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Bernie Sanders Is Looking Beyond Saturday’s Democratic Debate – The New Yorker
Bernie Sanders, Loud and Clear BY JOHN CASSIDY – The New Yorker https://t.co/AP0SQTj8pn
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Huawei reveals quick-charge battery – BBC News
Chinese tech giant Huawei has unveiled two prototype removable lithium-ion batteries that can recharge in minutes, using a bespoke charger. The lower capacity battery charged by 68% in two minutes – but is not big enough to run a smartphone for long.
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Poem of the week: Calling Card by Tracy Herd | Books | The Guardian
Calling Card(i.m. Marina Keegan, 1989-2012) At the last party,the punctual, the late arrivals,the ones who never made itare all one and the same.
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If having a fox-haired ex-reality star who lords over Gotham in an apartment made almost entirely of gold and the neurosurgeon that separated Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear in the movie Stuck On You running for president isn’t surreal enough for you, i…
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Myanmar MPs meet for first time since election – BBC News
Myanmar’s parliament is meeting for the first time since Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won an election landslide last week. The session does not include new MPs – members who lost their seats remain in office until the end o…
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Stevie Smith: you’ve read the poems, now look at the pictures | Books | The Guardian
Although I will not be chucking out my beloved old editions of the works of my second favourite poet (my first is Philip Larkin) just yet – the house will have to look like it’s auditioning for a Channel 4 documentary about hoarding before that happ…
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Microsoft might not bring Android apps to Windows after all | The Verge
Microsoft unveiled some huge news back in April, pledging to allow developers to run reworked Android and iOS apps on Windows. While Microsoft is pushing ahead with its iOS porting tools, the company’s Android work has been put on hold.
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How These 2 Nations Tackle Climate Could Help Change the World
Costa Rica, known for its white-sand beaches and cloud-draped forests, is a meager contributor to global climate change. Its largest provider of electricity, which relies almost entirely on hydropower, can go months without burning any fossil fuels.
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Shigeru Miyamoto’s Best Creativity Tips
Today’s Nintendo game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto’s birthday, and to celebrate, we figured it was high time to take a look at some of his insights into the creative process.
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White Dolphin by Gill Lewis – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Kara, the main character of this book, is a strong, ambitious 12-year-old girl with a thirst for justice driven by the disappearance of her Mum. It all started when her Mum died, the sadness, the confusion and the money issues.
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Why GPS Almost Always Overestimates Distances | Motherboard
You might not notice it on a car trip for several miles, but runners and hikers and those that routinely get around courtesy of their own two feet have likely experienced the phenomenon of GPS distance overestimation.
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Yemen authorities tell Aden: Put down your guns – Al Jazeera English
There is no one force to say it is in full control of the entire city. In Aden, there are all kinds of militants.
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Paris ‘Mastermind’ Told ISIS Magazine that Bungling Police Officers Let Him Escape – The Daily Beast
CAIRO — The alleged mastermind of the Paris attack gave an interview to ISIS’s Dabiq magazine earlier this year in which he spoke about being on the radar of intelligence services and escaping capture while planning a “plot” that appears to be Frida…
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France and Belgium carry out counterterrorism raids – Al Jazeera English
French and Belgian police have carried out over 150 raids in both countries and arrested at least nine people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks .
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MRW skyrim says: You can’t fast travel when enemies are nearby : gaming
I’m gonna have to beat you to a pulp for that pun. Ohhhhh, looks like we’re having a face off.
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If Donald Trump Is The Problem, Mitt Romney Isn’t The Solution | FiveThirtyEight
It was only a few weeks ago that Vice President Biden ended months of misguided speculation by affirming that he wouldn’t run for president. But now there’s rumor of another possible last-minute bid, this time on the Republican side. Mitt Romney’s m…
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Minute’s silence marks Paris attacks – BBC News
Minute’s silence marks Paris attacks 16 November 2015 Last updated at 11:56 GMT A minute of silence has been held across Europe to commemorate the victims of Friday’s attacks.A total of 129 people died in the attacks on bars and restaurants, a conce…
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Europe’s fourth ancestral ‘tribe’ uncovered – BBC News
Geneticists have detected a fourth ancestral “tribe” which contributed to the modern European gene pool. Research shows Europeans are a mixture of three major ancestral populations – indigenous hunters, Middle Eastern farmers and a population that a…
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Spies and Communists | News | The Guardian
One spring evening in 1937, James Klugmann accompanied John Cairncross, his friend from Cambridge University, for a walk in London’s Regent Park. Suddenly, Arnold Deutsch, the Soviet intelligence agent and recruiter codenamed Otto, came out from beh…
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After Paris attacks, UK politicians suggest fast-tracking new surveillance laws | The Verge
Some politicians in the UK are calling for the government to hurry new surveillance laws into power following deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday.
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A temporary marriage makes more sense than marriage …
In November 1891, the British sexologist Havelock Ellis married the writer and lesbian Edith Lees. He was 32 and a virgin. And since he was impotent, they never consummated their union. After their honeymoon, the two lived separately in what he call…
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Israeli forces kill three Palestinians at Qalandiya – Al Jazeera English
Qalandiya, occupied West Bank – Three Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli security forces after a gun battle in the Qalandiya refugee camp just before dawn on Monday morning.
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Like prizefighters, boxing kangaroos train for years…
Once oases supported human evolution. Now, our addiction to fountains, pools and palms threatens our survival
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Can self-help books be better than medication or the…
Essay Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? Opinion Is great philosophy, by its nature, difficult and obscure?
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My friend set up a camera in her yard trying to photograph bears. She caught this instead. – Imgur
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Bloodhound Diary: Getting ‘ready to roll’ – BBC News
A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h).
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‘Not even scared’: Except when there’s a reason to be – Al Jazeera English
Paris, France – “Meme pas peur” is a slogan that was often heard in the French capital after the Charlie Hebdo and Hypercacher shootings that claimed 17 lives just over 10 months ago.
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ISIL and the illusion of a clash of civilisations – Al Jazeera English
When the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly claimed responsibility for the atrocities in Paris, its message was sprinkled with references to “a faithful group of the soldiers of the caliphate” who attacked “crusaders” in Paris, a…
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Paris attack victims remembered in vigils around the world – video | World news | The Guardian
Famous landmarks around the world are lit up and flags held at half mast in memory of the victims of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris.
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Mars’s Largest Moon Is Slowly Being Torn Apart | Motherboard
Mars’s largest moon, Phobos, is gradually being pulled toward its home planet, caught in the tractor beam that is Mars’s gravity. Phobos orbits Mars faster than the planet rotates, and as such, the moon is caught in a cosmic chain reaction that will…
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ANTALYA, Turkey — For President Obama, the short-term response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was straightforward and relatively easy: The American military and intelligence agencies provided information to help French warplanes bomb Islamic Stat…
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A Conservative Alternative to Obama’s Climate Plan – The Atlantic
William F. Buckley, widely considered the father of modern conservatism, once opined: “Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be.
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Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Myanmar parliament – Al Jazeera English
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has returned to parliament after her party’s landslide election victory in legislative elections held last week. She was mobbed by journalists as she arrived at the parliament on Monday, but declined to make any comment as…
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‘My brother is dead’ – Al Jazeera English
“We are without news from our friend since Friday night. We went to see the lists. She is not on them. She might be among the unidentified victims. We do not know. But the centre took great care of us.”
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A spectacular display of the Northern Lights – Al Jazeera English
Northern Norway has been treated to a spectacular display of the Northern Lights. The lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, occurs when charged particles from the sun interact with air particles high up in the atmosphere.
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Lice Ladies Reveal Their Itchy Little Secrets | Mother Jones
Comb It Out salon in Concord, California, won’t give you a haircut, a new hairdo, or even a blowout. Comb It Out doesn’t give. It removes. Specifically, lice—from your hair.
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After the board that governs the University of North Carolina unexpectedly fired system president Tom Ross in January, there were murmurs that it might replace Ross with conservative kingmaker Art Pope.
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November 16, 1938: Dr. Albert Hofmann Synthesizes LSD For the First Time | The Nation
Five years after first synthesizing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), Dr. Albert Hofmann went back to look over his creation. His hands were exposed to the substance and then he accidentally touched his mouth.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would have had $1.9bn (£1.3bn) more to spend on its lifesaving health projects if it had divested from fossil fuels and instead invested in greener companies, according to a new analysis.
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How can I avoid wasting food over the holidays? | Grist
That means we’re already halfway to the “safe” benchmark of 2 degree C. If you have to deal with a mandatory waiting period for an abortion, you may as well enjoy your state’s giant, terrifying goose.
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Zenefits Launches Its Own Payroll Platform | TechCrunch
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad danced around a question about building out payroll services at Disrupt SF 2015. “I can’t announce anything about new products specifically, but you know payroll’s a very important spoke,” Conrad said at the time.
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Paris attacks: ‘It lasted a lifetime, an eternity’ – BBC News
The French Prime Minister has said Friday’s attacks in Paris were planned and organised from Syria. One suspect, who is now on the run, was spoken to by French police hours after the killings but was then released.
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Designers Hacked an Industrial Knitting Machine to ‘3D Print’ Unique Pieces | Motherboard
A London-based knitwear startup is trying to turn the fashion industry’s manufacturing process on its head. Instead of using industrial knitting machines to produce the same designs in bulk, they’ve created software that lets them “3D print” customi…
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Europe holds a minute’s silence to remember Paris victims – BBC News
Europe holds a minute’s silence to remember Paris victims 16 November 2015 Last updated at 10:47 GMT A Europe-wide minute’s silence is being held to remember victims of Friday’s attacks in Paris.
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LoveCrafts, The Crafting Community And Marketplace, Knits Together $20M Series B | TechCrunch
LoveCrafts, the crafting community, marketplace and e-commerce startup, has knitted together a $20 million Series B round. The funding is being led by Highland Europe, with participation from existing investor Balderton Capital.
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Passing through the Gevgelija refugee transit camp – Al Jazeera English
Gevgelija, Macedonia – Even if their numbers continue to increase, scenes with refugees sleeping on the train tracks, out in the rain, are rarely seen these days in Europe. The process has become more organised.
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France PM Valls says new attacks being planned in Europe – BBC News
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that authorities believe new terror attacks are being planned in France and other European countries. Speaking on the radio station RTL he also said Friday’s attacks by Islamist militants in Paris were pla…
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Contradictions, conspiracies and the Sinai plane crash – Al Jazeera English
When a Russian-operated airline came apart 10,000km over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 on board, what followed was a war of spin. There have been a few examples of Russian media trying to push conspiracy theories and somehow link the West…
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BBC Sport – Ganesh Thapa: Ten-year ban for Nepal FA president
Ganesh Thapa, one of the most influential figures in Asian football in recent years, has been banned for 10 years by Fifa for bribery.
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When crowdfunding projects go wrong – BBC News
What happens when a crowdfunded project goes wrong? And do those who back ideas on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have any rights when they do not deliver on their promises?
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Greek island fears impact of tax increases – Al Jazeera English
Taxes are going up across the Greek islands as the government tries to claw back cash to pay its creditors. The new rate will be the highest in the European Union – and ends an era of tax breaks for the islands. It may also keep tourists away – a va…
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BBC News – Microsoft pulls plug on Zune music service
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Hunger Games premiere scaled back in light of Paris attacks – BBC News
The Los Angeles premiere for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 has been scaled back “out of respect for the very recent events in Paris”.
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Amazon offers UK customers Prime membership for just £59 | The Verge
Amazon Prime’s free shipping is always most useful when you’ve got a lot of shopping to do, so luckily, ahead of Black Friday and Christmas, the retailer is offering UK customers Prime for £59 instead of £79.
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The best frogs in children’s books | Children’s books | The Guardian
Why are there so many frogs in children’s stories? And who are the best frogs? Although not usually regarded so very favourably in life for being (in the eyes of most people) rarely very beautiful and always very slimy, it is true that frogs (and to…
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Kenya and Uganda step up security after Paris attacks – BBC News
Kenyan and Ugandan security forces have stepped up patrols in the wake of the attacks on Paris. Uganda’s army spokesman Lt Col Paddy Ankunda said that the “threat of terrorism is real”.
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The China-Pakistan corridor: A fate-changer? – Al Jazeera English
Over the decades during which I have worked in and written about Pakistan, there have been so many supposed national “turning points” at which the country failed to turn that I have almost ceased to notice them.
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Paris attacks: French interior minister news briefing – BBC News
France’s interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve holds a news briefing with the latest on the attacks in Paris.
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Nintendo Direct Is Still the Best Event in Gaming | Motherboard
A few years ago, Nintendo came to a realization: In the age of streaming internet video and near-instantaneous dissemination of news, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to spend time and money on live, press conferences you can’t get into without …
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Fishermen rescue humpback whale off Skye – BBC News
Fisherman John McKinnon spotted the whale from the shore at Elgol in Skye at the weekend and alerted British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR). After raising the alarm, Mr McKinnon and one of his nephews went out in a boat to check on the animal.
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A British victim of the Paris terror attacks, Nick Alexander, was murdered on Friday as he sold merchandise for the rock group Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan concert hall.
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In the first half of 2015, Europe was preoccupied by radical emancipatory movements (Syriza and Podemos), while in the second half the attention shifted to the “humanitarian” topic of the refugees—class struggle was literally repressed and replaced …
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Laurent Fabius: Don’t confuse terrorism and Europe migration – BBC News
The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, says terrorism and the migrant influx into Europe must not be confused. Speaking to the BBC at the G20 summit in Turkey, he said world leaders were united in solidarity with France.
