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The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Children’s books The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower – in pictures Illustrator and author PJ Lynch tells us the tale of how a bunch of English migrants boarded their dangerously overloaded ship The Mayflower and set sail for the …
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Awww, who’s the cutest little future killing machine? – GIF on Imgur
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NASA, Russia working together again on a mission to explore Venus | Ars Technica
After more than a year on ice due to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, NASA and Russia’s Space Research Institute have resumed discussions about a joint exploration mission to Venus, which could include a lander.
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Conservationists urge Mauritius to halt cull of threatened fruit bat | Environment | The Guardian
Conservationists are calling for an end to a government cull of tens of thousands of fruit bats in Mauritius that they say is putting the survival of the threatened species at risk.
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Little Darlings is a heart-warming story with two girls from two different backgrounds, but when they have met once they seem to have known each other their whole lives.
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French town’s Muslims see attitudes hardening – Al Jazeera English
Following the Paris attacks that killed at least 129 people, France’s government has stated that it aims to shut down what is calls radical mosques and expel their religious leaders. Muslims living in the small French town of Lunel say they have alw…
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“Everything in Moderation” Is a Terrible Rule to Eat By
When your favorite diet advice is the same as junk food peddlers’ favorite diet advice, maybe you should reconsider. “Everything in moderation” is attractive advice, but also a trap.
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What football goalies do wrong can teach us how to b…
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?
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Another blast of winter hits the western US – Al Jazeera English
Violent weather has caused widespread disruption along much of the US west coast. The storms extended from Washington State to southern California before moving inland and dumping heavy snow across the mountain states.
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Thousands gathered at candlelit vigils in Paris on Monday night – BBC News
Thousands of people gathered at candlelit memorials at the Place de la Republique on Monday night in Paris. The crowds gathered to remember the 132 who died in a series of attacks across the city.
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The dream of designing humans has a long and peculia…
For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce people into marrying to benefit the population as a whole. The obvious analogy was to agriculture and animal husbandry.
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ISIS has studied the past successes of terrorism all…
A little after midday an explosion went off at a popular downtown hotel in Jerusalem. Seven bombs placed in the basement had sliced through the six floors above, which collapsed in a massive heap of shattered glass, broken masonry and crushed bodies.
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This Subreddit Captures That Awkward Moment People Realize They’re on Camera | Motherboard
All of us are probably guilty of a photobomb or two, but some of us take this art to the next level. This subreddit captures that really awkward moment that people realize they’ve been caught on live TV.
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Venezuela accuses US of kidnapping first lady’s nephews – BBC News
The leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, on Monday accused the United States of kidnapping two nephews of first lady Cilia Flores. The two were arrested in Haiti last week and taken by the US Drug Enforcement Administration to …
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Ex-Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks is part of a five-man team that will monitor Russia’s athletics federation as it bids to regain IAAF membership. Russia was provisionally suspended by the sport’s governing body after a World Anti-Doping Agency…
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Paris Bataclan survivor: ‘I had to run over dead bodies’ – BBC News
Thomas Tran Dinh was at the Bataclan venue, standing in front of the stage when the gunmen opened fire. He said that when the lights came on he saw people covered in blood and the attackers still shooting.
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Floyd Mayweather sympathises with Ronda Rousey after her defeat | Sport | The Guardian
It is fair to say that Ronda Rousey and Floyd Mayweather have rarely seen eye to eye. The MMA fighter and the retired and welterweight champion have a record of verbal jousting dating back to 2014, when Mayweather had said of Rousey: “I don’t even k…
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DRM in TIG welders / Boing Boing
Some of Miller’s TIG welding power supplies come intentionally crippled, locking out many useful functions until you buy a $400 SD card. It’s a good example of how laws that prohibit “circumvention” (breaking a digital lock) are an invitation to com…
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Back to school: Students reflect on Paris attacks – Al Jazeera English
Paris, France – Albane has just finished observing a minute’s silence, along with about 200 fellow students aged six to 10 at this private Catholic school in a middle-class suburb of Paris. She is sitting in her school’s dining hall, a bowl of semol…
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How Will U.S. Voters React To The Paris Attacks? | FiveThirtyEight
The terror attacks in Paris on Friday will have diverse, global consequences. And although the effects on the U.S. presidential election are far from the most important, they do exist.
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Canada sued over approval of genetically modified salmon scheme | Business | The Guardian
Environmental groups are taking the Canadian government to court in an attempt to halt the production of genetically modified salmon eggs, claiming that the process risks a “huge live experiment” with the genetic makeup of all wild Atlantic salmon.
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Campaigners try to halt Japan whale hunt in last-ditch legal fight | Environment | The Guardian
Environmental campaigners are launching a last-ditch legal attempt to prevent Japan from slaughtering whales in the Antarctic this winter, after Tokyo indicated it would ignore an international ban on its “scientific” expeditions imposed in April la…
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On the Virtues of Constructive Criticism at Yale – The Atlantic
In The New Republic, Roxane Gay comments on student protests at the University of Missouri and Yale University with characteristic thoughtfulness and a powerful anecdote. “I attended Yale from 1992 to 1994,” she writes.
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We treat terrorism as more costly than it truly is / Boing Boing
The deaths from terrorism are unspeakable tragedies. It goes without saying. But the mortality due to terrorism — total deaths per capita — are very low, lower than car-wrecks or traditional murder.
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The Curious Supreme Court Case Behind ‘Bridge of Spies’ – The Atlantic
Behind Steven Spielberg’s spy thriller, Bridge of Spies, is one of the strangest cases ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Take its very name: Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, also known as ‘Mark’ and also known as Martin Collins and Emil R. Goldfus, Peti…
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Beirut: How war and conflict affect design – BBC News
The main exhibition at this year’s Dubai Design Week, Iconic City: Brilliant Beirut, presents a cleverly conceived display of the Lebanese capital’s design evolution from 1950 until the present.
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Gov. Jerry Brown will allow Syrian refugees after vetting process | abc7news.com
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Gov. Jerry Brown will allow Syrian refugees after vetting process : democrats
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The world’s richest nations have agreed for the first time to abstain, in principle, from hacking for commercial gain.
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Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden – Schneier on Security
As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that have claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame for the carnage is being directed toward American whistleblower Edward Snowden and the spread of strong encryption catalyzed by his actions. Now the Paris attac…
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November 17, 1993: The US House of Representatives Approves NAFTA | The Nation
Today in 1993 the House of Representatives voted in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement, then as now denounced in the pages of The Nation for its abrogation of labor protections and its entrenchment of the neoliberal economic and politi…
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Yemen conflict: Exiled President Hadi returns to Aden – BBC News
Yemen’s exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has returned to the southern city of Aden to supervise a new offensive against the rebel-held area of Taiz, officials say. It is not clear how long Mr Hadi intends to remain in the country.
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New York firefighter gets world’s most extensive face transplant – video | US news | The Guardian
A New York surgeon tells how he performed the world’s ‘most extensive’ face transplant on retired firefighter Patrick Hardison.
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David Cameron capitulates to terror, proposes Britain’s USA Patriot Act / Boing Boing
The UK Prime Minister has seized on the tragic deaths and injuries in Paris as an excuse to terroise Britons into allowing him to pass his Snoopers Charter, a sweeping, badly written surveillance bill that will end security research in the UK, cause…
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Earth’s underground water quantified – BBC News
The total amount of groundwater on the planet, held in rock and soil below our feet, is estimated to be 23 million cubic km. If this volume is hard to visualise, imagine the Earth’s entire land surface covered in a layer some 180m deep.
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Rupert Murdoch to Obama on refugees: admit only ‘proven Christians’ | Media | The Guardian
Oh yes he did. Does the News Corp boss not realise that this is just the kind of response to terrorism that the terrorists seek to provoke? Ostracising all Muslims by refusing them sanctuary on the grounds that that they are potential terrorists is …
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Book review: climate change, what everyone needs to know | John Abraham | Environment | The Guardian
A new book makes the case that those who understand the basics of climate change and clean energy will be the “smart money” in the coming years. Those who don’t, however, will make bad decisions for themselves and their family.
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Former Parishioners Protest Mormon LGBT Policy – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Hundreds of members of the Mormon faith protested this week by submitting formal letters of resignation, renouncing the church’s latest anti-LGBT policy that bans baptisms for children of same-sex couples. What do you think?
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Sports in Zimbabwe engulfed by bitter legacy of racism – Al Jazeera English
Harare, Zimbabwe – In a country often struggling to redress the bitter legacy of racism and vast inequalities of the past, former Zimbabwe cricketer Mark Vermeulen opened up old wounds when he, in the worst racial slur imaginable, referred to black …
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UK inflation rate remains negative in October – BBC News
UK inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) remained at -0.1% in October, the Office for National Statistics has said. The news will further dampen expectations of a rise in interest rates any time soon.
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Fracking Produces More Radioactive Waste than Nuclear Power Plants : environment
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Yet more news of closures at Groupon, the daily deals and local commerce platform. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has ceased operations immediately in four more countries, all in Europe, where its business has been in decline:…
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Ben Carson Won’t Explain His Mysterious Palm Beach Real Estate Deal | Mother Jones
Last week, Mother Jones and the Associated Press reported that GOP front-runner Ben Carson had a business relationship with a felonious ex-dentist in Pittsburgh named Alfonso Costa, who had once been convicted of healthcare fraud.
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The Democratic Debate Moderator Who Wowed the Critics Has a Podcast. It’s Great. | Mother Jones
The second Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 race had one clear winner—the moderator, John Dickerson.
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The Troubling History of Big Tobacco’s Cozy Ties With Black Leaders | Mother Jones
It’s hardly surprising that a tobacco company would donate more money to Republican politicians than to Democrats, who are generally more amenable than GOPers to taxes and regulation.
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The Republican Wall of Climate Denial Is Starting to Crack | Mother Jones
This story originally appeared in The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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Russia: Plane Felled by Homemade Explosive Device | Al Jazeera America
He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details. All of the people on board, most of them Russian tourists, were killed when the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct.
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Nick Rennison: ‘Platoons of the undead lurked in obscure books’ | Books | The Guardian
Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula was not the only vampire to haunt the late Victorian and Edwardian imagination. As I found when I undertook research for my anthology The Rivals of Dracula, he was but one of platoons of the undead who lurked in the pages…
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Migrant: ‘Paris events happen every day in Syria’ – BBC News
It is believed that Ahmad al-Mohammad one of the attackers involved in the Paris attacks might have posed as a refugee entering Europe via Greece. Documents found with the remains of one of the attackers showed they had been registered in Leros last…
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Marine Le Pen is playing into ISIL’s hands – Al Jazeera English
France has been struck a second time this year by terrorism, but this time political reactions are vastly different from the national unity that had followed the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in January.
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Syrians tell of ‘insane nights’ of French bombing – Al Jazeera English
French defence officials say fighter jets targeted Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in northern Syria for the second time in less than 24 hours.
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Islamic State is plotting deadly cyber-attacks – George Osborne – BBC News
Militants from the so-called Islamic State group are trying develop the ability to launch deadly cyber-attacks on the UK, George Osborne will say. The chancellor is to announce the UK’s investment in fighting cybercrime will double, to £1.9bn a year…
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Charlie Sheen ‘to make revealing personal announcement’ – BBC News
Actor Charlie Sheen is set to make a “revealing personal announcement” on US TV, amid intense press speculation the 50-year-old star is HIV-positive. The former star of sitcom Two And A Half Men will appear on NBC’s Today show at lunchtime, UK time.
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India’s Times Internet Invests $15M In Tasks-For-Cash Service Taskbucks | TechCrunch
Times Internet, the digital business run by India’s Times of India media group, has bought a majority (but undisclosed) stake in mobile-focused task marketplace Taskbucks for $15 million.
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Listen to ‘When We Were Young,’ the second track from Adele’s new album | The Verge
Adele is continuing to build excitement ahead of the release of her third studio album, 25, this Friday. Today, the singer unveiled the full video of the live recording of “When We Were Young,” a nostalgic ballad written with Canadian musician Tobia…
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – ESA operations managers
They have a passion for space and are some of the best engineers anywhere, conducting flight operations for exploration, technology and Earth missions worth billions of euros.
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A Poet Who Believed in Nothing As in Love | The Nation
Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore: “I lived for art, I lived for love.
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Homeless man denies attacking actress Pauley Perrette – BBC News
David Merck, 45, was charged on Monday with false imprisonment by violence and making a criminal threat. He could face up to four years in prison if convicted.
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What’s your favourite comfort read? | Children’s books | The Guardian
Whether it be Disney, hot cocoa or homemade fairy cakes, we all occasionally need a reminder of our childhood in our lives. For me, the perfect solution, my favourite childhood comfort books. We all have them, that series of books, that no matter ho…
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Palau protects marine wealth to pay for its future | Environment | The Guardian
The recent decision by the Pacific island nation of Palau to end fishing in a California-sized swath of tuna-rich ocean comes at a time of record overfishing and will help the populations of bigeye and yellowfin to recover, scientists say.
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‘Star Wars: Despecialized Edition’ Restores the Original, Unedited Trilogy | Motherboard
The original Star Wars trilogy has seen a number of changes over the years.
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Britain to recruit nearly 2,000 spies to counter ISIL – Al Jazeera English
The UK has announced it will expand its domestic and international spy agencies by recruiting 1,900 new intelligence agents in the wake of attacks in France and the Middle East.
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‘All You Want Is Money! All I Want Is Revolution!’ | The Nation
Before the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was a rebel poet, volatile and impulsive, who liked picking fights and telling tall tales. I’d won more than 20 state literary prizes, and I figured that one day I would earn international fame in the literary…
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‘Alarming trend’ of decline among UK’s dung beetles – BBC News
Some of the UK’s dung beetle species are becoming scarcer and could even face extinction, according to scientists. The Dung Beetle UK Mapping Project (Dump) is still in the early stages of its research work, which has included examining beetle sites…
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Trapped in the Prison of Dinesh D’Souza’s Mind – In These Times
If Inspector Javert and Captain Ahab were to collaborate on a screed, the results would likely not be half as demented—or one-fortieth as megalomaniacal—as the politics laid out in right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s latest broadside, Stealing Americ…
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Andy Murray says he is focused on Great Britain’s Davis Cup final despite recent security concerns in Belgium. Next week’s final takes place in Ghent. The city is 35 miles from Molenbeek, the focus of a manhunt for one of the suspects involved in th…
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For the Terminally Ill, Drawing Strength From the Virgin Mary
Of the four stage 4 cancer victims I met last November when starting my reporting for the December National Geographic cover story about the Virgin Mary, Gregg Laskoski, 37, was the sickest.
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Aluminium carbonate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is no evidence that aluminium carbonate is formed in double decomposition reactions, soluble carbonates are sufficiently alkaline to precipitate aluminium hydroxide and produce carbon dioxide.
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Spokes has office productivity down 100% : aww
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G20 makes fragile progress in the face of atrocity – BBC News
This long planned summit brought the world’s most powerful leaders to Turkey immediately after the Paris attacks. The most obvious progress, however fragile, was over Syria, described by French president Francois Hollande as “the greatest factory of…
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Tanzania gold miners trapped for 41 days freed – BBC News
Five gold miners have been rescued in western Tanzania after being trapped underground for 41 days, while 12 others are still missing, police say. The artisanal miners survived by eating roots and soil and are receiving treatment at hospital.
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John Kerry declares ‘fierce solidarity’ with France – video | World news | The Guardian
John Kerry reaffirms Washington’s ‘fierce solidary’ with France as he arrives in Paris on Monday to pay his respects to those killed in Friday night’s attacks.
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Brother of Salah and Brahim Abdeslam faces the media – BBC News
Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of two suspects in the Paris attacks has spoken to the media. Salah and Brahim Abdeslam, were both named by French authorities.
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Palestine’s Fastest and Most Furious – The Daily Beast
The name of her car is Bonita, she said, a tricked out BMW E30.
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Haruki Murakami Novels Sold in Polish Vending Machines | Open Culture
Out with the Coke cans, potato chips, Twix bars and other junk foods. In with the Haruki Murakami novels.
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BBC Sport – Paris attacks: Belgium v Spain called off over security fears
Belgium’s friendly with Spain on Tuesday in Brussels has been called off because of security fears following the deadly attacks in Paris. French prosecutors have identified a Belgian as the attacks’ mastermind.
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Trinidad 0-1 USA: Paul Caligiuri remembers his billion-dollar goal | Football | The Guardian
The most important goal in American soccer history was not honed on a practice field. It was born and nurtured on a long, flat driveway in Diamond Bar, California, in 1980s suburban Los Angeles by a young man with an immense passion for the beautifu…
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Australia to return to Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 – BBC News
Australia will compete in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 for the second time, organisers have confirmed. The country will send an entry to next year’s event in Stockholm, despite being 10,000 miles (15,000km) on the opposite side of the world.
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This climate denier just can’t wait to debut his “documentary” in Paris | Grist
After the deadly terrorist attacks, climate activists are still planning to go ahead with protests and civil disobedience. The Permian Basin shale field in Texas looks like looks like tiramisu, tastes like money.
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Was Paris Massacre a French Intelligence Failure? | Al Jazeera America
Reports that France was warned by the United States and Iraq before Friday’s Paris attacks that an ISIL assault was imminent have prompted many to ask how security services could have missed the plot.
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How wrestling explains the American midwest | Sport | The Guardian
It was 5am in tiny Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Saturday and the bus was already started and roaring, ready for the trip to the hallowed ground. Five hours, 282 miles ahead – and later that day, back – past towns named Rochester and Waterloo and Cedar R…
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That’s a good title for a first novel, you might say, combining world-weary ennui with a touch of chutzpah; but actually it’s the translator’s own – Ivan Goncharov’s book is more often rendered into English as A Common Story.
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Where Are They Now? Disrupt London Hackathon Winner Seeusoon | TechCrunch
With Disrupt London 2015 only a month away, we thought it’d be fun to take a look back at the companies that emerged from last year’s Hackathon to see what they’ve been up to in the last year or so since the show.
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Islamic Movement rejects Israeli government ban – Al Jazeera English
Leaders from the Islamic Movement in Israel have rejected the Israeli government decision to outlaw the social and civic group.
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Anyone But Ivy Pocket by Caleb Krisp – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This absolutely spectacular story is about an extraordinary 12-year-old lady’s maid (yes, REALLY!) named Ivy Pocket who was abandoned in Paris by her mistress, Countess Carbunkle, on account of her poor conduct.
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Gogoro’s Electric Scooters Will Launch In Amsterdam Next | TechCrunch
Gogoro, the smart scooter startup that has raised over $180 million in funding, has picked Amsterdam as its second launch city. The company’s electric scooters started shipping four months ago in Taipei, where it is based, after a pilot program.
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France Launches Second Night of Raids, Airstrikes | Al Jazeera America
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We Can Stop Pretending Any of the 2016 Republicans Believe in Science : democrats
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Senator Barbara Mikulski on being awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom : democrats
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We Can Stop Pretending Any of the 2016 Republicans Believe in Science | New Republic
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Senator Barbara Mikulski awarded Presidential | Video | C-SPAN.org
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Intersection Episode 9: Tamir Rice Has Been Dead for a Year | New Republic
Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old boy from Cleveland, Ohio. He liked basketball, and going out to restaurants. He was a bit tall for his age. He had a best friend, and an older sister. Tamir was a normal kid with a regular life. His death, tragically, wa…
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Saeed Jaffrey: Actor who straddled disparate worlds – Al Jazeera English
The veteran Indian actor Saeed Jaffrey has died in London at the age of 86. Punjab-born Jaffrey starred in critically acclaimed films such as Gandhi, The Chess Players and with Michael Caine and Sean Connery in Hollywood’s The Man Who Would Be King.
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Fantasy is an entirely new genre for you, what was it like writing Carry On? Was it ever a struggle? It really was. It’s a very different kind of book than my others – there’s a different sort of engine under the hood, with more moving pieces.
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Russia says plane in Sinai brought down by bomb – Al Jazeera English
The Russian intelligence service says that a Metrojet airliner that went down over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula in October was brought down by a bomb. The FSB said traces of explosives were found among the debris, after weeks of speculation about what ha…
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Awkward Apec fashion: what the world leaders wore – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
From Driza-Bone coats in Australia to tunics dubbed ‘Star Trek suits’ in China last year, the annual Apec summit is renowned for staging awkward photoshoots in which the world leaders don the national dress of the host country.
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Docker Launches New Commercial Service To Help Enterprises Deploy And Manage Their Apps | TechCrunch
Docker announced the Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) at its developer conference in Barcelona today. The UCP is a new paid service in Docker’s portfolio that is meant to help ops teams easily set up a cluster and enable developers to deploy doc…
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‘Terror act’ downed Russian plane – BBC News
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Former French justice minister: Merkel ‘error of judgement on migrants’ – BBC News
Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis spoke to former French justice minister Rachida Dati about the Paris attacks. She told BBC Newsnight she believed Germany’s Chancellor “made an error of judgement” by letting many migrants into Europe.
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VW’s European sales slip after emissions scandal | Business | The Guardian
Volkswagen’s European sales and market share slipped in October, industry data has showed, as the German carmaker’s emissions-cheating scandal began to take its toll at a time when the overall market continued to grow.
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What a US interest rate rise really means for the dollar | Business | The Guardian
The US Federal Reserve is almost certain to start raising interest rates when the policy-setting Federal Open Markets Committee next meets, on 16 December.
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4 reasons why we can and must fight terrorism and poverty through climate action | Grist
Soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City, then-President George W. Bush offered the view that “we fight against poverty because hope is the answer to terror.” Bush himself never followed through in advancing a serious global…
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DEERFIELD, IL—Touting its foundational values of hard work, honesty, and integrity, drugstore giant Walgreens confirmed Tuesday it is proud of its origins as a small business that in today’s economy would absolutely never have been able to get off t…
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Sean Parker Grants $10 Million To Aid Radical AutoImmune Research For Type 1 Diabetes | TechCrunch
Sean Parker has been very philanthropic lately, particularly with life sciences research. Parker announced he’d given $600 million to a foundation with his name on it this summer and $24 million last December to establish an allergy research center,…
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Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Google and ASUS announced the Chromebit — a full Chrome OS-based computer on an HDMI stick. Today, the two companies are officially launching this new way of using Chrome OS on any screen with an HDMI port. The $85 Chromebit is a …
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The Chromebit turns any old monitor or TV into a computer for $85 | The Verge
Asus and Google have finally started selling the Chromebit, a candybar-sized Chrome OS computer that retails for a measly 85 bucks. You can plug it into any HDMI port, hook up the power cable and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, then kaboom: instant …
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Gogoro’s awesome electric scooter is coming to Europe next year, Amsterdam first | The Verge
Gogoro, the all-electric, Bluetooth-connected scooter designed in large part by former HTC staff, has announced its first launch beyond its home market of Taiwan: Amsterdam, a city well known for its love of two-wheeled things.
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Stretched humanitarian agencies could save millions of dollars – and reduce carbon emissions, deforestation and violence against women and girls – if solar power and other clean energy sources were installed at refugee camps, according to new analys…
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A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt – review | Books | The Guardian
In 1925, a 15-year-old girl named Jean Lucey Pratt, who lived with her widowed father in Wembley, began a journal. “I mean to go on writing this for years and years,” she wrote – and unlike most who embark on such an endeavour, she did.
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Gustav Mahler’s Love Letters to His Wife | Brain Pickings
“I could sense the bliss that springs from love when one loves with total conviction and knows one’s love to be reciprocated.” “Music,” Oliver Sacks wrote, “can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.
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John Sessions blasts BBC ‘management culture’ – BBC News
Actor and comedian John Sessions has criticised BBC “management culture” as “completely out of hand”. Sessions, who found fame on Whose Line Is It Anyway, said the BBC would have a better chance of survival if it was not “run like a private company”.
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Climate change and cities: a prime source of problems, yet key to a solution | Cities | The Guardian
Cities are home to half the world’s population and produce around 75% of the world’s GDP and greenhouse gas emissions. By 2050, between 65% and 75% of the world population is projected to be living in cities, with more than 40 million people moving …
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Kabul Taxi: You talkin’ to me? – Al Jazeera English
In Afghanistan, where no one is unaffected by dirty politics, corruption, economic woes and conflict, comic relief is as indispensable as bread and water.
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BP’s plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight knocked back | Environment | The Guardian
Oil giant BP’s application to drill in the Great Australian Bight has been rejected after it fell short of environmental standards. The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) rejected BP’s application to …
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Consumers today are often cast as god-like figures before whom markets and politicians bow. Everywhere, it seems, consumers are triumphant. Consumers drive production; they fuel innovation; they dictate modern politics; they have it in their power t…
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Russia’s great power game – Al Jazeera English
It is often forgotten that 100 years ago Russia, already a great power in Europe, was poised to become one in the Middle East. Under a 1916 deal worked out with Britain and France, Russia was to make huge gains in the event of an Allied victory agai…
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Hannes Geldenhuys, a burly farmer in South Africa’s Gauteng province, surveys his fields. At this time of year, they should be a green, thigh-high carpet of maize and soybean. Instead, all he sees is the decaying residue of his last crop: hectare up…
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Western coalition strategy against Isis, as Edgar Wilson Nye observed about Wagner’s music, “is better than it sounds”.
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Meet Veerender Jubbal. I confess that, as with many other people I’ve only met through social media, I don’t know much about his personal life—how old he is exactly, whether he’s in a relationship, what he does for a living.
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To borrow a word from the great executive producer/director/actor Rogelio De La Vega, “Chapter Twenty-Eight” of Jane The Virgin is the show’s great “fasterpiece.
