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US senator pushes for ground troops to fight ISIL – Al Jazeera English
US presidential candidate Lindsey Graham has proposed new legislation granting the American president broader war powers to deploy ground forces to any conflict, any time.
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France bans imports of lion hunt trophies | Environment | The Guardian
France has banned the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies, nearly four months after the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by an American trophy hunter sparked international outrage.
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Photos of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle in Columbus Circle – The Atlantic
During World War II the United States government operated a heavily-subsidized childcare program—the likes of which Americans haven’t seen since.
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Pooductive: the toilet chat-app raising awareness of sanitation | Technology | The Guardian
Mobile app Pooductive sounds like a silly gimmick: a smartphone app for messaging and playing games with strangers while sitting on the toilet. However, the app has a more serious aim: raising awareness of the 2.
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Photos of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle in Columbus Circle – The Atlantic
It’s a good question. She’s looking at an enormous dollhouse, clocking in at 29 rooms, including a wine cellar, armory, ballroom, and library. The opulent Astolat Dollhouse Castle—appraised at $8.5 million—is artfully appointed, but nearly abandoned.
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How ‘Treat Yourself’ Became a Capitalist Command – The Atlantic
In a 1988 essay called “Technologies of the Self,” the French philosopher Michel Foucault argues that looking after oneself, rather than being a form of navel-gazing or narcissism, is a kind of “vigilance” that dates back to antiquity.
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After 92 Years, Biohackers Want to Finally Make Cheap and Generic Insulin | Motherboard
It’s been almost a century since the first patent for insulin was filed by Canadian researchers. But for the millions of people who rely on the drug to treat diabetes, insulin is still a pricey brand-name product, costing hundreds of dollars per mon…
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Must Watch – Warren’s Warning About The Coming Corporate Tax Giveaway
“It’s not that taxes are far too high for giant corporations, as the lobbyists claim. No, the problem is that the revenue generated from corporate taxes is far too low.
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Half of New York City residents say they are struggling economically, making ends meet just barely, if at all, and most feel sharp uncertainty about the future of the city’s next generation, a new poll shows.
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Charlie Sheen exes approach Gloria Allred – BBC News
High-profile lawyer Gloria Allred says she has been contacted by exes of Charlie Sheen after he revealed he had HIV. The star told a TV interview on Tuesday he was diagnosed four years ago.
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Seventy-Two Virgins by Boris Johnson – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
I’ve always been interested in politics which is why when I saw a book by Boris Johnson on the bookshelf in my library, I knew that I had to read it, mostly because I knew that anything written by the Mayor of London had to be side-splittingly hilar…
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Indonesia announces temporary halt to executions – BBC News
Indonesia will not be executing death row prisoners in the near future, the country’s top security minister said. Luhut Binsar Panjaitan told a news conference the government’s priority was to address the economic slowdown.
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Should U.S. Zoos Be Allowed to Import 18 African Elephants?
Three zoos in the United States—Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo and the Dallas Zoo—intend to import 18 African elephants from Swaziland.
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America’s poorest border town: no immigration papers, no American Dream | US news | The Guardian
Seven miles east of McAllen’s palm-studded city streets, the interstate off ramp slides past the sprawling branch of a popular Texas supermarket – HEB (Here Everything’s Better) – and a drive-in bank.
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The World’s Largest Volcano is a Magnetic Muddle – Scientific American
New measurements of Tamu Massif, the world’s largest volcano, indicate that it had a very complicated genesis.
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The Big Issues Of The 2016 Campaign | FiveThirtyEight
After two straight elections dominated by economic issues, 2016 is shaping up to be … another election dominated by economic issues.
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Syria crisis: Assad says no transition while ‘terrorists’ remain – BBC News
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has said a political process to end the country’s bloody civil war cannot begin while it is occupied by “terrorists”. Mr Assad told Italian state television the timetable for elections “starts after starting to defe…
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The £200,000 cycling jerseys: Eddy Merckx collection goes on show | Environment | The Guardian
Twenty-five years ago Californian Brett Horton started his collection of cycling ephemera.
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Freedom, fantasy, family – the sundry allures of the…
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?
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Why Gratitude Makes You a Happier Person
“Stop pitying yourself, people have it worse, you should be grateful.” You’ve probably heard this before, and it’s some of the most cliché, unhelpful advice around. When gratitude is inspired by guilt, obligation, or shame, that’s not gratitude at a…
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How green is your cat’s food? | Grist
The interactive tool shows a pollution and poverty index, VW diesel cars, and electric vehicle stations. The huge rally planned for the U.N. climate summit is canceled due to “the heightened security situation” in Paris.
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Each piece of garbage has a story. This artist traces it | Grist
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Democracies fail when they ask too little of their c…
‘He turned out to be the same as every other politician.’ That was the complaint I kept hearing in Athens shortly after the leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had signed up to exactly the kind of bailout deal he once vehemently opposed.
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Merkel’s Refugee Policy is Political Calculus, Not Humanitarian Generosity | The Nation
In the immediate wake of the massacres in Paris last Friday, the finance minister for the German state of Bavaria, Markus Söder, feverishly called for an end to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s so-called “open-door” policy on refugees.
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Can live-action role-play games bring about social c…
One Sunday evening recently, I went to a stranger’s apartment for my first ‘larp’ (live‑action role-play). I was ushered into the living room, where I found three makeshift tents, reminiscent of forts I used to make as a child.
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France says it will take 30,000 Syrian refugees, while U.S. Republicans would turn them away (washingtonpost.com)
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Huckabee Sued for Playing ‘Eye of the Tiger’ — NYMag
Politicians just keep rehashing this story. Back in September, the band Survivor let it be known that they find Kim Davis’s fight against gay people who want to get married far less inspirational than Rocky Balboa overcoming fame and laziness to bea…
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The Air Force Test Runs Its New and Improved Nuclear Gravity Bomb | Motherboard
On Oct. 20, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and United States Air Force conducted the third development test of an unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb at Nevada’s Tonopah Test Range. As you can see below, the test drop was a succ…
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French PM: Chemical and bio weapon attacks possible – Al Jazeera English
France’s prime minister warned Thursday of an attack using “chemical or biological weapons” as parliament prepared to vote on the extension of emergency security measures after last week’s deadly violence in Paris.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico Full Album (Stereo) [HQ] – YouTube
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Critiques of the anti-racism student protesters and their demand that universities actively address systemic racism in higher education have been both frequent and swift.
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The GOP’s Obsession With ‘Radical Islam’ | New Republic
The deadly attacks in Paris last week, followed by the second Democratic primary debate over the weekend, reignited a Republican obsession, unique to the Obama era, with the claim that U.S.
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AUMF, ISIS, and Congressional Inaction in the Wake of the Paris Attacks – The Atlantic
In the late summer of 1950, the United States made a momentous choice—one that, in the end, may have transformed a prospective military and diplomatic triumph into disaster.
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President Obama and Congress Clash Over the Paris Climate Talks – The Atlantic
Diplomats will descend on Paris at the end of November for United Nations climate talks that could prove pivotal in the fight against global warming. President Obama has labored to show that the U.S. is serious about taking action to stave off the w…
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Dean Esserman on His Vision to Return to Community-Based Policing – The Atlantic
What if more cops walked a beat? Dean Esserman, the chief of police in New Haven, Connecticut, wants to find out.
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Accelerating signs of climate change and rising global temperatures are perhaps more pressing here in the Middle East, where the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) is headquartered, than anywhere else on the planet.
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You’re a UCLA freshman who, ever the world-beater, elects to blow off the “Justice For Kale!” class protest, which many are billing as the social event of the fall season, in favor of an afternoon tryst with the Volcano. Putting on pants just wasn’t…
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Australian Government attacks tax deductible status of environmental groups like Green Peace (abc.net.au)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address | The Nation
Very rarely here at The Almanac do we reach back beyond 1865, the year The Nation was founded, for events to highlight, and this is due to the obvious reason that The Nation was not around to cover them. Yet today is different.
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Tumbles the two-legged puppy tries on 3D-printed wheelchair – video | World news | The Guardian
Tumbles, a six-week-old terrier-beagle mix puppy who was born without front paws has his first wheelchair fitting.
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Nurse Review proposes single agency for UK science funding – BBC News
It argues this agency should report to a committee of ministers chaired by a senior cabinet figure. Critics say that centralising control under a kind of super research body could lead to ill-informed decisions.
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Man and dog attempt carjacking in Australia – BBC News
Australian police have released aerial footage of a man allegedly threatening a motorist with a knife, while clutching a dog. Officers in Queensland said the man allegedly tried to steal two other cars. The man, 24, is seen running into a building b…
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Ransomware Is Coming to Medical Devices | Motherboard
Chest pains send you into convulsions, then stop abruptly. Is something wrong with your pacemaker? As you pant for breath, a message pops up on your phone. “Want to keep living? Pay us a ransom now, or you die.”
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Republicans moved for the second time in 24 hours on Wednesday to try to weaken Barack Obama’s position at the Paris climate negotiations, opposing a deal at the summit and threatening to block $3bn in aid pledged to developing countries.
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The toxic mud has polluted the Rio Doce
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Americans see a government of, by and for the rich – The Washington Post
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Americans see a government of, by and for the rich : politics
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It’s those beliefs that have driven a large share of the white working class into Donald Trump’s column rather than Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.), even though its members plainly agree with Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass. -
Is the NCAA doing enough to college football players from concussion? | Sport | The Guardian
2015 marks the first college football season under the supervision of the Power Five conferences’ Concussion Safety Protocol Committee, a body created to review and approve each member school’s concussion protocol.
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On the streets around the Paris St Denis raids – BBC News
Police carried out a seven-hour raid on a flat in the Saint-Denis district of Paris suspected of housing the alleged mastermind of Friday’s attacks on the capital. A woman blew herself up with a suicide belt and another suspect was killed by gunfire…
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Why Neither Hillary Clinton Nor Bernie Sanders Wants to Talk About ISIS – The Atlantic
The debate about ISIS since the Paris attacks has largely been driven by Republicans.
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The awkward Apec family photo – a history – BBC News
A long-standing tradition at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit is the “family photo” – also known as the “silly shirts” moment – where the leaders pay tribute to the culture of the host country.
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Jonah Lomu remembered, Cam Newton dancing and Star Wars sport | Sport | The Guardian
1) Rugby union lost one of the groundbreaking stars of the game on Tuesday and to remember him here are some of Jonah Lomu’s best moments collected together.
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South Africa: Echoes of Apartheid – Al Jazeera English
Under apartheid, South Africa’s police were notorious for extrajudicial killings and the routine use of torture against political dissidents. Only later did it emerge that these same techniques were being used even when the victims were suspected cr…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Centaurus A
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Most Gun Owners Say the NRA Is Off Target | Mother Jones
A new survey of gun owners finds widespread support for universal background checks and provides new details on who does and doesn’t support the National Rifle Association. The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling on behalf of the Center for A…
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ISIL and the West: A clash of savageries – Al Jazeera English
It is all deja vu; a repeat of the post-9/11 scenario that led to the bombing of Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Both interventions wreaked havoc and destruction and unleashed gross violations of human rights in the name of a “…
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GOP Pushes Redundant Restrictions for Refugees — NYMag
In response to the news that one of the Paris terrorists might have used a fake Syrian passport to enter Greece (which can’t handle the droves of refugees washing up on its shores), Republicans have demanded tighter restrictions for Syrians being re…
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World’s second-largest diamond ‘found in Botswana’ – BBC News
The world’s second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says. The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone.
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Google to fight Russian anti-trust ruling over Android apps – BBC News
Google is challenging a ruling that it broke Russian competition laws by pre-installing some Android apps on phones. Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service said that Google abused its dominant position by requiring mobile firms to install the apps.
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8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo : Liberal
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EXCLUSIVE — REPORT: 8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo
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The Space Doctor’s Big Idea – The New Yorker
There once was a doctor with cool white hair. He was well known because he came up with some important ideas.
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Senegal considers veil ban as Boko Haram fears escalate – Al Jazeera English
Senegal is considering banning the full-body veil worn by some females in the Muslim-majority country. The proposal by the government in the West African nation comes as Senegalese security services questioned at least six religious leaders over all…
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Republicans trying to ban refugees because of Daesh (ISIS) are COWARDS. They’re so afraid of terrorists that they’ll let widows and orphans die in the Mediterrannean Sea rather than risk it. (self.Liberal)
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8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo (breitbart.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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A Dead Galaxy at the Edge of the Milky Way Is a Dark Matter Bonanza | Motherboard
Astronomers at Caltech may have stumbled up the highest dark matter concentration in any known galaxy—and it happens to be just next door. At first glance, there isn’t all that much to Triangulum II.
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BBC 100 Women 2015: India’s ‘right to pee’ movement – BBC News
Safe sanitation is a huge issue in India, especially for women. Nearly half the population goes to the toilet in the open, and the prime minister has vowed to end the practice.
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Man held over Yvonne Fletcher shooting – BBC News
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Molenbeek Lights Candles for Paris Attacks Victims | Al Jazeera America
MOLENBEEK, Belgium — Thousands gathered Wednesday evening in the central square of this rough-edged Belgian town to honor the victims of the Paris attacks — and to confront what many residents see as growing stigmatization of their community, home t…
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Raqqa activists criticise ‘ineffective’ air strikes on IS – BBC News
France has stepped up its air strikes targeting Islamic State (IS) in Syria since the deadly attacks in Paris on Friday, carrying out a series of raids on the jihadist group’s stronghold of Raqqa. It is almost impossible to get any news out of Raqqa…
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Paris attacks: Hollande speech – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande is making a speech following the terrorist attacks in France in which 129 people were killed.
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Carly Simon: You’re so Vain is about Beatty and two others – BBC News
After keeping quiet for more than 40 years, Carly Simon has admitted that her song You’re So Vain is about Warren Beatty, but only one verse of it. She told : “I have confirmed that the second verse is Warren”, but she said the other verses refer to…
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Mexico’s Colima volcano erupts – BBC News
Mexico’s Colima volcano erupted on Wednesday, sending a column of ash and vapour two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the air. Some volcanic ash fell nearby and forced flights at the local airport to be temporarily suspended.
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Ads Surreptitiously Using Sound to Communicate Across Devices – Schneier on Security
Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person’s online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers.
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Blondie track joins Grammy Hall of Fame – BBC News
Music by Blondie, Fleetwood Mac and Grateful Dead are among 26 new titles to be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame. The annual inductees to the Hall of Fame includes both singles and album recordings, all of which must be at least 25 years old.
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Twitter users made to tweet ‘Meow, I ❤ catfacts' at Snowden to stop spam | The Verge
Sometimes people forget that social networks are, by default, public spaces. What you post there — your address, your personal email, maybe pictures of that driving license you just earned — can be found and used against you.
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Let me preface this by saying that I don’t believe this is necessarily an “F”-worthy episode of some other, completely different, television show, starring one or two of the same characters from The League in a completely different framework and wor…
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Scientists Say We Could Build a Space Elevator Using Microscopic Diamond Chains | Motherboard
Imagine if you could unspool a diamond like a ball of yarn, pulling out microscopic threads of the hardest substances on Earth and 20,000 times thinner than a strand of hair. As it turns out, you can do exactly that—with a little bit of equipment.
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Batsman Ian Bell has been dropped from England’s Test squad for the tour of South Africa. The five-time Ashes winner, who has played 118 Tests, has not scored a Test century for 23 innings.
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Q&A: Antibiotic resistance – BBC News
Antibiotic resistance is developing at such a pace that we may soon face a future without cures for infection, England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies is warning. Her apocalyptic report likens the threat to that of terrorism.
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Israel’s gun policy: A licence to kill Palestinians – Al Jazeera English
Jerusalem – At a bus stop near Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a group of students cursed a looming deadline, while a couple next to them shared a cigarette. Nearby, a man dressed in shorts and flip-flops stood with a black rifle slung across his sh…
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MRW Star-Lord is engaged in a dance off with Ronan the Accuser and passes me the beat – GIF on Imgur
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Syrian Refugees Fear Backlash After Paris Attacks | Al Jazeera America
POMONA, California — It seems fitting that the first U.S. home of many Syrian refugees who arrive in southern California is called the American Inn & Suites, a low-budget hotel about 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles that accommodates extended s…
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The Jags have a playoff shot – and that doesn’t bode well for the NFL | Sport | The Guardian
The New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers deserve hearty congratulations getting through the first 10 weeks of the NFL unscathed. Or maybe they don’t. Consider what happened just after 4pm on Sunday in Baltimore as yet another sign of what a do…
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‘Sanskari’ James Bond: Indians ridicule cuts to Spectre kisses – BBC News
A James Bond that touches M’s feet to seek his blessings before setting out for a mission? One that only shakes (not stirs) his buttermilk? You had better believe it.
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‘Islamist’ gunman kills two Bosnian soldiers in Sarajevo – BBC News
A suspected Islamist gunman has shot dead two Bosnian soldiers before blowing himself up in the capital Sarajevo, officials say.They say the man attacked the soldiers in a betting shop on Wednesday night and later shot at a city bus, injuring the dr…
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LG Is Developing Its Own Mobile Payment Service | TechCrunch
Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay… there’ll one more to add to the list soon. That’s because Korean phone maker LG just quietly outed plans to develop and deploy its own mobile payment service which, to the surprise of precisely nobody, will be ca…
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Syrian president: Paris attacks a horrible crime – BBC News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview with Italian television, says the Syrian people understand what it is like to lose family members in terror attacks. The president reiterated that his country is not a breeding ground for Islamic Sta…
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Your pictures: Three colours – BBC News
Your pictures: Three colours 19 November 2015 Last updated at 09:42 Each week, we publish a gallery of readers’ pictures on a set theme. This week it is “three colours” and we begin with a picture by George Olney who said: “Often in my studio work I…
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Conservationists and angling organisations have joined together to challenge “a government failure” to protect some of England’s “most precious rivers and wetlands” from agricultural pollution.
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Belgian Authorities Seek ‘entourage’ of attacker | Al Jazeera America
On Thursday morning, almost a week after the attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and woundedm more than 350, it remains unclear whether the suspected mastermind of last week’s Paris attacks has been killed or is still at large, said the French I…
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SS Robert Coryndon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SS Robert Coryndon was a British passenger and cargo ferry on Lake Albert in central Africa. John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston, Hampshire built her for Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours in 1930.
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China denies torturing political prisoners – Al Jazeera English
China has denied it holds political prisoners and said it prohibits the use of torture after facing a United Nations’ review of its human rights record.
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Clearing the rubble: Gaza’s child workers – Al Jazeera English
Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip – Scores of children in matching uniforms pass by on the busy road in Gaza’s Beit Lahia district, some chatting loudly, others singing songs and running ahead, taunting their friends to try to catch them. Wissam keeps his eyes…
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Belgian police launch raids linked to Paris attacks – Al Jazeera English
Belgian authorities launched six raids on Thursday in Brussels linked to a suicide bomber who took part in the recent attacks in Paris.
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Naked Capitalism: Clinton, Finally Forced to Confront a Single Payer Advocate in Debate, Can’t Win on Policy, Falls Back on Demagoguery and Distortion (nakedcapitalism.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…
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Tasmanian devils: Disease-free animals transported back to wild – BBC News
A group of Tasmanian Devils are being re-introduced to their natural habitat in Tasmania, as part of a plan designed to save the carnivorous marsupials from a cancer threatening them with extinction.
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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Over the October half term I read The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy – it was SOOOO worth it. I admit at first I didn’t quite understand what was going on.
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Turkey detains eight Moroccan ‘terror suspects’ – Al Jazeera English
Turkey’s border police detained eight Moroccan “terror suspects” at Istanbul’s main airport on Thursday, a senior official told Al Jazeera. The suspects taken into custody at Istanbul Ataturk Airport were on their way to Germany through Greece, acco…
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Danger of chemical attack – French PM – BBC News
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Alibaba Launches $130M Fund To Support Entrepreneurs In Hong Kong | TechCrunch
Back in January, Alibaba unveiled plans for a HK$1 billion ($130 million) fund to help entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and today the initiative — which is called the Alibaba Hong Kong Young Entrepreneurs Foundation — was officially launched.
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More Tickets Now Available For The Disrupt London Hackathon | TechCrunch
We quickly sold out of the first few waves of tickets to the Hackathon at Disrupt London 2015, but more tickets are now available on our ticketing page. These tickets sell out quickly, so be sure to act fast if you want to get in on the action.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico Full Album (Stereo) [HQ] – YouTube
Sunday Morning: 0:00I’m Waiting for the Man: 2:55Femme Fatale: 7:36Venus in Furs: 10:15Run Run Run: 15:25All Tomorrow’s Parties: 19:50Heroin: 25:48There She Goes Again: 33:00I’ll Be Your Mirror: 35:41The Black Angel’s Death Song: 37:55European Son: …
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A Comic Book Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Poignant Poem, Annabel Lee | Open Culture
We’ve highlighted the comic art of Montreal-based Julian Peters before on Open Culture. He’s the man who undertook a 24-page illustrated adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and then also delivered a manga version of W. B.
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Global temperature hike already halfway to ‘two degree warming’ limit : environment
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On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad’s Disastrous Interview | Re/code
This morning, the Internet collectively pointed and laughed at Tinder CEO Sean Rad for giving a trainwreck of an interview to the London Evening Standard. In the article, Rad confused the definition of sodomy and stressed that he had only slept with…
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO – ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES – YouTube
THE VELVET UNDERGROUNG & NICO (1967)LOU REED: vocals, guitar, and ostrich guitarSTERLING MORRISON: guitar, bass guitar, backing vocalsJOHN CALE: electric viola, piano, bass guitar, backing vocals MAUREEN TUCKER: percussionNICO: chanteuse; backing vo…
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UrbanClap, India’s Largest Services Marketplace, Fetches $25 Billion Series B | TechCrunch
UrbanClap, which uses a matchmaking algorithm to help consumers find the best service providers in major Indian cities, plans to scale rapidly after landing a $25 million Series B.
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Mike Huckabee Sued for ‘Eye of the Tiger’ Use During Kim Davis Event (thewrap.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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I spent the majority of this week’s Black-ish episode, “Chop Shop,” wondering why the show was doing another barber shop episode so soon after doing one in its first season. Eventually, I realized it was not a Black-ish episode that I was thinking o…
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We’ve ridden a clear cycle with the prime minister since leaving Australia a week ago. We had two days of joyful exuberance, in Jakarta and in Berlin. Malcolm’s expansive adventures with new peers.
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Reuters bans freelance RAW photography to boost speed and preserve ‘reality’ | The Verge
Reuters has banned its freelance photographers from submitting images that were shot and processed in their camera’s RAW format, PetaPixel has confirmed.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Denmark. Graffiti has been a part of Copenhagen’s urban image for so many years now that most people have become oblivious to the colourful works that are visible all over town and engulf pretty much every in…
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American ‘Trophy’ Hunters Kill Endangered, Threatened Animals Abroad Almost Daily | An NBC Bay Area investigation reveals 1.2 million animals, including endangered and threatened wildlife, were killed abroad by American hunters and sent to the U.S. …
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I’m so sick of stupid trends/bandwagon posts on Imgur….. – GIF on Imgur
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“I do better without words,” Rudolph Valentino (Finn Wittrock, putting that flawless forehead to excellent use) tells the star-struck bit player he’s invited for dinner.
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Terrified Syrian Girl survives airstrike on rebel held Douma, can’t find her parents – GIF on Imgur
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We’ve reached the point in Arrow’s run where my instinct is to call tonight a low-key episode, despite the fact that it, you know, resurrects the brother of one of the show’s main characters. (Let’s be honest: We reached that point a long, long time…
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100 Women 2015: a journey from maid to photographer – BBC News
Xyza Bacani’s life changed when she won a scholarship to study and practise photography in New York. Previously employed as a maid in Hong Kong, she became interested in photography as a way of recording her fellow workers’ lives – and the abuses th…
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James Baldwin and Margaret Mead on Religion | Brain Pickings
NOTE: This is the fifth installment in a multi-part series covering Mead and Baldwin’s historic conversation.
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As a serious cartoonist, one secretly hopes to create “That Book”: a book that can be passed to a literary-minded person who doesn’t normally read comics; one that doesn’t require any explanation or apology in advance and is developed enough in its …
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Mayor: ISIL Video Won’t Intimidate Nyc | Al Jazeera America
Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City will not be intimidated by a newly released video by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which shows images of Times Square.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Hot 44 y/o Cougar via /r/pics…
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S Africa sacks UN Congo peacekeepers over curfew breach – Al Jazeera English
South Africa’s military said it dismissed 47 peacekeepers serving in the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo for violating curfew.
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Egypt-bound plane makes emergency landing in Bulgaria – Al Jazeera English
A passenger plane flying to the Egyptian resort of Hurghada has made an emergency landing in Bulgaria after a bomb threat. The Reuters news agency reported, quoting unnamed officials, that the aircraft landed at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast city of B…
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Why should nations accept cowardly men who refuse to defend their nation as refugees?They’ve abandon their Nation,and the defenseless for life in Europe. (i1122.photobucket.com)
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Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty Amid the Wreckage of the Soul | Brain Pickings
“An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion,” Joni Mitchell once told an interviewer. Indeed, the history of the arts is the history of the complex relationship between creativity and mental illness.
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George Lucas wants to be Jar Jar Binks | The Verge
For many, George Lucas’ work on the Star Wars prequels did more to blow up the galaxy than the Death Star ever could. But it’s only now, free of his obligations to the series, that Lucas can really stick the vibroknife into the gut of Star Wars fans.
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Guardian readers’ comfort library | Books | The Guardian
A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures.
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Number26 Adds Overdraft Feature To Its Modern Banking Experience | TechCrunch
Overdraft fees suck, but sometimes you need more money than what you currently have on your bank account for a big purchase. Until now, Berlin-based startup Number26 didn’t allow overdraft. Your transaction was simply denied.
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Water cannon fired at anti-APEC protesters in Manila – Al Jazeera English
Security forces in the Philippines fired water cannon on Thursday to disperse hundreds of protesters from disrupting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ meeting in the capital, Manila.
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It’s been awhile since we last saw Frankie working at the dentist’s office, but now we won’t see her there again until January at the earliest: it’s closed while they remodel the place to fit in with its new corporate owners, Smile Superstars Intern…
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How Erdogan lost the liberals – Al Jazeera English
About five years ago, Turkey was the shining star of the Muslim world, gaining praise from both East and West.
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In the soggy sodium-lit hours of a Sunday night in 2013, I met with urban explorers in Vauxhall, London, to sneak into The Tower at One St George Wharf, the tallest residential building in the United Kingdom, which was still under construction.
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When I want to make a meme for imgur but I can’t find my computer chair – GIF on Imgur
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Women lead the way out of poverty in an Indian desert – Al Jazeera English
Rajasthan, India – Rameshwari Devi wakes up at 4am each morning and walks the 3km to her nearest water source. Her village Derasar, lies in the Thar desert in northwest Rajasthan, a vast wilderness spread over 320,000sq km and covering 60 percent of…
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Workers at Some Us Airports Plan Strike | Al Jazeera America
Airport workers at seven of the busiest U.S. hubs plan to strike on Wednesday night and Thursday over what they say are bad wages and threats against unionizing.
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The Gay Community’s Fairy Dragmother – The Daily Beast
Michelle Visage is the first to say it. “I’m an intimidating figure,” she tells me. “I’m loud and hard and in your face and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.”
