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It’s the existential threat to our species, and it bores us to tears. Admit it. You think the consequences of human-driven climate change are terrifying, but it seems too abstract, too technical and too long-term.
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Vigilant Las Vegas neighbour catches ‘burglars’ on camera – BBC News
A Las Vegas resident has caught on camera a group of men running away from his neighbour’s house and escaping in a vehicle.Brett McCann prepared himself with a video camera and a gun in order to confront the gang.
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Mohammed Emwazi: who were his victims? | UK news | The Guardian
The US has launched an airstrike against the notorious Islamic State extremist, Mohammed Emwazi, known as “Jihadi John”, in Syria, with sources claiming there is a “high degree of certainty” that the Briton was killed in the attack.
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Computer, Draw an Open Toilet Sitting In a Grassy Field | Motherboard
This morning, while interviewing 19-year-old Elman Mansimov, I had one of those moments. I caught my reflection in my MacBook’s screen and thought, “What the hell am I doing with my life?”
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Short story vending machines press French commuters’ buttons | Books | The Guardian
Readers in Grenoble can now nibble fiction instead of vending machine snacks, after publisher Short Édition introduced eight short-story dispensers around the French city. The free stories are available at the touch of a button, printing out on roll…
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Elephant Poachers Take Aim at South Africa’s Famed Refuge
After years of being regarded as an unassailable haven for wildlife, South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park has been hit by elephant poaching. In May 2014, the first killing of an elephant for its tusks in ten years was reported in the park.
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How to Make Flying or Driving a More Tasty Experience
A lot of you will be traveling this holiday season, which means planes, trains (probably not), and automobiles, and while you are hurtling towards your destination, you will probably get hungry.
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Donald J. Trump unleashed a torrent of insults on Thursday against his main rival, Ben Carson, comparing him to a child molester in a television interview and suggesting that the people of Iowa are “stupid” if they believe Mr.
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The animation—based on a supercomputer model of five days in June 2006—illustrates the movement of atmospheric carbon dioxide from megacities and fires. As countries meet in Paris later this month for U.N.
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The Harlem Renaissance lives in the form of Alice Barker, a soft spoken lady who just last week received a belated Happy 103rd Birthday card from the Obamas. That’s her on the right in the first clip, below. She’s in the back right at the 2:07 mark.
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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
In a world of hatred and mystery, Grisha with magical abilities from each order try to co-exist with normal humans. When a life-endangering substance threatens to take over all Grisha, Kaz Brekker is faced with a life changing opportunity that he si…
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Weird Space Junk Falls to Earth on Friday the 13th: Watch It Online
The discovery images of space object WT1190F, which falls to Earth on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. These images were captured on Oct. 3 by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona. The object will fall to Earth on Nov. 13.
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Snapchat introduces a “lens store” to adorn your selfies with 99-cent filters | The Verge
In September, Snapchat introduced Lenses, a way to augment your selfies with silly photos and animations: a monocle and mustache, say, or a violent bolt of lightning coming out of your mouth. There are seven to choose from, and each day a new one ta…
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If there’s a single fact that illustrates the way social class works in Britain today, it’s in the opening pages of this startling book. Of the 161,000 people who initially filled in the Great British Class Survey, which ran on the BBC website in 20…
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World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch | Environment | The Guardian
A crowdfunded 100km-long boom to clean up a vast expanse of plastic rubbish in the Pacific is one step closer to reality after successful tests of a scaled-down prototype in the Netherlands last week. Further trials off the Dutch and Japanese coasts…
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Jezebel tracked down the woman who read Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” at a Trump rally. | New Republic
The animation—based on a supercomputer model of five days in June 2006—illustrates the movement of atmospheric carbon dioxide from megacities and fires. As countries meet in Paris later this month for U.N.
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lf you get a tattoo, the general wisdom is that you’ll regret it later. Especially if you’re the kind of weirdo who wants to decorate themselves with some political message.
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How to Run a Back-Alley Abortion Service | Broadly
Since the late 1970s, Judith Arcana says, “inevitably young” women have been approaching her to ask the same question: How do you manage to set up an illegal abortion service? It often happens when she’s speaking at events.
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Diane Keaton Is Waiting For Woody’s Call – The Daily Beast
There are a great many things in life that are intrinsically linked. Alcohol and bad decisions. Pizza and contentment. Donald Trump and tackiness.
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Mainline Protestant Churches Are Warmer To Potential Members If They’re White | FiveThirtyEight
Christians are called to welcome the stranger in their midst, but, according to a new academic study, some churches are much more likely to reply to an email from a potential new member with a white-sounding name than a black-, Hispanic- or Asian-so…
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Mini-review: Logitech’s Create is the iPad Pro keyboard case you really want | Ars Technica
I received an iPad Pro early last week, and throughout that week and into the weekend I primarily used Apple’s Smart Keyboard to “dock” the tablet.
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Why is English so weirdly different from other langu…
Opinion Is great philosophy, by its nature, difficult and obscure? Essay Is sustainability sold at supermarkets or farmers’ markets?
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David Warner hit his maiden double-century as Australia piled up 416-2 against New Zealand on the first day of the second Test at the Waca. The left-hander scored an unbeaten 244 off just 272 balls to break the world record for the most runs scored …
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Google car pulled over for being too slow – BBC News
No action was taken but it does raise questions about whether the cars, in their current form, are too cautious. An accident report recently filed by the California Department of Motor Vehicles described a Google automated car as “over-cautious”.
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Chimeras and lightning: a radical perspective on the…
Once oases supported human evolution. Now, our addiction to fountains, pools and palms threatens our survival
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Opinion Is great philosophy, by its nature, difficult and obscure? Essay Is sustainability sold at supermarkets or farmers’ markets?
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First named storm slams into the United Kingdom – Al Jazeera English
First named storm slams into the United Kingdom https://t.co/aydhNG4oMW
Just as hurricanes and typhoons are named, large and violent North Atlantic storms will now also garner a moniker. -
David Warner: Australia opener hits unbeaten 244 against New Zealand – BBC Sport
David Warner: Australia opener hits unbeaten 244 against New Zealand https://t.co/OQjjUFwV0s
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The Dust Devils of Mars Could Pack a Seismic Punch
The Dust Devils of Mars Could Pack a Seismic Punch https://t.co/x06sxXdsLd
A large dust devil towers over the Martian surface on the plain of Amazonis Planitia, as seen in this High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera observation taken in 2012. The shadow indicates this dust plume reached a height of 12 m… -
John Kerry says we won’t have a climate change treaty out of Paris. | New Republic
John Kerry says we won’t have a climate change treaty out of Paris. https://t.co/nbuMQ2poWu
The animation—based on a supercomputer model of five days in June 2006—illustrates the movement of atmospheric carbon dioxide from megacities and fires. As countries meet in Paris later this month for U.N. -
Top Gear producer ‘to sue’ Clarkson – BBC News
Top Gear producer ‘to sue’ Clarkson https://t.co/Eyr8Atq7d9
The producer punched by Jeremy Clarkson is understood to be suing the former Top Gear host and the BBC for racial discrimination. Court records show Clarkson and the BBC attended a closed-door hearing with Oisin Tymon at a London employment tribunal… -
Warren Gatland: Gareth Thomas doubts England switch – BBC Sport
Warren Gatland: Gareth Thomas doubts England switch https://t.co/QlzKKjhKQ3
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Why Don’t American Students Boycott Class and Go on Strike? – The Atlantic
Why Don’t American Students Go on Strike? https://t.co/fIhJvV3hzz
Student protests are back in the news. The outcry against the treatment of students of color has spread from Yale and Missouri to Ithaca College and Claremont McKenna. On Facebook, students and young alumni around the country have asserted their sol… -
Peshmerga Wrest Control of Sinjar From ISIL | Al Jazeera America
Peshmerga forces wrest Sinjar from ISIL, raise Kurdish flag in town https://t.co/CVc91prWsn
Peshmerga forces raised a Kurdish flag in the center of Sinjar on Friday, having seemingly pushed out ISIL fighters from the strategically important northern Iraqi town. -
The Drone Economy of Upstate New York – The Atlantic
The Drone Economy https://t.co/1guN8c9bbO
SYRACUSE—Every other Tuesday, a small crowd forms across the street from the Hancock Air National Guard base here, a few hundred yards from where big letters proclaim this the home of the 174th Attack Wing. -
Congress Struggles to Renew Health Benefits for 9/11 Responders – The Atlantic
Has 9/11 Become ‘Ancient History’? https://t.co/lwDugHLDw2
Fourteen years and two months have passed since the World Trade Center collapsed into a cloud of toxic dust, and that long passage of time has altered American politics in countless ways. -
Prince’s solo UK tour ticket sale ‘postponed’ – BBC News
The sale of tickets for Prince’s limited solo UK tour, due to start on Friday morning has been postponed. The legendary musician is due to play three gigs in Glasgow, London and Birmingham later this month.
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The latest weapon of political dissent: reading | Books | The Guardian
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could make your political positions register internationally by the simple act of, you know, reading a book? Johari Osayi Idusuyi, a student in Springfield, Illinois, has done just that.
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Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas doubts head coach Warren Gatland could be tempted to succeed Stuart Lancaster as England boss. Lancaster left the role on Wednesday after England’s World Cup failure.
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November 13, 1982: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Is Dedicated in Washington, DC | The Nation
A few weeks after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened on the National Mall on this day in 1982, the journalist Peter Marin wrote a piece for The Nation considering how well the memorial encapsulated what the war had really been about, both in South…
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Wogan pulls out of Children in Need – BBC News
Broadcaster Terry Wogan has pulled out of presenting Friday’s charity fundraiser Children in Need for health reasons, the BBC saysThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the f…
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Raúl resisted retirement for one more week, rebelling as he had always done. There seemed to be 29 minutes left of his 21-year professional career when he scored the winner against Fort Lauderdale Strikers in Brooklyn last Sunday and ensured there w…
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If Apple Cares So Much About Design, Why Does the App Store Ignore Artists? | Motherboard
If Apple Cares So Much About Design, Why Does the App Store Ignore Artists? https://t.co/to9VyL9ENA
On its App Store, Apple features nearly every relevant category—social networking, games, books, news, and so on. What the store doesn’t have is an art category. -
Darlington Nagbe, soccer enigma | Football | The Guardian
Darlington Nagbe, soccer enigma https://t.co/0Xp70dEA3a
The warnings come early. When I tell other writers I’m heading to Oregon to profile Portland Timbers attacker Darlington Nagbe, the words “shy” and “introverted” invariably land in my lap. These aren’t criticisms of Nagbe so much as attempts to regu… -
Microsoft’s Xbox survival stunt brings us one step closer to the Hunger Games | The Verge
Microsoft’s Xbox survival stunt brings us one step closer to the Hunger Games https://t.co/tdRiQkHIxo
I always thought it would be income inequality and a technocratic elite that would drag this world into a Hunger Games-style scenario, but what if our coming future dystopia is just a PR stunt that’s gotten -
European centre-rightists reject neocolonial accusation – Al Jazeera English
European centre-rightists reject neocolonial accusation https://t.co/aFAwjXfm1e
Tunis, Tunisia – A right-wing party in the European parliament has rejected the accusation leveled by an alliance of Tunisian leftists that it is representing a new trend of neocolonialism. -
Hinkley Point nuclear plan puts survival of EDF at risk, say employee shareholders https://t.co/2ebkDQifQN
EDF’s £18bn project to build two nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, Britain, is so expensive and so risky that it puts the survival of the French utility at risk, an association of employee-shareholders said on Thursday. -
“How stupid are the people of Iowa?” asks Donald Trump. | New Republic
“How stupid are the people of Iowa?” asks Donald Trump. https://t.co/Ah0CZLF4lO
In a discussion with The Intercept’s Micah Lee, the NSA whistleblower gives a lot of practical tips for future national security whistleblowers and regular internet users alike. -
This App Will Change the Way You See Your Neighborhood | Mother Jones
My private tour of the Tenderloin begins outside a CVS on the grittiest stretch of San Francisco’s Market Street. Here at the edge of the city’s most infamous and impoverished neighborhood, the smell of weed and urine waft through the air.
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These Photos Show the Bay Area You’ll Never See From a Google Bus | Mother Jones
These Photos Show the Bay Area You’ll Never See From a Google Bus https://t.co/8miephmWOs
Status Update is a new photo exhibition that focuses on “change, chance, and inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area.” It includes the work of 14 artists—mostly photographers, but a few filmmakers as well. -
These Charts Show the Bright Future Ahead for Clean Energy | Mother Jones
These Charts Show the Bright Future Ahead for Clean Energy https://t.co/iYC2HS74ZT
With high-stakes climate negotiations just around the corner, things are looking rosy for the producers and sellers of wind turbines and solar panels. In just a couple weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris to hash out a global agreement to comba… -
What We’re Following on Friday, November 13 – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Cockfosters by Helen Simpson review – dry and tenderly measured | Books | The Guardian
Helen Simpson has been publishing short stories, and only short stories, for her entire writing career, little miracles that cut straight to the heart of the matter – be that love, lust, babies, death, apocalypses global or individual – without ever…
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Indians troll BA over Sachin Tendulkar row – BBC News
British Airways has incurred the wrath of Indian cricket fans over cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar had tweeted at the airline, complaining about poor service and what he referred to as a “don’t care” attitude by staff.
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Google self-driving car pulled over for not going fast enough | Ars Technica
A Google self-driving car was pulled over Thursday for driving too slow near its headquarters in Mountain View, California. According to the Mountain View Police Department (MVPD), an officer observed regular traffic slowing down on El Camino Real n…
Cops pull over Google car for doing 24 mph in a 35 mph zone https://t.co/mxmoa6X5fg -
Cameron says airstrike on Mohammed Emwazi was ‘act of self-defence’ | World news | The Guardian
David Cameron has described the US airstrike on the Islamic State extremist known as “Jihadi John” as an “act of self-defence” that struck at the heart of the terrorist organisation.
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Seattle’s Famous Gum Wall Is Being Scrubbed Away to Bare Brick
Seattle’s Famous Gum Wall Is Being Scrubbed Away to Bare Brick https://t.co/Zzgfd68YH3
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What is known about ‘Jihadi John’? – BBC News
As US forces carry out an air strike targeting “Jihadi John”, BBC News looks at what is known so far about the Islamic State group figure. Mohammed Emwazi, the Kuwaiti-born British militant, has appeared in videos of the beheadings of Western hostag…
What is known about ‘Jihadi John’? https://t.co/n5bTn9QYV9 -
Babies’ bodies found in German home – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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The Mobster Charged with the ‘Goodfellas’ Heist Was Found Not Guilty | VICE | United Kingdom
As the verdict rang out in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday, Vincent Asaro looked stunned.
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BBC Sport – Fifa: Uefa’s Angel Villar Llona fined over World Cup bids
Acting head of Uefa Angel Villar Llona has escaped a ban for not co-operating with investigations into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. The Spaniard, who led the joint Spain-Portugal bid, was warned and given a 25,000 Swiss francs (£16,377) fine.
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Leaked emails suggest UAE violated Libya arms embargo – Al Jazeera English
The United Arab Emirates shipped weapons to the Libyan faction fighting Islamists in violation of the United Nations’ arms embargo, according to leaked emails reported by the New York Times.
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Google’s self-driving car gets pulled over for driving too slowly | Technology | The Guardian
They’ve driven 1.2m miles, and haven’t managed to get a speeding ticket yet – but a self-driving Google car got in trouble with the law on Thursday. .
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Here’s the Debate Democrats Should Be Having | New Republic
The Democratic presidential primary thus far has been marked by an endless battle over who’d be the most effective agent of progressive change.
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The Beautiful Surfaces of “Carol” | New Republic
This is not meant as a slight: Todd Haynes is the quintessential art directors’ director.
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Moby-Dick in the Clickhole | New Republic
In 2007, the British publisher Orion released a series of abridged versions of classic novels that could supposedly be read in half the time of the originals.
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The Diary of the Most Boring Man in the World | New Republic
The Diary of the Most Boring Man in the World https://t.co/9skr6EM37z
In May 2009, Professor Robyn Warhol traveled from her home in Vermont to Houston, Texas, where she joined her friend and colleague Helena Michie for a dinner party. -
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday’s Democratic Debate | New Republic
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday’s Democratic Debate https://t.co/3r24zTXvj9
The second Democratic primary debate kicks off at 9 p.m. EST on Saturday, November 14, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. -
The Environmental Case for a Clinton Presidency | New Republic
The Environmental Case for a Clinton Presidency https://t.co/CscLWWg3z5
Hillary Clinton secured the endorsement of a major environmental group this week, when the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund endorsed her as “the right person for the job. -
Sex and the Muslim Feminist | New Republic
Sex and the Muslim Feminist https://t.co/FtWjLpjcSr
I first learned about sex positive feminism in a graduate seminar at a large mid-western University. -
What We Knew of the Sexes | New Republic
What We Knew of the Sexes https://t.co/sRmzG67Vdh
The babies we admitted were often mortally ill and critically underweight, but one day there was an unusual admission: a perfectly healthy nine-pound newborn. -
Is Bernie Sanders Really in It to Win It? | New Republic
Is Bernie Sanders Really in It to Win It? https://t.co/DuVjX0ahnF
As he prepares for the second Democratic Party debate, the most important questions Bernie Sanders has to ask himself are existential ones: What is the purpose of his campaign? Is it a symbolic crusade to raise the visibility of progressive economic… -
S Africa deputy president sued over Marikana massacre – Al Jazeera English
S Africa deputy president sued over Marikana massacre https://t.co/k63Oza485Z
The families of South African striking miners shot dead by police at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in 2012 have issued a court summons for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa over complicity in their deaths, the presidency said. -
The Real Job for the Next Democratic President | New Republic
The Real Job for the Next Democratic President https://t.co/BRljtDOp9p
The Democratic primary has unleashed a new wellspring of hope on the left for sweeping policy changes. The candidates have been knocking themselves out to propose everything from paid family leave to universal public college tuition—and to one-up ea… -
The legacy of exile: The Jews of Shanghai – Al Jazeera English
Shanghai, China – Sara Imas leaned forward, her jovial humour gone. She had been speaking English, but this was one story she could only tell in her native Chinese. It was 1961, she remembers, a time when Shanghai relied on ice blocks to cool house…
The legacy of exile: The Jews of Shanghai https://t.co/rTpwqP6XCl -
‘Fallout 4’ Is a Painfully Addictive Pain in the Ass – The Daily Beast
Fallout 4 starts with a bang. Within ten minutes of taking control of your character, a nuclear bomb goes off, and you watch the shockwave overtake your city as you’re lowered down into a vault.
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Baggage. Tony Abbott remarked this week – somewhat pointedly – that Malcolm Turnbull wasn’t weighed down by much of his own. “As a potential reformer, Malcolm Turnbull has the advantage of being relatively unbound by previous commitments,” he wrote …
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Hillary Clinton’s Fake Tough Talk on Wall Street – The Daily Beast
During the Democratic debate last month, Hillary Clinton assured viewers she would be a president at least as tough on Wall Street as her main opponent for the nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders. She cited her history as “a progressive who likes to get…
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In between racking up over 50 million views on their YouTube channel and starring on the popular TV show Nashville, singing sisters Lennon & Maisy Stella have now written their first children’s book, In The Waves.
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Athlete Martyn Rooney has questioned whether IAAF president Lord Coe knew of problems at athletics’ governing body or had his “head in the sand”.
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NFL weekend predictions: can we finally start trusting the Eagles? | Sport | The Guardian
Not that I want to turn this NFL column into a weekly discourse on sandwiches (OK, that’s a lie. A weekly column about sandwiches is doubtless a career dream), but after last week’s hot dog debate, I once again feel compelled to kick things off on a…
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Steven Salaita: I Will Always Condemn Injustice, No Matter the State of My Employment | The Nation
On November 12, Professor Steven Salaita settled his case against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with the university agreeing to pay $875,000 to bring an end to 14 months of protest and controversy.
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It’s Not Easy Being a Green Chemist – In These Times
The phrase “green chemistry” has entered our vocabulary in response to the fact that industrial chemistry as currently practiced produces thousands of harmful compounds.
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Pictures: Green Slime Invades World’s Deepest Lake
The world’s deepest lake was long known as one of the most pristine. But in recent years, a bizarre invasion of green slime has taken over areas of Russia’s Lake Baikal, leaving scientists looking for possible sources of pollution.
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CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says | Motherboard
Everything we are comes down to our genes, those basic chunks of DNA that hold the information for every beautiful detail about us. Unfortunately, those same genes also hold the coded instructions for something more ugly: disease.
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Calçot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calçot (Catalan pronunciation: [kəɫˈsɔt]) is a type of scallion or green onion known as blanca gran tardana in the Catalan language from Lleida, Catalonia. The calçot from Valls (Tarragona, Catalonia) is a registered EU Protected Geographical Indica…
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Where Our Fear of Friday the 13th Came From
Where Our Fear of Friday the 13th Came From https://t.co/cUBXMK540O
Another Friday the 13th is upon us. But don’t despair: experts say people may actually be safer on this infamous day, despite long-held beliefs of gloom and doom. And the cultural superstition may be good for mental health. -
Trump Questions Carson’s Temper, Faith | Al Jazeera America
Trump questions Carson’s temper, faith https://t.co/6uufT7koqm
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, brushing aside any recent claims of civility, has equated Ben Carson’s childhood “pathological temper” to the illness of a child molester, questioned his religious awakening and berated voters who supp… -
The Many Perks of Being Dirty | Mother Jones
The Many Perks of Being Dirty https://t.co/aZb0pe6aDr
By David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé In this transformative read, David Montgomery, a professor of earth and space sciences, and his wife, biologist and environmental planner Anne Biklé, unravel the universe of microbes that make dirt fertile and a… -
Lucy Lawless tears into the madcap world of Bruce Campbell’s new Starz series Ash vs Evil Dead like a one-woman army of darkness.
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Destination Houston: five key questions as college basketball season tips off | Sport | The Guardian
College basketball season starts tonight, but you could be forgiven if you did not know it. The sport spends its first few months languishing in the long shadows cast by both the NFL and college football, only to come to the fore during three glorio…
Destination Houston: five key questions as college basketball season tips off https://t.co/SDM9sVfXjA -
Analysis: Is Sinjar the new Kobane? – Al Jazeera English
In the ninth century, the Sinjar Plain was the site of important mathematical discoveries by Persian scholars, such as Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (or, Algoritmi). In Medieval times it was populated by Assyrians, Arabs, Kurds, and Persians. Until recently…
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BMW Masters: Sergio Garcia three shots off lead in Shanghai – BBC Sport
BMW Masters: Sergio Garcia three shots off lead in Shanghai https://t.co/qM8aWNXlOb
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Stunt driver’s speedy parallel park sets new world record – BBC News
Stunt driver’s speedy parallel park sets new world record https://t.co/R7y8qf3Bs8
Alastair Moffatt managed to squeeze a Mini in between two cars at speed, leaving a combined space of 34 centimetres. -
Vincent Asaro leaves US court: ‘I plan to have a good meal’ – BBC News
A man accused of planning a 1978 airport heist that helped to inspire the Mafia film Goodfellas has been found not guilty at a court in Brooklyn.Eighty-year-old Vincent Asaro was cleared of murder, extortion and other crimes after a three-week trial.
Vincent Asaro leaves US court: ‘I plan to have a good meal’ https://t.co/77RInKWoRg -
How US military could confirm Mohammed Emwazi’s death | US news | The Guardian
Confirming a “kill” in a targeted attack by plane or drone on hostile territory is done in the first instance by monitoring communications – mobile phones, radio, etc – in the area of operations.
How US military could confirm Mohammed Emwazi’s death https://t.co/XsyErAydR0 -
Sergio Garcia is three shots behind new BMW Masters leader Lucas Bjerregaard from Denmark after carding a one-under-par 71 in the second round.
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Jonathan Davies: Wales centre rejoins Scarlets from Clermont – BBC Sport
Jonathan Davies: Wales centre set to rejoin Scarlets from Clermont https://t.co/PR9GzOpMIa
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South Africa’s Stellenbosch University to drop Afrikaans after protests – BBC News
South Africa’s Stellenbosch University to drop Afrikaans after protests https://t.co/qBzgdSgZIq
An elite South African university is to drop Afrikaans as the language of instruction and teach in English. The University of Stellenbosch has taken the decision in the wake of a viral video chronicling the challenges and racism faced by black stude… -
Dirty Water in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin | Al Jazeera America
Editor’s note: This is part 3 of a three-part series examining Wisconsin’s water resources. Part one examined the politicization of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Part two looked at the effect high capacity wells are having on the st…
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Wales and British and Irish Lions centre Jonathan Davies is expected to return to Scarlets from Clermont Auvergne, BBC Wales Sport understands. Davies left for France in 2014 but has been linked with a return to Wales in recent months.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – Qingdao, China
This impressive false-colour image features the city of Qingdao and its surroundings, in China’s eastern Shandong province. A major cultural centre, Qingdao is home to the Ocean University of China and other higher education facilities.
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Commodities slump again – here’s why you should care – BBC News
It’s becoming a familiar story. Fed officials say – but not particularly clearly – something that spooks the markets, no one really knows when US interest rates will rise, but everyone thinks they will very soon, and then commodities tumble, which i…
Commodities slump again – here’s why you should care https://t.co/da0kIALzMk -
The Crowham Martyrs by Jane McLoughlin – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Maddy Deeprose has always been able to see the ghosts. She doesn’t mind them – she’s used to them now. In fact, she can’t remember a time without them. They’re just blurs which swoop through walls and leave a slight chill behind them, constantly hov…
The Crowham Martyrs by Jane McLoughlin – review https://t.co/1Fh2vmBz2F -
Modi visit: Indian PM to meet Queen and give talk at Wembley Stadium – BBC News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to meet the Queen and speak in front of tens of thousands of people on the second day of his visit to the UK. Mr Modi is to have lunch with the Queen at Buckingham Palace and then later give a speech at Wembley…
Modi visit: Indian PM to meet Queen and give talk at Wembley Stadium https://t.co/MQq6DZyKKy -
Ukraine calls Soviet deportation of Muslims ‘genocide’ – Al Jazeera English
Ukraine’s parliament has passed legislation recognising the World War II deportation of Tatars – a Muslim minority in the Crimean peninsula – as “genocide”. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the 1944 deportation of some 180,000 Tatars for their a…
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Newly-crowned Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton says a car crash was caused by tiredness after heavy partying. The Briton revealed he hit a stationary car in his home town Monaco on Monday, and delayed his flight to the Brazilian Grand Prix after fe…
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A quick note: Thanks to NPR’s First Listen site, you can now stream for free (but only for a limited time) The Best Of Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Of The Grateful Dead.
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Today Is The Final Day To Save £400 On Disrupt London Tickets | TechCrunch
You procrastinated, so we extended the deadline. That’s okay, but now is the time to act, because today is the last day to get early-bird tickets to Disrupt London before the price jumps from £800 to £1,200 tomorrow.
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Battle for Sinjar: Kurdish forces ‘enter’ IS-held town in Iraq – BBC News
Battle for Sinjar: Kurdish forces ‘enter’ IS-held town in Iraq https://t.co/AV0N4H6rui
Kurdish fighters have reportedly entered Sinjar in northern Iraq, a day after launching an offensive to retake it from Islamic State (IS) militants. The Kurdistan Regional Security Council said in a tweet that Peshmerga forces had entered from “from… -
Ronda Rousey’s feminism is complex and imperfect – and that’s OK | Sport | The Guardian
Ronda Rousey’s feminism is complex and imperfect – and that’s OK https://t.co/xIxSqUkNbz
Everybody wants a piece of Ronda Rousey – and not just in the octagon. As the 28-year-old UFC women’s bantamweight champion continues her meteoric rise, there’s a strange sort of cultural tug-of-war erupting over whether Rousey is a bad-ass feminist… -
Lewis Hamilton’s Monaco crash ‘result of tiredness after partying’ – BBC Sport
Lewis Hamilton’s Monaco crash ‘result of tiredness after partying’ https://t.co/8AzsOmLoZj
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Assad has already lost – Al Jazeera English
With the start of the Vienna talks, the future of Bashar al-Assad has again come to dominate discussions about the future of Syria. The key word appears to be “transition”, with everyone disagreeing on how long this could be and how things can be ch…
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Kurdish fighters enter centre of Sinjar – Al Jazeera English
Kurdish fighters enter centre of Sinjar https://t.co/2VHlFlo3dD
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have entered the centre of Sinjar after fierce fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rebels in the northern Iraqi town, sources told Al Jazeera. -
Doris Lessing’s MI5 file: was she a threat to the state? | Books | The Guardian
“‘A communist must consider himself a dead man on leave,” Anton tells Martha in Doris Lessing’s 1958 autobiographical novel, A Ripple from the Storm. “A communist is hated, despised, feared and hunted by the capitalists of the world.
