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BBC Sport – Marton Fulop: Former Sunderland keeper dies, aged 32
The ex-Hungary international had a tumour removed from his arm in 2013 but was cleared to continue his career. He played 47 times for the Black Cats between 2006 and 2010 and last appeared for Town in 2011, making 38 appearances for the Suffolk club…
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Move Over, Glowing Turtle—Meet the Glowing Eels
In the wake of a fluorescent sea turtle recently captured on video come two marine eels that glow neon green. The first bright green fluorescent fish ever recorded in the wild, their discovery dates back to 2011, when a tiny eel photobombed David Gr…
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‘Fallout 4’ Released Yesterday, But Modders Are Already Making Cool Stuff | Motherboard
Fallout 4 is out, and it’s doing extremely well. The game hit a peak of 445,546 concurrent players just on Steam, Valve’s digital PC games store that serves over 125 million active accounts.
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More than 14bn pints of sewage – and one angry city – BBC News
On Wednesday, Montreal started dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into the city’s main river, the St Lawrence. It is a scheme that officials in Canada’s second largest city say is necessary as they replace old infrastructure in the sewage trea…
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Caves May Hold Clues to Greenland’s Warmer Past
All basins will likely have less water from snowpack as the planet warms. But some regions will be in worse shape than others, a new report says.
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InstaAgent’s creator apologises after Apple and Google ban – BBC News
InstaAgent’s creator apologises after Apple and Google ban https://t.co/RvMntauAgS
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When you get called out for being a phony…. – GIF on Imgur
When you get called out for being a phony…. https://t.co/RiYCsOjAQR https://t.co/CZQl0UWlou
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Skateboarding bulldog breaks Guinness World Record – BBC News
Otto passed through the legs of 30 people and was presented with an official certificate.
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Will the lights go out in the UK this winter? | Business | The Guardian
Anyone of a nervous disposition should mark 11 January in their calendar as the moment to have torches, candles or paraffin lamps at the ready. That is the day when, according to National Grid’s forecast, the gap between Britain’s energy needs and i…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Greece police tear gas anti-austerity protesters – Al Jazeera English
Police in Greece fired tear gas to disperse anti-austerity demonstrators after clashes broke out in the capital Athens on Thursday. Nearly 25,000 people took to the streets in three separate demonstrations in central Athens.
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America’s poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs | US news | The Guardian
Karen Jennings patted her heavily made up face, put on a sardonic smile and said she thought she looked good after all she’d been through. “I was an alcoholic first. I got drunk and fell in the creek and broke my back. Then I got hooked on the paink…
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This book is about a girl named Nathalia (Nat) Bumolé whose father has decided to take her on a summer vacation to the south of France where she, her dad and best friend Darius (who will be smuggled into France by Nat and her dad because he doesn’t …
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How to Cope With Spending the Holidays Alone
The holidays seem to have a special way of making you feel like crap if you’re alone. Maybe you’re nursing a recent breakup. Maybe you just started college and can’t afford to fly back home.
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Plight of the orangutan – Al Jazeera English
Burned alive, captured, tortured and orphaned – this is the plight of orangutans struggling to survive in Indonesia’s diminishing rainforests.
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Get the KeySmart 2.0 extended edition edition for only $16 / Boing Boing
Say goodbye to your annoying, bulky key ring. KeySmart ($15.99) organizes your keys in one convenient, compact, and lightweight place. The extended frame lets you easily attach longer and foreign keys, and the included expansion pack can hold up to …
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Satellite Eye on Earth: September 2015 – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly’s series of photographs of Australia taken from the International Space Station have been shared thousands of times on Twitter, where he posts them. This was the first photo in his Australia “#EarthArt” series.
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H&M x Balmain and the Kardashian-ization of a Fashion House – The Atlantic
The Balmain x H&M collection went on sale this month, setting off a retail frenzy so violent that it spawned its own hashtag, #Balmania.
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New Relic Now Lets Developers Dive Deeper Into Their Analytics | TechCrunch
New Relic is launching a new analytics component for its application and server monitoring suite today that allows developers to drill even deeper into the data their code (and users) generate. The New Relic Software Analytics Cloud is now available…
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InstaAgent’s creator apologises after Apple and Google ban – BBC News
The creator of an app that posted spam to peoples’ Instagram accounts has said he made “a terrible mistake”. Turker Bayram’s InstaAgent app was pulled from Apple and Google’s stores after another developer flagged it was copying users’ names and pas…
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Xbox One update adds old game support – BBC News
It makes changes to the way users navigate around the console’s dashboard and speeds up many common tasks such as checking what friends are doing. It also adds backwards compatibility to the console so it can play many older Xbox 360 games.
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Putin’s quest for glory at any cost – Al Jazeera English
On November 10, the story of Russia’s state-organised athletic doping programme exploded on to front pages worldwide. Apparently, the scale is so egregious that it could cost the country its trip to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.
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Asus says it’s building an augmented reality headset to release in 2016 | The Verge
Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asus has confirmed that it’s building an augmented reality device, and is aiming to release it next year.
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John Lennon book wins Goldsmiths Prize – BBC News
Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone is described as a novel “that takes its reader to the edge – of the Western world, of sanity, of fame, of words”. Barry, who beat five other contenders, was awarded a £10,000 prize.
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We have greater moral obligations to robots than to …
We have greater moral obligations to robots than to humans https://t.co/tvfvhDgPoS
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The Economy Is Better — Why Don’t Voters Believe It? | FiveThirtyEight
At 9:30 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, Cyndi Diercks stood poolside at the Paddling Pooch in Bettendorf, Iowa, watching Ollie, her 12-year-old Weimaraner, swim laps.
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Rhian Ivory’s top 10 books set in the past and the present | Children’s books | The Guardian
When I was eight my mum bought me a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden and everything changed for me as a reader. I didn’t know what the words “time slip” meant but when I fell into Tom and Hattie’s world I knew I’d found my kind of book.
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Row over legal nature of Paris climate deal | Environment | The Guardian
Any global climate change deal reached in Paris next month will be legally binding and have a concrete impact, France’s foreign minister said on Thursday, reacting to US comments that questioned the status of the accord.
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Greek debt crisis: Unions in first big strike against Tsipras – BBC News
Greek workers are staging their first general strike against austerity since Alexis Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza government came to power in January. As protesters gathered in Athens, public services were hit and some transport services ground to a ha…
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Writers urge David Cameron to challenge Indian PM over freedom of speech – BBC News
More than 200 writers including Salman Rushdie, Val McDermid and Ian McEwan have called on David Cameron to address India’s “rising climate of fear” with its Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An open letter has been published by Pen International as Mr …
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Summit in Tunis devolves into right-left heated debate – Al Jazeera English
Tunis, Tunisia – Conservatives and Reformists, the third largest parliamentary group in the European parliament, kicks off a two-day summit in Tunis on Friday aimed at deepening engagement between centre-right parties, with whom they share a number …
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We have greater moral obligations to robots than to …
Writing my father’s epitaph, I realised love of food trumped love of grandchildren – should his headstone reflect that?
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Why story is used to explain symphonies and sport ma…
Opinion Is great philosophy, by its nature, difficult and obscure? It’s a movie classic. The lovers are out for a walk when a villain dashes out of his house and starts fighting the man.
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Letter from Douma: ‘Our children are being killed’ – Al Jazeera English
It usually begins in the morning, at around 8am, and lasts all day. But recently there has been a new development: Now we sometimes have air strikes at night as well. Sometimes we go down to the basement, which we have rented so that we have somewh…
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A deaf couple’s candid conversation shows what love …
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?
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All this Fallout craze and we forgot it’s Skyrim’s 4th anniversary … – Imgur
All this Fallout craze and we forgot it’s Skyrim’s 4th anniversary … https://t.co/ksEFMMTg96 https://t.co/Mf60nKlzJP
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All this Fallout craze and we forgot it’s Skyrim’s 4th anniversary … – Imgur
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Crystal Palace agree to sell shareholding to New Jersey Devils owner | Football | The Guardian
Crystal Palace have agreed a deal in principle with the owner of the New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers, Josh Harris, to sell a sizeable shareholding in the Premier League club which should see ambitious plans to redevelop Selhurst Park edge c…
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What We’re Following on Thursday, November 12 – The Atlantic
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Who Is Ben Carson? – The Atlantic
MILWAUKEE—Ben Carson came out to address the media after Tuesday night’s debate, emerging in the spin room with his typical air of beatific nonchalance.
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When Ben Carson gets into trouble because his statements about his past or his policy views are challenged, Armstrong Williams, a trusted Carson aide and friend for more than 20 years, charges in to try to spin the campaign to safety.
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Renaissance selfies: The First Book of Fashion – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
Skip to main content History Renaissance selfies: The First Book of Fashion – in pictures Cambridge historian Ulinka Rublack introduces the 16th-century ‘fashion blogger’ who documented his life in clothes – and explains how she brought his take on …
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Do War Photos Have to Be Ugly to Make a Difference? | Mother Jones
It was October 1997 when David Shields realized he had a war porn problem. Every morning, he greeted the day with the paper edition of the New York Times, and was entranced by the photography coming out of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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November 12, 1990: Tim Berners-Lee Publishes a Plan for the ‘WorldWideWeb’ | The Nation
On this day in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee published a plan for what he called the WorldWideWeb, thus creating the modern Internet.
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Is Coca-Cola Funding Your Alma Mater? | Mother Jones
Last week, the University of Colorado announced that it would return a $1 million gift from Coca-Cola—news that came after a New York Times article in August revealed that the soda company funded a group of scientists called the Global Energy Balanc…
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She is now officially a national treasure: Ali Smith FRSL CBE, the establishment experimentalist.
Public Library and Other Stories review – campaigning collection from the establishment experimentalist https://t.co/pdHe3m14z9 -
A five-story vending machine for cars just opened in Nashville | The Verge
Buying a car is a hellish process. The reward for spending hours researching the right one is a trip to a local dealership — an experience that assaults the nerves in such a way that it’s only rivaled by appointments with the dentist.
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Montreal begins dumping raw sewage into St Lawrence River – BBC News
Authorities in the Canadian city of Montreal have begun dumping raw sewage into the St Lawrence River. Officials say the project is necessary so old infrastructure in the sewage treatment system can be replaced.
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Norway: Purple ‘jellyfish slime’ coats northern fjord – BBC News
Scientists in Norway say a huge area of reddish-purple slime which has appeared on the country’s northern coast could be the result of disintegrated jellyfish.
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When I read that tonight’s South Park was going to show what life would be like without “racist, trigger-happy cops,” I got a little worried.
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Should I heat my house with oil or natural gas? | Grist
Efforts to grow better tasting fruits and vegetables lead to purple tomatoes and spiceless habaneros.
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Mats Zuccarello knew immediately something was wrong. He was sitting inside the home locker room at Madison Square Garden trying to talk to the trainer, but he couldn’t get a single word out.
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John Gallagher Died Fighting the Islamic State. His Story Is More Than Tragedy | VICE News
When Valerie Carder answers the phone to hear a writer asking to talk about her son, it’s evening in southern Ontario. It hasn’t been a week since her son’s death, but she has spent nearly every day doing interviews and handling media requests.
John Gallagher Died Fighting the Islamic State. His Story Is More Than Tragedy https://t.co/AG1M3iqsD8 -
Judge Asked Alleged Rape Victim Why She Couldn’t Just Keep Her Knees Together | Broadly
This sexist question was asked not by a mother from the 1950s, speaking to her pregnant teenage daughter, but by a Canadian Federal Court judge.
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AI Could Tell When Your Dark Web Drug Dealer Is About to Scam You | Motherboard
The dark web, despite all the attention police have been giving it lately, is still the wild west of the internet. On the markets where people pseudonymously buy and sell drugs for Bitcoin, vendors can simply disappear overnight, along with everyone…
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Cult Leader Lyndon LaRouche Hearts Martin O’Malley – The Daily Beast
Cult Leader Lyndon LaRouche Hearts Martin O’Malley https://t.co/2kt8mswjof
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Europe crackdown on ‘jihadist network’ – BBC News
Sweden brings in temporary border checks to control the flow of migrants into the country, as an EU-Africa summit continues.
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Europe to fund Africa to help stem ‘irregular’ migration – BBC News
European leaders have agreed to set up a fund to help Africa tackle “the root causes of irregular migration”. The agreement was signed at a Europe-Africa meeting in Malta discussing measures to stem the flow of people into Europe.
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Uber partners with TomTom after failing to acquire Nokia’s maps | The Verge
Uber will begin using mapping data from the navigation company TomTom, under a partnership announced Thursday. Under the multi-year deal, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing service will license TomTom’s maps and traffic data for use in its smartph…
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Cult Leader Lyndon LaRouche Hearts Martin O’Malley – The Daily Beast
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Martin O’Malley doesn’t have any supporters outside of his friends, family and paid staffers.
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An Artist Is Creating a Facebook ‘Army’ Out of Dead Soldier’s Names | Motherboard
Constant Dullaart is resurrecting an army in order to wage a war against Facebook. Why? He’s fed up with the social media giant’s commodification of our identities and lives.
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Thailand returns rescued orangutans to Indonesia | World news | The Guardian
Fourteen orangutans that were smuggled out of Indonesia and believed to have been put to work at tourist attractions in Thailand have been sent home.
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The drama-filled making of the iconic screen badass’s 1971 film Le Mans is chronicled in the new documentary Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, in theaters Friday.
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Who would soak his wood in this log? – Imgur
Who would soak his wood in this log? https://t.co/k2rtDWOZ0b https://t.co/ldtDa0e1EN
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100 Novels All Kids Should Read Before Leaving High School | Open Culture
Last year, a Slate essay called “Against YA” by Ruth Graham irked thousands of readers who took offense at her argument that although grown-ups “brandish their copies of teen novels with pride…. [a]dults should feel embarrassed about reading literat…
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Bluetooth will get much more powerful next year | The Verge
The ever-growing number of connected gadgets on the market is putting a strain on our Bluetooth connections. To keep up with the increased burden, the Bluetooth standard is getting an upgrade, with longer range, faster speeds, and mesh networking al…
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Leather jackets made in labs? This fashion designer wants to make it happen | Grist
The world of biofabrication, where the organisms, cells, and molecules of life form the basis of our built world, is a weird and wonderful place. There’s furniture made of fungi, inks manufactured by microbes, lab-grown bones, and 3D-printed tissue.
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Love in the Time of 3D Boners – In These Times
The irksome ascendancy of 3D movies may have finally met its tipping point in Gaspar Noé’s tenderly, if risibly, inappropriate Love. Or does the film herald a coming renaissance of 3D? Time will tell, but somehow I don’t see a subsequent wave of 3D …
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Maternal mortality falls by almost 50% – UN report – BBC News
Pregnancy-related deaths have fallen by almost half in the past 25 years, according to a report by United Nations agencies published in The Lancet. Around 303,000 women died of complications during pregnancy or up to six weeks after giving birth in …
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“Sins Of The Father,” the 10th episode of Empire’s gangbusters first season, proved somewhat polarizing when the fan reaction was all totaled.
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Our green obsession with windmills is bringing Britain’s electricity system to its knees, if Tory press commentators writing about last week’s grid problems are to be believed.
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OMB Circular A-130 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OMB Circular A-130, titled Management of Federal Information Resources, is one of many Government circulars produced by the United States Federal Government to establish policy for executive branch departments and agencies.
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Zanzibar annuls recent election, new vote expected – Al Jazeera English
The semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar annulled October’s elections and a new vote appears likely despite continued negotiations to strike a political deal with Tanzania’s mainland.
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Lenovo Cards Its First Loss For Six Years Following Major Restructuring | TechCrunch
Lenovo Cards Its First Loss For Six Years Following Major Restructuring https://t.co/Wrt3VszBdT
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La crisis del agua de la Ciudad de México | Cities | The Guardian
Cuando una tormenta se abate sobre la Ciudad de México, la lluvia no sólo cae, sino que insiste.
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You can see why Californians confused this Navy missile test for a UFO | The Verge
Sometimes bright lights in the sky really do need explaining, as was the case in San Francisco on Saturday when a Navy missile test caught observers off-guard.
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India’s business ties with the UK – BBC News
As India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the UK, here is a guide to the trade and investment links between India and the UK. Yogita Limaye reports.
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‘Dangerous Men’: A WTF Cult Classic 26 Years in the Making – The Daily Beast
Buxom babes out for revenge, bad guy beach bikers, amorous cops, and all the very worst hallmarks of ‘80s and‘90s exploitation filmmaking collide in Dangerous Men, a work of mind-boggling virtuoso WTF-ery that came out of nowhere to warp the minds o…
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At University of Missouri, Black Students See a Campus Riven by Race https://t.co/t7uNAdcu2W
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Decorative gourds aren’t just supposed to look pretty. Here’s how to cook them | Grist
Efforts to grow better tasting fruits and vegetables lead to purple tomatoes and spiceless habaneros.
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Lenovo Cards Its First Loss For Six Years Following Major Restructuring | TechCrunch
Lenovo is through a difficult last quarter, in which it laid off 3,200 staff and wrote off $300 million in unsold smartphones, in which it realized its first loss for more than six years.
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Alibaba Group reaped $14.3 billion in sales during Singles’ Day, a 54 percent from last year’s tally of $9.3 billion.
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Where next for migrants arriving in Lesbos? – BBC News
As EU leaders meet in Malta to try to find solutions to the migration of people into Europe from Africa, many of those travelling to Europe are from countries like Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. The BBC’s Ed Thomas reports from the island of Lesbos wh…
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The image above is a version of Sebastian Münster’s 16th-century chart of sea monsters, starring all kinds of fantastical denizens of the deep: from ship-eating serpents and giant lobsters to some kind of seal-octopus hybrid.
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Public Services Close in Greek General Strike | Al Jazeera America
Public services shut down across Greece Thursday as workers held the first general strike since the country’s left-led government initially came to power in January.
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Analysis: GCC ‘ambiguous’ about Russia in Syria – Al Jazeera English
As Vienna prepares to host a second round of talks between Russia, the United States and other major powers to discuss the Syrian crisis, there is a growing conviction among a number of Gulf state policymakers that the solution to the region’s probl…
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Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I found this book absolutely amazing. Set during the second world war, the main character is a young boy named William who is evacuated to the countryside to live with a grieving widower named Tom.
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Venezuela first lady’s nephews face US cocaine charges – Al Jazeera English
Two nephews of Venezuela’s powerful first lady, arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800kg of cocaine into the US, will be arraigned in New York on Thursday.
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Myanmar election: Military ‘will co-operate’ with new government – BBC News
Myanmar’s military chief has pledged to work with the country’s new government, following landmark elections on Sunday. Min Aung Hlaing said the military would “do what is best in co-operation with the new government during the post-election period”.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — At first, Briana Gray just chalked up the comments and questions from her new roommate at the University of Missouri to innocent ignorance: How do you style your hair? What do you put in it?
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Mexico City’s water crisis – from source to sewer | Cities | The Guardian
When a tormenta sweeps in to Mexico City, the rain does not just fall, it insists.
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Announcing The Disrupt London 2015 Agenda | TechCrunch
Disrupt London is right around the bend. The show is set to kick off in a few weeks and we’re excited today to reveal the agenda. We couldn’t be more thrilled. The lineup is amazing and we have a new, larger venue this year to house the show.
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Uber Adds TomTom Navigation Data To Its Driver App, Not Replacing Google Maps | TechCrunch
On-demand transportation service Uber lost out on its joint bid for Nokia’s Here mapping unit, so now it’s moving ahead with putting together its own mapping solutions.
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BBC Sport – Fifa: Musa Bility rejected as presidential candidate
Liberia’s Musa Bility has been ruled out as a candidate for the Fifa presidency following integrity checks. Football’s world governing body has approved five of the presidential candidates, with suspended Uefa boss Michel Platini also not included.
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Walmart’s Black Friday deals include curved 4K TVs and game consoles for cheap | The Verge
Black Friday creeps ever earlier. This year, Best Buy is offering its best deals on Thursday, while Amazon is doing its best to destroy the concept entirely, starting its price cuts three weeks early. Today Walmart has joined the fray, detailing the…
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Wisconsin’s Central Sands Lakes Drying Up | Al Jazeera America
Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series examining industry’s effects on Wisconsin’s water resources. Part one explored the politicization of the Department of Natural Resources. WAUSHARA COUNTY, Wis.
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Rolls-Royce warns over 2016 ‘headwinds’ – BBC News
Aerospace group Rolls-Royce has warned that its profits in 2016 will be hit by £650m of “headwinds” as a result of “sharply weaker demand”. The company said the main areas where demand was weaker were “selected aerospace and offshore marine markets”.
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World Book Day 2016’s Biggest Book Show On Earth lineup announced! | Children’s books | The Guardian
2016’s Biggest Book Show On Earth line-up will feature over 45 authors and illustrators touring the UK and Ireland making 11 stops – the highest number yet – and London will see the tour’s first ever Teen Fest.
World Book Day 2016’s Biggest Book Show On Earth lineup announced! https://t.co/Ih7DGDePzN -
Your Xbox One is getting a lot faster today | The Verge
I’ve used an Xbox One daily since its release nearly two years ago. It’s been a painful experience. You’ll usually find me shouting at my Kinect to make it understand my English accent, or swearing profusely after the friends app randomly refreshes …
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Umberto Eco: ‘Real literature is about losers’ | Books | The Guardian
Since the publication in 1980 of his first novel, The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco’s work has come to be defined by a curious paradox – you never quite know what to expect but you can be absolutely sure that it will will bear the unmistakable stamp…
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BBC Sport – Ten reasons to love sport – tea ladies, triathlons & trailblazers
Doping, corruption, cover-ups, controversy … there seems to be an awful lot of bad news around sport at the moment. We’re calling it ‘Feel-Good Thursday’ – and here we bring you 10 heart-warming tales to remind us of why we fell in love with sport…
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi gets assurance of peaceful transition – Al Jazeera English
Yangon, Myanmar – Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi received more congratulations and pledges of support from Myanmar’s military rulers as her opposition party awaited official results on Thursday confirming an expected landslide win in historic elect…
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Kafka on Appearance vs. Reality and How the Media Commodify Truth | Brain Pickings
Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883–June 3, 1924) spent twelve years working at an insurance company, where he remained well after The Metamorphosis was published.
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Making art more accessible to blind and visually impaired people is founder Marc Dillon’s new mission. After almost a quarter century working in the mobile industry — latterly at alternative mobile OS maker, Jolla, from where he finally departed thi…
Unseen Art Is Crowdfunding An Open Source Platform To Make Fine Art Accessible Via 3D Printing https://t.co/e0guYcOsDP -
Distrito Fecal: un viaje por los baños de la Ciudad de México | Cities | The Guardian
Comencé a fotografiar baños en la Ciudad de México hace más de una década, cuando tuve un caso grave de salmonela que degeneró en colitis ulcerosa crónica.
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I began photographing bathrooms in Mexico City more than a decade ago, when I got a severe case of salmonella that degenerated into chronic ulcerative colitis.
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On the front line with Kurdish forces attempting to retake Sinjar – BBC News
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have launched an offensive to recapture the town of Sinjar. The Kurdish campaign is being supported by air strikes by the US-led coalition.
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Lenovo pushed into loss by restructuring costs – BBC News
China’s computer and smartphone giant, Lenovo, has reported a net loss of $714m (£469m) after being hit by restructuring costs. Second-quarter earnings were affected by charges of $923m related to job cuts and clearing stocks of smartphones.
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The Middle: “Homecoming II: The Tailgate”We live in a world where our family members are just as likely to live on the other side of the country as they are on the other side of town, and with communication technology being what it is in this day an…
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Group test: children’s bikes from Islabike, Frog, Hoy and Halfords | Environment | The Guardian
Bike companies spend months finessing the details of their kids’ models – the scaled-down brake levers, mini cranks, a child-friendly low centre of gravity. And what are the children most impressed by? A set of toy plastic cones.
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Netanyahu’s Washington triumph – Al Jazeera English
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right to gloat on his Twitter account about his achievements in the United States capital, as he was able to milk to the maximum Washington’s need for his silence, even acquiescence, on the Iran nuclear d…
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Israeli army unit storms hospital and kills Palestinian – Al Jazeera English
An elite Israeli military force that operates undercover stormed the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron and shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
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Australian Apple Store Accused of Racism | Al Jazeera America
Apple was facing accusations of racism in Australia on Thursday after a group of black teenagers was asked to leave a store in Melbourne when a staffer expressed concern they would shoplift.
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Ray Bradbury Reads His Poem “If Only We Had Taller Been” in a Rare 1971 Recording | Brain Pickings
On November 12, 1971 — the day before NASA’s Mariner 9 mission reached Mars and became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet — Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C.
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Sir Alex Ferguson And Sequoia’s Mike Moritz To Speak At Disrupt London | TechCrunch
The speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015 are many and varied. However, perhaps only two can boast the status of being living legends at this point.
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Sinjar battle: Kurds in bid to retake Iraq town from IS – BBC News
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have launched a bid to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border, from Islamic State militants. The offensive is supported by airstrikes by the US-led coalition.
