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Sanders: Turning our backs on refugees destroys the idea of America. : politics
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Sanders: Turning our backs on refugees destroys the idea of America
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LG halts sales of six-day-old smartwatch due to “hardware issue” | Ars Technica
After just six days on the market, LG has cancelled its latest smartwatch, the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE. An LG representative tells Android Police that due to “a hardware issue” the company has had to halt sales of the device.
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Majority of Isis-linked suspects charged in US were born in America | World news | The Guardian
None of the Isis-linked suspects who have ever been charged in the United States came from Syria and the overwhelming majority were born in the US, research reveals.
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The terrorists who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last week and massacred 89 young music fans, injured hundreds of others and terrorised millions of people across the world had chosen their target carefully.
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Playthings by Alex Pheby review – the madness of Daniel Paul Schreber | Books | The Guardian
In 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber, a high-ranking judge coming to the end of a severe psychotic episode, published an account of his illness. It has become one of the most studied books in psychiatric history.
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Sinjar in the aftermath of ISIL – Al Jazeera English
As harsh laws and a string of murders target Bangladeshi bloggers, 101 East meets those risking their lives. As e-sports boom globally, Lee Jae-dong reveals what it takes to be a champion in S Korea where gamers are celebrities.
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Is it OK for the Amish to run Etsy stores? — Aeon Es…
The first time I met an Amish person I was a teenager. It was 1985, and my family had recently moved back to Ohio from a stint in the United Arab Emirates. Life overseas had given me a hunger to know about other cultures, and also the Harrison Ford …
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Humpback Tails Wanted – Scientific American
Tail fluke of “Salt”. Image courtesy of the Center for Coastal Studies.
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When a season comes early, it has a deadly butterfly…
When spring arrives in the north, its warmth induces some species to begin their life cycles. Other species are cued by astronomical signals such as longer days. But here’s the catch: species cued by one signal sometimes eat species cued by another.
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Why can’t blindfolded people walk in a straight line…
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse?
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Donald Trump would ‘certainly’ and ‘absolutely’ create a database of Muslims (washingtonpost.com)submitted 11 minutes ago by loading…
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ISIS Threatens White House, Feds Say Don’t Worry — NYMag
One day after issuing a threat against New York, ISIS militants released a new video on Thursday saying they plan to attack the White House, as well as additional targets in Europe, Reuters reports.
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This bird landed on the page about itself : pics
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Chernobyl Diaries – inside the exclusion zone : environment
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A Chernobyl Diary | theGIST | The Glasgow Insight into Science and Technology
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Did the Paris Attacks Actually Give Boost Trump? — NYMag
The attacks in Paris instantly shifted the political conversation, and led to many predictions that this was the event that would finally make Republican primary voters reconsider their preference for extreme political outsiders.
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FCC chief praises T-Mobile’s Binge On despite net neutrality concerns | The Verge
FCC chief Tom Wheeler has praised T-Mobile’s Binge On promotion, describing the deal, which gives customers access to video content from certain providers without using their data, as “highly innovative and highly competitive.
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Gunmen Take 170 Hostages in Mali Hotel | VICE News
Two attackers have taken 170 people hostage in a luxury hotel in the Malian capital Bamako on Friday, the group that runs the hotel said. The raid targeted the Radisson Blu hotel, located just west of the city center in a neighborhood that is home t…
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Judge: stingrays are “simply too powerful” without adequate oversight | Ars Technica
A federal judge in Illinois has recently taken the unusual step of issuing three new stringent requirements for the government when it wants to deploy cell-site simulators. The move aims to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of innocent bystanders …
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How to Decimate A City – The Atlantic
SYRACUSE—The neighborhood with the most concentrated poverty in America has Victorian-style homes with big porches, immaculate public parks, and tree-lined streets where children play.
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Indian rail’s plan to hire disabled people backfires – BBC News
Indian Railways’ decision to be inclusive and hire more disabled people backfired on Thursday when candidates were called to sit for a test in a building with no lifts or ramps. Some candidates were not able to reach the examination hall on the seco…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Spanish mosaic
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Paul Weller: Mail loses appeal against privacy pay out – BBC News
Associated Newspapers has lost its challenge to a High Court decision to award £10,000 privacy damages to rock star Paul Weller. It has also been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Donald Trump and Religious Liberty – The Atlantic
On Thursday, presidential candidate Donald Trump provided the clearest evidence yet of his disregard for religious liberty, telling Yahoo News that if elected he would target Muslims with a previously unthinkable degree of intrusion. “We’re going to…
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Review: Adele’s ’25’ Is a Gorgeous Soundtrack for People With Self-Esteem Issuee – The Atlantic
The world has problems, but pop music in the 2010s for the most part only has confidence.
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How Bernie Sanders Explains Democratic Socialism – The Atlantic
Inside a crowded auditorium at one of the most prestigious universities in the nation, Bernie Sanders made the case for an American vision of socialism.
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Israeli Spy Pollard Released From Us Prison | Al Jazeera America
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, having served a 30-year jail sentence in the United States, was released from a North Carolina prison on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the release of Pollard, a former U.S.
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I just read Shonda Rhimes’ new memoir for a book review (to post on Monday). In it, I learned several things, some of which I could have guessed. One: She loves politics. Watching CSPAN for her is like watching her favorite soap.
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Guardian children’s fiction prize – at the party, in vines | Children’s books | The Guardian
[Click on the loudspeaker icon on the bottom right hand corner of each vine to turn the sound on.] Young Critics winner Megan explains why she thinks David Almond is a worthy winner. SF Said (and Candy Gourlay vine bombing) on David Almond.
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Rare Giant Catfish Signals Hope for Species
Caught near Phnom Penh, the fish was nearly seven feet long and weighed an estimated 200 to 250 pounds (90 to 114 kilograms), says Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno who examined and tagged the fish.
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France moves to tighten security at the expense of freedom | The Verge
French authorities are still working to piece together the events and oversights that led to last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which left 129 dead and 352 injured.
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YouTube Is the Latest to Defend Users from Ridiculous Copyright Claims | Motherboard
On Thursday, Google announced a new program that would take steps to protect YouTube video creators from overly aggressive copyright claims. Under this program, Google will select examples of legally protected “fair use” videos and agree to pay to d…
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An Open Letter From a Scientist to Climate Change Skeptics : environment
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An Open Letter From a Scientist to Climate Change Skeptics – Planet Experts
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens torpedos US advance ticket sales record | Film | The Guardian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has smashed all known records for advance ticket sales in the US, racking up more than $50m with just under a month to go until the film hits cinemas, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Luxury Hotel in Mali Attacked, 170 Hostages Taken | Al Jazeera America
Men shouting “God is great” and armed with guns and throwing grenades stormed into the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital Friday morning and seized 170 hostages. The U.S.
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Liberal ‘Dark Money’ Group Rails Against It | Al Jazeera America
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid lambasted secret political cash when he appeared last week in a video filmed and produced by a liberal advocacy group.
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Mali attacks: rolling BBC News coverage – BBC News
BBC News updates after gunmen take 170 people hostage following an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali’s capital, Bamako.
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The other evening I was thumbing through my dog-eared copy of Moneyball – gotta do something on your wedding anniversary, haven’t you? – and happened upon the line from Billy Beane about the postseason being a complete crapshoot, and it got me think…
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Sony confirms it’s working on PS2 emulation for the PS4 | The Verge
What exactly is Sony up to with emulating PlayStation 2 games on the PS4? A report this week from Wired confirmed that the company is, in its own words, “working on utilizing PS2 emulation technology to bring PS2
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Uncovering the Painful Truth About Racism on Campus | Mother Jones
After a series of racist incidents sparked campus-wide protests at the University of Missouri, demonstrations have spread rapidly across the country, from Princeton and Claremont McKenna, to the University of South Carolina and Stanford.
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How the Paris Attacks Could Lead to More Government Snooping on Americans | Mother Jones
Syrian refugees aren’t the only ones feeling the backlash from the Paris attacks: Privacy advocates are worried that last week’s terrorist assault has created a climate that threatens digital privacy in the United States and elsewhere.
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Xbox One drops to $299 in Microsoft’s Black Friday deals | The Verge
Sony cut the price of its PlayStation 4 to $349.99 back in October, and now Microsoft is responding in time for Black Friday. The software maker has 12 holiday bundles for the Xbox One, and each one is being reduced by $50 for Black Friday.
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Heat wave engulfs Sydney – Al Jazeera English
It was a close run thing, but Sydney has just missed out on recording its hottest November day on record. On Friday afternoon, the mercury peaked at 40.9C in central Sydney, just 0.9C shy of the all-time high of 41.8C set in 1982.
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PSA: Xbox One drops to $299 w/ a game for Black Friday weekend | Ars Technica
Rather than letting retailers set piecemeal price drops for its game and console bundles this holiday shopping season, Microsoft is implementing an across-the-board, $50 price cut for the Xbox One at all online and brick-and-mortar US retailers from…
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Literature vs genre is a battle where both sides lose | Books | The Guardian
It’s always a problem when one of literature’s big beasts wanders off the reservation into the badlands of genre.
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Donald Trump Would Probably Be Fine with Creating a Database of Muslims | VICE | United Kingdom
Since the announcement of his presidential candidacy back in June, Donald Trump has made a habit of saying whatever comes his lunatic mind, whenever it happens to occur to him.
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Everything you need to know about the Paris climate summit and UN talks | Environment | The Guardian
What is happening in Paris this December? The governments of more than 190 nations will gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of d…
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In a landslide vote on Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would effectively put a stop to President Obama’s plan to admit an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees, at least until the federal government beefs up its vetting syst…
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Manhunt Continues for Suspect in Paris Attacks | Al Jazeera America
French police continued the search on Friday for a suspect on the run as the Paris prosecutor’s office announced that a third body was found overnight in an apartment raided by police searching for suspects in last week’s Paris attacks.
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India: Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar chief minister – BBC News
Nitish Kumar has been sworn in as the chief minister of the northern state of Bihar after defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP in a bitterly contested election. Mr Kumar fought the polls in a “grand alliance” with former rival Laloo Prasad Y…
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Imogen Heap Speaks About Music And The Blockchain At Disrupt London | TechCrunch
Classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Imogen Heap recently made the headlines for releasing her song Tiny Human using blockchain technology.
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Jamie xx favourite to win Mercury Prize – BBC News
Electronic musician Jamie xx is the bookmaker’s favourite to win the Mercury Music Prize on Friday night. The 27-year-old is nominated for his debut solo record In Colour, a tribute to the dance music of his youth.
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Tesla hits the gas on self-driving car tech | Technology | The Guardian
Tesla is accelerating with its self-driving car efforts, taking on Google, Uber, Apple and traditional vehicle manufacturers.
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Conservationists and angling organisations have settled their high court dispute with the government over their accusation that it is failing to take effective action to protect England’s waterways from agricultural pollution.
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SELFIEThe revolutionary potential of your own face, in seven chaptersThe one where a woman snaps a picture of herself, by herself.The one where we met three dead photographers who would have loved the iPhone.
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Israeli spy Pollard released from US prison – Al Jazeera English
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, having served a 30-year jail sentence in the United States, was released from a North Carolina prison on Friday.
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Firm behind Zano mini-drones investigated by Trading Standards – BBC News
The firm behind Pembrokeshire’s failed Zano mini-drone project is being investigated by Trading Standards. Pembrokeshire council said inquiries were being made into Torquing Group following complaints about the project.
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“The first Iraq war didn’t make us safer,” Rand Paul told The Daily Caller. “Didn’t make the region any less chaotic. The first Iraq war destabilized the region and has led to the current chaos. I don’t think another Iraq War is going to make it bet…
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Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 21 poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Includes two bonus poems …
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BBC – Future – Can you be too clean?
What’s your routine? Do you shower every morning, or skip a few days? Do you change the bedsheets weekly, or only when they get smelly? How about your towels: New ones – like clockwork – every Saturday, or do you wait until they are, well, just that…
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Police deployed to ease Kenya’s three day traffic jam – BBC News
Kenyan police have been deployed to ease a traffic jam reportedly stretching for 50km (30 miles) on the highway between Mombasa and Nairobi. Long lines of trucks, buses and private cars can be seen in Taru area, as the vehicles headed for the capita…
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What were the best new words of 2015? | Books | The Guardian
As the year slouches towards its wintry extinction, a seasonal question recurs: what are the hottest new words? Yes, it is the big dictionaries’ regular symposium of lexical additions and words-of-the-year lists – which, like any lists, are powerful…
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Singapore jails City Harvest megachurch founder and officials – BBC News
Six senior officials of Singapore’s City Harvest megachurch have been jailed over a $50m Singapore dollar ($35m; £23m) fraud case. The evangelical church’s pastor and founder, Kong Hee, was jailed for eight years – others received between 21 months …
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Can Paris Climate Talks Help These People a World Away?
Seventeen-year-old Virginia Pushaina drops an orange bucket into the murky depths of an open pit to collect muddy water. It’s early morning in October, but the temperature’s already approaching 90 degrees.
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How Close Are We To Closing the Gender Gap? This Map Will Tell You | Motherboard
How close are we to closing the gender gap? That’s an extremely broad question that the World Economic Forum is attempting to answer with its annual Global Gender Gap report, which ranks countries based on gender equality.
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Third body found in Saint-Denis flat – 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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Gabriel Taschereau de Baudry – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gabriel Taschereau, seigneur de Baudry (March 15, 1673 – April 22, 1755) was a French administrator. Born in Tours, he was the son of Jean Taschereau de Baudry, who had served as mayor of Tours between 1678-1682, and his wife Nicole Françoise Collin.
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The hype is real: Kristaps Porzingis is the hero the Knicks need | Sport | The Guardian
I’ve heard that in life – or maybe it was that one scene in Gone Girl – that it’s a wise to get ahead of problems before they become fodder for the public. That way you have control over the narrative.
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Leica introduces a cheaper, cut-down M rangefinder camera | The Verge
Leica has announced the M (Type 262), a more affordable version of its M (Type 240) rangefinder camera.
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The flag of Nazi-ruled America of 1962 in “The Man in the High Castle” has red and white stripes and a swastika on a field of blue. But even more chilling is how fascism has stamped itself upon American popular culture.
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Israel spy Pollard freed by US – BBC News
Tightening borders are among a raft of security measures being discussed by EU interior ministers in response to the Paris attacks.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 11 – Merida, Spain
This true-colour image of Merida was taken by Sentinel-2A on 11 August. Home to some 60 000 people, Merida is the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, in western Spain.
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Ben Carson: screen Syrian refugees like they’re rabid dogs – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson says in Alabama on Thursday that stopping militants posing as Syrian refugees from entering the US was like handling rabid dogs.
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Would you survive in Panem? Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock
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I recently read Merry White’s Coffee Life in Japan, a history of the west’s favorite beverage in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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The new Warhammer 40,000 iPhone game lets you 3D Touch aliens into oblivion | The Verge
In preaching the virtues of its 3D Touch technology, incorporated into its latest iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, Apple has emphasized its practical applications for opening menus, switching tasks, and navigating your phone.
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Gunmen take hostages at Mali hotel – reports – Al Jazeera English
Gunmen attacked a five-star hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday and are reportedly holding hostages, witnesses said. Attackers started a shooting rampage inside the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of the capital, security sources told the AFP …
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Pressure on summit leaders as warming accelerates – Al Jazeera English
The Paris climate conference (COP21) begins on November 30 bringing together the leaders of more than 190 nations. Current commitments on greenhouse gas emissions, which cause global warming, run out in 2020.
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Geeta: India ‘mystery woman’ DNA does not match ‘family’ – BBC News
The DNA of an Indian woman, who was stranded in Pakistan for a decade before returning home last month, does not match a family claiming to be hers. India’s foreign ministry confirmed to BBC Hindi that Geeta’s DNA samples did not match that of the M…
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After 30 years in federal prison, one-time spy Jonathan Pollard will be released from prison on parole at the age of 61 years old.
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NFL weekend predictions: Romo to keep Cowboys alive and Jets to blunt Texans | Sport | The Guardian
There has been a lot of talk about dancing in the NFL this week. An over-the-top letter of complaint about Cam Newton’s touchdown celebrations got an over-the-top reaction from the media and led us down a dark path that finished up with Cris Carter …
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Japan could risk Chinese anger by joining US sea patrols | World news | The Guardian
Japan is considering joining naval patrols in the South China Sea in a move that is likely to anger Beijing.
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What is the most liberal location in the United States? : Liberal
What is the most liberal location in the United States? (self.Liberal) Going by factual statistics from 2015 alone; what is, hands down, the most liberal state in the entire United States, and then what is the most liberal city in that specific stat…
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Wonder follows wonder as British Library celebrates Alice’s 150th birthday | Books | The Guardian
There’s a maths to most stories. In a farce, the consequences of the indiscretion keep squaring themselves. In a detective story, you have to find x. In a romance, one and one make two.
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In pictures: Tibet’s Secret Temple – BBC News
In pictures: Tibet’s Secret Temple 20 November 2015 Last updated at 08:50 An exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London explores the 17th Century Lukhang Temple in Lhasa
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Endangered pygmy hippo born at Bristol zoo – BBC News
A pygmy hippo has been born at Bristol Zoo. The calf, which has not yet been named or sexed, arrived almost three weeks ago. The pygmy hippo is threatened in the wild, where it is thought fewer than 2,000 survive.
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Stark images of Shackleton’s struggle – BBC News
A century ago a ship sank beneath the ice of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Sir Ernest Shackleton had been counting on Endurance to help him make it ashore, ahead of a trek across the continent past the South Pole.
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Russian athletes face missing the 2016 World Indoor Championships because a review of its anti-doping programme will not be finished by March. Russia was provisionally suspended from world athletics after an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wad…
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Kim Cattrall pulls out of stage role at Royal Court – BBC News
Actress Kim Cattrall has pulled out of a play at London’s Royal Court Theatre, less than a week before opening night on doctors’ orders. The Sex and the City star was due to play the lead role in a new play called Linda, by Penelope Skinner.
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Mali hotel ‘attacked by gunmen’ – BBC News
Tightening borders are among a raft of security measures being discussed by EU interior ministers in response to the Paris attacks.
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Avenida is set on cementing its leadership position Argentina’s e-commerce market after a $30 million Series C led by Naspers with participation from Tiger Global (both firms are returning investors).
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Without initiative, Paris attacks will change nothing – Al Jazeera English
The demand for instant analysis in the media after a terrorist attack encourages sensational speculation over considered assessment.
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What You Missed in Skelos and Silver’s Trials — NYMag
For more than two decades, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver decided what got done in New York as one of Albany’s “three men in a room.” Then in January, Silver was arrested on federal charges as part of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s crusade aga…
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Right-to-die Fight Takes Shape in New York | Al Jazeera America
NEW YORK — Sara Myers can’t speak for long because she runs out of breath; she is scared to eat because she could choke. After five years with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), she is ready to die.
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For Adele’s legions of fans, as well as for the music industry at large, a big question has hung over the release of “25,” her first album in nearly five years.
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Rent Control Movement Gains Momentum | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES – Skyrocketing rental prices and the surge in a new class of more educated, middle-class renters are fueling a revival of the rent control movement across the country. About 110 million Americans or more than a third of the U.S. populati…
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State of the Arts – Al Jazeera English
Steeped in literature, music, art and ballet, Russia has a long and vibrant history celebrating religion and cultural life. Emphasising family and the motherland, the arts have played a major role since the demise of Communism to promote patriotism …
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Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet | Books | The Guardian
This month’s meeting in Paris marks the 21st annual occasion on which nations have met to try to deal with the climate problem. After two decades of failing to agree, there is finally hope that a deal will be reached, with action to commence in 2020…
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Syrian Refugee Discusses Treatment in US | Al Jazeera America
Twenty-five-year-old Syrian refugee Yamen Ghazal lives in Orange County, Calif. In 2014, he left Aleppo — Syria’s largest city now torn apart in the civil war between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and opposition rebels — to take refuge in the U…
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Student who posted ‘I’m going to shoot every black person I can on campus’ … is black (thecollegefix.com)
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What If the Nazis Won? Inside Amazon’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’ – The Daily Beast
What if the Nazis won the war? What if Hitler beat the U.S. to the atomic bomb and dropped it on Washington, D.C.?
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How To Get Away With Murder is usually at its best during beginnings and ends. The season two premiere remains one of the best episodes of the series. The writers are great at setting up the initial pieces and planting the long-term mystery.
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China: 28 ‘terrorists’ killed in Xinjiang operation – Al Jazeera English
Chinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 “terrorists” from a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in September.
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The pop music you hear in your teenage years affects you more deeply than at any other time in your life. People who don’t go on to develop an obsession with pop may pine for the hits of an objectively bad year for music – say, 1960, 1975 or 1997 – …
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Keeping streets clean matters. According to the Local Government Association, councils spend almost £1 bn a year on tackling litter and fly-tipping, at a time when they face difficult choices due to budget cuts.
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In an instance of A.V. Club synergy, my initial viewing of this week’s Comedy Bang! Bang!, “Jake Johnson Wears A Light Blue Button-Up Shirt And Brown Shoes,” reminded me of this quote from Mike D’Angelo’s review of the movie Victoria.
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David Bowie’s New Video Is 10 Minutes of Sci-Fi Creep
The music video for David Bowie’s latest, Blackstar, premiered in NYC earlier today. It needed a full theatrical release, because it’s a 10-minute trip through an impossibly weird sci-fi cult. Quintessential Bowie, basically. The full Blackstar albu…
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Tesla’s Musk calls for ‘Autopilot’ coders – BBC News
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has used Twitter to advertise for “hardcore software engineers” to work on the firm’s “Autopilot” software. In the tweets Mr Musk says he will be interviewing candidates personally.
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Heat stress: the next global public health crisis? | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
When rural labourers first started turning up at the Rosales National Hospital in the El Salvadorian capital of San Salvador with advanced symptoms of chronic kidney disease (CKD), doctors put the phenomenon down to pesticides. Their latest thinking…
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Eddie Jones has been named as England’s first foreign head coach. The 55-year-old Australian has agreed a four-year deal with the Rugby Football Union and will start in December.
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Fading stars: India’s illegal tortoise trade – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
For centuries, in rural parts of India, star tortoises
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Chinese forces kill 28 people ‘responsible for Xinjiang mine attack’ – BBC News
Chinese security forces have killed 28 people allegedly responsible for a deadly attack on a coal mine in Xinjiang, state media has said. The deaths took place over a 56-day operation in which one person was detained, Xinjiang government’s web porta…
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Peter Mukerjea: India media tycoon arrested in murder case – BBC News
An Indian media tycoon has been arrested in connection with the murder of his stepdaughter, police said. Peter Mukerjea, the former CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s Star India network, was arrested on Thursday night following three days of questioning.
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Japanese Wearable Tech Startup Moff Teams Up With PBS KIDS | TechCrunch
PBS KIDS, the branch of the venerable Public Broadcasting Service that produces children’s shows like “Sesame Street” and “Wild Kratts,” is taking its first step into wearable tech. PBS Kids launched a new app today, called PBS KIDS Party App, that …
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Georgia executes man over 1994 slaying of woman he met at nightclub | World news | The Guardian
Marcus Ray Johnson, 50, was put to death at 10.11pm at the state prison in Jackson. Johnson was convicted in the March 1994 rape and murder of Angela Sizemore in Albany. Brian Kammer, an attorney for Johnson, argued his client shouldn’t be executed …
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In a recent interview with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the US secretary of defence, Ashton Carter, harshly criticised his country’s Arab Gulf allies for their eagerness to “build show-horse air forces” when they needed to be more like the Irani…
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Harvard Law black faculty portraits defaced | Al Jazeera America
Black strips of tape were placed diagonally over at least five photo portraits, Harvard officials said. Students and professors noticed the tape as classes met on Thursday morning at Wasserstein Hall, which houses two hallways lined with framed port…
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Watch the first trailer for the Melissa McCarthy comedy The Boss | The Verge
Next year, Melissa McCarthy will star in a comedy whose plot centers around something we’ve known for a while: she’s a boss. Unfortunately, McCarthy as a boss in the movie The Boss is not a great boss. McCarthy’s character is powerful and insanely r…
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Trump Escalates Rhetoric Again, Firing At Rubio, Carson And Targeting ISIS : NPR
Donald Trump campaign appearances keep getting more combative. On Wednesday night in Worcester, Mass., a big crowd cheered his attacks on ISIS, fellow candidate Marco Rubio, food stamps and the media.
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Hollywood props and costumes to be auctioned – BBC News
Props and costumes from some of Hollywood’s most famous films are to be auctioned in New York. Some of the items come from the Wizard of Oz, Ben Hur and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Centaurus A
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Sen. Ted Cruz Discusses Syrian Refugees – Has Changed tune since : Liberal
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Sen. Ted Cruz Discusses Syrian Refugees with Greg Palkot – YouTube
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Wondermark » Archive » #1176; A Trim on the Sides
Here’s a brand-new holiday card! I have titled it “Barrel”: Over at the ol’ Wondermark greeting card shop, you can choose from forty-six different designs. Holy moly! Forty-six! I hadn’t counted in a while!
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Porn World in Panic Over Charlie Sheen’s HIV Diagnosis – The Daily Beast
Well-known for his porn star companions, Charlie Sheen’s recent admission to being HIV-positive has sent a ripple of fear through the adult industry. There’s no protocol in place for this.
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Learning the wrong lessons from the near-season best “Sundae, Bloody Sundae,” “11:53 To Odessa” doubles down on the least interesting elements of its immediate predecessor.
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Can Charlie Sheen Save Lives? – The Daily Beast
Dr. Louis Picker was in medical school when the AIDs epidemic hit in the late 1970s and a young immunologist when it was identified in 1983. After watching a cousin and numerous classmates succumb to the disease, he decided to devote his life to fin…
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Is This the Monster Who Gunned Down a Chicago 9-Year-Old? – The Daily Beast
The suspected gang member whom Chicago police call a “person of interest” in the deliberate killing of a 9-year-old boy is almost certainly the same young man seen happily brandishing a handgun in a YouTube video.
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Yes, We Still Need a Transgender Day of Remembrance (and Resilience) – The Daily Beast
November 20 is the annual “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” an occasion founded in 1999 to remember transgender people who have been victims of violence. But in the age of Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox, and Transparent, is such a day still needed? The…
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What We Lost When Bobby Kennedy Died – The Daily Beast
He has been dead five years longer than he was alive. More than two-thirds of Americans were not yet born when he was killed, and if you were old enough to have voted for him the year he sought the Presidency, you’ve been on Medicare for at least th…
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The Man Fighting Europe’s Anti-Syrian Refugee Sentiments Through Comics – The Daily Beast
Last Friday, the final part of A Perilous Journey, a three-part comic series depicting the stories of three Syrians fleeing for Europe, was launched at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, Norway.
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The Religious Fundamentalists Are Losing – The Daily Beast
This past weekend, over 2,500 Mormons showed up en masse outside the Latter Day Saints headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, to submit their resignations to the church.
