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What to Read Before Tonight’s Democratic Presidential Debate – The New Yorker
What to Read Before the Democratic Debate https://t.co/a8WR3w4h5b via The New Yorker: Everything
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Orca Capture Trade Moves to Russia, China | Al Jazeera America
Orca capture trade has moved to Russia, China, activists say https://t.co/1aRxwPdkTL via Al Jazeera America
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The Medicaid Crisis Bankrupting Public Hospitals | Al Jazeera America
Medicaid cuts imperil hospitals that serve the poor https://t.co/OkkMWkhUvT via Al Jazeera America
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Actor Warren Mitchell dies aged 89 – BBC News
The Paris shootings that killed nearly 130 people were an “act of war” by Islamic State, says France’s president as the militants claim the attacks.
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Paris Attacks: What Happened – The Atlantic
Updated on November 14 at 6:38 a.m. ET —Hollande said 127 people had died in multiple attacks. French officials said there were eight known attackers—seven of them suicide bombers who had blown themselves up. The eighth was shot dead by police.
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Israel destroys homes of alleged Palestinian attackers – Al Jazeera English
Israel has razed the homes of four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank blamed for attacking Israelis, the army has said, its latest punitive demolition after weeks of deadly unrest. The military carried out the demolition orders on Saturday after…
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Paris Attacks an ‘act of War,’ Says Hollande | Al Jazeera America
Paris attacks an ‘act of war,’ says Hollande; ISIL claims responsibilty https://t.co/eUVyQ1EWrC via Al Jazeera America
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The band that was playing Friday evening at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where about 100 people were killed in one of a wave of attacks on the city, has an inadvertently alarming name: Eagles of Death Metal. Some people on social media found …
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Charlie Chaplin giving possibly the greatest speech in film history, scene from The Great Dictator. (youtube.com) No problem, I like the music versions but I figured the original version is best for this sub.
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Q&A: ‘We continue to believe in Burundi’ – Al Jazeera English
The European Union has decided to evacuate families of its staff from Burundi and former colonial power, Belgium has advised its nationals to leave after the UN warned the country was on the brink of “mass violence”.
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Shock, dismay and a terrible sadness | Jan Woerner’s blog
I had originally intended to spend this weekend writing a blog post describing events involving ESA over the last few weeks in which I would have communicated my personal judgements, points of satisfaction and concerns.
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One Direction, Justin Bieber, and the Sound of Pop’s Future – The Atlantic
The Verve famously saw the profits from its biggest song siphoned away by a copyright claim from the Rolling Stones; perhaps they can now pay it forward by suing One Direction. The boy band’s new album Made in the A.M.
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Yo La Tengo Is Here for the Long Haul | Mother Jones
Coming out of the close-knit music community of late-1980s Hoboken, New Jersey, Yo La Tengo was the product of the romantic and musical relationship between guitarist and music journalist Ira Kaplan and drummer Georgia Hubley, the daughter of well-k…
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The Biggest Difference Between Clintons’ and Sanders’ Policies Isn’t Their Substance | Mother Jones
The contrasts between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are largely differences of degree. He’s a self-proclaimed socialist; she fashions herself a “progressive that likes to get things done.
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Paris attacks: Buildings lit in solidarity with France – BBC News
Condemnation of Friday’s attacks on Paris and expressions of condolence have echoed around the world. Several of the world’s most famous buildings – including the World Trade Center in New York – were lit up with the colours of the French flag in a …
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The risk and often the reality of government shutdowns have become, early in the 21st century, a regular feature of American politics.
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Jason Pierre-Paul: ready to rev it up after losing a finger to fireworks | Sport | The Guardian
Four months after blowing off part of his right hand in a July 4 fireworks accident, New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul finally played in an NFL game this past Sunday. He had two tackles in 45 snaps – 71% of the defensive plays – and th…
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The Russian plane crash and the battle of narratives – Al Jazeera English
When a Russian-operated airline went down in Sinai on October 31, killing all 224 on board, it drew together Russia, UK and Egypt in what has now become a battle over the airwaves to contain negative publicity around their own country’s involvement.
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Men in Blazers: ‘This final frontier – America – is wide open’ | Sport | The Guardian
If you’re a fan of soccer in the US, chances are that you’ll have an opinion on the Men in Blazers.
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Police in the Northern California city of Mountain View saw something unusual on the road on Thursday: A car was moving too slowly, causing a traffic backlog. So they pulled over the vehicle and peered inside.
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Dans les limbes (English: In Limbo) – film trailer on Vimeo
Cliquer sur CC pour activer les sous titres français Dans les Limbes (English title: In Limbo, FR, 2015, 85’, dir. by Antoine Viviani) is an inner journey into the Internet, as if there was nothing left but the planetary network. It is a philosophic…
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articleBeware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC — “While the sound can’t be heard by the human ear, nearby tablets and smartphones can detect it. When they do, browser cookies can now pair a single user to multi…
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I don’t care if someone has already posted this. It needs to be said. – Imgur
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Arena: Is it time to end the war on drugs? – Al Jazeera English
In 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. More than four decades later, some countries have started to change their approach. In Ireland, the drugs minister announced plans to move towards the decriminalisation of heroin, cocaine …
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Paris attacks: What we know – BBC News
This is what we know so far. First reports of gunfire came from Le Carillon bar, at 18 rue Alibert. Witnesses initially thought a firework had gone off until people realised that an unmasked man was opening fire with a semi-automatic gun.
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Modern Poetry in Translation is Ted Hughes’s greatest contribution | Books | The Guardian
Ted Hughes’s poetic legacy is beyond question.
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Russia suspended from athletics amid doping crisis – Al Jazeera English
Athletics’ governing body, the IAAF, has voted overwhelmingly to suspend Russia from the sport for widespread, state-sponsored doping. The ban will include the 2016 Olympics unless the country can demonstrate a major change in their approach and con…
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Lebanon bombings cast shadow over political progress – Al Jazeera English
Beirut – Shattered glass, remnants of clothes and blocks of rubble shrouded the pavement in the Bourj el-Barajneh area of Ain el-Sikeh after two deadly suicide explosions, claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, rocked Beir…
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Paris attacks were ‘act of war by IS’ – BBC News
The near-simultaneous attacks in Paris that killed at least 127 people and wounded more than 180 were an “act of war” organised by Islamic State, says France’s President Francois Hollande.
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Paris attacks: Gunmen in concert hall ‘kept shooting’, says survivor – BBC News
Jerome Bartelemy, a survivor of the Bataclan concert hall attack in Paris, has described how the gunmen told people lie down – and then ”kept shooting”.
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My hero: John Lennonby Kevin Barry | Books | The Guardian
If there is a way in through the veins of a song, it may be with “Gimme Some Truth”, a headlong rant against the uptight and the narrow-minded, against the egocentric and the paranoiac, but here, as in all of John Lennon’s very best work, there is a…
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Map: Where the Paris attacks happened – Al Jazeera English
We explore Russia’s domestic and foreign policies and how they reflect a desire to rebuild its standing in the world. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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Lungotevere Prati – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Along the Lungotevere rises the Neo-Gothic Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio, built by Giuseppe Gualandi between 1894 and 1917.
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The Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas Turned off in Respect for the victims in France : mildlyinteresting
On 9/11, The French had a memorial to the 2001 attacks. Even during this I’m honored by the companionship that our countries share, and I hope for swift justice for the damned perpetrators. Link That American flag on the left edge of the picture mad…
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Once, twice, three times a nutmeg Perfection Flagging Perfect cornering Safe hands, quick feet Spreading the play United we stand, divided we fall Snow jumping reimagined See you around
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Headliner: Former White House Counsel Gregory Craig – Al Jazeera English
In 2009, US President Barack Obama signed an executive order announcing the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. The man who drafted that order was then-White House counsel Gregory Craig. More than six years later, Guantanamo remains open.
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When news spread Friday of the series of coordinated terrorist attacks across Paris, a campaign of hate conducted by gunmen and suicide bombers that left at least 127 people dead, it provoked a plethora of reactions on social media.
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Voltaire, the clearest of Enlightenment thinkers wrote those words in his 1765 essay, “Questions sur les miracles.” And they resonate as much now, 250 years later, as they did then. I rarely say much about myself on the site.
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Shelley’s agitprop poem granted freedom at last | Books | The Guardian
Shelley’s poem has escaped. For the past nine years, his “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things” has been held in private hands, not freely available.
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#Paris: The power, the horror, and the lies – BBC News
As the true extent of the Paris attacks becomes clear, we are reminded yet again how the internet – or more specifically, social media – is changing what it means to cope with disasters affecting people on a global scale.
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PARIS — When Otto Frank first published his daughter’s red-checked diary and notebooks, he wrote a prologue assuring readers that the book mostly contained her words, written while hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex of a factory in Amsterdam.
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Syrian refugees in Greece despair of peace – Al Jazeera English
World powers are meeting in Vienna on Saturday to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria. It is the second round of this set of talks in the Austrian capital.
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How to draw… an elephant | Children’s books | The Guardian
With their elegant trunks, white tusks and enormous stomping feet, elephants might be easy to recognise in your drawings but they’re tricky to get right. David Barrow has a beautiful step-by-step guide
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Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When I first started reading Thirteen Chairs, I was expecting it to be immediately terrifying. I must say I was fairly relieved to discover it wasn’t. At least, not at first. I’m not the bravest of readers, especially when my bedside light has a ten…
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We Don’t Know What We’re Doing by Thomas Morris review – small-town stories | Books | The Guardian
Small towns get a bad press in the UK. In the US, they are the setting for the nation’s idealised vision of itself: collections of Main Streets, mom-and-pop stores and picket fences, in which neighbours lend each other cups of sugar and everyone is …
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PARIS — The band had been playing to the crowd at one of this city’s most popular music venues, the Bataclan, for about an hour. The 150-year-old music hall was sold out for the show by the American group Eagles of Death Metal.
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Eurostar reverses bike storage decision amid criticism – BBC News
Eurostar has reversed its decision to make cyclists dismantle their bikes before using the cross-Channel service. The train operator initially said it wanted to store all bikes in what is known as a “bike box” – meaning bikes would have to be disman…
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Yemeni refugees seek shelter in Djibouti – Al Jazeera English
We explore Russia’s domestic and foreign policies and how they reflect a desire to rebuild its standing in the world. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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Paris attack ‘unlikely to affect Syria policy’ – Al Jazeera English
Doha, Qatar – France has been left reeling after a series of coordinated attacks across Paris left at least 120 people dead and scores more critically injured.
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MRW I log into Imgur and see all the news about France – GIF on Imgur
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An Island of our Own by Sally Nicholls – a touching treasure hunt | Books | The Guardian
Sally Nicholls’ characters are easy to love.
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This is easily one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. – Imgur
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Exploring The Philosophy Behind Women Shitting In Supermarkets | VICE | United Kingdom
There comes a point where something undeniably becomes a trend. A few weeks ago, when a video of a woman shitting in a supermarket was posted online, we reached this point with people defecting in shops. There was a woman, squatting besides some bee…
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Photos From the Paris Attacks (30 photos) https://t.co/CG8EqDBqtL https://t.co/EUtX6fIjrj https://t.co/S4RZbRkAN7
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Photos From the Paris Attacks – The Atlantic
Photos From the Paris Attacks (30 photos) https://t.co/CG8EqDBqtL https://t.co/EUtX6fIjrj https://t.co/S4RZbRkAN7
Last night, November 13, attacks across Paris killed at least 120 people and injured about 200 more. -
PARIS — The night was chilly but thick with excitement as the big match between France’s national soccer team and archrival Germany was underway at the national stadium in a northern suburb of Paris.
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For all those cyclists who leave their bike at the station only to spend the rest of the day worrying it will be stolen or vandalised, there may be hope in the form of a German-designed tower. “When you get to a train station these days, you see 150…
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Haruki Murakami Novels Sold in Polish Vending Machines | Open Culture
Out with the Coke cans, potato chips, Twix bars and other junk foods. In with the Haruki Murakami novels.
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After spending the first 6 hours in Fallout 4 doing nothing but building my town. : gaming
After spending the first 6 hours in Fallout 4 doing nothing but building my town. (i.imgur.com) Seriously, spend all my time on Sanctuary when there are so many settlements down the road.
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UK refuses to share report critical of Bangladesh polls – Al Jazeera English
Dhaka, Bangladesh – The UK government has refused to release a full copy of a critical report on Bangladesh’s controversial 2014 election, saying to do so would likely “cause significant offence to the government”.
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How Scandinavian Countries Pay for Their Government Spending : dataisbeautiful
Maybe I am missing something, where is the beautiful data? Throwing some pastel colors on a Excel bar chart is hardly interesting data presentation.
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Haha this literally the hormel’s party tray from vons/grocery store… Meanwhile, you’d probably be all over it, or understand why someone would.
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Tech Infrastructure In The Developing World | TechCrunch
Before Endaga’s cell network in a box arrived in Shimshal, Pakistan, villagers had to drive three hours along the Shimshal Valley Road — one of the most dangerous roads in the world — to reach the nearest town with a telephone.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s party sweeps Myanmar polls – Al Jazeera English
Yangon – Exactly five years to the day since Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, her opposition party has won the majority of seats in historic elections in Myanmar.
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Around 655,000 homes – less than 3% of the UK’s housing stock – have solar panels, but if government plans to slash the industry subsidy go ahead, further installations could be halted, campaigners are warning.
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Stephen Colbert Holds Back Tears Discussing Paris Attacks – The Daily Beast
Colbert informed his audience about the terror attacks in Paris during his Late Show taping Friday evening. At the end of the show, he delivered some heartfelt remarks into the camera.
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A political satire, some literary maps, and obscure Jim Henson content · Staff Picks · The A.V. Club
Thank heavens for the VHS junkie, the VCR jockey, and the other nonprofessional, copyright-flouting cultural archivists preserving the not-so-recent, videotaped past on the internet.
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Venture Into The Badlands, where everybody is kung fu fighting · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Into The Badlands (AMC, 10 p.m.): Between gorgeous long shots of the New Mexico desert and endless hordes of zombies in various states of decay, AMC likes to produce shows with a distinct visual palette.
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After a two-decade long absence, legendary animator Ralph Bakshi recently returned to cinema with Last Days Of Coney Island, a 22-minute short chronicling a most bizarre love triangle deep in the heart of the historic Brooklyn beach town in the 1960…
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Race Row on Mount Everest: Sherpas Square Off Against Racist Western Climbers – The Daily Beast
The documentary ‘Sherpa’ captures an intense battle between Sherpas and entitled Western climbers—including one very racist American. When disaster struck Mount Everest in 2014, an unprecedented avalanche wiped out 16 Sherpas but left dozens of weal…
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World leaders rally around France after attacks – Al Jazeera English
The US president and other world leaders have condemned a series of coordinated attacks in the French capital Paris that has left more than a hundred people dead.
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Ask Alys: how do I care for my banana plants in winter? | Life and style | The Guardian
In the spring I bought two small banana plants. They have grown well on my south-west-facing patio, but I’m not sure how to care for them now winter is approaching. Should I bring them inside, fleece them or maybe even cut foliage off?
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India’s Modi addresses supporters in Britain – Al Jazeera English
Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, has rallied thousands of supporters and met Queen Elizabeth II on the second day of his official visit to Britain. Friday’s meeting came as royal officials announced Prince William and his wife Kate would vi…
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Thomas Piketty has called for investors to move their money out of fossil fuels ahead of landmark UN climate change talks.
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Jagged Rocks and Swirling Water Image, Norway – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Science, ethics and economics are intersecting to form a clear market signal: in the lead-up to the COP21 climate talks, responsible investors should divest from fossil fuels (Report, 13 November).
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APOD: 2015 November 13 – The Tadpoles of IC 410
Explanation: This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust below and right of center, the tadpoles of IC 410.
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The antenna of the World Trade Center is red white blue tonight in solidarity – Imgur
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500px Launches Its Photo Sharing And Licensing Platform In China | TechCrunch
500px, the photography platform where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos, has become the latest Western technology company to enter China. The Toronto-based startup launched a localized version of its service in China — 500px.
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Derbyshire’s secret valley | Environment | The Guardian
At Abney Manor, a dozen goldfinches burst into the air, light catching their red faces and the broad yellow bar on their wings. I stopped to watch, and then looked down into Bretton Clough. Tibetan lamas speak of beyul, sacred hidden valleys that of…
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Open thread for night owls: Renewables growth gets good press, fossil fuels still get big subsidies
Much positive attention has recently been given to both the potential for renewables to meet all our energy needs as well as the actual spread of solar- and wind-generated electricity. For example, the International Energy Agency recently released i…
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Lindsay Lohan Has Gone Batshit Crazy – The Daily Beast
Like many millennials, I grew up with Lindsay Lohan. In The Parent Trap, she taught us how to pull off a successful twin switch; in Freaky Friday, a successful mom swap.
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Paris Attacks Underscore Macabre Logic of Terror | Al Jazeera America
Paris massacres underscore the macabre logic of mass terror https://t.co/xM1RsgZNG7
A day that began with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron hailing the drone strike believed to have killed a high-profile ISIL member in Syria as “a strike at the heart” of the movement ended, late Friday, with France’s President Francois Holland… -
“Coq Au Vin” opens with Josh and Arnold awake way too early on a Tuesday morning, hours after Alan drove them home from the hospital, confronted with the evidence that Adele is a rooster.
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‘Biggest ever’ crystal model built in Vienna – BBC News
The world’s biggest crystal structure model – a 3D chemical illustration made from little balls and sticks – is being assembled in Vienna’s city hall. It replicates the repeating lattice of sodium and chloride ions found in a crystal of salt (NaCl).
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Paris attacks: Fans evacuate Stade de France by pitch – BBC News
Amateur footage has shown football fans streaming across the pitch to exit the Stade de France, following three explosions near the venue. Eighty thousand spectators, including French President Francois Hollande, were there to watch a friendly inter…
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Today, a horrible tragedy unfolded in France. Reddit would like to thank the contributors to the live thread that was featured on the front page, along with all of the other mods, contributors, and community members across the site involved in posti…
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All the Decadent Stuff That’s Actually Good for You – The Daily Beast
Got champagne dreams on a beer budget? Then it might be time to start conserving your pennies, because research has found the French fizz is good for your health.
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Has the Italian Mafia Sold You Fake Extra Virgin Olive Oil? – The Daily Beast
ROME — Think about the last time you had really, really good extra-virgin olive oil. The kind of pungent oil that tickles the back of the throat and drips like green liquid gold from your crusty bread or lettuce leaves. You probably paid a small for…
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Love and War Through One Man’s Lens – The Daily Beast
Great photographs are works of the imagination. They have their own self-contained life of light and composition, emotion, and symbolism. But like the words in poems they evoke experiences beyond the literal and the explicable.
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If The Queen Invites You To Dinner… Inside The Private World of the Royals – The Daily Beast
The British people are well used to seeing their Royal Family out and about on duty at formal events, but their life behind closed doors has long been a source of fascination.
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Best of Breslin: Fat Thomas Broils Them – The Daily Beast
After breakfast yesterday morning, Fat Thomas watched the snow whirling out of a mournful sky and decided that he had to take action immediately. “Winter is for poor people,” he said. He was broke for so many winters that the condition appeared perm…
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Hacking Your Health With Bees – The Daily Beast
Apitherapy is the art of using bee products—everything from honey to venom—to have more energy and to control your biology. Modern science is now discovering the power of bee products, but we’re hardly the first people to use bees as a source of nat…
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Should Feminists Love Football? I Do. – The Daily Beast
Its litany of atrocities should drive away any thinking fan, female or male. But what if the game is in a girl’s blood? How the author of the new book Tribal manages the contradiction. Football is a game for men—as men constantly remind us.
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P.J.’s Guide to Talking Like A Pundit – The Daily Beast
The 2016 political cycle has been subject to extensive commentary by political pundits such as myself. But what we pundits are saying isn’t always clear. There are two distinct dialects of Punditese—Conservative Punditese (CP) and Liberal Punditese …
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Cheryl Strayed Is A Motherf**king Feminist – The Daily Beast
The author of the new collection Brave Enough sounds off about gender politics, personal authenticity, and leaning in to the light. Thirty minutes into a conversation with Cheryl Strayed and she’s suddenly talking like Popeye.
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Where Thurber and Co. Knocked It Back – The Daily Beast
In an excerpt from Cast of Characters, his book about the golden age of The New Yorker, Thomas Vinciguerra guides us through the magazine’s preferred saloons. Simply put, drinking suffused The New Yorker.
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How the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley Changed the Course of the Vietnam War – The Daily Beast
Fifty years ago today, November 14, 1965, the first wave of troopers from a battalion of the First Cavalry Division, an elite unit of the U.S.
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Norway is using Facebook to send a stark message to migrants – BBC News
BBC Trending reports on the Facebook page created by a Norwegian government ministry to deliver a stark message to thousands of migrants crossing Europe. For more videos subscribe to BBC Trending’s YouTube channel.
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‘The Knick’ Recap: Bad Brains and Blow-Ups | Rolling Stone
As a series, The Knick is a bit of a wandering target. Moving from prestige drama to medical history lesson to soap opera to moody art piece, it’s hard to pinpoint what it wants to be, and therefore, what it’s missing. The answer: blowing shit up.
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How exposed is Lebanon to Syrian war? – Al Jazeera English
Lebanon is holding a day of mourning after dozens of people were killed in two bombings in a southern suburb of Beirut.
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U2 Postpone Paris Show, HBO Special Following Terrorist Attack | Rolling Stone
U2 Postpone Paris Show, HBO Special Following Terrorist Attack Justin Bieber to continue planned livestream from Los Angeles’ Staples Center
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Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm scuffle at weigh-in before UFC title fight | Sport | The Guardian
UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and challenger Holly Holm have scuffled at the official weigh-in ahead of Sunday’s title fight at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium.
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It’s fascinating to watch an episode of the show as momentous as this one in which so much hinges on the uncanny valley between choices and what’s ordained.
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Burundi violence: Belgium and EU act over ‘rising risk’ – BBC News
Belgium has advised its citizens to leave Burundi, and the EU is cutting staff levels in the country because of the “rising risk of violence”. Belgium says those among about 500 Belgians in the country “whose presence is not essential” should leave.
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THIS week the European Commission announced guidelines suggesting that Israeli products from areas that came under its control in 1967 be labeled “Israeli Settlement” products and not “Made in Israel” as they have been until now.
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Paris attacks: Amateur video shows panic at stadium – BBC News
Amateur footage has captured the panic at the Stade de France in Paris, following an explosion that is reported to have been a suicide blast. People are seen running outside the stadium, then a convoy of emergency vehicles arrives.
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Cambodian court orders arrest of opposition leader – Al Jazeera English
A Cambodian court has ordered the arrest of opposition leader Sam Rainsy in connection with a seven-year-old defamation case amid fresh political tensions between him and Hun Sen, the prime minister.
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The Lessons of Paris: They Choose Death; We Choose Life – The Daily Beast
Terrorism is always one bad day away from being the number one issue in the world.
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Halfway through The Knick’s handsome second season, I’m wondering if this is going anywhere.
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Paris attacks: ‘There was a whole pile of bodies’ – BBC News
An eyewitness to a gun attack in Paris has described seeing a a “pile of bodies” outside a cafe in Paris following a gun attack – one of a series of assaults in the French capital.
