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Garmin’s Vivosmart HR reviewed: Don’t buy a Fitbit before considering this band | Ars Technica
Garmin is serious. The most dedicated outdoorsmen and athletes look to its rugged products for tracking everything from laps in the pool to dangerous hikes in remote places.
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Mog’s Christmas resurrection shoots to No 1 | Books | The Guardian
Judith Kerr’s resurrection of her beloved cat Mog, 13 years after she was killed off in Goodbye Mog, has shot to the top of the UK book charts, beating names including David Walliams, Bill Bryson and Ian Rankin to the No 1 slot.
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As the world continues to absorb the full impact of the murders of hundreds of civilians by Islamic State attackers in Paris, officials on both sides of the Atlantic have renewed a discussion that many thought had been closed: whether or not to allo…
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The Good, the Bad, the Bewildering: 10 Countries’ Climate Pledges
When China and the United States agreed a year ago to scale back greenhouse gas emissions, they set the stage for this month’s international climate talks in Paris. But Paris is not just about these two powerhouses, even though they account for one-…
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Black Friday Is Dying, and That’s a Good Thing
Don’t get me wrong, there are some great deals to be had this time of year. But lining up in the cold to nab a cheap 55” TV? No longer necessary. Black Friday isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing.
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Oak Labs’ interactive fitting room feels like the future | The Verge
Though shopping is a major part of digital life, buying clothes online is still a somewhat fraught experience. Trying clothes on at the store is still an integral part of the shopping experience, because there’s no telling just how well one size wil…
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Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
One of three, this is part two of the amazing story of Hazel Wong who is originally from Hong Kong. Hazel’s life takes a dramatic turn when she flies to England to go to Deepdeen Boarding School for girls, where she meets a pretty and confident Engl…
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Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett review – a stunning debut | Books | The Guardian
Claire-Louise Bennett’s highly acclaimed debut, initially published in Ireland earlier this year, is a collection of 20 stories – the shortest of which runs to a couple of sentences.
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New SkyQ service to offer mix of live and on-demand TV – BBC News
Sky has launched a new service called SkyQ that blends live and on-demand TV as it tries to compete with the likes of Netflix. It will showcase Ultra HD 4K on the platform, which it described as its most significant product launch since HD and “a ne…
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Turns Out This Earth-Like Planet Is Probably Inhabitable | Motherboard
For a planet to thrive, it needs a pretty balanced relationship with its nearest star—think of Earth in relation to the Sun.
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BBC Sport – Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini appeals against bans rejected by Fifa
Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini have had their appeals against 90-day bans rejected by world football governing body’s appeal committee. They were suspended in October while Fifa’s ethics committee investigates corrupti…
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Oak Labs, With $4.1M In Seed, Launches A Smart Fitting Room Mirror | TechCrunch
Though the world of fashion is trying desperately to catch up to the digital age, retail is still fundamentally unchanged. Oak Labs is looking to shake things up with a smart mirror to be placed in the fitting room of clothing stores and boutiques. …
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Inside the XI: A community hard hit by Paris attacks – Al Jazeera English
Twenty-three-year-old Simon Moubarik stood silently during a short memorial for those who died on Friday. He said he was numb, but he didn’t cry. Like many of the young in this mourning city, he is traumatised, shocked and saddened by what happened.
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A compromise struck by the United States, Japan and several other major nations will restrict export financing to build coal power plants overseas, but not eliminate it completely.
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British survivors: ‘We’re incredibly lucky to be alive’ – BBC News
Two British survivors of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris say they feel “incredibly lucky to be alive” after escaping from gunmen at the Bataclan concert hall.
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Brett Brown is a good man. The 76ers must fire him to save him | Sport | The Guardian
Enough is enough. It’s time for the Philadelphia 76ers to fire Brett Brown. Since taking the job before the 2013-14 season, Brown is 37-138 at the helm of the Sixers, including 0-11 this year. It’s time. The Sixers must let him go.
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Adviser Tells NYT: Carson Hasn’t Picked Up ‘One Iota’ Of Foreign Policy Info (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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It’s been 10 years since Lee Scott, the then-CEO of Walmart, publicly set the giant retailer on a path towards sustainability.
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If you weren’t convinced the on-demand delivery space was piping hot right now, wrap your head around this.
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DJI’s flagship store doesn’t look like a great place to fly drones | The Verge
Chinese drone maker DJI is opening its first-ever retail outlet in Shenzen next month, but early renders of the flagship store are a bit disappointing.
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Barack Obama optimistic of reaching climate change deal at Paris summit | Environment | The Guardian
US president Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was optimistic an elusive deal to contain global warming could be forged at an upcoming crunch summit in Paris, and insisted an ambitious deal would boost a flagging world economy.
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Dozens Killed in Nigeria Bombing, and Facebook Has Decided It’s Important | VICE News
Facebook activated its “Safety Check” feature late on Tuesday following blasts in Nigeria that killed 32 people and injured 80 others, in an attack which bore the hallmarks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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An Australian court fined a Japanese whaling company 1 million Australian dollars ($700,000) on Wednesday for violating a court order that it stop hunting whales in an area off Antarctica. (bigstory.ap.org)
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Myanmar’s Bad Blood | New Republic
I met U Ba Myo Thein at 3:45 pm on election day, 15 minutes before polls closed in Myanmar’s first relatively free and fair election in over two decades. He was distracted.
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Can farms be good for nature without being organic? | Environment | The Guardian
Non-organic farmers can do much more to foster wild plants, butterflies and bugs without giving up on pesticides, according to new research, but organic farms still bring the largest benefits for wildlife. In the UK, 80 non-organic farms have signed…
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The Stealth Corporate Takeover of the Supreme Court | New Republic
In August 1971, a prominent corporate lawyer from Richmond, Virginia, named Lewis F. Powell Jr. authored a “Confidential Memorandum” to the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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U.S. politicians debate whether climate change fuels terrorism: An old feud rekindles in the wake of the Paris attack. (scientificamerican.com)
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Can ISIS Terrorists Really Infiltrate the Syrian Refugee Program? – The Atlantic
If you look solely at the U.S.’s long record of taking in refugees from countries torn apart by war, it’s hard to argue that national security should be a top concern in the debate over Syrian migrants.
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Ridley Scott reveals details of opening scene of Blade Runner sequel | Film | The Guardian
The original is set in a dusky, dystopian Los Angeles which never sees the sunlight, but Ridley Scott has revealed that the forthcoming sequel to the cult 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner will open on a remote farm in the Wyoming countryside, in a land…
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Strange but true: the weirdest places and creatures – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Have you ever seen gymnast goats, a rainbow-coloured river, or a weasel riding a woodpecker? Prepare to be amazed by your weird and wonderful planet as we dip into DK’s Strange But True
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Emma Stone to star in Silver Linings Playbook author’s latest | Film | The Guardian
Emma Stone is set to play the lead in Love May Fail, an adaptation of the novel by Matthew Quick. Quick is best known for writing Silver Linings Playbook, the film version of which won Jennifer Lawrence the Oscar for best actress.
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Nicaragua ex-cabinet chief Lacayo missing in air crash – BBC News
Police in Nicaragua are searching for a former cabinet chief after a helicopter crash which is confirmed to have killed three other people.
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Paris raids: Empty streets of Saint Denis – BBC News
Explosions and gunfire were heard in the suburb of Saint Denis in Paris on Wednesday morning. Armed police searching for suspects in Friday’s attacks raided a flat.
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Q&A: ‘Middle East’s most powerful army chasing 18 cows’ – Al Jazeera English
Talking-cows-turned-security-threats. That’s the short version of The Wanted 18, a documentary set in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, where a Palestinian community starts a dairy collective to help boycott – and provide – an alte…
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Paris restaurants defy terrorism in the most French way possible | The Verge
Paris is on edge once again today, after police launched a predawn raid against suspected terrorists involved in last week’s attacks. Two suspects have been killed and several others have been arrested, but for a few fleeting hours last night, it se…
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November 18, 1978: Nearly 1,000 Die at the People’s Temple in Jonestown | The Nation
A few weeks after the unprecedented mass-murder-suicide at Jonestown, in Guyana, The Nation’s Aryeh Neier wrote a remarkable piece in our pages meditating on the deeper implications of the event, not of the messianic leader but of the obedient follo…
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Weapons Companies’ Stocks Surge After Paris Attacks | Mother Jones
When the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday morning, less than three days after Islamic State terrorists attacked in Paris, five leading American weapons manufacturers saw their stock prices jump. Fox Business attributed the bump to a “reaction t…
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Bernie Sanders Hates the Media Just as Much as Republicans Do | Mother Jones
When Bernie Sanders was asked at a recent Democratic presidential forum to name his dream job, the Vermont senator didn’t hesitate. “President of CNN.” The South Carolina audience laughed—and so did his interrogator, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. But Sande…
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The Surprising Reason Why School Cafeterias Sell Chocolate Milk | Mother Jones
Ever wonder why school lunches are pushing sweetened milk? Or why fast-food restaurants suddenly offer concoctions like pizza with “40 percent more cheese”? You can thank the dairy checkoff, a USDA-supervised system under which dairy producers pay i…
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Leafs by Snoop and the Art of Marijuana Packaging – The Atlantic
Goodbye, plastic baggies: Snoop Dogg’s new line of marijuana products, Leafs by Snoop, looks like it’d be right at home amongst the artisanal chocolate bars at Whole Foods or the all-natural lotions at Kiehl’s.
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The Scary New Science That Shows Milk Is Bad For You | Mother Jones
Do Americans need so much milk? In 1951, Harvard University nutritionist Mark Hegsted wanted to find out.
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Why Bobby Jindal Exited the Presidential Race – The Atlantic
The future once looked so bright. Bobby Jindal was heralded as the future of the Republican Party. As an Ivy-League graduate and the son of immigrant parents, Jindal had impressive credentials and the potential to broaden the base of support for his…
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Was Jamar Clark Handcuffed When He Was Shot by Minneapolis Police? – The Atlantic
How did Jamar Clark end up with a bullet hole above his eye? The 24-year-old black man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer early Sunday morning under unclear circumstances. His family says he was taken off life support Monday, and died that eve…
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ESO’s VISTA survey telescope has spied a horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy.
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When Racial Divides Are Used as a Campaign Strategy – The Atlantic
In February 2000, George W. Bush’s presidential campaign was in peril heading into the South Carolina primary. John McCain had just scored an unexpected victory in New Hampshire, and his candidacy was picking up steam. The Bush campaign was fighting…
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Air strikes on IS stronghold of Raqqa ‘kill 33 militants’ – BBC News
Air strikes by France and other nations on the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Raqqa in Syria since Sunday have killed at least 33 militants, activists say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most died when checkpoints around the…
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Carmignac award retrospective – BBC News
A new exhibition, opening in London, will bring together work by all six winners of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in one space. Projects include Zimbabwe under Mugabe, the lives of people in the Chechen Republic and in Gaza, and the young midd…
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With just a month and a half left in 2015, it’s clear this year will be by far the hottest on record, easily beating the previous record set just last year.
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Report: India Set To Overtake U.S. To Become World’s Second Largest Internet Market | TechCrunch
The number of Internet users in India is tipped to surpass 400 million by the end of this year, making it the second largest online population in the world behind only China, according to a new report from the Internet and Mobile Association of Indi…
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Test IO, The App And Web ‘Crowdtesting’ Platform, Raises $5M And Expands To U.S. | TechCrunch
Berlin-based Test IO (formerly Testcloud), which offers a self-service ‘crowdtesting’ platform for app and web developers, has closed a $5 million Series A round from Turn/River Capital, the San Francisco-based VC. The new capital will be used to ac…
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Paris attacks: Saint Denis resident describes scene of police raid – BBC News
Armed police in Paris have raided a flat in Saint Denis. The focus of the operation is Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the Islamic State-claimed attacks that killed 129 people.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: 3D-printed alien
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: The Pelican Nebula in Gas Dust and Stars
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He finally posed for a picture : cats
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Nigeria’s Dasuki ‘stole $2bn’ from anti-Boko Haram fight – BBC News
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of his predecessor’s security adviser who allegedly stole more than $2bn ($1.31). Sambo Dasuki is accused of awarding phantom contacts to buy 12 helicopters, four fighter jets and ammunitio…
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Deaths, Arrests as Police Seek Paris Mastermind | Al Jazeera America
One man was also killed, police said, and five people arrested in the standoff, which began before dawn and continued hours later. One person remained holed up in the apartment. At least seven explosions were heard at the scene. The source of the bl…
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Burt Reynolds: I regret turning down Bond | Film | The Guardian
Burt Reynolds says he regrets turning down the role of James Bond in 1970.
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Muslim residents of French city fear backlash – Al Jazeera English
Few residents of Chartres knew Omar Ismail Mostefai. But they are sure he wasn’t radicalised in their midst.
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How to enable two-factor authentication on Amazon.com accounts | The Verge
When it comes to online security nothing is foolproof, but of all the safety measures available, two-factor authentication is one of the most straightforward and secure.
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Barack Obama criticises Republicans over Syrian refugees – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama says some of the language used by Republicans after the Paris attacks only serves to strengthen Islamic State. During a visit to the Philippines on Wednesday, the president criticises those who use the Paris attacks as a reason for the …
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10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency | naked capitalism
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Lethal amphibian disease killed off on island – BBC News
For the first time, researchers have eliminated a devastating amphibian fungal disease in a population of toads. The chytrid fungus is highly infectious and is responsible for devastating amphibian populations worldwide.
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Saudi policemen gunned down in country’s east – Al Jazeera English
Two Saudi policemen were shot dead on Wednesday after coming under fire in the country’s east, the Interior Ministry said. Wednesday’s pre-dawn attack happened near a farm in the Saihat area of Qatif, on the Gulf coast.
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Diego González Montero Justiniano – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diego González Montero Justiniano was interim Royal Governor of Chile twice, from February to May 1662 following the death of Pedro Porter Casanate and again from February to October 1670 succeeding the Diego Dávila, 1st Marquis of Navamorcuende unt…
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ISIL is out of Sinjar, but Yazidis are still fearful – Al Jazeera English
Sinjar, Iraq – Jedo Silo, 40, is back in his hometown of Sinjar for the first time since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the town from Kurdish forces last year.
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Michael Walzer, Revolutionologist | The Nation
Being anywhere on the left has always been a minority position in American society, but Michael Walzer has typically been cheerful about his place on the margin. He defines himself as a “connected” social critic in the mold of Albert Camus, George O…
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Nothing Remains Unchanged but the Clouds | The Nation
In 1921, the pioneering sexologist Charlotte Wolff described her young friend Walter Benjamin as a man with a face made for radio. “The rosy apple-cheeks of a child, the black curly hair and fine brow were appealing,” she wrote, “but there was somet…
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Illegally Mined Gold in Colombia Sold in U.S. | Al Jazeera America
In the department of Cauca in southern Colombia, newly constructed huts and fresh tracks made by heavy machinery indicate an old, abandoned mine is seeing new life.
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Senegal plans to ban full-face amid militant threat – BBC News
Senegal plans to ban women from wearing the full-face Islamic veil in public in an attempt to curb jihadi activity, the interior minister has said. The move should not be seen as anti-Islamic, as Senegal was a mainly Muslim state, Abdoulaye Daouda a…
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‘A very corporate Hillary Clinton’: 6 years on the Wal-Mart board of directors – “as a shareholder and director of our company, I’m always proud of Wal-Mart” (youtube.com)submitted 20 minutes ago by loading…
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National Book awards: how obscure can the judges go? | Books | The Guardian
The National Book award has been around since 1950, when it was founded by booksellers. They gave the first prize to Nelson Algren’s The Man With the Golden Arm, a book that has basically vanished into the mists of time, though it was adapted into a…
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Fences for Thee—But Not for Me – In These Times
In 1944, on February 26, in the forests clinging to the steep sides of the Ardèche Gorge in southern France, a motorised column of German soldiers encountered members of the resistance. The confrontation resulted in the death of one German.
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Kosovo police raid opposition MP Albin Kurti’s flat – BBC News
Police in Kosovo have tried to arrest opposition MP Albin Kurti, who has led a series of protests in parliament against agreements made with Serbia. Mr Kurti was not at home when masked police entered his flat in Pristina on Wednesday, reports said.
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More than half of the UK’s biggest restaurant chains are using seafood from overfished areas of the sea or failing to be transparent about the origins of their fish and shellfish, according to a new survey by a marine conservation charity.
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The Feminist Rebel Changing Comics – The Daily Beast
The cult of Kelly Sue DeConnick, the feminist force behind some of the most twisted, compelling stories being told in comics today, is especially passionate.
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Saudi Arabia policemen shot dead in mainly-Shia Qatif – BBC News
Two policemen have been shot dead in eastern Saudi Arabia, the country’s interior ministry says. Gunmen opened fire on the officers’ vehicle during a patrol in the Saihat area of Qatif overnight, a spokesman told the official Saudi Press Agency.
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Facebook activates ‘Safety Check’ after Nigeria attack – Al Jazeera English
Facebook activated its “Safety Check” feature in Nigeria after more than 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast at a market in the northeastern city of Yola. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social network, made the announcement in a pos…
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Italian priest attacked in Bangladesh – BBC News
An Italian priest has been wounded by unidentified gunmen in north-west Bangladesh. Police say the man, identified as Piero Parolari, works as a doctor in a hospital run by Christian missionaries.
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European Airbnb Hospitality Management Service Hostmaker Picks Up $2M Seed Round | TechCrunch
It hard to fathom that back in 2009 VCs were far from convinced that Airbnb was ever going to be a big enough business to pump venture into.
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How scientific miscalculations could crash the climate | Andrew Simms | Environment | The Guardian
Measurement can be simply a matter of getting things to fit– or a matter of life and death. By confusing different scales and units, a friend once nearly ordered a Venetian blind that would have been three metres wide and only three inches deep.
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Obama: GOP Scared of Syrian ‘Widows and Orphans’ — NYMag
After a handful of Republican governors declared they won’t accept Syrian refugees and some GOP presidential candidates suggested we should focus on helping Christians, President Obama was furious, calling their response a “betrayal of our values.” …
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Harvey Goldsmith: Ticket re-sale websites ‘a national disgrace’ – BBC News
Concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith has called secondary ticketing websites “a national disgrace”. He said tickets to U2’s recent London shows were advertised for up to £3,300 on resale sites, despite a face value of £182.
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Jonah Lomu: the World Cup that created a legend – BBC News
One of the great joys of covering rugby around the globe was the sight of Jonah Lomu charging through the 1995 World Cup.
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Bruce Forsyth recovering after surgery for aneurysm – BBC News
Sir Bruce Forsyth is back at home after undergoing successful keyhole surgery. The former Strictly Come Dancing host underwent a procedure on an abdominal aortic aneurysm last Thursday.
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Syria’s rebellious women – Al Jazeera English
The real surprise is that there should be any surprise. Watching the film series titled Syria’s Rebellious Women, it should be obvious that this is the case: that there are women actively involved in the war, on the ground.
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Seiko reissues Sigourney Weaver’s watch from Aliens | The Verge
Seiko is reissuing its Giugiaro 7A28-7000 watch, most famous for being on Sigourney Weaver’s wrist for much of the running time of Aliens.
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The sex drug for women that doesn’t really work, isn’t really selling | The Verge
The first-ever pill designed to boost women’s libido has had an anticlimactic launch.
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Amazon’s Black Friday sale begins early with cheap Kindles, 4K TVs, and game consoles | The Verge
Amazon’s Black Friday festivities began earlier this month, but it’s only now the internet retail giant is really ramping up the deals. Amazon has announced eight days of savings around the Thanksgiving holiday, starting on November 20th, and runnin…
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – 3D-printed part shown at TEDxESA
What might almost be an alien lifeform being shown by ESA materials specialist Tommaso Ghidini during his TEDxESA talk on 3D printing for space. In fact, what he termed a ‘bionic’ part is an example of a 3D-printed bracket for a satellite, designed …
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The Snow Sister by Emma Carroll – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This is a short story, one hundred pages, to be precise, set in Victorian times. It starts on Christmas Eve with the main character, a girl called Pearl, building a sister out of snow and wrapping it in her deceased sister’s shawl.
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The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained in 10 Minutes, in Two Illustrated Videos | Open Culture
As a lover of fantasy and science fiction, but by no means a know-it-all fanboy, I know what it’s like to come to a fictional universe late.
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Foodpanda Goes After Corporate Cash With New Delivery Service For Business Users | TechCrunch
Foodpanda, the food delivery on-demand service backed by Germany’s Rocket Internet, has ventured into the world of corporations after it introduced a dedicated service for business customers that it hopes will massively increase its income.
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UN condemns Thai deportation of Chinese refugees – Al Jazeera English
The United Nations has protested Thailand’s deportation of two registered refugees to China saying they should not have been sent back to a country “where their lives can be put in danger”.
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White House threatens to veto Senate bill that would nullify new carbon emission rules : environment
White House threatens to veto Senate bill that would nullify new carbon emission rules (rawstory.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Gawker.com, a site that pioneered the knowing, irreverent tone that has come to define web journalism, will switch from covering New York and the media world, as it has done since its founding in 2003, to focus on politics.
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Styletag, An Indian Fashion Site That Focuses On Emerging Designers, Scores $7.5M | TechCrunch
Styletag, a fashion flash sales site in India, has landed $7.5 million in angel funding from Jitu Virwani. Virwani is best known as the the chairman and managing director of Embassy Group, one of India’s largest real-estate companies (though the inv…
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Nigeria orders arrest of ex-adviser over $2bn arms deal – Al Jazeera English
Nigeria’s president has ordered the arrest of the former national security adviser for allegedly stealing more than $2bn meant to purchase weapons for the military to fight the armed group Boko Haram.
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Cate Blanchett: ‘I’m Not in Beirut, I’m Not in Paris… Those Are the Real Issues’ – The Daily Beast
It took six decades and 11 years of dedicated development to bring Patricia Highsmith’s novel Carol (or The Price of Salt) to the screen.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Jonah Lomu, considered one of New Zealand’s finest rugby union players of all time, has died at the age of 40.Former Wales captain Jonathan Davies says the death of New Zealand rugby union great Jonah L…
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Malaysian man held by militants in Philippines killed – BBC News
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Facebook he was “sickened” by the perpetrators of this “savage and barbaric act”. The Philippine military said it was working to verify reports that Bernard Then had been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf group.
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Senator Jacqui Lambie calls for Australia’s Grand Mufti to be tracked – BBC News
An Australian senator has said that refugees and the country’s top Muslim cleric should be fitted with electronic tracking devices. Jacqui Lambie, who is an independent senator, said in an interview with ABC Radio that stronger screening was needed …
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The new Toyota Prius isn’t just a good hybrid, it’s a good car | The Verge
Unless you’re an automotive battery technician, a Toyota shareholder, or an environmentalist who still needs to drive to work and can’t justify a Tesla, it’s always been hard to get really excited about the Prius.
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There are six quintillion gallons of water hiding in the Earth’s crust : environment
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There are six quintillion gallons of water hiding in the Earth’s crust – LA Times
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Malcolm Turnbull stays coy over Australian role in South China sea | Australia news | The Guardian
The prime minister is refusing to say whether Australia would participate with the United States in freedom-of-navigation exercises in the South China sea and says the US Congress remains the biggest impediment to landing the still contentious Trans…
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United Nations denies Ban Ki-Moon plans visit to North Korea – BBC News
The United Nations has denied reports that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to visit North Korea. China’s state media had earlier quoted North Korean sources as saying Mr Ban was due to visit Pyongyang this week. South’s Korea’s Yonhap news agency r…
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Muslims face ‘worsening environment of hate’ in UK – Al Jazeera English
London, United Kingdom – British government policies are fuelling a worsening “environment of hate” in which abuse, discrimination, and even the threat of violent assault have become the “normal experience and expectation” for Muslims living in the …
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In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone : environment
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In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone
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There’s also the tangential benefits of a healthy and, as a result, more productive workforce. Less downtime for workers, which results in more tax paid. You also won’t have as many people bankrupt by health care costs, so they can keep working and …
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Marcus Aurelius on Mortality and the Key to Living Fully | Brain Pickings
“The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.
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Nemesis by Misha Glenny review – king of the favelas | Books | The Guardian
Brazil has one of the most skewed distributions of wealth and income in South America, itself one of the world’s most economically unequal regions.
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Patti Smith asked in her marvelous meditation on time and transformation. Generations earlier, at the same moment in history when Virginia Woolf was busy contemplating the elasticity of time and Einstein and Gödel were redefining our understanding o…
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Hydra has been a presence throughout Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s third season, but it’s been a tangential one, with Ward and his evil organization distanced from the primary drama between S.H.I.E.L.D., the A.T.C.U., and the Inhumans.
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Paris attacks: Explosions and gunfire heard – BBC News
Explosions and gunfire have been heard in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis. Armed police raided a flat in an operation believed to be linked to Friday’s attacks.
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Russia’s priority is the survival of Assad’s regime – Al Jazeera English
As part of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, Russian forces under the leadership of Count Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov attacked the Syrian coastline and even briefly occupied Beirut. Russia’s goal was to support the local strongman Zahir al-Umar with…
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I wish I could adopt all of them. : cats
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Bad sex award 2015: the contenders in quotes | Books | The Guardian
List of the Lost by Morrissey At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of…
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Bakers rack loaf. Blanket baguette. Bonus fluff. : Catloaf
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People often talk of capitalism, and of plans to reform or replace it. But we seldom ask who are the capitalists, on whose behalf the system is supposedly run. If we did, the answer might surprise us.
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MRW I forget what brand of liquor my impatient buddy asked for. – GIF on Imgur
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Where is the fastest growing city in the world? | Cities | The Guardian
The fastest growing city in the world is Batam in Indonesia … or Niamey in Niger … or maybe Xiamen in China. It all depends on who you ask.
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Facebook Safety Check activated again after Nigeria bombing | The Verge
After activating its Safety Check tool in the aftermath of the Paris attacks last Friday, Facebook has deployed the feature for the second time in five days — this time for yesterday’s tragic bombing in Nigeria, believed to have been perpetrated by …
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Russian cruise missile flying over Syria : gifs
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Lighting Some Leaves On Fire : gifs
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Obama: Blocking Syrian refugees goes against US values – Al Jazeera English
Attempts to block the entry of Syrian refugees into United States are “offensive and contrary to American values”, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.
