lens’ – The Atlantic
Each week following episodes of season two of The Leftovers, Sophie Gilbert and Spencer Kornhaber will discuss new characters, old visitors, and whether smoking really is the best way to express profound nihilism. Gilbert: I’m getting a little bit w…
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Wonder Woman is one of us : TrollXChromosomes
Wonder Woman is one of us via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/QXPuiG3Bz6 https://t.co/5mC4seJdUT
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Mt. Shasta from a frozen over Heart Lake. [OC][4450×3133] : EarthPorn
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You’d think by now that I’d be used to The Walking Dead’s decompressed storytelling, but realizing this week that Rick’s plan to deal with the rock quarry herd is going to be the main storyline for the first half of the season (if not beyond) took m…
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‘The Walking Dead’: Maggie Finds Light at the End of the Tunnel – The Daily Beast
There’s a moment in The Walking Dead’s fifth Season 6 episode, “Now,” in which Deanna—an ex-congresswoman who once ruled Alexandria but whose main job these days is ordering everyone to shut up and listen to Rick—makes a haphazard attempt at slaying…
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Why You Should Start Watching HBO’s Lowest-Rated Comedy ‘Getting On’ – The Daily Beast
HBO’s Getting On, which began its third and final season this Sunday, is the funniest show about elder care you’re not watching.
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Why The Walking Dead’s Latest Heartbreaking Twist Is Good News for Glenn Fans | Vanity Fair
While this week’s episode of The Walking Dead didn’t concretely confirm whether or not Glenn survived his harrowing fall into the pit of zombies, it did manage to do the unimaginable. Namely, make the question of this beloved character’s survival mo…
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Fuck your institutionalized “applesauce” : firstworldanarchists
Fuck your institutionalized “applesauce” via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/xj3JJ8u2QH https://t.co/gDetIlGeOo
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Water under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA [3318 x 2212] : seaporn
Water under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA [3318 x 2212] via /r/seaporn https://t.co/exL9FTFzPp https://t.co/pLPoO1n59n
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My cat has a number 3 on its back : mildlyinteresting
My cat has a number 3 on its back via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/xpqeRI82DI https://t.co/HeKkg84JxU
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Art museum album [from /r/blackpeopletwitter] : trippinthroughtime
Art museum album [from /r/blackpeopletwitter] via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/SIeGp3WPqg https://t.co/9KGHFkbVkG
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21 footer with the pregs. : NatureGifs
21 footer with the pregs. via /r/NatureGifs https://t.co/mU8QaXHSRl https://t.co/Ie4e3AyhRk
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Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco [OC] [4748×3165] : ArchitecturePorn
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco [OC] [4748×3165] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://t.co/PxH78zf7y7 https://t.co/Tl39kWHGXy
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Napoleon and Pedro – Life after high school : funny
Napoleon and Pedro – Life after high school via /r/funny https://t.co/8F1OIu3tA3 https://t.co/LD5nLExyzo
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And the Oscar of Science Goes To …
The scientists had been investigating a liver protein, dubbed PCSK9, that’s responsible for circulating harmful LDL cholesterol in the human body.
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Giant hole swallows 12 vehicles in Mississippi restaurant parking lot | US news | The Guardian
Experts are investigating the collapse of a restaurant parking lot at the weekend that created a 120m-long (400ft) hole that swallowed 12 vehicles in Mississippi. No one was hurt.
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Myanmar awaits results of landmark election – BBC News
People in Myanmar are awaiting the results of the first openly contested national election in 25 years. Votes are still being counted, and officials say preliminary results are now not expected until later on Monday.
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Weed Saved Strung-Out Vet’s Life, But VA Won’t Listen – The Daily Beast
PHILADELPHIA — Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Mike Whiter emptied a box full of orange pill bottles onto 22 people lying in the middle of Market Street at the end of Philadelphia’s Veteran’s Day Parade.
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Pentagon Ready to Pay for The Iraqi Civilians It Kills. Next Step: Admit It Kills Civilians. https://t.co/Cy4X3sqfZK
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I finally got it. https://t.co/34Qo4IUIkl https://t.co/mnFI1tYGhE
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Huge hole left in IHOP parking lot after cave-in swallows 12 cars – video | US news | The Guardian
Emergency crews work to recover 12 cars which became stuck when the parking lot of a recently opened IHOP restaurant in Meridian, Mississippi caved in, leaving a hole about 15-feet deep.
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The boss of BHP Billiton will arrive in Brazil on Monday to see at first-hand the devastation wrought by the collapse of a dam at an iron ore mine co-owned by the company that has left at least two dead and dozens missing.
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Nepal footballers charged with treason for match-fixing – BBC News
Five Nepali footballers have been charged with treason over allegations of match-fixing during the 2011 World Cup, police said. Former Captain Sagar Thapa and goalkeeper Ritesh Thapa as well as three others were arrested last month.
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From its opening seconds, Flesh And Bone belies its ostensible genre. This is not a show about dance. Those Hitchcockian strings filled with paranoia, the uneasy close-ups of childhood objects, the ominous pounding at the door. Dance is beautiful an…
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To say that Robyn Williams is a bit of a legend of science broadcasting on the radio is a bit like saying Sir David Attenborough is a dab hand at nature documentaries on the telly.
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Aqib Talib gouges eye of Dwayne Allen on Sunday Night Football via /r/gif https://t.co/iDFF9i8drH https://t.co/ekRXL2Qsml
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happy skeleton : ledootgeneration
happy skeleton via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/HVGdd5if7Q https://t.co/z7YVTDHRz9
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Browsing my old Reddit Comments : AdviceAnimals
Browsing my old Reddit Comments via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/QnfKhPMPeT https://t.co/8MKAz09dk3
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The Horrors of Rat Hole Mining, Cont’d – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Kei Kamara scored his second goal in the 111th minute and the Columbus Crew advanced to the MLS Cup Eastern Conference finals with a 3-1 victory over the Montreal Impact on Sunday night.
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The cardiologist paused and looked at me sternly before speaking. “There’s good news and bad news.” I waited it out, letting only a pulse of uncomfortable silence speak between us. “There’s evidence of a blockage, I won’t know how serious until we c…
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MPs urge Chancellor to ‘supercharge’ science – BBC News
The chancellor must “supercharge” the UK’s science base with more funding, the new chairwoman of the Commons science committee has said. Conservative MP Nicola Blackwood told BBC News that spending on science had to increase in the long term if the …
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The Pentagon is about to get a $5 million fund to pay the Iraqi families of civilians killed by American airstrikes. It’s a big change for the U.S.
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Academics land £2m prizes at Zuckerberg-backed ‘science Oscars’ | Science | The Guardian
Science is starting to pay big for a small minority who land major prizes.
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6 $3 -Million Breakthrough Prizes Awarded for Basic Science – Scientific American
Six projects in life sciences, physics and math have won this year’s Breakthrough Prizes—a series of annual awards honoring major discoveries in basic sciences. The $3-million prizes, founded three years ago by billionaire venture capitalist Yuri Mi…
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Meet The Brilliant Scientists That Won This Year’s Breakthrough Prizes | TechCrunch
You’ve likely heard of the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Espys, and even the Crunchies. But it’s entirely possible you’ve never heard of the Breakthrough Prize Awards, which honor the world’s greatest scientists and their discoveries.
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It’s been a banner year for neutrinos. Last month two physicists won the Nobel Prize for determining that the elusive fundamental particles can switch between three types, or flavors.
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2016 Breakthrough Prize Winners – Scientific American
Six $3 million prizes awarded to advances in neutrino particle physics, topology, optogenetics and more News 6 $3 -Million Breakthrough Prizes Awarded for Basic Science Teams behind advances in neutrino particle physics, topology, optogenetics and o…
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Breakthrough Prize for Illuminating the Brain’s Secret Code – Scientific American
Optogenetics is probably the biggest buzzword in neuroscience today. It refers to techniques that use genetic modification of cells so they can be manipulated with light. The net result is a switch that can turn brain cells off and on like a bedside…
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Tonight the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded the second annual Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics to Ian Agol of the University of California, Berkeley, for his work in geometric topology, which completed a revolution in the field that began mor…
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I want my Ice Cream… via /r/gifs https://t.co/laogLHV7Ex https://t.co/J3ayejlRzu
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Cruise Ship Extension via /r/gif https://t.co/UBbSMNWBhh https://t.co/ry1U50CbCv
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Old Delray Beach Seaboard Station [1836×3264] [OC] – More in comments. : AbandonedPorn
Old Delray Beach Seaboard Station [1836×3264] [OC] – More in comments. via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/3spMZNRhQz https://t.co/P16ZosQixx
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George is “The Man!” via /r/funny https://t.co/Tjjm1QMAHI https://t.co/ARG8JQ5OPD
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EPA will test all new diesel cars on actual roads after Volkswagen emissions scandal | The Verge
As it promised in September, the Environmental Protection Agency is expanding on-road emissions tests for diesel cars in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
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Twenty-Year-Old Shahed Kahn Has More Connections Than You Do | TechCrunch
Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, he isn’t away at college or living with his parents but instead working as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a noted team of investors at NFX Guild, a new accelerator program in San Fr…
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Dozens of black football players at the University of Missouri have joined demonstrations over the university’s handling of racial tensions on campus by vowing to boycott team activities until the president of the university system resigns.
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So You Want To Join The Empire: Abs Made Of ABS
So You Want To Join The Empire: Abs Made Of ABS https://t.co/UXwSLPYzP1
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Orbital View: City of the Future, Today – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: November 8 – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson’s position in the polls is drawing increased scrutiny into his personal history and past statements, including whether he was offered a scholarship to attend West Point. Carson has claimed in the past that he was offered a full scholarshi…
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Royalty free penguins are really average : InternetIsBeautiful
Royalty free penguins are really average via /r/InternetIsBeautiful https://t.co/HGuswOmu48 https://t.co/i2OFTJafyn
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My friend’s mom posted this to his Facebook wall for his birthday : funny
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So You Want To Join The Empire: Abs Made Of ABS
I’ve been a little behind in actually doing anything in the last week, but this weekend we’ve got some progress! The suit is almost done: there’s a little more to do, then adjustments.