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Leo Incollingo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leo Incollingo is a former Canadian soccer player who had stints in the USISL D-3 Pro League, USL A-League, and the Canadian Professional Soccer League. Incollingo began his career in 1997, with Vermont Voltage of the USISL D-3 Pro League.
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Facebook Ups Its Sticker Game As The First Paid Packs Arrive For Messenger | TechCrunch
In a move that may seem trivial, but could be indicative of the future, you can now buy paid-for stickers for Facebook Messenger.
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Paris museums to re-open after attacks – BBC News
Public museums and other cultural venues in Paris will re-open at 12:00 on Monday, following the attacks in the French capital on Friday. Many of Paris’s tourist attractions, including the Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay, closed on Saturday amidst heig…
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Cats take over G20 stage in Turkey – BBC News
Three cats took over the stage at the G20 Leader’s Summit in Antalya, Turkey. Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are among the world leaders who will be attending the event.
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MRW websites ask me to dissable AdBlock to maximize my user experience – GIF on Imgur
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BBC Sport – Cesc Fabregas: Chelsea player voices anger over season
Midfielder Cesc Fabregas used a strong expletive to describe Chelsea’s season to date and said he cannot understand what is going wrong. The defending Premier League champions have lost seven of their 12 league matches and are only three points abov…
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Colombia’s Farc urges prisoners’ release on health grounds – BBC News
Colombia’s Farc rebel group has urged the government to release 81 of its jailed fighters on health grounds. The Farc said in a statement that the lives of sick prisoners were at risk because medical attention was poor.
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Bosnian Home of a Jewish Treasure Reopens | Al Jazeera America
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Three years ago, squabbling politicians in this ethnically divided country achieved what three wars and the collapse of two states never did: They forced the 127-year-old National Museum to close its doors.
Bosnian home of a Jewish treasure reopens, as pressure sways politicians https://t.co/2zrq1ig1Fp via Al Jazeera America -
left: Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid.
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Happily Ever After by Keira Cass – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Happily Ever After by Keira Cass is a collection of short stories, which link with the Selection series. I would advise reading the first three books in the series before reading this companion novel, but not necessarily The Heir.
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There are many checks and balances within a newspaper. There is the original author, the news or commissioning editor, and a system of revising the work of subeditors. While this is happening, lawyers will be checking for any legal problems. But mis…
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Analysis: The dilemma for France – Al Jazeera English
Friday’s massacres in Paris have left France’s leadership facing a dilemma familiar to Western governments since 9/11: They need a response at home and abroad that balances the need to express national fury and protect their society from further att…
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The trouble with homegrown jihadists – Al Jazeera English
After a series of attacks were carried out in Paris and outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Friday night, Francois Hollande, the French president, declared to the nation: “We know who committed those crimes.
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CashKaro Raises $3.8M Series A To Become The Ebates Of Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
CashKaro, which claims to be India’s largest cashback and coupon site, is planning to expand into new countries after raising a $3.8 million Series A from Kalaari Capital.
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Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians in refugee camp | Al Jazeera America
Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians in the West bank on Monday, and three wounded at a Palestinian refugee camp near Jerusalem early Monday, a Palestinian health official said.
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Airlines shares fall as European stock markets slip – BBC News
European stock markets slipped at the start of the trading day, with travel and leisure stocks down sharply after the attacks in Paris. France’s Cac 40 index fell 1%, while the main markets in London and Frankfurt fell 0.5% – a more muted response t…
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Will Paris force Obama to change tack? – BBC News
It would be overdoing it to say that Barack Obama has been dragged kicking and screaming towards involvement in defeating the so-called Islamic State (IS) – but everything about the administration’s policy and body language has suggested a wariness …
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Yakuza gang boss ‘bludgeoned to death’ – BBC News
Tatsuyuki Hishida’s wife and fellow gang members found him collapsed and bleeding at a house in Mie prefecture, the Mainichi Shimbun said. Hishida’s hands and feet were reportedly tied, and his head appeared to have been hit with a blunt object.
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I stand over him, knife poised to kill. Clenching my weapon in one hand, I pin him down on the ground with the other, my eyes fixated on his once handsome face. A single bead of sweat runs down his forehead, glistening in the flickering candle light.
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How to win a creative writing competition – top tips | Children’s books | The Guardian
Standing out is hard. Sometimes you just want to blend in and stick with whatever everybody else is doing. Creative writing competitions are not those times. I’ve judged a lot of competitions for young writers, which means I’ve read through thousand…
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Bitnami is probably best known for making it easy to deploy web apps, services and development environments with just a few clicks. As developers start moving to containers, Bitnami, too, has to change to keep up with this trend.
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Docker Puts Focus On Container Security Tools | TechCrunch
Docker today announced three new security tools and features for containers at its DockerCon Europe conference in Barcelona. These tools are meant to make using containers safer without interrupting the usual developer workflow.
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Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor and Bollywood veteran, dies – BBC News
Veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey, who starred in several Bollywood and international films, has died at the age of 86. The news of his death was shared on Facebook by his niece Shaheen Aggarwal.
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New Zealand’s Ross Taylor struck the highest Test score by a visiting batsman in Australia as the runs continued to flow in the second Test. The 31-year-old, who on Sunday became the first Kiwi double centurion against Australia, reached 290 before …
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Historians love to identify a particular year as world-shaking or otherwise important, and write a book about it. Recently, popular histories have appeared of 1913 (the “year before the storm”), 1968 (“the year of revolt”), and 1980 (the “year of fr…
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He sat in a Denny’s restaurant, drinking coffee between cigarette breaks after a long and sleepless night, answering question after question. He knew none of it made sense: He was a successful and well-traveled professional, with close to seven figu…
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Paris attacks ‘planned from Syria’ – France PM Valls – BBC News
Friday’s attacks by Islamist militants in Paris were planned and organised from Syria, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said. He added that the authorities believed new terror attacks were being planned in France and other European countries.
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“Oh, work that is done in freedom out of doors, work that is done with the body’s and soul’s goodwill, work that is an integral part of life and is done with friends — is there anything so good?” Twice a century, if we’re lucky, a writer comes along…
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Bataclan attack survivor: ‘I thought I would die’ – BBC News
Graham Satchell reports.
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Filmakers celebrate Scottish Bafta wins – BBC News
Actors Emma Thompson, Ken Stott and Sharon Rooney were among the winners at the Bafta Scotland awards in Glasgow. The Legend of Barney Thomson, directed by Robert Carlyle, who also stars in the film, won two awards – including best film.
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Who is the winner of Turkey’s elections? – Al Jazeera English
The surprising outcome of Turkey’s November 1 elections ensured that the Justice and Development Party, known as the AKP, would be in power for the next four years, as it has done for the past 13. What it did not resolve was how the leadership of th…
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On Friday night, after a successful day at the German Chancellery with Angela Merkel, Malcolm Turnbull was in ebullient form at an embassy function in Berlin.
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“[Leonardo da Vinci’s] unique brain wiring … allowed him the opportunity to experience the world from the vantage point of a higher dimension,” Leonard Shlain wrote in his stimulating inquiry into the source of Leonardo’s genius.
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Sony’s crowdfunded FES e-paper watch hits retail this month | The Verge
The FES Watch, an e-paper timepiece developed by a Sony subsidiary, first broke cover a year ago on Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake. Since then it’s expanded to Sony’s own crowdfunding portal First Flight, and this month it’ll finally see a relea…
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In the last two decades China has become the world’s largest bottled water consumer and a major producer. With per capita consumption 19% lower than global average, the market is expected to continue to grow.
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In addition to being an all-around magnificent hour of television, “Lens” has the best kind of ending: the soft cliffhanger. Television is an ultra-competitive medium, and storytellers can’t take for granted that the same people watching any given e…
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‘Armchair woodchoppers’ make DIY timber guide surprise bestseller | Books | The Guardian
A practical guide to chopping, stacking and burning wood the Norwegian way, detailing everything from the drying time of a birch tree felled in winter to the correct sharpening of a chainsaw, has caught the imagination of British readers and is sett…
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Kobe helps Lakers snap four-game losing run – Al Jazeera English
Forward Kobe Bryant compiled 17 points, nine assists and eight rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers snapped a four-game losing skid with a 97-85 victory over the Detroit Pistons at Staples Center.
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Presidential hopefuls square off in Argentina debate – Al Jazeera English
The two contenders for Argentina’s presidency have faced off in a TV debate in advance of a run-off election scheduled for Saturday.
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The urban ultimatum: what should our future cities be like? | Cities | The Guardian
Outside the echo chamber of religious fanaticism of all descriptions, this is not a moment in which the world is much given to declamatory statements about how things should be.
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US air raids credited for Kurds’ Sinjar success – Al Jazeera English
Kurdish peshmerga fighters who have captured the Iraqi town of Sinjar from ISIL say US air strikes were crucial to their success. That cooperation is proving to be a hallmark of the continuing fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (…
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India downplays Dalai Lama remarks on ‘intolerance’ – BBC News
India’s ruling BJP has downplayed remarks by the Dalai Lama that are seen as criticising the government. The Tibetan spiritual leader said recent elections in Bihar state – which the BJP lost – showed a “majority of Hindus believed in religious harm…
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France Carries Out Raids Over Paris Attacks | Al Jazeera America
Specialized counterterrorism units have launched coordinated raids across France and arrested at least nine people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks.
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In 1926, Nikola Tesla gave an interview later published under the title “When Woman Is Boss,” in which he predicted women’s “gradual usurpation of leadership.
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The Hangover News | VICE | United Kingdom
This weekend, 130 people were killed and over 350 injured in multiple terrorist attacks in Paris. On Friday night, suicide bombers detonated themselves in a packed concert hall while gunmen opened fire on restaurants and bars in the centre of the ci…
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Whale Hoe!! Where? I can’t see it… Oh shit, right there! – GIF on Imgur
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Two chaps enjoy a pint in a flooded beer garden in Leeds. – Imgur
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Mary-Louise Parker: ‘The World Doesn’t Need Another Mean Book. And I Do Love Men.’ – The Daily Beast
The award-winning Weeds star could have written just another celebrity memoir. Instead, she wrote a memorable series of letters to the men in her life.
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Jeb Bush’s Days as Favorite Florida Man Are Gone – The Daily Beast
ORLANDO — Christina Calderaio, a Floridian from Palm Peach, likes Jeb Bush, and was even wearing a Bush campaign sticker at the first major grassroots GOP event in Florida since the beginning of the campaign. But that doesn’t mean she thinks he can …
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Muslims Hate ISIS Most of All – The Daily Beast
Denounce ISIS? Muslims despise ISIS. (At least those who aren’t pathological.) True, ISIS is compromised of people who claim to be Muslims. But the number one victim of this barbaric terror group is Muslims. That’s undisputed.
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The World Runs on Palm Oil, and That’s Fueling Climate Change – The Daily Beast
Each day in Indonesia, forest fires release as much carbon dioxide as the entire United States. The fires have been burning since July, thanks to a combination of slash-and-burn land clearing, flammable peat soil, and El Nino.
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Is Your Baby Drunk on Hand Sanitizer? – The Daily Beast
As cold season rolls forward, hand sanitizer is one of many methods families will use to fight the spread of germs. Still, families with children should be wary of the risks of keeping hand sanitizer within reach of small hands.
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Ben Carson and the Myth of Angry Blacks – The Daily Beast
With racial tension dominating conversations on college campuses and media coverage making it seem as though our country is on the brink of another civil war, it is understandable that some Americans may feel a sense of hopelessness.
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Georgia Tries to Blackmail Its Top TV Station With KGB Tactics—and Loses the Fight – The Daily Beast
Taking deep drags on a cigarette, Nika Gvaramia walked from desk to desk around the newsroom full of his faithful team members, TV anchors, producers and reporters.
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Why Can’t the Dems Say ‘Radical Islam’? – The Daily Beast
Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate offered the country a moment of clarity that exposes just how brittle and discredited the worldview of America’s elites has become—and it showed that critiques of former Secretary of State Hillary Clin…
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Police Search for Killer of Child Who Vanished From Football Game – The Daily Beast
A 7-year-old Kentucky girl vanished from a youth football game Saturday night and was found dead 25 minutes later. Police are still searching for her killer.
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The Princess Bride embraced the tricky style and tone of its source · Page To Screen · The A.V. Club
In Page To Screen, we compare a movie to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned. “Unadaptable” is a word that gets attached to a lot of books, and usually for good r…
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, November 16. All times are Eastern. Fargo (FX, 10 p.m.): You probably haven’t heard of this Fargo show—it’s on a small network and no one ever talks about it—but we figured we’d throw it a bone this we…
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I have no idea what kind of scheduling monkeys they have over at ABC, who tried to shuffle around some episodes in light of whatever award show is running in Once Upon A Time’s time slot next Sunday.
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Star Wars creatures, critters, and robots get lots of appreciation, but what about the imaginative carriages that make all the heroes’ galaxy jetting possible? Introducing: Star Wars Wars. For Star Wars Week, The A.V.
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Women and girls make up a significant portion of Adventure Time’s audience, and over time, the series has devoted more and more time to its female characters, turning Princess Bubblegum, Flame Princess, Lumpy Space Princess, and Marceline The Vampir…
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It feels like a cheat to reveal Beatlebone’s unfolding secret, or even the main character’s identity, and deprive readers of the surprises awaiting them within the pages of Kevin Barry’s second novel.