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This is How AK-47s Get to Paris – The Daily Beast
Late Friday night in Paris, multiple gunmen opened fire on diners and concert-goers as part of what appears to have been a coordinated, city-wide terror attack that also included several apparent bomb blasts—and which killed at least 160 people.
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Carson Would Use ‘Things They Don’t Know About Resources’ on Terrorists – The Daily Beast
ORLANDO — Ben Carson stumbled Friday evening while responding to a question about how he would respond to the terror attacks in Paris if he were president.
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The hockey rink of the Washington Capitals tonight : pics
It’s great seeing the support that so many are sending to France. This is such a tragedy, and I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be there right now.
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Bill Maher: Bombing ISIS Caused the Paris Attacks – The Daily Beast
On Friday evening, the City of Lights turned pitch black. Terrorists—in the form of masked suicide bombers and gunmen—massacred at least 160 people in a series of coordinated attacks across Paris.
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100 Dead at Eagles of Death Metal Concert | Al Jazeera America
Chaos and horror described after Paris rock concert attack https://t.co/mWu6pD1eZy
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Cellist Makes The First ‘Scientifically Verified’ Music To Appeal To Cats – Digg
22 diggs Music Animals Curious David Teie, whose credits include being a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, wants to bring music to pets — specifically cats. If you have a cat who’s watching this with you, tweet us and let us know if it s…
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Ben Carson: Ban Middle Eastern Refugees After Paris Attacks | Rolling Stone
Ben Carson: Ban Middle Eastern Refugees After Paris Attacks The Republican presidential candidate also criticized the Obama administration for lacking “vision”
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US Navy Missile Test Sparks Surprise … and an Awesome Sky View (Video)
An amateur photographer thought the world was ending when she caught pictures of a Trident missile in action near Los Angeles. The series of pictures captured by Porter Tinsley, who posted them on her blog Less Than Amateur, show a white halo backdr…
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No Mystery is More Intriguing than Morland Holmes on Elementary
In this week’s Elementary, Joan is the protective big sister Sherlock never had, the FBI are disruptively controlling, and the looming presence of Sherlock’s father Morland Holmes dominates everything.
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Hands of Redcar: Stories from the steel town – BBC News
BBC Panorama is in Redcar to find out how the town is coping after the closure of the SSI steel plant and what the impact has been on the people of the area. The series #HandsOfRedcar shares personal stories from those affected.
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Week in pictures: 7-13 November 2015 – BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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It has been only hours since terrorist attacks left at least 120 people dead throughout Paris. Little is known about the attackers, their methods or their motivations. But Ted Cruz already knows the solution: A bombing campaign that’s not afraid to …
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More Than 100 People Dead In Attacks Across Paris : NPR
NPR has the latest on the attacks in Paris that left more than 100 people dead.
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French Officials Say Death Toll In Paris Attacks Could Exceed 120 : NPR
Paris is on lock down Friday night after a series of bombings and gun attacks that killed more than 100 people at six separate scenes, including a Cambodian restaurant and a soccer stadium.
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Paris Proves We’ll Never Kill Enough Jihadists to Stop Terror – The Daily Beast
It was a horrible and horrifying scene on Friday the 13th in Paris, where seven apparently coordinated terrorist attacks killed 160 people or more. The attackers used grenades and Kalashnikovs; four suicide bombings have been reported.
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100 Dead at Eagles of Death Metal Concert | Al Jazeera America
Chaos and horror broke out at a Paris music venue Friday night as gunmen opened fire on concertgoers during simultaneous attacks that killed an estimated 120 people across the city.
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France 24 Reporter Recounts Scene Outside Concert Hall : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with France 24 reporter Cyvil Vanier for more on the attacks in Paris.
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Reporter In France Describes Scene Inside Soccer Stadium : NPR
There was one, possibly two, explosions outside a soccer stadium in France. NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with a freelance reporter Ben Barnier who was at the soccer game when the explosions occured.
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Terrorism Expert: Paris Attacks Mark ‘Massive Intelligence Failure’ : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks with Bill Roggio, editor of The Long War Journal, about the attacks in Paris.
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Bataclan Attendees Describe Horror of Terrorist Attack | Rolling Stone
As the tragic scope and breadth of the Paris terrorist attacks continues to unfurl, attendees of Eagles of Death Metal’s show at concert venue Bataclan have begun detailing their horrific accounts of the hostage situation that claimed the lives of 1…
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French Newspaper Editor Describes Attacks In Central Location Of Paris : NPR
NPR talks to Alain Barluet, foreign editor of Le Figaro, the national daily newspaper in France.
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The always-wrong Dick Cheney says he’s pretty sure the Clinton campaign is in ‘big trouble’
Well, there ya go. Pack it in, Clinton campaign.
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Jozy Altidore helps USA to easy victory on road to Russia 2018 | Football | The Guardian
For at least 10 minutes in St Louis on Friday, it seemed recent bad form could pose serious problems for the US men’s national team in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
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At least 150 people have been killed in the Paris attacks. | New Republic
There’s a lot of conflicting reports right now, but CNN claims that “at least 153” are dead in a series of shootings and bombings that took place across the city Friday night. A prosecutor has also told the AP that five of the attackers are dead.
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Paris shootings and explosions: Hollande calls attacks ‘a barbaric act’ – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande has promised a “merciless” fight against terrorists after scores of people were killed in a series of attacks in Paris. At least 100 people are reported to have died at the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, w…
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch Delivers Statement On Paris Attacks : NPR
NPR discusses the FBI response to the attacks in Paris. Lynch said in her statement that the U.S. “stands in solidarity with France.”
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Paris rocked by multiple attacks across the city – Al Jazeera English
We explore Russia’s domestic and foreign policies and how they reflect a desire to rebuild its standing in the world. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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Hey everybody, it’s still Bob and David! What’s left to say about Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ legendary series Mr. Show? It featured some of the brightest, most innovative minds in modern comedy both on screen and behind the scenes, people like Di…
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U.S. Officials Say Sophistication Of Attacks Could Point To Al-Qaida : NPR
U.S. officials say the sophistication of the attacks provides some clues as to who is responsible. Their suspicions point to al-Qaida because the group specializes in these kinds of attacks.
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Trump attacks Carson in Friday the 13th Instagram: Carson parries with expert word-knowing
Take that, my campaign rival. I have bested you in the art of word explication. Now retreat to your domicile, lest I explain words to you again!
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Paris Prosecutor: Attacks Occurred At Six Separate Sites In Paris : NPR
NPR has the latest on the attacks in Paris that have left at least 100 people dead. The Paris prosecutor says the attacks occurred at six separate sites across the city.
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Who are the Eagles of Death Metal? | New Republic
Police have stormed the Bataclan concert hall where up to 100 hostages were being held by a group of attackers. The Associated Press reports that the assault is over, leaving at least two attackers killed.
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“L’Horreur.” See the front pages of tomorrow’s French newspapers. | New Republic
Police have stormed the Bataclan concert hall where up to 100 hostages were being held by a group of attackers. The Associated Press reports that the assault is over, leaving at least two attackers killed.
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French Counterterrorism Expert Provides Analysis on Paris Attacks : NPR
NPR talks with Jean Charles Brisard, a French counterterrorism expert, for analysis of the attacks earlier tonight in Paris.
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5 People Who Should Stop Tweeting About The Paris Terrorist Attacks | ThinkProgress
Terrorist attacks across Paris have left at least 120 dead, according to reports. In the immediate aftermath, little is known about the perpetrators, their methods or their motivations. But the lack of information didn’t stop people from drawing con…
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Police have stormed the Bataclan concert hall where up to 100 hostages were being held by a group of attackers. The Associated Press reports that the assault is over, leaving at least two attackers killed.
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Witness Describes Scene At Paris Restaurant Where Attacks Began : NPR
NPR talks to Erin Allweis who hasn’t been able to leave a restaurant, which is very close to the restaurant where the attacks started.
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Texas officials blame Sandra Bland’s family for her death
Waller County officials were supposed to turn over a mountain of documents and other items by Tuesday, November 10, to the lawyers for Sandra Bland’s family. Late Thursday, officials with the county asked a judge to dismiss the family’s wrongful dea…
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U.S., French Officials: Multiple Attacks In Paris Were ‘Nearly Simultaneous’ : NPR
NPR has the latest on events as they continue to unfold in Paris in what officials fear is the worst attack in Europe since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.
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Paris On Lock Down After Series Of Attacks Kill At Least 100 : NPR
Paris is on lock down Friday night after a series of bombings and gun attacks that are said to have killed more than 100 people.
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France 24 Reporter Describes ‘Triage Center’ Outside Paris Concert Hall : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with France 24 reporter Cyvil Vanier about the attacks in Paris. He is not far from the concert hall where police are saying more than 100 people were killed.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/AtPOAIhMyk Stories via @UN_Spokesperson
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Fordham’s Fallout From a Swastika – The Daily Beast
Just a few blocks away from New York’s iconic Central Park, Fordham University students gathered outside in the November chill on Friday to echo the same cries of racial insensitivity and administrative neglect heard across the country from Connecti…
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Remember the glory days of playing Super Nintendo on that classic gray controller with its signature purple push buttons? Yeah, we do too. 8Bitdo is bringing the 8-bit gaming vibe back with the SNES30, a 1:1 original design that supports both Blueto…
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Scenes of the Paris Terror Attacks – The New Yorker
These are scenes from Friday evening in Paris, where dozens of people have been killed in seemingly coördinated attacks across the city. Explosions took place near the Stade de France, the country’s main sports stadium, where Germany and France were…
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Facebook’s “Safety Check” Lets You Locate Loved Ones in Paris
If you’re looking for the status of friends who might be in Paris, head to the Safety Check page on your Facebook account. The page will list your friends who last checked in around Paris and give you a running tally of who is marked safe.
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In an Upside Down City, Bat-Winged Ships Fly
It’s a world folded in on itself, where skyscrapers climb likes stalagmites and dangle like stalactites. This is “Reverse II” by Jean-François Liesenborghs. See more at deviantArt.
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Novelist Hari Kunzru is calling out the worst tweets about the Paris attacks. | New Republic
Police have stormed the Bataclan concert hall where up to 100 hostages were being held by a group of attackers. The Associated Press reports that the assault is over, leaving at least two attackers killed.
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Witness Describes Scene Outside Concert Hall In Paris : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks Paolo Bevilacqua who was in a shop near a concert hall that was under siege in Paris.
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San Francisco tour bus crash leaves 19 people injured | US news | The Guardian
Police said 19 people were hurt, including five critically, when an open-air tour bus crashed in San Francisco’s Union Square. Officials said there may have been as many as 30 people aboard the bus.
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What You Need to Know About the Bataclan Theater, the Venue Under Attack in Paris – The Daily Beast
It is perhaps no coincidence that the historic Bataclan theater in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France was hosting a concert by an American band, the Eagles of Death Metal, Friday evening when gunmen opened fire, killing dozens of concert-goers…
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Bruce Hoffman: Paris Attacks ‘Very Similar’ To 2008 Attacks On Mumbai : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers speaks to Bruce Hoffman about the attacks in France. He’s the head of the national security program at Georgetown University.
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Eagles of Death Metal Issue Statement on Paris Attack | Rolling Stone
Eagles of Death Metal are assessing the situation following a mass shooting that took place at their concert at Paris’ Bataclan Friday night. “We are still currently trying to determine the safety and whereabouts of all our band and crew,” the group…
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What We Know About The Attacks In Paris – Digg
You can also watch live coverage from France 24. The Guardian has a liveblog of the event. The Eagles of Death Metal were performing at Le Bataclan when the attack occurred. Reports are indicating up to 100 hostages at the venue.
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In These Photographs, New York City Is Drowning
Photographer Zev Schmitz took a deep breath and created an incredible architecture photoseries of New York City. Every photo was taken from the waters that surround Manhattan. It’s a bit like seeing the near-death experience of a drowning person.
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This New Space Colonization Novel Will Mess With Your Head In The Best Possible Way
Planetfall by Emma Newman isn’t what you’re expecting from a book about humans colonizing another planet. It’s much weirder, and in the end, a fair bit darker.
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At Least 100 Reported Dead Inside Concert Hall In Paris : NPR
NPR has the latest on the attacks in Paris. There are reports that at least 100 people were found dead inside a concert hall after police diffused a hostage situation there.
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Who Are the Eagles of Death Metal? The Band That Played as Concert Hall Attacked – The Daily Beast
As terrorists stormed the historic Bataclan theater in central Paris, the Eagles of Death Metal were reportedly on-stage to perform before a sold-out crowd of 1,500 people.
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M7 earthquake strikes off southwest Japan | The Japan Times
A tsunami advisory was issued for parts of southern Japan on Saturday after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of the island of Kyushu. The Meteorological Agency said tsunamis of up to 1 meter could hit the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture…
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The Eiffel Tower fades to black. | New Republic
Police have stormed the Bataclan concert hall where up to 100 hostages were being held by a group of attackers. The Associated Press reports that the assault is over, leaving at least two attackers killed.
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Paris attacks: Police move in on Bataclan concert hall siege – BBC News
A police assault on a Paris concert hall ends a siege on a Paris concert hall, where up to 100 people are feared to have died.The siege was one of a number of attacks on the French capital on Friday.
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Secretary Of State John Kerry Expresses ‘Outrage’ Over Paris Attacks : NPR
Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna expresses his “outrage” over the Paris terror attacks and plans to meet with France’s foreign minister in the morning.
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Putting The Paris Attacks In Context After The Shootings At ‘Charlie Hebdo’ : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Time Magazine reporter Vivienne Walt who is based in Paris. She helps put Friday’s attacks into context after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.
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BBC Sport – Paris attacks: Three killed in Stade de France explosion
Three people were killed in an attack during France’s match against Germany at the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast. With fans unable to leave the Stade de France, many came onto the pitch as news came through of events …
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How civilised societies resolve territorial disputes! – Imgur
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President Obama Condemns Attacks In Paris : NPR
NPR has the latest information on the attacks in Paris. President Obama spoke this evening saying “once again we’ve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians.”
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Here Are the Most Horrible Tweets About the Paris Tragedy | Mother Jones
Imagine a theater with 10 or 15 citizens with concealed carry permits. We live in an age when evil men have to be killed by good people Really? What could Nobel Prize-winning Workplace Violence Whitewasher-in-Chief possibly c… https://t.co/jtCA1sfuoU
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The latest from Paris. | New Republic
Police have stormed the Bataclan concert hall where up to 100 hostages were being held by a group of attackers. The Associated Press reports that the assault is over, leaving at least two attackers killed.
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Why You Should Edit Your Writing When You’re Hungover
You may have heard the old quote “write drunk, edit sober,” but it might actually be better to edit when you’re still hungover. Knocking back a few beers can be good for your creativity, but you’ll usually pay for it the next morning.
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Star Wars Ice Sculptures Include Han Solo Frozen in Just Plain Water
You knew Darth Vader could be cold, but have you seen him like this? The Sith Lord popsicle is one of dozens of Star Wars characters featured at the annual ice sculpture festival in Liege, Belgium.
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Hostage Situation Ends At Concert Hall In Center Of Paris : NPR
Police stormed a concert hall in Paris where a number of people were being held hostage. French media described a scene of carnage inside.
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Somewhere around “The Other Man,” I realized that Master Of None more closely resembles a collection of short stories than a scripted comedy made for television. I’ve also, at times, thought of the show as a series of short films, but that doesn’t s…
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Scientists find key to malaria growth – BBC News
The key to malaria’s rampant growth has been explained by scientists. They say it is down to protein molecules called cyclins which cause cells to divide rapidly in the malaria parasite.
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PARIS — The Paris area reeled Friday night from a shooting rampage, explosions and mass hostage-taking that President François Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack on France. He closed the borders and mobilized the military in a nationa…
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Psst, There’s More New ‘Force Awakens’ Footage In This TV Trailer – Digg
2 diggs Trailers Movies TV And still, no sign of Luke.
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Watch Justin Bieber Terrify Diane Keaton During Ellen Appearance | Vanity Fair
Let us count the reasons why we love Diane Keaton—her iconic style, memorable screen performances, unabashed affection for Amy Poehler and Ryan Gosling, her neurotic charm, and her endearing preference for red wine on ice, so strong is it that the O…
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President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency across France and closed the country’s borders after a series of attacks across seven sites in central Paris killed dozens of people late Friday.
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Ted Cruz co-opts Trump’s immigration stance in play for outsider status | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Friday took a sharp turn to the right by laying out a plan that would place new limits on legal immigration, increase deportations of undocumented immigrants, end birthright citizenship and build a wall …
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Paris attacks: President Hollande mobilises military – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande has mobilised military forces following a series of attacks in the capital. At least 40 people have been killed in multiple shootings in Paris, and explosions were heard near the Stade de France.
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Katy Grannan’s Modesto on the Edge – The New Yorker
In the final seconds of the trailer for Katy Grannan’s first feature film, “The Nine,” an oneiric portrait of life on the margins in California’s Central Valley, two young men are seen riding bikes at night in the flooded parking lot of a motel, the…
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Taunts, Tear Gas, and Other College Memories – The New Yorker
Hearing about the indignities faced by students of color at the University of Missouri, I am taken back fifty-four years, to when Hamilton Holmes and I entered, and then matriculated, at the University of Georgia as its first two black students.
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French Media Report At Least 60 Dead In Paris Attacks : NPR
NPR has the latest on the attacks in Paris that have left up to 60 people dead. We revisit the Charlie Hebdo attack in January and the similarities to today’s events.
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Reporters In Paris Recall Deadly Attacks Across The City : NPR
Associated Press reporter Andrew Smith was in his apartment with his family when he heard chaos erupt at a theater nearby. Samuel Petrequin of the AP is at the stadium where an explosion occurred.
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The Last CrunchWeek | TechCrunch
Hello friends, and welcome to the very last CrunchWeek. After a three-year run, this little show is over. Sometimes things change.
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In Moonwalkers, The Government Hires Kubrick To Fake The Moon Landings. Then Shit Gets CRAZY.
You might think a movie about faking the Moon landings would be mad enough—and especially once you throw in the idea of hiring Stanley Kubrick, director of 2001, to spearhead the project. But Moonwalkers looks much weirder than that.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear its first major abortion case since 2007, one that has the potential to affect millions of women and to revise the constitutional principles governing abortion rights.
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Watch Obama React to Paris Tragedy: ‘An Attack on All of Humanity’ | Rolling Stone
After a series of attacks erupted across Paris on Friday, President Obama characterized the events as “an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians” and said the United States was ready to support France in anyway it could.
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MRW I hear my name followed by whispers behind me – GIF on Imgur
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EMBARGOED ‘Star Wars’ Costume Exhibit Reveals Creativity Behind Force Fashion
A new museum exhibit opening this weekend in New York City features dozens of real costumes from the seven “Star Wars” movies, and serves as an illustration of how the creative process turns ideas into reality.
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Taunts, Tear Gas, and Other College Memories – The New Yorker
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Blast heard during Paris football match at Stade de France – BBC News
The sound of an explosion has been recorded at a football the match at the Stade de France in Paris. France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 40 people were killed in multiple shootings in Paris.
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Post arguing for separation of church and state gets pulled by Facebook | Ars Technica
Earlier this week, an administrator for a private Facebook group called “Winchester, MA Residents” received a notification from Facebook that a comment made on the group’s site had been removed.
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iPad Pro has a lightning-fast USB 3.0 connector | The Verge
Apple’s new iPad Pro has a hidden feature the company didn’t widely publicize: a USB 3.0-compatible Lightning connector. An iFixit teardown earlier this week revealed the compatible components hinting at USB 3.
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Week in Fashion: Iman Reigns as Cape Queen in Brandon Maxwell | Vanity Fair
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Paris attacks: President Obama says ‘US stands with France’ – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has condemned a series of attacks in Paris which have left dozens of people dead. At least 40 people have been killed in multiple shootings in the French capital, Paris, and explosions near the Stade de France.
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Midnight Special Could Be the Steven Spielberg-Influenced Sci-Fi Film We’ve Been Waiting For
Starman, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind. They’re all films that director Jeff Nichols cites as influences for his upcoming sci-fi film Midnight Special. And you can see that Eighties/Steven Spielberg influence both in the first image and p…
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Flooding in Brazil After Dam Breach : Image of the Day
Two dams that hold waste from an iron ore mine in southeast Brazil collapsed on November 5, 2015, sending a torrent of sludge through the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues. The muddy floodwaters destroyed hundreds of homes, and rescuers searched for…
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How Video Streaming Services Could Save The Music Industry | TechCrunch
Despite the overabundance of ideas on the best way to deliver content via the internet, creators of streamable, downloadable content are seeing less return.
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Jesus Saves? Trump Doesn’t Think So. – The Daily Beast
His favorite book might well be the Holy Bible, but the truth is the billionaire casino magnate may know no god greater than himself.
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French President Declares State Of Emergency After Paris Attacks : NPR
Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency after the attacks that have left up to 60 dead, French media say. President Obama called the attacks an “outrageous attempt to terrorize civilians.”
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That, at least, seems to be the assumption after traffic at the critically acclaimed porn site, Pornhub, (Note to HR: not linking, chill out), saw a 10 percent decline (ha!) in traffic this week following the release (ha!!) of the video game Fallout…
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Make a Hidden Belt Screwdriver MacGyver Would Be Proud of
There are a lot of great tools out there for your inner MacGyver, but this DIY belt screwdriver doesn’t take up any pocket space and can hide in plain sight. In this video, youtuber Shake the Future shows how to make any belt a secret tool belt MacG…
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A terror attack is unfolding in multiple locations across Paris, including two explosions near the country’s main sports stadium, the Stade de France.
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Massive Terrorist Attack In Paris Leaves Dozens Dead, 100 Held Hostage | ThinkProgress
A major terrorist attack targeting multiple locations in Paris has left dozens of people dead. Around 100 are still being held hostage at concert hall, according to reports. It is already one of the worst terrorist attack in European history.
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Imagine for a moment that the purpose of a presidential debate is to elucidate policy differences on matters of concern to American voters—instead of engaging the leading Democrats in still more boring babble about Hillary Clinton’s email habits or …
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President Obama speaks about Paris attacks
President Obama is about to speak about the terrorist attacks in Paris in which dozens have been killed. Says US will offer any assistance, notes they’re our closes allies. “We will do whatever it takes . . . to bring these terrorists to justice.
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On October 9 of this year, legendary musician and peace-lover John Lennon would have turned 75 years old.
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Let’s Make This a Debate About Voting Rights | The Nation
When Rachel Maddow interviewed the Democratic presidential contenders in South Carolina last week, she asked Bernie Sanders about voter suppression.
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President Obama calls Paris siege “an attack on all of humanity.” | New Republic
That, at least, seems to be the assumption after traffic at the critically acclaimed porn site, Pornhub, (Note to HR: not linking, chill out), saw a 10 percent decline (ha!) in traffic this week following the release (ha!!) of the video game Fallout…
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Russia Track and Field Suspended by IAAF | Al Jazeera America
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Paris shootings and explosions: What we know – BBC News
Many people have been killed in several shootings in the French capital, Paris, as well as explosions at the Stade de France. At least one man opened fire with an automatic gun at the Petit Cambodge restaurant in the 11th district.