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Shares in Asia mixed on Monday following US job numbers – BBC News
Shares in Asia were mixed on Monday following strong US jobs numbers which lifted expectations the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its policy meeting in December. The US economy added 271,000 jobs in October, far exceeding the 185,00…
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Jason Bateman joins Watergate drama Felt · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Jason Bateman has joined the cast of Felt, the Watergate movie that is still not a Kermit The Frog biopic. Liam Neeson is starring in the film as FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, better known to a pair of Washington Post reporte…
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Persian Gulf temperatures may be at the edge of human tolerance in 30 years | Ars Technica
Humans can tolerate some extremes of hot and dry temperatures by sweating, which lowers our body temperature via evaporative cooling. However, this ability is greatly reduced when high temperatures are accompanied by high humidity.
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We still have this small pumpkin my wife carved 3 years ago. – Imgur
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Ben Carson emphatically defended himself on Sunday against mounting claims that he has embellished his biography as his Republican rival, Donald J. Trump, sought to cast new doubt on the honesty of the retired neurosurgeon. In a series of interviews…
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Ann Coulter Thinks She’s Native Because She Descended From Settlers : nottheonion
If you go far enough back in ancestry, nobody is native to anyplace. Everybody’s ancestors came from somewhere, even if only “out of Africa.” Nobody has any authentic title to any piece of land if you go far enough back in history; it was all just p…
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This sign gets it. : firstworldanarchists
This sign gets it. via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/bTKhwoJgV2 https://t.co/dnv7rqD3Nn
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Stars, taken in my backyard! New to this [4288×2848] : ExposurePorn
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Even Japanese mannequins party harder than me : funny
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Page Not Found | The New Republic
“When I started this job, people kept asking me, ‘Why do we have so much flooding now?’ and I said, ‘Well, there’s just one problem: The whole city’s four feet too low—that’s all!’” But as Miami Beach c
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Unmasked! The Mexico City superhero wrestling for pedestrians’ rights | Cities | The Guardian
The traffic light turns red at the corner of Avenida Juárez and Eje Central, the busiest pedestrian crossing in Mexico City, used by around 9,000 people every hour. Tonight, a driver stops his grey Peugeot exactly on the crossing where the masses ar…
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The Man Who Pretended to Be Ben Carson for 21 Years – POLITICO Magazine
On stage, he plays the famed neurosurgeon. But he doesn’t recognize the man on the trail. Prince Havely thought he knew Ben Carson: how he stands, how he talks, how he holds his hands and how those hands hold a scalpel.
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BBC correspondents make US 2016 election predictions – BBC News
It’s a year out from the US presidential election. What do BBC reporters think will happen? This time next year, barring a repeat of the cliffhanger election of 2000, we will know who the next president of the United States will be.
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What happened to passenger hovercrafts? – BBC News
It’s 60 years since the British inventor Christopher Cockerell demonstrated the principles of the hovercraft using a cat food tin and a vacuum cleaner. Great things were promised for this mode of transport, but it never really caught on. Why?
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Can psychology help solve long-running conflicts? – BBC News
Conflicts can involve different nations and religions, different races and classes. Some of them seem intractable: the tensions and hatred seem depressingly permanent. But there are a number of social psychologists who have been studying how prejudi…
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The Critical Mass Of Virtual Reality | TechCrunch
The concept of virtual reality (VR) has been around for several decades.
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Please… Stop…. via /r/gifs https://t.co/LpKGULkTjd https://t.co/A7zSKR3MT7
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MRW I see a big ass moose on the basketball court. : shittyreactiongifs
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/McFKEvC3Y5 https://t.co/vN1mJGNdqZ
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Orbital View: Pancake Glacier – The Atlantic
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The tattoos Eritreans get before they leave for Europe – BBC News
When photographer Ricci Shryock met up with a group of Eritrean migrants in Milan, she noticed they had one thing in common – most had tattoos. They have asked to remain anonymous because most have fled compulsory military service to go to Italy.
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Luck outduels Manning as Broncos lose their unbeaten record | Sport | The Guardian
Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes and Adam Vinatieri made a tie-breaking 55-yard field goal with 6:13 to play, giving Indianapolis a surprising 27-24 victory over Denver.
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Gaming pays off for two teenagers – BBC News
Many parents look at their teenage boys glued to their games consoles and computer screens and worry about their future. The mothers of Henrique Dubrugras and Pedro Franceschi aren’t worrying any more.
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Brazilian women react after sexual comments are directed at a 12-year-old girl – BBC News
How old are young girls when they are “first harassed” by men? Women in Brazil are reflecting on their own childhood experiences – and sharing these stories on the internet in big numbers.
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Exclusive: ESPN President John Skipper on His Decision to Shutter Gran | Vanity Fair
Say what you will about ESPN president John Skipper, but the guy knows how to come clean.
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Executions for men who lynched Bangladesh boy on video – Al Jazeera English
Four men have been sentenced to death in Bangladesh for lynching a 13-year-old boy and placing a video of the brutal attack on the internet in a case which sparked outrage across the country.
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Rail Industry Had Safety Technology Decades Ago – Never implemented : environment
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Waves for days – Noosa, Queensland, Australia [640×640] [OC] : seaporn
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Hidden treasures of a remote record shop – BBC News
Until recently, people in Mongolia had to travel more than 1,000km (600 miles) across the Gobi desert to Beijing to get to their nearest record shop. But this year, a new specialist store opened in the capital, Ulan Bator.
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The US inmates charged per night in jail – BBC News
A widespread practice in the US known as “pay to stay” charges jail inmates a daily fee while they are incarcerated. For those who are in and out of the local county or city lock-ups – particularly those struggling with addiction – that can lead to …
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What happened to passenger hovercraft? – BBC News
It’s 60 years since the British inventor Christopher Cockerell demonstrated the principles of the hovercraft using a cat food tin and a vacuum cleaner. Great things were promised for this mode of transport, but it never really caught on. Why?
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KeySmart – Premium Pocket Key Organizers & Key Holders – Made In The USA
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ELIZABETH JANE,Early morning shot from Kent [OC] [1620×1080] : seaporn
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THERE has been an alarming and steady increase in the mortality rate of middle-aged white Americans since 1999, according to a study published last week.
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The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was defeated by an unholy alliance
Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster and spinmaster who has the ability to use words to lie without seeming to, should be proud of his disciples in Houston.
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NSA discloses most security flaws, but that’s not the whole story : technology
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New Star Wars Teaser Reveals the Biggest Plot Detail Yet | Vanity Fair
The most incredible thing about the Stars Wars: The Force Awakens ad campaign is how little we actually know about the upcoming film. The Star Wars obsessives out there may have figured out plenty on their own given how leaky plot details can be the…
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PicoBrew’s dream of a homebrew appliance is not as stupid as it sounds | Ars Technica
Last month, my husband and I were getting ready to move to another city, and, as often happens when you make big moves, the place was in shambles.
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These Are the Best Songs to Wake You in the Morning, According to Spotify
If you’re trying to come up with the perfect song for your wake-up alarm, Spotify’s data experts, along with the help of a music psychologist, have a few suggestions. According to the Spotify data team, and David M.
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Is This A UFO Over California Or Nah? – Digg
People in California are pretty sure they just saw a UFO in the night sky. Our best guess? Viral marketing stunt for the upcoming X-Files reunion. Most likely, it’s a missile test or something along those lines, but hey, you never know. We want to b…
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inMarket Says It Can Predict The Best Time To Show Someone An Ad | TechCrunch
Beacon marketing company inMarket is unveiling a new technology that it calls Quantum Receptivity, which it says can help marketers figure out when they should show an ad to a shopper and have the biggest impact.
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Ex-Porn-Stars Make A Questionable Donald Trump Ad On ‘SNL’ – Digg
1 digg hulu.com Funny Election 2016 Late Night “Saturday Night Live” made a hilarious new ad for Donald Trump featuring two ex-porn-stars and The Donald himself.
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When ordering a pizza for delivery… : AdviceAnimals
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BBC Sport – Sevilla 3-2 Real Madrid
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale could make his first appearance after a three-week injury lay-off against Sevilla on Sunday. Bale, 26, has returned to training for leaders Real before the Sevilla game.
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BBC Sport – Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool boss felt ‘alone’ at Anfield
Sections of home supporters left their seats after Scott Dann headed Palace ahead eight minutes from time. Dann’s header saw Palace go above Liverpool in the Premier League table and means Klopp has won three, drawn three and lost one of his first s…
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‘Riot’ at Christmas Island migrant camp as detainee dies – BBC News
Australian immigration officials say a “disturbance” is taking place at a detention centre for immigrants on Christmas Island. The trouble was reported early on Monday, a day after the body of a man who escaped from the centre was found near cliffs.
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ELIZABETH JANE,Early morning shot from Kent [OC] [1620×1080] : waterporn
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FC Dallas v Seattle Sounders: MLS Western Conference semi-final – live! | Football | The Guardian
Hello everyone and welcome to the second leg of this Western Conference semi-final between FC Dallas and Seattle Sounders. Last week was an exciting encounter as Seattle came away with a 2-1 win thanks to a fantastic free-kick by Clint Dempsey in th…
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New York Red Bulls beat rivals DC United to advance to conference final | Football | The Guardian
Bradley Wright-Phillips scored two minutes into injury time and the New York Red Bulls beat DC United 1-0 on Sunday to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
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Hindu population % by country [800×411] : MapPorn
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Such Zoom. Much Doge. Wow. : perfectloops
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Most Brutal Scene Haunts Me
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Thomas rarely loafs, and never this high! : Catloaf
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Pro-Israel Group Refutes Roger Waters’ Comments on Country | Rolling Stone
Pro-Israel Group Refutes Roger Waters’ Comments on Country “He may believe that he’s doing this with the best of intentions, but it is up to the Jewish community, not Roger Waters, to decide whether or not he ha
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It’s been a running question of this year’s Republican primary cycle: Is Donald J. Trump a clown? It would be unfair to blame Mr. Trump alone for the deadness of the Nov. 7 episode.