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GetYourGuide Bags $50M To Grow Its Travel Activities Booking Platform | TechCrunch
GetYourGuide, which plays in the global travel space with a desktop and mobile platform for finding and booking holiday activities to make it easier for people to put meat on the bones of a forthcoming trip, has announced it’s closed a $50 million S…
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Obama’s limited options for closing Guantanamo prison – Al Jazeera English
Obama’s limited options for closing Guantanamo prison https://t.co/xrI4K9MqVc
The White House is signaling that any day now it will release a new plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Thursday not to expect any major plot twists when its long awaited review is rel… -
Thirsty Thursday Reminder – Imgur
Thirsty Thursday Reminder https://t.co/8uQAc4HnKf https://t.co/kHIlqVpjdy
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Malcolm Turnbull arrives in Germany for talks with Angela Merkel | Australia news | The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull has touched down in Berlin for a day of meetings with the German chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the G20 summit in Turkey. The Australian prime minister is scheduled to have a private meeting with Merkel, followed by lunch, and a …
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The best space facts ever – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Did you know Venus spins in the opposite direction to all the other planets in our solar system and there are thought to be trillions of diamonds on Uranus? Space experts Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman tell all – with the help of Professor Astro…
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The diplomatic clues in the Turnbull and Widodo images – BBC News
The diplomatic clues in the Turnbull and Widodo images https://t.co/mUa7BDZr7I
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull travelled across the short stretch of ocean to meet Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Thursday. Although it was part of a five-nation tour, this was a journey to mend relations after a year of diplomatic… -
Lumiere Festival brings 3D whale to Durham – BBC News
The fourth Lumiere Festival showcases light installations from artists all over the world and organisers are expecting record visitors. For the first time the event will also be travelling to London.
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“Para los proyectos más grandes, nuestro gobierno sólo confía en arquitectos que hablen inglés,” dice Alberto Kalach, sentado en el frondoso jardín de techo de su oficina, el Taller de Arquitectura X. “Y como podrás notar, el mío es muy malo.
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Meet the architect who wants to return Mexico City to its ancient lakes | Cities | The Guardian
“For the largest commissions, our government only trusts architects who speak English,” says Alberto Kalach, sitting in the verdant roof garden above his office, Taller de Arquitectura X. “And as you can see, mine is very bad.
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Scandal talks a lot about the republic and democracy and the country, but what’s the one factor about America that gets trotted out the most? Freedom. It’s something most of us take for granted, but it’s still hard to argue any other trait being hig…
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Defense Secretary’s Aide Removed From Job | Al Jazeera America
Defense secretary’s aide removed from job https://t.co/dFOd8FAHLJ
Defense Secretary Ash Carter suddenly fired his top military aide Thursday citing allegations of misconduct, and referred the matter to the department’s inspector general. Defense officials would not provide any details about why Army Lt. Gen. Ron L… -
German economy slows in third quarter – BBC News
The German economy slowed in the third quarter of the year, according to official figures, but growth in France picked up. Germany’s economy grew by 0.3% in the July-to-September period, down from 0.4% in the previous quarter.
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The Poems of TS Eliot: The Annotated Text review – a monumental achievement | Books | The Guardian
Buying an edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Florence as a student, I was struck by its resemblance to the flood lines marked on the side of buildings to commemorate the great flood of 1966: sometimes the footnotes would creep almost all the way to…
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In a revealing new interview, Jennifer Lawrence discusses her decision to speak out on Hollywood’s gender pay gap, the end of The Hunger Games, and new BFF Amy Schumer. Jennifer Lawrence is at a crossroads in her career.
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“All love stories are frustration stories,” psychoanalyst Adam Phillips wrote in his fantastic exploration of why frustration is essential to satisfaction in romance.
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Norman Rockwell’s Stunning Illustrations for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Brain Pickings
Two of the greatest commentators on culture and sociological observers of American life, together.
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Uterus Transplants May Soon Help Some Infertile Women in the U.S. Become Pregnant https://t.co/5013E3X0Rd
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Richard Dadd: The art of a ‘criminal lunatic’ murderer – BBC News
Richard Dadd: The art of a ‘criminal lunatic’ murderer https://t.co/3VxNdmKiT1
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Facebook page highlights plight of children on Nauru – BBC News
Facebook page highlights plight of children on Nauru https://t.co/0SD3B2VNLr
A Facebook page has been set up highlighting the plight of children held in a detention centre on Nauru, where the social network is banned.The BBC has been told three asylum seekers on Nauru, aged 12 to 16, run the Free the Children NAURU page. -
CLEVELAND — Six doctors swarmed around the body of the deceased organ donor and quickly started to operate. The kidneys came out first. Then the team began another delicate dissection, to remove an organ that is rarely, if ever, taken from a donor.
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Cops: Cancer Charity Scammer Also Trolled Refugees – The Daily Beast
Cops: Cancer Charity Scammer Also Trolled Refugees https://t.co/GdUttSkYun
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Cops: Cancer Charity Scammer Also Trolled Refugees – The Daily Beast
A Colorado man fined $4 million for running sham breast cancer charities is facing another bust. This time, the alleged party boy is accused of stealing more than $1 million worth of donated mattresses intended for refugees.
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Guardian first book award shortlist 2015 | Books | The Guardian
I spent years working as a producer for the radio programme This American Life. We mostly told true stories – in-depth, emotional, and strictly narrative. But true stories aren’t always so satisfying. They hem you in.
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Seven things we learned about agricultural technology | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Satellite-controlled cows and underwater lettuce pods are recent examples of technology use in agriculture, but farmers have been using ag-tech in different forms for thousands of years.
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In many poor countries, environmental destruction is the tipping point that pushes vulnerable families into slavery. Unseasonal droughts, encroaching deserts, extreme flooding, the death of livestock, or illegal deforestation have a devastating impa…
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Heroes Reborn has struggled with its structure all season, the isolated narratives of its many protagonists giving the series a fractured, disjointed feeling.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to CNN’S Erin Burnett about his closest party rival, Ben Carson.
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Living under the threat of Boko Haram in Nigeria – BBC News
Living under the threat of Boko Haram in Nigeria https://t.co/8m5lhAVaLL
Nigeria has sworn in its cabinet, more than six months after its election, with the issue of defeating the Islamic insurgency in the north east of the country among its top priorities. Boko Haram have killed thousands and more than two million peopl… -
Athletics doping: Russia to learn competition fate – BBC News
Russia could be banned from international athletics, after a meeting of the sport’s governing body on Friday. The IAAF will discuss widespread doping and corruption following a damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Wondermark » Archive » #1174; In which the Days dart on
Notes: Over the weekend, this image became my most popular post ever on Tumblr. And, to answer a few common questions: Yes, I made it. Thanks to Nerdist for giving me proper credit!
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Suu Kyi’s Party Wins Majority in Myanmar Election | Al Jazeera America
Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party wins majority in historic Myanmar vote https://t.co/OaORafB1vL
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party on Friday secured a historic majority in Myanmar’s parliament, making it possible for them to form the Southeast Asian country’s first truly civilian government in more than half-a-century. -
Could stately homes close to the public? – BBC News
Could stately homes close to the public? https://t.co/JBVqqFxbcj
The cost of maintaining Britain’s stately homes could make opening them to the public a thing of the past, the Historic Houses Association has warned. It is estimated that 70 could be closed to the public in the next five years. -
SURPRISE! There’s ANOTHER New Star Wars Trailer, With Even More New Footage | TechCrunch
Remember that one time like three trailers ago when JJ Abrams suggested they were done releasing new Star Wars: The Force Awakens footage? Yeaaaah, not so much. Another Star Wars TV trailer just hit, and there’s more new footage.
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Dawn of a new age in Asia? – Al Jazeera English
Northeast Asia is a strange place. With the exception of the hermit kingdom, North Korea, the region is home to one of the world’s most prosperous and technologically advanced nations.
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NEW YORK—Saying the strategy was certain to attract the most eligible men of the highest repute, relationship experts recommended Friday that single women frustrated with their current romantic options try bathing in an open stream until the ideal s…
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MRW I’m waiting at the stop but the bus drives past – GIF on Imgur
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Inside Iran’s Secret War in Syria – The Daily Beast
Iran’s covert operations chief Qassem Soleimani is back in Syria and beaming for the cameras according to photos of the selfie-prone Quds Force commander released this week. But it’s not all smiles for the troops in Syria under his command.
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A Campus Crushes Anti-Muslim Hate – The Daily Beast
The person who wrote this on the wall of a public bathroom last week on the Virginia Tech campus could have never predicted what the response would be to it.
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Yes, You Can Put Tattoos Up for Auction – The Daily Beast
Lanky models with animals tattooed on their fingers and Sanskrit carved into their wrists are ubiquitous in New York City’s Meatpacking District—fixtures of the neighborhood’s formerly dank slaughterhouses turned posh boutiques and restaurants. Body…
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The Big Speech Marco Rubio Needs to Give – The Daily Beast
It’s that Ted Cruz plans to attack Marco Rubio over the issue of what some conservatives call “amnesty” and what others might call “immigration reform”—a cause Rubio once championed.
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Did Shoddy Birth Control Cause 113 Pregnancies? – The Daily Beast
Turn your prescription bottle upside down and your pills will still have the same effect. A birth control packet, not so much.
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How Claremont McKenna College Became the New Mizzou – The Daily Beast
The last few days at Claremont McKenna College in California are giving Yale and the University of Missouri a run for its money in campus unrest, with both a dean and student government leader resigning over charges of racial insensitivity in under …
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Cops Won’t Say Why They Killed This Man – The Daily Beast
Justin Way was killed by police six months ago this week in Florida, and now his mother of sick of not having any answers. “They entered at 4:30. He was shot at 4:36. It was six minutes, and now it’s been six months,” said Denise Way.
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Yes, You Can Put Tattoos Up for Auction – The Daily Beast
Yes, You Can Put Tattoos Up for Auction https://t.co/NNNDNv2CTD
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Kenya Morning Moon, Planets and Taurid via NASA https://t.co/AI5r9h8ox6 https://t.co/a3yM2ZDs1C https://t.co/0LqKk6sIGw
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Gladiator makes a rousing case for going big and obvious · Scenic Routes · The A.V. Club
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. Last week, Slate published a piece shrewdly entitled, for maximum provocation and outrage sharing, “Subtlety Sucks.
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Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore to star in NBC birthday dramedy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Capitalizing on that vaguely interesting moment produced when you find out someone has the same birthday as you—except in the form of a season-long TV show that’ll cost millions of dollars to produce—NBC has announced that it’s cast five of the eigh…
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What movie would you like to see re-made, and by what director? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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S. California College Dean Resigns Racial Tensions | Al Jazeera America
The dean of students at a small Southern California college resigned Thursday after protests linked to racial concerns on campus. Mary Spellman, who held the position at Claremont McKenna College since 2010, announced her resignation in an email to …
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Free from continuity, Superman: American Alien flies high · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Superman: American Alien #1.
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In today’s age of YouTube and digital streaming, the line between traditional television and online entertainment is getting blurrier by the view count. People often use YouTube to try to get on television, while TV shows such as Key & Peele grow ma…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14. All times are Eastern. With Bob And David (Netflix, 3:01 a.m., Friday): We can argue all day (and many of us have) whether Mr. Show is the best sketch comedy seri…
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Boots first attracted attention as the producer of Beyoncé’s “Haunted”—a factoid that unfortunately or not precedes his every artistic move.
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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Suu Kyi’s party wins election majority in Myanmar polls – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar opposition party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar’s historic polls, Election Commission has said.
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“Hi, I’m Philip” ends with a sex montage that’s oh so quintessentially How To Get Away With Murder. Frank and Laurel, Oliver and Connor, Michaela and Caleb, Nate and Annalise—they’re all boning! These people shouldn’t have time to breathe, but they …
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Federal Appeals Court Reverses Ruling That Ended California’s Death Penalty – The Atlantic
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower-court ruling on Thursday that had declared California’s death penalty unconstitutional, removing a legal barrier to the potential resumption of executions on the nation’s largest death row.
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New Star Wars: The Force Awakens TV spot shows how to survive a lightsaber attack | The Verge
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens TV spot shows how to survive a lightsaber attack https://t.co/I92CHMXwR1
We should hope J.J. Abrams is better at making Star Wars movies than he is at telling the truth. The Episode VII director promised in October that we wouldn’t see any more trailers for the upcoming sci-fi epic until the film’s premiere in December. -
Deadly bomb blast hits Thailand’s restive south – Al Jazeera English
Deadly bomb blast hits Thailand’s restive south https://t.co/uhM8iBfEI2
A bomb blast at a village checkpoint in Thailand’s restive south has killed four people and wounded four others, the latest deadly attack to strike the region. -
APOD: 2015 November 12 – Kenya Morning Moon, Planets and Taurid
Astronomy Picture of the Day https://t.co/DtcN7CYQWN
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. -
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy wins majority in Myanmar – BBC News
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has won a majority after Myanmar’s historic general election, ushering in a new era for the nation. The National League for Democracy (NLD) has won more than 329 seats, gaining control of both houses of par…
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy wins majority in Myanmar https://t.co/CderQqsFYR -
Shrinking Chinese credit pushes commodities and Asian shares lower | Business | The Guardian
Asian shares have slumped again after commodity prices plunged to multi-year lows on worries that slower global growth may worsen a supply glut, while US Federal Reserve officials kept beating the drum for a rate hike next month. Related: Is US mone…
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HBO develops new dramedy about the bummers of surviving cancer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Considering that there’s already been at least one truly great TV series about the slow, horror-filled death inflicted by cancer, it seems only fair that we get one about the dangers and complications of surviving it.
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Fear of failure driving Ronda Rousey before UFC showdown with Holly Holm | Sport | The Guardian
It is not only success that is driving Ronda Rousey as she prepares for her UFC bantamweight title defence against Holly Holm.
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Jailed Saudi blogger’s wife says he’s not well – Al Jazeera English
Jailed Saudi blogger’s wife says he’s not well https://t.co/gvQ4yrhUnE
The wife of a Saudi blogger whose imprisonment and public lashing provoked an international outcry has expressed concern about his psychological health. Haidar was in Berlin for Friday’s awarding of a prize recognising courageous journalists that is… -
In search of the dormouse | Environment | The Guardian
In search of the dormouse https://t.co/qycVDa0XIR
A confetti of leaves swirl down from the canopy, crunching underfoot as Ian White, dormouse officer of People’s Trust for Endangered Species, leads us along the woodland rides. -
My lions used me as their bed last night – Imgur
My lions used me as their bed last night https://t.co/NwBVLJCPLw https://t.co/oMZpjNTpZF
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Men today are much more committed to equality at home, sharing dinner-cooking and diaper-changing duties, than in previous generations. But even in families in which both parents work outside the home, the division of labor at home remains unequal. …
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African-American administrator and former student, Mike Middleton, holds a press conference after being named as interim president of the University of Missouri on Thursday.
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Beirut attacks: Islamic State claims it carried out bombing – BBC News
Islamic State (IS) militants have said they were behind two suicide bomb attacks in the Lebanese capital Beirut, which killed at least 41 people. The bombed suburb of Burj al-Barajneh is a stronghold of Hezbollah forces fighting IS in Syria.
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My veteran grandpa was asked by a little girl if he would do it all again. He said, “Yes, for you.” https://t.co/eb9yguzoIz
My veteran grandpa was asked by a little girl if he would do it all again. He said, “Yes, for you.” (i.imgur.com) A bit of context: my grandpa served in the Canadian military in WW2 and was stationed in Hong Kong where he was captured on Christmas D… -
Women in Veils Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
In the Pink https://t.co/ykder2aQgL
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Ola, Uber’s Big Rival In India, Gives Its Payment Service A Standalone App | TechCrunch
Ola, India’s homegrown rival to Uber, is branching out into a totally new vertical after it made Ola Money, its in-app payment service, available as a standalone app.
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Women in Veils Image, India – National Geographic Photo of the Day
“[These ladies] were leaving work in the afternoon,” explains Dasha Horita, who submitted this photo of women in India, uniformly outfitted in bright-pink veils and flowered dresses, descending a staircase in the waning sunlight.
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Finn Attacks A Stormtrooper In Brand New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Footage
ABC just dropped a brand new teaser for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Some of the footage we’ve seen, but a good chunk is new—including Finn attacking a Stormtrooper with a lightsaber, and some very familiar profiles. You can watch the footage above…
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Vincent Asaro cleared in ‘Goodfellas’ heist case – BBC News
A man accused of planning a 1978 airport heist that helped to inspire the Mafia film Goodfellas has been found not guilty at a court in Brooklyn.Eighty-year-old Vincent Asaro was cleared of murder, extortion and other crimes after a three-week trial.
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Higher autism rate is due to changes in reporting, not kids | The Verge
Higher autism rate is due to changes in reporting, not kids https://t.co/5IDCNQjRHx
Looking at the numbers, you’d think the number of children with autism might have doubled — but the things that changed were a US government survey and a diagnostic manual. -
US air strike targets ISIL fighter ‘Jihadi John’ – Al Jazeera English
The US military launched an air strike in Syria targeting ISIL fighter Mohammed Emwazi – better known as “Jihadi John” – who participated in the beheading videos of two American journalists and the killing of several other captives.
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Rex Ryan roars back to Meadowlands as Bills beat Jets | Sport | The Guardian
Rex Ryan’s return to the Meadowlands was a successful one — thanks to his pride and joy, the defense. Buffalo’s defense shut down Ryan’s former team for much of Thursday night, and the Bills scored on offense and special teams in a 22-17 victory ove…
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Michelle Monaghan is a Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe nominee, but she isn’t too good to get down and dirty with—in the words of Alan Thicke (Paul F.
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Marco Rubio supports migrant amnesty because he is Hispanic, says Trump | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has said Marco Rubio supports “amnesty” for millions of undocumented immigrants because he is Hispanic.
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But without faith it is impossible to please him…he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. – Hebrews 11:6
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ISIS Beheader ‘Jihadi John’ Targeted in U.S. Drone Strike – The Daily Beast
ISIS’s most famous executioner, Mohammed Emwazi—best known as “Jihadi John”—was targeted in a U.S. airstrike in Syria early Friday morning, according to a senior U.S. administration official.
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Earth’s Oldest Water May Have Come from Ancient H2O-Filled Dust
An eruption at Iceland’s Holuhraun lava field, fed directly from the Iceland mantle plume. Plume water from Baffin Island that was measured for the study was trapped inside rocks.
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One of the problems with the second season of Sleepy Hollow was in its forced efforts to bring in new characters.
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Last week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory saw Sheldon trying to make sense of his breakup with Amy by filtering his feelings through Spock, his pop culture icon.
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US Air strike Targets ‘Jihadi John’ | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. military has carried out an air strike in Syria targeting Mohammed Emwazi, the British man known as “Jihadi John” who fought with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and appeared in a series of videos showing the deaths of hosta…
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Good reminder for today – Imgur
Good reminder for today https://t.co/Qz9ByaBMPZ https://t.co/ZssFiFQOxV
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My balding co-worker on Imgur and not working. – Imgur
My balding co-worker on Imgur and not working. https://t.co/6OGKbdEMsp https://t.co/SwkJMNRSfn
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Open thread for night owls: Here are some excerpts from the latest edition of Harper’s Index
On this date at Daily Kos in 2009—The Corporate Empire Strikes Back: Corporate Dems Seek “Alternative” To Public Option. Again: Even as Senate Majority Leader Reid seeks votes for a healthcare bill with a public option that states can opt-out of, Re…
Open thread for night owls: Here are some excerpts from the latest edition of Harper’s Index https://t.co/x1D4QBqbO0 -
Myanmar: Suu Kyi’s party on verge of securing majority – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar’s opposition party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is two seats away from winning a majority in parliament, according to results announced by the election commission on Friday.
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Actor Ethan Hawke discusses his new ethics book – BBC News
Even the rich and famous have trouble with hard-hitting family conversations about life and ethics – just ask Ethan Hawke. The Hollywood star has written a book to help start a dialogue with his children, and provide guidance for parents and childre…
Actor Ethan Hawke discusses his new ethics book https://t.co/cVFpwDgFt9 -
Box’s Head Of PR Ashley Mayer To Exit For New Job At Social Capital | TechCrunch
Tonight Ashley Mayer who runs PR at Box, announced in a Medium post that she was leaving the company after six years for a new job running brand and talent at Social Capital.
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This is the episode I’ve been waiting for all season. This is the episode that finally incorporates all the things The Vampire Diaries does best, and manages to throw in a good dose of crazy at the end.
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Oscar winner Patricia Arquette might star in Toy Story 4 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Wrap is reporting that Oscar winner Patricia Arquette is in talks to star in the next Toy Story movie, alongside returning stars Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Annie Potts.
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Snowflake Stealth Drone | Digg Store
The Snowflake’s smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360˚rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced anti-collision technology.
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Iran hardliners push back amid fears of change – BBC News
When police and judiciary officials turned up last week in north Tehran to shut down a newly opened restaurant billed as the city’s first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, few Iranians were surprised.
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Vatican reforms may be starting to bite – BBC News
The latest revelations of dirty dealings swirling around the Vatican have not only shown that the price of sainthood is high (around £350,000), but also the price that Pope Francis is paying for his attempts to reform Roman Catholic HQ.
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Migrant crises: Bulgaria accused of ‘migrant abuse’, says Oxfam – BBC News
The Bulgarian authorities have been accused of brutality towards migrants in a new report sponsored by the British charity Oxfam. The report, based on the testimony of migrants walking through from Bulgaria into Serbia, cites numerous cases of alleg…
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Video: Is Gas Storage the Future of Seneca Lake? – The New Yorker
Much of the folklore of Seneca Lake, in western New York, proceeds from a sense that its depths are poorly understood.
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Expert: Police Shooting of Tamir Rice Justified | Al Jazeera America
Retired Florida police officer W. Ken Katsaris is the third expert who has concluded that patrolman Timothy Loehmann was justified in shooting Tamir Rice outside a Cleveland recreation center Nov. 22, 2014.
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Eighty-year-old Vincent Asaro walks free from court in New York on Thursday after he was found not guilty of participating in the Lufthansa heist at JFK airport in 1978.
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US air strike ‘targets Jihadi John’ – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Saw this today I have to say it’s pretty awesome. – Imgur
Saw this today I have to say it’s pretty awesome. https://t.co/0Il1U61prZ https://t.co/rDW1uxGedE
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Border Patrol will deploy body cameras despite “limited effectiveness” concerns | Ars Technica
On Thursday the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner announced that the law enforcement agency would be moving forward with a plan to equip its ranks with body cameras. The cameras, Commissioner R.
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The Aquaman movie hires a new writer, even though it already has two · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Everyone’s heard the old joke about how many people it takes to write an Aquaman movie (three, one to hold the paper, one to hold the pen, and one to wonder why anyone would want to see an Aquaman movie), but apparently there’s even more truth to th…
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US B-52 bombers fly near disputed South China Sea islands – BBC News
Two US B-52 bomber planes have flown near artificial islands claimed by China in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said. Their mission continued despite being warned by Chinese ground controllers.
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Muslim Arrested by FBI for Sharing an ISIS GIF – The Daily Beast
America’s latest alleged ISIS wannabe could go to prison for reblogging a threat on Tumblr. Terrence Joseph McNeil, 25, was arraigned in federal court Thursday on felony charges of threatening U.S. military personnel and attempting to kill the offic…
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Donald Trump likens Ben Carson’s ‘pathological’ temper to child molesting | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has intensified the increasingly fraught infighting within the crowded Republican presidential field by comparing the self-confessed “pathological temper” of his closest rival, Ben Carson, to child molesting.
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From Cartridge To Club: A Look At The Labels That Recontextualise Video Game Music | NOISEY
The needle drops and it all comes flooding back. I’m young, I couldn’t be any older than five or six, and I’m crosslegged on the floor. My neck is craned towards a giant CRT television.
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Mizzou Names Black Administrator Interim President | Al Jazeera America
One of the University of Missouri’s first black law school graduates was appointed Thursday to lead the four-campus system through a tumultuous period of racial unrest, drawing praise from students who said he’s well-equipped to confront the problem…
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The Turnbull government has set itself a one-year deadline to lock in a single site to store Australia’s nuclear waste, after revealing a shortlist of six locations and promising it will proceed only with community support.
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Chattanooga just discovered the dark web, and it is freaking out | The Verge
It must be sweeps week in Tennessee, because Chattanooga’s WTVC pulled out all the stops for a series about why you should be afraid of the internet. “Computer gurus say there is a place they can go to dig up some of the internet’s oldest websites,”…
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Vincent Asaro cleared over ‘Goodfellas’ heist – BBC News
A reputed mobster has been found not guilty of planning a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped to inspire the Mafia film Goodfellas.
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Neutron beam aimed at ‘un-burning’ bone – BBC News
Researchers from Portugal are using a neutron beam to study the molecular changes that occur when bones burn. The experiments, under way at the Isis facility in Oxfordshire, are aimed at solving a problem for archaeologists and forensic scientists.
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Facebook Messenger Is Experimenting With Disappearing Messages | TechCrunch
Facebook Messenger is testing out self-destructing messages. Currently available for some users in France, the feature allows people to send messages that vanish in an hour. BuzzFeed first reported the news.
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‘Condom Bombs’ vs Russian Pilots – The Daily Beast
Britain’s The Daily Express has dubbed them “ISIS condom bombs,” but ISIS isn’t using them and one Syrian rebel who is has a question for the right-wing tabloid: “Can there be 3 meter-long condoms?!”In an act of equal desperation and ingenuity, Syri…
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Policeman who shot dead Tamir Rice acted ‘reasonably’, says expert | US news | The Guardian
The prosecutor investigating the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice has released another expert opinion which describes the actions of the officer involved as “objectively reasonable” and argues that it would be a “tragedy” if he lost h…
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Vincent Asaro, the reputed mobster charged in connection with the notorious 1978 Lufthansa robbery, walked out of federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday a free man after a jury cleared him of racketeering and other charges.
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Bloomingdales suggests you intoxicate your lady friends for Christmas / Boing Boing
Even if it were a bleak ironic joke, the perfect mix of contempt and need in his eyes would make it too grotesque to be funny. But this was an actual ad running for Bloomingdales, and it has apologized for it.
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Reported Quotes From The Atlantic Today – The Atlantic
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Star Wars Battlefront Impressions: Skimpy Singleplayer, Fun Multiplayer
Star Wars Battlefront Impressions: Skimpy Singleplayer, Fun Multiplayer https://t.co/A2LAWVClah
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Here’s Your Chance To Discover The Best of Russian Science Fiction
Here’s Your Chance To Discover The Best of Russian Science Fiction https://t.co/iFKnTYM8gN
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El Rey to celebrate feuding families with Thanksgiving kung fu marathon · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Thanksgiving is a holiday known for many wonderful things, from turkey and stuffing to football and that gross cranberry sauce out of a can, but it’s also known for less-wonderful things, specifically spending time with family members that you don’t…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Psychedelic Pluto [1850×1850]
Psychedelic Pluto [1850×1850] https://t.co/I9fi67IVnc https://t.co/Fezkri0SB1
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Oldest Stars Ever Discovered at Milky Way Center –“Dating from Before Its Birth” (VIDEO) https://t.co/XyUeWZUMSz https://t.co/aIL4MOmJ9V
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Secrets at the heart of NGC 5793 [3231 x 1622] https://t.co/sFL1MucuMH https://t.co/J8t6eksupu
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Elbow Falls, AB, Canada. First light on new lens! [3456×5184] [OC] https://t.co/ls3BZaiF5Y https://t.co/2khjAn7O7r
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: MCG+01-02-015 [3726×1982]
MCG+01-02-015 [3726×1982] https://t.co/IsmUVM4vDT https://t.co/I6pEk1Oo3s
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Meet Valkyrie, A Super Sleek Aircraft Taking On The Private Plane Industry | TechCrunch
Cobalt is a private aircraft manufacturer launching its first two models today. The fully-certified Co50 Valkyrie and it’s experimental version, the Valkyrie-X, are available for pre-order starting today. Valkyrie is super sleek and built for speed.