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The Star Wars prequels don’t deserve your hatred · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
Beyond its status as the first Star Wars movie in more than a decade, beyond its promised revival of characters unseen in new filmed adventures for over three decades, this December’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be seen as a new chance for the…
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Amazon Studios has been making quite the push for its new series, The Man In The High Castle. Ads for the show have played up its alternate-reality vision of a Nazi-fied America, complete with a swastika replacing the stars on the U.S. flag.
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Disney isn’t about to do something as simple as just make a new Star Wars trilogy.
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There’s a lesson in re-imagining the Star Wars films as books: The story isn’t what makes them great.
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APOD: 2015 November 15 – Leonids Over Monument Valley
Explanation: There was a shower over Monument Valley — but not water. Meteors. The featured image — actually a composite of six exposures of about 30 seconds each — was taken in 2001, a year when there was a very active Leonids shower.
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When Lucca Quinn breezes into the conference room of Lockhart, Gardner, & Lee, she introduces herself and then pauses a little too long before announcing her partner: Alicia Florrick. The pause is unapologetically dramatic, and it’s sparks the soapy…
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Why Cynthia Nixon Played a Cancer Patient After Her Mom’s Cancer Death – The Daily Beast
In January of 2013, Cynthia Nixon’s mother died after her third battle with breast cancer.
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US releases five Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo – Al Jazeera English
The US defence department has announced the release of five Yemeni men held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. The group, who had spent more than a decade in Guantanamo, were transferred to the UAE, the Pentagon said in a statement published…
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Desolate shores draw birds and birders | Environment | The Guardian
“Time is a thing,” says our minibus driver, with her duffle coat pegged up against the crisp westerlies as we alight in a layby near Campfield Marsh. “Like a bird on the wing.” “Come again?” asks a guy with Zeiss binoculars. “Just seems apt when we’…
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This Week in Fiction: Ann Beattie on How a Bumper Sticker Inspired a Story – The New Yorker
Bradley, the main character in “Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl,” is a lawyer in late middle age, who recently lost his wife to medical malpractice and is trying to cope with his loneliness. How did he first come to you? Have you seen friends go through…
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Cover Story: Seth’s “Virtual Music” – The New Yorker
“My dream world, the world I want to inhabit, is that of the old New Yorker cartoons,” Seth, the artist behind this week’s cover, “Virtual Music,” says.
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons November 23, 2015 – The New Yorker
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Strange house we must keep and fill. House that eats and pleads and kills.
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Robert Corrigan holds a doctorate in urban rodentology from Purdue University, and students and colleagues call him the Rat Czar. As a boy growing up in East Flatbush, Corrigan fancied himself a terrestrial Jacques Cousteau; rats were his fish.
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Opera’s Bad Girl – The New Yorker
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind, the iconoclastic author of “Spring Awakening” and the Lulu plays, had trouble deciding whether he was German or American.
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The Doomsday Invention – The New Yorker
Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment at Oxford.
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Should Time Warner Spin Off HBO? – The New Yorker
Few things currently spook investors more than the future of media companies. Just a couple of weeks ago, when Time Warner reported disappointing earnings and a gloomy outlook for 2016, its stock fell more than six per cent, and it’s now down nearly…
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An Honest Film Review – The New Yorker
This week, I’m reviewing “Paintings of Cole,” which I didn’t like, because the press screening was all the way uptown, and there were huge delays on the J train.
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When, two years ago, the German artist Thomas Struth photographed this robotic head, at the nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, it wasn’t his first encounter with a stiff upper lip: Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh had recently …
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The Mail (November 23, 2015) – The New Yorker
Michael Specter, in his article about the varying modes of the fast-food industry, writes that “fast food” has come to mean many things (“Freedom from Fries,” November 2nd). There is Sweetgreen, which serves salads in three minutes, and then there a…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews – The New Yorker
The Year of Lear, by James Shapiro (Simon & Schuster). In 1606, Shakespeare’s theatre company débuted “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” and “Antony and Cleopatra.
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Team Chris Christie – The New Yorker
Four years ago, Chris Christie was all set to be the savior of the G.O.P., but now that he’s running for President a majority of voters in New Jersey want him to drop out of the race.
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Conversion via Twitter – The New Yorker
On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if users employed the hashtag #red, their tweets would appear highlighted in red. Megan Phelps-Roper, a twenty-three-year-old legal assistant, seized the opportunity.
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Laugh Until It Hurts – The New Yorker
Even in an age of downer comedies, “Getting On” is a hard sell. It’s set in a failing extended-care ward, whose patients are elderly women. The caretakers do a saintly job, but their own lives are stunted: the doctors are solipsists, the nurses are …
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Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl – The New Yorker
Heidi and Bree were rear-ended on Route 1 by Sterne Clough, driving his brother’s Ford pickup. Neither girl seemed hurt. Sterne, though, felt the oddest sensation. It was as if someone had clamped an ice bag under his right armpit. It felt frozen an…
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“Ice for the Ice Trade” – The New Yorker
Everybody wants a piece of me. I have been weighed and measured,tested and standardized,throughout my young life. It happens to everyone,or to everyone with my ability.
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Ravished by “Carol” – The New Yorker
Who is the heroine of Todd Haynes’s “Carol”? There are two candidates. One is Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), a wife and mother whom we first espy in a mink coat, and who never really sheds that touch of caressable luxury.
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Why Not Just Print More Money? – The New Yorker
The gross domestic product is a measure of all the goods and services that the United States economy produces in a year. It’s also a measure of all the income that the economy generates, and how fast it grows helps determine how rapidly over-all pro…
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Can Video Games Help Stroke Victims? – The New Yorker
In late October, when the Apple TV was relaunched, Bandit’s Shark Showdown was among the first apps designed for the platform. The game stars a young dolphin with anime-huge eyes, who battles hammerhead sharks with bolts of ruby light.
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Talk About the Weather – The New Yorker
Twain was not alone in mistrusting meteorological activity in fiction. As literary subjects go, weather has a terrible reputation. More precisely, it has two terrible reputations that do not get along.
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The Gent Behind “School of Rock” – The New Yorker
Most of the dozen kids sprawled around a rehearsal studio on Forty-second Street the other day had on T-shirts and sneakers.
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“Tissue Gallery” – The New Yorker
On the fifth floorof the medical school,sequestered from public view,a black slab lab tablelined with old apothecary jars and twist-top jarssealed with paraffin wax,a shoal of not-fish treading bronzy water,each homunculus labelledin terms of …
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Another Side of Arthur Miller – The New Yorker
For some time after I saw the director Ivo van Hove’s interpretation of Arthur Miller’s 1956 play “A View from the Bridge” (at the Lyceum), I found myself pondering the production’s graphic hysteria and homoeroticism.
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What does Argentina’s election mean for South America? – BBC News
In the future, books about Argentina’s economic history in the early 21st Century will have to come with a comprehensive glossary.
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Laugh Until It Hurts – The New Yorker
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An Honest Film Review – The New Yorker
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“Tissue Gallery” – The New Yorker
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The Mail (November 23, 2015) – The New Yorker
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“Ice for the Ice Trade” – The New Yorker
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Conversion via Twitter – The New Yorker
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Can Video Games Help Stroke Victims? – The New Yorker
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Why Not Just Print More Money? – The New Yorker
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Opera’s Bad Girl – The New Yorker
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Lava Field Image, Iceland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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A young elliptical | ESA/Hubble
At the centre of this amazing image is the elliptical galaxy NGC 3610. Surrounding the galaxy are a wealth of other galaxies of all shapes. There are spiral galaxies, galaxies with a bar in their central regions, distorted galaxies and elliptical ga…
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Information Sharing Is Key To Avoiding A Cyberattack | TechCrunch
President Obama’s recent extraction of a pledge from Chinese leader Xi Jinping that neither government would conduct or continue economic espionage in cyberspace, while important, still comes up far short of addressing the significant and growing gl…
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Mia Farrow at the witness box: archive, 16 November 1968 | US news | The Guardian
Mia Farrow, the American actress, used a four-letter word at Bow Street Court, London, yesterday, when she was called as a witness in the case against Canadian producer Iain Quarrier on a charge of obstructing a police officer.
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France carries out raids over Paris attacks – Al Jazeera English
Specialised counterterrorism units have launched coordinated raids across France and arrested three people in connection with the deadly Paris attacks.
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John Oliver Curses Off Paris Attackers: ‘F*ck These Assholes’ – The Daily Beast
In the wake of Friday’s series of brutal attacks on Paris, a coordinated assault against Western culture—music, sports, and fine dining—carried out by a group of ISIS-affiliated gunmen and suicide bombers that left at least 127 people dead and score…
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Cybersex industry exploits Filipino children – Al Jazeera English
Philippines has become a hub for a billion-dollar cybersex industry, its government has been warned by the Interpol and the FBI. An international operation that took two years to plan also uncovered a paedophile ring that was reaching a global audie…
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Australia excluded from Syria peace talks after Russian objection | Australia news | The Guardian
Australia was excluded from talks about resolving the Syrian conflict after resistance from Russia, according to government sources.
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We May Have Just Met The Walking Dead’s Newest Threat. Time to Panic. | Vanity Fair
In Season 6, Episode 6 of The Walking Dead, much of the drama came in the form of unseen assailants, who not only drove Sasha, Abraham, and Daryl off the road, but took everyone’s favorite crossbow-wielding character hostage.
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Ronda Rousey hospitalised as Victorian government hails UFC fight a success | Sport | The Guardian
The Victorian government has declared Sunday’s UFC fight between Holly Holm and Ronda Rousey a success, with more than 56,000 people attending Etihad Stadium.
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MRW skyrim says: You can’t fast travel when enemies are nearby – GIF on Imgur
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After the Paris Attacks, World Leaders Gather at the G20 Summit – The Atlantic
The annual Group of 20 summit usually focuses on economic issues. Then the Paris attacks made the event a crucial opportunity for world leaders to discuss plans to defeat ISIS and continue to accommodate the refugees flooding out of Syria.
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The first few episodes of The Last Man On Earth were, as many have pointed out, like nothing else on television because of how spare, imaginative, and unpredictable they were.
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On Gawker’s Problem With Women — Matter — Medium
The following story — on the treatment of female editors, writers, and managers at Gawker Media — was scheduled to appear on Gawker.com on Friday, November 13. It had been originally written in July, kiboshed in August, reported further in October, …
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Refugee crisis highlighted in Africa film festival – Al Jazeera English
Nollywood, or Nigerian cinema, is the second largest film industry in the world. Some of its stars are now coming together for the Africa International Film Festival in Lagos.
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How Not to Do Thanksgiving: ‘The Affair’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 7 – The Daily Beast
Ahh, Thanksgiving, a time for family and sharing—or, in the case of The Affair, a time for bitterness, accusations, and dark secrets coming to the surface. Do not cross Ma Lockhart (Mare Winningham), perhaps the scariest mother on television.
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Norman Reedus says Silent Hills collaboration with Kojima and del Toro ‘needs to happen’ | The Verge
Norman Reedus, the Walking Dead actor who was set to work on a new Silent Hill video game with Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima until Konami canceled the project, still has hope that the trio will collaborate at some point.
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Google Maps reviewers can now earn 1 TB of free Drive storage | The Verge
Google has updated its Local Guides program for Google Maps, rewarding people who regularly leave reviews, upload photos, or add information for restaurants, tourist spots, and other locations with increased Google Drive storage and early access to …
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Superheroes are the new samurai, so it makes sense that the co-creators of Smallville have teamed up again to create Into the Badlands, a post-apocalyptic samurai drama.
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After the drama that happened while Ant-Man was being made, with original director Edgar Wright backing out and Marvel quickly trying to find a replacement, it seemed like the film would end up being more trouble than it was worth.
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If The Affair was a supernatural show, Noah’s book would be the ancient cursed artifact that infects and ruins the lives of everyone who reads it before murdering them in some sort of brutal fashion.
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‘The Walking Dead’ Recap: Truth or Daryl | Rolling Stone
It’s been a few weeks since last we enjoyed the adventures of Daryl Dixon, Zombie Drover, so imagine our relief seeing him at the start of this week’s Walking Dead, more or less exactly where we’d left him: on a motorcycle, playing the grand marshal…
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I Love Big Succulents and I Cannot Lie | New Republic
I am not trendy. In fact, I actively disdain something as soon as I sense it’s a trend, not because I want to be cooler than everyone else but because many of my tastes solidified years ago. I still dress like I did in first grade and the most-playe…
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Open thread for night owls. NATO chief: This fight is not between Muslims and the Western world
The battle will be fought using intelligence, military means, police work and an ideological push for open societies based on trust, he added. […]
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Paris attacks: Police issue details of French suspect – BBC News
Police have issued a photograph of a French national wanted in connection with Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead. The man, named as Salah Abdeslam, 26, is described as dangerous. Police believe that he rented one of the cars…
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES NOV. 15, 2015 Authorities said the coordinated terrorist assault in Paris on Friday night was conducted by three teams of Islamic State attackers, including several French citizens, some of whom were living in Belgium.
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Bill Murray Shows Anthony Bourdain the Beauty of Charleston, South Carolina – The Daily Beast
On Sunday’s Season 6 finale of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, the host traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, where Bill Murray served as the best tour guide ever.