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The Outrageous Secrets of Fashion Queen Jacqueline de Ribes – The Daily Beast
It took eight years for curator Harold Koda and his team to pull together the latest exhibition at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating Countess Jacqueline de Ribes and her inimitable sense of style.
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The Republican presidential candidates’ debate a week ago Tuesday night was just bitch slapping compared to the heavyweight pugilists’ battle televised an hour earlier by Louisiana Public Broadcasting for the state’s first debate in a gubernatorial …
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Should I Get My Eggs Frozen or Just Have Another Cocktail? – The Daily Beast
I spent the night of my 26th birthday in Manhattan’s NoMad Hotel, breathing in the restored building’s chic vintage charm while sipping a cocktail of Champagne and Chambord.
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The Trans Murder That Started a Movement – The Daily Beast
Rita Hester was murdered two days before her 35th birthday. On the evening of November 28th, 1998, police found the African American transgender woman in her apartment, stabbed in the chest a staggering 20 times.
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Arkansas ‘Spanking Judge’ Traded Lighter Sentences for Sex, Commission Says – The Daily Beast
“Tell you what, Son. I’ll let you off easy if you come over to my house to do some ‘chores.’ You don’t mind if I take a few photographs, do you? I am the judge, after all.”
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MRW I get turned into a medieval siege machine – GIF on Imgur
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When someone asks me why I don’t enjoy NASCAR – GIF on Imgur
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Ket Wigs and Quad Bikes: Liverpool’s New Generation of Gun Gangs | VICE | United Kingdom
A new generation of young gang members are making their mark on Merseyside: self-styled “soldiers” wearing tracksuits, North Face coats and Nike Air “trabs”. Their long hair is a “ket wig”, a term that emerged from the notion that they buy drugs, ra…
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Clean Room #2 steps up the horror by slowing down · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Clean Room #2.
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Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21. All times are Eastern. Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Netflix, 3:01 a.m.
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Check Out Some Amazingly Heartfelt Comics About Falling In Love With Games
Chainmail Bikini is a new anthology of comics “by and about female gamers.” Some 40 cartoonists have contributed their own perspectives on everything from video games to card games to role-playing games, and the results are pretty hilarious.
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25 · Adele · Music Review Adele returns in a much better place on 25 · Music Review · The A.V. Club
How in the world was Adele ever supposed to follow up a record like 21? The short answer is that she couldn’t. 21 was one of the most overt and unapologetic break-up records ever produced.
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The story of Thanksgiving has grown inversely proportional to its accompanying feast—where the contemporary Thanksgiving dinner could likely feed all of the Pilgrims, the tale of the Plymouth colony has been pared down to bite-sized portions.
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Thanksgiving is America’s great television holiday, a harvest feast with parade telecasts for an appetizer, presentations of the National Football League as a main course (plus second helpings), and a dessert of some crowd-pleasing blockbuster film …
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Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like talking about. No matter what the topic, we invite everyone in the comments to tell us: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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If you could change one thing about Star Wars, what would it be? · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our di…
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A blow to saffron nationalism? – Al Jazeera English
Back in 2014, the Indian author and commentator Pankaj Mishra claimed that Narendra Modi’s ascension to power “announces a new turbulent phase for the country – arguably, the most sinister since its independence from British rule in 1947”.
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On the lists of Elementary‘s strengths, “the procedurals” almost never appear. The ways this show shines are based in character, tone, and the nature of adaptation; the murders don’t register nearly as much.
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London Bank junction to be transformed for cyclists, buses and pedestrians | UK news | The Guardian
The City of London Corporation, local authority of the Square Mile, is to close off the whole of the famous yet famously inhospitable Bank junction to all motor vehicles except buses, starting late next year.
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Can ‘smart city’ networks thwart terror attacks? – Al Jazeera English
In the wake of last week’s attacks in Paris, cities around the world are looking at how they can better protect their people. One option is an increased use of so-called smart systems – networks of sensors and cameras that monitor citizens and their…
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Jonathan Pollard, Spy for Israel, to Be Released — NYMag
Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst sentenced to life for spying on behalf of Israel in 1987, will be released on Friday after spending nearly half his life in prison.
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UK heritage hit by climate change, warns National Trust | Environment | The Guardian
Rare book collections, stately home gardens and 18th century tapestries are among the heritage being affected by a changing climate, the National Trust has warned.
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DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz’s vision for the Democratic Party looks a lot like Clint Eastwood alone on a stage with a chair (dailykos.com)submitted 37 minutes ago by loading…
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More Mexicans Leaving Us Than Arriving | Al Jazeera America
More Mexicans are leaving than moving into the United States, reversing the flow of a half-century of mass migration, according to a study published Thursday. The Pew Research Center found that slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their familie…
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Trump Wants a Database of American Muslims — NYMag
The xenophobic rhetoric emanating from the GOP has grown louder and more vociferous in the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, with the party’s presidential candidates leading the charge to cast suspicion on Syrian refugees and American …
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Rachel Rose at the Whitney – The New Yorker
It’s still early for best-of-year list making, but best début of 2015 is a lock: Rachel Rose’s transfixing video “Everything and More,” conceived for the Whitney at the invitation of the sharp curator Christopher Y. Lew. The nonnarrative collage, on…
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The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs – review: archive, 20 Nov 1964 | Books | The Guardian
THE NAKED LUNCH, by William Burroughs (Calder, 42s). It’s amazing how little is needed to slake the thirst of the pornography-hounds, the prurient sniggerers, the protectors of public morals.
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S Korea accepts N Korea’s offer to hold talks – Al Jazeera English
South Korea has accepted North Korea’s offer for high-level talks next week, South Korea’s official Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. The North’s government proposed the meeting with the South to be held on November 26 at the truce village on t…
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Sushi Azabu / Azabu – The New Yorker
On a desolate block in Tribeca, there’s a sweet little subterranean sushi den with nine seats and a rare, rather sublime intimacy. It isn’t particularly fancy (though it is not cheap), and if you want a show with your sushi do not come here.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “School of Rock” – The New Yorker
Andrew Lloyd Webber has, to great profit, devised music for phantoms, felines, Argentine icons, Norma Desmond, and Jesus Christ. Surely he can handle a few fourth graders.
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Celebrating the Holidays – The New Yorker
Every year, the Morgan Library & Museum exhibits the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic, which he wrote in only six weeks, in 1843.
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“Is it ‘Ee-lah’ or ‘Eye-lah’?” a patron at this Upper East Side bar asked a few nights ago, starting a conversation with some syllables. “It’s ‘Eye-lah,’ ” Michael, the owner and bartender, replied. As a Dundonian and a whiskey expert, his word was …
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Atlantic Readers Debate the Protests at Mizzou and Yale – The Atlantic
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North and South Korea to hold talks next week – BBC News
South Korea has accepted North Korean proposals for high-level talks, the South’s Yonhap news agency reports. Pyongyang’s KCNA news agency earlier said talks were offered for next week.
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Over the restless sea | Environment | The Guardian
Cresting the rise at the end of the machair track I catch my breath at the first sight of the scene before me. Where usually there are miles of beach there is almost nothing but sea.
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APOD: 2015 November 19 – Centaurus A
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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COP21 Paris: Paris Pledges Will Break all 2C Scenarios : environment
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Iceberg Image, Iceland – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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This Sculpture of Cowboy Bebop’s Faye Valentine Is Hanging in a Fancy New York Gallery Right Now
Cowboy Bebop has been off the air for nearly 15 years—but its legacy remains potent. Case in point: A new exhibition of science-fiction-inspired sculptures and artworks includes a brand new sculpture of Faye Valentine, one of the show’s kickass spac…
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LG Urbane 2, The First Android Wear Smartwatch With Cellular, Pulled From Stores | TechCrunch
Last week we brought you news that the first Android Wear smartwatch with access to cellular data — read: doesn’t need to be paired with a smartphone — was on its way to the U.S. market, but now we are dialing down that enthusiasm after the device w…
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Court Won’t Stop Hawaiian Election Vote Count | Al Jazeera America
Votes cast in an ongoing election for Native Hawaiians can be counted as planned, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Native Hawaiians are voting to elect delegates for a convention next year to come up with a self-governance docum…
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Variety is reporting that Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation writer-director Christopher McQuarrie is in talks to return for the sixth installment of the spy franchise, presumably leveraging his expertise in devising bigger, faster things for Tom Crui…
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The frenzied, unstable race for the Republican nomination took a new turn in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks on Thursday as the front-runner, businessman Donald Trump, called for a database to track Muslims living in the United States, …
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Apple Exec Mansplains Music to Girls – The Daily Beast
In a nine-minute segment that served solely to promote a 30-second commercial for Apple Music, CBS This Morning effectively allotted advertorial time to Apple’s struggling new streaming service under the guise of an interview with Mary J. Blige.
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Parasitic worm ‘increases fertility’ – BBC News
Infection with a species of parasitic worm increases the fertility of women, say scientists. Researchers, writing in the journal Science, suggest the worm is altering the immune system to make it easier to become pregnant.
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The best bench I’ve ever sat on. (i.imgur.com)
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Kuwait crackdown on ‘IS-supporting extremist cell’ – BBC News
Kuwait has arrested members of an alleged terror cell accused of supplying funds and weapons to the so-called Islamic State (IS), say reports. Five others had been arrested, the report said.
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So hey, remember last week when I went to great lengths talking about how season three’s biggest problem was its lack of effective tension? Yeah, I’m regretting that now.
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Kamcord Launches Live Mobile Game Streaming In Japan And Korea | TechCrunch
It’s been nearly a year since Kamcord, the U.S. startup that allows mobile owners to record and stream their mobile games online, raised a $15 million round to increase its focus on markets in Asia, and today the company made some big moves in Japan…
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Justin Bieber Is Still a Brat – The Daily Beast
His new album Purpose is packed with hits. But from storming offstage to requesting a dressing room far from Charlie Sheen, the Biebs has been up to his old childish tricks. Justin Bieber is many things: apologetic, confused, hung. He is not, howeve…
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ISIS Is Just One of a Full-Blown Global Jihadist Insurgency – The Daily Beast
The first female jihadist suicide bomber to blow herself up on European shores struck this week in St. Denis, France. The pope and King Abdullah of Jordan have both named ISIS’s assault on Paris as the start of World War III. I disagree.
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Georgia Executes Man for 1994 Murder | Al Jazeera America
Johnson was convicted in the March 1994 rape and murder of Angela Sizemore in Albany. Marcus Ray Johnson, 50, was put to death at 10:11 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. The warden left the execution chamber at 9:44 p.m.
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Open thread for night owls. Naomi Klein & Jason Box: Why a climate deal is best hope for peace
Naomi Klein’s new book is This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate. Her previous books include The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Jason Box is an ice-sheet climatologist and ge…
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The Big Bang Theory has spent the last few weeks dealing with the fallout of Amy and Sheldon’s breakup. While Sheldon is, arguably, not over her just yet, he has been able to at least process his feelings in a legitimate way. He’s found comfort in p…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a movie that doesn’t come out for another month, has already made over $50 million in ticket sales. That is, as the experts say, bananas.
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After Trump’s SNL appearance, Republican candidates demand their equal time
Ya think? So, the campaigns of Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Mike Huckabee and George E. Pataki have all sent letters to NBC, requesting the equal time.
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Nathan For You’s secret weapon is its dense, clever use of sight gags, and perhaps the most reliable of them is the artist renderings that appear when Nathan is initially summarizing his pitch for the client.
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The Vampire Diaries is really trying with Lily. They tried her as the mysterious mother figure who returned to Stefan and Damon’s life and shook up their worldview. They tried her as the slightly off-balance antagonist who had to be stopped before s…
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Trainspotting 2 is fucking awesome, according to Robert Carlyle · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Robert Carlyle, one of the fucking stars of the original fucking Trainspotting, has declared the script for the film’s planned fucking sequel, “one of the best scripts [he’s] fucking read.” (“I mean, ever,” he went on to clarify, in a sentence surpr…
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Can Women Build A Better Tinder? — Backchannel — Medium
When a 34-year-old biologist is asked what she is looking for in a man, she doesn’t respond with a height requirement or a hair color. She pauses for a moment, reflecting on a divorce and the French man who came after. He needs to be there for her; …
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New Zealand opens voting on new flag – BBC News
Voting has begun in New Zealand in a referendum which could see the country getting a new national flag. New Zealanders have just under a month to send in a postal ballot on which of five potential new flags they prefer.
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At 6:30 a.m. I was blow-drying my hair, getting ready for work and accepting the demise of my two-week relationship. The nail in the coffin was that at 10 the night before I had texted him something vaguely sexual, and he hadn’t texted back.
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Meet the Pioneering Female Cabbies Who Are Transforming India’s Roads | WIRED
Caption: Twenty-three-year-old Seema laughs during a driving exercise organized for young trainees at a park in southern New Delhi.
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NASA’s growing flowers on the ISS for the first time
Following upon its initial successes with lettuce back in August, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are attempting to coerce a colony of zinnias to flower for the first time.
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NASA unveils shiny new coat for its Orion spacecraft | Ars Technica
NASA on Thursday evening released conceptual images of its Orion spacecraft featuring a new, metallic-based coating that will protect the vehicle both in orbit and during its fiery return to Earth.
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The Mood in Paris After the Attacks – The New Yorker
On Saturday night, there was almost no one on the Métro, except for lone tramps and beggars collapsed in corners. On Sunday, a friend of mine saw a man sitting by himself in a train carriage sobbing, and went to talk with him and commiserate.
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Baseball Cards for the Photography Set – The New Yorker
When you think of the photographer Ansel Adams, you might imagine majestic scenes from Yosemite or the Tetons, conveyed in glorious, high-contrast black-and white.
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Dumb Hicks Are America’s Greatest Threat
Many of America’s political leaders are warning of the dangers posed by Syrian refugees. They are underestimating, though, the much greater danger: dumbass hicks, in charge of things.
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First interracial kiss on British TV rediscovered – BBC News
The British Film Institute has uncovered what is believed to be the earliest known interracial kiss on British TV. You in Your Small Corner was first broadcast live on ITV in June 1962 and has not been seen on TV since.
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Korean On-Demand Cleaning Startup WaHome Scores $1M In Seed Funding | TechCrunch
WaHome, a Seoul-based on-demand home cleaning service, has landed $1 million in seed funding, which it will use to hire more engineers, build features for its Android and iOS apps, and launch in more Korean cities before tackling expansion in Hong K…
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Jonah Lomu’s family say they have been “truly touched” by tributes to the New Zealand great after his death aged 40. Lomu died on Wednesday at home in Auckland. He had been diagnosed with a rare kidney condition in 1995.
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Veteran Jumps to His Death at V.A. Hospital – The Daily Beast
PHILADELPHIA — A disabled veteran seeking psychiatric treatment walked out of a waiting room at the Veteran Affairs medical center in Philadelphia and jumped to his death from its parking garage Thursday morning.
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CNN Reporter Suspended Two Weeks For Tweet In Support Of Syrian Refugees | ThinkProgress
CNN reporter Elise Labott was suspended for two weeks for a tweet that expressed sympathy toward Syrian refugees. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that “would suspend the program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the…
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Kathy Bates to play a bad mom in Bad Santa 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by The Wrap, Kathy Bates has been hired to play the “foul-mouthed mother” of Billy Bob Thornton’s foul-mouthed Papa Noel in Bad Santa 2.
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The skull of the ‘real’ Pooh Bear goes on display – BBC News
The skull of the bear that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh books is going to be put on public display for the first time, in a London museum. Christopher Robin’s teddy bear, which gave the name to AA Milne’s books, was named after Winnie, a black bear …
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New Coldplay album to feature Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyoncé’s baby · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Despite having consciously uncoupled from each other—presumably as part of their respective life goal quests to not spend so much time with Gwyneth Paltrow or Chris Martin anymore—Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow have at le…
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Want To Work For Tesla? Elon Musk Turns To Twitter To Recruits Engineers | TechCrunch
Elon Musk is looking for a few good engineers. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter tonight to announce Tesla is ramping up its autonomous vehicle division and needs some new talent. Oh, and he said he’s going to do some of the interviews, so there’s that …
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PARIS — The flag at half-mast atop the Grand Palais, the darkened silhouette of the Eiffel Tower, the Big Wheel at Place Concorde immobilized for days, the jumpiness at the slightest sound, the stories of friends lost or almost, th
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This simple, dark work will make you think about guns in games / Offworld
A shot rings out in the dark, lighting up one of dozens of faceless windows in front of you. This game is about the feelings that follow.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL—Growing increasingly nervous as he contemplated being the team’s last line of defense, Tennessee Titans punter Brett Kern was reportedly praying Thursday that Jacksonville Jaguars returner Rashad Greene wouldn’t make it all the way …
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Bernie Sanders Democratic Socialism FULL Speech – Georgetown Univ – Nov 19, 2015 – YouTube
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Federal regulators on Thursday approved a genetically engineered salmon as fit for consumption, making it the first genetically altered animal to be cleared for American supermarkets and dinner tables.
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Paris attacks: Investigators face huge task – BBC News
News that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to be the ringleader of the Paris attacks, had died during a French police raid came as a welcome win for investigators.
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Xbox’s Kudo Tsunoda moves to new role at Microsoft | Polygon
Microsoft corporate vice president Kudo Tsunoda, the creative director for Kinect who assumed leadership of multiple Xbox development teams earlier this year, is moving to a new role at the company, one that’s outside the Xbox group.
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Rebuilding lives after Brazil’s ‘worst mining accident’ – BBC News
Unemployed construction worker Renato Martins was playing cards with his friends in the middle of the afternoon of 5 November in Bento Rodrigues, a small rural district of Minas Gerais state in south-west Brazil. They heard a loud bang coming from t…
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Can songwriters survive in the age of music streaming? – BBC News
Songwriters have played a crucial part in the success of many global superstars throughout the history of popular music. Smash hits performed by Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley in the forties or fifties, or Rihanna and Justin Bieber today, were ofte…
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Donald Trump and America’s Muslims – The New Yorker
As you have doubtless noticed, the terrorist attacks in Paris have produced a rhetorical race to the bottom among the Republican candidates for President.
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The Kh-101 long-range cruise missile, which reportedly packs an 800-pound warhead and can fly no less than 1,700 miles under satellite guidance, has been in development by Russia’s cash-strapped aerospace industry for three decades.
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This Raiders of the Lost Ark Poster Has a True Sense of Adventure
The reason we all love Raiders of the Lost Ark is how fun it is. It’s rousing, exciting, sprawling, it basically has it all. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas teamed up to make a movie that makes you feel good, and so too does this poster.
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Men May Not Bleed, But Here’s Why They Have ‘Periods’ – The Daily Beast
Is your man irritable? Does he growl at you if you dare to take a piece of the chocolate bar that he is eating, or seethe a little too angrily at the loss of the TV remote? Well, understand that maybe it’s his time of the month. The poll of 2,412 pe…
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On Wednesday, David Bowers, the mayor of Roanoke, VA., piled onto the backlash against Syrian refugees led by state governors, in the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/Q6TD1XVkTC Stories via @NWF
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Trudging along at his usual speed—i.e., just far enough behind the pop culture curve to make eyes roll any time he announces a new project—parodist Marlon Wayans has unleashed the trailer for his next film, Fifty Shades Of Black.
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Endangered pygmy hippo born at Bristol Zoo – BBC News
The calf, which has not yet been named or sexed, arrived almost three weeks ago. The pygmy hippo is threatened in the wild, where it is thought less than 2,000 survive.
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Bernie Sanders Democratic Socialism FULL Speech – Georgetown Univ – Nov 19, 2015 – YouTube
Bernie Sanders to Talk at Georgetown on Democratic Socialism in America.November 18, 2015 – Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will speak at Georgetown this week about what it means to be a democratic socialist in America.The talk…
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Do we underestimate the power of plants and trees? – BBC News
Research suggests plants might be capable of more than we suspect. Some scientists – controversially – describe plants as “intelligent”. They argue a better understanding of their capabilities could help us solve some of the world’s thorniest proble…
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From Native To Hybrid App Development And Back | TechCrunch
If you’re running an early stage startup, you know how to make the most of limited resources. From getting the most bang out of every marketing buck to jockeying the pace of a small development team, you must execute quickly and efficiently to ensur…
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Paris attacks: France calls on EU to ‘wake up’ to threat – BBC News
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said European countries must “wake up” to terror threats, following the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead. He spoke after it emerged that the suspected Belgian ringleader of the attacks had ent…
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The Rolls-Royce Dawn is a beautiful convertible for the 0.01 percent | The Verge
In the midst of the LA Auto Show this week, Rolls-Royce invited media to a private event away from the hustle and bustle of the convention floor to show off its Dawn convertible. Needless to say, the scene was just a little bit higher-end.
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A week on from the attacks Parisians react – BBC News
Since the attacks on Paris the city has been in a state of shock, mourning the loss of life. Across the French capital people have been taking part in vigils to commemorate those who lost their lives.
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Witness: Waiting for General Franco to die – BBC News
General Francisco Franco seized control of Spain after winning the country’s bloody Civil War and remained in power for nearly 40 years. His death in November 1975 followed a long illness.
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100 Women 2015: Nursing in numbers around the world – BBC News
Nursing is one of the professions most in demand globally. And it is one in which women comprise the majority of the labour force. Out of more than 20 million nurses worldwide, nearly three-quarters are women – and in some cases, more than 90%.
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India’s central bank employees strike over pensions – BBC News
Most of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 17,000 employees went on strike on Thursday in what the central bank described as “mass casual leave”.
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RIP Michael Gross, Creator Of The Ghostbusters Logo
Michael Gross, the man primarily responsible for making one of the most iconic images in film history, passed away on Monday. He was 70 years old.
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Ben Carson: screen Syrian refugees like they might be rabid dogs | US news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has said that blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees from entering the US was akin to handling a rabid dog. At campaign stops in Alabama, Carson said halting Syrian resettlement in th…
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This Will Be the Breakout Track From Adele’s New Album | Vanity Fair
It’s been close to five years since the release of Adele’s 21.
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Argentina polls: A tale of two women voters – BBC News
Argentines will go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president in a run-off election. The two candidates who came out strongest in the first round four weeks ago are Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri.
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Maryland Crabber Catches a Northrop Grumman Drone in the Chesapeake Bay | Motherboard
As a Marylander, I spent most of my life believing crabbers were good at catching one specific thing: delicious blue crabs, or, as I call them, Old Bay vectors. But it turns out at least one of them is quite skilled in catching another type of prey:…
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Cognoa Promises Worried Parents Faster Answers | TechCrunch
There’s been a lot of talk these days about computational medicine, or using massive amounts of data to train a machine to understand more than experts in a particular field, or, at least, to identify health-related problems more quickly.
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What Should We Call the Monster El Niño?
This week, we learned that the 2015 El Niño may end up being most powerful on record, eclipsing three other major El Niño years over the past century. So….why doesn’t this beast of a weather phenomenon have a goddamn name yet?
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Quiz of the week’s news – BBC News
It’s the Magazine’s weekly news quiz – a chance to prove to yourself and others that you have been paying attention to what’s been going on over the past seven days. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine’s email newsletter to get articles sent to your …
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Check out Hamburg’s two new climate-friendly neighborhoods | Grist
Here’s a spoof about what goes on behind polluters’ closed doors. G20 nations spend $452 billion each year on fossil fuel subsidies. But some countries are at least starting to reform those programs.
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This company made a jacket out of microbe-made spider silk | Grist
Here’s a spoof about what goes on behind polluters’ closed doors. G20 nations spend $452 billion each year on fossil fuel subsidies. But some countries are at least starting to reform those programs.
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Tom Scharpling says Google ripped off Best Show for a Chromebook ad · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Beloved curmudgeon (and voice actor, and radio host, and musician) Tom Scharpling has a new cause to grumble about, and, true to form, he’s going after the biggest dog on the online block: Google.
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This 8-Month Twitter Roast Is a Masterpiece — Following: How We Live Online
Insulting a friend’s shoes is one of the true pleasures of existence, as anyone can tell you, but only on Twitter has it been elevated to an art form. We’ll all remember the Great Shoe Roast of 2015.
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Spain feels Franco’s legacy 40 years after his death – BBC News
Spain’s Gen Francisco Franco fought a brutal war against democracy with the aid of Hitler and Mussolini and thereafter presided over a regime of state terror and national brainwashing through the controlled media and the state education system.
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England: You have four days to reply to the secret consultation on the NHS’s future / Boing Boing
The English NHS is at the very end of a key consultation on the future of its “mandate” — which sets out its goals and budgets — and though the public has been able to comment since October, the NHS hasn’t bothered to tell anyone about it.
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Having Sex More Than Once a Week Probably Won’t Make You Any Happier
Depending on how you feel about sex, this news might be good or it might be the worst thing ever. A recent study suggests that couples who have sex multiple times a week aren’t generating any more happiness than couples that only get down once a wee…
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Edgar Wright is making an animated film about “the concept of shadows” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, Edgar Wright’s next directing gig will be for an animated movie—the first of his career. Wright will co-write the project alongside Little Britain’s David Walliams, and it’s said to be “centered on the concept of shadows.
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David Bowie debuts wildly unsettling music video for his new single “★” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After teasing the world with a truly bizarre trailer for the music video to his new single “★” (pronounced “Blackstar”) last week, David Bowie has followed up by releasing the even more insane 10-minute long full cut.
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Museum Statement on Syrian Refugees — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
WASHINGTON, DC—Acutely aware of the consequences to Jews who were unable to flee Nazism, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum looks with concern upon the current refugee crisis.
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‘Hee Haw’ Fiddler Ramona Jones Dead at 91 | Rolling Stone
Old-time fiddler Ramona Jones, who was a veteran of radio, television and the live concert stage, died Tuesday (November 17th) in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. She was 91.
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Powerful New Stormtrooper Weapon Revealed In Another ‘Force Awakens’ TV Spot – Digg
3 diggs Movies TV So it’s… not a sword? But a lightsaber doesn’t cut through it? Huh.
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Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks – The New Yorker
Soon after John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, took the stage on Wednesday, at the annual conference of the Overseas Security Advisory Council, in Washington, D.C.
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s Death in Paris – The New Yorker
Before dawn on Wednesday, the police raided a third-floor apartment in Paris. Seven hours later, some five thousand bullets scarred the walls of the building and the windows had been blown out.
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Who Needs The MVP? Mike Trout Might Be The G.O.A.T. | FiveThirtyEight
The MVP snubs keep piling up for Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels. On Thursday, Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays bested Trout for Most Valuable honors in the American League. It’s the third time that he’s lost in a year when he led the le…
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Google Fit update brings Android users real-time exercise tracking | The Verge
Google Fit has been updated today with several new features that make Android phones and smartwatches more capable fitness trackers. The app now tracks real-time stats for runs, walks, and bike rides, takes strength training into account, and docume…
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Album Review: On ‘Dark Sky Island,’ Enya Is Back to Soothe a Troubled World – The Atlantic
It seems somehow insufficient to describe Enya as a singer—just as it wouldn’t be right to describe, say, Jesus as a charismatic fella with a gift for storytelling.
