-
On top of Jockeys Cap. Woronora, NSW, Australia : natureporn
On top of Jockeys Cap. Woronora, NSW, Australia via /r/natureporn https://t.co/ecG2fje8Wj https://t.co/Nh5t5sXEfl
-
The Moons of Pluto are Like Spinning Tops : space
The Moons of Pluto are Like Spinning Tops via /r/space https://t.co/YZUBjiMM93 https://t.co/z8Q8WOXEqj
-
Costa Rica in worlds top 5 most ecologically sustainable countries via /r/environment https://t.co/k9qs43Pcop https://t.co/a9cm97qU65
-
Egyptian rights journalist Hossam Bahgat freed – BBC News
Egypt has freed a prominent investigative journalist whose arrest was condemned by Amnesty International and the United Nations. Hossam Bahgat’s release was confirmed by Gasser Abdel-Razek, the director of a rights groups founded by Mr Bahgat.
-
Netflix backs South Korean monster movie starring Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal | The Verge
Netflix and Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company have signed on to Okja, a monster movie from Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho. As Variety reports, Netflix is investing in the film, and Plan B is co-producing it.
-
Mariah Carey lends her voice to Lego Batman Movie | Film | The Guardian
Mariah Carey is the latest big name to join the voice cast of The Lego Batman Movie, the spin-off/crossover film that was put into production following the surprise success of The Lego Movie in 2014.
-
Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
-
Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
-
From Trees to Tigers, Case Shows Cost of Illegal Logging
Lumber Liquidators’ ads are hard to miss. They’re bright yellow and boast of the hardwood floor retailer’s low prices in loud black letters. And last month, the public found out where at least some of that cheap wood comes from.
-
View of the River Thames from the South Bank, London [OC] : Breathless
View of the River Thames from the South Bank, London [OC] via /r/Breathless https://t.co/n747FpSZZD https://t.co/caYMOYobR1
-
Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/jXkGZMCrQc https://t.co/fQVZh1NbVG
-
Onoko Waterfall at Glen Onoko Pennsylvania [OC] [1834×2746] : EarthPorn
Onoko Waterfall at Glen Onoko Pennsylvania [OC] [1834×2746] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/Gnog9Ox7fT https://t.co/iqEsVPDm0u
-
I got new window treatments! : cats
I got new window treatments! via /r/cats https://t.co/RhCnNcDW4G https://t.co/7AaMWVL89p
-
Pavilion of Absolute Perfection, Hong Kong[1452 x 2048][OC] : ArchitecturePorn
Pavilion of Absolute Perfection, Hong Kong[1452 x 2048][OC] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://t.co/cblYn3lgXG https://t.co/RPcBotkCVU
-
Recent attempts by some Republican presidential candidates to control the questions they are asked in televised debates has been likened to the behavior of Russian and Syrian presidents Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad by a senior adviser to rival…
-
Every year the Natural History Museum puts on an exhibition of the most wonderful wildlife photographs.
-
The journey to next month’s crunch UN summit on climate change has been long for many, but by time Dr Erlend Møster Knudsen reaches Paris, he will have travelled more than 3,000km.
-
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The casebook of victor Frankenstein is a phenomenon. Its creative author, known as Peter Ackroyd, has came up with an imaginative storyline which will persuade any reader to continue through this amazing story from beginning to end! This book of bri…
-
How to Sell Your Used Jewelry for Cash
When you need a little extra cash, digging through your jewelry box isn’t a bad place to start. But should you go to a gold buyer or hit up a pawn shop? Here’s how to get the best prices for your shiny goods.
-
You can now preorder the consumer version of the Samsung Gear VR | The Verge
The consumer version of Samsung’s Gear VR is now available to preorder from Best Buy for $99.99. The retailer is the first to offer the virtual reality headset, which is powered by Samsung’s latest smartphones and was developed in collaboration with…
-
Why Fox Business is the Perfect Venue for the Republican Debate | The New Republic
The most recent Republican primary debate, which aired two weeks ago on CNBC, was a well-choreographed pageant of pandering, evasion, and deceit.
-
Egypt’s military frees prominent journalist Bahgat – Al Jazeera English
Egypt’s military has freed prominent rights defender and investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat, a day after his detention sparked calls for his release from the United Nations.
-
Children of Hebron: ‘Everyone is afraid’ – Al Jazeera English
Hebron, occupied West Bank – At the start of the school day, students at the Tariq bin Ziyad school in Hebron mill around outside the white-brick building, talking to friends and playing football. The teenage students show no rush to head to class.
-
Russian anti-doping agency news briefing – BBC News
News briefing at the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) with executive director Nikita Kamaev, after the country’s athletics federation was criticised in a damning report.
Russian anti-doping agency news briefing https://t.co/kYhbuCKZiv -
Adobe Expands Ad Platform With New Marketplace For Buying And Selling Data | TechCrunch
Adobe is giving customers access to more data with the launch of a new product, the Audience Marketplace. The company already offers the similarly named Audience Manager, where customers can bring together audience data to use across Adobe’s marketi…
-
Gorilla responds to a little girl beating her chest. – GIF on Imgur
-
Onoko Waterfall at Glen Onoko Pennsylvania [OC] [1834×2746] : ExposurePorn
Onoko Waterfall at Glen Onoko Pennsylvania [OC] [1834×2746] via /r/ExposurePorn https://t.co/vfWDqtfBbw https://t.co/3AynQpXQOp
-
HTC drops One A9 price to $399 in store-wide sale | The Verge
If you missed HTC’s One A9 at the launch price of $399.99, head over to its online store right now. HTC is holding a storewide sale which knocks 20 percent off the current $499.99 price tag.
HTC drops One A9 price to $399 in store-wide sale https://t.co/wWv26OJwGt -
Mexico jails man accused of funding ‘Shorty’ Guzman’s escape – BBC News
A Mexican businessman accused of financing the jailbreak of Mexico’s most notorious drug lord has been sent to prison pending trial.Prosecutors think Manuel Trillo helped Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman break out of the Altiplano jail in July.Now Mr Trillo …
-
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Eyes Sweeping Powers | Al Jazeera America
Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi made it clear Tuesday that she was ready to defy attempts by the country’s military to clip her wings, after a historic election showed she described as “largely free” showed her party heading for a landsl…
-
In the unassuming town of Papatowai, New Zealand, Blair Somerville has amassed one of the world’s most idiosyncratic collections and, with it, a life that’s entirely his own.
-
What could a Cold War on global warming achieve? Ask the Pentagon | Grist
Decades of history show how much the U.S. could achieve through crash investments in green tech — and how unpredictably they could pay off. Move over cyberpunks. The cautiously optimistic are ready to try out their vision of the future.
-
Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi positions herself for victory – BBC News
With official results still being announced from counting centres across the country it might have seemed premature to declare victory. But Aung San Suu Kyi was brimming with confidence. This was a leader who strongly sensed her hour had come.
-
Does sustainability come from supermarkets? – Louise O Fresco – Aeon
The tomato is one of our lovelier foods; juicy icon of the good life.
-
Inside the forest in Pelion, Greece on a misty day [OC] [4096 x 2722] : EarthPorn
Inside the forest in Pelion, Greece on a misty day [OC] [4096 x 2722] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/c4Bj3hXpkA https://t.co/LmlWgXNdK9
-
Gorilla responds to a little girl beating her chest. – GIF on Imgur
-
Beautiful Cat Couple via /r/cats https://t.co/MOG8hor2UE https://t.co/AHreDHDcKv
-
60% of Iceland’s population lives in the red area [960×680] : MapPorn
60% of Iceland’s population lives in the red area [960×680] via /r/MapPorn https://t.co/7M2y4NkVXw https://t.co/fG0KvEdocP
-
Seattle Voters Approve ‘Democracy Voucher’ Campaign-Finance System – The Atlantic
When people talk up the idea of the public financing of elections, they are usually referring to a system that goes something like this: Candidates must first raise money from individuals, and then the government will chip in matching funds or a pre…
-
Niger delta oil pipeline vandalism estimated to cost $14bn a year | Environment | The Guardian
Pipeline vandalism in the Niger delta costs the state and oil companies $14bn (£9.3bn) a year and devastated up to 52,000 hectares of land in 2014, according to new estimates by a leading Nigerian research and development group.
Niger delta oil pipeline vandalism estimated to cost $14bn a year https://t.co/MTqixu1fyY -
Space in Videos – 2015 – 11 – Once upon a time… Living with a comet
Rosetta tells us what she’s learned in her first year studying Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and Philae wakes up from hibernation.
-
Senegal’s President Sall condemns ‘excessive form of Islam’ – BBC News
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has called for a fight against the “excessive form” of Islam which has led to the growth of jihadi groups. Muslim clerics needed to be trained to promote “tolerant Islam”, he added.
Senegal’s President Sall condemns ‘excessive form of Islam’ https://t.co/icF7Nl1Y9d -
November 10, 1919: The American Legion Has Its First National Convention | The Nation
Founded a few months earlier, the American Legion hosted its first national convention on this date in 1919. Nominally an organization for veterans of the Great War, the Legion quickly morphed into a reactionary group that pressured politicians and …
November 10, 1919: The American Legion Has Its First National Convention https://t.co/kdEVsGQvG5 -
Why the Inspector Rebus novels will endure | Books | The Guardian
Around 10 years ago, I mocked the idea of any sane person wanting to read an ebook. I’ve been wary of making predictions ever since. All the same, I hope I’m on safe ground when I say that the Inspector Rebus novels are going to be of lasting intere…
Why the Inspector Rebus novels will endure https://t.co/BHBGpPy3kQ -
Modi Miles: Why is India PM Narendra Modi always flying? – BBC News
Modi Miles: Why is India PM Narendra Modi always flying? 10 November 2015 Last updated at 11:08 GMT Ahead of Narendra Modi’s visit to Britain, BBC Business editor Kamal Ahmed explores the Indian Prime Minister’s jet-set lifestyle – including why he …
-
Another Day, Another Hack: Hundreds of Thousands of Comcast Passwords | Motherboard
Someone is selling an alleged list of 590,000 Comcast customers’ logins and passwords for $1,000 on a dark web forum, as first reported by CSO Online.
Another Day, Another Hack: Hundreds of Thousands of Comcast Passwords https://t.co/oh4w9oMJ1j -
This well faced Walmart aisle : oddlysatisfying
This well faced Walmart aisle via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/WFknWT40Mk https://t.co/jrGL4l4c7t
-
View from Mt. Rigi, Switzerland – [OC] [5461×3641] : EarthPorn
View from Mt. Rigi, Switzerland – [OC] [5461×3641] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/GiJpefd0aO https://t.co/WBPGHIAjNG
-
Politicians and the Fascination With Hunting on Camera – The Atlantic
Just 6 percent of Americans went hunting in 2011, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And according to the 2014 General Social Survey, just 15 percent of adults live in households where they or their spouse were …
-
What We’re Following on Tuesday, November 10 – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Man arrested over Bloody Sunday – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
-
Pinterest And The Process Of Designing A Multi-Billion Dollar Startup | TechCrunch
Some startups recognize that design is an investment rather than a cost, and one that yields better results in the long run if incorporated into a business from inception.
-
Tencent revenue sees fastest growth in five quarters – BBC News
Revenue at Tencent, China’s biggest social network, has risen at its fastest pace for five quarters helped by a surge in advertising income. The online giant’s revenue jumped 34% from a year earlier to 26.6bn yuan ($4.2bn; £2.7bn) in the July to Sep…
-
Mizzou’s player power will scare university administrators across the US | Sport | The Guardian
Last week, Jonathan Butler, a black University of Missouri graduate student, started a hunger strike in an effort to bring attention to what he felt was the lackadaisical manner in which university administrators, in particular university president …
-
The Debate Is Over. This Is the Best GOP Candidate for UFO Disclosure | Mother Jones
During the period between his 18-years in Congress and his two terms as Ohio’s governor (2011-present), GOP presidential hopeful John Kasich hosted “From the Heartland,” a Fox News show where he discussed a variety of social and political topics wit…
The Debate Is Over. This Is the Best GOP Candidate for UFO Disclosure https://t.co/TMY0cPmTto -
Asda to shun Black Friday sales – BBC News
Asda has said it is stepping back from this year’s shopping discount day known as Black Friday. The supermarket says that, after two successful years, “shopper fatigue” has set in “around flash sales on big-ticket, non-essential items at Christmas”.
Asda to ‘step back’ from Black Friday https://t.co/FLTBsiR7ZQ -
Bluebox Now Offers Security Software For Consumer Facing Business Apps | TechCrunch
Bluebox Security, the security software developer providing protection for mobile business applications, is extending its product offering to include consumer-facing apps as well.
Bluebox Now Offers Security Software For Consumer Facing Business Apps https://t.co/4qVb87H2vG -
Tim Cook says UK plans to weaken encryption will ‘hurt good people’ | The Verge
Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned that UK plans to force companies to unlock encrypted communications would have “dire consequences” for both security and privacy.
Tim Cook says UK plans to weaken encryption will ‘hurt good people’ https://t.co/cxNspWRrWb -
Roy Harper criticises ‘delays’ after abuse charges dropped – BBC News
Musician Roy Harper has expressed anger at delays in the legal system after being cleared of sexual abuse allegations dating to the 1970s.
-
Bartolomeu with his seducing game : cats
Bartolomeu with his seducing game via /r/cats https://t.co/pkTHy7bKqz https://t.co/UyoxBRcHeq
-
Target locked……..engage : gifs
Target locked……..engage via /r/gifs https://t.co/aXXaZuk7xV https://t.co/IZSHDwvM6a
-
meow)))irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/k5vBze6WlF https://t.co/BVKHryEMAs https://t.co/ihGpnKWP5N
-
Lots of Love 🙂 : AnimalsBeingBros
Lots of Love 🙂 via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/mxNdwJz22x https://t.co/gcfsonyps5
-
meow)))irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/k5vBze6WlF https://t.co/AX7qVqRAWF
-
Kazbegi, Georgia. Image taken with my phone [3840×2160] : EarthPorn
Kazbegi, Georgia. Image taken with my phone [3840×2160] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/BC4IO7Qcq1 https://t.co/f1Z0jAI1G6
-
This sci-fi enthusiast wants to make “solarpunk” happen | Grist
As the oceans warm, what’s a coral to do? We talked to a scientist how we can save our reefs — for real.
-
Danny Boyle’s ‘grief’ over David Bowie project refusal – BBC News
Danny Boyle has spoken of his disappointment after David Bowie refused to let the director use his music for a film project. Boyle told the Radio Times the refusal left he and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce “in grief”.
Danny Boyle’s ‘grief’ over David Bowie project refusal https://t.co/zJkO1ngKVY -
George Bush Sr book denies Jeb was family’s first pick for president | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush, facing a potentially make-or-break debate in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, never accepted the widespread view that his family groomed him for the White House ahead of his brother, a new book claims.
George Bush Sr book denies Jeb was family’s first pick for president https://t.co/uTRksNjZSb -
Burundi’s refugee crisis – Al Jazeera English
Ahead of Myanmar’s historic election, we meet activists refusing to buckle under a campaign of harassment and arrest. As Brazil faces a rapid economic downturn, we travel to Rio de Janeiro to find out how everyday citizens are coping.
-
Will climate change wipe out the coral reefs? Watch an expert explain why there’s still hope | Grist
Coral reefs, you may have heard, are in trouble. Big trouble. Maybe you’ve seen the pictures: ghost-white corals, bleached by high ocean temperatures, entire reefs reduced to rubble.
-
Go Home, Pluto’s Moons, You’re Drunk | Motherboard
Most moons in our solar system are tidally locked to their respective planets, keeping one side facing the planet. But Pluto’s moon system, it turns out, isn’t interested in playing the synchronous rotation game.
-
Timeline: Nepal earthquakes – Al Jazeera English
Kite-balloons and spectrometers – how community activists use DIY technology to investigate environmental polluters. The story of a young Chinese woman who sells her time online to earn money by helping strangers with their errands.
-
Erdogan’s Turkey: An economic success story? – Al Jazeera English
In the last 13 years or so, there has been a success in terms of economic stability: Inflation went down [and] growth was less volatile and much more stable.
-
Bollywood actor Kher: ‘Sad’ to claim India is intolerant – BBC News
Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has said it is “sad” that some are saying India is an intolerant country. Speaking to the BBC’s Rico Hizon on Newsday, he said it was a problem the country had suffered for some time and “it is not starting now”.
-
Is US monetary policy Made in China? | Business | The Guardian
For much of the year, investors have been fixated on when the Federal Reserve will achieve “liftoff” – that is, when it will raise interest rates by 25 basis points, or 0.25%, as a first step toward normalising monetary conditions.
Is US monetary policy Made in China? https://t.co/4kONboL35X -
Will Fewer Police Make Our Communities Safer? – In These Times
It has been more than a year since the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by Officer Darren Wilson ignited weeks of protest in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
-
Why it’s time for the red fox to have some good PR | Children’s books | The Guardian
Foxes have been the baddies of children’s tales since the Ancient Greeks. This has made it easier to hunt and torment them – but how much of the myth is based in fact? What would the fox say if she told her own story?
-
BBC Sport – Pat Eddery: Eleven-time champion jockey dies aged 63
Eleven-time flat racing champion jockey Pat Eddery has died at the age of 63. The Ireland-born jockey, who was awarded an OBE in 2005, rode more than 4,500 winners in an illustrious career.
Pat Eddery: Eleven-time champion jockey dies aged 63 https://t.co/1URhErwyNl -
Save 88% on the world’s fastest VPN service: PureVPN / Boing Boing
A leaked Comcast memo discloses that the company’s consumer data caps have nothing to do with network congestion, contrary to its public claims.
-
This is what Netflix would have looked like in the 1950s | The Verge
“TV today from the world of tomorrow,” was the slogan used to advertise the Philco Predicta in the 1950s, but it’s only now that this retro-futuristic television set is truly able to keep up with modern viewing tastes.
This is what Netflix would have looked like in the 1950s https://t.co/3SHUobvOsQ -
Chad imposes state of emergency in Boko Haram-hit area – Al Jazeera English
Chad’s government has imposed a state of emergency in the flashpoint Lake Chad region saying it has become a gathering point for Boko Haram fighters. The area also straddles Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger and is frequently targeted by Boko Haram.
Chad imposes state of emergency in Boko Haram-hit area https://t.co/oqJOKWhsGo -
Dera Ismail Khan Division – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dera Ismail Khan Division was an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. Until the 1990s it also contained Bannu Division.
-
Trippy statue. via /r/gifs https://t.co/9R7m6wdo6U https://t.co/Oa22oJiCDB
-
BBC Sport – Laurent Vidal: French triathlete, fifth at 2012 Olympics, dies at 31
Laurent Vidal: French triathlete, fifth at 2012 Olympics, dies at 31 https://t.co/RKPd6bMvwa
French triathlete Laurent Vidal has died of a heart attack, aged 31. Vidal competed at two Olympics, finishing fifth at London 2012. -
Renewable energy made up half of world’s new power plants in 2014: IEA | Environment | The Guardian
Renewable energy made up half of world’s new power plants in 2014: IEA https://t.co/oq4dmhHpsb
Renewable energy accounted for almost half of all new power plants in 2014, representing a “clear sign that an energy transition is underway”, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). -
For my fellow student Imgurians. Or others, I am a post not a cop. – Imgur
-
Athletics doping: Russia ‘committed to anti-doping fight’ – BBC News
Russia’s sports ministry has said it is open to co-operating more closely with the World Anti-Doping Agency after it was implicated in a damning report. It said Wada’s work would help Russia “to perfect its anti-doping system” and “specialists” were…
Athletics doping: Russia ‘committed to anti-doping fight’ https://t.co/PSVj0aUj3g -
For my fellow student Imgurians. Or others, I am a post not a cop. – Imgur
-
For my fellow student Imgurians. Or others, I am a post not a cop. – Imgur
For my fellow student Imgurians. Or others, I am a post not a cop. https://t.co/NVnewEti9P https://t.co/pTFM4koXjY
-
David Cameron speech on EU – BBC News
The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, is making a speech in which he is expected to set out the case for reforming the European Union.
David Cameron speech on EU https://t.co/b8tRJSVHhD -
Modigliani nude painting sells for $170.4m in New York – BBC News
A painting by Italian artist Modigliani was sold at auction on Monday for $170.4m (£113,663), the second-highest price ever for a work sold at auction. Nu couche (Reclining Nude) was sold at Christie’s in New York to a private Chinese collector.
Modigliani nude painting sells for $170.4m in New York https://t.co/STzo5K4WPW -
Tag Heuer boss on new smartwatch: We cannot lose the wrist – BBC News
Tag Heuer’s chief executive has said his company “cannot lose the wrist” and this is why they have launched their first smartwatch. Jean-Clause Biver said the “next generation” wanted this kind of wearable technology.
-
Sam Burgess quit rugby union because “heart wasn’t in it” – BBC Sport
Sam Burgess quit rugby union because “heart wasn’t in it” https://t.co/blgLQfgqOu
-
He’s just unlucky I guess. : funny
He’s just unlucky I guess. via /r/funny https://t.co/kTIeRDqgd8 https://t.co/WBgBF6Uor8
-
Barack Obama’s first video on Facebook | US news | The Guardian
This video was posted on Facebook by Barack Obama. Speaking on the White House lawn, he talks about his hope for real conversations, where followers will hear directly from him, with some just-for-fun stuff too. He appeals to Americans to engage wit…
Barack Obama’s first video on Facebook https://t.co/HFwqw0K8r8 -
Man flies around the Statue of Liberty on a jetpack – video | World news | The Guardian
The maiden flight of the JB-9, said to be the world’s first personal jetpack. Developed by Australian entrepreneur David Mayman, the pack has been cleared for flight by the US Federal Aviation Administration and is powered by adapted jet engines.
Man flies around the Statue of Liberty on a jetpack – video https://t.co/c9BeKPl0Dk -
Former England centre Sam Burgess returned to rugby league because his “heart wasn’t in” rugby union and because he was also stung by criticism from ex-players. But Burgess said he had not been badly treated by England and refused to blame coach Stu…
-
Counting the cost of Indonesia’s forest fires – Al Jazeera English
If we’re talking about the impact of the fires, we’re really looking at billions of dollars of damage. More than 100,000 fires have engulfed Indonesia this year, destroying forests and farmland and spewing hazardous smoke into the atmosphere.
Counting the cost of Indonesia’s forest fires https://t.co/11slagQ35n -
Jane The Virgin has a reputation for barreling through plot, but “Chapter Twenty-Seven” is an even more eventful episode than usual for the series: Jane cuts romantic ties with Michael, Petra marries Milos, Michael loses his job, Alba gets closer to…
-
National Grid plays down fears of power crunch and blackouts | Business | The Guardian
National Grid plays down fears of power crunch and blackouts https://t.co/DwF1GVE2lW
The chief executive of National Grid said this winter’s energy capacity would be more stretched than last year but that he was confident of getting through without blackouts. -
Alan’s little morning blep : Blep
Alan’s little morning blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/kEGQTu0ony https://t.co/qCevuY0Il6
-
California SeaWorld bows to conservation pressure – BBC News
A world-famous animal theme park is planning to phase out its killer whale displays, following years of pressure from campaigners.SeaWorld has seen a drop in visitor numbers at its eleven facilities in the United States.
-
World Class Fencers Put On A Lightsaber Battle That’s Real As Hell – Digg
29 diggs Sports Movies You won’t find any CGI here — just two master swordsmen going head-to-head (with toys).
-
Bulls extend 76ers’ losing streak to 17 games – Al Jazeera English
Forward Nikola Mirotic scored 20 points and grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls beat Philadelphia 111-88, extending the 76ers’ losing streak to 17 games.
Bulls extend 76ers’ losing streak to 17 games https://t.co/Tjxa8NisL8 -
In search of the river monster | Life and style | The Guardian
At first light, we are sitting in a boat, engine cut out, waiting in the calm chill. A ripple suddenly materialises – something turning, fast, in the water below. “We’ve got a run,” says my guide, Mark Watson, seizing one of four rods protruding fro…
-
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When Samantha Reed, daughter of the local state senator, meets Jase Garrett, everything changes.
-
Rocket Internet’s Home24 Acquires Fashion For Home | TechCrunch
Home24, the Rocket Internet-founded online European furniture store, has acquired competitor Fashion For Home, another German company most comparable to the U.K.’s Made.com. Specific terms of the acquisition aren’t being disclosed, although I unders…
-
The UN’s International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, drafted in 1990, says migrant workers should be allowed the same benefits and guarantees (health and safety, overtime rates, holi…
-
Prince announces solo piano tour – BBC News
Rock star Prince is to tour Europe in less than a month, playing solo sets at the piano for the first time in his career. The tour is expected to kick-off in Austria on 21 November, with four dates in the UK, according to reports.
-
Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes… to my freshman ears, the names of these French theorists sounded like passwords to an occult world of strange and forbidding ideas. I started college in the mid-90s, when English departments gleeful…
-
This EP cover [2560×1440] : FractalPorn
This EP cover [2560×1440] via /r/FractalPorn https://t.co/MtKxv1ojJB https://t.co/5x1uWVH64g
-
It still feels like monday : cats
It still feels like monday via /r/cats https://t.co/4I2a8IfApP https://t.co/P04Aar6HQj
-
He really loves his bean bag… : cats
He really loves his bean bag… via /r/cats https://t.co/j6sbhW6owu https://t.co/oowOrddOfG
-
Surfer injured in suspected shark attack on NSW north coast | Environment | The Guardian
Surfer injured in suspected shark attack on NSW north coast https://t.co/Q9GSpVdDCl
The man, believed to be aged in his 20s, was bitten at Lighthouse Beach in East Ballina just before 6.20pm, police said. Related: There is deep unease about sharks in northern New South Wales. Here are some facts to keep in mind -
Black and No Longer Safe in America: Why Black Americans Are Looking Abroad For Respect https://t.co/mRd5Q6HmmA
In a country that his ancestors built, Darnell Walker feels estranged from his bequeathed home. This “space” is the United States of America—a country the disillusioned 33-year-old has a tenuous relationship with, at best. -
Lazy, but very happy kitty making frog sounds lol : cats
Lazy, but very happy kitty making frog sounds lol via /r/cats https://t.co/TdCuZlmGUT https://t.co/8o7WUkKhAT
-
Pluto may have two ice volcanoes near its south pole : space
Pluto may have two ice volcanoes near its south pole via /r/space https://t.co/pUf82KWcM1 https://t.co/wv5OaUdCGE
-
Skip to main content Children’s books A world of illustration The Little Black Fish and other stories: Iranian illustrated children’s books – in pictures David Almond introduces a gallery that opens doors into the stunning illustrated children’s boo…
The Little Black Fish and other stories: Iranian illustrated children’s books – in pictures https://t.co/GlDwlVxqDu -
The Buzz Around Niue – Al Jazeera English
The Buzz Around Niue https://t.co/7V5aN5Deml
They may be small, but the world needs bees. They pollinate one-third of the food we eat – fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and food for livestock. But recently, bee colonies around the world have been collapsing, with bees dying at alarming rates. -
EU criticises Turkey over human rights and democracy – BBC News
The European Commission has accused Turkey of significant failings on human rights and democracy. It also identifies significant shortcomings in the judiciary and new laws that run against EU standards.
EU criticises Turkey over human rights and democracy https://t.co/SUA42gmMr5 -
Modigliani nude painting reaches record price at auction – video | Art and design | The Guardian
A painting by Amedeo Modigliani has fetched $170.4 million (£112.7m) at an auction in New York, setting a world record for the artist. Reclining Nude was sold at Christie’s in New York on Monday night after a protracted bidding battle.
-
Best Buy’s Black Friday deals include discounted Apple gear and cheap 4K TVs | The Verge
We’ve still got a little over two weeks until the chaos of Black Friday, but Best Buy wants to get you salivating over your next big-box purchase already.
Best Buy’s Black Friday deals include discounted Apple gear and cheap 4K TVs https://t.co/ssAvyyqmwN -
Man arrested after double stabbing at RZA’s house | Music | The Guardian
New Jersey state police have made an arrest in the stabbings of two people that occurred during a party at the New Jersey home of Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA. Thomas Norman is charged with aggravated assault and weapons counts. His bail was set at $120,…
-
It’s rare that a show can fire on all cylinders, all the time. The bad news is that with “Josh and I Are Good People!,” Crazy Ex-Girlfriend didn’t. The good news is that, even when it’s not perfect, it’s still one of the funniest and most original t…
-
Rugby World Cup helps boost ITV revenues – BBC News
Broadcaster ITV has reported a 13% rise in revenues for the nine months to the end of September, helped by strong sales during the Rugby World Cup. Total revenues for the period stood at £2bn against £1.4bn a year earlier.
-
Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Rubio, an Ex-Mentee https://t.co/asSM0r8Jtp
-
The Terrorists Are Winning : pics
The Terrorists Are Winning via /r/pics https://t.co/zB13jbJufR https://t.co/yAFfg8F2re
-
I have found this to be very ture : AdviceAnimals
I have found this to be very ture via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/pXvJIvm3VS https://t.co/JoeunApNyr
-
HMB While I skate on fire : holdmybeer
HMB While I skate on fire via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/oeyBhO19rI https://t.co/2DuQ33Gokm
-
The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush’s White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.
-
EU budget: Auditors urge reform of spending – BBC News
Independent auditors say the EU needs a “wholly new approach” to investment and spending, in a report on the bloc’s 2014 budget. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) gave the budget a clean bill of health overall, but found that 4.4% was mis-spent -…
-
Author David Mitchell has let loose the latest salvo in the perennial “literary vs genre” war by saying that those who dismiss fantasy and science fiction are committing a “bizarre act of self-mutilation”. Mitchell is one of the handful of authors w…
-
Cézanne’s Only Known Love Letter | Brain Pickings
At the age of forty-six, Cézanne fell hopelessly in love with a woman whose identity, like the recipient of Beethoven’s only known love letter, remains a mystery. In the grip of intense infatuation, he drafted a piercing letter on the back of a land…
-
Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria.
-
Late night blep via /r/Blep https://t.co/f5SM3zVkFf https://t.co/qR4j4FMiHr
-
Half of Surveyed Old Train Bridges Deteriorating | Al Jazeera America
Half of surveyed oil train bridges are deteriorating, report says https://t.co/wO375TgnSH
Determining whether the problems found by three environmental groups pose a threat to public safety is almost impossible, however, because the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rarely inspects the nation’s estimated 100,000 rail bridges, includi… -
Need to do some research first : cats
Need to do some research first via /r/cats https://t.co/9mGQaSEHGR https://t.co/fkCBmZl2px https://t.co/S5SActPF1u
-
Need to do some research first via /r/cats https://t.co/9mGQaSEHGR https://t.co/fkCBmZl2px https://t.co/S5SActPF1u
-
Mit Event-Tracking in Analytics gezielter messen und auswerten : InternetIsBeautiful
Mit Event-Tracking in Analytics gezielter messen und auswerten via /r/InternetIsBeautiful https://t.co/vdMvN1jIjQ https://t.co/YOQLj5GyrN
-
National Grid to sell stake in gas unit – BBC News
UK power operator National Grid plans to sell a majority stake in its gas distribution business. The company said it wanted to “realise the value it has created in the networks” and would return the money to shareholders.