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Paris’s Muslim communities react to the attacks on their city – BBC News
Paris, and the whole of France, has a large Muslim population, and there are fears Islamophobia could worsen in the wake of the recent attacks. Graham Satchell reports from Paris on how Muslim communities there have been coping in the aftermath of t…
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PARIS — November is not January. That thought has been filtering through the statements of most French politicians and the news media, and most people seem to understand.
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Clueless Governors’ War on Refugees Is Illegal – The Daily Beast
One by one, 17 governors came forward Monday to announce that they do not want, and in some cases will refuse to accept, any Syrian refugees in their states as a part of the United States’ refugee resettlement program in 2016.
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Heavy rains cause chaos in south India – Al Jazeera English
Heavy rain in south India and Sri Lanka has killed over 70 people while inundating homes, farmland and highways, forcing authorities to shut down schools and colleges in some areas, officials and media reports said.
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Cynthia Payne, madam – obituary – Telegraph
Cynthia Payne, who has died aged 82, became Britain’s best-known brothel keeper when police raided her suburban home in Streatham, south London, in 1978, interrupting a sex party that was in full swing; at her trial, she was ineradicably branded “Ma…
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A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel via NASA https://t.co/RlZsnYWq4B https://t.co/lMmh8RVDIN https://t.co/24KmSWKZQT
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Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers.
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Bar Has Loud, Overcrowded Section Upstairs Too – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
SAN ANTONIO, TX—Noting that the bar and surrounding floor area can get pretty cramped and chaotic, regulars at local bar The Blue Room informed visiting friends Friday that the establishment has a noisy, overcrowded upstairs section too.
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Star Wars Week When Mel Brooks watched Star Wars, he saw space penises · Memory Wipe · The A.V. Club
Who’s ready for some dick jokes? Spaceballs is remembered as a silly send-up of Star Wars, Mel Brooks’ goofball ode to the outer-space adventure flicks of the ’80s. But a closer look at the film reveals the unstable fusion of two warring sensibiliti…
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Picture this: An NBC show set in a busy Chicago emergency room, following the doctors who work tirelessly to save their patients’ lives, while at the same time having messy personal lives of their own. Sounds great, right?
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The 20th Century Fox fanfare. The Lucasfilm logo. The onscreen text catching the audience up on the action, before the screen explodes into a dogfight featuring foolish heroics and flying machines exploding in dramatic fashion.
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Iron & Wine covers GWAR · A.V. Undercover · The A.V. Club
We knew that putting a GWAR song on the Undercover list would present a big challenge, because who wants to mess with a band that has developed such a strong following ‘round here and whose songs are so closely linked to their presentation? But we t…
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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? With Star Wars Wars, The A.V.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Tuesday, November 17. All times are Eastern. The Flash (The CW, 8 p.m.
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Last week’s Monday Night Raw had a lot of fresh, intriguing matchups on paper, but once the in-ring action started, not a lot of it mattered.
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Supergirl isn’t just a superhero show with a female lead; it’s a show that sets out to explore super-heroics through an explicitly female lens.
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Jamar Clark: 51 arrests at protests over Minneapolis shooting by police | US news | The Guardian
Police detained 51 people after a night of protests in Minneapolis over the shooting of Jamar Clark during an arrest.
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The UK is a country of meat eaters. The typical diet is high in processed meats containing salt and unhealthy fats, and low in fibres and nutrients from fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts and grains. “We have limited our food choices without even knowing…
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Analysis: A French intelligence failure? – Al Jazeera English
Reports that France had been warned by the US and Iraq in advance of Friday’s Paris massacre that an ISIL attack was imminent have prompted many to ask how security services could missed the plot hatched.
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D.A.R.E. to Keep Kids Off Tech – The Daily Beast
Smartphone addiction among younger users may be a culturally accepted norm in the next few years, as more students have smartphones than ever before, and rules start to relax preventing phone use in the classroom.
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Is This Nation On The Verge of Rwanda-Style Genocide? – The Daily Beast
Nairobi, KENYA — When Lt Gen. Romeo Dallaire was informed he was leading a United Nations peacekeeping force to Rwanda in 1993, he replied, according to his memoir, “Rwanda, that’s somewhere in Africa, isn’t it?”
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Why Aren’t Rubio and Cruz Hispanic Enough For Whites? – The Daily Beast
Some high-profile liberals in the media aren’t satisfied with the fact that most Hispanics — about two-thirds, according to voter surveys — are registered Democrats.
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Democrats Deceiving Voters on Gun-Control – The Daily Beast
From the sound of the Democratic presidential candidates, you’d think every president gets a magic wand upon entering the Oval Office. When it comes to gun-control, they’re actually only given a headache.
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Even KO’d, Ronda Rousey Is the Winner – The Daily Beast
On Sunday night, former world boxing champion Holly Holm delivered a devastating blow to Ronda Rousey, a clean kick to the jawline that rendered the undefeated UFC champion unconscious and defeated.
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APOD: 2015 November 16 – A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel
Explanation: What’s happening to that meteor? A few days ago, a bright fireball was photographed from the Alps mountain range in Switzerland as it blazed across the sky.
A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel via NASA https://t.co/RlZsnYWq4B https://t.co/lMmh8RVDIN https://t.co/24KmSWKZQT -
Ex-Con D’Souza: Obama and Hillary are Crooks, Too – The Daily Beast
Rightwing social/political theorist and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who once wrote a book arguing that “the cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11,” has a similar take on the carnage in Paris.
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Ron Ryall, wearing an oil-smudged blue boilersuit, was fettling a cream Morris Minor in his low wooden workshop on a lane where the suburbs of West Ruislip give way to scrapyards, dog kennels and horse paddocks. A strong whiff of solvents filled his…
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France’s only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, is to leave Toulon for the Gulf on Wednesday to ease the burden on its warplanes already operating against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. France has 12 planes operating against Isis targets fr…
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Stephen Colbert Slams ISIS on ‘The Late Show’: ‘They’re a Bunch of Pussies’ – The Daily Beast
It was a scene straight out of Casablanca: On Monday night’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the late-night host opened the program with his house band playing a rousing rendition of French national anthem “La Marseillaise,” as the Ed…
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Rains kill at least 70 in India’s Chennai – BBC News
More than 70 people have been killed as incessant rains continue to batter the southern Indian city of Chennai, media reports say. Most of the main streets are waterlogged, bringing the city to a standstill.
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Tom Petty to Curate Own SiriusXM Channel | Rolling Stone
Tom Petty to Curate Own SiriusXM Channel “I intend to be very hands on and supply brand new exclusive tracks as well as rarities from our vaults,” rocker promises of Tom Petty Radio
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Open thread for night owls: Community-owned renewable power could be a game-changer in California
At Yes! magazine, Al Weinrub writes—Energy Democracy: Inside Californians’ Game-Changing Plan for Community-Owned Power:
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Jim Webb may have abandoned his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, but the former senator from Virginia is not finished criticizing Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mr. Webb, a former combat Marine, accused Mrs.
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Roommate gave me a cutout from a magazine and said “make this”. : food
Roommate gave me a cutout from a magazine and said “make this”.Pasta (i.imgur.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Ponder this Devonian miracle | Environment | The Guardian
On these exceptionally still days I go to the copse by the marsh to listen to its subtlety one more time. You have to work to pick it out behind the blackbird commotion or the jay screech: a snick as a stalk breaks free and the leaf lullabies down.
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Smoke and Sunlight Image, Yosemite National Park – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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The Dalai Lama on terrorist attacks: “We cannot solve this problem only through prayers. … I believe in praying. But humans have created this problem, and now we are asking God to solve it. It is illogical. So let us work for peace … and not exp…
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Hollande calls for grand coalition to defeat ISIL – Al Jazeera English
French President Francois Hollande has called for a global coalition to eradicate the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group following the deadly attacks in Paris.
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Bags based on Baroque architecture / Boing Boing
The Fancy’s $95 unisex, USB-chargeable light-up LED sneakers glow in seven colors and last 8-10 hours per charge. They’re hand-screened and $11.09 from Danse Macabre on Etsy. (via Geekymerch)
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Paris attacks: IS are ‘psychopathic monsters’, says Kerry – BBC News
US Secretary of State John Kerry has described Islamic State (IS) militants as “psychopathic monsters” following Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris. Mr Kerry, in Paris for talks with President Hollande, said the US stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Fr…
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At some point during “The Eye on the Skullship,” I screamed out, “Holy moly, is that Andy Daly!?” Well, I used a few more expletives, but you get the point.
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French Muslims in a Time of War – The New Yorker
Last Friday, around eleven in the evening Paris time, I got a call from Fouad Ben Ahmed. He was the protagonist of my piece in August on French Muslims in the banlieues of Paris, and now he was saying something about attacks on a music club, a stadi…
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Secret service agent faces court in underage ‘sexting’ case | US news | The Guardian
A US secret service officer charged with trying to solicit sex in phone messages he thought were going to a 14-year-old girl has appeared in federal court, where he was told he could face 10 years in prison if convicted of trying to transfer obscene…
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Ford will add LTE to way more cars with new Sync Connect service | The Verge
Ahead of this week’s LA Auto Show, Ford has announced Sync Connect, a new LTE-based service that will debut first with the 2017 Escape (which is also debuting this week).
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The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah was the latest late-night host to open his show with some solemn comments about the terror attacks in Paris.
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Hamilton’s the kind of city where half of City Hall says they’ve been bullied at work, where the “accountability” committee charges you $100 to make a complaint and will only investigate if you are never quoted in the press on the matter, and where …
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Datto Scores $75 Million As It Seeks To Expand Beyond Disaster Recovery | TechCrunch
Datto, the company that acts as a backup and disaster recovery service for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series B investment.
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Ford Borrows A Play From Tesla, Launches App With Remote Start, Unlocking And More | TechCrunch
Ford just announced a service that allows owners to control their car from a smartphone app. Called Sync Connect, the service brings a lot of functionality not traditionally found in gas automobiles — let alone, inexpensive gas-powered cars.
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With Rdio Buy, Pandora Envisions Apple Music Model for New Service | Re/code
Pandora, the Internet radio service, says that after buying Rdio, a music subscription service, it wants to offer a new subscription service of its own next year. What will that service look like? Pandora execs won’t say.
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Tokyo Sues Okinawa in Us Base Relocation Dispute | Al Jazeera America
The Japanese government took the local government in Okinawa to court Tuesday, launching a legal battle in their longstanding dispute over the planned relocation of a U.S. military air base on the southern island.
Tokyo sues Okinawa in US base relocation dispute https://t.co/o31W5LuCIo via Al Jazeera America -
Cincinnati Bengals handed first loss of season by Houston Texans | Sport | The Guardian
TJ Yates took over after Brian Hoyer sustained a concussion on Monday night and rallied the Houston Texans to a 10-6 victory over Cincinnati, the Bengals’ first loss. The Bengals (8-1) were trying to give the NFL its first trio of 9-0 teams, joining…
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Large shark stalks dead sperm whale off Australian shore – BBC News
Swimmers have been warned to stay out of the water off far east Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, after a large shark was spotted stalking a whale carcass that washed up on the shore. The state parks authority tweeted images of what appears to be a …
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Antonio Brown’s TD celebration : sports
That’s a nice smooth gif ya got there OP. Not my gif, I found it on imgur. But it looks like the imgur user grabbed it from here from /u/Fusir.
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Brother Of Man Who Died At Bataclan: ‘I Want Rock And Roll’ For Him : Parallels : NPR
Among the 129 people killed in the Paris terror attacks last Friday was a newlywed whose wife remains in critical condition; the cousin of a soccer player on the French national soccer team; and Cedric Mauduit, 41, a government manager in charge of …
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Xbox One update adds controller button remapping for all games | The Verge
Last week’s big Xbox One update was a welcome re-haul for Microsoft’s console, making the machine faster, making its dashboard easier to navigate, and adding backwards compatibility for more than a hundred Xbox 360 games.
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US state governors refuse to accept Syrian refugees – Al Jazeera English
A string of US governors have said they will refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their home states in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks, prompting accusations of Islamophobia.
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Nadal powers through in London opener – Al Jazeera English
Rafa Nadal’s late-season resurgence continued at the ATP World Tour Finals when he beat wayward French Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3, 6-2 to open his account.
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Hong Kong-China: A growing football rivalry or just politics? – BBC News
Around the world, there are legendary, dynastic rivalries in football. Think Turkey versus Greece, England versus Germany and Brazil versus Argentina.
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Why did Hank leave the Blumquist house without checking on Peggy? “Rhinoceros” is a crackerjack hour of television, holding over the level of tension from last week’s episode while upping the ante considerably, as nearly every character finds him or…
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Hong Kong-China game to test Xi’s football reform plan – Al Jazeera English
Hong Kong is due to host China on Tuesday in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier. It is expected to be a tense encounter because of the political situation between the former colony and the country that governs it.
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91 pounds of cheese. Worth just over $2,000. : mildlyinteresting
91 pounds of cheese. Worth just over $2,000. (imgur.com) How much for the paper clip?
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light came thru the window and hit my bedpost just right – GIF on Imgur
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Kohler Workers Strike for More Pay | Al Jazeera America
Hundreds of union members and their supporters picketed at the gates of the Kohler Co. in the first strike at the Wisconsin manufacturer in more than 30 years. Picketing began early Monday after workers marched from the union hall to the company gat…
Kohler workers strike for higher pay, end of two-tier wages https://t.co/3y2TD0AneW via Al Jazeera America -
When you know your post is headed to the Front Page – GIF on Imgur
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Can Live Streaming Save the Poker Industry? – The New Yorker
In 2003, an accountant with little poker expertise and the auspicious name of Chris Moneymaker won the main event at the World Series of Poker, in Las Vegas, taking home two and a half million dollars in prize money.
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Adele Talks ‘When We Were Young,’ Jeff Buckley Influence | Rolling Stone
Only four days remain before Adele returns with her much-anticipated new LP 25, and today the singer stopped by Sirius XM for a wide-ranging interview about her influences, motherhood and her upcoming album.
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Australia’s first Muslim Party aims for senate seats – BBC News
Australia’s first party representing Muslims intends to contest senate seat at the next federal election. Launching the party in Sydney, founder Diaa Mohamed told Fairfax he wanted a louder voice for Muslims.
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It was Ronda Rousey’s Buster Douglas moment. Those who watched it were stunned. Those who read about it the next morning did a double take. And more than a few people were wondering where it leaves her career. In 1990, Mike Tyson was also unbeaten a…
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Sometimes the best revenge is living well
The responses and tributes after a tragedy usually run the gamut between offensive, emotional, and—every so often—profound. So far there hasn’t been a corporation asking people to remember the dead by buying SpaghettiOs or getting a data plan at AT&…
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Donald J. Trump issued another call for more scrutiny of mosques in the United States as fresh fears of terrorism, spurred by the attacks in Paris, dominated the presidential campaign conversation on Monday.
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Microsoft has finally finished eradicating The Zune from the galaxy · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In March of 2011, Microsoft effectively executed the Zune, its unpopular iPod competitor, by announcing that it would no longer be releasing new versions of the Zune hardware due to “tepid demand.
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The problem with using “Rise Of The Villains” as this season’s subtitle is that it’s such a generic phrase as to be virtually meaningless.
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John Oliver Paris Attacks – YouTube
John Oliverhttps://www.youtube.com/user/KeithPla… boss
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Can Live Streaming Save the Poker Industry? – The New Yorker
Can Live Streaming Save the Poker Industry? https://t.co/qExJbhU2Tt via The New Yorker: Everything
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Stanford students begin ‘indefinite’ sit-in over fossil fuel divestment | US news | The Guardian
Stanford University students have begun an indefinite sit-in to protest against the institution’s investments in fossil fuels. According to protest organisers, more than 100 students attempted to enter the main administration building and office of …
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Australia receives first five Syrian refugees – BBC News
Five Syrians have become the first of 12,000 refugees to arrive in Australia under a one-off plan to resettle people fleeing the country’s conflict. The couple with three children arrived in Perth on Monday night after their resettlement was fast-tr…
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Apple SIM Now Available In Japan | TechCrunch
Apple SIM, the SIM card that lets iPad users switch between participating carriers in different countries, has launched in Japan through a partnership with KDDI.
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WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice | The Nation
The UN climate conference in Paris, COP21, is fast approaching in December. The 2016 Presidential election follows soon after.
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Asian shares rally as positive US close boosts confidence – BBC News
Asian shares opened higher on Tuesday, recovering from Monday’s losses, as Wall Street’s positive close boosts investor confidence. US stocks ended three days of losses overnight as investors moved past concerns that the terrorists attacks in Paris …
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Ween Announce Reunion, Plan 2016 Concerts | Rolling Stone
The Boognish rises again: Almost four years after Ween split up, Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, a.k.a. Gene and Dean Ween, have announced plans to reunite for a pair of concerts.
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Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has said he is retiring from international cricket. He said his career had been an “incredible ride” but now was the “best time to say goodbye”.
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How the Paris attacks unfolded on social media – BBC News
As news of multiple attacks in Paris broke on Friday night, social media was the place where millions of people around the world first heard about it. Eyewitnesses logged onto their social networks to warn others about what was happening.
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Chat App Kik’s Newest Feature Makes Sending GIFs As Easy As Emoji | TechCrunch
Kik, the messaging app popular among teens and young people in North America, has rolled out an interesting new feature that makes sending a GIF as easy as an emoji. As of today, the chat app now includes an integrated GIF search feature which uses …
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US governors move to block Syrian refugees – BBC News
More than a dozen US states say Syrian refugees are no longer welcome due to security fears after the Paris attacks. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan said he was suspending the acceptance of new arrivals until after a review.
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Before there were the Paris terror attacks that changed everything and the second Democratic presidential debate that changed nothing, much of America had been transfixed by the scene playing out on college campuses across the country
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Bruce Willis Dies Hard on Broadway: When Big Stars Are Big Duds on Stage – The Daily Beast
Bruce Willis and Al Pacino are currently starring in Broadway shows just one block away from each other. The two huge Hollywood stars have grossed a combined total of close to $5 billion in the movie box-office, and producers are hoping they’ll tran…
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Germaine Greer opened a notebook at Heathrow airport and began to write a letter to her lover. It was 1 March 1976 and Greer was on her way to Boston for the start of a gruelling lecture tour of the US and Canada.
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Will Big Data lead to Big Brother? – BBC News
Many countries are in the throes of a debate about the amount of surveillance a government should be allowed to carry out on its own people. But in other countries, where there are few, if any, checks on the state’s powers, a potential dictatorship …
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More evidence of the GOP’s Obamacare problem: Alabama governor mulling Medicaid expansion
Hell just got several degrees colder. Gov.
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There’s Something Very Unusual About This Painting of an Alien
Julia Golden used her own face as a canvas to create this amazing painting of an extraterrestrial—look closely and you can see her mouth beneath the alien’s “shoulders.” It’s even more amazing when you consider this artist is still in high school. V…
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Researchers Make Free Floating Holograms With A Swarm Of Drones | TechCrunch
Now that drones can fly in intricate patterns researchers at Queens University have created flying robots that self-assemble into floating shapes and can “3D print” objects in midair. The drones, called BitDrones, come in three varieties.
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Guinea’s last Ebola patient released from care in Conakry – BBC News
The last known Ebola patient in Guinea has recovered and been released from a treatment centre in the capital, Conakry, health officials say. Guinea will be declared officially free of Ebola if no new cases are reported in the next six weeks.
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Brown Students’ Poisonous Uprising Against Their President – The Daily Beast
The relentless shouting, interrupting, cursing, and berating was the type of scene one would expect from either a lawless land in the midst of revolutionary chaos or a group of petulant toddlers with abnormally salty language.
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Wondermark » Archive » New holiday card! Bear with a barrel!
Here’s a brand-new holiday card! I have titled it “Barrel”: Over at the ol’ Wondermark greeting card shop, you can choose from forty-six different designs. Holy moly! Forty-six! I hadn’t counted in a while!
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How ISIS Picks Its Suicide Bombers – 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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Obama defends US military strategy against Islamic State – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has defended his administration’s strategy against the so-called Islamic State, rebuffing calls to send ground troops to Syria. Republicans and now some Democrats have criticised Mr Obama’s plans, seizing on his earlier sta…
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Remake of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’ in Development | Rolling Stone
Remake of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’ in Development “People who’ve seen Memento 10 times still feel they need to see it one more time.
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The man in black fled across the desert, and it sounds like Matthew McConaughey might play him in Sony’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. (Also, the gunslinger followed, but he hasn’t been cast yet.
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Jeb & Cruz Only Want To Save Christians – The Daily Beast
The terror attacks in Paris on Friday was a starting pistol for the Republican presidential candidates race to the far-right on the Syrian refugee crisis, amid concerns that ISIS-trained terrorists could trickle into the United States as easily as t…
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Cyber-crime is Africa’s ‘next big threat’, experts warn – BBC News
Government and commercial online services could become the next frontier for illegal activity in Africa, security experts are warning.
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Julia Roberts Is Not Giving Up on Romantic Comedies | Vanity Fair
In the past few years, Julia Roberts has shifted away from the sunny romantic comedies that established her as America’s Sweetheart in favor of gritty, dramatic fare—tussling with Meryl Streep in August: Osage County, treating AIDS patients in The N…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/HEKfnAUwTG Stories via @UN_CTED
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Wild scientists: academics in their natural habitat – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Researchers at the University of New South Wales agreed to be photographed working on the ground and in the field (not to mention the water, cave and bush). Photographer Tamara Dean was on a mission to ‘represent the ways these people related to lan…
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This Is ISIS’ New Favorite App for Secret Messages – The Daily Beast
In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, ISIS is encouraging its followers to use a popular chat application that can make text messages effectively invisible to government spies. Telegram and similar apps have been vexing intelligence and securi…
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Microsoft Dynamics Corporate VP Bob Stutz Reportedly Steps Down | TechCrunch
In a stunner today, Microsoft Corporate VP Bob Stutz reportedly stepped down from his job running Microsoft Dynamics CRM. MSDynamicsWorld broke the story, but R Ray Wang, who is principal at Constellation Research confirms that Stutz texted him this…
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It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, the best accessories are the ones made by the same company as your bag of choice. Case in point, over on Everyday Carry, Josh shares his bag packed full of Topo accessories. The bag is a Topo Designs Klettersa…
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Vive John Oliver – The New Yorker
After hearing about the terror attacks in Paris, on Friday, many of us spent the weekend in some combination of grief, shock, and the familiar feeling of trying to reconcile our pleasant or mundane plans—doing some work, visiting with a beloved cous…
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How Early Exit Disease Stunts The Growth Of Midwest Startup Communities | TechCrunch
There is an unnamed epidemic slowly traveling through the middle of the U.S. This epidemic goes by many names, but our venture fund refers to it as “early exit disease.” This disease spreads when founders realize sub-$20 million exits. Many of these…
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Google Glass team is working on a wearable that isn’t glasses | The Verge
The division of Google responsible for wearable tech is experimenting with new designs, including one without a screen.
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Ludmilla Ulitsakaya’s ‘Big Green Tent’ Draws on Her Experience and Politics – The Atlantic
T he big green tent revolves around banned books, a subject familiar to Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of Russia’s most acclaimed writers and, at 72, an outspoken protester against the Putin regime. Back in 1970, she was a young biologist who got fired f…
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Mary Beard’s ‘SPQR’ Takes a New Approach to the History of Rome – The Atlantic
A british college student named Megan Beech recently published a poetry collection called When I Grow Up I Want to Be Mary Beard.
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‘Attitude Adjustment,’ a Short Story from Tim Gautreaux – The Atlantic
Two years had passed since the collision, and now Father Jim spent a great deal of time lying in a recliner, looking for patterns in the cottage-cheese ceiling.
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The Suicide Clusters at Palo Alto High Schools – The Atlantic
The air shrieks, and life stops. First, from far away, comes a high whine like angry insects swarming, and then a trampling, like a herd moving through. The kids on their bikes who pass by the Caltrain crossing are eager to get home from school, but…
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Desalination, Mining Comets, and Other Ways Humans Can Get More Potable Water – The Atlantic
Imagine turning on your tap and seeing no water come out. Or looking down into your village’s only well and finding it dust-dry. Much of the developing world could soon face such a scenario. According to the United Nations, 1.
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The Science Behind Why You Buy What You Do – The Atlantic
There is a science to every sale. Among other findings of interest to retailers, researchers have shown that customers are drawn to items sitting on the middle of a shelf, as opposed to the ends [1], and that we perceive prices to be lower when they…
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A Racial History of ‘The Little Rascals’ – The Atlantic
the little rascals, originally known as Our Gang, have stirred up irresistible trouble ever since the short comedies debuted on silent film in 1922. Chubby and scrawny, bossy and sweet, black and white: The producer, Hal Roach, saw to it that his po…
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Sarah Lisanby Makes the Case for Electroconvulsive Therapy – The Atlantic
One morning in early October, on her final day as the chair of the psychiatry and behavioral-sciences department at the Duke University School of Medicine, Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby ushered me over to a display case in one of the department’s conf…
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Russian Activists Place Plaques to Remember Victims of Stalin’s Secret Police – The Atlantic
Boris shternberg was a believer. As the Soviet Union formed, he held a series of official positions, including administrator of Moscow’s reservoir.
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The Conversation – The Atlantic
In the October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explored America’s history of mass incarceration over the past 50 years. He traced the intellectual basis of the policy in part to Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report on “The Negro Family.”
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‘Toll’ by Christina Pugh – The Atlantic
I know you remember the clack of the keys, but can you still hear the bell that rang in the paper, several seconds before flush-at-the-right-margin, reminding you to return the carriage, much as Cinderella did at midnight? I don’t want to …
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What Is the Greatest Comeback of All Time? – The Atlantic
In 1979, Chrysler ran out of cash. Its chairman, Lee Iacocca, begged creditors for breathing room and the auto-workers union for concessions.