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Remaining two NC Wyeth paintings stolen in 2013 return to Maine | US news | The Guardian
The two paintings were recovered last month when a third party surrendered them to a retired FBI agent in the Boston area, Harold Shaw, special agent in charge of the bureau’s Boston field office, told reporters at the Portland Museum of Art, where …
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Here’s where to tune in to this year’s MST3K Turkey Day · Newswire · The A.V. Club
This year’s edition of the sacred MSTie tradition known as Turkey Day should be an especially festive affair, considering that the Kickstarter to fund a new season of MST3K has already exceeded its $2 million goal with 22 days left to go in the camp…
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Over the course of Sir Ian McKellen’s prolific 50-year career, the actor has worked alongside some of cinema’s greats, many of them women, including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Ava Gardner, and Meryl Streep.
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Black Tape Over Black Faculty Portraits at Harvard Law School – The Atlantic
When students and faculty arrived at Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall Thursday morning, they found a disturbing sight. On a wall of portraits of the law school’s tenured faculty, black tape had been placed over each of the African American facu…
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Get Excited, Edgar Wright Is Making An Animated Movie About Shadows
Few would argue that Edgar Wright is one of the most exciting filmmakers out in the world today. He’s made only four features, but each is infused with a uniquely palpable style and energy. Now, we’ll get to see what that looks like in animation.
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Portraits of Black Harvard Law Profs Censored — NYMag
Portraits of Harvard Law School’s black professors, which line the school’s Wasserstein Hall, had pieces of black electrical tape “slashed” over them. Campus police are currently investigating the vandalism.
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Bernie Sanders Defends Democratic Socialism | Al Jazeera America
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has never shied away from the “socialist” label. But never before in his campaign has he dedicated an entire speech to embracing it. Speaking to a crowd of Georgetown University students on Thursday a…
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“Real freedom must include economic security. That was Roosevelt’s vision 70 years ago. It is my vision today,” Sanders said in a speech at Georgetown University. “It is a vision that we have not yet achieved and it is time that we did.” (cbsnews.co…
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Bryce Harper Should Have Made $73 Million More | FiveThirtyEight
To the surprise of no one except maybe Paul Goldschmidt’s friends and family, Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals was named National League MVP on Thursday.
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Flooding in Iraq : Image of the Day
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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Jeopardy’s most GIF-able human is back for this week’s finale | The Verge
Tonight marks the first in Jeopardy’s two-night Tournament of Champions finale, and you can bet in True Daily Double style that it will entertain even people who aren’t Jeopardy fans. And it’s all because of Matt.you Matt Jackson is a 23-year-old pa…
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Pack a Perfect Carry-On Bag Every Time With This Formula
There are a lot of creative ways to pack your carry-on bag, but you can easily break it all down into a simple formula. This number-based packing method will make sure you have what you need in your carry-on, and still have room for souvenirs.
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Are Food Deserts to Blame for America’s Poor Eating Habits? Cont’d – The Atlantic
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With the battle for streaming supremacy heating up, Amazon is looking for any advantage it can get over its hated foes at Netflix.
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What’s a Democratic Socialist? Bernie Sanders Explains | Rolling Stone
Bernie Sanders laid out a forceful argument for democratic socialism, the largely misunderstood political philosophy to which the Vermont senator ascribes, in a long-awaited speech delivered at Georgetown University Thursday afternoon.
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Indian grandfather speaks out over ‘assault’ by Alabama police – BBC News
US prosecutors say they plan to try a police officer for a third time for allegedly using excessive force against an Indian grandfather who was pushed to the ground while he went for a morning walk.
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David Bowie Plays Doomed Blind Prophet in Haunting ‘Blackstar’ Video | Rolling Stone
For David Bowie, space remains the place in the haunting, psychedelic short film for the musician’s new song, “★” (previously titled “Blackstar”), the title track from his upcoming LP.
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LG halts sales of LTE connected smartwatch | The Verge
LG has just revealed that it is halting sales of the recently-launched Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE smartwatch, citing a “a hardware issue which affects the day-to-day functionality of the device.
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Here’s What the Latest Investigation of Planned Parenthood Just Revealed; Government investigations of Planned Parenthood in response to a series of deceptive videos produced by anti-abortion activists continue to lead to nothing. (motherjones.com)
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Florida Mayor Pays Ethics Fine in Loose Change — NYMag
Everyone floats the idea of paying an unreasonable fine in the smallest denomination possible, but that’s all talk, right? Not in Florida politics.
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“The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist, remember this: I don’t believe government should own the means of production, but I do believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal,”…
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SAFARI South Africa | A Time-Lapse Film – In 4K on Vimeo
My safari guides thought I was nuts taking thousands of photos each day so hopefully now they will understand… This was my first trip to anywhere in the continent and it was eye opening. There are few things more thrilling than being woken up at 5…
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The Satanic Temple Minneapolis Chapter reaches out to local Muslims – Imgur
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Hands on with HP’s Elite x2, a Surface clone you can actually open and upgrade | Ars Technica
As Microsoft’s Surface designs have improved and become more successful, clones of the same general idea from the PC OEMs have become more and more common (the same thing happened with the Lenovo Yoga design after Windows 8 came out).
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NIH ends support of chimp research, retires last animals | Ars Technica
The last 50 chimpanzees owned by the National Institutes of Health are headed to Chimp Haven—a federally funded sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana.
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Google hires a big name in cloud services to take on Amazon | The Verge
Google wants to get serious about cloud computing, and it’s appointed well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur Diane Greene to lead the charge, according to The New York Times.
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It’s a Freaking Miracle That We Got a Man in the High Castle TV Show
The producers of the Man in the High Castle TV series spent eight years trying to get it off the ground, and having doors slammed in their faces. For a while, the BBC was going to make it, but it fell through.
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Paris attacks: Raid bomber Hasna Aitboulahcen ‘was a model kid’ – BBC News
A woman who reportedly blew herself up during a raid in Saint Denis was “vulnerable” and “fragile”, a former school friend has claimed.
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Congress Assures the World It’s Afraid of Brown Migrants, Once Again | The Nation
Earlier this afternoon the House passed H.R. 4038, a two-day old bill calling for tougher restrictions for Iraqi and Syrian refugees who hope to enter the US The ostensible aim, according to the bill’s author Rep.
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Kids Quiz One-Year Astronaut on Life in Space
Students from East Side Middle School in New York City gathered to talk with astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station during a special event Nov. 19.Credit: Sarah Lewin/Space.
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American Horror Story: Hotel Flashes Back to Old Hollywood, Land of Glamor and Vampires
Despite a mighty effort to keep the Ten Commandments Killer storyline going (zzzz…), it’s Lady Gaga’s Countess who owns this show week after week. In “Flicker,” we got the Countess’ complete origin story—and it’s a doozy, dripping in old Hollywood…
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The Atlantic Daily: A Pause in Refugees, Abaaoud Confirmed Dead, Clinton vs. ISIS – The Atlantic
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to “pause” admissions of Syrian refugees into the country on Thursday as public debate surrounding the program intensifies. Critics allege that the current program’s safeguards are insufficient to prevent ISIS…
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Sanders’ Socialism Speech: America Is For All Of Us, Not Just Wealthy
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Gavin Newsom Calls For Systemic Change In American Politics
So how does American politics get genuinely disrupted? According to Gavin Newsom, California’s current Lieutenant Governor and a leading candidate for Californian Governor in 2018, we need to change the game itself.
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If the fracking boom fizzles, will climate action fizzle, too? | Grist
Jenny Odell’s “Bureau of Suspended Objects” project looks at where the stuff we throw out came from, who made it, and what it means.
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Hold on to your lacerations: We’re heading towards a terrifying, post-antibiotics world | Grist
Jenny Odell’s “Bureau of Suspended Objects” project looks at where the stuff we throw out came from, who made it, and what it means.
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BP could claim a massive tax write-off from Deepwater oil spill penalties | Grist
Jenny Odell’s “Bureau of Suspended Objects” project looks at where the stuff we throw out came from, who made it, and what it means.
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What will green groups demand in Paris, and how will they try to get it? | Grist
Jenny Odell’s “Bureau of Suspended Objects” project looks at where the stuff we throw out came from, who made it, and what it means.
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Watch Jeff Goldblum explain the Clean Power Plan in a Funny or Die video | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s pretty hard to be funny about climate change.
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Do Underwhelming Square, Match IPOs Mean Bubble Trouble? : All Tech Considered : NPR
Two tech startups you know have now gone public: Square (which makes the little white square to swipe credit cards) and Match, the online dating giant. Both companies got nice, first-day pops to their share prices as they started selling for well ab…
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The Leader of the Benghazi Witch Hunt Is Taking on Refugees | Mother Jones
Weeks after chairing the Benghazi hearing with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.
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When Her Neighbor Thought She Broke Into Her Home, 19 Cops Responded : NPR
Fay Wells, an African-American woman who lives in California, wrote about her experience with police in the Washington Post. Her white neighbor called police when he thought she broke into her home.
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Georgia sent out CDs of data from 6 million voters containing SSNs, birth dates | Ars Technica
This week, two Georgia residents filed a class action complaint against Secretary of State Brian P. Kemp for allegedly sending CDs containing personal data belonging to 6 million voters to 12 media organizations, political parties, and other groups,…
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Michael Shannon puts on his most intense face—that is to say, his regular face—in the trailer for Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special.
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Free Amazon scriptwriting app lets scribes pitch directly to Amazon Studios | Ars Technica
While a variety of free and low-priced scriptwriting apps are available across all major computing OSes and Web browsers, only one has launched with a built-in capability to send a finished script directly to a movie or television studio.
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Saying that Robert De Niro, once one of the most respected actors of his generation, doesn’t seem to give a shit about what projects he takes anymore is such a tired complaint that it makes you look almost as doddering and clueless as one of De Niro…
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The A.V. Club has covered television episode by episode in our TV Club section since the fall of 2007, an unforgettable moment in broadcast history that introduced audiences to primetime classics such as Kid Nation, that Bionic Woman reboot, and the…
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Costa Rica arrests Syrian woman with fake passport – BBC News
Costa Rica has detained a Syrian woman with a fake Greek passport, two days after five Syrian men were arrested in Honduras trying to travel to the US on stolen passports. The authorities said the woman had flown to Costa Rica from Peru.
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Facebook Rolls Out New Mobile Tools to Make Breakups a Little Easier
It can hurt to go from being “Facebook official” to regular old Facebook friends, and Facebook is trying to make the whole breakup process a little more manageable.
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Facebook tests ‘break-up’ tools – BBC News
Breaking up is hard to do – especially on Facebook. There’s no feeling quite like the tightening of the stomach you get when you accidentally stumble across an old post involving you and a former loved one in happier times.
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The nation’s biggest polluters call in the Fixer (Jeff Goldblum) for a workaround to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (funny) (funnyordie.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Forest Service Revs Up Push to Open Over 170 Million Tons of Coal to Mining From Colorado Roadless Forest (biologicaldiversity.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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House Passes Bill to Block Refugees — NYMag
The House passed a bill Thursday afternoon that would block plans to welcome 10,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq into the United States.
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Ohio pro-life senators suggests food banks as Planned Parenthood substitute | US news | The Guardian
Ohio this week became the latest state poised to defund Planned Parenthood in reaction to dubious videos accusing its employees of violating federal law. But in an apparent first, its lawmakers are not going after the family planning funds that legi…
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More Mexican People Leaving Than Coming to U.S. — NYMag
In a huge blow to Donald Trump’s terrific and good-looking wall, a new Pew Research survey finds that net Mexican immigration to the United States has dropped, with more people returning to Mexico than coming to the United States since 2009.
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The IPO Market Fails To Die | TechCrunch
Technology IPOs, written off for the year just months ago, are back. And back in style. Both Square and Match Group posted incredibly solid first-day results yesterday. You can’t knock that. All sarcastic tweets aside, the firms priced at a point th…
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Google Buys Bebop And Names Diane Greene To Lead Enterprise Cloud Effort | TechCrunch
In a surprise move today, Google announced it was buying enterprise development platform startup bebop and making its founder, Diane Greene head of its enterprise cloud business. Greene boasts an impressive background as one one of the co-founders a…
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How the Death of Rdio Turned Me into a Teen | Vanity Fair
Last week, I ran into Drew Larner, the former C.E.O. of Rdio, a once-popular music-streaming service that appeared to be nearing its death throes.
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Jenny McCarthy Has Maybe the Worst Take on Charlie Sheen’s H.I.V. Stat | Vanity Fair
Noted medical scientist and entertainment personality Jenny McCarthy has, naturally, weighed in on Charlie Sheen’s recent disclosure of his H.I.V.-positive status, because she did a few episodes of Two and a Half Men with Sheen, playing a love inter…
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Bernie Sanders on why Democratic socialism can help the US – video | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says economic security is essential to Americans achieving true freedom, adding that Democratic socialism is the only way to achieve such a goal.
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‘Bringing History to Bear’ | The Nation
Forum with Michael Krasny, November 18. Founded by Republican abolitionists after the end of the Civil War, The Nation marks its 150th anniversary this year.
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Harvard Law School says portraits of black faculty members have been defaced a day after a campus rally for black students. Several portraits were discovered Thursday with black strips of tape placed diagonally over the black faculty members’ faces.
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The Generation That Doesn’t Remember Life Before Smartphones
Down a locker-lined hallway at Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis, Zac Felli, a junior, walks to his first class of the day. He wears tortoiseshell glasses and is built like he could hit a ball hard. He has enviable skin for a teenager, sm…
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A Field Guide to Psychedelics – The New Yorker
You can’t tell a great deal about the Web site Erowid from its home page. A tagline reads, “Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans & Psychoactives.” This text is surrounded by photographs: a cactus, a cannabis bud, a bottle of ketamine,…
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Batman Europa’s Gorgeous Art Was Worth the 11-Year Wait
More than 11 years after it was first revealed, Batman Europa’s first issue has finally hit store shelves. While its globetrotting story of a tenuous partnership between the Joker and Batman isn’t particularly shocking yet, it more than makes up for…
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“Senator Bernie Sanders offered a robust defense of democratic socialism on Thursday, defining his political philosophy in explicit terms and arguing that his views would bring economic fairness back to America.” (nytimes.com)submitted 1 hour ago by…
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Carson’s Mississippi Chairman Has A Racist Past – The Daily Beast
Ben Carson’s campaign somewhat quietly appointed a longtime Republican operative with a penchant for segregationist policies as their Mississippi chairman. Yes, you read that correctly.
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Donald Trump’s Imaginary Foreign Policy Experts – The Daily Beast
In spite of his bizarre, oft-panned foreign-policy pronouncements, Donald Trump has consistently polled surprisingly well among Republican primary voters when it comes to issues of national security and terrorism.
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Google offers legal support to some YouTube users in copyright battles | Technology | The Guardian
Google is stepping up its defense of YouTube users who find themselves on the wrong side of a copyright claim, the tech company said on Thursday.
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“The Night Before” and Seth Rogen’s Ethical Comedy – The New Yorker
The central subject of “The Night Before” isn’t Christmas but drugs—or, rather, drugs and family.
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Attack of the Clones Is a Star Wars Wish-Fulfillment Checklist Gone Horribly Wrong
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is universally considered the worst Star Wars film. Upon rewatching it, it’s hard to disagree—but you do see lots of what George Lucas was trying to do. Most of which was unsuccessful. Welcome to our Star W…
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You’ll be dead by the time this John Malkovich movie comes out | The Verge
John Malkovich and Robert Rodriguez made a movie called 100 Years and it’s not based on the Five for Fighting song. It’s called 100 Years because it won’t be released until November 18th, 2115 — 100 years from yesterday.
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The Man in the High Castle Star Alexa Davalos Promises a “Roller Coast | Vanity Fair
Alexa Davalos speaks quietly, and with a not-quite-placeable accent that hints at a childhood spent in Paris and Italy.
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Paris raid woman Hasna Aitboulahcen ‘was vulnerable’ – BBC News
The woman who blew herself up during a raid in Saint Denis was vulnerable and fragile, according to one of her school friends. Hasna Aitboulahcen had written on Facebook that she wanted to go to Syria, but her friend – who gave her name only as Khem…
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Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Paramedic
It’s taken for granted far too easily that emergency workers are available to rush to your side with just a phone call. Paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and other critical care specialists are ready and waiting to assist, and it’s rarely e…
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WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to slap stringent — and difficult to implement — new screening procedures on refugees from Syria seeking resettlement, seizing on the fear stemming from the Paris attacks and threatening to cloud …
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Mass. to Ban Fantasy Sports for People Under 21 | Al Jazeera America
Massachusetts would prohibit people under the age of 21 from playing paid fantasy sports games under a proposed set of regulations for the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry laid out on Thursday by state Attorney General Maura Healey.
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‘There’s A Whole Other Hole’: American Filmmaker Reflects On Loss In Paris : NPR
Max Salomon is an American documentary filmmaker living in Paris. He offers his reflections on loss after last Friday’s attacks.
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Drug Treatment Slots Are Scarce For Pregnant Women : NPR
Tennessee’s “fetal assault” law is designed to push pregnant women into drug treatment programs. But there are not enough of those programs available for the people who need them.
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U.S. House Votes to Halt Syrian Refugee Resettlement Program (nbcnews.com)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading…
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Jimmy Iovine thinks finding music is too difficult for women | The Verge
A couple months ago, you may have seen a commercial for Apple Music floating around the internet, perhaps accompanied by a praise hands emoji or an all-caps “SLAY.
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118 More Years of the Gender Wage Gap – The Atlantic
Earlier this week, one analysis suggested that the growth of American women’s wages had stalled this year.
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No, Rep. King, Not All Suicidal Terrorists Are Muslim | ThinkProgress
“Can you identify for me a suicidal terrorist that was not a Muslim?” Rep. Steve King (R-IOWA) asked at a Congressional hearing on refugees, which took place on Thursday. The question was met with audible exasperation from those in the room. U.S.
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Not Doomed Yet: 2015 Will Be the Hottest Year Ever Recorded – The Atlantic
I’m unsure how to write about the final defeat of the Keystone XL pipeline. On the one hand, it’s a domestic politics story, a story of party signaling and allegiance, and thus outside the purview of this newsletter.
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Live animal export rules and environmental measures will be reviewed as part of a Productivity Commission inquiry into regulations affecting Australian farm businesses.
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Adele isn’t streaming her new album, everyone will buy it anyway · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Adele’s new album, 25, will be in stores tomorrow, and apparently that’s the only place it’ll be.
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Life can be pretty complicated in a post-apocalyptic wasteland governed by various mutants, raiders, ghouls, and weaponized police factions.
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My Grandma, the Sex Worker | Broadly
Going through my parents’ divorce was a weird time—at 16, a part of me felt freed from the shackles of my domineering, sexist father, and the other part of me really wasn’t ready for the change.
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When Logan’s Run, the seminal 1976 science fiction classic, is ultimately remade for modern audiences, it may very well be a multi-film franchise, according to writer/producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days Of Future Past). The original film—based on Wi…
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11.22.63 trailer: J.J. Abrams and James Franco bring Stephen King’s book alive for Hulu | The Verge
“I’m gonna tell you something that’s gonna seem crazy. You go through there, it’s 1960. I need to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.” That’s all you really need to know to set up 11.22.63, an upcoming eight-part series from J.J.
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Here’s What Not to Do After Paris | The Nation
Honestly, I don’t know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me. In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, I have the urge to write one of two sentences here: Paris changed everything; Paris changes nothing. Each is, in its o…
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GM and the US Army team up to test a fuel cell pickup truck | Ars Technica
While they might not be perfect for every use case, powering a vehicle with a hydrogen fuel cell can be quite a compelling solution. They’re quiet, they don’t generate a lot of waste heat, and once they’ve used their fuel you’re left with pure water.
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Bernie Sanders defends his politics as authentic face of American democracy | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders cast himself as the natural successor to President Franklin D Roosevelt on Thursday in a speech designed to place his “democratic socialism” at the heart of an American political tradition.
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Kuwait says it busted international ISIL support cell – Al Jazeera English
Kuwaiti security authorities have busted an international cell that was sending air defence systems and funds to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the interior ministry said.
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See Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Go-Go Take on ‘Sixteen Tons’ | Rolling Stone
Whoever it was that thought it would be a good idea to take a hugely popular country-folk song about a Kentucky coal miner from 1955 and a decade later re-work it into a groovy dance tune, complete with go-go dancers and trademark finger snaps, well…
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Here’s Bernie Sanders’ plan for fighting ISIS: “Sanders advocates for working with US allies to set up a new alliance of nations, which he compares to NATO, to take on terrorism.” (vox.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Watch Mysterious First Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Midnight Special’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Mysterious First Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Midnight Special’ Michael Shannon’s son doesn’t seem to be of this world in teaser for upcoming suspense movie
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Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US : democrats
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Let’s Hope That Tom Brady’s ‘Fancy Sweats’ in GQ Are the Future of Fashion – The Atlantic
In its naming of Tom Brady as its Man of the Year—yet again, and despite everything—the newest issue of GQ offers a selection of photos of the man it’s dubbed the latest “G.O.A.T.,” or “Greatest of All Time.
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Americans contemplate internment camps for war refugees
We’ve done it, America. It took terrorist attacks in France by French citizens against French targets, and the very next week we’re contemplating American internment camps. If the U.S.
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Subway Perv Jared Fogle Blubbers Over Jail Sentence – The Daily Beast
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Thursday—months after the FBI raided his home as part of a child porn probe that also ensnared the director of his children’s charity.
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Following the Paris terrorist attacks and a renewed sense of urgency to combat the threat, President Barack Obama is facing a national security revolt from within his own Democratic ranks.
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The Most Important Moments From Bernie Sanders’ Speech Defending Democratic Socialism | Mother Jones
In a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont who’s seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, did something unprecedented for a major candidate: He made the case for democratic so…
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You can now invite people to join a Google Hangouts call even if they don’t have a Google account. It’s a small but convenient update that makes it a little easier to use the service, which previously required all participants in a call to have or m…
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Portraits of Black Harvard Law School Professors Defaced After Protest | Vanity Fair
On Thursday morning, after a day of anti-racism protests in solidarity with several other campuses, Harvard Law School students discovered that portraits of the school’s African-American professors, hanging alongside portraits of the school’s other …
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Detroit-area ‘RoboCop’ found guilty in beating of unarmed black man | US news | The Guardian
The officer, William Melendez, 47, was convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and misconduct in office. He was not found guilty of a third charge, assault by strangulation.
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US House snubs Obama to pass tougher refugee screening – Al Jazeera English
The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill to intensify security screenings of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama.
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Manage and Express Emotions Better with This Two-Step Process
Ever have one of those days where you’re just pissed off for no reason? Or you’re anxious, but can’t really narrow down why? Over at The Atlantic, they spoke with David Caruso, co-founder of the Emotional Intelligence Skills Group to come up with a …
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Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US (thehill.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading…
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The FDA just approved the nation’s first genetically engineered animal: A salmon that grows twice as fast (washingtonpost.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Gender Pay Inequity Wide, 118 Years to Get Parity | Al Jazeera America
The United States has fallen behind in overall gender equality, now ranking below Slovenia, Mozambique and Moldova, according to an annual global ranking of the gender gap in health, economics, politics and education.
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Drone Strikes Fuel the Hatred that Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say | Motherboard
In the past week, hawkish politicians and government officials have seized on the terrorist attacks that killed 129 in Paris in a renewed push for various counterterrorism agendas.
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WHEN should a doctor betray a patient’s confidence? This week the Supreme Court of the State of Washington heard arguments on this question in a case that has profound implications for the doctor-patient relationship. In the case, Volk v.
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Europe Wants to Crack Down on Bitcoin Despite Little Evidence that ISIS Uses It | Motherboard
The European Union is considering cracking down on the semi-anonymous digital currency Bitcoin after the deadly Islamic State-affiliated attacks in Paris were followed by reports that the terror group was using it.
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Judge Rules Frozen Embryos Don’t Survive Divorce — NYMag
In another case defining the legal frontiers of IVF treatment, a California judge has ruled against a divorced woman who wanted to implant frozen embryos created with now her ex-husband, who objected to their use. Instead, they must be thawed out an…
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As any music nerd with a few hundred MP3s knows, each iTunes update can bring a whole new world of pain. When Apple launched Apple Music, for instance, some users found their existing tracks overwritten, stripped from their phones, or just plain dis…
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Derek Jeter Denies Gift-Basket Rumors, Again — NYMag
In 2011, the New York Post ran the most memorable gossip item of Derek Jeter’s long playing career.
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Steven Strogatz walks us through the first mathematical proof Albert Einstein did when he was a boy: a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Einstein, unfortunately, left no such record of his childhood proof.
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Your Frustrating Commute, Animated – The Atlantic
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The Clock of the Long Now: The Clock Designed to Tick for 10,000 Years – The Atlantic
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Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column with a graduate degree from the Unseen University. This week, we’re untangling tricky emotional issues. One reader wants to know whether his porn habit and his girlfriend are mutua…
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Earth as seen by Hubble – Oct 2013 js – Just Space
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Read Bernie Sanders’s speech on democratic socialism in the United States – Vox
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Read Bernie Sanders’s speech on democratic socialism in the United States : Liberal
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Learned something new about us today : democrats
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Bernie Sanders Delivers Anticipated Speech On Democratic Socialism : NPR
Socialism is a dirty word for most Americans. It conjures images of an oppressive, anti-capitalist government. But democratic socialist is a label Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wears proudly. On Thursday, he explained what it mean…
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Correction: World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle : NPR
On Wednesday’s program, NPR misidentified the gigantic jigsaw puzzle. We incorrectly stated it was a work called “Wildnerness” by Adrian Chesterton, when in fact it is called “Wildlife” by Adrian Chesterman.
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From Grocery Shelves To Pop Culture: A Century of Coca-Cola Bottles : NPR
Whether it’s in the hands of animated polar bears or Santa Claus, there’s one thing you’ll find in nearly all ads for Coca-Cola: the emblematic glass bottle. Most Americans don’t drink soda out of the glass bottles seen in Coke’s ads anymore.
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Sanders Speech Highlights Generational Divide Over Socialism : NPR
Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, made a major address about socialism at Georgetown University Thursday. That word — socialist — means many different things to different people. And often a lot changes in the meaning of that word based on…
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Hillary Clinton Calls For Shift In Strategy To Destroy ISIS : NPR
Former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton laid out her ideas on national security and the struggle against terrorism on Thursday.
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Suspected Planner Of Paris Attacks Took Conventional Journey To Radicalization : NPR
Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Salim Benghalem are emerging from the Friday the 13th attacks in Paris as the country’s most famous terrorists. NPR has a look at their lives and how they were radicalized.
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As France Moves To Extend State Of Emergency, Critics Raise Concerns : NPR
The French National Assembly voted to extend the state of emergency by three months. NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Jean-Pierre Dubois, president of France’s Human Rights League, a critic of the law.