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Britain ‘must abandon Churchillian rhetoric’ in face of rising seas | Environment | The Guardian
Britain must abandon “Churchillian rhetoric” and claims it can “hold the line” against rising seas, and instead plan ahead for increasing coastal erosion, according to the National Trust.
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Iraqi Kurds launch offensive to retake Sinjar from ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by US-led coaltion war planes, have launched a major offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar in northern Iraq from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Sinjar operation started. Peshmarge unde…
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No beef allowed: inside the schools that have banned meat | Teacher Network | The Guardian
School dinners are a minefield, as Jamie Oliver discovered when he came up against mothers defiantly pushing burgers through the fence to their chicken-nugget deprived offspring.
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A star-studded protest in India – Al Jazeera English
Over the past few weeks, an unprecedented parade of distinguished and decorated Indians – writers, film-makers, a scientist – have returned the awards given to them by the Indian state.
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American Horror Story is a well-oiled shock machine, producing jolts and bombshells with predictable facility and facile predictability, but “Room 33” manages something genuinely surprising: It propels the story forward with nimble efficiency, ties …
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GOP Candidates Suck Up to Hatemongers – The Daily Beast
GOP Candidates Suck Up to Hatemongers https://t.co/LzhWK1mMnk
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Cruise-Ship Suicide or Homophobic Hate Crime? – The Daily Beast
Cruise-Ship Suicide or Homophobic Hate Crime? https://t.co/mfXE1jQz5B
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McNuggets With a Side of Weed, Please – The Daily Beast
McNuggets With a Side of Weed, Please https://t.co/txnJuhLhmC
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Ghosting, Swerve, and Bag Job, Oh My: A Dictionary for the Digital Dating Age – The Daily Beast
Ghosting, Swerve, and Bag Job, Oh My: A Dictionary for the Digital Dating Age https://t.co/my9rLpluO1
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Why Are Women Still Ashamed of Watching Porn? – The Daily Beast
Why Are Women Still Ashamed of Watching Porn? https://t.co/kGO5LOZxSN
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UK becomes only G7 country to increase fossil fuel subsidies | Environment | The Guardian
The UK is alone among G7 nations in dramatically increasing its fossil fuel subsidies, despite an earlier pledge to phase them out, a new report has found.
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Baby panda takes his first steps at Washington Smithsonian zoo – video | World news | The Guardian
BeiBei, a giant panda cub born on 22 August, takes his first shaky steps at Washington’s Smithsonian National zoo, watched closely by his mother, Mei Xiang.
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Diwali: Delhi pollution ‘hits hazardous levels’ – BBC News
Pollution soared to hazardous levels in Delhi on the night of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, reaching 40 times the limit recommended by the World Health Organisation, reports say. Massive quantities of fireworks go up in smoke during the fest…
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Kurds Launch Offensive Against ISIL in Iraq | Al Jazeera America
Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.
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Indonesians have never stopped talking about 1965 – the world should listen | Books | The Guardian
No doubt about it, the forced cancellations of activities related to the 1965-6 mass violence in Indonesia at the recent Ubud writers and readers festivalhave escalated international media interest in this period of Indonesia’s history.
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For the past two seasons, Black-ish has been balancing itself between a traditional single-camera sitcom and a more absurd, outlandish almost-Adult Swim show.
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What Black America Sees in Ben Carson – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson has reasons to guard his biography that go well beyond his campaign for the White House. Carson’s origin story isn’t just a set of inspirational anecdotes, akin to Donald Trump’s often-outrageous claims that, in the end, are simply part o…
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Fried Chicken and Skulls of ISIS Fighters: On the Front Lines – The Daily Beast
AL-DAWUDIYAH, Syria — “There are a lot of bodies and it smells like hell. It’s full of diseases there, what are you doing there?” shouts Zilan, the local female commander of Kurdish troops in this dusty village.
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U.S. Baffled by Russian Jet ‘Bombing’ – The Daily Beast
In the absence of any definitive evidence that an explosive device brought down Russian Metrojet 9268 last month over Egypt’s Sinai, U.S.
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The Shonda Rhimes Guide to Your Best Life – The Daily Beast
Shonda Rhimes currently has her own land. It’s named after her. Shondaland is home to three television shows that populate an entire night of a network’s broadcasting schedule and, this is not an overstatement, may actually be changing the world.
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Who Let Marco Rubio’s Slimy Pal Into the GOP Debate? – The Daily Beast
David Rivera is bad for Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential ambitions—but the ethically challenged former congressman can’t seem to stay away. On Wednesday, Rivera was spotted at the Milwaukee Republican presidential debate, according to Politico’s Mike…
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Inside Virginia’s Creepy White Power Wolf Cult – The Daily Beast
What do the original host of the Wheel of Fortune and the author of Fight Club have in common? They’re both acquainted with a member of a neopagan group that celebrates a guy who tried to burn down a black church. You read that right.
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Why Are Women Still Ashamed of Watching Porn? – The Daily Beast
Dr. Katherine Goldey and Dr. Sari van Anders of the University of Michigan set out to test a straightforward hypothesis: The more choice women had over the pornography they watched, the more aroused they would become. Unsurprisingly, that prediction…
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McNuggets With a Side of Weed, Please – The Daily Beast
Memories of serving in Vietnam still haunt Raymond Savedra, a New Mexico native with post-traumatic stress disorder. To quell his symptoms, which range from panic attacks to nightmares, his doctor recommended cannabis.
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Ghosting, Swerve, and Bag Job, Oh My: A Dictionary for the Digital Dating Age – The Daily Beast
I’ve done it. Charlize Theron has (somewhat more famously) done it, to none other than Sean Penn. Eleven percent of U.S. adults have done it. It’s called “ghosting,” and it means severing all contact with someone you’re seeing and giving no explanat…
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Students: Fight Racism, Not Free Speech – The Daily Beast
The ouster of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe earlier this week—perhaps the most pivotal victory for young activists in years—should finally lay to rest the false notion that offended students have no real power on campus.
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It has been more than 20 years since Mr. Show first premiered on HBO and nearly 17 since the sketch comedy series aired its final episode. In the years since, Bob Odenkirk has gone on to become an Emmy-nominee for his surprisingly heartfelt performa…
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GOP Candidates Suck Up to Hatemongers – The Daily Beast
Sometimes I think Republicans get a bad rap from mainstream journalists, who tend to be more sympathetic to liberals and Democrats. The problem may be particularly acute when it comes to social conservatives, whose views seem especially unpopular am…
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Many may object to his views on Mexicans, the looks of Carly Fiorina, and his sneering at Megyn Kelly—and much more—but at least, when it comes to interior decoration, Donald Trump is no slave to mimsy restraint. It can be safely assumed that Donald…
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Putin’s Pals Are Russian Patriots Until They Get Sick – The Daily Beast
How could it happen that Vladimir Putin’s press censor Mikhail Lesin, a former presidential aide, a member of the ruling United Russia party, the ideological inspiration behind the Kremlin-funded television network Russia Today, ended up dying in th…
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Cruise-Ship Suicide or Homophobic Hate Crime? – The Daily Beast
On the first night of Bernardo Garcia Teixeira’s Royal Caribbean cruise, the bartender called him and his husband “two lipsticks.
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An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco via NASA https://t.co/gpVFduuH9r https://t.co/JlEYRh9k9X https://t.co/WZ5xGvwK48
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Mozilla’s Firefox Browser App For iOS Is Finally Available To All | TechCrunch
Mozilla has been testing an iOS version of its popular web browser since September, and now Firefox for iOS is available publicly to anyone in possession of an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
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In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee. Scott Hamilton is a figure-skating legend. An Olympic gold medalist who also won four world championships and…
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Agency fired over failed Australia taxi Twitter campaign – BBC News
Australia’s Victorian Taxi Association (VTA) has fired its social media agency after a campaign aimed at fixing the ailing taxi industry backfired.
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So it’s clear that Star Wars Rebels isn’t particularly interested in a long term arc or storyline, not at this point at least.
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Film critics watch a lot of movies, but we can’t watch everything. With approximately seven weeks left in 2015, I’ve seen (as of the day I’m writing this) 204 features that have been commercially released this year.
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2 Broke Girls, 1 fifth season · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, November 12. All times are Eastern. 2 Broke Girls (CBS, 9:30 p.m.): Against the odds of taste and decorum, the questionably racist/definitely hacky 2 Broke Girls returns for a fifth season tonight.
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Emily Heller on Taylor Swift’s slut-shaming “You Belong With Me” · HateSong · The A.V. Club
In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world. The hater: With her debut album, Good For Her, out this Friday, Emily Heller is striving even further to mak…
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A lot of talented actors must really want to make a Christmas movie.
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Palme Thursday is A.A. Dowd’s monthly examination of a winner of the Palme D’Or, determining how well the film has held up and whether it deserved the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
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With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with new shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or …
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Movies and TV are full of people whose problems aren’t really problems, though few are as maddeningly obtuse about it as the title character of James White.
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Move over, Rudy. Hit the showers, Brian’s Song. There’s a new tearjerking true story of gridiron triumph, one that combines those male-weepie favorites in a way no focus group could possibly resist.
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Judging a movie like Dangerous Men according to any sort of conventional critical metric is frustrating, if not impossible.
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Neil Hamburger, the stand-up comedian created and played by Gregg Turkington, is designed to repel.
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Real Housewives, Fake Cancer: How Brooks Ayers Tricked America into Thinking He Was Dying https://t.co/PmUHiVEEQT
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A History Of Insane Art Prices – Digg
Chinese billionaire and former taxi driver Liu Yiqian bought Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917-18 painting, Nu Couché for $170.4 million on November 9, the second-highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art.
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Shia LaBeouf watches every Shia LaBeouf movie, back to back – video | Film | The Guardian
The Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf takes part in his latest art installation which involves him watching every one of his own films, back to back, over three days. The event is being livestreamed globally and New York locals are also invited to join S…
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Skylarks’ chase casts shimmer on the soil | Environment | The Guardian
In the open farm fields wildlife was adapting to an outbreak of symmetry. Ploughs and harrows had left their marks, a crisscross patchwork of parallel lines. Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
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In the annals of asshattery, transgressions fall along a spectrum. Some are minor, like failing to refill the water in the office Keurig machine. Others aim higher by trying to manufacture a wholly ridiculous outrage campaign about Jesus-hating coff…
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There is a new PS Vita with a Dragon Quest slime instead of an up button | The Verge
Big news out of the Japanese RPG-themed limited-edition PlayStation Vita scene today, as Sony has announced a Dragon Quest model to tie in with the release of Minecraft clone Dragon Quest Builders in January.
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Alleged Australian Detention Camp Rioters Prison | Al Jazeera America
Seven men blamed for a riot that caused $7 million in damage to a remote Australian immigration detention camp had been flown to a mainland prison, an official said Thursday.
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Hackbright Academy Names Sharon Wienbar As CEO | TechCrunch
Hackbright Academy, the 12-week computer science program that trains women to become software engineers, has a new chief executive officer.
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UN to vote on Burundi as violence escalates – Al Jazeera English
The UN Security Council has scheduled a vote Thursday on a resolution condemning increasing killings, torture, and other human rights violations in Burundi and threatening possible sanctions against those contributing to the violence.
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Etretat, France, Rock Formation – National Geographic Photo of the Day
Out for an anniversary stroll with his girlfriend, Louis Schneider had to step “a bit over the edge” to capture this shot of the Manneporte, a rock formation in Étretat, France.
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Senior Political Analyst Desi Lydic took on a new role Wednesday night as The Daily Show’s resident fact-checker.
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MIT Engineers Make Water Boil With the Flip of a Switch | Motherboard
There’s something to the old idiom that a watched pot never boils. You, the impatient or perhaps just hungry water boiler are at the mercy of atmospheric pressure, thermal conduction, the dynamics of cavitation, and your own attention span.
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It just keeps getting better with this lovable hairy man – Imgur
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We took a picture in Vegas with your British friends – Imgur
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The Queen cracks up when she realizes the man in uniform is actually her husband – Imgur
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6 Places Where Melting Snow Means Less Drinking Water
Climate scientists have a pretty good idea what is going to happen to much of the Earth’s snow as the planet warms over the next century: It’s going to melt.
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In “Cop Con,” every officer Moonbeam City PD heads to a single convention center for a weekend. But as Dazzle points out, the only attendance that matters is everyone in what he calls “the old gang.
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Sweden imposes new refugee border controls – Al Jazeera English
Sweden imposes new refugee border controls https://t.co/QOAs3P2XUD
The Swedish government will impose stricter border controls on Thursday to deal with the unprecedented arrival of refugees streaming across its borders. “A record number of refugees are arriving in Sweden. The migration office is under strong pressu… -
We took a picture in Vegas with your British friends – Imgur
We took a picture in Vegas with your British friends https://t.co/9AnbocUBLu https://t.co/h3Ay0Uqekk
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Fallout 4 Registration Form, Name: JOHN CENA – Imgur
Fallout 4 Registration Form, Name: JOHN CENA https://t.co/xuHlSC7oaT https://t.co/mpYsTOI313
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The Queen cracks up when she realizes the man in uniform is actually her husband – Imgur
The Queen cracks up when she realizes the man in uniform is actually her husband https://t.co/TV1zzs27Cr https://t.co/VNGnRmA6Iz
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New Android Wear Smartwatches Can Go Online Without Needing Your Smartphone | TechCrunch
New Android Wear Smartwatches Can Go Online Without Needing Your Smartphone https://t.co/PyUxcNN1fv
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The golden Pax vaporizer is what mainstream pot culture looks like | The Verge
The golden Pax vaporizer is what mainstream pot culture looks like https://t.co/XYmP4PDxZA
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FDA Says Americans Should Cut Added Sugar | Al Jazeera America
FDA says Americans should cut consumption of added sugar https://t.co/dERMhBU88Q
After years of discussion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week issued a recommendation that Americans limit consumption of added sugars in the foods they eat to the equivalent of about one soda per day. -
The Queen cracks up when she realizes the man in uniform is actually her husband – Imgur
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We took a picture in Vegas with your British friends – Imgur
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It just keeps getting better with this lovable hairy man – Imgur
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APOD: 2015 November 11 – An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco
An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco https://t.co/6sv2DfK42X
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Comet 67P Tumbles Through Space | Space Wallpaper
Comet 67P Tumbles Through Space | Space Wallpaper https://t.co/XwOS7jNJgH
About this Image The navigation camera on Rosetta captured this image of Comet 67P\Churyumov-Gerasimenko tumbling through space with gases escaping the larger lobe with an unnatural glow. [Read more about Comet 67P.] Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC … -
Is sustainability sold at supermarkets or farmers’ m…
The tomato is one of our lovelier foods; juicy icon of the good life.
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Report details widespread Chinese torture in police detention – BBC News
The torture of suspects in police detention is widespread in China with implements like spiked rods and torture chairs regularly deployed to extract confessions, a report alleges. The Amnesty International report is based on interviews with nearly 4…
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After the last few emotionally heavy episodes, You’re The Worst adopts a lighter, but more scattered approach to “A Right Proper Story,” which provides a look at Jimmy’s cruel, uncouth family and set the table for the final part of the season.
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The Rhine has been hit by its longest period of low water in 40 years, Dutch officials said on Wednesday, raising inland shipping costs and fears of collisions on one of Europe’s busiest rivers.
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Carbon abatement: government spends another $557m to buy 45m tonnes | Environment | The Guardian
The Turnbull government has bought another 45m tonnes of carbon abatement for $557m – meaning it has spent almost half the $2.55bn emissions reduction fund to buy less than half the greenhouse reductions needed to meet its 2020 target.
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The FBI reportedly paid Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to attack Tor | The Verge
Encryption service Tor was designed to keep its users anonymous, but early last year, it was compromised, handing reams of information about people who used the software to view the “dark web” to an unknown party.
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How Facebook Is Stealing Billions Of Video Views – Digg
9 diggs Media Internet Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damagin…
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Drone collides with Seattle Ferris Wheel, busts through plastic table | Ars Technica
Local media reported Wednesday evening that a drone crashed into the Seattle Great Wheel, then crashed through a plastic dining table on a patio nearby. The incident at the local Ferris Wheel took place just after 4pm Pacific Time.
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Australia convicts two over female genital mutilation – BBC News
An Australian court has found two women guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on two young girls, in the country’s first such conviction. The incidents took place in separate incidents in 2009 and 2012 in Wollongong, New South Wales…
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In pictures: Telling time in Bamako – BBC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin orders an investigation into claims the country’s athletes have been part of systematic doping.
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Athletics doping: Russian athletes fear ban from Olympics – BBC News
Being labelled cheats is bad enough, but for Russian athletes and politicians a ban from the next Olympics would be devastating. And that’s the fear here.
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What would the world look like if all the “racist” cops packed up and left town? This is how South Park took on the police violence issue Wednesday night.
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Venezuelan first lady’s nephews arrested in US drug case – BBC News
Venezuelan first lady’s nephews arrested in US drug case https://t.co/bpMS9Js3w2
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Reddit Replaces Its Confusing Shadowban System With Account Suspensions | TechCrunch
Reddit has replaced shadowbans, which made posts from users who broke the site’s rules invisible, with account suspensions.
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For the most part, I enjoy when Modern Family has a voiceover at the end that puts a bow on the themes of the episode. I know that it’s kind of hacky and can be a crutch for the show, but there’s something about the earnest nature of it that gets me…
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The links between the UK and India – BBC News
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in the UK for an official visit, Rob Lynes, director of the British Council in India, looks at the links between the two countries. The UK-India relationship is strong, with a shared history going back …
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Open thread for night owls: GOP candidates attend event led by man who calls for execution of gays
Kevin Swanson is a far-right pastor and radio host who organized last weekend’s Iowa “National Religious Liberties Conference”, attended by Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee.
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Australia’s ANZ told to compensate 200,000 customers – BBC News
One of Australia’s biggest lenders, ANZ, is paying out compensation to 200,000 customers totalling $13m Australian dollars ($9.3m; £6.1m). The move comes after the bank failed to apply correct interest payments to some accounts for several years.
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Neill Blomkamp already has his next project lined up · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fresh off being punted from the Alien franchise in favor of a suddenly hot Ridley Scott, District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp is already in talks for the next movie that someone is apparently going to let him make.
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Murdered Jordanian pilot’s father wants answers over son’s death – BBC News
The father of the Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in a cage earlier this year by the so-called Islamic State group has called for an investigation into the circumstances of the crash that led to his son’s capture.
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A Rare Look Inside NY’s Secretive Data Centers
The data centers that run the internet are kept pretty secret, and for good reason: forget cyberattacks, a few well-placed hatchet swings could kill Snapchat worldwide. But photographer Peter Garritano recently managed to sneak inside.
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What precisely is the story in tonight’s episode? If we break things down strictly in terms of the plot beat, two of the most pivotal storylines in “Lost Souls” amount to narrative busywork, with Arrow lending an hour of its time to do some setup fo…
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Venezuelan first lady’s nephews arrested in US drug case – BBC News
Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady have been arrested in Haiti and taken to the US to face drug trafficking charges, US media reports say. Franqui Francisco Flores-de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo-Flores are accused of conspiring to smuggle 80…
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‘Magical’ blue diamond is auctioned for $48m in Geneva – BBC News
The cushion-shaped diamond, mounted on a ring, was bought by a private collector from Hong Kong. The sale comes a day after rival auction house Christie’s sold a rare 16.08-carat pink diamond for $28.5m.
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Blue diamond fetches $48m at auction – BBC News
The 12-carat diamond was bought by an unidentified private collector in Hong Kong, who has renamed it “The Blue Moon of Josephine”. Kasia Madera reports.
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We hit the ground running this week, as Pete’s over the moon to have a shot to play (ref) in the big leagues: officiating a community college level basketball game.
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic https://t.co/ECbNwsEUbb
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Questions raised over Australia work-for-welfare scheme – Al Jazeera English
Mark Waters was always someone who worked. That changed a few years ago when the 32-year-old former delivery truck driver broke his wrist and then, just when things started to get better, he “snapped” his leg while playing sports.
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The ethical case for allowing doping in sports – Quartz
A stunning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency has made a series of allegations against Russian athletes and authorities, including the accusation that a Russian laboratory deliberately destroyed 1,400 blood and urine samples ahead of a visit b…
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Dear Idiots and Racists: Yik Yak Is a Bad Place to Make a Death Threat – The Daily Beast
Dear Idiots and Racists: Yik Yak Is a Bad Place to Make a Death Threat https://t.co/fZRJSPGt4s
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Jeb Bush says ‘hell yeah,’ he’d kill baby Hitler
Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) said in an interview Monday that he would personally kill an infant Adolf Hitler. What makes this story is how Jeb Bush is so into it.
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Fitbit Flex Activity Tracker | Digg Store
Fitbit leads the fitness tracking pack with its great design and unmatched functionality. Get motivated to be more active by measuring your steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, and active minutes – then get the sleep you need to perform …
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Danzig, Flaming Lips, Louis C.K. to Guest on ‘Portlandia’ | Rolling Stone
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Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth | Slate Star Codex
I started criticizing social justice back in 2010, which doesn’t sound so impressive until you realize that’s two centuries ago in Internet Years. At the time, you rarely heard such criticism outside of wingnutty lesbianism-causes-witchcraft circles…
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Gray Dress Pant Sweatpants | Men’s Dress Pants | Betabrand
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“Jump over this mud pit”, they said. “It will be easy”, they said. – GIF on Imgur
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There’s nothing quite like the old Survivor bait-and-switch. From the beginning of the episode, it looks like the narrative is setting up a brains vs. brawn brawl between Stephen and Joe in a battle of who can blindside who first.
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Dear Idiots and Racists: Yik Yak Is a Bad Place to Make a Death Threat – The Daily Beast
On Tuesday night, lines like this one appeared on the University of Missouri’s feed on Yik Yak, the location-based, hyperlocal social media app. The anonymous post led to beefed up campus security on a campus embroiled in protest and turmoil. But th…
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Zoe Kazan to replace Lisa Joyce in Lena Dunham’s new HBO pilot · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Deadline, Lena Dunham has been forced to recast the lead of her new HBO comedy pilot, Max, after original star Lisa Joyce got a better offer somewhere else (in this case it’s Insecure, another HBO comedy pilot).
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The first season of Kingdom introduced its “weak versus strong” theme by having Alvey pose a mostly rhetorical question to a therapist: “Are you one of the weak, or are you one of the strong?” That dichotomy has been dusted off for season two, and n…
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Promised Bipartisanship, Obama Adviser Found Disappointment https://t.co/kYi7C4BA7p
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“Jump over this mud pit”, they said. “It will be easy”, they said. – GIF on Imgur
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A decade after Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt steamed up movie screens with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the since-married stars reunited onscreen to film By the Sea, another project that explores the subject of marital intimacy.
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Urgent coastal protection needed, says National Trust – BBC News
As parts of the UK face the first of the wet winter weather, the National Trust wants action to manage threats to our storm-battered coastline. In a new report, the Trust says the UK is “ignoring known risks of flood and erosion at the coast”.
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New Marvel bedding set promises great power, responsibility, pillowcases · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Providing the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who’s ever dreamed of crying themselves to sleep from atop Peter Parker’s overly determined face, Marvel has announced a new line of adult bedding for the discerning comicphile.
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Utah Officials Review Order Remove Baby Lesbians | Al Jazeera America
Utah state child welfare officials on Wednesday were reviewing a ruling by a juvenile court judge who ordered a baby to be taken from lesbian foster parents and instead placed with a heterosexual couple for the child’s well-being.
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Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to See Saturn for Awhile
Half an hour after sunset Thursday night, November 12, look for Saturn and the thin crescent moon low on the southwestern horizon.Credit: Starry Night software.
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Barn doors I built from the old wood floor I pulled up inside. : DIY
Barn doors I built from the old wood floor I pulled up inside. (imgur.com) Stellar work. Love those handles.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Scrape It Off, Scrape It Off (14 photos)
Scrape It Off, Scrape It Off (14 photos) https://t.co/HRvL8yhjKQ https://t.co/r0ZyGhbr0O
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Mars’ Moon Phobos –“Tidal Forces Tearing It Apart” https://t.co/bhQp4IxMdu https://t.co/CYvymsCbwU
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Cave Nebula [2853×2013][OS][OC]
The Cave Nebula [2853×2013][OS][OC] https://t.co/8J0j6dYuZH https://t.co/zlDlERtEzd
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Stephan’s Quintet – A Mammoth Cosmic Collision [2241 x 1548] https://t.co/WJ7UbXDHO5 https://t.co/oGnx9QSWBx
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Apple apologises after allegations of racism by Australia schoolboys – BBC News
Apple has apologised to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident. Footage of the incident at Melbourne’s Highpoint shopping centre emerged on Tuesday sparking a social media o…
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WASHINGTON — When President Obama first won the White House, he recruited Ray LaHood, a Republican congressman, to join his cabinet. The appointment, Mr. Obama said, “reflects that bipartisan spirit” that would distinguish his presidency. Seven year…
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Rob Steen: Watching America watch cricket | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
Maybe it’s the impending anniversary of Phillip Hughes’ death. Or the daily drip of allegations from Southwark Crown Court, where Daniel Vettori and Brendon McCullum denounced their old pal Chris Cairns with such heart-rending regret.