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The Importance of Primo Levi – The Atlantic
Three volumes, 3,000 pages: The Complete Works of Primo Levi, in its very girth and exhaustiveness, asserts a claim about the man whose oeuvre it collects.
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Wood-based fuels threaten health of refugees – BBC News
The “huge dependency” of refugees on wood- and charcoal-based fuels has horrific consequences for their health, a report has warned. The authors calculated cooking with wood caused 20,000 premature deaths among displaced people each year.
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Israel’s Vegan Soldiers Push for Changes in Israel Defense Forces – The Atlantic
Last december, Colonel Avi Harel, a commander in the Israel Defense Forces, was facing a strategic quandary. According to media reports, protesters were threatening revolt from within. They were not satisfied with previous concessions; the status qu…
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Tales From the Aviation Safety Reporting System – The Atlantic
the aviation safety reporting system, a branch of nasa, is probably the most important contributor to aviation safety you’ve never heard of. Every day, more than 200 reports of near-miss incidents flow into its office at Moffett Field, in California…
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A New Biography of John le Carré Offers Insight into the Cold War Author’s Life – The Atlantic
Every writer is a kind of spy, ghosting through life in the service of an alien power. He lurks, he snoops, he eavesdrops, he jots his jottings, he thinks his treacherous thoughts. But not every spy is a writer.
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NY has a lottery, but says online fantasy sports are an illegal lottery | Ars Technica
New York convinced a state court late Monday to reject demands from DraftKings and FanDuel—two popular fantasy sports operators—to issue restraining orders blocking the state attorney general from making good on his threats to shut them down in New …
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Texas Campsite Massacre Kills Six, Including 6-Year-Old Boy – The Daily Beast
Six people were found dead at a campsite in east Texas early Sunday, and police have arrested a next-door neighbor in their murder. Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said deputies were called to the private property near Tennessee Colony, Texas ar…
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Riding hot laps in Ford’s incredible new Focus RS | The Verge
I love hatchbacks. There’s something so eminently practicable about them: they’re compact and easy to park, but you can throw a Christmas tree or a full Costco run in the back. Then we have the hot hatch. Start with a staid, normal hatchback. Add on…
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Did Paris attacker pose as a refugee? – BBC News
Ahmad al-Mohammad, from Idlib in Syria has been named as one of the attackers involved in Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. His was the name on a Syrian passport found with the remains of one of the attackers, though the man’s identity has not yet b…
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One of the 118 people killed in the horrific attack on Parisian concert hall Le Bataclan this past Friday was Nick Alexander, a member of the Eagles Of Death Metal crew responsible for running the band’s merch sales.
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Brazil dam bursts: Mining company Samarco to pay compensation – BBC News
Brazil mining company Samarco has agreed to pay at least 1bn reais (£170m; $260m) in compensation for the collapse of two dams it used to hold waste water from iron ore. The breaches caused rivers of mud to descend on nearby villages in the south-ea…
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I Just Want To Stare At This New Millennium Falcon Photo All Day
A single frame of a movie has to be pretty freaking epic for a magazine to make it their cover. But that’s what Wired did with a new image from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s an action-packed image from the Millennium Falcon chase scene on Jakku…
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‘The Oatmeal’ Remembers ‘Star Trek’ Creator’s Heroic Plane Crash Rescue : The Two-Way : NPR
Before the attacks on Paris on Friday, Matthew Inman was thinking a lot about the unpredictability of life. The cartoonist apologized to his fans because this comic strip is not like his usual work. It’s not funny.
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Visionary artist and genius Paul Laffoley has died|Dangerous Minds
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be . . .
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The Belgian Connection – The New Yorker
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What Happens After a Terrorist Attack? – The New Yorker
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Education Management Settles For $95.5M | Al Jazeera America
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Vive John Oliver – The New Yorker
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Molenbeek Known as Safe Haven for Foreign Fighters | Al Jazeera America
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Review Faults Baltimore Police Riot Control | Al Jazeera America
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Governors Who Want To Ban Syrian Refugees Have Something In Common | FiveThirtyEight
Governors of at least 20 U.S. states have now said they won’t accept additional refugees from Syria after the attacks Friday in Paris, which French officials say were masterminded by a Belgian who fought for the Islamic State in Syria.
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Jews Without Money: Toward a Class Politics of Anti-Zionism – In These Times
At the recent protest against the Jewish National Fund’s Chicago meeting organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, I was immediately struck by the stark differences between the crowd assembled for a prayer vigil and the donors crossing Randolph Ave for a…
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The mayor of Minneapolis has asked the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the police shooting of Jamar Clark, a young black man whose potentially fatal injuries have led to protests.
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Australia spy chief: No evidence of imminent threat – BBC News
Australia’s top spy has said there is no evidence of large-scale militant attacks planned against the country. However, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio), Duncan Lewis, said there could be no guarantee …
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This was a murder and it was covered up
Okay so, here’s the thing about Black Lives Matter (BLM): When it comes to black people and the police, there is no question that the police act as judge, jury, and executioner. They kill with impunity. There is no accountability or redress.
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Raqqa airstrikes: French jets bomb Syria – CNN.com
(CNN)French fighter jets bombed a series of ISIS sites in Raqqa, Syria, on Sunday in what officials described as a major bombardment. Twelve aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, were involved in the airstrikes, Soria said. Twenty bombs were dropped,…
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Master Of None is a deeply personal show, even as it’s dealing with sweeping concepts like breakups and uncertainty about the future.
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Ween is reuniting for two shows in Colorado · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When Ween was still active, it was known just as much for its wild live performances as it was for its genre-hopping albums and (unwanted) reputation as a goofy joke band. The group—originally started by Aaron Freeman, a.k.a. Gene Ween, and Mickey M…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Ronda Rousey was the UFC’s unstoppable force until Holly Holm used the former champion’s aggression against her to produce one of the sport’s biggest upsets.
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Downton Abbey’s Creator Wanted to Kill Off Two Characters in Matthew’s Car Crash | Vanity Fair
As Downton Abbey winds down with its sixth and final season (premiering January 3 in the U.S.), fans might wonder whether the period drama’s creator Julian Fellowes regrets his most controversial plot decision—killing off Matthew during the show’s C…
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Loretta Lynn to Receive ‘Legend’ Award | Rolling Stone
To close out 2015, Loretta Lynn will add another first to her 50-plus-year career. The country music icon will be the recipient of Billboard’s first-ever Women in Music “Legend” award.
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Will the Paris Attacks Change Concert Security? | Rolling Stone
It’s still not clear how armed assassins were able to storm the Bataclan and murder 89 fans of U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal during a wave of terrorist attacks Friday night in Paris, but the breach has frightened artist managers and concert p…
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Keep Rice from Sticking Together with Lemon Juice
Making rice isn’t rocket science, but keeping it from sticking together when you want that fluffy texture can be tough. The fix is easy: just add a few squeezes of lemon juice to the cooking water.
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The world’s fastest SUV comes in an ultra-exclusive First Edition | The Verge
Earlier today, Bentley introduced the Bentayga First Edition to a small group of owners and media in a leafy garden at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Hollywood before the kickoff of this week’s Los Angeles Auto Show.
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New York judge denies daily fantasy sports sites’ requests to continue operating | The Verge
A New York judge on Monday denied temporary restraining orders from DraftKings and FanDuel to continue running their respective daily fantasy sports operations in the state, according to a report from Reuters.
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BBC Sport – Belgium v Spain: Game called off amidst security fears
Belgium’s friendly with Spain has been called off amidst security fears following the deadly attacks in Paris. French prosecutors have identified a Belgian national as the mastermind behind the events.
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U.S. War on ISIS Will Still Be Half-Assed – The Daily Beast
ISIS may have pulled off its biggest attack yet against the West. But don’t expect the West to escalate its war on ISIS all that much.
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Matthew McConaughey Has Been Offered Two Roles In Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
Stephen King’s epic book series The Dark Tower has been wandering around Hollywood for what feels like forever. First it was going to be a movie, then a TV show, then both, with multiple big names attached. And now, there’s yet another attempt in th…
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Space station suffers small power failure, but it can’t be fixed until next year | The Verge
The International Space Station suffered a small power failure on Friday — one that doesn’t pose any immediate dangers to its astronaut crew. One of the eight power channels used to power the ISS is down. The other seven are working just fine, thoug…
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As part of its ongoing effort to promote “stability within the region,” the United States inked another giant arms deal with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Monday.
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Charlie Sheen’s Gross HIV Guessing Game Takes Us Back To The Ignorant 1980s – The Daily Beast
Did a time machine come and whisk me away? Is it really 1985 again? It sure feels like it, as we wait for Charlie Sheen’s “personal announcement”—reportedly to reveal that he is HIV positive—to Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning’s ‘Today’ program.
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Over the weekend, the Emmy-nominated Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star accepted the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award as only he could. The typically jovial Tituss Burgess turned serious on Saturday night, when he traveled to St.
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Aaron Levie, Box And A Whole Pile Of Apps | TechCrunch
Box’s recent platform push is more than a new product direction for the company. The service may become a key revenue driver for the enterprise-facing productivity shop.
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Duplass brothers say they were offered—and refused—a superhero movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Mercifully, society has not yet reached a superhero singularity in which every quantum of popular culture has to be spun out from a comic book property. As such, indie filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass were given the option to say no when offered the …
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Even though Justin Bieber has consistently demonstrated his proclivity toward being an insufferable brat by throwing eggs at a house, getting a DUI, and thinking a public apology via Ellen will clear him of any wrongdoing, people apparently never wa…
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Cleanify Raises $1.8M To Connect Customers With Independent Cleaning Services | TechCrunch
Cleaning startup Cleanify has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. That might not seem like much money when compared to the $50 million round that Handy just raised, or the nearly $40 million that Homejoy raised before shutting down. However, the Cl…
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The Belgian Connection – The New Yorker
On Sunday morning in Molenbeek, a heavily Moroccan neighborhood of Brussels, a man in a brown jacket leaned out of his front door on Rue Dubois-Thorn and peered cautiously down the block, toward the Osseghem metro station.
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Dominic Toretto’s team of fast and furious drivers who race cars, pull off elaborate heists, and work with the authorities to defeat supervillains aren’t just friends, they’re a family.
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Quantico has slowly but surely improved after cranking through the knotty process of setting up its elaborate, miles-long row of narrative dominoes, but with so much happening in the plot, it’s probably naive to assume that’s a finite process.
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Why Pandora Bought Rdio | Motherboard
Rdio, the music streaming service once seen as a more stylish competitor to Spotify, is filing for bankruptcy, and Pandora is looking to buy the tech behind one of its key features: its radio recommendations.
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Ted Cruz’s Religious Test for Syrian Refugees – The New Yorker
“President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America—it is nothing less than lunacy,” Ted Cruz said on Fox News, the day after the attacks on Paris.
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What Was Won and Lost in Steven Salaita’s University of Illinois Settlement – In These Times
My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000—far less than the assumed amount of wages he would have garnered over the next few decades as …
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Anne Frank foundation moves to keep famous diary copyrighted for 35 more years | Ars Technica
The diary of Anne Frank is just six weeks away from entering the public domain in most of Europe—but it might not happen. The Basel-based Anne Frank Fonds, which owns the copyright, has a plan to keep retain ownership until 2050.
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Memento Is Being Remade, Because It’s a Perfect, Unique Movie. Wait, What?
Christopher Nolan may be known as being the director who brought Batman back from the dead—but before that, he made one of the best films of this century. It’s called Memento, and it stars Guy Pierce as a man with anterograde amnesia who tries to so…
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My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000—far less than the assumed amount of wages he would have garnered over the next few decades as …
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Into the Badlands Premiere: AMC’s Martial Arts Drama Is Bloody and Spellbinding
I tuned into last night’s series premiere of Into the Badlands expecting balletic swordsplay that echoed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and gruesome cuts that recalled Kill Bill. I was not disappointed.
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Ward Off Winter Blubber With Great Deals on Garmin Forerunner Watches
If you were hoping for a Black Friday deal on Garmin’s excellent GPS-enabled fitness watches, there’s no need to wait. Several models are marked down to all-time low prices today on Amazon.
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Liberal Canadian government drops niqab case appeal – BBC News
The Liberal government in Canada has abandoned a legal challenge that sought to require women to remove their niqabs or face coverings during citizenship ceremonies.
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Paris attacks: What happened at Stade de France? – BBC News
Tom Burridge analyses what happened at the Stade de France when three suicide bombers tried to enter during the Paris attacks.
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Is That a Forest? That Depends on How You Define It : Image of the Day
After comparing eight satellite-derived global maps, researchers found that measurements of forest cover vary widely—as much as 6 percent of Earth’s land area, or the equivalent area of China. But the biggest discovery was not the discrepancy; it wa…
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My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000—far less than the assumed amount of wages he would have garnered over the next few decades as …
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How One Man’s Face Became Another Man’s Face — NYMag
Patrick Hardison’s face was not always his own. Three months ago, it belonged to a young Brooklyn bike mechanic. For the moment, the face belongs to no one.
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Steven Salaita and the Decreasing Tolerance for Criticism Towards Israel – In These Times
My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000—far less than the assumed amount of wages he would have garnered over the next few decades as …
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Does the chicken industry pluck farmers? | Grist
Efficient or exploitive? Poultry companies pit chicken farmers against one another in a “tournament” system. After the deadly terrorist attacks, climate activists are still planning to go ahead with protests and civil disobedience.
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What will happen to the huge climate protests planned for Paris? | Grist
By utilizing discarded breast implants, scientists could have a better understanding of how our bodies absorb toxins. Small-scale hydro projects along rivers in the Northeast provide low-impact electricity and help revitalize communities.
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Canada’s Navy Would Like You to Know It Is Willing to Spend $40,000 on a Bassoon | Motherboard
Usually, the Canadian government’s procurement portal is full of boring requests for things like control valves or hydraulic press brakes. Other times, you stumble on gems, like this request for expertise on hacking cars. But this week, the governme…
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Make a Cranberry Sauce that Doubles as a Jam
Cranberry sauce may be a Thanksgiving staple, but that doesn’t mean it has to leave the spotlight on November 27th. Here’s how to make a cranberry sauce that doubles as a jam after you’re done.
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Learn Your State’s Cell Phone Location Tracking Laws With This Chart
Whether you have anything to hide or not, privacy, and the laws regarding your privacy, are important. This interactive chart tells you what each state’s current laws say about law enforcement’s capability to access cell phone information. Your phon…
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Over the last few years, a huge number of urban music’s biggest hits have been chosen by a very small group of tastemakers, all of whom operate in a world of hard-to-parse relationships and big money cash-only spending sprees.
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Willie Mays and Yogi Berra to receive presidential medal of freedom | US news | The Guardian
Baseball legends Willie Mays and the late Yogi Berra will be honored with the country’s highest civilian award, the presidential medal of freedom. They are among 17 people who will be recognized by Barack Obama at a 24 November ceremony.
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Why Did ISIS Attack Paris? – The Atlantic
In the aftermath of attacks like the one in Paris on Friday, which killed 129 and critically wounded nearly as many, two sets of questions tend to arise: How could this happen? And why did it happen?
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Thanksgiving is next week, which means that according to the pop-cultural calendar it’s past time to start celebrating what Disney would really prefer to be called “the week after Star Wars.
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John Oliver Said What We’re All Thinking About The Paris Attacks – Digg
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Pediatricians say farm use of antibiotics harms children | Ars Technica
In a new technical report, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) argues that unnecessary use of antibiotics in livestock is fueling drug-resistant, life-threatening infections in humans, particularly young children.
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The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is an emoji | The Verge
Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we’re all just puppets bending to its many whims. Dictionaries aren’t safe from the power of a linguistic whim either, and so maybe that’s why the Oxford English Dictionary has chosen an emoji …
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Here We Go Again? Muslim Americans Brace for Backlash After Paris | The Nation
On Friday evening, when news of the Paris attacks spread, and reports that ISIS had taken responsibility for them emerged, Muslim, Arab and South Asian activists in the United States began a process that has become all too familiar in the 14 years a…
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Can Governors Really Say No to Syrian Refugees? | New Republic
A growing number of governors have opposed the Obama administration’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S., with many vowing to stop Syrian refugees from resettling in their states.
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Vale and BHP fined $260m for deadly Brazilian dam burst – BBC News
BHP Billiton and Vale have been fined a further 1bn reais (£171m, $260m) for the mining disaster that killed 11 people in Brazil earlier this month. The mining giants had already been ordered to pay 250m reais after a dam burst at their jointly owne…
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After Taking Back Iraqi Town, Yazidis Vow Revenge On ISIS Supporters : Parallels : NPR
In the cinderblock villages clustered around Mt. Sinjar’s rippling, craggy slopes, the mood is euphoric. Fighters who retook the Sinjar city late last week from ISIS — with the help of U.S.
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Europe anti-refugee rhetoric swells after Paris attacks – Al Jazeera English
In the days after a wave of deadly attacks killed at least 129 people in Paris, a number of European politicians have seized the opportunity to warn against accepting any more people fleeing from war and persecution in Muslim-majority countries.
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Watch Jennifer Lawrence Struggle to Act Unfriendly in Hunger Games Cast Prank | Vanity Fair
Jennifer Lawrence and her Hunger Games co-stars have spoken about the jokes and various hijinks had on the set of their multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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The Librarians Gets Its Lovecraft On
It’s so good to have The Librarians back. It remains one of the most fun shows on TV. As well as one which made me feel bad about the death of a mostly inanimate gargoyle. Spoilers …
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Dozens of people remain hospitalized in Paris days after coordinated attacks across the city killed at least 129 people, marking the deadliest terror attack in Europe in over a decade.
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With Over a Million Rooms, Marriott Will Soon Be the Biggest Hotel Company – The Atlantic
On Monday, Marriott announced that it will buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts for $12.2 billion. Since this summer, Starwood has been in talks with various large companies—including InterContinental Hotels Group and Hyatt—regarding a potential sale.
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Horror movies are real / Boing Boing
A camping trip went horribly awry. It sounds exactly like a horror movie. This horrible news from CBS19 Anderson County, Texas: The bodies of all six victims were found Sunday on private property in Anderson County.
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Shovels & Rope Cover Guns N’ Roses, Lou Reed on New LP | Rolling Stone
Shovels & Rope, the duo of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, have always been about what they can create in their own insular world: they produce their own records from their home studio in South Carolina, tour as a twosome and play every instrumen…
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How to stand (at your desk) | The Wirecutter
You’ve heard about the risks of sitting all day long. If not here, then here, here, and here. The studies are everywhere, and the verdict is in: We should not spend all day sitting, even if we make time to exercise. It’s not how our bodies are suppo…
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Urban Outfitters Drops After Announcing Plan to Buy Pizza Chain – Bloomberg Business
Urban Outfitters Inc.’s plan to get into the restaurant business isn’t sitting well with investors. The stock fell as much as 10 percent on Monday after the company announced the acquisition of Philadelphia’s Vetri Family group of restaurants, inclu…
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How do terrorists communicate to hide from investigators? We know little about the means used by those involved in the deadly attacks in Paris, but intelligence and security officials have already launched a new wave of chatter about encryption.
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One particularly admirable aspect of Amy Poehler’s sterling career is her involvement with Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, an organization and website she founded with Emmy-winning television producer Meredith Walker with the goal of “helping young peopl…
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Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is… | OxfordWords blog
That’s right – for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph:
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Teenage Hackers Return With New List of Government Employees | Motherboard
The hacktivist group that breached the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan isn’t done yet. The group, which calls itself “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA, published a list of almost 1,500 names, emails and phone numbers of government e…
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Republican candidates weigh in on how the US should respond to the Syrian refugee crisis in light of the deadly attacks in Paris.
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Should Paris Allow a Massive Climate Protest Right Now? | Mother Jones
Massive climate rallies in Paris should go ahead as planned: That’s the message activists will take to French authorities during a private meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning, as they double-down on plans for large demonstrations during an upcomin…
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EARLIER this month, in Des Moines, the prominent home-schooling advocate and pastor Kevin Swanson again called for the punishment of homosexuality by death. To be clear, he added that the time for eliminating America’s gay population was “not yet” a…
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“Strike While the Iron Is Cold”
You’ve probably heard the phrase “strike while the iron is hot,” but when emotions are running high, it’s often better to not strike at all. By waiting for the “iron” to go cold, you’ll avoid making heated situations any worse.
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France’s National Front Leader Criticizes Hollande’s Response To Paris Attacks : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Marine Le Pen, a French politician who is the president of the far-right National Front, the largest political party in France in 2014.
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Are You Happy Now? Oxford Dictionaries Word Of The Year Is A Damn Emoji | TechCrunch
I was raised to trust everything the dictionary told me, but damn. What is going on with the world? Today, BuzzFeed the Oxford Dictionary named its 2015 “Word Of The Year” and it’s not a word at all. It’s the “tears of joy” emoji.
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What does a Memento remake look like in 2015? | The Verge
By now you know that Christopher Nolan’s career-making indie classic Memento, is being remade by a company called AMBI Pictures.
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Hillary’s Wall Street Problem Won’t Go Away | New Republic
It was the strange, offbeat answer heard ‘round the world. When confronted about her relationship with Wall Street donors during Saturday night’s Democratic debate, Clinton launched into one of the more bizarre responses of the night:
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All of the attackers from Friday’s massacre in Paris so far have been identified as European Union nationals, according to a top EU official. The announcement further casts doubt on the validity of a Syrian passport found near the bodies of a slain …
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What the Paris Attacks Will Mean for the Upcoming Climate Conference | New Republic
Prior to Friday’s deadly terrorist attacks, Paris had been set to host a global party—the UN climate change conference known as COP21—at the end of the month.
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People want to frack the hell out of this giant piece of tiramisu | Grist
The Permian Basin shale field in Texas looks like looks like tiramisu, tastes like money. Local youth and activists sue Los Angeles, saying the city protects white areas from oil well sites but piles them on in neighborhoods of color.
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‘Fear and Islamophobia’: US states shun Syrian refugees – Al Jazeera English
“We believe these governors are succumbing to fear and Islamophobia,” Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director of CAIR, told Al Jazeera. “This is really a non-issue because refugees and immigrants are checked thoroughly by the authorities b…
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A New Comics Publisher Wants To Make Comic Books Just For Your Phone
Digital comics are all the rage these days—but as lovely and accessible comic books are now, you’re still trying to adapt one size and format to squish it down onto the screen of a phone or tablet.
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Peyton Manning ruled out for Sunday’s game against Chicago Bears | Sport | The Guardian
Peyton Manning won’t suit up against the Chicago Bears on Sunday. Broncos coach Gary Kubiak is going with backup Brock Osweiler as he tries to get his 39-year-old quarterback healthy.
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Shia LeBeouf on #ALLMYMOVIES: ‘I Can’t Articulate How Big This Was’ | Rolling Stone
Last week, actor-performance artist Shia LaBeouf broke the Internet with #ALLMYMOVIES, an installation piece in which the unpredictable celebrity took a seat in Manhattan’s Angelika Film Center and watched all 27 of his movies in reverse chronologic…
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A brief history of ‘Imagine’ covers spurred by tragedy
Coldplay canceled a scheduled Tidal livestream concert in Los Angeles Friday night in the wake of the Paris attacks, but they performed a touching cover of “Imagine” for the crowd who still showed up.
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Watch Rush’s Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson Talk ‘R40 Live,’ Band’s Future | Rolling Stone
Days before Rush’s new CD/DVD/Blu-ray package, R40 Live, hit stores, singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson stopped by Rolling Stone headquarters to talk about the new release, and answer questions our readers submitted on Twitter and F…
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Why is NATO a No-Go in ISIS War? – The Daily Beast
PARIS — Less than 24 hours after terrorist commandos from ISIS slaughtered 129 people enjoying themselves at a soccer game, a concert and at outdoor cafés here, French President François Hollande called the attacks an act of war.
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Rdio shutting down, and Pandora will buy its technology | Ars Technica
Streaming music service Rdio is planning to shut down and sell “key assets” to Pandora. Pandora announced the pending acquisition today, saying it will spend $75 million to buy “technology and intellectual property from Rdio” and hire “many members …
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Famous Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week
Astrophotographer Jeff Berkes captured this shot of Leonid meteors over a house in New Jersey in 2012. The 2015 Leonids will peak overnight Nov. 17-18.Credit: Jeff Berkes View full size image One of the year’s most anticipated meteor showers peaks t…
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Guns deter terrorist attacks! Except in all the places with lots of guns
Among the river of stupid that came out of GOP mouths this weekend was the popular suggestion that an armed Parisian populace would’ve saved lives. For example, there was Donald Trump:
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Who is France at war with? – Al Jazeera English
France is a country at war. That was the view of French President Francois Hollande in the immediate aftermath of the Paris attacks on Friday. Their comments raise important questions about what France and Europe should do next.
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Three Winners and Three Losers from the Second Democratic Debate – In These Times
At the second Democratic debate on Nov. 14, candidates for the party’s presidential nomination—Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley—discussed national security, inequality, racial justice and the corrupting influence of Wall Stre…
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It’s a seemingly simple question: Where do those ubiquitous Kind bars come from? Reasonable guesses include a Hawaiian kibbutz, a sustainable orchard near San Francisco, or the town Diane Keaton moved to at the end of Baby Boom.