-
“Are you sure you set the timer on the camera? Ugh, hang on…” – GIF on Imgur
-
Fast-food Workers Strike Nationwide | Al Jazeera America
Low-wage service workers and supporters were set to rally in 500 U.S. cities on Tuesday to support the Fight For $15 campaign’s central demands of a $15 hourly wage and union recognition. Fast food workers affiliated with the campaign planned to wal…
Fast-food workers plan nationwide rallies with eye toward 2016 https://t.co/DaSyQFmRdB -
Autumn colour: a drone’s-eye view of maples at the National Arboretum | Environment | The Guardian
Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, possesses one of the finest tree collections in the world. But it is particularly impressive in autumn, when its maples are a riot of colour. Graeme Robertson took his cameras – and his drone – to capture them
-
no. via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/HOmQwLM3hF https://t.co/1ksjswyYgK
-
Will the Money Honey Take Down Donald Trump? – The Daily Beast
Just like their Fox News counterparts from the first GOP debate in August, Fox Business Network moderators Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto will not lie down and die for the eight Republican candidates on stage Tuesday night. Especially after their r…
-
‘Thermal anomalies found’ in Egypt pyramids – BBC News
‘Thermal anomalies found’ in Egypt pyramids https://t.co/o5GUp94Ys8
An international team of architects and scientists have observed “thermal anomalies” in the pyramids of Giza, Egyptian antiquities officials say. Thermal cameras detected higher temperatures in three adjacent stones at the bottom of the Great Pyrami… -
On Time : firstworldanarchists
On Time via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/wFunT7rzjs https://t.co/bxbXGDdHBm
-
Anyone else just LOVE online dating? : TrollXChromosomes
Anyone else just LOVE online dating? via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/Fjipeb2M1T https://t.co/w4RknKMI7G
-
Goodblock is an ad-blocker that also raises money for charity : InternetIsBeautiful
Goodblock is an ad-blocker that also raises money for charity via /r/InternetIsBeautiful https://t.co/zP1Cr2hYYC https://t.co/Kqyy6tsrku
-
Regina King Is So Happy She’s Crying – The Daily Beast
Right before Empire star Taraji P.
-
France proposes UN resolution to halt Burundi violence – Al Jazeera English
France presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council aimed at toughening the international response to an outbreak of violence in Burundi, but the foreign minister rejected the move and announced “the country was calm”.
France proposes UN resolution to halt Burundi violence https://t.co/19ugaboWmP -
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein review – mysteries remain | Books | The Guardian
Fans of Portlandia, the successful comedy of north-western American manners co-created by Carrie Brownstein, will have to wait.
-
The Halloween Costume Controversy at Yale’s Silliman College – The Atlantic
Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges. His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty. They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential …
-
Watch A Woodworker Build A Couch Desk From Start To Finish – Digg
46 diggs Design Art Matthias Wandel clearly must love his in-laws a lot if he’s willing to build them this very involved convertible desk.
-
This is the only thing that comes to mind when I hear about the fucking Starbucks cups – Imgur
-
People weren’t happy that our county didn’t legalize marijuana – Imgur
-
saw this at my local humane society, figured I’d share with you all – Imgur
-
This is the only thing that comes to mind when I hear about the fucking Starbucks cups – Imgur
-
MRW Browsing Imgur but have never played Fallout – GIF on Imgur
-
People weren’t happy that our county didn’t legalize marijuana – Imgur
-
Aung San Suu Kyi: 75% of seats will ‘probably’ be won by NLD – BBC News
Aung San Suu Kyi thinks her National League for Democracy party will “probably will get around 75%” of seats in the Myanmar parliament. She said around 67% was necessary for the NLD to rule on its own.
Aung San Suu Kyi: 75% of seats will ‘probably’ be won by NLD https://t.co/on2ezvT0C9 -
Poetry: shall I compare thee to Picasso’s paintings or an Instagram snapshot? | Books | The Guardian
As sure as you are reading this article, language is all around us. If every word spoken, read, texted, heard or written on a single day in Australia were a drop of water we would find ourselves in a pool deeper than the Mariana Trench.
-
Easyjet chief warns – global airport security must be tightened – BBC News
She is the chief executive of Easyjet who has spent five days battling to fly home tourists stranded at Sharm el-Sheikh airport. It is her first interview since the terror crisis left the travel plans of thousands in chaos.
-
Oh good grief, History is Hunting Hitler · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, November 10. All times are Eastern. Hunting Hitler (History, 10 p.m.
-
Ammersee in Bavaria, Germany. 2688×1550. : EarthPorn
Ammersee in Bavaria, Germany. 2688×1550. via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/PYUA6qszuU https://t.co/ZKEvX0ZnDh
-
meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/NaEemmT0qb https://t.co/8H6KOlAm2M
-
Me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/QRhRlYj5mf https://t.co/hYSYZvNH2P
-
drink milk to large fast : cats
drink milk to large fast via /r/cats https://t.co/dbu1Ghx3zJ https://t.co/jMbWpRS1zX
-
Magnificent jewels to be auction – BBC News
Some very rare coloured diamonds are going under the hammer at auction in Geneva later this week. Rival auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s, are offering pink, blue, and yellow diamonds to a market that gemstone traders say is booming.
-
Egypt’s concern over country’s tourism industry – BBC News
Egypt has launched its own inquiry into whether a bomb may have been placed on the Russian airliner that crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board. Meanwhile, the concern for the country’s tourism industry – which is crucial to Egypt – is th…
Egypt’s concern over country’s tourism industry https://t.co/Mvrlc0tdwa -
The Monsters Who Executed a Chicago Fourth-Grader – The Daily Beast
His uncle, Christopher Smith, says Tyshawn had already come home to his grandmother’s house and then taken his basketball into the alley, where there is a hoop over a garage. A pair of gunmen then appeared.
The Monsters Who Executed a Chicago Fourth-Grader https://t.co/s1Y3OqNoQB -
The EU has quietly dropped plans for stronger environmental inspections to tackle illegal trade in wildlife and toxic waste across Europe, the Guardian has learned.
EU drops proposed law to tackle illegal trade in wildlife and toxic waste https://t.co/Sm9PY3557P -
Lea Seydoux Seduces Hollywood – The Daily Beast
Two years after putting her Blue is the Warmest Color director on blast for the “horrible” nine-month ordeal that yielded her breakout performance and a historic Palme d’Or win, Léa Seydoux sounds relaxed.
Lea Seydoux Seduces Hollywood https://t.co/ukiYU5ziuG -
Nori Nori Rice Cracker is his name. Blepping is his game. : Blep
Nori Nori Rice Cracker is his name. Blepping is his game. via /r/Blep https://t.co/e5ebqGUTDQ https://t.co/IeejatMcx9
-
From by brief but wonderful time in Torres del Paine [6000 x 4000] : EarthPorn
From by brief but wonderful time in Torres del Paine [6000 x 4000] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/ubGc4uMoA7 https://t.co/OT4WMMogbo
-
Len Peralta writes, “Ken Plume, John Robinson and I have been releasing different celebrity readings of our book There’s A Zombie In My Treehouse just in time for Halloween. We’ve been releasing one track a day for the past week and a half up until …
-
Standoff Ends at Australian Detention Camp | Al Jazeera America
Most detainees cooperated with police negotiators at the detention center on the Australian territory of Christmas Island, but officials used “some force” against a core group of protesters who had built barricades and had threatened to use weapons,…
-
This Is Where You Find Chris Christie’s Heart – The Daily Beast
In any presidential primary, but particularly one starring Donald Trump, it’s rare to discuss matters of substance. It’s even rarer that such discussions could “drive the conversation,” in Washington-speak, or captivate the attention of millions of …
-
Mizzou’s Fight for Justice Started on the Football Field More Than 50 Years Ago – The Daily Beast
There, Jonathan Butler is enjoying his first meal since beginning a hunger strike that captured national headlines. The Missouri Tiger team will suit up for its first practice since staging a walkout supported by its coach.
-
How the GOP Rewards Stupid Candidates – The Daily Beast
It’s debate night again, which we all know means that we’re mostly going to be hearing about Ben Carson’s old relatives and professors, imaginary and otherwise, and their belt buckles and their $10 bills. And that’s fine, to a point.
-
Houston’s Anti-LGBT Campaign Was Led by Wingnut Who Would Evict All Gays – The Daily Beast
Last week’s repeal of Houston’s equal rights ordinance was the biggest setback for the LGBT equality movement in years.
-
Pills Kill More People Than Guns and Car Crashes – The Daily Beast
In a now-viral video, New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie made a heartfelt plea to Americans about our treatment of people with drug addiction. “We have to stop judging,” he said. “And start giving them the tools…
-
FOUND After 35 Years: CIA’s Fugitive Banker – The Daily Beast
It was one of the greatest disappearing acts of modern times. Amid a swirl of allegations and rumors that the Nugan Hand Bank was involved in arms smuggling, drug-running, and covert operations for the CIA, the institution’s American founder vanishe…
-
Herman Cain on Ben Carson: The Media Lies! – The Daily Beast
Earlier this fall, Herman Cain had some advice for GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson. “Have a political SWAT team ready, because they are going to try and destroy you in ways you don’t expect,” Cain said in an interview after a Donald Tr…
-
A single television episode can exemplify the spirit of its time. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club’s survey of TV at its most distinctive.
-
Marco Rubio Is Hillary Clinton’s New Enemy No. 1 – The Daily Beast
Back in the days when Hillary was doing her slow crawl towards a presidential campaign, the general feeling among her advisors and allies was that once the Republican circus dust settled, their opponent would be Jeb Bush.
-
Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most. The Doors have, over decades, become more a product of mythology than of music, as the conversation surrounding them has often focused on just about anything but their musi…
-
The best Funny Animals from Ape to Zazu · A.V. To Z · The A.V. Club
A.V. To Z is an alphabetical survey of a specific realm in pop culture. While some animals can be funny, not all animals can be Funny Animals.
-
Monstress captivates with its fusion of Western comics and manga · Comics Panel · The A.V. Club
The arrival of Monstress #1 (Image) from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda emphasizes just how much Image Comics has been betting on more traditional fantasy and science fiction work in the past few years.
-
Here We Go Magic covers The Fixx · A.V. Undercover · The A.V. Club
Due to the strange situation that Undercover sometimes puts us in, The Fixx’s “One Thing Leads To Another” and next week’s song—anything by GWAR—were both technically picked last. (Short version: Somebody bailed on The Fixx song, so it had to be rea…
-
there’s always that one homie : trippinthroughtime
there’s always that one homie via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/HTzqvUbJ4d https://t.co/nzRAPFJ2WU
-
he was cuter at the bar : trippinthroughtime
he was cuter at the bar via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/V5RV5bUges https://t.co/s2wHXbDdXY
-
Wolf puppies are hunting for mice in the meadow / Boing Boing
Following up on their highly successful data-driven charticle about toddlers shooting people to death in America, the Washington Post publishes a new infographic about all the people being shot to death by dogs. So smooth, so attractive…it doesn’t g…
-
American Apparel: Paula Schneider’s ‘wild ride’ to revive the brand | Business | The Guardian
Dov Charney, the founder of American Apparel, was sacked from his role as CEO nearly a year ago, but he is still a looming presence at the fashion brand.
-
North Korea runs short of ingredients for winter kimchi stores | World news | The Guardian
North Korean households are facing a winter without their traditional supply of kimchi after a year in which droughts and then floods have affected vegetable harvests.
-
me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/MU9hDVN88v https://t.co/YulcQOTumS
-
Why Are So Many Veterans on Death Row? – The New Yorker
Why Are So Many Veterans on Death Row? https://t.co/OtNd9vQHp1
The death penalty has always provided a window into the darkest corners of American life. Every pathology that infects the nation as a whole—racism, most notably—also affects our decisions about whom to execute. -
Egypt to Ben Carson: no, the pyramids were not for storing grain | US news | The Guardian
Egypt to Ben Carson: no, the pyramids were not for storing grain https://t.co/wt82Q96jdQ
Egyptian antiquities officials have scoffed at claims by the Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson that Egypt’s ancient pyramids were not built as pharaonic tombs but used to store grain. -
Team, rollin’ out. via /r/aww https://t.co/DHcBxcNlFN https://t.co/Q9BWexIZ3V
-
I knew something about her tattoo looked familiar : funny
I knew something about her tattoo looked familiar via /r/funny https://t.co/Rj6T1g6T35 https://t.co/aLxlQPsb9w
-
Supergirl doesn’t want to be compared to Superman. I know that because Kara says so approximately 17 times in “Fight Or Flight.” In the rush to separate Kara from her famous cousin, Supergirl ends up spend a lot of time tonight talking about Superma…
-
When I mentioned two weeks ago that I loved seeing a tournament and that I loved seeing performers wrestler with a distinct purpose, I really, really didn’t want more of that under these circumstances.
-
Meet The Ticwatch, An Impressive Apple Watch Competitor From China | TechCrunch
Apple may be killing it in China with the iPhone, but the U.S. firm faces a pretty impressive young competitor in the smartwatch space on Chinese soil. It isn’t running Android, but there is a Google connection.
-
Arizona Snow via /r/woahdude https://t.co/yvrBCykA8k https://t.co/KzDHyJ73WC
-
My grandfather giving me my first taste of bourbon in 1984. : pics
My grandfather giving me my first taste of bourbon in 1984. via /r/pics https://t.co/lElWwibFUn https://t.co/t6sFUGKclt
-
I’m never losing my goddamn Apple TV remote again : funny
I’m never losing my goddamn Apple TV remote again via /r/funny https://t.co/Glm9DWEmAA https://t.co/gJ6OrBmiky
-
The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah digs up some footage that proves the media was just as tough, if not tougher, on President Barack Obama than they are being on Ben Carson.
-
The woods are calling | Environment | The Guardian
Soft black clouds chase each other across the face of the white moon. I climb over the stile and walk along one edge of a field that backs on to the wood.
The woods are calling https://t.co/A1vno4Tmns -
My grandfather holding my mother and her siblings in 1972 : OldSchoolCool
When I see photos like this, particularly older ones of children and their parents having fun, it makes me remember that there are people who really do have solid family structures and fun rituals and inside jokes and take vacations to the beach tog…
My grandfather holding my mother and her siblings in 1972 https://t.co/5vIqCzei7m -
APOD: 2015 November 9 – Assembly of The International Space Station
Explanation: It is the largest and most sophisticated object ever built off the Earth. It has taken numerous spaceflights and over a decade to construct.
-
my sentiments on starbucks : AdviceAnimals
my sentiments on starbucks via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/EOps9jG5v9 https://t.co/VeuAOfCC8Z
-
Train Station Image, Sri Lanka – National Geographic Photo of the Day
-
Australian police quell riot at detention camp – Al Jazeera English
Australian police have retaken control of an offshore detention camp holding asylum seekers after clashing with prisoners protesting the death of a Kurdish refugee who attempted to escape.
-
Viatrix on the nip via /r/cats https://t.co/6KUsqQQ3Ft https://t.co/9ouR8FVumB
-
Denville, New Jersey. Taken on my cell phone [5312×2988] : EarthPorn
Denville, New Jersey. Taken on my cell phone [5312×2988] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/K3peUQedAS https://t.co/mNdNcBTRIE
-
Bob Ross stationed in Alaska during the 60’s before the afro. : OldSchoolCool
Bob Ross stationed in Alaska during the 60’s before the afro. via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/wuNPLPiGVb https://t.co/EysLKnlbzN
-
China Cracks Down On Internet Music Services | TechCrunch
China is turning the keen gaze of its beady censorship eye to the world of online music as part of its latest crackdown on the Internet.
-
If you wondered how the show could possibly follow-up “The Battle Royale,” with something more entertaining and endearing beyond “Wander goofily tries to facilitate the marriage between his two foes as Hater courts Dominator”–if you worried about th…
-
Myanmar polls ‘not free but fair’ – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
-
Maps show how sea-level rise could swallow global icons | Grist
Peabody Energy violated “New York laws prohibiting false or misleading claims,” the state’s attorney general found.
-
Fast circuit maker wins Dyson award – BBC News
The laptop-sized Voltera V-One uses different inks to turn circuit board designs into working prototypes. It won the prize because of its great potential for speeding up the hardware design process.
Fast circuit maker wins Dyson award https://t.co/pyvn07o6ih -
Turn of the tide for Republicans: archive, 10 November 1966 | US news | The Guardian
New York, November 9.The off-year election has not produced despair in the reigning house of Johnson, but it has aroused the Republicans from their long and feckless stupor by giving them three new assets.
-
There’s a Monster on the flight : aww
There’s a Monster on the flight via /r/aww https://t.co/AmfG0v83qY https://t.co/ywgcctGMDz
-
My hotel understands my needs. : funny
My hotel understands my needs. via /r/funny https://t.co/H20chvjjp2 https://t.co/FqbwhYblHN
-
Young Elvis 1956 : OldSchoolCool
Young Elvis 1956 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/64gcekeL1E https://t.co/veGNZbiVnn
-
Zach Miller’s late touchdown lifts Chicago Bears over San Diego Chargers | Sport | The Guardian
Zach Miller made a one-handed grab of a 25-yard touchdown pass from Jay Cutler with 3:19 to go, and the Chicago Bears beat the San Diego Chargers 22-19 on Monday night.
-
Myanmar’s opposition moves towards big election victory – Al Jazeera English
Yangon, Myanmar – Vote counting continued on Tuesday with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party predicting a landslide victory after decades of often brutal military rule.
Myanmar’s opposition moves towards big election victory https://t.co/0FJ01rEW0x -
Sony is finally killing Betamax | The Verge
Of all Sony’s failed proprietary formats, Betamax has to be the most iconic — the videotape format’s eventual vanquishment by VHS set the stage for countless media wars down the subsequent decades. It is probably news to you, then, that Beta cassett…
-
[OC] Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State [5184×3456] : EarthPorn
[OC] Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State [5184×3456] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/DDnmRxQmoE https://t.co/IqXUJq66D1
-
Louisiana Can Try Angola 3 Inmate a 3rd Time | Al Jazeera America
Louisiana can try Angola 3 inmate a 3rd time https://t.co/hVU713mWRo
Louisiana can keep “Angola Three” inmate Albert Woodfox in jail and continue its plans to try him a third time in the 1972 killing of a prison guard, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rev… -
me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/3VJiTx6DdC https://t.co/fBnLLNGzfN
-
Who’s a good boy? https://t.co/oAXz8BCPxA https://t.co/bYQH6o9hOE
-
Syria refugees: ‘We live between two fires’ – BBC News
Of the nearly one million Syrian refugees who have fled to Jordan, most do not live in camps, but in the country’s towns and cities. For them, life is becoming increasingly hard.
-
There’s a scene three quarters of the way through “The Gift Of The Magi” that sums up Fargo’s peculiar strengths and weaknesses. Lou is in a men’s room with presidential candidate Ronald Reagan (Bruce Campbell), and the two men get to talking about …
-
Christmas Island: Migrant centre ‘under control’ – BBC News
A stand-off between detainees and police at a migrant detention centre on Christmas Island has ended, Australian immigration authorities have said.The immigration department said that all areas of the facility were now under “full and effective cont…
-
Are you sure you set the timer on the camera? (i.imgur.com) Mr. Sleepy ‘I don’t give a paw for your frikkin picture’?
-
My wife wanted to make sure that someone took a picture of the expression on our faces when our daughter was born today. So I took one. (imgur.com) Aw. See, this is kind of like when she says “No! I don’t want anything for our anniversary. Just a ca…
-
Space Whale, Gouache, 9×12″ by me (diremonster) : ImaginaryMindscapes
Space Whale, Gouache, 9×12″ by me (diremonster) via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes https://t.co/1fs40NXZE4 https://t.co/TcHd7YGmat
-
My sister’s cat befriends mice instead of killing them. : aww
My sister’s cat befriends mice instead of killing them. via /r/aww https://t.co/A1Iv5mEkHH https://t.co/XpOWK368yj
-
Are you sure you set the timer on the camera? : aww
Are you sure you set the timer on the camera? https://t.co/P1ziYtiPC5
-
Discovery of dead crocodile leads to calls for gillnets to be banned – video https://t.co/gphchGqCYJ
A boat tour operator discovers the body of a crocodile which drowned while stuck in a gillnet in the Kimberley river in the Northern Territory. -
Makeup level: 10000 via /r/gifs https://t.co/MYkTmReiO5 https://t.co/UUU6UPsbo2
-
*drops mic* via /r/funny https://t.co/wx9bhyUQUG https://t.co/1k9eWiQHIR
-
Shall I fluff that pillow for you? : cats
Shall I fluff that pillow for you? via /r/cats https://t.co/6V53nFsD9Z https://t.co/dgDU113Sg6
-
White Cat via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/TOc8CZEMta https://t.co/mz1Uavvm6q
-
Open thread for night owls: Trans-Pacific Partnership no friend to the free internet
After years of secrecy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement has finally been released to the public.
-
China decries Shenyang pollution called ‘worst ever’ by activists – BBC News
Chinese state media and netizens have decried high pollution levels in the northeast city of Shenyang, which activists have said could be the “worst ever” air quality seen in the country.
-
Asia Pacific stock markets continue slide as Chinese inflation weakens | Business | The Guardian
Stock markets in Asia Pacific have continued to slide as the spectre of higher borrowing costs in the United States and further signs of weakness in China prompted investors to trim their exposure to riskier assets.
-
NBC picks up new series from the producers behind Undateable · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite giving off the impression that it hates Undateable and wants everyone involved to suffer by putting on two live performances every week for a whole TV season, it seems like NBC actually likes the people who work behind-the-scenes on the show.
-
It still feels like monday… : cats
It still feels like monday… via /r/cats https://t.co/7dsSwxwAWJ https://t.co/f5vPxi4KA7
-
Court again blocks Obama’s plan to protect undocumented migrants | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama’s executive action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation has suffered a legal setback with an appeal to the supreme court now the administration’s only option.
-
The Dark Net drug market that survived Ukraine’s civil war
The drugs were wrapped in Ziploc bags, covered in duct tape, and hidden below a balcony right near a crowded sidewalk in Kiev, Ukraine. The package was left there by a dealer known online as Brooklyn Flea Shop.
-
One of my favorite gifs – GIF on Imgur
One of my favorite gifs https://t.co/ILZ0nyaSeY https://t.co/Bwc3fkrrQq
-
Amazon picks up Drive director’s new movie The Neon Demon | The Verge
Amazon has acquired the rights to The Neon Demon, the next movie from Drive and Only God Forgives director Nicolas Winding Refn, Variety reports. Refn describes The Neon Demon as “a horror film about vicious beauty,” telling the story of a budding m…
-
Universal Health Care on Colorado 2016 Ballot | Al Jazeera America
Supporters of universal health care have gathered enough signatures to put on next year’s ballot a plan to make Colorado the first state to opt out of the federal health law and replace it with taxpayer-funded coverage for all.
-
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli is going to have a very long night.
-
This is the only thing that comes to mind when I hear about the fucking Starbucks cups : funny
This is the only thing that comes to mind when I hear about the fucking Starbucks cups (imgur.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…
-
James Bond and the ‘Spectre’ of a tired formula
Director Sam Mendes returns for his second consecutive outing shepherding a Bond movie, after the moody and grimly stylish outing of Skyfall, which was aided by the visually lush cinematography of Roger Deakins.
James Bond and the ‘Spectre’ of a tired formula https://t.co/OiN19Op69l -
Massacre dat like button fam : trippinthroughtime
Massacre dat like button fam via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/SumXRQWQlw https://t.co/FuoEXNvhvh
-
Why You Should Worry If You Can’t Smell Peanut Butter | MUNCHIES
And now for the world’s most unlikely scientific discovery: Researchers have found that they can diagnose early Alzheimer’s disease with nothing more than a tablespoon of peanut butter and a ruler.
-
This subs reaction to every Travolta post : reactiongifs
This subs reaction to every Travolta post via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/qJQAUdW6vS https://t.co/Euj9ps6pMG
-
This is Bruce. He’s crazy sometimes. : cats
This is Bruce. He’s crazy sometimes. via /r/cats https://t.co/nnq82lnktF https://t.co/X63hHFg7DK
-
A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Whale dad via /r/funny https://t.co/WWDXRNzbvU https://t.co/y8MHXNKxwe
-
When the federal government announced in September that it had abruptly halted a large blood pressure study because its results were so compelling, doctors were left in frustrating limbo.
-
Donald J. Trump hosted “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend and gave interviews to at least four national television networks on Sunday. The result: an opportunity to reach millions of potential voters, without spending a dime.
-
new book by dr.spook : ledootgeneration
new book by dr.spook via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/TnODWZMyB8 https://t.co/H1F9og9qmL
-
saw this at my local humane society, figured I’d share with you all : pics
saw this at my local humane society, figured I’d share with you all via /r/pics https://t.co/iucIQbH5Mk https://t.co/831DBjaTdE
-
How To Tell Good Studies From Bad? Bet On Them | FiveThirtyEight
A few years ago, psychologist Brian Nosek and two graduate students, Jeffrey Spies and Matt Motyl, conducted an experiment that measured people’s ability to differentiate shades of gray across a gradient.
-
Change in sense of humour ‘a sign of impending dementia’ – BBC News
An increasingly warped sense of humour could be an early warning sign of impending dementia, say UK experts. The University College London study involved patients with frontotemporal dementia, with the results appearing in the Journal of Alzheimer’s…
-
When mom makes Pizza Rolls : reactiongifs
When mom makes Pizza Rolls via /r/reactiongifs https://t.co/qRGYuHb6CW https://t.co/IcSVZwq7bL
-
British MP’s Star Wars Shoe Meltdown: How Angela Rayner Became ‘Shoebacca’ – The Daily Beast
The shoes are, it must be said, extremely groovy. A standing R2-D2 forms the heel, while the main body of the shoes is a luxuriant sweep of blue and florals.
-
Hooray for all of the clothes : TrollXChromosomes
Hooray for all of the clothes via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/IPisMi4gsB https://t.co/ddPg9RljWB
-
[Art] The Nose Knows : monkslookingatbeer
[Art] The Nose Knows via /r/monkslookingatbeer https://t.co/muD3lTYufQ https://t.co/1XvifW7A3t
-
A Modigliani Nude Sells For a Record $170.4 At Auction | Vanity Fair
That is the second most expensive piece of artwork ever sold at auction, according to The New York Times,. Christie’s, the auction house responsible for the sale, tweeted that it is also a world auction record for the artist.
-
I found a rainbow sour patch kid today! via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/OBPTnJCUhH https://t.co/cGRAzSeLvR
-
Creepy and demonic paper cutout GIFs of Bran Muir / Boing Boing
There’s even a dancing baby! It’s based on a mobile installation for hire that prompts your guests to turn themselves into loops that they can then drag around on a virtual stage. So glamorous.
-
Missouri university president quits over racial abuse row – BBC News
The president of the University of Missouri has resigned after students protested over what they saw as his indifference to racial abuse on campus. One student had been on hunger strike for several days, and the football team had said they would not…
Missouri university president quits over racial abuse row https://t.co/pBZRZmd4Ps -
Hey Mom, Hey Mom, Hey Mom, Hey M-ahhhhhhhh! : StartledCats
Hey Mom, Hey Mom, Hey Mom, Hey M-ahhhhhhhh! via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/lLMKNTnOxZ https://t.co/MF0XsnU98e
-
Computer chair catloaf. : Catloaf
Computer chair catloaf. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/35VtKWNuMJ https://t.co/Qu7Q6C1aNw https://t.co/WaD2YMVszw
-
Computer chair catloaf. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/35VtKWNuMJ https://t.co/Qu7Q6C1aNw https://t.co/WaD2YMVszw
-
Study: Dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP spill : environment
Study: Dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP spill via /r/environment https://t.co/Vgy6XaVpxS https://t.co/ufq8zcxdBB
-
Obama and Bibi Put Business Over Bad Blood in D.C. – The Daily Beast
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may put the best possible face on their relationship, but it’s the worst-kept secret in Washington that they don’t hold each other in high regard.
-
UN building [OC] [5184 x 3456] : ArchitecturePorn
UN building [OC] [5184 x 3456] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://t.co/tJ2r9zOJ4s https://t.co/AFOu0xLPQC
-
AMESBURY, England — About 6,300 years ago, a tree here toppled over. For the ancients in this part of southern England, it created a prime real estate opportunity — next to a spring and near attractive hunting grounds.
-
In a 2-to-1 decision, a federal appeals court has rejected President Obama’s directive to protect an estimated five million undocumented immigrants from deportation, challenging the president’s effort to take executive action on immigration policy i…
-
My after work welcome via /r/cats https://t.co/5Uc4RG7EzJ https://t.co/Dv9Nn0HoHA https://t.co/N6fRBaQpcP
-
Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, My after work welcome via /r/cats…
My after work welcome via /r/cats https://t.co/5Uc4RG7EzJ https://t.co/Dv9Nn0HoHA https://t.co/N6fRBaQpcP
-
Appeals Court Rules Against Obama Immigration Plan | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama’s plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally has suffered another setback in court. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S.
-
I’m not even sure I recognize the Gotham of the last two weeks. If you had told me about halfway through last season that Barbara and Nygma would be the focus of two of the second season’s best episodes, I would have said you were loopier than Carol…
-
The CW developing female sportscaster series with Olivia Munn · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, The CW is working with Olivia Munn on a series about a female sportscaster in the ‘70s.
-
MATANZAS, Cuba — Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said, all he wanted to do was “fight for liberty” — a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father’s tales of fighting as a rebel leader in Cuba i
-
Found this in my parents’ garage, covered in dust. : pics
Found this in my parents’ garage, covered in dust. via /r/pics https://t.co/18NmvQ1pXm https://t.co/w1Atc05jWJ
-
Appeals Court Rules Against Obama Immigration Plan – ABC News
President Barack Obama’s plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court. In a 2-1 ruling, the 5th U.S.
-
Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/CT94hSE1P7 https://t.co/kRK0xceCHl
-
I Helped Promote a Fake Fighting App – The Daily Beast
Rumblr describes itself as “Tinder for fighting.” You upload your profile picture, height, weight, location, and swipe until you fight that special someone to viciously pummel into the dirt behind the 7-11. Rumblr isn’t real.
-
The New Utopians | The New Republic
How will the world end? Take your pick among an array of near-future catastrophes: rising sea levels, overpopulation, mass extinction of species, nuclear proliferation, uncontainable viruses, not to mention more fanciful but alarmingly plausible sce…
-
U.S. Spies Root for an ISIS-Russia War – The Daily Beast
In the days following the crash of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268, which mounting evidence suggests was felled by an ISIS bomb, many U.S. intelligence and security officials weren’t panicking about ISIS unleashing a new campaign of attacks on civilian…
-
Steven Tyler Launches Janie’s Fund to Help Child Abuse Victims | Rolling Stone
Steven Tyler Launches Janie’s Fund to Help Child Abuse Victims “As a father and grandfather, I want to focus my energy on things that really matter and leave behind something else in this crazy world along with
-
le updoot via /r/ledootgeneration https://t.co/iSfFrGWLCn https://t.co/WmxfleBChT
-
75 ft waterfall along the Grand River in Ohio (OC) [1600X1200] : EarthPorn
75 ft waterfall along the Grand River in Ohio (OC) [1600X1200] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/xJukuWGYkx https://t.co/IxY0MYVogf
-
Potato Point, NSW, Australia [OC] [5080-3387] : EarthPorn
Potato Point, NSW, Australia [OC] [5080-3387] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/WiWXvfivUd https://t.co/CJlqWG5pVF
-
In pictures: Life in Prophet River – BBC News
Photographer Ed Gold has recently returned to Prophet River, his fourth visit since 2009, where he has been documenting the First Nation community of the Dunne-za (Beaver) people.