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Confrontation Brews as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Vie for Conservative Vote https://t.co/7kg67aUgTT
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EventBoard, A Smart Conference Room Booking Startup, Raises $6.5M | TechCrunch
EventBoard, a company that provides software to make conference rooms more efficient, may be based in Salt Lake City, Utah, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found its way into the guts of Silicon Valley.
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ABC developing new Michael Showalter comedy called Work Married · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp lighting up the Netflix charts a few months ago and his next feature film (Hello, My Name Is Doris with Max Greenfield and Sally Field) hitting theaters early next year, the comedy world is enjoying a …
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E.U. Move to Label Israeli Settlement Goods Strains Ties https://t.co/XcbUSobKBg
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After a Republican presidential debate in which sober policy discussions edged out the loud personality clashes that have dominated so far, the campaign’s focus narrowed on Wednesday into a battle for the party’s most conservative voters.
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Utah judge orders baby taken away from married lesbian foster parents | US news | The Guardian
Utah state child welfare officials on Wednesday were wrangling with a ruling by a juvenile court judge who ordered a baby to be taken from lesbian foster parents and instead placed with a heterosexual couple, saying it was for the child’s wellbeing.
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Banks Could Use Blockchain — the Bitcoin Technology — by 2016 | Inverse
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Senator Marco Rubio sent fact-checkers aflutter when he said at the Republican presidential debate on Tuesday that philosophy majors would be better off going into welding. The value of a vocational degree, he argued, was greater than the payoff tha…
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Yea, I’m a dork, – Meme on Imgur
Yea, I’m a dork, https://t.co/y88G0gIXCU https://t.co/VclPzoPsY9
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Britons’ Internet access bills will soar to pay for Snoopers Charter / Boing Boing
The UK government has budgeted £175m/year to bribe ISPs to magically divide their customers’ “data” and “metadata” and store a year’s worth of the latter.
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Your Firm Is Missing Out On The Biggest Investment In History | TechCrunch
Looking for an untapped market for a great new investment? Try 50.4 percent of the population. Today, women are the largest emerging investible class across the globe. Only 2.7 percent of venture capital-funded companies have a female CEO, and even …
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Earlier today, animal rights organization Compassion Over Killing released a new undercover video shot at the Quality Pork Processors (QPP) plant in Austin, Minnesota.
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The Modern Civil-Military Divide – The Atlantic
The Modern Civil-Military Divide – The Atlantic https://t.co/1mTn3jZCPW
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Notorious B.I.G. calms down crying baby: “Don’t worry, Biggie’s coming back.” / Boing Boing
Zain Khalid pens the perfect McSweeney’s humor-short: self-reflexive (snark, indeed!), demographically loaded, and ha-ha-only-serious. Photographic proof that dogs are angels. Not shopped, we can tell by the pixels. HT: d0gbl0g.dog
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Princess Leia to get a new title in The Force Awakens · Newswire · The A.V. Club
While it is arguably kind of lame that Princess Leia is the only major female character in the original Star Wars, she’s also a pretty great one.
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Apple in talks to develop a person-to-person payment service, WSJ says | Ars Technica
According to unnamed sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is looking to expand Apple Pay to include a person-to-person payment option in order to compete with services like PayPal’s Venmo or Google’s person-to-person payments through G…
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CBS sets The Late Show and Late Late Show for after the Super Bowl · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, CBS is hoping to give its hip new late-night hosts a big boost by airing special episodes of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show With James Corden in the highly coveted post-Super Bowl time slot on Febru…
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How big offshoring companies pwned the H-1B process, screwing workers and businesses / Boing Boing
Giant multinational offshoring firms have figured out how to game the H1-B system, flooding the application queue with thousands of requests the instant the process opens each year.
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Brand New Terminator Concept Art Shows How Skynet Will Destroy Your City
It’s long been a recognized fact of existence that the best Terminator concept art is the Judgment Day concept art, or else art showing the war against Skynet in the future. So these brand new art pieces, showing Judgment Day in action, are pure apo…
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Australia PM Malcolm Turnbull embarks on diplomatic tour – BBC News
Malcolm Turnbull is set to make his first visit to Indonesia as Australian PM, in an effort to repair ties after a period of strained diplomatic ties.
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A Tribe Called Quest will Reunite for ‘Jimmy Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
A Tribe Called Quest is readying their reissue campaign, which includes the re-release of their landmark 1990 debut, Peoples’ Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm on Friday (November 13th) and in conjunction with dropping the album, they’ll a…
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JERUSALEM — In a stinging rebuke to Israel, the European Union insisted on Wednesday that some goods produced on land seized in the 1967 war must be labeled “made in settlements,” a mandate that added to Israel’s deep unease over a growing internati…
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Rembering those on Veteran’s Day World wide – Imgur
Rembering those on Veteran’s Day World wide https://t.co/bwc0DX0ZIl https://t.co/ZrKhjwgWlO
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Benzema’s France career threatened by sex tape case – BBC News
Will star striker Karim Benzema play on French turf in Euro 2016 or are his days on the national side over? That is the question exercising France’s football scribblers. And most think he is finished.
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Plane crashes into man’s home. He’s alive because he’d just left to buy Hot Pockets. / Boing Boing
A hankering for Hot Pockets saved the life of a man whose apartment was hit by a small plane. Jason Bartley, a 38-year-old factory, worker lost everything in the fiery crash–except his own life. Nine people were killed.
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Tor director: FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to break Tor, hand over IPs | Ars Technica
The head of the Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying Carnegie Mellon computer security researchers at least $1 million to de-anonymize Tor users and reveal their IP addresses as part of a large criminal investigation.
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An underground park in New York City? These guys are pushing to make it happen | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s.
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This woman made an alarm clock that slaps her in the face / Boing Boing
Simone Giertz says, “I built an alarm clock that wakes me up in the morning by slapping me in the face with a rubber arm. I picked apart a clock, wired it to an Arduino UNO and controlled a 165 rpm brushless DC motor through a relay.”
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Do the G.O.P. Debates Really Matter? – The New Yorker
One of the more amusing exchanges at Tuesday night’s Republican Presidential debate came after Donald Trump boasted about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I got to know him very well because we were both on ‘60 Minutes,’ ” Tr…
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Faces from the Border: We Could Be Them – The New Yorker
This is the first in a three-part series, “Faces from the Border,” about Mexican-American agents on the border between the United States and Mexico.
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Universal’s new Van Helsing movie has its screenwriters · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Universal has announced the writers for its Van Helsing reboot, one of the mummy-hunting cornerstones of the planned film franchise the studio’s been building around its famous stable of cinematic monsters.
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Make: Humble Bundle: name your price for books for makers / Boing Boing
The latest Humble Ebook Bundle features Make: books from “Planes, Gliders, and Paper Rockets” to “Bicycle Projects” to the “Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments” — 17 titles in all, with more to come.
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Migrant crisis: Refugees being detained in Hungary prisons – BBC News
Almost 1,000 refugees, most of them from war zones in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, are detained in overcrowded Hungarian prisons or police detention cells.
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The Pyramids In the Sky Desktop
MistakeNot says they’ve never played Destiny, but this concept art from the game still makes a beautiful wallpaper. Combined with a widget for what’s currently playing, room to work, and a visualizer in the center, and you have a great package that …
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Plant breeders and chefs work together to cook up yummier food | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s.
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Cat transformer via /r/cats https://t.co/tZDznhFvMt https://t.co/a9ld0Bj4uh
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Facebook Sees 23% Spike In Law Enforcement Requests For Data In The United States | TechCrunch
Facebook revealed it received 23% more requests from law enforcement between January and June 2015 than in the second half of 2014. From January to June 2015, Facebook received a total of 17,577 law enforcement requests, targeting 26,579 users and a…
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Despite the little mishap at the end brought on by Dev’s overreliance on Waze and need for more white barbecue sauce, “Nashville” might be one of the most successful first dates I’ve ever seen play out on a sitcom.
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In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, University of Missouri police arrested 19-year-old Hunter M. Park for “making a terrorist threat” on the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak.
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Obamacare’s ‘Cadillac tax’ days’ are probably numbered
Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been talking with President Obama about axing the Cadillac tax in Obamacare, The Hill reports.
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LinkedIn is developing tech to stop itself from spamming you | The Verge
Nothing is quite as joy killing as realizing the only new messages in your inbox are automated emails from LinkedIn. LinkedIn knows this, and it’s begun addressing the issue to prevent its website from becoming the ultimate bane of every email user’…
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FOURTEEN years ago, Chad A. Alexander took his bassoon and headed east from a small California town, assumed a coveted place at the Juilliard School and began training for a job in one of the country’s great orchestras. “Everything seemed possible,”…
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Mo Farah to miss World Indoor Championships to focus on Olympics| Sport | The Guardian
Mo Farah looks set to miss the World Indoor Championships in March to focus on the defence of his Olympic titles. The 32-year-old says the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix at the city’s Emirates Arena on 20 February, in which he will race over 3,000m, is l…
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Long-lost Ol’ Dirty Bastard track surfaces online · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been over a decade since the death of Russell Jones, a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the wild, charismatic heart of the Staten Island-based rap collective known as the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Lawyer: I was tortured by Chinese police – BBC News
Chinese police are increasingly relying on torture to extract confessions, human rights group Amnesty International has suggested. It said defence lawyers trying to speak out against the practice were also the frequent target of violent abuse and il…
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Did the FBI pay Carnegie Mellon $1 million to identify and attack Tor users? / Boing Boing
Documents published by Vice News and further reporting by Wired News suggest that a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 BlackHat talk identified Tor hidden servers and visitors, and turned that data …
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These Alternate Designs For Marvel’s Ant-Man Costume Are Super Cool
I think most people were happy with the look of Ant-Man in this year’s film. But of course, that wasn’t the initial look. Just as he did with the Wasp, concept artist and Marvel Studios designer Andy Park has posted some alternate looks at the costu…
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Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year | Ars Technica
In a battle against an infection, antibiotics can bring victory over enemy germs. Yet that war-winning aid can come with significant collateral damage; microbial allies and innocents are killed off, too.
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Julia Roberts Loves That Jennifer Lawrence Is “Stirring Things Up” in Hollywood | Vanity Fair
Julia Roberts may not know who Katniss Everdeen is but the actress is certainly familiar with Jennifer Lawrence, her fellow Oscar-winning actress and America’s Sweetheart.
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The father and son planning meat-free immortality – BBC News
Prof Gabor Forgacs and his son Andras run two rather unusual businesses. While other fathers and sons team up as butchers, builders or solicitors, this pair have decided to use their shared expertise to get to grips with more weighty problems.
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Why India is increasing its UK investments – BBC News
When it comes to Indian investment in the UK, among the most high profile is Tata Motors’ ownership of carmaker Jaguar Land Rover. Yet this is just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to UK firms owned by Indian businesses.
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‘Venus twin’ excites astronomers – BBC News
Astronomers hunting distant worlds say they have made one of their most significant discoveries to date – what could be a kind of twin to our Venus. The rocky planet, known as GJ 1132b, is not dissimilar in size and orbits a star some 39 light-years…
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Has the Kremlin been meddling with its Arctic friends? – BBC News
Russian shoppers fill its supermarkets. Russian boats throng its harbour. Its museum celebrates the Red Army. But the little town of Kirkenes isn’t in Russia. It’s in Norway. It’s a tiny bubble of cross-border friendship in a Nato country.
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How Arabs make each other laugh in six seconds – BBC News
The hashtag “Arab Vines” is being used across the Arab world to share short self-deprecating comedy videos. BBC Trending spoke to viners The Decimal Brothers, Sherif Fayed and Duna F – and asked whether there’s actually such a thing as “Arab” humour.
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Will Steve Jobs’ management style get you to the top? – BBC News
By most accounts the new biopic of Steve Jobs is an accurate portrayal of a man who shouted down colleagues at meetings, was visibly impatient and dismissive of others’ contributions… and yet he is lauded as perhaps the most successful entrepreneu…
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Veterans Day: How should we honour military veterans? – BBC News
On Veterans Day in the US, Armistice Day in the UK, we often thank our armed forces service men and women and call them “heroes”. But is that how they wish to be honoured? Not always, as the BBC’s David Botti discovered when he made this film: What …
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Judith Hill on Prince, Michael Jackson and life as a backing singer – BBC News
You may not have heard of Judith Hill, but you’ve almost certainly heard her voice. The Californian singer has provided backing vocals for Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Josh Groban, Carole King, Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart in her stellar career.
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What do kids learn by age 10 in cities around the world? — Hopes&Fears — flow “City Index”
This week we broke down—as specifically as possible—the skills and teachings children must master by the time they reach the age of 10 in several cities from across the globe.
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Park Service removes garbage cans from San Francisco beach … to prevent litter | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s. The Quinault tribe in Washington state is experiencing rising seas and disappearing salmon.
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AngelPad Shows Off 13 New Startups At SF Demo Day | TechCrunch
Today, AngelPad — a seed-stage incubator program that provides mentorship, seed money, and networking during two, 10-week courses each year — held its most recent demo day in San Francisco. As has become routine, its founders presented to a densely …
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Make Your Gas Grill into a Pizza Oven on the Cheap
We’ve told you before how to turn your charcoal grill into pizza oven, but it’s tough to beat the convenience of gas. If you have a gas grill, here’s how you can get the same results.
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I finished the military and this was the first thing I got back home – Imgur
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Nephews of Venezuela first lady held in Haiti on drug smuggling charges | World news | The Guardian
Two nephews of Venezuela’s powerful first lady, Cilia Flores, have been arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the US, two people familiar with the case said on Wednesday.
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Cockroaches grind jaws five times stronger than humans, says research | Environment | The Guardian
The cockroach packs a powerful bite, thanks to jaws that can grind five times stronger than a human, or with 50 times more force than its body weight, researchers said.
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The European Obsession with Porcelain – The New Yorker
The man most often credited as the original creator of European porcelain was a German by the name of Johann Friedrich Böttger. He was an alchemist—he said that he knew how to turn lead into gold.
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The Amazing Race is casting social media stars for this season’s race · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Stretching the definition of the word “amazing” to its ultimate limits, CBS has announced that this season’s Amazing Race cast will be made up entirely of social media stars.
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China’s Singles Day Is About Sexism and Shame – Racked
The dreary concentric roads that encircle Beijing are one of the last places you’d expect to find love. But when I hopped aboard the dating bus “Love on the Third Ring” a few years ago, that’s exactly what was promised.
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The Poignant Stories Of A World War II Veteran – Digg
10 diggs Histories Animation Human Nature Warfare Politics This animated short highlights the memories of a corporal in the army.
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Here’s 10 things you should do during your Fallout 4 playthrough | Polygon
Heads up: The video above contains some minor spoilers. Fallout 4 is a big, big game, and figuring out what’s worth your limited time can be a challenge. To help guide you through the wasteland, we’ve created the video above, which showcases ten of …
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Orbital View: Red, White, and Ocean Blue – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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World Cup winner Jake White is interested in succeeding Stuart Lancaster as England head coach. The 52-year-old South African is the bookmakers’ favourite for the post, which Lancaster vacated on Wednesday.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Early Beatles drummer Andy White dies at 85 | Music | The Guardian
Andy White, a session musician who played drums on the first Beatles hit but spent his life on the edges of fame, has died aged 85, colleagues have said.
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A Leadership Lesson From an Army General: Use “Briefback” Communication
Being an effective leader means having strong communication skills, and this tip from a retired three-star general will make sure your communication is always ironclad.
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How Filipino WWII Soldiers Were Written Out of History
American and Filipino officers in the USAFFE in World War II (U.S. Army) From 1941-1944, hundreds of thousands of Filipino soldiers fought and died under the command of American generals against the Japanese in the Philippines. This struggle include…
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The Real-Life Scientific Dilemma Behind the Latest Episode of Manhattan
On the latest episode of Manhattan, the physicists assigned to developing the gun model design for the atomic bomb hit a major obstacle that threatens to sink the gun model for good. It’s a dilemma ripped straight from the history books, along with …
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The Statistical Dominance of Dr. Seuss
Nearly twenty-five years after his death, Dr. Seuss continues to dominate the world of children’s books to an astonishing degree. Today, one in four children’s first book is one penned by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss’s given name).
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This lizard has a dual tail. : mildlyinteresting
This lizard has a dual tail. via /r/mildlyinteresting https://t.co/bD5UYUY0gH https://t.co/GZ4iji88C0
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Kolomenskoye, Russia : Breathless
Kolomenskoye, Russia via /r/Breathless https://t.co/PBfS5BneOg https://t.co/8Qevf6ZbWx
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Apple’s Encryption Fight Turns To The UK | TechCrunch
After a major victory in the United States, Apple is facing an another threat to its encryption efforts on a different front: the United Kingdom.
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Utah Judge Removes Foster Child From LGBT Parents – The Daily Beast
April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce are married with two children, and hope to adopt a third, a baby they have been fostering for three months.
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UN Probing New Sex Abuse Allegations in CAR | Al Jazeera America
The United Nations on Wednesday said it was investigating new allegations of sexual exploitation and in violence-ridden Central African Republic. A U.N. official said the allegations involve three underage girls.
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Snowpiercer to be mashed into jelly and adapted into digestible TV series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In Bong Joon-ho’s 2014 drama Snowpiercer, the last humans on a frozen Earth live in a giant train that constantly circles the planet.
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Spot marks the “X” | The Economist
“WHEN you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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Saying Goodbye a Little Longer as Seattle Scrapes Off Its Gum Wall https://t.co/QdFjnckC83
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The Charlie Brown Assassination Plot – The Daily Beast
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Neon Chameleon – White Sands, NM [1000×667][OC] : ExposurePorn
Neon Chameleon – White Sands, NM [1000×667][OC] via /r/ExposurePorn https://t.co/i9pNot6ZkG https://t.co/WH1qHiDmEt
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Morro Bay, CA via /r/FoggyPics https://t.co/w1AFd7CE4i https://t.co/qxtQByRqQA
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Google’s new ‘about me’ page puts your personal info settings in one place | The Verge
Google has just released a new page, “about me,” for updating personal information across services. Visit aboutme.google.com and you’ll see a new dashboard available for controlling what’s viewable on Google offerings like Drive and Google+, includi…
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Sweden’s dilemma over immigration controls – BBC News
Sweden, which has received more than 100,000 asylum seekers this year, has announced it had decided to impose temporary border controls. The migration authorities say they are overstretched, and that relative to population size, Sweden has already t…
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Facebook testing new ‘suggested’ notifications on mobile app | The Verge
The past weeks have seen Facebook trying to make its notifications more than a distraction.
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Soil Moisture Around the World : Image of the Day
Look at natural-color satellite images and it becomes clear that most of the water on Earth (about 97 percent) is stored in the oceans. Next you might notice some on the land: liquid water fills lakes and rivers, while frozen water blankets the pole…
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The College Football Playoff’s Messy Mix of Human And Computer Voting | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Nov.
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Watch Behind-the-Scenes Video of Bill Withers’ Carnegie Hall Tribute | Rolling Stone
Watch Behind-the-Scenes Video of Bill Withers’ Carnegie Hall Tribute Aloe Blacc, Dr.
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The Last American Killed In WWI Didn’t Have To Die – The Daily Beast
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, a Navy bugler played Taps at a wreath-laying ceremony at the war memorial in Madison Square Park in New York.
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Crystal Castles announces shows with new singer who may not be real · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Last October, two-part electronic band Crystal Castles effectively broke up when singer Alice Glass decided to leave the band.
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What’s ‘Natural’ Food? The Government Isn’t Sure And Wants Your Input : The Salt : NPR
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking your input to answer a question: How should the agency define “natural” on food labels? Disagreement over what “all natural” or “100 percent natural” means has spawned dozens of lawsuits.
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Heisenberg’s hat from Breaking Bad now lives in the Smithsonian | The Verge
Walter White’s signature porkpie hat has found a new home at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Variety reports.
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Migrant crisis: Swedish border checks introduced – BBC News
Sweden has announced the introduction of temporary border checks to control the flow of migrants into the country. Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said the step had been decided after police warned a surge in new arrivals posed a threat to p…
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Yik Yak warns anonymous users they can be arrested after Missouri threats | US news | The Guardian
Anonymous social networking application Yik Yak has warned its users that statements they make can get them arrested, because while those users can’t identify each other, Yik Yak can.
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Google’s new Chromebook app turns your desktop into an art gallery | The Verge
Are you a Chromebook owner suffering from Drab Desktop Disorder? Google’s coming to the rescue with a new Chrome OS app, one that replaces a given device’s wallpaper with a selection from the Google Art Project’s archives.
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Migrant woman leaves sanctuary of Arizona church after 14 months | US news | The Guardian
An immigrant woman who has spent 15 months living in a Tucson church has left its sanctuary after reaching an agreement with the government that allows her to stay in the US.
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The Charlie Brown Assassination Plot – The Daily Beast
Charlie Brown in real life sounds bloodlusty as hell. On Tuesday, 59-year-old San Diego resident Peter Robbins—a former child actor who voiced Charlie Brown in some of your favorite Peanuts TV specials from the 1960s—pleaded guilty in superior court.
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BBC Sport – Vladimir Putin: Russian president wants doping investigation
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an investigation into claims the country’s athletes have been part of a systematic doping programme. He said he wanted “professional co-operation” with anti-doping bodies.
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SEATTLE — William Ward sells a lot of gum. He works at a newspaper stand just around the corner from a bizarre attraction called the gum wall near Pike Place Market just off the waterfront here, and people show up unprepared. He also sells a lot of …
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The Socialite, Her Scandalous Lover, and the Gory Murder That Made Them Infamous
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Appeals court allows NSA bulk phone spying to continue unabated | Ars Technica
The nation’s only successful challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata surveillance program lasted just one day, as a federal appeals court is allowing the constitutionally suspect program to continue unabated.
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Track of the Day: ‘Green Green Grass of Home’ – The Atlantic
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Strategic Command Issues Statement on Trident Test that Freaked Out the West Coast
With images like these, it’s no wonder California — not to mention the Twittersphere — freaked out Saturday evening when an unannounced test of a submarine-launched Trident missile lit up the evening sky.
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Did Gwen Stefani’s Family iPad Alert Her to Gavin Rossdale’s Affair? | Vanity Fair
This past August, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale announced their separation after nearly 13 years of marriage with a boilerplate press release suggesting the two had amiably reached the decision to split.
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US navy selects Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to christen new submarine | US news | The Guardian
The US navy has made an unconventional choice to sponsor its newest submarine: Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, who is known for advocating women’s empowerment through her Lean In book and campaign.
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Oklahoma’s multiple botched executions may be linked to similar errors in Arizona
All three of Oklahoma’s recent attempts to execute prisoners have gone wrong. In the most horrific instance, an inmate sat up and talked to his executioners after they had declared him unconscious.
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The Atlantic Daily: Arrest on Missouri Campus, Israel and the EU, GOP Debate – The Atlantic
It’s been an eventful week at the University of Missouri. Its president, Tim Wolfe, resigned following protests over the school administration’s response to reports of racism on campus. A graduate student ended the hunger strike he began in protest …
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Twilight of the JUMBOTRON: From the Kiss Cam to Selfies – SBNation.com
Under crisp skies and an especially warm October Saturday afternoon, the Jumbotron at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field was aglow, as more than 100,000 people had assembled, making the crowd for football larger than the population of many of the surrounding to…
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Conserve Water at Home With This Stylish Toilet Top Sink
If you’re interested in conserving some water at home, this custom sink re-routes the fresh, clean water that fills your toilet tank so you can wash your hands with the same water each time you flush.
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Surge In Use Of ‘Synthetic Marijuana’ Still One Step Ahead Of The Law : Shots – Health News : NPR
In 2015, calls to poison control regarding the drug already have almost doubled, compared to last year’s total, and health professionals and lawmakers are struggling to keep up with the problem. Some call the drug K2, or spice.
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The Large Magellanic Cloud Photographed by Eddie… – Just Space
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Prince Charles’s Australian Tour Is Helping The Republican Cause – The Daily Beast
Monarchists in Australia might therefore be reflecting that it is unfortunate that Her Majesty is no longer able to withstand the rigors of long haul travel.
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Another College President Is Facing Calls To Step Down | ThinkProgress
Following the successful ousting of University of Missouri leadership this week, another student body is protesting racism on campus.
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VR Live Streaming Startup NextVR Raises $30.5M Series A | TechCrunch
NextVR, a startup that promises to give consumers rich VR experiences for live events has raised a $30.5 million Series A led by Formation 8 the WSJ reports.
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NEW YORK—Slowly walking down the basement hallway as the ceiling’s fluorescent lights turned off row by row behind him, Roger Goodell quietly said goodnight to each of the legendary former NFL players whose bodies he had chemically preserved, source…
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The Star Wars Universe Doesn’t Call Leia “Princess” Anymore And Other New Force Awakens Reveals
By now, hopefully you’ve read this article about some of the crazy Star Wars rumors floated over the past few years. It’s perfect timing to because some new facts about The Force Awakens were also revealed today, bringing balance to the Force.