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El Niño Strengthening, Will Be among Biggest on Record, WMO Says – Scientific American
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A Genetic Map Hints At What Makes A Brain Human : Shots – Health News : NPR
Patterns of gene expression in human and mouse brains suggest that cells known as glial cells may have helped us evolve brains that can acquire language and solve complex problems. Scientists have been dissecting human brains for centuries.
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Peyton Manning Was At His Worst, But He’s Still The Best | FiveThirtyEight
Sunday was bittersweet for Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. Playing against the Kansas City Chiefs, Manning broke Brett Favre’s NFL record for most career passing yards when he completed a 4-yard pass to Ronnie Hillman in the first quarter.
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Is France at War With ISIS? – The Atlantic
“France is at war,” President Francois Hollande said Monday, addressing a rare joint session of France’s parliament just days after multiple attacks in Paris killed 129 people and wounded more than 300 others.
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World Fantasy Awards retire trophies modeled after H.P. Lovecraft · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by The Guardian, the organizers of the World Fantasy Convention have announced that they will no longer be presenting the winners of its prestigious World Fantasy Award with a statuette that bears the likeness of H.P. Lovecraft.
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White House Turns Toward Women and Girls of Color With New $118 Million Initiative | The Nation
On Friday, the White House announced its involvement with a new initiative to support the lives of women and girls of color.
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016 play-off second leg: Republic of Ireland 2-0 Bosnia-Herz (3-1 agg)
Republic of Ireland duo John O’Shea and Shane Long have returned to training ahead of Monday night’s Euro 2016 showdown with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Global temperatures skyrocketed in October – ImaGeo
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the global average surface temperature in October 2015 (over land and oceans) was +0.53°C above the 1981-2010 average (+0.85°C above the 20th century average). This was the warmest October since 1891. (G…
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“You won’t read about this in the media, but…” — Medium
I’ve been watching with first amusement and then frustration as tweeter after tweeter claim the media aren’t covering things going on in the world that they really, really are covering. But it’s just blatantly untrue.
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Growing number of US states seek to block acceptance of Syrian refugees | US news | The Guardian
A growing list of governors and lawmakers are moving to block US acceptance of Syrian refugees, inciting outrage from the Muslim and immigrant communities who say it is Muslims who have suffered the most from Isis attacks.
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Insanely fast submarine is made of 1 molecule – Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Chemists have created single-molecule submersibles that contain just 244 atoms, are powered by ultraviolet light, and move incredibly fast.
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Obama Vows To ‘Intensify’ U.S. Action Against ISIS : NPR
President Obama vowed to “intensify” U.S. action against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but he brushed aside calls to send in U.S. ground troops.
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Impeach Utah judge who removed baby from same-sex couple, group says | US news | The Guardian
The Alliance for a Better Utah said state lawmakers should begin removal proceedings against judge Scott Johansen, who ordered the nine-month-old baby taken from the married couple’s home during a routine hearing in the central Utah town of Price.
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Earth just had its warmest October on record
In just over two weeks, diplomats from around the world will meet at a carefully constructed campus on an airfield on the outskirts of Paris in an attempt to slow global warming enough to prevent dangerous impacts.
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Mesosphere’s Valuation Could Hit Around $600M In Latest Financing Round | TechCrunch
We’re hearing from sources that Mesosphere, a company that’s built upon the open-source project Apache Mesos, is raising a financing round at a valuation that could be as much as $600 million.
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Tom Harman recently rode an Amtrak train from NYC to San Francisco, taking little videos of the scenery outside all the while. He edited that footage into this 5-minute video.
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ISIS encrypted communications with Paris attackers, French officials say | Ars Technica
The investigation into last Friday’s coordinated terrorist attacks has quickly turned up evidence that members of the Islamic State (ISIS) communicated with the attackers from Syria using encrypted communications, according to French officials.
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Vin Diesel wants to make Fast and Furious spinoffs and prequels | The Verge
The Fast and Furious series is already a superhero franchise, more or less, and now it’s looking to become a full cinematic universe. Speaking to Variety, star and producer Vin Diesels says the FF team is in the early stages of developing both seque…
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California Wildlife and ‘Godzilla’ El Niño | Al Jazeera America
As West Coast communities brace for what many are calling the “Godzilla” El Niño, scientists are looking beneath the waves to learn more about the upcoming storm season. And if this year’s wildlife anomalies are any indication, this El Niño could be…
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‘Peace For Paris’: Why We Seek A Symbol In The Wake Of Tragedy | ThinkProgress
It looks like something he made in a rush. Like something he scribbled on a cocktail napkin. Something he could have drawn in four strokes. Circle, upside-down V, cross. Black ink on a white background.
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The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock – The New Yorker
The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock https://t.co/IPmycPhAPk via The New Yorker: Everything
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The Leftovers Just Unleashed Its Most Shocking Cliffhanger Yet
The Leftovers’ latest episode, “A Most Powerful Adversary,” focused on the battle Kevin’s been fighting with Patti—who is either a manifestation of his troubled mind, or a visitor from another dimension that only he can see. Depends on who you ask. …
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Detained Asylum Seekers Seek Transnational Justice | The Nation
The migrants crossed the Mexican border the same way thousands of others will this year, exhausted and desperate for relief. But when they encountered US immigration authorities, they spoke not of fleeing drug war violence in Latin America, but poli…
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What’s the Real Story Behind the American Attack on Doctors Without Borders? | The Nation
When people ask me what my new job is like, I tell them that I wake up very early and count the dead. When I say “very early,” I mean a few minutes after 4 a.m., as the sky is just softening to the color of faded purple corduroy.
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The US government is already lying like crazy about surveillance after the Paris attacks | The Verge
At a Center for Strategic & International Studies talk today, CIA Director John Brennan renewed one of the government’s favorite lies about spying: that mass surveillance has been successful in stopping a bunch of mysteri
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Several U.S. Governors Close Doors to Syrian Refugees After Paris Atta | Vanity Fair
The governors of 16 states (and counting) have announced that, in light of last week’s Paris attacks that claimed the lives of 129 people, they will not accept any potential Syrian refugees, according to CNBC.
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Speed Trials: Finishing Video Games As Fast As Possible, For Fun and Profit | Hazlitt
Twenty years ago, if you got stuck on a certain level of Sonic the Hedgehog 2—that endless casino labyrinth, for example—you had a few options. You could hand the controller over to your friend and hope they might slog through it.
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The sad, sickening truth about South L.A.’s oil wells | Grist
Local youth and activists sue Los Angeles, saying the city protects white areas from oil well sites but piles them on in neighborhoods of color. By utilizing discarded breast implants, scientists could have a better understanding of how our bodies a…
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Study Looks To Provide Consensus On Yoga Poses And Pregnancy : NPR
Moms-to-be who practice prenatal yoga say it reduces stress, anxiety and even pain. A study finds that even poses once thought to be off limits to pregnant women are safe.
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Paris Attacks Put Pressure On Germany To Tighten Its Refugee Policy : NPR
The Paris attacks increase pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to tighten German refugee policy. There’s evidence suggesting one suspect entered Europe with the migrants coming ashore in Greece.
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Georgetown University To Rename Buildings Named After Slaveowners : NPR
Georgetown University is renaming two campus buildings in a bow to student concerns. The buildings are named for past Georgetown presidents who organized the sale of slaves to help pay off campus debt in the 1830s.
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Obama Defends Current U.S. Strategy Against ISIS At G-20 Summit : NPR
In the wake of the Paris attacks, President Obama defended his strategy to combat ISIS against criticism that the effort isn’t working and he underestimated the threat posed by that group.
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French, Belgian Police Work To Identify Those Responsible For Attacks : NPR
French police work with their counterparts in Belgium and beyond to identify the terrorists responsible for Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris.
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Security Expert: Current Counterterrorism Policy Won’t Work Against ISIS : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Audrey Kurth Cronin, director of the international security program at George Mason University, about her article in Foreign Affairs in which she explains why counterterrorism won’t stop the latest jihadist threat.
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Paris Attacks Galvanize Police Forces Next Door In Belgium : NPR
Belgium emerges as a focus of the investigation into Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris.
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‘It’s Not Islam’: 2 Friends Represent A Wounded France : NPR
In Paris, two young men in their early 20s, co-workers and best friends, talk about their anger about the attacks, how scared people are, and how their own backgrounds — black and white, Christian and Muslim — represent the wounded face of France.
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Music Review: ‘Ten Years Solo Live,’ Brad Mehldau : NPR
Brad Mehldau’s new album is a collection of recordings from his live performances, across a broad range of styles and genres. Reviewer Tom Moon says he never sounds out of his element, playing Nirvana like it’s Brahms, and Brahms like it’s Nirvana.
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Brother Of Government Official Who Died At Bataclan Organizes Musical Tribute : NPR
Cedric Mauduit, 41, was the director of modernization in Calvados, one of the French departments. He was killed at the Bataclan concert hall when it was attacked Friday night. His brother, Matthieu, is hoping The Rolling Stones might attend services…
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Amid Mourning, Life In Paris Goes On : Parallels : NPR
Over the weekend, I watched as crowds in the hundreds gathered in Paris’s 10th arrondissement at the killing sites: a few neighborhood bistros like Le Carillon, and a Cambodian restaurant, Le Petit Cambodge — Little Cambodia.
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A Genetic Map Hints At What Makes A Brain Human : Shots – Health News : NPR
Patterns of gene expression in human and mouse brains suggest that cells known as glial cells may have helped us evolve brains that can acquire language and solve complex problems. Scientists have been dissecting human brains for centuries.
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Several U.S. Governors Come Out Against Resettling Syrian Refugees : NPR
More than half a dozen governors have come out against Syrian refugees being resettled in their states. The backlash follows terrorist attacks in Paris and heightened security concerns in the U.S. At least one of the identified terrorists had ties t…
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Authorities Conduct Widespread Investigation Into Paris Terror Attacks : NPR
France’s president said the attacks in Paris were planned in Syria, organized in Belgium and carried out in France. Authorities are carrying out a wide-reaching investigation to figure out who was responsible, how they brought it about and whether s…
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Emergency Doctor: Paris Hospital Saw Unanticipated Number Of Gunshot Victims : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to an emergency doctor who was on the front line of dealing with casualties from the Paris attacks. He says on a normal weekend his ER will usually handle injuries from a car crash, and maybe once a year they will handle a …
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A Memento remake is happening, because Polaroids are so 15 years ago · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ideally, a remake should be either of a film that had potential that wasn’t realized the first time around, or of a forgotten gem that deserves to be rediscovered.
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It should come as no surprise to his fans that Canadian auteur Guy Maddin is a champion of film restoration and preservation, nor that he is keenly interested in lost films.
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Brother of James Foley ‘praying’ for Paris victims’ families – BBC News
The brother of James Foley, the US journalist killed by Islamic State militants last year, has said he feels a sense of solidarity with the families of those who died in the Paris attacks.
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The particle physics of clouds | Environment | The Guardian
One of the most complex problems of man-made climate change is what our activities are doing to the clouds and rainfall. Certain generalities apply – the warmer it gets, for example, the more energy and moisture there are in the atmosphere and the w…
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Make Canned Cranberry Sauce Look Homemade With a Can of Whole Cranberries
Just because you offered to host a holiday meal doesn’t mean you have to make everything from scratch. This simple trick will buy you some valuable cooking time, and make your canned cranberry sauce look and taste better.
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While World Leaders Are Preoccupied, Cats Take Over – The Atlantic
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Yes, Obama Does Have an Anti-ISIS Plan “to Take Out These Bastards” | Mother Jones
At a Monday press conference at the G20 meeting in Turkey, President Barack Obama was repeatedly asked by American reporters a version of this question: What are you doing to defeat ISIS? CNN’s Jim Acosta put it in these Twitterish terms: “Why can’t…
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That was fast: just as soon as it was reported that Pandora was in talks to buy Rdio, the two sides have confirmed that an acquisition has indeed taken place. Pandora has acquired “key assets” from Rdio for $75 million, the company has just announce…
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The Fight Over Syrian Refugees Reaches Congress – The Atlantic
The rapidly-escalating political fight over resettling Syrian refugees has already reached the halls of Congress, where senior Republicans want to use a critical government-funding bill to force President Obama’s hand.
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This Week’s TV: At Long Last, the Debut of Marvel’s Jessica Jones!
Jessica Jones comes to Netflix, Man in the High Castle streams on Amazon, and Marceline the Vampire Queens gets her own four-part miniseries on Adventure Time! A deadly Grant Morrison character swoops in on Gotham, a Jim Henson project is thawed in …
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Tracing the spread of Uber rumors during the Paris terrorist attacks | The Verge
In the midst of the chaos surrounding the terrorist attacks on Paris last Friday, rumors about Uber began to ping-pong across social media.
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There Is Only One Way to Destroy ISIS | The Nation
Paris is just the beginning. The devastating attacks claimed by ISIS that killed scores in the French capital last week are a sign of things to come and a clear indication that efforts to combat this scourge have been a failure thus far.
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500 phrases from scientific publications that are correlated with bullshit / Boing Boing
Matthew Hankins catalogs 500 phrases used in scientific articles that researchers use to figleaf the fact that their results aren’t statistically significant, and to hand-wave-away the fact that they’re publishing anyway.
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Antibiotics in Animal Feed May Endanger Kids, Doctors Warn – Scientific American
Widespread practice of giving antibiotics to healthy livestock to promote growth and prevent disease is making the drugs ineffective, American Academy of Pediatrics says Infants and children are affected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the food …
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Photographers Capture Paris in Mourning
The streets of Paris, the scene of Friday’s violence, are now home to memorials as Parisians mourn and seek healing. Photographers have been documenting the many scenes of grief and hope. Here is a selection of their photos.
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Maryland governor Larry Hogan announces he is ‘100% cancer free’ | Society | The Guardian
Maryland governor Larry Hogan announced Monday that he is “100% cancer free” and in complete remission after receiving cancer treatment. Hogan will continue to get scans on a regular basis and undergo preventive health maintenance, he said at the ne…
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This Week’s Night Sky: A Lion Makes a Meteoric Roar
Zodiacal Lights. Throughout the week, just before local dawn and under very dark skies, the ghostly glow of the zodiacal lights will be visible across mid-northern latitudes around the globe.
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WASHINGTON—Saying the shipments were just sitting there all ready to go, a desperate President Obama stated Monday that as soon as someone lets him know who to give arms to in order to defeat ISIS, he will immediately begin doing so. “The U.S.
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Christopher Nolan’s Memento to Get a Baffling Remake | Vanity Fair
It’s only been 15 years since director Christopher Nolan’s moody, puzzling film, Memento made him one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood.
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The problem with cracking down on PlayStations to stop terrorists | The Verge
There’s a joke in the legal world that criminals’ most dangerous weapon is the flush toilet. Imagine, a perfect evidence-disposal system installed in every home in America, available whenever you hear the detectives knock on your door.
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Pandora to acquire ‘key parts’ of Rdio | The Verge
Pandora is the grandaddy of streaming music, with more than 15 years in business and more monthly listeners using it to hear tunes than any anyone save for YouTube. But Pandora, a public company, has struggled to turn a profit, and seen it’s user gr…
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Pandora Could Buy Rdio to Better Compete With Apple Music | Variety
Pandora is in talks to acquire the San Francisco-based music subscription service Rdio, Variety has learned. Negotiations between the companies have been going on for a few months and are advanced, according to multiple people with knowledge of the …
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How scientist trick themselves (and how they can prevent it) / Boing Boing
A smashing editorial in Nature catalogs the many ways in which scientists end up tricking themselves into seeing evidence that isn’t there, resulting in publishing false positive. Many of these are familiar to people who follow behavioral economics …
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The Artistry of the Soprano Julia Bullock – The New Yorker
It is rare to find a classical singer who can truly project an aura onstage. Those who are young must seem to carry the wisdom of age; those who are older must avoid the risk of royal self-regard.
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How to Trick Your Friends Into Thinking You Gave Them a Sweet Gift
‘Tis better to give than to receive, but ‘tis best by far to give something that will make you look good in the eyes of the recipient — especially if you can save money in the bargain.
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Why Shia LaBeouf’s #AllMyMovies was so successful | The Verge
Surprising things happen to people’s faces when a film really entrances them. They stop focusing on all the personality presentation we take for granted when we talk to each other: the polite eye contact, the alert expression that says “I’m listenin…
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BBC Sport – Diego Maradona: Football legend has second gastric bypass surgery
Argentina football legend Diego Maradona has had a second gastric bypass operation after his doctor warned that the 55-year-old is 75kgs (11st 11lbs) over his ideal weight. Maradona had his first gastric bypass 10 years ago but has since gained weig…
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How Larry Wilmore Uses ‘The Nightly Show’ to Take on Tragedies Like Paris – The Daily Beast
At a panel moderated by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Larry Wilmore and his Nightly Show team talk Paris, race, and how they use comedy to fight back against terrible news. For Larry Wilmore’s former boss Jon Stewart, there are some things that are just too …
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Bulova to Sell Replica of Astronaut’s Watch Worn on the Moon
A new replica of the only privately-owned wristwatch worn on the moon’s surface will soon go on sale for much less than the astronomical price tag that the historic timepiece sold for at a recent auction.
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Mark on Skillshare AMA / Boing Boing
At 1pm PT today (in 5 minutes!) I’ll be on a Skillshare Ask Me Anything. As the title suggests, you can ask me anything, but I’ll primarily be talking about Arduino and DIY tools and techniques for makers.
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These Kids Took Two Minutes to Load a Cassette into a Walkman But I Won’t Judge | Motherboard
Nostalgia can bring about some weird punishments. Case in point: this video of some kids trying to load a cassette into a Sony Walkman while their mother watches on.
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El Niño reaches record level for a single week period | Ars Technica
There are different ways of measuring the strength of El Niño, the periodic warming of equatorial sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
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Psst, governors … you can’t actually refuse Syrian refugees
Bobby Jindal is scared … of voters thinking he’s not Tough On Terror.
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Back in April, we reported that Ryan Gosling was in talks to join Sicario director Denis Vlleneuve’s Blade Runner sequel (original director Ridley Scott will be executive producing, because he’s too busy these days with his Prometheus sequels).
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The Civilization-Inspired Budget Gives You Instant Feedback on Your Spending Habits
Budgets tend to be boring, one-size-fits-all affairs that are incredibly tough to stick with because they don’t really scale with you. Blogger Alex Recker and his wife were looking for their own solution, and drew on the game Civilization to find th…
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Matthew and Gunnar Nelson Ready ‘This Christmas’ Holiday Album | Rolling Stone
Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, the twin sons of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Rick Nelson, will release their first collection of holiday songs later this week. This Christmas, which will be available via digital outlets on Friday, November 20th, wi…
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Watch Mac Miller Go ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin During Encore | Rolling Stone
Watch Mac Miller Go ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin During Encore Oh hell yeah: The rapper slams some Steveweisers, dishes out a Stunner during California show
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This Coal Mine Could Create More CO2 Emissions Than Entire Countries | ThinkProgress
Australia’s Carmichael coal mine project has been under major scrutiny by large conservation groups and prominent Australians for months. Now, progressive think tank the Australia Institute has found just how damaging the emissions from burning coal…
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Wary Of The “Next Warby” | TechCrunch
Warby Parker is astonishingly successful, whether you judge it by the rave reviews of customers, its valuation or, more impressively, by the number of startups that compare themselves to the iconic eyeglass innovator.
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Milky way over Tre Cime Di Lavaredo by Luca… – Just Space
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Hacking Collective Anonymous Declares Total War On ISIS Following Paris Terror Attacks | TechCrunch
The hacking group Anonymous on Sunday declared “total war” against the Islamic State, the terror organization that claimed responsibility for the attacks on Friday that killed 132 Parisians. Make no mistake: #Anonymous is at war with #Daesh. We won’…
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Le Palais Royal: the most expensive private listing in America – video | Global | The Guardian
A look inside Le Palais Royal in Hillsboro Beach, Florida, currently the most expensive private listing in America. ONE Sotheby’s International Realty shows the interior of this 11 bedroom and 17 bathroom house.
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Google is getting even smarter about answering your complex questions | The Verge
Google’s search app is getting better about understanding the core meaning and intent of your questions, the company announced today, as it can now handle superlatives (tallest, largest, etc.) combined with ordered items.
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Television has never been more superhero-obsessed than it is now, with the prime time schedule dotted with series like The Flash, Arrow, and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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VR Dungeons & Dragons removes last lingering threat of human interaction · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dungeons & Dragons, long the game of choice for nerdy social introverts, has always been hampered by one incontrovertible weakness: This game designed to foster social interactions among people has required you to actually be in the physical presenc…
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Puppycat is convinced she is just a small Husky. – GIF on Imgur
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Relieve stress with Trumpinata, a Donald Trump pinata app / Offworld
Stressed by Donald Trump’s offensive views about Mexicans? Transform him into a piñata and whack away.
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US State Department approves Saudi Arabia arms sale – BBC News
The US State Department has approved the sale of $1.29 billion (£848.6m) worth of bombs to Saudi Arabia, as its military carries out air strikes in neighbouring Yemen.
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Ronda Rousey 10 years after getting knocked out by Holly Holm – GIF on Imgur
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Achievement unburied: How the community literally dug up a gaming unlockable | Ars Technica
Gamers are used to going to extreme lengths to unlock new content in their favorite titles, but the real-world effort some players took to gain a new character in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth this weekend was a little bit more involved than normal.
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Gaseous streamers in Large Magellanic Cloud js – Just Space
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BYU Cancels LGBT Conversion Therapy Event – The Daily Beast
You’d be hard pressed to find a venture drenched in more snake oil than conversion therapy. Attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity are opposed by virtually every leading medical association and are illegal in four states.
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Houston banker’s killer granted parole after serving nearly 24 years | US news | The Guardian
The last man still serving time in the 1991 death of a Houston banker has been granted parole, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles announced Monday.
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Incan Child Sacrificed to the Gods Reveals History of American Expansion – Scientific American
The remains of an Incan boy, about 6 or 7 years old and sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago, belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds By and LiveScience | The genetic lineage of a…
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Live in your very own haunted mental asylum / Boing Boing
For $1.5 million, you can be the proud new owner of Westland, Michigan’s Eloise Complex, a building that started in 1839 as a poorhouse and has served as a tuberculosis ward and insane asylum before closing in 1984. During the Great Depression, it h…
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Former NYPD Head Ray Kelly: Paris Attacks Were ‘Shockingly Simple’ – The Daily Beast
While others were calling the attack in Paris surprisingly sophisticated and coordinated, former NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly offered a very different appraisal, one derived from fighting terrorism day-to-day for more than a decade.
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GOP Guvs Rely on ISIS Lies to Reject Syrian Refugees – The Daily Beast
One of the Paris attackers was supposedly found with a Syrian passport—leading Republican governors here in America to vow to block Syrian refugees from entering their states.
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At least 15 states say no to Syrian refugees; 4 say yes – CNN.com
(CNN)The governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan and Texas say they don’t want to accept Syrian refugees into their states. BREAKING: Texas will not accept any Syrian refugees & I demand the U.S. act similarly. Security comes first. https://t.
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Paris attacks: Where France attacker entered Europe – BBC News
Ahmad al-Mohammad, from Idlib in Syria has been named as one of the attackers involved in Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. His was the name on a Syrian passport found with the remains of one of the attackers, though the man’s identity has not yet b…
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The Best Part About This Season of The Good Wife Is About to Walk out the Door | Vanity Fair
CBS’s The Good Wife has done the near-impossible by maintaining its status as network drama worthy of being included in the same conversation as prestige cable offerings for seven long seasons.
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French Airstrikes on ISIL Not a Strategic Shift | Al Jazeera America
Within 48 hours of Friday’s Paris massacres, France announced retaliatory airstrikes against positions in Syria held by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But the French military response represents a continuation of the existing U.S.
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PSA: Ambulance Rides Aren’t Always Free
In many areas, if an ambulance takes you to the hospital, you may be on the hook for a hefty medical bill—just for the ride. Somebody has to pay to keep ambulances running. Some municipalities still support ambulance services with taxpayer money, bu…
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Lawsuit Claims Vape Company Lied About the Chemicals it Puts in E-Juice | Motherboard
A group of three vapers has filed a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit for false advertising against a US company that makes flavored liquids for e-cigarettes.
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Congressman continues pressuring NOAA for scientists’ e-mails | Ars Technica
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) remains in the crosshairs of Congressman Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The issue is that Rep.
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Social media response to Paris attacks sparks online debate – BBC News
Tributes continue to dominate social media feeds, as the world tries to make sense of the Paris attacks online. There has also been criticism of the “disproportionate” coverage of similar attacks.
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How False Alarm Created Chaos in Paris Streets | Al Jazeera America
PARIS – It was one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had.
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Comcast sent collection agencies after customer who paid all his bills | Ars Technica
Ken Mueller of Illinois has been a mostly happy customer of Comcast for about eight years, relying on the cable company’s business Internet service to run an IT consulting business from his home.
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DNA Reveals Mysterious Human Cousin With Huge Teeth
The analysis of a fossil tooth from Siberia reveals that a mysterious people known as Denisovans, discovered a mere five years ago, persisted for tens of thousands of years alongside modern humans and Neanderthals.
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As a proud Frenchman I am as distressed as anyone about the events in Paris. But I am not shocked or incredulous. I know Islamic State. I spent 10 months as an Isis hostage, and I know for sure that our pain, our grief, our hopes, our lives do not t…
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Charlie Sheen to make a “big announcement” on Today tomorrow · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety reports that Charlie Sheen will appear on Tuesday morning’s Today show to make a “revealing personal announcement,” following a press release from NBC about an interview between Sheen and Today’s Matt Lauer.