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House Passes Legislation Designed To Pause Refugee Resettlement : NPR
The House passed legislation Thursday to pause the refugee resettlement program. The legislation includes new requirements for the government agencies that are screening Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
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Obama Pushes Back Against Opponents Of Syrian Refugees In U.S. : NPR
While overseas this week, President Obama has weighed in multiple times on the ongoing debate in the U.S. over Syrian refugees — often using pointed rhetoric and jabbing at his political opponents.
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After The Paris Attacks, What Should France Do Next? : NPR
One big question following the Paris attacks is what France should do next — both domestically and internationally. NPR explores possible responses.
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Israeli Supporters Lobby To Bring Jonathan Pollard Home After Release : NPR
Convicted spy Pollard is expected to get released from prison over the weekend. Israeli supporters say it’s long overdue and are disappointed he’s not allowed to serve his parole in Israel.
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St. Denis Residents Worry More Attacks Are Inevitable After Paris : NPR
There’s not much rejoicing in Paris about the death of the man said to have coordinated Friday’s attacks in the city. Many people feel it’s a small victory, but also that more attacks are inevitable.
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From Deadbeat To Dead Broke: The ‘Why’ Behind Unpaid Child Support : NPR
On a recent Saturday afternoon at his West Baltimore rowhouse, Harrelle Felipa fields a steady stream of interruptions as he breads a large plate of fish and chicken for dinner. His 4-year-old son wants to recite his letters. The 3-year-old brings h…
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Weathermen Who Died In World War II Posthumously Awarded Purple Hearts : NPR
Four World War II U.S. weathermen lost their lives when a German U-Boat sunk the ship they were on. They never received their purple hearts until Thursday.
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A Writer Gets Grilled By His 18-Year-Old Self In ‘Later That Same Life’ : NPR
Back in 1977, an 18-year-old Peter “Stoney” Emshwiller filmed himself asking questions meant for his future self.
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Review: On his new album, Arca’s introspection turns dark | The Verge
Arca’s 2014 debut album Xen was named after Alejandro Ghersi’s alter-ego. She was feminine, but menacing; seductive and stylized but raw and uncompromising. She was everything Ghersi, a young, queer producer, born to relative wealth in Venezuela, wa…
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Good Girl recognizing the neighbors dog while on a walk, Buddies. – GIF on Imgur
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Refugee nationalities screened at borders: witnesses – Al Jazeera English
Some Balkan countries are screening refugees at borders, allowing those who can prove they are fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan to travel on, but turning back some from Africa and Asia, witnesses said.
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More Mexico migrants leaving US than arriving – study – BBC News
A new study has found that a longstanding flow of immigration has been reversed – more Mexicans are leaving the US than migrating there.More than one million Mexicans and their families, including their US-born children, returned to Mexico from 2009…
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Nigel Lythgoe is now best known in America as a fixture of reality competition shows, serving as a producer on American Idol and a judge on So You Think You Can Dance.
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Google wants to stop being just an ad company by 2020 | The Verge
The technology industry is flush with companies forecasting the rapid growth of cloud computing over the next five to 10 years. Now Google, a relatively small player in the cloud market, has chimed in.
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Potential Fallout From a Nicaraguan Canal | Al Jazeera America
TechKnow’s, Phil Torres traveled to Nicaragua recently to learn about the proposed $50-billion dollar Nicaraguan Canal project and how local people and the environment will be impacted.
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The season two trailer for Transparent temporarily swaps navel-gazing for stargazing, with a nice voiceover about the scope and age of the universe that tries to put the Pfefferman family’s troubles in perspective.
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George Lucas left the Star Wars universe because he felt constricted by its fans, according to his Vanity Fair interview published this week. “You go to make a movie and all you do is get criticized,” Lucas says, explaining why he left the franchise…
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The wallet that does nothing / Boing Boing
Hammacher Schlemmer is a mostly mail-order company from which I’ve bought some lovely cashmere sweaters for my wife at Christmas. The company is renowned for its entertaining mail-order catalogue (and a great return policy) which has provided me wit…
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The Hobbit movies were awful, and now we know why | The Verge
Like a lot of people, I loved Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings trilogy (although we can all admit Return of the King didn’t quite know when to leave the party).
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Bernie Sanders is misunderstood. The Democratic presidential candidate is a Democratic socialist, but his opponents keep calling him a regular socialist. Donald Trump keeps calling him a communist. And with those distinctions, most political pundits…
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To write about Syria is to drown slowly in moral quicksand. It is not just that the situation is complex.
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Quora Launches Troll-Free AMA “Writing Sessions” | TechCrunch
The chaos of Reddit’s Ask Me Anythings doesn’t lend itself to the most thoughtful answers. They’re short, plagued by trolls, and people who care about the topic or person might not know an AMA is happening until it’s over.
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The Evolution Of The Biohacking Ecosystem | TechCrunch
Silicon Valley efforts in the biology and health domains have recently seen increased public interest because of the questions around the legitimacy of Theranos’ technology and medical claims and the recent FDA approvals for a number of 23andMe’s ge…
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Donald Trump is trying really hard to sound like a Nazi | The Verge
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been spouting increasingly fascist ideas for months, but in an interview published today by Yahoo he crossed what must be some kind of rubicon toward actual Nazism and not just the implication of it.
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James Franco Gets His Time Travel Mission in the Teaser for Hulu’s 11.22.63 Series
It’s only 30 seconds long, but the teaser for Hulu’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 11.22.63 has a ton of information. It’s got a voiceover to tell you the mission statement: go back in time to save JFK. It’s a bunch of people running around in period…
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Clear Out Multiple Photos in iOS Message Threads to Quickly Regain Space
By default, iMessage saves every single photo you’re sent (you can change this, of course), which is super handy, but also eats up a ton of space. It’s easy enough to pop in and delete those photos one-by-one, but 9to5 Mac points out a somewhat hidd…
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French Muslim Council ask all mosques to decry ‘terror’ – Al Jazeera English
The body representing Muslims in France has called on the country’s 2,500 mosques to condemn “all forms of violence or terrorism” in prayers this Friday. The call comes days after a string of co-ordinated attacks across Paris killed 129 people.
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Cuba’s Only Email Service Has Been Mysteriously Shut Down | Motherboard
The Cuban government has shut down the island’s only official email service provider and it’s not clear when it’ll come back. The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) announced in an official note Wednesday that it has had to “complet…
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After days of uncertainty, the French government announced Wednesday that several side events previously planned for the U.N. climate talks in Paris — including two mass mobilizations meant to bookend the talks — would be cancelled.
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Sanders invokes FDR, LBJ, and Martin Luther King Jr. to define his version of ‘democratic socialism’
Much of the media run-up to the speech that some described in advance as a “defining moment” in the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders took note of how the word “socialism” has been demonized in the United States since the 1930s.
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Live: Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism : politics
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Senator Bernie Sanders Address Democratic | Video | C-SPAN.org
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Nixon killed JFK and stole his brain! and other hard-hitting tabloid news / Boing Boing
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he m…
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The Way Forward on Refugees | New Republic
Sadik Kukic came to the United States from Bosnia in 1993. At that time Bosnia was consumed by war: Following the break-up of Yugoslavia, territorial disputes had given rise to armed conflict, which eventually led to the attempted genocide of Bosnia…
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Adele Says She Won’t Stream New Album but It May Already Be Too Late | Vanity Fair
Like Taylor Swift and other powerful artists like her, Adele has decided not to digitally stream her new album, 25. But it may already be too late to keep the album limited to paying customers only.
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Meet Uyan and Dina, Frozen Cave Lion Cubs from the Ice Age
New photographs of a pair of cave lion cubs found frozen in Siberia give an unprecedented look at a species that has been extinct for about 10,000 years. Russian researchers revealed new details about the cubs in a press conference on Tuesday, inclu…
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As protests in Minneapolis intensified over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced a planned candlelight vigil and march for Friday, which their leaders woul…
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Sun’s ‘Invisible’ Magnetic Loops Revealed In Ultraviolet Light | Video
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Last Night’s Arrow Could be a Game-Changer for Superhero Shows in General
You should watch the latest Arrow episode with the sound off. This is not an insult to the dialogue in “Brotherhood,” but a tribute to the fights. Not only could this story be told largely through the ass-kickings, this style could actually change w…
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Charlie Sheen Plots Memoir | Rolling Stone
Charlie Sheen has plans to chronicle his lengthy film and TV career, as well as his struggle with HIV, in a new memoir, Entertainment Tonight reports.
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The Absurd History of Nike Air Technology
Like many soul-searching 1990s adolescents, I was obsessed with Nike Air technology. I’d pore over the latest innovations, from visible forefoot air to tuned air to other types of air. I’d even buy used sneakers at the flea market and tear them apar…
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Meet the activist leading the lonely ‘smokers’ rights’ movement — Hopes&Fears
Audrey Silk, the founder of CLASH, is fighting for her right to smoke… anywhere she wants. Plenty of people like to smoke. At last count, about 42.1 million Americans were still getting their daily nicotine intake from old-fashioned paper-wrapped …
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Don’t Do It, Adele! | TechCrunch
It seems that Adele, an artist that I love nearly as much as Metallica — and that is my highest possible praise — will not stream her new album on Spotify. This has made me quite sad.
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A key indicator for the strength of El Niño has reached a record high, the US weather agency said, adding to signs that a weather pattern known for causing extreme droughts, storms and floods could become one of the strongest ever.
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Judge rules to release video of Chicago teen being shot 16 times by police | US news | The Guardian
After his ruling, the judge heard arguments from the city to hold off on releasing the video, but denied their motion to stay. The decision comes one day after a letter from the Illinois attorney general’s office asking for the release of the video …
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Stanford Univ ordered students for Fossil Fuel Divestment off the Quad. Here’s their hilarious response. (fossilfreestanford.org)
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The House Just Voted to Make It a Lot Harder for Syrian Refugees to Enter the US | Mother Jones
Responding to increased fears of terrorism in the United States following the Paris attacks, the House of Representatives passed a Republican-backed bill Thursday that would temporarily freeze Syrian and Iraqi refugees’ entry into the United States …
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The FDA just approved the nation’s first genetically engineered animal: A salmon that grows twice as fast (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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When Patricia Highsmith Offered Gay Readers a Hopeful Ending | New Republic
When The Price of Salt was first published in paperback in 1953, Patricia Highsmith was flooded with thousands of letters from readers.
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If you think banning refugees today is ‘smart politics,’ then you think it was right in World War II
Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, was murdered in the Holocaust. Her family was denied entry to the U.S. Chris Cillizza is a Washington Post writer who runs a political blog called “The Fix.
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Tubi TV, a company offering a free alternative to paid subscription video services like Netflix, is announcing today new investments from two major Hollywood studios, MGM and Lionsgate, who have joined in the San Francisco-based startup’s $6 million…
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Inside Faraday Future, the secretive car company chasing Tesla | The Verge
Inside a suburban Los Angeles industrial building that once served as an R&D facility for Japanese automotive giant Nissan, natural midday light spills through the windows. Today, a very different company occupies this space. I arrive at lunchtime.
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Is the Leap Second Good or Bad? We Have Until 2023 to Find Out | Motherboard
The world will hold onto its leap second, at least until 2023.
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A little over a year ago, The A.V. Club ran a piece where we talked to Mike Futia, a onetime contestant on Supermarket Sweep. In between revelations about fake hams and turtleneck dickeys, we learned just what it was like to be on the show, commerci…
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John Cena to host military-inspired competition show on Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, John Cena has been named the host of American Grit, a new reality show for Fox that is not—despite what you may think if you read the name too quickly—based on a line of expensive dolls.
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Facebook introduces new tools for the recently dumped · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Studies have repeatedly shown that spending too much time on Facebook leads to a distorted view of other peoples’ lives and accomplishments compared to your own, which can lead to depression. Yet 1.1 billion people are currently logging on to the se…
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How Richard Nixon Inspired the Most Iconic Movie Villain of the 70s | Vanity Fair
Michael Douglas says he knew just from watching the dailies that he had something magical in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, his first film as a producer. Louise Fletcher, the relative unknown cast as Nurse Ratched, wasn’t as sure.
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Movie of the Week: “Tristana” – The New Yorker
As directors go, Luis Buñuel, who started as a Surrealist with the loudest of cinematic shrieks (“The Andalusian Dog”), eventually became the slyest of sly foxes, infusing his bemused revulsion at the way of the world into recognizably realistic dep…
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Ben Carson’s Plan to Defeat ISIS Is to Follow Anonymous Into Battle | Motherboard
In the wake of the tragic and bloody terrorist attacks in Paris, presidential candidates must now face the recurring question: How would you counter the rise of ISIS if you were president? For Ben Carson, the answer is easy: Follow the lead of the h…
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Alan Moore Advises New Writers to Self-Publish Because Big Publishers Suck
At an anti-library closure protest, local magician and comics legend Alan Moore had some surprising words for those who hope break into the wide world of published writing.
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SELFIEThe revolutionary potential of your own face, in seven chaptersThe one where a woman snaps a picture of herself, by herself.The one where we met three dead photographers who would have loved the iPhone.
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The Gendered Language Students Use to Describe Professors – The Atlantic
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What Free Apps Are You Thankful For This Year?
Paying for apps is great, but there’s something special about finding a free app you love. We want to know your favorites. Every year we come together and give thanks for our favorite free apps and developers, then compile that list on Thanksgiving.
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Why Bernie Sanders won’t brush his hair – Al Jazeera English
Bernie Sanders doesn’t like brushing his hair. And if you ask some of his staff, they’ll roll their eyes and declare, “enough about the hair already”, as one did to Al Jazeera recently.
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Salmon Is First Transgenic Animal to Win US Approval for Food – Scientific American
A fast-growing salmon has become the first genetically engineered animal to be approved for human consumption in the United States. The decision, issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 19, releases the salmon from two decade…
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Ben Carson Compares Syrian Refugees To ‘Rabid Dogs’ | ThinkProgress
Dr. Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon who is currently polling in second place for the Republican nomination for president, compared Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs.
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Timothy Laraway, 57, has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. As a destitute person in Los Angeles County, he’s entitled to get a subsistence benefit of $221 per month from the state’s Genera…
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Man, the “I’m not running because ‘it’s my turn’” jabs are brutal. The key link here is the revival of FDR’s understanding that “freedom” ceases to exist if you spend your entire time on Earth meeting the most basic of needs (or not meeting them).
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What Education Policy Makers Can Learn From A ‘Failing School’
Rizga uses her considerable journalistic skills—honed as the education writer for Mother Jones—to involve readers in the lives of students and educators at Mission High, a San Francisco public school with a proud history but a “failing school” label.
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Two Syrian families present themselves to authorities at US-Mexico border | US news | The Guardian
Federal officials say eight Syrians have turned themselves over to immigration authorities along the Texas-Mexico border.
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Paul Allen’s plan to launch rockets from airplanes may be crashing | Ars Technica
When it comes to dotcom billionaires and their rocket plans, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos get all the attention. Musk is already launching rockets for NASA, and Bezos is building the engine for America’s largest rocket company, United Launch Alliance.
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Israeli police confirm that a US citizen was killed in a shooting incident in the occupied West Bank along with two others on Thursday.
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Facebook tests tools for dealing with former lovers – Al Jazeera English
As e-sports boom globally, Lee Jae-dong reveals what it takes to be a champion in S Korea where gamers are celebrities. How Massimo Banzi’s Arduino microcontroller enabled thousands of people to build everything from toys to drones.
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This map shows which countries are squandering the most money on fossil fuel subsidies | Grist
Of course, the world is larger than the G20. In a new paper from the New Climate Economy, the authors detail the subsidy question from a global angle, but they target countries that are actually attempting to phase out fossil fuel subsidies (both wi…
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Imagine for a moment that author J.K. Rowling had not exercised so much control over the films made from her ridiculously successful Harry Potter novels. What if she’d simply signed a contract, taken the money, and said, “Do whatever the hell you wa…
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Caterpillar’s heavy vehicles are killswitched subprime computers on wheels / Boing Boing
In an earnings call in which Caterpillar execs explained their dismal takings to investors, Cat execs explained their plan to grow by leasing tractors to Chinese companies with crummy track-records for payment.
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STDs On The Rise Nationwide – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The CDC reports that cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are all steeply on the rise after a decade of steady decline, though they caution that the higher numbers could merely indicate the public’s improved reporting of STDs. What do you thi…
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Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15 | MIT News
Ahaan Rungta and his family moved from Calcutta, India, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2001, the same year MIT announced OpenCourseWare (OCW), a bold plan to publish all of MIT’s course materials online and to share them with the world for free.
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T.J. Miller is starring in his own action comedy, Ex-Criminals · Newswire · The A.V. Club
T.J. Miller is best known for his role on Silicon Valley as Erlich Bachman, an asshole who owns a startup incubator and has facial hair as eccentric as his name.
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Kamasi Washington and The Mountain Goats to play 2016 Noise Pop Music Festival in SF / Boing Boing
Kamasi Washington, 34, is a saxophonist and composer who is carrying the spiritual jazz torch pioneered by the likes of John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, Albert Ayler, and Stanley Cowell. But his sound is not a retro trip.
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If you’ve ever wanted to see a video about how to cook a pot-infused Thanksgiving turkey shot in the style of a Requiem for a Dream heroin-shooting sequence, you have come to the right place. (via devour)
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House Passes Bill Aimed At Halting Refugees From Entering The United States | ThinkProgress
By a vote of 289-137, the House overwhelmingly passed the American Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act of 2015, a bill seeking to halt the resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the United States until federal authorities could prove t…
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Midday open thread. Study: low-carbon makeover of U.S. industry would create 2 million jobs
The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has withdrawn its application for route approval through Nebraska, but a spokesman says the Canadian company reserves the right to reapply.
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Hillary Clinton Unveils Her ISIS Battle Plan — NYMag
For the first five days following the attacks in Paris, the debate over how America should proceed in its war on ISIS focused largely on questions of rhetoric and refugees.
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The Latest Responses to the Paris Attacks — NYMag
Shortly before French authorities announced that Abdelhamid Abaaoud had been killed in Thursday’s police raid in Saint-Denis, the National Assembly voted to extend the state of emergency in France for another three months.
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Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren slams tax reform plans: “When I look at the details, I see the same rigged game — a game where Congress hands out billions in benefits to big, well-connected corporations, while people who really could use a break…
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Jared Fogle Gets More Than 15 Years in Prison — NYMag
Jared Fogle was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison at a federal courthouse in Indianapolis on Thursday afternoon, and is no longer allowed to have any unsupervised visits with any children besides his own. After he is released, he will be ele…
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Ted Cruz Is Pretty Hot As a Cartoon — NYMag
All presidential candidates are a little bit self-deluded. No human being with a clear sense of their own limitations would ever apply for the position of “world’s most powerful person.
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Hulu has released an official teaser trailer for its upcoming original series, 11/22/63, based on the Stephen King novel of the same title.
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The last two Republican presidential primary contests have followed the same script: A conservative candidate wins in Iowa, a relative moderate wins in New Hampshire, and the latter — with broader appeal and all of the establishment
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WASHINGTON — At least three dozen people in the United States suspected of ties to the Islamic State were under heavy electronic or physical surveillance even before the Paris attacks, senior American officials say.
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What Polls Can’t Tell Us About Faith In America | FiveThirtyEight
Perhaps it’s no surprise that polling about America’s religious life is tricky. Religion is personal, nuanced and evolving — all things that make it resistant to easy quantification. But it’s that enigmatic nature of religious life that makes statis…
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F1 champion Lewis Hamilton designed this motorcycle in tribute to his awesomeness | The Verge
A few weeks ago, Lewis Hamilton snagged his third Formula One World Championship, and he might be the best racing driver of all time. But, like many speed demons, he doesn’t just love cars — he’s a fan of motorcycles too. Fast ones. Sexy ones. Red o…
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Nina Simone blanket can be found here. I never know what to get people during the holidays. The Holiday season is stressful. I worry that my gifts aren’t unique enough and will end up in the trash or at Goodwill. This year, however, I’m think about …
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Los Angeles airport to build special terminal just for celebrities | US news | The Guardian
Welcome to the 1%’s new airport terminal.
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Comcast’s internet TV service is now available in Chicago | The Verge
After launching in the Boston area this past week, Comcast is bringing its Stream TV service to the greater Chicagoland area. Comcast Xfinity subscribers are the only ones with the option to purchase the approximately $15 per month streaming subscri…
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Bigger People Sweat More–Even If They’re Not Fat
People who are overweight seem to sweat more than svelte athletes—but that’s not entirely because of body fat. A new study explains why losing weight might not affect your sweat rate the way you’d think.
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Beyond: Two Souls is being remastered for PS4, and it launches next week | The Verge
If the announcement of Detroit has you curious about the work of French designer David Cage and his Quantic Dream studio, there’s some good news, as the developer’s two most recent games are getting enhanced editions for the PlayStation 4.
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Bernie Sanders: My Vision For Democratic Socialism in America – In These Times
The following is the transcript of a speech Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered at Georgetown University on November 19th outlining what the term democratic socialism means to him, as well as his plans to deal with the national security threat posed by IS…
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Peter Jackson Freely Admits The Hobbit’s Production Was a Shambles
The letter “H” is the only thing the words “honesty” and “Hollywood” share in common. It’s a cut-throat business, but most of it happens behind closed doors and we can only speculate later on what may or may not have happened when movies work, or do…
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As is de rigueur these days, Adele’s album leaked online before its scheduled release. (It’s due to drop on Friday, and you can preorder it here on iTunes, or here at Amazon, or wherever you get your music.) As a duty to our readers, here are our re…
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Could a bomb in a soda can really bring down a plane? – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) made the headline-grabbing claim on Wednesday that it used explosives hidden in a can of Schweppes soda to down the Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai.
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How Pure Storage Took A Different Approach to Storage | TechCrunch
Founded in 2009, Pure Storage entered an industry where incumbents, including EMC and HP, dominated for more than thirty years.
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Senators Voting Against EPA Received Coal Cash | Al Jazeera America
Legislators opposing new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) efforts to mitigate climate change have received large sums of cash from the coal industry, according to an analysis released Thursday by Maplight, an independent research group that tra…
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Five Dead in Israel and West Bank Attacks | Al Jazeera America
A knife-wielding Palestinian man fatally stabbed two Israeli men in a southern Tel Aviv office building before being apprehended, police and witnesses said. Later Thursday, authorities said three people, among them the U.S.
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On the Democratic side Hillary Clinton leads with 59% to 26% for Bernie Sanders and 7% for Martin O’Malley. (publicpolicypolling.com)
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Managing Expectations for the Paris Climate Conference and Beyond : environment
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Managing Expectations for the Paris Climate Conference and Beyond | Rachel E. Golden Kroner
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YouTube offers to pay legal fees for some challenged “fair use” videos | Ars Technica
Four video creators will come under YouTube’s legal protection now, under a program unveiled today in a company blog post. The first four videos in the program were made by a game reviewer, a UFO debunker, an Ohio pro-choice group, and a commentator…
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Gaffe Track: The 2016 Presidential Election in Flubs – The Atlantic
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The Vergecast will be live on YouTube today at 4:30pm ET! | The Verge
Does this make us creators? Above you, gaze upon the familiar, the soothing, the thing you know: the ovoid YouTube play button. That’s right, we’re transitioning the live broadcast of the Vergecast to YouTube, whose glorious pipes will transfer our …
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Hillary Clinton Lays Out Her Muscular Strategy to Battle ISIS – The Atlantic
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton joined the Council on Foreign Relations to deliver her plan to battle ISIS in the wake of last week’s Paris attacks. The violence in France seemed to stunt momentum that she’d regained ahead of the second Democratic deba…
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Watch Pharrell Perform ‘Freedom’ at Charleston Church Shooting Site | Rolling Stone
Watch Pharrell Perform ‘Freedom’ at Charleston Church Shooting Site Singer and producer joined Mother Emanuel A.M.E.
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Jared Fogle: Ex-Subway spokesman jailed for child porn – BBC News
Subway’s former spokesman Jared Fogle has been jailed for 15 years for trading child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes. Fogle rose to fame when he appeared in the fast-food chain’s adverts, after losing more than 200lbs (91kg), in…
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Why are Jihadis obsessed with Red Mercury? / Boing Boing
Red mercury is a mythological compound that allows nuclear weapons to be radically miniaturized. That mercury oxide (and anything else reasonably described as such) useless matters not to buyers who shell out fabulous sums on a hoax. The truth is im…
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Bathrooms and waste treatment plants are a few things you can forgive yourself for taking for granted. They are, after all, designed to make things we don’t want to see or smell disappear. But for a moment, on this World Toilet Day — a day that high…
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New Arachnid Named for Lord of the Rings Character
Look down here my precioussssss. Scientists in Brazil have just identified a new species of harvestman, or daddy longlegs, and they’ve named it with a playful-but-accurate reference to a character from the Lord of the Rings saga.
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Here’s How Cord Cutters Can Watch Real Madrid Take On Barcelona In El Clasico | Motherboard
On Saturday, Real Madrid will host FC Barcelona in what’s commonly called El Clásico, the single biggest soccer game of the year. The best way to watch (outside of attending in person, of course) is to head down to your local pub and drink beer and …
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Legos are a versatile medium for fans to use to recreate trailers for hotly anticipated films or re-enact entire scenes from movies.
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On Thursday, online music streaming company Spotify announced that it will offer all full-time employees around the globe six months of parental leave at their full pay. The policy can be used until a child turns three.
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Ask Your Utility Company for Free Light Bulbs, Shower Heads, and More
Utility companies would like us to have more energy-efficient homes. To that end, many give away hundreds of dollars’ worth of free stuff for you.
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The Magic Moment: Seeing the Milky Way from Yellowstone National Park
Before twilight and shortly after the moon set in Yellowstone National Park, astrophotographer A. Garrett Evans found the perfect moment to capture this stunning image.
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‘Jessica Jones’ Creator on the ‘Tony Soprano’ of Female Superheroes | Rolling Stone
Melissa Rosenberg may not be the woman that Marvel deserves, but the TV veteran and former screenwriter of the Twilight series definitely the woman that Marvel needs right now.
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Ever wish you would be ripped out of your bedroom in the grip of a giant monster? Yeah, neither have we, but then, we’re not the protagonist of A Monster Calls, the feature-film adaptation of the award-winning children’s fantasy novel.
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News | Satellite Sensors Would Deliver Global Fire Coverage
Wildfires can wreak havoc on human health, property and communities, so it’s imperative to detect them as early as possible.
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House Votes to Curb Syrian Refugees | Al Jazeera America
In a stinging rebuke to President Obama by Republicans as well as members of his own party, the House ignored a veto threat Thursday and overwhelmingly approved Republican legislation erecting fresh hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to en…
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iPad Pro has an App Store problem | The Verge
Much of the marketing around Apple’s new iPad Pro has been centered on its ability to run professional grade software and the variety of creativity apps it supports. But for smaller developers of pro software, the iPad Pro may present more of a quan…
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The energy secretary’s much-hyped speech (UK to retreat from climate change goals, says minister, 18 November) was a spectacular display of governmental cognitive dissonance – saying one thing while acting in an entirely contradictory manner.