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Our ancient woodlands are being bulldozed | Patrick Barkham | Comment is free | The Guardian
Smithy Wood can be traced back to the 11th century. Long-eared and soprano pipistrelle bats fly among its oaks. Marsh tits, badgers and dingy skipper butterflies make their home in this ancient woodland, on green belt surrounding the famously tree-r…
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Google Lowers Minimum Price For Android Apps And In-App Purchases In 17 Countries | TechCrunch
Google has lowered the minimum cost of Android apps and in-app purchases in a range of emerging markets following a trial period in India earlier this summer. The price cuts are taking effect in 17 countries including Brazil, Vietnam, Russia, Indone…
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Death sentences for two Bangladesh leaders upheld – Al Jazeera English
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has upheld death sentences of two opposition leaders paving way for their execution.
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“Until the GOP looks like the rest of America – black, white, rich, poor, with earrings, without earrings, with tattoos, and without tattoos, working folks in our party thinking what we’re offering is the best for working class people – until that h…
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Ben Carson’s Church: We’re Glad He’s Not Here – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson doesn’t have a lot of time to go to Saturday services at the Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church anymore but his fellow Seventh-day Adventists are fine with the glare of the presidential race being far away.
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36 Years for a Murder He Didn’t Commit – The Daily Beast
With his murder conviction overturned after 36 years behind bars, Michael Ray Hanline is the longest-serving wrongfully convicted prisoner in California’s history. Charged with the 1978 murder of writer J.T.
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Rose McGowan’s Trans Diss to Caitlyn Jenner – The Daily Beast
Emerging as one of Hollywood’s most radical feminist voices, actress Rose McGowan lashed out at Caitlyn Jenner in a fulminating Facebook post on Monday, after Glamour magazine named her “Woman of the Year.
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Charlie Sheen’s HIV Confession Promotes Whorephobia – The Daily Beast
When Matt Lauer asked Charlie Sheen in Monday’s Today interview whether or not he felt the stigma of his HIV diagnosis, the actor responded, “Not anymore, I don’t.
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The Original Statue of Liberty Was Muslim – The Daily Beast
The Statue Liberty was originally conceived as a Muslim peasant woman and was to have stood at the approach to the Suez Canal, a lantern in her upraised hand serving as both lighthouse and a symbol of progress.
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Ted Cruz, the Syrian Muslim Hunter – The Daily Beast
But there’s one man who can sort it all out. A special dude from Texas, by way of Canada, who has the ability to decide which refugees are good and which are bad. And that person is Ted Cruz: The Muslim Hunter.
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You Can’t Kill Terrorism With Kindness or Aid That Comes With An Agenda – The Daily Beast
There is a school of thought, popular in the aid world, that you can kill terrorism with kindness.
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The original Hollywood film noir era petered out toward the end of the 1950s, or right around the time the cinephile directors of the French New Wave started riffing on it.
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Ted Cruz Demonized Arab Christians Before He Liked Them – The Daily Beast
Just over a year after giving Middle Eastern Christians advice that could have put them in danger, Sen. Ted Cruz has announced Syrian Christian refugees are not a threat and should be first in line to enter the U.S. And some of his old critics say t…
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Games are often left unfinished. Sometimes they’re too difficult, too vast, or too repetitive to see all the way through to the closing credits. To The Bitter End is Gameological’s look at those endings that are worth fighting for—or at least worth …
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With a new Star Wars movie set to come out seemingly every year for the rest of time, it may seem difficult to remember a time when fans had to fill in the gaps themselves.
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It’s a South Park satirical showdown · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, November 18. All times are Eastern. South Park (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.): Jimmy runs afoul of PC Principal, perhaps bringing the school administrator’s reign of repressive mandatory niceness to an e…
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Cold cucked · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
I’ve always been a big believer in the common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don’t have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfie…
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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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Marvel’s Jessica Jones announces its noir intentions from the get-go.
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Though Mr. Show would often impress their audience with intricate structure or joke deconstruction, but sometimes it just took a silly premise, ran with it to the end of the line, and then drove it straight into the ground all without losing the lau…
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After years of promising a “spiritual sequel” to his breakout film Dazed And Confused (and Boyhood, while he’s at it), Richard Linklater is finally ready to deliver.
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American Horror Story’s Very Sexy, Very Nude Breakout Star – The Daily Beast
Cheyenne Jackson is alive. At least it seems so. We think. Actually, he refuses to say. He’s outside at the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles, leaning against one of the buildings where he shoots his role as fashion mogul turned real estate tycoon Will…
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ALBANY, GA—Explaining that she felt relaxed and had a renewed sense of focus, local account manager Kayla Eggert told reporters Monday that she had returned to work from her recent vacation completely refreshed and ready to waste time.
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Another Online Bank Is Starting Up In China As Baidu Partners With CITIC | TechCrunch
BAT is a common acronym in China’s tech space for a reason. Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent are the three largest firms in the country, and each has its tentacles in a range of products and areas. Now, Baidu has entered the online banking space, becoming the …
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APOD: 2015 November 17 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas Dust and Stars
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed.
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Nikon announces that the D5 pro camera will follow the D4 | The Verge
Nikon’s fast-shooting D4 DSLR has been a ubiquitous sight among pro photographers at just about any sporting event ever since it launched in early 2012.
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Reports of gun fire, possible explosions near Saint-Denis area of Paris, France : worldnews
Reports of gun fire, possible explosions near Saint-Denis area of Paris, France (cbs12.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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BRUSSELS — When the family of Abdelhamid Abaaoud received word from Syria last fall that he had been killed fighting for the Islamic State, it rejoiced at what it took to be excellent news about a wayward son it had come to despise.
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USA: ‘That’s Not American. That’s Not Who We Are’ – Obama (politicoscope.com)
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This is a True friendship. : gifs
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Australian police search for men on park-bench vehicles – BBC News
Australian police are looking to identify a group of men filmed riding motorised park benches on public roads in Perth. Footage of the nine men casually rolling through an intersection in Scarborough on Sunday has gone viral.
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250 pounds of silly putty : pics
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It’s rare you learn so much about the id of a showrunner at every turn as you do with Ryan Murphy.
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French Police Raid Underway in Paris Suburb | Al Jazeera America
The police official said there have been exchanges of gunfire and special SWAT teams are on the scene. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy, according to The Associated Press.
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Paris attacks: Security flaws and challenges highlighted – BBC News
The aftermath of every terrorist attack leaves the question: what could be done to prevent it happening again? Already, a number of intelligence failures and security challenges have been identified in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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How two Polish doctors saved 8,000 people from the Nazis by faking an epidemic / Boing Boing
In 1939, as Germany was invading Poland, two doctors found a unique way to save their countrymen. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll learn about their clever plan, which ultimately saved 8,000 people from the Nazi labor and …
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Pastoral flushes and streaming colour | Environment | The Guardian
Towards Halwinnick Butts a flock of starlings courses low across drab fields; hedgerow trees are leafless although clusters of keys hang on the ash. Ahead, the mast on Caradon Hill overlooking this pastoral land is part obscured by cloud but in the …
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Gunfire in Paris Suburb During Police Raid — NYMag
Shots broke out early on Wednesday morning during an anti-terrorist operation in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis. Police sources say the operation began around 4:30 a.m. local time, and suspects are now exchanging gunfire with policy from a…
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McDonald’s criticised for China heritage site outlet – BBC News
The opening of a McDonald’s outlet in the home of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo in Hangzhou, China has sparked a controversy. Conservationists had called for the villa, a cultural heritage site, to be converted into a museum.
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Ike’s Advice: How to Avoid a Multiplicity of Fears – The New Yorker
Bernie Sanders was eleven years old when Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the war against Nazi Germany, won the Presidency in 1952.
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Dean learned a very important lesson in “Buckingham Malice”: how to order his own lattes. As it stands right now, there are two kinds of Grinder episodes: the ones that use Dean’s celebrity as the joke that fuels the A-plot, and the ones that use le…
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Bad James Bond expert Pierce Brosnan wasn’t a fan of Spectre · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Pierce Brosnan—an actor whose experience with bad James Bond movies runs several films deep, give or take a Goldeneye or two—has some thoughts about Spectre, the latest film in the long-running, variably lauded spy franchise.
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At least one policeman has been injured in a shootout with alleged terrorism suspects in Paris, during a pre-dawn police raid in the northern suburb of St-Denis. The nature of the injuries are not known, and French police would confirm only that an …
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Across a ten-episode first season, The Bastard Executioner has positioned itself as many different shows. At times it has been nothing but a showcase for morbid violence, while at others a straightforward love story.
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Iraqi-Kurdish leader says Paris attacks a ‘wake-up call’ – BBC News
The head of intelligence and security in Iraqi Kurdistan has said he hopes last Friday’s attacks in Paris will act as a wake-up call to Western powers. Masrour Barzani told the BBC that the Islamic State group (IS) could be defeated within months if…
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I wrote last week about rising life expectancy: Children born today will most likely live on average to their late 80s, well above the current average life expectancy of 79. You probably think of this as good news, and from most perspectives, it is.
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Photomicrograph Image, Aperol – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Ola, The Company Beating Uber In India, Lands $500M In Fresh Investment | TechCrunch
Ola, the Uber rival that is leading the taxi app market in India, has refueled its tank after taking on another $500 million in funding.
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Obama focuses on South China Sea dispute ahead of Apec – BBC News
US President Barack Obama has put a firm focus on the South China Sea dispute, as an economic summit of Asia Pacific nations begins in Manila.
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The turbocharged Fiat 124 Spider (that’s still sort of Miata) is here | The Verge
If you’ve had your eye on Mazda’s excellent MX-5 convertible, but you wish it had an wonderful and tiny turbocharged engine in it — or you wish it was a bit more Italian — then Fiat has the car for you. It’s the oft-rumored Fiat 124 Spider, a new ca…
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Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Face Discrimination | Al Jazeera America
Karim, an Afghan refugee, lives in fear of the day when he runs out of money to bribe Pakistan’s police. Then, “they will kill me,” he told Human Rights Watch in a report released Wednesday detailing alleged police abuses against Afghan refugees in …
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‘Heavy shooting’ heard north of Paris – BBC News
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Goodbox Gets $2.5M To Bring India’s Small Brick-And-Mortar Stores Online | TechCrunch
Goodbox’s co-founders Charan Shetty, Abey Zachariah, Nithin Chandra, Mahesh Herle (top row, left to right); Mohit Maheshwari, Anand Kelaginamani, Mayank Bidawatka (bottom row, left ot right).
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New York seeks injunction to shut down DraftKings and FanDuel immediately | US news | The Guardian
New York state’s top prosecutor has filed for a temporary injunction that would shut down the fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel in the state – the latest blow to a multibillion-dollar industry that has been criticised as a form of unre…
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Two U.S.-Paris Flights Diverted Due to Threats — NYMag
Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris were diverted on Tuesday night due to anonymous threats. Both planes have landed safely.
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Notable Beers of the Month – The Atlantic
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If the past few episodes have been iZombie on high gear, “Abra Cadaver” is the show shifting slightly downward and taking a few needed, oxygen-rich breaths to recharge.
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Another day, another development in the wild world of daily fantasy sports. While DraftKings and FanDuel await their day in court next Wednesday, the NY Times has reported that Eric T.
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Shots reported in Paris’ northern Saint-Denis area – Al Jazeera English
How Massimo Banzi’s Arduino microcontroller enabled thousands of people to build everything from toys to drones. The head of the IMF warns that Gulf countries are headed for a crisis unless they cut expenses or raise taxes.
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The Turnbull government is pushing ahead with Tony Abbott’s controversial “lawfare’ changes to remove the legal standing of conservation groups to mount environmental court cases, with a Senate committee dominated by Coalition members recommending t…
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After spending the first several episodes playing the will-they-or-won’t-they game all sitcoms have been required to follow since the Malone-Chambers Act was passed in 1983, last week Grandfathered finally set Gerald and Vanessa onto their own respe…
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FAA: Two Air France US to Paris Flights Diverted | Al Jazeera America
Two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted on Tuesday because of security issues, and passengers and crew were safely removed, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some’ to Open SXSW | Rolling Stone
Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some’ to Open SXSW Director has called new film a “spiritual sequel” to ‘Dazed and Confused,’ and a continuation of ‘Boyhood’
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Open thread for night owls: Another $1.29 billion deal to re-arm human rights abusing Saudi Arabia
The Pentagon announced on Monday that the U.S. has approved a $1.29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, despite widespread mounting evidence of the country’s mass atrocities and possible war crimes in neighboring Yemen. The U.S.
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The $40 Billion Snake Oil Industry – The Daily Beast
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ben Mizer took the podium Tuesday to announce a multi-faceted approach to “stem the tide of unlawful dietary supplements” in the U.S.—one that’s motivated by a spate of lawsuits and severe illness resultin…
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MY older son, Matthew Ornstein, died at age 34 on Jan. 3 from carbon monoxide poisoning. It was accidental — he fell asleep in a tent with a propane lantern — but his death was shaped by a lack of judgment driven by a 10-year struggle with mental il…
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Air France jets in emergency landings in US and Canada – Al Jazeera English
Two Paris-bound Air France passenger jets, flying over the United States and Canada, have been diverted because of unspecified threats, media reports say. One of the jets carried out an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after it took off from Los …
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I’ll take: “Things you probably shouldn’t do but it’ll look really cool for 100, Bob” – GIF on Imgur
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Listen, Nerds, David Ortiz Is a Hall of Famer – The Daily Beast
In 1923, Helen Collins was born Helen Beaulieu, a firecracking, sidewalk caricature of a Departed extra on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Five years before, the Red Sox had won their last championship, then traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees a year …
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Feds crack down on supplement industry, go after deceptive products | Ars Technica
Federal agents are pumped to do a little supplemental cleaning.
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Notre Dame Continues To Hold On To A Playoff Spot — But For How Long? | FiveThirtyEight
Same old, same old. The college football playoff committee had it easy this week. After a week of games where all their top teams won, they didn’t have to shake things up in their rankings much. The top five remain the same: Clemson, Alabama, Ohio S…
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Ben Carson has a foreign policy ‘learning curve’, adviser says | US news | The Guardian
The top adviser to Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson conceded that the candidate is on a “learning curve” when it comes to foreign policy, after a week of repeated stumbles by Carson on foreign affairs. “Dr Carson learns.
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Father figures are everywhere on this season of The Flash. A few episodes back, Captain Cold confronted his daddy issues. Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, Joe is destined to learn he has a son he never knew about.
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Obama: GOP foment Syria Refugees ‘Needs to Stop’ | Al Jazeera America
Mocking GOP leaders for thinking they’re tough, Obama said overblown rhetoric from Republicans could be a potent recruitment tool for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He insisted the U.S. process for screening refugees for possible entry…
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Cocoon Innovations Graphite 15″ Backpack | Digg Store
It’s simple. You need your laptop. Your laptop needs wires, headphones, chargers, USB cords, and all its accessories. Finally there’s a comfortable, efficient, and stylish backpack that kept your tech reality in mind.
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Hidden in a Suitcase by Michele Leavitt – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
In search of the mother who gave her up for adoption, the author finds six siblings instead. Decades later, she contemplates the drug addiction that cost many of them their lives. Illustration by Ansellia Kulikku.
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Cab medallion owners sue NYC, blame Uber for ruining business | Ars Technica
Owners of New York City’s taxi “medallions” filed a lawsuit (PDF) against city regulators today, saying their business has been devastated by the decision to allow companies like Uber to compete using “E-hail” services.
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Paris attacks: The crisis of Europe’s borders – BBC News
Europe’s open borders were already under strain from the refugee crisis. After the attacks in Paris there are increasing doubts about whether they can survive without being reinforced.
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The Universe –“Could Harbor Other Dimensions that are Too Small to Detect”
Scientists must reconcile the fundamental components of reality if humankind is ever to comprehend the cosmos. Clifford Johnson, professor of physics and astronomy at USC Dornsife, explains how the universe could hold extra, hidden dimensions.
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An Australian court has found a Japanese whaling company guilty of “wilful contempt” of court for breaching an order to stop killing whales, and has fined it $1m.
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“33” · Manhattan · TV Review Manhattan tickles the dragon’s tail · TV Club · The A.V. Club
Tickling the dragon’s tail sounds like a fun game. The dragon in this case is a ball of radioactive plutonium that’s naturally decaying.
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Microsoft publishes sci-fi anthology inspired by quantum computing and Skype | The Verge
Earlier this year, Microsoft invited a group of science fiction writers into its research department, giving them unfettered access to its people and resources with the purpose of inspiring a collection of short stories.
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Where are all the climate change songs? – BBC News
Musicians have written exhilarating protest songs about everything from civil rights to apartheid. Yet no-one’s managed a popular song about what’s meant to be the most important issue of our time. Music writer Alex Marshall asks why.
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Learn coding with Minecraft? It’s not just for kids / Offworld
The developers of Minecraft have created a new tool designed to teach coding to kids—but it has a lot to offer grown-up newbies, too. By now you’ve heard the entire world would be saved if only everyone learned to code.
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RK Narayan: Restoring the home of one India’s most beloved writers – BBC News
The home of one of India’s most beloved English-language authors RK Narayan is set to be restored by local authorities. From what is now a dilapidated shell in Mysore, Himanshu Bhagat tells the story of the battle over the future of the property.
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Missy Elliott Talks Nerves, Super Bowl and Making ‘WTF’ With Pharrell | Rolling Stone
Missy Elliott said she was cleaning her house, days after performing with Katy Perry at the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show, when Pharrell called and urged her again to join him in the studio. “Who turns down Pharrell?” the rapper said in a new interv…
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Are we winning the fight against HIV? – BBC News
Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has confirmed he is living with HIV in a US television interview. The development of new drugs means the diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, but are we winning the global fight against HIV? More than 1.
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The real story behind the boy in the Barbie commercial – BBC News
Toy company Mattel recently collaborated with fashion house Moschino to create a limited-edition Barbie. Mattel was praised for challenging stereotypes with a new ad featuring a little boy playing with the doll, but the company calls the ad a “fauxm…
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Inside ISIS’ Torture Brigades – 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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Badass Historical Chemists: The Woman Behind Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier is deservedly considered one of the great chemists in history. We might not know of his experiments if it weren’t for his wife. She became a remarkable, if unconventional, chemist herself and had one of the weirder lives in history.
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Jackie Biskupski elected as Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor | US news | The Guardian
The former Utah state lawmaker Jackie Biskupski has become the first openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City – capital of the conservative state where the Mormon church and a small town judge delivered setbacks last week to the LGBT community.
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Women of Africa: Deaf-blind lawyer on typing to Obama – BBC News
Haben Girma was the first deaf-blind student to graduate from Harvard Law School. Today the Eritrean-American fights for better education for deaf-blind people worldwide. Ms Girma was born in California after her mother fled Eritrea in the early 198…
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MRW I’m waiting to murder someone in their shower but I can’t find my knife – GIF on Imgur
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USA misfire in humid Trinidad but claim useful point on road to Russia | Football | The Guardian
A 0-0 draw that left both teams top of their World Cup qualifying group before the winter break could probably be regarded as a solid point, especially for the visiting team.
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South African mother’s baby swap anguish – BBC News
A South African court has ruled that two children swapped at birth will remain with the families who raised them. The parents involved cannot be named to protect their children’s identities. The BBC’s Pumza Fihlani spoke to one of the mothers about …
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Lord Of The Rings writer to script Disney’s live-action Merlin movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Branching out into the wider world of wizard beards and the wizards who wield them, Lord Of The Rings writer Philippa Boyens has signed on to script Disney’s new live-action Merlin film.
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The Tomb Raider (movie) reboot digs up a director · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After killing a number of dinosaurs and evil treasure hunters, MGM and Warner Bros. have finally uncovered an ancient temple that contains an important piece for their reboot of the Tomb Raider movie series: a director.
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Dozens Killed in Nigeria Market Bombing | Al Jazeera America
The explosion occurred at a fruit and vegetable market beside a main road in the Jimeta area of Adamawa’s state capital about 8 p.m. Tuesday night. The area, which also houses a livestock market, was crowded with shoppers.
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UK’s coal plants ‘to be phased out within 10 years’ – BBC News
The UK’s remaining coal-fired power stations will be shut by 2025 at the latest, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd is expected to say later. Unveiling the government’s new energy strategy, Ms Rudd will say that relying on “polluting” coal is “perverse”.
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Why Did Putin Wait So Long to Blame ISIS for Jet Crash? – The Daily Beast
MOSCOW — It took Russian security agencies almost two weeks to find what they say is clear evidence of an ISIS bomb aboard Metrojet flight 9268, which crashed on Oct. 31 and killed all 224 passengers.
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Inside ISIS’ Torture Brigades – 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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Or maybe it is? The premise of chopping the top off of the popular Evoque crossover took a certain amount of audacity on Land Rover’s part — and the impacts of its efforts are delightfully polarizing, as I learned when I saw it up close ahead of the…
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Three months ago, Brooklyn-based DJ Mick Batyske and his wife gave birth to their first child, a son they named Myles.
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If the Paris attackers weren’t using crypto, the next ones will, and so should you / Boing Boing
Lots of law enforcement agencies hate crypto, because the technology that helps us protect our communications from criminals and griefers and stalkers and spies also helps criminals keep secrets from cops.
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Machine Learning Versus Machine Discovery | TechCrunch
Machine learning is hot. Where it applies, it heatedly enables data-rich and knowledge-lean automation of valuable tasks of perception, classification and numeric prediction. Its sibling, machine discovery, deals with uncovering new knowledge that e…
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The Weeknd, Florence and the Machine, Calvin Harris Top Hangout Lineup | Rolling Stone
The Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama fired the opening salvo of the 2016 festival season, announcing a stacked lineup featuring the Weeknd, Florence and the Machine and Calvin Harris as headliners.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales apologises for lesbian jibe – BBC News
Bolivian President Evo Morales has apologised for joking about the possibility of Health Minister Ariana Campero being a lesbian. He said he had no intention of offending anyone and respected sexual diversity.
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Paris tributes after the attacks – 360-degree video – BBC News
At the Place de la Republique people hug, cry, lay flowers and a few sing the national anthem. The site is close to the Petit Cambodge restaurant and Le Carillon bar where gun attacks occurred last Friday.
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Four killed as out-of-control bushfires burn in Australia – BBC News
Four people have been killed and there are fears for two others caught in bushfires in Western Australia. Hundreds of firefighters are battling major blazes that were reportedly sparked by lightning over the weekend.
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Ben Carson Admits He Needs To Learn Foreign Policy – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson admitted he has a lot to learn about foreign policy during an interview with “PBS Newshour” on Tuesday night.
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The Rustic Reclaimed Wood Workspace
A large L-shaped desk, propped up by what looks to be a massive tree branch. It’s perfect for a nautral, rustic-looking workspace for two. We don’t have a lot of details on this apparently DIYed desk on life1nmot1on, just photos and inspiration (fil…
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At Vassar College, A conservative smear campaign unlawfully recorded our Administrator on a hidden camera. Here was my response. (huffingtonpost.com) I don’t like anything videotaping, recording people without their knowledge.
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Enceladus and Dione Look Stunning In the Latest Cassini Image
Is anything more striking than this family portrait of Dione and Enceladus? The two Saturnian moons are night and day when you put them side by side, and yet they’re made from the exact same material. Both moons are largely ice, with a dense, rocky …
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We Almost Got An Incredibly Different Version Of Jessica Jones
This Friday, the second phase of Marvel’s four-series deal with Netflix begins with Jessica Jones. But if original plans went ahead, we might have seen a very different version of the show. First of all, we would’ve seen it four years ago—on ABC its…
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New York taxi owners are suing the city for letting Uber destroy their business | The Verge
New York City taxi owners and credit unions are suing the city and its Taxi and Limousine Commission for letting Uber expand despite the harm it has caused their business.
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Why Bobby Jindal’s Candidacy Failed | FiveThirtyEight
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday evening became the third governor (current or former) to drop out of the Republican primary race for president. It’s not exactly surprising; he had raised little money and never went very far in the polls.
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Bees and pesticides ‘missing link’ found – BBC News
Scientists say they have found the “missing link” in the debate over the risk of pesticides to bees. French researchers say neonicotinoid pesticides harm individual honeybees, but whole colonies are able to recover in the wild.
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Taxi owners sue New York City as Uber ‘eviscerates’ their industry | Technology | The Guardian
New York taxi owners and the lenders behind some of them are suing New York City and its Taxi and Limousine Commission, saying the proliferation of Uber is destroying their businesses and threatening their livelihoods.
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There are a few films so important to humanity that they practically define our entire culture.
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Twitter Has Censored Gory Images of the Paris Attacks | Mother Jones
Over the past three days, Twitter has been preventing its users in France from viewing certain images and keywords related to the Paris attacks.
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Christmas controversies are off to an early start this year. The plain red cup from Starbucks. The not-plain cup from Dunkin’ Donuts. A sweater at Target that reads “OCD Obsessive Christmas Disorder.” And then there’s the Bloomingdale’s ad that sugg…
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Overstock.com Has $10 Million In Gold And Silver Hidden Somewhere In Utah – BuzzFeed News
Overstock is best known for selling discount merchandise online, but the company has another trick up its sleeve: It has hoarded food, cash, and digital currencies in preparation for a disaster scenario that could cripple lesser online retailers.
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Adele Clears Up That Beyoncé Duet Rumor | Vanity Fair
In anticipation of Adele’s new album, out this Friday, the 27-year-old Grammy and Oscar-winning songstress has been making the media rounds, teasing singles like “Hello” and “When We Were Young”, details about her personal life, and confessions abou…
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Google refuses to give up on Google+ – BBC News
Despite being the butt of social media jokes for a while now, Google+ isn’t going anywhere – it has just been given a revamp. The “new” site will now focus on “collections” and “communities” – making it more an interest-network than a personal one.
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Over 100,000 women in Texas have tried to give themselves an abortion, study finds / Boing Boing
Hundreds of thousands of women in Texas women may have tried to self-induce abortions, according to a “first of its kind” study from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP).