-
In 400 Days, Only Dane Cook and Superman Can Hear You Scream
Most people know that astronauts preparing to go on deep space missions undergo serious mental evaluations. That kind of long, dark disconnection and isolation is too much for some to handle—and being able to handle it, while doing your job, is a hu…
-
Meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/8jg4GReeze https://t.co/RVDXa2Vc1V
-
When you forget team attack is on : trippinthroughtime
When you forget team attack is on via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/v3BvodLfxq https://t.co/ZgHXqYvZmR
-
Me_irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/NiOfHpBkvX https://t.co/65NZYzH7CE
-
MRW I dont know where I parked my car after a night of heavy snow – GIF on Imgur
MRW I dont know where I parked my car after a night of heavy snow https://t.co/Q6yUqKeMXa https://t.co/WxPF7kVqqH
-
Swedish man killed in Sydney shopping trolley crash – BBC News
Police say the men, both 28, found the trolley and were riding it down a steep hill in the eastern suburb of Randwick just after midnight when they hit a car coming the other way. The man who survived had just arrived in Australia – he remains in ho…
-
Charlie Savage Book: Barack Obama, Lawyer-in-Chief – POLITICO Magazine
In June 2013, when a cascade of leaked top-secret documents showed the world that Barack Obama had entrenched the post-9/11 surveillance state bequeathed to him by George W. Bush, many observers were surprised.
-
This tree branch has a bunch of trees growing from it. : mildlyinteresting
This tree branch has a bunch of trees growing from it. via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/CStJ7z2YZQ https://t.co/6WR7v8MIcU
-
Unfortunately, I’m sure many of us on here do this : TrollXChromosomes
Unfortunately, I’m sure many of us on here do this via /r/TrollXChromosomes https://t.co/8QP7NdIel7 https://t.co/8uXoUIn26A
-
Peter Stormare and Ruby Rose join John Wick 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It looks like the cast of John Wick 2, the sequel to Keanu Reeves’ puppy vengeance movie, is coming together.
-
‘Angola Three’ prisoner Albert Woodfox stays behind bars after court order | US news | The Guardian
A federal appeals court says Louisiana can keep the “Angola Three” inmate Albert Woodfox in jail and continue plans to try him a third time for the 1972 murder of a prison guard.
-
Catloaf is growing nicely. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/cMxvZkomzv https://t.co/1tVKRyTAj0 https://t.co/YqdHOW9QBZ
-
MRW I dont know where I parked my car after a night of heavy snow – GIF on Imgur
-
Portugal Socialists threaten to topple new government – BBC News
Portugal’s parliament is expected to topple the country’s right-of-centre administration, led by Pedro Passos Coelho of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), on Tuesday – just a day after it put forward its programme for government.
-
Down Under by Reid Southen : ImaginaryLandscapes
Down Under by Reid Southen via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes https://t.co/14fKtCmSGt https://t.co/EIYxtSfb3c
-
I love boobs no matter what they are doing. : AdviceAnimals
I love boobs no matter what they are doing. via /r/AdviceAnimals https://t.co/PBBil2HzsW https://t.co/PY0153QyMV
-
Citizens United | The New Republic
For the 1,900 years between Tacitus’s Annals and Robert Graves’s I, Claudius, accounts of Roman history have most often focused on its emperors and conquerors, and above all on Julius Caesar, founder of a line of autocrats who took his name and the …
-
The bizarre science of concert hall sound design | Fusion
When Charles Garnier designed the Paris Opera in the 1870’s, he said that architecting the acoustics of a room was a “bizarre science.” Garnier compared the acoustician to an acrobat “who closes his eyes and clings to the ropes of an ascending ballo…
-
Meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/McIKgfeqNU https://t.co/fCULyEABaq
-
Why Indians abroad succumb to ‘Modimania’ – BBC News
“Of all the world leaders who have visited Britain, only Nelson Mandela and the Pope have addressed bigger public gatherings than Narendra Modi’s rally at Wembley,” boasts a spokeswoman for the UK Welcomes Modi organisation.
-
Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/vhEVgxzkNb Stories via @UNPeacekeeping
-
Catloaf is growing nicely. : Catloaf
Catloaf is growing nicely. via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/cMxvZkomzv https://t.co/1h8V9nLQvQ
-
30th Feral I’ve Caught and Had Fixed in Just Over Two Months : cats
30th Feral I’ve Caught and Had Fixed in Just Over Two Months via /r/cats https://t.co/8MeqjSzyMj https://t.co/7erx66UpgR
-
Australia migrants: Reinforcements flown to Christmas Island centre – BBC News
Police reinforcements have been sent to Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre to “restore order”, officials say, amid reports of a stand-off. In a statement the immigration department said a group of detainees continued to engage in “non-com…
-
Australia asylum seeker rules criticised at UN rights council – BBC News
Several countries have used a United Nations forum to criticise Australia’s asylum seeker policies. The US, Britain and others said Australia should stop turning back migrant boats and using offshore detention centres.
-
Saw this in NASA’s human centrifuge room : space
Saw this in NASA’s human centrifuge room via /r/space https://t.co/FPl0OyAkk5 https://t.co/H5SCx17xSZ
-
The Home Improvement TV Host’s Daily Bag
Being a TV host can be interesting work, which is exactly why Everyday Carry talked with HGTV host Anthony Carrino about the contents of his bag. Let’s take a look at what’s inside. Carrino’s bag is a S.Stein Design Demi Messenger Bag. Here’s what’s…
-
Republican debate: What Jeb could learn from George – BBC News
Jeb Bush’s campaign to become the third member of his family to be US president is not going well. The former Florida governor began the battle for the Republican nomination as the frontrunner, but now he’s languishing in the lower single digits in …
-
Gillibrand: ‘All parents want to spend time with their family,’ not just Paul Ryan
In the “100 percent agreed, but good luck with that one” category, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has some thoughts about Paul Ryan and family friendly policies:I think it’s great that he wants to spend time with his family. I think all parents want…
-
The Jacques Cat-ier of the front yard. : cats
The Jacques Cat-ier of the front yard. via /r/cats https://t.co/oc5RYeBx8B https://t.co/b3Qk9W2UAm
-
Blame it on Hollywood. So many people have seen science-fiction movies about robots taking over the world that they’ve started to believe it’s happening. Many workers are worried that automated systems will soon take over their jobs — and leave them…
-
Huge coal company misled investors on climate change risk, according to investigation | Grist
Instead of flooding where it’s not useful, California’s winter deluges could be banked in the ground, helping farmers and revitalizing streams. If winter means “wet” in your neck of the woods, Umbra has a few hints for making sure your dwelling stay…
-
SeaWorld to phase out killer whale display in San Diego – BBC News
The SeaWorld theme park in the US state of California is to phase out controversial public displays by killer whales, its chief executive has said. Joel Manby announced that 2017 will be the last year of the show in San Diego.
-
In an overheated art market where anything seems possible, a painting of an outstretched nude woman by the early 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170.4 million with fees, in a packed sales room at Christie’s on Monday night, the secon…
In an overheated art market where anything seems possible, a painting of an outstretched nude woman by the early 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani sold on Monday night for $170.4 million with fees, in a packed sales room at Christie’s. -
how to spot your dog is involved in a sex scandal : funny
how to spot your dog is involved in a sex scandal via /r/funny https://t.co/EyDNWQ7T9u https://t.co/22jCrvpl2G
-
How to ruin a pair of skis. : gif
How to ruin a pair of skis. via /r/gif https://t.co/LB5SfOH6cV https://t.co/diDjNt6rTg
-
A tourist boat operator has called for gillnet fishing to be banned in remote areas of the Kimberley region of Western Australia after a group of tourists found a saltwater crocodile which had drowned in a barramundi net in the Roe river, 475km nort…
-
Pick-pocketed in Ho Chi Minh City: A cautionary tale / Boing Boing
Although we hoped it wouldn’t happen, we knew that being pick-pocketed on our Trip Around the World was a very real possibility. We tried to always be careful, especially in crowded places, but we just weren’t careful enough in Ho Chi Minh City.
-
Tim Cook says Apple might make a medical device, but it won’t be the Apple Watch | The Verge
Tim Cook says that the Apple Watch won’t become a regulated medical device, but Apple might make another product that is.
-
The Scorpion Fly’s Stinger Is for Mating, Not Defense
It’s easy to see how the scorpion fly got its name. The giant “stinger” at the back curls up just like the tail of a scorpion. The good news is, that’s not a stinger. Still, I would avoid touching it, if I were you.
-
What Post-Katrina New Orleans Taught Us About the Urban Rat Population and Human Disease – CityLab
When natural disasters strike, the drastic environmental changes often bring public health concerns to the forefront of recovery efforts. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, officials and international agencies rushed to curb the cholera outbrea…
What Post-Katrina New Orleans Taught Us About the Urban Rat Population and Human Disease https://t.co/yvnJ9pU4et -
These Fictional Space Postcards May Make You Go Back to Snail Mail
Space is a pretty fascinating place, but what makes it even more exciting is that in fiction, it offers unlimited possibilities. Want to imagine a planet that’s only sand? Sure. A planet that’s all water? Okay. A planet populated by giant talking ro…
-
Andrew Ghrist, “The Celestial Hippocampus” : ImaginaryLandscapes
Andrew Ghrist, “The Celestial Hippocampus” via /r/ImaginaryLandscapes https://t.co/7P2UWXiM65 https://t.co/hgEBjpDUc5
-
Marie Spartali Stillman: The female artist time forgot – BBC News
Being an artist in Victorian England was not an occupation considered suitable for a woman – one reason why there were so few of them. But Marie Spartali Stillman was an exception.
Marie Spartali Stillman: The female artist time forgot https://t.co/IChaNYZox8 -
Backyard RAILGUN: Field Testing the 250 lb Electric Gun, 27,000 Joule (max) – YouTube
The newly built railgun is field tested at 20,500 joules. It is the first mobile, shoulder mounted railgun. *****DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME*****Notes: A railgun uses current to generate extreme magnetic fields that propel a conductive projectile to hig…
Backyard RAILGUN: Field Testing the 250 lb Electric Gun, 27,000 Joule (max) https://t.co/KWbA7prNql -
Bodies in Space: James Welling’s “Choreograph” – The New Yorker
The veteran photographer James Welling has long used architecture as a source of inspiration, beginning with images of Los Angeles, in the late seventies, and continuing through his pictures of Philip Johnson’s Glass House and the Maison de Verre, i…
-
Staples Black Friday deals include cheap Galaxy tablets, iPads, and laptops | The Verge
Staples will kick off its lineup of Black Friday deals beginning at 6AM; mercifully, this is one retailer that’s not opening its doors on Thanksgiving Day, though nothing’s stopping you from ordering products online Thursday.
Staples Black Friday deals include cheap Galaxy tablets, iPads, and laptops https://t.co/n5RdPRLDAN -
Facebook ‘fake army’ launched by artist – BBC News
A Dutch artist is compiling thousands of fake Facebook profiles, all named after soldiers who fought in the US revolution in the 18th century.Constant Dullaart’s ‘army’, staffed via two volunteers, will be dispatched to add likes to various posts ac…
Facebook ‘fake army’ launched by artist https://t.co/q1CyLhfICU -
Afghanistan’s first female conductor – BBC News
For many years, the Taliban banned music and the education of girls in Afghanistan – and although many women still find themselves restricted, one 17-year-old has become the country’s first female conductor. Kabul is a noisy place with helicopters, …
-
David Cameron: EU reform is ‘not an impossible task’ – BBC News
Reforming the UK’s membership of the EU will be a big, but not impossible, task, David Cameron is to say as he publishes his list of demands later. The prime minister will set out his aims in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, pavin…
-
North America’s first ever professional rugby union league is to be launched next year. The league, sanctioned by USA Rugby and World Rugby, will begin in April 2016 with six teams from the United States, before Canadian sides join in 2017.
-
Gay Ugandans regret fleeing to Kenya – BBC News
Hundreds of people in Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community have fled the country to escape homophobia and persecution. But many are now stuck in Kenya where the situation is not much better.
-
You Can Help Write The First Fully Crowdsourced Science Fiction Novel (Or Just Watch It Grow)
There have been a lot of brave and strange experiments in science fiction writing and publishing over the years—but one of the strangest is going on right now. CNet’s Eric Mack is “crowdsourcing” a science fiction novel—and you can be part of it.
-
Weeks before NSA bulk phone spying ends, US judge (kinda) reins in program | Ars Technica
Last week, we told you of a federal appeals court decision that said the National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata spying could continue because the program Edward Snowden revealed was approved by Congress. Today, we bring more judicial fol…
-
How long does it really take to reach a verdict for a crime? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of experts. We asked criminal defense attorneys and former DAs how long it takes to reach a verdict, and if the Law & Order timeline stands up to reality.
-
Migrant crisis: How one city in Germany is coping – BBC News
For many of the three-quarters of a million migrants who have reached Europe’s shores so far in 2015, Germany has been the intended destination. It expects at least 800,000 asylum applications by the end of this year alone and there are predictions …
-
Baked a double batch today… : cats
Baked a double batch today… via /r/cats https://t.co/Ve7xYTNays https://t.co/b9xlzRrrZQ
-
The first time I can remember seeing an Indian woman on my television in something other than the Bollywood movies I watched with my cousin was when I was 10-years-old and my family rented Bend It Like Beckham from Blockbuster.
-
Trial rescheduled for Black Lives Matter activists in Massachusetts
Trial for four Black Lives Matter activists in Worcester, Massachusetts (50 miles west of Boston), has been rescheduled for January 7, 2016. The proceedings were set to begin November 9, but the defense felt a larger pool was needed to ensure a fair…
-
BBC Sport – Gossip column: Perez, Hernandez, Carroll, Tello, Monk
Chelsea are considering a summer move for Napoli and Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain, putting the future of current Blues forward Diego Costa, also 27, in doubt. (Daily Mirror)
-
David Mitchell Breaks It Down About Book Snobbery: “The Book Doesn’t Care If It’s Science Fiction”
David Mitchell just won a World Fantasy Award for The Bone Clocks, and he’s one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction right now. But he’s usually classified as a literary author—and talking to the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, he …
-
Five chapters about horse are cut up. Animatou 2014 – Labo Special Mention Flatpack 2015 – WTF Award Animafest Zagreb 2014, Annecy 2014, Ottawa 2014, Countryside Animafest Cyprus 2014, Bradford 2014, Sommets du cinema d’animation 2014, Slamdance 201…
-
Federal Judge Doubles Down On Expiring Phone Record Collection Program | TechCrunch
Federal Judge Doubles Down On Expiring Phone Record Collection Program https://t.co/eyZ0YMuvD3
-
Make Fresh Whipped Cream with a Hand Blender
If you don’t have a stand mixer, a cocktail shaker, or food processor to make whipped cream, you can use a hand mixer or immersion blender to make a fresh batch quickly—without working your arm muscles, either.
-
Around the developed world, the age of coal is drawing to a close. Coal-fired power plants are closing down just about everywhere. They are being replaced by renewables and gas-fired plants, or rendered unnecessary by improved energy efficiency.
-
Spare tyre more dangerous than being generally overweight, study finds | Society | The Guardian
A spare tyre round the middle of an otherwise average-sized body is more dangerous than being fat all over, research has shown. The startling discovery was made by scientists who analysed data on 15,184 American men and women with an average age of …
-
The POTUS Gets A Facebook Page | TechCrunch
Despite the headlines you may see today, President Obama already has a verified Facebook page. It’s this one: facebook.com/barackobama/. Obama launched another Facebook page for himself today, this time the official POTUS Facebook page.
-
Federal Judge Doubles Down On Expiring Phone Record Collection Program | TechCrunch
A federal judge called President Obama to immediately end the bulk collection of Americans’ phone metadata, just weeks before the program is scheduled to end. The decision from Judge Richard Leon of the U.S.
-
Someone Built A Pizza Rat Robot To Scare The Heck Out Of New Yorkers – Digg
Funny Animals Cities Internet To be clear, rats are an everyday occurrence. The reason they’re gasping is because someone wasted a perfectly good slice of pizza.
Someone Built A Pizza Rat Robot To Scare The Heck Out Of New Yorkers https://t.co/VJE8LNWAPz -
Time Warner Cable tests replacing your cable box with a Roku | The Verge
Time Warner Cable customers in New York City and New Jersey will be able to use a Roku box in place of their traditional cable box, the company announced today.
-
Indian Folk Art. via /r/gifs https://t.co/Vj6CxKk2Mz https://t.co/cvo3IhDYrX
-
meow irl via /r/MEOW_IRL https://t.co/eHWA8afRaO https://t.co/F95RwrIEDC
-
Mars’ Atmosphere Could Have Gone Up or Down – Now Scientists Know Which | Exclusive Video
WATCH MORE SHOWS
-
Apple Kicks Off iPad Pro Marketing With Ads Focused On Split-Screen And Pencil | TechCrunch
Apple has kicked off iPad Pro marketing with ads airing tonight during Monday Night Football. Pun intended.
-
Celestial bubble SNR B0509-67.5 1 is the visible… – Just Space
Celestial bubble SNR B0509-67.5 1 is the visible remnant of a… https://t.co/Jg4kVrySv4 https://t.co/YsuM0pUvU7
-
What would happen to your diet if bees completely disappeared? | Grist
Instead of flooding where it’s not useful, California’s winter deluges could be banked in the ground, helping farmers and revitalizing streams. If winter means “wet” in your neck of the woods, Umbra has a few hints for making sure your dwelling stay…
-
A former Georgia sheriff’s deputy, convicted for using a stun gun on a restrained detainee who later died alone in his cell, was sentenced on Friday to one month in jail and three years’ probation. His conviction for cruelty of an inmate carried jai…
-
Wind power is so cheap at night in Texas, some companies give it away | Grist
Instead of flooding where it’s not useful, California’s winter deluges could be banked in the ground, helping farmers and revitalizing streams. If winter means “wet” in your neck of the woods, Umbra has a few hints for making sure your dwelling stay…
-
River Una, Bosnia and Hercegowina [960×534] – How clear is my river? : EarthPorn
River Una, Bosnia and Hercegowina [960×534] – How clear is my river? via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/kvoHCuHqX8 https://t.co/4REyKFbrIL
-
Indefensible Lomborg Analysis Misleads On Paris Climate Pledges, Ignores China | ThinkProgress
Widely debunked confusionist Bjorn Lomborg has twisted the world’s climate pledges beyond recognition to make it seem as if the upcoming Paris climate talks will have no impact on future warming.
-
MRW I can’t find a good tutorial on how to make gifs! – Imgur
MRW I can’t find a good tutorial on how to make gifs! https://t.co/kbETIUABgg https://t.co/uPuIXRSZro
-
Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Vitter disses Louisiana’s solar tax credits, not a word about the state’s tax breaks for oil and gas
David Vitter thinks solar should stand on its own, but the oil and gas industry keeps needing tax breaks. Sen.
-
SeaWorld San Diego to End Killer Whale Shows | Rolling Stone
Following years of controversy, SeaWorld in San Diego will phase out its killer whale show next year. It intends to introduce what the San Diego Union-Tribune describes as a “new orca experience,” which will be more informative and take place in a m…
-
Sex, Death and Mushrooms https://t.co/5faN21SyGT
-
Tesco chief warns of ‘lethal cocktail’ for retailers – BBC News
The head of supermarket Tesco has warned retailers face a “lethal cocktail” of tax and costs at a time of slumping profits. Chief executive Dave Lewis said the retail industry faced £14bn of extra costs in the next five years.
-
Virgin Galactic Recruits Female Test Pilot Kelly Latimer
Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo spaceliner is lowered onto its landing gear for the first time. On Nov. 9, 2015, Virgin Galactic announced the selection of NASA test pilot Kelly Latimer as the latest spaceship pilot to join its ranks.
-
Blackfish (sort of) wins as SeaWorld announces it’s ending orca shows · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Today in news that will be interesting to people who have seen Blackfish and weirdly disappointing to people who have not, SeaWorld San Diego has announced that it’s shutting down its iconic-turned-infamous killer whale shows.
-
“Go” was going to be a pivotal episode of Quantico for me because of something I noticed while rewatching last week’s “God.
-
The Fish Head Nebula js https://t.co/SHF4uOBJCp https://t.co/tgROK5dhfS https://t.co/hQpx2qCBAM
-
Took this in Banff National Park in Alberta Canada today [OC][4160×2340] : EarthPorn
Took this in Banff National Park in Alberta Canada today [OC][4160×2340] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/fERxn0fTtJ https://t.co/A9vmur7olR
-
I think we all know a site that should be on the top of this list. – Imgur
-
MRW I can’t find a good tutorial on how to make gifs! – Imgur
-
Drought takes terrible toll in Ethiopia – BBC News
The United Nations has warned that more than 15 million people in Ethiopia will be in need of food aid by the beginning of 2016 because of a severe drought. The Ethiopian government has set aside nearly £130m to deal with the crisis but the UN says …
-
The best way to see the Statue of Liberty is with a jetpack | The Verge
It’s 2015. We’re in the middle of one of the greatest automotive decades in history, with cars like the Ferrari LaFerrari, the McLaren P1 and the Porsche 918. Even the less aspiration realm is full of amazing stuff like Dodge’s Hellcats and the upco…
-
Colorado’s Sexting Nightmare – The Daily Beast
Wherever smartphones and sex hormones coexist, there will be sexting. To stop it, you would have to confiscate every camera in the country, dismantle all cell towers, and shut down the Internet.
-
Microsoft to launch its Lumia 950 flagship on November 20th | The Verge
Microsoft is planning to launch its Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL handsets on November 20th. Windows Central reports that the Lumia 950 will arrive on AT&T, and sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the November 20th timing is acc…
-
Apple explores the Universe in its first iPad Pro commercial | The Verge
Apple just released the first commercial for its iPad Pro, and if you love epic visualizations of galaxies and planets, then this is for you. The ad shows masterfully detailed recreations of Jupiter’s big red spot and the various particles that comp…
-
13 Oscar-Winning Movies, Recreated With Stock Footage – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “13 Oscar-Winning Movies, Recreated With Stock Footage” Presented by
-
Costco’s Black Friday deals include discounts on TVs and Surface Pro 3 | The Verge
Costco has announced its Black Friday sales, and it will extend far past the day itself. The retail giant will kick off its sale on Friday, November 20th, operating on normal store hours, and run up until the November 26th, before closing for Thanks…
-
1048 steps up to the top, Kokohead, Hawaii [OC] [2500×1406] : EarthPorn
1048 steps up to the top, Kokohead, Hawaii [OC] [2500×1406] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/2B8kFErsVE https://t.co/PYAaYa7p2K
-
Yemen Braces for Another Cyclone : Image of the Day
For the second time in a week, a major cyclone moved toward the Arabian Peninsula and the nation of Yemen. To have a cyclone or hurricane hit any nation twice in a week is not a common occurrence; to have two storms to hit one region of the Middle E…
-
Dependiendo del criterio que se utilice para contabilizarlas, existen alrededor de 10,000 ciudades en el mundo que albergan a más del 50% de la población planetaria.
-
Hours after University of Missouri president resigns, Chancellor also steps down / Boing Boing
“Hours after a wave of student and faculty protests over racial tensions led to the resignation of the president of the University of Missouri system on Monday, the chancellor of the campus here also stepped aside,” reports the New York Times.
-
Johnny Depp seems to have crafted the perfect career. He has his pick of outlandish franchises like Alice in Wonderland and gritty Oscar hopefuls like Black Mass and routinely shows up on the annual Forbes Highest-Paid Actor list. (He clocked in at …
-
Rich Miner of Google Ventures on What Alphabet Means to Its Venture Arm (and More) | TechCrunch
Earlier today, we sat down with Rich Miner, a serial entrepreneur who may be best-known for cofounding a company called Android, which was acquired by Google a decade ago and then relegated to the dustbin of history. (Kidding!)
-
Manju Das stood over a pot in her nephew’s food stall, which spilled onto the pavement of a busy, dust-choked thoroughfare in interior West Bengal. She poured in some oil, and when it was smoking hot, threw in a handful of dried chilies and mustard …
-
Sonia Sotomayor lambastes justices for backing officer who shot fleeing suspect | Law | The Guardian
Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor accused her fellow justices of “sanctioning a shoot first, think later approach” after they overwhelming backed a police officer who ignored orders and shot a fleeing suspect in Texas.
-
Jeb Bush on Whether He’d Kill Baby Hitler: “Hell Yeah!” | Vanity Fair
A few weeks ago, The New York Times Magazine drew criticism for a poll in which it asked readers whether they would be willing to kill an infant Adolf Hitler, thereby preventing Word War II (maybe).
-
What Kind of Novels Did Shakespeare Write? – The New Yorker
In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists.
-
Why Is the Death Rate Rising Among Middle-Aged White Americans? – The New Yorker
A week after it was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a paper by the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showing that middle-aged white Americans are dying in much larger numbers than they used to is still…
-
SeaWorld to Kill Killer-Whale Shows in San Diego to Stay Afloat – The Atlantic
On Monday, SeaWorld announced it would finally end its “theatrical killer whale experience” at its flagship theme park in San Diego.
-
The Atlantic Daily: Resignation in Missouri, Doping in Russia, a Shooting in Jordan – The Atlantic
University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigned on Monday amid widespread criticism of his recent handling of racist incidents on campus. Wolfe told reporters during a press conference that he hoped his departure would help heal divisions in the…
The Atlantic Daily: A Resignation in Missouri, Doping in Russia, a Shooting in Jordan https://t.co/SJRiy817M5 -
South Dakota Tribe Burned Pot Crop | Al Jazeera America
Flandreau Santee Sioux President Anthony Reider told The Associated Press the tribe had three weeks of discussions with authorities that culminated with a meeting in Washington that included a Justice Department official and U.S. Attorney for South …
South Dakota tribe burns pot crop for fear of federal raid https://t.co/k8nZrmFRi7 -
MINISTRY OF SUPPLY — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY
A garment can only perform as intended if it moves with you. Excess fabric hinders motion and, ultimately, comfort. It’s why our fits are tailored. Every seam, button, and pocket on our garments is intentional – the results of months of research and…
-
Cat puddle… via /r/cats https://t.co/DXCVr1Y3o7 https://t.co/k8cIVtEUfu
-
California storms bring early ski season and hopes for respite from drought | US news | The Guardian
Snow and rain brought an autumn respite in northern California from the state’s devastating drought on Monday, with up to 12 inches (30cm) of snow forecast for the Sierra Nevada mountains, raising hopes for a strong ski season and a replenished snow…
California storms bring early ski season and hopes for respite from drought https://t.co/gQPJ11a43q -
Become a Better Conversationalist by Seeking Solitude
As strange as it may sound, you’ll have better conversation with others if you give yourself more time to reflect on your own thoughts. All conversations start with a thought, but it’s hard to spark one if you haven’t had any time to really think.
-
‘Godzilla’, 800lb alligator, found at shopping center – video | US news | The Guardian
An alligator dubbed Godzilla is found wandering outside a Houston-area shopping center on Saturday. Amateur footage of Godzilla shows the 800lb animal (who is also blind in one eye) being restrained by Christy Kroboth, a licensed ‘nuisance alligator…
-
Caffeinated peanut butter is here, draws ire of Charles Schumer | Ars Technica
Peanut butter can now wake you up as it fills you up—much to the dismay of New York Senator Charles Schumer. A company called STEEM is making a caffeinated version of the popular protein-packed spread.
-
Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) – YouTube
Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) https://t.co/sKwpktjx4z
-
Marooned. Pulau Tioman, Malaysia [4608×3072][OC] : seaporn
Marooned. Pulau Tioman, Malaysia [4608×3072][OC] via /r/seaporn https://t.co/MRzTtNVjxr https://t.co/RrgviH4j4M
-
Rumblr, the Tinder for Bar Fights, Was Built by an Ad Agency (Of Course) | Motherboard
An app that seemingly promised to give “recreational fighters” the ability to find, meet, and fight other would-be fighters has turned out to be nothing more than a stunt for a “creative consulting agency” called von Hughes The app, called Rumblr, w…
-
James Hewitt, Princess Diana’s Lover, Tries To Sell Letters From Prince William – The Daily Beast
It’s probably hard to think of a more despicable betrayal of a child’s confidence than hoarding their letters for 30 years before trying to sell them to the highest bidder, but James Hewitt, the once-dashing cavalry officer who became Princess Diana…
-
Boko Haram attacks: State of emergency declared round Lake Chad – BBC News
Chad has declared a state of emergency in the Lake Chad region after attacks by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria. The decision came after at least two people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomb attack.
-
Mountains on Pluto May Be Ice Volcanoes, Scientists Say
A possible ice volcano on Pluto (visible at center) is seen in this NASA image, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, released on Nov. 9, 2015. The feature, called Wright Mons, is a strange feature 100 miles wide and 13,000 feet high with a summi…
-
Lorne Michaels Finally Tells Marc Maron Why He Didn’t Get SNL – The Daily Beast
This year, Marc Maron scored what at the time seemed to be considered the biggest interview of his seminal WTF podcast when President Barack Obama visited the infamous garage in East Los Angeles and managed to cause a national incident by uttering t…
-
This Short Film About Love After Death Is Pretty Heartbreaking
Imagine waking up in the far future, and having to deal with a whole new world—the futureshock would be pretty intense. That’s something this new short film, appropriately called New, conveys quite well.
-
Oprah Defends Kardashian Family From Accusation They Are Famous for Nothing | Vanity Fair
The complaint that the Kardashian family is a scourge of society is nothing new—for the past 10 seasons of Keeping with the Kardashians, many have decried the reality TV family for being famous for no reason or talent.
Oprah Defends Kardashian Family From Accusation They Are Famous for Nothing https://t.co/nIXBeZfnlQ -
Watch Kiernan Shipka Invite Us to Her Sweet 16 | Vanity Fair
At last week’s Guggenheim International Gala presented by Dior, Vanity Fair’s fashion market director, Michael Carl, was on hand to check in with guests ranging from Marisa Berenson to Leelee Sobieski on their red-carpet style and dance-floor plans.
Watch Kiernan Shipka Invite Us to Her Sweet 16 https://t.co/QeJoVX2Pb9 -
Iggy’s too fluffy for his own good : cats
Iggy’s too fluffy for his own good via /r/cats https://t.co/Q7057uHUAn https://t.co/3TAcxRhnJq
-
Godzilla the 800lb alligator sent to reserve after shopping center visit | US news | The Guardian
An alligator dubbed Godzilla who tips the scales at more than 800lb is being taken to a gator reserve to live out his days, after being found wandering outside a Houston-area shopping center. Godzilla was discovered on Saturday by people arriving fo…
-
Director Chris Milk Wants to Be Virtual Reality’s First Auteur | Vanity Fair
It’s been 30-odd years since Chris Milk played around with his grandfather’s VHS camera trying to remake Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video in his backyard. Two decades later, he created videos for musicians like Kanye West, U2, and Modest Mou…
-
From Julia Kim Smith, , a look at the names of wifi networks in various neighborhoods of Baltimore. Some favorites: There was even a Wu Tang LAN sighting. Note: about 4 years ago, my wireless network was called hamsterdam. Currently: surfbort.