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Failed Windows 3.1 system blamed for shutting down Paris airport | Ars Technica
Paris Orly airport had to close temporarily last Saturday after the failure of a system running Windows 3.1—yes, the operating system from 1992—left it unable to operate in fog. French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reported the failure, and Vi…
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Law in GIFs: Monkey See, Monkey Sue | Motherboard
Every week there’s a veritable plague of new lawsuits, hearings, appeals, and Congressional bills. How is anyone supposed to keep up with what’s happening in cyberlaw? With a GIF summary of course. A 25-year-old in Ohio reblogged a GIF on Tumblr and…
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Paris rocked by shootings, explosion
Paris was rocked by attacks Friday night. Multiple outlets are reporting as many as 35 dead, though this is a rapidly developing story. What is known now: Police officials in France say there has been an explosion in a bar near a Paris stadium and a…
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Katy Grannan’s Modesto on the Edge – The New Yorker
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Are Guantanamo Prisoners the ‘worst of the Worst’? | Al Jazeera America
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At Least 18 Dead In Series Of Attacks In Paris : NPR
At least 18 people have died in attacks at a bar and a concert hall in Paris. There are also reports of explosions near the French National Stadium where France was playing Germany in a soccer match.
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International Governing Body Suspends Russian Track And Field : NPR
Russia has been provisionally suspended by international track and field’s governing body. The decision could keep Russian athletes out of next year’s Olympic Games in Brazil.
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NFL Faces New Wave Of Scrutiny Over Greg Hardy Domestic Violence Case : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Diana Moskovitz of Deadspin about the previously unreleased documentation of a meeting between lawyers for Dallas Cowboys player Greg Hardy and the NFL.
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How Do You Start Saving? Your Tax Refund May Be The Answer : NPR
Many Americans feel they can’t save any money for the future. But if an employer automatically enrolls workers in a 401(k) plan and matches some of their contributions, 90 percent of people stick with it and save and invest for retirement.
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‘I Started Over’: Checking In On Salvadoran Migrants In The U.S. : NPR
In July 2014, NPR’s Kelly McEvers spoke with Rosy, a Salvadoran immigrant who arrived in Los Angeles with her two children and is seeking asylum in the U.S. NPR checks back in on Rosy and her family.
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Will Utah’s state prison end up being an environmental catastrophe? | Grist
If you have to deal with a mandatory waiting period for an abortion, you may as well enjoy your state’s giant, terrifying goose. New data from the CDC reveals that obesity rates among adults rose from roughly 35 percent in 2011 to 38 percent in 2014.
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Japan issues tsunami alert after powerful earthquake – BBC News
A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Japan after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the country’s south-western coast.The Japan Meteorological Agency said waves could hit the western coast of Kagoshima prefecture and Satsunan islands fu…
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SaveHollywood Turns Any Movie Into a Screen Saver on OS X
Mac: Screen savers aren’t exactly the most exciting affair, but if you’ve ever wanted to use a video file as a screensaver, SaveHollywood is a simple, free way to do it. SaveHollywood works with just about any video file, and you can choose either a…
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Missouri coach Gary Pinkel to step down following cancer diagnosis | Sport | The Guardian
Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel, who supported his African American players’ boycott of team activities backing campus protesters, said Friday that he has been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and will resign at the end of the season.
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This New Gundam Anime Series Is Basically Cowboy Bebop
The first footage for the newest Gundam series Thunderbolt has arrived, and it’s exciting for a couple of reasons: 1) it’s based on a hit manga that takes place during the events of the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime series, and 2) it looks …
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New Emoji Candidates: Pancake, Giant Squid, Glass of Milk – The Atlantic
For the world’s fastest growing language, emoji’s vocabulary is awfully constrained. Although creative combinations are always possible, it’s possible to send a high-five through emoji—but not a face palm. It’s possible to type an iconographic queen…
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You may have heard that the city of Paris is on lockdown right now after a series of attacks at venues throughout the city, including an explosion at a stadium during the France-Germany soccer match.
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Paris Explosion Took Place at Eagles of Death Metal Concert | Rolling Stone
Paris Explosion Took Place at Eagles of Death Metal Concert Similar explosion and shooting took place at city’s stadium, where France’s soccer team was playing Germany
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Watch Live Stream News Coverage of Paris Shooting Attacks – The Daily Beast
Several dozen people are reportedly dead in a series of violent attacks in Paris: An explosion outside the French national stadium, just north of the city; a gunman attack on a restaurant in the 11th arrondissement; and a hostage situation at the Ba…
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Supreme Court Takes Up Monumental Abortion Case | Rolling Stone
All of a sudden, the Supreme Court is getting all up in women’s business. In the past week, the Court has agreed to hear two cases that, taken together, will tell us whether the (male) justices think women’s place in American society is to be barefo…
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Footage shows Paris attack scenes – BBC News
At least 18 people have been killed in several shootings in the French capital, Paris, as well as explosions at the Stade de France. At least one man opened fire with an automatic gun at the Petit Cambodge restaurant in the 11th district.
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PARIS — Shootings and explosions erupted in the Paris area on Friday night, and French news services said at least 39 people were dead, dozens wounded and others taken hostage in what appeared to be coordinated militant attacks.
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North Carolina Teen Sues State Over Carbon | Al Jazeera America
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BBC News coverage of Paris attacks – BBC News
BBC News coverage following reports that many people have been killed in shootings and explosions in Paris.
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Paris Terror Attacks Leave 42 Dead, 100 Hostage – The Daily Beast
Police say the gunmen—as many as six—were armed with kalashnikovs and grenades and killed at least 42 people so far, according to a police union leader. Some 100 people are believed to be held hostage in the Bataclan theater after a performance by A…
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Reports of Several Explosions, a Hostage Situation in Paris | Vanity Fair
A wave of violence rocked Paris on Friday evening, with gunmen reportedly firing on several targets and explosions outside France’s national stadium, according to multiple press reports.
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Apple sneaks a USB 3.0-compatible Lightning port into the iPad Pro | Ars Technica
Our full review of the iPad Pro covers a lot of ground, but there is one small item that escaped our notice. When iFixit tore the device apart, it found a USB 3.0 controller, and Apple has confirmed to us that the new iPad Pro will in fact support U…
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That, at least, seems to be the assumption after traffic at the critically acclaimed porn site, Pornhub, (Note to HR: not linking, chill out), saw a 10 percent decline (ha!) in traffic this week following the release (ha!!) of the video game Fallout…
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Reports: Several Shot and Killed in Paris – The Atlantic
Several media outlets are reporting attacks that killed several people in central Paris on Friday evening. Report: Several people killed, injured in Paris shooting. https://t.co/m6Mxow3SvZ
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What It Was Like Writing Tom Petty’s Life Story – The New Yorker
Among the acts that Tom Petty took with him on the tour for his 1987 album, “Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough),” was the Del Fuegos, a Boston-based roots-rock band with ties to the New York hardcore scene.
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Howler Monkeys Trade Testicles for Decibels – Scientific American
Howler monkeys. From their Central and South American rainforest home, they produce some of the loudest animal calls in the world. They’re about the size of an adult cocker spaniel, but they can sound as large as a tiger.
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Tidal’s top executive left the company months ago | The Verge
In a major loss for the streaming service, Tidal executive Vania Schlogel resigned from the company this past summer, according to The New York Times.
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Jerry Stritzke, the chief executive of the sporting goods company REI, hosted a question-and-answer session on the website Reddit this week to discuss his decision to keep stores closed on Black Friday.
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Supreme Court to Decide Virginia Case | Al Jazeera America
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Paris attacks: ‘There were a lot of dead people’ – BBC News
An eyewitness has described a shooting attack on a restaurant in Paris in which several people are reported to have died. At least one man opened fire with an automatic gun at the Petit Cambodge restaurant in the 11th district.
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Police union scorns LAPD award for officers who use non-lethal force | US news | The Guardian
The police union in the nation’s second largest city is upset over a seemingly innocuous announcement by the police chief that he is going to start acknowledging officers for resolving potentially deadly situations with non-lethal force.
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Hoax Exposed: No, Earth Will Not Go Dark for 15 Days
No, the Earth is not headed for 15 days of darkness on Nov. 15, 2015. This hoax was spawned by a fake news site. Shown here: the fully lit Earth as seen by NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory.Credit: NASA/NOAA View full size image Abraham Lincoln …
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BBC Sport – Wales 2-3 Netherlands
Wales are without forwards Gareth Bale, Hal Robson-Kanu, Sam Vokes and David Cotterill as well as Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey. That could mean a debut for Walsall striker Tom Bradshaw or a first start for Tom Lawrence, the Leicester forward curr…
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At least 26 killed in France terror attack, dozens said to be taken hostage / Boing Boing
A hostage situation is also underway, says CNN, in what appears to be a coordinated attack at multiple locations in the French capital. Eyewitness reports claim that the assailants carried Kalashnikov rifles.
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Toho’s gigantic new Godzilla to smash puny American Godzilla · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having triumphantly smashed (in the form of a polite settlement) his way through Anne Hathaway and her suspiciously similar kaiju movie Colossal, the Japanese Godzilla is ready to crush any potential comparisons to his weak, insignificant American c…
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016 play-off: Ciaran Clark & Wes Hoolahan start for Republic
Hull midfielder David Meyler is the Republic of Ireland’s latest injury doubt for Friday’s Euro 2016 play-off first leg against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Manager Martin O’Neill said on Wednesday that Meyler had sustained a knock in training and that his f…
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The Hateful Eight’s 70mm run could cost up to $80,000 per screen · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Although he probably did it because he actually loves film and not as an arbitrary display of directorial power, a recent New York Times article about the preparations for The Hateful Eight’s roadshow run implies that Quentin Tarantino could bring b…
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BOCA RATON, Fla. — A few hours before the start of the 2009 World Series between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman picked up the phone and called Dave Dombrowski, his counterpart with the Detroit Tigers.
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A Massive Earthquake, Tsunami in the Northwest? | Al Jazeera America
SEATTLE – Walking down almost any street in Seattle’s historic downtown, Eric Holdeman sees danger. Holdeman ran the King County Office of Emergency Management for 11 years. He doesn’t think the area around Pioneer Square would do well in a powerful…
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Multiple Shooting Attacks and Bombings Reported in Paris | Mother Jones
French and international media are reporting that multiple shooting attacks and bombings have occurred in Paris. According to initial reports, at least one gunman opened fire at a Paris restaurant. Police told the AFP wire service that at least 18 p…
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This week in America’s crazy abortion laws: Texas, South Dakota, and Missouri | Grist
If you have to deal with a mandatory waiting period for an abortion, you may as well enjoy your state’s giant, terrifying goose. New data from the CDC reveals that obesity rates among adults rose from roughly 35 percent in 2011 to 38 percent in 2014.
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The most terrifying ski crash ever
Watch as skier Ian McIntosh hits an unexpected trench on one of his first turns down an extremely steep mountain and tumbles 1600 feet in less than a minute. Actually, don’t just watch…put your headphones on and listen: McIntosh was mic’d up while…
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FanDuel and DraftKings Are Suing New York’s Attorney General | Re/code
Things are getting ugly in New York for daily fantasy sports. Industry leaders DraftKings and FanDuel have both separately filed suit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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Paris shootings: ‘We heard automatic gunshots’ – BBC News
Several people are reported to have been killed in an attack on a bar in the French capital, Paris, French media report. A gunman using an automatic gun opened fire at the Cambodge restaurant in the capital’s 11th district. BFMTV says at least seven…
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Multiple deaths reported in Paris attacks. | New Republic
That, at least, seems to be the assumption after traffic at the critically acclaimed porn site, Pornhub, (Note to HR: not linking, chill out), saw a 10 percent decline (ha!) in traffic this week following the release (ha!!) of the video game Fallout…
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Upload 4K Videos to YouTube from iOS By Going Through iMovie
If you try to upload a 4K movie directly from Photos in iOS, it automatically drops down the quality to standard definition. To get around this, you just need to use iMovie instead.
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There is a soccer game going on at the stadium and you could hear two explosions at the TV broadcast. Holy shit, thats scary.
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Watch Rick Ross Talk Love for Adele, ‘Hello’ Remix | Rolling Stone
Watch Rick Ross Talk Love for Adele, ‘Hello’ Remix “This may be one of the biggest records in the history of our time,” says Ross of singer’s latest single
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England’s record goalscorer Wayne Rooney will not start Friday’s friendly against Spain in Alicante as manager Roy Hodgson looks to experiment. However, the Manchester United striker will be in the team when France visit Wembley on Tuesday.
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Shootings reported in eastern Paris – live | World news | The Guardian
The French paper Libération reports that several people were killed in one shooting in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, an area to the north of the city. Its reporter on the scene says that there were at least two shooters who may have opened fire …
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ISIS May Be Gone From Iraqi Town, But Ex-Residents Hesitant To Return : Parallels : NPR
Kurdish forces raised their flag Friday as they advanced into the center of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, facing little resistance from Islamic State fighters who have held it for 15 months. Kurdish officials called it a liberation.
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Arrested Development Meets Adulthood In ‘James White’ : NPR
Last week, James Bond, this week James White — proof, should any be required, that fall movies come in all shapes and sizes.
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What It Was Like Writing Tom Petty’s Life Story – The New Yorker
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Are Food Deserts to Blame for America’s Poor Eating Habits? Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Influencer Marketing Startup Mavrck Raises $5M | TechCrunch
Mavrck, a startup that helps marketers recruit customers to create promotional content, has raised $5 million in Series A funding.
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Skeptical Football: For Once, My MVP Isn’t Peyton Manning | FiveThirtyEight
This NFL season has had its share of head-scratching quirks, but I’m not buying that it’s been as “super weird” as it seems. A lot of stuff happens in the NFL, so every year seems like a crazy year. Variance is tumultuous.
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Cristiano Ronaldo said Friday that he wants to end his career “with dignity” and not playing in “the United States, Qatar or Dubai”.
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Russia’s athletics federation has been provisionally suspended by the sport’s governing body for its alleged involvement in widespread doping. The IAAF took action after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that a…
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What a Tragic 38-Year-Old Abortion Story Can Teach Us Today
Thirty-eight years ago, a young woman in McAllen died of an illegal abortion. Today her story is more relevant than ever. On a June afternoon in McAllen in 1978, Diana Rivera, posing as a young pregnant woman, walked into the home of a local midwife.
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Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s doge: no time to bark – GIF on Imgur
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Utah Mormons plan ‘mass resignation’ over church’s anti-gay policy | World news | The Guardian
Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints are planning a “mass resignation” in Salt Lake City on Saturday in response to a leaked church policy that punishes the children of same-sex couples who don’t renounce their parents’ relationship.
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That, at least, seems to be the assumption after traffic at the critically acclaimed porn site, Pornhub, (Note to HR: not linking, chill out), saw a 10 percent decline (ha!) in traffic this week following the release (ha!!) of the video game Fallout…
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Death of Ralkina Jones in Cleveland jail cell ruled accidental | US news | The Guardian
The death of a Cleveland woman in a holding cell at a suburban jail was accidental and related to her medical conditions, a medical examiner said Friday.
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Shooting reported at Cambodian restaurant in Paris – Al Jazeera English
We explore Russia’s domestic and foreign policies and how they reflect a desire to rebuild its standing in the world. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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That, at least, seems to be the assumption after traffic at the critically acclaimed porn site, Pornhub, (Note to HR: not linking, chill out), saw a 10 percent decline (ha!) in traffic this week following the release (ha!!) of the video game Fallout…
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The Odd Saga of BB-8’s Gender Identity Continues
Should Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ beloved little droid BB-8 be referred to as a “he” or a “she”? It’s not a question with an answer you’d expect to change, but it has—several times .
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Celebrate Friday The 13th with Commander USA and Rhonda Shear · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Before every television network began airing their very own original dramas, basic cable was like the Wild West. TBS, TNT, and USA would air whatever they could get their hands on, be it shoddy prints of Three Stooges shorts, Atlanta Braves baseball…
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Letters to the Editor: Waterlogged Phones, Earth is Doomed, and Science or Sham? | Motherboard
It’s you! Our favourite readers. You’re the reason we do this mailbag every week (and it’s been going pretty well so far). We’ve had some great responses the past few days to a wide range of stories, both new and old, so grab yourself a cup of coffe…
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It’s already been proven that Ted Cruz is godawful at Simpsons impressions. Clearly, that experience left him hungry to try an impression that maybe wouldn’t suck quite so bad, so now the sentient package of homophobic Saltine crackers has turned hi…
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Shootings, Explosions Reported in Paris | Al Jazeera America
Explosions rocked a bar near the Paris stadium Stade de France on Friday and shootings occurred in a restaurant in the Little Cambodia section of the city’s 10th Arrondissement, police officials said. BFM television said several people were dead in …
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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Texas Abortion Law Case : NPR
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Texas law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and requires abortion clinics to have the facilities of an outpatient surgical center.
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University Of Oklahoma Implements Diversity Training After Scrutiny : NPR
Earlier this year, the University of Oklahoma expelled two students after a racially charged video surfaced from fraternity members. NPR returns to the campus to see how the newly mandated diversity classes are fairing.
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Secretary Of State Kerry Finds Inspiration In Tunisia Ahead Of Syria Talks : NPR
Before his latest round of talks in Vienna on the war in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry makes a stop in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began.
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Book Review: ‘Wild Hundreds,’ Nate Marshall : NPR
Tess Taylor reviews Nate Marshall’s poetry collection, Wild Hundreds.
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FBI Opens Probe Into Shooting Of Idaho Rancher By Sheriff’s Deputies : NPR
Federal and state investigators in Idaho are looking into the shooting of a rancher by sheriff’s deputies. The rancher was trying to put down a bull that was involved in a traffic accident when he was shot.
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After Retaking Sinjar, Iraq, How Kurdish Forces Can Prevent ISIS’ Return : NPR
NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Jessica Lewis McFate, research director at the Institute for the Study of War, about what needs to be done after ISIS is kicked out of a city to keep it from coming back.
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Utah Judge Rescinds Order To Remove Baby From Lesbian Foster Parents : NPR
A family court judge in Utah has rescinded his order to remove a baby from lesbian foster parents. He previously said the child would be better off with a heterosexual foster family. But there was considerable backlash from the state’s Department of…
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Week In Politics: Latest Republican Presidential Debate : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and Eliana Johnson, Washington editor of the National Review, about the latest presidential primary debates.
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An Ill Newborn, A Loving Family And A Litany Of Wrenching Choices : Shots – Health News : NPR
Anne and Omar Shamiyeh first learned something was wrong with one of their twins during an ultrasound, when Anne was 18 weeks pregnant. It turned out that the baby’s esophagus was not connected to his stomach. He also had a heart defect.
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GOP Presidential Candidates Speak At Sunshine Summit In Florida : NPR
The Republican presidential candidates are all making their pitches at the Sunshine Summit in Florida on Friday. NPR explores what is on most of voters minds and what they make of the candidates so far.
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This Art Exhibit Makes You ‘Wonder’ — And That’s The Whole Point : NPR
When you were a little kid, everyday objects could be amazing — twigs, bugs, old tires, there was potential in everything. And it’s that sense of awe that the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery is trying to recapture in its new show, Wonder. In the Renwi…
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‘We Didn’t Wanna Be Anybody Else’: A Tribe Called Quest Reflects On Its Debut : NPR
Twenty-five years ago, the first album by A Tribe Called Quest hit record stores — and as soon as it dropped, it stood out. Even the title, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, felt like an iconoclast’s mission statement.
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Alabama Settles With DOJ After Investigation | Al Jazeera America
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France says Paris climate treaty legally ‘binding’ | Al Jazeera America
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Sweet Cherry: A Portrait of British Columbia’s Cherry Pickers – The Atlantic
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US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Texas abortion case – BBC News
The US Supreme Court has said it will consider a challenge to a controversial Texas abortion law. Backed by Republicans, the law places high standards on clinics and puts new requirements on doctors that provide abortions in the state.
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US personal lenders Springleaf and OneMain to combine – BBC News
The second largest provider of personal instalment loans in the US is to buy its biggest competitor. Short term loan provider Springleaf has been given permission to buy OneMain from parent company Citigroup, provided it sells 127 of its own branche…
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Nearly half a million 2016 Volkswagens have bogus CO2 readings | The Verge
Volkswagen Group just posted an update about its other emissions scandal — not the diesel one — where vehicles with both diesel and gasoline engines were being sold with incorrect CO2 emissions figures.
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Ben Carson says he’ll tell us who he tried to stab—if press is nice about it
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is in the unusual position of needing to prove that yes, he really did try to murder someone that one time and isn’t just making it up because Republican voters in Iowa like their candidates a hair’s …
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The Pentagon said on Friday that it was “reasonably certain” that an American airstrike killed Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State’s most notorious executioner. Col.
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ERBIL, Iraq — The United States and its allies have sharply increased their airstrikes against the sprawling oil fields that the Islamic State controls in eastern Syria in an effort to disrupt one of the terrorist group’s main sources of revenue, Am…
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On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear its first major case on abortion restrictions in almost eight years, setting the stage for a high-profile showdown on reproductive rights only a few months from the 2016 presidential election. The case, Wh…
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Fires Across Madagascar : Natural Hazards
On November 11, 2015, dozens of small fires burned across Madagascar. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP captured this natural-color image of the island at 2:00 p.m. local time (11:00 Universal Time) that afternoon.
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So these men who work @ the Apple Store, refused to let in Somali/Sudanese students in. Racially discriminating them pic.twitter.com/yomYNpSpCg
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Review: Netflix’s W/Bob and David is like Mr. Show 2.0 in the best possible way | The Verge
The first image we get of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross in in their new Netflix show W/ Bob and David is of them emerging from a ”real-time travel machine” that looks like a tricked out Porta Potty. It’s their on-the-nose way of saying that a lot has…
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Heavy rain warning for northern Britain in wake of storm Abigail | UK news | The Guardian
Areas of north-west England, Yorkshire and north Wales, as well as all of Northern Ireland, have been warned to be prepare for heavy rain on Saturday after storm Abigail left thousands without power and closed schools.
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‘Shootings’ reported in central Paris – 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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Fallout 4 Is More Powerful Than Porn | TechCrunch
Pornhub, an internet web portal site for videos of people that are naked doing things, which I have never ever visited, ever, shared some interesting traffic. Speaking of things I don’t do, a game called Fallout 4 came out on the 10th. And that’s wh…
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How “Failing Forward” Can End In A Lawsuit | TechCrunch
Can you imagine a world where an entrepreneur could be sued for refusing to give up? A world where starting over could attract a lawsuit? We live in that world. It has happened before, and it will happen again.
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Sign Up for the Chrome Beta on iOS
iOS: Fancy yourself a fan of Chrome on the iPhone and iPad? Like other versions of Chrome, you can check out new beta versions, you’ll just need to sign up with Google. All you need to do is head over to Google’s beta site, click the iOS link, and e…
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A new lords of the flies | Al Jazeera America
The latest buzz in the world of newly discovered insects was not in a distant jungle far away but in the bustling city of Los Angeles. On this week’s TechKnow, Phil Torres speaks with a team of experts working at the Los Angeles Coun… http://www.nhm.
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Having never met a controversial subject it couldn’t bend into the shape of a procedural, Fox has started development on a new series about rampant police corruption.
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Breaking Bad’s wide shots were truly beautiful · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Breaking Bad’s pilot was originally set to take place in Riverside, California. The area is known for having a nasty meth problem, so it seemed like a perfect fit. Even so, executives at Sony’s television production studio felt that New Mexico would…
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A recently dismissed police officer in south Florida who fatally shot an armed man waiting next to his disabled SUV has been fired from his job as a college instructor, the school disclosed on Friday.