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Jindal suspends presidential campaign : politics
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Jindal suspends presidential campaign: ‘This is not my time’ – The Washington Post
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What It Would Take to Send Marco Rubio to Space – The Atlantic
This could be you, Marco.
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France’s state of emergency laws explained in 90 seconds – BBC News
France has announced it will extend its state of emergency, following the attacks in Paris, by three months. The laws being applied date from the Algerian war of independence in the 1950s.
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After three movies and over $2 billion in box office, the Hunger Games series comes to a drawn-out end in the dour Mockingjay Part 2.
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Bobby Jindal Quits 2016 Race, Accurately Blames Policy Papers | Vanity Fair
On Tuesday night’s edition of Special Report With Bret Baier, Louisiana Governor and G.O.P. presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal looked the Fox News host in the eye and told him what nearly all of the American electorate already knew to be true.
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A Third Season of True Detective Is Still Possible
We loved True Detective season one. We wanted to like season two, but creator Nic Pizzolatto had trouble keeping the anthology series’ magic alive in a new setting with new characters.
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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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New Zealand rugby union great Jonah Lomu has died aged 40.
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How many laws did Oregon break by spying on #BlackLivesMatter?
So, exactly how many laws did Oregon’s justice department break by scouring Twitter for folks who used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag? At the moment it looks like two.
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A New York man who spent a month in jail after Pennsylvania state police mistook homemade soap he was traveling with for cocaine has filed a lawsuit. Alexander J.
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Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say : politics
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White House Delays Release of Plan to Close Gitmo | Al Jazeera America
White House delays release of plan to close Guantanamo, official says https://t.co/BrEC3AUE70 via Al Jazeera America
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This is Frank, and he loafs : Catloaf
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Lyft’s $1B Gross Run Rate In Context | TechCrunch
Today Lyft’s president John Zimmer announced that the ridesharing company reached an annualized gross revenue run rate of $1 billion in October. The figure likely does not represent Lyft’s cut of the value of rides that flow through its system.
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Supergirl Is Straight-Up a Show about Women Tearing Each Other Down
When Supergirl isn’t being a show about competing with the absentee Superman (whose dreamlike cameos represent a vision of iconic heroism that is so unseeable that can only be seen via abstraction, or synecdoche), it seems to be a show about women w…
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Jindal Says He Is Dropping Out of 2016 Race | Al Jazeera America
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he is dropping out of 2016 race for president, ending a campaign that failed to gain much support among Republicans.
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Carnage returns to Nigeria as Boko Haram terrorist attack kills 30, wounds 80 or more / Boing Boing
An overnight blast blamed on the Islamic extremist terror organization Boko Haram killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday at a truck stop in northeastern Nigeria.
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A New York psychic has pleaded guilty to defrauding a British man, who paid her more than $500,000, by conning him into believing she could reunite him with his dead girlfriend.
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Must the show go on? After Friday’s terrorist massacre in Paris, as often happens after violent tragedies, a few shows didn’t.
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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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Are The Patriots More Likely To Go Undefeated Than Lose In The Playoffs? | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Nov.
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TiVo’s CEO steps down as the TV industry evolves without it | The Verge
TiVo, the company that brought us the DVR and not much else, has announced that its CEO Tom Rogers will step down from the position he’s held for 11 years in January.
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Zayn Malik’s Next Direction | The FADER
Zayn Malik’s Next Direction As part of one of the world’s biggest bands, Zayn Malik’s reality was shaped by other people’s fantasies. Now, in his first major interview since quitting, he explains why he left and who he is now.
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Disney Wants To Turn The Merlin Saga Into Their Next Big Fantasy Movie
Big-ticket Fantasy has had a rough go of late at the box office—but it looks like Disney wants to get behind the genre in a big way: They’ve tasked Lord of the Rings screenwriter Philipa Boyen to write a Merlin movie…
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Senate intelligence chair: visa waiver programme worse threat than refugees | US news | The Guardian
Terrorists traveling from Europe without a visa pose a bigger threat to US security than refugees from Syria, according to the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee.
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Fall Foundations | Vanity Fair
This fall, create flawless skin with this roundup of foundations that are lightweight and provide excellent coverage. None of the below will steer you wrong but will give you an even-toned, glowing look instead. Give them a try! 1) Eve Lom Sheer Rad…
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Keep a Touch Up Paintbrush Fresh Overnight With a Can and Latex Glove
Sometimes a big painting project will take you more than a few sessions to complete. You can keep a brush and a little touch up paint fresh in between sessions with this handy trick.
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Why Female Vampire Bats Donate Blood to Friends
Female vampire bats donate blood to friends to ensure their survival down the road—suggesting the animals’ social lives are much more sophisticated than we thought, a new study says. The findings shed further light on the often maligned species, whi…
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New York Attorney General is waging war against DraftKings and FanDuel | The Verge
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed an injunction today against daily fantasy sport sites DraftKings and FanDuel, alleging they constitute online sports wagering and are therefore illegal under state law.
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Assad Could Benefit From Paris Attack Response | Al Jazeera America
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Colbert’s ‘Fuck You’ To ISIS Was The Amazing Acro-Cats – Digg
23 diggs Late Night Animals TV It’s been a long-held belief that terrorism triumphs when fear replaces joy, and what could be more frivolous and joyful than cats who barely give a damn about performing tricks they’ve been trained to do? PR
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America’s exceptional exclusionism
There is much to say about the recent events in Syria, Beirut, and Paris, but, closer to home the news, that more than half of the governors of US states say they would refuse to help Syrian refugees seems like a new low in good old fashioned Americ…
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Rosanne Cash on Paris: ‘We Have to Book the Bataclan This Year’ | Rolling Stone
Concert calendars throughout Europe continue to shift this week, while musicians and booking agents struggle with major security concerns raised by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.
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Zayn Malik on One Direction: ‘That’s Not Music I Would Listen To’ | Rolling Stone
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik has given his first interview as a solo artist, discusses his new music and reasons for quitting One Direction at length.
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Kasich: ‘Reasonable’ to ‘Pause’ Resettlement Of Syrian Refugees : NPR
Thirty governors have now asked for the resettlement of Syrian refugees into their states to be stopped amid security concerns. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, was among those who joined the early call in the wake of…
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Bobby Jindal drops his campaign for US president – BBC News
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has dropped out of the race for the US presidency after struggling for months to gain traction amid sprawling field of Republican candidates.
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It’s not a converted industrial warehouse in Brooklyn. Or a stately, century-old building in the Flatiron.
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DJI is updating its drones so they won’t fly in restricted airspace | The Verge
Today, drone-maker DJI announced that it will begin offering a new “geofencing” safety system that the company says will better keep drones out of restricted areas.
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Author Amanda Lohrey returns as editor of the annual Best Australian Stories anthology, a diverse collection from 20 contemporary Australian writers.
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Pinback’s Rob Crow isn’t actually quitting music · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Back in March, Pinback frontman Rob Crow announced that he was quitting music, explaining that the business was “financially irresponsible to [his] family” and “ultimately humiliating to [his] psyche.
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After Paris Attacks, French Muslims Experience Backlash : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to French Muslims to get their reaction to the Paris terror attacks and to hear how non-Muslims have been reacting to them.
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Once A Hard Sell, Wal-Mart’s Patti LaBelle Pies Fly Off Shelves : The Salt : NPR
Earlier this year, singer and cookbook author Patti LaBelle teamed up with Wal-Mart to make a sweet potato pie. It costs $3.48, it’s got her face on the box, and sales were just OK when it came out in September.
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MST3K Has Found the Perfect Formula for Reviving a Beloved Series
Whenever a beloved project like Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns to life, there’s always the danger that it’s going to be a pale simulacrum of the original. Or so awful that it tarnishes the original version.
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HBO doesn’t know what to do with True Detective either · Newswire · The A.V. Club
HBO has renewed its ongoing deal with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, ensuring that the writer and executive producer will stay on with the premium network until 2018.
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Jindal drops out of White House race | TheHill
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Tuesday announced he is suspending his campaign for the White House. He never appeared in a main stage GOP presidential debate based on his low polling numbers, which often have registered at or below 1 percent.
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Bobby Jindal suspends his presidential campaign
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday said he was ending his presidential bid, saying “this is not my time.” Jindal is expected to return to a quiet life of filming his children and wondering why people monitor volcanoes.
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Gains at Hofsjökull Ice Cap : Image of the Day
Winter storms can blanket Iceland almost entirely with snow. The relative warmth of summer and fall, however, exposes a spectacular, varied landscape.
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Charlie Sheen Is No Easy HIV Hero, Which May Be Good For All of Us – The Daily Beast
Was it Matt Lauer or a very judgmental schoolmaster interviewing Charlie Sheen about his HIV diagnosis Tuesday morning on NBC’s Today? This viewer couldn’t tell.
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HBO may not be ready to give up on the noir anthology series True Detective yet. The network has extended its overall deal with creator Nic Pizzolatto through 2018, which includes a number of projects in addition to a potential third season of the d…
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Father and Son have the most precious conversation about Paris attacks (Le Petit Journal) – YouTube
I feel so much better too now. Thanks! A father and son have the most precious conversation during an interview by french media (Le Petit Journal sur Canal+) at the scene of the Bataclan attacks. I saw that it hadn’t been subtitled in english yet, s…
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The Best Way to Reach Your Goals May Be Publicly Recording Your Progress
We’ve talked about using the public to motivate you before, but a recent meta-analysis of 138 different studies and experiments suggests it may, in fact, be the best method for making any real progress toward your goals. The analysis, led by Dr.
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Hear Amy Lee’s Haunting Cover of U2’s ‘With or Without You’ | Rolling Stone
Evanescence’s Amy Lee turns U2’s anthemic, arena rock ballad “With or Without You” into a haunting, minimalist rock tune in the latest installment of her covers series. Lee’s take on the U2 classic follows her inaugural cover of Portishead’s “It’s a…
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Republican Bobby Jindal suspends presidential campaign | US news | The Guardian
Bobby Jindal had ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The Louisiana governor had been attempting to appeal to conservative voters who have embraced Donald Trump, and was gaining some ground in Iowa, polling in the top 10 in…
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Activists, Police Disagree Over Future of Massive Paris Climate March | Rolling Stone
In the wake of the worst terrorist attack on France since World War II, climate activists are vowing to forge ahead with plans to stage demonstrations during the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), even as French officials have promi…
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Global Temperatures Continue To Surge In Record-Breaking October : democrats
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Following Shell, another oil company pulls out of Arctic | Grist
Despite rising sea levels, massive floods, and a previous explosion, Florida decided not to relocate the jail.
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Women writing women dating women is not just for women · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The ubiquity of webseries makes it difficult to determine where one’s time is best spent, but today Sidetrack premiered, making that decision a lot easier.
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God’s Not Dead production company launches its own distribution wing · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Probably because other distributors were oppressing it by forcing it to interact with people of differing lifestyles and beliefs upon occasion, Deadline reports that Christian film company Pure Flix is launching its own theatrical distribution wing.
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Oh God, Frank Miller Is Going to Write a Dark Knight Returns IV, Too
Dark Knight 3: The Master Race isn’t even out yet, but co-writer Frank Miller has already announced that the trilogy has turned into a quadrilogy.
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Twitter’s Former News Manager Talks About His Current Project “Today In #BlackTwitter” | TechCrunch
When Mark S. Luckie joined Twitter in 2012, he felt excited by the opportunity to explore the intersection of technology and journalism. Before joining Twitter, Luckie spent his entire career as a traditional journalist, with his last position as na…
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Paris attacks: Police speak of horror inside Bataclan – BBC News
Four days after the attacks in Paris which claimed 129 lives, police have carried out more raids, searching for those involved. The biggest loss of life on Friday night was at the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people who had gone to watch an Eagles…
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A Belgian Father Works To Prevent Kids From Joining The Jihad : Parallels : NPR
The Paris attacks have brought new attention to Dimitri Bontinck, a member of Belgium’s Dutch-speaking majority. His life was dramatically changed a few years ago, when his then-teenage son converted to Islam and went to Syria to join Islamist fight…
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Open source projects rely on donated time—what motivates participants? | Ars Technica
Open source software packages like WordPress and Firefox have been major influences on modern computing. In statistics, open source software known as “R” has become the most popular environment for statistical computation and data analysis.
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Meet the Refugees Charged With Helping ISIS – The Daily Beast
At least two refugees have been charged by the United States with ISIS-related offenses, according to federal criminal complaints reviewed by The Daily Beast. Out of the 71 persons prosecuted by the U.S. government, only six were not U.S. citizens. …
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Trinidad & Tobago v USA: World Cup 2018 qualifying – live! | Football | The Guardian
Jermaine Jones takes on Million Prescott in the game against St Vincent & the Grenadines. Photograph: Scott Kane/USA Today Sports
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SpaceX appears poised to launch its first national security payload | Ars Technica
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has declined to bid on the launch of a next-generation GPS satellite, opening the way for SpaceX to launch its first national security payload later this decade.
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Nigeria blast: ‘More than 30’ dead in Yola explosion – BBC News
An explosion in the Nigerian city of Yola has caused multiple deaths and injuries, with some reports saying more than 30 people may have died. The blast appears to have struck a busy market area where traders were closing up for the day.
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Born in 1915, Clara Cannucciari survived the Great Depression and, when she was in her 90s and with the help of her grandson, made a YouTube series about meals and cooking techniques used in that era. Watch as Clara cooks a 3-course Poorman’s Feast,…
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On Blindspot, All The Best Characters Are Bad Guys or Dead
Bond. Jane Bond. That’s the aesthetic on this week’s extremely silly adventure into the world of Blindspot, where evil Dark Web millionaires host fancy dress parties. Martinis and black tie shootouts, anyone? Anyone? Spoilers for Blindspot episode 9…
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Ben Carson Has No Idea What He’s Doing, Says a Ben Carson Adviser | Vanity Fair
Thou shalt not criticize thine own candidate in print is one of the cardinal rules of working on a political campaign. So what does it mean for Ben Carson that two of his advisers have recently criticized his grasp of foreign policy?
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Daniel Craig’s James Bond Predecessor Pierce Brosnan Pans Spectre | Vanity Fair
If you were disappointed by the latest James Bond movie, Spectre,—especially after Sam Mendes’s 2012 masterpiece Skyfall, which won two Oscars—you are not alone.
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Tracking calories, exercise and weight worked well for Steve Lochner, and he managed to lose more weight than many other people using the Lose It app. The chart shows how Mr. Lochner compares with other people who used the Lose It app for a year and…
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Theatre’s Superpower – The New Yorker
The theatre has the power—more like the prerogative—to warp reality to suit its own ends, exiting the literal world through whatever trapdoors it creates. Why does an angel crash through a gay man’s ceiling in “Angels in America” and declare him a p…
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Instagram cracks down on third-party apps after password thefts | The Verge
Third-party Instagram developers just got some very bad news. Today, the service announced major revisions to its API policy, effectively killing off an entire class of Instagram-reader apps and instituting serious restrictions on any apps that rema…
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The Google+ Dream Is Still Alive, But It Looks Less Like A Social Network | Motherboard
Google+ is still around, and it’s getting a massive redesign. On Tuesday Google launched a “reimagined” version of Google+ that puts two core features, Communities and Collections, “front and center.
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People Are Already Making Amateur Porn with Tumblr’s New GIF Maker | Motherboard
Tumblr has released a new GIF maker as part of its iOS mobile app in an attempt to ease the complexity of making your own GIF. And already, people are posting nudes and GIFs of them jacking off, in bonafide Tumblr fashion. The app works pretty simpl…
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Florida Man Allegedly Threatened Mosques Day After Paris Attacks – The Daily Beast
Schnitzler made no attempt to hide his identity while threatening two Islamic houses of worship in the Tampa area, apparently. In fact, it appears he wanted to get caught. “Come find me, please,” he said in a voicemail obtained by WTSP-TV. “Please r…
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While you’d be hard-pressed to find someone complaining about too much Tom Hardy, writer-director Brian Helgeland will put that to the test with Legend, which sees Hardy playing real-life identical twins Ronald and Reggie Kray.
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Facebook shapes how we respond to terror: what are its responsibilities? | The Verge
The terror attacks that struck Paris and Beirut last week roared across social media like wildfire, but in profoundly different ways.
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Amy Poehler and Tina Fey to host SNL’s Christmas episode · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the final new Saturday Night Live of 2015 is going to do everything it can to make viewers forget about the time that Trump guy hosted for 12 minutes.
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Paris attacks: Nurse relives moment she found out she knew victim – BBC News
A nurse on shift on the day of attacks in Paris, tells of the moment she found out her daughter’s best friend was at the Bataclan and is still missing.
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‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ to Host Gitmo Prisoners? | Al Jazeera America
With the delayed closure of the detention camp holding 107 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the United States has put off an announcement about moving many of the detainees to isolated mountainous terrain far inland from the tropics.
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Ex-ISIL captive says air raids help group’s propaganda – Al Jazeera English
French journalist Nicolas Henin, once an ISIL captive, says the armed rebel group wanted “nothing more than to provoke an escalation” by carrying out a series of deadly attacks in Paris last Friday that killed at least 129 people.
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People Are Scaring Their Cats with Cucumbers. They Shouldn’t.
What happens when you put a cucumber behind a cat? Some felines could care less about the vegetable intrusion, but others leap high into the air when they see it. Videos of such encounters are going viral this week, as people try to see how their ow…
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Americans demanding war refugees be turned away are reading from a very old script
I really don’t know that I have anything to say about the above. It’s self-explanatory. The thing is self-evident. Refugees fleeing ISIS are, by definition, refugees fleeing ISIS.
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A soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled hours before kickoff and the stadium in Hanover, Germany, was evacuated after a bomb threat.
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DisplayMate: iPad Pro has a great screen, but the iPad Mini 4 edges it out | Ars Technica
If you’re interested in thorough, in-depth testing of phone and tablet displays, it’s hard to beat Raymond Soniera and DisplayMate. He has just run Apple’s new iPad Pro through the wringer, and he came away impressed by its color, contrast, performa…
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To Go After Local Neighborhood News, Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M | TechCrunch
One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities.
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San Francisco police beating captured on video prompts call for charges | US news | The Guardian
Security footage showing the brutal beating of a suspect by two police officers in San Francisco’s Mission District has sparked anger and comparisons to the 1991 assault of Rodney King in Los Angeles.
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San Francisco police shown beating man in security camera footage – video | US news | The Guardian
A security camera recorded police officers in San Francisco chasing down and beating a suspect in the Mission neighborhood.
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The tragically short half-life of online empathy – The Washington Post
Everything’s accelerated these days, and the same must be said for grief online. The Internet cycles through all five stages in as many tweets. We find it hurtling toward us: unavoidable, wall-to-wall. And then, before we’ve processed it, the grief’…
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ISIS Has Help Desk for Terrorists Staffed Around the Clock – NBC News
NBC News has learned that ISIS is using a web-savvy new tactic to expand its global operational footprint — a 24-hour Jihadi Help Desk to help its foot soldiers spread its message worldwide, recruit followers and launch more attacks on foreign soil…
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Ben Carson’s remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then
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Google+ gets a “mobile first” redesign, focuses on “interests” | Ars Technica
After having a good chunk of integration ripped away from it, Google+ is still trucking along as a social network. Today, Google announced a redesign for the site that focuses purely on the social aspects and moves the site from being people-based t…
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Minneapolis man shot in altercation with police dies in hospital | US news | The Guardian
Jamar Clark, the 24-year-old shot on Sunday morning following an altercation with police, died in hospital from his injuries on Monday night, police have confirmed. Clark was shot in the head by police early on Sunday morning following an altercatio…
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Gawker, the gossip website thrown into turmoil by its outing of a senior publishing executive for contacting a gay escort, is giving up on reporting gossip in order to refocus on politics and “to hump the [2016 presidential] campaign”.
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Hollande Urges Constitutional Changes | Al Jazeera America
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday will ask Parliament to extend state-of-emergency powers — in effect since Friday’s attacks in Paris but legally limited to 12 days thereafter — for three months.
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Nissan turned an SUV into a PS4 controller to play a soccer game | The Verge
Nissan, Konami, and Sony have teamed up to turn a Qashqai crossover SUV into a very expensive PlayStation 4 controller — but not, however, to play a racing game. Instead, the vehicle will be used to play Pro Evolution Soccer 2016.
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SM-3 Interceptor Misses Mark in Complex Test
WASHINGTON — A Raytheon-built Standard Missile 3 Block 1B interceptor failed to hit a medium-range ballistic missile Oct. 31 in a complex U.S. Missile Defense Agency test involving multiple targets. The test, announced by the agency after the fact N…
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Urban Outfitters just bought a pizza chain · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Not content with simply selling cassette tapes and vinyl records alongside $100 sweaters with holes in them, faux-bohemian retail chain Urban Outfitters is apparently planning to corner the market on all the things that hip youngsters like to get ps…
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Val Kilmer is cooling his jets after firing off news about a role in Top Gun 2. Variety reports that the erstwhile Iceman and spiker of volleyballs took to Facebook to tell his followers that he had accepted (and therefore been offered) a role in th…
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The Wolf Of Crunchem Hall: Matilda recut as a Scorsese movie · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Today is the birthday of both Martin Scorsese—who turns 72—and Danny DeVito, who turns 70. To celebrate the birth of these two cinematic icons, the folks at NowThis Entertainment recut Matilda into a Scorsese movie, just because.
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French Parents Try To Explain The Inexplicable To Their Kids : Parallels : NPR
Parents waited outside a primary school in Paris’ 15th arrondissement, not so far from some of the places attacked last Friday night. With constant news coverage of the killings and schools joining the minute of silence Monday, there’s no way to hid…
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Bolden: NASA ‘Doomed’ If Next President Dumps Journey to Mars
WASHINGTON — As NASA provides more details about its long-term plans to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, the agency’s administrator warned that any attempt by the next administration to deviate from that plan would be disastrous. Charles Bolden, in…
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Carrie Fisher on the set of Blade Runner : pics
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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh (OS X El Capitan)
Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the installation process is fairly simple.
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Dozens killed in Nigeria market ‘suicide bombing’ – Al Jazeera English
At least 32 people have been killed and 75 more wounded in a blast at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, officials said.
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Google+ Gets a Revamp, Now Focusing On Communities and Collections
Just because we don’t want Google+ in every single service we use doesn’t mean the service didn’t have some promise. Now, it’s going to try to live up to that with a visual revamp that’s focusing on Collections and Communities.
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German Authorities Evacuate Soccer Stadium After Receiving Bomb Threat : NPR
Threats in Hannover, Germany, led to the cancellation of an exhibition soccer match there Tuesday.
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Paris Climate Conference Represents ‘Best Chance’ For World To Act : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, ahead of the Paris Climate Conference. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries will discuss how to slow climate change.
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Book Review: ‘Catalog Of Unabashed Gratitude,’ Ross Gay : NPR
Tess Taylor reviews Ross Gay’s collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.17.15 | TechCrunch
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Josh Elman, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 2pmPT/5pmET.
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Israeli military offers a death-free experience — for soldiers’ diets, at least | Grist
It sounds like the plot of a Portlandia sketch: Vegans have invaded the military and are demanding soy-based meat, leather-free combat boots, and wool-free berets.
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Carson adviser on the record: Yeah, you’re right—our guy is a complete and utter idiot
Not even that many iotas When everyone is fretting that your candidate for president is a stone-cold moron who can’t tell Iraq from Iran from Alpha Centauri, there’s only one obvious solution: Go on the record to the New York Times to confirm to the…
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Instagram Kills Off Feed Reading Apps By Limiting Platform For Consistency | TechCrunch
Only a tiny fraction of Instagram feed reading happens in third-party apps, so Instagram is shutting down its feed API to make feature development nimbler and create a more consistent user experience. The move is part a big cleanup of the Instagram …
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A new poll has found that most millennials would prefer to put off marriage until they accomplish other important milestones, including cohabitation with a partner, attaining an education and home ownership.
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White House to Discuss Refugees With Governors | Al Jazeera America
White House reportedly to discuss Syrian refugees with governors https://t.co/drTpYXteus via Al Jazeera America
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Google+ gets major redesign with big focus on Communities and Collections | The Verge
Google has begun the process of rolling out a major redesign of Google+, featuring a new, simpler look that puts Communities and Collections at the center of everything.
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Adele releases new single, “When We Were Young” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
We’re only three days away from the release of Adele’s new album, 25, but the wait has been much longer for avid fans, who have presumably been spinning their emotional wheels since 2011’s 21.
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On-Demand Darwinism: Survival Of The Fastest | TechCrunch
When it comes to evolution, many focus on those special specimens that survive, known as the “fittest.
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It’s easy to forget now, but the first real music streaming service to arrive in America was Rdio. Like its founders, Skype billionaires Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, Rdio was awkwardly spelled and a little hard to pronounce.
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It’s Star Wars Week here at The A.V. Club, and luckily there is no dearth to the amount of Star Wars-related content on the internet.
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Only two people born in the 1800s are still alive today
The two oldest living people in the world, American Susannah Mushatt Jones and Italian Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, were both born in 1899, making them the last living human links to the 1800s. The USA Today back in June. Here are the oldest people in th…
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Mars Curiosity Rover Will Be First To Explore Extraterrestrial Sand Dunes | Popular Science
It’s not often that a Mars rover gets to enjoy a day of fun in the sand and sun. But later this week, NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover will explore a sand dune, marking the first time that scientists on Earth will get a close-up view of dunes on another …
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How We Feasted Like Kings on… Instant Ramen? « Food Hacks
I held the orange packet in my hands and presented it to my friend, Seth, as though it were a plastic-wrapped jewel—rather than three ounces of dehydrated noodles. “From this,” I said, “We shall create a feast fit for kings.” He looked softly into m…
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Val Kilmer just threw some jet fuel on the rumor that he and Tom Cruise may be suiting up again to reprise their roles as Iceman and Maverick in Top Gun 2.
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Give Superior Handshakes by Keeping Your Drink In Your Left Hand
Whether you’re at a big networking event or just a party where you don’t know anyone, you’re bound to meet someone and shake their hand. One simple trick will make sure your handshake is never off-putting. Nobody likes to reach out a welcoming hand …
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James Harkin Talks ISIS, James Foley and other Journalists Killed in Syria | Vanity Fair
In light of the terror attacks in Paris, more questions than ever exist about ISIS and the group’s motivations and origins. Cullen Murphy talks with James Harkin about his new book, Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that…
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The candid, surprising stories of a tower block’s re…
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?