-
Donald Trump and the New Southern Strategy | The New Republic
Despite a week of protests, or perhaps because of them, around nine million people watched Donald Trump host an unfunny, unremarkable episode of Saturday Night Live this weekend.
-
Fallout 4: A fanboy’s op-ed review | Ars Technica
Fallout New Vegas tried to fill the need, but opinions among Fallout fans were split. Some loved “west coast Fallout,” replete with motorcycle gangs, delusional wannabe Romans, and one super-depressed kid named Boxcars.
-
When you piss off your Sgt. – Imgur
When you piss off your Sgt. https://t.co/0aBQ4uqQsT https://t.co/5twq5SptqE
-
Sunday trading law proposals ‘facing defeat’ – BBC News
Government plans to relax Sunday trading laws in England and Wales are facing defeat in the House of Commons. The SNP has told the BBC and the Guardian the party has decided to vote against the changes amid fears it could drive down Scottish workers…
Sunday trading law proposals ‘facing defeat’ https://t.co/wNYQZ2LQDE -
Determine How Much Booze You Need for Your Party With This Simple Formula
A well-planned party has enough drinks to keep everyone buzzin’, but not so much that you’re left with a ton to drink by yourself. If you’re supplying the booze, this formula can help you gauge how much you need.
Determine How Much Booze You Need for Your Party With This Simple Formula https://t.co/oe3VSqLzXp -
Fallout 4 is (almost) here: review, starter guide, and more | The Verge
I have a very specific way of playing Fallout games, and I don’t think I’m alone. I need to hack every computer, pick every lock, and persuade everyone I come across. If I’m going to devote dozens, if not hundreds of hours to a game, I want to keep …
Fallout 4 is (almost) here: review, starter guide, and more https://t.co/3vL9cbA98b -
Kittens day via /r/cats https://t.co/RkzQ0Axin1 https://t.co/S8Bcd4u4yn
-
This meme of a Michael Sowa painting is why I read books. [673×827] : bookporn
This meme of a Michael Sowa painting is why I read books. [673×827] via /r/bookporn https://t.co/v9te5y0cjM https://t.co/TLcPqjfjra
-
The Simpsons once prided itself on being one of the first shows of the “VCR era,” taking advantage of the then-recent technology with quick background jokes and humorous signage that could only be appreciated by viewers willing to wear out the “paus…
-
Donald Trump’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live went pretty much as expected: The show was awkward, stilted, and unfunny and about nine million people tuned in to watch it (that’s 57 percent higher than the show’s usual fall ratings average).
-
Basement Washroom [3264×2448] : AbandonedPorn
Basement Washroom [3264×2448] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/ZzjkiI8PkI https://t.co/TVy4semrxt
-
Your guide to Tuesday’s GOP debate
We all know what the GOP debates look like by now, but here are some interesting tidbits in advance of the next scrum to come on Tuesday. The debate starts at 9:00 p.m. ET and will last two hours. Sorry, no opening or closing comments.
-
The way these shadows meet in the centre of this pillar : oddlysatisfying
The way these shadows meet in the centre of this pillar via /r/oddlysatisfying https://t.co/8Zk7v1kscL https://t.co/LUYlTjodmq
-
France calls for end to Burundi violence at UN – BBC News
France has tabled a draft resolution at the UN Security Council calling for action to stop the upsurge in violence in Burundi. The council met on Monday at France’s request to discuss Burundi’s worst violence in ten years.
-
How Campus Racism Just Became the Biggest Story in America | Mother Jones
Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri system, resigned from his post on Monday amid growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni over a series of racial incidents that have plagued the flagship campus in Columbia this fall.
-
Belgium orders Facebook to stop tracking users who aren’t logged in | The Verge
A commercial court in Brussels today ruled that Facebook must stop using cookies to track users when they aren’t logged in, reports The Wall Street Journal. The social networking company now has 48 hours to comply, or it will face a daily fine of €2…
-
A Chinese Photographer May Have Made the Perfect GoPro Stand | Motherboard
Ruogu Zhou, a Chinese inventor, has come up with a cheap and rather elegant solution to GoPro tripods: a polyhedral stand. Zhou started an Indiegogo campaign for SLOPES, a small and compact stand that allows you to position your GoPro in as many as …
-
See ASAP Rocky and Lake Bell Read Lil Wayne-Themed Poetry | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair was on the carpet at last week’s Guggenheim International Gala Pre-Party, hosted at the museum by Dior. As guests including Kiernan Shipka, Eve Hewson, and Topher Grace filtered into the building ahead of a headline performance by Grimes…
-
For One Year, Shonda Rhimes Said ‘Yes’ To All The Things That Scared Her : NPR
Shonda Rhimes will be the first to admit she didn’t expect to be famous.
-
As part of THR’s Hollywood Masters interview series, the executive producer of ‘The Leftovers’ explains how success triggered his depression and why he doesn’t ask his friend J.J. Abrams anything about ‘Star Wars.
-
Everything You Need to Know About Tuesday’s GOP Debate | The New Republic
Round four, here we come! The next Republican presidential debate will take place on Tuesday, November 10, at the Milwaukee Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
-
Considering the Many Punny Headline Options for Match.com’s Impending IPO – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Ben Carson Says He Would Let Puerto Rico Join the U.S. and File Bankrutpcy – The Atlantic
If Ben Carson becomes president, he plans to add one more star to the American flag. Carson isn’t the first, or only, Republican candidate to support granting statehood to Puerto Rico.
-
Watch President Obama’s First Facebook Video, on Climate Change | Rolling Stone
Watch President Obama’s First Facebook Video, on Climate Change Obama discusses the importance of cutting carbon emissions while taking a stroll through Presidential Park
-
Russian Artist Sets Fire To Spy Headquarters – The Daily Beast
On Sunday night, a fragile, skinny and pale man, with a hood cloaking his head, stood at the entrance to the headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)—the inheritor to the KGB—and methodically poured gasoline onto the front door.
-
Watch Alessia Cara, Katy B’s Soulful ‘Hotline Bling’ Duet | Rolling Stone
Watch Alessia Cara, Katy B’s Soulful ‘Hotline Bling’ Duet Teenage singers cover Drake track at recent London gig
-
10 Things We Learned from Lorne Michaels’ WTF Interview | Rolling Stone
Any casual listeners of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast will be forgiven for presuming that the President Barack Obama, whom the comic interviewed a few months back, was the comedian’s ultimate get.
-
Cartoonish Star Wars gifs by Chris Phillips : perfectloops
Cartoonish Star Wars gifs by Chris Phillips via /r/perfectloops https://t.co/7U24zq2SzA https://t.co/Dd3nUndf5i
-
How to cuddle an owl via /r/gifs https://t.co/J0mMuIPbly https://t.co/t4OKggUVHK
-
Floating Mountains on Pluto—You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
For such a small world, Pluto has an incredible diversity of features, including flowing glaciers, curiously pitted terrains, hazy skies, and multi-colored landscapes.
-
J.J. Abrams, Star Wars Superfan, on Directing The Force Awakens | WIRED
Step through the sleek, anonymous metal door of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and you enter a world of memorabilia—the murderous Talky Tina doll from The Twilight Zone, rows of old VHS tapes labeled “Midnight Movies,” a Six Million Dollar Man b…
-
Blizzard’s New Video Game Series Overwatch Is Coming To Comics In A Big Way
Overwatch, the new shooter game from Blizzard, has already dazzled us not with its actual gameplay, but with its lavish announcement trailer that had us excited for an animated series about these kooky scientists and heroes saving the day.
-
Bernie Sanders Would Protect A Huge Group Of Immigrants From Deportation | ThinkProgress
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Monday that as president, he would stop deporting undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least five years — a group that makes up 88 percent of the more than 11 millio…
-
Overstock.com Down 6% on 3rd Quarter Earnings | TechCrunch
Overstock.com reported third quarter earnings after the bell Monday. The Utah-based discount e-tailer reported a quarterly loss of 8 cents per share or $2.1 million, down from $1.6 million in profit last year. Overstock brought in $391.
-
Track of the Day: ‘Amsterdam’ – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Just days after President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, environmentalists were handed another victory Monday morning when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released the results of an investigation that found one of …
-
Drone video: IHOP parking lot collapses, swallowing cars / Boing Boing
An underground drain failed in Meridian, Mississippi, causing an IHOP parking lot to collapse. Patrons were given extra blueberry syrup as a consolation. (Not really.)
-
GM could pay punitive damages in switch scandal trials – BBC News
General Motors may face larger penalties in trials related to the use of faulty ignition switches. Punitive damages can be far larger than damages for compensation because they are meant to punish, not just repay.
-
Balloon vs. cat. : StartledCats
Balloon vs. cat. via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/pCJEHH8WYo https://t.co/XluAXfp9hz
-
Seven Running Drills to Improve Speed, Form, and Efficiency
When I first started performing running drills, I felt silly. Aren’t neon short shorts embarrassing enough? But running drills can be hugely beneficial to both casual runners and experienced devotees. This post originally appeared on Strength Runnin…
-
Abandoned Shed – Old Mill, Toronto, Canada [2688×1520] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
Abandoned Shed – Old Mill, Toronto, Canada [2688×1520] [OC] via /r/AbandonedPorn https://t.co/czU9fTflw8 https://t.co/wr6g4xo6nj
-
Will You Opt In to Facebook’s New Camera Roll Search? | Motherboard
Next week, Facebook will start testing a new Messenger feature called “Photo Magic,” which crawls through your smartphone’s camera roll and identifies you and your friends’ faces in your photos, then prompts you to share the images with them via Mes…
-
A short film about love, relationships and phones. Cast: Haley Ramm // Peter Williams // John Ennis // Veronica Bloom // Keenan Henson Music: Anderson .Paak Production Company: The Devil You Know EP: Simon Wallon & Don Block Director Bo Mirosseni Wr…
-
Ethan Hawke Explains His Thing for Knights – The New Yorker
The actor-writer Ethan Hawke bounded up the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, past the fat pigeons and the tourists with selfie sticks, and began to talk. It was the morning of his forty-fifth birthday, and he was in an expansive mood.
-
A setback for India’s prime minister? – Al Jazeera English
India’s ruling party, the BJP, is trying to work out where it all went wrong after election defeat in the state election of Bihar. The BJP-led alliance was able to win just 60 seats in the 243-seat state assembly.
-
Someone had to do it so I gave it a try – GIF on Imgur
Someone had to do it so I gave it a try https://t.co/YTG3sr7JRh https://t.co/xBFTFxuaaR
-
The Leading Cause of Police Death: PTSD | Al Jazeera America
When you’re a police officer, a traffic stop can mean a routine exchange — or it can mean an attack on your or your partner’s life. Being first on the scene, whether for gruesome murders, suicides, plane crashes or car accidents, is all in a day’s w…
The leading cause of police death: Post-traumatic stress disorder https://t.co/vIwnoiRUR5 -
How to Help cops with PTSD | Al Jazeera America
Police officers deal with tragedies every day. But some of them — 15 to 18 percent of those in the U.S. — develop post-traumatic-stress-disorder as a result of doing their job. “It’s a national scandal.
-
Mysterious Tesla Rival Faraday Future Backed By Netflix Of China, LeTV | TechCrunch
There’s been much speculation lately about who’s behind the mysterious electric car company Faraday Future, based in Gardena, California. While some believe it to be a front for Apple’s electric car project, that isn’t likely.
-
Fashion used to be sold in four seasons. Zara wants you to buy for one-hundred-and-four. New clothes arrive in every store twice a week — days known by fans as “Z Days” — and fuel the need to turn over your wardrobe. The brand’s global distributio…
-
Does SeaWorld’s Announcement Signal End to Captive Orcas?
The shock jock’s comment hints at just how much public scrutiny of captive orca shows has increased, driven by well-organized animal advocates and written into a new bill to outlaw the practice that was introduced in Congress last week.
-
Why Mexico’s Supreme Court Declared Marijuana Use a Human Right – The Atlantic
Last week, just a day after voters in Ohio rejected a constitutional amendment to legalize the recreational and medical use of marijuana, Mexico’s Supreme Court headed in a different direction: The country’s top justices concluded that national laws…
-
The New Intimacy Economy — Medium
Lately Facebook is getting a little too intimate with me. “Good morning, Leigh,” it coos. “Thanks for being here. We hope you enjoy Facebook today.
-
Tuscaloosa police investigating videos of officer using stun gun on man | US news | The Guardian
Police say they are investigating videos posted online that show officers using a stun gun and baton on at least one young man over the weekend following a noise complaint at an apartment near the University of Alabama.
-
Win Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck on Blu-ray/DVD · Contest · The A.V. Club
Even in a summer jam-packed with superheroes, dinosaurs, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, comedian Amy Schumer made a huge impression with her film debut, Trainwreck.
-
Hold my vodka while i hurry cross this road : holdmybeer
Hold my vodka while i hurry cross this road via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/IOD5VkSwng https://t.co/f4swnNLREk
-
Woman smashed in face with beer mug for speaking Swahili at Applebees / Boing Boing
Asma Jama was enjoying a meal at an Applebee’s restaurant in Coon Rapids, Minnesota when a diner sitting at another table became incensed that Jama was speaking Swahili.
-
Exclusive: Donald Trump’s Hair Speaks (and YELLS!) | Vanity Fair
Anyone who thinks this is easy is a loser and is seriously kidding themselves because I’m not a comb-over. I’m a sweep, a swoosh. I haven’t got time to explain the difference or the technique if you don’t already know it. And if you don’t know, I fe…
-
Celebrating Science at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize | Vanity Fair
“All unicorns looks the same,” laughed Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston when a reporter mistook the tuxedoed C.E.O. for an Airbnb co-founder at the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes, which awards $21.9 million to those working in mathematics, life sciences, a…
Celebrating Science at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize https://t.co/xP8cJN76WB -
As Kids Go Online, New Tools For Parents To Spy : All Tech Considered : NPR
Before age one (ONE!), nearly half of kids play games or watch videos on a mobile device. That’s according to one recent study of families with young children published in the journal Pediatrics. By the time they’re teens, nearly three-quarters have…
-
IRS May Soon Use Private Debt Collectors : NPR
A provision in the highway bills before Congress would require the IRS to hire collection agencies to collect back taxes. Congress sees it as a way of raising money to pay for highway construction.
-
Coal Offers Hope For Montana Tribe : NPR
The Crow Tribe doesn’t have adequate housing, jobs or educational opportunities. But it does have 9 billion tons of coal. Tribal leaders want to use it to better the community. But others worry about climate change and wonder if a proposed coal mine…
-
Halloween Costume Emails Stokes Debate At Yale : NPR
Yale University is in turmoil after a series of emails about culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. Some students there are protesting what they say is a hostile environment for students of color. Sebi Median-Tayac, one of the leaders of the pro…
-
Boston Clergy Sex Abuse Under ‘Spotlight’ Anew : NPR
Boston Globe reporter Sacha Pfeiffer was part of the investigative team that uncovered the massive scandal involving sexual abuse by Catholic priests. She speaks with NPR’s Audie Cornish about their story, which is now told in the feature film Spotl…
-
Volkswagen Offers Cash, Vouchers To Defrauded Diesel Owners : NPR
The German automaker is starting the process of making amends with its U.S. customer base. The company is offering $1,000 in cash and vouchers to owners of diesel vehicles implicated in the emissions scandal.
-
As GOP Hopeful Rubio Rises, So Does Scrutiny : NPR
Strong debate performances have strengthened Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. He released records that show he made personal charges to a state GOP credit card. But there are even more questions about how the Florida Republican has handled his p…
-
Does Obama-Netanyahu Meeting Signal Relationship Reset? : NPR
The White House meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama comes after tensions fueled by divisions over the Iran nuclear deal, which the White House supported but Israel opposed.
-
Report: Widespread Doping In Russian Track And Field : NPR
The World Anti-Doping Agency has found evidence of “deeply rooted culture of cheating” and use of performance-enhancing drugs by Russian athletes and coaches. It is calling for Russia to be suspended from international track events.
-
University Of Missouri President Resigns After Protests : NPR
Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning following mounting pressure over racial animosity on campus. The protests included a hunger strike and a boycott by some of the school’s football players.
-
Jordanian Kills Two Americans At Police Training Center : NPR
A Jordanian police officer shot and killed at least four people, including two American security contractors hired to train Palestinian police. The shooter died in the attack at a training center in Amman, the capital.
-
George Takei Debuts On Broadway In ‘Allegiance’ : NPR
George Takei has, over the years, lent his gently charismatic presence to many stages — the original Star Trek soundstage where he played the USS Enterprise’s Mr. Sulu, then the social media stage where he emerged as a leading activist for gay and l…
-
Menopause Is No Longer Taboo, And Marketers Have Noticed : Shots – Health News : NPR
My Friend. The Curse.
-
A Galaxy Far, Far Away — Right There On The Ceiling : NPR Ed : NPR
Our Tools of the Trade series examines iconic objects of the education world. The 24 juniors and seniors in the astronomy class at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Va., sink into plush red theater seats.
-
Snapchat Reaches 6 Billion Daily Videos Views, Tripling From 2 Billion In May | TechCrunch
On the heels of Facebook’s announcement last week that they had surpassed 8 billion daily video views, Snapchat confirmed to the FT over the weekend that users of the ephemeral messaging app were now watching 6 billion videos every day.
-
BBC Sport – FC United of Manchester 1-4 Chesterfield
Coverage: Live text and radio commentary on BBC Sport website, BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra and BBC Radio Manchester. FC United of Manchester manager Karl Marginson expects to have a fully fit squad for his side’s FA Cup first round clash with Ches…
-
Yo La Tengo is going on tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There are a few reasons why The A.V. Club might report on the news, relayed to us by Pitchfork, that Yo La Tengo is going on tour. The band came to our office for an Undercover set once, after all. We also reviewed its latest album, which this parti…
-
For those who wish recent popular songs could all be rewritten by Ned Flanders and performed by Rod and Todd Flanders, the venerable, lucrative Kidz Bop franchise has been providing infantilized, watered-down versions of Top 40 hits for 15 years now.
-
NSA phone records collection ‘likely violates constitution’, US judge rules | US news | The Guardian
A federal judge ruled against the National Security Agency on Monday, saying that its bulk collection of telephone metadata “likely violates the constitution”.
-
In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (or simply Star Wars if you’re an old person), there’s an iconic scene where Obi-Wan and Darth Vader are having an energetic lightsaber duel full of cool spins and exciting poses.
-
After he had helped pull off one of the biggest cash robberies in American history — the Lufthansa heist of 1978 — and stashed millions of dollars, along with burlap sacks of gold chains, crates of watches, and diamonds and emeral
-
behind the scenes of Fear The Walking Dead : funny
behind the scenes of Fear The Walking Dead via /r/funny https://t.co/LzNBPM9ylJ https://t.co/hUeBoZ1bPK
-
Fallout 4 starter guide: 12 things to know before you play | The Verge
I have a very specific way of playing Fallout games, and I don’t think I’m alone. I need to hack every computer, pick every lick, and persuade everyone I come across. If I’m going to devote dozens, if not hundreds of hours to a game, I want to keep …
-
‘Twice-baked’ model for Moon’s origin – BBC News
A new model of the Moon’s formation suggests it developed in two distinct stages, producing inner and outer layers with different compositions.Beginning with a massive impact that left a disc of material swirling around the proto-Earth, it predicts …
-
Judge issues last-minute ruling against the NSA phone surveillance program | The Verge
A federal judge has ordered the NSA to cease collecting phone records on the plaintiffs of an anti-surveillance suit, reaffirming an earlier ruling.
-
The Huge Problem With Spectre’s Villain
Spectre, the latest James Bond movie, had everything it needed to work. Including the decision to cast the usually amazing Christoph Waltz as its main villain. Too bad some unfortunate choices turned Waltz’s villain into one of the film’s main liabi…
-
Does Trump, Cruz Or Rubio Have the Best Pre-Debate Chance? | FiveThirtyEight
With the fourth Republican debate happening on Tuesday, we used this week’s politics Slack chat to check in on the state of the GOP primary. But this is FiveThirtyEight, so instead of just spouting off on the race, we played one of our favorite game…
-
Van Morrison – Into The Mystic – YouTube
Van Morrison – Into The Mystic https://t.co/wyUoyHp3bC
-
The most famous man on Facebook? – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has become the latest famous face to join the social networking site Facebook. He announced his arrival by posting a video warning of the dangers of climate change.
-
Bitcoin’s price jumped this week, but mostly in China. Is a notorious MMM pyramid schemer Sergey Mavrodi responsible? He wouldn’t be the first hustler to get in on the market.
-
The Milky Way over Angel Fire, NM js – Just Space
The Milky Way over Angel Fire, NM js https://t.co/wh5P38gIig https://t.co/fzPsobZJKu https://t.co/ahc837lOlm
-
The Milky Way over Angel Fire, NM js https://t.co/wh5P38gIig https://t.co/fzPsobZJKu https://t.co/ahc837lOlm
-
Van Morrison – Full Concert – 07/29/74 – Orphanage (OFFICIAL) – YouTube
Van Morrison – Full Concert – 07/29/74 – Orphanage (OFFICIAL) https://t.co/Z8zAwck3Sx
Van Morrison – Full ConcertRecorded Live: 7/29/1974 – Orphanage (San Francisco, CA)More Van Morrison at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.comSubscribe to Music Vault: http://goo.gl/DUzpUFSetlist:0:00:00 – Heathrow Shuffle0:03:58 – Ain’t Nothing You… -
Very helpful loaf via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/EqyAUXu4NQ https://t.co/oJkap27gHz
-
Nine Quiet Exercises You Can Do In Your Hotel Room Without Any Equipment
Travel can take a toll on you mentally and physically, especially when you skip out on your normal exercise routine. If your hotel doesn’t have a gym, these simple exercises require no equipment, and are quiet enough to do in any hotel room.
Nine Quiet Exercises You Can Do In Your Hotel Room Without Any Equipment https://t.co/VcMrlliTjk -
The Turnbull government is considering options to increase its $200m contribution to the international Green Climate Fund, which will be a crucial issue at the UN climate meeting in Paris in December.
-
Volcanoes on Pluto look a lot like those on Earth and Mars | Ars Technica
Before the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto four months ago, planetary scientists weren’t sure what they were going to find at the tiny, distant world. But they did not expect to discover active volcanoes.
Volcanoes on Pluto look a lot like those on Earth and Mars https://t.co/C88Sp1bngy -
A generation ago, Sean Parker would have us believe, parents worried that their children were becoming couch potatoes, passive consumers of information dominated by TV.
Sean Parker on tech industry’s ‘tricks’: ‘Social media feeds our narcissism’ https://t.co/5o27hVPSuM -
Even cynical New Yorkers don’t mind sharing Uber rides with strangers | The Verge
New Yorkers are typically a misanthropic lot, but Uber is finding success in convincing a growing number to share rides with complete strangers. In the last week of October, around 50,000 New Yorkers took UberPool rides, double the number from a sim…
-
A Life Like Nun Other | Al Jazeera America
CINCINNATI – Tracy Kemme says her first “call” from God came when she was 22. At the time, Kemme, who had been volunteering with underprivileged children and those suffering from HIV and AIDS in Ecuador, had considered marrying her serious boyfriend.
-
Mizzou Protesters: Stay Out of Our ‘Safe Space’ or We’ll Call the Cops – The Daily Beast
COLUMBIA, Missouri — The reaction to the University of Missouri’s president resigning over racist incidents on campus was joyful at first but then turned tense.
-
Poll-shaking US Republican debate heads to Milwaukee – Al Jazeera English
Don’t let anyone tell you that with a year to the presidential election and more than three months before the first primaries, the Republican candidates TV debates don’t matter. There have been three so far. The fourth will be on Tuesday night in Mi…
Poll-shaking US Republican debate heads to Milwaukee https://t.co/z78w7Vh2Hm -
Shoot first, think later? SCOTUS grants lawsuit immunity to cop who shot unarmed suspect
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 that Texas State Trooper Chadrin Lee Mullenix has “qualified immunity” against lawsuits after the 2010 killing of Israel Leija, Jr. The case stemmed from an incident in which Leija fled fro…
Shoot first, think later? SCOTUS grants lawsuit immunity to cop who shot unarmed suspect https://t.co/BAUw2SoHww -
Fact-Checking Ben Carson’s Claims – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Share This Story:
-
Heading to Antarctica : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Editor’s note: Ryan Walker and Christine Dow are two researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who will be spending more a month in Antarctica to study the response of the Nansen Ice Shelf to ocean tides, while blogging from the field. Chris…
Heading to Antarctica https://t.co/RzJfT6JUHd -
Dubai Airshow: defence spending boosts order books – BBC News
An absence of big civil aircraft orders on the second day of the Dubai Airshow has underlined a slowdown in the rate of which airlines are buying planes. Defence deals were again the main focus, although Emirates Airline signed a $16bn (£10.6bn) dea…
Business reporter, Dubai Airshow https://t.co/H4bn7mxIPg -
In the face of rising U.S.
Robots To Eat All The Jobs? Hackers, Policy Wonks Collaborate On A Basic Income Createathon This Weekend https://t.co/UUgbifRLnm -
PORTLAND, Me. — This city’s harbor, which glows almost indigo under clear skies, is a thoroughfare for the hallmarks of a working waterfront: tugboats, oil tankers and fishermen unloading the day’s catch.
-
Following the bell, Rackspace announced its third quarter financial results, including revenue of $509 million, and earnings per share of $0.26. The market had expected Rackspace to report $0.20 in per-share profit off revenue of $503.08 million.
-
Review: Exploring the Vastness of Bethesda Games’ ‘Fallout 4’ – The Atlantic
I think I knew Fallout 4 had wormed its way into my brain when I started talking to my imaginary dog. About 20 hours into the staggeringly ambitious, post-apocalyptic video game, which Bethesda Games releases on Tuesday, my character’s loyal German …
-
13 More of Ben Carson’s Craziest Beliefs
In Ben Carson Republicans have found a candidate who truly makes George W. Bush look like an intellectual giant, and yet another representative of a right-wing cultures where belief is more important than knowledge.
-
Would Jeb Bush kill the baby Adolf Hitler given the chance? ‘Hell yeah!’ | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday considered the “baby Hitler” debate, during an interview with the Huffington Post.
-
Bring back ‘90s memories with home-brewed Nickelodeon Gak · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
For those ’90s kids seeking desperately to relive the decade in which they grew up, it’s one thing to watch vintage episodes of Rocko’s Modern Life and Salute Your Shorts on The Splat. It’s quite another, however, to make up a batch of stretchy, squ…
-
UVA fraternity sues Rolling Stone for $25m over retracted rape article | US news | The Guardian
The fraternity that was the focus of a debunked Rolling Stone article about a gang rape filed a $25m lawsuit against the magazine Monday, saying the piece made the frat and its members “the object of an avalanche of condemnation worldwide”.
-
ABC developing ex-con comedy with Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC is developing a new comedy from a handful of people that you might know from the world of podcasting, disproving the common theory that everyone on a podcast is either a Paul F. Tompkins or an Andy Daly chara…
-
NBC sees fit to renew Blindspot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Showing a surprising lack of restraint—surely it could have found some way to illustrate the news in a tattoo that would be revealed at next episode’s end—NBC has announced (via Variety) that it’s renewed Blindspot for a second season.
-
Van Morrison Warm Love HD Musikladen 10 July 1974 – YouTube
Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/vanmorris…Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vanmorrisono…Musikladen Extra Bremen, Germany live 10 July 1974. from the MDVD: Best of Musikladen Vol.6 1975 set-list; Heathrow shuffle; Warm love; I like it like t…
-
Review: Rustie sounds revitalized on new album EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE | The Verge
A few months before tossing new LP EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE onto the internet like so much spare change, Russell Whyte (the producer who records as Rustie) took a crack at remixing Skrillex, Diplo, and Justin Bieber’s “Where Are Ü Now.
-
Prevent Gatekeeper from Reenabling Itself in OS X with a Terminal Command
Gatekeeper is a great feature in OS X that prevents applications from unidentified developers from opening up, which helps keep malware off your computer. Advanced users don’t really need it though, but when you turn it off, it reenables itself afte…
-
Amnesty: Saudi Arabia’s Executions at 20-year High | Al Jazeera America
Saudi Arabia has executed at least 151 people this year, the most since 1995 and far above the annual figure in recent years that rarely exceeded 90, Amnesty International said on Monday.
-
Everyone blames someone else as classified military smartphones lack patches | Ars Technica
This story was co-published with the Daily Beast. You would think the nation’s military would move with lightning speed to patch cell phones vulnerable to hackers, particularly after recent disclosures that Chinese hackers harvested the personal inf…
-
Young, Gay, HIV-Positive—and a Pastor – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Young, Gay, HIV-Positive—and a Pastor” Presented by
-
VW’s ‘Goodwill Package’ May Not Be Enough for Angry VW Owners – The Atlantic
On Monday, Volkswagen announced that it will offer a combination of cash and dealership credit to the owners of the roughly 482,000 vehicles that were designed to cheat emissions tests.
-
Tim Wolfe Had to Resign or Risk $1 Million for Mizzou – The Atlantic
The University of Missouri’s president Tim Wolfe has resigned after months of protest from students, faculty, and community members over the administration’s handling of recent instances of racism targeted at black students.
-
Swan Lake (full version) on Vimeo
Special project for the 5th International Festival “Circle of Light”. A remake of the classic Swan Lake ballet created in memory of the famous Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya on the facade of Bolshoi Theatre. Location: Moscow, Russia Dates: S…
-
Virginia fraternity sues Rolling Stone over rape story | Reuters
A University of Virginia fraternity sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for $25 million in damages over a discredited article about a 2012 gang rape at the fraternity.
-
A Habit Far Worse Than Tossing Candy – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Youth activists shut down central Washington D.C. this morning to demand political action on climate change, immigration, and racial issues. “Our Generation, Our Choice” allowed multiple movements to join forces on the streets and rally around polit…
-
At the University of Missouri, a graduate student went on a hunger strike, students and teachers marched and staged sit-ins, and 32 black football players refused to play until the university president, Tim Wolfe, resigned. Today, he did.
-
Starbucks Holiday Cups Angering Christians – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
After Starbucks debuted their iconic red cups for the holiday season, many Christians complained that this year’s minimalist design features no holiday-specific imagery such as snowmen or sledding, leading one pastor to begin a viral prank of orderi…
-
The world’s largest private coal company misled its investors and the public about the financial risks of climate change, New York state’s attorney general announced on Monday.
-
Prosecutor calls family of 12-year-old murdered by police ‘economically motivated’
Since his death, his family has been mired in a prolonged quest to hold police responsible. They have relied on Timothy McGinty, the county prosecutor, to do his job and hold the police accountable. McGinty, however, has done everything he can to de…
-
P2P Lending Is Profitable, Even In A Recession | TechCrunch
People often ask me how I went from building multiple companies in ad tech, music tech, data analytics and mobile advertising to being a lending fund manager. It didn’t happen overnight. In fact, it was almost a decade in the making.
-
Divebomb your friends in this elegant bird-jousting game / Offworld
You’re supposed to be a bird in Trills, a two-player jousting game by Crudepixel, but for some reason when you collide with another bird, it sounds like two swords clashing.
-
The atmosphere hit 400 ppm of CO2 earlier this year. Yes, that’s terrible | Grist
In this week’s Shots & Chasers, we’re giving you what you need to know about your reproductive rights now. Animal welfare is in with most fast food conglomerates, but Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC just don’t care.