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Good God, is it really season 11 of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia already? Have we truly spent more than a decade with the gang from Paddy’s at this point? It doesn’t feel like it—and if anything, this teaser for the upcoming season feels just a…
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E-Mail Legal Disclaimer – The New Yorker
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This machine automagically turns trees into logs
This, friends, is the Eco Log 590D, which cuts down trees and turns them into logs with the quiet efficiency of Homer Simpson eating donuts. While the Eco Log 590D is terrifying in its methodical nature, for true tree-killing malevolence, there’s st…
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Eviscerate Your Food Scraps With This Discounted InSinkErator
We don’t make a habit of posting deals for garbage disposals, but this one is too good to ignore. This InSinkErator Excel Compact 3/4 HP Household Garbage Disposer is one of the most powerful household garbage disposals you can buy, and the proud ow…
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Do You Need To Leave The House To Get Black Friday’s Best Deals? (No.)
We told you in our Black Friday Prep Guide that you didn’t need an in-store plan of attack. Here’s why. Back in 2006 I lined up for an embarrassing amount of time outside the Sony flagship store in midtown Manhattan to get a Playstation 3 for $599 U…
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Can Republican Governors Block Syrian Refugees From Settling in Their States? | Mother Jones
In the wake of last Friday’s attacks in Paris, Republican governors across the country have made their positions clear—they want nothing to do with the Syrians fleeing ISIS. On Sunday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced that his state won’t accep…
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A wintry blast of air brought blizzard-like conditions on Monday to parts of the west after whipping up a damaging tornado in central California and buffeting the Los Angeles area with gusts topping 70mph, forecasters said.
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Oregon man sets home on fire and runs pedestrians over in stolen SUV | US news | The Guardian
An Oregon man attacked his parents before torching the home they all shared, stealing their SUV and intentionally running down pedestrians in a rampage that left three people dead, authorities said.
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In April, carnage came to a university campus in Kenya. In July, bombs poured blood on to the streets of Jos in Nigeria. In November, there had already been mass murder in Beirut, even before it arrived in Paris.
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How Humans Saved Gourds From Extinction – The Atlantic
A flash of bright orange when you unzip your bag—you, my friend, have been gourded. What’s that weird lump under your pillow? Wouldn’t you know, gourded again. Sit down at your desk chair without looking, only to screech and leap back up? Ouch. Mist…
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Teams of biologists are rushing to rescue fish from a river that was contaminated after two dams at an iron ore mine in Brazil collapsed earlier this month, unleashing a deadly wave of mud.
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Why Bernie Sanders Was Right To Link Climate Change To National Security | ThinkProgress
Friday’s terrorist attacks have made the Paris climate talks “even more” important now, according to Christiana Figueres, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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NEW HAVEN — His cellphone started humming at 11:20 p.m. on Thursday. An urgent voice jolted Jonathan Holloway from his slumber. Students protesting racism on campus were streaming toward the home of the university’s president, the caller said. Dr.
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Midday open thread: Paris climate conference will go on but some related activities will be canceled
Rodgers said that during the moment of silence for the victims of the terrorist attack in Paris, he heard a fan make a prejudiced comment. […]
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News | ‘Chemical Laptop’ Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth
If you were looking for the signatures of life on another world, you would want to take something small and portable with you.
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Not Into The Hearts? Twitter Appears To Be Testing Multi-Emoji Reactions | TechCrunch
Yes, the fav turned into a like. The star turned into a heart. Some tweeters were not very happy about this change even though Twitter said engagement was just fine…increased among new users, in fact.
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Twitter is testing multiple emoji reactions to tweets | The Verge
The heart’s reign of terror as the only emoji-based reaction to a tweet may be coming to an end. Twitter user _Ninji noticed the ability to select multiple emoji from the heart, including the frown, the grimace, the party noisemaker, and the 100.
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Uzbekistan arrests 200 alleged ISIL ‘sympathisers’ – Al Jazeera English
At least 200 Muslims have been arrested in Uzbekistan for allegedly having the intention to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or being sympathetic to the armed group, a human rights group says.
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Atmotube Is A Tiny Pollution Sensor That Clears Up What’s In The Air You Breathe | TechCrunch
Portable air quality tracker Atmotube aims to be the Waze for air quality tracking in your city. The device is a tiny tube that you can carry around in your pocket or put on a key chain to monitor the air in your environment.
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Creed gets a melodic overhaul with this musical treatment · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
First up, no, this is not that Creed—though the band is also in desperate need of a musical overhaul. This Creed is a film by Ryan Coogler that continues the Rocky saga by focusing on the son of Apollo Creed.
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Obama administration reaches $95.5m fraud settlement with education firm | Education | The Guardian
The Obama administration has reached a $95.5m settlement with a Pittsburgh firm that runs for-profit trade schools and colleges.
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The Tables Have Turned On The Last Man on Earth And We Want Them To Go Back
We knew Will Forte’s character couldn’t be the bad guy forever. Eventually, “The Last Man On Earth” was going to show more than a glimpse of heart and become a hero. That change has been a focus of this season and, in the latest episode, things went…
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Meet the Badass Women of The Huntsman: Winter’s War
The very first character posters from the sequel-turned-prequel to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman have arrived. And with Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, and Charlize Theron in their most fabulous looks, it will at least look great if nothing else.
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Amazing face transplant gives firefighter new mug / Boing Boing
In 2011, the roof of a flaming building fell on volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison, burning his firefighting mask onto his head. As a result, Hardison, now 41, has spent more than a decade without a face.
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Christopher Nolan’s Memento is getting the remake nobody asked for | The Verge
Well, I suppose it had to happen eventually: Memento, the 2000 indie film that launched the career of Christopher Nolan, is getting a remake.
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Prometheus 2 is now Alien: Covenant, and fully part of the Alien franchise | Ars Technica
From Ridley Scott’s lips to our ears: the sequel to 2012’s Prometheus has gained yet another name. In an interview at the AFI film festival late last week, Scott casually informed the audience that the 2017 film is now known as Alien Covenant.
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The Looming Elections in Venezuela – The Atlantic
In this November 13 photo provided by Miraflores Palace
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Paris Attacks Complicate an Already-Muddled European Refugee Policy – The Atlantic
The revelation that one of the suicide bombers who carried out Friday’s attacks on Paris entered Europe last month through the Greek island of Leros has complicated the increasingly fragile European plan to handle an historic migrant and refugee cri…
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Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has faced calls to delay bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year due to security concerns prompted by the Paris terror attacks.
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Waze Adds 3D Touch Shortcuts to Quickly Get Directions from the Home Screen
With the update, you can now hard press on the app icon and you’ll get the option to instantly get directions home, to work, send your location, or search for an address.
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Breast implants could be used to study pollution in the human body | Grist
After Friday’s terrorist attacks, activists and organizers are deciding whether to scale back or cancel some planned events.
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Wild, History-Making Comet Landing By Philae Probe Recreated in Video
An amazing new video shows the wild ride a European spacecraft took to the surface of a comet last year.
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The director of the CIA has criticised “hand-wringing” over the role of spy agencies in hunting terrorists and called for legal constraints on surveillance to be reviewed in the wake of last week’s Paris attacks.
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This Smart Harness Tells Owners How Their Guide Dogs Are Feeling | TechCrunch
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a device that notifies users if their guide dogs are distressed or sick.
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Shelley, Johnson and the enemies of liberty | Letters | Books | The Guardian
Having just completed a political biography of Shelley (Pluto Press), I was delighted to see that the “lost” poem, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, written in 1811 in support of Peter Finnerty, has been bought by the Bodleian Library …
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Charlie Sheen Will Reportedly Disclose H.I.V.-Positive Status | Vanity Fair
Charlie Sheen, the volatile former star of Two and a Half Men, is reportedly H.I.V. positive, according to TMZ. The outlet breaks the news after NBC’s Today announced that the four-time Emmy nominee would make an appearance on Tuesday’s show, in an …
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Smoke Show: Vilhelm Parfumerie Debuts in New York | Vanity Fair
Meet Jan Ahlgren of Vilhelm Parfumerie, a dreamy perfume-maker by way of Sweden and Paris who is now in New York—at Barneys New York, to be exact—with six new fragrances under a bright, charming, sunlit, yellow label in intricately designed bottles.
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#PrayForParis: When Empathy Becomes a Meme – The Atlantic
The world’s most iconic monuments, awash in blue and white and red. Human faces, replaced with the stark black and white of Jullien’s Eiffel Tower. French flags, filtered over photos. Hashtags. Emoji. #Parisjetaime. #Jesuisparis.
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The United States of Bridesmaids
If you have 10 bridesmaids, is that a lot? It feels like it’s on the high side for a bridal party, but what does the data say? We analyzed sales data from Weddington Way, which sells bridesmaid dresses.
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Where Are the Guns in France Coming From? | Al Jazeera America
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Joel Hodgson names Jonah Ray as the (potential) new host of MST3K · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Reinforcing MST3K’s continued commitment to nerds, Joel Hodgson has named Jonah Ray as the man he’d like to kidnap, shoot into space, and torture with bad movies for days, weeks— years, hopefully—on end.
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North American Muslims Are Already Facing Death Threats | ThinkProgress
The deadly attacks in Paris and Beirut, which the militant terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility for, are already leading to an uptick in Islamophobic sentiment thousands of miles away.
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For a childhood hero who rejects the path of hate and suffering, Luke Skywalker sure leaves behind a large bodycount. In this supercut, Mr Sunday Movies tallies up all of those unfortunate enough to have been cut down by the young Jedi knight.
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Ted Cruz gets the endorsement of tea party xenophobe Rep. Steve King
And here we thought Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz didn’t have any friends at all. “I’ve watched him under fire.
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Netflix picks up Canadian series with Jason Momoa as a fur trapper · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Discovery Canada is developing its first original scripted series, and has tapped Jason Momoa to lead it through virgin (for the network) territory.
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A city lies dead in winter: Homs, Syria – Imgur
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Grow plants to support your country in this wartime gardening game / Offworld
Gardening games tend to be soothing cycles of repetition: You plant, you water, you harvest, and then you do it again. You play them to relax, which is probably why so few of those games are set during wars.
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FDA Seeks Public Opinion On ‘Natural’ Foods – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Citing a current lack of regulation surrounding the term, the FDA is seeking input on what the word “natural” should connote on food labels, encouraging the public to submit via online form their ideas on how to standardize its use on packaging. Wha…
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Private space companies avoid FAA oversight again, with Congress’ blessing | The Verge
Plus: asteroid miners’ rights! This week, President Obama is expected to sign into law a critical bill for the commercial spaceflight sector — one that prevents the government from regulating private space travel for the next eight years.
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Swapped SA babies to stay with families raising them – BBC News
The parents will also be allowed contact with their biological children. The mistake came to light when one of the couples split and the father demanded a DNA test to challenge the mother’s demand for maintenance payments.
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High fructose corn syrup goes to court, scientific verdict partly in | Ars Technica
A sour struggle between sweeteners is underway in a Los Angeles federal courtroom.
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Sleep Deprivation Slowly Kills Your Brain | Motherboard
“How long can you stay awake?” is a question you probably don’t want to try to answer at home. But in 1964, a high schooler broke that record for science. Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264.4 hours (just a bit more than 11 days) for a science fair, …
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ISIS Now Has a Propaganda Site on the Dark Web | Motherboard
ISIS now has a dark web site. A mirror of an ISIS propaganda site has launched as a Tor hidden service, likely in an attempt to make its material more resilient to take-downs, or to protect the identity of the group’s supporters.
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Yet Another Ghostbusters Icon Is (Probably) Coming Back For The New Movie
Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbusters is simultaneously taking the comedy franchise in a whole new dimension and paying respect to the original. So while Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones are starring, the film is chock full…
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Calais Refugees Mourn Paris, Fear Islamophobia | Al Jazeera America
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Shia LaBeouf’s Movie Marathon Was Such a Success It Changed His Starbu | Vanity Fair
How much of a success was Shia LaBeouf’s #ALLMYMOVIES experiment? So much that it changed his coffee order name.
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The Fat Boys do what they love / Boing Boing
My son Lux, age 9, is an avid record collector. Unlike me, Lux has the patience to dig through the $1 bins wherever there is cheap vinyl to be had — thrift shops, garage sales, flea markets, record swaps, and of course record stores.
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Google Voice Search Gets Smarter, Now Understands Complex Questions And Their Meaning | TechCrunch
If voice-based assistants are to become the primary way we interact with our devices now and in the future, then Google has just upped the ante in the battle between its own voice search functionality and that of rival mobile assistants like Apple’s…
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Paris, Eagles of Death Metal, and the Idealism of Concerts in the Face of Terror – The Atlantic
“Yeah,” Homme replied.
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Hours before the carnage in Paris on Friday, a double suicide bombing ripped through a working-class shopping district in Beirut. ISIS claimed responsibility for the explosions, which caused 43 deaths and hundreds of casualties in the worst bombing …
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Is It Wrong to Mourn Paris More Deeply Than Beirut? | The Nation
Since the Paris massacre of Friday the 13th, I’ve witnessed an unraveling of questions and debates on my social media feeds over the question of selective mourning. Who gets to be mourned—and on what grounds?
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Obama Defends His Strategy Against the Islamic State Amid Criticism – The Atlantic
President Obama chafed as reporters questioned him repeatedly about America’s strategy to counter the Islamic State, in his first expansive remarks after the Paris attacks.
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Mystery Solved: How Bats Can Land Upside Down
A landing bat is one of nature’s most remarkable stunts. Flitting into some nook or hollow, the winged mammal can flip itself over and come to rest hanging head first—all in mere seconds.
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Two chaps enjoy a pint in a flooded beer garden in Leeds. – Imgur
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Re-Taking of Sinjar, Iraq (25 photos)
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Divisive Android support for Windows Mobile dropped, nobody knows why | Ars Technica
Project Astoria, the Android compatibility layer for Windows Mobile, has been delayed, perhaps even indefinitely. Seven months ago Microsoft announced a quartet of “bridges” to open up the Windows Store to more developers and more apps.
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These 9 States Will Refuse Syrian Refugees After Paris Attacks | ThinkProgress
Nine Republican governors responded to the terrorist attacks in Paris by announcing they would refuse to allow refugees from Syria to be resettled in their states.
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Greg Sargent mocks pundits declaring that the attacks in Paris will finally convince Republican primary voters that they need to get serious, and deflate the Trump/Carson bubble. This time it will really happen! Or not.
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BBC Sport – England v France: Players keen to show pride – Didier Deschamps
All 23 France players will travel to London to face England in their friendly at Wembley on Tuesday after turning down the option to withdraw following the Paris terrorist attacks.
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The Armor of Light Is a Documentary that Explores the Intersection of | Vanity Fair
Filmmaker Abigail Disney discusses her directorial debut.
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Facebook now surfacing public profile information in mobile Google searches | The Verge
Google has brokered a partnership with Facebook to make the social network’s mobile app more search-friendly, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal today.
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8 Times the X-Men Were Nearly Wiped Out Forever
It’s a hard life, being a Marvel mutant. sure, you get rad powers (maybe), but also get the rest of the world hating your guts for simply existing. On top of that, you and your fellow mutants are almost always facing apocalyptic scenarios.
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ANTALYA, Turkey — President Obama declared on Monday that his strategy for defeating the Islamic State is working despite last week’s horrific attacks in Paris, forcefully rejecting calls for escalating the use of military force in the Middle East o…
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Uber Considers Steering Drivers To “Vocational Training” As Cars Go Autonomous | TechCrunch
What happens to Uber’s drivers once cars drive themselves? Something other than just losing their jobs, according to a gentler approach from CEO Travis Kalanick. Uber could potentially train drivers to do other jobs in the post-driving world.
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Trump Keeps on Saying We Should Shut Down Mosques – The Daily Beast
Donald J. Trump has a plan to counter jihadist ideology in America: Tear apart the First Amendment.
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Standing up to Terror: The Heroes of Paris – The Daily Beast
PARIS — As the city is still reeling from the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, stories of ordinary Parisians who may have saved countless lives are emerging. Among them is a security guard outside the Stade de France who reportedly barred…
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How the Baseless ‘Terrorists Communicating Over Playstation 4’ Rumor Got Started | Motherboard
On Friday evening, a group of terrorists launched a string of simultaneous attacks in Paris, killing at least 129 people, according to media reports. Very little information is known about how the terrorists, who allegedly had links to ISIS, planned…
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Free Entertainment for Cats and Dogs: Videos of Birds, Squirrels & Other Thrills | Open Culture
Before Friday, we had never managed to cover NASCAR, but we crossed that off the list when we featured Terry Gilliam’s mockumentary The Legend of Hallowdega. And now today we have another Open Culture first: yes, an archive of free, entertaining vid…
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How to make 2000-year-old bread
In the ruins of Herculaneum, a Roman town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, a carbonized loaf of bread was found. The British Museum had chef Giorgio Locatelli recreate the recipe as best he could.
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Mclusky goes Star Wars-lite on “Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues” · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of this week’s theme, we’re doing songs with Star Wars references.
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Republicans really excited to have other people fight and pay for their war!
You could sense the conservative excitement last Friday, as bombs, bullets, and blood shook Paris to its core. Finally! An excuse to wield their favorite tool—fear! Because if there’s one sentiment that defines conservative ideology, it’s fear.
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Krull is equal parts George Lucas and J.R.R. Tolkien · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Because it’s Star Wars Week here at The A.V. Club, we’ve singled out some of the more interesting movies inspired or influenced by George Luc…
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According to Deadline, director Lenny Abrahamson, who made the critically lauded Room, will direct an adaptation of Donald McRae’s book A Man’s World: The Double Life Of Emile Griffith, about a boxer who was secretly bisexual.
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Paris Attacks Muddle Eu Response to Refugee Crisis | Al Jazeera America
Paris attacks muddle EU response to refugee crisis https://t.co/tygFNfBToq via Al Jazeera America
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Make a Christmas Tree Look Fuller With Garland
There’s nothing wrong with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. But if your tree is looking a little bare and you want to add some lushness, a string of garland will do the trick. …
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The Aftermath of the ISIS Attacks in Paris – The Atlantic
PARIS—“I never thought having a drink on a café terrace would be an act of resistance,” said the woman at the table next to me, smiling. “But I think I could get used to it.”
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This new startup is doing hydropower right | 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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That Was Some Pretty Cheesy CG, Ash vs Evil Dead, But You Still Rule
The first two episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead kicked so much ass, it was inevitable that we’d eventually get one that fell short of face-meltingly amazing. With a storyline that depends on some pretty lame CG, the third episode “Books from Beyond” fill…
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Meet the 9-year-old “King of the $1 Record Bins” / Boing Boing
My son Lux, age 9, is an avid record collector. Unlike me, Lux has the patience to dig through the $1 bins wherever there is cheap vinyl to be had — thrift shops, garage sales, flea markets, record swaps, and of course record stores.
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German agent admits at treason trial that he spied for CIA | World news | The Guardian
“No one trusted me with anything at the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). At the CIA it was different,” Markus Reichel told a Munich court at the opening of his trial.
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The Re-Taking of Sinjar, Iraq – The Atlantic
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Apple Pay is reportedly launching in Canada tomorrow | The Verge
Apple Pay will launch in Canada tomorrow, American Express has confirmed to the website iPhone in Canada. It will be the third region that the NFC payment service has launched in, following the US and the UK.
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A reporting error linked the PlayStation 4 to Paris attacks | The Verge
All morning, outlets from the Today Show to CNN were sharing a new angle on the brutal attacks that struck Paris on Friday: Could the attacks have been planned on a PlayStation 4? At a conference, Belgian federal
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WTF finally lands SNL’s Lorne Michaels, and 14 more podcast suggestions · Podmass · The A.V. Club
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Weekend Box Office: Spectre continues to loom over theaters · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Nothing to see here, really, with a weekend box office that remained constant in its top two spots and a slate of new releases about as exciting as watching Angelina Jolie staring out of a window for two hours. Spectre retained the No. 1 spot with a…
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Timing is important. Some things need the proper technological advances in order to come to fruition, some need to be part of a particular zeitgeist to really work, and most of today’s large blockbusters need to have not come out in the ’90s.
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Firefighter receives full face transplant in surgery called ‘historic’ | US news | The Guardian
Surgeons in New York have declared the most extensive face transplant ever a success, saying the procedure to give a firefighter the face of a brain-dead man stands as a “historic” achievement.
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Spike Lee Blasts Academy’s Lack of Diversity in Oscar Speech | Rolling Stone
Spike Lee indicted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences during his acceptance speech for an honorary Oscar Saturday night for its apparent disregard for nominating people of color. “Everybody here probably voted for Obama,” he said at the…
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Rivers Cuomo Plays Sleazy Preacher in Weezer’s ‘Thank God for Girls’ | Rolling Stone
Rivers Cuomo Plays Sleazy Preacher in Weezer’s ‘Thank God for Girls’ Video Official clip for band’s new single examines duplicitous nature of evangelists
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‘By the Sea’ and the Death of the Celebrity Vanity Project | Rolling Stone
Angelina Jolie-Pitt wants you to look at her breasts. They’re a major character in By the Sea, Jolie-Pitt’s third film as director (and the first in which she’s done double-duty as a star).
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The United States Didn’t Just Help Topple Allende—We Trained the Economists, Too | The Nation
“I didn’t know absolutely nothing.” That double negative is from Sergio de Castro, talking about the killing, disappearances, and torture that took place when he served as Chile’s economic and finance minister during the Pinochet regime’s most bruta…
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Embrace the Power of “If” to Gain Control of Your Finances
If you want to change your financial situation, control is key. But it’s not always easy to feel in control, especially if you’re, say, drowning in debt. But writer Trent Hamm explains how one little word can make a difference.
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Exoplanet’s Global Winds Let Rip at 5,400 MPH
The planet, located about 63 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula, has winds reaching 5,400 mph, roughly 20 times faster than anything ever experienced on Earth. Granted, everything about HD 189733b is extreme.
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Walmart is selling $10 Android phones | Ars Technica
What a difference a year makes. This time last year we were blown away by the fact that you could get a smartphone for $35. Sure, you were stuck running Firefox OS, but it was amazing to get a functional pocket computer for that much money.
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Upskirt peeper arrested under grate, wants to be “pavement in the next life” / Boing Boing
Yasuomi Hirai, 28, allegedly hid in a drain under a Kobe, Japan sidewalk grate to peep up the skirts of women as they stepped over. Hirai has been arrested previously for the same offense. According to police, Hirai told them that he wants to “part …
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Obama Takes On a Newly Hawkish Press – The Daily Beast
That press conference was a disaster. Not for Barack Obama. He did fine. It was a disaster for the press, for America, for the world. The media are going to help push us back into war. That was a disgraceful question from CNN’s Jim Acosta about why …
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? | Books | The Guardian
Welcome to this week’s blog.
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The Official Alien: Covenant Plot Synopsis Raises Some Big Questions
Last week, director Ridley Scott let it slip that the sequel to Prometheus was now going to be called Alien: Covenant. 20th Century Fox made that official Monday morning with a new logo and, most curiously, a very confusing plot synopsis.
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No, State Governors Can’t Refuse To Accept Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
More than half a dozen state governors have come out against President Obama’s plans to relocate several thousand Syrian refugees within the United States. Some have pledged to actively resist settlement of these refugees. Texas Gov.
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Jeb Bush’s Call for War – The New Yorker
On Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press,” Jeb Bush said that it was time for the United States to go to war with ISIS, and to put together an international coalition to rout the jihadis from their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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Ronda Rousey, Routed – The New Yorker
The Ring is a boxing magazine that has been published since 1922, but for the cover of its January, 2016, issue, its editors chose a champion from a different sport: Ronda Rousey, the Olympic judo medalist who has become perhaps the biggest star in …
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Constellation Brands to Buy Craft Beer Maker for $1 Billion – WSJ
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Constellation Brands to buy craft beer brewer Ballast Point| Reuters
Corona and Modelo beer brewer Constellation Brands Inc (STZ.N) said it will buy San Diego-based craft beer maker Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits for about $1 billion to compete in the fast-growing craft beer market.
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Supreme Court Stays Out of Planned Parenthood Fight | Mother Jones
Since this summer’s release of doctored sting videos targeting Planned Parenthood, Congress has been embroiled in a fiery debate over funding for the women’s health care provider. On Monday, the Supreme Court made clear that it wants nothing to do w…
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TransferWise’s Taavet Hinrikus To Speak At Disrupt London | TechCrunch
He’s back. TransferWise co-founder and CEO Taavet Hinrikus was already on our radar at last year’s Disrupt London, but the startup has been growing nicely since then. After raising $58 million from Andreessen Horowitz and existing investors, the com…
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Ronda Rousey learned a painful truth: an unblemished career is extremely rare | Sport | The Guardian
You’re only as good as your last fight. In the topsy turvy world of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, there are hard truths buried in the notion that, regardless of what a fighter’s résumé looks like, the only thing that matters is their most rece…
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Paris attacks: US states halt taking Syrian refugees – BBC News
Several US governors have said they are putting on hold programmes to resettle Syrian refugees in their states. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan said he was suspending the acceptance of new refugees until a security review could be completed.
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Two early Apple designers have written a piece on Co.Design chastising Apple’s new design direction, which they claim puts elegance and visual simplicity over understandability and ease of use.
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Scott has announced the provisional title for his next movie, Alien: Covenant, which will be yet another prequel to Alien (1979). This was dispiriting news because Scott has already given us one mediocre Alien prequel, Prometheus (2012).