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Apple Confirms It Will Open A Retail Store In Singapore, Its First In Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
Apple has confirmed that it will open its first retail store in Southeast Asia, located in Singapore, as the U.S. phone maker begins to increase its efforts in the region’s fast-growing smartphone market.
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“Episode 2” of Flesh and Bone starts to show its cracks with style overriding the narrative drama. Not a whole lot happens in the second episode that pushes forward the plot of the entire series, which would be fine if this wasn’t a miniseries with …
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I have a confession to make: when it comes to scenes of characters looting through the remnants of a once thriving society, the magic is gone.
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‘The Walking Dead’ Recap, Season Six, Episode Six, ‘Always Accountable’ – The Atlantic
Every week for the fifth season of AMC’s post-apocalyptic drama The Walking Dead, Lenika Cruz and David Sims will discuss the latest threat—human, zombie, or otherwise—to the show’s increasingly hardened band of survivors.
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‘The Walking Dead’: Was That Glenn?! – The Daily Beast
“Always Accountable,” the sixth episode of The Walking Dead’s sixth season, ended with the utterance of a single syllable over a walkie-talkie: “Help.
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‘The Leftovers’ Season Two, Episode Seven: A Most Powerful Adversary – The Atlantic
Each week following episodes of season two of The Leftovers, Sophie Gilbert and Spencer Kornhaber will discuss new characters, old visitors, and whether smoking really is the best way to express profound nihilism.
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Cairo Sees Obama ‘Plots’ in Paris—Seethes With Terror Jealousy – The Daily Beast
CAIRO — To show its solidarity with Paris, Egyptian authorities lit the pyramids Sunday night with images of the Egyptian, French, Russian, and Lebanese flags shining on one pyramid and message of solidarity in between.
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UN’s Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea, report says – BBC News
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit North Korea this week, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. Yonhap cited a senior UN source for its claim, which the UN has declined to comment on.
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UAE takes 5 Yemeni Detainees Freed from Gitmo | Al Jazeera America
Five men who have been held for almost 14 years at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and sent to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon said Sunday. The five Yemeni men were accepted for resettlement in the Persian Gulf…
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Wife of Australian ISIS recruit pleads guilty to terror charge – BBC News
The wife of one of Australia’s most notorious extremists, Mohamed Elomar, has pleaded guilty to supporting overseas terrorism. Fatima Elomar was intercepted at Sydney Airport in May last year as she tried to board an international flight.
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The Walking Dead: Proof That Probably Was Glenn on the Walkie Talkie | Vanity Fair
Season 6, Episode 6 of The Walking Dead titled “Always Accountable” focused on three character—Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham—as well as introducing fearsome new villains. But while the episode introduced plenty of ominous threats for the future it did e…
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Floods spark landslide in eastern China killing 21 people – BBC News
More than 2,000 rescuers are searching for survivors of a landslide in eastern China that has killed at least 21 people. Several days of rain sparked a torrent of mud and rock, engulfing homes in Lidong village, Zhejiang province.
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What Technology Will Look Like In Five Years | TechCrunch
As a driver of technical innovation for a software company, a huge part of my job depends on forecasting how current tech trends will play out, merge, dissipate or expand. Here are some of my predictions of what the world will look like in 2020.
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Aaron Rodgers attacks ‘prejudicial’ comments during NFL’s Paris tribute | Sport | The Guardian
Aaron Rodgers was upset by incidents on and off the field on Sunday. Firstly his Green Bay Packers side lost to a weak Detroit Lions team, then he voiced his displeasure about apparently Islamaphobic comments made from the crowd during a pre-game tr…
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France Bombs ISIS Capital – The Daily Beast
The French defense ministry announced Sunday that its air force is attacking the capital of ISIS in Raqqa, Syria. Twenty sites were struck, France says, including a command post and training camp.
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“They diserve some credits to! the medical staff of paris hospitals” by merlindy in pics – Imgur
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Australia minister Peter Dutton rejects MP’s call for Middle East refugee ban – BBC News
Australia’s immigration minister has rejected a call by an MP to close its borders to refugees from the Middle East, in the wake of the Paris attacks. Andrew Fraser, a conservative MP, made the call on Facebook.
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Hello From the Magic Tavern: hilarious, addictive improv podcast / Boing Boing
The setup is pretty weird: Arnie fell through a dimensional portal behind a Chicago Burger King and found humself in a magical high-fantasy kingdom called Foon, where he has befriended a shape-shifter in the form of a talking badger called Chunt, an…
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In pictures: Faith through a lens – BBC News
Jim Grover’s photograph of communion being given to a parishioner has won him this year’s Faith Through a Lens photography competition. The picture is of Floris, who is too weak to attend church and receives communion at home from Kit, her local vic…
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The Republicans’ dynamic deception for 2016
This week’s GOP presidential debate was notable both for what the candidates said and for what they didn’t say. Noting that Presidents Obama and Clinton had added 107,000 and 240,000 jobs a month compared to George W.
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Confessions of an ISIS Spy – The Daily Beast
For all the attention paid to ISIS, relatively little is known about its inner workings. But a man claiming to be a member of the so-called Islamic State’s security services has stepped forward to provide that inside view. This series is based on da…
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New York plastic surgeon performs ‘most extensive’ face transplant ever | US news | The Guardian
A plastic surgeon at New York University’s Langone Medical Center has performed the “most extensive” facial transplant ever. Related: Face transplants – a short history Dr Eduardo Rodriguez performed the transplant over 26 hours in August.
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So You Want To Be A Stormtrooper: It’s The Little Things In Armor
This week, we’re rocketing to the end of our build for this Stormtrooper. With all the major assembly completed, it’s now time to get the little details and fittings finished up.
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Game of Thrones Actor Ian McShane Basically Confirms the Return of a Fan Favorite | Vanity Fair
There is still a lot of mystery surrounding Ian McShane’s upcoming role in Game of Thrones Season 6. His character doesn’t even have a name yet! But the actor let drop a few small details about his involvement in the upcoming series.
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Another exoplanet weather report: 8,500 km/hour winds | Ars Technica
We’re only a couple of decades removed from the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun. But with greater attention and some improved technology, we’re increasingly able to learn things about the nature of the planets themselv…
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Kate Holden: ‘There are drugs out there now I don’t even know the names of’ | Books | The Guardian
“I have a really complicated reaction when I see junkies in the street now,” says Kate Holden. “I don’t mind giving money to homeless people or drunks in the street, but for some reason junkies just really annoy me.” She laughs.
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US transfers five Guantánamo Bay detainees to United Arab Emirates | US news | The Guardian
The United States has announced the transfer of five detainees from Guantánamo Bay to the United Arab Emirates, part of a long-delayed plan to close the controversial military prison. Related: Obama doesn’t need Congress to close Guantánamo – so wha…
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Dear Bethesda, I would like to claim my royalties in karma. Kind regards, Tower Tom. : gaming
Dear Bethesda, I would like to claim my royalties in karma. Kind regards, Tower Tom. (i.imgur.com) What was it like killing yourself? Did you gain strength? Did you scream “There can be only ONE!”?
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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Approaches $15 Million Target for Second Fund | TechCrunch
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a three-year-old, seed-stage venture firm led by its founder and sole general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, is about to close its second fund with $15 million, up from its $8.3 million effort closed last year.
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Paris Attacks Highlight Tech’s Elevated Role In Disaster Relief | TechCrunch
As terror attacks put France into a national state of emergency on Friday, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster response mode. AirBnB contacted all hosts in Paris asking if they could take in those stranded in the…
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Paris terror attacks: Memorial service at Notre Dame – BBC News
France is marking three days of national mourning.
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Patriots turn tables on Giants with victory in final seconds | Sport | The Guardian
Stephen Gostkowski’s 54-yard field goal with one second remaining on Sunday kept the New England Patriots unbeaten with a 27-26 victory over the New York Giants.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/W5nGGw5RSN
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I AM RAINN WILSON, ACTOR, AUTHOR, BASSOONIST, LANNISTER. : IAmA
Actor / Entertainer – LiveI AM RAINN WILSON, ACTOR, AUTHOR, BASSOONIST, LANNISTER. (self.IAmA) My name is Rainn Wilson. I played Dwight on The Office. I just wrote a book called THE BASSOON KING. I Will be answering questions from 2-3. Also, I love …
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From its very inception, Mr. Show’s point of view was contrarian in nature. As Erik Adams points out in his TV Club 10, it didn’t look or sound like a traditional sketch show, nor did it have a large ensemble cast or writer’s room either. (In many w…
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As he did most mornings of the 117 days of his life, the first thing Karl did that Monday morning in July was to give me a smile like sunlight. He lay in the bed for a while, between his dad and me, looking from one of us to the other, working himse…
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My friend just found this in the obituaries… : funny
My friend just found this in the obituaries… (imgur.com) May that karmawhore’s soul find a place in repost heaven.
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New York Cosmos bid farewell to Raul with NASL title victory | Football | The Guardian
The New York Cosmos trophy case is now even more crowded. Not that they’re complaining.
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My grandma when she was 19. : OldSchoolCool
My grandma when she was 19. (imgur.com) If I had a time machine, I’d be your grandpa.
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G20 leaders mull response to Islamic State attack – BBC News
The actions of so-called Islamic State in France are dominating the agenda of world leaders who are meeting in Turkey at the G20 summit. They will also be discussing the Syrian conflict and the growing impact it is having way beyond the Middle East.
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How Much Technology Is Too Much Technology? | TechCrunch
There are many visions of what our hyper-connected future might look like. We’re packaged countless variants on the shiny-techie-future vision theme every day as marketing departments lay it on thick to try to put gloss on their latest product and r…
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Assault Rifles Stolen From Massachusetts Army Reserve Armory – The Daily Beast
BOSTON — The U.S. Army Reserve armory in Worcester, Massachusetts was broken into Saturday night and more than a dozen guns were stolen, a law enforcement source tells The Daily Beast. Six M4 assault rifles, ten pistols, and several long guns were t…
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Mixed martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship has come to town and, though it’s Sunday daytime, the darkened interior of Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium evokes an enormous nightclub.
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Ridley Scott renames Prometheus 2 again, now it’s Alien: Covenant · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ridley Scott is planning to make as many sequels to Prometheus as he possibly can, and unlike with the Alien movies, he’s hoping to maintain control of the series by directing all of them himself (which is probably why Neill Blomkamp’s Alien movie i…
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AMC premieres its latest blood-soaked, action-heavy adventure show, Into the Badlands, Sunday night.
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The Internet will always suck / Boing Boing
Have you ever wondered why the Internet is always just a little bit too slow to support the kind of activity you’re trying to undertake? My latest Locus column, The Internet Will Always Suck, hypothesizes that whenever the Internet gets a little fas…
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Japan falls back into recession again – BBC News
Japan’s economy shrank 0.8% on an seasonally adjusted basis in the third quarter, marking a technical recession in the world’s third largest economy. The preliminary data showed the economy contracted on an annualised basis for a second consecutive …
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France has launched massive airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria. | New Republic
According to a statement from the French defense ministry, “The first target destroyed was used by Daesh [an Arabic acronym for ISIS] as a command post, jihadist recruitment center, and arms and munitions depot. The second held a terrorist training …
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Are liberals living in their own bubble?
The Republican primary looks like a poorly-made reality TV series—but unfortunately, it’s real. It’s even more unfortunate that contrary to popular belief, one of those incompetent demagogues could be our next president.
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French warplanes struck Islamic State militants in Syria, two days after Islamic State terrorists killed at least 129 people in Paris. The airstrikes appeared to be focused on Raqqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State.
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Colour-changing dressing ‘fights antibiotic resistance’ – BBC News
A medical dressing that changes colour when it detects infection could cut the unnecessary use of antibiotics, say scientists at Bath University.It works by releasing fluorescent dye from tiny capsules when toxins are given out by bacteria in a woun…
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Society ‘set for climate change woe’ – BBC News
Human societies will soon start to experience adverse effects from manmade climate change, a prominent economist has warned. Prof Richard Tol predicts the downsides of warming will outweigh the advantages with a global warming of 1.1C – which has ne…
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ISIS Targeted Muslims in Paris – The Daily Beast
PARIS—Although officials have been slow to release the names of the victims of the Paris terror attacks, from those that are known, a portrait is emerging of vibrant young people as diverse as the city they called home.
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Little Galaxy Keeps Churning Out Stars – Scientific American
Our galactic home, the Milky Way, is big. Most galaxies are far smaller. And it’s not easy being one of those little galaxies—a big galaxy’s gravity can rob their gas. And gas creates new stars, so losing gas spells the end of star-making.
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Six Helpful Bits of Wisdom for Coping With Your Looks
Most of us have a hard time accepting how we look, but it’s not something worth wasting any energy over. Here are six simple bits of wisdom that can make you feel better about looking in the mirror.
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A tiny hand made of bag ties : mildlyinteresting
This is one way to craft the armature of a great hand for dolls and figurines. Where have you been when you took that picture? Is that your workplace?
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Elizabeth Banks Crashes ‘Black Jeopardy’ On ‘SNL’ – Digg
6 diggs Late Night Funny TV Somehow Elizabeth Banks ends up on “Black Jeopardy” on “SNL” and just can’t seem to win.
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Life and Death on the Boulevard Voltaire | New Republic
Neither the Mona Lisa nor the Eiffel Tower, nor any of the quais of the Seine, but Le Petit Cambodge, le Café Bonne Bière, La Belle Équipe: Unassuming restaurants, near homes and jobs.