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De Blasio Escalates Christie Refugee Fued — NYMag
Earlier this week Bill de Blasio criticized Chris Christie for taking a stand against orphaned Syrian refugee children, but with Democrats across the country, including the president, attacking the New Jersey governor, the mayor needed a way to make…
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Trickle-Down Economics Must Die. Long Live Grow-Up Economics | Scott Santens
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to a rally in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Wednesday and criticises the Obama administration over its handling of Isis, saying Obama ‘doesn’t have a clue’.
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The question of genocide and Cambodia’s Muslims – Al Jazeera English
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – A debate on whether the Khmer Rouge committed genocide against Cambodian Muslims during the 1970s continues after a UN war crimes tribunal resumed this week. In total, at least 1.
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Trickle-Down Economics Must Die. Long Live Grow-Up Economics : politics
Trickle-Down Economics Must Die. Long Live Grow-Up Economics (huffingtonpost.com) Really hoping that trickle-down economics finally dies. Lets grow up people.
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The Koch intelligence agency – The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its e…
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Boko Haram, not ISIS, is the world’s deadliest terrorist group / Boing Boing
A new Global Terrorism Index report out this week claims the Boko Haram Islamic terrorism front in Nigeria are now the world’s deadliest extremist group, beating the ISIS (or Daesh) organization to which it is linked.
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Bank of England regulators due to rule on HBOS bosses – BBC News
The Bank of England’s regulators are to rule on whether former HBOS bosses will be banned from working in the City. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issue their report on the bank’s 2008 collapse on…
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Lord knows we needed an episode that focused on Sabine, the least interesting character of the cast. She exudes a spunkiness that could be appealing if we knew something about her, or understood her, outside of the fact that she knows explosives, el…
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The GOP’s Cowardly Plan to Ban Syrian Refugees – The Daily Beast
House Republicans and the Obama administration have put together “a coalition of cowardice” that screws over Syrian refugees, some of the most vulnerable people in the world, in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
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Could Art Solve the Refugee Problem? – The Daily Beast
Believe it or not, Barack and Michelle Obama are crazy about modern art.
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Francois Hollande Shows True Grit on Refugees – The Daily Beast
This is how a mature country acts.
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Exclusive: Inside America’s ISIS Air Strike Center in Iraq – The Daily Beast
ERBIL, Northern Iraq — The morning after the attacks in Paris that left 129 dead, the U.S. officers manning the coalition’s control room hadn’t yet heard that the killings had been claimed by ISIS, the same foe they were pounding with munitions from…
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Ted Cruz Spreads ‘War on Cops’ Lie – The Daily Beast
Sen. Ted Cruz spent his Tuesday afternoon overseeing a hearing about a problem that doesn’t really exist — at least, not beyond the confines of his campaign talking points.
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Still Healing a Year After U-VA ‘Rape on Campus’ – The Daily Beast
On November 19, 2014, I was nervous, because I knew it was imminent: a long-form article in Rolling Stone magazine about campus sexual assault.
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Why Is No One Buying Female Viagra? – The Daily Beast
Pharmaceutical companies have long searched for a libido-enhancing pill for women, preferably one that delivered the same financial and clinical success as Viagra did for Pfizer.
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Scandal mixes mistletoe and murder (maybe) · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Thursday, November 19. All times are Eastern. Scandal (ABC, 9 p.m.): With the holiday season just around the corner, lots of shows are settling in for a well-deserved winter break. But first they have to pull …
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That Time Carly Fiorina Nearly Leaked Classified CIA Data – The Daily Beast
Carly Fiorina is either lying or dangerously close to revealing classified information. Either way, it’s not good news for a campaign predicated on being the anti-Hillary Clinton.
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Given that Mustang is a story about five sisters, clustered together in age and collectively going through puberty and/or adolescence, all of whom are imprisoned (literally, in this case) by authoritarian relatives, one could be forgiven for assumin…
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The Cop Shooting So Horrific Chicago Paid $5 Million to Keep It Hidden – The Daily Beast
CHICAGO — A Cook County judge decides today whether a dashcam video showing the police-shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald must be released.
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Halfway through the Call Of Duty: Black Ops III campaign, your gruff partner Hendricks—a fellow CIA operative—gestures to some impossibly vast chasm in the foreground.
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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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The Star Wars franchise—even the prequels—is a work of weird genius · Run The Series · The A.V. Club
With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment. Imagine that there’d never been a Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope—under any title. No The Empire Strikes Back. No Return Of …
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When it comes to remaking foreign films for American audiences, there’s apparently no such thing as “too soon,” and nothing so unbroken that it can’t be “fixed” by dropping the subtitles. See Oldboy. See Let The Right One In.
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My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
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In the middling period crime drama Legend, Tom Hardy gives another of his indelible supporting performances, playing Ronnie Kray, the real-life British gangster whose eccentricities and savage streak made him a well-known and frequently feared chara…
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The most telling, period-defining moment in Carol, Todd Haynes’ superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price Of Salt (originally published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), gets no particular emphasis and could easily be missed.
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As funny and heartfelt as Seth Rogen was on Freaks And Geeks and Undeclared, even fans of those shows might be surprised by the degree to which he’s become a comedy factory unto himself.
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The governor of Connecticut, Dannel Malloy, has welcomed a family of Syrian refugees into his state after his counterpart in Indiana, where they had been due to be resettled, refused to accept them.
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Cat Snake Mom doesn’t know the difference between a hand and one of her kits! – GIF on Imgur
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ISIS threatens NYC and DC / Boing Boing
ISIS, or as they hate to be called, Daesh, released a video online Wednesday threatening an imminent attack on New York City.
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Hillary Clinton attacks Bernie Sanders’ progressive agenda. It is not merely criticizing Sanders for suspicious math. It is suggesting the test for any proposed initiative is what taxes it imposes, regardless of what benefits it might bring. This is…
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What would the person who named Walkie Talkies have named other items? (self.AskReddit) Grand Theft Auto would be Stealy Wheely Auto-Mobiley.
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Meet The 5 Startups Launched At Troy Carter’s SMASHD LABS Demo Day | TechCrunch
Today marked the demo day for the first batch of startups from SMASHD LABS, the LA-based accelerator started by legendary talent manager Troy Carter.
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OECD Nations Limit Overseas Financing Coal Plants | Al Jazeera America
The agreement reached earlier this week is a step that sends a strong political message ahead of upcoming climate change negotiations in Paris, an American official and environmentalists said. The Obama administration announced in 2013 that it would…
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Yellowstone proposes controversial slaughter of 1,000 bison | US news | The Guardian
Yellowstone National Park is proposing to reduce its celebrated bison herd by 1,000 animals this winter by rounding up those wandering into adjacent Montana and delivering them to Native American tribes for slaughter, officials said on Wednesday.
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A spokesman for the US State Department, John Kirby, speaks to reporters on Wednesday to confirm that the Obama administration is intending to stick to its plan to resettle 10,000 new Syrian refugees in the country over the next year.
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What France Just Did Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity : democrats
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Twitter Could Soon Give You More Than Two Options For Polls | TechCrunch
Twitter began letting its users make polls on its service last month and already the company appears to have more substantive plans for the feature — which TechCrunch’s Drew Olanoff really hates, but I think could actually be quite interesting.
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Jewish teacher in France stabbed in anti-Semitic hate crime by terrorism supporters / Boing Boing
In France, police are searching for three terrorism supporters who stabbed a Jewish school teacher at a Jewish school in Marseille. Investigators have formally declared it an anti-Semitic attack. It follows a series of attacks in Paris on Friday tha…
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Kiribati president pushes Australia to back moratorium on new coalmines | World news | The Guardian
The president of the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, Anote Tong, has urged the Australian government to support a moratorium on new coalmines before the global climate summit in Paris in December.
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This is how movies are delivered to your local theater. : movies
TriviaThis is how movies are delivered to your local theater. (imgur.com) I remember a few years ago, my buddy and I went to a limited release for independent film and the producer brought his Mac desktop. Your way seems A LOT easier.
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What France Just Did Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity (occupydemocrats.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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France says it will take 30,000 Syrian refugees, while U.S. Republicans would turn them away (washingtonpost.com) Terrorism is effective when it makes us change our way of life. If we stop accepting the tired, poor, huddled masses the terrorists win.
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Japan and other OECD members to end public financing of coal-fired power generation (japantimes.co.jp)submitted 56 minutes ago by loading…
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The Othering of Cate Blanchett’s ‘Carol’ – The Daily Beast
This week the spotlight is on Todd Haynes’s Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as two women who fall in love in 1950s New York.
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ISIS, Terrorist Sanctuaries, and the Lessons of 9/11 – The New Yorker
In the summer of 1985, Ronald Reagan, concerned about a spike in the number of international terrorist attacks from 1983 to 1985, delivered a speech on the subject before the American Bar Association.
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Las Vegas is the perfect setting for Drunk History to work with. This city has larger than life stories—big stories that would are easily heightened to wilder extremes once alcohol is added.
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There’s nothing really wrong with casting Adam West as Razzle Novak, cocksure daredevil stuntman and father of Moonbeam City cop Dazzle Novak.
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APOD: 2015 November 18 – A Sudden Jet on Comet 67P
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.
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Military Training Image, New Mexico – National Geographic Photo of the Day
U.S. military special forces members conduct fast rope and hoisting training during exercises at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. According to Your Shot member Jodi Martinez, the service members are part of a program that trains special operat…
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I must be missing something…conservatives are hostile to refugees due to the assumption that terrorists may act as refugees to infiltrate the country and they pose a threat to our lives, but they aren’t concerned about domestic gun violence that a…
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Paris attacks: French seek to identify raid bodies – BBC News
French experts are working to establish whether the suspected organiser of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid on a flat on Wednesday. Police said Abdelhamid Abaaoud was the target when officers stormed the flat in the Paris su…
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New York ‘will not be intimidated’: mayor brushes off Isis video threat | US news | The Guardian
The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, went before the cameras in Times Square on Wednesday night to reassure the public there was no cause for alarm over an Islamic State video appearing to threaten an attack on the city.
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Paris attacks give rise to conspiracy theories – Al Jazeera English
As security forces in France and elsewhere in Europe hunt those involved in Friday’s coordinated attacks in Paris, conspiracy theories have been taking root online attempting to provide an alternative explanation for what happened.
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IBM Wants to Help Professional Sports Teams Enter The Digital Age | TechCrunch
Say what you will about IBM, they are constantly trying new ways to generate business, and their latest initiative involves helping professional sports team modernize stadium operations and update the way they interact with fans. The project is two-…
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Retail Software Maker LightSpeed POS Acquires SEOshop For E-Commerce Push | TechCrunch
LightSpeed POS is announcing that it has acquired SEOshop, an Amsterdam-based maker of e-commerce software. As the name implies, LightSpeed’s offerings for brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants include a point-of-sale system, as well as invento…
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Watch New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ TV Spot on Finn | Rolling Stone
Watch New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ TV Spot on Finn “You don’t know a thing about me, what I’ve seen,” John Boyega’s character says in a ‘Star Wars’ commercial, “We all need to run”
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I stumbled upon a YouTube page featuring an elderly man playing piano really wonderfully. He stopped uploading a few years ago and I don’t think he ever had much of an audience 😦 (youtube.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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The last few episodes of Modern Family have really suffered from a lack of inventiveness. So many storylines throughout this season have been versions of past plots, and that’s left the show feeling strangely empty.
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Malcolm Turnbull has shrugged off a “please explain” from the US about the leasing of the port of Darwin to a Chinese firm with alleged links to the People’s Liberation Army.
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[image] You get better. : GetMotivated
[image] You get better. (imgur.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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Manhunt continues for key Paris attack suspect – Al Jazeera English
A European manhunt continued on Thursday for the suspected planner of the Paris attacks, a day after a raid on a French apartment block neutralised an ISIL cell allegedly planning more strikes.
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Open thread for night owls: There was no threat. We loved America.
Survivor of America’s WWII internment camps George Takei. 1) The internment (not a “sequester”) was not of Japanese “foreign nationals,” but of Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens.
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Most of the time you can see disaster coming from a mile away. We all like to think that misfortune only happens suddenly and to other people who probably exist on TV. It’s comforting to believe this because the truth is a much harder pill to swallo…
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There has perhaps never been a more memorable play in football — or even all of American sports — than the one that ended the career of the Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, 30 years ago today. Since that play, N.F.L.
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Faces from the Border: The Devil Is on the Loose – The New Yorker
This is the second in a three-part series, “Faces from the Border,” about Mexican-American agents on the border between the United States and Mexico.
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Blue Ivy, Gwyneth Paltrow Sing on Coldplay’s New Album | Rolling Stone
Blue Ivy, Gwyneth Paltrow Sing on Coldplay’s New Album “Everyone who got asked to sing on our album has an important part in our lives,” Chris Martin said of ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ collaborations
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You don’t get to hear from Peter Woolcott all that much in public, even though he is a pivotal character in Australia’s international climate change negotiations.
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VW Skilled Workers in Tennessee to Get UAW Vote | Al Jazeera America
The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday granted the United Auto Workers’ petition for a union vote for skilled-trades workers at the German automaker’s lone U.S. plant in Tennessee.
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Anti-Apec protests take place in Manila – BBC News
Large protests are taking place on the streets on the Philippine capital, Manila, where leaders are attending the Apec regional trade summit. Hundreds of people from indigenous, student and labour groups clashed with police, who deployed water canno…
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One of the most interesting aspects of Survivor is how the people playing the game become a conscious part of creating and sustaining the season’s overall narrative.
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In April, we reported that Ruby Sparks directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris had been hired to direct Battle Of The Sexes, a movie about the famous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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Texas executes Raphael Holiday over fire that killed three children | US news | The Guardian
A Texas inmate has been executed after failed appeals for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an east Texas home 15 years ago.
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John Malkovich made a movie/cognac ad that no one will see for 100 years · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Today, in news about cognac, experimental film-making, and/or weirdly high-profile marketing stunts: Robert Rodriguez and John Malkovich have teamed up to create a film that won’t be released to the public for 100 years.
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A common refrain heard when lauding Kingdom (it happens) is that the show isn’t just about mixed-martial arts—it’s actually a compelling family drama.
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Hardball Questions For The Next Debate | Slate Star Codex
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College Football Is My Terrible Boyfriend
Excerpted from Diane Roberts’s new book, Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America, now on sale. He’s an historian, a distinguished scholar teaching at a distinguished university in Georgia. I’m an English professor at Florida State.
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Princesses, Slaves, and Explosives: The Scandalous Origin of Vaccines
The history of inoculation may sound a little dry, but it’s really an epic tale of human trafficking, semi-illicit experimentation, and high explosives. It’s a globe-hopping story that stars harem girls, noblewomen, prisoners, princesses, slaves, an…
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The Koch intelligence agency – POLITICO
As the billionaires’ network works to reshape U.S. politics, it keeps a close eye on the left.
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The morning after the Islamic State attacks on Paris, Donald Trump approvingly retweeted the words of one of his supporters: “THE WORLD IS PLAYING EVERYTHING RIGHT FOR TRUMP! EVERY DAY HIS POINTS ARE PROVEN.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates wins National Book Award for nonfiction | Books | The Guardian
Ta-Nehisi Coates has won the National Book Awards’ top prize for nonfiction for his bestselling depiction of America’s race problem, Between the World and Me.
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Texas Executes Man for Three Murders in 2000 | Al Jazeera America
The state of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals executed Raphael Holiday on Wednesday night for setting the fire that killed his daughter and two other children 15 years ago. The execution by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville …
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The Cosmos Of Enya | Brooklyn Magazine
When I was twelve, Enya released her oeuvre-establishing record A Day Without Rain. The album came out on November 21, 2000, went on to sell over 15 million copies, and became the top-selling New Age album of that entire decade.
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New Star Wars: The Force Awakens TV spot shows Finn following Luke’s path | The Verge
We might not be getting any more full trailers before Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ premiere, but Episode VII’s TV spots are providing us with more than enough new footage from the upcoming movie.
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How Kentucky voted against itself when it elected Matt Bevin
This is just depressing. Lisa Botner, 36, belongs to both camps. A Kynector — a state agent representing Kynect in the field — recently helped Botner sign up for a Wellcare Medicaid card for herself and her 7-year-old son.
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Mennonites are farming in a Mexican desert and it’s not going well | Grist
The interactive tool shows a pollution and poverty index, VW diesel cars, and electric vehicle stations.
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This Finn-Centric Star Wars: The Force Awakens Commercial Is Mostly New Footage
Yet another new commercial for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out and while some of the previous ones have been largely rehashes of the trailers, this one—which focuses on Finn—is mostly new footage. Contact the author at germain@io9.com.
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The US government turned down Anne Frank’s visa application / Boing Boing
Otto Frank sought help from his college friend Nathan Strauss Jr, the son of the owner of Macy’s, to get a US visa, but the US State Department turned him and his family down. He later tried got the family a visa for Cuba, but after Germany declared…
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Islam v Nihilism: A Letter to the Dead – The Daily Beast
RIYADH—You faceless killers now have names. Most of you are French and Muslim. In other words, you betrayed your country and your religion. While we know your names, you will never know the names of those whose lives you took in Paris on that night …
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A Freddie Mercury biopic has been in the works since at least 2010—back before The A.V. Club thought to put pictures in its Newswires—with Sacha Baron Cohen originally attached to play the lead.
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Simona Castricum: a letter to everything I’ve lost (and found) | Books | The Guardian
Where do I start? “To whom it may concern?” I’ve been lost for as long as I can remember. It defines my life: my direction, my relationships and my sense of self.
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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks to students at the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, on Wednesday and calls for more action to tackle the threat of Islamic State in the Middle East.
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Does the West want democracy in the Middle East? – BBC News
The Paris attacks have once again revealed the West’s bewilderment as to why it is under attack. Today, European politicians, journalists and academics are still searching for an explanation as to why so many young Muslims are being radicalised.
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‘How I Escaped From ISIS’ – 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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French politics shifts right after Paris attacks – BBC News
Marianne, the imposing woman who represents the French Republic, looms above the crowd, holding in one hand an olive branch, in the other a book, marked: “Human rights”. Not perhaps the most appropriate symbols of this moment in the Republic’s histo…
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Australia blocks sale of enormous Kidman farmland holding – BBC News
Australia’s government will block the sale of the country’s largest private landholding to foreign investors. S. Kidman & Co has pastoral leases covering 100,000sq/km – an area bigger than Ireland.
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What do other star systems look like? [1080×731] https://t.co/Eb4OP90gLv https://t.co/CCQVWVNuXa
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Puscifer Talk Fear for Bandmate’s Safety During Paris Attack | Rolling Stone
As breaking news continues to develop in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks – on Wednesday, French authorities raided a building in Paris suburb Saint-Denis in search for additional suspects – more stories from those directly affected by the attac…
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Sharp tells employees to buy products – BBC News
Troubled Japanese electronics giant Sharp is trying to persuade its employees to buy its products in a bid to help sales. The firm said it was not mandatory for staff to buy its goods, but confirmed that it wanted workers to choose its products over…
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How New Technology Connects GED Graduates With New Opportunities | TechCrunch
Most GED credential recipients say they take the test to further their education — not end it. In fact, 65 percent of GED credential holders indicated they wanted a job that requires further education or training after passing the test (as reported …
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Type your country into the search box to find out how it ranks for gender equality.
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Redman promises a desperate nation that How High 2 is coming · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Promising succor to a people hungry for comfort and guidance, actor, rapper, and Def Jam Vendetta wrestler Redman has made it clear that How High 2 is now in the works.
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The Human Concern — Matter — Medium
I recited this phrase, or some variation thereof, so many times last Wednesday, that it started to lose meaning. Twelve hours of asking the same question to people, and even more time asking it to myself.
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How Texas’s Campsite Killer Lured His Victims – The Daily Beast
The East Texas man accused of butchering a family of six threw back alcoholic drinks with his victims before luring them into the woods, police say. William Mitchell Hudson, 33, drove a tractor to the campers’ rural property next to his family’s Ten…
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Giant Panda Cub Makes Public Debut, Hopes You Don’t Notice
This three-month old female giant panda cub made her public debut yesterday—amid some familiar-looking stuffed-toy camouflage—at the Giant Panda Conservation Center at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Dirty Words – The Morning News
The first play I ever wrote, at the age of 21, was about a woman who drank and smoked too much. (Write what you know.) The opening scene found our sauced heroine returning to her hotel room and trying in vain to light a cigarette with a childproof l…
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Match Prices Its IPO AT $12 Per Share | TechCrunch
The $12 per share is at the bottom of the anticipated $12 to $14 proposed price range. Square, which is also going public tomorrow, just priced its IPO at $9, below the $11 to $13 price range. Match owns a group of dating companies, including OkCupi…
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Heroin antidote Narcan as a nasal spray gets clearance from US regulators | Society | The Guardian
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an easy-to-use version of the lifesaving drug that reverses heroin and prescription painkiller overdoses.
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This Is Why a Mouse’s Sperm Is Longer Than an Elephant’s Sperm
A mouse’s sperm is much, much larger than an elephant’s sperm. A fruit fly produces the longest sperm known to science. Why do tiny animals make big swimmers, but large animals make small ones? There are competing ideas about why sperm size differs …
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Holy geez, this is a whopper of a release. Version 5.0 of the NewsBlur iOS app has lots and lots of new features, fixes for some long standing issues, and major performance improvements for reading stories.
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Donald Sutherland: ‘I could tell you stories but I’d never get another job’ – BBC News
Donald Sutherland talks about his hopes that the Hunger Games franchise will inspire young people to become more politically active and explains why he’ll never retire from acting. In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Donald Sutherland is back …
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IN public health, you go where the crisis is. If there is an outbreak and you have the ability to relieve suffering, you rush to the site of the need. This is why, a year and a half ago, I returned to my hometown, Birmingham, Ala., to provide aborti…
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College Students: Paris Attacks Stole Our Spotlight – The Daily Beast
College students are often unfairly stereotyped as narcissists who can’t see beyond the campus bubble. But we might also hope that when a tragedy like the attacks in Paris occur, they will be shaken into awareness.
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Colombia’s Santos ‘in serious difficulty’ if Farc deal fails – BBC News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has indicated that he may consider resigning if the Colombian people reject a peace agreement being negotiated with the Farc rebel group. Government negotiators have been engaged in talks with the left-wing reb…
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Why the internet loves the dance from Hotline Bling – BBC News
When Canadian rapper Drake released the video for his single Hotline Bling, it sent the internet into a creative frenzy. Hundreds of parodies and homages appeared, including Drake playing tennis and dancing to the theme tune from the sitcom Frasier.
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Bicycles lighting the night in Venice Beach – BBC News
What happens when you apply thousands of LED lights to a bicycle? You fit right in with Venice, California locals. Venice Beach, which served as a US hippy hub of the 1960s, is now seeing dozens of locals cruising its boardwalk late at night with br…
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Bill Hader is slipping back into sad drama mode for Empress Of Serenity · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Leveraging his twin skills of saying something funny and looking really sad, Bill Hader has signed on to star in a new dramedy from the writer of the cuteness-and-cancer hit Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
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Could Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson Have Stopped That Bomb If They’d Just Taken An Uber?
You could use the public data released by the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission to reveal critical insights about urban transit trends. Or you could use it to conduct a completely serious investigation on the plausibility of one of the trans…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/32qIMEHz8v Stories via @UN_CTED
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The Economics of Syrian Refugees – The New Yorker
In contrast with discussions about immigration generally, there has been less comment about the economics of the issue.
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Did Match Violate IPO “Quiet Period” Rules with Tinder Interview? | TechCrunch
Match.com, which is expected to price its IPO tonight, has just filed an updated document with the SEC, saying that it did not condone Tinder CEO’s Sean Rad interview with the London Evening Standard.
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Roanoke mayor uses internment camps to justify refugee policy – BBC News
The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, has come under criticism after he appeared to endorse the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. In a letter, David Bowers wrote that Syrian refugees should not be resettled in his city, citing securit…
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Map shows where Volkswagen’s extra pollution has the worst impacts in California | Grist
The embedded version above is a bit limited; if you click on the map page, you might get more out of it. On the top right-hand side of the map, you can enter a county. By zooming in on a specific region, you get an interesting picture of the interse…
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This Arch Linux desktop features a beautiful photo of Mars floating in the dark, but that’s not all that’s interesting about it—transparent terminal windows and resource indicators round out what’s actually a very productive setup. Here’s how to mak…
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New Jersey clergy want statewide action on police shootings
Clergy leaders in New Jersey joined with Black Lives Matter activists on Monday to call for state legislative action around the issue of police violence.
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Gene that makes bacteria immune to last-resort antibiotic can spread | Ars Technica
A newly identified gene that renders bacteria resistant to polymyxin antibiotics—drugs often used as the last line of defense against infections—has the potential to be shared between different types of bacteria.
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For Entrepreneurs Suffering From Depression: Step Into The Light | TechCrunch
Silicon Valley lives and dies by the pitch – defining the value proposition, the upside potential and the reasons to invest capital in a startup. Inevitably, the discussion always turns to the founder(s) – to their curriculum vitae’s strength, their…
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Paris attacks: What led to Saint Denis raid? – BBC News
Paris attacks: What led to Saint Denis raid? 18 November 2015 Last updated at 23:38 GMT The BBC’s Damian Grammaticas looks at the events that led to the raid on a flat in Saint Denis on Wednesday morning.
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Seems like a fitting question for the next debate/forum. Does the candidate agree? The hearing is tonight. It’s the last chance to make comments to the DOJ as noted at the end of the article.
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Who Is the Man Behind Ben Carson’s Foreign Policy? MMeet Robert Dees, a retired general who believes Muslims pose a threat to the U.S., the military should spread Christianity, and Carson should be president. (foreignpolicy.com)
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Bernie Sanders puts Wall Street on notice: “On day one, I am appointing a special committee to investigate the crimes on Wall Street.” (salon.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…[–]Stockguy777 [score hidden] 2 hours ago(4 children)Get your Yachts…
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Thank you Rep. Earl Blumenauer! (D-Ore.) The DEA in its entirety should be dismantled.
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California judge says ex-wife in divorce case cannot use frozen embryos | US news | The Guardian
Judge Anne-Christine Massullo of the San Francisco superior court said in a tentative decision that the agreement trumps Mimi Lee’s desire to keep the embryos. Lee has argued that the embryos represent her last chance to have children after cancer m…
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The Coolest Cooler is turning into one of Kickstarter’s biggest disasters | The Verge
Coolest, the company behind a popular Kickstarter-funded cooler, is now selling its product for $499 on Amazon in an effort to raise enough money to continue producing new units. The news may frustrate Kickstarter backers, who were promised the prod…
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Get Involved, Internet: Help WFMU upgrade its Free Music Archive · Newswire · The A.V. Club
One of the best things about the internet is its vast supply of free stuff. The thing about free stuff, though, is that someone at some point actually does have to pay for it, especially in the world of digital media.
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Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of ‘post-antibiotic era’ – BBC News
The world is on the cusp of a “post-antibiotic era”, scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed. Their report, in the Lancet, identifies bacteria able to shrug off colistin in patients…
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Square Prices Its IPO At $9 | TechCrunch
Square’s somewhat conservative pricing earlier this month just got a little more conservative. Square today priced its initial public offering at $9, giving the company a valuation of $2.66 billion.
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Five Last Rounds in Louisville – SBNation.com
In the month since I met Ali at his mother’s and he gave me his phone numbers, I haven’t called, not wanting to bother him, and feeling intrusive simply for having this access to his life.
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Seriously, try “view source” on google.com / Boing Boing
Wired’s Klint Finley tried turning off Javascript and discovered a better Web, one without interruptors asking you to sign up for mailing list, without infinitely scrolling pages, without ads and without malvertising.