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Court Deepens Standoff Over Catalan Secession | Al Jazeera America
Spain’s Constitutional Court blocked Catalonia’s attempted secession process on Wednesday by agreeing to hear a Spanish government appeal against it, deepening a standoff over the potential breakaway.
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Win a Rise Of The Tomb Raider digital download and limited-edition artwork · Contest · The A.V. Club
One of the most anticipated video games of the holiday season, Rise Of The Tomb Raider continues the epic adventures of Lara Croft as she races a shadowy organization to find the secret of immortality.
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Life Along the Mosquito Coast – The New Yorker
Near the beginning of “A Bend in the River,” V. S. Naipaul’s magisterial novel about Africa, his narrator, Salim, a trader of Muslim Indian heritage, tries to explain his peculiar sense of identity: Africa was my home, had been the home of my family…
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Billionaire Charles Koch not endorsing Republican candidate during primary | US news | The Guardian
Activist billionaire Charles Koch, who with his brother David has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to advance “conservative” causes from voter ID laws to for-profit prisons to stand-your-ground gun laws, has no plans to endorse a Republic…
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Study: Average American Can Stand Four Seconds of Ted Cruz – The New Yorker
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—In a potential stumbling block for his Presidential ambitions, a new study indicates that the average American can stand only four seconds of exposure to Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican.
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Fernando Guerra Wins Arcaid Award for World’s Best Building Image | ArchDaily
Fernando Guerra’s stunning image of Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés’ EPFL Quartier Nord in Ecublens, Switzerland, has won the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award.
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Should you be eating fruit foraged from urban landscapes? | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s.
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A 30-Mile Cloud of Butterflies – The Atlantic
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How to Afford Waterfront Property: Buy a Houseboat – The Atlantic
Video by “The biggest thing you have to get used to is that the boat constantly moves,” says Darryl Madden, a cybersecurity consultant and houseboat owner. Other than that, the houseboat life is the good life.
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Queen named ‘living legends’ at Classic Rock awards – BBC News
Queen have been honoured with the Living Legends award at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards in London. Guitarist Brian May collected the award at Classic Rock magazine’s 11th annual ceremony at The Roundhouse in Camden.
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The UN agrees to create a global flight tracking system after disappearance of MH370 | The Verge
The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people onboard last year spurred a worldwide effort to create a better system to track civilian flights. On Wednesday, some of that effort bore fruit.
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Try this graveyard simulator and imagine your own epitaph / Offworld
Matthew Ritter’s interest in epitaphs began in junior high, when a history book displayed the haunting message on the grave of an ancient Roman: “What I am you soon shall be.
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Blur Talk Onstage Chemistry in ‘New World Towers’ Documentary Clip | Rolling Stone
Blur Talk Onstage Chemistry in ‘New World Towers’ Documentary Clip ‘Magic Whip’ making-of film coming to British cinemas for one night only next month
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Image of astronaut Scott Kelly from the November 6, 2015 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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The Socialite, Her Scandalous Lover, and the Gory Murder That Made Them Infamous
Oh, what a happy picture. At left, that’s millionaire Jacques Mossler; at far right, his blonde wife, Candy. They’re with court officials, formally adopting the offspring of Leonard Glenn, who murdered his wife and infant son.
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Spectre’s John Logan Is Rewriting Prometheus 2 Because One Overly-Complicated Turn Deserves Another
What do you do when you’re working on a sequel to a movie that was visually stunning but made heads explode to think about? You hire someone to rewrite it who has just finished doing that. Brace yourselves for John Logan’s version of Alien: Paradise…
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John Prine, David Rawlings Tapped for MerleFest 2016 | Rolling Stone
John Prine is among the headliners at the 2016 edition of MerleFest. John Prine will headline next year’s MerleFest, making his first appearance at the annual roots festival in a decade. Also topping the lengthy bill are Dave Rawlings Machine, Jerry…
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MRW I arrive at a job interview and the company looks shady – GIF on Imgur
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I no longer have a hard time getting up in the morning. – GIF on Imgur
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In response to calls for stronger action on hosts that aren’t casual users, Airbnb said it would start sharing some data with governments and getting hosts to agree to a policy of listing only their permanent homes.
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Like an indulgent mother with a demanding child, the internet takes care of everything, catering to every whim, no matter how arcane or ridiculous.
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IFC might give viewers 100 Erotic Nights with Jon Benjamin · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to a press release, IFC has ordered a pilot for a new series called Jon Benjamin’s 100 Erotic Nights, which is a title that should certainly pique the interest—so to speak—of anyone who is familiar with Benjamin’s inarguably sexy work on B…
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Ben Carson Is as Wrong About Wage Hikes as He Was About the Pyramids | The Nation
Of course Dr. Ben Carson was wrong when he claimed in the fourth Republican presidential debate that: “Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases.”
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GOP Confab Ends With Call To Execute Gays Who Don’t Repent, Send Queen Elsa Back To Hell https://t.co/pij4ONzT16
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John Bel Edwards to David Vitter: ‘You are a liar, and you are a cheater, and I don’t tolerate that’
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Shelley’s 200-Year-Old Anti-War Poem Resurfaces in Time for Veterans Day – The Atlantic
In 1811, a college student decided to protest war by writing poetry.
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How the Empire State Building was built
Scott Christianson wrote a brief piece (taken from his new book 100 Documents That Changed the World: From the Magna Carta to Wikileaks) on how the building was designed and built.
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120 Million People Spend 3 Hours A Week On Imgur. You’ll Get Addicted Too | TechCrunch
Imgur is the most popular startup no one talks about. The image sharing and upvoting site has a stunning 150 million monthly users that view 60 billion memes, Cat GIFS, sob stories, and science explainers per month.
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I’m Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh, Inventor and CEO of Sugru, and This Is How I Work
Give a child a lump of clay and they’ll be busy for an hour. No one needs guidance when given a malleable medium with which you can express your ideas, and that’s why Sugru just works—you don’t need to know anything about design to put it to use. Yo…
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In Monkey Selfie Lawsuit, Lawyer in Chippendales Suit Is the Reasonable One | Motherboard
In September, PETA sued wildlife photographer David Slater and the self-publishing book company Blurb, Inc., for infringing the copyright of Naruto, a six-year-old Sulawesi crested macaque.
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Qatar announces first casualty in Yemen conflict – Al Jazeera English
A Qatari soldier fighting with the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen has been killed, officials in the country have said.
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New research says elections hurt black and Latino judges, reduce judicial diversity
At the state level, where most judges are elected, our courts clearly do not reflect the diversity of the U.S. population. There are 340 state supreme court justices in the United States—but the relevant information about their backgrounds is lackin…
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On August 18, 2015, an otherwise unexceptional summer Tuesday, NASA issued a press release titled “There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth.
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How To Clean A Roach-Infested Coffee Maker
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She’ll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her. So here’s a Tweet.
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Real America: A real-ass look at what the United States has been up to lately – SBNation.com
All over the country, people pull out their phones and broadcast live Periscope video feeds to the world. Maybe it’s because they’re bored, or angry, or happy, or stoned. But they’re here, for any damn reason they want, or maybe none at all.
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Former Romney Campaign Manager Shares Lessons On Immigration Rhetoric : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Republican political consultant Katie Packer of Burning Glass Consulting, who was Mitt Romney’s deputy campaign manager in 2012, about GOP skirmishes over immigration.
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Antonio Feliciano Last Traveling Film Projectionist – The Atlantic
Feliciano, who works as a bookkeeper in Lisbon, got his start Cinema Paradiso-style in the 1950s, helping another traveling projectionist announce movies in his own rural village.
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Donald Trump defends his ‘humane’ deportation plan – BBC News
Donald Trump has defended his hardline stance on immigration, a day after it was attacked by fellow Republican presidential candidates on national TVHis plan to deport the estimated 11 million people living illegally in the US was decried as impract…
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China’s Alibaba smashes ‘Singles Day’ web sales record – Al Jazeera English
Chinese internet users have spent billions of dollars in the world’s biggest online shopping bonanza as “Singles Day” hit new heights, despite slowing growth in the country’s economy.
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The Gold Gloves Are Finally Going To The Best Fielders | FiveThirtyEight
From Tampa Bay’s Kevin Kiermaier to San Francisco’s Brandon Crawford, it was hard to tell this year’s list of Gold Glove winners, announced Tuesday night, from a list of players with the best advanced defensive metrics.
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A storm system that dropped a foot of snow in the Rockies was making travel hazardous as it headed east on Wednesday, menacing the Plains with heavy snow and threatening turbulent weather – even tornadoes – in parts of the midwest.
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John Bel Edwards to David Vitter: ‘You are a liar, and you are a cheater, and I don’t tolerate that’
Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter met for the first Louisiana gubernatorial debate of their runoff campaign on Tuesday night, and there was no love lost between the two candidates.
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Isobelle Carmody’s ‘blissful separation’ from the Obernewtyn Chronicles | Books | The Guardian
For a long time, all I knew of Isobelle Carmody was the postage stamp-sized photo on the back covers of her long-running dystopian fantasy series, the Obernewtyn Chronicles. I envisioned her as slightly gothic, other-worldly, with a dreamy gaze and …
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How Can Robots Learn New Tasks? Practice, Practice, Practice : All Tech Considered : NPR
Babies learn how to identify and pick up objects in their world through trial and error. Now a computer scientist is trying the same approach with robots.
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With Campus Racism, How Can College Presidents Get it Right? : NPR Ed : NPR
Tim Wolfe is not the first college administrator to come under fire for responding poorly to campus racism. And Wolfe, until this week the head of the University of Missouri system, isn’t likely to be the last.
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Ben Carson Delivers Speech At Liberty University Convocation : NPR
After the debate Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson heads to Lynchburg, Va., for convocation at Liberty University.
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Joe’s Crab Shack Tests Out Ban On Tipping : NPR
Joe’s Crab Shack, a national restaurant chain, is testing a tipping ban. Employees will receive raises instead. The chain’s CEO Raymond Blanchette told CNBC the tradition of tipping is antiquated and has created an overly competitive atmosphere amon…
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Protesters Flood Kabul Streets After Beheading Of 7 Afghan Hazaras : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Mujib Mashal, a reporter with The New York Times, about the beheadings of civilians from the Hazara ethnic minority, possibly by ISIS-linked militants.
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International Leaders Approach Diplomatic Puzzle In New Syria Talks : NPR
As international diplomats prepare for a new round of talks on Syria, they are struggling with some fundamental questions: Who is a terrorist and who can be part of an eventual settlement?
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SeaWorld Reinvents Itself In Face Of Growing ‘Blackfish’ Scrutiny : NPR
Facing continued pressure from activists and lawmakers over its shows featuring captive killer whales, SeaWorld is addressing its problems by putting an emphasis on conservation and education.
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Jose Reyes’ Arrest For Domestic Violence Puts MLB In The Spotlight : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with SB Nation writer Mike Bates about the recent news of domestic abuse by professional athletes. Deadspin released a set of police photos from star Dallas Cowboys player Greg Hardy’s abuse incident, while Colorado Rockies…
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Jeb Bush Turns Focus To Hillary Clinton Post Debate : NPR
After the debate Tuesday night, Jeb Bush traveled to Iowa for an annual Veterans Day breakfast outside of Des Moines. He said Republicans need to start thinking about which GOP candidate can beat Hillary Clinton.
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Los Angeles Updates Voting Procedures To Help Curb Declining Turnout : NPR
The recent off-year elections brought with them laments about poor voter turnout. The challenge is especially stark in the Los Angeles area. With 4.9 million voters, LA County is home to the largest voting jurisdiction in the U.S. But in recent elec…
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Established Veterans’ Groups Fight To Attract The Next Generation : NPR
At American Legion Post 87 in High Point, N.C., the bar is jumping, even though some of the patrons are almost 70 years old. “The sad part is, some of the older vets, the World War II, the Korea vets, they’re passing on,” says Fred Iannone, the post…
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Donald Trump Addresses Politics and Eggs Breakfast In New Hampshire : NPR
The morning after a GOP debate, presidential contender Donald Trump traveled to New Hampshire for “Politics and Eggs,” a traditional granite state breakfast.
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California Case Threatens Uber’s Business Model, Future Of Freelance Economy : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks with David Plouffe, former adviser to President Obama and current board member of the company Uber, about the growth of the freelance economy.
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U.S. Investigation Into Russian Airliner Crash Raises Possible ISIS Link : NPR
U.S. officials haven’t determined why Metrojet Flight 9268 went down near Sharm el-Sheikh, but their working theory is an airport employee may have helped a terrorist group get a bomb on the plane.
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Egypt’s Investigation Into Russian Airliner Crash Shrouded In Secrecy : NPR
Officials attempts to prevent press from talking to people at the Sharm el-Sheikh airport, and Egypt’s reluctance to say a bomb could have caused the crash, raise concerns about its investigation.
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Harlem Residents Gather to Watch the Republican Presidential Debate – The Atlantic
At the Lenox Saphire in Harlem, fliers detailing the rules for a Republican debate-party drinking game lay on the bar. If one of the eight candidates says “unemployment,” watchers take one sip of whatever is in their glasses. If Ben Carson closes hi…
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Climate shift ushers in subtropical butterfly | Environment | The Guardian
Butterflies are full of surprises and this year they have saved their biggest until last: in the midst of an awful November, subtropical butterflies have been spotted on England’s south coast.
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The push to employ veterans in the solar industry | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s.
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Watch Out for Fake Seamless and GrubHub Restaurants
If you like to try new restaurants through food delivery services like Seamless and GrubHub, you might want to make sure the restaurant is actually real before you order.
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Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are the freshman girls who immediately started dating seniors. They’re the senior girls who didn’t date anyone at all, because they were captains of the lacrosse team by that point, and were “over boys,” and they had ea…
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Pypestream Offers Consumers A New Way To Chat With Businesses | TechCrunch
A few weeks ago I wrote about Pypestream, a startup promising to an alternative the often frustrating customer service experience. At the time, founder and CEO Richard Smullen was being a little coy about what the company was actually doing, but now…
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Facebook says government data requests are at their highest level ever | The Verge
Facebook today released its biannual report on government data requests, indicating that total law enforcement requests are at their highest level ever at 41,214 for the first half of 2015.
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Apple may take on Venmo next year | The Verge
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with major US banks to build a person-to-person mobile payments service for launch possibly in 2016. The service would be a direct competitor to Venmo, along with Google’s revamped Google Walle…
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Rob Liefield Is Returning To Deadpool With A New Graphic Novel
If there’s any character that sums up the extreme extravagance of Rob Liefield’s über-90s art style, it was his most famous creation: Deadpool. Bulging muscles, an amusingly fantastical grasp of anatomy, and enough pockets to hold the universe.
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The Coruscating Moral Vision of André Glucksmann – The New Yorker
André Glucksmann, who died on Monday night, in Paris, was one of the great figures, and master thinkers, of contemporary French life, with the irony that much of his greatness depended on his passionate dismantling of the idea of “great men” and “ma…
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After watching her ominously stride down futuristic corridors in the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s hard to imagine anyone but Gwendoline Christie filling out that glorious chrometrooper suit of armor. But in a recent interview with …
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Village Voice reporter Michael Hutchison entered Tranquility Tanks, a small float center within the East-West Center for Holistic Health, in Manhattan’s Flatiron District.
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Interns On Demand – The New Yorker
In Manhattan’s garment district, at offices with hot-pink walls and racks of leopard print, several dressed-down executives sat around a glass conference table.
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Is This the Worst NYC Apartment Listing Ever?
The torturous ordeal of finding an apartment in New York City has been thoroughly documented. But, just when it seems like things can’t possibly get any worse, we discover a new sulfurous level of the already Dantesque market. There’s no bottom to t…
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In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash | TechCrunch
Fast food restaurant In-N-Out, known for its delicious burgers and secret sauce, is suing food delivery startup DoorDash, TMZ reported earlier today. In-N-Out, which filed the lawsuit on Nov. 6, 2015, claims trademark infringement and unfair competi…
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In an effort to prove that consumer virtual reality devices are not to be used exclusively for P.O.V. pornography, the Oculus Arcade app has been released.
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FanDuel and DraftKings plan legal fight against New York gambling ban | Sport | The Guardian
Daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings are prepared to fight in court against New York state’s top prosecutor, who said that they were running illegal gambling operations and ordered them to stop taking bets in the state.
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Obama says he is ‘still not satisfied’ with Department of Veterans Affairs | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama on Wednesday asked his fellow countrymen to keep veterans in their thoughts long after the annual holiday honoring them and to help ensure they receive the care and benefits they have earned.
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Apple May Launch Venmo Competitor | TechCrunch
Apple is in talks with banks to launch a mobile payments service, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The product would compete with Venmo, the mobile peer-to-peer service from PayPal.
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“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.” ― D.W. Griffith There are no more grindhouses on 42nd St.
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Woman Who Died in Cryochamber Suffocated Before She Froze, Coroner Rules | Motherboard
Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, who managed the Henderson location of cryotherapy chamber Rejuvenice, entered the chamber alone on the evening of October 19. She was found dead by coworkers the following morning, slumped in the fetal position with no sign of…
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Alibaba Brought in $1 Billion During the First 8 Minutes of China’s Black Friday – The Atlantic
Singles Day—celebrated in China on November 11 each year—was dreamed up in the early 1990s by a group of college students looking to simultaneously commiserate and revel in their single status.
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Europe basks in record November warmth – Al Jazeera English
With the climate change conference coming up in Paris at the end of this month, it seems apt that a vast number of individual cities across Europe have just broken their all-time November temperature records. Paris itself has a new record with a hig…
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With Alien 5 Delayed, Neill Blomkamp Moves Onto A “Time Travel Procedural”
The director of District 9, Elysium and Chappie just can’t get away from sci-fi. After working on a fifth Alien movie for a few months (before it was put on hold waiting for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel), Neill Blomkamp is about to do yet anothe…
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Meet Nina Keneally, the Rent-a-Mom for Needy Brooklyn Millennials – The Daily Beast
At one of Bushwick’s ubiquitous coffee shops, among the colorful laundromats and junky dollar stores, Nina Keneally is going over her schedule for the week. Tomorrow she’s checking in on a female student at Pratt who is recovering from neck surgery.
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Metal Gear Solid Fans Are Crazy — Following: How We Live Online
For the past month and a half, I’ve been consistently checking the subreddit r/NeverBeGameOver, a forum where users trade insane theories about the latest Metal Gear Solid game, the Phantom Pain.
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Jupiter in 2015 : Two remarkable global maps of… – Just Space
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MySQL Founder Marten Mickos On Leadership And The Open Source Revolution | TechCrunch
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A Billionaire, Some Millionaires, and a No-Show Senator Debate How Best to Block Wage Hikes https://t.co/N4AkJT1TCg
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Is China Afraid of the Next Miss World? – The Daily Beast
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Spanish court suspends Catalan secession resolution – Al Jazeera English
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The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda: Help Bring Them to the English Speaking World for the First Time https://t.co/n7XMLjchLE
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Cibele and the end of an era for internet lovers / Offworld
Nina Freeman’s heartbreaking, intimate new game about young love in an online game points to fast-disappearing strangeness in virtual spaces I often think about the fact we don’t really have ‘online lives’ any more.
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Fear and Loathing on the “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” graphic novel tour / Boing Boing
Troy Little created a graphic novel version of Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo memoir, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and he is keeping a comic book diary of his book tour. Here are a couple of pages. Here’s the first seven pages: “I keep my mouth shut …
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The Republican debate lesson: Don’t pop that bubble, moderators
Well, thank goodness the Fox Business Network was able to seize the reins after that abominable CNBC debate and bring Republicans back to a good, sturdy foundation of serious Republican questions. Questions like: It wasn’t all sunshine and roses, th…
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No UI Is The New UI | TechCrunch
A few months ago, I shared with my friends how I think apps like Magic and Operator are going to be the next big thing. What makes them special is that they don’t use a traditional UI as a means of interaction. Instead, the entire app revolves aroun…
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Improve Your Memory of an Event by Replaying the Scene in Your Head
Remembering the details of events seems easy enough. You’d think that when important things happen, we’d just think about them enough and the memory would sink in.
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Macy’s sees drop in third-quarter sales – BBC News
US department store firm Macy’s has said it is cutting its profit outlook for the year after a drop in sales in the third quarter. Macy’s net income for the period between August and October was $118m (£77m), down from $217m in the same period last …
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Barack Obama: my message is simple, hire veterans – video | US news | The Guardian
During a speech to mark Veterans Day, US president tells businesses to employ military veterans, saying many attributes from military life transfer well into the job market.
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Presidential Candidates Spar Over Immigration During Tuesday’s Republican Debate – The Atlantic
The confrontation between Donald Trump and John Kasich in Tuesday night’s Republican debate over immigration was telling—not because they shared practical solutions, but for what it revealed about how each views the country and its ideals.
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CHICAGO—Calling it “disrespectful” and “totally disgusting,” members of the Chicago Bulls expressed their frustration to reporters Wednesday over point guard Derrick Rose’s habit of always leaving his torn ligaments strewn all over their locker room.
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Possible Chambers in Pyramid Hold Hopes for Egypt’s Tourism
Pacing back and forth across the Giza plateau, Mamdouh El-Damaty, Egypt’s beleaguered minister of antiquities, could scarcely keep a smile from his face as he broke the news of a potentially ground-breaking discovery.
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Bryan Cranston has just shed a piece of his Walter White persona and donated it to the Smithsonian—Variety reports that the iconic Heisenberg hat and two hazmat suits that Cranston and Aaron Paul’s characters wore on Breaking Bad have just been dona…
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‘Singles Day’ Was Completely Taken Over by China’s Biggest Online Retailer | Motherboard
Before 2009, 11/11 was just a simple silly day on which Chinese singles cheered for their singleness and conveyed a slight “disdain” and jealousy toward those who were married or in relationship, or whoever got to celebrate a lovey-dovey Valentine’s…
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Exoplanet GJ 1132b: Earth-size World Is Near-Twin of Venus (Infographic)
Called GJ 1132b, the exoplanet is located 39 light-years from Earth and is the closest Earth-size planet of its kind, scientists say. In fact, the planet may be a potential twin of Venus. GJ 1132b is about 9,200 miles (14,800 km) wide and has a mass…
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Snowpiercer May Become a TV Show, Because All Movies Are TV Shows Now
Limitless. Minority Report. Damien. Fargo. Scream. Ash vs Evil Dead.
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Net Neutrality Advocates Are Worried About T-Mobile’s BingeOn Deal | Motherboard
A new T-Mobile initiative called “BingeOn” gives the wireless carrier’s customers the ability to watch streaming video services like Netflix and Hulu without eating into their monthly data caps.
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MythBusters superfans have no doubt been disappointed to hear that their beloved Discovery Channel show is ending its 13-year run at the end of this upcoming season. Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have promised the last episode will be a worthy…
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Hear One Direction’s Plaintive New Song ‘What a Feeling’ | Rolling Stone
Hear One Direction’s Plaintive New Song ‘What a Feeling’ Track will appear on upcoming album ‘Made in the A.M.
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Montreal begins massive sewage dump into St Lawrence river – BBC News
Montreal has begun a controversial dump of 8bn litres (2.1bn gallons) of raw sewage into the St Lawrence River. Officials in the Canadian city say that the project is necessary in order to replace old infrastructure in the sewage treatment system.
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The Death of Daily Fantasy: Welcome to the Beginning of the End | Rolling Stone
You can blame it on those damn ads. The daily fantasy sports industry faces a crucible of various legal challenges that could result in anything from slight regulation of the billion-dollar business to its all-out collapse.
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Cultural photographers try to capture images others miss. But even when they do, some people don’t see what is really there. Case in point: Baron Wolman’s pictures of the original groupies in 1969.
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HyperZooming through Hallstatt on Vimeo
HYPERZOOM COMES OF AGE. The beautiful historic town of Hallstatt is a Unesco World Heritage site in Upper Austria. It is visited by many thousands of tourists each year but perhaps none of them get to see it quite like this. As if on the back of an …
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Seattle’s Famous Gum Wall Is Being Scrubbed Away to Bare Brick
Seattle’s sticky, rainbow-colored Gum Wall has attracted tourists for 20 years and has dominated #Seattle Instagram posts, but now the Pike Place staple is being removed by industrial steamers.