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Ai Weiwei wants your Legos for art. | New Republic
While awarding Capt. Florent Groberg the Medal of Honor on Thursday for heroically tackling a suicide bomber, President Obama assured Groberg and the gathered crowd that he was not Jonathan Davis, the lead singer of Korn.
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Meet the Bird that Filled an Antenna With Acorns
Squirrels aren’t the only animals that store acorns for winter. Some birds do it, too. And one species in California disrupted a telecommunications network with its storage habits. The birds stashed their acorns in a wireless antenna in Central Cali…
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The U.K. trailer for The Divergent Series: Allegiant proves that George R. R. Martin isn’t the only one who can dream up a world of bogeymen behind a massive wall.
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The Last Word On Nothing | The Internet Is a Series of Lead Tubes
Like many of you, I suspect, I have a love hate relationship with the internet. I love the access it gives me to all sorts of information, and how it connects me with people I would have never been able to hear from before.
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CBGB Portraits: A 1970s New York Club At The Centre Of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Universe – Flashbak
New York club CBGB was where such lustrous acts as The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, The Planets, Living Colour, The Voidoids, Devo, Misfits, Television, Patti Smith Group, New York Dolls, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Cramps, and Joan Jett c…
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Wingnut Week In Review: Tempest in a Coffee Cup
Does it seem like the “War on Christmas” comes earlier every year? ’Tis barely the season yet, and this week wingnuts are seeing red about Starbuck’s decidedly minimalist holiday cups. Starbucks decided to keep it simple for the holidays this year.
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Mark Cuban is going to make his own ‘hoverboards’ | The Verge
Mark Cuban has called off a patent deal with Inventist, maker of the Hovertrax and one of the many companies trying to sell two-wheeled “hoverboards” in the United States, according BuzzFeed. Cuban told the outlet that he will make his own version i…
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America’s obesity problem just keeps getting, well, bigger | Grist
New data from the CDC reveals that obesity rates among adults rose from roughly 35 percent in 2011 to 38 percent in 2014. Sixty-two U.S. cities aim to meet or surpass the national target for cutting carbon emissions, and Obama is encouraging more to…
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Killing Mohammed Emwazi was significant blow to Isis, says US | World news | The Guardian
Western leaders and the military have hailed the apparent killing of the notorious Islamic State murderer Mohammed Emwazi as a symbolic blow in the battle against the terror group, condemning the British citizen as a “human animal” for his role in t…
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Smithsonian Seeking Space Fans to Retype Apollo Spacecraft Packing Lists
Equipment, including camera lenses, crew toiletries and food, that was packed aboard the Apollo spacecraft was tracked on NASA stowage lists. The Smithsonian is now seeking volunteers to help digitize the lists.
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The abortion case headed to the Supreme Court is a really big deal. | New Republic
While awarding Capt. Florent Groberg the Medal of Honor on Thursday for heroically tackling a suicide bomber, President Obama assured Groberg and the gathered crowd that he was not Jonathan Davis, the lead singer of Korn.
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This post isn’t about what you think it’s about. I’m not talking about a looming coup; I’m talking about the problems facing political science, which — it recently occurred to me — are a bit like the problems facing macroeconomics after 2008.
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The arrest of two nephews of the Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores on US drug trafficking charges is being used by the opposition to blast the government during the launch of the campaign season for crucial 6 December congressional elections.
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Donald Trump portrait made from 500 pictures of dicks (NSFW-ish)|Dangerous Minds
There are dicks in Donald Trump’s mouth. They are in his hair, his eyes, his nose, even his ears—in fact there are dicks every-fucking-where in this portrait of Trump by Tumblr user “Homo-Power.” The medium is the message???
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FBI: “The allegation that we paid CMU $1M to hack into Tor is inaccurate” | Ars Technica
The FBI is denying that it paid $1 million to Carnegie Mellon University to exploit a vulnerability in Tor.
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A British citizen has been extradited to the United States and charged with conspiring to illegally sell laboratory equipment, including industrial engines, gas masks and chemical warfare agent detection equipment, from the US to Syria.
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How Gotham City Evolved Into the Worst Fictional City in America
This is neat. The Nerdwriter has chronicled the 75-year history of Batman’s hometown, from its humble beginnings as New York City (really!) to the crime-ridden, neo-gothic nightmare town we know today in the movies, comics and video games.
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Kate Winslet’s Love Scenes with Liam Hemsworth Made Her Teenage Daughter Very Jealous | Vanity Fair
Kate Winslet has forged enviable bonds with her handsome male co-stars over the course of her career. She and Titanic super-star Leonardo DiCaprio are so close, for example, that he reportedly walked Winslet down the aisle of her 2012 wedding.
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Parents Have Been Requesting Star Wars Toys for Their Daughters For Decades
Currently causing consternation: The omission of female Rey from a Star Wars gift set being sold at Target, which has spawned the hashtag #WheresRey. It’s the latest in a long line of complaints about the franchise forgetting women are fans, too. A …
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Has Donald Trump’s meltdown moment finally come? – Al Jazeera English
Most people expected it at some point. They thought it would come after he attacked Senator John McCain. He dismissed his five years in a North Vietnam prison, saying the one-time Republican candidate wasn’t a hero and he preferred people who weren’…
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Desertification: The people whose land is turning to dust – BBC News
The UN predicts over 50 million people will be forced to leave their homes by 2020 because their land has turned to desert. This is already happening in Senegal, writes Laeila Adjovi.
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Snapchat Now Sells Selfie Lenses For $1 | TechCrunch
Snapchat recently launched selfie lenses after acquiring Looksery. Every day, a new lens is added and an old one is removed from the current lineup of seven lenses. The company now also showcases around 30 other lenses that you can buy for 99 cents …
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The Sexual Politics of Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’ – The Atlantic
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Ben Carson is beating Donald Trump in the race to sell lots of books. | New Republic
Related: You’re probably also a bad person, but that’s no biggie. You’re hardly alone in that regard, humans being what we are. Here’s the tagline for a link to its job application page, which I’m not sharing: “Become a heartbreaker.” Creativity!
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Report: 1 in 5 NYC Adults Suffers Mental Health Issues – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
In response to a new report that as many as one in five adult residents of New York City suffers from mental health issues, Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a new initiative called NYC Thrive, allocating $386 million to the prevention and treatment…
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Obama: Forget About ‘Destroying’ ISIS, We Just Need to ‘Contain’ Them – The Daily Beast
But this week, even with the victory in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar and the news that ISIS’s most famous executioner Mohammed Emwazi—best known as “Jihadi John”—was likely killed in a U.S. drone strike, Obama struck a very different tone.
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‘Jihadi John’ May Be Dead, but ISIL Potency Stays | Al Jazeera America
News that the British ISIL fighter known as Jihadi John was likely killed by an apparent U.S. drone strike — Pentagon officials said Friday they had “great confidence” in his death — has been lauded by the U.S. and U.K.
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This Discounted Android Wear Watch Actually Looks Like a Watch
The LG Watch Urbane is absolutely one of the best looking Android Wear watches on the market, and you can get your own for $215 today on eBay. That’s $135 less than its original selling price, and a match for the best deal we’ve seen.
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Your Unwashed Bras Are Growing (Mostly Harmless) Bacteria
Some guys may be surprised to hear this, but bras are a pain in the butt to wash, and many of us put off the chore for as long as possible. (We wash everything else though, we swear.) That’s gross, but is it actually bad for you? Isha Aran at Fusion…
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Justin Bieber’s New Breakup Album ‘Purpose’ Is So Insufferable—And So Brilliant – The Daily Beast
The day of reckoning has come. The harrowing question that has sent culture spiraling into existential crisis has been asked: Is it OK to like Justin Bieber for his music?
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Mad Decent Cruise Cut Short After Passenger Jumps Overboard | Rolling Stone
The Mad Decent Boat Party has cut its five-day trip short following an incident Thursday night when a woman intentionally jumped overboard. The cruise was on its way from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico when the woman jumped off the ship.
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How Worried Should We Be About Space Junk Crashing to Earth? | Atlas Obscura
Space debris seen from outside geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO). The two main debris fields are the ring of objects in GEO and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). (Photo: NASA/Public Domain/WikiCommons)
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University of Illinois, Salaita Reach Settlement | Al Jazeera America
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American cities keep fighting climate change while Congress stonewalls | Grist
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Why Justice League Unlimited Was, and Still Is, the Best Superhero TV Show
We live in a golden age of superhero television. Hits like The Flash, Agent Carter, Arrow, and Agents of SHIELD dominate our TV screens.
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Apple’s App Store Gets A Smarter Search Engine | TechCrunch
A number of mobile app developers and industry observers recently noticed a significant change in the way the App Store’s search algorithms are returning results.
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US supreme court to consider whether race influenced Virginia redistricting | Law | The Guardian
The US supreme court on Friday said it would hear arguments over whether Virginia’s Republican-led legislature unlawfully considered race when drawing congressional districts by packing black voters into one Democratic-held district, diluting their …
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Diasporas can be trouble.
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Related: You’re probably also a bad person, but that’s no biggie. You’re hardly alone in that regard, humans being what we are. Here’s the tagline for a link to its job application page, which I’m not sharing: “Become a heartbreaker.” Creativity!
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This is your next jam: Grimes, Missy Elliott, and more | The Verge
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I can hear winter’s chill starting to creep into this week’s selections. There’s a palpable coolness to picks from Bibio, Ellie Goulding, Floating Points, and…
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Hear a new track from Fred Armisen’s laid-back Blue Jean Committee · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As vividly realistic as the first season finale of Documentary Now! might have seemed, there never really was an incredibly mellow California-by-way-of-Chicago pop rock act called The Blue Jean Committee.
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Midday open thread: SD county’s Indians can now be jurors; ‘stingrays’ threaten civil liberties
Please join us here at 6 PM PT Saturday for a live-blog of the ridiculously scheduled Democratic debate . Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Climate Interruptus: What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … The next Eric Cantor is lurking out there.
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Supreme Court to Decide Major Abortion Case | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a major new abortion case Friday, agreeing to hear a challenge by abortion providers to parts of a restrictive, Republican-backed Texas law that they contend are aimed at shutting clinics that offer the procedure.
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One Direction’s fifth album, Made In The A.M., arrives at a strange time in the band’s existence. Not only did Zayn Malik leave the group in early 2015, but the other members also announced they’re taking a break from 1D duties in 2016 in favor of s…
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Migrant crisis: No EU-Africa grand bargain – BBC News
Surely some of the first rules of wooing are: if you’re going to do it, do it properly. Don’t insult the object of your desire with promises you both know you can’t keep.
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BBC Sport – BBC African Footballer of the Year shortlist to be named on Saturday
The five-man shortlist for the 2015 BBC African Footballer of the Year award will be revealed on Saturday. The winner will be decided by African football fans, who will have until 18:00 GMT on 30 November to vote.
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A Utah judge on Friday reversed, at least temporarily, his order that a foster child be taken away from a lesbian couple because of their sexual orientation, but he continued to question the placement of children with same-sex parents.The judge, Sco…
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When unethical medical experiments bear fruit
The history of medicine is full of weird and appalling experiments. Many went nowhere. But a few of the most horrifying resulted in drugs, tests, or devices that are still in use today.
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First Interstellar Weather Forecast: Gusty as Hell
Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and on second thought, interstellar camping trips maaaay not be so much fun after all. On planet HD 189733b, at least, the winds are blowi…
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I’ve been reading this book of manners and enjoying it very much! It is actually pretty progressive for its time. It’s rare you see the scripts flipped like this isn’t it? So I ran with that. But poor old fellow, everyone deserves respect and should…
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‘Grassroots’ Daily Fantasy Sports ‘Protest’ Was Astroturfed – The Daily Beast
NEW YORK — What do you do if you’re in the daily fantasy sports industry and you’re being investigated by the New York state attorney general, with numerous investigations currently underway examining unregulated online gambling, beset with charges …
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Argue about protests, and pretty soon you’re arguing about cameras. Look at Missouri. On Monday, a video was posted to YouTube that appeared to show student and faculty protestors physically blocking journalists from entering a public quad.
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Portland, being Portland, says no to new fossil fuel infrastructure | Grist
Exploding trains and leaky pipelines: There are plenty of hotspots that climate activists could pursue now.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to a controversial incident earlier this week in an Australian Apple Store in which six black teenagers were prevented from entering out of fear they might steal something.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Party Clinches an Absolute Majority in Myanmar’s Elections – The Atlantic
The movement to challenge more than five decades of military rule in Myanmar received a significant boost Friday when results from the country’s first free elections in 25 years were released.
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The Toxic Chemicals Harming Employees’ Health In Black Women’s Hair Salons – The Atlantic
When Teni Adewumi surveyed African American salon workers in Inglewood, California, she kept seeing the same health concerns over and over. Asthma. Dermatitis. Hair loss. Uterine fibroids. Miscarriage.
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NASA Tracks Global Carbon Dioxide – Scientific American
Carbon dioxide, or CO2 for short. It’s simple gas that makes up a small part of our planet’s atmosphere. And yet it’s at the root of one of the biggest problems of the 21st century (that would be climate change, for the record).
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O’Malley Finds a Reason for Being in the 2016 Race: Immigration | New Republic
It’s too little to address the underlying causes of the United States’s lingering immigration crisis. And it’s probably too late to save his campaign from a polling deficit better measured in orders of magnitude than digits.
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Companies like to tout their corporate values, which often include terms such as ‘authentic’ and ‘green’. But what do these words actually mean? Explore our interactive dictionary of some of the most commonly used terms in corporate values. Click on…
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: November 6th to 13th
This week we learned how to turn Waze into the ultimate navigation app, built a cheap but powerful Steam Machine, caught up on our first aid fundamentals, and more. Here’s a look back at this week’s top posts.
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Exactly which mold do the white students at Claremont fit into—a jello mold? | New Republic
Related: You’re probably also a bad person, but that’s no biggie. You’re hardly alone in that regard, humans being what we are. Here’s the tagline for a link to its job application page, which I’m not sharing: “Become a heartbreaker.” Creativity!
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Justin Bieber sounds like the future, and One Direction sounds like the past | The Verge
There’s a battle raging on the internet today, one that might’ve slipped under your nose entirely if your interest in pop music is minimal at best.
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Big business should rebalance demands of shareholders with wider issues | Environment | The Guardian
The bursting of two dams at the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil means there is another corporate scandal facing big business.
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Mohammed Emwazi: the ‘tall, quiet kid’ who became a monster | UK news | The Guardian
Mohammed Emwazi had become the west’s most wanted man – infamous for his cold-blooded killing. He appeared, face hidden, in glossy videos slitting throats and beheading US journalists, British aid workers and Japanese reporters.
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Victims’ families react to ‘Jihadi John’ killing – BBC News
Families of some of the victims of Mohammed Emwazi have given their reaction to his apparent killing. The US said it was “reasonably certain” based on intelligence sources, that the British Islamic State killer ‘Jihadi John’, was killed in a US dron…
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As excitement continues to mount for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (accompanied by “please don’t screw this up”), what we know about the actual movie also continues to mount.
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We just recently learned that David Bowie would be releasing a new album, and now, we’ve got video evidence that the man is determined to steal Austin‘s slogan and keep himself weird. The song, titled “★” (pronounced “Blackstar”), is certainly Bowie…
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Actually, Mr. Trump, Iowa is one of the smartest states in the union – The Washington Post
In one of the weirdest attempts to neg in history, political pick-up artist Donald Trump asked a group of voters in Iowa why Iowans were so dumb as to favor Ben Carson over him.
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projectDETOUR is a short film series about three trips to three destinations. We’ve been hiking waist deep powder in the Alps, we high fived sheep farmers in Greece and rode our motorbikes through the state of California. Have a look at the gems the…
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Microsoft adds floating OneNote icon to Android so you never forget about OneNote | The Verge
Microsoft really wants you to use OneNote. The OneNote app for Android now has a button that hovers over your screen and is a lot like Facebook Chat Heads — remember those? This button, called the OneNote badge, moves you directly into Android featu…
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Why hasn’t Obama closed Guantanamo? – Al Jazeera English
We explore Russia’s domestic and foreign policies and how they reflect a desire to rebuild its standing in the world. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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Do tech companies understand their supply chains? | Al Jazeera America
In “Conflicted: The Fight Over Congo’s Minerals,” Fault Lines asks if a law lobbied for by Western consumers and advocacy groups brought peace to miners in eastern Congo—or if it instead caused more problems for people in the region. The film airs o…
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Uber and Lyft will be the subjects of an environmental impact study | The Verge
The National Research Defense Council and the University of California–Berkeley are teaming up for a yearlong study of the environmental impacts of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft.
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‘We’ve become a mature city’: residents’ thoughts on Mexico’s capital | Cities | The Guardian
Throughout our special Mexico City week, we’ve welcomed residents’ stories of the Mexican capital today and how it is changing, in order to understand a fuller and broader view of life in the city.
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You probably shouldn’t drive a $1.6 million car around NYC, but we did | Ars Technica
NEW YORK—Late last month, National Geographic Channel and Uber teamed up to promote a new series on scientific breakthroughs—called, appropriately enough, Breakthrough—and they chose to do it with a fleet of alternative energy vehicles on the street…
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The Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear a Case that Could Destroy Roe v. Wade | Mother Jones
On Friday morning, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear its first abortion case in nine years. At issue in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole is HB 2, an omnibus Texas abortion law that made national headlines in 2013 after Texas Sen.
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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Call Burma a Democracy Just Yet | Mother Jones
President Obama and other world leaders are sending their congratulations to Burma, whose biggest pro-democracy party, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won a landslide victory in a historic general election Friday.
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Dylan Penn on Her Acting Debut and Bringing Dates Home to Dad Sean | Vanity Fair
Dylan Penn, the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright, remembers the first time she brought a date home to her Oscar-winning father, when she was 16. “The guy introduced himself to my dad, and my dad was like, ‘Have a good night . . .
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A gorgeous flight game made for a loved one in a lost plane / Offworld
“My grandfather’s plane was reported lost in 1960 during the Algeria Independence War, days before the birth of his first child,” writes Armel Gibson, in the introduction for his game, Oases. “This is what I like to think happened to him.
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US supreme court to hear biggest abortion rights case in two decades | Law | The Guardian
The US supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to one of the nation’s harshest abortion laws in what could be the most consequential case on abortion rights the court has taken in 23 years.
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In a period roughly encompassing the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th, a handful of very young European men criss-crossed the world on ships and changed almost everything we think.
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Noodler Puts Three Million Noodle Soup Recipes and Tips on Your iPhone
iOS: If you love noodle soup, you’ll love Noodler, “the noodle soup oracle.” This app ensures you’ll never run out of ideas for your next bowl of ramen or other noodle soups. Consult the oracle and you’ll get a random bowl to make.
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Hospitals Are Under ‘Constant Attempts at Attack’ from Hackers, FDA Says | Motherboard
“Cyber hygiene” is paramount to keeping medical devices in hospitals safe from hackers and malware, Suzanne Schwartz, director of Emergency Preparedness/Operations and Medical Countermeasures for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, a div…
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Turkey PM: No plan for land operations in Syria or Iraq – Al Jazeera English
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that Ankara is not preparing for a military operation inside Syria or Iraq in the near future unless Turkey is threatened or attacked by “terrorist groups” from inside the two countries.
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Watch Hannibal Buress Explain How Donald Trump Is Like a Rapper | Rolling Stone
Watch Hannibal Buress Explain How Donald Trump Is Like a Rapper Trump is a DJ Khaled type (“loud, arrogant, kind of corny”), while Hillary Clinton is more of a Diddy
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TV ratings in the streaming age: Why nothing can be called a hit anymore.
A hit TV show, never easy to make, at least used to be easy to identify. Through the end of the 20th century, a hit was a show watched by tens of millions of people, if not many more. You know what happened next.
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New York Fall Art Auction Results: What Could You Buy Instead? – Bloomberg Business
Over the past two weeks, $2.3 billion worth of art sold at auction at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips in New York.
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Yale’s Unsafe Spaces – The New Yorker
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Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were great friends. When Edison died, arrangements were made for a test tube containing his last breath to be delivered to Ford. The test tube now resides in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.
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Let’s Have A Chat About Virtual Reality | TechCrunch
Virtual reality (VR), which can be referred to as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated life, replicates an environment that simulates physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds and lets the user interact in that world.
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4 charts show what’s ahead for renewable energy | Grist
Exploding trains and leaky pipelines: There are plenty of hotspots that climate activists could pursue now.
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Snapchat rolls out ‘official stories’ to verify celebrity accounts | The Verge
Will the real justinbieber please stand up? Today’s update to Snapchat brought more than paid lenses. As spotted by our former colleague Sam Sheffer, Snapchat is rolling out its own version of verified accounts as well.
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Visual History of the Jeep 75th Anniversary – The Atlantic
The Jeep was made for war. In 1940, the impending U.S. involvement in World War II pushed the army to call for a new vehicle suited for battle.
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If Mohammed Emwazi is dead, there will be few who will mourn his passing.
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Go Behind the Scenes of the Gory and Gorgeous Crimson Peak Titles
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak isn’t the movie most people expected. It’s not a scary, haunted house movie. It’s a saturated, world-building gothic romance that just happens to have supernatural elements.
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No Team Has Ever Started A Season Hotter Than This Year’s Warriors | FiveThirtyEight
Last season’s Golden State Warriors were a great story. Adding a new coach to what was already an exciting young core, they made The Leap and finally melded their talented roster into a champion — as well as one of the best teams in NBA history.
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Menorah bong makes Hanukkah a “high holiday” / Boing Boing
“Fireworks,” a classic from 2009 by PES. Happy Independence Day! Advice from the Humane Society that might save your pet’s life.
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Android Wear’s new wrist gestures, explained with Drake GIFs | The Verge
Let us take a moment, before we get into the technical details, to praise the internet for finally recognizing the genius of Drake’s Hotline Bling video. Drake’s supremely self-assured moves confused us at first, but then we figured it out with the …
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Rubio and Cruz continue immigration tussle – BBC News
Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are both US senators, they’re both the children of Cuban immigrants, they’re both running for president, and they are both surging in the polls thanks to strong performances in Republican candidate debate…
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Jonathan Pollard, the navy intelligence analyst whose 1985 arrest for selling secrets to Israel set off a sensational spy saga, is scheduled to be released from federal prison next week, marking the end of a three-decade diplomatic burr in the relat…
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist.Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. The families and survivors of the Charleston massacre share their stories and talk about faith a…
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EVE Online Maker CCP Games Raises $30 Million For VR Games | TechCrunch
CCP Games, the company behind the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game EVE Online, just raised another $30 million from Novator and NEA. But this time, the funding round isn’t about supporting the 12-year-old MMORPG, it’s all about virtual …
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Mormons plan ‘mass resignation’ over policies for gay people – BBC News
The rules, which were not meant to be made public, say children living with a gay parent cannot be baptised until they are 18 and only when they renounce homosexuality. The new rules also say members can be expelled from the church if they enter int…
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Amherst Students Demand: No ‘Free Speech’ Signs or Else – The Daily Beast
Students protesting at Amherst College have issued a list of demands to administrators that includes excusing students from class for sit-ins and reprimanding those who put up posters touting free speech.