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Are Hispanics Finding a Better Life in the U.S.? – The Atlantic
Immigration to the U.S. is, at its heart, about one thing: the search for a better life—the search for better safety, work, and education, for the immigrants themselves and for their children and their children’s children. In 2015, the Hispanic popu…
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Gambit producer promises both a “heist movie” and a “sexy thriller” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Collider, the superhero genre will finally intersect with the heist and sexy-thriller genres when Channing Tatum’s Gambit hits theaters. Simon Kinberg, the producer who manages the Marvel films at Fox, weighed in on how each franchise p…
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Ed Helms to produce a workplace comedy from a fellow UCB alum · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ed Helms knows his way around a workplace comedy, having spent seven seasons in the surprisingly fascinating world of paper sales on The Office.
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Obama saved his harshest words for Republican xenophobes. He was right to do so. | New Republic
Scott has announced the provisional title for his next movie, Alien: Covenant, which will be yet another prequel to Alien (1979). This was dispiriting news because Scott has already given us one mediocre Alien prequel, Prometheus (2012).
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Republican governors do what terrorists want by refusing Syrian refugees
Go away, kids. Republicans are too scared of you. Republican governors around the country are doing what terrorists want by taking the Paris attacks as an excuse to reject Syrian refugees.
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Ronda Rousey, Routed – The New Yorker
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Steve King Ruins Rubio Plan To Say Cruz Agrees With Him On Immigration
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio has a big problem. As I previously detailed here , in 2013 Rubio tragicomically botched his attempt to lead on immigration reform, angering both pro- and anti-immigrant camps.
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German antitrust office investigating Amazon and Apple audiobook agreement | The Verge
After complaints from booksellers, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office is investigating the relationship between the Amazon-owned audiobook service Audible and Apple.
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Police body cams found pre-installed with notorious Conficker worm | Ars Technica
One of the world’s most prolific computer worms has been found infecting several widely used police body cameras that were sent to security researchers, they reported.
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Dungeons & Dragons Comes To Virtual Reality Thanks To AltspaceVR | TechCrunch
If you’re a Dungeons & Dragons fan, and happen to have some virtual reality gear on you…drop what you’re doing. Social VR company AltspaceVR has shipped an immersive version of your beloved tabletop role playing game.
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Mars Rover Finds Rich Mineral Stew in Fractured Rock
Chemical analysis by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity indicates that water made several repeat appearances to create the rich mineral veins at a site called “Garden City” in the lower part of Mount Sharp.
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Protests in Minneapolis after police shoot black man – BBC News
Protesters have demanded answers as details emerge about the police shooting of a black man suspected of assault in Minneapolis. Some witnesses have said the man was handcuffed when shot by police early on Sunday but police have said their initial i…
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Space Tech Meets Earth-Based Industry in SpaceCom Conference
Technologies developed in orbit can be of use to companies on the ground. This week in Houston, the Spacecom meeting will nurture that exchange. Pictured here, the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft is seen docked to the International Space Station.
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The floodgates have opened for states to close their doors to Syrian refugees. | New Republic
Scott has announced the provisional title for his next movie, Alien: Covenant, which will be yet another prequel to Alien (1979). This was dispiriting news because Scott has already given us one mediocre Alien prequel, Prometheus (2012).
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Sojourner Truth: Friend of Freedom | New Republic
Fredrick Douglass, the famous ex-slave, never forgot the night he gave his most pessimistic speech, in Boston’s Faneuil Hall. A packed house heard him lash the evils of slavery, then conclude hopelessly that the white people of America would never p…
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Brazil Ipanema: Rio de Janeiro mob beats man to death – BBC News
Police in Brazil are investigating a mob killing in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most exclusive neighbourhoods. Witnesses say the man, a 33-year-old who sold ice in the area, was chased, kicked and punched by a group of about 10 people who were returning…
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Image of the Day: NASA’s Psychedelic Pluto!
In this spectucular new image of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons team used a technique called principal component analysis to process the images taken on July 14th by its spacecraft’s Ralph/MVIC camera. Their goal is to amplify the subtle shade differenc…
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Large variation found in airlines’ CO2 emissions | Business | The Guardian
There is huge variation in fuel efficiency between transatlantic airlines, with British Airways and Lufthansa emitting 51% more carbon dioxide than the cleanest flyers, according to a report by the organisation that revealed the VW test-rigging scan…
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A major for-profit college company reached a settlement with more than three dozen state attorneys general on Monday, and will now be required to forgive more than $102.8 million in outstanding loan debt held by more than 80,000 former students acro…
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Paris attacks: ‘Prosthetic leg fooled Bataclan gunman’ – BBC News
A survivor of the Bataclan shootings in Paris has told the BBC how he believes he survived because his prosthetic leg made it appear that he was dead.
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These Paintings and Sculptures in the Official Star Wars Art Show Are Insanely Gorgeous
Rarely does a day go by that you don’t see a new piece of Star Wars art. but rarely is that art official. That changed this weekend when Lucasfilm staged an official art show called Art Awakens at Gallery 1988 West in Los Angeles CA.
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Clues Emerge in Fight against a Mysterious Killer of Central American Farmers – Scientific American
During the past two decades mysterious kidney failure has killed more than 20,000 farmers on Central America’s Pacific coast.
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I’m a NASA astronaut, and here’s what it takes to become a space voyager – Quartz
I was teaching a third-period science class on April 12, 2004, when I got the phone call from NASA I’ll never forget. Soon I’d relocated to Houston, Texas, close to the Johnson Space Center, to begin training to become an astronaut. As I would quick…
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FLORENCE, Italy — As President François Hollande of France has declared, the country is at war with the Islamic State. France considers the Islamist group, also known as ISIS, to be its greatest enemy today.
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Gift Guide: 9 Excellent Back-Up Gifts For All The People You’ll Undoubtedly Forget | TechCrunch
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Scott has announced the provisional title for his next movie, Alien: Covenant, which will be yet another prequel to Alien (1979). This was dispiriting news because Scott has already given us one mediocre Alien prequel, Prometheus (2012).
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Give the Gift of Premium Apps and Web Services
A subscription to Amazon Prime may not be the most fun thing to unwrap, but it-and many other premium web services—make great gifts that anyone could appreciate. Here are some of our favorite subscription-based gifts for this holiday season.
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Alien: Covenant is the latest name for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel | The Verge
If there’s two things we know about Ridley Scott right now, it’s that a) he’s really into making Prometheus sequels, and b) he’s really into changing his mind about titles.
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Smartphone owners value banking data over their nude pics, survey says | Ars Technica
The majority of smartphone owners taking part in an 11-nation survey said they’d rather have their nude pics publicly exposed than their financial information.
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The Movado Bold Motion is a $695 analog smartwatch with no screen | The Verge
Last year, HP dipped a toe into the wearables market by collaborating with Michael Bastian on the Chronowing, a smartwatch that was more analog than digital. Today, HP is announcing the continuation of the program that the Chronowing was born out of.
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Better Call Saul’s second season will premiere on February 15th | The Verge
Season one of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul proved it was just as good, if not better than, the series from which it originated. Now, the long wait for the show’s return to AMC is almost over. Better Call Saul’s second season will premie…
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Ben Carson, genius, can’t name a single country he would call on to help in fight against terrorism
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson had a difficult Sunday, being pressed to say something intelligible about how he, as president, would deal with ISIS. He suggested that he would shoot down a Russian plane if it violated a U.S.
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Dressing Like the Affordable Version of Ourselves – The Billfold
So that green sweater, the one I’m wearing in the picture above as well as in my official Internet Publicity Photo, is my “good sweater.” I bought it in 2010. Maybe 2009.
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New hottie Canadian prime minister essentially kills Northern Gateway pipeline | 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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Bjork on Iceland: ‘We don’t go to church, we go for a walk’ | Music | The Guardian
“I was brought up in the suburbs of Reykjavík,” says Björk, sitting in a small cafe in the heart of the Icelandic capital while the rain skitters about outside. “I lived next to the last block of flats, and then it was moss and tundra.
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Animated Vintage Book Covers from the 20th Century – The Atlantic
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Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company Sher.ly | TechCrunch
With Disrupt London right around the corner, we thought it’d be a good idea to check in with participants from past Startup Battlefield competitions to see what they’ve been up to since the show. Sher.
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Scary robot lumberjack makes deforestation too easy / Boing Boing
This deforestation machine slices and plucks trees at their base and then wipes off all the branches and foliage in just a few seconds. (Thanks, Dustin Hosteler!)
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NBC is launching a free trial of its SeeSo comedy service on December 3rd | The Verge
Are you willing to pay $4 per month for ad-free comedy? Is anyone? NBC’s soon going to find out. But before consumers can properly subscribe to its upcoming SeeSo video service, the company will offer a free month-long trial that kicks off December …
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Turkey: We warned France twice about Paris attacker – Al Jazeera English
A senior Turkish official says Ankara shared information with France about one of the Paris attackers twice over the past year, but did not hear back from French authorities.
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Cabrini Green Film – In These Times
From the moment it was completed, the public housing development known as Cabrini-Green has been captured in still and moving pictures. The development was not only iconic to Chicago, but a symbol of public housing all over the country, from its hop…
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The dad from Family Matters says everyone still thinks he’s a cop · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Many actors say the best compliment they can receive is when someone tells them they disappeared into a role so completely, the person watching forgets they’re seeing an actor. And by that standard, Reginald VelJohnson might be one of the greatest t…
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Ban Ki-Moon To Visit North Korea | Al Jazeera America
Report: Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea https://t.co/ZZLPZGWwMy via Al Jazeera America
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Pyongyang this week for a possible meeting with leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean news report said. Ban would be the first U.N. head to visit North Korea since Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1993. -
Jason Momoa will star in a Netflix drama about the 18th century fur trade | The Verge
Khal Drogo himself is heading to Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter reports that former Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa has signed on to star in the streaming company’s next original series, Frontier, set to premier next year. San Andreas director Bra…
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Since the attacks in Paris, both John Kerry and François Hollande have used it. The Kurdish militants battling ISIS in Iraq already use the term regularly, though they risk loosing their tongues by uttering it. Daesh is an acronym.
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Barack Obama launched a fierce attack on Republican candidates who argued that Muslim refugees must be kept out of America on Monday, saying: “We do not have religious tests for our compassion.
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Donald Trump says he’d consider shutting down mosques to fight terrorism
Donald Trump, waxing bellicose and unintelligible on national security on “Morning Joe,” says that the U.S. might just have to shut down some mosques. From the transcript provided by MSNBC: He doesn’t know for sure, he’s only heard from some people,…
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Researchers Say More Than Half of Plant Specimens Could Have the Wrong Name | Motherboard
Distinguishing a bunch of similar-looking plant and insect species from each other can be pretty hard. In fact, researchers claim that up to half of the world’s natural history specimens (largely plants and insects) could be wrongly named.
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Dive deep into conspiracy theories with Real Enemies – video | Culture | The Guardian
A new production at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2015 Next Wave festival mixes visuals, paranoia and a jazz-tinged soundtrack to explore the nature of conspiracy theories
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Once Upon a Time Gives Us Its Best Episode and Its Worst Episode Back-to-Back
Once Upon a Time dropped two episodes last night, “Birth” and “The Bear King.” One was perhaps the best this show has been all season. One was pointless. “Birth” felt like it should have been a mid-season finale.
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Sometimes, the 11 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms in your house simply aren’t enough. Just ask construction tycoon Robert Pereira, whose 60,500-square feet Florida mega-mansion went back on the market this week because he apparently changed his mind about…
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US Governors Refuse Syrian Refugees After Attacks | Al Jazeera America
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Carson’s Nightmare Foreign Policy Interview – The Daily Beast
In the wake of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris on Friday, Ben Carson has done a great job showing the world just how little he knows about foreign policy over and over again.
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Apple Is About To Launch Apple Pay In Canada | TechCrunch
After the U.S. and the U.K., Apple is about to launch Apple Pay in Canada tomorrow. The news was first spotted by iPhone in Canada. American Express is one of the launch partners, but it’s unclear whether Apple has partnered with other credit card i…
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Retain Information by Testing Yourself, Not Re-Reading
If you want to learn something new—a foreign language, perhaps—you’ll probably study it by reading and re-reading the same words and phrases over and over until it sticks. But you’ll actually have more luck if you just start testing yourself.
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Apple Appears To Be Promoting Its Own Apps In The iPhone App Store’s Top Charts | TechCrunch
Apple seems to be using the Top Charts section of its iPhone App Store to promote its own applications by listing apps like Numbers, Keynote, Pages, and iMovie, in higher positions than they would normally rank.
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Building the sphere of Archimedes – Scientific American
In his West London workshop, Michael Wright builds ancient mechanisms. In this Nature Video, we see his latest contraption, the sphere of Archimedes. Based on little more than ancient Greek texts, Wright has built this speculative machine to model t…
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Moby-Dick marathon at the Whitney: an orgy of cetology and Frank Stella | Books | The Guardian
Novelist and Believer co-founder Heidi Julavits had a burning question for other readers at this year’s Moby-Dick marathon: how many had read the entire book?
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World leaders agree on broad anti-ISIL plans at G20 – Al Jazeera English
World leaders have promised to tighten border controls, step up intelligence sharing and crack down on “terrorist” financing at a summit in Turkey, but there was little sign of a dramatic shift in strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the L…
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Since the attacks in Paris, both John Kerry and François Hollande have used it. The Kurdish militants battling ISIS in Iraq already use the term regularly, though they risk loosing their tongues by uttering it. Daesh is an acronym.
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A visibly emotional Barack Obama rejected growing clamour for a US-led ground invasion of Syria on Monday in the most passionate defence yet of his strategy of trying to contain Islamic State extremists rather than treating them as a conventional en…
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Vertigo titles have been exploring mythology since the start of the imprint, and this week’s Red Thorn #1 continues the tradition by delving into the legends of Scotland.
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‘Minecraft’’s Coding Tutorial Is Made for Kids, But I’m 27 and I Loved It | Motherboard
The Hour of Code is an annual campaign designed to get kids across the globe interested in coding, and this year, Microsoft and Minecraft developer Mojang (which Microsoft acquired in 2014) have joined the initiative by designing a fun Minecraft tut…
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Parents are afraid kids will tell their new Barbie too many secrets. | New Republic
Since the attacks in Paris, both John Kerry and François Hollande have used it. The Kurdish militants battling ISIS in Iraq already use the term regularly, though they risk loosing their tongues by uttering it. Daesh is an acronym.
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Watch Obama Call Out GOP Candidates Who Want To Exclude Muslim Refugees | ThinkProgress
President Obama called out Republican presidential candidates who have said the United States should admit Christians but bar Muslim refugees from Syria from entering the country, saying that Americans “don’t have religious tests to our compassion.
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Kirsten Dunst Has Some “Old-Fashioned” Ideas About Boyfriend Garrett Hedlund | Vanity Fair
Kirsten Dunst has had her share of high-profile Hollywood romances, but ever since she started dating actor Garrett Hedlund in 2012, the actress’s personal life has flown under the radar.
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Prosecution rests in trial of ex-CEO in 2010 West Virginia mine explosion | US news | The Guardian
The prosecution rested Monday in the high-profile trial of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship after weeks of testimony asserting that he put dollars ahead of human safety in the years before the worst US coal mine disaster in decades.
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary’s Daughter | Neda Semnani
On January 25, 1983, at about nine o’clock in the evening, my father and twenty-one of his friends were led onto a snowy soccer pitch in Amol, a small town by the Caspian Sea.
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Donald Trump’s Hair Is Having a Hard Time Right Now | Vanity Fair
In this contentious presidential election full of slanders and insults, why has no one ever asked how Donald Trump’s hair is feeling? It has emotions, too. And it’s feeling really isolated these days—tons of celebrities have bad comb-overs, but no o…
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Could ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Be an Oscar Contender? – The Atlantic
The 2015 Oscar race is measuring up to be a strange one for two reasons. The first is that it’s the middle of November and there’s no obvious frontrunner in theaters now, nor is there a juggernaut coming in December that seems destined to scoop up a…
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Top 5 TV: ‘Mr. Show’ Redux and the Return of Ronald Reagan | Rolling Stone
Everything on TV last week retroactively fell under the shadow of what happened in Paris on Friday, which made the weekend shows feel like either a welcome escape or an act of mass commiseration.
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Meet Man Who Discovered Elvis in Essential New Sam Phillips Book | Rolling Stone
Meet Man Who Discovered Elvis in Essential New Sam Phillips Book Peter Guralnick’s definitive bio of Sun Records’ founder, who saw rock & roll as an American religion
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Here Come the Arizona Cardinals | Rolling Stone
When the Arizona Cardinals headed west in 1988, it had been five years since their last playoff appearance – and it would be another ten until they finally made a return trip to the postseason.
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Execution Rates in US Drop to 24-year Low | Al Jazeera America
Capital punishment in the United States has moved into the slow lane, with the number of executions and new death sentences likely to hit lows not seen for more than 20 years.
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Ty Dolla $ign Talks ‘New Black Punk,’ Gritty ‘Free TC’ LP | Rolling Stone
Ty Dolla $ign emerged in 2010 as the writer and hook-smith on “Toot It and Boot It,” a gleeful track by the rapper YG.
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The point person behind Barack Obama’s environmental agenda has declared Americans are fed up with climate change denial and other efforts to wreck a Paris summit to stop global warming.
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Cities from the air by night – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Art and design Cities from the air by night – in pictures Leaning from helicopters, supported by a body harness, photographer Vincent Laforet took thousands of pictures of 10 cities to produce a stunning photoportrait of the mod…
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“Galaxies are Actually Shimmering” –Harvard and Yale Astronomers
“We tend to think of galaxies as steady beacons in the sky, but they are actually ‘shimmering’ due to all the giant, pulsating stars in them,” said Pieter van Dokkum, the Sol Goldman Professor and chair of astronomy at Yale, and co-author of a new s…
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The Best Blu-Rays and DVD Box Sets For Your Friend Who’s Seen Everything!
Movie fans can be hard to shop for—because chances are, they already have tons of memorabilia. Luckily, the world is full of amazing box sets that include tons of extra material, and look great on a shelf. Here’s our complete 2015 guide to drool-wor…
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Did you know Carl Sagan designed a game? / Offworld
This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us writing on witch folklore, the intimate language of games, and a lost design doc made by Carl Sagan.
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NEW YORK—Recommending that players take advantage of an opportunity that would keep them from falling behind their peers, officials from the NFL announced Monday that they are offering a summer league for those who were suspended during the regular …
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From tech bros to armed robbery,what it’s like to deliver weed by bike in NYC — Hopes&Fears
In the latest installment of our anonymous interview series, we spoke with three bike messengers who brave cops, robbers and inclement weather to deliver your weed. Messenger A is a former courier for a mom-and-pop service where he worked for two ye…
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The $10-Billion Sports Tab – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Deep within the stadium, the team gathered for a college football ritual. The marching band gave its cue, and the players bounded through a long tunnel, a blue-and-white blur, pumping fists and high-fiving students who had gathered to cheer.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Ever since she was an infant being blessed during a church naming ceremony, Lindsay Matson had been on the books of the Mormon Church.
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US firefighter has world’s most extensive face transplant – BBC News
US surgeons say they have carried out the world’s most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids. Plastic surgeon Dr Eduardo Rodriguez led the team that performed the 26-hour surgery to give injured volunteer fi…
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Mitt Romney calls for another ground war in the Middle East, because those go so well
Mitt Romney has taken the Paris terrorist attacks as a good opportunity for one of his periodic reminders to us all that he still exists, writing an op-ed in the Washington Post that boils down to one key idea: War. Surprise, right?
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Refugees Fear Backlash After Paris Attacks | Al Jazeera America
Refugees fear backlash as Europe reels from Paris attacks https://t.co/MjqiAjGxHS via Al Jazeera America
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These Amazing Korean Avengers Comics Are Finally Coming to the US
Manhwa—the South Korean term for printed comics—have long been popular, but recently more and more Western companies have been collaborating with Korean artists to bring their characters to the country.
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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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Stray cats frolic across stage at G20 summit – video | World news | The Guardian
The G20 summit in Turkey had three unannounced guests on Sunday, as a group of cats took the main stage moments before leaders of the world’s major economies were due to make an appearance. The curious felines ran across the stage, sniffed at flower…
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What Is ‘Break Dancing’? — Ratter — “Heyday in Tabloids”
“What Is” is a weekly series that explores early media descriptions of an object, genre, or concept. See the archives here. “Break dancing is great,” Astaire said on his 85th birthday. “It’s a wonderful stunt. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything li…
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Fingerprints of Water on the Sand | NASA
Fingerprints of Water on the Sand via NASA https://t.co/GbY4yxf6sa https://t.co/GtDzym2mLB https://t.co/MDz3ZC9rsM
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Fingerprints of Water on the Sand via NASA https://t.co/GbY4yxf6sa https://t.co/GtDzym2mLB https://t.co/MDz3ZC9rsM
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The Democrats have learned to say, “Black Lives Matter.” Now What? | New Republic
The Ferguson Effect hypothesis makes three claims about reality, none of which have been objectively verified. First, it holds that crime is rising significantly nationwide.
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France’s state of emergency may last months – Al Jazeera English
French President Francois Hollande will present a bill to extend the state of emergency in France, as well as propose severe amendments to the constitution in light of a recent wave of attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people.
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Who’s Afraid of Yale Student Privilege? | New Republic
Ah, those halls of Ivy. The glorious places where the most glorious people spend the most glorious years of their lives.
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On the Charts: Chris Stapleton’s ‘Traveller’ Number One Again | Rolling Stone
On the Charts: Chris Stapleton’s ‘Traveller’ Number One Again Eric Church’s ‘Mr.
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The Original Mobile App Was Made of Paper | Motherboard
An app is an interface for manipulating particular datasets. Rather than giving you unwieldy columns of data, the app presents information at the tips of your fingers, for quick scrolling and reference.
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Behold the Ocular Harpsichord, the Laser Light Show of the 18th Century | Motherboard
Isaac Newton may well have been the most casual purveyor of trippy ideas in history. His work forms the backbone of modern physics, sure, but most of his corpus is equally filled with esoteric ruminations that would be right at home on the pages of …
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The Problem With Bloviating Pundits After the Paris Attacks | Rolling Stone
The Problem With Bloviating Pundits After the Paris Attacks Whose side are these guys on? Novem
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WASHINGTON—Sitting Indian-style on the Senate floor surrounded by Magic Markers, crayons, and construction paper, members of Congress spent the afternoon in a special session Monday drawing pictures of their dream Capitols, sources reported.
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Brantley Gilbert Postpones European Tour in Wake of Paris Attacks | Rolling Stone
Following the deadly terrorist attacks that shook Paris on Friday, Brantley Gilbert has decided to put his European tour on hold.
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Josh Luber: The secret sneaker market — and why it matters | TED Talk | TED.com
Josh Luber is a “sneakerhead,” a collector of rare or limited sneakers. With their insatiable appetite for exclusive sneakers, these tastemakers drive marketing and create hype for the brands they love, specifically Nike, which absolutely dominates …
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Brazil’s Collapsed Mines Are An Environmental Disaster | ThinkProgress
Nine people are dead, 19 are missing, and 250,000 still don’t have drinking water two weeks after two dams at a mine in Brazil collapsed, sending 15.8 billion gallons of waste-laden water and sludge though downstream towns in the state of Minas Gera…
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Struggling Peyton Manning has foot injury but may play through pain | Sport | The Guardian
Peyton Manning has a partially torn plantar fascia in his right foot but may well start the Denver Broncos’ next game. The source confirmed to AP reports from ESPN and KCNC-TV that Manning has a tear in the thick tissue that connects the heel bone t…
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Xiaomi’s new headphones pair great sound with a low price | The Verge
If you know the name Xiaomi, chances are you know it for its low-cost, high-performing smartphones that fly off of its virtual shelves in China. But in addition to its booming smartphone business, Xiaomi also makes an entire range of accessories, in…
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Ted Cruz receives endorsement of key conservative Iowa congressman | US news | The Guardian
Ted Cruz received one of the most important endorsements in Iowa on Monday as Congressman Steve King announced his support for the Texas Republican. In a press conference in a Des Moines hotel ballroom, King copiously praised his choice, saying: “Te…
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Constellation joins craft beer market with $1bn Ballast purchase | Life and style | The Guardian
Corona and Modelo beer brewer Constellation Brands Inc said it will buy San Diego-based craft beer maker Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits for about $1bn to compete in the fast-growing craft beer market.
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President Obama: We must continue to accept refugees
President Obama, In a press conference following the G-20 meeting in Turkey, addressed the attacks in Paris and national security, saying that the U.S. and other nations must “welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety.
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Master the New Apple TV With These Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts
Whether you’re blown away by the 4th generation Apple TV or not, there are a ton of cool things you may not have realized you can do with it. Here’s how to get around some of the Apple TV’s annoyances and make it your ultimate home entertainment mac…
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So far, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s third season is perfectly fine. With the exception of “Halloween, Part III”—which built from the first two episodes of that trilogy—the first seven episodes of this season haven’t exactly been the series’ most memorable.
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Earlier this month we reported that, despite performing respectably at the box office, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo would not get a direct sequel from Sony Pictures.
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John Oliver on the Paris attackers: “Fuck these assholes” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As we reported over the weekend, there have been ongoing messages of support from the media and others forced to cancel appearances in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris (and Beirut, and Baghdad) that left more than a hundred people dead and man…
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President Obama Calls Rejection of Syrian Refugees a “Betrayal Of Our Values” | Mother Jones
President Obama said on Monday morning that the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 100 people on Friday should not affect the small intake of Syrian refugees into the United States.