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Here’s Your Chance To Discover The Best of Russian Science Fiction
Most of us are familiar with the Strugatsky Brothers and one or two other Russian writers—but most of the science fiction produced in Russia during the 20th century remains a mystery. That’s about to change.
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Star Wars Battlefront Impressions: Skimpy Singleplayer, Fun Multiplayer
What is Star Wars Battlefront actually made of? The heavily hyped multiplayer game from the makers got an early release for EA Access subscribers on Xbox One. I dove in to see what the game is all about. Battlefront is, not surprisingly, a multiplay…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Psychedelic Pluto
Psychedelic Pluto https://t.co/QQgIBS2b3F https://t.co/ywdlyHE5Ov
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Image of the Day: Colossal Cloud System Observed on Saturn’s Titan https://t.co/rm8MVutGAT https://t.co/qlOU6nLffO
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Marking a Decade of Quality Storytelling (9 photos) https://t.co/W8ERGW96fD https://t.co/n6glrfNxXe
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“Einstein’s Quantum Fail” –Spooky Actions at a Distance Confirmed https://t.co/C6coScotoQ https://t.co/VlnTrf4Sxz
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Aurora Borealis Over Iceland . . . Photographed By Antony Spencer [1709 x 900] https://t.co/xmYXNT0aI7 https://t.co/njXdonYBvi
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Can Sylvia Earle Save the Oceans? | Outside Online
We were at a small dinner in Manhattan last fall, celebrating the New York premiere of a documentary about her called Mission Blue. As the world’s best-known oceanographer—Sylvia is to our era what Jacques Cousteau was to an earlier one—she feels a …
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Elizabeth Warren exposes financial advisors behaving badly with retirement funds
Elizabeth Warren exposes financial advisors behaving badly with retirement funds https://t.co/vL2Myy4bgM
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Daniel Radcliffe gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame – BBC News
Actor Daniel Radcliffe has unveiled his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The 26-year-old vowed that he would “never stop feeling lucky to be here” and thanked his parents, who had flown out to Los Angeles for the ceremony.
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‘Chop My Money’: A Day in the Life of Three Street Kids in Eastern Congo – The Atlantic
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The towns transformed by budget airlines – BBC News
It’s 20 years since Easyjet’s first flight. In that time the aviation industry has changed almost beyond recognition, taking tourists to towns previously untouched by holidaymakers.
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Elizabeth Warren exposes financial advisors behaving badly with retirement funds
This is in the annuities market, where retirees are going for advice on how to invest to maximize their retirement savings, and, you know, afford retirement. One would think that would be the priority of their financial advisors as well. It hasn’t b…
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Trump Says Ben Carson Has A Lot In Common With Child Molesters | ThinkProgress
Donald Trump is deploying an infamous racist trope in an effort to take down Ben Carson, a top rival for the Republican nomination.
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Electric cars are better than gas cars when it comes to emissions, study says | Grist
The plan focuses on rebuilding infrastructure to create new jobs and replace those lost in the coal industry.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/avuGoVdfw8 Stories via @UN_CTED
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Lumio: Multi-function lamp disguised as a hardcover book / Boing Boing
Shut up and take my money, Lumio. Just shut right up and take it. Jesus! Has there ever been a more Boing Boing lighting product? I would like ALL OF THE THINGS on this website: hellolumio.com.
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Google’s self-driving car got pulled over for driving too slow | The Verge
Google’s self-driving car may be able to navigate the roads on its own, but it’s not yet advanced enough to avoid cops. This picture, showing Google’s cute little prototype vehicle stopped by an officer of the law, was tweeted earlier today by David…
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Letter from Africa: Tanzania’s new wine gets to work – BBC News
As Tanzania’s new president John Pombe Magufuli settles into the job, journalist Joseph Warungu, who has reported from Tanzania on and off since 1993, has this unsolicited personal advice for the new CEO of the country. Your Excellency, greetings fr…
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The Minimal Orange Home Screen
If you dislike clutter and miss Halloween a little bit, this home screen design should cheer you up and help keep your phone organized. Using simple widgets and just a few icons, it’s slick and clean.
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Predator 2 Is the Most Enjoyable Predator Movie, Period
Predator 2, which takes place in the urban jungle of Los Angeles, is loud, sweaty, and exuberantly violent—and all of its main characters are macho blowhards. It does not have Schwarzenegger, but it does have one-liners galore, Bill Paxton, and Gary…
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New photos of China’s awful air quality make us nervous about coal plant plans | Grist
The plan focuses on rebuilding infrastructure to create new jobs and replace those lost in the coal industry.
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Senators and House representatives this week are calling on Congress to act on bills that would limit location tracking and phone surveillance after the Supreme Court decided not to hear a cell phone case earlier this week.
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What India and the UK love about each other – BBC News
What India and the UK love about each other https://t.co/XpqjgEjPVD
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The Convert Series: Leah Libresco – The Toast
I like talking with people who have changed religions. Here is one of them. Previously: Laurence Dumortier.
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Live Q&A: Indonesia, identity and the lasting legacy of 1965 | Books | The Guardian
It’s been three weeks since a series of public debates dedicated to reconciliation and remembrance of the 1965 Communist repression in Indonesia were cancelled at the Ubud writers and readers festival in Bali, following police pressure and increased…
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Dazzling video of Northern Lights in Finland, Fall 2015 / Boing Boing
This video is so beautiful. Crank the resolution way up to 4K and enjoy. Aurora Borealis enthusiast Paul Williams was flying from London to New York when he spotted the Northern Lights out his window.
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Watch Jennifer Lawrence’s Endearingly Silly Vogue Outtakes | Vanity Fair
Jennifer Lawrence has proved to be many things in the few years we’ve “known” her—an incredible actress, an entertaining interview and red-carpet presence, an awesome vacation partner, an inspiring essayist, and now, courtesy of a video taken behind…
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Another Report Suggests the Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice May Not be Charged | Mother Jones
A newly released report examining the actions of the Cleveland police officers involved in the November 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice concludes that the call taker who handled a 911 call about Rice failed to relay significant details to the offi…
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Tangerine: IPhone movie shows Hollywood’s unseen side – BBC News
Micro-budget comedy drama Tangerine, the story of two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles, is remarkable not just because it shows a side of Hollywood rarely portrayed in the cinema, but because the whole film was shot on iPhones. “It led to a lo…
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The Death Note movie taps The Leftovers actress for its female lead · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Margaret Qualley, who currently stars as Jill Garvey on HBO’s The Leftovers, has signed on to play the female lead in director Adam Wingard’s adaptation of Japanese manga/anime series Death Note.
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Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle abandon TV to star in James Patterson movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Turning their back on a medium that’s never given them that much love—outside a Daily Show stint and a Gilmore Girls here and there—Lauren Graham and Rob Riggle are teaming up for a new movie from CBS Films.
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How to protect your online brand against cybersquatters – BBC News
If you had a business called Widgets R Us and somebody set up shop right next door with a business called Widgets R U, you’d probably be a bit miffed. Especially if the interloper then demanded money to move elsewhere.
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Japan fires starting gun on Rugby World Cup and Olympics – BBC News
To host one major global sporting event might be considered good fortune, but to host two in a couple of years shows not luck but planning and ambition. At the end of this decade Japan will stage the 2019 Rugby World Cup, and the next year the Olymp…
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Secret service agent arrested on underage sex charge after SMS sting | US news | The Guardian
A US secret service officer assigned to the White House has been arrested for allegedly sending naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
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Fordite: a rare mineral only found in old Detroit auto-painting facilities / Boing Boing
The EPA, the California Air Resources Board and Environment Canada have detected more fraudulent firmware in VW products; this time in 2014-2016 cars from the super-profitable Audii and Porsche lines.
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NFL Thursday night football: Buffalo Bills v New York Jets – live! | Sport | The Guardian
Can Darrelle Revis and the Jets move to 6-3? Photograph: Stephen Pond/Getty Images
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Don’t copy-paste terminal commands from the web / Boing Boing
A clever fellow explains. You surely know this: You’re looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you’re probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there’s no need to me…
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What India and the UK love about each other – BBC News
India and the UK have a long – and troubled – relationship, but it is also one that has evolved considerably over the years.
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Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook speaks to the media on Thursday and confirms that the US has been carrying out flights over artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea.
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I want it to be true but I’ve been burned before… – Imgur
I want it to be true but I’ve been burned before… https://t.co/oni3wbZmHO https://t.co/mspGDFWiHZ
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Tracy Morgan might play Redd Foxx in Lee Daniels’ Richard Pryor biopic · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Adding yet another name to the list of prominent black celebrities—including Eddie Murphy, Oprah Winfrey, and Empire’s Taraji P.
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Anyone familiar with Aziz Ansari’s stand-up material will recognize a lot of the commentary in “Ladies And Gentlemen,” which looks at the sexism women face all the time. The episode relies on a lot of broad concepts, but it handles them with intelli…
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Prepare To Have Your Mind Blown By Some Absolutely Incredible Mecha Concept Art!
There have been a LOT of collections of robot, mech and cyborg concept art lately—but the Nuthin’ But Mech blog, and the books it’s spawned, are some of the best. The third Nuthin’ But Mech book is out, and we’ve got a huge, eye-popping gallery of c…
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Amber Rose: Hip-Hop’s Joan of Arc – The Daily Beast
This week, much like every week, was a great week to be Amber Rose. On Monday night, the primordial “rap guy’s girlfriend” returned to her humble origins at L.A.’s Ace of Diamonds gentlemen’s club.
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First on CNN: Secret Service officer arrested in child sex sting – CNNPolitics.com
Washington (CNN)A Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested after he was caught in a sting sending naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl from Delaware, according to a criminal complaint unsealed…
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I Can’t Stop Looking at Photos of Poop and Garbage on Government 311 Apps | VICE | United States
For better or worse, there are virtually no photos of human shit on Instagram. Or at least they’re very hard to find. Try to search for them. Under #poop (over 680,000 posts) it’s mostly photos of emoji and selfies.
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The Cursed, Buried City That May Never See The Light of Day | Outside Online
Thirty-three years ago, Peter Brosnan heard a story that seemed too crazy to be true: buried somewhere along California’s rugged Central Coast, beneath acres of sand dunes, lay the remains of a lost city.
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine’s email newsletter to get articles sent to your …
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World Cup winner Jake White says the role of England head coach is among the “best sporting jobs in the world”. The 52-year-old South African is the bookmakers’ favourite to succeed Stuart Lancaster, who left the post on Wednesday after England fail…
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The officer, Lee Robert Moore, 37, allegedly sent the photos through a mobile messaging service to a Delaware State Police officer posing as an underaged girl in Delaware and requested to meet in person to have sex, according to CNN.
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Learn the Three Steps to Perfect Pie Dough With This Video
When it comes to pie, the crust will make or break your baked treat. This video demonstrates three simple tricks you can use to ensure that your pie dough bakes into the perfect balance of chewy and flaky.
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How long will Flash survive? – BBC News
Released in 1996, the browser plug-in enabled animations, interactivity and streaming video on what was a largely static web. But the software has been plagued by security problems, and has been criticised for affecting computer performance and batt…
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Doctors urge feds to nix mergers between giant health insurers | Ars Technica
The American Medical Association, the largest association of doctors in the US, wants federal antitrust enforcers to smack down two proposed mergers between big health insurance companies: the combining of Aetna and Humana, and of Anthem and Cigna.
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Halabja: A ‘lost daughter’ finds her way home – BBC News
In 1988 Saddam Hussein dropped chemical weapons on his own people – the Kurdish residents of the town of Halabja. Thousands died and in the chaos that followed many families were scattered.
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Google Self-Driving Car Pulled Over For Going Too Slow | TechCrunch
The internets lit up today when someone posted a photo of a cop talking to someone in a self-driving car. Yep, it got pulled over. Why? According to Google, it was going too slow.
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Could filibuster reform become a reality for the next Senate?
Well, isn’t this interesting.
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US lifts decade of sanctions against Liberia – BBC News
The US has lifted economic sanctions against Liberia as President Barack Obama praised the country’s commitment to democracy since the end of the 2003 civil war, the White House has said. The president scrapped sanctions implemented 11 years ago aga…
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Colbert Solves The Asinine Starbucks Red Cup ‘Problem’ – Digg
17 diggs Late Night Food TV Nothing says holiday cheer like a trip to the burn unit.
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Fifty Shades Of Grey sequels to film back-to-back, other exotic positions · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Exhibiting that fiery intensity and sexy unpredictability that made viewers puke with desire the first time around, Variety reports that the Fifty Shades Of Grey creative team will fulfill requests to go faster and harder by filming sequels Fifty Sh…
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Write reviews for Wink Books and get paid / Boing Boing
Calling all writers! Wink Books is looking for writers to review books. Reviewers also need to take some photos of the books they review. If you’re interested, check out our site, and then email me (carla@boingboing.net) for more information. If you…
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Why the 165-Year-Old Buffalo Check Is 2015’s Hot Holiday Pattern | Adweek
Technically speaking, it is style No. 5310-402 in the Woolrich middleweight fabric collection, but everybody knows it by its nickname. The story goes that around 1850, a designer at Woolrich’s mill in Chatham Run, Pa. reprised a black-and-red, twill…
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Court upholds California death penalty – BBC News
A US federal appeal court has rejected a ruling which declared that capital punishment in California was unconstitutional.The original judgment said long delays in executing prisoners meant the death penalty was “cruel and unusual”.
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Suicide Squad will be a hard PG-13, if that’s a thing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a move that will surprise no one, David Ayer’s Suicide Squad will be rated PG-13—or, as producer Charles Roven puts it, “Right there on the edge of PG-13, but still PG-13,” splitting the difference between the guy who has been reading Suicide Squ…
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The Protest Artist Who Stumps Putin – The New Yorker
First Petr Pavlensky set the wooden door of Russia’s secret-police headquarters, known as the Lubyanka, on fire. Then construction workers sealed the main entrance to Moscow’s most sinister building behind sheets of corrugated metal.
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ICC Cites Evidence of Abused Afghanistan Detainees | Al Jazeera America
U.N. prosecutors said on Thursday they had evidence suggesting international forces in Afghanistan had caused serious harm to detainees by subjecting them to physical and psychological abuse.
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NextBank Aims To Be The First All-Bitcoin Financial Institution | TechCrunch
Woe betide traditional banking because Dimitry Voloshinskiy and his team are on the prowl. Voloshinskiy is the founder of the NextBank Project, an attempt to create a truly bitcoin-based bank. The team has raised $950,000 so far using personal money…
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Meet the new female Link from The Legend of Zelda | The Verge
Amid Nintendo’s flurry of fall news during the Nintendo Direct announcement today came the introduction of a long-awaited and much rumored new character named Linkle.
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US lifts decade of sanctions against Liberia – BBC News
A German former army sniper has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for his role in a conspiracy to kill a US federal agent.Dennis Gogel, 29, was arrested in 2013 in a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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‘Let’s face it: you were boring’ – Oscar De La Hoya taunts Floyd Mayweather | Sport | The Guardian
Oscar De La Hoya has taunted Floyd Mayweather in a farewell letter that describes the unbeaten fighter as “boring” and “afraid”.
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Feds arrest Ohio man who supported ISIS on Twitter and Tumblr | The Verge
Federal agents have arrested a man named Terrence McNeil for allegedly inciting terrorist violence online. McNeil expressed support for ISIS and broader jihadist ideology in a number of posts on Tumblr and Twitter.
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My 18-year-old daughter knows exactly when it will be that time of the month. Since June, she’s been plugging the dates of her menstrual cycle into a popular period tracking app called Clue, and has it programmed to send her an alert every month, tw…
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Here’s the video that shows why Mizzou’s president had to go / Boing Boing
Huffington Post posted this video that was filmed on the University of Missouri campus on October 10. It shows a group of peaceful black protestors being hassled and assaulted by white people, while the university president Tim Wolfe watched without…
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We are Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang from Master of None – Ask Us Anything : IAmA
It’s Aziz Ansari. I’m here to chat about my new Netflix series Master of None. I have my co-creator/writer Alan Yang with me here too.
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Ryan Gosling is many things: Hollywood star, internet meme, man about town and somewhat inexplicable feminist pin-up. Apparently, he’s also a fan of Bernie Sanders.
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Joel And His Robot Friends Will Rocket Back To TV With A Kickstarted MST3K | TechCrunch
In what will go down as the best example of a crowdfunded media project ever in the entire known universe forever, the team that put together the original Mystery Science Theatre 3000 are about to crash through their goal of raising $2 million to st…
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US obesity rates rising again after years of progress – BBC News
Obesity rates are rising again among American adults, despite national efforts to promote healthy lifestyles. Rates of obesity had been climbing dramatically since the 1980s but started levelling off in about 2004.
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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD launching on Wii U in March | Ars Technica
Nintendo kicked off its first Nintendo Direct live-video presentation since the passing of company head Satoru Iwata with an announcement of a Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U, but not the one we’d been anticipating.
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Pentagon chief fires senior assistant amid allegations of misconduct | US news | The Guardian
US defense secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday he had removed his senior military assistant, Lieutenant General Ron Lewis, from his position “after learning about allegations of misconduct”. Carter said he had referred the matter to the inspector …
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How Often Do You Let Your Significant Other Out of Your Sight?
There are really just two kinds of relationships: One where you trust someone, and one where you don’t. Of course, just because there’s trust doesn’t mean the relationship will work out, but if there isn’t, it’s almost guaranteed to fail.
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This Wireless Meat Thermometer Alerts You When Dinner’s Ready
Babysitting the grill or oven while dinner cooks is nobody’s idea of a good time, but this wireless temperature probe will alert you the moment your food has reached the desired temperature.
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Stubble Burning in Punjab, India : Image of the Day
The state of Punjab is known for being India’s breadbasket. Though relatively small, Punjab grows about 20 percent of the wheat produced in India and 10 percent of the rice. One of the byproducts of such intensive food production is smoke.
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There’s a Downton Abbey Thief on the Loose in America | Vanity Fair
Lock up your Downton Abbey DVD and Blu-ray box sets—there is a Downton Abbey thief at large in America.
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Meta with a vengeance, “By the Sea” stars Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt as itinerant married artists who are suffering, beautifully, through a rough patch. Any resemblance to real life is strictly coincidental and completely intentional.
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Secret Service Agent Arrested for Sexting 14-Year-Old Girl | Vanity Fair
Another blow to the Secret Service’s reputation.
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The Indian maid who had her arm chopped off in Saudi Arabia – BBC News
The Indian maid who alleges she had her arm chopped off by her employer in Saudi Arabia has spoken to BBC Newsnight in an exclusive TV interview. Kasturi Munirathinam describes the moment of the attack – and calls for India to to ban migration for w…
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In America, a GIF Can Get You Arrested | Motherboard
The US government continues to fight online ISIS propaganda by arresting supporters of the terrorist group who spread its message on social media, be it with tweets or Facebook messages, or even GIFs.
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Argentina v Brazil: World Cup 2018 qualifier – live! | Football | The Guardian
Welcome folks to this monumental game in the Conmebol calendar. Argentina v Brazil. Amazingly enough, this is only their seventh meeting in a World Cup qualifier, with only one draw back in 2008.
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Apple’s HomeKit now has a smoke detector to compete with Nest Protect | The Verge
Nest is owned by Google, which means there’s a chance its products will never integrate with Apple’s smart home platform.
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Protect Your Short Term Memory by Avoiding the “Fluency” Trap
If you’ve ever forgotten something immediately after learning it, you’ve probably experienced “fluency.” With this simple trick, you can counteract your brief memory loss and avoid any negative consequences.
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Web Warriors Reminds Me Why I Loved Spider-Verse In Just One Goofy Moment
Earlier this year, Marvel brought together countless Spider-heroes from across its vast comic book multiverse for Spider-Verse, a crossover event that was equal parts dimension-hopping adventure and love letter to the insane, wonderful Spider-Man ca…
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Tapping into conspiracy theories that say Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint once helped Ron Perlman pretend to have Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing—a staple of a loose collection of kooky beliefs about the shadowy IllumiRonti—we’ve got the trail…
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Missy Elliott’s Return Is Everything We Crave : NPR
It’s been a decade since rapper Missy Elliott released an album, and three years since her last single. When she turned up for a surprise performance during this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, fans went wild. Now, they have even more reason to cel…
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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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Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud is coming to Super Smash Bros. | The Verge
The memory-deficient hero of Final Fantasy VII is the latest character to join the fight in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Cloud Strife, large sword and all, will join the game as a playable character (as will some Chocobo-themed item…
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Two US B-52 strategic bombers flew near artificial Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea this week and were contacted by Chinese ground controllers but continued their mission undeterred, the Pentagon has revealed.
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ABC is developing exclusive shows for its Watch ABC app | The Verge
ABC is working with comedian Iliza Shlesinger on a new show that could live entirely within the network’s Watch ABC app, according to Variety.
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The Great British Baking Show breaks all the reality TV rules. That’s why it’s so good. – Vox
The Great British Bake-Off breaks all the rules of reality shows. The British baking competition features no raised voices or snippy asides. If the contestants have grand personal narratives of overcoming struggle, we don’t hear about them. It seems…
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Earlier this year, Miles Morales—the half-African-American, half-Latino teenager who became Ultimate Spider-Man in 2011—took over the title of plain old, unmodified Spider-Man in the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe.
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On February 20, 2003, a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island called The Station burned down. Amid the smoke, heat, and panicked, stampeding crowds, 100 people were killed, and 230 more injured.
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Alan Partridge will be back (again) in February · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Britain’s prodigal son Alan Partridge is returning to TV this winter. As we previously reported, Steve Coogan will be stepping back into the role of inept radio host in another season of his mockumentary sitcom Mid Morning Matters.
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‘So many children’ arrive on Lesbos – BBC News
Thousands of those seeking refuge in Europe come from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, but they face a perilous journey. The BBC’s Ed Thomas reports from the island of Lesbos which has seen a huge number of arrivals.
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Students across US march against debt and for tuition-free public college | US news | The Guardian
Students held rallies on college campuses across the United States on Thursday to protest against ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges and a minimum wage hike for campus workers.
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The original Pokemon games are coming to the Nintendo 3DS | The Verge
If modern Pokemon games are too complicated for you, there’s good news: Nintendo is bringing the original Game Boy games to the 3DS as digital downloads. Starting February 27th, you’ll be able to purchase Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow on your handhe…
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Independent Report Says Police Acted Reasonably in Tamir Rice’s Death – The Atlantic
The report is the third independent report Prosecutor Timothy McGinty has released. Two previous reports also found that Officer Timothy Loehmann acted reasonably.
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F.uxd: Apple Says Screen Brightness App Violates Developer Agreement | TechCrunch
Just 24 hours after developers of the popular screen brightness app f.lux released a side-loaded version for iOS, Apple has told the developers that they are in violation of the company’s developer program agreement. Since f.
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Become a Better Haggler by Avoiding Yes or No Questions
Haggling with a salesperson is just as much about establishing a rapport as it is about driving down a price. By avoiding yes or no questions at first, you can keep sellers from dismissing you immediately and earn some time to engage with them.
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Four Air France employees sacked over violent protest – BBC News
Four Air France employees have been sacked following violent protests at the company’s headquarters in October. Workers were protesting against mass job cuts when two managers’ shirts were ripped and one was forced to flee over a fence. Several othe…
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New video shows Virginia officers used stun guns on man before his death | US news | The Guardian
Three police officers repeatedly used stuns guns on a black man they brought to a Virginia hospital for a mental health evaluation, and the man later died in their custody, according to recently released videos in the 2013 case.
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Can Chinese films beat James Bond at box office? – BBC News
Spectre, the latest instalment of the James Bond franchise, has had its Chinese premier, with a lavish event in Beijing. The film is hoping to capitalise on the lucrative Chinese market – it is currently the second biggest in the world.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Young, telegenic and media-savvy, State Auditor Adam Edelen looked like a shoo-in for re-election when Democrats gathered in a horse barn here for a buffet dinner late last month.
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Fiverr CEO On Raising $60 Million in Fresh Funding: “It’s a Land Grab Right Now” | TechCrunch
This week, Fiverr, a five-year-old marketplace for people needing creative skills find freelancers willing to help them, announced $60 million in new financing led by Square Peg Capital.
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The Writer Of Chronicle and American Ultra Is Taking An Astronaut In the Opposite Direction
The goal of any astronaut is to go into space. The further out, the better. Mars is next, but Saturn, Jupiter, out of the Milky Way, that’s the stuff of dreams. Except in a Max Landis script. In a Max Landis script, the opposite happens. An astronau…
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Star Fox Zero is coming to the Wii U in April | The Verge
After being pushed back from this holiday season, the next Star Fox adventure finally has a new release date: April 22nd. The Wii U game, called Star Fox Zero, was first announced at E3 in 2014, and is the first new entry in the series since Star Fo…
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Canada Prepares To Welcome 25,000 Syrian Refugees Before New Year | ThinkProgress
While the United States deliberates about the threat of Syrian refugees, its neighbor to the north, Canada, is following through on a promise to resettle 25,000 refugees before the year ends.
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Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, launched a ground attack against the Islamic State in an attempt to take back the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from the terrorist organization.
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Can CRISPR Avoid the Monsanto Problem? – The New Yorker
It is distressing, but a fact, that the more rapidly any technology is adopted by scientists the more likely it is to leave people confused, anxious, and suspicious.
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Angelina Jolie’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring – The New Yorker
The best reason for a movie to exist is the pleasure it provides, and by this exacting standard, “By the Sea” is one of Hollywood’s few star-centered successes to have been released this season.
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Encore: Metro Driver Connects Commuters In The Nation’s Capital : NPR
Commuters on the Washington, D.C., metro often tell Lamour Rogers that his booming voice brightens their day. This story originally aired on Sept. 7, 2015 on All Things Considered.
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State senator running for Missouri AG wants to stop study on 72-hour waiting period for abortion
This guy isn’t happy merely meddling with women’s reproductive rights. He wants info about it blocked, too. Blocking research, concealing data or not collecting data in the first place is one of the many ways lawmakers can, and have, skewed opinion …
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Here’s How Leonardo DiCaprio Spent His 41st Birthday | Vanity Fair
This year, Leonardo DiCaprio—early Oscar favorite, environmental activist, and one of Hollywood’s last remaining movie stars—did something a bit different for his 41st birthday: he laid low.
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These Guys Actually Built That Terrifying Flame Sword From Fallout | TechCrunch
It’s something of a rule: if a cool thing exists in a video game or movie, someone will (try to) make it real. Bioshock’s Big Daddy. Wolverine’s Claws. Thor’s Hammer. (Self plug: The Doctor’s TARDIS)
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The Shia LaBeouf Marathon Is An Uneven Mess Bookended By Greatness | FiveThirtyEight
Shia LaBeouf, a performance artist who once had a vibrant acting career, is wrapping up a three-day movie marathon at the Angelika Film Center in New York.
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Pope Francis gets more people to care about climate change | Grist
In a complete slap in the face to millions of environmental activists all over the world, a bunch of people just decided to care about climate change because ONE dude told them to.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD is coming to Wii U early next year | The Verge
As the wait continues for the new Legend of Zelda game, Nintendo has announced an HD remake of Twilight Princess that’s coming March 4th, 2016 to the Wii U.
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Secret Service Employee Arrested in Teen Sexting Bust – The Daily Beast
Lee Robert Moore, 37, turned himself into Maryland State Police Barracks on Monday the same day a complaint was filed against him for allegedly corresponding with a Delaware state police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl.