-
Brazil mining company Samarco suspended over dams burst – BBC News
Brazilian mining company Samarco has had its mining licence suspended after two dams it used to hold waste water from iron ore collapsed. The collapse caused rivers of red mud to descend on the south-eastern village of Bento Rodrigues on Thursday.
-
Frequent Dentist Visits Aren’t Necessary for Everyone
Need some incentive to take better care of your teeth? People who are really diligent about brushing and flossing are probably safe skipping dentist visits—going every year or two instead of every six months.
-
The White House Smacks Down Its DEA Chief on the ‘Ferguson Effect’ – The Atlantic
If you think Barack Obama has trouble getting Congress to do what he wants, just look at the trouble he has with his own administration.
-
‘Maybe This Is the Real Ferguson Effect,’ Cont’d – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
U.S. Will Pay Reparations To Families Of Iraqi Civilians Killed In Airstrikes | ThinkProgress
The Pentagon is preparing to repay the families of civilians killed during American airstrikes in Iraq.
-
‘Most Corrupt’ Senator David Vitter Now Campaigning On Ethics Reform | ThinkProgress
In his campaign to be Louisiana’s next governor, Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter is promising to “root out corruption and cronyism.” But his own record does not align with his current rhetoric.
-
A Hoverboard Crime Wave Is Coming to Your City and No One Can Get Away – The Daily Beast
This year’s hottest holiday toy is a prime target for thieves. Unfortunately, it’s also the world’s worst getaway vehicle. Hands-free motorized scooters, optimistically dubbed “hoverboards,” are being marketed as the new bicycles.
-
Marvel Star Bradley Cooper Is Just as Confused by Marvel’s Master Plan as You Are | Vanity Fair
The title of this interview with Burnt stars Sienna Miller and Bradley Cooper reads “Did Bradley Cooper Just Spoil Guardians Of The Galaxy 2?” And if you choose to believe that at any point in this conversation Cooper actually knows what he’s talkin…
-
News | NASA Holds Media Briefing on Carbon’s Role in Earth’s Future Climate
NASA will host a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PST (noon EST) on Thursday, Nov. 12, to discuss the latest insights into how Earth is responding to rising levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, and what this means for our future climate.
-
Amazon to release Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon in theaters · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Seeing Netflix’s edgy, Emmy-winning auteur and raising it an edgy, Palme d’Or-winning auteur, Variety reports that Amazon Studios has picked up distribution rights to Drive and Only God Forgives director Nicolas Winding Refn’s new movie, The Neon De…
-
Egypt military extends reporter’s arrest amid criticism – Al Jazeera English
The Egyptian military prosecutor has extended the detention of prominent journalist and human rights advocate Hossam Bahgat for an additional four days, as rights groups across the world call for his immediate release.
-
This Week’s TV: Barbara Kean Goes on a Bloody Rampage in a Wedding Dress!
This Week’s TV: Barbara Kean Goes on a Bloody Rampage in a Wedding Dress! https://t.co/GlcTxcDvx7
-
New flu tracker uses Google search data better than Google | Ars Technica
With big data comes big noise. Google learned this lesson the hard way with its now kaput Google Flu Trends. The online tracker, which used Internet search data to predict real-life flu outbreaks, emerged amid fanfare in 2008.
-
This Week’s TV: Barbara Kean Goes on a Bloody Rampage in a Wedding Dress!
It’s looking like a shotgun wedding on Gotham. Meanwhile, Doctor Who tries its hand at the “found footage” genre, and Ray Palmer finally escapes the subatomic universe! And just who the hell is Zoom, anyway?! All this, and much, much more on This We…
-
Your own reflection in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC][3539×5309] : EarthPorn
Your own reflection in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC][3539×5309] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/a2qcIYfgSC https://t.co/4JWEBv7m99
-
I made a Jupiter cross-stitch [2048×1536][OC] https://t.co/DCQZTJTkx7 https://t.co/NY1cKpNrZc
-
Donald Trump’s outing as Saturday Night Live host last weekend was panned as unfunny. But for viewers who like their late-night TV with as little politics as possible, the joke may just have gotten worse.
-
Patriots suffer blow as Dion Lewis ruled out for season | Sport | The Guardian
The New England Patriots – currently riding high at 8-0 – have suffered a blow to their offense with reports that their versatile running back Dion Lewis has torn his ACL and will miss the rest of the season. Lewis suffered the injury during Sunday’…
-
SeaWorld to end orca shows in San Diego / Boing Boing
After years of public outrage, the disturbing exposé Black Fish and fading business fortunes, SeaWorld is to end its use of killer whales in shows in San Diego.
-
The First Major Blackout In US History Was Also the Happiest
Fifty years ago this evening, at roughly 5:30pm, every light connected to New York’s power grid flickered out–along with those of 30 million people throughout the Northeast. Chaos didn’t ensue, oddly enough.
-
I’m not blepping via /r/Blep https://t.co/AL7eAqcrEb https://t.co/lRd0Gmw4cC
-
A Louisiana man had his hands up and posed no threat to the police who shot him and killed his six-year-old son last week, according to the man’s attorney, who cited a judge’s description of body camera footage.
-
Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s watching you | Ars Technica
TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands has a feature that it’s not advertising: Vizio’s Smart TVs track your viewing habits and share it with advertisers, who can then find you on…
-
Myanmar Just Had An Historic Election. But Will The Military Ever Give Up Power? | ThinkProgress
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA — The National League for Democracy (NLD), an opposition party helmed by famed Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is the clear frontrunner in historic elections in Myanmar.
-
Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp https://t.co/dZdEZPHb5V https://t.co/Dmx2nJbZRG
-
One of the reasons why I think she is crossbred tiger : cats
One of the reasons why I think she is crossbred tiger via /r/cats https://t.co/lam7tIfuWs https://t.co/AtJe1UIBs0
-
Do Oil-Spill Dispersants Work? – The Atlantic
On 20 April, 2010, an explosion tore through Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next three months, the exposed wellhead released some 750 million liters of oil into the Gulf.
-
Can a Futures Market Save Science? – The Atlantic
You read a scientific paper, look at the results, and ask yourself: Are these real? Do they reflect something genuine about the world, or are they statistical flukes? This ability to critically analyze publications girds all of science. It is the es…
-
12 Things We Learned From Terry Gilliam’s Wild Memoir | Rolling Stone
Over the past half-century, Terry Gilliam has lived several lifetimes — first as the mastermind behind the surrealistically satirical animations on Monty Python’s Flying Circus and then as a filmmaker with an unparalleled, singular imagination.
-
Midday open thread: Find out how corrupt your state is; fixing tribal roads; World Vasectomy Day
Remember Republicans ranting that Obama would ruin U.S. auto industry? Sales now highest since 9/11, by Ian Reifowitz The town of Hamtramck, a long-time Polish-Catholic enclave, has been demographically changing for decades and the election symboliz…
-
Drake Is ‘Soft Like Tissue,’ NASCAR Great Mark Martin Says | Rolling Stone
Drake Is ‘Soft Like Tissue,’ NASCAR Great Mark Martin Says The racing Hall of Famer – and Gucci Mane fan – rips Drizzy, touching off the most unlikely feud in recent memory
-
Bill McKibben on Why Exxon Is the Next Big Climate Fight | Rolling Stone
Environmental activist Bill McKibben spent the last four years locked in an almost single-minded fight against the Keystone XL pipeline.
-
See Blake Shelton Get Slimed During Kids’ Choice Awards Announcement | Rolling Stone
See Blake Shelton Get Slimed During Kids’ Choice Awards Announcement “Gonna” singer adds Nickelodeon emceeing gig to busy 2016
-
WASHINGTON — As the Internet exploded recently with the story of the 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested for taking a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb to his school in Texas, President Obama’s small army of social media specialists wasted no …
-
Sunset over Bergen, Norway[OC] [4912 x 2760] : SkyPorn
Sunset over Bergen, Norway[OC] [4912 x 2760] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/PTfRzi5JT2 https://t.co/KjtmPNUQMw https://t.co/CCSckVir8a
-
Sunset over Bergen, Norway[OC] [4912 x 2760] via /r/SkyPorn https://t.co/PTfRzi5JT2 https://t.co/KjtmPNUQMw https://t.co/CCSckVir8a
-
The company behind Tinder and OkCupid says its worth $3.1 billion | The Verge
If you’ve done any online dating in the last few years, chances are good you’ve touched a part of the sprawling empire known as the Match Group, which owns Match.com, OkCupid, Tinder, PlentyOfFish, Meetic, Twoo, OurTime, and FriendScout24.
-
Better Call Saul season two trailer shows Jimmy McGill ready to break bad | The Verge
The first trailer for season two of Vince Gilligan’s excellent Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul, landed last week, though only in the form of a brief snippets of past dialogue and a dramatic shot of star Bob Odenkirk.
-
Marvel Star Bradley Cooper Is Just As Confused by Marvel’s Master Plan As You Are | Vanity Fair
The title of this interview with Burnt stars Sienna Miller and Bradley Cooper reads “Did Bradley Cooper Just Spoil Guardians Of The Galaxy 2?” And if you choose to believe that at any point in this conversation Cooper actually knows what he’s talkin…
-
The Lost Arcade: doc about rebirth of legendary NYC arcade / Boing Boing
Changing technology made it a legend, then gentrification . But Chinatown Fair, Manhattan’s legendary video arcade, is open to players again in a new location. is a forthcoming documentary about a place best summed up in the line: “of course the bes…
-
Does Pluto Have Ice Volcanoes? – The Daily Beast
At the 47th Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting in Washington, DC, researchers with the New Horizons mission presented the latest findings from the July flyby of Pluto.
-
These faux Little Golden Books are adorable · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Little Golden Books are not just for kids. The beautifully bound books continue to line the pockets of adults at Random House after their acquisition of the series in 2001 for $85 million.
-
Inside The Party For America’s Finest Spies – The Daily Beast
John Brennan arrived at the cocktail party on Saturday night wearing a name tag—as if anyone in the room would have trouble recognizing him.
-
The Amazing Spider-Man Finally Reveals Why Peter Parker Brought The Fantastic Four’s Old Home
Marvel’s first family are notoriously absent from their “All-New, All-Different” universe. Sue Storm and Reed Richards are gone. Johnny Storm works with the Inhumans, the Thing with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Even their former home is now owned by…
-
It’s been 50 years since New York City was hit with the worst power failure in history on 9 November 1965. The outage enveloped New York, Boston and countless cities in half a dozen states in the north-east – and hit at about 5.30pm during rush hour
-
The Devious New Conservative Plan To Turn LGBT People Against Each Other | ThinkProgress
A new Change.org petition seeks to capitalize on the defeat of Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance — spurred by fearmongering about transgender women — by driving a new wedge between people who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual and those who ident…
-
How To Tell Good Studies From Bad? Bet On Them | FiveThirtyEight
A few years ago, psychologist Brian Nosek and two graduate students, Jeffrey Spies and Matt Motyl, conducted an experiment that measured people’s ability to differentiate shades of gray across a gradient.
-
We are busy and lazy, so we forget to send friends the photos we take of them. But Facebook Messenger’s newest feature Photo Magic scans your newly taken photos with facial recognition, and immediately notifies you with an option to send pics to fri…
-
Facebook Messenger adds fast photo sharing using face recognition | The Verge
As Facebook Messenger has zoomed to 700 million monthly users, it has become a popular way for people to share photos with your friends. Messenger users collectively send one another 9.5 billion pictures a month, and that number is growing faster th…
-
Target’s Black Friday deals for 2015 include iPads, Apple Watch, and Beats headphones | The Verge
Target’s Black Friday deals start on Thanksgiving this year, when it’ll open up at 6PM for a first round of discounted shopping. Then on Friday, more deals will become available starting at 7AM. Target’s deals hit pretty much every corner of its sto…
-
Director’s Departure Adds to Arecibo’s Woes – Scientific American
Physicist Robert Kerr uses irony to describe the first hint of trouble: “Radio quiet,” he calls it.
-
Ask an Expert: All About Year-End Financial Moves
Believe it or not, we’re in the home stretch of 2015 and it’s time to start thinking about any financial decisions you need to make before the end of the year.
-
Link between fog and sprat suppers in Essex | Letter | UK news | The Guardian
Philip Hoare writes of fog coming from the east (The mist that muffles yet inspires our art, 3 November).
-
Athletics doping: Sebastian Coe says Russia could be suspended from IAAF – BBC News
Russia could face sanctions and even suspension from athletics’ world governing body, the IAAF president has claimed. Lord Coe’s comments follow a report from the World Anti-Doping Agency which examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortio…
-
Here’s why some apps flip the camera upside down on Google’s Nexus 5X | The Verge
If you’ve got a Google Nexus 5X and have noticed issues with the camera in some apps, it’s not your brand new smartphone that’s to blame.
-
Analysis: Iran’s Russian missiles ‘intensify arms race’ – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia’s costly war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen continues to provide a serious and ongoing source of tension across the Gulf.
Analysis: Iran’s Russian missiles ‘intensify arms race’ https://t.co/ezY6AkHdU7 -
All the muscle juice is gone! : trippinthroughtime
All the muscle juice is gone! via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/I7H1xyAIA5 https://t.co/fueMgxloNf
-
How Does The Internet Connect Across the Ocean? – The Atlantic
We were maybe still in New Mexico or somewhere in Kansas. It was a night drive. Time moves weirdly during night drives. All roads basically become the closing moments of Terminator 2.
-
When people hear about vaccine deniers — anti-vaxxers, to some — they most often think about parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children. But there’s another type of vaccine refusal, and it’s important that we not ignore that.
-
Death by a thousand likes: how Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web – Quartz
Here’s one way to understand the symbiotic relationship between publications and platforms in the digital age. Publications depend on advertising dollars to keep producing content, so they need to hold readers’ attention.
Death by a thousand likes: how Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web https://t.co/AEJ2NabOP0 -
New International-Space-Station Telescope: “Could Unveil the Nature of Dark Matter”
Peering into darkness can strike fear into the hearts of some, but a new space telescope will soon peer into the darkness of “near space” (within a few thousand light years of Earth). Scientists are using the telescope to seek answers related to the…
-
How Many American Cities Are Preparing For The Arrival of Self-Driving Cars? Not Many. | TechCrunch
Only about 6 percent of the country’s biggest cities are planning for or thinking about autonomous vehicles or self-driving cars in their long-range transportation plans, according to the National League of Cities.
How Many American Cities Are Preparing For The Arrival of Self-Driving Cars? Not Many. https://t.co/AMdbgmPpP1 -
Federal judge orders NSA to stop collecting and searching plaintiffs’ phone records / Boing Boing
United States District Judge Richard Leon has affirmed his 2013 ruling and has ordered the NSA to stop collecting phone records belonging to J.J. Little and his firm J.J. Little & Associates, P.C., and to segregate all the records collected to date …
-
A Ducati Does a Burnout on an Phone 6S in Carefully-Engineered Experiment | Motherboard
It’s quite possible that the smartphone is the most unintentionally abused device in our history—it powers a cottage industry of smartphone repair shops, the paranoia surrounding it lines the coffers of accessories companies.
-
Judge Orders NSA to Stop Collecting American’s Phone Records Immediately | Motherboard
The judge who called the NSA’s collection of all phone records “almost Orwellian” and likely unconstitutional just ordered the controversial surveillance program to be shut down immediately.
-
Biohackers Are Implanting LED Lights Under Their Skin | Motherboard
This post contains graphic images. We’re in an austere seminar room, tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Dusseldorf’s Cyborg Fair. Jowan Österlund has spread his tools over the table. A sense of nervousness takes hold of the room.
-
The War on Christmas: Starbucks kills off our holy reindeer
If you have been to a Starbucks recently, you may have noticed the arrival of the usual Christmas-season trappings—things like slightly different paper cups, which is very important if you love Jesus or just want a few bright colors around to help u…
-
Ava Gardner , 1945 : OldSchoolCool
Ava Gardner , 1945 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/elSSlTMH6D https://t.co/Qc2kTtTFUJ
-
Arkansas Attorney General rejects weed bill for grammar issues, ambiguity / Boing Boing
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge came up with a convenient way to reject a proposed amendment to the state constitution to legalize cannabis: incorrect mixed singular and plural nouns, adjectives, and verbs in the amendment.
-
The Lego Batman Movie has been filling out its cast of late, with Rosario Dawson’s Batgirl and Zach Galifianakis’ Joker being two of the most recent actors to lend their voices to the project.
-
RIM founder: TPP is “the worst public policy decision in Canada’s history” / Boing Boing
Bob Coons writes, “Jim Balsillie, one of the founders of RIM, has made the headlines in Canada by stating that signing the TPP could be “the worst public policy decision in the country’s history.
-
This is Tbilisi, capital of Georgia [1024 x 683] : CityPorn
This is Tbilisi, capital of Georgia [1024 x 683] via /r/CityPorn https://t.co/kO7A7pmj6r https://t.co/qMPLSiXMt1
-
Sworkit Kids Gets Your Kids Moving with Randomly Generated Workouts
Android/iPhone: We’ve long been fans of Sworkit for its randomly generated, equipment-free workouts. Sworkit Kids plays off that theme, but targets the workouts to kids aged 5-14. Like the regular version, Sworkit Kids pulls together a set of exerci…
-
HMB while i stick my dick in this outlet… via /r/holdmybeer https://t.co/zzCcUF5Vqm https://t.co/zzkG1zxTwh
-
Why SXSW’s ‘Harassment Summit’ Is a Terrible Solution to Harassment – In These Times
The defining irony of the controversy around SXSW’s planned “harassment summit” — a.k.a.
-
The Last Man On Earth Weighed The Pros and Cons of Post-Apocalyptic Babies
Eventually, The Last Man on Earth had to talk about babies. If you’re living in a post-apocalyptic world and would like to recreate society, eventually you’re going to need to create some new life. So, of course, most of the characters on The Last M…
-
It’s been 2 years, the struggle is real. – Meme on Imgur
It’s been 2 years, the struggle is real. https://t.co/ZpKkzZzZeD https://t.co/Sl3Rksa9Ru
-
HMJB while I do this kick-ass katana routine : holdmyjuicebox
HMJB while I do this kick-ass katana routine via /r/holdmyjuicebox https://t.co/K9HLmmmo7o https://t.co/qHgI96WQAe
-
Just One Energy Drink Can Hurt Your Heart – The Daily Beast
You might want to put down that energy drink. A pilot Mayo Clinic study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests that energy drinks cause measurable increases in both blood pressure and stress hormones.
-
Weekend Box Office: The name’s Brown. Charlie Brown. · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After a slow Halloween that left studios shaken, not stirred, the spectre of box-office failure loomed over Hollywood.
-
The Mindy Project’s Ed Weeks has sold a “lesbian Lothario” comedy to ABC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Proving that the modern dating scene doesn’t solely comprise dudes trying to score with the help of other dudes, Deadline reports that ABC has just bought a comedy about a lady-killing lady (figuratively, that is) from The Mindy Project’s Ed Weeks.
-
Sonic The Hedgehog may have been the most enjoyable game of the 16-bit era. It was fast and fun and remarkably addictive. Part of what made the game great beyond the candy color palette and the relentless “ding” sound of Sonic picking up rings was t…
-
Brian De Palma is set to direct an upcoming action thriller, Lights Out, Variety reports.
-
BBC Sport – FA Cup second round: Salford City drawn at home to Hartlepool
Non-league teams including Salford City, Chesham and Whitehawk will find out their FA Cup second round opponents on Monday evening. The draw will be screened live on BBC Two, with clubs knowing they are just one victory away from the third round.
-
Jeb Bush On Whether He’d Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’
This is a preview of the seventh installment of ’16 And President, the Huffington Post series that takes you behind the scenes for a day in the life on the campaign trail with the candidates running for president. MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H.
-
me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/bkXvronKiw https://t.co/XWxqfdsswI
-
Animal Upon Animal – A super cute, fun kid’s game that adults can also enjoy / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. Animal Upon Animal is a dice-rolling and stacking game where you take 7 animals and roll a die that determines how you take your turn and how you need to stack those pieces upon the animals that have come before.
-
Ice Volcanoes Could Be on Pluto – Scientific American
Two icy volcanoes may lurk near Pluto’s south pole, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest. The images show two mountains roughly circular in shape and with deep depressions in their centers.
-
5 Surprisingly Progressive Ideas In Ben Carson’s New Book | ThinkProgress
Dr. Ben Carson’s ostensibly non-campaign-related book tour across multiple states may have been the peak of his campaign, as he briefly enjoyed front-runner status before wilting somewhat under the glare of policy questions and scrutiny into his pas…
-
Comcast resets 200,000 email accounts after passwords leak | The Verge
Roughly 200,000 Comcast email users got an unpleasant surprise this weekend, as the company responded to a database of customer information offered for sale on a dark web marketplace.
-
This Walking Dead Star Isn’t Quite Convinced Glenn Is Dead Either | Vanity Fair
If Aaron dies, we riot? Yes, that phrase is usually reserved for perennial Walking Dead favorites: Daryl, Rick, Carol, Glenn (no one has rioted yet, because he’s very much alive, right?).
-
New diesel cars will be road tested by EPA in wake of VW scandal | Ars Technica
On Sunday, The New York Times reported that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be expanding its tests on diesel passenger vehicles, including on-road testing in addition to lab tests.
-
Creating a New Habit Comes Down to Four Factors
By now, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the habit loop. It tells us a habit is formed by a cue, routine, and a reward. But there’s one more factor that determines your success with a new habit: its simplicity.
-
On Friday, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge granted a request to reopen the case of Adnan Syed, whose 2000 conviction for murdering his girlfriend was at the center of last year’s hit podcast Serial.
-
Lawmakers demand details on federal use of Stingray phone surveillance | US news | The Guardian
The chair of the House of Representatives oversight committee, Jason Chaffetz, with several subcommittee chairs, has sent a letter to the heads of 24 federal agencies, demanding information on the use of Stingray surveillance devices.
-
Hillary Clinton Lands Key Endorsement from League of Conservation Voters | The Nation
Few groups are more savvy and effective when it comes to supporting candidates than the League of Conservation Voters and the LCV Action Fund.
-
A more progressive Richard Scarry
In a photo set on Flickr, Alan Taylor compares the 1963 and 1991 editions of Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever and notes many changes to make it more progressive and inclusive, particularly with regard to gender roles. For instance, in this one, …
-
Yes, Netanyahu Should Speak to a Democratic Think Tank – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
Yes, Netanyahu Should Speak to a Democratic Think Tank https://t.co/X9Yw6ynhIz -
Easy campfire : interestingasfuck
Easy campfire via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/gp8jkKgfbo https://t.co/5mzkL3emmQ
-
Swedish Anti-Nazi Activists Fail to Invite Jews to Kristallnacht Rally – The Daily Beast
When commemorating the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht with an anti-Nazism rally, you’d think perhaps the most obvious people to invite would be Jewish citizens. Not so for organizers in one Swedish city, where a Monday evening event will transpir…
-
People in Victorian England were fanatical about kaleidoscopes / Boing Boing
When the kaleidoscope was invented in 1816, it triggered a mania in England. People who couldn’t afford their own would pay an enterprising street hustler a penny for a glimpse into the phantasmagorical mirror world.
-
SeaWorld San Diego is ending its killer whale show amid controversy | The Verge
After facing criticism from government groups and animal rights activists about its treatment of captive orcas, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that SeaWorld is moving to phase out its killer whale show in San Diego through next year.
SeaWorld San Diego is ending its killer whale show amid controversy https://t.co/xHQueHQOYJ -
Pluto may have two ice volcanoes near its south pole | The Verge
Pluto may have two ice volcanoes that spew water ice, nitrogen, ammonia, and methane onto the dwarf planet’s surface, NASA announced today. The potential volcanoes were spied near Pluto’s south pole, in images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft…
-
How Henry Kissinger Helped Make Diplomacy by Air Power an All-American Tradition – In These Times
This post first appeared at TomDispatch. In April 2014, ESPN published a photograph of an unlikely duo: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and former national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Yankees…
-
The Quixotic Quest to Find the Fairytale Capital of the World | Atlas Obscura
Joseph Noel Paton’s 1849 painting of Oberon and Titania, fairies from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) Fairies are renowned for causing mischief, so it is little surprise to discover that the fairytale capita…
The Quixotic Quest to Find the Fairytale Capital of the World https://t.co/SPnbpyCye9 -
Moments before being evicted : pics
Moments before being evicted via /r/pics https://t.co/zGMIIZbH93 https://t.co/jtHBMIfS47
-
Some Target Employees Will Have To Skip Thanksgiving Dinner And Go To Work | ThinkProgress
Target announced on Monday that it will open its doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day this year, beginning Black Friday shopping a day early. It will stay open until 11 p.m. or midnight the next day, November 27.
-
SeaWorld San Diego Announces End Of Killer Whale Shows Made Infamous By Blackfish | ThinkProgress
On Monday, SeaWorld announced that changes would be coming to the company’s struggling San Diego theme park — beginning next year, the park will no longer feature the company’s signature killer whale show, which many have held up as an example of th…
-
Rudolph didn’t see me trough the fog : FoggyPics
Rudolph didn’t see me trough the fog via /r/FoggyPics https://t.co/oK8hhc47Ct https://t.co/u8AAPslxSw
-
Additional Reading on the Netanyahu/Obama Meeting – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
The Mormon Church’s law of chastity prohibits masturbation and premarital sex. The Church even frowns on dressing in a non-chaste manner and—no surprise here—homosexuality is considered a major-league sin, a big “no no” to our friends the Latter Day…
-
It should come as no surprise to regular listeners of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast that for a good chunk of the two-hour episode he recorded with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, the comedian was fixated on making the conversation about himse…
-
Gas & Grass (forget the ass for now)|Dangerous Minds
There used to be a famous bumper sticker in the 1970s that warned would-be hitchhikers that they were expected to pay for their lifts with “Gas, Grass or Ass, No One Rides for Free.
-
The Kids In The Hall made the perfect man—and troupe · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ new Netflix series With Bob And David has us thinking about our favorite episodes of our favorite sketch sh…
-
The Latest Ice Age Short Shoots Scrat Into Space
After it premiered with the Peanuts movie, Fox has put the short “Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe” up online. I have literally no feelings about any Ice Age character except Scrat, whose life is a reminder of the constant misery that is the pursuit of the si…
-
Nicolas Cage memed himself on the set of Dog Eat Dog · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
One only need access to the internet and have a few moments to kill in order to find any number of strange Nicolas Cage videos, stories, and memes—none better known than the “You Don’t Say?” image comic adapted from his only slightly-less-well-known…
-
Somewhere over the rainbow, Cursive imagines “Dorothy At Forty” · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: some great songs with prominent literary references. Dorothy Gale didn’t peak with her defeat of The Wicked Witch Of The West—at least, not in the books.
-
Mexico violence: Ten dead in Guerrero cockfight shootout – BBC News
At least 10 people have been killed in a shootout at a cockfighting event in the restive central Mexican state of Guerrero. Another seven people were injured.
-
Pastor Kevin Swanson has some unusual tips for parents who attended his “National Religious Liberties Conference.
-
A veteran of the Late Show With David Letterman and Last Comic Standing, Sean Donnelly is no newcomer to stand-up. He’s popped up in everything from Broad City to Inside Amy Schumer, and he’s the co-ost of the podcast My Dumb Friends with Dan St. Ge…
-
Trim Will Find Your Subscriptions, Cancel Those You No Longer Want | TechCrunch
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Birchbox, Spotify, HBO NOW, newspapers, box of the month clubs, meal services, and more: The rise of subscription-based commerce means consumers now pay for a number of items on a recurring basis.
Trim Will Find Your Subscriptions, Cancel Those You No Longer Want https://t.co/5Foe3HsDiC -
Why Ben Carson’s Problem With the Truth Really Matters | The New Republic
Ben Carson’s campaign turned into a kaleidoscope of oddities last week: The retired neurosurgeon made fanciful claims about the purpose of Egyptian pyramids and the political experience of the Founding Fathers.
-
Charlie Hebdo editor’s manifesto to be published posthumously in January | Books | The Guardian
The manifesto, entitled Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia and the True Enemies of Free Expression, was written by Stéphane Charbonnier, the editor-in-chief of the popular satirical magazine, who was killed in January after two gunmen stormed t…
Charlie Hebdo editor’s manifesto to be published posthumously in January https://t.co/6lqnQ3TQbE -
me irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/geDHacjdst https://t.co/JQnTyDPlxL
-
The Mormon Church’s law of chastity prohibits masturbation and premarital sex. The Church even frowns on dressing in a non-chaste manner and—no surprise here—homosexuality is considered a major-league sin, a big “no no” to our friends the Latter Day…
-
WADA Accuses Russia of Having a State-Sponsored Doping Program for Athletes – The Atlantic
Last week, ahead of a major report by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Russia banned five of its athletes for alleged steroid use and other biological irregularities.
-
Robin Williams Posthumously Blocks a New Aladdin Sequel Featuring His Voice | Vanity Fair
Given how rapidly moviemaking technology is advancing these days, it’s become easier and easier for celluloid to blend the line between the life and death of a beloved actor.
-
The Lego Batman Movie Just Cast a Very Unexpected Pop Superstar as Commissioner Gordon
When news of The Lego Batman Movie was announced, obviously it was going to be crazy. However, now things are getting really out of control, in a hilarious and very unexpected way, as Mariah Carey is voicing Commissioner Gordon. You read that right.…
-
How Netflix’s Pablo Escobar Drama Ignores His Colombian Victims – The Atlantic
The Narconnaissance? The Medellingularity? La Narconquista? Pabloverload? Call it what you will, Escobar-themed entertainment is booming.
-
BuzzFeed made a real life version of Snake · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
While they didn’t double as a map, or a music player, or a tiny, handheld computer, those old, late-’90s, early-’00s Nokias we all had did have a few things to recommend them.
-
MTV’s Scream gets two new showrunners · Newswire · The A.V. Club
While enumerating the problems MTV’s Scream had in its freshman season, T.V. Club made some suggestions for a “complete overhaul” of the show, including but not limited to rerunning Human Giant in its place.
-
Waiting for new episodes of DC’s TV shows to hit your favourite streaming service? You might be waiting a while.
-
A tough year can’t keep The Comeback Kid John Mulaney down · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
On paper, it hasn’t looked like the best year for comedian John Mulaney. His Fox sitcom was canceled after a brief stint of bad reviews and dwindling ratings, which would probably be enough to send anyone into a bit of a funk.
-
The Story Behind Flesh and Bone’s Taboo Plot Twist | Vanity Fair
While writing and executive producing Breaking Bad, Moira Walley-Beckett helped chronicle the arc of antihero Walter White from milquetoast and monochromatic to an incredibly complex character in a hopeless predicament of his own making.
-
Watch the banned “Taste the Bush” wine commercial! / Boing Boing
The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned winemaker Premier Estates’ “Taste the Bush” advertisement, created by agency Saatchi Masius.
-
Save Money on Taxes by Converting to a Roth IRA While the Market Is Down
The stock market has been pretty weak lately, and while that’s no reason to panic, it’s a great time to take advantage of certain money moves. For example, if you’re thinking about converting to a Roth 401(k) or IRA, now might be a good time.
-
Obama and Netanyahu strike hawkish tone on US military aid to Israel | World news | The Guardian
Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu met for the first time in a year on Monday, pledging to spend much of their meeting discussing ways to expand US military aid to Israel.