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Meet The Illustrator Who’s Making A Webcomic, Starring His Dick – Digg
Things My Dick Does is a 3-month-old Tumblr account whose anonymous 34-year-old creator uses his penis as the basis for, what he calls, “weirdly adorable” illustrations. We spoke to the guy behind the project over email… because why not?1 Can you…
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Why Instagram Captions Are the New Blogging — Following: How We Live Online
The last thing you expect from the Rock is long-windedness. But Dwayne Johnson is a veritable novelist on Instagram, where he documents his days, which are composed chiefly of pumping iron at the gym, playing with his dogs, and eating snacks on priv…
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The Story and Nightmare Emails Behind One Elite Silver Lake Preschool’s Turmoil
A specter of tyranny is haunting Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
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66% discount for Boing Boing readers on the documentary, Our Magic / Boing Boing
Our Magic from R. Paul Wilson on Vimeo. The documentary Our Magic by filmmaker R. Paul Wilson lifts the curtain behind which magicians have worked for a century and a half. Our Magic, however, does not explain how tricks work — that’s not the real p…
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Organ Transplants Might Favor Wealthier Patients – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Researchers report that our organ transplant system might inadvertently favor wealthier patients who can put their names on waiting lists at multiple transplant centers nationwide, while those who can’t afford such travel or who lack physicians on p…
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F.lux Is Available for iOS, No Jailbreak Required
iOS: F.lux, the app that changes your screen temperature based on the time of day, is one of our favorites because it makes your screen a lot more readable at night. Now, it’s available on iOS, provided you’re willing to jump through a couple hoops.…
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Report: Israeli Air Force Strikes Damascus Airport in Syria – The Atlantic
Over the course of Syria’s four-and-a-half-year-old civil war, Israel has quietly been drawn in at times. It occasionally treats wounded Syrians in its hospitals and, according to reports, occasionally bombs weapon conveys or retaliates for cross-bo…
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What’s a Planet? There’s a Test (and Pluto Flunked it)
Nine years ago, the International Astronomical Union established new criteria for determining what classifies as a “planet,” a controversial move that officially (but not in spirit) stripped Pluto’s status as the solar system’s ninth planet.
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Finding ‘Spooky’: Why Hunting Asteroids Is Hard
This artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In September of 2013, engineers brought the mission out of hibernation to hunt for more asteroids and comets in a project called NEOW…
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You Can Now Test Firefox OS On Android Without Hacking Your Phone | TechCrunch
So, lets say you want to give Firefox OS — the mobile operating system made by the same people who make the browser — a try.
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The Pleasure and Pain of Shia LaBeouf’s Latest Stunt #ALLMYMOVIES – The Atlantic
It’s unfortunately easy to laugh at Shia LaBeouf’s latest introspective project.
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Hyundai is launching augmented reality owner’s manuals for its cars | The Verge
Tablet-based electronic car owner’s manuals are par for the course these days, but Hyundai’s taking it a step further, announcing this week that it’ll be launching an augmented reality (AR) manual later this year.
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An important story out today confirms that SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower leak system originally programmed by Aaron Swartz and maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation, works.
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The Week In College Football: Conferences Are Weird, So Our Predictions Are Too | FiveThirtyEight
Conferences are weird. And not just because some of their names don’t make any sense. (The Big Ten has 14 members?! The Big 12 has 10?!) Although most college football conferences hold championship games, others are prohibited from holding them (and…
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Just trying to help the wife with some laundry : AdviceAnimals
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Am I adulting right? : AdviceAnimals
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She was a miserable old lady anyway : AdviceAnimals
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Climbing the Eiffel Tower : woahdude
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25% of people shot to death by LA police were unarmed. No cops were prosecuted. / Boing Boing
Between Jan. 1, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2014, Los Angeles County district attorney records show at least 375 people were shot by on-duty officers. No officers have been prosecuted for any of those shootings.
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Comcast begins launch of internet-only TV service | The Verge
For $15 per month, some Comcast internet subscribers will now be able to watch TV around their house, too. The new deal is for an internet TV service that Comcast is launching today called Stream.
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Philosophers Don’t Get Much Respect, But Their Earnings Don’t Suck | FiveThirtyEight
Philosophers don’t get much love in a world focused on earnings, public profile and technical accomplishment. A Monty Python song portrayed famous “lovers of wisdom” (the literal translation of the Greek word philosopher) as drunken sots.
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The Arizona Department of Corrections faces a lawsuit in federal court from a prison news publisher that accuses the state agency of censorship and violating inmates’ rights.
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Pakistan halts funding to hundreds of ‘ghost schools’ – Al Jazeera English
Pakistan authorities have stopped funding hundreds of educational institutions that existed only on paper and have fired 450 absentee teachers in a mission to close down the so-called ghost schools.
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Defiant Greg Hardy says he’s ‘innocent until proven guilty’ on Twitter | Sport | The Guardian
Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy, whose involvement in a 2014 domestic violence incident became the focus of renewed scrutiny Friday when Deadspin published photos of his former girlfriend’s bruises, claimed he was “innocent until proven guil…
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Taylor Branch on NCAA – The Atlantic
A single week has changed the landscape in college sports. At the University of Missouri, where students had been protesting racial slurs and deprivations for more than a month, 30 black players announced a football strike on Saturday.
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Novel about John Lennon and primal screaming wins Goldsmiths prize | Books | The Guardian
A novel about John Lennon setting out to take a course of primal scream therapy on an Irish island has won Kevin Barry the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction, with judges praising its “intricately weaving and blurring fiction and life”.
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Set Your Freelance Rate with an Emotional Pricing Scale
When figuring how much you should charge for your freelance services, you probably use practical strategies and tools to come up with a rate. Author and coach Mark McGuinness suggests linking your price to feelings. Me: Just imagine you’ve sold this…
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Texas Vets Call for Medical Marijuana | Al Jazeera America
United States military veterans rallied at a parade in Texas on Wednesday for the right to treat their war wounds, both physical and psychological, with medical marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law and is strictly limited in Texas. The…
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Has your cool neighborhood stopped being cool? Or have you?
Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street, writes about the ever-changing neighborhoods in NYC. I think there’s more to these “the city is dead now” complaints than money. People have pronounced St.
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How Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem | WIRED
Hui Ding took a job at Instagram about three years ago, just as the photo-happy social network was growing into one of the world’s most popular online services.
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Why Shia LaBeouf’s Latest Stunt Is a Work of Genius | Rolling Stone
Employees at Manhattan’s Angelika Film Center had been warned about what was going to happen, but they didn’t know when it would start.
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Imgur – Cats reaction when his owner comes home | Facebook
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Looking for Sasquatch: an expedition along the ‘Oregon Bigfoot Highway’ | US news | The Guardian
Joe Beelart carefully places a red apple on a mossy stump. “We’re going to set out our first offering here.” He performs the same ritual every time he comes out into Mount Hood national forest. “We used to call it baiting, but now we call it offerin…
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Report: Tens Of Millions Of Prison Phone Calls Hacked | ThinkProgress
An unnamed hacker leaked documents to the news site The Intercept revealing a major data breach by the prison phone company Securus Technologies.
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Moving to renewable energy would create millions of jobs, study finds | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s.
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What Makes Sand Dunes Sing – Scientific American
“And it’s a sound that’s very similar to kind of the tones you’d get on a cello.” Melany Hunt, a mechanical engineer at Caltech. The dunes sing when sand avalanches down the side, “which would then be somewhat equivalent to using the bow on the stri…
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Mitchell and Webb send up Kitchen Nightmares and true believers · 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…
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Make Mini Apple Pie Bites in About 15 Minutes
Love apple pie, but don’t have the time to bake it from scratch? These mini apple “pie” rolls are an easy alternative, great for lunch packing, snacking, and party hosting.
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: some great songs with prominent literary references. Few bands could hold a candle to the incessant literary and historical name-drops offered by The Smiths, specif…
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Thirteen years have passed since My Big Fat Greek Wedding was loosed upon the world, so at the risk of heightening your triskaidekaphobia, we’re checking out the trailer for the sequel.
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The Island of No Regrets – Roads & Kingdoms
In the late spring of that year I sold everything I owned. It was easy; I kept lowering prices until demand overwhelmed supply.
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They named themselves Concerned Student 1950, in reference to the year the first black students were admitted to the University of Missouri.
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Engineering vs Programming: Reader Responses – The Atlantic
Battling the blazing remnants of Deepwater Horizon on April 21, 2010
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Coal from Adani’s proposed $16bn Carmichael project will create annual emissions similar to those from countries like Malaysia and Austria and more than New York City, according to calculations designed to highlight the scale of the mine’s environme…
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Myanmar’s First Free Election in 25 Years – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, Myanmar’s president, Thein Sein, congratulated Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) appears to be close to an absolute majority in the country’s first free elections in 25 years.
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Chipotle illness outbreak showcases improved surveillance, lagging solutions | Ars Technica
Was it the cilantro? The tomatoes? Maybe some bad meat? The culprit behind a multi-state foodborne illness outbreak linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants in the Northwest may never be identified.
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‘The Hollywood Reporter’ Will Stop Ranking Powerful Women. Will Hollywood, Too? – The Atlantic
When the New York Times reported last December about the intrigue that usually surrounds The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the 100 most influential women in the film and TV industries, it was easy enough to imagine the story spawning a movie of its o…
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Prison phone service breach exposes attorney-client call recording | The Verge
Securus, a leading provider of phone records to nearly 1 million US prisoners, has been hacked, and the company’s now-public records are raising new questions about attorney-client confidentiality.
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University of Missouri under fire again over response to attack threat | US news | The Guardian
Parts of the University of Missouri campus appeared all but empty on Wednesday after a man was arrested overnight for allegedly threatening black students and faculty days after protesters were successful in forcing the school’s president to resign.
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The School Library Association (SLA) information book prize honours the best non-fiction books for children. One set of winners is chosen by judges including librarians, and a children’s choice award is chosen by young readers in schools, libraries,…
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9 Foods That Have More Than the FDA’s Daily Recommended Amount of Sugar – The Atlantic
The Food and Drug Administration this week recommended that people eat no more than 12.5 teaspoons of sugar each day, or about 50 grams. The idea is to limit sugar consumption to 10 percent of a person’s daily total calories.
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Airbnb Promises to Pay Its Fair Share of Taxes and Help Prevent Misuse | Motherboard
After muscling past potentially limiting legislation in San Francisco, Airbnb has released a new “Community Compact,” pledging to help work with cities by paying its “fair share” of hotel taxes and preventing Airbnb from being misused by unscrupulou…
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After New Zealand’s prime minister invoked rape in an angry parliamentary debate over the fate of New Zealanders detained at an Australian migrant-detention facility, female legislators responded by revealing that they were victims of sexual assaul…
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This Fantastic Fan Short Has Us Longing For an Ultimate Spider-Man Netflix Show
Since Spider-Man is almost certainly going to be featured solely in the Marvel movies, we’re not going to get any live-action entertainment focusing on the wider Spider-verse—stuff such as Miles Morales’ Ultimate Spider-Man—any time soon.
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What We’re Following Thursday Afternoon, 11/11 – The Atlantic
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One Direction Collaborator Breaks Down Group’s New Songs | Rolling Stone
Julian Bunetta has been a longtime friend of and co-writer for One Direction and remains one of their closest musical allies. Since the boy band’s second album, Take Me Home, he’s gone from writing the songs for them to writing with the band and wat…
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Ronda Rousey Says She’ll ‘Disappear’ After UFC 193 | Rolling Stone
Look, at this point, even Ronda Rousey is getting sick of Ronda Rousey – but she has a plan to change that: After her title bout with Holly Holm at UFC 193, she’s going to disappear. “I’m selling a product and I have to be out there; I don’t have th…
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How Could You Like That Book? by Tim Parks | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
I rarely spend much time wondering why others do not enjoy the books I like. Henry Green, an old favorite, almost a fetish, is never an easy read and never offers a plot that is immediate or direct. “There’s not much straight shootin,’” he admitted,…
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A Nimbler Jeb Bush Turns Feisty. But Is It Enough? https://t.co/GBS20QE46A
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A 140-year-old tortoise wearing her 5-day-old son as a hat. – Imgur
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My Great-great-great-grandfather during the American Civil War. 1860s. – Imgur
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MRW my wife asks which one of her girlfriends I would marry if she died – GIF on Imgur
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I am a man (if it matters) and friends with a married woman, ‘‘Jane,’’ and her husband, ‘‘Peter.’’ The friendship is more with Jane than with Peter.
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Security tried to get this cat out of my local supermarket. Failed. – Imgur
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My Great-great-great-grandfather during the American Civil War. 1860s. – Imgur
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How Rescue Dogs Are Helping Veterans With PTSD
Shelter dogs are gaining a new leash on life from U.S. military veterans. K9s For Warriors, an organization based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, is pairing shelter dogs with veterans coping with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) and traumatic in…
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62 Tips From Y Combinator’s Startup Instruction Manual | TechCrunch
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Man-in-the-middle attack on Vizio TVs coughs up owners’ viewing habits | Ars Technica
The cautionary tales just keep coming for Internet-connected TVs, thermostats, and other so-called “Internet-of-Things” devices.
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Roku recently addressed the needs of those looking for a premium media player to complement their new, 4K TV with the launch of the Roku 4, but now the company is moving to the other end of the spectrum with a device aimed at the low-end of the mark…
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Maze Runner Writer James Dashner Is Ending His New Saga—And We’ve Got An Exclusive Look
The Maze Runner by James Dashner has become a huge publishing sensation, and now it’s making waves at the movies. But Dashner has already moved on to his next series, the Mortality Doctrine trilogy. Here’s an exclusive excerpt from the final novel, …
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Inside Virginia’s Church-Burning Werewolf White Supremacist Cult – The Daily Beast
Viking-inspired white supremacists trying to terrorize black Christians in the South: not as rare as you think. News broke yesterday that the FBI arrested two young men under the suspicion that they were planning to start a race war by bombing black…
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This was a hungrier Jeb Bush. Donald J. Trump had just finished a breezy, boastful and hard-to-follow explanation of how he would take on the Islamic State, tossing in a curiously admiring aside about Vladimir V. Putin’s performance on television.
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Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Tech Start-Ups https://t.co/NOLabpsjjK
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Astronomers begin building super telescope to see dawn of the Universe | Ars Technica
The biggest and baddest telescope in the world stands atop a volcanic peak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. The Grand Canary Telescope, with a diameter of 10.4 meters, is the largest single-aperture optical telescope humans have ever b…
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US Senate Passes Compromise Commercial Space Bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed Nov. 10 the final version of a commercial space bill that extends two key regulatory provisions and provides limited property rights for resources extracted from asteroids. The Senate approved by unanimous consent H.R.…
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America’s plague of real-life vampires, and more hard-hitting tabloid news this week / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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Republican debate: all the candidates’ promises, from flat taxes to firings | US news | The Guardian
Between the swipes at Hillary Clinton and the jibes at one another, the latest Republican debate delivered more ardent promises than the average romcom.
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Oregon spying on Twitter users for Black Lives Matter hashtag
Oregon has been spying on its own residents’ Twitter accounts. Now, the state’s Department of Justice has placed the investigator who carried out the deed on paid administrative leave.
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Al Jazeera wins at Amnesty Australia Media Awards – Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English has won Best Film in the television category at the 2015 Amnesty Australia awards in Sydney. Research carried out by Global Rights estimates that almost nine out of 10 Afghan women face physical, sexual or psychological violence, …
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‘This Is Really Bad for Independent Creators’ – The Atlantic
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Morningstar is one of the best resources for all things related to investing, but many features require a premium membership, which costs $199 a year or $24 a month. You can likely access those same premium features and reports, however, for free fr…
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Flashback: See Glen Campbell Sing Allen Toussaint’s ‘Southern Nights’ | Rolling Stone
Glen Campbell will be forever linked to songwriter Jimmy Webb, who provided the Rhinestone Cowboy with signature hits like “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston.
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New Clinton Emails Expose Collaboration with Media on Benghazi Coverage – In These Times
Lauren Gurley is a Fall 2015 editorial intern at In These Times. She has previously contributed to the American Prospect, Quartz, and the South Side Weekly. She graduated from the University of Chicago in June 2015 with a degree in Comparative Liter…
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Andy White, Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’ Drummer, Dead at 85 | Rolling Stone
Andy White, the Scotland-born session musician who played drums on the Beatles’ debut single “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You,” passed away Monday in New Jersey after suffering a massive stroke. He was 85.
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New Clinton Emails Expose Collaboration with Media on Benghazi Coverage – In These Times
Lauren Gurley is a Fall 2015 editorial intern at In These Times. She has previously contributed to the American Prospect, Quartz, and the South Side Weekly. She graduated from the University of Chicago in June 2015 with a degree in Comparative Liter…
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New Clinton Emails Expose Collaboration with Media on Benghazi Coverage – In These Times
Lauren Gurley is a Fall 2015 editorial intern at In These Times. She has previously contributed to the American Prospect, Quartz, and the South Side Weekly. She graduated from the University of Chicago in June 2015 with a degree in Comparative Liter…
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England were well beaten in the first one-day international as Mohammad Hafeez’s unbeaten century led Pakistan to a six-wicket win in Abu Dhabi. Set only 217 to win, Pakistan were left at 41-3 by Reece Topley’s three wickets, only for Hafeez’s 102 n…
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Massive ‘Hypernovae’ Could Have Formed the Milky Way’s Earliest Stars | Motherboard
An international team of astronomers and researchers led by the University of Cambridge found that the first stars near the center of the Milky Way could have died in spectacular “hypernovae,” stellar explosions that released ten times more energy t…
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The Rugby Football Union will not be “inhibited” in its search for the best possible successor to Stuart Lancaster as England head coach. RFU chief executive Ian Ritchie did not rule out approaching a coach already under contract and said the cost o…
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Seattle’s crime scene is getting more complicated by the episode, but the thing that occupied far too much of “Max Wager” was Liv and Major’s sex life. The murder this week barely matters.
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Inside Charlie Daniels’ Spooky Ghost Story ‘Wooley Swamp’ | Rolling Stone
Originally released in 1980, Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Legend of Wooley Swamp” has now been a spine-tingling crowd-pleaser for 35 years — and if that sounds hard to believe, you’re not alone. Even Daniels is surprised that his tale of a greedy old…
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Five Social Media Quirks that Could Tell Neuroscientists More About Our Brains | Motherboard
There are almost two billion people using social media worldwide, generating a whopping one billion Facebook posts, and 400 million Tweets in just one single day. So what could be done with all that data?
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The Milky Way and the Perseids over the… – Just Space
The Milky Way and the Perseids over the Matterhorn, Switzerland … https://t.co/DS5VmRNNGb https://t.co/RRZ7CKnCii
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SAN FRANCISCO — The worth of hot technology start-ups seemed for years to go in only one direction: straight up. Now there are signs of growing unease over the dizzying valuations of some of the most richly priced private companies.
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With California on a precipice of a ballot initiative next year that could legalize marijuana recreationally, scores of cannabis startups are vying to capture what is the nation’s largest market in advance of such a big regulatory change.
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The Mojave Desert might be the next clean energy gold mine | Grist
Thanks to Chinese beef demand, Australian exporters are hoping to make a profit by flying live cattle to China on 747s.
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Life inside America’s secret nuclear past – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
The secret Manhattan project created the nuclear bomb over 70 years ago. Three of the sites, Los Alamos in New Mexico, Hanford in Washington and Oak Ridge in Tennessee are to be preserved as national historical parks.
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Closest Earth-size Alien Planet Found, May Be a Venus Twin
A newly discovered planet 39 light-years away is being called the closest Earth-size exoplanet ever discovered — and a potential “Venus twin” — providing the mouth-watering opportunity for a close-up look at the environment on a rocky alien world.
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A Book of Surrealist Games / Boing Boing
Hilarious and silly, A Book of Surrealist Games is a fantastic introduction to the surrealist mind-set. In addition to just being fun to peruse, this collection of written, visual and verbal games is great for exercising your mind, and staying creat…
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Listen to a Dramatic Reading by . . . Donald Trump’s Hair | Vanity Fair
“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 feel sorry for you. I really do. “
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HARTFORD, CT—Silently berating himself for his carelessness and lack of forethought, local office worker Jason Lochrie, who arrived over an hour late to work Wednesday morning, reportedly had no choice but to use an excuse he had been hoping would a…
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Prehistoric farmers were first beekeepers – BBC News
Humans have been exploiting honeybees for almost 9,000 years, according to archaeological evidence. Traces of beeswax found on ancient pottery from Europe, the Near East and North Africa suggest the first farmers kept bees.
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Dutch police: Amsterdam airport is a hotspot for laser strikes | Ars Technica
After an appeal to Dutch television viewers, the national police said Wednesday (Google Translate) that they have received 70 tips regarding laser strikes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Europe’s fifth-busiest airport.
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Backstage Beauty at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show | Vanity Fair
There are models. There are supermodels. And then there are Victoria’s Secret models. These gorgeous ladies are the pinnacles of perfection, and they serve as beauty and body inspiration for us mere mortals.
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As you might have learned from our previous coverage, Fox has a new show about a cop who gets killed in the line of duty and is then resurrected by questionable science.
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William Shatner is pitching a Star Trek 50th-anniversary musical · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Captain’s log, stardate…well, it varies by method (and show), so let’s just agree to mid-November 2015. We’re less than 10 months away from the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, and there’s still no sign of an official celebration.
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In previous editions of Heavy Petting—the new series on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls website that has comedians and actors providing voices to adoptable dogs—we’ve met Madison, an intellectual terrier mix voiced by Aubrey Plaza, and Bart, a skateboardi…
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Alibaba made $1 billion in 8 minutes – CNET
Eight minutes. That was how long it took Alibaba to hit $1 billion in sales today on Single’s Day, China’s Black Friday equivalent. By midday, that amount had crossed US$9 billion, equalling Alibaba’s take for the whole day last year. China’s second…
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Watch this guy cut a hole in a Porsche roof to try to steal it / Boing Boing
London’s Metropolitan Police released a video today showing a man trying to steal a convertible red Porsche. He used a knife to cut a hole in the roof, and hopped it. Interestingly, pedestrians walked by without pausing. The guy eventually left the …
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Why Are Republicans So Obsessed With the Gold Standard? – The Atlantic
During Tuesday night’s Republican debate a familiar topic resurfaced to the dismay of most economists: the case for the gold standard.
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Ben Carson promises law to protect religious objectors to same-sex marriage | US news | The Guardian
A day after shrugging off challenges to his autobiography at a presidential debate, Republican candidate Ben Carson made an appearance at a Christian university in Virginia on Wednesday, where a friendly crowd cheered as he disparaged the theory of …
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Efauxji: Finland and Dove’s Fake Emoji Scourge – The Atlantic
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From 2008 to 2009, Gina served a six-month tour of duty in Iraq. She was tasked with going door to door and flushing insurgents out after US marines threw flash-bang grenades in before her. She became jittery and panicked, and was unable to perform …
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70 years on: the female coach who took on men’s soccer … and won | Sport | The Guardian
When she took over the reins of the NYU men’s soccer team in September, Kim Wyant, the first goalkeeper in US women’s national team history, downplayed her role as a pioneer. “That’s such a strong word,” she said.
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These Ancient Stars May Be the Oldest Ever Seen in the Milky Way
An artist’s illustration of a hypernova, a star explosion 10 times more powerful than a regular supernova. The first stars to ignite would have died in explosions like these, scientists say.
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Rocky Earth-sized exoplanet found orbiting a nearby red dwarf star | The Verge
There’s a new exoplanet on the galactic map. A rocky planet roughly the same size and density of Earth has been discovered orbiting a nearby red dwarf star, thanks to new data gathered by telescopes in Chile.
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Closest Rocky Exoplanet Yet Found Is Earth-Sized | Video
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The Windows 10 Apps That Are Actually Worth Using
Microsoft has made a big deal about its new Universal Apps for Windows 10. While some developers are slow to jump on the bandwagon, a few have developed new versions of their apps just for Windows 10, and they’re worth taking a look at.
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The 13 Craziest Goddamn Rumors About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As one of the most anticipated movies of all time, it’s not surprising that The Force Awakens has inspired hundreds of rumors from fans, desperate to know what’s going to happen a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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The Curse of the Celebrity Nanny – The Daily Beast
Hey Baby—or, really, babysitter. No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani reportedly divorced husband Gavin Rossdale because of an all too familiar culprit: the nanny.
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The GOP Debate Finally Got Substantive… But That Didn’t Make It Any Less Terrifying – In These Times
I went into last night’s Republican Presidential debate expecting the candidates to discuss the issues that have been making headlines recently—important topics like whether the pyramids were used to store grain, or to kill or not to kill baby Hitle…
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Twitter faces local computer server demand by Russia – BBC News
Russia’s internet regulator has said that Twitter must store local users’ data in the country. The policy marks a change in position because the watchdog Roskomnadzor had previously said the step would not be necessary.
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Watch the Donald Trump Sketch So Bad ‘SNL’ Didn’t Even Air It – The Daily Beast
During nearly every episode of Saturday Night Live, at least one sketch gets cut for time. And this past week’s cringe-worthy episode hosted by Donald Trump was no exception.
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I confess, as much as I am troubled by Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-free-trade tirades, I do find The Donald’s campaign strategy truly interesting. He’s not, as people say, an “anti-politician.” He’s actually caricaturing politicians.
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Movie of the Week: “The Marriage Circle” – The New Yorker
A splendid controversy arose in 1981 over the director Ernst Lubitsch and his second Hollywood feature, “The Marriage Circle,” which was filmed in 1923 and released the following year.