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SNL got its highest ratings in almost four years last night · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite severing ties with Donald Trump over the summer and the petitions, boycotts, and protests calling for the network to not endorse his—ahem—controversial views, NBC allowed the Trump-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live to go on last night, a…
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Chronicles of Civic Engagement – The Atlantic
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Today we finally bought our new dog (bernese mountain dog) : aww
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Manihiki Atoll : Image of the Day
Using a high-magnification lens, an astronaut photographed almost the entire 10.5-kilometer long (6.5 mile) Manihiki Island, which lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Manihiki is one of the larger islands in the remote Cook Island chain.
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Make Your Own Customizable LED Candles
LED candles are a nice way to light up your house during the darker winter months of winter, but they’re a little boring on their own. Over on Adafruit, they show off how to make your own set that totally customizable.
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Kris Jenner—Kardashian matriarch and momager extraordinaire—celebrated her 60th birthday over the weekend and leave it up to this clan to celebrate in an over-the-top fashion.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Most Brutal Scene Haunts Me
Lately I’ve been having nightmares about robots. Spoilers for the end of the first mission of Call of Duty: Black Ops III follow.
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At The End Asks: Would You Become A Slave To Escape A Doomed Earth?
In this short film, a nearby supernova spells certain doom for Earth, and an alien fleet offers a choice: humans can escape, but only if they agree to become enslaved in space. The film follows one couple who have to come to grips with what it will …
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Croatia’s conservative opposition takes early poll lead – Al Jazeera English
Croatia’s conservative opposition bloc has taken the early lead over the ruling centre-left alliance in a closely-fought election, according to preliminary results based on a partial vote count.
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Volkswagen’s emissions scandal is just getting worse.
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Ancient pear tree in path of HS2 rail route wins Woodland Trust prize | Environment | The Guardian
There is good news and bad news for the 250-year-old Cubbington pear tree, one of the oldest and largest wild pears in Britain. The good news is that it has scooped the Woodland Trust tree of the year title after attracting more than 10,000 votes fr…
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You stroke my face, I stroke yours : aww
But that was super cute. Not only is he reminding him, but he hesitates before each stroke to see if the human can figure out how to remember on his own…aaaaand no, he can’t. Stupid humans, better show him how it’s done again [strokes guy’s face]
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With Sombreros And Sidesaddle, Virginian Women Reclaim A Mexican Tradition : NPR
The star of the Mexican rodeo may be the cowboy, but it’s the cowgirls who put on the best show. Women of the El Dorado ranch are rediscovering this tradition in an unlikely place: rural Virginia.
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Tree of Life, An Ancient oak in Epping Forest, London [OC] [5544×7454} : EarthPorn
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Hampshire’s great spaces of wild nature: Country diary 100 years ago | Environment | The Guardian
SurreyThe plough has not intruded much on the broad heath and woodlands of North-east Hampshire where they abut on the outer Surrey commons.
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A Look Ahead To The 4th GOP Debate : NPR
Republican presidential candidates meet for a debate on Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wis., as Dr. Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio have come under increased scrutiny.
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Mizzou Football Players Pledge A Strike, Citing Systemic Racism : NPR
University of Missouri football players have pledged to go on strike until university President Tim Wolfe resigns. They’re joining several other student groups criticizing the way he has handled a string of racially charged incidents. Koran Addo, a …
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With One Year Till The Election, Who Will Be The Swing Voters In 2016? : NPR
One year from the 2016 general election, Drake University political science professor Rachel Paine Caufield talks about the political landscape.
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As Lawrence Lessig’s Long-Shot Bid Ends, What’s To Come For His Key Issue? : NPR
Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig talks about his decision to drop out of the Democratic presidential primary race and his ongoing efforts to get big money out of politics.
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Parsing The Keys To A Diplomatic Solution In Syria : NPR
Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to engage in a new round of peace talks on Syria soon. Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford explains the challenges in finding a diplomatic solution.
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The Motives Beneath The ‘Bedrock’ To Come, In U.S.-Israeli Relations : NPR
This week’s Words You’ll Hear is “bedrock,” which President Obama is expected to use to describe U.S. commitments to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House on Monday.
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More Universities Move To Include Gender-Neutral Pronouns : NPR
More and more colleges and universities are allowing students to choose their own gender pronouns, meaning instead of just “he” and “she,” the options now include pronouns like “ze,” which are intended to be gender neutral. Harvard is one of the uni…
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Walking The Beat With An Unarmed Police Officer In Britain : NPR
More people were killed by police in the United States in the last month than were killed by police in England and Wales in the last 24 years. In the U.K., police officers don’t carry guns.
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The Art Of The ‘Clean Version’ : NPR
If you listen to music on the radio, chances are you’ll hear a lot of lyrics that don’t match the ones on the original album recordings. When songs get profanity, obscenity or references to drugs or sex removed for broadcast, it’s a process known as…
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Transitioning To Male, And Taking Some Of A Past Self With Him : NPR
Youth Radio’s Cole Carman, of Pittsburg, Calif., is one of the first transgender teens in America to freeze his eggs pre-transition. He shares his story: Earlier this year, I was supposed to get my first testosterone shot. Instead, I ended up taking…
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German shepherds reaction to wolf howling : interestingasfuck
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Two types of guys on Tinder.. : TrollXChromosomes
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Another Epic Central Park Lake Shot [OC] [3264×1836] Taken With A Nexus 5 : EarthPorn
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Cat photobombs wedding pictures, seems very pleased with himself : aww
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Dubai Airshow: No ‘drama’ for Airbus on A380 sales – BBC News
Airbus has admitted that new orders at the Dubai Airshow for its A380, the world’s biggest aircraft, are unlikely. Fabrice Bregier, chief executive of the planemaking arm of Airbus Group, said the company was in advanced talks with several possible …
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Dr. Dre Premieres Unreleased Banger ‘Naked’ on ‘The Pharmacy’ | Rolling Stone
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John Lennon skateboarding 1965 : OldSchoolCool
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Romania nightclub fire: Nato flies victims to UK and Norway – BBC News
Victims of the Bucharest nightclub fire are being transported by Nato to hospitals in the UK and Norway. The blaze at Bucharest’s Colectiv club on 30 October was started by fireworks that ignited foam on the club’s walls.
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Justice for sale—to the highest bidder
The lesson of Justice Bird seems to have been learned by judges who sit on the state supreme courts and face either direct election or retention election.
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Perfect Panthers hold off Packers while Steelers pip Raiders at death | Sport | The Guardian
Now that the NFL season has rolled into November and the Carolina Panthers have yet to lose we must realize that they may actually be the best team in the NFC.
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Our biggest planet in the solar system is also one of the best: it’s got crazy weather systems, it’s probably saved Earth from enormous impacts, and it’s got hundreds of moons orbiting it. The Atlantic goes over all the ways Jupiter is their favorit…
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Who should we trust on the Russian plane crash? – Al Jazeera English
FBI agents in the United States have agreed to help with forensic analysis after last week’s crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt. The British government suspects a bomb exploded on board, killing all 224 passengers and crew.
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The Packers are terrible and Aaron Rodgers took it out on a Surface | The Verge
The Green Bay Packers almost overcame their miserable offense and inability to play defense in the middle of the field to beat the Carolina Panthers today. They did not do that.
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Central Park, NY [OC] [3264×1836] Taken With A Nexus 5 : EarthPorn
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Watch TV on the Radio, War on Drugs Rock ‘Austin City Limits’ | Rolling Stone
Watch TV on the Radio, War on Drugs Rock ‘Austin City Limits’ Lauryn Hill also tapes upcoming episode for series’ 41st season
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Here Are The Winners Of The 2015 World Fantasy Awards
The World Fantasy Convention was held this weekend in Saratoga Springs, New York, where the winners of the 2015 World Fantasy Awards have been announced! Ramsey Campbell Sheri S. Tepper
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My daughter cleaned up really well after her illicit party, she just accidentally left the organizational spreadsheet printout behind. (i.imgur.com) Part of me thinks you should punish her for the party, but part of me thinks you should be impressed…
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James Dean signing autographs in his car, early 1950’s : OldSchoolCool
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A cuban woman with a cigar (2592 x 1944) : HumanPorn
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Missouri football team to boycott games over ‘racism’ – BBC News
Black players from a US college football team say they will boycott games until their university’s president resigns over what they call his inability to deal with racism. More than 30 players from the University of Missouri team in Columbia backed …
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Stormtrooper Helmets For African Wildlife Is Weirdly Gorgeous
This art project is nuts: New York designer Blank Williams has recently put together a mashup of stormtrooper helmets as if they were worn by African wildlife.
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Independent Egypt journalist Hossam Bahgat ‘arrested’ – BBC News
Egyptian investigative journalist and rights activist Hossam Bahgat has been arrested, a website he works for says. Mada Masr said Mr Bahgat, 37, was questioned by military intelligence for nine hours and could be charged with publishing false infor…
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Track of the Day: ‘Temazcal’ – The Atlantic
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R.I.P. Gunnar Hansen, Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Leatherface · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety is reporting that Gunnar Hansen, the actor best known for playing Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, has died. He was 68, and had reportedly been suffering from pancreatic cancer.
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Hubbles Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula js – Just Space
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Mothership Zeta Is The Newest Short Fiction Project From The Escape Artists
This looks pretty cool: Escape Artists, the folks behind Escape Pod, Pseudopod and Podcastle are launching a new magazine called Mothership Zeta. Their first issue is now live, and it has an exciting table of contents!
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Bobcat and deer eating together : AnimalsBeingBros
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The first blep I caught in the 7 months I’ve had her. : Blep
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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months | World news | The Guardian
As they motored across the lagoon in the Marshall Islands, deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the policemen stared at the specimen laid out on the deck before them. There was no hiding the fact that this man had been at sea for a considerable …
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Egypt military arrests journalist in ‘blow for freedom’ – Al Jazeera English
The Egyptian army has arrested a prominent journalist and human rights advocate, prompting condemnation by human rights groups.