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Join Katy Perry, Robert Pattinson, and F.K.A. Twigs at the Coolest Tab | Vanity Fair
Ewan McGregor was in fine, sharply attired film at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel on Thursday night, but he didn’t start out that way. The star arrived at the GO Campaign charity fundraiser in full motorcycle gear, complete with leather messenger b…
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A Joni Mitchell–Inspired Cocktail for the Folk Goddess in All of Us | Vanity Fair
The great Joni Mitchell once noted that all romantics meet the same fate: cynical, drunk, and boring someone in a dark café.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Will Hear Case That Could Gut Roe V. Wade | ThinkProgress
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Cole v. Whole Woman’s Health, a case that presents a greater threat to a woman’s right to choose an abortion than any other that the Court has heard in the last 23 years.
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SINJAR, Iraq — Kurdish and Yazidi fighters retook Sinjar on Friday morning, on the second day of a major offensive to reclaim this city in northern Iraq, which has been under the brutal domination of the Islamic State for more than 15 months.
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Why Do Turkeys Cost What They Do? | Lucky Peach
How many times a year do you plop a whole turkey into your oven (or, if you’re adventurous, your deep fryer)? Chances are the answer is in the single digits.
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The Hunt for the Next ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Following: How We Live Online
Enough is enough. For too long, Americans have been using the “shruggie” — ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — for all of our emoticon needs. I say: No more.
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Utah Judge’s Reverses Order to Take Baby | Al Jazeera America
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Person Arrested After Threatening Black Students | Al Jazeera America
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Now I can slack off in advanced functions next semester. – Imgur
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How I imagine a lot of girlfriends are feeling this week. – GIF on Imgur
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Halo 5 drives Xbox One to the top selling spot in October | Ars Technica
While Sony continues to lead the overall sales battle with Microsoft, the power of big exclusives was apparent in October. According to Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, who leads the Xbox games marketing team, Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 in the U…
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Autism numbers are high, but new spike is linked to survey change | Ars Technica
In a 2014 national survey, the number of kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appeared to skyrocket, jumping nearly 80 percent from 2011-2013 figures.
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Ben Carson says he has better Syria ‘sources’ than White House or CIA
As are we all, I expect.
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Haitians Are Rising Up Against the Stolen Elections | The Nation
The unrest sweeping across Haiti in response to the rigged October 25 presidential election is a decisive repudiation of US foreign policy, and a particularly stinging rebuke to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is facing a growing backlash from Mormons upset about a new policy that bars children of same-sex parents from baby-naming ceremonies and baptisms, and declares members in gay marriages to be apostates…
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Good morning. Donald J. Trump’s attacks on his main rival, Ben Carson, took on a new dimension during a TV interview when he compared the neurosurgeon to a child molester.
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Unsupervised, Mobile and Wireless Brain Computer Interfaces on the Horizon – Scientific American
Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old paraplegic, kicked off the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo with a robotic exoskeleton suit that he wore and controlled with his mind. The event was broadcast internationally and served as a symbol of the exciting possibiliti…
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Brazil’s slow-motion environmental catastrophe unfolds | World news | The Guardian
Nine people are now confirmed dead, and a further 19 remain unaccounted for as a slow-motion environmental catastrophe continues to unfold following the collapse of two mining dams in Brazil’s mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais.
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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Judge: Internet broadcaster FilmOn isn’t a cable system | Ars Technica
Long after the demise of Aereo, FilmOn is still fighting to broadcast local TV channels over the Internet—despite repeated court losses.
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Canadian boy calls police on drink driving mother – BBC News
A nine-year-old Canadian boy phoned emergency services to report his mother drinking and driving while he was in the car, police have said.York Regional Police in Ontario said that they received a call from the boy, who told them his name, where he …
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Turn IKEA Cabinets into a Murphy Bed
A Murphy bed helps you save space: Pull it down when you need it, back up when you want to use the room for another purpose. Murphy beds are expensive, though. Make one yourself with IKEA cabinets.
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Virtual pop star Hatsune Miku is touring North America next year | The Verge
If you missed her last year, you’re in luck: Hatsune Miku’s coming back to North America. The virtual Japanese pop star announced a 2016 tour on Wednesday afternoon, one that includes eight shows in Canada and the US after a brief run through Japan.
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Photos of the Week: 11/07-11/13 – The Atlantic
McSleepers in Hong Kong, sturgeon in Iran, Kurdish soldiers in Syria, Diwali in New Delhi, a militant from the Bird Protection League, hit by a shovel in France, Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano, and much more.
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Dozens dead as ISIL claims attacks against Iraqi Shias – Al Jazeera English
At least 26 people have been killed and dozens injured in two separate attacks targeting Shias in Baghdad, Iraqi officials have said.
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Don’t Tell the Student Protestors at Yale to ‘Grow Up’ | The Nation
“Grow up.” That seems to be the main sentiment directed at student protestors at the University of Missouri and Yale this week from many quarters.
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Being president isn’t all fancy state dinners and private screenings of Star Wars.
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Keyboard waffle irons: now a thing you can buy / Boing Boing
Shut up and take my money, Lumio. Just shut right up and take it. Jesus! This is the best price I’ve seen on a 20000mAh USB portable charger. It’s $36, but if you use the promotion code Y4DFT2KK at checkout you can buy it for $18 (at least it was $1…
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How Accurate Is The Old Farmer’s Almanac? – The Atlantic
Before the Internet—and I mean long, long, long before the Internet—an almanac was a radical, high-tech object.
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Shortly after Samira Wenzel graduated from high school in 1979, her father, an Iranian architect turned filmmaker named Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, forbade her from seeing a young man he disapproved of. When she disobeyed him, he took her Datsun B21…
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What We’re Following Friday Afternoon, 11/13 – The Atlantic
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Remember that big dance party scene in Zion from The Matrix Reloaded? Wouldn’t it have been better—much better, really—if it had been acted out by dozens of little smiley faces, lightning bolts, fruits, or international flags? That is the thinking b…
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Today marks a huge milestone for Digg. Three reasons: First, because we’ve closed a $4 million Series A investment from Digital Garage. Second, because Digg has a new CEO, Gary Liu. Third, because Digg is leaving the betaworks nest and moving into i…
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ABC doesn’t want any gay stuff on its fancy dancing show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Now in Season 21, ABC’s Dancing With The Stars continues to be a wedding reception for former theater-camp nerds masquerading as network television.
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NASA: “First Pulsar Ever Discovered Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy” https://t.co/z2J8AgrPJ3 https://t.co/MSkjOmtffo
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First Alien-Planet Weather System Discovered and Mapped: “5400 MPH Winds!” https://t.co/XValIFcAih https://t.co/R1rHOKdZAU
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LLVM to get FORTRAN compiler that targets parallel GPUs in clusters | Ars Technica
Today, the US Department of Energy announced that it had established a partnership with NVIDIA that would be enhancing the LLVM compiler collection. The goal will be to port an existing FORTRAN compiler that targets massively parallel GPUs.
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Art is a technology / Boing Boing
In a characteristically thought-provoking longread on Ribbonfarm (previously) Haley Thurston concludes her Better Art Vocabulary series by arguing that art is a technology, that it moves through technical innovation, and that innovation can be syste…
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Alex Hales struck his maiden ODI century to lead England to a 95-run win over Pakistan in the second ODI, levelling the series at 1-1. England’s total of 283-5 was built on Hales’ 109 off 117 balls, supported by Jason Roy (54) and Joe Root (63).
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Barack Obama wants you to know that he did not sing ‘Freak on a Leash.’ | New Republic
Related: You’re probably also a bad person, but that’s no biggie. You’re hardly alone in that regard, humans being what we are. Here’s the tagline for a link to its job application page, which I’m not sharing: “Become a heartbreaker.” Creativity!
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Gmail Android App Bug Lets You Send Emails Pretending To Be Someone Else | Motherboard
An unusual bug in Gmail’s Android app allows anyone to make their email look like it was sent by someone else, and might open the door to dangerous phishing emails. The flaw was discovered by independent security researcher Yan Zhu, who reported it …
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Modi visit: Indian PM addresses crowds at Wembley Stadium – BBC News
Indian PM Narendra Modi opened his speech to a crowd of about 60,000 people at Wembley Stadium with the words: “Good evening Wembley”. The event is designed to celebrate the Indian diaspora’s contribution to the UK economy, and the Indian PM was int…
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Cards Against Humanity’s 8 Sensible Gifts for Hannukah / Boing Boing
Joel Hodgson is Kickstarting a reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 The creator of the groundbreaking, snarf-inducing TV show (which featured robot-puppets adding a snarky running commentary to some of the worst movies ever made, ever) is bringing…
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US offers support – but Tunisians need more than money – Al Jazeera English
US Secretary of State John Kerry spent less than a day in Tunisia, in a brief visit that was about reminding Tunisians that Washington hasn’t forgotten their country’s massive economic and security problems. The impact of the violence in neighbourin…
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“The Art of War” Has Sleepy Hollow’s Goofiest Action Sequence Yet
It’s been a while since Sleepy Hollow had the old-fashioned-serial momentum of season one, but darn it if “The Art of War” isn’t trying. Jenny being possessed by a demon has never been such brisk fun!
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SXSW Announces More Speakers at Harassment Summit, Relocates Gamergate Panel | Motherboard
SXSW has updated its day-long summit about combating online harassment, relocating a panel featuring supporters of GamerGate to a different day and adding nine more anti-harassment speakers.
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Creators of Fake ‘Tinder for Fighting’ App Are ‘Disappointed’ It Went Viral | Motherboard
Rumblr, an unreleased Tinder-style app for finding people to “throw down” with, set the internet on fire for all of four days last week before the unbelievable tale ended in the absolute worst way possible: the whole thing was a stunt cooked up by a…
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“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by preju…
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Gorgeous glass cabinets of curiosity / Boing Boing
Danish artist Steffen Dam creates exquisite, minimalist “cabinets of curiosity” fashioned from glass and containing specimens of his own creation.
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Ronda Rousey Is Fighting The Anti-Ronda Rousey | FiveThirtyEight
Ronda Rousey fights like an outlier. The world’s premier female mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter will defend her bantamweight title against Holly Holm this weekend in Australia, and the fight will be a study in opposites. Let’s start with the obviou…
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Facebook won’t remove photo of children tricked into posing for neo-facist group / Boing Boing
The mother a 13-year-old girl has been unable to get Facebook to remove a photo that her daughter and a 12-year-old friend were tricked into having taken, which is being used to promote the violent neo-fascist group Britain First.
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Trump, Carson, and a Very Strange Week – The Atlantic
Wasn’t this supposed to be the week that the presidential race stabilized? The furor over debate hosting was dead—or at least dormant. The Republican debate in Milwaukee was long on policy and short on personal conflict, and it didn’t seem to offer …
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Google Play Books gets more comic book friendly with new horizontal mode | Ars Technica
A new update for Google Play is showing comic book readers some love. This week, the Google Play Books app added a new horizontal mode specifically for comic book readers.
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Border Patrol hits pause on body camera plans | The Verge
US Customs and Border Protection is slowing down plans to expand its use of body cameras, giving the project further review after a report said the cameras “tend to provide limited effectiveness.” The commissioner of the agency, R.
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Lawmakers Back Senate Cafeteria Union Drive | Al Jazeera America
After months of publicly demanding union recognition, the people who serve U.S. senators their crab cakes and curry spiced salmon have won the support of some of their most powerful customers.
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These Will Be the 10 Busiest Airports Over the Thanksgiving Travel Period
You can expect the airports to be pretty crowded around this time of year, but some will be considerably worse than others. Orbitz rounded up the ten airports expected to be the busiest on Thanksgiving this year.
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NASCAR Meets the Paranormal in Terry Gilliam’s Short Film, The Legend of Hallowdega | Open Culture
I think we here at Open Culture can freely own up to a deficiency in our content: despite its outsized presence in American culture, we’ve really neglected to post much about NASCAR.
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Google launches Chrome beta for iOS with 3D Touch support | The Verge
Google will now let iOS users test a beta version of Chrome, as the company today quietly added support for the iPhone and iPad to its list of test platforms.
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Verizon resurrects activation fees because you’re not already giving it enough money | The Verge
According to a report from Droid Life this week, Verizon will so bring back the dreaded activation fee when you sign up for service from the carrier.
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Russian athletics will co-operate “in any way” to prove it is clean, says Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko. Athletics’ governing body is discussing what action to take against Russia after they were accused of “state-sponsored doping”.
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Secret Service officer accused of sexting teen while on duty at White House | Ars Technica
A uniformed Secret Service officer has been charged with sexting who he thought was a 14-year-old girl—and some of the online communications originated from the White House where he often checked identification at the entrance, according to court re…
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CoreOS Launches Clair, An Open-Source Tool For Monitoring Container Security | TechCrunch
CoreOS, the company behind the popular lightweight Linux distribution for data center deployments with the same name, has recently made a big bet on containers.
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While the world awaits the resurgence of the Creed name in the sport of boxing, it’s always good to take a step back and remember what brought us to now.
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For big-budget films, there’s a cycle of teasers, trailers, and TV spots that can be observed and measured like tree rings.
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Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC | Ars Technica
Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person’s online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers.
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The Divergent Series: Allegiant Trailer Ups the Action and High Tech Designs
The first trailer for The Divergent Series: Allegiant is here and, even if you haven’t seen the first two films, you’re probably going to want to check it out. It’s chock full of gorgeous looking sci-fi weapons, vehicles, environments and a whole ne…
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The Amazing History Of Air Refueling – YouTube
The first air-to-air refueling took place on this day in 1921. This video explains its evolution throughout history.
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Austria to Build Fence on Slovenia Border | Al Jazeera America
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Startup uses ultrasound chirps to covertly link and track all your devices / Boing Boing
Silverpush, a startup that’s just received $1.
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Friday Freak-Out: Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz” (1969) / Boing Boing
Dutch psych-rockers Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz,” from their 1969 LP At Home. Far fucking out. Nirvana famously covered the song as their first single in 1988 and it later appeared on Bleach. Below, Shocking Blue play their hit “Venus” that topped th…
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Growing up in Ithaca, many people thought that they possessed some sort of “colorblindness”. There is a belief that, no matter your color, everyone is of equal stature.
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Stephen Colbert: What Is Art? What Is Porn? / Boing Boing
Courtney Brown’s sculpture “Self Organization” adds gorgeous brass tentacles to an Underwood Noiseless typewriter, for an effect that’s fantastic, seeming to surface some latent, Naked Lunch-ish truth about the hard-carapaced writing machines of the…
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Belgium ice festival complains of warm November – BBC News
Organisers of an ice sculpture festival in Bruges, Belgium, say higher than average temperatures are causing their energy bills to soar. Ice Magic’s managing director Francis Vandendorpe told Associated Press that the cooling bill would be €10,000 (…
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, November 13th – The New Yorker
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Why Rick Alverson Is So Intent on Making Movies That Are Never Resolve | Vanity Fair
Rick Alverson is one of American independent cinema’s uniquely unflinching newer voices. His 2012 drama, The Comedy, cast cult comedian Tim Heidecker in an unsettling probe of ubiquitous contemporary irony-culture. His new oddity, Entertainment, sta…
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Cop who unplugged his cam before killing a 19-year-old girl is rehired / Boing Boing
Albuquerque police officer Jeremy Dear was ordered to wear a body-camera after many of the city’s residents complained about their encounters with him. Afterward, he routinely failed to plug in the camera. His camera was not running when he shot and…
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Utah judge reverses order to take foster baby away from same-sex couple | US news | The Guardian
Judge Scott Johansen signed an order, which was released on Friday, that will allow the nine-month-old baby to stay with April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce, a married couple who live in the city of Price.
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How to read Reddit at work without getting caught / Boing Boing
Jon says: “Corporate Avoidance is a free program we designed to unshackle you by taking advantage of the necessary evils of life as an editor.
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Holy Cow, Home Alone Is 25! | Chicago magazine | December 2015
On August 8, 1989, my father, John Hughes, jotted down in a notebook a movie idea, born of traveler’s anxiety, that occurred to him during the bustle of departing for our first family trip to Europe, and set it aside.
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Will These Robots Save the World? | GQ
Could the planet’s next catastrophe be averted by R2-D2? That’s the idea behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a robot Olympiad designed to create autonomous machines that can go where no man can or should go—nuclear disaster sites, minefields, Monta…
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Instructure Up 8% From IPO, CEO Sees “Huge Renaissance” in EdTech | TechCrunch
Instructure, the Utah-based educational technology company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. After pricing at $16, shares were up 8% by early afternoon trading. Instructure builds educational software for both K-12 education and…
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Gay Talese cares nothing for your virtual reality machine. | New Republic
Related: You’re probably also a bad person, but that’s no biggie. You’re hardly alone in that regard, humans being what we are. Here’s the tagline for a link to its job application page, which I’m not sharing: “Become a heartbreaker.” Creativity!
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Why Humans Won’t Go Beyond Mars – Scientific American
In his new book, the founding Executive Director of the Planetary Society contends that humans will make it to Mars, but robots will go much farther.
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Where to Get Exactly What You Need for Your Home Improvement Projects
We live in a gilded age of home improvement, when we have virtually everything we need to build and repair a home just a short drive or keystroke away. Still, should you shop at a big box store? A specialty shop? Online? Here’s how to find exactly w…
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Stary’s Electric Skateboard Is Super Light And Super Cool | TechCrunch
Electric skateboards are cool — that’s official — but they come ten-a-penny these days. If you want to find a good one, China is the place to look. But don’t worry, we went there and did the searching for you.
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Slade House, the latest offering from the Man Booker prizewinner David Mitchell, presented critics with a challenge: was this haunted house story a fantasy fright fest, or real literature? Could it, indeed, be both? “Even critically acclaimed author…
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In Living Color literally hit people over the head · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ new Netflix series With Bob And David has us thinking about our favorite episodes of our favorite sketch sh…
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Kendrick Lamar imbues a root vegetable with literary meaning · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: some great songs with prominent literary references. Kendrick Lamar is known for his dense lyrics, which can be interpreted in a number of ways.
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Watchwith Raises $8M For Its In-Program Video Ads | TechCrunch
Wachwith, a startup offering an alternative to the standard pre-roll and mid-roll ads that delay or interrupt online videos, has raised $8 million in Series B funding.
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Would you pay to have a tech company break up with your boyfriend via text? | New Republic
Related: You’re probably also a bad person, but that’s no biggie. You’re hardly alone in that regard, humans being . Here’s the tagline for a link to its job application page, which I’m not sharing: “Become a heartbreaker.” Creativity!
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Iconic 1960s spaceship house now a venue for discussing the future / Boing Boing
Craig Barnes, a grad student at Central St Martins in Kings Cross, London, bought and refurbished one of the last 60 Futuro houses, originally designed in the 1960s as modular ski chalets by famed Finnish architect Matti Suuronen.
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Adele song Hello goes platinum after three weeks – BBC News
Adele’s comeback single Hello has achieved platinum sales status three weeks after it was released. The chart-topping song has sold more than 600,000 copies, earning it a commendation from the British Phonographic Industry.
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A New Laser Could Make Materials Hotter Than the Sun Almost Instantly
Ever feel like an insanely high powered laser could solve your problems? Fusion researchers sure do! And now, they may have the blueprint they’ve been searching for.
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Nico Rosberg set the pace in second practice at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after losing out to team-mate Lewis Hamilton in the first session. The German was 0.458 seconds quicker than Hamilton, who had a similar advantage in the morning.
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Hologram pop star embarks on a North American tour · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Get ready for a day just like any other, because we’ve learned that a soulless, pre-programmed, one-dimensional pop star is going on tour. Of course, unlike 75 percent of the other pop stars on the Billboard Top 200, this singer has a good excuse.
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Mizzou’s Racial Gap Is Typical On College Campuses | FiveThirtyEight
Thousands of college students across the country on Thursday joined protests demanding that their schools do more to address racism and discrimination on campus. Students at many campuses are calling for an increase in the diversity of faculty and m…
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U.S. Army Col. Steven Warren Says ISIS spokesman “Jihadi John” is likely dead. | New Republic
Ben Carson is far and away the most personally popular candidate in the GOP race.
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Jennifer Lawrence: A Trump Presidency Would Be ‘the End of the World’ | Rolling Stone
Jennifer Lawrence: A Trump Presidency Would Be the ‘End of the World’ “I just can’t imagine supporting a party that doesn’t support women’s basic rights,” Lawrence tells ‘Vogue’
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Ringo Starr Auction Features ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ Drums | Rolling Stone
Ringo Starr and his wife, actress Barbara Bach, have collected over 1,200 items from their residencies in London, Beverly Hills and Monaco for a Julien’s Live auction that will take place on December 4th and 5th.
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“Death experience” school puts people in coffins to make them appreciate life / Boing Boing
In South Korea, where the rate of suicide is on the rise, a former funeral director has established a “death experience” therapy center to help people understand the benefits of not killing yourself.
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Flashback: ‘Walk the Line’ Puts Johnny Cash’s Life on the Big Screen | Rolling Stone
Country music biopics are a rarity for Hollywood, and high-quality country biopics that are also a hit at the box office are “scarcer than hen’s teeth,” as June Carter Cash might have put it.
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The reason the Star Wars movies were released 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 / Boing Boing
Makes me want to hop on a fucking plane to NYC right now. (mediocrefilms) Rocky’s 1984 defeat of Ivan Drago was a singular moment in professional boxing that had massive cultural and political implications. “If I can change, and you can change, ever…
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Here’s what you can fight now that Keystone XL is dead | Grist
In just a few months, his holiness achieved what environmental activists have been trying to do for years. Scientists say that the melting Zachariae Isstrom glacier may raise sea levels by 1.6 feet.
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Hospitals are patient zero for the Internet of Things infosec epidemic / Boing Boing
As I have often noted, medical devices have terrifyingly poor security models, even when compared to the rest of the nascent Internet of Things, where security is, at best, an afterthought (at worst, it’s the enemy!).
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Silicon City: New York’s forgotten role in the history of computers | The Verge
When you think of the history of computers, it’s easy to mentally jump right into the garages and basements of Silicon Valley, or even the Silicon Prairie of Texas that is so moodily depicted in Halt and Catch Fire. You probably don’t, however, imme…
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US officials ‘reasonably certain’ that Raqqa strike killed Mohammed Emwazi | UK news | The Guardian
US officials say they are “reasonably confident” that a drone strike killed the Islamic State executioner Mohammed Emwazi, describing the British militant as a “human animal”.
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Why Missouri Is Hosting a Major Retrospective of Winston Churchill’s P | Vanity Fair
We Missourians feel a connection to Winston Churchill.
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The Iowa Hawkeyes Are Perfect, But That’s Not Good Enough | Rolling Stone
I realize that at this point in the season, any kind of debate over the College Football Playoff standings is the polemic equivalent of taking a Louisville Slugger to a field of scarecrows.
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This long interview with former Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher is a goldmine of rock star swagger, a master class in not giving a shit, and the dictionary definition of unfiltered. I mean: Am I aware of a hierarchy? I’m aware that Radiohead have ne…
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London’s Barbican Center: The World of Charles and Ray Eames – 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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The 7 Craziest Things Trump Said Last Night | Vanity Fair
On Thursday night, a disheveled-looking Donald Trump wandered 40 minutes late to a campaign event in Fort Dodge, Iowa, gave a meandering, 95-minute-long speech to a crowd gathered there, and left the political media wondering if Trump had actually, …
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Tor Attack Could Unmask New Hidden Sites in Under Two Weeks | Motherboard
A research project conducted by Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) could have unmasked newly-launched Tor hidden services in just two weeks, according to a source familiar with SEI’s work.