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In Russia, Doping Accusations Are Taken in Stride https://t.co/toaIIbAgUr
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Struggles of a little friend – Imgur
Struggles of a little friend https://t.co/NHhq8YZbHO https://t.co/c2FuaDp3Zr
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“Oh! Oh wow! Everythings’s different. Even me!” In this trippy film a girl named Alice, who lives in a dull black-and-white world, sips from a “Drink Me” bottle and is magically transported down the rabbit hole to a colorful psychedelic world filled…
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Why I Chose The Gun And Then Silicon Valley | TechCrunch
In one of the most widely viewed TED talks of 2012, General Peter van Uhm, the highest-ranking military commander of The Netherlands spoke about his chosen instrument for making a contribution in our world — the gun. “When I look around, I see peopl…
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eBay’s Black Friday deals include Samsung 4K TVs, iPads, and GoPros | The Verge
You might still think of eBay as an auction site, but for years now it’s essentially been a store first and foremost. That means it too will have plenty of deals come Black Friday (and the day before it, and the day after it, and the day after that,…
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Almost Intelligent Agents – Scientific American
Voice-activated intelligent agents use pattern recognition to understand your words – but they do not always understand what you mean.
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There’s a café in downtown Lviv near the Armenian church that takes its customers back to the 1980s: little tables on wobbly legs, cakes covered in bright buttercream frosting flowers, then-fashionable liqueurs lined up above the bar—not to mention …
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Facebook launches Notify to flood your lock screen with breaking news | The Verge
In its latest collaboration with publishers, Facebook today launched Notify, an iOS app that lets you subscribe to push notifications from your preferred content makers.
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New plane tracking system prompted by MH370 loss – BBC News
A deal has been struck on using satellites to track planes, motivated by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 last year.The decision to dedicate part of the radio spectrum to a global flight tracking system was taken at a UN conferenc…
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T-Mobile raises unlimited data price from $80 to $95 per month | Ars Technica
The T-Mobile unlimited data plans that cost $80 per month are getting a price hike to $95.
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Putin TV: Russia’s Got a Dirty Bomb – The Daily Beast
A stray camera at a meeting of top Russian military leaders has allegedly captured a glimpse of the Kremlin’s possible plan for a bewildering and frightening new weapon—a radiation-scattering “dirty bomb.” One delivered by a drone submarine, which i…
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Dancing with the star: country singer makes gay marine’s wish come true | US news | The Guardian
Country singer Steve Grand has fulfilled his promise to attend the 2015 Marine Corps Ball with a marine who asked him to be his date via YouTube in September.
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The Clowns Who Gave Away a Italian Human-Trafficking Ring – The Daily Beast
ROME — In what gives new meaning to the concept of running away to join the circus, Italian authorities arrested 41 people Tuesday for smuggling clowns and other circus performers into the country. The only problem: Most of those who were smuggled i…
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Apparently, referring to freeways with the definite article (“the”) as though it was a proper name is a thing that’s unique to Southern Californians.
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Healthy humans can give dengue virus to mosquitos | Ars Technica
As far as historic nicknames go, Typhoid Mary and Typhoid Joe are probably not the most flattering. But now it seems that there may be a whole bunch of Dengue Mary and Joes to keep them company.
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Don’t Ask Harrison Ford to Tell You How to Fly a Spaceship | Vanity Fair
Harrison Ford may know more about flying a spaceship than most of us—but he’s never going to admit it. Not even to a fellow Star Wars cast member.
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It’s a Moses vs. Alien Showdown in This Awesome New Attack The Block Poster
Now this is a poster. That’s artist Matt Taylor’s Attack the Block poster, which will be released by Vice Press at the UK’s Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival on November 14-15 The officially licensed poster is an 18 x 24-inch screenprint, with …
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A 140-year-old tortoise wearing her 5-day-old son as a hat. – Imgur
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Nigeria’s Buhari inaugurates long-awaited cabinet – Al Jazeera English
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn 36 ministers into his cabinet five months after his inauguration. Buhari, who took office on May 29, won a general election in March after vowing to crack down on corruption in Africa’s biggest economy a…
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T-Mobile snuck in a huge price hike to unlimited data without telling anyone | The Verge
During its lavish Uncarrier event yesterday, T-Mobile drew headlines with its Binge On initiative that will exempt Netflix, HBO, and other video streaming services from customers’ data plans. But the company also took the opportunity to raise prices…
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20000mAh portable charger for $18 / Boing Boing
This is the best price I’ve seen on a 20000mAh USB portable charger. It’s $36, but if you use the promotion code Y4DFT2KK at checkout you can buy it for $18 (at least it was $18 the last time I checked.
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what do you think this thinking cat’s thinking? – GIF on Imgur
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Mars’ Moon Phobos –“Tidal Forces Tearing It Apart”
Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars’ gravity is drawing in Phobos, the larger of its two moons, by about 6.6 feet (2 meters) every hun…
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Seattle gum wall: steam-cleaners at work to clear ‘germiest place on Earth’ | US news | The Guardian
The infamous Pike Place gum wall, a local landmark in Seattle, is being cleaned of its more than one million gum wads for the first time in 20 years, according to officials.
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Last night the MP for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, Oliver Colvile, stood up in parliament and made an impassioned speech in defence of the hedgehog. He suggested that in order to protect it, we should make it the national symbol of the UK.
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There are a lot of people out there who, at some point in their lives, dream of going into space. Unfortunately for them, going to space is a very, very complicated process.
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The first X-Men: Apocalypse trailer will play before The Force Awakens · Newswire · The A.V. Club
People seem to be pretty excited about Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens, as evidenced by the film’s smashing box-office success and fan-favorite status with over a month to go before most of the world has even seen it.
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What the Fed’s Rate Hike Means for Home Buyers
For a while now, we’ve been expecting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. This will impact everything from credit card debt to saving accounts to mortgage rates. If you’re shopping for a new home, here’s what the rate hike means for you.
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Facebook Launches Notify, A Mobile News Notification Machine | Motherboard
On Wednesday, Facebook launched their latest effort to retain dominance in the world of social media: Notify, an iPhone app that will deliver mobile notifications from a variety of publishers. But the way Facebook has built their “news app” is not l…
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Common Antibiotics Are Making Drug-Resistant Bacteria More Powerful | Motherboard
Infectious disease researchers at Cedars-Sinai Hospital have uncovered something even more disquieting about the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.
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The Giza Pyramid complex, photographed by Eduard Spelterini from a hot air balloon in 1904. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) In 867 AD, a European monk named Bernard caught a ride on a slave ship out of the southern Italian city of Taranto.
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I-Team: Restaurants Use False Identities on Food Delivery Websites | NBC New York
Feel like delivery food tonight? If you order on the popular websites Seamless or GrubHub, the kitchen cooking your dinner may not be what it claims to be.
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Scrape It Off, Scrape It Off (14 photos) https://t.co/1yIqsBxPXe https://t.co/T5gCUfE2rz https://t.co/NZMScgIv2B
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MOSCOW — The sweeping accusations that a Kremlin-backed program facilitated doping by elite Russian track-and-field athletes in the Olympics and other top sports events earned a collective shrug Tuesday from the Russian public and even, to some exte…
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New Zealand MPs Kicked Out Of Parliament For Revealing Their Sexual Assault | ThinkProgress
New Zealand’s Parliament resulted in a walk-out Wednesday, as the speaker attempted to shout down and ultimately kicked out several female members of Parliament who disclosed they had been sexually assaulted.
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Hands-On With Facebook Notify, A Push Notification News App And Twitter Alternative | TechCrunch
Facebook’s filtered News Feed was never very good at real-time news. So today Facebook released Notify, an app for reading customizable breaking news, info, and entertainment push notifications right on your lock screen.
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On a wall in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, thousands of pounds of chewing gum have built up over the past 20 years, stuck there by locals and visitors, eventually becoming a tourist attraction on its own.
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What happened to all the Star Trek hair? Shatner didn’t take all of it home, did he? / Boing Boing
A 1968 memo from Paramount producer Robert Justman to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry reports on the sad state of the show’s hairpieces, which had gone missing in great number.
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There Are Plenty of New Apartments Being Built—Just Not Affordable Ones – The Atlantic
While the post-crisis, housing-market turmoil has mostly subsided, the impact of the crash on the rental market is ongoing. Simply put, rent has been skyrocketing in just about every American city.
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The Triumphant, Kickstarter-Enabled Return of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ – The Atlantic
It went like this: Two mad scientists were working at the Gizmonic Institute, trying to develop a weapon for world domination. They decided that the perfect version of this weapon would allow them to drive people crazy.
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Instababy: How to Adopt a Baby Through Instagram – The Atlantic
Next video in seconds Share “Instababy: How to Adopt a Baby Through Instagram” Presented by
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Iran must stop intimidating journalists, UN experts say – BBC News
UN human rights experts have called on the authorities in Iran to stop intimidating journalists as the country prepares for elections early next year.
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Georgia man’s lawsuit: police forced guilty plea by dangling me off bridge | US news | The Guardian
A Georgia man says he was frightened into pleading guilty to a murder he didn’t commit after police dangled him off a bridge three decades ago, brought charges against his parents and threatened him with the death penalty.
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One morning in September, I logged on to the website of HelloMD, a medical start-up that promises to connect patients with doctors instantly over the Internet.
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The Agents of SHIELD Are Doomed To Have Permanently Awful Love Lives
This was a romance-heavy episode of Agents of SHIELD, which turned out to be a very good thing.
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What Yelp Can Tell Us About Gentrification and Race – CityLab
A new, just-published study by the sociologist Sharon Zukin—known for her earlier work on lofts, artists, and gentrification—along with Scarlett Lindeman and Laurie Hurson of the City University of New York, sheds new light on the connection between…
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Saudi arms ‘investigation’ needed, says Philip Hammond – BBC News
Saudi arms ‘investigation’ needed, says Philip Hammond https://t.co/NsniPF0RSF
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News | Upgrade Helps NASA Study Mineral Veins on Mars
Scientists now have a better understanding about a site with the most chemically diverse mineral veins NASA’s Curiosity rover has examined on Mars, thanks in part to a valuable new resource scientists used in analyzing data from the rover.
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Disney Infinity Comes To Apple TV Along With A “Stars Wars” Themed Play Set | TechCrunch
The Apple TV is getting a notable new game today. This morning, Disney announced the launch of its highly anticipated Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition for Apple TV.
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Getting into the groove : Notes from the Field : Blogs
Here we are, already on Day 6 of AT32, our november cruise on the North Atlantic, and we will reach our first station tomorrow. but during the first few days, we were blessed with unusually warm weather and forgiving seas.
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Akron plane crash dead include seven from Florida real estate company | US news | The Guardian
Seven of the nine people believed killed when a small business jet crashed into an apartment building were employees or executives in a Florida real estate company, the firm confirmed on Wednesday.
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No matter how long I live, the dehumanizing insanity of racism will never fail to astonish and amaze me. Not only does it visit great physical and psychological violence upon its victims, but it leaves those who embrace it unable to feel or reason p…
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Udacity Raises $105 Million Series D, Bringing Valuation To $1 Billion | TechCrunch
Udacity, the coding education service, has sprouted a magical horn. The company announced on Wednesday it had raised a $105 million Series D round. With a total valuation of $1 billion, the company has now joined the growing ranks of unicorns.
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Conversations with and photos of everyday North Koreans
Harvard graduate student Christopher Carothers recently travelled to North Korea and, because he was an American white man who spoke Korean, he was able to talk with some everyday North Koreans. The conversations he had make for fascinating reading.
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Fight for $15 meets resistance from group headed by former Walmart execs
I sometimes wonder how I get on mailing lists. One of them that I am on is from Worker Center Watch. I have written about them before. They are an anti-union front group—they claim they are fighting the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) a…
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Writers lobby Cameron to press Narendra Modi on free speech issues | Books | The Guardian
As Britain prepares to roll out the red carpet in its welcome for Narendra Modi, hundreds of writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Ian McEwan have called on David Cameron to address the “rising climate of fear” in India when he meets the…
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Raiders’ Ray-Ray Armstrong under felony investigation for taunting dog | Sport | The Guardian
Oakland Raiders linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong is under investigation for allegedly taunting a K-9 police dog before Sunday’s game against the Steelers at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field. The news was first reported by WVAE-TV, an ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh.
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Back in the spring, we featured Romanian animator Sebastian Cosor‘s animation of Edvard Munch’s The Scream set to Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky.
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Build a Laptop Table for Sitting at the Couch that Converts to a Standing Desk
Standing desks are all the rage, but sometimes you just want to chill on the couch while working on your laptop. Here’s a desk that you can build that accomplishes both. Dual purpose furniture pieces save space, and if you can build one yourself, ev…
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Court Docs Show a University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects | Motherboard
An academic institution has been providing information to the FBI that led to the identification of criminal suspects on the dark web, according to court documents reviewed by Motherboard. Those suspects include a staff member of the non-defunct Sil…
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The return of HBO’s awesome, bone-dry, Getting On. Not many shows on television can joke about an octogenarian’s labia in such a matter-of-fact way. Lifetime’s ill-advised Project Runway Junior.
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The Hillary Clinton Living Inside the Republican Brain | The New Republic
Imagine a police sketch artist drawing a picture of Hillary Clinton based only on descriptions from the Republicans at the Fox Business Network debates on Tuesday night. The sketch would be unappealing, obviously, but also weird and contradictory.
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1-877-KARS-4-KIDS: Behind the Most Hated (and Best) Jingle of All Time | NOISEY
1-877-KARS-4-KIDS. K-A-R-S Kars 4 Kids. 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS. Donate your car today. You’ve heard it. You know it. Just seeing it typed out like that was enough to raise your blood’s temperature by three degrees.
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Donald Trump wants to deport every single illegal immigrant – could he? – BBC News
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to deport every illegal immigrant from the United States. The other Republican candidates say it can’t be done – one called it a “silly argument”.
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13 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Firefighters | Mental Floss
None of us plan on leaving our irons on (or pressing the wrong button when microwaving popcorn, or finding our cat stuck in a tree), but it’s comforting to know the fire department is prepared for when we do.
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StarCraft: The past, present and future | Polygon
Back in the ‘90s, Chris Metzen had an idea for a new game. For the still-blooming Blizzard Entertainment, these were formative years. There was Warcraft as of 1994, but there was no World of Warcraft.
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How often do you really have to wash your bra? | Fusion
Over the past few months I’ve discovered that I have a dirty little secret—a secret that, until very recently, I didn’t even realize was dirty. Or should be kept secret, for that matter. Please try not to judge, but I do not wash my bras regularly. …
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Why It’s So Damned Hard To Build a New Bomber
Northrop Grumman didn’t get long to celebrate winning one of the most important defense contracts of the 21st century.
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The Emoji Diversity Problem Goes Way Beyond Race | WIRED
If you updated to iOS 9.1 last month, you had a happy surprise: over 150 new emoji. Among them were a cheese wedge, a middle finger, a mosque, a synagogue, and a clown face.
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Josh Lewsey: Head of rugby to leave Welsh Rugby Union – BBC Sport
Josh Lewsey: Head of rugby to to leave Welsh Rugby Union https://t.co/tPIVJzOJRv
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I’ll just put a happy little Bob right here! – Imgur
I’ll just put a happy little Bob right here! https://t.co/81sYdyQSEI https://t.co/rWMWrd5e3Q
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Poured all my liquor down the drain and got on the tradmill today. – Imgur
Poured all my liquor down the drain and got on the tradmill today. https://t.co/wBYRcgRhfb https://t.co/H7pkNMbfFo
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Poured all my liquor down the drain and got on the tradmill today. – Imgur
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Celebrate Veterans Day With These 12 Veteran-Founded Startups | TechCrunch
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The Crisis In White America the GOP Did Not Debate – But Democrats Must
In an event that was supposed to highlight the Republican presidential candidates’ views on the economy and its woes, it’s surprising that the Fox Business Channel debate Tuesday did not address a newly urgent issue that is striking at a key segment…
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Greenhouse Pollution Per Person Falls for Many Major Economies – Scientific American
OSLO, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Greenhouse gas emissions per capita are falling in 11 of the Group of 20 major economies, a turning point for tackling climate change, a study showed on Tuesday.
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Is ISIS Really Winning a War of Ideas Against the United States? – The Atlantic
This refrain feels modern, but it has echoed through most of American history. The argument that the U.S. is losing a war of ideas or narratives to ISIS is only the latest iteration.
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EU Wants New Labels for Products Made in Israeli Settlements – The Atlantic
Europe-bound goods made in land captured by Israel in the 1967 war with Arab states can no longer be labeled “Made in Israel,” under European Union ruled unveiled Wednesday.
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What if NCAA Athletes Boycott for Wages? – The Daily Beast
In a shocking turn of events, in a scant 36 hours, beleaguered University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe went from grimly standing his ground to a complete and total capitulation, resigning his position amidst a storm of protest, and, more importan…
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Etsy merchant introduces old-time religion to Starbucks cup. Hail Satan! / Boing Boing
People who are upset that Starbucks is not religious enough for them now have an option. They can buy this reusable, travel mug with Satanic symbols from Etsy seller Cara the Corpse for $20.
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Here’s Why There’s Still Not a Human on Mars
Attention, job seekers: NASA is looking for astronauts. Ideal candidates are willing to travel—to Mars. But keep in mind that when it comes to human missions to Mars, NASA’s “preparation” has already lasted quite a while: the last 70 years straight.
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Almost Half of All American Workers Make Less Than $15 an Hour | The Nation
We’ve come a long way since that crisp November day three years ago when a small group of New York City fast food workers launched a strike with the slogan “Fast Food Forward.” Today, the movement continues its forward march with the viral hashtag #…
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Neobase Wants To Become Your Private Home Communications Hub | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Neone announced its plans to launch a private social network based on a small hardware appliance called the Neobase.
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Kickstarting “From DeadDrop to SecureDrop” about Aaron Swartz’s last project / Boing Boing
Journalist/educator Lisa Rein is looking for $20,000 to complete a documentary called “From DeadDrop to SecureDrop,” which chronicles the development of the last technology project that Aaron Swartz worked on: a tool to help whistleblowers and journ…
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Slovenia Erects Fence Amid EU-Africa Summit | Al Jazeera America
Slovenia on Wednesday began erecting a razor-wire fence along its border with Croatia to control the influx of refugees and migrants, as European and African leaders gathered in Malta to seek long-term solutions to the flow of people making their wa…
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The first 4K Blu-rays are coming early next year, but they all really suck | The Verge
Every time a new physical media format debuts, the first batch of titles that arrive alongside it are always a wonderfully random mix of hits and pure mediocrity. (Remember when Sony included a copy of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby wit…
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Diamonds Born in Santa Clara | TechCrunch
A Santa Clara, Ca.-based company called Diamond Foundry is this morning taking the wraps off what it’s been creating over the last three years: the ability to produce diamonds. In San Francisco.
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Ghanaian man given taxi to return home – BBC News
EU leaders are expected to offer countries in Africa billions of euros in exchange for help with the migrant crisis at a summit in Malta. The aim is to tackle the economic and security problems that cause people to flee, and persuade African countri…
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Adele Will Make Her Acting Debut | Vanity Fair
This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Xavier Dolan, the French-Canadian wunderkind who directed Adele’s blockbuster video for “Hello,” is currently setting up his next feature project The Death and Life of John F.
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Seth Rogen and Justin Bieber End Their ‘Beef’ on Ellen – The Daily Beast
The comment was made at a time when Justin Bieber was constantly in the news for his bad behavior, including a high-profile arrest for drunken drag racing in Miami. But now, Bieber’s star is back on the rise.
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On Blindspot, the plots were more ripped from the headlines than ever. We get America’s police brutality problems, Edward Snowden NSA leaks, and sexuality snafus all in one one-hour package. This is bigger than trying to blow up the Statue of Libert…
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See the Most Expensive, Extravagant Mansion in L.A. | Details
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England World Cup winner Josh Lewsey will step down from his role as Welsh Rugby Union’s head of rugby in January. The former Wasps utility back succeeded Joe Lydon in September 2013.
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Researchers say “apple” bodies are even worse for us than high BMIs – Quartz
Your body mass index (BMI) is a helpful tool to measure how under- or overweight you are—but may be of little use when it comes to determining potentially serious health risks.
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What Makes Lake Tahoe So Blue? – The Atlantic
Lake Tahoe is famous for its blueness, a fact that’s celebrated on slick bumper stickers and in buckets of thick paint. The striking hue is one thing, but Tahoe also has splendid clarity. Or it did, anyway.
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The UK’s environment department is facing the largest cuts to its resources budget of any government department since 2009, according to an analysis by two of the country’s largest wildlife charities.
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Floral/fruity scents have long been characterized as attractive to mosquitoes, so it’s natural that New Mexico State’s Molecular Vector Physiology Lab researcher Stacy Rodriguez tested a floral/fruity perfume against DEET in a lab trial.
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J.J. Abrams is making a game with the studio behind Infinity Blade | The Verge
He may be busy with a little movie called The Force Awakens, but that isn’t stopping J.J. Abrams from working on new projects — including a video game.
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Fleks3D Lets You Pull Your 3D Prints Out Of Your Printer With A Quickness | TechCrunch
Pulling a 3D print out of your printer is usually a process fraught with conflict.
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Airbnb says it will limit how some homes are rented to help preserve affordable housing | The Verge
After a major, and occasionally messy, campaign to stop a San Francisco proposition that would have placed limits on short-term rentals, Airbnb says it will start making some voluntary changes to its operations.
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Israeli anger as EU agrees to label settlement products – Al Jazeera English
The European Commission has introduced new labelling guidelines for products produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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I Let My Toddler Dress Me, and It Led to the Destruction of Civilization – The New Yorker
My three-year-old son put me in mismatched knee socks and a Santa hat. This is hilarious because it’s not even Thanksgiving! I was immediately and without hesitation fired from my job as a Sixth Circuit judge.
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How Exxon Mobil ‘Bends’ Science to Cast Doubt on Climate Change | The New Republic
In a move that is potentially transformative, the New York attorney general is investigating Exxon for financial fraud.
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Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki: Skating’s King of the Road Gets High as F–k | Rolling Stone
Aaron “Jaws” Homoki isn’t indestructible, but with each death-defying drop he survives – and every beer he butt-chugs – he gets ever closer to achieving immortality. The 25-year-old street skater started out like most kids do – on a Walmart board hi…
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Exclusive First Look: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Mus | Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair previews the contents of the Donald’s presidential library.
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Aziz Ansari Confronts Stephen Colbert About the Lack of Diversity on CBS | Vanity Fair
If you’ve watched Aziz Ansari’s excellent new Netflix series, Master of None, you know that the actor is passionate about the subject of diversity on television.
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“Midgets” dressed in camouflage. Worms emerging from the car floor. Possums jumping out of the microwave. People jumping out of the refrigerator. I don’t blame Brandon Terry and Casey Fowler of Spartanburg County for calling 911 five times to report…
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Soils Start Comeback After Acid Rain Damage – Scientific American
A series of U.S. and Canadian regulations since the 1990s dramatically cut rates of acidic deposition, leading to steep declines in sulfuric acid in lakes.
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Rightwing pundits belittle mainstream praise of Bush and Kasich at debate | US news | The Guardian
As the dust settled over an intense Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, the instant verdict of the mainstream media was that the unexpected rise of the political outsider – in particular Donald Trump – had finally began to …
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Giant Magellan Telescope: Construction Begins on World’s Largest –“May Reveal Birth of the Cosmos”
Leaders and supporters from an international group of partner universities and research institutions, are gathering on a remote mountaintop high in the Chilean Andes today to celebrate groundbreaking for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT).
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Nintendo’s free new 3DS app is perfect for mobile | The Verge
In the lead-up to Nintendo’s much-anticipated foray into mobile gaming, the video game publisher has been experimenting with different takes on the free-to-play model.
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Seattle’s ‘Gum Wall’ cleaned after 20 years – video | US news | The Guardian
Seattle’s famous ‘Gum Wall’ is being cleaned after 20 years as a city landmark. The wall, situated in Pike Place Market, is estimated to have around 1m pieces of gum attached, as well as pictures, cards and messages left by locals and tourists.
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Donald Trump Lorem Ipsum generator / Boing Boing
Todd writes, “I made this ridiculous thing. Click on his head for more lorem.” Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr.
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Buy the Amazon Echo for $149, today only | The Verge
Amazon is clearly trying to build interest in its smart Bluetooth speaker before the holidays hit. Even though it’ll be a bit before it lands at big-box retail locations, Amazon is, just for today, dropping the price on the $179 Echo down to $149.
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The Complete Beatles Songs – The Stories Behind Every Track Written by the Fab Four / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. The Complete Beatles Songs has gone through several editions over the last 20 years as author Steve Turner continues to dig deeper to find the origins and meanings of every song the Beatles wrote.
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Energy companies back National Grid blackout planning | Business | The Guardian
Energy companies E.ON and SSE have given their support to the National Grid, after it pledged to secure sufficient power supply to avoid blackouts over what some forecasters predict will be one of the most severe winters ever recorded.