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Breathing under water: How rains paralysed India’s Chennai – BBC News
Non-stop rain for nearly a week in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has killed at least 71 people, while the army and air force have been deployed to rescue those still stranded by floods.
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The Only Way to Stop this Cat Fact Spam Is to Tweet at Edward Snowden | Motherboard
Imagine for a second that you’re the kind of person who posts their personal phone number to Twitter. I know, I know, it’s tough, but bear with me.
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Here Are 5 American Leaders Standing Against the Fear of Syrian Refugees | Mother Jones
Since the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, more than half of America’s governors have issued statements saying that they would bar Syrian refugees from entering their states—despite having no legal authority to do so and disregarding the nation…
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A couple received a terrible shock when their son, conceived through an assisted fertility procedure, was born with a different blood type than either of his parents. The boy’s father then failed a paternity test, leading the parents to accuse the c…
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It Took America 72 Hours to Invoke Internment Camps for Syrian Refugees – The Daily Beast
Over the past 72 hours, we’ve watched the rhetoric surrounding the resettling of Syrian refugees in the United States go from cautious calls for stricter screening to suggestions that state troops round up and remove asylum seekers.
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Connecticut welcomes Syrian refugee family after Indiana governor says no | US news | The Guardian
A family of Syrian refugees destined for resettlement in Indiana was denied entry to the state and instead began a new life in Connecticut on Wednesday.
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The Fiat 124 Spider is the most polarizing car in LA | The Verge
The Fiat 124 Spider unveiled at the LA Auto Show last night is a little polarizing, to say the least: the roadster, based on Mazda’s lauded new Miata, has some odd design elements that seem to leave it hanging somewhere between Italy and Japan.
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Spanish film pokes fun at Catalan independence crisis – BBC News
This might not seem the wisest moment to release a comedy in Spain about a Catalan village where independence has apparently been declared.
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Secret Donors Fuel Democratic Political Powerhouse | Al Jazeera America
Democratic Party-aligned “dark money” powerhouse Patriot Majority USA collected half of the $30 million it raised last year from five anonymous donors, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of a new tax filing from the group.
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Agents of SHIELD Is at the Top of its Game, and That’s Amazing to Watch
One thing that keeps occurring to me while watching Agents of SHIELD lately: This show is pretty much 100 percent serialized now, with huge elements of soap opera as well as ongoing plot strands. There’s zero “monster of the week” stuff.
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What have you touched today? – BBC News
Can you remember everything you’ve touched today? Argentine-born designer, Paula Zuccotti, asked 62 people to make a note of all the objects they handled in a 24-hour period, then gather them together for a snapshot of their lives.
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The Victorian government has announced an independent review of coal development projects after a demonstration plant in the Latrobe Valley which was set to receive federal and state funding failed to attract private investment.
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Gender pay gap ‘may take 118 years to close’ – World Economic Forum – BBC News
The World Economic Forum believes it will take another 118 years – or until 2133 – until the global pay gap between men and women is finally closed. Women are only now earning the amount that men did in 2006, data from the WEF’s Global Gender Gap re…
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Majestic Wine this week announced the removal of its chief buyer after its pre-tax profits dropped by almost half. Supply chain relations at the ailing retailer have been tense ever since it asked suppliers to stump up cash towards its new warehouse…
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Climate change is ‘single biggest threat’ to polar bear survival | Environment | The Guardian
Global warming is now the single most important threat to the survival of the polar bear with retreating sea ice set to decimate populations, according to a new study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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Mix Up a Thanksgiving Classic and Make Stuffing Waffles
Turn a traditional dish on its head this Thanksgiving by transforming stuffing into crispy squares filled with gravy-catching pockets. All you need is the stuffing you were going to make anyway and a waffle iron. Mix your stuffing together, then spr…
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Syrian Refugees Welcomed in Connecticut | Al Jazeera America
The married couple and their 5-year-old son had been living as refugees in Jordan and been waiting three years to resettle in the United States. They were scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis Thursday but were diverted when Gov.
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Good morning. Two people died, including a woman who detonated an explosive vest, during an early-morning raid in the suburb of St.-Denis today. The police arrested seven people.
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The Force Awakens’ Stormtrooper Dressing Room is the Coolest Thing You’ll See Today
It’s so easy to not think of Stormtroopers as people. In the original Star Wars trilogy, the only time we ever saw one without a helmet on, is when Han Solo and Luke Skywalker put on the outfits. But they’re people too—and in The Force Awakens, we’l…
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See Blake Shelton and ‘Voice’ Team Sing ‘Lean on Me’ | Rolling Stone
See Blake Shelton and ‘Voice’ Team Sing ‘Lean on Me’ Bill Withers classic is repurposed by hopefuls Barrett Baber, Emily Ann Roberts and Zach Seabaugh with help from their coach
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Thomas Ayad: Remembering Music-Loving Label Rep Killed in Paris Attack | Rolling Stone
Thomas Ayad, a marketing manager at Mercury Music Group/Universal in Paris, would do anything for the bands he worked with – including travel internationally to see them live.
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Good Boy is trying so hard to get kitty to play with him without scaring her. – GIF on Imgur
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Ford CEO Sees Self-Driving Cars on U.S. Roads in Four Years | Re/code
Ford CEO Mark Fields said Wednesday his aim is to create a company that is changing the future of mobility as much as Henry Ford did 100 years ago.
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Someone’s Trying To Kill All The Hot People In The ‘Zoolander 2’ Trailer – Digg
5 diggs Trailers Movies Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson return to strike poses and save the world. Oh yeah, and Will Ferrell is back.
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Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 15 People in Nigeria | Al Jazeera America
Two suicide bombers targeted a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 100 others, emergency officials said.
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Bumblebee exposure to neonic pesticides can lead to poorer crops – Technology & Science – CBC News
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U.S. Thinks ISIS Brought Down Russian Jet, But Bomb Photo Still a Mystery – The Daily Beast
A White House spokesperson said Wednesday that Russia’s Metrojet Flight 9268 was likely destroyed in a terrorist attack by ISIS, the first such public statement on the matter by the Obama administration.
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Watching paint dry: epic crowfunded troll of the UK film censorship board / Boing Boing
You can’t release a film in the UK without a certificate from the British Board of Film Certification, a censorship authority that’s been rating and banning movies since it was established in 1912 to prevent ‘indecorous dancing,’ ‘references to cont…
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Bumblebee exposure to neonic pesticides can lead to poorer crops : environment
Bumblebee exposure to neonic pesticides can lead to poorer crops (cbc.ca)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…
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Even though Rohit Prakash was a dual MD and PhD researching optogenetics at Stanford University, his entrepreneurial itch kept returning him to his family’s small business roots.
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Honduras detains 5 Syrians heading for U.S. with stolen Greek passports-police (trust.org)
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Islamic State claims it has killed two more hostages – BBC News
Image copyright AP Image caption IS released photo’s purporting to show Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad from Norway, (left) and Fan Jinghui from Beijing.
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Fargo creator Noah Hawley is working on a Cat’s Cradle TV series | The Verge
Showrunner Noah Hawley has had remarkable success with his television adaptation of Fargo, and now he’s working on turning another well-known work into TV: Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
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Hillary Clinton attacks Bernie Sanders’ progressive agenda. It is not merely criticizing Sanders for suspicious math. It is suggesting the test for any proposed initiative is what taxes it imposes, regardless of what benefits it might bring. This is…
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France Will Still Accept 30,000 Refugees — NYMag
While many elected officials in the U.S.
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Spotlight on green news & views: Terrorism and climate change; Chicago activists protest petcoke
To see more elk, visit Ojibwa’s story here. El Niño Does Something It’s Never Done Before. Watch Out, California—written by FishOutofWater: “Tropical Pacific water temperatures are shockingly hot.
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Get Over Your Crippling Self-Doubt by Answering These Three Questions
When you’re riddled with self-doubt, having any sort of confidence can seem like a pipe dream. By identifying the doubts you have about yourself, and asking yourself these simple questions, you might be able to wiggle free of their suffocating embra…
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Eddie Jones has moved closer to becoming England’s first foreign head coach after talks with Rugby Football Union chief executive Ian Ritchie. The Australian, 55, is understood to be keen on the role, but needs to secure his release from his job as …
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The Bastard Executioner, made by FX drama magnum and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, is not a show I have seen. Nevertheless, it is a show that I do not believe I would like.
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Lyft Burning Cash On The Way To $500 Billion Round | TechCrunch
Lyft is raising a half a billion dollar round, but its financials look wobbly. According to Bloomberg, the ridesharing startup took a net loss of $127 million in the first half of this year, off less than $47 million in revenue.
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BuzzFeed Hires Google’s Lenke Taylor As Its First Chief People Officer | TechCrunch
BuzzFeed is hiring a new executive to lead recruiting and human resources — Lenke Taylor, who’s currently Google’s head of people operations for business functions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Paris attacks: Relative urges Paris suspect to surrender – BBC News
A relative of two of the Paris suspects has spoken to the BBC, as vigils take place in the town in Belgium where they lived.Brahim Abdeslam died after he set off an explosives-laden suicide belt near a Paris cafe.
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Bill de Blasio: ‘This is the cost of rejecting Syrian refugees’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Holding up a photo of a dead Syrian child, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio attacked New Jersey governor Chris Christie on Wednesday.
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Republicans Could Halt the Syrian Refugee Program With Red Tape – The Atlantic
Republican leaders in Congress don’t want to kill the Syrian refugee program outright. But they may end up shutting it down anyway with a few added layers of red tape.
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Manhattan DA’s Office Serves Up Craptastic White Paper Asking For A Ban On Encryption | Techdirt [ OK, if you post your Bank Account Numbers Online First. ] (techdirt.com)
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2015 Certainly to Be Warmest on Record — NYMag
As it stands, 2015 is going down in the record books as the warmest year on record.
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Syfy greenlights two seasons of its creepypasta anthology series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
A year before the show even hits the airwaves, Syfy is looking to make its new horror anthology series Channel Zero an annual thing.
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Virginia Mayor Praises Japanese Internment — NYMag
Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke, Virginia, does not want Syrian refugees moving into his city. In the nerve-racked aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris, Bowers is hardly unique in holding that position.
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Limitless Tracks Down the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted and Still Finds Time to Get Stoned
This week, Brian convinces Naz to open the “Brian Finch and Rebecca Harris Amazing Major Crime Squad,” aka “the Bruntouchables,” as they comb through cults in the Midwest and space elevator crackpots to track down America’s most dangerous criminals …
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Jonah Lomu left an indelible mark on rugby union and more than a few mental and physical scars on those who faced him, including former England international Mike Catt.
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Lyft is fighting to grow and losing a ton of money in the process | The Verge
Lyft isn’t growing nearly as fast as it hoped. According to Bloomberg, Lyft had planned to provide 7.4 million rides in July, but it only hit half that figure. Its failure to grow is also leading to major losses.
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The Week In College Football: A High-Stakes Michigan State-Ohio State Game | FiveThirtyEight
Ohio State vs. Michigan State is this week’s marquee matchup in the college football world. If either team wants to ensure a playoff appearance, it needs to win out — but the Buckeyes and Spartans have to first get past each other.
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New Zealand captain Richie McCaw has announced his retirement after a glittering career. The 34-year-old flanker played a world record 148 Tests and led the All Blacks to two World Cup final victories, including last month’s win over Australia.
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Turn Cookies Into an Awesome Pie Crust in Under a Minute
Why use a store-bought pie crust when you can make your own in almost no time? Chef Sarah Sanneh from Pies ‘n’ Thighs in Brooklyn shows us how to turn ginger snaps into a pie crust in under a minute. This could not be simpler. All you need is:
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Prosecutors ask Chicago police to release video of teenager’s shooting | US news | The Guardian
Illinois’s attorney general asked Chicago police on Wednesday to release a video that allegedly shows an officer shooting a black teenager 16 times last year.
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See Dakota Johnson Shake Off Fifty Shades of Grey in Rom-Com How to Be Single | Vanity Fair
Who needs a sexy billionaire boyfriend when Rebel Wilson can teach you how to score free drinks at a bar? Certainly not Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson, at least in the upcoming adaptation of Liz Tuccillo’s 2007 novel, How to Be Single.
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Let’s..get…DANGEROUS. Every Darkwing Duck entrance metaphor, ever. – Imgur
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San Jose teen cited for child porn after posting classmates’ nudes on Instagram | Ars Technica
The San Jose Mercury News in California reported that a 17-year-old student has been criminally cited for distributing child porn through an Instagram account that has since been shut down.
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Early Winter Weather Across North America : Image of the Day
Parts of Canada and the western United States were doused with wintery weather in mid-November 2015. Some of the precipitation fell as snow and some as cold rain. Whether it is the beginning of a wet El Niño winter or a break in persistent drought r…
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Track of the Day: ‘What Are You Waiting For?’ – The Atlantic
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Tiger Woods take first step towards life after tournament competition | Sport | The Guardian
The unfortunate aspect of any move made by Tiger Woods is the instant bellowing from the back of “Why?” And it is unfortunate; the consequence of deep-rooted suspicion and closed character by Woods going back two decades that he isn’t regarded as ca…
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The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, has invoked President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to place Japanese Americans in internment camps during the second world war as a way to justify keeping Syrian refugees out of the US.
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Maryland college closed for weeks amid fears missing student may be armed | US news | The Guardian
The disappearance of a troubled student who might be armed with a gun has prompted a Maryland college to close its doors and send more than 1,400 students back home or to temporary accomodations through the end of the month.
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Telegram encrypted messaging service cracks down on ISIS broadcasts | Ars Technica
In the wake of revelations that groups affiliated with the Islamic State were using the Telegram messaging service to communicate and spread propaganda materials, the nonprofit organization running the service announced that it had moved to block te…
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At least two people are dead and seven have been arrested after French police raided an apartment in northern Paris in search of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man they say masterminded last Friday’s attacks.
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Coffee helps you live longer, say twitchy, sweaty scientists · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Not only does coffee produce euphoric effects in large doses, help keep you regular, and provide endless hilarious jokes about people leaving you alone before you’ve had a cup, it also prevents death.
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Now you see the trailer for Now You See Me 2, now you don’t · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
The 2013 thriller Now You See Me was all about a team of varyingly intolerable street magicians who discovered that a mysterious figure was grooming them to join a secret society of supposedly “real” magicians—as in actual magic, not illusions.
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Virginia Mayor Cites Japanese Internment in Rejecting Syrian Refugees | Rolling Stone
Roanoke, Virginia, Mayor David Bowers joined 31 governors and a growing number of Republican presidential hopefuls Wednesday in calling for a halt to efforts to resettle refugees seeking asylum from the Syrian civil war in the U.S. – in his case, in…
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Carnegie Mellon denies it was paid to help the FBI crack Tor | The Verge
Following reports it was paid $1 million to crack anonymous browser Tor for the FBI, Carnegie Mellon University has denied any wrongdoing. Kind of.
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The best portable 3D scanner is about to get way more precise | The Verge
Occipital, the makers of the Structure Sensor, has acquired a company called Lynx Laboratories, one that launched its own mobile 3D scanner on Kickstarter a few years ago. The Lynx staff will join Occipital at its headquarters in Boulder, Colorado.
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No Syrians allowed: the US governors who are rejecting refugees – video | US news | The Guardian
More than half of the state governors in the US are saying they will not take Syrian refugees following the terror attacks in France. Ultimately, the decision rests with the federal government, but a mood of suspicion has descended upon parts of the…
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Paris Bombers Were Lost In Secret Files – The Daily Beast
Just hours before a woman blew herself up during a seven-hour standoff with police in Paris early Wednesday, officials at the country’s Muslim organizations were dealing with their new normal: answering calls from anguished or angry French Muslims t…
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Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution | Rolling Stone
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The World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group Isn’t ISIS: It’s Boko Haram – The Atlantic
The grisly attacks in France and Lebanon last week have fixed attention on the violence perpetrated by ISIS. But a study published this week indicates that the world’s deadliest terrorist organization actually operates thousands of miles south of Pa…
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France’s Ramped-Up Syria Bombing Comes Up Empty | The Nation
When a foreign terrorist organization launches an attack on another country’s soil, it seems inevitable that the targeted nation responds by some military force. It’s a perfectly logical path forward: One must “do something,” it goes.
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The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Surviving A Tech Bubble | TechCrunch
There’s a general sense in Silicon Valley that many unicorn companies will not live up to their billion dollar status. According to Morrison & Foerster, more than half of the highly valued startups will still be private in 2016, while 7 percent of t…
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The Long and Glorious History of Cat Ladies
You’ve seen them on television. You might know one in real life. Perhaps you even aspire to be one. Cat ladies have been around since time immemorial. This is their story. The cat lady has a house.
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Clean a Dirty Backpack in the Washing Machine With a Pillowcase
You can spot clean backpacks for the most part, but when they’re really filthy, a trip to the washing machine is in order. You can protect your backpack and washing machine with a pillowcase.
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Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard misjudged MLS, says Landon Donovan | Football | The Guardian
Landon Donovan believes Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard may have been unaware of the difficulties of adapting to Major League Soccer after joining Los Angeles Galaxy and New York City FC, respectively, in the summer.
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Microsoft Drops A Fresh Windows 10 Mobile Build | TechCrunch
Quick hit here, comrades: Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile version today, build 10581. Now, this new edition is for subscribers of the Windows Insider program in the ‘Fast’ ring, so it’s not for everyone. At the same time, any new build is…
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World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle ‘Wilderness’ Features Fantasy Forest : NPR
NPR talks to the man who created the painting of the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle, Adrian Chesterman. It has 33,600 pieces and when completed it is more than 18 by 5 feet.
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Christian McBride On Ray Brown’s Bass And James Brown’s Appeal : NPR
Every month on All Things Considered, Christian McBride sits down with host Audie Cornish to discuss, dissect and deconstruct just about everything in jazz.
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French Government Debates Extending State Of Emergency : NPR
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Oren Gross, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, about the history of the French state of emergency law, which gives authorities broad powers.
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Paris Police Still Working To Identify Bodies Recovered In St. Denis Raid : NPR
French police hoped to find key suspects in the Paris attacks through the raid of an apartment in the suburb of St. Denis. Authorities are still working to identify at least two bodies recovered.
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FBI Official In Washington, D.C, Reviews Security Posture Amid ISIS Threats : NPR
The new leader of the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office gives his first interview to NPR about security posture in the U.S. capital in the face of threats by the Islamic State.
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Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse: creepy photo and first two cartoons! / Boing Boing
Above, The Mickey Mouse Club, circa 1930. Below, Mickey’s first appearance, a May 15, 1928, test screening of the cartoon Plane Crazy.
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Michael Pollan’s food advice hits the big screen | Grist
Michael Pollan’s diet advice book In Defense of Food — which is also a polemic, and a history, and a critique of scientism — now has new life as a documentary. It won the Grand Prize at the Prague International Life Sciences Film Festival, and will …
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A key selling point to any halfway decent zombie apocalypse story is wish fulfillment, namely, the permission to deliver a series of concussive head shots to the anonymous masses without having to suffer even the slightest pangs of moral ambiguity.
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Do the Kochs Have Their Own Spy Network? – The New Yorker
Five years ago, when The New Yorker published my piece “Covert Operations,” about the ambitious and secretive political network underwritten by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, the Koch brothers complained mightily about the st…
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Raid in Saint-Denis – The New Yorker
Farida Talbi lives in the Rue Gabriel Péri. At four-thirty this morning, her husband woke her up. RATTATATTA. And then again. RATTATATTA. Gunfire. They turned on the television, but there was nothing on the news. Her husband said he was going out to…
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Donald Trump says Obama administration is pushing refugees toward states with GOP governors (politifact.com)submitted 20 minutes ago by loading…
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Uber can’t appeal class action yet, set to face a jury trial next year | Ars Technica
Ride-hailing app Uber has lost another round in its battle with some drivers who filed a class-action lawsuit against it. In August, US District Judge Edward Chen ruled that drivers should be allowed to form a class.
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Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution : politics
It seems Bernie’s political revolution is at a crossroads. He was always going to rely on the people to get his message out for him, to counteract both the effect of big media and his lack of name recognition. Hence the focus on a grassroots movemen…
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The Air Force Made a Pocket Torch That Melts Through Steel | Motherboard
Breaching a locked door is hard without the right tools. Some people use keys. Other people use 5,000º F vapor jets. In this video, you’ll see the US Air Force-developed TEC torch in action.
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Flooding in Iraq : Natural Hazards
In late October 2015, a weather system brought torrential rains to many parts of Iraq, Iran, and other parts of the Middle East. In Iraq, the resulting floods prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency. Power outages, overflowing sewers, a…
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StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void review: Your last, best chance | Ars Technica
Auir is a shambles. A rogue Xel’Naga, Amon, looks to slaughter the Firstborn and end the cycle of life and death. Only Artanis, Hierarch of the Protoss, can save the Koprulu Sector by uniting the Daelaam, Tal’darim, and Nerazim against him.
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Design a new subway system for your favorite city / Offworld
Subway systems are circulatory systems, moving the lifeblood of a city from place to place beneath its skin. In the game Mini Metro, you get to be the engineer who maps out the veins, connecting all the stops in colorful tangles of subway lines that…
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Walmart protesters bring labor demands to Clinton campaign headquarters | US news | The Guardian
Walmart protesters who attempted to deliver a letter to Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters were turned away by security on Wednesday afternoon.
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Congress to vote on bill to ban microbead hygiene products in US | US news | The Guardian
US lawmakers are to decide whether to ban personal care products containing microbeads – minuscule pieces of plastic considered harmful to the environment – after proposed legislation was approved by a bipartisan committee.
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France forbids massive climate march in wake of Paris attacks | Grist
Despite rising sea levels, massive floods, and a previous explosion, Florida decided not to relocate the jail.
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I’m Dale Dougherty, Founder of Make: Magazine, and This Is How I Work
In 2005 Dale Dougherty founded Make: Magazine, inviting people to bring a hacker’s sense of exploration to DIY culture. Make and the subsequent Maker Faire ushered in a new era of hands-on experimentation with technology, old-fashioned craftsmanship…
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Unhyphenated: Bobby Jindal ‘Disappointed’ Indian Americans : NPR
In suspending his campaign for president Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, gave a nod to his immigrant roots. Jindal was the first Indian-American politician to run for president, but his historic bid for the White House didn’t fee…
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Jonah Lomu, one of rugby’s greatest players, has died in Auckland, New Zealand. He was 40. His death, after kidney disease that ended his international career in 2002, was announced on the Twitter account of the All Blacks and New Zealand Rugby.
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One day after President Obama assailed the “political posturing” of Republicans who have called for barring the Syrian refugees from entering the United States, Senator Ted Cruz delivered this retort: “Come back and insult me to my face.” Speaking t…
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Childhood Cancer Risk Hides in Families – Scientific American
Family histories have been a central tool for understanding the nature of a cancer and identifying persons who might be at risk.
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The Encryption Wars: Everything Has Changed, and Nothing Has Changed – Scientific American
When eight men carrying assault rifles and wearing suicide vests killed 129 people in Paris last week, the issue of access to encrypted communications again reared its head.
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Roanoke mayor cites American internment camps as defense for turning away fleeing war refugees
Well, it sure didn’t take long to get there. Yep, He’s a Democrat. And yes, the mayor is referring to the placement of Japanese Americans into internment camps as a defensible, positive thing.
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Climate Change: Real, Serious, Fixable
National Geographic is partnering with the United Nations Foundation and the Earth To Paris Coaltion to give a powerful voice to a critical message: reimagining our world’s energy future will take a shared sense of urgency—from countries, companies,…
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Men eat nearly twice as much pizza when they’re eating with women.
Cornell researchers have an important piece of advice for buffet patrons: “Calm down when eating with the opposite sex.
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Enterprise Computing Needs to Account for People Who Work Outside of Traditional Jobs – The Atlantic
Who works for a company? That may seem like a simple question, but the reality is that companies collaborate constantly with people who are not their employees.
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Amazon’s AWS Is Growing Up; Should You Be Scared? | TechCrunch
Amazon is the most robust infrastructure platform in the world, making it an obvious choice for large customers and startups alike. But its increasing innovations in cloud computing may perpetuate fear among smaller companies trying to make their ma…
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11 Gorgeous Holiday Gifts For Your Tech-Savvy Girlfriends | TechCrunch
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Sprint is as desperate as ever, so it’s offering cheaper phone plans | Ars Technica
Sprint’s struggle to compete against Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile US could be your gain. The fourth-place mobile carrier is giving big discounts to customers who switch from the top three carriers.
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Calais refugees grieve for Paris, dread backlash – Al Jazeera English
Calais, France – Dulbar Karem sits cross-legged in her trailer in the Iraqi section of a refugee camp on the outskirts of Calais which holds thousands of people, many of whom mourned Friday’s attacks in Paris while also fearing that they would lead …
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UN: 5,700 Killed in Yemen Conflict Since March | Al Jazeera America
The United Nations on Wednesday said 5,700 people have been killed in the conflict in Yemen since March 26, including 830 women and children, while efforts to coax all sides into another attempt at peace talks continue.
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Why Uber and Lyft Might be Rare Bulletproof Tech Investments | Vanity Fair
The growing dirge for privately funded tech companies took an unexpected turn this morning. After weeks in which the value of popular unicorns, such as Snapchat and Zenefits, were downgraded, and Square appeared headed for a haircut in the public ma…
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Ridley Scott reveals his vision for the opening scene of Blade Runner 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The opening of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is iconic, evocative, and sets the stage for the film beautifully.
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Make a Custom Clock for Your Toddler’s Daily Routine
Little ones don’t always understand the concept of time, so getting them on any sort of routine can be difficult. This custom clock, however, can tell your toddler when things are going to happen throughout the day, and help them learn how to read a…
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Why Black Lives Matter Protests Are Growing In Minneapolis | ThinkProgress
On November 15th, Minneapolis police officers shot 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who witnesses say was handcuffed at the time, in the head. Police initially said Clark was a suspect in an assault who was interfering with paramedics. They also maintained …
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Canada’s new prime minister will no longer censor scientists, unlike the last one | Grist
Veganism is on the rise in Israel, and the military is taking note. Despite rising sea levels, massive floods, and a previous explosion, Florida decided not to relocate the jail.
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Scientists Grew a Vocal Cord – The Daily Beast
Scientists have made promising breakthroughs in the world of bioengineering, successfully growing human kidneys, a mini-brain, and a limb. On Wednesday, a new body part worthy of talk was unveiled: vocal chords.
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NASA Gives Robots To Universities To Aid Mars Mission – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Research teams at MIT and Northeastern University have been given a prototype of NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid robot, a machine designed to withstand the harsh conditions of space, to test how it might best be used in an upcoming mission to Mars. What do…
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Human vocal cords built from scratch in world first | New Scientist
Say what? Doctors have grown the world’s first vocal cords from scratch. The breakthrough could one day restore speech to people who have lost their own vocal cords through surgery or disease. Doctors built the vocal cords using cells from human don…
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Russia is one of six countries ruled to be in breach of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s codes. Along with Argentina, Ukraine, Bolivia, Andorra and Israel, it has been deemed “non-compliant” by Wada.
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NBC’s ‘Chicago Med’ Is Yet Another ‘ER’ Knock-Off – The Atlantic
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt) responds, with faux incredulity. “What movie is that from?” It’s from all of them—and all the TV shows, too, since the hospital drama is among the most stagnant formats in television.