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The birth of a baby Cthulhu / Boing Boing
Actually it’s a Octopus Stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) at type of fungus, but a girl can dream can’t she?
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3D-Printing Explains Why Your Food Smells So Good | Motherboard
Pretty much everything about food is awesome, but smell and taste tend to be the best parts.
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The Empire wasn’t supposed to always win The Battle of Hoth in Star Wars: Battlefront | The Verge
It only took a few matches of the Star Wars: Battlefront beta to learn a fundamental truth of the Star Wars universe: the Rebels always get creamed at the snowy Battle of Hoth. The epic showdown, reborn from The Empire Strikes Back, sees the ragtag …
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STEM Education, Meet The New Manufacturing | TechCrunch
STEM education and the maker movement have flooded our nation’s schools, making project-based learning much easier to mark off of the instructional “must do” checklist toward meeting new criterion and readying students for a career.
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Slimer isn’t in the new Ghostbusters, unless he actually is · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We already know that Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver will make cameo appearances in Paul Feig’s new Ghostbusters movie, but one character we haven’t heard about is the beloved Hi-C mascot known as Slimer (or “Onionhead” …
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Bernie Sanders Is Looking Beyond Saturday’s Democratic Debate – The New Yorker
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Suez Canal, Port Said : Image of the Day
Using a powerful lens, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed the north end of the Suez Canal, along with the city centers and port facilities of Port Said and Port Fuad. Local ship traffic takes on and discharges cargo at …
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How vigilante justice threatens all justice
In January 2013, 43-year-old Chad Oulson was sending a text message to his young daughter while sitting in a movie theater. Curtis Reeves, who was sitting behind him, did not appreciate that Oulson was texting during the coming attractions.
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Create Miniature Interactive Art with a Raspberry Pi and a Touch Screen
Processing is a programming language that allows people to make visual art (amongst other things) using programming and recently it released a version that works on the Raspberry Pi. Adafruit put together a guide for getting it on the Pi and working…
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Not Just Paris: Why Is Beirut’s Brutal Terrorist Attack Being Ignored? | Rolling Stone
Friday’s devastating attacks in Paris left hundreds dead or injured, paralyzed the city and brought ISIS’s terrorism to the Western world for the first time. In the days since the attacks, love and support for the beloved French capital has poured o…
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Get proof of your project management skills with top training and certification prep / Boing Boing
It’s no secret that project management is one of the most valued and profitable skills today. Whether you develop proprietary tools for a tech company, or you regularly plan and execute tasks, this course is sure to improve upon your process.
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The Zune, Which You Probably Didn’t Know Wasn’t Dead, Is Dead | Motherboard
New Coke. McDonald’s Arch Deluxe. The Microsoft Zune.
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The Military Campaign Against ISIS: What Is France Doing in Syria and Iraq? – The Atlantic
After Friday’s attacks in Paris, two sides that don’t usually agree on anything found common ground on one issue: Both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ISIS said the attacks were retaliation for France’s own foreign policy.
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Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: November 15 – The Daily Beast
Last week, President Barack Obama said the Islamic State is “contained” — a comment that has been scrutinized in the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris that have been attributed to the terrorist group. But has Obama’s comment been taken out of con…
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After bumping over frozen ruts in lanes bordered by frost-decorated hedges, I reached the mere, only to find the fog hanging in a dense curtain; indistinct lumps on the water, just beyond the fringe of ice, were birds, but what kinds it was almost i…
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Volkswagen apologizes for emissions scandal with full-page ad in dozens of papers | The Verge
Volkswagen is apologizing. The company’s American arm rolled out its first ad campaign today addressing the emissions scandals that have rocked the company over the past couple of months.
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For Openly Gay Mormons, Church’s New LGBT Policy Has Big Implications : NPR
NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Mitch Mayne, an openly gay Mormon about the implications of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on a same-sex households. Also joining the conversation is NPR’s religion reporter, Tom Gjelten.
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Paris Attacks Cloud Conversation At Summit Of World Powers : NPR
Friday’s attacks in Paris have cast a shadow over the Group of 20 summit, which opened Sunday in Antalya, in southern Turkey. Leaders of 20 major economies agreed to step up the battle against ISIS and to ease the wider conflict in Syria.
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With More Story To Tell, Opera ‘Appomattox’ Gets An Update : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
When the opera Appomattox premiered in 2007, it put on stage a piece of history that was more than 140 years old. But creators Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton recently decided the story wasn’t over.
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Reflections On A Campus Visit: What We Learned From Young Voters At Drake : NPR
The Democratic debate Saturday night was held at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Producer Liz Baker talked to students on campus about their involvement in politics and shares her observations.
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Grief Knows No Native Tongue — But We Must Listen, Wherever It Speaks : NPR
Today I was thinking about a friend of mine — a teacher, a neighbor — who passed away earlier this week. Out of respect for her family’s privacy, I won’t call her by her name.
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Remembering The Victims Of The Paris Attacks : NPR
NPR takes a look at some of the American victims who died in the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday.
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After Paris Killings, Focus Returns To Muslim Communities In France : NPR
The relationship between Muslims living in France and their adopted homeland has long been a complicated one. Professor Jonathan Laurence of Boston College has studied that relationship and joins us to explain.
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Adele’s ’25’ Is Coming. Where You’ll Hear It Is A Mystery For Now : NPR
This Friday, music fans will finally get to hear one of the most anticipated releases of the year. Just where and how they’ll hear it, however, remains an open question.
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Former CIA Chief On ISIS: ‘We Have To Go After Them In Their Homeland’ : NPR
As French airstrikes hit Islamic State militants Sunday, former CIA Director James Woolsey explains why the U.S. and its allies need to take more forceful action against ISIS.
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Fact Check: Hillary Clinton On Using Force Against ISIS : NPR
With the brutal terrorist attacks in Paris only one day old, moderators decided to ask U.S. Democratic presidential candidates about issues of national security and terrorism in Saturday night’s debate.
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Bells Toll In Paris’ Notre Dame, As The City Mourns Its Dead : NPR
As France grieves the victims of Friday’s terror attacks, police are still searching for a suspect who is believed to have survived.
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PARIS — French warplanes struck Islamic State militants in Syria on Sunday, a French government official said, two days after attackers linked to the terrorist group carried out a coordinated assault on Paris that killed 129 people.
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France Sends Airstrikes Into Isil Stronghold | Al Jazeera America
French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, th…
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Madonna Broke Down Onstage While Paying Tribute to the Victims of the Paris Attacks | Vanity Fair
“I was going to cancel my show tonight,” Madonna told her audience in Stockholm, Sweden the day after the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris. That impulse to postpone, cancel, and pay tribute has, understandably, rippled throughout the entertain…
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This Set Of Spartan Armor Will Knock You Flat With Sheer Awesomeness
This is one thing I love about the cosplay community: the level of work and attention to detail that’s put into the costumes that they build are absolutely stunning. Case in point, here’s DeAnna Davis (known as It’s Raining Neon) as Kelly 087 from H…
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France Drops 20 Bombs On IS Stronghold Raqqa : worldnews
My only question is why is this place being hit now, not yesterday or last week. The civilians living under ISIS rule in Raqqa were not considered acceptable losses before the attacks in Paris. Now the French voters won’t care anymore.
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When It Comes to Surviving Mass Extinctions, Smaller Is Better | Motherboard
Over the last 500 million years, life on Earth has been hit with five mass extinction events. A sixth, human-driven die-off is currently in the works.
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NFL round-up: Packers slump again as Panthers stay perfect | Sport | The Guardian
The Green Bay Packers continued their strange November collapse losing to Detroit at home for the first time since 1991.
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Marco Rubio: US should not take in more Syrian refugees after Paris attacks | US news | The Guardian
In light of the terrorist attacks in Paris, the Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Sunday said the US should not take in more Syrian refugees. The Florida senator had previously signalled openness to relocating some of the millions fle…
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Buildings and monuments across the globe have been lit up in France’s national colors this weekend, in solidarity with the French people, and in tribute to the victims of Friday’s attacks.
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French jets pound Raqqa as G20 pledges new ISIL fight – Al Jazeera English
French warplanes have hit the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, as world leaders pledged to renew their fight against the armed group, which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks which killed at l…
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Goal! Goal! Hungary 1, Norway 0. Tamas Priskin (Hungary) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Tamas Kadar following a fast break. Offside, Hungary. Laszlo Kleinheisler tries a through ball, but Tamas P…
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SO far the gender revolution has been a one-sided effort. Women have entered previously male precincts of economic and political life, and for the most part they have succeeded. They can lead companies, fly fighter jets, even run for president. But …
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Will NATO Respond to the Attacks on Paris? – The Atlantic
The killings of 129 people in multiple attacks on Paris on Friday have resulted in calls for a NATO campaign against the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the carnage.
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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i didn’t know she was related to a mythbuster, but obviously her true name is Minerva Savage – Imgur
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Peyton Manning, the consummate record-breaker, was not always a dead cert | Sport | The Guardian
Before all the Super Bowls, the MVPs and the all-time passing-yardage record, which he broke on Sunday afternoon, Peyton Manning threw a touchdown on his first NFL pass. No one should be surprised it went to his favorite target: Marvin Harrison.
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On Sunday, Peyton Manning – statistically at least – established himself as the greatest NFL quarterback in history. Entering the afternoon’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs he was just three yards short of breaking Brett Favre’s record for care…
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Call for Egyptian teen’s freedom grows as hearing nears – Al Jazeera English
Human rights groups have called for the immediate and unconditional release of an Egyptian teenager who has been in jail for almost two years and was reportedly beaten and forced to confess under torture, as he was due to appear in court once again.
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The sad pathology of the GOP frontrunners
If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior.
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The latest Windows 10 update makes activation way easier than before | The Verge
Activating your copy of Windows 10 has gotten far less tedious in Microsoft’s first major update for the operating system. You no longer have to start by upgrading from a previous install of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to get Windows 10 properly activa…
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Most people in America are totally happy and content living “on the grid.” They’ve got Angry Birds on their phone, they’ve got government surveillance keeping an eye on them at all times, and they’re free to get upset about stupid crap like Starbuck…
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Fireworks are fun – but the effects are not | Environment | The Guardian
The sparkles from fireworks last a few seconds but the air pollution can linger in our cities for hours. Firework smoke is rich in tiny metal particles making it very different to normal urban air pollution.
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‘Imagine’ Pianist Revealed, Talks Inspiration for Paris Performance | Rolling Stone
‘Imagine’ Pianist Revealed, Talks Inspiration for Paris Performance “I can’t bring people back, but I can inspire them with music and when people are inspired they can do anything.
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‘Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler’ AKA #StayWoke | The Nation
As news of the Paris massacres tortuously revealed itself on Friday, drip by drip, the community of French professional athletes in the United States took to Twitter to voice their solidarity, concern, and heartbreak.
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Reddit Joins the Long List of Websites to Be Banned, Unbanned by Turkey | Motherboard
Friday night, Turkey banned Reddit. Just a day later, “the front page of the internet” was back. The initial block was confirmed by Turkey’s Telecom Authority (TIB) with the following statement: “After technical analysis and legal consideration base…
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Watch Demi Lovato’s Gut-Wrenching Cover of Adele’s “Hello” | Vanity Fair
There may only be one Adele, but Demi Lovato proved during Seattle’s Fall Ball on Saturday night that she’s worthy of tackling “Hello,” the latest track from music’s most famous heartbreaker.
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Make a More Convincing Argument by Using Hypotheticals
There’s nothing wrong with a healthy debate, but a disagreement can easily turn into an ugly argument. To keep this from happening when you’re debating with someone, and to get them on your side, use hypotheticals. Let’s say you’re in a disagreement…
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Bernie Sanders Is Looking Beyond Saturday’s Democratic Debate – The New Yorker
From the beginning of Saturday night’s Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders was very clear on what he wanted to talk about.
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Zen Cho’s Sorcerer To The Crown Shows What Happens When Politics And Magic Mix
In Sorcerer to the Crown, magic in England has been in decline, and the one respected Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers is an institution tasked with overseeing magic in the nation.
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Slide Show: Portraits from Paris After the Attack – The New Yorker
The photographer Peter van Agtmael has been in the French capital this weekend documenting the aftermath of Friday’s terrorist attacks. He captured these images at a makeshift memorial near the Bataclan concert hall, where more than eighty people lo…
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On the night of the Paris attacks, Rurik Bradbury noticed an inevitable and tiresome trend popping up on Twitter.
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A Look at France’s New Surveillance Laws in the Wake of the Paris Attacks | Motherboard
After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January, France passed its controversial “Intelligence Bill,” allowing it to increase its surveillance powers.
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If You Want Tech Freedom, Congress Needs To Change A Law | TechCrunch
Freedom is critical to the economic engine of Silicon Valley, but laws are not often written to preserve it. Unfortunately, this decision has to be renewed every three years, through a long and arduous process. It’s time for that to change.
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Baltimore sees 300 homicides in one year for first time since 1999 | US news | The Guardian
Baltimore’s homicide toll for 2015 reached what police commissioner Kevin Davis called a “sad” milestone of 300 over the weekend.
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Vincent Margera, ‘Don Vito’ From ‘Viva La Bam,’ Dead at 59 | Rolling Stone
Vincent Margera, who appeared as Bam Margera’s crazy uncle “Don Vito” on the MTV series Viva La Bam and an episode of Jackass, passed away Sunday morning after years of declining health. He was 59.