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Be More Charismatic by Treating New Friends Like Old Ones
Hitting it off with new people can be quite a challenge for some of us. When you don’t know someone, there’s a barrier of awkwardness between you. Charismatic people are able to break that barrier. One shortcut for doing this is to think of someone …
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Romanian Drummer Dies of His Burns | Al Jazeera America
The drummer of a heavy metal band playing when a fire broke out at a nightclub has died, bringing the death toll from last week’s tragedy to 45. Bogdan Enache, drummer in the Goodbye to Gravity band that was playing in Colectiv on Oct.
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Astronomers Use Earth as a Model for Climate Change on Saturn’s Moon | Motherboard
Ever since the Cassini spacecraft was placed into orbit around Saturn in 2004, it has been mapping the surface of Titan and basically blowing everyone’s minds by revealing how much this moon resembles a planet.
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CatDad Feeds His Kitties In Cat Mask Fail! (Original Video) – YouTube
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Data, The Speed Of Light And You | TechCrunch
We — humanity, that is — created 4.4 zettabytes of data last year. This is expected to rise to 44 zettabytes by 2020. And no, I didn’t make up the word “zettabytes.” For scale, it is estimated that 42 zettabytes could store all human speech ever spo…
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This Dinosaur real life simulation is excellent : gifs
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“You’re an attractive one” [Charlotte] : animegifs
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Mizzou’s black players should be proud: they have put values over football | Sport | The Guardian
I went to the University of Missouri. I still keep tucked on my bookshelf two undergraduate degrees earned what seems like a lifetime ago.
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Legal alcohol limit (when driving) in Europe [800×612] : MapPorn
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a sort of Snopes of his time, debunking Church mythology. In the 1700s, he went to the Alps to search for Dragons. Anindita Basu Sempere has created a stunning website to tell his story.
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A kiss for you : AnimalsBeingBros
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Ben Carson Says Drug Addiction Is A Symptom Of ‘Political Correctness’ | ThinkProgress
As voters in numerous states express increasing concern over the rise in drug abuse, current Republican presidential front-runner, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, said the problem can be traced back to an over-emphasis on “political correctness.
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Deadly Taliban inter-fighting erupts in Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
Violent clashes between two rival Taliban groups in southern Afghanistan killed at least 50 fighters from both sides, a police chief told Al Jazeera.
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US military drone crashes in Kuwait, says country’s government | World news | The Guardian
A pilotless US military drone crashed in rural Kuwait on Sunday, causing no injuries, the small Gulf Arab state’s defence ministry said in a statement. The incident occurred in Bir Mutla, the ministry said, near the Ali Al Salem air base which hosts…
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On a recent Friday night, Tyler Knott Gregson, a blond, tattooed poet from Montana, took the stage at a Manhattan bookstore and beamed at the crowd that had come to celebrate his new haiku collection. “This is rad.
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It’s Humans Against A Big, Scary World In These Fantastic Paintings
There’s some images that just knock you back with their beauty. One such artist is Raphael Lacoste, who’s produced art for games and films alike. Here’s some fantastic images from his portfolio.
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The Football Team at the University of Missouri Tackles Systemic Racism – The Atlantic
On Friday night in Kansas City, a group of University of Missouri students approached the school’s president, Tim Wolfe, outside of a fundraiser at a performing arts center he had attended. They asked him to give his definition of systematic oppress…
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The world must pair efforts to stabilise climate change with programmes to eliminate poverty if vulnerable people are to be kept from falling back into hardship as rising temperatures wreak havoc on food security and livelihoods, a report has said.
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When a community loses an institution
Oscar Mayer was one of the largest private employers in Madison at that time, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 employees. If you went to East High School like I did, you either knew someone who worked at Oscar’s or you were related to som…
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Give Your Budget a Break With No Spend November
In case you haven’t been to a mall, retail store, or turned on a radio recently, it’s nearly that time when everyone on Earth wants your money. Take a break with No Spend November. Even if you start a little late.
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Monte Gennaro, Lazio, Italy [OC][3900×2613] : EarthPorn
Monte Gennaro, Lazio, Italy [OC][3900×2613] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/tRBvGLEYTA https://t.co/01uf5GZZ8s
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My best experience on Reddit yet. : AdviceAnimals
My best experience on Reddit yet. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/gbapr60e20 https://t.co/dOPuS0DcZv
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Why I can’t let my wife and daughter go anywhere together. : aww
Why I can’t let my wife and daughter go anywhere together. via /r/aww https://t.co/MQSfDrSSY6 https://t.co/2K5wO63zwf
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Dog Shrinking via /r/aww https://t.co/yU1kfA9ox8 https://t.co/yjmkuI5F2P
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Neymar double takes Barca top of the league – Al Jazeera English
A delightful flick and volley from Neymar allowed him to complete a double as Barcelona beat Villarreal 3-0 to go three points clear at the top of La Liga ahead of Real Madrid’s clash with Sevilla.
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After years of Star Wars not being cool anymore, fans should treasure the hell out of these remaining weeks before The Force Awakens finally determines whether or not it’s possible for these movies to be good again.
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Snapchat now gets over six billion views a day, up three times from this spring | The Verge
Snapchat has continuously added new features over the past year, and it looks like it is paying off. Snaps and videos in the app are now being viewed over six billion times a day.
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Brazil dams burst: ‘Hopes of finding survivors fading’ – BBC News
Hopes of finding survivors of mudslides and floods on Thursday in Brazil are fading, the governor of Minas Gerais state has said. Hundreds of rescue workers continue to search for 28 people who are missing feared dead.
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Meet The LucidCam, The Future Of Consumer VR | TechCrunch
I was at a meet and greet thrown by a prominent VC firm this week and it was quite enjoyable. There were friendly faces, conversations and a couple of folks huddled around a desk in the corner. Wait. That’s so not “social.
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Djokovic seals record Paris Masters title – Al Jazeera English
Novak Djokovic’s already brilliant season took on another dimension when the world number one became the first man to win six Masters titles in a calendar year by dismissing Andy Murray 6-2 6-4 in Paris.
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Everywhere you look these days you see something on how to be happy — how to manifest abundance, desires and success, find your bliss. A quick Google search will produce instantaneous remedies for the blues: the promise that it’s possible to find ha…
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Two Serbian embassy employees kidnapped in Libya – Al Jazeera English
Two Serbian embassy employees, a man and a woman, have been abducted in Libya’s northwestern coastal city of Sabratha while travelling in convoy to Tunisia, the government in Belgrade said.
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Soften Dried Fruit With a Bit of Hot Water (or Booze)
Dried fruit is supposed to be, well, dry, but I recently found some dried cranberries in my cupboard that redefined the genre. I was going to toss ‘em (they hurt my teeth!) but The Kitchn has convinced me not to; all they need is a little hot liquid.
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Cheeses are often best after their ‘best before’ date | Letters | World news | The Guardian
I write as a retired food technologist who spent many years working in the food industry. Joanna Blythman’s article (Food labels have passed their sell-by date, 5 November) is the first sensible article on this subject that I have ever seen in the m…
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Bring it on old man! via /r/gifs https://t.co/WCv9zO3OUz https://t.co/2fY2Of7rH3
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The Flatiron Building, New York, New York [1366×768] : CityPorn
The Flatiron Building, New York, New York [1366×768] via /r/CityPorn https://t.co/4hbzhf3xjR https://t.co/w4isSlKzgY
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Scotland’s Enchanted Forest [4272 x 2256] : BotanicalPorn
Scotland’s Enchanted Forest [4272 x 2256] via /r/BotanicalPorn https://t.co/xB3IAmznFh https://t.co/4kC8vRDiUN
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U2’s Larry Mullen Jr.: Streaming Services ‘Have to Pay Artists More’ | Rolling Stone
U2’s Larry Mullen Jr.: Streaming Services ‘Have to Pay Artists More’ “I think [the music industry] is broken. A lot of younger artists don’t get paid.
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Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett has said he wouldn’t want Greg Hardy as a team-mate after photos emerged of the domestic violence incident involving the Dallas Cowboys star and his ex-girlfriend.
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Louisiana Police Officers Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of 6-Year-Old | ThinkProgress
On Friday, the two deputy marshals responsible for the shooting death of autistic 6-year-old Jeremy David Mardis were charged with second degree murder and attempted second degree murder.
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A Cute Chinese Robot Has Set a New Walking Distance Record on a Single Charge | Motherboard
There’s something truly endearing about the rhythmic, lanky gait of Walker No. 1, a robot that looks like WALL-E’s gangly cousin and just made The Guinness Book of World Records for Longest Distance Covered By a Quadruped Robot. Xingzhe (Walker) No.…
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Skier causes avalanche via /r/gif https://t.co/g9RyLaDVN2 https://t.co/Ayq4eq0mnx
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I really do owe it to her. She saved my life. : AdviceAnimals
I really do owe it to her. She saved my life. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/MgMvxszCxJ https://t.co/x58JwiQYuA
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Left me with a wide grin on my face, oh well atleast i tried. – Meme on Imgur
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Started a new job at a warehouse this weekend and this is what I get to use. – Imgur
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To Save The Alien Universe, Fox Should Take A Leaf From Marvel’s Playbook
Last week, word broke that Neil Blomkamp’s Alien 5 was being put on hold due to ongoing work while Ridley Scott’s Prometheus 2 is being developed. That’s a shame, but if Fox looks at what Marvel’s been doing, they can probably have their cake and ea…
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A simple online playground to learn HTML & CSS with instant preview (for beginners) (codecast.me)submitted 14 minutes ago by loading…
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Modi’s Party in Election Defeat Shows Waning Power | Al Jazeera America
The party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suffered a heavy defeat on Sunday in an election in Bihar, India’s third most-populous state, signaling the waning power of a leader who until recently had an unrivaled reputation as a vote winner.
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Eighteen convicted killers have been executed in Missouri in the last two years, a pace that is expected to slow significantly with death sentences on the decline and many of the 28 remaining death row inmates still filing appeals.