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Veterans Day 2030 Could Look Like Syria Today, Thanks To Climate Change | ThinkProgress
Now, half of Syria’s population has fled their homes and the massive influx of refugees is taking a toll on other nations in the Middle East and Europe. The chaos has even prompted the United States to deploy troops to the decimated country.
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A first look at Apple Music on Android | The Verge
Apple usually only brings up Android when it has something bad to say, but the story is a little different when it comes to streaming music. In order to compete in the crowded streaming field — and take on early giants like Spotify — Apple needs to …
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KakaoTalk chat app boss quits after child porn accusation – BBC News
The co-founder of South Korea’s most popular chat app has resigned after being accused of failing to prevent child abuse imagery being spread via the service. Kakao Corp announced Lee Seok-Woo’s departure a week after he was charged, but not detaine…
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Angela Kinsey to write, possibly star in TBS sitcom about a call center · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Angela Kinsey is heading to a new, even bleaker office. Deadline reports that the actress has created a new sitcom for TBS, 1-800, based on her own experiences working at a call center.
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The New Superman: American Alien Comic Totally Nails the Vulnerability of Clark Kent
Chronicle screenwriter Max Landis has his own Superman comic now, and while it treads on familiar ground, it promises to be like no other: seven snapshots from Clark’s life as he learns to deal with his superpowers and learns to become a superhero.
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Footage shows aftermath of Christmas Island riots – BBC News
Footage has been released showing the aftermath of the Christmas Island riots. Police used tear gas on Tuesday to end three days of unrest at the migrant detention centre.
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NEW YORK—Immediately halting production on his latest project after hearing of the incredible talent, legendary actor Robert De Niro was reportedly stunned to learn Wednesday that Bayonne, NJ resident Eric Sullivan, 33, can quote the critically accl…
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You had one job…and you fucking nailed it. – Imgur
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Green tea doesn’t promote weight loss / Boing Boing
Other claimed benefits of green tea, such as longevity, have not yet been subject to scrutiny from Cochrane. Green tea still tastes nice, too. As always, the On the Media Guide to Health News and Diet Fads is an excellent resource on this.
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Toran Gaal: a retired US marine who rides his bike to honor and inspire | Society | The Guardian
Retired marine Toran Gaal, who suffers from traumatic brain injury and PTSD, lost both legs and part of his right hip after stepping on a bomb in Afghanistan.
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From Murakami to Oates, Why Does Running Appeal to Writers? – The Atlantic
From Homer’s The Iliad to A.E. Housman’s poem about an athlete dying young, there’s no shortage of literary depictions of running. “Move, as the limbs / of a runner do,” writes W.H. Auden. “In orbit go / Round an endless track.
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Why Down-Syndrome Screenings Focus on a Mother’s Age, but Ignore a Father’s – The Atlantic
The standard first-trimester screen for Down syndrome, called the combined test, uses three numbers in an algorithm to assess the chance that the fetus has the genetic disorder: markers from the mother’s blood; ultrasound measurements of the fetus’s…
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House Republicans urge court to throw out net neutrality rules | Ars Technica
Republican members of Congress urged a federal appeals court to vacate the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, saying any such rules should be written by lawmakers instead of the commission.
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Real Estate App Oliver Adds Live Video Walkthroughs Of Your Next Hovel | TechCrunch
When we first met Oliver the app was just entering its first phase of development it basically allowed apartment owners and house hunters to come together in a marriage born of carnal desire and a nice two bedroom in an area with good schools.
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Online threats against black students rattle Missouri campus – BBC News
Police at the University of Missouri have arrested at least one man after death threats were posted online against black students. Officials linked 19-year-old Hunter Park to some of the threatening posts but did not say how.
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Appgyver’s Composer 2 Makes Building B2B Apps Easy | TechCrunch
AppGyver has made a name for itself with developers tools and frameworks like Steroids and Supersonic for building mobile apps. With Composer, the company also launched a simple drag-and-drop tool for building HTML5 apps last year.
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The DoJ won’t let anyone in the Executive Branch read the CIA Torture Report / Boing Boing
The Senate’s 6,700 page, $40M report on the CIA’s participation in torture has apparently never been read by a single member of the Executive Branch of the US Government, because the Department of Justice has ordered them all to stay away from it.
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How to Handle Discrimination at Work
Discrimination in the workplace, whether it’s over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or religion, is no joke, and dealing with it isn’t as easy as just “calling a lawyer.” Here are a few things you should know before you go the legal route.
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‘In Jackson Heights’ and the Brooklynization of America | The New Republic
From Grand Central Station, the geographic heart of Manhattan, a 20 minute express subway ride on the elevated 7 train delivers you into the bosom of Jackson Heights, the spiritual heart of Queens and the setting for legendary documentarian Frederic…
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Corporatocracy Commands You to Love Your Country / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH your Corporatocracy commands you to love your country, so it may exploit that love for profit. Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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I first read I Love Dick a few years ago. What was it? I didn’t know exactly: some kind of cult book I’d heard of via whispers from the US, where it was published in 1997. Reader, I read it, and I still wasn’t sure.
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Hail to the Trump: Donald Trump Fends Off Presidential Challenger Kany | Vanity Fair
After Tuesday night’s debate, a presidency is still frighteningly viable—not dead, not more likely, but still viable. By extension, the insanity of a _ challenge to be Preezus—which he extended earlier this year during an —is still on the table.
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Will SeaWorld’s Phasing Out Killer Whale Shows Make a Difference? – Scientific American
SeaWorld San Diego, long known for its live killer-whale shows, will begin phasing out the performances next year in favor of conservation-based shows, company representatives announced yesterday (Nov. 9).
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Jerusalem: Dividing Al-Aqsa – Al Jazeera English
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is in the Old City of Jerusalem, surrounded by a stone wall on all four sides. It is recognisable by the famous golden roof of the Dome of the Rock at its centre. The compound also contains the grey-domed Al-Qabali Mosque…
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Beat writer Alexander Trocchi was wise to the easy money to be made from selling handwritten drafts of famous works of literature.
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Drones Could Stop Ducks From Eating Mussel Farmers Out of Business | Motherboard
On Canada’s east coast, farming the kind of mussels that might fuel your fancier Tinder dates is a major industry. People’s’ lives depend on it, in fact—but hungry, seemingly unstoppable sea ducks are eating them out of business.
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The Five Biggest Myths About Saving Money, According to a Millennial – Bloomberg Business
The 30-year-old founder of Digit, an online financial company, can get heated about espresso drinks when discussing the clichéd financial advice given to his generation.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Anime Essentials, Lone Survivor Ebook, and More
Several anime essentials are marked down to all-time low prices today on Amazon and Best Buy, including Akira, Studio Ghibli titles, and the heart-shredding Grave of the Fireflies.
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Eyefluence Eye Interaction System Emerges From Stealth With $14 Million Investment | TechCrunch
Eyefluence, a company that has created a unique eye tracking system for use with today’s virtual reality/augmented reality headsets, emerged from stealth today with a $14 million Series B funding round. “Eyefluence transforms intent into action thro…
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Brancheau, Blackfish and San Diego shutdown: a SeaWorld in turmoil timeline | Travel | The Guardian
SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau dies during a training session with Tilikum, the largest orca held at SeaWorld Orlando. Brancheau drowns after Tilikum pulls her underwater by her ponytail, in front of horrified visitors.
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The Two Distinct Types Of Fintech Innovation | TechCrunch
Fintech, the (faintly uncool) term for financial technology, is booming these days. But it’s wrong to think of fintech as a single sector. There are two very distinct types of fintech innovation that entrepreneurs, consumers, investors and regulator…
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Matthew McConaughey to play dapper koala in animated musical Sing | Film | The Guardian
More details have emerged about the the animated musical Sing, written and directed by Garth Jennings – previously responsible for Son of Rambow and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – and starring Matthew McConaughey and John C Reilly.
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House GOP defends the right of racist car-dealers to overcharge people of color / Boing Boing
House Bill HR1737 will create penalties for auto-lenders who substantially overcharge black and latino customers through gouging on dealer markups. Lenders don’t dispute that this practice goes on, but they quibble with the methodology used to calcu…
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Skier tumbles down Alaska mountain – BBC News
A professional skier had a lucky escape when he took a 400m (1,600 ft) tumble while shooting a film called Paradise Lost last April. Footage showed Ian McIntosh yelling as he tumbled down a mountainside in Alaska. Remarkably he suffered no serious i…
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US Air Force’s top combat general says A-10 retirement may be postponed | Ars Technica
Last week, the joint commander in charge of operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria reported that Syrian Arab Coalition fighters had beaten back the group, taking the town of Al-Hawl and 250 square kilometers of territory around it in…
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Report: Russian Athletes Used PEDs For Years – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Following a 10-month investigation, a report released by the World Anti-Doping Agency raises hundreds of allegations against Russian athletes, including the regular use of performance-enhancing drugs and coaches’ attempts to destroy any positive dru…
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Slovenia starts erecting razor wire on Croatia border – Al Jazeera English
Slovenia has started erecting a razor wire fence along parts of its border with Croatia amid heavy security to “direct the flow of migrants” into the country, the government has said.
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The problem with Washington, according to a little-noticed remark by Carly Fiorina at Tuesday evening’s Republican presidential debate, is that it is too nimble and capable of adapting to new challenges.
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How the Emperor Became Human (and MacArthur Became Divine) : Longreads Blog
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni was the first member of the Japanese imperial family to break ranks and say it publicly.
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Washington Appears to Reject the Opportunity to End the New Cold War With Russia | The Nation
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the new US-Russian Cold War.
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Kickstarting Braille RPG dice / Boing Boing
Emily writes, “64oz Games is working once again to improve Braille accessibility in popular board games, this time in tabletop RPGs.
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Watch Japan’s first commercial jetliner take its maiden flight | The Verge
A new airliner took to the skies for the first time this week, but it’s no Boeing or Airbus — it’s from Mitsubishi, the Japanese conglomerate known for having its hands in everything from televisions to cars.
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Hear Future’s Knockout ‘Creed’ Cut ‘Last Breath’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Future’s Knockout ‘Creed’ Cut ‘Last Breath’ Track features sample of Bill Conti’s ‘Rocky’ theme “Gonna Fly Now”
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Student Activism is Serious Business | The New Republic
Student activism is not new. Sometimes it is misguided, sometimes it’s dismissed, but it is always earnest.
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Blake Shelton Talks Romance vs. Rivalry on ‘The Voice’ | Rolling Stone
All’s fair in love and war. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani may be dating, but when it comes to competing on The Voice, may the best coach win, the country superstar says.
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Aziz Ansari called out CBS’s lack of diversity while on The Late Show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Aziz Ansari’s post-Parks And Recreation career has seen him tackle all manner of difficult subjects, from dating in the digital age to the racism he’s encountered as an Indian-American actor.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is under attack by lobbyists
One of the highlights (?) of the Republican debate Tuesday night didn’t actually happen on the stage, but during a commercial break when a truly bizarre attack ad ran.
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Chris Stapleton and Wife Morgane Evoke Johnny and June: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
When Chris Stapleton took the stage last week at the CMA Awards to perform for millions watching at home, the night’s big winner had an ace up his sleeve — and it wasn’t Justin Timberlake.
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Justin Bieber Details Massive North American ‘Purpose’ Tour | Rolling Stone
Justin Bieber has announced an expansive tour behind his upcoming fourth LP, Purpose. Spanning major markets across the U.S. and Canada, the singer’s 58-date North American trek kicks off March 9th, 2016 in Seattle and concludes July 18th at New Yor…
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Third-Party Instagram App InstaAgent Stole Passwords and Posted to Accounts | Motherboard
Beware of apps that seem to promise the impossible—like being able to tell you who’s been viewing your Instagram profile. They may just be clever schemes designed to harvest your password.
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On the Virtues of Short Stories – The Atlantic
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Indonesia’s forest fires: everything you need to know | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Where are the fires? As satellite data of the fire hotspots shows, forest fires have affected the length and breadth of Indonesia. Among the worst hit areas are southern Kalimantan (Borneo) and western Sumatra.
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Giant Magellan Telescope: Super-scope project to break ground – BBC News
Ground is being broken in a ceremony to mark the start of construction of one of the key astronomical facilities of the next decade. The Giant Magellan Telescope will be built atop Cerro Las Campanas in Chile.
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UK Snooper’s Charter “would put an invisible landmine under every security researcher” / Boing Boing
Respected UK tech elder statesman and journalist Rupert Goodwins blasts the UK government’s plan to impose secret gag-orders on researchers who discover government-inserted security flaws in widely used products, with prison sentences of up to a yea…
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Germany spied on FBI, UN bodies and French foreign minister | World news | The Guardian
Germany’s foreign intelligence service spied on targets including the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, the FBI and the UN Children’s Fund, a media report said on Wednesday.
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What Happens When a Civilization’s Home Literally Dies Underneath It?
EXODE is one of those short films which builds a whole world in just a few minutes. The whole shape of this civilization—and why the death of this dinosaur-like creature has spurred an exodus—is clearly revealed, and it’s fascinating. Contact the au…
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‘Brexit’: Should the UK leave the EU or not? – Al Jazeera English
“Brexit” – a term coined to describe a potential British exit from the European Union – has been in overdrive over the past few weeks as Prime Minister David Cameron has warned European leaders that the UK could leave the EU if certain demands are n…
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Ukrainians emboldened despite broken political promises – Al Jazeera English
Kiev, Ukraine – It is a busy night in a cafe close to Maidan – the scene of the protests two years ago, which became known as Euromaidan, and led to the war in the east of the country and a brief wave of optimism among many of its citizens.
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Decline of the West: Holy Sons cover Spirit classic ‘Nature’s Way’|Dangerous Minds
When Holy Sons’ Decline of the West was first released a decade ago, it was in the limited physical form of either an Italian import CD or as one of only 300 vinyl copies pressed up by a tiny Atlanta label.
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Opium or Cannabis? Historical Records Suggest People Prefer Whichever Is Cheaper | Motherboard
Economists have long been interested in underground drug economies, but studying them in any rigorous sense has always been difficult due to the lack of large data sets.
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Cartoon: Who’s fighting in Syria?
Check out our slate of Daily Kos-endorsed candidates https://t.co/ysx6LabVm8
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Few Options For Veterans Looking To Enter Tech | TechCrunch
When John Hampton was preparing to leave the Army, he was excited about a career in technology. But he was disappointed to learn that the G.I. Bill wouldn’t enable him to attend a code bootcamp — which he saw as his ticket to that tech career.
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The most influential academic book ever written is… / Boing Boing
A panel of academic booksellers, librarians, and publishers asked the public to vote on which academic book from a list of 20 is “the most influential.
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Stop in the Middle of a Task to Make it Easier to Start Working Later
Some days, it’s really hard to dig into work. You’re tired, you’re demotivated, and you’re dreading your to-do list. One way to always make getting started easier is to stop your work in the middle of a task the day before.
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Opinion: Killing Thousands of Flying Foxes Only Hurts the Environment
On the island of Mauritius (map), in the Indian Ocean, lives a curious-looking bat. It’s called a flying fox because it’s rather large, with a wingspan of 2.5 feet (0.7 meter) and a fox-like face.
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London’s ‘walk the Tube’ map reveals the real distance between stations | The Verge
Londoners know it, but not all visitors do: sometimes it’s quicker to walk than take the tube.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 11th – The New Yorker
Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day.
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The GOP’s Immigration Split Is an Opportunity for Rubio | The New Republic
If the resounding badness of Donald Trump’s Saturday Night Live hosting gig wasn’t enough vindication for the #RacismIsntFunny activists who had protested against it, then Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate certainly was.
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A Race to Save Ancient Human Secrets in Borneo
If you wanted to create a new UNESCO World Heritage Site, you might well look to the limestone landscape, or karst, on the Sangkulirang Peninsula in eastern Borneo.
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Living and dying on Airbnb | MetaFilter
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New Powders Can Lift Poacher Prints from Ivory a Month after the Crime – Scientific American
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Google’s New “About Me” Page Lets You Control What Personal Info Others Can See | TechCrunch
Worried that Google has too much of your personal data, thanks to the way it has pried into your life over the years as you steadily adopted more of its services, ranging from search to email to productivity apps to YouTube and more? The company is …
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Greek coast guard rescues migrants from sinking boat – BBC News
Fourteen migrants, including seven children, have died off the coast of Turkey after their boat sank. The Greek coast guard rescued 27 others after the boat hit the rocks shortly after setting off for the island of Lesbos.
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The Common Core-Inspired “Explain Your Answers” Rule in Math Is Misguided – The Atlantic
At a middle school in California, the state testing in math was underway via the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) exam.
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Why Facebook’s ‘Friend Anniversary’ Feature Is a Victory for Friendship – The Atlantic
The day I got married, I wore a sweatshirt from the boys’ section of the Gap. My 11-year-old best friend and I had just discovered the joys of the Facebook relationship status.
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HP Lovecraft’s biographer ST Joshi has returned his two World Fantasy awards following the organisers’ decision to stop using a bust of the author for the annual trophy – a move the Lovecraft expert called “a craven yielding to the worst sort of pol…
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China’s Singles Have Gone Crazy Shopping on the Loneliest Holiday | Vanity Fair
News of a slowdown in China and volatility in the market has all but dominated business headlines over the last year. But no lagging economy or swinging stocks is enough to keep singles away from retail therapy.
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Cruz In Control: Why His Plan to Avoid the Spotlight Is Working | The New Republic
Ted Cruz, the Texas senator currently in fourth in recent polls of the Republican field, gave a shrewd performance at the debate in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. He largely avoided the spotlight, instead allowing Ben Carson, John Kasich, Donald Trump,…
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Flying the seaplane of the future, the Icon A5 | The Verge
The Icon A5 seaplane glides over the George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with Manhattan, high enough to keep drivers from getting nervous, but low enough that I can distinguish the colors of license plates. I’ve never seen the bridge from…
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This Week On Bullish: Why Journalists Are Calling It Quits | TechCrunch
Hello friends, and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show. This week we’re talking about journalism, leaving it, and what happens when you come back. The move from journalism to PR, to pick one example, is a very well-worn route.
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Star Wars characters as Greek statues
From artist Travis Durden, Greek-style faux-marble sculptures of Star Wars characters. I think the one of General Grievous is my favorite. (via colossal) P.S. Colossal is on a roll lately. Go look.
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Announcing 1ST and Forward, A Startup Competition From TechCrunch, The NFL And Stanford | TechCrunch
In little more than three months, the NFL’s historic 50th Super Bowl is coming to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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The Snooper’s Charter would devastate computer security research in the UK | Ars Technica
Any law that forbids citizens from revealing what the government gets up to, or from speaking out about what they find, needs to be looked at with a very hard stare indeed. Yet that’s where we find ourselves with the draft Investigatory Powers Bill,…
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City of Bones by Cassandra Clare – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones was the first YA book I have read and I instantly got hooked in to the book and, later on, the series! Clary Fray is a character who I have loved for many, many years.
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A Very Silly Flash Episode Suddenly Turned Into a Super Dark Flash Episode and It Was Awesome
What started out as perhaps the silliest, most light-hearted episode of The Flash ever ended with one of the series’ darkest moments, all at the hand—or rather the feet—of Zoom, a foe that makes the Reverse-Flash look like a petulant turtle. Namely,…
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Ask a Real Estate Agent Which Home Upgrades Earn the Most Back in Your Area
When you’re selling your home, simple upgrades can mean thousands of dollars when you close, and no one can tell you which upgrades will make the most return on your investment more than a real estate agent who works in your area.
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How Einstein Revealed the Universe’s Strange “Nonlocality” – Scientific American
Adapted from Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything, by George Musser, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,…
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Andy White, early Beatles drummer, dies aged 85 – BBC News
Andy White, the Scottish studio session musician who played the drums on Love Me Do and other early tracks by The Beatles, has died in New Jersey. According to his family, the 85-year-old died on Monday following a stroke.
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Cartoon: Who’s fighting in Syria?
Order a copy of Eat More Comics: The Best of The Nib, 300 pages of political cartoons, comics journalism and essays out this month.
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Look at This Robot Stumbling Around Like a Child | Vanity Fair
Scientists apparently decided, Whatever, we’re going to be taken over by robots one day; might as well build one that learns how humans work.
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Myanmar president promises ‘peaceful transfer of power’ – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar President Thein Sein has congratulated Aung San Suu Kyi and promised “a peaceful transfer of power” in line with voting results from elections held at the weekend, according to Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) Party.
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There was no runaway winner of the fourth Republican presidential debate on Tuesday night, according to commentators, journalists and pundits who watched. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas drew some scolding for an “oops” moment when he failed to name five …
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I never knew I needed this but I sure am glad I stumbled across it – Imgur
I never knew I needed this but I sure am glad I stumbled across it https://t.co/pTHaWZLVRl https://t.co/Mh0IxkcPVv
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When you’re done fapping and come to your senses about the porn you picked to watch – GIF on Imgur
When you’re done fapping and come to your senses about the porn you picked to watch https://t.co/n4F5FIwULD https://t.co/j5Qku9yOT9
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Halo Observed Around a Zombie Star –“A Preview of Our Solar System’s Fate”
The remains of a fatal interaction between a dead star and its asteroid supper have been studied in detail for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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Google’s tiny self-driving cars just got a new coat of paint | The Verge
Google’s cute little self-driving cars have been on public roads since this summer — first in Mountain View, California, and then in Austin, Texas. But the bubbly-looking vehicles are now getting a facelift.
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How beetles breathe under water / Boing Boing
A Colombian HIV-positive man who’d gone off his meds died when a tapeworm in his body developed cancer and spread tumors to his lungs. It’s the first known case of a person dying of a disease that had infected their parasite.
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Yet another unofficial New York Subway map redesign / Boing Boing
Wonkblog explains “why designers can’t stop reinventing the subway map.” It’s an abstraction problem generally solved by the London Underground nearly a century ago, but everyone wants to keep trying. Spoiler: it’s because New York City’s subway sys…
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When you’re done fapping and come to your senses about the porn you picked to watch – GIF on Imgur
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Lightning iPhone cable sheathed in steel / Boing Boing
The Fuse Chicken Titan Lightning Cable is an MFI certified cord sheathed in steel conduit. The connectors are sealed over the cable to reduce the possibility of damage at the ends.
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The roof of the world. That is what Tibet has long been known as. The phrase conjures up images of summits, with their mountain peaks, glaciers, permafrost and the nomads who live on the land. But a roof is also symbolic of a home, and is the struct…
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How to Get Great Wine For Under $20 at Costco
Costco is a great place to get eight tubes of toothpaste, new tires for your car, or a whole meal comprised of free samples, but it’s also a really fantastic place to buy wine. I believe the 10–13 percent margin is similar for alcohol.
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Daily Fantasy Sports Sites Now Banned In New York | ThinkProgress
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent a cease-and-desist order this week to the popular daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel, demanding they stop taking bets from New Yorkers.
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Everything Worth Knowing About GOP Debate Number Whatever | Rolling Stone
The main debate was the usual tornado of nonsense.
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Get Raw With G Love & Citizen Cope – The Daily Beast
Modern day blues trio G Love and Special Sauce just released their tenth album, Love Saves the Day, and it’s a testament to the perseverance of their unique blend of hip hop flow and funky grooves.
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NASA’s Quest to Reclaim Lost Spacesuits Before They Were Auctioned | Motherboard
What do a military surplus store, an antiques mall in Texas, and the bottom of Florida’s largest lake have in common? They all, at one point or another, were places where you could find historically important NASA spacesuits, if you were lucky.
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Canada’s New Science Minister Supports a Widely Debunked Medical Treatment | Motherboard
A Canadian expert in multiple sclerosis research is questioning the credibility of Canada’s new minister of science Kirsty Duncan, who has frequently supported what many experts in the field say is a debunked medical procedure for treating the disea…
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Flashback: Neil Young and Crazy Horse Play Epic ‘Powderfinger’ | Rolling Stone
Sometimes the music pours out of Neil Young — who turns 70 years old tomorrow — in ways that even he can’t understand.
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Watch Liam Neeson, Colbert in Hilarious ‘Candy Crush’ Movie Sketch | Rolling Stone
Activision Blizzard recently announced plans to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the company behind Candy Crush, for a cool $5.9 billion – not a bad investment since last year, through in-app purchases, 474 million monthly users spent $1.3 billio…
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BBC inside airbase where Russia carries out Syria airstrikes – BBC News
Russia has put forward its proposal for Syria’s future in a document circulating at the United Nations in New York. The plans include a constitutional reform process in Syria, lasting 18 months, to be followed by presidential elections.
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Treating PTSD: psychologists look to the fear-reduction effects of exercise | Society | The Guardian
American psychologists are hoping to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a recommendation so well-worn by family physicians, it almost seems mundane: exercise.
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Why We Are Attracted to Deviant Personalities – Scientific American
Results show that people with some pathological personality types, such as those considered neurotic and impulsive, had more mates and even more children than average.
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Following the success of Empire, Fox is taking another step toward mogul-dom with a sitcom about a hip-hop clothing line.