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Janis Joplin’s Siblings Recall Summer of Love Family Trip in New Doc | Rolling Stone
Janis Joplin’s brother and sister, Laura and Michael, recounted a family trip to San Francisco during the Summer of Love to visit their older sibling, then on the precipice of rock and roll stardom, in a new clip from the documentary, Janis: Little …
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Great White Singer Making Documentary About Tragic Nightclub Fire | Rolling Stone
Great White frontman Jack Russell is filming a documentary about the infamous fire that killed 100 people during a 2003 gig at a club in Rhode Island, The Associated Press reports.
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‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Sequels Tie Down a Director | Rolling Stone
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Sequels Tie Down a Director ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ director James Foley straps in for BDSM trilogy
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Justin Bieber: ‘I Had Tears in My Eyes’ Watching Amy Winehouse Doc | Rolling Stone
Justin Bieber continued to ruminate on the destructive nature of fame in a new cover story for NME in which he spoke about his emotional response to the recent Amy Winehouse documentary.
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Watch the Long History of Hearings Over ‘Indecent’ Pop Culture | Rolling Stone
Watch the Long History of Hearings Over ‘Indecent’ Pop Culture Every so often, lawmakers hold a hearing to bemoan sex and violence in music and movies – and then nothing happens
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Eclipse – Salomon Freeski TV S9 E03 on Vimeo
GO BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA FEATURE AT http://freeskitv.salomon.com/en/episodes/eclipse WINNER ‘Best Snow Sports Film’ at the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival It was a ridiculous idea from the start. Travel to the edge of the…
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Floyd Mayweather’s Perpetual Party Machine Rolls Over T.I. | Rolling Stone
The Floyd Mayweather Perpetual Party Machine keeps right on rolling, and even his former foes are powerless to stop it.
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When you’re not paying attention in class and you finally look at the board – GIF on Imgur
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Going back to your hometown is hard when it’s a 1986 computer game / Offworld
The holidays are nigh, and with them, the annual pilgrimages made by millions back to their hometowns. For some, this is an opportunity to bask in the warm glow that radiates from the memories of their youth; for others, it’s a reminder of the lives…
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Watch David Bowie get down on Soul Train (1975) / Boing Boing
On November 4, 1975, David Bowie performed “Golden Years” on Soul Train. Sure, he was lip-syncing, but the Thin White Duke’s got soul. The Bowie Golden Years site has more background on the appearance.
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Track of the Day: ‘WTF’ – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Hemingway, Mailer, PewDiePie? YouTube Stars Hit The Bestseller Lists : NPR
Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How? The 1920s had Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The ’60s, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth and James Baldwin. More recently, J.K. Rowling defined a generation. And now, there’s … PewDiePie?
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Woody Allen’s Annie Hall voted funniest screenplay ever written | Film | The Guardian
“There’s an old joke,” begins Woody Allen, talking straight to camera. “Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ’em says, ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small por…
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Fossil Group acquires wearable maker Misfit for $260 million | The Verge
Fossil Group has agreed to acquire Misfit, maker of wearable activity trackers for $260M in a major deal uniting traditional watchmakers with Silicon Valley talent.
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Fossil acquires Misfit to bring connectivity to more fashionable accessories | Ars Technica
Today, Fossil Group announced that it has entered at $260 million “definitive agreement” to acquire Misfit, the company that created the popular and versatile line of Misfit fitness trackers.
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An album of unreleased Jeff Buckley songs is coming out next spring · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Entertainment Weekly, an album of unreleased Jeff Buckley songs—reportedly consisting of his first ever studio recordings—will be released in March of next year. The album is called You And I, and will contain 10 tracks.
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Fossil Group Buys Health-Tracking Wearable Startup Misfit For $260M | TechCrunch
Watchmaker Fossil Group said today it would acquire Misfit, which creates various wearable and sleep trackers in addition to a health-tracking platform, for $260 million. Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit, will serve as Fossil’s CTO.
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How to Enjoy the Holidays Without Messing Up Your Weight Loss
The holiday season is hardly the harbinger of impending health and fitness. Especially considering that, for many, December’s poster boy is a morbidly obese old man that gorges himself on cookies and cake.
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The box-office-dominating Spectre may be Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007—or it may not be. Either way, the film certainly seems like a victory lap or a valedictory speech, especially given how many references it contains to previous entries in the…
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Darius McCollum: US serial bus thief ‘steals Greyhound’ – BBC News
A man who has been arrested nearly 30 times for bus or train theft has been stopped again for allegedly trying to steal a Greyhound bus. Police say Darius McCollum, 50, stole the coach from the nation’s busiest bus terminal, New York Port Authority,…
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The EU’s refugee dilemma – Al Jazeera English
Sweden has introduced temporary border controls in the south, saying it can no longer guarantee shelter for the thousands of refugees crossing through every day. The country has accepted more asylum seekers – relative to the size of its population -…
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Universities in Britain and the U.S. Are Losing Their Moral Compass – The Daily Beast
Just as you thought the moral cowardice and intellectual duplicity of our trendy university atmosphere couldn’t get any worse, one of London’s largest universities reminds us that we are indeed living in a tempestuous age.
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Instead of continuing to come up with excuses to get an aging Rocky Balboa back in the ring, Creed finally lets Sylvester Stallone’s boxer-with-a-heart-of-gold outside the ropes. This time around, Rocky reluctantly agrees to train Adonis Johnson (Mi…
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A collection of indie-rock stalwarts and new kids on the block are donating their tunes to a good cause.
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What Did the Ancient Egyptians Do to Deserve These Gods of Egypt Posters?
With these posters, a movie that I’d barely paid attention to gets the highest compliment I can give: This is so ridiculous, I might have to see it. Okay. Let’s break this shit down.
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Dogmeat, Fallout 4, and the Anxiety of Everything – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
Dogmeat is a very good dog. It isn’t just that he’s obedient, though Dogmeat is definitely obedient. It isn’t just that he’s a handsome-looking German Shepherd, with wonderfully rendered, intelligent, and kind dog eyes.
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Students across the country plan walk out in solidarity with Missouri students
A national call to action and walkout has been called for today in solidarity with black students at the University of Missouri (Mizzou). The students have faced increased hostility and threats to their safety since university President Tim Wolfe an…
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Rounding Up The Last Of A Deadly Cattle Virus : The Salt : NPR
There are only two diseases that humans have wiped from the face of the earth. One is smallpox. The other one, you may not have heard of. It’s a cattle disease called rinderpest. Even the name sounds scary. It’s German for “cattle plague.
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The bloom is coming off the rose for the Republican presidential debates. Now that could simply be me and my incredibly disenchanted view of this particular field of folly, but I don’t think so.
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A major Greenland glacier is collapsing | Grist
The plan focuses on rebuilding infrastructure to create new jobs and replace those lost in the coal industry.
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MSF Protests Over Pfizer Drug Price | Al Jazeera America
NEW YORK — Children in poor countries are going without pneumonia vaccine because of the high price of the shots, manufactured by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, members of humanitarian group Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) said at …
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Watch One Direction Cover Kanye West, Natalie Imbruglia | Rolling Stone
Watch One Direction Cover Kanye West, Natalie Imbruglia Boy band makes first appearance to BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge to take on “FourFiveSeconds” and “Torn”
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In what is clearly an attempt to lull American protagonists into a false sense of security, British person Daniel Radcliffe has declared that Americans are bad at writing British villains.
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Han River, Seoul, South Korea [OC] [3984×2241] : CityPorn
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Spice Up Presentations by Adding a Villain, Victim, and Hero
Presentations can be dreadfully boring if not executed well, but the Harvard Business Review points to one easy approach that’ll spice up any presentation: use a villain-victim-hero framework.
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Walmart employees are so poor that they are skipping lunch, sharing it or, in some cases, stealing it from their coworkers, some of the company’s workers claimed on Thursday while announcing a fast in protest of the company’s wages.
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Airbnb seems to be feeling itself a bit since defeating a debated proposition in San Francisco last week that could have subjected the company to more regulation.
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Victoria’s Secret Perfume Is Almost as Powerful as DEET – The Daily Beast
Researchers at New Mexico State University have published findings in the Journal of Insect Science indicating that Victoria’s Secret Bombshell Eau de Parfum is unexpectedly good at repelling mosquitos—almost as effective as commercial insect repell…
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Visiting Day: The Unrelenting Stress of Family Prison Visits – The Atlantic
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Hulu may get a huge investment from the owner of HBO | The Verge
Hulu, the streaming service borne of a joint venture between Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, and Comcast, is looking for a fourth parent. According to the Wall Street Journal, Hulu is in talks to sell a stake to Time Warner, Inc., in a move that woul…
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Someone Made that Flaming Sword from ‘Fallout 4’ Real | Motherboard
Strategically, in terms of combat, what’s the point of a flaming sword? Seem like mostly it would increase your chances of hurting yourself.
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Vevo iOS app update adds ‘favorites,’ personalized video recommendations | The Verge
Vevo’s redesign of its iOS app today is aimed at giving users a more personalized video browsing experience. In addition to a sleek, new all-black interface, the update brings two new sections to the app: Favorites and Spotlight. Do you “love” The W…
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Unnatural Acts of Discovery and Invention – Scientific American
On December 2, the centennial anniversary of Einstein’s publication of his general theory of relativity, science fans everywhere will reflect on this amazing act of genius that fundamentally reshaped our understanding of gravity and introduced the w…
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New app lets users ‘share meals’ with Syrian children – Al Jazeera English
If you own a smartphone you can now help nourish refugee children who have been forced to flee their homes during Syria’s prolonged confict. With just a simple tap on their phones, users of ShareTheMeal can choose how much they want to contribute. D…
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There’s an STI That You Probably Don’t Know About — and It’s Not Entirely Uncommon – Mic
Here’s a fun little kernel of news to brighten up (and/or slightly dampen) your Thursday afternoon: There’s a new STD in town! And it could be more common than we realize.
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Vevo Follows YouTube Music’s Debut With An Upgraded Music App Of Its Own | TechCrunch
Following today’s launch of the anticipated YouTube Music application, music video streaming app Vevo, which distributes videos to YouTube and counts Google as an investor, is also introducing a new experience of its own.
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Construction of Huge Next-Gen Telescope Begins in Chile
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hits a rock with a hammer at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Giant Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory on Nov. 11. (“Las Campanas” means “the bells” in Spanish; the observatory was named after the c…
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We want to talk to you about breathing — something you do all the time (if you don’t, we have no idea how you’re reading this.) Breathing, of course, just happens. You don’t have to think about it much.
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Maybe the College Kids Should Destroy College?
It is fair to say that, in examining the twin meltdowns at Yale and the University of Missouri, the pundit class has come down against the tactics of the students, who, in both cases, have been militant and aggressive.
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Password-pilfering app exposes weakness in iOS and Android vetting process | Ars Technica
Highlighting crucial weaknesses in Apple’s and Google’s processes for admitting new titles into their competing app stores, both companies have ejected a third-party Instagram app after discovering it probably pilfered user passwords and pictures.
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn’t Really Get What It Means To Be A Star Wars Movie
When the eighth word of the first Star Wars movie is “taxation,” you know there’s going to be a problem. Welcome to our Star Wars movie rewatch! George Lucas’s 1999 film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has long been a lightning rod for hatre…
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HUD Proposes Nationwide Smoking Ban In Public Housing : NPR
Public housing residents would be banned from smoking, not just in public spaces on the premises, but in their own apartments under a proposal Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Israel Criticizes New EU Guidelines On Labeling Products From Settlements : NPR
Israeli officials are objecting to new European Union guidelines to require that labels of origin on goods sold in Europe from occupied territories be labeled that way — not as made in Israel.
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Massive Pacific Trade Agreement Ignores One Huge Tariff: Currency Manipulation : NPR
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement has been hashed out line-by-line. All 6,000 pages of it. It will set the rules for roughly one-third of world trade. It has precise requirements for tariffs, quotas and subsidies for all manner of goods.
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‘My All-American’ Remembers Forgotten Story Of Heroic Texas Football Player : NPR
My All-American is out in theaters on Friday. It’s a story about Texas football and is written by the same person who did Rudy and Hoosiers. It centers on one of the players, Freddie Steinmark, and an improbable story that reached all the way to the…
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Mizzou’s Black Students Cope With Fear Spawned By Death Threats : NPR
The University of Missouri’s Black Culture Center has become a hub for black students afraid after Tuesday’s death threats. Students are also escorting each other to class and coping in other ways.
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Tug Of War Over Obama’s Clean Power Plan Takes Center Stage In Colorado : NPR
The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan has divided the states. It requires carbon emission reductions from power plants, and more than two dozen states have sued to stop it. But many others are in favor. This tug of war is playing out in Colora…
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Rising Sea Levels Threaten Tiny Islands Home To Indigenous Panamanians : NPR
Sea rise is threatening the way of life for a Panamanian indigenous group that lives on islands off the Caribbean coast. They’re now pondering moving back to the mainland and abandoning their way of life.
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Suicide Bombing Kills At Least 37 In Hezbollah Stronghold Of Southern Beirut : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to New York Times Bureau Chief Anne Barnard about the suicide bombing in the southern suburbs of Beirut, an area controlled by Lebanon’s militant political party, Hezbollah.
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Obama Awards Medal Of Honor To Army Captain For Afghanistan Service : NPR
President Obama awards the Medal of Honor to the 10th living recipient, Army Capt. Florent Groberg, for conspicuous gallantry during his service in Afghanistan.
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College Protests Raise Questions About Culture Of Political Correctness : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with writer Roxane Gay and New York Magazine political columnist Jonathan Chait about activism and political correctness on today’s college campuses.
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Kurdish Forces In Iraq Begin Offensive To Retake Sinjar From ISIS : NPR
Iraqi Kurdish fighters, with support from US troops and warplanes, have begun an offensive in northern Iraq aimed at recapturing a key area west of the city of Mosul, severing the link with northern Syria. ISIS says it will fight to the last man.
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60 Years After The Boycott, Progress Stalls For Montgomery Buses : NPR
Editor’s note: This post contains a word you might find deeply offensive. Thanks to legacy of Rosa Parks, people of all races can sit where they wish on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., today. But that’s only if there’s a seat, or even a bus going their w…
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As His Moderate Rivals Are ‘Ripping Each Other Apart,’ Ted Cruz Sees An In : NPR
That the freshman senator from Texas had a good night onstage at the latest Republican debate surprises nobody anymore — Ted Cruz is poised, articulate and smart.
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Kurdish Fighters Roll Toward Sinjar In Battle To Retake Strategic Iraqi Town : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with BuzzFeed photographer Ayman Oghanna about Kurdish fighters’ efforts to retake Sinjar, Iraq, from ISIS.
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Is divorce really that bad? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
Hopes&Fears answers questions with the help of people who know what they’re talking about. We asked economists, sociologists and marriage and family experts whether divorce’s bad rap is warranted.
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Even The Planes Stop Flying For South Korea’s National Exam Day : Parallels : NPR
It’s an hour before the big test starts and the skies above Seoul have gone silent. The government grounds aircraft or reroutes flights to keep students from getting distracted during the biggest test of their lives.
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For the First Time, Physicists Derive Pi from Quantum Mechanics | Motherboard
A pair of scientists from the University of Rochester has discovered something unexpected lurking far down in the mathematical depths of quantum mechanics: pi.
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‘Goodfella’ Vincent Asaro Acquitted in Mafia Trial Over Lufthansa Heist – The Atlantic
Leave it to a veteran wiseguy to outsmart the prosectors. Asaro, 80, was on trial for a long slate of crimes, including planning the $5 million theft at John F. Kennedy Airport and various other acts of racketeering and extortion.
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Russian plans for massive nuclear undersea attack drone revealed by newscast | Ars Technica
Apparently, Russia has plans for a long-range autonomous nuclear torpedo capable of carrying a massive warhead that could lay waste to seaports and shower coastal cities with radioactive contamination.
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Notepads from imaginary hotels like The Overlook / Boing Boing
From Herb Lester Associates, clever hotel notepads from fictional movie and television hotels! For £12.00, you get six pads:
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Facebook Takes on Snapchat (Again) With Self-Destructing Messages | Motherboard
Facebook is now testing a feature that will allow users to send self-destructing messages in Messenger. Obviously, offering this feature is a move to compete with Snapchat—but it’s far from the first time Facebook has done something to take on its m…
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Look At This: Rain Forest Was Here – NPR
You were taught in school that the rain forest is like the lungs of our planet. It’s not that simple.
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National sorority Alpha Phi refuses to back Republicans’ Safe Campus Act | US news | The Guardian
Alpha Phi has become the first national sorority to refuse to back a controversial new bill, the Safe Campus Act, intended to combat sexual assault on campus.
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Pervert Robot [Robot on the Road] : animegifs
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The “New Democrats” Confront a New Reality
It’s true. The corporate-friendly policies of the party’s more conservative wing have fared poorly, both as policy and as politics, and as a result the party has moved to the left. The insurgent candidacy of Bernie Sanders is the most conspicuous si…
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Don’t buy the OnePlus X in the US | The Verge
A couple of weeks ago, OnePlus announced its second smartphone of the year, the low-cost OnePlus X. The OnePlus X is an impressive little phone: it has a bright, sharp display, premium design, and clean software. And it has an aggressively low price…
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Ted Cruz’s ‘crazy’ tax plan would cost US at least $16tn, thinktank says | US news | The Guardian
Firebrand senator Ted Cruz’s tax plans are “crazy” and would cost the US at least $16.2tn, according to an analysis by thinktank Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ).
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Saving the Wolf Pack with Chantecaille | Vanity Fair
Believe it or not, wolves, with their cunning predatory skills and alluring features, are important in keeping natural order balanced. But did you know that after they’re re-introduced into the wild they are no longer protected as an endangered spec…
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Kiernan Shipka reviews all the Bobby Drapers · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Kiernan Shipka was a fixture over the course of Mad Men’s eight-year run. Audiences watched her, and her character Sally Draper, grow from a child into a young woman, and from an occasional cast member to someone with her own plot arcs.
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There Are Fewer Uninsured Veterans Thanks To Obamacare | ThinkProgress
Just in time for this week’s commemoration of Veteran Day, new data from the National Health Interview Survey shows good news for veterans in the United States: The number of non-elderly veterans without health insurance has declined from 12 percent…
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Ohio man arrested over alleged Isis-related threats against US military | US news | The Guardian
An Ohio man was arrested on Thursday and accused of calling for violence against American military members in the name of the Islamic State, federal prosecutors announced.
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The dead of winter will at least bring with it the return of some of your favorite (and most-anticipated) TV shows. FX has announced the premiere dates for its winter lineup, including It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: “The gang returns for its sea…
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Tired of being left to rely on the charity of others to feed their families, Walmart workers around the country are launching two weeks of fasting in the run-up to Thanksgiving to demand livable wages and full-time schedules.
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R.I.P. Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, former Motörhead drummer · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Phil Taylor, a former member of seminal British heavy-metal band Motörhead, has died. He was 61. The Guardian reports that news of Taylor’s passing was relayed by his friend and bandmate Eddie Clarke, who posted on Facebook: My dear friend and broth…
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Love Is Truly a Battlefield on American Horror Story: Hotel
“Room 33” begins with a flashback that offers a shout-out to American Horror Story’s first season.
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UN mulls boosting presence in Burundi – BBC News
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning the escalating violence in Burundi. The resolution paves the way for the UN to bolster the international presence in the African nation.
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It’s Raining Menswear – The New Yorker
Earlier this fall, Antonio Banderas, a.k.a. Zorro, began taking classes in menswear design at Central Saint Martins, the renowned London fashion school.
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Castro, the Simplest iOS Podcast Manager, Adds iOS 9 Features and Goes Free
iOS: Castro is one our favorite podcast managers on iOS because it’s easy to use, has a few clever management options, and works great for people who only listen to a few podcasts. Today, the apps gone free while adding in a bunch of new iOS 9 featu…
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Bosch’s Giant Robot Can Punch Weeds to Death – IEEE Spectrum
At IROS last month, researchers from a Bosch startup called Deepfield Robotics presented a paper on “Vision-Based High-Speed Manipulation for Robotic Ultra-Precise Weed Control,” which has like four distinct exciting-sounding phrases in it.
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Milky Way at Capitol Reef, Utah js – Just Space
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The House That Julia Built https://t.co/0RP5lS2Zf8
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HMJB while i take off this life jacket : holdmyjuicebox
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Smoking ban plan for US public housing – BBC News
Smoking ban plan for US public housing https://t.co/EM4yZiSC37
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BBC – Culture – When Disney got adult – and trippy
Futurist, surrealist, abstract artist: those are not customary descriptions of Walt Disney, yet they all fit. People who insist on pigeonholing him as a purveyor of bland family entertainment haven’t bothered to watch his movies closely, especially …
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Gentrification Through the Eyes of Yelp Reviewers – The Atlantic
A new 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 gentrification,…
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This new picture of Pluto is trippy enough for any EDM festival | The Verge
NASA bestowed upon us a precious gift this afternoon, by releasing this crazy, psychedelic image of Pluto in false color. Using a technique called principal component analysis, NASA scientists were able to drastically exaggerate the subtle color dif…
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Hillary Clinton introduces plan to help coal communities as Big Coal declines | Grist
Efforts to grow better tasting fruits and vegetables lead to purple tomatoes and spiceless habaneros.
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Pseudo-Therapy Apps: The Fad Diet Of Mental Health | TechCrunch
There’s a life-threatening condition that prevents people from feeling pain. An afflicted person may leave their hand on a hot stove without realizing it. There are only 20 reported cases, because the genes responsible have been weeded out by evolut…
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Once Stable Greenland Glaciers Face Rapid Melt – Scientific American
The mass of miles-thick ice that covers most of Greenland could raise global sea levels by some 20 feet if it all melted.
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Englishman and writer Richard Grant moved from lower Manhattan to rural Mississippi. He wrote a book about the experience, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta.
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Is Amy Winehouse the Reason for Justin Bieber’s Nice Guy Makeover? | Vanity Fair
Between the egg-tossing, A.T.V. crashes, and ghosts of ill-advised jokes past coming back to haunt him, 2014 was a rough year for Justin Bieber. From the looks of it, 2015 will be different.
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President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday announced preliminary fines worth 250 million reais ($66.2m) against a mine in southeastern Brazil where two dams burst, killing at least seven people and coating a two-state area with mud and mine waste.
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Smoking ban plan for US public housing – BBC News
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has proposed banning smoking in and around all public housing properties across the US. The agency said the ban was necessary to protect residents from second-hand smoke and to save money in h…
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‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday the addition of a “Seek Funding” step to the scien…
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Pocket moves into Twitter territory with a public feed of your recommended reading | The Verge
Pocket, the service for saving articles and videos to view later, is starting to look a bit more like a social network. The company is now testing a way for you to share your favorite items to a public profile, which others can follow to see your pi…
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Bibi And Barack: Scenes From A Failed Marriage – The Huffington Post
Benjamin Netanyahu was waiting in a small, drab office in the administrative area of Ronald Reagan National Airport. It was March 2007, and he was about to fly back to Israel from Washington. But before he left, he wanted to feel out a promising, yo…
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CHÂTEAUNEUF DE GRASSE, France — It may come as a surprise to learn that Julia Child, America’s quintessential French chef, lived in France for only a short time.
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An Oral History of ‘Peep Show,’ the UK Sitcom That Defined a Generation | VICE | United States
When the first series of Peep Show came out on DVD in 2004, it was pre-Netflix—pre-YouTube, even.
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Protesters welcome appointment of University of Missouri interim president | US news | The Guardian
The University of Missouri’s governing board tapped Michael Middleton, 68, to take over from Tim Wolfe. Middleton, who is black, resigned as deputy chancellor of the Columbia campus in August and took on the role of deputy chancellor emeritus.
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Palm Beach Gardens officials say they have fired a police officer who fatally shot an armed man who was waiting next to his disabled SUV last month. City spokeswoman Candice Temple said in a press release on Thursday that the police department has t…
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Boston residents who used Uber to hail a ride recently may be surprised to see a murdered out Tesla Model S roll up to the curb.
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Reputed New York mobster, 80, acquitted in 1978 ‘Goodfellas’ heist | US news | The Guardian
An 80-year-old reputed mobster was found not guilty on Tuesday of his role in a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped inspire the Mafia movie Goodfellas, according to media reports.
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A judge who ordered that a baby be taken away from her lesbian foster parents and placed with a heterosexual couple should follow the law and not inject his personal beliefs into the matter, Utah’s Republican governor said Thursday.
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10 Villain Origins That Actually Make Sense
Pop culture is full of weak villains with nonsense origins. And the latest James Bond film, Spectre, was Exhibit A for “villains ruined by ridiculous new backstories.” But it doesn’t have to be this way. Here are 10 villains who actually have origin…
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Alfred Hitchcock watches people watching other people · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Many famous directors have their pet themes, topics they return to again and again in their careers because they’re seemingly never quite finished with them. Martin Scorsese has his Catholic guilt. Hal Needham had his car chases.
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One curious aspect of economic debate these past five years or so has been the extent to which people demanding fiscal austerity and/or higher interest rates rely on what I think of as spurious authority figures — people who are well-known for some …
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Guillermo del Toro Gives Jack Kirby a Perfect Tribute
In a series of tweets, Guillermo del Toro—obviously no stranger to the comics—decided to offer his own little tribute to Jack Kirby’s skill. It’s pretty much dead-on correct. The rest of the tweets are below. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Earlier this year Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) made a fucking idiotic attempt at “humor” by tweeting that it was a “Chick-fil-A kind of day” after the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage.
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Three Things You Can Do If You’re Behind on Saving for Retirement
“Save early and save often” is one of the few pieces of financial advice almost everyone agrees on. There are huge benefits to starting early. But if you’ve missed that chance to start saving in your 20s or early 30s, all hope is not lost. The good …
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See Future Enlist Drake, Puff Daddy, Chief Keef for ‘Colossal’ Video | Rolling Stone
The video for Future’s “Colossal,” a track with a bluesy piano hook off his DS2 album, shows him flying in planes, driving a Rolls Royce and hanging with his friends. Drake, Puff Daddy, Chief Keef and DJ Khaled all make appearances in the clip.
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Shia LaBeouf’s Self-Indulgent Movie Marathon Turns Out to Be Surprisingly Poignant | Vanity Fair
It started as just another “crazy Shia LaBeouf art project,” as weird and self-indulgent as the time he sat in a Los Angeles art gallery and cried from behind a paper bag.
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Why We’ll Never Be Able to Spoiler-Proof the Internet
A couple years ago, I wanted to find out the name of the actor who played my favorite character on House of Cards, so I googled the character. Big mistake. The very first Google search result was the character’s House of Cards Wikia page—including d…
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Watch this Indian street vendor slice vegetables like a damn boss / Boing Boing
I could literally watch this all day. From The Report, a Mumbai YouTube channel, back in 2012: “We recorded a salesman at Colaba demoing an interesting Indian-made cutter that lets you slice, peel, chop and make vegetable designs too.
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NASA Hopes Its Dramatic CO2 Simulations Will Get UN Leaders to Act | Motherboard
NASA is preparing for a very stark future in which carbon cycles suddenly just stop working.
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‘Room’: How a Dark Indie Became 2015’s Left-Field Oscar Contender | Rolling Stone
Hi! Do you know how to spell ‘Prosecco’?” These are the first words Brie Larson says when she jumps on the phone, calling somewhere from deep in the heart of London.
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Kelsea Ballerini Scores ‘Rising Star’ Award | Rolling Stone
In 2014, Kelsea Ballerini attended the CMA Awards as a fan. At the 2015 show on November 4th, she walked the red carpet as a double nominee. Though she didn’t collect any CMA hardware that night, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native’s meteoric rise this…
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Few people are as familiar with both Washington DC and Silicon Valley than Ben Jealous. Formerly the President and CEO of the NAACP, Jealous is now a partner at the Oakland based Kapor Capital (http://www.kaporcapital.
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Chemicals used in oil spill cleanup made Gulf disaster worse | Grist
Efforts to grow better tasting fruits and vegetables lead to purple tomatoes and spiceless habaneros.