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Boat out of Water [4288×3216] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/LYFOIXjYNz https://t.co/lf8d3COw0t
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He’s growing up too fast! : cats
He’s growing up too fast! via /r/cats https://t.co/0eWOie2t97 https://t.co/cPqgj9Nz5d
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Got a new phone case via /r/funny https://t.co/hTShEZkdez https://t.co/fQcLIjBSrc
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Escapement Powered Cradle – YouTube
Using an escapement inspired mechanism to power a cradle.http://mechanicallumber.com/
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If Aliens Really Did Build that Star’s ‘Megastructure’, They Aren’t Bragging | Motherboard
Remember that star that looked like it maybe—just maybe—supported alien megastructures? Well, the first in-depth studies of the system’s radio emissions were announced this week, and the results may be disappointing for the ET obsessed among us.
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Ben Carson condemns ‘political hit job’ amid questions over personal story | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson sought on Sunday to brush away growing questions about the accuracy of his autobiographical statements, implying it was not possible to be “100% accurate” when recalling events from recent history and…
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Did anyone notice when Ivanka appeared in the White House sketch, nobody clapped? Yeah that was really strange. I can’t remember ever watching another skit where a guest shows up and there’s absolutely no reaction.
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I am a person who went from rags to riches in his early 20s. I’m Allen Wong, and I come bearing gifts. AMA! (self.IAmA) Hi, I’m Allen Wong, founder of Rego Apps, Smartest Apps, and BriefKey.
I am a person who went from rags to riches in his early 20s. I’m Allen Wong, and I come bearing gifts. AMA! https://t.co/qZJsy6JrWy -
I Love Fall More Than You – YouTube
Everyone likes fall and Pumpkin Spice Lattes don’t even fucking taste like pumpkin.See more http://www.collegehumor.comLIKE us on: http://www.facebook.com/collegehumorFOLLOW us on: http://www.twitter.com/collegehumorFOLLOW us on: …
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Inflatables via /r/animegifs https://t.co/VDAIy526TD https://t.co/rBwz27vYi6
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Bright stars of Sagittarius and the center of our… – Just Space
Bright stars of Sagittarius and the center of our Milky Way… https://t.co/RihBJSgtBu https://t.co/nawVtvi64u
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I swear he knows when I’m taking a photo of him. : cats
I swear he knows when I’m taking a photo of him. via /r/cats https://t.co/gO6eLuiHsi https://t.co/iMxLeRStB9
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The first private moon landing set for 2017 : space
The first private moon landing set for 2017 via /r/space https://t.co/irzmeQAx04 https://t.co/GJgxsXOjfG
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Greg Constantine Nowhere People Book – The Atlantic
Greg Constantine has spent a decade photographing people with no papers, and no rights.
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Another Central Park Lake Shot [3264×1836] Taken With A Nexus 5 : EarthPorn
Another Central Park Lake Shot [3264×1836] Taken With A Nexus 5 via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/oCxnlB6DOc https://t.co/djZPKRMbtL
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Foggy Wedding in South Korea : FoggyPics
Foggy Wedding in South Korea via /r/FoggyPics https://t.co/GZbOwXQqeB https://t.co/9wzfuXu2Wk
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BBC Sport – Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Arsenal are hopeful Laurent Koscielny will recover from a hip problem in time to play, but right-back Hector Bellerin is still sidelined by a groin injury. Mikel Arteta faces a late fitness test on an ankle injury, while David Ospina could return fr…
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BBC Sport – Liverpool 1-2 Crystal Palace
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is expected to recall key players such as Philippe Coutinho, Martin Skrtel and Lucas, who were rested in midweek. Jordan Henderson is edging closer to a return from a foot injury but is still weeks away from being in c…
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Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi voted in historic poll – BBC News
Polls have closed in Myanmar’s general election – the first openly contested national election in 25 years after decades of military rule. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to win the most parliamentary seats, althou…
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Silicon Valley Represents An Entirely New Political Category | TechCrunch
Over the last decade, Silicon Valley has become an extraordinary force in politics, but they’ve bewildered the DC establishment with their shifting and bizarre loyalties.
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Best Space Stories of the Week – Nov. 8, 2015
The sun stripped away most of Mars’ atmosphere billions of years ago, “Star Trek” is coming back to TV and the search for signs of intelligent life around a strangely dimming star has come up empty so far. Here are Space.com’s top stories of the wee…
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Lufthansa strike hits ‘113,000 passengers’ – BBC News
German airline Lufthansa said 113,000 passengers would be hit by flight cancellations on Monday when cabin crew staff will strike over cost cuts. It said 929 flights from Frankfurt, Duesseldorf and Munich will be cancelled as the dispute moves into …
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Open windows + nice fall breeze = three happy cats via /r/cats https://t.co/cUeggaJLfG https://t.co/S3ODzCkKpc
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Quilotoa, Ecuador [5472 x 3648][OC] : EarthPorn
Quilotoa, Ecuador [5472 x 3648][OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/vX6qUMbKoZ https://t.co/Ovavk406FE
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Kate has the most beautiful, olive green eyes I’ve ever seen. : cats
Kate has the most beautiful, olive green eyes I’ve ever seen. via /r/cats https://t.co/sfapBVNuTE https://t.co/jIE977AbrQ
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MSNBC Forum Cold Open – SNL : television
MSNBC Forum Cold Open – SNL via /r/television https://t.co/0Qboto2IMo https://t.co/7hqNhSk2sf
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Best Space Photos of the Week – Nov. 7, 2015
Best Space Photos of the Week – Nov. 7, 2015 https://t.co/b8AG0Vav3w
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Rand Paul calls Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton both ‘neoconservatives’ | US news | The Guardian
Rand Paul has fired a surprise shot across Marco Rubio’s bows two days before the next Republican primary debate, calling the Republican rising star “a neoconservative”.
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“Hot Ticket,” which returns to some of the themes of modern dating introduced in Master Of None’s first episode, is the first installment of Master Of None that doesn’t seem so sure of itself.
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io9 Newsstand: Is It Cold In Here, Or Did You Just Suck My Soul Out?
This week’s stories are about daughters who don’t want to be like their mothers, mothers who want impossible things for their daughters, and trees that resent being thrown out in the cold and snow.
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So there is huge wind in my city and Russia 2018 became USA 2018 : pics
So there is huge wind in my city and Russia 2018 became USA 2018 via /r/pics https://t.co/ORtK0Nu6wu https://t.co/mDBQevv3of
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Black Mizzou Football Players Are Going on Strike Over Campus Racism | The Nation
On Saturday night, the black players on the University of Missouri’s football team—a team in the national title hunt just two years ago—went on strike against racism.
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‘The Great Dying’ May Not Have Been So Great | Motherboard
The end of the Permian geological period 252 million years ago is known colloquially as The Great Dying, as 96 percent of marine species and 70-75 percent of terrestrial species are estimated to have been killed off around that time.
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This Month in Luxury: billionaire doomsday bunkers | The Verge
Welcome to This Month in Luxury, presented by Micah Singleton, The Verge’s resident Luxury Director.
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‘A one-off in human history’: Stern’s warning on climate change battle | World news | The Guardian
Europe has to step up its effort to combat climate change and wake up to the urgency of the situation, the climate change expert Lord Stern has said before crunch UN talks in Paris later this month.
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Senators want to pay federal agencies to give up un-needed spectrum | Ars Technica
US senators on Friday unveiled legislation to shift spectrum from federal agencies to the mobile industry, which would provide more capacity for smartphones and other devices that rely on wireless Internet access.
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My girlfriend knit a hat for my doggy. : aww
My girlfriend knit a hat for my doggy. (i.imgur.com) Would definitely buy one!
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My R2 droid in front of Discovery, at the Udvar Hazy Air & Space Museum. : space
My R2 droid in front of Discovery, at the Udvar Hazy Air & Space Museum. via /r/space https://t.co/ko3GkS4Pem https://t.co/7O3AQFYYvR
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Racism exists both ways : AdviceAnimals
Racism exists both ways via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/hmkK6MDSA8 https://t.co/UGzpTmbX6q
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Central Park, NY [3264×1836] Taken with a Nexus 5 : EarthPorn
Central Park, NY [3264×1836] Taken with a Nexus 5 via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/n7TKiskNOC https://t.co/7cixZYjTYM
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I finally made it to my wife’s hometown! : funny
I finally made it to my wife’s hometown! via /r/funny https://t.co/1DcFhQEy50 https://t.co/p8y5ULD3Hr
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The Dark Past of Putin’s Media Chief – The Daily Beast
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan’s new book, Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, documents the rise of the Russian Internet—and state surveillance of it—from the closing years of the Soviet U…
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Bangladesh boy killings: Six sentenced to death – BBC News
Six men have been sentenced to death in Bangladesh for torturing and killing two 13-year-old boys in separate incidents earlier this year. Four were found guilty of beating Samiul Alam Rajon to death after they said he tried to steal a rickshaw. Six…
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“S.N. L.” Gets Trumped – The New Yorker
“He’s perfect!” Drunk Uncle, one of the commentator characters on “Saturday Night Live” ’s Weekend Update said of Donald Trump, who happened to be the host of the show last night. “He’s like a big old beautiful Monopoly man.
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Carson: Loss of Keystone Leaves U.S. With No Place to Store Grain – The New Yorker
Carson said that as President, he would seek additional places to store grain, such as “the hollowed-out heads on Mt. Rushmore.” Get news satire from The Borowitz Report delivered to your inbox.Get news satire from The Borowitz Report delivered to y…
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Ebola Is Still Affecting the Women and Girls of Sierra Leone | Broadly
Thirty-three year old Isatu recalls the day she ran away from an Ebola treatment center, an action that sparked a military manhunt across the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. Highly contagious, Isatu represented a walking public health nightmare. “…
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Ascending Tide: Updated College Football Playoff Predictions (Week 10) | FiveThirtyEight
Are you still riding the excitement from Saturday’s college football games? (After that crazy Arkansas 4th-and-25 lateral, how could you not be?) If so, then you probably can’t bear to wait until Tuesday to see how the College Football Playoff commi…
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I wish I was at home drinking milk : ledootgeneration
I wish I was at home drinking milk via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/leLfY4Bq4n https://t.co/tQwtgatIel
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Abandoned office building in Dresden, Germany [OC][3656×4486] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned office building in Dresden, Germany [OC][3656×4486] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/NFRvA32jFd https://t.co/uZfjllPHYU
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My Grandma, hitchiking somewhere in Austria (1949) : OldSchoolCool
My Grandma, hitchiking somewhere in Austria (1949) via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/fxWB0NQtmp https://t.co/dkz7NJhToZ
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The UK Will Police the Dark Web with a New Task Force | Motherboard
The dark web has established itself as an arena for criminals to sell drugs, peddle stolen data, or host and exchange child pornography.