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‘I Have Harmed the Innocent’: A Vietnam Veteran’s Atonement – The Atlantic
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“The “humility” in ignoring climate change” – Stupidparty Math v. Myth
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“The “humility” in ignoring climate change” : democrats
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Religious Groups Break with GOP on Syrian Refugees | Al Jazeera America
Christian charities across the United States have rebuked calls by Republican lawmakers to halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the country — a rare show of disagreement between the religious groups and a political party they’ve traditionally…
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The Next ‘Law & Order?’ ‘Chicago’ Series Take Over TV With New Franchise : NPR
NBC’s Chicago franchise grew this week with the premiere of Chicago Med. NPR explores whether it can be the next ER and whether executive producer Dick Wolf, who built the Law & Order empire, can do it again with the Chicago shows.
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Los Angeles Struggles To Manage Rising Homelessness Beyond Skid Row : NPR
Homelessness in Los Angeles has spread far beyond the area known as Skid Row. The number of people living on the streets has risen 12 percent in the past two years. And now some parts of the city are struggling to manage big homeless populations the…
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When Prisoners Email Their Lawyers, It’s Often Not Confidential : All Tech Considered : NPR
At least once a week, federal defender Deirdre von Dornum travels across Brooklyn to meet with her incarcerated clients. The round trip takes three hours, on a good day. First von Dornum rides the subway.
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Jeb Bush Calls For Use Of Ground Troops In Fight Against ISIS : NPR
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush delivered a national security speech Wednesday at the Citadel in South Carolina. NPR reports on his remarks and looks at how the other GOP contenders are responding to the attacks on Paris.
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Muslims In Brussels Hold Rally To Show Rejection Of ISIS : NPR
Residents of the Brussels suburb that was home to some of the Paris attackers – hold a rally to show their rejection of the so-called Islamic State and the killings in Paris.
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Boko Haram Kills 30 In Nigeria As Ex-Official Arrested For Embezzlement : NPR
As more than 30 people die in a Boko Haram bombing Tuesday, the Nigerian government arrests a former security adviser for allegedly embezzling $2 billion earmarked to fight the terrorists.
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More International Students Studying In U.S. : NPR Ed : NPR
The number of international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities jumped last year — in a big way. It’s up 10 percent, to roughly 975,000, according to a new report by the Institute of International Education and backed by the State De…
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Increased Security Following Paris Attacks Spreads Fear In Germany : NPR
There is increased nervousness about security among the German public following the attacks in Paris Friday.
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In Tennessee, Giving Birth To A Drug-Dependent Baby Can Be A Crime : Shots – Health News : NPR
In the United States, a baby is born dependent on opiates every 30 minutes. In Tennessee, the rate is three times the national average. The drug withdrawal in newborns is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, which can occur when women take o…
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Paris Attacks Highlight Struggle To Stop Terror Plots Against ‘Soft Targets’ : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro interviews Andrew Liepman, senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. He was also a Middle East specialist for over 30 years in the CIA and the former principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
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U.S., French, Russian Airstrikes Continue To Attack ISIS Targets In Syria : NPR
Russian, French and U.S. warplanes continue to attack ISIS targets inside Syria. But despite an increase in resolve since Friday’s attacks in Paris and vows by President Obama to “intensify” operations, there has been no new coordination between the…
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At Least 2 Dead, 8 Arrested After French Police Raid In St. Denis : NPR
Residents of a France suburb north of Paris were awoken to the sound of gunfire and explosions Wednesday morning, as police raided an apartment looking for people connected to Friday’s attacks in the city.
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In ‘Just Eat It,’ Filmmakers Feast For 6 Months On Discarded Food : The Salt : NPR
The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is generally celebrated with a bounty of food – and a mountain of leftovers, some of which, let’s face it, will end up in the trash.
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Malaysian Leader Faces Corruption Scandal As He Prepares To Meet Obama : Parallels : NPR
The next stop on President Obama’s Asia trip is Malaysia, a country considered a reliable U.S. ally. But this visit comes just as Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, faces international scrutiny and calls for his ouster over a swirling financial…
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Chevrolet Bolt to be unveiled at CES in January | The Verge
At the LA Auto Show today, GM executive vice president Mark Reuss said that GM will unveil the production version of the Bolt at CES in a few weeks’ time.
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Aftermath of the Paris Attacks – The Daily Beast
Daily Beast Editor in Chief John Avlon and Columnist Dean Obeidallah discuss the repercussions for Syrian refugees after the Paris Attacks on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
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BP Could Get A Huge Tax Break On Its Oil Spill Fine | ThinkProgress
When the Justice Department announced a $20 billion settlement with BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it called the fine “historic.” It did not mention, though, that BP would likely be able to write off a large portion fine — saving $5 billion i…
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When Squatting Becomes a Form of Protest – The Atlantic
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Ted Cruz Tells Obama: ‘Insult Me to My Face’ — NYMag
The senator and presidential candidate did not appreciate President Obama’s comments about his position on Syrian refugees.
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When Stadiums Become Potential Killing Fields | The Nation
The terrorist attempt to enter the French National Stadium and kill thousands of innocent people was barbaric, contemptible, and absent of any humanity. But it wasn’t original.
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2 Years Later, Here’s What Happened to Bill Gates’ Condoms of the Future – Mic
At long last, it looked like the greasy sheaths of latex would meet their demise.
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François Hollande to plead with Obama to speed up fight against Isis | World news | The Guardian
François Hollande will plead with Barack Obama to show greater urgency in the fight against Islamic State when the presidents meet in Washington next week, warning of a state of emergency in Europe.
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Madeleine Albright: ISIS Wants Us to Think Refugees Are the Enemy: “They want to divide the world between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between the defenders and attackers of Islam. By making Syrian refugees the enemy, we are playing into their hands…
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Meet The Team Helping Bring Pinterest’s Code To The Rest Of The World | TechCrunch
Pinterest has built plenty of its technology on open source projects, so of course it wants to open its projects up to the developer community, as well.
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CBS’s poorly received 2011 sitcom Shit My Dad Says was, in essence, a finger in the anus of network television, its creator explains in an apologetic essay published in the Hollywood Reporter today.
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New bill would crack down on ‘swatting’ hoaxes | The Verge
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) has introduced a bill to criminalize “swatting,” the practice of making fake emergency calls in order to call law enforcement down on innocent targets.
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Tiger Woods has been named as one of United States captain Davis Love III’s assistants for the 2016 Ryder Cup. Steve Stricker and Jim Furyk will also be joining Tom Lehman as vice-captains for the contest against Europe.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC Family has tapped Once Upon A Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis to spin a little murder-camp magic in a new anthology series.
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Worried about the effects of climate change and the damage that mankind’s impetuousness has wreaked upon the fragile polar ice caps? Relax. Hollywood has dispatched a couple of its finest celebrities to investigate the situation, and they should hav…
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The Republican candidate who couldn’t catch a break – Al Jazeera English
In a crowded Republican field, Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign exceeded expectations. It lasted longer than most people thought it would. The Louisiana Governor struggled in the polls from the start – struggled to raise money, struggled to get …
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More Games, More Fun: Remembering the Atari VCS (1978) – Flashbak
I officially entered the video game era on Christmas morning, 1978, when my parents — or was it Santa Claus? — gave me and my sister a remarkable and unforgettable gift: the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), which also goes by the designation of At…
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10 Things We Learned From Rush’s Michael Moore Interview | Rolling Stone
As anyone who attended Rush’s R40 tour earlier this year could attest, the Canadian prog legends have a lot of famous fans.
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Excruciating City Council Meeting Proves No One Knows Anything About Drones | Motherboard
This Ocean City, New Jersey town hall meeting is reaching Parks and Recreation-levels of absurdity. On November 12, the city passed a 9-month ban on drones over the island’s five-mile radius at any altitude, citing privacy and safety concerns.
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Illinois ‘Hero’ Cop Loved Going to the Movies — NYMag
When Fox Lake police lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found dead from a gunshot wound back in September, he was mourned nationwide as a hero who’d forfeited his life in service of his community. But a subsequent investigation revealed that h…
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El Niño could be the most powerful on record, scientists say – LA Times
Some scientists say their measurements show that this year’s El Niño could be among the most powerful on record — and even topple the 1997 event from its pedestal. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at Stanford University, called the temperature rea…
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Fall Makeup Obsessions | Vanity Fair
Here are some pieces that stand out and deserve their own post—a roundup of a few items that we’ll be using to the death this fall season. 2) Lilah B.
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Tom Hardy Probably Won’t Take a Photo with You, But He Will with Your Dogs | Vanity Fair
Tom Hardy may love dogs more than any other human on this planet does.
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Alias Was Marvel’s First Adult Comic That Was Actually For Adults
Jessica Jones, which comes to Netflix on Friday, is a game-changer for Marvel. She’s a different sort of hero than anyone we’ve seen thus far, and ventures into darker territory. But long before Jessica Jones was changing Marvel on screen, she marke…
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The Protests at Amherst College – The Atlantic
At Amherst, a private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, student activists began a sit-in last Thursday at the campus library, intending “to stand in solidarity with the students in Mizzou, Yale, South Africa and every other institution across t…
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LaunchCode Launches Apps with Gestures
iOS: You have a few great options for launchers on iOS, but LaunchCode takes a different approach by integrating the standard Notification Launcher with a fun gesture system.
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Seriously. Instagram Needs Two-Factor Authentication. | TechCrunch
That’s it. It just does. If Instagram wants to be where we capture and share our most treasured moments, it needs to help us protect them. The easiest way to do this is offer the option to turn on two-factor authentication or some similar security f…
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French Government Forbids Massive Climate March in Wake of Terror Attacks | Mother Jones
After nearly a week of speculation and urgent meetings between environmental groups and security officials, the French government has finally made its decision: The giant rally planned for the eve of the UN climate summit will be canceled due to “th…
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Paris attacks: Europe on high security alert – BBC News
Eight alleged members of so-called Islamic State (IS) have been arrested, Turkish officials have said amid security concerns across Europe. The men, all Moroccan, are suspected to have been travelling to Germany when they were arrested at Istanbul a…
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It didn’t take much for Florian Seroussi, a technology investor in Manhattan, to become suspicious of his email. His misgivings were sparked late one night last year when he opened a message from an entrepreneur who was asking him to invest in a sta…
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Chicago issued $2.4 million of bogus traffic tickets from speed cameras | Ars Technica
The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday as part of an exhaustive investigation that as many as 110,000 “questionable” speeding tickets have been issued in the past two years in Chicago as part of a speed-camera program designed to keep kids safe near…
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Hanging out in Volvo’s “Concept 26,” a reinvented seat for a self-driving car | Ars Technica
CAMARILLO, CALIF.—When people imagine the future of self-driving cars, they might think of steering wheel-less pods with swivel chairs and a lounge-like cabin atmosphere.
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Here’s what Volvo thinks you’ll do when your car is driving itself | The Verge
According to Volvo’s research, the average American spends 26 minutes driving to work. One way. That’s more than nine days a year, and the Swedish carmaker is building a time machine to get some of that time back for you.
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Drunk Woman Steals Cab, Vomits — NYMag
Competing impulses of thievery and sanitary behavior collided last Friday near Union Square when a drunk real estate broker visiting from Los Angeles slid into the driver’s seat of a yellow taxi she’d been a passenger in, and sped off.
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Congress takes up Syrian refugee fight, starts slide toward shutdown
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are taking an increasingly bellicose stance against President Obama, with Ryan refusing to rule out a shutdown and saying Republicans will force the president to accept their poison …
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America’s Most Notorious Coal Baron Will Find Out Soon Whether He’s Going to Jail | Mother Jones
On Tuesday, jurors in Charleston, West Virginia, heard closing arguments in the trial of Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, who stands accused of conspiring to commit mine safety violations and making false statements to fe…
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Cartoon Lounge: Show Me the Funny – The New Yorker
The method by which we judge the Caption Contest is well known: my assistant, Colin Stokes, plows through the thousands of submitted captions and then gives me a list of about fifty, from which I select about eight that New Yorker staff members vote…
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Why a Climate Deal Is the Best Hope for Peace – The New Yorker
Soon after the horrific terror attacks in Paris, last Friday, our phones filled with messages from friends and colleagues: “So are they going to cancel the Paris climate summit?” “The drums of war are beating. Count on climate change being drowned o…
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David Ortiz Begins His Last Slow Trot – The New Yorker
Today, on his fortieth birthday, David Ortiz announced that next season, his twentieth in the majors, will be his last.
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On Monday morning, President Barack Obama used the phrase “folks wanna pop off” in reference to criticism of his handling of ISIS following this weekend’s attack on Paris.
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The Soup to end its 22-season run next month · Newswire · The A.V. Club
You win this one, Seacrest: The Soup, the E! clip show that brought good to the world by keeping Joel McHale steadily employed throughout Community’s many cancellation dramas and simply by virtue of not being Tosh.O, will end its run at the end of i…
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CMU Implies It Gave Up Silk Road 2 Data Under Subpoena | Motherboard
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in response to claims that it was paid at least $1 million by the FBI to perform an attack on Tor, has finally issued a statement about the situation.
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Tennessee GOP leader: Round up Syrian refugees, remove them from the state : Liberal
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Tennessee GOP leader: Round up Syrian refugees, remove from state
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This Country Just Promised To Get Rid Of All Its Coal Plants – The United Kingdom will phase out coal-fired power plants by 2025, the country’s energy secretary announced Wednesday (thinkprogress.org)submitted 8 minutes ago by loading…
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Manhattan DA calls for backdoors in all mobile operating systems / Boing Boing
A new report from the Manhattan District Attorney calls for law requiring “any designer of an operating system for a smartphone or tablet manufactured, leased, or sold in the U.S. to ensure that data on its devices is accessible pursuant to a search…
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American Men May Be About To Dominate World Tennis Again | FiveThirtyEight
The eight best men’s professional tennis players in the world are gathered this week in London for the ATP World Tour Finals. For the fourth straight year, none is an American. The last time an American won this tournament was in 1999, when Pete Sam…
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Hackers are messing with the oil and gas industry | Grist
Despite rising sea levels, massive floods, and a previous explosion, Florida decided not to relocate the jail. In fact, the new rules can be expected to lower people’s bills across the entire country, a new report finds.
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US Federal Reserve signals December rate rise more likely – BBC News
US Federal Reserve officials appear more confident that the economic conditions needed to trigger an interest rates rise are near. Minutes of the Fed’s October meeting showed that the conditions may “well be met” by the next gathering in December.
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Military Justice System Protects Sex Abuse Cases | Al Jazeera America
Child-sex offenders are the largest category of inmates in U.S. military prisons, yet a full accounting of their crimes and how much time they’re actually locked up for is shielded by an opaque system of justice.
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One Virginia mayor is justifying temporarily halting his city from taking in Syrian refugees because President Franklin D. Roosevelt once “felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.” I’m reminded that P…
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Germany’s First Anti-islam Rally Since Paris | Al Jazeera America
DRESDEN, Germany – The terrorist attacks in Paris have thrown Europe’s refugee policies into turmoil.
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Private Companies Will Help NASA Get to Mars, Space Agency Chief Says
Charles Bolden, NASA’s administrator, addresses a crowd at the first annual SpaceCom expo. Bolden spoke about the important role that private and commercial space companies will play in helping NASA send humans to distant space locations.Credit: Cal…
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Here’s how much groundwater we actually have left https://t.co/iNLbLeGvzt https://t.co/EwC39A3DtW via /r/environment
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Here’s how much groundwater we actually have left : environment
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Kipper Williams on the ‘new energy model’ | Business | The Guardian
Kipper Williams cartoon Illustration: Kipper Williams
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Honduras arrests five US-bound Syrians with stolen passports – BBC News
Police in Honduras have arrested five Syrians who were travelling on stolen Greek passports and intended to enter the United States by land. The five men were detained on Tuesday night after arriving on a flight from neighbouring El Salvador, police…
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Here’s how much groundwater we actually have left (newsweek.com)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…
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Midday open thread: Daily Mail cartoonists emulates Nazi predecessors; the Kochs are spying on you
The Daily Mail just went there. “There” being Nazi Europe circa 1939, as seen through the lens of propaganda-laden cartoons depicting the Jews as rats to be swept out of Germany. British cartoonist Stanley “Mac” McMurtry borrowed heavily from that i…
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Create Hidden Administrative Accounts in OS X from the Terminal
If you share a computer, you might not want everyone who uses your computer to see your username in the login window or fast user switch menu. To hide your name, MacIssues points out you’ll just need a little bit of Terminal skills.
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Will Foreign-Policy Ignorance Actually Hurt Ben Carson? – The Atlantic
It has become a commonplace since Friday’s attacks that whatever else the political effects of the carnage in Paris may be, they mean that candidates with foreign-policy experience now have an edge. You should be skeptical of this claim.
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Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place (washingtonpost.com)
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Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place : democrats
Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place (washingtonpost.com) How does something like that even happen?
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America Steps Up Efforts to Cut Off ISIL Funds | Al Jazeera America
Over the past month, U.S.-led air strikes have hit at least 175 targets in the main oil-producing region held by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as Washington intensifies efforts to disrupt a key revenue source estimated to provide more…
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The Warcraft Movie Has Way More Practical Effects Than You Realize
We all thought it. We watched the first Warcraft trailer and thought, “Oh no, that’s a lot of CGI.” Immediately, the nightmare scenario popped into our heads: the possibility that this amazing video game had been turned into a sterile mess, without …
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Well, that was grim. Even for the closing entry in a series about children killing children in televised death matches, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 goes heavy on the gloom and doom.
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What ‘Smart Cities’ Can Do To Avoid Getting Hacked | Motherboard
If cities want to be smarter, they need to be unhackable. That’s the main message that a group of security researchers is sending to city governments all over the world.
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New York’s attorney general adds Yahoo to investigation of daily fantasy betting sites | The Verge
When New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman began taking steps to prevent daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel from operating in the state, he left out a little-known third competitor: Yahoo.
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The Princess Bride’s Cary Elwes joins Lena Dunham’s Max · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It looks like Max, the new HBO comedy pilot about second-wave feminism created by Lena Dunham, has cast one of the most important roles in any story about feminism: the man. That comes from Deadline, which says the reportedly “raucous comedy” has ca…
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Does It Matter How Many Reps You Do When You Work Out?
So, your workout has you doing 4 sets of 5 reps for this exercise, 3 sets of 8 after that, and—oh, thank goodness—only 2 sets of 50 to finish it out. Well, hey, the good news is that these rep numbers aren’t just based on a sadistic desire to see yo…
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Pars attacks: Residents reflect on Saint-Denis raid – BBC News
There were dramatic scenes in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday, as police launched a raid linked to last last Friday’s terror attacks in the city. A woman blew herself up and another suspect was shot during the operation which focused on…
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Michael Gross, National Lampoon alum, artist, and designer, has died of cancer at the age of 70. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer last year and died at home in California, according to the BBC. As a child, Gross began publishing homemade fan ma…
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Lunar Lovers, Why Now Is the Best Time to Moon Watch
One of the first things every new moon watcher learns is that, when observing the moon, timing is everything. You might think the best time to look at the moon with binoculars or a small telescope is when the moon is full, because it looks so big an…
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From NASA, an animation of the yearly cycle of the Earth’s plant life. The data is taken from satellite measurements (plant density for land and chlorophyll concentration for the ocean) and averaged over several years.
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FBI Hunts For Armed Student As Maryland College Goes On Lockdown – The Daily Beast
Officials at Washington College knew the warning signs. Jacob Marberger, a sophomore at the small Maryland school, had been behaving erratically. Once a leader in Greek life and student government, Marberger lost his leadership positions after alleg…
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About 24,000 Colombians filed a class action lawsuit against government agencies after a study revealed the residents in the outskirts of Medellín have been drinking water contaminated with feces for more than 20 years. (upi.com)
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An Economy That Works For Everyone Starts With Women
According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, creating an economy that works for everyone starts with creating an economy that works for women. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the gap between women’s earnings an…
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On Manhattan, Terrible Things Happen When You “Wake The Dragon”
Events are on the brink of going critical on this week’s episode of Manhattan. Frank Winter tries to rally the scientific troops to his cause—and wrestles with an infamous plutonium core. Spoilers below….
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Interest rate hikes likely in December, Federal Reserve minutes reveal | Business | The Guardian
Interest rate hikes are coming. Most members of the Federal Reserve now believe the US economy could sustain a historic rise in interest rates as soon as December.
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Paris Attacks: What we know about those responsible – BBC News
French President Francois Hollande has praised the bravery of the security services involved in Wednesday morning’s raid in Saint-Denis, and the investigation that led them to the flat.
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This Calculator Predicts Your Chance of Having a C-Section
The average pregnant woman has a 1-in-3 chance of having her baby via surgery instead of the old-fashioned way, a rate the World Health Organization says is way too high. A calculator from Amino can estimate your own personal risk.
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To study the graph of Amazon’s stock performance in 2015 is to witness a series of stepwise lurches toward commanding new heights. Over all, the stock market has been flat this year, and technology companies, as a group, haven’t fared much better.
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More good news on coffee: A large study has found that drinking coffee is associated with a reduced risk of dying from heart disease and certain other causes. Researchers followed more than 200,000 doctors and nurses for up to 30 years.
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Vine adds native audio remixing to help memes spread | The Verge
In August, Vine said it planned to “strengthen the connection between music and Vine,” rolling out tools to add music to video clips and a “snap to beat” feature for more easily making perfectly looping clips.
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Milton Pitts Crenchaw, a flight instructor who trained hundreds of the US military’s revered Tuskegee Airmen, has died in Georgia. He was 96. Crenchaw died Tuesday at Piedmont Henry Hospital near Atlanta after battling cardiovascular disease and pne…
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Huffington Post employees urge colleagues to join union movement | US news | The Guardian
Union members at the Huffington Post’s US newsroom have signed a letter urging their co-workers to sign unionization cards. The letter, released online on Wednesday, stated that “unionizing is the right move for HuffPost”.
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Twitter Is No Longer Showing Who’s Behind Promoted Tweets | Motherboard
I’m a Twitter junkie, and I despise promoted tweets. I run an adblocker when I read Twitter on my desktop, but I usually stick to mobile viewing because of how easy it is to toggle between my two accounts. And every time I see a promoted tweet on mo…
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Are Canadian ISPs as Fast as They Claim? The Government Is Trying to Find Out | Motherboard
If you’ve ever read your internet connection’s fine print, you’ve probably seen a disclaimer about speeds. Take, for example, my ISP, a local Canadian provider called TekSavvy.
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Indiana’s Republican governor kicks out Syrian refugees, reserves place for himself in hell
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has won the prize for biggest piece of shit in America. I want to hear not one damn thing from Republicans about the “Christian” thing to do from here on in. Not one damn thing.
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A Japanese Company May Have Figured Out How to Mass Produce Spider Silk | Motherboard
There’s a material out there that is as strong as steel, as stretchy as rubber, extremely shock absorbent, and environmentally friendly. Its source is organically produced and available in nature. It could be used in everything from auto parts, to o…
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ACROSS THE SKY – a world record slackline in the utah desert on Vimeo
On November 15, 2015 Théo Sanson walked nearly 500 meters on a slackline rigged from The Rectory to Castleton Tower in Castle Valley, Utah – likely a new world record. Rigging the line is perhaps as significant a feat as walking it. The team include…
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Game of Thrones Isn’t Done Tormenting Sansa Stark | Vanity Fair
Without book knowledge to guide fans, rumors and speculation about the upcoming season of Game of Thrones are at an all-time high.
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Kate Speaks! – The Daily Beast
Did Kate read our piece just the other day wondering why she said so little, and did so so infrequently? Well, the princess spoke publicly at length today on the subect of child mental health.
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Dunkin Donuts is testing a mobile ordering app to take on Starbucks | The Verge
Dunkin Donuts is ready to compete directly with Starbucks on mobile. Bloomberg reports that the chain is currently testing a smartphone app that allows users to pre-order their morning cup of coffee before arriving at stores.
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U.S. Strikes Deal to Block Coal Plants Worldwide Public financing of the polluting power plants will be curbed (scientificamerican.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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Man discovers he’s going to be a grandfather during a game – GIF on Imgur
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COP21 climate marches in Paris not authorised following attacks | World news | The Guardian
Marches planned on 29 November and 12 December during the COP21 international climate talks in Paris will not be authorised for security reasons, the French government said on Wednesday.
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Now You Can Steal Any Vine’s Audio To Jump On The Remix Bandwagon | TechCrunch
Vine is never-ending series of inside jokes. Every day, some weird video or audio clip becomes the trend and everyone races to make their own remix. Now you can play along without any extra editing tools with Vine’s new audio remix button.
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How A Supreme Court Case Puts Equality in the Workplace At Stake
There is one case pending before the Supreme Court that doesn’t get counted among the rulings that could have an effect on issues of equality and discrimination – but, as a friend-of-the-court brief filed recently by more than 70 civil rights organi…
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Exclusive Image preview: A climate change thriller begins in Snowfall #1 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
With their last Image Comics series, Great Pacific, writer Joe Harris and artist Martín Morazzo revealed their fascination with climate change and political intrigue by telling the story of a fugitive oil heir that settles the Great Pacific Garbage …
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TeenNick has been spotlighting John Kricfalusi’s The Ren & Stimpy Show during its nostalgia-themed programming block, The Splat, all this week.
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Why do some Fargo characters sit back and watch the violence unfold? · Polite Fight · The A.V. Club
This week’s uncompromisingly courteous installment of Polite Fight finds Gus Spelman and John Teti analyzing what Gus deems a “stylistically overt” episode of Fargo, paying special attention to the use of Sonny as an audience stand-in during the pol…
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Suicide Bomber Kills 32, Injures 80 at Nigerian Market – The Atlantic
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited the northern city of Yola on Saturday, awarding medals to three soldiers who were wounded in military operations against Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has killed thousands of people in the country. G…
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The World’s Biggest Volcano Is a Magnetic Mix-Up – Scientific American
Tami Massif rises four kilometers from the seafloor. A 3D image shows various peaks that have formed over 145 million years. Earth’s biggest volcano, its peak nearly two kilometers beneath the Pacific Ocean waves, is beginning to reveal its secrets.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TXX) called a hearing on Tuesday to discuss his view that the Obama administration is waging a “war on police” and that the “Ferguson effect” is causing crime rates to skyrocket.
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This Country Just Promised To Get Rid Of All Its Coal Plants | ThinkProgress
The United Kingdom will phase out coal-fired power plants by 2025, the country’s energy secretary announced Wednesday. This comes as welcome news to some — the U.K.’s electricity sector is responsible for a third of the country’s carbon emissions, a…
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The Media vs. Hollywood vs. Diversity, in One Magazine Cover – The Atlantic
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It’s dour and oddly paced, unless you just watched the first three films When Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy re-popularized the cinematic blockbuster mega-movie — not just a series of sequels merging into a franchise, but a single com…
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‘Star Wars’ Franchise Planning Never-Ending String of Films | Rolling Stone
‘Star Wars’ Franchise Planning Never-Ending String of Films “‘Star Wars’ is its own genre.
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Watch Pussy Riot Perform at Banksy’s Dismaland for ‘Refugees In’ Video | Rolling Stone
Pussy Riot have released a music video for their song “Refugees In,” which the band is dedicating to refugees arriving in Europe from Syria, Afganistan, Sudan and other war-torn countries.
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Annual Barbie downhill race, wait for it. : gifs
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In New York, Farmworkers Rally for One Cent of Dignity | The Nation
Nelson Peltz takes his morning coffee in a mug marked Cash Is King. He’s worth a hair under two billion dollars—he spent a quarter-million of them on VIP treatment at the second inauguration of George W. Bush.