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The Art of Dying: Inside the Devastating Drama ‘James White’ | Rolling Stone
He’s a fuck-up, but he’s here now, mopping the sweat off his mother’s forehead, carrying her frail body to the bathroom — “like a princess,” he jokes — doing everything he can to make it through the night with her.
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How Much a Down Payment Costs in 34 Different Metro Areas in the U.S.
Your home down payment is a big chunk of change. And it can be even bigger depending on where you live. Forbes lists the average cost of a 20% down payment in 34 major metro areas. Using data from Zillow, Forbes found the average prices for all home…
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The Upcoming Toho Godzilla Movie Will Feature The Biggest Godzilla Ever
Godzilla fans know that, eventually, they’re going to see him fight King Kong in a few big budget American movies. But those are several years out. Before that, Godzilla’s creators Toho have a new movie coming out and several details have just been …
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Green Roofs: Sow, Grow, Repeat | Life and style | The Guardian
Green roofs are sprouting up all over the place but what’s the point of putting plants on top of buildings?
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8 in 10 Hotel Workers Have Been Harassed at Work | The Nation
From the plump cloud of down bedding to the sparkling bathroom, a luxury hotel wraps guests in lush serenity, bearing no hint of the work that went into scrubbing the toilet and flipping the mattress.
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‘How ISIS Spread in the Middle East’: David Ignatius Responds – The Atlantic
My thanks to the authors of the three thoughtful responses to my Atlantic essay on “how ISIS spread in the Middle East,” and to the scores of people who have contacted me directly about it. Writing about this topic is painful, and properly so: It is…
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15 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week saw headlines about the iPad Pro becoming available for pre-order, the New York strikedown of fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings and a new Facebook app that could pose a threat to Twitter.
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Enjoy this fucking tour of fucking New York City / Boing Boing
Rocky’s 1984 defeat of Ivan Drago was a singular moment in professional boxing that had massive cultural and political implications. “If I can change, and you can change, everyone can change!” (College Humor) An internet classic from 2011. “Don’t wo…
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Ben Carson is far and away the most personally popular candidate in the GOP race.
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Drunk parents appear as grotesque monsters in this creepy PSA / Boing Boing
This video was made by Finland-based Fragile Childhood, “an awareness-raising campaign, which aims to reduce parents’ use of alcohol by helping them understand the harm it causes to children.
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Extreme weather, human error and why the world floods | Environment | The Guardian
Hein Thi Tran’s house in southern Vietnam floods several times a year. When she and her husband built it 15 years ago in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi, it was protected from the sea by a low dyke.
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Israelis killed in West Bank as Palestinians shot dead – BBC News
They were shot in their car near the settlement of Otniel, in the deadliest such attack for over a month. It comes amid a surge in attacks, mainly stabbings, on Israelis since the beginning of October.
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Green news roundup: rising seas, the road to Paris and wonky veg | Environment | The Guardian
Environment news Features and comment On the blogs Multimedia And finally … Too slow to ripen or too squidgy and brown inside, avocados often end up getting chucked on to the UK’s food waste mountain.
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Read This: Ah—a lovely Home Alone oral history, just for you · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
James Hughes is a Chicago-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, and Grantland.
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What’s Emma Watson’s First Reaction When She Watches the First Harry Potter Movie? | Vanity Fair
We all know what it’s like to be confronted with a relic from our past: an all-lower-case e-mail sent at 1:30 A.M. in college, a picture from middle school in which you’re wearing JNCOs and an Abercrombie sweater, a video tape from an elementary-sch…
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Kurds Retake Sinjar From ISIS, Almost Too Easily – The Daily Beast
NEAR SINJAR, IRAQ — On the morning of the offensive to clear ISIS from Sinjar City, the thud of airstrikes shook the earth as the Kurdish peshmerga fighters headed into battle. The sky was clear and the bonfires that the men had huddled around the n…
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The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence | WIRED
When I fly, I like to get a window seat. This is a poor option if you plan on going to the toilet, but it’s great if you like to look at stuff. I think that’s a fair trade off. In a recent flight, I had a nice view of the wing.
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What’s next from the chef known for flavors so bold it feels like someone’s filming a slasher flick in your gut? Why, $75-a-bottle red wine, of course! But Guy Fieri isn’t planting grapes just because he digs “bomb-ass Pinot.” (His words, not ours.)…
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Ar ar humor: Generating jokes algorithmically with Wolfram Mathematica / Boing Boing
Kathryn Cramer writes, “Jesse Friedman, age 14, has developed some code for getting Wolfram Language to tell a few jokes. Although most of WL’s jokes are not funny, the generative language tools are an interesting toy.”
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Utah officials challenge judge’s lesbian parents ruling – BBC News
State officials in Utah are challenging a judge’s decision to move a baby away from its lesbian foster parents and place it with a heterosexual couple. Judge Scott Johansen said it was for the child’s “well-being” to be with heterosexual parents.
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No more waiting in vain for Iraq’s displaced Yazidis – Al Jazeera English
Cars and vans stretch out across the road as far as the eye can see. They remain parked on the side of the road. None of them move, yet they remain pointed in the direction of Sinjar town, the place that was once home.
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Digg Raises $4M Series A From Betaworks Backer Digital Garage | TechCrunch
More interesting developments for Digg, the Internet curation site that was founded way back in 2004 but was acquired and relaunched by Betaworks in 2012. The site has announced a “Series A” of $4 million, and it has named its COO Gary Liu as new CE…
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong To Speak At Disrupt London | TechCrunch
Tim Armstong has had a busy year. Back in May, AOL (owner of TechCrunch) got acquired by giant U.S. carrier Verizon for $4.4 billion. While AOL is now a subsidiary of Verizon, Armstrong said that he would continue to head up AOL after the deal was c…
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Rumanian Punishment Gifts / Boing Boing
You did it! You! The hero! I prefer to be hands-free. So I bought the Runnur Hands free Carry-all and tried out the Pacsafe Venturesafe 150 Gll cross body pack. I prefer the Runnur due to its everyday utility, but the Pacsafe is more secure and bett…
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EU to give 7m euros in fight against olive tree killer – BBC News
The European Commission says it will provide seven million euros (£5m) to fund research into a disease that poses a “very serious threat” to olive trees. The announcement was made at a scientific workshop in Brussels that focused on the most effecti…
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Everyone’s Favorite Cajun Superhero, Gambit, Gets A New Director
The Gambit movie may finally be in place. After one director left the project, another one is about to sign on. And it’s someone with not only geek cred, but plenty of blockbuster experience. It’s Doug Liman, the director of Edge of Tomorrow, The Bo…
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‘Nasty’ Bug In MetroPCS Website Left Personal Data of Subscribers Open To Hacker | Motherboard
Until this month, if you were one of the more than 10 million MetroPCS subscribers, anyone who knew your phone number could easily get all your personal information from the company’s website, including your home address, your type of plan, and even…
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Doctors Could Use Snot Instead of Blood for Diagnostics—Why Don’t They? | Motherboard
I started out researching this article because I thought it would be funny to shine a scientific light on snot. What do the shades and viscosity mean? How do humans produce so much of it?
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Darwin Deez- The Mess She Made on Vimeo
Money Face Big ups to the insane depth of field we needed on this one. f/22 all the way. Director- Oscar Hudson Producer- Aaron Z. Willson Production Company- Bad Director of Photography- Ruben Woodin-Dechamps Art Director- Oliver Hogan Editor- Osca…
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It’s no exaggeration to say that the next six months will determine the viability of the Republican Party. The demographics of this country are changing. This will be the last presidential election cycle in which the G.O.P., in its current form, has…
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I Met C-3PO And Learned About His Raggedy-Ass Costume — Ratter — “Ratter”
Daniels explained how the new C-3PO ensemble for The Force Awakens is way more advanced than the old one. “They have remade the costume for me to look exactly the same, but used 3D printing,” he explained, “which means you can prototype very, very q…
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An apology to Shia LaBeouf — Hopes&Fears — flow “Art”
There isn’t a doubt in my mind that LaBeouf is performing for the camera while he’s live streaming himself watching his films. But it’s the best kind of performance. Around this time last year, I wrote a piece called “Shia LaBeouf Stars In Performan…
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Automate the boring stuff with Python – great book for beginners / Boing Boing
When I was a mechanical engineer in the late 1980s I used Microsoft QuickBASIC to write and create simple programs for work. I loved it. It was a compiled BASIC, too, so it was speedy. I used it to recreate a lot of the programs from Rudy Rucker’s C…
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SXSW removes Gamergate panel from harassment summit | The Verge
SXSW has brought a key panel back to its summit on online harassment: the panel on overcoming harassment in gaming that it originally canceled following threats of violence. At the same time, SXSW is also pushing the Gamergate-related panel that was…
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TIME Magazine Charleston Shooting Cover Story
On the night of June 17, a gunman opened fire in a church basement in Charleston. Nine people died. Five survived. Survivors and families tell their stories of faith and forgiveness He did not kiss her goodbye that day.
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Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI files / Boing Boing
Michael from Muckrock writes, “Mr. Russell Jones. Maybe the name doesn’t ring any bells for you. On February 3, 1999, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation first ran their records on him, there were over a thousand people that made that match. In…
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Cop pulls over Google self-driving car, finds no driver to ticket / Boing Boing
A police officer pulled over a Google self-driving car yesterday because it was going only 24 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone. But the car had no driver, so he could not issue a ticket. The officer asked the human passenger why the car decided to dr…
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Ultrathin Graphene Could Improve Night Vision Tech – Scientific American
Night-vision windshields on cars might one day be possible with advanced thermal imaging technology based on flexible, transparent, atomically thin sheets of carbon, researchers say. Thermal imaging lets people see the invisible infrared rays that o…
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Microsoft’s new PowerPoint tools make your presentations way less boring | The Verge
It’s not a secret that PowerPoint presentations can be really, really dull. The last thing you want on a Friday afternoon is a bland slide deck and transitions from the 1990s, so Microsoft is trying to make things a lot less boring.
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NCIS star Pauley Perrette attacked outside LA home – BBC News
NCIS star Pauley Perrette – who plays lab technician Abby Sciuto in the hit US drama – was attacked outside her Hollywood home on Thursday night. The actress, who was hit in the face several times, told Twitter followers she thought she was going to…
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I-Spy Surveillance Books: a child’s first Snoopers Charter / Boing Boing
A timely entry from the Scarfolk blog, which documents the doings in a small, sinister English town caught in a loop between 1970 and 1979: the I-Spy Surveillance books, which “transformed the tedium of surveillance into play, encouraging children t…
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US shoppers remain cautious despite slight rise in retail sales | Business | The Guardian
The economy might be faring better this year, but that does not mean Americans will be going all out this holiday season, according to the latest economic data. US retail sales barely went up, thanks to a lower-than-expected car sales in October, da…
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BREAKING: Alabama Agrees To Comply With Voter Registration Law, Two Decades Late | ThinkProgress
On Friday morning, the Alabama and the federal Justice Department reached an agreement to bring the state in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), a law passed in 1993 requiring states to make it easier and more convenient for …
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New Report Reveals Bush Administration Ignored Dire Pre-9/11 Warning | ThinkProgress
An explosive new report in Politico reveals that the Bush administration ignored a dire, pre-9/11 warning that al-Qaeda was planning to strike inside the United States. The August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), “Bin Laden Determined To Strike …
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Athletics doping scandal: Kenya to establish agency – BBC News
Kenya’s government has approved the immediate establishment of an anti-doping agency. It comes amid turmoil in athletics, with Russia accused of “state-sponsored doping” in a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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There are lots of things Spike Trotman is good at: drawing, telling stories, curating a collection of sex-positive erotic comics directed at women and running a small business called Iron Circus Comics, which has become Chicago’s largest independent…
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American football is played on a rectangle, but movies about it can sure be square. My All American is the fourth low-budget wide-release faith-based picture set on the gridiron since Where the Game Stands Tall in August 2014.
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In this week’s podcast we look at the writing of three remarkable women. At a Guardian Live event, Edna O’Brien talks about a 55-year career that began in scandal with the publication of The Country Girls in 1960 and now finds her garlanded with int…
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Court orders state to restore Jerry Sandusky’s Penn State pension | US news | The Guardian
The state must restore the $4,900-a-month pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away three years ago when he was sentenced to decades in prison on child molestation convictions, a court ordered Friday. “…
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Iraqi Kurd leader declares Sinjar ‘liberated’ from ISIL – Al Jazeera English
Massud Barzani, the president of the Iraqi Kurdish region, has announced the “liberation” of the town of Sinjar in a major operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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CHESTER, PA—Slowly rotating the deep-fried strip of white meat to consider every possible angle from which it could be dunked, local man Brian Oakley is, according to sources, currently searching for a part of his chicken tender thin enough to fit i…
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Who Is Number 1? You Are, Because It’s Our Friday Gif Party!
It’s that time of the week when we all escape! From work! So here’s Number 6 himself, Patrick McGoohan from The Prisoner, to help us make a break for it! Yes, it’s time for the weekly io9 GIF PARTY!!!!
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TTIP trade talks: Germany urges US to let MPs see texts – BBC News
The German government has urged American authorities to give German MPs access to key documents in the EU-US trade negotiations known as TTIP. The request came amid widespread opposition to the confidential talks, which are aimed at creating the wor…
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Report: India leads world in Facebook content censoring – Al Jazeera English
India tops the list of countries censoring content on Facebook, new data by the social media giant has shown, as the number of restrictions tripled to 15,155 pieces of content in the first six months of this year.
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Doug Liman is now directing Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For a few months now, Channing Tatum’s X-men spinoff Gambit has been without a director.
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First Play: Bob Dylan’s Prank Phone Calls – The New Yorker
Last week, in a Greenwich Village apartment, a realtor uncovered forty-two acetate recordings of what appeared to be the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan making prank phone calls. On Tuesday, Dylan confirmed that these were indeed his work.
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A Lonely Galaxy – Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Gorin (STScI) https://t.co/E1mpOVkrKF
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The US Still Hands Out $20 Billion a Year to Fossil Fuel Companies | Motherboard
The US Still Hands Out $20 Billion a Year to Fossil Fuel Companies https://t.co/LjlOxIMsJF
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‘WTF’ Space Junk Meets Fiery Demise as Scientists Watch (Video)
The mysterious space junk WT1190F fell from the sky this morning, and scientists had a flying, ringside seat as the object burned up in multicolored fireballs.
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Rapidly Melting Glacier Has Enough Mass To Raise Sea Levels By Nearly 2 Feet | ThinkProgress
Say goodbye to the beaches of your youth. A massive glacier in Greenland is on the very verge of collapse, researchers have found. From 1996 to 2010, the edge of the glacier lost 2.2 miles into the ocean. But over just the next five years, it lost a…
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The GOP brass think Hillary is a much safer bet than their own frontrunners. | New Republic
Ben Carson is far and away the most personally popular candidate in the GOP race.
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The Mindfulness Coloring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People Volume 2 / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. The Mindfulness Coloring Book came out last January by London-based illustrator Emma Farrarons, and it immediately sold out and became a national bestseller.
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Volkswagen car sales fall more than 5% in wake of emissions scandal | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen car sales fell worldwide last month as the German carmaker counted the cost of the emissions rigging scandal. VW sold 5.3% fewer models last month compared with a year earlier, with its Czech brand Škoda down 2.7% and Spanish marque Seat …
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Ben Carson is far and away the most personally popular candidate in the GOP race.
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I arrived in New York in 2008, in the midst of a bitterly fought election campaign. When Barack Obama declared victory, I was standing at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, the historic heart of Harlem, as part of an em…
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How ‘Home Alone’ Ruined John Hughes – The Atlantic
In a three-year period during the 1980s, John Hughes solidified his place as the great teller of adolescent tales on film.
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Ben Carson is far and away the most personally popular candidate in the GOP race.
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The Dubious Ethics Of One Deadly Drone Attack, Exposed | ThinkProgress
The CIA’s targeted killing program has long been shrouded in secrecy.
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Airborne observers track space junk as it breaks up over Sri Lanka | Ars Technica
Clouds prevented residents of Sri Lanka from spying a 1-meter piece of space junk falling into the Indian Ocean on Friday. Some scientists in the sky got a better view, as the United Arab Emirates sponsored an airborne observing campaign to study th…
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Milan security stepped up after Israeli Jew stabbed – BBC News
Italy has boosted security at Jewish sites in Milan after an Israeli Jew was stabbed in the city, officials said. The victim, identified as Nathan Graff, was knifed multiple times by an unknown assailant on Thursday. His injuries are not life-threat…
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That “Mysterious Object” on a Collision Course with Earth Just Burned In Our Atmosphere
I wasn’t worried. Were you worried? The Earth’s most infamous hunk of space trash, a rather-large object by the apt-name of WT1190F, has been thwarting astronomers since they first got a glimpse of it back in October.
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Six killed as ‘Ukrainian’ helicopter crashes in Slovakia – BBC News
They say the Mi-2 turbine-powered helicopter went down near Slovakia’s border with Ukraine, the eastern frontier of the European Union. Reports in Slovak media say the pilot may have been flying dangerously low in foggy weather to avoid being detect…
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First Play: Bob Dylan’s Prank Phone Calls – The New Yorker
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Three notable culture jammers joined Negativland’s Don Joyce in 2010 for a Beatles-themed episode of his radio show, Over the Edge. It’s a wonderful thing. For three straight hours, Phineas Narco of the Church of the Subgenius, Mark “TradeMark G.
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Tantalum, a beautiful, browser based ray-tracer / Boing Boing
Tantalum is a 2D ray tracer that runs in the browser. Just click anywhere in the scene and watch those rays go a-scatterin’ through the simulated optics. You can reconfigure the contents of the scene, the light emission spectrum, and much else besid…
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Google today is expanding its Local Guides program – the company’s answer to Yelp’s Elites, which encourages and rewards users for providing information on area businesses, including reviews, photos, and other details.
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The Productivity Obsession – The Atlantic
In the hotel room as in the office, productivity increasingly stands as the default measure of accomplishment. Rest and relaxation are optional affordances against the expectation that workers make profitable use of their time.
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A 19th-Century Newspaper and a New Kind of Mental-Health Treatment – The Atlantic
On a 17-acre plot adjacent to the University of Alabama were a farm, a corn crib, a stable, and a building to house the people who kept all of those things running.
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Origin of Earth’s Water: “Part of Our Planet from the Beginning”
Water covers more than two-thirds of Earth’s surface, but its exact origins are still something of a mystery. Scientists have long been uncertain whether water was present at the formation of the planet, or if it arrived later, perhaps carried by co…
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The NFL Gets Paid For Patriotism, Fines Player For Wearing Patriotic Cleats | ThinkProgress
After fining players multiple times this season for honoring their deceased parents, the NFL has found another uniform violation to crack down on: patriotic cleats.
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Ben Carson stands by ‘best friend’ who pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud | US news | The Guardian
Ben Carson is continuing to stand by his business associate and “best friend” Alfonso Costa following revelations that Costa pleaded guilty in federal court in 2007 to healthcare fraud.
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Afghans Set Aside Ethinic Differences, Join To Protest Beheading Of 9-Year-Old Girl | ThinkProgress
Protests raged across Afghanistan after seven people, including a 9-year-old girl, were beheaded by militants who claimed to have ties to ISIS in the southern province of Zabul.
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Donald Trump has made a huge mistake. | New Republic
In Alabama, where Democrats hold exactly zero statewide offices, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he is “looking at” embracing the Medicaid expansion, according to the Associated Press: “I am concerned about the plight of the working poor …
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On Heroes Reborn, the Heroes Have Already Screwed Everything Up
Hey, remember how in the last two episodes, Hiro kept fussing at HRG to not change things while they were hanging out in the past, and HRG kept screwing with the timeline anyways? Well, turns out Hiro was right, and now everyone on the planet is dea…
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By rights, Nathan Fielder’s name should be mentioned alongside Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, and Robert Rauschenberg in any list of significant conceptual artists. Nathan For You exists at the intersection of performance art, invisible theater,…
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Pop music loves a good comeback narrative, especially if these stories involve an underdog overcoming adversity or a bad boy changing his spots.
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You can tell why two broadcast networks and no less an esteemed comedy maven as Lorne Michaels thought John Mulaney should be a TV star. The stand-up comedian is great on camera, as he repeatedly demonstrates in his new hour-long special, The Comeba…
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The Most Important Financial Terms Everyone Should Know
Expense ratio. Prime rate. Amortization. As with technology, the finance world is filled with acronyms and terms that might sound alien to many people. So we’ve created a financial glossary for you that explains important yet often confusing money c…
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This Is A Very Sharp Knife – Digg
30 diggs Internet They say a sharp knife is a safe knife, but this seems really, really unsafe.
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The Limits of the Kurds’ War on ISIS – The New Yorker
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In the midst of dire headlines and global horror, sometimes the greatest, most devastating terror strikes you right in your home, right in your bedroom, in the middle of the night. I was awoken the other night by an unpleasant itch on the bridge of …
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Beats Music Is Shutting Down, But Its DNA Lives On | Motherboard
Beats Music, the Spotify-like streaming music service that debuted in January 2014, will shut down on November 30. The shutdown had been widely expected since the late June launch of Apple Music, Apple’s streaming music service that’s based on Beats…
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Daily fantasy sports is having a real bad week. | New Republic
In Alabama, where Democrats hold exactly zero statewide offices, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he is “looking at” embracing the Medicaid expansion, according to the Associated Press: “I am concerned about the plight of the working poor …
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Keynes was not merely one of the most influential economists of the last hundred years but also, as Richard Davenport-Hines argues, “the chief intellectual influence on English public life in the 20th century”.
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The Playing Card Design of MISC. GOODS CO. / Boing Boing
When you think about it, the design of playing cards is ridiculously complicated and to create a truly unique deck could take many months. It’s one thing to take an existing template and alter it a bit and it’s another thing all together to rework e…
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Wales Rally GB: 300hp, 4WD, and the unique challenge of finding grip on gravel | Ars Technica
More than 70 rally cars will line up in Llandudno on Thursday for the official start of Wales Rally GB, the traditional closing event of the World Rally Championship.
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Pakistan sandwich cafe under fire over ‘misogynistic’ posts – BBC News
Table No 5 has been posting the jokes under the slogan: “If she won’t make you a sandwich, we will”. But it was a menu it uploaded of sandwiches with names similar to those of men linked to violent crimes against women that caused the most most ange…
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Washington, D.C. has some of the nation’s most extensive nondiscrimination protections for transgender people, but a new study of the capital’s trans residents shows that protections alone don’t alleviate their burdens of discrimination and destitut…
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Political Correctness on College Campuses – The Atlantic
A mere century ago in America, lynchings were all too common.