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Gloria Allred sues Georgia county after being barred from Cosby comedy show | US news | The Guardian
Gloria Allred, the attorney representing 28 of the 40 women who say they were victimized by Bill Cosby, said on Wednesday that she had filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta suburb and an event hall after she and other protesters were allegedly denied e…
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A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
As teenagers, we often find ourselves filled with a deep longing, a desperate desire to be something, anything other than what we are. We spend our days dreaming of freedom and our nights awake, wasting time, bored, wanting.
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Young critics competition groups winners 2015 – the reviews | Children’s books | The Guardian
El Deafo is a girl and her real name is Cece. Cece is deaf so she has to wear hearing aids. Cece wishes she could get a perfect friend but she is finding it hard.
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David Almond wins Guardian children’s fiction prize | Children’s books | The Guardian
David Almond has won the Guardian children’s fiction prize with a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in the north east of England, A Song for Ella Grey.
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David Almond: Orpheus helped me write A Song for Ella Grey | Books | The Guardian
When I was a teacher, I often told the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. I told it to primary school children on council estates in Gateshead, to troubled teenagers in Newcastle and North Tyneside. Always, their eyes widened as their minds and hearts we…
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David Almond wins Guardian children’s fiction prize | Books | The Guardian
David Almond has won the Guardian children’s fiction prize with a “fearless” retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in north-east England.
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My Name’s not Friday by Jon Walter – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
A story of slavery, set in the backdrop of the American Civil War. This book is not just about the darkness and brutality of the Reconstruction period, but community and hope. Samuel is a smart boy, a good boy, raised in an orphanage in Middle Creek.
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Young critics competition group runners up 2015 – the reviews | Children’s books | The Guardian
Here are the reviews from Queen Mary’s High School in the West Midlands, which took the runners up prize in our young critics competition 2015. Weird. Childish. Creepy; those were the thoughts that came to my mind when I first saw El Deafo. Boy, was…
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El Deafo by Cece Bell – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
When Cece Bell loses her hearing after suddenly having an illness called meningitis, she feels different. One minute she can hear, the next minute she can’t hear her mum or even herself or anyone. Because it’s a graphic novel, using speech bubbles, …
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The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Have you told a lie today? Don’t worry – we all lie on average three times a day, according to research. We often tell lies to avoid social conflict but sometimes to make ourselves look better to the outside world.
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Does William Eggleston Love Women? “You’re Damn Right!” | Vanity Fair
The father of color photography on life, love, growing up Southern, and standing up to Cartier-Bresson.
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A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most famous and beloved Greek myths, focusing on human love, the extremes we will go for love, as well as human weaknesses.
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Five Children and It by Kate Saunders – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Having read Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet I was excited to return to the lives of the Psammead and the Pembertons. First, I commend Kate Saunders on her incredible job at recreating E Nesbit’s amazing c…
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The District of Columbia agreed Thursday to pay $16.65m to a man who spent 27 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit. The amount is about $617,000 for every year Donald Eugene Gates spent in prison.
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A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The beautiful poetic language in this book is unmistakably written by David Almond. The power in the short, often repeated sentences sends a chill down your spine and wakens your imagination so that you are drawn in by every convincing word.
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The Internment of Japanese Americans Still Haunts the United States – The Atlantic
Last week’s terrorist attack in Paris provoked a backlash among American politicians against the Obama administration’s plans to resettle Syrian refugees.
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A Video of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Acceptance Speech for the National Book Award – The Atlantic
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Abraham Lincoln Was a Science Champion, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Says
Abraham Lincoln is best known for abolishing slavery and keeping the United States together through the Civil War, but he also helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse we know today.
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Scenes From the American West, 150 Years Ago – The Atlantic
In the late 1860s, photographer Andrew J.
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T-Mobile’s data cap exemption for video gets FCC chairman’s approval | Ars Technica
T-Mobile US drew some criticism for a new program that exempts certain online video services from data caps, but Federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler today praised the carrier’s zero-rating plan.
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Amazon CEO Delivers Historic NASA Moon Rocket Engines to Seattle Museum
Amazon.com’s CEO personally oversaw the delivery of some large artifacts from NASA’s history on Thursday (Nov. 19), completing a cross-country shipment that has traveled by truck, boat and rocket.
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An Ode to Africa with Roads Fragrances | Vanity Fair
We were hooked at the simple, cool aesthetic of the fragrance bottles and the clear vision and beautiful story behind each scent. We stayed fans because Roads is more than a perfumery; it is a creative-lifestyle brand.
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Aaron Foley’s Tips on How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass | Vanity Fair
A young, rural-born friend of mine graduated from a small, top-tier, northeastern liberal-arts college last year and was attempting to figure out where to move. “My friends are trying to decide between Austin, Portland, and Detroit,” he said.
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“We Have Uncovered The Fact That Americans Are Under Assault” – BuzzFeed News
Robin Hvidston held up an X-ray of a human skull pierced by a metal rod, clear across the eye sockets from temple to temple. Outraged gasps escaped from the small crowd. “Please take note of this,” Hvidston said. “This picture was taken one day befo…
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Jared Fogle sentenced to 15 years, says it’s all Subway’s fault · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Complex reports that ousted Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has received a 15-year sentence after pleading guilty to child pornography and other sex crime charges.
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How French intelligence agencies failed before the Paris attacks | World news | The Guardian
Do the arithmetic and it is hard not to feel sympathy for the French intelligence agencies. Every day they face a dilemma created by the gap between available staff and the huge number of suspects.
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Zero: the number of security experts Ted Koppel consulted for hysterical cyberwar book / Boing Boing
Ted Koppel’s new book, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath warns of an impending disaster when America’s critical infrastructure will be destroyed by cyberattackers, plunging the nation into a literal dark age.
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The so-called “cola wars” of the Reagan era, immortalized in song by Billy Joel, did more than just call attention to the subtle but crucial differences between Coke and Pepsi.
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Satellite will map Earth’s plant glow – BBC News
The European Space Agency is going to build a spacecraft to map the red glow emitted by Earth’s plants. Known as Flex, the mission was approved by member states on Thursday and will likely launch by 2022.
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Live Start Page Adds Live Wallpapers to New Tabs in Google Chrome
Open up a new tab and get greeted by a stunning, moving view. That’s the concept behind Live Start Page, which also adds a clock and to-do list to your start page. Currently there are several live motion photos you can set as the background, live wa…
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Trump won’t rule out special ID for Muslim Americans noting their religion | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump would not rule out tracking Muslim Americans in a database or giving them “a special form of identification that noted their religion”, the Republican presidential candidate said on Thursday.
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Nearly 50 Democrats lose conviction, vote with Republicans on refugees
While Democrats initially stood up to Republican fear-mongering and bigotry, too many of them lost that conviction on the final vote for a bill that creates additional barriers for Syrian and Iraqi refugees coming to the U.S. Forty-seven Democrats v…
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Marvel’s Jessica Jones Is The Character-Focused Superhero Epic We’ve Been Waiting For
In the past decade, we’ve seen an endless parade of comic book movies and TV shows, promising to be darker and more “realistic.” But until Jessica Jones, none of them has really hit the mark. We saw the first seven episodes, and here’s our spoiler-f…
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Right now I’m still at at my first research site, Sikundur, in North Sumatra, looking out over Gunung Leuser National Park.
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Square is letting some air out of the tech bubble, and it’s high time | The Verge
Square went public today, raising $243 million, a price that values the company around $3 billion. That’s about half the $6 billion valuation it received during it’s last funding as a private company.
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Bernie Sanders’s Long-Lost Hope of Establishing a Maximum Wage – The Atlantic
All three Democratic candidates favor raising the minimum wage up to somewhere between $12 and $15 an hour. But forget, for a moment, the minimum wage—what about establishing a maximum wage?
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Charlotte City Council Votes Against ‘No-Go Zones’ to Fight Prostitution – The Atlantic
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After Being Targeted In Paris Attacks, Soccer Emerges As A Unifying Force | ThinkProgress
Last Friday night, almost 20 minutes into a soccer match at the Stade de France between France and Germany, an explosion was heard coming from outside the stadium. A few minutes later, another explosion was heard. Then another.
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Carly Simon Reveals Childhood Sexual Abuse | Rolling Stone
Carly Simon revealed in a new interview that she was the victim of sexual abuse as a child for years, beginning at age seven.
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Two bombings in Nigeria – each targeting bustling markets – have killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds more in the space of 24 hours. Boko Haram, which is the deadliest terrorist group in the world, is believed to have carried out the atta…
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Josh Homme’s Charity Seeks Donations to Help Paris Victims | Rolling Stone
Josh Homme’s Charity Seeks Donations to Help Paris Victims The Sweet Stuff Foundation will pass along all funds received through December 31st to surviving families
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Adele Won’t Stream ’25’ | Rolling Stone
Adele Won’t Stream ’25’ Singer reported to be personally involved in decision November 19, 2015
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New satellite to measure plant health / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA
ESA plans to track the health of the world’s vegetation by detecting and measuring the faint glow that plants give off as they convert sunlight and the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide into energy.
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House passes bill adding barriers for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to US | US news | The Guardian
The House of Representatives has approved legislation that would make it even more difficult for refugees from Syria and Iraq to enter the United States.
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Belgians urged to leave Burundi by CNDD-FDD – BBC News
Burundi’s ruling party says all citizens of its former colonial power, Belgium, should leave the country. Belgium last week said those “whose presence is not essential” should leave because of increasing levels of violence.
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A Monster Calls Looks Like the Next Great Fantasy Fairy Tale Movie
A truly great fantasy fairy tale movie is a rare thing. In the ‘80s, films like The Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story and Labyrinth made the cut. Guillermo del Toro’s early films, The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth, are worthy additions.
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Nothing says home quite like a red passport | Emma Brockes | Comment is free | The Guardian
You can tell a lot about a country by the nature of its officialdom, something I think about every time I pass through an airport. In the US, the cliche of the immigration officer is of a bullet-headed patriot snarling through shatterproof glass.
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“This Is What They Did For Fun”: The Story Of A Modern-Day Lynching – BuzzFeed News
James Bradfield worked the graveyard shift at a factory that built airplane parts in Jackson, Mississippi. It was a new job and he didn’t like the hours.
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Senate Republicans Lose Big In Climate Vote
In the first few months of President Obama’s first term, there was talk of passing legislation to cap carbon emissions using budget reconciliation, which would prevent Republicans from using the filibuster and allow passage a simple majority vote.
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Rwanda’s Pay Gap Is Smaller Than America’s – The Daily Beast
There’s not much to love about the World Economic Forum’s 2015 report on the global gender wage gap—but if you’re an American woman, there’s even more to hate.
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How Much Sex Makes You Happy? – The Daily Beast
Happy people have more sex. Or is it that people who have sex are happier? It’s hard to say for sure, but according to a study published Wednesday in the journal of Psychological and Personality Science, there’s definitely a sweet spot when it comes…
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Nurses Criticize Clinton’s Attack on Single Payer (nationalnursesunited.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Clinton Calls for Ramped Up Fight Against Isil | Al Jazeera America
In the aftermath of last week’s Paris attacks, Democratic Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton called for an “intensification and acceleration” of President Obama’s approach to fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which clai…
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If anything, the history standards were worse. Dunbar claims she’s a “big fan” of Thomas Jefferson, but thinks a “secular humanistic ideology” has clouded current interpretations of his work.
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Why do liberals tend to elect authoritarians? (self.Liberal) When you look at the Republican Party and where the average conservative voter falls on the political spectrum, you will see that the people the Republicans elect tend to fall right in lin…
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Facebook Debuts The Digital Breakup With New Tools For Former Flames | TechCrunch
Breaking up is hard enough without having to see your ex’s newfound happiness flung in your face every time you log on to Facebook. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to unfriend your ex, or block them, either. There should be some middle gr…
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The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974) | Open Culture
Even if you don’t know the myth by name, you know the story.
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If Barack Obama Were A Quarterback, Who Would He Be? | FiveThirtyEight
In an interview with Bill Simmons for GQ Magazine, President Obama said he feels like he’s “maybe [Aaron] Rodgers in the pocket, in the sense of you can’t be distracted by what’s around you, you’ve got to be looking downfield.
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Vladimir Putin at the G20: Suddenly Sought-After – The Atlantic
He wasn’t ostracized. He wasn’t isolated. And certainly nobody threatened to shirtfront him. In the space of a year, Vladimir Putin has gone from being the pariah of Brisbane to being the star of Antalya.
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Five Days in the Foreign Policy Education of Ben Carson | New Republic
Ben Carson’s appeal to voters in the Republican presidential primary is widely believed to be based on his status as a political outsider. Of course, being an outsider means you don’t have a lot of inside info on political stuff, like how to win war…
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Chasing the Link Between Gut Bacteria and Autism – The Atlantic
Around the time that Sam was diagnosed with autism at age 3, he began to throw hour-long crying fits. When he wasn’t plagued by lengthy spells of constipation, the Michigan toddler endured terrible bouts of diarrhea.
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The Uber Airport Rules for 11 Major Cities in the U.S.
Uber is a convenient way to get around most cities, but airport rides can be tricky. It’s possible to use Uber for dropping off and picking up at airports in some cities, but there are rules and drawbacks to be aware of. Travel + Leisure lays them o…
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So This Is How Net Neutrality Dies | Motherboard
Ever since the Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rules went into effect earlier this year, we’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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A December rate rise may be a mistake by the Fed | Business | The Guardian
There was never going to be a right time for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, yet now, as the US central bank prepares for a December “lift-off”, it seems the first move in seven years will be both too early and too late.
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Mexicans returning home outnumber those immigrating to US, study shows | World news | The Guardian
More Mexicans are leaving the United States than migrating into the country, marking a reversal of one of the most significant immigration trends in US history. A study published on Thursday by the Pew Research Center said a desire to reunite famili…
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Oprah Shares the Real Story Behind Her Oft-Parodied “You Get a Car” Mo | Vanity Fair
Eleven years later, the media titan reveals why she had to improv that line.
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Eric McDavid, a 26-year-old, nonviolent anarchist activist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a paid FBI informant promised to have sex with him if he’d help her bomb some unspecified targets in Northern California.
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TBS is developing a comedy from the Trainspotting author · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to Deadline, TBS is developing a new show written by Irvine Welsh, the author of the novel Trainspotting.
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Clinton gets aggressive on ISIS: ‘Time for delay is over’
Hillary Clinton outlined her policy to defeat ISIS during a foreign policy speech Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations in which she pressed Congress to unite behind President Obama’s efforts. Monica Alba reports:
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Major glacier in Greenland that holds enough water to raise global sea levels by half a meter has begun to crumble into the North Atlantic Ocea: Zachariae Isstrom glacier in northeast Greenland started to melt rapidly in 2012 & is now breaking up in…
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Absurdly hot October as Earth sets 8th heat record this year | Since the year 2000, global monthly heat records have been broken 32 times, yet the last time a monthly cold record was set was in 1916. (bigstory.ap.org)
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Here’s How to Get T-Mobile’s Hidden $30 Smartphone Plan | Motherboard
Sprint, the fourth largest wireless carrier in the US, generated plenty of headlines yesterday when it announced it was offering cut-rate smartphone plans for as much as 50 percent less than what its competitors charge.
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Has the Original U.N. Climate Goal Been Forgotten? – Scientific American
Fossil fuel burning, deforestation and other climate-changing hallmarks of industrialization have elevated temperatures 1°C since the 19th century, pushing tides up more than 8 inches Credit: DVIDSHUB via Flickr CC by 2.
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Ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle sentenced to over 15 years in prison | US news | The Guardian
Fogle, 38, pleaded guilty to one count each of travelling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child abuse imagery, as per a deal he struck with prosecutors in August. He tearfully apologized to his victim…
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This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: Can You Count To 21? | TechCrunch
Hello friends, and welcome back to TCBTC, TechCrunch’s itinerant and sporadic podcast on all things bitcoin. This week my glorious comrade in arms, John Biggs, and I discussed two things: A recent Quora post discussing the current growth of bitcoin …
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Man whose drone got too close to LAPD helicopter given three years probation | Ars Technica
A Los Angeles man has pleaded no contest to interfering with a police investigation after he flew his drone too close to a police helicopter. Martin Sheldon was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation and 30 days of community service. Sheldo…
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Is Anonymous’ war on ISIS doing more harm than good? | The Verge
Just days after the attacks in Paris, ISIS became the target of one of the world’s biggest vigilante anti-terrorism campaigns. In a widely distributed video, a figure wearing a Guy Fawkes mask publicly declared war on ISIS, promising that “Anonymous…
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Join Us In A Merry Romp Through Bitcoin And The Blockchain At TechCrunch Disrupt | TechCrunch
Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be talking to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, and Austin Hill of BlockSteam. If anyone …
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When the University of Mississippi was integrated in 1962, James Meredith, the first black student to enroll, had to be escorted by federal forces through the chaos and riots that ensued because of his attendance.
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A Visit to the NSA’s Data Center in Utah – The Atlantic
When I told friends that I’d be driving across America to find The Cloud, many of them brought up the NSA’s Utah data center, assuming it was on my itinerary.
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“I predicted terrorism because I can feel it,” Donald Trump announced this week (exacting publicity and self-praise—who would have predicted that—from the massacre in Paris).
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DEARBORN, MICHIGAN — At Dearborn’s Shatila Bakery, Waiqup sat with his back facing an array of intricately prepared Arabic and French desserts. Waiqup, 23, is a Muslim American resident of Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest Arab American commun…
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Is an Affair in Virtual Reality Still Cheating? | Motherboard
I hadn’t touched another woman in an intimate way since before getting married six years ago. Then, in the most peculiar circumstances, I was doing it. I was caressing a young woman’s hands. I remember thinking as I was doing it: I don’t even know t…
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Google steps up to defend fair use, will fund Youtubers’ legal defenses / Boing Boing
After years of missteps, blunders and disasters in which Youtube users have been censored through spurious copyright claims or had their accounts deleted altogether, Google has announced an amazing, user-friendly new initiative though which it will …
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For the past two years, Kotaku has been blacklisted by Bethesda, the publisher of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series. For the past year, we have also been, to a lesser degree, ostracized by Ubisoft, publisher of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and more.
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‘Syrians Caught at Texas Border’ Is B.S. Someone Tell Trump. – The Daily Beast
The right got whipped into a frenzy over an “EXCLUSIVE” report from Breitbart: “8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border,” the headline screamed. Those same words are currently emblazoned across the home page of The Drudge Report, accompanied by a photo of …
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Well, in all fairness, that was before Trump said that it would be the fall of western civilization to allow them in. If anyone is feeling smarmy today, go to r/conservative and argue in favor of Cruz’s pro-refugee position and see how quickly you g…
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Republican presidential candidates wasted no time after the terrorist attacks in Paris to put forth their ideas for fighting the Islamic State. They’ve proposed bombing oil fields in the Middle East (Donald J.
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The elusive Double Couch Loaf. : Catloaf
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The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees : Liberal
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The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees – The Washington Post
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Beats now makes rose gold headphones | The Verge
Apple broke up its stale color options of space gray, silver, and gold earlier this year by introducing an iPhone that was unflinchingly pink. Rose gold, as it’s known, turned out to be such a hit that the company also made pink Apple Watches.
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Facebook will now offer to hide your exes from you after a breakup | The Verge
The more ubiquitous Facebook becomes around the world, the more likely you are to one day have an ex-boyfriend, -girlfriend, or -spouse using the service.
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Do We Really Need a Fifth Book of Pathfinder Monsters? You’re Goddamned Right We Do.
I can never, ever get enough monsters for my RPGs. Never. I will fill entire bookshelves, binders, and hard drives with nothing but monsters. I suspect I’m not alone, so check out this gallery of creatures from the upcoming Pathfinder Bestiary 5.
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Give the Gift of DIY with These Kits and Tools
Not everyone wants some boring prepackaged gift. Some people like to make their own things. For those DIYers, the best gift you can give is the gift of more tools for making morre things. Here are some suggestions to keep the do-it-yourselfer in you…
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Roger Corman crossed Star Wars with The Seven Samurai · 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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NIH to Retire All Research Chimpanzees – Scientific American
Two years after retiring most of its research chimpanzees, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is ceasing its chimp programme altogether, Nature has learned.
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This is the best rap song ever written about Boba Fett’s Corvette · 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. Nerdcore may not be the most popular subgenre of hip-hop, but it’s certainly a stubborn …
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Is the Paris Climate March Cancellation a ‘Gift to the Movement’? | Rolling Stone
Is the Paris Climate March Cancellation a ‘Gift to the Movement’? “This element of uncertainty…
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‘Nashville’ Star Chris Carmack Announces ‘Pieces of You’ EP | Rolling Stone
‘Nashville’ Star Chris Carmack Announces ‘Pieces of You’ EP “There’s some hard-hitting blues electric guitar and some mellow acoustic,” says the actor-musician of the project, due December 11th
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WASHINGTON—Viewing the latest entertainment coverage of the 23-year-old singer and actor with great satisfaction, pleased citizens across the U.S. announced Thursday that Selena Gomez had completed her transition into a sexualized plaything just as …
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Campus Protests Are Spreading Like Wildfire | Mother Jones
It has been a week and a half since massive student demonstrations at the University of Missouri led to the ouster of university system president Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Lofton.
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Google Hangout Participants No Longer Need A Google Account For Work Meetings | TechCrunch
If you’re an avid user of Google Hangouts at work, then this update will make you happy. Starting today, we’re making this feature even more useful by removing the requirement that guests have a Google account in order to join a Hangouts video call.
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Dear GOP, you really want to hurt ISIS? Get out of Big Oil’s pocket
Oil money remains vital to their operations. While it’s too soon to tell how bin Laden’s death will affect such funding, it would be foolish to assume that it will end.
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Last chance to buy a TV-B-Gone! / Boing Boing
BB pal Mitch Altman informs us that he’s ceased manufacturing on his marvelous invention the TV-B-Gone, a keychain remote control that turns off any television with a push of the button.
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Clinton Defends Muslims In The Face Of ISIS Threat: ‘Islam Is Not Our Adversary’ | ThinkProgress
During a speech about how to defeat the terrorist group ISIS in New York City on Thursday, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton offered a full-throated defense of Islam and U.S.
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Senate Republicans Just Promised To Undermine The Paris Climate Negotiations | ThinkProgress
At a hearing Wednesday, Senate Republicans said that any financial commitments made by the United States to help other countries curb carbon emissions would not be approved by Congress, effectively promising to undercut the Paris negotiations before…
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“Manana, manana.” That’s what a group of more than 900 Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany were told when their ship docked in Havana, Cuba in May 1939. But that tomorrow never came. Most of the passengers on the MS St.
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MRW my enemy leaves before I can confront him – GIF on Imgur
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US woman kills 38 sheep in drink driving crash – police – BBC News
Image copyright Getty Images A woman in the US state of Colorado has been charged with drink driving and other offences after her car sped into a herd of sheep that were in the road.Thirty-eight sheep were killed and 12 others were hurt in the crash.
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The Islamic State wants you to hate refugees (washingtonpost.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading…
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News | 2015 and 1997 El Niños: Déjà vu, or Something New?
El Niño: An unusually warm pool of water off the west coast of South America, usually arriving around Christmas time, linked with complex, large-scale interactions between the atmosphere and ocean in the Pacific.
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O’Malley’s presidential campaign is perilously close to financial collapse (washingtonpost.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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The fight over Syrian refugees heads to Congress — where it could result in a government shutdown (vox.com)submitted 17 minutes ago by loading…
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new kitten, Mera the babes : cats
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Andy wanted a selfie. (x-post /r/mainecoons) : cats
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Americans Love France | FiveThirtyEight
The deadly attacks in and around Paris on Friday, reportedly committed by Islamic State terrorists, triggered an intense outpouring of grief worldwide: banner newspaper headlines, symbols of support on social media, tweeted statements of grief and s…
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Square is officially a public company | The Verge
Mobile payments company Square is officially trading on the stock market today, a little over a month after filing paperwork to go public. The company, led by CEO Jack Dorsey, will now trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SQ.
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Adele’s new album 25 won’t be available on any streaming services | The Verge
Adele’s long-awaited new album 25 won’t be available for streaming when it’s released tomorrow. The New York Times revealed the British superstar’s decision in an article this afternoon.
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Clinton strikes hawkish stance on fight against Islamic State – video | US news | The Guardian
Hillary Clinton urged a more aggressive approach to combatting Isis forces than President Obama has pursued.
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How to cook a marijuana marinated turkey / Boing Boing
If it weren’t for Chef Paul Prudhomme, we wouldn’t have turducken, and Cajun/Creole cuisine would not have become the global sensation it is today. When the charismatic television chef popularized blackened redfish, it became such an obsession the s…
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Alan Moore’s advice to unpublished authors / Boing Boing
Alan “Watchmen” Moore, the Wizard of Northampton, gives some frank advice to beginning writers at a Q&A at a 2011 an anti-library-closure protest at St James Library, Northampton, UK. tl;dr: Write every day. Work on the stuff you know you’re bad at …
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Just for the sake of argument, consider the Ringling Brothers Circus of the year 1890, roughly 17 years before it became the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. That year, you could see Anzo, the Human Serpent, slither on the ground.
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Omixy Improves Medical Check-Up By Making It As Easy As Ordering An Uber | TechCrunch
Meet Omixy, a stealth startup that has been working on improving the medical check-up in Europe. It doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel like Theranos. Instead, Omixy is all about making it as seamless as possible to track your health over time. The st…
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Why do some hallucinogens cause universal hallucinations? — Hopes&Fears
Some would say that the Western world is going through a psychedelic renaissance, with psychoactive substances such as psylocybin (“magic” mushrooms) and LSD reentering the scientific realm of research.
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Why aren’t vibrators as good as other gadgets? | The Verge
Strip away the erotic associations, and vibrators are, fundamentally, just another gadget — and a rather simple one at that: just a motor, power supply, controls, and housing.
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FDA names salmon the first genetically modified animal safe to eat | The Verge
The Food and Drug Administration has granted regulatory approval for genetically modified salmon, saying the “food from the fish is safe to eat.” It’s the first genetically modified animal to be approved for human consumption.
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Franco’s remains should be removed – Spain lawyer Garzon – BBC News
A prominent Spanish lawyer has launched a petition calling for the removal of the remains of former dictator General Franco from their official resting place.Baltasar Garzon said the Valley of the Fallen should instead be converted into a victims’ m…
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This book reprints all 330 Star Wars trading cards from 1977 and 1978 / Boing Boing
See sample pages from this book at Wink. In 1977 and 1978 Topps, the famous bubble gum trading card company, issued five series of Star Wars trading cards. Each series had 66 cards and 11 stickers, and the backs of the cards contained trivia, puzzle…
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Ranjana Ash obituary | Books | The Guardian
Ranjana Ash, who has died aged 90, was a leading advocate of south Asian literature. Her knowledge of the great writers of India was immense. Unusually, she had an equivalent sympathy for African writing, and indeed for aspirational authors from man…
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This 1968 anti-war animated film by Disney legend Ward Kimball is as timely as ever / Boing Boing
In this totally non-phallic animated cartoon from 1968 about Lyndon B.