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Tea party exemplar Josh Duggar is being sued for roughing up a woman / Boing Boing
Beloved reality TV star and child molestor Josh Duggar, idolized as a cherished paragon of traditional family values by presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and other social conservatives, is getting sued for over $500,000 by the woman he paid to ha…
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Paris attacks: Two dead after police storm apartment – BBC News
Two people were killed as police carried out a seven-hour raid on a flat suspected of housing the alleged mastermind of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. Several arrests were made, but the fate of chief suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud remains unclear but…
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Hardware Battlefield Applications Now Close On Monday | TechCrunch
We get it. You’re busy building a robot that can eat human food. That’s why we’ve extended the deadline for applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield for a few more days.
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The Qwerkywriter: a delightful Bluetooth keyboard based on a manual typewriter / Boing Boing
I blogged the announcement of the Qwerkywriter more than a year ago, when the company was retooling from its successful kickstarter to full retail production. I’ve had one of the production models in my office for a couple of months now and I’ve bee…
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While Europe is on high alert against another murderous terrorist attack, it will be hard for Paris to look beyond the next 24 hours.
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Einstein’s Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World
This artist’s illustration depicts how the foamy structure of space-time may appear, showing tiny bubbles quadrillions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom that are constantly fluctuating and last for only infinitesimal fractions of a second…
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‘Every refugee I’ve spoken to would rather be at home’ – Al Jazeera English
“We waited and hoped for more than four years, then decided we had to leave,” Hassan tells me in flawless English. He’s a 32-year-old lawyer from Damascus. He’s with his wife and young son. They’re all smartly dressed in new winter coats.
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Rescued Tanzanian miners’ families presumed they died – BBC News
Rescued Tanzanian miners returned to find out their property had been given away because they were presumed dead. The five gold miners were trapped underground for 41 days after a shaft collapsed while they were trying to rescue 11 other missing col…
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Ben Carson: Unable to process foreign policy? – BBC News
One of Ben Carson’s foreign policy advisers is claiming that the retired-neurosurgeon-turned-presidential-candidate has been unable to process “one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East”.
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Din Delivers Thanksgiving To Your Door | TechCrunch
Next week we kick off the holiday season with Thanksgiving, which is the perfect excuse to gather and nosh with family or friends, but it can time consuming and anxiety-inducing for those doing the cooking.
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Big Antarctic ice melt scenarios ‘not plausible’ – BBC News
Scientists say the contribution of a melting Antarctica to sea level rise this century will be significant and challenging, but that some nightmare scenarios are just not realistic. Their new study models how the polar south will react if greenhouse…
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Planning permissions and ancient woodland | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
Any decision to grant planning permission affecting ancient woodland is taken after careful scrutiny of the proposals, with matters of need, benefits and harm – and whether this latter can be mitigated against or compensated for – all being consider…
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HS2’s impact on urban homes and hedgehogs | Letters | UK news | The Guardian
Patrick Barkham’s article about the HS2 route through the countryside (The long read, 17 November) was excellent – a compelling overview of its effect on rural communities. But, though any article about the omnishambles that is HS2 is welcome, it wa…
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Does the world need yet another subscription-based video streaming service? The Smithsonian seems to think so, having now rolled out its own over-the-top service aimed at cord cutters called Smithsonian Earth. Initially available on the web, on Appl…
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The Things That Are Almost Always Cheapest to Buy at Target
All of the big retailers—Amazon, Walmart, Target, and so on—claim to have the best deals, but that depends on what you’re buying. Over at Wise Bread, Kyle James points out eight things you should probably head to Target for. The savings can be quite…
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Major Economies Agree To Limit Support For Overseas Coal Plants | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday, representatives from 34 of the world’s developed and major emerging economies reached an agreement to phase out public financing that supports the construction of new coal power plants around the world.
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Instagram, Unfiltered: In Praise of ‘Finstagram’ – The Atlantic
It’s become one of the most pernicious cliches of Instagram: Of the 1,000 words the app’s pictures tell, roughly 500 of them are thirsty and/or lacquered and/or fake.
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American Medical Association wants to ban ads for prescription drugs | The Verge
On Tuesday, the American Medical Association called for a ban on consumer advertisements for prescription drugs and medical devices, an attempt to help costumers make the best, most affordable health care choices, the group said.
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Even without a Snow White character to worry about—or perhaps due to the lack of a Snow White character to focus on—Universal Pictures’ follow-up to Snow White And The Huntsman has gone through a turbulent production.
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Pigeons Could Help Detect Breast Cancer | Motherboard
Animals are constantly surprising us when it comes to science—just look at the dogs who can sniff out testicular cancer or the giant rats helping disarm land mines in Mozambique. The latest species to add to that list is the common pigeon (Columba l…
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Baby’s Experimental Leukemia Treatment Could Help Others with Cancer – Scientific American
New gene-editing technology that successfully reprogrammed cells to fight leukemia in a 14-weeks-old infant could be applied to other cancers By and LiveScience | The genetic technique that researchers used to treat Layla is nicknamed TALEN (which s…
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The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki Is A Gorgeous Box Set With One Huge Flaw
It always happens. You buy something that you want to be absolutely perfect, just to find out it has have one big flaw. That flaw isn’t immediately noticeable but, once you do, it bugs you to no end. That’s what happens with “The Collected Works of …
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US piracy cyberlocker operator gets 3 years in prison, must pay $100k | Ars Technica
A 23-year-old North Carolina man was sentenced (PDF) to three years in prison Tuesday and ordered to pay $100,000 in fines and restitution following a conviction of criminal copyright infringement for operating the RockDizMusic.com piracy site and c…
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Hawaii court halts construction of world’s largest telescope on volcano | US news | The Guardian
The Hawaii supreme court has temporarily blocked construction of one of the world’s largest telescopes on a dormant volcano, following a challenge by Native Hawaiians and environmentalists who say the project would damage sacred lands.
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Where would the world be without cheesy local television commercials made by local merchants so desperate to sell furniture, used cars, and appliances that they’ll even dress up in ridiculous costumes to get viewers’ attention? One sterling example …
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The Big Idea That Could Bring Disaffected Voters Back to the Polls | The Nation
At his inaugural in 1981, Ronald Reagan declared that “government is not the solution—government is the problem.” The election of 2016 will tell us whether the American people are ready to overthrow the tyranny of that reactionary proposition.
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Earin wireless earbuds review | The Verge
The first truly wireless earbuds are finally here. Are they any good? After a year of crowdfunding campaigns and months of production delays, the first company promising truly wireless earbuds has finally shipped a product to its backers.
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Weird Al’s Yoda glimpsed the future through the power of the Force · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of this week’s theme, we’re doing songs with Star Wars references. “Weird Al” Yankovic and Star Wars are the chocolate and peanut butter of nerdom.
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Spaceballs affectionately takes the biggest film franchise down a notch · Watch This · The A.V. Club
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Because it’s Star Wars Week here at the A.V. Club, we’ve singled out some of the more interesting movies inspired or influenced by George Luc…
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Jennifer Lawrence Says Sex Scene With Chris Pratt Was “The Most Vulner | Vanity Fair
Jennifer Lawrence has recovered gracefully from a stumble on her way onstage to receive an Oscar, fought publicly against the Hollywood wage gap, and fired many, many arrows into the idea that women can’t lead franchise movies.
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Johnny Depp Has a New Best Friend in Hollywood, and He’s Nine Years Ol | Vanity Fair
Johnny Depp has been in the movie business for three decades, and has amassed friends just as accomplished and creative as he is, including Tim Burton and Keith Richards.
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E! Cancels on Joel McHale’s ‘The Soup’
Joel McHale is ending his run on the E! clip show “The Soup,” TheWrap has learned. McHale has hosted the show for the past 12 years, while also appearing in films like “Spider Man 2” and “Ted. He also starred on “Community” for NBC, before the show …
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How The Internet* Talks | FiveThirtyEight
Since the launch of Reddit — the online link-sharing and commenting platform — in June 2005, the site’s monthly visitors have grown to more than 200 million, and users have posted more than 1.7 billion comments.
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This Chart Tells You When to Use Ice or Heat for Pain
When you’ve got a headache, a sprained ankle, or some other pain, should you ice it or apply heat? Consult this handy reference chart for the solution.
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First images of a planet in the act of forming | Ars Technica
A study released today describes a new technique that has observed a planet forming for the first time. Using adaptive optics, the researchers observed light coming from the planet that gave a clear indicator that the body is still growing and formi…
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Our National Encryption Debate, In Quotes | TechCrunch
The long-burning debate concerning encryption, its impact on both consumer privacy and the government’s ability to protect its citizens is back with a vengeance.
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The First Time NASA Docked with a Soviet Spacecraft in Orbit
Two spacecraft drifted closer to one another far above planet Earth, as they prepared to dock. It was July 17th, 1975, and they were about to make history.
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A former employee of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency, charged with treason for giving the CIA more than 300 secret documents, has told a court that lax controls meant he felt he was running no risk.
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Police officers involved in fatal shooting of man in Minneapolis identified | US news | The Guardian
The police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in Minneapolis in the early hours of Sunday morning have been named by law enforcement as Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. Schwarze has previously been sued for civil rights v…
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BEIJING — Even as the cost of his quarry pulled away from the $100 million mark, Liu Yiqian remained calm. “I was on the phone with a girl from Christie’s Hong Kong who was bidding on my behalf, and she kept dropping the phone because she was so ner…
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First Photo of an Embryonic Alien Planet
There are 450 light-years between Earth and LkCa15, a young star with a transition disk around it, a cosmic whirling dervish, a birthplace for planets.
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This car horn for bikes gets drivers’ attention / Boing Boing
When car drivers hear a car horn they react instantly. Bike bells, not so much. The Loud Mini bike horn sounds like a car horn. Great idea. The creators are almost fully funded on Kickstarter, with 12 days to go in their campaign.
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PlanGrid Lands $40 Million Investment To Expand Product | TechCrunch
PlanGrid, the company that digitized the construction industry, announced today that it has landed a $40 million investment. Tenaya Capital led the round. Additional investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, YC Continuity and Northgate. Today’s inve…
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The 20 Most Extreme Cases Of ‘The Book Was Better Than The Movie’ | FiveThirtyEight
You know how the traits in other people that make you the maddest are usually the ones that remind you about a part of yourself you don’t like? The “I liked the movie, but it wasn’t as good as the book” shtick is that for me.
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When there’s something strange, in your refrigerator – Imgur
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How The Internet* Talks | FiveThirtyEight
Since the launch of Reddit — the online link-sharing and commenting platform — in June 2005, the site’s monthly visitors have grown to more than 200 million, and users have posted more than 1.7 billion comments.
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The Spooky and Scandalous Past of Ben Carson’s Top National Security Adviser | Mother Jones
On Tuesday, the New York Times published a story that had the politerati abuzz. The headline was bold: “Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say.
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Pesticide exposure in bumblebees ‘harms pollination’ – BBC News
Bees exposed to nicotine-like pesticides are not as good at pollinating crops, research suggests. Scientists say policymakers should consider the potential impact on agriculture in the debate over the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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Paris police find phone with unencrypted SMS saying “Let’s go, we’re starting” | Ars Technica
French police found an unencrypted, unlocked phone in a trash bin outside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris that contained a text sent in the clear: “On est parti on commence.” (“Let’s go, we’re starting”).
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Why do people in old movies talk weird? / Boing Boing
How Stuff Works explains the “Transatlantic Accent,” a cultivated accent that people in the United States affected in an attempt to trick others that they were in some way affiliated with the British upper crust.
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In February 2008, a few days before I began my MA in creative writing, an administrator in University of Cape Town’s English department asked me if there were any particular writer I wished to have for my advisor.
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Russia Announces Anti-Doping Task Force – The Atlantic
With less than nine months to go for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Russia is trying to break a world record in the 90-day sprint. You may recall that Mutko was one of the many Russian officials to denounce the WADA report last week, calling i…
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Obama Mocks Republicans: ‘They’re Worried About 3-Year-Old Orphans’ | Rolling Stone
President Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates Tuesday for stoking “hysteria” over Syrian refugees. “We are not well-served when in response to a terrorist attack, we descend into fear and panic.
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The de Blasio Diaries, Chapter 49: Scents and Sensibility | Vanity Fair
This is not a kind world we live in. It is not a forgiving world. (I’ve been catching up on True Detective—I think it may have seeped into my subconscious. I really love this second season; so much more entertaining than the first!) Anyway, this wor…
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These Ant-Man Deleted Scenes Feature a Huge Marvel Teaser
The Ant-Man Blu-ray hits on December 8 and, as usual with Marvel movies, is filled with lots of fun extras. A few of those have made it online including multiple deleted scenes, each of which is pretty entertaining and interesting—and one of which i…
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Mockingjay: Part 2 Review | Vanity Fair
Five years ago, in a year-end roundup of the best books and articles the staff of Gawker (where I worked at the time) had read in 2010, I listed Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay, the final book in her Hunger Games trilogy, as one of my favorites.
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Coal, gas, costly nuclear? This is the same old mix | Business | The Guardian
Amber Rudd’s “new model” for the UK’s energy market looks very like the old model. It is a mix of the legally necessary, the uncertain, and the expensive.
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EPA proposes tougher new limits on smokestack emissions from nearly two dozen states that burden downwind areas with air pollution from power plants they can’t control. (usnews.com)
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Comedians and activists call out California governor in anti-fracking ad campaign | Grist
Welp. This is embarrassing for California’s Gov. Jerry Brown. There’s an ad campaign calling out Brown for allowing fracking in California, and it’s running on television this week. The videos feature famous people like comedian Kristina Wong and co…
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When we last checked in with the production of upcoming romantic comedy How To Be Single, Leslie Mann, Dakota Johnson, and Rebel Wilson had all just joined the cast, which we assumed was a star vehicle for Alison Brie.
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Wait, Did Facebook Just Build A Kickstarter Competitor? | TechCrunch
Facebook’s on a quest to absorb the Internet, and now it looks like it could invade crowdfunding.
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Selfie-stick follies: man had camera reversed for his whole Vegas trip / Boing Boing
Evan Griffin’s dad borrowed his Gopro for a Vegas holiday and walked the strip for days with the camera on the end of a selfie-stick — pointed the wrong way.
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Paris attacks ‘mastermind’ fate unknown – 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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Coal and renewable firms criticise government gas plans | Environment | The Guardian
Coal and renewable power firms have formed an unlikely alliance to criticise government plans to put gas and nuclear at the centre of UK energy supply. The energy secretary, Amber Rudd, has claimed she will resetUK policy and has promised to shut do…
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Paris attacks: Mixed reaction to Charlie Hebdo image – BBC News
The latest edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was revealed on press stands across France on Wednesday. The magazine is known for its cartoons and its front page is often a controversial take on the week’s news.
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How Having Kids Changes Parents’ Sense of Empathy – The Atlantic
Throughout my wife’s pregnancy, it seemed like everyone who already had kids was eager to tell us about the changes parenting would bring to our lives. Some were mundane but a little scary (losing the opportunity to shower every day), others profoun…
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GIFs, texts, serials: new ebook frontiers / Boing Boing
In the decade since publishing embraced ebooks in earnest, we’ve seen a cornucopia of exciting and innovative ways technology is being used to enhance reading.
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Human Rights Watch Calls on US to Stop Selling Bombs to Saudi Arabia | Mother Jones
This morning, Human Rights Watch called on the United States to stop selling bombs to Saudi Arabia for use in its air campaign in Yemen, which has killed hundreds of civilians and allegedly violated the laws of war.
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Tailored for Success: The Bazin Industry in Mali – The Atlantic
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‘The Artist’ Director Pens Defiant, Sexual ‘Open Letter’ to ISIS | Rolling Stone
Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning director of The Artist, took to Facebook Tuesday night to pen a defiant, sexually explicit “open letter” to ISIS in response to last week’s Paris terror attacks. “Here in France, what we love is life,” he wrote…
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‘Bastard Executioner’ Creator Kurt Sutter Axes Own Show | Rolling Stone
Television shows are canceled all the time — but their creators usually aren’t the ones who bring down the ax.
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Carson advisers fret over his foreign-policy ignorance : Liberal
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Carson advisers fret over his foreign-policy ignorance | MSNBC
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Details Magazine Is Officially Done — The Cut
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PhunkeeDuck Is Winning the Hoverboard Race – Bloomberg Business
Matt Waxman and Maxx Yellin careen into New York’s Madison Square Park one gray weekday afternoon riding two-wheeled scooters that look like Roombas for your feet.
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On Sept. 6, I locked myself out of my apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. I was in a rush to get to my weekly soccer game, so I decided to go enjoy the game and deal with the lock afterward. I heard barking. I approached my front window and loudly ask…
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Manhattan DA demands Congress require mobile phone backdoors | Ars Technica
Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan district attorney and an outspoken critic of encryption, called on Congress to adopt legislation mandating that mobile phone makers like Apple and Google bake backdoors into their smartphones.
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When writer, politician, and BBC radio and television personality Melvyn Bragg began his long-running radio program In Our Time, which brings academics together to discuss philosophy, history, science, religion, and culture, he didn’t think the show…
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The littlest nope ever / Boing Boing
Playboy Enterprises has agreed to a settlement with a woman who claims she was injured when a co-host of The Playboy Morning Show hit her in the buttocks with a golf club. The incident occurred at the Playboy Golf Finals in 2012.
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Google Photos Can Now Free Up Space on Your Phone
Photos and videos tend to take up the bulk of our devices’ storage space. If you find you’re running out of space on your phone, Google Photos has a new feature that will let you bulk delete photos and videos that have already been stored online.
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Don Dohler’s Nightbeast gave J.J. Abrams his start in sci-fi · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
It could be argued that audiences owe two of this decade’s biggest space operas to the mad genius of Lloyd Kaufman, founder of Troma Entertainment. Not only did James Gunn, writer-director of Guardians Of The Galaxy, get his start at the New Jersey-…
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Abuse of young boys rises in Pakistan: report – Al Jazeera English
The number of young boys being sexually abused in Pakistan has increased this year, according to a new report, with more boys being targeted than girls. The total number increased by 4.
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Playboy settles model’s backside golf-injury lawsuit / Boing Boing
Playboy Enterprises has agreed to a settlement with a woman who claims she was injured when a co-host of The Playboy Morning Show hit her in the buttocks with a golf club. The incident occurred at the Playboy Golf Finals in 2012.
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Tennessee State Rep. Calls For Rounding Up Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
Perhaps unaware of the nation’s shameful history of rounding up minority groups, Tennessee state Rep. Glen Casada (R) urged on Tuesday that his state do just that.
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The Empathy Gap Between Paris and Beirut, Cont’d – The Atlantic
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Give the Gift of Awesome Gadgets and Stuff We Like
Not every cool gift idea fits into a neat little category. In fact, some of the best stuff doesn’t. That’s why we have a special guide just for the awesome gadgets we fancied throughout the year. Here is some of the most awesome stuff we like.
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Will Paris Melt the New US-Russian Cold War? | The Nation
Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the new East-West Cold War.
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If you could magically reach back into 2014, snatch up an average pop culture consumer, and bring them to the present day, one of their first questions upon landing in late 2015 would probably be, “When did people start liking Justin Bieber so much?…
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Alexandra Daddario is starring in the Baywatch movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The number of people on Earth who are capable of running in slow motion across a sunny beach while a camera ogles every inch of their body to a ’80s synth-rock soundtrack now includes Alexandra Daddario.
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Carly Simon finally reveals who’s so vain · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For more than 40 years, the identity of the egomaniac who inspired Carly Simon to write and record her 1972 hit single “You’re So Vain” has remained one of the most enigmatic mysteries in pop music.
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Nigeria Orders Arrest of Top Official | Al Jazeera America
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of the former national security adviser, accusing him of stealing about $2 billion through phantom arms contracts and hampering the fight against Boko Haram militants, his office said.
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Encryption App Telegram Probably Isn’t as Secure for Terrorists as ISIS Thinks | Motherboard
The debate around encryption and its use by extremists is reaching fever pitch. In particular, media reports have picked up on ISIS and other terrorist groups’ open endorsements of the encrypted messaging app Telegram on propaganda sites and extremi…
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JA Solar Reports Record Shipments In Third Quarter [ Great Time to Buy Solar, They’re working on a Natural Gas Export Terminal in Texas, Low NG Prices are TEMPORARY. ] (cleantechnica.com) Solar will soon wipe out natural gas as soon as exports start.
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Carson advisers fret over his foreign-policy ignorance (msnbc.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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2) Utilities can offer cheaper night-time charging to acquire EV’s into their grids, same with electric hot water heaters. Encourage electric adoption across all appliances.
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Carson advisers fret over his foreign-policy ignorance : democrats
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Today, I’ll talk about the Paris attacks, but before I do I want to share two news stories here, in case you missed them: The first calf to come from a cloned camel was born at a research center in Dubai and a local tax…
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Tragic deaths connect high school linebacker Cody Seward and former NCF running back Brad Gaines
or the first few seconds after the collision, the game continues as if nothing has gone wrong. The crowd cheers in approval. A coach screams: “Great block!” Cody Seward, 17, who delivered the hit, stands and chases the play a few yards downfield.
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Seiko Will Reissue Ripley’s Futuristic Alien-Fighting Watch | TechCrunch
In space no one can hear you tick. In the movie Alien, futuristic alien butt-kicker Sigourney Weaver AKA Ripley wore a futuristic-looking chronograph.
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Planet Being Assembled As Astronomers Watch | Video
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This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With a major global climate summit in Paris less than two weeks away, the Obama administration’s top environmental official is sayi…
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Peggy Swings Shades, Fists, and Shotguns in Our First Glimpse at Agent Carter Season 2
Earlier this week, we got the wonderful news that Agent Carter will return for a brand new series on January 5th, and now we’ve got our first teasing look at Peggy’s new adventures. She’s swapping out punching dudes in New York for the glamour of pu…
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Top Senate Democrat: Rejecting Syrian Refugees ‘May Be Necessary’ | ThinkProgress
Temporarily rejecting Syrian refugees from entering the United States “may be necessary” in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris, one of the Senate’s top Democrats said on Tuesday. Breaking with most of his Democratic colleagues on the issue, Sen.
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Sean Rad Of Tinder, Ladies And Gentleman | TechCrunch
Today, the world woke up to a profile of sorts from the London Evening Standard. The profile was about Tinder CEO Sean Rad. And it was well…special. Where do we start? First, let’s get the serious stuff out of the way. Rad’s parent company Match rec…
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Formation of Alien Worlds Photographed for 1st Time
Artist’s illustration of planets forming in a circumstellar disk like the one surrounding the star LkCa 15. The planets within the disk’s gap sweep up material that would have otherwise fallen onto the star.
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Louisiana police deny governor ordered them to ‘track’ Syrian refugees | US news | The Guardian
The Louisiana state police have played down governor Bobby Jindal’s claim that he has ordered them to “track” Syrian refugees in his state.
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Identity Heft: Why the Politics of Race and Gender are Dominating the 2016 Election | New Republic
Just a year a so ago, the phrase “identity politics” had a musty and arcane air to it, redolent as it was of early 1990s campus battles over issues of gender and racial representation.
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Deke Slayton to Fly, Again: Orbital ATK Names 2nd Ship for Astronaut
Astronaut Dan Tani (center) joins his fellow Orbital ATK officials to reveal the S.S. Deke Slayton II.Credit: collectSPACE.com/Talia Landman View full size image Deke Slayton waited 16 years to fly in space after he was selected as one of the origin…
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Government Compares NSA Whistleblower to Ft. Hood Shooter, Soviet Spies – The Daily Beast
A U.S. government espionage task force is advising its defense industry partners that whistleblowers can be as dangerous as terrorists and spies.
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No, you’re not paranoid: The Koch brothers really are spying on you | Grist
Despite rising sea levels, massive floods, and a previous explosion, Florida decided not to relocate the jail. In fact, the new rules can be expected to lower people’s bills across the entire country, a new report finds.
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How Fairness Develops in Kids Around the World – The Atlantic
You’re sitting at a table with a friend and a stranger offers you some candy. Hooray! Who doesn’t like candy? But wait! You’re not getting the same amounts. One of you gets four delicious pieces, and the other gets a measly one.
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The Internet of Booze: Russian robo-bartender serves up shooters | Ars Technica
A Russian hardware hacker has created the perfect robotic assistant for the holidays: a Wi-Fi-connected bartending machine that mixes up to five drinks at a time. The creator, who goes by the handle Strn on the Russian tech site Geektimes.ru, has du…
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Paul Ryan’s Alarmist Syrian Refugee Move is Playing With Fire | The Nation
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s leadership—and his reputation for conservative pragmatism—is being put to an early test by the GOP’s determination to halt the flow of Syrian refugees, because of purported fears that some ISIS killers may be among them.
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European Countries Closing Their Borders to Refugees Is Collective Punishment | The Nation
The short fuse of Europe’s migration crisis exploded in Paris last Friday when terrorist attacks ripped through the city’s heart and rattled its fraught borders.
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Iran starts dismantling nuclear programme, says UN watchdog | World news | The Guardian
Iran has begun dismantling parts of its nuclear programme, as agreed in a landmark deal with major powers, the UN atomic watchdog has said.
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Barclays fined $150m over forex trading by New York regulator | Business | The Guardian
Barclays’ reputation took another battering on Wednesday when a US regulator imposed a $150m fine on the bank for the way it treated its foreign exchange customers.
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Pesticides stop bumblebees from pollinating apple trees, research shows | Environment | The Guardian
The world’s most widely used insecticides harm the ability of bumblebees to pollinate apple trees, scientists have discovered. The finding has important implications for agriculture and the natural world, say the researchers, as many food crops and …
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Antarctic ice sheet collapse will cause sea levels to rise. So what’s new? | Science | The Guardian
The past, present and long term future of the Antarctic ice sheet and its surrounding ice shelves have been news over the past few months. I’m part of a team with a new study published in Nature predicting its future. You might think: what’s new?
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Tricky Unveils Collab-Heavy Skilled Mechanics Album | Rolling Stone
Producer-vocalist Tricky has set a release date for his first full-length album with his collaboration-heavy project, Skilled Mechanics. The self-titled effort will be issued January 22nd via his own False Idols imprint.
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Proving as dogged in its belief in its ghost-themed series as the shows’ paranormal investigators are in the apparitions they seek, Syfy has opted to renew Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Witness for an 11th and 5th season, respectively.
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Ted Cruz challenges Obama to ‘insult me to my face’
President Obama has been sharp in his criticism of Republican posturing against Syrian refugees, and some of the Republicans are taking it personally—or trying to get personal benefit from it. Ted Cruz is way, way out in front of the pack, challengi…
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The Secret World of Museums: How Hidden Science Becomes Public Exhibit
“It’s impossible to know everything,” Hélène Alonso said. Alonso is the director of exhibit interactives and media for the American Museum of Natural History.
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Ryan White, With Charlie Sheen, in 1988 — NYMag
If there is one thing that reminds us of the difference between Charlie Sheen’s announcement this week of his HIV status and that of Ryan White, the teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who in 1984 be
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Paris attacks: Paris prosecutor news conference – BBC News
The French prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the Paris attacks gives a news conference after the police raid a flat in Saint-Denis.
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US attorney calls for access to Google and Apple phones – BBC News
Law enforcement should have access to encrypted data on smartphones, a report from the Manhattan District Attorney’s (DA) Office has said. The report questions the approach of Apple and Google, whose iOS and Android operating systems encrypt data.
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Since somebody wanted to see more work-related stories – Meme on Imgur
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Russia plane crash: IS publishes ‘improvised bomb’ photo – BBC News
Islamic State’s magazine has published a photo of what it claims was the improvised bomb that brought down the Russian airliner in Egypt last month. The picture in Dabiq shows a Schweppes Gold soda can and what appears to be a detonator and a switch.