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We Cannot Defeat ISIS Without Defeating the Wahhabi Theology That Birthed It | The Nation
What happened in Paris on November 13 has happened before, in a shopping district of Beirut on November 12, in the skies over Egypt on October 31, at a cultural center in Turkey on July 20, a beach resort in Tunisia on June 26—and nearly every day i…
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G20: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agree to Syrian-led transition | World news | The Guardian
The United States and Russia have reached consensus at the G20 on the need for “a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition” following a sidelines meeting between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on Sunday.
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After the terrorist attacks in Paris, CBS has changed up their schedule for Supergirl and NCIS:LA, which each featured terror-related plots. They’ll be replaced with episodes already slated for release later in their seasons.
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Watch Koenigsegg’s next supercar act like a Transformer | The Verge
The Koenigsegg Regera is inarguably one of the most ridiculous supercars ever imagined, much less made: the latest project from Swedish performance wizard Christian von Koenigsegg and his company is said to offer 1,500 horsepower through a combinati…
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Does ISIL have a global reach? – Al Jazeera English
The leaders of the 20 most powerful countries have agreed to step up border controls and aviation security. Meeting in Turkey, the G20 leaders also say they remain committed to tackling how terrorism is financed by sharing more information.
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Daimler is reusing electric vehicle batteries to store renewable energy | Ars Technica
When electric vehicle batteries get long in the tooth, they have to be replaced because they’ll start experiencing power loss—which will mean reduced vehicle performance.
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Best Space Stories of the Week – Nov. 14, 2015
Photographer Porter Tinsley captured this stunning photo of Trident missile test by the U.S. Navy on Nov. 7, 2015 as seen from the shore of the Salton Sea in Southern California.
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As American television’s sharpest comedy of the ’90s, The Simpsons understandably bears the marks of the decade that surrounded its most popular and celebrated run. “Simpson Tide” reflects its time more strikingly than most.
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CBS replaces terrorism-related Supergirl and NCIS: LA episodes · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks in France, CBS has decided to replace Monday’s episodes of Supergirl and NCIS: Los Angeles due to both of them having “terrorism-related plotlines.
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Who Were the Paris Attackers? – The Atlantic
French authorities launched a manhunt for a possible eighth participant in the terrorist attacks that struck Paris on Friday, killing 132 people and wounding more than 350 others.
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What Divides Us?: An Interview with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway – The New Yorker
Amid the many conversations these past two weeks about racism and free speech at Yale University, one moment stood out.
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Paris attacks: Defiant French businesses carrying on – BBC News
French businesses are largely continuing to operate normally after the Paris attacks. Flights, trains and ferries into and out of France are all running a normal service, but have warned passengers to allow extra time for border controls.
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What Divides Us?: An Interview with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway – The New Yorker
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Here’s The Trailer For Jongo, A Johannesburg-Set Superhero Show
This looks like a really awesome television show, recently previewed at DISCOP AFRICA 2015. Jongo is a television series set to premiere in 2016 in South Africa, following a young man who gains supernatural abilities after discovering an alien cryst…
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Xposed Framework Rolls Out For Android Marshmallow 6.0
Android (root): The awesome Xposed framework, which allows you to roll your own customized version of Android, has now been updated to work with Android Marshmallow.
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The next Eric Cantor is lurking out there. Here’s who it might be.
Walter Jones has been on the outs with the GOP establishment for years. Jones went from ardent Iraq War supporter to one of the few congressional Republicans to oppose the conflict, and he voted for Wall Street regulation. Well-funded GOP groups ral…
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France Should Stop Listening to Saudi Arabia on Syria | The Nation
The West should take the horrific occasion of the Paris attacks to reconsider its acquiescence in Saudi priorities for Syria and the Middle East. From the vantage point of Riyadh, the great danger emanating from the Middle East is spreading Iranian …
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5,000 years ago the Sahara desert was home to people, animals, and lush vegetation – Quartz
As recently as 5,000 years ago, one of the world’s driest and most uninhabitable places, the Western Sahara desert, was home to a vast river system that would rank as the world’s 12th largest drainage basin if it existed today.
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A Roundup of Atlantic Coverage on the Paris Attacks – The Atlantic
People gather during a vigil in Aotea Square in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Sudanese refugees shot dead on Egypt-Israel border – Al Jazeera English
At least 15 Sudanese refugees have been shot dead and eight more injured in Egypt’s Sinai region as they reportedly attempted to enter Israel.
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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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Why don’t humans have patterned texture like animals? Humans will be able to get it. ———————– Direction: Kouhei Nakamma (http://kouheinakama.com/) Music: “Highway to the Stars” by Kai Engel (kai-engel.com/)
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Searching Paris: Who were the victims of the attack? – BBC News
Information continues to emerge about some of those killed in the Paris attacks. There is a website where people missing after the attacks can be registered. The interior ministry warns that the site is frequently overloaded and may be unavailable a…
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Rey tells Finn to ‘get ready’ in latest Star Wars TV spot | The Verge
Disney is certainly ramping up its marketing push as Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets closer and closer to release. We now have the film’s latest TV spot for your viewing pleasure.
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Color distribution of one party sized bag of Skittles [OC] : dataisbeautiful
I’ll just leave this here. Screw you apple skittles, bring back lime.
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Beats By Dre Solo HD Headphones | Digg Store
Beats, the universal symbol for sonic perfection. The iconic reflective logo shines around the world, and beneath that flawless exterior lies superior sound down to every detail.
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Bernie Is Absolutely Right: Climate Change Makes Terrorism Worse : democrats
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Bernie Sanders was right on climate change and terrorism at the debate.
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Hillary Clinton invoked 9/11 to defend her ties to Wall Street. What? – The Washington Post
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Hillary Clinton invoked 9/11 to defend her ties to Wall Street. What? : politics
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How Belgium Became a Terrorism Hotbed – The Daily Beast
As the race to uncover how terrorists managed to complete their devastating attacks in Paris on Friday November 13 unfolds, the focus has once again shifted to France’s tiny neighbor, Belgium.
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Watch Demi Lovato’s Dynamic Cover of Adele’s ‘Hello’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Demi Lovato’s Dynamic Cover of Adele’s ‘Hello’ Singer tackles smash ’25’ single at Seattle’s KISS FM Fall Ball
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Manga rows show why it’s still Japan’s medium of protest | World news | The Guardian
Next year’s G7 summit in the Japanese city of Shima has already been hit by controversy. However, the row is not over policy, but over the meeting’s official mascot, Aoshima Meg – a manga rendering of a teenage girl dressed as one of the area’s fame…
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Tracking the apes at risk of extinction in Congo – Al Jazeera English
Mondika, Congo – Over the past 60 years, illegal hunting and logging have been the main causes of an estimated 80 percent reduction in the numbers of chimpanzees and gorillas in Congo’s Mondika wildlife reserve.
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7 Heartwarming Tributes In Response To The Tragic Terrorist Attacks In Paris | ThinkProgress
On Friday, an organized terrorist attack across Paris left 132 dead and hundreds injured. As the world has watched this unfold from afar, tributes have poured out from all corners. Here are a few of the most touching so far:
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French police tweet photo of fugitive wanted in Paris terror attacks | Ars Technica
French authorities tweeted a photo Sunday of a fugitive wanted in connection to the Paris terror attacks, and cautioned the public: “Do not intervene yourself.” The national police identified the suspect as 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, born in Brusse…
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The Czech Republic won an enthralling Fed Cup final 3-2 after beating Russia in a deciding doubles rubber. Resuming at 1-1, Maria Sharapova put Russia 2-1 up after overcoming Petra Kvitova 3-6 6-4 6-2.
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Manhunt under way for Paris attacks suspect – Al Jazeera English
French police have released a photo of a fugitive in the Paris attacks, saying the suspect is on the run and too dangerous for anyone outside law enforcement to engage directly. Police on Sunday evening identified the man as Salah Abdeslam, a 26-yea…
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Marco Rubio Compares Nazis To Muslims : Liberal
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Marco Rubio Compares Nazi’s To Muslims 11/15 – YouTube
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Toddler Singing The Imperial March Shows Off Parenting Done Right
This is awesome: Jonathan Liu had been watching Star Wars with his children, and after putting his two and a half year old daughter to bed, he found that she really liked it.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ali Awad, 14, was chopping vegetables when the first bomb struck. Adel Tormous, who would die tackling the second bomber, was sitting at a nearby coffee stand.
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CBS Will Reschedule Episodes of Supergirl and NCIS: L.A. in the Wake o | Vanity Fair
Following the terrorist events in Paris, CBS is making the decision to pull episodes of their hit shows Supergirl and NCIS: Los Angeles that deal with bombings and ISIS, respectively, according to The Wrap.
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The Paris Attacks: What We Know – The Atlantic
Updated on November 14 at 5:00 p.m. ET —Paris prosecutor Francois Molins confirmed 129 people had been killed and another 352 were injured, with 99 in critical condition. French officials said seven attackers operated in three teams throughout the c…
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Hundreds of ghostly white deer roaming among overgrown munitions bunkers at a sprawling former US army weapons depot face an uncertain future, after living and breeding largely undisturbed since the middle of last century.
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Everything We Know So Far About the Gunmen Behind the Paris Attacks (Live Updates) | VICE News
This is a breaking news story, please refresh the page for updates. French authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Abdeslam Selah, a 26-year-old Belgian-born man wanted in connection with the attacks. The warrant says Selah is “dangerous” and …
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Watch SpaceX fire up its Crew Dragon capsule’s escape engines | The Verge
This week, SpaceX successfully tested the engines it will use in its Crew Dragon, the spacecraft it’s building to transport NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The engines, called SuperDracos, were fired up 27 times at the company’s …
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‘Free hugs’ offered to Parisians as France remembers – BBC News
People took it in turns to get a hug from three different people brandishing free hugs signs, with some people breaking into tears as they received their hug.
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Philip K. Dick’s Life Is Turning Into a Video Game | Motherboard
Love him or hate him, it’s undeniable that the prolific science fiction author Philip K. Dick has profoundly shaped our visions of the future. Minority Report, Blade Runner, and A Scanner Darkly are just a few of the cinematic products of Dick’s lit…
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Police Have Released A Photo Of One Suspected Paris Terrorist | ThinkProgress
French officials have released a photo of a man they believe to be involved in the deadly Paris terrorist attacks, saying he is “dangerous” and on the run.
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By enabling Donald Trump, ‘Saturday Night Live’ disgraced itself
Politicians appear on Saturday Night Live to show the public their human side. To show they can be self-effacing and funny and hip. To be accepted as celebrities are accepted. It’s not about politics and it’s completely about politics. Everyone is i…
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Don Vito, from MTV and Jackass fame, has passed away. : news
Don Vito, from MTV and Jackass fame, has passed away. (globalgrind.com) Subtitles: [I suspect foul play. He did it.]
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Why ISIS Attacked Paris: A Memo to Marco Rubio – The Atlantic
At least Marco Rubio didn’t answer the attacks in Paris by demanding that the United States accept only Christian refugees. He left that to Ted Cruz.
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Christopher Duggan | World news | The Guardian
In his book Fascist Voices (2012), Christopher Duggan, who has died unexpectedly aged 57, drew on thousands of ordinary Italians’ diaries, memoirs and letters to explain why so many identified closely with the fascist regime of the early 20th centur…
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WASHINGTON — Defying Western efforts to confront the Islamic State on the battlefield, the group has evolved in its reach and organizational ability, with increasingly dangerous hubs outside Iraq and Syria and strategies that call for using spectacu…
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‘False alarm’ prompts Place de la Republique panic – BBC News
Hundreds of people have fled from a gathering at the Place de la Republique in Paris in panic. People thought that they heard gunfire, but it is believed to be a false alarm.
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Astronomers Have Made the First Weather Map of a Planet Beyond Our Solar System | Motherboard
In an astronomical first, researchers have mapped the weather patterns of a planet beyond our Solar System—revealing a seriously gnarly forecast.
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When Soldiers From Halo and Destiny Come Together, Hilarity Ensues
Here’s a delightful fan film featuring two Bungie properties: Halo and Destiny. What happens when the two collide? Hilarity.
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BBC Sport – Paul Lambert: Blackburn appoint former Aston Villa manager
Former Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has been appointed Blackburn Rovers boss, replacing the sacked Gary Bowyer. More to follow.
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“My infant died in the care of a stranger, when he should have been with me.” | New Republic
Tonight, Sanders said that he’s from “a state that has virtually no gun control.” That, he argued, put him in a good position to talk to the 60 or 70 percent of Americans who want tougher gun control regulations.
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Facebook Says It Will Enable Safety Check In More Human Disasters, Following Criticism | TechCrunch
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the company turned on its safety feature for Paris but not for Beirut and other bombings.
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Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic? – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
I have two children, and they are a study in contrasts: My son works at a gym designing and building rock-climbing walls; In his spare time, he climbs them. My daughter is a Ph.D. student in immunology; In her spare time, she writes novels.
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Rivals celebrate Ronda Rousey’s downfall as gambler walks away with $240,000 | Sport | The Guardian
As the dust settled after Ronda Rousey’s shock defeat to Holly Holm, voices from around UFC had their say on the fight – and many of them were jubilant. While most of the world saw the previously undefeated Rousey as a force of nature, Holm’s coach …
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Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton for the second race in succession to win the Brazilian Grand Prix. The German converted pole position into a lead at the first corner and controlled the race from there, despite being pushed hard by Hamilton througho…
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When Frozen hit theaters, stores quickly ran out of merchandise, caught by surprise at the popularity of the film. This year, Disney has been working carefully with their merchandise rollout for The Force Awakens, to avoid a repeat.