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Boko Haram Destroyed More Than 1000 Schools: UN | Al Jazeera America
Boko Haram destroyed more than 1,000 schools this year, UN says https://t.co/hhvcN0o4gj via Al Jazeera America
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None of the Democrats Has a Strategy for ISIS – The New Yorker
None of the Democrats Has a Strategy for ISIS https://t.co/JFXrPTA1C0 via The New Yorker: Everything
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John Oliver delivers profanity-laced reaction to Paris attacks – video | US news | The Guardian
John Oliver didn’t mince words on Sunday as he opened his show in the wake of the attacks in Paris.
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Berlin: People Shouldn’t Have to Spend More Than a Third of Their Income on Rent – The Atlantic
In 2016, many Berlin housing-project residents can expect a cut in their rent. The cost of public housing in the city is just too high, the Berlin Senate ruled last Wednesday, and starting January 1 tenants will pay rent amounts that are directly li…
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Brilliant Bicycle Introduces Kids Bikes | TechCrunch
Brilliant Bicycle, the direct-to-consumer bike brand, has today announced kids’ bikes just in time for the holiday shopping season. Brilliant makes stylish bikes in two full-size models, with an online purchasing process that is as simple as it can …
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Between April and October of 1980, amid an economic downturn, Fidel Castro announced that Cubans who wanted to leave could do so. It precipitated a mass exodus toward the United States. Around 125,000 Cubans fled the island in the Mariel boatlift.
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Listen to all the strange music on the internet, randomly / Boing Boing
Metaratr serves up the unlistened-to work of amateur and prospective musicians on Soundcloud. Who knows—maybe you’ll be the one to discover the next Justin Bieber! You can ask it to give you only terrible music, if you like. You may also assign favo…
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IS conflict: US-led air strikes ‘destroy 116 IS oil trucks’ – BBC News
The US-led coalition destroyed 116 fuel trucks operated by so-called Islamic State (IS) in eastern Syria on one day, US defence officials say. The coalition has targeted fuel trucks before, but a coalition official said this was the most they had hi…
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It takes no great research pains to find out that Woody Allen loves jazz. He scores most of his movies with the music, never failing to include it at least under their signature simple black-and-white opening titles.
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Several hundred Mormons followed through on their promise to resign from the Church of Latter-Day Saints on Saturday in protest of Church leaders’ latest anti-gay policies.
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Sam Rainsy: Wanted Cambodian opposition chief delays return – BBC News
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy has delayed his return home from abroad as police prepare to arrest him. Mr Rainsy is accused of defamation in a case that dates back seven years. He was stripped of parliamentary immunity from prosecution earl…
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Strategies for success in the ivory war | Environment | The Guardian
Since 2013, according to the latest estimates, elephant deaths from poaching in Kenya are down by 80% and deaths of rhinos by 90%. This is a success story that deserves to be more widely known. Kenya was traditionally in the forefront of wildlife co…
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The number of people killed by law enforcement in the US this year has reached 1,000 after officers in Oakland, California, shot dead a man who allegedly pointed a replica gun at them.
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Editorial Cartoon: ‘A Charlie Brown Thanks-For-Nothing’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Meet the U.S. Ambassdor Who’s a Reality TV Star in Denmark | Vanity Fair
Rufus Gifford is changing the way Danes see Americans, one episode at at time.
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World leaders have taken to calling ISIS “Daesh,” a word the Islamic State hates. | New Republic
(Spoilers, or whatever.
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Media in 2015: Still sexist. | New Republic
(Spoilers, or whatever.
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Israel places travel bans on Islamic Movement leaders – Al Jazeera English
Israel’s interior ministry has placed travel bans on three senior officials in the northern branch of the Islamic Movement as rights groups accuse the government of cracking down on Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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Studio apartment: Room’s tiny, innovative film set goes on display | Film | The Guardian
The set of the widely admired thriller Room has been put on display in Los Angeles as the film continues its campaign for end-of-year awards.
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Nintendo wins court ruling against modchips and homebrew software | Ars Technica
Nintendo has won a court ruling against PC Box, an Italian company that distributed devices to circumvent the technical protection measures (TPM) of the Wii U and DS, allowing for the use of homebrew software.
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Hillary Clinton’s Best Asset Is Also Her Greatest Liability | The Nation
Drake University’s Sheslow Auditorium shined with the colors of France Saturday night as a subdued audience filed in for the second Democratic debate.
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Arrival at Jang Bogo station : Notes from the Field : Blogs
We made it to Antarctica in one piece! After a delightful 3 am start, we boarded the Safair plane that was to take us to the Antarctic along with Korean, Italian and French scientists. What followed was a somewhat chilly, noisy, cramped 7-hour fligh…
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Ben Carson wants to cut immigration by making the United States terrible to live in. | New Republic
Unsurprisingly, the CIA would like some of the powers it lost in the wake of the Snowden leaks back.
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The Pilgrims Would’ve Landed in Virginia—But They Ran Out Of Beer | VinePair
Ever been at a party where beer rations were running low and noticed the sudden stir of whispers, suspicious looks, hoarded cans, and unapologetic double-fisting? Imagine it’s 1620, and this is happening on board a ship full of exhausted religious r…
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Gaming performance on Valve’s SteamOS can’t keep up with Windows | The Verge
Valve’s new console-aping Steam Machines could be hampered by the performance of the company’s Linux-based SteamOS operating system compared to Windows gaming.
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Burundi Capital Hit With Deadly Violence | Al Jazeera America
At least four people died in shootings and explosions in various neighborhoods in Burundi’s capital on Sunday, with the government-supporting mayor’s house among those attacked during a night of violence, witnesses and local administration said.
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Saeed Jaffrey obituary: Indian star who enjoyed global fame – BBC News
With a career ranging from Bollywood to Broadway, from TV soaps to sitcoms, actor Saeed Jaffrey – who has died at the age of 86 – was a versatile, charismatic and hugely popular star. Saeed Jaffrey is one of the few actors who found fame and success…
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How much of Paris can one impulsive and adventurous first time visitor see during an unexpected layover in Paris? Will she make her connecting flight after all? Travel with her In this immersive new Hybrid Narrative / Travel Short Film as she furiou…
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French Minister Calls For The ‘Dissolution’ Of Certain Mosques | ThinkProgress
The French interior minister is calling for the “dissolution of mosques where hate is preached” throughout the country in the wake of Friday’s horrific terrorist attack in Paris, saying that the “state of emergency should allow us to act more rapidl…
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Why ISIS Wanted Authorities To Find A Syrian Passport | ThinkProgress
As the dust settles on the Paris attacks, intelligence agencies are scrambling to gather information on the reported attackers. Passports collected on-scene have helped identify the nationalities of a few of the attackers, most of whom are from the …
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What exactly is hidden in the pyramids? / Boing Boing
They’re described as “anomalies,” reflecting the nature of the non-invasive technology used to try and see into the stone of the Egyptian pyramids.
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Could Arsenal’s Mathieu Flamini save the planet? | Environment | The Guardian
Name: Mathieu Flamini. Age: 31.
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Dammit, The Walking Dead, Let’s Get On With It
It was a bold move for showrunner Scott M. Gimple to make the first half of season six into a single day, following a bunch of different characters both at Rick’s doomed Zombie Fun Run and back at Alexandria, which suffered its first major attack.
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The Start-Up Bringing Farm-to-Table to the Flower Business | Vanity Fair
‘I always joke that I learned everything about floral arranging from the University of YouTube,” says Christina Stembel, the 37-year-old founder and C.E.O. of Farmgirl Flowers. “But I didn’t like the aesthetic out there.
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Listen to a Preview of Adele’s New Song “When We Were Young” | Vanity Fair
At this point, you have probably listened to Adele’s new single “Hello” (and to the parodies of “Hello” and the covers of “Hello” and your friends’ drunken renditions of “Hello”) an absurd number of times.
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Prior to cleaning up messes for Walter White, Bill Burr earned a reputation as one of comedy’s premier ranters, a performer who takes the stage with multiple chips on his shoulders and proceeds to unload them in pointed, matter-of-fact fashion.
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Sunday in Paris – The New Yorker
A gentle spring Sunday in November. Soft air; the rarity of an unmarked sky dyed the same deep, Yves Klein blue as the doors of the Swiss Embassy on the Rue de Grenelle.
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The Shrines on Boulevard Voltaire – The New Yorker
In post-Christian Europe, spontaneous shrines at scenes of public tragedy have become a form of folk art, serving important functions. Some elements are vaguely religious—candles in glass pots, flowers. As for secular components—if children are invo…
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How Astronomers Found the Oldest Stars In Our Galaxy – The Atlantic
Some of the oldest stars in the universe are still around. And not in that cosmic way, where light from some distant object remains, even though its source winked out long ago. These ancient stars are still alive, still burning, still pouring fresh …
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Human Traffickers Caught on Hidden Internet – Scientific American
Hidden in Plain Sight: Investigators are using DARPA’s Memex technology pull information from the so-called “deep Web” that can be used to find and prosecute human traffickers.Courtesy of PhotoDisc/ Getty Image.
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Is Batman’s evidence admissible in court? / Boing Boing
Law and the Multiverse uses comics and movies to explain the law; today they turn their hands to the evidence that Batman provides to Commissioner Gordon, and how district attorneys like Harvey Dent would be constrained in using that evidence to pro…
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Andy Murray opened his ATP World Tour Finals campaign with a convincing win over Spain’s David Ferrer in London. The Briton, 28, won 6-4 6-4 at the O2 Arena and will next play the winner of the evening match between Stan Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal.
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Paris attacks: Why IS will eventually fail – BBC News
With each attack come millions of words. Politicians, journalists and witnesses express their shock and their determination to hold tight to the values of openness, tolerance and democracy. But soon after these initial reactions, bewilderment sets i…
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Author Patrick Rothfuss Is Here to Talk About The Kingkiller Chronicles
Today, from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. (Eastern time), fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss will be joining us to answer questions about his Kingkiller trilogy, writing about magic, stories-within-stories, and anything else you want to know.
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Republican presidential candidates use their ‘big frontal lobes’ to call for fear of Syrian refugees
It’s not just Alabama’s governor fear-mongering about Syrian refugees. His party’s presidential candidates are enthusiastically on the “we’re too scared, weak, and ungenerous to do what Europe is doing” train.
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The Science Of Selfies | TechCrunch
Although the term “selfie” has not yet been added to the official Oxford English Dictionary, the act of taking this particular type of photograph has certainly invaded popular culture around the world, as mobile devices with front-facing cameras, se…
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Pay what you want for this Javascript developer’s bundle / Boing Boing
If you’re looking to pursue a high-paying, high-reward career in coding, JavaScript is the language to learn. But it takes a lot more than basic coding know-how to rise to the top of the developer food chain.
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Sunday in Paris – The New Yorker
Sunday in Paris https://t.co/dYyrKMz9bs via The New Yorker: Everything
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Protests After Minneapolis Man Shot By Police | Al Jazeera America
Protests erupt after black man shot by Minneapolis police https://t.co/buarWWE4SD via Al Jazeera America
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Paris attacks: Hollande says ‘France is at war’ – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande has described Friday’s attacks in Paris as “an act of war” committed by Islamic State militants. Addressing parliament, Mr Hollande warned that jihadists threatened not just France but the whole world.
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US working with France after Paris attacks, says Obama – video | US news | The Guardian
Addressing the G20 summit in Turkey on Monday, Barack Obama says the US is working closely with France following the ‘heinous attacks’ in Paris on Friday. The US president announces a new agreement streamlining the process for sharing military intel…
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Paris attacks: Bataclan owners have ‘no words’ – BBC News
The owners of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have said they have “no words” to express their sorrow following Friday’s attacks. Eighty-nine music fans were killed and more than 100 injured when gunmen fired into the crowd during a concert by US …
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Researchers just unearthed a lost island in the Aegean – Quartz
An ancient island where the Athenians and the Spartans battled in 406 BC has been discovered by an international group of geo-archaeologists.
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Analysis: A short history of attacks on sport – Al Jazeera English
A capacity crowd of 80,000 had packed into the Stade de France to watch the national side take on the world champions Germany in an eagerly anticipated friendly. In the crowd were families waving flags and children with faces painted in the blue, wh…
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Who controls the cop cam? | The Verge
At the end of October this year, 14,000 police officials from around the world gathered in a Chicago conference center for the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference.
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Watch the ultimate 5-minute 1980s nostalgia video / Boing Boing
Ritual interviewed Bronwyn, the woman behind the [NSFW] Internet K Hole, a “deep and vast collection of found and collected photographs from the late ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s.
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How terrorists trick Western governments into doing their work for them / Boing Boing
Terrorism’s goal is to commit frightening, high-profile crimes that scare people into making rash, expensive decisions that make the world look like the terrorists would like to see it.
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This past January, scientists led by University of Birmingham astroseismologists discovered a solar system with five Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy.
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“France Is at War”: President Hollande Orders Bomb Strikes, Widespread Raids | Vanity Fair
In the aftermath of Friday’s terror attacks that left 129 dead and hundreds more injured, France promised retaliation against ISIS, carrying out several bombings on the group’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, and conducting over a hundred terror raids o…
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Justin Bieber Really Wants to Top One Direction | Vanity Fair
“Justin Bieber will do anything to top One Direction” Page Six declares in a headline. Justin Bieber very much wants to top One Direction and he’s willing to do anything to make that happen, says Page Six.
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NSA Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged U.S. Cryptography Standard – Scientific American
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed the agency’s massive online eavesdropping efforts and attempts to circumvent encrypti…
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Finally Start Saving for Retirement With the Help of Your Tax Refund
If your company doesn’t offer a 401(k), it’s pretty easy to start investing on your own. It takes one small step: open an individual retirement account (IRA). If you’ve been putting this off, use your tax refund as motivation.
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Thank goodness Beyoncé is long past her habit of tucking her daughter Blue Ivy away from the camera in her Instagram photos. Because it would be a shame to miss this cute shot.
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My elderly neighbor jumped from his 3rd floor apartment and is dying – Imgur
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Violin performance accompanied by moaning plumbing / Boing Boing
Dutch psych-rockers Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz,” from their 1969 LP At Home. Far fucking out. Nirvana famously covered the song as their first single in 1988 and it later appeared on Bleach. Below, Shocking Blue play their hit “Venus” that topped th…
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The Shrines on Boulevard Voltaire – The New Yorker
The Shrines on Boulevard Voltaire https://t.co/uwrsIRgqRc via The New Yorker: Everything
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Jobber Secures $8M For Its Mobile Workforce Apps | TechCrunch
There are a lot of businesses that utilize mobile workers these days. Normally deskbound workers have become mobile workers as companies mobilize their workforces and, often, save on property costs.
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Is your love for soccer ruining it? | New Republic
Unsurprisingly, the CIA would like some of the powers it lost in the wake of the Snowden leaks back.
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Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers was unhappy after his team’s loss on Sunday, but not just because of his on-field performance.
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Bernie Sanders Backs Off From Support For A 90 Percent Tax Rate | ThinkProgress
During the second Democratic presidential debate on Saturday evening, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he would not try to raise the top tax rate to 90 percent if elected.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the uncertain future of movie critics | The Verge
Normally when a movie studio decides not to screen a film for critics, it’s a sign of weakness. The film’s not working, so rather than let bad word of mouth hurt the opening weekend, the move is just to hide the problem from the moviegoing public as…
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When Homeland’s fifth season began, it seemed as though the finish line was the pre-Berlin status quo, with Carrie back in the CIA fold, teamed up with Saul again, and perhaps in a position to explore a romantic relationship with Quinn.
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The Batman ’66 Comic Just Ended in the Most Perfect Way
It’s far too soon for this amazing series to have come to a close, but sadly, it is the end: DC’s delightful digital series based on the world of the campy 1960s classic Batman TV show is over. But thankfully, its final chapter was perhaps one of it…
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What is a superbug? – The Atlantic
This week marks the first ever World Antibiotic Awareness Week—an effort to teach people about microbes that can withstand our most potent drugs and cause untreatable illnesses.
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BRUSSELS — Heavily armed police officers wearing balaclavas descended on a Brussels neighborhood on Monday in an unsuccessful search for Salah Abdeslam, who is believed to have helped carry out the Paris terrorist attacks on Friday.
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Paris attacks: Two US states put on hold taking Syria refugees – BBC News
Two US governors have said they are putting on hold programmes to resettle Syrian refugees in their states. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan said he was suspending the acceptance of new refugees until a security review could be completed.
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Why the FBI Wants “Special Access” to Your Smartphone – Scientific American
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Vallie Takes The Luxe Valet Parking Model And Puts It In London | TechCrunch
Luxe has become a popular valet parking service in various US cities because it sends valets to park for you, using an Uber-like app. They raised a $20M Series A last February and are now in multiple cities. But valet parking is a totally new concep…
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Brooklyn’s Favorite Ice Cream Maker Scoops Up $4 Million in Venture Funding | TechCrunch
Ample Hills Creamery, a four-year-old, Brooklyn-based chain of ice cream shops that has become renowned for its unusual and decadent creations, has raised $4 million in funding from Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures,…
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France “at war” says President Hollande – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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What happened in Minneapolis? Protests begin after police shoot black man
Chants of “Black Lives Matter” could be heard again Sunday as protesters rallied in the streets of Minneapolis and are camped out in front of police headquarters after police shot Jamar Clark, a black man.
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Pope Francis wants you to put your phones away at the dinner table, kids | The Verge
Pope Francis has some advice for families, if you want it: stop staring at your smartphones while you’re supposed to be eating asparagus. During an address at St.
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Tatooine IRL Doesn’t Have Two Suns, But It’s Still Awesome | WIRED
Caption: Just imagine two suns, and it’s almost like you’re there. Lars homestead exterior, Chott El-Jerid, Tunisia. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He Tatooine is more than the home of Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke, Jabba the Hutt, Jawas and whatever Watto…
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Megabots v Kuratas: US and Japan battle it out for robot supremacy | Technology | The Guardian
They’ve been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc, an Oakland, California-based startup, has built a 15ft (4.
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Ta Quang Nah is a Vietnamese rice farmer, pig breeder, builder and fisherman. But for several months now he has also been running a power station from his home on the Ca Mau peninsula.
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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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Inside BlazerCon, the Nerdiest Sports Convention in the U.S. | New Republic
I’ve been a fan of Liverpool Football Club since I was twelve. For more than half of my life, I have been waking up every weekend at the crack of dawn to watch eleven men half a world away kick a ball for 90 minutes.
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The Week In Pictures – Week Of November 16, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
New Study Finds Box Still World’s Most Popular Container Go To Article Man Really Letting No One Have It During Exit Interview Go To Article Housing Prices Spike As Tech Employee Takes Stroll Through Neighborhood Go To Article Grandmother Down To 10…
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London’s Delivery Cube Lets Take-Outs And Restaurants Outsource Delivery | TechCrunch
No sooner did I out Valk Fleet, Delivery Hero’s new B2B startup that lets take-outs and restaurants outsource delivery, another London competitor lands on my radar.
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Antibiotics Can Change the Gut Microbiome for Up to a Year – The Atlantic
Doctors and patients alike should be thoughtful about starting antibiotics—not only because of the well-publicized resistant bacteria that are proliferating thanks to overuse of those drugs, but also because, a new study illustrates, there could be …
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Comment from the November 23, 2015, Issue – The New Yorker
Comment from the November 23, 2015, Issue https://t.co/EFElCJ5oor via The New Yorker: Everything
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Build the Perfect Thanksgiving Menu with This Meal Planner
Hosting Thanksgiving is stressful, but this menu planning tool from the New York Times can help. Find dishes that work for guests’ dietary restrictions, your level of cooking experience, and how long the whole meal will take to prepare.
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Georgetown University will rename two buildings on campus — Mulledy Hall and McSherry Hall — that are currently named after slaveowners, following protests and sit-ins from students demanding increased awareness about the institution’s racial legacy.
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It’s hard to imagine a sitcom more likely to incorporate Star Wars references than CBS’ The Big Bang Theory. There were at least 50 references made in the show through season eight, and one fan has created a 59-minute video that shows each one in ch…
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Star Wars · Sponsored Video · The A.V. Club
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It’s Star Wars week on The A.V. Club · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Force Awakens may or may not be as great as the trailers make it look, but the upcoming addition to the Star Wars franchise reminds both die-hard and casual fans how great the 38-year-old space opera is. So while we eagerly await the 2015 addend…
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Paris attacks: French President Hollande addresses congress – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande addresses congress in Versailles following attacks in Paris on Friday.
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With more than 5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or you’re not entirely sure who built the pyramids or why. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,010…
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Syrian Refugees in Paris Fear Backlash | Al Jazeera America
Syrian refugees in Paris fear backlash after attacks https://t.co/OfgpdIKDlC via Al Jazeera America
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AT&T to launch Microsoft’s Lumia 950 on November 20th | The Verge
AT&T will be the first, and likely only, US carrier to launch Microsoft’s Lumia 950 smartphone later this week. Available on Friday November 20th, as previously reported, the Lumia 950 is Microsoft’s first ever Windows 10-powered phone.
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Protesters march in Minneapolis after police shooting / Boing Boing
Officers reportedly shot an assault suspect who hindered EMS access to his victim in Minneapolis on Sunday, but many locals are unhappy with the force’s version of events.
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An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
An Eagle in the Snow is an extraordinary book full of adventure. It is based on a true story and is about a man who could had have stopped the second world war from happening.
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Paris attack suspect still on the run after major raids – Al Jazeera English
Police in France and Belgium are still hunting for a suspect they believe was involved in the recent attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people, as they carry out raids across the two countries that have so far resulted in arrests and seizing …
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Microsoft Invests In Affordable Internet Access With Launch Of New Fund | TechCrunch
Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to bring affordable Internet access to underserved parts of the globe with the launch of a new fund that will invest in companies that are solving problems associated with bringing the Internet to the 4 billion pe…
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If you missed the Kickstarter for my hardcover, two-volume compilation, 25 Year of Tomorrow, good news—you can still pre-order a set!
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Joe’s Crab Shack Eliminates Tipping – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Restaurant chain Joe’s Crab Shack has been experimenting with a no-tipping policy at 18 of its locations with plans to gradually expand the policy nationwide, paying servers more per hour and raising menu prices by 12-15 percent, changes that could …
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ALBANY, NY—Left staggered and dumbfounded by the unexpected line of inquiry, real estate agent Jeffrey Tindell told reporters Monday he was totally unprepared for a potential buyer’s hard-hitting questions about the water pressure in a local three-b…
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This Bridge Opens and Closes Like a Japanese Folding Fan – Scientific American
Inspired by a Japanese folding fan, Merchant Square Footbridge in Paddington, London, gracefully opens above a historical canal at least once a week to allow small boats to pass.
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BBC Sport – Roy Hodgson: England v France will not be a normal friendly
England’s match against France at Wembley on Tuesday will not be a “normal friendly” following the attacks in Paris, says coach Roy Hodgson. More to follow.
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Paris Attack Will Not Halt Global Climate Talks – Scientific American
Climate change leaders from around the world are applauding the French government’s decision to press on with a landmark U.N. conference in Paris at the end of the month, even in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks. But just how robust the event wi…
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Here Is the Soviet Union’s Secret Space Cannon
Installed on the Almaz space station in 1970s, the R-23M Kartech was derived from a powerful aircraft weapon. The original 23-millimeter cannon was designed by Aron Rikhter for the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder supersonic bomber. That gun is relatively well…
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Withings Is Back With A New Watch, The Activité Steel | TechCrunch
French hardware startup Withings has released two smart-ish watches so far — the Activité and the Activité Pop. Today, the company is releasing a new model sitting between these two options, the Activité Steel. Available exclusively on the company’s…
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Observing the Milky Way in 3-D –“Reveals New Structures and Answers to Old Mysteries”
Astronomers have used modern techniques to visualise data from ESA’s Hipparcos space astrometry mission in three dimensions.
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Photoslurp Helps Brands Sell Products From Instagram | TechCrunch
One of the nice things about Instagram is that unlike the rest of the web, the platform is generally devoid of annoying hyperlinks in posts and comments. However, while no hyperlinks make a cleaner user experience, they also make it hard for e-comme…
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Calling in to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “strongly consider” shutting down mosques with suspected terrorist ties and slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for discontinuing survei…
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What ISIS Really Wants – The Atlantic
“The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths.” https://t.co/85QpZJ8Usf
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277 bodies found under UK tram line / Boing Boing
Experts knew there was a graveyard under Manchester’s Metrolink tramline, but the sheer scale of the excavation—277 unearthed bodies—has made news worldwide.
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Owners of Paris’ Bataclan Venue Issue Statement | Rolling Stone
Owners of Paris’ Bataclan Venue Issue Statement “No words can express the level of sadness we feel,” famed venue’s owners say following terror attack
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Withings tries to mix luxury and everyday style with $170 Activité Steel | The Verge
For Withings’ third fitness tracker, the company is trying to blend the best qualities of its expensive (and Swiss Made) Activité with those from the much cheaper, more versatile Activité Pop.
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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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Vince Gill Interviews Chris Young | Rolling Stone
“A dose of humility will serve you well,” Vince Gill said with a laugh after trading war stories with Chris Young about their earliest days in the music business, playing for tips — or in Young’s case, quesadillas — to audiences with less members th…
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Who Is Holly Holm? Fighter Who KO’ed Ronda Rousey Speaks | Rolling Stone
Holly Holm’s shocking upset of Ronda Rousey on Sunday wasn’t a fluke. At least not the way she sees it. “I’ve been the underdog more than once, and it’s fine with me. Every day in training, I’m up against great training partners.