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Less pressure on Syria’s Assad? – Al Jazeera English
As police try to piece together how the Paris attacks were coordinated, the French air force has launched more air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its Syrian headquarters, Raqqa.
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Clashes in Athens after peaceful rally marking uprising – Al Jazeera English
A group of youth protesters has clashed with police in Athens, Greek officials have said, in a day where thousands of peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to mark the anniversary of the 1973 uprising that helped bring down Greece’s military ru…
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Spotify Is Releasing User Data So Artists Can Give You Exactly What You Want | ThinkProgress
Spotify has had a good year: expanding into original content with video, live radio, and podcasts; and breaking streaming records; while quietly plotting to take the company public.
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Blue Origin Plans to Begin Commercial Suborbital Research Flights in 2016
The New Shepard space vehicle blasts off on its first developmental test flight over Blue Origin’s West Texas Launch Site April 29. The crew capsule reached apogee at 93,600 meters before beginning its descent back to Earth. – See … http://spacenews.
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Here’s What Republicans Don’t Get About Syrian Refugees | Mother Jones
With a growing group of governors and members of Congress demanding a halt to the acceptance of Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks, refugee resettlement groups and the Obama administration are pushing back strongly against accusations …
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Charlie Sheen Details ‘Suicide Run’ After HIV Diagnosis in Open Letter | Rolling Stone
Charlie Sheen called his HIV diagnosis a “‘mule kick’ to my soul” in an open letter detailing his four-year struggle with the disease and the millions of dollars he paid out to keep his secret safe. Sheen revealed his diagnosis during an extensive i…
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A group of student activists are hoping to use the momentum of recent anti-racism college demonstrations and the Black Lives Matter movement to organize a day of action across the US on Wednesday.
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Russian and US forces have for the first time exchanged military information during airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria amid early signs of thawing relations between the two countries following the Paris terror attacks and the downing …
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Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk—again | Ars Technica
Scientists seem to be topping off the data on coffee’s health benefits. In a fresh-brewed study involving more than 200,000 people, researchers found that drinking coffee—regular or decaf—is associated with an overall lower risk of mortality.
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Metric Descend Into Depths of Las Vegas in ‘The Governess’ Video | Rolling Stone
Emily Haines slouches across a ribbon of highway, through the Nevada desert and towards the gaudy, seedy glitz of Las Vegas in Metric’s new video for “The Governess.” Armed with her six-string, Haines sings and performs the stomping cut, which blend…
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Drug Lobby Gave $50,000 to Pro-Jindal Nonprofit | Al Jazeera America
Drug lobby gave $50,000 to pro-Bobby Jindal nonprofit https://t.co/SGSDgw5qlV via Al Jazeera America
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Where Will the 1st Astronauts on Mars Land?
HOUSTON — Where should humanity set up its first-ever outpost on Mars?
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Paris video ‘shows ninth attacker’ – 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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EA exec: We’re going to “wait and see” if there’s a market for VR | Ars Technica
With virtual reality headsets from Oculus, Valve, and Sony promised to finally hit the consumer market in just a few months, most of the largest video game publishers have still been slow to commit their resources and popular franchises to the promi…
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Thirty-seven years ago today, CBS aired the two hour-long Star Wars Holiday Special, a bizarre TV movie-variety show hybrid about Chewbacca trying to get home for Life Day, which is essentially Wookie Christmas.
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‘Smart cities’ only as smart as those operating them – Al Jazeera English
Inside Barcelona’s City Control Room, a team of workers respond to incidents as they appear before them, as small coloured dots on a citywide map. Some are reports of broken signs or street lights, while other detail pot holes in the streets.
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Now you can buy a book of Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter slash art · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The wound of losing Hannibal still feels all too fresh, like a paring knife slowly peeling back our flesh to reveal the soft, juicy insides of our grief. But others are clearly mourning much more intensely.
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Spotify Doesn’t Make Artists Enough Money, But Maybe Your Listening Data Will | Motherboard
Spotify is trying to make nice with bands and artists by offering them free data on who their listeners are.
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Google Is Fixing a Dangerous Gmail Bug That Could Let Others Impersonate You | Motherboard
Google is working to fix an unusual bug that allows anyone to pretend to be someone else in the Gmail app for Android, after the company initially dismissed it as “not a security vulnerability.” The flaw was spotted by independent security researche…
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Marc Morano, who’s made a career out of spreading climate misinformation, has a new film, “Climate Hustle.” Check out this trailer. An effective global climate stabilization project will serve as a powerful tool for combatting global poverty and unr…
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Three-Quarters Of Republicans Find Islam ‘At Odds’ With American Values | ThinkProgress
At more than 1 billion followers, Islam is one of the largest religions in the world. Between five and 12 million of those followers live in the United States.
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Graham: U.S. Should Shore Up Arab Allies To Fight ‘Neighbor From Hell’ ISIS : NPR
President Obama says he’s intensifying his strategy against ISIS — a strategy that includes airstrikes, working with local fighters like the Kurdish Peshmerga and stepping up diplomatic efforts. But Sen. Lindsey Graham, who’s running for the Republi…
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Jeb Bush predicts his opponent Donald Trump will be ‘in decline’ anytime now
Jeb Bush, campaign genius. Wait, that’s not good enough—we need to get the whole flavor of this. Here’s the actual question Bush was asked:
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President Obama Talks Jon Snow and Names His Favorite Game of Thrones Character | Vanity Fair
President Barack Obama has been pretty upfront about his love for the HBO sword and dragon saga Game of Thrones. It’s right in line with the president’s famous enjoyment of things geek. But who does the commander in chief most admire in Westeros? Th…
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Tight-fitted men’s clothing: How male fashion went from drapey to taut.
What is the soundtrack to our age? Is it drones buzzing overhead? Relentless cellphone yakking? Rattling pill bottles or jackhammering condo construction? No. It’s the sound of splitting seams.
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Museum Collections Enter VR With The Launch Of The Woofbert VR App For Samsung Gear | TechCrunch
The museum and gallery world is getting is getting one of its first doorways into virtual reality with the launch of the new WoofbertVR app, launching today on Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus.
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The Terror and Surprise Porn in Your PS4 – The Daily Beast
While the world pieces together what happened Friday in Paris, one of the unanswered questions is whether gaming consoles and online gaming networks are playing a part in the planning and execution of attacks. The short answer, for the moment, is ma…
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Between 100,000 and 240,000 women in Texas aged 18 to 49 have tried to induce an abortion at home, according to a new study released on Tuesday.
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Rubio Campaign Deploys 6,000 Ground Troops To Combat ISIS – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
OTTUMWA, IA—Vowing to hunt down and destroy every last vestige of the extremist group, Senator Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that his presidential campaign was deploying 6,000 ground troops to the Middle East to combat ISIS militants.
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Up to 240,000 Women Have Tried to Give Themselves Abortions in Texas | Mother Jones
Ever since Texas passed HB2 in 2013, the omnibus abortion law at the heart of a pivotal case the Supreme Court will review early next year, more than half of the state’s 41 abortion clinics have been forced to close.
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What to Do About the Refugees? | New Republic
1. Ben Carson; 2. Ted Cruz; 3. Carly Fiorina; 4. Donald Trump; 5. Chris Christie; 6. Jeb Bush; 7. Marco Rubio
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The 20 Highest Paying Startup Unicorns | TechCrunch
It makes sense for unicorns, or startups valued at more than $1 billion, to use those means to attract top talent with more generous pay, but which of this magical herd pays employees the most?
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12 Years Later, Here’s What Happened to the Viral Mastermind Behind ‘The End of the World’ – Mic
If you were on the Internet in the early aughts, you probably already know exactly where the above sentence comes from.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton Share a Condolence Message Following Paris Attacks | Vanity Fair
On Tuesday, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge made a visit to the French Embassy in London to pay their respects to those who died in Friday’s attacks in Paris. The pair both signed a book of condolences that commemorates the hundreds of v…
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Wanted: Speakers Of Mayan Languages, Many Of Them : Code Switch : NPR
On a weekday morning, in an upscale part of Arlington, Va., the suburban silence is as thick as the foliage: a leaf blower here and there; an occasional car. In one of the homes, Sheba Velasco is thinking of snacks for the children. She’s their nann…
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Republicans In Congress Call For Pause In Refugee Resettlement : NPR
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, Republicans in Congress are seeking action limiting President Obama’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the United States.
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The Philippines Requests U.S. Support Amid Ongoing Dispute With China : NPR
The Philippines is ill-prepared to deal with an expansionist China and is hoping the U.S. will help protect its interests in the region.
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Nicaraguan Police Block Cubans Attempting To Reach U.S. : NPR
Nicaragua, a leftist ally of Cuba, is blocking some 2,000 Cubans from entering. The Cubans, stuck in Costa Rica, want to go to the U.S. and fear warming U.S.-Cuban ties may close the door.
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Police Focus On Brussels Neighborhood Connected With Islamist Extremism : NPR
Belgian police conducted raids this weekend in relation to the attacks in Paris. This is not the first time there has been a Belgian connection with Islamic extremism.
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Natural History Museums Rife With Mislabeled Specimens, Researchers Find : NPR
As many as half of all natural history specimens sitting in our museums are mislabeled, according to a team at the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.NPR hears from Zoe Goodwin who is the lead author the study.
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Paris Attacks Ignite Debate Over U.S. Refugee Policy : NPR
The Paris attacks have ignited a debate over whether Syrian refugees should be allowed into the United States. What is the process for selecting and vetting such refugees to ensure they do not pose a security risk?
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Once A Hard Sell, Walmart’s Patti LaBelle Pies Fly Off Shelves : NPR
A few days ago on the shelves at Walmart sat a sweet potato pie with singer Patti LaBelle’s face on the package. It didn’t sell particularly well. Then came a YouTube video featuring a man named James Wright eating the pie and singing like Patti. No…
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Justice Department Pledges To Help Investigate Paris Terror Attacks : NPR
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the U.S. government is working “around the clock to uncover and disrupt plots” aimed at Americans.
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French, Belgian Authorities Continue Manhunt For Key Suspects In Paris Attacks : NPR
Authorities in France and Belgium continue their hunt for clues as they investigate the deadly Friday the 13th attack in Paris.
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Top Silicon Valley High Schools Respond To Rising Suicide Rate : NPR
At two top-tier high schools in Palo Alto, Calif., the suicide rate is four times higher than the national average over the last 10 years. NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Hanna Rosin, who’s reported for The Atlantic, on what might be behind the tren…
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Prostate Screening Drops Sharply, And So Do Cancer Cases : Shots – Health News : NPR
One of the most intense debates in men’s health has flared again: How often should men get screened for prostate cancer? This debate has simmered since 2012, when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force shocked many patients and doctors by recommend…
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Soccer Match Cancelled In Germany After Bomb Threat : NPR
The investigation continues into the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday, and in Germany, a major soccer match was cancelled Tuesday after a bomb threat.
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A soccer match in Hannover, Germany between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at the last minute on Tuesday and the crowd evacuated after a “suspicious package” was found.
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Updated Windows privacy policy a little more reassuring | Ars Technica
Windows 10 collects more data and has more cloud connections than any version of Windows before—a design that has many privacy implications. One of the continued complaints around this is a lack of clarity around what gets collected and how it gets …
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Everybody loves the standard Christmas special plot: Someone is excited for a holiday-themed event of some kind, something goes wrong (usually a big snowstorm), they get really sad, their friends come through and sing some songs or whatever, the pro…
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Will the “Tobacco Strategy” Work Against Big Oil? – The New Yorker
According to InsideClimate News, the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had been investigating ExxonMobil for a year before it issued a recent subpoena for “documents on what Exxon knew about climate change and what it told …
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Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane – The New Yorker
If you only own the original studio release of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” (recorded on December 9, 1964, and issued in February, 1965), then the new three-disk release “A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters” of the classic album by Coltrane’s c…
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John Kasich: how I justified Syria refugee stance to my daughter – video | US news | The Guardian
Ohio governor John Kasich explains how he justified his tough stance on Syrian refugees to his daughter.
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How To (Not) Make Money In GTA Online (Without Committing Any Crimes) | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
GTA Online [official site] wants you to commit crimes – to kill your fellow players, beat them in illegal street races, and team up with them in heists in order to make money. But is it possible to make money without committing crimes? Spoilers: no.
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Ohio governor John Kasich admits states can’t block Syrian refugees | US news | The Guardian
As some US political leaders push to deny Syrian refugees entry, Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich admitted that state governments “don’t have the authority” to block the resettlement of refugees but can “only express t…
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Battening down the hatches is often an impulsive and politically expedient response to terrorism attacks. Predictably, the harrowing scenes of carnage in Paris on Friday are fueling calls to shut down borders and halt the resettlement of Syrian refu…
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Whirlpool Galaxy by Alessandro Falesiedi js – Just Space
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Save iPhone Email Attachments to iCloud Drive for Better Access Anywhere
iOS: When you get an email attachment in iOS, chances are it’s something you need to deal with in another app. To make things a little easier on yourself, OS X Daily points out that saving that attachment to iCloud Drive makes the process a little s…
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Buy a $5 Piece of Networking Gear, Get a Free Roku Streaming Stick
Uh, holy crap. Belkin is currently giving away free Roku Streaming Sticks with the purchase of any networking product. That includes this $5 ethernet coupler. Unfortunately, you’ll need to pay $8 for shipping, but that’s still a piece of networking …
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YouTube Red made me a prime Rickroll target | The Verge
I’ve been using YouTube Red for weeks now, and I love it. On top of being able to download videos for my commute, I’ve forgotten what it’s like to watch pre-roll ads on music videos. I don’t see ads. Videos just play. But I recently got the fear of …
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‘Méridien’ (US 2015): Book Excerpt
S.H. Jucha was a senior manager in the technical education and software development industries, with degrees in biology and broadcast communications. He is the author of the science fiction series, “Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. S. H.
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American voters won’t cast their ballots in presidential primaries until next year, but super PACs have already spent nearly $63 million influencing this election. In the interactive below, we’ve illustrated this electoral money war for some of the …
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Instagramming illustrator Greg O’Regan is combining his passions for drawing and film with a recent ambitious undertaking. Starting on October 21, O’Regan began watching a movie every day, and then posting a sketch of a prominent character from the …
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The Trader Joe’s Snacks Power Rankings: Part II | Lucky Peach
Denizens of the Internet food community, rejoice! I bring to you the second half of what was begun here, where I sampled and evaluated cloying cookies and chocolate treats of the vast Trader Joe’s snackdom.
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Russian television reveals another secret: the Soviet space cannon | Ars Technica
Last month, a Russian military show, Voennaya Priemka, revealed one of the biggest secrets of the Soviet Union’s 1970s space program: the R-23M Space Cannon.
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More than 2,000 suspected terrorists on the FBI watchlist had no trouble buying firearms
Firearms are easy to obtain in the United States—even if you’re a suspected terrorist. Christopher Ingraham reports:
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At least 27 governors have recently come out against allowing Syrian refugees in their states, claiming that refugees could be a potential terrorist threat.
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My 15 y/o nephew just had a baby.. Here’s that “Shit just got real” look. – Imgur
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I’m going to be sending this to my boyfriend when I get a little crazy. – Imgur
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Behind The +1: Meet The New Google+ | TechCrunch
Google+ has always been a project for Google, regardless of what you’ve read in the media. With projects, come changes…and there have been quite a few for Google+ this year.
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Central American migrant program reunites teens with families in US | US news | The Guardian
For years, Brian Mejia begged for his father’s blessing to slip out of his village in El Salvador and make the perilous trek to the US, away from the gang violence that drove his father across the border.
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Christopher Kimball, the face of the public television show “America’s Test Kitchen” and of the magazine Cook’s Illustrated, is leaving the company he helped found after a contract dispute.
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El Niño rains for dry California but scientists fear for coral reefs | Environment | The Guardian
The giant El Niño climatic event is set to bring rain to drought-stricken California by January, but is likely to exacerbate a widespread die-off of corals in the ocean, new data suggests.
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Parrot unveils the Bebop II, a faster, longer-lasting drone | The Verge
Is it a toy or a tool? Parrot unveiled a new version of its popular Bebop drone on Tuesday, capable of longer flight times and faster speeds. On the whole, however, it doesn’t seem like a gigantic leap forward for the French company’s higher-end con…
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Republican rhetoric heats up after Paris attacks – Al Jazeera English
Washington DC – The attacks in Paris have once more put foreign policy and immigration at the centre of the Republican presidential campaign, opening up a clear divide with the Democrats and allowing those chasing the nomination to hammer Hillary Cl…
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Rhode Island Has 1 Great Culinary Invention, And It’s Coffee Milk | Atlas Obscura
Autocrat coffee syrup, for blending with milk. (Photo: Sean Benham/flickr) In 1993, coffee milk was declared the official state drink of Rhode Island and not everyone was thrilled.
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President Andrew Shepherd: Sydney, I didn’t decide to send 455 to the floor to get you back. Sydney Ellen Wade: I didn’t come back ‘cause you decided to send 455 to the floor.
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The government will decide Wednesday or Thursday whether or not the big Paris climate march will go ahead. From replanting the reefs we’ve lost to evolving stronger corals, humans are trying to engineer reefs to withstand climate change.
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Documentary Harold and Lillian Is a Wonderful Paradox: An Educational Tearjerker | Vanity Fair
The frequently repeated adage “Film is a collaborative medium” is a cliché because it’s true.
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Pushing Daisies is now streaming on CW Seed | The Verge
All 22 episodes of the gone-too-soon ABC show Pushing Daisies will find new life on CW’s streaming service CW Seed, Variety reports.
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This $13 Battery Pack Can Charge Your Smartphone Several Times Over
KMASHI makes some of the most popular battery packs we’ve ever posted, and their 15,000mAh model is down to a jaw-dropping $13 today on Amazon. Even if you’re all stocked up on battery packs, this would make a great gift for less tech-savvy friends …
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Bruce Springsteen Headed to ‘Saturday Night Live’ | Rolling Stone
Bruce Springsteen Headed to ‘Saturday Night Live’ Rocker’s December return as musical guest follows debuts from Chance the Rapper, Leon Bridges
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Watch As These People Struggle to Remember What Happened in The Hunger Games
You’d think that, what with being one of the biggest franchises in the last five years, The Hunger Games would have made it into the minds of most people. And The Hunger Games has. Catching Fire and Mockingjay on the other hand? Better get caught up…
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Could This Alcoholism Drug Cure HIV? – The Daily Beast
A drug used to treat alcoholism is likely a “game changer” in the fight to cure HIV.
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Russia Pounds ISIS With Biggest Bomber Raid in Decades – The Daily Beast
The Russian air force just pulled off one of the biggest and most complex heavy bomber missions in modern history—sending no fewer than 25 Backfire, Bear, and Blackjack bombers on a coordinated, long-range air raid against alleged ISIS forces in Syr…
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France Awards a Novel That Praises Islam – The Daily Beast
In this, his latest novel, the Barcelona-based Énard, who is also a scholar of Arabic and Persian, addresses the fraught relationship between the West and the Islamic world—a relationship that reached a tragically tangible dimension last Friday in P…
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The Pryme Vessyl smart cup is a useless tool for tracking how much water you drink | The Verge
Your standard tech write-up of Mark One’s new product, Pryme Vessyl, would exhaustively list the cup’s specs. In summary, it’s an “intelligent cup” designed to measure how much water it’s holding and track how many sips are taken from it.
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Feds bugged steps of Silicon Valley courthouse | Ars Technica
Defense attorneys have asked a federal judge to throw out more than 200 hours of conversations FBI agents recorded using hidden microphones planted on the steps of a California county courthouse.
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The CW Seed app is Pushing Daisies on Roku · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The CW has planted a Seed (app) in Roku from which a Lily (and Vivian) has sprung—Variety reports that the network has teamed up with Roku to resurrect the composted-too-soon Pushing Daisies.
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Ask an Expert: All About Dental Health
Come say hello to Dr. Mark Burhenne. Dr. B approaches oral health from a broader perspective than just dental care—your mouth is part of your body after all, but it’s often discussed as if its a separate ecosystem.
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Thomas Piketty is right to draw attention to the importance of investors taking action on climate change (Piketty urges investors to divest stakes in fossil fuels, 14 November). My foundation has divested.
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Gun Purchases Legal for Those on Terror Watchlists | Al Jazeera America
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Trudeau Backs Syrian Resettlement | Al Jazeera America
Canadian PM ‘committed’ to Syrian refugee resettlement https://t.co/yh81vrXoaU via Al Jazeera America
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Germany-Netherlands Soccer Match Is Canceled After the Discovery of a Bomb – The Atlantic
The discovery of the device comes just days after the November 13 attacks on Paris that killed 129 people. Europe has been on high alert since those attacks. We’ll update this post when we learn more.
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How the Media Covered the Paris and Beirut Attacks—and Why It Matters – The Atlantic
The night ISIS struck Paris, Facebook notified me that my cousins, who were vacationing in France, had been marked safe—through a feature designed for natural disasters that the social network had for the first time activated in response to terroris…
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Russia Intensifies Air Strikes Against ISIS in Syria – The Atlantic
When Russia started bombing extremists in Syria last month, news and intelligence reports suggested its missiles were not trained on the Islamic State—the threat it said it was going after—but instead on rebels fighting against the Assad government,…
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Congressman: To stop ISIS, let’s shut down websites and social media | Ars Technica
US Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has a plan to stop terrorists: shut down websites including social media networks. Barton today asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler if the commission can shut down websites used by ISIS and other te…
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Police Cancel Soccer Match in Germany Due to Bomb Threat, Residents Told to Stay Home | Mother Jones
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leading politicians planned to attend the game in an act of defiance against last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris. Fans had already entered the stadium and were asked to leave by police, according to the B…
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Gawker Media Lays Off Some Employees | Re/code
Today, Gawker Media laid off seven employees across multiple properties, including Jezebel, Gawker.com and Gizmodo, multiple sources told Re/code. The employees are being let go as part of a larger editorial restructuring that will see Gawker.
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Whatever Happened to the Waterbed? | Van Winkle’s
In the 70s, that swinging decade of key parties and shag carpets, waterbeds were the epitome of sexy. They were coveted by free-love hippies, randy bachelors and senior citizens alike.
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Justice Antonin Scalia spoke at an unrecorded event at Princeton University law week with Professor Robert George, a leading religious conservative.
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Lawmakers Line Up To Make It Easier To Discriminate Against You When You Buy A Car | ThinkProgress
A bill to allow racially discriminatory car lending practices is up for a vote in the House this week. If it passes, it could restore a system that routinely charges black and Latino borrowers hundreds of dollars more for car loans than similarly-qu…
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CHARLESTON, SC—Declaring that opening the nation’s doors to displaced Syrians posed a major security threat, GOP leaders warned Tuesday that any refugees who resettled in the U.S. would most likely be driven to terrorism by the way America treats th…
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A love letter to AOL Instant Messenger
The realization that current middle schoolers were born after 2000 freaks me out. I am one of those people who still thinks of the ‘90s as only a decade ago. Seeing middle schoolers today on their iPhones, I can’t help but romanticize the days of AI…
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Adult Swim greenlights workplace comedy from workplace comedy experts · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ever since offices were invented, people have struggled to find a bright side to showing up to the same little room every day and completing ultimately meaningless tasks for eternity.
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“Uptown Funk” meets the Golden Age of Hollywood · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
More than a year after its release, it seems the world, and the internet in particular, still hasn’t tired of Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk.” Not only is the song funky and infectious, it also really lends itself to video mashups.
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Loretta Lynch: no data to support ‘Ferguson effect’ policing theory | US news | The Guardian
US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday there was “no data” to support the idea that law enforcement officers are policing less aggressively because of increased scrutiny of their tactics following a series of highly publicized killings mo…
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Soccer Friendly Called Off for Fear of Attack | Al Jazeera America
The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at short notice due to the serious threat of an attack at the stadium on Tuesday.
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Wembley unites to sing La Marseillaise – BBC News
Football fans gathered to watch England play France at Wembley united to sing La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. The show of solidarity came just days after 129 people were killed in a series of attacks in Paris.
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The 10 Dumbest Artificial Intelligences Ever Created
The Singularity is coming soon! Artificial intelligences will reinvent everything, and there will be unlimited rice pudding. Except, of course, that when we imagine artificial intelligences in fiction, they’re often not that smart.
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BBC Sport – Paris attacks: England & France to pay tribute at Wembley
The French Football Federation chose to go ahead with the fixture. France’s game with Germany at the Stade de France was targeted in the attacks.
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U.S. public transportation sucks, and this is why | Grist
If you’ve ever had the experience of waiting for a very late train, sitting on a broken-down bus for 45 minutes, or trying to navigate what would be a 20-minute drive on three different forms of public transit, you’ve probably wondered to yourself: …
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Former ISIS hostage: they want us to retaliate / Boing Boing
French journalist Nicolas Hénin was held hostage for ten months by ISIS terrorists, chained in an underground cell; his cellmates were later murdered by ISIS. For nearly a year, he lived with ISIS fighters, and learned what makes them tick.
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Midday open thread: Still no word on protests at climate talks; Nat Geo’s T-Day film gets side-eye
Obama will award Senator Barbara Milkulski with Presidential Medal of Freedom. The name “Bridge to Nowhere” still rankles in Ketchikan 10 years after congressional opponents of earmarks used it to attack federal money for the bridge to nearby Gravin…
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Is Trophy Hunting Helping Save African Elephants?
African elephants are in trouble. Their numbers have fallen from as many as ten million a hundred years ago to as few as 400,000 today.
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Ian McShane drops a big hint about his upcoming role on Game Of Thrones · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When Game Of Thrones returns for its sixth season this spring, it will come imbued with a level of mystery unseen in any of its preceding five seasons. Now that D. B. Weiss and David Benioff’s award-winning drama is officially overtaking George R.R.
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Why It Matters That Yet Another State Has Cleared Planned Parenthood Of Wrongdoing | ThinkProgress
After a four month long investigation, the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Washington State has been cleared of any allegations of wrongdoing or illegal activity.