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Private funding of public services is bankrupting the UK / Boing Boing
The right-wing Telegraph can’t deny what critics have been saying since the Tony Blair years: when you use private to fund public services, the only people who benefit are the shareholders.
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The Incredible Tale of World War II’s Single Deadliest Homefront Disaster
Chances are you’ve never heard of the Port Chicago disaster. Yet it was the worst catastrophe on the US home front during World War II. It was the single deadliest incident on the mainland during the war, and remains one of the worst calamities to e…
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Surge Pricing Comes to the Skies with United’s In-Flight Wi-Fi | Motherboard
Another reason to grouse about airlines: though United Airlines will now let passengers “buy” inflight Wi-Fi with frequent flyer miles, the amount of miles necessary will vary based on demand. In other words, the surge pricing model has spread to th…
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Protests in Minneapolis Over Police Shooting | Al Jazeera America
Dozens of protesters camped in front of the north Minneapolis police precinct Wednesday night, close to where officers on Sunday shot and killed Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man. The controversy spread through social media Thursday, after an image …
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Elon Musk’s hyperloop transportation is doable, but will it be too expensive? The hyperloop may be one of the most interesting developments in the transportation industry today, but the cost of construction could be a drawback. (csmonitor.com)
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Cardinal fish spitting out an ostracod : gifs
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Autodesk competitor that stole AutoCAD source code blames rogue engineer | Ars Technica
Apparently Volkswagen is not alone in getting duped by rogue engineers. As you may recall, Volkswagen is blaming its emissions software scandal on engineers who secretly tinkered with the company’s emissions software code unbeknownst to the top bras…
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Gift Guide: These 9 Kitchen Gadgets Can Be The Ultimate Sous Chef | TechCrunch
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Trove of ancient Roman coins found in Switzerland – BBC News
The stash of more than 4,000 bronze and silver coins is believed to have been buried some 1,700 years ago. Weighing around 15kg (33lb), he discovered the coins after spotting something shimmering in a molehill.
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Massachusetts will allow daily fantasy sports to operate under new regulations | The Verge
Daily fantasy sport sites have faced a streak of non-stop scrutiny for the past month, but the situation is improving for sites like DraftKings and FanDuel. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey will allow such companies to operate in the stat…
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Why the Hobbit movies were such a mess / Boing Boing
tl;dr: they had no prep time, made real-time changes to the story as they shot it, and props and scenes were thrown together as they needed them. Jackson says that his winging-it—”making it up there and then on the spot”—finally fell apart when they…
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Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan – Al Jazeera English
Taliban fighters have captured a district in the northern part of Afghanistan, according to officials in the country. In late September, the armed group briefly took over the northern city of Kunduz before it was driven out from the strategic city b…
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Hillary Clinton distanced herself from Barack Obama’s strategy for defeating Islamic State extremists on Thursday in a sweeping foreign policy speech that called for greater use of American ground troops and an intensified air campaign.
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New Poll Shows Lots Of Republicans Back Trump’s Idea To Shut Down U.S. Mosques | ThinkProgress
A new survey released by Democratic pollster shows that shutting down mosques in the United States is popular with Republican voters. The idea of stepping up domestic surveillance on U.S.
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Tinder parent company Match Group is now public | The Verge
Match Group, which owns dating platforms like OKCupid, Match, and Tinder, held its initial public offering this morning. Its stock opened at $12 per share and climbed slightly higher to $13.50 by midday. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker …
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139 Countries Could Get All of their Power from Renewable Sources – Scientific American
Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi have done it again. This time they’ve spelled out how 139 countries can each generate all the energy needed for homes, businesses, industry, transportation, agriculture—everything—from wind, solar and water power tech…
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Portrait Of Every Black Professor At Harvard Law Covered In Black Tape | ThinkProgress
The morning after Harvard students and affiliates rallied in support of national calls for racial justice on campuses, someone has apparently vandalized the portraits of black professors at the law school.
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Helen Mirren Reveals The One Nude Scene She Didn’t Mind Filming | Vanity Fair
Earlier this fall, Helen Mirren made headlines for announcing her retirement from on-screen nudity at the age of 70. “That’s the good thing about getting older,” the Oscar winner said in September. “You don’t have to do that sort of thing any more. …
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Syrian refugees in America: separating fact from fiction in the debate | US news | The Guardian
Congressional Republicans are expected to vote on Thursday to suspend the program bringing Syrian refugees to the US as the fallout from last Friday’s Isis terrorist attacks in Paris continues.
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Would You Pay $50,000 to Press Your Body Against Richard Gere? | Vanity Fair
In the 1990 blockbuster Pretty Woman, Richard Gere plays a slick, lonely businessman who pays for the company of a spunky, young sex worker, played by a relatively unknown Julia Roberts, and subsequently falls in love.
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Did you know kids love dinosaurs? It’s the reason Marvel had Jack Kirby create his short-lived series Devil Dinosaur back in the ’70s, and it’s the reason why Kirby’s creation is being revived for a new all-ages title: Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur.
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Barbie Ad Features Boy For First Time – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
In what is a first for Mattel, the latest Barbie commercial features a young boy playing with the doll, a decision that many have praised for its departure from the toy industry’s traditional gender roles. What do you think?
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Hillary is already triangulating against liberals. : democrats
Hillary is already triangulating against liberals. (dailykos.com)
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For decades, aspiring bomb makers — including ISIS — have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. There’s a reason that they never have.
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Hillary Is Already Triangulating Against Liberals : Liberal
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Hillary Clinton triangulates against Bernie Sanders.
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David Bowers, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, recently praised the concentration camps that the US built during World War II to imprison Japanese American adults and children. And, according to Bowers’ logic, that’s why we can’t allow Syrian refugee…
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The next president of the United States will confront a virulent jihadist threat, mounting effects of climate change, and an economy becoming ever more unequal. We’re going to need an especially wise and able leader.
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Hacker puppets explain screen time limits for kids / Boing Boing
You may have heard that “screen time” — time with TV, phones, tablets, computers, or video games — is bad for babies and toddlers. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics reversed course on their previous advice about screen time for kids und…
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Plan Thanksgiving Dinner for a Crowd with This Spreadsheet
Hosting a huge holiday dinner is a project that takes planning and organization. This spreadsheet, complete with a Gatt time chart and ingredients list, almost does all the work for you.
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High-speed video unveils songbird quick-step – BBC News
Using high-speed video cameras, researchers from Japan and Germany have discovered a “tap dance” performed by cordon-bleu songbirds.
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The FCC wants to make some big changes to wireless emergency alerts | The Verge
With a set of new rules proposed today, the FCC says it wants to make some major expansions to the wireless emergency alerts system, which officials use to relay information on emergencies like severe weather or amber alerts.
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Bird’s lightning ‘tap dance’ caught on camera – BBC News
Scientists have glimpsed songbirds stamping their feet in a rapid-fire “tap-dance” that is invisible to the naked eye. Both male and female cordon-bleu birds bob up and down while singing to their mates.
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Watch This 17-Hour Time Lapse of a Crane Putting Another Crane Together | Motherboard
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The Night Before Proves How Easy It Is to Have Good Female Roles in a | Vanity Fair
Once upon a time, eight beautiful, long years ago, the idea of Seth Rogen having a child was absurd, and an entire, very good comedy was built around how unfit he was for the role. Life comes at you fast.
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Harrison Ford Pours on the Han Solo Charm to Surprise Die-Hard Star Wars Fans | Vanity Fair
One of the greatest delights of Comic-Con this past year was the revelation that when it comes to Star Wars, Harrison Ford is truly thrilled to be back on the team. For years Ford was a little gruff and distant about the time he spent in a galaxy fa…
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Telegram app cracks down on IS propaganda channels – BBC News
The secure mobile messaging app Telegram has started cracking down on propaganda from so-called Islamic State group (IS), nearly eight weeks after the terror group set up its own public broadcast channels there.
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Bizarre mechanical techno music machine driven by a DJ turntable / Boing Boing
This post is a heartfelt “thank you” from Loog Guitars CEO Rafael Atijas. Loog is a company that we at Boing Boing are proud to have helped grow. We are thrilled to see them join us as a sponsor. To enter for a chance to win one of their guitars, em…
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Amazon Studios Launches Amazon Storywriter, Free Cloud Software For Screenwriters | TechCrunch
In an effort to expand its original video content, including movies and TV series, Amazon announced this morning the launch of a free, cloud-based screenwriting software program called Amazon Storywriter.
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An animal filled a microwave antenna with over 300 pounds of acorns / Boing Boing
Who stuffed this microwave antenna to the bursting point with 35-50 lbs of acorns? Some say it was a squirrel, others blame a woodpecker. But these animals are so similar that it is hardly worth arguing about. Just watch the video.
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The Bible Written In New York City Blog Voice — Medium
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This was probably a very bad idea! The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was hovering over the surface of the deep, which, ugh.
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Missy Elliott on Her Comeback, Future Album | Billboard
A couple of weeks before the world will get to see it, Missy Elliott stops by the Manhattan headquarters of her label, Atlantic, to give staff a sneak peek of the video for her hypnotically percussive, Pharrell Williams-produced new single, “WTF (Wh…
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How Virgin Galactic Is Testing New SpaceShipTwo | Video
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Nuzzel Revamps Its Social News App And Raises $1.7M | TechCrunch
Nuzzel previously worked by creating a feed of the most-shared stories from the people you follow on Twitter. You can still create that personalized news feed, but the service no longer requires a Twitter login.
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Footage of Paris cafe attack posted / Boing Boing
The day after authorities in Paris killed the suspected ringleader of terror attacks that killed some 130 people last Friday, footage has emerged of one of the targeted cafés. The first security video shows the attackers outside, shooting at custome…
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Hillary Is Already Triangulating Against Liberals (slate.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading…
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The UK Wants to Store Every Citizen’s Browsing Data. I Tried Collecting My Own | Motherboard
My digital life sits in one 8.5 MB folder. It contains reams of logs, detailing the connections between my computer and the internet. Every website I’ve visited, every online service I’ve used.
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Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US : Liberal
Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US (thehill.com)submitted 7 minutes ago by loading…
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October 2015: Earth’s Warmest Month on Record by a Huge Margin (Jeff Masters) : environment
October 2015: Earth’s Warmest Month on Record by a Huge Margin (Jeff Masters) (wunderground.com)submitted 59 minutes ago by loading…
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Watch: Obama’s Top Environmental Official on the Paris Attacks and Why Climate Change Threatens National Security. Two weeks before the Paris climate talks, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the United States is serious about taking action. (moth…
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NIH Will Free Their Chimps — NYMag
The last 50 chimpanzees held at the National Institutes of Health for medical research will soon be dispersed to wildlife sanctuaries across the country.
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Heilemann, Halperin Ponder Big Deal With MSNBC — NYMag
One of NBC News chairman Andy Lack’s biggest priorities has been the makeover of MSNBC.
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Firefly Invades Star Wars Rebels In the Form Of a Brand New Bounty Hunter
Since Star Wars Rebels is canon, it’s always a big deal when they introduce a new character. This is a person, creature or droid that will now forever be a part of Star Wars lore and, in the latest episode, they introduced a good one: Female bounty …
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Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US | TheHill
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Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US : politics
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Centaurus A by Joshua Oakley | We Heart It
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That awkward moment an ISIS commander looks like a kebab – Imgur
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Google adds ability to invite non-Google users to Hangouts | The Verge
Google today announced a new feature for its Hangouts chat and video calling application that allows meeting organizers to invite users to calls even if they don’t have Google accounts.
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Ticket, faster: Can SeatGeek take on StubHub? | The Verge
We’ve all gotten that last minute email from a friend. There are tickets for sale to an awesome concert. Someone got sick or missed their flight. The tickets must go, but of course you’ll need to meet up in person.
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California officer may have been deliberately targeted, police say | US news | The Guardian
An officer shot to death while sitting in his car in the parking lot of Downey police headquarters was apparently targeted, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said on Thursday.
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FDA approves first GMO food animal—Atlantic salmon | Ars Technica
After two decades of deliberation, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever genetically engineered food animal, a fast-growing Atlantic Salmon called AquAdvantage salmon.
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Georgia man convicted of murder likely to be final execution in US for 2015 | US news | The Guardian
A man convicted of killing a woman he met in a south Georgia nightclub is set to be put to death Thursday, in what is likely to be America’s final execution of 2015. Marcus Ray Johnson, 50, is scheduled to die at 7pm at the state prison in Jackson.
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Why Roanoke’s Mayor Put Up the Internment-Camp Test Balloon – The Daily Beast
First question: What in Sam Hill is Roanoke, Virginia, doing with a Democratic mayor anyway? This is Jerry Falwell territory (Lynchburg is an hour away). The city has a sizable black population (around a quarter) but is still 70 percent white.
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Food in books: Soup and rye bread from The Book Thief | Books | The Guardian
Strangely, one of Liesel’s favourite distractions was Frau Holtzapfel. The reading sessions included Wednesday now as well, and they’d finished the water-abridged version of The Whistler and were on to The Dream Carrier.
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Sarah Palin’s new book includes a section about Louis CK · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It’s been half a decade now since Louis CK first decided to load up on rum and cokes during a flight and tweet graphic things about Sarah Palin, and then feel bad about it.
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud—a suspected organizer of ISIS’s Paris attacks, whom French authorities say died on Wednesday in a police raid—appears to have fit the kind of profile that European counterterrorism officials fear: raised in Europe by not especiall…
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Stainless steel garlic press for $9 / Boing Boing
Amazon has a promo code so you can get this garlic press for $9. It’s regularly $18. (Use code 25NLO83R at checkout) It includes a free silicone tube garlic clove peeler, like the kind reviewed here.
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The Algorithm That Creates Diets That Work for You – The Atlantic
Take a slice of cake and cut it in two. Eat one half, and let a friend scoff the other. Your blood-sugar levels will both spike, but to different degrees depending on your genes, the bacteria in your gut, what you recently ate, how recently or inten…
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What Oedipus, Epigenetics, and Behaviorism Have in Common
Antigone must reckon with the choices her father Oedipus made and the slippery, obscure moral inheritance that he leaves her. She ultimately chooses to pay with her life, not for her sins, but for her father’s.
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How Facebook (and Lee Berger) Found Homo naledi in a Tiny Cave
In some sense, Lee Rogers Berger found himself and the drowning woman at the same time.
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Amazon Echo is getting way more powerful at controlling your home | The Verge
Amazon Echo has supported IFTTT, the automation service since June, but this week it made it a bit easier to use some of the more complicated recipes. Users can now choose their own phrase triggers to activate IFTTT recipes.
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SeatGeek Launches A Marketplace Where Anyone Can Sell And Transfer Tickets | TechCrunch
SeatGeek is already a solid way to score tickets for live events, but now you can use it to sell those tickets, too. In a sense, the tickets on SeatGeek are being resold already, but the model relied on aggregating tickets that were put up for sale …
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IS killing of Chinese hostage: A game changer? – BBC News
The killing of a Chinese national by the Islamic State (IS) militant group has sent shockwaves across China. Official reaction was swift. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned IS for the kidnapping and killing of Fan Jinghui, and vowed to “bring…
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Donald Trump not opposed to ‘Muslim database’ in US – BBC News
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would be open to having a “Muslim database” in the US in the wake of the Paris attacks. Mr Trump said in an interview with Yahoo Politics that he would consider “drastic measures” for monito…
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See Roger Waters Visit Grandfather’s Grave in Moving ‘Wall’ Clip | Rolling Stone
One of the most moving scenes in Roger Waters The Wall finds the former Pink Floyd singer visiting the grave of his grandfather, George Henry Waters, who died while fighting in France during World War I.
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Watch Jeff Lynne’s ELO Revive Rousing ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ on ‘Fallon’ | Rolling Stone
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The new Porsche 911 Targa 4 is indecisive in the best way possible | The Verge
Like basically every version of the Porsche 911, the 911 Targa is an icon; it’s instantly recognizable for its removable roof that rests somewhere between the hardtop and the full-on cabriolet. It’s the 911 for the indecisive, basically — indecisive…
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Why not tattoo a serial number on them while we’re at it? maybe throw them in some camps? That way we can concentrate on preventing future attacks. Brilliant!
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Three Americans Held Captive in Yemen Freed | Al Jazeera America
Three Americans held captive by Shia rebels in Yemen’s capital have been freed, Oman’s state news agency and officials in Yemen said Thursday. The short English-language statement on the Oman News Agency said only that the U.S.
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ISIL’s ‘Cultural Cleansing’ In Syria, Iraq | Al Jazeera America
CHICAGO – The fingerprint of ISIL has become easy to identify: Barbaric spectacles, made even more visible by prolific social media campaigns. We’ve seen it most recently in Paris, Beirut and Egypt.
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Government Research Chimps Set to Retire
The last of the government’s research chimpanzees will soon be retiring to 200 acres of a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana. National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins made the announcement in an email to agency administrators, Nature report…
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Ctrl-Walt-Delete: Nilay screws up the edit | The Verge
What is a computer? What is a computer? Can a $150 laptop be any good? Are netbooks back?
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Hobbits Were a Separate Species, Ancient Chompers Show – Scientific American
An ancient, 3-foot-tall (0.9 meters) human whose diminutive stature has earned it the nickname “hobbit” has puzzled evolutionary scientists since its little bones were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores.
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The fifth and newest TV spot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens boasts something that was absent from every one of the film’s previous TV spots or theatrical trailers. (And, no, it’s not a decent shot of Luke Skywalker. Unfortunately.
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48 hours in Paris: a doctor talks about treating the victims of terror | The Verge
Marie was dining with friends Friday night when she received the news: reports of gunfire just a few blocks away from her Paris apartment. First it was Le Cambodge, a popular Cambodian restaurant; then it was Le Carillon, a perennially packed bar ju…
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Android adware can install itself even when users explicitly reject it | Ars Technica
Two weeks ago, Ars reported on newly discovered Android adware that is virtually impossible to uninstall. Now, researchers have uncovered malicious apps that can get installed even when a user has expressly tapped a button rejecting the app.
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Motifs, mottos and misfits shape the 2015 Costa award shortlists | Books | The Guardian
Things We Have in Common is the title of Tasha Kavanagh’s Costa-nominated YA novel about a troubled teenager with a crush on a schoolmate, and who turns out to share more with a third character than she does with pretty Alice.
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YouTuber Adrian Gee exposed as fraud / Boing Boing
YouTuber Adrian Gee of Australia has over 100 million views for his “social experiment” videos. He recently uploaded a video where he posed as a blind man standing in the street. He would approach strangers, hand them a $50 bill and ask if they had …
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This column is about the population crisis. About the breeding that’s laying waste to the world’s living systems. But it’s probably not the population crisis you’re thinking of. This is about another one, that we seem to find almost impossible to di…
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Can You Recover If a Stroke Silences Your Inner Monologue?
What would you do if you lost your inner monologue? You know, the one where you tell yourself “I don’t want to get up yet,” or “This is one delicious burger.” That’s what happened to Tinna Geula Phillips.
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Breaking Bad was a UI Problem — The Message — Medium
We are, by most accounts, in the throes of a new “golden age” of “prestige television,” or whatever it is you want to call this current abundance of extremely serious hour-long dramas that inspire such fanatical devotion. It is hard work even for th…
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Hillary Is Already Triangulating Against Liberals: Her new attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan shows her indifference to progressive voters (slate.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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These Ancient Monster Galaxies Have Scientists Perplexed
New research has revealed 574 massive, ancient galaxies lurking in the night sky, and their existence so close to the time of the Big Bang calls into question scientists’ best understanding of how large galaxies form.
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He can’t make it happen, but good for him. If pundits have taught me anything, it’s that I can be mad at the man with the plan if all he does is talk about it.
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Donald Trump Says He’s Open to Requiring American Muslims to Carry Special IDs; What could possibly go wrong. (motherjones.com) Maybe they should sew a yellow M on their clothing, too.
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“Republicans like to invoke the Bible yet ignore what it teaches about refugees: Deeply religious and conservative Americans support Republican positions – but not when they advocate turning away the vulnerable” (theguardian.com)submitted 1 hour ago…
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I’d love to know names and amounts, as my state just got ranked F for transparency and my Senators voted against it. Here here!
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Five Things Earth Can Do to Stop a Giant Asteroid | Motherboard
Let’s say an asteroid was coming for your city. How screwed are you? This video from PBS Space Time gives a lowdown on what would happen, and what we could do, if we’re ever approached by an asteroid that could level cities.
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France Struggles With Its Identity As It Seeks To Heal From Paris Attacks | FiveThirtyEight
Last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris have given a new and harsher edge to a multigenerational debate among those in France and its capital about the role of race, ethnicity and national origin in their society.
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Jem and Gender Theory – The New Yorker
If you want to see an exuberantly colorful all-ages tribute to girl power—colorful as in candy-floss pink and lime green—where serious ideas about performance, identity, and embodiment fit comfortably amid sitcom-worthy teen hijinks, then you should…
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Roger Federer maintained his 100% record at this year’s ATP World Tour Finals and ended Kei Nishikori’s hopes with a three-set win in London. The Swiss six-time champion came through 7-5 4-6 6-4 to claim his third round-robin victory at the O2 Arena.
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Gorgeously shot video of a 1600-foot slackline walk
OMG OMG OMG! Théo Sanson recently slacklined across a gap spanning nearly a third of a mile in Utah, which might just be a world record. This is gorgeously filmed; you really get a sense of the scale of the gap Sanson crossed and how high in the air…
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Secular Holiday Greetings from Starbucks – The New Yorker
When Starbucks released its famous red cups to launch its holiday season on November 1, customers who ordered hot beverages received a red cup that was noticeably unadorned.
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TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley Will Showcase Europe’s Best | TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt is coming to Europe and a very cool way to talk about what you are doing is to join Startup Alley. Unlike other events, Startup Alley at Disrupt’s way for you to show off exactly how your startups looks and feels because there is …
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The Problem With Ketchup Leather – The Atlantic
I didn’t know that burgers were broken. This week I was startled to learn otherwise. “Ketchup leather,” declares a Tech Insider “Innovation” headline on the matter, “is the solution to soggy burgers we’ve been waiting for.” So many questions.
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FDA approves genetically modified salmon for production | Environment | The Guardian
The production and consumption of genetically engineered salmon has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, marking the first time that a genetically modified animal product has been cleared for sale in the US.
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Fraternity and Sorority Groups Abandon the Safe Campus Act – The Atlantic
Prospects for a bill that would limit the ability of colleges to investigate claims of sexual violence dimmed this week as umbrella organizations for fraternities and sororities became the latest groups to cut ties with the legislation.
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T-Mobile threatens smartwatch company over its use of magenta | The Verge
T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom AG is once again waving its magenta trademark around and threatening companies who dare use any bright pink hue to market their products and services, this time targeting smartwatch producer OXY.
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Review: Adele’s 25 is a postcard from the planet’s biggest pop star | The Verge
Imagine for a minute that you’re Adele: princess of Tottenham, child of MySpace, conqueror of pop charts. Your last album came out almost half a decade ago, when you were just 22. It sold over 30 million copies around the world and won you seven Gra…
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House Republicans vote their bigotry, fear on refugees, Democrats stand strong
The House voted 242-183 Thursday morning to “pause” the process for refugees coming from Iraq and Syria, a vote showing Republican fear and xenophobia. No Democrats voted with Republicans, a show of solidarity with their President and just good sens…
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13 miles of typography on Broadway, from A to Z — Hopes&Fears
Broadway is easily America’s most famous thoroughfare.
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Reuters bans RAW photos because they’re easier to manipulate / Boing Boing
Reuters, the news agency, has banned photographers from filing photos in RAW format, mandating JPG instead. This, it believes, will cut down on processing time—and prevent photographers from editorializing their images.
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Comcast launches online TV service that doesn’t count against data caps | Ars Technica
Comcast’s live-TV-over-the-Internet service has launched in the Boston and Chicago areas, with plans to bring it to Comcast’s entire cable territory by early next year.
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Permafrost Meltdown Raises Risk of Runaway Global Warming – Scientific American
This is the second of a four-part series. Read the first part here. GOOSE LAKE, Northwest Territories—In a fragile landscape where footsteps leave an imprint for years, Jennifer Baltzer stood and surveyed the surrounding bog of green sphagnum moss.
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The FBI Is Worried About ‘Hacktivists’ Targeting Politicians and Cops | Motherboard
The group of hackers who broke into the CIA Director’s personal email account are still at large, and the FBI is worried there may be more attacks targeting high profile public officials and cops to come.
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Meet the Utah lawyer helping thousands of Mormons leave their church | US news | The Guardian
For Utah attorney Mark Naugle, helping Mormons leave their church is a cause that hits close to home. Naugle was just 15 when his parents decided to leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the world’s largest Mormon denomination.
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Robot Companies: Robots Won’t Steal Our Jobs, They’ll Be Our Minions | Motherboard
The creeping fear that robots might someday rob humans of their jobs is unfounded, according to bunch of robot companies based out in San Francisco.
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NASA Parodies Song ‘Honey I’m Good’ For 1-Year Mission and Interns | Video
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I haven’t shared this and I need to get it off my chest. – Meme on Imgur
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Genetically Modified Salmon Approved by FDA | Al Jazeera America
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.
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Men Overeat in Front of Women to ‘Show Off’ – The Atlantic
Food is a fraught thing. What people eat, when they eat it, how much they eat—all of it is subject to scrutiny, both social and scientific. Little wonder, then, that who people eat with seems to influence what they eat. And adding gender to the mix …
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Desperate refugees flee persecution and war, but American politicians — worried about security risks — refuse to accept them. That’s the situation today, but it’s also the shameful way we responded as Jews were fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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Late Show host Stephen Colbert implores his guest, Bill Maher, to return to the Catholic church, kicking off a slightly heated exchange about religion. Maher, the host of HBO’s Real Time and an outspoken atheist, says he refuses to make up ‘silly st…
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Company which raised price of AIDS drug by 5500% reports $14m quarterly losses (pinknews.co.uk)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading…
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Review: Jessica Jones is the complex (super) heroine we’ve been waiting for | The Verge
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has never exactly shied away from darker themes, but for the most part it’s in the business of wonder and adventure.
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Android Google Search lets you use an app without installing it | Ars Technica
Google’s latest mobile experiment lets you use an Android app without installing it. Google has launched a beta version of Android app streaming inside of Google search.
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Ban proposed for ads for drugs and medical gadgets / Boing Boing
Studies are routinely hand-picked to make drugs seem more effective than they are, television constantly tells you to take drugs, and doctors prescribing drugs get kickbacks from phamaceutical companies. Maybe it’s time to knock out one of these thr…
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The Quest Continues for a Quantum Theory of Gravity
Our world is ruled by four fundamental forces: the gravitational pull of massive objects, the electromagnetic interaction between electric charges, the strong nuclear interaction holding atomic nuclei together and the weak nuclear force causing unst…
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Ron Galella on the Paparazzi’s Golden Era and Why Marlon Brando Broke His Jaw | Vanity Fair
In the historical timeline of celebrity imagery, the photographer Ron Galella’s body of work falls somewhere between film-studio–produced head shots of the first half of the 20th century and modern culture’s obsession with #selfies.