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How an illegal psychedelic drug could help treat opiate addiction | The Verge
Kevin is in the fetal position on a warm bed in Mexico, in the throes of opiate withdrawal. Suddenly, a buzzing noise enters his ear, as if a wasp is building a nest in there. It’s the first sign the ibogaine he just consumed is taking effect, and t…
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Tim Cook thinks Microsoft’s Surface Book is ‘deluded’ | The Verge
Apple CEO Tim Cook started off his iPad Pro publicity tour earlier this week by declaring that the new tablet “is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop” for lots of people.
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Black Midi: compositions so complex humans can’t perform them / Boing Boing
Rhizome takes a look at the world of Black Midi, compositions with so many notes that to print them as musical notation would result simply in a giant blob of ink on the page. We’ve previously written about Circus Galop, an inhumanly-polyphonic test…
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VW diesel emissions investigation widened to include other brands | Business | The Guardian
German car regulators are expanding their investigation into suspected diesel emissions manipulation beyond Volkswagen to more than 50 models from brands including BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Volvo, Nissan and Jaguar Land Rover.
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Shootings involving Los Angeles police officers have doubled this year | US news | The Guardian
Shootings involving Los Angeles Police Department officers have doubled this year, a statistic that the new head of the agency’s civilian oversight board said was alarming.
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US pro-skier survives spectacular mountain fall – video | US news | The Guardian
Pro-skier Ian McIntosh falls off a 488-metre-high (1,600ft) mountain in Alaska. The accident occurred while he was filming at the Neacola mountain range for action sports company Teton Gravity Research.
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Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating. But the absurd cast of characters she encounters makes her wonder if being single is not so bad after all. Facebook Page: facebook.com/speeddatingm…
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How Scientists Are Coming Together to Discover Life’s Origins – The Atlantic
Today is only day one, and I have a feeling I’m about to piss everybody off. Outside the rain sloshes across Tokyo in an August downpour.
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8-bit personal computer trump cards / Boing Boing
This delightful-looking deck of cards, featuring classic computers, is yours for $15 from the already-successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Police Arrest Suspect Who Threatened To Shoot Every Black Person At Mizzou | ThinkProgress
After University of Missouri (Mizzou) students and faculty successfully lobbied to push President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin out, the victory has been marred by anonymous threats against students of color.
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New Fees May Weaken Demand for Rooftop Solar – Scientific American
One of the Obama administration’s climate goals is for 30 percent of America’s electricity to be generated using solar energy by 2050. That is likely to include the installation of solar panels on the roofs of millions of American homes in the comin…
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When the BBC’s Michael Buerk brought Ethiopian famine to the world’s attention in 1984, the footage panned over thousands of people on the brink of starvation in the region of North Wollo.
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BBC Sport – Lewis Hamilton to race in Brazilian Grand Prix despite fever
Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton will compete in this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix despite suffering with a fever. Mercedes say the 30-year-old Briton delayed his flight to Sao Paulo until Wednesday on medical advice.
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Boris Johnson: Treasury is endangering community renewables | Environment | The Guardian
Boris Johnson has warned the Treasury it is endangering efforts by local communities around the UK to build their own renewable energy projects.
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Jennifer Lawrence Explains the Difference Between Kissing Chris Pratt | Vanity Fair
Jennifer Lawrence is on her final—like actually final, for real this time—leg of promotion for the Hunger Games franchise, which means she’s got most of both legs already out the door and looking toward what comes next. Then again, you can’t take al…
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We May Not See All Of Batman v. Superman Until The Epic Director’s Cut!
The Flash movie is in a totally different universe to the Flash TV show. Not all of Doctor Who’s next season may air next year. Ghosts in the Shell casts an upcoming Game of Thrones actor. Plus, leaked Game of Thrones script extracts, more X-Files p…
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Is Donald Trump Actually a Narcissist? Therapists Weigh In! | Vanity Fair
For mental-health professionals, Donald Trump is at once easily diagnosed but slightly confounding. “Remarkably narcissistic,” said developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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The man who refused to vote for his mother – BBC News
If you’re running for public office, you can surely count on your family to vote for you.
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Nvidia’s Jetson TX1 dev board is a “mobile supercomputer” for machine learning | Ars Technica
Nvidia is hoping to attract machine learning developers with the Jetson TX1, an ARM-based development board powered by the top-end Tegra X1 SoC.
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Group Social App Heaps Comes To The US | TechCrunch
Heaps, an app that helps friend groups connect with other groups and find parties, is expanding beyond its home country of Denmark by launching in Los Angeles.
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Tiny planet spotted, 3x as distant as Pluto / Boing Boing
Astronomers have spied a cold world three times as distant from the Sun as Pluto. The unexcitingly-named V774104 is at least 500km across and the most faraway dwarf planet yet spotted.
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I never knew I needed this but I sure am glad I stumbled across it – Imgur
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Meet A Veteran Who’s Finally Becoming A U.S. Citizen This Week | ThinkProgress
For at least one sergeant in the U.S. military, this year’s Veterans Day may take on more significance than any other day to commemorate military service members.
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HackerOne Snags Former HP Exec Mårten Mickos As CEO | TechCrunch
HackerOne, the bug bounty platform, announced today that it has hired Mårten Mickos as CEO. He was formerly an HP executive and CEO at Eucalyptus and MySQL. It’s been a tumultuous 14 months for Mickos.
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The most selfied cars on the Internet | Ars Technica
Social media sometimes gets denigrated as just a way for narcissists to tell the world what they had for lunch, but analyzing what people post can also be a useful way to gauge public opinion.
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Startupbootcamp Opens Second U.S. Location In NY To Focus On Fintech | TechCrunch
Startupbootcamp, the primarily European network of business accelerators, is opening their second U.S. accelerator. The New York-based program is the accelerator network’s third program to focus on financial technology, following similar programs th…
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Bill Nye’s Advice to Tackle Climate Change – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Everyday Einstein by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. We here at Everyday Einstein were lucky enough to ask Bill Nye our burning questions about climate change.
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A Degree of Separation in the Forever War | Motherboard
On April 9, 2011, Captain Jaymes Collin Uriah “Yuri” Hines drank a beer with a friend at a brewery in Bruges, Belgium, and tried desperately to relax. Yuri was a Weapon Systems Officer on an F-15E, a backseater who dropped the bombs, and he was exha…
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Los Alamos National Laboratory just ordered a new quantum computer | The Verge
Los Alamos National Laboratory is getting a powerful new computer. The lab announced today that it has ordered a D-Wave 2X quantum computer, the same model ordered by Google and NASA’s Quantum AI Lab in September, as part of a larger research projec…
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Tinder will now organize your matches based on who you’ve actually spoken to | The Verge
Tinder announced several updates to its app today, including the addition of expanded profile information, a more organized messaging interface, and an updated matching algorithm to help users find more compatible partners.
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New Experiences Can Strengthen Old Memories – Scientific American
What makes for a long-lasting memory? Research has shown that emotional or important events take root deeply, whereas neutral or mundane happenings create weak impressions that easily fade.
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Property Developers are Ruining Virginia Woolf’s Lighthouse | VICE | United Kingdom
The lighthouse that inspired Virginia Woolf’s classic modernist novel ‘To The Lighthouse’ may soon be obscured from view, if developers have their way. As a child, Woolf used to spend her summers looking out at Godevry lighthouse from her family hol…
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Republicans in Debate Oppose Hike in Minimum Wage | Al Jazeera America
Though many of the candidates on stage in Milwaukee in Tuesday’s Fox Business Network Republican debate used parts of their closing statements to highlight how they would be best positioned to take on the Democrat’s presumed nominee, Hillary Clinton…
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Sony announced it is finally discontinuing popular recording format… uh… BETAMAX next year. Sony recently issued a press release stating that they will be discontinuing production of Betamax videocassettes in March 2016.
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Everyone Can Save $30 on an Amazon Echo, Today Only
In spite of all the snark when it first launched, the Amazon Echo is actually pretty great, and everybody can save $30 on theirs for a limited time, including non-Prime members.
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What Do Young Chinese People Think About the End of the One-Child Policy? | VICE | United Kingdom
As the doctor at the Central Opera House in the 1980s, Mrs. Lin was in charge of family planning for 400 people. “I wrote monthly reports for the unit leader. All men and women of childbearing age had to register and answer questions about their con…
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Listen: A Never Heard Roy Orbison Song – The Daily Beast
Listen: A Never Heard Roy Orbison Song https://t.co/fjNk0ka9kg
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With almost a year left until Election Day 2016, a slew of proposals to legalize marijuana are already being floated in California, ushering in a referendum not just on whether to legalize pot in the world’s eighth largest economy, but how.
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Tinder Introduces A New Matching Algorithm | TechCrunch
As people start to pair off in preparation for cuffing season, Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, is making some significant changes to how the app looks and the way it works, releasing a new matching algorithm as well as new profile and messa…
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Slovenia builds razor-wire fence to control migrant numbers – BBC News
Slovenia has started building a razor-wire fence along its border with Croatia to control the flow of migrants. More than 170,000 people have entered the country since the middle of last month, on their way to northern Europe.
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How to Interrupt Jeb Bush – The New Yorker
“Governor Bush,” Maria Bartiromo, of Fox Business Network, said on Tuesday night, turning, for the first time in the Republican Presidential debate, to the man who was, many months ago, the front-runner.
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The Critical Engineers – Al Jazeera English
Russian-born Danja Vasiliev and New Zealander Julian Oliver are part of a growing movement of coders and hackers who use their skills to create questioning and humorous digital art.
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Last night was a good night for fans of Paget Brewster. After last week’s episode of Grandfathered, which contained decidedly not enough Sara, we got “My Amal,” which—no surprise, given the title—contained plenty. (She was also on Drunk History. It …
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On the basis that what happens first in the United States usually reaches the rest of the world before long, we probably ought to be slightly worried about the US Soccer Federation’s decision to ban heading in junior levels of the game and limit the…
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Ted Cruz’s app turns handing over your friends’ contact info into a game | The Verge
Ted Cruz wants your phonebook and he’s willing to give you meaningless points to get it.
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Bob Ross lorem ipsum text generator / Boing Boing
The legendary painter and educator has inspired a placeholder text generator based upon his calm yet encouraging dialogue. Friendlier than the classic lorem ipsum, it should provide all the happy little texts you ever need. When things happen – enjo…
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University of Missouri police have arrested a person in connection with threats posed on social media that resulted in the cancellation of some campus events.
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That time when David Bowie’s ex-wife tried to become a TV superhero|Dangerous Minds
Angie Bowie as “Wonder Woman” Back in the mid-70s when David and Angie Bowie were pretty much the hottest couple around, Angie auditioned for the lead role in the ABC TV series based on the DC comic book character, Wonder Woman.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
I wanted to tell you that I watched you watching the debate last night. But DK5 wouldn’t let me. Seriously! I’ve just encountered some kind of glitch that absolutely will not let me type the word “watch” into the editor.
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Microsoft thinks Sad Keanu is only 0.01831 sad | The Verge
Microsoft generated its own meme earlier this year when it tried to guess everyone’s age. That produced some pretty amazing results, from 30-year-old kids to zombies aged 87. Microsoft is back at it again, but this time its trying to guess facial ex…
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Surround Yourself With People You Can Rely On to Build Resilience
You ever wonder how people who never give up get the strength to do it? How do they keep going when everything is against them? Turns out, it the people they surround themselves with might be a big part of their resilience.
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Sony announced it is finally discontinuing popular recording format… uh… BETAMAX next year. Sony recently issued a press release stating that they will be discontinuing production of Betamax videocassettes in March 2016.
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Hear Grateful Dead–Approved Group Circles Around the Sun’s New Jam | Rolling Stone
When the Grateful Dead played their Fare Thee Well shows earlier this year, music by psychedelic jam-rockers Circles Around the Sun kept the crowd entertained during the intermissions.
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Listen: A Never Heard Roy Orbison Song – The Daily Beast
Roy Orbison left us too soon, but we’re lucky that in his wake he left a large catalog of music for us to lose ourselves in.
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Titan MFi-Certified Lightning Cable | Digg Store
Toss your frayed, tangled iPhone charger in the garbage; it’s time for an upgrade. The Titan is wrapped twice in industrial-grade, flexible steel and packs permanently-sealed USB and Lightning connectors that won’t be falling apart in this century, …
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Demands Military Meeting | Al Jazeera America
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi wins seat, demands military meeting https://t.co/21qvUfkQoe
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was officially re-elected to her seat in the lower house of parliament Wednesday as her National League for Democracy (NLD) party continued to steam toward victory in the country’s historic elections. -
Cats startled by cucumbers / Boing Boing
Austrian artist Carl Kahler’s 1893 cat painting “My Wife’s Lovers,” thought to be the world’s largest painting of cats, sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $826,000. The cats in the painting belonged to San Francisco art collector Kate Johnson. See samp…
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Theranos isn’t the only diagnostics company exploiting regulatory loopholes | The Verge
Theranos isn’t alone in avoiding regulation using an easily exploited loophole — in fact, it’s just one among many. Pathway Genomics, Admera Health, and Strand Life Sciences are diagnostics companies that offer cancer tests that impact people’s heal…
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Note: Due to the Veterans Day holiday, there is no bus service today. However, volunteers from the American Legion will be available to fire you out of a cannon to within a hundred yards of your destination. —Mgt. CHEERS to our men and women in…
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The University of Missouri said it had increased security and was investigating online threats on Tuesday, after weeks of protests over racial tensions on campus culminated in the departure of two senior university officials.
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India could push world into climate change danger zone, warn scientists | World news | The Guardian
India’s growth in emissions could, alone, tip the world over the threshold to dangerous climate change, experts have warned. The alert comes as the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, prepares to visit the UK on Thursday for talks, including ones …
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Veterans Are Demanding Medical Marijuana. Why Won’t More Candidates Embrace It? | ThinkProgress
David Bass, who served 21 years in the U.S. Army, says he tried medical marijuana in a moment of desperation. He suffered from chronic pain and PTSD as a result of multiple active duty tours in Iraq, and his doctor at the VA gave him intense narcoti…
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This Bank Raised Its Minimum Wage To $15 — And Wants All Other Banks To Do The Same | ThinkProgress
In August, New York-based Amalgamated Bank announced it would immediately raise its minimum pay to at least $15 an hour. At the time, the bank noted that it was the first to make such an announcement. But it’s also committed to making sure more foll…
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Tropical Disease AMAPLOS Science Wednesday: We’re Drs.
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Netanyahu Comes To CAP, Lays Out His Conditions For Future Palestinian State | ThinkProgress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his most detailed explanation of what he deems an acceptable Palestinian state will look like, during a Q&A at the Center for American Progress on Tuesday.
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Online Threats Prompt Increased Security at Mizzou | Al Jazeera America
The University of Missouri increased its security and was investigating online threats, after weeks of protests over racial tensions on campus that culminated in the departure of two senior university officials.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Twitter is already gloating about the most recent stupid change to its UI, a switch from stars representing a “favorite” to hearts representing a “like.
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Friction is now between global financial elite and the rest of us | Politics | The Guardian
The standard explanation for why average working people in advanced nations such as Britain and the United States have failed to gain much ground over the past several decades and are under increasing economic stress is that globalisation and techno…
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Children’s Education in the Age of Mass Incarceration – The Atlantic
This past summer, The Atlantic’s Sarah Yager wrote about the rising popularity of prison nurseries as a means of saving costs, enhancing morale, and reducing recidivism among the ever-growing female inmate population.
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Which Northern Lights character are you? – quiz | Children’s books | The Guardian
08.00 EST Last modified on Wednesday 11 November 2015 08.
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BBC Sport – Sepp Blatter: Suspended Fifa president in hospital
Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter is in hospital and is likely to remain there for several days.
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Donald Trump Gets the ‘Team America’ Treatment – The Daily Beast
What if Donald Trump became president? What was once a completely implausible statement has slowly become a lot less laughable – Trump is still in the running for 2016, and is somehow also still leading the polls.
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FileThis 2.0 Can Now Manage Your Bills, Show You a Calendar of Due Dates
iOS/Web: FileThis caught our eye earlier this year as an automated paperwork manager. Now, the company has released an update that allows you to see when bills are due and put all your statements on a calendar.
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Sling TV is Growing, But It Needs to Do This to Truly Take Off | Motherboard
Sling TV, Dish Network’s streaming video service that offers an array of channels like ESPN and Food Network for $20 per month, now has an estimated 394,000 subscribers. Dish described those numbers on Monday as being “in line with expectations.
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Brotherhood activists defiant over ‘UAE pressure’ on UK – Al Jazeera English
A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood living in the UK told Al Jazeera his organisation has “nothing to hide” after reports the United Arab Emirates had put pressure on the British government to crack down on the group.
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GCHQ Is Targeting London’s Tech Hipsters With Graffiti Recruitment Ads | Motherboard
New street art pops up every day in East London, but it’s not usually put there by a government intelligence agency.
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The Musicians Behind one of the Most Sampled Songs in History Finally Got Paid | Thump
In 1969, American soul band The Winstons’ created the Amen break, a brief drum composition from the band’s song “Amen brother.” Since then, the song has become the world’s second most sampled track of all time.
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On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly-equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic. At the wheel was Matthew Shaw, a 32-year-old architectural designer; with him was a fellow designer, William Trossell, 30, and a small team of laser-scann…
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A Troubled G.O.P. Debate for Donald Trump and Jeb Bush https://t.co/YAG0kS9pVy
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic https://t.co/5jGfYIjqaY
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Part of Pluto’s Heart Was ‘Born Yesterday’
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Pluto has a surprisingly youthful heart — the smooth, round region on the dwarf planet’ssurface is no more than 10 million years old, a blink of an eye in the 4.5-billion-year lifetime of the solar system.
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‘Zombie’ Star’s Asteroid ‘Lunch’ Revealed in Close-Up View
When an asteroid wandered too close to an Earth-size white dwarf — the dense core of a star at the end of its life — it was drawn in and destroyed by the star’s gravity. Its remains formed a lopsided, glowing gaseous ring around the star — zoom in o…
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Burning Man sculpture on $200m tech campus causes disquiet in Bay Area | Culture | The Guardian
San Leandro is a small city, half an hour’s drive from San Francisco. Formerly an industrial working class community, it is a last bastion of relative affordability in a runaway real estate market.
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If the Democratic debates get rough in the following months, Bernie Sanders can call on some impressive muscle to back him up: UFC world champion Ronda Rousey.
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It’s a fun parlour game to diagnose figures from the past with illnesses recognised by modern science. Did the biblical Goliath have the growth disorder acromegaly? Was Henry VIII a psychopath? Was the great physicist Paul Dirac autistic? The truth …
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman review – an enlightened take on autism and difference https://t.co/JTnhXtlts7 -
‘Zombie’ Star Tears Asteroid To Shreds – What Remains | Animation
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Henning Mankell’s ‘memoir of sorts’ due out next year | Books | The Guardian
A “memoir of sorts” by Henning Mankell, which the late author said was “not a book about death and destruction but about what it means to be human”, will be published next year. Out on 4 February, Quicksand is a collection of short essays, announced…
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NASA’s Innovative Drone Glider Prototype Aces Test Flight
A remotely piloted aircraft achieved an important research milestone last month when a subscale “flying wing” glider successfully completed a series of flight tests.
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No breakaway leader as White House hopefuls debate – Al Jazeera English
The Republicans wanted more substance, more detail, more meat in the debates. And in Milwaukee – a city that takes pride in the sausages it produces – this was much more satisfying. The format probably helped.
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One of the great things about The Grinder is that it manages to feel like nothing else on television while precisely and savagely aping a style that couldn’t be more familiar.
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Russia’s Syria plan: Just the beginning – BBC News
The Russian proposal on Syria – it is perhaps an overstatement to describe this yet as a peace plan – represents the first statement of Moscow’s view as to what should happen on the political front in the country to bring about an end to the crisis.
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American Arabs reflect on US military service – 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.
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How Chemistry Is Rescuing Our Audio History from Melting – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Our cultural history is crumbling. Not because of bad education—though one might make that argument—but because of chemistry.
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Going into the latest debate, the trending question about Jeb Bush on Google was whether he was “still running for president.”The answer is yes, and on Tuesday night, he tried, yet again, to put an exclamation point on it.
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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Discovered: ‘The Field of Honor,’ a Lost Short Story From Edith Wharton – The Atlantic
It had been there all along, filed away in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: a story, taking up nine pages in total, about the anxious operations of Parisian society during World War I.
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InstaAgent app pulled after ‘harvesting passwords’ – BBC News
Who Viewed Your Profile-InstaAgent had topped the free app charts in several countries including the UK. But on Tuesday, another developer posted evidence that it was copying people’s Instagram usernames and passwords and sending them to an unknown …
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: As the GOP debates, America deals with the underlying issues
In the most substantive Republican debate so far, Mr. Kasich and Mr. Bush, who have been fading in polls, presented themselves as experienced chief executives who had practical solutions to deal with national challenges like immigration. Yet Mr.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: As the GOP debates, America deals with the underlying issues https://t.co/Ka0nrajVvZ -
First Click: Netflix? More like Netshowz | The Verge
Remember when you used to watch movies on Netflix? A time when you’d fire up the app to find popular new films ready to stream? I sure do and I miss it, but I should have seen it coming. In 2012, Netflix lost access to the movies provided under its …
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Japan’s first commercial jet in 50 years takes a test flight – BBC News
Japan’s first commercial jet in fifty years has taken its first flight. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) did a one hour return journey from Nagoya Airport.
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CircleUp Raises $30M For Its Crowdfunding Platform For Consumer Brands | TechCrunch
CircleUp, an AngelList-style crowdfunding platform that consumer retail businesses like food companies use to raise money from outside investors, is announcing some funding of its own today.
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Get Over Your Desire to Buy Luxuries By Just Doing the Math
True to what your math teacher told you, math can help you everyday life. When it comes to everyday purchases, most of us skip the math. If we didn’t, we might not buy so many luxury items. As personal finance blog Mr. Everyday Dollar points out, ev…
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EU sets guidelines on labelling Israeli settlement goods – BBC News
The European Commission has issued new guidelines for the labelling of some products made in Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian and Syrian land. Agricultural produce and cosmetics sold in EU member states must now have clear labels showing …
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BBC Sport – Doping: Russian Athletics Federation admits problem
Russian athletics knows it has a “problem with doping”, but an Olympic ban would punish its clean athletes, according to the general-secretary of the country’s athletics federation. Mikhail Butov of the All-Russia Athletics Federation told the BBC t…
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Find Out If Cops in Your State Need a Warrant to Track Your Phone | Motherboard
It’s no secret that the law is slow to adapt to new technologies—it’s always been that way. But the advent of the cellphone has thrown a monkey wrench into American privacy laws, which were written many years before iPhones and Androids were even co…
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Paintzen Inks Deal With Benjamin Moore To Become Official Paint Supplier | TechCrunch
Paintzen, having spent the last two years bringing paint into the on-demand economy, is today announcing a new partnership with Benhamin Moore.
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So, if the Minneapolis Fed felt the need to maintain conservation of NK, they could have chosen to replace Narayana Kocherlakota with a New Keynesian. Instead, they chose Neel Kashkari. Brad DeLong isn’t happy, and this Twitter exchange suggests tha…
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How do you convince a prospective buyer to purchase what’s considered one of the most haunted places in Michigan?
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Armistice Day: Silence held in 11 places at the 11th hour – BBC News
A two-minute silence is held in 11 places at the 11th hour, to commemorate the dead of the two world wars, and all later conflictsIt began at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month – the time in 1918 when the guns finally fell silent along …
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Big Illegal Market For Little Critters
Some hobbyists collect vintage radios. Others hoard antique furniture, or stamps, or art, or war memorabilia. The list of the world’s collectibles is long, but it doesn’t end with inanimate objects.
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Cougars May Spread to U.S. Midwest Within Decades
The cougar may be returning to America’s heartland. And it could take just a few decades, according to a new model. Cougars now dwell in western states, but have been slowly expanding their ranges eastward.
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Free Syrian Army decimated by desertions – Al Jazeera English
Aleppo, Syria – In 2012, Mohammad Matoh joined the Free Syrian Army. A year later he deserted finding work at a fast-food restaurant in Aleppo. “Five members of our family were with the FSA. Now two are in Turkey after getting injured and two are st…
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Policy Substance Intrudes on the Fourth G.O.P. Debate – The New Yorker
Fresh from providing a welcome boost in the ratings for CNN, CNBC, and “Saturday Night Live,” the Save Broadcast Media Initiative, otherwise known as the 2016 Republican primary process, rolled into downtown Milwaukee on Tuesday night.
Policy Substance Intrudes on the Fourth G.O.P. Debate https://t.co/Wh6Gkj0rXL
Love Everyone Often 11/12/2015
BBC Sport – Marton Fulop: Former Sunderland keeper dies, aged 32 The ex-Hungary international had a tumour removed from his arm in 2013 but was cleared to continue his career. He played 47 times for the Black Cats between 2006 and 2010 and last appeared for Town in 2011, making…
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