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No Longer Winning ‘By A Lot,’ Donald Trump Seems To Go A Bit Crazy | ThinkProgress
Donald Trump loves his poll numbers. Since the start of his presidential campaign, he’s been at the top — “Not only leading, by a lot,” as he so often tells us. But since that interview in October, things have gone decidedly downhill for Trump’s pol…
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Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Syfy’s Version of Clarke’s Childhood’s End
Syfy is taking on the ambitious task of adapting one of science fiction’s greatest novels for the big screen. But how well with Childhood’s End live up to Arthur C.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Christmas Vacation, Hannibal, and More
Are you serious, Clark? One of the greatest Christmas movies of all time is getting a remastered 25th anniversary edition, complete with a digital copy. [Preorder National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 25th Anniversary, $14]
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The Pope Francis effect: One speech on climate change, a 10-20 point shift in opinion polls – Quartz
The Pope Francis effect: One speech on climate change, a 10-20 point shift in opinion polls https://t.co/2LfPD07p7r
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Panic in the GOP elite! Is this a job for Mitt?!?!?
Panic in the GOP elite! Is this a job for Mitt?!?!? https://t.co/GkDjTu1l5N
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Man in police custody died after being tased 20 times in 30 minutes / Boing Boing
A Virginia man who died in police custody was tased 20 times in 30 minutes, it was revealed at a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his sister.
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First Alien-Planet Weather System Discovered and Mapped: “5400 MPH Winds!”
5400 mph winds have been discovered hurtling around planet outside our solar system. New research provides first ever exo-planet weather map, with winds over 2 km per second observed flowing around the planet.
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How A Libel Settlement Was Transformed Into An Opportunity For Emerging Playwrights | ThinkProgress
The Relentless Award, founded in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s memory and intended to honor an unproduced play that is wholly devoted to the truth, started with a lie.
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Could you live in this 302-square-foot apartment? | New Republic
In Alabama, where Democrats hold exactly zero statewide offices, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he is “looking at” embracing the Medicaid expansion, according to the Associated Press: “I am concerned about the plight of the working poor …
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The Mirror by Richard Skinner review – two beautifully written novellas | Books | The Guardian
Two substantial novellas – novels by any other name – make up this volume. A pair of texts is an unusual combination and seems to require them to reflect each other in some way, to be thematically connected.
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In a landmark victory for climate activists, the Portland, Oregon city council voted yesterday to pass a resolution that opposes any new infrastructure that would transport or store fossil fuels within the city or its adjacent waterways.
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The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk Is Not Identity Theft | TechCrunch
What would happen if a hacker edited a major news website to falsely report an anthrax attack in Times Square? Even if the site removed the story within minutes, it already would have been reposted and retweeted thousands of times.
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There’s a mural at Templewood school in Welwyn Garden City – a low-rise, unadorned structure, typical of the postwar period – which places a wild-haired, though fatherly, woodland figure among children in party hats, clambering over giant oak and sy…
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Oh the Places We Won’t Go: Humans Will Settle Mars, and Nowhere Else [Excerpt] – Scientific American
Adapted from Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars, by Louis Friedman. Copyright © 2015 Louis Friedman with permission of the publisher. The University of Arizona Press. All rights reserved. Humans will become a multi-planet species by making it…
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China routinely tortures human-rights lawyers / Boing Boing
Amnesty International’s No End in Sight: Torture and Forced Confessions in China interviews 37 Chinese lawyers and analyzes 590 court decisions in the process of documenting the routine torture of human rights lawyers in China.
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‘Jihadi John’: US military news conference on Syria air strike – BBC News
The US military spokesman in Iraq, Col Steve Warren, is giving a press briefing on the drone strike in Syria, which was targeted against the Islamic State (IS) militant known as “Jihadi John”.
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Several babies found dead in German apartment – Al Jazeera English
The bodies of several babies have been found at an apartment in a small Bavarian town, police have said, the latest such discovery to have shocked the German public in recent times.
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What The History of Fossil Fuels Teaches Us About Renewable Energy – The Atlantic
People are always asking Bill Gates if he’s really read all of Valclav Smil. Smil is a professor at the University of Manitoba.
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A Reimagined NewRepublic.com | New Republic
Today, I am thrilled to introduce a new NewRepublic.com. Improving the reader experience of the site was at the heart of this redesign. We wanted to create a clean, uncluttered space that put our journalism front and center.
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow | ThinkProgress
If you thought self-driving cars would mean an end to getting pulled over by the police, you — and Google — were clearly mistaken. Police in Mountain View, California, where the tech giant is headquartered, stopped one of Google’s self-driving cars …
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Sectarian Disaster Looms as ISIS Strikes at the Heart of Hezbollah – The Daily Beast
While world leaders are travelling to Vienna to discuss a political solution in Syria, two explosions ripped through the Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh suburbs, leaving at least 43 people dead and over 239 others injured in the bloodiest terror attack to…
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Ben Carson’s New Mississippi Chair Was A Devoted Segregationist | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson announced on Friday that he has named former federal judge Charles W. Pickering to serve as his Mississippi state chair.
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Goldman Sachs Promotes Record Number of Women, and It’s Still Just 25 | Vanity Fair
Goldman Sachs promoted 425 employees on Thursday, and the numbers show that the old boys’ club on Wall Street is still an old boys’ club, just slightly less so.
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The Pope Francis effect: One speech on climate change, a 10-20 point shift in opinion polls – Quartz
The Pope Francis effect: One speech on climate change, a 10-20 point shift in opinion polls https://t.co/3swynY3uxr
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Hey, kids, let’s play Corporate Monopoly! / Boing Boing
Global Justice Now’s “Corporate Monopoly” is an excellent piece of information design; it’s a playable boardgame adapted from Monopoly (itself originally designed to teach the evils of capitalism), in which a shoe (the 99%) and a top hat (obvs) take…
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Marco Rubio outlawyered Ted Cruz on immigration. | New Republic
In Alabama, where Democrats hold exactly zero statewide offices, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he is “looking at” embracing the Medicaid expansion, according to the Associated Press: “I am concerned about the plight of the working poor …
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Deaths as Palestinian protests grip West Bank and Gaza – Al Jazeera English
Two Palestinians have died from bullet wounds inflicted by Israeli troops, and two Israeli settlers have been shot dead in an attack, as unrest continues to grip Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
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NASA: “First Pulsar Ever Discovered Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy”
Researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar, J0540, in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known.
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This Is What It’s Like When Your Country Finally Gets the Chance to Vote | Mother Jones
Five years to the day after a military junta released her from political house arrest, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi achieved a long-awaited victory: Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), triumphed on Friday in the Southe…
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Movie Review: Saoirse Ronan’s Stunning Lead Performance Anchors ‘Brooklyn’ – The Atlantic
From its first moments, Brooklyn is both helped and blunted by its accessibility. John Crowley’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel about a young Irish immigrant’s journey to America and struggle to acclimatize is a restrained, lovely work that’s low…
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Mary Spellman, the dean of students at a small California college called Claremont McKenna, resigned on Thursday after students criticized her response to a racist school climate — including students of color being spit at at parties, white students…
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What happens after Sinjar key to fight against IS – BBC News
Retaking Sinjar would be extremely important strategically and for the morale of the Kurdish people in their fight against so-called Islamic State (IS) – but what happens in the days and weeks afterwards will be crucial.
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Transform Your Bedroom to Make It Easier to Wake Up Early
Getting up early sounds easy enough before bed. Of course, Morning You always has other plans. When your alarm goes off, so does the snooze button, and you go back to sleep. To keep this from happening, snooze-proof your bedroom. There are a number …
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Too slow to ripen or too squidgy and brown inside, avocados often end up contributing to the UK’s food waste mountain. But Tesco believes it has the answer to our avocado woes: frozen ones, de-stoned, peeled and ripe when they thaw out.
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Russia plane crash: Moscow bans Egypt Air flights after jet crash – BBC News
Russia’s state aviation authority has banned Egypt’s national carrier from flying to Russia, a Moscow airport spokesman says. Flights from Russia to Egypt are already suspended after a passenger plane crashed in the Sinai last month.
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Two Israelis Shot Dead in West Bank | Al Jazeera America
An Israeli father and his 18-year-old son were shot dead while traveling with their family in a car in the occupied West Bank Friday, Israel’s ambulance service said. At least two Palestinians also died Friday in separate incidents.
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David Bowie Teases Eerie ‘Blackstar’ Short Film | Rolling Stone
David Bowie Teases Eerie ‘Blackstar’ Short Film Singer’s Johan Renck-directed video will arrive November 19th
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JWST’s Top Astronomer to Planetary Scientists: Start Your Engines
NATIONAL HARBOR , Md. — The James Webb Space Telescope’s Nobel Prize-winning head astronomer advised planetary scientists Nov. 9 to get started on proposals for focusing JWST’s 6.5-meter mirror on objects most closer to home than its usual cosmic qu…
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Varsity Tutors Raises $50 Million In Series B | TechCrunch
Varsity Tutors, the platform that connects elite tutors with students, has just closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Adam Levine, frontman for Maroon 5 and judge on The Voice, as well as education exec…
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Incredible gallery of C-90 cassette tapes / Boing Boing
c-90.org is a thing of wonder, not least for the Catalogue of Tapes, each lovingly photographed and organized by brand. This page is dedicated to cassette tapes. Here you won’t find any kind of scientific research, technical data or things like that.
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Poor Countries Do More When It Comes to Saving Forests – Scientific American
As sequesterers of carbon, forests are an important component for helping the world stave off climate change.
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Gmail will soon alert users about unencrypted emails | The Verge
Google is taking security threats for Gmail users seriously. To help alert users about the risk in opening unencrypted email, the search company is currently working on warnings that will pop up when messages from unencrypted sources are received.
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Transgender homicide rate hits historic high in US, says new report | US news | The Guardian
The number of transgender homicide victims in the US has hit a historic high, according to a new report from advocates, leading members of Congress to officially respond to an emerging pattern of tragedy with the first-ever forum on transgender viol…
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Hail Satan!: Posable Anton LaVey action figure|Dangerous Minds
I’ve blogged about this posable, handmade Anton LaVey action figure before about four years ago. Apparently, since my blog post, the action figure has been unavailable for years due to the “inability to find quality clothing sellers.
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Neighbors puppy makes old fella act like a puppy again, adorable. – GIF on Imgur
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CRISPR, a cheap and accurate copy/paste for DNA
Michael Specter has a truly fascinating piece in the New Yorker about CRISPR, a relatively new genetic tool for editing genes that geneticists are very excited about. With CRISPR, scientists can change, delete, and replace genes in any animal, inclu…
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Earth Stole Water and More from the Young Moon
An artist’s image of a collision between two planetary bodies. A similar crash likely formed the Earth and moon. New research suggests that the Earth took water and other volatiles from the moon after the collision.
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New trailers: Star Wars, Finding Dory, Jessica Jones, and more | The Verge
Movies come out. Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re not. Sometimes you really need to wait for a review to find out which it’ll be, but a lot of times you can tell just by watching a minute or so of its trailer. So don’t make mistakes. Watch …
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The reddest of red states in the South is giving Obamacare another look. | New Republic
In Alabama, where Democrats hold exactly zero statewide offices, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he is “looking at” embracing the Medicaid expansion, according to the Associated Press: “I am concerned about the plight of the working poor …
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Putin’s Daughter and the Rise of Russia’s New Elites – The Atlantic
They run banks, pension funds, and electric companies. They’re oil and gas executives. They’re worth billions. And most of them are under 40. Meet the children of Vladimir Putin’s cronies.
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Beyond the Chair: The Vision of Charles and Ray Eames – The Atlantic
In a 1972 short film titled “Design Q&A,” Charles Eames offered answers to a series of questions about design, a field in which he and his wife, Ray, had envisioned everything from medical splints and airport seating to low-cost housing and children…
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The Greg Hardy Case Shows How Little The NFL Has Learned About Domestic Violence | ThinkProgress
If we’ve learned anything over the past week, as more damaging reports on the domestic violence allegations against Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy have emerged, it’s that the NFL hasn’t learned anything at all. Or, at least, not nearly as m…
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Ghost of Marikana haunts Ramaphosa – Al Jazeera English
Marikana will haunt South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for the rest of his career.
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A coin toss creates the week’s most pointless NFL controversy · Block & Tackle · The A.V. Club
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football. Four quarters of football weren’t enough to determine the superior team on Sunday night, so the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys played a fifth.
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The Cost of Being an Early Adopter | Motherboard
When I preordered a Coin device in November of 2013, I thought I was putting $50 down to be part of the future.
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Food at Your Fingertip – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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The Medical Port: An Implant That Helps Fight Cancer – The Atlantic
In 2012, my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a type that’s most often caught late and has a poor prognosis even when caught early. My mother was diagnosed at Stage III, when her tumor had already grown into the wall of an artery, making …
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Panic in the GOP elite! Is this a job for Mitt?!?!?
Oh, please. Please, please, please. The fact that Donald Trump and Ben Carson are still around and are still sucking the oxygen out of the primary race is causing real panic among Republican elites.
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Badass snake handles on this 1760s mounted bowl. | The Getty
Badass snake handles on this 1760s mounted bowl. https://t.co/JauuGg4c11 https://t.co/nH0RolEeRN https://t.co/M84ARLdEWy
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Badass snake handles on this 1760s mounted bowl. https://t.co/JauuGg4c11 https://t.co/nH0RolEeRN https://t.co/M84ARLdEWy
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5,400 MPH winds blast exoplanet / Boing Boing
We won’t be colonizing this one first! Exoplanet HD189733b, previously determined to contain water in its atmosphere, is blasted by 2 kilometers-per-second winds, say researchers at the University of Warwick.
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In Alabama, where Democrats hold exactly zero statewide offices, Gov. Robert Bentley said that he is “looking at” embracing the Medicaid expansion, according to the Associated Press: “I am concerned about the plight of the working poor …
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Where cops can track your location without a warrant | The Verge
Police said Quartavious Davis was part of a stunning crime spree.
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Donanld Trump: Iowans stupid to believe Carson – BBC News
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, never one to mince words, launched some of his sharpest attacks on rival Ben Carson on Thursday night in Iowa.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger terminates tusk for anti-poaching campaign | Environment | The Guardian
The all-action movie star and former California senator Arnold Schwarzenegger has lent his weight to a campaign against ivory poaching by blowing up an elephant tusk on camera.
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Flash fiction: Simon and Mr Garfunkel | Books | The Guardian
We weren’t used to our teachers being famous. Instead of an apple, Mr. Garfunkel kept a Grammy on his desk. Still, every class quickly learns to play its teacher like a Rickenbacker.
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It’s not too hard to understand why everyone seeking the Republican presidential nomination is proposing huge tax cuts for the rich. Just follow the money: Candidates in the G.O.P. primary draw the bulk of their financial support from a few dozen ex…
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Samuel Pepys’ other diary on display in new exhibition | Books | The Guardian
The impeccably neat lines of shorthand are familiar, the voracious gathering up of fact, incident, anecdote and sightings of pretty women even more so.
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Hillary Clinton Is The Most Establishment Approved Candidate On Record | FiveThirtyEight
It’s become a running joke that I’m in the tank for Hillary Clinton. Whenever I’ve written anything that suggests Clinton has a very good chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination, fans of the other Democratic candidates have let me h…
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Trump’s anti-Carson tirade was unbecoming, but also correct! | New Republic
Sanders did no formal debate prep ahead of the first Democratic primary debate—no rehearsals with a stand-in for Hillary Clinton, no canned lines. Aides thought the consequences of practice debates would be dire: “We don’t want to stiffen him up.
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In This Dreamy Animated Short, a Young Woman Frees Herself From Her Oppressive Family
In Les Liens De Sang (“Blood Ties”), we see the youngest daughter of an autocratic father take her birthday as the chance to break free. It’s a sumptuous short, filled with imagery that is both disturbing and revealing of her backstory.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—Saying the eye-opening experience has forever altered his worldview, Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus admitted to reporters Friday that a play-action pass play by the New York Jets had totally shattered his youthful …
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British Indians divided over Modi’s UK visit – Al Jazeera English
After being banned from entering the UK for 10 years, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a red carpet welcome from the British government and Indian diaspora on Thursday as he began a three-day state visit to the country.
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Volcanic Rock Hints at Source of Earth’s Water – Scientific American
The origin of Earth’s water has puzzled scientists for decades. Icy comets smashing into the planet seemed like natural donors, but many comets have water chemistry different from that of Earth’s oceans.
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Little Green Man is back! This time, he and his earth-bound twin are discussing the latest news on the global warming front. Hint: it ain’t good.
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About 100 professors and 200 students were milling about Carnahan Quad when cheers suddenly erupted. Then came the words so many yearned to hear: “He’s resigned!”
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Amazon Pantry Arrives In U.K. Along With A Prime Price Cut | TechCrunch
Amazon is today expanding its grocery delivery options for U.K. consumers with the launch of its Amazon Pantry service to Prime subscribers in the U.K.
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Could Zenefits’s Struggles Signal More Start-Up Bubble Trouble? | Vanity Fair
It’s been a disconcerting few weeks in the land of perpetual optimism, Silicon Valley.
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People partying their asses off in Cape Town, South Africa 1967-1969 (NSFW)|Dangerous Minds
Extraordinarily intimate portraits of the denizens of Cape Town, South Africa’s “Les Catacombs” nightclub taken by photographer Billy Monk in 1969, when he was working as a bouncer at the club. Monk also took pictures of the revelry, which he sold t…
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Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin – Review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Gripping, powerful and utterly addictive, Wolf by Wolf is an absolute must-read. Set in Germany 1956, the novel is an ode to what could have been had the Nazis won the second world war.
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For eight years, Gideon Mendel has travelled the globe, photographing people whose lives have been devastated by floods. Here are his images of a drowning world
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Jared Leto, Kara Swisher, and Lena Dunham Reveal the One Person We Sho | Vanity Fair
It’s almost luck of the draw when it comes to which brilliant people get thrust into the spotlight, and therefore end up the subject of countless headlines, endless praise, and all of the other perks of fame.
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A designer’s take on iPad Pro | The Verge
The reviews are out on iPad Pro, and they address how big it is, whether it’s worth the price, and whether it can or can’t replace a laptop for average consumers. But as a design director at Vox Media, I was more interested in whether I could run al…
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Put Your Shower Caddy in the Dishwasher for a Hassle-Free Clean
When you deep clean your bathroom, it can be easy to overlook your shower caddy, but soap scum and mildew are almost certainly building up. Just throw your caddy into the dishwasher for a thorough, but low-effort, clean.
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Scientific American MIND Reviews “Anxious” – Scientific American
Woody Allen’s character in Annie Hall is not Hollywood’s typical leading man. Alvy Singer may be charming and witty, but he is so preoccupied with the minutiae of his diet, past romantic debacles and the eventuality of his death that he ultimately d…
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US assessing strike on Mohammed Emwazi, says John Kerry – video | UK news | The Guardian
John Kerry says US officials are assessing the results of the airstrike that targeted Islamic State militant Mohammed Emwazi. Speaking at a press conference in Tunis on Friday, the secretary of states ays the US carried out the air strike in Syria o…
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The Linguistic Mystery of Tonal Languages – The Atlantic
People don’t generally speak in a monotone.
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Sanders did no formal debate prep ahead of the first Democratic primary debate—no rehearsals with a stand-in for Hillary Clinton, no canned lines. Aides thought the consequences of practice debates would be dire: “We don’t want to stiffen him up.
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Robots and Humans Are Partners, Not Adversaries [Excerpt] – Scientific American
Excerpted with permission from Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy, by David A. Mindell. Available from Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright David A. Mindell © 2015.
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Darker Sense Of Humor Could Be Early Sign Of Dementia – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
A new study found that a common early symptom among dementia patients was an increasingly dark sense of humor that favored slapstick over satire and caused them to laugh at socially inappropriate times, findings that can aid in earlier and more accu…
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Cambodia Orders Arrest of Opposition Leader Rainsy | Al Jazeera America
It is not clear if Rainsy will actually be arrested since he has parliamentary immunity due to his status as a lawmaker. He is currently on a trip to Japan and South Korea and is scheduled to return Nov. 16.
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Socialism Vs. Capitalism – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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‘Fallout 4’ Is a Niche Video Game | Motherboard
Did you hear? Fallout 4, the video game for people who are serious about video games, is finally out. Do you care? If you’re reading this rather than obsessively exploring a post nuclear disaster Boston, maybe not. Or maybe you’re just taking a brea…
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Microsoft’s Terraserver Was Google Earth Before There Was Google Earth | Motherboard
The Earth fit inside a 45-foot by 25-foot Compaq computer in an office building in suburban Seattle. As the East Coast woke up Monday mornings, it would roar to life.
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I can’t remember not wanting a miniature Christmas village. It’s like how I can’t remember when I first realized I have bad posture: some things you never have to learn about yourself but rather just have to accept.
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My Last Illegal Pork | Lucky Peach
stanbul is full of legal pork. But it is garbage, and expensive. You could only feel bad for the homesick foreigners and repatriated Turks with slimy prosciutto in their grocery baskets. While I lived there, my friend C would smuggle in pork from Bu…
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Hologram Pop Star Hatsune Miku “Announces” 2016 US and Canada Tour
Hologram Pop Star Hatsune Miku “Announces” 2016 US and Canada Tour https://t.co/9r1SCePpUs
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Donald Trump wonders ‘How stupid are the people’
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The Undress Code https://t.co/TXvt87tFMi
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Beats Music To Shut Down On November 30 | TechCrunch
It was bound to happen. Now that Apple Music is available on Android, Apple is going to shut down its other music streaming service, Beats Music. The company will automatically cancel all subscriptions on November 30, and remaining users should move…
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[Essay] | The Bed-Rest Hoax, by Alexandra Kleeman | Harper’s Magazine
After just a couple of days on bed rest, the material of your body begins to feel different: softer, heavier, a burden to the bone beneath. The thud of the heart in the chest feels deeper: each beat shifts your frame a little.
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EDC card, a multitool that fits in your wallet / Boing Boing
The EDC Card [via] is exactly what its name promises: a multitool designed to fit into a wallet and be carried around every day, just in case you run into an opportunity to show off your EDC Card.
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Dubai has ordered 20 jetpacks for firefighters and first responders | The Verge
Dubai’s firefighters could one day use jetpacks to tackle blazes in high-rise buildings. The oil-rich emirate signed a contract this week with the Martin Aircraft Company to purchase 20 jetpacks and two training simulators for the Dubai Civil Defens…
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Watch the Bloodsoaked, R-Rated Version of The Hobbit’s Final Battle
Although The Hobbit movies were way too long as is, there is one solid reason for checking out the extended edition Blu-ray of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies when it arrives next week.
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False widow spider infestation closes two London primary schools | UK news | The Guardian
Two primary schools have been forced to close after they became infested with false widow spiders.
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‘Noah’s ark’ under construction in Kentucky – video | US news | The Guardian
A Christian ministry in Kentucky is building a 1550-metre-long (510ft) wooden boat for a planned religious theme park. The ark, 26 metres high and 17 metres wide, is due to open to the public in July next year.
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Space in Videos – 2015 – 11 – Lisa Pathfinder mission overview
LISA Pathfinder will pave the way for future missions by testing in flight the very concept of gravitational wave detection: it will put two test masses in a near-perfect gravitational free-fall and control and measure their motion with unprecedente…
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The Myth About Carrots and Vision Started to Foil Nazis – The Atlantic
Give a FREE gift subscription to your friend when you start your own subscription now.
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Medal of Honor Awarded to Army Captain Who Tackled Bomber in Afghanistan https://t.co/5GAR6ndMB8
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Kinja Roundup https://t.co/wh1DlFv41L
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It was a crocheted brown-gold sweater my mother handed down to me before I went to college. It was, frankly, a bit granny-ish. But it was the kind of mothball item that sometimes, improbably, reads stylish.