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The “unicorns” are still alive! Just. The share sale of mobile payment company Square got off to a good start on Thursday – but only after the Silicon Valley startup was forced to slash the price of its offer.
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Can Democratic Socialism Pass the Electability Test? It Already Has | The Nation
No one who has paid attention to the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination is unaware that democratic socialists have won elections in Denmark.
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Donald Trump Says He’s Open to Requiring American Muslims to Carry Special IDs | Mother Jones
In the midst of growing concern following last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, including calls from 30 governors to halt the relocation of Syrian refugees, Republican front-runner Donald Trump has taken it a step further.
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Turn an Old Mac Into a Cheap VPN with OS X Server
VPN subscriptions cost money, and they often require a bit of research just to figure out if they’re legit.
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Eight years later, you can finally turn off Rock Band’s kick drum pedal | Ars Technica
For almost exactly eight years now, Rock Band 4’s kick pedal has presented a steep learning curve for wary new drummers. At the easier difficulties, tapping the drum’s four colored pads in time with the music isn’t that hard on its own, nor is tappi…
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Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor review – a beguiling biography | Books | The Guardian
A third of the way through this beguiling biography, Benjamin Taylor offers a statement from Marcel Proust that he believes explains why the (arguably) greatest novelist of the 20th century dribbled away nine years of his life translating Ruskin int…
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Messaging Apps And Revenge Of The Computer Science Nerd | TechCrunch
Early websites were simple HTML. They followed a pattern of a long-form equation, with perfectly balanced sides. There was no CSS to make the HTML code appear a three-dimensional hyperbole, which it is today. I hated CSS then, and I still do today.
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Birth of Planets! Formation of Alien Worlds Photographed for 1st Time – Scientific American
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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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
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‘Jessica Jones’ on Netflix: Marvel’s Darkest Hero Yet – The Atlantic
When viewers first meet private investigator Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), she’s throwing a client through her front-door window. Things only go downhill from there.
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Ears: Do Their Design, Size and Shape Matter? – Scientific American
Animal ears come in all shapes and sizes. How do these design details affect hearing? Make replicas and test them out on your own ears–see if they give you super hearing!
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Is Gentrification the Result of Rich People’s Quest for Shorter Commutes? – The Atlantic
Back in 1980, Americans didn’t pay much of a premium to live in the center of a city. Quite the contrary: Many gladly paid more to live farther away. The average price for a two- or three-bedroom home right in a central business district was about $…
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Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama | Open Culture
Last week we featured a list of 100 novels all kids should read before graduating from high school. Chosen by 500 English teachers from all over Britain, the list happens to have a lot of overlap with many others like it.
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Start Making Sense: Where Did ISIS Come From—And What Can We Do About it Now? | The Nation
The world is a complicated place, and media outlets obsessed with quick takes and beating their competition sometimes do more harm than good. That’s why today we’re launching Start Making Sense, a new podcast from The Nation hosted by longtime contr…
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YouTube announced this morning plans to up its efforts in protecting video creators from copyright takedown requests for videos that should otherwise be classified as “fair use.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: Friends Complete Pack, 007 Classics, and More
The One Where Amazon Sold the Complete Friends Blu-ray For An All-Time Low Price. Great gift idea, available today only. [Friends: The Complete Series, $60]
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TVs and Phones Trade Inaudible Ultrasonic Signals to Figure Out Who They Belong To – The Atlantic
The TV is on in the background, and you’re replying to a quick email on your phone nearby. You don’t know it, but the devices are communicating. During a commercial, the TV emits an inaudible tone and your phone, which was listening for it, picks it…
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New program: Microsoft commissions science fiction inspired by its research | Books | The Guardian
While Apple’s founder Steve Jobs gets the biopic treatment, Microsoft is turning to science fiction, with some of the top names in SF and fantasy lining up for a collection of stories inspired by the technology giant’s current research.
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Obama Issues a Challenge to Muslims After the Paris Attacks – The Atlantic
Earlier this week, Barack Obama, eager to pivot to Asia (and who wouldn’t be?), held a press conference in Turkey that was notable for the repetitive and sometimes-posturing nature of the questions asked of him, and also for the frustrations he occa…
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The Doomed TV Adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle Was Just Undoomed
Ever since it was announced that the vaguely named IM Global Television would turn Kurt Vonnegut’s classic science fiction satire Cat’s Cradle into a TV series, I have been dreading it.
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Now free of the tyrannical constructs of her E! talk show (when exactly is “lately” anyway?) and its proximity to Kardashians, Chelsea Handler can finally get as topical and serious as she wants in her new Netflix series.
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Review: Secret in Their Eyes is a prestige noir with mixed-up priorities | The Verge
On paper, Secret In Their Eyes is straight out of a pulpy detective novel. There’s a loose-cannon investigator who’s way too close to a murder case. He’s got the hots for a chilly dame, but she’s already got a rich patsy on the hook. He’s fighting a…
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LiquidTalent Launches On-Demand Marketplace For Designers And Developers | TechCrunch
LiquidTalent has today launched out of beta, offering companies a marketplace to find high-quality developer and designer talent on-demand both on the web and mobile.
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Astronomers Witness Birth of Two Baby Planets — NYMag
Scientists are finally beholding the miracle of life – in space. A couple of baby proto-planets are orbiting a star some 430 light-years from Earth, the L.A. Times reports, and could provide scientists with new knowledge of planet development.
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Rand Paul Only Wants the Rich Refugees — NYMag
The Statue of Liberty might have had a thing for poor, huddled masses, but she never said anything about food stamps, Kentucky senator Rand Paul informed his colleagues on Wednesday.
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Do the Kochs Have Their Own Spy Network? (newyorker.com)
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‘Supergirl’ and ‘Jessica Jones’: Welcome to Peak Superheroine TV | Rolling Stone
One of the craziest TV twists in recent years: They’ve finally figured out how to do superheros right. Supergirl and Jessica Jones are totally different stories, from different comic-book universes, yet they both feel like shows that couldn’t have h…
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MAKE: custom action figure head paintjob / Boing Boing
Even when action-figure head sculpts are great, the paintjobs can be pretty indifferent, with eyelashes on foreheads. Ibentmyman-thing has, through trial-and-error, come up with a method for priming and painting heads, with gorgeous results.
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Structural engineer unimpressed by suspension bridge collapse scenes in movies / Boing Boing
Engineer Alex Weinberg reviews suspension bridge scenes in movies and finds their representation of structural mechanics to be wobbly at best. Embedded above is the most accurate he found, from Final Destination V.
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Bruce Springsteen, John Legend Tackle Race at ‘Shining a Light’ Show | Rolling Stone
From Paris to Beirut to Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, 2015 has been a year defined by violent tragedy.
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Recruitment Soonicorn Greenhouse’s First Acquisition Is Parklet | TechCrunch
Hiring is only half the battle. You still have turn that new team member into a productive cog in your master plan. But Greenhouse didn’t help with that. The $60 million-funded recruitment software startup only assists with sourcing candidates, runn…
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Tinder Owner Match Group Debuts On Nasdaq At $13.25/Share, Up Over 10% | TechCrunch
After a bizarre interview from one of its executives on the day of its IPO pricing, today Match Group, owner of the popular Tinder dating app, listed as a public company, spinning out from its parent IAC.
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National Book awards: a good night for politics, poetry and short stories | Books | The Guardian
His fiction counterpart, Adam Johnson, took a slightly different tone when accepting the award for his short story collection Fortune Smiles. “I told my wife and my kids, ‘Don’t come across America because this is not going to happen,’” joked Johnso…
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The UK is reversing its policies on climate change “without offering credible alternatives”, according to an alliance of Britain’s doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
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US governors vow to protect citizens from mass-shooters if they are Syrian / Boing Boing
Pete Reynolds in McSweeney’s, proving that humor is a better source of news than the news is: “I refuse to support special interest groups whose sole mission is to profit from putting weapons into the hands of people, if those people are Syrians.
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The Pros And Cons Of Co-Sleeping – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The act of co-sleeping, where babies and toddlers share a “family bed” with their parents, is a rising trend in the United States, though the practice is contested by those who doubt its purported benefits.
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US approves genetically modified salmon for food – BBC News
US regulators have given the go-ahead to genetically modified salmon, making it the first GM animal destined for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration said it had given approval on the grounds that “food from the fish is safe to eat”.
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Passengers rescued from stricken cruise ship – BBC News
British forces based on the Falklands Islands have rescued 347 passengers and crew from a cruise ship in the south Atlantic. The master of “Le Boreal” ordered the ship to be abandoned after a fire onboard left it without power and drifting, listing …
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Four drone pilots call bombings a ‘driving force for terrorism’ | The Verge
Four former US Air Force drone pilots have come forward with a blistering critique of the current drone program, first published in The Guardian.
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YouTube will pay legal fees for some people hit with questionable takedown requests | The Verge
YouTube has been the battleground for some major copyright law cases, and it looks like the company may be taking a more proactive approach to them.
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Afghan military used my home as a detention center | Al Jazeera America
In “One Day in Charkh,” “Fault Lines” undertakes an exclusive investigation into a joint U.S.-Afghan military operation in Afghanistan during which 15 civilians were killed. The film airs on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 9 p.m. Eastern time/6 p.m. Pacific on …
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Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling? | TED Talk | TED.com
What’s going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they’re thinking and feeling? Carl Safina thinks we can. Using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology and behavioral science, he weaves together stories of whales, …
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What Stock Market Volatility Means for Your Student Loan Debt
Your student loan comes with either a variable or fixed interest rate. If it’s fixed, you don’t have much to worry about (aside from the whole crushing debt thing). But if you have a variable rate loan, that rate can change along with different econ…
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We Finally Know a Little More About What Happened To Cyclops In Marvel’s New Universe
The X-Men are having a rough time in Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different” universe.
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Sylvester Stallone would hand over the Rambo reins to Ryan Gosling · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Ryan Gosling recently confirmed he’s starring in the Blade Runner sequel, and now it looks like he’s being considered to bring the role of Vietnam vet John Rambo into the new millennium.
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In Gaza, Medical Permits Tied to Intelligence | Al Jazeera America
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Ramzi Kamal remembers his one encounter with an Israel Security Agency (ISA) officer at Erez crossing, the only passenger terminal between Gaza and Israel. It was early 2014, and he was in urgent need of ear surgery that coul…
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A message from Molenbeek: ‘We are not terrorists’ – Al Jazeera English
More than 2,000 people gathered on Wednesday in Brussels’ Molenbeek neighbourhood. Benoit, a Belgian living in another part of Brussels, said he had come to show solidarity with Molenbeek’s Muslim community. “I don’t like the way the world and my go…
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Forcing Muslim Americans to register and carry special ID? Trump isn’t saying no.
Donald Trump doesn’t just want to keep Syrian refugees out, he wants increased surveillance of Muslims in the United States. Increased like how? Trump goes there—you can fill in the historical reference for “there” yourself: “We’re going to have to …
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Six Israelis injured in shooting near Bethlehem – Al Jazeera English
Six Israelis have been wounded after a shooter opened fire on an Israeli car from his vehicle in Gush Etzion settlement south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Luba Samri, Israeli police spokeswoman, said on Thursday that the attacker was stopped, alth…
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Astronomers capture first-ever image of forming planet | The Verge
For the first time, researchers have photographed the birth of a distant planet. Of the nearly 2,000 exoplanets we know about, only 10 or so have been imaged before, and all had long been finished becoming planets.
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Organisers of cancelled Paris climate march urge global show of support | Environment | The Guardian
But organisers have said it is now even more important for people around the world to come out onto the streets for “the biggest global climate march in history” to protest “on behalf of those who can’t”.
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New York City police department confirms hoverboards are illegal | US news | The Guardian
Sorry Marty McFly – not in New York. The Big Apple is banning “hoverboards” from its streets, the New York City police department has confirmed.
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Randall Munroe has a new book coming out called Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words in which he uses the 1000 most common English words to explain interesting mostly scientific stuff.
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Phhhoto, With $1.5M In New Seed, Launches Group Gif Sharing | TechCrunch
Phhhoto, the photo-booth event company turned social app, has today announced a new group feature called Party. The new feature will allow users to share Phhhoto’s GIF-style moving photos as group messages, both privately among friends or through th…
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House Dems Say BP Shouldn’t Get Tax Write-Off From Oil Spill Settlement: The company could claim up to $15.3 billion as a “business expense.” (huffingtonpost.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Conservative members of the Texas Board of Education don’t want to create a group of state university professors to fact-check students’ textbooks for potential errors, despite recent controversies over factually inaccurate information about slavery…
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Samsung hits record high TV sales as everyone else struggles | The Verge
It’s hard out there for most TV manufacturers, but Samsung seems to be doing just fine. In fact, it set a new record for TV sales last month, hitting $1 billion in North America over the course of October, which Samsung says is a new monthly high fo…
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France goes on offensive at home against ISIS | The Verge
France’s response to last Friday’s bloody attacks on Paris is showing results.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 19th – The New Yorker
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Tap-Dancing Birds Revealed For First Time in New Video
Forget the funky chicken—the blue-capped cordon bleu prefers a tap dance to attract mates, a new study says. Scientists already knew males of these blue-and-tan African finches bob and sing as part of their courtship display.
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Ian Rankin live webchat – post your questions now | Books | The Guardian
This, I hardly need say, is a fantastic opportunity. Ian Rankin is a literary star. He’s won so many honours and Dagger awards that I can’t hope to list them here (you’ll have to go to Wikipedia) and his 30-plus novels and short-story collections ar…
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BBC Sport – French national anthem to be played before Premier League games
The French national anthem – La Marseillaise – will be played before all of this weekend’s Premier League matches. More to follow.
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The World’s Most Popular Insecticide Is Messing With Bees – The Atlantic
The most widely used insecticides in the world—neonicotinoids—turn bumblebees into more bumbling pollinators, leading to lower yields for apples and perhaps other plants that they visit.
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Win a guitar, from Loog / Boing Boing
This post is a heartfelt thank you from Loog Guitars CEO Rafael Atijas. Loog is a company that we at Boing Boing are proud to have helped grow. We are thrilled to see them join us as a sponsor. The enter to win one of their guitars, simply send an e…
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The WorldStar of War Porn | Motherboard
The GoPro is the most popular camcorder in the United States. Through its videos you can inhabit the eyes and ears of anyone: a skydiver, a cat, or, if you really want to, one person killing another.
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Clinton and Sanders to address Isis threat in wake of Paris attacks – live | US news | The Guardian
Hello and welcome to a busy day in American politics. Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and her biggest rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, are due to lay out competing plans to defeat Islamic State extremists in Syria, Iraq and elsewh…
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Where to Get the Best Views at These Popular U.S. Tourist Spots
A beautiful scenic view to remember can make a trip to a national park, monument, or just a gorgeous cityscape more memorable (and photo-worthy!). If you’re headed to New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, or any other of these popular U.S.
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US state department trolls Russian newspaper over ‘fake letter’ – BBC News
The US state department has poked fun at a Russian newspaper which it says faked a letter by a US official. The Izvestia newspaper claimed US official Randy Berry wrote a letter of support to Russian gay rights campaigner Nikolay Alexeyev.
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David Vitter Could Lose His Governor’s Race. His Career Has Been A Disaster. | ThinkProgress
David Vitter has been elected to the United States Senate twice by the state of Louisiana — by margins of 19 points and 22 points — in a state carried by Mitt Romney over Barack Obama, 57.78 percent to 40.58 percent in 2012.
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Top 10 wilderness adventures | Children’s books | The Guardian
Like many readers of my generation, my first experience of the wilderness came between the pages of a book. In the years since I’ve been fortunate enough to spend time in real wild places, among them the snowbound Finnish woodland that inspired my n…
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In the late 20th century, people hoped that the new millennium would usher in an age of promise: hoverboards, flying cars, personal robots, and the like. That future, the one that everyone predicted, never quite came to pass. Not in the way we thoug…
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Lawmakers Hijack Criminal Justice Reform With Plan To Immunize CEOs From Many Laws | ThinkProgress
It’s a cliché that ignorance of the law does not excuse violations of it. If you break into someone’s home and steal their television, you won’t escape a jail sentence by claiming that you did not know that burglary is illegal.
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We Made a Twitter Bot That Predicts the Future | Motherboard
We’re all futurists, really. Speculation is part of life: We all muse, forecast, and daydream about our futures. We make sweeping, generalized predictions and specific, personal projections. We posit scenarios that might never come to pass.
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911 Wasn’t Built for Cellphones – The Atlantic
Five years ago, Jamie Barnett took his boss on a tour of a 911 call center in Fairfax, Virginia, a 20-mile drive from his office at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C.
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These Are the Most Spectacular Nature Photos of the Year
The winners of Royal Society Publishing’s inaugural photography competition have been announced, and they’re extraordinary. These inspiring nature photos, chosen from over a thousand entries, were judged by a team consisting of Royal Society Publish…
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blakebaggott: Shaun King on Twitter | .mattfraction
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When King Lear Was a Rom-Com | JSTOR Daily
As the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare approaches in April, you can be sure that writings about him and his time won’t be dwindling soon. Performances of his plays are also unlikely to see a downtick.
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Square Opens At $11.20, Up 24% On Its IPO Price Of $9, Raising $243M | TechCrunch
Today Square made its debut on the NYSE with a little pop. Trading as $SQ, the payments company opened at $11.20/share and climbing shortly thereafter. Last night the company priced its IPO at $9, raising $243 million and valuing the company at arou…
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France says it will take 30,000 Syrian refugees, while U.S. Republicans would turn them away (washingtonpost.com) U.S. Independents and all sane societies would turn them away too.
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Repeat after me: Obama is not admitting 100,000, 200,000 or 250,000 Syrian refugees “There is no excuse for repeated, false statements that have no basis in fact – and have been proven wrong. These candidates each earn Four Pinocchios.” (washingtonp…
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Jennifer Lawrence Takes Bourbon Shots on Mockingjay-Premiere Red Carpet | Vanity Fair
The J.Law Express rolls on! Few celebrities provide as much amusement, or—not to get too “meta”—generate as many blog posts as Jennifer Lawrence does when she is promoting a movie. Lawrence rarely sits down for a late-night-show appearance that does…
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Alleged Ringleader of Paris Attacks, Killed in Rai | Vanity Fair
Officials on Thursday morning confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the 27-year-old ISIS terrorist who was suspected of planning and executing last week’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, had indeed been killed during an earlier raid on a Paris apart…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: A witness to a wet early Mars
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A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists | The Nation
The United States’ military strategy has long been predicated on being able to fight two wars at once.
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Survivor Guitarist Sues Mike Huckabee Over ‘Eye of the Tiger’ Use | Rolling Stone
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is facing a lawsuit stemming from a September rally where the former Arkansas governor used Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” without permission.
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Jennifer Lawrence, Fallon Plead ‘Come Dance With Us’ on ‘Tonight’ | Rolling Stone
Jennifer Lawrence, Fallon Plead ‘Come Dance With Us’ on ‘Tonight’ Guest, host play bespectacled ravers with nonsensical moves like “Check the Door,” “Bowling Confetti”
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PARIS — By attacking civilian targets well beyond its territory, the Islamic State has seemingly accomplished what diplomats had failed to do.
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Using Art to Expose What Government Hides: An Interview With Laurie Anderson | The Nation
Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson collaborated with Mohammed el Gharani on Habeas Corpus, a three-day performance at New York’s Park Avenue Armory this fall. El Gharani was seized at age 14 and held for nearly eight years at the Guantánamo Bay dete…
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Last year, Bennett Friedman, who owns a plumbing showroom in Manhattan called AF New York, took a business trip to Milan. On the morning of his return he faced a choice: stop in the bathroom there or wait until he got home. The flight was nine hours…
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Low budget Star Wars The Force Awakens trailer – GIF on Imgur
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Group reviews – a selection | Children’s books | The Guardian
I only got half way through it. It was too old fashioned. I didn’t like it. I thought that maybe my older sister in year seven might like it. It was not very interesting. I give it 7/10. I loved it! It was perfect. It was great if you like Tom Gates…
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GOP Politicians Are Supporting Candidates Who Think Like Them | FiveThirtyEight
The Republican race for president remains as wide open as ever. You can see that by looking at endorsements, which are highly correlated with the final result of a primary. Very few Republican bigwigs have endorsed a candidate.
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Five Books That Shed Light on the Cultural Revolution | The Nation
This Fall Books issue includes Jiang’s translation of Liao Yiwu’s essay “Bullets and Opium,” about the Chinese democracy movement’s brutal suppression in 1989. She has also translated Ji Xianlin’s The Cowshed, a defining memoir of the Cultural Revol…
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Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico and French avant-garde film director Philippe Garrel had a decade long romantic relationship between 1969 and 1979.
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ISIS Wants You to Hate Muslims | The Nation
Fourteen years ago, immediately after the Al Qaeda terror attacks in the United States on September 11, the French daily Le Monde published a headline that perfectly expressed the sentiments of grief, shock, and solidarity that so many around the wo…
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Ben Carson’s Past and Present | The Nation
When Carson claims he was a bad-ass youth, His tales and actual facts vary. But even if he didn’t wield a shiv, The man’s ideas alone are scary.
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How the Rich See Migration | The Nation
“I tried but failed to ward off the second bottle of champagne,” begins David Brooks’s much-derided essay in the November 15 issue of the New York Times style magazine, T.
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The Crazier the Republican Candidates Sound, the More Popular They Become | The Nation
The essential mystery of American politics is this: How is it that the Republicans have succeeded in laying the groundwork for long-term dominance at the very moment they have allowed their party to be captured by an irrational, irredentist faction …
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Google Shopping Gets A Mobile Makeover With A Focus On Local Commerce | TechCrunch
As the holiday shopping season starts to get into full swing, Google this morning announced a brand-new design for its Shopping vertical, the Google Shopping search engine.
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US House to vote to restrict Iraqi and Syrian refugees entry – BBC News
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are preparing to vote on legislation that would place new restrictions on the resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the US.
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Frank Rich on Carol and Lesbian Culture — Vulture
In early December 1948, Patricia Highsmith took a Christmas-season temp job as a shopgirl in the children’s toy department at Bloomingdale’s.
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More blades and more fun: save over 30% on the SKEYE Hexa Drone / Boing Boing
Hexa is a next-generation drone. With its unique six propeller design, Hexa delivers ultimate control for flying in every direction and pulling off ridiculous stunts. Simply throw it in the air, and enjoy more than an 164-foot range for professional…
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LG joins Apple, Google, and Samsung, launches own mobile payment service | Ars Technica
The mobile payments arena is already crowded, but that’s not stopping LG. The consumer electronics giant has announced LG Pay, the company’s own mobile payment system that will likely enable its customers to complete purchases using only their smart…
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The US embassy in Moscow has given a Russian newspaper a grammar lesson over a fake letter that purports to show that the US pays gay rights activists to smear Russian officials. The embassy marked more than two dozen mistakes in a copy of the alleg…
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Belgium Pledges Security Crackdown After Paris | Al Jazeera America
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel pledged a security crackdown and an extra 400 million euros ($427 million) of funding for security on Thursday, while rejecting criticism of Belgium’s security services in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle ‘Wildlife’ 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. We spotted something today on FARK. That’s F-A-R-K. That’s the website that…
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From Somali refugee to Canadian MP – Al Jazeera English
Ahmed Hussen, who came to Canada as a teenage refugee, was last month elected as the country’s first Somalia-born member of parliament.
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When Crowdfunding Fails The Backers Are Left With No Way Out | TechCrunch
A few years ago an enterprising programmer dug through Kickstarter’s data to figure out how many failed projects there really were. Thanks to a trick in the coding, however, none showed up.
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Elton John Talks Upbeat New LP, Fave Deep Cuts, Advising Ed Sheeran | Rolling Stone
Elton John has spent the past few years making mostly reflective and piano-based albums like 2010’s Leon Russell collaboration, The Union, and 2013’s sparse, somber The Diving Board.
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Displaced Georgian refugees of 2008 war await justice – Al Jazeera English
Khurvaleti refugee camp, Georgia – The war over a speck of land the size of Rhode Island lasted only five days. The death toll was in the low hundreds. And most of the tens of thousands of people displaced by it live within driving distance of their…
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Freddie Mercury Biopic Revived With New Screenwriter | Rolling Stone
A biopic about Freddie Mercury has been kicking around Hollywood since 2010, when it was revealed that Sacha Baron Cohen would portray the Queen singer.
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Watch Lee Ann Womack’s Stormy ‘Don’t Listen to the Wind’ | Rolling Stone
Every fall roots musicians of all stripes descend upon Nashville for the Americana Honors and Awards ceremony, which is consistently packed with killer performances.
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After Attacks, France Increases Its Commitment To Refugees : Liberal
After Attacks, France Increases Its Commitment To Refugees (thinkprogress.org)submitted 20 minutes ago by loading…
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Trump on ISIS: ‘We’ve got to take back the internet’ | The Verge
Following the attacks on Paris, Donald Trump this week suggested the United States would have to “take back the internet” from ISIS, which he says has been effectively using the web as a recruitment tool.
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Join Me Tonight In Brooklyn For A Micromeetup | TechCrunch
I started a series of meetups in the Big Apple and the latest one, to be held in Brooklyn, is tonight. I’d like to see you there. You can RSVP here. We’ll be meeting at the Union Hall in Park Slope from 7:30 p.m. until about 9 p.m.
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Exclusive: Ship Thieves cut out the “Middle Man” on new song · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Since 2008, Chris Wollard has been building a diverse portfolio of solo material. Whether the releases came under his own name, or as Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves, he’s jumped between acoustic folk and no-nonsense rock, while also getting his ol…
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Two Israelis killed in Tel Aviv stabbing attack – Al Jazeera English
At least two Israelis have been killed in a stabbing at a room used as a synagogue in Tel Aviv, and the Palestinian assailant has been wounded and arrested, the Israeli police said. A third Israeli was seriously wounded in Thursday’s incident, medic…
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What If Your Expressions Were the Opposite of What They Should Be?
Eggplant is a masterful short film about Durian, a young boy who laughs when he’s sad and cries when he’s happy. It’s caused him a lot of problems. Yangzi She’s UCLA Animation Workshop thesis film, Eggplant is a masterclass in fluid animation, flitt…
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Faith and Toilets – Scientific American
What’s the punchline? There isn’t one, because this isn’t a joke. The room in question hosted a session at the Parliament of World Religions, in Salt Lake City, last month.
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The great Fallout 4 sustainable housing experiment | The Verge
Just south of what was once called the Charles River, a few minutes away from the bustling (by post-apocalyptic standards) metropolis of Diamond City, there’s a unique piece of Fallout 4 real estate known as Hangman’s Alley.