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For whatever reason, film and television teem with overachievers: type A strivers who charm and irritate in (sometimes) equal measure. Comedian, author, and actor DC Pierson has done society the favor of devising an appropriately competitive method …
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One Huge Chart That Proves Taking In Syrian Refugees Is Not Particularly Dangerous | ThinkProgress
Governors from more than half of country are attempting to block refugees fleeing conflict in Syria from being settled in their states citing concerns that they might carry out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Experts familiar with the issue say thei…
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In response to a lawsuit filed a month ago by Eugenie Bouchard seeking damages for a head injury sustained from a fall during the United States Open, the United States Tennis Association contends that the player did not follow protocol and refused o…
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Reacting to the Paris terrorist attacks presented a particular challenge for America’s late-night TV entertainers. On the one hand, their programs thrive on topicality, offering nightly national forums where current events are assessed in comforting…
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Uber: Climate hero or climate villain? | Grist
Marc Morano, who’s made a career out of spreading climate misinformation, has a new film, “Climate Hustle.” Check out this trailer. An effective global climate stabilization project will serve as a powerful tool for combatting global poverty and unr…
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There’s actually great back-story to Albert Einstein and those open-toed sandals. The man pictured with Einstein above is David Rothman, and he was the one responsible for selling Einstein the fancy footwear back in 1939. From Chuck Rothman’s “Alber…
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FDA wants to close the loophole that Theranos used, but Republicans don’t understand why | The Verge
The US government is finally examining a regulatory loophole that has allowed companies like Theranos to market diagnostic tests to patients without going through the US Federal Drug Administration first.
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Listen to the soldiers’ musical soundtrack of the Vietnam War / Boing Boing
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War is a new book by veteran Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about soldiers’ musical memories and the impact of J…
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Cam Newton’s Dance Moves Anger Nashville Mom | Rolling Stone
Cam Newton’s “Dab” has already angered the Tennessee Titans – now it’s angering their fans, too. For those of you fortunate enough to have avoided this non-troversy, let’s bring you up to speed.
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Chris Stapleton, Kenny Rogers Join CMT’s ‘Artists of the Year’ | Rolling Stone
Chris Stapleton, Kenny Rogers Join CMT’s ‘Artists of the Year’ Breakout star and country icon will be recognized during annual celebration of country music’s biggest success stories
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Hear Savages’ Vicious New Song ‘T.I.W.Y.G.’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Savages’ Vicious New Song ‘T.I.W.Y.G.
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You’re a tech giant that has built an artificial intelligence engine 5-7 years ahead of your competition that uses advanced machine learning to power many of your key products to the top of their class in functionality. What’s next? Share it with th…
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Another two Brazil dams ‘at risk of collapsing’ – BBC News
Brazilian mining company Samarco says two dams it uses to hold waste water from iron production are damaged and at risk of collapsing. One of the company’s reservoirs burst earlier this month, flooding dozens of homes in the south-eastern state of M…
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There is no record of US mass surveillance ever preventing a large terror attack / Boing Boing
CIA Director John Brennan wants you to think the Paris attacks were Snowden’s fault — the “hand wringing” over mass surveillance has ended his agency’s ability to “thwart” terrorists attacks “before they’re carried out.
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When my cousin that just started college says he can’t wait to graduate and get a job – GIF on Imgur
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Apple Pay goes live in Canada for American Express customers | The Verge
Apple Pay now supports American Express customers in Canada, making the country the third region after the US and the UK to get access — albeit it limited — to the mobile payments service.
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This is the whitest movie about Ancient Egypt yet | The Verge
And here it is, the first trailer for upcoming fantasy epic Gods of Egypt, and wow is it white as hell. Directed by I, Robot director Alex Proyas, the film loosely follows the mythic conflict between Set and Horus, two gods vying for the throne of E…
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Iranian Cartoonist Jailed in Media Crackdown | Al Jazeera America
Prominent cartoonist Hadi Heidari has been arrested by Iranian authorities and has been sent to Evin prison to complete a suspended sentence.
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A New Family Feeling on Campus – The New Yorker
I often informally ask my students, at Harvard Law School, what their most important ideals are and how they hope to fulfill them in their lives and careers.
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LIVESTREAM: What Conversations About Race Do We Need to Be Having Right Now? | The Nation
On November 19th at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts and African & African American Studies Program will host a symposium on Race in a Post-Obama Era. The conversation will be streamed live on this p…
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Holly Holm defends Ronda Rousey: ‘People can be pretty brutal’ | Sport | The Guardian
Holly Holm produced a stunning upset to defeat Ronda Rousey on Sunday – and now she has urged the critics to stop trashing the former champion.
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The Soul of a Jihadist | New Republic
Five years ago, I went to study abroad in Paris. Unlike most students who flock to France each semester, I spent my first few weeks living with a Pakistani uncle in Villepinte, a rugged suburb located 22 miles from the heart of the city.
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“America’s Best Bathroom” is a small town’s public toilet / Boing Boing
The small town of Minturn, Colorado won the 2015 America’s Best Bathroom Contest put on by Cintas, a company that handles restroom cleaning and supplies among other things.
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The final Pratchett: The Shepherd’s Crown / Boing Boing
I really tried to make this book last. It’s the last Discworld novel, written by Terry Pratchett in the last days of his life, as his death from a tragic, unfair, ghastly early onset Alzheimer’s stole up on him. But I couldn’t help myself. I read it…
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Man at centre of Minneapolis race protests dies – BBC News
Jamar Clark, 24, had been on life support in hospital since the shooting on Sunday morning. Police say that he was the suspect in an assault case and was interfering with medics who were working on the victim when he was he was shot.
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Dutch and German fans react to Hannover stadium evacuation – BBC News
Germany’s friendly with the Netherlands on Tuesday has been called off because of security concerns. The Hannover Stadium, hosting the match, started to be evacuated less than two hours before kick-off.
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Bad sex in fiction award 2015: Morrissey goes head to head with Erica Jong | Books | The Guardian
The sweat, the groans, the spasming muscles, the licked ears and other bits, the pendulous breasts and other bits; it can only be time for the bad sex prize, established 23 years ago by the Literary Review “to draw attention to poorly written, perfu…
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Exclusive D&Q preview: A dictator rises in Shigeru Mizuki’s Hitler · Newswire · The A.V. Club
One of Japan’s most famous living cartoonists, Shigeru Mizuki is a master manga artist with an incredible talent for highly animated characters, richly detailed environments, and captivating stories rooted in Japanese history and mythology.
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Baltimore’s black residents have a harder time getting a mortgage – report | Money | The Guardian
Black people in Baltimore received less than half as many mortgage as their white neighbors, according to a new report – even as black people make up the majority of the city’s population.
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A magician drove a 6-inch nail through his hand in a trick gone horribly wrong / Boing Boing
Here’s how the spike trick is supposed to work: a magician shows the spectator a large nail mounted on a block of wood. He sets it on the table so the nail is pointed up. Then he covers the nail with a paper bag. He places three identical paper bags…
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Legal regulators move in on Prenda’s Paul Hansmeier, who may get disbarred | Ars Technica
Two and a half years after Prenda Law’s “porno-trolling collective” started to fall apart in a Los Angeles courtroom, one of the two principals, Paul Hansmeier, may lose his law license.
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Costa category awards 2015: tiny presses square up to big hitters | Books | The Guardian
An unsettling debut novel set on the Lancashire coast whose first print run stretched to just 300 copies has made the shortlist for the Costa first novel award, having been praised by judges as “unforgettable” and “a truly suspenseful page-turner wi…
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The Costa category shortlists 2015 – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
Skip to main content Costa book awards The Costa category shortlists 2015 – in pictures This year’s five shortlists pit Alice in Wonderland against a 17th century diarist, a collection of sonnets against a hymn to male flesh, and English pastoral ag…
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The Costa Children’s book award shortlist 2015 announced | Children’s books | The Guardian
Check out the Costa children’s prize shortlist 2015, chosen by judges author Martyn Bedford, Waterstones’ Melissa Cox and Andrea Reece, children’s book reviewer and managing editor of Books for Keeps.
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Repair a Messed Up Relationship Over the Holidays with This Six Part Plan
Mending relationships is tough work, but it’s not an impossible task. To help you figure out where to start, The Wall Street Journal’s put together a six step outline. Everyone runs into a relationship they need to fix at some point in their life.
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Female Vocalists Are In the (Mouse) House – Scientific American
How do you attract a mate? If you’re a male mouse, you take the Frank Sinatra approach—you sing. Scientists have known about crooning male mice for years.
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It’s easy to think that ISIS is some sort of evil, medieval cancer that somehow has resurfaced in the modern world. The rest of us are pursuing happiness, and here comes this fundamentalist anachronism, spreading death.
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Mosques vandalised as US states reject Syria refugees – Al Jazeera English
Several mosques have been vandalised and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims carried out after a number of United States governors announced they would not accept Syrian refugees in their states.
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Why Slavoj Zizek Is Wrong About the Syrian Refugee Crisis—And Psychoanalysis – In These Times
Yesterday, Slavoj Žižek responded to my earlier critique of his discussion of the migrant crisis.
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Google Open Sources Two Tools To Import Mail Into Gmail | TechCrunch
If you’ve ever been stuck using another email service and want to move over to Gmail, importing all of your mail is a real pain in the ass. Think Apple’s Mail client tied to say, an exchange account. Today, Google open sourced two projects that’ll h…
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Unruly passenger tries to open exit door on BA flight – BBC News
The crew of a Boston-bound British Airways flight have requested police help after an “unruly” passenger tried to force open an exit door mid-air. An airline spokesman told the BBC that reports of a passenger trying to access the cockpit were incorr…
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Another Company Just Abandoned Off-Shore Drilling In Alaska | ThinkProgress
CREDIT: AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile Norway’s state-owned oil and gas company, Statoil, announced Tuesday it is pulling operations out of the Alaskan Arctic.
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Sometimes what happens on comedy shows to mock the absurdity of government makes its way back into those government institutions.
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Are We Stuck With the Brains We’re Born With? | Motherboard
For years she had tried to be the perfect wife and mother but now, divorced, with two sons, having gone through another break-up and in despair about her future, she felt as if she’d failed at it all, and she was tired of it.
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I Let a Bot Plan My Vacation, But the Next One I’ll Book Myself | Motherboard
I despise traveling. Not the part where you get to explore a new place, or maybe visit a friend, or relax in a gorgeous setting—the part I hate is the part where you have to go to the airport and get on a plane.
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Germany v Netherlands football match evacuated – BBC News
The stadium in the German city of Hannover, which is hosting a football match between Germany and the Netherlands, is being evacuated. Jenny Hill reports from outside the stadium.
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‘The Dreaming’: Seldom-seen Kate Bush videos, TV appearances and B-sides, 1982|Dangerous Minds
Like many Americans, my first exposure to Kate Bush was via her fourth album, 1982’s The Dreaming, for despite being a chart-topper the world over, and with a 1978 appearance on SNL under her belt, Bush had virtually zero profile in America before i…
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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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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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Today on This American Life: chronological milestones.
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Billy Eichner has a rather singular view of the world. He lives for certain people—Meryl Streep, for example—and both loudly and lovingly disparages others.
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Man built an incredible underground bunker in his backyard / Boing Boing
LA Makerspace co-founder Tara Tiger Brown shares a project that her kid-friendly maker workshop is trying to make a reality. Inventor, director and tinkerer Bob Partington made what he claims is the world’s slowest Rube Goldberg Machine.
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Tomatoes taste good because we slowed down their internal clocks | Ars Technica
Tomatoes were probably first domesticated in the Andean region of Peru and Ecuador. From there, cultivation spread to Mexico, where conquistadors found them, returning with them to Europe in the seventeenth century.
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Canada to ‘refocus’ anti-IS efforts with more troop training – BBC News
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to “refocus” his military’s efforts in Syria to put more emphasis on the training of local ground forces.
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Amnesty queries $1.3bn US bombs deal with Saudi Arabia – Al Jazeera English
The US state department has approved the sale of $1.3bn of bombs to Saudi Arabia, to allow the Gulf nation to replenish its depleted weapons supplies as it continues to conduct intensive air strikes in Yemen and Syria.
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Are We Finally at the Tipping Point for Virtual Reality? – The Atlantic
It’s been a big few months for virtual reality. Palmer Luckey, the plucky inventor of the Oculus Rift, made the cover of the August issue of Time magazine.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: China From Above (27 photos)
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Hello Hipmunk Is a Virtual Travel Assistant, Connects to Your Calendar and Email
Travel planning usually takes a lot of work. Travel site Hipmunk wants to help you with that with its new travel planning assistant called Hello Hipmunk. Instead of searching for flights, hotels, or car rentals, you can send an email to hello@hipmun…
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Your Phone Will Never Run Out of Space Again With Google’s New Photos App | Motherboard
Google Photos now goes one helpful step further in its efforts to be your primary photo backup service.
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After Paris Attacks, Weapons Manufacturers’ Stocks Soar | ThinkProgress
Most of the world has suffered from the Paris terror attacks. Over 100 people are dead, hundreds are wounded, and their friends and families are suffering the direct effects of the attack.
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More Than 100,000 Texan Women Have Tried To Induce Their Own Abortion | ThinkProgress
New research paints a bleak picture of what could be in store for U.S. women if the Supreme Court upholds an abortion law that makes it more difficult for health clinics to remain open.
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Parrot Unveils Bebop Drone 2, With Twice The Battery Life | TechCrunch
The Bebop 2 will hit stores and the skies on December 14. It will retail at $550. Like the first Bebop drone, this model will be able to stream 1080p video to a tablet, phone or Virtual Reality headset. Its 14 megapixel camera is largely the same …
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President Obama stated gun control is a key issue, this proves it. : Liberal
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U.S. Demand For Oil Is Depleting Water Supplies Around The World | ThinkProgress
The world’s demand for fossil fuel resources is straining its supply of another, more precious resource — water.
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This Video Shows Why Some Gun Owners Don’t Trust Embattled Firearms Maker Taurus
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Conservation groups allege US has failed to protect endangered red wolf | US news | The Guardian
The US government has failed to properly protect the red wolf, one of the world’s rarest wolves, by allowing a member of the species’ small wild population to be killed, conservationists have claimed.
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The day before the Paris terrorist attacks, “the Paris of the Middle East” – Beirut – was attacked by ISIS. Terrorist set off two bombs in a busy shopping area, killing more than 40 people and injuring more than 240.
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Powerful Labor Union SEIU Backs Hillary Clinton | Al Jazeera America
Powerful labor union SEIU backs Hillary Clinton for president https://t.co/aFBsyDn9FC via Al Jazeera America
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Confusion Over Syrian Passport Found in Paris | Al Jazeera America
Confusion mounts over Syrian passport found at Paris attack site https://t.co/hV974Rc3Tv via Al Jazeera America
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Rejoice! Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to Co-Host ‘SNL’ in December | Flavorwire
NBC has announced the hosts and musical guests for Saturday Night Live when the show returns in December.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will co-host the SNL Christmas episode | The Verge
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are returning to Saturday Night Live next month, this time as co-hosts, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
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’Take a pause’: Republicans push for halt to Syrian refugees entering US | US news | The Guardian
Republicans in Congress are preparing legislation that threatens to suspend a US refugee program for Syrians as the Obama administration revealed details of its screening system to reassure skeptical lawmakers worried about terrorists infiltration.
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Apple may soon release its own Apple Watch charging dock | The Verge
Apple loves making money from accessories (see: the $169 iPad Pro Smart Keyboard), so it’s pretty surprising that the company hasn’t yet bothered releasing a charging dock or nightstand for the Apple Watch. But it seems that might be changing — and …
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Oxford Selects An Emoji As Word Of The Year – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2015 is not in fact a word, but what they have dubbed the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji, which accounts for 17 percent of all emojis sent in U.S. texts and whose use is steeply on the rise. What …
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Comfortable inverted loaf : Catloaf
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Puscifer Offer ‘The Remedy,’ Revitalize Retired Luchador in New Video | Rolling Stone
Maynard James Keenan and Puscifer reenter the ring in the new video for “The Remedy,” another wrestling-themed clip with parallels to the previously released, “Money Shot.
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Why the G20’s new “anti-hacking” agreement is pointless | Ars Technica
A group of the world’s industrialized nations issued a largely meaningless statement on Monday arguing that members states should not “conduct or support” stealing of intellectual property “or other confidential business information.
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Experts Expect Surveillance Power Grab After Paris Attacks | Rolling Stone
When CIA Director John Brennan took the stage at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Monday, he told the audience his remarks would be different than the ones he had prepared to give before Friday’s attacks in Par…
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Bill Murray Hosts TV Show in ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
Bill Murray Hosts TV Show in ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ Trailer Miley Cyrus, Amy Poehler help the actor and comedian save his Christmas special
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Val Kilmer Backtracks on ‘Top Gun 2’ Claim | Rolling Stone
Val Kilmer created a commotion online Tuesday with a Facebook post declaring that he would reprise his role of Iceman in Top Gun 2. “Let’s fire up some fighter jets again!!!” he wrote. Hours later, he said he “jumped the top gun” with the announceme…
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Are Reuniting to Host SNL’s Holiday Episode | Vanity Fair
Saturday Night Live is bringing back two major power players to close out 2015. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler—SNL alums, Sisters co-stars, and awards show emcees extraordinaire—will return to host the show’s holiday episode on December 19th. That’s not a…
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A Dartmouth Fraternity Is in Trouble for Hazing, Again | Vanity Fair
No, it is not Groundhog Day. No, you are not reading a back issue. Yes, the brothers at the Dartmouth University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon are once again mired in a hazing controversy.
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Greece secures deal on next portion of bailout cash – BBC News
Greece has secured a tentative deal with the eurozone to unlock the latest tranche of financial aid. The two sides have agreed a batch of reforms that will be presented to the Greek Parliament on Thursday.
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A Short Documentary On Growing Old – The Atlantic
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In her pursuit of the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton has emphasized her ties to President Obama.
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Following Campus Suicides, Family Wants Change | Al Jazeera America
Following wave of campus suicides, a victims family fights for change https://t.co/eNeSAlcNc4 via Al Jazeera America
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The Paris Attacks: What to Say? What to Think? What to Do? | The Nation
What to say? The news hit me at night, in Brooklyn. A choking black fear suddenly gripped me, because I am Algerian and know what war means: the destruction of all that is human, rupture, the triumph of blindness in all its myriad forms.
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The US Military’s Best Kept Secret | The Nation
In the shadows of what was once called the “dark continent,” a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design.
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Columbine Massacre RPG creator banned from college campus, film festival | Ars Technica
If you followed video games about a decade ago, you probably remember the controversy surrounding Super Columbine Massacre RPG.
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Change Your Damn Facebook Photo – The Daily Beast
For the past few days, my Facebook profile picture has been vertically striped with bars of blue, white, and red. Soon enough it will revert to the regularly-colored selfie I shot a few months ago, but for now tricolor it is.
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Nigeria hit by severe fuel shortage amid payment row – BBC News
A severe fuel crisis has hit Nigeria with long queues of angry motorists waiting for hours outside petrol stations in major cities to fill up.Importers are accused of withholding petrol because of a payment dispute with the government, which they de…
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Prince William to Lead VIPs in Anti-Terror Solidarity at France Match – The Daily Beast
Prince William has changed his plans at the last minute and will attend the soccer match between England and France in London tonight.
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Don’t Be So Quick to Believe Russia That ISIS Bombed Jet – The Daily Beast
If the statement by Russia’s security chief that a bomb brought down the Metrojet Airbus A321 over the Sinai is supported by forensic proof it doesn’t fit neatly with the other sequence of acts of terrorism carried out by ISIS.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dave Grohl to guest star on The Muppets · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Here’s some news that should mollify those moms who are wringing their hands over how risqué the new The Muppets show is: Variety reports that professional adorable people Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dave Grohl will guest star in an upcoming episode.
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Growth Hacking Is A Game Design Problem — Medium
I’m making a start-up which is making a new game. After a lot of hard work with 3D printers, Arduino boards and laptops we’ve come up with something good. We’ve done hundreds of playtests and I’ve seen with my own eyes that people like it a lot.
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French authorities near decision about whether to allow climate rallies | Grist
The government will decide Wednesday or Thursday whether or not the big Paris climate march will go ahead. From replanting the reefs we’ve lost to evolving stronger corals, humans are trying to engineer reefs to withstand climate change.
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Use the Rule of Threes to Find Out If You Have a Sleep Problem
Many people experience sleep problems every now and then, but how do you know when your trouble staying or falling asleep is cause for concern? The “rule of threes” can help.
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England lead the four-match one-day international series against Pakistan 2-1 after James Taylor’s composed half-century secured a six-wicket win. Chasing 209 in Sharjah, England looked in trouble at 93-4 as they struggled against Pakistan’s spinner…
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What the Square I.P.O. May Reveal About the Tech Bubble | Vanity Fair
At the end of San Andreas, the disaster movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, there is a moment of terrifying, morbid premonition. Having just suffered through The Big One, San Francisco is reeling from a series of apocalyptic aftershocks and a …
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BBC Sport – Germany v Netherlands friendly stadium evacuated
The Hannover Stadium hosting Germany’s friendly with the Netherlands is being evacuated. More follows.
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“If this instrument were to be sent to space, it would be the most sensitive device of its kind to leave Earth, and the first to be able to look for both amino acids and fatty acids,” said Jessica Creamer, a NASA postdoctoral fellow based at JPL.
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The Rubio-Cruz War Has Begun | Mother Jones
The simmering tension between Republican presidential rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz has finally bubbled over. On Tuesday morning, top advisers to each candidate pounded the other with the best ammunition at their disposal.
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The Exact Moment When Justice League Unlimited Delivered the Perfect Animated Batman Story
After writing about Justice League Unlimited last week, my thoughts kept coming back to one episode in particular: “Epilogue.
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We Asked Party Planners: What Is the Most Ridiculous Request You’ve Ever Gotten? | Vanity Fair
That’s what Bang Bang, the tattoo artist famous for his work on Rihanna, Cara Delevingne, and Katy Perry, told us when we asked about the most ridiculous request he’d ever received.
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3D Printed Boat Race / Boing Boing
What was once the busiest freight port in the world recently held another freight hauling competition, but with a catch: all the boats were remote-controlled, had to fit in a 2’x2’x2′ box, and had to be 3D printed.
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve sort of always associated Charles Dickens with the kind of humorless moralism and didactic sentimentality that are hallmarks of so much Victorian literature.
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Google Photos Will Now Help You Free Up Space On Your Phone | TechCrunch
Google’s popular photo management utility, Google Photos, which was spun out from Google+ this spring and soon grew to 100 million monthly active users who have uploaded some 50 billion photos, is today getting even more useful.
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Dealmaster: Get a Vizio 48-inch smart HDTV and a $150 gift card for $429.99 | Ars Technica
Hello, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, we have a great deal on a highly rated TV. Now you can get a Vizio 48-inch HD Smart LED television plus a $150 Dell gift card for only $429.99. The TV normally goes for $479, but if you use t…
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What We’re Following Tuesday Afternoon, 11/17 – The Atlantic
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The growing US backlash against Syrian refugees continued to escalate on Tuesday, as at least 27 governors announced they would close their states to asylum seekers fleeing that country’s civil war.
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Creating Vigo the Carpathian, and the ‘Ghostbusters II’ Ending You Never Saw | Mental Floss
Glen Eytchison was deep in the planning stages of his next theatrical production when he got a phone call from Industrial Light & Magic.
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Nvidia’s Shield Tablet K1 is (mostly) the same tab with a new low price | Ars Technica
Ah, the 7-inch Android tablet: once the darling of Google’s Nexus lineup, now a largely neglected form factor relegated to low-end devices with flaky screens and creaky plastics.
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Twitter Moments arrive outside US with Brazil launch | The Verge
Twitter is expanding its new Moments tab to its first foreign country with a launch in Brazil starting today. Moments is the social platform’s magazine-like tool for analyzing and aggregating fast-moving activity like breaking news and live events i…
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Transgender Portraits and the Things a Body Won’t Tell – The New Yorker
In transition, one’s gender identity may feel so nebulous, so unexternalized, that even one’s body seems not to be in on the joke.
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Billboard decides women can be “Legends,” too, starting with Loretta Lynn · Newswire · The A.V. Club
On December 11, Billboard’s 11th annual “Women In Music” event will be held in New York City, celebrating the contributions of those without Y chromosomes to the world of music (or at least the world of chart-topping music).
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Watch the first trailer for Bill Murray’s star-stuffed Netflix Christmas special | The Verge
What do you do when your guests of honor — Paul McCartney, George Clooney, Pope Francis — are snowed out of your glitzy, old-fashioned holiday special? If you’re Bill Murray, it means settling for a motley crew of lesser lights and popping a few bot…
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To Do in LA: 2Headed Dog at the Steve Allen Theater, Nov 24 / Boing Boing
Join LA’s best comedy troupe 2Headed Dog next Tuesday night, 8pm, at the Steve Allen theater!
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Watch Nicole Kidman’s Intense Interrogation in Secret in Their Eyes | Vanity Fair
Do not mess with Nicole Kidman. You may have already known that—from To Die For to Stoker she’s proved many times onscreen that she’s a force to be reckoned with.
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I Binge-Watched Periscope TV and It Almost Killed Me | WIRED
The preacher came to me in my hour of need: 12:58 pm on Wednesday.
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China From Above – The Atlantic
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China From Above A collection of recent aerial images showing the vast diversity of landscapes across China, from cities to mountains, desert to sea shores, and much more. Read more Hints: View this page full screen. Skip to the next and previous ph… -
What I picture when I hear Anonymous declares war on Isis… – GIF on Imgur
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Telling Thanksgiving’s Story in a Vanishing American Language
The saga of the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock has been told, for the most part, in just one language: English. The voices of the Native Americans who were there—speaking in their own languages—have usually been left out.
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FLORENCE, Italie — Comme l’a déclaré le Président François Hollande, la France est bien en guerre contre Daesh. La France considère le groupe Islamiste comme son ennemi numéro un.