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Week’s Best Space Pictures: Mars’ Moon Phobos Slowly Crumbling
Feed your need for heavenly views of the universe with our pick of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, Hubble spies what could be the loneliest galaxy in the universe, and scientists try to make sense of a moon’s stretch marks.
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Donald Trump mad after Ben Carson’s book outsells his own / Boing Boing
Donald Trump unloaded on fellow presidential candidate Ben Carson last night, describing his rival as “pathological” and comparing his behavior to that of a child molester.
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What a Relief: Netflix’s With Bob & David Is Almost as Good as Mr. Show | Vanity Fair
God bless Netflix for resurrecting treasure after deceased comedy treasure, but I’m honestly not sure how much more I can take. The scars of the strange fourth season of Arrested Development sit deep.
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Hologram Pop Star Hatsune Miku “Announces” 2016 US and Canada Tour
If you’re a fan of virtual musicians with computer-generated bodies and voices, and you live in North America, then do I have news for you.
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It’s Jennifer Lawrence week! (Though, honestly, when isn’t it Jennifer Lawrence week on the Internet?) The actress has been in full movie-promotion mode this week, for the forthcoming final installment of The Hunger Games, attending a bevy of events…
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Space Junk’s Fiery Re-Entry Captured By Observers | Video
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Amazon’s Blowing Out 3M’s Excellent Command Products, Today Only
With apologies to sliced bread and the wheel, 3M’s Command line of hooks and adhesive strips is the greatest invention in the history of mankind, and you can stock up on all of your favorites in today’s Amazon Gold Box.
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Donald Trump wonders ‘How stupid are the people’
On Thursday evening, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech launched a 95-minute rant to the faithful in Iowa and it was … something else. Trump said Carson has a “pathological disease” with no cure, comparing it to the incurab…
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See How the One-Child Policy Changed China
China’s decision to lift its one-child policy next year is expected to diversify the country’s aging, increasingly male population. But the degree to which the policy has affected the country of more than 1.3 billion people is hard to imagine. Here …
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500 Years of Virgin Mary Sightings in One Map
From a village in Rwanda to a rock cave in France, sightings of the Virgin Mary have been reported across the globe since A.D. 40.
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There’s an awful cost to getting a PhD that no one talks about – Quartz
One night during the third year of my PhD program, I sat on my bed with a packet of tranquilizers and a bottle of vodka. I popped a few pills in my mouth and swigged out of the bottle, feeling them burn down my throat. Moments later, I realized I wa…
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Californium: A game about the many (sur)realities of Philip K. Dick | Ars Technica
Reality is mutable, vulnerable to interpretation and interference. It’s an idea that permeates through Philip K. Dick’s writing, one of the most influential forces in pop culture. Even if you don’t recognise his work by name, chances are you’ve expe…
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Rex Ryan’s Fiery Ball of F–k You | Rolling Stone
Rex Ryan had plenty to say after his Buffalo Bills won 22-17 at the New York Jets Thursday night to pull into a second-place tie with his former team at 5-4 in the AFC East. Ryan likened the Jets to a “hot girl” who’d dumped him after their six seas…
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WASHINGTON — President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday to a soldier who rushed a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2012 and saved perhaps dozens of American and Afghan lives at a devastating cost to his own. The soldier, Capt. Florent A.
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Self-Driving Google Car Pulled Over for Driving Too Slowly | Vanity Fair
Technically, The Guardian writes, driverless cars in Mountain View are allowed on roads with speed limits up to 35 m.p.h., but so far, Google’s can drive at a maximum speed of 25 m.p.h. for “safety reasons.” (Do those reasons include roadside courte…
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For nearly 45 years, any Scots emigré living in the United States who wanted to eat a traditionally produced haggis on Burns Night had to resort to cross-border smuggling or a long flight home.
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Thursday Night Football: fans’ photos from Buffalo Bills vs New York Jets | Sport | The Guardian
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I working as a porter in hospital doesn’t have quite the same ring as “I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar…” but that’s what Phil Oakey was doing when he was asked by ex-schoolmate Iain Craig Marsh to join him and Martyn Ware as singer wit…
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The dress GG Allin wore at his brother’s wedding is up for auction|Dangerous Minds
Never one to be upstaged by anyone, GG Allin wore a dress to his brother Merle’s wedding held at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (a place I once found myself locked in, don’t ask) on May 8th, 1989.
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The truth behind coal companies’ terrible PR campaigns – video | Environment | The Guardian
It’s been a tough year for coal industry PR. Whether it’s coal, oil or fracking, some PR execs will stop at nothing to improve the reputation of fossil fuels. To demonstrate, the Guardian teamed up with UCB Comedy to uncover what’s really going on i…
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years studying the planet in detail before the mission came to an end in December 2014.
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Oxytocin Isn’t a Hug Hormone and Inhaling It Probably Doesn’t Work – The Atlantic
Ten years ago, Nature published a paper with a simple title: Oxytocin increases trust in humans. The paper described an experiment carried out by Swiss scientists, who asked volunteers to entrust money in an anonymous partner.
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Barack Obama: ‘I Am Not the Lead Singer From Korn’ | Rolling Stone
Barack Obama: ‘I Am Not the Lead Singer From Korn’ President name-checks Jonathan Davis at army captain Florent Groberg’s Medal of Honor ceremony
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Donald Trump Attacks Ben Carson – The Atlantic
During a 95-minute speech Thursday, Donald Trump delivered a scathing attack on Ben Carson, his closest rival in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. It makes for the primary’s most fascinating moment thus far.
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Hebron hospital shooting: ‘It was unnecessary killing’ – Al Jazeera English
A day after Israeli forces fatally shot 28-year-old Abdullah al-Shalaldeh inside a West Bank hospital, the victim’s cousin has also died of wounds inflicted by Israeli forces.
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Ready to Feel Old? Play ‘Pokemon Red’ on Your Nintendo 3DS | Motherboard
No company dominates your nostalgia for old-school games quite like Nintendo. Back in the ’90s, mobile gaming pretty much meant one thing: the Game Boy, and one of the most popular games on that system were the original triptych of Pokémon games: Po…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Just Blew Up an Elephant Tusk | Motherboard
In an effort to raise awareness about elephant poaching, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently took an elephant tusk, laced it with explosives, set it on a bale of hay, and blew it to smithereens.
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Did A Tiny Star Wars Toy Just Confirm A Huge Force Awakens Theory?
Fitzsimmons fans are about to get their moment on Agents of SHIELD. Justice League could introduce another female superhero. The Flash teases a surprise return. Tomorrow’s episode of Doctor Who includes a weird first. Plus, James Gunn answers a ton …
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Phife Dawg Talks Tribe Called Quest’s Joyous Past and Uncertain Future | Rolling Stone
Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor was only a teenager when he entered Calliope Studios in New York to record A Tribe Called Quest’s 1990 debut album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm.
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David Nail Talks Touring With Twins: The Ram Report | Rolling Stone
David Nail Talks Touring With Twins: The Ram Report “Fighter” singer and wife, Catherine are expecting a boy and a girl in December
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The Case for Making Humans Smaller – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
When Arne Hendriks, a 6” 4’ Dutchman, faced audience members at TEDxBrainport in 2012, he smiled apologetically. “I have some bad news for you,” he said. “You’re not short enough.” Hendriks believes that the planet’s growing population—currently at …
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The Fursuit of Happiness Begins With Customized Dog Abs | Atlas Obscura
Before they are furries, fursuits are a bit scary. (Image courtesy of Mischief Makers) Who do you turn to when you’re in dire need of a plush full-body suit that will make you look like a cartoon dog? That’s a question furries have to ask themselves…
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Special Gifts for Your Favorite People | The Wirecutter
We present you with the result of the hundreds of hours of effort our staff has put in over the past few months, an ongoing project led by our tireless Inner Vision author, Gregory Han.
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Lewis Hamilton top in Brazilian GP first practice – BBC Sport
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Ars benchmarks show significant performance hit for SteamOS gaming | Ars Technica
Specs at a glance: The Ars Technica Dual-boot Test Rig OS Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) and SteamOS 2.0 4.1.0-0 (on separate drives) CPU Intel Pentium G3220 (Haswell), dual-core, 3.0GHz GPU Zotac Geforce GTX660 (2GB) w/ GeForce Game Ready Driver…
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Wildlife The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures Thirsty bees, sleeping lions and a tiny elephant shrew are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Friday 13 November 2015 09.
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Anna Deavere Smith Talks to Adam May | Al Jazeera America
Adam May: Your work outside of mainstream television tackles some of the biggest social issues facing our country right now. I’m wondering how you’re influenced by your own childhood, growing up in Baltimore in the time of segregation. Anna Deavere …
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The luchador-masked garage/surf band Los Straitjackets have been a popular live act for over 20 years, thanks to tight musicianship and energetic, theatrical stage shows.
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Give Your Budget a Purpose to Make It More Effective
Budgets are easy to break. They get old; they get boring. Money blog Rags to Reasonable points out that budgets often fail because they lack an essential ingredient: purpose. When I first started getting into personal finance, all I knew is I wanted…
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Why Do Cats Love Catnip? – Scientific American
Have you wondered why some cats exhibit strange behavior when exposed to catnip? They act much like a female cat in heat: They may rub their head and body on the herb or jump, roll around, vocalize and salivate.
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Christians set out on climate ‘pilgrimage’ from London to Paris | Environment | The Guardian
“Not getting lost in London will probably be the first hurdle,” laughed Jade Till, a teacher from Stroud, before adding that walking 19 miles on a cold November day will also be a challenge.
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Self-folding Graphene Machines Inspire Work on Real Transformers – Scientific American
Self-folding machines made from graphene oxide paper are inspiring some researchers to dream of a future with real-life Transformers and autonomous search-and-rescue robots.
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Review: The 33 trivializes the Chilean mining accident, and it’s also boring | The Verge
If you enjoy the feeling of being trapped, maybe you’ll enjoy The 33. The unavoidable consequence of making a movie in which the main characters are confined to a small, dark space for much of the film is that there’s little forward movement.
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Anyone following indie rock in the last decade is surely familiar with Florida’s Surfer Blood, if not for their music, then for the dramatic roller-coaster of their career.
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Beats Music is shutting down this month | The Verge
Apple is shutting down Beats Music for good on November 30th, at which point subscribers will have to move over to Apple Music if they want to keep using their music library and playlists.
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Kinja Roundup https://t.co/EfE8qWTdgs
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A new study provides substantial support for earlier claims of 520-million-year-old arthropod brain systems, provoking thoughts about the nature of brains, life, and intelligence in the cosmos.
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The streaming wars have begun | POLITICO
It has been a long time coming, but the streaming video wars are underway, with tech giants like Amazon and Netflix on one side, and the content companies like NBC, CBS and Time Warner on the other. The prize is the future of television viewing.
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How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws https://t.co/xl9YCGbsgU
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Look at these hypnotic GIFs of driving into the sunset forever. | New Republic
Sanders did no formal debate prep ahead of the first Democratic primary debate—no rehearsals with a stand-in for Hillary Clinton, no canned lines. Aides thought the consequences of practice debates would be dire: “We don’t want to stiffen him up.
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks – The Atlantic
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance.
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Kurdish Fighters Retake Sinjar From ISIS – The Atlantic
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have taken control of Sinjar from the Islamic State, which captured it last year and set off a campaign of horror against the Iraqi town’s Yazidi minority.
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The Anti-Bullying Policies That Are Actually Working – The Atlantic
At her Moraga, California, junior high school, Rachel Jackson was a safe-school ambassador (SSA), part of a program that trains student volunteers to intervene in bullying situations among their peers.
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Lewis Hamilton put what he described as “a difficult week” behind him to set a scintillating pace in first practice at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Hamilton crashed his supercar in Monaco in the early hours of Tuesday and delayed his journey to Brazil …
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5 Reasons Guns N’ Roses Will Reunite and 5 Reasons They Won’t | Rolling Stone
Rumors of a Guns N’ Roses reunion have been swirling for months, but things went semi-nuclear earlier this week when an article on Dish Nation flatly said it was happening and Brandi Glanville, a friend of Duff McKagan’s wife, blurted out “Guns N’ R…
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UK and Ghana sign prisoner exchange deal – BBC News
The UK has signed a deal with the West African nation of Ghana for the transfer of prisoners between the two countries. It means citizens of one country who commit crimes in the other will serve sentences in their homeland.
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In California, some gun smugglers use FedEx. In Chicago, smugglers drive just across the state line into Indiana, buy a gun and drive back. In Orlando, Fla., smugglers have been known to fill a $500 car with guns and send it on a ship to crime rings…
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Mitt Romney’s buddies just will not let go of the dream. | New Republic
Sanders did no formal debate prep ahead of the first Democratic primary debate—no rehearsals with a stand-in for Hillary Clinton, no canned lines. Aides thought the consequences of practice debates would be dire: “We don’t want to stiffen him up.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Happy Friday the 13th! Fridays are always a great opportunity to try to wrap up the week’s story lines, and throw in a few oddballs to liven up your weekend conversation. Plus fun news bits like… well, I think Donald Trump might have just called B…
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The Nigerian remake of ‘Purple Rain’ is cinematic magic|Dangerous Minds
“A revolutionary story of guitars, motorcycles, cell phones – and the music of a new generation” is how director Christopher Kirkley describes his West African re-imagining of Purple Rain.
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Review: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Garden of Delete is a digital dumpster dive | The Verge
The internet is full of garbage. Annoying ads, invasive trackers, gross porn, and racist social media dispatches all float together in the same stew, and it grows faster than anyone could possibly comprehend.
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Star Wars TV Spot Puts Han Solo Back in Action | Vanity Fair
It’s time to start asking ourselves a very serious and very important question: How much Han Solo should we expect in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
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This Video Explains Everything That Matters in a Smartphone Camera
We all know that more megapixels doesn’t mean a better camera. If that’s the case, what does make a better camera? This video from tech reviewer MKBHD gives you an idea of what to look for. There are more factors than ever to consider when choosing …
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U.S. Targets ‘Jihadi John’ in Airstrike on Raqaa, Syria – The Atlantic
Mohammed Emwazi is the British-accented masked man seen in several Islamic State video executing the group’s hostages. Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Briton who earned the monicker Jihadi John, was the target of a U.S. airstrike on Raqaa, Syria, the Defense…
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Orbital View: From Russia With Love – The Atlantic
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When You’re Done With a Fabricated Identity, This Artist Will Make It His Own | Motherboard
Your inbox is a lot like an online home, protected by a password rather than a burglar alarm. The same could be said for your social media pages, your bank accounts, your supermarket loyalty cards. Together they constitute an identity.
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Syrians take to the streets to praise Russian military support – BBC News
Russian forces are continuing a campaign of air strikes as they target IS-controlled areas in Syria. Military intervention from Russia has produced some local successes for the Syrian government forces in the fight against militant groups.
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The influx of young tech developers with big wallets has sent rents across Silicon Valley into the stratosphere.
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China’s Eastern Cinema Could Rival Hollywood in Movie-Making – The Atlantic
Most americans probably associate Qingdao, China, with beer. In 1903, German and British settlers founded the Tsingtao Brewery there, and Teutonic influence can still be seen in some of the architecture in older parts of town.
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‘Spotlight’ and ‘Truth’ Show How to Get Journalism Right (and Wrong) – The Atlantic
And with that, the karmic balance is restored. Three weeks ago marked the release of Truth, one of the worst movies about journalism I’ve ever seen. This week, in contrast, brings the national opening of Spotlight, one of the best. (It is also one o…
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Now on Tinder: Information about Jobs and Alma Maters – The Atlantic
On Wednesday, the dating app Tinder announced that it will be implementing the feature that’s most often requested by its users: adding information on job and education to profiles. On its blog, Tinder, which logs 1.
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The people of Syria and Iraq, as well as those unfortunate enough to fall into Isis’s hands, are no doubt better off with Mohammed Emwazi – “Jihadi John” – killed in a US drone strike, if early reports are correct.
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After pot legalization could Colorado spearhead universal healthcare? | US news | The Guardian
A few years ago, the notion that voters in the United States would opt to legalize recreational marijuana seemed wholly absurd. That was for Amsterdam, not America.
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Residents of mobile home park in Silicon Valley face eviction – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
The Buena Vista mobile home park, in Palo Alto, California, not only provides reasonably priced accommodation for low-paid workers, but also a sense of community for more than 400 people. The owners want to sell the land for redevelopment, with esti…
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Asteroid platinum and the briny water on Mars may soon be available for plunder, Republicans and Democrats have agreed, advancing a bill that would grant “space resource rights” and could challenge an international treaty on outer space.
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Britain ‘not Yet Certain’ if Jihadi John Dead | Al Jazeera America
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday it was not yet clear whether the ISIL fighter known as “Jihadi John” had been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, while defending the operation as “the right thing to do.” Cameron confirmed the Penta…
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From appearances on conservative talk radio to the campaign trail in South Carolina and New Hampshire, five Republican candidates jumped on the issue as they sought to appeal to grass-roots conservatives alarmed about immigration. And the eruption o…
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Happiness AMAScience AMA Series: I’m Dr Will Davies, Director of the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths. I research how ‘happiness’ has become an obsession for governments and businesses, helping to shape public policy, marketing and ma…
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Sanders did no formal debate prep ahead of the first Democratic primary debate—no rehearsals with a stand-in for Hillary Clinton, no canned lines. Aides thought the consequences of practice debates would be dire: “We don’t want to stiffen him up.
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This One Deal Could Reduce The Number Of New Coal Plants Worldwide | ThinkProgress
On Friday, environmentalists in D.C. will rally in front of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, a financing institution.
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Significant Digits For Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news.
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Record oil glut stands at 3bn barrels – BBC News
A record glut of oil is set to continue into next year and maintain pressure on prices, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.Stockpiles stand at a record three billion, the IEA said in its monthly report.
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Why White Supremacists Are Starting To Worship Thor | ThinkProgress
On Monday, three Virginia men were charged with plotting to attack and bomb black churches and Jewish synagogues, reportedly with the goal of triggering a “race war” in the United States.
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UNESCO is considering ways in which it can ensure that cultural heritage sites are protected during armed conflicts.
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Pulsar spotted outside the Milky Way is one of the most energetic ever seen | Ars Technica
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, which create pulsed emissions as their magnetic fields sweep across the line of sight with Earth. Generally, these are detected at radio wavelengths. But in rare cases, the environment around the pulsar is…
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Legalization of Drugs Should Be Part of a Transhumanist Agenda | Motherboard
I’m from San Francisco. Doing drugs—especially smoking pot—seems second nature to me. I’ve made a point of trying nearly all drugs, and I’m unabashedly proud of that fact.
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Work With People Who Disagree With You to Stay Challenged
Things go a lot smoother when everyone agrees with you. If you’re a manager, you probably want fewer employees who question everything you say. However, it’s the people who disagree who can help keep you on your toes.
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Perhaps it’s being forced to think about global matters and the dangers they pose, but the UK’s foreign secretary Philip Hammond, like his Conservative predecessor, both understands the risks of climate change and the urgent need to act.
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Family Gives in to Dark Side, Builds Giant Death Star on Top of Home | Motherboard
With the new Star Wars film set for release later this year, fans are going crazy. One family has taken their devotion to the franchise to the next level: They’ve built a 23-foot, light-up “Death Star” onto their roof.
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There’s a quote at the very beginning of my new book Fire Colour One. My husband Alex took a photo of some graffiti on the Falmouth seafront and a clever friend told us it was from The Iliad so that’s what it says underneath, all highbrow and litera…
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G20 and Turkey’s firsts – Al Jazeera English
Turkey will be hosting the G20 Leader’s Summit which is due to be held on November 15-16 in its southern city of Antalya.
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Bidders snap up final Silk Road bitcoins – BBC News
The final 22,000 bitcoins seized during a raid on the internet marketplace Silk Road have been sold in a sealed-bid auction. On Thursday, the US Marshals Service said four bidders had taken a share.
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The best hidden features in Windows 10’s major update | The Verge
Microsoft’s first major Windows 10 update debuted yesterday with some new features and changes. Most of the additions are obvious, but there are a few hidden away. Here are several Windows 10 features you might not have discovered yet.
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StarCraft: The past, present and future | Polygon
Back in the ‘90s, Chris Metzen had an idea for a new game. For the still-blooming Blizzard Entertainment, these were formative years. There was Warcraft as of 1994, but there was no World of Warcraft.
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Graca Machel meets Nigeria’s Chibok parents – BBC News
The meeting in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, is to support the parents as they deal with the trauma caused by the abductions. Seventeen of the girls’ parents have died since their abduction, the BBC’s Umar Elleman reports from the city.
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First Click: Fan desperately seeks Star Wars ignorance | The Verge
There’s a new Star Wars teaser out today. Did you see it? I didn’t and I won’t. I’m sure it’s terrific with a rousing soundtrack and just enough imagery to stoke nostalgia and hint at the new plot.
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Cop—fired for having lapel cam turned off a lot—reinstated to force | Ars Technica
A New Mexico police officer accused of routinely not having his Taser-made lapel camera running, and who was involved in one of Albuquerque’s high-profile shooting of a teen-ager, has won reinstatement to the force.
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Risk of significant flooding in northern England as more rain forecast | UK news | The Guardian
Communities in northern England face the risk of significant flooding this weekend as heavy rain is expected to fall on already saturated ground.
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Cuba’s route to football glory: a six-month training camp in North Korea | Football | The Guardian
Pre-tournament training camps have always been a vital ingredient for success on the international stage. World Cup 2014 winners Germany trained in Italy before travelling to Brazil. The previous champions, Spain, trained in Austria before going to …
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White Star Capital Closes $70M For Its First Institutional Transatlantic Fund | TechCrunch
White Star Capital, which bides it’s time between London, New York and Montreal, has been active in the market for a couple years but until now has not ‘opened the kimono’ much on its backing.
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Runtastic Results Is a Personal Trainer For Your Home Workouts
Android/iOS: Hiring a personal trainer for your workouts may have some benefits, but working out from home is still cheaper. Runtastic Results provides the best of both worlds with personalized workout routines on your phone.
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Will crime writers be the victims of the clean-up of Colombia’s second city? | Books | The Guardian
As anyone who watched the recent Netflix series Narcos will know, optimism can seem like a luxury in Colombia. In 1991, at the height of drug baron Pablo Escobar’s grip on Medellín, there were 6,349 killings in Colombia’s second city – roughly 38 ti…
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Families of Irish students killed in Berkeley balcony collapse to sue | World news | The Guardian
The families of six Irish students who died and seven who were injured when a balcony collapsed in California this summer are to take legal action against companies connected to the building.
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Republican candidates offer up failed economic policies
It’s not too hard to understand why everyone seeking the Republican presidential nomination is proposing huge tax cuts for the rich. Just follow the money: Candidates in the G.O.P. primary draw the bulk of their financial support from a few dozen ex…
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Republican candidates offer up failed economic policies https://t.co/X1QRusPC2T
Love Everyone Often 11/14/2015
What to Read Before Tonight’s Democratic Presidential Debate – The New Yorker What to Read Before the Democratic Debate https://t.co/a8WR3w4h5b via The New Yorker: Everything tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Orca Capture Trade Moves to Russia, China | Al Jazeera America Orca capture trade has moved to Russia, China, activists say…
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