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Man records entire Vegas vacation with his GoPro pointed the wrong way
Evan Griffin let his dad use his GoPro camera on his vacation to Las Vegas, but Papa Griffin didn’t know which end was which, so he shot the entire trip with the camera pointed at himself. A video selfie tour of Vegas. Hilarious.
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iZombie’s Magician Episode Is Pitch Perfect
This week’s episode was called “Abra Cadaver,” a pun so good I almost feel like the title inspired the episode. Which is fine, since this was proof that magicians and murder go together like peanut butter and jelly.
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In defense of Drizzy Tearz: a Q&A with developer Ashten Winger | The Verge
I behaved a little salty last week over Drizzy Tearz, a new free iOS game that asks you to tap the tears falling from an emotional Drake’s floating 8-bit head. You can imagine my surprise when I was offered a chance to speak to the creative force be…
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Suicide blasts rip through Nigerian mobile phone market – Al Jazeera English
Two powerful blasts have rocked a busy mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, sources told Al Jazeera, a day after more than 30 people were killed in an attack in the northeastern city of Yola Police said on Wednesday that two de…
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Why a massive Greenland glacier is melting from below: To better understand future sea level rise, NASA and university researchers are working together to produce models of underwater glacier valleys in Greenland. (csmonitor.com)
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120,000 Homes Could Be Powered with Renewable Energy from this New Hawaiian Plant (noosfeer.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…
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How Patti Labelle became the queen of sweet potato pis | Fusion
The reason? A glowing review that James Wright posted to his Facebook page after unboxing and sampling one of the pies on camera. According to Wright, the desert, though difficult to get out of the box, was worth singing over.
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ISIS Releases Photo of Plane Bomb — NYMag
The Islamic State’s online magazine, Dabiq, released a photo labeled “EXCLUSIVE – Image of the IED used to bring down the Russian airliner” in its latest issue.
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Ronda Rousey and the Danger of Being Imperfect While Female — Medium
UFC fighter Ronda Rousey got her ass handed to her on Saturday night. The knockout was just brutal, and a stark contrast to the photos of Rousey in Vogue or her promotional pics for The Expendables 3. If you haven’t seen it, let’s do that first:
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Will IEX Become a New Stock Exchange? – The Atlantic
In his 2014 book Flash Boys, Michael Lewis introduced readers to Brad Katsuyama, a Canadian trader who was seeing the world of high-frequency trading for the first time.
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As a Star Wars fan, and self-proclaimed shoe diva, these boots make me tingle somewhere far, far away. They’re available from Irregular Choice.
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Four former US air force service members with more than 20 years of experience between them operating military drones have written an open letter to President Obama warning that the program of targeted killings by unmanned aircraft has become a majo…
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Kitten sucking his paws is the cutest thing ever, today / Boing Boing
It’s a few years old, actually, but this video of a cute baby owl “dancing” to a fuzzy owl-shaped comforting toy that sings “Monster Mash” is well deserving of a viral revival. We should all be so lucky to be loved this much.
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With a major global climate summit in Paris less than two weeks away, the Obama administration’s top environmental official is saying that climate change is a major threat to US national security.
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Drones may predate Obama, but his resolute use of them is unmatched | World news | The Guardian
The first drone strike took place within weeks of the September 11 attacks, but the unmanned aerial weapons system came of age under Barack Obama.
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A play based off of people’s real experiences with abortion has hit the road, heading to college campuses across the country — many of them in states where abortion isn’t exactly applauded.
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Serbian Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked tennis player and 10-time major champion, made a passionate plea for all countries to put their differences aside and offer help to the growing number of Syrian refugees.
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In an extract from the film Drone, which premieres in New York on Friday, a former drone sensor operator, Brandon Bryant, recalls making his first ‘kill’, guiding a Hellfire missile towards a human target in Afghanistan.
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How Governors Can Keep Out Syrian Refugees – The Atlantic
Amid the flurry of statements declaring Syrian refugees unwelcome in 26 states including Louisiana, Michigan, and Nevada, governors seem to be hoping one fact would just go away: Refugees can, and will, go wherever they want once they move to the Un…
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Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix re-teaming for a Western · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because it went so well the first time, Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix have decided to try this whole “let’s make a movie together” thing again.
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Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, who teamed up to launch Boardwalk Empire for HBO, have reunited for a look at the music industry in the ’70s along with Mick Jagger, who brings just a little bit of relevant life experience to the table.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 18th – The New Yorker
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Putin’s Ambitions for the War Against ISIS – The New Yorker
On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin admitted what had been known to Western intelligence services (and, surely, Russian ones, too) for some time: a bomb, likely planted by terrorists with connections to ISIS, brought down a passenger plane flying from Sharm …
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Nearly 70 are arrested in America over ISIS plots and they include refugees : Liberal
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Nearly 70 are arrested in America over ISIS plots and they include refugees | Daily Mail Online
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Tinkerbell weightlifter via /r/gifs https://t.co/LXq9Iq3k3u https://t.co/ybH2pDM1Gi https://t.co/IJWw9ITMfM
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The good, the bad, the bewildering: 10 countries’ climate pledges. Russia may not be doing anything. Japan may be going backwards. But India, Morocco, and Mexico are making ambitious moves to tackle climate change. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
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De Blasio Jumps Into Scrum Over Refugees — NYMag
No city in America has been as scarred by terrorism, or as enriched by immigrants, as the city of New York. On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would welcome Syrian refugees, in defiance of the former legacy and in defense of th…
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ISIS Calls Anonymous ‘Idiots’ — NYMag
In a post on the encrypted smartphone-messaging app Telegram, the Islamic Cyber Army, an affiliate of the Islamic State militant group, called the Western hacker group Anonymous “idiots” for declaring war on ISIS last weekend.
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Sean Rad, the 29-year-old co-founder and CEO of Tinder, wants me to believe he’s a “romantic”, who is “ready to settle down” and have “lots of children”.
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Toy Snowmen Chanting ‘Hail Satan’ Will Take Over Your Nightmares – Digg
6 diggs vine.co Funny Beliefs Internet Yet another attack on Christmas.
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The U.S. government doesn’t know what technology to blame for the Paris attacks | The Verge
First they blamed encryption. Then they wanted websites taken down. Now, they’re proposing additional legislation. Just days after the shocking attacks in Paris, there’s a new push in Washington to crack down on encryption and other security tools i…
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10 pack of mini LED flashlights for $3 (free shipping) / Boing Boing
These little LED flashlights come in handy, and are more convenient than using your phone to light up a dark area. They come with batteries, and the buttons have a small catch on them so you can keep the LED illuminated without having to keep your t…
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VCs Aren’t the Only Ones Watching Those Mutual Fund Markdowns | TechCrunch
VCs have been watching with great interest as mutual funds mark down the value of some of their privately held, illiquid investments, including shares of Dropbox, Zenefits, and Snapchat. Turns out the SEC is watching, too.
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Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements | Ars Technica
If you think a drug you saw on a commercial is right for you, talk with your doctor about the problems with drug advertisements. On Tuesday, the American Medical Association (AMA) called for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertisements for prescriptio…
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Paris attacks: “I will not give you the gift of hating you” – BBC News
Antoine Leiris lost his wife Helene in the Bataclan theatre in Paris. His Facebook tribute to his wife and challenge to her killers has since been shared thousands of times.
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Mining (And Learning) With The 21 Bitcoin Computer | TechCrunch
Essentially a Raspberry Pi connected with a custom bitcoin-mining ASIC and a heatsink, the computer is one of the most interesting MVPs in modern memory.
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Google can now stream apps to your phone | The Verge
Google’s search results have included information from inside of apps for a couple years now, but Google has only ever been able to show those results if you have the app installed or if the app has a website, too. But now Google has another way: st…
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Is Kate Middleton Prepping an Organic-Food Line? | Vanity Fair
It seems that running around after two little ones isn’t quite enough to keep the Duchess of Cambridge busy. Kate, who is juggling motherhood with official royal duties, wants to launch an organic-food range with her sister, Pippa, Royal Watch can r…
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Rick Riordan cheers end of book covers that ‘whitewash’ his black hero | Books | The Guardian
The bestselling American author Rick Riordan has thanked his Russian publisher for no longer “whitewashing” its jacket illustration of his character Carter, an African American boy who has been depicted as white on the covers of various foreign lang…
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D.C. Government Preparing To Sweep Homeless People Out Of Tent City | ThinkProgress
With the city’s shelter system already overtaxed, the government of Washington, D.C. is preparing to sweep homeless people out of an informal tent city near the glamorous Kennedy Center arts complex. Officials aren’t saying when the sweep will take …
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The First Huntsman: Winter’s War Trailer Is Chock Full of Deadly Magic
In case you weren’t aware that the Evil Queen and the Ice Queen of this Snow White and the Hunstman prequel were, in fact, the bad guys, the Huntsman: Winter’s War trailer makes that abundantly clear.
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Paris attacks: Mosques attacked in US and Canada – BBC News
Mosques in the US and Canada have experienced an increase in vandalism and threats since the Paris attacks, say campaigners. Islamic centres have been receiving hateful phone messages and some mosques have been marked with graffiti, fire and vengefu…
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Conservative writer Matt Lewis laments the end of the Bobby Jindal presidential campaign, noting his “decision to run away from his strengths as an experienced policy expert.
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Optimize Your Tax Refund by Donating Investments
April is several months away, but as the year winds down, it’s time to start prepping our finances for tax season. If you’re looking to optimize your refund or pay fewer taxes next year, you can get a deduction by donating investments to charity.
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Nusra Front says it downed Russian drones in Syria – Al Jazeera English
The al-Nusra Front group has said it downed two Russian reconnaissance drones over a military airport it controls in northwest Syria.
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‘Whip some skull on me, bitch!’: Insane NSFW early 70s novelty song|Dangerous Minds
“Stickball” is an improbably strange—and very NSFW—adult novelty record from the early ‘70s, apparently the work of singer Tony Bruno working under the pseudonym “P.Vert.
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Italian Priest Attacked in Bangladesh | Al Jazeera America
Three men fired shots at an Italian priest Wednesday as he rode his bicycle to church in northern Bangladesh, sending him to a hospital with head injuries, amid a surge in violence targeting foreigners this year.
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Nearly 70 are arrested in America over ISIS plots and they include refugees (dailymail.co.uk)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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ISIL Says Norwegian, Chinese Captives Executed | Al Jazeera America
The Norwegian foreign ministry declined to comment on the claim. In September, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said a Norwegian man had been held hostage in Syria since January and was believed to be in the hands of ISIL.
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Yellow Cabs File Suit Against City — NYMag
Uber’s unbelievable success in New York and other cities has come at a price: It is destroying the value of owning a yellow taxi — or, more specifically, the value of the “medallion,” which gives someone the right to pick up hails on the street in t…
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Obama Takes Down GOPers’ Refugee Rhetoric: They’re Afraid Of Orphans (VIDEO)
Obama says Republicans ‘afraid of three year old orphans’ https://t.co/1dpVRvNOy0 https://t.co/1rmMb3WZ6Y via /r/democrats
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Ben Carson May Need a Domestic-Geography Adviser — NYMag
Earlier this week, Ben Carson had his foreign-policy acumen publicly questioned by several of his own advisers.
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Obama unloads on Republicans: ‘Apparently they’re scared of widows and orphans’ (businessinsider.com)submitted 3 hours ago by loading…[–]mcgillycuddy412 [score hidden] 1 hour ago(6 children)I love how Obama is getting ballsier as we approach the e…
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The New York Times has been routinely criticized over the last decade for its percieved responsibility in drumming up support for the war in Iraq, particularly Judith Miller’s reporting on weapons of mass destruction.
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Zoolander 2 trailer / Boing Boing
As the saying goes: when life gives you Marshmallow, jumpstart a thriving career! Android’s latest platform has opened up even more demand for Android developers, and now’s your shot to learn the ropes.
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Russian plane: Did ‘can bomb’ cause Sinai crash? – BBC News
Islamic State militants have posted an image of a homemade bomb that they claim was used to bring down a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai desert, killing all 224 people on board. The claim was made in an English-language magazine issued by the…
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Chris Paul Is A Point God | FiveThirtyEight
Earlier this month at Staples Center, the Memphis Grizzlies were leading the Los Angeles Clippers by two points with a minute remaining in the game. The Clippers had the ball and needed a bucket.
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Sprint’s big ‘countdown’ reveals the same exact deal it offered last year | The Verge
Sprint’s really making it too easy for John Legere to tear the company down. For days, Sprint and its CEO Marcelo Claure have been counting down to a big announcement.
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Graphic: A World of Exoplanet Discoveries – Scientific American
Twenty years ago this month, astronomers announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed planet orbiting a Sun-like star.
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The Economic Reason Governors Should Be Rushing To Welcome Refugees | ThinkProgress
In the wake of the attacks on Paris last week, governors across the U.S. have lined up to say that they won’t accept Syrian refugees, citing concerns that they could carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S.
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George Lucas Explains Why He’s Done Directing Star Wars Movies | Vanity Fair
Lucas may have handed the Star Wars reins over to Lucasfilm and J.J. Abrams, but that doesn’t mean he’s done having fun in that galaxy far, far away. In this video from Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, Lucas is full of winking jokes for Star …
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Your Guidebook To The Coming Climate Change Turmoil | ThinkProgress
Climate change will have a bigger impact on your family than the internet has had. Imagine if you knew a quarter-century ago how information technology and the internet were going to revolutionize so many aspects of life. Imagine how valuable that k…
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How International Students Are Shaping America’s Colleges – The Atlantic
American colleges are educating more international students than ever before, according to a new report, “Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange,” released by the Institute of of International Education.
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Clay Matthews praises Aaron Rodgers for rebuking Paris attacks slur | Sport | The Guardian
Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews has spoken in support of his team-mate Aaron Rodgers for the quarterback’s eloquent rebuke of the spectator who interrupted Sunday’s silence for the Paris victims.
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Bravo’s The Real Housewives Of Cheshire. Maybe it’s the accents, maybe it’s the unpronounceable names and layers of daytime faux-fur, but this entry into the Housewives franchise feels more like an over-the-top parody of a reality show than a realit…
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The Amazing Books That Will Make Your Loved Ones Fall in Love With Reading Again
Books can transport you to strange new worlds—but they can also make your home more beautiful. And it’s the beauty and luxuriousness of nice books that make them such terrific gifts. These gift items will remind your friends and loved ones why they …
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Eagles Of Death Metal release their first statement on the Paris attacks · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As the awful massacre at the Bataclan theater in Paris unfolded last Friday, one of the first tidbits of information to dribble out over social media was that the members of Eagles Of Death Metal, the band that was performing when attackers stormed …
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Night Vale, the mysterious desert town that is the setting for the massively successful podcast Welcome To Night Vale, is a dangerous place.
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Obama says Republicans ‘afraid of three year old orphans’ : democrats
Obama says Republicans ‘afraid of three year old orphans’ (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by loading…
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The Pelican Nebula in Gas Dust and Stars by Miilo Astro | We Heart It
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Explosion Kills Dozens in Nigeria — NYMag
The explosion occurred around 8 p.m. in Tipper Garage, an area that contains a marketplace, a mosque, and an open-air restaurant, CNN reports. The bomb detonated just after evening prayer, killing dozens who were leaving the place of worship and sho…
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By the time the United States withdrew from its long bloody encounter with Iraq in 2010, it thought it had declawed a once fearsome enemy: the Islamic State, which had many names and incarnations but at the time was neither fearsome nor a state.
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A surprising new scientific paper suggests that the pattern of global wildfires varies based on the day of the week — with considerably fewer fires globally on Sunday than on other days. (washingtonpost.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Bobby Jindal Exits Presidential Race, Returns To Louisiana With 8 More Weeks As Governor; Currently, his disapproval rating has hit a historic 70 percent. (thinkprogress.org)
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El Niño is likely to strengthen by the end of the year, potentially bringing more precipitation than usual to much of the United States. This year’s El Niño is among the strongest since 1950, according to meteorologists. Already, the atmospheric pat…
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Tips For Jury Duty – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Being summoned to serve on a jury is every American’s opportunity to participate in the judicial process and perform a civic duty for their community, but it can be a time-consuming and complicated process.
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ESO Discovers a Horde of Monster, Hidden Galaxies from Infant Universe https://t.co/JoeYx4Q1tC https://t.co/EsBksSxKjK
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Supernova 1994D in galaxy NGC 4526 [2608 x 2608] https://t.co/ZgXiwlEBye https://t.co/t8Tg2ECqqn
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Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say : Liberal
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American Medical Association backs prescription drug ad ban : politics
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American Medical Association backs prescription drug ad ban
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Death Star Destroying Earthlike Exo Planet https://t.co/jSxcfA8jHj https://t.co/QkxJRDI2zY
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Elizabeth Warren on the Persistent Wage Gap: “That Has to Stop” | Mother Jones
Confronting new research showing that women continue to earn far less than men for the same work, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on Congress to pass legislation that would allow women to ask for male colleagues’ salary information without fe…
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Google Launches Custom Machine Types For Its Cloud Platform | TechCrunch
Google today launched a new way of buying virtual machines in its cloud.
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Feds bugged Silicon Valley courthouse entrance without judicial OK | Ars Technica
Federal agents placed secret listening devices near the entrance of a Redwood City, Calif. courthouse in 2009 and 2010, according to papers filed last week. The bugs were part of an investigation of bid-rigging at public foreclosure auctions, which …
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Google today is making a big change in terms of its ability to surface the content found in mobile applications through Google search: it’s no longer requiring that apps have matching web content in order to be indexed through Google’s search engine.
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Apple Acknowledges Mac App Store Issue That Caused Apps To Stop Working, Details Fixes | TechCrunch
Apple today has publicly addressed the issue with the Mac App Store that last week caused a number of Mac desktop applications to stop working, forcing users to restart their computers and reauthenticate with the Mac App Store after receiving error …
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by & Tara Culp-Ressler Faith-based organizations — which have a long history in resettling refugees in the United States — are concerned by the reactionary responses to Syrian refugees in the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris and Beirut, warning t…
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Ouija board coffee table and rug|Dangerous Minds
Okay, this is a pretty clever design of a ouija board area rug and a coffee table in the shape of a planchette. The conceptual design was imagined by Dave Delisle of Dave’s Geek Ideas. Dave came up with idea back in 2013. The good news is that appar…
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New apps help Palestinians navigate Israeli checkpoints – Al Jazeera English
A pair of new mobile apps hope to help Palestinians navigate snarled traffic at Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, offering a high-tech response to constant and burdensome restrictions on movement.
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Blatter and Platini lose appeals against FIFA bans – Al Jazeera English
Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European football chief Michel Platini have lost their appeals against the provisional 90-days bans by the body’s ethics committee, FIFA said.
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According to data cited in an AMA news release, ad dollars spent by drugmakers have risen to $4.5 billion in the last two years, a 30 percent increase. Other data show prices on prescription drugs have climbed nearly 5 percent this year.
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Sunstein Should Ask These 3 Star Wars Questions — Science of Us
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Cass Sunstein, the legal scholar and former White House regulatory czar, is writing a book about Star Wars.
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West Side Piers When They Were Naked and Gay — NYMag
One of the many pleasures of the current MoMA PS1 “Greater New York” show is its sense of uncovering artifacts, of showing various sedimentary layers of this city.
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When taking pictures, Durian says eggplant instead of cheese. Director & Animator: Yangzi She Music and Sound: Jennifer Dirkes Voice: Eric Saleh, Reid Miller, Rebecca Davis Supported by Matt Groening Fellowship UCLA Animation Workshop thesis film
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What We’re Following Wednesday Afternoon, 11/18 – The Atlantic
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Paris attacks: Eagles of Death Metal break silence – BBC News
Eagles of Death Metal, the band whose concert was stormed during last week’s Paris attacks, have made their first statement since returning to the US. The US rockers said they were “bonded in grief with the victims, the fans… and all those affecte…
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Paris attacks: At the heart of the Saint-Denis raid – BBC News
A woman has blown herself up and a suspect was shot dead during a police raid on a flat in a Paris suburb, while seven arrests were made.Police targeted the flat in Saint-Denis in a search for the alleged mastermind of Friday’s gun and bomb attacks …
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Wild Toads Saved from Killer Fungal Disease – Scientific American
After a six-year effort, biologists say they have for the first time managed to rid a wild toad species of a lethal fungal disease that threatens amphibians around the world.
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Bangladesh death sentences lead to Facebook ban – BBC News
Facebook and other social networks in Bangladesh have been blocked after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of war crimes during the independence struggle against Pakistan in 1971. An official said the sites were block…
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After raising record $3.4M on Kickstarter, UK drone startup collapses | Ars Technica
The British drone startup that set a record for the most-funded European Kickstarter project earlier this year has now folded, according to a statement sent to backers on Wednesday.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is being pushed back to August 2016 | The Verge
You’ll have to wait a few extra months to return to the world of Deus Ex. Developer Eidos Montreal is pushing back the release date of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to August 23rd, 2016, a change announced in a blog post on the game’s official site this …
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Canada ends 19-year ban on British beef imports | Life and style | The Guardian
Canada has formally reopened its market for imports of British beef for the first time since 1996 as part of a deal covering 19 EU member states.
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Scott Eastwood: From T-Swift Hunk to Rising Star | Rolling Stone
When Scott Eastwood was 18, he wanted to buy a used truck. So he asked his dad for $10,000. It wasn’t an insane request – after all, the dad in question was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history. But Clint Eastwood wasn’t in a giving mood an…
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Before the marketing materials started rolling out last week, The Huntsman seemed like a fairly odd sequel, a Snow White story without Kristen Stewart’s Snow White.
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Larry Wilmore Rips GOP’s Refugee Rhetoric: ‘We’re Supposed to Be Better Than This’ – The Daily Beast
It’s one of the ugliest things to come out of last week’s attack on Paris: Governors and GOP presidential candidates refusing Syrian refugees entry into their states, out of fear that terrorists might be hiding among their ranks.
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World War II Day Care Centers – The Atlantic
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ISIS Is Winning the War of Ideas: A Response to J.M. Berger – The Atlantic
In a recent Atlantic article, J.M. Berger challenges the notion, as he frames it, that “the U.S. is losing a war of ideas or narratives to ISIS.” He writes:
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Young, unemployed, underemployed, and disabled workers no longer have to be limited to earning minimum wage, according to the White House.
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Is David Beckham Truly the Sexiest Man Alive? | Vanity Fair
People magazine, the magazine of the people, has done what it must do every year: it has weighed and measured our men, poked and prodded and lifted things, done phrenological readings of crania, inspected beards and Adam’s apples, and it has determi…
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Eagles of Death Metal on Paris Attacks: ‘Love Overshadows Evil’ | Rolling Stone
Eagles of Death Metal have issued a new statement about their well-being and the tragic events of last week’s terrorist attack at Bataclan that claimed the lives of 89 people.
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Krysten Ritter: The Woman Behind TV’s Badass ‘Jessica Jones’ | Rolling Stone
When Krysten Ritter looks in the mirror, she might see a former model, a sass-talking romcom sidekick, the star of an edgy indie flick or the kind of irreverrent funny person who’d star in a sitcom featuring the phrase “Don’t Trust the B—” in the ti…
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Agent Carter’s season 2 teaser goes heavy on the lightness · Coming Distractions · The A.V. Club
Much to the relief of everyone who likes badass spies and excellent television, Marvel’s Agent Carter survived an uncertain fate and is back for another season of action and intrigue.
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The Koch intelligence agency: As the billionaires’ network works to reshape U.S. politics by spending hundreds of millions in campaign spending, it has also built a private spy agency to snoop on and subvert liberal and progressive opponents (politi…
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Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say (nytimes.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…
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Differences between Clinton and Sanders Emerge: “Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs says their ‘Medicare for all’ plan would save taxpayers money in the long run because it would eliminate wasteful health spending.” (usnews.com)submitted 3 ho…
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Yahoo Target in NY Daily Fantasy Sports Probe | Al Jazeera America
The move coincides with a court filing by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday seeking a temporary injunction that would shut down DraftKings and FanDuel, leaders among online companies offering paid-for daily fantasy sports contests.
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How To Pick A Master Lock With A Zip Tie – Digg
38 diggs How-To Crime Curious You’ve probably seen people try to shoot these open with shotgun shells. Turns out they only needed a little piece of plastic to get the job done.
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Porzingis Making Phil Jackson Look Like a Genius — NYMag
When the Knicks drafted Kristaps Porzingis in June, many believed that the best-case scenario was that the seven-foot-two Latvian was a project who could eventually become a key contributor in a couple of years.
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Cloud Patterns Over the Prince Edward Islands | NASA
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A story of one building in Paris that stands from 13th century Crusades / Boing Boing
See more photos at Wink Fun. 750 Years in Paris is a historical graphic novel sans words as well as a stunning coffee table art book. Paris-based artist Vincent Mahé (aka Mr.
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Behold the First Feminist Film, Germaine Dulac’s The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922) | Open Culture
Yesterday we featured The Seashell and the Clergyman, the first surrealist film, directed by Germaine Dulac in 1928. Given Dulac’s gender, for those playing the cinema history home game, it also counts as the first surrealist film directed by a woma…
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iFixit gives modular Fairphone 2 a rare 10 out of 10 for repairability | Ars Technica
iFixit’s teardowns are handy disassembly guides and they’re great for confirming just what hardware is included inside our gadgets, but most recent consumer electronics don’t fare well when it comes time to assign a repairability score.
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Paris attacks: ‘On your knees… Show me your back’ – BBC News
Dramatic amateur footage has emerged showing a man being arrested in Saint-Denis on Wednesday. Officers arrested seven people during a raid on a flat in the Paris suburb. One woman died when she detonated explosives and another man was shot dead by …
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Nepal blockade: Doctors warn of medicine crisis – BBC News
Doctors in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, say hospitals are running out of medicines because of a blockade by protesters on the border with India. The blockade has also prevented the delivery of earthquake relief supplies.
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The Harmony Cartridge / Boing Boing
Every Atari 2600 game in the palm of your hand! When I first saw the Atari 2600 in 1979, I was completely floored. I wondered how those geniuses could fit so much fun into those tiny bricks of plastic. For each game, they only had 4k to work with an…
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Amazon Starts Black Friday Early | TechCrunch
Following news regarding the launch of its own Black Friday store with exclusive deals for Prime members, Amazon announced this morning that it will actually begin selling its holiday deals this Friday, November 20. Typically, Black Friday is the da…
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Houston Rockets fire Kevin McHale six months after conference finals run | Sport | The Guardian
The Houston Rockets have fired head coach Kevin McHale only six months after he led them to the Western Conference finals. The move was first reported by Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, citing league sources.
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It’s difficult to decide which characteristic best describes the government’s approach to climate and energy policy since 8 May; hypocrisy or incompetence.
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Extinct cave lion cubs discovered in Serbia after 12,000 years on ice | The Verge
Scientists have recovered the remains of two extinct lion cubs from the permafrost of Siberia. The pair of infants, nicknamed Uyan and Dina, were estimated to be just a week or two old when they died at least 12,000 years ago, and are fantastically …
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NASA: “MIT to Create Algorithms for Humanoid Robot for Space Missions to Mars & Beyond”
NASA announced today that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will receive a 6-foot, 290-pound humanoid robot to test and develop for future space missions.
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Fundrise Raising $50 Million for Real Estate Crowdfunding | TechCrunch
Fundrise, the real estate crowdfunding site, is offering up to $50 million in shares to the public, for the launch of its online real estate investment trust. The idea is that it will generate cash flow and will be paid out to investors in regular d…
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Hear David Tennant and Catherine Tate Return to the TARDIS in Their New Doctor Who Adventures!