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Lawyer who photographed and tweeted evidence from trial may face sanctions | Ars Technica
A Chicago lawyer who took photos and tweeted them from a federal courthouse is in serious hot water. US District Chief Judge Ruben Castillo has ordered (PDF) Vincent “Trace” Schmeltz III to appear in his courtroom later this month and explain why he…
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ISIL claims suicide bombings in southern Beirut – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed at least 41 people and injured 200 others in a predominantly Shia residential area of southern Beirut.
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Why Did Prosecutors Indict So Many People in the Waco Biker Shootout Case? – The Atlantic
Nine people were killed and 18 injured in the shootout between two infamous biker gangs, the Cossacks and the Bandidos, at a Twin Peaks restaurant.
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A Key Piece of Star Wars History Gets A Rebels-Centric Origin Story
Everyone knows the X-Wing. Some people maybe even know the Y-Wing. But A and B Wings? They’re definitely the lesser know Rebel Alliance ships and on the latest episode of Star Wars Rebels, we found out exactly how the B-Wing first came into play, wi…
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Darius McCollum has a peculiar hobby: impersonating New York transit staff, stealing buses and trains, and then driving them away. As one police spokesman said of him in 2010, he has “a thing for mass transit”.
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AdBlock Plus Hosted a ‘Camp David’ to Help End the AdBlock Wars | Motherboard
AdBlock Plus organized a “Camp David” style summit a few days ago that brought advertisers and publishers together to discuss the contentious future of adblocking.
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Iran Set to Unveil Collection of Western Art Largely Unseen Since 1979 Revolution | Vanity Fair
It’s a collection that includes artworks by Andy Warhol, Claude Monet, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, René Magritte, and many others. It has been valued at approximately $3 billion.
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What the Emoji You’re Sending Actually Look Like to Your Friends | Motherboard
Imagine if a heart emoji sent from one person’s device showed up on the recipient’s app as a pile of poo. It’d be social bedlam. That doesn’t happen because emoji are standardized by Unicode to prevent such cross-platform miscommunication.
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I often use this reference for writing, thought it might help some of you – Imgur
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Twitter Doing More With GIFs, Introduces Feature Called “ScratchReel” | TechCrunch
Twitter tweeted out a new toy for you to play with for video called “ScratchReel.” Basically, it lets you scrub a short GIF back and forth for cool effects. Spotted a ScratchReel yet? Scrub back & forth to help the @WSL surfer escape the tube! ⏪
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A new study says that this small eel photographed by accident on a Caribbean coral reef is the first green fluorescent fish ever recorded.
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I often use this reference for writing, thought it might help some of you – Imgur
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Toward Basic Rights for College Athletes, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Vale and BHP fined for deadly Brazilian dam burst – BBC News
The Brazilian government is fining the mining giants Vale and BHP Billiton for a dam burst at their jointly owned mine. The companies face preliminary fines of 250m Brazilian reais (£43.6m; $66.3m).
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The Offer That MLB Players Always Refuse, Even When They Shouldn’t | FiveThirtyEight
It’s qualifying offer season in Major League Baseball, that most anticlimactic time of year when teams offer one-year deals to a handful of players on the brink of free agency.
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The Canadian Census Matters (Really) | FiveThirtyEight
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party swept into power last month, it faced a number of pressing issues: a slowing economy, a refugee crisis, a controversial trade deal.
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Food delivery startup DoorDash is being sued by one of the restaurants it buys food from, In-N-Out Burger. The lawsuit was filed on November 6 and was first reported yesterday by TMZ.
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For anyone without substantial investments, reading about the property market in the capital has become a kind of torture porn, in which every new detail horrifies more than the last.
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Donald Trump Was Correct About TPP And China
When talking about trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Republican candidate Donald Trump was correct about China. In the fourth Republican debate that took place in Milwaukee Tuesday, a moderator asked about Trump’s opposition to TPP.
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The world’s 20 top economies spend more than $400 billion dollars each year propping up fossil fuel production, a practice that threatens to seriously undermine the world’s mitigation of climate change, according to a new report by the environmental…
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Midday open thread: Chinese scientists create new stealth material; DOJ sues SD for anti-Native bias
The researchers developed a new material they say can defeat microwave radar at ultrahigh frequencies, or UHF. Such material is usually too thick to be applied to aircraft like fighter jets, but this new material is thin enough for military aircraf…
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I just streamed Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify on a plane — all at once | The Verge
Gogo, the company that’s become synonomous with in-flight Wi-Fi, is preparing to give flyers a huge speed boost.
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Judge Uses Taylor Swift Lyrics to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Taylor Swift | Vanity Fair
United States District Court judge Gail Standish is about to become something of a hero, among the Swiftian masses. The case was dismissed today, as, per CNN, Braham was assessed to not have provided enough in the way of actual factual evidence.
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The lucha libre fighters of the Bronx — Hopes&Fears — flow “City”
The lucha librefighters of the Bronx On the first Saturday of every month, near the mouth of the Bronx River, Daro’s Extreme Fitness turns into a parallel universe: A diner owner and former drug dealer transforms into an ancient Mayan king, a New Ha…
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A Historic Exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art | Vanity Fair
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It’s not just states under right-wing control where abortion clinics are closing their doors
It’s not just states under right-wing control where abortion clinics are closing their doors https://t.co/OwNTSkFxH2
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Germ-Killing Bathroom Sprays Appear to Weaken Fertility – Scientific American
Common ingredients in the cleaning sprays for your kitchen and bathroom make mice less fertile, suggesting the compounds could do the same to humans, according to a new study.
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For decades, it was easy to identify hit television shows: They were the programs with the highest Nielsen ratings. It was simple Darwinism, heartless but comprehensible. Then, everything went kablooey because of the internet, and now, nobody knows …
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Record-Setting Gamma-Ray Pulsar Beyond Our Galaxy Bursts into View
Researchers have spotted the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar ever found — and the rapidly spinning, ultradense stellar core is also the first pulsar of its kind ever seen outside the Milky Way.
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The federal government has released a shortlist of six sites in the running to become Australia’s first permanent nuclear waste dump for low-level and intermediate waste. The sites were chosen from 28 voluntarily nominated sites around Australia.
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Dancing Magnets – The Atlantic
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Postal Workers Endorse Austerity-Foe Bernie Sanders | The Nation
Today, when election endorsements by labor unions are often portrayed as little more than component parts of the broader bureaucracy of contemporary politics, the Gompers premise might sound old-fashioned.
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Twitter touts new ‘ScratchReel’ GIFs you can fast forward and rewind | The Verge
Twitter today revealed a way to fast forward and rewind animated GIFs shared on its platform, a social media creation the company calls “ScratchReel.” The feature works on the web and on Twitter’s mobile devices, and Twitter appears to have been sur…
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What NYC Looks Like to a Dog — NYMag
Walk a few blocks in the city, and you’re likely to see some dogs. But you’ve probably never seen the city through the eyes of man’s best friend. Recently, Daily Intelligencer found some dog parents who volunteered their pets to photograph the world…
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It’s Rumor Time: Guns N’ Roses—the actual band—might be reuniting · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s time to roll out every possible Guns N’ Roses song reference, because a hot rumor is racing like a night train through paradise city. (Also, it’s November, so that one just writes itself.
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Jupiter and Venus from Earth : It was visible… – Just Space
Jupiter and Venus from Earth : It was visible around the… https://t.co/bIu70tqACe https://t.co/lrKzhuKuUz
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First Impressions Of YouTube’s New Music App | TechCrunch
Today YouTube launched an official music app. With YouTube Music, you’ll get a new experience, designed to make discovering music on YouTube easier.
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What is reputation? / Boing Boing
On the Web, reputation is a currency. But reputation is tricky. The way it’s measured changes from platform to platform, network to network. And the way we evaluate the reputation of people, products, companies, and even information, is affected by …
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Lost genetic history of Inca child mummy – BBC News
Scientists have unravelled part of the genetic code of a child who was sacrificed in a ritual ceremony by the Inca civilisation 500 years ago. The boy’s mummified remains were discovered on an Argentinean mountain.
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Oil price slump causes stock markets in UK and US to fall | Business | The Guardian
Stock markets have tumbled on both sides of the Atlantic, after a slump in oil prices and uncertainty over the prospect for US interest rates triggered anxiety among financial traders.
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Turning up the heat on Amber Rudd over renewable energy | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Amber Rudd admits the UK doesn’t have the right policies to meet the UK’s renewable energy targets (Rudd criticised after leak reveals renewables failure, 10 November), but she is clutching at straws to try to transfer the burden on to transport and…
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“Einstein’s Quantum Fail” –Spooky Actions at a Distance Confirmed
Einstein was wrong about at least one thing: There are, in fact, “spooky actions at a distance,” as now proven by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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How a Helmut became a cap | Letters | World news | The Guardian
The death penalty was abolished 50 years ago this week on 9 November 1965. The murder of Becky Watts was a distressing and disturbing event (Report, 12 November), but it is not a reason to bring back hanging.
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SwiftKey Now Predicts Two Words at a Time So You Can Type Faster
Android: Our favorite Android keyboard, SwiftKey, is getting a big update today. The app can now predict your next two words at once. In addition to double-word prediction, SwiftKey also has also added new themes, languages, and more.
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Federal Court Upholds Calif. Death Penalty Delays | Al Jazeera America
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the lower court was barred from considering a novel constitutional theory that found delays in carrying out executions amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. U.S.
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A man charged in the fatal shooting of a New York City police officer was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a prior drug offense on Thursday by a judge who said in court Mayor Bill de Blasio should “look in a mirror” before blaming others for the …
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Mascot Hijinks Cost University $123,000 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Arizona State University will cover the medical costs of a city councilman who was hospitalized for four days after ASU mascot Sparky the Sun Devil leapt onto his back and tore a muscle that was still healing from a recent back surgery. What do you …
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Listen To The Real Reason Ian Fleming Began Writing James Bond Novels
Ian Fleming didn’t really set out to be a great writer when he first sat down to type what would eventually become Casino Royale—and create the pop culture icon in James Bond that we still experience to this day.
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The University of Illinois Reaches Settlement With Professor Steven Salaita – The Atlantic
As debates roil over free speech on American college campuses and as mechanisms that critique Israeli policies continue to divide, the universe delivered a perfect enmeshing of both stories in the Land of Lincoln.
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Hailee Steinfeld on Working With Max Martin, Big Single ‘Love Myself’ | Rolling Stone
At 18 years old, Hailee Steinfeld already has a few blockbuster films and an Oscar nomination under her belt. As of this summer, she can add a pop hit to that list, thanks to the success of her catchy, empowering “Love Myself.
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It’s not just states under right-wing control where abortion clinics are closing their doors
Abortion clinics are closing in blue states, too. Molly Redden has spotlighted another aspect of the relentless war on women’s reproductive rights. Anyone who follows such matters is well aware of the impact the forced-birthers are having on abortio…
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Ex-Motorhead Drummer Phil Taylor Dead at 61 | Rolling Stone
Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, who played drums on Motörhead’s iconic early catalog, has died. Guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke, who played in the same lineup with Taylor, announced the news on Facebook claiming the drummer had been suffering from an un…
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See Laura Cantrell’s Bewitching ‘Can’t Wait’ Video | Rolling Stone
See Laura Cantrell’s Bewitching ‘Can’t Wait’ Video Songwriter developed clip’s concept based on the idea of “a seemingly perfect suburban home not quite being what it seems”
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Florida Police Fire Officer Who Shot Corey Jones | Al Jazeera America
The Florida police officer who shot and killed a black amateur musician waiting for help alongside a highway after his car broke down last month has been fired, a Palm Beach Gardens spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Why FBI and the Pentagon are afraid of gene drives
The powerful new genetic technology could eliminate scourges such as malaria and rid entire countries of destructive invasive species.
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Kentucky’s Noah’s Ark religious attraction to open next summer / Boing Boing
Christian ministry Answers In Genesis report that their massive Noah’s Ark attraction will open next July in Williamstown, Kentucky. This is the same organization behind the infamous Creation Museum where cavemen frolic with dinosaurs.
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A Breathing Planet, Off Balance | NASA
A Breathing Planet, Off Balance https://t.co/Axr4qoiQtN
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Carol Doda, Pioneer of Topless Entertainment, Dies at 78 https://t.co/n7Kuzlv7qh
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Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Maintaining Lead Over Bernie Sanders https://t.co/bSVNMXcMTA
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A Lost Generation of Democrats https://t.co/EAK31LnKOE
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Maoist Cult Leader Brainwashed Sex Slaves at Home, Prosecutors Say – The Daily Beast
Maoist Cult Leader Brainwashed Sex Slaves at Home, Prosecutors Say https://t.co/kdnmuwUWSg
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Daniel Lopatin is getting kicked out of his basement.
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US guards ‘taunt hunger-striking asylum seekers’ – Al Jazeera English
A series of mass hunger strikes have rocked for-profit detention centres across the US, as rights groups call for asylum seekers to be released while their cases are pending.
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If the GDP is Up, Why is America Down? – The Atlantic
Throughout the tumult of the elections last year political commentators were perplexed by a stubborn fact. The economy was performing splendidly, at least according to the standard measurements. Productivity and employment were up; inflation was und…
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In 2007, a cruise ship called the Balmoral was brought into the dry docks to be extended. Like, they cut the ship in half and added an entire new section to it, like putting an extra slice of bologna on a sandwich. I totally didn’t know this was a t…
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Here’s Why James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe Are Suddenly Sporting Matching Buzz Cuts | Vanity Fair
If you’ve seen any of the trailers for James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe’s upcoming film Victor Frankenstein, you’ll know that, as you might expect from a period piece, it’s all about the luxurious hairstyles.
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NASA announces new plan to study how plants and oceans absorb carbon | The Verge
(NASA) Today, NASA announced a new plan for studying growing carbon emissions, but instead of focusing on the carbon that’s trapped in our atmosphere, the space agency said it plans to focus on analyzing the “other
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As the man responsible for organising London 2012, Lord Coe is used to chairing important meetings. But when he hosts an IAAF council conference call on Friday evening at a secret location in London, he will be aware that not only his reputation on …
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The Power of Pessimism: Science Reveals the Hidden Virtues in Negative Thinking | Open Culture
These days, you don’t really hear many people making the case for pessimism. Quite the contrary, positive psychology is now en vogue.
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First Gamma-Ray Blasting Pulsar Detected Outside Milky Way | Video
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Boss of Adani’s Australian arm linked to mining pollution in Zambia | Business | The Guardian
The chief executive of the Australian arm of Adani has been linked to a mining pollution case in Africa, prompting renewed questions about the Indian company’s suitability to run this country’s largest proposed coalmine.
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Arrow Gives Us Fun, and Finally Gives Parents a Break
It’s hard to be a parent in comics. Your kids lie to you, your spouse is often a mole, a clone, or Doctor Octopus, and when you die you never, ever come back. But on last night’s Arrow, some DCU parents finally have something good happen to them.
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Fernando Alonso says he needs to improve his own performances next year after what he admits has been a “hard” season with McLaren-Honda. Two-time world champion Alonso said it had been hard to sustain his motivation as McLaren struggled, largely as…
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Hans Mommsen obituary | World news | The Guardian
The historian Hans Mommsen, who has died aged 85, persuaded Germans to rethink the catastrophe of nazism.
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MOUNT SINJAR, Iraq — Kurdish forces aided by thousands of lightly armed Yazidi fighters captured a strategic highway on Thursday in northern Iraq in the early stages of an offensive to reclaim the town of Sinjar from the Islamic Sta
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You don’t need eight straight hours of sleep. You need three extra hours in the day.
We know how much sleep we need: eight hours. But isn’t there something suspiciously neat about that figure? Eight, after all, is a third of 24, the number of hours God chose to include in a diurnal cycle. The eight-hour day was the great victory of …
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John Mulaney Returns to Stand-Up With ‘The Comeback Kid’ – The Atlantic
John Mulaney knew exactly what he was doing naming his new stand-up special The Comeback Kid.
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Once Noah had built his ark, so the story goes, God gave him just seven days’ notice to load all the planet’s animals two by two into the vessel.
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JT Barrett after drunk-driving arrest: ‘I’m the quarterback of Ohio State’ | Sport | The Guardian
When you’re the star quarterback of one of the best college teams in America and you get pulled over by the cops for drunk-driving, there’s only one possible exit strategy. Let’s call it the don’t-you-know-who-I-am defence.
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Few fast-food items inspire devotion in the same way as the McRib. At various points in the sandwich’s history, it’s been a regular menu item at McDonald’s, but for the past decade, it’s been relegated to seasonal status.
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Past mass extinctions preferentially wiped out large species | Ars Technica
During the Devonian period, around 400 million years ago, vertebrate species were getting bigger and bigger, with descendants usually larger than their parental species.
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Examine Rejection Like a Detective to Avoid Beating Yourself Up
We can be pretty mean to ourselves when we mess up or get rejected. We call ourselves names, we criticize, we shame ourselves. Psychologist Guy Winch has a better idea: play detective about the situation.
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Another Greenland glacier is taking a beating | Ars Technica
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A new study reports that a major glacier is shrinking at an accelerating rate and is likely to continue doing so into the future.
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A major glacier in Greenland that holds enough water to raise global sea levels by half a metre has begun to crumble into the North Atlantic Ocean, scientists say.
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Maoist Cult Leader Brainwashed Sex Slaves at Home, Prosecutors Say – The Daily Beast
LONDON — She believed she was being controlled through her Levi’s. Prosecutors in London say that she was just one of the women being controlled by the twisted leader of a Maoist cult, who imprisoned and sexually assaulted his followers.
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Despite a month of sharpened attacks, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has failed to significantly dent Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Thursday. Mrs.
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WASHINGTON—Describing the behavior as an extremely reliable source of consumer spending, a report released Thursday by the Department of Commerce confirmed that the nation’s retailers earn $5 billion annually from women coming in from the street in …
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As Republicans never tire of pointing out, the Democratic candidates for president are old. The average age of the leaders, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, is 71, older than Ronald Reagan was during his successful 1980 campaign.
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Carol Doda, who was widely credited with triggering a nationwide topless revolution as a 26-year-old go-go dancer in 1964, died on Monday in San Francisco. She was 78. Her death was confirmed by the St. Luke’s campus of California Pacific Medical Ce…
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Google Improves Comic Book Reading Experience In Play Books For Android | TechCrunch
Google launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store for Android today that will make it easier to read comics on your phone and tablet.
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Hired, The Jobs Marketplace, Now Includes Freelance Workers | TechCrunch
Hired, a jobs marketplace for “knowledge workers,” thinks it has struck on a new way to grow its business: by adding freelancers to it roster.
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Google Play Books is getting new features for comic book fans | The Verge
With apps like ComiXology and Marvel Unlimited, comic book readers already have a few ways to get their fix. But it looks like Google is trying to cater more closely to those customers, as Play Books will soon have new options to make reading and di…
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Un Response to Migrant Crisis, Sweden Imposes Temporary Border Controls – The Atlantic
The fragmented European response to the migrant crisis splintered further Thursday when Sweden announced it would impose temporary border controls, a move that goes against European Union’s open-border policy.
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If Rocky IV was real / Boing Boing
Rocky’s 1984 defeat of Ivan Drago was a singular moment in professional boxing that had massive cultural and political implications.
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The Breakup Shop: Like Uber, but for Dumping People – The Atlantic
The prices, it should be said, are quite reasonable. For $10, you can buy a text sent to your significant other informing him or her of the cessation of your affection. For the same amount, you can buy an email version of that note.
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FCC: We aren’t banning DD-WRT on Wi-Fi routers | Ars Technica
The Federal Communications Commission is trying to convince people that it isn’t banning third-party router firmware such as DD-WRT despite issuing guidance that sounded an awful lot like a ban.
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The Minnesota department of natural resources said Thursday it was investigating a report of potentially illegal hunting activity on land owned by the dentist who was sharply criticized for shooting a well-known lion in Zimbabwe.
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Watch ‘xkcd’ explain space travel using the simplest words possible / Boing Boing
Astronomers have spied a cold world three times as distant from the Sun as Pluto. Are you planning on taking a trip to the Moon? If so, you’ll want to create a commemorative photo album. The moon is a pretty desolate place and the truth is, you jus…
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Facebook is testing Snapchat-like disappearing messages in France | The Verge
Facebook is testing the waters of ephemeral messaging. Users in France have noticed a new feature within the social network’s Messenger app that lets you set a message to self-destruct after a certain period of time.
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Fewer mass shootings occur in states with more background checks: report | US news | The Guardian
States with background checks for all handgun sales had 52% fewer mass shootings as states with more lax rules, according to a report by reform advocates who examined more than six years of data.
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French photographer Valérie Belin, who lives and works in Paris, has won the Prix Pictet.
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Hillary Clinton Releases Plan To Help Struggling Coal Country | ThinkProgress
Coal is dying. Pushed out by natural gas, improvements in renewable energy, or pressure from climate change regulation, the fact is that coal use has fallen 25 percent in the United States since 2005.
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Here’s Your First Look at the Next Fantastic Novel From M.R. Carey!
M.R. Carey’s novel The Girl With all the Gifts blew our minds, in a very good way. It was Joss Whedon’s new favorite book, too. So it’s absolutely fantastic news that Carey has a new novel coming in early April 2016! Here’s your first look at Fellsi…
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Seamless is working with New York City to remove fake restaurant listings | The Verge
It’s easy to never actually see the restaurant you’re ordering from on Seamless, and restaurants are taking advantage of that. NBC 4 New York found that more than 10 of the 100 highest rated restaurants in New York City were fakes, in one way or ano…
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Here’s Why Firefox for iOS Can’t Block Ads Like It Can on the Desktop | Motherboard
Firefox, Mozilla’s popular open source web browser, is now available for iOS for the first time ever, but thanks to Apple’s developer guidelines it’s missing one feature killer feature from its desktop counterpart that would have truly set it apart …
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No One Will Smoke Cigarettes by 2050 – The Daily Beast
If cigarette smoking keeps declining at the rate it has for the last decade, it could end altogether in the 2050s. For now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is aiming to reduce the prevalence to 12 percent of U.S.
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Why Cities Around the Country Should Adopt Municipal ID Programs – In These Times
Led by immigrants, grassroots organizations have been successful in passing municipal ID programs in major cities, improving the lives of immigrant communities and underserved populations.
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NEW YORK—Expressing their disappointment and frustration at the current state of technology, citizens across the nation reported Thursday that they figured everything would run on some sort of cubes of blue energy by now.
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Monsignor Busted for Champagne Binges – The Daily Beast
At least it is safe to assume that is the case with Monsignor Pietro Vittorelli, the head of Roman Catholic Benedictine abbey of Montecassino, which was made famous when it was destroyed in Allied bombing in World War II when Britain and the U.S.
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What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans – The New Yorker
Joris-Karl Huysmans’s 1884 handbook of decadence, “À Rebours,” tells the story of a nature-hating aesthete named Jean des Esseintes.
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Missy Elliott releases her first music video in almost eight years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Missy Elliott teased her return to music (it’s been three years since her last single) with a performance at this year’s Super Bowl that upstaged everyone but Left Shark. Then in October, she gave listeners a taste of her new single, “WTF (Where The…
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A BART car weighs thirty tons and can travel up to 80 miles per hour. When a train departs San Francisco’s Embarcadero station, it accelerates as it enters the Transbay Tube, making the six-mile journey to West Oakland in just seven minutes. On Nov.
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Ctrl-Walt-Delete: Walt is an executive at large | The Verge
It’s iPad Pro week, and that means Walt and Nilay are talking about the future of computing — a tiny little subject of discussion that leads finally to the first fundamental disagreement on the show. Can our hosts survive? Can the show survive? Will…
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Raise awareness about the Paris climate talks by acting like a rude French person | Grist
Efforts to grow better tasting fruits and vegetables lead to purple tomatoes and spiceless habaneros.
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UN deal allows nations to track aircraft from space, not just from land | Ars Technica
Land-based flight radar systems are incapable of covering about 70 percent of the world’s surface, so a United Nations conference has agreed to dedicate a chunk of radio spectrum for a global, space-based flight tracking system.
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Appeals court rejects challenge to California death penalty | US news | The Guardian
A federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling on Thursday that found California’s death penalty was unconstitutional because of excessive delays.
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5 Korean Novels You Should Read Now | Vanity Fair
South Korea is becoming a major player on the world’s literary scene, beginning with last year’s London Book Fair, which spotlighted Korean literature.
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Soil turning to sand in Senegal – BBC News
It is not only political and economic upheaval that forces many people to try and make the dangerous journey from Africa to Europe. According to the UN, an estimated 60 million people could move from desert areas of sub-Saharan Africa by 2020.
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Firefox Is Finally Available on iOS
iOS: If your browser of choice is Firefox and you also use an iPhone or iPad, you’ve probably been frustrated by Firefox’s absence from iOS. Today, that frustration has ended.
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Exclusive: Fringe’s Georgina Haig Will Join Limitless as a New Character
CBS told us exclusively that Limitless is adding a new character—and it’s played by someone genre TV fans will likely recognize. Georgina Haig is set for a recurring role as Piper. Per the producers, Piper was once like Brian, naive and sheltered—th…
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Jihadist cell in Europe ‘sought recruits for Iraq and Syria’ – BBC News
The 13 suspected members of a jihadist group arrested in raids across Europe were allegedly recruiting foreign fighters to be sent to Iraq and Syria.
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Maternal Deaths Drop Sharply, but Only Nine Nations Meet U.N. Goal – Scientific American
Worldwide, maternal mortality fell by 43 percent over the last 25 years, but only nine countries have achieved the U.N. goal of a 75 percent reduction
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Marking a Decade of Quality Storytelling – The Atlantic
MediaStorm, a film production and multimedia design privilege of working alongside Brian years ago, when we were both at MSNBC.com.
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Push to meet ‘shortfall’ in global contraceptives target – BBC News
Plans to get contraceptives to millions more women in the world’s poorest countries are behind track, a report by campaigners and donors warns. The goal is for 120 million extra women to have access to contraceptives by 2020.
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Canada’s Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again, So I Called a Few Up | Motherboard
Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was only sworn on November 6, but his government has already taken steps to address one of its predecessor’s most toxic legacies: the so called “muzzling” of government scientists.
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Life and Death in a Troubled Teen Boot Camp | Rolling Stone
In the darkness of early morning, 16-year-old Bruce Staeger lay splayed across his mattress, sleeping soundly for once. Most nights, he would smoke a blunt and crash, but not this one. Lately, his mother had been watching him closely.
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Hear Pusha T’s Notorious B.I.G. Riff ‘Untouchable’ | Rolling Stone
Pusha T debuted a quivering new Timbaland-produced tune, “Untouchable,” via the G.O.O.D. Music website in a way that required fans to hold their mouse down on an image of three doves flying if they wanted to hear the song in full.
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The Search For The Paleo Sleep Schedule
Researchers can’t ask cavemen about their sleeping habits. If you want to get a sense of a paleo sleep schedule, the best you can do is find a place without Netflix, iPhones, streetlights, and 18-hour work days.
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Eric Hosmer on Partying Royally, Pouring Beers on Paul Rudd | Rolling Stone
Eric Hosmer was a highly touted prospect from the moment he picked up a bat, and when the Kansas City Royals drafted him straight out of high school in 2008, expectations were off the charts.
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See Miranda Lambert’s Soulful, Girl-Powered ‘Shed a Little Light’ | Rolling Stone
See Miranda Lambert’s Soulful, Girl-Powered ‘Shed a Little Light’ ‘Platinum’ singer covers Foy Vance song with help from Patty Loveless, Ashley Monroe, Clare Dunn and other tourmates
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Willy Wonka cast members reunited after 43 years / Boing Boing
Charlie Bucket, Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and an Oompa Loompa got together to chat about being in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. They haven’t aged a day!
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Greek youths clash with police during austerity strike – BBC News
Greek workers have staged their first general strike against austerity since January when Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza government was elected. The main unions were appealing for their members to walk out against the terms of the country’s third eurozone b…
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Detroit man charged with murder in death of nine-year-old who shot himself | US news | The Guardian
A Detroit man was charged on Thursday with murder in connection with the death of his nine-year-old son, who fatally shot himself with a loaded shotgun earlier this week. Christopher Head, 45, was set to be arraigned Thursday in the death of his son…
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Next season’s Amazing Race will star YouTube, Vine, and Instagram personalities | The Verge
CBS’s The Amazing Race just announced the cast of its 28th season, and they’ve all got something in common: an unusually high number of social media followers.