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These procedurally generated space bowls are killer / Offworld
Mirror Lake will make a procedurally generated bowl for you. Sometimes the bowl is empty, which sounds like a parable, but mostly it is just a bowl. Sometimes it is in space. Click again, and you’ll be greeted with another bowl.
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Closest rocky exoplanet yet discovered | Ars Technica
It’s a new era in exoplanet science, according to Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington. “We’re at a point now in exoplanet science where we are moving beyond just detecting exoplanets and into the exciting science of un…
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Tumblr’s app can now turn your photos and videos into GIFs | The Verge
How wasn’t this already a feature? The next time you go to post a photo on Tumblr, you may find a bunch of GIFs ready and waiting to be posted instead. Tumblr is updating its iOS app today with a new feature that lets it turn photo bursts and videos…
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Give the Gift of Organization with These Tools
If you know someone who is gearing up to travel, looking to tidy up their home, or wrangle their chaotic cables, we’ve got you covered. These gifts can help the most disorderly of people in your life achieve organizational nirvana.
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Holiday at the Dictator’s Guesthouse — The Atavist Magazine
On the morning of August 1, 2014, Jeffrey Fowle woke before seven in his room at a guesthouse in Pyongyang, North Korea. Soon a young woman arrived with his breakfast of rice, broth, and kimchi.
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Sky warning over ‘cash for porn’ letter – BBC News
Sky has warned some of its customers they are likely to receive letters demanding cash for illegally downloaded pornographic films. The letters, from the Golden Eye company, which has previously targeted O2 customers, threaten legal action.
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Video: Inside The Enormous Vault Where NYC’s Oldest Records Are Stashed: Gothamist
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the Commissioner of the Department of Records & Information Services led two reporters down a flight of stairs, through a glass door, and past a sign that warned “Restricted Area…Employees Only.
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A Guide to Pie Crusts | Lucky Peach
Pie crust, fundamental and unique to American baking, is simultaneously one of the easiest and hardest recipes to master. The difficulty stems from the narrow boundaries within which flaky, tender, barely crispy pie crust exists.
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How to Do Quantum Magnetic Levitation at Home – Scientific American
Air jets and sound waves can be used to levitate objects. But the strangest way of all taps the quantum effects of superconductors. Game developer, space traveler and friend of Scientific American Richard Garriott glides through the demonstration.
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SEIU endorses Hillary Clinton for president : democrats
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SEIU Endorses Hillary Clinton : democrats
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Tumblr today is launching a new tool that will capitalize on its community’s love for both creating and sharing GIFs with the debut of a mobile-only “GIF Maker.
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What if we could automate the writing of clickbait headlines, thus freeing up clickbait writers to do useful work? That’s the question Lars Eidnes wanted to answer when he programmed a recurrent neural network to generate “formulaic and unoriginal” …
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Touch Of Modern Hits $100M ARR As It Records Its Millionth Order | TechCrunch
Touch of Modern, an e-commerce service aimed at men, passed the $100 million annual recurring revenue mark (ARR) in October, the company told TechCrunch in an interview at its SOMA offices. It also processed its millionth order in September. The com…
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New York Review of Books archive acquired by New York Public Library | Books | The Guardian
The New York Public Library has acquired the archives of the New York Review of Books, the library’s board of trustees announced on Tuesday.
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The Internet of Things Is Making Oil Production Vulnerable to Hacking | Motherboard
The world’s oil and gas industry is caught in a slump, with oil prices going up and down and profits in decline.But the industry faces another major problem that’s gotten less attention: cyber threats that could threaten the industry’s stability and…
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Tor Is Trying to Make Dark Web Sites More Secure | Motherboard
Tor users were reminded about the importance of dark web security recently with news that a university had unmasked both the servers and users of some hidden services—sites that hide their location using the Tor network—and provided that information…
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The Totally Restrained Gods of Egypt Trailer Raises Just a Few Questions
Welp. Gods of Egypt is a thing that is happening. And the trailer very much relies on the sheer spectacle eclipsing any other issue this film might raise. But we are not fooled, Gods of Egypt. Contact the author at katharine@io9.com.
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Julianne Moore will star in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Julianne Moore snagged an Oscar nomination for her role as an emotionally smothered housewife in Todd Haynes’ exquisitely sad diorama of mid-20th century domestic life, Far From Heaven.
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Malcolm in the middle: Turnbull woos China and the US | Australia news | The Guardian
It’s been a long few days. Many time zones. A dizzying number of issues and challenges. Very many inputs.
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Video essay examines how Oldboy resurrects the Greek tragedy · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Adaptation, homage, and revisiting are all swirled together in the Park Chan-Wook’s operatic 2005 film, Oldboy.
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SEIU endorses Hillary Clinton for president : Liberal
SEIU endorses Hillary Clinton for president https://t.co/ylG8UXVzdT https://t.co/mOiIRWVso9 via /r/Liberal
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SEIU Endorses Hillary Clinton : Liberal
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SEIU endorses Hillary Clinton for president – YouTube
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Sledge Hammer! A hilarious, prescient warning on police violence from the 1980s / Boing Boing
I loved watching the 1986 comedy TV series “Sledge Hammer!” as a kid. David Rasche’s portrayal of San Francisco’s most aggressive, least sensitive, and completely absurd police detective, the titular Sledge, is fantastic.
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Ancient Board Game Found in Looted China Tomb
Archaeologists think this 14-face die was used to play a game called “bo” that hasn’t been played in 1,500 years.Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn’t been played for 1,500 years were discovered in a heavily looted 2,300-year-old tomb near…
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Anonymous takes on IS – BBC News
They are a loose collective of hackers who once appeared to have no greater purpose than having some mischievous anarchic fun. But in recent times Anonymous has got serious.
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BBC Sport – French Ligue 1 games to go ahead with no away fans
French league games this weekend will go ahead, but away fans will not be allowed in for security reasons. On Friday, 129 people died in attacks across Paris, which included three suicide bombs outside the Stade de France as France were playing Germ…
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Man Shot by Minneapolis Police Dies: Report | Al Jazeera America
Man shot by Minneapolis police dies: report https://t.co/yOWb5AF8G0 via Al Jazeera America
Community activists have identified the deceased as Jamar Clark and said he was unarmed. Police said he was not handcuffed when he was shot, but activists dispute that and say he was shot in the head. -
Zola the Stripper Tells All | Rolling Stone
On a recent night in Detroit, Aziah “Zola” Wells returned to where it all began: Hooters.
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Hear Roger Waters’ Dramatic Live ‘Comfortably Numb’ | Rolling Stone
Hear Roger Waters’ Dramatic Live ‘Comfortably Numb’ Track appears on former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter’s upcoming soundtrack album to ‘Wall’ concert film
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‘Janis: Little Girl Blue’: Inside the New Joplin Doc | Rolling Stone
This fall marks the 45th anniversary of Janis Joplin’s death from an overdose in a Hollywood hotel room. Since then, she’s been the subject of books, reissues, a boxed set, an off-Broadway show, and a still-in-development biopic, possibly starring A…
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Watch Rocking New Trailer for Scorsese and Jagger’s ‘Vinyl’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Rocking New Trailer for Scorsese and Jagger’s ‘Vinyl’ HBO show’s latest clip for upcoming music-industry drama piles on the sex, drugs and vintage Seventies rock & roll
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Frontal brain wrinkle linked to hallucinations – BBC News
A study of 153 brain scans has linked a particular furrow, near the front of each hemisphere, to hallucinations in schizophrenia.This fold tends to be shorter in those patients who hallucinate, compared with those who do not.
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PARIS — The Belgian man suspected of plotting the Paris terrorist attacks was a target of Western airstrikes on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, as recently as last month, according to a European security official.
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Redcar owner loses £530m on steel plant liquidation – BBC News
The Thai owner of the Redcar steelworks has said that it lost almost Baht 29bn ($800m, £530m) from the liquidation of the Teesside plant. Parent company Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) said it expected “zero recovery” from the Redcar operation.
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Hillary Clinton’s Hedge Fund Support Is Deeper Than 9/11 : politics
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Post-9/11 Rebuilding Isn’t The Only Reason Hedge Funds Support Hillary Clinton
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Michigan governor’s about-face on refugees undercuts resettlement plans | US news | The Guardian
Last week, a group of eight investors in Michigan announced what may be a first-of-its-kind project to resettle Syrian refugees. They had purchased 120 parcels of land in Pontiac, about 30 miles north of Detroit, with an aim to one day house an esti…
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 17th – The New Yorker
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Roll call of callousness: Dozens of governors would reject Syrian refugees
Before House Republicans could even get their act together to decide what horrible bill blocking Syrian refugees from the United States they would support, a host of governors—all but one of them Republican—have stepped up to posture about their pla…
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NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—There are growing fears among supporters of the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump that his new focus on Muslims is distracting him from his campaign against Mexicans.
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MeUndies Thinks Fun Is What’s Missing from Underwear Shopping – Racked
Eleven minutes and 58 seconds. That’s how long the recorder has been running before Bryan Lalezarian, the CEO of underwear startup MeUndies, tugs down the waist of his jeans and shows me his underwear, to effectively demonstrate just how excited peo…
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What Happened to Kesha?: A Timeline | Passion of the Weiss
Haley Potiker is still getting the glitter out of her couch cushions. All Kesha wants to do is leave her contract.
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Perivale doctor and nurse guilty of keeping man as slave for 24 years – BBC News
Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now 40, told Harrow Crown Court he had arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 1989 when he was 14 and made to look after the couple’s home and children. Emmanuel and Antan Edet, from Perivale, north west London, were found guilty of …
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Is it possible to run out of empathy? — Hopes&Fears
After the tragic attacks in Paris last Friday, the world responded with an outpouring of grief and support. Then came a wave of backlash. Just the night before the tragic attacks in France, another terrorist strike hit Beirut, with two suicide bombe…
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Julian Broadhead obituary | Books | The Guardian
The writer Julian Broadhead, who has died of a heart attack aged 66, was fascinated by people from all walks of life, their stories and their voices.
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Paris: The War ISIS Wants by Scott Atran and Nafees Hamid | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
The shock produced by the multiple coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday—the scenes of indiscriminate bloodshed and terror on the streets, the outrage against Islamic extremism among the public, French President Francois Holland’s vow to be “mercil…
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After Paris, John Oliver and Stephen Colbert Try to Let Comedy Help With Tragedy – The Atlantic
Put John Oliver’s name into Google, and the first auto-complete option that follows it now is “Paris,” and for good reason.
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We learned yesterday that even after Friday’s terrorist attacks that killed 129 people in Paris, global warming activists are pushing to go ahead with large protests and civil disobedience in the French capital two weeks from now.
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Google will contest Russian antitrust regulators’ “unfounded” Android decision | Ars Technica
On Tuesday, Google said that it would contest a recent ruling from Russian authorities that Google broke antitrust law in that country by bundling its services with its Android platform.
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Encryption Is Being Scapegoated To Mask The Failures Of Mass Surveillance | TechCrunch
Well that took no time at all.
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Apple Brings Same-Day Delivery To New York Through Expanded Postmates Partnership | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Apple began offering same-day delivery of its products and accessories through its Apple Store mobile application, and then later expanded that option to its online web store thanks to its partnership with delivery service Postmat…
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Teach Your Kids How to Code with Minecraft or Star Wars Tutorials
Programming is a valuable skill for kids of all ages to pick up, and when they learn by playing with their favorite characters and games it’s even more fun. Code.org has two new tutorials that will appeal to many kids based on Minecraft and Star War…
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Samsung’s Note 5 now comes with very obvious warning about stylus insertion | The Verge
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5 is a spectacular smartphone with a slight design flaw; sticking the S Pen stylus in backwards can break your premium phablet in a matter of seconds.
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Israel Approves 454 New Settlement Homes | Al Jazeera America
Israel approves 454 new settlement homes in East Jerusalem https://t.co/2bHBIFcQhY via Al Jazeera America
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A 5-minute history of the war in Syria and the rise of ISIS
From Vox, a quick video summary of the war in Syria and the rise of ISIS. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has claimed responsibility for Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, has its origins in Iraq, but the group as we know it today is in ma…
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HIV is not a “gay disease”; it is a human virus. HIV does not care if you are straight, gay, bisexual or transgender. It does not care if you are black or white or brown, college-educated or a high school drop-out, male or female, a child of privile…
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How to Survive a 1,600-foot Tumble | Outside Online
Ian McIntosh was maybe five turns into a first descent of a jagged Alaskan peak when things went wrong. The 34-year-old Canadian pro skier was filming a segment for Teton Gravity Research and carving down a face the film crew dubbed “Daybreak Spines.
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The US Military Used Lasers to Shoot Down a Drone in 1973
Lasers are the future of warfare. So it might come as a surprise to many Americans that the US military first used a laser to shoot a drone out of the sky as early as 1973. The laser program was part of Project Delta, an ARPA (now DARPA) initiative …
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Sun’s Monstrous Plasma Blast Rooted In Rare Circle of Magnetism | Video
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Google Play Movies and TV shows are coming to your LG smart TV | The Verge
If you own an LG smart TV, you’re about to gain a new way to stream content to your device. First spotted by Android Central, LG will begin rolling out Google Play Movies & TV to its lineup of WebOS smart TVs, and older NetCast 4.0 and 4.5 models la…
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Relationships with television shows are like relationships with people. Sometimes it’s mad, hopeless love at first sight, and you know that a show just understands you and shares your values, and other times you get used to a show over time and say …
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The premise of the plot of A Very Murray Christmas is that Bill Murray has assembled some of his famous friends to celebrate the holidays. But that’s also, of course, what Murray did in real life.
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Live from Chrome Dev Summit – The Verge
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US firefighter’s face transplant declared a success – Al Jazeera English
Doctors have declared the world’s most extensive face transplant on New Yorker Patrick Hudson a success. About 150 medical staff were involved in the life-changing operation in the US city.
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The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees : Liberal
The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees https://t.co/aBZR77DR5Q https://t.co/nyHReFStir via /r/Liberal
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The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees – The Washington Post
The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees https://t.co/aBZR77DR5Q https://t.co/nyHReFStir via /r/Liberal
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Can We Rewire Our Own Brains? – Digg
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can — if we want it enough. But is that true? Will Storr wades through the truth and the hokum about neuroplasticity.
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An Ode To ‘Shark Tank,’ TV’s Most Addictive Capitalist Fever Dream | UPROXX
I was watching an episode of Shark Tank a few weeks ago, and these two poor guys were just cooked. They didn’t realize it yet, either.
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Gotham, What Are You Even Doing
Hey? Did you know Jim Gordon has a dark side? If you’ve watched five minutes of any episode of Gotham you did, but that didn’t stop the show from devoting an entire hour to an idea that the whole damn show has been built upon from the start.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, THE DROWNING MACHINE via /r/pics…
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Approximately 220,000 people have been killed in Syria, and half of the country’s population has been displaced since the start of the country’s civil war. Coupled with the rise of the extremist terrorist group ISIS, the violence has prompted more t…
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House Speaker Calls For ‘Pause’ In Accepting Syrian Refugees In U.S. | ThinkProgress
Newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) called for a “pause” in Syrian refugees in the aftermath of the attack in Paris. “Our nation has always been welcoming, but we cannot let terrorists take advantage of our compassion.
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Seven Charts Reveal October Global Temperatures Were Off-The-Charts | ThinkProgress
How hot was October globally? It was not merely the hottest October — by far — in the 135-year temperature record of NASA (see chart above). Or the hottest October — by far — in the 125-year temperature record of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA…
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Apple Pay Just Launched in Canada, But You Probably Can’t Use It | Motherboard
Apple’s mobile payments service finally launched in Canada on Tuesday—if you can really call it a launch.
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Charlie Hebdo’s Latest Cover: ‘F*ck Them. We Have Champagne.’ | ThinkProgress
“They have weapons. Fuck them. We have champagne.” It’s goofy but graphic, funny and disturbing. Bubbly gushes out of bullet holes, spewing in arcs like the Fontaines de la Concorde. The man looks like he’s dancing; if he were real, he’d be dying.
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The latest Nest thermostat is now available in Europe | The Verge
More than two months after debuting its third-generation thermostat, Nest is bringing its newest iteration to Europe — and more importantly, it’s enabled some customizations specifically for that market.
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No one is as beloved by the world at large, yet so polarizing within the field of comics, as Stan Lee.
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Eerie lifelike sculpture of Harry Houdini / Boing Boing
Dead since Halloween 1926, Harry Houdini just won’t die. That’s a paradox, but the old bastard really won’t go away.
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Oxford Dictionaries names an emoji its word of the year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Widening the cultural divide between generations that have trouble configuring their WiFi network and those who end their romantic relationships via Snapchat, Wired is reporting that Oxford Dictionaries has selected the “face with tears of joy” emoj…
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Hercules Supermassive Black Hole –“Lights Up One of the Brightest Objects Beyond the Milky Way”
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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Jennifer Aniston joins Robert De Niro’s Comedian · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Jennifer Aniston is set to star alongside Robert De Niro in The Comedian, an upcoming drama directed by Taylor Hackford.
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Will President Obama Leave a Failed Legacy on Secret Money in Politics? : democrats
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Mini-review: iWork ‘15 brings a lot of little changes but no headliners | Ars Technica
In 2013 following a five-year hiatus, Apple dropped new versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers on unsuspecting iWork ’09 users. A lot of features were removed and the user interface was significantly overhauled.
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The first decade of the 21st century was a boom time for corporate sustainability. Iconic US companies, including GE, IBM, Walmart and Google, embraced the movement. Fortune 500 firms published their first corporate social responsibility (CSR) repor…
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Snail shell magnified 2500:1 / Boing Boing
Set the mood with the ilumi A21 Bluetooth Smartbulb, a color-tunable LED light you can control and program wirelessly from your smartphone.
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Restricting Encryption Would Not Have Prevented the Paris Attacks – The Atlantic
Soon after gunshots rang out in Paris on Friday evening, European officials began speculating about how such a well-planned attack went undetected until it was too late. Spies from multiple allied countries shared intelligence about a threat to Pari…
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Audi wants you to stop talking about diesels and look at its electric plans | The Verge
Be glad you’re not an executive at Volkswagen Group right now. This week they’ll face down reporters at the Los Angeles International Auto Show who only want to talk about one thing: diesel.
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American Homes Are Bigger and Less Energy-Efficient – The Atlantic
Thanks to new technologies in insulation, water use, heating and cooling, and household appliances, American homes are more energy-efficient than ever. There were a lot of improvements in energy efficiency between 1970 and 2012, Pew Research Center’…
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Paris attacks: Inside suspect Salah Abeslam’s hotel room – BBC News
French magazine Le Point has published video purportedly of the interiors of the two rooms rented at Appart’City Alfortville, a hotel in an eastern suburb of Paris, by the suspect Salah Abdeslam for two nights before Friday’s attacks.
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Nigerian footballer Samson Siasia’s mother kidnapped – BBC News
Gunmen have kidnapped the 72-year-old mother of ex-international Nigerian footballer Samson Siasia. Three kidnappers took Ogere Siasia from the family home in Bayelsa state in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Bill Murray’s Star-Studded Netflix Christmas Special Gets Its First Trailer – The Daily Beast
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—by which we mean we are getting awfully close to the premiere of A Very Murray Christmas, a musical special starring Bill Murray that makes its streaming debut via Netflix on December 4.
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Smart Fragrance Dispenser Pura Scents Opens Pre-Orders On Kickstarter | TechCrunch
Because there is a gadget for everything, let not the realm of scent dispensers be ignored. Pura Scents, launching a Kickstarter campaign today, is looking to lead the pack with a smart fragrance dispenser. Think Glade plug-ins but controlled by an …
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‘Supergene’ Determines Wading Birds’ Sex Strategy – Scientific American
A long stretch of DNA called a supergene explains the variety of bizarre tactics that a wading bird species deploys to win mates, a pair of genome-sequencing studies concludes.
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One of the recurring questions facing on-demand and “sharing economy” services is whether normal people will actually use them. BabyCenter decided to look at the issue by asking by asking “mobile moms.”
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Chrome On Mobile Now Has 800M Monthly Active Users | TechCrunch
Google today announced that the number of Chrome users on mobile doubled from 400 million 30-day actives to 800 million over the course of the last year. That’s a mix of Android and iOS users.
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US secretary of state John Kerry says France and the US will increase cooperation against Islamic State after Paris attacks, adding that the group is losing territory in the Middle East and the Western-backed coalition is making inroads against it
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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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Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy Technologies | Union of Concerned Scientists
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Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy Technologies : environment
Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy Technologies https://t.co/J28BBy753h https://t.co/YnBYXSCNKF via /r/environment
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Scientists identify climate ‘tipping points’ https://t.co/Iaw3L5Q5Bp https://t.co/zYmAZgvVzY via /r/environment
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Scientists identify climate ‘tipping points’ : environment
Scientists identify climate ‘tipping points’ https://t.co/Iaw3L5Q5Bp https://t.co/zYmAZgvVzY via /r/environment
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Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies – Abell S0740 [3430 x 3813] https://t.co/JIXcZ3qTHK https://t.co/43t2tdvpjF
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Let’s Not Make Charlie Sheen the Public Face of HIV/AIDS – The Atlantic
Charlie Sheen is a person, and people with problems deserve sympathy. On the Today show this morning, he talked about struggling with the diagnosis of HIV he received “three or four” years ago. “It’s a hard three letters to absorb,” Sheen said. “It’…
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Olafur Eliasson: why I’m sailing Arctic icebergs into Paris | Art and design | The Guardian
It was planned as a wake-up call to one crisis, but it is sailing towards the heart of another. A mass of ice harvested from Greenland is currently on its way to Paris, where it is due to be installed on Place de la République on 29 November to mark…
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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Your Horoscopes — Week Of November 17, 2015 – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
You’ll find it difficult to point out your assailant in court next week, but that’s mainly because of what he’ll have done to your hands.
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There’s nothing new about the 7-9 rating scale for video games / Boing Boing
This amusing criticism of game rating inflation is doing the rounds; who can deny that pretty much everything seems to get a seemingly high score? And that if it gets less than 7, it’s garbage. But the suggestion it’s a new phenomenon, not, that is …
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A Texas state legislator wants the U.S. to stop allowing Syrian refugees into the country. His reasoning: They might be able to buy guns in his state. Rep. Tony Dale (R) made this argument in a television interview on Monday and in letters to Texas’…
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After the terror, Paris looks inward and ahead | The Verge
The skies were gray and drizzly over Paris today, as the city continued to mourn the 129 lives that were lost in a series of horrific terrorist attacks Friday night.
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Coral reefs are in trouble. Meet the people trying to rebuild them | Grist
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This tool is a fucking plague to the riding community – GIF on Imgur
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Cleveland Browns name Johnny Manziel starter for rest of season | Sport | The Guardian
The Browns will go with quarterback Johnny Manziel as their starter for the remainder of this season. The team made the announcement on Tuesday before practice.
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China’s Bold Push into Genetically Customized Animals – Scientific American
New kinds of dogs, goats and monkeys are being made quickly, although scientists voice worries about ethics and whether the methods should be used on humans By | Caption: Two beagles (Hercules, left, and Tangou, right) were genetically-modified in a…
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Thrill to the covers of Boris Karloff’s ‘Tales of Mystery’ comic|Dangerous Minds
E.C.‘s Tales from the Crypt was long dead and buried by the time I’d picked up my first Spider-Man comic and attempted web-slinging off the garage roof.
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Which iPad Model Has the Best Display?
An iPad is essentially a giant screen, which explains why Apple puts so much care into its tablet’s displays. But while the iPad mini 4, iPad Air 2, and iPad Pro all offer premium views of the digital plains, some subtle differences separate them.
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The Internet Has Helped Hipsters in Cuba Discover American Fashion | Motherboard
There’s a weird glamour-meets-gutter factor on the street in Cuba. One minute, you pass dead roosters, one-legged men and barefoot kids splashing in sewer water. Then you round a corner in Central Havana, Vedado or Cienfuegos, and boom, it’s Hipster…
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Star Wars: Battlefront and the art of retro sound design | The Verge
Playing Star Wars: Battlefront can be like stepping into a scene from The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi.
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The Very Worst Takeaways From the Paris Attacks | The Nation
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Sex in Space Would Involve a Lot of Belts | Motherboard
What would sex in space be like? It’s a question that’s not only on the minds of porn stars looking to join the 250-mile high club and bored freshmen in their Astronomy 100 classes, but fans of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Star Talk.
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Democrats Are Right—We’re Not At War With ‘Radical Islam’ | The Nation
Conservatives don’t have a lot of constructive ideas for countering the threat of small groups of non-state actors wreaking havoc with low-tech weapons, as ISIS did in the coordinated terrorist attacks on Paris that killed at least 129 people last w…
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Why Algebraic Eraser may be the most risky cryptosystem you’ve never heard of | Ars Technica
A potential standard for securing network-connected pacemakers, automobiles, and other lightweight devices has suffered a potentially game-over setback after researchers developed a practical attack that obtains its secret cryptographic key.
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Theocrat Ted Cruz doubles down on religious litmus test for Syrian refugees
No room at Ted Cruz’s inn. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had harsh words for President Obama after the president called him and his ilk out for saying we should have a religious litmus test for refugees coming to the United States. Here’s what Obama said: Inc…
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UN anger after Thailand deports ‘Chinese dissidents’ – BBC News
The United Nations has criticised Thailand for deporting two people who had been given refugee status by the organisation. The two are thought to be the Chinese dissidents, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping, who had fled to Thailand with their families.
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The unusual couple behind an online field guide to psychoactive substances / Boing Boing
In the New Yorker’s annual tech issue, Emily Witt profiles the founders of Erowid, “a couple in their mid-forties — a man and a woman who call themselves Earth and Fire, respectively.” In “The Trip Planners” (p.
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Google Photos can now delete pictures to save space on your phone | The Verge
Everyone at The Verge thinks I’m crazy for continuing to buy phones with only 16GB of storage, but the trick to living on a tiny hard drive is expeditiously backing up and removing the many gigs of photos that quickly fill it all up.
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Paul Ryan, US speaker of the House of Representatives, calls for a pause in the US program to resettle Syrian refugees after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.