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Palestinian Shot After Crashing Into a Bus Stop | Al Jazeera America
Since the start of October, at least nine Israelis have been killed in street attacks by Palestinians, in unrest sparked in part by agitation over stepped-up Jewish visits to a contested Jerusalem holy site and by deadlocked U.S.-backed peace-making…
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Current Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson has faced heightened media scrutiny in the past week as the accuracy of numerous stories from his 1990 book, Gifted Hands, are called into question — a scrutiny Carson attributes to the “secular…
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All this time I’ve been waiting for you… : TrollXChromosomes
All this time I’ve been waiting for you… via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/nsxH1oGbyV https://t.co/YcVjryIhZa
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When you have a baby but just got fallout 4 – Imgur
When you have a baby but just got fallout 4 https://t.co/GyO0VLjfro https://t.co/yyh4mQ98Vr
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Larry David Wins $5,000 for Calling Donald Trump a Racist | Rolling Stone
Larry David Wins $5,000 for Calling Donald Trump a Racist on ‘SNL’ “As a businessman, I can fully respect that,” Trump said
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John Lennon’s ‘Love Me Do’ Guitar Sells for Record $2.4 Million | Rolling Stone
John Lennon’s long-lost acoustic Gibson J-160E, used in the recording of the Beatles’ Please Please Me and With the Beatles LPs, shattered all estimates Saturday on the Julien’s Live auction block, as the instrument sold for $2.41 million, a record …
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Why zoos are purging themselves of peacocks – The Washington Post
CINCINNATI — One day in September, Gary Michael got in his car and drove 730 miles from Kentucky to Louisiana. He was not alone. His passengers were peacocks.
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Stories of Syrian Refugees: A Reading List : Longreads Blog
I am not a political scientist, an aid worker, nor a refugee. I don’t pretend to understand the intricacies of Syria’s politics or the motivations of ISIS completely. I read, share, and little by little, I learn.
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RIP Melissa Mathison, The Woman Who Gave Us E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
There are few films out there that have had as much an impact on the movie-going public as E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. On Wednesday, Melissa Mathison, who authored the screenplay passed away at the age of 65 due to complications from cancer.
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In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo (2)I have measured out my life with coffee (3) spoons. Macavity’s (1) a Mystery cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw For he’s the master criminal (2) who can defy the Law.
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Abandoned inn, Texas. [1658×2074][OC] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned inn, Texas. [1658×2074][OC] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/LYBrOwc6ag https://t.co/AJOqtl2v6q
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First blep I’ve caught him with, and he was just trying to relax. : Blep
First blep I’ve caught him with, and he was just trying to relax. via /r/Blep https://t.co/PYRralwGqS https://t.co/7I2X9M496M
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Chelsea’s Historically Awful Start | FiveThirtyEight
It’s the defending Premier League champion, but Chelsea’s campaign this season would make Scott Walker proud. The team’s nightmarish season continued Saturday, with a 1-0 loss to mid-table football club Stoke City.
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40,000 Years Ago, Our Ancestors Were Eating Rats the Size of Small Dogs | Motherboard
Rats have always played a lead role in the grand drama that is human civilization, although they’ve almost always tended to be cast as the villains—and not without reason.
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Inside Marco Rubio’s messy American Express statements – The Washington Post
Surging Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio sought to tamp down an escalating controversy Saturday, releasing previously secret records that detailed his use of a Florida Republican Party credit card for personal expenses.
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Lake Moraine – Banff National Park [5791×2591] : EarthPorn
Lake Moraine – Banff National Park [5791×2591] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Dcq5gfGTRr https://t.co/nYQyZu6erO
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Christmas Tree Cove, Leland MI [OC] [2807×1782] : waterporn
Christmas Tree Cove, Leland MI [OC] [2807×1782] via /r/waterporn https://t.co/6kXMwkEVGB https://t.co/yXrVqDZw3N
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Inside Gore Vidal’s Cliffside Palace of Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity – The Daily Beast
The painting had once hung above Gore Vidal’s bed at his home, La Rondinaia, in Ravello on Italy’s Amalfi coast. And later, the painting was the last thing Vidal would look at, at night, as he took an electronic chair-lift to the top of his staircas…
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November, 10th. R.I.P. Social lives. : gaming
November, 10th. R.I.P. Social lives. (imgur.com)
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Bihar election results challenge Modi’s BJP – BBC News
India’s most-talked about election this year has now delivered what many say is a historic verdict.
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Scooping it up via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/sN1nKTl59R https://t.co/wLyh5fNkEv
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Most Israelis support extrajudicial killings – Al Jazeera English
Some 53 percent of Israelis have expressed support for the extrajudicial killings of alleged Palestinian attackers on the spot even after their arrest and that they “no longer pose a threat”, according to a new poll.
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NASA has figured out how Mars was stripped clean of water – Quartz
What happened to Mars’ atmosphere? NASA thinks it knows. Around 3.7 to 4.2 billion years ago, the red planet’s atmosphere was the same size or bigger than the Earth’s, but today it’s about 100 times thinner than on our planet. The answer, it turns o…
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Kim Davis Loses In Court Again : news
Bigotry has deep pockets. As she’s already made clear, she is not bound to follow the laws of man. Which works for her, since a regular person might feel bad about stealing taxpayer’s money.
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Burundi violence: Rwanda President Kagame condemns killings – BBC News
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has condemned the upsurge in violence in neighbouring Burundi. “People are being killed every day, bodies are found on the streets… Leaders are spending time killing people”, he said.
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The top floor of Victoreen Instruments. Cleveland, OH [1024×683] : AbandonedPorn
The top floor of Victoreen Instruments. Cleveland, OH [1024×683] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/fX8e0nOTIo https://t.co/9K0wAWQNZo
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[Art] ‘Les Gourmets’ : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] ‘Les Gourmets’ via /r/monkslookingatbeer https://t.co/952m6Id7ST https://t.co/Rsolb7zb2x
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MRW someone positively replies to my comment but no +1. – GIF on Imgur
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets its first TV spot, features new footage | The Verge
The Force Awakens is back with another trailer. This time, Disney’s giving us a look at the film’s first TV spot. More importantly, this trailer isn’t just made up of clips we’ve seen before — the ad features shots and a voiceover we’ve never seen b…
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MRW I’m in line to see SPECTRE and someone asks who Roger Moore is – Imgur
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MRW I arrive in Europe during the refugee crisis – GIF on Imgur
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Do not let your little brother makes drink in the middle of the night or this could happen. – Imgur
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MRW someone positively replies to my comment but no +1. – GIF on Imgur
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My friend’s cat has a number 1 on its forehead. (i.imgur.com) If they didn’t name this cat Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen then they have failed.
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Rey Kicks Ass In The Latest TV Spot For The Force Awakens
Just days after we got a new international trailer loaded with new footage, a new TV spot for The Force Awakens showcases a whole bunch of new scenes that we haven’t seen before. This just keeps getting better and better.
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Benjamin Netayah comes to Washington – again – BBC News
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu makes his first trip back to Washington after a high-profile – and unsuccessful – bid to scupper the Iran deal. What should we expect?
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[Art] Let’s Raise The Bar, And Our Cups, To The Stars : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] Let’s Raise The Bar, And Our Cups, To The Stars via /r/monkslookingatbeer https://t.co/qXXyt0I5s3 https://t.co/uO0k4wuEq4
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Crater Lake National Park, Oregon [5324×2178] [OC] : EarthPorn
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon [5324×2178] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/KZPJIhwHDY https://t.co/fBflwZlSWT
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Gaming Software Showdown: Logitech Gaming vs. Razer Synapse
Logitech and Razer both have some pretty awesome gaming peripherals. Whether you’re playing games or getting real work done, they’re both great options. The software they use have some small, but important differences. Here’s how they stack up again…
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Keep your stinking business out of my government!
The purpose of a business is to concentrate wealth. This is true of General Motors and it’s equally true of little Sally’s lemonade stand. The business collects value from its customers, and returns to them a service that costs less than the value i…
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World number one Novak Djokovic secured his 10th title of the year with an emphatic victory over Britain’s Andy Murray at the Paris Masters final. The 6-2 6-4 victory, achieved in just over 90 minutes, also ensured the Serb claimed his fourth Paris …
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Your Data Blind Side | TechCrunch
You might be about to see companies like Facebook, Google and many others whose business models depend on using their customers’ data, scramble in the wake of a case currently in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Thomas Robins, a Virginia man, is all…
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Activists geolocate Russian soldiers on ground in Syria – Al Jazeera English
Russia’s military is taking an active role in ground operations in support of the Syrian army’s fight against the opposition, a report by a group of Russian activists has alleged.
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Mizzou’s Black Football Players Will Not Play Until School President Resigns | ThinkProgress
Following a series of racist incidents on campus, at least 32 members of the University of Missouri’s football team will not play until the school’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigns.
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UK’s National Crime Agency Is Using a 90s Law to Justify Its Hacking Operations | Motherboard
On Thursday, Motherboard reported that, for the first time, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has the technological capability to hack.
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Graph Isomorphism, You’ve Been Served | Motherboard
Complexity fans and algorithm researchers are excitedly whispering this week about what might be the “the theoretical computer science result of the decade,” in the words of MIT professor Scott Aaronson.