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The most important meeting at the G20 summit in Turkey just took place in a hotel lobby – Imgur
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Spike Lee at the Academy Governors’ Awards: It’s Easier to Be a Black | Vanity Fair
Honorary Oscar recipient Spike Lee thanked Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs for “bringing some flavor up in here” as he accepted his award from presenters Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, and Wesley Snipes.
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Fearing reprisals for the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday which are believed to have been carried out by at least one Syrian, refugees across Europe are bracing themselves for a backlash.
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Twitter Highlights on Android is the best feature you’re not using | The Verge
Twitter on Android has always felt a little second-class compared to Twitter on iOS. But the Android version has a feature that I love and that you should love too: Highlights.
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The news from Paris was horrifying, and deserved a break in the usual round of commentary, but surely nobody who has been paying attention was completely shocked. We know that there are jihadists out there, and even the best efforts at prevention wi…
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European centre-rightists conclude summit in Tunis – Al Jazeera English
Tunis, Tunisia – Centre-rightists in the European Parliament have launched Conservatives and Reformists Initiative (CRI), a programme aimed at deepening engagement between centre-right parties around the world.
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Paris attacks: Footage shows gunmen firing at police – BBC News
Footage shows police being fired on by gunmen from inside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. At least 89 people were killed at the musical venue.
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Inside Facebook’s “innovation pop-up”—a giant blue temple of far-out tech | Ars Technica
What does Facebook mean to you? Friends? Likes? Cat pictures? Painfully overblown humblebrags? Whatever it is that keeps you hooked on the world’s largest social network—which now boasts a staggering 1.
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This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet | Motherboard
Between the havoc wrought by unprecedented super hurricanes and the upcoming COP21 climate change summit in Paris at the end of the month, the global environment and its discontents have been making headlines—for good reason.
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Paris terror attacks: Memorial service at Notre Dame – BBC News
Paris terror attacks: Memorial service at Notre Dame 15 November 2015 Last updated at 17:12 GMT A memorial service is being held at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after 129 people were killed in a series of attacks in the city on Friday night.
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Lebanon arrests nine over deadly Beirut bombings – Al Jazeera English
Lebanese security forces have arrested nine people, most of them Syrian nationals, over their alleged involvement in last week’s twin bombings in Beirut that killed at least 44 people, the interior minister said.
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Love in the Time of Dog DNA Testing – Articles
This is my third Chihuahua. That’s what I used to say about my dog, Birdie, until this summer, when I got her DNA tested.
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Sunday’s Best Deals: iTunes Credit, Easy Espresso, Cheap Watches, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on Kinja Co-Op to help us find the best.
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The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, emerged in 2013 as an outgrowth of an Al Qaeda affiliate that fought American and Iraqi troops and waged sectarian war in Iraq.
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In Post-paris Debate, Clinton Gets Religion | Al Jazeera America
In post-Paris debate, Clinton gets religion https://t.co/lFOHvjT7Vq via Al Jazeera America
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With The Passage Of Amendment 10/60, Scientists Are Hunted Down
Here’s a really interesting short film out of Greece. In an alternate history, scientists are blamed for nuclear annihilation, and intellectuals are hunted down and killed. Amendment 10/60 reminds me quite a bit of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
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Manhunt for Paris attacker – BBC News
One man, probable attacker, on the run after Paris attacks, French police say, with reports of international warrant issuedThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest …
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Responding to Bloodbath Poses a Dilemma for France | Al Jazeera America
Friday’s massacres in Paris have left France’s leadership facing a dilemma familiar to Western governments since 9/11: They need a response at home and abroad that balances the need to express national fury and protect their society from further att…
Responding to Fridays bloodbath poses a dilemma for France https://t.co/s5ubEV2dpN via Al Jazeera America -
This interactive map tells you where police can track your phone without a warrant
For the privacy-conscious citizen, or any others concerned about wildly fluctuating surveillance authority while on a cross-country excursion, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has created a unique map to track the tracking laws.
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New Hampshire activists call for ban on shooting sick or dangerous pets | US news | The Guardian
Animal rights activists in New Hampshire are pushing to ban the practice of shooting a pet that is sick, injured or dangerous after a dog was found shot to death. Bruno was an 18-month-old mixed breed who was shot four times in September. His owner …
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Daily Cartoon: Sunday, November 15th – The New Yorker
Daily Cartoon: Sunday, November 15th https://t.co/MS6SUP3tMA via The New Yorker: Everything
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Don’t blame Carly. No Republican can defend their party’s job creation record
In seven years under President Obama, the U.S. has added an average of 107,000 jobs a month. Under President Clinton, the economy added about 240,000 jobs a month. Under George W. Bush, it was only 13,000 a month. If you win the nomination, you’ll p…
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Miles Davis voted greatest jazz artist – BBC News
Miles Davis, the trumpeter whose lyrical playing and ever-changing style made him a touchstone of 20th Century music, has been voted the greatest jazz artist of all time. The musician beat the likes of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simon…
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Unscripted: My Ten Years in Telly by Alan Sugar – digested read | Books | The Guardian
If anyone had told me 10 years ago that I would become a huge TV star, I’d have told them they were having a laugh. That little bit of wit came out instinctively. I can be a bit witty at times, I’m told, and I was later informed that was precisely w…
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Foreign policy hawks seized on the Paris terrorist attacks to argue for more aggressive military intervention in the Middle East, as national security issues assumed centre stage in the US presidential race.
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Better sleep may be the key to treating depression, anxiety and schizophrenia – Quartz
We are only beginning to unravel the genetic and biochemical basis of mental illness—a vague term including conditions as diverse as anxiety, depression, and mood and psychotic disorders.
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‘From another planet’: Syrians react to peace plan – Al Jazeera English
Syrian opposition activists have reacted to calls from world leaders for the country to hold elections within 18 months and implement an immediate ceasefire, saying that – for now – the proposed plans are nothing more than talk.
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Garbage Men Play One Last Game on Thrown Away Foosball Table – GIF on Imgur
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my boyfriend made it to the front page, and it’s all he talks about. – Imgur
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Oculus’ VR Arcade is a cold, lonely place—but it doesn’t have to be | Ars Technica
Go back in time about 25 years. While you’re there, tell the eight-year-old version of me running around Chuck E. Cheese that, in your time, there is a virtual reality device that can transport you to a “virtual arcade” in your own home.
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Watch A Mad Scientist Transplant His Son’s Brain Into A Cyborg In The Colossus Of New York
Here’s a classic movie for you to enjoy for Sunday: The Colossus Of New York, from 1958. When a surgeon’s son dies, he transplants his brain into the body of a cyborg, with tragic and unintended consequences. Watch, and weigh on on what you think in…
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France TGV crash: Children on board derailed train – BBC News
Several children were on board when a high-speed train derailed during a test run in France, killing 11 people, the rail company SNCF has said. Five people are still missing and more than 30 were injured in the TGV crash near the eastern city of Str…
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Tim Cook says Apple won’t combine a MacBook and iPad | The Verge
Apple CEO Tim Cook declared earlier this week that the iPad Pro “is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop” for lots of people.
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Astronomers Find the Milky Way’s Oldest Stars | Motherboard
One of the most pressing questions dogging astronomers and cosmologists is how the universe began to take shape after the Big Bang.
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Elizabeth Banks on ‘SNL’: 3 Sketches You Have to See | Rolling Stone
After last week’s unfortunate outing, Saturday Night Live went to the We Know What Works well this time around and delivered a very strong outing.
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Watch Madonna’s Powerful Speech About Paris Attacks | Rolling Stone
Watch Madonna’s Powerful Speech About Paris Attacks at Stockholm Concert “They want to shut us up. They want to silence us.
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Lindsey Graham: ‘There’s A 9/11 Coming’ | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that the Paris terrorist attacks will happen in the United States if America doesn’t rally the world, form an army, lead it, go into Syria, and destroy ISIS.
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Top Obama Adviser: America Will Continue Taking In Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
America will not halt its efforts to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, one of President Obama’s top security advisers said on Sunday.
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Booming Sooners: Updated College Football Playoff Predictions (Week 11) | FiveThirtyEight
Don’t wait until Tuesday to see how the College Football Playoff committee will shuffle its rankings; the FiveThirtyEight college football model is here for you.
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Even before Hillary Clinton dropped the most cynical line of the Democratic debate cycle, it was not a great debate. A human troll doll didn’t talk about menses. A neurosurgeon who sounds like his debate prep consists of gluing a nitrous oxide mask …
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THE venerated political strategist David Axelrod once described a presidential campaign as “an M.R.I. for the soul.” It winds up being precisely that. But in its earliest stages, a presidential campaign is more like a costume ball.
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Watch ‘Saturday Night Live”s Poignant Paris Cold Open | Rolling Stone
Watch ‘Saturday Night Live”s Poignant Paris Cold Open “Paris is the city of light, and here in New York City, we know that light will never go out,” Cecily Strong tells audience
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Crew members sleeping on the space shuttle (surprisingly creepy) : space
The only thing creepy to me is that somebody was recording them as they slept. There were only 4 crew members onboard the ship.
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Saturday Night Live Broke Format to Honor Paris | Vanity Fair
A week after engendering mixed reactions to say the least for their Donald Trump-hosted show, Saturday Night Live responded to current world events not with comedy but with heartfelt emotion.
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Authorities are searching for an eighth suspect in Friday’s Paris terror attacks. | New Republic
Tonight, Sanders said that he’s from “a state that has virtually no gun control.” That, he argued, put him in a good position to talk to the 60 or 70 percent of Americans who want tougher gun control regulations.
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PC Graphics Card Showdown: NVIDIA vs. AMD
The hardest part of building a PC is picking the parts, especially when everyone around you seems to have an opinion. And no flame war is more prevalent than the NVIDIA snobs vs the AMD fanboys. What’s really going on with these two companies, and w…
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Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive | Motherboard
The age of the smart car is upon us, and it’s riding in on the backs of bumblebees. First off, the terminology: a “connected vehicle” is a car that, by using Wi-Fi, RF television channels, or some other kind of channel, can “talk” to other cars arou…
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Suicide Bomber in Turkey Injures 5 Police Officers | Al Jazeera America
Suicide bomber in Turkey injures 5 police officers https://t.co/KjE0HZj0rd via Al Jazeera America
A suicide bomber opened fire on Turkish police and then blew himself up during their raid on a suspected Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hideout near the border with Syria, leaving five police officers wounded. -
There Is Only One Way to Defeat ISIS
There was a strange stillness in the news on Saturday morning, a Saturday morning that came earlier in Paris than it did in Des Moines, a city in Iowa, one of the United States of America. The body count had stabilized.
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America’s Whitest City Explodes With A Fusion Of Inclusion | TechCrunch
It’s tough to see at first glance that diversity matters in Portland, Oregon. After all, Portlandia is widely known as the “whitest city in America.
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Five takeaways from the Democratic debate – POLITICO
Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Martin OMalley take part in the second Democratic presidential primary debate. | Getty Clinton shows vulnerabilities, Sanders sounds tone-deaf and O’Malley lives to fight another day.
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The Force Awakens as a VHS cover : movies
It does look pretty real. Nice job It’s got that ruff, beaten up VHS cover feeling, but also modern sleek look to it. It looks great.
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Toyota Mirai review: A futuristic, super-smooth hydrogen fuel cell car | Ars Technica
Early adopters pay for the privilege of having the latest technology. That will certainly be true for the dozen UK customers who will take delivery of a new Toyota Mirai by the end of the year.
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Uncertainty looms for Myanmar’s Muslims – Al Jazeera English
Yangon, Myanmar – Two nights before Myanmar’s November 8 election, hundreds of leaflets were scattered on the sun-baked streets of Mandalay, the former royal capital. “It’s time for change,” they said, echoing the slogan of the opposition National …
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Kavinsky – Nightcall (Drive Original Movie Soundtrack) [Synthpop/New wave] : Music
Thanks for uploading just subscribed to both of these. Hearing this song when it was last mentioned on Reddit lead to me watching Drive and it really is an excellent film!
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Here’s Another Television Spot For The Force Awakens
Can you piece together The Force Awakens yet? Disney has released a fourth television spot for the upcoming Star Wars film, which has a couple of new snippets of footage that we haven’t seen yet.
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Why aren’t the Republicans serious about the presidential race?
Because they know that the real battle will be in the states. And the Republicans also know that they don’t need the White House.
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Maybe the Whole Universe Won’t Suddenly Collapse Into an Uninhabitable Void | Motherboard
It’s an idea that’s out there: The universe as we know it might just all of a sudden destabilize and tumble into an entirely new sort of physical reality. The forces that make our worlds what they are would be gone, and so too would particles and re…
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ATP World Tour FinalsVenue: O2, London Dates: 15-22 Nov Sessions: 14:00 and 20:00 GMTBBC coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, listen on Radio 5 live sports extra and follow live text updates on the BBC Sport website. Click here for full details.
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Meet Jean Jullien, The Artist Behind The “Peace for Paris” Symbol | WIRED
Caption: A man wears a shirt with a sign combining a peace symbol with the Eiffel tower near the French embassy in Berlin on November 14, 2015. TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images
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New model explains how the Earth stole the Moon’s lighter elements | Ars Technica
The Earth and its Moon are very similar in composition, a fact that’s neatly explained by the idea that the two formed from the shared debris of a collision between the early Earth and a Mars-sized body. But there are some elements that show a disti…
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Facebook explains why it enabled Safety Check for Paris but not other recent attacks | The Verge
In the immediate aftermath of the Paris attacks on Friday, many with loved ones living in the city received a new type of notification from Facebook.