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CIA Director Delivers Some Blunt Talk About….Climate Change : environment
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CIA Director Delivers Some Blunt Talk About….Climate Change | Mother Jones
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Airsoft Sniper Headshot : gifs
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Anonymous threatens ISIS, tells government to “step aside” / Boing Boing
Video from Anonymous tells ISIS “we will lay waste to every digital tool you use to recruit and fight. Governments of the world, if you want to defeat ISIS, all you must do is step aside.”
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Chris Christie Says U.S. Should Reject Even Orphan Refugees Under Five Years Old | ThinkProgress
Republican governors across the country on Monday reacted to the Paris terrorist attacks by declaring that their states would refuse Syrian refugees who are fleeing their war-torn country, even though governors lack the power to actually do so.
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EU-Ukraine free trade ‘set for 2016’ – President Poroshenko – BBC News
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko says the EU has confirmed that an EU-Ukrainian free trade zone will be launched on 1 January. The deal was supposed to take effect this January but Russia objected.
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DENVER—Noting that he is no longer capable of safely maneuvering across the field on his own, the Denver Broncos announced Tuesday that quarterback Peyton Manning will now be accompanied in all games by a specially trained assistance dog.
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A good part of my youth was spent in front of my old family hi-fi system, listening to Beatles records. This was music I knew no longer existed in the modern world—not on contemporary pop radio, and not on MTV… nowhere but on what seemed to me those…
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Been waiting to binge watch Legend of Korra? Now you can, for free. If you’re based in the U.S., Nick.com and the Nick app now have every episode from all four seasons of the show available to watch online until November 30th. Our suggestion? You sh…
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Taj Mahal: India’s top court orders crematorium to move – BBC News
India’s Supreme Court has ordered the removal of a wood-burning crematorium near the Taj Mahal to protect the famous monument to love from pollution. The court acted after a judge warned the crematorium’s smoke could damage the 17th Century marble m…
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The History of Hazardous Clothing, in Pictures | Atlas Obscura
The Arsenic Waltz or The New Dance of Death (Dedicated to the Green Wreath and Dress-Mongers), relating to the use of arsenic as a green pignment, from an 1862 issue of Punch. (Photo: Wellcome Library, London/Courtesy Bloomsbury) Green ball gowns ti…
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Rwandan Senate votes to allow third term for Kagame – Al Jazeera English
Rwanda’s upper house of parliament has unanimously approved a constitutional amendment to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term. The vote by the Senate on Tuesday clears the path for a referendum that is not expected to face much oppositi…
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Combating Terrorism with Science – Scientific American
From the psychology of violent extremism to cracking encrypted communications, counterterrorism efforts rely on the latest scientific research
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Star Wars: Battlefront review: stunning as the Death Star, dry as Tatooine | Ars Technica
Editor’s Note: This review was based on experience with a full version of the game available through EA Access before its official release. The review may be updated if post-release server performance is significantly different.
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Incredible timelapse footage of marijuana plants|Dangerous Minds
If you are a cannabis aficionado, getting to visit a properly set-up marijuana “grow room” is an extra special treat. The first time I ever got to see a fairly large pot grow in the flesh was about eleven years ago in Humboldt County.
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Nonny de la Peña: The future of news? Virtual reality | TED Talk | TED.com
What if you could experience a story with your entire body, not just with your mind? Nonny de la Peña is working on a new form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with emerging virtual reality technology to put the audience inside the …
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I fits in this broken box. : cats
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Space Radiation is Quietly Stopping Us From Sending Humans To Mars | Inverse
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Shake Off Those Charter Chains
Advocates for charter schools frequently argue that generalizing about these schools is unfair because charters, by their very entrepreneurial, unregulated design, are not all the same. This is true. Charter schools are not all the same.
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Ryan Gosling confirms Blade Runner 2 role – BBC News
Ryan Gosling will star in Blade Runner 2. The Canadian actor confirmed the news in an interview with Collider while promoting his new movie, The Big Short.
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Why Another ‘War on Terror’ Won’t Work | The Nation
It could have been worse, though that is hard to contemplate. The suicide bombers arrived at the Stade de France twenty minutes after the start of the game. Probably they had been planning to blow themselves up in the midst of the crowds while they …
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Charlie Sheen on NBC Today: ‘I’m here to admit I’m HIV positive’ – BBC News
Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has confirmed he is living with HIV, in a US television interview. The former star of sitcom Two And A Half Men appeared on NBC’s Today show, ending days of intense media speculation.
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NASA: Mars’ Curiosity Rover Heads Up Mount Sharp
Curiosity has driven about 1,033 feet (315 meters) in the past three weeks, since departing an area where its drill sampled two rock targets just 18 days apart. The latest drilled sample, “Greenhorn,” is the ninth since Curiosity landed in 2012 and …
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Republicans Want to Use Religious Tests to Bar Refugees From the US | The Nation
President Obama should not have had to explain to the Republicans who would be president that one of the basic premises of the American experiment is that this country does not apply religious tests in establishing programs and policies, regulations…
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Crowdinvesting to expand cocktail startup Shaken / Boing Boing
As previously mentioned, the nice folks at Shaken sell subscriptions to monthly cocktail kits, which comprise a selection of rare and delicious ingredients and simple instructions for mixing and varying new and delicious boozy concoctions.
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I just worked my first day in retail : gifs
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You won’t live to see the final Star Wars movie
Someone on Twitter said this is the best piece about the upcoming Star Wars movie, and I think he’s right. But it’s not so much about Star Wars specifically as it is about how Hollywood studios are trying to build infinite series of movies. These ne…
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Paul Ryan to terrorists: Take advantage of our fear and bigotry, just not our compassion
Speaker Paul Ryan announced to a closed meeting of Republicans Tuesday morning that he hopes the House will take action this week to address refugees from Syria, according to a source in the room.
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Russia steps up attacks against IS with missile bombardment – BBC News
Russia has stepped up its attacks on Islamic State targets in Syria, dispatching long-range bombers and firing a volley of cruise missiles. The strikes follow a statement by Russia’s security chief that a bomb brought down a Russian airliner over Eg…
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Egypt court extends detention of ‘tortured’ teen – Al Jazeera English
A teenager imprisoned in Cairo nearly two years ago after being accused of a number offences, including “protesting illegally”, will be detained for at least 45 more days after an Egyptian court issued another detention renewal.
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The troubled television star Charlie Sheen revealed his H.I.V.-positive status on Tuesday during a live interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show, saying that he wanted to put a stop “to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks.”“I am in fact H…
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LOS ANGELES — As tabloid reports proliferated on Monday that the troubled television star Charlie Sheen plans to soon reveal his HIV-positive status, one of Hollywood’s top crisis public relations experts confirmed that representatives for Mr.
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Why the Biggest Problem with the Media Is Not ‘Liberal Bias’ | The Nation
Lately, Republican presidential candidates have found a political target that’s easier to hit than their primary rivals or even Hillary Clinton: the media. For instance, Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.
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I Paid to Get Rid of Ads on YouTube and Now My Life Is Way Better
Last month, Google introduced YouTube Red, a paid tier for YouTube that removes ads, among other cool features. I’ve been using it ever since launch day What I thought would be a minor reduction in annoyances actually changed how I view and enjoy th…
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Half Of People Who Went To College In The Recession Haven’t Graduated | FiveThirtyEight
One side effect of the 2007-09 recession was a surge in college attendance. Nearly 3 million Americans enrolled in college in the fall of 2009,1 half a million more than two years earlier. Some of those were new high school graduates who would have …
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The Mile High Club: How to Have Airplane Sex
There are some titles you earn that nobody can ever take away: Marine. Ph.D. And, of course, card-carrying member of the Mile High Club. Yep, once you’ve done it at 30,000ft, you’ve pretty much won the “where’s the kinkiest place you’ve had sex?” ga…
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Behold the Most Extensive Face Transplant in Medical History
A firefighter from Mississippi whose face became disfigured during a rescue attempt is the recipient of the world’s most extensive face transplant. The 41-year-old now bears the face of a 26-year-old man who recently died in an extreme cycling accid…
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Yes, Millennials Do Buy Cars | TechCrunch
History is littered with bad predictions. In 1876, Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer of the British Post Office, claimed that his countrymen and women would never adapt what was then a just-emerging technology. “The Americans have need of the telep…
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Promises, Promises: Republicans Versus Reality in 2016 | New Republic
Until their fourth debate last week, Republican presidential primary candidates had been notable for their apparent indifference to the Affordable Care Act. This was less a function of resignation than of repetition and fatigue.
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A Missed Business Opportunity: Senior Centers That Are Actually Fun – The Atlantic
In the U.S., senior care is not something many entrepreneurs are thinking creatively about. Not so in Japan: In the past year, 60 gambling-themed senior-daycare centers have opened up, giving some of the nation’s elderly not just basic shelter, but …
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How Data Centers Are Placed Abroad – The Atlantic
Road trips are always defined by the places there isn’t enough time to see. Writing about The Cloud through the lens of a road trip is tricky, because those gaps of things unseen tend to be on other continents.
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Tool Announce 2016 Tour, ‘An Unparalleled Sonic and Visual Experience’ | Rolling Stone
Two weeks after Tool staged their lone concert performance together in 2015 – a Halloween gig that featured the band dressing up as Led Zeppelin – the group has announced a January tour.
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Turns out that “unsubscribing” from spam actually works / Boing Boing
After my spam hit a point where I couldn’t actually download my email faster than it was arriving, I spent a month clicking the unsubscribe links in all the spams in my inbox. Weirdly, it worked.
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MOSCOW — Hours after confirming for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb brought down a Russian charter jet over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt more than two weeks ago, killing all 224 people aboard, Russia joined France in bombing Islamic State targ…
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See John Cale Attend Dreamlike Masquerade in Eerie ‘Close Watch’ Video | Rolling Stone
John Cale rendezvouses with Dirty Projectors singer Amber Coffman at a gauzy, dreamlike masquerade in the video for his new version of “Close Watch,” which will appear on the former Velvet Underground violist’s M:FANS album.
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Years & Years Releases Music Video Created With Google’s DeepDream Technology | TechCrunch
Earlier this year, Google released DeepDream, an open source tool that generates visualizations using artificial neural networks (AI that Google’s been exploring for image and speech recognition). And now we’ve got the first DeepDream-powered music …
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Spotify Bets On Data To Lure Artists To Its Platform | TechCrunch
Music streaming service Spotify is getting big, and its streaming data is now becoming valuable for artists and music labels. Today, the company announced that artists and labels can now access a new Fan Insights portal.
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The best set-top box you can buy | The Verge
What’s on tonight? Oh, you know, everything Shot on location at WeWork. Also available on YouTube.
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Plans announced for Australia’s first Muslim party – Al Jazeera English
Following the rise of a number of anti-Islam parties in Australia, a Sydney businessman has announced plans to form the country’s first Muslim political party.
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The Hunger Games Cast Found the Perfect Way to Honor Paris | Vanity Fair
The Hunger Games cast assembled to wind down their four-year journey together at the premiere of Mockingjay—Part 2 in Los Angeles Monday night.
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An Attack on Bloggers – Al Jazeera English
Blogging is a dangerous business in Bangladesh. Four secular bloggers have been brutally murdered this year and a publisher linked to one of them was recently slashed to death.
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A friend of mine went to Switzerland, I received an appropriate picture – Imgur
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Stanford president pressed on fossil fuel divestment during haircut – video | US news | The Guardian
Stanford University president John Hennessy was asked about his current policies on fossil fuel divestment while getting his hair cut at a local barber.
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Lumoid Adds Headphones And Home Audio To Its Try-Before-You-Buy Experience | TechCrunch
The thing about being a portable audiophile is that you have to put a lot of trust in online reviews. It’s hard to get the full experience testing out a pair of cans in Best Buy and often places like that are lacking the vast majority of most high-e…
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Margaret Cho says feels “vindicated” by the new wave of Asian-led sitcoms · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Wrap recently sat down with comedian and actress Margaret Cho to chat about her upcoming guest stint on Ken Jeong’s sitcom Dr. Ken. Between that show, Fresh Off The Boat, and Quantico, ABC has become the first network in history to have three co…
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Watch another trailer for HBO’s druggy music drama Vinyl | The Verge
HBO has released another trailer for its upcoming rock ‘n’ roll epic Vinyl, the Martin Scorsese-Mick Jagger collaboration that’s been brewing for years before finally securing a release date in February.
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The new reality for the streaming music industry: go big or go home | The Verge
Yesterday afternoon Pandora announced it was acquiring Rdio, or at least its tech and talent, while the service and CEO were put out to pasture in a bankruptcy.
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Ruff sex: nature’s most gender-fluid bird | World news | The Guardian
Name: Ruffs. Age: Up to four-and-a-half years, on average.
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Why It’s So Easy for Pediatricians to Misdiagnose Kids – The Atlantic
We had been well trained for this—as a toddler, Brandon had been diagnosed with severe asthma, a condition that didn’t seem to improve even with his daily doses of inhaled steroids and bronchodilators. I asked him quickly, “How bad is it? What kind …
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This preview of next season’s engines reveals categorical differences with the current specifications. (Reddit, amazingly, found the original.)
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Watch an Exclusive Sneak Peek of Tonight’s Limitless
On Limitless this week, Brian pitches Naz the tall order of capturing the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” in two weeks. And he wants NZT to do it. And, if he succeeds, he also wants his own “headquarters” at the office. And, oh yeah, he’s made creepy clay e…
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After Paris: Do the Democrats Have a Strategy Against ISIS? – The Atlantic
Before Saturday night’s debate, the Democratic presidential candidates had only a day to prepare for terrorism’s new centrality to the 2016 campaign. And it showed.
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Mike Huckabee Can’t Think Of Anyone Except Muslims Targeting Innocent Civilians | ThinkProgress
Responding to the Paris attacks in an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, presidential candidate and former governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) said that he could not think of any group targeting innocent civilians except for radical Muslims.
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Chris Christie is so tough he’s afraid of Syrian orphans under the age of five
Sorry. Chris Christie is afraid of you. Chris Christie likes to act like a tough guy, and on Monday he showed what it means to be a tough guy in today’s Republican Party. You’re not tough because you defy fear. You’re tough because your heart is har…
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Fall Asleep Faster With a Before-Bed Brain Dump
When you have a lot on your mind at the end of the day, it can be tough to fall asleep. If this is a familiar annoyance for you, try a brain dump before bed. Most of us have a ton of thoughts buzzing around our heads at bedtime.
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Satya Nadella Delivers Microsoft State of Security Address | TechCrunch
Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that entails. Speaking at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum, h…
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Peyton Manning is going out with a whimper – but he’s in good company | Sport | The Guardian
It’s not hard to find people who think Peyton Manning should retire. You can’t chuck a football 15 yards, or Manning’s current downfield range, without hitting 100 columns calling for the future Hall of Famer to quit.
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Aston Martin’s Soundcloud Account Is Basically a Very Expensive ASMR Experience | Motherboard
You may never have the $200,000 to plop down on the Aston Martin of your dreams, but at the very least, the company’s new Soundcloud account will let you briefly, fleetingly hear what it’s like behind the wheel.
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Famous entreprenuers’ hits and misses visualized / Boing Boing
If you think the recent Steve Jobs movie was oversimplified, wait until you get a load of The Careers of the Founders, a visualization of famous entrepreneurs’ hits and misses.
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The Great Depression wasn’t ended by the intellectual victory of Keynesian economics; in fact, the publication of The General Theory was followed by the great mistake of 1937, when FDR tried to balance the budget too soon and send the U.S. economy i…
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Iran’s Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Has Been Hiding One of the World’s Great Art Collections
We went to Tehran to see the secret Warhols. Photographs by Ali Kaveh From Inside the rotunda of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, a circular walkway spirals down from the street level, like an underground version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggen…
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Some Mormons angry at church plans to shun children of gay parents / Boing Boing
Proposed rules in the Mormon church would deny baptism to the children of gay parents until they are 18 years old, and mandate that they denounce homosexuality in order to receive it. The BBC reports that the plans have triggered a threat of “mass r…
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On Tuesday morning, acclaimed Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen sat down for a candid interview with the Today Show’s Matt Lauer and admitted that he’d been living with HIV for four years.
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Gorrilla sees his buddies playing in the rain. Decides to have a go – GIF on Imgur
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MRW Someone asks if I would take part in an over used gif trend – GIF on Imgur
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BBC Sport – William Fox-Pitt discharged as he recovers from head injury
British eventer William Fox-Pitt has been discharged from hospital as he continues his recovery following a serious fall in competition last month.
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Scouting Our Field Sites by Helicopter : Notes from the Field : Blogs
On our first full day at Jang Bogo, we weren’t expecting very much to happen. The majority of our equipment wouldn’t be arriving for another three days, so we thought we would settle in and learn about the basic amenities of the station — food, show…
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Kickstarting a jewelry-making kit for girls that teaches coding / Boing Boing
Robbo writes, “Giapetta’s Workshop is a multi-faceted interactive adventure story and hand-crafting jewelry kit, all-in-one, for 8-12 year olds that teaches the fundamentals of coding.
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A 23-year-old Windows 3.1 system failure crashed Paris airport | ZDNet
A Paris airport was forced to shut down earlier this month after a computer running Windows 3.1, a prehistoric operating system from 23 years ago, crashed in bad weather.
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George Osborne Said ‘Cyber’ 134 Times in His Speech at GCHQ | Motherboard
The UK has gone full-cyber. In a speech at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne laid out plans for more offensive and defensive capabilities for law enforcement and spies, particularly in resp…
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This Amazing Jamie Lannister Figure Will Slay Kings As Well As Your Wallet
Threezero’s line of Game of Thrones figures already dazzled us with its replicas of Ned Stark and Jon Snow, but now the line is looking to King’s Landing for its next figure: This pretty lovely looking version of the Lannister we all love to hate/lo…
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Landlocked Islanders | Hakai Magazine
The amount of water is incomprehensible. We’ve been flying for hours, and just when we’re about as far from a landmass as you can possibly get—a spot where the curving, wave-flecked Pacific Ocean stretches thousands of kilometers in every direction—…
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Rolltape Launches Voice Messaging App For Sharing Personal Moments With Friends | TechCrunch
Text messaging apps are on the rise, but according to Jessica Taylor, founder and CEO of Rolltape, “Nobody feels like they’re getting closer. People still feel like they’re getting more isolated.” That’s the problem she’s trying to solve with her ne…
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Mysterious Group of Extinct Humans Was More Diverse than Neandertals – Scientific American
A mysterious extinct branch of the human family tree that once interbred with modern humans was more genetically diverse than Neanderthals, a finding that also suggests many of these early humans called Denisovans existed in what is now southern Sib…
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U.S. Politicians Debate Whether Climate Change Fuels Terrorism – Scientific American
Last week’s deadly attacks on Paris have reignited the debate over whether climate change is a distraction from legitimate security threats like terrorism, or a contributor to them. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
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Cartoon: How to tell the difference between ISIS and Muslims
The GOP is demanding that the Democratic presidential candidates use the term “radical Islam” to refer to ISIS. Yet it’s hard to imagine them making similar demands that various acts of homegrown terrorism be called the work of “radical Christians.
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We’re done speculating how much The Force Awakens will make in its opening weekend: now it’s time to speculate how much the toys will.
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North Shore Lake Superior, Canada [OC] [960×720] : EarthPorn
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China Denies Canada Beauty Queen Visa | Al Jazeera America
Miss World Canada says China denied her visa over activism https://t.co/DowKA0hmY3 via Al Jazeera America
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Senate Republicans: So maybe we can do Obamacare repeal in 2017? Maybe?
You could see this coming from a mile away. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cannot get 51 votes together among his conference to repeal Obamacare. The vehicle he has to do it is an already-passed House bill that partially repeals the law, as …
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Boy in the Dress by David Walliams – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Boy in the Dress is brilliant. It might make you laugh, it’s funny and is about a boy called Dennis. Dennis does not live with both his parents but with his dad and brother called John.
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Super Science Friends: Episode 1 on Vimeo
At long last, the first episode of Super Science Friends is here for you to watch! It’s been called “Just the right amount of smart, the just the right amount of stupid” by people who know all about such things. Super Science Friends was created by …
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Charlie Sheen confirms he is HIV positive in Today interview · Newswire · The A.V. Club
When NBC announced that Charlie Sheen would give a revealing interview Tuesday morning on Today, speculation ran rampant on the actor disclosing his rumored HIV-positive status. Sheen spoke with Today co-host Matt Lauer in a three-part interview, an…
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HIV is no longer always a death sentence | Society | The Guardian
In 1985, when a shocked world learned that the actor Rock Hudson had Aids, and six years later, when Queen’s lead singer, Freddie Mercury, died the day after he had made his diagnosis public, HIV was a death sentence and carried a massive stigma. To…
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Russia Confirms Bomb Brought Down Sinai Flight, Offers $50 Million to | Vanity Fair
Russian officials confirmed on Tuesday morning that a bomb downed a charter jet with 224 people on board over the Sinai Peninsula, verifying that the October 31st crash was an act of terrorism and announcing a $50 million reward for anyone with info…
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The 2015 El Niño just crossed into record territory
It’s been likened to Godzilla for a reason — the 2015 El Niño event, which can be found amid overheated waters of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, has crossed a threshold into record territory.
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Make Sure to Get a Vet’s Note Before Flying with Your Pet
You may not know it, but many airlines require a vet’s note before you fly with your pet. Make sure you get one before booking your holiday travel, or find out if your airline’s pet policy requires one. A few extra minutes double checking can save y…
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Kmart Employees Say Thanksgiving Hours Are Throwing Their Holidays Into Chaos | ThinkProgress
Nick’s parents have already bought him a $600 flight home for Thanksgiving. The tickets would allow him to not just be with them and the aunts and uncles he gets to see regularly, but to spend time with his great-grandmother, an increasingly preciou…
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Tunisia Sousse: ‘new plot to attack resort’ foiled – BBC News
Police in Tunisia have foiled a new plot to attack the beach resort of Sousse, where 38 people were killed in June, the interior ministry says. More than a dozen suspected Islamists, believed to have trained in Syria and Libya, were arrested, it add…
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Kit, Expa’s Latest Venture, Is A Social Network For Sharing Your Favorite Products | TechCrunch
Kit, the newest startup to launch out of startup studio Expa in NYC, is looking to give you a way to share your own product reviews, bundled by category, with your friends and the greater community.
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Caeden, maker of earphones and connected jewelry, is launching a connected bracelet that aims to help you chill out when you need it most. Called Sona, the bracelet helps users improve mind and body wellness through activity tracking.
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A number of investors, including Joe Lonsdale’s new fund 8 Partners, Google Ventures and StartX have added $5 million in initial funding to prescription delivery startup TinyRx. Several early employees from well-known startups such as Google and Air…
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Xamarin Now Gives Developers A More Integrated Cross-Platform Development Experience | TechCrunch
Xamarin, the C#-centric cross-platform mobile app development platform, is launching version 4 of its service today.
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Stephen Colbert’s interview with Bill Maher is refreshingly antagonistic | The Verge
I don’t like Bill Maher. There was a time, back in college, when watching Real Time with Bill Maher on a wealthy friend’s cable felt like an initiation into capital-L liberalism, one performed by the generation before me with polite laughs at Maher’…
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Asus and Google’s Chromebit turns any monitor into a Chrome OS device | Ars Technica
Earlier this year, we heard of the partnership between Google and Asus to miniaturize Chrome OS in the form of an HDMI stick. Now the resulting device, dubbed the Chromebit, is available for $85. The 2.
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Pop Chart Lab was founded in 2010 by a book editor and a designer, with the modest goal of rendering all of human experience in chart form. Since then they’ve charted a wide array of cultural touchstones.
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Texas Women Are Inducing Their Own Abortions – The Atlantic
That was the response given by a 24-year-old woman in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley when asked by researchers why she had attempted to terminate her pregnancy on her own, without medical help.
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Zanzibar election: Couples ‘divorce’ over voting difference – BBC News
Husbands who abandoned their children after disagreeing with their wives’ choices in Zanzibar’s election must provide for their families, a women’s rights lawyer has told the BBC. The call comes after divorces following October’s election.
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Def Jam signs with CBS Records… / Boing Boing
Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! With less than a handful of songs the Beastie Boys got to tour cross-country in 1985 during Madonna’s “Virgin” tour.
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Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins Lead League of Women Voters Tour | Rolling Stone
Patty Griffin will be part of a voter-rights tour, kicking off in February. Election season is still one year away, but Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins and Anaïs Mitchell have announced a major U.S. tour to make sure that all voices are heard on Electio…
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Charlie Sheen: I’m HIV positive – video | US news | The Guardian
Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen confirms he is HIV positive. The actor tells Matt Laueron on NBC’s Today in New York on Tuesday that he hopes to ‘put a stop to the onslaught and barrage of attacks and sub-truths that are threatening the health of so m…
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Minneapolis protests: Police arrest 51 after man shot – BBC News
Police in Minneapolis arrested 51 people on Monday night following a second day of protests over the police shooting of a black man. The 43 adults and eight juveniles were part of a group that blocked a major highway for two and a half hours.
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Charlie Sheen: ‘I Am, in Fact, HIV-Positive’ | Rolling Stone
After a day of rumors following news that Charlie Sheen would be making a serious announcement Tuesday morning on Today, the 50-year-old actor confirmed, “I’m here to admit that I am, in fact, HIV-positive.
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Australian Police Are Actively Trying to Arrest Motorized Picnic Table Riders | Motherboard
Australia is known for being pretty chill, as a nation. It’s an outdoorsy, laid-back kind of place. So this group of mates cruising around Perth on two motorized picnic tables is peak Aussie.
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Remembering Detroit’s legendary cult-zine, The Orbit|Dangerous Minds
For decades upon centuries, revolution of various stripes has often had roots firmly wrapped around and within the print medium. From Martin Luther to Karl Marx, manifestos, underground papers, comics, fliers—the pen not the sword, in other words—ha…
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Does Encryption Help Terrorists? – Scientific American
Before we give governments backdoor access to private communications, security analysts would like us all to take a deep breath By | Messaging apps like Facebook’s WhatsApp, Apple’s iMessage, Telegram, Wickr, and others use end-to-end encryption, an…
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Paris climate summit march in doubt after talks deadlock | Environment | The Guardian
Talks between the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, and campaigners over the fate of a huge march before the upcoming Paris climate summit have ended without agreement.