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Tinder Ditches Moments | TechCrunch
Just yesterday, Tinder launched an update that adds employment/education information into the user’s profile as well as a revamped inbox, placing new matches in the top bar and current conversations in the lower part of the screen.
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Donald Trump: Mizzou Students’ Anti-Racism Protest Is ‘Disgusting’ | ThinkProgress
Donald Trump has joined the chorus of presidential candidates reacting to anti-racism protests at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), which culminated this week with the resignation of both the university’s president and chancellor. “I think it’s d…
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See How Ant-Man Got So Small In This Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Clip
The producers and director of Marvel’s Ant-Man had a difficult problem. You have a character who has to shrink, so how do you do that with modern technology? Do you go the Honey I Shrunk the Kids route and build huge sets? Or is there another way?
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SecureDrop and the problem with anonymous leaks | The Verge
Do sources still need journalists? Yesterday, The Intercept published a blockbuster report, revealing that a major prison phone company may have been recording calls between prisoners and their attorneys. It was fascinating news, but just as interes…
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EU watchdog approves new license for controversial weedkiller | Environment | The Guardian
The European Food and Safety Authority (Efsa) has approved the relicensing of glyphosate, a best-selling herbicide, despite World Health Organisation (WHO) warnings that the substance is “probably carcinogenic to humans”.
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Hillary Clinton proposes $30bn lifeline for hard-hit coal communities | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton on Thursday unveiled a $30bn plan to help America’s coal communities adjust to a climate agenda increasingly driven by renewable energy sources.
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A new “Happy Birthday” boss? Charity claims it owns famous song’s copyright | Ars Technica
In September, a judge ruled that music licensor Warner-Chappell doesn’t own the copyright to “Happy Birthday.” The question now seems to have become who does? ACEI has been receiving one-third of the licensing revenue Warner generates from Happy Bir…
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Venezuelan president’s relatives indicted in US for cocaine smuggling | World news | The Guardian
Two of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s relatives have been indicted in the US for cocaine smuggling, according to court papers on Thursday, following an international sting that Venezuela cast as an “imperialist” attack.
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More babies were born with syphilis in 2014 than in any of the previous 10 years | The Verge
In 2014, the rate of babies born with syphilis in the US hit its highest point more than a decade, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Syphilis, which is on the rise, can be fatal for infants.
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Punk Crock | Eugenia Williamson
For a movement that famously proclaimed there was no future, punk rock has had a remarkably durable half-life. Forty years after Television’s legendary residency at CBGB, the world is awash in punk.
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All Hail Lil’ Kim, The Original Queen of Hip-Hop — Medium
It was 1995 and quite a time to be alive. Hip-Hop culture was quickly becoming one of the United States’ most lucrative exports and the children of Black Power revolutionaries, pimps, hustlers, and slow-singing devotees of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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West Wing Week 3/7/14 or, “Look Who’s In Our Room” on Vimeo
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Poster shows locations of 42 Great American Novels / Boing Boing
Summer 1989 Natalie wore a red-and-white checked dress with strawberry buttons, and she could feel the ends of her hair brush her chin. She held on to Mommy’s purse with one hand as Mommy pushed the stroller and Meredith walked a few steps ahead, in…
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Businesses can add another item to their corporate bucket lists: taking the lead in tackling climate change where governments have fallen short.
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Microsoft building data centers in Germany that US government can’t touch | Ars Technica
Microsoft has launched a new kind of cloud service in Germany where user data is controlled by a “data trustee” operating under German law. Microsoft is unable to access user data without the permission of the data trustee or the customer, even if i…
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Pay or we’ll knock your site offline—DDoS-for-ransom attacks surge | Ars Technica
A number of sites have been hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks over the past week. Strong enough to knock some of them offline for days at a time, these DDoS attacks have been launched by extortionists demanding thousands of dollars in ran…
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Facebook Unleashes VR-style 360 Videos For Ads And iOS | TechCrunch
Zuck says VR is the future and Facebook is wasting no time building it into the News Feed and starting to make money off it. By embracing the format, Facebook can stay fresh for consumers by offering the most vivid way to connect with places you can…
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FBI accused of paying US university for dark net attack – BBC News
Anonymity network Tor, notorious for illegal activity, has claimed that researchers at US Carnegie Mellon university were paid by the FBI to launch an attack on them. Tor claimed that the FBI was “outsourcing police work” and paid the university “at…
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Facebook’s 360-degree News Feed videos arrive on iOS | The Verge
In September, Facebook unveiled its first collaboration with its Oculus division, bringing 360-degree videos to the News Feed on the web and Android devices. Now, the social network is pushing this feature to iOS as well, and beginning to test 360-d…
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Earth’s Absorption of CO2 May Tilt In Wrong Direction | Video
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Danny Boyle ‘disappointed’ over Steve Jobs US box office flop – BBC News
Director Danny Boyle has told the BBC he is “disappointed” his new film Steve Jobs failed to attract a big audience in the US, after it was dropped from more than 2,000 cinemas there.
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How to Use Caffeine to Improve Your Athletic Performance
Caffeine is a performance-enhancing drug that’s legal, cheap, and easy to get: chances are you had some this morning. More importantly, it actually does make you better at sports, which is more than you can say for a lot of supplements marketed to a…
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Ctrl+Alt+Orgasm: A Futurologist Imagines Sex in 2050 | Motherboard
In the future, a smart “skin” that slots seamlessly over and under your own could give you access to sensations that you can only dream of now.
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Rob Lowe has a McDonald’s Gold Card, which is apparently a thing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Rob Lowe’s just joined an exclusive club that includes Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. No, he hasn’t negotiated a billion-dollar salary for The Grinder (not yet, anyway)—Lowe is just the latest recipient of a McDonald’s Gold Card, which was once thou…
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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.
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How Much Does It Cost to Liberate a Country? | The Nation
Let’s begin with the $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills, Iraqi oil money held in the US. The Bush administration began flying it into Baghdad on C-130s soon after US troops entered that city in April 2003. Essentially dumped into the void th…
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Shonda Rhimes’s Year of Yes shows the blood, snot and tears behind success | Books | The Guardian
“I’ve gotten good at making stuff up,” Shonda Rhimes tells you early in her new book, Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person. “I could lie in the Olympics.
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We Don’t Need to Wait on Congress to Fight Homelessness | The Nation
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, “On a single night in January 2014, 578,424 people were experiencing homelessness—meaning they were sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program.
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Lab Grown Shrimp Is Silicon Valley’s Latest, and Most Ambitious, Frankenfood | Motherboard
The latest Silicon Valley frankenfood endeavor might be the most ambitious yet: lab grown shrimp. That’s right, a biotech start-up called New Wave Foods is currently trying to create a plant protein-based, lab-grown, faux shrimp to bring to the mark…
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Sixteen Suspected ISIS Recruiters Arrested in European Sweep – The Atlantic
On Thursday, while Kurdish troops were launching an American-backed offensive against ISIS to deprive the terrorist group of territory in northern Iraq, European security forces reportedly launched a raid to deprive the Islamic State of recruits.
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YouTube Music Combines Pandora-Like Discovery with YouTube’s Huge Library
Android/iPhone: Google launched YouTube Music today, an app that taps into the massive collection of music on YouTube to create personalized radio stations. YouTube Music is on par with something like Pandora, where it’s all about discovery.
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Does Larry David Deserve $5,000 for Kinda, Sorta Calling Donald Trump a Racist? | The Nation
Here is how it came to be that Larry David kind of sort of called The Donald a racist.
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San Francisco Airport security screeners charged with complicity in drug-smuggling / Boing Boing
Three screeners working for Covenant Aviation Security — the TSA contractor that provides government-funded genital massages at SFO — have been arrested for alleged participation in a scheme to smuggle “real and simulated cocaine” onto planes.
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LONDON — The pressure is on. The endgame is near. There will be blood, brutality, death and scary lizard mutants smashing through a sewer. The final film installment of Suzanne Collins’s best-selling trilogy, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,” w…
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Missouri student files complaint against Melissa “Muscle” Click / Boing Boing
Professor Melissa Click says she can’t recall pushing University of Missouri student Mark Schierbecker, who recorded her calling for “muscle” to remove him from a campus protest. But Schierbecker says she did push him and he has filed a complaint wi…
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Facilitated communication pseudoscience harms people with disabilities.
Facilitated communication claims to give a voice to noncommunicative disabled people. A facilitator physically supports a disabled person to assist him in communicating through a keyboard or other device.
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LONDON — “I’m not going to cry,” Adele said. She was practicing with her band at Music Bank rehearsal studios, an unglamorous warehouse space in South London, and had just finished “When We Were Young,” one of the torchiest ballads on her new album,…
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Upthere Launches Its Home And Camera Apps Into Beta | TechCrunch
The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting in those who signed up for an invite in slowly.
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With One Cash, Tip $1 To People You Love, Or Make It Rain | TechCrunch
From the team who brought you Mindie, One Cash is a new payment app for iOS, but with a twist. This time, it isn’t about paying back your friends like countless of other apps. It’s all about tipping $1 to people you admire… or more. Here’s how it wo…
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Rural Biomass Burning vs. Megacity Industry: Who Emits More CO2 | 5-Day Time-Lapse Video
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Fallout 4 gave me a well-written character, but I miss my godlike social powers | The Verge
I’m a good person. Please, tell me I’m a good person In a stunning lapse of judgment, I decided to spend 70 hours playing Fallout: New Vegas just a few weeks before I started Fallout 4. In a way, it’s made me truly appreciate the upgraded graphics a…
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Dealmaster: Get the new Alienware Steam Machine with controller for $649 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a deal on one of the newest game consoles. Now you can buy an Alienware Steam Machine with an Intel Core i7 processor for just $649.
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3 Months of Carbon Dioxide Measured From Space | Time-Lapse Video
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Let’s stop celebrating lazy apps like Drizzy Tearz | The Verge
We’re only incentivizing the creation of more shallow, stale crapware Do you think jokes about Taylor Swift getting interrupted by Kanye West are hilarious? Do you chortle at even the slightest reference t
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The Fallout of Darkseid War Gives Us The Best Green Lantern Story In Years
In the wake of DC’s recent god-based shenanigans as part of the Justice League comic’s Darkseid War event, we’ve been getting one-off issues exploring how each League member has been dealing with their newfound godhood.
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Venezuelan first lady’s nephews on drugs charges in US – BBC News
A court in New York has charged two nephews of Venezuela’s First Lady Cilia Flores with conspiring to import cocaine to the United States.The two, Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, were arrested on Tuesday in the H…
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A long way to the shortlist: choosing the Guardian first book award finalists | Books | The Guardian
There is something wonderfully expectant about a prize for a first book, particularly one that welcomes first-time writers regardless of genre, category, form or language.
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Food in books: Quince, Meringue and Cream from The Owl and the Pussycat | Books | The Guardian
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,Which they ate with a runcible spoon;And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,They danced by the light of the moon,The moon,The moon,They danced by the light of the moon. When I was eight years old, my dad …
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Ethiopia hit by worst drought in decades – Al Jazeera English
Conflicts, floods and failed rains caused by El Nino have sparked a sharp rise in the number of people going hungry in parts of east Africa, especially in drought-hit Ethiopia where about 8.2 million people are in need of emergency food aid, the UN …
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Apple Apologizes After Teens Kicked Out of Store Allege Racism | Vanity Fair
The boys, who, according to the AFP, were born in Nigeria, Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, and Eritrea, allege they were kicked out and intimidated because of the color of their skin. One of the teenagers caught the incident on video and posted it to Faceboo…
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The Paris Climate Conference: A Contest of Human Nature vs. Mother Nature – The Atlantic
Lately, it seems, Mother Nature has been trying to get our attention. Its signals are increasingly loud, strident, and hard to miss. Some have been lethal. The year 2015 is poised to become the hottest on record.
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Many Killed After Blasts Hit a Shiite Suburb of Beirut – The Atlantic
There are multiple people dead after two explosions in the Shiite neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh. The state-run National News Agency reported more than eight people, the BBC said 17 were dead, Al-Arabiya put it at 20, and the Daily Star at 24.
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How to Prevent Your Anger From Spiraling Out of Control
Anger fuels aggression, but it doesn’t always have to cause a flare-up. When properly managed, it can actually serve a productive purpose. Here are some practical tips to help you better manage your anger. There’s a reason why we get angry.
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Is the Air Finally Coming out of the Tech Bubble? | Vanity Fair
All bubbles seem alike in the exuberant optimism and seemingly endless prosperity they bring. Busts, however, can be unpleasant in their own distinct ways. The Dutch fervor for tulips in the 1630s crashed during a single harvest. The speculative U.S…
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People Have Been Claiming To Own The Moon For Over 250 Years | Atlas Obscura
Got 20 bucks? You could own a piece of the Moon–or, at any rate, you could own a piece of paper telling you that you own a piece of the Moon. If that’s too close to home, you can opt to buy property on Mars, Venus, Mercury, Io, or Pluto.
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Chinese scientists develop radar-absorbing active “stealth” material | Ars Technica
Chinese researchers have developed a material called an “active frequency selecting surface” (AFSS)—a thin layer of material covered with a substance used in printed circuit boards that can be “tuned” to absorb microwaves at a range of frequencies.
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In recent years, the Ford Motor Company has aggressively sought to solve environmental problems related to its products while reducing production costs. Wasted wheat straw often burned by Canadian farmers has been blended into a plastic feature of t…
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India PM Narendra Modi makes speech in City of London – BBC News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making a speech to an audience from the City of London at the Guildhall, as part of his three-day visit to the UK. He will be introduced by UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Gaia’s Garden – One Year of Earth’s Plant Growth | Time-Lapse Video
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How Edward Snowden Changed Everything | The Nation
Ben Wizner, who is perhaps best known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer, directs the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.
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General Mills sued over nutritional content of Cheerios Protein | Ars Technica
Here’s a good reminder of why you should always read nutrition labels carefully: Cheerios Protein, a protein-boosted version of General Mills’ classic cereal, is the subject of a lawsuit for alleged false advertising and misleading labeling.
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From Australia to Mexico, 34 Countries Ranked on Quality of Life | Motherboard
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), makers of the Better Life Index (not to be confused with the World Happiness Report) have put together an interactive chart showing how 34 countries fare against each other across 11…
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Russian former policeman Yevgeny Chistov ‘spied for CIA’ – BBC News
Russia has convicted a former policeman on high treason charges, accusing him of spying for the CIA, according to security services. According to the FSB, he pleaded guilty and confirmed that he had passed state secrets to the CIA for three years.
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Giffage Launches The Only Gif Keyboard You’ll Ever Need | TechCrunch
Gifs are a diverse bunch, there’s one like ten million for everything you could ever think of but they’re pretty hard to find and the process for posting them is a little harder than it should be.
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A Map in iPhone Privacy Settings Tracks Your Location – How to Turn Off Location Services
It’s no secret that Apple has been collecting location data from users for years. But who knew it was so insanely detailed, or how easy it is for someone with your phone to see it if they know what they’re doing.
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Anxious introvert males name Annie Hall funniest screenplay · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety reports the Writers Guild Of America has named Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman’s Annie Hall the funniest screenplay of all time.
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Watch Ja Rule Talk Naysayers, New Reality Show, His ‘Mark on Hip-Hop’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Ja Rule Talk Naysayers, New Reality Show, His ‘Mark on Hip-Hop’ “I destroyed and smashed it,” says MC of recent comeback appearance with Chance the Rapper
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Psychedelic Pluto via NASA https://t.co/FfQVdV2wCu https://t.co/4NvUNzmfnW https://t.co/IrYb5AL0WD
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Chelsea Shields: How I’m working for change inside my church | TED Talk | TED.com
How I’m working for change inside my church https://t.co/n2sMBTYHGr
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Thomas Drake: I’ve Had to Create a Whole New Life | Al Jazeera America
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Five years after becoming the first American to be charged for espionage in nearly four decades, Thomas Drake is still trying to rebuild his life.
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FileThis 2.0 Will Organize Your Statements And Bills, Remind You When To Pay | TechCrunch
As more consumers shift to using online services for managing their banking, bills, payments, and more, some of our most important personal and financial documents are scattered across a number of websites – sites which don’t always maintain thoroug…
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70 years… Young: Happy Birthday Neil Young!|Dangerous Minds
When he was just 24—and newly very rich and very famous—Neil Young bought Broken Arrow Ranch, the sprawling Northern California property purchased in 1970 for $350,000 “from two lawyers.
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Rare early photographs of Peking
Photographer Thomas Child took these images of Peking (now known as Beijing) in the 1870s and 1880s. This is of a Buddhist lama and his student:
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Female New Zealand MPs ejected from Parliament for talking about their sexual assault / Boing Boing
NZ Prime Minister John Key is a racist blowhard who has smeared the opposition parties of “backing the rapists” for their support of allowing NZ citizens with minor criminal convictions (not sexual assault, incidentally) to return to the country fro…
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Deal on EU renegotiation ‘very tough’ – BBC News
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Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections | TechCrunch
Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection.
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TENS therapy electronic pulse massager for $16 / Boing Boing
Amazon has a good deal on a TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) therapy electronic pulse massager. It’s just $16 when you use code C4MMPX22 at checkout. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is an unproven way to reduce body pai…
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What We’re Following Thursday Afternoon, 11/12 – The Atlantic
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Edward Snowden says using an ad-blocker is ‘not just a right but a duty’ | The Verge
In a new interview with The Intercept, Edward Snowden offers some wide-ranging advice on what the average citizen can do to protect their privacy. Among those tidbits offered by the famous leaker: flip on an ad-blocker when you’re browsing the web.
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Happy 100th birthday, Roland Barthes | Books | The Guardian
In Mythologies, his influential 1957 collection of micro-essays on topics ranging from striptease to steak-frites, Gide to Garbo, Roland Barthes used “myth” to mean things wrongly taken to be natural, that which “goes without saying”, the “falsely o…
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The Saudis Are Stumbling. They May Take the Middle East with Them. | The Nation
For the past eight decades Saudi Arabia has been careful. Using its vast oil wealth, it’s quietly spread its ultra-conservative brand of Islam throughout the Muslim world, secretly undermined secular regimes in its region, and prudently kept to the …
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Sony’s PlayStation Vue streaming service expands to Amazon Fire TV | The Verge
You no longer need a PlayStation to watch PlayStation Vue on your television. Today Sony announced that its streaming TV service is now available on both the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV stick, with support coming “soon” for Google’s Chromecast.
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The Hunger Games Director Explains Why Mockingjay Absolutely Needed To Be Two Movies
There are at least $2 billion reasons why the decision was made to split the third The Hunger Games book, Mockingjay, into two movies. Money aside, though, the decision gave the filmmakers a ton of freedom, and allowed them to craft a more satisfyin…
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The Vergecast will be live today at 4:30pm ET! | The Verge
Enter Vergecast intro here. Note the topics for the week, paying special attention to include ones that are relevant to today’s podcasters — probably iPad Pro, Net Neutrality, and complaints about music streaming services.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 12th – The New Yorker
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Motorhead drummer Phil Taylor dies – BBC News
Image caption Motorhead’s first appearance on Top of the Pops was Louie Louie. Other major hits included Overkill and Ace of Spades. Former Motorhead drummer “Philthy” Phil Taylor has died at the age of 61.
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Missy Elliott’s ‘WTF’ ft. Pharrell Reviewed: Pure Rhythmic Joy – The Atlantic
After some time away, Missy Elliott still knows what people want from her.
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Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Richmond Fed, is worried about inflation unless the Fed tightens quickly, ignoring the worriers. Here’s what he just said: If we hope to keep inflation in check, we cannot be paralyzed by patches of lingering weaknes…
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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When Military School Offers the Right Kind of Discipline for At-Risk Students – The Atlantic
Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported on what appears to be the latest example of restorative classroom-discipline strategies going awry.
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A Danish Island That Runs On Renewable Energy
The story began with Svend Auken, our brave Minister for the Environment,” says Soren Hermansen, who runs the Energy Academy on the Danish island of Samsø, an emerald comma in the Kattegat Sea.
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How Burgers and Fries Are Killing Your Microbial Balance
For the microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg, that career-defining moment—the discovery that changed the trajectory of his research, inspiring him to study how diet and native microbes shape our risk for disease—came from a village in the African hinter…
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Kid throws a fit next to Obama… – Imgur
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Fog Over Europe : Natural Hazards
In early November 2015, dense fog disrupted air travel in London and central Europe. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of the low-hanging clouds on November 1.
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Mizzou Would Need 400 More Black Faculty And Staff To Meet Students’ Demands | FiveThirtyEight
University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe stepped down earlier this week to end a student hunger strike and a strike by the flagship campus’s football team, but his resignation was just one of many demands from students who say t
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Verizon offers $10-a-day global roaming, uses your existing data plan | Ars Technica
Verizon Wireless today announced a $10-per-day international roaming offer, which taps into your existing service plan instead of charging for every megabit, voice call, or text.
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The passion that ousted the heads of the University of Missouri after protests over racial discrimination on campus is spreading to other colleges across the country, turning traditional fall semesters into a period of intense focus o
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Councillor who voted to close all public toilets gets a ticket for public urination / Boing Boing
In a decision that environmental activists see as a hard-won victory, President Obama today announced he is rejecting the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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Alan Moore donates £10,000 to help friend bring his African wife to the UK | Books | The Guardian
Alan Moore, the comics legend who created the vigilante V in his acclaimed graphic novel V for Vendetta, has waded into an old friend’s battle to bring his wife to the UK, publicly donating £10,000 to Graham Cousins and expressing his “continuing in…
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Edward Snowden’s operational security advice for normal humans / Boing Boing
There’s no one else on Earth who’s more familiar with the surveillance capabilities of governments, spy agencies and criminals who is also willing to discuss those capabilities.
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In this week’s assiduously cordial Polite Fight, Gus and John talk once again about the ever-enigmatic character of Peggy by examining parallel shots before and after her sudden decision to stand by her husband, Ed “The Butcher” Blumquist.
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Five years ago, 33 men were pulled, one by one, out of a gold and copper mine in Chile after a mountain literally fell on them, stranding them several hundred meters underground for more than two months.
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YouTube Launches Its Long-Awaited Music App | TechCrunch
You’ve probably been watching music videos on YouTube since its inception. The platform has also served as the go-to place for wannabe musicians to be found, but it’s never catered to that specific vertical.
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YouTube Music launches today on Android and iOS | Ars Technica
We got a sneak peek of it a few weeks ago, but today YouTube is tackling another vertical with the launch of YouTube Music. YouTube Music is a special version of the YouTube app for iOS and Android that plays music and only music.
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Cut Back on Expenses With the Upgrade and Save Strategy
Sometimes spending money can actually save you money. For example, if you’re buying cheap boots and replacing them often, you’ll save money in the long run if you buy a pricier pair of boots that last. In line with this concept, money writer Jim Wan…
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YouTube Music is here, and it’s a game changer | The Verge
YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world’s largest and most popular online collection of moving images. But it’s also a search engine, the world’s second largest, trailing only its parent company, Google.
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Postal Worker Union Endorses Bernie Sanders | Al Jazeera America
The largest union for government postal workers in the United States has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, giving a boost to the Democratic candidate’s slim labor endorsement list.
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Reese Witherspoon Explains the Staples of Southern Style | Vanity Fair
The influence of America’s southern culture on the fashion industry has been well documented for generations, from the urban cowboys of 1970s New York to Madonna’s appropriation of cowboy hats in her “Music” music video in the early aughts.
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Unpublished Charlotte Bronte works ‘to join UK collection’ – BBC News
A poem and short story written by the author as a teenager were found between the pages of a biography of poet Henry Kirke White, owned by Maria Bronte.Bronte specialist Dr Juliet Barker called the find “extraordinary”.
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Telling a woman to “man up” doesn’t exactly count as progressive, but at least the British romcom Man Up reverses gender stereotypes less clumsily than Trainwreck did.
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How will Buhari’s cabinet fix Nigeria’s problems? – Al Jazeera English
President Muhammadu Buhari swore-in his cabinet of 36 ministers on Wednesday, bringing hope that the government can start tackling the many problems facing Nigeria – including a weak economy, widespread corruption, and security concerns brought on b…
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Ben Carson made millions with BFF and business partner, a felon convicted of healthcare fraud
That Ben Carson gets awfully creative with the truth is by now well established. Here’s one if his more interesting ones, that Medicare and Medicaid fraud is “huge—half a trillion dollars.
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“Do you know how hard it is to surprise this person?” Jennifer Aniston asked on Thursday’s 2,000th episode of Ellen.
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Suicide Explosions Hit Southern Beirut | Al Jazeera America
Twin suicide attacks at a Shia suburb in southern Beirut have killed at least 16 people, the Lebanese Red Cross said Thursday. Security officials say the explosions occurred minutes apart in an area called Burj Al-Barajneh during rush hour on Thursd…
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Deadly Beirut blasts hit Hezbollah stronghold – BBC News
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Judge Cites Anti-Gay Research To Remove Foster Child From Same-Sex Parents | ThinkProgress
Given marriage equality is now the law of the land, it may have seemed that same-sex couples are now fully protected from the myths that their families are inferior. This week, however, a judge in Utah cited anti-gay research to justify removing a c…
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New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System May Be The Farthest One Yet
Object V774104 was discovered in late October, 2015, and is one of the most distant objects ever detected. It appears to be about half the size of Pluto, but with an orbit two to three times larger than Pluto’s.
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‘Genital mutilation’ man denies wife’s murder plot – BBC News
In September, police found 21 packages containing parts of women’s clitorises, as well as surgical equipment, in a freezer owned by Peter Frederiksen, 63. Weeks later, his wife, the state’s main witness, was shot dead in Lesotho.
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Here’s a sampling of what the Republican presidential candidates said about Syria and Iraq at Tuesday night’s debate. Ben Carson declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin “is trying to really spread his influence throughout the Middle East. Thi…
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In the Future, Robots Kidnap the President to Win the War
In a future where humans battle robots, an elite military team has to save the President. And retrieving him from the middle of robot-territory is as easy as it sounds. Directed by Samuel Jorgensen, Singularity is one of those rare shorts that is al…
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Deadly explosions rock Shia area in southern Beirut – Al Jazeera English
Two explosions in a predominantly Shia area of southern Beirut have killed at least eight people and injured tens of others, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. Witnesses said that there were only minutes between the two blasts.
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Utah judge orders child removed from care of lesbian couple – BBC News
A judge in the US state of Utah has ordered that a foster child be removed from the care of a lesbian couple, and placed with a heterosexual family.The Utah Division of Child and Family Services is searching for ways to challenge to Tuesday’s decisi…
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Exclusive Marvel preview: Spider-Woman returns, more pregnant than ever · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Jessica “Spider-Woman” Drew never wanted kids, a sentiment she makes very clear on the first page of next week’s new Spider-Woman #1, but people change.