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Cuba and US sign first environment agreement: The agreement was the first of its kind since the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two nations, last Dec. 17. (telesurtv.net)
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The Clock of the Long Now on Vimeo
The Clock of the Long Now is a portrait of Danny Hillis and his brilliant team of inventors, futurists, and engineers as they build The 10,000 Year Clock—a grand, Stone Henge-like monolith, being constructed in a mountain in West Texas. The film, li…
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Get to Know Your oven Better and Never Burn a Frozen Pizza Again
Baking a couple of frozen pizzas at once may seem like a pretty easy task. After all, there are several racks in your oven, which seems perfect for several pizzas. If you’ve tried this in a traditional oven, you may have ended up with one scorched p…
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Yemen conflict: Oman ‘evacuates three Americans’ – BBC News
Three US citizens have been evacuated from Yemen by the Omani air force, Oman’s foreign ministry says. The official ONA news agency said they were flown on Wednesday out of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi rebel movement.
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U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Fights For $15 Minimum Wage – YouTube
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Your Brain Can Taste Without Your Tongue – Scientific American
Back in ancient times, philosophers like Aristotle were already speculating about the origins of taste, and how the tongue sensed elemental tastes like sweet, bitter, salty and sour.
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Gandhi’s Unequal Justice in South Africa | New Republic
Gandhi was 24 years old when he arrived in Natal, South Africa in May 1893, the month in which white settlers celebrated the 50th anniversary of Natal’s annexation by the British Crown.
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EA spent millions on the new Star Wars game and didn’t filter racial slurs | The Verge
I just played the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront online, and it took less than 30 minutes to discover a glaring mistake from EA. In Battlefront, like many online games, players can communicate with each other using text — and every game of Batt…
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The birdie dance: fancy footwork of courting birds revealed | Science | The Guardian
Humans buy flowers. Capuchins throw stones. Giant tortoises bellow. But the blue-capped cordon bleu, a small finch found in Africa, really knows how to win over a mate.
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New “Superbug” Gene Found in Animals and People in China – Scientific American
A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China – including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said on Wednesday.
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A young Marc Bolan (age 16 or 17) Before he became known as the “Marc Bolan” we all know and still love (you know – the guitar-wielding god-of-glam done up with eyeliner and with tons of hair?), Bolan was still going by his birth name “Mark Feld,” a…
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Paris attacks could delay Guantánamo Bay closure, Obama warns | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama has warned that his efforts to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre will run into even more opposition as a result of the Paris terrorist attacks, despite the facility serving as an “enormous recruitment tool” for Islamic State by …
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Did the Oscars Really Begin as a Publicity Scam? | Vanity Fair
Karina Longworth, host of the terrific Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This, joins us this week to talk about her latest episode, the story of super-producer David O. Selznick, his troubled relationship with fellow super-producer Louis B.
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Gun owner here. I’d support universal background checks if they would repeal the 1934 National Firearms Act so I can put a stock on my pistol and suppressor on my rifle without having to deal with the ATF. Compromise, right?
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The Big Idea that Could Bring Disaffected Voters Back to the Polls: Bernie Sanders has a plan to expand, not ‘save’, Social Security — and it should be popular (thenation.com)submitted 2 hours ago by loading…
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Under Tim Draper, Draper Network Extends Reach, Eyes New Funding Model | TechCrunch
Over the years, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the 30-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm, famously created a partner network of independent but DFJ-branded venture firms around the world. It was one of the first and only venture firms that have attempte…
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Jake Arrieta wins NL Cy Young award while Dallas Keuchel takes AL honors | Sport | The Guardian
Jake Arrieta posted one final win, perhaps against his most formidable competition yet. The Chicago Cubs righty aced out Dodgers stars Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw to earn the NL Cy Young Award by a comfortable margin Wednesday.
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Faith is a superhero drawn from real life | Books | The Guardian
It may be something of a niche concern, but I do often fret that if the radioactive spider bites, I just wouldn’t look good in the primary-coloured skintight Lycra that convention dictates a superhero must wear.
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Oh, wow, that’s an intense line of questioning snuffles – Imgur
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Resident Alien’s 1991 single, “Mr. Boops” Already famous in hip-hop circles as the DJ in Stetsasonic, Prince Paul was much in demand as a producer after he worked on De La Soul’s momentous debut 3 Feet High and Rising.
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Chelsea Manning continues to fight for the right to fulfill her gender identity while serving time in an all-male military prison facility.
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In the fall of 1969, The Velvet Underground took to San Francisco to perform an 18-night residency, the bulk of which was performed at the Matrix. These shows were all recorded, building a lengthy set of material, some of which was first released in…
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To get from Burkina Faso to Italy, best friends Ayiva and Abas cross a desert and a sea, living through squalid conditions, robbery, violence, and near-drowning.
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In recent years, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have shown an increasing interest in their long game, developing stronger continuity between South Park’s storylines and wrapping everything up with multipart finales. But there’s never been anything quite…
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Raising a Glass With an Arab Nationalist | The Nation
The pianist was still droopy-eyed, her face as dark as the keys they left her to press for half a century, though she must have been white as an angel when they first strung her up in the heavy frame on the wall.
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Marco Rubio lends support to bill that would delay surveillance reform | US news | The Guardian
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has sought to reignite debate over the surveillance apparatus of the National Security Agency.
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The Idea of Houses | The Nation
I sold my earrings at the gold store to buy a silver ring in the market. I swapped that for old ink and a black notebook. This was before I forgot my pages on the seat of a train that was supposed to take me home. Whenever I arrived in a city, it se…
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Letters From the December 7, 2015, Issue | The Nation
Marilynne Robinson [“Humanism,” Nov. 9] seems to misunderstand what scientists do.
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Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3380
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You can identify the one who broke apart, the one whose spine they managed to straighten, whose neck they stuck back on his shoulders.
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Has Justice League Dark Already Found Its Constantine?
John Boyega talks wielding a lightsaber in The Force Awakens. Quicksilver has another elaborate super-speed sequence in X-Men: Apocalypse. Milla Jovovich looks different in Resident Evil set pictures.
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Key suspect in Paris attacks killed in police raid – Al Jazeera English
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the key suspect behind Paris attacks last Friday that left 129 people dead, was killed in a police raid in the Saint Denis suburb, the Paris prosecutor said. French police are still looking for another alleged attacker, Salah Abd…
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Congressman claims NOAA whistleblowers told him climate study was rushed | Ars Technica
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is back with more accusations against National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate scientists. The new claims came in the form of another letter sent to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker on Wednesday.
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Planks Aren’t All That, So You Might As Well Do Push-Ups
For a (thankfully) hot minute, planks reached viral status when everyone tried to “plank” on ridiculous surfaces. In fitness, planks are a legit ab exercise, but there’s no need to treat them as the “one ab exercise to rule them all.
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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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Dr. Ben Carson’s lead in the Republican presidential race is weakening as worldwide attention zeroes in on national security in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and the former neurosurgeon’s limited foreign policy credentials are scrutinized. …
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Polar bear populations are likely to fall by more than 30% by around mid-century as global warming thaws Arctic sea ice, experts said on Thursday in the most detailed review of the predators to date. (reuters.com)
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Watch Harrison Ford surprise Star Wars fans for new charity initiative | The Verge
The Stars Wars: Force for Change initiative first launched last year, soliciting donations for charities in exchange for the chance to appear in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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He didn’t actually score this. It was out of bounds. Would have been a Puskas nominee if he had. As a referee of 10 years, I would have to agree from the very short time the relevant portion is visible.
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iPad Pro vs. Surface Pro 4: a closer look at the future of tablets | The Verge
Apple may not want to admit it, but the iPad Pro is very much built in the image of the Surface Pro: a tablet with a connected keyboard, a stylus, and a stand to prop it up. But for all of their similarities, the two devices often work in really dif…
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HotelTonight Launches Tonight +1 To Entice Guests To Stay An Extra Night | TechCrunch
HotelTonight, the last-minute hotel booking app, just launched a new feature called Tonight +1, which lets users add a second night during check-out for an additional discount.
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Republicans in Congress march towards shutdown as they peddle fear and hatred about Syrian refugees
The White House has threatened to veto the bill the House is taking up Thursday to put additional screening measures on Syrian refugees—who are already carefully screened.
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OnePlus X Review: Not bad for $249, assuming you can actually buy one | Ars Technica
Reviewing a device from OnePlus is always a strange proposition. We get the devices at Ars because we’re privileged journalists, but most people can’t just go out and buy a OnePlus device.
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Nick Allen Is Out As CEO Of Shuddle, Doug Aley Steps In To Lead ‘Uber For Kids’ Startup | TechCrunch
The cost of competing against Uber can be high, and today comes news of another casualty in that race. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Nick Allen, the founder of Shuddle, has stepped down as CEO of the company.
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Dojo Is Designed To Protect Your Smart Home From Itself | TechCrunch
Israeli startup Dojo-Labs is launching out of stealth today after more than a year working on its connected home security device.
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We will not be intimidated by Isis, says New York City mayor – video | US news | The Guardian
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio speaks in Manhattan on Wednesday in response to a video released by Isis suggesting the city was a potential target. He says that people will not be intimidated by Isis and reiterates that there is no ‘specific and…
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Since the deadly terror attacks in Paris and Beirut, at least 30 governors have objected to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.
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With Age Comes Happiness: Here’s Why – Scientific American
When Lillian Fowler died in an Ohio nursing home at the age of 108, her relatives were quick to comment on how cheerful she had stayed until the very end. She had played golf into her 80s, became queen of the county fair at 104 and never stopped mak…
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Paris attacks: How the Saint Denis raid unfolded – BBC News
Just days after co-ordinated attacks on several locations in Paris left 129 people dead, police raided a flat in a northern Paris suburb, leading to scenes that witnesses said resembled a warzone.
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Build, Upgrade, or Augment Your PC With Today’s Amazon Gold Box
Whether you’re hoping a build a new PC this holiday season, or just save on upgrades for your existing rig, you’ll want to check out today’s stellar Amazon’s Gold Box. If you use a computer, there’s almost certainly something in here for you.
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Sturdy legs could mean healthy brains, according to a new study of British twins. As I frequently have written in this column, exercise may cause robust improvements in brain health and slow age-related declines in memory and thinking.
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‘Empire’ Recap: Fortunate Son | Rolling Stone
All due respect to the good people at Pepsi, but they got the wrong one, baby. Sure, Jamal Lyon landed the soft-drink spokesman slot (and took the show’s product placement game to the next level) by combining his parents’ musical instincts into the …
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Square Goes Public, and the Tech Bubble Deflates — NYMag
Today a big unicorn goes public: Square, the payments technology company founded and led by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. These unicorns are the start-ups that have been valued at more than $1 billion by private investors, among them Lyft, Airbnb, Kik, Sna…
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The Tribe director to film inside Chernobyl exclusion zone | Film | The Guardian
Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, the Ukrainian director of the award-winning drama The Tribe, is to shoot his follow-up feature inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, around the site of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster.
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Einstein’s Boyhood Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem – The New Yorker
On November 26, 1949, Albert Einstein published an essay in the Saturday Review of Literature in which he described two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father showed him when he was four or five.
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Daily Kos Radio is OUT AT THE THEATER at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: click on the embedded player above go to NetrootsRadio.
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PARIS — Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian militant suspected of orchestrating the Paris terrorist attacks, was killed in a police raid in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis early Wednesday, the French authorities announced on Thursday. The confirm…
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BBC Sport – Arsene Wenger calls for better drugs testing in football
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger wants better drugs testing in football and has called for blood tests to be taken as a matter of routine. The Frenchman said: “I am open to talking to the FA of course. I want deeper, better tests because what we test i…
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Paris attacks: Airstrikes on IS continue as terror threat remains – BBC News
More airstrikes against targets of the so-called Islamic State (IS) have been taking place in Syria and Iraq. Analysts believe that by hitting IS on the ground, they can cut off supplies of money and munitions to western Europe.
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Minneapolis man shot dead by police ‘not handcuffed’ – BBC News
The Minneapolis police union has said that an unarmed black man was not handcuffed and was trying to disarm police when he was fatally shot. Protesters have maintained that Jamar Clark, 24, was restrained by police when they shot him on Sunday.
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Reuters bans submission of RAW photos: “Our photos must reflect reality.” | Ars Technica
Reuters, the news and photography agency, has issued an outright ban on photographs captured and submitted in RAW format. Instead, freelance contributors must now only submit photos that were processed and stored as JPEG inside the camera. According…
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Star Wars Battlefront suffers immortal player glitch | Ars Technica
DICE and EA don’t have a good track record when it comes to multiplayer releases—see the likes of the disastrous launch of Battlefield 4.
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Indian Muslims protest against deadly ISIL attacks – Al Jazeera English
A prominent Muslim group in India organised protests across the country against recent deadly attacks in France, Lebanon, and Turkey by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “Islam doesn’t permit killing of innocents.
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Stephen Colbert Schools Obama on ‘Game of Thrones’ – The Daily Beast
President Barack Obama is supposedly a huge fan of the HBO series Game of Thrones. He gets advance episodes provided to him by the network and has expressed his concern over the fate of a certain Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch to frequent Thron…
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The longtime head coach of Towson University’s swimming and diving team has been replaced amid an investigation over a video-recording device found in the women’s locker room more than a month ago.
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Ian Poulter says Tiger Woods Ryder Cup role is smart move by USA | Sport | The Guardian
Ian Poulter, who has afforded himself symbolic Ryder Cup status, believes the United States have made a “smart” choice in selecting Tiger Woods as a vice-captain for next year’s event at Hazeltine.
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As Republican lawmakers push to ban refugees, they should realize that, in doing so, they aren’t just being incredibly callous to people fleeing a war zone – they are alienating many of the evangelical Christians who are so central to the party’s ba…
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Empire Episode 8 Recap: This Plot Twist Could Ruin the Rest of The Sea | Vanity Fair
My fellow Empireneers, so sorry about not recapping last week’s incredible episode. I was in Budapest for work/vacation, getting my Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love on a.k.a. living like a rich white lady who has problems for no reason.
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Windows turns 30: a visual history | The Verge
The PC revolution started off life 30 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While W…
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Anonymous’s Cyber War with ISIS Could Compromise Terrorism Intelligence – Scientific American
As French police scoured Paris and surrounding areas in search of those responsible for Friday’s terrorist attacks on the French capital, a group of cyber activists took aim at the Islamic State’s online presence.
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Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war : environment
Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war (theecologist.org)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…
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Is War Photography Beautiful or Damned? | New Republic
Writers have been grumbling about the ideological perils of war photography nearly as long as photographers have ventured into conflict zones, but in the years since Susan Sontag’s 1977 treatise On Photography, which took leery scrutiny of photograp…
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Cam Newton’s joy is making puritanical fans angry and it’s glorious | Sport | The Guardian
While other young quarterbacks around him have regressed, the Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton has only improved. With the Panthers now 9-0 on the season, there’s increased attention on Newton as not only the face of the franchise but as a potential MV…
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If You Want Your Praise to Have Any Effect, Make Sure It’s Honest
It sounds like something that should go without saying, but if you’re trying to offer praise and support to someone, an honest compliment will almost always work better than a feigned one. As business blog Inc.
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When they’re putting too much lettuce on your sub – GIF on Imgur
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Anniversary, birthday, promotion, just another Thursday? Who knows?!?!?! – Imgur
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all his remaining secrets, those “deeply held private beliefs” he held and the truth of his experience as a Zuni, an event that filled the anthropologist-friend with elation, he recalled decades later. Drunk as he was, he made a mental note to write…
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French authorities announce lead suspect in Paris attacks was killed in police raid
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian militant suspected of orchestrating the Paris terrorist attacks, was killed in a police raid in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis early Wednesday, the French authorities announced on Thursday. The confirmation of…
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We Should Look for Orange Exoplanets Because That’s What Earth Used to Look Like | Motherboard
The Earth is the only planet we know of (so far) to host life, so astronomers use it as a guide when searching the cosmos for potentially habitable worlds. The dream has been to use advanced telescopes to find similar pale blue dots beyond our solar…
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We have our usual Thursday Molly Ivins Moment (which might be C&J’s most popular weekly feature) below the fold, but up top I thought you might like to see how things are going for director Janice Engel and the crew working on their Ivins documentar…
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Kenya police deployed to ease three-day traffic jam – BBC News
Kenyan traffic police have been deployed to try and ease a massive traffic jam which has lasted three days along the main highway between Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi. The road is crucial for the region’s economy as it links the port of Mombasa …
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A witness to a wet early Mars / Mars Express / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Solar System – Valles Marineris – to the planet’s northern lowlands. Aurorae Chaos measures roughly 710 km across (a smaller section is shown …
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New Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches – Scientific American
The 63-year-old chief executive couldn’t do his job. He had been crippled by migraine headaches throughout his adult life and was in the middle of a new string of attacks. “I have but a little moment in the morning in which I can either read, write …
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Two Israelis stabbed to death in Tel Aviv – BBC News
Two Israelis have been killed and two others wounded in a knife attack by a Palestinian man in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police say. The attacker was detained by passers-by until police arrived at the scene.
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National Institutes of Health announces end to chimpanzee research | US news | The Guardian
The US National Institutes of Health will wind up its programme of medical research upon chimpanzees, announcing that 50 of its remaining great apes will be sent to sanctuaries.
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What We’re Following on Thursday, November 19 – The Atlantic
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Gigantic Ice Cloud Spotted on Saturn Moon Titan (Photos)
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a massive, never-before-seen icy cloud at the south pole of Saturn’s huge moon Titan.
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Why Africa’s Schools Aren’t Recruiting More Female Teachers – The Atlantic
In the United States, the persistence of K-12 teaching as a predominantly female profession is sometimes lamented as a sign that certain workforce gender conventions prevail.
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Is This the Loneliest Galaxy In the Universe?
The universe has structure: long filaments of dark matter threaded with galaxies and clusters of galaxies punctuated by vast voids. These voids are just that; devoid of the rich concoction of stars that are beaded along the universal 3-dimensional w…
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Why Men Don’t Like Funny Women – The Atlantic
A few years ago, Laura Mickes was teaching her regular undergraduate class on childhood psychological disorders at the University of California, San Diego. It was a weighty subject, so occasionally she would inject a sarcastic comment about her own …
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Absence has a way of ossifying an idea and amplifying a legend. Those have been gifts for Adele, who has just returned after a break of almost five years with her third album, “25” (XL/Columbia).
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There Aren’t Enough Professors Of Color On College Campuses | ThinkProgress
As protests over the campus climate for students of color spreads to more universities, students and faculty are also raising awareness of the dearth of professors of color.
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Significant Digits For Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. A 14-faced die was located in a tomb near Qingzhou City in China, indicating the existence of a board game known as “bo” at least 2,300 years ago.
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Key suspect in Paris attacks killed in police raid – Al Jazeera English
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the key suspect behind Paris attacks, was killed in police raid in the Saint-Denis suburb, the prosecutor said on Thursday. French police were looking for Abaaoud, a Belgian national, along with another alleged attacker, Salah Ab…
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Ubuntu 15.10 review: Wily Werewolf leaves scary experimentation for next year | Ars Technica
Canonical recently released Ubuntu 15.10, nicknamed Wily Werewolf. In the past, an autumn release of Ubuntu Linux like this would have been more experimental, warranting some caution when updating.
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In less than two weeks, world leaders will gather outside Paris to try to craft an international climate agreement that will put the planet on a course to keeping warming to 2°C, the limit scientists have established as a threshold that would stave …
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After Employee Complained Of Sexual Harassment, T-Mobile Told Her To Keep It Quiet | ThinkProgress
Angela Agganis felt uncomfortable with her new supervisor before she even started working with him. Agganis loved her job as a customer service representative for T-Mobile in Oakland, Maine, where she worked for eight years.
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Suspected Mastermind of Paris Attacks Killed | Al Jazeera America
The suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris last week was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital on Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement Thursday.
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Migrant crisis: Balkans to limit intake – BBC News
Balkan countries will only open their borders to migrants fleeing the Middle East and Afghanistan, the UN says. Macedonia and Serbia made the move after Slovenia informed them it would not accept “economic migrants”, country officials said.
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How FC Dallas and their homegrown model could revolutionize US soccer | Football | The Guardian
Gazing across a windswept field, FC Dallas technical director Fernando Clavijo wonders if the rest of American soccer will notice what he sees running on the grass before him. But does anybody hear?
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Jimmy Fallon has done the “Evolution of Mom Dancing” with First Lady Michelle Obama and the “Evolution of Dad Dancing” with Governor Chris Christie.
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Human Genetics AMA WeekScience AMA Series: I’m John Novembre and I study the genetic diversity of human populations from an evolutionary perspective by developing and applying computational methods. (self.science) Hi Reddit!
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Addressing France’s mayors in Paris today, just five days after terror attacks in the French capital claimed 129 lives and wounded hundreds of others, President François Hollande called for the nation “to always stay true to herself.
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The Sioeye Iris4G is the first action camera built for live streaming | The Verge
The action camera market is top-heavy, to say the least. GoPro has dominated for years, and its closest competitors — Sony, Garmin, and TomTom — are no slouches, either. So if you’re going to enter it as a startup, you better have a unique take on t…
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Publishers answer minister’s call to offer schools cheap classics | Books | The Guardian
Classic novels such as Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre should be available in secondary schools for all pupils to read, according to schools minister Nick Gibb, who has challenged the UK’s publishers to make 100 classic titles …
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Preview: Paris attacks meant to ‘polarise societies’ – Al Jazeera English
As e-sports boom globally, Lee Jae-dong reveals what it takes to be a champion in S Korea where gamers are celebrities. How Massimo Banzi’s Arduino microcontroller enabled thousands of people to build everything from toys to drones.
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FOX News Reporter Blatantly Disregards Student Interviewee’s View regarding recent BLM Protest at Dartmouth College (youtube.com)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…
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Arresting Netanyahu – Al Jazeera English
On November 12 Spanish National Court Judge Jose de la Mata ordered the state security and law enforcement authorities to include the names of Benjamin Netanyahu and six other Israeli leaders in the police’s national database, so he could be immedia…
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Europe’s biggest Kickstarter has gone bust after raising $3.6 million | The Verge
After launching its crowdfunding campaign last November and raising more than £2.3 million ($3.6 million), Europe’s biggest Kickstarter campaign has told backers it’s shutting down.
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Athletics doping scandal: Russia ruled in breach of Wada code – BBC News
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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Meet Congo the Chimp, London’s Sensational 1950s Abstract Painter | Open Culture
A few years ago, I watched and enjoyed My Kid Could Paint That, a documentary about Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old abstract painter who became a brief art-world sensation, her canvases (which towered over the tiny artist) at one point selling for t…
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After Paris Attacks, Telegram Purges ISIS Public Content | TechCrunch
In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, and amid ongoing operations to catch the perpetrators, with fears of further attacks swirling — secure messaging app Telegram has shuttered a swathe of public channels that it says were being use…
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Kazakhstan jails pro-Russian ‘separatist’ blogger – Al Jazeera English
An ethnic Russian blogger from Kazakhstan’s east was given five years in jail for publishing an online poll on whether his region should join Russia the way Ukraine’s Crimea did, court officials said on Thursday.
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Paris attacks ringleader dead – French officials – BBC News
Ringleader of Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, identified among Saint Denis raid dead, prosecutor says. 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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Banking and the failure of policing – BBC News
In one sentence, the major regulator of a crisis ridden banking system reveals the truth about the chaos in the run up to the financial crisis. It is a comment given to one of the report’s authors, Andrew Green, by Sir Hector Sants, the chief execut…
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Lost Satellites Will Help Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity | Motherboard
Putting a satellite into orbit doesn’t always work out. In the summer of 2014, two spacecraft intended to support the European Space Agency’s GPS-clone Galileo positioning system were delivered into the wrong orbit thanks to a wonky Soyuz rocket.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: No good deed goes unpunished
Ron Klain, the Obama administration’s former point person on Ebola, on Tuesday weighed in on the growing debate in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks of what to do with refugees fleeing Syria’s bloody civil war.
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Apixio’s New Iris Platform Uses Your Doctor’s Notes To Derive Insights | TechCrunch
Data science applications for healthcare are finally trying to catch up to the rest of the world, with one new effort coming from six-year-old Apixio in San Mateo, CA.
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Homeland hacker challenges media portrayals of Muslims – Al Jazeera English
When the German publisher Don Stone approached Heba Amin, an Egyptian visual artist and researcher, to paint Arabic graffiti on the set of Showtime’s series Homeland, her initial impulse was to decline, as others had before her.
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Libya’s Forgotten King – Al Jazeera English
As e-sports boom globally, Lee Jae-dong reveals what it takes to be a champion in S Korea where gamers are celebrities. How Massimo Banzi’s Arduino microcontroller enabled thousands of people to build everything from toys to drones.
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First Click: Cars are the new gadgets | The Verge
I’m not what you’d call a car guy. Sure I’ve owned a few, I even spent a summer wrenching on an old Karmann Ghia cabriolet with my pops as we transformed it into a daily driver. But that vintage VW was a distant cousin to the technology marvels avai…
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Interstate Swatting Hoax Act introduced in Congress to close legal loopholes | Ars Technica
The practice of swatting—meaning, reporting fake threats at someone else’s location with the hopes of inciting a major response like a SWAT team visit—has expanded in recent years thanks to factors such as the rise of phone-masking services and Inte…
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Run Disk Cleanup After the Windows November Update to Save 20GB+ of Space
This month, Microsoft released its first major update to Windows 10. If you’ve already done this upgrade, be sure to run Disk Cleanup. It can save you upwards of 20GB of hard drive space.
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Injectable Probes Could Transform Brain Monitoring – Scientific American
To solve the mysteries of the brain, scientists need to delicately, precisely monitor neurons in living subjects. Brain probes, however, have generally been brute-force instruments.
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Algorithms Read Your Intentions by Tracking Your Eyes – Scientific American
Earlier this year when Erik Sorto, a quadriplegic man, used his thoughts to direct a robot arm to bring a beer to his lips, the media went wild. It was an impressive feat.
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Some Men Just Want To Watch The Fall Burn – Digg
It’s Fall, and that means lots crisp leaves on the ground that you have to begrudgingly rake up later.
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LONDON — Scotland Yard has said for the first time that it believes a British police officer was gunned down in London as part of a murderous conspiracy orchestrated by Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya.
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‘Tears of joy’ is an emoji Charles Dickens would have relished | Books | The Guardian
The Oxford English Dictionary’s choice of a tears of joy emoji as its word of the year had several Twitter commenters wondering how Charles Dickens, that bastion of the English literary castle, would react. Oxford Dictionaries picks ‘tears of joy’ e…
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Ryder Cup 2016: Davis Love III announces vice-captains – video | Sport | The Guardian
USA’s Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III has announced Tiger Woods as one of his vice-captains for the competition in 2016.
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University says FBI payment reports ‘inaccurate’ – BBC News
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) says reports it was paid by the FBI to attack software sometimes used for criminal activity are “inaccurate”. The Tor web browser is designed to let people anonymously explore websites, including those hidden on the …
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M Train by Patti Smith review – into the mind of an artist | Music | The Guardian
Amid all the hideous things going on in the world, I’m always grateful for something that reminds me now is a great time to be alive. I feel like that about Patti Smith’s performance at Glastonbury this summer.
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, dog.exe has crashed via /r/gifs…
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Love Everyone Often 11/20/2015
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