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Roast Your Turkey in an Hour by Cutting It Up First
A whole, perfectly roasted turkey is a beautiful thing, but it’s not exactly known for being a speedy dish. To cook your Thanksgiving main in an hour, cut that thing up before popping it in the oven.
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Increase in US consumer prices adds to rate rise speculation – BBC News
US consumer prices rose in October in a sign that inflation may be picking up again. The figures, along with the strong employment numbers last month, increase speculation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in December.
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Opposing Chris Christie, New Jersey Senators Want To Legalize Marijuana : politics
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Opposing Chris Christie, New Jersey Senators Want To Legalize Marijuana
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You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie | WIRED
Kathleen Kennedy has heard a lot of movie pitches. For decades she worked with Steven Spielberg, producing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the Jurassic Park series. You get the picture.
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Ride On, Texas Ranger – Roads & Kingdoms
A red Ford pickup eases down a narrow, dusty road in the heart of Texas Hill Country, about two hours west of Austin. As he drives, an aging rancher named Buddy Wells gestures toward the grove of cedar elms lining the road. That was the last place a…
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Paris Attacks Provide Material for GOP Candidates | Al Jazeera America
Paris attacks provide ready material for Republican candidates https://t.co/ZJ6AUOsfaC via Al Jazeera America
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Was Steven Salaita’s Settlement Really Worth? – The Atlantic
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Ewok hooded scarf / 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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Pick Up a New Set of Wiper Blades For a Flat $22
This isn’t the first time Amazon’s had a sale like this, but if your car’s wiper blades are a little worn down, you can replace them both for just $22 today.
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There’s no evidence ISIS used PS4 to plan Paris attacks | Ars Technica
Several UK media outlets—including the Daily Mail, The Mirror, and The Telegraph—have claimed that Sony’s PlayStation 4 is being used by ISIS/ISIL/Daesh to plan its attacks, with The Express even saying that a PS4 was used to plot the recent horrify…
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Paris attacks: Police search suspects’ premises – BBC News
Police probing Friday’s attacks in Paris have been searching premises they believe were used by the attackers. Salah Abdeslam, the suspected eighth gunman who is now the subject of an international manhunt, rented out an apartment and two hotel room…
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The Figment iPhone case is also a VR viewer | The Verge
Virtual reality is slowly but surely marching toward the mainstream, and it’s dragging 360-degree video along with it.
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America’s richest black man found himself losing sleep this year over a problem that had nothing to do with running a business worth billions of dollars. Robert Smith was used to powering through life’s hurdles, both personal and political.
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How Forensic Pollen Analysis Solves Crimes – The Atlantic
On June 25, the remains of a child were found in a trash bag on the shore of Boston’s Deer Island. It wasn’t clear how long she’d been dead, but there was some decomposition. Investigators estimated that the unidentified girl, “Baby Doe,” was about …
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Attempt no landing there? Yeah right—we’re going to Europa | Ars Technica
It is a nightmare glacier, tormented by the giant of our Solar System ever looming on its horizon. Jupiter showers its moon Europa with enough radiation to kill a human in just a few days. Europa must also contend with the massive planet’s powerful …
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David Bowie fan club application As a former fan club member of more old-school fan clubs than I care to mention (you know, the ones you used to have to MAIL away for), I thought many of you would dig revisiting the days when for a few dollars you c…
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Legos and Star Wars go together like Han Solo and Chewbacca, so it shouldn’t be surprising that there are already recreations of the Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens teasers and official trailer made with Legos.
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Nvidia’s Shield Tablet is back on sale for $199 after fire hazard recall | The Verge
Nvidia called its Shield Tablet the “ultimate tablet for gamers” upon announcement last year, but the company had to backtrack hard this summer when it issued a recall for every single unit due to a potential battery fire hazard.
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The Ruined Beauty of Pioneer Homesteads | New Republic
Follow the New Republic on Instagram for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Dirt Meridian. This small-town grocery store was opened by the Heizer family in 1930 and is currently owned and operated by Joe and Katie Rieken.
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Which Other DC Superhero Could Be Appearing In Wonder Woman?
Ryan Gosling confirms he’s a part of Blade Runner 2. Check out a weird and wonderful new alien from The Force Awakens. Ezra Miller talks about what he wants from Barry Allen in The Flash. Plus, Agent Carter gets a return date, and David Tennant chil…
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Long Sought Biological Compass Discovered – Scientific American
The biocompass — whose constituent proteins exist in related forms in other species, including humans — could explain a long-standing puzzle: how animals such as birds and insects sense magnetism.
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Why Cats Taste No Sweets – Scientific American
Sugar and spice and everything nice hold no interest for a cat. Our feline friends are interested in only one food: meat. This predilection is not solely the result of an inner killer just waiting to catch a bird or torture a mouse. It also occurs b…
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In August we celebrated the 170th anniversary of the founding of Scientific American, born on a Thursday, the 28th, and let you know we were kicking off several months of activities. (See our In-Depth Report here.
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World Changing Ideas 2015 – Scientific American
In 1878 Thomas Edison took to the pages of this magazine to clear up a few misconceptions about a new invention of his: the phonograph.
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World Changing Ideas 2015 – Scientific American
10 big advances that will improve life, transform computing and maybe even save the planet
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Supreme court abortion case could resonate across south and midwest | US news | The Guardian
When the US supreme court on Friday decided to hear the most important case on abortion rights in two decades, it occurred to Dalton Johnson that he was standing in what might become the last abortion clinic in Alabama.
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Why Does Belgium Produce So Many Radical Islamist Militants? – The Atlantic
French authorities say they believe Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian man, masterminded the November 13 attacks in Paris. The focus on Abaaoud helps emphasize how tiny Belgium has taken on an oversized role in the European theater of jihad.
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Paris attacks: Stiff Little Fingers to go ahead with gig – BBC News
Belfast punk band Stiff Little Fingers will go ahead with their Paris gig despite Friday’s terrorist attacks, in which 129 people were killed. Eighty-nine of those killed were attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theatre.
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Hipmunk Aims To Become Your Travel Assistant With New “Hello Hipmunk” Features | TechCrunch
When travel startup Hipmunk launched five years ago, its big selling point was a better interface for searching and browsing flights. Now the company is looking to help users even before they start searching for travel options, through the launch of…
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Arrests in Minneapolis Over Jamar Clark Shooting | Al Jazeera America
More than 50 people were arrested Monday during a second day of protests in Minneapolis over the shooting of a black man a day earlier by a police officer during an apparent struggle. More protests are expected today.
Dozens of arrests in Minneapolis over police shooting of black man https://t.co/3kNKNoKXUv via Al Jazeera America -
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Who Invented the Shimmy? | New Republic
In 1981, two tap dancers, Brenda Bufalino and Honi Coles, sat down for an interview for an oral history project. Bufalino, who was white, had helped lead the tap revival of the 1970s. Coles, who was black, was her teacher, friend, and collaborator.
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The Craft Beer Bubble | VinePair
There is no denying that craft beer is experiencing a boom. And this is a drastic change from even just ten years ago. At almost any bar or store across the country, one is likely to find craft beer as a possible choice, and those choices continue t…
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Meet the Midwestern Pilots Who Risk Their Lives to Change the Weather | Atlas Obscura
Flying near a fast-forming storm in North Dakota. (Photo: Shawn/flickr)
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The Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 Is A Gamer’s Dream That Won’t Break The Bank | TechCrunch
What if you’re a gamer at heart and want a tablet? The latest iPads have been powerful tablets with some great games. But Nvidia has been trying to go one step further with its Shield Tablet, a device specifically made for gamers.
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Set the mood with the ilumi A21 Bluetooth Smartbulb, a color-tunable LED light you can control and program wirelessly from your smartphone.
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Align Commerce, a new startup from an old hand in the payment and transaction market, has raised $12.5 million in new financing to use blockchain technology to create a new cross-border payment technology for small and medium-sized businesses.
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MRW I see a Travolta post and accidentally hit the wrong key (OC) – GIF on Imgur
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Morning Digest: Early voting numbers out of Louisiana offer cautious good news to Democrats
• LA-Gov: The early voting period for Louisiana’s runoff election ended on Saturday, and 257,021 people have voted early, a 9.5 percent increase compared to October’s jungle primary.
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Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push : environment
Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push https://t.co/k8v7216T7Q https://t.co/xaUXFLVV5a via /r/environment
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Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push
Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push https://t.co/k8v7216T7Q https://t.co/xaUXFLVV5a via /r/environment
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Syria could be weeks away from ‘big transition’, says John Kerry | World news | The Guardian
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has given an upbeat assessment of prospects for diplomatic efforts to end the war in Syria and fight Islamic State, saying a ceasefire between Bashar al-Assad and the rebels fighting to overthrow him could now …
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Star Wars Battlefront is perfect for couch co-op | The Verge
Modern first-person shooters come in one of two flavors. There are the e-sport-style multiplayer experiences, where you spend dozens of hours honing your skills, competing against other players online.
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Dalai Lama: Religion Without Quantum Physics Is an Incomplete Picture of Reality | Motherboard
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A Eulogy for Rdio – The Atlantic
The Internet—it’s branded as the electronic equivalent of the marketplace of ideas, but the best homes online, the places you wind up spending your time, they never feel like a bazaar. They’re not even a café—that’s too public.
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The Serious Health Consequences Of Islamophobia | ThinkProgress
Moments after news of Friday’s Paris attack broke, a wave of racist comments hit the internet. Most of them blamed the deadly act on Muslim populations, despite the lack of any information about the people behind it.
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Adele’s New Song “When We Were Young” Is Here in Full | Vanity Fair
When it comes to Adele’s musical output, we, as a population, will absolutely take anything we can get. So, yesterday, when a 60 Minutes Australia preview of an interview with the 27-year-old artist featured about 30 seconds of a live performance of…
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How does IS communicate securely? – BBC News
In the wake of the terrible events in Paris, governments around the world have renewed their calls for tech companies to design products that will allow law enforcement agencies to better monitor communications.
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Watch Adele Perform Timeless New Track ‘When We Were Young’ | Rolling Stone
On Sunday, Adele dropped a preview of her 25 track “When We Were Young,” and today, the singer has unveiled the full track. This version of the song was filmed live at Church Studios, where much of 25 was recorded.
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In an interview with the Today Show’s Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning, actor Charlie Sheen revealed that he has been living with an HIV-positive diagnosis for years. As the world learned in 2011, Charlie Sheen is a notoriously volatile morning show gu…
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Why Credit Card Companies Keep Sending You Mail – Bloomberg Business
It’s sitting in your mailbox. Another thick envelope. You pick it up. It is pleasing to the touch. It has a shiny logo. Its outward elegance belies the crudeness of the message within.
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Your Credit Report Now Includes Info on How You Pay Your Bills
When lenders give you money, they want to make sure you can pay it back. If they think you’re a “risky” borrower, that’s going to affect your loan terms. And lenders can now look at how you pay your bills to decide whether or not you’re a risk.
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Sport picture of the day: keep your eye on the ball | Sport | The Guardian
Indiana Pacers guard CJ Miles shoots over Chicago Bulls forward Pau Gasol of Spain in the first half of their NBA Game at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA
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In 2010, not long after the earthquake hit Haiti, I was about an hour north of Port-au-Prince, standing under a mango tree. Its owner, a woman named Jelen, was telling me that she had two daughters but could afford to send only one to school.
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: Click on the embedded player above Go to netrootsradio.
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In August 1785 two French ships, la Boussole and l’Astrolabe, set sail from Brest under the command of Jean-Francois de Galaup de Lapérouse.
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Misunderstanding of Antibiotics Fuels Superbug Threat, WHO Says – Scientific American
People across the world are alarmingly confused about the role of antibiotics and the right way to take them, and this ignorance is fuelling the rise of drug-resistant superbugs, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
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Yes, Terrorists Use Encryption But That Doesn’t Mean It’s A Bad Thing | ThinkProgress
News spread at a viral pace following the deadly Paris attacks Friday around speculation that Islamic State (ISIS) members used a PlayStation 4 (PS4) to send encrypted messages to one another and coordinate the attacks, causing pundits and reporters…
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Six episodes into its inaugural season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s installments have ranged from excellent to still-really-good-but-not-outstanding—not a bad track record.
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Why Some Airlines Pollute More: 20 Ranked on Fuel Efficiency
Those roomy, plush first-class seats on international flights come at a hefty cost—not just for your wallet, but also for the climate. They take up more space, allowing fewer passengers per flight, so first- and business-class seats have an outsize …
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New York, in Solidarity with Paris – The New Yorker
On Monday afternoon, hundreds of people—New Yorkers, French-American residents, tourists passing by—gathered at the 9/11 memorial, in lower Manhattan, to pay tribute to the victims of last week’s Paris attacks.
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The steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who was wealthier in his day than Bill Gates, Sam Walton, and Warren Buffett combined, amassed his fortune through brash business practices and the labor of thousands who toiled in his mills, but …
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Drugs Funny Technology So we celebrate, on this holiday, how one tiny nug lasted for eight whole days.
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India’s Craftsvilla Lands $34M For Its Online Marketplace For Ethnic Products | TechCrunch
Craftsvilla, an India-based marketplace for ethnic goods, has closed a $34 million Series C round as it begins to ramp up its overseas expansion plans. The investment was led by existing investors Sequoia and Lightspeed Ventures.
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Eva Tucker obituary | Books | The Guardian
Eva Tucker’s career as a novelist was unusual in that it fell into two phases separated by 40 years. A figure on the literary scene of the 1960s, she was published by the independent John Calder, now perhaps most remembered for his championing of Sa…
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The dictionary, emoji, and redefining the word ‘word’ | The Verge
As autumn grows colder and fallen leaves crunch beneath our thick-soled boots, we, as People Of The Internet, annually await, or bemoan, year-end lists and superlatives.
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Design Museum’s bike exhibition is a waking dream for afficionados | Art and design | The Guardian
The first wall of the Design Museum’s new exhibition on the art of the bicycle is something of a waking dream for aficionados of all things shiny and two-wheeled: there hangs the machine on which Eddy Merckx took the world hour record in 1972, just …
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Happy Birthday, Howard!
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MetroPCS customers are getting unlimited music streaming | The Verge
T-Mobile is passing down some of its “Uncarrier” perks to MetroPCS. The first is Music Unlimited, which is really just a rebranded version of T-Mobile’s Music Freedom.
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3DR Collaborates With AirMap Because Flying A Drone Can Be Hazardous | TechCrunch
Flying a drone can be tough. Where are you allowed to fly? Is there an airport within 5 miles. What about a hospital or U.S. national park that has restricted airspace? AirMap is one of the best services to determine a safe flying zone and its data …
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Election Fraud Exposed in Kentucky… : politics
Election Fraud Exposed in Kentucky… https://t.co/ZZBHF7gHsZ https://t.co/Lwz0M4QYkh via /r/#politics
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Election Fraud Exposed in Kentucky… – YouTube
Election Fraud Exposed in Kentucky… https://t.co/ZZBHF7gHsZ https://t.co/Lwz0M4QYkh via /r/#politics
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The Surprising Benefits of Sarcasm – Scientific American
Instead of avoiding sarcasm completely in the office, the research suggests sarcasm, used with care and in moderation, can be effectively used and trigger some creative sparks. “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence,…
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Angie’s List Rejects IAC’s $500M Offer To Buy It | TechCrunch
Well, it looks like it might be a while yet before you swipe right to find your next bricklayer or painter. Angie’s List, a marketplace for independent contractors, has formally rejected an offer from IAC, owner of Tinder, to buy the business for $5…
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NEW ORLEANS—Principal Sharon Clark stepped into her football team’s weight room with a fearless stride. Boys in muscle shirts scattered about, the pungent bouquet of teen sweat clinging to the walls—this place signified male sanctuary like no other …
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The Paris Review’s Lorin Stein on the Power of Ambiguity in Fiction – The Atlantic
By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more.
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Why The Feds Are Banning Smoking In Public Housing | ThinkProgress
Public housing projects will soon be smoke-free under a long-awaited rule proposed Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Barring setbacks, the rule will go into effect in early 2017, threatening smokers with eviction if …
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This Kickstarter project turns paper airplanes into live streaming drones | The Verge
Two years ago, PowerUp launched its Smart Module — an electric motor that clipped onto any paper airplane and could be steered remotely via a smartphone.
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The Science Of Why People Cared More About The Paris Attacks Than Beirut | ThinkProgress
As news media followed a series of horrendous attacks in Paris over the weekend, many onlookers were left wondering why news outlets didn’t offer similar attention to suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon the day before, which claimed the lives of 41 …
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Use a Bottle of Whiskey to Start a Campfire
The next time you’re planning a camping trip, be sure to pack a bottle of whiskey. No, not just for fun. You can use the whiskey, or even the bottle itself to help start a campfire in a pinch.
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How To Build A More Diverse Environmental Movement | ThinkProgress
From her office in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, nationally recognized environmental attorney Elizabeth Yeampierre looks out on a neighborhood cast from the melting pot of American life and built by Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican, Chinese and Indian immi…
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Much to the dismay of habibis worldwide who believe they are deserved of the title, the best dates might, in fact, be growing on palms in the Siwa Oasis. Their praises have been recorded since pharaonic times, and their taste has continued to be ext…
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The terrorist attacks on Paris have reignited the debate over the use of encryption in everyday communications, pitting companies like Apple, Google and Facebook against efforts by law enforcement agencies to detect terrorist threats and track down …
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John Kerry: Isis is feeling the pressure – video | World news | The Guardian
John Kerry promises to step up efforts to hit Islamic State at its core. Speaking outside the Élysée Palace in Paris on Monday after meeting President François Hollande, the US secretary of state says he is convinced Isis (Daesh) is feeling the pres…
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I don’t know any other show where I scour all the names from the writers’ room like The Mindy Project.
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Walmart profits slip to $3.3bn – BBC News
US retail giant Walmart has reported net profit of $3.3bn for the three months to the end of October compared with $3.7bn a year earlier. The retailer, which owns Asda in the UK, said total revenues fell 1.3% in its third quarter to $117bn compared …
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Hello, I am Manolis Dermitzakis (everyone calls me Manolis), Professor of Genetics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
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Charlie Sheen Reveals HIV Status | Vanity Fair
One day after reports emerged that he would reveal his HIV-positive status in an interview with Matt Lauer on Today, Charlie Sheen has confirmed that he has been diagnosed with the infection. “I am here to admit that I am H.I.V-positive,“ Sheen said…
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France Seeks EU Security Aid, Launches Strikes | Al Jazeera America
France made an unprecedented demand on Tuesday for its European Union allies to support its military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as it launched new airstrikes on the group’s Syrian stronghold, days after attacks in…
France calls for EU support for global campaign against ISIL https://t.co/hzJlvirdDh via Al Jazeera America -
Republican Candidates Want To Block Syrian Refugees After Paris Attacks : democrats
Republican Candidates Want To Block Syrian Refugees After Paris Attacks https://t.co/CEHVWUMDnQ https://t.co/P33bEaMLlD via /r/democrats
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Gov. Jerry Brown will allow Syrian refugees after vetting process : democrats
Gov. Jerry Brown will allow Syrian refugees after vetting process https://t.co/syD9gRjIsx https://t.co/jY5GvXajB5 via /r/democrats
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President Barack Obama slams GOP 2016ers’ refugee positions – CNNPolitics.com
Obama slams GOP for idea of religious test for refugees https://t.co/3kyDnq7KPo https://t.co/QuIvpPW9mG via /r/democrats
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Obama slams GOP for idea of religious test for refugees : democrats
Obama slams GOP for idea of religious test for refugees https://t.co/3kyDnq7KPo https://t.co/QuIvpPW9mG via /r/democrats
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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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Adorable interview with French father and son regarding the recent attacks – GIF on Imgur
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Former IS hostage: ‘Is revenge a proper response?’ – BBC News
Former IS hostage Nicholas Henin has spoken to the BBC about the response to the Paris attacks. IS has said it carried out the attacks on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and a stadium in which 129 people died.
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Some people like Vincent gifs, some not so much… – GIF on Imgur
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And that one, and that one, and, well, across the board. It took no time at all for the right-wing response to the Paris attacks to turn into a vile caricature that has me feeling nostalgic for the restraint and statesmanship of Donald Rumsfeld and …
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The Republican Wall of Climate Denial Is Starting to Crack : Liberal
The Republican Wall of Climate Denial Is Starting to Crack https://t.co/hbOK4g1RGw https://t.co/POLL1gOhoi via /r/Liberal
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The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars [3140×2504] https://t.co/NtJ63HJmGc https://t.co/mAbgNz7VfB
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Charlie Sheen confirms he is HIV positive – BBC News
Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has confirmed he is living with HIV in a US television interview. It bring to an end days of intense media speculation. The former star of sitcom Two And A Half Men is appearing on NBC’s Today show.
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Charlie Sheen reveals he is HIV positive | Culture | The Guardian
The actor Charlie Sheen has disclosed that he is HIV positive, in a television interview that followed weeks of speculation about his condition. Sheen chose to make the announcement on the Today show on NBC.
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http://www.space.com/31134-leonid-meteor-shower-outlook.html
Long, thin “stretch marks” on the surface of Phobos are early signs that the Martian moon is falling apart, new research suggests. Phobos is a tiny moon that is closer to Mars than any other moon in the solar system is to its planet. Over the course…
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Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Overnight Tuesday: What to Expect
Photographer Scott Tully captured this photo of a Leonid meteor over rural Connecticut in the predawn hours of Nov. 17, 2012.Credit: Scott Tully View full size image The Leonid meteor shower, one of the most celebrated of the year’s annual “shooting…
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The employee perched on a stepstool by the checkout at Trader Joe’s in Union Square in Manhattan is like an air traffic controller: Register 6 for one customer. Register 9 for the next.
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When the subject of early surrealist film arises, most of us think of Salvador Dalí and Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou, and not without good cause: even 86 years after its release, its nightmare images of piano-dragging and eyeball-slicing still lurk in …
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Why Does Progress on Women’s Wages Seem to Be Stalling? – The Atlantic
For decades, women have been—slowly—catching up with men, in terms of how much they earn. But this year, that trajectory seems to have stopped or even reversed.
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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Twenty-seven governors announced their opposition to allowing refugees of the civil war in Syria into their states.
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Cloud Cybersecurity Firm ProtectWise Raises $20M Series B | TechCrunch
When a company is breached a critical step of the recovery process is seeing exactly what happened, including where the vulnerability was exposed and what exactly the hackers had access to.
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Silicon Valley’s labor views indicate a split in the Democratic party | Technology | The Guardian
In America’s new era of political realignment, the Republican party is not the only one experiencing a grassroots political coup. A new breed of capitalism-loving and urbanized liberals are demanding an entirely new role for the federal government.
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First Click: Using TweetDeck filters to make sense of the senselessness | The Verge
Within 30 minutes Twitter became an unbearable river of panic, disbelief, and sadness as events in Paris unfolded. Some of the information shared was factual, some speculative, and some was plain false. But mostly, Twitter was flooded with desperate…
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Paul Walker ‘responsible for own death’, claims Porsche – BBC News
Porsche says Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker was responsible for his own death in a high-speed crash of a 2005 Carrera GT. Walker was a passenger in the Porsche driven by his friend when it hit a pole and burst into flames in November 2013.
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Keep Your Folded Shirts Visible With the KonMari Technique
If you have a ton of varied shirts, you may want to keep them visible in your drawer when you fold them. The KonMari technique, demonstrated in this video, shows you how. As PureWow demonstrates, the KonMari technique keeps t-shirts and other garmen…
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Lending Company Earnest Raises $275 Million As FinTech Remains In The Spotlight | TechCrunch
With a whopping $275 million in equity and debt financing, the next-generation lending company Earnest now has the firepower and strategic partners to become a more full-service financial services firm.
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Fin, A Remote-Control Bluetooth Ring, Finally Launches As Neyya | TechCrunch
Get ready for yet another wearable… Neyya, a Bluetooth ring designed for remote-controlling other mobile devices, is finally launching today after a lengthy post-crowdfunding delay and a substantial rethink of the original concept.
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Yemen’s exiled president returns to Aden – Al Jazeera English
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has returned to Aden from exile in Saudi Arabia, with officials saying he would oversee campaigns against the Houthi fighters who control the capital Sanaa.
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Is Egypt’s Sisi facing growing isolation? – Al Jazeera English
As Russian investigators on Tuesday concluded that a bomb caused the crash of a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula last month, the regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is facing its most severe crisis to date.
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Crematorium near Taj Mahal must be moved, Indian supreme court rules | World news | The Guardian
India’s supreme court has ordered a state government to remove a wood-burning crematorium near the Taj Mahal to protect the monument from pollution damage.
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If You Didn’t Quantify a Run, Did It Even Happen? | Motherboard
In August of this year, I decided somewhat impulsively to run a half marathon. A couple friends had signed up for the Brooklyn Rock ‘n’ Roll race and I thought joining them in a concrete goal (and a paying a hefty registration fee) would force me to…
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Vanishing Point – The New Yorker
The following was delivered at the Axel-Springer-Haus, in Berlin, on November 6th, as an acceptance speech for the Welt Literaturpreis, awarded annually by the German newspaper Die Welt.
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Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Is the ‘Tears of Joy’ Emoji | Motherboard
In its annual butchering of the English tongue, Oxford Dictionaries has announced its word of the year for 2015. “Word” is perhaps a generous accolade, as it’s actually not a word at all but a pictograph: the twisted, maniacal laughing-crying emoji …
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Tantan, the Tinder of China, Has a Basic Security Flaw | Motherboard
Tantan, a Chinese clone of dating app Tinder, sends passwords, phone numbers, location data and more in plain text, Larry Salibra, founder and CEO of Pay4Bugs, a crowdsourced bug software testing program, has found.
Love Everyone Often 11/18/2015
Enjoying the view outside : cats Enjoying the view outside via /r/cats https://t.co/8727topqGg https://t.co/CAfx6n1oEs https://t.co/G4M4FLZi41 tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Enjoying the view outside via /r/cats… Enjoying the view outside via /r/cats https://t.co/8727topqGg https://t.co/CAfx6n1oEs https://t.co/G4M4FLZi41 tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Army Sgt. Dan Rose,…
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