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Is Hello Barbie every parent’s worst nightmare?
Think back to your favorite childhood doll or stuffed animal—the places you took it, the awkward situations it inadvertently found its way into, the conversations you had with it.
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Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone | Motherboard
Walmart now sells a TracFone-branded LG smartphone that costs $9.82 (with free shipping if your order total tops $50).
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The Second Democratic Debate Was a Great Night for Republicans | The Nation
Des Moines—It was a great night for Republicans. The contenders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination gathered to debate for only the second time in Des Moines Saturday evening. As such, it was a big moment for their party.
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PARIS — The investigation into the Paris terrorist attacks unfurled across Europe on Sunday as French authorities sought a suspected eighth assailant who might have fled after taking part in the three-hour assault on Friday night that killed at leas…
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As the world joined Parisians in mourning for the people killed in Friday’s terrorist attacks, the identities of the victims, who included a young lawyer, a music critic and an American college student, slowly began to emerge.
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The new kings of YouTube botting
Not everybody was so willing to throw me YouTube views for free. But some of the rates—like those offered by YTview.com, a site I used to purchase views three years ago—remain ridiculously cheap. Kenzo, YTView’s proprietor, sells views at roughly $1…
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Nominations For the 2016 Nebula Awards Are Now Open
If you’re a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, you can now present your nominations for the 2016 Nebula Awards. The nomination period runs through February 15th, 2016.
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Witch Switch by Sibeal Pounder – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This book is hilarious, making me laugh out loud. It is a brilliant sequel to Witch Wars because the stories fit together like jigsaw pieces. The story starts with Tiga living with the Brews and having a summer holiday on the Cauldron Islands.
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Wyndow Helps You Discover Events and Shows in Your Neighborhood
Finding concerts, comedy shows, and even more intimate events like wine tastings or book readings, can be difficult if you don’t already know where to look, but Wyndow wants to give you a single destination to find and read all about them. Best of a…
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With the crowd frothed into a frenzy of righteous choler against the erosion of religious freedom and American exceptionalism by craven liberal politicians and their media lackeys, Ted Cruz summoned a star name to round off the rally: his father.
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Disclosure Brings Sam Smith, Lorde to ‘Saturday Night Live’ | Rolling Stone
Disclosure Bring Sam Smith, Lorde to ‘Saturday Night Live’ Dance duo perform “Omen” and “Magnets” off new LP ‘Caracal’
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What Yeast Reveals About the Origins of Multicellular Life | WIRED
Caption: Video: How Did Life Begin on Earth? / Chemists Seek Possible Precursor to RNA Until one or two billion years ago, life on Earth was limited to a soup of single-celled creatures. Then one fateful day, a lonely cell surrendered solitude for c…
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Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs? A Q&A with Author Lisa Randall – Scientific American
When we read about celestial objects and events, it is sometimes difficult to relate what scientists say happens “out there” in space to life “down here” on Earth. Exotic entities like dark matter do not seem to have any direct impact on terrestrial…
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G20 summit: Russia Syria action ‘raising refugee numbers’ – BBC News
Russian military action in Syria is increasing the number of refugees trying to reach Europe, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. Speaking at a G20 summit in Turkey, Mr Tusk said Russia should focus more on Islamic State (IS) militants …
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Jonathan Holliman obituary | Environment | The Guardian
My twin brother, Jonathan, who has died aged 69, helped ignite the modern environmental movement.
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Arab cartoonists pick up their pens for Paris – Al Jazeera English
The ceremonial transition to manhood in South Africa’s Xhosa society is time honoured but can have tragic consequences. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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Bodies of 15 migrants found in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula – BBC News
Egyptian police have found the bodies of 15 African migrants who appear to have been shot dead in the northern Sinai Peninsula, officials say. Eight other migrants were found alive but wounded.
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Check Out This Tiny Skull-Burrowing Robotic Worm | Motherboard
Here is a very pleasant thought: a tiny robotic worm, a roboworm if you will, designed to drill tiny holes through the bones of your inner-ear. A robotic head surgeon. It exists, of course.
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President Obama has praised the protesters whose stand against racism at the University of Missouri resulted this week in the resignation of the institution’s president and the announcement that its chancellor would step down at the end of the year.
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Meta-Neuroscience: Studying the Brains of Neuroscientists – Neuroskeptic
How do neuroscientists’ brains work? In a remarkable (and very meta) new paper, German researchers Frieder Michel Paulus et al. scanned some neuroscientists (their own colleagues) using fMRI, to measure the brain response to seeing neuroscience pape…
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Mizzou Tigers score welcome win after week of racial tension and resignations | Sport | The Guardian
In the end, after a week that frayed nerves and strained incredulity, a week that shook mountaintops and fractured a state, they danced. Gary Pinkel found himself surrounded by a circle of white jerseys, bobbing and swaying, a grey pebble sinking in…
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Paris attacks: Concert hall shooting victim was ‘a very dear friend’ – BBC News
Talia Soghomonian, a friend of music journalist Guillaume Barreau-Decherf, one of the 89 people who died at Bataclan concert hall in Paris, said he was ”a very dear friend” who was ”passionate about music”.
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G20 summit urges ‘coordination’ on refugees after Paris – Al Jazeera English
Leaders of the world’s 20 major economies (G20) have convened in Antalya, a heavily guarded Turkish resort on the Aegean Sea coast, for a two-day summit, with the refugee crisis dominating the start of the meeting.
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Analysis: Just as innocent – comparing Beirut and Paris – Al Jazeera English
Lebanon, Beirut – Because the Lebanese community is one of Australia’s largest and oldest immigrant groups, it was not entirely surprising to see Lebanon’s flag projected on to Sydney’s iconic Opera House as published by a local news site.
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The Verge Review of Animals: the capybara | The Verge
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight. New Yorkers are a soft bun…
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When everyone changes their FB picture to include a flag – GIF on Imgur
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When your post doesn’t quite make it out of user sub, but is still decently popular. – GIF on Imgur
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Rousey Rocked: Watch Holly Holm KO Ronda in UFC 193 Shocker | Rolling Stone
Ronda Rousey said she planned on disappearing after her fight with Holly Holm at UFC 193 – so the former boxing champ known as “The Preacher’s Daughter” sent her packing.
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Sport picture of the day: ultimate defeat for fighting champion | Sport | The Guardian
Current UFC women’s bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey, feels the force of challenger and eventual winner Holly Holm, at the UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
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Reality check: Number of displaced Syrians in Europe – Al Jazeera English
The ceremonial transition to manhood in South Africa’s Xhosa society is time honoured but can have tragic consequences. Can Niue, one of the world’s smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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PARIS — For the second time this year, France has found itself singled out for calculated terrorist attacks that have at once stunned and united the country. But perhaps no one was singled out by Friday’s carnage more than the nation’s leader, Presi…
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Enslaved African ancestors and their Wall Street legacy
Last week I showed my anthropology students a documentary film, ”The United States of Hoodoo.” It follows African-American author and performance artist Darius James on a journey of spiritual discovery upon his return to the United States from Germa…
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Ethical Questions Arise After Scientists Brew Super Powerful ‘SARS 2.0’ Virus | Motherboard
More than a decade after its outbreak, the name “SARS” still incites memories of worldwide panic over a disease that, we thought at the time, couldn’t be stopped. Now, 13 years later, scientists have created a hybrid version of a virus that could be…
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The Internet Is Not the Answer review – death of the digital dream | Books | The Guardian
Andrew Keen’s thoughtful “state of the internet” address divided plenty of opinion when it was published in hardback at the start of 2015 – and much of the disagreement came from one striking juxtaposition. The famous web 2.
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Meet PlankZooka, the Deep-Sea Plankton Vacuum – Scientific American
1 The Sentry vehicle swims quickly along the seafloor to a desired location, then creeps forward or hovers while the Plankzooka samplers operate. An impeller (far right) pulls large volumes of water through a sampler tube only when the funnel valve …
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Intelligence officials found no evidence of any specific or credible threat targeting American soil following the deadly Paris attacks, US officials told the Associated Press. Still patrols were stepped up and added security measures put in place na…
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Black Jeopardy with Elizabeth Banks – SNL – YouTube
Darnell Hayes (Kenan Thompson) hosts Black Jeopardy, with contestants Amir (Jay Pharoah), Keeley (Sasheer Zamata) and Allison (Elizabeth Banks).Subscribe to the SNL channel for more clips: http://goo.gl/24RRTvDownload the SNL App for free: …
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IAAF member David Okeyo has been referred to the organisation’s ethics commission after being investigated by police in his native Kenya.
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Bill de Blasio’s Crusade Against Inequality – The Atlantic
This past may, Bill de Blasio, the first-term mayor of New York City, traveled south from his home turf to Washington, D.C. He had come to solve America’s problems.
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SNL Paris Opening – SNL – YouTube
We stand with you, Paris.Subscribe to the SNL channel for more clips: http://goo.gl/24RRTvDownload the SNL App for free: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv…For more SNL 40th Anniversary Special: http://goo.gl/gLyPTcGet more SNL on Hulu Plus: …
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Spike Lee calls for diversity as he receives honorary Oscar – BBC News
US director Spike Lee has called for more diversity in the film industry while accepting an honorary Oscar. The Do the Right Thing director called on studio bosses to “reflect what this country looks like” as he received his honour at Saturday’s Gov…
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Four women (Elizabeth Banks, Cecily Strong, Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer Zamata) share which aspects of their lives are “so ghetto.”Subscribe to the SNL channel for more clips: http://goo.gl/24RRTvDownload the SNL App for free: …
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Ross Taylor became the first New Zealander to hit a double century against Australia as the Kiwis fought back in the second Test at the Waca. Starting the third day on 140-2, the Black Caps were 419 runs behind after David Warner hit 253 for the hos…
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Alabama baby’s death raises questions about child’s criminal responsibility | US news | The Guardian
The neat green trim on the Birmingham home matched the color of the bountiful trees hanging over its roof. There were stones plastered across the front of the residence so that children inside could imagine that they lived in a castle.
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Bending over backwards to become China’s next acrobats – Al Jazeera English
Wuqiao, China – In an age of online entertainment and digital gaming, acrobats in China are still able to attract huge crowds. And one poor part of eastern China is providing a wealth of new acrobatic talent for traditional troupes.
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WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials, urging people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, have trumpeted the low premiums available on the law’s new marketplaces.
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Why Hawaii Serves as an Example for Gun Reform – The Atlantic
It’s not hard to come up with reasons why Hawaii ranks among the country’s happiest states. But it’s also the healthiest.
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Kids in Mexico block a development that would pave over a mangrove forest | 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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Paris attacks: Impact on border and refugee policy – BBC News
France is entering three days of mourning. The President of the French Republic Francois Hollande has described the attacks as “an act of war against France”.
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Early in the evening of 3 November, Chris Few and his girlfriend, Megan Dixon, stopped by TJ’s Lounge to play pool. It’s what passed for trouble in Marksville, Louisiana. At some point in the night, Dixon danced with another man. Few grew agitated. …
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Numero Zero by Umberto Eco review – satire with a serious bent | Books | The Guardian
Umberto Eco once blamed Silvio Berlusconi’s excesses on public apathy (Berlusconi himself was “just getting on with his job”). Set in Milan in 1992 – pre-Berlo – his new novel pursues this idea with jaunty seriousness.
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I Call Myself a Feminist review – call to action | Books | The Guardian
This collection of short essays by 25 women under 30 is like a primer in why feminism still matters coupled with a call to action.
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Charlotte Brontë: A Life review – sympathetic and complex | Books | The Guardian
With the bicentenary of Charlotte’s Brontë’s birth in the spring, Claire Harman’s new biography no doubt heralds what will be an associated burst of interest in the writer.
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#PrayForTheWorld, Leemarej, Ink on paper, 2015 : Art
Mad props to Leemarej! Is that you OP? / can you link us? So succinct.
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Will Paris Attacks Fuel Anti-Refugee Violence? – The Daily Beast
ROME—Shortly after the first shots rang out in Paris on Friday night, police in Rome moved swiftly to beef up security at the city’s main high traffic tourist destinations, from the Vatican to the Coliseum.
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Girl using bionic arm for the first time. The dad’s reaction, no words… – GIF on Imgur
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Julieta Yang’s voice trembled as she recalled living in a house with a boss she alleges made repeated unwanted sexual advances.
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Paris attacks: Social media response – BBC News
Friday’s terror attacks on Paris have sparked intense debate on ethnic and cultural values in France and the wider world. BBC News gauges the social media response to the attacks.
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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Texas Abortion Case – The Atlantic
“Roe v. Wade,” Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in 1992, “stands as a sort of judicial Potemkin Village, which may be pointed out to passers-by as a monument to the importance of adhering to precedent.
Love Everyone Often 11/16/2015
Bernie Sanders Is Looking Beyond Saturday’s Democratic Debate – The New Yorker Bernie Sanders, Loud and Clear BY JOHN CASSIDY – The New Yorker https://t.co/AP0SQTj8pn tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Huawei reveals quick-charge battery – BBC News Chinese tech giant Huawei has unveiled two prototype removable lithium-ion batteries that can recharge…
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