Last month, Doctor Who audio play producer Big Finish revealed that the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble would finally return for a whole new series of audio adventures. Although we have to wait to hear them all until May of next year, there’s now a qui…
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Kurt Sutter announces cancellation of The Bastard Executioner with an ad · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Like a kid taking his basketball home because you weren’t going to let him play anyway, Kurt Sutter has cancelled his medieval mess of a show, The Bastard Executioner, due to low viewership.
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The Koch intelligence agency: As the billionaires’ network works to reshape U.S. politics by spending hundreds of millions in campaign spending, it has also built a private spy agency to snoop on and subvert liberal and progressive opponents (politi…
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University students hold anti-racism protests across US – live updates | US news | The Guardian
Good morning, and welcome to our live blog on the #StudentBlackOut protests planned for universities across the US today. Anti-racism demonstrations have roiled schools from Yale University in Connecticut to the University of Missouri to Kean Univer…
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YouTube Kids, the family-friendly video app, is now available outside the US | The Verge
YouTube Kids, the offshoot of YouTube’s main app that focuses on family-friendly videos, is expanding beyond the United States. Originally launched back in February for Android and iOS, the app has been downloaded over 10 million times, according to…
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US and Cuba to sign agreement on marine conservation and research | Environment | The Guardian
The United States and Cuba are set to reach their first accord on environmental protection since announcing plans to re-establish diplomatic relations, linking up marine sanctuaries in both countries to cooperate on preservation and research.
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Martin Sheen salutes ‘courage’ of son Charlie after HIV announcement – BBC News
Martin Sheen has praised his actor son Charlie following the Platoon star’s confirmation he is living with HIV. Charlie Sheen ended days of intense media speculation by confirming he is HIV positive in a NBC TV interview.
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All of Google’s Confusing, Intertwined Music Services, Explained
Last week, Google launched YouTube Music to a few cheers, a few groans, and a lot of “don’t they already have a music service?” In fact, they have several: Google Play Music and YouTube Red, for starters. But don’t be fooled—they seem separate, but …
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Microsoft overhauls its Bing for iPhone app to take on Google | The Verge
Microsoft is completely overhauling its Bing for iPhone app today. While most search queries occur within the browser or Spotlight feature of iOS, Microsoft is betting on people downloading a powerful separate app to search the web without Google.
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Cate Blanchett Says She’s Open to Appearing on American Horror Story | Vanity Fair
Ever since Jessica Lange departed American Horror Story at the end of last season, the show has been missing a little bit of its icy-blonde-screen-goddess gravitas. Could Cate Blanchett step in to fill Lange’s incredibly stylish shoes? Let’s be very…
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Where My Ideas Come From – The New Yorker
I’ve been asked this question many times throughout my career as an author, and I always give the same reply. My ideas can come from anywhere. Take my most recent novel, “Harry Potter and the Wizard’s Stone.”
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On The Flash, Barry’s Worst Enemy Is Himself, But Also a Giant Telepathic Gorilla
“YO. GRODD.” yelled Joe West breathlessly, after he ran into STAR Lans to let Barry Allen and out other heroes know that the giant evil telepathic gorilla that menaced them last season had returned. It was all he needed to say. Really, it’s all I ne…
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Depression-Fighting SAD Lamps Aren’t Just For Your Winter Blues | Motherboard
There’s a familiar ritual for people suffering from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a very real condition that leaves people feeling depressed in the slushy depths of winter: you wake up, the world still dark and frigid, and you flip on a littl…
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NORTH CONWAY, NH—Warning that the nation’s supply of restored antique locomotives and passenger cars will not be able to meet the demands of an aging population, experts confirmed this week that the growing number of retirees will completely overwhe…
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Anote Tong: My country will be underwater soon — unless we work together | TED Talk | TED.com
For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn’t something to be debated, denied or legislated against — it’s an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific island nation may soon be underwater, thanks to rising sea levels. In a personal conversation w…
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This is one of the ways Republicans redistribute tax dollars upward. It’s because the $1m wasn’t enough. Walker needs to double down. /s
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Nearing the midpoint of his term, Mayor Bill de Blasio is confronting a city that is deeply divided about his ability to lead, with his efforts to create a more liberal New York overshadowed by growing worries about homelessness and crime, a new pol…
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De Blasio to Announce $3 Billion Homeless Plan — NYMag
Mayor Bill de Blasio has gotten a lot of push-back over his handling of a spiraling homeless population so far during his tenure, but now his administration is preparing to introduce his most comprehensive homeless-services plan to date: Nearly $3 b…
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Imagine one of the country’s great art collections was opened up to you – you could move things around, dust off the half-forgotten stuff in the basement, shine light on the works you love.
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Harry Potter producer joins with NBC Universal to make TV production firm | Media | The Guardian
David Heyman, the producer behind hit movies such as Harry Potter, Paddington and Gravity, is to create a television production company with NBC Universal in a move which underlines the trend for big name film-makers to move onto the small screen.
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The Clean-Energy Revolution Gathers Speed – Scientific American
U.S. buildings have grown colder in recent years. The switch from the heat-generating incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, reduces the energy used to produce light by as much as 85 percent.
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Will The Presidential Election Be Decided By Ad Blockers? | TechCrunch
When Mitt Romney announced his presidential bid in June of 2011, Uber had been operating in NYC for less than a month, Steve Jobs was still alive and Siri hadn’t been born.
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Death Star Destroying Earthlike Exo Planet
The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation, new research led by the University of Warwick research has found.
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NASA chief: Government climate scientists won’t be intimidated | Ars Technica
As NOAA has endured a series of Congressional attacks this fall for its climate change research, the agency’s administrator, Kathryn Sullivan, has largely remained silent. But the former astronaut’s wing mate for two spaceflights, Charles Bolden, ha…
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Andy Murray can move within sight of a semi-final place with victory over Rafael Nadal at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday. The pair will meet in their second group match at 14:00 GMT, with the contest live on BBC TV and radio.
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Eden Project bids to power biomes and homes with geothermal power | Environment | The Guardian
A tropical fish farm, medical facility and computer servers could be powered by “hot rocks” underneath the Eden project if plans to create one of the UK’s only geothermal plants get underway.
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Bangladesh arrests three men over murder of blogger – Al Jazeera English
Three people have been arrested in connection with the killing of Dhaka-based blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, police in Bangladesh said.
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Australian police on the hunt for men ‘drunk driving’ on motorized picnic tables|Dangerous Minds
Yep, you read this headline correctly. It is exactly what it says. West Australian police are on the hunt for a group of bros drunk driving motorized picnic tables in the busy streets of Perth. According to reports, the police are not amused. The sc…
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WASHINGTON—Describing the precaution as a financially prudent decision for all households, a panel of the nation’s top economists recommended Wednesday that Americans set aside money from each paycheck so they will be ready in the event Dire Straits…
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Star Wars Trilogies, Team America, and More
If you need to refresh your Star Wars knowledge before you see The Force Awakens, both trilogies are on sale for $35 today on Blu-ray. Just let it in. Commerce Content is independent of Editorial and Advertising, and if you buy something through our…
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ Soundtrack and Score Set for Release | Rolling Stone
This summer’s blockbuster N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton, will be getting two new soundtrack releases in early 2016. One of these, titled Straight Outta Compton: The Soundtrack (not to be confused with Dr. Dre’s Compton) boasts remastered vers…
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Brave Phoenix woman goes out for coffee, despite ISIS threats. You can’t make this stuff up. (kpho.com)
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Donald Trump’s Favorite Snack Is Excitement — NYMag
Time to head over to our master list of Republican presidential diet tips and add another dose of too-good-to-be-true advice (wildly optimistic tax plans are to presidential campaigns as wildly optimistic diet tips are to celebrity magazines).
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The Koch intelligence agency – The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its e…
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CEOs are lucky, tall men / Boing Boing
The HBS paper measures the abilities of CEOs against the rest of the population and against the managers who report to them and finds that CEOs are not exceptionally intelligent or skilled (though they are taller than average), and that “luck is the…
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The Flourishing Black Market in Syrian Passports – The Atlantic
Who was Ahmad al-Mohammad? Was he one of the suicide bombers in Friday’s attacks on Paris who was found with his passport near his body? Or was he a man with the same name—and same passport details—who was arrested Saturday at a Serbian refugee cent…
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Two huge blasts at Kano market in Nigeria – BBC News
Two huge blasts have exploded at a mobile phone market in northern Nigeria’s main city, Kano, reports say.
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While most white teens are confident they’ll reach age 35, a staggering percentage of their minority peers don’t share their optimism, according to a new study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
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Massive data analysis of NYC taxi and Uber data
Todd Schneider used a couple publicly available data sets (NYC taxis, Uber) to explore various aspects of how New Yorkers move about the city. Some of the findings include the rise of Uber: Let’s add Uber into the mix.
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Washington’s governor is opening up about why his state will continue to accept Syrian refugees who are fleeing civil war and terrorism — even as other states shut their doors in the wake of deadly attacks in Paris over the weekend.
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How to Grow a Jellyfish – Guest Blog – Scientific American Blog Network
At nine in the morning, an hour before the Monterey Bay Aquariium opens to the public, the curator of husbandry operations walks across a tiled tundra of empty exhibit halls.
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ISIL claims Norwegian and Chinese captives killed – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group says it has killed one Norwegian and one Chinese captive. ISIL had two months ago demanded a ransom for the release of the men.
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This startup makes it easy for anyone to launch their own streaming TV service | The Verge
Will the future see a million tiny Netflixes bloom? The traditional world of network and cable television is in decline, with ratings slumping and subscribers shrinking. It’s a big iceberg, and it’s melting slowly, but the trajectory is clear.
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Paris attacks: Merkel backs decision to cancel football match – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the decision to call off Germany’s football match with the Netherlands on Tuesday evening. She said finding the balance between “liberty and security” was difficult, but “it was decided, correctly, to err…
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MIT Staff Opened a Time Capsule 942 Years Too Early | Motherboard
A time capsule’s intrigue matures with age. Take the case of a space capsule intended for Earth 50,000 years from now, or America’s oldest time capsule, which dated back to 1795.
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The reason Bernie Sanders is calling Hillary Clinton out on paid family leave – CNNPolitics.com
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This was my bed last night. : cats
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UK will shut down all coal power plants by 2025 | Ars Technica
The UK government has announced that every coal-fired power station will be shut down by 2025, roughly 10 years hence. The move is ostensibly about reducing carbon emissions.
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How the Last Ocean on Earth Will Die – The Atlantic
Mars wasn’t always so dry and dusty. The Red Planet’s ancient ocean was sprayed right off the planet in violent bursts of solar wind, billions of years ago. The rest of its atmosphere was blasted away, too.
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ESO Discovers a Horde of Monster, Hidden Galaxies from Infant Universe
Just counting the number of galaxies in a patch of sky provides a way to test astronomers’ theories of galaxy formation and evolution. However, such a simple task becomes increasingly hard as astronomers attempt to count the more distant and fainter…
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Facebook Activates Safety Check In Nigeria Bombings | TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday night that Facebook had activated its Safety Check feature in Nigeria after a market bombing killed dozens.
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Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Code editor now open source | Ars Technica
NEW YORK—Developers can now debug apps running on Linux servers or IoT devices from the comfort of Visual Studio. Microsoft today released a preview of a Visual Studio extension that adds remote debugging using GDB of Linux software.
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Microsoft today announced a large number of updates to its developer and DevOps tools and services at its Connect conference in New York.
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Barclays fined an extra $150m for forex misconduct – BBC News
Barclays will pay an extra $150m (£99m) fine for misconduct in foreign exchange trading, US regulators have said. The bank will also “terminate” its global head of electronic fixed income, currencies and commodities as part of the settlement.
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What to Expect From Traffic Over the Thanksgiving Weekend
Thanksgiving is coming quickly, and chances are, you’ll spend at least some amount of time on the road over the long weekend. Google has released its annual traffic report to make sure you’re prepared.
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Ghostbusters logo creator, Michael Gross, dies at 70 – BBC News
The creator of two of the most iconic pop culture images of the 20th century, Michael Gross, has died aged 70. The artist and illustrator designed the enduring Ghostbusters logo and a dog with a gun to its head for the cover of National Lampoon maga…
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Urban Outfitters Buys Italian Restaurant Group – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Retailer Urban Outfitters has purchased the Vetri restaurant group, a collection of eateries that includes award-winning pizzerias and upscale Italian food, possibly signaling the incorporation of sit-down dining into the Urban Outfitters shopping e…
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Duke’s Krzyzewski and Kentucky’s Calipari now two sides of the same coin | Sport | The Guardian
Mike Krzyzewski stuck his hands in the mud and when he pulled them out, it was a miracle: the mud was clean. Duke played Kentucky on Tuesday night in the State Farm Champions Classic, the annual matchup of the same four college basketball bluebloods…
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Ridley Scott Reveals the First Scene From Blade Runner 2
Speaking at the AFI festival, Ridley Scott gave a very detailed description of what the opening of Blade Runner 2 will look like. It involves stew, a creepy tree, and Harrison Ford.
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Donald Trump Was a Surprise Attendee at Adele’s Concert Last Night | Vanity Fair
In just 48 hours, it will be, from that point on, impossible to conduct any sort of conversation or social interaction without discussing Adele. Yes, her 25 is going to be released on Friday, and the fabric of all cultural discourse will at that poi…
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COUNCIL, Idaho — The Yantis family was at dinner when the telephone rang. A bull owned by Jack Yantis, 62, had been struck by a vehicle on Route 95, which cuts through Yantis land. He needed to come down.
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Though it only existed for five years, from 1978 to 1983, NYC’s Mudd Club served as one of New York—and American—underground culture’s most crucial incubators.
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Kansas Holds Hearing on Pressing Business: Stopping Gay Foster Parents : Liberal
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That was a strange cut of the debate by CNN. She can’t be serious. No matter what the taxes would pay for? That’s absurd.
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Why Does Vision Blur In Space? | Video
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Drift box reduces blue light emitted by your TV, might help you sleep better | Ars Technica
A new HDMI box called “Drift TV,” priced at around £80/$100, promises to improve your quality of sleep (and reduce the time it takes you to fall asleep) by removing or reducing the amount of blue light emitted by your TV screen.
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The UK is harking back to the energy system of the last century | Environment | The Guardian
The UK’s new energy policy, sketched out on Wednesday by Amber Rudd, will keep the lights on. That’s the good news. But it makes meeting the UK’s carbon emissions targets harder and will cost energy bill payers more. This is the result of the many c…
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Jürgen Klinsmann has had a difficult year, and the expectation levels around his team are simultaneously so low that fans despair of ever seeing the attack-minded soccer they were promised when he arrived in the job, and so high that they expect sta…
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America’s CEOs and hedge-funds are starving the nation’s corporations to death / Boing Boing
Stock buybacks (previously) allow CEOs to drive up the company’s share-price by using profits to buy shares back from investors, rather than investing the money in wages, R&D, capital or expansion.
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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Middle-Aged-Couple-In-Armchairs-Man!! / Boing Boing
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, Phil Collins, Guy Who Walks into a Bar, and SIGNIFICANTLY MORE! Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.
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Oppo starts offering near-stock Android to appeal outside of China | The Verge
Oppo has been putting a customized version of Android on its phones for years, but now it’s letting you strip most of those customizations away.
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Early on in “Huangsgiving,” it’s revealed that the Huangs are having several characters from Fresh Off The Boat’s lesser (though still pretty good) first season over for dinner.
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Infant Universe Made Monster Galaxies – Now We Know When | Video
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Howdy! Senior writer Jason Heller here. Just wanted to let you know that Science Friction, The A.V. Club’s monthly science fiction film series, continues tonight at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Denver with Naked Lunch. Written and directed by David Crone…
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LL Cool J’s Radio and the genesis of Def Jam · Permanent Records · The A.V. Club
Permanent Records is a close look at the records that matter most. LL Cool J’s inaugural album Radio didn’t just launch the career of a rapper who became one of the most visible media personalities on the planet—it changed the sound and course of ra…
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The official trailer for Zoolander 2 (or 2oolander, as it’s known amongst those of us who aren’t really, really, ridiculously good-looking) has arrived, with way more plot and action than the teaser, but minus the bumbling of that video’s release.
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The University of North Carolina’s New President Should Scare Anyone Who Cares About Higher Ed: “Spellings is a Karl Rove protégé who calls students ‘customers,’ and now she’s in charge of the state’s prestigious public university system.” (thenati…
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Is Earth Much More Sensitive to CO2 Than Thought? | Climate Denial Crock of the Week
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Every actor who talks in the trailer for Gods of Egypt, a fantasy epic from Lionsgate about, as you might expect, gods and Egypt, is white.
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How the ‘Quiet Eye’ Technique Makes Athletes More Coordinated – The Atlantic
Consider two very different basketball players. The Los Angeles Clippers star DeAndre Jordan, one of the strongest, quickest players in the NBA, nevertheless made only 39 percent of his free throws last year.
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This Week On Bullish: Rentpocalypse | TechCrunch
Hello my dear morning cohorts, and welcome back to Bullish, TechCrunch’s first talk show and running experiment concerning how long you are willing to look at my face.
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Pay what you want for the this expert coding course in Android / Boing Boing
As the saying goes: when life gives you Marshmallow, jumpstart a thriving career! Android’s latest platform has opened up even more demand for Android developers, and now’s your shot to learn the ropes.
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Facebook Launches New Fundraising Tool For Non-Profits | TechCrunch
Facebook has launched a new fundraising tool to help non-profit organizations raise money, and has also improved the Donate button to help them reach new supporters.
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Andreessen Horowitz Gets a New GP, and a New Fund | TechCrunch
Andreessen Horowitz is making a big move into biotech, and it’s using a $200 million new fund called the AH Bio Fund – and new general partner, Vijay Pande — to plant its stake in the ground.
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Facebook’s new fundraiser tool makes it easier for nonprofits to raise money | The Verge
Facebook is keen to associate its platform with good causes and is launching a new, experimental fundraiser tool for charities today.
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McCain Wants Legislation Mandating Government Access To Encryption | TechCrunch
Senator John McCain on Tuesday told reporters that he would hold a series of hearings and eventually pursue legislation that would require companies provide the government with access to encryption.
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Make Sticky Jars Easier to Open with a Dab of Vaseline
Not being able to open a jar can be frustrating, but struggling with one that you’ve struggled with before is even worse. Prevent this by dabbing a little petroleum jelly on a jar after you’ve opened it the first time.
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Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
This is a great book I would recommend to people that are 9 and up depending on how good a reader you are. The book is from a series called Ruby Redfort that has 5 books in it and the by the time it gets to the third and fourth books it’s getting mo…
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Turkish army says killed ISIL member at Syria border – Al Jazeera English
A suspected fighter from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has been killed while trying to illegally cross into Turkey from Syria, Turkey’s military has said. A brief statement on Wednesday said the incident happened on Tuesday, …
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U.S. Strikes Deal to Block Coal Plants Worldwide – Scientific American
The United States cut a deal yesterday with wealthy countries to curb public financing for coal plants, an agreement the White House called a “major step forward” ahead of U.N. climate change negotiations in Paris this month.
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Mysterious Glow at Milky Way’s Center Could Be Dark Matter or Hidden Pulsars – Scientific American
The heart of our galaxy is oddly bright. Since 2009 astronomers have suggested that too much gamma-ray light is shining from the Milky Way’s core—more than all the known sources of light can account for.
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Obama says US governors’ refusal of refugees ‘hysterical’ – BBC News
President Barack Obama has condemned the actions of two dozen governors refusing to resettle Syrian refugees as hysterical and offensive. He said some Republican rhetoric on the issue was a “potent recruitment tool” for Islamic State militants.
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House Passes Commercial Space Bill
The House’s passage of H.R. 2262, which includes language granting rights to resources extracted from asteroids and other celestial bodies, clears the way for the bill to be signed into law by President Obama.Credit: Bryan Versteeg/DSI View full siz…
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Stiller. Wilson. Cruz. Ferrell. Cumberbatch. Wiig. Bieber? If this is even half the goofy fun of the first one, I will be happy.
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Bataclan Opening Band: ‘We Are Happy, But Miserable at the Same Time’ | Rolling Stone
White Miles, the Austrian alt-rock duo that was opening for Eagles of Death Metal on their recent tour and at Paris’ Bataclan last week, have issued a statement about their well-being following the terror attack on their concert. “We returned home l…
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Comma Queen: Spelling Insurance – The New Yorker
“Insure” and “ensure” are almost synonyms, although “ensure,” meaning “guarantee,” is more literary, or at least seems more British. Some people (and publications) limit the use of “insure” to the job that Philip Roth’s father did.
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Watch Justin Bieber Get Killed in New ‘Zoolander 2’ Trailer | Rolling Stone
Watch Justin Bieber Get Killed in New ‘Zoolander 2’ Trailer “Peace out, world,” singer says before snapping one last selfie in upcoming Ben Stiller film
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France Rejects Fear, Renews Commitment To Take In 30,000 Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
French President Francois Hollande promised to honor his commitment to take in tens of thousands of refugees on Wednesday. He said France would do so despite concerns raised by ultra-right nationalist leaders that refugees might pose a security thre…
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Cool Uncle: Inside 2015’s Smartest Retro-Soul Revival | Rolling Stone
Cross-generational collaborations between venerated older artists and youngsters with a modern audience are increasingly common: see Bettye LaVette and the Drive-By Truckers, Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy, Mary J. Blige and Disclosure, or the Doobie…
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Adele’s 25: First listen – BBC News
“Every album I’m ever going to write is always going to be following 21,” Adele told the BBC last month, as she announced her long-awaited comeback. “My fifth album from now will follow 21. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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Lee Brice, Tyler Farr Team for Life Off My Years Tour | Rolling Stone
Though he very recently became the first country artist to perform in all 50 states in 2015, Lee Brice clearly hasn’t had enough of the road. On February 4th the “I Don’t Dance” singer will put some more miles on his bus with the Life Off My Years T…
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Warning: Is Earth Much More Sensitive to CO2 Than Thought? : democrats
Warning: Is Earth Much More Sensitive to CO2 Than Thought? (climatecrocks.com)
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Dave Gahan & Soulsavers “All of This and Nothing” Holographic Music Video on Vimeo
“All of This and Nothing” off Dave Gahan & Soulsavers’ new album Angels & Ghosts. Watch the hologram version of the video here: http://smarturl.it/AOTANhologram Learn how to view the hologram video here: http://smarturl.it/AOTAN_howto Director: four…
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What airplanes are going to be like for the next few months – Imgur
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With all the posts about Leia being hot and no one talking about Padme – Imgur
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John McCain On Refugees: ‘All Children Are God’s Children’ : politics
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John McCain On Refugees: ‘All Children Are God’s Children’
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Liberalism’s unwitting suicide : Liberal
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Articles: Why Muslim Migrants Always = Terrorism
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Monarch butterfly count expected to rebound in Mexico| Reuters
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A Psychologist Explains How to Get Better at Expressing Your Feelings – The Atlantic
The term “emotional intelligence” has now reigned for 20 years. Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book of the same name popularized the idea that the capacity to understand and wield emotional information is a crucial skill.
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The ’80s were a time of high fashion, synthetic pop beats, and the transcendence of the consumer culture. The fashions may have faded (or not, depending on what particular retro kitsch is back this week), but that need for consumption has stayed wit…
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The mass murder of civilians in Paris has inevitably reignited the debate over using military force in the Middle East to attack the Islamic State. The debate, like anything that gets tangled up in American presidential politics, is divorced from re…
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Raid Targeting Alleged Mastermind of Paris Attacks Leaves Two Dead | Vanity Fair
The Washington Post reports that the raid on the flat in Paris’s St.
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Creed: The Oscar Contender We Should Have Seen Coming | Vanity Fair
You’ve heard the story a thousand times. A contender nobody saw coming—a newcomer, an underdog, an oddball nobody knew what to do with—enters the ring in the 11th hour, and blows them all away. It’s the story of Rocky Balboa that won a best picture …
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Three people killed by falling trees in severe Washington storm | US news | The Guardian
At least three people have died and hundreds of thousands were without power on Tuesday as a severe storm packing high winds unleashed across the North-west. Police said a woman in her 50s was killed when a tree toppled taking down power lines as it…
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Transgender activists to protest against Germaine Greer lecture | Books | The Guardian
Dozens of demonstrators are expected to protest at a university lecture given by Germaine Greer following a fierce campaign to prevent her from speaking by critics who claim she harbours offensive views towards transgender women.
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4-Foot Alligator Found Dead in New Jersey Park — NYMag
That an early-bird jogger in South Newark might find a dead body in a park is not, in itself, terribly surprising. On Tuesday, the twist was that the lifeless creature was an alligator. The jogger spotted the four-foot-long reptile in Weequahic Park…
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Experts Expect Surveillance Power Grab After Paris Attacks: Privacy advocate warns of “a cynical and frankly disgusting use of this tragedy for political purposes” (rollingstone.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]pilgrimboy [score hidden] 1 ho…
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Monarch butterfly count expected to rebound in Mexico : environment
Monarch butterfly count expected to rebound in Mexico (reuters.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Bernie Sanders to deliver much-awaited speech on democratic socialism Thursday : politics
This’ll be interesting. It isn’t often a candidate has a whole speech dedicated to explaining why they believe what they believe. American politics could do with more philosophical debate — it’s at the core of political analysis, but we mostly just…
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Enjoy Your Food Even More By Slowing Down
You’ve probably read that eating slowly can keep you from overeating, but it turns out it also makes for a more pleasurable sensory experience. This is because your tongue is a little clunky.
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The New Star Wars Crossover Comic Rejuvenates Darth Vader’s Terrifying Reputation
Darth Vader should an immensely intimidating figure. Emphasis on the should, because over the years, his appearances in increasingly silly scenarios as part of Star Wars’ place in pop culture have blunted his reputation.
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Punk rock icons get the comic book treatment in ‘Visions of Rock,’ 1981|Dangerous Minds
Like many of you, I was once an avid collector of comic books.
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But IRS filings released on Tuesday by Freedom Partners, the Kochs’ secretive tax-exempt organization that serves as the ATM for their anti-government activism, show they also continued to help distribute millions of dollars to anti-choice and anti-…
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The official Apple Watch magnetic charging dock is now on sale | The Verge
If you’ve been waiting for an official Apple Watch charging dock, the wait is over. Apple has put its Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Dock on sale on Apple.com, just a day after photos of its packaging leaked out.
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In the Flesh: June Yong Lee’s ‘Torso’ photographs (NSFW)|Dangerous Minds
Firstly, no one was injured in the making of these photographs—they’re not a Buffalo Bill “It rubs the lotion on the body” flesh suit kinda thing—nope—though admittedly these images might not look too out of place in Ed Gein‘s front parlor. But stil…
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Ancient Board Game Found in Looted China Tomb – Scientific American
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 Qingzhou City in China.
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Minnesota Investigates Jamar Clark Death | Al Jazeera America
State investigators looking into the death of an unarmed black Minneapolis man shot by police during a scuffle are trying to determine whether he was restrained at the time, as some witnesses allege.
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Liberalism’s unwitting suicide (americanthinker.com)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading…
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October 2015 becomes first month to cross key global warming boundary. The first time that a single month exceeded the 1-degree Celsius temperature anomaly, surpassing the 0.97 degree Celsius temperature anomaly in January 2007. (mashable.com)
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I think a good compromise is to at least get the orphaned children. They need the most help and cannot pose a threat. Maybe some couples would want to adopt them.