-
Hirtenstieg at the Brocken in Germany[OC][3.264×2.448] : EarthPorn
Hirtenstieg at the Brocken in Germany[OC][3.264×2.448] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/y5Hc5eCeBk https://t.co/fPEo1BPqRr
-
HTTPS certificates with forbidden domains issued by “quite a few” CAs | Ars Technica
Browser-trusted certificate authority (CA) Comodo said it mistakenly issued transport layer security credentials for “mailarchive,” “help,” and at least five other forbidden names and warned that “quite a number” of unnamed competitors have committe…
-
The energy secretary, Amber Rudd, has been accused of misleading the public after a leaked letter revealed that the UK is predicted to fall short of its European Union obligations to get 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020 The letter from Rudd…
-
Download the Software That Provides Stephen Hawking’s Voice | Open Culture
Ah to be possessed of a highly distinctive voice. Actress Katherine Hepburn had one.
-
ClickHole – Clean Eating Challenge
Your body is a sad, gruesome temple, teeming with bile and pre-disease. When people see it, they believe in God a little less. You’re ashamed of how you look and feel, and you don’t know how to make yourself look and feel any better.
ClickHole – Clean Eating Challenge https://t.co/eOA46gaqMS -
Government energy policies ‘will increase CO2 emissions’ – BBC News
Government energy policy changes since the election are likely to increase CO2 emissions, according to BBC analysis. The government said subsidies had become over-generous and changes were needed to keep energy bills down.
-
Myanmar poll: Songs and celebrations at NLD rally – BBC News
Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy has said it is confident of victory in the first openly contested national election in 25 years. Official results have been released for just 28 seats, with 25 won by the NLD.
-
Neurosurgeon had brain-computer interface installed in his own head / Boing Boing
Neurosurgeon Phil Kennedy, a pioneer in brain-machine interfaces that enable “locked-in” patients to control computers with their minds, is trying to build a system that will translate imagined speech into computer speech so that severely paralyzed …
-
Volkswagen offers $1,000 gift cards toward car emissions repairs in US | Business | The Guardian
After months of apologies Volkswagen has a solution come up with another way to appease angry US motorists caught up in its emissions scandal: gift cards.
-
Can Myanmar’s New Government Control Its Military? – The New Yorker
At 6 A.M. on Sunday, five minutes before sunrise, Burmese voters began lining up at polling stations in Yangon to participate in their country’s first national elections in decades. The two main contenders were the Union Solidarity and Development P…
-
All the muscle juice is gone! : trippinthroughtime
All the muscle juice is gone! via /r/trippinthroughtime https://t.co/k2vVPMtaro https://t.co/EWCFoURXxZ
-
Hillary Clinton Wins The Support Of A Major Environmental Group | ThinkProgress
The political arm of the League of Conservation Voters endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Wednesday. Karpinski is also set to appear with Clinton at an event in New Hampshire to announce the decision.
-
There’s a Demonic New Theory About What Caused the Mass Disappearance on The Leftovers
“Lens” turns its focus on The Leftovers’ mothers, chiefly Nora and Erika, who find they have things in common other than the children they’ve lost. But just because they understand each other doesn’t mean they’re going to become best friends. Oh yea…
-
SeaWorld to end killer whale shows in wake of mounting protests | US news | The Guardian
SeaWorld is reportedly planning to end orca shows at its theme park in San Diego as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the company in the wake of mounting protests over its treatment of animals, according to media reports.
SeaWorld to end killer whale shows in wake of mounting protests https://t.co/f2Gk1tiKS9 -
Enterprise Tech Vendors Explore Strategies To Fight Disruption | TechCrunch
We are in the midst of a tectonic shift in enterprise technology as the cloud has an ever-growing impact on how businesses provision infrastructure and software.
-
Standing Up for Migrant Workers in the Gulf, 1 Installation at a Time | The Nation
Saadiyat Island, or “Happiness Island,” is a luxury development under construction off the coast of Abu Dhabi, the capital and second-biggest city of the United Arab Emirates.
-
Mumford & Sons Plot ‘An Arrow Through the Heartland’ Tour | Rolling Stone
Mumford & Sons spent the summer months of 2015 touring in support of their new album Wilder Mind, and the folk troupe will once again hit the road in April 2016 for a month’s worth of U.S. arena gigs.
-
‘Spectre’ — How the Multiverse Era Killed James Bond | Rolling Stone
Until 2008, the James Bond franchise was a lot like Groundhog Day: An infinite loop, every lap of which was superficially different but fundamentally the same.
-
To America, We express our deepest and utter condolences on this sad day. – Imgur
-
Live-action Star Wars Battlefront trailer teleports Anna Kendrick to the front lines | The Verge
The newest live-action trailer for Electronic Arts’ Star Wars Battlefront continues the trend of channeling fan nostalgia to comment on the transformative power of games.
Live-action Star Wars Battlefront trailer teleports Anna Kendrick to the front lines https://t.co/9DWRbUVmkq -
The first update for the new Apple TV is available now | The Verge
The new Apple TV may have just been released, but the first software update for the new set-top box has just been released, according to 9to5Mac. tvOS 9.0.1, which is likely a series of bug fixes, is available as an over-the-air update.
The first update for the new Apple TV is available now https://t.co/WiCxsKXIZV -
Netflix is Making A Murderer (or at least a series called that) · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Streaming behemoth Netflix frequently receives potshots from other streaming companies, because that’s how it works when you’re king of the online content mountain.
-
The best part of Fallout 4 is the music | The Verge
There are a lot of reasons to enjoy a Fallout game: the story, the character creation, the sense of exploration. But the element that holds everything together is the fantastic music.
The best part of Fallout 4 is the music https://t.co/sdISh7mar0 -
Touch sensitive plant : woahdude
Touch sensitive plant via /r/woahdude https://t.co/tBuhVr7HOi https://t.co/Qp3of8qhA7
-
Facebook told by Belgian court to stop tracking non-users – BBC News
Facebook says it will appeal against the decision and that the order relates to a cookie it has used for five years. The cookie is installed when an internet user visits a Facebook page even if they are not members.
Facebook told by Belgian court to stop tracking non-users https://t.co/7X7vocSSwc -
New Horizons: Pluto may have ice volcanoes – BBC News
Two possible ice volcanoes have been identified on the surface of Pluto. They are seen in images returned from the New Horizons probe which flew past the dwarf planet in July.
New Horizons: Pluto may have ice volcanoes https://t.co/dyWmTTU3dU -
Pluto’s Four Tiny Moons’ Topsy-Turvy Tumbles | Animation
WATCH MORE SHOWS
-
The Fish Head Nebula js – Just Space
The Fish Head Nebula js https://t.co/SHF4uOBJCp https://t.co/fZV4ZCBZeF
-
Another angle of Aqib Talib’s NFL eye poke : gif
Another angle of Aqib Talib’s NFL eye poke via /r/gif https://t.co/2iN2VayZwm https://t.co/ge9P7W3UAK
-
Here’s the kind of data the UK government will have about you, in realtime / Boing Boing
UK Home Secretary Theresa May has announced legislation that will force ISPs to preserve the records of all of your online interactions and give them up to practically anyone in government, with little to no judicial oversight.
Here’s the kind of data the UK government will have about you, in realtime https://t.co/dQO1REZTpZ -
Clinton Calls for Liberalizing Marijuana Laws | Mother Jones
Hillary Clinton moved ever so very slightly to the left on marijuana legalization over the weekend, after generally ducking the issue so far in her presidential campaign.
Clinton Calls for Liberalizing Marijuana Laws https://t.co/DZ6FoUXra9 -
Supreme Court punts issue if warrants needed to get your cell site data | Ars Technica
On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the nationwide legal confusion to continue regarding a bread-and-butter privacy topic in the digital age: whether the constitution demands that the authorities need a probable cause court warrant to obtain cell-s…
Supreme Court punts issue if warrants needed to get your cell site data https://t.co/kpdjt3fZhH -
Midterm Elections Say Nothing About The National Ideology
After the Democrats lost the Kentucky governor’s race last week, following the Republican down-ballot triumphs in the 2010 and 2014 midterms, declarations that the Democratic Party is dead quickly made the rounds.
Midterm Elections Say Nothing About The National Ideology https://t.co/GkMxWlgfEA -
The University of Missouri’s president announces his resignation on Monday after protests over his handling of racial tensions on campus rocked the school.
University of Missouri president resigns: ‘I take full responsibility’ – video https://t.co/XALLzV5TBn -
LINABUAN SUR, the Philippines — When Eril Andrade left this small village, he was healthy and hoping to earn enough on a fishing boat on the high seas to replace his mother’s leaky roof.
-
Obama Administration Officials Insist Russia Is to Blame for the Syrian Crisis | The Nation
Last week, on November 5th, The Wall Street Journal reported that the CIA will be stepping up its illegal war in Syria by increasing the number of weapons it is providing to the so-called Syrian moderate opposition, putting the lie to President Obam…
-
Diplomacy by Air Strike Is an All-American Tradition | The Nation
In April 2014, ESPN published a photograph of an unlikely duo: Samantha Power, US ambassador to the United Nations, and former national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Yankees-Red Sox season opener.
Diplomacy by Air Strike Is an All-American Tradition https://t.co/noxQLbOReQ -
Does Fallout 4 Know How to Say Your Name? – YouTube
Fallout 4’s robo-butler Codsworth knows how to say over 1,000 names, according to Bethesda. We decided to put him to the test.Subscribe: http://goo.gl/qw3Ac7Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/Cqt2cnVisit our playl… https://goo.gl/GmkOs4F
-
Twitter Will Turn Over Its Board, Add More Diversity | Re/code
Twitter’s board won’t look like Twitter’s board for long. The social communications company, which already looks drastically different from a leadership standpoint than it did just six months ago, is planning more changes to its board of directors, …
-
Ted Cruz takes a dig at ‘moderate’ Marco Rubio
Attacking his fellow Republicans as spineless moderates makes Ted Cruz so happy. Ted Cruz knows how to twist the knife.
-
Here’s the “Donald Trump as President” Spoof Video You’ve Been Waiting For | Vanity Fair
Though Donald Trump has been pretending that he might run for president since the 1980s, this past June he announced that, in all seriousness, he was going to pursue the Republican nomination.
-
The Outfield | Online Only | n+1
The baseball wives know you don’t want to be the first to show up in Scottsdale, but surely you don’t want to be the last to arrive at the party. And it is a party: luncheons and spa days, cocktail parties and color consultations, mornings at the fu…
-
DOJ won’t help FCC fight state laws that harm municipal broadband | Ars Technica
The US Department of Justice has decided not to support the Federal Communications Commission in its legal fight against state laws that restrict municipal broadband projects.
-
This Australian Town Changed Its Name to a Number – Condé Nast Traveler
When the U.S. post office rolled out its new five-digit ZIP codes in 1963, America was skeptical. “People were concerned they were being turned into numbers,” a Post Office historian told Time. “They thought it was depersonalizing them.
-
Indonesia drugs: Crocodiles ‘to guard death row prisons’ – BBC News
The head of Indonesia’s anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts. Budi Waseso said crocodiles often made better guards than humans – because they could not be bribed.
-
Man Really Letting No One Have It During Exit Interview – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Keeping his voice at a measured volume and holding everything back, departing employee David Hughes was really letting no one have it during his exit interview Monday, sources at local accounting firm Grier and Associates confirmed.
-
The Ghost of Scott Walker Will Haunt the Fourth Republican Debate | The New Republic
When the Republican National Committee chose Wisconsin to host its fourth Republican debate ten months ago, it seemed an unconventional choice. The Badger state has never hosted a Republican debate.
The Ghost of Scott Walker Will Haunt the Fourth Republican Debate https://t.co/24a1B4ahfY -
For the Republican Party, The Black Bogeyman Cometh | The New Republic
The largest one-time release of federal prisoners in U.S. history took place over Halloween weekend, and hardly anyone, it seems, got scared. Most of those released were men of color—African Americans and Latinos who were convicted of low-level drug…
-
Match Group of dating sites hoping $3.1bn float will woo investors | Business | The Guardian
The New York based owner of dating websites including Tinder, Match and OkCupid is to press ahead with a float valuing the group at $3.1bn (£2.1bn). Match Group will be hoping sufficient investors “swipe right” to get the deal off to a good start.
-
Donald Trump denounced by Alejandro González Iñárritu | Film | The Guardian
Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu has denounced “xenophobic” political commentators, in a speech clearly aimed at Donald Trump, whose campaign to become a presidential candidate has been attacked for criticising Mexicans.
-
President Barack Obama and Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday insisted they had not given up on the pursuit of Middle East peace, even as the prospect of an elusive agreement between Israelis and Palestinians appears further out of reach
-
Joe Biden calls on male students to expand role in fighting sexual assault | US news | The Guardian
Vice-President Joe Biden is urging male students to play a bigger role in attempts to combat campus sexual assault as he sets off on a weeklong college tour.
-
The Most Mind-Blowing and Astonishing Cosplay From BlizzCon 2015!
Nobody cosplays better than gamers. Don’t believe us? Check out this incredible gallery of beautiful cosplay images from this past weekend’s BlizzCon. The attention to detail and the playfulness are just unbelievable. Here it is—our ultimate BlizzCo…
-
What the Hell Just Happened at Mizzou? – The Daily Beast
The University of Missouri’s president resigned on Monday following a sudden strike by the school’s football team.
-
LONDON — The Russian security forces were behind a massive drug-cheating program that “sabotaged” the London Olympics in 2012, according to a stunning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency. It has long been suspected that Russian athletes used perf…
-
The Best NES Emulator for Windows
If you want the nostalgia of an old-school NES with the quality and ease of an HDTV, an emulator can take you far. If you want a perfect NES experience, you’ll want to go with the Nestopia UE core in RetroArch.
-
We Got This! determines which Bond is the best Bond · Podmass · The A.V. Club
Most Read A.V.
-
Will Body Cameras Work? – The Atlantic
In the past year, protestors and activists have accused the U.S. police departments of systemic racism and abuse. The nation has an app for that: Police body-worn cameras.
-
Why Stories About Ben Carson’s Past and Marco Rubio’s Credit Card Didn’t Make a Dent – The Atlantic
Two Republican candidates. Two sets of potentially damaging stories. So far, not a great deal of damage. What happened? In one case, much-anticipated credit-card records from Marco Rubio produced … not a great deal.
-
President Obama just joined Facebook | The Verge
Facebook now averages 1 billion active users per day, and today it got one more very important user. Barack Obama, dad, husband, and 44th president of the United States, has just joined.
-
Get romantic with tentacle monsters / Offworld
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a preview of consensual tentacle sex game Consentacle and a new documentary series on women in games.
-
Watch Reese Witherspoon Brainstorm Ideas for Legally Blonde 3 | Vanity Fair
It’s nearly impossible not to say “y’all” in the presence of Oscar-winning actress and proud Nashville native Reese Witherspoon.
-
3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation | The Nation
In shocking news that comes in utter contradiction to a statement released just yesterday, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe has announced his resignation.
-
Tag Heuer’s $1,500 smartwatch brings a high-class brand name to Android Wear | Ars Technica
The smartwatch market has led to a bunch of electronics companies making questionably fashionable wrist watches, but now the Swiss are here to (supposedly) show everyone how it’s done.
-
Tommy Wiseau, director of the notoriously bad cult film The Room, first released in 2003, has suggested he might remake the film in 3D and release the original in China.
-
Eleven-year-old Paige Cheney’s freckled face furrowed slightly as the late afternoon sun began sinking behind the playground on the army base she calls home. “When I miss him most, I turn on my favorite radio station and it soothes me. They talk a l…
-
Something stunning happened last week, which has never before occurred in Britain in November: a subtropical butterfly, the long-tailed blue, was seen flying on the south coast of England.
-
For a show billed as a Breaking Bad, spinoff centering on criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), the first season of Better Call Saul had a conspicuous lack of Saul Goodman.
-
It’s official: Hot dogs are not a type of sandwich · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The controversy’s origins are lost to the sands of time, but many believe it was the actual cause of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.
-
Exclusive DC preview: Genevieve Valentine ends her riveting Catwoman run · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For the past year of Catwoman, writer Genevieve Valentine has done remarkable work building a new status quo and supporting cast for Selina Kyle, who has been caught between her roles as crime boss and vigilante for the majority of the run.
-
Man flies new jetpack around the Statue of Liberty / Boing Boing
For decades, engineer Nelson Tyler has kept the jetpack dream alive, most recently with the company Jetpack Aviation. Above, video of the company’s CEO David Mayman flying the latest model, the JB-9 JetPack, over Manhattan.
-
SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding killer whale show at its San Diego park next year as part of a comprehensive strategy unveiled Monday to re-position the embattled company amid persistent criticisms of how it treats its orcas.
-
New encryption ransomware targets Linux systems | Ars Technica
The antivirus software company Doctor Web has issued an alert about a new form of crypto-ransomware that targets users of Linux-based operating systems. Designated as “Linux.Encoder.
-
Netflix jumps into true-crime documentaries with Making a Murderer | The Verge
True-crime stories have become a hot commodity, and Netflix is getting into the game with a new 10-part documentary series called Making a Murderer.
-
What We’re Following Monday Afternoon, 11/9 – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
Spectre pits 007 against his greatest adversary – international exchange rates | Film | The Guardian
Spectre’s Skyfall-topping feats in the UK last week may have got everyone prematurely worked up. The US reviews for the 24th Bond film have been less forgiving – one obvious reason why, with a $73m (£48m) debut this weekend, it didn’t match its pred…
-
“UFO Clouds” Are Real. Here’s How They Happen
Social media users in Cape Town, South Africa, posted photos over the weekend that call to mind classic alien invasion movies. The pictures feature eerie, saucer-shaped puffs that seem to hang over the sky like UFOs. But these so-called “UFO clouds”…
-
A Side-by-Side Look at Cities After 2ºC Versus 4ºC of Global Warming | Motherboard
Waterlogged cities might seem like stuff of the post-apocalypse, but that post-apocalypse might come as soon as a single generation. Climate Central put together some sobering visuals of what cities would look like in the year 2100, if our carbon em…
-
Congress Talks About ‘Cybersecurity’ More Than Ever, But Still Doesn’t Get It | Motherboard
Information security, more commonly referred to as cybersecurity, is more mainstream than ever.
-
Katherine Rosman recently wrote an article for the NY Times called How Organic Avenue Lost All Its Juice about a small NYC-based chain of juice stores recently going out of business. The piece is also a quote gold mine reflecting the zeitgeist of co…
-
General Electric to build new trains for India’s railways – BBC News
General Electric has won a $2.6bn (£1.7bn) contract from the Indian government to build a fleet of new trains for the country. The US-based industrial company said it would supply India will 1,000 new diesel trains over the next 11 years.
-
BREAKING: Chris Christie Vetoes Legislation Making It Easier To Vote In New Jersey | ThinkProgress
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed legislation Monday that would have added 1.6 million new voters to the state’s rolls and made New Jersey the third state in the country to adopt automatic voter registration.
-
Police investigation after sea lion killed in Dortmund Zoo – BBC News
Officials first thought the sea lion, named Holly, died in an accident. But police are now investigating foul play after an autopsy revealed signs of a blow to the skull and missing teeth.
-
Supreme Court rejects appeal in major cellphone tracking case | The Verge
The case centers around Quartavious Davis, who was found guilty of a series of Florida robberies that happened in 2010. Police were able to tie Davis to the robberies using location information obtained by Davis’ cellphone carrier, MetroPCS.
-
Fallout 4 is perfect for parents — if you have a PlayStation Vita | The Verge
One of the biggest adjustments I’ve had to make as a parent is figuring out time to enjoy non-family-friendly entertainment. It’s hard to watch Game of Thrones or play Assassin’s Creed with two kids under the age of three running around.
-
Great British Bake Off nominated for Rose D’Or – BBC News
The Great British Bake Off has been nominated for a prestigious Rose d’Or award, which recognises the best in TV and radio entertainment programming.
-
Watch out for the remote-controlled Pizza Rat! / Boing Boing
It’s when you carry a frame and door to someone else’s door, while dressed as someone who’s staying at home and giving out candy; you interpose your door between you and their door, ring the bell, and when they answer, they’re confronted with your d…
-
Fox Business promises not to be like CNBC cuz tough questions are too much for the GOP
When Fox Business Network holds the next GOP debate Tuesday night, the moderators’ biggest goal is not to end up being placed alongside CNBC in debate lore as producing a “crap sandwich,” as Reince Priebus so eloquently put it. Hadas Gold reports:
-
Video: Sowing hatred and securing power in Myanmar – Al Jazeera English
We explore the contradictions and subtleties of how Russia’s unique economic structure impacts everyday life. After its landslide election victory, we explore the steps Turkey’s government needs to take to revive its economy.
-
German FA boss resigns over 2006 World Cup scandal – Al Jazeera English
German football association President Wolfgang Niersbach has resigned over a 2006 World Cup scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the world’s biggest football federation.
-
So I Guess the Holy Grail Is a Thing On Once Upon a Time Now? Okay, Sure.
Yeah. Why not? At it’s very heart, Once Upon a Time is an almost offensive melange of every story that’s ever existed. Why not have Merlin casually toting the Holy Grail around?
-
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Amid a wave of student and faculty protests, primarily over racial tensions, that all but paralyzed its flagship campus here, the president of the University of Missouri system resigned Monday, urging everyone involved to “use my res…
-
Hands-on with the $1,500 Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch | The Verge
Tag Heuer has teamed up with Google and Intel to launch the Connected Watch, its first Android Wear timepiece. The Connected isn’t just any average Android Wear watch, however. It’s a $1,500 luxury timepiece clad in titanium and bearing more than a …
-
NYC FC’s appointment of Patrick Vieira as head coach is a two-way risk | Football | The Guardian
The City Academy in Manchester is part state-of-the-art footballing campus, part metaphor for how City Football Group sees itself. Each field looks towards the next field the players should be aspiring to play on, right up to the mini-stadium with i…
-
Starbucks red cups and the outrage machine – Entertaining Faith
When it comes to outrage, the Internet abhors a vacuum. The latest missives have come from different sides of Christianity over, of all things, the new design of the Starbucks red cup. This year’s rollout saw a plain red cup, rather than the decorat…
-
Two Dams Burst, Releasing a Deadly Flood of Red Sludge in Brazil – The Atlantic
On November 5, two dams retaining tons of iron mining waste near the Brazilian town of Bento Rodrigues burst, releasing a massive flood of thick, red toxic mud that flattened buildings and trees, smothered the small town, killed at least four, and l…
-
My blind cat walks on a harness and lead like a dog, then climbs people to give them a hug. – Imgur
-
This Video Explains Why Words Get Stuck on the Tip of Your Tongue
It’s one of life’s most frustrating annoyances: when a word gets stuck on the tip of your tongue, and try as you might, you just can’t think of that actor’s name or that vocabulary word. According to SciShow, this happens once a week for most of us,…
-
Antimatter Protons Stick Together Just Like Normal Particles – Scientific American
What’s the difference between matter and antimatter? Sometimes nothing, a new study finds.
-
Topography of a novel: The Hopeful by Tracy O’Neill | Books | The Guardian
Every book has its own texture, materiality, and topography.
-
Nigeria’s anti-corruption chief is fired – BBC News
Russia should be suspended from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry recommends in a report alleging corruption and a state cover-up.
-
‘Minority Report’ Is Real — And It’s Really Reporting Minorities – Mic
Every morning, officers across the nation get a predictive map that tells them where crime is likely to happen before it’s committed.
-
Greeting to the Sun – Zadar, Croatia [5589×3144][OC] : ExposurePorn
Greeting to the Sun – Zadar, Croatia [5589×3144][OC] via /r/ExposurePorn https://t.co/R9lr4EAjGB https://t.co/9gyAh5xasz
-
Wall Street bankers to see year-end bonuses drop for first time since 2011 | Business | The Guardian
Pity Wall Street’s bankers. Their year-end bonuses are expected to fall by 5 to 10% this year – the first drop since 2011, according to a survey released on Monday.
-
Google Expands Its Expeditions Pioneer VR Program To More U.S. Schools
Earlier this year, Google announced its so-called Expeditions Pioneer Program. This project aims to bring Google’s Cardboard VR viewer to students by bringing a full kit of gear for using virtual reality in the classroom to schools.
-
Volkswagen apologizes to 2-liter diesel owners with $500 prepaid cards | The Verge
Volkswagen of America is assembling what it calls a “goodwill package” for owners of 2-liter diesel vehicles affected by the company’s massive emissions scandal, consisting of a $500 prepaid Visa card and another $500 good at Volkswagen dealerships.
-
A 21-year-old named Boyan Slat says he can solve one of the greatest ecological disasters of our age: the build-up of vast amounts of plastic in our oceans.
-
A New Orleanian would not find it odd that a discussion of living in the city should begin with a funeral. Life and death hold each other fondly in these neighborhoods, two ageless lovers engaging arm and arm to move in a slow, sexy tango, taking tu…
-
Politics is the reality show that affects us all. How big will the audience be for Tuesday’s Republican debate in Milwaukee, this time featuring only eight candidates in the prime-time event? You would think people running for office would be happy …
-
Big brother to the rescue. via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/XqZCWeejkm https://t.co/OU2LBfW4Tn
-
Why Can’t Republicans Support a Carbon Tax? – The New Yorker
In June of this year, the Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, and Brian Schatz, of Hawaii, went to the conservative American Enterprises Institute to introduce the American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act, their proposal for a revenu…
-
‘Brexit?’ Everything now at stake for Cameron – BBC News
The shadow boxing is over. On Tuesday, David Cameron will send a letter to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council.
-
Scenes of celebration as University of Missouri president resigns – video | US news | The Guardian
A crowd of students at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus celebrate after the resignation of president Tim Wolfe.
-
Everything You Need To Know About The Environmental Views Of Kentucky’s New Governor | ThinkProgress
Environmentalists who went to the polls in Kentucky’s gubernatorial race last week likely found themselves in a quandary. Both candidates strongly supported coal, expressed doubts about the science behind global warming, and criticized President Oba…
-
Worried About Voter Turnout? Demand an Election Day Holiday | The Nation
What Can I Do? Voter turnout in the United States is abysmal, and politicians across the country have been making voting even more difficult through discriminatory voter ID laws, drastic cuts to early voting days, and other measures that make it har…
-
The Sexism of 1960s Media Covering Cave Explorers – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
The Sexism of 1960s Media Covering Cave Explorers https://t.co/CwPpzFIdZJ -
If you were given only one word to describe your feeling after watching the original Star Wars trilogy, “Delightful” is a good one. That’s also the word J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan focused on when writing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which seem…
-
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe Resigns Amid Protests – ABC News
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned today amid protests on campus. Wolfe made the announcement at a Board of Curators meeting at the Columbia, Missouri, university.
-
Washington-Baltimore maglev gets $28 million for preliminary studies | The Verge
The US Department of Transportation has awarded a $27.8 million grant to investigate the construction of a high-speed maglev rail line between Washington and Baltimore, according to Maryland governor Larry Hogan.
-
Expelliarmus! Harry Potter Book Night 2016 theme announced | Children’s books | The Guardian
Related: Do you know how to pronounce Voldemort’s name? From Wingardium Leviosa to Expecto Patronum, the magic of the Harry Potter books revolves around spells, so what better theme is there for the upcoming Harry Potter Book Night?
Expelliarmus! Harry Potter Book Night 2016 theme announced https://t.co/H2x0PLK9be -
Bob Ross coming back to Twitch with weekly broadcasts and annual marathons | Ars Technica
Twitch’s recent marathon of 403 episodes of the charming PBS show The Joy of Painting introduced a new generation to Bob Ross and his painting technique, capturing our hearts. Over its week-long broadcast, Twitch recorded more than 5.6 million uniqu…
-
BBC Sport – German football chief resigns over corruption allegations
The president of the German Football Association (DFB) has resigned over a Fifa payment that has resulted in a tax evasion investigation. Wolfgang Niersbach said he was taking the “political responsibility” for a controversial 6.7m euro (£4.9m) paym…
-
Breakthrough Prize Recipients Present Their Latest Findings [Live Video Feed] – Scientific American
This year, the Breakthrough Prize honored scientists who are teasing out the genetics of common diseases, a mathematician who solved long-standing topology problems, a team of 1370 physicists who overturned many physics theories when they proved tha…
-
Volkswagen Is Offering Diesel Drivers $1,000 as Apology | Motherboard
After cheating on emissions tests and misleading the public about how efficient its clean diesel vehicles were, Volkswagen is now attempting to make amends with its US diesel drivers by giving them free money.
-
Ancient ‘Fire Frog’ Among Odd New Amphibians Found in Brazil
The unusual fossil amphibians, described by Field Museum paleontologist Kenneth Angielczyk and colleagues in Nature Communications on November 5, were found in Brazil’s Paranaíba Basin and date back to the early part of the Permian period, about 278…
-
Egypt Military Detains Leading Activist Journalist | Al Jazeera America
Egypt arrested a prominent journalist and human rights advocate on Sunday after he was questioned by military intelligence over a report he published about a trial of former army officers, security sources said.
Egypt military detains leading activist journalist https://t.co/PHzrAPdG2t -
Why The Walking Dead’s creators are betting on YouTube with a PewDiePie show | The Verge
When YouTube announced its new subscription service last month, original movies and TV shows were a big part of the equation, and the company rattled off a murderer’s row of online talent.
-
What It’s Like to Bring Your Mom to Work – Bloomberg Business
“Shhh, Mom. Lower your voice. Mom, you’re being loud.” That’s how Natalie Kitroeff, a reporter at Bloomberg, spent a good bit of Bring In Your Parents Day last week. Kitroeff’s mom, unfortunately, mostly ignored her daughter’s requests.
-
Another enterprise software company has filed to go public: Atlassian, the company that owns services like Slack competitor HipChat, JIRA, and Confluence, has filed an F-1 form with the SEC to go public on NASDAQ under the ticker “TEAM”, with the in…
-
My cat calendar page from the weekend was all blepped up. : Blep
My cat calendar page from the weekend was all blepped up. via /r/Blep https://t.co/zws9bAQcIw https://t.co/3PPjr9Ehkz
-
Tag Heuer unveils Connected smartwatch running Android – BBC News
Swiss watch-maker Tag Heuer has unveiled its first smartwatch – a $1,500 (£990) timepiece that runs the Android Wear operating system.
-
Do you not have a mum? Or have a mum but she’s far away? Or have a mum but you don’t like her? Do you have $40 spare? Then you can now rent yourself a mum. Nina Keneally has established a business in New York City renting out her services as a mothe…
-
Need a mom? Help is at hand with one woman’s new service – video | World news | The Guardian
Nina Keneally is offering maternal advice and support to the youth of New York’s Bushwick neighbourhood. A cup of tea, a sympathetic ear and a non-judgmental sounding board can be just what’s called for, she tells the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt.