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Alessia Cara Brings Anti-Party Anthem ‘Here’ to ‘Seth Meyers’ | Rolling Stone
Alessia Cara Brings Anti-Party Anthem ‘Here’ to ‘Seth Meyers’ Rising 19-year-old R&B star preps release of debut album, ‘Know-It-All’
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Chelsea Shields: How I’m working for change inside my church | TED Talk | TED.com
How do we respect someone’s religious beliefs, while also holding religion accountable for the damage those beliefs may cause? Chelsea Shields has a bold answer to this question. She was raised in the orthodox Mormon tradition, and she spent the ear…
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Justin Timberlake’s ‘Drink You Away’ Ships to Country Radio | Rolling Stone
Justin Timberlake’s ‘Drink You Away’ Ships to Country Radio After its big Nashville welcome at the CMA Awards, the soulful track becomes Memphis native’s first official country single
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I was interested in what a coming-of-age might feel like to a kid in a town outside of London during the ‘Age of Austerity’. A surreal transition from the expectation of childhood to the exhilaration of emerging adulthood to the quiet realisation th…
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Oldest Stars Ever Discovered at Milky Way Center –“Dating from Before Its Birth” (VIDEO)
“These pristine stars are among the oldest surviving stars in the Universe, and certainly the oldest stars we have ever seen,” said Louise Howes from The Australian National University (ANU), lead author of the study published in the latest issue of…
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Android Wear gets cellular support, still needs to be paired with a phone | Ars Technica
Google has announced Android Wear now supports cellular access. OEMs will now be able to pack cellular modems and SIM cards into a smartwatch, allowing them to access the Internet and make calls without the phone being nearby or needing a Wi-Fi conn…
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News | As Earth Warms, NASA Targets ‘Other Half’ of Carbon, Climate Equation
During a 9 am PST (noon EST) media teleconference today, NASA and university scientists will discuss new insights, tools and agency research into key carbon and climate change questions, as the agency ramps up its efforts to understand how Earth’s o…
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All Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due To Expired Security Certificate | TechCrunch
Oops! A number of users have been reporting error messages and other issues with apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. The warnings prompted them to delete and then re-install their apps, but this was not necessarily correcting the problem, custom…
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Israelis in disguise snatch Palestinian in hospital raid – BBC News
Undercover Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian and seized a stabbing suspect in a raid on a West Bank hospital, Palestinian officials say. Up to 30 men, some with false beards and one masquerading as a pregnant woman in a wheelchair, entered the …
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Photos of the Balmain x H&M Collaboration – The Atlantic
Andrew B. Myers / The Atlantic The Coddling of the American Mind In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental …
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How Economic Issues Turned Into Feminist Issues – The Atlantic
Measuring the feminist movement in waves has become tiresome and inexact. Perhaps it would be better described like software, with system updates containing patches for old problems.
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Attending CES? TechCrunch Wants To See Your Company | TechCrunch
CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadg…
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The World Fantasy Awards Will No Longer Use H.P. Lovecraft’s Image – The Atlantic
At the very first World Fantasy Convention in 1975, the theme was “The Lovecraft Circle.” The guest of honor, toastmaster, chairman, and judges were esteemed members of the speculative-fiction community who all also happened to be white men.
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No one ever said having kids is easy. Trust me, as a father, I’m well aware of that.
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Author Matthew De Abaitua Is Here to Answer Questions About If Then
This month, io9 read If Then by Matthew De Abaitua. Today, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern time), he’ll be joining us to answer questions about near future science fiction, writing about war, repeating histories, and anything else you want to know.
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U.S. Congress Hopes to Weigh in on Global Climate Talks – Scientific American
Congressional partisans on both sides of the climate wars are fortifying their positions as landmark U.N. negotiations in Paris near.
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Cosmonaut training site: Oasis in an uncertain world – BBC News
Lost in the birch forests an hour’s drive outside Moscow is an oasis of diplomatic calm amid the turbulence surrounding Russia’s relations with the outside world.
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Stone Age Pottery Reveals Signs of Beekeeping – Scientific American
You have bees to thank every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honeybee relationship is long-standing. Iconography of honeybees adorns 4400-year-old walls in ancient Egypt. Rock art has been found that depicts a Stone Age bee …
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All The Lies Fake Pregnancy Centers Try To Tell Women About Abortion | ThinkProgress
If you search Google for “abortion” or “am I pregnant?”, the first ads you’re likely to see pop up are for for local “health clinics” promising instant help. These websites will promise to empower pregnant women with all the facts they have the righ…
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A little more than two weeks before the most important holiday of the year for Jillian Fisher’s mother, who has worked at Kmart for more than two decades, she still didn’t know whether and when she would have to show up for a shift.
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The Missouri Tigers and the Hidden History of Black College Football Activists | The Nation
In 1966, Calvin Hill was preparing to play football at Yale University. Hill, an African-American, was a star quarterback at his high school. But upon arriving at Yale, his coaches told him that he would be playing running back instead.
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Unseen Charlotte Brontë story and poem discovered | Books | The Guardian
An unpublished short story by Charlotte Brontë featuring flogging and embezzling, as well as a poem stuffed with thees and thous, have been discovered inside a book owned by the novelist’s mother.
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The title of Most Hated Person on the Internet is a rotating gig.
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If this Bill Passes, It Will Protect Your Right to Leave Bad Yelp Reviews | Motherboard
Consumers may soon be legally protected from lawsuits over negative online reviews, so long as the reviews are not defamatory. It seems unbelievable, but as it stands, you can be sued simply for leaving a bad online review.
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G.O.P. Fight Now a Battle Over What Defines a Conservative https://t.co/QR7ATxZEto
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Cola Is Building A Platform To Help You Send Fewer Text Messages | TechCrunch
As text messaging takes over of more and more my communication, I find myself on more and more long, complicated chats where I’m trying to plan and coordinate with multiple people. Now a startup called Cola aims to replace all that back-and-forth wi…
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In an age when The Walking Dead provides a weekly dose of head-exploding gore, it’s easy to forget how shocking the violence of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971) felt to viewers at the time.
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Climate risk could undermine investments, report warns – BBC News
A report has warned that investors could be hit hard amid changes in short-term market swings, triggered by climate impact concerns.University of Cambridge experts said global investment portfolios could see losses of up to 45%.
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The meaning of blackness in Othello / Boing Boing
The Metropolitan opera only just stopped using blackface performers. Yes! White dudes were blacking up to play Othello in 2015 and things needed to be explained to them.
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Image of the Day: Colossal Cloud System Observed on Saturn’s Titan
“When we looked at the infrared data, this ice cloud stood out like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Carrie Anderson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center about the new Titan discovery. “It practically smacked us in the face.
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Mick Carroll obituary | Environment | The Guardian
Our friend and colleague Mick Carroll, who has died of cancer aged 68, was a conservationist who worked tirelessly, often at the expense of his health, to protect birds of prey from the depredations of the game shooting industry.
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Black Friday 2015: all the best deals in one place | The Verge
Sam’s Club hasn’t officially announced its Black Friday deals yet this year, but thanks to a leaked six-page ad (posted online at BestBlackFriday.com) we’ve been able to see the best savings ahead of time.
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Volkswagen sets emissions scandal amnesty deadline – BBC News
German carmaker Volkswagen has set a 30 November deadline for staff with knowledge about its diesel emissions test cheating to come forward. Workers who get in touch with internal investigators by then will be exempt from dismissal, according to a l…
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Why the attack on Tor matters | Ars Technica
Matthew Green is a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University who has designed and analyzed cryptographic systems used in wireless networks, payment systems and digital content protection platforms.
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Han Solo – Then and Now – Imgur
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Puberty – The struggle is real. I found this on my son’s bed. – Imgur
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CareMonkey Wins Slush Startup Competition | TechCrunch
Another day, another massive tech conference in Europe.
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Battle for Sinjar: ‘There are snipers. We need to be careful’ – BBC News
Kurdish forces have launched what they say is a major offensive to drive militants of so-called Islamic State out of the town of Sinjar, in the north-west of Iraq.
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Myanmar election: Obama hails election result – BBC News
Barack Obama has hailed the result of landmark elections in Myanmar, which look set to usher in a new government. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy is on track for a majority, taking about 80% of declared seats.
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Earth-size Exoplanet Discovered–“May be the Rosetta Stone in Search for Alien Life”
Astrophysicists have discovered a new exoplanet thta could be crucial to understanding the habitability of worlds in other solar systems. Researchers have discovered an exoplanet just slightly bigger than Earth and located much closer to our Solar S…
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Your account has been disabled for pretending to be someone else. Teachers don’t go into education to get rich. It’s a great job, the rewards are awesome and although they’re not financial, they are of value. They are socially valuable.
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Airbnb Announces New “Business Travel Ready” Badge, Host Tools | TechCrunch
Today at its big Airbnb Open conference, Airbnb announced a few new tools to help hosts. The company tackles every step when it comes to becoming a host, from pricing to making sure your guests have everything they need.
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Russia’s athletics federation is planning to admit to some of the charges made against it by the World Anti-Doping Agency commission in order to avoid a ban from competition. The International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) decision on…
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Hillary Clinton Just Did Something None of Her Rivals Have Done | Mother Jones
One thing every Republican presidential candidate can agree on is that they hate President Barack Obama’s plan to tackle climate change. Now Hillary Clinton might have a way to remedy one of their biggest concerns. During Tuesday’s GOP primary debat…
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In-N-Out sues startup DoorDash, says burger delivery is a trademark violation | Ars Technica
It’s a serious case of trademark madness: food-delivery startup DoorDash has been sued by one of the restaurants that it buys food from, In-N-Out Burger.
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Exclusive: William Tyler’s dreamy performance at Pickathon | Grist
Efforts to grow better tasting fruits and vegetables lead to purple tomatoes and spiceless habaneros.
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Airbnb makes it easier to turn your home into a hotel | The Verge
Airbnb is making it easier for hosts to rent out their homes and target business travelers with a new suite of tools announced today. With the new features, users can have their homes certified as “business travel ready,” and can automatically adjus…
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Amy Landecker joins the cast of Doctor Strange · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although it took a while to suss out exactly who would portray the Sorcerer Supreme in Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange movie, Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be sitting pretty in the role.
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Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić review – a witty Balkan take on the Reich | Books | The Guardian
German bookshops are very popular with writers, because at the end of an evening’s reading, the booksellers will slip you an envelope stuffed with cash.
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All the First Aid Stuff That’s Changed Since You First Learned It
When was the last time you took a first aid class? The ‘80s? ‘90s? Like everything in the medical field, first aid is constantly evolving, and what you may have learned to do as a first responder 10 years ago could be completely wrong today.
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Two Major RPG Books Came Out This Month, and They’re Both Surprisingly Crappy
Two major RPG sourcebooks, Wizards of the Coast’s D&D Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide and Paizo’s Inner Sea Races for Pathfinder, both came out in the last few weeks! Here’s why you should skip them both, no matter what RPG system you’re using. These…
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Wayward Satellites Repurposed to Test General Relativity – Scientific American
Two satellites that were accidentally launched into the wrong orbit will be repurposed to make the most stringent test to date of a prediction made by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity—that clocks run more slowly the closer they are to …
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Chimp Uses Branch to a Swat Drone out of the Air – Scientific American
Washington Post “Chimp That Attacked a Drone with a Stick Planned Ahead, Researchers Say” Classified report, September 20, 2015: Venue: Secure location, the Netherlands; translation of interview with damaged drone aircraft, performed by unidentified…
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Build a Paper Rocket – Scientific American
Make a rocket that soars–with science! Learn about the importance of stability in flight, and see how far your paper rocket can fly.
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‘A book is not its plot’: Orhan Pamuk on new novel A Strangeness in My Mind | Books | The Guardian
There was a time in the history of literature when the story was more important than the details, the Nobel Laureate and Columbia University professor told an audience on Wednesday at the Brooklyn public library as part of an author series arranged …
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Two questions loom heavy over Heist.
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Little Leaguer Haunted By 386 Errors He Made Last Season – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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The comedy network Jash just launched a new web series called Baby Talk, hosted by comedian and new father Dan Levy.
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Stove embraces stupidity on its debut album · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With his old band Ovlov, Steve Hartlett proved that a Dinosaur Jr. influence could transcend mere worship. Though Ovlov has been put to bed, that hasn’t stopped Hartlett from continuing on with his own version of Mascis-isms.
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Kobe Bryant nears the end – but he seems happy to play a supporting role | Sport | The Guardian
Is this Kobe Bryant’s last season in the NBA? Sports media seems obsessed with the debate, attempting to make sense of Bryant in 2015 while juxtaposing his apparent defiance against the reality of his play this season.
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Modi visit: ‘Relationship of immense importance to us’ – BBC News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started a three-day visit to the UK. After being greeted with a guard of honour at the Treasury, Mr Modi held talks with the British prime minister, David Cameron.
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SpaceX Test Fires SuperDraco Engines and Upgraded Falcon 9 | Video
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Shia LaBeouf, an actor whose erratic behavior often veers into the realm of bizarre performance art, has invited us all to watch him watch his movies — all 27 of them, in reverse chronological order.
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BBC Sport – Arsene Wenger: Arsenal manager asked to explain doping comments
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been asked to explain his comments on doping to the Football Association. Wenger, 66, said this week he had “never injected my players to make them better” but there had been teams he had faced not “in that frame of…
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MILWAUKEE — For months, the Republican presidential race has been animated by the party’s inchoate anger about the state of the country and an equally undefined hope that a candidate would emerge who could usher in an era of civic renewal.
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Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare repeal strategy hits roadblock
Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare repeal strategy hits roadblock https://t.co/V1okkZ7KLu
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The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie | TechCrunch
Everybody knows hiring is difficult for tech companies. The Huffington Post called the shortage “devastating,” and the Obama administration’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicted a shortfall of 1 million technical professionals by…
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Hive Pocket – a strategy tile-laying game with bugs that you can play anywhere / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. Hive Pocket is a strategy and tile-laying game for two players. It’s the more portable version of the original game, Hive, with a couple of expansion pieces and a cloth bag for transport.
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People Are Terrified of Sex – The Atlantic
Imagine that a thousand people—randomly selected from the U.S. population—had unprotected sex yesterday. How many of them will eventually die from contracting HIV from that single sexual encounter? Now, imagine a different thousand people.
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Zimbabwe’s environment minister has blamed the poisoning of at least 71 elephants in recent months on disgruntled game rangers and local communities who do not benefit from wildlife revenues.
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Protests against campus racism are spreading across the country, but Purdue University President and former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels wants his students to know everything is just fine at Purdue. What on earth is a university president doing, s…
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Just Bieber’s selfies used to bring Instagram to its knees | The Verge
For engineers working on social media, celebrities can be like natural disasters — swinging into town without warning and wrecking any vital infrastructure in sight.
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Indian PM Narendra Modi makes speech in UK Parliament – BBC News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making a speech in the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parliament in London, as part of his three-day official visit to the UK.
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Scientists hopeful comet rider will wake once more – Al Jazeera English
It has been a year since the European Space Agency made history by putting its Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Typewriter with tentacles / Boing Boing
Di-Andre Caprice Davis is an artist from Kingston, Jamaica who creates some really wonderful animated GIF art. In my work, I combined a passion for digital aesthetic with furthering the exposure and understanding of how technology has affected our w…
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Seth MacFarlane’s roast of Donald Trump – Imgur
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Imgur at the moment – GIF on Imgur
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Rocket Fiber Launches 100GB/s Internet Service In Downtown Detroit | TechCrunch
Downtown Detroit has a new ISP: Rocket Fiber is today detailing its upcoming fiber optic internet service, which it brags are 1,000 times faster than the current average internet connectivity in Detroit.
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Catalonia crisis forces Spain into unknown territory – BBC News
Is it really possible that part of a Western European country could break away, without a legally recognised referendum or the consent of that country’s government? Regarding Catalonia, most commentators and politicians in Madrid never thought the a…
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Samsung’s new Exynos 8 SoC includes an LTE modem and its first custom CPU | Ars Technica
We’re going to be seeing a new crop of high-end smartphones in early 2016, and while we don’t know what they’ll look like just yet, we are learning an awful lot about the chips that will power them.
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Utah lesbian couple on losing their foster child – video | World news | The Guardian
April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce say a judge has ordered their foster child to be removed because they’re gay, in a Skype interview on Wednesday.
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Serbia and Croatia join forces to tackle migrant crisis – BBC News
As European and African leaders thrash out deals on how to deal with the migrant crisis, migrants are continuing to arrive in Europe. James Reynolds is on the Serbian-Croatian border where he spoke to some migrants about why they had made the journe…
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor Pleads for the Fourth Amendment – The Atlantic
In her solo dissent from a case at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor chose to be blunt about the ruling’s implications.
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‘You Really Got Me’: Oingo Boingo’s spiky Kinks cover|Dangerous Minds
In a lot of ways, Oingo Boingo epitomized the stereotypical New Wave sound for Southern California, favoring the jagged rhythms and stilted, hiccuping vocals that typified that music for most casuals.
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Watch this dumb guy get nabbed by the NYPD for pointing lasers at helicopters | The Verge
We hear a lot of stories of bored idiots shining laser pointers at airplanes and helicopters, but rarely do we get to see immensely satisfying video of said idiots getting busted by the cops. Thanks to NBC New York 4 reporter Dennis Protsko, that fo…
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Free Speech Is No Diversion – The Atlantic
In January of 1987, flyers distributed anonymously at the University of Michigan declared “open season” on black people, referring to them with the most disgusting racial slurs. “Shortly thereafter,” Catherine B.
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Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare repeal strategy hits roadblock
Mitch McConnell has a problem. Well, three problems: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul.
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Chinese and American Schools Compared – The Atlantic
High school students in a rural school in Gansu province, western China, 2009
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What’s New in Windows 10’s Big November Update
Windows 10 gets its first major update today, with a number of features you’ve asked for—like colored title bars, fixes to the Start menu, and (finally!) a better way to activate your Windows 10 license. Now, when you install Windows 10, you can act…
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Rand Paul Just Went Full-On Climate Science Denier. Here’s Why He’s Full-On Wrong. | ThinkProgress
There was once a time when Rand Paul seemed like a moderate on climate change. A few months before he declared his candidacy for president, the Republican senator from Kentucky voted for an amendment stating that climate change is real and that huma…
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Closest Earth-size Exoplanet Found May Be a Venus Twin – Scientific American
In this artist’s conception GJ 1132b, a rocky exoplanet very similar to Earth in size and mass, circles a red dwarf star. GJ 1132b is relatively cool, about 450 degrees F, and could potentially host an atmosphere.
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We Have Chevy Chase to Thank for Home Alone | Vanity Fair
On Christmas Eve this year, you may be stuck choosing between National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Home Alone as the 25-ish-year-old holiday classic to enjoy with the entire family.
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Lee Daniels on Hollywood’s Diversity Problem: “I’m Not Here to Be a Po | Vanity Fair
Lee Daniels, the creative force behind Precious, The Butler, and Empire, has a great deal to say about diversity in Hollywood.
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Hear Emmylou Harris and John Paul White’s Spiritual ‘Kyrie’ | Rolling Stone
Emmylou Harris has been a grievous angel with Gram Parsons and part of an Angel Band with Vince Gill — and though one of those two projects might favor cosmic country over classic hymnals, she’s always had a way of connecting spiritually with or wit…
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12 Nastiest Things Former GN’R Bandmates Have Said About Each Other | Rolling Stone
Rumors about a Guns N’ Roses classic-lineup reunion are again swirling, fueled by a series of cryptic dispatches from the band’s official Twitter and a dubious claim made by a former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star.
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Hear Dion, Paul Simon Duet on Heartfelt ‘New York Is My Home’ | Rolling Stone
“I’m not alone, New York is my home,” Dion and Paul Simon harmonize on the doo-wop singer’s new single, available for download tomorrow.
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‘Empire’ Recap: Number One With a Bullet | Rolling Stone
When it comes to Lucious Lyon, there’s no separating the man and his music. The character plays like a parody of pretentious, tempestuous artistes — people who use every triumph and tragedy as fuel for their work and their bad behavior.
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Ezviz Mini security cam reviewed: Small, affordable, and surprisingly good | Ars Technica
Wi-Fi security cameras for your home can provide peace of mind when you’re traveling for long periods of time or just at work each day. But they can get expensive quite quickly: most devices cost around $200 per camera and require subscription fees …
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Not (just) the War on Drugs: the difficult, complicated truth about American prisons / Boing Boing
Gottschalk is very critical of the current prison reform movement, which emphasizes racial disparity, the private prison system, and the War on Drugs as the causes of mass incarceration. The reality, she contends, is a lot more complex.
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Cloud Wakes Behind the Prince Edward Islands : Natural Hazards
Located about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from South Africa, the Prince Edward Islands jut from the southern Indian Ocean at a remote point between Africa and Antarctica. The larger of the two islands—Marion Island—reaches an elevation of 1,230 met…
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Apple, eBay Used Contractors That Underpaid Immigrant Employees | ThinkProgress
The Department of Labor (DOL) banned two Silicon Valley contracting firms used by Apple, eBay, and Cisco from hiring immigrant workers with high-skilled visas for underpaying employees nearly $1,000 a month.
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Prepping our gear in New Zealand : Notes from the Field : Blogs
We arrived safely in Christchurch, New Zealand. On Wednesday morning we went over to the International Antarctic Centre to check up on our instruments and equipment.
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The Singing Revolution and the Future of Music in Estonia – The Atlantic
Perhaps more than any other country in the world, the history of the Baltic nation of Estonia is a story set to song. Whether under German, Danish, Swedish, or Soviet occupation, Estonians have long turned to music as a way of preserving some sembla…
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Happy Cat Does a Happy Dance to Greet Its Owner – The Atlantic
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Walker IN YOUR FACE: Behind the scenes of iconic 60s crime drame ‘Point Blank’|Dangerous Minds
In the 1960s, Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson starred in two pivotal gangster movies that dragged crime cinema out of the shadows of film noir and into the harsh technicolor daylight of post-war America.
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Bloomingdale’s Is Really Sorry About That Date Rape Holiday Ad | ThinkProgress
That’s the tagline on an advertisement from Bloomingdale’s. It ran in the department store’s holiday catalog.
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Review: Popcake PC-11 Pancake Extruder / Boing Boing
While visiting a friend recently, I stayed at a local hotel and got a chance to try out the Quickcakes Popcake PC-11 Pancake Extruder. About a yard wide, it has a single button on it, a small monochrome display, and is emblazoned with a decal statin…
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Russian TV “Accidentally” Leaks Footage of Classified Nuclear Torpedo Design
During a meeting of military officials in Sochi, Russian TV crews captured footage of a document not intended for public consumption.
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On Tuesday, the Obama administration released the first phase of a plan that will boost renewable energy in the solar-rich California desert while protecting millions of acres of sensitive land from development.
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Red Bull spared no expense in shooting this video with BMX rider Kriss Kyle…I’ve never seen a BMX course quite like this one. (thx, nick)
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NORTH SALEM, N.Y. — This pastoral playground in the northeast corner of Westchester County, laced with horse paddocks and stone walls, has long been a draw for the wealthy and well-connected.
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U.S. Strikes Help Kurds Hit Back at ISIS in Battle to Reclaim Sinjar – The Daily Beast
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By The Sea, the new vanity project from celebrity power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is full of beautiful people, beautiful scenery, beautiful music, beautiful clothes, beautiful cars, and beautiful hotels full of beautiful furniture on whic…
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Watch Missy Elliott’s first video in seven years, ‘WTF (Where They From)’ | The Verge
Missy Elliott has made her triumphant return to the world of music videos with a new single featuring Pharrell Williams, “WTF (Where They From).
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Christie Blames College Racism Protests On Obama Encouraging ‘Lawlessness’ | ThinkProgress
As he hit the trail in Iowa this week in an attempt to save his struggling campaign for president, New Jersey Gov.
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Jennifer Lawrence has made an emphatic return to the cultural forefront these past few weeks, as part of the promotional tour for the final installment of the Hunger Games franchise.
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The one thing you never hear about Khalif Diouf is how much he laughs. In general, the native New York rapper — better known as Le1f — is portrayed as a soft-spoken, yet deadly serious provocateur wholly dedicated to his bawdy, politically charged p…
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Koch Brother: I Won’t Back a Candidate Until They Stop Being So Bad | Vanity Fair
At this point, America is anxiously waiting for February, when the primaries will start forcefully shaking candidates, many of them alive solely due to the generosity of super-PACs, out of the presidential field. For many, an injection of cash from …
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This is the fourth and final novel of the All the Wrong Questions series by Lemony Snicket, which is a loosely-linked prequel series to A Series of Unfortunate Events because it doesn’t tell you all the background but it introduces you to that world…
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Clean Your Reusable Razor in a Snap with a White Vinegar Soak
If you have a reusable razor, you already know you should clean it periodically, maybe every time you change blades. What you may not know is instead of fancy cleaners, a quick soak in white vinegar and water will do the trick just as well.
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Re: re: Microwave in the break room doing weird things to fabric of spacetime | Motherboard
From: Jasper (Facilities) Tues 8/12/13 12:17 p.m. Hey everyone, sorry for the email blast, but please stop using the lower microwave in the kitchen. Someone nuked a burrito in there on high for what I am assuming had to be at least 20+ minutes becau…
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I Paid This Company $30 to Break Up with My Girlfriend | Motherboard
I broke up with my girlfriend of five years today, and I didn’t even have to talk to her. No call, email, or text. Not even a goodbye wave emoji. Instead, I paid a new service called The Breakup Shop $30 to do it for me.
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Famous actors playing homeless people is always a tough sell. No matter how committed they may be to the role, it’s hard to suspend disbelief; the disparity between the character’s poverty and the celebrity’s obscene wealth is so pronounced that it …
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This installment of Popcorn Politics—The A.V. Club’s collaboration with Scrappers Film Group—examines how Wayne and Garth, the fictional hosts of Wayne’s World, both showcased and undermined the power of public access television.
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Syracuse Refugees Struggle to Find A Home – The Atlantic
SYRACUSE—Drive around this economically depressed city and the signs of the more than 10,000 refugees who have settled here are everywhere, from the ethnic grocery stores on the Northside to clusters of Somali Bantu women sitting in brightly colored…
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Protests over racial issues spread to more US campuses – BBC News
Protests against racial injustice have spread beyond the University of Missouri as students at least two other US campuses have walked out of classes. Rallies were held on Wednesday at Ithaca College in New York and Smith College in Massachusetts.
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Kurdish troops attempt to retake Iraqi city of Sinjar from Isis | World news | The Guardian
Kurdish forces have launched an extensive push to retake Sinjar city in northern Iraq, 15 months after it was seized by Islamic State forces who purged the local Yazidi community and ousted minorities from the Nineveh Plains.
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Review: Ty Dolla $ign’s debut album finds pleasure in self-constructed excess | The Verge
In 2012 and 2013, Ty Dolla $ign, the West Coast almost-rapper who had recently signed to Atlantic Records, released two mixtapes in quick succession: Beach House and Beach House 2.
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Butterball Releases New Travel-Size Turkey – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Fraternity Sues ‘Rolling Stone’ For $25 Million – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
After multiple discrepancies were found in Rolling Stone’s 2014 account of fraternity-involved rape on the University of Virginia campus, UVA’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is filing a $25 million defamation lawsuit against the magazine, claiming the ch…
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The only women who have abortions at the Philadelphia Women’s Center are those with the stamina for an obstacle course. The state bans Medicaid and insurance from the Affordable Care Act markets from covering abortions.
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Academics ‘Livid,’ ‘Concerned’ Over Allegations that CMU Helped FBI Attack Tor | Motherboard
On Wednesday, Motherboard reported that a “university-based academic research institute” had been providing information to the FBI, leading to the identification of criminal suspects on the dark web.
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Hackers Are Trying to Trick People Into Giving Them Their Amazon Passwords | Motherboard
Amazon has not suffered a data breach. Computer security firm F-Secure said Thursday morning that it has seen email spam telling users to verify their Amazon accounts following an alleged data breach.
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Is Traditional Banking Unbreakable? by Dambisa Moyo – Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – It is a rare industry nowadays that is not at risk of being upended by digital technology. Amazon, having swept away bookshops, is now laying siege to the rest of the retail sector.
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Wireless Charging Is a Still Mess, But It Won’t Be Forever
Wireless charging sounds nice, doesn’t it? No more ports. No more cords. Just plop your smartphone (or, someday, something even bigger!) down on a charging pad—or better yet, on a table that has wireless charging pads built right in. As far as futur…
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Behold The Awesome Origins Of Spider-Gwen’s New Female Captain America
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Product Hunt Redesigns The Homepage To Aid Discovery Beyond Tech | TechCrunch
It’s been two years since the launch of Product Hunt as a listicle for discovering tech products. Today the site gets a brand new design to reflect the addition of games, podcasts, books, collections and live categories since that time.
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Electricity in 1915: Transporting People and Finding Buried Bombs – Scientific American
Artificial Heart “Up to a very few years ago the goal of planting an artificial heart in the body was not recognized as a bona fide scientific effort worthy of support, and papers describing experiments in that endeavor were not accepted by scientif…
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Spotify Turns Its Recommendation Engine To Concerts | TechCrunch
Spotify’s ability to personalize its music recommendations is getting another big boost today, with the launch of a new feature that will now point its users to area concerts they may like to attend.