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Hasbro Now Has a Toy Line For Seniors Starting With a Lifelike Robotic Cat
After already conquering demographics including kids, teenagers, and those technically considred adults, Hasbro is reaching out to that last frontier of consumers: seniors, with a new toy line featuring lifelike robotic companion pets that only need…
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EU official: all identified Paris attackers were from the EU / Boing Boing
Despite the rumors that tricked more than half the state governors in the USA into enacting racist anti-Syrian policies, there is no evidence that the Paris attackers came from outside the EU.
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U.K. Gov’t To Invest $250M In Cyber Security Startups To Help Spooks | TechCrunch
Despite on-going belt-tightening of the U.K.’s public finances, there’s going to be more taxpayer cash and support up for grabs for cyber security startups starting from early 2016.
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Sometimes, the crushing weight of existence, day in and day out, fueled only by the dizzying monotony of each passing hour, becomes almost unmanageable.
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Senate Passes Resolutions To Kill Obama’s Power Plant Rule | ThinkProgress
The Senate approved two resolutions Tuesday to stop the EPA from implementing the Clean Power Plan, a rule that limits the amount of carbon allowed from the electricity sector.
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Offset Holiday Gluttony With a Fitbit One, Down To An All-Time Low Price Today
Fitness trackers can help you ward off holiday weight gain, but if you don’t want to commit to wearing a bracelet every day, the clip-on Fitbit One is is a great alternative.
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Facebook activates safety check in Nigeria after Yola blast – BBC News
Facebook has activated its “safety check” feature after a suicide attack killed 32 people in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Yola. The social networking site had been criticised for activating the feature for the attack in Paris on Friday but not…
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Salido Raises $2M To Build An Operating System For Restaurants | TechCrunch
Restaurant software-maker Salido has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by High Line Venture Partners and its managing partner Shana Fisher.
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Live Video Streaming Service Firetalk Partners With TMZ, Announces Guest Feature | TechCrunch
Firetalk, a live streaming video platform, on Wednesday announced it would partner with entertainment news site TMZ as well as online performers. The service also announced the launch of a new feature, Guest, which audience members to join a broadca…
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The Web is pretty great with Javascript turned off / Boing Boing
Wired’s Klint Finley tried turning off Javascript and discovered a better Web, one without interruptors asking you to sign up for mailing list, without infinitely scrolling pages, without ads and without malvertising.
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Molly Crabapple’s Naked Ambition | New Republic
During my first year at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, I made the acquaintance of a cam-girl. Rebecca worked out of a cubicle, mechanically fucking a motorized dildo that the guy on the other side of the monitor thought he controlled. S…
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Wearable clothing may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s a real thing and it’s an expanding category with promise in the fitness industry.
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FCC chairman says the feds need more wiretapping powers after Paris attacks | The Verge
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told Congress yesterday that, following the attacks on Paris, wiretapping laws should be expanded, The Washington Post reports.
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When You Should (Or Shouldn’t) Cycle Caffeine
I love my coffee as much as the next cup (and the one after), but tolerance to its effects can be a real bummer. One suggestion to feel like you can outrun a cheetah again is to try a brief period of no caffeine to reset the body’s sensitivity to th…
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French President, unlike the Republican Party, refuses to appease ISIS and will take 30,000 refugees
France isn’t afraid, why is the Republican Party? Since Friday’s horrific attacks in Paris, the Republican Party has delighted ISIS by tripping over themselves to declare that the United States shouldn’t take in Syrian refugees because … uh … well, …
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Tuff guy Republicans are out of their gourds over Syrian refugees, and it looks like the Paris attackers weren’t even Syrian. And on top of that, we’re in single digits in terms of the number of legislative days left before another government shutdo…
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Much of the world agrees that the Islamic State needs to be crushed. But how that can be accomplished, and what the unintended consequences may be, are a lot more complicated.
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UPDATE 3-UK aims to close coal-fired power plants by 2025| Reuters
UK proposes closing all its coal-fired power plants by 2025 https://t.co/PmfvxOIfpP https://t.co/UHai0D2FGd via /r/environment
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One Small Worry About Facebook Safety Check – The Atlantic
Since last Friday, I’ve been thinking about Facebook Safety Check—what it means as a technology, and what it means for our perception of terrorism in the world. On its face, Safety Check is stunning. In the 24 hours after terror came to Paris, 4.
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The Cool Way to Brew Good Coffee – The Awl
A month or so ago, at the emphatic suggestion of Foursquare, I walked into an unfamiliar coffee shop—one with tall brown bags of freshly roasted beans lined against one wall, each with a precise little sketch of the origin of its contents, a small b…
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UK proposes closing all its coal-fired power plants by 2025 : environment
UK proposes closing all its coal-fired power plants by 2025 (reuters.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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For a certain generation, Instagram has become a calling card, a life résumé of sorts: “This is me. This is my life. Jealous?”
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NFL Owner Stan Kroenke Wants to Take Over L.A. – Bloomberg Business
At the NFL owners’ meetings at the Waldorf Astoria New York in October, reporters are kept in a hallway behind velvet ropes. They wait all day for anything they can get. “You guys are in the pen? What’s going on over here?” NFL Commissioner Roger Go…
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When Big Guns Go Down | Motherboard
The Fourth of July 2010 was blood and pain for Sean McMahon. On Independence Day, five years ago, US Army Specialist McMahon was appointed to test a new M2 .
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Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes | New Republic
Can a life—or even a moment—be represented by data? A single moment can contain an infinite amount of information. And when we think about these moments, it’s not necessarily information that characterizes our experience.
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Mossberg: Can a $150 Windows laptop be any good? | The Verge
Welcome to Mossberg, a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code. For the past few days, I’ve been testing a new $1…
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The Largest Military Agency You’ve Never Heard Of | Motherboard
The United States has so thoroughly industrialized war that we rarely think about the clothes, food, oil, and weapons necessary to fight a modern war. But, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 bases in 80 countries, logistics and supply chains …
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The Military Records That Expose the Pentagon’s Gun Problem | Motherboard
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New Game of Thrones Set Reports Tease A Surprising Family Reunion
Lawrence Kasdan talks the tone of The Force Awakens. Karen Gillan says the next Guardians of the Galaxy will explore Nebula and Gamora’s relationship. Some iconic facial hair might be making its way to Arrow. Plus, our first look at Galavant season …
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The Pentagon’s Exploding Guns, By the Numbers | Motherboard
The US military sent thousands of deficient machine gun parts to soldiers and Marines at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Pentagon knew for years that defective parts, which can cause guns to explode, were being shipped to troops.
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Inside the Secret Showroom of a Luxury-Gifting Genius | Vanity Fair
Debonnaire is the new answer to great gifting. Think Aladdin’s cave meets Santa’s grotto, with a hefty sprinkle of Euro-chic fairy dust.
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How Ghostbusting Became a Victorian Pastime – Scientific American
On December 24, 1862, a new theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s fifth and last Christmas novella—his first being A Christmas Carol—premiered at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London.
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San Francisco 49ers QB Blaine Gabbert gets the chance to prove his worth | Sport | The Guardian
It’s been a season to forget for the San Francisco 49ers – but a sliver of hope has crept in following Blaine Gabbert’s first start of the year, a 17-16 win over the Atlanta Falcons on November 8.
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Why Indiana Republicans’ LGBT Rights Bill Is Actually A ‘Road Map To Discrimination’ | ThinkProgress
After last spring’s disastrous “religious liberty” legislation and months of chatter, Indiana Republicans have cooked up some new legislation to protect LGBT people from discrimination. Unfortunately, a draft of the new bill reveals that it is desig…
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The first full trailer for Zoolander 2 shows the return of Mugatu | The Verge
But where’s Billy Zane? Zoolander 2 is on its way to take the fashion satire world by storm, and we finally — after the teasers and strange Samsung ad buys — have the first trailer.
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Kickstarting pizza wrapping paper / Boing Boing
Two design students are hoping to raise $4900 to fund production on archival/acid-free/recycled post-consumer wrapping paper emblazoned with delicious pizza toppings. They bundle the paper with matching pizza boxes to hold your gifts.
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NRA opposes law to stop terror suspects from buying guns – NY Daily News
The NRA — and their gun-loving Republican cohorts — are refusing once more to stop terrorists intent on getting armed in the U.S.A. A legal loophole allows suspected terrorists on the government’s no-fly list to legally buy guns, but a bill to fix t…
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TruSox: At center of innovation, star players, family drama – Planet Futbol – SI.com
This is a story about socks. But it involves some of the world’s most prominent athletes and brands. There are patents and investors and incalculable millions on the line. And it pulls back the curtain on a family dispute involving one of the most p…
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What’s the Best Way to Teach Kids About Tragedies Such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina? – The Atlantic
We were at Barnes & Noble browsing one Sunday afternoon, when my 8-year-old son ran up waving a chapter book that he wanted to buy. The title of the book: . Upon seeing the cover, I flinched, as did the friend whom I was with.
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Do Organisms Become More Evolvable In Times of Stress? – The Atlantic
Imagine that you wake up in a pit, surrounded by people who are all wounded and bleeding. Something had clearly gone horribly wrong. Maybe you panic. Maybe you tend to the wounded. Maybe you team up to plan an escape. But if you’re a red flour beetl…
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John O’Farrell’s top 10 celebrity appearances in fiction | Books | The Guardian
Much of my training as a writer came while working in topical satire; for five years on Spitting Image, I put imagined dialogue into the mouths of latex celebrities and this seemed like a perfectly acceptable form of creative writing.
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Should Americans fear an attack like what happened in Paris? | US news | The Guardian
Four days after the worst European terrorist attack in a decade and a day after extremist militants vowed to attack Washington, should Americans fear an attack like what happened in Paris?
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Louisiana governor and GOP presidential candidate Bobby Jindal announced on Tuesday night that he’d be exiting the presidential race and returning to Louisiana where his incumbent will be elected on Saturday.
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Apple Now Sells Official $79 Apple Watch Dock | TechCrunch
Ever since Apple introduced Nightstand mode in watchOS 2, having a charging dock for the Apple Watch makes sense. A dock can hold the Watch in place while you sleep so that you don’t have to put it on the side and attach it to a charging cable like …
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Counteract Fear of Missing Out by Identifying What You Gain Staying In
The fear of missing out can lead to a lot of anxiety if you don’t know how to say no. To help, take a minute to consider what you gain by staying in. As personal finance blog Money Ning points out, not every good or exciting thing in life happens ou…
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The findings of an independent report on the Baltimore police department’s flawed handling of the protests following Freddie Gray’s death in April came as little surprise to Michael Wood, a former BPD officer and vocal critic of the department.
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Zano mini-drone project shut down by Torquing – BBC News
The beleaguered Zano mini-drone project, which was Europe’s most successful Kickstarter idea, has been shut down by the company behind it. Torquing Group released a statement to backers of the project, saying it had decided to pursue a “creditors’ v…
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Anonymous Has Little to Show For Its Year-Long Fight Against ISIS | Motherboard
After the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, the hacktivist group Anonymous has “declared war” on ISIS. As is typical for the group, the declaration was delivered in a dramatic YouTube manifesto by an anonymous figure wearing a Guy Fawkes …
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Cuba blames US for migrant crisis at Costa Rica border – BBC News
Cuba has blamed US policy for a surge in migration from the Communist-run island to the United States. The Cuban foreign ministry said US laws dating back to the Cold War encouraged illegal emigration.
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The ISIS Poster Boy for Paris Attack is No ‘Mastermind’ – The Daily Beast
PARIS — The explosions and gunfire that rocked a quiet street in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis before dawn this morning marked a new phase in the search for terrorists serving the so-called Islamic State who carried out the ferocious attacks here …
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What Has the Zoolander 2 Trailer Done to Benedict Cumberbatch? | Vanity Fair
The new trailer for Zoolander 2– or 2oolander, if you want to let the title treatment have its way—is jam-packed with celebrity cameos, but we’re still a little too shellshocked on Benedict Cumberbatch’s appearance to talk about much else.
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What Does the Venice Biennale Say About American Art Today? – The Atlantic
Every other year since 1895, the Venice Biennale has served as an international stage for some of the most interesting, daring artists working today.
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How Scientific Myths Persist – The Atlantic
In 1874, The American Medical Weekly published an article that was equal parts horrific and fascinating. The article was called, “Attention Gynaecologists!—Notes from the Diary of a Field and Hospital Surgeon, C. S. A.,” and it was a case study docu…
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Orbital View: Hopefully the Story of Water Has a Happy Ending – The Atlantic
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The Best Way to Nap – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Everyday Einstein by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Hi, I’m Dr. Sabrina Stierwalt, and I’m Everyday Einstein bringing you Quick and Dirty Tips to help you mak…
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The Space Doctor’s Big Idea – The New Yorker
There once was a doctor with cool white hair. He was well known because he came up with some important ideas.
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Zoolander 2 Trailer (2016) – Paramount Pictures : movies
That actually looks pretty good, been a while since I’ve seen the original but I didn’t see any re-used jokes which is a great sign. After Dumb and Dumber To and am not trying to expect to much from this.
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Tom Brady Is the Greatest Quarterback of All Time. Period. | GQ
I’m interviewing Brady at a complicated point in his life. There are several things I want to ask him, almost all of which involve the same issue. I’m told Brady’s camp has agreed to a wide-ranging sit-down interview, where nothing will be off the t…
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Will De Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan Work? — NYMag
If you’re confused about how, exactly, Bill de Blasio plans to make New York a cheaper place to live, you’re in good company: pretty much the city’s entire (growing) population, minus (perhaps) a handful of zoning nerds, are too, even as the Departm…
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Can an app help clean up the Indian capital – BBC News
The government of the Indian capital, Delhi, has launched an app that it hopes will solve the city’s mounting garbage problem once and for all. The app named “Swacch Delhi” (Clean Delhi) is available for Android devices and allows users to upload pi…
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Note: Christmas is coming but the geese aren’t getting fat this year because they finally figured out what happens to fat geese when Christmas is coming. Budget deficit for the year ending Sept. 30, the lowest since 2007 according to the Treasury De…
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NFL hands one-year ban to Oakland Raiders’ Aldon Smith | Sport | The Guardian
Oakland Raiders linebacker Aldon Smith was suspended on Tuesday by the NFL for one year because of violations of the league’s substance-abuse policy. The penalty is effective immediately and Smith will be eligible to apply for reinstatement no soone…
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Power generators would be forced to pay for the closure of a competitor’s dirty brown-coal fired plant under a radical plan that could help Australia slow the continued increase in electricity sector greenhouse emissions without a carbon price or ex…
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The More You Donate, the Longer These People Are Stuck Playing ‘Desert Bus’ | Motherboard
Imagine a game so horrifically boring it only consists of performing the same action, steadily, for hours at a time. You can’t pause the game, and you can’t put it on autopilot—it requires constant attention. The visuals never really change.
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BBC Sport – Champions League & Europa League games to go ahead
Champions League and Europa League matches are “scheduled to go ahead as planned” next week, says Uefa. Many sporting fixtures across Europe were postponed or cancelled following the attacks in Paris on Friday.
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September 3, 1964, is a holy day in the history of the American environmental movement. In the White House Rose Garden on that late summer morning, Lyndon Johnson signed two unprecedented and broadly bipartisan bills into law.
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Paris attacks: Silicon Valley in crosshairs over encryption – BBC News
Grief over the Paris attacks will soon make way to demands for action. As well as increased military activity, and the controversial suggestions to close the door on refugees, the next battle in the “surely something can be done” arena will be aimed…
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Human Genetics AMA WeekScience AMA Series: I’m Nancy Cox, I study the genetic and environmental causes of diseases like diabetes, asthma, cancer, and heart disease, AMA! (self.science) Hi Reddit!
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Clinton Foundation Failed to Report $20M in Donations from Governments : politics
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Clinton Foundation Failed to Report $20M in Donations from Governments – Washington Free Beacon
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Obama: GOP refugee opponents ‘scared of widows and orphans’ | TheHill
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Really guys? We’re treating FreeBeacon as a source worth taking seriously? I had always assumed y’all were liberal; but apparently it’s okay to post stuff from right-wing propaganda like it’s actual journalism.
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APX Labs Grabs $13 Million For Enterprise Smart Glasses Platform | TechCrunch
APX Labs, makers of the Skylight smart glasses development platform, announced a $13 million investment today. The round was led by NEA, but there were several others parties involved including CNF Investments, GE Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sine…
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What It’s Like To Raise Children Without Any Money Of Your Own | ThinkProgress
All Juell Frazier wants, as she puts it, is “to do the right thing, make sure that my family gets what they need.” For her, that means getting a stable job and someday finishing the degree she was pursuing last year.
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In Maryland, Burning Chicken Manure Counts As Renewable Energy | ThinkProgress
As the Maryland state legislature prepares for a new session in early January, environmental activists want lawmakers to cut the crap — out of the state’s renewable portfolio standards.
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Why Texas county known for death sentences has given none in 2015 | US news | The Guardian
Yosselyn Alfaro was celebrating her 21st birthday at a friend’s apartment when the bullet went through her brain. Two 17-year-olds, Daniel Munoz and Veronica Hernandez, also died after shots to the head. Two others were injured.
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High dose of vitamin C kills cancer cells in mice | Ars Technica
A new study published in Science presents evidence that perhaps some of the apparently extravagant ideas about Vitamin C were not completely off base. The study in question examined human colorectal cancers containing specific genetic mutations that…
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Study finds happiest people have sex once a week – and make it count | US news | The Guardian
Sex matters to couples until it doesn’t, according to new research that finds happiness peaks when couples have sex once a week but does not increase with greater frequency. For Americans whose survey answers they studied, “enough” amounted to sex a…
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If You Want Inspiration, You Have to Stop Working Once In a While
Maybe if you sit at your desk for another couple hours, you’ll eventually have that breakthrough idea you need, right? Not necessarily. If you really want to be inspired, you need to step away from the desk. Speaking with Fast Company, prolific come…
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. For the first time in more than a decade, the Bakken oil fields of South Dakota produced less crude oil in September than they did in the same month the…
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A Next-Generation Gamma Ray Telescope Could Help Image the Guts of Mount Etna | Motherboard
Situated on the flanks of Mount Etna, one of the most active and imminently threatening volcanoes in the world, lies the beginnings of a telescope intended to spy on the highest of high-energy cosmic events.
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Earth-Like Exoplanet May Be Too Radiation-Blasted to Host Life
Artist’s illustration of the exoplanet Kepler-438b’s atmosphere being stripped away by radiation thrown off by its red-dwarf host star.
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Obama: GOP refugee opponents ‘scared of widows and orphans’ : democrats
Obama: GOP refugee opponents ‘scared of widows and orphans’ (thehill.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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Rockefeller Fund: ‘The oil age is coming to an end’. Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, explains to DW how it makes perfect sense that a fund which got rich on oil is now divesting from fossil fuels. (dw.com)
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If you’re into road cycling, as I am, you can enjoy it your whole life without ever entering a race. The same applies to mountain biking. On the other hand, cyclocross is pretty much all about racing — and yet the sport’s laid-back atmosphere is a h…
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Britain wants to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and lower their output from 2023, the government said on Wednesday, making it the first major economy to put a date on shutting down polluting coal plants to curb carbon emissions. (t…
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When you realize companions can pick up weapons off the ground – GIF on Imgur
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Being White Makes It a Lot Easier to Get a Home Loan in Baltimore – The Atlantic
In Baltimore, the median home price was around $108,000 at the close of September—a bargain compared to nearby cities such as Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Virginia, where median values were closer to $500,000. That’s potentially good news for a…
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Gabriel Zucman on Tax Havens – The Atlantic
Libertarian anarchists used to say “taxation is theft.” New research by economist Gabriel Zucman suggests that there is some truth to this—when tax havens are taken into consideration.
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How vulnerable is Europe to Paris-style attacks? – BBC News
The cancellation of the football match in Hannover on Tuesday night was the latest expression of a terrorist fear that currently wracks Europe.
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Curiosity Rover Headed to Dark Sand Dunes on Mars
This image, captured by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sept. 25, 2015, shows a dark sand dune in the middle distance.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS View full size image NASA’s Curiosity rover will soon get history’s first up-close look at Martian san…
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Adviser Tells NYT: Carson Hasn’t Picked Up ‘One Iota’ Of Foreign Policy Info (talkingpointsmemo.com)submitted 12 minutes ago by loading…
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Three killed as flash floods hit Saudi Arabia – Al Jazeera English
At least three people have been killed, two from electrocution and one from drowning, after heavy rains lashed western and central Saudi Arabia. The country’s emergency response crews advised residents to stay indoors as heavy rains pounded areas al…
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Big cats are still just cats : aww
Big cats are still just cats via /r/aww https://t.co/gdvXyDtirh https://t.co/GpQrNgJKWF https://t.co/xIIK1VNcKb
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Big cats are still just cats via /r/aww https://t.co/gdvXyDtirh https://t.co/GpQrNgJKWF https://t.co/xIIK1VNcKb
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North Korean Interiors Look Like a Wes Anderson Film Set
When most of us think of North Korea, we picture grey cement buildings looming against a cold, unforgiving sky. Not bright rooms cheerfully decorated with candy-colored walls and furniture.
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This Is Why It’s Hard to Recognize a Black Hole – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
Astronomers can sometimes be literal to a fault. We like to call things as we see them. For example, if it’s red and it’s huge: “Red Giant.” White and small: “White Dwarf.” Massive explosion: “Big Bang.” Dark and sucks everything in: “Black Hole.
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Bad thoughts can’t make you sick, that’s just magica…
The belief that physical illness can be psychosomatic, or caused by the mind, has long been seductive, capturing the imagination of doctors and writers alike.
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The Right-Wing Response to Paris is Everything Terrorists Could Want
The right-wing response to the Paris terror attacks is predictably hysterical, racist and xenophobic. It’s everything the terrorists could possibly want, and a distraction from a very real threat. The world is still reeling from the terrorist attack…
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Stellar Graveyard Reveals Clues About Milky Way’s Ancient Birth
By studying the motion of stars over nearly a decade in the Hubble SWEEPS Field, shown here, scientists have been able to better understand the early years of the Milky Way.Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Calamida and K.
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To Find Alien Worlds, First Look at Our Sun
One well-trusted method of finding an exoplanet is to see how much wobble it induces in its parent star. Right now, the state of the art precision for detecting planets a few dozen light-years away via this method is about one meter per second, whic…
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Will Likely Be a Real (Star)Killer!
To paraphrase a beloved Jedi, that’s no moon — but it’s one step closer: the upcoming “Star Wars” movie promises a weaponized enemy base carved from an ice planet. The Death Star might be Space.
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Q&A: ‘Middle East’s most powerful army chasing 18 cows’ – Al Jazeera English
When you do the research, you notice that the archival footage of the first Intifada was mainly from news agencies.They focused on the ‘violence’ side of the Intifada…
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Plans to put solar panels on up to 45,000 social houses in the UK will be shelved if government subsidy cuts go ahead in January as promised, renewable energy companies have told the Guardian.
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Caught sight of the rare double-loaf this morning : Catloaf
Caught sight of the rare double-loaf this morning via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/gHdSIcHGCF https://t.co/zAv7QlGLiH https://t.co/dx8vGBEb5v
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Obama calls out the ideologues
Congressional Republicans unveiled a new strategy Tuesday morning to defeat the Islamic State: We will kill it with clichés. House GOP leaders huddled with their caucus in the Capitol basement for an hour before emerging to hit the enemy with an unr…
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First Click: Go go Gogoro | The Verge
Remember that sense of want you felt as a kid? A feeling so overwhelming that it was pointless trying to distinguish it from need? I have that again, probably for the first time since the original iPhone was announced almost 9 years ago.
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Caught sight of the rare double-loaf this morning via /r/Catloaf https://t.co/gHdSIcHGCF https://t.co/zAv7QlGLiH https://t.co/dx8vGBEb5v
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This Diagram Shows You How to Throw a Left Hook Punch
Hopefully, most of us won’t have a need to throw a punch in real life, but in the event you need to defend yourself, it helps to know how to do it. This diagram can give you the basics on throwing a solid left hook.
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Almost half of the progress made toward closing the gender pay gap since 1979 is not due to women’s gains in the workplace, but to men’s wages falling and the sharp rise in overall inequality, according to a grave new report released Wednesday.
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Why More Blood Is Still Better When It Comes to Medical Tests | Motherboard
Revolutionizing the health care industry can be difficult, and no one knows that better than 31-year-old Elizabeth Holmes.
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David Beckham named People magazine’s sexiest man alive for 2015 | Football | The Guardian
David Beckham was declared “sexiest man alive” by People magazine Tuesday, joining an elite club including last year’s winner, Chris Hemsworth, and a handful of other above-average men.
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US lawmakers advised to consider hacking China back – BBC News
The United States should think about allowing US companies to “hack back” if data is stolen by Chinese hackers. Data lost in such attacks could be recovered or wiped, suggests a new report from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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The Joy of Six: America’s big league trash talkers | Sport | The Guardian
There’s no particular order to this Joy of Six, but admittedly, JJ Watt is the inspiration for today’s topic.
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Hello, it’s me. On a flip-phone. Samsung unveils clamshell model | Technology | The Guardian
We all owe Adele an apology. After the internet mercilessly took the piss out of the flip-phone she used in her video for Hello (a decision the director said was thought through – “it’s so distracting to see an iPhone in a movie”), news has emerged …
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Abu Sayyaf beheading of Malaysian condemned – Al Jazeera English
Malaysia’s prime minister condemned on Wednesday the beheading of a hostage by Abu Sayyaf – the first Malaysian killed by the armed group that operates in the southern Philippines.
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Who Took Care of Rosie the Riveter’s Kids? – The Atlantic
Outfitted in dark blue uniforms, their heads wrapped in polka-dotted red bandanas, more than 2,000 people recently broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed up as Rosie the Riveter.
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Cuban immigrants account for less than 1% of the US population, but they are uniquely poised by our immigration system to receive power and status that, in just one generation, can produce a candidate – or two – ready to enter the political scene on…
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Hollande addresses French mayors – BBC News
French president Francois Hollande addresses an assembly of the mayors of France in the wake of last week’s attacks in Paris.
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The innovative delivery system transforming Gothenburg’s roads | Cities | The Guardian
“I call it the rolling deckchair,” says Johan Erlandsson as his six-wheeled cargo bike, the Velove Armadillo, glides down the cobbled pedestrian streets of central Gothenburg.
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Refugee Life After Paris: An Interview with Ghaith – The New Yorker
Last month, I wrote about a Syrian refugee named Ghaith, who had recently arrived in Sweden after a trying and tumultuous journey. “Just think about how much every Syrian is suffering inside Syria to endure the suffering of this trip,” he told me.
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With a handful of decent episodes now to its name and a vaguely defined reboot approaching, its time for the people behind The Muppets to ask themselves an important question: why Muppets? In other words, why not some other property, or even a compl…
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Throughout the month of November, we’re soliciting readers’ help to definitively answer an age-old question: Who is the actual worst character on television? We reviewed your submissions, did our own research, and came up with a list of 32 character…
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Why Missouri professor Melissa Click is Public Enemy No. 1 for conservatives right now (washingtonpost.com)
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Fewer men are being screened for prostate cancer, and fewer early-stage cases are being detected, according to two studies published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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ST.-DENIS, France — The French police stormed an apartment in the medieval heart of the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis early Wednesday morning, in an attempt to find the Belgian man suspected of orchestrating the Paris terrorist attacks.
Love Everyone Often 11/19/2015
US senator pushes for ground troops to fight ISIL – Al Jazeera English US presidential candidate Lindsey Graham has proposed new legislation granting the American president broader war powers to deploy ground forces to any conflict, any time. tags: Pocket al jazeera english brainiacs & opinion culture news newsblur…
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