-
Since the inception of WTF in 2009, Marc Maron has talked about his dream interview: Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live. And now, after an extended period of actively and forcefully campaigning for a chat in the opening bit of his show, …
-
Land Rover’s Evoque Convertible is the drop-top luxury truck you never asked for | The Verge
Today, we were blessed with the official unveiling of Land Rover’s Evoque Convertible, an honest-to-God ragtop Sport Utility Vehicle. Like the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet before it, this thing embodies the most unholy of vehicular mashups: one part…
-
The Salton Sea, California’s Largest Lake, Is Now a Public-Health Threat – The Atlantic
On October 28, the smog-control agency for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, issued an odor advisory for the intense rotten-egg stench that was permeating the air of southern California’s Coachel…
-
That Time When People Lived Alone in Caves for Science – The Atlantic
When Josie Laures came out of her cave on March 12, 1965, she thought it was February 25. A few days before Antoine Senni came out of his cave, on April 5 that same year, he thought it was February 4. The two cave explorers emerged from their holes …
The Caves of Forgotten Time https://t.co/Y80gMufJhd -
Another pic from Route 100 in Vermont [oc][2048×1055] : unitedstatesofamerica
Another pic from Route 100 in Vermont [oc][2048×1055] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica https://t.co/nORnBTxuBX https://t.co/2yAZSbjJls
-
Here are the first 100+ backward-compatible Xbox 360 games | Ars Technica
Since the E3 announcement that the Xbox One would gain the ability to play certain Xbox 360 games, Microsoft has remained mum on exactly which games would be supported even as this week’s rollout with the “New Xbox One Experience” approached.
-
John Joseph Adams Has Cloned Himself And Is Now Editing Twice As Much Stuff
John Joseph Adams already edits Lightspeed Magazine (which runs a story once a month at io9), Nightmare Magazine and a huge number of anthologies. Now he’s launching his own book line, with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, called John Joseph Adams Books/H…
-
Huddersfield’s new head coach, David Wagner, will quickly stamp his German influence on the West Yorkshire club and said his side would play “full-throttle” football the Borussia Dortmund way.
-
Spring into action! : StartledCats
Spring into action! via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/qvRIolcXgP https://t.co/UjdoKuj58g
-
Germany’s transport ministry has said that Volkswagen is likely to need to make more than just software changes to nearly a quarter of its 2.4m diesel cars being recalled in the country as a result of the emissions scandal.
-
Nick Spurrier obituary | Books | The Guardian
My husband, Nick Spurrier, who has died of lung cancer aged 69, was a seller of secondhand books and a writer whose enthusiasm, energy and campaigning zeal made him a popular figure in his adopted town of Folkestone, Kent.
-
Nigerian man scoops Scrabble world title – BBC News
Nigerians have been congratulating countryman Wellington Jighere, who has become the first African to win the English-language World Scrabble Championship. The 32-year-old beat Englishman Lewis MacKay 4-0 in the final in Australia.
-
A Robotic Worm Is Your Only Device In This Incredibly Strange Vision of the Future
For most people in 2015, “one device that can do it all” is a tablet that also has a keyboard. For interaction designers at MIT, it means a shape-shifting soft robot that switches from phone, to watch, to flashlight, to charging cable.
-
The only thing that the government has to show for a years-long, half-billion dollar project to digitize 95 different immigration forms — an effort intended to upload the documents online and make them easy for users to navigate — is a single electr…
-
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe has resigned. Wolfe’s resignation follows a number of racist incidents on Mizzou’s campus.
-
The president of the University of Missouri has resigned his post amid student protests over racial intolerance at the school. Tim Wolfe announced his decision at a Monday morning meeting of the university curators, the system’s governing board.
-
BBC Sport – David Moyes: Real Sociedad sack former Man Utd manager
David Moyes has been sacked as manager of La Liga strugglers Real Sociedad a day short of his one-year anniversary at the Spanish club. More to follow.
-
SETI’s Allen Telescope Array Fails to Detect “ET Megastructure” Signals From Star System KIC 8462852
Could there be intelligent life hanging out in the vicinity of the star system KIC 8462852? The strange and strong dimming of this star has encouraged speculation that a technologically sophisticated civilization has built megastructures in orbit th…
SETI’s Allen Telescope Array Fails to Detect “ET Megastructure” Signals From Star System KIC 8462852 https://t.co/XFruXxPSAV -
Amyan Macfadyen obituary | Science | The Guardian
My father-in-law, Amyan Macfadyen, who has died aged 94, was an expert in ecology, and in particular soil ecology.
-
NASA –“Detecting a Universe of Black Hole Births” https://t.co/548edaU1eK https://t.co/tKwzgsZasW
-
Are Energy Drinks Bad for You?
Red Bull may give you wings, but at what cost? To some, energy drinks are dangerous elixirs, while others consider them magic potions of vitality? The truth about how they affect your body is not so black and white.
-
Childcare Workers Make 40% Less Than the Nationwide Median Wage | The Nation
Dawn O’Neal teaches preschoolers how to count, tenderly introducing young minds to basic arithmetic at her daycare center in Atlanta.
-
VW offers US customers $1,000 vouchers as gesture of goodwill – BBC News
Volkswagen has offered those US customers caught up in the diesel emissions cheating scandal $1,000 in gift cards and vouchers. The car manufacturer is offering the money as a gesture of goodwill to 482,000 US owners of the faulty cars.
-
Fox and her cubs via /r/foxes https://t.co/gexXw2wDLz https://t.co/EAnChe0V6p
-
Climate Change Threatens to Make More People Poor – Scientific American
Without policies to protect the world’s most vulnerable from crop failure, natural disasters, waterborne diseases and other impacts of climate change, 100 million more people could sink into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said.
-
In the late 50s, a fearful, racist backlash against rock and roll, coupled with money-grubbing corporate payola, pushed out the blues and R&B that drove rock’s sound. In its place came easy listening orchestration more palatable to conservative whit…
-
MRW Drake asks for some High Fives but I’m too slow – GIF on Imgur
-
US university chief quits in race row – BBC News
Russia should be suspended from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends.
-
The forgotten heroes of ‘Midget Wrestling’: Vintage photos from the 60s and 70s|Dangerous Minds
These are the men who became heroes of the ring as Midget Wrestlers during the 1960s and 1970s. Out of traveling carnivals, circus acts and sheer ambition, these wrestlers started a sport that was followed by hundreds of thousands across America, Ca…
-
BBC Sport – Patrick Vieira: Ex-Arsenal midfielder new New York City boss
Former Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira has been appointed as head coach of Major League Soccer club New York City. Vieira, 39, has signed a three-year contract with New York and takes up his role on 1 January 2016.
-
Tag Heuer Introduces The $1500 Carrera Connected Smart Watch | TechCrunch
Tag Heuer has just officially announced their new luxury smart watch called the Carrera Connected.
-
Lyft’s ‘Bieber Mode’ will give passengers a discount on Justin Bieber’s new album | The Verge
Justin Bieber’s new album Purpose is dropping this Friday and enterprising fans will have an unusual (but legal) way to download it on the cheap: by taking a Lyft somewhere.
-
Colossal notes that artist Ed Fairburn has produced a bunch of new work (previously). Love these.
-
This Little Dock Reinvents GoPro Mounts | TechCrunch
The beauty of GoPro cameras come from their versatility. They can be mounted nearly anywhere in countless positions. But that often takes time. This little device solves that problem. Meet Slopes. The concept is simple: Drop a GoPro camera in the mo…
-
Your Body Is Made of Hydrogel, and Soon Robots Could Be Too | Motherboard
What’s 90 percent water but really sticky? Hey, get your mind out of the gutter. I’m talking about new hydrogels that emulate some of nature’s own sticky materials to create a new, super-tough adhesive or coating.
-
Now It’s Easier to Buy the Things You See on Pinterest | Motherboard
Monday, Pinterest announced the release of a new visual search tool that allows you to search part of a pinned image for similar pins—so you can find out more about the items in the photo and potentially purchase them.
-
The Week In Pictures – Week Of November 9, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Groundbreaking Study Finds Gratification Can Be Deliberately Postponed Go To Article Customer Who Declined Initial Offer Of Assistance From Floor Salesman Comes Crawling Back Go To Article Divorced Man Sadly Removes Ex-Wife’s Admin Privileges From H…
-
Kansas Teacher Fights Back After Getting In Trouble For Showing Anti-Bullying Video | ThinkProgress
CREDIT: Shutterstock A Kansas high school teacher who was asked to resign after showing his students an anti-bullying video has received an outpouring of support from LGBT organizations — and ended up returning to his classroom on Monday.
Kansas Teacher Fights Back After Getting In Trouble For Showing Anti-Bullying Video https://t.co/XsEHHaVU5T -
Fargo alum Allison Tolman to receive canine advice in Downward Dog · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The family pet got a new vocation on ABC Family’s (now Freeform) Dog With A Blog, as the series’ creators reimagined Fido as a kind of Gossip Girl-like scribe. That show concluded earlier this fall, but ABC quickly announced that it would fill that …
-
GENEVA — Top Russian athletes, including Olympians and winners of prestigious events like the Chicago marathon, have for years participated in a systematic doping program that involved some of Russia’s sports officials, the World Anti-Doping Agency …
-
UK gov’t promises all homes will have legal right to 10Mbps broadband by 2020 | Ars Technica
The UK government will introduce a “universal service obligation” for broadband that guarantees all UK residents have the legal right to an “affordable” connection, the PM has pledged.
-
The fifth season of Homeland is exploring some fascinating and satisfying themes, but exploring those themes requires an execution that isn’t always fascinating and satisfying.
-
Make an Air-Powered Shop Broom to Quickly Clear Your Floor of Debris
This air-powered broom will quickly clear your floors better than a traditional broom, and costs less than $15 to make. A messy shop floor leads to dirt getting tracked into your home, and a higher probability that junk makes its way into your tools…
-
Sinai jihadist group leader Ashraf Gharabli ‘killed’ – BBC News
Ashraf Gharabli, of the jihadist Sinai Province group, died in a shootout in Cairo after security forces tried to arrest him, it added. Gharabli led several attacks, including the kidnapping and killing of a Croatian in August, it said.
-
Anonymous Has Changed the Way We Think About Anonymity | Motherboard
For Guy Fawkes Day on November 5, author Gabriella Coleman published a new chapter to her book, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, on the state of Anonymous, its use of doxxing, and accountability. We’ve reprinted an excerpt of the chapter here wit…
Anonymous Has Changed the Way We Think About Anonymity https://t.co/gkSfUcKjM0 -
Patrick Vieira appointed New York City FC head coach | Football | The Guardian
Patrick Vieira has been appointed head coach of New York City FC, the club announced on Monday. The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion team and w…
-
H2O.ai Raises $20M For Its Open Source Machine Learning Platform | TechCrunch
H2O is an open source platform for data scientists and developers who need a fast machine learning engine for their applications. H2O.
-
French farmer gets in a flap as he tells bird activists to shove off | World news | The Guardian
Bird enthusiasts attempting to remove illegal poaching traps in a French village have been met with fury by a local farmer, armed with a shovel and wearing nothing but a blue T-shirt and underwear.
-
Writers on books they regret: ‘It’s like a bad breakup – you have to move on’ | Books | The Guardian
My first book came out a year ago. It wasn’t a bestseller, and it wasn’t intended to be one. In Spite of Oceans: Migrant Voices is a quiet book of short stories based on real, everyday family lives.
-
Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party | The Nation
Progressives were the winner at another Democratic presidential primary event on Friday, when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow moderated the “First in the South” Presidential Forum. It offered another stark contrast with the Republican circus tent.
-
Android Wear’s first luxury smartwatch is the $1,500 Tag Heuer Connected Watch | The Verge
During an event in New York today, Tag Heuer officially announced the Connected Watch, its first smartwatch running Android Wear. A luxury watch through and through, the Connected costs $1,500 and carries much of the legacy of Tag Heuer’s watchmakin…
-
With the origin of Morgan: Peace Warrior safely behind us, The Walking Dead returns to Alexandria, where the blood hasn’t quite dried, the corpses haven’t turned, and the residents suddenly discover that life in the zombie apocalypse is actually not…
-
Today’s Best Media Deals: The James Bond Collection, Mission Impossible, and More
Spectre might not have lived up to Skyfall, but if its in-jokes and fan service made you nostalgic for the Bond films of yore, you can get the first 23 on Blu-ray for just $82 today. [James Bond Collection, $82] Prefer digital copies? The same set i…
Today’s Best Media Deals: The James Bond Collection, Mission Impossible, and More https://t.co/CHX9Sj0STc -
Maniacs to Paul Ryan: We gave you a good week, now the honeymoon’s over. Shutdown!!
House Speaker Paul Ryan managed to get a long-term transportation funding bill out of the House last week. While that first long-term funding bill in a decade was a pretty significant accomplishment, his conference is warning that they won’t let him…
-
What Are the Best Plans on Healthcare.gov? – The Atlantic
The world is glutted by economic research. How do you help people use it? Earlier this year, Grace Gee and Eugene Wang, two math undergraduates at Harvard, sorted though data recently released from health-insurance marketplaces opened under the Affo…
The Start-Up That Will Keep Health-Insurance Companies Honest https://t.co/2uvyPsYyBC -
Russia plane crash: Egypt launches inquiry into bomb claims – BBC News
Egypt has launched its own inquiry into whether a bomb may have been placed on the Russian airliner that crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board. However, Egypt stresses that the official investigation into the crash of the Airbus 321 is n…
-
Meteor Explodes Creating ‘Ice Halo Fireball’ | Video
WATCH MORE SHOWS
-
Bournemouth: US firm buys 25% stake and targets long Premier League stay | Football | The Guardian
AFC Bournemouth is delighted to announce completion of a transaction with Chicago based PEAK6 Investments, L.P., which has resulted in PEAK6 investing in the club and acquiring a 25 per cent share interest. PEAK6’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Hulsizer,…
-
Trial to Pit ‘Shrimp Boy’ Against Feds | Al Jazeera America
With opening statements in Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow’s case scheduled Monday, prosecutors finally will get their chance to convict him of racketeering, murder and money laundering charges that could put him away for life.
-
Hullabalu Raises $2.5 Million For Its Interactive Storytelling App For Kids | TechCrunch
The iPad helped introduce the concept of interactive books, where stories are accompanied by games and other tappable animations to complement their tales. But a company called Hullabalu offers a twist.
-
Record Number Of Women Now NYC Firefighters – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following the training of four new female firefighters this week, the FDNY now has a record high number of women within its ranks, though these 49 women comprise only 0.5 percent of the department. What do you think?
Record Number Of Women Now NYC Firefighters https://t.co/nOQ4fIujt2 -
On Monday, many Wisconsin residents who apply for food stamps, unemployment benefits, jobs training, or benefits and training from a handful of other state programs will have to be screened and potentially tested for drug use.
-
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 9th – The New Yorker
Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day.
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 9th https://t.co/2YJuW6VM8u -
Russia censures Memorial rights group as ‘foreign agent’ – BBC News
Russia’s justice ministry has put the Memorial human rights group in St Petersburg on a list of organisations labelled as “foreign agents”. Memorial has documented Soviet human rights abuses – especially the terror unleashed by Joseph Stalin in the …
-
CO2 Levels Hit Record High for 30th Year in a Row – Scientific American
GENEVA, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2014 and the relentless fuelling of climate change is endangering the planet for future generations, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. “Ev…
-
We used to be a nation of shop keepers, now we’re a nation of shop busters.
-
Biologists Announce They’re All Done With Rodents – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
BERKELEY, CA—Saying they had exhausted every possible line of scientific inquiry into the various species, the nation’s researchers announced Thursday that they were completely done with rodents.
-
Editorial Cartoon: ‘Quali-TV Time’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Share This Story:
-
Galbraith and McEwan among 25 British authors on Impac longlist – BBC News
The Silkworm by JK Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith and Ian McEwan’s The Children Act are among 25 British novels in the running for the world’s richest literary prize.
-
Buy a PlayStation 4 at Best Buy or Gamestop and get Fallout 4 for free | The Verge
Best Buy is currently offering a promotion that packages a free copy of Bethesda’s Fallout 4 with Sony’s PlayStation 4 console.
-
Sam’s Club Black Friday deals include PS4 bundles and Samsung TVs | The Verge
Sam’s Club hasn’t officially announced its Black Friday deals yet this year, but thanks to a leaked 6-page ad (posted online at BestBlackFriday.com) we’ve been able to see the best savings ahead of time.
-
Nine hours into Fallout 4, I’m stuck inside an elevator | The Verge
Nine hours into Fallout 4 I found myself stuck inside an elevator. By this point, I had built a bond with my character along with a respectable inventory of items, most notably an automatic pistol with a bottomless clip.
Nine hours into Fallout 4, I’m stuck inside an elevator https://t.co/9Ofct4b5mP -
Astronauts falling on the moon : space
Astronauts falling on the moon via /r/space https://t.co/PKNxPh76HJ https://t.co/wmZkhCTyb8
-
Do Food Deserts Cause Poor Eating? – The Atlantic
It’s a plausible hypothesis: Poor people in the United States suffer from measurably worse nutrition because they have such limited access to good food.
-
Acid Fast cracks a smile on “Just Grin” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having formed from the ashes of Big Kids, Oakland’s Acid Fast quickly carved its own place among the increasingly crowded crop of bands that reference indie-pop of the early ‘90s.
-
The Halloween Costume Controversy at Yale’s Silliman College – The Atlantic
Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges. His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty. They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential …
-
Les Liens De Sang (Blood Ties) on Vimeo
In a family headed by a tyrannical father, the younger daughter will regain her freedom on her birthday … A film by Sophie Kavouridis, Manon Lazzari, Marion Louw, Simon Pannetrat and Thomas Ricquier. Graduation film made at Georges Méliès school. …
-
What happens to checked in luggage? – BBC News
Speculation that a Russian plane which crashed over the Sinai desert was brought down by a bomb has placed fresh scrutiny on airport security. One theory suggests a device was placed in the hold along with luggage, but what happens to your baggage o…
-
ADULTS often tangle themselves in knots when discussing physical appearance with children.
-
Caution: some things can’t be unseen. Can you run the gauntlet? via /r/InternetIsBeautiful https://t.co/foz9yxB37C https://t.co/qC7bc4R14M
-
Giant banana in Thailand. Banana for scale. : pics
Giant banana in Thailand. Banana for scale. via /r/pics https://t.co/ZKLqjc1AFs https://t.co/O4WvQiouZV
-
The DJI Osmo turned my shaky cell phone videos into silky smooth productions | The Verge
Smartphones changed the world by putting a camera in everyone’s pocket.
-
This Interactive Tool Shows You How Your Salary Ranks Across the U.S.
The Occupy Wall Street movement stood up for people in the 99%. But that’s a big number. Where do you actually rank in that spectrum, based on your salary? This interactive tool from the New York Times will tell you. It’s pretty simple.
-
Most Syrian refugees not in school in Turkey – Al Jazeera English
Two-thirds of Syrian refugee children in Turkey are not attending school, Human Rights Watch has warned in its latest report.
-
K-pop star IU’s song accused of ‘sexualising’ book’s child hero | Books | The Guardian
A Brazilian novel first published more than 40 years ago has unexpectedly become a highly sought-after read, after the Korean pop star IU was accused of sexualising the story of its five-year-old protagonist in one of her songs.
-
Jeremy Mardis: Funeral for boy, six, shot by US police – BBC News
Mourners are gathering in the US state of Mississippi for the funeral of a six-year-old boy shot by police in neighbouring Louisiana. Jeremy Mardis was killed and his father was injured when city marshals in Marksville, Louisiana opened fire on thei…
-
The New Batman’s First Outing With the Justice League Gives Jim Gordon a Moment to Shine
Jim Gordon’s Batman has finally joined the Justice League, as Bruce Wayne’s former allies realized that the damaged man can no longer be the Dark Knight. But what good can Gordon do in a team of gods and superpowered beings? The one thing he’s alway…
-
Lufthansa strike costs company ‘at least €10m euros a day’ – BBC News
German airline Lufthansa says the current strike is costing the company at least €10m (£7m) a day. More than 11,000 passengers have been hit by the cabin crew action.
-
Ben Carson thinks media scrutiny of his lies is worse than birtherism
Ben Carson is either a giant liar or uniquely persecuted. Guess which version Carson is pushing.
-
Earth to cross 1°C warming marker this year for the first time | Ars Technica
The planet continues to set global temperature records and not in a good way. According to the United Kingdom’s Met Office, the Earth’s surface temperature will reach 1°C above pre-industrial levels this year for the first time.
-
Xbox One’s Killer App This Holiday Season Is the Xbox 360 Library | Motherboard
Some of the best games you’ll be playing on your Xbox One over holidays were released last generation. Microsoft on Monday revealed the first 104 Xbox 360 games that will be playable on the Xbox One using the new system’s backwards compatability mod…
-
Bruce Lee with Kareem Abdul Jabbar on the set of Game of Death, 1972. : OldSchoolCool
Bruce Lee with Kareem Abdul Jabbar on the set of Game of Death, 1972. via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/qLAa7HhKU1 https://t.co/jeCnB6LoyG
-
Little kittens can be very scary : aww
Little kittens can be very scary via /r/aww https://t.co/y5syq5BU1G https://t.co/0giF3AxViE
-
Neutrinos are the spooks of the subatomic world, able to sail through walls and our bodies like moonlight through windows, changing identities like spies on the run. Next to photons, which carry light, they are the most abundant of the known particl…
-
Google is giving away a big part of its machine learning software | The Verge
Google has just announced that it’s open sourcing TensorFlow under the Apache 2 license.
-
‘Maybe This Is the Real Ferguson Effect’ – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
-
There are limited edition ‘Trent Reznor boots’ for $1,100.00|Dangerous Minds
Since the holidays are coming up, I’d thought I share with these limited edition Trent Reznor boots by N.I.C.E. Collective. The Reznor Combat Boots sell for $1,100 (which isn’t so nice).
-
Justin Bieber exposes growing pains on new album – BBC News
Pop star Justin Bieber has used the lyrics of his new album, Purpose, to apologise for his errant behaviour over the few years. Elsewhere, he asks for understanding from the public, saying: “Don’t forget I’m human. Don’t forget I’m real.”
-
The fabled SNES-PlayStation prototype has been turned on and disassembled | Ars Technica
Remember that fa
-
These earbuds custom-fit to your ears in 60 seconds | The Verge
Earbuds are one of those technologies that still come loaded with annoyances. Cheap ones are almost always bad, with a terrible fit and atrocious sound. Expensive ones offer better sound quality, but often times they can fit just as poorly as the $1…
-
Margaret Atwood: ‘In Tolkien, there are hardly any women at all’ | Books | The Guardian
Margaret Atwood was seven when she began writing her first novel. It was about an ant. “It taught me a lot about narration because nothing happens to ants for the first three-quarters of their life cycle.
-
Amazon’s F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Saga Z Is an Origin Story with | Vanity Fair
Like many a literary itinerant whose early enthusiasms have staled and browned over the years, I reached my sizable fill long ago with the whole sorry Scott-and-Zelda saga, which had worn threadbare after so many retellings, taking much of the Jazz …
-
Russia facing athletics ban for doping offences – Al Jazeera English
An international anti-doping commission has recommended that the Russian Athletics Federation be banned from the sport over widespread doping offences.
-
Will the Real Denver Broncos Please Stand Up? | Rolling Stone
Far be it from me to imply that the Denver Broncos are facing turmoil, not at 7-1. But Sunday’s 27-24 loss to the Indianapolis Colts does seem to indicate that something is amiss in the Mile-High City.
-
Syrians in Turkey struggle for education – Al Jazeera English
Turkey is now home to some 750,000 Syrian refugees. Roughly half of them are children. Thousands do not go to school and even some of those who do are forced to work after classes to help their families survive.
-
Exclusive: Here’s a bonus feature from the Better Call Saul Blu-ray · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Remember that popular show Breaking Bad, about the high school teacher who was diagnosed with cancer and then became a meth kingpin? Remember how it seemed like a spin-off prequel to that show about that meth kingpin’s lawyer, played by Bob Odenkirk…
-
Egypt army destroys dozens of Gaza tunnels – Al Jazeera English
Egypt has announced that its army had destroyed 31 tunnels connecting the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt last month, an army spokesman has said.
Egypt army destroys dozens of Gaza tunnels https://t.co/udoJKEMHoG -
Season Tofu After Frying for Maximum Flavor and No Burnt Spices
Crispy, fried tofu is delicious, but before you toss yours in spices first and fry it second, switch the order of those two steps. Seasoning after you fry makes sure you preserve all that delicious flavor, don’t burn the spices, and preserves the te…
-
Obama’s Social-Media Team: 20 Aides, Countless Memes | Vanity Fair
Part of President Barack Obama’s brand as a politician has always been an embrace of technology. His campaign’s mastery of social-media networks such as Facebook helped propel him to the White House, and, as president, has helped him get his message…
-
Take a trip to the red planet via Wiki Wormhole · Wiki Wormhole · The A.V. Club
With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or researching how to build your own Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in…
-
NBC has become the network destination for woman-led detective shows, from Law & Order: SVU to The Mysteries Of Laura. The new addition to the lineup is Shades Of Blue, starring Jennifer Lopez as a morally-compromised NYPD officer. Lopez plays Detec…
-
On the Charts: Chris Stapleton Travels to Number One | Rolling Stone
On the Charts: Chris Stapleton Travels to Number One After Huge CMA Awards Country’s newest star outsells Eric Church as Album of the Year-winning LP shoots to top spot
-
Nov 9, 2015 9:00 AM Share Tweet Shop ▾
-
John Oliver Explains Preposterous U.S. Prisoner Re-Entry Process | Rolling Stone
Last month brought the largest one-time release of federal prisoners – 6,000 mostly low-level drug offenders – in history.
John Oliver Explains Preposterous U.S. Prisoner Re-Entry Process https://t.co/MAGOEyovpH -
Watch BIGBANG’s Explosive Trailer for ‘Made 2015 Concert’ Film | Rolling Stone
K-pop titans BIGBANG have captured their 2015 Made World Tour on camera, with BIGBANG: Made 2015 Concert debuting on site DramaFever on November 11th. Watch the trailer above. In the brief, fast-paced trailer, the group showcase the intricate produc…
Watch BIGBANG’s Explosive Trailer for ‘Made 2015 Concert’ Film https://t.co/c0nmawqO06 -
Click to make yuuuuuge. Hey! If you missed the Kickstarter for my hardcover, two-volume compilation, 25 Years of Tomorrow, you can still pre-order a set! And if you want to support independent cartooning, please consider joining Sparky’s List!
-
Kellie Pickler Pens Sentimental Christmas Song: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
Kellie Pickler Pens Sentimental Christmas Song: The Ram Report “My Christmas Carolina” is about the singer-songwriter’s holiday memories from home
-
Forest path via /r/FoggyPics https://t.co/Cba59WEhju https://t.co/sjm60FJvQj
-
Anita Ekberg (1960) : OldSchoolCool
Anita Ekberg (1960) via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/bVUPOtENxN https://t.co/OSCHHg5MUz
-
Deliv Acquires Zipments To Grow Its Same-Day Delivery Service In NYC | TechCrunch
Deliv is announcing the acquisition of another same-day delivery service, Zipments. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Deliv works with retailers like Best Buy and Macy’s, as well as startups like BloomThat and Laundry Locker, to offer delivery th…
-
Portugal markets hit as left-wing coalition looms – BBC News
Portuguese bonds and stocks were hit on Monday as a coalition of left-of-centre anti-austerity parties looked set to form the country’s next government.
-
NASA –“Detecting a Universe of Black Hole Births”
NASA’s Swift spacecraft has detected its 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB). GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole.
-
Climate change is set to pass the milestone of 1C of warming since pre-industrial times by the end of 2015, representing “uncharted territory” according to scientists at the UK’s Met Office.
-
Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri, is waging the fight of his professional life this week as protests continue over racism and discrimination on campus.
-
Rise of the Tomb Raider review: This is Lara’s best adventure yet | Ars Technica
The trouble with a successful reboot is that there’s only one way to follow it up. Rise of the Tomb Raider is bigger and bolder, its filmic set pieces pummelling you into your sofa with more ferocity than a 1980s cassette tape. Oh yes, you will be e…
-
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
There aren’t many writers who could get away with the idea of death, the Nazis, and the burning of taboo books in one novel, but Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, seems to achieve just that.
-
Cool atmospheric phenomenon: fallstreak hole
This is one of the freakiest atmospheric happenings I have ever seen: a fallstreak hole from Victoria, Aus. It is believed that the introduction of large numbers of tiny ice crystals into the cloud layer sets off this domino effect of evaporation wh…
-
The CIA writes like Lovecraft, Bureau of Prisons is like Stephen King, & NSA is like… / Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “When MuckRock stumbled on I Write Like – a service that lets you see which famous author a given piece of writing resembles – they immediately knew what it was destined for: Helping shed light on on the literary influe…
-
Robin Williams’ Will Prevents Disney From Using Old Aladdin Material in a New Film
If you’ve seen even the tiniest portion of Robin Williams’ performance as the genie in Aladdin, then it won’t come as a shock to you that there a ton of his material that never made it to the final cut. And now it won’t be seen on the big screen for…
-
Nanotech May Help Diagnose Deadly Infections in Minutes, not Days – Scientific American
Why is it so difficult to diagnose an infectious disease on the spot? We measure vital signs such as temperature or blood pressure routinely, yet we have no quick way to pinpoint the cause of most infection. Our inability to identify harmful bacteri…
-
In a Perfect World, Ash vs. Evil Dead Would Be on Every Single Night
After last week’s “he’s back, baby!” re-introduction, Ash vs. Evil Dead lurched forth with its own plot—and the blood-and-quip-filled “Bait” offered all reassurances that the first episode wasn’t a fluke. This. Show. Is. AWESOME!
-
Chris Martin Says He’s Never Felt Happier, Post-Gwyneth Paltrow Split | Vanity Fair
It has been more than a year and a half since the fabric of our pop-cultural landscape was fundamentally re-woven, when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin revealed to the world that they had consciously uncoupled.
-
People Who Live Alone Have Pretty Terrible Diets – Modern Farmer
According to recent studies, the number of people choosing to live alone has been steadily rising since the 1920s. And why not? Living alone can be very fun! But it turns out that if you value your health, there are many reasons not to do it.
-
Russian Athletes Accused of Widespread Doping | Al Jazeera America
In a devastatingly critical report, a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) panel accused the Russian government Monday of complicity in widespread doping and cover-ups by its track and field athletes and said they should all be banned from competition un…
Russia accused of widespread doping, cover-ups in WADA report https://t.co/i6iVoSxiZx -
Tycho’s Supernova Remnant : space
Tycho’s Supernova Remnant via /r/space https://t.co/WAioypVx75 https://t.co/2e4BFvongA
-
Kinja Roundup https://t.co/90tFbKsKy1
-
Jane Fonda, 1965 : OldSchoolCool
Jane Fonda, 1965 via /r/OldSchoolCool https://t.co/1KUovn6gjd https://t.co/AqA0CEOgeI
-
Built like a linebacker : sloths
Built like a linebacker via /r/sloths https://t.co/beYc22H7ss https://t.co/KYkLeLLcKM
-
Buddies sister posted this on Facebook. : funny
Buddies sister posted this on Facebook. via /r/funny https://t.co/UF97V2uOPd https://t.co/0Nd9u2crgB
-
Online iPad Pro orders start Wednesday, arrives in stores this week | Ars Technica
Apple has officially announced that the new iPad Pro and its accessories will go on sale this Wednesday, November 11. Online orders can be placed Wednesday, and the tablet will arrive in stores “later this week” (usually this means Friday).
-
A 43-year-old man was shot and killed and two others were wounded in a shooting inside a subway station at Eighth Avenue and 35th Street in Manhattan, by Pennsylvania Station, shortly before 6:15 a.m. Monday, the police said.