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Watch Chris Stapleton Reinvent ‘You Are My Sunshine’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Chris Stapleton Reinvent ‘You Are My Sunshine’ CMA winner shines a light on wife and bandmate, Morgane Stapleton, during nightly cover song
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Run, Forest, Run · thewalrus.ca
Sierra McLane stretched a rubber swim cap over her head, snapped her goggles into place, and swung her leg up and over the lowest branch of a gnarly whitebark pine tree. Her Ph.D.
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Tim Cook says Apple won’t make a “converged” iPad-Mac device | Ars Technica
On the heels of the iPad Pro going on sale, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has squashed any speculation of an iPad-Mac hybrid.
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Amazon Expands Launchpad, Its Product Hunt-Meets-Shopify-Shyp Rival, To The UK | TechCrunch
Following on from last week’s news that Amazon would expand its Pantry household items delivery service to the UK while also discounting new Prime memberships in the country, the e-commerce is now quietly adding another service to the UK to build ho…
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Nicaragua turns back Cuban migrants to Costa Rica – BBC News
Nicaragua has turned back hundreds of Cuban migrants which it accuses of “storming” its border crossing from neighbouring Costa Rica on Sunday. The Cubans are travelling north, trying to reach the United States by land.
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Like millions of people, I’ve been obsessively following the news from Paris, putting aside other things to focus on the horror. It’s the natural human reaction. But let’s be clear: it’s also the reaction the terrorists want. And that’s something no…
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BridgeU Raises $2.5M To Fix The Chaos Of University Choices With Data | TechCrunch
Imagine you’re 14 and in the next two years you’re going to have to make a decision about what higher education course you’ll do, if any.
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Paris climate activities to be scaled back, even as official summit goes forward | 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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To be a black student in America’s public schools is to know stunning discrimination from an early age. To be a transgender or gender non-conforming student is to face staggering bias and intolerance from peers and teachers.
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Prince Harry Finally Meets Harry Styles, Asks Him About His Hair | Vanity Fair
The name “Harry,” used without any qualifiers or surnames, means—in the U.K. . . .
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Hillary Clinton Still Can’t Shake Her Wall Street–9/11 Debate Comment | Vanity Fair
Hillary Clinton and her campaign have been mopping up the mess she made surrounding her ties to Wall Street since Saturday night’s Democratic primary debate, when she defended her connections to the financial industry by invoking the September 11 te…
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Australia patch up a recovery after Taylor’s epic 290 – Al Jazeera English
Steve Smith and Adam Voges scored the fifth and sixth centuries of the second Test to give Australia a lead of 193 after Ross Taylor’s epic 290 brought New Zealand back into the contest on day four.
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Wanted opposition leader delays return to Cambodia – Al Jazeera English
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy has delayed his return to Phnom Penh, where he faces arrest in connection with a seven-year-old defamation case.
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‘High impacts’ from globally stronger El Nino – BBC News
The El Niño weather event is expected to gain in strength before the end of this year, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In its latest update, the WMO says the 2015 occurrence will be among the three strongest recorded since …
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Protests Erupt In Minneapolis After Cops Shoot Unarmed Black Man | ThinkProgress
Black Lives Matter activists in Minneapolis took to the streets on Sunday to protest the police shooting of an unarmed black man who, according to some witnesses, was already in handcuffs when the cops opened fire.
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How to Keep Your Lipstick Off Your Wine Glass
Lipstick looks sexy on lips, but kind of gross on glassware. “Not wearing lipstick” may seem like the obvious solution, but with all the holiday cocktail parties coming up, that’s unlikely to happen . Luckily, there’s a quick fix for this problem: g…
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With cookies in the shape of your face, you can tell people “eat me” and mean it / Boing Boing
They’re hand-screened and $11.09 from Danse Macabre on Etsy. (via Geekymerch) Available in Conical and Round, these designs won my heart with their clever use of retort stands and sandblasted lab glass; love the fabric-sleeved power-cable too (avail…
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Islamic State has warned in a new video that countries taking part in airstrikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.
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Overcome Your Arachnophobia By Cuddling a Spider at the London Zoo | Atlas Obscura
Every autumn, the turning of the leaves heralds the emergence of the spiders. This is the time of year when arachnids, like many humans, wander in search of warmth and companionship.
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The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain | Atlas Obscura
Not all Corn Palaces were quite so grand. (Photo: Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer) In 1890, Forest City, Iowa, built a palace–not of stone, or wood, or brick, but of flax.
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I’m with the Band(s): Intimate photographs of punk legends at CBGBs|Dangerous Minds
Whether it’s the Left Bank, or Bloomsbury, or Sun Records in Memphis, the Cavern Club in Hamburg, or London’s King’s Road, there is always one location that becomes the focus for a new generation of artists, writers and musicians.
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Like William Burroughs’ “Thanksgiving Prayer,” this “Cthurkey” rears its head every holiday season. It’s almost criminal that we’ve never blogged about it here on Dangerous Minds, so I thought I’d correct that egregious oversight.
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Hanover, N.H. — SURVEYING the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris, most Americans probably feel despair, and a presentiment that it is only a matter of time before something similar happens here.
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Israeli Troops Kill Two Palestinians In Raid | Al Jazeera America
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank raid https://t.co/1CMcSPpgzI via Al Jazeera America
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The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep now Wants to Go to Harvard | Books | The Guardian
For all those families who found The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep helped smooth over difficult bedtimes, a new picture book satirising the ambitions of “helicopter” parents for their brilliant offspring is due out next spring: The Rabbit Who Want…
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Teach Your Kids Computing With This Toy From 1972
You’d think that toy computers would have reached their height in the last decade. This Playskool Play and Learn Computer is from 1972 and is a spectacular reminder that a) everything is toyable and b) computers have always been our future.
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Shake Shack to Raise Menu Prices to Accommodate Worker Pay – The Atlantic
Earlier this week, it was reported that Shake Shack, the fast-casual wing of the Danny Meyer empire, would raise prices at its stores for the third time in less than 18 months. The reason, according to the company, is to accommodate rising worker pa…
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Tom Palmore Pet Portraits – Bloomberg Business
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world.
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Our Generation Ships Will Sink / Boing Boing
As noted in Cory’s review, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora makes an undeniable case for ecological stewardship through a rigorous, gripping technological speculation about climate science, biology, space propulsion and sociodynamic factors.
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Pulp science fiction’s legacy to women in science.
This could, of course, mean that my shoes were beacons of color in the sea of brown and black loafers—but I think it actually reflects a much broader, much deeper truth about our cultural conception of who a scientist is and what he looks like. That…
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Study finds honesty varies significantly between countries – Medical News Today
Research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people’s honesty varies significantly between countries. It also suggests that honesty is less important to a country’s current economic growth than during earlier periods in history.
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Space Travel Change Humans On Molecular Level? | Video
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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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Saving the bee – Al Jazeera English
It’s the beginning of another beekeeping season in New Zealand. The weather is heating up, flowers are in full blossom and bee hives are buzzing back to life after the long cold of winter.
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Mitt Romney denies rumors of surprise presidential bid: ‘I’m not running’ | US news | The Guardian
Mitt Romney has attempted to quash rumors that he would swoop into the 2016 race for president and end the chaos of the Republican primary, saying on Monday: “I’m not running, I’m not planning on running.
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Unsettling notice warns passers-by of forthcoming immortalization / Boing Boing
Bran Muir’s wonderful, chilling animated GIF work is highlighted in a post over at VICE’s The Creators Project. Muir’s process starts like that of any collage artist as he cuts up old NatGeo and LIFE magazines to build a mutated army of characters.
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Google engineer says you shouldn’t buy OnePlus USB Type-C cables | The Verge
Earlier this month, we covered the exploits of Benson Leung — an engineer at Google who has been reviewing new USB Type-C cables on Amazon to find out which manufacturers are reliable.
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Test Your Budget By Not Eating Out For One Month
Eating out is one of the quickest ways to inflate your budget in your day-to-day life. If you want to find out how much you can really spare in your budget, stop eating out for a month.
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The FBI Says Hackers Are Targeting Emergency Services | Motherboard
On Thursday, DHS announced a $2.6 million research contract with the University of Houston aimed at defending next-gen 911 call centers from TDoS attacks. A TDoS attack, or Telephony Denial of Service, floods a service with bogus phone calls, preven…
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Ian McShane’s Game of Thrones Role Could See The Return Of A Dead Character
J.J. Abrams teases the power of The Force Awakens’ new superweapon. Michael Douglas can’t wait to be back for Ant-Man and The Wasp. Wonder Woman reveals its Steve Trevor in the first set picture.
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Coalition-backed Yemeni forces launch Taiz offensive – Al Jazeera English
Yemeni forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition have launched an offensive to retake the key battleground province of Taiz from Houthi rebels, a military commander told AFP news agency.
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Anthropologist Seeks the Roots of Terrorism – Scientific American
In the wake of terrorist attacks last week on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris supermarket, the world has struggled to understand the combination of religion, European culture and influence from terrorist organizations that dr…
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Give Us Back Our Data – Al Jazeera English
Technology researcher and thinker Evgeny Morozov believes the entire discussion around cool, new innovative technology is a giant distraction from the most important issues.
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Robert Winston’s Utterly Amazing Science – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Children’s books Newsflash Robert Winston’s Utterly Amazing Science – in pictures To celebrate winning Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for a third time, Robert Winston shares some of the most exciting experiments and fac…
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Uber Drivers Can Now Pick Up Riders Headed In The Same Direction As Them | TechCrunch
Going My Way? A new Uber feature allows drivers the ability to set a destination and pick up riders headed in that same direction.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Places A Big Bet On Containers | TechCrunch
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is launching a slew of updates and new products related to containers at Docker’s developer conference in Barcelona today. Together, all of these amount to a big bet on containers on HPE’s part.
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New analysis finds routes to economic growth with carbon limits | Ars Technica
International agreements to regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide have been limited so far. One argument commonly used against them is economic—politicians believe that limiting greenhouse gas emissions could hurt economic growth.
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Community Speaker Series Ignite Gets A Re-Boot | TechCrunch
Ignite, the original speaker series held in hundreds of cities throughout the world, is making a comeback. The original co-founder and head of Highway 1, Brady Forrest has reacquired Ignite from O’Reilly Media and is relaunching it today as Ignite T…
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Uber’s ‘destinations’ feature could turn basically everyone into an Uber driver | The Verge
Starting soon, Uber drivers looking to earn some extra money on their commutes to and from home — especially those who drive part-time — will be able to with the ride-hailing app’s new “destinations” feature.
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Qantas 737 “tailstrike” was caused by iPad data entry fail | Ars Technica
On August 1 last year, a Boeing 737-838 (VH-VZR) operated by Qantas performed a “tailstrike” while taking off from Sydney airport.
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How to Rhyme Like a Rapper – Scientific American
In his critically acclaimed song “Empire State of Mind,” rapper Jay Z used conventional rhymes such as made-Wade, as well as partial rhymes such as life-light.
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Attempts to Predict Terrorist Attacks Hit Limits – Scientific American
From France to Nigeria, the world is reeling from a wave of deadly terrorist attacks. As governments scramble to respond, researchers and analysts are attempting to calculate what the terrorism risk is and how it is changing.
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Cops kick in wrong door, kill wrong man / Boing Boing
An unarmed North Carolina man was shot dead this weekend by Sheriff’s deputies in Harnett County, who reportedly kicked in his door after misidentifying his home as that of a suspect in another crime. WNCN reports that John Livingston, 33, was shot …
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The New England Patriots: There’s No Catch – They Win Again | Rolling Stone
And this is how the Patriots’ grand tour of villainous fuck-you’s rolled into its ninth sold-out week: With a Giants touchdown catch that wasn’t, with a Tom Brady interception that wasn’t, with a field goal from 54 yards that tucked inside the uprig…
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Climate change putting UK wildlife ‘increasingly at risk’ | Environment | The Guardian
Climate change is already affecting UK nature, from seabirds to plants, with wildlife “increasingly at risk” as temperatures rise, conservationists have warned.
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Morning Digest: After a disastrous Senate campaign, Liz Cheney mulls a run for an open House seat
• WY-AL: Republican Rep. Cynthia Lummis unexpectedly announced her retirement on Thursday (her husband’s death last year may have played a role in her decision), and it didn’t take long for state Rep. Tim Stubson to announce his campaign.
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Last week’s attacks on Paris will not influence the city’s chances of hosting the 2024 Olympic Games, IOC president Thomas Bach has said. Multiple attacks in the French capital on Friday killed 129 people.
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Bold Plan For The Future Of Facebook
Facebook is firing on all cylinders. Now Mark Zuckerberg is looking to the decade ahead, from AI to VR to drones.
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What ‘Gender Friendly’ Ads Look Like to Big Beer – Bloomberg Business
Bud Light blew it with #UpForWhatever, the marketing campaign that called America’s most popular brew “the perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from your vocabulary for the night.” Critics lambasted it as tone deaf to issues of sexual assault.
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ISTANBUL — Intensifying pressure on the Islamic State, United States warplanes for the first time attacked hundreds of trucks on Monday that the extremist group has been using to smuggle the crude oil it has been producing in Syria, American officia…
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Intel’s Broadwell-E lineup rumoured to feature monster 10-core CPU | Ars Technica
The successor to Intel’s high-end Haswell-E CPU will feature up to 10 cores running 20 threads, according to a leaked set of specifications.
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Safe Harbor 2.0 framework begins to capsize as January deadline nears | Ars Technica
Safe Harbour 2.0, currently being drawn up by the EU and US authorities, “will not provide a viable framework for future transfers of personal information” across the Atlantic according to a group of human rights and privacy organisations.
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This is totally a one-note joke, but it could also be argued that Diamond Dave is a one-note singer. The result is magical.
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Being a “band geek” has rarely ever won a high school student cool points. One would expect that a “Catholic high school band geek” might fare even worse—yet one marching band of young badasses in Atlanta is bucking the trend.
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My pal Greg Barris, a New York City-based stand-up comic and actor, has a new web series that he’s doing with Bridey Elliott, former SNL castmate, daughter of funnyman Chris Elliott, and granddaughter of the great Bob Elliott of “Bob and Ray” fame. …
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How Should the U.S. Respond to Terror? – Cross-Check – Scientific American Blog Network
I was at a workshop on the mind-body problem—where scientists and philosophers debated, among other questions, whether dark energy might be conscious—when reality intruded. Someone sitting beside me silently showed me his smart phone, which displaye…
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An ear created with Vincent van Gogh’s DNA allows you to ‘speak’ to the artist|Dangerous Minds
In 2014, German-born artist Diemut Strebe launched an “ongoing project” called Sugababe.
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The secret to creating a creep-free dating app
It’s no secret that online dating (well, all dating) can be hard for everyone, but there are specific problems for women seeking men. Trying to find happiness and compatibility in a partner is hard enough, much less doing it without some jerk sendin…
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Hillary Clinton should have seen that Wall Street shot coming. Instead, she compounded the damage. The former secretary of state was off to a sound outing in Saturday night’s debate against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’…
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The terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, along with twin bombings in Beirut on the day before and the downing of a Russian jetliner over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct.
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Ireland legalizes same-sex marriage / Boing Boing
Eire we go, at last! The BBC reports that the Republic of Ireland will now permit same-sex couples to wed. It is not yet known when and where the first same-sex wedding will be held.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
It’s Monday, and we’re back in the saddle again. Stupid saddle! I hate you!
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Stock Up on Cheap PNY Flash Storage, Today Only on Amazon
Today only, Amazon’s offering huge savings on a ton of flash storage (and a few USB battery packs) from PNY.
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Republicans trust Ben Carson the most to handle nuclear weapons. | 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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John Oliver Responds to the Paris Attacks As No One Else Could | Vanity Fair
There’s no video available online yet of John Oliver’s perfectly profane rant in response to Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, but we think Last Week Tonight has been on long enough that you can imagine the tone for yourself.
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Stop Feeling Unnecessarily Guilty by Imagining a Rational Punishment
Guilt can paralyze us if we don’t know how to let go. A minor offense can haunt someone wracked with self-inflicted guilt for days. If you want to get over it, ask yourself how a rational person would punish what you did. In many cases, we punish ou…
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A beautiful card-magic tribute to Paris / Boing Boing
Kickstarting “From DeadDrop to SecureDrop” about Aaron Swartz’s last project Journalist/educator Lisa Rein is looking for $20,000 to complete a documentary called “From DeadDrop to SecureDrop,” which chronicles the development of the last technology…
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Angolan rapper Luaty Beirao accused of rebellion – BBC News
A rapper is among 17 activists who have gone on trial in Angola’s capital, Luanda, charged with plotting to oust the president.Luaty Beirao was among the group arrested in June, accused of preparing acts of rebellion and plotting against the preside…
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Eat Slowly And Breathe Smoothly To Enhance Taste – Scientific American
Ever lose your ability to taste during a cold, because your nose is stuffed up? That’s because the nose is intimately involved with taste. When you chew, volatile flavor compounds from the food get lofted toward the back of your mouth.
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Ray LaHood was President Obama’s first Secretary of Transportation. LaHood is a Republican. I thought he did a decent enough job, and certainly didn’t come off as anything resembling a teabagger. He left the administration a couple years back. Then …
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Governors Refuse To Accept Syrian Refugees After Paris Attacks | ThinkProgress
Two conservative governors are closing their states to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks, suggesting that terrorists would try to infiltrate their borders through refugee programs.
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The Dallas detective agency run by wrongly convicted men – video | News | The Guardian
A detective agency in Dallas, Texas, is being run by men who were wrongly convicted of crimes of which they were later cleared. One of them, Christopher Scott, confronts Alonso Hardy, who confessed to having committed the crime for which Scott was i…
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At least Turkey’s tragic politics gives material to comics artists / Boing Boing
Today, Firstsecond publishes Ozge Samanci’s Dare to Disappoint, a graphic novel memoir of growing up in Turkey. Ms Samanci has favored us with an essay describing the tumultuous relationship between Turkey’s authoritarian, thin-skinned president and…
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PSA: Yes, You Can Still Hack Your Wi-Fi Router Legally, Says FCC
A few months ago, the FCC announced rules that seemed like it might start restricting consumer Wi-Fi hacking. If that had you worried, rest easy. The FCC has altered its plan and you can modify your router firmware with no legal barriers whatsoever.
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The First Nuclear Reactor Lived Under Some Bleachers by a Football Field | Motherboard
On Nov. 16, 1942, engineers began work on the world’s first nuclear reactor, which was then known as an “atomic pile.
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Best Pumpkin Beer of 2015 – Gear Patrol
It’s no secret that we have been opposed to the idea of pumpkin beers. Between the seasonal creep — fall-branded items entering stores earlier and earlier — and the array of cloying pumpkin pie spices, they simply don’t share a room with what we wan…
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Political Polling a Year Before the Election Tends to Be Wrong – The Atlantic
In november 1975, one year before the obscure Georgia governor Jimmy Carter was elected president, the field of Democratic presidential aspirants was in chaos.
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Pluto Goes Psychedelic in Brilliant New Photo
Pluto’s the prettiest dwarf planet at the party in this new, brilliantly colored image recently released by NASA.
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Zombie Flowers: animation inspired by Darwin’s carnivorous plants / Boing Boing
Charles Darwin´s first impressions, when he first saw a carnivorous plant in 1875, were the inspiration for this 1-minute animated video by Francisco Sanchez de Cañete. I’m a spanish berlin based Art Director and 3D artist.
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The Federalist Society is the intellectual nexus of America’s conservative legal establishment.
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How much do you know about climate change? Take our quiz | Environment | The Guardian
1How certain is the UN’s Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change that humans are responsible for global warming?65%75%85%95%2Which is the world’s biggest producer and consumer of energy?the USChinaIndiathe European Union3How many degrees has the wo…
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Liquid With Holes In It Created – Scientific American
The combination of a rigid organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent has allowed researchers to produce liquids with permanent porosity.
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The Push To Make Teaching A More Attractive Job | ThinkProgress
Teachers are given the power to educate children from the ages of 3 to 18, to help kids grow socially, and to shape students’ perceptions of the world. Despite this level of responsibility, teachers aren’t treated with the same prestige as doctors, …
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Marco Rubio Uses Paris Attacks For Fundraising Pitch | ThinkProgress
The mass murder in Paris has left at least 129 people dead and hundreds suffering from injuries. The human toll prompted people across the globe to express sympathy and solidarity with the people of France. For Marco Rubio, it was also a fundraising…
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – A supermassive black hole in action
Scientists often use the combined power of multiple telescopes to reveal the secrets of the Universe – and this image is a prime example of when this technique is strikingly effective.
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Amazon picks Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies as its book of the year | Books | The Guardian
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, a novel about a marriage which has split reviewers, has been named the best book of the year by Amazon.com.
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Greetings from sunny Greece, where I am taking a few hours to chat with you about human genetics on reddit. My name is Nicholas Katsanis, but please call me Nico. I am a human geneticist, and the Director of the Center for Human Disease Modeling at …
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The Dangers of an Anti-Muslim Backlash – The Atlantic
My biggest concern that night was that the active shooters be stopped; that the wounded be saved; and that French security services mobilize to prevent any followup attacks.
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Ads could use ultrasound to secretly link your gadgets / Boing Boing
Researchers are warning that ads could play coded sounds outside the range of human hearing to secretly communicate with other gadgets within earshot.
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Sprawling? Pssht—no one streamlines everything from books to bots like Amazon | Ars Technica
On the surface, Amazon appears inefficient. In roughly two decades, the Seattle-based retailer has grown from an ambitious bookseller to a many-headed hydra with its necks extending in seemingly disparate directions.
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Uber Is Not the Future of Work – The Atlantic
The rise of Uber has convinced many pundits, economists, and policymakers that freelancing via digital platforms is becoming increasingly important to Americans’ livelihood.
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After every terrible tragedy in the West, we expect celebrities to weigh in. And they do, with comments insightful and heartfelt, appalling and boorish, perfunctory and banal. Often, the larger the public profile, the more self-serving the soundbite.
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This is where things get complicated. | 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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Deftones Left Eagles of Death Metal Paris Concert Just Before Shootings : Music
i will miss beimg able to take my camera in to smaller venues. Now, ppl will get frisked entering even tiny halls for gigs, here in europe… American here. Welcome to our world.
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Significant Digits For Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Ronda Rousey was knocked out for the first time in her UFC career, going down in the second round against underdog and the anti-Rousey Holly Holm. [Los …
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Apple’s Tim Cook: No-one Wants An iPad-Mac Hybrid | TechCrunch
Apple CEO Tim Cook has told the The Irish Independent he has no plans to converge Cupertino’s lovingly crafted iPad and Macbook hardware lines into a hybrid tablet-plus-laptop device — arguing that melding the two device types would undermine the us…
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Gauntlet arcade game ported to Atari VCS / Boing Boing
Gauntlet, Atari’s 1985 dungeon-looting arcade game, came long after the heyday of its successful home console. But CDS Games has managed to pack a playable version of the complex action RPG into the primitive Atari VCS. [via]
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Anonymous Has Declared War on ISIS in Revenge for the Paris Attacks – Imgur
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Bataclan attack survivor: ‘Stampede, screaming and gunfire’ – BBC News
Mariesha Payne, from Perth in Scotland, was at the Bataclan concert hall with a friend when it was attacked on Friday. They survived by running from the scene and hiding in a cellar for three hours. Now back in Scotland, Ms Payne spoke to the BBC’s …
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Somali refugees killed as forces clash in Mogadishu – BBC News
At least seven people have been killed in Mogadishu after rival Somali security forces argued over who was in charge, witnesses say. The security forces opened fire while people queued for food cards at a camp for internally displaced people.
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Spectre holds firm at top of US box office – BBC News
James Bond film Spectre has held on to the top spot at the North American box office in its second week of release. The 24th film in the 007 franchise, starring Daniel Craig, made $35.4m (£23.3m) between Friday and Sunday, according to estimates.
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Abbreviated pundit round-up: What now, after Paris?
Even before Friday’s outrage, some of Obama’s critics were calling for an escalation in U.S. military activity against Islamic State. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a presidential candidate, has proposed sending 10,000 troops to the region to fortify…
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First Click: Paris, How to be human, and a preview of the week ahead | The Verge
The world could use more Adele right now. Thankfully, 25 is set for release on Friday after the first single Hello went to number one across the world, becoming the first song ever to sell a million downloads in a single week.
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PARIS — On both sides of the Atlantic, the fast-moving investigation into the deadly Paris terrorist attacks steadily accumulated clues on Sunday: a car discovered in the Parisian suburbs with a cache of weapons. Mounting proof of links between the …
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Remembered.io Offers Smart Reminders to Keep You Inspired, Make or Break Habits
To-dos are easy to remember if you have an app with reminders. Principles, personal goals, things that motivate you, or reminders to help you build good habits (or break bad ones) are trickier, and not well handled by apps that just ping until you i…
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A Minnesota agency is investigating the shooting by a Minneapolis police officer of a black man suspected in an assault, an incident that sparked protests and prompted a community forum with the mayor and police chief.
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Deadly violence rocks Burundi’s capital – Al Jazeera English
At least four people have been killed in shooting attacks and explosions in the capital of Burundi, according to witnesses and local officials. The overnight attacks on Sunday in Bujumbura came despite a UN plea for both sides to end the violence an…
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Coal is not the solution to energy poverty, warn aid agencies | Environment | The Guardian
Coal power plants are not the solution to help billions of people without electricity or clean cooking facilities, aid agencies have warned.
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The only team capable of stopping the Patriots going 16-0 are … the Patriots | Sport | The Guardian
The Patriots narrowly escaped New Jersey with their perfect record intact.
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The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian Skip to main content Children’s books The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower – in pictures Illustrator and author PJ Lynch tells us the tale of how a bunch of English migrants boarded their…
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