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Ninja baseball catch : interestingasfuck
Ninja baseball catch via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/HXouB4WmyP https://t.co/bjHTRayoqf
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Harlem, New York, 1987 : OldSchoolCool
Harlem, New York, 1987 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/9Z93K2vp27 https://t.co/IC6MzIwkBA
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“OK, I’m listening” via /r/aww https://t.co/d5ntbf7kcG https://t.co/8XwwOoBo3N
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Myanmar Vote Count Underway | Al Jazeera America
With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Myanmar’s historic general election that will test whether the military’s long-standing grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party expected…
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Behind the ‘scary maze prank’ that shocked the AIM generation
“This is a game of skill and patience,” begin the instructions for an old Flash game called The Maze. “Guide your dot with the mouse through the 4 stages of maze levels to get to the finish.” But before you press play, the screen offers two hints to…
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Sunday’s Best Deals: PS4 & Xbox One Bundles, Catan, Sleepwear, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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I had the same fight with my SO over pre-k ceremonies. I slept on the couch that night – Imgur
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My wife and I volunteered to refinish the 170 year old Douglas -fir floors at our church. – Imgur
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McDonald’s employee tricks a homeless man with a free sandwich only to throw water in his face. (youtube.com) Redditators mount up. and get this asshole fired.
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Donald Trump vetoed SNL sketches that ‘went a little bit too far’ | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump on Sunday said he vetoed a number of sketches ahead of his controversial but ultimately lacklustre appearance as host on Saturday Night Live, in order to preserve his poll ratings and because the show’s writers “went a little bit too fa…
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Donald Trump on ‘SNL’: 3 Sketches You Have to See | Rolling Stone
Saturday Night Live has a variety of metrics that help determine who hosts the show. In a perfect world, “the ability to be funny and mesh with the cast” should be number one, but let’s face it: That doesn’t always happen, even when someone as contr…
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Watch Donald Trump Dance to Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ in ‘SNL’ Spoof | Rolling Stone
Watch Donald Trump Dance to Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ in ‘SNL’ Spoof Mogul and Martin Short show off their moves in parody of viral music video
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Fakes, frauds and falsities that go viral – Al Jazeera English
The American playwright, Mark Twain, famously said a lie can travel half way around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
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Sunday’s Best Deals: PS4 & Xbox One Bundles, Catan, Sleepwear, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/gu6pmtX6lN https://t.co/PgLcR7KjoL
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Trolls, I have seen our future. It is great! : TrollXChromosomes
Trolls, I have seen our future. It is great! via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/TwdZkW6eiv https://t.co/ZWw0VUP8XC
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Abandoned cat Nelson looks like Bond villain Blofeld but can’t find a home : cats
Abandoned cat Nelson looks like Bond villain Blofeld but can’t find a home via /r/cats https://t.co/jiW32Bbm1P https://t.co/vYD3kTVxtW
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Showering with your mom. : funny
Showering with your mom. via /r/funny https://t.co/kqQS98ehUi https://t.co/EfF3ePtDBJ
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With as many as 120 warheads, Pakistan could in a decade become the world’s third-ranked nuclear power, behind the United States and Russia, but ahead of China, France and Britain.
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“The subject is touchy”—2Dark is a game where even the children aren’t safe | Ars Technica
Horror can be distilled into two pivotal questions: “What are we afraid of?” and “Who are we afraid for?” The upcoming stealth-horror game 2Dark, developed by Gloomywood, unites both concerns in a single answer. Children.
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How Space Cadet pinball won the Windows desktop
By early 1994, the hype surrounding Microsoft’s newest operating system had become inescapable. It would usher in a new era of ease and simplicity, while also being robust and powerful. Bill Gates promised that, after years in development, it would …
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Review: With Delirium, Ellie Goulding leaves folk and EDM for pop superstardom | The Verge
The British singer’s new album is gleaming and ruthlessly catchy — but is it her? You have Ellie Goulding to thank for one of this year’s transcendent pop musical moments, the kind that’s destined for prime spots in year-end mashups and a decade of …
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BBC Sport – Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester City
Aston Villa’s Micah Richards returns after suspension, while Ashley Westwood should be available despite suffering a head injury at Tottenham.
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India’s Bihar removes ruling party in key state poll – Al Jazeera English
It is quite rare that a state or regional election attracts so much attention. State elections happen all year round in India.
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Moeen Ali returned to form as England beat Hong Kong by 169 runs in their warm-up match in Abu Dhabi before the one-day series against Pakistan. Eoin Morgan’s team batted first and set their associate opponents a tough target of 342-8.
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The top of Molas Pass, CO, mid summer. [OC] 4160×3120 : EarthPorn
The top of Molas Pass, CO, mid summer. [OC] 4160×3120 via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/72DHWU1BBJ https://t.co/kEu5ospLz7
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The hunt for a $1 billion apple
The best apple you’ve never had is out there. Somewhere. It’s not the tough and tangy Granny Smith. It’s not the Honeycrisp, the de rigueur dessert apple of the 21st century. And it’s definitely not that rubbery Red Delicious, loitering year-round i…
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PLUTO, MISS. — TO move from Lower Manhattan to rural Mississippi is probably the most extreme culture shock available in this country. To do it as an Englishman adds an extra twist.
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Missouri Football Players Boycott | Al Jazeera America
University of Missouri football players announced that they will not participate in team activities until the university president is removed from office.
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Tapeworms That Morph Into Human Cancers Are a Dark Twist on Parasitism | Motherboard
No matter how beneficial they might be given the right circumstances, tapeworms are creepy as fuck. Here we have a parasitic organism whose entire face consists of a hooked mouth, which it uses to attach to the intestinal wall (or sometimes much wor…
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MyFreeCams Cam Girl Site Security Gets Even Worse | Motherboard
Earlier this week, Motherboard revealed that popular cam girl site MyFreeCams.com is making its models’ accounts easy to hack by having truly terrible password security.
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Hillary Clinton calls for marijuana reclassification as less dangerous drug | US news | The Guardian
The two leading Democratic primary candidates disagreed over changes to marijuana laws on Saturday, as they campaigned in South Carolina.
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Vladimir Putin to attend Paris climate summit: France : environment
Vladimir Putin to attend Paris climate summit: France via /r/environment https://t.co/UwEM4JCC0B https://t.co/USGJy87DYZ
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SiteJabber Shows You Reviews of Web Retailers Before You Buy
Chrome: Everyone shops at Amazon, but there are thousands of other retailers around the web that would love your business. The trouble is knowing whether they’re legit or you’re wasting your money.
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Bangs at Birmingham silent fireworks display ‘upset children’ – BBC News
Parents who went to a silent fireworks display at Birmingham Botanical Gardens have claimed loud bangs frightened their children. But parents sent messages to the attraction’s Twitter account claiming the noise left children distressed.
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The Science of Baby Talk [Video] – Scientific American
In recent years neuroscientists have begun to get a picture of what is happening in a baby’s brain during the process of learning language that takes the child from a gurgling newborn to a wonderfully engaging youngster.
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The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Perhaps most sane readers would give up on a series as flawed as The Mortal Instruments, but my obsessive compulsive finish-every-series-you-start-disorder forced me to continue. Hence, this is not just a review of City of Heavenly Fire but the whol…
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Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine review – immigrants, veterans and bullies | Books | The Guardian
If I had to describe Adrian Tomine to someone who didn’t know his work, I would call him – I can’t possibly conjure any higher praise – the Alice Munro of comics. But not even this quite does it.
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Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen dies at 68 | Film | The Guardian
Gunnar Hansen, who played the villain Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, has died aged 68 from pancreatic cancer. The Icelandic-born actor and writer died at his home in Maine, where he had lived for 40 years, on Saturday, his agent Mike E…
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Jim Clark driving a F1 car around Monaco, 1967 : OldSchoolCool
Jim Clark driving a F1 car around Monaco, 1967 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/0CXTJbG6LC https://t.co/T1eXpeodYA
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Night Light [OC]4744×3163 : ExposurePorn
Night Light [OC]4744×3163 via /r/ExposurePorn https://t.co/Bw1oC8zUj2 https://t.co/NCinCirBii
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‘Long road to redemption’ for athletics – Al Jazeera English
World athletics president Sebastian Coe has stepped up his review aimed at cleaning up the sport’s battered reputation after the latest allegations of bribery, extortion and doping cover-ups left athletics facing a long road to redemption.
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Myanmar election: Drone footage shows long queues of voters – BBC News
Polls have closed in Myanmar’s general election, the first openly-contested national election in 25 years after decades of military rule. Voting was brisk, with many people emerging smiling from polling stations.
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Nice jump! If he didn’t touch anybody on his way, everythings fine. Otherwise it would be a foul. Nah he lands on dudes foot.
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Watch Saturday Night Live: MSNBC Forum Cold Open Online | Hulu
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Has someone been fighting with her brother? : cats
Has someone been fighting with her brother? via /r/cats https://t.co/LDanZ6PKRJ https://t.co/MFCpcde4M1
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Navy submarine missile launch creates bright light and confusion | US news | The Guardian
The US navy fired an unarmed missile from a submarine off the coast of southern California on Saturday, creating a bright light that streaked across the state and was visible as far away as Nevada and Arizona.
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BBC Sport – Torino 0-1 Inter Milan
Roberto Mancini’s Inter Milan moved back to the top of Serie A with a narrow win away to Torino on Sunday. France international Geoffrey Kondogbia hit the winner, the 22-year-old’s first league goal since joining from Monaco in the summer.
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Corbyn accuses defence chief of political bias in nuclear row – BBC News
The chief of the defence staff has expressed concern about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s assertion that he would never press the nuclear button. General Sir Nicholas Houghton told the BBC’s Andrew Marr it would “completely undermine” Britain’s nucle…
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Watch Saturday Night Live: Rock Band | Hulu
Watch Saturday Night Live: Rock Band | Hulu https://t.co/TQEQQ4Drib
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Ready to make home-brewed beer your next big project? Here’s a helpful guide | Grist
I can’t remember exactly what was going through my head when I called Bitter and Esters, a home brew shop in Brooklyn, asking about their starter beer-making kit, but it went something along the lines of this: “I like beer, so it should be a breeze …
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Sex, Lies and Houston https://t.co/lcYfz3evNb
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How vienetta is made. I could watch this all day : oddlysatisfying
How vienetta is made. I could watch this all day via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/jmQXNskGqQ https://t.co/AE0BUrV1GL
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Marooned. Pulau Tioman, Malaysia [4608×3072][OC] : EarthPorn
Marooned. Pulau Tioman, Malaysia [4608×3072][OC] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Z0ZTcopg0S https://t.co/iHBazytwWt
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Doctor Barbie Sends Girls a Bad Message – The Atlantic
The last few years have been tough ones for Barbie. Sales have declined significantly, dropping 16 percent in 2014 alone. In an effort to jumpstart the sagging brand, Mattel has launched a new marketing campaign called, “Imagine the Possibilities.