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Verizon subscribers can now pay extra to take their data plan abroad | The Verge
Verizon is introducing new international phone plans today that are going to make travelers a little happier, but only if they’re familiar with how awful Verizon’s plans used to be.
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U.S. Strikes Help Kurds Hit Back at ISIS in Battle to Reclaim Sinjar – The Daily Beast
LONDON—The battle for Sinjar has begun. Roughly 6,000 peshmerga forces from the Kurdish group known as the YPG, along with 1,500 Yazidis, and 300 Kurdish fighters from the rival group known as the PKK, began their long-anticipated offensive on the c…
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The ACLU’s Map of Where Your Cellphone Location Can Be Tracked – The Atlantic
Smartphones handle the jobs of many other objects: walkie-talkies, calculators, cameras. They pretend to be landlines and laptops and lightbulbs.
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Philae’s Lander’s Bouncy Comet Landing Reconstructed In New Animation
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Ed Helms is developing a dark comedy about restaurant chains · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that Ed Helms is producing Starters, a “dark comedy” that will explore the seedy underbelly of corporate theme restaurants, which is good news for anyone who feels the servers at their local Applebee’s or Chili’s need to be taken do…
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“Home” · Casual · TV Review Nothing about “Home” is casual · TV Club · The A.V. Club
To this point in the season, Casual has balanced on the finest of edges, expertly walking the line between comedy and tragedy to create something that feels sometimes ugly, sometimes joyful, but (almost) always honest.
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Europe fund to tackle African migration ‘not enough’ – BBC News
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has described a $1.9bn (£1.2bn) European fund set-up to tackle irregular migration as “not enough”. It was one of several measures European and African leaders agreed at a meeting in Malta which discussed ways to reduc…
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Portraits of the Unseen Domestic Laborers Behind L.A.’s Mansions on Vimeo
Ramiro Gomez’s parents are Mexican immigrants—his mother works as a janitor and his father is a Costco truck driver. Growing up in the Los Angeles area, he was always aware of the invisibility of the area’s domestic laborers. Now, as an artist repre…
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Ex-Tremeloes members accused of historical sex assault – BBC News
Two former members of 1960s band The Tremeloes have been accused of historical indecent assault. Richard Westwood, 72, from Surrey, and Leonard Hawkes, 69, from Berkshire, have been summonsed to Chester Magistrates on 2 December, police said.
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David Cameron and Indian PM Narendra Modi hold news conference – BBC News
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is speaking to the media – alongside his British counterpart David Cameron – at a news conference to mark the start of his three-day visit to the UK.
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The CEO of troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has blamed the company’s declining fortunes on a failure to deal with the “speed of change” in the industry, but claimed the company had pulled itself back “from the edge of death”.
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Family book reviews – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
It has been a month of monsters, madness and mischief for our family readers. Here is a roundup of the books they gave a thumbs up to in October.
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The incredibly boring motive behind one of the hugest hacks ever | Fusion
Back in 2014, before Sony Pictures and Ashley Madison were denuded for the world to see, the JPMorgan Chase hack felt like the biggest hack. It affected 76 million households! And it was what we imagined to be the hacking motherlode: banking informa…
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Behold The Awesome Origins Of Spider-Gwen’s New Female Captain America
Last month, Spider-Gwen’s return to the “All-New, All-Different” Marvel Universe gave us a brand new iteration of Captain America. But the second issue of the series has lifted the lid on this new Cap and her allies, and it’s every bit as wonderful …
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Hospital Gear Could Save Your Life Or Hack Your Identity – Bloomberg Business
In the fall of 2013, Billy Rios flew from his home in California to Rochester, Minn., for an assignment at the Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated nonprofit medical group practice in the world. Rios is a “white hat” hacker, which means customers hir…
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The only affordable retirement for most Americans isn’t in America – Quartz
Christine Schofield, mother of three, disappeared the day after the Bowl-A-Thon: February 13, 2012. She’d co-chaired the annual fundraiser with Holly Riordan at the Brunswick Zone in the Chicago suburb of Woodridge.
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Wow, More Terrifying Than Trump https://t.co/qoGIu2Xupr
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Yellow Canaries and Middle-Aged White Men
Americans live longer today than we used to live, sometimes a lot longer. Just over 32,000 centenarians called the United States home in 1980. In 2010, we had more than 53,000 Americans in triple digits.
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First Carrier-Backed Cyanogen Phone Launches In Europe | TechCrunch
The Cyanogen flavor of open Android is getting a little carrier love in Europe, with Spain’s Telefonica launching its first handset powered by the mobile OS today, the BQ Aquaris X5, on its Movistar carrier brand.
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Oregon Black Lives Matter Supporters Have Been Targeted By Online Surveillance | ThinkProgress
An Oregon Department of Justice investigator used a search tool to racially profile Twitter users who used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, the state’s attorney general said in a letter to a civil rights organization Tuesday in which she said she was …
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Why the quantified self isn’t always the best path for a healthy life | The Verge
I have tried various health trackers, and they always wind up buried in the bottom drawer of my dresser. I should love the pursuit of a quantified self. I like data; I want to be healthier; I enjoy new technology, even when it’s fussy and doesn’t re…
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Firefox is now on iOS | The Verge
After a long-running, conspicuous absence, Firefox is now available for iOS. Mozilla announced last year that the browser would be coming to the platform, launched a public preview in September, and is now making it available to all iPhone and iPad …
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Shopify’s New App Sello Allows Anyone Create An Online Store From Their Phone | TechCrunch
E-commerce company Shopify is launching a new app called Sello.
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Virginia Is The First State In The Country To End Veteran Homelessness | ThinkProgress
On Veterans Day, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and President Obama announced that the state is the first in the country to end veteran homelessness.
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Cruz vs. Rubio Is A Long Way Off | FiveThirtyEight
The Ted Cruz vs. Marco Rubio clash is coming! After Tuesday night’s debate, Jamie Weinstein at The Daily Caller wrote an article titled “Cruz And Rubio Win Debate And Foreshadow A Coming Clash.” Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg went with “Debate Offers Hint…
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Pressure mounts on Venezuela to allow election observers – BBC News
More than 150 lawmakers from Latin America and the United States have signed a letter addressed to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. They urge him to allow international observers to monitor Venezuela’s legislative polls on 6 December.
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Paris climate deal must be legally binding, EU tells John Kerry | Environment | The Guardian
The EU has warned the Obama administration that a global climate deal at the Paris summit must be legally binding, after the US secretary of state John Kerry said that it “definitively” would not be a treaty “The Paris agreement must be an internati…
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Once notorious for air pollution, Mexico City’s ability to clean its skies has shown it can also be a leader in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, according to the city’s mayor, Miguel Angel Mancera.
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Stephen Colbert Unveils Christmas-Heavy Starbucks Cup | Rolling Stone
Stephen Colbert Unveils Christmas-Heavy Starbucks Cup on ‘Late Show’ “Don’t fight this: Give the customers a cup so crammed with Christmas, they’ll be picking tinsel out of their Yule log for months,” host says
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A List of the Dumb Swag the FBI Made to Promote Its Dumb Propaganda Movie | Motherboard
Earlier this year, a friend brought me a mysterious FBI-branded mousepad she had gotten from a conference in Washington, DC. It has a massive pawn chess piece on it, with the words “Don’t Be a Pawn” and “Game of Pawns” plastered across the middle of…
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How Imran Amed Is Turning Business of Fashion into an Empire | Vanity Fair
There’s fashion, which is how we describe the prevailing way people dress. And then there’s Fashion with a capital F, the international, multi-billion-dollar industry that dictates what and how people clothe themselves. Imran Amed founded the Web si…
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A Gigapixel Camera Turned This Island into an Albatross ‘Truman Show’ | Motherboard
Albatross Island isn’t much to look at. It’s just a tiny chunk of rock that sits in the waters about 22 miles north of Tasmania. Not much grows there. It’s cold, it’s wet, and it’s extremely windy. No one lives there. Heck, no one would want to.
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Jeff Buckley Compilation to Include Unreleased Songs, Covers | Rolling Stone
A new compilation will collect Jeff Buckley’s previously unreleased first recordings for Columbia Records. The 10-track You and I, due out March 11th, contains a mix of originals and covers of tunes by artists ranging from Bob Dylan to Sly and the F…
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It’s getting more difficult to reserve skepticism about beloved properties springing back to life on Netflix. The fourth season of Arrested Development cast a long shadow of doubt for some, and everywhere you look, there’s the specter of the forthco…
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Mizzou, Yale and Free Speech https://t.co/ButmRqowj6
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Kinja Roundup https://t.co/DeXmQrMT7l
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Jaw-dropping octopus typewriter|Dangerous Minds
Wow! This is a simply stunning piece! Made by Oakland-based artist Courtney Brown, the piece is called “Self Organization,” and won first place at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s annual California Sculpture SLAM exhibition.
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Gay, and Saving Herself for Marriage – The Atlantic
When Julie Kerr was about 12 or 13, she decided that, like many other Christians, she would try to wait until she was married to have sex. That part wasn’t especially surprising. She grew up in a small town in Virginia with a Baptist minister for a …
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How Salmon Switch on Infrared Vision When Swimming Upstream – The Atlantic
It’s November, and salmon are currently leaving the oceans and returning to the rivers where they were born. During these epic waterfall-leaping, bear-dodging migrations, their bodies change. Their color darkens and reddens. The males develop hooked…
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Sometime in the past 20 years, people soured on email. Culturally, it went from delightful to burdensome, a shift that’s reflected in the very language of the inbox. In the 1990s, AOL would gleefully announce, “You’ve got mail!” Today, Gmail celebr…
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Kurdish Forces Launch Offensive Against Islamic State in Sinjar – The Atlantic
Kurdish Peshmerga, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, have begun an offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar in northern Iraq from the Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said Thursday. This ground offensive includes u…
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Firefox finally comes to iOS | Ars Technica
At long last, Firefox has come to iOS. Rather unusually, this is the first version of the Firefox browser that does not use the Gecko layout engine, instead using iOS’s built-in WebKit-based layout engine. The app is available as a free download fro…
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Amazon’s Running a Huge Sale On Your Favorite Shower Head Line, Today Only
Delta’s In2ition line recently took home the title of your favorite shower head, and the entire line is on sale today in Amazon’s Gold Box. Inside, you’ll find find In2ition shower heads with four settings, five settings, massaging H2Okinetic option…
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When Apple combined their iOS and Mac developer programs a few months ago, the company also quietly dropped the requirement that you had to be a registered developer to load apps from Xcode to your iOS device.
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Football Manager 2016 review: Presentation makes perfect | Ars Technica
At one point it was all going smoothly. Inspired by Jurgen Klopp, my Liverpool team was playing a high-pressure, high-tempo game that even the Premier League elite of Manchester City, Arsenal, and Chelsea struggled to compete against.
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Mac users forced to reinstall software after App Store security glitch | The Verge
A security bug on Mac computers is forcing some Apple users to delete and reinstall software they’ve downloaded from the App Store. As first spotted by developer Paul Haddad, the problem seems to be caused by an expired security certificate used by …
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Tons More Star Wars Details, Plus Two New Game of Thrones Characters!
Harrison Ford wants to return to Indiana Jones. Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi tease the Doctor Who season finale. Aliens: Paradise Lost will explore the origins of the Aliens. Plus, oodles of new The Force Awakens pictures, and Peyton Reed talks a…
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China’s First Science Nobel Prize Exposes Stresses on Country’s Research – Scientific American
China has been celebrating its first and long-awaited Nobel prize in the sciences, but the controversy that surrounds the awarding of the prize to Tu Youyou also highlights powerful tensions within its research system.
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What Really Causes Autism – Scientific American
Seven actors stand around a circle of swirling colors—blue, gold and white painted in the middle of the stage. Interspersed among them are twice as many children. Most of the younger players look withdrawn. Many appear disabled, intellectually or ph…
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The traditional choice between restaurants, takeaways and home-cooking is being disrupted by the sharing economy. Think Airbnb, but for food.
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A Dark Web Hacker Is Hunting Potential Pedophiles to Extort Them for Money | Motherboard
As the saying goes, no one on the internet knows you’re a dog. Or no one knows you’re a hacker pretending to be a teenage girl in order to blackmail pedophiles.
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ATLANTA — With its unadorned language and matter-of-fact tone, the announcement on Tuesday by the authorities in Birmingham, Ala., at first read like nearly any other law enforcement statement about a homicide investigation. But the fourth paragraph…
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Perhaps you didn’t watch the Republican presidential debate this week. That in no way excuses you from having an opinion about it. It’s the last one until December, and all you’ll have to work with if you want political conversation at Thanksgiving …
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On September 21, 1905, a suitcase surfaced in Winthrop Harbor, with the torso of an unidentified young woman stuffed inside.
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Extreme Bagpiping Situations, From Antarctica to the Beaches of D-Day | Atlas Obscura
Members of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders, 15th (Scottish) Division during Operation Epsom on June 26, 1944. (Photo: Laing (Sgt)/Imperial War Museums)
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Windows 10 November Update: features, fixes, and enterprise readiness | Ars Technica
The Windows 10 November update is available now to everyone running Windows 10. This first major update has a handful of visible features, a variety of bug fixes, and even some enterprise features.
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Spotify will now offer users a personalized list of concerts in their area | The Verge
We wrote recently about our love for Spotify’s new Discover Weekly feature, which generates a personalized playlist each Monday.
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Here’s What Is Next For Windows 10 | TechCrunch
Microsoft has a big Windows 10 boost out today. The company is calling it the “first major update” to Windows 10 for both normal PCs, and tablets. At its most basic, Microsoft wants to better position Windows 10 — its new operating system — for both…
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Thorn To Set Up An Innovation Lab In Silicon Valley To Fight Child Sexual Exploitation | TechCrunch
Putting children, let alone anyone who can’t fend for themselves, into harm’s way is a monstrosity. Every single day, media of all types, photos and videos being the most prominent, depicting children in sexual scenarios are being uploaded to sites …
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Microsoft is ready to push Windows 10 to businesses | The Verge
Windows 10 debuted three months ago, and more than 110 million machines have already upgraded. Microsoft is revealing today that 12 million business PCs are using Windows 10, but the software maker is now readying the operating system for millions m…
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Windows 10’s first major update is arriving today | The Verge
Microsoft has been testing a fresh update to Windows 10 for the past few months, and now it’s ready to release it to everyone. More than 110 million machines are now running Windows 10, and they’ll all be offered the update today.
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Science Museum ends sponsorship deal with Shell | Environment | The Guardian
The Science Museum will not renew a sponsorship deal with Shell that saw the oil giant controversially provide a major source of funding for its high-profile climate change exhibition.
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Ben Carson Made Money With the Help of a Felon Convicted of Healthcare Fraud | Mother Jones
In his 2013 book America the Beautiful, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who now is at the front of the GOP’s 2016 presidential pack, proposed a simple plan to reduce health-care fraud: the Saudi Arabian Solution.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known as “Lewis Carroll,” took up the then new art-form of photography in 1856. Over 3000 photographs were taken by Dodgson, but only 1000 have survived due to the passage of time and deliberate destruction.
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Winter finally shows itself in the US – Al Jazeera English
The static pattern of US weather for the last few weeks has provided excess warmth to most states, regular flooding from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic, and a feeling of never-ending summer. But that appears to have come to an abrupt end.
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The Small Town That Perfectly Illustrates America’s Digital Divide – The Atlantic
Imagine you’re the kind of person who drives out to see submarine-cable landing sites for fun. This should not require too much imagination. We’re talking about places in the world where the Internet rises out of the ocean. Of course you’re the kind…
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‘The Work of the Dead’ Review: Why Humans Care for the Bodies of the Deceased – The Atlantic
The ancient Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes was extreme in a lot of ways. He deliberately lived on the street, and, in accordance with his teachings that people should not be embarrassed to do private things in public, was said to defecate and mast…
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How I Failed as a Teacher with an Autistic Student – The Atlantic
Every August, the week before classes begin is a parade of meetings for teachers. Meetings with administrators and colleagues fill the five or so days teachers have to get organized before students flood the school. This year, my roster included a s…
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Kinja Roundup https://t.co/H7rGriKxvR
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Today, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet revealed the name and logo for his six-month mission to the International Space Station starting next November.
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Shop After a Major Holiday to Save on Clothes
Plenty of stores would love to tell you that shopping on or before a holiday is the best time to buy. In reality, it may be right after the holiday where you can score the best deals.
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Egypt tourism teeters after Sinai plane crash – BBC News
The warm, turquoise sea glimmers tantalisingly as it laps at sandy beaches surrounded by palm trees and colourful, exotic flowers. Ordinarily in November, few sun loungers would be unoccupied under the umbrellas that line the shores of Sharm el-Shei…
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Morning Digest: Edwards unloads on Vitter in debate: ‘You are a liar, and I don’t tolerate that’
• LA-Gov: Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter met for the first gubernatorial debate of their runoff campaign on Tuesday night, and let’s just say a few punches were thrown.
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On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force. One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways that…
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How Formula 1 Teams Use Big Data to Win – Fortune
The Pit Row at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, home to the only Formula 1 championship race in the U.S., is packed with fans. Some people clutch their ponchos and wince as gusts whip along the asphalt.
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How to Tie Your Shoes and Lace Your Shoes the Best Way – Bloomberg Business
You think you know how to tie your shoes. You do it every day, right? Sure, that simple bow you use to fasten your criss-crossed laces works well enough. But you’re missing out on a much more attractive—and effective—system. Below, I have a simple g…
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Eyefi Acquires OkDoThis To Creatively Challenge And Inspire Photographers | TechCrunch
Eyefi, the makers of cloud-connected mobile SD cards for photographers, has today announced the acquisition of OkDoThis. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Waiting for the Republican Shakeout https://t.co/esXDS7z1BG
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Students Across The Country Are Marching To Demand Free College Education | ThinkProgress
On Thursday, students across the country will walk out of their classrooms and march for the right to a free college education. According to organizers, 110 college campuses across the country are expected to participate in the grassroots event. “Ed…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Good morning, America! You still can’t type the word “watch” on DK5 using Firefox. Well, that’s socialism for you, I guess. Well, we have much to catch up on, but no way of knowing whether Morning Derp will overtake us.
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Migrant woman leaves sanctuary of Arizona church after 461 days | US news | The Guardian
It took 461 days but Rosa Robles was able to rejoin the outside world on Wednesday, free from fear, and do something she had long yearned for: watch her sons play baseball.
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Being ‘Black on Campus’ – frustrations spread across US – BBC News
The racially polarised debate stemming from events at the University of Missouri seems to be spreading online to campuses across the US. Black students protesting against racism on one US campus, the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri, ha…
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UK: Modi arrives for business deals – and protests – Al Jazeera English
After being banned from entering for 10 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the United Kingdom on Thursday with critics denouncing moves against freedom of speech in India since his government took power a year ago.
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Why Hundreds Of Immigrant Detainees Are Refusing To Eat | ThinkProgress
Over the past month, hundreds of immigrant detainees have stopped eating. This act of civil disobedience began in Texas, when 54 South Asian detainees seeking asylum began a hunger strike calling to be released from the El Paso Processing Center.
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Ukraine passes anti-discrimination law – BBC News
Ukraine’s parliament has passed a law banning discrimination in the workplace, including that based on sexual orientation. It is the last of a package of ten laws that had to be approved for the European Union to consider visa-free travel for Ukrain…
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Refugee Haven Sweden Reintroduces Border Controls | Al Jazeera America
Sweden will impose temporary border controls starting Thursday in response to an influx of refugees, a turnaround for a country known for its open-door policies that also threw down the gauntlet to other EU nations hit by a migration crisis.
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I’m not taking her out for ice cream but she sure isn’t grounded – Imgur
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Orbital View: Indonesian Island – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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RMEILAN, Syria — After boiling crude oil from the ground near here all day in a metal tank to refine it into diesel, Ali Mohammed braved the fumes to bang the tank’s drain open with a shovel. He stepped back as the dregs oozed into the dirt and burs…
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Watching Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, with the eight prime-time contenders talking over and past one another, the question arises: Should the party show a few of these candidates the door? Some fret that this mash-up lacks seriousness.
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Ariane 5 Lofts Arabsat, ISRO Satellites in Rocket’s Final Launch of 2015
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launches the Arabsat-6B (BADR-7) and GSAT-15 satellites from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Nov. 10, 2015.Credit: Arianespace View full size image PARIS — Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket on Nov.
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Poet makes Guardian first book award shortlist with ‘hymns to the male body’ | Books | The Guardian
The heady scent of sensuality surrounds the 2015 Guardian first book award, as a series of “hymns to the male body” becomes only the second collection of poetry to be shortlisted for the prize.
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Note: Tomorrow may be Friday the 13th, but C&J will appear as scheduled because we are rugged and brave. And we know that you’ll draw from our strength and stare down the cursed day with steely-eyed resolve. [Push!] We’re behind you all the way.
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‘Waterless’ washing machine group raising £40m for expansion | Business | The Guardian
Xeros, a British technology group that specialises in “waterless” washing machines, has announced plans to raise £40m from shareholders for its further development. The group, which floated on London’s AIM market in March 2014 when it raised £27.
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Manchester Utd posts 39% rise in quarterly revenues – BBC News
Manchester United has reported that overall quarterly revenues to 30 September went up 39.3% to £123.6m. The record revenues were boosted by sales of its new 2015-16 Adidas replica kit, and Champions League football.
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What the Afghan protests are really about – Al Jazeera English
On Wednesday, thousands of Afghan protesters poured on to the streets of Kabul and gathered at Pashtunistan Square just outside the Presidential Palace. Carrying the coffins of seven beheaded Afghans, they demanded justice and security.
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Pakistan: The reporter’s death – Al Jazeera English
On a warm Sunday evening in May, Saleem Shahzad, a Pakistani investigative journalist for Asia Times online, set off to Islamabad to be interviewed about his latest investigative piece. Although the show aired on schedule at 6pm, Shahzad’s seat rema…
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Leaning power: Spotify names its most streamed track of all time | Music | The Guardian
What might you think would be the most popular track ever on Spotify? Yesterday, by the Beatles, often claimed to be the most covered song of all time? Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the title track of the biggest selling album ever? Or Bing Crosby’s W…
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I’m not taking her out for ice cream but she sure isn’t grounded – Imgur
I’m not taking her out for ice cream but she sure isn’t grounded https://t.co/YgNc4l0v6n https://t.co/GsNBpJBmys
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do Fallout 4 – Imgur
Beavis and Butt-Head Do Fallout 4 https://t.co/vGkDtRSMuG https://t.co/AL638F6iYa
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I’m not taking her out for ice cream but she sure isn’t grounded – Imgur
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Mother of infant allegedly killed by eight-year-old denies kids left alone | US news | The Guardian
A woman charged in the death of her infant daughter – who authorities say was killed by an eight-year-old boy – disputes allegations that she left the children home alone, her attorney said Wednesday.
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The ‘Biggest Entertainment Launch of the Year’ Is All About Climate Change | Motherboard
So why aren’t we seeing global warming at the movies or on TV? Climate change is routinely called the biggest threat humanity’s ever faced, but pop culture missed the memo.
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In June 2015, KFC opened its first outlet in Myanmar. It is fitting that after decades of military rule the original fast-food chain to be established there should be fronted by “the Colonel”. The benevolent grin of Harland Sanders, though, bears no…
The Rebel of Rangoon by Delphine Schrank review – a tale of defiance and deliverance in Burma https://t.co/hdjFDoKTT7 -
BlackBerry Priv review: Android fixes the OS, but the hardware can’t compete | Ars Technica
“BlackBerry is still around?” That’s the most common reaction I get when I show people the “Priv,” BlackBerry’s first Android phone.
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Behind the Scenes of the Experimental Opera “Hopscotch” – The New Yorker
In this week’s issue of the magazine, I write about a remarkable experimental opera called “Hopscotch,” which has lately occupied the streets of Los Angeles.
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SalesforceIQ-Desk.com Integration Gives Small Business Enterprise Capabilities | TechCrunch
It’s challenging for a fast-growing small business to offer great customer service, while continuing to increase sales at a rapid rate.
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If you enjoy film in an even slightly serious way, you’ve surely heard the name Andrei Tarkovsky brought up dozens and dozens of times, sometimes — or, if you run in cinephilic circles, invariably — in the context of vertiginously high praise.
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Coal giant Peabody Energy has agreed to change the way it reports the risks posed to investors by climate change, ending an eight-year investigation by the New York attorney general.
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Patti Smith and Ray Manzarek’s 1974 tribute to Jim Morrison|Dangerous Minds
Patti Smith visits Jim Morrison’s grave, 1976 Patti Smith released her first single, “Hey Joe” b/w “Piss Factory,” in August 1974; her second appearance on record came later that year on a song by Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
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Significant Digits For Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Joe’s Crab Shack will experiment with ending tipping and paying employees more at some locations.
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Your favorite horror villains… playing with kittens!|Dangerous Minds
Leatherface with sweet kitten friends. R.I.P. Gunnar Hansen. While conventional Internet wisdom via “rule 34” suggests that “if it exists there’s porn of it,” the Internet is so much more sophisticated today: if it exists, there’s a high probability…
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Police Officers Who Shot 6-Year-old Jeremy Mardis Are Accused of Lying Repeatedly – The Atlantic
Any time police shoot and kill a 6-year-old, there are bound to be tough questions. And officers in Louisiana had answers about the death of Jeremy Mardis on November 3.
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Russia reveals giant nuclear torpedo in state TV ‘leak’ – BBC News
The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo – called “Status-6” – should not have appeared on Russian TV news. The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chie…
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Mars’ Lost Atmosphere: MAVEN Probe Scientist Explains New Finding
The MAVEN spacecraft recently revealed that Mars’ once-thick atmosphere was stripped away by powerful solar activity at some time in its history. Space.com talked with Bruce Jakosky, principle investigator for MAVEN, about the findings.
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Students Across Us to March Over Debt | Al Jazeera America
Students were set to walk out of classrooms across the United States on Thursday to protest ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges and a minimum wage hike for campus workers.
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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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More than 14bn pints of sewage – and one angry city – BBC News
More than 14bn pints of sewage – and one angry city https://t.co/ih6k9MJ9Lj
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Google’s AboutMe Page Manages What Information People Can See About You
Even if you don’t use Google+, you’ve probably entered a bunch of information into your Google profile from various places. Now you can manage it all in one spot in Google’s AboutMe section. The new page, which lives at aboutme.google.
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Lone Star Flight Museum to Land Where NASA Astronaut Jets Take Off
HOUSTON — For 24 years, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar came to Ellington Field to fly. On Monday (Nov. 9), she returned to the southeast Houston airport, the home to NASA’s aircraft operations, to dig — in honor of the history, and future, of flight.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The realities of the 2016 campaign
How Insane Are Republicans’ Tax Plans? Just Look at These Charts More than 10 months of campaign activity have left the Republican Party in a quandary. The contest for the GOP’s presidential nomination has no obvious front-runner.
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It could scarcely have been a starker case. The river I came across in Devon six weeks ago, and described in the Guardian, was so polluted that I could smell it from 50 metres away.
Toothless Environment Agency is allowing the living world to be wrecked with impunity https://t.co/wZhU24DacC -
Poll: How much do you pay each month for TV and films? | The Verge
I’m currently paying about $85 each month for access to movies and TV in my home. That edges up to more than $100 per month ($1,200 per year) when I factor in cinema visits.
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Sea Lion Flippers Could Inspire Super-Stealthy Submersibles | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Three years ago, mechanical engineer Megan Leftwich of George Washington University was at the zoo with her kids and noticed something strange about the sea lions jetting about their tank.
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No Country For Rich Men | The New Republic
There is a story that Kwame Anthony Appiah tells in his book Cosmopolitanism about his father, a Ghanaian statesman and once-close confidante of the country’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. Joe Appiah, his son writes, would not consume bushmeat fro…
No Country For Rich Men https://t.co/clPtX4noyt
Love Everyone Often 11/13/2015
shots fired – Imgur tags: Pocket brainiacs imgur: the most awesome i news newsblur opinion stories storytelling Melting glacier? Yawn. Climate change is boring, worthy – and terrifying | Owen Jones | Comment is free | The Guardian It’s the existential threat to our species, and it bores us to…
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