-
What’s Happening at the University of Missouri? – The Atlantic
Professors at the University of Missouri will walk out of class Monday in support of students who are calling for Tim Wolfe, the university’s president, to step down. MU Faculty stand with #concernedstudent1950 and urge all who can to cancel their c…
-
Google says today it’s making the machine learning technology that powers a number of its products, including Google Photos search, speech recognition in the Google app, and the newly launched “Smart Reply” feature for its email app Inbox.
-
Eagles put ‘extra mustard’ on Greg Hardy hits after domestic violence photos | Sport | The Guardian
Some of the Philadelphia Eagles said they took pleasure in putting particular venom into their hits on Dallas Cowboys star Greg Hardy on Sunday, after photos emerged of the domestic violence incident involving his ex-girlfriend.
-
Interpol to co-ordinate doping probe – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
-
Hear Neil Young’s Offbeat New Eighties Live Album | Rolling Stone
In the fall of 1987, Neil Young launched a California club tour with his new 11-piece blues band, the Bluenotes.
Hear Neil Young’s Offbeat New Eighties Live Album https://t.co/wBMFhptJEs -
What are the best traditional children’s story anthologies? | Children’s books | The Guardian
To build up awareness of other countries I am looking for traditional stories which give a flavour of a particular country while also having an appeal across borders. Can you suggest any collections which would do this?
-
First ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Commercial Raises Intrigue | Rolling Stone
First ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Commercial Raises Intrigue Daisy Ridley’s Rey and a mysterious voiceover take spotlight in first TV ad
First ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Commercial Raises Intrigue https://t.co/QlpmnOmspb -
Hear Stone Sour and Lzzy Hale’s Reverent Rolling Stones Cover | Rolling Stone
Stone Sour will celebrate Record Store Day this year with a new, vinyl-only EP, Straight Outta Burbank. The follow-up to this past April’s Meanwhile in Burbank …
-
Venezuela alleges US spy plane violated its airspace – BBC News
Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino said on Sunday that a US plane had violated the South American country’s airspace. Speaking on television, Gen Padrino said the plane had entered Venezuelan airspace near the Los Monjes archipelago on the…
Venezuela alleges US spy plane violated its airspace https://t.co/tzWLPry77y -
me_irl via /r/me_irl https://t.co/YQ8X5AszGh https://t.co/W5QawppFWM
-
Simple life hack! via /r/funny https://t.co/PYxxujondg https://t.co/cvYicflcyq
-
Communities in the oil-rich region of Ogoniland say they feel just as marginalised and in need of work and development as they were before the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other chiefs in November 1995.
-
BlackBerry Priv review | The Verge
Can an Android phone save BlackBerry? This is the phone that’s supposed to save BlackBerry.
-
Jello being hit with a tennis racket in slow motion. – GIF on Imgur
-
BBC Sport – Celtic meet Ross County in League Cup semi-final
Scottish League Cup holders Celtic will meet Ross County in the semi-final of this season’s tournament. Hibernian, currently second in the Championship, will take on St Johnstone in the other tie.
-
Comets Are Cupboards For Cooking-Up Life On Earth, Rosetta Mission Shows | Video
WATCH MORE SHOWS
-
Georges Simenon’s Maigret gets a new look – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Georges Simenon Georges Simenon’s Maigret gets a new look – in pictures A new edition of the classic detective novels has been given covers from the work of legendary Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert.
-
Microsoft Goes For Another Israeli Security Firm Buying Secure Islands | TechCrunch
Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure Islands, its third Israeli security firm in the last year.
-
Shooting near New York’s Penn Station leaves one dead | US news | The Guardian
One person was shot dead and two others injured in midtown Manhattan on Monday, authorities said. No suspects have yet been arrested.
-
The Best Pumpkin for Making Pies Isn’t the Sugar Pumpkin
I don’t mind a pumpkin pie made with a can of Libby’s, but there’s something rustically appealing about making one using a fresh, whole pumpkin.
-
The first time we ever see the power of the “light side” of the Force is to psychically dominate a security guard. The first time we see a lightsaber in use, it’s to maim someone in a bar brawl. It’s the “elegant weapon” of a man so terrifying that …
-
How U.S. Drinking Laws Created the Fake ID Market | Atlas Obscura
Detail of a hologram on a German ID card. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) True story—a couple weeks ago, a restaurant attempted to deny me service because they thought I had a fake ID.
-
Give Your Home a Brain With Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deals
Your home deserves a brain, and Amazon’s packaged together a nice collection of smart home appliances in today’s Gold Box, many of which are marked down to all-time low prices.
-
Cat and mouse via /r/cats https://t.co/HTuuNNavN4 https://t.co/6ciBzqDQTU
-
MOSCOW — The main bell in St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg tolled 224 times on Sunday, once for each victim of the destruction of a Russian charter flight in Egypt a week ago. Although President Vladimir V.
-
Xbox One will support 104 Xbox 360 games this week | The Verge
Microsoft is just days away from launching its new Xbox One dashboard, and with it comes backwards compatibility. On Thursday, 104 Xbox 360 games will be playable on the Xbox One, allowing owners of Microsoft’s new console to play old multiplayer Xb…
-
Yoda spotted in Tupelo Mississippi / Boing Boing
For our vacation this year, my wife Gina and I took a driving tour of the southern states. The plan was to eat as much BBQ as possible and my fingertips still smell of smoky sauces. We hung out in Memphis and pigged out in Nashville.
-
After Endorsement From Oil Industry, Vitter Calls For End To Solar Tax Credits | ThinkProgress
In an era where staunch opposition to raising taxes on anything is a defining principle of the Republican Party, the GOP gubernatorial nominee in Louisiana found one industry he believes doesn’t pay enough in taxes: solar energy. Sen.
-
BBC Sport – Athletics doping: Wada recommends Russia suspension
Russia should be suspended from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) commission has recommended.
-
Star Wars Episode VIII’s script is finished, says J.J. Abrams | The Verge
Wired published a massive interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams this morning, one that yielded a small tidbit regarding the series’ future post-December 18th: the script for Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII has been completed. …
Star Wars Episode VIII’s script is finished, says J.J. Abrams https://t.co/1jNEaA0pic -
Hate Facebook Events? Soon It’ll Actually Be Useful—Really Useful | WIRED
For a long, long time, there was a really bad word on Facebook. It was often visible on the site where everyone could see it. And you were supposed to click it. But you never did—no one did, really. We just ignored it. It made us feel bad and weird.…
-
A Better Way to Text That Doesn’t Kill Your Neck
We’ve already gone over the downsides of what constantly looking down at your phone does to your poor neck (hint: it’s not pretty). But rather than telling you to stop using your phone, here is a neck-friendly way to hold your phone for texting and …
-
We turned on the Nintendo PlayStation: It’s real and it works
When a mysterious “Nintendo PlayStation” prototype with both an SNES cartridge slot and a CD drive made the rounds back in July, many remained skeptical. Not even Sony PlayStation’s head of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, wanted to confirm its au…
-
How Google Aims To Dominate Artificial Intelligence | Popular Science
Today Google is announcing TensorFlow, its open source platform for machine learning, giving anyone a computer and internet connection (and casual background in deep learning algorithms) access to one of the most machine learning platforms ever cre…
Today Google is announcing TensorFlow, its open source platform for machine learning, giving anyone a computer and internet connection (and casual background in deep learning algorithms) access to one of the most powerful machine learning platforms… -
No.0048 by Corn Zhang (Zhang Corn) : ImaginaryMindscapes
No.0048 by Corn Zhang (Zhang Corn) via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes https://t.co/GEcyU4vDaz https://t.co/VtO84Qdth0
-
A lady sloth that I made a few months ago 🙂 : sloths
A lady sloth that I made a few months ago 🙂 via /r/sloths https://t.co/cJmfm4cg1L https://t.co/hrXMfEVHJP
-
American Pharoah named to Forward 50 list of 2015’s most influential Jews | Sport | The Guardian
Triple Crown champion. Breeders’ Cup Classic winner. Jewish icon. American Pharoah has been named to the Jewish Daily Forward’s annual Forward 50 list of notable and newsworthy Jews.
-
Wall Street Bonuses Will Fall for the First Time in Four Years | Vanity Fair
After months of market volatility, stricter regulations, and disdain thrown Wall Street’s way on the presidential campaign trail, bankers are set to be delivered another blow, and this one hits them where it hurts.
-
Mighty Is A Funding Platform For Personal Injury Lawsuits | TechCrunch
As anyone who has ever been in court knows, lawsuits are often a long, tedious process. This is especially true with lengthy personal injury litigation, during which the injured party is often unable to produce income.
-
Maternal testosterone exposure increases offspring’s anxiety | Ars Technica
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have elevated levels of testosterone and its chemical relatives. They also have an increased risk of anxiety and depression. Both sons and daughters of women with PCOS have similar symptoms, so it might be…
-
Explore Fallout 4’s post-apocalyptic Boston in photos | The Verge
The real star of a new Fallout game is the city it takes place in. Each location has its own look and feel, and the developers behind the series do a great job of reimagining some of America’s most iconic cities as post-apocalyptic wastelands.
-
Short of dancing salsa, the Democratic candidate did all he could to woo this crucial constituency at a rally on a soccer field in Las Vegas on Sunday night. He surrounded himself with Latinos on stage and promised to fight for agricultural workers …
-
Why a C.E.O. President Is Probably Doomed | Vanity Fair
The charge against Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is that she took a reasonably good company, Hewlett-Packard, and wrecked it by engineering a merger with another computer company, Compaq. No doubt this criticism is enraging to Fior…
-
Cord cutting has never been easier or more popular than it is now. There are tons of good reasons to cut cable: fewer ads, an easier experience, or maybe it’s just cheaper. What’s yours?
-
Even MORE Doctor Strange Set Pictures Reveal Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Villain!
Will some people reunite in the next season of Game of Thrones? No, Amazon didn’t accidentally reveal a Force Awakens character’s surname. Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi deny scary Doctor Who rumors.
-
Head Games: Try These Puzzles – Scientific American
Match wits with the Mensa puzzlers
-
Celebrate the Saturn V’s Birthday by Watching the Largest Rocket in History Fly | Motherboard
The Saturn V rocket is objectively the most badass vehicle ever made. Screw your SR-71 Blackbirds. To hell with your Maglev trains. Shove your hoverboards up your butt.
-
Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – Destination: Venus
On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years studying the planet in detail before the mission came to an end in December 2014.
Destination: Venus https://t.co/jG67M0Q7Tn -
Russia faces world athletics expulsion when doping report is published | Sport | The Guardian
Pressure is expected to grow for Russia to be expelled from world athletics after the publication of a key independent doping report in Geneva on Monday.
-
Ben Carson appears to have a somewhat complicated relationship with the truth, or at least that is the picture emerging of him as new challenges to the truthfulness of his biography surface.
-
A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression.
-
Awe-inspiring dog trick! : interestingasfuck
Awe-inspiring dog trick! via /r/interestingasfuck https://t.co/nHzRayk7rZ https://t.co/KipAVU7Cgy
-
Cat vs. Cucumber… : StartledCats
Cat vs. Cucumber… via /r/StartledCats https://t.co/HLCSr00Phf https://t.co/w0CD1XiVHP
-
How big is Snapchat? : InternetIsBeautiful
How big is Snapchat? via /r/InternetIsBeautiful https://t.co/vHdQETOCiR https://t.co/RL3imO4GGG
-
Unevenly distributed future: America’s online education system / Boing Boing
In a characteristically insightful essay, Clay Shirky discusses the largely invisible rise of online education and dissects the causes of that invisibility: namely that the American higher education system is an iron-clad requirement for economic su…
Unevenly distributed future: America’s online education system https://t.co/t6DV43qIhS -
Apple Announces iPad Pro Availability | TechCrunch
Ever wanted a giant iPad? Well, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro will be available for purchase in 40 country’s starting on Wednesday, November 11. It will first be available online with retail stores getting the device later in the week.
-
How are cyclists most likely to die? | Environment | The Guardian
Would you have guessed that 70 people died in England and Wales in 2014 from falling off a ladder? That 15 fell off a cliff and yet just one man kicked the bucket falling out of a tree last year? Five women died from “pain and other conditions assoc…
-
Migrants crisis: Merkel ‘backs De Maiziere’ in refugee row – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed her beleaguered interior minister following a row over restricting the asylum rights of refugees from Syria. Her government was forced to clarify there had been no change in policy.
-
One road and one thousand languages – Al Jazeera English
The sky has started to darken. The Serbian-Hungarian border has been closed for two days. On the Serbian side of the crossing, thousands of refugees have set up camp: some in tents, others on plastic tarps or blankets on the ground.
-
Europe despatches Orion crewship component – BBC News
The test model for what will become the European-built “back end” of America’s Orion spaceship has been despatched from Europe to the US. Orion is Nasa’s next-generation astronaut vehicle, which will take humans to Mars and other destinations.
-
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.
-
Fishing Village in the Mountains by Yu Yiming. : ImaginaryMindscapes
Fishing Village in the Mountains by Yu Yiming. via /r/ImaginaryMindscapes https://t.co/1t0IMxbYnj https://t.co/EMRdzkIWFT
-
Superb view of Trolltunga – Norway [1600×1068] : EarthPorn
Superb view of Trolltunga – Norway [1600×1068] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/OZ4Jh5fPnK https://t.co/1P2IHFDtCr
-
Underground City Exit, Montreal, Canada. [1280×720] [OC] : ArchitecturePorn
Underground City Exit, Montreal, Canada. [1280×720] [OC] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://t.co/SN1aFtCRI3 https://t.co/EMEoJ1Z4KM
-
My three best friends are pregnant and I’m just over here like – GIF on Imgur
-
Apple and Microsoft must think I’m a pervert | The Verge
When I’m texting a friend, I never ask “can I touch your…?” It turns out, however, that both Apple and Microsoft have me covered in a variety of ways if I do want to… touch things.
-
$22m science prize winners announced – BBC News
The winners of science and maths prizes worth $22m have been announced at a glittering ceremony in Silicon Valley. The Breakthrough Prize is backed by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, among others.
-
A Roundup of the Many College Rankings – The Atlantic
As the star of the ubiquitous listicle has risen, so too has that of its counterpart in higher-education: college rankings. Once solely the domain of U.S.
-
What’s the Best Way to Rank Colleges? – The Atlantic
It seems that nearly every major media publication in the United States these days wants to rank colleges. The latest outlet to get on board? The Economist, which scores higher-education institutions based in part on how much graduates earn.
-
Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: Click on the embedded player above Go to netrootsradio.
-
If You Didn’t Choose Your First Career, Don’t Be Afraid to Change It
When you’re growing up, you’re encouraged to pick a career. When real life hits, you might find that you have to start working in a field you don’t care much for. That may be a good sign that a career change is okay.
If You Didn’t Choose Your First Career, Don’t Be Afraid to Change It https://t.co/mjMXK2EnQz -
US professional rugby union competition to begin play in April | Sport | The Guardian
Professional club rugby union is set to begin in the US in April 2016, with a competition sanctioned by USA Rugby and World Rugby. The league, announced in New York on Monday, will be contested by six city based men’s teams, employing mostly US-qual…
-
Chelsea Manning’s statement for Aaron Swartz Day 2015 / Boing Boing
Lisa Rein writes, “Chelsea Manning prepared a statement for this year’s “Aaron Swartz Day Celebration of Hackers and Whistleblowers That Make The World A Better Place” that took place at the Internet Archive, in San Francisco, on November 7th. It’s …
-
What have you done to BRAD? Meet the new ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ action figures|Dangerous Minds
Rocky Horror Picture Show “Reaction” figures by Funko (coming in December, 2015) As hard as it is to believe, 2015 is the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest cult films of all time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.Dr.
-
BBC Sport – Jose Mourinho retains Chelsea owner Abramovich’s support
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho still retains the support of Blues owner Roman Abramovich and his position is not under immediate threat. The defeat was Chelsea’s seventh in 12 Premier League games and leaves then three points above the relegation zon…
-
The last thing I expected to feel in Fallout 4 was civic pride. Games by Bethesda, vital as they are, can be cold and alienating—monoliths of content populated by awkward, dead-eyed automatons.
-
DALLAS — In Texas, wind farms are generating so much energy that some utilities are giving power away. Briana Lamb, an elementary school teacher, waits until her watch strikes 9 p.m. to run her washing machine and dishwasher. It costs her nothing un…
-
This apple I found at work with a cool red stripe via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/FKww8NxBes https://t.co/LO2szkkOzz
-
You can’t tell 7,722,917 viewers what to do, 420experiment : firstworldanarchists
You can’t tell 7,722,917 viewers what to do, 420experiment via /r/firstworldanarchists https://t.co/H3t4vpJrJY https://t.co/FNKi6Pbi4Q
-
We’ve known each other for a long time : AnimalsBeingBros
We’ve known each other for a long time via /r/AnimalsBeingBros https://t.co/45nOGpuck8 https://t.co/kNWBV97l6b
-
Unevenly distributed futures: Hong Kong’s amazing towers / Boing Boing
UK photographer Peter Stewart’s collection Stacked is a series of photos of Hong Kong’s fabulous high-rises, shot from ground level, looking straight up into the sky. Stewart’s secret is to aim his camera straight up at the precise halfway point bet…
-
Catalonia independence: Parliament votes to start secession from Spain – BBC News
The parliament of the Spanish region of Catalonia has adopted a resolution which supports independence from Spain. The declaration of secession is the first step towards independence, says the Catalan separatist alliance which tabled the motion.
-
Speak Your Unspoken Rules to Improve Your Relationships
If you’ve ever gotten upset with a loved one over something that “should” be obvious, you probably have some unspoken relationship rules. If you want that relationship to get better, start speaking them.
-
5 Unmistakable Signs That Starbucks Has Declared War On Christmas | ThinkProgress
Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus … SO I PRANKED THEM … and they HATE IT!!!! #shareUse #MERRYCHRISTMASSTARBUCKSFollow –> Joshua Feuerstein
-
Downton Abbey finale attracts 8.4 million – BBC News
The final episode of Downton Abbey was watched by an average of 8.4 million viewers, overnight figures show. Viewing peaked at 9.2 million at the start of the extended 95-minute episode at 21:00 GMT, with 8.5 million seeing it through to the end.
-
Manju Das stood over a pot in her nephew’s food stall, which spilled onto the pavement of a busy, dust-choked thoroughfare in interior West Bengal. She poured in some oil, and when it was smoking hot, threw in a handful of dried chilies and mustard …
-
South Africa luxury presidential jet plans condemned – BBC News
South Africa’s opposition has demanded that the government scrap plans to buy a new jet for President Jacob Zuma that could cost 4bn rand ($280m; £185m). The defence department has advertised for a plane with a bedroom suite and a conference room.
-
Sierra Leone is Ebola free but a legacy of fear remains – Al Jazeera English
Twenty-nine-year-old Song strolls through the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, as loud music blares out from the stalls of street vendors. After 42 days with no new cases, the World Health Organization on Saturday officially declared Sie…
-
Should I Be Scared of the Snoopers’ Charter? | VICE | United Kingdom
The “Snoopers Charter” is back, and the government are making another attempt to store our online activity, this time with something called the Investigatory Powers Bill.
-
Welding AMAScience AMA Series: I am Professor Glenn Daehn of The Ohio State University. My group works on manufacturing process innovation.
-
What you get when you let your puppy pick out a buddy from the shelter : aww
What you get when you let your puppy pick out a buddy from the shelter via /r/aww https://t.co/7CLLUGSvJl https://t.co/zTBPCEX9rn
-
Catastrophic global warming can be avoided with a deal at a crunch UN climate change summit in Paris this December because “ultimately nothing can compete with renewables”, according to one of the world’s most influential climate scientists.
-
WhatClinic Acquires Dental Booking Site Toothpick | TechCrunch
Dublin-based WhatClinic — a healthcare comparison site for dental, plastic surgery and cosmetic treatments — has acquired the U.K. dental booking site Toothpick.
-
Timbers show control as Sounders fail in Conference semi-finals | Sport | The Guardian
Ultimately, momentum could only take the Seattle Sounders so far and mask so much. The knockout round win over the LA Galaxy reenergised their season, but in the end Sigi Schmid’s side suffered a fate sealed by their on-field deficiencies.
-
Apple’s iPad Pro is available to order online on Wednesday | The Verge
Apple has revealed the release date for its upcoming iPad Pro, and it’s sooner than you might think. The 12.9-inch tablet will be available to order online from Wednesday, the company has announced, with stock available in stores later this week.
-
Gunnar Hansen, “Leatherface” from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, RIP / Boing Boing
Gunnar Hansen who Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s iconic splatterpunk film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) has died at age 68. Inspired by serial killer Ed Gein, Leatherface work a mask of human skin. From CNN:
-
Syrian refugees ‘not at school in Turkey’ – BBC News
More than 400,000 Syrian refugee children of school age living in Turkey are not attending school, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The report interviewed 50 families and found that, on average, their children had lost two years of schoo…
-
Fallout 4 review: Check your next-gen expectations at the vault door | Ars Technica
Fans of giant quest video games—MMOs, RPGs, and other open-world slogs—will sometimes point to the number of hours before the game “gets good” as a mark of quality.
-
The Struggle To Integrate Public Schools — And The Kids Caught In The Middle | ThinkProgress
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT — The students of the Academy of Engineering & Green Technologies at Hartford High School are already giving serious thought to the kinds of careers they want to prepare for — not just four or six years down the road, but decad…
-
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear more than half a dozen cases presenting the question of just how far employers can go to prevent their employees from obtaining birth control coverage. The cases, which are likely to be consol…
-
‘Fallout 4’: Once More Unto the Wasteland | Motherboard
Fallout 4, one of the most highly anticipated games of the year, comes out tomorrow for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
-
To go green, Facebook puts petabytes of cat pics on ice and “likes” windfarming | Ars Technica
When someone says the word “sustainability,” the first thing that leaps into your mind is not a data center. These giant buildings full of computer, network, and storage gear are typically power-hungry behemoths with giant cooling systems that keep …
-
Fallout 4 review: War never changes, and that’s just fine | The Verge
There’s nothing quite like listening to “Crazy He Calls Me” as the sun rises over an abandoned highway. A radioactive scorpion could attack at any moment, sure, but when Billie Holiday is in your ears, the end of the world doesn’t seem so bad.
-
The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today | Vanity Fair
Not long ago I was waiting for a domestic flight in a departure lounge at one of the crumbling midcentury sheds that pass for an American airport these days. There were delays, as we’ve all come to expect, and then the delays turned into something m…
-
Significant Digits For Monday, Nov. 9, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Geoff Britten became the first American Ninja Warrior in the six-year existence of the NBC show of the same name, completing the required feats of stren…
-
James Bond at the Box Office: Too Big to Fail, For Now | Vanity Fair
To absolutely no one’s surprise, James Bond swept Hollywood’s baccarat table clean this weekend.
-
ITV says ‘no comment’ on claims it has bought The Voice UK – BBC News
ITV has said it will not comment on speculation it has bought The Voice UK, after the BBC revealed it had lost the singing show to a rival broadcaster. The BBC said on Saturday that the fifth series, which begins in January, would be the last broadc…
-
Gigantic New Telescope Breaking Ground in Chile This Week
Artist’s illustration of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which will be built atop Las Campanas Peak in Chile. The groundbreaking ceremony for GMT, which will feature seven mirrors arranged to form a light-collecting surface 80 feet (24 meters) w…
-
Two Americans killed at Jordanian training centre – Al Jazeera English
The killings on Monday took place inside a police training centre in Amman, Jordan’s captal city. The shooter also died, reportedly after committing suicide.
-
More of the same foreign policy under AK party? – Al Jazeera English
Last week’s electoral victory will afford President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AK party leadership an opportunity to continue shaping the country’s foreign policy single-handedly, without having to compromise with the highly fragmented opposition,…
-
‘Electric Sails’ Could Propel Superfast Spacecraft by 2025
SANTA CLARA, California — Robotic spacecraft may ride the solar wind toward interstellar space at unprecedented speeds a decade or so from now.
-
Living and Dying on Airbnb — Matter — Medium
The rope swing looked inviting. Photos of it on Airbnb brought my family to the cottage in Texas. Hanging from a tree as casually as baggy jeans, the swing was the essence of leisure, of Southern hospitality, of escape.
-
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast – Episode 653 – Lorne Michaels
In the history of WTF, Lorne Michaels is talked about more than any other person. Now he is finally a guest. The man behind SNL goes through it all, from the reason he started the show back in 1975 to the reason he keeps doing it.
-
Kenneth Branagh double bill impresses critics – BBC News
Kenneth Branagh double bill impresses critics https://t.co/JmMwDdDlPO
-
Manx are notorius Assholes…. : cats
Manx are notorius Assholes…. via /r/cats https://t.co/cgGonPUJks https://t.co/TmBZe0Z8Zy
-
Alaska’s Inside Passage [4000×6000] : EarthPorn
Alaska’s Inside Passage [4000×6000] via /r/EarthPorn https://t.co/W5DLCiEO5l https://t.co/DIJI9YgiXi
-
The IRS is made of people : funny
The IRS is made of people via /r/funny https://t.co/aXrlnbzqnw https://t.co/ZPsLcL6ESj
-
Jordanian Policeman Kills Two Americans, One South African – The Atlantic
The newspaper quoted Mohammed al-Momani, the minister of state for media affairs, as saying the policeman opened fire at the facility before being shot and killed. The four who were wounded are all Jordanian; one is in serious condition, the newspap…
Americans Are Killed in Jordan https://t.co/lNTLzhUYNN -
If one had to single out an Iraqi leader responsible for ending Saddam Hussein’s 40-year dictatorship, only deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi would qualify. Both friends and enemies will grant that. Beyond it, however, the dinner table goes up in …
Ahmed Chalabi was right that Saddam Hussein had to be removed https://t.co/LqbezPgvvm -
Three minutes with the minstrels / Arthur Collins, S. H. Dudley & Ancient City. Edison Record. 1899. Long before vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs and MP3s came along, people first experienced audio recordings through another medium — through cylin…
-
Badly coded ransomware locks away data forever – BBC News
Coding mistakes in a malicious program that encrypts data mean anyone hit by the Power Worm virus will not be able to recover files, say security experts. Usually viruses known as ransomware decrypt files when victims have paid a substantial fee.
Badly coded ransomware locks away data forever https://t.co/jc5rKlTf7v -
Obama and Netanyahu: A Story of Slights and Crossed Signals https://t.co/nMeQD4QqqG
-
This is Luu, and she has a surprise for you : cats
This is Luu, and she has a surprise for you via /r/cats https://t.co/GVZ1EvHNJP https://t.co/cBTiRz4iPc
-
Building On The Keystone Victory
President Obama’s decision to reject the permit for the Keystone oil pipeline is a major victory for the environmental movement, but as activist leaders fully recognize, killing one project is not enough to save the climate.
-
Abbreviated pundit round-up: Dying white working class; troops to Syria, no to Keystone XL
Gar Alperovitz—a political economy professor at the University of Mayland, historian and author of numerous books on the topic of corporate capitalism’s increasingly conspicuous pitfalls—is a well-known voice in the national discussion.
-
First Click: DB10, One Plus X, and a preview of the week ahead | The Verge
Tag Heuer is set to unveil its Android-powered luxury smartwatch today. Developed in partnership with Google and Intel, the watch will start at $1,500 and go on sale in Europe in three days. Tuesday, T-Mobile is putting on its Un-carrier X event in …
-
Boost the Flavor of Almost Any of Your Favorite Snacks with a Quick Grill
A trip over the coals will do just about any food good, as this video from Bon Appetit (featuring The Brothers Green) shows in spades. You don’t have to have fancy coals or special ash, either—they even grill leftover pizza, stale donuts, and other …
-
Rumblr: The Tinder-style brawling app that lets you set up fist-fight ‘dates’|Dangerous Minds
A new app is currently in development that will allow users to find and set up fist-fight “dates” much in the same way users of Tinder or Grindr find other interested parties to set up potential fuck sessions.“I’d hit it.
-
Putting Your Waterlogged Phone in Rice Is Dumb and Doesn’t Work | Motherboard
One time, I misjudged the depth of a creek, stepped in, and was literally in over my head. Not that big of a problem, except I had various electronics in my backpack. As thousands (millions?) of people have done, I stuck my phone and camera in a bow…
-
World cricket chief forced out by lack of support – Al Jazeera English
Narayanaswami Srinivasan’s tumultuous tenure as the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman was cut short on Monday after the powerful Indian board (BCCI) withdrew support for its former president.
-
Sleeping sickness study claims success – BBC News
Researchers from Edinburgh University have claimed thousands of lives may have been saved in Africa by a new initiative to combat sleeping sickness. The disease, caused by a parasite that attacks the nervous system, is fatal if it is not treated.
-
Meet Afghanistan’s first female fixed-wing pilot – Al Jazeera English
Kabul, Afghanistan – When Niloofar Rahmani was eight years old, her mother realised that there was something different about her daughter.
Meet Afghanistan’s first female fixed-wing pilot https://t.co/jEJR4aI4iR -
We’ve Never Seen a Stolen Credit Card Market as Slick as This | Motherboard
Buying stolen credit cards can be a fairly drab affair. Apart from the obnoxious flashing banner ads strewn across the top of many fraud and criminal websites, often there’s not much going for them when it comes to presentation. But one site changes…
We’ve Never Seen a Stolen Credit Card Market as Slick as This https://t.co/e7uMeTjVet -
Kenneth Branagh double bill impresses critics – BBC News
His production of The Winter’s Tale, co-starring Dame Judi Dench, played ahead of Rattigan’s farce Harlequinade and the monologue All On Her Own. The Guardian praised a production “unafraid to hint at the darker elements of Shakespeare’s fable”.
-
Shashank Manohar is set to replace N Srinivasan for the remainder of his term as chairman of cricket’s world governing body.
-
WASHINGTON — For President Obama, it was a day of celebration. He had just signed the most important domestic measure of his presidency, his health care program.
-
Kurt Cobain’s ‘MTV: Unplugged’ sweater sells for a staggering $140,800 at auction|Dangerous Minds
The sweater worn by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s 1993’s MTV: Unplugged performance sold at an auction on Saturday for a cool $140,800. Four months after the taping of the show, Cobain committed suicide in an living space above his garage in his home…
-
Grivet Monkey [1367 x 2048][OC] : AnimalPorn
Grivet Monkey [1367 x 2048][OC] via /r/AnimalPorn https://t.co/4kUjo08Mbm https://t.co/WVnUPfGqoi
-
AHHH!!! The sweet spot! : cats
AHHH!!! The sweet spot! via /r/cats https://t.co/zIBjy8dAPb https://t.co/OcAZ2HT2KP
-
I wish he was my dad. https://t.co/Rd6vmdcFi4 https://t.co/JqU9qaGb6l
Love Everyone Often 11/10/2015
On top of Jockeys Cap. Woronora, NSW, Australia : natureporn On top of Jockeys Cap. Woronora, NSW, Australia via /r/natureporn https://t.co/ecG2fje8Wj https://t.co/Nh5t5sXEfl tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us The Moons of Pluto are Like Spinning Tops : space The Moons of Pluto are Like Spinning Tops via /r/space https://t.co/YZUBjiMM93 https://t.co/z8Q8WOXEqj tags: IFTTT…
+
+
+
+
+
+
Gatlinburg Garden Castle Rainbow Tower Library Imagination Station Temple Water Spirit Guardian Labyrinth Treasury Magic Healing 
Leave a comment