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Sia Returns to ‘SNL’ With Powerful ‘This Is Acting’ Performances | Rolling Stone
Sia Returns to ‘SNL’ With Powerful ‘This Is Acting’ Performances Singer performs “Alive” and “Bird Set Free” in her second ‘SNL’ musical guest spot of 2015
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Not in actuality. In the popular imagination. In public debate. That’s how gay men were once portrayed — not just as sexual deviants but as sexual prowlers, sexual predators, their eyes lecherously trained on the young, the vulnerable, the recruitab…
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New Film Highlights Deficit Of LGBT Characters In Science Fiction | ThinkProgress
As a genre, science fiction often stretches the imagination as to what life could be like, but incidentally, life for LGBT people is rarely addressed. One filmmaker is seeking to change that, and his newly released short film Credence is already cha…
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Royal Loft Suite on Quantum of the Seas New York (3200 x 1680) : RoomPorn
Royal Loft Suite on Quantum of the Seas New York (3200 x 1680) via /r/RoomPorn https://t.co/q7dkJ4CFes https://t.co/KSihryOe1L
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Hank doesn’t take well to being ignored… : cats
Hank doesn’t take well to being ignored… via /r/cats https://t.co/2qnbR9GpZ6 https://t.co/euvSwVSkM2
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FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client : technology
FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client via /r/technology https://t.co/qhzXMIK8W8 https://t.co/6vgi4hM0Xx
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Coastlines review – accessible and poignant | Books | The Guardian
It is often said that Britain is a maritime nation but, writes Patrick Barkham in his new biography of the British shore, we might be more accurately described as “a coastal nation, happiest when looking seaward”.
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Gunnar Hansen, Texas Chain Saw Massacre villain, dies aged 68 – BBC News
Gunnar Hansen, the actor who played terrifying villain Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died. The Icelandic-born actor, 68, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Maine, US, his agent said.
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BBC Sport – MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo beats Valentino Rossi to win third title
Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP title for the third time with victory in the final race of the season in Valencia. Seven-time MotoGP champion Rossi, 36, would have won his first title since 2009 with a second-place finish.
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I’m not the only person who has strong memories of 12 Angry Men. The film had a major impact on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as detailed in this New York Times article.
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The Verge Review of Animals: the dog | The Verge
In the cold analysis of some evolutionary psychologists, dogs are little more than “social parasites,” exploiting our parental instincts to ensure we continually feed and house the little mooches.
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Readers Respond to “Mystery of the Hidden Cosmos” – Scientific American
Could a potential explanation of dark matter not involve new particles? Could, say, gravity decrease with distance slightly less than described in Newton’s laws, noticeable only on a scale of light-years? And have scientists tried to quantify this p…
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Tor Wars: The Signal Awakens | TechCrunch
The long arm of the law wants ever more eyes, if you’ll pardon the gruesome metaphor. The UK government recently unveiled an attempt to legalize “draconian state surveillance powers.” US voices keep calling for a mythical “secure golden key” for gov…
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Donald J. Trump, making his first appearance on “Saturday Night Live” as a presidential candidate, was satirized by two well-coiffed doppelgängers, who attempted (admirably) to outboast him in matching red ties. Mr.
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PsBattle: Lord of the Birds : photoshopbattles
Too obvious? Damn I was hoping for the opening scene of the Warriors. That’s awesome though
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This little cutie is Tillman! : cats
This little cutie is Tillman! via /r/cats https://t.co/WhlSGVo0qC https://t.co/EWj1FoZ0pg
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She does this every day when I try to leave : cats
She does this every day when I try to leave via /r/cats https://t.co/g9tGlsuyUe https://t.co/yANp8rfYjL
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MRW no one tells me the class is canceled : reactiongifs
MRW no one tells me the class is canceled via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/vPvuwtZUg1 https://t.co/UFPJKCEyur
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New front-runner Ben Carson faces closer scrutiny of his life story – The Washington Post
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson — now making the transition from living legend to scrutinized candidate — faced new questions Friday about the way he tells his powerful life story. For years, Carson has said he was offered a “full schol…
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Police union threatens “surprise” for Quentin Tarantino / Boing Boing
The executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police has upped the ante in the ongoing feud with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who recently said some deaths in police custody were murders. The FOP, based in Washington, D.C., consists of more than …
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Money saving pet hacks.. : cats
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Marooned. Pulau Tioman, Malaysia [4608×3072][OC] : waterporn
Marooned. Pulau Tioman, Malaysia [4608×3072][OC] via /r/waterporn https://t.co/jXruxfaKUz https://t.co/GJQHmWM6EB
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Sonos Play:5 review: The best-sounding wireless speaker system we’ve ever used | Ars Technica
Specs at a glance: Sonos Play:5 Size 204mm length, 364mm width, 154mm depth Weight 6.3kg Amplifier Six Class-D digital amplifiers Speakers Three long-throw mid-woofers, three tweeters Connectivity 802.11b/g 2.
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BBC Sport – Kit Symons: Fulham sack manager after Birmingham defeat
Fulham have sacked manager Kit Symons after Saturday’s 5-2 home defeat by Birmingham. Symons, 44, leaves the club 12th in the Championship table.
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Russia plane crash: Memorial service in St Petersburg – BBC News
A memorial service has been held in St Petersburg for the 224 victims of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai desert last weekend. Moscow announced on Friday that it was suspending all flights to Egypt – having initially dismissed s…
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Panic as cyclone hits Yemen week after deadly weather – Al Jazeera English
Cyclone Megh, which formed in the Arabian Sea earlier in the week, has hit Yemen’s Socotra Island as it travels west towards the mainland.
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At the Maumee River in Perrysburg, Ohio this morning [5312×2988][oc] : EarthPorn
At the Maumee River in Perrysburg, Ohio this morning [5312×2988][oc] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/OR9fvnecu1 https://t.co/YrGjzSpVSx
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I’ve never been shamed in public like that before – Meme on Imgur
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He didn’t have a car, so he built his own from scratch : gifs
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Newly released credit card statements from the years when Senator Marco Rubio was a young Florida legislator on the fast track to leadership show a pattern of falling behind on payments while mingling personal and political spending,
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STARTING around the turn of the millennium, the United States experienced the most alarming change in mortality rates since the AIDS epidemic.
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I’ve never been shamed in public like that before – Meme on Imgur
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He didn’t have a car, so he built his own from scratch – GIF on Imgur
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The eBay for Breakups: Sell Everything Left From An Ex – The Atlantic
A bad breakup can turn treasures into trash. But now before the brokenhearted dump mementos and their ex’s stuff on the sidewalk, they can consider getting paid for it.
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Apple employees lose bag-search lawsuit / Boing Boing
Apple store workers’ class-action lawsuit, complaining of “demeaning” security searches conducted off the clock, was defeated this weekend by the company. The decision, from U.S.
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What Marketing Says About the Success of Bernie Sanders’s Campaign – The Atlantic
Like many new and different brands, Bernie Sanders has a message that resonates with supporters. But just as big brand managers make the mistake of dismissing new competition, the media has discounted Sanders’s chances of nomination.
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Donald Trump Turns Saturday Night Live to His Advantage – The Atlantic
To protest Donald Trump’s appearance on Saturday Night Live this week, the group DeportRacism.com offered $5,000—in cash—to anyone on set or in the audience who would disrupt Trump in his hosting role. And who would do that, specifically, by calling…
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Kevin Barry: ‘I want to go as wild as I can within my stories’ | Books | The Guardian
Kevin Barry’s first novel, City of Bohane, won the Impac Dublin literary award. He is also the author of two short story collections. His new novel, Beatlebone, has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize.
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OnePlus X, meet the iPhone 5S | The Verge
The first thing you might notice about the OnePlus X is not its reasonable $249 price tag, but that it looks like someone took bits and pieces of trademark Android phone design and grafted it to an oversized iPhone 5 (or 5S).
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10,000 wax cylinders digititzed and free to download / Boing Boing
The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, st…
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California students re-create forest blazes in university’s fire lab | US news | The Guardian
The doors clang shut, casting the laboratory into gloom, and the scientists don goggles, yellow helmets and flame-resistant jackets. Two crouch behind computers, readying measurements. Another picks up a blowtorch. The rest stand back.
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Yazidis long for home as Sinjar operation stalls – Al Jazeera English
Sinjar, Iraq – As political bickering stalls operations to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, displaced Yazidis fear it could still be a long time before they are able to return home.
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The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers / Boing Boing
Pagefair is an ad-blocking circumvention tool that publishers can use to track readers who’ve taken technological countermeasures to protect their privacy. The company has sold its service to many publishers — including the Economist — by deployin…
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Achoo! Solar Sneeze Could Light Up Earth’s Atmosphere (Video)
Just in time for the flu season, it looks like the Earth is going to catch a bit of the sun’s sneeze, following a solar eruption yesterday (Nov. 4).
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Europe in Czech [1200×1142] : MapPorn
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French PM: ‘No Renault-Nissan Merger’ – BBC News
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the government did not want carmakers Renault and Nissan to merge. At the moment the companies own large shareholdings in each other and co-operate closely.
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News story rewrites itself depending on where you are / Boing Boing
The lede and various details in The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares, an article at the New York Times, are rewritten automatically based upon the reader’s location. It’s not overly clever.
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On 1 September, police lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, 52, radioed in to Fox Lake headquarters to say he was pursuing three suspicious individuals on foot.
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Good morning! Hey look, it’s the first front page post actually written on the new DK 5 platform.
Love Everyone Often 11/09/2015
My grandfather had a miniature set of all of Shakespeare’s plays. It’s 111 years old. – Imgur tags: Pocket brainiacs imgur: the most awesome i news newsblur opinion stories storytelling She kissed me back? – GIF on Imgur tags: Pocket brainiacs imgur: the most awesome i news newsblur opinion stories…
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